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^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:"
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|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
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. 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
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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.
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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
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April to have been 317,910 running'
bales, compared with 259,444 in
April last year; cotton on hand April
30 in consuming establishments 969- 1}
588 bales, compared with 64b,186 aja
year ago, and in public storage and o
at warehouses, 2,655,406 bales, com-' li
pared with 3,677,248, a year ago. ! B
Cotton spindles active during April o
in cotton growing states numbered tl
15,050,304 compared with 14,317,- d
196 in April last year. |
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VISITOR FROM GREENVILLE i frie
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T. E. Link, of Greenville, former |
, of Abbeville, arrived here Satur j
ay to visit relatives. Mr. Link has'vv
een with the Greenville News un- v
1 recently, resigning to go with the v
iaptist Courier Publishing Co. as'v_.
perator. He has worked Tor both'v
ne Press and Banner and The Me i v
ium in the past and made both of j v
ees a visit while in town, flis many v. \
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cannot borrow a dollar wi
> your credit established a:
e of the best ways to estal
t is to have an account at tl
. 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?
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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 .
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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
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er equal. ^reat cars of the
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