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Nit, VERN BR ON EDUCATION And Other Matters-Receives Many Words of Commendation. Columbia, Keb. 15.- K f'tor Cou rier: Let us examine yon. personal editorial of last week. Yo? rv, "wo always feel glad when such ueas as Mr. Venter has lately been advancing in the Senate are put forth, not be cause we agree with those ideas, but because their being put forward serves the purpose of pointing bold ly to their unsoundness." That is without doubt a grand sentiment publish things; if sound they will stand; if not, tho light will destroy them. Your trouble, however, is that you do not publish the ideas Mr. Venter has been "putting forth In the Senate." You begin with a mis statement: "'Senator Verner said the demand for compulsion comes only from ignorant newspapers and gnat heel school teachers." I said: "The j demand, as far as I know, comes mostly from certain gnat-voiced, bat winged school teachers and a few ig norant newspapers." Note the dif ference. "Gnat-voiced" Is a classic and fits certain so-called teachers who are eternally whining about something. "Hat-winged" is my own designation of a class who Hap about the State, only remaining a few months at a place, and occasion ally roosting at the State House, lob bying with the law-makers, trying to attend to the business of other peo ple to the neglect of their own. These remarks have no reference to tho quiet, orderly, sensible, conse crated teachers who realize their ob ligations and aro in all good con science trying to fulfil them. "A few ignorant newspapers." Is The Courier in thal class? Let those who follow this examination of your writings decide. Pray, what "ideas" of mine have you ever given your readers that you may "boldly point out their unsoundness." In a half column you do not give correctly one single statement, fact or contention made by me in this discussion, For two hours I stood on the floor Of the Senate, giving figures and facts, contrasting the States that have such laws with those that have no such laws, to the entire advantage of those States that do not have such laws, ogether with legitimate argu ment after argument against the bill, and vet von only publish a liitle pleasantry thal passed and diu not en }:. { HUH half way correct, Cmit-heel teachers!" in heaven's a u..< w hal kind <>? a re ichoi Is that any way'.' Ceruiuo t ne??ri .-?u? thought of such a thing. This is more evidence of "ignorance in cer tain newspapers." The reporter who wrote that libel on my feeble powers of pyrotechnics writes for two newspapers. He could not tell to save hts life what I did say. He knew i? was something about a gnat; the balance he tried to supply. His creative or imaginative powers ap pear to have failed him. It is safe to say that the real im pression made here is not always re fiected In the newspapers. If you advocate their views you get your picture in the paper, you have made a most "able argument" or the "most eloquent speech of thc session." if you oppose their views you "also spoke." You print one impression formed from a direct misstatement of what I did say. Now, why not publish a few remarks that were made, on the same subject, to my face: One big, fat man who heard me talk that day, said: "The devil In hell can't get around the argument you made against that hill." Ano ther called to me on the street and said: "You are exactly right. In the big cities North they pay no atten tion at all to that law." (Mo said he had lived in neston). Another, a Senator, said : "1 feel like contribut ing to raise a monument to you if you die before I do," and so on. Evi dently I must have been talking part of those two hours about something beside "gnat-heel teachers." "Mr. Vernor has a bill against the degradation of public morals." That is true, but Mr. Verner Is not fool enough to think he can legislate wickedness out of the people any more than he can legislate goodness into them. You appear to advocate "compulsory virtue." The poverty of a man's mind who would compose such a sentence certainly is the most convincing evidence that he needs to be taught rather than to pose as a teacher. You ask, "What ls tho dif ference between compulsory virtue and prohibition against vice?" (I take you to mean prohibition of vice). This is the difference: To compel virtuo is impossible, even with (?od. To restrain vice ls one of the functions of government. Whore do you find mo In favor of "prohibition against vice?" Can you prevent a man from having had thoughts? Not any moro than you can compel him to have good thoughts. This is the function of tho soul. You say, "Eliminate vice and you have virtue." Is there any vice in a hog? Certainly not; then he must be virtuous. Pray, where is it? You say, "Throw virtue away and you have vice." Is there any virtue In a brick? Where is the vice? This water is too deep. My position all along shows that I real ize that fact, while you do not. You say 1 am inconsistent when trying to force people not to sell li quor or keei> bad houses, and at tho same time refuse to force children into school. I am trying to force nothing, but to PREVENT legal or illegal trafile in those things that are harmful to private and public good. 1 am not trying by law to prevent men or women from drinking whis key or committing adultery, but 1 would, by statute, prevent them from keeping houses for that purpose and estop them from enticing and beguil- | lng others to their ruin. 1 would I only prevent you from taking charge of my child, just as l would prevent other foolish people from enticing him to his ruin. The bill would compel ALL chil dren of certain ages to attend school. Do you mean this? Remember that would put 4 0,000 more negro chil dren in school than we have now. ls that what you want lo do? The answer is "No," and you know it. Then why do you want such a great, big lie written into the statutes of the State0 You go into spasms about educating our most ignorant I dnsses, yet you give the most igno- i j rant one dollar a child to where you : give the less ignorant ton dol?ais a I child. You say I am inconsistent, j bul you cannot show it. Where do I you lind yourself in the above situa tion? This is the .statement that knocked a Senator into a cocked hat. All he j could say was. "Do you want the ne gro to vote?" No matter how that question is answered, the man who says by his mouth that he wants all . the poor and ignorant to go to school and wants them educated, and then deliberately and intentionally, by his action, deprives the larger part of I the most ignorant class of the chance to attend school, lies, and, in addi tion to violating that commandment, is justly charged with inconsistency and of perpetrating a deliberate fraud. You cannot deny this con elusion because it is a plain and logi cal deduction drawn from a premise ' that you have made. i if o(|uoqt|nf? >he Hin"' Ignorant i? tho most pressing, then '. hy do wo in iuni"ii .'!> give I he mos. ,."?..<>..-tnt th . Ional opportunity" You may answer I this ? es I ion tn suit ?urvelf. but I judging u.v um brilliant ?peciuieu ul ? j your logic in your attempt at "vir- ! . tue ard vice." you are not likely to answc it in truth. You say that | "Mr. Verner is little different from ; most public men. He holds his theories as unquestionably right and j ! hoots at those who differ with him in opinion." Pray, what theory do 1 j hold, or did 1 ever hold, on anything? i I thought I was rather a practical man, and when I " hoot" it is gene- : rally at the absurd and frivolous the- I orio.s of others. ; Let nie close this dull and tiresome letter hy enumerating some of the ' ideas that I have been trying to ad- . vance in the Senate: 1st. I have preached the doctrine. ; " Thou shalt not steal." 2d. "Thou shalt not commit adul- 1 tory." 3d. "Thou shalt not bear false 1 witness against thy neighbor." 4th. " Touch not, taste not, handle not." r.th. "Thou shalt not kill." and so on, and so on, even to the advocating Of that most wonderful and whole- | some philosophy to love oven your enemy. I have been trying to make people j soo the Importance of obedience to ! law instead of enacting other sense less laws that will not be enforced. I have been literally trying to follow the injunction of that great and good man Isaiah-"Lift up your voice like a trumpet; cry aloud, and spare not." And that is what you ought to help mo do, instead of trying to do the impossible. One paper has told the literal truth on me. The Newberry Herald says that I am "a scold." Use that word if you like, hut as long as I seo things going so radically wrong I mean to say so, and I am not half started yet; but I don't want to take your advice, If I can help it, and "toot my own horn." E. E. Verner. NO COUNTY CLAIMS A1TI>ITEI>. Commissions for New County <5om mlsstonera Not Yet Received. The new County Commissioners, D. E. Nicholson and R. A. Reeves, were in Walhalla yesterday ready to attend to their duties as officers of Oconee county, but as yet their com missions have not been returned from the Governor's office, and they were, therefore, not able to assume their duties. Hence all claims against the county for January, which ordinarily would have received "COUSIN BIIiliY" ON GNATS. No ll ann to Come from (?nuts on the Heel-Tho Movies. Walhalla. Feh. 15. 1915. My Dear Cousin L?gislature: This is certainly a dark, rainy morning in Walhalla and from general appear ance it is well-nigh dark and rainy everywhere. Cousin, dear, you know 1 never did like to write much, hut since we are having such a nice cor respondence 1 lake a shade of pleas- j ure In writing to you. Say, why didn't you tell those "gnat-heel school teachers" of Ebe nezer's that if they would get a col lar and p" lt around his neck, and hook a little chain to lt and lead him around with them, the gnats would all leave their heels and swarm af ter him. Why, yes, some people even keep poodles and pugs around for the purpose of keeping Hie gnats : away. You tell the "gnat-heel school teachers" that a gnat on the , heel won't hurt them, but, in a case like Ebenezer's, where the gnats have gathered in the eyes, it is a hopeless j case. Why, dear cousin. I have just laughed my sides sore at Ebenezer. He has thought all those years past and gone that he was fighting and snapping at compulsory education when it was gnats that have been bothering him-and he never will lind it out, or won't own it il lie does Say. "coz," don't you tell our old friend Kb. what I say to you. or show this letter to any ono. Ile (Eb.) says lie don't favor any law that will give a man or set. of men the power to go ami tell you to-and even make you -send your child to school. Eb says. "Til ink a in i n ute." I say so. too. 1 say for him to think; every body but him has thought. Here L what he ought to know-that wi have a law that gives the road over seer Hie authority to go to his bonn and tell his boy that on a certain da. he must be present with a shovel, ho or pick to work the road or pay certain road tax; he ought to kno\ that we have a law that gives th proper authorities tho power to corn to Iiis home and arrest his child ft some misdemeanor, try the child i Hie courts, convict and sentence it t a term in the house of correction. Eb. should know that we lia many different laws that will punh : men and women for wrong-doln Were no ?Vduni and Eve diivoc otu of Eden for n.*t pbeyin their VI;, lei's law" Don'l that show that in . lie very be duning there was punish ment for hose ?.. ho d:??ob<.-?eu'.' Didn't Ebenezer vote for a hill dic tating to his neighbor how much cot ton he should plant? Didn't this same Ebenezer introduce a bill forc ing all public schools to have moving pictures? Yea, wc? have laws, and sundry laws. Say. Counsin Legislature, let's yo i and me slip over to the door of tho Senate Chamber and peep through the keyhole at Eh. He easy now and let's tip-toe so he won't hear u (Don't be snickering or they wi'! hear us). What? Don't you sc liim at his desk? You get away and let me peep, maybe you don't knov him. Yes, cousin, you are right. H ' ijSn't in Hiere. You just, wait oi? here, cousin, and I'll go in there an ask the boss man where he is. .lu as I expected! The boss said 1 guessed we would lind him (Eh.) al some one of the moving picturi shows. Shall we go hunt him? Yt.. I'll go if you will. I know his wa of doing better than you do, cousin : Ile'.; so anxious to see one of the shows that he more than likely dro ped into tile very first one he cai to. I'll buy the first ticket, and yon the next, until we find Eb. Now, cousin, don't be langhin . though it's just like you to laug! jolly old maid that you are. I ha jften wondered why you have neve married, Cousin Legislature. Heep-, now; I see him, cousin, I see him' Don't you see that man sitting av up towards the front with th swarm of gnats over his head, knew I could show him to yo Don't he look natural. No. I'm Hoing to call him-I don't want tl leople in here to think that wo kl him. If he don't close his mon I hour h, the gnats will choke him to leal h. Now don't you tell him aim this letter. Hood-bye! Your cousin, Hillie Fenne' attention at the hands of the Cou ' hoard on the first Friday in Febvi \ry, are still held up. These win bi icted on at the March meeting o Board, which will be held on the first Friday, March 6th, and Feb] claims will also he glvon attentloi [hat time. This delay is greatly regrette d b the SuiierviBor and members of the Hoard, but the situation in wbh h they lind themselves is entirely >>* youd their control. Until the ?< 2omml8slons arrive, any. public ai they might perform aS a body would not bo legal. rv LAND AND VICINITY. ! \V. A Strother Clives Land for School -4 "harming Entertainment. Land, Keb. ir?.-Special: 'iful spring-like weather of was propitious to tho ^warming and buzzing ot the hlth ed-in women. who made :opd tho .> iportunlly of visiting their neighbors, Vii - nie Smith entertained a nutnl ladies at a spend-the-day 1 ursday in honor of her sls E. Kelley, of Tamassee. h ind Mrs. R. T. Jaynes and Rogers, of Walhalla. Mrs. M T. Hu :?s and Mrs. Elijah Qlllisoil, ?) Vi Hialla and Pine Mountain, re were guests last week Of I il Qillison. We are glad to i ?ot ! ' Gllllson's health much . 1 although she is still unite feeble. A A. Stevens, of Williani a recent guest of her fa Bagwell. Ml Cora Hubbard left Tuesday foi ' to friends at Clemson. Mrs I v S. Abbott and little son, D. S.. i.. of Seneca, spent Thursday at the hollie of Hon. J. Li. Smith. endorsements have been id?' pioi'iding for a new school dis le vicinity, said district to em bm portions of the following ! Brewer, Bounty Hand, Poe: i mil and Bim Ridge. The ..ill supply a long-felt need. ? ire quite a number of chil pin the bounds of the pro trict who are unable to a( [ol al all owing to tho dist le nearest school. W. A. -.io hoi has kindly donated two and on which the building ected. aura Smithson, who had j kiding several days with her her. Mrs. J. M. Hill ison, re in f riday to her home near \V*?i uter. Sallie Davis, who has been lg the past two weeks in le with her sister-in-law, A, Davis, returned Saturday, Mrs. Davis much improved, nd Mrs. J. G. Qillison, of j " were guests of his mother, Vf, Qillison, Sunday. Magill made a recent visit to ?ol as a guest of his son, i Magill, who is Probate Judge nwiod county and also a ! prono nv nt Liv oral that place \V >Ror Rankin mid little dai >. Vii H roe >,-!'h :? indued to their li* v h ifrlp. Their friends hope for ?'.cir early non< nlosci e The friends of VV. H. Barron :' lillie ' ? wiP. he pler.sed to learn of itided improvement in his health, i velcoming him back from ?i \ico, where he had been on mn "f lil health. Mr Barron is i i home in this community. ene Stone entertained Pri ng at a Valentine pound poi About 40 young people re . tided to her invitation, and the :n. A'as a most enjoyable one. . au; ier was elegant and abund ? irious sizes of red hearts ? i id as decorations. A most i 'resting feature of the oc casion ? i mtest in archery, a small i ?art within a large red one sed ns a target. Rhoderick net ?vas the lucky Cupid and was ented a lovely wreath of forget m< not* with which he crowned Miss tie Cunningham "Queen of cits. ' Lively gaines were played he entire evei lng and the ec on was enjoyed by nil present, an! Gillison happened to a pahl avi lent a few days ago. While a nail a small particle of the i ke off, flying into his left eye, severe pain and inflamed He has a bandage over it and \ . he o will suffer no serious incon \- ion I. County Teachers .Met. v large number of the teachers of aty met in the Auditorium of Walhalla High School on Satur ibruary Kith, for the regular )thly meeting of the association. J. L. Stokes, pastor of the ho dist church, opened the nieet wlfch a reading from the Scrip and after making a few appro and encouraging remarks, of I prayer. t. W. C. Taylor gave a few nitn s to the subject, "How to Prepare i eld Day." . Florence Ballenger gave an ( . sting demonstration lesson in ig from the Heart of Oak, nih Reader. After explanation ho methods of the lesson, quito a discussion was entered into by oachers on the method of teach I -jading. ms Beulah Berry read an in I tlve paper on "The Faults in ling Reading in Rural Schools, md Remedies for Same." Major Wm. J. Stribling, member / Hie County Board of Education, the school law pertaining to tor in of school libraries, for the M m i t of the teachers present. Top D -Qr; lt is about ti ino tor you to begin to think about top dressing your grain. And wo want to .suggest to you that you uso a mi xml goods instead ol' soda, as we believe it will prove sat isfactory, and is much cheaper. When crops aie top dressed with soda they take on a quick, rapid growth, which makes thom very tender. As any thing that grows rapidly is necessar ily weak and tender, whether it is a child. a ?air. a pig. a colt or a plant; and wi.?m it grows rapidly and is ton dor it becomes the same as a hot house plant and lt ls unable to stand unfavorable weather or conditions as well as if it grew slower and were stronger. lt beoonise too full of sap when it takes on this quick, rapid growth and any unfavorable season goes hard with it. Now, this mixed goods, which we can sell you. will make your grain grow slower than soda will, and when lt grows slower lt will HU out better and will hav..- a better head, and make moro grain, and we believe will give bolter re sults. Now. wo aro making a 9-6-0 goods that is. 9 per cent Phospohric Arid, f> per cent Ammonia, and no Potash which wi- can sell yon for $:!() a ton. That will put on as rapid growth as a plant can stand, consist ent with safety. And thou we are making an 8-2 V& -1 goods and an s-:?-;> goods, both of which will make you a good lop-dresser for grain. If you knew weather and climatic con dltions would be jusl what grain needs, then soda would be the thing for you io use. Hui the seasons when the weather and climatic con ditions were ideal, unless our mem ory is hopelessly at fault, have been few and far bel ween, A good grain crop this year will help out a condition that may other wise be a little close with some of us. We can soil you this fertilizer for fall payment on approved paper. And I Anderson P I Oil Cor Anders After the prepared program had hoon carried out plans were discussed for the Field Day and County Fair to he held In Walhalla on April 9th. President Casque read the printed announcement and program, which was adopted by the association. The following committees were ap pointed: Parade - Messrs. Ussery, ll. IO. .Sheldon and Bruce. Athletics-Messrs. Taylor, Lyles and Truluck. Prize- Misses Ka'ie Harrison. Lu cille Hamilton, Louise Sheldon. Exhibit - H. W. Qasqiie, Misses Mary Ansel and Norina Cllnkscales. Contests-'G. W. Irby, Misses Beu lah Berry, Annie McMahan. Registration-II. C. Smith, Misses Morrison and Reid. Dinner-Mrs. Jesse Rankin, Misses Lola Kaufmann, Hannah M. Harri son. Subject Matter for Contests County Board of Education. Banners- M rs. Florence Ballongor. Mrs. O. C. Lyles, Miss Annie M c.VI a EFFECT OK GREAT KIDNEY REMEDY IS SOON REALIZED. I feel it my duty to let you know what Swamp-Root did for me. I was bothered with my back for over 20 years and at times I could hardly got out of bed. I read your adver tisement and decided to try Swamp Root. Used five bottles, and lt has been five years since I used it, and I have never been bothered a day since I took the last bottle of it. I am thoroughly convinced that Dr. Kil mer's Swamp-Root cured me and would recommend it to others suffer ing ns I did. My husband was troubled with kid ney and bladder troubles and he took your Swamp-Root and it cured him. This was about five years ago. You may publish this letter if you choose. Very truly yours, MRS. MATTI IO CAMFIELD. it. F. o. No. :;. Ooblevllle, Mich. Subscribed and sworn to before me this lath of .Inly, 1909. ARVIN W. MYIORS, Notary Public, for Van Duren Co., Mich. I -ellter tO l>r. Kilmer & Co., | Binghamton, N. Y. j Prove What Swamp Root Will Do for You. Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. It will convince any one. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, tolling about the kidneys and bladder. When writ ing, bo sure and mention the Wal halla Weekly Keowee Courier. Reg ular fifty-cent and one-dollar size hot ties for sale at all drug stores.-Adv. ressing ain while we will be delighted to sell it to you for cash, we won't require tbal from prompt paying customers. Hut we will soil it to you for fall pay ment and thou you can soil your sur plus grain in tho summer for cash, and this will tide you over until your cotton crop comos In. In times Uko this some of us will have to learn to mnnoeuver. Wo believe it will pay you to side dress your colton and corn with mixed goods rather than soda, for the same reason WO t lu'- .t .viii pay you bettor to top-dress your grain with mixed goods rather than soda. Soda makes it take on th?? condition ol a hot-house plant. lt is weak and watery and sappy and can't stand droughts, or dry winds or any ad verse conditions that it could stand if it wore fertilized with a mixed goods where the growth is slower and the plant is stronger. Soda is not a complete fertilizer. Ammonia hy itself is not a complete plant food, lt is not a well-balanced fertilizer. Your borst> or mule or cow does better on a well-balanced ration; your labor ers do better on a well-balanced ra tion, and you do bettor yourself on a well-balanced ration than you will if you live on just one single article of diet -and so will yoni- grain and your corn and colton and oilier crops. Some doctors say eating an i m per le, liv balanced ration ls one cause of pellagra. An imperfectly balanced I plat food may be the cause of ymir crops taking rust and bliebt, and I other troubles which crops have. We believe it safer io use mixed goods than il is to uso Soda, taking it one year with another. 'Those mixed goods should he ap plied early, in order for the grain to got full benefit of thom. We have them on hand, well pulverized and dry, and ready for shipment. 'Tho earlier you got them on now the bet ter, lt will bring you in much moro t han it costs you. Phosphate & npany, on, S. C. -_.^^,T? TOWN LICENSES DUE. All city licenses expired February 1st, 1915. All interested are urged to renew their licenses at once. Also many aro In arrears with their sani tary dues. These dues are payable quarterly and those In arrears must pay up. JAS. M. MOSS, Clerk and Treasurer. Walhalla, S. C., Feb. 3, 191^._ CITATION NOTICE. (In Court of Probato.) Tho State of South Carolina, County of Oconee.-Hy V. F. Martin, Esq., Judge of Probate.-Whereas, J. S. Stribllng has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administra tion of the Estate of and Effects of IO. s. Stribllng, deceased These are, therefore, to cito and admonish all and singular tho kin dred and creditors of the said IO! S. STRIBLINO, deceased, that they be and appear before nie, in the Court of Probate, to Ix; held at Walhalla Court House, South Carolina, on Friday, tho 2C>th day of February, 19?5, after publication liortMif, at 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, If any they have, why the said administration should not bo granted. Given under my hand and seal this 8th day of February. A. I). 1915. (Seal.) V. F. MARTIN, Judge of Probato for Oconee County, South Carolina. Published on the loth and 17th days of February. 10 1.'), in The Keo wee Courier, and on the Court House door for the Hmo prescribed by law. Fob. 10, 1 915._ <? - 7 NOTICE OF FI NA Ii SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned will make application to V. F. Martin, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, In tho State of South Carolina, at his ofnee at Walhalla Court House, on Friday, tho 19th day of March, 1915, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application .. n be heard, for leave lo make final t?oment Of the Estate of John C. Neville, deceased, and obtain final discharge as Execu tor of said estate. MACK NEVILLE, Executor of the Estate of John C. Neville, Deceased. Fob. 17, 1915. 7-10 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. notice Is hereby given that the un dersigned will make application to V. P. Martin, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, in the State of South Cc ollna, at his office at Walhalla Court House, on Saturday, the 20th day or Mareil, 1915, at ll o'clock In tho forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application can be heard, for leave to make Anal settlement of thc Estate of John Crooks, lunatic, and obtain final discharge os Com mittee of said estate. JAMES TAYLOR, Committee of John Crooks. Lunatic. Feb. 17, 19 Ki. 7-10