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ABBEVILLE, S. O. <
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Published Every Wednesday by ^
THE PRESS AND BANNER CO ,
VI. I>. KREENE. Eil I lor 1
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1916.
REDUCING TAXES.
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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
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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.
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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 ,
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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
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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. Just when
; speculators have cornered the drug
and chemical market, army doctors
find substitutes in things that are
cheap and plentiful.
LOVE'S MUSIC.
(Meredith Nicholson.)
Love's music is not set in simple keys
Of jingling catches and light melodies,
But rings in deeper mightier chords
than these.
Through marvelous symphonies it
ebbs and flows.
In choral storms, with martial power
it blows
And chants in solemn oratorios.
Like hymns of victory are its pure
chords blown,
Or like a bugle's notes that rise alone
And call beyond man's thought to
Death's far zone.
It's strength is more mysterious than
the tides,
As, unresisted, through the soul it
rides,
Until in Memory's quiet haven it
bides.
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