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Monday, May 10, 1920.
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THE BONUS BILL
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Congress seems to have dropped,
for the time being at least, the proposed
bonus for soldiers in the World
War. The brick was too hot to handle
It begun to appear to republicans
and democrats alike that there were
x>ther people with votes besides the
soldiers. Perhaps the soldiers im
pressed on some of them that valcr
was its own reward. At any rate it
is now stated that there will be no
legislation prior to the conventions
of the two great parlies, and there
* will likely be none afterwards, that
/ is, none looking to the payment of a
bonus to the perfectly strong and
healthy soldier.
The proposed sales tax did not appeal
to ths people strongly. When
they were informed mat the
wholesaler would add this tax to
, the price of the goods to the retailer,
and that the retailer would add x it
to the price of the goods to the con
sumer and that the people would pay
the freight, as they generally do,
they were unable to see why they
should contribute to make a whole
army of people idle at the very time
when the country needs the fruits of
.oil* labor.
On the other hand, while , it was
proposed to tax big business again,
on the war profits, neither party was
ignorant of the fact that ?>ig business
sometimes has sometning to say
ir. election years. While the big corporations-Jiave
undoubtedly made
tremendous profits during the war
j-criod, other people have sone the
same, Th^ corporations have already
paid enormous taxes into the public'
.casury, and the country will not
deem it just that their Treasuries'
v should be again raided, and the
country tries to l.?e just.
It is as well that the proposed' bor,-t
us legislation join the rccent overall
brigade and disappear, 'fhe country
.Y,i!! take care of the soldiers who (
are not able to take care or them
r
selves oecause of wounds, hurts and
ills, and in time it will no doubt do
good part by all the soldiers of the
.. eat war. The politicians may safely
leave the matter to the country. (
Neither the soldiers nor the people j
desire that political capital be m'ade .
out of the matter. v
ONE MAN IN CONGRESS. (
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Congressman Pell, of New York?
j he has a very good family name, to (
be sure?expects to be defeated for '
1 ix? fV,?
-Ciet'Vlt.11 tu V/UIlglVOO. lie I1C4U niv.
courage the other day to make a 1
> r ?pch in the House flatly opposing '
all bonus legislation, the question 1
; has caused so much discussion s
i'i Washington. In speaking against *
the robbery that has been proposed *
in the name of patriotism, this man ^
among men said: "I intend to vote 1
against this bonus. I am iJolng this '
in the full realization that it means (
the end of my political career, and I '
can tell you frankly that it is a pain- (
ful thing to commit political suicide,
but I do not think that honor will (
permit me to follow any other '
course." Instead of ending his polit- '
ical career, the course of this unus- '
ual member of Congress should as- '
- l.:_l V,; tnf
Fure u IU^HUI laicci Awi null
many years to come, and that will be 1
the result if the voters in his district
have not lost the appreciation of
courage in high places, the sort of
courage that was illustrated on many
battlefields overseas when the soldiers
of the United States were
fighting for their country and not for
money. Many years ago there was a
great man down in Mississippi by the
name of L. Q. C. Lamar. He was a
Senator of the United States. The
Legislature of his State directed him
to vote for the free coinage of silver.
He refused to obey their orders and
vied the cam to the people anjd
the people heaped furtner honors^
upon Him because he had been true aiillll
to himself and to them. It will be gj
the same way with Representative
Pell; that is to say, if the people of |gj
his Congressional District are true
to themselves.
Mr. Pell is not opposed to the most
liberal treatment of the soldiers who ^
fought in the World War; he would iS
"vote for the most generous treat- pg
ment possible for men that have been gjj
injui-ed in the service of the United jjg
on/1 olen fnr nrnridv of ?-"
k_> lei O, aiiu W1?JV Jf/* ^
the descendants of those men who m
have been killed; but I cannot," he ?j|
said in his speech, "bring myself Bp
r.-.orely for consideration of political g?
cvantage to vote for a bill which jlft
would impose a tax of twenty dollars ^
a head cn every man, woman and gg
child in the country. There is no ^
conceivable way, or at least 110 way gl
has been suggested by which such an ?g
amount of money could be raised Jg
which would not paralyze the indus- jj|
tries of the United States and preci- s
pitate such a crisis as we have never B
seen in our history. Hard times un- j{|
questionably are coming, whatever ^
we may do, but while we cannot avert jjgj
difficulties we can tremendously ag- |g
gravate them.
t i < ? < ?
"Considering the low purchasing ?j|j
power of money today and also the
general tendency of all classes to- ?1?
ward extravagance, $500 means
?.bout as much to a boy today as $75 g
or $100 would have mean: :o us, and IH
may rest assured that nine-tenths 11}
the men receiving this money wil jjif
spend it on a good time and not work ||?
until it is all gone. After that they El
will try to get back their jo'os that pi
tlicy held and find that they no Ion- Mp
^ .er exist, so that their last slate will jg|
01 worse than the first."
Wo jio not know Mr. fell; do not g|g
jt-all ever having heard of him be- j=|l
fere; do not know and do noc care
what political party he belongs to;
but he has proved himself to be a mman
of the right stripe in .the posit:cn
be has taken on this question. It fe"luoks
now as if the bonus regulation
will fail at this session of Congress,
il would not have had the least con^deration
but for the fact that this Jy
i* a:i election year, and tliat the men 9E;
who have been sent :o Congress are
more careful of the votes they hope jsp
-o .se<> e by neglecting their duty
ti:an they are of the trust reposed in |8
.hem. There should be a general gH
./earing o;?t of the traders and trick-'B
sters an;! the election of honest mon^f
!/ . n (din tVicit* ntarps \vp rlrt
IV f ? --y >
jiot believe, for a minute that the f?5?
g-.eat body of the American soldier-s'W
!-.o served in the late war are in fa
(;i- of estimating the honor to which Jg[
ihey are entitled by Mie money they ?||j
:an extract from the Treasury.?The HI
Spartanburg Journal. . , fl|
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In Greenwood, Here and Eiscwhc. " i Si^f
T ? 17:?j. D?| 111
Ill me XMlst UcljJi/inb VUUK.1I o<. mi
jfreenwood last Sunday night tho
Rev. J. R. Jester, pastor, preached to
in audience packing the building a Speaj.
sermon "called forth as a protest
igainst the recent dance given in the 1S 110
:ity at. he time that the oratorical tenda
on test was held." The Index-Jour- into i
lal of Greenwood reports that this lately
lance "is said to have been a most vjgjja
lisgraceful and shocking affair." ^
'Dr. Jester discussed other condi- ??a.
ions which are calculated to make
Of
Jreenwood far from what it should
>e," describing the prevalence of the sc,'^(
>ale of whiskey and its drinking, and not
rambline as evils seriously menacing tlon 1
;he community. "The Devil on the Provc
Tob in Greenwood" was the theme of
he sermon and the issue of The some
nciex-Jouinal containing an account mere'
>( it has an extended lttter from Dr. demn
I. B. Green of the Presbyterian W1
hurch, of the same tenor. Colur
Dr. Jester and Dr. Green apparently which
liffer in that the former condemns their
lancing in general as "A relic of bar- balls
aarism" and, inferentially as quite tiful,
beyond hope of reform while Dr over,
Sreen is content with saying that nient
"the amusement of dancing is in Caroi
ilanirer in America from its own vile- years
ness-?in danger of suppression. The and 1
ball the other nijrht was about the indec
limit in offendingness. An open af- manj
fair, any one payintr the price could wine
enter and take part. Had the devil festn
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appeared and paiu tne price ne wuuiu
not have been refused admittance. inf? I
And be sure he was there; it was his the d
performance." most
While we think that Dr. Green has perse
made the stronger case in that the tion
points to the abuse of the amusement nevei
without undertaking to place it cants
wholly under ban, both preachers couni
have served their community by Caro
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Will be the
Gander
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;ing in plain terms. Greenwood i regarded as flagrant
t the only city in which the | &entlemanly conduct
tncy to convert a socialN affair Granting that dan
, , , . . . ! prohibited, the simp]
u revel has been in evidence. 1
1 late it is for good pi
r and there should be more! , ...
1 neglect it. When m
nee and more courage on the jand women attendee
of teachers of morality and re-j with their daughters
i to check it. j of their friends, they
course, dancing will not be pro atmosphere of decen
id as an amusement and we do I objectionable in<
link that it ought to be. Opposi- Greenwood
that would put an end to it hasjever? 'n evidence,
d futile for centuries and .ef-j Youth must have <
to protect dancing as a whole- will have it and yout
form of entertainment are j sometimes rash. The
ly hampered by wholesale* con-'fathers and mothers
ation. i the play of their nes
lile dances have been had in j children and their w
nbia in the last twelve months j'*s indulgence is sell
i might have been improved jnj?carecly le.>s reprehe
conduct, many other dances and excesses complaint
have been given that were beau-j urn
delightful and innocent. More-!
hundreds of such entertain-1 IF YOU HAD /
s have been given in Southj
ina during more than a hundred! 1 L.aunnuui^
i at which wines were served Editorial squibs ii
A'hich were not marked by any (S. C.,) Piedmont 1
ency, incredible as it is to months attracted wit
good people. The drinking of printed in the Literrj
in moderation at a large and er national publicati
re gathering is entirely possible, become the common
serving of wine at dances hav- the people of the stc
teen made impracticable by law, Carolina Newspaper
langer of execesses has been al- sayings have trained
eliminated?that is, provided outreaches any fame
?ns of good manners have direc- to the town of Green
of the entertainment. The time Palmetto State. Thoi
r was when carrying of intoxi- have read the "p;
i privately at a dance was naturally are interes
tenanced by gentlemen in South thor-ship.
lina. When it was done, it was Down at Fountain
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June Issue of
ession will be Published in BC
yith
ictures of Old
ampton Speaking on Square in
3 House; Ox Teams on the Squa
res of New Ai
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Children?including a large Phc
iting Class, Class Will, Prophec
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eville.
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departure from land works Robert Quillen. Quil
[a young newspaper man and r
cing is not to be ^g^jy newspaper at Fountain
e way to regu-jTT , ,,
: He is bright and presumably a
20ple not to;
iddle-aged men ' defatigable worker. How else
1 entertainments ' be manage to run a weekly pane
?-vv tVio AaiinrKtot-ii! f;?rl timo tn ontprtjiin the natic
lend to them an the sj<je paper, tne rountaii
t restraint and Tribune, is unique and popular
:idents of the Quillen writes the "paragr
are. seldom, if for tj10 Greenville Piedmont fro;
little office at Fountain Inn.
amusement and he sends them to the Greenvill
h is impetuous, per. The Saturday Evening Posl
obligation of The Literary Digest "copies"
is to share in and Quillen profits thereby. The
lrly grown upjurday Evening Post has "found'
ithdrawal from I and now he conducts a page in
Fishness, a sjn great magazine, under the titli
nsible than the "Small Town Stuff." From this
id of.?Index- the followed nugget is gleaned:
Yesterday I read in the news]
I of a man who had inherited a m
l MILLION dollars, and I began to wonder
i T would do if a similar foi
hange says: should come to me.
1 the Greenville i I might travel abroad to see
lave in recent | wonderful works done by man
le attention. Re-1 nothing man has fashioned can
r Digest and oth-1 pare with the white oak God has
nnc thou Imvp I in mv back vard.
property of all i I might hear famous singers
ites. The South 1110 one of them has a voice that
and its pointed j compare with that of the moi
a notoriety that j bird that sings in the hedge nea
that may attach j house.
iville or even the I I might make the acquaintan
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usands of people j great ..men, but I have greater ii
ill??i,?
iragrapns anu uuunn uu m.v mien.
>ted in their au- I might make new friend?, 1
have one who walks with me wil
Inn, S. C., lives dissimulation and takes no thoi
is
1 ome
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ABBEVILLE, S. C. 1
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len is! of my faults.
uns a! ^ might live in a great hotel, but
, I thus i .-.sjiilci forfeit the beaten bis/
Inn.1
cuit ami fried ciiicktn we have at
1,1 in" home.
pniild
[ I might build a groat house and hire
r and servants, but servants would rob me
>n on of privacy and a great house would
ii Inn j oppress me. . .
in its j I might buy fine clothes and hire a
aphs' vale', and become a great deal of
m his'trouble to myself, but I feel more at
Daily) ease when I am puttering about the
o pa- premises in overalls.
t and I mijrht buy manv motor cars, but
them I have one that tnlKs low in itsSat
throat ad chuckles at the approach of
' him S a hill.
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that I might give it to the needy, but
c of the gift would rob ihem of self repage
| spect and self reliance and whet their
appetites for fuither charity. More
laperjover my friends would think me a
illion fool and come near converting nu- to
what their opinion.
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but I Not a single Vassar graduate this
thout year will go into the teaching profes.ights
sion.