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r v/uxi) ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE,. Editor. The Press and Banner Co. i Published Every Tuesday and'Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mat-1 \ ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year ; $2.00 / Six months 1.00 J Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. TUESDAY, APRIL' 15, 1919. STREET BUILDING. Concerning street building, there will always be those who claim that streets are to be built at one place | and not at another. It will be stat-{ ed that streets will be*built in the) sections where the people with thel ! ^ most money reside and.lhat streets will not be built in sections where the poorer people reside. There is ^ uth in the statement, at least in a measure, but this does not forbid the commencement of work for several reasons." "* In the first place; in "every public improvement there must be a beginning and a starting point. When we were about to build the electric light system fop the city this charge was made, and it was made again when we sought io construct a sewerage system. But the lighting J), V plant has grown , and practically every street in the city (in sections where colored people live as well as - in section where th| whites reside,) is now well lighted. From time to time there bave b#en extensions of , the sewerage syst^n, and extensions of the water mains into other streets. In time every section of the city will be reached by these enterDiit fKooq oAAfiAno vAiiIri nnf. pilOCOl XIUV WltVkJV 06VV4W??W f* ? ? W have been reached if the beginning ha4 not been made iq other sections. | But the inequality, if we may call it that, which will be brought about by the building of the streets willj * not be so great as might at first ap|>4br. For the city will provide that streets may only be built where a certain number of the residents pe tition the city council to do so, and when built, the -adjoining property owners must share the expense of so building. If the people with money v happen to be the first to ask for the _. streets, as thpy will be, and the first, therefore, to have the permanent streets, they will be called on to pay a portion of the expense. And then when the streets are built the man living on another street, and not paying the special assessment, will be eptiitled to use_the streets in carrying on his business^ as well as v the man who has paid the special assessment. So that when it is said that the latter receives a benefit in the enhancement of ,his property which the other does not, it must be remembered that he pays for this in the special assessment. 4 Another consideration which must Vi not be lost sight of is ttfat the peo\ pie who live on the streets which may not be paved are mostly work' % ing people. They are interested in 1 1 employment for themselves as well as others. The building of the streets will give employment to a great many people. It will have a tendency to keep up wages while the work is going on. It will draw laborers from other employment, and even though a man may not do-the work which is reauired bv the build ers, nevertheless it 'will make the number of men in other kinds of employment fewer, and will thus make a better demand for his labor, . with a consequent regularity of work, and better wages. If the taxpayer happens to be a merchant he will still be benefitted for the reason that the people who labor must live, and the mon^y expended for labor by the city will find its way into every channel of trade. Even the hackmen will prosper, because there will be the more people who desire to ride. There is every reason, as we see it, why we should all obtain benefits, of one kind or another, from the work which is to be done. And with it all we must not lose sight of the fact that tha ctiy,4g sadly in need! of good streets if we may hope toj continue to be a city. ? ( . , -i ; M 7 "YOU FELLOWS." . I Now it's up to us to lick the e?e- I my at home. Nothing can stop the Victory Liberty Loan, but no one must be permitted to block the gangway. The professional pessimist Is the fellow to watch. He is the archconspirator against progress. It's I up to us to put him out of business. He is not the fellow who says: "It| looks hard, but it's got to be done and we'll do our best." Not that fellow. But the real Blue Monday,,1 clown in the dumps pessimist whoj s&ys: "You fellows are going to' have a hard time with that loan." "You fellows ?" "Where! does he get that 'You fellows' stuff?"j Whose war was it anyway? Whose ideals were vindicated when we % smashed the suffian crew that directed the Lusitania murders? Who's I is this government and whose gov-! erament is it? "You fellows ?. "Whose Vic-j e tory Liberty Loan is this going to be? i I Whose life and lands have been sav-; j ed by the boys who went overseas t to end the menace of autocracy? c Whose big war bill is now going to f be paid? The nation never has fal- } len down on a big job yet and it p never will. So where does he get that You r fellows" stuff? d Now if anyone in America is dis- e appointed because"we won the war, i' if anyone is dissatisfied because we t broke the Hindenburg lin'e; if any-jt one is sorry that Germany had to c quit to save its hide, let him say so.! ( Let him hold up his hand* in plain j view. That's all. e But he won't do it. He isn't that p kind. He sidles up with that "Yoij fellows" stuff and talks about hard u times when there are no hard times. S He's the fellow to watch. It was^ his war; it was his victory; .it is hisj il peace, and it's up to him to pull off/t his coat and get to work to make this! u Viptory Liberty Loan, a whale of a|, success?the very (biggest thing of j A its kind in the world. Everybody ig else is getting ready. What is he' ii talking about? > g And when this loan is launched if u the man with that "Yoa. fellows" stuff is not doing his sham, the public wants to know about it; the publirJ llAO n 4- A IpM/tnt -1 - *- Il rpl. - uv iiao a 11 (lib tu IU1UW BUWI Il>. X1161 man .who. lies down on the job has|p something coming to him?a swift C kick and a tin can. e Look out for him. "M" ? ??? ' ? v A GOOD JUDGE. * c s Leslie Britt was in town Sunday tl night calling on some of our pretty E girls. Mr. Britt has much to say that is interesting about "the situ- p ation." He thinks the landlords and a bankers are responsible for much of > v the labor troubles for they will lend i S too much money on a mule. He'ij thinks a mulq which a negro plows a all day and rides all night is not wnrfli fori /Inllovo q4- 4-1*** Al.- j ?. WW** <4Vt*?*lO MV blic Cliu VI tilC Q season. He has reduced his acreage a' for he expects to make plenty of ci money, off of last years cotton crop. , Mr. Britt is a good judge >of good looking women also. ; h ^ > & x LEAVING FOR CHARI#STO$ , ? y ' V-i.i & 3r, \ 4 - , l j Cptl Mrs. Robert H. Coleman and her( r' two interesting children, Bob and r: Wilhehnina, left Sunday for Charleston, where they will make their home until the close of the College j of Charleston. Prof. Coleman came up from Charleston and accompan- p ied them back to the city. ? C r NEWS FROM SERGT. CHEATHAM [T ? J The friends of Sergeant Mart.j Cheatham will be glad to hear that! Q he -has been selected as one of four ^ out of his company to attend the great school at Grenable.^ He will take a four months course. j This sohool was established in the 13th Century and our boys are being accorded a rare opportunity to attend this University. ^ BACK TO NORMAL. C Francis Mabry, who has just re- o turned from many months of hard 4 service-abroad, is rapidly getting o back to normal for he was in at- p tendance on the Y. P. C. U. Conven-j n tion at the Seceder church last^ C Thurday with one of the pretty delegates. _ 4 ^ 4 rail 10 PEOPLE FOR MEN'S RETURN *eace Commissioners Urge Bond Pur chase. Great Financial Burden I Facing Government in Land- I ing Soldiers on Home x | Shore. | Washington, April 12.?In a' Vic- 8 ory Liberty Loan appeal made pub-|B ic here today by the treasury, Secre-|| ary Lancing, Henry White, Colonel.B louse and Major General Bliss, Am-jS :rican peace commisioners at Paris,'a leaded that the people of America g lot relax their efforts until "every oldier of the republic is landed on g he soil of America." * jffi The appeal, addressed to the Amirican people, follows: t I | "We have the opportunity here in, 'Vance to see and realize the magniude of the accomplishments of ourj :ountry in this war and the magniicent spirit with which the great task11 mc hppn Mirfad through to a trium-ll >hant issue. "What has been done and what rer! I nains to be done before normal con-j [itions are restored demand cor.tinu-, id united support with the same spir-, t of self-sacrifice and of determina-1 ion that was manifested by the naion while the German armies faced ?ur men at the Marne and ifl the Champagne, at St. Mihiel and in the Lrgonne. We must not relax our fForts until every soldier of the re-: >ublic is landed on American soil, i "To finish this mighty task imposes ( ipon the government of the United j States a great financial burden. The Victory Liberty Loan must thrive. If. t should fail it would indicate that he nation is willing to leave its task incompleted. , [ "To secure the ideals for which Lmericans fought and died, this Teat demand on American patrtiot3m and united effort should, meet a enerous and universal response. Let is all do our duty to the endl' ! ?? .1 BIG AUCTION SALE. j ' * The South Atlantic Realty Comiany is advertising in thsi issuri'the , )'Neill property, consisting of sev-l ral stores on the public square as: irell as the old law range, ai/d the! acant lots next to the Court House.1 In addition to this property this ompany will also pell the Russell tore next to the Court House and, he store now occupied by the Hot lustier Racket Store. This property is to be offered at' ublic auction to the highest bidder; t a date to be announced next reek. The representative of the; outh Atlantic Realty Company was i Abbeville on yesterday perfecting' rrangements for the sale.. Watch next week's paper for the; ate of the big sale, and make; your rrangement3 to be here for the oc-| asion. MRS. COX SICK. Mrs. A. E. Cox is very sick at the j ome '6^\her daughter, Mrs. R. E.j I ox on fjlain street. M-rs. Co* has! c^^iir/failing health for somej Ime^ti'rra mends of the family will | egret to know that she does not: ally from this last attasck. r. ""ZJdJV \ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Abbeville. Ia A /if A ooavwKlv r UlSUaiik IV nvb ux moowmuiji assed at regular Session, 19JL6, the lounty Board of Commissioners will eceive bids for the sum of Twenty'housand ($26,000) Dollars, payable ne year from date. Bids to be opened or heard, as| toard may decide to have them openj r sealed at next meeting, at Eleven! l. M., April 15th, 1919. W. A. STEVENSON, 9 I Supervisor Abbeville Co I. L. EVANS, Secretary of Board. 3-21-3t. 3 wks.l I 1EETING DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The County Democratic Executive lommittee is called to meet at the, ffice of the County Chairman in the. ibbeville Realty Company Building,: n Wednesday, April 16th, for, the, urpose of ordering a primary to, ame a successor to the late James; !halmers as County Treasurer. WM. P. GREENE, . -ll-2t. County Chairman.! t . . .T ' ' ' i^fei Hr * 4 * , *V has been so fully esta' that any attempt to fu i ,i \ sary. Conscious of the u: Kerr Furniture Co., f claims made for "tal ments in the most cor 1 in and hear ? . ,. . t. rj . v V .-4 . THE Nf "The Phono The World's t / * ' \ ' * . NO NEEDLES TO CHANGE. ' v STOVES ? ? RAN( NOW, SB / Come in and see wl * see! And, you will a have we shown a fii Spring Clothes. Such a display of ft an array of styles, su choice for quick buy* Kprp is a foact rkf nlon **vi V AV M A V?MOyb WA |#1VA1 MICF this season have fair ly met all competitior anrl-higher standard a cles. [ Stetson Hats and 1 % all the Spring shapei Soft Shirts, silk Co "Bostonias" Famous I in English and Bluch and oxfords. Let us fit in these up-to-date go< or\r\ aawina qvp inct IA1IVA UVX r xVV IA>X V/ J V4UW T looking for. CASON * =... V /> The )*a Mminnn I C-LillllUCll of the IEW EDIS( ,14- f -4 blished an4 the fact i rther prove its supre nrivaled ppsition of 1 ?eels that it can afforc king machines." Bu ivincing way possible, <. . I iii s graph With a Soul' lest Interherter Best Music / '' ' v * ' 1 J ' ' ' v * >ir'? . /. > y1 ' r . * ;es home o i s : ~~ : tat you will gree, never ler line of JMKIH abrics, such JLHmlll if ' ' Copyritht, 191 -IAELS-S1 lly and square1 and set a new gg in ninth in e* r.ir- k?; Calory Hats in . jf s and colors. 'liars and Ties. Shoes for Men, ers. High cuts you this spring )ds. Our prices yhat you are Ln it m x tt & 1V1CAI H^HI ..* ' . ^^I H so generally accepted H fl macy seems unieees* D A ri " ;he New Edison, the - II I to be indulgent of the H t to answer alj argu- || , we invite you to come 81 I H of the World's H Bfl DIAMOND- DISC. - 1 II PHONOGRAPHS BH tu>i& Co H UTFITTERS ^ . IV.RN '-'l .LISTER I