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^ 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
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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
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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.
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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
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'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'
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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.
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[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
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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
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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.
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^ 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
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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
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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
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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.
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