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IP" ^ 7r-:o^ Abbeville Press and Banner J Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, November 23, 1921 Single Copies, FiVe Cents. 78th Year. LIQUOR TRAFFIC " ' INDUCES CRIME RiCE EXCORIATES BOOTLEGGERS IN YORK?TRUE BILL FOUND AGAINST WHITE MAN AND WOMAN, CHARGED WITH * MURDER. I - York, Nov. 22.?A strong arraignment of the illegal whiskey traffic, coupled iwth an excoriation of those who engage therein, featured the made bv Judge Hayne F. Rice of Aiken to the York county grand jury upon the convening of court here this morning. "I consider the man who sells liquor the very lowest type of citi/ 'zen in this country," he declared. "Whiskey is at the bottom of twothirds of the crimes of violence in this state. Whenever the state makes out a case against a man for violatoin of the prohibition law, it is the / duty of the jury to convict, -regardless of any individual views its members may entertain on the whiskey subject." Judge Rice said he knew of a re cent instance where the solicitor had ' made out a plain case against a vio' lation of the prohibition law, the . v person being caught almost in tne act of distilling, and yet the jury had rendered a verdict of acquittal, v "As long as that kind of sentiment prevails," declared Judge Bice "you can not put down lawbreakers." In further discussing the whiskey situation he said some people assert that prohibition is a failure, but that this is far from the truth. In the last htree years, though a constant traveler, he had not seen a single j drunk man, which Was in striking 1 and agreeable contrast to conditions, that obtained before prohibition be-! came effective. Judge Rice said a .. conductor told him recently that j there is now virtually no drunkeness j among travelers, while a few years j ago intoxicated passengers were nu-' merous and constant source of trou-i ble and danger to those in charge of the trains. A true bill was found against Albert Zimmerman and Mrs. Effie Kudgins, charged with the murder of the latter's husband, J. Pink Hudgins, on the night of November 6. Aaioug those who appeared to give evidence before the grand jury was; Arthur Hudgins, 11 year old son of the dead man. FOUR WfilTE MEN , HELD IN OCONEE Officers Scour County in Effort To Make Arrosts Following Shooting.Walhalla, Nov. 22.?Four young white men, Dan Jamieson and "Bub" Tannery of near Westminister and 1 Frank and Walter Shepard, brothers, of the Long Creek section, were brought to the Oconee county jail here this morning by Sheriff Alexander in connection with the killing of Jack Freeman, negro, who was shot early last night near Westminster by a party of white men. Sheriff Alexander left here immediately af v_ ter the shooting and although the white men had not been identified, officials scoured the county, his work resulting in the arrest of the four , men. Freeman, it is alleged, was shot .and almost instantly killed by one of a party of four white men who passed him in company with two negro girls and another negro on their way to the cross roads church, when struck by a. pistol ball fired by one lL 1 " oi lag uiiemuers ujl mc yan,y. BARN BURNS. Fire Tuesday morning destroyed a barn together with about 100 bushels of corn and other feedstuffs on the farm of Mrs. Ware near Antreville.. It is not known how the fire originated. ? NEW POWER ACT BRINGS PROBLEM CHANGE IN REGULATIONS COVERING DEPRECIATION, AMORTIZATION AND CLASSIFICA TION OF ACCOUNTING?PROVISIONS OF BILL Washington, Nov. 22.?Practically the entire electric light and power industry and its various branches were represented at a special hearing before the general power committee today, at wihch a change was sought in the regulations governing depreciation, amq^tlzatioii and classification of accounting for projects under the new water powei plan. It was estimated that about $2,000,000,000 worth of public utilities and associated concerns represented. The commission was told that the proposed regulations were contrary to the intent of congress unworkable and would forbid the development of water powers contemplated under the law. Congress, the commission was told, plainly intended in the law that the commission should be a supervisory rather than a regulatory body, and spokesmen for the companies pointed out in support of that contention that congress gave the commission no responsibility bver rates and therefore did not expect to take an aribitriry jurisdiction over j depreciation reserves. I he proposed | regulation, it was added, "contain I requirements of so drastic a nature that they are bound to defeat father I than promote development." To administer the regulations pro| posed it was said would require a large and expensive government bureau, which it was argued, congress never intended as it appropriated only $100,000 for administration of the law and refused a larger amount. Among the companies and organizations represented were the National Electric Light association, Stone and Webster, General Electric company, New York Edison company, Electric Bond and Share company, Allis Chalmers, Cramp and 'sons, xne wasningwm irrigation ana improvement company Alabama Power company and many others. Spokesmen said the entire industry was represented. OFF FOR CHESTER Abbeville Team Plays Last Game of Season. The Abbeville High School team left today for Chester where the boys will play their last game tomorrow. Chester has not yet been defeated this year and should Abbeville win it will put the locals in the limelight again. Chester, Gaffney and Honea Path are the three undefeated teams in the Piedmont, while Charleston and Columbia are leading in the lower part of the state. Columbia plays Charleston tomorrow. Honea Path and Chester play next week, the winner ip that game to meet Gaffney later. A good sized crowd went with the Abbeville team to Chester, and the warm support they will give may help to decide the final outcome of the game. Coach Sweteniburg and Prof. Hafner are with the team. COTTON MARKET The cotton market was active again today, following yesterday's advance of $3.50 a bale, the net advance today being from $2.50 for July to $3.50 for March. All months advanced from 55 to 69 points over Tuesday's close. The figures are: Close Gain December 18.49 .62 January 28.48 .63 March ? 18.45 .69 May 18.17 .62 July 17.15 .55 Spot cotton 17.50 to 18.00. * V - -v RURAL SUPE WRITES LEWIS SUMMARIZING CONDITIO BUILDIKGS ARE NOT MODER SIGN?TOO MANY Of AND 1UU ;??< Following is the report of D. L. Lewis, rural school supervisor, to J. E. Swearingen, state superintendent of education, in regard to the school conditions in Abbeville County. Mr. Lewis visited the schools last week: In company with the County Superintendent P. H. Mann, I visited on Tuesday, November 15, Santuc, a one-teacher school; Park's Creek a one-teacher school; Donalds, a five-teacher school; and Winona, a school of two teachers. On Wednesday we visited Prosperity, a school with one teacher. On account of rain, we were una'ble to travel further. \ On Thursday, as it was still raining, I visited the Abbeville High School. In the afternoon, we visited Central, a one-teacher school. On Friday we visited Lebanon, a one-teacher school; Sharon, with two teachers, and Warrenton, with two. The first thing that impressed me was, the number of school-houses that had <been constructed without regard to lighting, ventilation, and other features characteristics of modern scool architecture. Most of I the one-teacher 3ohool-houses are of the box-car type, lighted on two or thre sides, which is very hard on the eyes of pupils. Many of the buildings are old and unpainted. In the twoteacher buildings we found some of the houses better, but in several instances additions had been made to one-teacher houses so a& to convert them into two-teacher houses, in which additions the same errors., in lighting were observed. The Warrenton building was constructed according to Clemson plans, and is well built, lut the rooms were very much reduced in size. A'bbeville County needs, first, to reduce to a marked degree, the num(ber of one-teacher schools in the county. Twenty-nine of the fortyseven white schools are of the oneteacher type. She will never educate her children in schools of this type. Only in very sparsely settled communities, or in places where physical conditions necessitate It, Is there any excuse for the one-teacher school. In nine cases out of ten, the one-teach_ er School is only a monument to the prejudice of a community?prejudice in favor of one's own community, and against a near-by community. For the sake of their prejudices people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the education of their children. Country people everywhere need to lay aside community prejudice, set their community stakes further out and take in. neighboring communities and establish with their neighbors schools of three or more teachers. A one-teacher school can teach succssfully only seven grades. When such a school attempts more, some grade or grades, usually the lower must be neglected. A one-teacher school was observed tfyng to carry ten grades, it would have been better for the pupils in the high school grades to attend the Abbeville High School, and thus give the teacher time to put all her work on the first seven grades.* A two-teacher school can successfully teach only eight grades; a three-teaher school can carry nine grades, with some tenth grade subjects. The ideal toward which every country community should aim is, a school of four teachers. Such a school can do the finest kind of work, and anything less than this is not going to give our country children the chancc for an education that they deserve. In the second place, the country schools need to have longer yearly session. At present the yearly sessions average less than six months. It is difficult for the children in town and city schools with their large corps of teachers to complete a RV1S0R | OF SCHOOLS 1 ; Jt NS IN COUNTY" SAYS MANY N IN ARCHITECTURAL DE- o <E TEACHER SCHOOLS >RT TERMS grade in nine months. It is impossible for country children to complete a grade *n less time; if they are promoted, just because the parents wish it, a great wrong is done b them. a They get the idea that they can 3 get through with superficial work, p and, when they go to a high school I or to college, and find that they are f unable to keep up, they (become dis- 1< couraged and drop out, and their op- h portunity for an education is gone, e Teachers should not promote chil- I dren unless the children are pre- f 1 pared. t In order to run the schools longer, h more money is necessary. The school 2 , districts of Abbeville County have, t in many cases, done little towards ? helping' themselves in bettering h their schools. Eleven school districts v have no special school tax at all. The t local school tax measures the interest of a school district in the educa- p 1 tion of its children. It is a bad time t ; to talk to people about increasing a their taxes, but surely there is noth- p ! ing more important to ^ parent than I ! the education of his children, and r ' there is only one time when he can ' educate them; that time lost, their p opportunity is gone forever. As t 1 times become harder, and competi- j, tion increases, the more important s it is that we educate our children. r I Every cent of special school tax 0 levied in a school district is spent in j. the district, and we cannot better 3 spend , our money than in the educa- f tion Of our children. Country people ? everywhere need to get a vision of e what it really means to educate ade- j quately their children. Are not their children just as worthy of education as the children in the towns and ^ cities? Do they not deserve just as good education as do the children in the towns and cities? Have they a right to condemn their own children, 'because of a lack of education, to be f hewers of wood and drawers of i water? When country people see the , splendid schools in Albheville, are t they satisfied to allow their own chil- v dren to grow up without the educa- * tional opportunities that the Abbeville children have? If so, they do 1 not realize their responsibilites as ^ ' parents. c < r The good people of Abbeville c county should therefore get together i in their schools. Consolidations should be made, good school-houses, worthy of the children and the communities, should be built, there . t if ; should be at least three teachers in ^ i each school employed for at least seven months, and taxes sufficient to ^ run the schools should be levied. r Man? parts of Abbeville County are ^ slowly) jbeconrjing depopulated; the ^ people are moving from the country j i. to the towns. This is largely due to c ' poor schools. Country communities ^ ' and country churches dying. If c ' the schools were what they ought to ^ be (and they can be made so), much f of this exodus from the country would stop communities would grow, ' country churches would grow, lands ; would increase in value, and these country boys and girls could be dei veloped into the best citizens in the ^ world. Country boys and girls know ^ ' how to Vr'ork and carry responsibility. They take religion, the founda' tion of our present-day civilization, seriously. Give such boys and girls, who are c church -memfoers and know how to , f work, a good education, and any- r thing is possifble for^them. Country c people must educate their children if a they do their duty by them. They c owe it to the State and the Nation, r and they owe it to their God, who 1 gave them these children as a pre- i < (Continued on page four.) e y IALY UNAFRAID REDUCES ARMIES IN BEST OF TERMS WITH HER NEIGHBORS.?COUNTRY' DID NOT WAIT FOR CONFERENCE CALL TO REDUCE GREAT ARMY. Washington, Nov. 22.?Jtaly has o fear of any of her European neigh" ors and ser sole desire is to have he feelings aroused by the war subide and give way to the spirit of leace, an official spokesman of the talian delegation to the arms conerence said tonight. Following the sad given by Senator Schanzer in lis speech today befpre the confernce the spokesman declared that taly had not even awaited the call or this conference to begin reducion of her great army which now las been brought down to less than 100,000. Moreover the period of miliary service which before the war /as two and one-half years already lad been substantially reduced it tras explained, and probably would e cut to eight months. There was no disposition on the lart of Italy, it was added, to quesion the right of France to maintain , large army, inasmuch as she occuiied a peculiar position. But this arge*army, it was stated, was not egarded as a menace to Italy.. Thp s.nme statement micht bp aD lied to the Jugislav military force, h? spokesman continued. Italy's reations with that country were decribed as the "best" and^she did not egard the little entente as a source f danger to her.' Germany, not beng a close neighbor, occupies a portion, it was explained, different rom ft-ance and the natural deenses of Italy afforded by the Alps nabled her to ignore any threat from lussi*. k As to Austria the Italians cherishd only the kindest feelings. Italy, laving given proof of that, it was aid when she went forward to sucor the starving children of Ausria. There was no longer any reason or "sad feeling" between Italy and Austria, the spokesman said, adding hat the only desire was that the var spirit ought to terminate over he peace of the world. The present disposition of the Italan delegates, it was said, is to adlere closely to the agenda of the onference and not to broacl) __any w'tVl fiflflT* ICTT wviiltvvvvv? ii ....... ial subjetcs. TO PREACH IN COLUMBIA The Rev. A. J. Derbyshire leaves onight for Columbia 1 where he has ieen invited to conduct the Thanksjiving Day service and preach at St ?imothy's Episcopal church tomorow. Thursday night he leaves Columiia for Charleston where he has a ery important matter to attend to. teturning to Columbia in time for iunday, Mr. Derbyshire will hold ioth morning and evening services at It. Timothy's, and preach at each erv'ce.The Rev. Joseph R. Walker, o/?f.r?r nf St. Timothv's has extended his courtesy to Mr. Derbyshire and trill entertain him as his guest hroughout this week-end. There will be no services or Sunlay School at Trinity this Sunday, lovember 27th; EUSTACE BRADLEY HURT The Index^Journal of Tuesday :arried the news of a serious injury o Eustace Bradley. The news came rom Vernon, Texas, that the young nan was in a hospital there with his :hest crushed from an automobile, tccident and there was little hope >f his recovery. Mr. Bradley is in the eal estate and insurance business in Pulsa, Oklahoma. He is well known n Abbeville, having attended the SMinnl herp when his broth-1 r, W. R. Bradley, was principal. j HOUSE APPROVES 1 NEW TAX MEASURE REWRITTEN REVISION BILL SENT TO SENATE?REPUBLI- ^ CAN LEADERS EXPECT TO , V | PASS IN TIME TO ADJOURN WEDNESDAY Washington, Nov. 22.?By a vote of 232 to 209 the house late today J approved the tax revision bill as rewritten in conference. The measure immdiately was sent to the senate, where it will be taken up tomorrow with Republican leaders determined - upon its final enactment m time for the ending of the special session t)f congress Wednesday night. Before adopting the conference report, ihe housed efeated, 202 to 141, a motion from the Democratic side to send the measure back to conference with instructions to house managers to accept senate amendment increasing the inheritance taxes. Forty-two Republicans voted for the motion, while four Democrats voted against Only 11 Republicans bolted on the final vote, while Six Democrats voted passage. The Republicans opposing th& bill were Beck, Browne, Lampert, J. M. Nelson and Voght all of Wisconsin; James and Woodruff, Michigan; Michelson, Illinois; Ryan, New York; Sinclair, North Dakota, and Keller, Minnesota. The six Democrats were Campbell of Pennsylvania, Lea of California and Dupre, Favrot, l>azaro and Martin, all , ? of Louisiana. - 'sMm In the four hours' debate which preceded the voting, Chairman Ford- " | ney of the house managers said the measure in its present form would yield a total revenue this fiscal year of $3,216,000,000 or $46,000000 less than the amount the trea sury department nau esumaLcu would be needed. He thought this could be wiped out by further economics by the various federal departments. ( . Representatives Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican leader, told the house that best estimates were that the bill would reduce, taxes (by $^0,000,000 this calendar year and by $835,000,000 in the next calendar year. He praised the bill as "a splendid measure" except that it did not reduce the maximum surtax rate sufficiently. AMERICAN FARM BUREAU HOLDING SESSIONS Representatives From All States and Two Foreign Nations P resent Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 22.?Representatives from practically all the states in the union and two foreign countries are here for the opening of the third annual convention of American Farm Bureau Fed eration. The sessions will continue through Wednesday. After the exercises at this morning's sssions when welcoming address of Mayor James L. Key and Governor JThomas Hiardwick, were responded to by James W. Morton, member of the federation's executive committee; Dr. Andrew W. Soule, president of the Georgia State Agricultural College spoke to the delegates on the crisis in southern agriculture and how to meet it. The evening was to be devoted to the address of president, James R. Howard, containing an extensive review of the activities of the organization for the last ten months and short reports from other officers. At night the election of officers was the principal business on program. GOING TO GEORGIA Rev. M. R. Plaxco will go to Geor* m? n J?__ ~ J w?11 twqq^VI -Tat* gia lor DUlluay anu iiui j/ii-uv*! Rev. Paul Pressly at Louisville. There will be no services at the Associate Reformed church here. X ' ' . J tr-i-i..- &