Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-28


placements, and there must be reason
able guarantees Of proper care.
AS to whether there will be any cases
tried at the approaching term Of the
circuit court, remains to be seen. There
may be some cases tried and may not
be. Generally speaking the term Is q
kind of bluff and compromise term.
That is, where the differences between
the litigants are almost to the point Of
adjustment, the defendant being will
ing to give so much and no more, and
the plaintiff being willing to take so
much and no less, this term Is used to
bring things to an issue If possible and
force the issues on the alternative of
going to the jury. Many cases are
compromised under such conditions.
The cases that go to the jury generally
are there in which both sides are deter
mined ito law you 10 the supreme court
and back again and then to somewhere
else"
the Piedmont Telephone company be-
cause Of alleged poor service. We have
difference with the telephone COM
pany; but no quarrel with the Pied
mont company in particular. We think
that telephone rates are too high and
have not hesitated to say so. But SO
far as the service is concerned, we
have no special complaint. Indeed we
believe that so far as the local ex-
change is concerned, the service is bet
ter than 1t has ever been and as good
as it is anywhere. The communication
is bad on community lines, Of course,
and 1t is bad in cases where individual
owners of batteries fail to keep them
up. But any general claim Of poor
service is unwarrantsd, in our opinion,
except maybe, where the influenza Is
Interfering, and we are willing to con-
cede some consideration even to the
tele phone people on account of tnfu-
enZa.
81 wish you would tell the people"
said a local man. that there Is Fed
eral law with heavy penalties against
the sale of butter prints Of less than
pound in weight for a pound. People
bring in butter which they offer by the
pound, and when you put it on the
scales it is two or three ounces short.
They simply do not know the danger
they run in such practice" So far as
The Enquirer knows, there Is no Fed
eral law that could have any effect on
sales of butter except in interstate
traffic; but there are state laws against
shortweighting Of anything, and the
food administration has been very par
ticular about such matters, having
punished a good many offenders along
this line. However, law or no law, the
practice of shortweighting is very rep
rehensible. 1t is not honest. 1t Is not
necessary, Of course, that butter pads
or prints weigh G pound or any other
given amount: but II they weigh less
than a pound they should not be Offer
ed as a pound; but by the pound for
whatever they weigh.
Without prejudice to either side,
even to the extent Of suggesting wheth-
er in our opinion picture shows should
be closed up under existing influenza
conditions, we are glad to note the in
tention Of the Rock Hill picture shows
to test their rights in the matter. we
are interested in the prospective litiga-
tion because it promises to help
straighten out very much tangled
situation. AS to whether the Rock
Hill board Of health is organized in ac-
cordance with law, we do not know,
but IL 1t is not 30 organized 1t should
be, and It should not be permitted to
exercise the functions of board or
health until it is so organized. The
same is true of all other boards OF
health. AS to whether the operation
of q picture or other show Is calculated
to spread the influenza is a question OF
fact for a jury, and it Is also a ques-
ton of fact for a jury whether II
picture show is a dangerous thing 10
the health of a community, grocery
store, dry goods store. cotton mill or
other business or Industrial place In
which many people congregate. is not
equally as dangerous. OF course, If the
schools, picture shows and the like can
be operated only at serious menace
to the public health, then such insti-
tutions should be suspended. There Is
no question Of that. But when 1t comes
to stores and places where people get
their daily sustenance. there must De
other regulations Of different nature;
because however dangerous may be
the menace of influenza, people may
as well have 1t or even die with 1t, as
starve to death. This Of course Is re-
ductio ad absurdum; but nevertheless
1t Is a reminder that this quarantine
proposition calls for the exercise Of a
good deal Of horse sense and many
things in connection with 1t will have
to be threshed out before juries before
the people will be willing to accept
any and everything they are told to
accept, without more or less question.
To protect holders of war savings
certificates against loss through offers
of persons or firms to purchase them
at amounts less than their current re-
demption value, Secretary Glass mas
directed postmasters certificates which
do not bear the name Of the owner or
on which the name has been erased or
changed, and not to accept certificates
presented by persons or firms known
to be buying, or publicly Offering 10
buy war savings certificates or stamps
from the owners unless positive evil
dence is submitted that the certificates
were originally issued to the person or