The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-09

the next election, may be inveigled INTO giving
money to Converse with which to run college ZOE
the education of the one hundred and twenty-five
spartanburg girls and the others to come after NO
wonder the Spartanburg girls marry New York
Yankees and,ge away from home The journal
even, as we read it, suggests the possibility OF ras-
ing money by having it's linotype operator Juggle
the figures Of the Abbevie subscribers to the fund
already promised, hoping that these good people
will nav the additional amounts, rather than have
scene about it.
Where is John B. Cleveland anyway? G. +. Gra-
ham, of Greenville has given to the PresDyterlans
for missions and college work the sum OF one nun
dred thousands dollars. What has Mr. CleVeiand
done? Where are the Montgomerys, the witch
, ellis, the Bomars, John Gary Evans, Ralph \. Gar
son W. s. Glenn and all the other rich men about
snartanburp? Where is the man who has been
making the people of Spartanburg pay fifty cents
per thousand gallons for water all these months'
Is he not by now able to endow college! Wnere
r are the carpenters and bricklayers VINO rae
to work in Packards? Where are the men VINO
tn;lt all the mills in and around Spartanburg! 10
thew think Il more important to build great cotton
mills where little cl6ldren's mothers get up Wniie
T. is vet dark. cook the morning meal and go down
to the swiftly turning wheels lighted still by e9e
;. incand descent, and there work the weary hours
ayvav than that they should build, and equip and
endow great college for the education Of young NJ
women in that city, the rich and the poor alike?
I, Wbat bas become of the boasted wealth, and the
much Wanted culture OF the Spartan. City anyway!
Instead of answering this question satisfactorily
to the growing number of its readers 1--WE nope) tue
Journal would laugh to scorn the efforts OF tnls pa
>per to reiuvenate the oldest and the best OF az
the colleges in the state, organized for the bulld=
inp Of character the training of the mind, and the
turning ont of real men, a task to be accomplished
we believe now in no other way than by remov-
ing the seat Of learning from toWn winch no ton-
ger appreciates the college, which no longer puts
proper value upon its worth to the town ana lts
people, to "a city which ripe for The building OF
great educational institution and amongst people
given to literature and art.
WHY hasn't Abbeville had college all these
wears. the journal asks? Because, perhaps, we
have spent our money in educating our daughters
at Converse and our sons at Wofford, or both at
either Due West or Greenyille, and have too long
neglected <our own opportunities. We have peen
too prone to give of our means, as we have Deen
of our good people, towns Of less Importance and
| of less real worth. And we had as soon have Con,
verse as Erskine,
IF the CITY of Spartanburg with its thirty thou
sand people, on paper is not willing to give to Con-
verse, which admittedly is doing SO much for the
people Of that city, the "paltry consideration"
asked, and if Charley Hammond is not willing to
foot the bill, why not ask Dr. Pe TO give Abbev1le
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a chance? Why keep college in either SPARTAN
burg, or Due West if the people do not want one IN
either place enough to pay for it? Do the people IN
these places expect the people in other sections %
build equip, endow and maintain colleges In these
places where the people there many send their
sons and daughters at fraction OF the expense
which it costs Others and without their contrrbus
ing to the cause at least in proportion to the bene
fits now being enjoyed and which they expect 70
enjoy in the future? If Spartanburg does not want
Converse College to be Class "a" college enough
to put up five hundred thousand dollars in the next
thirty days to make It such, and If Due West does
not think enough Of Erskine College to raise for
its endowment the insignificant sum Of fifty thousand
dollars whereon to base movement for its greater
endowment, then we say that the people OF South
Carolina and Of the other supporting states IN the
one instance and the people Of the Associate Re-
formed Presbyterian Church, in the other, should
shake the dust Of these two slqthful communities
from their feet forever. r
I, We have heard this talk about the traditions,
and sacred things" about sdesecration ano
ltvenerated seats" and we have even heard Of the
!; word "consecration" but we have grown sick and
tired of it all It is what Ben Timan, were he lv-
ipx,e would call "demagogcal bosh," covering Tor
"a multitude Of shortcomings. The trouble with
most Of these consecrated people is that they won't
sonseerate any Of their money, but want to get
sonsecrated themselves, while The thing which Frs