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the Press and Banner a - ; ABBEVILLE, S.C. n a Published Every Wednesday by THE PRESS AND BANNER CO h w n. p. <;kkkne. K<ni?r s s WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1916. ? " s THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. v t a The members of the General As- j, sembly, which met in Columbia yes- v terday, had as well get down to business. Taxes must be reduced in ? <X South Carolina, and the burdens of g taxation must be distributed among ' the people and corporations liable thereto on an equitable basis. We have stated, and we state j. again, that in our judgment, the v banks, cotton mills and railroad cor- ^ porations are bearing more than their c proportionate share of the taxes. e We may be wrong as to one or more s i-? A_ of these classes ot corporations, uu a that subject we are open to convic- ^ tion. But that dispute being laid j, aside, there are inequalities between ^ corporations of the same class, and ^ between individuals owning the same ^ kinds of property, which should be e adjusted. s Over Taxation. ? But the inequality of taxation is 0 not a greater evil than over taxa- y tion. The General Assembly has c been creating too many offices, and p electing too many officers. We do ^ ? not say that the object of the offices s created is not good, nor that the officers are not good men; but we do say that the people of this state have t] passed through a period of depres- j, sion which has sorely tried them; S( they have denied themselves the lux- r uries and many of the necessities of fi life in order to pay their debts, and u they are not yet out of the woods. a They are entitled to some relief at p the hands of the General Assembly, n and the members of that body should s, use the pruning knife wherever it e is possible. S1 Some Suggestions. y, The State Board of Charities and i, Corrections should be dispensed with, ^ The people at home should take a e hand in the matters over which this Sj Board holds jurisdiction. The Board may be doing a good work, but the ^ people cannot be taxed for every matter what promises good results. c] The State High School law is an ini- n quity which should not longer be in- t] flicted upon the people of the state, i ?1*^ lftw ktr ittVi i r?V* q dim TY C ICiCr tU tilC low UJ niuvu " ov**** of money is appropriated for the sup- a port of high schools in communities t and villages of less and one thousand tl population. As it is now, the peo- p pie of Abbeville and Abbeville Coun- a ty, are being taxed to help support a the high schools in Due West, Lown- e desville, McCormick and other n schools, the patrons of which are as e; able to pay for the education of their tl children as we are. The fact is 0 that if they levied as much taxes as we levy to support our own schools, r, there would be no necessity for state n help. The people of this district t] are already, under the law, forced to 5 give to the other schools of the coun- h ty about one-half of the constitution- t al three mill tax levied in our district, tl After we have done this it seems tl a little inequitable that we should a contribute to an appropriation for G the support of the needy schools of h the state, and then contribute to the n support of all the higher institutions d of learning, and then again to the v high schools of the state other than our own, especially when we get nothing thereby for ourselves. g More Self-Reliance. vi Every tub should stand on its own s bottom. If the lands in the rural ^ districts were assessed on the same ^ basis as our lands, or lots, the needy school districts would have money; c and if they did not have enough, they could raise it by levying a tax equal o a. _ rri ...1 1 J io ours. ineu wiiy suuuiu we ue ] called 0:1 to support our own schools and all the other schools of the state. It will not do to follow a lot of im- j ^ practicable school men in these mat- j s ters. The General Assembly must i tell the people to bear their own bur- j c dens. They are untrue to their trust if these burdens are thrust on others without their consent. The people should be taught to rely on themselves, and not to look to other ' people to carry their burdens. i * Tax Commission. s The State Tax Commission should j go. The General Assembly should I apportion the amount of state taxes to be raised between the several counties on some equitable basis, and leave each county to work out its own troubles about assessments, etc. If , this cannot be done under the con- _ stitution the constitution should be amended to permit it. No three men in the state will ever be able to make an equitable adjustment of the f tax troubles. The next call upon s the tax-payers will be for about three j salaried men in each county to assist the State Board, and there will be more appropriations and more offices s nd more officers. The Warehouse System. The State Warehouse System has o place in a democratic government, nd we are sorry to see Governor j lanning endorse it. Just now we j elieve that the system is in the j ands of a man capable of getting ome good for the people out of the j ystem, and we go further and say hat we believe he is earnestly tryng to help the cotton farmers of the tate. But when we asked him what ras to beome of the Warehouse sysem when he was gone, he "passed," nd so will every one else, unless he j 5 prepared to acknowledge that it rill eventually become a political nap for some politician to grab up, nd make a good living out of, while pending barrels of the people's mony. The Dispensary system did ood, but it became in the end a potical machine, and productive of all inds of graft. The same good fhich can be gotten out of a wareouse system operated by the state, an be gotten out of a system operatd by individuals under proper retrictions. The warehouse business is s much a business for the people hemselves as is banking, merchandis ig, railroading, or anything else. The usiness is new and must be reguated. A lot of rough places must e smoothed, but they will be smoothd. There is no more need for a tate-owned cotton warehouse than or a state-owned tobacco warehouse, r corn warehouse or hay warehouse. Ve could all figure where the tobaco, corn, or hay farmer would proser if the state would provide a sysem of collecting these products and elling them for the owners. Scholarships and Tuition. The legislature should discontinue be system of awarding scholarships i state institutions for several reaons. A suffiicent one is that the eally needy persons are rarely benetted by these awards. Someone sually gets the plum who is entirely ble to educate himself, or who has x 1_ -1?1? 1 4-1 arenas wnu are auie, <mu muac mvot eedy are left to hustle for themelves. Any young man with enough ducation to enter a college of this tate may educate himself if he is worthy of an education. The grantlg of scholarhips has a tendency to irn out a class of individuals traind to expect something from the tate, which should not be. Every student in a state instituon should be required to pay tuion. There is no longer any exuse for the state to give a young lan or woman free instruction in ie institutions of higher learning, 'he tuition is not a great amount and an be easily paid; if all paid, the mount could be easily reduced, here are too many men educating ieir children at the expense of peole who have never been inside of n institution of higher learning, nd whose children cannot hope to nter one. The fact is that too lany boys and girls, who are liable, scape the payment of tuition in all lese institutions. We are in favor f all paying. The burdens of taxation have eached the limit. A cry is begining to go up which will echo around ie state. The amount of taxes now eing demanded is little short of a old-up. A halt must be called. 'ho loorialofn-ro cVinillH rfnwtl tn le job and reduce taxes; and if ley cannot, or will not do so, then n opportunity will present itself to overnor Manning, of which we hope e will avail himself. If he does ot, he will hear from his failure to o sc on the stump, and when the otes are counted. If This Insect Had Wingsl You can excuse a child for calling a /bale a fish, but listen to this youngtor, who is reported in the BostoL 'ranscript: Child at Library?Please give me a ook on whales. A book on natural history with a hapter devoted to whales is brought. The Child?Oh, I don't mean a book n the insect I mean the country!" Simple Directions. "My dear," said she, "please run ami ring me the needle from the haytack." "I don't know which haystack." "Look in all the haystacks. You an't miss it. There's only one needle." -From "More Jonathan Papers." Woman's Desire to Attract. Owing to the system under which we ive, wliere man is a valuable prey, rornan lias contracted the habit of rying to attract. Even aggressive inolcnce on her part may couceal the lesire to attract by exasperating.?W. j* George in Atlantic. Has to Be. "Our alimony club is very econom cal." "Well, it goes without saying that an ilimonyclub has to husband its means." -Baltimore American. Classified. "How would you classify a telephone firl? Is hers a business or a profe3ion? "Neither; it Is a calling."?Christian Register. Provide for the worst; the best will ave itself. EVOLUTION OF A WORD. "Hypocrite" Was Once the Title of a Pantomime Actor. Do you know what a hypocrite Is? Why, he is a person who uses the church as a cloak to cover {.'raft aud greed and all manner of evildoing. At least that is what he was in the days of .our fathers. More recently tie bus taken 011 auother color, a different kind of cloak. lie need not be a dissembler nicely in the matter of religion Hypocrisy may. be practiced in friend ship, in culture, iu philanthropy. It goes a degree further even than that, for the hypocrite may deceive himself as well as his fellow man. j But how did the word, which is o!> J viously a compound of "hypo." uieaniui; ! "under," and the very familiar "critic" come to mean a person who deceives either himself or other people? This question suggests a second one: What is a critic? The Greek verb from which the noun was derived meant originally to ;in alyze, separate or judpe. So the crititcame to be one who had been set apart or judged worthy to plead a cause or present an argument. At one stage of his evolution the critic was a person who recited the works of the great dramatists. He was an actor?woo am j not act. The gestures were supplied by a man trained for that purpose, who went through a sort of pantomime, while the real interpreter of the part gave the melodiously intoned words. The pantomime artist was a "hypocrite" because he played an under part i to the "critic." Later, when the speaking and acting were done by the same person, he was called the "hypocrite." Now any one who plays a part not his own is practicing hypocrisy.?St. Louis I Globe-Democrat ANCIENT MEALTIMES. j i When They Rose at 5, Dined at 9 and I Supped at 5. [ The change in mealtimes is evi denced by the old rime: To rise at five and dine at nine, I To sup at five and bed at nine, p Txrni maifa a man live to ninety-nine. ' But one suspected that the change I is in the names of the meals rather f than in the hours. Our ancestors ! would have termed our luncheon din- . ner and our dinner supper. It is a curious fact that in some of the Ox- | ford colleges, where the founders made g allowances for the meals of the stu dents, a much larger sum is alloted for supper than for dinner, implying | that the former was the more sub- ? stantial meal. Taken at 5 or C o'clock, a it was really "early dinner." I Some particulars of the mealtimes of f our ancestors may be found in William Harrison's "Description of England," J published in 15S7: "With us the nobility, gentry and students do ordinarily go to dinner at 11 before noon and to supper at 5 or . between 5 and G ai: afternoon. The merchants dine and sup seldom before' 12 at noon and 6 at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon, as they call it, and sup at 7 or 8, but out of the term in our q universities the scholars dine at 10. G As for the poorest sort, they generally ? dine and sup when they may, so tha: G to talk of their order of repast it were | but a needless matter."?London Chron- G icle. ' jj E Melbourne, a City That Planned. | There is and always has been a great G amount of public spirit in Melbourne. | due. in large part, to the Scotch ele- i G ment that has predominated from the j | beginning. "The first citizens, led by I G Scots, as a rule, set to work with mag- | niflcent faith in the future. A city was G planned worthy of being the capital of ? 10,000.000 people, and the public build- G ings were designed on the same gener- ? ous scale. The soil on the site was G deep and rich. That suggested tree J planting, and most of the streets are | today relieved by handsome foliage, [? and the parks which ring the city || Katta \r r\? tlir* fnrnC fQ ra of Europe. The avenue of elms in | Fitzroy gardens certainly represents ? that tree at its best?Bishop E. E. | Hoss in Dallas News. r~ E ? E The Blind Man's Luntern. A blind man in Khoota (a Caucasian g village) came back from the river one | night bringing a pitcher of water and | carrying in his hand a lighted lantern, jl Some one meeting him said: "You're j| blind. It's all the some to you whether ^ it's day or night. Of what use to you j| is a lantern?" "I don't carry the lan- || tern in order to see the road." replied | the blind man, "but to keep some fool | ^ - _ j* Ira like you from running against me aau t breaking my pitcher." II Not a Ciay One. 1 ? "Do you believe all men are gay <le- 11 ceivers?" asked Mrs. Twobble. "No. indeed," answered Mrs. Dub- j | waite. 'There's Mr. Dubwaite. Tor in- ; G stance." u "Yes?" j jj "In his efforts to deceive me he even g goes so far :is to sled tears."?Birming- | ham Age-Herald. ! e ! o E Antagonists. Dow many who have deemed them- o selves antagonists will smile hereafter ip when they look back upon the world's | ? wide harvest field and perceive thai: in jl unconscious brotherhood they were [> helping to bind the selfsame sheal'!? jj Hawthorne. G I No Escape. | 0 Bella?I understand your sister mar- : [j ried a struggling young man? Gus? ID Yes; he struggled hard, but he couldn't i ^ get away from her. J Wan is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.? i Schiller. ? A I 333 Pei* Cent I OF BOYS' sens fi |MCTEHim ? Get You ^ | | fi ^ % Boys 4.0 jj %oys 5-0 5 Boys 7.0 g Boys 8.5 fi fi These goods are new and ma 6 pendable materials, Serges* Wc J quality. c Take advantage of this oppoi g Suit and Overcoat at a big savin fi these prices. Ji I PARKER IMUMU M IwM It imm .. 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