The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-01
THE DRIVE IS ON
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
COMMITTEE is APPOINTED TO
HAVE CHARGE OF DRIVE FOR
BAPTIST HIGH scHooL-PEO.
PIE. AWAKE TO OUR oPPOR.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO
BE TAKEN IN NEXT FEW DAYS

BE TAKEN IN NEXT FEW DAYS
- The committee with power to act
which was authorized by the mass
meeting of citizens Tuesday evening
has been appointed. 1t is headed by
first class business man, who knows
how to go after what he wants and
who generally gets what he goes af-
ter. On the committee are other busi-
ness men of the same mettle as him
self. The committee is as follows:
T. G. White, chairman; J. S. Stark,
Sol. H. Rosenberg, G. A. Neuffer, C.
H. McMurray and w. M. Barnwell.
1t is planned to work out a thor
ough organization and to make GEN.
sus of the people in the city who are
able to give to this enterprise. The
canvass for subscriptions will not be
hap-hazard but by the censhs Of the
people able to assist. Jost when the
canvassers will start out is not yet
stated, but it will be shortly, as. al
ready stated.
Instead of being discouraged by
the news which comes from Grees-
wood that the Bailey authorities do
not look with favor on the establish
ment of the institution in Abbeville,
and that Greenwood business men
have like view, the people of this
city have determined to show Green
wood that we can do things as we'll as
they. Greenwood has made great
progress in educational matters and
two of the lnest things that progress
sive city has done is the seruring of
Lander and Bailey. We do not :. feel
that the establishment of another
school of the same general scope of
work as Bailey will seriously hurt
Bailey. The fact that this institution
turned away more than a hundred
and fifty students the present session
shows that, there is demand for an
other like institution in this section.
The fact is, and it cannot be too
often stated and emphasized is that
the chasm between the rural schools
and the colleges is every year grow
ing wider, and must be bridged. The
prosperity of the South and the de-
mand everywhere that children be
given a college education make pre-
paratory schools more and more i'm
D.! perative. One bridge will not carry
them all over. We do not expect that
Bailey will be the only preparatory
school for boys even in the County of
Greenwood in these next ten years,
not unless that institution is greatly
enlarged. The fact that Abbeville
High School has this year tweenty-
five pupils more than last year proves
the assertion that more and more pu-
pills are every year entering the pre-
paratory schools. We want this school
and we believe that the next few
years will make other preparatory
schools in Abbeville County absolute
ly necessary, and such schools will
be necessary everywhere else.
We are going to build high school
for boys in Abbeville. The pulse of
the people has been felt and it beats
in unison with High School. We want
the Baptist Military School and just
now we are bending every effort to
get it. But if we do not, nobody
should deceive themselves into think
ing that the movement for a school of
this kind is dead in Abbeville. An
other mass-meeting will be called the
minute the announcement is made
. that Abbeville does not get the Bap-
tist school, if that announcement is
made, a nda stock company will be
formed to build and equip the insti-
tuition. Uncle Jim will be there as u.s.
ual, and there will be man to match
him if an independent school is tr be
established.