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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
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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|
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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.
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