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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
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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
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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
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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.
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^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.
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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.
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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
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Atlanta, Jan. 28.?Proposals that
congress authorize the treasury to
(end $300,000,000 to the federal farm
ioan banks at not over four per cent
to expedite loans to farmers Was
made before the congressional joint
committee here today in a resolution >
signed by the entire Georgia delega
tion. - ;
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