Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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aaviju t uun III???. 'M ' I PARENTS AM t, HOLD FEBb ; The February meeting of the ffJarent-Teache^ association, was Aeld in the graded school building Yesterday afternoon with approxi . mmtdy 100 members present, many lU 4 whom entered into the discus akms relating to the welfare of the oefcools of the city. Previous to the business meeting (V. Rfc B?? vo ? Washington Birthday program was well given by pupils of v the aixth and s&ventb grades and con futed of the following numbers: Our -Country?Boys of the Sixth grade. Onr Flag?Boys of the Sixth glide. p. Tf*>\' i IW, Essay?George Washington? Abou Ben Adhem?Girls of the fixtt grade. De^anraftion?William McComb. Song?February?(Miss Nona Tatt. *''' Washington's (Farewell Address -^sb (Margaret Penney. ? .After the reading of the minutes it..-;''- ?f the last meeting and the roll call reports of committees were heard litfc-a great deal of interest. Mrs. jB'i&F. Barnwell, ^chairman of the inrfiwrshio committee, reported t r s t n V b a S a e w v* tl w a: S( ti P P P tfcat the committee bad secured 153 0 v ^members so far tois year with the ^ 'i, v-^tnapects of a score more by (next *, aawfting. This is by far the largest ^ membership which the association v ' lias so far bad and te&da to show 0 the patrons of the schools, as L * wljole, are gradually putting their ^ > <boaldars to the wheel and help ^ along: the progress of the educa- f MAsal system of the city. s1 Poller Reese, chairman of ?>: like ground^ committee, , reported j ts aat tfce flower beds had been clean '<*, ed off and arrangements made for ' jaesring plants and bulbs for spring q planting. This committee was also ^' ainpnended by the members' pres ent for the good work they are do ih beautifying the grounds at Uptown buildings, and an- q tbcHxed to spend sufficient money G both school erounds well ^>?Usaned off and pat in better shape for piayg-roa nds. ' < V v; The treasurer's report showed a j?Ixnce of over $200 on hand with w arireral dollars more iii sight from|m "(fee sale of sandwiches and mom- tfc ksrefrip dues. aJ A-sfeateaent of the results of gC sent out recently# to ft rr %& ! districts of approximate- pc $ the Baaae size as1 the Abbeville th v ' ' ^tffct was given the association by co Sfcpt! F?Ip which answers showed j th - ifcberflle to be in line at present 0{ the other districts, 20 of which m !?:>" 1*4 reported, in the matter of sala-: aj tOea, e&reUment, and taxes for th ^apds, feut behind the majority of i .1 ii < )? o??r ?ujtncus in me wuubviuii va H. property and real estate, and the| ii of mills special taxes. The co ; T W&e It On White & Wyclcoff. Dis- ih AVkAwn ?*? *1 + I Is# tinctive Stationary?it is different. eo . , THE BCHO. 6,2 tf. pa 8?v- ' . Etft KEKT?'Attractive bungalow $M2 lighted garden, orchard and barn. v~ <m North Main street. See B? B. (Sheathara. Si f." pr-y I-Qgl^-Eiiher on Ellis Avenue, ff-vl GreenwBe St or Public Square, old fashioned brown cameo brooch with white lily design. Return to 4' X. F. E. Harrison, Jr. and receive,. ' -f 4 J_ J I Ti i< Cj pr ce th ;>a tu th RE v ' OL mm levarw. ' xtpu. J: LCGt?Monday afternoon either on &>' C- Maia and Magazine St. or be & - tjreem Mrs. Beeks' residence and N jbrrvrn purse with silver clasp caataining sum of mon^ and ^ . deposit dip on 'Columbia bank. ? libera* reward if returned to F. $ ' R. Jaaee. - Its i\\ Ar L* - ? fi' MtiLK FOR SALE?Milk delivered ^ daily fcy 7:30 to 8 a. m., 15 cents m &sr q?art; also cream and butter. 1 ..J. Kay Carvrile. Phone 229-31. ||; t ?s-?t m ME?Next best thing to (feting. is knowing WHERE to eat By the meal or regular board. I. Mrs. D. A. Rogers. tf. NEWS?The price of Black 0 TEACHERS IUARY MEET J? iVerage property valuation of th( listricts reporting1 19 four mill tor lollars, and the average mills pecial tax is 14.2 mills. The vaiu ition of property in this district if 1,847,070, with a likelihood af be tig reduced for next year, and th? pecial school tax is 12 mills. Oi >ver 100 high school districts ii he state the Abbeville diatrid filet, in t.hft TitDmher at milli I pecial tax and over 20 other dist ricts have the same number ol lills special tax. A telegram from a delegatior forking on the passage of an acl y the present General Assemblj uthorizing an appropriation by thf itate for the payment of $7 pex loqth tuition 'for high sciiool pupilf nrolling from without districts ras read the association^ A motion ^as unanimously carried to request ie Abbeville County delegation to rork for the passage of this act ad a committee was authorized to md telegrams to the representa ves and senator of this action. The resent state allowance is only $3 er month which falls far short-of aying the additional teaching >rc& made necessary by receiving atside pupils in the high school, he average for the United States about $100 per session and of outh Carolina high schools 1b $71. More than usual interest was lanifested ' at the meeting yester ly which goes to prove that the omen are ready and .willing to to their lawful places in the af urs 01 government ana aonum xation in this state. RAXLER TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR RUMORED t ? reenille Piedmont Say* Well Know? Greenville Business May * / Make tba Race. 1 f ' ' A rumor that David B. Traxler of reenville, will make thfe race for oyemor of South Carolina in the tming campaign, is made in the fol wing story in the Greenville Pied ont: / David B. Traxler, well known reenville business man, asked this orning to comment on the report at he would be a candidate in the iproaobing primary ' election for >vernor of South Liaroiina, naxiy re ised to either affirm or deny the re >rt Mr. Traxler would not admit / at he had even givep the matter msideration, although he did state at he was in receipt of a number 1 letters from his old home at Tin onsville, from Charleston, Columbia id other points in the State urging at he make the race. Mr. TYaxler points out that his pri tte business ventures,, which neces :ate his being in Washington for a nsiderable portion of his time, in tlanta and other places, have kept m under such coiistant stress that has had very little time to give thoughts of political life. He 5s ening a new office in Atlanta at e present time and that is calling, r some personal supervision on his rt. Replying to a question asked, Mr. axler stated that if he ever did re ie to run for governor of South irolina, education would be the incipal issue so far as he is con rned. "It is an outrageous and oroughly condemnable act on the rt of the South Carolina legisla re to slash the appropriations for e public schools of the State to the ne, and at the sa^ie moment per it the water power interests of the ate to escapt tax-free" declared e Greenville man this morning. "I - -1? ?:ui~ e aDSOiuteiy II<J pvaaiuiv juawntanvu r such a course and the members of e legislature need to be soundly re ked for any such inexcusable leg ation." An article recently appeared in a mrleston newspaper in which the itement appeared that in all prob rility Traxler will be among the ndidates offering for the chief exe itive's post this year and the atti de of Mr. Traxler, while commit ig him to nothing, is regarded by s friends as being receptive. They rtainly consider that he is seriously nsidering the matter and that it ill in bo way be surprising if the ime of Traxler is found in th^ list sfore the entry for the Palmetto aratho* is closed. Watch the label on your paper. INGNEI i At the request of local railrot men we are publishing the 'follow i ng extracts from a bulletin pr pared by the Brotherhood of Loci motive Engineers: "The charge has been made thi the railroads were taken over t the government in 1917 for polit cal reasons and that th?y were ii efficiently operated under goveri ment control. William G. McAdo / * \ a man whose integrity and goo judgment are admired throughot ; the country, told the <Intersta1 r Commerce Commission on Februai i 2 that in the fall of 1917 the inefl ciency of the American railroac i made them unintentionally, tot i nevertheless actually, the &n>ngei l ally of thie German Kaiser. The co ; lapse of the railroads under tb * burden of war traffic had almost cx : the line of communication betwee the American army at the front an . its base of supplies. "It was upon recommendation c the interstate commerce commissio and the' confession of failure b railroad executives that the pres dent, on December 26, 1917, direcl ed the taking over of the railroad as a war measure. "Of this advisability and necess ty ofrthis action there has neve been a question," declares Mr. Mc Adoo. y-. "Julius Kruttschnitt, ' recentl spokesman for the Railroad /Execc tivea before various tribunals, ac mitted before the Senate Commil J tee that 'what has been done ha been done for the best. I hav gathered from general iqtercours with railroad executives that the have all accepted the situation a tile best thing to be done.' ''This breakdown <^? the rat roads did not occur over night, said Mr. iMcAdoo. 'It resulted nc Alone from lack of unification, In; from the impaired physical cond tion of the roads extending oyer period of years, and, from long-d< ferred maintenance and improve mints.' v "When the Toads were tAken ove by the government, the records o the I. C. <3. disclose, there were 14E 000 cars of freight in excess o normal in the territory' east o Chicago and St. Louis and hdrth o the Ohio ?nd Potomac rivers! ' , "The facts as they have been ad duced toy the senate committee, are "On Jaunary 1, 1017, the trans portation system had broken dowi and was inadequate to the nation' needs. The American government' war program was hampered, the ai lied armies were short of food an< materials and the civil population! of our allies in Europe were facinj starvation. "The railroad executives, aftei eight months of, effort, were unabl< to correct this situation and con fessed their inability td do so. . "The government acted onlj when it became clearly establishej that refusal to do so would 1 invito irremediable disaster./ 'K)n January 17, 1919 after * year of Federal control, A. H. Smith C. H. Markhan, E. H. Aishton, Halt Holden, B. F. Rush, N. D. Mahje: and B. iL. Winchell, among th< ablest railroad men in the Unitec States, officially reported to th< Railroad Administration: "The measures taken during th< year 1918 called for no apologies The efficient operation of the rail xvauo 111 vx buv ^v? w*m iment during the war justifies everj act of administration during thai period. "This testimony is ample refuta tipn of charges that the railroad! were taken over for political rea sons and that they were operate< inefficiently." DO THAN, ALA., HAS A $75,000 SYRUP FIRE iDothan, Ala., Feb. 16.?Fire a an early hour today destroyed th< plant of th? Dothan Syrup Com pany here, causing an esthnate( loss of $75,000, covered by insuT tt ? anuu. xieavy ram jjtcvcutcu e>j/xcxii i of the blaze to adjoining property but drowned out the fire truck which could not ibe operated unti it was hauled under shelter and its engine dried out. M. FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD SENDS WORD TO CONGRESS. PREDICTS A NEW ERA 'OF PROSPERITY?RISE MUST NOT BE TOO RAPID NbR TOO HIGH. Washington, Feb. 21.?Bpsinesi throughout the country, progressing through well-defined cycles, is near ing the point of the upward swing of the economic pendukita, according to the annual report of the federal re serve board transmitted today to con gress. ' ' v "There are those,"'t&e report said, "who believe that the beginning if revival is not far distantr When it does definitely set in it will bd follow ed in' due course by a new era of prosperity." , Business, in one of Its "long swings'" from prosperity# the' report said, has followed its usual rotation, which it described as, business activi ties and increasing 'production ex* cessive expansion and speculation, followed hitherto by panic and forc ed liquidation,; a long period of slow liquidation, business depression and stagnation; and then, revival "In the light of recent experience," the re port warned, "we should remember when we again ent^ar iat<> ?,5period v0f full prosperity, that a reaction will follow sooner or later; and if the flow of the incoming tide can be controlled so that the crest may be Reached too rapidly nor rise too high, the sub sequent reaction will be lea* severe and) the next period of industrial and commercial activity and general pros tieritv will he marked hv Raner rneth. ods, greater achievement along con structive lines, and by a longer dura tion than any which we have bad be ion," The board confined, its report to an account of the operations of the or ganization for the.year'1921, without offering any suggestions for legisla tion affecting the board or the feder1 al reserve system. The earning assets of all federal reserve ^ystem, The earning assets of all federal reserve banks, the report said, amounted on December 28, 1921, to $1,?>35,851,000 compared With" $3,263,027,000 on Jpe cember 30, 1920,,a reduction of fl, 727^176,000 or 53 per cent, and a re duction of 11,880,125,000, or 55 per cent from thewjiigh. point reached on October 15, 1920. , This reduction in loans, the report explained, was J accompanied by a steady, increase in gold reserves and an almost continuous reduction in federal reserve note circulation, the s loan reduction continuing despite sub 3 stantial decline in discount rates. Gross earnings of the federal re j serve banks for 1921, the report con B tinu'ed, amounted to $122,865,000, j compared with $181,297,000 in 1920, the falling off in earnings being dug ? to decline in the volume of re-dis F ... " . counts and reductions in~redistcount 5 - - rates. Member bank borrowings, ac cording to the report, showed a con T tinuous decline from $2,681i000>000 I at the end of 1920 to about $1,144, 3 000,900 at the end of 1921, due to a redaction ofr over $900,000,000 in the volume of federal reserve notes 1 in circulation, caused by lower price ' levels and by net imports of gold ' amounting to $667,000,000, practic auy an 01 wmcn iouna its way into jj "federal reserve banks. As a franchise tax the federal re serve banks paid into the treasury $59,934,000 for the year 1921. ! On December 28, the report contin * ued, the federal reserve banks held a * gold reserve of ?2,87(^000,000 and a " combined reserve against member f banks' deposit and note issues of ^ slightly more than 73, per cent: If the legal minimum reserve of 35 per cent - could be set up against deposits, the s report added, there would remain a - gold reserve of more than 97 per cent 1 against federal reserve notes in cir culation. "For some months past" the report said, "there has been a marked eas ? ing in domestic rates of interest. Not withstanding some, unfavorable fea fc tnvps in +.1ip TAveTmp. laws, the in-: i vestment market is now absorbing securities at reasonable rates which could not have been considered a few months ago. Market quotations on Liberty Bonds have steadily advanc ed until they are' now approaching par. Good railroad and industrial lj bonds have also appreciated, and ? there have been some noticeable ad |vance3 in standard stocks. Highj ' im FHKf Departm ABBEVILLE m . i a New Bridge To Mexico Laredo, Texas, Fefc. 20.?T?e new international bridge (between the two Laredos rapidly is nearlng completion and will be dedicated daring .the annual' Washington's Birthday celebration. The structure of reinforced con crete replaces one burned on April 24, 1920. The dedication will .be imposing Governor Neff will deliver the prin cipal address for Texas and the Uni ted States The Governors of Taim aulipas and Nuevo iLeon . will - re spond for Mexico. Many military and civic officials of both countries will attend. ' At either end of the bridge are the structures housing the Immigra tion, customs and ^xe^lth. officials of the respective nations. Few bridges in the: United States on either border have such great traffic as that which normally passes over the Laredo Bridget As many as 3,000 immigrants and transients have passed to this side in a single day, and when Nuevo Laredo was crossed to the safety of the Amer commodity prices and great business activity usually m^an lower prices for' bonds and other securities yielding a fixed income, while reduced commo dity prices and lower money rates be ing higher market prices for bonde." forces in 1914 several thousand retreating Huertiata W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIES . EMBALMING and Auto Hearse Service PHONES Day 395 x Night 134 ? ' ' i_-'; ( ''S ' J * *1... /' : ? ' i. ' ' - rt.AH 1E?XW , v - ( " ' '( f ?'V FISH MIXTURES / ?.Uv( ' ; r. Available Phosphoric Add 3.00 per Mitt ' ;; ' ' . ' V ./ ;r V-:.; y.' Ammonia. 6-00 per cent Or any Combination sail ed i for. Write lis tor tffif -;v|- 1 y . . privies on any Mixed Goods Weetsd. .. . . : Also on Fertilizer Mate . rials such as Acid Phosphate, Ppl SIS Wi'M Kf^'Sfyv. jP m Foreign Ground Fish, Tankage and Blood, Nitrate of Soda. Special Prices oh ... Potash 8alt*y - Kainit Manure Salt Muriate Planters Fertiliser & Phosphate C#. ! CHARLESTON, 8. .