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^ ?/ A* V-/ U XV - - btmbliahed 1844. [The Press and Bannei ABBEVILLE, S. C. ~f Wo. P. GREENE, Editor. ? Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mat tar at post offict in AbbariQa, S. C | ' T?rai if SaWriptUai Oat yaar $1.5< be months ... .71 fkm months ............ .51 Fajabla invariably in adraaea. Wednesday, March 14, 1917 f*AN EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATOR] ? * According to the News and Cou rier, Superintendent of Educatioi Swearingen thinks the present leg iilatore is an educational legislature There may be some difference o opinion as to what kind of a legia lature this really is. It seems to u to be one entirely unmindful of thi rights of the majority of the peopl in the matter of taxation, and on< bent on taxing the whole people o: the state for the benefit of a ver Sir-" few. According to the account of th< News and Courier, which, we tak< it, is accurate, the present legisla ture appropriated for the publi schools of the state, or more pro perly speaking: for a very few of thi public schools of the state, the enor nous sum of $444,100 to be distri bated as follows: Pw. * \ 1. For lengthening the school term in districts unable to ran 5 months.$ 60,001 2. For rural graded schools in districts voting a local tax of four mills or more 187,501 3. For high schools a 75,001 4. For public school buildings - 5C,00( 5. For an equalizing fund to be used in needy schools, and especially in making up the deficit in . districts voting a local tax of eight mills and unable to run seven months 50,001 r 6. For the teaching of agriculture 10,00( 7. For public school libraries 5,001 - 8. For school improvement work'-*- ' 2,101 10. For the State Board of Education 2,001 fe- . Of this total sum of nearly a bai: million dollars, the county of Ab beville one of the poorest countiei finaivryMy fa the State, will pay ir ronn$: wunbers Something mor< than jMMMiinetieth, W the sum o: five ^mautd dollar*. .possibly ai much six thousand jfollars. Th< iV lS city Abbeville will b# called upor iter one-fourth of thii . ,lV^uhlrMy about fifteen hundrec If;: ^iWV" / We nlve no idea that any rural ac|)OOl;\ Abbeville 'county wil beaefli icr any amount from thii ^ * fnormous: expenditure. They have Z done sO in the past Outside oi ;0T~ or two high schools in the largei ^HraiSpwhs, which should be supported ^.;ij^^^oeally, not a cent of this money come to any school in t&c W' ' eounty. We are willing to gamble tint the county will not receive as Wtfth as thirty-three and one-third jjlSf ^ent of the money it expends lot i^ls appropriation. We are, thfefrtefore, taxed nearly one and ont-fcalf mill* for the support of pubbc schools in other counties. How any legislator from Abbeville county can support such measures is entirely beyond our comprehension. But it is stated that this money, or sixty thousand dollars of it, goes to the support of "Weak" schools. Where axe these schools? According to the last report of similar expenditures they were in such "weak" counties as Gre?nTiII?, Spartanburg, Anderson, Greenwood and other like counties. What have we to do with the schools in these counties? Whs may not the people in these coun. ties support their own "weak' schools? If they did, there woulc not be so many "weak" schools The people would look into th< matter of assessment of property ir these "weak" school districts anc see that the people in these district paid some of their own debts. Bui when it is a state fund,v it looks lik< good stealing to get all you can. Another of the appropriations, oi items, is the magnificent sum of on< hundred and eighty-seven thous and five hundred dollars to be givei to rural graded schools with four oi five teachers. Supt. Swearingei tells us that this appropriation ? wmcil IS COSLlIlg every ma |/a;si u Abbeville county nearly three quar ten of a mill of taxes, will assis "progressive communities" in thi "populous Piedmont" We wouI< like to know what the tax-payers o: Abbeville county who are sendinf their children to schools with on< teacher, think of the members o: the legislature from this count] ' who vote a tax on ttut to rui schools in "progressive communi- > , ties?" We would like to know what ^ the tax-payer of the city of Abbe- ^ vflle think of paying nearly a thous- ^ ' and dollars for running rural graded ' schools in "progressive communi ties," when not a dollar of this mon- Fi ey will be spent in Abbeville county er even, we fear? br We had supposed mat --progressive communities," able to employ four or five teachers, and with an ' enrollment of one hundred pupils, ? . would be able at least to pay their own obligations and run their own ci schools, but it seems not. We are ro | first taxing the people of the state, | including the "progressive communi- ? ties" in the sum of sixty thousand dollars in order to help the "weak" m schools; and next we tax the people of the state including the pa- K trons ofthe "weak" schools, one - hundred and eighty-seven thousand s< dollars to support the schools in gi the "progressive * communities." 3 On top of this, comes the proposi tion to v<?te a further tax of two si !? mills on;this school district for the tl f purpose of paying more teachers " higher salaries without even the pre- '1 8 tense of having a petition from the B free-holders of the district. In other ol e words the people who will pay the e greater part of this proposed ta?, f are to be called upon to pay it with- M P out any voice whatever in the matter, either by way of petition, vote '1 e or otherwise. If our schools are so e much in need of money that we must N pay an additional tax of two mills, c it does seem to us that we are pay" ing enough without being called up- ? e on to pay another one and one-half " mills to support "weak" schools, Fi and rural graded schools in "progressive communities." '1 There must be some limit to taxation somewhere. The state levy p( 3 has been raised two mills and the to county levy one mill, we believe. 5 Now it has been decreed that we fa 9 shall pay an additional tax of two mills to the schools, and we are fr 5 threatened with a library tax of one thousand dollars per year for twenty jsj five years. We have an automobile 0{ tax, a license tax, corporation taxes, two kinds of income taxes, a dog ]a . tax, and every other tax known to je the imagination of non-tax-paying legislative bodies. The time has jj( come to call a halt, and the way to ^ do it is to vote against every .man q who favors such impositions upon the public. If this is an educational legislaure, we prefer a little ?pj ignorance hereafter. 0j ITS EASY. lii ah It is a mighty.easy thing to run iti the County into debt. The time has b< come when there should be more pc care given to the matter of expen- ca see. We are running our affairs u with too much extravagance. The di tax levy has gone far beyond the ac limit, not only in Greenwood coun- in - - nr. ... {? ty, bat all over toe state, n c iu? I paying a tax rate now that would ad I make the old time radical rale in m< , South Carolina blush. Every year sa > the tax rate is raised, and on and m ? on we are going until it will get so wl . that people can not afford to own N< I property. It will have to be turned wi , over to the government for it to fr< , take and make the best of it in or, der to get revenue. We are fast wi , approaching the verge of confisca[ tion. tei , But it seems' that no one cares, th There are people sitting up in offices I in sky scrapers who never ran a fur- sti ' row in their lives whose sole ambi- W " '' wioo nlnni for av , non seems w uc w uv. w. t i securing more taxes out of the peo- co , pie. And to the shame be it said of . some newspapers the cry of parsi- ce mony is applied to the State for not fo ' spending more of the people's money Pr i in extravagant and unreasonable ap- H< , propriations.?Greenwood Journal. Hi , yj . AT THE TEACHERS MEETING. ' fo: Miss Mae Robertson, Miss Lillian ^ ( Swetenburg, Miss Cornelia Tennant, on l Miss Rose Powell and Mr. Cheatham r leave tonight for Columbia to at- q1 tend the State Teachers Association, q The classes of these teachers will be [ dismissed until Monday. Ni ? CLIP THIS AND PIN ON WIFE'S DRESSER t ???' Cincinnati Man Telle How to Shrivel 3 Up Corn* Qr Calluses So They de t Lift Off With Fingers. of i CO Ouch !?!?!! This kind of t rough talk will be heard less here in r town if people troubled with corns i will follow the simple advice of this av . Cincinnati authority, who claims that c0 l a few drops of a drug called freezone when applied to a tender, aching r corn or hardened callus stops sorei ness at once, and soon the corn or in , callus dries up and lifts right off j without pain. He says freezone dries immediately and never inflames or even irri- * fc tates the surrounding skin. A small ap s bottle of freezone will cost very lit- wi "*"1 ~ Uni mtll nAOI. j lie at any uiug bhvici uu? nut r??i- in . tively remove every hard or soft E corn or callus from one's feet Mil- ar ? lions of American women will wel- ni< ? come this announcement since the m< f inauguration of the high heels. If uc your druggist doesn't have freezone 7 tell him to order a small bottle for ? i you. fiv i ' V fe " V- I it S ?. \ DUE WEST. V > Due West, March 13.? On last iday evening the Calliopean Litary Society held its annual celeation in the auditorium; the pro -am was as follows: Music?Invocation. President's address?Mary Boyd, -Arkansas. Music?Danse Styrienne?G. Mitels. Ruth McLane, Maude Ma* ney. Freshman Essay?Martha Maddoz -Georgia. Woman's Part,in War. Freshman Reading?Sarah Farer?Alabama. Ma'moiselle. Music?Polonaise. B. Hoffman, nth McLane, Maude Mahoney. Junior Essay?-Mabel Pratt? >uth Carolina. Progress or Profession? Debate. Query: Resolved, . That Aggreaon should be the policy governing te United States in foreign affairs. Affirmative?Mary Sue Snipes, 9?Florida. Negative?Adele, '18?South Carina. Music. Duo?Finale Valse?Lock. Ruth cLane, Maude Maroney. Affirmative? Georgia Ward law, 9?South Carolina. Negative?Myrtle Bradshaw. '18 orth Carolina. Music. Sophomore Reading?Lois Steele -North Carolina. -North Carolina. A Soldier of ranee. Marshals?Chief, Lois McDonald, 8. Assistants?Eleanor Todd, '19, sari Morrison, '20, Marion Clinn, '20. The judges rendered a decision in Lvor of the affirmative. Mrs. R. C. Brownlee is visiting lends in Greenville and Anderson. Dr. Hale Brice and Capt G. N. ickles attended the inauguration President Wilson. Prof. Long went to Greenwoo'd st Friday to represent Erskine Colge in Athletics. Mrs. R. S. Galloway returned >me last Friday. She has been siting kindred in Kings Mountain, astonia and Charlotte. A Community Fair will be held at ae West some time in October, be fact that ladies are at the head ! the enterprise insures a good le of exhibits and a creditable owing in every way. The exhib Yirill ka a# m^AHAof +a AtfAwvr ?wa?? J VT1U VI Ull^lCOW W tTClJf XUCU1" ir of the community. Live stock, >ultry, farm and garden produce, nned goods, flowers, needlecraft id all kinds of fancy work will be splayed. The department of school tivities will be attractive to those terested in education and those process of being educated. In dition, domestic science will be ost alluringly represented in the tisfying dinners, appetizing lunch, and delicious candies and cakes, lich are to be sold by the ladies. >t the least part of the enjoyment 11 be the mingling with friends Dm all the nearby towns. Prepare to come to this fair. Date 11 be announced later. . 1 Mrs. W. 0. Brownlee and daughrs spent last week with her moa* in Plinfm On Saturday evening last, the jdents of Erskine college and the oman's college enjoyed a social ening together at the Womens Uege. I The following officers were rently elected in the Y. W. C. A. r the ensuing year: Miss Jean essly president; Miss Elinor mry, vice president; Miss Nina inter, secretary; Miss Cammie illiams, treasurer. Mr. Gary, the Southern secretary r W lawrcvucgiaw sociation, was a visitor at Erskine t last Wednesday and Thursday. On Sunday evening, Mrs. M. B. ier, a returned missionary from lina, spoke in the Y. M. C. A. on lissionary work in China." WY DEPARTMENT BUYS SIXTEEN BIG AIRSHIPS Washington, March 12.?The navy partment announced the purchase 16 non-rigid dirigible airships for ast and harbor patrol work at a tal cost of $649,250. Curtiss Aeroplane company was rarded three, Connecticut Aircraft mpany three; Goodyear Rubber mpany nine, and B. F. Goodrich mpany, two. Deliveries to begin 120 davs. These airships will be the first of ch a type to be bought by the ivy under the recent $5,000,000 ipropriation for aeronautics. They ill be 160 feet long and 81 1-2 feet diameter and 50 feet high over all id be equipped with radio commucation and hundred horsepower a tors capable of making a continue flight of sixteen hours. They 11 & maximum speed of forty-] e peffcour. IA . , ; . .. . .. ... 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