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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920
A CAMPAIGN FOR
BETTER SCHOOL
If the great war wrought anythin
back at home, it was that the peopl
were taught that the chief duty c
the citizen to the state is to be c
service. The great Christian denom
nations of the country caught th
spirit which the war engendered, an
no sooner were the ooys back horn
than a campaign in the cause o
Christian education was commencec
We all know the result. The peopl
who were asked for a dollar gave tw
'and three, and some more.
But the greatest work which shoul
be done has not commenced. Th
rinnn >>51= hpf?n for the collect
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and universities, but only one chil
w|pich enters school, we are told, eve
finishes a college course. Sometim
ago we called attention to the fat
that few remain in sciiool to finis
even the high school work. When th
boys begin to- reach the seventh an
c:ghth grades they begin to fall 01
so go to work, or shall we say?an
we say it sorrowfully, if we must sa
it?that oftentimes they are witl
drawn from the school room an
placed in the' fields and at the woi
bench, in the shop and at the fa:
turning machines.
This should not be so. Every chi
should have an elementary scho
where he may be prepared to enti
college, and every child should hai
the preparation. They cannot do i
until first, the schools are built, ar
secondly they are taught to seek ?
education as the most importai
thing in life, and most important <
all, not until their parents are taugl
that they owe it to the children 1
give them the best education possibl
On the latter point we are hopefu
We believe 'that there is a growir
desire and almost a determinatic
among the great majority of paren'
to give the children an educatioi
at least most of them want to do s<
But they are not prepared to do i
They hear of heavy school taxes, bv
they only hear of the taxes, and n(
of the satisfaction brought to the pec
pie who pay taxes for better school
They need to be shown.
We have said, and we repeat, tha
Abbeville County is far in the rear i
the matter of good primary an
grammar schools, or schools wher
the primary and grammar school sut
jects are taught, to say nothing o
being far in the rear in the matter o
high school facilities. We said some
time ago that none of tiie rurE
school districts, except Antrevill
and perhaps Campbell, has a locj
tax of as much as eight mills. W
are glad t? say that we were mistal
en in this statement. Mrs. Frank \\
Wilson has just called our alientlo
to the fact that the Watts Distric
now has an eight mill levy, and tha
Sharon District has voted a like lev
the present summer. We were misle
by the fact that these districts wer
voting for an extra four mills, an
we did not know that there was a]
ready a local tax in each of thes
districts of four mills.
Let that go, nowever. wnat w
wanted to emphasize, and what w
now emphasize is the fact that th
rural schools generally are not wha
they should be. The people wan
good schools and we are persuade*
that if they were shown iiow the;
might obtain these schools, and i
they knew just what the State woul<
do to help them get these school?
they would be willing to follow in th<
example of people in other progres
sive districts. They want bettei
school houses; they want bettei
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teachers. They should have schools
in every school district where the
children may be prepared to enter
college, or at least to enter some of
the High Schools of the county.
We say that the people are interested
and need to be informed in
these matters. Ordinarily we look to
- the County Superintendent of Education
to see after matters of this
kind. But in this county the salary
paid does not justify a man in giving
a great deal of time to school work
of any kind, neither is the Superintendent
i,n this county a trained
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teacher and educator, as he might be
if a considerable salary were paid,
and this were a requirement to fill
the office. The present Superintendr\f
will ilinwflVPr Tpnrl
| cut VX XJUUVUbiVii **w ?? V .
S, his support we know to the movement
I we have in mind, and as far as his
office will allow will contribute to
e, its success.
Now our idea is this: We have a
. first class Superintendent of Schools
in the city of Abbeville. He is a good
e organizer. We have in this county
^ one of the best, and the very oldest
e denominational college in the state.
^ ? ? ~ " ?-> AAmna/tfarl TirlfVl +VlO
JL riere ctic men v-uimw*?v
* college who would like to be of sere
vice to the county we feel sure. All
0 of them would. But from among
them, we have chosen Prof. Edgar
^ Long as best fitted to do the work
e which we have in mind. And the
s work is a campaign for better schools
^ in this county. We now nominate
ir, Maj. J. D. Fulp and Prof. Edgar
e Long as leaders of this campaign.
There is great work to be done in the
^ county. There is a message to be
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cari'ied to tne people 01 me cuum;.
, These ir.en have the ability, the tact,
the information, and the will, we
^ believe, to do the work. The work
^ should be pressed now.
,1.
We think it would be well for Maid
^ jor Fulp and Prof. Long to call a
st meeting of all the trustees of the
several schools of the county, town
Id and rural schools alike, and of the
ol teachers in the. colleges and common
>r schools alike, and plan the work. We
re want to do the work at home. We are
;o able to do it at home. The meeting
id should be held early in July, and by
_ tfeo onrl- frf .Tnlv- meetings should be
Ul v"^ ? a ?
gin to be held all over the county.
5f Statistics should be' gathered beht
forehand about the work in other
to counties; the acts of the legislature
e. passed to encourage rural schools
il. should be studied, and at the proper
,g time these matters should be laid be,n
fore the people in every district, and
ts the people are urged to build better
1; school houses, and employ more and
o. better teachers. They should be
t. shown just what other counties have
it done, are doing, and propose to do
>t They should be shown how much
)- abler they are to build and .equip
f. good schools than man^r other com?.Vtatrn
/^Ano cr> nnfl
HlUIULlCa Wlll^ii na r t uvtiv ww y ?
tt they should be aided in following
n the good example set by others,
d There is no better investment
e which a community may make than
)- to invest in proper school facilities,
f It puts up the price of land, and
f makes the fields grow better crops,
and most of all it gives tTie people 2
il new and a better view of life. Few
e districts which vote large school taxil
es ever take them off.
e Let us make a start :n Abbeville
> County. Let us not stop until we are
well in the front ranss of those counn
ties of South Carolina whicn have
t good schools. Will Major Fuip and
t Prof. Long'take the lead? What say
y the people?
d ?
e FIRST TABLE FOR EDUCATORS
d
l_ The tradition of the second table
for educators has received another
jolt in the employment of Dr. Mari
on Burton as president of the Unie
versity of Michigan at a satary of
e $18,000 a year. At that salary Dr..
e Burton wont be compelled to join
t the Chautauqua in the summer cirt
cuit to eke out a living ,and the
I doctor can furnish his board with
v choice cuts of meat i and early
f Florida strawberries.
j His prototype, who instructed the
, offspring of the nobleman and the
' well-to-do_land_owner, ate with the |
servants, after the noble families i
had finished. Like old Ichabod!
Crane, he was unable to attend a,
i' public function without borrowing
I
' the wedding garment from his
patron. He carried his belongings
' in a bandanna handkerchief, and it
was home, sweet home wherever he
hung up his hat. The educator has
had to battie against the tradition
of the second table tutor and governess.
Dr. Burton's salary smashed all
traditions as far as the presidency
of a State university is concerned.
The mere fact it is known he is
getting that salary will undoubtedly
:c2ct to stiffen the backbones of
other university and college presidents
now getting second table
salaries.
DUE WEST" REAL"" ~
ESTATE KING IN CITYi
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the real estate king of Due West and
vicinity was an Abbeville visitor today.
Mr. Fowler is the man who en-'
, gineered the location of the Govern-'
! ment ballistic station in Due West
last week and handled the real estate
end of the deal.
Mr. Fowler states that since the
first of this year he has sold in and
about Due West $264,000 worth of
dirt and houses. Among his more im-'
portant deals was the twenty acres
of high priced, valuable land which
he sold for Mrs. C. E. Todd to the
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