The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

IOIal payments lOr cOlOreu ScnoOlS....... o-o.O'
THE WHITE HALL SCHOOL GETS a LIONS
SHARE
The reports of The teacher of the Trustees
Sci ool at White Hall show that the monthly
attendance was but fraction over fifteen
| scholars, and The pay certificates show that
these fifteen scholars received SlOO. ont or the
S3l0, proving that these fifteen scholars al
White Hall received about one.third of the
total public fund for white children in that
township. We are speaking of facts-not sin
| fluenceS"
We have shown that the Trustees own
school, and the school which IS taught by
Mr.. r. ]. Griffin, at Bradley, which is in In
dian Hill Township, are paid five months
and that none Of the other white children re-
ceived more than three months benefit Of thG
school fund. These statements are official
and as furnished us by the records on file in
the School Commission office. The state
ment Of the Trustees that three hundred pu
pills would be deprived from attending the
| "public schools Tor the space of II month" Is
misleading for two reasons: First because the
official record shows that the average attend
ance was only two hundred and fifty. Second
because the establishment OF additional
schools would add to the average attendance
instead of dlruiniSh it, as the Trustees ulleec
The official records show that the enrol mcnt
was eighty-nine In excess Of the attendance
and we know of our own knowledge this diff
ference between the enrolment and the at
neglect of the Trustees toestublish sufficient
mum Der of schools for white children. Does
the fact that they recognize, eStab lish, or con
othsr Se1e onS ooW
ed in the footsteps of their predecessors or
fifteen years ago?"
THE NEGROES BETTER PROVIDED WITH
SCHOOLS THAN THE WHITES.
The colored children had four schools last
in, itl InI ff,tp sh In
children had but two. The school in which
the trustees were interested was kept opeI,
for five months. The other white school was
kept open for three months onIy.
DO the Trustees intend to keep their school
open this year for nearly twice as lonsa as 9th
er white children are furnished free tuition?
Except the children who went out Of the
township to the school taught at Bradley by
Mr. Griffin and the children who went TO the
trustees school at White Hall, the white chill
drcn OF that township received only three
months tuition. while those who went TO the
trustees school, and the school taught by
Mr.. II. j. Griffin at Bradley, received five
months education.
THE UTTER UNsELFIsHNEss OF THE TRUs,
The Trustees say:
I'VE positively deny that our being patrons of the
White Hall school influenced either Of in our &C.
tion."
The Trustees are honorable men, ana we oC
not galnsay their word. But why make tho
disclaimer? We were influenced to our ac
| ton for the reason that the white "rcnters
on the East side Of Hard Labor sought schoo
| facilities, and they wanted the Trustees to di
vide the public fund from which they had been
so long so literally helping themselves. eve
! are speaking of facts, without the slightest
reference to the '.intiuences" that may have
| brought about the action Of the Trustees
The facts being that their own school was
kept open five months, while other White
children received but three months tuition.
| The refusal of the Trustees to pay the teach
er of the New School, and their unseltishneSs
in the matter. may be better understood
when it is stated that they continued color
ed school for negro "rentcrs' in the same
neighborhood, in which the petitioners dcsir
ed to establish a school for white "rcnters.'
| If the Trustees would explain how they can
keep their own school open for five months
| while they cut the other white children oil
with three months, it would no doubt prove
interesting reading to those who get so little
benefit of the public money.
If the Trustees would explain why 1t Is thai
more schools are not open for the white chill
dren in that township, it would also prove tt
| be interesting reading.
| If they would explain why they can oper
four schools for the negroes while they gran