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Abbeville, S. C.
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Monday, March 22, 1920
NEW SCHOOL LEGISLATI
The state board of education
journed Saturday afternoon a:
two days' session in the office <
governor. This was the first r?
quarterly meeting: of the boare
1920. The principal business wi
discussioin of new school legisl
We shall quote and comment on
of the new laws which apply ge
ly to all schools in the state.
1. An act providing a minimun
school salary of $100 per moi
districts where trustees agree
cept this schedule.
The Abbeville city school
has agreed to pay this amount
high school teachers next sessio
2. An act to relieve the
crowding in the elementary g
of high schools (fourth, fifth,
and seventh grades) and to pi
an adequate corps for such g
This law prescribes a maximui
rollment of 25 pupils per teachei
a minimum salary of $90 per i
for those holding a first grade ci
cate In order to benefit by thi
visions of this act the salary scl1
murt be accepted by district tri
before state aid can be paid out
The local board of trustees
voted to pay all graded school 1
ers, who have had previous suec
experience, a minimum of $
month. An extra teacher is be
1 * 1 xl. A ^
lowed in rne sevenui graue uv.-.sion
which will enable every ch
the schools to have individual
tion. This grade was the only
crowded one in the city schools
the exception of the primary .?
at the cotton mill school, which i
tion was relieved this year by ?
the double session day and an i
sion of teaching hours.
3. The equalizing law guarani
adequate salaries and a seven ir
school term for rural districts "<
an eight mill tax. Under the
visions of this act the principal
one teacher or two teacher i
may be paid a salary of $1
month, the principal of a
teacher school $110 per month,
principal of a four teacher <
$120 per month, of a school en
ing five or more teachers $130
month. An assistant in any 01
schools holding: a first grade c<
cate license will be paid $90
month. Since the constitution c
state provides that trustees mus
ploy teachers and fix their sal
the acceptance of this wage sch
is contingent upon the cooper
and approval of the local boards
Quite recently writing in
columns of some of -the le
brought to our attention by
Luceo Gunter supervisor of rura
elementary schools, in his addre
the Abbeville County teachers,
remarked that only one district i
county was at present eligibl
benefit from this legislation.
In Sunday's- State t' ere appea
list of the counties in which s
districts had been mailed checks
their proportionate part of
money for extending terms, incre
teachers' salaries and in giving b
educational opportunities in prer
The total amount paid out to sc
last week was $249,900.00. 01
quarter of a million dollars schoi
Abbeville county received the 1
some sum of $2,300. And only
schools in the county shared this
300. Anderson county schools,
of them in sight of some Abb<
, county schools, received seven 1
as much state aid, or $14 600.
this partiality you say? The ar
is simple. Because while only
school districts in this countyvoted
a special tax of as much as
mills for school purposes, forty-s
districts in Anderson county
four mills and over special
Even little McCormick, not ye
enough to have a court house
exactly as much of this free moni
1 Abbbeville, who is old enough to ha
whiskers. Yes, there is no questii
: but that Abbeville County does ha
moss on thet back, when it comes
| unpvogressiveness along school lin<
I. The cimemlment to Sec. 17
of the code raising the maximi
:5>'- local tax allowable for current f
nensos from eijrht mills to fifte
mills. Since the high school law
,er at lo\v> a four mill high school levy, a
approved high school district may n
vote, without securing further i
thoritv from the general assembly
$2.00 ; . .... ,
^ tax of nineteen mills for current si
-q port. The state board of educati
urges every high school district
raise its levy to at least twelve mi
Notice appears in this issue of 1
Press and Banner of an election to
ON
held April 20, for the purpose
j levying of four additional mills \
the current expenses of the c
fter ti
^ schools which amount will raise 1
total school tax of this disrict
.gular |_wejve mjus> just over half the
mount now allowable.
is the
We print in another column of t
issue a letter received today by t
some SUperjntencjent of the city scho
ner " from the state high school inspect
This report of the state high schi
1 1. inspector on the general condition
1 m the city higR school must appeal
ac every citizen of Abbeville. With
thp rimpressiveness coiner on arou
Vir\n r*r1 r"" "0 w w
us, the present high standing of c
to the gghoois^ we (j0 not believe it p
sible that a single vote will be cast
over" gainst the extra four mill levy,
grades
sixth THE COMIC PRIMARY AGAIN
ovide
lades. Several irredeemably obscure bi
111 ?n~ lesque candidates for President ha
r with ?urne(j Up jn Presidential prima
es 1920 as those of ID 16.
Oregon the comic spirit of the p
s pro- .
, , n.:rv is amusing itself with nonur
tedule . ... _ . ,
tions ior Vice-President, we lea
ustees
from The Morning Oregonian thai i
, titions have been filed "for the Vi
? has
teach Pres^(^en^a^ nomination of Elwo
essful Washington, w'10 ^ 1S alleged (
90 a wc can 11 conceive up
to al- WMd) is :: de.?emian*. of t
;t ses- ?f his country ,and of Sann
lild in Adams, whose press agents says
him that hp is a "member of t
atten- ?
over_ Adams family that lias already giv
with lwo presidents to this country.'
Tades Any person who describes hims
condi- or 's described as a descendant
laving George Washington is necessar
3.\ten- comic. Everybody named Adams
a member of the Adams, as likew
teeing of the older Adam's family. It woi
lonths have been more refreshing to the :
/oting ciologist or the student of human r
pro- lure if Samuel Adams of Oregon h
of a been described as a descendant
school Sam Adams of Massachusetts, w
00 a left only female descendants; t
three perhaps such a reflecton is mere cai
, the ing and bile. The press agent of T
school Oregonian Samuel Adams is less i
lploy- mantic than that of Mr. El wo
per Washington. Is it curious or is it r
these tural that the nomination in the p
jrtifi- mary of candidates for President a
Pev Vice President should be regarded
>f the so many persons not as a serious du
t em but as an irresistible opportunity.aries,
jsjew York Times.
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ation CAPT. SHAW ON GOOD ROADS
AND THE IR1SHMA
these
ssons Editor Press and Banner:?T
Mr. electon on the bond issue is close <
1 and hand. It is said that few people wl
PS to were against the bond issue befo
we are in favor of it this time. They r
n the mind me of the Irishmen who put h
e to pjg jn a and went to town to si
it. The first thing he did, on reachii
red a t0wn, was to get drunk, and whi
chool jn ^jg condition a devilish boy to<
1 ^or the pip: out and put a puppy in t
state sack.
asing After awhile the Irishman found
letter buver for his nitr aril) t.hpv Wpnl n
,era^ to inspect the animal.. But when 1
hools i00j-e(j for the piff he found a pupp
F this tjien went to Jqq^ for a buyer fi
in a pupp11' which he soon found, bi
the boy nad been on the job agai
and when he sought to show the pu
. j 2 - i
py he found a pig. On which tl
some
rishman declared "And Faith, this
?vuie ?
times fc'ie c'? * ever saw; it is first
Whv an(* t'len 's a PuPPy-" ^ seer
iswer ^lat some ^e people are followir
four the exaniPle of the pig. They ai
have ^^t one thing and then another,
four ''^e t? see a man stand to his color
seven "ke the Apostle Paul when he w:\:
have prison, because he was a Ro
tax.!:,m' when they proposed to take hi
t old out under the name of a differei
got tribe, he refused, saying he was
ey as Roman when he went in there and 1'
ve would be one when he came out. That
an i.s my position today. 1 was against a
ve bond issue two years ago. I am still
to p<rainst it.
3s. T]t? ^eoole of Abbeville bounty
42 voted tin- bond issue down two years
im a<r0 by a vote of over three to one,
!X" and if the bond issue was such a bad
en thing two years ago, will some one
al- : rtll ry\n 1+ ic CIlC'Vl n (Trtrkrl fill fl f*
ny, now. The people of Abbeville have
ow always been noted for intelligence
IU~ and patriotism and I do not believe
a that the true sons of Abbeville County
will east a majority vote for the
on bond issue.
The people of Abbeville County
are taxed to death now. They have got
'"e( all the taxes to pay now that they are
be able to pay, and when a man has got
all on his shoulders that he can carry,
!or what is the sense in taking on anyityi
more. It is a well known fact that the
'^c,poor man pays all the taxes. If the
t?: people vote this bond issue it is eera"|tain
to raise the tax on the renter In
! order for the merchant to pay his
^sj additional taxes he will raise the
I price on his goods, the doctor will
raise his fees, the lawyers will do the
or'isame, the pi'eachers will want more
30*j salary, and all of the taxes will find
?^! their way back to the shoulders of the
*?j man who works in the field and buys
a^i and produces.
nH I
j I have been told by some as good
,ur| men as there are in Anderson county
os"| that the highways being built in that
a~j county are not giving satisfaction.1
i They say that a free camp is wotse
j than the boll weevil. They are like a
gang of geese, destroying everything
ir. front of them and ruining everyir"
thing behind them.
ve Soys you had better keep an eye on
ri" the good roads crowd.They may be
trying to put a blind bridle on you.
vl~ Pat, the Irishman told his wife he
,a* was going to hang himself. He slipped
rn I out to the barn and tied a blind
H'- bridle around his neck and hung himice
I self for a few minutes. His wife
od j found him and cut him down. Pat
al-; told his wife that if she had let him
on i alone for a few minutes he would
nc j have been walking the streets of the
uel'r.ew Jerusalem. His wife said, "and
of I wouldn't you have cut a devil of a
i
he | shine there with a blind bridle on."
er j And some of the boys who want good
! roads will do the same when they find
el* themselves stalled by high taxes on
0j the so-called good roads. Boys don'
jj,. let them put a* blind bridle on you.
J W# C. ShAW.
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lid iMORE BRAINS AND LESS
so- CLUBBING URGED FOR REDS
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j Here are some tidbits from speak
ers' resriark.s at the City Club, of Chine
cago.
tut;
; Robert Perkins Bass, former Oovrp
I ernor of New Hampshire, subject:)
'Practical Asnects of Our PresentI
*o- *
, l olcy Toward Radical Agitators."
0i!
Allen T. Burns, director of CarIa*
. i
. i egie studv of Amercanization methri
ods, Carnegie Foundation; subject:
, 'Americanization?Coersive of Coby
oerative."
ty
Mr. Bass:
"Be open minded in dealing with
the foreigners.
"The real issue is not to be settled
N
by the Department of Justice or in
our courts, but in the public forum of
discussion.
ill,
, I "The present policy is too ex.
tveme?not used during the war, was
G it?
'e"i
,js! "There is no great danger of +he
2]] country falling.
ltrj "This country must hurry to keep
lelabreast of Russia, Germany, France
)l-.and England. Yes, I said, Russia, and
hp I meant it. Some conditions in Russia
/
; woudl surprise you.
aj "The danger lies in an agitator's
ut ability to convert stalwart American
ie citizens to his way of thinkng. We
iy# cannot deport ideas, neither can we
oriimprison them. We mustn't ffive wide
ut. publicity to the agitator?rather keep
n> him obscure."
p. i "Immigrants come with raw, ex1(,
posed nerves. Soothe them.
jj.p "They have an instinctive reaction. |
a Quiet such reaction.
rtS "For some deported, ten new radiiij
cals rise. Present method is too drasre
tic?take care of them in legal manj
I ner.
s, "Start with the individuals' rights.!
a Make them partners in your firms.
You'll solve the nroblem then.
i?' "When the immigrant learns that
nt ae can be a savior of his own soul he
a will become wedded to American
10 |spirit."?Chicaero Trbune.
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