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gt ' MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920.
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|| 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*
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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or and shapes to suit every age
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substantial saving on every pai
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B Ifs Spring Low Shoes for Men,
continue to arrive. You will fii
able you to fit the entire fa mil]
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