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PAGE TWO Established 1844.. THE PRESS AND "BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter a post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year ? Six Months Three Months $2.0 $1.0 .5 Foreign Advertising Represp^tativ AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATIOl WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 192: A REASON WHV. Four young men, it appears, havi been arrested in a Florida town, an< in their possession was found a largi amount of stolen goods. Sopie of th? stolen property has been sent t< Columbia, whence it came, the rob bers, or thieves, having plied thei: trade in that city, as well as in othe: places. The police in Columbia, anc in other cities too, were vigilant They did what they could to brinf the culprits to justice. But the efforts of the police in Co lumbia and elsewhere failed, and th< thieves might still be enjoying th< emoluments of their positions but foi one fact?they made the mistake oJ stealing from Uncle Sam; they brok< into a post office. As a result thej are behind the bars. And that reminds us that few mer who break the federal punitive law. escape punishment. No means ar< spared and no expense considerec when the hunt begins for the man ac ciped of crime. He is generally landed behind the bars and muk face the court and a jury and give an ac count of himself. And that is one of the reasosn whj we favor the enactment into law o1 the Dyer Anti-lynching Bill. Ii means that the punishment of lynch ers, and, therefore, their detectior and arrest will be in the hands oi federal officers, and that guilty mer will be brought to justice. *Xs sure a: the Bill becomes law lynchers wil take notice and there will be a fall ing off in the number of crimes oi this kind, not only in the South bu elsewhere. The men who commit sue! crimes fear a law with teeth in it They fear officers who mean business and they fear the light of an impar tial administrat'on of just laws. Thos< who do not take part in lynchings but who know less, when once th< community must tax itself ten thous and dollars to pay for -a lynching will learn how to talk. THE CITY SCHOOLS. We know that the people of th-i: school district read with a good dea of sorrow and apprehension the an nouncement by members of th< school trustees that the schools in thi: school district might not run this year more' than e'ght months. Tha would be a calamity. er In the first place, we say that thi: should not for an instant be consid ered, but it must be considered un less some way is worked out bj which the expenses of running th< schools may be provided. It is sug gcsted that this will likely be don< for the High School, which it is stat ed will lose its stand'ng as well a: the right to share in certain appro priatioris unless the schools are rui for full nine months. The student of the high school may not enter col leges in thi3 and other states excep after doing nine months work for ; period of four years. The suggestion therefore that th' people by private subscriptions shal make up one month's expenses wil appeal to tne people ox trie scnooi ens trict. Those who are able to pay wil cheerfully pay whatever of tuition i ijecessary to carry the schools on, an* those who are not able to pay i month's tuition, if such there be should be provided for by those mor able to do so. The school authorities at the proper time, should take u] the matter with the parents and guar dians of the h'gh school pupils an< all should be fully advised of condi ticns and asked to say what they ar< willing to do. ^ It takes something I ke thre'< thousand dollars to run the school for a month according to the presen pay roll, we believe. Now, it may bi that we ca* keep up the standard o our schools tjy running the gradet school for ly eight months the pres Jent year. Perhaps by doing e work the ground may be covered. Tone year with another we may ; . expect ~to do nine month's work j eight months. If we are to have good schools as other towns of | importance, we must have months of school work. We can i it the money, the three thousand lars for the extra month this 3 _ we believe, by private subscripl [and thus run the graded school 0 the full term just as we run the 0 school for the full term. 0,' We would like to see the Pai - Teacher Association begin a < ? paigll liuw i/V iaioc vnc ixcvcc funds for this purpose. The mi " will come if the ladies at the ; L + of the organization make a persi . fight to that end. Looking to next year and the B(it is apparent that something i *;be done if the schools are to be B ' j going. At one time we had a sc e. board wh'ch believed in running 5; schools on the money available. "Iyear according to our informal r even' when all the taxes are j r|we will be some six thousand do! *j short. The members of the Boar * Trustees are all good men, and ' interested in the > schools, but jmust question the wisdom of ap * priating six thousand dollars n 11 for running the schools in a g 2 year than the-taxes promise. Not r, of the trustees would expend mor ^runn'ng his business than the busi - promised to return.- Any man ' fj spends six thousand dollars more ! running any business than the ljnual income of the business, \n > exDect to bankrupt the business. J; same is true of the schools. The people* of this school disl believe in paying their teach Some two years ago they voted J mills additional for the running "(the schools. But they find now 1 the increased salaries of teac 1 i that they are in worse condition 1 Hthey were before the taxes were ^ 'ed. Some relief must come. Wl "land how shall it come? I j It should be easy to guess that L | people in this school district, mos ljwhom have lost every dollar 1 sihave accumulated in ten and t\ jty years, will not be in a humor "Iincrease taxes. It is certain that 'amount of taxes collected ano iyear will be less than the taxes t ^collected for the present year, cause the values of taxable prop 'Jwill be less than heretofore. The ~ | pie will not year in and year out Mout of their private funds for running of the schools. A few w "jbe willing but some who pay no t, "! would not pay otherwise. '! There is but one thing we can 'and that is to lower expenses. If ' i. _ 1 1 1 A are 10 nave a guou scnuoi in a ville for full nine months we r try to get it by running on a n S| economical scale. We should be 1 1 ing to pay every necessary tea - in the Schools all that the inc6m 2 the schools w'll allow, but we sh 3 get rid of every teacher who is s absolutely necessary for the pn t running of the schools. We do say now that there is su'ch, but t s may be. Having done this we sh - cut our cloth to suit the numbe: - suits to be made. And to do this work no unusual hardship on ?: teachers. They may not make - j much money as they would like, - nobody expects to make money in - next five years. Every man in A s ville is satisfied now if he can -^body and soul together, financi i speaking. Tho clerks, the book-k s crs, the stenographers, the prin - and most of the other people arc L ceptT.g much less than they re< x cd a year ago and two years iThe school teachors. who work.. *! who have better hours, who ei 1; many advantages that the wor 1 j women and men of the town do - enjoy, if they are equally patr 1 j will be willing to do their part, s erwise it will bo necessary to disp \ with their services. a. There is another thing which !, ] bad as well say, and that is that ejofficers of the school should 1 i, J themselves in trying to run p.schools as economically as poss -.The State Superintendent of Ed i.tion and the whole State Board -I Education have for years been w e ing on the matter of securing be jpay for teachers. We have in s been impressed with the justice s. their demands. But it has seemed t us at times that the efforts of i 2 state officers and of others has f a tendency to make teachers dii i isfied with their salaries and has c - harm rather than good. What r 1UU * ?*UI xtra , but not in as like nine raise dol lar, tions for high rent cam sary oney head / itent the truth about this, it is certain that the t'me is at hand in this school district for the real leaders here to begin to make plans to have the schools run next year more economi cally than they have been run hereto fore. Instead of undertaking to prove that we do not pay teachers enough efforts should be put forth to find M( Pr fr< no Be teachers who are willing to work in ' so: our schools for such salaries as we are able to pay. Certain it is that we cannot pay high salaries when there is no money to pay with. It was stated to us in times past when we were on the Board of Trus tees that we should pay better sal aries and get better teacher?. JVe took but little stock in a lot of that talk then. We have nothing to say against any teacher in the public schools of this city now, but we ob next|serve work an(* individual nus^! teacher will not rank higher in our kept | judgment than was the rank of our j He hool teachers five, ten or twenty years ago. j pu thej ' !?f Oi Cs di< ho W m< ho wh mc rei an sui he This tion, >aid, are we | nei sta foi enl Let it be understood that this pap er is not dissatisfied with the manage ment of the schools by Maj. Fulp. Uars The Press and Banner believes that d 0? j Major Fulp has done a good work for' the schools here. We believe that he iter is by far the best organizer the en< nrn I schools have had s'nce we have known ! on< PiU I 10re 1 anything of them. In order to keepiboi jven him the Press and Banner believes! Co wa he* cia 0l|e:that we should make great sacrifices. e in : Were the times now normal we would ness advocate the levying of a greater wk0jtax for the purpose of raising mone/j^il jn'to continue to pay him more and j he an_ more as his usefulness grows. Wejter lust would not begrudge to any teacher ^ in The'^e saIary or s^e is now receiving ed | or even more. But it must be appar ent that times are not normal and :hat more money cannot be now rais trict | lers. , 'ed, and the teachers, the officers, the LOlir * t . members of the Board of Trustees Ox j \ ... j who. would see the schools continue IV. til to run .anr? do the best nossible work stil ma of Wi wil han un(*er circumstances must ' turn their ear to the cry for economy ^ and be willing to sacrifice something! er i for the public good. | \"t\ ^ej Billy Sunday came to Due West1 mil t of and many there saw him for the first;me they, time. Billy saw the Due West Rail- Fri ven"|road for the first time. sio to; * ..... . ?- fro the | ATHLETICS bu: therj * wh o be! We are reprinting from the Ab- ej be-' beville Press and Banner a very < erty'sane and sensJble article on this'j.er peo-' subject, or rather we should say | pay'mainly on athletics as they are!$2l the1 now in our schools and colleges, j f01 ould! No sensible man or woman would I axes | enter any protest against athletics,! g | because we must all realize that a j do, certain amount of manly sport is va] : we necessary to the right development g0 bbe-' of the boy or girl, but there is such sta nust' a thing as magnifying it beyond Dy nore1 what should be its proper place in j sio will-1 our* schools and colleges, and we!pa; cher j have about reached that point. It! wj, e of! has gone from the college to the fot ould! high school and the rural graded not sahooi and on down to the smaller oper schools. This is just like all educa not tion, it comes from the top down In here and not from the Ibottom up, but ould j it seems to us that the pendulum r of ] has swung too far to one side. In will J We are reminded of wiiat we the heard a prominent educator say a D. as few days ago. He has been a teach- ru; but er for many years. He remarked, I at i the j in talking a'bout schools and col-^Sa bbe-1 leges, that he had lived to pass i tin hold j through four stages of education, j de ially j The first stage was that education j eep- had for its aim scholarship, and .vl ters, then it was scholarship and atti-' Co > ac- letics and then athletics and j aci :eiv- scholarship and now it seemed to lar ago. him that its aim was athletics. It j f;:! Jess, is too true that the college that i inf njoy I dees not have a good football and: Si: king a 'baseball team that can play ball not is not considered very much and! *: iotic oth ense we the busy th? coach is of more importance in the eyes of many than the pres ident or the professor of English or of any other branch. And from what we have heard the coach is about the biggest paid professor in th? institution. And the next step the' is the tendency to commerciaLze ible. uca of ork part of Ju ca] Ba ,C" los 47 shs Lo su< los by if + > vt nil L _ the sport. It is high time for the educators and leaders among our people to stop and think and con sider. ;tter But these matt&rs will all adjust, themselves sooner or later. The world is going through the great tu j ncmoinvn yciiuu iii an iiisiury to the | in all departments and it will take foi had | time to get matters properly ad- j los jsat- justed, but we will come to a sane | lone. 'basis in all things sometime soon, ever ?Newberry Herald and News. Jai --i-' BENJAMIN CALHOUN DIES embers of Abbeville Family Pa??- J es in Texas 11 Hugh C. Middleton has sent the .1 ess and Banner the clipping'f om a Texas paper of the an- 1( uncement of the death of Dr. ^ snjamin F. Calhoun, who was a ^ n of Colonel Patrick Ludlow ^ ilhoun and ^Martha . Teagtoe * ilhoun of Abbeville. Col. Calhoun c jd in 1862, and Benjamin Cal- * un went to Texas after the Civil ar. The editorial from the Beau >nt Journal follows: f In the passing of Dr. B. F. Cal- " un, Beaumont has lost a citizen 10 has been active in its develop >nt for the past 40 years. While he iched eminence in his profession d was regarded as one of the most icessful practitioners in the state, was equally valuable as a citizen. 1 always took a prominent part in blic affairs and when in the vigor manhood, there was no more ear 5t worker for the city, county and ,te. Born with that true southern love what he thought was right, he tered the Confederate army at the ider age of 15 and fought until the i. He was mayor of Beaumont at 2 time, served on the aldermanic ! ird and school board. During the lquit administration, Dr. Calhoun s a member of the state board of ilth. He also served as city physi n. Regardless of what effect it *ht have on his private fortunes, was always outspoken in the in- J est of what he deemed right and all of his official positions he serv with credit to'himself and his con sents. \ great man, a good man, a kindly n; simple, in the finest sense, and an almost incredible honesty, dely known and widely loved, he 1 be widely mourned. [REE YEAR OLD WHISKEY MADE- IN THREE MINUTES Buffalo, Jan. 28.?How to make iree year old whiskey" in three nutes has been demonstrated at a eting of the city council by Dr. j incis E. Fronczak, health commis-j ner. He mixed alcohol extracted: ?m potatoes with fusel oil and rnt sugar and produced a whiskey ich, he said, was commonly retail for $6.00 a quart, rhe demonstration was given yes-j day at a hearing on an ordinance ich would impose a yearly tax of 5 and require a bond on all places the sale of soft drinks. outLern Valuation in Mississippi, j Washington, Jan. 28.?A tentative' luation of the property of the them Railway Company in the .te of Mississippi was fixed todayj the Interstate Commerce Commis- j n at $470,534. This is the only' rt of the Southern system forj rich a complete valuation has been j' jnd by the commission. I LEGAL SALE. I the District Court of the United j States, For the Western District of j South Carolina, rc R. T. Simpson, Bankrupt. Pursuant to an Order herein of j H. Hill, Esq., Referee in Bank- J ptcy, I will sell at Public Auction j Abbeville Court House, S. C. on lesday in February 1922, during i legal hours of sale, the following scribed property, to wit: All that tract or plantation of land uate, lying and being in Abbeville unty, S. C., containing Sixty (GO) res, more or less, and bounded by ids of J. H. Hill, J. W. Bradberry, ?. H. Ferguson, and others and be j the same land conveyed to R. T. npson by Arthur Campbell. Ters of Sale, Cash. Purchaser to y for stamps and papers. MAXWELL. SMITH. Trustee. NOTICE! Stock certificate No. 36 dated ne 22nd, 1905 for one share of the pital stock of The Lowndesv^e nking Company, Lowndesville, S. issued to J. B. Moseley, has been t or destroyed also certificate No. dated February 1st, 1906 for 2 ires of the capital stock of The wndesville Banking Company, is ?d to Mrs. J. B. Moseley, has been t or destroyed, and notice is here given the undersigned will apply sa d company on March let, 1922, new certificates in lieu of the ones t or destroyed. Signed J. B. Moseley. . Mrs. J. B. Moseley. a. 22, 1922. 4tc. Slap Brings. Him Fortune. Vevey, Jan. 28.?Seven years ago ohann Strumeieiv Vienna .business < nan, slapped a Swiss frontier guard. ] le was arrested and compelled to de- ] osit 1,000 frarils before being al- 1 awed to leave the country. The case i as just been decided and Strumeier < med 50 francs. Owing to the .fall in ! Austrian exchange he has returned 1 o Vienna with 150,000 Austrian rowns in exchange for his 950 rancs. " Suffragists in Constantinople have ormed several clubs. The Eminent Young Actor LO( The Comedy Drama "BLIND Night Only?Thur Why waste a sea in plant food wf in PLANTER'! sure you a profit; Progressive farnr necessity of supj Phosphoric Acid good crops were PLANTER'S. I these essential in proportions. PLANTER'S F its use by doublir Ask any agent in ; free advice or pr Planters Ferti MAI Charlesto There's ah Ag Your Tow t, PropoM Loaq. 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