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t IESTABLISHED 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. _______^__mmm???-_?M_ H. G. CLARK, Editor, The Press and Banner Company Pubished Every Tuesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. _ . . ? u iwoJl mnffpr at cost office Entered as sewuu-viaso in Abbeville, S. C. f Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 !; -V. ' '? Payable invariably in advance. i FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919. ' 1 OUR SCHOOLS. . . i ' : In our article last Tuesday we had ? something to say about the advantages to come to the city of Abbeville ftom the establishment of a school of higher learning * ?"i "onnlo hnvp. finm in our miasi. OCVClCli p^/Uj^rAv/ mm* v mended the article, and some have offered their co-operation in any movement which might be launched to secure for this place such an institution. We will come to it. Unless w0 mistake the signs pf the timefr present institutions of this class must greatly expand the field of their activities^ or there will be a great increase in the number of such institutions in the land to offer the youth of the country better edu[f > , cational advantages. Mention was however made of another^ class of institutions as much needed as these institutions of higher learning. The institutions now referred to tye proper fitting schools for the preparation of Students for standard colleges and universities. As suggested by Dr. Mann, ;of Greenville, sometime ago, either the colleges of the state are now doing high school work, or the high schools are undertaking to do college work, and the disease needs a remedy. The two should be coordinated. Our remarks now are directed at the pre paratory schools, and in particular to the j . Abbeville schools. \ We are not among those whq believe that a teacher should teach as a moneyI \ making enterprise any more than we bef lieve that a preacher should undertake to. get rich by preaching. But the .tiraes have I changed in the last several years,* and it take# a; great deal more money to live on than it did four or five years ago. Everybody believes that teachers and preachers , alike should receive enough to answer the demands of everyday life, enough to en. able them to have the comforts and con- ; v> . veniences of other people, and enough to enable'them to lay aside a little to keep , . the wolf from the door when he calls. ;? . It has been said that school-teaching is an occuoation for the most part for young ladies w&o have finished school, but who are not yet ready to get married, and who must be employed in'the' interim. This uufortunately is true to some, extent, but at the same time we all know that some of these young women have been doing, and are continuing to do, faithful work in the - school-room., Nobody finds fault with a young woman who is willing to get married when the proper time comes, and teaching school, if she has the right perspective, only fits her for the management of a husband and children in the future. And besides adequate compensation for the services rendered will only add to her efficiency, while encouraging some to i? n moHon r\f mnrp t.hfl n CL lilUVbV/i V4 M?V* w pastime. ,The teacher who would make of teaching a career for usefulness, and not an avocation, is to be encouraged. For that reason this paper endorses the article-sometime ago published in the columns, of Proper-Gander, our local school paper, advocating a higher tax rate for;the support of the public schools of the city. The schools are now in a most flourishing condition. Unless we are mistaken the schools now promise greater Blessings and advantages to the people of this city than they have promised in the last quarter of a century. This is due in part to the fact that the people just now are taking greater interest in educational matters than heretofore, but largely to the fact that the trustees of the schools have secured a superintendent of a high order of efficiency, and have undertaken to secure for our schools the best teaching force in the history of the schools. They have been enabled ot do this by reasdn of the fact , that the income of the schools has been . ; largely increased in the last three or four " years-Xrom th?,jnonaasfld assessment oi?? <>.. bpoperty. Bi*t<ifee irustees^fUhe school p 5* V t fered are still inadequate to command and V ?flI : :.;. : ' . $gf?| | . suits in our schools in thd preparation of our pupils for the college work which is to come after, and the college career is shaped right here in the public schools of the city, we must have more incomfe. We favor the keeping on our teaching force of every teacher who does superior work. We favor the elimination of those teachers whose work does not measure up to the best that is to be had, and the filling of their places by teachers of known experience and success in the w<Jrk. We can only do it by offering better compen sation .than they are now receiving in otner ^ schools- of like importance. We offer less now. Therefore, we are in favor of giving the trustees of the city schools authority to levy as much as twelve mills for the support of the city schools. The property in the city will not be re-assessed for taxation for ?he next two years and we may increase our income only in this way. With the additional sums of money to be realized from an additional two millfc, about the sum of three thousand dollars, we may increase the salaries of the present teach- ing force and perhaps be enabled to procure the services of an additional man in the high school work; if not, we may sup- ; plant one of the lady teachers by a man of good teaching ability. And we need male teachers in order to keep the boys in the high school. Boys at the age when they ire doing high school work resent being . , taught by young women. They make,, and toll make, greater progress under the tutelage of male teachers. And we are interested tin our boys. Too few of them are in the high school. They drop out too soon, and we believe largely for the reason suggested. They should be prepared at hotne fqr the college classe^, and they may be if the suggested changes are maae. - . i We do not favor, however; the discontinuance of the two mill tax now being ' levied for the payment of the school bonds. It is true that under the direction, first, of Dr. Harrison as Chairman, and later under the management of the Farmers Bank as fiscal agent of the school district, this fuhd has rapidly increased, so that il ls now . sufficient to take care of the bonds and the ' interest accumulating each six months thereon^ Bui the money which is how coming in may be profitably employed in making constantly needed improvements in the school buildings, in repairs apd enlargements; and it wUlnot be two years until we shfidl need considerable'enlargement of the high school building. l)he delegation from the county should be asked, at the next , session of the General Assembly, to have the Xct authorising ;tbis tax so (i.^ended as to give the trustees this authority, and when me L.oney t ..ould^be so employed! . ~ ; Let us all, stand in Abbeville for better and constantly better public'' schools,, We need the best for our children, ^ deserve the best, and we should, adopt, as' our * slogan, The Abbeville Public Schools-4-' The Best in tffe State. Let themijG(r6^ FRANK McGEE'S CHALLENGE; *' -< ( V ' > v >t.r ** *! ' , . * ' Frank McGee never looked quite so handsome and full of "pep" as he did last night, when; under the escort of a very beautiful woman, and followed * by the strong armed leaders of his conquering host of workers, he paraded through the aisles of the Converse Auditorium and planted his banner, hung with purple streamers, on the great stage bearing these words: 'The Winning Battalion," while! the audience shattered the circumambient with/iiheir cheers. ' i': There it stood throughout, the evening, at once the pride of the Purple Battalion and a challenge to all the other loyal workers in the present splendid campaign. ' , . . Don't forget that, gentlemen and ladies of-the White, Rainbow, Blue, Red and Gold Battalion*, it was a challenge to you and all your friends and allies. There is time enough left to come in under the string first in the final heat. Thirty thousand dollars more would pnt the White Battalion ahead ot the Purple last night; thirty thousand more wnuiH run n Rfiinhow around the Parole, and if John B. Cannon, in his threat that the Gold Battalion "are going to show you something" was not indulging in what has been described as heated atmosphere, thirty-nine thousand would make the 'lest in the line at this writing first in the honors of the great campaign. That is to say, of course, if the Purple Battalion should stop where it was lastnight, which it will not do or we much mistake Abbeville blood in Major McGee's veins and the courage and devotion of his Hne and staff. A challenge!?The Spartanburg Journal. ALWAYS BURLESON. It is perfectly dear that it was never intended that the invitation to attend the Set-Back Party in Abbeville last night sent to the chamyeen in Spar? jgsfm -r^Tomm??d?! tt A^^MW^rlaU^rVNBafieat4* 'frfr-ftqe West?Spartanburg Jettrnal. - *" ^ .fi >. ' NO ADVANCE IN PRICE . ac LIKELY IF M'ADOO'S w FIGURES ARE UPHELD P1 Washington, Nov. 26.?After an -n all-day session President Wilson's cabinet tonight adjourned until to- ai morrow without reaching an p/ree ment as to governmental action in an w effort to settle the C9al strike. Fuel m Administrator Garfield announced that he would meet cabinet members in the morning and resume considera: ^ tion of the question of a fair wage y scale for miners. p Before entering the meeting, At- o: j torney General Palmer said that if bi the figures as to operators' profits b given yesterday by former Secretary D of the Treasury McAdoo were cor- ti rect, it was not likely that Fuel Ad- a ministrator Garfield would permit an si increased price for coal. Any wage m I Single M I P \Jfj->-n lUCfi x * v ' . ; : ... . > We have both, an Styleplus people an Kuppenheimer de<i| ed them; they are \ the finest looking * ^ have ever seen. You'll like the doi pecially. They're d double-breasted suit ?the coats have hig flare to the skirts, nt lapels arid pockets. mi l ^ ^ -l Ii ne singie-Dreasw smart and popular, the variety we have x without belts; ultra ? tive or in-between. #> -.V.v't vi.-* " /' nv * , i ? i? * ." v * '.'***' -ntf< PARIf L_ L ? r ABBEVILLE gg ONE NIGH ? ^ ^ fl^BS - ' '^B ^ tf" HEADED /Iff t iff IHA ?? MKT xif: ??W??K-"4' 22? ?E! It ? M V:-.-? .ii;,::; & Ivances granted, it was intimated, I ould have to come out of operators' ofits. ' . Fuel Administrator Garfield in call . it i < 'iv _ a ' r g togetner yesterday jne operators i . s id miners representing all sections fl ive them a sjummary of principles 0 hich he said would guide the ad- c inistration in preparing a final plan n >r settlement. ' Both factions had a Afferent opinions after listening to * ie statement as to what increase, t ' any, would be allowed in, the ? rice of coal and the compensation I ? miners if the government's plan I ecame effective. Spokesmen for 1 oth operators and tinners' insisted 1 r. Garfield meant that their coin- ( adictory contentions were to be in>rporated in an agremerit, and both r des awaited< further official infor- s ! lation. 1, . mmi S BDu jyifll - V . | ?' " if ? In Suits For .. t and Young M '.f i .ic?v':?$& < -.' -V ' ' id plenty. Hie d the House , marl nnrl failnv. I without a doubt ] it' ' A uiU you or we _ ible-breasters es- m ifferent than the s of past seasons her waists, more Intf iw ideas in cuffs, I " ws 3d garments are Hal too. You'll like 8 ready; with or jjBfl stylish, conserva- I fl m T . : /i'fe.v " U 25.00 to $50.00 , . . . . 5 \ ' -v } ER & R . , >'; -tbAH " > mf* ' 2RA rn 1 fluesda i firrrr TER THAN EVER. nirv riii luX I unlT RE VAUDEVil 'I" 1^. .1?. .* ^ i , $1.00. FKm Street Parade andBiai& u invlot r cat>i a * uhw - IS! .l^UinOLX* OUVlALi bfXUI^ eason was a dance given ?n lot F*v >* H f the American Legion. HaXFit" fl ? 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