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Entered at the Postofmice - - berr, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, February 9, 1912. The News and Courier on one or two occasions made editorial comment en the fact that the editor of The Herald and News, who happens at this time to be county superintendent of education for Newberry county, favor ad compulsory education while the governor of the State was opposed to it. The editor of The Herald and News during his service in the legislature introduced at two different sessions a bill providing for compulsory educa tion and he still believes that such a law should be passed, and he also b ?ieves that there is nothing in the argument, or so called argument, that it would force ther negro children to school. There is cause for alarm along these lines, for the negro chil dren are taking advantage of the school facilities afforded more readily and more generally than the white children, and that is the reason, or one of the reasons, for advocating some sort of law that will force the white parents to protect the rights of their children in the matter of their educa tion and training. THE SPLIT LOG DRAG. It seems to us that all the county papers in South Carolina are engaged in a contest to see which can preach most effectively the virtues of the split-log drag. The Newberry Herald and News, a pioneer advbcate, reportW many converts among Newberry coun ty farmers and pledges itself to have something to say on this subject inI every issue. The Timmonsville En terprise says that the drag is being used on the streets of Timmonsville as well as upon Florence county roads, and with good results. The same thing is being done in Sumter. The Green wood Journal and the Laurens Adver tiser tell of farmers in 'both those counties who have been using the drag on the roads in the vicinity of their homes, and 'the Journal boasts that! in that county every road was dragged before. the last rain. The growing popularity of this simple but highly useful' device for keeping the hih ways in good condition is very grati fying; as is the disposition of the far mers in the matter. But it is just as, well to bear in mind that no country! in all the history of the world ever built or maintained good highways by a system of voluntary co-operation. News and Courier. It is quite 'probable that the editor of The Herald and News will keep his! promise to have something to say on the subject of the split log drag for sometime to come, at least. He is now having practical experience of the cou ditions of the public roads of this county, and when one sees- the great improvemfent that comes to a road from the p~roper use of the split log drag by traveling a road on which the drag has not been used and realize's the difference in the two roads, it is very difficult not to speak of it. even if one is so inclined. We had that experience only this week, and we can not understand why the paopte who *have constant occasionI t' use the put lic roads will not utilize this chean device upon their --oads. It is true, as the News and Courier says, that no country in the history of the world ever built or mainta'.ned good higl~ ways by voluntary contribution either of money or .effort, and it is also true that it would pay the people who have constant use of the roads to apply the split log drag. It would sav'e them time and money and until the people realize the. value of good roads and are willing to pay the price, we will continue to insist upon this small vol untary contribution. If we could make the people realize that even the taxes spaid'for permanent roads are not on the same footing as taxes paid for maintenance of the government, we believe that they would be willing to make this investment, for it is an in vestment that will pay larger divi 4dends than any other the people could ~possibly make. WHY N~OT VISIT RURAL SCHOOLS I .,We believe if the legislature would arrange -a trip for its members into the rural districts, and let the mer bers see the condition of the public schools in this State and realize the inadequate support which is being giv en for the education of the children of the State, instead of some of these jaunts which they are making to State colleges, that their view-point would be very materially changed. Anyone who at all keeps up with the trend of legislation in recent years, and par ticularly the appropriation of public funds, will observe that any proposi tion to erect new buildings or increase the maintenance funds for State insti tutions of higher learning usually goes through without opposition, while any proposition for the betterment of the country schools is usually fought very bitterly and many times by those who are most vitally interested in the coun try school. We noticed only the other day that the proposition to give the university $50,000 for a new building went through without contest, while we un derstand that the request for $40,000 for building fund to aid the rural schools in the erection of at least comfortable buildings was fought and will probably be cut in half. We won der sometimes if the legislature real izes that more than ninety per cent. of the children of South Carolina nev er have the opportunity of a college education, and yet, the State spends on its higher institutions of learning about one half as much as is being spent by the State upon the entire public school system of South Caro lina. This expenditure does not in clude the money that is being spent in the maintenance of private and de nominational colleges. There are about two thousand boys and girls in all the State institutions of higher learning, (we are speaking of the white institutions), while there are more than one, hundred and fifty thousand children in the common schools, ninety per cent. of whom will never have the advantage of a college education. Yet when the legislature comes to vote away the people's mon ey, they do not hesitate to give fifty thousand for one building at one State institution, while they quickly cut one half of forty thousand that is asked in order to. encourage the rural schools to improve the buildings to be used by these ninety per cent. of the children of the Statse. It is past understanding why the parents of these children will quietly submnit to this discrimination; and this less than ten per cent. of the chil dren who take a college course in many cases are amply able to do so without the aid of the State. As we see it, the most vital question before the -people of the State today, is the betterment and improvement not so much of the teaching in the country'schools, but the environment of the children while in these schools. And by this statement we do not in the least disparage proper traning. Many a girl, with poor equipment, at forty dollars a month, is doing more for the education of the children of the State than your highly paid college professor. INVESTIGA TIONS, AD NAUSEAM. It would seem that the people of South Carolina--the people of the va rious counties-might get together and elect delegations to the general as sembly who would not have to appoint investigating committees at every ses sion to investigate sub-committees of their own members. This matter of investigating comn mittees in South Carolina has about reached the limit. It is now getting nauseating. NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Over 200 Bales of Cotton Were Mfark. eted on Wed at' Iay- - iwze. Pros.perity, Feb. 8.-Mr. and Mrs. L M. Calhoun, of Barnwell, are guests of Mrs. C. M. Harmon. Dr. C. K. Wheeler, of Columbia, is spending a few days with the home folks. Master Max Schum,pert, of Dallas, Texas, is visiting his midle, ~Mr.'J. C. Schumpert,. at Wise hotel. M. S. T. TKnn is in Salishnry, . C. attending the laymen's convention. H will visit Baltimore before returnin, home. Mrs. Carrie Moseley, of Clinton, i spending a while with her brothel Mr. G. D. Brown. Miss Annie Moseley has returne home, after spending several month in Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. J. A. Hodges is visiting friend in Orangeburg. Mr. C. F. Lathan, of Little Mountair spent Tuesday in Prosperity. Miss Julia Schumpert has returne from Goidville, where she spent th week-end. Mr. R. E. Shealy, of Augusta, Ga., i spending a few days at his home. Mr. J. M. Griffith, of Fountain Inx was a business visitor in town thi week. The roads in Prosperity have bee dragged and the holes filled, so no' it looks as though the sand and cla roads are a success. Mrs. D. J. Taylor and daughter vis ited Mrs. W. P. Bedenbaugh in th St. Luke's section. The farmers of No. 9 are going i strong for the "Rock Hill" plan. The William Lester chapter of I D. C. met Wednesday afternoon wit Mrs. F. E. Schu.mpert. Over two hundred bales of cotte were marketed here on Wednesdai the price being 10 cents. On the evening of February 1, 191: at the Lutheran parsonage, by Rei E. W. Leslie, Mr. George M. Eptin and Miss Daisy 0. Fellers were unite in holy matrimony, all of Newberr county. Mr. J. Willie Bedenbaugh has a< cepted a position with the Prosperil Furniture company. I THIS BIRD OF PREACHER OPENS CHURCH WITH TEL] Hillsdale, N. J., Feb. 5.-Church sei vices opened with an excellent imitz tion of a college yell and intersperse by music from a choir of whistlin boys is the novel winter program the Methodist church here of whic the Rev. William Bird is pastor. Th experiment was tried for the first tim last night and is pronounced a com plete success by the minister. The choir boys lined up on the pla; form at th'e opening of the servic4 and .gave their "club yell," which i asfollows: "Cy, my friend-have you seen Second Timothy-two fifteen? Firn Thessalonians-five, twenty-two. Tell you exactly what to do." W. E. PERRY NOT CAUGHT. Reported Capture of Langdon Boozer Slayer an Error-$1,000 Re-. ward. IChester, Feb. 5.-The publication i: certain Georgia papers of an item t the effect that W. E. Perry, wante here for the alleged murder of Lana don L. B3oozer, of Newberry, in 1901 led Sheriff Colvin to wire the Colun bus authorities today for informatioi but the reply came back that no suc ~arrest has been made. There is -a reward of $1,000 fc Perry's capture, and innumerabi times he has been reported as i custody, but each time the story turr out to be a mistake. WAS PRESIDENT DAVIS'S CLEPli Also Last Treasurer of Confederac; Dies in Washington. IWashington, Feb. 5.--M. H. Clark,< Clarksville, Tenn., confidential clei to Jefferson Davis during the civil we and the last acting treasurer of fl Confederacy, died here today. He' wa 82 years old. Mr. Clar'k recently pri sented to the congressionial library number of relics and historical doc1 ments, among them ti1' last signatui of Jefferson Davis. He came here three ----a -r died at the home of n ' -Nla Edward S. Munford. Th won a natis of Richmond, but ear'- " "E: --or.t i Tennessee. Mrs. Robert M -rf I The State.' 6th. Mrs. Robert Murrell is eritically i at her home on west Elmwood avent and her recovery is in doubt. Mr Murrell is the wife of Robert Mul rell, engineser on the Southern rai way, and before her marriage we Miss Eugenia Russell. daughte of t1 late Jacob S. Russell, of Newberr She is the niece of R. H. Jenning State treasurer. Asthma! Asthma POPHAM'S ASTHMA REMED gives instant relief and an absolute Cu. Iin all cases of Asthma. Bronchitis. at KJHay Fever. Sold by druggists ; mail < receipt of price $z.oo. ITrial Package by mall 10 cents. WLlAMS MFG. C. Props.. 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