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Established 1844. t The Press and Bannei 1 Abbeville, S. C. J . i The Press and Banner Company J Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telenhone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Wednesday, May 19, 1920. BETTER SCHOOLS FOR ALL ' ?? The people are waking up to "the fact that Abbeville County is far in the rear in the support of the pub lie schools. Here and there, all overj. the state, the cause of education is I 3 making headway, while in this coun-j. ty little has been done in the past.^ Just now things look better. The Ab-j beville school district has increased' the local tax to twelve mills for the' I support of the city schools. In addition a tax of two mills is levied and collected annually to Keep the buildings in repair and to make enlargements. In the Due West school dis- . C trict six mills additional are to be ? levied, which will add greatly lo the t efficiency of the public school at that i place. Lowndesville has a good school ^ and so has Donalds, t * In the countrv districts there are V s signs of progress also. The Sharon school district is to have an increas ed tax and other districts are to do r the same. The amount, ol taxes be- t ing voted in these districts, however, j is entirely inadequate. We noticed in t the Columbia dispatches this week that in many counties practically t every school district is voting as r ^ much as eight mills for the support of its schools and is thereby qualify ^ in<r lor state aid. me people m tn?$ r, county should do the same. We pay . our part cf the money appropriated , for the state aid for these schools, t and we should have it in return. t We should have our part of the t money, not only because we contri- hute to the fund, bui because we are 1 in dire need of it to make our schools 1 i what they should be. We had an ar- ^ ticle in our last issue urging the boys r to secure a college education. We j. KaliavA in fViot Rut tVir* nnvv in tViP *. "VX.V.V ... v?.?v. w.v ... L country districts cannot secure a c college' education unless tnev are 9 first prepared to enter college. Few, ii if any, of the schools in tne country^ ^ i district give sufficient instruction to s i i enable a bov to enter the colleges. In . . . i,! order to enter it is necessary that1 o he go two or three years to a pre- r paratorv school. TnT.s should noi be so. A boy at the age when he goes to 0 a preparatory school should be at i] home under parental authority. A k But this cannot be the case as long s1 asThe schools do not furnish the pre- ^ paratory courses. The necessary pre paration can only be Tiad by securing ^ good teachers and a sufficient number of them. In districts where there ^ are from twenty-five to tfiirty-five j( pupils one teacher t-annot cro the n work necessary. It is necessary, t] therefore, either that the schools be n consolidated, or that two teachers be v employed in every district, one to r teach primary pupils and another to-^f teach the high school subjects. The . 1( work can be done in this way. Twen- , ty years ago one teacher did it with \ some degree of success, but the re quirements are mere exacting: now, as they should be. and one teacher can no longer do the work. Two j. should be employed in every school. c. It will take money :o do this it is ^ true. Good teachers are demanding fi < 00(1 salaries, and they will receive 1 what they demand. But the rural sections are as able lo pay them as * are the people in the towns. All they 1 . <1 need is to get the habit. Ue pay suen heavy taxes in the towns that we soon learn to do so as a part or every day affairs. And those of lis who take time to think of it know that the t money is well sper.t. It is well spent, "ot only in our own interest, but in the interest jf the public. It will $ ake four or five hundred dollars at ers east to send a boy to a good prepav- tha itory school away from home. No hei nan in the county pays taxes for ^r( school purposes to this amount. But S1< ,wo men paying this amount, and ei :hey will pay it if the boys are sent away from home, may almost as well employ a teacher of high school subjects in their community. An eight mill tax will secure the nec- .j essary preparation for every pupil in the district instead of the one or a two sent away, ancf'the cost to the $1 individuals will be much less than re the costs of preparation away from pr home. I an We ai'e on that account in favor ec* of an eight mill levy in every district lu in the county. We are in favor of the employment of two teachers in every : ac school where there are pupils bein/ p taught in subjets above the seventh -j*r grade subjects as now taught.. With f0 this arrangement we will begin to th; make progress. Without it we will be Th far behind otherycounties and m<t wc much better off than the people were sa,' forty years ago. It is time to do something. !th< ! pr i | er ALONE ON SINAI. jtio j is If there is a political certainty j liv ;his year it is that no fight will be | sti nade on President Wilson's clear- me :ut issue of the treaty unamended j cai ind unlimited. Despite the impres-: the live popular support rallied by"Sena-!baj or Johnson, the spokesman of thejing rreconcilables; the Republican con- the -io / oi'tnin tn adont some- i to hing like the Lodge programme, | hai vith condemnatory clauses of just | the ufficient acerbity to hold the Hira-|ou< nites within the party, coupled with J an i judicious wish that there shall be . suf io more wars and that the lion and i ne! he lamb shall after taking the pro-! bai >er mutual precautions, lie down ; be< ogether. j crt The Republican spellbinders will >e for peace .and league. Even tin nore. they will point out Mr. Wilson J tre tnd his supporters, as Mr. Taft doe3j"i< his morning, as the real enemies of J *n he league. "Mr. Wilson" says Mr. |*!V ["aft, "is the greatest obstructionist J n Washington. He desires to destroy, ill if he cannot ge:. all. . . . All' he other countries in the league are )ound by Articles X. but arc never- j heless willing to allow the United i I SG states to enter under the reservaions proposed. Mr. Wilson, howevpr, I on efuses." These words will be seized ! ^ I ipon. We may expect a plank in the I Republican platform condemning in I e 10 uncertain terms Mr. Wilson's,op-1 losition to the treaty?that is, to j * ? he only form in which the treaty) an possibly pass. ^a? But if the Republican opposition to s thus diabolically qualified, so will eia ie the Democratic support. Mr. Wilon cannot count upon his party to am ack him up in his uncompromising ^ isistence on the letter of the Treaty the for f Versailles. Millions of Americans jur ecognize him, or will come to recogize him, as the leading proponent f ail idea of incalcuable value to civTin ization but there are few people in L.mei-ica who will maintain, as he c 1 , del till seems to do, that the Treaty ox rersailles is the apogee of human risdom and goodness. In that posi- < ^ ion he stands alone. The constitu- ing ion of the League of Nations is not an* acred nor binding upon our honor. ^ut yhat is binding is the obligaton to am >in with other nations in so limiting Can ational greed and national ambition su" hat civilization shall not be sub-J10'' lerged in a new and probably fatal j uc *ar. Mr. Wilson sticks to the letter i*"d I 1 ather than to the ideal, and in tms< C *1 ttitude he is alone. Yet if he could ring himself to yield the letter the a,u leal might still win.?New York Ilobe. *'1'1 ^ sibl ~ ? - tall THE "PEAK." api ret It is not entirely reassuring to jrot ear from wholesale and retail mer- cou hants that we haw crossed the peak fov 1 prices and are making our dif- mt. icult way down the other side of ]\ja lie divide. The merchants bring this im, iews lot; readilv The assertion of :i p,.j, xceptional pessimist among ihem cas hat "there would be no general reliction of clothing prices next fall ' { eems more representative of the'mi.* eller's hope and determination, if con 1 ut of his liclict. j in Upsides, topography does not bear | oil he prophets out. Wc arc high up 'i!!jdri: ight, and we are going downwav- nt bit, but it's a hard territory to ,i;'.i! lire of. Among these granite T?--r ! inu and starved and twisted trees | it show how high and cold it is up |||| re there is no sign of a continual jg| >p. It looks instead as if the rocky j 31 jund in front of us might be high- Hi than that on which we stand You | ?B i never tell on some ridges whcth- =1 you are over the peak or no:. True,' there are hopeful signs., Jj irsaking our metapho)* and dealing i ll th plain fact, we may say that St k will certainly be cheaper. Japan; |g| s hafl a lesson. Silk went to $18 ||| nnrnirl hilt, will Rllhslflp MflW tn H? 3 at the least. Department store j? ductions are real enough for the Is esent. Probably the Wanamaker ||? d Losier examples will be followby other stores. There are. If mors of 18 1-2'cent sugar. The public will certainly welcome !s ese signs. It should, nevertheless,'^ cept " them with reservations. IE ank H. Sisson of the Guaranty |S ust Company states presumably i M r the benefit of the business man ; P at "this is a time for caution." ifi 1E ie consumer may apply these j i|? >rds to himself. "There is still",' j|| ys Mr. Sisson, "a world shortage J jj necessaries." The probability is,! m jrefore, that any reduction in ||| ices will be gradual. The consum- B should recognize that a situa- g n which so protects the merchant gj one which can send the cost of ?g| ing curve upward at any sub- fl intia encouragement. Business g in say prices are dropping be ase the public reiuses to Duy. n ! public rushes out with shopping at the first si^n of a weaken: market, prices may have it in Mn to rise again. No one wants let even the profiteer down too rd. The nation might suffer in i satisfaction of his ruin. Judici3 buying, however, is sensible d possible. This while furnishing ficient demand to sustain busies, may prevent a sudden come:k of mounting costs which has in observed too often to be innlible. We are high and- cold up among' ;se rocks and wind-warped j es, and maybe we have passed j ||| ; peak. Let us not be too sure. '1 e top of any mountain is dcccp-|si c.?>!. Y.. Globe. STRIAL ORDERED IN GOSNELL CASE Greenville, May 18.?After a Ijg iberation of 15 hours a general j?|J (sions court jury failed to agre5 .p a verdict in the case of the {jj ite against Jake Gosnell, deputy ??g xrged with the murder of Sheriff!HI ndrix Rector, July 4, 1910, and j ^ cuit Judge T. J. Mauldin at|H :0o today ordered a mistrial. While no member of the jury {H > made any positive statement as |p how the jury voted on the sev- gjjj .1 ballots taken, it is understood |?| t they stood eight for acquittal gi 1 four for conviction of murder. ? ten the first ballot was taken jfej vote was 7 for acquittal and o H conviction, but later one of the||j|g ors for conviction switched over |1} the acquittal side and no fur- |j| r change could be brought about, gj 2 question of politics, it is de- ||g red did not enter at all into the jjjj iberations of the jury. Will Arrange Bond. fudge Mauldin stated this morn- 35 that he would give the defend- H the opportunity to give bond, g|j as yet he has not decided what U ount shall be required. Gosnell Hf arrange bail for a considerable = i and it is believed he will be jased from jail as soon as! lj| Ige Mauldin decides on the sum, !H bsfclv by tomorrow. The case went to the jury at lg 0 o'clock yesterday afternoon j|| 1 at 10 o'clock last night the ?1} eman notified Judge Mauldin lgg{ t an agreement seemed impos- ?p le. He sent the 12 men back ?3 ing them to try to reach an, |||1 eement, but at 12 o'clock they ^ ired without having come to-jfjl her. Upon the convening of|Jjl irt at 9:30 this morning the,? email again statei! that agree-j IB ?"11! and .1 mitre I uldin ordered the mistrial. Fail- ??? to n^ree has cmised little sur- i PS se to those who have followed the.? Ireenville. M::v 1 -'.--After ajjj trial had been ordered by the j irt at !<! o'clock this morning ; iji' the case of Jake (IcsneSl, charjr- . =jf with tin* murder of Sheriff Heti-jfgJ >: Hector, last July, the defend- j Sg wa-- released from the county. at ."<.1", o'clock thi* afternoon! !;-r !>o:i<l of R-1,000. I Copyrignt lyio inc riousc or Nuppenheimcsf True co HAVE you ever stoppe your closest companio you wherever you go, It's true! ..Think of ii a business or social app :I Kuppenheii c.:c ?ttizng companions companions. They bee . sonality?speak well fc ers. And they also are ec< A good investment?i More new models ar See the windows? -the new fabrics, -the single-breasteds. -the double-breasted -the latest ideas in la; nd coat fronts. -something for all bu ,and ages of man, and a good taste, true Am* style. ?th< >i mi Ij !.***? ' jJ" -r?i" , A / . . 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