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Established 1844. . The Press and Banner |J Abbeville, S. C. ' The Press and Banner Company J Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. ( Entered as second-class matter at i Ipl. post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: Bfev One year__ ?T_ $2.001 gti Six months 1.00; I Three a?nths .501 Wedaesday, March 3, 1920. GOOD ROADS. Sometime ago we called attention! to the fact that the tax levy in Mc-! Cormick County was nearly thirty mills. McCormick County it will be remembered has a bonded indebted-1 nf nnp hundred and seventy-1 ji|'v five thousand dollars, the bonds havIing been issued for the improvement of the highways of the county. This accounts for the high tax levy. Some further idea of the cost of: these so-called good roads may be had from the tax levy in Greenville County the present year. The Pied mont states that the levy in that county for county purposes only will j .amount to fifteen mills. With a state j levy of twelve mills, and the constituipnal three mills tax for schools,' fcnd the additional special taxes for! schools, the levy in many school dis- J tricts of Greenville County for all i purposes will be ifl th<J heighborhood j of forty miils?which sounds like the; Way we pay taxes in the cities where1 We have all modern conveniences. I ' In Anderson County the levy for county purposes is stated to be thir-' teen and one-half mills, only a little I less than the levy in Greenville County. This levy includes four mills for| the payment of interest on the bonds issued for the building of the "good i roads" in that county. When the E&count^ begins to work the roads' every two months, and to replace the; top soil which the John Henry Fords blow away with their cut-outs, the | levy will bejio more. ' Nobody expects the county authorities in any county to build and keep: Sup roads without paying J,or them, i But it is just a-s well, as we go along, { to consider what we are expected to *pay for the benefits to be received,; as well as what is necessary to keep these roads up. Time will demonstrate that the/ top soil road in this section of the i' B&v state, at least, is more expensive in ' the long run than the building of real' first class roads, such as are being:' ! built in other states. T^at county will j, profit most in the good roads' busi- ^ ness which realizes from the start that the top soil roads will only give,1, satisfactory service to the public .! when they "are worked every day in1 the year. If roads of this kind are to!^ be built the Act which provides for; -building them should also provide for: dividing the roads into sections, andir for keeping a force of workmen on i every sfection alf all times, just as thei* railroads employ forces for the;1 different sections. In no other wayj* will the roads be kppt vin proper j1 shape. Unless this is done the money ^ spent for the building of the roads j will Ho waotoH If we are to build roads at all, j other than the roads we now have,!. I; we re-assert that we should build ^ EL paved roads, such as those now being1, built in the city of Abbeville and inj^ pfev other cities and towns. It will be a!r fey. waste of time and money to attempt , t & the building and up-keep of any j ?.5? other kind of roads. ' W" " A GERMAN TO THE GERMANS c ^ Count Hermann Keyserling, in anjc t address delivered recently in the ,t University of Berlin, shows that some t Germans are recovering sanity. His < lecture, or rather sermon, is perhaps J< the severest indictment of the Prus-j' sian system that has emanated so far.l Ik ' from a German. He refrains from < condemning individual instances of i vjreimaii jjuir reiaung to tne origin ' E-- and conduct of the war, but he goes(< g|V much deeper by attacking the intrl- J lectual and ethical foundations of the 1 By. i whole system of which those crimes i ?'*' . i |i;V constituted merely the outward ' symptoms. 'i He charges in effect that modern ^ Germany turned traitor to that c which is the best in the German i spiritual heritage and became moret nd more absorbed in the external i ispects of things, neglecting the truejdi md permanent meaning behind them, joi rhis is how and why, he says, Ger-jf< mans lost not only their morality | m but even their originality, although,tl they perfected external organization, jp The forfeiture of spiritual values it* avenged itself in this way: In their |si chase for the purely external Ger-jt: mans ultimately fell short even of j the standards they had set for them-j1* selves: in their insane strivini? after .tl efficiency for its own sake efficiency itself diminished. And the condition that caused defeat survives it, County Keyserling says. Unless Germany^: makes a supreme effort to change d her entire mentality spiritual suicide will be the lot of the German j11 race. This German philosopher has the courage to point to the example of Anglo-Saxondom. He declares that ithe-sen.se of responsibility, which in * action expresses itself as initiative, is E J characteristically an Anglo-Saxon ^ Itrait; it is the foundation and also c i the goal of democracy. Count Keyser-j jling does not say it in as manyj jwords, but the inference is obvious? that whatever is the enemy of the individual sense of responsibility, be it kaiserdom or sovietdom, is actually the bane of all true human development, external and spiritual. GROGGY SPRINGS NOT WHAT ITS NAME WOULD IMPLY There is a place in-Abbeville coun-j ty named Groggy Springs. If it is what its name would imply, it is likely to become a very popular resort.? Press and Banner We regret that it becomes ! our painful duty to inform Brother Wallace of The Observer, whose tongue seems to be hanging out, that Groggy Springs is located entirely too near Due West to be of any vsriue as iin oasis of any benefit to other than the theological students. Good water is its sole product.?Newberry Observer. UPHOLDS INCOME TAXES Washington, March 1.?Right of he Stales to impose income taxes on nonresidents provided they are in harmony with those imposed on residents was upheld^and define ! today by the Supreme Court in two decisions. In a case from Oklahoma the court I held that a State unquestionably h3s authority to levy income taxes against non-residents on income de- fi riverf- from property within the State. ? In a New York case, however, the court declared that such taxes c against non-residents must not be dis- ^ criminatory. n The Oklahoma law was sustained F and the New York law was declared s yoid in so far as it denies to non-res- J*( idents exemptions which are given to w New York citizens. Both opinions 11 tfere given by Justice Pitney, with c lustice McP.eynolds dissenting in the a STew York case. In both suits were in- a solved the exemptions similar to the federal income tax law, provided for ii narried and single persons. Distinction between the Oklahoma j,1, ind New York laws, it appears, was n hat the Oklahoma law given non- e( esidents and citizens the same ex- l)| ;mptions, while the New York law de- te lies to non-residents exemptions Si granted its own citizens. y AS ROOSEVELT SAW KAISER ^ Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's impressions of the former Kaiser and he German Court are set forth in the eventh installment of his letters ap>earing in the March issue of Scrib- j*1 ler's Magazine. The letters relate j:, hat the Germans showed him every lis iroper respect, but "were decorously ^ :nthusiastic, and that was all," in 1)( f > ?-? r? 4- nn4-U Uic vrt/?/\?4-i am nf kav 1 f i , v/ii ui w i i-11 iiio icttjniuii 111 vvuvi rountries. In part, he wrote: cj "The Germans did not like me, and j( iid not like my country; and under tv ;he circumstances they behaved en- hl ;irely corectly, showing me every y civility and making no pretense of an jnthusiasm which was not present, i rhe upper classes, stiff, domineering,! V; iormal, with the organized army, the r< 6s jrganizecl bureaucracy, the organized " ndustry of their great, highly civili:ed and admirably administered ^ lountry behind them, regarded A- j, nerica with r. dislike which was all ;ne greater becayse they could not nake it merely contempt. ."They felt that we were entirely jrj unorganized, that we had no business M ;o be formidable rivals at all in view ^ al )f our loose democratic government (j] nethods, and that it was exasperating hi ;o feel that our great territory, great f rntural resources, and strength of in- p2 vidual initiative enabled us in spite m*** E our manifold shortcomings to be g >rmidable industrial rivals of Gcr-iB iany; and more incredible stili, that,|H lanks to our navy and our ocean-jB rotected po-ition, we were in a mili-jgg iry sense wholly independent and in ;ightly defiant, and they felt that I|? /pified the nation they disliked." *' In the fundamentals of domestic jg lorality, religion which is moral, g rie \ former Kaiser and Colonel g Roosevelt agreed heartily, but there Sj rere many points in international lorality where they were completey asunder, he said. There was a good eal of dogmatic theology which, to ^ he Kaiser, meant much but was icaningless to him. | JURORS SELECTED | The Jurors for March term of 3ourt Common Pleas, first week are ! !a follows and said court will con- 1 rene March 22, 1920, fourth Mon- i W. L. Peebles, 11, |j T. T. Campbell, 13, | C. L. Pressly, 10, R. K. McKenzie, 10, ^ J. T. Poore, 14, ? F. W. Wright, 13, . || W. E. McClain, 5. A. b. Mo]nngs\Tortn, 11, J. H. Deakc. 4, ' ... ^ R. P. Blanchett, 14, 3 W. T. Cason, 11, ^ E. R. Thomson, 11, ^ jl Julian McCurry, 11, L. R. Campbell, 12, i G. R. Toi^ert, 7, 0. M. Gilliam, 10, J. F. Dodson, 4, W. H. Stevenson, 6, J. K. Harper, 13, J. C. Alewine, 12, ? Walter Burriss, 14, W. J. Manning, 14, p * W. D. Smith, 6, y: " E. L. Cox, 4. .. 3 Orr Clinkscales, 13, $ R. L. McCanty, 11, B. B. Evans, 5, H. P. Pennell, 12, d R. 0. Nickles, 6, j;j C. B. Evans, 10, 'i W. B. Uldrick, 6, !& J. F. Gibert, 10, / S. E. Jones, 6, ' Walter Ellis, 13, ; R. L. Pettigrew, 13, J. R. Wilson, 12. i\\iY IS LEFT AT DOOR =1 OF ANDERSON HOME fi| Anderson, March 1.?(Special).? U? k. bright baby boy about four weeks gj id was left on the front porch ot' Ws Ir. Wilkes Williamson, who lives jj bout a half mile from Prospect jgg| hurch in Centerville township, on |jj iaturday night. ill Mr. Williamson's house is quite | 111 ear the road, and about 10 o'clock I |?p Saturday night he heard a buggy j j?j top in front of his house, and after lp few minutes lie went to a window fgg 3 see who i-t was, or what was jgg -anted. I4? saw a man walking away |jg rom the house, and get into the m uggy and drive off. He did not. re- ffl agnize the man. Presently he heard gfg baby's cries on the front porch WM nd upon going to the door found a ?j| oy baby, well clad, in a basket, =| itli a bottle of milk, and extra cloth- ^ Mr. and' Mrs. Williamson have a IB umber of children of their own, but ave decided to keep the child and jUj u"o?? if iinlcicc it chnnM ho claim- I .Mr. Williamson lives 011 the road ggj jtween Prospect church and Cenirville, a road that is not traveled a jjl ceat deal, and the parties who left jjg| te child there evidently knew Mr. Hi 'illiamson. Davy's Largest Ship, The Maryland, Is 600 Feet Long jg Newport News, Va., March 2.?The iperdreadnaught Maryland will he B unched here March 20. She is the H rgest ship yet constructed for the ivy being COO feet long. 97 feet broad H id having a displacement of 32,000 ^ his. Her main battery will be com- gj jsed of eight 16-inch rifles, the heavst guns used on a naval craft. The .Maryland will be the first of a j "^ ass of four similar ships to be fol- p? wed by six -13,000 tons ships to carry j iftlve lfi-innh suns each and with t^a igher speed. URS VALUED AT $750,000 ARE PART OF CARGO !H Portland, Oregon. March 2.?Furs | m ilued at $750,000 and walrus tusks IB ;moved from Siberian glaciers and j Wm stimated to be more than a hundred m sars old. were included in the cargo IB ischarged today from the steamer |?|jj 'aban from Vladivostok. RV LAM) BATTLESHIP WILL SOON SET SAIL m .New vorK, .uarcn z.? rue sailing ?gg ; the "Battleship Recruit" from Un- g|g m Square has been postponed until j?? arch 15. Erected on the green mea- iHt >w during the war days at consider- j|| jle expense, the dry land battleship gg ew thousands of recruits into that ?g| ranch of the service. A permit for its S ection expired yesterday and an ex- fjj nsion of time was allowed by the ?|| ?K department. Abbe1 1 T ana 1 We have moi Ten Cent Stor G. E. 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