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The News and Herald T. M. SEAWELL & P. M. DEES Pu blisher s WINNSBORO'S CIVIC NEED. (An Editorial by a Winnsboro Woman.) Mis Lambert made a very timely and able ad dress on Tuesday afternoon at the Chautauqua tent. The conference afterwards might have re -suited a bit differently if we had all just exactly understood one another and her purpose. Winnsboro appreciates the good in uplifting and progressive movements, but she reserves the right to begin them and do them in her own particular time and way. Lots of people do r like, some will not follow what another begins. This is unfortunately true of 'Winnsboro We do not lack organization, but we must lacl something as the RESULTS are not what they should be. The writer is inclined to think that what we need is team work. All pulling together for some one big thing and pushing and pulling untilthat thing is accomplished. , Other towns no larger than this do accomplish some of these very things that we need and want to see here. A Civic League and a Mother's Club should not and do not in the least interfere with the Red Cross work. That in itself is a whole sphere and covers its ground wonderfully and ca pably. We must and will have th.Red Cross. But what about our activity aloig these other lines. It is not enough to have an organization; we must let the townspeople and visitors and strangers in toFn know of these things without having to ask if they exist. True, not more or ganizations is what we need, not enthusiasm to begin something,but real true energy to see mat ters through, to accomplish a purpose and with a certain end in view push on to a victorious finish. Suppose we have twenty women on whom we can depend (twice that number or -three times as many can be equally well used), and that with one head of all departments, or. a president, we subdivide these into four committees with a chairman for each, giving fiv6 members for each committee, the first committee to be known as the Civic, the duties of which are already under stood.. or might be. The secona as the Educa tional or School Committee-improvement and assistance of all kinds to the schools. The third committee in the interests of a Library-need of which presents itself daily and only requiring an, initial step to bring about a splendid devol opment. The fourth committee might hav( charge of a domestic art exchange where we rear a two-fold benefit of being able to dispose ol handiwork, thus encouraging it and a financial aid to the entire organization. Then let one mem* ber of each of these four committees compose.ar entertainment committee whose duty it is tc provide public concerts and entertainments, thus discoverkjr and developing amateur talent anc providing a means for financial stimulus and aid Perhaps the writer does not make this clear tc you, but all- d!it is quite possible and is being accomplished daily in many towns.. OUR BUSINESS NEED. Winnboro as never before is suffering fronr the lack of organization, especially in the mattei of business organization. We wonder sometimes * .why it is that some other community or sinal town .moves ahead more than we d( and leaves us behind in the race for progressive ness. And yet the answer to our wonderment it within ourselves if we could only see it. Today Winnsboro needs a business organiza tion. A club of some kind made up of the buisi ness men who are broad enough to see wha1 ought to be done, and then go ahead and do it Antiquated notions will not be worth much in i club of this kind. These things have already done us more harm than good. We need an or ganization of the live wide awake business mer of the town, men who are willing to invest mon .cy to see the town grow, men who are willing t pay the same price for the same results that art being had in othter towns, men who are anxious for Winnsboro to grow along with other parts ol the country. These men ought to get togethe and lay out plants along which the town ought tc progress. Things ought to be done by the bus iness interests together, and not leave each mar or business to go at a movement pell mell, witt no real aim in view except to make a dollar foi himself. .A movement is on foot to get the men ol Winnsboro togz.her in such a club and it is hopec that when the time comes every real progressive man in the town will be found doing his part tc make Winnsboro, from a business standpoint what it "aint" and what it ought to be. . SOME PERTINENT OBSERVATIONS. Regardless of the fact that we realize that wE eseriticised when we attempt to call attention to things when they are not wrat they ought tc be, we propose so long as we run a newspaper tc speak plainly about matters that p'?rtain to the general welfare of the community whether they be public matters or private affairs. It is hard ten n faults.and sometimes even harder :-fo e the faults of our children, and yet th mains that one of the saddest things we day is the lack of proper train inc, of 'ildren on the part of the parents,of the dif'erent communities of the land. Winnsboro is not an exception to the rule. For three years we have watched the' young of the town. We have watched these boys and girls in their school life, in their social life, in every phase of life in which they may be found. And let it be understood here and now that if the chil dren of this town do not deport themselves as they should it is not their fault primarily,butTit i6. he fault' their parents, a fault-for which will an er two fold,first in pain that comes them -useless lives of untrained children sec the blame that will attach in the fi the Almighty who holds us resyon sible. t the fact has bee'n impressing itself on us for more than two years that the children of the community are being neglected. For two years many of the school children have shown this in ,their school behavior, and home -rining tells in school as nowhere else. The writer was at the head of some of the best high schools of the State forfifteen years and never in all that. time did.he have to omplain about, or punish a child who had been properly trained and taught obedience at home. During the present Chautauqua the childier of Winnsboro, especially the boys from four tc ten years of age, have published to our visitors that they have not been properly taught man ners and public behavior at home. During the first afternoon the performance had to all bu1 stop because of the conversation and laughing of these boys on seats just to the side of t. They had to be spoken to by the performer ;wih were strangers to our town and to them. Thai piight tht committee found it. necessary to place 17policeman with these boys to preserve order The next day the same conduct only worse wa repeated, and lady entertainers had to stop long cnough to request these boys to cease their con versation. At night they were spoken to again As we thought of these matters we wonderet what impression these entertainers would carr away wth them as to the manner in which ouz boys are taught at home. We wondered if thE teachers in the schools would attemptAthe nex! ,:morning to impressa lesson in behavior thai wouldtend to+ correct this evil.- First of all thE ~parents of this community 'ought to teach thes< children better than this. Second, if the parente fail, then the school .teachers shotid take it ni and do their best to implant within the minds and hearts of thise boys such a. respect foi themselves that they would behave at a publit gathering. Every parent and every school failh in its highest duty just to the extent that they fail in this mnatter. The pride of the writers life is that for fifteen years he trained childrei and that neved yet he or his teachers fail to s< teach the children under their care that they re flected credit on their school, themselves an< their parents in public. It is a sad commentar: on the mothers and fathers of this town t< ~know that their children are taught such a littl4 about public manners and behaviour as to makt it necessary to place a policeman with then when they are in public. And yetthis is the pre sent condition. We are not criticising, but we are simply try ing to get the parents of the town to wake up t the fact that .we need to put more attention t< four boys. This spirit of misbehaviour is per vading even our houses of. worship. These sam<' boys so largely forgotten at home are gettmri into the habit at Sunday School and church " disturbing the worship. These same boys s( largely forgotten at home are getting into th~ habit at Sunday School and church of disturbins the worship with their talk and mischeviousnlesS Probably some may thirik this editerral over drawn. If so the editor will gladly pilot suce a one to a position where this kind of conduct if Ito be seen, and can substantiate every state [ment made as to the behavior of our children ii publc. For the sake of.our boys and to save ourselves and ourselves ana our communities against th ~shame that naturally becomes ours when suei things are seen. let us wake up to our responsibi lities and let our children know that there i5 such a thing as parental law and t'hen we will be able to teach them manners both public and pri vat.e HOOVER'S DIRECTNESS. There is a strong directness about Mr. Hoov er's way of putting thngs that stands out in re freshing contrast to the nebulosity that clouds most of the talk about the war. It is said os Colonel Roosevelt that he could make almost any man who met him beieve in him. Mr. Hoove: seems to have something of the same qualty. I New York Times. Columbia's Most Mod ern Apparel-Shop. The home of Disti-ncetive Styles in Coats, Suits;* Dresses, and outer apparel for women and misses invites you to in spect the -new fall exhibit now ready and to take advantage of the Refund. of -Railroad Rates to Out-of-town Shoppers. who make purchases of $50. 00 or more during the month of October. Please Ask for Reftind When Making Purthases. S'M I T H'S 'Col6mbia: most modern Apparel Shop." 1619 MainSt. - Colum bia, S.C. eP EAppare-N Shop. The. hr..rde try aistintiveSylsi'Cas SSits Dreses, Pernd ouenapreo wo00rmen an ;m'isses invtsyutn spec to-m he ie all xhbirtohyad efundie . of.-. btRscailoa Rtedt Ou -edt-on-t. ow.an. 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And theee finition of that wor& -is "made t esr clothes.w Have your next suit RoyA Tailored to your order -at $35 tO $65. Our taPe line wis reay for you. The PROPST Cs faW fusntio of dertha ord ma "mnth ade etlesur againthaes.Bon fo al eore theyourdt insWinnsboro ..ontef Tay in OmSr 199.Ch oi Pescribedtreaeceta e maein the Caset entFirfed and forsaid, beorethein Conet inss ainsdr S.bCn on the .No daylin Roadier 119. th e by ofl tKirk ceata;i n pie,pr trands of land lyngroinwder sam te Couct of ared hich anyd Tty saie Jaes B.1Brow les, Bron byded date the N lnoftobe 1911 and rorded puic R.oftheh Ceast Cour S.eld Coun in De outh by TERM OFr SALE-nTheW shal Brwa y dee dated also foral ofr Octoers1, sands recorde ing~ fil .onyi Dee Boo C.WP. TRSOLL SALheL Novmbe al t~s,lo for 1919 say maers stms Re-oin,~E. Fairfield'se. Biggest. ..