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ruun ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Bannei: ABBEVILLE, 5. C. H. G. CLARK, Editor. ? * The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00, Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Payable "invariably in advance. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919. SERVICE. There is no gainsaying the fact that the chief end of man is service 1 ?work. And work not so much to j better the individual's condition, .i -x j.JL ' out service tnat is co-operauve, mutual and that will bring mutual aid ] and benefits. And any kind of work j that helps or benefits mankind is re- ! spectable. Work which causes one to lose caste should riot be performed. | But, after all, there is little or none of this kind of work. Its seem- ^ ing existence lies in our own minds. Democracy must be based upon the principle of service. The man who , would ask another to perform a service that he would be unwilling to ?/lAnrli+TAno nrarfl pen UI III IliXIldClJL IX tvnuiuviio nv*v reversed, deeming it dishonoraible or believing that he would lose caste thereby, is not a democrat and is assuming an attitude that breeds bolshevism. Snobbery is a folly thatj has crept into our national'life along with the lounge lizzard, the bucolic j loafer at the cross-roads store, and! the short-time worker that earns enough in three days to enable him| to loaf the rest of the time. All arej unmitigated evils and militate a-j gainst the successful functioning of i a democracy. But of all the evils that have ridden the poor old world since the beginning of time, the caste system is the worst because there seems to be some justification for it. "To the manor born" is but another way of stating "survival of the fittest." It is a symbol of reward for the accidental possession of brawn and brains in the individual or in the individual's progenitors. Some de. cades ago it was unbecoming a gentleman to engage in trade or labor with his.hands. Today we have pro-: gressed, and more honor is paid to1 the laborer, the producer. But there i= ?tfii ? frapp of the class feeliner that produced the French Revolu-| tion and that engendered Bolshevism in Russia. The jobs of cook and housemaidJ are honorable professions and should be held in the same esteeem that hny other worthy calling1 is held. A man should not look down upon his boot-: black for the work that he performs.1 There are, of course, varying degrees of importance as between work of different kinds. Some jobs are more difficult, require more experi-1 ence, more education, even more hminc Tlnf. work of anv kind should be held in the highest regard. The reward for more difficult work will be in increased remuneration. We canont pass by this subject without a word in regatd to the at-; titude of the army toward service in the various grades, from buck private to general. Never was a more democratic army raised than the one now being demobilized and which gave such a splendid account of it-j self in the war against Germany. On! the other hand upon, no institu-j tion in this country had the caste sys-] tem fixed itself more firmly than up-i on the army. Especially was this so! in a social way. Among the regular j army officers the enlisted man was| looked down upon if not held in con-j tempt. In a social sense a wide gulf separated officer and private. Noth-j ing would queer an officer quicker and more certainly than to place himself on equal terms with an en-! listed man. dome ox inis spirit was ixie imbur-; al heritage of the new army especially among the mental lightweights, of which there were quite a few-*#radu-j ated from -the various officers training camps. But for the most part the new army was highly democratic. ! There was much congenial fraterniz- j ing among officers and men and dis- j cipline was not thereby impaired in j the slightest. A caste system is bound j to develop in a militaristic nation, j It was nowhere more highly develop- j ed than in Germany. Therefore it | would annear that we should go slow i about establishing universal military JI training in this country if it should j imperil our democratic institutions. { What we want is a democracy I where everybody shall work and } where work will be the most honored ? | i thing in our daily life. There is now I and always will be differences in the I amount of wealth that the individual ! accumulates. Thrift, energv and | brains will always be with us. But J if we pay the homage that is due all. | s37vice that aids mankind there is | little chance that Bolshevism will | ever gain a foothold in this country. g A SCRUB CONGRESS. The New York Times is almost | moved to tears in speaking of the g present Congress and its pusilanimi-!| ty and mediocrity?tears of shame'| and chagrin. Speaking of the pro-[| posed measures to raise Generals | Pershing and March and Admirals ? Sims and Benson to permanent rank, | it says: ? "In raising these four men to per- j manent rank as generals and admir- | als, congress will be honoring through, | them the army and navy, for which | the people of the United States have ? no halfhearted enthusiasm. Why | cannot it for once do something in a | big, generous way?" The fact that Congress does hesi- | tate and haggle over conferring de-jf erved honors and preferment on J | these heroes of the World War but | shows that it is running true to the; 1 form to be expected of its scrub. ? pedigree. Congress goes to no end of trou-'f ble to impress upon the people that | it is a scrub congress, a mongrel mix- f ture of all the selfish and petty po- | litical aims ana scnemes umi synug, ? from unworthy motives. At the very time when the Re^f publicans could have made a name^| for themselves by passing up the J hackneyed political game of jockey- { ing for position in the next election,! j and, unconsciously accomplish their! | purpose, they follow precedents of, the most vicious kind in their efforts ( to discredit President Wilson and j the Administration?and succeed I only in discrediting themselves. They have established the fact; | that they are incapable of doing any- f thing really big and generous. - i{ REV. L. ROSS LYNN. Rev. L. Ross Lynn, the Superin-ji tendent of Thornwe'll Orphanage, an j institution in which the people of I Abbeville are greatly interested, paid j I r a visit to Abbeville on Wednesday, ! coming here to preach the annual ) sermon before the Abbeville District \ Eible Society. jj Rev. Mr. Lynn made a most favor-!} able impression on our people. He \ is an accomplished public speaker, [ and a man learned in theology. Ac-1? cordingly his sermon was good in | substance* and well delivered. He is i not only a good preacher, but he I strikes one as a business man of fine j parts. 11 The new Superintendent has had | charge of the work for nearly a year. The first year was a hard one for '? him because the work was new and j problems presented themselves ; '.vhich greatly taxed his ingenuity.1! Bui as time goes on he is growing \ ir>to the work, and he hopes to make j the institution keep its place in the; | affections of the people who are in-; | terested in it, and we believe he will I 11 succeed. The people of Abbeville very'{ much hope that Mr. Lynn will make!? it convenient to come this way again j at an early date and often, where he^ | may always expect a welcome. ? | Camping Party. Miss Jennie Boyd, of the Commun- | ity House, will chaperone a series of 1 camping parties to Cold Springs || during: the month of August. The J first of these parties will leave today.' 1 His Birthday. James McCombs treated his 1 S friends to a party Wednesday after-j| noon, celebrating his birthday. 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