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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Pre as and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second- iiass matter a: tost office id Aobeville, S. C. Tenbs of Subscription: One Year $2.0? Six months $1.09 Three months *.59 I Foreign Advertisng Representative ! AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION j 1 I MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1921. j I DO WE NEED A MAN? , In our last issu? we had a sugges tidh for the employment of a man as| principal of the present high school j who might also serve in the capacity j of director of athletics in the city! 6chools. i - ! The suggestion was not wholly j original. It is a fact that coincident} with the suggestion, which was first j made to the Superintendent of the: schools, the editor of The Press and j Banner learned that the trustees of| the schools in Clinton had employed j a man for this purpose. We have since learned that the Hock Hill schools are to have a man for a like purpose. Perhaps there' are other schools which have taken. fc" i ** the same action. The idea is either a good one or a bad one. The superintendent of the schools in Abbeville says that he coneiders it indispensable that a man be secured for the principalship of the ViirrVi cr?Vinnl nnd as* a : cue picocnv - ? ?. teacher for the seventh grade.. He ' also believes tnat a man as director of athletics would have a good effect on the boys as well as have a great influence in getting the boys to attend the high school, and in keeping them ther after they once entered. 1 What say the trustees? None of' them so far as we have heard has' expressed himself. We say none of them, when we should say perhaps that none except one. One member of the Board of Trustees seems to think that maybe the idea is not a' , -- - l. l_ i Daci one, out men ne au uujs j ing to school, and "there are plenty i of men sending boys there to do the paying." Yes, that is the "rub" in j Abbeville. Everybody is for self. We jL i have not yet imbibed the community spirit and we are too prone to con-| aider, whenever anything is suggest-^ ed, just what individual benefits are; to accrue to us, and we are so1 | afraid that we will spend a dollar j or two thai; will help some other fel- ' ! low that whenever any kind of a' | movement is mentioned all of us -with- j i draw ourselves into our selfish holes.; Nobody wants to press any mat-j i ter of the Board of Trustees which 1 is not for the good of the schools, i Every man should be content that a sugg ";ion made by h;m receive con-|< sideration, but every suggestion : made, which is approved by the head of the schools, is worthy at least of' i consideration. The people who should; consider the suggestion, after the,' superintendent, are the members of < the Board of Trustees of the public1 * schools.. In Abbeville most of thenlj ! are men of property, They shouldjl consider any suggestion made look- 1 in? to this end; and if found to be j < Wise they should encourage it by. 1 lending a helpful hand; if the sug.j gestion does not appeal" to them they 11 should say so. It is no excuse for a j '< trustee to say that he will hav? noth-' 1 ing to do with a mov^e^ for the,' up-building ^ Schools o?.*hej ?ty because he has no children at- < 'lending the schools. If that is the in-^ terest which he manifests in public ! matters, perhaps it were better that somebody else who has children be given the position of trustee. The ' trustees will find that the offices ^ which they hold should be held by j men who do not consider themselves first, but the public. So long as they 1 are guided in their efforts only by! what they are to receive out of this or the other movement, they do not j serve the public. It seems to us that the time has ar-1 I rived in Abbeville for some frank; discussion in public matters, and that! the people be advised just who. stands j for the public weal and who stands for self. WHY NOT TREATMENT? [< ? We notice that the Governor has ^ granted a parole to Bush Williams ' for a period of six months. Williams ' was convicted of murder in this county in February, and was sent up for life, we believe. < The excuse for the parole is not that Williams is not a murderer, and, therefore, dangerous to society, but , that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Has the state a tuberculosis camp where negroes may be treated? If it j has not, then one should be estab- i | lishd, and those convicts who are too < 'sick from this disease to work should ; | be sent to it. | Experience has shown that it is | dangerous to have murderers at . large, and the medical fraternity is agreed, that it is also dangerous for one afflicted with tuberculosis to be^ turned loose where he may commu-|, nicate the disease to others. There. | fox-e, instead of one danger resulting! * fTT.-n; ! irom turning w nutans iuusc uicjc ai^ two lurking dangers, one against society, and on against the public health. Neither should be allowed to, exist. , By the way, is sickness to be an j excuse hereafter for crime? May a man who is sick escape the punishment for his offense? If so we shall ' hereafter have a defense for homi-jl cide other than self-defense. Per-; c haps Bush relied on the wrong de-; ^ fense in the beginning. -jt ? it DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF SMALL NEWSPAPER: !r Mr. M. V. Atwood has written and j had published in a Cornell Universi-!^ ty extension bulletin, some highly! interesting facts and figures concerning the country weekly news-' papers in New York State. Since his j observations are applicable to this state we are reproducing below ex-: cerpts from the bulletin: * : 1 "The country newspaper has v never been more needed than it is at ? the present time. Americans are J rapidly ueciwriiig a ui iiuuwuo, Every minute not spent working or | ^ sleeping is spent rushing around', automobiles, trains, or trolley cars, j o Families now seldom live for gener-j ations in a community. The children j grow up and leave for the city with lreams of the careers which await;a them. ' I? "Some persons are beginning to think that this may be a dangerous! tendency; that perhaps the muchsneered-at provincialism may have * points in its favor. The country is j ^ hearing a good deal just now about j v 'community service,' which, as one writer says, 'means the promotion of a^sound, healthy, commercial, social mental, and spiritual life in a community?the bringing together of all n the better elements of a communi- b fcr' n "And one institution which can li help mightily in bringing these to- v gether is the country weekly. The s city daily can not easily do it, for it t; is essentially a thing of the nation 'b and the world. The people who make E the city daily are intersled in the 11 coutry and in the small towns where a the paper may be read largely be- E cause the people of the community P mean just so many more possible a subscribers, and therefore, so much ti more advertising revenue. * "But the country newspaper, even c the poorest, offers a meeting ground c of all these, 'better interests' of the ' b community. There is not an institu- a tion including the church, the school, s< foe form bureau, or local business, P (IPeS suffer when a town's e )nly local paper i? forced out of susiness. ... " s< "The prosperity?and therefore ? the future?of the country weekly ie^end? to a considerable extejit upoij the realization in the minds of ^ the publisher and in th^ minds of every reader of newspapers and of every advertiser in newspapers, that _ j-.l it- - 1? Vi auvurwburg is a cwmniHitby, uw umy profit-making commodity the pub- ^ lisher has to sell. The country news- ^ paper of the future must be a pros- ^ perous newspaper not only for the P sake" of the publisher and publisher's ^ family, but for the sake of the com- b munity. A poorly edited, poorly a printed, and poorly managed paper P is not good for any communi- c ty. ... "In the past some country mer- t. chants have objected if advertise- t merits of neighboring city stores I were printed in the home paper. vSome editors have had such a keen t sense of their community responsi- t bility that they have refused to ac-(j cept such advertising. Other editors F > av V V V vv vv k. V k HITS BY HAL V V V VVVvv This weather may be hot but think >f the poor Eskimo. There'll be a lot of fallen prophets after the Dempsey-Carpentier smash. It is said that Uncle Sam will get more "jack"out of the Dempseyf!arn affair than either of the nrin lipals. That's one thing to be said in favor of the income tax law. A headline says Georgia's finances are-in a bad way. Well, whose aren't? There is not so much complaint :hese times about sore eyes?not ?ir<ce the days of short skirt. Out at Ten-e-IIaute, Ind., the au;horities say to bathers: "Let your :onscience be your guide." There'll )e a grand rush to that resort of reformers and others to see how much :onsc:ence (or how little) women eally have. A certain movie star, in a serial >icture, sank beneath the waves, ihained to aoout a ion 01 tock, Thursday night, but, like the dead at he last trumpet call, he'll rise again his week. The chief ambition of every poor nan must be to accumulate enough ilthy lucre to be able to have t private barber?if the dumb vanity, if there are any such. If Henry Ford doesn't soon go out >f business, the railroads will have to hut down. The government continues to prove hat prices are going down. Wonder \?ho is holding them up in South Car>lina. ' Prohibition is said to have increas (1 the consumption of sugar, it ftas ;lso created a demand for raisins and rdinary wet water. A man's business may look dead nd be dead but so long as he "puts >ut" for advertising no on will beieve it?which is what counts most. John Wanamaker and Henry "ord are rich men. Know why? Th?y andle good products?antT "tell the rorld" about them. A NEW CAPITALIST James Blessing is another young lan of the city to show the lazy oys how it is done. We have a good lany small boys about town who be leve in making their own money and ^ho have good positions. We have ome of the larger size of this variey, and some we have who may not e. But however that may be James tlessing is a coming capitalist. He lakes his home with his uncle and unt, Mr. and Mr. Andrew Jackson. Ivery day he goes down to the ice lant to see the big wheel go round nd round. He decided last Saturday o go into business. There is a lot of irap ice about the plant, so James onceived the idea of- going into the old drink business. Accordingly he ought three crates of soft drinks nd cooled them properly with the :rap ice, and by night he had disosed of all of <the drinks, making ighty-five cents and drinking one ape" himseu. He has now made jveral dollars and is on rising round. Let him proceed. / There is something wrong some here when the night latch fails to ield to a buttonhook at 2 a. m. ? . ave not refused this business, but ave made little effort to encourage One editor says that formerly here was a strong feeling on the art of his hometown merchants hat he should refuse out-of-town usiness. However, some of them re coming to see that perhaps his olicy of accepting, but not enouragjng, such business is the wiser. i local merchant recently said to ? * ' ? ? 1J 1.. J. His editor, '11 you snouiu excraue his out-of-town business absoflutely, feel it would look to our people as f we were afraid to compete with he city men. In my own case I know his is not true, far I can furnish us: us good service as can my com>etitor in the city.' ..." PRATT GETS DEGREE Waihington and Lee Honors One of Its Graduates Washington ami Lee university at the recent commencement conferred the doctor of divinity degree upon the Rev. H. Waddell Pratt, formerly pastor of the Abbeville Presbyterian church and now secretary of Christian education for the synod of South Carolina. Dr. Pratt was graduated from Washington and Lee university in the class of 1893, standing first in his class. After receiving his A. B. degree a year later he earned his M. A. degree. On account of his record in mathematics, just after his sophomore year he was made assistant, professor of mathematics, which position he held for seven years. In 1898 he entered Union Theological seminary, graduating in 1901. His first pastorate was in Petersburg, Va. He went from there to what is now the Church of the Pilgrims -in Wash, ington, D. C. He was the first pas tor of'this church. In 1910 he was called to Abbeville, where he labored for nine and a half years.^Resigning this charge a year and a half igo, he has been engaged in furthering the work of Christian education, . especially as it relates to securing . men for the Christian ministry. Dr. [ Prait is one of the recognized lead- { ers in the synod of South Carolina. [ ?The State. [ MAJOR MAYHON RETIRES FROM BUSINESS POST [ If ; '? Greenvi'lle, June 19.?Major G. [ Heyward Mayhon, Jr., state com- t mandev of the American Legipn, j (Friday, tendered his resignation as [ ! president of the Greenville Young [ j Men's Business League, upon the ad- | | vice of physicians that he should re- [ : lieve himself of some of his duties i because of his health. Major Mayhon was severely wounded September 27, 1918, while wTth the Thirtieth Division' in France, and he has not had his normal strength since. Wise men make feasts that fools may eat and get the gout. jU5JgjSJ2I2JS?SMEJ3J5JS?2J21313J3M5?SJ3ISI5Ji j "Hurry U j Must Ple< I We have two expert, i * i they J Austin-Pe 52JBE!3JBJSiBJB135jBiB!BfSISJB/5JS@S/BJSJ5/BJB/5M Free S< To get the most plea your phonograph it sho timed and adjusted. 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