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The Press and Banner ' J ABBEVILLE, S. C. ( Published Every Wednesday by ; THE PRESS AND BANNER CO. ; WH. P. GREE.VE, Editor j WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1915. 1 J BUY LAND, YOUNG MAN. t 1 During the period of depression ( through which we have just passed , wme of those who had invested hea- , vily in lands became somewhat dis- ( couraged. Others who were carry- ; ing considerable investments in realty t looked fonvard with hope to a better : day, having faith in the ultimate . value of the soil,*though there were ] no apparent grounds for hope that , things would grow better at an early date.. , But with cotton at twelve cents j per pound, the complexion of things , has changed. Already land is f changing hands as- freely as before i the commencement of the war, and , the prices in most cases show that j nothing has been lost on these invest- j ments, if only the people have had ( the courage and patience to wait. < And this reminds us that the popu- j lation of the South, and of this i J ; . state, this county, ana your lliilUVUi- I I ate section, is constantly growing, i but the amount of land remains the < same. For many years the increase j in population was taken care of by f clearing the uncleared places, but j the lands are practically all in culti- t vation now, and this holds little s hope for the coming generations, c For a time the great influx of the s people, to the cotton mills, which i were being built, made labor scarce t on the farms, with the result that lands were not more in demand than r in several years theretofore. But s the era of cotton mill-building in the 5 South is over for twenty years in d our iudement. v Therefore, there will be a constant- 1< ly.increasing number of people who n will look to the farms for a liveli- v hood. Numbers of good'men who 1; were forced to seek employment at the mills, and with other enterprises, on account of the low price oft cotton in past years, will look to the farms again f<jr an opportunity to better a their condition, as they become as- ? sured that, with new methods and di- v versification, the farms offer an b opportunity which industrial com- a munities do not offer. This number s will be augmented by these who have n moved to the towns to educate their t children, when the ;schools in the rural districts have been v made the i' equal in efficiency to the town F schools, as they are fast being made, t And all this means that lands have F just begun to rise in value. The s people who have learned to raise a e bale or two bales, of cotton to the f acre of land, know that it is worth s many times what it has been bring- t ing in the past with the crude farm- ii ing methods. These people will seek b homes on such lands, and will be willing to pay the price which such s lands demand, and others must fol- t low. The young men who formerly r sought employment in the cities, but ii who have found that the farms offer t better opportunities for the invest- t ment of intelligent work and thought, a will be demanding homes in the fu- b ture, and they will be willing to pay e the price too. I The, thirty-five thousand tenant t farmers in South Carolina, of the o white face, will not be content to be h tenants much longer; they will want s homes for themselves, lands of their t own; as will their sons and sons-in- F law; and the price will be bolstered by them. And other causes will con- t tribute towards the coming of that c good time when only the man who r intends to live' on the land and culti- ^ vate it, himself, will be able to pay c the price. We had as well realize I F that land values have just begun to v soar, and that the time is 'fast pass- r ing when even average lands, in point 6 of fertility, will be purchased at less i than forty and fifty dollars per acre. 0 Now the lands should, as stated, belong to the farmers. We all like * to speculate in lands, because it is r ijlike buying dollars for ninety cents, * *]if even average judgment is used; s gjand we will continue to speculate. 2 **But no man will 1 c ?.M? Wiiutiuc tu UU) ^ glands as an investment and seek to s make an income out of it by working ^ it on shares with people who know t nothing of farming. The time was t when a man might allow one field to ? wash away, and then clear another, * allowing the first to grow up in tim- c ber and reclaim itself, but that day is r * no more. Only the man who ex- * pects to till "the lands will be a perma- * nent investor in them, but this will have a tendency, too, to enhance t values. a There are many young men on the t r farms in Abbeville county today, i some of whom do not own their own r farms. If these young men would s listen to a word of advice, we would I * aeseech them to buy land?not large farms which will hamper them in iheir efforts and involve them in iebts which are hard to pay, but in small farms. If you are honest, if you are industrious, if you deserve a home and want it, there are those who will help you, if you will only help yourself. You need not say that you would do this, or the other thing, if the government would help you; you must do it yourself. The government may make credit conditions better, and thereby make the burdens of debt easier to bear; the government may even devise some way to enable home-seeker9 to purchase their own lands, but the government cannot buy the lands and jive them to you; you can only look to yourself for the essential requirements for the production of wealth, and the means to pay, which are u?j ?i i uuru WUIA, eiJUllUllilcai living, OHU sound farming methods. We said to buy small farms, and tve repeat that. There is no need to pay for two acres of land for a purpose when with the same labor, ;he same fertilizers, the same ihoughl, but with better methods, pou m%y raise on one acre what has leretofore been raised on two or even ;hree. The man who purchases fifty )r one hundred acres of tillable lands ;oday, and who scientifically farms ind improves these acres, will be an ndependent farmer, and a rich man,' iccording to present standards, withn a period of twenty years. It is >asy to Duy ana pay ior tnese acres, it twenty or twenty-five dollars per icre, but it will not be so easy to >ay one hundred dollars, or perhaps wo hundred dollars per acre for the lame lands twenty years from to-1 lay.' You will then be paying for ( ome other man's work, thought and ( ndustry, which today you may'conribute yourself. The opportunity offers today. Look lot to the government, but to yourelf, and buy land, young man. Own 'our own home. Acquire that in-j lependent feeling for yourself, your j rife and your children, and that ove of country and state and com-| nunity which a man can only feel ( vhen he owns the ground on which hq' ives and works and thinks. THE TAX COMMISSION. ' 4 Answering the objections made .gainst it, the Tax Commission .of iouth Carolina, has made a report in 1 irhich it is asserted that there has' >een no effort made to increase the1 mount of taxes paid by banks in this tate, but that the effort has been i tiade to equalize the burdens as beween the banks themselves; it beng asserted that some banks are pay-: ng a larger percentage of taxes, in iroportion to assets, than others, and | hat in many counties of the state iroperty belonging to banks and asessable has been for years illegally xempted from the payment of taxes. Ve do not doubt but that these asertions are true. And in so far as he banks only are concerned, nothng more has been done than should iave been done perhaps. But that is not the question. The tatement is made and is not disputed hat the banks, cotton mills, and railoads are paying and have teen-payrig more than their share of the axes for years. Why then is it that he first attempt at equalization is gainst the people who all along have een paying the taxes? Who fathroH tlio rvrosonf. tav law )oes its real author believe in equal axation as between all the property >f the state liable to taxes, or does ie believe that the corporations hould pay all, or a greater proporion, of the taxes than other taxlay ers? It is no answer to the question and o the objections to the present proeedings to say that real estate canlot be re-assessed until 1918. Why wasn't the law so framed that it ould be so re-assessed. And if the ?rAharfxr ?qs?Vi olacc mncf Ko firof. li \JJ VA. VMVil V4MUU M1UWV W ili UW iniformly assessed, why is it that the estrictions against re-assessing real istate are allowed to'stand when that s the property which most needs retssessing? We are willing to concede that the ax laws of the state need adjustnents; we are willing to concede hat the present Tax Commission is ible to do the work of re-assessing md equalizing the property of the ;tate for the purpose of having every ipecies of property bear its own just mrdens; but we assert now that iin il a law is passed which will allow his, that no body of men should be illowed to tinker with the assessnents on one kind of property while ither property is bearing practically tone of the burdens of the governnent. Why is it that the sick man is lot first doctored? The tax commission may not be o blame and the blame may be laid it the door of the legislature. If he legislature is responsible, then t should shoulder the responsibility, epeal the present law, or amend it ;o as to make the scales balance; and >rovide for a commission with juris diction over all the property of the state. No re-adjustments; should be put into effect "until the whole field is readjusted. If it takes this year to equalize the banks among themselves, we presume it will take another year to equalize the Cotton Mills among themselves, and then maybe two years to equalize the railroads among themselves, then we shall have the Oil Mills, the building and loan associations, and other corporations; and after this we shall be compelled to equalize these several classes as classes, so that we will probably get down to the people who do not pay taxes early in the next century. A PROTEST. Mount Carmel, S. C., Oct. 25, 1915. Hon. J. M. Lawson, County Superintendent of Education, Abbeville, I S. C. Dear Sir:?I recently received a letter from the State Superintendent of Education with reference to the Mt Carmel Graded School not showing as large enrollment as it formerly did. Of course there are a number of good and sufficient reasons for this falling off, but after looking through the text books which are now in use in our rural schools, I am rather surprised that we have as many scholars as we do. My little girl (nine years of age) has progressed to the third grade. She has attended school two years, and of course must make one grade jach year. How she managed to get through those first two grades will always remain a mystery to me. Howover, her mother is now fairly well acquainted with these first two text books after many strenuous hours spent each night. That my daughter or anyone else's daughter could have | "earned these two books in the first two years at school was not to be ex-, ;?ected. Today, I have examined the Third Book, which is 1;he "Heart of Oak", Third Book by Chas. Elliott Norton. About the only good thing about this book is the binding which is fairly good quality. . ' ' The book is simply a collection of Fairy Tales of the kind most unsuited to children of eight or nine years of age. Listen at this: v ' "Columkill he crosses, On his stately journeys From Slieveleage to Rosses: This is part of the first poem. The first prose article is a Japanese Fairy tale in which the little one is invited ( to visit the "Sea-Gods Palace Beyond the Waves". Later pn we have "Rum pel-Stilts-Kin," and "Ali Baba Or the Forty Thieves." The book i3 full of words and expressions that no child of eight years could or shoul&;understand. They, will simply memorize it by listening to their parents read it over and manage to worry along through the year and get into the next grade. This kind of teaching may be alright, but it is exactly opposite to the principle governing all other business, which is "Be Thorough." Your truly, J. J. McKellar. 200 DEAD, 700 HURT, IN PHILIPPINE TYPHOON Manila, Oct. 28.? Reports reaching Manila to-day indicate that the typhoon yesterday and the day before in the southern part of the island was mni-o ^iaacfrnna ,ihan in t.Vlfi earlier dispatches. Nearly 200 persons were killed and about 700 injured and the property damage to the prop<^o? rice, hemp and tobacco will be about $1,000,000. A portion of the volcano of Mayon was disrupted by a gigantic landslide. The town of Tobacco was wiped out. ESTATE OF VIRGINIA H. McILWAIN Notice of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. TAKE NOTICE that on the 19 day of Nov. 1915, I will render a final account of my actings and doings as Administrator of the Estate of Virginia H. Mcllwain, deceased, in the office of Judge of Probate "for Abbeville County at 10 o'clock a. m., and on the same day wll apply for a final discharge from my trust as such Administrator. All persons having demands against said estate will present them for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated or"'be forever barred. 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