The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, May 12, 1925, Image 3
EDUCMN BOARD
GRANTED THIRTEEN
\
PASSES ON APPEALS FOR FREE
TUITION; REFUSALS TO
ELEVEN.
Colu m bia.
Thitereen students of the University
of South Carolina, Winthrop college
and Cletnson college were sustained
?by the state bxxird of education in
their appeal for tuition after unfavor
able reports from the state board of
public welfare. The appeals for 11
students of the three institutions were
refused.
In these cases the state board ruled
that the parents or guardance were j
unable to pay the tuition charges and
the students in person, who testified
tuition. In several cases ? those in
which the applicants were 21 years old
or older ? the appeals were made by
the student sin person, who testified
as to their inability to pay tuition.
When a student more than 21 year* of
age Is unable to pay, however, his par
ent* or guardian can pay, the board
held that the student was not entitled
to free tuition.
Other action taken by the board In
cluded the indorsement of Rett is acad
emy (negro) In Kdgefield county, near
Trenton, and the decision to request
the executive committee of Pickens
county to ask (Jov. Thomas 0. McLeod
to call a special election for the se
lection of a superintendent of educa
tion for the county.
The recognization of Rettls academy
was shown by the boar? In its decision
to allow teachers' certificates to this
year's graduates of the institution.
The academy, which is co-educational,
lias about yOO students.
The vacancy in the office of Pickens
county superintdent will occur July
1, when P. V. Clayton will vacate the
office. W. F. Murphree, who was elect
ed to succeed Mr. Clayton, died sev
eral weeks ago.
The. entire membership of the hoard
attended the meeting which was held
In the governor's office. Hoard mem
bers attending were: Governor Mc
Leod,. ex-ofTlclo chairman; J. H. Hope,
state superintendent of education, ex
officio secretary; Miss Washington
Green Pingle of Charleston, Mrs. Flor
ence Adams Minis of Edgefield, S. J.
Derrick of Newberry, H. N. Snyder of
Spartanburg, J. W. Thomson of Rock
Hill, T. C. Easterling of Marlon and
S. H. Edmunds of Sumter.
Says Cotton Stands Poor.
B. Harris, commissioner of agricul
ture, returned from a trip of inspec
tion through the Piedmont section of
the state.
Mr. Harris reports the recent dry
weather as retarding the growth of
practically all crops. Poor stands are
evident in tho Piedmont section, as
pecially tho stand of cotton.
According to Mr. Harris, the acre
age of the smaller grain crops Is less,
compared with last year, while more
cotton is being planted proportionate
ly. Labor is fairly plentiful and gen
erally speaking more fertilizer Is being
used tills year, as compared with last
year.
Speaking of the agricultural condi
tions throughout the entire state, Mr.
Harris stated that in general all crops
are late and the stands of cotton In
most Instances poor.
Arranges to Carry Veterans.
Arrangements for transporting Con
federate veterans and relatives of
South Carolina to Dallas, Toxas, for
tho annual reunion, have been made
with W. A. Clark of Columbia, major
general commanding the South Caro
Una division of the United Confeder
ate veterans, and John M. Klnard of
Newberry, commanding tho South Car
olina division Sons of Veterans, acord
Ing to an announcement by S. If. Mc
lean district passe. iger agent of
Southern Railway system at Columbia.
The 3F)th reunion of veterans Is to
ho held May 19 22, tho Confederate
Southern Memorial association hold
ing its 20th reunion, and the Sons of
Confederate Veterans holding their
26th reunion at the same time.
Statue of Hampton Changing.
Ruckstnll's equestrian Hampton on
tho State House grounds Is passing
through a peculiar phase in tho long
process of acrjuring the admired pa
tina, or smooth surface coating, that
Is much admired In old bronzes. Tour
ists pausing to inspect the work have
romarked recently the appearance up
on the motal of a whitish, mealy pow
der, not uniformly distributed, but
breaking out In Irregular patches.
Bronze, whether of monumental or
ordnanco composition, and copper aa
well, goes through thin effloroscence,
which bears close analogy to tho oc
casional disfigurement of llmostono
buildings by tho formation on oxternal
walls of nitrate of calclrtm, through
the action of nitric acid from tho at
mosphere.
Summer Schoo ito Attraot Many.
The 1925 session of the university
summer school will have a number of
important new features. The sessloa
will open at 9 o'clock on the morning
of June 17 by a full assembly In the
University chajpel, at which time full
announcement# will bo made and im
portant instructions given out to guide
In tho reglstrayion which will occupy
the full day. j
During tho week beginning July 6
an Important fionfere?ce of social
workers will be held.
\
METHODISTS HOLD MEETING
Sunday Leaders Have Four Hundred 1
Members at Their Fir3t
Session.
Columbia. ? The flrst statewide Meth- j
odist Sounday school conference over
assembled in South Carolina hold its j
session In Washington Street church.
The opening devotions were 'led by
the Rev. E. S. Jones, presiding older
of the Columbia district. Upper South '
Carolina conference* > The hymns, j
"Onward Christian Soldiers" and :
"Lead on Oh King Eternal" were sung (
and the Rev. T. W. Munnerlyn, preaid
| Ing elder of Rock Hill district, and
| I)r. Watson B. Duncan of Cheraw led
in prayers.
There were some 400 in attendance
at this flrst session, among whom
were many who have been leaders in
| Sunday school work for a number of
| years.
| On motion of Osborne Summers, su
| perintendent of rural work, the Rev.
J. W. Speaks was elected president of
the conference, Dr. J. C. Guilds, vice
president and Mrs. J. Ashby Turner
, secretary.
Dr. E. O. Watson, Washington. D.
C., by request of the president made
a short talk expressing his apprecia
tion of the privilege of speaking In
one of the last churches of which
he was pastor and of appearing before
so many South Carolina Sunday school
leaders. Dr. Watson spoke of two of
the "greatest crimes of all time." the
Crimean war and the tragedy of
Stnrna. He requested all the Sunday
school leaders to present the needs
of a million and a half Greeks. SO
per cent of whom are women and
children, who are a burden on his
heart, and to solicit aid for them from
their classes.
Dr. F. N. Parker, dean of the Theo
j logical department of Emory univer
sity. made the principal address of the
afternoon.
He flrst quoted John Wesley as fav
oring Sunday schools because of the
genius to hold gains that had been
made. The speaker said that the Sun
day school is the church conserving
; all Its past. He said "one thing we
' need is to continue to emphasize evan
i gelism." Again he said, "Wesley al
ways had a deep personal, and tender
feeling for all men and women. N'o
one was more sensitive to thevfceedi
of man than ho. We are not, to for
get the spiritual in ho individual man
or woman."
The speaker said, "Don't be dazzled
by the magnitude of the work so that
you will forget the individual. Do
hand picked work." Again he said
that the strength of the church waa
the strength of the youth. "First," ho
said, "get them all into the church.
Then lay hold of the Individual for
Christ and his kingdom. The Master
delighted In individual contact aa
shown with the woman at the well and
Zaccheus."
Dr. Parker said the great note in
Christ's work was reality. He looked
?at what men are and what they could
be.
The speaker said that the aim and
passion of all should be the production
of a specific type of character. "Every
man perfected In Christ Jesus."
Poisoned Flour Makes Four III.
Spartanburg. ? In a very critical
condition for sevor?' days as the re
sult of having eaten flour containing
arsenic, a deadly poison, Mr. and Mrs.
T. G. Poats and two children, 128
Norwood street, are slowly recovering,
it became known.
Tests made by Dr. C. B. Waller,
of Wofford college, disclosed that the
flour eaten by the Poats family con
tained a large quantity uf arsenic, and
further Investigation disclosed the
carcass of a poisoned rat In the con
tainer from which the flour had been
taken. The theory Is that, the manu
facturers of the flour had been troub
led by rats and had placed arsenic In
a quantity of flour, hoping to poison
the pests. Later, it Is believed the
poisoned flour was inadvertedly pack
od and shipped to the trade.
Board of Visitors Named.
Clemson College - Trustees of the
college have elected the following
board of visitors for the current year:
First. district, W. W. Smoak, Walter
boro; Second district. Col. R. B. Wat
son, Ridgo Spring; Third district, Dr.
R. C. Grler,. Duo West; Fourth dis
trict, W. P. Conyors, Greenville; Fifth
district, J. Walker Duval, Cheraw;
Sixth district, J. J. Lawton, Hartsvllle;
Seventh district, RoC. Rldgoll, Bates
burg.
Prof. I,. G. Moffatt of the English
division was granted a year's leave
of absonco for tho purpose of studying
In France.
Tho board made provision for put
ting into effect tho recently enacted
Purnoll bill, which provldos for en
larged research work in agricultural
sciences and particularly in rural and
homo economics and rural sociology.
This work will, of course, be directed
by tho South Carolina experiment
station, which Is tho agricultural re
search branch of Clemson college.
Missile Crushes Skull of Girl.
Spartanburg. ? A rock thrown at a
cow by Wallace Thlmpson, 12 year old
Mayo boy, missed Its target and crush
ed the skull of his lOyearold sister,
Myrtle, who was standing near.
Tho girl was given irst aid by Dr.
Martin at Cowpens, and then was rush
ed to tho Mary Black clinic hero,
whore an Operation was performed In
art effort to save her life. Part of
the skull was pushed Into the brain
and the child's condition Is procarlous.
The rock struck the girl Just above the
left temple.
AMERICAN
LEGION
(Cop/ for Thla Department Supplied by the
American Lesion Nem Service.) *"
STIBOLT SUFFERED
FORTY LEG WOUNDS
More 'than forty wounds In the legs
1 led Noble Stlbolt from the paths of u
traveling salesman to those of the law.
1 Today he Is succeeding as an attorney
in the capacity of inspector for the
American Surety company of New York
city, is highly pleased with his poslt^n
and says he has better prospects of
I getting ahead than he would have had
I if the World war had not changed the
course of hlr. career.
Stilmlt was wounded by fragments
of a high explosive shell In the St.
i Mlhlel (kl\e of Sept. 12, 1918. After
; returning to civilian life, he attempted
to cover Ids old territory as a hat
salesman. Hut his legs couldn't stand
! up under the strain of walking all day.
I Stlbolt. who Is a member of North
| Shore post of the American Legb>n In
i
Noble Stibolt.
Chicago, declares that the consclen
; tlous efforts of the government agen
; cles given the herculean task of re
! habilitating the disabled will surely
i be appreciated by the men more and
? more as time goes on.
'The American Legion Is In a great
1 measure responsible for this wonder
| ful work, and they certainly deserve
. the support of the citizenry for the
| Important role which they have played
' In helping rehabilitate the thousands
of incapacitated men, thereby fitting
tliem for life's buttle on an equal basis
t with their fellowmen," he wrote to nu
' tlonal headquarters In Indianapolis re
I cent I y.
Plans for Monuments
Laid Before Congress
Final plans of the American Legion
! Battle Monuments commission towards
marking the battlefields abroad and
commemorating the activities of Amer
ican troops overseas have been laid
before congress, according to legisla
tive officials of the American Legion in
Washington.
The plans call for heautlflcatlon of
the American cemeteries, commemora
! tlve monuments to the members of all
! American organizations which partlci
j pated In the major American opera
' tlons, historical monuments to record
Important operations of American di
visions, a monument at home to com
memorate the activities of the army
and naval Fore**? of the United States
In Italy and surrounding waters, erec
i tlon of tablets to mark locations of
headquarters of the American expedi
tionary force and two memorials ami
three monuments to commemorate
naval activities.
The commission contemplates the ex
pendlture of 000, 000 to carry out Its
plans.
The Legion has taken a leading part
In the work of the commission since It
was created by act of congress In IP'J'J.
Several Legionnaires are on the com
mission. Including (Jen. John J. Per
shing, chairman; and Thomas \V. Mil
ler, president of the Fldac, organiza
tion of inter allied veterans.
Harmon Playgrounds Are
Awarded to Many Cities
Many cities throughout the country
have recently been awarded Harmon
Foundation playgrounds through the
Instrumentality of their local American
Legion posts. The latest Instances of
awards being made were In Dillon and
Marlon, S. (5., where the Legion posts
took a leading part In securing the
playgrounds. The post officials had
been working for the gifts ever since
the Hnrmon Foundation published
notice about a year ago that 50 awards
would be made to qualified cities. More
than 1,000 applications were made
from all parts of the I'nlted States.
Patiencm la a Virtue
"Your wife Is surely taking on
weight."
"Don't see how she does it, staying
up till three or four o'clock In the
morning."
"(Jood heavens! Why does she stay
up that late?"
"Waiting for me." ? American Legion
Weekly.
Some Advantages That
" Hick Town " Boy Has
The so-called hick town has lutely
become u source of great Inspiration
to our professional humorists. If you
read comic weeklies aiul newspaper
quips you have doubtless noticed many
lu the last year which began like this:
"A hick town Is a place where ? "
A hick town, sa> the various users
of this convenient formula, Is a place
where a backfire is never mistaken for
a pistol shot ; where bedtime Is ortho
dox ; where woodpeckers eat up the
depot; where central can tell you
whether it was a girl or a boy; where
the folks build a yellow brick gym but
no sidewalks; where the neighbors will
supply you with a conscience If you
lack one; where there Is no parking
problem ; where a curfew 'disturbs the
residents' rest; where a bachelor of
So needs a bodyguard ; where tine-cut
tobacco Is no handicap socially ; where
$00,000 Is as good as a million, and
bo on and on.
With no intention of becoming ter
ribly heavy over the matter, we want
to add that a hick town Is a place
where 20 of our 29 Presidents were
born and where 7 out of 10 of the Im
mortals In New York's National hall of
fame originated. A hick town that
didn't have a name produced Lincoln.
Flick towns gave us most of our great
literary figures of the past and prac
tically all of those now living. Hick
towns produce our Kdlsons ; one pro
duced a great university president Just
lost to Michigan. If we may, then we
would like to suggest that a hick town
Is a place where a boy has an excel
lent opportunity to lay the foundation
of future greatness. ? Detroit News.
Tells Property Owners
Importance of Paint
Chicago property owners throw
away millions of dollars every year,
because they fall to paint correctly,
according to S. II. Stewart, president
of the Chicago Paint, Oil and Varnish
club, who spoke at a general confer
ence of paint men.
This lium, he announced, Is but part
of the billion and a half dollars' waste
which represents the national annuul
I loss from neglect of property.
I "Not only do the property owners
themselves suffer an actual cash loss
) In depreciation of property values, re
pairs and more expensive pulnt bills
when they finally do decide to call In
the painter," he said, "but they put
a premium upon the principal wealth
of a nation, which Is its physical prop
erty," In the United States there are
$90,000,000,000 worth of physicul prop
erty.
This waste Is prevented by paint
only, according to Mr. Stewart. Paint
forms an elastic coating over mate
rials susceptible to the fungus spores
of rot and the chemical action of air
which results In rust. Paint Is ltn
i pervious to them, therefore the sub
j stance which Is covered with paint is
I immune.
For Garden Walls
"Orow your own berries" is a slogan
worthy of the attention of every per
son who has even a small piece of
ground, for It Is an easy matter to
grow good crops of delicious berries
In a small space. Berry growing Is
interesting and the time spent In cul
tivating and watering Is a pleasure.
This frequently Is overlooked with the
I result that berries are not served as
often or as fresh as they should be.
In a few minutes one may pick suffi
cient berries for breakfast, lunch or
dinner, fresh from the vines and full
of rich flavor and healthful Juices. ?
Farm and Orchard.
Newspaper's Duties
The place of the newspaper In city
planning Is vital. Never before In his
tory have newspapers gone so far In
playing fair with their renders. He
who talks of the good old days of Jour
nalism should be sent to a lunatic
asylum. Horace fJreeley, In spite of
his fame, didn't play fair with his
readers. He gave them what he want
fid them to know. Hut even now, the
newspaper has not reached Its real de
velopment In serving the city by plan
ning for the future.- New York Times.
Plant Nut Trees
The time Is not far off, according to
nut-growing enthusiasts, when nut
trees will replace most shade trees.
Nut breeding Is Raid to be ir>0 years
behind that of apples and other fruits,
hut It Is fast catching up; some day
we may have a larger black walnut
with a paper shell. Among the varie
ties recommended for orchards are
black walnuts, butternuts, hickory
nuts, hazel nuts, pecans and those
sorts of chestnuts which are resistant
to blight.
Small Principalities
The Ave manliest countries In the
wrtrld are: Monaco, 8 square miles;
San Marino, 40 square miles; I,elch
tensteln, 0T> square miles; Andorra,
140 square miles, and Danzig (free
city), 720 square miles.
Best Form of Speech
Discretion In speech Is more than
eloquence, and to speak agreeably to
him with whom we deal Is more than
fo speak In good words or In good or
der. ? Exchange.
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' Lesson '
j i By REV l> u FITZW ATER, DP. Drtl
of th? Kventnit School. MooJy BtbU In
? t It ut ? o( Chicago )
j I M'li. Wolrrn S>w?p?p*r I'nlotv)
Lesson for May 17
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN
LESSON ? TEXT Wts 9 1-19
| GOLDEN TEXT ? "If any man be la
Christ Jesus, he la a new creature. ?
II Cor 5:17.
PltlMARY TOPIC? A Man Who
Another. I
f,' N,k',11 TolJ'C ? Mow Saul Iiccatne '
* C hrlstlnn
intekmediate AND SENIOU TOP
'C---Mo\v Saul Was Converted.
Yol'NU PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
'C A Stuily of Conversion. 1
I. Saul's Violent Hatred of th?
j Lord's Disciples (vv. 1-2),
I Saul knew full well that unless the
( movement set on foot |,y j,..SU8 W)ls
J Mopped, It w nu lil supersede .) inia isr >.
| He was Ignorant of the genius of
j Christianity. He did not know that
j the "blood of martyrs Is the seed of
t the church. '1 he noble display of
faith bv Stephen In sealing his testl
j mony with his blooil did not soften
Saul's spirit, hut rather Intensified Ills
j hatred for Jesus and UN disciples. It
| made him more determined than ere r
I to stamp out the Nazarene heresy. The
j Intensity of his madness, and the ex
j tent of Its operations are best set forth
j In his own words. "And I persecuted
I this way unto the death, binding and
delivering Into prisons both men and
women" (Acts 22 :4). "I both shut up
1 ninny of the saints In prisons having
1 received authority from the chief
priests, and when they were put to
death, I gave my voice against them,
| and punishing them oft In all syna
I gogues I h trove to make them bias
j pheme, and being exceedingly mad
! ngalnst them, 1 persecuted them even
i unto foreign cities" (Acts 20:10-12 It.
j II. Saul Kicking Aflainst tho Pricks
(w. 3-1*).
j The figure here Is that of the Fast
ern ox driver following the ox with a
sharp Iron fixed to the end of a pole.
The animal Is prodded on with this
instrument and If it Is refractory It
Ulcks ngalnst the sharp iron and In
, Jures Itself. This Is n picture of Saul
as he was madly fighting against Jesus.
1. A Light From Heaven (vv. 3 -la).
The time hnd come for the Lord to
Interfere. Saul was stricken with
bllcdness nnd fell to the earth. This
physical demonstration accentuated
the workings of his conscience which
doubtless were going on quickened by
the Hi.ly Spirit us He used Stephen's
testimony.
2. A Voice From Heaven (vv. 4b-5).
This was the Lord's voice calling
Saul by name nfcd usklng, "Why per
secutest thou .Me?" This moved Saul
I to inquire, "Who art thou, Lord?" The
. answer came, "I am Jesus, whom thou
I persecutest." He is so closely lek>nti
lled with believers that He feels their
sufferings and regards treatment of
them as treatment of Himself.
3. Saul's Inquiry (v. G), "What Wilt
| Thou Have Me to Do?"
The Lord told him to go Into the
city where information would be given
him as to what he must do.
4. Saul Kntering Damascus (vr
7-9).
The hnughty persecutor went quite
humbly into Damascus, led by his at
tendants. For the space of three days
he remained blind and fasted. What
went on in his soul In those days no
mortal can know, but we may be as
sured that he, like the Lord In the wil
derness, was too deep In meditation
and prayer to desire food.
III. Ananias Ministors to Saul (vv
10-10). v
1. Ananias' Vision (vv. 10-12).
In this vision the Lord appeared and
Instructed hlrn to go to Saul. He gave
him the name of the street nnd Saul's
host, nnd Informed hlrn that Snul was
now a praying man. and that He had
prepared Snul by a vision for the corn
| ing of Ananias.
2. Ananias' Fear nnd Hesitancy (vv
13-10). y { ?
j He knew of Saul s ministry and the
j authority by which he came. The lord
| encouraged him to go. assuring him
tlint Saul Is no longer nn enemy hut n
chosen vessel to bear His name before
the (/ent lies, kings, and the children
of Israel.
3. Ananias' Obedience (v. 17)
His fears being removed. Ananias
went to the house where Saul was
"laying, put his hand on him and af
fectlonntely addressed hlrn as "broth
er." Ananias told Saul that the Lord
hnd sent hlrn with a twofold mission:
(1) "That thou mlghtest receive thy
sight"
(2) "Me filled with the Holy Spirit"
4 Snul Haptlzed (vv. 18 10).
After Saul received Ms R|KHt Ann.
nlas baptized him. The Lord bestows
the k' ft of the Spirit upon whomsoever
He will, nnd may designate anyone
whether occupying ?? ?mr,n, pOR||,on
or not. to Iny bands upon Individuals.
Prayer
Prayer Is the pence of our spirit
The stillness of our thoughts; the rest
of our cures; the calm of our tempest.
The Angels
Angels served Ood and ministered to
men when they proclaimed Christ's
birth.- Presbyterian of the South.
Strength
Strength Is born In the deep silence
of lonj( suffering henrts, not amidst
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Padlocks and chains are not classed
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