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& JeralD unD Jems. litirMi at tko Pottoffica at Nsw*wry, 3. C.? as 2nd class mattar. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, August 15, 1922 MR. A. S. TOMPKINS Mr. A. S. Tompkins of Edgefield died on Saturday afternoon at five o'clock. He was one of the leading * lawyers and business men of the state and was active in all work for the church and for civic righteousness. He was well known in Newberry, as elsewhere throughout the state. He was a brother of the late D. A.' Tompkins of Charlotte and in addition to other relatives he leaves a daughter, Mrs. John K. Aull, who was formerly of Newberry, now of Columbia. ^ <S> AMONG THE SCHOOLS <8> 4 *>j I may go astray just a little in this - ? L-? ' ? ? fV?n f ie article iroin uie duujcv-v,, umi. some of the readers of this may so conclude, but yet it is all related and winds up in the right place. I was talking the other day to some lady readers of this paper, and I remarked that maybe I was taking too much space for this column, that in fact I had heard one or two readers of the paper say that there was too much school in the paper, and this good woman replied, well, we all read it out here and we .vant you to Keep it up. I look at the matter this way, if the interest of the school can be in the least promoted, and this publicity can help to that end, that the space is well taken, because there is no gre'ater nor no better cause that could concern us at this time than the schools of the county, and this is said apart from the fact that I am officially for the time being connected with the school work. And the good woman with whom I W2S talking about this column the other day made the further remark, that if there was any subsriber who did not care to read the column, why it was a very easy and simple matter just to skip over this part of the paper. Well, for the time being, at least, I am going to keep it going from time to time. I regret that I could not attend the barbecue given by the ladies of the T i :_4.:? ATf linproveiiieiil itsauwiiinvix ui uic Bethel-Garmany school on campaign day at Keitt's Grove, 'Friday, because I know I missed a good barbecue dinner served in the best of style, and besides I missed the second meeting of the county campaign. Mr. Arthur S. Tompkins, a life-long friend of mine and the father of Mrs. John K. Aull, was very ill at his home in Edgefield, and I was called to see him and to take my son, Mr. John K. Aull, over there, and we left Newberry Thursday afternoon and I did not get back until Friday at noon or a little after, and I had another appointment to meet with the Improvement association of the Vaughnville school at 4 o'clock that afternoon, and of course I could not make these rounds an$ attend the barbecue at the same time. It may be that there are some who will be ready to say that if I had been a candidate I would have been at the H!CriUI^4 1 UU};t IIUI/, UtVHUOb wtuv would be incorrect. I d"> not regret hav'ng taken the trip to Edgefield, in fact feel that I did the right thing. But I knew,that I was mi.^in* possibly the finest campaign meeting of the year when I lid not attend the one at Keitt's Grove. In these articles about the schools I always feel that they are incomplete without some mention of the roads, and possibly a few other things along the way. In going to Edgefield, we went by Saluda and crossed at the uDoer steel bridge and by M. A. Coleman's and Saluda, anl from Saluda via Wards and Johnston. I am more and more convinced every time that I get off the highways in Newberry that we have the best in the state. The road from Newberry to Deadfall is in fine condition. The new concrete bridge at Bush river has been completed and we drove over it going. It is a fine bridge. The road from Deadfall to the river is not yet in the best condi tion, but from the river on to Saluda the road is bad, and from Saluda to Wards it is not much better, and the highway from Wards to Johnston is greatly in need of repair, and from Johnston to Edgefield it appeared to be very rough. It took us four hours to make the forty-eight miles. Coming from Edgefield we decided to take the D-ixie highway and come by i "A i j Greenwood, but when we reached jKirksey the gentleman there said [that the road in by Epworth to Nine| ty Six was in fairly good condition, I and we came that way and m'ade the I i trip, a distance of 61 miles, in three hours. The road is very good most of the way though you can tell the moment you pass over the lino between Edgefield 'and Greenwood by i the condition of the road, the Greenj wood side being so much superior. (It esems to have a better grade of - - * ! top soil and has the appearance ui j being1 kept up, while the Edgefield 1 end is full of holes all the way. Every one seems to be h'auling lumber, and with the great amount that it seems is being cut the wonder is that the price remains up and yet I am told that there is very good demand for the lumber. And the lumber 'wagons 'and the trucks, I suppose, make the job a pretty good one to keep the roads in good condition. But if you are thinking of a trip to Edgefie.'id I would advise that you go around this way instead of trying to jgo through Saluda. j We got back to Newberry at 12:30 and at 2:30 I went with Dr. E. Faul Knotts to Vaughnville to attend a^ | meeting of the Improvement association nf thp Vmi'2'hnville school. Dr. Knotts is the physicfan in charge of the health work in the county and I was very much pleased with him and it seems to me that he is going about the work in the right sort of way and is using judgment/ and common sense. He read a most excellent paper at the meeting at Vaughnville and by resolution of the assocciation and with my request also the paper is published in this issue of The Her~ ~ *' v n aid 'and JMews ana it win De wen n you will read it. Dr. Knotts is very active and it was really surprising at the knowledge he has of the various sections of the county and the people when you take into consideration the very short time he has been here. The law says that all children must be vaccinated befoTe they can be received in the school. Dr. Knotts will offer to vaccinate without charge but he is not going to do it unless you desire him to, but when he makes ?he inspection he will enforce the * * * i ? tt r. _ K. J ~ J law, ana tne cnua win oe exciuucu from the school until the vaccination has been successfully done. As the schools are soon to open this matter had better be attended to at once. He has also been doing a whole lot of typhoid vaccination, and there h'as not been a great deal of this dread disease in the city or the county, . though more than should be if it is an avoidable disease. We need to ^ive more attention to sanitation at our schools and also at our homes and the purpose is going to be to teach the children in the school the importance of it and to show them how it can be done and the advantage. * i f , The Improvement association on Friday held its meeting a? the hospii , hi? r* r> taoie nome ui iuu. u. *v. uvunj. This fine country home is just across the line in Laurens county but ? good many of the Laurens children come to the Vaughnville school because it is much nearer and when we get the school well organized and in good working condftion there will possibly be more to come. The; fine country home of Mr. and Mrs.\[ Scurry is located on a high plateau overlooking the surrounding country and in the midst of a mignificent o'ak grc>ve and Mrs. Scurry knows how to dispense that real old Southern hosJ pitaiity in a very gracious manner and to make the guest feel at home and glad that he has come. It was a real pleasure to see so many of the hdies of the community present and to see the fine spirit of cooperation manifested in the work of the association and the fine community spirit which pervaded the whole meeting. Mrs. R. E. Watkins is the president and she presides with ease and grace and the meeting is conducted in a businesslike manner and the association has already done some fine work and when we get in the new school house we expect even greater things and we have no doubt they will be done. It is a fine custom, however, to have some of the meetings at the .fine and hospitable homes for which this community is noted. The school will open here on the lsth of September, and on the ir?th, Friday before, the people of the community are going to have a picnic at the school house and they invite everybody to come and enjoy the day with them and bring a basket. In the meantime, speaking of the association it i* wp] 1 to rpniembpr that Mrs. J. 0. Johnson is the treasurer, a very important office and by remembering who the treasurer is it will help you to remember where you can leave your contributions, j i Saturday morning I attended a meeting of the patrons of the St. Johns school at the school house near Hopes Station. There was a very I good attendance and but for the fact^ that Mr. Chapman came along while! I was halted at the road where you j leave the highway to go out to j St. Johns, debating what I could do,! I would not have been there myself, j because I had just about reached the conclusion that the only thing I could do was to turn around and come .back home. At this place on the highway that is being built down this way an embankment some six or eight feet has been made and the heavv rains had left a large pond of j water in the St. Johns road covering!! the entire road and I knew I was not! going to make an effort to cross the ; pond. It seems to me that the road 1 builders should try to keep from' stopping travel even by the cross roads in leaving the highway. One of the men connected with the construction came along while I was; standing there and he said the engineer should look after this and that, nothing could be done until some i pipe had been furnished so that the ! water could be drained off I am j sure it will be fixed, very soon and , no one could foresee the heavy rains that have been falling and but for that the road could have been passed, j Mr. Chapman said there was another ' way just a little further back by which he thought we could make the trip. We did but it is bad and I j would not care to try it again. I got' there, and this ro&d should be work- i ed and opened for the convenience! - * -i ii 1_ i_ of the people Tip tnis siae tnougn it is not a public road or any other! kind for that matter worth mention-1 ing, but it is much nearer the church and the school house going from the Pomaria side. I came back by Hopes . and into Pomaria from that side. where they are going to build a high-, way on to Peak. There was a good attendance and I tried to show the people how it ( would be to the advantage of the 1 children down there, and for the c good of the community for St. Johns t and Red Knoll to unite and build a * good modern school house on the * highway and how it could be done \ without increasing the tax and in.the 1 end by reducing the present tax but they did not see it that way and ex- A pressed themselves as satisfid with * the present arrangement. I told ? them that I would help them and co- [ operate with them in any way in my 1 power and this I will be glad to do. s In any way that I can help to have a ^ good school I will gladly lend all the * help that I can. | * I c 'l Tuesday morning I am going over 1 to McCullough and Mollohon and * have a talk with the trustees over % here and see what is best to -be done a and then make an effort to do that * thing. It may be that I should not c g6 out to meet with the trustees and and the people in these matters and t make suggestions but somehow I feel e th'at it is better for me to go to the a community than to have the com- 1 muniy come to me. At least I can * get a better idea and a better un- c derstanding and knowledge of con- s ditions by/going and "alkint, with the v rspnnlp ricrht out in the community a ~ - -O ? . t than I can get by staying in the office s and trying to get the community to * come to me. L E. H..A. 1 I HEALTH ARTICLE c r The Crime of Civilization C s By E. Paul Knotts, B. S., M. I)., c Health Officer, Newberry County i Health Department. j f The greatest ideal that can inspire c and direct any body of people is that t one which leads to the betterment of s mankind. This complex life, which .c civilization has developed for us, may r be summarily divided into certain \ distinct phases. Without intention t of being arbitrary, one might say t man's life is essentially the sum of s his mental, moral and physical well r being. In the consideration of these j vital factors, we will see that one is 1 neglected in large part. In the de- g velopment of the minds of the youth a of America great advancement has I been attained coincident with nation- 1; al standardization of the essential s factors of education. Our' private t and public institutions of learning, a while far from ideal, yet they do a meet the emergencies of our present g day social, economic and political t life and in the main are satisfactory , e to the greater mass of people. , s From our earliest intelligence t starts our religious training. The ' ( first complicated sentence taught to i the infant is usually a prayer. The(a sects, creeds and religious organiza-jt tions are in great numbers and well f organized and while the Anglo-Saxon t civilization has not brought with it j r the pinnacle of morality yet it is ob-ji' vious that the field of religion is c crowded with men and women of t zeal and ability and with time they t will evolve the greatest issue which o man has got to face. Now there re- j t mains that great domain which is o purely physical, Since no life is ev-jh Ame (( A * ? T Ui 1 Bargains galo stores. No 01 New values oi where the thr W; Am Purchasers of Co] jn comparatively complete or well ounded if this phase is not properly :onsidered and since moral and men,al well-toeing are, in large part, de)endent upon the physical status of ;he man, we can not give too great :onsiderat:on to such an important 'actor. Now the physical side of man is veil within the domain of that profession that deals with the curative irt. Yet the hopes of medicine are lot confined to the treatment of the ndividual. Unfortunately, the phyician has, too long, treated the indi-. ridual after he has fallen ill to some >reventable disease, while the effort o abate and control the occurrence >f the disease has not been effectualy made. This is exactly opposite to he plan to abolish ignorance and ( rice. We do not wait until one is in adult to teach an education or the ( essons of the Bible. We do in all :ases try to convert the wicked and iducate the ignorant but the idea is . o prevent ignorance and vice by larly instruction. However, in that : .11 important factor, our health, the dea has never successfully pervaded ] he public mind. That this is no fault , J! iL- Ji ? i 1 ; >x ine ineuicai men, gucs wiuiuui< aying. The public gets exactly ; vhat they want. Unfortunately, we ire not gifted with , a health concience. Religious training gives us ] he laws of morality; the state gives ; is certain laws respecting our rela- ; ion with our neighbor but our body, >ur health, is ours to do with as we j j hoose and if we mistreat it we do < lot suffer either the anger of the law < ?f the land nor twinge of moral con- j cience. Civilized people have been i ontent to pass anti-spitting laws j n public places, doing away with ] >ublic drinking cups and laying down ; :ertain regulations concerning con- j agious diseases and then sat back in i mug satisfaction that they have < lone a very wonderful thing. It i nust be admitted if these regulations i v'ere carefully observed, they would j >e prolific of great good and are ] rulv commendable yet they repre- i ent only the A. B. C. of preventive. i nedicine. ; ] The great war has taught us many } essons. Perhaps the ones which will t ;ive to posterity the greatest good i ;re entirely medical in consideration. \ ^eventive medicine, as applied to > arge groups of people, has been } hown definitely and conclusively to ( >e not an idle dream of some vision-J iry idealist but to be a potent and pplicable principle. The public, ;enerally speaking, is always a num?er of years behind science and more specially medical science. The most triking; example of this is shown by ' he fact that the miasmic theory transmission by means of foul air) [ 3 still held by thousands of people is being the cause of "fevers." The ime is surely ripe to expose such: allacies to the very individual and o get his cooperation as one of the. nass, to assist in the removal of the eal conditions which are the cause >f "fevers." As a matter of fact, he time is rapidly approaching: when he individual cannot pass judgment >n these matters. The freedom "of he land of the free" does not allow1 ne to maintain anything which may >e or is a menace to his neighbor's J' irican South's Foremost I Llosiru wo Ban re, thousands c le can afford tc M rl AITAI^fT J ? 1 liuicu cvci y ua ifty can save itch Oui erican peland Bros, Stock health or happiness. Increasing den-' sity of population and the swift readjustments of civilization to changing conditions and modes of living . 1 has caused the older individualism j of American life- to surrender to col-: lcctive or social modes of control and J action. This transition is not affect-! I ed without a struggle. No one gives; up a privilege, even though it be an j ndimis nnp. without a Drotest. Yeti we have seen such vast and embrac- j ing movements sweep across all op-, position, such as national prohibition,' woman suffrage, compulsory educa-j tion and many other things as impor-j tant and affecting the daily life of j the individual. Malaria, hookworm, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and infant diarrhoel dis-, cases are the big headliners that are! ravishing tjje blood of our great' country. All thees are absolutely j ? i i rr.i * a. ?. : prevemaoie. men*is it nut a must, terrible crime to allow them to per-J sist? Too lohg have we tolerated: these dread conditions. Our supine-j ness constitutes an offense -against public welfare that is measured by human lives. Since we know that each of these conditions persist and i increase because our individual! homes and schools do not have proper sanitation the crime rests at each! home. We find houses that are surrounded with all that our great civilization has developed for the comfort of man and one that is an em-; bcdiment of culture and luxury, yet in the background of that hortie we Dften find the most primitive sort of sanitation. Perhaps the one great force that operates against the correction of such a condition is the in:ense conservatism that pervades the home. Familiarity breeds contempt ?nd that family has been accustomed :o live under these conditions and their fathers and their father's fath?r did so and since comfort is not ob-i /iously increased in proportion to the labor expended we would find that, in many cases, the family would not only not cooperate in removing the condition' but would resent the; nference that their fathers had not seen decent and that they in turn lad not exercised intelligent propriity in the maintenance of their es :a'blishment. The point at issue is :his, that not always must we look it "poor John's place" to find all the! larborers of disease producing con-' iitions for they can be found on the ! I Paul Received new Fall Hats for | Get a Paul / mt Sales bargain Distributori krupt St >f them all ov ? miss this rem y. Get the hab r Windo Sales 1 place of him who has prospered as well. Statistics concerning the incidence of the various diseases and the tWl of human lives each year, I regard as out of place here. Yet to the student, he knows already; to the intelligent thinker I would invite him to investigate; to every one I will declare that the gauntlet >is thrown down for you to take up. The solution is obvious; it*5s to establish, properly maintain -and to cooperate with a competent public health organization. The work of this organization ' to be somewhat as follows: the dis-i semination of public health knowledge; to hold clinics and demonstrations for the public good and enlightenment; to visit individual homes and to prevent the occurrence { and the spread of contagious diseases; to maintain a continuous child welfare work; to deal with the appropriate health issues pecfUlrar to the community; to do all that medi-1 cal science has learned can be done to make the life of the individual healthier and happier. This work we a^re trying to perform. The size of the territory and, the great number of individuals con- [ cerned operating with such ? small personnel of workers' renders our work' difficult.to carry out in all its phases. However, lack of cooperation on the part of the people is our most potent handicap. It is such people that are gathered here today, to whom we must look for that aid which is. so essential to make this; work prolific of its greatest good, j Let us start with this beautiful build- j ing that you all in cooperation with' Mr. Aull have been so instrumental j in having er .ted. Let the windows! be screened; a sanitary toilet provid-j 1 ** .1- i_1_ T_ n %n/l .-vivl i o nlo n ! e<3 TOT DOCH uvys auu yum | worked out to abolish the-common [ drinking cup. Then we hav? started the children of this community to: learn about sanitation and at the same time we are protecting their j health. May I repeat my opening sentence and may it inspire you to a more acute consideration of t'ie problems gone over?"The greatest ideal that can inspire and direct any body of people is that one that leads to the betterment oi manKina.". Thrift is giving up the attempt to keep up with your set. E. AncU \ " . r shipment Spor ladies and child Hope Hamptoi E. And< f Co. I k/IAAV ocks * er our three tarkable sale. it for here is * ?. . - ? v. ws Co. V. Newberry, S. C. Ride and the woi;ld rides with you, j Walk and you walk alone, This lazy old .earth Of cars has no dearth. Hence the "troubles enough' of its j own." i ' XOflCE I ' ' " . Monday. August 21st. Mr. F. R. Shanks of Texas, field director of tfee ; American Cotton Growers exchange will deliver an address in the court houbc, 3:30 p. m., at Newberry and 11 a. m., Little Mountain. - The following: Dr. VV. C. Brown, J chairman: T. M. Mills, vice vhaifman; C. L. Lester, secretary; O. H_ Lane, Dr. W. C. Brown, J. W. Caldwell, C. M. Folk,. W. M. IiOng. J. E. Senn, W. R. Smith, 0. W. Long, Dr. J. J. Dominick, A. L. Aull, M. K. ' t n tt* ?? t? otapii Koiii. ana j. opung, tive committeemen,, are especially requested to be present. South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Marketing Association. \ \ 8-15-2t G 100.000 T0W> OF VlUTXIRE, S, C., fVA^ER AND SEWER B(?DS. Sealed propocals will be received until 5 p. m., August 19, 1922, by the Mayor and Aldermen, in Gare of the undersigned, for $50,000 Wate^ Works extension and $50,000 Sewerage extension bondg of the Town of Wnitmire, S. C., dated July 1, 1922, denomination $1,000, principal and interest (J and J 1, rate to be bid on), payable in New York in gold. Tbe bends of each issue mature annually, Jan. 1. $^000 1925 to 193?, $2,000 1937 to 1946, and $3,000 1947 to 1952. General obligations unlimited tax. coupon bonds registrable as to principaj. T ?* ?:r"fioctor R TVfas_ ijfgaj upjiiivu ut sftch, Esq. Preparation and certifl- . ration of bonds by the United. States Mortgage & Trust Company, New York. Delivery at place .of ptrrclraa ^r's choice about September 9.1*21 1 Proposals must be made on a form. . which, with other information, as to 1 the bonds, the town and the condi- < tions of bidding, will be furnished *</ by the undersigned or said Trust Company. The right ito reject all bids is reserved. " V S. A. JETER. Town Clerk. 8-15-2t , * J ;rson t Hats. Also * V ren. " 7 Hat arson t ?; , I V y