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x xauu x tt yj i \ Established 1S44. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published. Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year ? Six Months -- Three Months $2.00 *1.00 .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1922. THE SCHOOL QUESTION. It was gratifying that the people of Abbeville, at the meeting held in the court house Friday afternoon muf. vvtrtr ox unc unuu auvui, svnw* ters. Judging by the motion which . ' finally prevailed, we may safely say, we think, that the people are determined that the schools shall 1 run, and are equally determined that \ the schools shall be run economical- ] ly. We are willing to pay the neces- \ sary taxes to support the schools, 1 but we do not wish to pay more than is necessary. Everybody with expeii-^ ence knows that money appropriated | * is spent whether necessry for a 1 given purpose or not. And it has, been demonstrated in Abbeville in,* times past that a school board may J' run tne scnoois on xne amount oi| money appropriated if they are of | a mind to do so. That is what we;' want now. j There is one matter which might"' have been emphasized at the meeting! but which was not. That matter is! I this: While the rate of taxation as1, proposed in the prevailing motion is', to be increased two mills, the amount1, i 1 of school taxes to be collected under ^ this motion even with the increased j rate will be less than last year. This I is because the tax values have been I' reduced. We are informed by the | board that the values in this school district have been decreased about | twenty per cent. " Under the twelve | mills rate, a man who returned prop-1 erty of the value of $5,000 in 1921,) paid for school purposes $60.00. But} this year the assessments being low ered twenty per cent, the $5,000 val-j uation goes down to $4,000, and this amount at the fourteen mills ratej will bring into the district only| $56.00. So that while we are Voting] in the election to be held for an in- j rfW*A<ie>A Via millr f/% n . VA JU1 UUUiU^l V/i. UAAliO HU UV | levied, we are in fact proposing that ] the amount collected for the schools, will in the aggregate be less thanij last year. ) This fact is also shown in the fig ures submitted by Mr. Barnwell. Whereas last year the income of the district, including the $4,000 -receiv ed from the sinking fund, amounted to more than $29,000, this year the Board of Trustees hopes to run the schools on $25,000. The decreased income will be tak en care of by the reduction in teach ers' salaries, and by decreased costs of supplies and materials. Every where salaries are being reduced. Perhaps the teachers do not now re ceive more than they think they are entitled to, but they will be satisfied to accept reductions we believe if they stop to consider the plight of ; many large taxpayers, who instead j of profiting in their business af- j fairs, continue to suffer heavy losses, and who are therefore able to pay < even decreased amounts of taxes with ; the greatest difficulties. The reduc- ; tions are not so large but that anyji teacher who is vitally interested in1, the success of the Abbeville schools [j may accept the salary offered with-j( out being greatly hurt. '[ ABOUT DOCTORS. At the meeting of the American Congress of International Medicine, at Aiv/viicatci, tuiiui.) x iiui ?uatv f i^i.jj James Anders, of Philadelphia, madci, a 'plfea fhat the medical profession', pay greater attention to the develop- ^ ] ment of the general practitioner and ] less to the development 'of special-'] ists. 1 Says the Augusta Chronicle, "He declared that specializa tion has been Carried somewhat too far in that it is attracting the best of the younger men and leaving a dearth of general practitioners, especially in rural districts. He declared that in his ( opinion the specialists are those 11 who have at least ten years' general practice and urged that this period come to be regarded by the profession as a prere- 1 quisite to specialization.'' i As suggested by the Augusta < Chronicle, the plea of Dr. Anders will 1 "find popular sympathy" these days. Says the Chronicle: ' "Dr. Anders' position will find ' popular sympathy. These days < when you %o to the doctor, he i examines you and sends you to > the specialist on the teeth; the i specialist on the throat; the spe- 1 cialist on nervous disorders; the specialist on this and the special ist on that. There .has been great advances in the practice of medi cinb. But it does appear that there is a great deal of "special izing, probably it is all for the better that this is so; but it is a far call from the ways of the doctor's office now to what were the ways of the doctor's office a few years ago." The practice of medicine is not what it used to be, to be sure. The aid time doctor is no longer with us, j (lis ranks have thinned until the line is wiped out. He was not a doctor of one idea. He was supposed to know it all, and he did almost. When all the old women had gathered in to see the community patient, and when I ( each had given her dose and told of other people whom she had known svho "acted" just like the patient un der observation, and when a suffici ent time had elapsed for the neigh t>orhood remedies to do their work, if the patient still lived, the rural doctor was sent for. If the patient had lost a lot of blood, he was bled, and if that was not the trouble he ~ was given calomel and salts. He gen erally got well because a patient who j could survive the "home" remedies was not predestined to die yet a while. He still had enough vitality to stand calomel and salts, or even bleeding. ?. \ It is true that the physicians in j some places, say Hodges, still know how to give calomel and salts, and if after giving them the patient can ' be persuaded that he is well, the work has been satisfactorily done, ft takes a good doctor to be able to 1 cure any kind of diseases with calo mel and salts, but it is done in some sases. The doctors also still know [low to .bleed people, but they do not [ike to bleed them for blood, they like the tinkling silver better than ;he trickling J>lood. That is one of ;he reasons why the medical profes sion is not what it used to be. It is low a money-making profession like preaching and teaching and practic ng law, whereas it was once a pro fession in which the doctor served ;he community like the politicians >erve the country, for instance, for ;he good of the many. We trust that Dr. Anders my be ible to awaken an interest in the ru :al practitioner. At least, in that case, there will be less medicine to take because in the country they do not send for the doctor unless both legs are broken, or unlesS the motor with in you has developed a skip which . ordinary methods will not correct, j We shall at least save the drug store * ? sills. KILLING MADE EASY Miss Stone shot Mr. Ellis Guy * Kinkhead?no doubt about the shoot- ^ ing. The jury approved her private, * personal reasons for " the shooting ^ and acquitted her, while the crowd shouted approval and she kissed her lawyer. That's undoubtedly as it should be. Since the beginning of 1 time women have educated, dis- 1 ciplined and improved men by kill- ( ing them when they needed it. They ? did it with a stone hatchet twelve 1 thousand years ago; with a little pis- 1 tol recently. I * Miss Stone, pleased with public i * approval, says, "I want to forget.'* j ( "There's the rub," as the Danish!( gentleman remarked. Shooting is easy, forgetting is hard. A human conscience is no emotional jury. It keeps telling THE FACTS, with no body in the courtroom to cheer, no i lawyer to kiss, no reporters to take t ''flashlights."?Authur Brisbane. I ? I J Circle No. 1 of the Baptist church 1 will give an Easter egg hunt at 1 Klugh's Park Tuesday afternoon j e April 11th at 4 o'clock. Admission j 10 cents. Ice .cream will be for sale( 1 also. All Children are invited. 3t. c. t EASTER EGG HUNT NOSE BUTTONED UP. Col. Jim Turman, who runs one of the^best barbershops in the country and who rides in a Shedam (like the ane on Greenville Street) has his troubles just like everybody ' else. Lately he has been troubled about the condition of Son Henry. The boy could not breathe well through the nose, and seemed to have a bad nasal trouble. The Colonel waited awhile for the trouble to .get rid of itself but as it did not, he decided to -i??i i/uft. ciacwiicxc. So hearing that Dr. Thomas Lyles Davis, who has already established ijuite a reputation for himself here about as a nose and throat specialist, was visiting Uncle Jim, Col. Turman 'called him in" yesterday to examine Henry's nose. When Dr. Davis had fone through all the ritual which big ioctors go through with, and had fin illy ditched out the nose, he discov ered that Henry had been carrying t gutta-percha button in his nose for ;he past year. Col. Kerr's little girl >ays that even her son, Lawyer Kerr, ;ould not breathe with his nose but ;oned up. riMOTHY CHURCH RECALLS RECTOR Columbia Church Wants the Rev. A. F. Derbyshire. The State of Sunday contained the Allowing:! "The Rev. Alfred James Derby ihire of Abbeville has been recalled o the rectorship of St. Timothy's Episcopal church. The Rev. Mr. Derbyshire was called to this church lome time ago but declined the call. rhe congregation 01 at. JLimothy s is inxious to have him, however, and :he. call has been again extended. "The Rev. Mr. Derbyshire is rector >f Trinity Episcopal church of Ab jeville and was ordained into the jriesthood of the Episcopal church at rrinity church, Columbia, January L8th." NNOCENT BYSTANDER KILLED New York, Apr. 8.?'Harry Crone, i lawyer and innocent bystander, ivas killed tonight in a pistol fight jotween patrolmen , and five men, vho are alleged to have stolen a ;ire from an automobile at Madison ivenue and Forty-third street. Two >f the men were arrested. Mr. Crone, who was on his way to he Grand Central terminal, carrying iome some articles for his wife, vas struck in the heart by a bullet ind fell dying to the sidewalk a few1 li G ti ei *1 o: P g ci v, fcl OS ioors from the Hotel Baltimore. The' ihooting created great excitement in he neighlbrhood. Two men later -were taken to the' jolice station for examination, ibuty hey -were not placed under arrest. The dead man was a graduate of he College of the City of New York ind Columbia law school. LOST JEWELS FOUND San Diego, Cal.,- Apr. 8.?The ewels valued at $45,000 reported ost by Madame Galli Curci, noted singer, at a restaurant at San Juan Dapiastrino yesterday were found ioday by an automobile expreesman md returned to their owner, accord ng to an annoucement made tonight )y her manager. The jewels were 'ound beneath a tree by the side of he highway between this city and L,os Angeles. Naval Strength Sufficient Tokyo, Apr. 8.?The navy depart- i lient in a statement to the local lewspapers today says a conference )f the admirals has decided that the strength of the< Japanese navy as estricted by the Washington arma ment conference is sufficient for he defense, of the empire. It was idded that a statement soon would je forthcoming making clear the in :ention of Japan to abide in prin :iple and spirit by tho Washington j inference. U. S. SOLDIER IS KILLED El Paso, Apr. 6.?According to a eport made to the commander of ;he guards today, Mexican revolver guards, after commanding ( him to ialt, shot Corporal W. W. Whyte, of Jie Eighty-second field artillery, ?ort Bliss, to death last night whilo le was trying to cross the river on lorseback. The body was found this ifternoon on the Mexican side. The guards reiported that they f iad fired after they had commanded . he soldier to hadt. WITH THE HIGH SHERIFF Earl Magaha from the Level Land action was arrested, changed with lander, by Deputies T. D. Ferguson c nd C. B. Prince on Saturday and r ave $200 bond for his appearance at c tie June term of court. , r L. C. Wilson was arrested on a i harge of disposing of propety under . lortgage at Calhoun Falls. The ar est was made this morning near ^are Shoals by Sheriff McLarre and >eputies T. D. Fei'guson and C. B. rince, and the prisoner was lodged i jail. John Cole from the Smith planta ion below town was arrested Satur ay on- a charge of -disposing of prop rty under mortgage His case was ettled before (Magistrate McComlb (lis morning. IE ART OF CHARLES TAKEN TO AUSTRIA Funchal, Madeira, April 6.?The eart of former Emperor Charles of Lustria-Hungary was removed last 2 ight. It will be sent in a glass jar <i nclosed, in a silver casket to Austria. { he present intention is to send the | ody to Hungary.:fj All business was suspended today' jr the funeral of Charles. Large rowds lined the route of the pro ession to the church. The local au writies and King Alfolso of Spain ;nt wreaths to be placed on the . asket. | The floral piece of Alfolso con- J lined a ribbon on which was in :ribed the word "From Alfolso XIII > Charles of Hap^burg." DDITIONAL COTTON STATISTICS WANTED Washington, April 6.?Two reso itions by Senator Harris, Democrat eorgia, for publication of addi onal cotton statistics were report-!, d favoraWe today by the senate I [priculture committee. The director I f census would be requested to re- j.| ort the number of bales left un-r| inned and also give with this year's^ rop reports, estimates of bales J 'hich probably will be ginned from ie current crop. ? m c) \ ? ) a<. a m ii i When you're all * * j ' s. dressed up, will you have the satis faction of know ing that*, you got the? Newest Style, Best Quality, ' and Lowest Price? You can be sure of all these if you get ' your EASTER CLOTHES here., STYLEPLL $2. Sport Models, Cons Neat, Dressy Wors WESTVIEW SCHOOL. Westview is the new name of th< ild Keowee school. A communitj neeting was held at this school houst in Friday by Mrs. Alma Gibbons witf L 75 present. 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