Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Our Schools-Poor Attendance--Anotasr Article by Prof, Hand. Poor Attendance?lOvon with insufficient funds, poor school houses, short school terms, and incompetent teachers, the people may show a commendable educational purpose by sending t very child to school every day the schools are in session. Much good may be got out of a very inferior school if the children attend it regularly and with the purpose of getting the most possible out of it. llow are the white children of South Carolina attending the Schools? In 1907 the white enrollment of tfie public schools of the State was 11 t.OOS, while the average attendance was only 103,304. The federal census, taken sev VII j tma urnnu, \ivtfu; iiuuiil ' ill olina 217,072 white children between the ages of 5 and 20 years, while our legal school age is between 0 and 21 years. It is safe to assert that barely <10 per cent of the white children of the State are enrolled in any kind of school, and not over 40 per cent are in average attendance. In 1000,30 per cent of the white children between the ages of 10 y and 14 yoars were not enrolled in any school, public or private. In the same year Massachusetts had only ?! percent of her white children of the corresponding nges not in school,Connectticut had 7 per cent, and Michigan S per cent. In 1000 South Carolina had 54.177 native white illiterates over 10 years of age, only 792 fewer white illiterates than the Slate had in 1870, 30 years previous. At the same date Connecticut, with nearly twice the white population of South Carolina, had but 1,058 white illiterates over 10 years of age. Again, South Carolina had 13,048 native while illiterates of the voting age; lthodc Island, with four-fifths the white population of South Carolina, had 550. We had 17,830 native white illiterates be iwcen mo ages orjnanci n? years; Michigan, with twice our population, ' liacl 1,1).: ('onnect leu) had Hit), and lthodc Island inn. is it reasonable to tiopo lor tho South Carolina of tomorrow, with her load of helpless illiterates, to cope successfully with those States and seclions which have freed themselves from the bondage ol' ignorance? Tho day is forever gone from South Carolina when a few) highly trained men of leisure could direct and control tho destinies of the people. This responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of the masses, and in w we are forced to consider the training of the masses. Only yesterday Hon. O. I), Martin, just from a trip through New Kngland, gave out this: "Several educational leaders in Now Kngland frankly told us that they are spending their money and building up their schools in order to retain and maintain their industrial supremacy. They realized that we have advantages and great resources in the South, but they propose to keep the lead, if possible, through the power of trained brains and trained hands." Intelligence and skill will win every time in every race. What is South Carolina doing to meet this open challenge from New Kngland? Who aro those South Carolina white children not in school, and why are they not in school? Some aro the sons and daughters of parents themselves ignorant and unable to appreciate or to understand what education means to their children and to the State; some are children of fathers and mothers, greedy and soltish, who are more than willing to make wage-earners and bread-winners out of their young untaught offspring; a few are the children of parents opposed to education, because they have known some educated scoundrel; a very few aro the children of parents who actually need the labor of their childron to eke out a living; and many aro the children of fathers engrossed in material affairs and mothers recreant to duty. Many of these children are at work on the. farms, in stores and shops at a few cents a day, and in the cotton mills, making good wages for children, while hundreds of others are roaming the streets and country lanes?the training grounds for idlers, vagrants and enemies to law, order and decency. Two of tho worst enemies to child hood and youth are overwork and idl< ness. Close confinement at manual In hnr in rliillincr- utiilintr nn< 1 rlAuimoiii to childhood; idleness is poisonous and ruinous to youth. Attendance upon school may be used as a corrective for both evils. The State, in order to protect at least one class of its children against overwork, has passed a chi' ' labor law. Marring some notable exceptions, the ahortivencss of that 1>. is a common Jest. To illustrate: in lf)05, one ol our city school superintendents lost more than 20 pupils from one school room within two months. % y In company with one of tho cotton * mill superintendents of that town (a THE LANC/ nipn in favor of schools), the school superintendent went from house to house in the mill village, inquiring for these missing children. In one niternoon lie located 12 o| them, every one of them unlawfully engaged at work in the mill, though only three of their names appeared on the pay roll. Now, the child of the lazy, greedy, selfish tparcnt is at work, and not in school. The child of the ignorant and indifferent parent is neither at work nor in sehool; lie is idling* Both children need to be educated; the State ' needs both ol" them, and the Stale has already decreed that the taxpayers | shall establish and maintain schools 1 tor both. There remains but one logical j thing to do?compel tho parents of ' both to send their children to school. ' There is but little logic in compelling j people to pay taxes to support the i schools, then permitting the parents of ! the children who most need the schools j deliberately to keep them from the benJ elits of the schools. Tho poorer the i child the more need there is for compelling his parents to send him to school. Compulsory attendance laws are aimed ut the sellish and itidith rent | parent, not at the child. <>f what advantage are good teachers, long school terms and lino school houses, unless the children attend the schools? In a recent election to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enacted a kind of local option compulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declaration: "If you vote to compel the children <>l this district to go to sehool, increase my tax as you jdease; if you are not I going to put thechildicn into the schools 1 am opposed to any further tax." That man's argument has no answer. Nome opponent to a eompulsory law says: "You have not enough school houses and teachers to take enre of the thousands of children not in school." That argument is worthless, unless we aro willing to admit that the w hite people of tho Stato are actually unable to take care of their children. I.et some outside philanthrophist oiler to aid South Carolina in matters educational, then you got an answer to that question. Will the school houses over be build <>r the teachers employed until there is a need for them? Would it be wise for a farmer to let a $f>0< -crop waste in the fields rather than build a $100-house in which to store it? The last argument of the opponents to compulsory attendance is that it can not bo enforced without truant ollicers, and that truant ollicers must be paid. Certainly. The present child labor law of this Stato is a dead letter, because no adequate provision is made for its enforcement. And the police of Charleston, Columbia and other places have to be paid, but it pays to pay them. We are perfectly willing to pay an officer of the law to arrest little negro boys in a 10-cent erap|game, but it is too much to pay an officer of tho law to see that a la/.y selfish father sends his child to school. We aro paying today in actual . luiiuy every yearnve times as much in tribute to the industrial supremacy of New Kngland and other sections as it would cost us to put every while child in the State in school for six months in the year! What economists we are! And what philosophers wo try to be! William II. Hand. University of South Carolina. Advertised Letters. Charlotte Osbrooks, L. J. It. Davis, Minnie Taylor, Willie and Delia Cunningham, Robert Clinton, Renor Crane, Rachel Cauthen, Maggie Crockett, J'atsey Crawford, Delce Bask in, Maiiur Basler, Allan McFarland, Carrie llowdard, Roslin Colgore, Stephen Davis, Joe Anna Davis, t'harety Kdwards, Matt Klio, S. J. Gilyard, Kthel Hill, Cora Cunningham. Carrie Iso.ell, William and Jannic Iserell, Sue Jakus, Allen Knight, Henry l.owrey. W. C. Li\ington, Robert Massey, l.oeinder Massey, Lewis Massey, Asker McMurray, Tom Kayfield, Andrew McDonald, Clair Macky, Dclphnne l'revard, Marthey Robert, T. D. Robinson, Kmmors it<>8K, William Richardson, .lames ltrown, Kauee Shohone, M. Vinayar, II. M. Williams, Laura White, Charlie Wright, Aner Watson, I,. A. Adams, M. Alexander, Jordan Clifton, Mary Itradlcy, Jack Brown, Bob Uamble, Minie llinson, Minnie Uolshoser, Clint King, W. II. Ilornsby, Mahell Nighion, Minie Hader. J. P. Hunter, Postmaster. turns, bruises and scratches, big and ittle ents or in fact anything requiring salve, are best and quickest soot lied and ended by DeWitt'a Carboliz- t Wit h llaI ~alve. The best salve f r 'dies He I i.o yon g"t DeUitt's rtobl by J P.I t ackey A Co. w-a J ^STER MEWS, OCTOBER Indigestion Stumteb trouble l? but symptom of. and not lit lt?ell ii tret d i ? \V.? think of DyspepMs 'Teuitbttro. uml indigestion os real dlsoases, r?t 1 v nr? symptoms only of a certain specific mm ve sickness?nothing else. I', was th's fnct thut first correctly led W Slmop . ihe c.-ca.ou of that now very popular 8ton >cn m i\ -Dr. fihoop's Rostorattye Going direct tini stomach nerves, alone brought that success I ' LVOT to Dr. Slioop and his Restorative Wills out t he t original ana highly vital principle, tio inch lasting accomplishments wore ever to be iiadL r"or stomach distress, bloating, biliousness, had ' rr.ah ami sallow complexion, try t)r Slioop's -tonitlve?Tablets or Liquid?and mh> for sour. ' what it can and will do. Wo aoll anil cbeca iuti > rocouniiond Dr. Shtoop's Restorative FUNDERBURK PHARMACY. Program of the Moriah Union 4 Ol. * AV/ti XTXV?V/lllig ctl A. iCdbdrit Plains Baptist Church Nov. 27, 28, 29, 1908. 1. Introductory sermon by I'ev. Jabe/. Ferris. 2. Meet at 10:30 Devotional exercises ami < >rgaui/.ation. 3 The carrying of our religion into our business and ??iir business into our religion: 14. I,. Mobloy, W. c. Adams, T. Ilardin, It. K. Small, Dr. Itieo. I. Delation of each church to the associationaljuid general benevolent work: Dr K, Itraisington. V. A. I.ingle. T. A. Dabney, K. < >. Thompson, l>. A. Williams. .j. Young People's Work: W. L, Croxton. C. T. Ilardin. J. II. lioldridgu, It. K. Small, It. T. Dlaekinon. ?!. ltom. 14:21: "It is good not to eat llesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth;" ami its place in the life of the Christian: J. II. Itlodridgc.J. D. Caston, (l. W. Fills, T. A. Dabtiey, .labc/. Ferris. 7. Sunday school meeting. Sermon by Dr. It ice. Married Man In Trouble. A married man who pcrmi's any memb r of the family to take anythii g ? xoopt Fo'ev s liouey and 'lar. f<>r coughs, colds and long trouble, is gniity of negkct. Nothing else is as good tor all pulmonary troubles The genuine Foley's lloney and Tai contains no opiates and is in i yellow package. s Negro Accidentally Killed by a Drummer Marion special in the Columbia iSt ?ie: ii.S Hancock of Bishop v:ile accidentally shot and killed Wal er Grica about 8 o'clock last night the livery Huble of G E Evans in Marion. Mr Hancock is the traveling representative o> t ie Southwestern Publishing company of Naniiyille alio is a \oung man of about 27 oi 28 years ot age. Waller Grice wa* a negro boy about 20 >ears old and worked a - a h *nd at dr. livery stable of Mr. Ev?ns. The killing wa-1 unquestionably accidental and occurred accord ing to alt the eve witnesses, sunstantially a- follows: Mr. Hancock was showing a ?matl^22caltbre rifle to a person who was about to buy it. He was showing the prospective purchase! how to throw out the cartridge and how to loud i' and while do ing so Walter Grim, unnoticed by Mr Hancock, walked in front of the rifle, which accidentally went off at that time, lotting Walter Giice in the eye. Fatal Flay With Gun. Wrightsvil'e, Ga., Oct. 28.? ; Tlnimao Dail<-\, eMes' a ??1 ol Rev T. W. D?rey, died he>e o ({ay from a wound iu ihe ugh lempie aus1 ??ii?? d by Iacci 'ental discharge \est- iday ol a tun , w11>? which he was plaving. T e acc <1hmi < ccurtod al 'lie ies dm of Lion. I{. .1. Row >n< , w " whose hoys young Dariey was plu> ing the time. a ? Kennedy'H axntivo tough M nip i? t.M-d lowly everywhere. I?. cuiiae it o' only Inula irritation of the throat hi I atop- the cough, hut it driven the cold out of tin ayatcin tbron it- laxative principle lo a.inn-ing t free and gentle notion .| 11> how-da and th ' in I'm- otil\ wm In cut-m cold. Yoll c 'i (-Ufo it hn I g m >111 ere ?onatipnio-l I ni-t upon K nrie v (onativ.i Cough .Syrup. Sold l?> I F. 1 Munkey * Co w a 31. I ?o8 JL JL f LA' 1/ - J-? V-TTT | Ihtit .t | Doesn't I go **p I Ihe Flue 8 You receivf intense, direct I I from every ounce ol fuel burnet there are no damp chimneys or 1 pipes to waste the heat from a i PERFECTION 0 (Equipped with Sm< jg Carry it from room to room. Turn or low?no bother?no smoke?no si smokeless device prevents. Brass fon jp; burns 9 hours. Beautifully linishe< japan. Every heater warranted. 1 Thc^^> Lamp just what you w ?*' evenings. Made ol brass, nickel phi . proved central draft burner. Every I _ If your dealer cannot supply the Heater or Rayo Lamp write our neai Jtjy. STAMtAKI) OH, COM (Incorporutcd) ^lirni miw i iiiiwi iiiium in 1'imni "new g LdO\^ Frit Our stock is now com pit prices on a basis with low 0<1^0<rz>00<cir>00?c=^0<ci^(><=z=>0 * 0< We quote a few items tc 2000 yds 3-4 sheeting 1500 yds (5c plaids 1000 yds 10c outing 12000 yds T 1-2 outing 2000 yds yard-wide sheeting . .. 500 yds red wool flannel, a barga We have some jobs in men's sui 24 men's $7.50 suits at 24 men's $10.00 suits at Nice line overcoats and rain coat 50 prs 1 4 wool blankets, worth < go at 25 doz 50c. overalls, double-knee, 100 doz men's 50c underwear, to We are headquarters for shoes, Men's fine shoes from Don't fail to get a pair of our ery pair guaranteed. I r\ iv 1 ' kjut une or uress goods is com the best. Come to see us an Yours to i Funderburk Selection of candy Is frcncrally try inn on th reputations of the different brands, the iup< SB loaves no room for doubt, or even for hem to S9H pure, and the care (riven each individual pioc 'n * can(,y as attractive aa it is wholesome. ||B 3 Manufactured by LITTLEFJELD <t DR. DOUGLAS McINTYRE DENT A I. HVKUKUN Tl Ollloe over Heat h-Jnnea ?'o.'s Store. LANCASTER, N. C. | ?ei 3 [01 af s $ i 7> r0?7"<>;f o -? 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