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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. Entered as second-liass matter a: fost office in Aobeville, S. C. Ten ai of Subscription: One Year $2.03 Six months $1.09 j Three months .59 ( Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION i ? MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1921 MERCHANTS, ATTENTION! The Sunday Index-Journal, of Greenwood, has the following news 1 tf, item: "The campaign inaugurated 1 by The Index-Journal to draw ; trade to Greenwood from sur rounding territory if deaerving 1 commendation and promises to j bring results of material benefit | to alll classes of Greenwood bus- i iness," R. B. Curry, president of 1 the Greenwood Chamber of | Commerce, stated yesterday. As a specific instance of the good j .?c ZT>Ull? Ul IUC puunvu; vaui|iai?u of the Index-Journal, Mr. Curry ] stated that one prominent Greenwood merchant told him | that he counted 25 shoppers ] from Abbeville in his store in one morning and another mer- ; chant declared there was not < room for the cart of Abbeville shoppers alone to park in front of his store during a sale. "The Chamber of Commerce heartily . approves the movement to en^ courage outside trade to come 1 to Greenwood and stands ready to cooperate io every legitimate >1 _cr ? ?_ j..?, ?_ nnjr m tuc cuvi t iv u??tt | j ronage of Greenwood businesses ftf>m surrounding counties/* ] Mr. Curry continued. 1 This, it appears to us, should 1 cause the merchants and business i men of Abbeville some concern. It ; should cause all of us concern. The ( newspapers may be accused of writing sometimes from selfish interests. ] <, Sometmes we may do so. But un dertaking now fo discuss this matter j from an unselfish standpoint solely, we?say that the business of this city . is in the hands of the merchants of \ 1 1jhe city. The place which this city ] will occupy from a business stand- < point depends almost solely on the \ \nerchants of Abbeville. Whether , Abbeville will continue to be a eood place to trade, a place sought by j shoppers and those with money to j invest in merchandise, depends /on \ the business acumen of our mer- j chants. If they command the trade t of this section it means that people ( will continue to come to Abbeville to < do their business. They will be inter- s ested in ojir enterprises; they will j : patronize our banks; they will help ( build our schools and help support t our institutions. In the fall, if our j merchants are alive and active, the j people of the surrounding country ( will continue to market their cottor. here, spend the proceeds here and , Jook to this place as the centra of their business activities. We will lose all of this if our merchants are not alive. John Wanamaker says that the way to do business is to have mer- 1 chandise that will stand advertising, 1 and then advertise it. There is no rca- 1 son why the merchants in Abbeville shoald not have as good stocks of < goods as the merchants in Green. wood. We believe they have gener- J ally speaking, but that they are not ? looking as *fully to the wants of the people as other towns jiftt noty "vjjlF 1 s r not be denied. They have 1 tocks of goods and are keeping them, unadvertised, while the Green- < wood merchants are coming here and i taking the trade away through systematic advertising and by display- i ing stocks of goods in everyway Up- 1 to-date. The money of the Greenwood advertisers will pay as many bills for the newspapers as will the money of 1 the Abbeville merchants. But we all ' want to see trade kept at home. We 1 can keep it at home if the merchants i so will. We will continue to lose it if < the merchants so decide. If Abbeville is not to be a kind of ; a resort for good people to live in, 1 with little of buusiness, and less of it each year, the merchants of Abbe- < ville sfionld put on an advertising^ campaign. The campaign should be 1 i v not alone through the newspapers, but a trip around the county, with trucks carrying miniature stores, prepared to show the people of the coun- j ty what we have, and evidence of a spirit that indicates a desire on the part of our merchants to keep the trade at home, all of these are necessary. The Chamber of Commerce cannot do a better thing than to undertake to organize an advertising campaign on the part of the merchants, bankers, business men, and all men else, in the interest of Abbeville. Will the move be made? It is a question for the men who will profit by the undertaking. Let them answer it. r.ninr: ahpah? Unless all signs fail the boat is through scraping bottom. We hav.j passed through depression and deflation. The ship has been all but stranded but we are about to put out to sea. The War Finance Corporaton is ready and willing to finance the sale of cotton in Europe.. In this respect the Harding administration is not following the Wilson administration. The world needs cotton and the South has it. Europe will buy when credit conditions are such that the people over there are able to buy. The financiers of this country will arrange the credit conditions. It will take time to work it all out. and we must be patient, but the better times for which we all hope will come. Cotton will not go back to the war prices but cotton must be produced; the world must have it to be clothed, and it will be made profitable to produce it again. That mean.5 prosperity for the people again, not an era of speculation and of profiteering to be sure, but an era of good returns for food honest labor. Then again people are getting over the blues. The crop is well on the way. People have planted so that they may live at least in part at home, and they have made a crop at a small fraction of the cost of the last crop. The bankers have Deen patient; they have struggled to make things better for the country and they are coming out of the woods. Building activities are again in evidence, and men plan again for the future. There are inquiries about land and property generally, while at the lowest price of several years, is more seriously thought of. Unless we are mistaken, we are about to go forward again. It is a time for the people to be hipeCul. It is a time for all of us t*j shake off slothfulness, to abandon fear, and to take new courage. The worst is pass^ jd, let us look to the future. That being the case the pople of fiDDevuie must get in tne procession, md having got there we must keep jp. Why not lead? We have the busiless men here; we have our part of :he money; we have a live Chamber >f Commerce and an act'.ve 5?ecreary. All we need is the go-ahead spirit, and that we must have. Would t not be a fine thing for Abbeville >f all the Piedmont towns to take j ;he lead in the rchabilitaton ? We may f we will. It is something to think ibout, neighbors. Let us think serL >usly. ( IU1IN ltti. IHAMULK Uf CUM- j MERCE. 1 w x . x ] The Chamber of Commerce Is? 1 Making substantial headway in the natter of closer co-operation be- s rween the people of all lines of busi- i less in Abbeville? Laying ground for constructive < ;ity planning? Working and using every effort to i secure HIGHWAYS through this city ind county? < Using every means and energy to < fecjore ^BRIDGE over the Savanna^ : River njjar Calhoun Falls? Developing a project to encourage' < :he location of Industries of all kinds ' !n Abbeville? < Working and lending financial aid ' ,n the interest of co-operative marketing? i Doing Things Without Noise The man who during the hot, 1 troublesome days sheds his coat, rolls 1 up his sleeves and pumps air into the tire i3 the citizen worth while, for as 1 i result of his constructive effort the i jar is enabled to make progress? BUT?he who stands idly by and i |abs nails into the inflated tire is? < well?not quite so desrable. The Chamber of Commerce is the 1 :ar which will carry you over the rocky roads of community adversities, and it is essential that it have members who will "pump" and not "jab." If you must "jab" becausc you think there should be a better tire, save your energy and help to put a new tire on. Be CONSTRUCTIVE in your action and not DESTRUCTIVE. Do you know of any other agency in this city?community?which is so well equipped to mobilize the goahead citizens of Abbeville as the Chamber of Commerce? This organization raises no barrier of crsed or politics, and may surely hope to secure the co-operation of men and| women when they know that it is the! GOOD of all which is sought; when| they know we are for everything that [ will make Abbeville richer, finer, big-j ger and better, and against everything which will lessen our wealth, Happiness, our presume anu sen | respect. BETTER SCHOOLS AT CALHOUN FALLS Calhoun Falls, June 11?At the invitation of the School Improve-' men Club Dr. Wm. S. Currell and! Prof. Lewis lectured at Calhoun Falls May 21 in the interest of the schools in this town and community. Prof. Lewis in his opening remarks sounded a call to the patrons of these schools urging that we consolidate our four small schools into a large central school and reap the following results: 1. Longer terms and better work. 2. Better work by teachers and pupils. ' ^ 3. Economy?We will get better work and longer terms for same money. A Afnro mnnpv. 1'nr hv ronsoliHnt. ing we will get special state aid. 5. Larger attendance, because of increased interest by pupils and teachers. 6 Better buildings and equipment 7. Better and broader community spirit. 8. A better school in every way. In union there is strength. Dr. Currell's address was forcefulj throughout and was well received by j a large audience. He emphasized the fact that the hope of our community is better schools. He pictured wrong and right education. "A nation withj the wrong kind of education is a menace to the peace and safety of the world, on the other hand a nation with the right kind of education is a blessing to the world." ,. . .... i ! mere are eignt teacners empioyea in our schools. These schools teach what is known as the fundamentals of our language, reading, writing and arithmetic, consequently nine-tenths of our pupils get no further than the three R's. Put these eight teachers in one central graded and high school, and they can do almost twice as much work as they are doing today. Our opponents and critics may say ! that a teacher can do as good work in ; a small school as in a larger one. It i is evident to the practical teacher that these opponents and critics have never experienced taking charge of . signt or more graaes in a sman poor- ; [y equipped building such as we have ; it Calhoun Falls. Imagine yourself j teaching forty or fifty pupils from ! varied environments, and represent- ; ing various characteristics and ten- ; iencies. We may infer that their ; plans of work would be ideals and j their methods of presentation would 1 be likewise, but what pray would be I the results? ; The teachers have seen and will ; see the errors of their past work, and : may resolve that we shall do better : work during the coming year. It is ; easy for teachers sitting at their ease ; to fancy that ideal work should be ione during the ensuing 'term, but when they are again before their classes, no longer theorizing, but ] dealing with the actualities of class room' life, how quickly would "diSfip pear those ideals..-They .had miscalculated, because they had not taken the number of puipls, and the poorly equipped buildings into serious con- j ^deration. j Methods and plans may have been j excellent, but the difficulties were the same as of yore, and because of j this our noblest ideals were again j beyond our reach. ; It is very unfortunate indeed that j these conditions exist at Calhoun j Falls. ti Let us get together and establish [ a school that will be an honor to our [j community. We can do it. 1. Wherever tried consolidation ^ has proved a complete success. 2. Nothing is more important G than the education of our children. j[ 3. Short terms, with one teacher.' WILSON'S NEW HOME GETTING ON HIS NERVES Washimfton, June 11.?Foirmer President Wilson's new home at 22340 S. street is getting on his nerves, according to close friends. It is reported Mr. Wilson is contem. plating a move into the country. The home of the former President is constructed with steel, instead of wooden laths, and it is said this construction has made the house sensitive . to vibrations of passing traffic, and the noise is annoying to Mr. Wilson. NATE Tn tuu ntiTru JVashington, June 12.?A paraphrase of the note of May 27 of the American government to the Netherlands protesting the policy of that government with respect to the exploitation of the Djambi oil fields of the Dutch East Indies made public at the state department tonightIt does not vary substantially from previously published summaries of the communication. ArMrpspH to t.ViP pr l?nH<a -fnr. eign office through the American legation at The Hague, the note expressed the hope that the Dutch government would yet find itself able to settle the question involved "in accordance with the fundamental principle of reciprocity which is regarded as of the greatest importance in relation to the. exploitation of na tional resources." NOTICE! SCHOOL ELECTION Whereas a petition has been circulated in Rocky River School District No. 4 asking for an election for the purpose of voting an additional tax of (6) six mills for school purposes, and whereas it appeals to be properly signed an election is hereby called to take place at the school house in said district on Tuesday, June 28th, 1921. N Those in favor of the tax will cast a ballot upon which there is written or printed- the word "Yes." Those opposea win cast a oanot upon wmcn there is written or printed the word "No." Trustees to act as managers of said election. Rules governing General elections to be observed. ' W. J. EVANS, 6, 13. 3t Co. Supt. of Education. for all grades is an injustice to our children. Why give our children less opportunities than children of other communities. 4. With automobiles and good roads, distance is a small obstacle. 5. Shall our community lag behind other communities? Do we think less of our children than they think 3f theirs? Contributed. CLEM || SOUTH CAROLINA AGRICUL1 ji 1571 ACRES OF LAND, VALU ji OPERATED | j DEGREE COURSES !;j Agriculture, (Seven Majors.) >;; Architecture. j; Chemistry. ?!; Chemical Engineering. j; Civil Engineering. j; Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering, jj; Textile Industry. ? Industrial Education. J General Science. jr.,A j:V.t SHORT CbURSE? j. ..... i Agricultural. . . I; Textile Industry. S; Pre-Medical. |: SUMMER SCHOOL June 13?July 23. !: Agricultural Teachers. ,S l/LUli Uinuwtf. |! College Make-up. j! Removal of Eirtrance Condi\! tions. |j Agricultural Club Boys. * R. O. T. C.?Clemson is a mem 21 | All R. 0. T. C. students receive 1 i $200.00 per year during the juni 5 a a FOR I I THE REGIST1 I APPLICATIONS WILL TALK OF REAPPORTIONMENT ~" Washington, June 12.?House Republicans will hold a conference next week, probhbly Thursday night to consider reapportioment of congressional representation on the basis of 1920 census. The discussion is expected to embrace the proposal of Representative Tinkham, Massachusetts, that the number of repre- ' sentatives from Southern states be " decreased on account of disfran- ? chisement of negroes. ? Representative Towner, Iowa, the Republican conference chairman, said today Mr. Tinkham had submitted a petition with the requisite number of signatures for calling a conference. Another petition he said, has been filed by Representative Barbour, Califoria, requesting party discussion of reap portionment generally. I The Villian! j Mother?How do you know he was following you? Ada?Because he kept looking *~ around to see if I was coming. re | Announc 1 I wish to announce i have succeeded THE F I COMPANY and am \ 1 Sell and Trade for . I CITY PROPERTY AP j See me before you s< C. H. P 1 Office Over Haskell's S w [SON COLL VS COLLEGE OF ENG URE W. M. RIGGS E PLANT OVER $2,300,000.00. ENR< UNDER STRICT MILITARY DIS< VALUE OF A TECHNICAL SCH< EDUCATION A technical education is the xh best insurance against hard dred times. In earning capacity, it arshi nv> flefofa iRA nno LlliXy Ci^uai aa covabv vx yvv(vw v JL CAtJ For the untrained are the posi- mean tions of poverty and obscurity. and < Times are hard in Suoth Caro- equal Una, but the cost of an education . ; at Clemson College is compara- Ah tively low,?sufficiently low to be the-O within the reach of any ambitious these young man in South Carolina. and 1 Scholarships, free tuition and the payment by the United States . Government to R. 0. T. C students, still further reduce the XL Do not allow the financial difficulties to keep you from enter- Cr< ing college this fall to prepare at th< yourself for the opportunities those that lie ahead. scholi - ** /liifioiAn r\-f 4-Via T?Ooamr iDer 01 "U'ie scinvi umciuu vx vi?i inancial assistance from the Federal Gov lor and senior classes. i FULL INFORMATION WRITE OR RAR, CLEMSONCOLL] BE CONSIDERED IN THE ORDER W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIE8 EMBALMING and Auto Hearse Service ' PHONES Day 395 Night 134 Radiator Repairing We have one of the best erminnerl radiator nlants in the Piedmont Section of the state. NEW CORES PUT IN ANY MAKE RADIATOR. Out of town business given special attention. I \\T C u. TT ujjcariiiau, Oak St. Greenwood, S. C. | -Watch the label on your paper and new your ?ubscription promptly. 2JB/5JSJ5I5JEJ5I5J5JSI5IS?5JcIfSSfSJSJ5IBIEJEfS :ement! nHBBHHHm ?r . . & ?n to the public that I 1 PIEDMONT LAND 1 jrepared to Buy, 1 <D FARM LANDS. | sll your property. I ENNAL itore. Phone 396 I lmr^rnnnrnmrnr^nrirarnmr^mm.r^KTimmmnncirr^al ^ ? . 'j ca cj isj cj hj cj uy cj isj i=i izj ltj irj lsj in1 caocj itj itj izjej \so I ,EGE i INEERING AND | 5, President. ; 3LLMENT 1919-'20, 1014. 8 :ipline. 1 dlarships and exami- 1 nations j e college maintains one hun- a and seventy four-year schol- ii* ps in the Agricultural and S le Courses. Each scholarship {?* s $4uu to neip pay expenses i? $160 for tuition apportioned s !ly over the four years. ? so fifty-two scholarships m s ine Year Agricultural Coarse; ?.> scholarships are worth $100. @ ;uition of $4,0. The scholar- "js must be won by competitive ? inations which are held by j|J County Superintendent of s 4 atiofk on July 8th. It is worth a while to try for one of these EL arships." ' s jdit for examinations passed g" ! county seat will be given to vg who are not applying for ja arships but for entrance. e e Umcers Training v^orps. g eminent, this reaching about [? WIRE: EGE, S. 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