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PBBI^?HB^^^*^WCP!5i^^VN^D7\I\1NEK tUMrAN 1 PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY Menday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. ? F"* X -| t Entered as seccnd-class mail matter at post office ?-?i ?* n n m ADDeviiie, a. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 i Six months 1.00 j Ei Three months .50 mc ! fee? -ITTJI. ' FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920. WHY NOT A DOUBLE SESSION DAY? The superintendent is preparing a questionnaire, a copy of which is soon to be mailed to the parents of each child enrolled in the city schools, to determine just how the majority of the people affected feel about the adoption of the double session day m in both the graded and high schools next session. (Such a daily session is practically universal in I the Northern, Central and Western States already, and is being rapidly introduced, into the Southern States. As we see it the only possible argument I against the adoption of such a session in the South lis the climate, which is a bit uncomfortably warm the first six weeks of the session and prqbably the last four. But as to that argument, aren't most of the children in the sun practically all of the afternoon^ when the weather is warm? Under the new plan, the schools will be in session from 9 to 12:30 o'lcock. Then there will be a dinner hour given teacher and pupil from 12 or 12:30 to 1 or 1:30 o'clock. There will then be an Kg.:''' afternoon sess-ion of the schools from 1 or 1:30 to 4 or 4:30 o'clock. , Some advantages of the plan are: ' 1* It will break the daily school session into j two shorter periods, admitting of more intensive work when the children are at school and elimi- | Wj- nating the long stretch between breakfast and din- i asfr ner of the present arrangement. j 2. It will permit of the introduction of new subfile-: jects ihlo the curriculum thus giving a more diver- { fey/. sifie<i Course. Ej&r s 3. It will permit of more thorough teaching of the regular subjects now in the curriculum. 4. It will give the teacher an opportunity to do f; more teaching. At present her time in many cases is largely taken up simply in hearing lessons. Listen to what one poor overworked mother has to say I ' \ , of the present system: "I have four little girls attending your schools. I am up at five o'clock in the morning to get them' v off to school and to get myself off to work. It is ' six o'clock in the evening when I reach home again, pretty well worn out, and after we have had dinner and have tidied up the house a bit, it is eight o'clock. Then, tired as I am, I ait down and teach & the little girls the lessons your teachers will hear them say over on the following day. Now, if it is all the same to you, it would be a great help and favor to me if you will have your teachers teach the lessons during the day, and then all I would have | *-n flft of -nicrVit -urmil/1 hp fn VlPflr tVlPTTl S.1V them p vv ? ? fe ?ver5. It will give the teachers an opportunity to ' train the pupils how to study and to assist them in | studying. Actual experiment has shown that probably the majority of children have very little idea j how to attack their school tasks, and, when left without guidance waste a great deal of time. 6. It will eliminate to a considerable degree home study and the task which so many parents face in trying to teach their children at home. A j certain amount of home study, especially for the s older children, is necessary and should be assigned. These children, however, should be taught in school how to study the work assigned for home study and , should not be obliged to call on their parents for help. A pupil who is earnest but slow would be assisted. and a lazy pupil would be obliged to do at least a minimum amount of work in school. 7. The school buildings embracing a plant ( valued at over $50,000 are now used only four or j five hours per day for 180 days in the year. Allowing the school plant to be idle and unoccupied for so great a majority of the hours and days of the ( . year is unbusinesslike and uneconomical. Under the single session plan as at present, prac- I tically every minute is given to recitation. No teaching can be done as it should be done. It is a fault | of the system, not of the teacher, pupil or parent. j We are attempting the impossible when we attempt j to do a full day's work between the hours of nine and two. A longer day greatly increases the amount of work done, and at the same time must meet with i the approval of every business man in the com- j munity. The teacher's task should not be to find out how much a pupil has learned from home study but it should be to intelligently impart wisdom to him whether by project teaching or otherwise. ? n.nnln <<T <: 4 ovaic wm iiiuncuiaici^ oay, x juoi \*an u ?.. y be giving dinner at all hours of the day. Mr. ' doesn't come home for his dinner until two o'clock and I am sure he is going to have hot dinner. You school teachers are always trying out new fads just 4v. to see how much trouble you can give us mothers." It is no new fad at all. A great many of the fathers and mothers of Abbeville will today say that the best schools ever were the ones which they attended, beginning: at an early hour and continuing until late of evening. As one advocate of the double session says, "Often you could, in old days, see the school children and the ploughman returning THE LUCK OF HERBERT HOOVER. Thp Sfafp t.hinVt; wpII of Mr. Hoover on account of the men who do not like him. It says: "Luck comes the way of Herbert Hoover. Boies Penrose, "stalwart of stalwarts", United States Senator of Pennsylvania, the ideal Republican of the Republican party, has issued his decree against the consideration of this Californian by the National Republican convention. He declares that in 1918 Mr. Hoover called on the people to elect a Congress in sympathy with President Wilson and that, in the Penrose opinion, eliminates him from Republican toleration. Doubtless Senator Penrose, in this expression truly represents' the true-blue high tariff everything-for^business Republicans of the United States and when the convention meets in Chicago the name of Hoover will be on the tongues of no men who are not themselves under the tongue of Republican suspicion. Once a man was nominate^ for President who was "loved for the enemies that he had made." He was elected, too." The State does not notice that Mr. Hoover has other enemies whose names it failed to call. In a statement given the United Press Thursday, Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact that not only had Senator Penrose read him out of the Republican party, but Mr. Bryan had declared that he, Mr. Hoover, was not a Democrat to Mr. Bryan's likinc. Is Brvan one of the enemies made by Mr. Hoover for whom he should likewise be thankful? We have also noticed that Mr. Hoover in recent addresses advocates the ratifification of the Treaty of Versailles with reservations, stating that practically every thoughtful person now recognizes the necessity for reservations. Will this make Mr. Wilson an enemy of Mr. Hoover, and will he be among the enemies who will make Mr. Hoover's calling and election sure? C VVVVVVVVVVVVV VVVVV V v .t: v ^ THE OPINION OF OTHERS. V V V V VVUV^UVVVVV VVVVV V GROGGY SPRINGS. There is a place in Abbeville county named Groggy Springs. If it is what its name would imply, it is likely to become a very popular resort.?Newberry Observer. ,We regret that it becomes our painful duty to ir.fe-m Brother Wallace of The Observer, whose tongue seems to be hanging out, that Groggy Springs is located entirely too near Due West to be of any value as an oasis of any benefit to other than the theological students. Good wateriis its sole product. HAT OR NO HAT. "There are about forty live issues in this country to-day in which I am interested," says Mr. Hoover, "and before I can answer whether I am a Democrat or a Republican I shall have to know how each parity stands on those issues." Mr. Hoover, he wever, resists invitations to say what the forty issues are and his own attitude toward them. When asked to express opinions he smilingly tells the reporters, perhaps truly enough, "now you are trying to get me into' trouble." The public is familiar with similar aversion to exact statements by other conspicuous men, and it has generally been found that such are candidates. Mr. Hoover is a Western man and has a regional liking for frankness. It seems time for him to come out and say openly whether or not his hat has been thrown into the ring. No one will precisely know what the platforms will contain until the conventions meet, and although Mr. Hoover is inexpert in politics he is not so ill informed as to think there is possibility of either convention adopting a platform and then adjourning for a week or more to discover whether the same parallels the one Mr. Hoover has in the recesses of his mind.?New York Tribune. NO MORE CHEAP MEAT. / One country or several countries involved in a war may profit by it and come out richer than they were when they went in; but they profit at the expense of some other country or countries; and taking the belligerents as a whole, the loss resulting from the war is greater than the gain. The New York World points out that there is no hope of cheap meat for a long time to come; and the reason why there is no such hope is the fact stated above. This war impoverished most of the WArlH if HomnlicViP/1 unrl Hocfrrtva/1 an-if woe *vc_ I pecially destructive of the world's herds. It depleted the total of the world's livestock to an unprecedented extent; and this is a species of destruction that cannot be made good in a year. The whole world will pay the penalty, this country among the reSt; for with Europe's 'herds almost wiped out, the European demand will increase the prices here. The war brought much money in to the United states, it made a good many Americans rich. But Americans in the mass will be paying for it for a long time to come in the form of high prices for meat that used to be cheap. This is not a cheering thought for the consumer. But for farmers in regions of America where livestock can be raised cheaply and successfully?as in lower South Carolina, for instance?there is opportunity in it.?News and Courier. : - _ ': * ! - - - . - - ' - -1 ! Abbeville | I I I on A TVi icl I * JL UOI We have moved into our Ten Cent Store in the roon G. E. Calvert. At presenl ters remodeled and reiinis It will be a better, more to do business. We feel s think so. Our quarters are on the equipped. All in line witl pansion to meet developin I You are given a cordial i visit us. Abbeville a I Trust ( g We buy and sell Real E: | in every form. 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