The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 05, 1914, Image 2
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VTklto Teachers
In Schools of This
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sdtrrR Carolina.
Census Bnreaa's Figures CM
For X umber of Bales Turned
On*
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STRONG
ed and now the nstion wa* looking
the South. He quoted sU^stlcs
•h«w A .doftreaseiinAPUle rdUin
1890 »
tattle Il'CtMigo sott^for 4 1-^ents
Hfmr pound oi the hdof, irfhuHtrrlng*
i
TTie argument In the House for the
of the bill prohibiting white
teach ereji from teaching in negro
nchools In this State was opened by
Mr. Fortner, In favor of the bill, and
he took the position that education
the negro was really harmful and
that tf per cent, of the negroes In
prison to-day were of the educated
He Insisted that his bill was
demanded by the people of the State
and that public sentiment wished to
eeH a halt on white women teaching
Hi colored schools and he feared that
Che present situation might lead to
sedad equality
Mr. James of Bishopvllle said that
he favored a segregation of the races
ant only on the trains, hut In the
schools, and that he had lived long
enough to see that the coming of the
imoon together was a bad thing. Mr.
BRteoberg asked him If he wished
to threw more than fifty young wo-
men In Charleston out of employ
ment Mr. James suggested that Mr.
Rltteoberg’s “friends" would have to
And something else to do.
Mr. Liles of Orangeburg, who Is
bleaaed wlth^.a remarkable voice,
throw himself into the breach and
made a vigorous speech against the
meusure. He took the position that
the beet results would be gotten by
permitting white men to manage ne
groes Is the schools, but that he was
Opposed to white women teaching ne
groes. The burden of his argument
was that as It took white men to
manage negroes so imperative was It
thnt white teachers should bo employ
ed to teach the negroes subserviency.
Personally he believed that the negro
was not a beast and was possessed of
a oonU and that If taught right by
White men and shown that which was
eight thnt they would be less trouble-
flMne and more obedient. He wished
It understood that he was not In favor
Of any form of social equality and
that any demagogue that undertook
tP twist his position Into favor of so-
dtol equality told a lie, but he Insisted
Mat he felt It his duty to oppose this
Mil. because he frankly believed that
toe heat results could be gotten by
havtog men Instruct the negro. Mr.
Lilee reiterated his position and said
he regarded white supremacy above
all
,Mr. Stanley of HOrry created some
thing like a consternation by this
amendment: “Provided, that the
provlosions of this bill shall also ap
ply to negro waiters In hotels and
mttng houses, negro servants In
whits hospitals and negroes working
hi the same establishments that white
women are employed, negro nurses In
private homes—to the extent that the
twe ranee shall not be permitted to
engage In same work at the same
time at any place or In eny manner
whatsoever." This was pot a Joker.
Mr. Stanley Insisted that ’the State
might as well face complete negro
segregation, and he did^ot want the
races to mix anywhere. He oven went
qp far as to take the position that ne-
gro farm labor was worthless, and In
sisted that the sooner the white peo
ple realised It the better. He said
toe only way to avoid danger was to
meet the situation fairly and square
ly, as he proposed.
Mr. Barnwell of Charleston pre
sented n logical argument, and began
hy stating that he came from a sec
tion thnt had n problem that was not
sh conspicuous In the up-country. His
penpie had met the situation by white
people undertaking to some extent
toe early training of the negroes In
ton ndkools, and that the result had
subservience, discipline and
Of course, there were ex-
oeptious, hut he argued that the
teaching of white women in colored
schools hid not been harmful. The
thfUt Idea that the colored child got,
and was made to get, from his white
teacher, was respect and obedience,
and to realise that the white teacher
was Us superior. Either this would
have to be done as It Is now down In
Charleston, ar the negroes would be
taught hy negro preachers, who very
often were of the most insurgent
type, or by Yankee women, about
whom complaint was now made.
Speaking for Charleston, he felt that
the races there got along as well, or
better, than elsewhere, and he be
lieved that this condition was largely
brought about by the colored children
taught In early life that (hey
must recognise the white people, as
ipUfied hy the white teachers, as
A Oat
^ ‘• 'WTS : ' 0
Cotton Monad In South Caro linn,
of the 1915 croW ^mr to January
16, amounted to l,368,8<t;_ba)M.
a gat net 1,195,674 hales fbr the same
period In 1918, according to the fig
ures given out by the bnreau of the
census, which also shows thq number
of bales ginned In each county, in
running bales, counting round as half
bales and not Including llnters. Gin-
TtE'IAMEH"’''
-t:1T I . ■ yswjw;-
nlng by counties
follows:
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1913.
Abbeville . ..
33,308
Aiken
47,206
Anderson .. ..
70,688
Bamberg ...
27,457
Barnwell .. ..
66,654
Beaufort .- . ..
7,732
Berkeley. . . . .
18,356
Calhoun
27,031
Charleston ....
15,700
Cherokee .. ..
17,681
Chester
32,022
Chesterfield. ..
29,822
Clarendon . . .
40,013
Colleton
19,231
Darlington . . ..
37,440
Dillon
86,062
Dorchester.. ..
14,607
Edgefield ..
82,476
Fairfield
26,826
Florence
43,480
Georgetown. ..
8,782
Greenville .. . .
41,710
Greenwood.. ..
31,698
Hampton .. ..
19,443
Horry
10.0,22
Jasper
6,143
Kershaw . . . .
26,861
Lancaster .. . .
24,188
Laurens
43,273
Lee
37,498
Lexington . . . .
2£,609
Marion.. .. ,.
17,698
Marlboro .. . .
62,410
Newberry .. . .
38,904
Oconee
19,794
Orangeburg.. . .
77,811
Pickens
17,935
Richland
22,336
Saluda ,. , . . .
25,072
Spartanburg. ..
69,889
Sumter
40,533
Union . . . . . .
20,393
Williamsburg . .
26,491
York
39,980
Total
1,368,864
1912.
28,656
36,162
53,131
19,720
42,771
6,583
’ 10,740
20,838
-11,553
13,960
81,075
30.904
54,415
14,777
59,602
58,409
18,861
87,047
25,796
87,868
3,090
32,654
29,300
14,512
9,884
6,069
25,527
26,277
35,189
32,993
22,605
18,249
66.905
33,683
14,515
59,171
12,914
21,055
23,083
56,260
34,188
17,383
23,569
89,546
1,192,574
we have erred it has been in not
teaching the negro enough, particu
larly of morality. Some wanted the
negro to go to the depths, and if he
docs the white man will suffer. This
Is too serious a matter to Joke about.
If the Issue Is to be squarely met it
must be more serious-deportation.
The way to settle this question Is
without law. Public sentiment will
regulate such matters. In his coun
ty, for Instance, there are no white
teachers In negro schools. The negro
lives In contentment In this tSat
and he, therefore, believed the white
men were able to handle the situa
tlon. This Is a white man’s country,
therefore, why fear? It looked to
him like an effort to use it as a polit
ical move. This was an Inopportune
time to raise such questions. If the
situation must be met let It be by
race segregation, absolutely. Who
fears social equality In South Caro
lina, except the thoughtless or the
man on very Infirm foundation. He
believed In teaching negroes or any
one else to be good and respectable.
Ignorance Is a basis of evil and that
is all there Is to it.
Mr. Vanderhorst, of Charleston: op
posed the bill and offered personal
testimony, so to speak. So far as he
could gather the objection to white
teachers In colored schools was pure
ly sentimental. He saw It from a
practical standpoint, and he paid a
glowing tribute to the school system
in Charleston. He though* the ab
sence of race friction In Charleston
was largely due to vfrhlte teachers In
sisting upon respect for the whitq
race and cleanliness. He personally
knew teachers In these' 'Colored
schools, and there were no women of
better antecedents or character, and
they taught In these schools as a
matter of duty. No one has ever
heard of any one of the white teach
ers of Charleston being degraded be
cause of such teaching. The test has
been made In Charleston and the best
results, In every way, Is gotten hy
competent white teachers In colored
schools.
Mr. White of Clarendon saw hut
one advantage from white teachers
teaching In colored schools, and that
was to get the money for teaching.
There are a few Northerner! who
love the negro because they do not
understand conditions. The effect of
whites teaching In negro schools is
so had as to have members from
Charleston and Orangeburg oppose
this bill. He could not comprehend
hoHr white men could oppose this bill.
The only way to account 'fbr It was ~
Mr BaraweH~Flshsd by * ^ of the sense of proportion.
always In
bat he re-
Was Heir to Mother’s Wealth.
tiP*lto infl -.JttUa WlJ^jJto ilA-saa*--old girl JiQjne In a dear way the need for
of Galesburg, 111., who plotted to
have her, mother killed that she might
wed her step-father, was the sole ben
eficiary of her mother’s will which
was read Monday la htr presence.
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Several Speakers trgs 'the' General
Assembly to Help Fight a»e Cattle
Tick—Ask Members to Appropriate
Forty Thousand Dollars to Fight
the Pest In This State.
The United States government rep-
reesntatlves and Clemson college
joined In appealing to the general
assembly to unite with thdm In the
work of fighting the cattle tick in
South Carolina, to prepare for build
ing up a live stock Industry, and
thus preparing for the dreaded boll
weevil, which leaves devastation and
want in Its wake.
“You will have to climb the moun
tains of prejudice and wade through
seas of ignorance and misinformation
In Impressing upon the people the
crisis which confronts them,” dra
matically exclaimed Congressman A.
F. Lever In a masterly appeal for the
passage of the appropriation of |‘40,-
000 to help In the fight to free South
Carolina from the cattle tick.
^ Congressman Lever drew applause
when he declared that if the general
assembly would appropriate 840,000
the Federal government would sup
plement the fund with a like amount,
and thus help in saving one million
dollars a year to the cattle growers
of this State. “This is a little, but
ambitious, State," declared Mr. Lever
In saying that he did not believe
South Carolina would lag In the pro
gressive legislation now being enact
ed all over the country.
The members of the legislature
and visitors broke into mighty cheer
ing when the Seventh district con
gressman spoke of the dawn of a
new era which had come witIFthe ad
ministration of President Wilson and
in predicting a great era of prosper
ity and advancement.
Mr. Lever referred to the passage
of the Smith-Lever agricultural ex
tension hill by congress, and said
that It would mean a great boost for
the agricultural Industry of the na
tion. He called on the legisl&tore-to
help the farmer, and said that he was
convinced that would display states
manship bsTpreparing for the coming
of the boll weevil by pSssTng~Tfce ap
propriation for fighting the cattle
tick.
President W. M. Riggs of Clemson
college told of the work which the
college had done In assisting In the
work of tick eradication, but showed
that the $40,000 could not be taken
out of the fund of the college for this
work without crippling other public
advancement which was being car
ried on. He showed that the college
was now appropriating nearly $8,000
yearly for the tick eradication, and
how In the last six years It had spent
about $50,000 In this work in the up-
country In conjunction with about
$108,000 spent by the Federal gov
ernment. He said that the college
was ready and willing to do anything
It could to advance the Interests of
the farmers and the people, but that
the budget for the coming year call
ed for $290,000, while the Income
from the fertilizer tag tax amounted
to only about $226,000. He told of
where the money was spent, as In
carrying on the farm demonstration
w’ork, In providing for scholarships
at Clemson, in fertilizer Inspection
and analysis, In carrying on the work
of the branch stations at Summer
ville and Florence and In running the
college and teaching the eight hun
dred and fifty young men at the In
stitution. He thanked the general
assembly for the consideration they
had always shown Clemson college.
Shows Value to State. ..
Dr. E. M. NIghbert, the Inspector
In charge to tick eradication work,
with headquarters in Atlanta, told
of how the work of eradicating the
cattle tick bad begun in North Car
olina 20 years ago, horw the general
campaign In 1906 had been carried
forward with such fine results, and
how-the cattle tick prevented the
building up of a live stock Industry
He estimated that South Carolina was
producing enough cotton seed meal to
feed and fatten 250,000 head of cat
tle annually, and by carrying on the
campaign In a systematic manner
tick siould he eradicated In a short
time. He said that Tennessee was
freed from tick at the cost of about
$250,000 and had saved over $2,000,-
0.00 yearly. He stated that an area of
200,000 square miles h d been freed
since 1906, and that the little farmer
was the one Interested, as he was
the one whored and clothed the, na
tion. He said. “First free the coun
try of the cattle tick and the live
stock IndustryVwonld be developed."
Urges-Prompt Action.
Mr. B. H. Rawir of the bureau of
animal Industry In the agricultural
department at Washington, brought
other feed necessary for the cattle in-
thirty counties below the quarantine
^ e, others -pavtor H®* ttotrt fToto
i cattle tick. These comprise the
canities In thi ‘middle and so uthern
Sections of the Slat*, and he quoted
statistics to proyq his assertions of
the enormous cost these people were
enjJujrlpg fronj the Infection of ipe
tick. 1 1 %J57rF®3Ry:-' < ;
According to Mr. Raw! the coun
ties below the quarantine line com
prise 21,824 square miles, the coun
ties which have been cleaned pf the
tick amount to 8,615 square miles.
He said that estimates made on care
ful experiments showed that the cost
in these 30 counties from the preval
ence of the cattle tick amounted in
milk production to $422,000; reduc
tion by tanners In the prices of hides,
which had come from tick-infested
cattle, at $1.26 per hide, amounting
to $25,000; the loss In selling value
of cattle from the tick-infested area,
estimated at $6 a head, equalled
$101,000; detah los^the majority of
wlffCft come from the ticks, $297,009,
an estimated loss yearly of $1,000,-
000. He said this represented a loss
of 6 1-2 cents an acre: that it took an
average of 1.8 cents an acre to eradi
cate the tick from the 216,000 square
miles, and the average cost In the
counties cleaned in South Carolina
was 2.8 cents per acre. In Jiarling-
ton and Marlboro counties, he stated,
the ticks were eradicated at costs of
.4 and .6 centp an acre, and thait the
Infested area In the State can be
cleaned at* - ah" outlay of 2.8 cents an
acre, w about $400,000, and thus
save 3.7 cents an acre. L,
Boll Weevil Is Coming.
Telling how the boll weevil came
Into Texas some fifteen years ago,
leaving ruin and desolation in its
wake, and how it had'steadily crept
across the South until today It is on
the western border of Georgia, Mr.
Rawl estimated that it woufd reach
this State at the outside in five years.
He showed how cotton production
had been cut from 1,000,000 bales a
year in ouiLsiana to 400,000 with the
coming of the boll weevil, and how
ten counties In Mississippi had drop
ped from 262,486 bales of cotton in
1906, the first year the. weevil ap
peared, to 38,133 In 1912.
The weevil, he said, had travelled
from Western Texas to the Georgia
boundry, a distance of 650 miles, in
fifteen years, and that It was certainly
coming to South Carolina, as It was
Impossible to kill it or stop its march.
He appealed to the General Assembly
to prepare for the dreaded boll weevil
by eradicating the cattle tick and
thus building up a live stock indus
try, so when the weevil comes and
the farmers are no longer able to
raise cotton they can turn to cattle
and thus save them from ruin and
desolation. He painted a vivid and
convincing picture and his earnest
ness clearly made Its Impress upon
the legislators.
The House passed a rising vote of
thanks to the speakers. Congress
man Lever held a regular levee after
the adjournment. Every legislator
and visitor pressing to shake his
hand. The other visitors were given
a cordial welcome and there is evi
dence in Columbia that the appro
priation for $40,000 for fighting the
cattle tick will likely go through
SHERIFF IS ATTACKED.
prompt action in. fighting th« cattle
tick. Ha shewed that whdrsss ths
West formerly frevr more corn and
raised more cattle than the nation
could use, that ranges had dissppear-J four
Pickens Prisoner Makes Desperate
Effort to Overcome Sheriff.
What came very near a Jail deliv
ery was frustrated at the Pickens Jail
by the timely arrival of Sheriff Routo
and the refusal of some prisoners to
take part. Just before retiring last
Wednesday night, the sheriff started
on his usual round through the corri
dors of the jail to see that all was
well. Just as he entered he was at
tacked hy one of the prisoners who
called for the others.
For some reason the other pris
oners did not respond and the sheriff
being the better man soon had the
aggressor in his cell. Had the other
men assisted there Is no doubt but
that they would have gained their
liberty. With the spring out of an
old shoe and a pocket kn^ife they had
cut the lock to the cell and had sue
ceeded In cutting a very large hole In
the wall of the building, hut despair
ing of getting out through the wall
the sheriff was attacked.
The man who attacked the sheriff
was COleman Caudle, who was sen*
from Easley for robbery, and, as'a
coincident Sheriff Roark had his
hands full of fruit, which the boy’s
father had sent to him, and It was
about’to he delivered, Caudle baa
served <?ne sentence on the chain
gang and had been out only p abort
time when arrested on the above
charge. ■>! — - ■ \
Kills Brttto and Mother.
of Mill
to go on a trip
^Angered by.
bride, of two moi
with him, Will Simons Wednesday
killed b«is her mother and himself
at the home of Mrf, John Calvin
Wiggins, his mother-inlaw, about
K-XX
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to all the musi<
world
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est opera artists—always ready to oblige with
their arias and concerted numbers.
She can entertain fier guests with stirring
band music or superb instrumental solos, and
■tan at will furnish the latest dance music to
add to their enjoyment ~
Wouldn’t you like a Victrola in your home? You
can easily get one. There are variotrs styles of the
Victrola from $15 to $200, and terms can be arranged
to suit your convenience, •
SIMS BOOK STORE
ORANGEBURG, S. C.
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Stumps and Boulders Removed; Ditches
Blasted; Swamps and Wet Spots Drained;
Holes, and Trenches Blasted for Planting
Trees' Vines, Shrubbery and Hedges; Old
Trees Rejuvenated; Post, Telephone and
Telegraph Pole Holes Prepared; WellsJ ^
Ice and Log Jams, Cellars, Trenches,"
Sewers, Gutters Blasted; Mud Holes Eliminated
from Roads; Go'phers and Other Burrowing
- Mjrrm Animals Exterminated; Charges Reasonable.
If-ltYBluting I Do. It,—With Red CroM Dynamite , i
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Agricultural Engineer and Blasting Contractor. Phone S41-L.
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HARDWARE v
COLUMBIA, S. C.
BEATS NEGRO OFF.
Yorkville Man Uses Whip t<Y
fully Resist Attack. '
While returning In his buggy Sat
urday from Lockhart, J. A. Shannon,
who lives near Sharon, York county,
was cursed by a negro whom he met
in the road. He got out of his buggy
and asked the negro what he meant.
The negro continued to advance to
ward Mr. Shannon with a knife or a
razor in his hand. Being manned,
Mr. Shannon threw rocks at him and
kept him off with his whip for some
time. Finally he struck the negro
between the eyes with the heavy end
of the whip and left him stunned
and bleeding. Just about that time
some other negroes came along and
took the negro to a nearby house.
When officers were sent to arrest the
negro, he could not be found. It is
thought that the man was crazed
with cocaine, as Mr. Sannon had
never seen him before. Mr. Shan
non’s clothing was considerably
■tMhfid* ; FT-;
Kills Himself at Depot. -
Sherrod Warren, ah employee of
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad at
Hot Springs, Via., committed suicide
at the passenger depot Thursday by
sending a pistol ball through his
head. No cause is given for to* act.
Killed Brother and Self.
Rosecoe Beasley of Nashville,
Tenn., late Thursday night shot an
killed his brother, Ollle S. Beasley,
and wounded his wlfs, then killed
TO RETURN PISTOLS.
Jefferson Davis' Weapons to Ms Bo-
_ turusd by Governmemt.
Secretary Garrison Wednesday di
rected the return to the heirs of fa-
ferson Davis, of two duelling pistols,
a double-barrelled pistol and appur
tenances seized by Union troops near
the close of the Civil war. Mr. Garrl-
slson took this action upon receipt of
an opinion from Attorney General
McReynolds that the President of the
Confederate States had never been
legally, deprived of his ownership on
the property and that all his rights
In it had been restored to him by
President Johnson's amnesty procla
mation.
The pistols which have been in the
custody of the War Department for —
nearly 60 years will be turned over
to Joseph A. Hayes, of Colorado,
whose wife is Jefferson Davis’ eldest
daughter. The shawl and raglan-be
longing to Mrs. Davis and said tdy, _
have been worn hy Davis phen he
was captured, were not included In
the articles for which. Mr. Hayes ask
ed but it Is presumed they will be n-
llnguished if the Davis heirs request’-
them. x j
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Student Meets Sodden Death,
■ The third student of the UnivOrsl
of Pennsylvania to die front
*1 causes In the last eight days was ^
found dead Monday at Philadelphia
ihyxiatlon. He was Raymond
F. Feldman, of Tuakhannoek, Pa.,
and wqs found in a 1 gas filled roost