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HP IV H^Hffinfltstablished 1844. EHUHH Press and Bannei j^nHfi^B^bbevillo, S. C. kHnK|Hs and Banner Company SjBTTPublished Tri-Weekly HMfonday, Wednesday and Friday. |HEfl^rea~'as second-class matter ai H^KfBce in Abbeville, S. C. ' T?rm? of Suhicrintion: months 1.01 rjsf.- ?hQ 51 ^BMONDAY, MAY 17, 1920 |K ; "AT ANY COST." sHHp^aboTe words make the head I. auvertiseiiicni m ua^ui Slssue of THE SUN AND NE\> BK HERALD. The advertisemen kT the New York University En nnent Fund. The body of the cd W*' ' tisement is based on a statemen Dharlcs H. Sabin, President of th jranty Trust Company, of tha p His words are these: t am not a college man myseli could live mv life over again, f i mnfld get a college education at an; fH?|^K?e words of the president of ; OH financial institution in Nev KM city,should be read and ponder KH^Jy*every young man who is this njSSHleaving one of the high school: country. These young mer ^^HLbout reached the Dorics of th* life. One leads to a life oi HfiflBwork, perhaps, with an evei SffjjHing appreciation or the hand!' which beset a man who under ' hpind If iu;uu Hid WVII\ mvitvwiv c WSa fed for the task. P4 . I^hese. days of easy money the latibn to quit school and beglr rsomethinj* which brings in re ration and makes one feel inK:" V . |d?nt is very great for the r school boy. All of them loofc F >a ird with misgivings to the foui 'ro? academic training, and the "years of learning a profession, fng trained for some other callIt all seems a long time to me mind, ana someiiiiiua n, an sunnecessary. But the thought^^Hnan everywhere, on the farm, oHe workshop, in the office, In the ^^Eit, in every calling, who has fail^^Bp?~obtaf$ a college education he might have done so, regrets HSBerror, and he never fails to adQHit. The conviction that he has ~g mistake, grows stronger and ?s the years pass and new ai"e to bo met and faced. ^Krould, therefore, tngp the young who are graduating from the schools this year not to make ^^Bnistake which has so often been in the past. Get a college edu^Hpn "at any cost." ^^ hat is said to the graduates of fxSHngh schools should be said to the in the lower grades. All too of these boys drop out of ^Hol after the sixth or seventh |Hae is passed. Here and there a poRn offers itself to ' a promising ^Efth. The family bank account is Janr - Derhaps there is an old {4>oy or g^cl to be educated, perps the himself has tired of the Ft* L'y routine of lessons. For one ise and another the boys quit ?ol. Ani they make a great mlsfi. Many times fin the years to lie they will look back to the day !n they qait school as the turning TViov mav SUC (pint in men hvm. i..vj ?, [ed in life, as has Mr. Sauln, but iey will knew, how much of satisfacan there w?uld have been in having college education. The tasks per,ps would have been easier. The ugh places would have beer 'A trained mind would have fore easily grasped the situation ill in all, so much more woulc been gathered for the satisfac f the man had he been able t< to bear on his -worx an educa nd. of the graduating cias: ir was made when the boy,' s were in the third or fourtl ffe looked at-it today. Then e than a dozen boys In thi ?ne of them remain J to graduate in the local high scho< True, two or three of them are aw; at preparatory schools, but by f the greater number of them ha dropped out of school, gone to woi some from necessity, perliaps, ai some from choice. They have go up against the game of life uitho knowing it. They may win, but t odds against them are greater th t would have been the case tiad th decided to have a college educati "at any cost." More and more as the years go a college education will become ^ sine qua non for success in the b; ' tie of life. But it is not alone of on self that we should think. The st<r and the nation need educated m "| today as they have never been ne< I ed before. The government no lor I jer is a representative governme | It is becoming a pure democracy, y! spirit if not in fact. Every Issue ! life is being decided at the ballot b< it' i Selfish interest manifests itself thf "j among all classes. Only the thougl "l ful man, the educated man, *tie m * with a mind trained to reason rig 0 : ! and to think honestly, will save in this emergency. The more pien 1 j have v'th a college education, t better government we will have the next quarter of a century. L y the boys (and the girls for that m; 'ter), get a college education "at a 1 cost." ' t 3 IT SHOULD BE STRUCK OUT 5 i When the Ways and Means Coi ; mittee of the House meets today consider the Soldiers and Sailors' R - lic-f bill, a motion will be made _ strike out the cash bonus sectior There would remain in the bill pi visions for farm or home aid, voc tional training and paid-up . insu ance, which could be carried out wit out the immediate or early expenc i ture of a sum of money estimated .$2,000,000,000, to be raised by tax . tion'at a time when the cost of livii . is almost intolerably ounlenson-.e. * ?*1- " nnlKixg: T'v'P n fl S ; .-i. JIIuiilu a^u ~ . Congress of the ex-service men ina< , light of the difficulties of finding: tl money to pay cash bonuses and ta! ed grandiloquently of the obligatic of the country to honor a previous unacknowledged debt 10 l!iose w* 1 had worn the uniform. After t) ' civil war the claim of a cash bom 1 lor services was not preferred. T? Government was not expected to ps to each able-bodied soldier and saik <vho had fought to save the Union lump sum, representing so many do lars for each month with the color.1 and many of the veterans nad fougl during four long years under (Jond tions of great hardship an,! aepriv; tion. Loyalty and love of country I 1861-Co were not indifferent to th ( gv'ieral welfare. The men who phiye (their part in a spirit of patriotism } | the Spanish war did not come horn to calculate how much belter off the would have been if they had not gon to the front, and 'to clemanc tha they should be reimbursed Tor thel pecuniary sacrifices. Since the cash bonus for wnola an capable men was first agitated th country has been thinking ?n the lr tervals of the harr./s:ng struggle t keep the wolf from the door, an members of Congress have hear ' ? - l. ,1* from the country, it aoes not oenev that the cash bonus, whether righi eous or not, whether theoreticall due or not, could be paid withou sapping the foundations of the put lie credit and without multiplyin the economic woes from TfTilch th people are suffering with extraord nary patience and waning hope c relief?waning because the politi< ians in Congress have seemed to b bent upon adding to the people burden to attract the votes of th cash boru? seekers. But even the politicians in Coi are beginning: to understari O- ? -o w ,'that the voters opposed to tne caf distribution might greatly exceed : numbers the beneficiaries. So tl movement in both houses to diseai the cash bonus from the relief bill ' gathering momentum. The other fe - tures of the measure would call f t a gradual expenditure of money ov . a period of years, and in tne case farm and home aid the Governme , would eventually receive back wh it had loaned, vocational trtumi 5 would also repay the country in i 1 creased production and In useful c J izenship. If the Ways ancr Mea e Committee comprehends trie jud 3 ment and heeds the desire of the Ai 5i.' erican people it will adopt the motion' ay to strike the cash bontte from the' a7: bill.?N. Y. Times. ! ' "Ml C/-VKT CIT^AD PDIPFQ A, VV lJuJV/11 ju\jni\ A l I rul * 1 Mr. Hoover's remarks on the1 lie tragedy of sugar prices are clarify-1 ing. Retrospectively speaking, at least, they are helpful. First, as to' an the blame for the ascension. The ei" former Food Controller leaves no; ?n doubt as to where the responsibility 1 lies. He says that last September by the Administration "could have a bought the Cuban sugar crop at 6 1-2 i at-1 cents a pound." This would have l e>s'given the American consumer 12^ I cents sugar for 1920. But the Presi-1 ident refused to sanction the pur-' en , i chase, acting, it is said, on the ad-| I vice of a distinguished professor of economy, who told him that sugar' nt,j would take care of itself. It is duet >n solely to what Mr. Hoover calls "bad j of, business administration" that thei jx. | consumers sugar bills have injre'ci'eased 100 per cent. ht- Second, as to the limited remedy an against excess prices still available | ?ht Mr. Hoover believes that the $50: . extra a year which each American us ! family has been condemned to pay 1 eifor the President's mistake mav be he , shaved down through a rationing of m, sugar. If sugar were allotted only for ,e^ essential consumption there would it- be enough to go around at a lower ny price. But it takes moral courage on j the part of a government to ration I food. The very rudimentary food ; rationing machinei'y which was esta _ ! blished in 1917 and 1918 has been practically scrapped. The Administration has taken instead to threat- ' ?0 ening and prosecuting individual I e. profiteers. That is easy and make., a stir. But a fine or a jail sentence im1P posed on the profiteer doesnt put any Konlr in nanl'nfc r\f m 111P t fJ H r?|_ muiivj 111 |/w?wu v* ...?..WWVM . aJ consumers. Other profiteers spring) r : up to collect toll. And what consti-l ?r_ tutes fair or unfair profit can be de-! j{ :cnr.inOtl in ihe lon^ run only I a? through the ditums of governmentj .."elation. I ^ Mr. Hoover also stiyfgfcsts that the! ! Administration might, enter into aj c with foreign governments ) Ill which are the largest purchasers of" ^ sugar to check reckless bidding for j ? ..'applies. Such an arrangement .voul i take much time to negotiate. .t *s probably too }at# for the United *0 Seal;.-: to .ret int.; an effective crop anv. price controlling pool. Centres.7, !? talking &f putting an r einbaiero on the excovt of fugav. Yot ie ' ^ or.r domestic production covers only a small percentage of the domestic ))* demand. Prohibition of sales by . manufacturers to broker', and speci1Iatois might help. But here also ' the lack of a genuine regulatory . .system would make enforcement difficult. ^ The consumer has boon turr.eiij over to the shearers. Anything tlonci e ' now can only temper the wind for! him. But Mr. Hoover's statement a*"| 11 least provides an outlet foi' his 6 anguished emotions. He is finding y i * out who made sugar dear.?X. Y. e Tribune. it r INCREASE SHOWN IN COTTON CONSUMED d e Washington, May 15?Cotton con l* sumed during April amounted to 567 0 839 bales of lint and 29,955 bales o d linters, the census bureau announced d today. e Consumption in April last year " was 475,875 bales of lint and 11,4781 y of linters. Cotton on hand April 30, in con-; suming establishments was 1,809,253: 8" hales of lint and 287,716 ?f linters,' e compared with 1,378,392 of lint and| 278,748 of linters a year ago, and in( public storage and at compresses 2,-j - 967,931 bales of lint and 392,870 of J 'e linters, compared with 3,976,257 of, i i ?j m 1 nnf -r I:_j . * lint ana ?ii,o?o ui untvis a jcai ie ago. Imports during April 69,357 bales,' I 11" compared with 36,463 and exports 'd 546,125 bales of lint and 6,158 of liiiters compared with 411,916 of in lint and 951 of linters, in April last ie year. I r(i. Cotton spindles active during April *s nuVnbered 34,434,673 compared with' a" 33,208,670 in April last year. 9r Statistics for .cotton growing er states show consumption there in, of nt X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XV at V ?SEE? V Ig \. 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Build it steadily and sh< actions that you are a sal e Planters Bank welcomes ople who desire to estal t. You cannot do it ii> a we h, however-you've got to it up. ly not start to establish y 10W? erest Paid on Savings. PLANTERS E THE PROGRESSIVE ABBEVILLE, S. < if!yht i* -rr^ A 4,?. Tf r Problem is HOWA.LME1 SOLVES IT teadily going miles an hour the de. Motor rushed through Ran I are much the results are mark lave fo\ind a Quick starting lg the Chal- power [ot Spot and Q . r Smooth action has supplied SPark Plu8s seldo: problem of Absence of engi] such as burned b( rms the raw, scored cylinders, ine fuel, sim- The sum of resul ' the particles Spot and Ram 's'hon in your mind once inus abrupt a Chalmers owner in length and and you, too, will d, makes the say Chaimers is els from Hot one of the few er equal. ^reat cars of the o 4- t \irrSrlrl ILLlillCVJ ai 1 WW wv/A'ivf mm mmmm 4BF 5-LESLlfc I mds were glad to welcome him in to this city. COMING, OPERA HOUSE V FRIDAY and SATURDAY S. 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