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PBM??P???P?1M I I ! ? jjlje |erciD utiB Jem MUrM at tk? futo&ic* kt N*?* *Vn, 3. C., u 2d4 dui matter. t H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, December 5, 1922. D?EAM ALMOST REALIZED For many years I have dreamed oi' the day when we would have a good highway to the old home in Greenwood county via Chappeils, and especially since the time when we began the building of highways. I pleaded for a good road to Whitmire and to Chappeils, because these were important trade centers and opened fine sections of the county to come to Newberry, and because almost all the other sections had better roads leading to the county seat. We have the x. -H7i.-i.__: j I* mgnway to w e ami it is a gwv* one, and now Whltmire is much nearer to Nevo';erry thin it was before. And there is a good road to Chappells, in fact one of the best in the county, and Chappells is not near so far away as it was before. And in the getting of this road I wanted to see it built on to the Saluda river and from there cn to Ninety Six and especially to Dyson. Of course that was in a measure the selfish part of it, for this is the road 1 wanted to make pilgrimages over to see the old folk at home. Th&t is es pecially since the advent of the automobile. There was the railroad, but ; it took about the same time to go to and from the train and to wait for , the train that it now takes to make the trip by auto. The road is almost complete. Greenwood built the road I from the town of Greenwood down to the river a year or two before New- ; berry started. Before Greenwood ! built it was almost impassable from the river over to the top of the hill, but that now is fine and you can go up that hill without the change of gear. And Newberry has practically finished all of the road on the New-. . berry side, except just one mile as you approach the river, and that is partly graded and some of the top soil is on, and it now seems that the ; road will soon be ready for traffic. And that stretch of road from Chappells in >jy the Simkins place is just line and the wonder is how they ever built such a good road through here. ! * It seems to me that the top soil is the : ^ best that I have seen in the county, B unless it is that stretch out by Mr. p? D. C. Spearman's on the Bush River . |E road, and the grades are not heavy. The worst part of it is going to be * the underpass at the river. It seems now that the road is to remain on the same side of the railroad, and to crosj with an underp:ss as at present, and that the underpass will be very near ' or quite where it now is. This will be a. right angle turn again, and while there has been no accident recorded '. at this underpass that we have heard ' of, yet when there is a good highway leading to it there will be those who will heed no warning and accidents' will follow. But it seems that this is the best and about the only route for the road, unless a bridge was r built about the height of the railroad ! trestle. That is prohibitive at present on account of the cost, though it is the only way to have a real highway and there should be a new bridge . across the road for the highway instead of the present arrangement using the railroad bridge. And iby the ' way, the approach on the Newberry '< side is in bad condition and there are . several very bad holes and should be repaired. And the portion across the : river does not seem to be entirely safe, and certainly the railiing should be replaced with sound pieces. ; But it is all so much better and more convenient and co much safer than it used to be that I am thankful. At one time the wagon bridge at this place was on the same oridge as the railroad tracks and you had to turn into the bridge and travel over the rails, as you approached from either side, and if you should have been caught in there as a freight train . came along it would have been good night. And the hill on the other side was scarcely fit for travel and almost ' impassible. And I am glad that we have all lived to see the day when a ; trip home is not such an undertak- 1 ing, but rfcally just a nice pleasure ride. I can make the twenty-six miles 1 in a little less than one and a half t hours, whereas even in a car it used : to take me two hours and a half, be- ; cause that was some /bad road all the > way. I drove over Sunday and spent a few hours at home. Monday, December 4, was the birthday of my father, his 87th. and I had not been over in ! some time, and rhen my brother and his wife, Nathan E. Aull of Hickory. N. C., were there, and we had a pleasant few hours together. Mother is just as young ns ever and father t ? # is doing well, and they both have fine' appetites and sleep well and are in general good health for which I am thankful. We had a good dinner of saur kraut and hog jowl and fried chicken and other things and we all: have fairly good appetites. E. H. A. | DID FAIRLY WELL Thanks to Mrs. R. H. Wright, pres-! ident and her committees from the' CIVIC association we UUl .laiiiv nm , with our education edition. That is to say, the ladies did their part ad-' mirably, and we did the best we could under the circumstances, though our part is not up to what it should have' been, but with new help and not enough force we think it was doing1 good work to get out as well as wre did and mail Friday morning. We had hoped to mail Wednesday night, but that was impossible and get up the ads. The paper carried 168 colrmns and 3,360 inches of space and the ads ran about half and half or' about 1700 inches of ads. That was very good. We should have had more cuts of schcol houses and of matters and things and persons per' Knf ic o ! lA'.i.'llIg tU MiiUUia, uui niv a 10 <? whole lot of real wholesome and help-: ful reading matter, and a lot of in-: formation that is valuable, in thatpaper and it would be a good <~eet for ycu to lay aside for future reference. One gentleman told us he had ; done that very thing for he had found ; a good ; - it of valuable material upon' which to build some fine speeches, and he is right, it is there. I I What the ladies made is theirs with no string's tied to it, ?nd they are at liberty to do with it to them may seem best. We would like to make i a. suggestion, and in no sense a die- j tation, and that is that the best ex- ? pression of the civic pride of a com- 1 munity to us, is the condition in ; which the s:lent city of the dead is 1 I:ept, and how the school grounds are j laid out and beautified, and judged ; by the grounds at our city schools and ] rhe. condition of our Rosemont one < would not see very much manifesta ] 'ion of civic pride in this community. < tnd it seems to ijs that the civic a*-j jociation could express its energies to 10 better purpose than the improvenenc of the cemetery and the beauti-. fying our school grounds. We would ] ike to see some beautiful school j grounds at our three schools, and eslecially should that be done now ( since we have so many needed im- ] xovements in the equipment of the < ^uiid'ngs, and at Rosemont we would ike to sec a Ia'-ge granite pavilion < o take the phcc of the wodoen shed -j :haft is there now, and let it be the 1 nonument to soldiers of the several > .vars who have given up their lives \ hit liberty and happiness and free- t iom might be the part of those who :ome after. And then Roseaioni, ? :eeds to be kept in better condition ] .han it is. and we had hoped to see t VIr.. Leavell call a meeting of all lot < nvners and let us see if we could not { igree upon some sort of organization hat would work and improve the < rrour.ds and provide for their up- ] :eep. We will help the ladies do ( vhatever they undertake because we ;r.ow they are always doing the j hi rigs that are good. We can not see much good and no enefit in making a park out of the ower public square, and it would be etter for the town to let it remain as t i? and be used for wagons and a ; wking place rather than to try to -.lake a park there, and certainly we :hould not build any monument there, rhen there is considerable opposition o the making of a park out of this ower public square on the part of ome of the business men, and we had >etter do that which will meet the approval of all the people as far as posible, and in tY.i wr.y have their co peration in what we do for the gen_ _ i - rai we...-1 ..... ? me way it appears to us. We need to have as far 1 is possible all the people working to- i vether for the good of the communi- 1 y. That has been our slogan for ma- ] ly years, no one man or woman can < !o a great deal by himself, but each Icing his part will work wonders and ccomplish things beyond the most i .nnsruine expectations. Neither can i :.ve get very far "cussing" and abus- ] :;g thosse who may nQt agree with 1 js, and who may be ibold enough to i ay what they think. All together for! hat steady and sure and substantial < :rowth that has characterized the ' i growth of this town and community i "or many and mary more years, and : t may be slow, but what we build is <. milt substantially and it has none of 1 he mush room smell about it, and ; hat is the way we should continue to i Trow. We do not want any Jonah's 1 vouru kind of growth, come up over ; tight and know not whence it comes, j nd then go. we know not whither. j1 U I * i< One way to get a man to praise < rour judgment i? to ajrree with al! he 1 ays. If you didn't vote, you havp no ; ight to complain about how the elec 1 ion went. i ? ' <f> 1 r AMONG THE SCHOOLS - <$> <S> ^ ? . , We hope that it may not continue < to rain during this week so that we , may carry out our programs for the j observance of National education week. The shower of Sunday night ; will be helpful. !5 The local post of the American le-'( gion has done some fine work and { manifested the fine spirit of cooperation and work in helping to arrange ( for the observance of Education j week. Dr. J. B. Setzler told me the ? other day that every committee ap-'; I pointed to carry the message and the . flag to the school on Tuesday had re- ] spoaded beautifully aritl there had to ( be very few substatitutes for the per- '* * * I sons called to this service. That was . < great and the only spirit that helps! worth ?vhi!e. The other organizations j of the county have also worked nice- \| ly in helping arouse an interest in the 1 j betterment of our schools and there j is no greater work in which they ^ could lend a helping hand. !j Mr. D. L. Lewis was with me la*t week or to make it clear, the j week ending November 25, and he is j sending me copy of his report to the! state superintendent of -education,^ and T am sending it to th<< people so'7 that they may read what he says' about our schools, or those he visited. 's I want to S3y something along what ^ he reports :but at this time there is j. no space available or the type can not ^ be set for this issue. I do try to em-' j * phasize the importance of teaching j. writing or penmanship but my hobby ^ is reading. I emphasize the import-'j &nce of reading intelligently more 11 than anything else because the ability to do that is the key to all other's branches and in fact to all knowledge j and all the other things. If you can T not read understanding^' and inrel-1 ligently then your teaching has been i ' * * - J -1 defective some wnere. Ana pa-asc^ read what he says about so many ( small one teacher schools. * E. H. A. } i Columbia, S. C. it Dec. 2, 1922. |a Hon. J. E. Swearingen, jjDear Sir: c Below is given report of condition v )f schools of Xewberry county seen by me in the course of a visit made ? iuring week ended Nov. 25. ' T On Tuesday, in company with the c: :ounty superintendent, I visited the y following schools: Reagin, a one- ^ ;eachsr; Deadfall, one teacher; Sil- \ /crstreet, three teachers; Chap-pells, >v :hree teachers; Vaughnville, one ^ ;caeher. ' c We visited on Wendesday -John- ^ ;to::e, a two-teacher school; St. a Lukes, four teachers; Bisr Creek, two ^ ;eachcrs; Saluda, two teachers; r 3'Neall, three teachers; Monticello,' :wo teachers. \ On Thursday I visited Mt. Bethel- j Germany, a three teacher school; Mt. j Pleas: nt, two tcachers; Broad River, + j c >ne teacher; Maybinton, one teacher. r Friday we visited St. Philips, a t four teacher school; Fork, one teach- s ?r; Jolly Street, three teachers; -Mid- r ay, three tcachers; Central, one y ;eacher. On Saturday I addressed the Newjerry County Teachers' association. , We saw some excellent teaching in a ;he schools. I wish to commend the :eachers of Chappells on their efforts a :o teach the children to be careful in a ;he use of English. The principal and^ ;he intermediate teacher each had a j 3ox on the ta-hle, in which were plac-,j slips of paper containing errors of j speech made or noted by the pupils c luring the week. On Friday after- \ noon these errors were gone over by t ;he teachers, and the attention of the c - ?called to them, in order that in j :he future such errors of speech c might be avoided. All teachers should jbe very careful to see to it that their c pupils express themselves in clear,'T grammatically- correct English. 'c This care should be exercised by i the teachers in every lesson. Many, af the pupils hear these grammatical inaccuracies at home, and will never , [earn to use good English unless the ! teachers take the trouble to aid them in using correct forms. In some of the schools it was ob- c ?erved that the pupils are not bein? ( made as thorough as they should be i 3n analysis of sentences. Pupils, ( I ( should not be allowed to go over the Kinard-Withers grammars without \ aeing able to give the simple subject, 1 simple predicate, and the complement 1 of each sentence studied. Every sen- j tence should be made a drill on anal- ( t'sis. | < In several schools good work in ma* 1 thematic? was observed. The teach- , ?rs were requiring the pupils to write f out on the board a sumcient amount i af the analysis of examples to show j that the pupils understood their problems. In other schools the pu-' [>ils were not required to write any ail.jlysis. There is no set formula for writing the analysis of examples, but it ?h?ml(i always be written in ?ueh a v way that the teacher fs no doubt as. to the pupils' understanding the I problem under consideration. Penmanship should be taught a:id J stressed in every school. The countyj superintendent is urging this, but i not al! the teachers are as yet teach- j ng penmanship. The art of questioning pupils should be carcfully studied by all :eachers. The questions of teachers should be clear, logical and caiculat?d to make the pupils think. All ques' til 1 il i ;io.'is snouia dc so ciear inai u-ianno A'ill not have to repaet them in different form. Leading: questions exacting only the answer "yes"' or 'no," should never be asked. In givng questions, insist that pupils pay ittention so that questions do not lave to be repeated. In the replies )f pupils, seldom allow more than one ;rial. Expect and require good work md good results from the pupils. Perhaps the greatest weakness in he work of teachers is their failure :o prepare carefully beforehand all he lessons they are to teach. Such ^reparation will pave the way for i proper assignment and teaching of j essons. No teacher can be successful without such lesson preparation, tfany teachers were observed who lad not prepared their work beforeland. Some good reading was o.bserved >n the part of pupils, showing that i eading was being well taught. In >ther cases, pupils were poor readers, ;howing that they had been promoted vithout preparation, or were being >oorlv taught, or both. Any teacher hat fails to tcach her pupils to read veil, to get the thought and to be able ' .0 give it, is failing in her work as a eacher. Reading is the key that un-1 ocks the door to all knowledge, herefore it is the most important I ichool subject, and should be most Pressed by teachers. The people of Newberry county ; iced to consolidate their one-teacher , chools into schools of three or more j eachers. Their children can never j >e educated in one-teacher schools. )ut of 55 white schools, 28 are one- J oacher schools. Newberry is far be- j lind in consolidation. With ponsDldation, new schoolhouses, more eachers to the school, longer terms, tnd more regular attendance, New-| >erry would be in position to give her hildren much better educational ad antages. The rural communities should not illow their schools to go back as a esult of hard times. Country chil- j Iron do not have the educational op- j lorlunity that town and city chil-j Iron have, and to take from them the j ittle opportunity they now have vould ?be doing them a great injusice. There is only one time to edu*" * ?+rv arivr1 ' ate children, arm hem the advantage of a good school it that time means that they will go hroug'n life uneducated, slaves to iglorance, prejudice and superstition. Many country communities in New- j >erry are dying; the schools are dy- j ng,?and the country churches are dv- j ng. This is a bad sign^ The coun- [ ry is the best place in the world to ear boys and girls. They are taught o work, they lecrn to carry responibility, and, when educated, they nake the very best men and women. They take religion, Sunday school :nd the church seriously. Religion neans something to them, and their >elief in religion makes sterling characters. The hope of the state and ' he nation lies in these country boys tnd girls, educated, taught to work ' ,nd carry responsibility, and taught; o reverence the church. Let us build up our country schools. .et us try to hold our good country j >eople in the country. Let us revive >ur country churches. Only in this vay shall we save our country from ' he ruin and destruction that have ' vertaken all nations of the past. National education week should be; ibserved everywhere to arouse the >eople to the tremendous importance : >f building: up the rural, schools, the ural communities, and the rural, hurches. D. L. Lewis, j NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ES-' TATE On Monday, salesday, January 1st,; 1923, immediately after the court ;ale, I will soil to the highest bidder, before the court house at Newberry. South Carolina, all that piece, parcel )r tract of land lying and being sit- j late in the county of Newberry, state )f South Carolina, containing fifty-j aiH 93-100 C,"jl 23-100) acres,' nore or less, bounded by land of, or j formerly of ?*Irs. Nora Werts, by ands of, or formerly of. G. M. Werts,! md by a public road: this tract also' irijoins lands of G. Washington Su>er. and was formerly owned by him; >n the following terms, one half f 1 -2> cash and the balance in two I f2) equal anual payments, with in-' erest from date of sale at the rate of ?'nt <8* per cent per annum, inter-. >st payable annually. The credit por-' ion to he secured by a mortgage of he premises sold. Purchaser to pay . 'or papers. JOHN M. KINARD. j' Secretar-* and Treasurer. ; 2-^ j; Another trouble with a fast young nan i* that he i< usually <1 o\v pay. [COLLAR AND CURL = ???? j K Distinguishing Characteristics ol I , English Statesmen. The One Was Thought to Be a Foible ^ of Gladstone, the Other of Beaconsfield. "I suppose," says Mr. John Theodore Tussaud in the "Romance of Madame Tiissaud's," "ihe British puh- } -lie never looked on two such political gladiators as Beaconsfield and Gladstone, and while those two statesmen .dominated people's minds it was nat ural that they should both have afr pedestal at Madame Ttissaud's wax- ? works. I can neither say who was first to appear in the exhibition nor U prophesy who will be the last to go. They are both there now and still at- g , tract much notice. For more than n ^ .generation the Beaconsfield curl and the Gladstone collar exercised a subtle influence in the political world mainly through the cartoons and the caricatures of Tenniel and Furniss." You have to be meticulously careful with regard to Important details such ? as that collar and curl; in later years \ when Mr. Gladstone's figure had to be remodeled it was thought advisable to examine a collar that actually belonged to the Grand Old Man. The "master of the robes" of the famous waxworks was sent to Gladstone's home to ask permission to investigate his collar boxos: permission j was readily granted, but the investi- r 'gator was much astonished to find i V that none of the collars were abnor-1 mally high or pointed. They were I quite ordinary collars. The clever j caricaturist had merely stressed, not.' Imagined, a characteristic effect in dress; for to leave his throat uniuv poded for oratory Gladstone was care- m fnl to wear his collars loose; and that 1^ circumstance, especially when he was seated at ease or with head reflectively inclined, allowed his chin to sink between the upstanding ends until thej* attained undue and striking ?" prominence. Once when Gladstone jL was invited to a dinner at which he knew Harry Furniss was to be presl>/% enrnrfcorl flic* nfirtmvpr of the Clil lie x/v. famous exaggerated collar by wearing for that occasion only the most inconspicuous, low and narrow collar he could possibly obtain. Xo one said *"1 anything about it. but mischief twin- I kled fr>r once In the somber eyes of the statesman, and amused under- C standing twihkled in the eyes of the artist. In the case of Lord Beaconsfield a dan^lin? ringlet falling upon the forehead was the particular delight of his ! caricaturists. They often exaggerated | fhe length and the stringiness of it: I Q but that he did really wear such a j curl Is fact; not only does his counter- f felt presentment in wax at Madame ; Tussaud's display the familiar lock.! but the actual and original curl of the i great Tory in the possession of the J museum. Two of his hair, cut after his death, w. o given to a nurse who had tended him ii lr?t sickness; and one of them \?. M>e cele- ? brated curl. From the niec*.- " the I first owner they passed to Mau.?ni1 B Tussaud's. " Few great men are genuinely indlf- ^ ferent to their waxen models, though * on visiting the exhibition many of ' them try hard to appear unconcerned ^ and approach gradually and coyly the figure they are so eager to see. When a new figure is making, the original often sends interesting suggestions and criticisms. Often he is politely requested to give sittings. Occasion- : ally he volunteers an unexpected hint when he is sitting. - Tennyson, whose instincts and habits were, as was well known, those of a recluse, was studied and modeled J surreptitiously, but an observant neighbor told him what was going on. Soon afterward a quiet iiint was convoyed to tiie museum that, despite his eighty years, the aged ^>oet had not a gray hair in his head and desired that the modeler should make that pleasing fact plain in his model. He did so and with respectful amusement enjoyed the wholly human little exhibition of vanity. Rewarded?-or Crowned. A Princeton grocer has a new delivery boy. Taking an armload of groceries to a Princeton home, he found the back screen fastened on the inside. The b<?y, observing that the screen was a little old, kicked in the bottom with his foot and inserted the groceries. The irate housewife patched the ' door and complained. Next time the boy found the screen door fastened he did bettor. This time he poked only a small hole through, the screen and lifted the latch with his finger. The housewife believes that such , in(rnni/,ne lw>v dimili] hp rewarded nn iii^v invite i?v(i v..v^..v. w . , .. ? ?or crowned with something.?Indianapolis NV'vs. Finds Poor Better Fed. ; Where it lias been possible to make comparisons, more malnutrition has been discovered in the homes of the well-to-do than in the homes of the poor. Dr. William II. P. Emerson of Boston told the New Jersey Tuberculosis league at the final session of its annual meeting nt Newark. He said one-third of the children in the ordinary American community are under weight, under nourished and midnourished. 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