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IA,cnI Rainfall.

Kaintnll IL hours ending Y. Eune
nadninIl - hours ending y j.. M. Mono
Iehc'ency since March 1........... 1875
Eacese since January l... lag
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-01
Local Tcmrer,ture Yesterday

:, Local Temperature Yesterday.
=. N. temperature ...............
Maximum temperature to y J.. M....
minimum temperature to 4 l.. NJ.
Moan temperature ycstarday....
Normal temperature for this date,
Eaccss yesterday ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
EXCESS aimee March l.............
pchcicncy since Junuaty l.....,.. ?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18
FRIDAY, JUNE 1s, 1920 J

the canning and preserving busi-;
ness told him that both industries.
were in serious condition owing,
to threatened shortage Of sugar.
The refiners promised he added,
that the supply would be available
at reasonable price. They express
ed willingness to fill the orders Of
all esential industries but declared
the principal obstacles was lack Of
transportation facilities. -
The 34,000,000 pounds will be
divided equally between the can
ners and preservers. 2s1..'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18

week with Mr.. and Mrs. w. D.
Beauford.
Mr.. Hubert Bolts, of the city,
spent the weekend with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Bolts.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Bosler, and
children spent Sunday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Beauford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Cromer
spent Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs.
T.. H. Bolts.
The Rock Spring School Improve
ment Association met at the school
house on Friday and large number
of patrons were present.
Miss Maud Bolts left for Green.
wood Monday to take business
course.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. brennan, Of
Anderson, and Misses Allie and
lone Beauford spent Friday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude P. Cromer.
Misses Linnie and Viola Beau
ford were shopping in Abbevile
Saturday. .
Mrs. John Beauford, and chill
dren spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mre A r. Erwin
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18
GOVERNMENT BUYS. ...., ii.
ARGENTINE SUGAR

New York, June 11.-Thirty-
four-million pounds of sugar will
be available for commercial can
ners and preservers during the five
months from June to October 81,
A. W. Riley, special assistant at
Attorney General Palmer announc-
ed here today. Assurances that the
sugar will be provided were given
Mr.. Riley by representatives Of
leading refiners. Representatives Of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18
LONG CANE


Mr. and Ms. 7. H. Bolts, and
daughters, Misses Ethel and Maud,
seaent Monday evening of last week
with Mr.. ana Mrs. Claude Cromer.
Misses All;e and lone Beauford
scent a few days of last week in
Greenwood w~&&h Mr.. and Mrs. w.
F. Beauford
Mr.. and Ms. Albert King, and
Et13e son, of Abbeville, spent the
weekend wit, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
king.
M~4Yd Ars. J.. H. Cromer spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. A.
6. Erwin.
Mr.. and H1rs. Claude Cromer
!s:sent the weekend with Mr.. and
EIrs. W. D. Beauford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Carroll, of the
r;ty, spent tie Weekend with Mr..
sad Mrs. L. F.1fnley.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. brennan, of
Anderson, spent a few days of last
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DUE WEST.

] WV wv
| DR.. Moffatt returned, from New
York Saturday night.
Wedding bells! Double barre
function.
Mrs. Ida Johnson, after spending
commencement with her parents
has returned to her home in Win
ston-Salem, N. C. =,
Mr.. James Plaxco, of Memphis
Tenn, is visiting friends in Due
West. Mrs. Plaxco has been in Due
West for some days.
Mrs. Mamie Pressly, Miss Bertha
Pressly and Miss Barbara Grier left
for Rock Hill last Monday morning.
They go to attend the Summer
School and will be gone for the
next six weeks.
The Government will have man
lin Due West this week looking up
the Government Observatory, which
lis to be located here. There are only
nine other stations in the United
States like this one and num-
Der of places wanted the one which
is to be located in Due West. j.
Mr.. Bradley Reese, one of the
prominent merchants of Abbeville,
Mrs. Reese and Mrs. Leo. Wilson, in
passing through Due West Tuesday
stopped over for a few moments.
Mr.. Reese reports the business men
of Abbeville pulling together at the
present time as they have never
done before.
In speaking of the luncheon at
Erskine College one of the special
addresses was omitted: Mr.. w. P.
Greene made an eloquent address
on the growth and expansion of the
College. He earnestly advocated a
larger endowment and equipment if
the college is to keep pace with the
times and with like institutions.
Mr.. Greene has very decided views
On the subject. ,,-"' ---. |
Rev. G. L. Kerr began preaching
in the A. R. P. church in Due West
asst week and preached on through
he Sabbath, the closing service taxi
ng place Sabbath night, when the
friends went, forward to tell Mr..
Kerr how much they enjoyed his
Mr.. Kerr is a good SER
monizer and a sympathetic preach
er. His sermons were enjoyed by.l
our people.He breaches pure gos-'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18

pei, without any of the new fad
and breaches with no uncertain
sound. 1t is sixteen years since
Brother Kerr graduated from the
Seminary.
Brother Kerr left on Monday
moning for Kings Mountain carry
ing with him the good wishes and
esteem of the people to whom he
had ministered with much helpfull-
ness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18

In fields where blowing il difficult tough
or baked soil. stiff grades, ete.-this Case
1927 Keros.se Tractor will pull 8 plows
easily. Where conditions are favorable tina
tractor can pull 4 plows. -,
So it is favorite on the average farm. It
is neither too large nor too small.
In additionso its field work, it Is designed
foz belt work, having the pulley properly
placed. It will drive Case 26x4e Inresnet
equipped with feeder and wind stacker o.
other machines requiring similar power:
The Case 1927 has abundant reserve
power. While rated at IS horsepower on
The dsawbar, it. can deliver more than ID
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18
so Pulls 3 or 4Plows

horsepower. While rated at 27 on the belt,
It can deliver 80 horsepower. It is ever ready
for the hardest jobs. It never tires.
AN gears are cut steel, enclosed and run
In oil. It has four-cylinder valve-in-head
motor, mounted crosswise on one-piece
main frame. This affords the use OF all
spur gears.
A Case Sylphon Thermostat controls the
cooling system and insures complete ccnn-
bustion Of kerosene. A Case air washer de-
zivers clean air to the carburetor.
There arc dozens Of betterments found
only in this tractor. You should be familiar
with them, 80 that you may make careful
comparison,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-18

Legal Blanks of all kinds at this
office-Press and Banner. .....
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

days. Only a few of the jai's higher
officials knew that they had the chairman
of the New York commission on prison
reform as a guest. Had Mr.. Tustin
been able to adopt a similar course or
assign some one to be sure enough
prisoner in his stead he might have made
his proposed investigation of prison
methods more thorough, But his plan,
even as it stands, is worthy Of watching.
Enforced idleness at the House of
Correction is as much of problem as
1t is in the penitentiary. If Mr.. Tustin
can find way to provide hcalthful out
door work for the prisoners -- and he
thinks that he can--he will do the COM
munity and the unfortunates themselves
a considerable service. Nowadays most
of the discharged prisoners finish their
sentences and go forth broke" into an
unwelcoming world. 1t isn't surpris-
ing that they often return charged with
petty crimes committed usually in a
search for the means to live. II work
is found for them they will have some
money with which to start life anew
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
Signs of Spring

!, Don't mind the weatherman! Look at
the amanacO
NOV cloudy and warmer; now chilly
~ and fair: now windy, with rain
drawing nigh there is alternate Ian
Guor and wine in the air: forebodings
or hopes in the sky. And though we
don't know how the next wind may
blow, with certainty still we may say
with all kinds of weather thus jumbled
togethcr) that spring is at last on her
way.
An apOcryphal robin is making row
at Narberth or Cynwyd. we note. A.
wee pussywillow is saying "meeiou"
with bit of gray fluff in her throat.
Where the skunk cabbage grows you may
hnd with your nose and its lesson will
not go to waste. From songster and
bloomcr we gather the rumor that spring
is approaching post haste.
The seed catalogues are beginning to
bloom where the pOstman rat tats at
the door. The milkman his schedule has
changed; we presume he comes earlier
now than before. And W. all have n
wish for a chance at Il fish with line and
hook and some bait. For the weather.
mans warmer" is a cheerful informer
that for spring we won't have long to
wait
Hail, Spring! You're wonder OF
JOY you're the chum. l. faith, there's
no reason to grieve when the flowers
aud birds give their promise I'd come and
the trees are beginning to leave. When
each sweet growing thing and each bird
on the wing join in giving Dame Nature
cheer -- When each young fellows
fancy is turning to Nancy-then spring
is officially here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
A GENERALS COAT

THE expected happened when General
l. Pcrshing announced that he will be-
come candidate for the presidency il
the demand for his participation in the
campaign becomes positive and. 50 To
speak. irresistible. Freely translated
the statement means that General Per
shing is now and has been for some time
an aspirant
II the general becomes an out and out
campaigncr he will not temporarily do
mobilize himself. as General Wood j.
preparing TO do, nor will he 20 about
the country in a frock coat Wood i
still in doubt about the wisdom Of being
uniformed in the fight for tho most i'm
portant civil Office in the world
There may be room for rwo generals
In the campaign. But Porshing's sud
den appearance and the certainty that
he won't take off his coat" makes it
seem that there is room only for one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
JUDGE STERN

THE appointment of Horace Stern to
i fill the vacancy left by Judge Wcs-
sci in Common Pleas Court No. is
In line with the excellent traditions of
this bench The long and picturesque
career of Judge Sulzbcrgcr established n
precedent in this post both for scholar
ship and in recognition of the Jewish
membership of the bar.
There are substantial evidences that
Mr.. Stern is we'll equipped to sustain
the precedent. His professional abli
ties have been thoroughly attestcd in
practice for more than fifteen years. His
career ar the Central High School and
the University of Pennsylvania. where
he graduated from the collegiate de
psrtmeDt with the class of 1899.
stamped him even then as the pOSseSsOr
Of keen abilities and clear vision. Ills
personal charm and facility Of phras q
ing, his discretion, taste and sincerity
should serve him admirably on the
bench
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

tunists. The Tabor vote" has struck
terror in the hearts Of the same simple
tons.
Notwithstanding repeated evidence to
the contrary, the legend persists that
the deliberate soft -soaping OF classes,
never organized with sufficient cohcrcncy
to deserve such description, will range
them solidly on tho side Of their fiat
terers.
Much absurd legislation has proceeded
from this obsession. II has failed Of It's
object because Il Is primarily political
aud not class or race distinctions which
divide the American electorate.
IL is heartening that sense of rcali-
ties inspired the senatorial opposition
the most impudent and discretionary
of all the treaty reservations. Analysis
of the majority vote demonstrates Dem
cratic insincerity. With this resolution
with which Mr.. Lodge has been re
buked." the Democrats are revealed as
destructionists heavily responsible for
the treaty's defeat.
Something more than the heart of
the treaty" is here removed. The heart
of American consistency and fair play
is enfeebled by such procedure. Warn
ings against foreign entanglements fall
with u mocking sound when accom-
panied by an act of interference com
parable with a Hypothetical British com
plaint against the southern disfranchise-
ment of the negro.
If the whole performance went be-
yond a grand stand play 1t was per
haps u malign attempt on the part of
the Democrats to force the Republicans
INTO the position of rejecting a set OF
reservations which includes this one. In
that case the plot failed since 1t is the
Administration Democrats VINO were
last night primarily guilty of a second
rejection of the treaty. shamlng the
nation aud dcfyiDg overwhelming public
sentiment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

J. Lorenzo de Medici ruled over the
city of Florence from 1869 to 1892.
. England is about 5000 square miles
larger than Pennsylvania.
J. The epact is the age of the moon be-
fore January / the excess OF the
solar over the lunar year.
A. Alessandro Volta was a famous
Italian physicist, especially" noted
for his inventions and researches
IN electricity. He gives his name
TO the word volt. He was born in
Como in l7i5 and died there in
1927.
., The crows nest is the barrel fixed
at the mast head of ship as
shelter for the lookout man.
9. In an intaglio the figure or design
is depressed below the surface of
the gem or stone carved. In a
cameo it is raised.
. The word intaglio should be pro-
nounced as though 1t were spelled
Ieen-tal-yo."
s. Mohammed VI is the present sultan
of Turkey.
O. An eplstyle is the architrave or main
beam resting Immediately on the
upper member, often n square slab,
OF the capital of column in archi-
tectural constructions.
0. Nicholas Romanoff, the last czar of
Russia, was killed by the Boil
shevists IN Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
TUSTIN GOES TO SEE

THE House of Correction was never
l. much considered in the schemes Of
prison reform aired AZ Intervals during
recent years, The unruly folk in War.
den McKcnty's care at the Eastern
Penitpntiary were usually regarded us
the aristocratS Of the criminal world.
aud IL was assumed that, in accurtuncr
with traditional social practice. they dc
served first consideration. The rug tag
aud bobtail Of the police nets at the
correction" had no social status. Com
mittees never interviewed them solcmnly
TO formulate schemes for their comfort
or their happiness, No Haroun al e.
Raschid ever breezed in to see that they
were getting their rights, The judge
was supposed to have attended 10 that,
When Thomas Mott Osborne cstab
lished the precedent that Director Ius
Tin, OF the Department Of Public Wei
fare. II to follow in his investigation
BE went secretly to Auburn and actually
fHui fbt f'fe - u convict for seypTal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
A BOMB THAT WAS A SoUIB

MORE than 40 radicals were ar.
1Nl rested in this district in Attorney
General Palmcr's round up Of danger
Gus citizens preparatory to d"portiug
them.
The cases Of ouiy fourteen have hccu
reviewed in Washington Five of the
fourteen have been drportod The other
nine have been released. The case, Of
the rest are awaiting final action.
One Of tho men released wants to
know why the other. no moro active
than he, are kept under lock aud key
while he is allowed TO 60 bone. But no
one could tell him. Vet hi, question
ought TO be answered
The release of the men viii not an
swer it save in part. It will leave still
unexplained why they worc arrested in
the first place. The indications nt
present are that the campaign against
the radicals is Hiy,ering because Of tho
discovery that the radicals were not half
50 dangerous Us they seemed to be to a
hysteriCal attorney general.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
EVIDENTLY the president of Ger
- many is like European president

EVIDENTLY the president of Ger
~ many is like European presidents
generally.
lie does not count.
Nobody seems particularly to mind
whether Ebert goes on being president
or not.
In fact, both sides APPEAR to want
him.
The harness maker is harmless and
useful.
kapp proposed to him that he keep
right on in office, only letting Kapp and
his friends be the government.
They don't care who has the honors
so long as they run the country.
If the Spartacists win, they will
probably be equally gracious toward
Ebert.
Both sides want Ebert because they
want to alarm the Allies as little as
possible.
TO the allied suspicion that they are
mOnarchists. Kapp will reply by point
ing to the plcbean figure of President
Ebert undisturbcd in the exercise of his
high Office.
And if the Spartacists win and the
Allies are alarmed at bolShcvism. it will
be an effective answer to say that the
government is still the government of
Ebert.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
A BEGINNING

THE approval BY Mayor Moore Of
L contracts for extensive street re-
pairs ought to be followed by an early
improvement in the condition of the
highways. Work, of course. ought t0
be done first on the streets in the worst
state of repair
The total amount to be spent on high
way improvements is $3.50, 600. If
5000. 900 were available il could be
spent this year, but even then the pave
ments would be very far from their con
dition four years ago.
Users of the streets will be grateful
for even small blessings
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
What Do You KnotU?
QUIZ


T. What is the best conductor of cleo.
trcity?
2 Is Herbert c. Hoover a college
graduate?
.. What part OF the Samoan group in
the Pacific belongs to the United
States?
a. What relation was Edwin Booth, the
celebrated actor, to J. Wilkes
Booth, who killed Abraham Lin
coin?
5. What we're the provisions of the
Missouri Compromise? y
G. When was it adopted by Congress?
I What is the origin of the political
expression "a dark horse?
8. Who was the first. dark horse to be
elected President of the United
States?
2. When did the republic of Panama
declare its independence of
Colombia?
10. What celebrated living pugilist is
credited with the greatest propor-
tion of victories?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
THE TREATY DISASTER

EAILURE of the Senate t" rat''S the
treaty of peace puts new low
water mark in American statcsmanShip'
1t is the most humilating collapse OF
American policy in a hundred and forty
years of independence. Unless thus ar-
ton shall soon be repudiated and re
vprsed. it will date the complete eclipse
Of American emincnce among tn" great
powers of the world.
II is fruitless to talk of who Is to
blame. although it is not impossible to
assess responsibility AT its proper value.
/ President Wilson has shown himself as
rccalctrant as the worst Of the irr""on-
/ cilablcs. while the middle of the road
rosrryationists have been about as firm
in their convictions as jellyhsh Mr.,
Lodge. who might have wound up long
. career in the Senate in blaze of glory
had he been faithful to his intelligence"
from the beginning. chose the rours" of
vacillotiop and barter and will go down
in the history of the episode as states
man of minus capacity.
neither in the White House nor in what
ought to be the most august legislative
hodv in the world have the American
pcoplc Il single representative who has
proved himself big enough t" ris" t" the
needs Of the crisis.
Under the circumstances. "an ""
complain if the rest of the world tags
rs n nation of boobs and bigOtS so far
rs relates to intercourse with our
neighbor nations:
Looked at from the domestic political
side. the Republicans have the best of
the argument. More Of them voted for
tho treaty than Democrats. In fact,
the utter ambiguity and insincerity OF
: the Democratic attitude can never he
Icxplaiupd away satisfactorily. But
neither side has anything to be proud Of
What will be- the outcome II is i'm
nossiblc for any man to forcspc. Perhaps
the people will shake of their IctharGy
and exert pressure to cud the in,o"rabic
condition under whirh the United States
finds itself-still at war with whipped
enemy. while all its colleague nations
W. nnpbnbS Wp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

IN his opposition TO the "sclf. rule
reservation, Henry Cabot Lodge demon
strated that, despite recent practices,
dcplorCd by many members Of his own
party, he retains a substantial bal
last of political wisdom. He knows aud
John Sharp Williams in the other camp
knows, too, that class votes in the
United States are mythical, perpetualIy
discussed and yet quite nebulous.
The German vote" was bogic in
1915. The farmer vote" has haunted
the alleged brains of shallow oppor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
"NO-ENTANGLEMENT" CODE
ANNULLED BY THE SENATE
Treaty Reservation on Irish Self.
Rule Repudiates Our Traditional
Foreign Policy and Mocks
the Monroe Doctrine

A MEXICAN policy has seldom been
"A more incousistently confused and
Enthusiastically perverted than in the
adoption by the Senate of the Gerry
treaty reservation specifically favoring
Irish self rule.
Sympathy with Ireland is in this
country plentiful and deserved. The
public. save only those elements of 1t
whose vision is warped and narrow,
has never displayed the slightest dis
position TO deny Irish grievances or to
hope for the application of sensible
liberal remedies. But the legitimacy of
this generous sentiment utterly fails to
Justify the Scnutc'S extraordinary per
fOrmanCe.
1t is not q Hibernian but Az Ameri
can issue that is at stake. Bad manners
aside, the resolution is a fiat reputation
Of long, honorable and logical course
of American craftsmanship, and cannot,
unless by the most whimsical argument.
be squared with our announced rcluCt =
ance. past and present. to interfere in
the internal affairs of foreign nations
The Monroe Doctrine. which treaty
tinkerers bad and good have been at
such pains to preserve. has been dealt
blow which leaves j. tottCriug
rchaism. The contention that our par
tiCipation in the European war had al
ready rendered the principle obsolete be o.
travS n complete misConccption of our
role and particularly of the scope OF
the pact of Versailles
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

Transit students are inclined to be p
lieve that the Il. Il. r.. Is "A willing
horse that is obliged to carry too much
weight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is
e,clusi, cly entitled to the use tor
republication of all rCrs dispatches
credited 10 IL or not Othcricise credited
iR his paper. and also The local neioS
Published therein.
An rights Of republication Of special
dispatches herein arc also reSerred.
Philadelphia, Saturday. March 20, 1920
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

Ever so many tenants want IN
know how in thunder they are going
to order coal for next winter when theS
don't know where they will be living
at that time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Mr.. and Mrs. Powell Evans, of the
lWillington, announce the engagement of
'th'ir daughter, Mms Apita Merchant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

80 matter how erratic driver may
be he is bound to get in a Tut on some
philadplDhia streets
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-20

Ebert's alias is probably Finegar
of agpn, on agen.