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~-?? : : " EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1920_ No- 86 JOHNSTON LETTER. Methodist Pastor Remains at Johnston, People Greatly Pieased. Community Sing Planned. The fact that Rev. David Kellar will again he pastor of the Metho dist church has been learned with a great deal of pleasure, not only by his own flock, but the other denomi nations as well, a sweet Christian fel . lowship existing among the denomi nations here. Rev. Kellar and his wife are held in love and esteem by all who wish that his pastoral could be indefinite here. On Thanksgiving evening a big Community Sing will again be held, and Rev. David Kellar will conduct it. , Everyone recalls what a happy evening was spent last year, and all are most cordially invited to come again, bring a song book and come prepared to have your favorite song sung for you. The songs will be bright, and jolly, ballads, love songs, patriotic and religious just as they are called for. There will be instru mental music as well. All over the United States these community sings are being held, for the sake of mu sic and also to produce the happy, get-together spirit. Everybody corre and bring a song book. Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Wright are spending a few days in the home of the former's sister. Mr. Wright has just returned from Charlotte, N. C., where he went to perform the mar riage ceremony of Mr. Jule Wright to Miss Kruger of that place. Miss Rosa Stewart and Mr. Miller were married here at the home of the bride on Saturday by Rev. W. S. Brooke. The happy affair was wit nessed only by the family. After congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Miller went to their home near here. - The friends of Mr- Wallace Wright regret to learn of the accident he has had. Last Ft-iday while riding his horse, it became frightened and threw him, and before he could arise ; the horse fell and struck him, the weight of the horse giving him pain ful injuries. It was feared at first that-he was in a- critical : state, but his condition irow^s^er^f?vbr?b??,'1 and it is hoped that he will not have to be upon a bed of sickness so long. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Holmes are now domiciled in the home they re cently ?purchased from Mrs. Alice Cox on West Calhoun street. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dobey have moved to the dwelling of Mrs. Kate Crouch. / Mesdames W. J. Hatcher and S. J. Watson attended the State Baptist W. M. U., in Charleston during the past week. Mrs. Cassells of Ellenton, is the guest of her son, Mr. W. P. Cassells. Mr. Leland Chester who has re cently arrived from a sanitorium in North Carolina stood the trip here and his condition appears favorable. He is at the home of Mr. Will Wright where his family is staying. . Mrs. James White has been sick during the past week but is now able to be out. . Mr. Alvin Wright visited here re cently in the home of Mr Joe Wright. Mrs. Dorn of Spartanburg is visit ing her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Dobey. Dr. C. F. Strother is now able to be out again after his recent acci dent from the injuries sustained by being struck by a freight car. His friends are delighted that he was not confined to his room any longer. Mesdames T. R. Hoyt and W. S. Brooke were hostesses for the music club on Wednesday afternoon, and a very pleasant time was spent by the. 25 members. During business the chief point was the big community sing to be held here Thanksgiving evening. A committee was appointed to make plans for this, getting it well advertised. Song books will be purchased by the club. The committees on thrift, social welfare and other work had active reports. The subject for study was South ern Folk Song and a paper on the subject, piano and voice selections, gave a pleasing program. The hostess served an elaborate salad course- v. Mrs. M. T. Turner, State treasur er D. A. R., is at Anderson this week, the state conference being in ses sion there. Miss Zena Payne is also attending, representing the Emily Geiger chapter. Mrs. John Wright has gone to Bamberg to visit her friend, Mrs. John Owen. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Sawyer are happy over the arrival of a.fourth little daughter in their home. Miss Mae Tompkins has been the guest of Miss Orlena Cartledge. Mr. and Mrs. James Tompkins en tertained with a spend-the-day party on Tuesday, there being several rel atives present from Edgefield. Mrs. Frank Gibson and little son have taken rooms in the home of Miss Sue Sloan and will make their home here in the future. Mrs. Garlington, of Newberry, is the guest if her niece, Mrs. Earl Smith. . %_ . Mrs. iMamie Wright of Marion, ?pent a few days here last week in % * the home of her niece, Mrs. Wiley Derrick, also with Miss Clara Sawyer. Mrs. Julian Mobley has returned from the Baptist hospital where she has been under treatment. The little two year old baby girl of Mr, and Mrs. W. D. Berry was buried here at the Mt. of Olives cem etery on Wednesday afternoon. The little one had been sick only a short while and the death of the dear lit tle babe was a very touching one. Mrs. L. S. Maxwell entertained the young matrons' club on Thurs day afternoon in a very happy man ner, and all enjoyed the two hours in this hospitable home. Several games of rook were played and the prize was won by Mrs. J. Howard Payne. A salad course, fol lowed by ices was served. The last meeting of the W. C. T. U. was held on Friday afternoon with Mrs. Jesse Derrick, the meeting be ing conducted by Mrs. T. R. Den ny. The chief business was in the planning of a reception on Friday evening, December 3rd, in honor of I the new members and teachers of j the High School. Several committees were appointed. Several other busi ness matters were discussed, and lat er the program on the subject of the month was well carried out. Little Miss Lina Mobley celebrated her birthday on Thursday afternoon, and had a number of her friends to spend the afternoon with her. Many games were played andjWhile resting, all were invited in and enjoyed a feast of good things. Before depart ing another round of games was played. Many pretty gifts were re-1 ceived. N Lyceum Number Great Success j The first lyceum number of the season was presented in the school : auditorium on Wednesday evening. : Mr. Melton, the lyceum manager said ; that the audience w?s a splendid one, . not so much from a standpoint of , numbers but on account of the ap- -j preciatio)* and applause "manifested. 5 On the strength of the encourage- I ment given on this occasion, the Ly ceum will contine to send the course. ^ The next morning three ' of the 2 Lyceum artists went to the schpol \ and gave a concert for the benefit ^ ?of all the children,.which;-was a very- , magnarmrious thing to deland should jj be highly appreciated by the patrons j of the school. t It would be a lovely thing for 1 some one to do to buy a dozen or more season tickets and present them j to some one who is not able to pay c for their own seats. i -!- i Pounding for Edisto Academy, : To the Baptists of Edgefield Asso ciation : j The Aiken and Lexington and j Edgefield associations are to give a ( pounding to our child, the Edisto ^ Academy, this coming Thanksgiving. ( I am, as a trustee of that school, ask- ( ing that every Baptist in the Edge- j field association take a part in this ^ pounding'. The Horn's Creek and j Edgefield churches of which I am pas j tor are entering heartily and in a ? beautiful way into this plan. And they - will send tons rather than pounds. The plan with these two churches is to bring in two or three pounds of things like lard, sugar, cof- . fee, meal, potatoes, meat, syrup, J flour-anything that will be of help to this noble institution and their no ble teachers in meeting the expenses ?> for running the school. Worthy in- ? deed is the cause for which you are j asked to give this pounding. If all of ^ us could but go to Edisto and see the j great work that is being done with the 105 boys and girls who are there, . we would coiyit it all joy to give liberally in this pounding. In His name and for the great < cause of Christian education among ' our young people there, let us do our best. , j Let every church get together and select a home where they can take the stuff they give, and then pack it and ship it to Rev. W. H. Cannada, Edisto Academy, Seivern, S. C. ROBERT G. LEE. ] American Legion Post of Edge- < field Elects Officers. On November the 11th at 8 ! o'clock members of the American \ Legion Post of Edgefield county met ; for the purpose of celebrating the . Armistice and election of officers for j the following year. There was a good ? attendance, about seventy-five ex- [ service men being present. The meet ing took place in the American Le gion club rooms which have recently been opened. The Hon. James 0. Sheppard who was elected as the first 1 commander of the post called the ' meeting to order and stated that as : the term of th? present officers had : terminated that the post should elect officers for the approaching year. The officers elected were, Commander of the Post, Claude T. Burnett; Vice Commander, John Hollingsworth; Adjutant, Walter H. Mays; Secre tary and Treasurer, Harold Norris. After the new commander had as sumed office, a committee composed of Messrs. F. A. Adams, W. W. Adams, John Mirna and James 0. Sheppard were appointed to help l-ound up all ex-service men who had 9 Miss Florence Mims Visits the | Falls of Minnehaha. Dear Advertiser: The two cities'St. Paul and Minne apolis where I have recently visited, are know as the twin cities, bound ton gether as they are with huge bridges] crossing the Mississippi. On first thought, it 'would seem that no two places divided by the "Father of Waters" could be thought..) of as one, but the Mississippi, which f rises in Lake Itasca in northern .Mini.;! nesota, is but a tiny stream here in comparison, with its triumphal en-j trance into the Gulf of Mexico where j is spreads itself as though it werona.? great sea. To please myself, I have tried to find the derivation of the word Mi? neapolis. The derivation of St. Pa$ is self evident. Minnehaha means laughing water, so that the first half j of the name means water. Then the last half I believe, means city, for wc find it repeated in Indianapolis, and Metropolis. In this round about way \ I came to the conclusion that Minne-; apolis must mean "water city." Neither is this title inaproprosr fori Longfellow has immortalized i&f?m] his story of Hiawatha, the scene be ing laid at the Faljs of Minnehaha which are situated near the city. It gives one a peculiarly pleasing feeling to come upon such places, as "The Great Stone Face," "The Falls of Minnehaha" and the real "House of Seven Gables" which are SQ^gajp nected with famous literature. ' .: As I stood beside the falls, I re-| peated to myself the lines of the j poem in which Longfellow says the heroine of his story dwelt where^a&l "The falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak trees [ Laugh and leap into the valley."-; In the poem also, we learn that j Hiawatha took a long and tiresome j lourney from the Big Sea Water to the falls. I had always wondered, just [ what Big Sea Water there could'pos-j jibly be in. the middle west, bu some soul with an imagination and L knowledge of. geography says ie came from the shores of Lake Su perior, v - The paths to such, ? place as this ire never; moss grown, for the pl?ce ;hat is. dearest to a person next to ;he spot .where he has. lived and ex- . Derienced, is the place where otfr ' jeopreMiave'-liYod,^ &tt|f^?n3 ' n such a manner that they have wo ;heir way to the poet's hearty and ;hereby to the hearts of humanity. I think some of us would wither md stagnate romantically and poeti :ally were there not someone to lead is to the mountain tops and give us i vision through the rythm of poetry md the reality of famous spots of nterest. The falls of Minnehaha are not ?early so beautiful, nor do they leap 'rom such a dizzy precipice as many )thers but they have beating within ;hem the hearts of four people, the >ld Indiata woman, Nakomis, the An :ient Arrow Maker, Hiawatha and Viinnehaha. It is the appeal of na ;ure plus that of humanity that nakes many a tourist stand and lis ien to "what the wild waves are say ng." FLORENCE MIMS. Aurora, Minnesota. Nov. 6, 1920. Four Photographs Sent Over Wires. New York, Nov., 14-The New fork World tonight announced the ?uccessful transmission today of four motographs by wire between its of ice here and the office of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Two photographs, one of the Yale Princeton football game, and the oth >r an airplane view of New York. :ity, were sent from New York to 5t. Louis and a picture of an Indian mief and one of a Mississippi river steam boat were sent from St. Louis to The World office. The total time sf transmission fo one picture was sight minutes. In the method successfully tested today the photographs to be sent by wire were placed on a cylinder over which passed a needle, attached to a sending instrument. The vibrations af the needle transmitted by elec tricity, were reproduced in the re living instrument, which vibrates a tiny mirror. The ray of light re flected fr? m the rniarpr, played through a glass screen, graduated from capacity io transparency, al lowing th? light to pass in verying degrees of intensity upon a sensitized plate. FOR RENT: New five room house with bath room and large closets, doors and windows screened, rooms equipped with grates. Store house and garage, large space for garden, ample water supply. Good neighbor hood. Apply to T. B. GRENEKER, Edgefield S. C. not yet joined the Legion. The new commander of the post is a member of the bar at Edgefield and with the cooperation of the members is quite confident of a successful year for the post in this county. > After the election of officers, re freshments were served and a very successful evening was passed. State Superintendent of Edu cation Submits Budget. The state superintendent of edu cation has submitted to Governor Cooper, for consideration by the .budget commission, his recommenda daons and estimates for the public ?.schools during 1921. These recom mendations include 21 items amount ing to $2,095,650. P Each activity is specifically au thorized by statute, excepting only the work for adults and the work for the betterment of negro schools. These two items have been included ?in state appropriations during the last two years. The organization and direction of each activity have been placed directly upon the state superintedent of education, and an itemized report of expenditures and accomplishments is always included in the state superintendent's report to-the gener'al assembly. All state aid is based on local tax ation. During the last 12 months upward of 1,000 districts have voted local levies or have increased exist ing levies. The large increase in the lugh school appropriation and in the fequalizing appropriation is asked in order to cooperate with these local districts. ?During the scholastic year 1919 20..the legislature failed to make ap propriations for the operation and administration of four laws as fol lows: The act to relieve the over crowding in the elementary grades pf high schools; the act to establish a state board of examiners for teach ers; the act authorizing public school libraries; and the act to encourage work in agriculture and home econ omics. Three important appropria pbns proved absolutely inadequate. The'high school fund for paying the tuition of rural children in |state aided high schools was disbursed on the basis of 87 -cents on the dollar. The equalizing fund guaranteeing a Beven months' term and providing an avarage of $100 a month for teach ers' salaries was disbursed on the basis of 47 cents on the" dollar. The revival- 'pf building ' " ' activities : *ex- ; Hausted the state building fund early ! in September. A Equalizing districts as a rule , pay a local tax of 8 mills or more for . -arreni expenses.- :.- High- school- dis- ; ?wits' as a rule pity a. local tax -of . arintendent for $2,0951^0 :"wol ^e- ; quire a state tax of four and one-half . mills. ' The 21 items are as follows: j inspection and operation of high schools_$604,900 ? Guaranteeing a seven months' term, under the equalizing law _ _ _ _ 600,000 ; Consolidated and graded schools, under the rural 1 graded school law,_ 275,000 ] Construction of school / buildings_- 100,000 1 Teaching vocational educa tion under Smith-Hughes act_ 78,700 j Extension of school terms 70,000 j Enforcement of compulsory attendance_s 69,000 . Paying one-third of county superintendents' salaries 50,000 1 Public night schools _ _ - 46,000 j Betterment negro schools _ 36,000 1 Superintendence and rec ords_ 24,330 Teaching agriculture, under state law_ 20,000 1 Printing_ 18,000 1 Rehabilitation of persons . disabled in industry and otherwise_ 15,000; Examination and certifica tion of teachers _ _ _ _ 8,400 Extension school libraries. 8,000 Inspection rural schools _ 6,200 School Improvement asso- [ ciation 5,700 Employment and registra tion of teachers i_- 4,820 Inspection of mill schools _ 4,400 State board of education _ 1,200 Total_ii -'- $2,095,650 Concerning Advice. It is not to be denied that the fav orite indoor and outdoor sport of the great majority of the human race is giving and seeking advice. Particu larly giving, for it is more blessed to give advice than to receive it. Why we should be so eager to tell our fellow-creatures just exactly how they should act under certain cir cumstances, is one of the mysteries of vanity that nobody can explain. Certainly v ry few of us think that we have ..n our own affairs so suc cessfully, and have exhibited always such unerring judgment that we have qualified to pose as oracles. Nevertheless, we do not hesitate to lay down the law to those about us. We have never been able to make more than the barest living ourselves, but we feel perfectly competent to advise anybody about how to invest money. We know nothing whatever about medicine or the vagaries of the human system, yet we advise people to take drugs of whose prop erties we are totally ignorant, for ail ments that we have not the ability to diagnose. Men and women who have never had anything but an airdale pup or a canary bird, tell you exactly howjto raise your children, and if you try to make a garden or build a house, you are swamped under the counsel of [those who never planted a seed or wrestled with a contractor, and do not claim that they know anything about either subject except that they know more about it than you. The perfect strangers whose sub lime egotism makes them feel that they can run our affairs much better than we can manage them ourselves, and who do not hesit?te to tell us where we should get on and off, are hard enough to endure, Heaven knows, but the real pest of the world is the family adviser. In every household you will find some man or woman who has elected himself or herself, to the office of adviser extraordinary, and who runs everybody else crazy with a never ending flow of suggestion. The man may be a good-for-nothing parasite whose children have to support him, but before they can make a single move in any direction, they_ have to listen to his endless "if I were you I would do this,'? or "I strongly ad vise you against doing that," and if anything ever goes wrong he is an incarnate reproach with hist' "if you had only taken my advice in the mat ter." Or perhaps the family adviser is a woman, in which case the female of the species is deadlier than the male, because she is always on the job. She knows better than the doctor what you should take when you get sick. She knows more than the law yer about how to settle an estate. She can pick out the exact man and woman for every girl and boy to marry. She knows just what dress maker you should patronize and what you should wear, and how you should furnish your house, and what you '. should have to eat, and no matter . how hurried or worried or busy you . are, you have got to stop and combat ' her endless advice. Its the family adviser who wrecks ; homes 'and makes the members fly . to the uttermost parts of the earth ( to try to get away from one who ? feels that he or she has a right to 1 run their lives for them and whose j feelings are hurt if his or her cou?- i sel is not taken. ] It is easy to see why people dote 1 on. giving advice. It is because they 1 like to exploit themselves. It is the 1 ultimate^; expression of. self-conceit. 1 Why/people ask advice ? is at. compre- < r??f??^ as^hefiriddle. of the sphyi.Tx^ J Wt fcb?y^Ye:.i?^ , advice is worthless. "flt Nobody can tell another|v person" 1 what to do, because rio. other/person ' knows all the circumstances of the case. There are a thousand little inti- 1 mate details of the problem that the j seeker after light never reveals to * anyone, and these are the crux of the ! ivhole matter, so that even a Solomon could not solve the riddle that is ' propounded to him. 1 Also there is the human equation 1 that must be taken into considera- 1 tion, so that the advice that seems to fit your case doesn't fit it at all when 1 you try it. It may look a perfect 1 thirty-eight in the advice shop, but J when you get it home you find that ^ something is wrong with your meas- ^ urements and that it bags where it shouldn't bag, and ft is too tight i across the breast, and that it hikes 1 up in the front and tails down in ? the back. i "Never go into the grocery busi ness," advises the man who has fail- < ed in it, but you may have the vei-y < qualities that he lacked that will en- 1 able you to make a fortune in it. i "Youwill starve if you try to make 1 a living writing," advises some poor, ! uninspired hack, but you may have 1 the divine fire that will light your way to iame nad fortune. "Don't ? marry so-and-so, you will never be 1 able to live with him, and you will be ? poor to the end of your days," coun sels a father, yet that man may be his daughter's soul mate, and the very man who is destined to become a millionaire. Of course, the redeeming feature about giving advice is that few peo- ( pie take it, and most people who ask 1 for advice merely desire to confirm j them in the course they have already , determined upon pursuing. They sim- ] ply want to be backed up. Also the , process of being advised helps them ' to clarify their own ideas, and really decide upon what they want to do, quite independent of your opinions. But all the same, the advising bus iness wastes a lot of time, and is a great bore. A. B. CLOER. Our People Buying Less. The great slump in freight ship ment the past few days indicates that our people are buying less. One of the laborers who loads and unloads freight from the cars told The Ad-' vertiser's representative a few days ago that "de people ain't gittin' noth ing these days, ain't more dan half de freight shipped now dat dere wuz a few months ago." We thought how much better it would have been had our people bought less and saved some of the money that they ha\se been squandering on high living for| the past few years. Had they been thrifty and frugal when prosperity and plenty prevailed, they could now put their cotton under the shed and say to the world, it i? not for sale now and will not be till a fair price is offered. Too Much Immigration Head ed Our Way. / The Wall Street Journal, in a rel cent issue, stated that there is an un precedented army of immigrants nervously awaiting transportation facilities to bring them from Eu rope. "It is estimated," said the Jour nal, "that more than 8,000,000 Eu ropeans are anxious to come ta America, and that in one European country alone about 6,000,000 inhab itants would emigrate to America if conditions warranted." There is a great congestion of hat migrants at Ellis Island, New York,, and the commissioner of immigration at that point saysrthat he expects Ellis Island will have to handle 1, 500,000 immigrants within the nett 12 months. The Journal raises a very important point as to the inrush of immigrants. It states that three ships; recently came in with 5,000 immi grants, and of this number about 1,000 did not have a dollar; 1,50{> had less than $25, and the remainder mostly between $25 and $50. What is America to do to meet this tremendous influx of foreigners? We already have more aliens in this country than we can assimilate. If we permit our shores to be crowded with millions of aliens, added to mil lions wc now have, we shall certainly endanger the civilization of this country. However short our supply of home labor may be to meet all of the demands of industry and ?gri culture, we should not permit this country to be flooded with people alien by birth and alien in thought to the life of our nation. We have more aliens here now than is good for the country. Infinitely better would it be for our industrial activi ty to move forward with less rapid ity than to be pushed forward by a great influx of these lower classes of foreigners. We had better advance more slowly in material development than to advance rapidly at the cost af the nation's life. Some brake must be put on this rush of immigra tion; our safety as a nation demands it, and Congress should heed the zoice of the country on this point. Even if we dp not have enough la aorers in the country to do all the work that needs to be done, we had aetter postpone much of it ^rather ;han ,to have it done by the influx, sf millions of foreigners.. America's if e morevimportant tht?n , ^rapid . patgrjalActivity. r < > massing th'e-question.' ofc-Tmmic . ;. > ; , -v nd: "If-is reported that 267,000 appli cations for passports to America, nostly Jews, have been made in Po and alone, while more than 3,000, )00 Poles want to come over. "Between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 [talians are seeking domicile here, md millions will come from .Ger nany as soon as the barriers are ifted. "Fifty thousand refugees are re ported waiting at Danzig alone for transportation to America. Steam ship lines, are reported to have every :oot of available space booked up 'or a year ahead. "When the Red Terror is broken, n Russia, a flood of starving Slavs Arill pour out towards America. We ire as unprepared for this peaceful nvasion as we were for war in 1914. "Immigration is the most impor tant fact which our nation has to leal with in the next few years. Un ess we wake up and make some ade quate preparation to take care of this oncoming flood, we shall be swamped socially, economically, po litically. "The question is not now what we. shall do with the immigrant, but what will the immigrant do with us." -Manufacturers Record. Congress Should Provide for the Conduct of the Govern ment. Now that the political campaign is over and it is permitted to discuss the truth without suspicion of partisan motives, it is time for the country as a whole to demand that Congress do something to relieve the uncertainty as to the course of procedure in case of a physical breakdown of the Chief Magistrate. The duties of the office are exceeding exacting. Any man,, no matter how good his health, may break under them. There ought to be some accepted method by which, inc such case, the executive functions could be carried on by the vice-Pres ident, with the President resuming control when his health permitted. It has been a world misfortune that for months the President of the United States has been an invalid,, physically incapable of attending to-1 his duties. It was the more unfortu nate because President .Wilson was so rigorously the decisive factor in. the conduct of all departments.. His illness left the government simply without a head, and that is why there has been so much confusion. One of the first duties of Con gress, in the aftermath of the cam paign, before the new Congress as sembles, should be the formulation of some program for determining when the Chief Executive is incapaci tated within the meaning of the Con stitution and the ad interim conduct of the government pending his re covery.-Manufacturers Record..