Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DR. MELTON IS SPEAKER AT SUMTER HI OPENING (Continued from Page 1) and plays in many ways. It increases your earning capacity, it multiplies the :number of vocations to which you may turn for your life's work it adds to the enjoyment of your work by making it easier, and contributing to it a re finement of culture and it prolongs your life. If you are a laborer it will make you a better laborer, if you are a farmer it will make you a better far mer, and if you are a professional man it will make you a better professional man. It drives away the darkness of superstition and doubt, robs poverty of its victims and heaps upon our hearthstones its blissful benedictions. "Statistics published by the United States Bureau of Education show that the man with no education has but one chance in 150,000 of performing distinguished service, a man with ele mentary four times the chance, a man with a high school education 87 times the chance, and a man with a college education 600 times the chance. 'Dean Tord of the Boston Univer sity College of Business Administra tion after a careful study of statis tics has placed the cash value of a col lege education at $72,000 and the cash value of a high school education at $35,000. According to a New York Herald-Tribune summary the average maximum income of the uneducated man is $1,000 per year, that of a high school graduate $2,000 per year and that of a college graduate $6,000. The total earnings of the three types up to the age of 60 are $45,000, $78,000 and $150,000. At the age of 50 the un trained man begins to drop to depen dence whereas the college man reaches his maximum income at the age of 60 The untrained man begins work as a boy of 14 and reaches his maximum income at the age of 30. This maxi mum is on the average less than $1200 per year. In view of the fact that this income is earned for the most part through manual labor dependent on physical strength it begins to fall off at the age of 50, or even earlier, and soon reaches a level below self-support. More than 60 of every 100 uneducated workers are dependent upon others for support at the age of 60. During the four years between 14 and 18 which may have been spent in high school the aggregate earnings are not more than $2000. The value of an education, however, must not be measured in dollars and cents. If the schools and colleges of our country can boast only of produc ing money makers they are failures. To be sure men and women be taught how to make a living and how to pro vide and care for their dependents; for these are civic duties which must Full Shi EVERY COLLEGE CHAP wvith the necessity of wear for such occasions now OUR $3.00 FULL DRES $2 OUR $3.50 FULL DR.ES *$2 ALL TUXEDO SUITS (luring th Marshall-Tat Corner Main and Hampton Sts. "EDDIE" ROBTNSOI Br'er Possum Feasts ! If one can judge by the occurance in Mrs. Latimer's poultry yard last Monday morning, 'possums as well as parsons like chicken. The possum got the chicken but Frank and William Henry, two negro cooks at the Mess Hall, got the pos sum. It was just before the breakfast hour that the negroes heard the hen squaks. When the boys came to breakfast the possum was safely quar tered in a lard tub. The marsupial was very careful in choosing his breakfast. Of Mrs. La timer's flock he chose the one hen which at the time had young chickens. No doubt Mrs. Latimer will appreciate onyone offering to pdt these little ones to bed for her each night. From the latest account of them they are thriv ing well and are beginning to sprout wing and tail feathers. "You know wat dem niggers done gone an' done. Dey sold dat possum fur a dollar. Anybody ud know dat dey's town niggers." be performed. But the chief end of education is not utilitarian but altruis tic, not so much to teach men how to make a living as to teach them how to live; and education which fails in this great objective amounts to nothing. "Roger W. Babson the great statis tician said: 'There is one thing of which we can be sure. The crying need of the year is not more factories or material, not more railroads or steamboats, but rather more religious education. The prosperity of our country depends upon the motives and purposes of the people. These motives an purposes are directed on the right course only througn religion. "It is related that on one occasion Socrates spent the day with his young friend, Phaedtus. at a beautiful spot on the banks of a small stream near Athens. All (lay long they had engag ed in meditation and philosophical dis cussion. Day was dying in the west. As the glorious orb of day slowly sank behind the western horison it seemed to linger long conugh to blend its beams and silver tir.ge the clouds and paint its prisms on the sky. The har mony and beauty of nature so im pressed the sage of Athena that when he arose to return to the City he of fered this prayer: "Beloved Pan and all ye gods that haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inner man be as one. May I rec kon wisdom as wealth, and may I have only such a quantity of gold as the temporato can carry." And so I cry exercise the body, develop the mind, cultivate the soul. To this let schools and colleges con Dress rts P is sooner or later faccd ing formal dress-Prepare at considerable saving. S SHIRTS ARE NOW 19 S SHIRTS ARE NOW 59 at very special reductions is big sale uni Company Columbia, S. C. r-Repretaten HIGH ATHLETES MEET HERE LAST OF APRIL (Continued from Page 1) mation contest and one girl in the ex pression contest. Appropriate prizes will be given. Four years ago, the annual state contest in typewriting was started. This year, many schools will enter contestants that have never entered them before. The members of the high school committee think that "the mer its of commercial education are ef fectively advertised in the communi ties by this contest." The best athletes from the differ ent schools come to Columbia and match their prowess against the boys from other schools. This gets the boys interested in athletics and also in col lege. The preliminaries will be run off on Friday and the finals will take place on Saturday. Before last year, both the preliminaries and the finals were held on the same day and the result was not satisfactory. The track events will be as follows: 100 yard dash, running high jump, half mile run, discus, 220 yeard dash, pole vault, 120 yard hurdles runn,ng broad jump, 440 yard run, shot put (12 lbs.,) and the javelin throw. The requirements for the high school athlete are practically the same as those for the college conference. The participants must be under twenty one years of age, must be in good scholastic standing, must have been a student of the school he represents for a year and last, must be an ama teur. Any one who has received mo ney for playing baseball, or -other sport is ineligible. tinue to be built and dedicated, I heartily congratulate you upon your great accomplishment. Mer Whe WHEN a mam than it ex AND) SO we E that is going to And See the Nc YOU A RE A Colu RENT A NEW CAR DRIVE IT YOURSELF - Special Rates to University Students - Where to Go - How to Get There - And You Drive It Ford and Nash Cars - Open and Closed Models OF COLUMBIA, Inc. Centrally Located 1216 Lady St. Phone 3386 Meet Me At Tapp's Meet Me At Tapp's -FOR OVER A GENERATION - This store has been the bulwark of the buying public for Ladies' Ready-to-Wear, Gent's Furnishings, Piece Goods, Notions and Ladies' Accessories. F or over twenty years the good people of the State of South Carolina have been "Meeting at Tapp's," and buying dependable quality merchandise. QUANTITY WITHOUT QUALITY IS FALSE ECONOMY The James L. Tapp Company COLUMBIA, S. C. i of Carolina - re Do You Buy our Clothes?. or an institution gives the public more pects - future progress is assured. eclieve that any Carolina man who sees R NEW SPRING WEAR and notes the very mod. erate price is going to enter upon a long asso ciation with M IMNA UG H'S MEN'S SHOP be pleasant and profitable to both of us iJOME.IN THIS WEEK w Suits -- the New Hats-the New Ties LWA AYS CORDIALLY WELCOME ! [IMNAUGH & Co. mnbia's Leading Men's Wear. Store