Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-11
HERE AND THERE

From a somewhat superficial view
Of the situation, the probability Is that
there will not be a full week Of the
court of general sessions. The two
murder cases may or may not be post
poned until Wednesday or Thursday.
That will be as the defendants may
elect. If they signify their readiness
to 60 to trial at the pleasure Of the So
licitor their cases may be disposed of
before Wednesday; but they cannot
be forced to trial until the third day
after their .presentment by the grand
jury. AS to how much time either case
will take cannot be safely predicted; but
it is possible that either Of them may
be disposed of in a few hours. None
of the other Jail cases seem to promise
a great deal Of complication or delay.
There are a number of defendants out
on bond, and as to which Of their
cases may come up will depend largely
upon the pleasure of the solicitor.
The fact has been noted before; but
1t will bear repeating, that all the boys
who have returned from over there,
have a high estimate of the Salvation
Army. Here and There has noted that
as a rule, they seem to think more of
the Salvation Army and their regi-
mental chaplains than Of anybody else
with whom they have come in con-
tact. They do not look on the two in
exactly the same light. The chaplain
has high official status, and II he sees
fit to exercise 1t, tremendous power
maybe not power to reward; but GER
tainly power to punish. No stress,
however, is laid upon this circum-
stance. Chaplains generally have made
good by demonstrating their desire to
help the boys, regardless OF personal
inconvenience, and without concern as
to possible bodily harm. But it Is the
Salvation Army folks that have won
the highest and most unselfish praise
from everybody The only possible re-
ward they have or can have, Is a
consciousness Of duty properly per-
formed in the eyes Of the Maker they
serve. They have no thought Of self
no thought of temporal advantage or
of human applause. They consider
the soldiers only as the subjects OF
Christ, whose servants they are, and
what happens to them In performing
service does not matter. 1t has been
said that If shell should fall in the
shack Of Salvation Army lass while
she was cooking doughnuts for the
soldiers, turning things topsy turvy,
herself along with them, upon regain
l. ing consciousness, If consciousness she
regained, her concern would not De
whether she had been seriously hurt;
| but whether the doughnuts were still
| AT to serve to the soldiers. Before
went into the army" said Paul White
sides to Here and There, the other day,
II looked upon the Salvation Army as
made up Of a noisy but harmless ag-
eregation Of cranks. who did not mat
| ter much one way or the other; but
INV Judgment has been changed. They
are the real thing, Of the highest or
der. and you can take it from me that
from now onward there are no re-
lligious workers in all the world who
will stand higher in the estimation
of the A. E. F. than this same Saliva
ton Army
The county board of pension COM
missioners is still at sea as to the
real meaning of the new pension law
| and as to how the matter Is going to
| be cleared up does not yet appear.
It was evidently the intention of the
fathers of the present law 20 make Oh
| the pension roll what they were pleased
| to call a roll of honor" OF course
| it was that already; but is seemed to
| be the idea to include on the roll OF
| honor every Confederate veteran and
widow of q Confederate veteran in the
state and give to each a substantial
pension. 1t was no doubt this that the
fathers Of the bill had in mind when
| they placed the appropriation at half
a million dollars. That it was in the
minds of the majority of each house
| to appropriate this sum is evidenced
| by the fact that the sum is carried In
| the bill as passed and distributed for
the information of the people. But
then it appears that there has been a
mixup. The general appropriation bill
provided only 100000, and although
lust how this came about has never
been made clear, it is assumed that
one hundred thousand was Topped Off
| by n committee on free conference.
The supposition is that when the free
conference committee on the general
appropriation bill began to realize at
the windup how they had far outstrip-
ped all records and agreed to the
expenditure of more money than had
ever been spent before, they tried to
save themselves a little by looping
500, 900 off the pension bill. In case
of a conflict like this. it Is the general
appropriation bill that counts. The
general assembly might have a will to
appropriate any given sum for spe-
cific purpose, and Of course 1t must in
dicats that sum In its bill-ths sum