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ammammuBammmmmmmmmmmmmmmn?mmmummmmmmaammmm?m jhs JcrolD unD Jems. CitirW at tk? Pcjtoffic* at N?w1 C- it 2nd class mattar. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, January 20, 1922. OUR COLUMBIA LETTER Mr. John K. Aull, a born newspaper man, and if we do say it, one of the best in the state and who knows a news story when he sees it and who ran serve it to the readers in" as good style as any one, has agreed to send The Herald and News a letter for each issue at least during the session of the legislature covering the doings of that body. So if you want to keep up with the doings of the legislature and have the work served in the best style and so that the keeping up will be easy you better be sure that your name is on our mailing list. We hope to .be straightened out now and that we will be able to matte the mails and to give you all the news in town and county and to make a real newspaper. That is our business and we do not mind the work, but like it. Mr. R. H. Greneker is still forbid den by his physician to use his eye, "but he is improving: and while he can not use the eye to read and write he can see how to collect, and is devoting his time to calling on the subscribers who live in town, and is giving them an opportunity to pay up and continue or to have their names taken from the list. We are anxious to keep all of them, .but when now and ? T? ^ J v* rvf no VO mem some one says uc uucs nut for the paper it does not cause any worry, because we know there will "be some one to take his place and the good old Herald and News will go on. We hope Mr. Greneker will'soon be able to resume his duties in covering the happenings more fully than we are able to do in the local field. NOT KICKING A gentleman and a prominent citizen of the town said to the editor the other dav that we were always kicking and knocking. He has made the same remark aforetime. We deny that The Herald and News is a kicker. We try to say what we think, and try to say it honestly and courteously, and as we think it is the duty of a newspaper to say it. If there are things that we do not think are for the best interest of this community we say so, and if there are those things that we feel are for the best interests of the community we say so. It is the only manner of getting at what the public thinks. And besides we do not conceive it to be the prerogative or the duty of a newspaper to drift along with the current. Of course, it is eas * * - jp i x :er to tatce xne course 01 ieasi resistance, but sometimes we imagine it takes a good bit of exertion always to find out just which that course is. We have made it a rule to 'be frank ?jid to speak and say how things appear to us, and we grant the same privilege to others. We should feel quite bad and out of place if every one agreed with us on public matters and if they should always agree with us we would wonder if it were really sn Our record is writ in the columns of The Herald and News for the past 35 years and more and we make ^ ^ 4-Vinf ti* a Aon "Kv UU1U OU say lliab r? c v.au ^ I that record that we have stood cut strongly for all constructive measures and all enterprises that were for the betterment of this community and such measures and enterprises have had at/all times our earnest and ardent support. We have differed very frequently Fwlth some of cur friends, and we have not hesitated to say so, and yet we did not and do not now consider that kicking in any sense. It was I Seator Tinman wno saia 01 a prom.I nent citizen some two decades ago W that he was a mighty fine fellow but " was too d?n unanimous, and sometimes we feel that we would not like to have that said of us. is what is meant by kicking then we are a kicker. The remark of the genetleman in question was in regard to what the Herald and News said aoour me .Newberry health unit. We were not kicking. We were simply saying how it appeared to us. We simply felt thit it cost more than it was worth to the community and we said so. If the people who foot the bill think otherwise we are not going to raise any further objection, though our ppinior. has not in the slightest undergone any change. We are publishing today the report of the director and the nurse. From this repot it would seem that all the children of Newberry county are either defects or defectives. We do not know what proportion of these are white children. WITH PLEASURE We had no intention of starting anything when we made the simple mention of the health unit in a recent issue. But even the small mention is going: to result in good to the extent that it will be the means of giving the people the correct information as to some of the work of the unit. We really did not know what amount the unit had with which to operate. Nor were we certain from what source the income was derived, except that the county agreed to put up $5,000 cn condition that a similar amount or amounts came from some other source or sources, and we were under the impression that $5,000 came from the state and that $5,000 came from the federal department somewhere. That, as we recall, was the statement given out when the unit was first established. Without looking at the Newberry supply bill we are still under the impression that the first appropriation was $5,000. The last supply bill for this county calls for $2,500 from July 1, 1921, to December 31, 1921, which is at the rate of $5,000 per year. We take pleasure in printing the letter of Dr. L. A. Riser, who is in charge of this work in the state. If we recall correctly, the act establishing the unit calls for a monthly rennrt of exnenditures to be submitted II ? ? A to the county supervisor or the highway commission now. We have made inquiry, just for information, how jmuch was spem for this purpose. No jone seemed to know. At any rate Dr. j Riser's letter confirms the statement I that the county puts up $5,000 a year. We are printing in this issue also j the report of the director of the unit. I That does not say anything about the expenditures. Since this matter as come up we , will say also, that we were under the impression the nurse supported by j the Red Cross was to be a sort of j community and emergency nurse.' In jso far as the emergency part of it ,we know that we were wrong in that impression, .because a case came unnnr nwn observation when a nurse I ? - could not be obtained in or .out of town, and the unit nurse was too busy or too tired to go even for one night in an emergency when a nurse could not be had. Too 'busy was the reply. And another instance more recently j where there is a case that needs attention, and appeal was made to the :Ked Cross or the unit and the reply {was that the nurse was too busy or (the work of the unit was to look af ;ter school cfiiictren ana mere was nu jtime for anything else. For this case jWc do not vouch. We at least are I getting information. Not kickirg. jlf 1600 out of 1900 children in the schools of the county are "defects" and if the unit can help them there certainly is not much time for anything else, if the unit is curing J the defects. Or even helping them. (Now we are not kicking against the health unit. We are simply stating facts as they come to us. <$> <tj '<$> AMONG THE SCHOOLS ? > <8> $><&<$><$><&$ <&<?>$><$>&<$>'$><$><$><$>'$ A VERY FINE ADDRESS TO NEWBERRY TEACHERS i j Mr. D. L. Lewis state supervisor of rural schools made one 01 ine oest ana j most .practical talks to the teachers at the court house on Saturday that . it has been our pleasure to hear in a long time. The pity is that more of the teachers of the county were not i present to hear him. I hcpe that I may be able to have Mr T pwi? !>nnp .hack some time dur ir.g this session to make the same j address when we can have more of I the teachers present. It was one of 'those plain and practical talks that can not help being beneficial to the j interested teacher. I He told of the importance of teachi ing English in the right way and of writing, and that the teacher should (be the community leader and help cre'ate a sentiment where it is practicable I to get schools consolidated so that j one or even two and three and four j teachers should not have to under take to teach eight and tenh erodes ! ; generally to the hurt of the lower j grades which are of so much importance to the child. He said that the fourth and fifth grades were really the most, important in the school life of the child ( AnH if ?n often hannens that these very grades are the ones that of nec! essity in the small schools do not gel the attention they should have. He made another suggestion which j agrees with my way of thinking, anc j that is that in many of the school* the daily session is too short, and hf favored the double daily session foi .the schools and especially the rura ! schools, and in this I agree, though ir i [many instances it is not favored b\ the parents or the teachers. 4 ' 1 - * +Vl i j Ana nis suggesuun mau anci n?v 'schools had all opened it would be z I good thing to have a three or foui I [day county -institute to which all the :j teachers in the county would be ex;1 pected to come, and that their pay in ; I the school would go on during these ; days. I had thought of suggesting , that to the county board at the opening of the school term next session, i and in this way we could all get acquainted and the teachers could exchange views and some methods could I fnonliovs n*Vl n 5?v<"? OVTlPrtS > I UC given uy KflVllbia " I.iy V. 1 in the various departments, and I shall , keep this in mind. I regret that more of the teachers of the county were not present at the meeting and some of them who came to town were not in attendance and some came late and regretted that auto accidents and the cold morning made them late. The next meeting will -be held at the high school building instead of the court house and it will be the i _ _ . ? , second Saturday in reoruary. j&very teacher in the county should be willing to give one hour each month to the meeting of the association. E. H. A j SILVERSTREET DISTRICT RETAINS TAX FOR SCHOOL I l i On petition of citizens of the Silverstreet school district an election was held on Tuesday on the proposition of voting; off seven mills tax for maintenance. By a vote of 47 to 20 the good people of this district refused to vote off the tax. j I hcpe now that all the good peo~ ' pie or tms community wm wipe uu mc slate and take a new start and forget all differences and get together and build a real high school in this district, as they can do if they will all work together for the good of the school and the community. 1 _____ I I made another trip to Vaughnville on Wednesday. I hope that we have about decided on the house we will build at Vaughnville. The four acre lot has been surveyed and as soon as we can get the deed drawn and signed, work on the building will be commenced. The lot is one of the prettiost in the county for a school. And it is the purpose of the trustees to out up a nice school house and to provide for a community house at the same time. i ! I ! While up there I made a very pleasant and I hope helpful visit to the rhannells school. I was glad to see that the community league has had a nice driveway made from the public' road up to the school house and fixed up the entrances and planted some trees. They need to give a little more attention to the upkeep of the | building. This I am sure will have | attention at once. I At one time during the day the weather was threatening, but about 3' or four o'clock the sun came out, and' being so near home I decided to try the old road from Chappels to river and make a call at least long enough1 to say the time of day to Jie folk at home. The road is not near so bad as I expected, and with a little more 1 work right now would be in very I good shape, and as it seems that it is] going to be the good old summer time oeiore tne ieaerai guvurniuent ^evs ready to start something on this road,' ? : it would be weli to give the old roadi at least another working. At any rate, and in the bad condition of the road, I made the nine miles in a half hour and had a half hour at home. The road on the Greenwood "side and up that hill that used to be the main dread of the trip, you can trot along in high without the slightest trouble. It seems almost beyond believing that such a road could be so much improved, and then you wonder why the i i- i it-- -1J J people siooa i.xie uiu iuau ou when by such little work a good road could be the result. But it is true, and the same good road extends on .to Greenwood. The improvement up . this long hill is one of the most convincing arguments in favor of good roads, if argument is needed to con. vince any one. ;' The folk were well and feeling good > on/^ not pvnftptinc> me were arlad that I came. Mother said that several , of her friends had remembered her on her birthday, and she was so proud that they had. I told her I had ian impression that it was the 20th of i this month, but she says it was the -,11th. I did not ask her which one, . but my impression is that it was her ; 90th. And she is a lot younger than some I know who have not near so ; many years to their credit. When I ;was writing that grind the other i night, called forth by the death of I Mr. Geo. Griffin, I could not think of ; the name of the Mr. Boland referred j to in it. so I asked them at home, and : of course I should have remembered 1 that his name was Mark Boland, Un i' cle Mark we called him in those days. t And I remember what a pride he took (in having his team look well, and he i believed in dressing up the mules. In i (those days the driver of a team who . A ~ nn T-?Ic? TxrnnlH r iwun it Minn mi 1 ften a rosette on the side of the bridle and many times would have a re( I , tassle swing down the side of th< head, and fastened to the bridle, anc generally it was so arranged that th< ! mules themselves would impress voi i with the idea that they knew thej i were dressed up and they were prouc I of it. Uncle Mark always tooK i | pride in so dressing his mules. Anc another thing I remember about hin J ir., he boarded at home and live:! a; j one of the family, and he would tel , it on my mother that she was a fine ! c-'.ok, but he had on / Dne ction tc her coffee and that wis he had tc drink too much water to get a little coffee. i I I Maybe you are not interested ir this. If so please skip it. It is now writ and will make a good filler. The road from Newberry to Chappells is fine and remains in the same good 'condition, and some one seems to be ; looking after it. Why I can make the ! 19 miles in about fifty minutes, and J that is fine for me. And then it is so easy on the car and the driver. If !we could just get the federal govern I ment to pet started on the little pap ! from Chappells to the river, what a pleasure it would be. Please, Mr. Bouhvare, hurry up somebody. It would not take lonp to build this road. And the road from Chappells to Yaughnville is now good. Mr. R. E. Watkins said he was going: to apply the drag on Wednesday afternoon. I hope he did for that is all ?J- v w A it neeas. j_,. SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS IN i REDUCING ILLITERACY ; The state department of education assisted by the illiteracy commission has made a vigirous fight against the illteracy which exists in our state and now that the census figures for 1920 have beer. pxrhl'shed it is a matter of just pride that South Carolina leads ro^iifMrior nercentasre UlC Wic.i IU 1. VV4VV...0 A- w frcm 25.7 per cent in 1910 to 18.1 per cent in 1920. In rank among: the states, South Carolina still maintains the next to bottom place, ranking .below every state save Louisiana. In wliite illiteracy the state has climbed from third place from the 'bottom in 1910 to sixth place in 1920, now ranking above Now Mexico, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. In negro illiteracy, the state ties with Mississippi for third place, ' ? ' c- o i->-> o -nncifinn r\f inaiiiuiHimg uic ^uoivivu v* 1910. While this record testifies to the work which the -public schools and the schools for adults have been doin?, there is yet 'much work to be done before we can r3r.ik with many of our sister states. Iowa records the lowest illiteracy, 1.1 per cent, while Louisiana records the greatest, 21.9 per cent. In nine states less than 2 per ceDt of the population was illit erate while h: t.en states (South Carolina included) the per cent was ten and over. ! Pickens county now registers the least illiteracy in the state, 10.7 per cent. Greenville county comes second with 11 per cent while Berkeley registers the highest illiteracy, -38.4 per cent, with Jasper county next highest, 3-3 per cent. The data for Newberry county are as follows!: Total num:fcer illiterates, 5,046, or 19.5 per cent. Number white illiterates, 594. Nun:ber negro illiterates, 4,447, or 30.2 per cent. According to the 1920-1921 report of the state superintendent of education, 11,150 pupils were enrolled in jthe 428 schools during the past year. I T>n'rf-ppn nrmntiVs f Aiken. Anderson. | Cherokee, Colleton, Darlington, j Greeimlle, Greenwood, Pickens, Richi land, Spartanburg-, Sumter and York) : enrolled over 300 pupils. Spartan' burg led the state wita an enrollment I of 1,349, Anderson came next with | 933 pupils while Greenville took third I place with an enrollment of 735 pujpils. Only seven counties in the state i reported no work. j Practically 2.0C0 pupils were per . feet in attendance. In the first grade, there were 4,130 pupils while J 3,436 of this num'ber learned to read For instruction of these pupils the state paid $3.85 per white pupil anc $1.36 per negro pupil. j Some schools were in sessior throughout the entire year. During the winter the work was pushec >v*ill Trniooroc: o n f J "in tnWf ~ schods while the summer months were largely devoted to "lay-by" schools in country districts. The teaching in the winter was practically done by day teachers at night while .during the summer special teacher; were employed to devote their entire time to the work. Schools were usually taught in the public schools, although some were held in churches and some in homes. Wherever 2 group of pupils and a teacher coulc meet, there a school was formed. 1 The fierures lust erven for state anc county demonstrate the worth of the adult work. The fact that 2,000 pu pils did not miss a session signifies the keen desire of the adult to ac> quire learning. They came to sehoo i \ i ,'after a hard day's work through the 1 winter's ccld and the summer's heat 2 and struggled good naturedly over ] their lessons. Often a teacher or vis- j - itor would hear them express genuine 1 regret that they had been deprived of; < an education in youth but they re-! 1 joiced in the opportunity now given! i them by the state and were happy in, 1 the thought that compulsory educa- j i tion now makes it possible for <*'m1- i > dren to grow up with education ad1 vantages. The greatest good which * is coming to the state from this work ' is not to be found in the fact that ' many people are learing to read and ; write but that the adult pupils are ! awaking to a large realization of their 1 duty to the community and state, i They no longer feel that thev never! r had a chance and further their exam pie of attending school is causing ma> ny persons with little education to I pull down their books, who, if left to ^themselves, would have fallen into il-j 1 CI fiftn i I ! Starts Sail Store closed Thin to clear our shelv The reason we ai raise the money. j Dress Ginghams in I 32-inch Dress Ging 20c Outing, all shade Beautiful quality Shi Wool Goods and S Table Damask, sal 20c Long Cloth, sa to 11. 1 bolt limit, for bo Ladies' Skirts. $10 a Extra Special! 25c Yard wide Percale, li the yard Boys' Suits and Furn very low prices. Boy Ladies and Children' Ladies' Coats Children's Coats .. Sweaters at less th j MEN'S CL j Men's Suits j Men's Hats, black jj at i Men's Shirts, sale t| ij Ladies' and Childr Prices. a* * a mil TT $Z.UU Silk Hose $3.50 Silk Hose 11 $1.50 Silk Hose Children's Hose, paii i 11 Men's Pants for di J $3.50 Pants, sale pri< j $8.50 Pants, sale pric 1 $5.00 Pants, sale pri< ; I 'I QatrOfa I F waiiicu?UVT VJIUJ. J. \ men. Apply ri , I 'I > aMM1 " I I B * m k O p . Upper Mam sir? [! literacy. The figures compiled from the report show that Newberry county ranks o5th among the counties of the state in pushing this phase of educational work. There were organized in the county 2 schools anl a total enroll-! ment of 40 pupils, taught by 2 teach-: ers. For the negroes: No. of schools, 2;: enrollment, 40; pupils per school, 20;' average attendance, 28; perfect attendance, 13; pupils in first grade, 13; pupils in second grade, third and fourth, 23; pupils in fifth, sixth and j seventh, 4: taught to read, 13; taught! to write, 27; average term in days,; 103. The teachers doing this work; were employed at a cost of $39.00 j per teacher or $1.95 per pupil. I PACIFIC FIVE WINS FROM WHITMIRE MEN ... t mi T> ! wmtmire, Jan. 14.? ine rauun: i Community -association team ofj l Sweej AT lrday, Jan. 2 nsday and Friday ar: es and counters of a *e running this sale i; checks and plaids, sale p hams, sale price, yard s, sale price yard . i i rung, saie price yarn ilks at cut prices. e price 2 le price 7 l-2c yard Sal u '11 nd $12 skirts, price Cheviot Ginghams, sale ] ight and dark patterns, 2 lishings. We are closing s' Pants in cotton and wo s Coats at Clean Sweep F tan half price. OTHING AND FURNIS $8,50, $10.0( Velour, $2.98, J, B. S'cet SIJ price ? en's Hose in Silk and Coi ress and everyday. ze :e ^special Salesladies and t 1 ji) uuuu; , T. Anderson, Proprietor St Columbia defeated the Whitiuire quintet here tonight in a well played game, score 37 to 16. A good sized and enthusiastic crowd sa\v the game. There were no special stars. Wallace and Ingram led the scoring for the visitors, while Bridges scored for half of the 16 points for Whitmire. The girls' team of Pacific and Whitmire also played here tonight ivi'tVi tVw? WVu+mirp vrmnir ladies win ning, score 10 to 2. The line up: P. C. A. (37). Whitmire (16). Wallace F J. Brockman Martin F!. L.? Brockman Ingram C Bridges Taylor G Harrel Bedenbaugh G Wilbanks Substitutions?Whitmire: Singleton for Wilhanks. Scoring: Wallace 21, Ingram 14, Talyor 2; Whitmire: J. Brockman 4. L. Brockman 4. Bridges 8. Referee, Albright, (Clemson> . C_ 1_ 3oaie I _________________ * n. i More ;1, t) A.M. ranging for sale 11 winter goods. 3 that we must irice ..13c 19c .11c 25c (5c, 49c, 75c and 85c turday morning 10 75c $4.50 & $5.98 jrice 15c i ac value, sale price 13c this entire line at ol at, the pair 25c to $2.98 'rices. $6.98 up nn . PA VOC to $0.31/ HING ), $12.50 and $18.50 son, $4.98, special 50, $2.50 and $3.50 )8c, $1.45 and $1.98 :ton at Clean Sweep $1.19 $2.75 98c 10c up SI 95 1 $4.98 $3.24 wo or three SalesS. T. Anderson. 4 > Store i Newberry, S. C. ?J