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Established 1844. " THE PRESS AND BANNER \ ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. ? = 11 I I Entered as second-uass matter atj post office in Aobeville, S. C. i Ter. as of Subscription: One year__ $2.00: Six months 1.00 ! Three months .50! ^ " A -J WEDNESDAY, JUINH. au, iyzu , FOR BETTER SCHOOLS. , ' ' i i The people in Abbeville County may not take the question of bette j schools seriously. We do not believ# they do in fact. Perhaps the fellow-' kn Af info??ncf \ r. : ilig 1IA1?111/ Vt VX u>Vvi vov vv j "Folks of Howry Wilson ! school way believe in education and employ the best teachers ; and have the best school house ! that the York county department of education can suggest. They k held an election at Lowry Wilson j on the question of increasing the school levy to 15 mills the other day. Only one vote was cast. ; That one was for it. Citizens in i that country favored it unanimously and they didn't see any use in turning out in force to J vote for it. So they just in_ structed Mr. Sam C. Byers, one of the leading: citizens of the dis trict to cast the ballot of the community. They pull together ?those people do.1" This clipping is from the Yorkvilte Enquirer and it shows that in som j sections of the state at least the peo pie are taking the school question se ! riously. These people planned to have built a school building of modern design, and with modern equipment. They propose to give the school children in their community the best to be had in the way of schools. The children in this commu I nity will be prepared for college. The interest manifested In this community will induce more and more of young men and women there to seek college education. And it will result in making an educated community. ' The boys and girls, of Abbeville County must cope with tne boys and girls of York County. Can we afford to offer less in the wav of education al advantages than York County offers? Do we think less of our chil dren, -or of their opportunities in life than do the people of York County? ( Are we willing that the school children of Abbeville County shall be half taught or not taught at all, while the children cf York County are obtaining the very best that is to be had in the way of common school education, and when they are being prepared for college anu Tor entering life's fields of endeavor in a way in which do not prepare ours? We have said that Prof. Edgat! Long and Superintendent Fulp would , lead a great educational campaign in' t this county the present summer if , the people wanted-them to do so. We have said that these gentlemen would give their services to Abbeville County in an endeavor to awaken an in-1, terest in educational matters here at home if the people want them to do so. Do the people want them? Do , the people of Abbeville County want better school houses, better teachers i and better schools thaii. those wnich in . 3me sect'ons at least are a repro u-h , " i us? Do the peop!e of the court; , think more of a dollar m their pocs-.] ets than they dc of the children !n , their homes? j. It is time for Abbeville County t> , wake up. We are far and away be, hind ther times, and still we sleep. A WITNESS FROM RUSSIA j ( Exact information about acturl i conditions in Russia has been notori i cusly hard to get. The Bolshevik! may ' have established a paradise o:i earth, ' l-ut they are exceedingly cautious : about letting visitors from the world 1 that still lieth in wickedness come i and inspect its joys. Some people ask, 1 Why don't the newspapers send trust- < worthy correspondents to Moscow to t report the truth? The answer is that i the Bolsheviki would not permit an i honest and Impartial writer to enter 1 that city, if they knew him as such. < They have declined, as Mr. Millerand i has just reminded the French Chamber, to allow the League of Nations ? o send a competent commission into Russia to ascertain the facts. The only correspondents and observers thus far admitted by the Bolshevist authorities are individuals whose credentials come under one of three heads. They must either (1) be avowed sympathizers with Bolshevism; (2) be absolutely ignorant of the Russian language and of Russian life; or (3) submit to being isolated and put in close charge of a Bolshevist Commissar. It was under such conditions that Mr. Goode and "Lord' Lansbury made their favorable but blindfold studies of the L>ov;et rc-, gime. A witness of a different sort. re-, I cently came out of Russia. He is the Rev. F. W. North, British Chaplain at Moscow during the revolution and the terror. Having lived in Russia' for ten years, he is in a position to understand as well as to interpret the { events which have passed before hisj eyes. In The Monhing PosL or London j he has been writing a series of articles, in which, without heat or prejudice, he makes recital of what he has seen and heard, and traces intelli. ' i gently the developments in Russia since the downfall of the C/.ar Or.e striking fact for which he vouches is that the power really in control in Russia today is an }nner circle of the All-Russia Extraordinary Committee. T>? nrii'f itolKf O JL>y tins UUUJ y V AAl-WMi.J V rlice, made up in good part of Letts' and Poles is exercised the power of( confiscation of property and, in effect, the power of life and death over individuals. Its nature and activities recall those of the Tribunals in France of the Revolution, which of ' ten were more powerful and deadly than the nominal leaders of the National assembly. J Mr. North asserts that this Russian "Collegia" frequently asserts itself against both Lenin and Trotzky. Its head is a man named Derjinsky. "He and his satellites," affirms Mr. North, "can arrest any one, condemn "any cne, execute any one without A ' ' /\ n r?on' inai; anu in cue ixuuot vi wv al chaos "and destitution it is this power which "governs." The Rev. Mr. North confirms the accounts which others have given of i the extreme of misery which the Bel- < sheviki have brought upon Rossi?. Millions of the population lie prostrate and despairing. The peasants on the land manage better than tiiost to keep soul and body together, but they, too, live" in dread 6f confiscatory decrees from Moscow. For a time the peasants were allowed to keep for their own use forty pounds of grain a month per capita. The rest had to be "sold" to the Soviet Government at a fixed price in paper money?which had no fixed value. : The inevitable result was that the peasants raised no more grain than ' they themselves consumed, or hid the : surplus. To meet this strange un- ] willingness to share in the blessings ! of the Bolshevist millennium, Lenin recently issued a decree stating that ' whereas the peasants had made no ! sacrifices f(j-r the Revolution, and the 1 time had come for them to do so ^ their allowance of grain would here- ' pfter be cut from forty to eighteen pounds* a month, Th<? effect of this(( as a stimulus to grow a large crop < may easily be imagined. { jl On the whole question of possible ( trade with Russia, Mr. North has some 1 suggestive statements. Passing by the articles of gold and platinum and,' possibly, flax, he doubts ir tiie Rus- i sians have at present any surplus with which-to pay for tne Imports they so greatly need and aeslre. He is positive that those vast stores of 1 grain, ready to be shipped out of Rus- < sia, exist only in the fancy of credu- ^ lous outsiders. "There can - be no < eui, grain uApurt iruiii xvus&ia until * after the Soviet madness has been i cured." 1 There is no doubt that the Bolshe- I viki desperately want to start up for- I :?ign trade. But they desire it mainly I for their own prestige and self-pres- < swation. They protest that they must *> nave foreign-built locomotives and s railway supplies in order to restore 1 the ruined transportation systems of S Russia, and so make possible again t ;he movement of goods. But it may ivell be suspected that the use they C not:t want to make of the railways is 1* Fr,r the traveling of their tyrannical,t :cmmissars and the dispatch of 1' ;roops. One Commissar of Mr North's a icquaintance was delightfully frank g n the matter of trade negotiations, t 3is idea of the things to be exchang- c ;d was given in the following con- j fersation: 1 o Yes, .Pastor worth, you just wait n i little. Soon we shall have ail your * 'ill., delightful delicacies and all your ele- I gant and well-made footwear and ! clothes over here in Soviet Russia." | ' "And what will?what can you give \ us in return?' : "Surely you ' know? Bolshevist ideas, of course!"?New York Times. | ~ ii J. J. DARLINGTON Washington mourns the loss of such a man as J. J. Darlington,:! whose funeral will be held today. He was one of the foremost of the Capital's citizens in ability and character,' although not always as prominently in the public eye as his ability de-' served. His modesty forbade Mm from seeking the limelight, either for van-j j ity or for the purpose of disclosing his charitable side. He loved to live quietly, holding his friencs, doing good by stealth, working long and j faithfully and enjoying simplicity ofi | habits and thoughts. In His profession J: Mr. Darlington was admrred by his I colleagues, Iby the bench and by lay- j men, not only for superior capacity, i but for the unswerving integrity that j made his life worth while. He was an j ornament to the bar of the District j of Columbia, and was held in the i J highest esteem by all classe^ of men. j Men like him are few, maeed, and i when they die their places are never j filled.?Washington Post. _ _ i j THE OLD HOME PAPER i1 I t When the old home' weekly paper, ccmes the city man who is sorting i his mail is pretty apt to "call ai, halt," reach for it, and lean back to its leisurely perusal. . u . |. It isn't altogether because, as fre- j quently happens, he does business ^ with the town where it is published, but it is to him, in many instances, like a letter from home, wherein is, the gossip of a family gathering, j The names in its columns are fa-,* miliar, old times, old friends, old 1 loves and ambitions are brought ' back to him and business always has 4 time to give place to them! * Great changes have been made of : 1 late years in the make-up and gen-! erai appearance of old home papers; ' many country weeklies have become dailies; but the news from the neighboring country towns and settlements, sent in by letter* still retains its heartful, "homey" quality, and it's like shaking hands all around to read it! Another feature of the worth of the country paper, an(l the general interest in it, was pointed out recently by The Review of Reviews: ' "Country weeklies are pre-emiinently the home papers of news, paperdom. They are not hurriedly scannel while men travel to business then left to brakemen to gather up. They go directly to homes; their reading is a duty as well as a pleasure. Hence their peculiar value as an advertising medium." And their advertising columns hold not only the immediate homeinterest, but as an index to the business prosperity of their ,towns, ;hey attract business from the lities. Standing by the home paper in its jvery efort to advance home-interjsts is what makes towns grow. And ;hat is what every public-spirited ntizen, in every community that las a newspaper, does at all times. ?Atlanta Constitution. 5EARLS AND PADGETT ACQUITTED Clarence Searls, who was convicted of violation of the city liquor ordinance last week and fined $100, vas arrested and tried again yesterlay on a similar charge. Searls' ast arrest was upon evidence furlished by a "detecative" employed )y city council who has been pussyfooting about the city for the >ast month under the guise of a dumber J:or the Abbeville Water tnd Electric Plant. Others upon vhcm warrants were served at the | tame time are Jim Padgett, Joe 3rown, both colored, and Dewey Simpson, a white farmer of the j S cwnship. I g The evidence in the case of the Jity vs. Searls was a little am>iguou? concerning the. nlace whero he sale of liquor was alleged to lave been made. The jury evidently igreed that while Searls might be ruilty of selling liquor, in' this case he liquor was not sold within the H ity limits, thereby removing any I urisdiction of the mayor's court I ivi r " i ' transaction. A verdict of I lot guilty was therefore rendered. 'I This morning at ten o'clock Jim II i i - | YES forever, an< I must necesf ^ DAY, of co an account I WE PA'V ICounl / | SOUND i Padgett was tried for violation of, | ' ;he liquor ordinance but Jim nanaged to prove an alibi upon the \ :estimony of both Gus Richey and ' Tom Gray which was that at the ;ime the sale of two coca-cola bottles of Pride of the Swamp was al_ eged to have been made by Jim ie was reclining in a chair in, Cray's tonsorial parlor on Washing;on street. The evidence was so weak against fim that City Attorney D. H. Hill isked his honor, the mayor, to nol ( iross the case. Instead the mayor. Jirected the jury of which J. S. | >tark was chairman, to render a| verdict .of not guilty. The case against Dewey Simpson las not been called yet. A GENTLEMAN . An elevator girl at Hotel Jb'ort Dee ' Moines is quoted in The Register as I The I Take the siz: I out of torrid da RS y I Next to a cool refresh ing comfort of our SI and break right. They have the kinc to wrinkle. And wrapped full < SUMMER SUITS AN! "r% 4 3IHR1IS9S9HH1 TERDAY G< ? i TOMORROW yet to , sarily be our time for i urge, it's all the time we ! today while you have the 7 5 PERCENT. ON i DEPOSITS ty Savings SAFE saying that a male who takes off his hat when alone in the elevator i- } with the girl operator is a gentleman, that if he leaves his hat on re gardless of all feminine occupants j he is just a man, but that if he takes his hat off for other women but leaves it on in the presence of the elevator girl he is neither a man nor a gentleman. That there is a certain keen analysis in this nobody will deny. It emphasizes the importance of democracy, and shows up snobbishness, which is disgusting. But it is just as important to understand that all supposed ^tests' of gentlemanliness are fallible as it is to have a few tests in mind. Judging another human by a few signs of appearance or behavior is the most hazardous thing on earth. There' never has been a ' "perfect gentleman" any more than there has been a "perfect lady" or a*per-1 se Summer t de ys. N ?*W"gkt 1920. Tbe Houw t^ Kupptnhcimer ing plunge in the surf co JMMER SUITS. ..Thes< 1 of style you want, hold 1 D.f w^ar and satisfaction. $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, ) ON UP TO $35.00 n t ONE I come, when If action?TQ- - i have. Open I ; time. | SAVINGS I Bank I feet anythng, except n poetry. % 'A man who ignored all the implied rules of hat tipping that the elevator girl listed might be closer ' . "i to gentlemanliness in a real crisis that brought out real stuff than anybody we know. And a man who fastidiously kept the rule of hat tipping might be a cad from tip to ' :; toe. i Mark Twain long ago learned that you can't tell by the looks of a frog how far he can hop, nor which < way, nor whether he will do it gracefully or otherwise.?Des Moines Register/ > ? ' . : JUSTICE AND MERCY. / :A;$ "Mrs. Binks is a wonderful1 hos- ? tess." "Yes, but why do you say so?" "She's paired Bjones, who has a. week eld car, with Mrs. Smythe, who has a six-months-old baby."?Lif?.K ' , ri' v >ranuMf, ^ ' m, M*B 5uits I ci f'f- ^ 'lllV/kJ tllV/ UjL UAX 1/ HH f e Suits "fit,- and drape f| ;heir shape, are hard S $18.00, $20.00 i I WViJV | . "\? ^ ?