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I WHAT TOWNER-STERLING r BILL MEANS TO SOUTH L ? \ Why Senator Watson Opposes It? \ Democrats in Congress Against \ Biil \ Wa-*:hms:tor), Aug:. 19.?Echoes ^ come to Washington from various section: of the country showing ac^ tivity in favor of the so-cailed Towny er-SterKnGj Educational bii!. This hill is now in both the house and the senate, and the best opinion here is that it will never be reported out. It is the same bii! as in prev'ons congress went under the name of the Smith-Towner bill, which v.:;s likewise never passed beyond tr.e committee ?Aage, but which caused so much agitation throughout the country and which in Georgia ied as much as anything else to the overwhelming defeat by Senator Watson of Senator Smith, one of its orig'nal co-authors. The Propaganda Fund It is very easy to account fur this county-wide activity. Propaganda has been spread by those who believe in consolidating power in the federal government, so that in the course of * time state lines will disappear and the country be merged into one na tional organism. It is quite natura; for Republicans to favor this policy. Hamilton, the real founder of the Republican party, was a consolidationist. Every right which was kept by the states at the time of the formation of the government was bitterly resisted by him. Jefferson, the ^ founder of the Democratic party, believed in the rights of the states and hated and distrusted federal power. I except where necessary for the national defense. Both Towner and Sterling are Republicans. It was quite incomprehensible to the people of Georgia, the state of Alexander Stephens, that Hoke Smith len: his name to this bill, and they paid him off at the polls. The Force of Education The greatest force in the world is education. If the federal government as in Germany, can reach out into the corner of the Union and, beginning with the smallest tot, oy education, bend the child's mind to a central B government at Washington, democra tic statesmen realize that the state f will soon have lost of its hope?the new generation. Too much "standardization" of education may become ' a ruinous influence in a way the Germans were the 'best educated of all people. There was a higher percen> tage of book knowledge among them and there was less illiteracy than in any other country, perhaps of all time. They were taught from Berlin, and the system was perfect, beK cause it was supervised all down the line by teachers who were certified by the government. There was one thing:, however, about that system and more or less about all the European systems which made the children of Europe different from AmerVican children, that was the absence of individuality. Great American educators and the followers of Jefferson in the Democratic party believe j that the loss of individuality is the , ' worst thing that couid happen to the ^ American people. There is not a Democratic statesman here in Washington or rather with few exceptions, but who privately admits that he is opposed to the bill and hopes it will t sleep in committee. Tom Watson Against Bill These men, being mostly from the south, are however, often in a difficult political situation. The promoters of the bill have stirred up certain animosities in the TTeoic and with a very large fund at their disposal for purposes of propaganda they have played upon a variety of prejudices. Demcgcgues have allowed, maybe encouraged, prejudices to seize upon the popular mind, and now these pi\ judices are rising like ghosts to haunt them. The propagandists are using this fund very skillfully to B r c the people ol the various con^ gressional districts along lints iii which through prejudice they are most susceptible. Unfortunately, in the south they have been made susk ceptjole along lines of religious pref judices ana upo)i those suscepiibiii! ties the advocates of this bill have been shrewdly pLying. Senator B Watson of Georgia, has been one of ^ * the men who fostered this prejudice, and it has been a curious stu-.Iy to L watch his attitude on the bill. If f there is one thing about which he has almost been a fanatic, it is the Catholic church. In every issue of his magazine, in hi.; brilliant way, he has L taught the people of Georgia that the If** Catholic church was our great menace. He suspects it of sleepless deH signs against our govern'iv. nt. He ? TV,-. sees in nia areauiM. i<i l. >. a vf sitting here upon a throne in Wash$$: ington and comi a his fait subjects to obey him rather than the laws of the land. The propaganda *i\ 'l that the advocates cf T . ^' Sterling bill have been using, particularly in the so.;:/., and especially in K Georgia, that this J>1:I opposed by t.;e Catholic church bccausc that church ajiamst t!:-,' publi* schools. | ^ 1 Senator Watson himself hc.s clone more than any man to make hi.-; constituents believe ih-.i *h-' Catholic church is oppose;! to "The Little i?eu School House/' and this contention of the Towner-Ster;:ng propagandists is true (that the bii' is being fought by the Catholic church because it would strengthen the public school) then it might naturally expect that Tom Watson of all nu-ii would be on their side. They found, ho.vew-r, when they got to work in Georgia, that Tom w;'s on th.r* other (side, because, as much as Tom hates j Catholics, there is one thing he hates | more. Race Equality. And .-o the j Southern congressmen when they are accused of taking: th?i Catholic views are using Tom Watson who upon that subject certainly is above suspicion. They also are temporizing: . with the subject; they are answering the persistent questionnaires about how they stand on this bill in very dexterous ambiguities, although it has been before congress now for several years, either under the name | of the Smith-Towner bill or the Towi ner-Sterling bill, and while they are J all opposed to it. those who are not ! brave enough to come out like Tom j Watson against it are answering that they are "studying it.*' ! Ir didn't take Tom long to study j it and to put his foot down upon it jaccci'ding to his usual emphatic way | of doing: tmngs. mis j* Uic ?><,v> J handled it: | And now comes a number of pe! titons from Georgia, requesting me | to support the Smith-Towner bill. ' The headings of these petitions i are all in the same language, typed apparently on the same type machine and mailed out from Washington, or j Xew York, to my fellow doodles in j Georgia. We Georgia doodle.- can't do every thing worth mentioning, until the type machines get to going in Washington or Xew York. J Every one of these typed petitions j is signed 'by Susan Dusenberry, '"teacher." or by Josephus Whackuni, "teacher," or by Prof. Lankshank, "principal." or by some lady superintendent who has no more idea of what the Smith-Towner bill would do, than she knows about anything else that she doesn't know. Not a single parent of children has asked me to support this negroequality bill! Not a single school boy or girl has asked me to do it. Not a single college student, male cr female. has signed any such negro petition. The Smith-Towner bill would inevitably evolve complete federal con*T T 1. :rol of our public schools, wnerevci the federal government comes offering aid, it means to come c.gain dentanding control. We have seen ihat illustrated .in the matter of our public roads the federalists first said "we , want to aid you, and leave you the I control,'' they now say they must have absolute control, and they are striving for it in the Townsend bill. This administration?like that of Woodrow Wilson, believes in solid equality between the races. J Lincoln Johnson was invited to dine with President Harding at your white house. A white Republican warned Link not to accept the invitation and Link had sense enough to J heed the wai-nlng. But Link has been j nominated to be recorder of deeds, wh.re he will have thirty white girls jur. A-r him. The appointment has not Vyct ioeen coaaimcu. :Jut your ex-service men will tell i'ou how social equality was forced upon then: in the army, and you can see it any day here in the civil service. en ;he street cars and in the park.-. Do ycu want your children put in | the same schools and classes with | black children? If su boom the Smith-low ur bill. Some wei: meaning folks have favored this biil because the Roman Catholics pretended to expose it. i do no: know whether their seeing opposition is a Jesuit trial or not? and 1 don't care, but I would be unfit to hold my place in the senate if I a I, n w ( ; i hf?!ic- ooinion to con I .^ilV'UiVC ? j trol by own. | Professor Lawton Evans is one of ! the signers of the typed petition:*. iii>\v much influence has Professor | Evans ever tried to exert in favor of | free text books for the ehiLlr'. n of j the poor? 1 Y,ho has ever heard his voict rais! ed hi ivmo::strance. as M. !.. Krltl'ii:. ' has gone on from year to year, nutating obstacles in the path of the boys j who wanted to learn how i,> sin.1::, i how to read, how to write, how to ui. ! grammatical English, how to do sim{pie sums in arithmetic, sr> that n-y j nii&'ht he able to keep their o\w> ;.cj counts when they became oi a^o? j I know what the Smith-To\v;u r | bill threatens to the south, ar.l I'm against it. i Senator Swunson. however, who ha? just been renominated in Virginia, handled it a little differently. Ke i said he w.is "m favor of ;l,"' bat he added "that he- would oppose federal control or interferente with state schools." which, being a: iiy;;ed,, means ?>f course tiiat he is oeposed to the bill. Now that Swanson has' been renominated he w:ii prob.ibiy be as strong against i: i;.s ot'ier Democrats. Because if the bill doe : not mean federal control o." inten".-ivr.ee with state schools, it means no!hing.1 Wi'tson points that oui very clearly.1 He says: "The .S.iiith-To'.vner bill, would inevitably evolve complete j federal control of our pub.ic > chouls,! wherever the fed '. al government' conies offering aid, it means to co ne iXg&lll Ut'lildltU I il^ Iv/.J., 1. , Will leach Yankee History j There is another feature that is j bothering southern Statesmen besides! the question of race equality. They' are of couvse most bitterly against it! on that line. They are afra:-i that what already has happened in .Massachusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere, where the republicans control and depend so largly on the colored vote j is bound to happen under iederalj control, especially Republican federal al control and that no .pnrepi iations : would be forth coming to any r chool j in the s-vuth unless the teachers were examined and qualified under rigid j civil service rules which means of j 'course that the negroes wj.iid be eligible as well as whites. The federal J government could not have one rule j for Massachusetts and anoth t for J Georgia. It hasn't in the postotfice ? department where negroes are postmasters, mail carriers, mail c.ei-ks, etc., or in other federal departments. Southern statesmen are of cour.se ai- j so afraid these negro teachers would j be both men and women and th:;t j negro men teachers would be nut ov- j er white girls. Why not, if they are | competent to teach according cO the i i federal standard which knows no color line? That would be bad enough. I i i But negro boys and negro gi,,!s would j also sit in class rooms with white j boys and girls, as they do in Boston j and Chicago today. And also, why ( not? The federal government preach-1 es equality of races and would re-j quire in school rooms only that eith-j er white ov colored children, joys or! girls, be able to keep up with their ' classes. If colored boys or girls stood j the bast examinations they would get j the medals, the prizes and the pro-1 motions, it would soon be heralded to! the world that all the talk in the j south about the inferiority of negroes was nothing but prejudice. These medals and prizes would be j ,used as proof even of the superiority j of colored children. How long would i it take under this condition to breakdown barriers the south has built; up against race equality and intends) to maintain at all hazards. And to ; what would all this lead in the end ' <but the fiercest and bloodiest of race ' conflict? Is the south ready to pay! this price to satisfy religious bigotry, j But there is one thing that, aside ; from all this, the south can never ad-j mlt. It would be as bad as race equal- j ity for the federal government! through its system of schools to teach the children of the south that their; ! fathers were tractors. All the schools j ,of the south have taught that the; --.Li. iin ?r>cruln from the! SOUtll lliiu u ngui, v^ ^ ~ _ union. All the schools of the north! have taught that this was rank treason. The heroes of the south who wore the u;rav have been held up to ; immortality in the south, but in the ; north they have been held up to ob-; loquy and scorn as destroyers of the ' nation. The federal schools could not teach one history in the north and another in the south. They would ' * i have to teach one side or the other, i There can be no compromise on J history. Federal schools would have to teach the same history in the north and the south or become ridi- j culous. The avowed purpose of the j Towner-Sterling bill is to ^standardize education/' and the greatest: part of all education is HISTORY, j At the recent reunion of Confederate j veterans in Richmond on this very account strong resolutions were passed condemning certain next books >f h:>ro>-y that, h.td crept into the schools of North Carolina. That state had adopted histories which in elfe-. were teaching her children that their fathers were traitors. North Carolina had paid over *200.000 to install the books, but they were cast cut a? worse than poison. j The Towner-Sterling bill has some good features, according to southern statesmen. There is now and there . hould coin/ue lo be hi re at Washington, and it should be enlarged and perfected, a :ureau of education.' But the bait of a lit*!money by way "f federal aid will never be enough to make southern statesmen vote for the evils that are in the TownerSterling bill. Besides, the federal government can only get money by taxing the! people of the south, as well as the north, east, and west. And, if.this .bill were agreed to, the one hundred, million dollars now, and the two or; ,three hundred million later that it; would take to carry out its provisions i would only mean additional taxt.- ???-1 on an ov?. rtaxed ;>c nn!r. Out of thosetaxes, because of its enormous ability to outclass the south in -pending money the great bulk would go t > the north, because it is fifty-fifty pro!)-; osition, under the bill the federal! government agreeing to n; y onehalf whenever the state agrees to pay t!..- other half for education. Tiiai is the reason why southern statesmen, even those who are "publicly" for the bill, are privately against it and only waiting for the primaries to bo over to join hands .with their colleagues in giving it the Una! quietus. Be patient. Some of these days the senate committee is going to make a report on Tom Watson's charges against the A. E. F. Everything would be ail right, apparently. if the allies would loan Germany the money with which to pay her war debts. Chicago reports the formation of a widows' league, but the dispatches do not state whether it is offensive or defensive. 4 * In Boston a woman got a verdict for $15,000 against a railroad for the death of her husband. Yes, it does sound like prolteering. 'An optimii; is a man who buys a pocketbook on credit," says the Co"P<->r.r\-\-i-l Rnt wViat nhrnif tlv? I luiuuia iwvuiu. ? man who sells to him on credit? Every now and then we hear of some man who got a real bargain in a second-hand automobile, just as we used to hear of somebody finding a valuable pearl in an oyster in a restaurant. ANNOUNCEMENT ; FOR CONGRESS I am a candidate for reelection to Congress from the Third Congressional District, subject to the rules of the Democratic narty. FRED H. DOMINICK. Subject to the rules of the Democratic party, I announce mysellf a candidate for congress from the Third congressional district. SAM H. SHERARD. * I am a candidate for congress Third district subject to the rules of the Democratic party. E. P. McCRAVY. Easlev, S. C. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives. Will abide result of the Democratic primary. Platform, Lower Taxes, Observance of Sabbath. Education, Equalization Property, Roads, etc. J. WILLIAM FOLK. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the house of representatives from Xe.vberry county and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary election. EUSTON X. KIDLER. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the house of representatives from Newberry county, subject to the primary election of the Democratic partv. ' W. R. WATSON. Whitmire, S. C. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce myself as candidate for membership in the House of Representatives from Nwbcrry County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. Eugene S. Blease. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House 01 Representatives from Newberry County, and will abide the rules and regulations oi the Democratic primary. W. B. Boinest. I hereby announce myself a can-j didate for the House of Representa-! lives and will abide the result of the | I) e mo era t i c pr i mary. W. M. Wilson. I hereby announce myself as aj candidate for the house of represen-! t.*itivc and pledge myself to a.'bidej the result of the primary election. ! H. H. Evans. | FOR PROBATE JUDGE I anoui;ce myself a? a candidate j for rejection for the office of Pro-j bate Judge and will abide the result1 of the Democratic nrimary. W. F. EWART. FOR MAGISTRATE FOR TOWN-1 SHIPS 1 AND 8 I hereby announce myself a candidate for Magistrate for Townships! Numbers 1 and 8, subject to the Dem-j ocratic primary. If elected I shall endeavor to perform the duties of the office in the future as I have in the; past, without fear or favor, and with J fairness to all. CHARLES W. DOUGLAS. | I am a candidate for magistrate for townships Xo. 1 and 8 and will abide the rules of the Democratic part v. J. H. CHAPPELL. ! I am a candidate for magistrate fori townships Xo. I and S and will abide j the rules of the Democratic party. : W. S. JONES. ; I hereby announce myself- a. candidate for .Magistrate for townships Xo. 1 and 8 and will abide by the ' r .' t i * - ! -< rUics (;r '.lie 1 >":rioc!"uic party. .> E. I,. I10I)LSI'KK(?KR. I-:J 1 ]., ! am a candidate for magistrate for townships No. 1 a::d 8 and will abide the rules of the Democratic party. j \V. A. GRADD1CK. ! " j FOR MAGISTRATE POMARIA I an: a candidal'- for reappointment is mas.^trate at l'omara and will. ' >b:de the Democratic- primary. (" J. B. BEDKXBAUGH. (>: ! .( FOR MAGISTRATE FOR LITTLE! , MOUNTAIN The friends of Mr. J. C. Wessinser j ! ! knowing hi.- fitness for the position j( if ma?ri*trate do hereby announce-. him for the position of magistrate f?r|^ tht> tov.n of Little Mountain, S. C., j and pledge him to abide the result ot|;, the primary election. friends. ; FOR MAGISTRATE NO. 3 TOWN-1SHIP I " I am a candidate for magistrate | for township No. 3, and will abide the rules of the Democratic primary. W. D. RUTHERFORD, TOR MAGISTRATE NO. 4 TOWNSHIP R. M. Aughtry is hereby announced as a candidate for reelection a:maffistrato for Township No. 4, and will abide the rule? of the Demccratic party. i announce myself a candidate for} magistrate of Xo. 4 townsmp, sud- j ject to the- Democratic primary. J. ERNEST YOUNG. MAGISTRATE NO. 5. John F. Miller is hereby announced as a candidate for magistrate for Xo. 3 township, pledged to abide the rules pleldged to abide the rules of the of the Democratic primary. FCR MAGISTRATE NO. 6. TOWNSHI? J. H. Dorroh is hereby announced as candidate for reelection as Magistrate for Xo. G township, pledged to abide the rules of the Democratic primary. FOR MAGISTRATE NO. 7 I am a candidate for appointment as magistrate for Xo. 7 township subject to the rules of the Democratic party. W. P. Allen. FOR MAGISTRATE FOR NO. 9 I hereby announce myself a candidate for magistrate for township No. 9 of Newberry county, subjcct to the | rules of the Democratic party. J. L. BOWERS, Jr. Appreciating the services rendered the community in the past and believ-i ing him best qualified to serve us during the extremely hard years in which we are now entering, we hereby nominate Judge B. B. Hair for reelection to the office cf magistrate for No. 0 township, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. His Many Friends. MAGISTRATE NO. 10 The friends of J. J. Kibler desire to place him in r )mination for magistrate for No. 10 towons'nip and pledge him to abide the rules of the Democratic party. I am a candidate for rcclection as j magistrate for No. 10 township and ] ? ? ' 1 TX IS' I will at>ide tne ruiets or ine uemocrauc i primary. J. A. KINARD. ; \ ! I am a candidate for magistrate , for No. 10 township and will abide the rules of the Democratic Party. P. B. ELLESOR. j MAGISTRATE NO. 11 0. A. Felker is a candidate for magistrate for No. 11 township and * will abide rules of Democratci party. MAGISTRATE NO. 11 I announce myself a candidate for Magistrate No. 11 and will abide the rules of the Democratic primary. T> TVT Quhor J JJ a' L kV MA/V* f NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT j I will make a final settlement of the estate of Amos Mendelhall in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Wednesday, the 6t'n day of September. 1922, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as ?_ Administrator of said estate. ? All persons having claims against the estate of Ames Mendenhal, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. J. D. WHEELER. C. C. C. P. Administrator.: X- ..Q r Ana- 4. 1022. -A L V* Ut'ii Vj KJ V-.J - 7 ''' I Cures Malaria, Chills and Fcv-j er, Dengue or Biiious Fever. It kills the germs. j FORECLOSURE | I . . I State of South Carolina. County of j X-'Vberry. Court of Common j Picas. Cecil E. Dominiek, Plaintiff. against Sarah I. Baker, l)cndan:. f ^ Pur.--;*.;!::: t.? order of the Court herein. I will . 'i at pu:>i:c outcry, to the hiirhi-.st bidder, before the Court House doer a: Xev.brry, S. ('.. within the legal hours of sale. 021 Sales-' ^ " ' 1(190 t'r Hi follow (lay m ^epieuiuui, inr? tract of land, to wit: All that tract of land In the County of Newherry. State of South Carolina, containing1 one hundred four and twotenths (104.2) acres, more or less, hounded by lands of J. Banks Dominick, Ned Lindler, Adam Craps. Mike m i heely. Lou: a i)<>.nir.a I.. 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The mortgage all further provide that if the pur;.-e:' fail to insure and keep insurthe buildings on the premises or pay the taxes, the Master, or his signs, may pay said taxes and inrance. and any penalties, and reibtu e themselves for the same, unr the mortgage, at the rate of per cent per annum from the tte of payment. In case a purchasfail to comply in full with hi3 bid ithin live days from the day of sale e Master will resell at the purchas's risk. Purchaser shall pay for nf (](fil and mortgage, for venue 6tarnps, and for recording ortgago. .JAMES D. QUATTLEBAUK, aster for Newberry County, S. C. 8-11-41 : I i nd Furnishings : W'1 JJBBMHEUWR'jyiHIB j stock of genis, new stock, >ry. Get them sfiecl Finish- j st satisfactory ii a specialty rs. They are juickly as good l. If you hapnf vnur tlSMA V v/a J wwa be no charge t When you :>ne amounting i have one enfree. Save all or light finish. 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