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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-03
Treasurer's Notice!

OFFICE WILL Be OFEN FNo"a
FRIDAY, OCT. 18TH UNTIL
MARCH Is, 1921.
Taxes Paid From Friday, October lS'
Until Friday, December 3lst
Without Penalty.
The rate of State, County, School
and Special Tax including one dollar
Poll Tax, two dollars communication
tax.
In accordance with an act to raise
supplies for the fiscal year commenc-
inc January 1st, 1920, notice IS mere.
by given that the sffice Of the County
Treasurer for Abbeville County VIII
he open for the collection Of taxes ior
said fiscal year from Friday, oct. TO-
until Friday, Dec. S1st without pen
atty. .
There will be added-a penalty OF
one per cent. on all taxes not palo Oh
january 1st, 1921. III
A penalty of two per cent: on all
taxes not paid on Feb. 1st, ls2l.
A penalty of seven per cent; 90 on
all taxes not paid on March 1st, lszi.
8 Rates per cent. of taxation are as
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ornia Grower?"
Checkers as Diversion on tn

fornia Grower?
Checkers as a Diversion on tn
Farm"
Late Plowln' an Broquet Playin',"
How { Make Farmin' Attractive t.
Farm Children"
How t Avoid Mllkin'."
Tday we have scientific methods
whereby most o tn ole problems that
drove tn farmer t distraction may be
easily met.
Even thicket grubbin' an stump
blowin' is now pastime, much the
same as log rollin' used t. be.
County agents are alert an up-t'-
date an don't like nothin' better than
a good knotty farm problem t solve.
They kin even tell you how t. strap
calf t a Ford fer market. Abe Mar
tin in Farm Life.
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COUNT YAGENTS.

Theirs been 80 many agents O. one
kind or another, notably lightnin' rod
agents an patent gate agents, that
have pestered our farmers in past
years that think tn title County
Agent" should be changed t 9TH
Farmers Friend" or 9TH Farmers
Adviser" fer he certainly haint an
"agent" as farmers have learned {
know agents, an t avoid 'em.
Besides, TIERS somethin' about tn
common noun "agent" tina tsuggests
bein' hypnotized t most of us.
We're all leary O. agents"
But they're called County Agents"
an while tn farmer haint gittin' what
he thinks he ought t. git fer his corn
an wheat he should be thankful fer
tn County Agent"
Theirs as many perplexin' problems
confrontin' tn farmer as ther' is how
erin over tn city consumer, an he
should let tn "County Agent" do tn
worryin'.
Let tn farmer made list O. tn dis
couragin' questions that pop up al
mostahourly in tn operation of farm
an then send fer tn County Agent
an have it out with him an such
vexations problems as the follow
"Adaptin' tn soil t Buckwheat,"
Should tn Guinea Be Encouraged
on tn FarmT
How Kin tn Middlewest Canta-
loupe Grower Compete with tn Cali
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the United States Department Of Agri-
culture, the nonventilated Hallock
crate, or coffin box" as 1t is locally
known In the Louisiana strawberry
district, is now In universal dlsrepute
as a strawberry container. True, q
considerable number OF nonventilated
strawberry crates afe still being used,
in fact too many OF them, but not
nearl yto the extent that they were
used a few years ago. Berries shrip-
ped in ventilated crates invariably
command premium over berries
shipped in nonventilated crates.
Strawberry growers have learned that
the premiums commanded by high
quality berries more than cover the
few cents additional cost of proper
containers, and the department spe-
cialists predict that it will not be long
before the use Of nonventilated Hal
lock crates for Strawberries will be
matter Of history.
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"The Man With the Falcon" has just
been purchased for 100000 by New
York art firm, from Berlin collector.

"The Man With the Falcon" has just
been purchased for 100000 by New
York art firm, from Berlin collector.
Authors. playwrights, and motion
picture acetors all got into the same
picture recently, and the result is
amusing and well-done. 1t is 'The
Nonsense Of Censorship" the film
made for the National Association Of
the Motion Picture Industry, which is
being shown in photoplay houses in
states where agitation for censorship
is now going on. Douglas Fairbanks,
Rupert Hughes, Edward Knoblock.
Samuel Merwin, Rita Weiman, and
Montague Glass, are among the stars"
all of them except Doug" beng
writers.
One lone crusader sees his duty as
citizen and is doing It, Among the
places in New York where smaking
forbidden is the subway-stations as
well as trains. 1t is not frequently
violated law and consequently no
great effort ever seems made to pre-
vent the semi-occasional infraction.
But one man who boards the Broad
day subway at West 157th-street,
takes it more seriously than the rest
of the world. He scans the platforms
every morning and night with an eagle
eye and whenever he espies smoker,
he approaches him with the direct
question, "Do you think you are doing
right in breaking the law against
smoking in the subway" The query
has never yet been resented so far as
anyone knows. Surprise, embarrass-
ment and obedience have been the
only emotions registered.
Whether 1t has anything to do with
tho difference in the laws governing
this country and Bermuda, certain 1t
is that there is greatly renewed
halter this spring about the starting
of airlane between New York and the
hospitable island. The $40 miles could
be made easily by air in six hours,
says those who have figured it all out
and declare that such service will be
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VENTILATED CRATES PROVE
BEST FOR SHIPPING Berries.

One of the most effective methods
of causing fruits to decay in transit is
to pack them in solid crates that af-
ford little or no ventilation. A few
years ago this was the manner in
which early Strawberries were ship
ped to market. The result was that
large quantities Of Strawberries ar
rived at market in bad condition, and
the monetary returns to the grower
were smaller than they should have
been.
But today, largely as a result of the
activities of marketing specialists Of
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The greatest number Of immigrants
into Canada during 1920 came from
Ireland. The total immigration from
siXty-four countries last year was
147,5O2, of which 1886 entered via
ocean ports, and 4S,S65 from the Unit
eq States.
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H. Gordon Selfridge, age SO, former
ly of Ripon, Wis, was the first man
to introduce the department store into
England. Selfridge started his com1
mercial career building fires and
sweeping out a store In Jackson,
Mich.
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The United States purchased Alaska
from Russia for s7,oO0,0O0 fitty-four
years ago. In the intervening half
century, more than seventy times the
$7,0OO,OOO has been taken from that
territory by the Federal Government.
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NewYork
Letter
hLszryAaauzeR5c

New York. - The police undoubted-
ly have right to expect some help
from outside forced in their efforts to
land the principals in a robbery of the
other day. But to date no help has
come. Mrs. Marie B. Finley was the
victim, the thieves stealing money and
jewels from her car while she was
driving it. And despite the fact that
Mrs. Finley is spiritualistic medium
Of some reputation and experience and
said to be on most friendly terms with
all sorts of people nthe all-seeing
plane, not even a hint has been re-
ceeived as yet regarding the where
abouts of the criminals. The police
threw Gordon of reserves around the
block where the hold-up took place,
but in spite of this and the open wires
to the spirit world, the men escaped.
The only gorilla in the world in cap
tivity Chat probably ought to be all
spelled out in capitals) has to have
real attention given it when it pines
away. That is why Edna Cunningham,
of London, whose father captured
John Daniel - the above mentioned
only etc. when he was baby
gorilla, was cabled for by the Madison
Square Garden people, to come and
cheer John up. The animal just moped
and grew thin, refusing to eat or play,
and the experts diagnosed it as home
sickness. Miss Cunningham had been
brought up with the animal as play
mate and as desperate last resource,
she was sent for. She cabled back that
she would sail at once. But John
Daniel died before she arrived.
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Craps can no longer be referred to
exclusively as "Afrlcan golf" 1t is
just at the moment the amusement par
excellence of debutante New York
that is at such times as there are no
me nabout to make dancing eliminate
even the fascination of the little ivory
cubes. Nearly every jewelry store and
novelty shop in town is displaying
stas Of those cubes in silver and gold
cases, fit for place in any mesh bag
carried on the Avenue, And it has
even been suggested by some flippant
soul that, with the present length of
skirts worn by the girls in question,
trtistically embroidered knee pads
will have to come next. For no real
crap-player Of the days when 1t was
confined to quiet alley corners, would
be without his pads to protect his
krees while he knelt on the hard
stones to shoot"
LUCY JEANNE PRICE.
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realty before many months. The
regular mall service between Miami
and Nassau. to be inaugurated this
spring, is one fact pointed to in sup
port Of the shatter.
The public ledger., 1921-04-27

New York adds to her art treasures
steadily, although slowly, due to the
regulations in foreign countries
against expectation. Titian's famous
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RECREATlONAL AS
WELL AS RELIGIOUS
is PLAN OF CHURCH

Chicago, April 16.-Plans whereby
it is hoped to make the church to
the recreational center of the COM
munity as well as the religious CEN
ter, were announced today by the
committee on conservation and ad-
vance Of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The plans contain erection
of play grounds, organizations of ath-
letic teams and classes in economics,
housekeeping and kindred subjects.
A committee was appointed to Wis
it all conventions of rural ministers
during the next six months to give
instructions in the direction of games
and calisthenics. Gymnasium para
phernalia, it was said, would be sup
piled to all churches Of the denomina-
ton.
The work will be conducted, it was
said, from the s22,oOo,O 900 centenary
fund of the church.
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ATLANTA TO NEW YORK
AIR MAIL ROUTE WILL
ALSO TAKE PASSENGERS

Columbia, April l6.-The Colum.
bia Chamber of Commerce is today
in receipt of information from the
Lawson Air Line company, of Mil
waukee, to the effect that informa-
ton regarding the date for institu-
ting the air mail and passenger SER
vice between New York and Atlanta
by way Of Columbia organization is
cooperating with the Lawson COM
pany in its plans for the establish
ment Of the air route.
1t is stated that the Lawson COM
pany will operate passenger carry
ing airplanes between New York
and Atlanta, and contract with the
government calls for the delivery of
mail. However, it is hardly thought
possible for this service to be opera
tive for some time YET, as congress
has not as yet appropriated for the
cost of the ir>mail delivery. At the
same time the government has en-
tered contract with the Lawson COM
pany, and all that is lacking is the
appropriation.
The Lawson company, it is stated
will put it's passenger service into
operation this year. Three routes
r to be established from New
York to Chicago, from P%ittsburg to
st. Louis and from New York to At
lanta.
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WHY SEND MILK TO ITALY?

There seems to be a very general
impression that the Italian Babies
are cared for by the Central Euro
pean Relief. This however, is not the
case, as Mr.. Hoover has himself EN-
phatically stated. The Central Euro
pean Relief, as its name indicates
cares for the children of Central Eu-
rope-Poland, Austria, Hungary and
adjacent states. 100000 children
of these countries have been rescued
this winter, but Italy too, needs help
and we must give both of III SYM
pathy and our substance to her in
this her hour of need.
The question is often asked-'But
why is Italy not able to take care Of
her children?" Under ordinary cir
cumsances, Italy could take care of
her children-but the circumstances
are extraordinary.
In Italy today a milk famine ex-
ists-due to the fact that many cat
tie had to be sacrificed the last year
of the war to feed the army. Later
the dread Mouth and Hoof disease
broke out and swept the country of
the remaining milk-giving animals.
This has left them with no native
milk. Four years of devastating war
had left the nation with enormous
war debts, a deprecated currency
and great scarcity of the n~ecessaries
of life. AS the currency went down,
the cost of living went up, and for
the poor conditions of existence
became almost unbearable. Foods
were so high and so scarce that in
November last the Government
found it necessary again to issue
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SOLVED DILEMMA BY ELOPING

Grand Island, Neb., April 49,
The wife of Roy Yates, an overseas
soldier, who married again when she
was notified that her first husband
was killed, solved a dilemma when
her soldier husband returned unex-
pectedly yesterday, by clipping with
a third a
Yates, who lost an arm in France
and recently was released from an
eastern hospital, came to Crane Is
land in search of his wife, only to
find she had remarked.
Her second husband, Guy Nc
Cracker, who with his wife has been
living with a relative ON a farm in
this county, said Yates had first
claim to the twice married woman.
The three, with Edward Smith,
the farm owner, sat down to supper
to discuss the complications. The
young wife excused herself and left
the house.
Later a note was found from her
addressed jointly to Yates and Nc
Cracken saying that she had decided
to cast her lot with another man,
naming George Mcdonald, and that
they were going East. Yates, Nc
Cracker and Smith left for Chicago
to search for the wife.
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which used to be equal to 20 cents
in our money is now worth only 8
IL cents. Five dollars used to be the
| equivalent of Is lire. Now it takes
nearly $50 lire to purchase five dol
lars worth of American goods.
The milk that we r sending over
costs US here, wholesale 1Icents a
quart. but if it is sold to the poor
Italian, he must pay nearly &C cents
a quart for IT in Italy.
Can Italian babies be properly fed
with our milk if we sell it to them?
Italy's suffering babies are. the. VIC
! Tins Of war-they are reaping the re
, suits of Italy's great sacrifice in
"the cause" which was "Our Cause"
Italy was our friend and ally. Shall
we be content to offer her nc sympa-
thy, no aid? A cup of milk is all that
is asked in her. name-that her ba-
bies-the future hope Of the nation
may not be dwarfed and stunted
as a result of malnutrition.
Send your contributions, large Or
small, to Miss Jane B. Evans, Flor
ence, Sc, State Chairman-For
American Free Milk and Relief for
italy, Inc. . (. L..-. -.
EVERY PENNY COUNTS.
/ is 1T NOT MUCH TO you:
ITO know that there is saved for
great tomorrows
A man who may stand firm for truth
and right,
May be, the one to lead groping
people - .
Toward the light? .
Somewhere in distant lands a child
is happy, ~,
And growing happier with its every
breath, $3.50.
Ny child, whom, through Gods gra-
cious bounty ,
I saved from DEATH"
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food cards-more stringent than
during the war, and much Of Italy's
unrest has been due to the food
situation.
Under these conditions the Italian
mother, herself undernourished, has
not been able to nourish her baby
as formerly she vas abundantly able
to do-and in Italy the unprecedent
has Representatives. mothers have
had to feed their babies ~artifcially
The artificial feeding of a baby is
not the best way, but it can be sue
cessfully done if good milk is avail
able, but without milk it becomes a
question which scientists have not
yet been able to solve. There is no
substitute for milk-and the baby
under n year, deprived of it, can
not live. The little child over one
year may live but becomes an easy
prey to ricketts,, anaemia and tuber-
culosis-of hunger diseases-and
with these the hospitals are filled.
Three hundred baby hospitals and
institutions for children in Italy are
now being supplied with milk by the
American Free Milk Fund, and
through its dispensaries centers
100000 babies have been rescued,
but many provinces have not yet
been reached, for the relief can 60
only a. far as the milk goes. The
institutions already established must
be maintained and the work can be
extended. only through larger ship
ment Of milk.
The situation in Italy is briefly
this: :
the people are burdened with tre-
mendous taxation necessary to pay
their war debts and the currency so
deprecated in consequence that they
cannot buy from Us with the ruinous
exchange now existing. Few people
here realize that the italian Ira,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-20
TOM WATSON MAKES
HIS MAIDEN SPEECH
IN SENATE TODAY

Washington, April 16.-Making
his maiden speech in the Senate,
Senator Watson, Democrat, Georgia
accused Republican leaders in sup
porting the Colombin treaty Of hav-
ing adopted "Wilsonianism at the
beginning of this session of con-
gress."
The Georgia senator charged that
Senator Lodge, who opposed the
treaty in 1917 of having assented to
ratification of the fact now "be-
cause of an oil concession which
Secretary Fall had pipe-lined into
this treaty"
Senator Pomerene, Democrat,
Ohio, who spoke in favor Of ratifica-
ton yesterday, was accused by Sem
ator Watson with having declared
that the United States stole Panama
but with failing to name the robber.
The portion of Colombia that re-
svolted to make the republic of Pana-
ma was described by Senator Wat
son as "some malarial lakes, some
mosquito-infested swamps and an
uncontrolled river which Colombia
straddled unable to bring one leg to
the other"
The United States, the Georgia
senator maintained, had a right TO
aid Panama in her revolt from
Colombia.
"Why should not we have insti-
gated the revolution in Panama."
he inquired. ..-.
I'VE are hereditary revolution.
lists"
Senator Lodge, the Georgia sena-
tor declared, had the privilege Of
changing his mind on the treaty,
but, Senator Watson added, should
not ask others to make every turn
of the wheel for him." So.
Referring 10 the argument of
Senator Knox Republican, Pennsyl'
vania, for the treaty, Senator Wat.
son said:
"The finest spun legal Unread
ever say came from the head of the
lawyer from Pennsylvania. 1t was
invisible gossamer."
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FRANK WHITE is
SELECTED TREASURER
OF UNITED STATES

Washington, April 16.-Frank
White, of Valley City, N. D., was
nominated to be treasurer of the
United States by President Harding.
Mr.. White is a former Governor
of North Dakota and was a colonel
in the American expeditionary
forces in France during the world
war. He is to succeed Guy F. Allen,
who has been serving as treasurer
since last January, when John
Burke resigned.
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PRINTING A NEWSPAPER
IN CONSTANTINOPLE IS NOT
LIKE EATING MONEY

Constantinople, April 16.-The
task of editing a local newspaper here
is exactly four times more difficult
than in an American city for here
there are Turkish, British, French
and Italian censors.
A paper here after the censors have
finished with it sometimes bears little
resemblance to what che editor in
tended.
Here are gathered some 20 nation
alties and each requires an organ.
The Greeks have seven newspapers in
their OWL languages, and n printed
in French: the Armenians have four
in their own languages and one. in
French; the Turks have nine dailies,
in their own language; the Jews have
one in French and two dailies in
Spanish; the French have one in their
language, the commonly spoken and
written language of the Levant; and
they also pay subsidies to several
others. The British have one-the
ORIENT NEWS.
The Arabs have their organ. So dc
the Persians. Likewise the Russians,
anti and pro Bolshevik. Strange PEG
pies from other lands have their little
sheets. The Americans print a maya
zine of business and a weekly, the
FAR SEAS, printed by the United
States navy. The Italians used to
have their organ, and soon will have
it agan. The Greek Patriarch has his,
There is also in French the weekly
bulletin of the Vatican's Apostolic
Vicar.
1t is no easy matter to print a pa.
per in English or French. However
consider that the Jewish paper il
printed in Hebrew letters but in the
Spanish language, also that the Turk.
|ish language requires four kinds OF
type and has go letters to its alpha
bet. The Arab language is a good dea'
like the Turkish, except that it is diff.
ferent in accent marks, and the same
may be said of the Persian.
Now put four censors, each of 6
different political opinion, onto the
job Of eliminating the undesirable
part of these newspapers, mix with
three or four interpreters to each
censor, so he will know what it is al
about and the result is a distracted
lot of editors who print the news
when they may.
The editors claim they often are
obliged to print their paper foul
times over before issuing 1t. At this
coufftry of sunshine and racial heat
is also the long of exaggeration, they
may not set up their papers so many
times. But their printers bills are
heavy and, without racial pride to
call forth supporting money, the pa.
pers would, many Of them, cease to
be published. Many of them do.
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The reductions varied from 81 TO
$14 a ton, on various products.
Earlier this week the United
States Steel Corporation announced
price cuts affecting other lines.
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Paper made of esparto grass fiber
in books reduce their weight about 40
per cent. as compared with the older
Volumes of equal size.