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PAGE TWO . — The Press and Standard ftalUrboro, S. C. r j ■ — — 1877. THE PRESS AND STANDARD Wednesday, March 21, 1917. rtJBLHHKD EVERT WEDlfESDAT SOON BY TUB AND STANDARD, . 14 V. ff. 8MOAK Editor ami Mgr. at U»« postofflco at Wal- 8. C-, aa aeeoad claaa aaO . SabaeriptioB Rates; Oaa Taar. • .BIAS “ “ ‘ 78 AS OOD K INHMRKD BTIRD Last eve I paused beside a black- . _ ..- amilha doot.— And heard the anvil sin* the ves per chime. Then looking in, I upon the floor Old hanrmera, worn with heating yearn of time. "How many anvils have you had?” * Ha id 1. "To wear and, batter all these hammers no?” "Just one.” he said, -then with :i twinkling eye. "The anvil wears the hammers out. you know." And so. I thought, the anvil of (Jod’s Word * For ages skeptic blows have beat upon; Yet. though the noise of falling blows was heard. The anvil is unhammervd the hammers gone. —Dr. John Cliffonf. MONK OPPOSITION TO BONDS Rev. Walter Rlack, of Ruffin, a popular young Baptist minister, liv ing at Ruffln. sends, in an article this week i n opposition to the pro posed bond issue for roads for Col leton county. This article is given ■pace just as cheerfully as it would be If he were heartily in favor of a bond issue. The Press and Stand ard Is trying to be a fair newspaper, and B Is not a personal organ of it.« editor to publish only his views, but we w(juld like to have it a forum for the discussion of all live matters nf. feeling the weal or the woe of our people, and we should he glad to (r * S' v have both sides of these matters d»s cussed frankly and with evidence of thought . >(( Mr Black says the people of Col leton county ate fating a great tri- sis. Thi* is true, for upon their d*- Cisitiu tn the matter of this bond issue, vve honestly believe, bangs'the quest ion a- to whether shall con tinue to drag our wav through in'll I holes. oi sail over smooth loads whether oi not Rev Walter Black • hall i-oon have to rill his appoin* menu Sunday after Sunday.op mule back.” or go to them in his automo. bile.” We aie 11listing in the good sense of the people of Colleton conn ty to guide them safely through tli' 'crisis." and we Iteliove they will see the matter in the light of pto »• tress. ^ ’ ,\ g "Her people are at a standstill.” says Rev Walter Black. Now we are at a loss to know just what Mr. Black means by this remark, except he Is talking about the fact that the people of Colleton county are at a standstill in the matter of toad con struction. If that be his meaning, ho is eminently correct We will go a bit further anj say **• are nul only at a standstill, but we ate ac tually going backwards. and we have not its good loads as our fore fathers, who rod** '"mule back" had Why did Mr Black go to college, and later to a theological seminary* Hla forefather* and "pioneer breth ren” had meagre educational ad vantages. and verv few of them ever '•aw inside a college^ or theological seminal v .#>et ihev rm|e their mules through the ti.iils of the eountv and presched to the people tn rude log houses, hen an.I then-, only a very few of them Iveing rvecc'-sarv to hold the scant population who attended church in the$* good <dd days So why does not |{ev Waiter Black now climb astride his faithful mule, after plowing it all the week, and go to his churches* Why does he apend hie time in study and medi tstlon. and on Sunday morning Crank up his trusiy Ford and hie away to fill two. three and some times four appointments In a singl • Lord’s dnv* We will tell vou whv. and we call attention to this reason os being the patamount reason whv Colleton countv ne« fs bonds for building io;yl< Oui population is now many times what It was in ♦ hose gotyd old days,” and the de mand* open rh^ people are so much greater, the amount of traffic over the roads is per hap# ton or twentv times greater than ihen. and the method* of travel are better and ile- tuand better roads than the old ' traits’* \lmost anv kind of road *h An will do for the slow old one-horse rart our forefathers used, but they gre not suitable for the automobile. or *he spick and. span buggy, with horse. Now. the question is what is Rev., -Walter Black gb»ng to da.about it? Our present system of liuilding roads i« a failure; our^> highways are a menace |o our prosperity, and they are the greatest hindrance and dram back to the work the preachers of the count/are trying to do, for the people cannot get to church, and when they do plough through the mud-and slush of the roads, they are not In a very devout frame of mind to hear the eloquent and earnest plea of Mielr ministers. Yes* we thought if there were one class of people in the county who woul 1 support the bend issue tola man B would be the loader* of the people w ho Sunday after Sunday pr'»-'* »• the word of God - But. -Mr -Rtaelr fs opT^seft^tb TRffcr. So are we. and M bu t is mo.*? have to provide !<ir th* S2« t iM*O.0u v hi* h Colleton c uin;. we nt in*o debt dmirg th** j- >.s‘. ( ’ » years, than •nr any legisl^’ioq we. n s a legisla tor, had to pass. This debt was contracted, too. building a road by one of Mr. Black’s churches, and we can hardly believe that even though it i* a debt and has to be paid for during the next four years, tlie peo. pie of that church would have the old mud holes back . On the contrary, Mr. Black, the men who passed this law calling for the election on the bond issue, have given the matter more thought than you think, and it was one of the things on which our members have spent a great deal of study, as much, doubtless, as the Rev. Walter Black, who has his church work on his mind and could not. therefore, give th* matter the‘research and Investi gation the Colleton delegation was forced to give it. A Mississippi county recently vote l $500,000 for good roads, and among a great number of letters written by- people in the county, the following may be of interesf to Mr. Black as showing the way people look at these thing* after the road* have been built. If space would permit we could cite numerous instances wher*> the people are delighted with v the results of bond issue* for road con struction In all our reading we have not read of a single county anywhere in the I’nited States, and 40 pet cent of the counties have bond issues, in which the people re gretted the issuance of bonds, wher ve n common sense was used in the expenditure* of the funds- On the contrary there gYc n great manv counties delighted, with their toads Greenville county delighted with the loads, being built with her $h00.- non issue Spartanburg county ha., voted $1."00.000; Cherokee countv h.i* just passed through an electioa voting $.L’.VnoO 1,aniens countv . .S ''s ISH 'ill vote on the matter of issuin'; i ItnCfoin pn the ^Tth inst ; Beau fort and ('ha i lesion counties will each have an election in a few weeks Colleton should be the pio neer in Southern Carolina But. the following is th/' opinion we wish to quote: "I have never made an invest ment for which I have gotten as much financial returns and satisfac tion as I have out of this road. The advancement in property alone has been sufficient to four or five times pay the whole cost of construction, and 1 do not think the county could make any investment that would bring in a* much returns as to build a net work of them all over It It Is such a good thing that 1 want ev ery man i n the county to have one just like it. and I am willing to pay mv part of tho taxes to help him get It.” We trust that our good friend and co-worker for the uplift of Colleton county wHI see the error of his wav and "get right”, on this bond issue. We would like verv much to see him a •'convert" and would urge him only to exercise a hit of "faith” in his feflowm.tr. and in the earnest ••'*ire of the county to join the for ward march of events. M E A : L niCH GRADE MKAI. 4 ON TAINS POTAwll. DO YOU WANT IT .* i .• a • . , < The Price Remains The Same ^ • y ... ; ' • Their style, their quality, their guarantee of satisfaction has become the new standard * of value for $ 17 throughout the nation. 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