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COLLEGE EXPENSES
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Mr. C. P. Hodges has written the'
Columbia State with reference to the
expenses of sending students to the
colleges of the state, both state and
private institutions, suggesting that
something should be done to lessen
' the charges made by these . institution.
In today's State is a letter from
a college president replying to Mr.
IJodges in which the side of the colleges
is given.
< , . Those of us who are called on to
pay the charges made by the colleges
of the country can sympathise with
Mr., Hodges in 41s desire to see tne
expenses of educating our children
lessened, but we think that a fair consideration
of the question will convince
most of us that the statement1
made by the college president is based
on facts, and that the public, under
present conditions, cannot look
y i fo? lower expenses in our institutions
of higher learning.
It is a fact, as stated, that only in
f recent years have members of the
teaching profession^ evert those in'thd
j colleges, received sufficient salaries
r f to keep body and soul together. A
X man who held a professorship in one
of our colleges, on the salary paid
a few years ago, if he had a medium
sized family, had little with which to
offer his own children the benefits of
an education. Even today, his posiA
tion is little better. There is little in
the teaching profession to attract
good men to it at present salaries,;
\ and a man who turns to it must do so J
either from a love of the calling or
from some kind of necessity. Certainly
he may not expect to build a
fortune or even to lay away some.
thing for the comforts of old age
from the meagre salary paid.
There is something else which
should be said too. We have had occasion
to investigate the expenses
charged in the colleges in South Carolina
as compared with the expenses
of colleges and universities in other
states. We ha^e found that the expenses
in our own institutions are
xnpch lower than in many of the outside
institutions. In some of the colleges
and universities in other states
enough is charged in one year to pay
the whole four year's expenses in
some of the colleges in South Carolina.
On the whole, according to our
investigation, a youhg man or a
"Aiitirr m/irnan matt ceitii's n pnllpcrp
V; j education in South, Carolina for less
than in any other state of which we
have any knowledge. .
This does riot mean that expenses
should not be lowered wherever it, is
possible to lower them. But the student
these days must have many
things. He must have good.fare; he
must have a comfortable room, well
heated and well lighted; he must have
/ a good bed, and the convenience
which go with comfortable living. He
wants all kinds of service; and all
of these things must be paid for.
When it is all counted in the cost, it
Vill be found, we believe, that the
colleges are run on as economical a
basis as it is possible to employ.
: PROBLEM OF THE SPINNERS.
The State.
The fact that the cotton crop in
the United States will this year be
around 7,000,000 bales, which is much
less than one-half the maximum crop,
is staggering to the world. But for
the circumstance that the poverty
Of Europe ha3 reduced consumption
temporarily and that the surplus
brought over from last year is large,
sp'nners would be in panic. Had the
consumption of the Lancashire district
been normal the last 24 months,
all England would be excited about
the cotton question.
Now it is perfectly clear that the
' reduction of the Southern cotton crop
is not an incident that will pass with
1921. More cotton will be raised perhaps
in 1922 and in other years but
there is no reason to look forward in
many years to a cotton crop of 16,000,000
bales. Probably for a long
time 12,000,000 bale3 will be considered
a "bumper crop" and, meantime,
the demand for the commodity
will steadily increase.
Perhaps by 1930 a Southern output
of 20,000,000 bales would not be too
great for the' world's need. Where
is the cotton to come from? It must
be had. and it will be had. The so
called monopoly tnat tne ooutn nas
enjoyed is not explained by climate
and soil. It is conceivable that cotton
production may be immensely increased
in other regions.
Further, it is perfectly clear that
cotton can be produced in the South
under boll weevil conditions. There
is no doubt about that. The continuing
diminution in the output will be
for,the most part caused by the abandonment
in despair of their farms by
the po;orer and more ignorant farmers.
If they can be encouraged and
supported in this crisis, the Southern
states as an organized cotton producing
community supplying the
world 'With the commodity with the
maxim of economy in production will
survive.
The spinning world, of Europe,
America and the Orient, ean obtain
its cotton from the South in the future
as in the past at cost far lower
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uian uy creating o new wn/uu givning
industry irf another region. Besides,
the day will come when every
cotton area will be invested by boll
weevils or other pests. ^
"It occurs to The State-that it would
be to the interest of the cotton spinners
everywhere to address themselves
to the preservation and enlargement
of the Southern cotton
growing industry. The one thing
required to meet and dispose of the
boll weevil evil is intelligent and
trained labor.
' A wealthy New England cotton
mill company could purchase 50,000
or 100,000 acres in South Carolina
and raise the cotton for its spinners
and looms, despite the weevils. This
it would do by employing expert
managers to guide the labor that is
already here, though it would be advisable
to send a considerable number
of white laborers to its plantations
or ctoud of Dlantations. The crux
of the matter is that the small farmers,
especially the blacks, are without
capital and without credit, as
well as without the training and initiative
to grapple a problem utterly
foreign to their experience.
THE WORK CURE.
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Voices all around us tell us that the
tide has turned, that we are on the
upward trend in business, that liquidation
is at ai> end, that a new period
of prosperity is about to break
upon us with unequaled splendor.
This is true under certain conditions.
v We can have prosperity if we will
to have it, but we shall not have it
merely by exclaiming that it is on
the way and will be with us soon.
It will be w.'th us that soon, and
no sooner, that we brace ourselves
to make the effort which can alone
bring it to us. #
It is time for us to take off our
coats and 'go to work in dead earnest.
Work! Yes, that is the secret talisman
that will induce prosperity. The
United States has every natural resource
that a country can need?
coal, iron, oil, copper, textile soil tor
every agricultural product?and the
best, climate in the world. It is rich
enough to be self-sustaining and self.sufficient.
But the riches that must be
worked, not taken from a treasure
chest. In order to prosper we must
produce and produce and produce.
But producing means work, and .we
are not so very much in love with
work.
[' Our ancestors who settled this
[country and built it up were workers.
Few of them were philosophers or
gentlemen of leisure; mostly they
were men who had not become sufficiently
educated to hate work. Why,
on on/ioctni> -amnM fViinlr nni'.lnrifr of
?*? MilVVOVW* ?fVM?W " - O
plowing a few. acres, beating out a
few bushels of grain with a flail, cutling
down sundry trees, quartering
a cow, doing a little biacksmithing,
whipping a dozen of his children,
and then going out and killing an
.Indian or a deer by way of amuseIment.
It was all in the day's work.
Many of us, however, have come
to believe that work is a habit indulged
in only by the unintelligent.
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Parent-Teacher Meeting
The first regular meeting of the
Abbeville Parent-Teacher association
will be held Tuesday afternoon,1
September 21 in the graded school
buildings at 4:30 o'clock. Notices
have been mailed to all of last
I year's members of the association
announcing the meeting and re-'
questing their presence at this first
meeting. No set program has been'
arranged for tomorrow's meeting j
but the election of a treasurer will!
come up, as will plans for the future1
work of the association. An opportunity
will also be afforded the paraijts.tp.
meetr,the new teachers as
^ome; parents .were forced to be aib[Sent
from the. recent reception given
the association to the teacfiers.
An important factor tn tomorrow's
meeting will be the payntent of dues
for this session. The yearly dues for
women are 50 cents and for men
$1.00.
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Visitor* At School
Mrs. Frank Wilson and Mre. T. G. .
White were distinguished visitors to
the high school Monday. They visited
all the grades during recitations ,
and were quite complimentary in
their remarks concerning the work
observed as well as "Hafner's Army"
doing setting-up exercises at recess.
We wish every parent would visit our
schools and give us full benefit of
their constructive criticism. Criticism
which doesn't carry with it logical
suggestions as how secure better
results than you are now getting is
wasted breath. t j
MARSHAL FOCH WILL
TOUR U. S. IN OCTOBER
Washington, Sept. 26.?Elaborate
plans are being made by the American
Legion for the reception' and entertainment
of Marshal . Foch, of
France, who will arrive in America
[late in October to be the guest of
the Legion. A committee will meet,
he marshal at New York, accompanying
him to Washington, where
he will remain a few days, and to .1
Kansas City, Mo., where the organization
will open its third annual convention
October 31.
Marshal Foch will return to Washington
Armistice day to attend the
ceremonial at the burial at Arlington
of the unknown American soldier
killed in France during the World
war. During his stay the distinguished
Frenchman will make a tour
of the United States, but plans for
this have not beeri" completed.
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Our occupation too often is the
game of securing the maximum of
pay for the minimum of effort. This
is not a thing that leads to national
prosperity.
? Only work does that.
Let us take off our coats and go
to it.?Richmond News-Leader.
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REFUSES TO RESIGN
President Harding's Request Ignored
By Land Surveyor.
Salt Lake City, Sept. 23.?President
Harding's attempt to force the
resignation of I. C. Thoreson as surveyor
General of the Land Office for
the Utah District has precipitated a
policital row which threatens to occupy
the attention of the United
States Senate, Senator King, Democrat,
having announced his intention
to fight the nomiation of E. D. Sorenson,
sent to the Senate by the
(President yesterday.
Mr. Thoreson has twice refused to
resign. Early in September he received
a personal letter from Presi.1
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aeni naruing uaieu oepiemuer o,
reading as follows:
"My dear Sir: Those of us who
are responsible for the activities of
the new Administration never like
'to do anything in an Inconsiderate1
way. We are anxious to have men in
positions of responsibility who are
in full sympathy with the purposes
and plans of the Administration. I
need not tell you of the current demand
for the recognition of aspirants
within your party for consideration
in t?e matter of patronage. I
take you to be a practical man who
knows of these d6velopments with a
sweeping change in national administration.
Under all these circumstances
I would very much like to
have a new appointment in the office
which you occupy.. In all courtesy I
would infinitely prefer to have you
recognize the situation and make
your resignation availabe. I am writing
this letter in a kindly spirit to
express a request that you recognize
the situation and let me deal with
the situation as you would probably
wish to do if our positions were reversed."
FRANCE ALARMED OVER
REMOVAL OF U. S., TROOPS
Paris, Sept. 25.?French official
circles are greaty disturbed over report
received here from Washington
that the American troops on the
Rhine may" be withdrawn when the
treaty with Germany has been rati|
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Washington, has been instructed tc
watch developments closely and tc
point out at the opportune momenl
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that France would regret deeply the
departure of the American forces.
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the American soldiers on the Kline
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