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Established 1844. The Press and Banner Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Compa Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Frid; Telephone* No. 10. Entered as second-class matt post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year Six months Three months Monday, March 22, 1920 NEW SCHOOL LEGISLATI The state board of education journed Saturday afternoon a: two days' session in the office < governor. This was the first r? quarterly meeting: of the boare 1920. The principal business wi discussioin of new school legisl We shall quote and comment on of the new laws which apply ge ly to all schools in the state. 1. An act providing a minimun school salary of $100 per moi districts where trustees agree cept this schedule. The Abbeville city school has agreed to pay this amount high school teachers next sessio 2. An act to relieve the crowding in the elementary g of high schools (fourth, fifth, and seventh grades) and to pi an adequate corps for such g This law prescribes a maximui rollment of 25 pupils per teachei a minimum salary of $90 per i for those holding a first grade ci cate In order to benefit by thi visions of this act the salary scl1 murt be accepted by district tri before state aid can be paid out The local board of trustees voted to pay all graded school 1 ers, who have had previous suec experience, a minimum of $ month. An extra teacher is be 1 * 1 xl. A ^ lowed in rne sevenui graue uv.-.sion which will enable every ch the schools to have individual tion. This grade was the only crowded one in the city schools the exception of the primary .? at the cotton mill school, which i tion was relieved this year by ? the double session day and an i sion of teaching hours. 3. The equalizing law guarani adequate salaries and a seven ir school term for rural districts "< an eight mill tax. Under the visions of this act the principal one teacher or two teacher i may be paid a salary of $1 month, the principal of a teacher school $110 per month, principal of a four teacher < $120 per month, of a school en ing five or more teachers $130 month. An assistant in any 01 schools holding: a first grade c< cate license will be paid $90 month. Since the constitution c state provides that trustees mus ploy teachers and fix their sal the acceptance of this wage sch is contingent upon the cooper and approval of the local boards Quite recently writing in columns of some of -the le brought to our attention by Luceo Gunter supervisor of rura elementary schools, in his addre the Abbeville County teachers, remarked that only one district i county was at present eligibl benefit from this legislation. In Sunday's- State t' ere appea list of the counties in which s districts had been mailed checks their proportionate part of money for extending terms, incre teachers' salaries and in giving b educational opportunities in prer The total amount paid out to sc last week was $249,900.00. 01 quarter of a million dollars schoi Abbeville county received the 1 some sum of $2,300. And only schools in the county shared this 300. Anderson county schools, of them in sight of some Abb< , county schools, received seven 1 as much state aid, or $14 600. this partiality you say? The ar is simple. Because while only school districts in this countyvoted a special tax of as much as mills for school purposes, forty-s districts in Anderson county four mills and over special Even little McCormick, not ye enough to have a court house exactly as much of this free moni 1 Abbbeville, who is old enough to ha whiskers. Yes, there is no questii : but that Abbeville County does ha moss on thet back, when it comes | unpvogressiveness along school lin< I. The cimemlment to Sec. 17 of the code raising the maximi :5>'- local tax allowable for current f nensos from eijrht mills to fifte mills. Since the high school law ,er at lo\v> a four mill high school levy, a approved high school district may n vote, without securing further i thoritv from the general assembly $2.00 ; . .... , ^ tax of nineteen mills for current si -q port. The state board of educati urges every high school district raise its levy to at least twelve mi Notice appears in this issue of 1 Press and Banner of an election to ON held April 20, for the purpose j levying of four additional mills \ the current expenses of the c fter ti ^ schools which amount will raise 1 total school tax of this disrict .gular |_wejve mjus> just over half the mount now allowable. is the We print in another column of t issue a letter received today by t some SUperjntencjent of the city scho ner " from the state high school inspect This report of the state high schi 1 1. inspector on the general condition 1 m the city higR school must appeal ac every citizen of Abbeville. With thp rimpressiveness coiner on arou Vir\n r*r1 r"" "0 w w us, the present high standing of c to the gghoois^ we (j0 not believe it p sible that a single vote will be cast over" gainst the extra four mill levy, grades sixth THE COMIC PRIMARY AGAIN ovide lades. Several irredeemably obscure bi 111 ?n~ lesque candidates for President ha r with ?urne(j Up jn Presidential prima es 1920 as those of ID 16. Oregon the comic spirit of the p s pro- . , , n.:rv is amusing itself with nonur tedule . ... _ . , tions ior Vice-President, we lea ustees from The Morning Oregonian thai i , titions have been filed "for the Vi ? has teach Pres^(^en^a^ nomination of Elwo essful Washington, w'10 ^ 1S alleged ( 90 a wc can 11 conceive up to al- WMd) is :: de.?emian*. of t ;t ses- ?f his country ,and of Sann lild in Adams, whose press agents says him that hp is a "member of t atten- ? over_ Adams family that lias already giv with lwo presidents to this country.' Tades Any person who describes hims condi- or 's described as a descendant laving George Washington is necessar 3.\ten- comic. Everybody named Adams a member of the Adams, as likew teeing of the older Adam's family. It woi lonths have been more refreshing to the : /oting ciologist or the student of human r pro- lure if Samuel Adams of Oregon h of a been described as a descendant school Sam Adams of Massachusetts, w 00 a left only female descendants; t three perhaps such a reflecton is mere cai , the ing and bile. The press agent of T school Oregonian Samuel Adams is less i lploy- mantic than that of Mr. El wo per Washington. Is it curious or is it r these tural that the nomination in the p jrtifi- mary of candidates for President a Pev Vice President should be regarded >f the so many persons not as a serious du t em but as an irresistible opportunity.aries, jsjew York Times. edule ation CAPT. SHAW ON GOOD ROADS AND THE IR1SHMA these ssons Editor Press and Banner:?T Mr. electon on the bond issue is close < 1 and hand. It is said that few people wl PS to were against the bond issue befo we are in favor of it this time. They r n the mind me of the Irishmen who put h e to pjg jn a and went to town to si it. The first thing he did, on reachii red a t0wn, was to get drunk, and whi chool jn ^jg condition a devilish boy to< 1 ^or the pip: out and put a puppy in t state sack. asing After awhile the Irishman found letter buver for his nitr aril) t.hpv Wpnl n ,era^ to inspect the animal.. But when 1 hools i00j-e(j for the piff he found a pupp F this tjien went to Jqq^ for a buyer fi in a pupp11' which he soon found, bi the boy nad been on the job agai and when he sought to show the pu . j 2 - i py he found a pig. On which tl some rishman declared "And Faith, this ?vuie ? times fc'ie c'? * ever saw; it is first Whv an(* t'len 's a PuPPy-" ^ seer iswer ^lat some ^e people are followir four the exaniPle of the pig. They ai have ^^t one thing and then another, four ''^e t? see a man stand to his color seven "ke the Apostle Paul when he w:\: have prison, because he was a Ro tax.!:,m' when they proposed to take hi t old out under the name of a differei got tribe, he refused, saying he was ey as Roman when he went in there and 1' ve would be one when he came out. That an i.s my position today. 1 was against a ve bond issue two years ago. I am still to p<rainst it. 3s. T]t? ^eoole of Abbeville bounty 42 voted tin- bond issue down two years im a<r0 by a vote of over three to one, !X" and if the bond issue was such a bad en thing two years ago, will some one al- : rtll ry\n 1+ ic CIlC'Vl n (Trtrkrl fill fl f* ny, now. The people of Abbeville have ow always been noted for intelligence IU~ and patriotism and I do not believe a that the true sons of Abbeville County will east a majority vote for the on bond issue. The people of Abbeville County are taxed to death now. They have got '"e( all the taxes to pay now that they are be able to pay, and when a man has got all on his shoulders that he can carry, !or what is the sense in taking on anyityi more. It is a well known fact that the '^c,poor man pays all the taxes. If the t?: people vote this bond issue it is eera"|tain to raise the tax on the renter In ! order for the merchant to pay his ^sj additional taxes he will raise the I price on his goods, the doctor will raise his fees, the lawyers will do the or'isame, the pi'eachers will want more 30*j salary, and all of the taxes will find ?^! their way back to the shoulders of the *?j man who works in the field and buys a^i and produces. nH I j I have been told by some as good ,ur| men as there are in Anderson county os"| that the highways being built in that a~j county are not giving satisfaction.1 i They say that a free camp is wotse j than the boll weevil. They are like a gang of geese, destroying everything ir. front of them and ruining everyir" thing behind them. ve Soys you had better keep an eye on ri" the good roads crowd.They may be trying to put a blind bridle on you. vl~ Pat, the Irishman told his wife he ,a* was going to hang himself. He slipped rn I out to the barn and tied a blind H'- bridle around his neck and hung himice I self for a few minutes. His wife od j found him and cut him down. Pat al-; told his wife that if she had let him on i alone for a few minutes he would nc j have been walking the streets of the uel'r.ew Jerusalem. His wife said, "and of I wouldn't you have cut a devil of a i he | shine there with a blind bridle on." er j And some of the boys who want good ! roads will do the same when they find el* themselves stalled by high taxes on 0j the so-called good roads. Boys don' jj,. let them put a* blind bridle on you. J W# C. ShAW. ise I lid iMORE BRAINS AND LESS so- CLUBBING URGED FOR REDS ia ia d j Here are some tidbits from speak ers' resriark.s at the City Club, of Chine cago. tut; ; Robert Perkins Bass, former Oovrp I ernor of New Hampshire, subject:) 'Practical Asnects of Our PresentI *o- * , l olcy Toward Radical Agitators." 0i! Allen T. Burns, director of CarIa* . i . i egie studv of Amercanization methri ods, Carnegie Foundation; subject: , 'Americanization?Coersive of Coby oerative." ty Mr. Bass: "Be open minded in dealing with the foreigners. "The real issue is not to be settled N by the Department of Justice or in our courts, but in the public forum of discussion. ill, , I "The present policy is too ex. tveme?not used during the war, was G it? 'e"i ,js! "There is no great danger of +he 2]] country falling. ltrj "This country must hurry to keep lelabreast of Russia, Germany, France )l-.and England. Yes, I said, Russia, and hp I meant it. Some conditions in Russia / ; woudl surprise you. aj "The danger lies in an agitator's ut ability to convert stalwart American ie citizens to his way of thinkng. We iy# cannot deport ideas, neither can we oriimprison them. We mustn't ffive wide ut. publicity to the agitator?rather keep n> him obscure." p. i "Immigrants come with raw, ex1(, posed nerves. Soothe them. jj.p "They have an instinctive reaction. | a Quiet such reaction. rtS "For some deported, ten new radiiij cals rise. Present method is too drasre tic?take care of them in legal manj I ner. s, "Start with the individuals' rights.! a Make them partners in your firms. You'll solve the nroblem then. i?' "When the immigrant learns that nt ae can be a savior of his own soul he a will become wedded to American 10 |spirit."?Chicaero Trbune. J The Rc I sSL Abb I DRY C This Weel Way. I "It's Dress I Our entire has been gr 1 racks are full in all good i (I The colors there's no ft All ladie pretty thin [looking. 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