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JUU-tt THE PRE A WM. P. GREENE, Published Every Wedr Entered as second-class ma Wednesday TO O Next week we w of the Act under \ three hundred thou county to build dirl you something to tl We will also unc ures on taxes in AT the figures of some ure" some ourselve We will also tall streets and sidewal 01 a r OA1L Just now when some of ou pending it in an effort to edu the point of voting a bond issi sumably asserting that our fr comprehend the questions whi submit to these voters, we beg for a few minutes in order thi to the faculty of the Voting C street. And, in the beginning, as i country do not understand th order to properly educate the: to know that in the building of in many placet to relocate ro of corn or cotton the expert i properly dress down these roa< that a considerable amount of fields be appropriated for the j country voters should come fc liberties, the good roads comm: have to warn them in advance ly against "pr?gre88?" and thi voters, making such demands, to us, that unless the people enough to give the necessary districts who are waiting to g? some little ground for argumc For, gentle reader, we woul< good roads is the betterment < lying country districts, and th not reach the school houses i befitting the mind of public b ably dressed, laid out in the < up in the latest style with you all of this holds good in the ci The school authorities in t School, attended by our boys ' as Greenville Street. The bo the High School, are forced to City Council has allowed the years that it is with the greate upon it. A sidewalk'upon on pedestrians reaching the Pub yards distant from the beginn very well with these poor aee< fit to erect the High School i school season, all the children ed by this one narrow sidewal an opposite direction, at the 1 forced to get out into the mid< to pass in an orderly manner cially the girls of our city, ai up and down this narrow sid< negro men and women who u sidewalk has not been opened Now, our friends in the and we regret to tell them, th of the new college tor promo lieve the president emerities opening of this sidewalk. W< joled him in an effort to get 1 to make them better by givii whereby the children might r that he does not live on Gi other way. And as we employed all out the magnificent support of th esteemed neighbor, The Abb< children in the country distri imagine our surprise when " cate began to kick with a mig any more sidewalks on Green sk your "Uncle Jim" to eitl incht* ot land wrncn ne nai for ihc accommodation and i tending the public schools. And where has our estima ulty, who adorns the offiice of ing this discussion? He woi dumbness in the fight for a 1 there has been enough mone ille to widen other streets a would mention the fact that directly towards the resideno and has been, according to < i :ss AND BANNER BBEVILLE, S. C. Editor lesday by The Press and Banner Co. il matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. July 18, 1917 UR READERS. rill address you on the terms yhich it is proposed to issue isand dollars of bonds of this t roads. We promise to give link about. iertake to give you some figbbeville county and show up other figurers. We can "figs. c about experts and, maybe, ks. > SIDEWALK. I r enthusiastic citizens are raising money and cate the people of the country districts up to ue for a few miles of dirt roads, thereby pre-' iends, left to themselves, are too ignorant to ^ ich the bond advocates themselves saw fit to I to ask the kind indulgence of the audience, j it we may address a remark, here and there,* i. ollege concerning said sidewalk on Greenville | it has been asserted that our friends in the.' e questions upon which they are to pass, in j1 m upon the subject, we would like for them. : the proposed good roads, it will be necessary ' ( ads, opening them up through whatever field may select. It will be necessary, in order to ' is, and give them the proper city appearance, [ the best top soil to be had in the adjoiningi'' >urpose stated. Now, if any of these ignorant irward afid say that for all such licenses and ! ission should pay a just recompense, we would that in so doing they place themselves square- ' it in other counties such ignorant country j< have been quietly informed, as it has come<| in the country districts want the roads bad j' land and top soil, there are people in other i < :t the roads. We cannot deny that there is :nt on both sides of this question. [1 remind you that one of the objects of these I >f the schools in the cities and town and out- ! at the children who attend these schools can ivith that convenience and comfort which is; ! enefactors unless they have wide roads, suit- i :ountry districts across your lands and fixed ir top soil. But friends, do not imagine that ity of Abbeville. he city of Abbeville have located the High and girls, upon that street of quality, known ys and girls of Abbeville, in order to reach i > pass along this street. For some reason the street to remain so narrow during all thesei j ist difficulty that vehicles may pass each other! e side of the street is the sole means of thcj, lie Square, not much more than a hundred1 ing of the street. We managed to get along j >mmodationt until the proper authorities saw' it the end of this street. Now, during th<4 from the fifth grade up must be accommodate Ik, with the result that pedestrians going in time the children are upon the sidewalk, are j II* ?f street in order to allow the children j , and the children upon the streets, and espe- j -e often embarrassed and annoyed in passing . swalk by being forced to rub up against thei ise this thoroughfare, and all because a newt upon the other side of this street. country will be surprised to hear, we know, iat one of the leading members of the faculty' ting good voting in Abbeville, in fact we beof the institution, stands in the way of the s have plead with him, besought him, and calim to help the poor schopls in Abbeville, and lg us a better street and a better sidewalli( each the High School, but we have been told eenville Street, and that he is looking the ' efforts in this behalf, and we should have had at great, some times good roads advocate, our sville Medium, which it so solicitious that the cts have Rood roads to go to school, you can J ?, . a! j j. ? UnipUITCU, UUI UIIICIUKIC* ^UUU IWUMO ?u.whty kick, saying that the children did not need ville Street, and that nobody had any sight to icr give, sell or exchange any of the precious for the betterment of the Public Schools and) convenience of the dear children who are atble friend, the loquacious member of the fac: the Mayor of the City of Abbeville, been durild put an oyster to shame when it came to setter way to school at home. It is true that^ y in the public treasury of the City of Abbend to improve sidewalks on other streets. We a short street leading from the Public Square e of our worthy friend, is at this very minute, >ur information, for the last ten weeks in thd gentle hands of the street force, and the hack drivers may, with more co of the Seaboard Air Line railway, ai ing the Mayor is able to watch occur Now, we do not condemn this impi in the city treasury to widen this shot people, why is there not enough moi enough land upon Greenville Street i children of the city may travel, going degree of comfort, and without putt inltinir thi> middle of the road, and ' of precipitating a serious breach of tl child being jostled by some of the < Charity begins at home, we are tol thropists who would help the countr country by taxing everybody to give up their hearts and do for the childi are asking the people of the country We ask them if they will not, befor and asking the benighted citizens of their real estate to the public good, if valuable real estate to help the peop their own city. In the language o Wilson, "We pause for a reply." The medicine, gentlemen, which yo' in the country tastes a little bitter v yourself, but by holding your noses < will be able to do the job. BETTER They tell us, that is, t bond issue tell us, that I schools in the country; able to attend the school and with more comfort We presume that by t' we may say that pool schools, and that the chi where there are poor roi convenience. If that much is admi the county of Abbeville The supervisor now inf< least fifteen hundred m of public roads in Abbe^ hundred and fifty miles sort can be built from * and we will thus have t\ miles of the common cl we now have. Therefore the buildir present mileage of road reasoning, means that te will be improved, and 1 children of Abbeville cc advantages, and more c in the matter of attendii But what about the What do they propose t per cent? We can onl spokesmen say. The M day, July 6th, tells us tl county this year is six mi of this is used to pay sa to spend on the roads, money is used for wide grades, filling in the val] money is spent for good necessary as all of this ^ with the money receive AND THUS TWO MI T^T-1 ri A TTTITV O ? ? JBUi V ?jU, 06C. If we are now spendi the roads, and two milk by building one hundrec does this not mean that 1 propose in the future to the remaining thirteen more, miles of road? II sue advocates about sc hand in hand holds doe ty per cent, of the scho they now are, and that children are to suffer fc cent? Was this government fit of a few people, or sh interest of the whole pe MORE LIT! Our venerable friend tirely complacent count Cothran, of Greenville, "scholars" and teacher; on bond issues on the < ^ -Til ~ L'vil rl riTT VjrrtJtJIlVlllt: last riiua,y , interesting remarks, he assault some of our ed bludgeon fashioned out Colonel seems not to 1 old friend, Mathusaleh case, after the gentlem years we know nothir died. that a way is being prepared whereby n.venience and safety, reach the depot .id thai, as a result of this street-buildrences uptown better than before, ovement, but we ask if there is money rt street, which accommodates very few ney in the public treasury to condemn i:nd to open a sidewalk upon which the to, and coming from school, with some ing other pedestrians to the trouble of without all the while running the rislj he peace in the city on account of some :olored brethren. d, and we appeal to these great philany schools and help the children in the them ways to reach the schools, to open 'en of the City of Abbeville what they r to do for the children in the country, e going out into the country districts these "Irurrin* " parts to contribute of they will not give a few inches of their de and the children, and the schools in f our distinguished friend, Col. Lark. u have prepared for the ignorant voters rlien you are called upon to swallow it ind throwing your heads far back, you SCHOOLS lie advocates of the road setter roads mean better that the children will be is from greater distances, and convenience, he same line of reasoning cer roads mean poorer Idren will attend schools ids with less comfort and tted, what will it benefit to issue the road bonds? 3rms us that there are at iles, and probably more, rille county. Not over one of roads of the sand-clay the proposed bond issue lirteen hundred and fifty ay or sand roads, which ig of ten per cent, of the s, according to the above1 in per cent, of the schools that ten per cent, of the unty will be given better iomfort and convenience ag schools. other ninety per cent? o do for the other ninety y know from what their edium, in its issue of Frihis: "The levy of the lis. Practically two mills laries, leaving four mills Of course some of this ning and cutting down I leys, &c. After the bondj roads none of this will be! :ind of work will be done! id from the bond issue LLS AT LEAST WILL ng only four mills on all i of this is to be taken off I and fifty miles of road, the bond issue advocates spend only 2 mills on hundred and fifty, or F the logic of the bond ishools and roads going s this not mean that nineols are to be poorer than ninety per cent, of the >r the benefit of ten per -.organized for the benelould we seek to serve the ople? rLE GRAVES I, former citizen, and en;ry-saver, Col. Thomas P. made an address to the 3 in our whirlwind school of the visit to and in the course of his took occasion to violently litorial utterances with a of his ancient humor. The lave much opinion of our , because, as he puts the tan had lived a thousand ig of him except that he We fear that the Colo; sand years, though we co so that the country would up with his progressive i< him that if, after he has 1 other gentleman named, ] we could hope that the pe worse against him than t WTq q 1 cn h q ^70 cr*m o < TV-/ U1UV I1M* V UV111V ( summer's primary in Gi horror with which the C pression, "He died." We hope now that Ma was dead. MORE LITTL The esteemed Abbe\ tribune of the people anc is afraid now that if the ] against the bond issue, tl: legislative delegation is < the hands of the corporal dium need not be afraid awaits the county we thii pen these lawyers will h from the hands of the pe elected. So why worry? ation lawyers draw a bon not be able to shoot hole: is the case with the prese tinnc spp rvnv npyf isgiio V1VJ14JJJ k/V/\/ V VIA AXV/^V V AKJUVIVI The remarks of our ne: teresting in that it is the that some of the present c ture from this county ha^ on the wall. ANOTHER We are informed that seeking a professorship promote good voting. Ir ness for the job he seeks, can "figure out" where g< pay for themselves, but; dividend. W'e knew if ti could do the job, it was t He figured out some ye all going to make ?a fortu on his lower place. He also figured that th< rlnurn nr> fhp Wat.srm nlar VtV T r AA V/AX VliV ? T J^/avv\ and he and Col. Charle selves out of several hun slip their hands in the "pc In fact figuring is the ( we suggest now that if t themselves, the authors ( long way behind moderr should certainly vote aga which calls for so much ] next session of the Gene Bradley to "figure up" a' and let them pay for thei We believe in roads wl Selah! SHE'S TALK] ? Our amiable lady frie dertakes to tell its reade The Press and Banner sa and high taxes. The ab: get facts mixed is so pro7 excuse it. As the people dium readers should kn< and Banner is saying no\ issues, we suggest that a done so should subscribe and keep informed on wl As a sample of the at Medium, to fail to read a matters, we copy the foil ville News: "It would seem that J jhard headed as ms caoi: i man cabinet is called R minister, Von Tirpitz, c< peror Wilhelm, so he fo Abbeville Medium. Ou Reichstag is the Germai net, and Von Tirpitz wai minister, the above para nel will not live a thou?uld hope that he might, I have a chance to catch deas, but we suggest to )een dead so long as the lie is remembered at all, x>ple would say nothing hat he died. appreciation, after last eenville county, of the olonel looks on the ex* thusaleh knew when he ? GRAVES. ille Medium, a great i of the people's rights, present election carries le county so far as its concerned, will fall into tion lawyers. The Me. No such good luck, nk. But if it does hapiave their commissions ople by whom they are And when the corporLd issue bill, laymen will s in it with pop-guns, as ~j. i n tti :n _ _ mi urn. ror specmcaighbor, however, are infirst acknowledgment ielegation in the legislate seen the handwriting EXPERT. Col. W. W. Bradley is. in the new college to ' i order to show his fit, Col. Bradley says he 3od roads will not only . pay everybody a good lere was anybody who he fimirine- Colonel. jars ago where we were ne out of his gold mine 9re was a "gold pocket" le near his lower place, iy Lyon figured them- * dred dollars trying to>cket." DoloneFs long suit, and he roads will pay for )f the present bill are a t methods. The people instthe present scheme v high taxes and at the ral Assembly, get Col. bill to build these roads, uselves. hich will "stand alone." ING AGAIN. nd, The Medium, unrs some of the things ,ys about the bond issue, ility of the Medium to ^erbial that we always , and especially the Meow just what The Press v about taxes and bond 11 who have not already to a real good paper lat is going on. ility of our friend, The nd know the facts about rmrino* from The Green vy ? Germany's ruler is as net leaders. The Gereichstag, and the war m-il^ ofwaci TT.rn UU1U 11V7 1/ aglV/V *? ivu llowed Garrison.?The tside of the fact that the i parliament, not cabi3 navy minister, not war graph is correct."