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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1920
THE COUNTRY'S SHAME.
\. In Washington just now an Investigation
is under way seeking to ascertain
means and methods which
have been used, and are being used
to secure nominations for president
by the two great parties of the coun
try. So far the investigation has.
elicited the information that stupen-l
duous sums of money have been con-!
tributed and expended in the interests
of many candidates seeking)
these nominations, especially in the!
republican party. These sums have
been contributed and expended in
the primaries in the various states in
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an effort to round up delegates to(
the conventions soon to be held. Aj
half million dollars has been spent in
. behalf of Governor Lowden's candi-j
dacy, and more than a million dollars
has been accounted for as having
leen spent in, a 1 effort to secure the
nomination of General Leonard
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Wood, and more is yet to be reportJ
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Concerning this vast outlay of
m?ney, The Sun and New York Her
aid pertiently says:
"The testimony taken by the Sen j
ate committee now investigating the
matter of, preliminary campaign ex j
penditure has astounded the country
There is more to come. The revelation
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of methods and the disclosure of figures
limed up after the mighty dollar
mark are only partial so far. Fortunofolv
tx7o a to now cpttinc. in advance
of the meeting of the supreme councils
of the two great parties, an in-(
structive, exhibit of the folly and futility
of a system which results in|
< substituting for the open convention
a subterranean campaign, or sets of
campaigns, contrived to forestall the
action of the convention and con-'
ducted with a secret pecuniary out-J
lay for promotion, in the false name|
of 'publicity,' on a scale thai would
bave staggered the audacity of the
boldest and most reckless manipula-j
tor of the franchise in the old days
of fat frying and blocks of five."
To this we may add that nothing,
in all the political history of the'republic,
has been revealed which is
more discreditable Jo the country,'
not even excepting the exploits of the
republican party in the days of Mark
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Hanna. The candidates of the demoi
cratic party are less reprehensible,
perhaps, because they have not been
able to command the enormous sums
of money spent by candidates in the
\ primaries of the other party.
In these, latter days we have forsaken
representative government in
this country. We have heard preach-1
ments from reformers here and there
of the rights -of the people to manage
their own affairs, and the primary
* system has been held up to us as a'
remedy for the ills of past political
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performances. But the shameful expenditure
of money to secure politi-J
cal preferment in tht> primaries has
not bebn creditable to either the system,
nor to the people who do the
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voting. People will question whether
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vr nut me [jiimary nas nui, uccn uiaue
the means of a gigantic corruption of
the electorate of the country. Certainly
no such flagrant crimes against
decency were ever committed in the
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" old days when the people spoke thru
their representatives.
The primary will have its proper
field of usefulness. In the selection
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of many local officers it is of invaluable
service to the community. But
may we not suggest that in the selection
of the publrc servants of
large political divisions, and of the
country itself, it has "been, or may
be, the favorite fighting ground of|
the unprincipled corruptionlst, as
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well as of the most unprincipled
demagogue. Unless tiiere be a change
let us hope that the day of the primary
is passing, ancf that we may
look again to a government by officers
selected by representatives of the
people?representatives who cannot
be bought, and who look more to the
country's welfare.
No m^n who has spent a million
dollars to secure a nomination for
[ resident should expect to be nominated.
If he were the money spent
should, and will, we believe^ prove j
his political damnation. His end is inj
sight.
Concluding its article, The Sunj
and New York Herald has this to
say:. . j
"A very serious reflection must
occur to those admirers and support-j
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noting and deploring the effect oft,
these revelations upon his chances
for the nomination. Even as practical
politicians they must be impelled by
the testimony before the Senate com-1
mittee to contrast the present stiua-j
tion with that which would have ob-j
tained had his name gone before an J
open convention signifying nothing^
more than a dark horse possibility,
upon whose promotion not a dollar?
to say nothing of hundreds of thous-j,
ands or millions of dollars?had pre-(
viously been spent for 'publicity' and
'educational work.'
"The Sun and New York Herald
can recall no evidence of such pre-]
liminary expenditure in the Presi-,
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ueriuai yeai iui cAtwupic, wucu
Republican convention produced
Abraham Lincoln as its candidate."
CONTINUE YOUR EDUCATION. !
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Since Horace Greeley uttered his
famous command to the young men
of his day to go West has the urgent
command and demand, "Continue'
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your education" been as full of real
significance as todayy
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This is the graduating season and
all of our colleges are turning out
scores of young men and women
whose diplomas are more priceless
for what they represent than ever be-'
fore. Figured from every standpoint,'
estimated from every angle, and
measured by every scale, a college
education today means more finan-J
cially than in all years past. ,
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Even this great government of
ours realizes the worth Of an educat-j
ed citizen to such an extent that the
Treasurv DpDartment is dailv issuinc
propaganda in the form of bulletins'
and pamphlets on "A College. Educa-J.
tion, Its Importance and How to Finance
It." One of the latest of these
bulletins is filled with extracts from
"Does It Pay," a little pamphlet
which is the work of Dr. Reed Smith,'!
professor of English at the Univer-'<
sity of South Carolina. . |'
"The richest and most powerful
nations," says Dr. Smith, "are those '
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with the best school systems, and .
they have not established school sys- ,
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tems because they are rich and powerful,
but they are wch and power-j j
ful because they have established ]
good school systems. Wherever there':
is adequate provision for education,'!
there are found successful govern-J'
ments, great industrial efficiency, and '
large national wealth.
In the United States the earning
capacity of the different States is in
direct proportion to the efficiency of
their school systems. If the forty-],
eight States are arranged, first, in';
the ascending order of individual <
earning capacity and, second, in the|:
ascending order of the efficiency of^
the school systems, trie two lists
would be found to coincide with'1
startling exactness."
All professions, with the exception
of school teaching, are more !ucrative'
than non-professional occupations.
It is our belief that once there is a
standardization of the teaching profession
so that the profession will be,'
placed upon a high plane and the-mis-,
fits weeded out, and the leaders of
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education see that none but real
teachers are put into the school
rooms, the school teacher will be-i
come a laborer worthy of his hire and
the people will ? demand that the'
teacher be paid, not only a living
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salary, but a salary that will permi^
him to lay up a surplus against the
inevitable rainy day.
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A recent research made into the
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records of the New York Bridge department
reveals the fact that the
annual salary of an employee holding
a position demanding only reading,
writing and arithmetic, Is $982.
In positions demanding high school
commercial courses the annual salary
is $1729, while the employee filling
a position requiring a college or:
technical education is receiving a
yearly salary of $2400. These figures
are of course the average salaries
and the maximum in each of the three'
classes will run much higher.
Another research into tho earning
capacity of uneducated laborers and
high school graduates proves conclusively
that every day spent in
a high school pays the pupil $9.02
The child that stays out of school to
earn less than nine dollars a day is
losing money, not making money, yet
some paryents think because Johnny
can make $1.50 or $2.00 a day, he
should be denied the right to a high
school education, so Johnny is permitted
or worse, encouraged to stop
school and go to work.
The head of the Randolph-Macon
system analyzed "Who's Who in
America" for the years 1899 and
1900, studying the careers of the
8000 people sketched in these two
volumes. He discovered that the average
citizen with a high school education
had more than 20 times as
good chance to attain distinguished
prominence as one who stopped with
an elementary school course; and he
who went to college or university
had over nine times the chance of the
high school man, or more than 200
times the chance of those trained in
the elemental^ school, and 800 times
the chance of those who had no regular
school training at all.
While any one of these studies
may not be conclusive, yei when all
of them point so clearly and without
exception to the greatly superior
earning power of the educated, the
conclusion is irresistible. There un*
doubtedly exists a close casual connection
between education and
wealth. It is a fundamental law of
men and nations that earning capacity
is based on education. Knowledge
is now not merely power; it -is
money.
CAMPAIGN DATES
ARE ANNOUNCED
Itinerary of State Candidates Open
In Columbia And Congressional
At Sumter June 22
Columbia, June 1.?The campaign
itinernaryr for candidates of
afflto officers as follows:
June 22, Columbia; June 23,
Lexington; June 24, Saluda; June
25, Edgefield; June 26, Aiken;
June 28, Barnwell; June 29; Allendale;
June 30, Hampton^ July 1,
Beaufort; July 2, Ridgeland; July
3, Walterboro; July 5, Charleston;
July 6, St. George; July 7, Bamburg;
July 8, Orangeburg; July 9,
St. Matthews; July 10, Sumter.
Rest eight days. July 21, Georgetown;
July 22, Kingstree; July 23,
Florence; July 24, Marion; July
26, onway; July 27, Dillon;* July
28, Bennetsville; July 29, Chesterfield;
July 31, Darlington. Rest
eight days. August 9, Camden;
August 10, Lancaster; August 11,
York; August 42, Chester; August
13, Wirinsboro; August 14, Union;
August 16, Spartanburg; ^August
17, Gaffney; August 18, Greenville;
August 19, Pickens; August
20, Walhalla; August 21, Anderson;
August 23, Abbeville; August
25. MeCormick: August 26, Lau
Greenville.
Week of July 12, Anderson, Abbeville,
McCormick, Greenwood,
Laurens, Newberry.
Eight days rest.
Week of July 26, Lexington, Saluda,
Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell,
Allendale.
Week of August 2, Hampton,
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CONFEREES AGREE ON .
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
Washington, June 1.?Senate and
House conferees today agreed on the
sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying
approximately $428,000,000. The
Senate amendment granting the.
treasury department $1,500,000 for
the guarding of liquors in bonded and:
other warehouses was reduced to $1,000,000.
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The item providing for the extension
of authority of loans to rail-'
roads from the railroad revolving
fund from five to fifteen years,1
placed in the bill by the Senate, remains.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE
PROBATE COURT.
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Citation for Leters of Administration
By J. F. Miller, Esq., Judge of Probate:
WHEREAS, Fleming Rapley hath J
made suit to me, to grant him Letters'
of Administration of the estate and'
effects of Nellie Green, late of Abbe-'
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ville County, deceased. ;
These are therefore, to cite and|
admonish all and singular the kindred
a.-ul creditors of the said Nellie'"
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rens; August 27, Newberry.
The campaign for congressional
and senatorial aspirants with a
meeting in each county seat each
clay, covering eight weeks of campaigning,
shows the following rout
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Week of June 22, Sumter, Bishopville,
Darlington, Bennetsvifre,
Chesterfield. j
June 28, Camden, Lancaster,
York, Chester, Winnsboro, Columbia.
Week of July ">, Spartanburg,
Union. Gaffnev, Walhalla, Pickens,
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year of our Lord one thousand ninei
hundred and twenty and in. the 144th.
year of American Independemce.
Published on the 2nd day of June
1920 in the Press and Banner aad on:
the Court House door for the time i
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