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tSfrePamftergjteralb ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 2S. No. 34. Thursday, August 21, 1919. We were under the impression that city council had forbidden the use of cut-outs on automobiles, but it seems * ? 1 tu uave uuntJ nunc guuu mat. we uau notice. We trust that city council will enforce the ordinances of Bamberg impartially on all alike?rich and poor, white and black. There has been too much of this sort of thing here in the past, and we hope that with the new order of things that seems to be coming here that this will be remedied. Certain persons could violate a city ordinance without suffering the penality, but let some one else do the same thing and he would be fined. Let's have just and equal enforcement of our city laws on all alike. < m > Railroad employees, who are best paid of any class of wage earners in the United States, have asked congress for an increase in wages amounting to something like $8,000,000, which amount they say must be raised byy increasing freight rates. Of course this burden would have to be borne by the public, already overtaxed with the high cost of all necessaries of life, and railroad charges are high enough now, goodness knows. Not only do they seek to put this additional burden on the t.axDavers. but they ask that the railroads shall be taken from private ownership and operated as the employees say and for / their benefit. A more outrageous and anarchistic idea was never promulgated anywhere, not even in Bolshevist Russia. . Labor dictated to the government during the war, and as they are never satisfied, they will keep up this sort of thing as. long as they can. It is high time for the patriotic men in both political parties to get together to stamp out this radicalism. God knows where it will end if it is not checked. ^ < > m THE FORD VERDICT. Henry Ford in his suit for one million dollars damages against the Chicago Tribune for alleged libel gets six cents, instead of a million dollars, and everybody seems satisfied. Ford contended for vindication, and got it. From past records, we judge the Tribune is not so much concerned "? V ?. A y} C AM it A M ftATTrt/? f V* A iiuoui vmuiuciiiuii as uciuji savcu iuc cash, and the paper is satisfied; at least the paper's counsel says so. Nobody has said anything about the jury that sat on the case for nearly half a year. No doubt they are thoroughly satisfied to get out of the jury box. Both sides to the suit have vainly tried a make a sensation out ,of it "without much success. The newspapers startej out by giving the proceedings big front page heads, but the trial frittered down to one and two liners before much progress was made, and the public had about lost interest in the case before the verdict was reached. No doubt Ford and the Tribune were trying to play to the galleries. If they did try, both have ignominiously failed. However, we are rather glad Mr. Ford secured his vindication, lor a payer uas au mure right to insult a man of big affairs tha.1 a small one, and even if Ford were guilty of what the Tribune charged, it would have paid no attention to it if he were not a millionaire. WE AGJKEE WITH YOU. I A prominent Washington woman has written a letter protesting to the beach censor in regard to the strict censorship directed against the fair sex in the matter of bathing costumes. "The way men are allowed to parade the beach makes them repulsive," says the indignant champion of abbreviated costumes for the fair ones, referring, of course, to the absence of covering on the extremities of the said men. Entirely correct. We never did see anything lovely about the perambulating machinery * of mere man when it is divested of proper garments. But, continues the good lady, "the girls, after all, have curves and attractions not at all disgusting when they are permitted to come out on the beach without stockings." We hesitate to express our entire approval of this utterance: yet, far be it from us to dispute the point. "And their limbs are simply awful, full of knobs, and besides most men are bowlegged," continues the pro4 r\r>4- s\ /-kr\v\ if it's flin f rntll CCOl. >> tUllICOO U i 11 o Lll^ 11UUI. We discerned these things years ago in painful evidence on masculine extremities. and now that our attention has been called to it, we cannot again expose our knobs at the seashore to the shocked gaze of those with the "curves and attractions" without a sense of outraged modesty. The writer says that the men, and not the girls, should be compelled to cover their uncouth and unsightly bodies on the beaches, and we quite agree?as to the men, of course, we cannot gain our consent to believe they were made for sight-seeing exhibitions at the seashore. They are shocking to the aesthetic sensibilities so hereafter, by all means, men should take their baths at home; else take to the ocean fully covered. ! SELF-APPOINTED. The Religious Herald, quoting the Catholic War Council Bulletin, says that the "big six," members of the war work council, were "at first self appointed." Later the council or commission was officially appointed an advisory hoard by Secretary Baker. 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