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ESTABLISHED 1844. , , The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. ' i ' If. G. CLARK, Editor. The Press and Banner Company Pubished Every Tuesday and Friday. ~ xt? -t n ieiepnone iiu. .lv. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office i:: Abbeville, S. C. . ,(v Term* of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .60 Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1919. GREENVILLE AND GREENWOOD. We believe it was J. Gordon Coogler, , the poet laureate of Columbia, who penned these lines: . The red bird hops upon the snow The blue bird hops also. And ntf sooner had the Spartanburg Journal commenced its assault on this paper, endeavoring earnestly tc be of some service to an institution, not of Due West alone, but of Abbeville County, and of the whole South, (when it fulfils its mission) than the Honorable Rion McKissick, of the Greenville Piedmont, became partlceps criminls in the assault. Quoting a few lines from a well Ipown "human composition," and essaying to sit "in the scorner's seat," in plain violation of the injunction of Psalm 1, (C. M.), he rattles a three months subscription which he has just taken in for the circular which he Drints every afternoon but Sabbath after" in I r noons (which he spends alternate^ m Marietta, at Traveler's Rest, and on Glassy Mountain,)?we say he rattles the three months'subscription against the billy barlow given him by a co-conspirator for selfdefense when he and the editor of the ^ Spartanburg Journal escaped from Richmond by fording the River James, andv speaks of our proposed gift of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Erskine . College as "a miserable sum," going on to declare that Abbeville has not had that much money since Confederate currency was in circulation here. 1 Well, one of the reasons why we have no more than we now have is that we have contributed too freely to help the heathen in other counties. Last Sunday Dr. Louis J. Bristol (who by the way has pledged ~ u:? ?nn-oneration in getting US ins sujjjjui i> u>.u . 1Erskine College for Abbeville) took up a collection of fifty thousand dollars in his church here, the greater part of it to be spent in sending missionaries to the darkcorners of Spartanburg and Greenville counties, and tha balance to endow the {wo colleges in Greenville, where pulsates the Piedmont. * And what is Greenville doing? We went i up there last Saturday and all we he^rd I was stocks, stocks, stocks?stocks everywhere, and all we smelled had the aroma j of having been made in a lard can and of having been carried to town In a gourd. We tried to talk to several of the high fin?nnifirs of the city about Furman and the Greenville Female College, the latter, | since it received the Abbeville donation, ! abofct to enter the list of Class "A" coli leges in-the South. But there was no response except of stocks. It is said that the mr?*n trade stocks at prayer-meetings on J Wednesday evenings, that the women | carry their shares to bridge parties j concealed in their stockings, and while r:nc partner plays the hand of bridge - at one table her partner undertakes to swindle the idle partner at the next table by trading Woodside for Watts, or VictorMonaghan for Duneen. It is even said that, one of the bright Sunday school pupils in Major Haynsworth's Baracca class j asked him the other day if John the Bap-. I tist was a cotton mill man. What are you going to do with such a community? No woiider the Baptists are undertaking missionary work among them, and the Seceders being taxed to build churcnes for their enlightenment! The Piedmont goes on to say: "In the second place, Abbeville is no place for an institution of learning for pious young men, such as frequent Erskine. The sinful cigarette, the proscribed waltz and two step, card-playing, novelreading, the dram and drama are to be found in Abbeville. There i^ frequent bold mention in the Pre s ami Banner from lime to time of a "poker cniicife," faithfully attended, it is aaid, by so-called | 1 ' ?LI III.. | niupcn memoers 01 auuoiiic. hjui c ij. ; the railroads run there -in the Sabbath, a heathenish practice never permitted in Due West. Moreover, Abbeville t is but a dozen miles from Greenwood with its multitudinous metropolitan lures for innocent youth. ! From all of which we are led to believe that Brother McKissick does not attend the new Seceder Church in Greenville, else lie would know that the psalm-singers are here to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance. The idea of the work to be done is expressed in a practical way in the colloquy between two Irishmen. Pat had come from Greenwood to spend Sunday ** ? i_-ii w:i? wun nis Drouier, iviih.e. mmc iuun. u*.> visitor to the new Catholic Ghurch, where after the Priest and Mike had gone through some of the setting-up exercises now prac_ ticed in other churches besides the Catholic, Pat declared: "Mike, this does beat theidivil," to which Mike replied: "That is the intintion of it." The Piedmont, it seems to us as a progressive newspaper should join in the movement to give Erskine College a greater opportunity to accomplish a fine work among the 'people whose servant it is, The Seceders at Due West, a^ one of the trustees at a meeting in Greenwood expressed it?/ have too long tried to keep as a . secret the fact that a college is being run at that place. In the twenty years in which we have been an observer, not a hundred young men of Abbeville County outside "of those residing in Due West have been in Erskine College, nor have they been asked to attend that institution. If the college were located in Abbeville, in addition to the more than one hundred students which this city would furnish to its class rooms, it is believed as many more would come >? fnnm ciinnniinHiri(v nnnntmr no thair ill. 11U111 tltv OUll VUllUUl^ fV/UllVl J ) UO VlXV^J do to our fine High School, there to reap some of the advantages which come from .a school of higher learning. We might lead the people of the county t to- believe that all the young men and young womeq who are growing up- amongst i\s are wanted in the institution, and of a right should be there, rather than spread abroad in the land an impression that only a few may be udmitted. and these on suffrance. A magnificent college building located ! on one of the high hills about Abbeville, overlooking this prosperous community, with magnificent grounds for all college activities and on. whibh to build and grow, with the adjunct buildings which would come and with a community behind the. college which believes in putting up the cash would be an invitation to the other eighteen hundred or more young men and women of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church who are now being educated elsewhere, or not educated at all, to attend the institutions of their own people, and the invitation woiild be such that not one would elect jto say it nay. And what finer opportunity, could come to these young men and women than the privilege of dwelling for a season amongst a people of great attainments, fine ideals, and amongst a people who believe in progress along all lines, especially along intellectual lines? So mote it be! But of all the wild-eyed suggestions which/ have been made with regard to the removal of Erskiiic College from Due West to Abbeville, the very worst which has come to us is from the Spartanburg Journal, which thinks that if the college is to be moved at all, it should go to Greenwood. Does the Journal man not know that Greenwood can hardly keep up with Lander, and it is a one study college? A real old fashioned institution which teaches all the fundamentals, such as reading 'ritin' and 'rithmetic at the same time would be entirely too much for a settlement like Greenwood. \ * And then think of the extra work the removal of the college to that location would cast on the boys who stand at the street crossings and tell you, when you are in a hurry, and when not, about how fast that town is growing. What an amount of extra effort it would cast on them, when, too, they are already so badly over-worked! Col. George Hodges, we hear, has already lost his job as foreman at the Oregon crossing, and we are not surprised^ When we were there a little < while ago, he was so busy giving us a balloon ascension on how much wider a gallon of molasses would "puddle" in Greenwood than in any other city in the state, he let two strangers get by hlni without telling them that the population of Greenwood had grown three since the evening before?the leading plumber's wife having during the night presented him with twins, while a Greenwood woman married a husband in the lower part of the state, bringing him into the city under oover of the darkness. That is where besides Greenwood as everybody knows, | like the old gray mare, is not what she used to be. There were mighty men in Greenwood twenty-fives years ago. There was Dr. J. C. Maxwell, the grand old man among them all; and there was W. L. Durst, a man of great talents and of fine financial ability; there were Thos. F. Riley and Parker Jordon; Joel S. Bailey and Goon DuPre; they had Wm. H.'Bailey and Joel Abney, Bill McKinney, of the Gimlet, and Gapt. Rook; all men of great parts, who were willing to spend and be spent in the service of their city. But they have crossed over the river. Gad Waller has gone too, and while his brother, Hon. C. A. G. Waller still survives, he no longer infAi?pef. in thft affairs of the I latVCD an uwtTv/ Ii?v.v?. ... - .city. The men who made Greenwood have passed from life's scenes of activity. It is true that for a season Hon. A. Foster McI Kissick dwelt there, kept the city alive,and gave it something of the importance of its former days. But he tired of the job I and is now a citizen of Greenville. Who is left to make of Greenwood a college city? No one except Col. Charles M. Calhoun, tho author of a pleasing volume about Greenwood ,in the early days when the men wore copperas breeches, and knit "galluses," and when the cow bells soundf d along Main Street. as the cows came marching home when the North wind began to blow. It may be said of him thot he is entitled as a literary man to rank with Samuel Jordon, of Abbeville County, who during the war wrote a volume entitled, "The Ensign of Liberty, or . The Wicked One Revealed," and who with his mule and buggy was arrested by Fed1 1J in T\JnrtVi HornlinR erai soiuiers sumcwucic ?*? *w??. ?? while he was on his way to Washington to settle the fracus which the South was having with Abe Lincoln. And the only big financiers left in Greenwood now, men big enough to pay out money for a college, are Hon. Sam. H. McGhee and Col. Ben F. McKellar. And Honorable Sam would hardly undertake the enterprise." His business ventures in Greenwood are too insignificant as comi pared with his more important activities, 'in New York, Washington, Baltimore and Pearl, Ga., to give any ground for hope that he would undertake the'work. And of Col. Ben it may be said that his style of architecture would not suit a college.. His handsome home on the Cokesburjf . road may be something for wondermentamongst his neighbors in Greenwood, and ' l-I ?...^nilnninn tKair rraiCk Vklli W lipuil WlJiUii wuuucmig, gubt/j uui xv has never been decided, nor even suggested in a dissenting opinion by Fraser, J. that "cologne Volumes" would lo'ok handsome hung on a college. ' ^ > v f ' / . , . - r ( ill II " 1 Have You Had as Gr j CLOTHING, SHOE | DERWEAR, SWEA1 Boys, a Big Closing Which Began Novem Long as the This Stock Positiv ary 1st, as the Store I tiejs and We Must Va< M. AND CLOTHIh ? ; i i 11 If II !i if = _ 1 1 PREACHERS SALARIES. . :'' Most preachers eke out their existence \ on a little salary, a little charity and God knows what else. Few of them receive a: living wage and it's the preacher in a million who can save anything for old age. That business man is counted a failure who only makes just enough to meet living expenses, while ninety-nine out of every hundred preachers carry in their minds the never lessened burden ;of t thought, the fefrain'of which is, "tfbw am' t. to meet this month's bills and the past due bills?". As for saving for the future, j it just isn't done among preachers. * How is a preacher to do his best Work " V harassed by the bills of the butcher, the baker and the candlc-stock maker? It cannot be done; and that Church handioaps. itself in direct proportion as adds the worldy care of meeting the cost of living to the ecclesiastical burdens of its pastor. * St. Paul was mighty frank in the mattaf of a preacher freeing himself from worldly cares in order that he might aspume added churchly duties and if a preacher is 1 to accomplish his best work, worldy cares, insofar as is possible, must be lifted from his shoulders. Adequate (Compensation is the least that a congregation can do for its pastor and,'if the church is able,, this should be done without question. v Some preachers have bravely, and wfcat amounts to almost .rank, heresy, taken a; firm stand for adequate* compensation. These preachers are to be commended and' ' \ if more preachers would take this stand it would further the solution of the; salary question. Every preacher should receive not onlv a living waare but enourii so that a small amount could be laid aside every year against that certain day of superannuation-?and charity. , . . . ^ The Lord will provide, but He will provide through the congregation and not in * pittances during years of active service so that when old age a'rrives, the preacher* becomes an object of semi-charity. If the Church is to be successful institution and command the respect and rev- v . ererice of the world it cannot afford to treat its leaders in a niggardly fashion. < Barely living wages and less than living wages are an insult to godly, courageous men who faithfully labor for the uplift of mankind. The congregations themselves suffer in the lessened efficiency of the ' % pastor and his dependents suffer directly and the Church as a whole suffers. 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