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JIUJXV . * j ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. * The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1919. AT THE UNIVERSITY. Should a man erect a structure and find when it was completed thatit was too weak to serve the purposes for which it was designed, it would ? not seem foolish, we think, should he tear it away, and from such timbers as were undoubtedly of good value, and with other timbers selected, build again, making sure that every piece of timber in the rebuilding was" strong enough to carry the j load placed upon it. v c ..v We see no reason why the same should not be true with a college or university. And we are not without, precedent in* suggesting this remedy * for the University of South Carolina. | It has been a good many* years since it happened, but there is a denominational college in South Carolina which once had a faculty which was not doing the work which the trustees and the patrons of the college thought it should do. The trustees, or the patrons, or the friends of the institution, we do not know which now, asked that the entire faculty resign. They did so. Some of those who resigned were not re-elected; others were. There were those no doubt who thought then that all y\ should not have been asked to resign ; I the friends of those who resigned , and were not re-elected thought then, and some people think now, that they were not fairly treated. But the work which the college *""" An wont, on; men . WOO vw %?v ?? ? ? ? J | - more alive to the situation, and better able to do the work took the places of eminent men who had for one reason or another been proved % \ ' unable to accomplish the work -demanded of them. The college was founded to accomplish results. >. And after all are not the trtrstees, Slid th? president and the members of the faculty, servants of tfie college, or the university, and in the j case of a state school, of the pub-i lie? Ff the public good demands ^ - . that they step aside and take their chances of being called again, no good man should, or will, refuse to ; do so. No man who is better able to do the work assigned ^him' than another man need have any fear that , he will not be called ?gain. Confidence will be given the public in this way that only the right men are being recalled for the work.The very fact that a man now emloyed resigns and is re-employed will j be the best, ejpdence tha$ he is .fitted do the wot-k which he has been Jdping. . ~ the fact * that . aonjg jjf "the. processors in the University volunteered their services to the government in the great war HOW being brought to a elosg, as praiseworthy as were their acts, has anything more to do with their fitness to be on the University faculty than ' would the fact that they are holding . cotton for thirty-five cents, or are * in favor of good roads, if either is a fact. 1 We are told by the early historians that the people who settled in * . South Carolina were a more favored people than those who settled some of the neighboring colonies. There were educated men > among them, men of letters, and*tnen learned in the professions. The ' people of South Carolina have always had men of education among them.. The past * history of the state owes much to this fact, no doubt. Being the institution in the state where a literary education is offered by the state itself, and an institution supported by the state for this purpose, we might expedt, rf'we-~ had ' .no knowledge on the subject, " con-' hretory-'-trf-tW I state and of the University, that it would be an institution of better standing than the Universityof Virginia, or the University- of North Carolina. But is it? If not, why' not? Will the most ardent advocate j of the University maintain that it' j is the ranking college of its kind in j the State? Will he maintain that it J does better work than' even the? de-j t -.11 _ iv. I nominationai coneges in me 3mk,i whose income are several times' less? ! If he can prove that it does, he will! surprise a great many people in the state. J t Will it be maintained that the University is-the place to send a young man in the formative N period of character building?a better place, or even as good a place, as some of fhe other institutions in the state? Are the restraints thrown around a young man there, and the i corrective measures taken, which " | should be taken to see that the boy develops into the man he should bfc? Do those in charge of the government ; i of the University keep up with what; I is going on in the University? If I ' ' | they do not, they do not perform J their duties as do the heads, of ojher institutions of learning in the state, j I It is true that other states institutions have' had trouble with stud-j ents. It happened at Clemson, andj it happened, the State tells us^ at. other places. But it has not happen-1 ed at Clemson since a man N>f realj executive ability Was elected presi-| dent. And it will not happen whenj that is the case. The State evident-1; ly misunderstands this paper when ; it says that we have admitted that! the statements furnished by the stu-., dents of the University are not to | be considered, or have been discred-i ited. We could not say that. We], do not believe that the students of j the University, who are young men L and not bays, and who speak what a; j truthful impulse tells them to speak, j would present charges such as have!' been presented in this matter unless ^ there were strong grounds to believe j that the charges are well founded. ! There may be, and no doubt there' has been fault at the hands of the | trustees. But the trustees do not" run the University,,we take it. Th^j president of the University, and the ] president of any other institution,!,] if he have the powers usually dele-! < gated to that official, is responsible ? for the succes or failure of any in-! i stitution or business, unless the busi-11 ness or institution is one which can- j 1 not be made successful. ^There is' j no us<if fheref&rg, to transfer what- i ever of Blame in fast attaches to j i the "administration of college affairs ! from the place where it belong to j 1 other shoulders, unless perhaps"Tiej ] has complained of matters whieh f s have not been corrected, or unless : < i his hands have been sovtied that he: could not act?in either of which 11 contingencies he should have re- j 1 signed. If the man at the head of j ] the institution is a gentleman and a 1 scholar, but not. a good executive,: 5 there is no reason why the students j 1 eVlAlllrJ nrvf oorr OA + /% 4-U/\ nn J 1 oiivuiu uwu CJC*jr OVJ CU blic tl UdbCCS, <%liU j 1 none why any any other person! 1 should not say so, as we see it. The i 1 only persons we know who would j 1 not be willing to say so might be' < trustees who are,:or have been, or, > . * i * -? V ** ' I J hepe to be, in politics; ,and we do,* not accuse any of the trustees of-theL University- c aiisef we do noj now rgcalLwho th.ey are. But politicians generally, who are' "in", are a poor set t0 unearth in-|< efficiency, and to correct abuses. 1 There i3 nothing which shows up ef-;l ficiency and abuses as well as turn- j ] ing on the light. If thertf is none i such, the light will reveal it." 11 - i( Whatever the outcome of the in-;-1 i vestigation which has been started, < and whatever the conclusion which 1 he trustees may reach as to the ob- < jections of the students, to President! Currell, we are still of the opinion, that he cannot afford to remain at, the head of an institution * where fllVAA fltA JA^^M /^A *1 A + uiicciiiuuo ui me otuucuta uu nv/u. 1 believe that he is doing the work which should be done, and who be"-' lieve he cannot do it. We stand patj on the statement that the day of his! usefulness is gone. If the State doesj not now believe that statement, and! if Dr. Currell is retained at the Uni-: vrsity, it will believe it. The president of the University! should be the foremost man in the state,, and a man who towers so completely over other men as to leave -n<K4kwri>t--^hat-he w~khe man for the position. The University cannot go before the public and ask for support except -upon the implied statement "that it is what it ought to be, and the friends of the University should be able to prove -that it is just that. Unless we are misinformed the public now doubts it. We see that President Wilson threatens to leave France and comej home, unless the League of Nations', covenants are promptly adopted. But then Col. Davis Kerr threatened to. break up a setback game Thursday nic^ht. and trn home if he did not win! the next game. But he didn't. I Some people-are too apt to con- a found a man's real ability with the a extent of his appointing power. , L The man who thinks there is an S end to expenses has not owned an,B automobile. ;?: The people up Main Street arestill skittish on the subject of paved, streets. Some of them are opposed j to them on the ground that they will, never be able to track possums andj rabbits after "the paving. ?r . I When cotton begins to come in next fall the-people in other sections will have reason to believe that we are all "natural born liars." . i I farmer Cooper, Farmer Ed. Smith, Farmer Lever and Farmer | Heflin seem to have been the Big Four at the acreage reduction meet- ; ing in Columbia last week. Each o?. cnem is trying to Keep xrom; npving a cough after the next election. Bps None of the county officers have yet resigned for the purpose of giving one of the soldiers a position ivhere he might continue-' to serve the country. When it is "ration day" and your, tenant fails to come in on time, you tiad best send a doctor. ANOTHER SOLDIER HOME. L - i' Private Ben W.* Williams, of fie 105 Ammunition Train, Thirtieth Division, arrived iiuthe city on FVi lay. Private Williams : entered &e lervice on Sept. 19^.1917, being it Camp Sevier. On May 26th, 1918 le sailed from Montreal, Canada, anding at Liverpool. From England, ifter being at Camp Winchester for, i time/ he went to France landing it Le Harve, On August 26th, 1918 j lis command went up to the fighting; !ine. He was in the fighting at St.Mihiel, the Argonn^ Forest, and in U1 the* big fighting towards the close >f the war. . Mr. Williams is a son of our es\ ' I deemed townsman, Col. Ben H. Wiliams, who is one of the trusted employees of the Abbeville Cotton j Vfills. He comes from good fighting j itock as far back as they can' be traced. He has lived up to the repltation of his people, and comes lome to them with the feeling of laving .done his duty by his coun-' ;ry. He is with his father for a few iays while he is reaching a decision jsi to ^he ^Work-he will do in the fu- " ?>? * ,- Vs.W.i ;ure as a civilian. ^X^ffCL NEAR GILGAL. - .- "...J ' -s George Belcher did not put Gilga^ Church on the-map but it seems that| le is to have something to do with, l ij. il TT - I! 4.L ? Keeping it mere, ne lives uii mc plantation of W. F. Radcliff, in a i mile of the church, but this does not keep him from liking tffe smell of a still. So he fitted up a lard can with a worm which he fashione^ out of iron pipe, and made a collar out of a tub, and was ready for action, even the mash, made of corn and molasses being in the proper state, when Sheriff Burts paid him a visit! on last Friday. George^was in town: \t the time. When he got home the( still was in town, and it maybe that; George will come down and stay^ with us awhile. DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL. Miss Pauline Caldwell, the fourteen vear old daughter of Mr. * and Mrs^ Ben Caldwell; of Antreville, j died Sunday after a short illness and J was buried at Bells Church Monday morning. She' was-V- bright^- yotlrig - * girl and her death brought sorrow to her rehitivee -antKri?nda.--'? -'IMl ^ B has been so fully est that any attempt to i sary. Conscious of the Kerr Furniture Co,, claims made for "ti ments in the.most c( in and hear THE Nl "The Phon \ % The World's i i NO NEEDLES TO * CHANGE. STOVES "'RANGES -. r <omuout iatt ^teOWBS Vl \4 n -1. "^H^w^fl . - H^^HB Caso - ; 4 rwnTiiT>^i>ru ' r^fnrr r ' t The Pre-Eminence UJ LIIC NEW EDISOf ablishecj. and the fact so^i further prove its supreme - j > f + ' /. * ' . \ unrivaled position of the feels that it can afford to liking machines." But t( >nvincing way possible, we r * ^ . ' t" " EW EDISOfl ograph With a Soul" Best Interperter oi Best Music $ ^ ' x # * w. . _ _ _ ' 1 TH W REASC t MICHAE are the cl Wm The peopl< W The peopl< W The peopl i Mnrlp hv t.VlP 1 K) .r ers of clol E ' "where g Hj from." 'i -. Sold , by cloth ^ . , and presti Worn bymer S well from m v . view, but B , in additio: ( Michaels-Stei stan(^ your . and that inspx . you that you1 ' style and'wes Come in an stock of1 Hats Collars, "Bo Shoes for mei Flno-lish and ] i- and Qxfords, r -.... .. tan. Ourpric I abb and yoi ,. enced salesm( We have e Iymtr young men ar n if 1 11 n & mean j i,..:V Tlor r.Iv> ? ?* generally accepted cy seems unneces- ! ' \ . jv v i 1/ New Edison, the \ be indulgent of the ' / > answer all arguj invite yOu to come r , ' V "V c the Worlds ' 1 . . \ ?. DIAMOND DISC PHONOGRAPHS ? ' **';v > ' .. *' 'ERS . ' /. . ' ' / V ' w?^ flHM ? nrr KJlil. )NS WHY LS-SIERNS )THES V nf/ips fnr 'iinii i e who make them e who sell them e who wear them. . argest manufacture . ;hing in. Rochester, : ood clothes * ct>me aw* N '"N tiers ot 'reputationy. j; i&p in vonr citv. " :' - i who want t'6 look;*;'; "\ the style point of \ who demand value # n. -ri Clothes will closest inspection, 9C*tion will convince . will get the most in ir j:or your money. rl lnnlr s?'f miv STVnncr I VA -1 Wli. WVV v q , Shirts, Ties, Soft stoniafis" Famous i. 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