The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 19, 1914, Page 2, Image 2
MONEV FOR STATE SCHOOLS
SlTPEIIIXTENI)EXT SWEARIXGEX
WRITES OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Head of School System (Jives Advice
as to Co-operation Among
Patrons.
Columbia, March 12.?State Superintendent
of Education J. E. Swearingen
has written a letter to the
county superintendents of education
throughout the State calling atten'
tion to the money appropriated for
the common and high schools by the
legislature, and that applications for
must hfi throueh the State board
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of education. His letter, which covers
the school situation in detail, is
as follows:
"The general assembly made liberal
provision for the free public
schools. The six appropriations include:
High schools, $60,000; rural
graded schools, $60,000; weak
schools for term extension, $60,000;
libraries, $5,000; public school
buildings under the act of 1910, to
be disbursed in order of applications
filed, $20,000; contingent fund to be
expended by the county boards of
education under the regulations provided
by the State superintendent of
education for especially needy rural
school districts, $45,000.
Seven-Months Term.
"These funds guarantee the continuance
and extension of the educational
activities that have brought
more efficient schools to scores of
communities during recent years.
State aid based on local taxation
should provide in every district a
school term of at least seven months,
an up-to-date building and a body of
nnmnptfint teachers. If the people
of any community will co-operate
with public school authorities they
may easily secure State aid for a
better building, a longer term and
the establishment of a rural graded
school.
"All applications for high school
aid will be considered by the State
board of education at its next meeting.
The money shall be forwarded
to your county treasurer about May
15. The usual November installment
of high school aid for the scholastic
year 1913-14 could not be paid last
,fall pending the collection of the onemill
State school tax, from \fchich the
v high school appropriation for 1913
was derived. High school trustees
and principals may rely upon theh
usual apportionment as heretofore.
Rural Graded. Schools.
"Rural graded school applications
shall be paid without fail. Under no
conditions should any district maintaining
a two or a three-teacher
school and asking school aid be permitted
to close for lack of funds.
? w The increase from $20,000 to $60,000
for these schools guarantees the
purpose of the law-makers to maintain
this policy in every district meeting
the requirements of the rural
graded school act. No rural community
enrolling fifty children can
now afford to do without a two-teacher
schol, and no such community enrolling
seventy-five children should
be content with less than a threeteacher
schQol. Under this con
etructive and stimulating policy upwards
of two hundred communities
have voted the required four-mill
tax, and have secured recognition as
State-aided schools. Your co-operation
in extending this policy throughout
your county is thoroughly appreciated,
for without your cordial
assistance nothing could be accomplished
by State aid to these schools.
"Nearly 600 term extension applications
have already been paid.
But if any weak district levying a
2-mill tax desires to participate in
this appropriation its application
should be forwarded without delay.
The term extension act applies to
even the smallest school in the most
sparsely settled section. This measure
has already brought about a
marked increase in the school term
of half the counties of the State. By
tKo f ril ??foQC OTlH
u I to utututo, tuv VI U OWVVO UU.U
patrons of any district should be
able to lengthen their school term.
Where a sufficient local tax is voted
to secure the sfaximum of $100
State aid every public school may
now run at least 140 days.
Library Appropriations.
"The library appropriation has
never been fully used. Schools without
a library should purchase one immediately;
schools having libraries
may enlarge them each year.
May Enter Senate Race.
Columbia, March 11.?There is
talk here to-night that Comptroller
General A. W. Jones may enter the
race for the United States senate.
Jf he should enter the contest with
Senator Smith, the governor, Renre?
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seiilcllivf \\ . r . oic^cuaiiu cm-u iwimer
Governor John Gary Evans, the
contest will be warmer than was first
anticipated. There i-s general interest
in what the comptroller general
will announce definitely about the
matter.
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WON'T PAY CLAIMS.
Comptroller Holds Up Items Passed
by Ways and Means.
Columbia, March 13.?Comptroller
General Jones announced
this evening that the claims passed
on by the ways and means committee
of the house would not be paid
until the courts rule on them.
Mr. Jones said: "I have declined
to pay the claims approved by the
ways and means committee of the
house, but not acted upon by both
houses of the general assembly, for
the reason that they do not come
within the definition of claims passed
by the general assembly on the appropriation
act. I was doubtful
what course I should follow in this
matter and called upon the attorney
general for' his advice and opinion
in writing as to what I should do.
He declined to give me an opinion in
writing. I therefore, sought advice
of an attorney, who gave me the
following answer:
" 'Answering your question as to
whether you have authority under
the appropriation act of 1914 to pay
certain claims passed upon by the
board of claims and favorably reported
to the ways and means committee
of the house of representatives, I
will say that item 1, of Section 39,
of the appropriation act, carries an
appropriation of $12,000 to pay
claims "passed by the general assembly."
It does not appear that the
claims you refer to have been passed
by the general assembly nor by either
branch thereof. It appears that
these claims were reported to the
house of representatives by the ways
and means committee and the report
i thereon adopted, but it does not apl
pear that the house took further action
towards the same, according to
the constitutional requirements.
" 'Aside from the language of the
| statute it may be known that the genj
eral assembly intended to make proI
visions for the payment of the claims
I you refer to, but you, as comptroller
; general, as well as the courts, are
j confined to the language used in the
I appropriation bill to ascertain the
i legislative intent. The language
! used, "to pay claims passed by the
general assembly," is very definite
and certain, the constitution prescribing
what is necessary to be done
i by the general assembly to pass an
act.
" 'I do not think it very likely that
the court would hold that the action
of the board of claims upon these
claims, the report of the ways and
means commiittee thereon and the
adoption of that report by the house
of representatives would answer the
conditions specified and imposed on
the item and section of the appropriation
act above referred to.
" 'I do not think you should assume
responsibility for paying these
claims. It would be for your protection
to have the order of the court
before paying or issuing your warrant
in payment thereof.' "
The 1913 session of the legislature
created a board of claims. This board
approved claims of $201,108.34, including
$190,000 owed the sinking
i fund, most of which was borrowed
for the asylum. The ways and means
committee approved claims of $12,678.01,
thus leaving out claims passed
on by the board of claims and
probably inserting claims not approved
by the board. The refusal
to pay these claims now brings the
matter to an issue. A test case will
be put up to the courts. The general
assembly appropriated $12,000 for
claims.
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A lie Jiai i i(?^c nuiuuiui'i^Ai*
The following report of a marriage
ceremony is taken from the
Cottonwood Falls Leader of 40 years
ago: The marriage ceremony was performed
by a Cottonwood Falls J. P.,
who admonished the bride and groom
as follows:
"Therefore, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the State of
Kansas, and the rules and regulations
governing the land office at
Salina, I pronounce you man and
wife. Whoever I have joined in
wedlock let no man put asunder. I
charge you to be true to each other.
True love in Kansas is as scarce
as honest men in our legislature. Be
always true and loving to one another.
take a homestead or a piece of
railroad land with a spring on it (my
partner, Bill Smith, knows where
there is a good piece.) and you will
be comparatively happy. Amen."
Preferred Death to Minding Baby.
Knoxville, Tenn., .March 14.?The
ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
; Lawson Smith. Carter county, hanged
himself because his mother asked
him to mind the baby. Mr. Smith
went to visit a neighbor, returning
home he found his son hanging by
a rope to an old apple tree. The
boy had attached the rope to a limb
on the tree, climbed a fence, put the
noose over his head and then made
the fatal leap.
> Big line of tablets and pencils at
Herald Book Store.
"JUNK" CALDWELL CONVICTED, j
Laurens Jury Recommends Mercy in j
Murder Case.
Laurens, March 11.?"Guilty with
recommendation to mercy" was the
verdict returned this evening in the
case of the State against "Junk"
Caldwell, colored, tried to-day as one j
of the principals in the murder last
January of George F. Young, at
Stomp Springs. A similar verdict
was rendered last night against
Greenwood Rogers, the alleged ringleader
in the conspiracy that culminated
in the killing of Mr. Young
in his home January 12.
Tom Young, who confessed to the
conspiracy and murder some weeks
ago and implicated Rogers and Caldwell,
was the main witness for the
State again to-day, telling the same
story as before with several additional
material points. He swore that
Caldwell, at the bidding of Rogers,
secured some broom straw after leaving
the house, and returned and
kindled a fire under one corner of
the cottage to make sure that the
building was fired and to make quick
work of the job. Witness swore
that Rogers, after killing and robbing
his victim, took a fire shovel
and threw live coals over the room,
on the bedding and clothing, thus
starting the blaze within.
Witnesses were put on the stand to ,
testify to an alleged confession made !
March 4 by the defendant. These wit- !
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nesses included Deputy Sheriff Reid
and J. Stobo Young, a son of the defeased.
They swore that the confession
was made voluntarily, and that j
Caldwell said when it was over that >
he "felt better."
When put on the stand by the de
fence "Junk" repudiated the statement,
declaring that he made the
confession under duress and did not
understand the import of it. Like i
Rogers, he tried to prove an alibi, |
but he was never able to account for j
his whereabouts between 11 o'clock!
the night of the tragedy until after {
midnight, when his brother said he |
came home and went to bed.
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uaiawen is uiuy simccu ,?ca.io ui
age. He was said to have been dominated
by Rogers, according to most
of the evidence.
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YOUNG MAN SHOT TO DEATH.
Emmett Walker Called From Office
and Killed by Geo. W. Tidwell.
Greenville, March 12.?Calling
Emmett Walker from his office at
the Carolina Mills this morning
about 10 o'clock', George W. Tidwell,
representing an advertising agency
at Clinton, shook hands with the
young man, pulled a pistol from his
pocket with hie left hand and fired
five shots into Walker's body. Their
right hands were clasped as Tidwell
fired, and Walker had his left arm
about Tidwell's neck, as if to protect
himself.
Tidwell is 52 years old, while Walker
was but 20. The latter h^d
prominent family connections here.
Little is known of Tidwell. Tidwell
gave out a statement this afternoon,
in which he stated that he killed
Walker because he and another young
man had ruined his home. He said
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DOIQ 1115 wii^j; anu uaugmci ncic involved.
Mrs. Tidwell and the girl were arrested
here last week in a questionable
house, it is said, and Tidwell
hearing of the affair, it seems, came
here to look for the men he claimed
were responsible for theii^ going
wrong. Tidwell drove from the mill
to the sheriff's office and gave himself
up.
GOT AWAY FROM SHOW.
Elephant Killed Near Hartsville Was
Harmless Creature.
Hartsville, March 12.?It was ascertained
to-day that the elephant
killed last night about six miles above
Hartsville was the property of a small
show owned V>' & m&n named
Gillespie, which the night previous
had siven an exhibition at McBee,
some eighteen miles above here. The
elephant had gotten away after the
performance. To-day his old keeper
came to Hartsville, and from him it
was learned that the elephant had
been recently sold to Gillespie by
Ringling Brothers' Circus, and that it
had cost $6,000. He had just turned
the animal over to its new keeper
and trainer and had gone away when
he heard of its death. He says that
it had been in his charge for six years
and was perfectly gentle, and that it
! would have followed a dog or horse
about and would have harmed no
one. Indeed, it only showed fight
after it had been shot in the eye. and
after it was brought down front ex;
haustion and approached by its pursuers.
Gillespie has not put in an appear?
ance here, though he may have gone
> out to the scene of the killing. His
i only hope of recouping for the loss of
$6,000 is insurance, which it is pre
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