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rTIES HAVE CHANGED. People Who Would Not Go There While Roosevelt Was President Call on Taft. When Senator Tilhman walks into the White House on his return to Washington and proposes to Presi dent Taft to spill some of that much famed oil on the troubled political waters, he will have kept a promise made more than five years ago not again to enter the portals of the exe cutive mansion so long as Mr. Roose velt should be its chief occupant. Bu. he will not be the only member of the upper house of congress to shake hands with the new president in the White House and to assure him of his cordial loyalty and support. There is Bailey, of Texas; Nelson, of Minneso ta; Bacon, of Georgia; Admiral Sch ley, and others who have already made a pilgrimage to the White House for this purpose. and who have already caught the Taft spirit of friendliness and brotherly love. Five years ago when Senator Till man was serving in the senate with John L. McLaurin, -his colleague from -the Palmetto State, he became invoiv ed in-th;e Tmcnorable fistic encounter on the floor of the senate. Invitations were out to a big dinner at the White House, and Senator Tillman was ez pected to be one of the honored guests. But when Mr. Roosevelt heard of the little scrap with the sen ate floor as a -boxing ring, he prompt ly withdrew the invitation that had gone to Senator Tillman. From that moment the latter declared loud and long that he would never again enter the White House while Mr. Roosevelt was in it, and so far as known he kept his promise. No mqan in the senate, perhaps, had a more bitter hatred of Mr. Roosevelt than Senator Bailey and the pages of the Congressional Record for the past seven years will abundantly testify to this fact. In this respect the Texan outdid the Carolinian by two years Senator Tillman staying away five y,ears and Bailey seven. Bailey seldom let an opportunity pass without rap ping the president good and hard, and many of the recommendations pnade -by the latter were attacked by Bailey as being utterly unconstitutional and unable to stand the test of the courts. SSenator Bacon, of Georgia, is an other senator from the South who brok-e with Mr. Roosevelt many years ago. and who, now that President Taft is in the White House, proposes at onee to renew old relations. Like Till man, he vowed many years ago that he would never darken the doors of the White House until there was a new president, and again like Tillman he kept his promise. Another Southern senator, who has already called on President . Taft to hold out the .olive branch of peace. is Raynor, of Maryland. Hie has been, if possible, even more bitter towards the late president than Bailey or any of the others, and time and time again -& has raked the chief executive fore a~d aft. He thought, some years ago, that' the president had not given Ad Smiral Schley a square deal in the Sampson-Sehley inquiry, and in the events that followed subsequently, and inasmuch as he has been a- life long friend of Admiral Schley, he stuck to him and repudiated Mr. Roosevelt. There have also been a large num ber of Republican senators who broke the bonds of friendship with Mr. Roosevelt for one reason or another who have already sworn allegiance to President Taft. In fact events of the past few days indicate that the new president is soon to bring back into the fold of peace and harmony prac tically all of those who for one reason or another fell out with Mr. Roose velt. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE CITY SCHOOLS. * * * After facing one defeat, after an other' to'rtoise year of the school ques tion, our representatives framed and put through the legislature a bill, aking a lone-needed improvement in school conditions possible. Already the "knockers'' have been heard from . They say that we have a "heavily taxed community.'' etc. This is no new nor untrue ery. I have eard it since before I could under tand everything that fell from my fat-er'.s lips. One editor approves of a ta's for additional buildings, but seems to frown at any sum worth while for maintenance. Another edi tor-and I quote: "What is needed not so much additional teaching oe: there are nearly teachers nough: but we need some place to each. instead of h1aving to cram a lot f children inlto an old ramshackle. ooden cottage and into a basement om with low-ceiling and no ventila ion on the sides.'' One acquainted * th conditions knows how tragically e the latter part of the statement Sand how open to eballenge the first ai':. I il'- l hwt 1 .11c 'ln ald sub stance of editorial disapproval. Studying carefully in the lines and ibetween the lines the objections of !our editors to the school act, I cannot Isee that they feel or raise any stren uous objections. They see where the school bill might have been a little better. After a thing is done it is easy to see wherein there might be improvement. We must remember that the intelligence of editors is or ought necessarily to be on the top rung. You want good roads; you want an extension of the sewerage system. You 1have electric lights and you have paved streets. Do you know that there is something else that you have, and that is a mighty rotten state of affeirs in the education of your chil dren in the primary grades, and fla grant defects in the education of chil dren of the high school grades. The teachers say it is the fault of the par ents. The parents say it is the fault of the teachers. The fault is tha fault of the people. They make and main tain the schools. I enter into no technical discussion. It all comes round in the end to wrell e<pipped school buildings and a proficient tea,ching force. If it takes a four-mill tax to secure ,these things, why vote the two-mill tax. Other towns vote it and manage to prosper. Mr. E. S. Dreher, superintendent of the public schools of Columbia, who has recently visited schools in the west, wzrites in the State of March 8: "My first and most important obser vation is this: When compared with the schools mentioned, financially, we seem to be playing at education here in Columbia and the South generally. The principals are paid salaries equa. to and larger than the salaries of our superintendents; and our maximum salaries for grade and high school teachers are less than their minimum. "In Dayton, with a population of 130,000, the tax levy for school pur poses is 9.65 mills on the dollar, and this does not represent the entire in come of the schools. . . . At Dayton the total tax levy for the city is 29 mills. . . . The tax levy for school purposes in Columbia is five mills. . . . As a result of more money, the schools I visited are much better equipped than ours, and the buildings are more numerous and much finer than ours."'' If Columbia is behind, Newberry is but a speck on the horizon. She will have to strain to catch up-not with Dayton; she is under no obligation to do that, but with Laurens, Florence,j Deinna.rk and other live towns of South Carolina. Speaking of the South being behind other sections in education, we all realize this. But is it necessary that we forever remain behind ? Let's quit hauling off blame and burying it at the door of theI poor old war. Let's ressurrect the blame and hold ,a post-mortem. Re maining behind in education means that the South. the greatest section of the globe, is not for the Southeruner but for the northerner .or any other 'Train-Brains.'' The ' northierner knows this, as well as ourselves, and twits us with: '"Who pointed out the possibilties of the South'? Who owns the truck-farms of Florida? Who' owns the capital stock in your large factories'?'' There is the sting of half truth here, just as there is the sting in their claim that the north would have recovered from the 'war long 'before the South had ever begun to. You noted wha.t Mr. 0. B. Mar tin had to say along this line last faill when he retnrned from the superin tindent's association. Among other enlightening things this, in the State of October 21, 1908: ".Several educa tional leaders in New England frank ly told us that they are spending their money and buildling up their schools in order to retain and maintain their industrial supremacy. They realize that we 'have advantages and great re sources in the South, but they propose: to keep the lead, if possible through the power of trained brain and train ~ed hands.'' Coming back to Newberry, it is said that. after an additional building, our only needs are a "few more teachers and an increase in the salary of .some of the teaching force.'' Let me em phasize the latter part of the State ment and say of it in p)assing that there is one of this force who, hNving labored for years quietly. foreefully anid unlcompilaiigly. should have her salary raised, an assistant given her. ~and when she choolses to retire should retire on a pension. Even with this tardy recognition Newberry would be in debt to this woman. But there are other needs. Let me mention a few items, considered absolutely essential in the first-class public schools, none of which items Newberry has : A lab oratojry and a teacher of science: a teacher of art and songz: an instruec tor in1 bookkeeing, ('onnneia(il airith meie ete: : a gymnasium: a library; an assembly room. Do you know that it is because you do not provide any of these things that you cannot get your boy ankyog~ girl4to stay o,n in he school themouh the 'high school 1 1, to another town or another State and pouI \.Our mone oUt to enrich the stranger. Provide educational facili ties right here. Spend your money and have it spent in your midst. And. above all, keep your girl and your boy thereby in the home as long as possi ble. If a four-mill tax is necessary to secure these thin-s-and it is vote the tax. Instead of aceumulat ing a hoard for these uneducated chil dren of yours to throw away after you have passed away, put a part of it where it cannot be wasted. You cannot afford to put the stamp of ignorance on your commun iL. 'or a few paltry dollars. You say you need those paltry dollars for good roads, sewarage and streets? R'call what our ignorant ancestors did with Rome's good roads, magnificent streets and aqueducts: They turned the water off and their pigs in. They encamped in the Forum in their wa gons long enough to use their battle axes on the works of art and then drove on. Look well to it that the same sort of ignoran.ce destroy not your great construction;. Educate your children up to good roads and not many minutes wil.,pass by before good roads will come. You say there is no need for a $40.000 building and high-priced teachers? Anything cheap in education is just as cheap as a shoddy woolen. A ch-eap teacher is cheap indeed. As for the building, remember you are building for futu rity. Do not build what posterity will -have to tear down. Posterity will not thank you. Taking everything into considera tion you ean stand the four-mill tax. For better schools. means a better town. Better educated children means better and more eficient townsmen for the future. More money may go out of your pockets. but it goes into the form of potential money. If the tax makes e-conomy necessary yoU could apply the pruning shears to some of those trips you make to Co lumbia or to New York. Or, as I un derstand the act. if you find your selves overburdened you can decrease the tax by an election of the voters. If you contemplate voting down good schools weigh thk cost well. It will cost you onl. a. few dollars apiece more each yea.r. What it will return you or yours is immeasurable. Re member what von hear from the pul pit-wheu th-e w"nt your money: Money means a great deal, but it does not mean hiappiness. You are too wealthy now, some of you. It may not hurt you, for you have gathered strength in the strueg!e for gold. It ma hurt your eti'L'en. Too much money, money (out of proportion to FOR I DEVOTEES OFe DAMT FASH{iON - d C a 11 I fi AMERICAN BEAUTY Style 43 1 Kalamazoo Corset Co., Make2 OR MATFRON 400 Bushels Purc Toole Cotton Seed For Sale. Bought direct ( f W. W. Toole, last spring, and handled with SPECIAL CARE since. 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The case was recently argued in the United States supreme court, and it was an nounced today that the court would take a recess from next Monday until April 5, fo,r the purpose of considering several cases that -have recently been argued. The dispensary case is among these. It is not known yet who will write the .6pinion. BRYAN MAY BE A SENATOR. Implies That He May Enter Nebras ka Senatorial Race in 1911. Chicago, March 15.-William J. Bryan, in an interview today, left -the impression that he would be a recep tive, if not; an active, candidate for the United States senatorship from Nebraska ir 1911 to succeed Elmer J. Burkett, Republican. "I do not know yet whether I shall be a candidate,'" said Mr. :Bryan. "If there seems a good chance to elect to the senate some other Nebraska De mocrat, it will please me 'better than to be a candidate myself. 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