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W WM |J)e ||eraiD urtD jeiBS. \ _ a Catered at the Postoffice at New- | 1 I 5 *^rrjr, S. C., a? 2nd clas* matter. _ t E. H. AULL, EDITOR. i [ Friday, June 17, 1I>21 * _ t We can not understand how a man j who has been honored with the office of state attorney general and with congressman from his district, and then by the people with the great office of United States senator, could . in the evening of life will be willing ^ to even consider, much less to seek or think or accepting, the job of meting out the pitiful little federal ^ patronage from the party he has fought, and in opposition to the party that has so honored him. It is beyond our comprehension. We had rather cro down the hill in poverty !" i standing by the party that has *o honored us, and remain true to the traditions of the country and of our forbears, after receiving all these C honors, than to possess oven the temporary "honor" an;t prestige which T could come from any such desertion of the people who had bestowed all these honors in the past. We do not { believe it is true that any South Carolinian will do any such thing, and yet the daily papers tell us that that ! very arrangement is now being made. ^ TRYING TO HELP < Newberry county is fortunate in J having as supervisor of colored r schools so sane and sensible a colored v man as XJ. S. Gallman. He goes about 0 his work in a sensible and humble 11 manner, and does not put in the minds of his colored people any foolish no- : tions, but is endeavoring to make,v fWm understand the uroner relations IP that.should exist between the races, * and as superintendent of education c it shall- be my duty and purpose to c assist and cooperate with him in his a work'so far as I may be able to do so. a That is to say the supervisor for col- 1: ored. schools in Newberry county is s Working intelligently and with the use v of comJncn .sense and is endeavoring t to and direct the negro in the ]>'< ? -..-ill kn fVio rprmh S l> vein ot Av/i >,J?V ~ ? 6f the race andyalso for the peace and i f happiness of both races. - ? S | ' ?? & i ( J i 'artn one of those who believes thai. ^ it is thje duty of the white1 people to 0 ta^t .charge of and direct the educa- :f tion of the negro. It is a duty we owe to'the negro race and so long r.s t the two races live together anu the k negrfc is willing to have us do so:it h should [be our duty to lead and direct 11 thim anil let him know the proper rela.-]!' tioifer that must exist to the happiness v and proseperity of both. There are not r a few {rich philanthropists up in the; north and the west who think they * must? use some of .their money in help- I inp the negro to be educated, and d they are willing now to send then' s contributions to the state department t of education and let it be used by th'? v property constituted state authorities, t and in. connection with what the stato r may .appropriate for these purposes. d urwl unlock wi> Ho take hold of the 1 matier and show some sort of inter-j est these philanthropists will under- \ take to spend their money independ- j t ently, and such a course would bo j bad. for the people of the state, ar.-I! j also for the negro, and would result! t in great loss of money and energy,! t and net get very far in accomplishing 2 results. For these reasons, as well as r to perform my duty as I see it, I am a cooperating with the negroes wher- f ever I may be able to do so, and al- 1 ways with the endorsement and co-js operation of the local trustees, and j a whenever I attend a meeting -and I f make talks it is with the understand- j ing that the white trustees of the di--j trist are willing and will attend the ! 3 meeting. I was disappointed on Sur.day afternoon at Antioch Baptist |I church at Prosperity, where I had a^-U cepted an invitation :o speak to theji negroes, not to find some of the trus-j = 1 - i-l.l I , tecs prcsenc, ana .so iuui me but I reckon the wreck down the ro: d j-J Ijad attracted every one round about.1 1 When I attend these negro meetir. Ts * the purpose is to help where I may be j c able, ar.d as superintendent of edu- ( i cation endeavor to use what influen c I I may have in directing1 the negroes in ; c the right wav. and to show them t i where it is to their interest to cooper- i t ate w'tk the white folk and the con-p stituted authorities, and that i wasp willing? to help wherever they <li;l this; s and would help themselves. I flatteijc myself that I have already done some 1 Gfood alonjr this line, and that someji waves of influence have been set in ; motion that will br!:\;r forth ?0i?d j -t fruit in the future. But be that as itji may. I have the consciousness of hav-ji ir?<r d<?ne my duty, and that is all the;} reward I am seeking. I; jl We finished the present school;' - i?:i At. HI,y, . > > i . year a wee duiiuu^ ?*. .ml. **. for the colored people. The negroes ji arc \vovl:ing f<> n srhoci j' .t Prosperity, another at Little >iountain, another at or in t!ie Fairiew district, another at Chappells imi another at Belfast. The plan is ? fnnsniwi#iTf? in one School house evcral districts and thus be able to save only school where now there are hree with nothing: accomplished. And n all of these schools the purpose will >e to teach the neirro to do the things hat in the very nature of the condiions he will have to do and to do hem better and more efficiently. If could just pet the white folk to seche great advantage of having: some >f the very small districts g:et torether and have a real school then ve could do something: worth while n the educational development of he county. I rejrret to say that some of the vhite folk are not manifesting the interest in the ' betterment of their school conditions they should. There ire several communities in which something should be done. I have * * H. J. T ndicated to tne peopie mat i wa^ eadv and willing to cooperate, but hat the doing1 must be by them. It is rue, however, that before anything an be done to lay the plans for a ystem of schools in this county it is mportant that the district lines houid be established. It is imposible to do any substantial constructive work that will be worth while unil this is done. I have asked the del gation in the legislature to authorize t, and to provide the means to pay he cost, but just like every other rejuest that I have rtiade or suggestion t has been ignored and the delegaion has not even discussed the matter irith me. I can not legislate. I can nly do the best that I can in administering the laws that are made. I m so constituted that I love to do hings and to see results, and it does irorry me no littie when I find it imiosible to do constructive work for he building: of a school system in this ounty that is worth while, simply beause you can not have so important , thing done as this I have suggested, nd especially when your suggestion 5 so lightly treated by the only perons who can furnish the relief, and ;hen you see money of the county hrown away on investigations miu avishly expended on health units and o on ad infinitum. The children safer. And they do not wait. They row right on out of .the school, and hey do not come this way any more. Iany times you will find people ivho bject to doing things that are really or their own good, and criticize the lan who is trying to do them when hey must know that it is of a&solutey no personal interest or gain to ? * rv"f Vl V Ljm, eXCtpt IUC aatisiawivii tig done something-worth while. I 3\*e people with a vision, people rhose vision at least is far enough to each beyond their own nose. This > far afield from what I startei out o write, but it is near my heart and have such an interest in trying to !o something that will help that I can carcely write or speak without geting on it. And when the doing of it cn lit tip fomnared with V u U I U V wv he good it would accomplish in permitting you to go about the work of loin? something and doing it inteligently. Some time ago I promised to atend a meeting at the Ml. Hebron olored school house on the Sunday u>t passed, and to talk to them about ho raisin.tr some money to pay some hinsrs ihat arc still due down there md must be paid. And then came the equest to stop at Prosperity in the ifternoon and talk to the colored peo>!e there, who are endeavoring to aise money with which to build a ichocl house, and who in fact have ilready raised a quite nice little sum 'or this purpose. I asked my friend Mr. B. B. Lei'.zey to <ro with me on this trip, so vitli two of my American hoys and S. Gallman, the supervisor for col>red schools, I hooked up on Sunday nornir.sr and drove out by Mr. Leitz;ey's iesidence, and then we drove iown by Mr. Tom Folk's and Mr. fohn Oxner's out to Mr. Caldwell bull's and over to Mr. W. B. Bomn r . H.i rpjwi \st's on the way to :vu. neuron, mc >nlv stop that I made on the way was i brief one at Mr. Boinest's, and he lad gone to church, and then I drove )!i over to Mr. Richardson's, well all he Richardsons nearly live rijjht in his community. Walter and Mr. Tom are trustees of the district in vhich is located this Mt. Hebron school, and 1 wanted to <ret some one >r more of the trustees to y:o ion>r. iVhen I drove up to Mr. T. P. Richirdson's we found that he was having i birthday dinner. -lust to think of i man as old as Mr. Tom having a - - - ' ' ' ' 3 .1 .. birthday, out r.e uiu, a::u mc> u<iw <. ir.e dinner of roast pi? and barbecue lash and all the other irootf things hat tro alonjr with it. 1 told the jrood \>lk that I would he. to jro on and ill my appointment, and that we .vould stop and eat dinner as we reurned on the way to Prosperity. Vh'< w ?liu urn !ho way r>ur 'at that dinner would do your heart good, if you did not have to furnish the floods to supply the things to eat, ' but then he enjoyed it so much it was even a pleasure to furnish the pork and the hash, and Mr. Tom enjoyed * ? - -1-3 +U..*. I seeing' iiur cat and was giau nun j had brought him along. And then to think that he admitted he had nevei been right in this immediate community. * There was a fine crowd at Mr. Hebron and I talked to them and trier to jrice them an inspiration to jrc 'ahead and raise the money necessary to take up all outstanding obligation* and this I am sure they will proceec to do just as fast as they can and thai i they have pride enough in having the J best school house for colored peopk in the county to work together to hel] 'all they may be able. They took u] a collection Sunday and raised a righl good little sum and the work of rais ing the money will be continued. In the afternoon we drove arount by Jolly Street and out in the Colum bia road at Excelsior, and just as w< came in the road we saw that line ol ' cars along the road toward the rail road and I knew at once there hac: been some sort of accident. We stop ' ped and Mr. Leitzsey went down tc see what the trouble was, and as wc ' could be of no service we drove on tc Prosperity where there was the ralh of the colored people to raise monej to erect a new school house. There was a large crowd at the Antiocr i Baptist church and I made a talk anc explained how the county and state and Rosenwald would cooperate i1 ; they showed a willingness to helj themselves and to do something. An ! other collection was raised with the result of over $50 for the cause. Ai both these - places Mr. Leiizsey alsc talked to the people and gave then' ? ri f rm r n crp rn p n t. The road around the way we wenl is fairly good and the new roads would be fine if we could get a rair so that the fine dust could get packec and settled, but just now the dust u so bad that it is almost like traveling ? - 1 1 -p/\or or trying to travel m ? utuoc j. Especially as you meet the speeders or as they drive around you and leave their dust for yourpleasure:-' But we 'will have a good road between New berry and Prosperity as soon as i1 gets settled. The best part of it is along by Mr. J. C. Ned's where the} have applied the . right sort of tor i _ soil, and Mr. NeeL js correct, uniess the right sort of top soil is put on the ' roads it is hardly woith -while to builc : them because they, will not last. Bui :'the main thing that the roads neeci now is some water so that the loose dirt may be properly mixed. | E. H. A. !<s> AMONG THE SCHOOLS 1 & <t j <}> $ '$ <?> <??<$> ><;> ?> <S> <?> <& $ ! The schools in the county have al ! closed and so far as I am able tc judge there has been a very success ful year among them. Only a few have ;had a less term than seven months | Several of the rural schools had eighl ! months and a couple nine months. W< ' should work to the point where nc i rural school has a le?s term thar I eight months, and preferably nin< months. We should not expect th< children nor the teachers in the rura tn fin in seven months whai is done by city and towns schools ii i nine months. It is coming. Greai | progress has been made in the school: I -in the country in the last few years j The county treasurer has completec ; his statement of the collection o1 i taxes and has ready the amount to th< credit of each district, and just a: I soon as I can enter the amount on m\ i ledger I will mail the trustees a state '' ..a.. ; ment showing1 just now me uistnu. (stand, and then they will know hov ; to arrange for the coming year. W< ; had only ten districts that qualifier ;for state aid under the equalizing lav j guaranteeing a seven months term tl took the applications to Columbia j on Tuesday and the state superintend . ent \vent over them with me and mad< i allotment. He gave us all that i: coming, though the standard of meas urement was a little different fron i what I had expected, but I am inclin jed to the opinion that he is correct j He counts the income of the distric jfrom the several sources and then th( i amount paid teachers according to th< , salary set by the state and makes u{ jthe deficit. He does not allow any 'thing for incidentals and fu?/l ant 'building. And as this appropriatior i tn criuimntee the salary of th< I teacher there can be no just criticisn j of this adjustment of the deficit. Tin jdistricts will have to provide the in jcidentals from some other source 'jeither by the addition of a Snail ta: J or raise the funds in some other way These ten districts will ?et aroum j $9,000. Instead of taking the exac 'j amounts the treasurer :ias euueiici {he takes the amount the auilitor say: jshou M Ho rni^eri hv the special t;ix > . Fortunately in this county in the sev-j ; eral districts for which aid was asked! ,'have paid practically all the tax so| J [that there is very little difference in| :|the statement of the treasurer and' : the auditor, hut it means that each j j one of these districts will have a! i small deficit that will have to be pro-' 'jVided for in some way. The state superintendent interprets this act to mean to guarantee the salaries of the teachers and that the trustees must - provide in some other way to care llfor the incidentals and in that view it I > i would seem that he was correct. '! :' Mr. Swearingen was a very busy !' mar the day I was there, and all the :. rest in the office were at work, and he ' said he hoped to send out the checks 4 for this money during the present > week. It is very remarkable the >j wonderful grasp he has on the schools t|of the state, and when you think of - the larjre number and he will tell you ! about the details and the finances of | the individual districts of your own 1 county, you flatter yourself that - he is more concerned about your ?t county possibly than some of the - others, but when you <"ome to Know that he has the san.e information ' about the districts in all the fortv six counties, the little conceit or what> | ever you call.it that you had is knock cd into a cocked hat or something > else, and vou realize that he is the l 7 same to ail the superintendents and r all the schools of the state, that is so - lon<r as he finds that you are dealing > fairly and squarely with him. My in1 terview was indeed very pleasant and i satisfactory, and while he went into r the details of the income and the ex> penditures very carefully, and it took us about three hours to check up the ten districts in which I had ap: plications, when we finished he had 11 1 -^ J 4-V? n Kooic Vl O ' 0(1 HI 1 X U Uii l/iiuaoio iiv ! has adopted for the distribution of jthis fund, and in accordance with his .'view of the' intention of the legisla:, ture in the passing of the law and in ' accordance.with the terms of the act, 1 and there could be no reasonable obl jec-tion to the method of distribution which he adopted. I left Newberry on Tuesday morning at six o'clock and had two of my American Jboys and U. S. Gallman, the supervisor of colored schools. The driving was. fine at that hour and we made the trip with comfort and ease as the road~was not crowded at that 5. time of the1'day and the dust was noi so bad. I made a stop of more than ' a half hour at Little Mountain and ; reached Columbia a little after 9 1 o'clock, which is about the schedule* ' I usually Aake. At Little Mountain : I persuaded Jim Shealy to go along ' with me. , We, drove down the new : rosftl to Hijton, though it has not been ; completed all the way, but all but j'some top soil it is finished to the ; RichlandJ&ie, which is within a very ishort distance: of Hilton. From H'ilton we went on to White Rock and . I ' . fl-inn turned toward the Spring Hill ! road and came into it at the school , house just below Spring Hill. The iroad through here is not very good, ),but when completed it will be a fine road. The Richland part is not work* \ '' ed out, but a force is now at work on it and within the next three weeks I or more it will be onen down to Bal', lentine an;j from there it croes out in) * , to the old Spring Hill road. J ' "! It is said that Richland is going to " extend the cement road on up this way possibly to the Lexington line. ^ It has started out the road toward the 1 Broad river bridge, but has not got^ ten but a little way beyond the cross\ ing of the Seaboard road. If 't should * | be extended it will make a fine road ? all the way to Columbia. The heavy r grade of the hill this side of the river is to be taken out. And tne roan straightened. That will be a great improvement. :i ? g! On the return trip James K. Sheal.v - did the driving for me to I.ittle Moun3 tain. He is an expert in the handling I of a car. I told him when the legis; lature allowed me a sufficient traveling expense to pay for the gasoline in dointr the trav 1 m<ti/ imu iu wv v.. ... _ elinir that was necessary I would en? gage him for a chauffeur and pay him 5 with the balance. We were not an. noyed very much either going or rei turning: with cars passing: or in the . meeting of them and in that we were . fortunate for the dust was terrible, t After I left Little Mountain two cars, . big ones, driven by ladies, shot by me ? ! -- >*oni/1 vjito > without warning ac a wi.i >!and left such a cloud of dust that I I . had to stop in order for the dust to 1 blow away so that I mijrht see the i read. I think I had the pleasure of >f driving by one of these just before i-I reached Newberry, and there was _> some sort of tire trouble. I did not . stop because I am not an expert in /the mending: of cars and the yountr cj ladies seemed to have plenty of help. 'j The road needs a rain so that the ' .fine dust may be mixed and settled ';and then the road bed will be tine all si the way of the new road, j E. H. A. 3U Newhi I I At Newbei I I i I Obiecti r 1. To give students leges with conditions i ity to work off their co 2. To enable ap] Freshman class at thes< any other college, who few necessary units, ai 4 r\ /-inalifv fnv fVlP FVpS IV V.| i Vi. WAAV - - ~ ? 3. To provide thon lion in matter and meth school teachers who f of additional preparatic jects taught in the pub' this State. i The work done at th Summerland school from the State Departr cation the same recc given to other summe the State. FACULTY AND S1 Pedagogy?Presiden roe and Prof. R. A. Go Psychology?Preside rick. y v Civics?Geo.* B. Croi English?E. B. Setzli History and Latin? wald, Ph. D.< I Modern kanguagesKeister, A. M. Mathematics and ? C. Kinard, A. M. Primary Methods?j) ter Quattlebaum.' % A ] SECURITY Resoui The Natioi New B. C. MATTHEWS, irlonf 1 I V'OIUVII V* I One Anita Werts, colored, paid $3 j at recorder's court Wednesday for as-j j sault and battery. ' j "Hal and Henry'* Heard From. In our issue of June 3, an ad called j attention to "Zane Grey Week," un-J der the oatchv title of "It's Henry and ! Hal This Time," Hal being Kohn of the book store selling the hook and Henry being Wells of the opera house running: the ad slides. Both spoke for themselves and did the work. One of the results is the following letter,' which we take pleasure in using as' some "copy:" I New York, June 13th, 1021. j Mr. Hal Kohn, New Book Store, Newberry, S. C. | Dear Sir: | We certainly think Hal is a live i J wire ar.d his New Book Store is cer- J tainly destined to >ucceed. Linking! up with Henry was no doubt a stroke j of enterprise that brought its results.' As publishers of the Zane Grey' - - * , I j Popular Editions, we v. ish to say tnai j we have received nothing from the' J various book sellers who have rej sponded to our little note of request, that has pleased us more than what we received from you, Mr. Kohn. It is a source of great satisfaction to know that we have such an enter- 1 prising bookseller in the little city of . I Newberry, S. C. One of the pleasant it surprises, although it should not be! \ a surprise, is what we receive, in the i way of enterprising stunts, that arc'} mmer Term erry-Summer Ic Colleges rry July 11-August 19 Penmanship and * L. Clifton Moise.. of these col- 1>,lblic Lectures . in opportun- The minimum : nditions. conditional admissi plicants for class of all the Coll ? colleges, or is 13 units. Unco may lack a sjon requires 15 ur i apporunity hman "lass. . EXPENSES, EOUl ^u^li instrucods to public The expenses wi eel the need $jo.00. Board and >n in the sub- lights and watei lie schools ot Each room is furr mattress, table t fnifinn nf all fppf'l p Newberrv- ? will rocpivo t0 teaeh in Newben ncnt of Edu- Pf?" *>* ?he Co^ ignition as is of Education. An r schools of made to secure this Counties represent* [TD,rrTC All students wi UdJLClb charge the use of tl in^* Room, Labors t P. E. Mon- lennis Courts and odman. nt S. J. Der- . e '?-tlies b in the JNew Dorm will be assigned rc mer, LL. D. jjan# er, Ph. D. ,T A n ? u Mrs. A. C. Hall -W. K. Got- Matron of the Boai -Miss Emma T,his a*00' Pr? work ana to meet ' i i j i those who attenci. Science?Jas. Adc /Irs. Eva Les- S. J. Is No. 1844 '-..SF.R VICE-PRC rces Over $2,000,000 < ial Bank of P* rhpn-v. South Caroline wr w .j, T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. Boll Weevil Demonsti At our Hardwar urday, June 18, 5 o'clock. It wil i to be here. * ^ n Summer tn H'ing put over ir. the smaller sized ence. owns and you are in the front rank. rVt* will take pleasure in showing: this o all our salesmen this week, they laving irafherf"! hrn* for' a ronfer ) 9 ind , 1921 I Sight Singing? each week. requirement for on to Freshman eges in the State nrlitional admis lits. IPMENT, ETC. 11 be: Tuition, I lodging includr $5.00 per week. lished with bed, . , md chairs. The hers who expect ry County will be y Superintendent effort will be ', also from other 3d. in the school. \ 11 have without \e Library, Read- \ itories, Museum, Athletics Field. e assigned rooms itory, gentlemen )oms in Smeltzer tiwanger will be . rding Hall. poses to do real the real needs of Iress, nnnnrPT/ ' fewberry, S. C. ???-? . ?* * 1 )GRESS DO lewberry i W. W. CROMER, Asst. Cashier. ( I Machine ration e Store Sat from 2 to 1 pay you \ ros. Co. _ Very truly yours, . J Grossett & Dunlap, * I S. A. Jenkins, Publicity Department. I