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AMONG THB SCHOOLS, 'IV Superintendent Offers fciomc K*. cellent Ad\irr To PartntH. To the Parents of the School Child ren of District Nfo. l:Tho recent ex amination period has just jpast, re vealing the fuct that a very large number of the pupil* of th<* schools Have failed to make the required paim- f ing grades. The schools are passing through a critical period, a period of < expansion. With this increase in \ numbers and spreading out of de partments comcH a tendency toward laxity on the part of every one ex cept those who are most alert to tiieir own needs and to the needs of the school system. The evidence in proof of the above statement is as follows: (1) Pupils are remaining at home, either with or without the permis sion of parents when they should .be in school. Wo do not refer to those who are kept home for sickness. (2) Many pupils are to be seen on the streets in the evening, or pay ing social colts who are not passing on their leasons at school. (3) Many pupils are not even tak ing their books to their homes for home study. The school day in dis trict number one being a single ses sion day, the time for study of les sons in tho classrooms is insufficient, making home study imperative. The pupils in the hitch school have only one study period. Parents, the schools need your help. Some reasons why your child should attend school every day. 1. Statistics show that more fail ures ill school arc caused by irregu lar attendance than any other one reason. The reason for this is that the child stays out n day or so. He gets behind in that days work. He loses the connection between the lessons, he becomes discouraged, and this leads to lack of interest. After this ho ju it doesn't study and fails. 2. The bureau of education at Washington has issued a government bulletin No. 22 in 1917 which gives the following interesting data: Every day spent in school pays the child $9.02, Here is the proof. Un educated laborers earn on the aver age $500 n year for 40 years, a totul of $20,000. High school gradu ates earn on an average of $1,000 a year for 40 years, a total of $40,000. This education required 12 years of school of 180 days each, a total of I 2,160 days in school. If 2,160 days in school add $20,000 to tho income for life, then each day at school adds $9.02, #Xhe child that stays out__of school to earn less than $9.00 a~~rhtr is losing money, not making money, j Education increases productive! powers. In 1899 Massachusetts gave her citizens 7 year's schooling, the United States as a whole gave ber citizens 4.4 years schooling, and Tennessee gave her citizens only 3 years schooling. The average daily production of the citizen of Massa chusetts was then 86 cents, that of the citizen of the United States 55 rent*, while that of the cititen of Tennessee was only 38 cents. The proportion has been unchanged in re? cent years, although both the aver age schooling and the average produc tion huve been increased. J. (J. Kit-hards, Jr., Supt. The above letter and the one fol lowing is published and being mailed to the patrons of the district in or* der that conditions may be Known that there may come a closer co operation between school authorities und parents; that-there may be u checking up both at school and at home. Patrons of District No. 1; In a certain sense it is appalling and dis tressing how little time,and how lit tle thought is givon each evening by many of the children of Camden to their school work and. to the prepar ation of the following day's lessons. We are uncertain whether thia is a widespread general condition or whether it is a local condition. Which ever it is, it is a serious condition,, Itnd one that should be remedied be fore it takes too strong u hold. It can only be remedied by the combined efforts of parents ana teachers. It should start with an investigation on the part of these two into the habits of the pupils to find out how much time is devoted by them to prepara tion of lessons, what kind of habits of study are being formed and the reason for the seeming lack of in terest. It is generally conceded by school authorities that the average high .school pupil should set apart at least two hours of each evening for the preparation of lessons for the, follow ing Alay. ft is a known fact that hab its formed in the high school are car ried on to college und into other phases of life. It is also known that whereas in the high school a student is required to master one book pet subject per yea^'or per semester, often in college a book or more per week or month is assigned. To suc ceed later on in college life one has to form right habits in earlier life, We know that there are many children in Camden who have already formed right habits, who are consci entious in their preparation, and who make excellent grades at school. These no doubt have formed right habits. They may be your children. Are they? We take the position thut each child should be required to set aside two hours or more each evening at a reg ular time for the preparation of les sons. We also take the position that students should not be allowed to at tend social events and shows during THIS WEEK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE Numbers 11 aud 10 vertical art* the big boys in this puzzle. They are both nine letter words?but find them and you have keys to work out every other word in the clever arrangement. Virtually all of the words are easy?and of the 59 in the brain teaser only a very small percent of them will cause you to thumb the leaves of a dictionary. 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Foch, and his colleagues of the allied war committee ia that the report of the military control mission shows that the German# persist in their de termination to maintain a complete staff of officers for an army such as existed prior to 1914. Also, the com mittee believes Germany is educating not only officers and aubalternations to this end, but under all sorts of camouflage, is training enough young men to mobilise a strong fighting army whenever it wishes to do. This, the committee saya in a writ ten opinion which the ambassadors' council will consider tomorrow, is of far greater importance .than the dis covery of unauthorized war material, although it is possible that the exist ence of illicitly manufactured rifles, machine guns and parta of cannons, emphasises the seriousness of the sit uation. Among the details of the control mision's report to which the military experts refer is the discovery of steel mills yf secret shops walled up from [ the eyes of the indiscreet where are stored pattern* and moulda for the most improved type of cannon, and even unfinished tubes that in a short time could be completed into guns ready to fire. Tips given by German pacifists lead to many findings of thi.i sort, including more new rifles than would be required to arm the entire German army on the basis of the Ver sailles treaty. Information given by workmen employed in chemical factories led to the finding of conclusive evidence that facilities for the production of as phyxiating gas have been left intact as they existed at the end of great war. The report on this point con firms evidence which the allies have had for some time to the effect that the Germans had erected new facto ries that could almost instantly be devoted to the production of vast quantities of the most deadly weapon which the war <leveloped. The discoveries, in the opinion of military experts, are rendered all the more important by proofs of the ex istence of a military staff school and the training of young men of Ger many for an army such as that with which the country entered the great war. The opinion in diplomatic circles this evening is that the ambassadors' council will give both reports a sort of casual scrutiny and then the gov ernment will discuss the idea of call ing an allied conference to deal finally with the matter. The conference pro bably will not be called until after the Belgian elections, as it would be held in Rrussels. Boy Scout News The week of February 8 to 14 was National Scout Week. A special meet ing was held Tuesday February 10. The best feature of the meeting: was the return of Scoutmaster John K. deLoach, although we had all appre ciated the kind services of his sub stitute Mr. Sirree deLoach. Since all the scouts of the nation were cele brating- National Scout Week we de cided to hold our rally Friday, Feb ruary 13. All the scouts went to. the ball park and put up tents and en joyed the rally very much. Scout Fid ward Woo ten of the Eagle Patrol carried off first honors scoring lf> points. Seoul DeLoache Sheorn of: the Panther Patrol came second. We were glad t?? see a few visitors were with us. Friday February 20 all thi scouts hiked to the precipice where bonfires were built and supper cook ed. in which some of the scouts were doing work for the second class test and they proved themselves worthy1 scouts as well as cooks. j Friday February 27 we held a reg i ular scout meeting in the scout cabin on Chestnut street to which we are due Mr. F. M. Wooten a vote of thanks for all the scouts are very proud of our cabin. Scoutmaster de I/oach gave the scouts record sheets to be filled out, told the scouts to be prepared to help in Near Fast relief campaign in May. The Beaver Patrol at this meeting reported the loss of a worthy scout, J. (\ Hose, who has moved to Florida. ) The meeting adjourned to meet M h r<h 1 Scut Klmei Watts. I.tmb Kills Man I ulumbia, Feb. 27.?(I. IL Lee. year old farmer living nine miles from Columbia on the old Camden road, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon about S o'clock unen a limb from a tree fell or. him while he was in the woods. the school session rxcept Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays. Do you know whether your child prepares his le-ssons or not? Do you know how much time ho sets aside for lesson preparation? Do you know whether he is regu lar in the use of this time or not? Do you allow your child to spend the evening* as he choooesT Please consider the statement* and questions above, and do whit you can to help us make the schools of this district ?rrm you and your children more efficiently. Von. J. 0. Rfeferfa, RURAL OFFICER KIIXBD C. A. Hargrove Shot by William 8, llninry at Benwttnvllle Bennettsville, March 1.?'C. A. Har grove, Marlboro county rural police man, is dead, shot twicc in the cheat with a .42 caliber pinto), and William 8. Hainey, white man, is in the county jail, having come to Sheriff J. A. Weatherly last night at 11:46 o'clock and given himself up. He had found the officer with his wife in his car on a lonely road about 11 o'clock last night he told the sheriff, and had shot him twice and thought he had killed him. The sheriff immediately went to the scenq with Charles Peele, another rural policeman, and found Mr. Har grove sitting behind the steering wheel of his car dead. A coroner's jury empaneled by Cor oner T. F. McRae this afternoon held Hwiney for the shooting and Rufus Riley and Hollis Hyatt, white men, as accessories before and after the fact. The shooting was done in the road in front of a schoolhouse in the Drake community, lower part of the county, a Rufus Riley and Mrs. Hainey testified at the inquest that, at the request of Mr. Hainey, Mr. Riley had driven Mrs. Hainey to Bennettsville yesterday afternoon in Hainey's car to do some shopping and that instead of going straight home they stopped at the Atterdale school, where Mrs. Hainey said she wanted to see some i one. In a few minutes Mr. Hargrove drove up and Mrs. Hainey got into j the car with him, telling Mr. Riley to wait for them. When they re turned Mr. Hainey had taken the place of Mr. Riley in- the waiting car and he stepped to the side of the Hargrove automobile and fired two shots. Hollis Hyatt, lt> year old, toy, ad mitted going to the schoolhouse with Mr. Hainey and waiting for the re turn of the couple. Mrs. Hainey declared that she was expecting her husband to try to run away with another woman on the 9:55 o'clock train from Bennettsville and had asked the officer to come with her to watch for them. Another version of the affair that is being told, but which did not come into the testimony i?f the inquest, Is that a member of a liquor ring, or is in sympathy with them, of that community and that Policeman Har grove had been very vigorous in fer reting out these violations and that Mrs. Hainey, had been "turning them up" to him. Members of the ring had determined to get him, it is said, and took this opportunity to use the i "woman" story as a defense. Robert C. Clowry, 8f3, former pres ident and general manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died on a Pennsylvania train enroute to New York Wednesday. Services at Wateree Next Sunday At the evening service at Wateree Baptist, church next Sunday, March 8th, the pastor will preach on the subject: "The Signs of the Times," as they relate to' the second coming of Christ, Luke 21:11 and 25. The sermon subject for the morning ser vice will be: "The Ways of Wayward ness," 2nd Peter 2:20. Evening ser vice beginning at 7:15 instead of 7 o'clock as heretofore. All are cor dially invited. .lit'v. Thornton Mills, son of the late 15. Kay Mills, roused his fashionable Chicago church by making Ben Reii man, King of the Hoboes, head of the Adult Bible Class. Returning the compliment the Rev. Mr. Mills be came a lecturer at Hobo College. Mr. Mills does not favor an exclusive ch urch. Six Cannibals Executed Bordeaux, France, March '2.?Six negro cannibals, among whom was a man sixty years old and a woman seventy, recently were executed by French troops at Victoria, French Guinea. The cannibals were con victed of killing and eating eleven persons. They faced the firing "fpTTKt bravely. James M. Dick I>ead Sumter, March 1.?James Mc Dowell Dick, a well known and high ly respected citizen of Sumter, pass ed away at 8 o'clock Sunday morn ing after a ten day illness from in fluenza, which developed into pneu monia. The deceased was 62 years of ape and was a native of this place. The annual drink bill of the Brit ish Isles each year is more than the total annual interest on the nation's national debt, which was 305,709.000 pounds for 1923. A Cordeau fuse, a ribbon of T. N. T. incased in a tube of lead, has been stretched along a Rocky Mountain National Park trail under twenty-five foot snowdrifts. Next spring the | entire charge will be detonated m\ < once making it poaaibte to clear the JUST ARRIVEb! A Full Assortment of Children's Summer Dresses Hats, Underwear and Accessories, including ' the Famous Lino of ANNA MAY POPULAR PRICED DRESSES FOR CHILDREN In sizes 3 to 14 at 98c, $1.50 and $2.00 each Comprising one of the best numbers, suitable tor every service. A full page lithographed folder illu, strating these dresses may be youra for the asking A postal card will bring one to your door. "PETER PAN" ami "CADET*' SUITS "EDUCATOR" and "ROBIN HOOD" SHOES for Children. All sizes on hand. Krasnoff's Kiddy Shop SUMTER, S C. EVERYTHING FOR CHILDREN ' FERTILIZER ' V \ ^ ' n < We have on hand a full stock of Nitrate of Soda, Mixed Goods and Fertilizer Material SEE US BEFORE BUYING F. M. WOOTEN SKN!> US YOUR MAIL ORDBR8 SEND US YOUR MAIL ORDERS ^OTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING Notice is hereby given that a spe-1 cial meetihg of stockholders q? the] Standard Grocery Company, incorpor ated, will be held on April 6, 1925, at 12 o'clock at the offices of Kirk land and Kirkland, at Camden, S. C., for the purpose of considering a reso lution authorizing the officers of tfoe corporation to liquidate the same and wind up its affairs and surrender the charter thereof. STANDARD GROCERY COMPANY, B. J. L. Moseley. Camden, S. C., March 5, 1925. 49-52-pd Aged Lady Dead Savannah, Ga., March 2. ? Mrs. Georgia Nathans, born in Savannah on March 20, 1820, died here last night. On the hundredth anniversary of her birth she was given a recep tion in the city hall by the mayor anJ city council. Furman Shealy, a twelve-year old New Brookland lad, was shot in the back Tuesday^and seriously wounded by Crandall Danul, a colored boy, who at first denied the shooting, and then claimed it was accidental. The white boy, however, says Danul shot him purposely. Byrnes To Live In Spartanburg Spartanburg, Feb. 28.?Representa tive James F. Byrnes, who has been a member of congress for 14 years and who was defeated in the Novem ber election for the Senate, will move from Aiken to Spartanburg upon his retirement from the house, accord ing to information received here to night. Mr. Byrnes said that he would spend a few days at his old home in Aiken after March 4 and Will move to Spartanburg on March 15. He will become a member of the legal firm of Nichols and Wyche, ? ' j which will be changed to NichM Wyche and Byrnes. Other roembei of the firm are Judge Georg* Nichols, former Congressman Sam Nichols, and Majoi^ C. C. Wyche. A office will be maintained in W?i ington tinder the supervision of Ni son T- Hartson, whose resignation! solicitor for .the internal revenuejfli reau goes into effect March 4. "The Spirit and the bride? Come. ? And let him that heart!) say<v Gome. And let him that it athirst come" Rev. 22:17, ;? ' ' ' T r ^.^3 d I. i i r i iiimi Wateree Baptist Chard . . . Alto Says COME EVERY SUNDAY U>. m. and 7:15 p. m._ Wateree Mill Village J. B. Shiver, Pastor Phone 65-W Sunday School at 10 a. m. J. E. Robinson, Supt. I Dia SPRINGDAU COUNTRY CL A Delightful Place to in a Veritable Beauty Spot Excellent meals served, cour . teous service assured Jj Lunches, Dinners and Bridge P** Also Afternoon Teas 8 to 5 P- r 18-hole Golf Course Public Links F. P. Farren, Manager ^ I! ANNOUNCEMENT SASH AND DOORS I have on hand the largest and most complete stock of sash and doors in Kershaw County. Prices guaranteed against ail local or outsicfe competition. CHAPMAN H. .