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r ? ^ FIGHT IILITERACY I IN SOUTH CAROLINA State Supervisor of Adult Schools Calls for Assistance From Citizens. Wws anil Courier. Columbia, June 21.?In the fight against illiteracy in South Carolina by the state department of education, Miss Will Lou Gray, state supervisor of adult schools, calls on the people of the state to see that V, the names of voters are signed to club rolls instead of the "mark'' of some of them being made. The people are called on to teach the illiter x ? ate voter how to write his name. Miss Gray says: I '"The campaign for a literate state being conducted by the state department of education and the illiteracy commission, will be continued with increased vigor during the summer. The two outstanding features of the work will be the organization of "Write-Your-Name-ClassesJ and c)f * Lay-by* schools; the first, for the nnrrmse of teaching every voter to sigrn his name to the uemociauv club rolls and the second, for the purpose of teaching at least ten v thousand men and women to read and write. Assistance is Now Needed. South Carolina, according to the rating by the Russell Sage Foundation ranks educationally lower than any state in the union. This should not be and need not be provided the : literate public will lend its assistance ' <-*o+o department of education 11 IO LI1C ovmw and the illiteracy commission in* tne fight against ignorance. Every public spirited man and woman- of the sfate, every one who has been blessed with an education and who has pride in his state, every teacher, every representative of the press, every \ minister of the gospel, every govern.? ment employe, every professional and business man, every farmer and mechanic, every mill president anti ' ?TC/vman. every superintendent, evcxj ?, . college student, every chamber of < commerce, every' club secretary, every farmer's association, every fraternal, social and religious organization is asked to lay aside selfish aims and to cooperate in working for a lit* ? erate state. The voters of the state are now being called upon to sign their name? to the club rolls. What showing wilr your home school precinct make? ~ state's Will it lower Or i aiot standard? In 1916 18 per cent, or ^ 11,878 of the voters signed their K names with a cross mark. Will you help change conditions by organizing at once a " Write-Your-Name" class? The appeal is to all who have a pride in the state. The teaching can ba done anywhere at any time. Advertise that the class will run three nights or three afternoons and th?? only men who have not had a chance | to learn to write will be admitted 1 ~ we urge time t/vuy cause then many of the best teachers in the state can be secure^ fo * one month's teaching and because that is the vacation month for the majority of the people. May Organize School. ^ Any teacher holding a valid teacher's certificate or any person recommended to the state superintendent of education in writing may organizv a school. The schools may be taught at any time or any piace. xuc u.m. 1 mum term will be twelve meetings of not less than one hour and. a half per meeting. The maximum termwill be twenty meetings. Teachers will be paid $1 per hour, provided at least ten pupils are enrolled with an average attendance of five. Any teacher may teach two separate groups in the same place or at two different places. No one group can be taught longer than two and a half hours. It is possible by this plan for a teacher to make $100 for the scholastic month, provided five hours of actual teaching is done with an enrollment of 20 pupils. If results from this campaign are , to be secured each county should organize for work at once. Eighteen counties have already notified the state department that they plan to put on an intensive campaign. County organizers are being employed whose duty it is to work in cooperation with the county superintendent of education for the promotion of the work. The state pays the teachersv but the employment of an organizer must be from local funds. The state department of education and the illiteracy commission stand ready to assist the individual counties in putting on the campaign, but ^, there should be some local demand. For further information, write the state department of education or the illiteracy commission, Columbia, S. I ^ c. I ^ i , SECRETARY TELLS OF OPPORTUNITIES] i , Mr. Meredith Points Way to Young Men Desiring a Successful Career. By E. T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture. Many young men in the various occupations of the cities find their minds turning: to thoughts of the outdoor life of the farm, but they do not know how to start farming. It is the purpose of this article to point the way to a successful career as a farmer. I assume the young m?n in question are looking about for a job that will give them use for their muscles combined with work for their brains and an outlet for their initiative-?something that yields a goo a living, and, most important of aJJ, has prospects for the future. A mere job is not enough. Etea A 'if the pay is good, there must be something to satisfy the ambitions of such a man. The man I have in mind does not want to be a wageearner all h:s life. He hopes for inI dependence in middle age and the | best of opportunities for his children, and he locks forward to an old age cf comfort and freedom from financial worry. ! For men of that type there are more chances on the farm than they may realize, and I should like to tell about a few of them very briefly. We may imagine such a man putting himself through an examination something W'e ^is: "How much money have you?" [ "aoi muci;.' "What do you know about farming?" "Very little; but I'm good and strong and hard work never scared me." "Whac would yrr like to do for a living?" "I would like to own a farm somewhere and work it. I'd like to live in decent stvle and marrv and bring: up a family."Own a Farm First Step. It is peculiar how the idea always crops up that the first step in farmI ing is to own a farm. "A farm of i your own" is ail right as a goal to look ahead to, but the ma"n who lacks either the requisite money or experience will reach the goal quicker by starting in as a hired man. If he has money and needs experience, he will not find it profitable to acquire and operate a farm until he has gained that skill and judgment which will enable him to manage a farm successfully. The cheapest and quickest way to gain this skill and knowledge is by working on a well-managed farm in the summer and attending the winter short course in agri-. culture at the . nearest agricultural college/ ' ' . , The young man without money will find working for .wages on the farm the means of saviiig a little money' and establishing his reputation as a skilled workman and a man of integrity. With a good reputation in these regards, but little money is required to start in as a tenant farmer where he can realize on the extra energy, the better skill, and the good management he is able to put into his farming business. The road is open to the "farm of your own," and the road is neither longer nor harder for one who likes farming than is the road to success in other occupations, but the safest way is to start in at the bottom and climb the agricultural ladder. It sucn a eiaso lO xm^v^w _ you to teach at least one voter tc write his name and to encourage oth' iU/, er public-spirited citizens 10 ao uu same thing:. This is a great piece of constructive, patriotic service in which all South Carolinians vre ask ed to share. The "Lay by" schools, In which over 5.000 adults were enrolled last vear will b^ re^reaniz^d in Augr^t This month has been selected as the suited for the adults be I do not remember any time when farm labor was in such great demand as at present, or when wages for unskilled farm labor were as good or when the standard of living on the farms was as high as it is now. From all parts of the country comes the demand for men who are not afraid of work. If the schedule of the day's wages in the cities appears lavish when compared with the pay of the farm laborer, just remember'that the latter gets his board and rent?and usually his washing and a lot of other things?and that in the cities where the wages are higher these things are commanding greatly increased prices. In other words, what the farm laborer receives in cash is pretty nearly clear gain. Most of it can be placed in the savings bank and begin to draw interest, while the wages paid in the cities shrink to something much less impressive when all the bills are paid. 1 In the right sort of farming comm?ni+TT Inf) fVio riorVlt cnrf nf farm. XllUlli VJ UX1U W1V UVi V WA AAA er's household, the hired man is received on his merits as a man. If he is a straight, clean sort of a fellow, his good qualities will be appreciated in the country as readily as in the city. A great deal more "so, I should say, for the individual human being seems to count-for more out on the farm than he does in a city, it? V? nr*?n o f r?nrv?VkQrcj A-f flmm v> vx aiv/ crowded together. In short, it is strictly up to the man himself to make good, and if he does so he will have no reason to complain of his social status. The custom in many parts of the country and among many progressive farmers is to take the hired man into the family, while in industries the worker may never even s e his employer and have no human contact with the man he works for. In t-I; 3 country we still have, in considerable measure, the old-time relations between the employer and the worker. The American farming regions form the great reservoirs of traditional American democracy. And living conditions in the country are not what they were a generation ago. A lot of -our notions about farm drudgery and hard living and isolation are ideas carried over from an earlier period when there were no electric lights, no bath tubs, no rural free delivery, no good roads to speak of, and when an automobile on the farm was as rare as an airplane today. If you want to judge what the farmer of today is buying for his home, read the advertising in any of * " * 1 _ T1 1J tne leading iarm journals, it wuuiu not pay the manufacturers of automobiles and pianos to carry advertising in farm papers if they were not selling goods of that character to the readers, and when we find all kinds of luxuries and high grade necessities advertised in the rural press, it means that there is a market for the things that make living more comfortable and easy. Automobiles and Roads. Good roads and the automboile have worked wonders in removing the greatest hindrance to progress in farming sections. The farmer, as a rule, is no longer completely isolated, but generally speaking, is within easy reach of some thriving, up-todate market center, and often within motoring distance of a great city. | Moreover, the movement to draw the farmers together in social life "* -i.? ATTftm onf Q 10 TV* ct* ana communis atincvcui^uM ? ju?^v beginning. With the active help of the department of agriculture and, the State agricuH ral colleges com-' munity enterprises are being promot cd so that the farmers may have their club houses fur recreation and business. The women are coming together more and more to work for the social life and 10 raise the standard of education and cukure. The little red school house is giving way rapidly to better buildings that would look well in any city. Such schools serve a large area ana give the farmer's children the same iwincntini-nl advantages as the citv children. The best of it is that all these efforts for the betterment of country life are in their early stages. There is great opportunity for the youug man with initiative and new deas to help make his community just what he wants it to be. And that is a lot more fun than finding something ready-made awa't:ng you. Business Is D.-terent. The business of agriculture is different from that of most industries. It gives the all-around man a chance to use his talents. It is not a matter of doing the same thing over and over again day after day as in some factories, for every month and every day brings its own special problems on the farm, and the man who is ingenious and clever at doing a variety of things has a chance to make good. In taking a job on a farm; look for one that offers employment for at least nine months of the year. While it may not be possible to get a job for the full twelve months, that is *not necessarily a great disadvantage. Find out where the nearest agricultural college is located and arrange to take during the slack period the short course which runs twelve or fourteen weeks during the winter. In these institutions tuition is free to citizens of the State, and the subjects taught include such practical matters as stock judging and feeding, soils and field crops, and under the subject of farm management, such topics as marketing, cost accounting and other business details of farm operation. Under farm en A 1 * gineering there is a course m me operation of farm machinery and implements, including tractors, also the planning of farm buildings and the general laying out of the land to secure best results. ! . It will be seen that, with nine months of practical work in the year and three months of training in the agricultural college a man who wants to get ahead can become a scientific farmer while he is saving up the capital to become an owner. COLBY NOT CARRYING ORDERS FROM WILSON \ Secretary of State Declares President Would Not Force Views on His Party. > Chicago, June 23.?Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state and delegate to the Democratic nat onal convention, who stopped in Chicago today on his way to San Francisco, denied he was taking any of President Wilson's dictums to the convention. "President Wilson has too much respect for his party to attempt to intrude his ideas or force his ideas upon the party in any open convention," he said. "I have had many conferences with the president but have not discussed a third term for him nor candidates for the presi/-3 Art n\r "Personally, I believe the convention will be singularly free from any attempts from any quarter to influence its deliberations or to give direction to its action." Mr. Colby said he was sure there would be some allusion made to the treaty of Versailles and the league of nations. "As far as I am concerned personally, I believe that the party should go before the people with a definite stand for the adoption of the treaty,'' he said. "I am for the league of nations without reservations because the language of the document is" quite clear." . Secretary Colby is a delegate at large from the District of Columbia. He emphatically denied that he was taking along a second place Knnm irt 1-n'c nwm Kplinlf A party of Virginians passed through Chicago today for San Francisco, to urge the nomination of Senator Carter Glass as the Democratic candidate for president. The party included Frederick W. Scott, member of the finance committee of the railroad administration; John Stewart Bryan, editor of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader; Thomas B.. McAdams, Richmond, vice president of the American Bankers' association; Armistead M. Dobie, a professor at the University of Virginia: John W. Craddock, Lynchburg and Buford Scott, Richmond. Lumber Prices Fall. Kansas City, June 23.?A general reduction of about 10 per cent, in lumber prices today was made effective in all retail lumber yards in Kansas City. The reduction ranges from S5 to SI5 a thousand. Chicago, June 23.?Lumber prices generally throughout the country /] A/tltvtA/] 1 9 f A OA TADY* IliXVc utximcu lium iu.w ^1.1 wuik during the past month, according to a large Chicago lumber company; which owns its woods and mills. i The reduction from what was termed the "hysterical high levels" j prevailing earlier in the season was brought about, it was said, by the: larger dealers, who sought to stabil-j ize the market and increase building. I 1 NOTICE. j All persons holding claims against j the estate of Mrs. R. Cummings Mc-j Cartha, deceased, will present same,! duly attested, to me or my Attorneys j Hunt, Hunt and Hunter, Newberry,: S. C., cn or before the 25th day of j June, 1920. T. P. McCartha, Administrator of the personal estate of Mrs. R. Cummings McCartha, deceased. May 26th,. 1920. Subscribe to The Herald and News, $2.00 a year. i ! ggs&gy iffijaffgp *&&&? I TRANSFf will furnish ience of the city resideno Write, caU you how v installing t Kirhv F AUI Ml M i Jno. C. Baker, r i ! AVOID: 1 ' I . I Winthrop College j SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award o: vacant Scholarships in Winthro] College and for the admission of nev students will be held at the Count? Court House on Friday, July 2, a j 9 a. m. Applicants must not be les: j than sixteen years of age. Whei | Scholarships are vacant after July i | they will be awarded to those makinj ! the highest average at this examina tion, provided they meet the condi tions governing the award. Appli cants for scholarships should write t< r->?, T^n?ftn before the exami IriCdlUClIb U Vuoxv.. nation for scholarship examinatioi blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 an( free tuition. The next session wil open September 15th, 1920. Fo: further information and catalogue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Hoc! j Hill, S. C. [SPECIAL ELECTION IN SALUD/ SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15. Whereas, one-chird of the residen freeholders and a like proportion o: the resident electors of the age oj twenty-one years in the Saludi School District, No. 15, the Count] of Newberry, State of South Carolina h^ve filed a petition with the Counts iT*,.!?rvl nf T'.rhiration of Newbem | A/lfM*. M w* i County, South Carolino, petitionirj and requesting that an election b( held in said School District on th? question of levying a special ta: of six (6) mills on the taxable school property within the said schoo i district: Now, therefore, we the undersignec composing the County Board of Edu cation for Newberr County, Stat< of. South Carolina, do hereby ordei the Board of Trustees of the Sa : luda School District, No .15, to hole 1 an election on the said question oJ . levying: a special tax of si? I (6) mills to be collected on the prop | erty located within the said Schoo ! District, which said election shall D? held at the Saluda school house 'in the said school district, No.* 15, or ; Wednesday, the 7th day of July ; 1920, at which said election the polls i shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. Trustees of said School District shall act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in' said School District and return real oi personal property for taxation, and rwho exhibit their tax receipts and nflT.+,'fi/io+oo ne ronnirod in ICgiauatlUll k.ClbiUkabvd uw i .U general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposedt to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seals this the 14th day of June, 1920. C. M. WILSON, (L. S.) 0. B. CANNON, (L. S.) J. B. HARMAN, (L. S.) County Board of Education Subscribe to The Herald and News, ift ming em /iUlllilU A1VX Why move tc you can enjoy veniences in y< country home? every comfort most modern ar a or phone and k /e can save you )elco-Light on y< Itl/UH/ UU 3 L G. McCullough, dewberry, S. C SMOKY OIL NOTICE OF ELECTION To Be Held in Newberry School Dis? | trict on the Question of 'Issuing 1 Coupon Bonds to the Amount of ^ Sixty Thousand Dollars, for the J Purpose of Erecting, Improving t and Equipping School Buildings in 3 the Town ot IN ewberry. 3 - ^ Whereas, by act of the General Asl sembly, approved-March 11, 1920, the Board of Trustees of Newberry Schv ol District is authorized and re quired to order an election at which 3 the question of issuing coupon bonds - not to exceed sixty thousand dollars, i to be used for the purpose of erecting, improving and equipping school 3 building in the town of Newberry, 1 shall be submitted to the qualified P electors; , And Whereas, on the 21st day of i June, 1920, the Board of Trustees of Newberry School District, by resolu tion duly adopted, ordered that an i election be held on the third day of - - - ? ~ ~ . 11 L 1 July, iyzu, at tne court nuuse, t Newberry, on the question of istjing c coupon bonds to the amount of sixty e thousand dollars, maturing twenty; years from date, and bearing interest from date at five per cent., pay' able semi-annually; appointed H. L. ' Speers, J. R. Davidson* and S. S. ; Cunningham managers of the elec't tion; and authorized the chairman \ and secretary of the board of trus; tees to publish notice of the elecJ tion: i ' i ? M A BLLSMINU 1 J I rj that the cotton mills i fits and will continue E High Prices For C ij tained by the interes ;| mills and the buildin !; High Wages Can ] [i efficiency of cotton i mi r* 1 l. i rnereiore, we Dei i will continue to j through mutual inter ical time to buy mill they are available an parently struck botto Write or 'phone m shall endeavor to giv< G. LELAND Greenvil Office Phone 12&8 Residence Phone 3088 4 IAL LIFE > town when . ? all city con>ur farm or Delco-Light and convenid up-to-date V \ f it us show money by >ur farm. #? vice to. H. Pet Baker I I LAMPS S I * / f i i i , . I * . - ? ^ 1 J ia Viprphv tnven. That az& Ji election" will be held in Newberry* ? School District, July 3rd, 1920, at which tne question of issuing coupon* bonds to the amount of sixty thousand dollars, maturing twenty years" after date and bearing interest from date at the rate of five per cent; per annum, payable semi-annually, for the purpose of erecting, improving and equipping school buildings in the . Town of Newberry, will be submitted to the qualified electors of the School District;* that the polls will be1 opened at the court house not later " " - JKV J than 10 o'clock in the morning ana kept open until five o'clock in the* afternoon; that H. L. Speers, J. R?. Davidson and S. S. Cunningham, have been appointed managers of the election; that those voting in favor of the issue of bonds shall cast a ballot on which is printed the wordsr "For issue of bonds?Yes," andf those voting against the issue of bonds shall cast a ballot on which shall" be printed the words, "For the issue of bonds?No." By order of the Board of Trustees of Newberry, School District, June 21, 1920. W, G. MAYES, Chairman Board Trustees of Newberry School District. Attest: ** J. Y. McFALL, ~ "" CI Secretary Board Trustees.. J Subscribe to The Herald and New* $2.00 a year. O THE SOUTH ; s have made large pro^ i 1 ; ! to maKe ttiem. . ^ a Cotton will be mainit of the farmers in g of more mills. 3e Maintained by the nill employees. ieve that the South ?row and progress ests, and that the logstocks is now when td the market has apm. !' e your listings and I 3 you earnest service. i SUMMER, lie', S .C. ?*? S Ka*?k? m*. f, O. Vo* >83