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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company mT"?T TT7XT'TT*"TT"T V ifu?51-/ic>nji.jj nvi- w rjj^ivu ? Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 p-. Six months 1.00 Three months .50 ?,; > MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Nobody wishes to be a party to the spread of ailease. The public health is a matter of *importance to everybody, and those whose duty it is to p' ' look after the health of the community have a large >. recnnnsrhilitv. While recognizing: this fact, we ||k7. cannot but endorse some portions of'the letter of V* /Dr. Louis J. Bristow contained elsewhere in this It seems entirely inadvisable to us to order the f'v' churches closed and the schools closed when every jfe, other enterprise is being run wide open. As stated ; in the letter referred to, there are no buildings in L: the city better ventilated than the churches, to which we may add the schools. A/bout twenty to twenty-five pupils are in a room in the school buildings. These are kept warm and comfortable. But it is decreed to be dangerous to the public health |j*? opinion of others than the members of the Board Ipof Health, that only a few of the cases are anyV thing more than bad colds or old time grippe, as it jj?V is called, and in view of the fact that there is no more of it, nor of the resulting pneumonia, than we f have been accustomed to have at this season of the gLyear in other years than last year, it seems to us that there is no necessity for the closing of the b. schools on account of the. disease, unless perhaps a inore virulent type of it should show itself. It may be important that the churches be opened, p but it is more important that the schools be not inS|interrupted in their work. People may pray at home Kr in their closets, but the teacher cannot do his or SP her work Iiere. g| . THE HIGHWAY BILL. 11$ At the instance of Governor Cooper a joint comfc. jnittee of the two houses of the General Assembly W was appointed for the purpose of preparing and ^submitting a Good Roads Bill. Everybody expected ?-that a bill would be submitted embodying a reasonK:: able license tax against the owners of motor driven af;: .vehicles, as these aro the people who have been dell manding the building of good roads and the people E| who are most to profit by the building of the roads, p In fact when the movement was started it was heraided about the country that the automobile owners fcVwere willing to pay a heavy license tax in order to Ss? start the work, it beiner stated further that tVtpv I^t would save enough money by the building of good roads to enable them to pay huge sums into the ?? public treasury for the purpose. But the bill submitted does not justify the_expectations of the public. Instead of putting the 5*" burdens on the people who were willing to bear them, and who were 'rearing' to bear them, a misPi erable excuse in f.he way of a license tax is exacted, K- "while the man who drives Mike to the plow every Sk day and walks to church on Sunday will have a two k; mills tax placed on both Mike and the little farm |$: iii order to raise money to build roads for the auv tomobile owners. ISN There is an incidental beneht coming to the owners of property by the building of these roads. We gp?ll admit; that. But the property owners are not X \ the people who are demanding the building of the B& roads, nor are they of those who expect to get the K& most out of the roads. Unless the members of the General Assembly are ready to put a minimum liKr ' Sv cense tax of fifty dollars on automobiles, graduated |j|' pp^ards, there is no need for them to stay in CoHEprvs Rjf -1 - ' ?j : ? lumbia longer to discuss the good roads question. I The property owners are ready to pay a two mills tax if the drivers of the tin Lizzies are ready tt> pay also; otherwise they are not. t , V UVVVVVVVUVUVVVV V j V V V THE OPINION OF OTHERS. - i V VVVVVWVVVVVVVVVVV V j I ANOTHER UP-COUNTRY VIEW OF THE ROAD ! QUESTION. The other day The News and Courier reprinted j from the Greenwood Index-Journal an article on j the road question opposing any movement to construct tate highways at this time and favoring leaving all initiative in road matters to the counties. This article when republished was headed as being an up-country view of the road problem. Such, undoubtedly, it was and is, but it is not the only ; view, nor do we believe that it would be the prej vailing view if this road business could only be thor1 oughly ventilated throughout the State. That there are many who see the thing in the true iignt now is | plainly to be seen from an article appearing in the last issue of the Abbeville Press and Banner, one j of the strongest county papers in South Carolina 1 and a most intelligent student of matters of this j kind. The Press and Banner, discussing a proposal to bond Abbeville County to build dirt roads, says that it is afraid of bonds for roads of this character, though it would be ready to go as far as anyone ! else in imposing a direct tax for this purpose. It I then discusses the question of State roads in a ! very clear and able manner. The News and Courier would commend its views to the joint committee of twelve now engaged in framing a road bill at Co! lumbia. '* ! "We become more firmly convinced each day," [ says The Press and Banner, "that if we are to build i reads at all, we should commence by building per- j manent roads, such as are built in cities and towns. There is no way to begin this work except through a State system of highways. There are many who object to such a system, we have our ! own objections to it, but it is the only way to build lasting roads or to commence the building of I these roads. The present Legislature should raise the automobile license tax in this State to a minimum of fifty dollars per year, with a graduated license tax upwards. We can in this way raise four millions of dollars the present year. A two-mill ] tax will add to this and the amount of money to be had from the federal government will add further to the fund. With this fund we may build 200 to 250 miles of highways of a permanent nature in the State. In five years, with the additional automobiles to be bought by the people, we will be able to build at least 1,500 miles of permanent highways in the State. This would give practically every county in the State a hjghway leading across the county from east to west and from north to south. The counties might supplement these highways by building others. If they did, in ten years we might hope to make of all the main roads in ev ery county permanent roads over which any kind \ of a vehicle of reasonable weight and capacity might r,un every day in the year. Until this kind of highway is built, or something new is discovered for this country, as at present advised, we shall advise I the people of the county to vote against all road ! bills."?News and Courier. ! I H HOLLAND AND THE EX-KAISER. ! The question of the surrender of the former Kaiser for trial is commonly discussed from the standpoint of whether the Allies have a right to make a demand on Holland. But why not turn'the issue around and ask on what grounds Holland can justify the protection of this criminal? Is it not her moral duty, as it is ner legal privilege, to expel him on her own initiative? Does she not become an accomplice after the fact by shielding so monstrous an offender? There is nothing in international law or the usages of nations requiring her to give asylum unless she wishes to. She is as much at liberty to say to the Hohenzollern as we have said to the deported "Reds": "We don't want you here, and you can't stay here." The Kaiser for years plotted to bring on the world conflagration. This has been proved by doc| uments taken from German and Russian archives. From conspiracy he proceeded to act and deliber j ately pressed the button for invasion of peaceable neighbors. Not satisfied with this, he cynically I broke treaties and then ordered the commission of unspeakable atrocities. If murder relates to killing, and net merely to breaking a law which forbids killing, the Kaiser is the most sanguinary and cruel j murderer the world has evei* known. Has Holland the right to give asylum to such an l offender? Is it not a mockery of law for her to say that she may so use a discretionary power as j to defeat the ends of law? In what jurisdiction i3 it recognized that a criminal fleeing from justice j can or may be housed and guarded? In times past, i when government was considered an enemy, it was the instinct of man to assist the quarry, but to evoke this primitive feeling to shelter the deliberate wrongdoer is to indulge in queer ethics. The Kaiser lives in ease and plenty. His court is ciimimsneu, dul it is sua populated Dy sycopnants. The smell of blood is on him, and foul is the odor to the world's half-empty homes. And yet Holland ! I acts as if in some way she will be entitled to sym- j \ pathy if she refuses to cleanse herself. For nearly j ] fifteen months Holland has bespattered herself by | j companionship with the filthy. Is it not long enough??New York Tribune. " = ? HHfiiHUliMHUlllllttlilllllltiliMllimtimillttillNl E S 11 The RftjUHihfH Department | II cfUr Abbeville, S btores 11 Dry Gocm If Ready-To-Wea, Spring Garments are arri\ new and attractive. The most ^ If shown in a variety of materia In order td make room for : very special reduction on all carried over from fall 1919. These are not an ordinary ments but styles that came 01 the reductions we offer are 1 | J COATS , U If 1 Goat Suit, regular price $25.00, 1 Goat Suit, regular price $30.00, 1 Goat Suit, regular price $37.50, , i Goat Suit, regular price $45.00, 1 Goat Suit, regular price $55.00, 1 Coat Suit, regular price $47.50, X Goat Suit, regular price $32.50, s 1 Goat Suit, regular price $55.00, 1 Goat Suit, regular price $30.00, s 1 Goat Suit, regular price $42.50, s 1 Goat Suit, regular price $75.00, 1 Goat Suit, regular price $32.50. 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