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THE SCHOOL CHARTMR Citizens' Meeting on Friday Opposed To Bill-Spirited Discus sion on the Question. A meeting of the citizens of the town of Newberry was held on Fri 'day afternoon, in the opera house, for the purpose of considering the bill to amend the charter of the New berry graded schools which had pass ed its third reading in the house. About seventy-five citizens were present. The meeting was organiz ed by the election of 'Dr. E. C. Jones as chairman and W. B. Seabrook secretary, and its object was stated at length by Mr. Alan John stone. Mr. Johnstone stated that he was present at the meeting in a dou ble capacity, that of chairman of the board of trustees of the schools, and as a private citizen. What he might say in regard to the proposed amend ment was as a citizen and not as a member of the said board. He hoped that the meeting would act freely and untrammeled by any regard for the position or personnel of the pres ent board. Mr. Johnstone explained the organization of the present trus teeship, and held that because of the original manner in which a part of the school property wes deeded to the permanent board, that it would be breaking faith with the dead to make the proposed changes in..the charter. If any persons on the present board were not doing their duty in a manner satisfactory to the public, they could resign, but he believed, as a private citizen, that it would be wrong to make the sweeping change proposed by the bill under discussion. Mr. W. H. Wallace stating that he was positive the bill in its main fea ture would be put through no matter what the citizens' meeting did,.offered a resolution that: "Our senator and representatives be requested to so amend the graded school bill as to provide that each of the five wards shall elect one trus tee; that the provision authorizing the board of trustees to remove one of their body by a two-thirds vote to be stricken out, and that said bill shall provide for the election of trus tees on the day of the annual school meeting." Discussion of this resolution fol lowed. Mr. T. J. McCrary thought there was no good reason for making the change. He said the schools had been managed in a successful and sat isfactory manner' and where condi tions were already proper and satis factory he thought the best thing to do was to "stand pat." Dr. Geo. B. Cromer stated that he and Col. Geo. S. Mower 'had seen' Senator Cole L. Blease in Columbia. That Senator Blease had requested that a statement for him be made at the citizens' meeting. to the effect that the issue had been ds.:ssed, though not as an open issue, 'during the recent primary campaign, and that there was then a widespread and strong feeling against that feature of the charter which makes the member ship of seven of the board permanent and for life. That as to the minor points some changes might be made in the bill, but that in its main features the delegation was not willing to yield anything. That he, Senator Blease, and also the representatives, believed there was a strong senth'ment infa *vor of the change. Mr. Alan Jfohnstone arguedl that if the people dlesired to change the personel of the present board. he or any member thereof was ready to draw out at any time. The personel of part of the board, he said, could :be changed by th.e people at any of the annual rmeetings. The other sev * en were also subject to the will of the people and would withdraw on .their - request at any time. In that sense it was not a life tenure, but a tenure at will of-the people. One change, how ever, Mr. Johnstone was in favor of that of changing the number of elec tive members from jour to five. Mr.'F. H. 'Dominick statedthathehad tried to get just such a meeting as the present one, in 1903, and had failed at that time. W~hile himself a represen tative from Newbrery county, he had introduced a bill of which the bill un -der present discussion was a draft. He was in favor of the change then and was in favor of it now. He stat ed the reasons for his opinions, an'd read an editorial of the Newvberry Observer in 1903 upholding the same view. I there was reason for the change then, why not now? Seven members were for life. It was a life tenure. How could it be otherwise? No man would call upon any of the members personally to resign. Such a sug gestion, he said, was impracticable. There was only one other board of the same kind in the whole state of South Carolina. Replying to the ob jection that it would be objectionable to bring the matter into politics by holding elections on same day with political elections, he cited conditions in the city of Columbia where the schools were extremely prosperous, although the elections were, and had been for some time, in politics. Mr. T. J. McCrary arose and quot ed from an editorial in the Newberry Observer of a few days ago which seemed to voice views opposite to those expressed in the editorial from the same source previously quoted by Mr. Dominick. Mr. Wallace, in answering the im plied charge of inconsistency, said that he never believed in consistency to the extent of butting ones brains out against a stone wall. According to his present views he would stop the bill if he could, but he didn't be lieve it was possible to do so, and therefore thought it would be the right thing to make the best of it. and procure such minor changes as would be granted. Dr. W. E. Pelhan was slow to be lieve that the delegation would refuse to do as the meeting suggested. "We are the people and must be respect ed," he said. He believed that the delegation would act according to the wishes expressed. Dr. Jas. McIntosh suggested an amendment to the bill to the effect that after said bill had passed it should be submitted to a vote of the citizens before it became a law. In that way the real wish of the majori tv would ascertained, and the wish of the majority should be law. After considerable discussion Mr. Alan Johnstone offered as a substi tute for the Wallace resolution a res olution to the effect that: "The chairman and secretary of this meeting be requested to respect fully inform the senator and repre sentatives for Newberry county, that we desire the school charter to remain unchanged as it now is, with the exception that the word "four" in section 3 of said charter be chang ed to the word "five," making the clause of said section which now reads. "and four others to be elected every two years, one from each ward of said town," to read when changed, "and five others to be elected every two years one from each ward of said town." This substitute was carried by a vote of 22 to 17. The Wallace resolution was again brought up. Dr. Geo. B. Cromer believed that as a question of expendiency the res olution introduced by Mr. Wallace should be put through. Mr. Lambert WV. Jones believed on general democratic principles that life ter- *'s were wrong, no matter how wvise or how competent the men who held them. The WVallace resolution was adopt ed by a vote of 26 to 1. A resolution introduced by Dr. 3. M. Kibler, that: "We, as citizens assembled to dis cuss the proposed amendment to the charter of our city schools by our representatives, do. hy these resolu tios. e!xpreSS our confit.ence in the fidelity and ability of our present hoard of trustees, and assure them that they have our hearty support" was carried unanimously. Will The High Heel Ever Go? Chicago Inter Ocean. The women of the Progressive Health club have declared that high heels on women's shoes must go. Many women's c!--.s and physicians said the same thing thirty years ago. There is little to recommend the high heel to wvomanhood. Most wo men who wear shoes with high heels condemn the practice. WVomen who do not wear suc shoes have the doctors and artists with them when they en ter protest against the high heel. Women who set the style do not re 'gard the high heel favorably, and yet there is a demand for th.e high heeled shoe,( and manufacturers continue to make it. Writers on fashions tell women every day that the high heeled shoe spoils the foot, detracts from grace ful carriage and opens the door to men who aspire to graceful carriage and who dread disease wear them. Why? For the same reason, probably, that men of thirty or more years ago wore the stub toe shoe. Somebody had assumed that a short foot was a shapely foot, and the manufacturers put all men into short shoes. But men rebelled and the style changed ahd went to the other extreme. Again men rebelled and the manu facturer tried all sorts of experiments aiming to satisfy all sorts of men. Ir short, the buyer of shoes became th< dictators, and he consulted his owr taste and comfort, compelling the manufacturer to meet him half way. There came a ch.ange, too, in wo. men's shoes, when it became fashion able for women to be good walkers but the high heel was not banished Other eccentricities in footgear hav had their day and have disappeared But the high hell refuses to go. Bu let those who make war on it be pi tient. It required 200 years of agitatioi and an act of parliament to abolisi the long. pointed toes in shoes of th< fourteenth century, and when th< turned up and twisted toes gave wal under the pre-sure of the state an( the church they were succcded b: exravagantly wide toes, which had t be limit-d by law to a width of si) inch es In our own day we have had tooth pick or pointed toes in shoes, broad square toes, round toes, box toes. It fact human nature seems prone to ec centricity in footgear. However, in these days of muc walking and of much standing on th feet there is less eccentricity than it any previous age. There is also moro uniformity in the sho,s of the variou countries, because the United State manufactures shoes for all the world and mainly with the expectation tha people will walk in them. The American shoe is. as a rule a common sense and shapely shoe and it has a larger sale than the Eng lish or the French shoe. There ough to be comfort in this fact for the ene, mies of the high heel, but they mus be patient and thankful for small fa. vors. A Real Lady. A London cabman had brough suit against a woman for not payinj the legal fare, and his constant re mark was ,"She ain't a lady," say: the New York Tribune. "Do you know a lady when you sei one?" asked the judge. "I do, yer honor. 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