Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(Proper Gander.) The total enrollment of the white ' schools for the month of November J is 668. The number for the high J school is 129. ' The enrollment of boys and girls, by grades together with the average j attendance is as follows: * Av. I Boys. Girls .Total At. 52 H7 1021 ISt Uiauc VV -- 2nd grade 44 34 78 69 3rd grade __ 49 49 98 90 4th grade __ 47 28 75 15 5th grade __ 34 30 24 58 6th grade __ 27 35 '62 60 7th grade 21 24 45 42 H. S. 56 73 129 115 Totals 343 325 668 6021 The number of tardies in the en tire school for the ftionth was also cor respondingly low there being less than 20 pupils who were tardy out of the 602 that "daily attenaea. .. NO RELIEF NOW IN. . . . ... , I INCOME TAX LAWS Anj Change Now Is Impracticable Senate Committee Says? Doors Virtually Closed t. Washington, Dee. 10.?Income tax relief legislation requested by I business interests is ^ impracticable I at this session of congress, republi can members of the senate finance committee decided today at an in formal conference. The decision is in line with a simi lar one by republicans of the house ways and means committee, it was said, and virtually closes the door to tax revision legislation during the present session. The treasury's conditon, as out lined by Secretary Houston, repub lican senators said, made impossible the tax concessions urged by busi ness concerns. Congress has been urged to extend the plan of install ment payment of income taxes and also to allow deduction of last year's losses in computing business taxes. The finance committee republi ?nn repardimr hear ings on revenue or tariff revision ( matters, nor on the house bill pro viding compensation to former ser vice men. The senate committee members will confer further with Chariman Fordney, of the house ways and means committee and oth er house leaders, with the view to i coordinating actiort between the two : committees on tariff and other . revenue matters. i * i What is believed to be the first ' women's building and loan associa tion organized in any city has begun ' business in Philadelphia. * Father dropped ii Christmas Savings each member Make Your Fai Don't put it off?J( Savings Planter Abbeville, NET COST OF WAR TO US $24,010,000,000 Figures Announced Today By Sec* retary of Treasury?Covers 3 Years and 3 Months Washintgon, Dec. 9.?The net cost of the war to the American government was fixed by Secretary Houston today at $24,010,000,000. This, he said, represented the "ad justed" expenditure of the treasury excluding all other outlay which had no relation to the actual prosecution of the war during the period from April 6, 1917, to June 30 last, which he said, covered the extremes of the government's wartime fiscal opera tions. m 11 U?V 4-Via flfAV-! roiai expeiiujtuics uy u? ernment duirng the period covered excepting only postal^ disburse ments from postal revenues, were '$38,830,812,895, treasury figures showed. Of this amount $16,078, 844,097 was obtained in taxes and revenue from sources other than borrowed money. Mr. Houston said a deduction of $9,523,000,000, the amount loaned j to foreign governments, should be. made from the .grand total, since J these loans will be repaid and conse-j quently cannot be charged as an ac-l tual expenditure. Thg secretary j made other deductions ' approxima-! ting $4,500,000,000, which, he! said, represented the excess cost y of ac-! tual governmental operations for1 the three years and three months' over -what they would have been in , normal times. ' ' , j GLEATON TO HEAD WOFFORD TERRIERS Spartanburg, Dec. 9.?Black let-; ter men of the Wof^oid football' team today selected Munsey S. Gleaton of Heath Springs as captain of the gridiron team for next year. Gleaton played a consistent game at center this year and was mentioned on several all state picks. Rhettj Turnipseed, back field man, was! elected as assistant to the captain. , FORCES GATHERING FOR WAR AGAINST CLOTHIERS ; New York, Dec. 9.?Delegates of five international unions in the i 'lnl-hinc inHustrv. representative of L nearly 500,000 needle workers, to iay launched a "defensive and of fensive alliance" for co-operative lontrol of laibor conditions in dis putes with clothing manufacturers. The Amalgamated Clothing Work ers of America, with aibout 200,000 members, 70,000 of whom in New York and Boston which has broken relations with the Clothing Manu facturers Association, is one of the biggest international back of the new alliance. The others are Inter national Ladies Garment Workers union, with bout 150,000 members; International Journeymen Tailors Union of Chicago, United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers Union, and In ternational Furriers Union. ! ^ ne Bids i and opened a Club Account for of the family. mily as Happy I jin our Christmas ! Club. s Bank S. Carolina I APPLICATION DISAPPROVED (Proper. Gander.) The faculty of the Abbeville high school early in the session made for mal application to the Southern Com mission on Accredited Schools for membership in its association. It was thought that the major requirements had been met and that there was a probability of our acceptance. The South Carolina Committee of the Southern Association at its meet ing in Columbia, November 5 and 6 carefully examined the application of the Abbeville high school, and after noting some discrepancies, approved the application and carried same with them to the meeting of the Southern Commission held in Chattanooga last week. The discrepancies for the most part were unfortunate in that they were temporarily irremediable, .and one of them, itself a serious discrepancy, was unforseen at the time the appli cation was made. The foremost hind rance to an acceptance of the Abbe ville school fcy the Southern Com mission was the fact that we have too many pupils for the number of teach ers in the high school. The ,eighth i -i 1 cn l;i_ 11?J J gTaUe aiune Ilcib UU pupna cnxuacu auu any ignoramus .knows one teacher canno.t.do justice and can barely hear lessons recited in a class of fifty high school pupils. . A second discrepancy, however, not; so objectionable is that the Abbeville school has no auditorium for purposes, of assembly and chapel. A third was that we offer algebra in three years of the high school. The Commission rules that two units are all that should be offered in this subject This last discrepancy should not have been taken into account as with exactly the same math course last session we were given only 2 units for algebra and with that our graduates received- 17 units total. ( . j We were pleased very much with the action of the South Carolina Com mittee in approving our application in spite of these discrepancies on the grounds that reports received from South Carolina colleges stated that nine out of ten of the Abbeville grad-| uates were doing satisfactory work in their Freshman classes. The two main discrepancies left which must be removed before the Abbeville high school will take its rightful place among the leading sec ondary schools of the South are due to conditions which cannot be adjust ed by the teachers or the pupils or the board of trustees. What we need is room in which to expand. If the board of trustees had provided extra high school teachers this fall tor the increased enrollment they also would have to have provid ed army tents or something similar in which to have held classes. Every available bit of floor space is filled to overflowing already in the high school h'nildincr. the elementary school is packed unhygienically and still the I pupils come. We enrolled three brand new ones this week. The idea that a city with the mod ern improvements^ and progressive spirit that are to be found in Abbe ville attempting to compete with the best schools in efficiency and comfort, with rio auditorium and insufficient buildings is preposterous. Charity begins at home and we hope for the sake of the coming high school pupils and the primary school pupils that the people of Abbeville will lend a helping hand towards putting Abbe ville first in educational advantages to be derived from the most demo cratic institution in the world?the public schools. The state high school inspector in nt tVio rpiwtion of Abbeville's "'"'"b ? application by the Southern Commis sion states that he thinks he would undertake to guarantee our admission next fall if we remove these three discrepancies and live up to the stand ards which we now have in other res pects. Shall we continue to grow encum bered for lack of room or are you, people going to provide what we need j ?more room for classes, more teach- i ers for classes, and an auditorium for j assembly? With these our high school; graduates will be admitted into any college in the South and even to West Point without examination. Isn't it worth while to make the ef fort even now? In France there are 14,000,000 who have savings accounts. The United States industries use practically 6.000,000 pounds . of bronze powder annually. COUNTRY LOOKS ON Washintgon, Dec. 9.?Every trav eling man of the United States will display great interest in the effort of Senator Smith of Georgia to re duce the' amount of his incor.;e tax. c As previously pointed out, Sena-j tor Smith has filed a brief with the' internal revenue collector that a' rnr CI . . .. ' A ? . USft ^rAYF - 1 VANC HCL PHIL! OHVI Economize Christmas C the coming } Yc will come in snug nest eg ings account Save a little weeks and o ceive a checl We]] that will mal Deposn $ Deposit Deposit Deposit Deposit J Or join the lc, S class, foivinstan 10c the second v end of 50 weeks progressive clas The reducing cl auce eacn ween EVERYBODY V\ Count Sound G. A. NEUFFER, Pr( ALBERT HENRY, V traveling man in paying his income tax may legally deduct his traveling expenses. Previously, the depart ment had ruled to the contrary. j Senator Smith holds that a man j working for commissions has no profit until his expenses are paid. J: The department holds that if such J < ? RISTMA RGAIN ADVANTAGE OF > SAVE MONEY JDAYIPURCHAS SON & HE fY SAVINGS ? YOUR MO! -Avoid wasteful spendin ilub and save systematicE 'ear. >ur Saved Mone handy for Christmas or ] ;g for the starting of a re / money every week for th< n Decmber 11th, next, yo r for the liimn sum. nlus i: Have SeveraliPl <e it easy for you to save a .25 weekly and get $ 12.50 pi .0 weekly and get 25.00 pi 1.00 weekly and get 50.00 p] 2.00 weekly and get 100.00 pi 5.00 weekly and get 250.00 pi !c or 5c progressive class. The 5 ce, starts with a deposit of 5c tl veek; 15c the third week and so 3 amounts to $63.75, plus int ses operate in like manner. asses start with the largest payi /ELCOME. NO CHAR 1 ;y savings 1 :: Safe, ( t k ;sident. R. E. GC ice-President. P. E. BE * favor is extended to the traveling man it must be extended to all men. From word reaching Washington, practically everybody directly or in diectly to be affected, is "pulling for" the success of the Smith argu ment. It is said, however, that the department will not reserve itself. !(' s s - x OUR MIUl ON 3ES NRY BANK NEY g. Join our illy during provide a >gular sav 3 next fifty u will re nteresi ans s you Earn us Int. us Int. us Int. us Int. I us Int. c progressive le first week; on and at the erest. Other nent and re /3?r rn irtiiu VIU | v Will Bank service )X, Cashier. ILL, Asst. Cashier