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tfbr StUfltt Sjrialii A.B. JORDAN KdHor i T ; Dillon, S. C., May 2, 1918. t OUIl SCHOOLS IX DAXUElt. In a letter published elsewhere in this issue David It. Coker, chairman of the State Council of Defense, calls attention to the grave dangers oar schools are facing as a result of the war and the high cost of living.' Wages and salaries in almost ev-' ery other vocation have risen pretty inucn in Keeping witn tne cost or j living, but still the teachers grind on at practically the same old starva-: tion wages. It is idle to think there will be any appreciable decrease in the. cost of living for the next several years, and the individual or institution lhat does not adjust itself to the changed conditions is toying with bankruptcy. In this the public schools are facing a problem?a grave problem?that calls for prompt action. j If the harm done were only in forcing a number of people to live on inadequate wages, the matter would not be very serious. But the harm does not stop here. The impossibility of obtaining living salar- ; ies is inevitably forcing the ambi. tious teacher out of the profession and into some other calling that of-: fers better returns. me natural realms must oe tlie ; ^ filling of the schools with a lot of second-rate teachers, hoys and girls'* who regard the school-room as merely a stop-gap between their own i school days and a profession. The only possible result of this condi-' tion must be the grievous neglect of the youth of the land. And this is a time when the coun try cannot afford to neglect her children. We have had too hard a ' struggle to reach our present intel- j lectual plane to afford to yield one fraction of the progress we have1 made. There is but one remedy, and that is for the people to look the situation squarely in the face, and be willing to levy taxes for school pur-: poses that will put the teaching i profession up and abreast the other ! professions. If this is not done! jr.n j1 of the more competent teachers v 11 leave ' iie actio d-room for more lucrative callings. It is a serious problem that deserves the profound consideration of every thoughtful person. The longer this war continues the more profoundly are we impressed with the love and loyalty of ihe peo- ; . ulfl for this great nation of ours. It! u>**^eU nearly a ypar s?nce the se- [ > ^Jve^serYice act \vus put in opera- j j-n and so far as we know there: 1 us not been a murmur of complaint gainst it. A great army, composed 1 if the flower of American manhood, has been mobolizcd for service in for-' eign countries, and the willingness with which our young men who ( came within the draft age have responded to the call of their govern- ! meut stands out in bold contrast ' to the opposition similar laws have met in autocratic and semi-autocratic countries in other parts of the world. In the early stages of the war England had its troubles with the conscription law and lor a time there was grave danger of serious revotl, while the recent troubles in Ireland where there is open and violent opposition to the law are still fresh I in the public mind. "Our country is too democratic; we need an auto-, * cratic form of government to curry on tiiis war successfully" was the cry the people raised m a spirit of impa tience at the delay of the government in carrying out the provisions of the selective draft law. Hut results have proven that drastic measures were not accessory to unite and solidify the people of this great nation. It was done by unanimous consent, and is mute but eloquent evidence of the greatness of a nation whose highest ideals are the liberties its people enjoy. The ungenerous, ill-natured flings of Roosevelt, Sherman, Lodge, et al at the administration are irritating, it is true, but indicate a pretty healthy condition of affairs When those on the outside cease to kick and criticise it is time to sit up und take i Following the announcement of the Federal Trade Commission that the paper trust made $38,000,000 last year the price of paper took ( another big jump. Hanks orer the countiy are re- j porting that parties are endeavoring to exchange silver and bills for gold, the presumption being that gold is wanted for hoarding. Hanks should refuse to make the exchange. The present is no time for hoarding gold and persons guilty of so doing are the worst of slackers I The desperate German drive 01 the western front had one effec that will not give any satisfactioi to Germany. It has resulted in th< United States speeding up prepnra tion, and troops are to be rushed t< France as fust as the combine* transportation facilities of both tin United States and Great Britain cai put them across. As they arrive 01 the other side they will be absorbet into the armies of the Allies, an* what they may lack in training wil uc i uuucu iuiu luriii iu biiui v uiaici This will prove of benefit to tin troops themselves as well as mater ially strengthening the allied front With the help of Great Britian w< should be able to make our powei felt at the front very soon now. Anc surely there is need of the help oui troops can give. America will watct with feverish interest the trans porting of our troops, and hail the day when we shall have sent enough to turn the tide of battle in to an allied victory. We have a suspicion that the "safety first" slogan originated with the kaiser's sons. Mil. 4. V. MALCOLM WOUNDED Splinter from Long Hangc Gun Hits Him in the Leg. Judge J. C. Davis is in receipt of a letter from Mr. J. V. Malcolm, who is in Paris where he has charge of the auditing department in a division of the lied Cross, in which Mr. Malcolm states that he has been slightly wounded by a fragment of shell from the long distance gun which has been shelling Paris for the apst four weeks. Mr. Malcolm does not give the details, but says his wound is very slight and does not cause him any great inconvenience. Mr. Malcolm has been in Paris since last Autrust Parent Teachers Mwlinc. The Parents-Teachers Association will meet in the school auditorium on next Tuesday afternoon, May 7 at 4 o'clock. All members are urged to he present. IMOGENE BROWN, Secretary. High Hill School Closing. Song by the school?"Little Citizens." "The Numbers." ? Nine small boys. "My Dolly"?liuth Sanderson. "The Goblin Man"?A motion Song by six small girls. "Your Country Neetis You"? Four boys and four girls. "A Whole Lot of Don'ts"?Cassie Blackmore. "The I Can't Army"?Grace Scott. "O Land! My Land"?Olive McKenzie. "These Things Shall He"?Daisy Hayes. "Be in Earnest"?Earl Sanderson. "The Dawn of Peace"?Eva Sanlerson. "Nobody's Child"?Mae Herring. "Little Jim"?Lilie Scott. "Star Spangled Banner"?-Eight ?irls. "Flag Drill"?Eight Girls. "Patriotic Songs" by the school. I.MPOKTANCK OF DISCIPLINE. Why the Professional Has Advantage of the Amateur. There is as much professionalism in the lighting ol war as in prizefighting. The following statements by nn American general. West Point graduate. le lp to understand the tasli thai Germany puts before this country and the allies. I'lu- Germans alone knew about this kind of war and have preparet for it. West Point neither taught noi knew anything like it except for o'? servation and recent study. It is a: new to the veteran American oi English ollieer as to the nineteen year-old recruits. This modern lighting is a inattei of discipline and professionalism? "discipline" that overcomes excite meat, ignores wounds endures ev t-rything, obeying orders. To understand what this wa means you must know that a Prus sian ollieer can rely on his men a: though tiny were so many posts o steel automatically moving or stand ing, as he commands. People ask how soon after the; an- nuiMfu ran mey no made read; tor this kind of fighting. They ar< surprised to hoar that three mouths preparation or six months' prepara tion is little better than nothing; ant guarantees nothing. What are three or six months o discipline in training compared witl the German soldier training and (lis oiplined from the cradle? Newspaper dispatches talk abou throwing in reserves, but the trutl is that reserves lacking the disciplim of years can not standin the noise of bursting sheels an officer can not be sure that hii men ('All absolutely green") com pared with the Germans, will stand or see or olvy signals or knew wha they are doVg. It is not a question of courage, bu of discipline, that absolutely con quers nerves. I <*, The German soldier, an automaton of discipline, stays where you put him or goes where you want him to go, an after a bullet has struck him I he still looks for his signal and obeys iit exactly us though he had not been i hit. j Not only the German soldier iu jthe held but the whole German nation, the public, fathers and moth,ers, men in public life, have all ;flike been trained and disciplined from 'their childhood. The German . uaItions works now iu one direction, j like one single Prussian soldier go'jing forward in a bayonet charge.! s | Germany does not discuss or give " i orders?she obeys. Here in America you have all * kinds of men, from Mr. Roosevelt r down, telling the president what he I I must do, and how the war must be r won. You have women, and prohibi-j , tionists, and clergymen and various , societies giving orders to the head of i the nation. * You have the peoples' representatives in congress criticising and at-j " tacking everything, especially the, commander-in-chief. National discipline, like individual discipline, is < s not known. i Germany is fighting with complete . reliance on every citizen at home on i every organization, every inhabitaut | within that iron ring of trenches and ' | steel. ! "Germany is working with absolutely safe reliance upon every disciplin- J ed man fighting in the field. It is only necessary to give the or-; 1 der, and it is obeyed. The German at home accepts star-; vation or semi-starvation or sixteen working hours?and here you must' promise your men that they Willi work only eight hours on national , I | 1 defense work, and get double pay1 if they ask it. But, most important of all, you j must remember that Germans in the trenches or out of the trenches, wait- , ing for the commander, rushing! across the bloody fields with shells! : i 1- >r - -- 1 ' I-All Hiu I lift urounu inein, are so tnor- , joughly disciplined that nothing ( checks them, contuses or bewilders , them. , To throw socalled "reserves" ab- ; ! solutely green men, against such ( ! forces is almost murder?-yet that is what the allies must do, and have ( [ done and are doing. So much for the view of -an exper- , ienced American general fainilar , with the war's problem. You know , the difference between a profession- | al and an amateur prizefighter. A , professional, inferior *n character, , or even physique, 1 great ad- | vantage over the at.. . When he . is knocked down he distinctly hears ' the referee counting, knows enough to rest while he may, and get up as the referee counts nine. \ 1 The professional keeps his head ( in "the clinches," knows when and where he should strike in the breakaway. Two men being physically and mentally equal, one a professinal and one an amateur, the professional has at least three hundred per cent the advantage. Germany, the German people, the German army, the German common soldiers are all "professional fighters." Every man has been disciplined from childhood and trained as a tighter from his young manhood. Every one lias been taught that the j I nuioi CllUlt; IS UlSUUt'UltllCC. The trained professional German I fighter knows that he may be killed,' if he goes ahead and obeys orders. lie knows that if he disobeys be will be killed to an absolute certainly. This country und the allies are . amateurs, men that have thought for themselves and never learned to take orders. They have lived as men ! should live in civilization, as free | 'men thinking for themeslves, but, , | when war begins and the occupation!] .'of the world is murder, these ama:lteurs of democracy questioning, de-|] . adding, are like the untrained men ;against the professional prizefighter.] t' To read what it written here is [.not pleasant, for it means long lighting, and some inevitable disappoint[ ! ment. .! When a decent man resents the in-; s1 suits of a professional bruiser lie is^ i- pretty sure to be knocked flat, in: . spite of having right on his side.And {nation or nations that confront Eur rope's professional bruiser, the Prus-, -<sian nation of professional lighters, .'must expect disappointments. .! However, this country and the al-{ lied countries abroad need for their j r protection at least full information. | . They need to know what it is that j s confronts and threatens them and f what their difficulties will be. Professional prizefighters do not i rule the world. Their status is lower y and lower as the years pass. And I y Germany, the professional prize; lighting nation, will in the end not 'rule this world- Arthur Brisbane - in an editorial in the Washington' * iTimes. i| fw&&| vmnDRkai IXMMMKtrT Buy Them And ! Help Win The War "I FOR SALE EVERYWHERE ' >1 Cant of Thanks. For their kindness of heart and mind, during our recent bereavement, we wish to thank our friends. Mrs. James R. Watson and Family. CITATION. Stale of South Carolina, County of Dillon. By Joe Cabell Davis, Probate Judge Whereas, C. P. H-ayes made suit to me to grant unto him letters, of Administration of the estate and etfectr of M. D. Huggins. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kinddred and Creditors of the s?.id M. D. I-Illtr trine HonoaanH thai i V* ov ha o n/1 appear before m? in the Court of Probate, to be held at Dillon on Thursday, May 9th next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause. 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