The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-06-21

this business should be put stop to
at once. If there Is no law for such
action. which does not seem to be the
case Judging by the actions of other
cities, the proprietor should be told
to open up wide. If 1t can be stopped
1t should be stopped now. 1t seems to
us that City Council is sleeping on
duty when such situation is toIerat-
ed
THE PRINCETON HIGH SCHOOL.
In each of last Tuesdays and Satur-
days issues of the Greenville News
appeared articles concerning the eff
fort being made to incorporate the
lower Tip" of Dunklin township
known as Columbia school district
into Laurens county school district.
AS the News has evidently allowed
one of its contributors to take ad-
vantage of leniency in it's news col
umns to Express very decided views
and to apparently make an attempt
TO argue the righteousness of cause
in the same column, and as the writer
of the same appears TO distort the
real facts in the case, we feel called
upon, in justice to the people of Sui
livan school district in this county
and of Superintendent of Education
George l.. Pitts, who has been instru-
mental in the movement, to set the
News straight on the subject and to
show that the decision made by the
Greenville Board of Education has
been very unwise and has been really
contributory to means of sitting
the ambition of the people of that
tip of Dunklin township to give their
children every educational advantage
in their power.
Before beginning to express our
views on the subject, however, the
Advertiser wishes to express it's re-
gret at not fully laying the case be-
fore the people of the county and OF
Greenville county before, but as Supt.
Pitts was so impressed by the need
in that direction on account of the
implied views OF Supt. Davis of
Greenville County, we had not been
made to realize the necessity before
However, we are laying this matter
before all those interested at this late
day so that If there is any possibility
OF the case being reopened, all parties
will understand the situation.
To u.ith IL Ea
Sullivan Township is not in need of
the extra strip from Greenville Coun-
~ TO make up the necessary territory
to gain tn ehigh school benefit. Prince
ton school has already been made
high school, The only thing to
be gained, though we admit this
is an important one, is the mat
ter of more students, increased
free will support and the additional
tax from the attached district. While
the decision as to having the high
school at Princeton is not likely to
hinge on whether this territory is ad-
ded to the Sullivan school district or
not. the added revenue will be well
COIneu Dy the trustees or the school.
The great benefit, however, will ac-
crue to the people of that section
which is i'm Greenville County, people
whose children are already attending
the Princeton School and not paying
any tax thereto, and people who send
their children to Princeton, not who'll
ly because it is nearer but also be-
cause ii is a better and larger school
than that one in their own district.
The advantage is to be entirely on
their side and they are the ones who
are asking for the change. In fact
they are the ones, according to Mr..
Pitts, who suggested the incorpora-
ton.
The articles in question seem to
show the writer's belief that Green
Vile County is constant sufferer
from such high handed robbery of it's
school tax money. 1t says that,
among other districts, Fountain Inn
is situated in just such a position as
Dunklin township is now trying to
avoid AS a matter OF fact just the
reverse is true; the truth being that
part of Laurens county has been in
corporated into the Fountain Inn
school district and Fountain Inn high
school is getting the benefit of Lau-
rens County 10 mill taxes. No hue and