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ruujtt Established 1844. js The Press and Banner!; ABBEVILLE, '3. C. < W m. P. GREENE, Editor. < 11 J Published Every Wednesday by f The Press and Banner Co. j Telephone No. 10. ( Entered as second-class mail mat- ] tor at post office in Abbeville, S. C. I Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .76 Three msntks .50 Payable invariably in advance. Wednesday, Juno 13, 1917. GIVE THE BOYS A CHANCE. In a few weeks we will begin to think about the next term of our city schools. We should be thinking about it now. In another month the new Super- ] intendent will be here to take up his ] work. He has made a success of the | schools in every city and town in i which he has worked. He will make i a success in Abbeville if we will help ] him to succeed. t You remember that Dr. Lodge in ( his fine address called attention to t the fact that we had only one boy ? for four or five girls in the graduat- j ing class the past year. But do you ^ know that Mr. Riser doubled the J number of boys in the Manning High < School in the five years he taught g there? 1 We are wanting our boys in the High School in Abbeville. We find ^ too many excuses for taking the boys ? out of school and putting them to ^ work. The boys themselves find too c many excuses for getting into busi- ? ness. They see the grea$ world mov- < ing, and they are anxious to get into I the midst of it. But there is nothing j which counts like preparation. The t badly equipped Russian soldier in c the great world war has cut but a t poor figure as against the magnifi- { cently equipped men on the Western \ front. And there is nothing which j will take the place of an educational equipment. The boys will find that j out ?more and more as the years go ? by. They need to know it now. r In the High School there will be r a man to teach mathematics. Miss r Magill and two other ladies who f have had years of experience in the t High school work and who are t equipped for the work, as well as the c new Superintendent, who will do ^ some teaching, will be in the schools next year. Better advantages than \ ever before are offered the boys of i < Abbeville. With a completed Highj? School education in Abbeville the boy will be equipped for any line of business .except the professions. He will have laid a foundation for these. Without finishing the High School work here the boys of Abbeville will enter the lists unequipped for the combat. We hope that the parents and guardians of children in the city will make an effort to put the boys' in the High School next year so that they may have the chance they de-' serve. Abbeville is now receiving1 * state aid for the High School and any 1 body in the county has the right to ! attend the school without the pay- J ment of tuition. Under the law the|? school as much belongs to the boy j \ outside of Abbeville as the boy in! c the city. Parents residing within' { a radius of eight and ten miles of j( Abbeville, who cannot give the boys|E the education they need at home, | c should arrange to send them to this t school. With the motor cars which { are on almost every farm, there is j no reason why they should not come ( from miles around. , A great opportunity is here to'j help the boys. There is a greater \ t opportunity for every boy to help j ^ himself?to equip himself for the j responsibilities which all too soon i. must be his. j] THE WATER WAGON. We are writing now about the < water wagon, not the one you fell off of when you got your last gallon, a-month, but the one which uses up \ and down Main street. ,i Someone asked the other day whyj A this water wagon never came up j j Greenville street, stating that he1 j ^supposed that water was not popular ( oji our street, or that we believed in immersion on this street and not in { sprinkling, or that we did not allow ] any laboring men on this street, and 1 rtoi-of/iro tV\A Hrivpr was afraid to i venture up it. j The gentleman is mistaken. There ? are feur reasons why the water wa- j gon does not come up this street: First: There are not many voters on this street and when they vote thqy try to vote for good men. , Second: There is only one side- ] walk on this street. The driver of ^ the water wagon follows the sidewalk j on one side of the street when going , ind the sidewalk on the other side V vhen returning, and if he came up ^ >ur street, he would never be able ^ x> find his way back. ^ Third: The members of the city council thought it best not to spill iny water on our street until they * ?ot water in the mains through the new iron pipe which has just been fi sought at the highest price ever, in jrder we suppose to show the people ^ vho are selling pipe that we have p confidence in the country, if not jusiness judgment about buying M pipe. Fourth: One of the tomatoes vhich the city is having raised at F ;he power house in that great big ;omato box, for the purpose of feed- ^ ing the monkeys, might get into the Abater mains and get loose on our d; streets, and be eaten up by our gos- tl ing, thereby causing the monkeys ei :o miss their breakfast. tj _________ F THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH. q fi The negroes who have been leav- b; ng the South and flocking to the tforth in the last few months, are be- ^ jinning to learn, and some of them lave already learned, that, "All is Vi lot gold that glitters." In East St. Louis, 111., last week, negroes from ? he South who had gone there to ^ ake jobs in manufacturing and mu- sc lition plants were ruthlessly attack- w whites and severely beaten for jj lb-^thlfer reason than that they were aj vorkjng in competition with white abor?i The mayor has asked South- " irjx dfties to discourage negro mipration thither, and the negroes are VJ ooking wistfully towards the South. w The acts of violence in the South, fs vhile not to be justified, have gener- 32 illy had the excuse that the negroes vho have suffered have been guilty f >f revolting crimes against the law A ?5 nni-ia rvoArvio nf flip ic inu Humanity. a.iic w* v..v South have never lynched nor dealt larshly with the negroes for doing lonest work. It is true that in cerain lines in this section the negro T :annot come into competition with he whites, and they are segregated jj n the matter of work, as they should >e in the cars, in public places, and n residence sections of the cities. But the negro <ian always find a >lace upon the farms of the South, tnd there his work is not only renunerative and healthful to the g ace, but it is there that the white nan wants to see him. There is no 'ear that the industrious negro on ^ he farm will meet with violence on he part of the white farmers, be- q :ause there is no fear that competiion will hurt either of the races. The negroes are learning a lesson ^ ve think. They will return to the Southern farms where they belong, ind where their indulgent white leighbors will be glad to see them. rhey will be accorded that freedom 'rom harm which industry guaran;ees and they may live contented so ong as they obey the laws and at- ^ end strictly to their own affairs, rhev are learning their lesson. T And let us hope that we, too, are earning ours. Here and there we lave had complaints that negroes are rp nistreated and not given their des;rts by their employers. For the nost part, we believe that there is I 10 foundation for these charges, but ;he white race would be more than luman if it was always right in dealng with the negroes. The lesson we B ihould learn is that the negro is the >est and most satisfactory labor we :an obtain for certain kinds of work, B here is work here which only he can lo. The climatic conditions are iueh that the white race cannot do ^ :ertain work pn which the negro hriVes. For that reason we need he negro here, and if we want to ceep him here, we must be sure to ai leal not only honestly, but leniently vi ind indulgently with him so long as sc le fills the place which his race en- ^ ;itles him to fill. We need the ne- a| rro race in the South yet awhile, lust as the negro race will not exist iway from the South. rr -v 0 LEMON JUICE IS w FRECKLE REMOVER f, m jirl?! Make This Cheap Beauty Lotion to Clear and Whiten Your ? Skim A SI Squeeze the juice of two lemons ~ nto a bottle containing three ounces ? )f orchard white, shake well, and you lave a quarter pint of the best 'reckle and tan lotion, and complexon beautifier, at very, very small :ost. Your grocer has the lemons and my drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white "or a few cents. Massage this sweety fragrant lotion into the face, neck < irms and hands, each day and see low freckles and blemishes disappear md how clear, soft and white the ;kin becomes. Yes! It is harmless.? 1 \dv. J HERE FROM FLORIDA. 1 ' at Frank ThO' is4n the city on a ? /isit to'; his many relatives and to iiis mother, Mrs. Fannie Thomson. Ele is a fine looking young man and jvery one at this end of the line hopes for him much success as he L ivalks along life's highway. I I vvvvvvvvvvvvva V ANTREVILLE. V V Antreville, June II.?Miss Esi;her leming is at home from Winthrop )llege. Miss Winton Keaton is at home rom Columbia college. Mrs. Wister Haddon from near bbeville, is spending a few days ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V/ill leming. Mrs. R. A. Williams and Mrs. J. [. Seawright spent Friday in Warren >n the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilson. Mr. Jehu Bowen has purchased a ord touring car. Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Martin spent hursday with Mr. and Mrs. L. P. !arkness. Mr. and Mrs. Motte Keaton and aughter of Bowersville, Ga., spent le week-end with the former's parnts, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Keaton. Misses Zula Suber and Erin Crowler are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. leetwood Crowther at Santuc. The death angel from Heaven vised the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will rawford Sunday morning and took rom these parents their darling aby, Wilhelmina. Miss Lorenia Cook from Lowndesille, is viSting her aunt, Mrs. S. J. Wakefield this week. Mf. Archie Keaton is home from TnfFnrA rnllece. We noticed the letter Miss Myra Williams wrote to the "'Southern Oulvator" and was glad to read so in:resting a letter from one of our :hool girls, describing our school ork and library work and what she ked best to do. But hated that she aes not like housekeeping as well s reading. Miss Mary Martin gave lessons on Popover" and "Waffles" Friday Fternoon. Miss Kate Killingsworth spent her ication with her home folks last eek, Mr. Will Killingsworth and imily. She is superintendent of a initarium in North Carolina. Miss Althea Keaton has composed le following poem and Miss Eunice erguson has composed her one too, lthea's is "The Farmer," and Eun e's "Farmer's Work." Farmer. Then the day begins to dawn, And the sun rises to greet the^ dawn, . he farmer rises to begin his work; Never from duty will he shirk. e breaks up the ground and moulds up the clay, Whistling and plowing the live long day, he seed are growing, the work has begun; By the rules of the farms paper, he'll work 'till done. ome clover over here, some vetch over there, My friend, what can compare fith these fields so green and rich With plants so fine and no sign of a ditch, h, its nice to live on a farm, Where we live at ease and fear no harm; There we eat what we raise, and raise what we eat, From molasses and corn on up to wheat. ?A. M. K. Farmer's Work. he farmer's work is nothing but toil, Plowing and harrowing the cloddy soil aboring hard from moon 'till sun, Farmer's work is never done. he merchants and others have time to rest, But the poor old farmer must do his best; o keep the grass from growing is his aim For cotton not to grow is a heart stricken pain. ut all this, he is never as blue, as seems the city folks. He takes his troubles most like you would jokes, ut sometimes he fears it will not rain, So the ground can sprout his peas and cane, ut he looks to God who sends these seasons And knows he has for this special reasons, herefore, he works all he can So he may be the conqueror of land. 1"' . ^ ?E. E. F. Mr. Ralph Ballentine of Anderson id Miss Mabel Wakefield of Antreille, were quietly married in Ander-1 >n Saturday. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson and daughir, visited in Ninety Six Saturday rid Sunday. A PRETTY BRIDESMAID. Miss Mary Smith left Monday lorning for a visit to friends in range burg, and to take part in i;he edding ceremony of her college iend, Miss Gertrude Smith, whose tarriage to Mr. Deiger will be s.olmnized Thursday evening. Miss mith is pleasantly remembered in bbeville, having visited here a few lmmers ago. The Beauty Secret a Ladies desire that irresistible charm?a good complexion. Of course they do not wish others to know a beautifier has been used so they Kiiv a bottle of Magnolia Balm UQUID FACE POWDER nd use according to simple direction*. Improvement i* noticed at once. Soothing, cooling isd efreahing. Heal* Sunburn, atop* Tan. Pinb. While, Rott-RtJ. 75c. at "DruggtiU or bv mall JltocL Sample (either color) for 2c. Stamp, jron Mfg. Co.. 40 South Fifth St.. 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