The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-02

last Saturday they ran up against 4
proposition not quite as easy, and it
took hard playing aud good Iiguring
for them to make the score stand 5to
in their favor.
a scientist has come forth with the
theory that people are using too much
water in the way of bathing After
advancing several reasons he commends
the change of underwear daily aud the
use of less water. Now this may be
well in science, but as the writer is
not we'll veraed in that part cu ar
branch of science he will continue to
cling to the theory that water is
healthy, and would not advise Adve-
cate readers 10 give up its use. This
paper has lis; of comparatively clean
subscribers, so to speak, and we have
no fear for them. There are some
people. nevertheless, those who do not
know that such a thing as scic1ce eN-
lists, that have all their liyes done
their bodies, and it has never been OBJ
served that they are pictures Of health,
neither could one of them be called
IA thing of beauty and a JOY forever"
Let us still hold to the theory that
"clean illness is next to godiiueSS,' and
though cur stay in this world may be
shortened Il few years-let as br clean
That the town is 20 be bonded is n
certainty, fer Il majority of our best
citizens nave so decided. Let every
one take the following rs his view:
Every citizen should feel proud of
the election for bonding the town last
week. IT was as it should have been.
in fact it could not have been other
wise. How would it have looked for
the report To have been circulated
throughout the State that the citizens
of Batesburg had defeated movement
that stood fo- the advancement and
best Interests of the town Would IL
had we failed TO SO do,
or would it have been left for outsiders
to form an opinion OF our citizens not
quite TO the liking of those who stand
not supposed, or expected, that the
venture Will prove Il bonanza from tie
beginning, nor that obstacles Will not
have to be overcome, hut nCtwithstand-
backs therc Is no reason why in time to
come 1T should not prove a financial be
nrtilt TO the city The writer is Il firm
believer in the municipal ownership
of public utilities, feeling that the peo-
pie have better right TO share in the
profits accruing thereLpon than do
corporations. If corr uratIonS can
grow rich and fat oil the profits wruug
from the consumer, why can not the
town make Il profit for each and every
taNpnyer, thereby, in time, giving
him better service and reducing bv
more than one half the cost that
monopoly would put upon the people.
The profit the town makes goes to re
ducc the taxes of all citizens, while the
profit the corporation. cNtorts IAN enor
nous one too frrm the peo-
pie goes away down in their jeans, or
Is deposited in the strong b,X. Let
those who nave been so bitter against
these improvements bide their time,
not Judging in one year, Or two, but
wait, see the venture in practical op-
Grafton and then condemn. Good
men voted for it. aud as the majority
have decided to have Tie Improvement
let every citizen work with greater zeal
Tor the New EatcsDIrg, never losing
sight OF the fact that IA house divided
against its' II cannot stand '