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Pickens Sentinel-Journal PMIDDJHED EVERY 'THURSDAY MORNING. -BY The Sentinel-Journal Company. TPoMP0oN & RICEY. PROPS. J. 1. 0. THOMPSON. EDITOn. bubscription 81.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rtites Reasonable. Entered at Pickens Fustoffee an Second Chaub Mai Matter PICKENS, S. C. 8 THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1908. Elsewhere we publish the statement of trustees in which they claim that the statement published about George Edens' whipping was exaggerated. We stated then, and reiterate now, that the trustees did not go to see the child. We also give an aflidavit of those who did see the child immediately after the whipping and we leave our read ers to judge who handles the truth carelessly. You can al P ways believe what you see in this paper. Level-headed Editors. We give below some articles from representative papers; the Columbia State, the leading nmorning daily of this state, and a represcntative paper of the south says: What. is the matter with Pick ens? The Pickens Sentinel Journal of last week carries in 1 its editorial colunins the order from a majority of the mer chaits inl that towi to discon.- 1 tinue their advertisements. Thu paper states that a boycott has been deClared against it; that a petition to boycott until it apologized had been circulated among the merchants and most of them signed. We know nothing of the casus belli, but gather from the edito rial that The Sentinel-Journal of the previous week criticized the conduct of the local school, and censured the severity of the whipping given a pupil by the teacher. The accuracy of the statements made in the paper do not appear to be questioned; but the teacher accused of the cruel whippig is a woman, and the parents of the child have threat ened legal proceedings, so there is much local feeling. We do not, as we say, know where the fault lies as between the teacher, the child and the paper, but certainly the plan pursued by the merchants is ex traordinary. No fault can be found with the principles, the character, the tone of the Pick ens paper. It is quite conceiv able that it has blundered, but it is vastly more certain that it acted with the .intention of bet tering conditions in the school, and so benefiting every patron of' the school, and the public .,neiralv. It had the boldness to speak out, for the public good and! without selfish purpose. Then the merchants unthink ingly sign a petition to quit ad vertising. Of course these people can hurt the newspaper; a newspa per need(s advertising. But for every dollar the newspaper loses the town will lose twenty. A year or two ago the newspapers in a Westernt town were forced to suspend publication for several weeks. Merchants afterward testified that trade was paraly Zed; business dwindled in spite of the employment of every other means of advertising. There was no return to commier pers again began to circtlate ad vertisemncuts. Do the merchants of Pickens imagine they are giving The Sentinel-Journal its living? If so they a ie istaken. In return for their money it sells them 1 publicity-the only publicity they can get in that county and that publicity is worth to I them the money they pay for it and heavy profit besides. If it did not profit them they would not advertise. Every grocery In I the cotgity could be put out of business if the people refused to buy, but the people would them selves starve with the grocers. And suppose the Sentinel-Jour' nal should suspend. Is a com munity that boycotts a paper for an honest stand, a stand taken with honest, partiotic In tent, whether right or wrong, the kind of community to attract other self-respecting newspaper publishers? 1 At best, the boycott is an ugly .,lub, and we believe the merch ints of Pickens will, upon a little reflection, see their error and 1 profit by newly acquired wis 10. The Pickens Journal and the [ner:chants of Pickens are at outs >wing to the fact that the paper lad grit enough to publish the acts in reference to a severe n >eating administered to a pupil I n the school at that place by one >f the lady teachers. The mer Ihants went so far as to "boy tot" the paper and have taken heir advertisements out. We vould suggrest to the Journal to 'efuse their business in the fu 1ure and it will re-act on them md not the paper. For sooner )r later, the ierchants will re ilize that they have made a mis- t ,ake.-Suniter Herald. I A SCHOOL TROUBLE. The town of Pickens is con ;iderably stirred up over an oc urence in the school at that lace. It appears that one of the ;eachers gave a pupil a severe hipping, and was severely , -riticized by the local paper, The ( sentinel-Journal. Nearly all the business men of he town endorsed the action of ;he teacher and condemned the rticle in the Journal, and went , o far as to boycott the paper by I wvithdrawing their advertise nents from it. If the Sentinel-Journal was I oo sever In its criticicisms, It ~hould make amends or retract. 3f this wve cannot form an opin- r 'on. The point we wish to make is this, can the business men of hat town afford to cripple their business and give surrounding I towns a decided advantage and ' I boost up the mail order business ~ by withholding their patronage L Erom their own home paper, ~ whether they have or have not i just cause for so doing? t If these merchants continue * the boycott business it will not be long before~ the Sentinel- t Journal will hlave a nice display f ads from Greenville anid other ~ places around, and there wvill be c a good large boom of the mal. order business working around ~ Pickens. Already the mail order busi- a ness is becoming a serious prob 1em with merchants, who do not a advertise, and we know of but t One remedy, and that is for tile' merchants to advertise liberally In their home papers and give the competitive prices iii Which they claim they can undersell] the mail order men.--Lavonia, Because the Pickens SENTINEL JOURNAL published the facts in reference to lody teacher un mercifully whipping a pupil of bhe school of that town, the rnerchonts have "boycotted" bhe paper, and refuse to let the nanagement do any of their work. The boycott was doubt ess started by some one who 3 was already at outs with the IOURNAL. The merchants of Pickens will soon find out that ;hey have made a serious mis ake.-[Seneca Farm & Factory. What He Meant. Park row at 1 a. m. and a polloeman ad a sailor In conversation. "Keyskle, keyside!" said the sailor. "Ow will HI reach the bloomin' key- ( oider" "O'wan wid ye. D'ye think I'm a ocksmith, that I know about yer old rey and its side? There's one key and ock I'll be after givin' ye. and that's o a cell. Move on now." "Keyside! HI said keyside as plain ke Hi could. blime!" Just then a high brow who had been o the postoffice buying stamps so that 1s rejected contributions would come . ack to him stepped up. "The man wants the keyside. what ver that is, and I dunno," said the po iceman. 1I believe he's looney and 11 run him In." "He wants the quayside-the docks," aid the high brow as he directed the nan to the water frout, while the po. iceman said: a "Well. I'll be blowed!"-New York a Iress. c A Slap at Mother. V Dinner was done. and the family was saeubled in the sitting room. Mother iad taken up1 the evening paper and t Ms reading an account of how. a high- ( raynan had been operating in the sub rbs. F'ather was down on his hands nd knees trying to act like a horse S rhile little Willie drove him around c ae floor. "Papa." finally remarked the good idy, glancing toward her husband, here Is a story about another man rho was waylaid. Do these holdups Iwnys stop you with a pistol and then o through your clothes?" "Oh, no." grinfully replied father, rising from the floor. "Sometimes hey wait until you hang your clothes ver the back of a chair and go to leep."-Philadelphia Bulletin. Nevertheless He Got Hew. "You say my daughter loves you?" ineetioned the old man. "I'm sure of it," replied the young 3an. "WelH. well." returned the old man. Doking the young man over criticany. There's no accounting for tastes, is here?' And somehow, although the young 3an knew that he ought to be happy ,ver the possession of the girt, he euldn't help moewliog and speculating that remark of the oMd men. ' Newer ef Deeelving, Theee hs a Brookrlyn woman who pe- tc esses a nervant who ti a model i alt especte save one-'Ia that she Is none 0o t!rlthfel. MteIy the mistress has bees oshug i Ii her eloquence to mnaae Nara see thE ener of deceitfulaees. But at laet she ad4 te own hersef beaten whee Nosa, ilth a beaming smile. turned and in m oot eajoling tone said: "Sara, now, maim, an' wet do ye sp ose the power et Oesavta' was given Is fort" A L.set .ak Potes A friend of mine, Writes a aootish orvespondent. recently saw a pico of aper lying on the street. He picked up. It was a one pound note. Some zen might hare pocketed it, with a mile of' satisfaction. My friend, how Nor, honestly handed it over to the o'.A short time afterward he dis re ht he himself had iost, a ounad. Ha- thought over the matter nd rememlbered( that before finding e he note he had been standing on the E dge of the pavement for somne time. t slowly dawned upon himu that the ound he had found was his own andI R hat hie hand drawn it from hIs 'pocket it nconsciously. Hie went back: prompt vr to the police station and e.5plained ~ he circumstance. The officer inu.chazrge g, nly shook his head and smiled In- si redulously. "Very clever." he saidi. but-eli-it will scarcely do." If my ~ riend cared to call back- at the end( of L lx months, he was inforrped, hie would et the p'ound If lin the interval It had ot been. claimed. During this time 0 f waiting he Is Inclined to meditate s to whether honesty Is always the est policy.-London P. T. O. I..LVALLEY, i hysieian laud Surgeo0i. ffco Yoirs 10 to2.-4 to 4 reparing fo We are now winding up our Wint or Spring opening. In the meantim Very Low n any goods we have in sto.k. We are receiving now some early Last year's business was the beE ope to'make this better. Our motto: The best and most g< onsistent with honest merchandising A. K. P: West End, The Wolderlfl Cue Have you heard of DR. 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