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The Press and Banner
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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H. G. CLARK, Editor,
The Press and Banner Company
Pubished Every Tuesday and Friday.
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in Abbeville, S. C.
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i FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919.
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1 OUR SCHOOLS. .
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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
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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
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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
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V t fered are still inadequate to command and
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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; *'
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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?
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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
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