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Abbeville Press and Banner I ,|':t?fe?tabli?hed 1844. $2.00 the Year. - Abbeville, S. C., Friday, December 19,1919. Single Copiet, Five Cent*. 75th Year. BY CHIEF JUSTIC Delivers Spwck To P?rwt-T?d. Association of Abberilla?Oth? Talks By R?*. L. J. Brbtow, tel?Play Gnmad EquipThe Parent-Teacher associati had a most enthusiastic meeting the high school building on Tuesd afternoon. Among the speakers w gare short; talks were: Bev. Louis Brisfcow, Supt. Pulp, and Princij Daniel, but the real address of t afternoon was the excellent discoui the urgent need of a Renaissan thoQgiit and rreseaarch to t educational question, and indeed, W ??y encouraging to the para teacWa to faitrt* that the hi* <rair State i?fto^w^^oaint?a wi of * m<inb?ra of ^ regt A typical uaristmaa prpgraan * r?xlar*d by representatives of t L ietame41ate grades *f the *ehoq there being a number of carols sur Santa Clans recitations, and Chri mas readings given, which, reflect honor on the children and ifhi teachers. It is the purpose of t toachers in arranging the part of t program which is given by the ci dren, to give only repreaentati wi<h4r aa ia Hailv fia/l in the srh< ^Mra:'*ooms and on no condition to ma the P&rent-Teacher program any s< of 4<show-off" or exhibition of a i led few and unusurfjy bright pupi After the entertaining part of t program was finished Supt. Fulp, Mi*. Frank Nickles'very aptly put "laabasfed the apathetic Conditio in Abbeville with everything. fr< j. Columbia to Calhoun Palls/' T * real trouble is that the superinter ent did not think that the Deoi vrecre showing the amount of inti the schools that they shot - and that he has a right to expect, a /- he dimply gave them some infonr tion he had from different edueatc over the state who knew, what -1 ; ' hope is only the past conditions he: The question of playground equ ment which has been before the p< pie for. several weeks and which I been thoroughly impressed up K them has, so far, met with rati weak response, yet it is one of t very first needs that should be ft filled by the association^ It is t opinion of the PaTent-Teacher me: bers that the people'have not su scribed as liberally as they shou J from the fact that they simply ; not know the school conditions as t teachers and the few parents who : ; , tend the meetings of ttoe associate have seen and recognized them, other .words, it is not a question unwillingness to provide, but rath 0 lack of information on the part the parents which deficiency shot] not exist in as enlightened and othe wise progressive community as A beville proves herself to be in oth ways. , * The total cost of the necessa playground equipment to do aw: with the crowded sad congested CO )\ ititiAM An tK# school <rrounds at X ceaa will not exceed the cost of F<*d automobile and yet 2* seems tx aa hard to set the people awake ONE-FOURTH OF TAXES HAVE BEEN PAID j IN ABBEVILLE COUNTY E County Treasurer J. E. Jones said Thursday that about one-fourth of the taxpayers of the county had paid their taxes. There are 7,500 ter taxpayers ^in the county. The time it for paying the taxes expires January 1 and it is hardly probably that half of the taxpayers will have paid ,, by that time. After the first of the year a penalty of 1 percent will be added to'the taxes. on The county treasurer has received at notice from th<| comptroller general ay in reference to the collection of taxbo and the penalities that attaich, and j.'the following section of the law . is Hd'quoted: he | That when taxes and assessments te 'or any portion thereof * charged ce'agaipst any property or party on the ggj duplicate for the current fiscal year, shall not be paid on or before the 31st day of December, the county en auditor shall 'proceed to add a penalhe ty of one per cent on the county ^ duplicate, 4nd the county treasurer jt3 shall collect the same; and if the ^ said taxes and assessments and n penalties are not paid on or before Igjithe first day of February next ^thereafter, an additional penalty of ggjone per centum thereon shall be rfld^led by the county auditor on the! j [county duplicate and collected by ithe county treasurer; and if said ^ taxes, penalities and assessments ftnJare not paid on, or before the first . da/ of March next thereafter, an ^additional penality of five per cen. turn thereon shall be added by the 0 county auditor on the county duplicate and collected by the county | ^treasurer; iind if the said taxes, pen911 alities and assessments are not paid 128 on or tefore the fifteenth day of March next thereafter, the said jeoanty treasurer shall issue his tax as execution for the said taxes, assess- j he ments and penalities against the Is, property of the defaulting taxigt payers,, according to law. DEBATE' MONDAY NIGHT air! a -* ~r!?i^*...1 I n ituiuvcx vu uiemuvm 01 tut? higher grades of the public school are engaged in a debate in the lil-opera house Monday night. There ye will be a small admission fee charg>ol ed and the proceeds will be given1 toH It? th? fund being raised for the 'pur>rt chase of play ground equipment for ie- the schools. Three songs which are Is. to be sung during the evening werej he written by Miss Gwen Bristow, of asj the eleventh grade, and are to be it,1 sung to popular tunes. The debator:; ins will be, Miss Mary Greene and Le>m Roy Cox on one side and Miss Ada be Faulkner and Billy Long on the td- other. ?le! Move In New Home. *- . Mr. E. S. Link and family moved nQ into their new home on Wardlaw ia" street, the old Renwick Bradley >r3 place, Wednesday. Mr. Bob McComb and family will occuny the pe* house just vacated by Mr. Link, ip-. ' 50- " las ed to the urgent need of this equipon ment as it anw ? ? ? ? -v? gwu ocvryatn. ier>player to win a game with Corp. he Kerr for a partner. al-1 However, the superintendent and> he teachers were wonderfully encour-: m-jaged near the close of the meeting' ib-| Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. Frank I ild Nickles in her "do-it-or-die" way J do j made the motion that the superin-j he^tendent be authorized to order what it-] equipment he considered necessary on for the needs of the two school In' grounds and that the Parent-Teacher of; association would assume payment of er the bill. This motion, after enthuui- ] of astic and favorable discussion, was u . - - -? ?*( unanimously passed. Siipt. Fulp later *r- asked that Mrs. Morse, president,' b- Mrs. Gambrell, treasurer, and Mrs.' Nickles serve as a committee to con-| fer with him about the purchase of fy the equipment. ty It is the desire of the association n_ that the whole membership of the association be present at the January a meeting, the 15th, as Supt. W. H. to Hand of the Columbia City Schools n. will address the meeting. \ COAL COMMISSION MUST DECIDE BY UNANIMOUS VOT Washington, Dec. I 16.?Whe President Wilson names the men bers of the coal commission o Thursday he is expected to provid that no dedM^Areached by the: w?Tbe unless it is unan mous. Tl^^HKission, it is unde: stood, in O^pi'l circles here, will I a permanent tribunal and if > ; operates under the plan which It president is now considering, i1 activities will not take the cours that Dr. Harry A. Garfield, fuel a< ministrator, believed they would. J was because of his conviction thi the public would represent a mino; ity on the commission that Dr. Ga: field resigned. Attorney General Palmer, wl I ftia aao) afritra t/t an P71 i/iVU5"W VUV WV?M UV*?MV w.. when he presented the president proposal which was accepted by J oh L. Lewis and William Green, tl ranking officers of the United Mir Workers of America, will be bac at the capitol Thursday and tl White House announced is awai ing his return* There will be three membei of the board, one of the: representing the miners, another tl operators and a third ' the publi Dr.' Garfield thought there \raa "community of interest" betwee the operators' and miners whic would show itself in the findings c the tribunal. He believed that sel: preservation, in the sense that t$ more money the operator got f< his coal the more money the mine would get for his labor would actt ate their representatives on # jand that whenever a vote was take the public would be left in the col< The president, however, is a grei believer in "Quaker meetings.". 0 proposed at the peace confererici both at the sessions of the "counc of five" and later the "big three, ithat the members sit down, tal things over, not vote for pabHcatio at any rate, and come to a fim agreement on everything discusse< This same plan, it is understood is the one he has in mind for th new coal commission. If put int effect it would entirely eHminat all the features r of the new bod which were held objectionable b DrV Garfield. - i: 1 SOLDIER DEAD TO V v'BIB RETURNED ONLY RY nnVFRNMF.N ' Washington, Dec. 17.?-In ai nouncing that the government alor must handle the problem of bringir back the bodies of the America soldier dead from France, 'the m department gives a general answ< to thousands of requests that ha-\ come to it and members of congra from bereaved relatives. Since tl armistice was signed, all membei of the Georgia delegation, for ii stance, have received letters froi the state asking first for inform; Lion as to plans for bringing honn the soldiers dead and than reque? ing that pressure be brought to e: pedite the return. Requests als have come from parents in all set (cions of the country that they I | permitted to go to France, disinte the body of a son and bring it hom at the expense of the family ii volved. G. T. TATE BETTER G. T. Tate who was seriously in juretl in an automobile accident las -i\ _ i? j ? iuonaay, is reported to oe reuovei ing rapidly. He was caught betweei the seat of a Ford car and a pore floor at a house on Maple street am several ribs were broken and hi breast crushed in. Pneumonia wa feared, but Dr. J. E. Pressly, phy sician in charge, says that he i practically out of danger now. Home For Christmas. Mr. Robert G. Hemphill is expecte in Abbeville for the Christmas holi days. He comes from Fort Morgar Colo., where he has been stationed fo the past several months. The friend of his youth will be glad to nee hit again. SENATE MAY REACH PACT COMPROMISE E DURING HOLIDAYS .. ) w asrungxon, i/ec. it.?aany l~ compromise on the peace treaty was n forecast today when an unofficial le conciliation committee of two senam tors practically completed arrange1_ ments for a fleeting of Republican r" and Democratic senators who favor ^ ratification. The meeting, according to present plans is to be held during ie the holiday period. ho The purpose is for Democrats and ie Republicans to get together and discuss in the frankest maimer the concessions that they will make." ,' it For the second time within a week c_ Senator Knox, Pennsylvania, , toduy made an unsuccessful attempt to get the senate to consider his resolution 10 * ^ , d iwr muia-auun ox tne peace treaty ,g without the league^ of nations covenant. JQ . .! ' Le Senator McKellar, Tennessee, ie Democrat, objected, and Knox then offered his\resolution for a 'separate ie peace with Germany. To this Sent_ ator Nelson, Minnesota, Republican and McKellar, both objected, and s Knox began a speech in support of a n motion to refer the first resolution ie to the foreign relations committee. c_ Both ofj Senator Knox's resolua tions were referred to th? foreign u relations committee without obj, jection. if Senator JJpke Smith said the senf ate could vote to take up the treaty te at any time and urged a conference it of men Of both parties who want the >r treaty ratified be held as a means of i- get them on compromise reserva:.e tions. n Senator Myers, Montana, declared that politics is keeping the senate it apart on the treaty. . '.e " -i s, SERGT. HILL OF HONEA il PATH, MISSING IN GULPj k Tampa, Fla., Dec. 17.?Sergt. & Lonie. ' W. Hill, Private Edward *l,Scanlan, and, Barney Williams, the [latter a civilian employee of the quartermaster department, all of e Fort Dada, have been given up as *> drowned. The three men left the e fort Sunday afternoon in a speed V Knof -Pnr Htilfnnrf nn mninlnwH y,They did not return. Today searchers found the launch, upended and half submerged, in the Gulf of Mexico, two miles from shore. It is supposed the boat over.urned in a gale '''.that blew out of the northwest Sun? 'day night, i ie; Sergt.. Hill's home address is Honea Path, S. C.; that of Private ^.Scanlan, No. 517 Court street, in i i 1.1 xt v nr'n." >_ i_ joiuuiuyn, in. j., wimams people ilive at St. Petersburg, thit State. 'rr J 'e JS': Expected Home for the Holidays. ie, , r fgi The following students from the; a_ | various colleges of the statfe are ex-! m|pected to arrive home this week toj , 'spend the holidays with their kins-i *' | folk in Abbeville: t_ Miss Sarah Haigler, Miss Maryj c_ TTrigler and Miss Winona Barksdale, ,0 Coker; Miss Kate Haskell, Miss Lydia| ?_;Owen, and Miss Sydelle Graves, Win-! i throp; Miss Helen Haigler, Miss Mar-i 'v I | jr garet Cox, Chicora; Miss Elizabeth _ Jones, Anderson College; Miss Prue 1 Mann, Womans College, Columbia;' Andrew Hill, William Hughes, Weber Wilson, Mahlon Cann, Jim Coleman, and Maxcy Johnson, Clemson; Hubert Cox, James Cothran and Mims Cason, University of S. C.; J. Davis . ,t; Kerr, B. M. I.; James Hill and Her- ( man Wisby, Erskine; William Cal-! "ivert and Arthur Manning Klugh,' k WofFord; Sam Hill, Furman. ' j( I s | Couldn't Stand Pressure. 3 Uncle Jim Stark couldn't stand toj s see Col. S. J. Wakefield get the whole I, of the Hughes place, near town, at the small figure which the' latter < bought it during the summer. After d a good deal of figuring, Col. Wake- 1 [. field allowed him to keep a half in-J' t, terest at the purchase price of one 1 r hundred and twenty-five dollars per 1 5 acre, which figures the tax assessors ' K will keep in mind when the next | time for assessment comes around. THINGS HAPPENED HERE ON DECEMBER 17tH , AS PER SCHEDULE Early pedestrians, were of the opinion Wednesday morning that falling stars or a bursting meteor, impelled to an aberrant course by planetary attraction, had caused the damage to so much plate glass just off the Square on North Main Street during the night. Four hundred dollars worth of plate glass wm destroyed in four stores of W< E. Johnson, R. L. Mabry, W. D. Barksdale and J. M. Anderson. The prognosticate rs were right in predicting dire calamities for December 17?righf as as Abbeville was concerned. The hour of midnight had no sooner come than things began to happen. Bat an investigation of the police docket disclosed the following: That Julian Wilkinson and Hawkins Wilson, loaded, it is said, with the worst sort of white lightning, were on a rampage and after various disturbances on the Square were placed under areata about 1 o'clock Wednesday / morning by Officers Cannon-And Eakin. Wilkinson, it appears, broke away from the officer's and in order to create a counter disturbance to draw the officer's attention' away from Hawkins, proceeded to break out plate glass, starting at J. Af. Anderson's and ending with W. E. Johnson's jewelry store. In an attempt to force Wilkinson to stop Officer Cannon fired his pistpl wildly several times. Wilkinson's aim Was more accurate. After the breakage the two men were again rounded up and ~ were being taken to jail, when Wilson slipped out pf his coat and overcoat and rap, but later he was apprehended. Wilkinson was placed in jail, where he spent the night, being bailed out Wedrtestiay morning for appearance at court Thursday morning. , Officer Eakin received a painful injury to one of his eyes in the scuffle to arrest the two men. Wilson was caught Wednesday aftenfoon near town at a negro cabin by Chief Johnson and was placed in the city jail. ' At the trial Thursday morning Wilson plead guilty to the charges of drunk and disorderly and resisting an officer and was fined by Mayor Mars $400 or *120 days, of which half of -this amount was suspended on condition of good behavior. Wilkinson was fined $400, or 120 days, $300 being suspended on condition of good behavior. The scarcity of plate glass is the thing that is worrying the merchants whose fronts have been damaged. It is said that it will be from three to six months before glass can be obtained to replace the windows. In the meantime tne cold weather makes *it imperative that the v/indows be boarded up. AN AEROPLANE TO VISIT ABBEVILLE TODAY If the people of Abbeville will watch carefully today they will see an aeroplane fly over the city and possibly light somewhere nearby. The ~-C _1 ?ill 1-- ? L -rr t~? puv/i/ ui liic yinim wiu uu o. xv. now- j land, Sumter. The machine will be j driven from Sumter to many points j in the Piedmont section and Abbe-j ville will be one of the towns visit-] ed." The trip is being made in the interest of an automobile concern Df Sumter. W WW w w vv * COTTON MARKET. K| December 18. V' Spot Cotton 40.00 V January 36.73 V; V March 34.56 Vj V May 32.40 V V July 30.62 V1 v December 38.49 V1 V \ V\VVVVVVVV^VVV . % READY TO TAKE CENSUS IN THIRD Col. Elbert H. Aull, Supervisor of Census in Third District Issues Statement?Asks Cooperation of Citizens?Will Name Enumerators Soon For Abbeville County. Col. Elbert H. Aull supervisor of the census-for the third district of South Carolina talks of the census and says he has designated to the - . ' director of the census a sufficient number of men and women to take the census in the third district, and most of them have been commissioned and all of them will be ready for the actual work which is to begin on the second day of January and to be completed withfy four weeks. He emphasizes the fact that in order that the work of the enumerators may be dofre well and thoroughly it 19 very important that they have the ' sympathy and cooperation of the people. It is a big job, but if done well and thoroughly will be of great benefit in showing resources of this country as well as the population. Whatever information is given to the enumerators will be held in confidence and is not permitted to be giv- "Vi" en out by them. To make the work as easy as possible for enumerators the people should be ready and willing to answer all questions promptly. Thfl rmp<rHnn<a art. rvranavod hw tlia government and the thoroughness * ^ and completeness of the work will depend almost entirely upon the cooperation of the people and the work of the" enumerator. Col Aull in his statement has the following to say: "Arrangements have been about perfected to begin work of taking the 14th Decennial Census of the United States. Director of the Census, Samuel R. Rogers, has announced that everything is ready to becin work on thf* apronf? Astor /'of '?l January. "But from the 20th to the 25th of November'I had certified to the Director of Census for appointment, enumerators in all the counties except one, and; recommendations have [been made for that one. I feel that I. have been fortunate in being able /' to recommend for this very important work a sufficient number of men and wOmen whom I feel are thoroughly competent and efficient' to do. the work properly. The value and correctness, and efficiency of the census will depend in very large j measure upon the efficiency and >,^7^1 diligence of the enumerator. I feel that the persons recommended to do the work in this district are J thoroughly \competent and will measjure up in all respects to the re- ? SllllS quirements 'necessary for the mak- , ing of a thorough and correct cen- V^Jj| touo. in urun uiat tney may ao meir ,'y jwork thoroughly and'properly, how- ' lever, it is very important that J they have the cooperation and asjsistance of the people, of the district. | "The Third District has been di- ; tyfeji vided into 1G9 enumeration districts os follows: Abbeville, 20; 'Anderson, 45; Greenwood, 26; McCormick, 12; _ ' % iNewoerry, Zti; Uconee, 21; Pickens, "In several of the counties, however, one enumerator has been designated for two and in some instances three enumeration districts. Therefore, the total number of enumerators who will work in this Congressional District is 146. And for each of these I ask the generous oc pera uon ot the people." - v .'iwSytfj Going Into Buaine**. Mr. Paul Kennedy, a successful railroad man, has given up his position with the Seaboard and after Christmas will be with the firm of S. J. Link. His friend* wtaH hint orroaf success. - -m