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fAUQ 4'UUM Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Bknner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. ! Entered as second-liass matter at 90ft office in Aoheville, S. C. ' Ttnu of SabMripllMi , One Year $2.04 Six months $LOO e* Three montfta . Foreign Advertisng Representative < AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921 , f LET US HAVE THE SCHOOL. ; Those interested in the new high ; ; school building h$ve commenced se coring signatures to a pettion for ap n ^ election on the question of issuing * b.onds to the amount of. one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose state. Within-a few days .it is believ ed the necessary number of freehold- ] r ers and of electors will have signed th^ petition. > i {? /)nn? and A KUTVeS 6fJ, the district is made and the plat filed aa the law requires, the trustees of , ' tl^e school district will order an elec- , tion. ; (It has been suggested that a good many people will not be permitted , to vote in this election because they . will not have a chance to registed. This is a mistake. The election will not be ordered until after the first . of June, and, therefore, those who . desire to vote and who have not se- . cured registration certificates will . have a chance to register when the , books are opened on the proper day in May. And in view of the fact that the . matter of schools is one -in which both the fathers and mothers of the children of the school district are in terested it is important that the reg istration books be thus opened. We do not believe in snap judgment in any <r?se, and certainly not in a case Vam rvAinan hovo rpnfi. VI WUld IVftilVM * Vf? .? % - -o | tered and are prepared to vote. With-, oat discussing the wisdom of the' new law which gives them the rigty' 4 to vote, it may safely be said that if there is an election in which they, should take part it is an election ap-1 pertainyig to the welfare of our schools. Perhaps the women are more interested, or-exhibit more intelli gent interest in school matters than ' do the men. Let them prepare, there- i fore, to vote on this important mat- 1 ter. Every woman in the school dis trict who has the matter of- better ( schools in Abbeville at heart should < prepare herself to cast a ballot for < the bond issue. Every man who is interested in the matter should reg- t .-ister and be prepared to vote if he ( ', has not already done so. ] As we said in our last issue the lo- j: cation of the school is a matter of I j ! minor importance. Considered alone j from a selfish standpoint we think j ^ that any voter mak.es a mistake to I want the school located on the street). on which he lives. We do not think j , it wanes ii:s ptvpcfi-jr <*?jr mvic val uable, and certainly there are incon- 1 veniences attendant upon having a 1 \ school building too fclose to one's res- 1 idence and upon the street where one ' dwells. - . The matter of location is one ^ which will properly be settled after. ( the electJon is held; because until ? the bonds are authorized the- board ( of, trustees have pp, money out of ^ which the purchase price of a lot inajr be paid. They must as busienss men await the issue of the election. ' , But when the election is held it is j to be presumed that the members of ; the board of trustees will give "due ^ consideration to all proposed loCa- . tions. We do not care where the 0 school is located. A nerson who voted against the bond issue because the ] school will not be at a particular lo-! * cation, in our mind, takes but a nar row view of the demands of the time for better schools. Every puD;i " beville old enough to ,n school classes -ttend the highj at which'" attend the school! r- ^/er location is selected, therefore, let us not get up any Reeling about these matters. When the bonds have been authorized, the board of trustees should locate the j school, giving due consideration to the advantages of the several loca-j tions offered, includng of course the I matter of price, amount of lands ob tainable, the adaptability of each to the needs of the school, and other matters demanding consideration. But let us first have the school. " KEEP MUSIC IN SCHOOLS" The importance of music' in the schools was emphasized only a short time ago by-Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, state scuperintendent of public in struction for Pennsylvania, in an ad dress he delivered before the music section of the Pennsylvania State ' PMimafinn association in Harrisburg 1 Dr. Finegan, n part, said: i 4I regard music as/one of the most > important subjects to be considered ' in the public school curriculum. I i do not know of a subject which can I be made a greater power, in the de- i velopment of the moral and In tell ec- i tual faculties of a child than the sub i ject of music. I believe that music I can $lso be made a great power in i thel development of proper discipline < in the school. I "We hear much these days about I an overcrowded curriculum, and 1 there is some foundation for an ac- 1 ousation of this kind. However, the i inclusion of music in the public: i schools course will no?t overcrowd it. < It may on the other hand, be mads 1 t?i?jpi$ans of putting life and spirit 1 ipi.fr a# .the school work. 1 "A great writer has said, "I love ' otfufic because of the things which it < ixji&?s me remember and because pj j things which it makes me fo'r? "t jiek" Our soldiers marched to the field of battle singing patriotic songsv I firmly believe that music \ may be made one of the great na? < tional powers in the Amefican^ta- i tion work of which we hear so much, j "I believe it is possible to train < any intelligent young man or wo- I man to teach the fundamentals of j this subject and we shall therefore i make.-, it mandatory that each of \ the state normals shall include mu- i sic in all their professional courses 1 and that no person shall be gradua- < ted from one of these institutions ] who cannot teach music to the chil- i dren in the class room. i "Let us look ahead at what may < be accomplished in the development < of music within the next ten years. If we can make some progress in i one year, we can make more in the i second year, and ultimately we can , succeed in giving to all children in the public schools of this great com mon wealth the cultural influence which comes from the ability to sing." A CLEAN CITY CAMPAIGN We know that Abbeville is one of the prettiest little cities in the South and we intend to make and keep it one of the cleanest and healthiest. This Clean-up Campaign is to en tourage our boys and girls to help in every way that they possibly can to io this. We want to clean up, brighten up, ind keep up every public building, ?very storehouse, every home, every lawn, every yard, every garden, eve ry street, every alley, every vacant -x 4.1.-. -za? A oi in uie cuy ui auucvuic. The members of the Civic Club are. jacking this movement, and through :he Chamber of Commerce are offer ng the following prizes: For Boyc and Girls Under 16 For the largest number of tin cans $3 Tot the cleanest yard ? $3. Tor the prettiest flower bed __ $1.50 Other prizes may be added. Conditions?The tin cans may be licked up anywhere but must be pil ?d in some place out ofs&ight from the rtreet if possible, but where a wagon ;an easily get to them so as to move hem after t^e prize has been award id. Jfards must be thoroughly cleaned rom the street to the alley or back ine fence; no trash shall be left in enice corners nor under houses. ' In act no trash must be ieft in the ye^dj1 xcept that which is ready to m0v d by the trash-wagon. ' The prettiest flow^ bed meanB jnJ hat. flflYidrtmsnt nf tYio f!it.v will I I eo its part to aid in this campaign,) and we are sure that every business J man will see that his store and thei spaces in front and back of it are giv- j en a thorough cleaning and then I will keep them clean. The ladies of the Civic Club ask' the thorough and hearty co-operation of every resident of Abbeville in this Clean City Campaign. Let us clean up, brighten up and keep up our city. *<The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce will be glad to give you any further information you may, desire. Plea'se call on him at the City Hall. : Chamber of Commerce. CONCERNING CO-OPERATIVE ! MARKETING. Having seen in the last article that marketing of a farm crop includes as sembling or concentration, grading, warehousing, processing, transporta tion, financing, salesmanship and re tailing, we should readily understand why the farmer acting as an individ-' ual is such a poor merchant of his own products. Acting alone he can do very little with any of the various steps n marketing. Usually at the very first step, that of assembling the com modity, the title passes from the grower to a "middleman" /and all subsequent steps in marketing are E>erfonned by middlemen. Sometimes a grower will warehouse a part of his crop and, if he is a large grower, may g^ade the crop and later sell it by iprade. By far the great majority, however, put their crops on the mar net soon after harvesting, accepting in payment the current cash value ipd accepting also the more or less arbitrary gradng of the buyer! Thi6 price is usually too low because of ;he fact that markets are being glut ted, and the grading is frequently jnfair to growers for no reason ex :ept that buyers know grade^ ftna powers do not, r ii In4iriJtt*l Svller, Crowed Com pelt* Willi Grower. Acting as individuals in selling, growers have to compete with one mother, this competition resulting frequently in prices below cost of production. It seems that regardless it how economically a crop may have >een produced, there are always some growers whose financial condition :ompels them to sell whether or not Aey get the cost of production. ThJfe lumber who must sell is sufficient to AM/) AAMnal fill A+K jrtNifk wit; rncun^v ouu wu?yv? **?j vw sr growers to accept losing prices. Profits from farming are, through our ndvidual methods of marketing, thus Maintained at low levels, and this is jf course reflected in our low scale >f living. Farming 4a generally regarded as i production business rather than as i selling business. Practically all of We keep pretty < We^have been ir and we want to i than ever before Models and fabr wool; very fine < L means money uc * p the farmer's energies:, physical and mental are spent in economical pro duction. He has little time and little capacity for studying marketing con dtions, and, acting as an individual, he can do nothing to correct, poor conditions even if he were as well in formed as the expert middlemen who handle the marketing. Why Berate Middlemen? In spite of these facts, when the grower brings his crop to the market he is put in the absurd position of matching his wits with experts who have made life studies of how to buy lowest and sell highest. Moreover, every middleman who handles his crop is a part of an interlocking eco nomic system the tendency of which is to pay to growers the lowest possi ble price and exact from consumers | the highest possible price. This, how [ ever is no reason for berating mid dlemen. The work which they do is in most cases necessary. Their"ranks ! include our bankers, merchants, rail roads, warehousemen, 'manufacturers and others in addition to speculators. The only question Uiat can be asfced about middlemen is, Can the work they are doing be done more econom ically in some other way? The advo cates of ?6-dperative marketing Bay that it can be done more economically in many cases; by the growers acting together through co-operative mar keting associations. All are agreed that growers acting individually could not do as well as our present set of middlemen. j Succe*?ful Co-op?:r^tive? -Pointing |! The Vf?y. There are enough successful co operative marketing' associations now doing, business to point the "way. The subject has become perhaps the livest agricultural topic in America. Grow ers of every kind of commodity are studying the principles underlying the successful co-operative marketing as sociations with the idea of applying these principles to their own commo dity. ' ; These principles will be explained in later articles. READ THE .ADVERTISEMENTS Summer Suits close to our trade and 1 the clothing business say to you that we ar< , even at the new low ics are certainly to yc dependable tailoring; ick if you are not satif a r k e r A NORTH CAROLINA MAYOR Mr. Charl.es- A. Creech who is known to many of our people as the husband of Miss Corrie Hollings worth, is getting into trouble in his home in Smithfield, N. C., for his friends are running him for mayor. The Smithfield Observer says: '<Mr. Creech is a Christian gentleman,' iand would give us a moral administration. He -is conservative, and would pro tect the financial. interests of .;our town. He is progressive and would ^o all in his power to put our town upon the map of North Carolina." :.' The old friends in-Abbeville of Mrs. Creech'wish him much success and rejoice in her prosperity and happiness in life. ' UNION SERVICE ' ' The regular union service was held , in tho Associate '/ Reformed church Sabbath wight, Rev* Li" J; Bristpw preaching the sermon/ Mr. Derbyshire assisted Mn i?e service by reading' the scripture and Hev. Mr. Barber, a visiting minister,', off ered prater. ' * j V Mrs, John Harris sang jIn the choir and Mr. C. D. Cowan efcrnS Hp from Lethe and took his plac? in th$ choir. AHogether the service :'was in teresting and enjoyed by t$e large congregation present THE COMMISSIONERS Mr. G. W. Calvert and Mir. E. W. Nance, , Commissioners for Abbe ville County, were In the city Mon <lo? IdAlfirw oftor- offnirs ftf county. After their business was over they spent ahusy day Ground the Court House hearing the news.. Mim Gladys Braseti Home Miss Gladys Brazeal, Who ha6 been sick so long in Charlotte, has recovered enough to coige to hei home in Abbeville and is up and about the house. Her friends- are glad to see her and to know that she is well again. / , lave you 1 tew suit sii trices cam< lown/ pHOSE who have, 1< a new deal in the that manufacturers a lie quality this Spring that this,* quality at ices shows a settled c mfidence in your pun 7e carry known bran e know you are inter V ' A Ir ' ^ % - . ?< , $15 to $25 know what mo3t m< > long enough to kno' ; getting finer quality prices iur liiking and your |s and a copper-rivete sfied. Come in and 1 & Reei FOR THE WEDDING Mr. J; Townsend Robertson ar rived in Abbeville Sunday and will spend a week among us. He comes to be present at the amrriage of Hi& sister, Miss Eugenia Robertson on Thursday. / . x ^ Mr. Allen Robertson is expected Tuesday. AT. pONQ CANE ' ;Mr. and Mrs. T. G. White^ Misset Mary and Jeansie White and Mr. George White; went tp Long ..Cane Sunday and ,attended srevice. They were much pleased with the Sunday &HpoI..and with the excellent sermon preached.&y Rev. Mr. Barber. " . BASE BALL V' There "will be a game of . ball be tween Erskine and Porman Wednes day" afternoon at Due West. All "fans" will take notice. ' - HOME MADE CANDY. ? 4 : The home-made candy now on sale at Austin-Perrin drug store is being goia for thf benefit of the marker Vhjch^is to be erected in the circle" in front of the Baptist church. The marker will- commemorate the last meeting of the Confederate cabinet in the Burt House. , ,The candy is meeting with success and is delightful. Drop hi at Austin PerrinVand buy a pound. t Black Mtia strap pumps jnit re ceived ' from Krippmiiorf-fiitwiB, $9J50?The Roaenbery Merc. Co. v W. A. 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