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Management So Popular, "Citizen" j Fears State Hospital Be ThrongedRoad Building Hierarchy Exposed >' ' v.t.! . I K Editor The He raid and News: (Third Installment.) The Highway Department There i? no department of the state government that seems to be , I under such, general attack for exII ravage nee as this department. It la I most regrettable that there should be I this lack of confidence and it is sad- , der still to believe that in the spei\dI ing of the public money for roads, ! I there has not been that due regard B for all factors which should have been the criterion determining the ' I decisions of the highway cprnmission. lit is difficult to say how far the , I blame rests on the highway commit sion and how far it rests on the exlecutives of the highway department. For the benefit of thosevwho are . not 1 thoroughly informed with regard to the government of the state, it should I be said vthat the whole highway ser vice is under the general control of I the "highway commission, which is, a I body of men chosen from the conI gressional districts of the state and I receives for compensation a ppr diem I for the days of attendance on the I work bt the commission. The real I administration of the highway ser1 vice, however,' is by the chief high way commissioner and state engineer, with the numerous assistants, not to B say innumerable. The double charge of extravagance against the highway service rests first because of the construction of highways that should not have been constructed and other highways that B may be very useful but should not B have been constructed until more important projects had been under taken; and thitdly, because of the excessive staffs mniifcttyned by ^the highway department knot only in CoBlumbia bijt throughout the state. With regard to the road? Which hevler should Have been constructed, we come to certain! roade, 'the construc tion of which iaVmere extravagance Bihd-not to be justified on any ground I except a desire to please some speBcial group or some special place, toB tally disregarding the -state as a whole. Then, again, numerous cases of comparatively unimportant pavBings when important county seats were left .without paved Connections. The highway department pays for the political manipulation of some of the commissioners by forfeiting the confidence of the public, B Fairness requires the statement that the highway department does good work; but it should be said at the same time that it has proceeded so often -on the basis of technical consideration as to involve enormous expenditures of money needlessly Bind this may be indicated by some of Bour overhead bridges in places of very little traffic; while other places Bof great traffic hdVe overhead Bridges whatever, as well'os the disBegard of ample roads now* existing n places by the construction of new BoSds without appreciable benefit. The highway department from top Bo bottom impresses 'One as a great Bureau of employment where no one Bgrson does the work if 'it can be Bvento three. We find again the Buso of unmitigated extraVagence that the department is spending Bnds derived from special sources. Bhe highway department should be Bbtrofied to the fast ipenny by do4 Bled items in the general approBation bill,and not avowed to spend Boney like jf sailor oiv leave, treat B^CTuse. .'MtOrion is the chief highyfesioner and the chief state BJ^p^p/paid $5100 a yeart Is It w-efe the chairman of the tax comBfssion receives the k same salary? Bhe state superintendent of education BeCeives #4250, Which is excessive; Bnd the state treasurer receives $3000 Bnd the attorney general receives/#4B50. "Whythdn #5100 for these genBtemeTr of the hlgway department ? Bnd for the tax commission? NThe Bomptroller general of the state, an Bfficial of the Very highest jresponsiBility, recelye*.#360d. "Why this comBis$ioner at all? The,highway deBo rtmetft is properly a department of Bonstraction and maintenap<^! it is Br the purpose of building and keepKg up-roads and so is a department B technical administration?it is a Bb for an engineer. iAll the other Brt of the vast machinery should be Bstributed among existing departBnk of state government, leaving Bly the- engineering department inBct. Look at the galaxy: SeeretaryBiiiiurer, #0000 (the tame as the Bate treasurer) and he has #100 more Bag the secretary of the sinking fund Bmmiseion who rtxne a vast irwurBce businihe the state at the Bme time. Auditors, $5,41*-:rt* Briber being given?but being mofe K in the Chief office of nuditor in ^ / 4 iers, bookkeepers, stenographers and 1 elqrks, $$2,1450! Now how many < clerks, and how many bookkeepers 1 and how many cashier^in the name i of all that is good, do they need? M Then we come to this interesting 11 item?travel, $2400, being the travel h presumably of the commissioners I whose per diem amounts to $1400. 1 Then we have that nice fat item, tele- t graph and telephone, $20Q0, and a ( nice little something stuck in?asso- i eiation dues $360. Now, how do they ] ijet that way? Palling down to the ! engineering department, we And that! the department of engineering costs 1 132,040 (no number being given) and < they have a wee hit of travel there 1 of only $7,000 followed close by all little item of office ' supplies of i $8,000! 1 Before it escapes attention, it may i be remarked that the highway de- 1 partment has that same numerous ! personnel for every little job,. as J1 seems to characterize most American enterprises and suggests an army headquarters where something rnustl] be invented for everybody. Observe the set-up; in every county, a sup' : erintendent who has nothing to do I? but ride up and down those roads I which belong to the state highway system in that county and take note I that tho foreman of each district has kept up the roads, there being a foreman for each district. Now, why shouldn't superintendents of that sort bo sufficient for four or Ave counties ? And in each county, the highway department has engineers and other technical men who ore liberal patrons of cold drink stands, J with ample leisure on their hands, j Either - the gjf highway department should make some tremendous cut in this great big staff or else it should be required to Jake over all the roads of the counties so that this large force may have something to do. But we must go back to some of the other divisions of the highway department. We come to the motor I vehicle division, which ought to be under the adjutant general?and find a director and $4400 worth of bookkeepers, machine operators, steno-1 graphers and clerks, with $0000 worth I of inspectors added. The highway 1 department.deals in people by wholesale, as indicated in the number of employees and by a vast sum of mon-1 ey for a whole batch\of people at one time. And then we find them rejoicing ix> the total of $7000 more for trhvel. '^ * ' v . ' , ' I State Electrician The $11,000 spent for this office] could possibly be saved, there being no reason for maintaining a state electrician. ^ I Sinking Fun4'Commission Very likely this sinking fund commission might be eliminated, and its | duties passed to the state finance 1 committee, composed of the govern-1 or, state treasurer and comptroller J general. The only advantage of such a change would be in the saving 1 of per diem and travel of the present commissioners. Ihere are charg- j es for the maintenance of the state, office" bulldiffg which appear toJjr excessive when one considers at What expense the. state bapitol is maintained,. Although that is reUj|ve|? unimportant. " Food Research Commission This is $82,500 that ought to ho retained in the treasury and the same may he - said of every dollar that is spent of the $16,068appropriated to maintain the ^Natural Resources commission. If there is any one -thing that the state of South Carolina prates about unworthily, it is -this bunk about iodine. The state has allowed itself to be talked into a lot of sham that cfibapens the good name of iSouth Carolina. Children's Bureau $14,01b?and this sum of money is expended in such- items as follows: Field , workers; $6220, supervisors $1820, travel for employees $2250 Undoubtedly many good people will weep copiously, yet this is a service in time of depression that should be I dispensed with. South Carolina Sanitarium This costs $138,000. Concerning imu* hdflpttkl for the" insane, $000,000, and the Confederate infirmary $26,000 and. the state penitentiary $159,000, the state training school $116,000 and the industrial schoof for hoys $65,000 and the industrial, school fbr' girle $20,000 and the reformatory "for negroes $26,000?it is sufficient to Ajr that they srhduld be studied with most minute care- to determine where th^^ttpenditures rtay J>e cut. It ia common for 'all institutions to believe that they must maintain a verfr numerous staff and Out.ihe,curtailment of.any dollar appnrprhrtetttrrrft would flflW most ^ca^ ^^ ^^ ely entirely oi? the recommendations >f those in charge of the institutions. [t?must be borne in n^nd that a man vith a staff of HQ men cannot believe ;hat he can dispense with 06 unless ie pay their salary out of his own pocket, if he were operating his own >usiness he. would do on much less, It may seem a harsh measure but ,he proper way to deal with some, of :he institutions is to require their eapectiYe headw, to -bring in for approval a budget worked out within a Igure indicated or imposed. ,There are other items, which, for ,he present might be dispensed with. \mong them being the $16,000 paid ux the state forestry commission* However important, ^hat may be ot ?eems to be, it is well to remember that the average man today is trying to finance himself on a mere txread and meat basis; and so we are lot at liberty to do all the nice things that one may think of. The University of South Carolina - Before determining what sum is accessary to maintain the university, there should be a more or less definite determination as to the proper scope of that institution at this time. It is well to remember that . during the last few years, all institutions have become over ambitions and SflKpewhat pretentious. In nothing has this tendenc^ been more marked than in our' educational institutions. South Carolina at best is not a rich state and a university might well be maintained for $312,000 a year from the state, if .the state at the same time were not paying for academic j work $176,000 to the Citadel, $141,-j 000 to Clemson, $292^000, ,?to Winthrop, $92,000 to tho Medial College and $73,000 to the state "colored college?all of which is properly a part of that costly effort of our small but proud state which, all taken together, should be known as the University of South Carolina. And so when one speaks of the university, one might well keep in mind exactly what our state is doing for higher education, remembering all the time that we1 are not a great and opulent state. There are two ways in which to think of this matter. ^ One is to think of an ideal university and strive to provide those facilities and funds which enable our university to approach such a standard; the other is to realise what our limitations are and so in the exercise of common sense instead of vanity, to maintain a University which we are able to maintain^ and i^ such an institution does not properly belong in the category of universities, means let us call it a college again. There is no sense in draining unduly the resources of the state for the shee^ vanity of calling an institution a university. - ^ But even as a university, it is well to remark that a university should offer such, courses as may prepare for the needs of the state. Such courses as may <ftt a man for work for which- there, is little or no demand in the state are useless, even from the standpoint of university economy. The University of South Carolina cannot possibly defend the existence ofcjs school of pharmacy under its wing, where there i? already, and has been foT many years, a first class institution for pharmacy as a part of the Medical College of the state in Charleston. One school of pharmacy In South Carolina can train each year five or six times as many pharmacists as we need. Why then two schools of pharfaacy? Is this not a pluperfect illustration of ambition carried to the mOst foolish extreme? Furthermore, the university maintains a school of journalism, a school of commerce and a school of engineering. For "both the school of journalism and commerce, the objection may be raised_that there is no demand in South Caroline for the graduates. What newspapers can use these young journalists? And how many pan they use? There is just a bit of overreaching scholastic ambition without practical benefit tc the state. The same may be said exactly of the school of commerce, One or two exceptional men may be turned out; but it would pay the state to let these exceptional men gc to New York for their training. With regard/to the achqol of engineering ill. may be remarked that there are engineering courses both at the Citadel and at Clemson?a considerable duplication of effort, so far as it goei beyond the elementary application' ol higheiSiathematie*^^*^^^^, A atudy of lb*r~6*fal<5gue of the university shows the free and easj spirit which prevails, *one taking note of the exeeeefte number of instructor# of all grades for many oi the courses. True it is that some universities seem disposed to offer coqi-m* In pl?ln ?n<i f??cy h.m ? Stitching fur men leading to the doc torate, allowing course* in unbreakable pie cruat as a minor theme; but the University -017 South Carolina should restrict itself to courses in practical demand in this state and cannot run afield on excursions^ all the academic pretentions of the rich institutions. While on the subject' of the university, it is in order to say that it not merely seeks to duplicate the work of a part of the Medical college, but it seems to wish to take the plaob of Winthrop at the aame time and wo find here a great building for women. Of course women have no place there in undergraduate work, Unless we mean to close Winthrop. i Clemaon College This started out to bo the school of the sons of one-galus farmers and was to train these one-galus boys in practical farming. How has this great dream turned out? How many first fclass farmers do you find in South Carolina who learned v how to farm at Clemson College ? Name them if you can in your county, That great school is preparing textile men and electrical engineers and county -agents. Most of the farmers of Clemson college seem to be county agents or assistants to county agents; but horny-handed sons of the soil, disfcflfeuished for practical ability as farmers, standing out in our communities a? master farmers?now hoJ" many oftthem came from Clemson? Mr. Clemson left some land and some money to found such a school an agricultural and mechanical school --and from the Clemson endowment the college receives $3,000 * a year, from the Morrill fund ? a Federal fund?it receives $30,000 a year more; and from the state of South Carolina?which does not. control Clemson college ? Clems.on receives for its- 'ordinary* collegiate work, $141,pOO a year. Clemson college is controlled by the self-perpetUating trustees undei* the* will of Mr. son. His is not *11 the money whiW goes to Clemson college, for we find another item, under the heading -"Public iService Activities/' which amounted last year to $310,516,48. Now this is the money given by the state of .South Carolina, some of which matches large sums given by the Federal government for the purpose of saving the farmers. . The farmer insists that Clemson has not saved him and he is willing for about three-fourths of this money to bo saved to the people of the state. It would be foolish to deny that some benefit has come to the state through the extension work of Clemson college; but it would be equally foolish to contend that it cannot be suspended then without disaster to the state. Wintfirop College This is another of thbjgfoat dreams I and one which 'has most nearly been realised;" Thousand? of girls have fbeen* trained here and they have gone throughout. iSouth Carolina . teaching in the public schools and testifying to the seriousness of their training. It is the most magnificently equipped I woimn'8 college in South Carolina today and may be invdanger of forgetting that it *was Intended to be a school deVotedLto serious work without many of the cheefp pretentions and foolishness so common in women's colleges. . Winthrop college costs the state $292,000 a year". j . The State Colored College The state colored college costs the state "f78,000 a year and is one ol the most Economically operated inUtitutions in' the state. It suffer* from-the same failing as some of the others, namely: readiness to go up Ji the air instead of walking on tlw ground, although air excursions art comparatively few. -The Medical School The Medical college costs the stat< $92,000 a year and is a good . of medicine. One may wonder Whs i it iflfould be necessary to maintain i j school of medicine inr South Carolini ' since the only disease peculiar t< J Sotrfh Carolina is that due to th< . heavy content of iodine in vegetables !} With** the exception of this iodin< J epidemic, our diseases and ailment! I in general are the same as those CX' perienced all over the South. I . might be sufficient then to have on< | Medical college in the South with * II special chair devoted to iodine foi the benefit of South Carolinians. || . . John Pe La Howe ^fhool . rrt*jjjfc^Cormick county is a sort o ? s^flteorphanage with x210 pupils, ye i has 10 teachers end-a conei<Jerab1< ?| staff of administrators. This schoo s | has 2,000 acres of land and cultivate! a couple of hundred acres in additioi 1 to renting out several hundred acres m It began as a noble dream to giv< ' | something to the state but as Js tru? lin so many qf these noble dreemi u the state* has caught the calf by th< r| tail and is unable to turn loose., I : can be.safely said that all ttiat tlx ] state" reEMvea "of this splendid en 'I dowment fs not equal to <*e-hat A that the state is spending on it eacl year. -It lonks like a case where th .(fln.nci<^r. ?.ght perform . plete amputation. School for the Deaf and Blind The school for the^deaf and blind costs the state $9*2,500 a year. This is our famous school for the afflicted and pne hesitates to criticize it. But it is a perfectly reasonable thought that all such institutions should be submitted to {ft#1, closest scrutfriy f or $10,000 saved is $10,000 saved. State Hospital The state hospital costs the state $800,000 a year. It is such a popular institution under the management of Dr. Williams that it begins1 to appear that surely all the citixens of the state will soon'seek admission. South Carolina must handle the strong minded people in the penitentiary the weak minded in various other institutions; and the under-fed and the over-fed and the halt and the maimed?and what not?in some institutions. In spite of the fact of the general appreciation for the management of this institution it seems incredible that $800,000 should be .the minimum for operating the Institution. The state training school costs $116,058; the Industrial school' for boys $55,500; the industrial school for girls $20,916; reformatory for negro boys $25,000. You see how it is, someone haB had a splendid dream and, lot it is foisted upon the state.. The Confederate fmftmary The '^Confederate infirmary costs the state $2)6,000 a year and "has. about 18 veterans there out'of a total of 55 inmates. The others are daughters of veterans.. Very soon the sons-in-law Of veterans will prob| ably be admitted. Hero we have a splendid example of something well ' conceived in the long ago but of > small usefulness now. Eighteen vet1 erans! The others are widows, and 1 now the daughters of veterans may > be admitted.' How soon the griandr * sons may apply has not'yet -been determined. If some politician should r have a political debt to pay to some i man \whose grandfather was in the I Confederate army, he would be capr able of introducing^ a bill allowing l grandsons of veterans to be admitted l to the infirmary. ? ' " . O CITIZEN, j \ (The En'd) General News Notes A big lion belonging tp a traveling showman reached through the bars of its cage standings in a Columbia street and ejpwed the arm of James L. Erwin, circulation manager of The State newspaper, so badly that amputation was avoided 6nly by hard work in a' hospital. He snapped his lingers at the lion which flashed a paw through the bars and caught his arm and then protruded the other paw and lacerated the arm with both. The lion, hilled on ($?o cage as "Sampson, the Fighting l.ion," had to be beaten a long time with automobile cranks and things before it would let go. Tjie lion outfit came from Georgia, ami the owner was trying to hire to a movie theater to haul it in the streets to advertise the play at the theater, for income during the winter when its show is in winter quarters. | A > onn)> man who fought valiantly I to free Mr. Eewln was also lacerated in the hand. V New York police arreste&^TPsse Herman, 60, Addling on the street for alms, and found sewed in his clothes $465. He said he owned several pieces of property, but said taxes were so high ho had to beg to get the money to pay them, o Tenino, Wash., which a year or so ago became nationally known because of ita issuing wooden money when its only bank closed, tho money being accepted there in current exchange, has redeemed the last of tho money. It issued $0,500 and only redeemer} $30. The balance, scattered all over tho country, is held by souvenir hunters an<^ the .town is $6,470 ahead of the game. * 0 A A New York department store i? boosting its advertising appropriation for this year by $100,000. : WAKE UP YOUR i LIVER BILE? : WITHOUT CALOMEL And You'll Jump Out of Bed in ttffcMonunglttim to Go | i If you feel sour and sank and the world looks punk, don't swallow a lot of salts, $ mlasral water, oil. laxativs candy or ehswlag , gum and expect them ?o make you suddenly 1 sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. / For they can't do It. They only mors the bowels and a mere movement doesn't get at 1 the cause. The reason for your down and wit . 9 Gas bloats up your stomach. You haws a % thick, bad taste and your breath Is foul, ' often breaks out InWniahaa. Your hSaj 3 aches and you feel down and out. Your whots ' 1 stt taksa those' good, old CARTERS B UTTLE UVER TTLLd to get these two po?ads of bile flowing freely and make you r fc?.''gp ttP-" Tt^ tWtaln Wonderful. * f when It comec to s&akli^g the hlLk^otr When Acting Mayor McKee vacated the office of mayor of New York on Saturday, he automatically stepped back Into his former office of aldermanic president, which papa 120,000 per year? A movement is well underway and growing, to have McKee ma it a fusion candidate for mayor of the city next November, and if he shall be a candidate there is promise of hi* election. ? ' .<* ' ' \ With confidence that the new ytar will bring bettor conditions, Donald R. Murray, lawyer, of Kvanston, 111., sent out cards notifying his clients that ail persons owing him for past legal services are released from such indebtedness. JsBBR * . '* ' ; , V.Afe.. N TAX RETURNS Office of Auditor Kershaw County, * Camden, S. C., December 17, 1932 Notice is hereby given that the Auditors Office will be open for reoeiv* ing Tax Returns from Januury 1st, 1933, to March 1st, 1933. All persons owning real estate or personal property must mako returns of the same within said period, as required by law, or be'^au eject ted a penalty of. 10 per cent. The Auditor will attend'in person or by deputy at tho following olaces in the county on the dates indicated for receiving returns: Hothune?-January 10th and 11th. Kershaw?^January 12th and 13th. Rnloy's Mill?January 17th. Liberty Hill?January 18th. 4. Blaney?January 19th. Westville?January 20th.^ All persons between the d'ges of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are required to pay a poll tax, and all persons be- * tween the ages of 21 and 50 years, inclusive, are required to pay a Road tax, uhless excused by law. All TvusteCs, Guardians, Executors, Administrators or Agents holding property in charge most return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail ' ? y; must makt\ oath .to same, before some officer and fill out the same" in proper manner or they will be rejected. B. E. SPARROW, Auditor Kershaw County // \ . Don't bring Ethel'1* ' * .. ': ' Do you know why die wasn't welcome ? She, herself, didn't. 9 Halitosis (bad breath), the socidl fault no one forgives, was the red son. Yet no one > need have halitosis. Gargling 0 . with Listerine instantly destroys mouth pdors and checks infection. Use ft daily. Lambert Pharmacat Company, St. Louis,Mo. - ' LISTERINE ends halitosis ! 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