The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-05

banner Oh CnaC antique ACnenS OF
upper Carolina proposes to abolish
the city police force and put him tc
tilling the soil, saying:
"Does anybody know any reason
why we should have policemen?
When we were small boy and came
to town, Chief Riley, it seemed to
us, 'policed' the whole town. There
were barrooms, and liquor, and ev.
i erything in town then. Now that
the barrooms have been abolished
and the Great Moral Institution has
made us moral, and the town is
asleep, and everybody is happy and
contented, and nobody wants to
I fight, anyway, and nobody can get
drunk, and on account of the high
cost of living therefis not enough
money to gamble with or fall out
about, why not allow the pleasant
gentlemen of the police department,
as they are already accustomed. to
wearing uniforms, join the war
forces Of the country, get them a
farm and assist Mr.. Tom W. Wilson
and MI. Herbert Hoover in feeding
the army A word to the wise is suf-
fcient, or should be-"
! How Abbeville "glides in modest
innocence away! No longer is
heard in the land the clicking of the
chips and the slamming of the
pasteboards. In the bright lexicon
of Abbeville there are now no such
words as "Here's Howl "Looking
at You" and Happy Days" Time
was when the purple grapes glisten-
ing on-the red hills Of Abbeville
were transmitted into wine after old
French formulas, but where the vine
once f1ourished now runs the soy
bean. 80. ..,. ..
Abolish the police force! Where
will the rude hand sof the iconoclast
fall next? In some cities french
are now compelled in idle hours to
sweep the streets. Mississippi cun-
sid,,rs the abolition of the legisla-
ture. Political vandals would blot
out the office of Acknowledgements,
just as others urge that the General
Assembly of South Carolina shall
desist from, paying a fag>raiser two
dollars day for raising the ensigns
over the capitol wherein even now
the clarion voices OF South Caro-
Iina's sweetest orators may be chal-
longing the Kaiser to "Come on!'
Does The Press and Banner propose
to Russianize Abbeville? Evidently
that journals idea of law, enforce
ment is that of old Dogberry who
thus instructed the cops:
ssYou are brought here to be the
fit man for the constable of the
watch; therefore, bear you the Ian
tern. This Is your charge: You
shall comprehend all vagrom men;
you are to bid any man stand, in the
princes name" ..N
Second Watch: "How if he will
not stand?''
Dogberry: "Why, then, take no
note of him, but let him go; and pre-
sently call the watch together, and
thank God you are rid of knave."
The Abbeville police force will
endure. He shall not pass. He will
continue to be the cynosure of all
observers, as gorgeous and martial
a spectacle as Colonel Greene of
The Press and Banner will be when
on duty as a member Of the next
governors staff-"far off his COM
ing shone." The Abbeville police
force will go on enforcing the Code
Of 1912 and the pandects of the
city's pashas. Prohibition may come
and prohibition may 60, but the Abb
beviIle police force will 60 on for
ever to the depot to see who goes
hither and yon and who gets too
much liquid lightning. Doth Abbe-
vile slumber? Peradventure, yet
though the lion and the lizard Keep
the courts where Abbeville glor1ed
.,d dranl, deem. The Press and Ban