Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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wAZHA YOUNGSTERS ARE PILING UP M0N2! Saving* Societies In Schools Making Excellent Progress.?Splendid Support Given United 8tates Trsasury Department From the small folks learning to; spell "cat" In the primary grade* up', to the big boys and girls who take Latin and algebra, South Carolina school children hare been adding a mow siuay 10 laeir iibi; uiu mey b?u winning honors in it. Th?ir new work i* the study of the subject of thrift, taught in connection with the Tnt Books Of Thrift" which are eat to all the teachers desiring them ?y the War Loan Organization of the i Fifth Federal Reserve District, a( Richmond, Va. But South Carolina boys and girls tkx their patriotic work and in leara> tag how to save and get ahead are go> teg the teaching of thrift one better. Already In the schools of the Pal? metto State many sayings soctette* and thrift clubs hare been organized, and the children not onljr In South Carolina hut all over the district are, busy earning money and buying use* Cal things with it or Investing It is Thrift Stamps and War Sayings tamps. Money put in War Sayings tamps bears interest at the rate ol 4 par eent, compounded quarterly, and grows rapidly. Laid Money Aside. A lad in one of the schools tm this district has laid the foundation of a prosperous career by plowing and fcyi sailing yegetable3. When all the work was done he counted up the money he had put in bank and found i that it amounted to twenty-fly* dol-! fere. Many of the world's richest men j began life on less than twenty-five ; dollars. But they saved their money aegularly nad invested it wisely, thus assuring success. The teacher in one of the S-A: Crudes has reported that one of hec < yopOs hat earned no less than twenty : dollars by helping around the house, : while members of a savings society that flourishes in a 1-A grade have stda about twenty-five dollars doing ODC& odd Jobs as feeding the chick' . mam, tying tobacco and chopping grass. < Several boy> who are members ol nrkool earing societies which ar? ^ *rtfenlarlv actire have bouehl otothei with money earned in aimilaii wyt. One little fellow did s? wellj 9s!pfng his father that he was poid ifcrn dollars. As he received th? J MBMj he bought Thrift Stamps show that he already knew how to sav? mat Unrest what he made. Help Them Save. Popular among these small invest ara are the Penny and Wlckle Savings Books issued by Uncle Sam to all, aefeool pupils desiring them. In th< days when, to mafiy tots, the prici! of even a Thrift Stamp may be toe Stage to be paid all at once, and whai jos Just must buy an occasional all, lay sucker or a cent-apiece bite ol sandy, lots of youngestera find it win! to save a penny or a nickle at a time, j The coin is deposited with the teach! ar for safe keeping, and she stampi J tfce savings card to show how much. child has put in his account; When the total is large enough, it ?o? into the purchase of a Thrift1, **mp. j. Piling up money of your own is a .... ? ?ki. ' T yuav gauiu, piovcu iu iuio aoouxvu, 1 ad a- game that is daily growing in s ftnror in South Carolina schools. I r UP YOUR DOLLARS SO THAT i NO ONE CAN KNOCK |t THEM DOWN. Amy a tired Tad has slipped fall wmt on when the whistle blew and derisively: "Another day, anothei 1 dtoHar. million days, a millionaire." ( c Ar Has aafd a mouthful In bitter jeet i without knowing it. For the dot f Hot do pfTe np if the stack Is not t DmcHA orer. financial sharpshooter Is ai ' gmratag l9r your dollar*. They t flek: them off at a mile like A? f Qaktfcy cracking clay pipes la s l ifike canerr. But If you eat soma : mt jaar dollars udtr corer befon ! mm. can draw a bead on then, JOBJ lievee a.- illn score for tbe proO* 1 tear off tftr grafter. t The safest protection from thoM dupkMtin li War Savinrs Stamp* innir rrery pay-day. If you fire laeia juiir whole roll to ahoot at they wCB Kit It for a perfect acore. Make 1 Cham waste a little ammunition. War Strings Stamps art absolutely ft. Tk?r pay a high rata of inter eat cadi jom can get jour money IN ITJLL v&ia you nca* It. When they gOe up, nobody can knock the ataoH PR0VERB8. Ihou a man dilligent in hlfl business, he shall not stand befort kings, he shall not stand befors maan pen. Prov. 22:29. It is the aural support of capital back of him Wat gives the diMgent man dignity fie the presence of the king. Buy w. sl a He also that Is slothful in hia work ib brother to him that Is a great waster. Prov. 18:9. In fact, the slothful nan is not only brother to the waster, he is IT. Put what might te waste into W. 3. 8. GIVES COMPARISON OF SCHOOL GROWTH Columbia, Jan. 4.?In a compari son of the number of schools for 1913-14, 1918-19 and 1919-20 some significant tendencies are indicated and emphasized. Five years ago, ac-j cording to the state superintendent of education, the number of white schools reporting was 2,556. Of these 1,701 were one teachers, 150 fao/iViave and 9MR mnrp than HUCt l/tuvuv,! ??-? three teachers. Four years later the number of schools reporting was 2,325. Of these 1,145 had one teach er, 588 two teachers, 285 three teachers and 307 more than three teachers. Record of Five Years. Within the five years the net re duction in the number of white schools was 224. Consolidation was brought about in every case. During the same five years the number of one teacher schools decreased by 693. The reason for this improvement, according to Mr. Swearingen, is due in part to the increase in population and partly to the prosperity of the last four years. White enrollment for 1920 showed 50,768 more than in 1914. This is one of the most sig r.ficant accomplishments of the year. The corresponding figures for ne-l gro schools are equally suggestive] and interestingj The report for 1914) showed negro schools as follows: One] teacher, 2,284; two teachers, 118; three teachers, 30, and more than | three teachers 42. Four years later [ the report for 1919 showed the ne-j gro schools as follows: One teacher, i 2,120; two teachers, 157; three j teachers, 26; more than three teach-' ers, 59. The report for this yearl gives the number of one teacher! schools, 2,144; two teachers, 44;' more than three teachers, 70. Within five years the negro en-'j rollment has increased from 203,372 i to 251,908, a^gain of 48,536. The compulsory attendance law brought j into the schools last year 53,335 j more negro children than were en-| rolled the year before. Mr. Swearingen says that the | ivork in the most progressive districts favors one school for whites and one J school for negroes. In populous cen-j ters this number must be increased' to meet local needs. In a few coun-| ties there is an agitation about re-i iucing the minimum area of school j districts. Spartanburg has demanded' six square miles and Greenville advo-j ?ates one square mile. According to i Mr. Swearingen, the adoption of this policy will disintegrate and disrupt ;he schools. There is an inescapable" relation between wealth, taxation md education. Limited areas with ow tax values are now hard pressed :o maintain efficient schools. Existing aws provide no definition of a school J tfo minimum enrollment of attend-1 ince is required. Some of these dis-J ;ricts with a low white enrollment i efuse absolutely to vote a local j ;chool tax. A number of such com- j nunities pay only a nominal levy, j units 1 oo omau The district is the unit of school j axation, state aid, school enrollment i' md school administration. According j o Mr. Swearingen, this unit is too 1 mall. Separate schools within this j mit now depend solely upon the dis retion of local trustees. Mr. Swear- 1 ngen thinks that it would be better or the schools if existing restric ions and limitations on district I ireas could be strengthened rather han weakened. A school enrolling ewer than ten pupils is an expensive uxury. Such schools are decreasing n number, but they could be proper y prohibited except when specifical y authorized by the state board of sducation, says Mr. Swearingen. DISOWNED HIM rrom the Houston Post. Kitty, 4 years old, had been! laughty and her father had to ad ninister Vigorous correction before joing to business. That an impression had been made] was apparent when, on his return! from business in the evening, Kitty i 11-J ?. rirtlifo_ ! _aiieu up-suiii3 wibu jiugiu puxtw i ness: "Mother, your husband's home." GEN. WOOD TO PLACE STONE The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association will be in charge next Thursday of the laying of the cor nerstone of Roosevelt House, which is to be built on the site of Theo dore Roosevelt's birthplace at 25 East Twentieth Street. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will set the stone in place and deliver an address.?New York Herald. the restraint that good taste put upon a well-bred alien pen: "I see plainly that America can de fend herself If proper measures are* taken; but I begin to fear that she may be lost by herself and her own sons." And Washington, with his never falling courage and with a cheerful ness he could not have felt, replied: "We must not, In so great a contest, expect nothing but sunshine. I have no doubt that everything happens for | the best, that we shall triumph over our misfortunes, and in the end be < happy; and then, my dear marquis, If you will give me your company In Virginia, we will laugh at our past difficulties and the folly' of others." So wrote the man who, In dead of winter, commanded an army without a quartermaster .general, for that creature of congress had ceased to 1 function the previous summer. Con' gress, calmly aware of Washington's ; Inevitable plight, appointed no succes- ( sor till March of the following year, when, no thanks to the politicians, the exertions of Nathaniel Greene. Robert Morris and "Mad Anthony" Wayne? j the fearless leader who said he would . rather go Into battle than witness the sufferings of the men In his camp? J supplied cattle and clothing and 1 brought the starving command back to life. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, nephew and biographer of Lord Macaulay, In his brilliant and -sympathetic history of our war for Independence, says that this village In the Pennsylvania hills "gave a name''to what, as time goes on, bids fair-to be the most cele brated encampment In the world's his tory." i On a bare hillside, surrounded by ] open fields, and miles from any con- ^ slderable settlement, stands, almost ^ completed, an exquisite little gray uouiic cnapei. xc is not a village church but a national Valhalla. It Is < an edifice of unusual beauty. Pennies i of school children, patriotic societies and descendants of colonial families? ! all had a part In building it. It is ded- 1 Icated to the memory of Washington < and of those who suffered with him j on the hills and in the fields round < about?Saturday Evening Post. NEW ANAESTHETIC HAS LONG NAME Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 4?It has remained for surgeons to deaden pain with fcrty-seven letters of the alphabet. These letters form the word, "para-amino-benzoyldie-thyla mino-ethanol hydrochloride." This is a new anaesthetic, better known as pro-cain or novo-cain, which possess es all the pain deadening but none of the habit forming qualities of co caine. It was discovered in Germany ear ly in the present century, but did not come into common usage until early in the war. Physicians of the Uni versity of Virginia Hospital were a mong the first to introduce the drug into this country, and for the past few years it has been used extensive ly 111 tnis institution lur upeiauuna upon the eye, ear, nose and throat, and for major operations. Some of its unusual properties were described today by Dr. J. N. Waddell. "The fact that novo-cain is fifteen times less poisonous, or toric, than cocaine, makes it more desirable as a local anaesthetic," he said. It is a synthetic benezine derivative, non irritating in character, and quanti ties as high as seven and one-half grains may be administered without .harmful effects. It superinduces no exhiliration after being absorbed by the blood. Its after effects are practically nil. In operations where SCALED TINS ONLY AT YOUR GROCERS MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GRADING COTTON Clemson College.?Cotton appears to be the only commodity which is treated with the tenderest of care in its growing stage and after being gathered is sold without the produc er familiarizing himself with the' value, says E. G. Parker, Specialist in Cotton Grading for the Extension Service of Clemson College and the United States Bureau of Markets. Certainly he should be as careful as the cotton mill, and the mill would not make an offer for a bale until it had ascertained the grade and length of staple. And the farmer should cer tainly be as careful with the raw tyi nforiol oc mill ?o itfifVi if c luaitnoi biic lAiiii id wiui ivo Alii ished product. When the mill offers its' goods whether yarn or cloth it states the character of yarn or cloth it is offering and sells to the highest bidder in any market; or when it stores yarn or cloth it certainly keeps a record of the number and character of the yarn and the grade and description of the cloth. I No farmer would fail to have his cotton graded were he to hear half the reports which daily come to the attention of the government cotton graders to the effect that farmers have been offered from $5 to $25 per bale more after having their cotton graded by a government grader. It certainly appears to be both a foolish and an unbusinesslike policy for the farmer to sell or store his ?ouon wunoui naving it graaea Dy a United States government grader and ascertaining the value. If he wishes to sell he is not dependent upon one buyer or one market but lan offer intelligently to any buyer anywhere; and should he wish to store, in case of fire he has a list af the government grader's class and j would encounter no difficulty 'so far i as the grade was concerned in col-! [ecting from the insurance com panies. Then again, if he wishes! to borrow money on his cotton re ceipts he will find it much easier to obtain when the bank realizes that ;he cotton has been graded Jby a| government cotton 'grader. In some | ocalities banks have refused loan!>| except where cotton has been soj jraded as they realize that the grad -[ ;r is thoroughly experienced and ab solutely impartial. CROWTHER-FERGUSON Miss Erin Crowther, of Antreville, vho has been teaching school in the ower part of the state this year and tfr. Fred L. Ferguson, a. prosperous -oung farmer of Antreville were j narried Sunday at the home of Mr. j md Mrs. E. H. Holliday, near Iva. ! The young couple left; for Ander-1 j on after Rev. W. A. Duckworth had j inished the ceremony and from An-| lerson- they departed on their wed iing trip. They will be away for bout ten days, after which they /ill be at home at the home of Mr. 'erguson at Antreville.?Daily Mail. arge areas have to be injected with local anaesthetic to block off pain mprussions from the brain, doctors .re always fearful of using a great j juantity of cocaine on account ofi ts harmful effects upon the heart ,nd respiration." By a Cons NOTICE! After January 1we will sell]'for CASH ONLY AT A SMALL PROFIT Please do not ask us to charge anything, as it will save embarass ment for both of us E. F. ARNOLD B Increase ?k Yield of Farm Crops Corn, cotton, truck, barley, wheat, pats?these, and all other crops will pay well if a little attention is given to the proper fertilizer for your soil. Planters Fertilizers are especially suited to the needs of Southern soils, You cannot raise a 100 fo crop unless you have a 100 % ?oil. _ Fertility i* largely a matter of balanced conditions of the soil. Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and Potash must be present in the proper proportions if bumper crops are to be raised. MlftlTPDC PTDTIII7PP . a LMIJIUWI UIIIULU1 DOUBLES YOUR YIELD because It contains available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia and Potash in tS? tight proportions. Every bag is stamped with our Giant Lizard Trade-Mark. Look for it?it** for your protection, and better place your order for Planter's right now and avoid delayed delivery. x Ask our agent in your town for information, free advice, or prices, ar mite us direct. Planters Fertilizer & Phosphate Co. V MANUFACTURERS J CHARLESTON. SOUTH CAROLINA A tant Study of Details? Always with an eye to improvement The Planters Bank has built a service so well organized and systematized that it can be depended upon to function with the accuracy and precision of a smooin ly running machine. New accounts are cordially invited. T\1 n i rlanters Dank "The Friendly Bank" ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Home of Over 1000 Bank Accounts.