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The Press and Banner ' ABBEVILLE, S. O. < 1 Published Every Wednesday by ^ THE PRESS AND BANNER CO , VI. I>. KREENE. Eil I lor 1 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1916. REDUCING TAXES. * * I The Ways and Means Committee of the House, in reporting the annual appropriation bill with reductions of more than seventy-five thousand dollars over last year, has com- 1 menced a good piece of work, which , the legislature will do well to carry . on. Not having seen the bill we can- . not say just where the committee has made reductions. But the bill as reported, under the law, will carry appropriations for all boards and officers now in the employ of the state. A great many of these may be dispensed with. The bill no doubt carries appropriations for the state's institutions of learning. These can be reduced by getting rid of the scholarship and tuition farce, and by requiring all * 1 1 - ? A OTnAimi students tO piiy rcadunauic aiuvuuw as tuition. The State Board of Charities and Corrections, which turns up this year seeking a much larger appropriation than before, should be abolished. The State Board of Tax Assessors is an expensive institution with which we may easily and profitably part. The legislature should ap- . portion the amount of taxes to be , raised among the several counties, and allow the people at home to manage their own assessments and the ^nlWt.inn of their own taxes. If we do not do this, we may expect an army of tax assessors in the state in a few years, responsible not to the people who pay the taxes, but j to a board with an almost indeterminable term. There is no democracy in the system and it should go. The state is appropriating the ' money of the people of Abbeville to 1 run high schools at McCormick, Due West, Lowndesville and other small ' towns in the state. We need all ' the school money that our people are able to pay. We are opposed to paying for the education of the * children of other communities when ' our own need more help than we can ' give them. <- The state is appropriating an enormous amount of money to pay pensions for Confederate Soldiers who need help. We have no objection to these appropriations as long as the money is spent on those who need help, and who are worthy of help. But the legislature should guard most securely these trust funds, and see that only those entitled are receiving help from the same, and that the money is being received by those for whom it is intended. The money should be paid out monthly, or quarterly, and not in one sum. It can be paid in checks, so that it would not be necessary for the par- ' ties entitled to apply in person. If , persons are receiving money who should not do so, payment should be stopped. But the greatest saving which can come to the people of Abbeville 1 county will be from a discontinuance 1 of the chain-gang system 01 worKing the roads. Until this is done, we will have no adequate relief from the burdens of taxation. THE LAW OF THE ROAD. I Col. S. F. Cromer is anxious that the people of the county, especially Col. Dick Sondley and Col. R. L. Maory, be enlightened on the law of the road. He tells us that nearly everybody knows that, when you meet a man on the road, you should turn to the right, but that very few < people know the law as to passing a person whom you overtake, and he wishes us to give him some light on this question, and that we publish the advice in our paper. The Colonel first asked us this question on the street and we were j not prepared to answer it just at ( that time. Besides, we have quit giving advice on thel streets, as Col. Kerr informed us, when we sent , him our last bill, that we have no \ right to charge for advice given on the street. We were afraid too that ; Col. Cromer might be talking to us , as editor instead of seeking strictly Q/lirino Wnurovov cinpp has come to the law office of the wri- ! ter twice since that time to ascertain just what the law is, we have concluded that we would enlighten him, and at his request give it to the public, and especially the gentlemen named, and charge him the regular amount. We will only give him about fifteen dollars worth to start with, because we do not desire to make him pay for more than ! he wants. For that amount, we advise on three points as follows: ? First. A person who wishes the , 7- t editor to publish free legal advice for him in the editor's paper to which he does not subscribe wishes the sditor to get "clean out of the road" to let him pass. Second. A person who borrows liis neighbor's paper and reads it is passing on the wrong side of the road. Third. A person who wants to take his neighbor's paper and read it when the neighbor is wanting it himself, is guilty of obstructing the road against his neighbor so that he cannot pass at all. FREE TUITION. The Greenwood Journal rightly attacks the system of "lobbying" by students of Winthrop College carried on by means of letters addressed to members of the legislature, and which letters are no doubt instigated by the authorities that be at that institution. In line with this is an article from University "Weekly Notes in which it is stated: "Two single facts undenied and un deniable, seem altogether to have been lost sight of, and these facts are the most important in the whole discussion : 1st. South Carolina is the next most illiterate state in the Union, and every possible plan looking to a wider and more thorough education of the youth of the State, should receive the unstinted and immediate support of every man, woman and child. 2nd. Under the present system of collegiate institutions, only one out of eight high school students ever get to college at all. Seven-eighths of the high school students never reach college. It seems reasonable that in stead of disputing as to how the oneeighth should be portioned out among the different colleges, the sole and single aim of all the educational forces of the State should unite In the effort to reach the other sevengighths. It may be noted in passing that every argument against free tuition in the colleges can be used?and las been used?with equal force to jppose free tuition in the primary ind secondary schools." Leaving out of the question the probability that some of the sevenjighths of the High School studenls vho do not fro to the colleges, are <ept out of college through the uxiiust burden of bearing the expenses jf the one-eighth and the expenses )f other high schools in the state, we suggest that the recipients of favors it the hands of the public may always be expected to be able to invent reasons why the public should continue to tax itself to help them. We presume that the people who are new profiting at the expense of the taxpayers of the state feel themselves fully competent to tell the tax-payers tiow much the latter should tax themselves in order to keep the for [tier in the employment ot the puolic, and to pay the bills of the former. If the members of the legislature are to be guided by the advice of the beneficiaries of an unjust system, the people had better ?et other representatives. TILLMAN SAYS SENATE WILL CONFIRM BRANDEIS Washington, January 29?Special: White it is still certain that a long time will elapse before Louis D Brandeis is confirmed by the Senate for Justice of the Supreme Court, if he ever is, there has been an unmistakable softening of the opposition to him since the shock was partially absorbed last night. The prevailing opinion here now is that he will be confirmed after months of delay. Senator Tillman spoke of the Bran deis nomination to-day as follows: "I think he will be confirmed because he deserves to be. His ability is unquestioned, phenomenal in fact, as shown by his success at the Bar; and it would be a shame for those interests who are opposed to his confirmation to succeed. If he is not confirmed I will be very much surprised and very mortified to see that the Senate is so cowardly." LINER WITH 500 ABOARD SUNK, IS BELIEF London, Jan. 29.?The big ElderDempster liner Appam, with almost 300 souls on board, is believed to have been sunk. The vessel was five days overdue to-day and had not re portec: Dy wireiess. A dispatch to Lloyds to-day states that the Hull steamer Treganle reports that on January 16 she passed a lifeboat with the name "Appam, Liverpool," painted on the stern. Five feet of the lifeboat's bow had been knocked away. One life buoy was found. The Appam displaced 7,781 tons and left Daker, West Africa, January 11 for England. No wireless has been received from her. The Appam carried 200 passengers 200 German prisoners and a crew of SO. She also had a large batch of mail aboard. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The small boy's stomach is usually in apple-pie order. The man who is afraid of work deserves to be scared to death. Women remind us of angels because they are always flying around. Why is it that little girls always smile and little boys always grin? COTTON GINNED " PRIOR 10 JAN. 16 Director Sam. L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, announces the preliminary report of cotton ginned by counties in South Carolina, for the crops cf 1915 and 1914. The report was made public for the state at 10 a. m., on Monday, January 20. (Quantities are in running bales, counting round as half bales. Linters are not included.) CROP. County. 1915. 1914. Total 1,149.772 1,424.700 Abbeville 29.840 32.410 Aiken 37.296 47.723 Anderson __ _ _ 59.091 54.265 Bamberg 15.936 27.426 Barnwell 35.917 59.683 Beaufort 4.223 8.902 Berkeley 9.576 16.383 ' Calhoun __ __ _ 19.669 30.610 ; [ Charleston __ __ 10.194 16,882 Cherokee 14.739 16 109 Chester 30.093 33.672 Chesterfield 28.641 33.526 ! Clarendon 27.131 48.462 i Colleton 13.805 23.205 . Darlington 32.986 44.768 Dillon 30.218 37.954 Dorchester 11.337 18.291 ; Edgefield 29.144 32.059 Fairfield 23.121 24.048 Florence 30.139 46.515 Georgetown __ _ 2.490 5.256 Greenville 43.239 43.446 ! Greenwood __ _ 28.459 30.761 Hampton 12.493 21.505 Horry - 7.920 11.974 Jasper 3.180 6.529 Kershaw __ __ _ 24.228 30.408 Lancaster __ __ 21.672 23.830 Laurens 39.362 36.876 , Lee 31.699 41.505 Lexington - 23.754 27.578 Marion __ __ __ 13.647 14.705 w -u oco cn 9/IQ luariDoro ... __ 4t7,ou?j uu.oiu Newberry 36.057 32.748 Oconee 17.967 18.842 Orangeburg 61.528 83.536 Pickens 17.024 19.942 Richland 19.769 25.832 Saluda 25.611 24.115 Spartanburg __ 67.612 68.790 Sumter 31.283 51.706 Union 18.278 18.602 Williamsburg 22.066 34.934 York 37.475 38.039 OLD FASHIONED REMEDIES. (New York Commercial.) Physicians have been jumping, from one drug or chemical to another ever since Lister found a way to check or prevent the infection of wounds. Doc4-?n?c. tinfo frioH -friars halsam. carbolic acid, iodoform and dozens of other antiseptics, some of them very costly, and now seem to have gone back to oldfashioned household dressings of past years and even past centuries. On the battle fields of Europe sugar, salt, tincture of iodine and common garlic have superseded drugs and chemicals with high-sounding names. Sugar is used as a dressing for wounds already infected. The British government has found that wounded men on ships whose injuries have been washed with common" sea water make better recoveries than those treated in field hospitals, the conclusion being that the waters of the ocean are an ideal antiseptic. Tincture of iodine, a preparation as old as the hills, is the favorite protec tfion against lockjaw; and so it goes. Of all these reversions to grandmother's specific, however, the discovery that garlic is almost a cure-all is the most striking. Doctors who prescribe and use only the more costly and new-fangled preparations imported from Germany, will have to give respectful attention to garlic, for its efficacy is vouchsafed for by > the London Lancet on the testimony of two eminent London surgeons. Garlic applied to a wound stops the infection and heals quickly, whereas modern antiseptics used in fashionable practice injure the tissues. Gar. lie has been tested thoroughly at the Paddington Infirmary in London, Eng., as well as in field hospitals in France. The story of the rediscovery of agrlic possesses human interest. An old French peasant woman was found to have dressed the sores and wouncis of soldiers in the war zone with re; markable results. An army surgeon investigated, and garlic is now sold by the ton where it was formerly sold by the ounce in English chemists' shops. Garlic juice diluted with three or four parts distilled water seems to be the standard dressing. Garlic is also found to be effctive in preventing tuberculosis and in curing it in its early stages. The common onion, cousin of clove of garlic, is good for colds. Hindus have used plasters of garlic for ages. 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