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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. O. Published Every Wednesday by THE PRESS AND BANNER CC W JI. I*. <? KKES K, Killlor WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916, FREE TUITION. The fight is on in the Senate and we shall soon know whether the scholarship and tuition farce in State institutions is to continue, or whether the matter is to be put on a business basis. We shall soon know whether the students in the institutions of learning in this state are to * j - ?-c _ _ _ : 4 De starcea out on -<x uusmuu ujl nunking private snaps and avoiding obligations, or whether they shall be taught to pay as they go, and expect no favors. If we are to have free tuition, it should be free to everyone. The man who pays the taxes to support the state institutions should certainly be allowed to send his boy to one Of them without paying tuition if the boy of the man who does not pay any taxes is to be allowed to go without paying. We can see no justice in forcing a man to give a free show to his neighbor, and then holding the giver up for admission txrVion Via Qppk.c t.n attend. But we are opposed to free tuition. After the state has provided by heavy taxation schools for the boys and girls of the state and has provided the necessary equipment, we believe it but fair that some tuition should be demanded for the payment of running expenses and incidentals. Enough should be charged to make the parent and child feel that a loss is sustained unless the child takes advantage of the opportunity for which he has paid. The proposed taking of notes, etc., in lieu of money, and the effort to put the fight off until some political machine may pass on the question is begging the question, and is an effort to prevent proper consideration of it Everybody knows that notes given for tuition will not be worth the paper they are written on, and that no serious effort will be made to collect such notes. Besides there is no need for any such provision. There is not a man in the state who is not able to pay tuition for his children in the colleges of the state, if he is able to pay the other expenses. If he hasn't the ready money ke can borrow it from his banker or from his neighbor, and he is but a borrower if he gives the state his note, thjrt is, if it is intended that the state shall collect the note in the future. Then why put the state in the money-loaning business? There can be no excuse for it except an effort to get around the provisions for paying tuition just as is done now. And in case the matter is referred to the heads of the institutions, or to the Board of Charities and Corrections (if this high-sounding Board must have some excuse to live) on what shall they base their findings? We presume on the tax records of the several counties. Now everybody knows that these records are no index to the financial standing of the parent. In the first place the parent may be making the money and spending it, and therefore not accumulating; he may be perfectly able to pay tuition for his child from his income, but at the same time be willing to spend it otherwise than in investments or in educating his offspring. In the next place, property is not taxed at anything like its real value. The poorer lands are assessed much higher in proportion tc their real value than the more valuable farms. Personal property pays very little taxes. Then a man's property may consist of notes, mortgages, bonds, and other securities, which are never brought forward to harass the tax assessors. Under such circumstances the tax book", and the public records, will furinsh no accurate standard for judging the financial standing of the parents. The system will degenerate into what it now is, a system of favors, unlsss some uniform requirement is made with regard to the subject. These being the facts, the General Assembly should, in our judgment, +U- ?a--J--* aacc nie situation and make some just requirement of all the students in state colleges, or all should be exempt from paying tuition. TO THE GANG. The House of Representatives has passed the Bill introduced by Representative Liles providing that persons convicted of selling liquor in this state shall be punished by imprisonment, and not by fine. The Bill is right and the Senate should concur in what the House has done, and let it become the law. We cannot admit that the punish , ment of sixty or ninety days on the gang is too severe for the unlawful ' liquor seller. It may be true as was stated that the punishment originally , provided in the Bill was as severe as the punishment for the crime of manslaughter. But that does not prove I that the punishment provided is not just. There is in the state no more undesirable citizen than the whice man who peddles liquor and sells it to young boys in the dark places at night. He should be run out of the community. And the friends of prohibition [ need not fear that the people will . not convict men of selling liquor if . the sentence is something more than a fine. The vote at the recent elee. tion should convince them that we are in earnest about stopping the . unlawful sale of liquor; arid if it , does not, the liquor-seller, himself, . will be convinced when he faces a jury. Liquor-selling must be stop! ped and the proposed Bill will help ; tO Stop it. CONFESSIONS. According to the accounts as con- . tained in the newspapers, a negro was tried for forgery in Spartanburg last week and convicted; he then ( plead guilty to a similar charge. It now turns out that the negro was in , Athens, Ga., at the time the two of- ( fenses were committed, and that < another party was guilty. We would like to know what the , courts think of the plea of guilty, j We presume that it was made at the suggestion of some officer, or friend of justice, who was seeking a "confession." The truth is that a negro generally , confesses to what the officer or other 1 party believes is th<5 truth, or wants j the negro to say. In nine cases out of ten the confessions are obtained f L" 4-Virx na/wA ie Diflior flfrfliH I uy UUiCOOy U1P utgiw *kj ww?v. ?^ not ;o say what is wanted, or is per- , suaded by some designing party to . mak'2 a statement, often at variance with the truth, through hope of as- , sistance; in the other one case out of ten, the "confession" is made up out of the whole cloth. Negroes and j white men do not voluntarily confess the commission of crimes, and it is , an outrage on justice that so many ' alleged "voluntary confessions" are received by the courts. The law does not contemplate that a man , shall be his own accuser, and the , courts should not allow him to be. j TWO IMPROVED NEWSPAPERS. . ] We are always glad to note any | improvement that is made in a newspaper. We have a kind of pride in ] the work that gives us pleasure when ' we see the other fellow make good, i This is preliminary to saying that < we have been delighted to see recent- i ly such marked improvement in both 1 The Saluda Standard and The Abbe- ' ville Press and Banner. This im- 1 provement has been all around and i on lines that go to make a news- 1 paper what it should be. Thess papers have not only improved their ' news service and their editorial 1 work, but the mechanical improve- ' ment has been very decided. Of : course every newspaper should have news, but there is a right and a ' wrong way to serve news which i makes all the difference imaginable. 1 It is the difference between a meal 1 that is well prepared and elegantly 1 served, and one tha tis well prepared, 1 but poorly served. 1 A newspaper may have its newis 1 cnnri/io on/4 itc or}i+nria1<5 nlricrbt 1 >11T. 1 if it is poorly printed with badly set ads it stabs itself right in the heart; for no one likes to handle a newspaper that is all besmeared with ink and dirt. There is even an arrangement of the ads, after they have been properly set, that deserves careful attention. Whatever else may be done with them it will never do to run ads on the first page. But *ve must stop; for after all we may be mistaken. At least we are not set to tell the other fellow how to do it- we only wished to speak a word of approval for The Saluda Standard and The Abbeville Press and Banner. ?The Greenwood Journal. If all the political lies told during a campaign were nailed, the nail faci i i i x _ i_ j_: Lories wouiu nave lo woik over tune. ] * * ] * TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. * 1 * * * Beginning next week we will * I * strike from our lists the * * names of all subscribers more * * than a year in arrears. We * * assume that those who do not * * pay do not want the paper, * j * as every opportunity has been * , * extended them to settle. We * j * are sorry to do this but noth- * * ing else can be done. We can- * ] * cannot charge one and give * < * the paper to another. * , * THE PRESS & BANNER CO. * { * * ( *********** * ( | In Memoriam 11 jif B My brother is dead. Within the j ^ bleak walls of a hospital, tended by j |f the gentle hands of those hitherto A strangers, James Foster Bradley ? save up his life. But as yesterday, ZT he stood up in the strength of ma- Jf turity, buoyant with hope and prom- If ise. Today, his body is returned to U the earth from whence it came, whilo 1 his spirit is on that unknown sea that S gives back no sound to mortal ears. JT If a man die, shall he live again? Jf That is the question of Holy Writ. JjJ Eefore it philosophy is dumb, and ^ fnifli hut. feehlv echoes the answer LE in the human breast. ft A seed planted in the earth must S die before it can spring up into new -r life, with new form. Nature strips "J herself of life in the winter, only to ^ reappear in the spring, brighter and ^ more beautiful. The sun goes down |? amid the shadows of the west, only ^ to rise more resplendent, more glori- ? ous. In science as in nature, anal- 31 ogy teaches that new form, new liCe, can come only after disintegration !E or death; yet how hard it is to look jfl witn nor est iaun oeyonu uie cuiu aim j dismal grave! And what wonder? Wj The Bible plainly teaches that there LL is neither marrying nor giving in rtj marriage, on the other shore. If S Lhis means anything, it means that 3 there can be no family ties there. ? Experience strengthens this inter- "f pretation, else time would not heal the broken heart and friendships U would not grow stronger ay associa- jj tion. Then, when we part with A loved ones on earth, wo may see J them again, in all the happiness of 31 a char ged existence, but never more united by the golden thread of love U! that links the hearts of families and U friends. |p ' -J xl iL... 3 i repeat: wnac-wonaer, men, uiuo the heart is crushed by th3 severance jJ af earthly ties? I recall the sunny days; of childhood, when my brother and I, wan- If iered over hill and dale, or angled |? in the noisy brook that skirted the |? deep woodland in the rear of our 3 aid home; when we fought and played and romped, until worn out with the day of innocen; pleasure, we knelt together on a mother'*knee. Ul I recall those later days, when ihildhood matured into young manhood and each took on himself the ZZ graver responsibilities of life. I recall the pleasures and disappointments of maturer years; how , we have borne each other's burdens ra and shared each other's joys. The |j ever pleasant smile, the ever genial || greeting; the ever hopeful word; !j how the memory of these stir my [a soul to its depths, when I recall that ?J these are earthly ties, sweet memor- I] ies of by-gone days?now ashes of g the past. ? The Master was speaking literally j|jj when he said, referring to the mul- ij titude, "These are my mother and g my Dretnren. ' ueam uruaueus uic sj family circle tc take in all mankind, g Few men in their lives fulfill this @ broader conception of the brother- [f] riood of man. It is something more ? than the humb)e tribute of a brother Gj who may have been blinded by love, ? for me to say that my brother ful - s Silled in large measure, even in life, s :his broader conception of the bro- b therhood of man. His kindly heart S mo/1a r?A /liefirxifiATi nf T?AVPrt.V HT [? liauv JiV UlUVil4VW*VU V* W- . wealth, caste or class, in its sympa- @ :hies. a Liberal to a fault, he has had his s )wn burdens, but they were never so lj leavy as to prevent him from re- [a jponding to the appeals of others || nore needy. s Free from malice, always, he could |j nore liberally forgive the malice of g )thers. I [jD Doubtless there are those who will ? recall some fault or weakness in g lis life. To err, is human, and few |j nen are spotless. As I go a little a further along life's way, in sorrow s ind loneliness, I prefer to think only 1] >f his known virtues, and if they {a ivere not all that might be desired, j|j [ prefer to hope that when he came g to die, and in childlike faith, asked (3 |tU kir. aavov V?ie ci-nc urifVi h Vl I ral ilia UUU tu CV/V^J Alio TTivit V<?w L? mantle of his love, he heard the S answer from the other shore: "Come E unto me, all ye that labor and are [|j neavy laden, and I will give you g rest." g W. W. Bradley. | POPULAR AT CLEMSON. Prof. M. E. Bradley is in Abbeville for several days on account of the ij death on Thursday of his brother, {a Mr. James F.. Bradley, treasurer of 1] Abbeville County. Mr. and Mrs. |jj Bradley have been visitors on several g] ?ccasions to Clemson College, where [fj they have many friends who were g grieved to hear of his death.?Clem- ? .on correspondent to the News and a Courier. 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