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Established 1844. The Press and Banner Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 ! Monday, April 19, 1920 MAN AND THE SABBATH ??? Your grandmother will tell yoU| how the Sabbath began at sundown Saturday and ended at sundown Sunday; how all the household work stopped at the former hour, and, ati the latter, the women of the family gathered around to wash the dishes and make up the beds; how the whole family, one by one, Saturday night, tnnk their turn in the zinc tub, then I mother laid out father's and the chil-1 ? dren's clean clothes against their early rising Sunday morning ready for go-to-meeting; no games to be played no books to be read except the Bible; no riding, no pleasuring of any sort. In some of the families of certain denominations catechism recita-j tion and psalm singing were the onlyj relaxations from the monotony on| Sunday afternoon. Some of these things are not so farj from the memory of the Sabbaths of | our own childhood?memories of long . hours in a straight-back, cushionlesst pew, staring at carpet patterns, ( fidgeting, playing with a hymn book ( until one of the elders gave us a, pinch on the leg, then pretending to, listen to the rhetorical periods ofj ministerial discourse, not one word in ten of which we even remotely com- j prehended, marveling secretly the j while at the vagaries of our elders; who would sit so placidly under sermonizing. After church home to the usual good, cold Sunday dinner, always prepared the day before and generally ended up with chocolate cake or cold egg custard. Sunday school was always is the mornings in those days so we were left a long afternoon to while away by using the( only permited means?the Bible story t book, Pilgrim's Progress or that( square edition of Dante's Inferno illustrated most hideously by Dore. The Puritans had a reason. The ( Sabbath which they found in the! seventeenth century England had, been plentifully profaned by the, cavaliers. We are wont to blame our, Puritan forefathers for the gloomy | Sabbath. The people ye ought to blame were the dissolute English up-1 per classes, who had so degraded the name of pleasure that they made the, Puritans think it was pleasure and,: not the misuse of it which was evil. t' It is true that the Puritans were 1 radicals in many respects but to overcome the wanton dissoluteness of the degraded and licentious cavaliers may be the Puritan roundheads had to go to the other limit to obtain a medium good average Sabbath ot> I1 servance. Those Puritans who re- j' fused to eat an egg for Monday's^ breakfast which the hen had worked ,5 to lay on Sabbath certainly did go to^ the last extreme. But Sabbath had'1 - * ' ? - I; been given over to a misuse of^ legitimate pleasure and every shady j1 exhibition, bear baiting, cock fight- ,< ing the presentation of the newest 1 lewd play of the Jacobean dramatists was given on Sabbath. Even today Continental Europeans view what survives, in both England and this country, her progeny, of the Puritan Sabbath with a mixture of. amazement and derision. With the/nit; is a day to enjoy. And it must be ad- ' mitted that they excel in ingenious I and innocent ways of doing so. Their influence is making itself ? felt among us. Our foreign populations, given half chance, can teach us t.Vip art of havine a good time for | very little money, a plat of green | grass, a lunch basket, the shade of a tree, a running brook, with no sacrifice of piety or deistical respect. The automobile has pried the old-] fashioned Sabbath much wider open.1 We began by using the machine for a Sunday visit to grandmother. We have ended by taking grandmother on an all-day trip. RAILWAY STRIKE jjj ABOUT TO CLOSE jg Washington, April 16.?Outwiard jjjj indications point to an eaarly end oi ?B the nationwide railroad strike. The Wk frst big break in the strikers ranks S n the East, their last remaining Mj stonghold, came yester<lay when 500 ?j| nwr) Ar?ffir>omon ; x~miiisyiv<tnm iiiuucu awu wi^mviuvi. t Baltimore voted to go back to = work. Eeastern railroads continued to re- jjj ort increasing defections in the ^ trikers ranks, but these were dis- jjj uted by strike leaders who declared he main body of their men was still |}g olding firm. Continued improve-1 ||j nent also was reported by the roads jgf f the middle and Far West. Switchmen at Toleda, Ohio, voted g o return to work pending a settle- gg ment of their grievances by the gi labor board. Railroads in all sections of the jj country reported that passenger ser- Jfl vice was nearly normal while freight H service, virtually abandoned since the H strike began, v<as rapidly being re- g|g sumed. Thousands of volunteer work- gp ers bore the brunt of the work in mov fH ing trains in and around New York, Attoney General Palmer's allega- g tions that the strike was planned and & is being directed by radical agitators g ithw questionable motives were chal- j?| lenged yesterday from two separate || ources. |J g Frank Morrison, secretary of the ?j American Federation of Labo issued B a statement in Washington that an E independant investigation of strike |S "just a plain ordinary strike for more IB pay." Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, com- gg manding the central department, U. = S. A., who has just returned to his = duties at Chicago after a short leave |j[ asserted he failed to find "any evi- S dence of connection between the rail- H way men's strike and Industrial j Workers of the World activities." I m COLLEGE CONTEST WON BY PIGODSKY jj Greenwood, S. C., April 16.?First J honors in the annual contest of the II South Carolina Intercollegiate Ora- g torical Association, held here tonight j were w<on by Joe Pigodsky of New-) Jj berry college, speaking on "For a |j Mess of Pottage." Second place went tj to J. C. Reid of Erskine college, H whose oration was on "America'* gf Debt to the World' and third award ?g was captured by G. A. Byrd of the g College of Charleston, whose subject I|| was "The Workshop of America." ||j The auditorium of Lander college B was crowded for the contest, many S visitor coming to Greenwood frm all gg sections, especially the Piedmont for ^ the contest, the baseball games and g the dance. For the first time in the history of ?B the contest the program did not bear he names of the speakers, the re- 3 presentatives being introduced as the Q the next orator and not as the man HI from any particular college. While 9j the judges were making their de- jjg cision, the speakers wtere made known i||| o the audience. Aside from the three winning ora- jg ions, the others, which are not given jgj n order of rank, were: Democracy ^ " Vrflnk FitzSimmons, Hf iiu UC1 * iWy * fVofford college; "The Unfinished (i tVar," W. M. Blackburn, Furman Jj iniversity; "The New Era," C. B. jUl Seaborn, University of South Caro- SB ina; "Back to the Path of Duty," P. | B fVt Wilson, Presbyterian college of jlf South Carolina; "The Idealist and the i|J /alue of His Ideals," F. U. Wolf, S 31emson college; "Youth's Ideals," igj B. L. Austin, the Citadel. f"3jg0gI3|gIgI3jg|g/g]3gj3l3J3J2J2J2JSJSJ5(B HH CANDIDATES COLUMN 1 - ^EJSI05JSJSISI5ISf3ISJ5ISISI5J5IBISJ5fSJSJBJ^ j?B CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF |g > I heijeby.^niiounce myself a candi- 111 date for Sheriff of Abbeville County Jl? n the Democratic Primary, and I *=* ledge myself to be governed by the Jj rules and to abide the resuh of the IS rimary. J. N. BLUM. We ae authorized to announce R. J B. Cheatham as a candidate for Clerk j|| of Court, subject to the rules of the jjj democratic party and he pledges fff himself to abide the result of the p| primaries. J ~*fe: iron production in the Uni- l|| ted States in 1919 was 31,015,3641 ? tons, as compared with 39,434,797 j tons in the preceding year. I | MMMM?I Get Y r\i I'DC ?: JL 1\JL_J gui that it does ma you buy. You're attrac mavbe the oric( J A is: How long w when you buy? That's where and fine tailorir endure. 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