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Established 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. i . ? Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. Telephone No. 10. ? * 5 J -1??_ m?f_ finierea as tsecuuu-viBOB wbu ?-?rtor at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1917 BUILD GOOD ROADS/ As we understand it, an engineer connected with the United States Government, who was in Abbeville last week to consult with our delegation in the General Assembly, advises that permanent roads may be built in this county at one thousand dollars per mile, and that these roads may be kept in first class condition, at all seasons, for an annual outlay of fifteen to twenty dollars per mile. It is also promised that the Federal uovernment win cunuriuui? / ; an amount equal to that appropriated by the county for the purpose r of constructing these roads. We believe that two hundred miles C of roadway in this county will give m thoroughfare from every point in ilthe county to Abbeville. If these roads may now be built for two hundred thousand dollars, and the Federal Government is willing to pay ; one-half of this amount, we are in JS&vor of the outlay. , V But we are in favor of having a Highway Commission to have charge of the expenditure of the funds, with provision that the roads must be built by contract under the supervision of a civil engineer of experience in roadbuilding, and the contractor should be under bond in a responsible surety company to construct these roads in a permanent Way. The act must prescribe the roads to be built, and that the money shall not be spent elsewhere or .11 ? ouierwuse. We have been spending thousands of dollars these many years on roads, and little progress has been made. "That ancient institution known as the chain-gang, has been draining the coffers of Abbeville county for many years, with little results in the way of good roads. The same old mud is piled in the middle of the road occasionally to be washed down in the ditches by the next .rain, and the fiasco goes on. It is true that some progress has been ; v made at places in giving us wider roads, and in building bridges where they wer^ needed, and here and there the roads have been treated with gravel so as to improve their condition, but for the most part, the roads have been leveled up "with mud from the adjoining lands, rendered impassable for a season on account of rocks, grass and this ? -? ?? i?i.? j 4. xnua, ana vicu ucaieu uvwu w uicu original condition, only to go through the same process again. The time has really come, if it will ever come, when the enormous amounts of taxes paid by the people of the county Bhould be expended for the permanent benefit of the public and when such work as has been done in the past should be discontinued. We say this without adverse criticism of any one man, because one supervisor in the past has been as bad as .another. We art not after any man but after intelligent and thoughtful work on the part of the authorities to see that we may have good roads. And we will never have these at the hands of the politicians. The nullic had as well wake up to that fact POLITICS IN THE PAST. We are told now and again by some people that they are getting painfully sick of politics and political conditions in South Carolina. This man and the other threatens never to vote again in the primaries because things are so "rotten." They sigh for the good old days following the founding of the republic when men sought only the public good, and when offices in silver waiters went around hunting the right men. And most of us think, sometimes, that the times are "out of joint", and that things are going from bad to worse, when the truth is that the worst we have now is better than what we had just at the time when Jefferson and Madison and Monroe were at the head of affairs in the republic, at which time we have heretofore heard that a man might go to sleep without putting his money in the bank, the politicians were so pure and honest. We do not ask you to take our word for this statement. We ask that you read the passage below taken from "The Life and Legacy of David Rogerson Williams," just off the press, with regard to the congres/ * sional race in the upper part of thi state, within a generation of th close of the Revolution. It run thus: "At old Pickensville, about thii teen miles from Greenville, the pe( pie met on muster day, Septembe OT i o(\n haov hnl Cd 4 J XUV I f Irt/ W*V VMMV?>V??owww mnmm. and speak. One of the candidal was called by his opponents a Fedei alist, another was too good a docto to send away from home, and th present incumbent was an enemy t religion because he went to churc and stayed out to talk and electior eer. Edward Hooker, a teacher i Ninety-Six, while rusticating in th mountains, wrote in his diary th following description of the pr< ceedings at Pickensville: . , "The three candidates for Coi gress, Alston, Hunter and Earl were present electioneering with a their might?distributing whiske; giving dinners, talking, and harai guing, their friends at the san; time making similar exertions f< them. Besides, these, there was number of candidates for the A sembly. It was a singular scene < noise, blab, and confusion. I placc myself on a flight of stairs where could have a good view of the mu titude, and there stood for son time an astonished spectator of scene the resemblance of which had never before witnessed; a seer ludicrous indeed when superficial] observed, but a scene highly alarn ing when viewed by one who coi sidera at the same time what inroa* are made upon the sacred right ' c suffrage. Handbills containing accv sationa of federalism against one, c abuse of public trust against ai other, of fraudulent speculatio against a third and numerous r< ports of slanderous and scurrilou nature were freely circulated. Muc drinking, swearing, cursing ah threatening?but I saw no fightinf The minds of uninformed peopl were much agitated?and many we meaning people were made to ,b? lieve the national welfare was a stake and would be determined b the issue of this backwoods electior Doctor Hunter conducted with th most dignity, or rajiher with th least dignity, on this disgraceful oc casion?confining himself to a root in the tavern, -and not mixing wit the multitude in the street; Alsto fought for proselytes and adherent in the street, but took them int the bar-room to treat them; bu Earle who loved the people rnor than any of them had his grog bene in the middle of the street and pre sided over the whiskey jug? lain self." From the foregoing it would seer that some of the older statesmen ha their, ways of running politics a well as the present day politicians and that politics had ways tha were dark and tricks which wer vain, even in the good old days o a hundred yqprs ago. It was claimei then by the Federalists that Thoma I -r-ut? ?? - lueuersun wua a oicttsciic, i/r ovwc thing to the same general effect, ant he was supposed, in some respocta to be a more dangerous man at th head of affairs than even Woodrov Wilson. THE LORD'S PRAYER. We protest against the rendering of that part of the Lord's prayei which is by some people renderei thus: "Forgive us our debts as w< fnmnnvTn " Wf A OVA T>A XVX^IVC VIU UCUW1D> IT V MJ.V Uv a bible student and we could not if we tried, translate the language in which the prayer is written into English, but we are willing to hazard the guess that the word which i translated "debts' should be trans lated "trespasses," and the wor< which is rendered as debtors, 6houl< be translated "those who trespas against us."Of course we know that there i a broader meaning to the wor< "debt" than that commonly give; it, and it is used sometimes to in elude all our obligations, includinj the duty to make reparation fo mnnim Kiif o a unmninnlv Tin Hot tta vuv uo hmwv* stood the word "debt" refers t our financial obligations. The Lord' prayer should be so rendered tha the little children, and the womer and others, should not draw fromi the wrong impression. There is n bankrupt court in the final adjudica tion on men's lives through whici we may hope to escape these debtf Neither is there in the public or in dividual conscience. The state take away the remedy to recover debt in some cases, but even with it, th debt still stands as a moral obliga tion, which will support a new pro mise. The word "trespass" in the la\* no ^nnorfilltt rl craf nnH cicmi auu ao 5VUVX uiij uuuviwwv?j fies "a wrong," and it includes 1 wrong of any kind. These wrong for which we ask forgiveness ar such invasions of the rights 0 others, as are not to be compensate with money, they are separate an distinct from our "debts," and th Prayer should be so rendered. s McLAURIN'S RESIGNATION. 6 1 g Hon. John L. McLaurin has re- } drmoA a a WAwhnnsp Commissioner, r his resignation to take effect when j *- his successor is elected. As one of >- the promoters of the Warehouse j ,r System, Mr. McLaurin was placed r k at its head, in the hope that he ] would be able to work it out for the r benefit of the people of the state, j At least it was felt that if it failed j e the failure should be laid at the ] ' door of its friends. If there was k a man in the. state competent to ^ ' manage the system and make it a j success, his friends thought JUr. i McLaurin was the man. But the Warehouse System has j not been a success in South Carolina . ie in Mr. McLaurin's view, largely because he has not had either the good ] will or the support of the faction in politics opposed to him. Hiu recom e, mendations to the legislature have 11 not received the consideration he ] V> hoped for, and he has, therefore, i- been unable to develop th? system . ie along the lines which seemed to him : >r advisable. ] ? 4-Uio vaaann and Kpf?c nap Vl 1 ** X'VX bUIO i?(*Ovu| MWWW.MWW Mw . s- is in disfavor with the present state . >f administration, and with the domi- ; id nant faction in the legislature, by ] I reason of his active support of Mr. ] 1- Blease in the recent primaiy elecle tion, Mr. McLaurin believes that the a Warehouse System is doomed to ' I failure unless someone friendly to le the administration is elected as y Commissioner. He, therefore, rel signs in order that the Warehouse i- System may live. Is We do not think that the Ware?f house System will amount to much J i- under the leadership of any other J >f man, unless the state contents it- ( l- self with making and enforcing cer- \ n tair regulations for the proper man }- agement of privately owned ware- j is houses. The state has no more to ? * ?A - _1 I i ii Sao Wiui tne warenuuse outiintws uiau it has to do with the grocery busi- ' j. nef?s, and the end of the present e system will prove it. Mr. McLaurin's 11 resignation will not cure the ills j- which dfflict the system, nor those it which are to come hereafter. y u WILL PLACE WARNING e SIGNS 300 FtffeT FROM e ALL PUBLIC CROSSINGS. 9 n Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 5.?In addih tion tothe familiar "Stop, Look and n Listen" signs, erected at crossings g of its lines and public highways, the Southern Railway plans to -install approach warning signs on the hight ways 300 feet away from the tracks e Permission will be asked of countv 1 h authorities as such sig^is will be i placed beyond the railways' right of t way. \ t l* It is planned to place the signs on 1 the right of the highway, approach- t n ing crossings, in the hdpe that they .1 will attract the attention of aoto- i d mobile drivers while they still have < a ample, distance in which . to stop. < Experience has shown that auto- i t mobiles are driven so swiftly on the ? public highways that frequently i e their drivers fail to bring them unf der control after they see the cus- t i tomary sign on the railway's right 1 s of way. 1 The approach signs' will consist i ' of the letters "R. R." and a cross 1 painted boldly in black on a white 1 , field on cast iron disks 24 inches in * e diameter, mounted on pedestals ^ nine feet high, being in accordance 1 * with standards adopted by the Amer- 1 acar^tauwa^^ssociauonj^^^^^^ ? 9 i B .* t '? e ... 0 1 ? - r 0 s ,t '? No one woul 1 freight car comfort of * riding Pull s So with autc I popular p] freight car old fashion r? i : ia s e f d I* 1 d e I RING OUT THE OLD. 1 ' King out wild bells, to the wild sky, rhe flying cloud, the frosty light; FhB year is dying in the night; [ting out, wild bells, and let him die. fling out the old, ring in the new, [ling, happy bells, across the snow; rhe year is going, let him go; King out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind ?or those that here we see no more; Ring put the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. r Ring out a slowly dying cause, knd ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. ! h: Ring out the want, the curse, the sin, rhe faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, rhe civic slander and the roite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out all shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, rhe larger heart, the kindlier hand; i n. - -i - _1 -J xl. V. 1 J King oud tne aarKness ox 1.0a wuu, Ring in the Christ that is to be. ?Ex. DEMONSTRATION AGENT OF ANDERSON COUNTY Rkmtm Some Interesting Letters From MusUaippi About the Boll' ' Weevil?Spreading Orer Entire State* ... . : .. .. , Anderson Mail. County Demonstration Agent Byirs ig in receipt . of a revised map showing the progress of the boll veevil throughout the cotton belt rhe map was published by the government during the last few days of December and furnishes interesting itndv.' ; Mr. Byars says that Middlcton* renn., is one-half degree higher in atitude than Anderson county, and ilready the weevil has invaded that section. He received a letter from a friend of that place, which reads in sart. as follows: "As to the holl weevil they are lere in great numbers, but came too late in the fall to do much damage this year. "from the best information I can jet they are not over ten miles north >f the Southern railroad. The people are very much alarmed over uieir :oming.' The town of Corinth, MiSs., has exactly the same latitude as the city >f Anderson, and the following let xr from a iriena in uonntn tens >f the damages there. "Jhe farmers in . this county had )een preached to so-much about boll vtievil and none had shown up, that hey .were vfery .much surprised when bey found a great deal of cotton in hi southern and eastern portions of hi county suddenly cut to about oneihird of a crop on account of the voevil. The rapid spread into this, jounty was no doubt caused or help-i id by the storm of last spring blow-] njj them in and the dampness of the i leiison aided their development and] ncrease, etc. "To the south of us they believe vliat they see, and are 'turning rapidy to other crops?velvet beans, soy >ean8, corn, clover, and grasses?and ire fast stocking.up on live stock. "Lee county aCround Tupelo was mrt badly this year both by weevil tnd rains. Some estimate tnat tnere ras only an average production of LO per cent on their usual crops? )ut they were somewhat prepared lor the weevil with liW stock. Our '3BH Do' Pullman 01 d think of riding in a if he could enjoy the a big, comfortable easy man parlor car. >mobiles. Most of the riced cars ride like s. This is due to the ed type of spring. BROWNLEE & TRI Donalds, Tho Willys-Overland C "Mad* i ?i mi * V V V DUE WEST. V Due West, Jan. 9.?On Jan. 6, 1917, Rev. Mark B. Grier, a missionary from the Southern Presbyterian church, who has been laboring in China for a number of years, died at the home of his brother, Prof. Paul Grier, after a lingering illness of some months. He leaves a wife and three daughters, several sisters and brothers and a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death. The burial took place from the A. R. P. church, Rev. J. P. Pressly conducting the services. The out-of-town relatives here for the funeral were: Rev. B. H. Grier from Camden, Ala., Mrs. G. G. White (sister), from Charlotte, N. C., Mrs. R. R. Moffatt, (niece), from Chester, S. C., Dr. and Mrs. Haynie and Miss Martha Moffatt from Belton, Mrs. Floyd Donald from Honea Path, Rev. and Mrs. Stephen, missionaries from China. Dr. Frisier, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blake of Greenwood. On last Sabbath morning prizes were handed out in the Dae West Sabbath school to some forty individ-y uals for perfect attendance in the Sabbath school. Nineteen persons have been present every Sabbath for four years. To these gold stars with diamond hearts were given. Others have been present every Sabbath for two years. Dr. E. B. Kennedy made the address and hpnded oat the prize*. v' We regret to say that Mrs. Scoggans, who has been in the hospital m Anderson for some time is not improving very much* Rev. and Mrs. Stephens 'from China, spent last Sabbath night with MtsTm. B. Grier. Mrs. Dendy and little James re-! turned to Linwood, N. C., last Wedpesday, after a weeks stay with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Wideman. Dr. P. P. McCain, Mr. Charles McCain and Miss Mildred, returned to their homes last Tuesday after a visit to their parents, Dr, and Mrs. McCain. l ' 1-0*1 ?%. Mr. Boyce Ellis, who has been very ill for some time, is no better at this writing. Mrs. Joe Young returned home from Columbia last week from a visit to her mother, Mrs. Bigby. Miss Martha Moffatt, who teaches in the Graded school in Belton, spent last week-end with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Moffatt Mrs. Dr. White, from Charlotte, N. C., is spending some days with relatives in Due West. farmers?the majority?still think that we are too far north and tbe winter weather is too severe for the weevil to survive, and so there will be plenty of cotton planted here to feed a great army of weevil next ! year, I fear. I am strongly of the i opinion, that the 'weevil will go as! far north as cotton is grown ahd that is his only limit. 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