The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, January 10, 1917, Page FOUR, Image 4
Established 1844.
The Press and Banner
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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Wm. P. GREENE, Editor.
Published Every Wednesday by
The Press and Banner Co.
Telephone No. 10.
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at post office in Abbeville, S. C.
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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<
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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
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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
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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. ]
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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 ?
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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.
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u WILL PLACE WARNING
e SIGNS 300 FtffeT FROM
e ALL PUBLIC CROSSINGS.
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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
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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.
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Ring out a slowly dying cause,
knd ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
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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;
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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
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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.
RUB-MY-TISNI
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Headaches. Cramps, Colic
Sprains, Bruises,Cuts,Burnt, Old
Sores, Tetter, Rin^Worm, EcMnt.
etc. Aitimtio Aiodyie,
vied internally or externally. 25c
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Malaria or Chills & Fever
PtMilptiot No. MS is prepared ctpodaQy
for MALARIA or CHILLS 4 FEVER.,
Fhre or six dotes will break say cue, ana
If taken then as a toole die Rem will not
return. It acts oa the Hrer better then
^looc) toddocsponripeorskkett. 2Sc
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Many manufacturers s
to use them.
The ?^erland does not
O.^-.and has the la
cantilever shock
springs. As a result
the easiest riding cars
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une demonstration wn
$ 635 f. o. b. Toledo.
BBLE, Dealers.
S. C.
ompany, Toledo* Ohio
InU.S.A."
"WANT ADS
HIDES?HIDES?Bring them H
if you want/highestcash prices and
J true weights. We buy all kinda.rof :Tj
I hides. Maxwell's Market. tf.
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FOR SALE?Pure Georgia Ca??
Syrup at wholesale, in barrels and i
cans, direct from the farm. Wr#? .]
for prices. W. H. Davis, Augusta,
Ga. bKuT
' ' . fLOST?At
the five, and ten ceot
store or on the square, a small
tan pocket book with 8 rings, and > ?
two shirt waist pins in it Reward
if returned to tnis office. 1-10^1
FOUND?On the way to the High
School, a gold medal, given as a . :
prize for "Spelling." Owner can a
get same by calling at this office
and proving property.
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No. 29, South, due 3:59 P. M.
No. 11, South, .due 8:04 A. If.
No. 17, South, sue - 5:00 A.M.
No. 6, North, due 7:45 P.M.
No. 12, North, due 1:42 AM.
No. 80, North, due -.?12:54 A. M.
No. 18, North, arrives 10:00 P. M.,
Stop* here.
WOOD'S
Seed Catalog |
for 1917, tells about the best ^ ||
Farm ind
Garden Seeds ^ J
and gives special information as to
the heat crops to grow, both- for
profit and home use.
The large increase in our business
which we have again experienced
during the past year Is the
best of evidence as to the high 1
quality of
WOOD'S SEXDS. |
Write for catalog and prices of ' i ,
Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed
Potatoes, Seed Oats or any
Farm Seeds required. -
Liaiaiox mancu ucc uu ?wjuwn ?
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SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. '
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Hones, Mule*, Cattle, Etc. *
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Pains, Rheum* titm, Sprains,
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