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JT VJ LA 1A/UXV Established 1844 The Press and Bannei Abbeville, S. C. , I The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone Xo. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in AbLeviile, S. C. , Terms of Subscription: One year S2.00j Six months 1.00 ? Three months .50, i Monday, May 10, 1920. I THE BONUS BILL i Congress seems to have dropped, for the time being at least, the proposed bonus for soldiers in the World War. The brick was too hot to handle It begun to appear to republicans and democrats alike that there were x>ther people with votes besides the soldiers. Perhaps the soldiers im pressed on some of them that valcr was its own reward. At any rate it is now stated that there will be no legislation prior to the conventions of the two great parlies, and there * will likely be none afterwards, that / is, none looking to the payment of a bonus to the perfectly strong and healthy soldier. The proposed sales tax did not appeal to ths people strongly. When they were informed mat the wholesaler would add this tax to , the price of the goods to the retailer, and that the retailer would add x it to the price of the goods to the con sumer and that the people would pay the freight, as they generally do, they were unable to see why they should contribute to make a whole army of people idle at the very time when the country needs the fruits of .oil* labor. On the other hand, while , it was proposed to tax big business again, on the war profits, neither party was ignorant of the fact that ?>ig business sometimes has sometning to say ir. election years. While the big corporations-Jiave undoubtedly made tremendous profits during the war j-criod, other people have sone the same, Th^ corporations have already paid enormous taxes into the public' .casury, and the country will not deem it just that their Treasuries' v should be again raided, and the country tries to l.?e just. It is as well that the proposed' bor,-t us legislation join the rccent overall brigade and disappear, 'fhe country .Y,i!! take care of the soldiers who ( are not able to take care or them r selves oecause of wounds, hurts and ills, and in time it will no doubt do good part by all the soldiers of the .. eat war. The politicians may safely leave the matter to the country. ( Neither the soldiers nor the people j desire that political capital be m'ade . out of the matter. v ONE MAN IN CONGRESS. ( ' I Congressman Pell, of New York? j he has a very good family name, to ( be sure?expects to be defeated for ' 1 ix? fV,? -Ciet'Vlt.11 tu V/UIlglVOO. lie I1C4U niv. courage the other day to make a 1 > r ?pch in the House flatly opposing ' all bonus legislation, the question 1 ; has caused so much discussion s i'i Washington. In speaking against * the robbery that has been proposed * in the name of patriotism, this man ^ among men said: "I intend to vote 1 against this bonus. I am iJolng this ' in the full realization that it means ( the end of my political career, and I ' can tell you frankly that it is a pain- ( ful thing to commit political suicide, but I do not think that honor will ( permit me to follow any other ' course." Instead of ending his polit- ' ical career, the course of this unus- ' ual member of Congress should as- ' - l.:_l V,; tnf Fure u IU^HUI laicci Awi null many years to come, and that will be 1 the result if the voters in his district have not lost the appreciation of courage in high places, the sort of courage that was illustrated on many battlefields overseas when the soldiers of the United States were fighting for their country and not for money. Many years ago there was a great man down in Mississippi by the name of L. Q. C. Lamar. He was a Senator of the United States. The Legislature of his State directed him to vote for the free coinage of silver. He refused to obey their orders and vied the cam to the people anjd the people heaped furtner honors^ upon Him because he had been true aiillll to himself and to them. It will be gj the same way with Representative Pell; that is to say, if the people of |gj his Congressional District are true to themselves. Mr. Pell is not opposed to the most liberal treatment of the soldiers who ^ fought in the World War; he would iS "vote for the most generous treat- pg ment possible for men that have been gjj injui-ed in the service of the United jjg on/1 olen fnr nrnridv of ?-" k_> lei O, aiiu W1?JV Jf/* ^ the descendants of those men who m have been killed; but I cannot," he ?j| said in his speech, "bring myself Bp r.-.orely for consideration of political g? cvantage to vote for a bill which jlft would impose a tax of twenty dollars ^ a head cn every man, woman and gg child in the country. There is no ^ conceivable way, or at least 110 way gl has been suggested by which such an ?g amount of money could be raised Jg which would not paralyze the indus- jj| tries of the United States and preci- s pitate such a crisis as we have never B seen in our history. Hard times un- j{| questionably are coming, whatever ^ we may do, but while we cannot avert jjgj difficulties we can tremendously ag- |g gravate them. t i < ? < ? "Considering the low purchasing ?j|j power of money today and also the general tendency of all classes to- ?1? ward extravagance, $500 means ?.bout as much to a boy today as $75 g or $100 would have mean: :o us, and IH may rest assured that nine-tenths 11} the men receiving this money wil jjif spend it on a good time and not work ||? until it is all gone. After that they El will try to get back their jo'os that pi tlicy held and find that they no Ion- Mp ^ .er exist, so that their last slate will jg| 01 worse than the first." Wo jio not know Mr. fell; do not g|g jt-all ever having heard of him be- j=|l fere; do not know and do noc care what political party he belongs to; but he has proved himself to be a mman of the right stripe in .the posit:cn be has taken on this question. It fe"luoks now as if the bonus regulation will fail at this session of Congress, il would not have had the least con^deration but for the fact that this Jy i* a:i election year, and tliat the men 9E; who have been sent :o Congress are more careful of the votes they hope jsp -o .se<> e by neglecting their duty ti:an they are of the trust reposed in |8 .hem. There should be a general gH ./earing o;?t of the traders and trick-'B sters an;! the election of honest mon^f !/ . n (din tVicit* ntarps \vp rlrt IV f ? --y > jiot believe, for a minute that the f?5? g-.eat body of the American soldier-s'W !-.o served in the late war are in fa (;i- of estimating the honor to which Jg[ ihey are entitled by Mie money they ?||j :an extract from the Treasury.?The HI Spartanburg Journal. . , fl| j In Greenwood, Here and Eiscwhc. " i Si^f T ? 17:?j. D?| 111 Ill me XMlst UcljJi/inb VUUK.1I o<. mi jfreenwood last Sunday night tho Rev. J. R. Jester, pastor, preached to in audience packing the building a Speaj. sermon "called forth as a protest igainst the recent dance given in the 1S 110 :ity at. he time that the oratorical tenda on test was held." The Index-Jour- into i lal of Greenwood reports that this lately lance "is said to have been a most vjgjja lisgraceful and shocking affair." ^ 'Dr. Jester discussed other condi- ??a. ions which are calculated to make Of Jreenwood far from what it should >e," describing the prevalence of the sc,'^( >ale of whiskey and its drinking, and not rambline as evils seriously menacing tlon 1 ;he community. "The Devil on the Provc Tob in Greenwood" was the theme of he sermon and the issue of The some nciex-Jouinal containing an account mere' >( it has an extended lttter from Dr. demn I. B. Green of the Presbyterian W1 hurch, of the same tenor. Colur Dr. Jester and Dr. Green apparently which liffer in that the former condemns their lancing in general as "A relic of bar- balls aarism" and, inferentially as quite tiful, beyond hope of reform while Dr over, Sreen is content with saying that nient "the amusement of dancing is in Caroi ilanirer in America from its own vile- years ness-?in danger of suppression. The and 1 ball the other nijrht was about the indec limit in offendingness. An open af- manj fair, any one payintr the price could wine enter and take part. Had the devil festn 1 ' * ' ! .1 TVlO I appeared and paiu tne price ne wuuiu not have been refused admittance. inf? I And be sure he was there; it was his the d performance." most While we think that Dr. Green has perse made the stronger case in that the tion points to the abuse of the amusement nevei without undertaking to place it cants wholly under ban, both preachers couni have served their community by Caro i ? ? U?l Will be the Gander This, the Final Issue of this S< Pages, Handsomely Bound, i Numerous P Such as?Marshall House, H House; Secession Hill; Burt'* the GO's. Then. Pictui V Paved Streets, Modern Chur Municipal Building1 School C member of this year's Gradui cia! Articles, Course of Stud; - a auu an Huiiienuc misiury ui nuu If Ordered Now, Check J MAKE ALL CHECKS P. pro ^ 1 BOX 92 lilliigiiiiililillliilllli ;ing in plain terms. Greenwood i regarded as flagrant t the only city in which the | &entlemanly conduct tncy to convert a socialN affair Granting that dan , , , . . . ! prohibited, the simp] u revel has been in evidence. 1 1 late it is for good pi r and there should be more! , ... 1 neglect it. When m nee and more courage on the jand women attendee of teachers of morality and re-j with their daughters i to check it. j of their friends, they course, dancing will not be pro atmosphere of decen id as an amusement and we do I objectionable in< link that it ought to be. Opposi- Greenwood that would put an end to it hasjever? 'n evidence, d futile for centuries and .ef-j Youth must have < to protect dancing as a whole- will have it and yout form of entertainment are j sometimes rash. The ly hampered by wholesale* con-'fathers and mothers ation. i the play of their nes lile dances have been had in j children and their w nbia in the last twelve months j'*s indulgence is sell i might have been improved jnj?carecly le.>s reprehe conduct, many other dances and excesses complaint have been given that were beau-j urn delightful and innocent. More-! hundreds of such entertain-1 IF YOU HAD / s have been given in Southj ina during more than a hundred! 1 L.aunnuui^ i at which wines were served Editorial squibs ii A'hich were not marked by any (S. C.,) Piedmont 1 ency, incredible as it is to months attracted wit good people. The drinking of printed in the Literrj in moderation at a large and er national publicati re gathering is entirely possible, become the common serving of wine at dances hav- the people of the stc teen made impracticable by law, Carolina Newspaper langer of execesses has been al- sayings have trained eliminated?that is, provided outreaches any fame ?ns of good manners have direc- to the town of Green of the entertainment. The time Palmetto State. Thoi r was when carrying of intoxi- have read the "p; i privately at a dance was naturally are interes tenanced by gentlemen in South thor-ship. lina. When it was done, it was Down at Fountain / June Issue of ession will be Published in BC yith ictures of Old ampton Speaking on Square in 3 House; Ox Teams on the Squa res of New Ai ches, School Buildings, New ( Children?including a large Phc iting Class, Class Will, Prophec y for next Session, Report of tl eville. Enclosed?Price t i y AYABLE TO Cjsi j j departure from land works Robert Quillen. Quil [a young newspaper man and r cing is not to be ^g^jy newspaper at Fountain e way to regu-jTT , ,, : He is bright and presumably a 20ple not to; iddle-aged men ' defatigable worker. How else 1 entertainments ' be manage to run a weekly pane ?-vv tVio AaiinrKtot-ii! f;?rl timo tn ontprtjiin the natic lend to them an the sj<je paper, tne rountaii t restraint and Tribune, is unique and popular :idents of the Quillen writes the "paragr are. seldom, if for tj10 Greenville Piedmont fro; little office at Fountain Inn. amusement and he sends them to the Greenvill h is impetuous, per. The Saturday Evening Posl obligation of The Literary Digest "copies" is to share in and Quillen profits thereby. The lrly grown upjurday Evening Post has "found' ithdrawal from I and now he conducts a page in Fishness, a sjn great magazine, under the titli nsible than the "Small Town Stuff." From this id of.?Index- the followed nugget is gleaned: Yesterday I read in the news] I of a man who had inherited a m l MILLION dollars, and I began to wonder i T would do if a similar foi hange says: should come to me. 1 the Greenville i I might travel abroad to see lave in recent | wonderful works done by man le attention. Re-1 nothing man has fashioned can r Digest and oth-1 pare with the white oak God has nnc thou Imvp I in mv back vard. property of all i I might hear famous singers ites. The South 1110 one of them has a voice that and its pointed j compare with that of the moi a notoriety that j bird that sings in the hedge nea that may attach j house. iville or even the I I might make the acquaintan I usands of people j great ..men, but I have greater ii ill??i,? iragrapns anu uuunn uu m.v mien. >ted in their au- I might make new friend?, 1 have one who walks with me wil Inn, S. C., lives dissimulation and takes no thoi is 1 ome i Proper I \ j "y . IOK FORM, 100 1 ABBEVILLE I '76; Old Court jg re; the Square in Dbeviile | 2ourt House and >tograph of each ~ i u:?i. ? y diiu i na iui y , ijj;clis Session. Also v.. \ ? $1.50. # : a JT ! I ABBEVILLE, S. C. 1 Sfi ? ?? len is! of my faults. uns a! ^ might live in a great hotel, but , I thus i .-.sjiilci forfeit the beaten bis/ Inn.1 cuit ami fried ciiicktn we have at 1,1 in" home. pniild [ I might build a groat house and hire r and servants, but servants would rob me >n on of privacy and a great house would ii Inn j oppress me. . . in its j I might buy fine clothes and hire a aphs' vale', and become a great deal of m his'trouble to myself, but I feel more at Daily) ease when I am puttering about the o pa- premises in overalls. t and I mijrht buy manv motor cars, but them I have one that tnlKs low in itsSat throat ad chuckles at the approach of ' him S a hill. i ; that I might give it to the needy, but c of the gift would rob ihem of self repage | spect and self reliance and whet their appetites for fuither charity. More laperjover my friends would think me a illion fool and come near converting nu- to what their opinion. rtune ' I,Ut TINS ONLY I J3" iBS- AT YOUR GDOCERS 1 y ' MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE n the but I Not a single Vassar graduate this thout year will go into the teaching profes.ights sion.