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E H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New terry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, September 23, 1910. Ir the issue of the Abbeville Press and Banner of September 21 Mr. Hugh Wilson, formerly editor of that paper, and still a valued contributor to it, presents some interesting and valu able facts as to the history of the Con federacy and the part taken by Due West in the great struggle of the six ties. 'Mr. Wilson is an attractive writ er, and he has made many valuable contributions to the recorded history of South Carolina. The same articles also appear in the Abbeville Medium of this week. Oscar W. Babb, deputy clerk of court of Laurens county, is being mention ed as possible appointee for the office of assistant adjutant general.-Colum bia correspondence Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Babb is captain of the Trayn ham Guards, at Laurens. He is an excellent gentleman and a fine mili tary man, and no better selection could be made. The Augusta Chronicle began yes terday the publication of a South Carolina edition. The Chronicle is a good and fair newspaper, and we wish it mighty well in its new venture. Who in this blessed, prosperous county is not able to give one day's work to support some orphan child? There are about 1,000 orphan children being educated and trained in South Carolina institutions. Their officials have asked all the people to give them one day's work or its equivalent on Saturday, September 24. Why can't everybody lend a hand? One may send id the institution of his own prefer ence, as all are uniting in the plan. Our people are able to do nobly and 1 we hope they will. .emng Gov. Ansel has appointed Hon. J. Wright Nash a member of the board of regents for the hospital of the insane to succeed the Hon. J. K. Glenn, de-1 One who reads the Georgia pa.pers. * or the Georgia dispa+ches in other ga pers is convinced that it's always breaking loose in Georgia. Col. Bryan bolted the Democratic nominee for governor of Nebraska. We * wonder what the Bryan fanatics who * think a man must stick to every sen tence in the platform to be a Democrat will think of Col. Bryan's action. Now that Newberry will soon be the home of the governor, we are expect ing to see that Pullman from Colum bia to Atlanta put on by the C., N. & L. and the Seaboard. The election is over and we can all enjoy the circus. * *1 * School Finances in South Carolina. * In the previous articles of this se ries I have stated the opinion that a more efficient system of supervision is the first requisite to material ine provement in the rural schools of South Carolina. Without some im provements in supervision additional money spent on the rural schools 'nil be largely wasted. With a better ecr relation of the State and county sup ervising agencies, with a county super intendency removed from politics a!nd provided with a salary sufficient to en able the officer to give his whole time to the interest of the schools, the next Question to be considered is that of finance. The mere existence of a State sys .tem of schools is a recognition of the fact that the welfare of the whole State is to be conserved only by pro viding schools for all sections. Al though the taxable wealth of the State is largely centred in the cities, all parts of the commonwealth have con tributed to the production of this wealth and the cities should, therefVore. to some extent share in the taxation for the maintenance of schools in the poorer sections. In most States of the Inte State this element is secured by a State tax levied on all prop('rt. alike and distributed among the schools of the State on the basis of school population. In South Carolina there is no State tax apporticnpd among all the schools but the distribu tion of the dispensary profits, and since the abolition of the State dispensary, the appropriation under the Garris act have introduced this desirable ele ment into our financial system. The: a;,propriation under the Garris act should be continued and increased un til a reasonable school term is assur ed to every district in the State. The constitutional basis of school support in South Carolina is the three mill tax. This is distributed among the districts of the county in which it is raised according to enrollment. The constitution leaves to the legislature the definition of the term enrollment and that body has defined it as, "An! attendance of at least ten school days during the preceding scholastic year." The third element in school support is the special district levy which is now becoming almost universal in South Carolina. The special district levy is dependent on the decison of the voters and property owners of the community in which the school is lo cated. The money raised by this spe cial tax is spent under the direction of the local representatives of those who pay the tax and for the support of their local school. It is, in conse quence, one of the most popular forms of taxation in South Carolina. Under the laws of the State a school district may vote as high as eight mills special tax, and through a special act of the legislature at least one district ,r. the State levies a tax of 12 mills. These three elements, State appro priation, county levy, and district levy, will, no doubt, continue to be the basis of school support in this State. On the theory that help should be given only when people are willing to help themselves the State aid under the Garris act has been conditioned on the rcting of a special tax by the district. Phis is a principle founded on logic Ind common sense. It seems to me, however, that the listribution of the constitutional coun ;y three mill tax might be modified to ;ecure better results. Various modes )f distribution are in effect in the Unit id States. Many of the States take a special census each year of all chil Iren of school age in the districts, and Lppropriate the tax on this b-asis. This' >lan has nothing to recommend it ex ~ept its simplicity. The funds Which iave been raised by general county axation should be distributed in a flanner which will secure the best re, sults in school attendance and school afficiency. The district which makes he best use of its appropriation should 'eceive most consideration. There is 1o reason why funds should be appro priated to a district simply bedaued it ~as in it children Who are not in schbel. 'Th& Iegislai;ure of South Caro lina has to a certain extent recogniz ed this principle, and has fixed ten, days attendance as necessary to en rollment. It seems to me that the time has come to carry this principle a little farther, and to use the county tax as an instrument to develop school efficiency. The efficiency of a school can not be estimated by the number of children who have attended it for ten days. The object of the teacher, should be not to obtain mere enroll ment, but to secure the maximum school term, the maximum regularity in attendance, and the maximum pe riod of attendance from the children of the district. The trustees and pat rons should have a greater incentive to regular school attendance and a long er school term. The natural method of securing this result would be to divide the proceeds of the constitutional tax on the basis of the total days attend ance at school in the various districts. The adoption of such a basis would give a pecuniary incentive to the teachers, to the trustees, and to the patrons not only to enroll their chil dren in school, but to have them pre sent every day during the session and to continue the term for the longest possible period. Since these elements would depend largely upon the attrac tiveness of the school, the personal influence of the teacher, and the thor oughness of the instruction, the adop tion of the plan would furnish an in centive to trustees to secure the.best possible teacher. The resulting larger basis of appropriation would justify the board in paying her a larger sal ary. In the operation of this plan, how ever, the city school by virtue of its longer term would be given too decided an advantage and the increased city appropriation would materially crip ple the rural schools. The plan should bg. modified so as to conserve the de sirable elements, and at the same time place the city and the country school on~ equal footing. The Garris act gives' to any school which runs less than' 100 days on the regular school funds the benefit of the State appropriation for lengthening the school term.I believe the time has come for us to fix 100 days as the standard school term The( of( A hard force of < well after a sideboa1 He He hap] days after the one hi Oul Now th but what I fill a boo] He reli4 and so do The re It Cost Listen, If you v chase of fi you.a "sq1 doors of 1 and go to Think every wo and we'll Sumn The Bigli iouth Carolina. The basis of ap rriation, in my opinion, should be e months term, and the country scoo running five months or more old be placed on the same basis he city school running nine mnhs. The definition of enrollment tocrrespond with this idea might be ttd in substance as follows: In schools which continue for 100 asor less, the enrollment shall be h otal days attendance of all pupils o he school term. When the school ninues for more than 100 days, the eolment shall be the total days at nance of all pupils for the first 100 asof the term." I believe that the otion of some such definition of en roent would go far towards reliev n he inequalities and correcting the iswhich are so universally preval tunder the present definition. As Ihve stated in my previous articles, hs suggestions are tentative, and I sold be pleased to have them fully dcssed by every one interested in uation. W. K. Tate. tt Supervisor of Elementary Rural hools. Rub the Other Eye. Nne persons out of every ten with nder or any other foreign sub stanei the eye wil instantly begin ,orner on fide working young man, a ma: ircumstances was compell the family expense accour d recently in Newberry. paid $20.00 foi )ened to drop into our st( ward and saw an identical i had already bought. Price was $15. en this man knew all about e didn't know about furnitu d on some other man's j you every time you buy fu ult: him $5.00 for Expe ow ! Here's our argument iill accept our judgment in rniture and find that we d are deal", why then, we'll he biggest furniture store peddling brass clocks for a]1 t over. And if you don' d of the foregoing call at :ome across with the proof. ier & ite Front Fun to rub it with one hand while hunting for a handkerchief with the other. This is all wrong. The right way is not to rub the eye with the cinder in it, but to rub the other as vigorously as you like. A few months ago I was riding on the engine of a last express. The engineer threw open the front window of the cab, and, I caught a cinder in my eye, which gave me intense pain. I began to rub the eye desperately, when the engineer called to me: "Let that eye alone and rub the oth er one." Thinking he was chaffing me, I only rubbed the harder. "I know the doctors think they know it all, but they don't, and if you will let that eye alone and work on the other one you will soon have the cinder out," shouted the engineer. I did as he directed and soon felT 'the cinder down near the inner ca.a thus and made ready to take it o It. Let it alone and keep at the well ey e," again shouted the engineer. "I did- so for a minute longer, and th, looking into a small glass the engiect handed me, I saw the offen de on my cheek. I have tried it many times since, always with success." Chicago Record-Herald. Store nce. a who by d to look t, bought >re a few match to 00. his trade re would udgment rniture. ience. the pur on't give shut the in town Living. t believe our store Hipp liture Store He Took the Blame. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. August Herrmann, the new grand exalted ruler of the Elks, said at an Elks' banquet in Detroit: "The guilty man always gives him self away, for like the chap who bought the 40-cent bathing suit, he can't hide his guilty conscience. "The chap I have in mind entered the water at Atlantic City in a 40-cent suit of blue flannel. As he splashed about he was joined by a girl friend. The girl flashed her bright eyes over the tumbling expanse of sea and then, with a sigh of delight,, she said: "Isn't the water blue today?' "'It's shameful,' said the man, with a hot blush; it's perfectly shameful how this cheap bathing flannel runs!'" Success Magazine. The Scotchman could not find his ticket. On the conductor's second] round it was still missing. "Whiat's that in you mouth?" he asked. Sure enough, there was the missing ticket. The conductor punched it and went his way. "Ah, we'el," said Sandy, in reply to his fellow passengers' ban ter. "I'm nae sae absent-minded as ye wad think. 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