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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
BRYAN SAYS HE is
LATENT DEMOCRAT"
Tha@ How the Commoner Describes
Himself Now-Still Has Influ-
enee-Made Finf Impress
sion at Marion s..

Marion, o., Dec. 21.-William Jen.
nings Bryan is not nearly so dead
politically, as some Democrats think
President-elect Harding doesn't
consider him dead. Of all the "best
minds" who have come to Marion,
none, apparently, left better i'm
preston than the Conmoner.
Harding got great deal of inspir-
alton from the Bryan visit, and will
consult him frequently on non-parti-
san questions during the next four
years.
The subject nearest Bryan's heart
is the entrance of the United States
into the League and this he discussed
at length with the next president.
Linked with this is his plan to pre-
vent wars through international agree
ments that nations shall take refer
endum Of their citizens before 60
ing to war.
This plan Harding has character
lied as "big idea" -,
Bryan will exert his influence in the
next United States Senate to secure
ratification Of the League covenant.
Bryan also will seek ratification of
the proposed constitutional amend,
ment to permit bare majority of
the Senate rather than the two-thirds
now needed to ratifyca, peace treaty."
"a bare majority Of Congress can
declare war; he points out.
~ now refer to myself as latent
Democrat says Bryan. 'That's a
Democrat who's more active some
times than other times"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
SUIT AGAINST "JNO. D."

New York, Dec. 21.-The govern
ment today brought suit against Jno.
D. Rockefeller for $292,67S, charg-
ing that his income tax report was
incorrect, misleading and false"
The compliant alleged that in his
return filed on March 2s, 1916, Mr..
Rockefeller failed to include in it
as part of his income 50,104 shares
of Illinois Pipe Line Company and
and 67,176 shares of the Prairie Pipe
Line company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
Mr.. SONDLEY LOSES.

Mr. Richard Sondley, the polite and
obliging auditor of the county, had
he misfortune to lose a house on his
'oat farm plantation last Friday night
The house was frame dwelling of
everal rooms, ceiled throughout,
and could not be replaced for less
han $4,000 according to experts. 1t
yas only partially covered by insur-
nee, the policy being written by the
Abbeville- Greenwood Mutual Com
,any. The loss over the insurance is
considerable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
WEALTHY FARMER
AND SONS co TO GANG

Union, S. c., Dec. 21.-Joseph
Smith, a wealthy farmer of Cherokee
county and his two sons, Neb and Abb
Smith were arrested in raid con-
Quoted by city police last night on an
alleged "blind tiger" and when ar,
raigned in city and county court or
charges of transporting whiskey were
fined $50 each by the city and sen,
fenced to IL months straight on the
chain gang by County Judge Town
send.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
DRIVE IN PRICES

Greenville, Dec. 21.-That Green
ville's retail coal and meat prices
shall be on a parity with or lower
than prices in other cities of the
Southeast is the determination Of a
committee appointed by the cham
ber of commerce and headed by T.
O. Lawton. An investigation is now
being conducted, and the committee
expects to announce its plan of
work within a few days.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
COOPER WILL URGE
LOWERING OF LEVY
Smaller Appropriations to Be Recon-
mended-No Reduction in School
Fund Will Be Advised BY
Studying
- Budget.

Columbia, Dec. 21.-Governor
Cooper in formal statement Monday
afternoon said he would recommend
to the general assembly in January
that the appropriations for the year
1921 be below the figure appropriate
ed last January, with the exception OF
the amount asked for the public
schools.
II The governors statement comes
in response to the storm of protest
which has been sweeping in from
all sections of the state since the to-
tai amount of nearly ten millions to
be asked by the different departments
has been published.
The amount appropriated last jan
uary was s6,077,4s1.4s. The amount
asked by the various departments and
institutions in submitting estimates
for next year is $9,s6s, ,2O6.59, or an
increase over last years figures Of
$3,771, ,065.2O. In entering protest
Major John G. Richards, former rail-
road commissioner, emphasizes that
the proposed increase is in excess of
the amount appropriated for state
purposes in 1916 four years ago,
when the total amount levied was
only $2,468,11O.29.
The amounts to be recommended
by the governor and the budget COM
mission has not yet been determined,
But in his statement the governor
says he will ask that all department.
al appropriations and those for state
institutions of learning and charita-
bic and penal institutions be held be-
low this years figures. -.-a.s--s -s---
The exception the governor makes
is that for the public schools. The
total amount appropriated this year
for the public schools was 1891, ,290.
The amount being asked of the COM
ing session is $2,145,650. Winthrop
College is asking $S32,0O0, against
s416,OOO last year.
in his statement the governor said,
81 have not yet completed my study
of the 1921 budget in all of it's de-
tails, but l will recommend reduc-
tion of appropriations from the year
1920 with the exception of the ap-
preparation for the public schools. l
am satisfied further, that with other
recommendation which will be SUBJ
mitted to the legislature, the levy for
1921 can and will be, materially re-
duced. ! expect to discuss this whole
question in detail in my annua mes
sage"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
INSURANCE PEOPLE
QUIT MISSISSIPPI

New York, Dec. 21.-One hundred
and thirty eight fire insurance COM
panies are suspending their business
in Mississippi where their aggregate
covering policies amount to approx
mately 250,000,O00.
This action is an outgrowth of a
suit filled against them by the state
revenue agent of Mississippi charging
that in collecting the same rates the
companies have created a combine in
restraint of trade.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
READY FOR WORK

D. Townsend Smith arrived in Alb
beville Tuesday and will spend the
Christmas season with his home
folks. For the past several months
he has been in st. Louis learning
the ways of a shoe man and after
the holidays he will travel in South
Carolina.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
SUPREME COURT =
GIVES OPINIONS
Albert Wilson Must Die in Electric
Chair-Can't Search Grips, De-
cision That Officers Must
Keep Hands OFF.

The South Carolina supreme court
handed down 32' decisions here yes
terday,, several of the decisions being
on important cases. Three opinions
are on murder cases and the decis-
ion of the lower courts are reversed
in two instances.
Albert Wilson, negro, who shot and
killed Bryan Butler, white, on a
crowded street carrnear the Univer-
sity of South Carolina in April, is
denied a new trial by the high tribu-
nal and is ordered back to the cir
cult for resentence. Wilson was con-
victed at the May term of court and
sentenced to be electrocuted July 8.
An appeal to the supreme court
stayed the sentence, but the lower
cvurt was affirmed yesterday and
Wilson will again be sentenced to
die in the chair.
Amos Holmes of Aiken county, who
was convicted of killing his wife
in 1908 and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, gets a new trial. The
higher court reverses the lower
court and remands the case back for
new trial.
George Mason, negro, who was
convicted of numbering Arthur Howe
in Florence county and who was
sentenced to serve life sentence,
gets new trial. The supreme court
reverses the lower court on an err
ror of the presiding judges charge
and remands the case for new
trial.
Can't Search Grips. -
\ Possibly one of the most far reach
ing opinions handed down is the one
the state, respondent VS.. G.. W.
Wagstaff and A. C. Hargrove, appel
lants, in which the lower court is af-
frmed. This case grew out of the
question whether or not state con-
stables or any police officers have the
l. r.ght to search grips or other person
al property of a citizen for whiskey
without a search warrant.
From accounts obtainable it seems
that H. M. Graham, respectable
citizen, left a railway train at Flor
ence carrying a suitcase in his hand.
He was accosted by G. w. Wagstaff
md A. C. Hargrove, two state con-
stables, who, it is presumed, thought
Graham was carrying whiskey. The
citizen resented being searched in the
,pen before crowd and remonstrat-
ed with the officers. They were de-
.ermined to search his suitcase and
n defending his rights Graham was
.oughlyfreated. He swore out war
rants for Wagstaff and Hargrove
charging them with assault and bat
cry and they were convicted by the
.eneral sessions court at Florence.
They appealed from the verdict of the
over court to the supreme court, but
the higher body 'affirms the lower
:ourt: and: the: two constables will
serve sentences: -. :.
This case will doubtless have con-
siderable effect on cases of this ma
ture in the future.-The State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
COTTON MARKET.

The cotton market showed extreme
weakness today, January futures
closing in New York at 14:15, the
lowest figure of the saeson. New York
spots were down rs points, futures
were down 60 to 65 points.
Little cotton was offered on the
local market today. The best offers
ran from Is to 16 cents
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
JUDGES FOR NEXT YEAR

The supreme court yesterday as
signed judges for next year to the
various judicial circuits of South Car
olina, Henderson and Oconee county,
(1Oth circuit) being ass gned the fol-
lowing: Judge George E. Prince, of
Anderson, Judge Thomas S. Sease,
and Judge Ernest Moore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
NO SCOUT MEETINGS

Rev. A. J. Derbyshire wishes to
announce that there will be no more
meetings of the Boy Scouts until
January 4th, 1921.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
FLORIDA VISITORS

Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Pressly and
their pretty little daughter, Mary,
arrived in Abbeville Tuesday and
will spend the holidays with Mrs. J.
F. Bradley.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22
DIR. MARTIN TO PREACH

Rev. James L. Martin, D. D., will
preach in the Presbyterian church
next Sunday morning at II o'clock.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-22

HOME RULE BILL =: SO.
~: .. BECOMES A" LAW
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04

Matrimony, Cut to Order.

z Fanny Hurst's trial marriage may be all
that Is claimed for it in the peculiar circum-
stances surrounding herself and the musician
with whom she formed an alliance. She ad-
mts that it was designed to fit given sitpa-
:tion-made to ORDER as it were, like suit OF
clothes, and the fit was better than had been
expected. He4
- The trouble is that not everybody can A.
lord a tailor-nade marriage. The great multi
tude must still be content with the hand-me-
down kind, Lacking courage and craftsmanship
70 fashion their own, and being too poor to
employ special designers Cut to conventional
tines the garments Of matrimony will con-
1inue to sit uncomfortably upon couples who
DO not conform to standard specifications
banging loosely upon some and too tight To
button over others.
II is feared that Mrs. Danieison's tor Miss
Aurst's) enthusiasm over the success OF her
own experiment may raise false hopes and in
Epire lot Of amateur effort along similar
lines, but doomed to failure in meeting wholly
different conditions.
3 II should be remembered that marriage is
IN institution meant primarily to promote per-
petuation Of the race and by that rule il is a
failure if there are no children. The Hurst
Danieson union has not yet been put to the
real test of matrimony
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04
Auto Parking Rules.

Rock Island, with relatively small bust
ness district for a city of its size, has an un-
usually pressing automobile parking problem.
Merely keeping the avenues open and using
the streets for the purpose does fairly we'll on
ordinary occasions, but in rush business hours
or when there is some special attraction down
town the situation becomes acute. Strangers,
especially are puzzled to know where and how
to dispose Of their cars and SO there is con-
fusion and frequently traffic Interruptions.
: What the city needs is a careful survey to
determine exactly how the most automobiles
can be disposed Of with the least inconven-
itnce and the greatest measure of safety and
then the placing of signs and pavement marks
70 guide the motorist. Rock Islanders, driv-
ing every day, know wha. the custom and reg
alations arc. They know where to rank and
where to park and how long it is permissible
tc keep car standing on Second avenue. Wis
tors need something for their guidance and
the proper markings should be supplied for
their benefit without delay.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04

The rec4ipts of tn British sovSrnmsat viii 81
$7.1eI5eo,ooe ana the sxpsasss 1e.5eo.ooo.
This will leave . balance Of $1,171,o000oo
which will be used for the liquidation Of the
war debt
Mex. year, there win Be $1.5eo 900 900 for
liquidation.
Atsthis rate, Great Britain will have paid
on what the war cost her within 20 years
Not even the United States with all its vast
wealth plans to retire its war bonds more
rapidly.
! The British people are demonstrating that
they are back on their feet. They are shout
dering far greater taxation burdens than any
other nation They are giving an extraofdi-
nary demonstration Of financial power Pessi-
mists who have been predicting bankruptcy for
all Europe might well study what England il
doing
british gold has saved Europe more than
once. British hnanciers are now 1t work to
prevent continental Europe from becoming
bankrupt. The remarkable budget statement
Of the chancellor OF the. exchequer IL the best
possible proof that they will succeed. British
solvency cannot be doubted any longer by the
most skeptical.
With Great Britain solvent, Europe's fnan-
cial salvation II practically assured.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04
Bird Study.

Big foin and little folks can add 10 thear
pleasures by careful study of the birds. Every
one may become interested in it.
Naturally bird study is hobby best follow
cd out Of doors with our feathered friends in
their proper environment. Good eyesight and
careful observation is necessary to gain the
best results. A pair Of field or opera glasses
will assist in bringing the birds up to you. ;"
Time spent in the outdoors will be physical
aid. too, so one has both physical and mental
string to his bow while following the birds in
their hight-their names their diet, their mat
ing, their quarrels, their colors, their nesting
and their economic value
For something easy, learn about the robin.
Note his song. Listen as he sings in the early
dawn. Note the difference from that Of sunset.
Notice his rain song Notice that he does not
hop, as one might suppose, bat runs swiftly.
Note his unerring dash after the worm. Note
his nest-buiding Note how he uses his breast
as trowel to smooth the interior OF his mud
plastered home. Note his rough weaving.
Introduction to the birds generally is fol-
lowed by lasting friendship. Get acquainted.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04

1t is a bit disconcertng to learn that "a
British concern has been organized to put COM
mercial airship lines in operation between i'm
portant centers in the United States. 1t may
be merely clever move to force this country
to buy a lot Of equipment for which there is
no ready market. The promoters know very
we'll that people who insist upon keeping our
merchant marine in American hands, would go
to most any lengths to avoid the humiliation of
seeing foreigners in control of our air lanes
As matters now stand about the only way to
avert an invasion of this kind is to either set
up competing lines or to buy the invaders out
Something like this seems to he necessary to
arouse Americans to a realizing sense of the
weakness Of our air program.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04

pies! Such fiaky white biscuits,
Molly, I'm starving. It's long past
dinner time. I'm cooking eggs
They've been boiling all the while
I've been writing this letter T
like them done. I~wish Won would
write a line just to say that YOU
forgive me for interfering with
your fun-if you can. Yours.
JOSEPH DRAPER Mills
Six months has passed, since
Molly's prank with the egg. She
is now Mrs. Joseph Draper Mills
and busily engaged in dishiug nm a
savory smelling dinner.
All ready in half a minute Toe -
she cheerily calls, and as Joe folds
up his newspaper and joins his
buxom wife at the table he fondIv
kisses her and remarks:
Well, this is what l call a lucky
turn of fate-eh, Molly"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04
BY JAMES HOGAN

whom he toiled and ioked n.
| thoughts and dreams had borns
him out of their forest world and
far from the days work.
Going with his father to-the nav.
er frontier in Illinois, he help.d
him build another log cabin, cle,r
another farm and he split the rail,
for fencing it in. He was now mast
81, and he started out in the world
for himself, with an axe over nj,
shoulder and all of his belong.
lngs tied up in a red bandana
handkerchief. Mauling rails, fat.
boating, surveying, captainins ,
company in the Black Hawk war.
keeping store. choring about New
Salem, a log hamlet on the Sanga.
mon river-where. for time no
was postmaster with his hat for
postoffice-he remained home.
less man of odd jobs until his 18th
year.
The sympathetic hearts of New
Salem had been touched by a great
sorrow that came to him in the
death of his sweetheart Ann Rut.
leuse. an authenticated daughter
of the tavern keeper. Lincoln
grieved for her until his friends
feared Tor his mind. He confessed
!. that he did not dare for months to
trust himself with pocket knife.
Slowly he emerged from his des-
pondency, but the shadow fingered.
Lincoln remained ever a priml-
time man in his emotions and sym.
patnies. never rising superior to
the pangs and appeals OF the heart.
He could always Cry,
Although New Salem reckoned
him a failure, he had always paid
his way and ever had stood ready
to help others, whether il was to
put his powerful shoulder to The
wheel of a stalled wagon; 70 cut
! firewQod tor widow; to watch the
sick or to rock the cradle for a
weary mother. Through his SEEM
ing shiftliness, moral dignity
shone. and to all the villagers the
quaint. testing, clean living, kindly
man was Honest Abe
The busting planters and build
ers of New Salem did not suspect
that this dreamer who loltered IN
their lanes was planning and build
ing for all time and that their VII
lage would be remembered only
because it had CHANGED TO be sta
tioi, in his progress. For, like
Peter the Great, who stepped down
from his throne and in disguise
went to work among the masses
Abraham Lincoln in those appaT-
emily aimless years was in reall'!
though unconsciously an appre1.,
tice in the leadership Of the peo'
pie whose life he was living. lnere
out of poverty and toll and sorrow
the chara ter of the man wa
woven.
| Tomorrow: In Politics. Love AM
Law.
published by special arrangement
paper Syndicate.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04
H&art, 2GcHotno
||44,!tDTODrQm1C "
oy 4 MRC. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am boy
of IS. l work and care for my
mother. Father is dead.
mlonesome for a girl friend
and it almost forces NE to suicide
because l have none. All the girls
pass me as fl | were lifeless or
something they can't see.> Please
help ME with your advice.
LONELY HEART.
You cannot expect girls TO take
the initiative Do not be afraid of
the m. Ask to call or to take them
some place. Probably sou are over
sensitive because YOU work so hard
and have grave responsibility.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: | am a
Young girl who has huilded upon
sand. wish to create new struc-
| ture upon solid rock. All my life
| wanted to cry. when any of my
creations had to be torn down and
rebuilt | loved very much-very
unworthily. yet as l builded of my
very best material such beautiful
structure just cannot tear it down.
/ / have tried every way to remodel.
but it will not do. have even tried
O'Reiley's little plan for undoing,
but e.en that failed.
/ | am in school and trying oh SO
hard 10 forget. ! get interested in
new projects for time, then they
tire me and the old longing for the
impossible gets the best of me. |
Just cannot give up my Ideals. My
common sense pleads with me and
| try TO give up this creation and
start anew. Will you show me
where | am defective? JUNITA.
II O'Reiley has failed, try kipling.
l wish that l had space here to
print Kipling's IF" No one with
a discouraged or broken heart could
read it without gaining new cour-
age and comfort.
Keep up your brave struggle. If
you can hang on to yourself now,
contentment and even happiness
will come in time, and you will be
all the finer, because you were
master OF your sorrow.
Your heart is only one of hun
,dreds, even thousands, which is ach-
ing right now. This is the time tc
let common sense guide you and to
put aside dreams. Dreams lead
astray. while common sense leads
back to the normal and sane in life
Try not to dim the beauty Of your
experience with tears. Keep thai
page of your life bright and turn
the sheet without a sigh, trusting
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04
A LUCKY TURN OF FATE
BY Shirley Symonds.
Copyright, 1920, by Wheeler
Syndicate, Incl


There. That's the silliest thing
I have Done since l slapped Joe
Mills in the face the day before he
went away. 20 years iago, and told
MIN never wanted to see him
again,' said Molly Smith to her.
self as she finished writing her
name and address on a smooth
brown egg. Placing it in a pack
Ing case with dozens of other
Ghcice specimens she carefully
lpwere6 the lid and tackled on the
libel. =
Those eggs ready vet. Moll?''
yclied Martin. her brother, from
the farm truck outside.
f"Yes." she called back, land
you'll have to hurry if you make
that noon express"
Life held but few thrills for
Molly nowadays. Several years be-
fore, upon the death OF her parents,
fheySshe and Ma-tin-had moved
70 this little town in Maine. and to
say that she was lonely most Of
the time was putting it mildly.
Though she would be 40 her next
birthday there was still lingering
shred Of romance in her nature,
and It was that, maybe, which led
her to repeat an old experiment Of
gtrlhood days when she and hef
Sisters would lAughingly inscribe
HEIR names upon eggs being made
rfadr for market with hopes Of re-
ceiviug responses from some Of the
l3bathful city beaux.
ia letter would break the monot-
q ~. anyhow" sighed Molly, as she
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-04

should weigh IA pounds. Another
week Of Karelling will put Mrs. F
in the ideal class. However, at $50
pounds she is, we'll within the 10
PEI cent excess, which is the nor
NAL limit.
Another method Of accomplishing
the same result is suggested by
Mr. G. K. Of Illinois:
II have been Fletcherizing for
the last "a years. l have reduced
my weight from $50 pounds to los
pounds. l sm feeling fine, and .
eat but one meal day. l am a
years old. More power 10 your
good typewriter"
Readers will please not write to
ask me what Fletcherizing means.
Ask Horace Fletcher, rest MS soul.
You will find his THE New Glut-
ton or Epicure" Frederick A.
Stokes company, New York; ir
most libraries.