The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-16

BOARD RALLY
EDUCATIONAL RALLY TO BE
HELD IN ABBEVILLE AND DUE
WEST FRIDAY AT 3 AND 6
o,cLocK-THREE PROMINENT
SPEAKERS WILL OUTLINE
PLANS OF S. c. DEVELOPMENT
RoARD-EvERYBoDY INVITED

BOAND-EtEkIo ANVAASA
As a rule people don't take much
stock in anything about which they
know nothing or else very little. For
some weeks the South Carolina pa
pers have carried columns on the
South Carolina Development Board.
Most of the readers have given the
articles a casual glance and very few
have thoroughly read or digested
these articles.
4 chance is to be offered the
whole oGu gfi cmfwyp cmfwyphh
Friday afternoon to learn from at
least three prominent speakers just
what all this fuss about a develop
ment board is and why so many busy
men afe freely giving of their time
without any compensation whatever
save that which comes from serving
the best interests of ones native
State.
In the court house at 500 o'clock
Friday afternoon great mass meet
ing of citizens of the County is to be
held at which time the history of the
organization of the South Carolina
Development: Board as well as the
reasons for which it has been organ
lied will be concisely given by Ken
meth Baker, Major Henry Tillman
and St. John Armes. County chair
man Joel S. Morse will be in charge
of the meeting. The executive board
of this County has sent personal let
ters to representative citizens in
every school district in the County
to be present as representatives of
their school district. They are urged
to bring along every other citizen
who feels that, his love for South
Carolina is sufficiently great to war
rant him leaving his store or his plow
for an hour or so. With all the citi-
zens of the State behind this great
movement any sacrifice will be more
than overbalanced by the advance
ment in all fields of industry which
the old Palmetto State is bound to
make with every citizen boosting her
to the limit.
Some folks have gotten the impress
sion that the South Carolina Devel-
opment Board is wild cat scheme
for landowners to get high prices for
their property. Well, it is, but not in
the selfish way some folk. imagine.
The letter price for land will come
when the resources of South Carolina
are fully developed, when profitable
markets are provided for the farm
ers when good schools are establish
in every district, when more and bet
ter people are induced to come to
cur State to live, then will your land,
your houses, your agricultural prod
ucts and your live stock be worth
more money to you and no farmer
will experience what he once has, a
bumper crop of food stuffs with no
profitable market.
The South Carolina Development
Board is for all the people and for no
particular class. The humblest citi-
zen in South Carolina will be most
benefited by the workings Of this
organization.
Therefore, be you rich or poor
happy or discontented, optimistic or
.scsptical, come to one of the big raj
.sfes Friday afternoon and hear for
yourself what the leaders Of the
: movement say about it.
After the rally is over here the
party of speakers will 60 to Due
West where the people of that Sec
ton of the County will have an ep-
portunity at o'clock to hear the
same speakers there.
For South Cardinals sake won't
YOU come to one of these meetings?