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miff' Ml ' "A? r. THE FORT MIU.TIMES Domoc ratio?Published Thursdays. W. R. Bradford. IklHor ?Ad PlkMahtf. Tho Times Invites contributions on live subjects but does not scree to publish more than SOO words on any subject. The right is reserved, to edit every communication submitted (or publication. On application to the publishers, advertising rates are made known to thoso Interested. ' Telophono, local and long distance. No. 112. Entered at the postofflce at Fort Mill, S. C., aa mall matter of the eccond class. THURSDAY, JAN. 20. 1221. At Raleigh members of the North Carolina Legislature, now In session, are saying that money from the Slate treasury has not been wisely spent by the Stato architect and It Is seriously proposed that an Investigation of that official's activities might result in a little wholesome housecleaning. Also, objection Is raised to ccrtuln nttaches of the Legislature receiving larger salaries than the members of the Legislature themselves. Looking at the matter from the point of view accepted and proclaimed In Columbia when any such suggestion Is made with reference to expenditures of public money belonging to the people of South Carolina, one wonders how long it will take these Tarheel legislator^ responsible for the complaint and the suggestion of the Investigation to "lose their face." The Idea of any man, much less a member of the Legislature, having the brazen effrontery to even think It possible for any State official to spend money Unwisely! The idea is so offensively absurd that the man or men responsible for it ought to be sent to the roads for life?that is. accepting the Columbia viewpoint as orthodox. And that's what it is sought to make it so far as the South Carolina Legislature is concerned. Let the member of the South Carolina Legislature rise from his seat and suggest that this or that department of the State government is spending money cxtrnvngnntly and to no good purposo, and in certain capital city circles ho is at once writ down as a low-brow guilty of slandering the sanctified head of that particular department. Thenceforth he is anathema maranatha?whatever the combination of big words means? and will bear watching. And for the member to *nonlr Hnnlitfiillo wisdom of appropriating hundreds of thousunds for a public building that not one citizen in a hundred thinks necessary or dare voice the sentiment of the people back home that tho timo has arrived to curtail and not increase taxation?why, that member is so hopelessly superfluous as to deserve being ridden out of town on a rail. So no one has to go far afield to conclude that there will not be a lightening of the tax burdens for South Carolina this year or next year. From the Columbia point of view, which also seems to 1>o tho point of view of Governor Coopor?lose majeste!?it is a trivial mutter that thousands of citizens of the State, many of them ordinarily well to do, are not able to pay their taxes. Suggest to Qovernor Cooper that there is the opportunity for retrenchment in the State's expenditures or that the conduct of some of tho departments or institutions are not beyond criticism and you will have established yourself as simpleminded' in the esteem of the governor. lie was elected on a platform calling for big expenditures, so why nnO T1.A ??? 1. *1 UIUI VUIIUIIIUIIB uru today not what they were when he was first cleeted in 1918 and again in 1920, that, you will be given to understand, is not to the point. We must havo new buildings, we must fritter away money on government agencies that are not even worth the offort of a sensible man to crltlclso tlieni, we must continue to allow the governor and the department headH to fix our tax levy?the member of tho Legislature must not protest! If he does, he's a fool?from the Columbia viewpoint, which may obtuln, which perhaps will obtain, In 1921 nnd 1922, but what about the election next year? If the people do not improve upon the first opportunity to sec to it that some new faces nro conducting theis. business In Columbia?well, that's their affair. The Yorkville Enquirer expresses the opinion that "the principal significance of the annexation of .75 Lsquaro miles of Chester county terhritory to York county of course Is In Lthe direction of the erection of %, Hriew county with Rock Hill as the Bounty seat." Such may be the ultlHUite aim of some of the York counM cltisens most interested in the reBnt annexation election In Chester ^Btaty, but the principal reason as^Kfted for the activity of most of the MKans of this county was that the BHnfcer coupty territory held out ^Mjtaerabie commercial promise and ^ should join York county trade would go Hock ISWiP main responsible for the change of political alignment, and not without food reason if the reports of discrimination against their section In the matter of road : building were true. On this side of York county there is no talk of a new county; but if the matter should again bob up it doubtless will find both friends and opponents. The Enquirer discussing further tho Chester election, says that "another possible alternative Is the removal of the court house to Rock Hill, which can be done by a .wo-thlrds vote." That also may be In the minds of certain York county citizens, but it is likewise a proposition over the advisblllty of which public opinion would be divided." unc ooes no* nave 10 agree entirely with the observations of Walt Whitman, the Kansas prose poet, to admit that he has written an Interesting article on "Overcducatlon" of the youth of the land and that what ho says Is worthy of serious consideration. Mr. Mason misses one essential point, however, in his criticism in failing to call attention to the contents of many of the text books in use in the public schools. It may or may not be true, as lias frequently been asserted, that by the adoption of thrifty methods the rchool book trust is able to influence State boards of education to adopt almost any sort of text book for use in the public schools, but however that may bo, It is a fact that some of the text hooks the children are given to study arc not worth the paper they are printed upon and that others are adopted without thought of the ability of the children In the lower grades to master subjects beyond them. There are a thousand common humdrum Jobs waiting to bo done, Mr. Mason tells us. but thoso who might do tKnwi ullnnnro ft I1\i um itiiair ?yi 11 1/ i n cr a ptab at something more glittering, but less important, which he attributes to overeducation. "As, y?u know," lie says, "there are many things wrong with this star-spangled land. And some of the grief we see about us Ih due to overeducation. It lias become a mania with us, this thing of catching the children when they are young and sending them to s>chool until they have whiskers down lo their surcingles. The schools are great mills and everything is grist that comes to them. The kids ore fed into the hopper and in due course they come out at the other end all packed with knowledge, and 90 per cent of the knowledge will never be of any use to them. Thore is the same mill for all the youngsters: the imaginative boy with the sou! of a poet; the hard-headed youth whose ancestors were auctioneers; the dreamy youth whose heroes uro Mozart and Beethoven; the overmuscled chap with a retreating forehead whom nature intended for u butcher. They all go through exactly the same process; they nrc all fed into exactly the same hopper. We are willing to forgive many rrimnti il nr! mtfldnntnn nnrc hnt thn parent who doesn't want his children to bo educated all their lives must face a heavy reckoning. Wo have our truant olllcers, with their tin stars and false whiskers, and if a boy runs jxway from school the olllcers let loose their bloodhounds and the chase is on." II does not appear that Mr. Mason objocts to education in so far as it trains the young idea to do something worth while in the world. What bo does object to is what he calls "a great mass of abstruse bunk." He says that the schools are "taking the sunshine out of tens of thousands of young lives teaching things that are of no earthly use," and neglecting things that would fit these pupils to do the real work of life. "My education, so far as schools are concerned, was a closed incident before I was 14 years old, and I went forth into tho world in a humble frame of mind. For years I was doing useful work becasue 1 didn't kgpw enough to do those superfluous kinds of work which pay better but yield nothing helpful. Had I gone to school until I wns 20, I might have emerged from the temple-of learning with a great deal of useless information touching Greek gods and fabled springs and rivers; and I might have elegantly twanged a harp; and I might have been able to translate some Latin epigrams without violent effort. But I can't picture myself as boing of any real use, loaded down with an education. I know myself pretty well, and with such an education in my early years I'd have been all swollen up with a sense of superiority, and it would have taken years to knock it all out of me. As a rule the young man who considers -himself the most important event that ever transpired has to forget a great deal bofore there is a proper place for him. It is a painful business, acquiring a sky-scraping i education, only to have your feet get tangled in it at cvory step." Commend us to the tobacco trust as one of the most rapacious of the many big monopolies that arc preying upon the public. Tho price at which the growers have recently been able to sell their leaf tobacco to the trust has been below the cost of production and onty last Monday the dally papers carried a dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., stating that "in the face of the fact that the 1920 crop of that State exceeded the 1919 crop by 62,000,000 pounds It sold for $2,000,000 less. Meanwhile the public has had to pay the exorbitant war prices act by the trust for aH| jHHZF5 rtjMDOHHH row GRADED SCHOOL IXn. Last week 'a new feature' was added to the chapel -exercises, held three tlqpes a week. Mondays. Wednesday* and Fridays, la addition to the devotional exercise* oaf crude gives a short program. The differ-/ ent grades or section* take It mornla about In coming on duty and vie with each other In having the beet programs. Special programs celebrating the birth of some illustrious man are frequently given. The basketball games that were to have been" played here last Friday and Saturday had to be postponed on account of the weather. However, tlit boys' team played the Wlnthrop Training school team in their gymnasium In ltock HUI Friday afternoon and the latter won, 10 to 10. Our boys put up a game fight but the experience and team work of their opponents on their home court was too much for them. .The playing of J. 13. Mills, Jr., as a forward on the Fort Mill team was a feature of the game, for he was given repeated xppluuse during the game. Though lull in stature he is the equal of he largest on the court. The Fon \tlll .team was composed of Arthuitoung, Harroan Harkey, Edward Kim broil. Lawrence Armstrong and J. B. Mills. Jr.. The weather was too disagreeable for the game with the York girls nere Saturday, but the game will b played at a later date. The local girls have a strong team and some good games may be expected. The work of the second quarter ends Friday and this week will be given to reviews and examinations. Gwlng to the prevalence of whooping cough in the community, the attendance in the primary grades has been very irregular, but the attendance in the higher grades has been good. The enrollment for the year is 482. Recently the home economics classes taught by Miss Emma Anderson have visited the mills of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company and ihey are grateful to thoso In charge of the various departments for haying shown them through the plant md explaining the different steps taken in the manufacture of cotton. Some attractive and instructive exhibits of the various processes are being prepared by the girls under Miss Anderson and may be seen at the school huose. The ginning plant of the Fort Mill Ginnery wns also visited and proved very instructive. Superintendent B. H. Strlbllng attended the meeting of the executive committee of the Teachers' Association of Eastern York in Rock Hill nst Saturday and nssited in arranging the program for the next two meetings, the first to he held at Winthrop Training school in Rock Hill on January 29 at 12:30 o'clock. The invitation of the Fort Mill' ParentTeacher club was accepted and the -econd meeting will be held in the Fort Mill school auditorium on Saturday. February 26 at 12 o'clock noon. The hours of these meetings wero changed In order that the teachers might huve better train connccton and be able to better enjoy the meetings. Luncheon will be served at each meeting and all the teachers in the eactern section of York county arc urged to be present. B- H. 8. GASOLINE MOTOR OILS KEROSENE We are wholesale representatives of the Marshall|Oil Co. Let us know your wants by phone, call or letter. Immediate de livery. 0 _ * , CULP BROS. PHONE 15 DR. A. L. OTTT , DENTIST Office hours, 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. 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