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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-09
teachers. They should have schools

ested and need to be Informed in
these matters. Ordinarily we look to
the County Superintendent of Edu
cation to see after matters of this
kind. But in this county the salary
paid does not justify man in giving
great deal of time to school work
of any kind, neither is the Superin-
tendent in this county a trained
teacher and educator, as he might be
if considerable salary were paid,
and this were a requirement to fill
the office. The present Superintend-
ent of Education will, however, lend
his support we know to the movement
we have in mind, and as far as his
Office will allow will contribute to
it's success.
Now our idea is this: We have
first class Superintendent of Schools
in. the city of Abbeville. He is good
organizer. We have In this county
one of the best, and the very oldest
denominational college in the state.
There are men connected with the
college who would like to be of SER
vice to the county we feel sure. All
of them would. But from among
them, we have chosen Prof. Edgar
Long as best fitted to do the work
which we have in mind. And the
work is a campaign for better schools
in this county. We now nominate
Mai. ]. D. Fulp and Prof. Edgar
Long as leaders of this campaign.
There is great work to be done in the
county. There is a message to be
carried to the people of the county.
These men have the ability, the tact,
the information, and the will, we
believe, to do the work. The work
should be pressed now.
We think it would be we'll for Ma
jor Fulp and Prof. Long to call a
meeting of all the trustees of the
several schools of the county, town
and rural schools alike, and Of the
teachers in the, colleges and common
schools alike, and plan the work. We
want to do the work at home. We are
able to do it at home. The meeting
should be held early in July, and by
the end of July. meetings should be-
gin to be held all over the county.
Statistics should be- gathered be-
forehand about the work in other
counties; the acts of the legislature
passed to encourage rural schools
should be studied, and at the proper
time these matters should be laid be-
fore the people in every district, and
the people are urged to build better
school houses, and employ more and
better teachers. They should be
shown just what other counties have
done, are doing, and propose to do
They should be shown how much
ADLER they are to build and equip
good schools than many other COM
munities which have done so; and
they should be aided in following
the good example set by others.
There is no better investment
which a community may make than
to invest in proper school facilities.
1t puts up the price of land, and
makes the fields grow better crops,
and most of all it gives the people 2
new and better view of life. Few
districts which vote large school tax
es ever take them off.
Let us make a star, IN Abbeville
County. Let US not stop until we are
we'll in the front ranks of those coun-
ties of South Carolina which have
good schools. Will Major Fuip and
Prof. Long take the lead? What say
the people?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-09
A CAMPAIGN FOR
BETTER SCHOOLS

If the great war wrought anything
back at home, it was that the people
were taught that the chief duty OF
the citizen to the state is to be OF
service. The great Christian denoml-
nations of the country caught the
spirit which the war engendered, and
no sooner were the boys back home
than a campaign in the cause Of
Christian education was commenced
We all know the result. The people
who were asked for dollar gave two
and three, and some more.
But the greatest work which should
be done has not commenced. The
work done has been for the colleges
and universities, but only one child
which enters school, we are told, ever
finishes a college course. Sometime
ago we called attention to the fact
that few remain in school to finish
even the high school work. When the
boys begin t. reach the seventh and
eighth grades they begin to fall out
so &c to work, or shall we say-and
we say it sorrowfully, if we must say
it-that oftentimes they are with
drawn from the school room and
placed in the fields and at the work
bench, in the shop and at the fast
turning machines.
This should not be so. Every child
should have an elementary school
where he may be prepared to enter
college, and every child should have
the preparation. They cannot do so
until first, the schools are built, and
secondly they are taught to seek an
education as the most important
thing in life, and most important of
all, not until their parents are taught
that they owe it to the children to
give them the best education possible.
On the latter point we are hopeful.
We believe that there is a growing
desire and almost a determination
among the great majority of parents
to give the children an education;
at least most of them want to do SO.
But they are not prepared to do it.
They hear of heavy school taxes, but
they only hear of the taxes, and not
of the satisfaction brought to the peo-
pie who pay taxes for better schools.
They need to be shown.
We have said, and we repeat, that
Abbeville County is far in the rear in
the matter of good primary and
grammar schools, or schools where
the primary and grammar school sub
jects are taught, to say nothing of
being far in the rear in the matter of
high school facilities. We said some
time ago that none of the rural
school districts, except Antreville
and perhaps Campbell, has a local
tax of as much as eight mills. We
are glad to say that we were mistak-
en- in this statement. Mrs. Frank w.
Wilson has just called our attention
to the fact that the Watts District
now has an eight mill levy, and that
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
CHEVY CHASE LAKE CAR
SERVICE IS CHANGED

Announcement has been made BY
the Meyer Davis management. OF
Chevy Chase Lake, that on and after
today, Chevy Chase cars going direct
to the lake without change will be
operated on Fourteenth street only
Chevy Chase cars which have been
operated on Seventh street VIII Do
di discontinued.
Patrons of the Lake. who have been
accustomed to taking through car
to Chevy Chase Lake on seventh
street will. however, find no incon'
yenience in taking regular seventh
street car and transferring to CheVy
Chase car at the south end of ROCK
Creek Bridge, or what is known as
the Loop"
Owing to the popularity or the
lakeside pavilion on Saturday, the
Capital Traction Company Will oper-
ate cars on both Seventh street and
Fourteenth street tomorrow only.
Thereafter service will be as de-
scribed
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
URGES CHECK
ON M|LKPR|CE
Fowler's Report to Commis-
sloner Pleads for Enactment
Of Regulating Law.

Renewed efforts should be made TO
have Congress pass a bill TO regulate
the price OF milk In the District, DR..
William c. Fowler. District Health
officer. told the Commissioners yes
terday, in his report for the nscal
year ended June 80, last.
Births exceeded deaths last year.
the report shows. There were s,23l
of the former and 6,372 OF the latter.
OF the births. 400 were illegitimate. an
Increase OF GS over the previous year.
Influenza caused 253 deaths last
car. and 33 cases OF sleeping sick
css were recorded. DR.. Fowler says
leeping sickness has disappeared
rom Washington.
The most potent causes OF death
we're organic heart disease, $50; all
crms OF pneumonia. l30; pulmonary
tuberculosis, 683; cerebral hemorrhage
apopl"xy), 4sS: chronic Brights dis
'ase, 463.
On June 80, this year. the depart
1ent had an official register OF 2.l5S
hysicians, 90 dentists. 341 under
akers, IS midwives, and SO podia-
trists.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
WOUNDED TOSEE
RED CROSS FILM
"Heroes All" Shows Work of
Medical Corps at Walter
Reed.

The American Red Cross Aim,
Heroes ALL" will be shown for the
first time this afternoon in Keith's
Theater. The film shows the work
OF the medical corps at Walter Reed
Hospital, depicting the treatment re-
ceived by patient from the time he
arrives at the Union Station. until he
has been rehabiitated, taught a voca-
ton and is ready to return to his
work in the world.
Surgeon General M. w. Ireland and
Col. James ID. Glennon, commanding
officer at Walter Reed. have been in
vited to attend the exhibition this
afternoon as guests OF Raymond Rob-
bins. Mr.. Robbins has made a Gus
tom of inviting $50 soldiers from Wal
ter Reed every Friday afternoon and
OF giving a vaudeville performance
each week at the hospital for boys
who cannot be moved to the theater.
Actual battle scenes in France will
be shown in a special exhibition at
the New Masonic Temple tonight un-
der the direction of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
DR.. DAVIS, ILL,
LEAVESPULPIT
Pastor OF Westminster Church
Retires From Ministry-High
In Presbytery.

Rev. Titus Elwoo1 Davis, pastor OF
Westminster Presbyterian Church for
the past nfteen years and now moder-
ator OF the synod OF Baltimore, the
highest honor his denomination can
bestow In the synod. has resigned his
pastorate after a ministry covering
forty-three years. according to an
nouncement today. The pastor VINO
has been III for some months past,
will continue TO reside In washing
ton With his family.
The decision OF DR.. Davis TO retire
from active work was made known
to a largely attended meeting or the
congregation Of Westminster Church.
Wednesday evening. when Rev. HUI
bert Rex johnson. pastor OF Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church presiaed.
After much discussion the resignation
was accepted.
II was brought ouG that the MEM
bership OF Westminster Church has
more than doubled during the pas
torste OF DIR. Davis and many new
features have been added to the work.
For many years DR.. Davis served
as stated clerk OF the Presbytery OF
Washington and rendered particular
ly able service. He has also been
honored by the Presbyterian Alliance
Of Washington, and at the session last
year of the Synod Of Baltimore,
which includes PresbyteTians OF the
District of Columbia, Maryland. and
Delaware, he was chosen as their
leader by elevation to the moderator
ship. The annual meeting of this
organization Is to be held in Balti-
more in October, and IL 10 hoped DR..
Davis may be able to preside over its
sessions.
Dr. Davis who is author Of "A Cen
tury of Masonry THE Masters
Call" and other works, came to Wash
ington in 1905 from the pastorate Of
the Bound Brook N. j., Presby yterian
Church. where he had served for
fourteen years.
Rutgers College gave him the A. B.
degree in 1874 and the A. M. three
years later, when he also graduated
from New Brunswick, N. j., Theolog-
ical Seminary. He was ordained to the
Presbyterian ministry in 1877 and
held pastorates in New Jersey and
New York.
Mrs. Davis was formerly Miss Mary
Belle Heron, OF this city.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
D. c. MAN |NBANK
WHEN CRASH CAME
W. T. Leake, Treasury Depart
ment EmpIoye, Describes Nor
qan & Co. Horror.

NEW YORK, Sept. Nv. 7. Leake,
an employe OF the Treasury Depart
ment in Washington, who was in the
Morgan offices when the explosion oc.
CURED, said 1t seemed as though
bomb had dropped on the roof.
First. he said, there was deafen-
ing blast, and then the giant glass
dome in the center of the building
crashed to the floor, bury:ng scores
of stenographers and clerks under the
debris. There was rush for the
entrances, he said, with the shrieks
and cries of the girl employees plainly
audible above the din and confusion.
Mr.. Leake declares he was knocked
down by the force Of the explosion
and showered with glass, but Escaped
injury. He said he stepped over sew
eral employees of the Morgan Arm.
who were lying the floor, in seeking
an exit from the building. Their
faces were covered with blood, he
said. but most Of them seemed alive.
Mr.. Leske is expected to return to
Washington today.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
BOOSTED:
GIRLS STRIKE
Plaza Hotel 0weIIers Say
They'll Camp Out Before
They Pay.

II you happen to glance out OF your
window tonight and see silhouettsd
against a moon-lit sky strange sights
in the form OF scantily clad women
moving about on your lawn. you
needn't get excited. And you needn't
phone the police.
Nor need you think you're see
ing things"
1t will not be that the statues Of
Venus or Adonis' which adorn your
lawn have been imbued with life.
Nor will il be that some modern dane
ing cult has selected your yard for
its classes in interpretative dancing.
What II will mean Is that a couple
or more OF fnoffensive war workers"
have selected your lawn as camping
out place and have decided that the
thick grass will make an excellent.
IL not downy couch.
Stripped OF all persihage and at
tempt at metaphors and witticisma.
the story amounts to this:
Yesterday morning each OF the 6w0
thousand girls living in the govern
ment dormitortes near the Union sta
tion received a circular saying that
from this time henceforward board at
the dormitory-includi two meals
a. day and lodging-would be raised
from S45 a month to *6o.5O.
"We won't pay it," said one girl
That we won't" chorused another.
Uncle Sam can't profiteer on us.
said another.
And so on.
The outcome of the situation was
that several hundred OF the girls
agreed among themselves-if you can
imagine several hundred girls agree
ing on any subject--that they'd go
on strike. And they went
This morning these several hum
derd girls applied to the Director
of Sales for the War Department
with requests for blankets and cots.
And they've sworn they'll camp out
on the lawns OF Washington citizens
rather than pay the extra $3.50 when
the Government is endeavoring 70
extract for their room and board.
The raise in board came simui-
taneously with the assuming OF onice
by Mrs. Sarah e. Sumner, who has
recently been made manager OF the
Government dormitories.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
L|LL|EPAYNE, 16,|S
CARNIVAL BEAUTY
D. c. Girl Voted PrettieSt In Mt.
Rainier Fete-ConteSt
Is Close.

Miss Lille May Payne, sixteen
years old OF 6iS o street northwest,
last night was selected as the pret-
test girl at the Mt Rainier Carnival.
Miss Payne was awarded five-dollar
gold piece as prize.
Competition in the beauty contest
was keen. 1t took the Judges more
than thirty-hve minutes TO make
sEection. SO close was the race that
sic girls were picked to take part in
the ianl selection.
Miss Payne was the unanimous
choice of the judges. Frank J. Gala
han. of Washington. chief Judge,
presented the winning beauty with
the gold piece.
at was a close race" Mr.. Callahal
said. There were so many pretty
girls that 1t was almost impossible
to pick the best looking one. But we
finally decided on Miss Payne, for
she was just a wee bit prettier than
the other five. Mt. Rainier should
be proud OF its pretty girls"
The carnival closes tomorrow night
Charles J. Peckham. chairman of the
carnival committee. and Frank Smith
also committee member, are plan
ming to organize a citizens associa'
ton in Mt. Rainier. They expect to
make the carnival committee charter
members.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
CLUB WOMEN TO
VISIT MT. vernon
Federation Directors Conclude
Three-Day Business
Session.

Members of the board of directors
of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs this morning finished business
remaining at the close OF the three
day session and declared the confer
ence adjourned.
This afternoon the delegates will
be guests at tea to be given by Mrs.
Albert s. Burleson, wife OF the Post
master General, and Saturday they
Will be guests of the Virginia fedora
ton on a visit to Mt. Vernon. Miss
Helen Norris Cummings, director of
Virginia and Mrs. Henry Lockwood,
director OF the national headquarters,
will be in charge of the AFFAIR.
Several additional committees were
named at the final session yesterday
afternoon. Mrs. Florence Foore, of
CIebourne. Tex, is chairman OF the
committee which will look into the
OF cooperating with the
Fine Arts Club in the erection in
Washington of "a Carlton, as a me-
mortal to men who were killed In the
world war.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Williamson, of Washing
ton, heads committee which will
have In charge plans for the erection
OF building in Washington for fed
GRAFTON headquarters.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
BOARDPROBES
FLAT PIRATES
Takes Up Charges Apartment
Spectators Have Jumped
Rentals rs Per Cent.
Apartment speculators are the lat

Apartment spectators are the lat
est type of rent gougers which have
been complained OF to the District
Rent Commission. and the commission
tomorrow will set out on an exhaus-
tive Investigation OF these alleged
profiteers.
The commission has been told that
there are a certain number Of specu-
lators in Washington who are at
tempting to monopolize the rental OF
apartments. Instances have been
cited where one party has rented as
many as twenty apartments in yarl-
Gus sections of the city to sub-let
them al exhorbitant rates.
1t is charged that tenants are com
PEELED by this practice to pay as high
as SIS per cent more rental than the
speculator pays the owner for the
same apartment.
The commission has every reason
to believe that these charges are true
in some respects and proposes to get
to the bottom of them to determine
their extent.
If the charges are found to. be as
represented the commission will take
action. it was stated this
morning.
The commission has always been
of the opinion that great proper
tion of the high rents in this city
are due to speculations of this sort.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
JURY OF WOMEN TO TRY
PENNSYLVANIA HUSBAND

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. Sept IT.
John Kinkaie is alleged to have
struck his wife yesterday. If he had
known that his indiscretion was to
become the subject of the first jury
trial by women in Pennsylvania. he
might have taken time to consider
his action.
Mrs. kinkaid complained to JUS
tice of the Peace Swick, with the
result that Kinkaid was arrested on
a charge of assault and battery.
He demanded a trial by jury, and
Justice Swick set. Saturday evening
as the time.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
WAR DEPT. NOT RUNNING
SALE OF ARMY BLANKETS

The sale of army blankets at Lib
erty Hut is not under the supervision
of the War Department. which states
that the blankets are being resold by
persons who purchased them from the
Army Retail Store several months ago.
The War Department says 1t rs not
conducting a sale OF surplus war sup
plies at the Liberty Hut and is not
planning to do so. All the remaining
items from the Army Retail Store,
which closed some months ago, have
been sold and will not be offered for re-
sale at the Hut
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
new BRANCH POSTOFFICE
OPENS AT 18TH AND H
Latest Substation Occupies Old Quar-
ters Of Munsey Trust Co., In
Southern Building,

A new branch postoffice has been
opened in the old quarters of the
Munsey Trust Company in the South
ern building. Fifteenth and II streets
northwest, by Postmaster Merritt o.
Chance.
The substation, which is in the
heart Of the financial district. opened
for business today. 1t is expected to
facilitate the delivery and collection
OF mail in the financial district. re-
lieving much OF the work of the Of
flee in New York avenue, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.
Forty carriers have been assigned
to the new substation. The office
will be open day and night.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
NEW DICKENS BOOK.

LONDON, Sept IA valuable coll
lection of unpublished letters and
manuscripts OF Charles Dickens, which
hitherto has been in private hands, Is
on its way to the printers, according
to the Bookman's Journal and Print
Collector, to be published in book
form.
The new book is expected to throw
new light on the private life and love
affairs of the great novelist.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17

missing from her home in Leiper Flats
since Sunday, walked into police
headquarters at City Hall today and
told Captain Robinson that she was
ill-treated by her father and step
mother and for that reason remained
away from home.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
REV. TITUS Z. DAVIS, III

NHFs HfTtb % OHTf ""
teen years pastor Of West
minister Presbyterian Church.
who has rendered his n sigma.
tion because OF i'll health. He
will continue to make his home
here.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
Carpenters For Every
Job

The contractor has problems
to which the general public
gives little heed. II IL the eN-
ceptlon among contractors who
can keep a large force Of skillsd
hands constantly employed, for
contracts, unfortunately. do not
always follow one another so
CLOSELY that there are not
stretches OF days or weeks IN
which nonproductive pay
roll is a source OF serious loss.
Next to keeping man on The
payroll the contractor must
have a sure source Of imme.
diate supply. In the columns
Of The Times they have II. as
witness the experience OF the
New York Shipbuildlng Cor
poration of Camden, ", j. who
wanted carpenters and advcr-
tised. More results from Tho
Times than from any other
paper" they say These words
contain big lesson for other
contractors who may mot yet
be sure that a Want-nd in The
Times will solve their prob
lems. Telephone your ad TO
rhe Timcs-Main 5cG0.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
MISSING GIRL RETURNS.

CHHESTER, Pa, Sept. tT.-Agnes
Watt. sixteen years old, who mad been
The Washington times., 1920-09-17
COMMITTEE TO SEE WILSON.

The committee to visit President
Wilson was named yesterday after
noon. 1t In headed by Gen. Horatio
Gibson OF Washington, who was a
frst lieutenant in the Mexican war of
1876. The other members are Gen.
Nelson A. Miles. Captain Robert q.
Woodside. Col. F. Warner Karling,
Capt. II. N. n. Richards, Lieut.. Sidney
Gompertz. and Lieut.. Francis Wood.
With the serious work OF the en-
campment out of the way, Veterans
Of the Foreign Wars went to Camp
Meade, Md, this afternoon to witness
the re-enactment In sham battle Of
the capture OF Montfaucon
Three thousand regular troops,
representing the several branches OF
the army service, will take part in
staging the spectacle. The attack
will be by artillery, infantry, tanks
and aeroplanes with the co-opera-
ton of the engineer corps. Soldiers
will be sent from Camp Meade, Fort
Myer, Bdgewood arsenal and the
Aberdeen proving grounds.
Special cars began leaving Wash
ington at 10 o'clock this morning.
The Washington, Baltimore & An
napolis railway will employ every
car in it's service to handle the
crowds.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17

to the national council OF adm ministra-
ton.
Private James NJ Dalxlele, famous
civil war veteran, was In the meeting
hall for a few moments this morning
and was cheerfully greeted by dozens
of his younger comrades.
The Washington times., 1920-09-17

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