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? '11 It Established 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Published Every Wednesday by rm, ? T> r?APO Q Tl ^ "R?nnor Drt. X lie JL A COO UJ.1V* JL/W??v?. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mat ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C Terms of Subscription: One year $1.5( Six months .71 Three months .5( Payable invariably in advance. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1917. ABOUT SCHOOL TEACHERS. Lessons are to be learned ii school, not from books alone. Ther / are principles to be taught whicl / far outweigh the knowledge writtei in the text books. Ami fnr this reason .the orofessioi of teaching is, and should be, ai honorable profession. The teache should be a person who, above ever; other consideration, tries to set' ai example in fair dealing and devotioi to the time-ho:ored principles o right. Among those pinciples none ar more deeply imbedded in the heart of the people than the observance o the obligations of a contract. Th people so highly regard the duty o a person to perform the obligation of every contrast that there ha been written in the fundamental la\ of every state in the union, as wel as in the Federal Constitution, i provision that no law may be passe* which impairs the obligations of ; eontract. Right thinking peopl everywhere look to the obligation of their promises as pledges whicl must not be broken. And this is as it should be, am there is no place, except at home amongst one's own children, when the duty to observe these obligation should be more consistently and per sistently taught than in the school room by those who profess to teach But it is not always so. There ha grown .up among those persons fol lowing the profession in this state or we should say among some o them, the idea that a contract ti teach in a certain school, for a cer tain term, at a fixed salary, whil , binding on the Board of Trustee making the contract of employment is not so binding on the person o the other part, and that he, or she as the case may be, may under th term "resign" violate the obliga tions of a contract deliberately en fprprl int.n whpn hptt.er nav. mnr congenial surroundings, or other ad vantages are offered elsewhere. It is no excuse for this practic to say that the person looks on th position as an elective office becaus it does not partake of the quali ties of an elective office. It is tru that teachers are selected by ballol but every teacher in the land knows or should know, that the trustees o a school district represent the dis trict, and that when a position i offered a teacher it is an offer to make a contract of employment, an< when the proffered contract is Ac cepted, it becomes binding on botl parties, and may be avoided onl; with the consent of both parites o on such grounds as render othe contracts voidable. AriH ovprv sfVinnl t^nrVipr in tVi land knows that teachers are se lected to teach in the public school of the state, and contracts of em ployment made, early in the seasoi in order-' that proper talerft and ex perienced teachers may be secured and that the affairs of the schoo district must suffer when thirty sixty, or even ninety days before i school term begins, a teacher "re signs." There is an evil to be corrected There is an association of teacher In this state. The number of resig nations in the Abbeville school since the contracts were made sever al months ago should warn the mem bers of the association that th< schools of the state are likely t< suffer from other causes than i want of taxes and tuition fees. I the teachers of the state want tlv profession given that high standinj in the community which it shouli have they will take measures to se< that those who profess to teach firs learn themselves the obligations o a solemn agreement, and that afte accepting a position in one schoo it is highly dishonorable and un ethical to seek employment else where, with the idea of holding 01 to what you have as long as it is ex pedient or profitable, but of turning it loose the moment something bet ter is offered. If the school teachers associatior is not in itself able to correct th< evil practice above referred to, th< State Board of Education, by th; adoption of proper rules and regu lations, or by seeking legislation o , the subject, should make it impos sible for a person to have emploj ment as a teacher of the youth o the land who does not regard th obligations of a contract. A FAITHFUL SERVANT. The state of South Carolina ns not had a more faithful nor a mor . competent public servant in this ger . eration than Insurance Commission , McMaster, and the people of th . state who wish to see public offic administered as if it were in fact public trust will regret his decisio ; to resign his important offic< | But the state cannot expect men c the ability of F. H. McMaster t continue forever in public office ui less it is willing to pay for the faitl ful performance of duty. F. C. ROBINSON, CANDIDATE. n If we are, in fact, to lose the sei e vices of Insurance Commission* h McMaster, and if the people of th nl state want a man of his ability, ii Itegrity and high character as h n successor, they may secure him i (lithe person of Frank C. Robinson, c r | McCormick. y; Mr. Robinson served for sever; a j sessions in the legislature from A! 11: bevllie County. upon tne iormauo f'of McCormick County he was electc its first senator. He has made e faithful and a painstaking public o: s ficial, and his colleagues in the tw fj houses of the General Assembly ear] e recognized him as a man of grez f j ability. s| Mr. Robinson has had experienc slas a banker and business man whic ^ j fits him to manage a business offic I such as that of Insurance Commi; ^ sioner. We hope that he may t j elected. e OFFICER SURPLUS s IN RE-ORGANIZATIOI til | Many Officers Must Be Re-assigne j Under the New Organization if * Plans. B ' s Reorganization of the various unil - at Camp Sevier has left a surplus c - many officers, and divisional hea< quarters has been busy for seven s^ays in the assignments of those lei -1 over. Under the new plan, there ai i, to be nearly double the number c f men in each company, 125 to infai o;try, and this will occasion the mer{ -;ing of many pairs of companies inl ejone. The war department made pr< s1 vision for a senior and junior captai j in each company, which will sati f.factorily dispose of the chief con !, manders, but there will be an exti ej amount of lieutenants, majors ar ,-j colonels. Exactly what disposition - to be made of them is not y< e | known. 1- Under the reorganization thei are practically no company memori< e and traditions left. The units ha\ e been linked together at random an e will soon be filled in with men of tt conscripted army. Familiar name e such as the "Butler Guards," ha\ been swept away and numerical o: dinations substituted. Hereafter f I will be impracticable to address ma i-jto company names, but each parci s. must be sent to thp unit of which tt 0 i one wanted is a member, such i 1 the "120th infantry," etc. " The First South Carolina reg ^ ment men are finding it hard to g? y accustomed to their home in tl] r wilderness after having occupied tli r peer of the camsites for moi than a month* They are finding th e tales of chiggers, scorpions, briar i- underbrush and hard work which th s Tennesseans formerly told, to be al solutely true, and are besides, mis: n ing the companionship of many vii itors who are unable to find them i 1, their isolated location. Howeve; 1 they are very much pleased ove ', their companions in the 59th infar a try brigade, the Third Tennesse - men.?The Greenville News. IT PAYS TO BE COURTEOUS. ? The cheapest thing in this world : courtesy, and yet it pays bigger div dends than any other investment yo can make. Take the boy or girl, fo instance, whom you meet 'on th ; street. If they speak pleasantly, yo I will soon learn to have a good opir f'ion of them and you will go out c I your way to do them a favor. Nc ^jonly that, but you will take occasio . fViair? nQrviDC oro monflnno^ l I your hearing, to say, "Yes, he is t nice boy," or "she is a nice, cleve f girl." x | rj On the other hand, take a boy o 1J girl, whom you meet on the streel . | although you have known them a _ i their lives, and they do not speal i! would you go out of your way to d -j either of them a favor? Would yo ri speak ple'a^ntly of them and sa . | that he is a clever boy or that she i ia nice girl? You would not, but yo 11 would say that such a boy or such j!girl is lacking in intelligence,, anc si instead of helping them, if oppoi litnnitv nffnrdRri. von would ienor -ithem or advise against trust bein; n placed in them. We know of no bet- ipr >- ter asset for a store than courteous ? r- clerks. A man will walk blocks to m f be waited on by polite and gentle 31 e salesmen and sales ladies rather than "fi be waited upon by ^urly and sour LR looking clerks who treat you as if U| you did nothing more than your rt" duty when you came into the store S lg to purchase goods. It is a compli- ' ,e ment to a merchant when a customer in comes into his store to purchase Jfi [r goods which he could gen elsewhere, Uj e and the merchant should appreciate US ,e the compliment enough to say, Qj a "thank you, come again." , ley We are dealing with this subject Sf| , in a general way, and have no par-j"fi ticular person in mind, but we will 0 give you this advice free gratis, Mr..Of Merchant, if you have any clerks |f" who are not polite to the trade, whether man or woman, the quicker -0 you get rid of them the better will 31 it be for your business. If you don't j believe this, the first time a stranger jtjj j comes into your store be impolite to U! r" | him, and then shadow him and see i S2 ir what he will say about you to the' ^ ie first man he meets with whom he In discusses the matter. "fi in THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. gg '' Impreuiom of~the~SoMier< at Clo?e j|j al Range. jjn (By Sergeant P .T. Randolph, Or- A d 1 deny to lienerai jnugn l>. acott, 131 a U. S. Chief of Staff) |Jg f. I liked the Russian soldiers and IjOf r0 believe they liked me. Everywhere I ||* y went I was Amerikanski, the Ameri- 3 ^ can. Often I found fellows in the jQ army who had been in this country 31 and who could talk and understand a little English. A bunch of soldiers jljj ,ej would gather around amd we would j|JE s_'have a talk. They are big fellows j|?j ielmost of them and simple as children, j 31 The first question they asked was SQ usually how much pay I got. I always dodged that. You see my pay|Jfi N translated from dollars into roubles lUj would sound very big to them. * jjj ^ The next question would be about1 IE our grub. Well, American army chow |f? is the best in the world, but I did not 33 feel like telling chaps whose main 2TJ ^ food is black bread and tea that, so ZJg ' I would hedge and tell them our Jfi j food was about like theirs. U Really the Russian does less grum- LC .e'bling than any soldier I ever "saw. IE But the Russian is not strong on sa- "fi I luting. Russian soldier trembled |E r J when he saw an officer. They don't jjVj 3 i+romVilo nnir mnpp TIipv dnn't. sa-! rfJ ;oj"? ' * ? lit 3_ i lute either. But I believe they are gl]' n! realizing- the value of discipline be-'Hjl g. cause at the front they fought in;fij|j|; j_ unison. j a One of Russia's chief troubles has. id been the work of German spies. They is! swarm at the front and in Petrograd. Jt'They must be spending millions. She 1 | The Russians seemed to have all ^ "ejthe troops and arms they needed. I .1 All si js saw many English and French officers re | at the front teaching the men iiow to ^ d | use artillery. I believe we can help >ejbest by sending men over to take s> i charge of and run their railroads as re well as rebuild them. ' r~ The Russians were surprised when Must ^ I told them we were sending troops Pwownn on/1 An? eliino nrnro q). ttn. j | l/U X'iciiiw* anu uui tt vx v m< YY f] e ready helping to fight the submarines. ig You should have seen them crowd She k arOund my general. He would talk . to them like a father speaking to a Ths ^ bunch of big boys. He would tell them America was with them and And i 16 i how glad we were they were free and >e;how liberty was worth fighting for. Ha; And then all these fellows would But A 16 throw their hats up in the air and ' cheer for the good Amerikanski gen- For ). era'3. He wanted to see some of the fight- * s. ing in Galicia beyond Tarnopol. Rusn sian officers said there was danger, r, but my general said he did not mind !r:that, he wanted to see the troops in i-1 action. You should have seen himj^^*^' >e!smile when the Russians went over) I the top and charged and won and sent back Austrian prisoners. Wa Many thousand prisoners were ta, | ken in that campaign and as they ?xceP l.s;marched past my general they could 1_jsee he was not a Russian. Prisoner !ie<V? u I after prisoner as he went by, threw ?n . ,r i his hand up to salute. m * J ie I . senate I The Russians do not seem to hate eg^m{ 4 | the Austrians. I saw Russians slip jjon a ^jthem "smokes" and black bread. As ^ I went over to talk to the prisoners, ! one of them saw my uniform and am n jsaid. "Hello. American." It turned ' ?.se a!out he had lived in this country. He .^ej was 24 and said he was glad he was ,, ir , , allow* capt'ired. ' 90 da I noticed lots of tr.p prisoners were [. boys 1? and 17. He told me Austria RIOT lj sent her best troops to resist the Ital: jians, counting on the Russians re'?Ca +Vi rtTr t?onf fVflCQ rr q mailing uuhh. uu me? ^tiu mvjv ivar u boys down to the Gali,:ari front. jn wh y I had a fine time in Kussia. We 2,000 is were t.-r-rled splendidly. One of the j their u i trains m\ general rode oti was in j in wh: a part 1 ;ade up of cars the czar's fam place I, ily used to have. The xood on thej& Co. - tup was rather monotonou s but they with t e'gave us the best they had?cheese,! tally i g boiled black bread and tea. to ho? . ' . . lCICLCICICl?l?UnjAC|iCIClI3CK|3|A 3D U Om 13 0131303ODDODG BUY NOW TH1 THE BED is the cenl life; around it cluster of home, and rest, and li of the night:, the greeting reward of a well-spent c care, and levels all dist sleep; in all time and p ' honor among the creatu ^Bf t?\ 1-3 OF YOUR LIFE IS S WHY NOT HAVE A GO ABOUT IT. LET USHEL ONE. (g Vb^ STOVES?RANGES Cash or Credit pi riri n pipi pi pi ea wwwwhwwi1 fDDDDDDCIDnDODDDmTI THE MITTENS. the extent of termined. :nits for the soldiers, does An- The chief o nabel Gray, .Kansas, annoi d carries a cute little bag, mayor to reqi jffled with rose colored ribbon, to preserve oi so gay, The trouble d adorned with an appliqued rious nature 1 flag, tion with the a riot of yarn it i? always which has bet stuffed full, week, resultin d every eligible man eral thousand * 1 ' - ? i ? - J xi_ _ A neip untangle ana wina up uie tying up ui u wool, the largest p ,ich is part of fair Annabel's in the city. plan. The disord< nits for the soldiers?a picture, crowd of stril behold! the Armour p it would turn any masculine jng? as goo o head, had not joine Cupid discarding his arrows %f 0f ^e gates. brick which s 3 taken to needles instead, . switchman, i innabel's mittens will always be Bricks then v, mitts; theshooting b< ' lo! while her beauty be-. non-strikers s witches, i packing house ruth must be told that as fast mained for mi as she knits ! "ha:; to unravel the stitches. BANDITS LO ?Minna Irving. POLICI . BAr SURE PROVIDES DRAFTING OF ALIENS St. Louis, ] cutting all wi: shington, Sept. 14.?Drafting van, Mo., 55 i aliens in the Unitud States, j four automob t Germans and others exempt! locked .the tw ;aty and those of countries al-j telegraph opei rith Germany, who have resided; through the s country one year, is proposed]make the citi; oim; resolution passed by the j the safe of tl i and sent to the house. It is bed the postoi ited that more than one mil- j of the raid wa liens would be affected. j Louis police/f ler the resolution by Senator |van- How mi berlain of Oregon, chairman of;^as not been ' nate military affairs committee . , ,, 11- . , ONLY 700 Al :ts of the allies or neutrals ng treaty exemption, would be! >d to leave the country , within ys. i ! Berlin, (Vis , Since the bre OF STRIKERS between the I AT KANSAS CITY i many, 470 Ar | from Germany isas City, Mo., Sept. 14.?A riot countries- Th ich police estimated more than pited by the A packing house employees and Commerce am sympathisers participated and|cated that the ich many shots were fired, took 1.200 Americ; AT U 1 TVi Wednesday night at Armour j L* 's. plant in Kansas City, Kansas, i therefore not he result that one man was fa- half of whom injured. Two others were sent) Americans i spitals suffering from injuries, lested and are i PAY LATER | i BED ?11} | 1 ter and boundary of human il si the sentiments of birth, death, jG 3ve; it is the sovereign throne < r, place of the dawn, the rich W lay; it soothes pain, calms S inc'tions in the mystery of :j g lace a thing of beauty and [ I * ire comforts of mankind. j j p iPENT IN BED THEN ? , OD ONE. TALK TO US 11*1 .P YOU HAVE A GOOD YOURS FOR BEDS, [j 1 4r HOME OUTFITTERS A Little Now==a Little Then j i ; which has not been de- police rules and travel restrictions as heutrals. Requests for. permits S f police of Kansas ^ity to cross the frontiers are granted in inced he would ask the the order filed. The routine, how lest that troops be sent ever, frequently necessitates a wait^_ rder. of three or four weeks. ^ ^ i was the first of a se- I* ;o break out in connec- SPECIAL .SERVICES. I packing house strike, . , . , ' . V;v' in in progress almost a SPe.cial se ces ^fe ^eld^ 1 g in the idleness of sev- Associate Reformed Presbyterian ^ men and the virtual church last Sabbath. Dr. Moffatt , J perators at several 0fjPreached 111 the mornin? in ^e in-^1 lacking1 establishments1 terest of the Endowment Fund for I Erskine College. He gave an inter- " I ? . I esting and instructive history of the I ?rs occurred when a ,, , - .. . . ^, I . college and of its services to the I cers assembled before , , , . .. , J . , , .. ... church and to the people. x ,jM ilant and began mill- At the night service8 Dr. MoffatfU j "?0refe!JP oyees w ? devoted his talk entirely to the great! e s n e ou war setting forth the causes and i Some one threw a ., ' , , . , . , ~ ttt j the why and wherefore of America truck Ora Wood, a . . .. , , . , . I | entering the war and emphasizing ractunng his skull. ^ ^ America ^ derive 5 fere thrown freely, and .. , rm. u j j as a nation and the great good that sgan. The six hundred ... , . b , . , .. . ,, we will do in the wrfr. The sermon > ought shelter in- the! , ... i_- ? * , , ,, was such? as to stir . the patriotism ! yards, where they re , of all those present. ore than an hour. > , * The singing was especially good CiC UP THE ^oth at the morning and evening I FORCE AND ROB service. In the morning Miss Margie ' . 4K AND POSTOFFICE Bradley sang a solo which was great . ly enjoyed. At the night service ~ Mo., Sept 14.?After!M ' si?n /n,d, Lillie cl"k ; res leading from Sulli-i \ due\Bnd Mrs. Plaxco a solo. All - - l+Viaco Viqvo falont anH their sinfi'incr niles southeast of here, r"v,"v ile bandits early today adds much to the services. o town marshals and a' * ator in a box car, rode! . A PLEASANT MEETING. . town firing guns to' ? . tens stay indoors, blew! Mrs- Fanme Thomson entertained te People's bank, rob-lthe Missionary Society of the Assofice and escaped. NeWsc,ata Reformed Presbyterian church is telephoned to the gt: * the home of Mrs. J. C. Klugh last rom towns near Sulli-! " ^ ich booty was obtained!was d?voted to the interests of the. learned' 'mlsslons an" a special program was , ! enjoyed. Among the especially en MERICANS ijoyable features was a solo by Miss i NOW IN GERMANY Margie Bradley and a duet by Miss Lillie Clark and Mrs. Gertrude Sign i London, Sept. 12.)? and a reading by Mrs. Plaxco. ' aking off of relations An interesting announcement Jnited States and Ger-|made by the treasurer was that aJ nericans have departed J gift had been made to the society "* r for home or neutral by Mrs. Simpson, the mother of Dr. ie census recently com-1 Simpson, to be given to the Mdunmerican Association of j tain Mission, which is just now ' en-' 1 Trade of Berlin indi-' gaged in improving its property, ire were approximately | Mrs. Simpson is interested in the Seans in Germany on! ceder church and her gift ' is much e present number will. appreciated. greatly exceed 700, | The meeting was pleasant in ev-t are living in Berlin. J ery way and the society is indebted I continue to be unmo-lto Mrs. Thomson for a most helpful I : subjected to the same j afternoon. I