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ESTABLISHED 1844 r The Press and Banner |? ABBEVILLE, S. C. j s . i r Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. ! r ! ' ji The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday t Telephone No. 10. ji Entered as second-class mail mat- (t tor at post office in Abbeville, S. C. f ?- c Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 * Six months .75 Three months .50, ' S Payable invariably in advance. ! j* j'f TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918. ja I s if A MISTAKE. a 1 We think it is unfortunate that ' ^ Chairman Evans has called the Democratic Executive Committee to- ^ gether to consider a proposition to open the lists in the race for United ^ States Senator. Fair play, as well as the protection of the rights of ^ the candidates who have already entered, demands that no other can' o didate now be allowed to enter the n race. The people will not support any spch movement. j ^ There is another consideration. ^ The Executive Committee itself has . no right to open the lists. Only a ^ convention duly called could do so. a The delegates to the May conven- j w ~ u tion are no longer in office.' There- ^ fore, in order to open the lists it would be necessary first to call club meetings of every club in the state; then, county cenventions; and, lastly, another state convention to con- e sider the matter. In that time those tl candidates who have already an-1* nounced, and who have complied P with all the requirements of the party, would have gone over the ^ whole state in the expectation that S( the party would deal with them in q accordance with the rules under which they have entered. The peo- ^ pie in the meantime would be in a ^ state of uncertainty, and more politics would be stirred up, and more1*"1 bitterness in politics than we have S1 had for years, and in a year too when politics is adjourned. Is< There is no need to get excited over the situation. Cole L. Blease ^ is in the race to be voted for by P , those people who are against the j war and who do not believe in supa porting the administration in its conduct of the war. N. B. Diel is a pi supporter of the administration. He ^ is a lawyer or acuity, a Dusiness man of parts, a citzen of unimpeachable character, well thought of at g home, and as able to represent this j state in the United States Senate as . st any of the men who would offer. The si people, therefore, will have a chance c< to support a man of their choice, ^ and we may await their verdict with . *. confidence. j' ,e< " -No man who would now announce for the United States Senate would have a chance anyway. The people will feel, if the lists are opened, jc that Dial has not had a fair show, tc and they will demand it for him. u( Th$ result would be that Dial would c< be the leading candidate of those ^ N opposed .to the policies advocated by Rlease, and a second race would be , run by the two. So we had as well end it in the first primary, and t( let the people render the verdict. ? That it will be a proper one we a] have no doubt. ^ ? "" e] SOMETHING FOR NOTHING t) We cannot agree with either Mr. <1 Cooper or Mr. Richards on the schol- a arship question. We are in full ac- r< cord with the proposition that there d is no justice in taxing all the people rr of his state for the purpose of edu- r. eating one 'hundred and twenty-four e: young women in Winthrop, or an i: equal number of young men at w Clemson. Whatever excuse there h was lor the creation ot these scholarships, as well as like scholarships in other slate institutions, we are of the opinion that the law no longer should be allowed to remain on the e statute books of the state. t< In the first place, those whom it t< is dcgigned to help <lo not receive a the help of the state. In the cities F and towns and in_ those eommuni- e ties where there are good schools q the pupils are better prepared to p stand examinations ,while in the ru- c al districts where there are not| ufficient school advantages a pupil j v-ho undertakes to win one of these' . ! cholarships in a competitive exami-i lation has but a poor chance. Those ? i s >upils from the good schools always ^ vin the scholarships while those! vho should receive the assistance of'j, he state rarely receive it. J Another consideration is that a! g freat many people are receiving the; >ounty of the state who are per-je ectly able to educate their own; c hildren. The ability of a man to v iducate his own children is deter- a nined by the amount of property !n vhich he has on the tax books. This! iroperty in a great number of in- j ^ tances is returned for taxation ati^ en per cent, of its value. There-! ore, a man who, on the tax books,! I o ppears to be worth about one thou-1 ^ and dollars is in fact worth ten I I L, housand dollars, and is perfectly! ,ble to educate his own children. I ?he scholarships are given to those | j( rho no more deserve them than did j s , great number of students whoj ormerly obtained free tuition in the j tate institutions. Some of the J ireaitmesi peopie m ftuuevmc auu g Isewhere have educate their chil- ^ rn at the public expense. A list a f those who have received the aid. f the state would prove that the ieedy have rarely been helped. a The proposition for the state to a a 2nd money to deserving pupils forjn he purpose of enabling them to ob- j ^ ain an education, while more de- ( I ? ensible on theory; is hardly mere Q dvisable. We will have too many ^ eserving pupils we fear when once gj he state begins to loan money to linors on their own ndtes. p The truth of. the business is that he state is now doing enough to ncourage attendance on the insti utions of higher learning, unless it a rere doing more towards giving the a upils the right foundation to ensr these institutions. The legisla- P ure should first provide for better I ihools in the country districts, reuiring every community to pay ^ or its own schools. It is wrong in w rinciple for the school district 'hich has taxed itself to the limit 111 ) run its own schols to be further > equired by a state appropriation to J jpport schools in other districts. j n very school district should have as- j S ;ssed against the property in it aj tl ix sufficient to run the schools; P lerein for a period of five months, j o] : the people want to return their j ra roperty at ten cens on the dollar, \ R le tax rate may be raised to such ] ft rate as to get the money. Wheni ec *' a ?; i iL.I .4 ixes in tnis amount are raiseu uiej?i eople in the district will see that tc le money is not wasted. The re- tr lit will be that there will be good pi :hools in all the country districts. (in oys and girls may be prepared i B lere to enter the colleges of the R ate. And a boy or girl who has ei ifficient education to enter the )lleges of the state does not need ) borrow monev to get an educa- > as i on. If he or she is worthy of an:"< iucation it may be had through in-: ividual efforts. The people whom it is intended y< ? help by the free scholarships and mg time loans are now coming in- m > their own. The day of the la-j in aring man is here. His labor is st jmmanding more money than ever ui efore and the opportunity to edu-'?-S ite his children in the free schools a? f the country,, and then to send h< lem to college is as real as it is w ) any other citizen. There is no ci ee l to extend special privileges to a nvbnrlv. Onp of the first things to t! e learned in the school of experi- s; nee is that debts must be paid, and oi ley should be paid as we go. A m urn who starts cut in life with a a ebt on his hands had as well have it millstone tied about his neck. A fr sal man or woman of parts may e1 Bring the vacation earn enough (.1 loney to attend college during the is ext nine months. If there is not n nough enterprise on the part of the tl uiiviriual to do this, we do not hi ant to lend much money on his or a er n,ote. s; ^" a HELPING THE CANNERS. 0 Mr*. H. W: Svfan. of Fort Pick lie, i:j growing a slendid crop of o; wiatoes this year and in addition a; o what she cans for her own use p nd what she sells, she contributed 'riday to the Civic Club cannery e! nough fine tomatoes to make nine fi uarts, The gift was greatly ap- tl reciated and does much toward" the li onservation of food. ; sj WILSON DECLARES ANEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE| (Continued from Page One.) ettlement must be final. There can j e no compromise. "What we seek is the reign of. iw, based upon the consent of the | overned and sustained by the or-j anized opinion of mankind." The speaker's crisp words as he, mphasized the least which Ameri-i a will consider as a basis for peace j irere interrupted by a tumult of pplause and words of approval in | lany tongueus. Elaborating the purpose for which' he "associated peoples of the! .rorld"- are fighting, the president; eiterated that peace can be made! nly when the central powers agree j o the destruction of militarism,! he consent of the governed for all; eadjusutment, the sacredness of reaties and the organization of a jague'of peace. He further forei-alld iimr nffprs of neaee bv com romise which the central powers J lay make by announcing that the urposes for which the United itates is sending millions of its men a the trenches may not be fulfilled round a council table. I "Theses great ends can not bej chieved by debating," the president!; sserted, and seeking to reconcile nd accommodate what statesmen . lay wish, with their projects for . alances of power and of national i | pportunity. They can be realized ( nly bv the determination- of what;, ie thinking people of the world de- j. ire, with their longing hope for jus- , ice and for social freedom and op- ? ortunity." Drawa Plain Distinction. j1 Throughout his address the presi-! ent referred to "the peoples" who'1 re fighting against autocracy, 11 dressing thereby the unity of pur- j' oses which actuates the allied na-!' ons. On the other hand, he dif- j1 ?rentiated between the people of 1 ermany and thier rulers as he al-j ays has done, speaking of the isor j' ited, friendless group of govern-1( icnts whose people are fuel in their i1 ands. ;] A single reference to Russia gave, otice to the world that the United , tates still accounts the peoples, of i le youngest democracy as allies, i resident Wilson enumerated the pponents of Germany as peoples of. isny races, "the pepole of stricken ussia still, among the rest, though, ley are for the moment unorganiz-i > J V_l_l ? i*nforo?f I l ami neiyjcoo. uojjtvm! ctacl*ed to his words particularly > the statement that Russia's dis ess is only temporary because of ans now being formulated for givig assistance to the country. Borisx i akhmeteff, who was sent here as ussian ambassador during the Ker-j lsky regime, was in the audience. ! Meaning of Great Day. The president's speech in full was. i follows: Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps and My Fellow Citizens: "I am happy to draw apart with iu to this quiet place of old coun>1 in order to speak a little of the eaning of this day of our nation's dependence. The place seems very ill and remote. It is as serene and itouched by the hurry of the world > it was in those great days long ro when General Washington was j ire jind held leisurely conference tli the men who were to be asso- | ated with him in the creation of J ration. From these gentle slopes ! icv looked out upon the world and | iw it whole, saw it with the Ugnt j F the future upon it, saw it with I o'lern eyes that turned away from | past which men of liberated spir- j s sould no longer endure. It is | >r the reason that we can not feel, j ;cn here, in the immediate presice of this sacred tcmb, that this a p!:ice of death. It was a place i f achievement. A great promise lat was meant for all mankind was ere iriven plan and reality. The -ocintiors by which we are here irrounded. r.re the inspiring associtions of that noble death which is nly a glorious consummation. From J lis jrreen hillside we also ou^ht to ! e able to see with comprehending ,*es the world that lies about us nd should conceive anew the pur- i oses that must set men free. "It lis significant?of their own r.i-uicr and purpose and of the inu-nc-cs they wore setting afoot? lat Washington and his associates ke the barons at Runnymede, poke and acted, not for a class,N4, but for a people. It has been left for us to see to it that it shall be understood that they spoke and acted, not for a single people only but for all mankind. They were thinking, not of themselves ond of the ma terial interests which centered in the little groups of land holders and merchants and men of affairs with whom they were accustomed to act, in Virginia and the colonies to the north and south of her, but of a people which wished to be done with classes and special interests and the authority of men whom they had not themselves chosen to rule over them. They entertained no private purpose, desired no particular privilege. They were consciously planning that men of every class should be free and America a place to which men out of every nation might resort who wished to share with them the rights and privileges of free men. And we take our cue from them?do we not? We intend what they intended. We here in America believe our participation in this present war to be only thr> fruitage of what they planted.. Our case differs from theirs only in this, that it is our inestimable privilege to concert with men out of eyery nation who shall make not only the liberties of America secure, but the liberties of every other people as well. We are happy in the thought that we are permitted to do what they would have done had they been in our place. There must now be settled once for all what was settled for America in the great age upon those inspirations, we draw today. This is surely a fitting place from which calmly to look out upon our task, that we may fortify our spirits for its accomplishment. And this is the appropriate place from which to avow, alike to the friends who look on and to thQ friends with whom we have the happiness to be associated in action, the faith and purpose with which we act. ; "This, then, is our conception of the great seruggle in which we are engaged. The plot is written plain upon every scene and every act of the supreme tragedy. On the one hand stand the peoples of the world ?not only the people actually en/{' ?? I fcD'Jk&lJrJfri v iiJs Nol A ^ j No matter how fnllv to sar.viflp.e thp right arm of kitchen win the war. i ^ Don't impoverish your hea I needs a strong and healthy woi I w i r A 3 Don't waste foods in mens Hoosier prevents waste, ? * ?all the principal supplies anc b 1 SI I i M I "W STOVES ' ? > RAN I . ^ hi S? Uvl' <?'&*:J-Sii&etiU-r.i . i..' gaged, but many others also who1 suffer under mastery but can not' ! act; peoples of many races and in' j every part of the world?the people of stricken Russia still among the! rest ,though they are for the mor. ment unorganized and helplss. Opposed to them, masters of many armies, stand an isolated, friendless group of governments who seek no j common purpose but only selfish am-! ; bitions of their own by which none; can profit but themselves, and whose peoples are fuel in their hands; gov-j ernments which fear their people and yet are for the time their sov-: i ereign lords, making every choice, for them and disposing of their lives 1 and fortunes as they will, as well as i of the lives and fortunes of every' j people who fall under their power?! , governments clothed with the ! strange trappings and the primitive j j authority, of an age that is alto-, ' gether alien and hostile to our own. I The past and the present are inj deadly grapple and the peoples of! the world are being done to death j j between them.' Settlement Must Be Final. "There can be but one, issue. The settlement must b.e final. There can be no compromise. No half-way.de-1 cision Would Jje. tolerable. .No half-j ! way decision is conceivable. These i | are the ends for which the associa- j I ted peoples of the world are fighting| land which must be conceded,., themi I before there can be peace: * T7 _ *: rI - 1 "1. The destruction of every arI bitrary power anywhere that can; | separately, secretly and of its single | choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it can not be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence. "2. The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship,, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not UDon the ba I sis of the material interest or ad' vantage of any other nation or peoi pie which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery. "3. "The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct to T ? ra fe! > i m m E : .! ,:l I .."p i r! M | i i i pzi^r H~r Ifr" I jxZ^ a^-Crrrij JJL *..., ^ t a Luxurywartime Hi many other things you Hoosier Kitchen Cabine service and kitchen r ilth or strength by working lcn? hour: nanhood. I n A QIV ! gj ^ sLLd ij ^ KITCHEN CABttET ;uring and mixing?Li exposing- 'Jiem i: saves food and guard:- it. There ;?re I utensils. mot be lower t'ian nov.\ tdor.'i pi GES W HOME OUT *r>>. c.tu-**/A: ***.: *-? wards each other by the same prinB ciples of honor a,nd of respect fofl the common law of civilized societ^H that govern the individual citizejx^| of all modern states in their relaH tions with one another; to the en<H that all promises and covenants ma^B be sacredly observed no private plot^| or conspiracies hatched, no selfis^H injuries wrought with inpunity, an^E a mutual trust established upon th^H handsome foundation of a mutu^Jj respect for right. "4. The establishment of an ganization of people which shaH| make it certain that the combine^B power of free nations will check e^B ery invasion of right and serve make peace and justice the more s^K cure by affording a definite tribun^H of opinion to which all must subm^B and by which every internation^H readjustment that can not be amHH cably agreed upon by the peoples d^B rectly concerned shall be janctione^H "These great objects can be pi^| into a single sentence. What seek is the reign of law, based up<H| the consent of the governed and euR| tained by the organized opinion mankind. '"these great ends can not achieved by debating and seeking reconcile and accommodate wh^H statesmen may wish, with their px^^J jects for balances of power and national opportunity. They can.^B realized only by the determinati^Mj of what the thinking peoples of tflfl world desire, with their longing hoflnj for justice and for scoial freedc^Mj and opportunity. "I can fancy that the air of t^^H place carries the accents of suH|| principles with a peculiuar kindne|^B Here were started froces which tflM great nation against which tlfl9 were primarily directed at first garded as a revolt against its rig^^H ful authority but which it has loHfl since seen to have been a step in ^HE liberation of its own people as as of the people of the United Sta^^H and I stand here now to speaJ^H speak proudly and with confid^H| hope?of the spread of that revfl^H this literation, to the great stage the world itself! The blinded rul^^H of Prussia have roused forces t^DK (Continued on Page Five, Col. mmmmm ? I ) >} |'j I ' J :^JfL 1 te go without it is^H ft. This is the strong )atriotism will help^^B rt.i fnr.t- TVif> rmtinnl^^lHI i unprotected places. 400 places for flour, sugar, etcH&HB mm rjcsn Trxi^Aca .raraa?g3i?xgacvga<ure^^M?iiM^WM|^M| B .;:4,' . V -v:*,, .< ,^V < *>,.' \,?, ,f^ \yv ?*'-: "^^'v-j|t^';'?yir:*'