Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-03-04

arrange it that way I would like 10
have an office at which I could be
found at certain hours, to say the least
Of 1t. A preacher can see many people
at his own home and many others at
their homes; but where he has an Of
fee, he can see many people that
he Is not likely to see either at his or
their homes. There are people who
would drop in on him from time to
time feeling perfectly free to talk
about whatever might be uppermost In
their minds. I don't know Of but one
preacher in our church who has an Of
fee. That is DR.. Orr, at Charlotte. He
spends two or three hours Of each
morning and an hour or two each
night in his office, working at his SER
mons, etc., when not otherwise en-
ployed, but always working. Whether
it would be altogether practicable here
do not know"
One Of the arguments is: II did not
plant but six or seven acres in cotton
last year, and this other fellow planted
twenty acres. You going to make US
both reduce third?" That argument
sounds reasonable; but it is not con-
elusive. It was your good business
sense that kept you from planting
more than six or seven acres last year
and that same business sense ought to
teach you the wisdom of being willing
| to reduce one-third, provided the
twenty acre man reduces one-third. II
the twenty acre man declines to reduce
one-third, it will be only little while
before both you and he will be wish
ing that neither of you had planted
any. And besides, If the twenty acre
man will reduce a third your four
acres will be worth more than SIX
acres would have been had he not re-
duced a third. Splitting hairs over
what you should do, compared with
what the other fellow will do, can very
easily spoil the whole thing, and 1t will
not do yor a particle Of good.
The cold wave, ordered out from
Washington last week, did not mate
rialize in this part Of the country-at
least not on time. 1t was expected to
show up Thursday; but it brought only
slight schill by Friday morning
and Saturday was a fine spring day
The cold wave that had been scheduled
for here seems to have been lost; but
Of course there may be others.
If somebody would take the lead, 1t
would not be difficult matter to raise
enough money by private contributions
to fix that hole in the road near New
port.
Rev. Baxter McLendon Is conducting
big meeting at Washington, N. C.,
and the Daily News of that city, Is de-
voting columns to reports Of what Is
being said and done. Practically all
of the business houses Of Washington
closed each afternoon and night last
week in order to give their employees
opportunity to attend the meetings,
and also in order not to leave any
counter attraction for people who
might not be interested. The nightly
attendance Is running up to three, four
and five thousand. All Of this, it ap-
pears from the Daily News, follows a
long, hard, uphill fight, for at first
most of the people were scoffcrs and
they were slow to go out to the meet
ings.
At last the general assembly has
furnished complete vindication to the
position of the York county grand
Jury that the general public had
a right to know the full amount OF the
fees received by county officers. 1t
will be remembered that this matter
was urged by the grand jury, and the
then clerk Of the court being unwilling
to make a showing Of his accounts
fought the matter on the ground that
the statute bearing on the subject was
unconstitutional because certain coun-
ties had been exempt. The circuit
court upheld the contention or the
clerk, and the matter was never TAKEN
to the supreme court. Later the act
was re-eneacted by the general assem-
bly. but certain counties were again
EXEMPTED. Now it is proposed to have
the act apply to all counties and all
officers. The issue in York county,
however, was not so much a question
Of the constitutionality of the law as d
question of whether the public mad a
right to know how much 1t was paying
its officers for their services anu
whether or not the grand jury couio
compel public officers to give the IN
formation. In the York county case
the Judge lodged the real issue anu
decided the matter on an alleged COIL
stitutional technicality that could nave
been decided one way as well as the
other
THE PENSION BOARD
Tho York county pension board held