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gk jjcralD unD Jem ; i s IitttMl at tka PostofSc* at N?wI avrj, 9. C.? as 2nd class matt?. JL H. AULL, EDITOR. j i Friday, February 24, 1922. i CANNOT BE DEFERRED ] We can put off the painting of the i house the present year and maybe ] next year, we can do without a new ? aiitnmnhilp. the old suit of clothes can s be cleaned, pressed and maybe "re- < built" as the tailors say in order that 1 we may do without a great many i things without material loss or in- \ convenience, but we cannot defer for < o lTiwT -nnv fnr month what we owe I o J 11V1 XV- M tfv .. ... to the children of this state in the way of an education. The schools must run. ! The Press and Banner is not among those who think the present plan of distributing state appropriations for schools is the best plan, but it is the best plan until a better one is worked out. It should be followed and the necessary appropriations made the present year to keep the primary schools, the graded schools and the high schools in operation lor i the full terms. ! j A child who leaves school in the i * middle of the term will be discour- ; aged. He may not enter the school ( again. If he does he will not obtain < the full training he is entitled to and which is necessary in order to meui the requirements of the higher grades ^ and of the colleges. We are all poor and most of us would be glad to say that we have * nothing and owe nothing. But if we < owed twice the amount we now owe * we would say that the schools must * run. The fact is that the people, 1 while temporarily in bad financhl i condition, are not insolvent. The i country is not insolvent. Better 1 times are ahead, and while it may * take a long, stiff pull to make the 53 1 T171 grade we win maxe it. w?eu have made it, let us not then reproach . ourselves with having neglected the J children who had to go along with us. * . The matter of educating them cannot ^ be deferred. It is a task for today. ^ ?Abbeville Press and aBnner. c a There is where you are exactly right. These boys and girls tnat are in school now can not wait. They t could not if they wanted to, because i the years are going right along and s no one has any power to turn back ^ the wheel of time. There are things r in that appropriation bill that could t wait. I The proviso in the bill to pro rata r the amounts is the worst feature of the whole business. In other words, < to say that the laws say you muct do so and so, or if you do thus and ' so, the state will do her part, but j < * ~ fi rvy q Xl'll or* lllO ^ Here comes ajuag mc umt n-uv?i w>v state must come across and keep the faith and a provision of compromise 1 is inserted, as much as to say we 1 know this thing is not going to meet s our part of the obligation and we i will force you to compromise with us a and take what we say and give you t no vo:cc in the making of the com- t promise or the terms thereof. Some t how it does not look exactly right to * us. We are not arguing whether or a not the state agreed to give too I much. We do not believe that it ? did. The only thing is that t ury tax but possibly the people's or not the state agreed to give too I much. The only thing is that the t the state agreed to do certain things r and now when it comes to the doing c she proposes a compromise and you 1 must take it. f ?? c UNFAIR AND UNJUST ( It is very unfair and unjust for ( members of the legislature in discuss- ^ ing the appropriations for the depart- ( ments of the government to make per- t sonal attacks on the heads of depart- t ments, as we understand was the case J ;? ^;?r?n.csion of the educational de- g 1U partment. when some very unkind re- t marks were made in regard to Mr. 1 Swearingen. In the first place, Mr. r Swearingen is not the department, i and if the appropriation should be c made, it should be without reference I to the man who happens at the time to t fill the office. In other words, what- t ever may be the feeling of the mem- ? thp legislature toward any \ UVi V M. ? . state officer he should be big: enough i to rise above personal feelings and \ do what is right and just and proper, t In the second place, it is neither right nor manly to attack a man in a forum in which you are protected and c he has no right of reply or answer, i It is neither a manly act nor a brave c thing to do. And we are surprised g that certain members of the legisla- t ture have indulged in that sort of i thing, especially in the discussion of 1 the educational department. i We hold no brief for Mr. Swearir.- I gen. In fact, he does not need any UIw on/1 If Vir, iris friv. ' in the privilege of reply in the same forum there is no doubt in the mind :>f any one who knows him that he :*ould take care of himself. We will say this, however. There is no man in South Carolina who is better informed as to the needs of the schoolse :han Mr. Swearingen, and we do not believe there is a man who is more Interested in taking progressive steps n educational matters than he is, and ,vho is doing more in that regard than ie is. It is in no sense a personal natter, but one that concerns several > - j 1 ?r lunarea inuusanu tiinuicu ui tmo ;tate, and Mr. Swearingen is only the spokesman for these little children md making an honest effort to help :hem to develop into true men and ivomen and to give them the advan:ages to which they are entitled. Our schools are but the great factories )f the state for the manufacture, so :o speak, of men and women, and :heir first duty should be to develop *ood citizens. The state through its ecislature has promised to furnish :he capital with which to run this big factory, and it should not fail to live lp to its agreement. And Mr. Swearngen as the head of the machinery :ias simply stated to the legislature ivhat is necessary to keep the wheels ;urning, and no good can come to this jig business and its orderly conduct Dy attacks on the head, and in a forum in which he has no word or re3lv or explanation, and it is unfair md unjust and does not help the orierly conduct of the great business )f running the schools. The senate fails to adopt the luxrorum and then offers nothing to take he place. In the next two or three veeks you will find the legislature tbout ready to adjourn and the same >ld levy on visible property, such as rarms and houses and lots and mules md cows and such things, and the ich man will go on living and payng only on his visible property which n many cases is the smallest part of f TVipv nrp lavino- the mines and v. * 11V J O he explosion will come a little later md it is going to be terrific. The legislature has done this year ust as it has always done, leave the ippropriation bill for the ebsing iour?: of the session and then rush it hrough. But human nature is about he same all through the ages and we ould not expect any sudden change it this time. The streets leading out of town to he main highways have not been put n good condition as yet. In factseveral of them are among the very ' hi -1 1J vorst streets we nave, mis snouiu lot be. Give the stranger as he eners a good taste of your city and a rood way is to have a pleasant and lice entrance. > < > s> AMONG THE SCHOOLS <S> <iTuesday afternoon I went to /aughnville to lay, or to assist in aying, the foundation for the new chool building the trustees are gong to erect in this district. They TO rrm'no- +n hllild ? TTIodpl School in HXi 5Vlllfe VV MM4AV. ? his district. It is to be of tile with >rick veneer and to contain two class ooms and two work rooms, one for he girls and one for the boys, and in auditorium that will seat 200 peo>le. The material is all on the :round and Mr. W. B. King who has ;he contract was to begin work on Wednesday, Washington's birthday, ie expects to complete the work in hirty to forty days. Mr. J. E. Sumner kindly went over with me and irove his big car and it did not take nnfr to reach Chappells, but the road rom Chappells to Vaughnville in plac ?s is rather bad. Along out from Chappells by the fine farms of A. P. Coleman and J. B. Scurry and J. L. Catkins where they keep up the Iragging the road is fine, and really he only bad place is the bottom just >eyond the home of Mr. Jahns, and >lr. R. E. Watkins and the neighbors tre dragging this regularly and when he new soil gets well settled it will >e fine, though the other day it was ather hard pulling: to make it. This s a very important highway. It leads >ut by Vaughnville and on to Cross 1 ill and is traveled a great deal, and he highway commission of this couny worked it up well some months ago md relocated it in many places and \*hen the new soil gets well settled, f the maintenance is kept up, it will >e a fine road. I am sure it is going rv kn nn AJ KJ1Z ivt y u ? I had promised to go to Tabernacle >n Wednesday but I have been sufferng with a severe cold for several lays and I tried on Tuesday night to ret a message to Mr. J. E. Xabors hat I could not come as he told me * A ~ ^ ^ vvnc? imnUCCQhlp iiai pare 01 tins iuau ? >y auto. I will make this trip in a ~ " T j : : _ l. ? J e\v days. Sorry 11 1 aisappumucu VIr. Nabors. After the sun cnmo out so pretty on Wednesday I decided that I woul take a little round to Reederville an Bush River and Tranwood, so I lef Newberry about 10 o'clock and mad this trip. I stopped a short time a Keederville. The work is getting alonj nicely at this schiol and the peopl are taking much interest and cooper ating with the teachers. Two sisters Misses Mann of Abbeville, are teach ing the school at this place. The a\ t U r? pi k AAn fin A 1 eragfci attejiucincc uao uccn jint, i. fact almost perfect, arid even durin, the bad rainy weather the little fol come right along to school. I drove from Reederville aroum to Bush River. This is also a tw teacher school and the teachers thi year are Misses Monts and Living ston. The enrolment is sufficient fo a rural graded school but the disf.ric can not qualify for a guaranteed sev en months' term under the state la-\ for lack of the children. It take not less than fifty and the enrolmen is around 45, but the average attend ance has been almost perfect an that is what really counts. But whe: the tax is paid we will have sufficien : funds without state aid to run th school seven montns. | This is a fine community, this Ree derville and Bush River section, an< big fine farms and until the approac of the boll weevil the people wer as a rule prosperous farmers, an they will get over the boll weevi] In fact I am inclined to think tha ; the Bush River Baptist church is on | of the largest and wealthiest of th rmrolv rural fhnrrhps of this denomi nation in the state. And that it con tributes more to the benevolences o the church than any other rural cor gregation. The congregation sup ports its pastor and he devotes all o his time to this congregation. Bui and this is hte main thing I wait t say, they need some roads out thi way. Some of the roads do fairl; well, but those right around and lead 5r>--? i n tr> the church are fearful. an< % jt - ~ they remain in this condition all tin year round. From the church up t< school house has been bad for tw< years to my certain knowledge am the road from the church down t Newberry is bad and has been fo two yeari at least, and the road cu by Singlev's mill, the one jver whiel +Vi/% +Y-o -ffi n rrnac ic HoH n n ( JHUi L Ui i/iio t; auxv ao m... has been for the two years that have been going there regularly. Thi: is too fine a community and too fin< a rural e'nuich to have such road: leading up lo it. it is about fou miles to the highway ai; Garys an< I do not know how fir to (he high way to I, ?i>gshores, but at least a: far, ani <he cuestion is of bsmc: ab)< to reach this highway at some sea sons of th? ^ ear. Yos the commun ity needs to get together and do somi self help and then get county helj and build some roads. The highway to Kinards is fine with a few excep inns Thpre is one verv bad placi just about a mile this side of Kin ards at or near the place of Dr. T H. Pope, but of course we shall ex pect that to be repaired very soon. I came back by Captain E. P. Mat thews and made a stop at Tranwood This school is taught this year b; Miss Dorothy Buzhardt and she ha: an enrolment of thirty-four and the; are all present every day. That is unless some one is really too sick t< go to school. They had two teacher; here last session but the trustees de cided it would be better to have om teacher with a longer term for th< school than two teachers with a hal term and they are right. Miss Buz hardt is doing good work here and i was a pleasure to look into the face: of these bright boys and girls r.rid t< talk to them. The school house look: much better and is much more com fortable since the partition has beei taken out and both of the small room; l 1 * ? ~ Inrnro AnO lurnuu mi/u u?ic taifct \jh l,. This is another fine community that should have a road and the ex tension proposed by the highway com mission goes out this way about fivi miles but that will lack one mile o reaching the school house and then i should go on to Bush River churcl which is only five miles more. Bu fivp miles is a erood start and bette than no miles at all. E. H. A. I <$> < ^ WITT T nr?MF SF.NATORS! ? TT w a * w ? ? <8> < Greenville Piedmont: The senate of South Carolina a this session will do nothing wiser o juster than it did Thursday when i voted that hereafter no member o the general assembly shall become ai memhpr nf the board of trus tiVV V* ? V W4V... tees of the University of South Cai olina. The Piedmont warmly com mends the author of the proposal i Senator Samuel H. McGhee of Greer j wood, as well as his colleagues. This mav seem an unimportan i dj matter, but it is not. It recognizes L d and lays down a sound principle in ^ t J state legislation which is that mem-!^. e ; bers of the general assembly should ^ 11 not hold two offices, that a legislator !? 1 ought not to serve as a trustee of a 1 . e jsiate institution. j*1' 1 This principle is simply a reaffirma-1 >>' tion of the requirement of the con-!. i-: stitution of South Carolina that noj1^ r-; person shall at the same time hold i ^ n j two offices in this state. g l So far as The Piedmont is inform- . k ' ed, this is the first time that either - ! tr branch of the legislature has recog- j " nized that clause in the state consti-, p d tution and voted to obey it. No oth-1 _ 0 j er provision in the organic law of the i s | state has been more frequently ig- j nored and violated. r Here is one vice of the practice of t;electing members of the legislature; j as trustees of state institutions. The j 17 . A nnnrt fnr nl "f h HIT TY1PTY1 * j pcupic Ul tuc V- u | s, bers of the general assembly to rep- j t! resent them?and them alone. When,; 1-1 however, a legislator is elected trus- j d;tee of a state institution, he is com-1 i! mitted to the proposition that he t shall also represent it?and there may f e be a conflict of interests. Hoiv will: he vote? Whose interests will he de-? ifend? - j No legislator should be a trustee d of the University of South Carolina h or any other state institution. e i When a member of the general. d assembly announces that he seeks a! ! (trusteeship, others who are not mem-1 t bers of that body are automatically! barred from seeking the position. eiWith little regard to his qualifka-jtions, his fellow members feel bound - to vote for him, and so he is chosen f overwhelmingly. i-i It is now up to the house of repre sentatives as to whether or not it i f, will concur in the action ot tne sen:,!ate. Unquestionably the house should 0 do so, not only in obedience to the s state constitution, but also as a maty ter of common right and justice. If -1 the members of the house take the 1 same position as the senate on the 2 bill to provide additional trustees for 3 the University of South Carolina, j 0 they will deserve the thanks of the 1 people they were chosen to serve. } I In proposing the enlargement of r the board of trustees of the Univer I f t rity of South Carolina, the alumni of, i that institution do not contemplate! i that all the additional trustees shall i 1 ( be alumni. It is their hope that the j S(very best men available from all sec-j 2 tions of the state will be chosen.! s , whether or not they are alumni. The r alumni of the University would rath3 er have an able, broad, enlightened -jcitizen wTho is not an alumnus than 3 some youthful alumnus who has been -1 graduated only a short time and who "i I i i " \ : I All Wool Serge, 36 I 20c and 25c Dress 11 rinth Plaids and st j Monday, yard l 3 15c and 18c Ging Work or Play Cloth, r day, yard - I j f! 60c Dress Ginghan 'I Saturday and Monde 1 t ????? New Spring Go Spring Millinery, S] .>, Pants, Boys' Clothini >j| i ??g?s????? * New Silks and Ca ? Special prices for Sat t r.uk. - j Next Door Mayei *' I cks the necessary maturity of in l!ect, judgment and vision to fi m to serve as one of the directors o lis historic institution. No one will dispute the proposi '*ri jiL cnui/ aic nnju ill LUC gill al assembly who would make splen d trustees of the University, bu is the better course to obey th ate constitution and it is fairer t ect them outside of the legislature there are members of the presen meral assembly who aspire to b ustees, let them in interest of fai _r ^ i ?i.? - ay, uuseiviiucu ui law auu jusuc Haltiwe umMmnm J u H III FMW!UWU!iMJWM4a We hav week shipmc Wear and M The many Dresses, Suit express pleai Styles and n Friday a you to select About: IOC 50 35 250 Dresses Priced $1 Suits Priced $11, ^ ?sr?r] P onoe vuciio anu v^uj^vo $18.50, $22.50, $27 Hats Priced $2.0' Haltiws "The C F< J n "?7 o uaj a i in. wide. Special 85c 5 Ginghams, Romper ripes, Saturday and 15c mri o n rl ,Iicmia, vjiicviuio aiiu Saturday and Mon 12c is, beautiful patterns, ly, at, yard 50c ods arriving daily, oring Oxfords, Boys' Dress Goods. tnton Crepe Dresses. ;urday and Monday. 5 Book Store 4 4 -jstand aside until their terms as leg-' t1 islators have expired by the operation ' f of law. | In the name of the people, in the - name of justice. The Piedmont conI rhp spna-fp of South Caro -1 lina on the excellent policy it has t1 laid down and urges the house of e representatives to concur in that ^ | course. * [ Something Missing ej She: You are a perfect dear! r j He: Not perfect, darling1, you have j e mv heart!?Wavside Tales. I inger & Ca e been receiving *nts of New Sprii [illinery. n .1 customers tnai s, Wraps and He sure and surorise A jasonable prices. tnd Saturday, we : from. . AT n TV > INew spring i/resses New Spring Suits New Spring Coats ? New Spring Hats 6.50, $14.75, $18.50, $22. $14.50, $18.50, $24.50, $; Priced vr\ . a* at" aa .ou to ipto.uu 0, $3.50, $5.00, $6.50, $7. inger & Ca trowing Store of Nei OR New shipment Men sale Saturday and Mori -facf f?nlnr?s 98c. J.MUV WAVX - - ? ? ? j Men's and Boys' Bel er. Saturday and Mon One lot of Ladies' Waists. Sold up to $8. Monday at New Spring Hosiery Cotton Hose, pair Black and brown Pur Saturday and Monday, Glove Silk Hose Ss day at, pair , Tinnrl! Slim Picking The red faced man sat in the court room listening to along list of indictments being read, the majority of which were for bootlegging. "Gosh!" he breathed, "what would this court do without prohibition?" ?Wayside Tales. [ | > Mrs. C. V. Tenny returned to Columbia Saturday after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Spotts. Mr. and Mrs. Tenny left Saturday for Dallas,- Texas, where they will be | for the present. iroenter each day this ng Keady-tohave bought its this week s at the pretty * .A. ' A ? ? 1 will have tor < -T*' j <"* ' .< ' ; :> r ' " I . V ' - 3;' ..*** tTt . ' ' ' ' - "3** . '= 50, $27.50 to $45.00 27.50, $35, to $45.00 $8.50, $11.75,16.50, 50, $9, $10 to 18.50 irpenter f yy juberry nday i's Dress Shirts on iday. All sizes and $1.25, $1.45, $1.75 S ts. All solid leathday 35c, 50c & 60c Silk and Pongee 00, Saturday and ....$2.98 , Cotton and Silk. 10c up e Thread Silk Hose I pair $1.00 I iturday and Mon $2.50 J Main Street I