The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, January 05, 1920, Image 6
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920.
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j : OUR TRI-^EEKLY.
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We ar'e commencing this week the publication of
the tri-we&ffly,. We have been delayed for several
;:i weeks in making the start, mainly for the reason
^ that the office force was not large enough to do the
necessary work, and we were, like a great many
; other people, unable to secure other competent
V. j. help.
We have now so increased our force as to be
able to commence the publication of the paper
three times each week, and hereafter our readers
i' .may expect the paper on Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday mornings.
We trust that the paper will continue to com*
mand the support of its readers and customers ae
u koo nMt. We are endeavoring to give the
aw u?kl ?m wmv { _ people
as go5d paper as they will support. We
. commenced riot quite five years ago, taking over
the Press and Banner, then a weekly publication
with patent outside. Some two years ago we started
the all home print, semi-weekly, and the people approved
of the better paper we gave them, and we
, are trusting that the people will continue to appreciate
our efforts to give them all the news which a
county paper should carry.
THE CITY SCHOOLS.
In our article last week, we were in error in one
particular with regard to the action of the Board
of Trustees of the city schools. We stated that the
-L Board would ask that the two mills now levied for
i ; the retirement of bonds be henceforth used for the
purpose of making needed improvements and repairs
on the school buildings, and that an additional
? < ' levy of two mills would be asked for the running
expenses of the schools, when we should have said
that the additional levy to be asked for the support
ot the schools would be four mills.
?;? -- it Jaac urifVi mir increased levies for
voming w 10 uvco T??v?? v?? other
purposes we must not overlook the fact that
this makes more iponey for the taxpayer to raise at
the end of each year. The members of the Board
of Trustees were not unmindful of this fact in de^
x ciding to ask for the levy, but other considerations
induced them to pass a resolution that the increased
levy be asked for. The other considerations
t 'mainly, were these:
"l In the first place property cannot be reassessed
for two years. We are paying taxes on an assessment
of forty per cent of the values of two years
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ago, Willie property nus gic?.vi> cimouvsu ...
in that time. With this enhancement has come
higher living expenses, and consequently higher sal'
aries for all employees in the schools, whether
teachers or other persons. Hence there is no way
_ to raise the additional money required except by
increasing the number of mills levied.
Again, it must be remembered that more and
more work is being done in the schools each year,
? \ with more and more pupils each year, making a
demand for more teachers as the pupils com? In.
This year the teaching force has been increased by
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three tcachcis, and another year we must have at
least twt> more teachers than we have this year.
Lv; ? The salaries next year will be higher generally,
while the Trustees feel thfct TffS must Pay as
salaries as any ether school in the Btfttg order to
secure the best talent in the teaching profession.
The board will likely make $90 per month the basis
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for next year, which will be an increase of $20 per
month over the present year. This means practically
$200 mor? for each teacher in the public
schools, amounting to about $3400 increase in the
yeariy pay-roll.
Then, we must not forget that if we are to have
a-Superintendent of Major Fulp's attainments, we
cannot get and keep him for the salary now paid.
K v hisj there will be a substantial increase
" in the salary lo be paid the Superintendent, as
there will be also in the salary paid Mr. Daniel if
he may be pursuaded to come to Abbeville for the
next school year. These increases, with the salarie.
. - - .d..ionai teachers, waich we must have,
w *^sary to raise something like $6,000
to $7,000 more next year for the schools than
u\ v.' pittfciit year.
The taxable property of the school district is not
more than $1,.>00,000, and four mills additional
will raiie only $6,000, so that it will be seen thai
it, ^ a i ujthe four mills to give Abbeville
tlu . which the times demand.
Some will think this an exceedingly large amount
lo ?o good a cause as education, but
nonp will doubt, we take it, that education is the
mos: important of all the purposes for which taxes
ar vv2 will be plying fou:teen mills for
the jp-";c:'p of our schools, the running expenses,
anil salaries of teachers. This entitles every
eh! thj di-trict to an education without further
cos- d vv:th the schools which we now have, and
the improvements to be made from year io year, we J ^
do not believe the thoughtful citixen will question I |
the fact thr.t all the money is needed, and that ic
is being spent for a proper purpose. It will not
seem so large an amount either if you stop to consider
that the fifty Abbeville boys and girls now in
the colleges of the state are spending at least $30,000,
while we are educating more than six hundred
at home for half that amount.
And when it is remembered that not twenty per
cent, of those who commence the first grade ever
finish even the high school at home, and that a
much smaller per cent, even goes to college, and
even a much smaller per cent ever graduates, it
will be seen at once how important the local school
is to the average child in our midst. It will be seen
at the same time how#important it is that'In every
erade of the schools there should be the best teach
ers.so that every year in the schools shall be profitably
spent; that the child who is so soon to
leave the schools shall have in the short stay in
them the best the country has to offer in the way
of teachers. When these matters are considered
the public, we are sure, will agree with the purposes
of the school board in asking- the people to
vote as much taxes as the schools demand in order
to do efficient work. '
The levy to be asked will, of course, be a flexible
levy. The members of the Board of Trustees are
themselves taxpayers. Some of them pay considerable
taxes into the public treasury, and when property
is reassessed, if it is not necessary that the
full twelve mills be levied in any year, the public
may expect that only such levy will be made as is
necessary. At the same time the public will keep
in mind that other towns like Abbeville are already
levying as much taxes as we are now asking, and
that if we are to keep step with other communities
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we must not look bacKwara. a xew uo>o
looked over a list of the rural school districts in
Anderson County showing the amount of special
taxes being levied in these districts, and in many
of them we found the levy to be as much as twelve
mills. This is the case in many other counties. The
people are awake to the cause of education, both the
people in the towns and cities, and the people in
I the rural districts, and that community will not
j amount to much which does not offer to the boys
->nd girls in it as good opportunities as do other
communities.
"The Abbeville Public Schools?The Best in the
State. Let them grow." What say the voters?
MARSE HENRY TALKS POLITICS.
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He says he doesn't, but he does. He likewise
talks sense. It is more or Jess a habit with him to
do that if he talks at allt and he generally talks.
He is too courteously amiable to refuse to do that
when folks want him to, and that what they al
ways wank
So, when the New York Herald cornered him
down in Jacksonville the other day, Marse Henry
was his own kindly, cordial self, and answered
questions that were put to him in his own direct
way. Among other things, he said the Republicans
would carry "several" Southern States next year.
But how many are "several?" Would Kentucky
and Maryland make several?" He was not pressed
on this point, which is rather a pity. Thei% are
strange things reported as going on even in Texas,
and as for North Carolina and Tennessee, almost
anything might happen down there and nobody
would be much surprised.
- But Marse Henry lets in a possible side-light on ^
Solid South disintegration. He ciphers out that
there is no Democratic Party any more. In its
place there is only a Wilson Party. Mr. Wilson's J
health will not permit him to exercise his proprietary
rights pver this new Party, so he is going to
give it to his son-in-law, Mr, McAdoo. Thus the
"Wilson Party will go in the movies, anyway. Now, I
how much is this Wilson Partv believed in in the |
South? Senators Smith and Shields do n6i seem to j
be- held ir. any less esteem in Georgia and Tennes- j
see, respectively, for having gone over to the !
fold of the Blasphemers of the undotted i and uncrossed
t Covenant. On the contrary, their home
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| stock appears to have gone up several points com- ;
j cidently with their backsliding. c j
But Marse henry was rather cryptic when asked |
if he thought that the League of Nations was re- j
sponsible for the growing Republican strength in j
the South. "The Republicans have gained strength
in the South," he said, "from general conditions
and not from any special cause." A answer
and true if important. And on another point
Marse Henry relieved the strain of his interrogator's
curiosity with an equally sage observation:
fViic rin-nm riorVif. " hp said in reDlv to a
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question as to Democratic Presidential possibilities
in 1921?"get this down right, for it is important;
Presidential possibilities are always in the air."
True, true, how very true! And Marse Henry
might hive added that seme of them are always u >
in the air. What a pity it is that Marse Henry in
the same breath said: "Don't you know I am re.tired
and don't know anything about politics?" I'
is a pity he said this, because it somewhat detracts
"rom th2 interest of another remark he h:.d made
'.'efore, which was this:
"Mr. Wilson will not be able to lead this (the
Wilson-That's-All-rarty) because of ill health. But
his son-in-law, McAdoo, in line succceding, will
lead it to overwhelming defeat next year. Nothing
sc-cms surer than that the Republicans will sweep
the country in 1020."
And this from Marse Ilenry, who, if ever thcr?
was a Democrat, a staunch, loyal, fiery and fie.c;
Democrat, was precisely that Democrat! But that
was back in the days before Mr. Wilson had supnlanted
the Democratic Party.?Harvey's Weakly.
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we have.
We know of no better investment at pi
land in this section. In a very sho *t while
the county will command a price of aroi
If you want to sell list your farm with
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