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The Sentinel-Journal Company. TvOMPON & Rwimr. Pnol'. J. L. 0. TroMPSoN. EDITOR. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Ileasonable. Entered at Pickenu FstofiCee 90 Second Class mail Matter PICKENS, S. C. I TH1UtSDAY, APRIL 9, 1908. "PICKENS SCHOOL TROUBLE, Trustees make a statement in Reply to the Criticism of the School by the Editor of the Pickens Sentinel - Journal. Say School is in Good Shape. Since the editor of the Pickens Sentinel JoIrniel has seel fit to criticise the entire school, tris tees, principal, and all six teach els, in such an unjust way, we feel duty botind to explain the true condition of affairs to the puiblic, and to show the disap proval with which the Pickens people in general regard the ed itors' tiradc. We have comiposed tho board (f trustees of Pickens Graded School for a niuiiber of years, and do not hesitate to say that, in our knowledge, we have never had a better managed nor more thoroughly taught school than we have under Prof. Switteiiburg and his corps of t(alch(rs. Any one who will visit the school with a desire to see how it is run will tell you that Pickens has a good school, secolid to n1on1e in the county. The editor insists that the pa tronis shall see how thier chil dren are being taught. The school management also invites them to come and see. They have even gone so far as to send out written invitations to the paltrols to visit the school. They camenic and went away sat isfied, with nothing but words of praise. And they have not asked for "a new deal." Visitors are always welcome, when they come in a spirit of well wishing for the school. This the editor did not do on a few mornings previous to his first ontburst. There appeared in the head lines of that edition: "Unmiercifully w~hipped. George Edens b eatenl black. Another child ex pelled from same grade.'' lie failed to mlenition that the latter child was his own. He was also misleading in say ing that child was expelled. Here are the facts: The parents objected to the child's being un der the same descipline as the other children in school. And on several occasions, when this boy receis ed punishment and received it at the hands of hie -teacher or thei principal, ii has brougt down the wrath of his parents on all concerned. For this reason, on a receni occasion, when this boy was disobedient to his teacher, the matter was put into the hands of the trustees. We mei and sent for the boy's father, the editor of the Sentinel Jour. nat, and let hinm settle the mat ter for himself. He came ani was asked if heipreferred hav ing the boy punished when h( deserved it, or taking him out o~ school. Hie took him out 01 school. The school is open fo him at any time that he wvil allow him to be managed as th other pupils are, I. e., gently bu fthiny Tn thi same trst U Yeetimv. tib(y,r'Ir af.6#I take off his coat and work fo the school, but if not, then h would take off his coat and d< everything he could to tear it up and added: "That's the kind of i hair pin I am." These wordi of his accont for his last acts He is trying to pull down th< school and everybody connectei with it, and the Pickens peopf are disgusted with his exagger, ation of another little boy's whipping in order to vent hif spleen over his own soreness, and because he is unable to run the school to suit himself. As far as his exaggerated ac count of the whipping of George Edens is concerned, it does nol tally very well with the fact tha George was up and playing mosi of the day after the whipping, and after having been abseni from school only six days, was sent back to this "brutal teach er,'' with not a stripe visibl( from above his knees where hiE trousers end to his heels, th< space where the editpr reported was beaten black and blue, anc even at the date on which h< wrote looked as if painted witl) iodine. The remarkable free. ness of his bare legs from stripe, was remarked on by all wh( saw him, and it seems that th( editor was much sorer over hi. own troubles than over George'. whipping. There is an old say ing that you can't believe every thing that you see in a. news paper, but that depends on the editor. In this case it will no do to believe the half of whal was said. We want to say t( the public that the school is run ing on nicely and smoothly ir spite cf the fearful onsaught The boy that was whipped it still coming, and no pupils hav< stopped, except the editor's littlo son whom he took away. At th< schoolhouse you wouldn't knov that such a tirade had ever beei made against the school We feel that this explanation I due the public and we shall uo enter into any further news paper controversy. J. L. Bolt, J. T. Taylor, R. E. Yongue, Trustees Pickens Graded School The above article appeared Ii the Greenville News of the 4th Why it was not offered to thi paper we do not know, unles the gentlemen thought it woul< not be accorded a place in ou columns; but they were in error We accord to any person a re ply to any of our articles. Some pressure from outsid sources was brought to bear oi them, so on Monday a copy wa sent to us with request to put> lish. We have time and spac to only hurriedly answer this but will dissect it, paragraph b: paragraph, later. As ti' ey are so sure of patron visiting the school, and leavini the school satisfied, we wvouli like for them to give day, dat and names; also, as they hai "nothing but words of praise, would like for the trustees t quote their exact "words o praise." Facts and figure count; we always give them an< demand them in return-'"that' the kind of a hairpin I am. Now, let them be the same kini of "hairpins," and the coni -demnation of an outraged putl lic willl fall less severe upo: their heads. Their knowledge of a schoc never being more thoroughi: I taught or better managed thal 3 this one "does not tally ver; t well" with the derogatory rt k 1iisN55i :tiE~RiiarE"iiff -or patronst J1n (ho dj Iilt hcak from) I onilk dvol! r 1 Inasmuch as the trustees have E tried to muddy the waters and 3 throw a false light on the pro ceedings, and claim that the editor is venting his own per a sonal sploon, it behooves us to defend onrself and the position we had first taken by giving a statement of personal matters something that we refrained .from at first doing, s mply be cause the other case was a suffi cient cause for asking for a. "new deal.'' The facts in the case are as follows: My boy was demerited for some infraction of rules (?) when the board met to investi gate (?) and I was sent for, and some preliminary talk and a statement from the teacher of the first grade as to what rules had been broken (that of put ting paper out of his desk into the waste-basket and for not knowing his lesson's and for pinching a boy-total, 12 demer its), and the trustees then asked me to conduct the case, I re fused, stating that it was their duty to sift the matter to the bottom. Finally, after some talking, I demanded that the board put up a secretary, (this they, however, failed to do); I also asked to see the rules un der which the school was oper ated. Swittenburg, who stood by the trustees, repliQd: "We have no written rules; we told the children when school open ed what our rules were; the great and fundamental rule is obedience." This made me mad. I saw I stood no show; the board was fully deter - ined to "stand by the school and up hold the rules," as Dr. Bolt put it when he was appealed to. In two days this child received 12 3 demerits "WAS A VERY, VERY BAD BOY," as his teacher stated, r yet his monthly report card 1 shows for the seven months he was in school that he got from 93 to 100 on deportment. This t child is only 8 years old, and - how could he keep in his head for seven months what was told to him on the opening day of school were "rules." I know of partiality and favoritism in -the school and stated part of 1 what I knew to the trustees and .told them when all the other s children were made to obey, s then my child could be whipped I too. Until they eliminated this r partiality, and favoritism was .eliminated, written rules adopt - ed, and all scholars treated alike and all made to toe the mark e and given the same kind of pun 1 ishment, I was against the s school; but if they would do - this, which was a justice due B the patrons, I would do all I , could, etc., and added, "that is y the kind of hairpin I am." I' still stick to this position; I have s proof to show for occupying this Sposition. They said the boy I must be whipped or they would e expel him, or I could take him i out, which I did-he Xs EX 'PELLED until he goes back and a "submits to being managed as f the other pupils are, I. e., QEN s TLY BUT FIRMLY." 11 Thank you, gentlemen-that s is the very thing I asked you to 'do-GOvERN ALL THlE CHILDREN I with gentleness and firmness. - Will you stand by this state ment, "gently but ' firmly?" 1i When did you decide to change front? Did you govern George >l Edens "gently but firmly?" yr Would hate, then, to see the a child you would have to 'nn down on. Gentlemen, I posi -tively deny that I said, "if r this mantte ega-nrdng his* 66idfivas settl'edI -ti" idW~Ktlii-.' t In t!h (Isse :md s'pirit in pa vhich ;.1 p i i t.. Zn(1 I ('I Most emphatically deny that I go want to run the school to suit foi myself, but I do sincerely wish edi you had accorded to me the a i honor-if you had, poor little George Edens' back would not foi have borne the scars it did that th; clay. Shame, on you, gentle- 1or rnen, to try to quibble, equivo Date, deny and get out of what FR you know was your duty. f Shame on you to have so av ittle feeling for a mother as to Ig riot even send her a note of sym- In pathy, much less go and see the qu ohild, after such a whipping as stf was administered to flesh of her Pu lesh-and just think for a mo rment, you are all fathers. 18 What would you have done if me of your children had come No bruised and beaten with many No P stripes? What would you J1 lone if the trustees, who, in ti da3 your hour of extremity, you for bhought would prove friends, 'I had forsaken and ignored you, Jot as you did then, and since have, t Ignored Mrs. Edens? She is a A woman-a queen among wo nmen, for she is a mother-she No has feelings, gentlemen that MR you, in your uncouth, rough, Es< hardened, masculine state will c' never experience, though, in a m 1 measure, may know them, by ta the heartache shown in your B I diei mothers' faces, as they sympa- ta thized with you over some wrong done you by another in your youthful days. Gentle men, dumb brutes, evince more at symyathy and sorrow for the JU4 tile hurt ones of their kind than da3 you did for Mrs. Edens. for Trustees is it any wonder you are censured by the many read- e ers of this paper, for your acts, when they have grasped the full import of your action? Quit your quibbling, take your medi cine like men, acknowledge your ( error, apologize for your wrong; call the patrons of the school to gether and get their sentiment e(I on this question of corporal pun- Pic ishment and abolish it out of the 4t' all schools; suspend this teacher; re- )n( sign yourselves and if you are of in reelected, se ve faithfully, fear- tra lessly, and, as the petition t recently circulated to exhonorate .ioi you read, " to the very best of 2 your ability", and you will yet tat< be honest, upright and honored n men. son Suppose, gentlemen, you read a. this sworn affidavit: mu "Pickens, S. C., 4th April 1908. "We, the undersigned, hereby__ certify that we saw the stripes and bruises on little George Edens and also read the account of same in THE PICKENS SENTI NEL-JOURNAL, and that the des cription was NOT EXAGGERATED. (Mrs.) John D. Edens, John D. Edens, W. H. Wade, (Mrs.) Mary Wade, J. T. Wade, Nannie Wade, Judge M. Welborn, (Mrs.) Judge M.Welbon (Mrs.) S. A. Porter,orT J. A. Cannon, M. D., i (Rev.) B. Holder, o' W. C. Bramlett." b and others that we can get. JE Does that sound like exagger- prc ation? We cry "Wolf! Wolf!" 'tn' when there is no wolf. J The editor will not say that a~ he Is done; but will unfold other things as exegencies demand. A more detailed description of -- the case of Toomer Thompson will be given the public later, t and other miatters, also, that may prove VERY INTERESTING reading. The trustees have our permis- a sion to rplyI and reA hereby r le iefenl tlemiselv:4. o' adlvice, b-.. t up b' the ad people of the ~ceiitWfoi them to make an acknowl 4ment of their faults and take iew start. An honest confession is good the soul and if they will do Ls they will feel better and Pk better. EE Iqorrote's Puzzle FREE ro INTRODUCE. We will give ray five thousand of these >rrote's Double-Cross puzzles, tde of Philippine mahogany. fficult and fascinating. Write ick and inclose four cents in nips to cover cost of mailing zzle, that's all. Address, DOMINOCARDS CO., )7 Choteau Ave., St. Louis, Mo lice Final Settlement and Discharge tice is hereby given that I will make >hcation to J. H. Newbery. Esq.. Ige of Prolbate for Pickens county. In state of South Carolina, on the 7th of bay, 1908, at 11 o'clock in the enoon, or as soon thereafter as said >lieation (an be made, for leave to Le final settlenient of the et-tate of F. Smith deceased, and o')tain Iharge tis admiristrator of esfi-t es S. 0. Skelton, Lpril 9, 1908. Administiator. lice Final Settlement and Discharge lotice is hereby given that I will ke application to J. B. Newbery, I., Judge of Probato for Pickens mty. in the stnte of South Carolina, the 7th day of May 1904, at 11 o'clock Ahe forenoon, o as soon thereafter as I application can be heard, for !ive make finnl setlement of the Mr * ijamin Terrell, deceased, anr' ,harge as administrator of A. L. T piiil 9th 1908. Admi, lice Final Settlement and L1 e 'otice is hereby given that I will t. ike clication to J. B. Newbery, Ei-q., Ige of Probate for Pickens county, in state of Sonth Carolina, on the 7th of May 190S, fit 11 o'clock in the Pnoon. or as X- o i thereafter ab sail >lication canl be heard, for leave to ke final settlement of the estate of B. Walters, deceased. and obtain dis rge as executor of said estate. T. A. Gary, Lpril 9th 19t 8. Executor. Sheri'ffIs Sale. te of South Carolina, ,ounty of Pickens. In Common Pleas Court. ly virtue of an execution to ine direct I will sell to the highest bidder at lic outcry in front of the door of kens Conrt House oi Monday, May , 1909, "i. hin the legal hours of sale the undivided inter., t the sale bewing .fifth of two-thirds, or two-fifteenhts. the defendant, W. Alec Ramsey. of, md to all that certain piece, parcel or t of land situate, lying and being in county of Pickens of the State of ith Carolina, on Keowee Ri'er, ad sing lands of Jamca Lawrence and era, containing five hundredl acres, re or less, the same being the real es a belonging to the etate of Alexan Ramlsey, deceased; 'ilso the interest the sa d WV. Al-c Ramsey in the per al estate of his fathey, the aid Alex her Ramsey, dleceased. in the hands of II. IRatsey and P. S. Ramsey as ad diramtors of t he pe'rsonal estate of the 1 Alexander Ra msey. de'cease'd. J. C. JR~NNINGS. Shueriff Pickens County, S. C. IE FACE IN THE LOCKET Bsurely iMorthy of a good setting. >ose the locket, the ring or other jew hero and you'll never have cause to ishamied of your purchase. WVELRY MAKES THE BEST GIF1' viding it is the kind that wears. Let uhow you onr collection and explamn difference between ours and inferior elry. You will not flid our prices higher for the GOOD KIND than me charge for the other. Easley, 8. C. JMcSWAIN. LAWY ER, reenville 5. Ce