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The Press and Banner & . ! ABBEVILLE, S. C. L g,- i 1 14 ^ Dor. ? . a n Pnni r?ii n\7 [ I MC fl'CSS ttliU uviiiuunr PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY I Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. I j ? ! Entered as second-class mail matter at post office ir. Abbeville, S. C. Er. ... i Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 I Six months 1.00 Three months -.50 gt ' MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920. i || GOOD RQADS. . I In order to give the people of this county as much j information as possible on the question of road building, the Press and Banner is itself seeking j information from those who are in position to know something of road building. A few days ago we wrote Capt. Ellison A. Smyth with regard to the roads in Greenville County. Elsewhere in this issue j Capt. Smyth's reply to our letter will be found, telling us of his observations with regard to good roads in Greenville County. What he has to say ! Ip?. is worth considering. There are one or two things in Capt. Smyth's letter which should be carefully considered. One is that any kind of a road will need attention, and that when the roads^ of whatever kind, are built, j ft1!; the people will not have finished their task. As ICapt. Smyth expresses it, "Good roads are like liberty; and need constant vigilance to insure their usefulness and efficiency." Then again, the people should think of what he says about the top soil roads in Greenville County. These roads, he says, have "on the whole" been "eminently satisfactory, PROVIDED they are | scraped when required." And just here Capt. Smyth j gives us some idea of the work necessary to keep | the top soil roads "good." He says these roads should be scraped "certainly every two" months," fc' ' indicating clearly that in his opinion work should be done on the roads much oftener than once in two I months if the roads are to be kept in proper con- | dition for fast traveling. Another thing sugg< ts itself to Capt. Smyth and \ i . 'that is the difficu y in replacing the top soil. The nearby supply, we judge, from his letter soon becomes exhausted and in order to secure the mater* ?1 ~ A /I O ^ 11 O f A 11 CO ! lai xor reiiieuymg ucictto in mc uut kV ,v*^ it becomes necessary as time goes along to obtain j this top soil from places more and more remote. > And in order to give some idea as to the length |j. of time which this top soil remains on the road, after stating (as we have already quoted) that the roads must me worked at least once every f1*") months, Capt. Smyth says that the greatest enemy of the top soil roads is the cut-out on the motor cars, principally on the tfticks. From all of which we judge that it is the opinion ot Capt. Smyth that if Abbeville County expended six hundred thousand dollars on top soil roads, and then worked them only once in two years or once in five years, or not at all, as is the custom in some places in Abbeville County, the cut-outs would soon nitrn?T oil fknf fV?o vaine /?1/1 Tlftf 11TQ cVl QWQV A Y\ KVT- uiuw aw ay an txiot one J. aiuo i*vw tt mou " " " j ao a pertinent question in the circumstances we ? would like to ask the people who keep track of these things if the roads which we already have would not be passable practically every day in the year if they were worked every two months. It becomes more and more apparent to us every day that it is a loss of time and a waste of money and good materials to build dirt roads. We should at least build something which the rains will not wash away, and something which the cut-outs will not blow into the adjoining fields if we are to atgr tempt road building by the thousands of dollars. But let the people think about it all. The decision is witfy them. We invite them to read Capt. Smyth's letter and we urge them to think about its contents as well as to investigate for themselves. They are the people who will decide the issue, as well as the people who will pay the freight. They are therefore interested in having the goods delivered. ? ' ' ABOUT UNITS. We notice that the South Carolina University is tc adopt, or has already adopted, the 13-15 unit re quirement for admission to that institution. This means that fifteen units are required for entrance, but that if thirteen units have in fact been credited j tc the student, he or she may be allowed to make i up the two units still requisite. ?'"1 This is well, and we hope the other collies will do the same. There is no need to have an eleventh grade in the high schools, or even a tenth grade, if students are taken from the ninth grade into the colleges of the state, and we understand that a principal of one of the schools in the state charged at the recent meeting of the Teachers' Association !" that it was impossible to have a temth grade in that I particular school for the reason that the colleges ir that town offeied to admit students from the r.mth grade and actually admitted them. Mud is the middle name of Greenville Street when the ground is not frozen. m 1 ? THE OPINION OF OTHERS. V V VUUUVUVUVVVVV V BETTER PAY FOR TEACHERS. The economic disorders which have followed the war are about to disrupt the city's teaching force. Nearly 1,000 public schrol teachers have resigned since Septemoer. Their places cannot be filled at the low salary rates which now prevail. Living costs have risen to such an extent that teachers actually are getting from 3r to 50 per cent less in real money than they got beiore the war. In the private schools tuition fees have beer, raised. But in the public schools there is no source of added income except the city treasury. And, un- ! fortunately, those of its employees who do the real i work of the city?like the firemen, the teachers "and th.* policemen?always find it hardest to overcome the reluctance of the political authorities to leward efficient service. The teacher class is one of the most self-sacrificing units in the community. It luckily is inspired by a high professional ideal and a long, cultivated sense of duty. Otherwise there would be few \ teachers left today. Teachers also perform one of the highest tasks of civilized society, yet just because they give much the selfishness of the public usually expects them to give more. The war has had a calamitous effect in destroying the old balances between earnings and cost of living. A limited class has benefited enormously, both absolutely and relatively, from this economic dislocation. Most others have been drawn into a fierce struggle to restore the old equality by pushing wages up to the new level of prices. In some industrial occupations this level has been attained completely. But there are many other occupations :n which, instead of a 100 per cent equalization, j only a 50 or 25 or 10 per cent equalization has been rcached. In still others there has been practically I j no progress at all toward equalization. The groups which have been the most conspicuous victims of the economic upheaval and of socie- ' I j ty's inability to alleviate its consequences deserve great public sympathy. Their lot ought to be improved. The only rational economic goal for all of ! us is a nearly complete equalization of the gains and losses of war readjustment. It is one thing for the public to resent further demands for increased wages from groups whose wages already harve increased 60, 80 or 100 per j j cent. They are near the end of the process. They can let up for the moment. But it is another thing to support wage increases for groups like the teach- I j ers who have been caught in a back eddy, who have had practically no advances in wages and who have Xo bear the burden of a general inflation from whicn they have had no benefit. I I | New York's teachers oug>it to be better paid, j ] I hey are entitled to larger salaries. And tney are also doing a social work which it would be dangerous to abridge any further by continuing to deny them a plain measure of economic justice.?New York Tribune. f ! THE DE LA HOWE SCHOOL. The Genei-al Assembly last year provided for the erection of a new building for the John de la Howe Industrial School in McCormick County and in pur- | suance of it the building has been in part completed. The steady rise in cost of construction makes necessary an additional appropriation. The | ] board of trustees are requesting that the appropria4-i r>r? cUnll a 4- AnlnxnfA f V\ rt e A 1 - WISH snail uc suixivicnt IU ciuaigc uuc uuuuin^ ou = that it will accommodate one hundred pupils instead of twenty-five?in other words, they would like to J f have $65,000, v lieve, so that two wings may be added to the cent* ? structure. The de la Howe foundation is one of the earliest made for benevolent purposes in South Carolina. ' | Dr. de la Howe more than a century ago bequeathed his plantation for the purpose of educating friendless children and the State has at last taken over the responsibility of supporting it. The school has 1.900 acres, one thousand of which under the tenms ot the will remains forested, which is evidence of 1 the foresight of the testator. A ? ? it. <s?i : T< rva a otatc lusbibubiuu, tue sunuui lb unique. it ; = provides for the education of normal children and is not in any sense a reformatory or an asylum for the feebleminded or the naturally vicious. In short, it takes care of the poor child, boy or girl, born to an unfortunate environment, a little child left an orphan or one whose life may be worse than fatherless and motherless. Little ones of this description it provides a home for, nourishes and trains for useful, self-respecting manhood and womnahood. Its doors are open to a class of children that are usually denied admission to the church institutions and who, through no fault of their own, would lose the fair chance that every child ought to have in a state that truly appraises material of citizenship. I I | The tax rate is to be high but it is certain that it j | will not be so high as to measure the ability or the duty of the tax-payers of South Carolina to train toys and girls. The levy for school purposes might j | be far behind most of her sister states in the field of education. Having adopted the John de la Howe School as a g state institution, the General Assembly should give if f lio fi?nnrol crmnny^ f V* n f if vnmiivAn f a A r\ utavIt jv tiiw ^cuviui owj'pui u tuat 11# lc^ujica uu i uo vruin ully. It would be economy to educate one hundred lather than twenty-five children and the matter of a few thousand dollars should not stand in the way of the enlargement. Our people have come to the point that they do not grudge dollars when they | know that they are well spent on objects of this kind.?The State. A j?? z z ,u, it1 IS II I The Rosenber m 1! Department 1 II ??ur Abbeville, S. Stores BE if 1 ii | [j Main Stree ==?= || sasss 1| / At this time when Spring M arrive daily it is almost impossi merit justice. Our Boys department is no\ Spring patterns, materials anc both boys and parents. Our Men's department is gr tractive Hart Schaffner & Ma at $42.50. Spring Hats from Stetson, N or and shapes to suit every age Full line of Men's and Boys Our New Shirt Case which hi filled with beautiful shirts. No here, nor a tie to match. | |j HOSIERY? For Men, Wo bought for a great deal less tha substantial saving on every pai A complete line of Men's an wear. We are agents for the mi Chair " Union Suits and senar, "J?5 = = Mull and English cloth. B Ifs Spring Low Shoes for Men, continue to arrive. You will fii able you to fit the entire fa mil] Each pair properly priced. =E | ? Collars, Gloves, Hose Suppo Handkerchiefs, Overalls, Extra m If j ~ ?..n i: ~*i c diiu a iuii line ui uiuci luimoi M II Use this store as the Main En Hardware and Dry Goods Stoi B it Tur 1 1 ILu 11 Rosenberg . a m _ - . 15? ? 'I | jj'j1 j i M ?l( g i! 3 " ii I ' If 9 g Mer. Co. || I j Stores l! | r Many Departments |j I :,| f| B v, Store 11 v r* -- - gg erchandise continues to jj ible to do each departi f fi| . . v filled with beautiful I values that will please ii I $ adually filling, a few atrx Young Men's models SEE / * ftj! o Name and Metz in col; and taste. |J Caps. r 1 olds 25 dozen shirts is trouble to select a shirt jjjgl . men and Children, were m the present cost. A d Bovs Soring Under Lich advertised "Rocking ate garments in Silk Won>en and Children tid that our stock will eny with the proper shoe. rters, Suspenders, Belts, l Trousers, Work Shirts tings. jj H itrance to our Grocery, res. IV/l?ki* Cn II B LTlVle V/Vc ^ ^ i i si mimmmmmmmmmmrnrn