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J NEW SCHOOL LAW Drastic Measure That is Now Peudiug in the General Assembly. CHANGES ARE RADICAL Take the Schools Out of the Hands or me reopie and I'uts Tliem in tli? Hands of Seven Men, Who Appoints Practically All School Officials. There is a most drastic bill now pending in the General Assembly, which, if passed, will take the management of the schools of the State out of the hands of the people and lodge It in the hands cf a few men, who are appointed by the State Superintendent of Education. It is a bill that the General Assembly should consider and let the people discuss before it is enacted into law. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senatorg Sinkler, of Charleston, and Senator Christensen, of Ileaufort, and makes most radical changes in our present school law. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says "while some mention has been made of the report of the commission appointed at the last session of the General Assembly to look into the present school law and to report at this session needed legislation, it is doubtful that ten members of the General Assembly, aside from the educational committee of the House and Senate, have gone fully into ihe bill drawn up under the commission's report and know exactly what will lie accomplished if such a measure passes." That is why we say the bill should not be rushed through the General Assembly. The law declares that a liberal and efficient system of free public euuuaiiuu sn.iii oe maintained throughout the ' State. Separate schools and institutions of learning shall be pro/ideu for persons of the white and colored races and no child or person of jne of these ii.es shall ever be permitted to at'.- n ! a school or educational institutional provided for children or persons of the otuer race. The system shall embrace elementary schools in every school district or city or town where such city or town is not embraced in some school district for the education* of children between the ages of six and twenty-one years; high sihools, as hereinafter provided for, the University of South Carolina. Clemson Agricultural College, Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, the Institution for the Deaf and Blind, :Instate Colored College of South Carolina, Agricultural and Mechanical College, and such other special and technical schools as may from tin * to time be established in wtu.ie er part at public expense." The bill would give the State Superintendent of Education $L\50b per annum and $G00 travelling expenses which would make him the hlgh-st paid State officer, except the Governor. The State Superintendent, by Section 4 pf the bill, would he given division supervisors. "It will he exceedingly profitable to have all of the county superintendents of the State assemble at least once a year to discusB matters pertaining to the educational advancement of their re sportive counties," says tlie report, and the hill provides for this. It has becij pointed out front time to time that the reports of school officers have been Incomplete as to the State department of education. The commission provides for this in its recommendation and the bill could enact it into law. "Ir order," writes the commission, "that the statistics of the State Superintendent may have real significance it is highly Important that tne reports of all school officers shall be complete and be promptly sent in." The bill makes the board of education consist of tho Governor, the State Superintendent of Education and five members (instead of seven as now) to be appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education. The term is four years. A difficulty is avoided by providing that the appointive members shall serve out the terms for which they were appointed At least three members of those tc he appointed shall he professiona teachers regularly employed in educational work. Instead of a per dlen: the board is paid only actual traveling and hotel expenses. A text-book oom mission is ere ??n-<i uj mo diii. i ne meeting a which the adoption (of text-books] Is finally niacin shall he open to the public," says the bill. The commls sion is to be composed of five schoo men. The report says: "In creat lng a text-book commission It is no intended in any way to Interfere with the powers of the State boari of education; but simply to give th board the benpfit of the co-operatioi of I've school men whose successfu experience should render such co-op oration or great value." Certain changes In the text booi matter are made In the bill, as Bug Rested by the commission. A bind ing contract with all publishers o the text books adopted Is necessar in order to render the adoption el fectlve. i Set-lion 12 provides, in accordance with the commission's recommenda- t t'on: "There shall bo appointed by the i State board of education three division supervisors, who shall consti- < tute me niaie Doara or examiners i for teachers, and who shall have full power and authority, subject to re- ; view of their action by the State i board of edocation: 1. To fornioiate a system for the examination and certification of teachers in the public schools. 2. To grant teachers' certificates < which shall he valid throughout the State. i 3. To revoke teachers' certificates i for immoral or unprofessional con- i duct, of evident unfitness for teach- < Ing. It is also provided that no diploma , or certificate from any university, , college or normal school or other in- , itution of learning, shall erempt , ..older from examination as to his ( or her qualilcation to teach, unless , the course has been approved by the , State board of education and the State board of examiners for teach- , ers. 1 Looking toward stability and con- < tinuity in the work of the county boards, says the report, certain changes are made, one being that ' the county superintendent shall not be a member of that board. No person is eligible to the county board who is not a qualiled elector. The ! compensation is limited to a per ( diem. The allowance of mileage in the old law is stricken out. The | number of days' service is made the same in all counties, not exceeding twenty days. The per diem is five ' dollars. The most drastic provision of the new school proposed law, in the words of the commission, and in the . opinion of many, is that section providing that lite county superintendents of education be selected by the county boaul of education, instead of by the people in the primary as at ' present. The section of the bill providing for mis says: "To select and employ for a term of four years a suitable expert, as hereinafter provided, for county superintendents of education, and to 1 fix his salary, which shall be paid out of the KllPrl.nl nnnntv f.iv vided, that no county superintendent ' of education shall he paid less than , twelve hundred dollars a year." The commission says that there Is , a very general demand that some , means he -secured for expert supervision of the schools. The following , safeguards are thrown about the , employment of county superintend- | ent the commission claims: , First of all the county superintendent is made an employee of the county board and not an office-holder. The evils attendant upon the political securing of a job are too w'l ; known to need rehearsing. The superintendent must, be not less than 2b years of age, thus in- i suring maturity and professional experience in the works of the con. mission. He shall have been a resident of the State for not less than one year prior to his election. lie shall have served as a regular teacher or r-lperintendent In some organized school or school system ai least two scholastic years before he is eligible to the position. The bill makes provisions to prevent the wasic of monev on i no flee tive plans for school buildings a* 1 guards against incompetent loachers. What the Commission Wants. Here are some of the radical recommendations of the commission tint into the bill now before the General Assembly bearing favorable report from the committee on education: 1. An amendment to Section 2, Article II, and to Section 24, Article III, of the Constitution, will remove' the obstacle that presents many of our best men from serving as school trustee. Though the Constitution forbids the holding of two offices, this provision has, by common consent, been widely disregarded. This amendment seeks merely to legalize service to education when rendered in connection with other service to the State. 2. The State Superintendent of Education is held responsible for the acts of the State board of education, , and, in the opinion of the commission, he should have some voice in . selecting its members. It is, there. fore, recommended that Section 2, . Article XI, of the Constitution, be amended so that henceforth the Clov, ernor shall appoint the State board I of education, upon the recoinmenda. tion of the State Superintendent. : , 3. The commission recommends . the appointment of a State hoard of examiners for teachers in order that . the present varying standards may t be harmonized by the establishment , of a uniform method in the exatnina3 tion and gradation of applicants to _ teach. 1 tion and gradation of applicants to . teach. t 4. The county board of education e is given larger and dictatorial pow1 J ers in three important respects: p Firsf It ia t h Ck rlcrbt n a special county without taking a 1 vote on It. i- Second?II 1b given the right to apportion all school funds, k Third?It is given the right to choose from eligible applicants the I- county superintendent of education f to eervo for a term of four years, y This takes away the right of the peo! pie to vote for this official in the prl mary as they now do. 5. The right of all special school iistrlcts organized under special Acts of the General Assembly to adopt their own text-books has been withdrawn. The State Superintendent of Education is empowered to appoint a text-book commission, coinposed of five public school men, to act concurrently with the State board of education to adopt a dual list of text-books and to prescribe the unified courses of study for all the free i'iiisim siuuum ui tn?- oiuiv. ft. The members of the State board of examiners for teachers shall serve also as division supervisors of schools, who, under the direction of the State Superintendent, shall audit school accounts and perform such other duties as may be assigned. 7. The county superintendent of education is to be elected by the county board of education, in order (hat restricted qualifications may be rlemanded of all applicants. The term of the county superintendent is made four years, and the minimum salary in any county is $1,200. 8. The State high school law is simplified and strengthened, and the tiish scool appropriation increased to $75,000. j 9. The State board of education is inthorlzed to classify under a recognized nomenclature the schools and olleges of the State. 10. County hoards of education md school district board of trustees ire made continuing bodies in order that a majority of their members may be able, at all times, to form legal contracts. 1 1. An adequate system of reports is provided in order that school statistics may be reliable. 12. The State Superintendent of Rlneation is required to keep a correst account of all school bonds and iv levies provided for their retirement. 12. Rich county superintendent if education is required to submit ?o the grand jury a written report showing, by school districts, all receipts and disbursements made by tiim. 14. All alterations of whatsoever kind in school district lines must be recorded by llie Clerk of Court. Since the school district has been made the unit of taxation for school purposes, it Is absolutely necessary that school listrict lines be clearly and definite ly established. 15. The most fundamental change recommended in the report is the new definition of enrolment, which hases the apportionment of public school funds on the average attendance of pupils. Under this definition the teacher, the school, and the district lose money every day a pupil is absent, and gain every day he is present. 16. An attempt Is made to establish a permanent State school fund and a permanent building fund. 17. The additional expenditures required by this report will be increased salaries for county superintendents of education, a small appopriation guaranteeing to each school district one separate school for three months for pupils of each race, the salaries of the division supervisors, all of which will impose only slight expenditures above 'present appropriations made either by the several counties or by the (Jeneral Assembly. Should this bill become a law it will virtually put our school system in the hands of the State Superintendent of induration. Are the people ready to give one man such a vast power' 1'ltOVK SHK IS ALIYK. Woman Finds dispute Over Hotly by Appearing Alive at Morgue. When a Worcester man accompanied by ?n undertaker, appeared at tie Morgue in Boston to claim as that of his sister, Mrs. Lillian Hastings. the body of a young woman found dead on the waterfront, he was met by the Misses Donohue, of Randolph, who a'.3o claimed the body no that of their sister, Miss Mary Donohue. While the rival claimants were discussing the matter Mrs. Hastings walked into the morgue, f.nally settling the dispute, and 'he body was given to the Donohue sisters. The death of Miss Donohue was at first nelieved to be the result of foul play, hut the medical examiner later declared it to be due to r atural causes. Sisters Klope Together. Misses Alice O. and fleorg'.a Tait, daughters of (leorge ('. Tait, o( Springfield, Mass., eloped together last week and were secretly married to Joseph R. Mark man and Lee (J Bloom, respectively. The weddings were announced by long distance 'phone to their pa rents who felt sure there was a mistake. ' Another killing. As the result of ft row betweei Will Nance and Dempsy Potter, twt young wh.te men, of Little River In Horry county, Saturday nieht a a party, the former lies dead, havinj heen shot and almost instant I; killed by the latter. Nance was It liquor, and attacked Potter Changed Her Mind. Mrs. John Leslie Momand was en gaged to marry a Chicago man but at a dinner given in honor of her en gagement at a New York restaurant she suddenly decided that she pre ferred Mr. Momand and they prompt ly eloped from the dinner table. TOOK OF THE DUTY OBJKCT LKSSOX OF HOW THF TARIFF KA1SKS PRICKS. No Hotter I*roof Xmltil ti? Show That They An* Framed for the IleneWt of irusis. In The Jeffersonion of last week Ex-Congressman T. E. Watson says we have at the piesent time, an illustration of how the removal of a tariff duty reduces the price of the commodity upon which the duty was levied. Here is what Watson says about It. which you can read for yourself: "You remember the great forest Ares which recently devastated so many hundred square miles in Minnesota. and other states lying along the Canadian border. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people were burned out of house and home. Their ! misfortunes, like that of the sufTer- ' ers of the Sicilian earthquakes. w?s \ of a dramatic character which ap- ' pealed to the imagination and < aroused human sympathy. A great ' ery for relief went up from the sufferers- and what shape do you suppose it took? It was a demand for the removal of the tarifT duty upon lumber. "Of course, they wanted to rebuild 1 their dwellings as soon as possible, also their outhouses and fences, and therefore they wanted lumber at the ' lowest obtainable price. Some of the very men who, in Congress, had voted in favor of the Lumber Trust and who had argued that the tariff duties were an unalloyed and boun- I tiful blessing, used all of their influence with the Taft administration o have Canadian lumber admitted free of duty. The Administration . yielded, the tariff law was set aside I in so far as it related to lumber, and the citizens of those north-western states bought lumber at about half the price which you and I have to pay. ! "Could you want any hotter proof that tariffs are framed for the benefit Of tile cruel trusts'' l>n von iinir longer doubt that the increase of . tariff duties in the Payne-Aldrieh 1 bill, which went into effect last summer. was the true and only cause of the immediate advance in the cost of living? Can you have any further doubt that those who pretend that . tariffs are made in the interest of | labor and for the general welfare of the country, are unmitigated liars and hypocrites? "Consider the Injustice of the thing; see with what favoritism our . government is run. We must not begrudge the enormous benefit of cheap building material to those burnt-out unfortunates of the Northwest. Rut why shouldn't the same benefit be enjoyed by all the rest of us? What have we done that we are less entitled to have the cost-increasing tariff on lumber removed in our favor? Why should we be held down by the government while the Lumber Trust goes through our pockets. . "There is not an hour in the day when somebody is not burned out; tbere is never a night when the alarm-bell does not strike its terror into some town or city. The number of dwellings, barns, gin-houses and other necessary buildings that go tip . in flames every year, far exceeds the number of homes and other buildings consumed by the forest fires of the Northwest. Therefore, when you take a bird's-eye view, mentally, of the entire Pn"ited States, you cannot fail to realize that there are just as manv unfortunate burn-outs outside the burned-over area of the I North west, es thorp wore within it. When you think of this and hear m mind that the T,aw should ho no respecter >f persons, and should treat us all alike, you will deeply feel the injustice of our Government, in compelling millions of people to surrender a part of their money to the T/tiniher Trust to pratlfy Its inordinate creed for pain. "If you can think up any good reason why the American saw-mills in the preat lumber repions of the Northwest cannot produce lumber profitably, as cheaply as the Canadians can do it, please tell us what it is. 1 venture to say that the steamwhistles of some of the American saw-mills on the border, can lie heard by some of the saw-mills of Canada. ; and vice versa. The labor supply is practically the same on both sides of the line. The wapee paid by the Canadian mills are worth as much in Canada as those paid by the American mills are worth in this country. The lumber is cut from the * same continuous forest prowih. Why, then, should the Lumber Trust of the Northwest he piven power to shut out Canadian lumber and to 1 extort monopoly prices from the > Americans who have to use their pro. duct? t "Kvidently the humher Trust was * afraid, or unable to prevent the temV porary escape of their victims. The * burned-outs were desperate: the demand which they placed upon their representatives in Congress was too passionately lmnerative to the re sisted. The Taft administration has , long heen tempest-tossed on a trou bled sea. therefore it was thought , good politics to let the Lumber - Trust release its prey for a little -' while, leaving it to make up for lost * time later on when the people are | LEE'S HEADACHE &! | SAFELY. SUREl * Cures Headache and Neur cause. Numerous testimonial us out in this statement. ? 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C. Ulce Flour, 100 tons fresh. Rice Flour, Hay, Grain, Bran, Chops. C. S. Meal and etc., Albert BIbchofT and Co., SI Elizabeth Street, 1 Charleston, S. C. Women, sell guaranteed hone. 70 per cent, profit. Make $20 daily. Full or part time. Beginners Investigate. Strong Hosiery. Boi 4029, West Philadelphia, Pa. \gei?t*?Why don't you sell novelties th'it sell on sight? Quirk sales and great profits. Send today for catalogue. Zeigler Drug " and Novelty Co., Manning, S. C. rhe Utile Tell Tale which tells the Truth. A complete egg record of the day, the week, the month, and the year. Price 1be. Address, Mrs. M. H. Roberts, Dade City, Fla. The High Point IKTectlvc Agency ?) Columbia does a general det*etlr? business. White and colored do tectlvra at vnur eonvenianru ! Writ? u?. W. 8. Taylor, Manager Columbia, 9, .C. (iirl or Woman each locality; Rood pay made, acting as Representative; address envelopes, fold, mail circulars. Material, stamps, fur nished free. Rex Mailing Agency, London, Ontario. Ilubha' Single (kunh Rhoda lu.?u? Reds and "Crystal" Whit? Or-dug tons win sad lay when o.hura fall, stock and eggs for ?>tln aiftd for mating list. G. A. Dobba, Box B. 24., Gainesville, Ga. Farm, Fruit and Truck Lands in Hillsborough County, Florida. Write me your deslree. Can fill any requirement. J. E. Snyder, Limona, (near Tampa) Florida. Correspondence solicited. North State Life Insurance Co., ul Kingston, N. C.. operates only in tho two Carollnas and has more Carolina live? insured than sit* other Carolina cofpany. Agen.s wanted where the compsay ' not now represented. farm Lands?I have for sale magnificent larm lands in South and Southwest Georgia, the best cotton growing part of the State. These lands are nerfecflv level and can be brought up to any; not looking. "Hut haven't you been asking yourself. By what right does the fjovernment suspend the tariff law for' a single hour in response to any I kind of appeal? It has no such authority?it is a violation of oaths of j office. If they can suspend one law, they can susi>end them all. When i Government is operated after that fashion, it is not ono of Law, but of personal whim. Under Buch a system, nobody and no business is safe." HEURALGA REMEDY I -Y. SPEEDILY I algia no matter what tlie & s on file in our office bear Z ferer from headache for 12 Z relief until it had run its Z *cl Lees Headache and Neu- Z nanent relief. $ lu'St thincr 1 tin vc I r, ^ v . II ICVl. <* (Sgd.) II. A. Gandy, S Hartsvillc, S. C. T c and 50c. a jred By t DUNN CO., I . N. C. I - ! state of cultivation. Smith I). Pickett. Empire Life Building, Atlanta. Ua. jSems \\ anted?Make big nuiue; sei? icjtc photo pillow top*. JRc brv niides. 25c; portraits, 3f>e; ollettoi 3 0c. We produce work# of art guaranteed, lowest prices, largest studio. prompt service, credit given ; tumpie.t; portrait and frami catalogue fre?*. Hitter's Art St'j dio. 1218 Madison. 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