The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 06, 1933, Image 7
Management So Popular, "Citizen" j
Fears State Hospital Be ThrongedRoad
Building Hierarchy Exposed
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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
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bring Ethel'1*
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' 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 !
Kill. 200,000,000 gorms
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in yourcakesXl
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