Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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XOW riUXTKI) 1 SLACK. South Carolina One of Two States in I Darkness of Illiteracy. Pursuing the subject of social service, the Kennedy Library associa- ( tion, of Spartanburg, at its last meet- r ing heard a most earnest and enlight- s ening talk by Miss Julia Seidell, origi- s nator of the night schools of Spartan- I burg county. Some of the statistics given by her wfere startling in their ^ revelation of South Carolina's adult c illiteracy. Said Miss Selden in part: v "In a map showing illiteracy in f the United States Louisiana and c South Carolina are the only States 11 printed in black. Next to Louisiana v we are the most illiterate State in * the union. In educational expendi- F ture South Carolina is at the very C bottom of the list?spending $3 per t child while Washington spends $32 ?more than ten times as much as we ao. "One fourth of the voting men of v Spartanburg county cannot write a their names, as shown by the polls. ^ and the men who vote are a small t proportion of the women and chil- p dren in the same condition. a "The night schools in the mills are t not an interesting bit of charity but a patriotic effort to pull the State q abreast of the times so that we will t no longer be a disgrace?for we are j a disgrace?and the complacent, well ji educated should realize that they are c bearing the disgrace. The pitiful a condition of men and women want- ? A * J n r\ r\n a tn \ mg ^0 L&<1 HI CtUU Hav lug) UW V4*v -vr j ^ teach them is not in South America jor Africa, but in your own country r and town. The night schools are jneeded among farmers as well as mill t people. A bank cashier here tells of r two well-to-do farmers who lately c came to deposit money and brought g their negro farmhands to write their a names for them?no uncommon t thing, it is said. v "Let our slogan be: 'What others ^ are doing we can do: no illiteracy in f South Carolina after 1920.'" L Miss Selden also strongly urged; t the club women to use their influence j ( toward securing the passage of a; t bill by the legislature for $3,000 to j j be use.! in furthering the night (^ schools in Spartanburg county as the ? .v $25 now allowed each school is piti- J ; fully inadequate. However, out of j t this meagre sum have occasionally s come wonderful results. One presi-J Hont ix-hn refused to be interested orj? even to answer letters concerning 11 night schools at his mill, was so sur-J j prised after the session managed on ! l $25 at the progress and improve-j* ment made that he continued the j school at his own expense. These' t schools are for persons over 14 years i of age and at one mill, out of an attendance of 70, 50 were adults. This g shows eagerness of men and women t to learn, said Miss Selden. t 5 ? When An Iceberg Collapses. g t One of the main dangers in the r proximity of an iceberg is its unknown extent beneath the water, says the February Wide World Mag- j, azine. It is told that the passengers j, of a steamboat on the Newfoundland ^ coast successfully importuned the ^ captain to approach an iceberg for a i v close inspection. While still appar- n entlv sufficiently distant for safety j( some movement in the water or natural decay acted upon the berg, and it split apart. Instantly it began to t( readjust its balance. The tremen' dous masses beneath the water steadily rose as the pieces swung over, v and one wide-extending ledge came * up beneath the boat. "What shall we do now?" inquired a tourist. "Get down on your knees," was the terse j_ reply of the captain. But the great ^ wave from the tumbling ice swept ^ down on the boat and washed it to j safety. The collapse of an iceberg c spreads danger to great distances. It may be too far distant to threaten he craft itself, but the wave it raises will swamp the largest boat in the ^ immediate neighborhood. Ticket Seller's Mistake. * "Turon." I. L. Pratz, ticket agent at the 11 Rock Island depot, looked at the ^ coin under the ticket window and w gave in exchange the desired paste- 1 board and the proper change. i \>u iu i aiuu. As deftly did the Rock Island man a handle the order, and he slid the same number of tickets to a red- k faced man whose head appeared at b the window, and he gulped twice and 1 then said: n "Tu-Tu-Turon." - a When he saw the two tickets he r shook his head. Pratz also looked ^ askance at the coin he had received ?it was enough to pay for both. "Tu-Tu-Turon," gasped the man. "Yes sir; they're both there, but ^ this 'sn't enough," said Pratz, hold- ^ ing up the coin to show its denomi- ' nation. "I-I-I-w-w-want one t-t-tt-icket to" (he stopped to wet his lips and whis- j tied, then gulped) "Tu-Tu-Turon." "Oh, all right, sir; tny mistake," j said Pratz, and put one ticket back in the case.?Hutchinson New6. DYXAMITK DOES DAMAOK. lut Nobody is Hurt in Explosion at >1 Cay re. Columbia. Jan. 27.?The town of 'ayce, just across the Congaree te iver, in Lexington county, was St hocked, the side of a blacksmith tli hop ripped off and a supply house el iadly damaged, this aiternoon, when m !(R> pounds of dynamite exploded. B; 'lie explosive was being "thawed p( iut" by a steam process. Several th rorkmen were near the place just a st ew minutes before the explosion ocurred. The box in which the dynanite was stored caught fire and the rorknien fled. .Many window panes n the town were broken by the ex- bi ilosion, which was plainly heard in 'olumbia. The dynamite was owned ? >y Weston & Brooker, Inc. Mail Orders. It has come under our observation, tr rithin the last few weeks, that there re several people, business men of Valterboro, who send away and get cr heir goods. We are going to ap?ly this to our own business, first. nc cqv that thev send awav for heir job printing. Now we want to show a few facts. tc 'he mail order man comes into Wal* or erboro and carries away, say $25,00 n printing. He only spends while m lere about 75 cents, at the least not S( ?ver $1.00, cigar money included, nd he carries away the difference? ;24.00, never to return that much to ' Valterboro again. On the other m st land the Press and Standard retrains here. Pays taxes and license tere. Pays the men who work for * hem and they in return spend the noney here, aggregating some four >r five thousand dollars, and last but greatest of all, it is found ready at my time to fight for the welfare of he town and county,. The money cc . - rf ve spend, except for material that ~" ve cannot buy here, is spent at home, as tnd yet for the sake of saving a few tc ents in the charges and the consum- a* tl >r paying the freight front some >ther place, work is being sent away e( o the northern people who have cap- e( t c tal and money enough to buy the vhole town. When we pay license tv md taxes, we help Walterboro and. tc dr. Business Man. we are dependent iron you to help us pay these neces- e3 ;ary items. tc But this applies not only to ourselves, but to others. The dry goods nan, the hardware man, the grocery sc lien, the butcher and the other fel- p< ows. Right here, we would ask: ** 'What, claim have the mail order s< el leople to your trade that compares o the claim of the local business nan?" ? hl You may get your goods from ome nearby town, but when you pay s* he freight on them you have gotten w hem no cheaper than the home mer- 01 shant could have sold them to you g< tc ind more so if you went to that St own to get them and paid your raiload fare. m The mail order man pays his tax-1 sc s at home. The home man pays sc lis at home and his home is right w of lere. The mail order man's money s gone when you pay him for his ;oods, never to return and circulate JU eh there it is needed. The local busiess man's money very seldom ever ^ eaves Walterboro. Therefore his noney and the money you spend with im are going for the welfare of the own. .lust stop and think a minute * cl nd you will give your order for nything to the home man, and you ^ . ill not send it to the man who ^ pends nothing here. To illustrate. John Doe prices a ^' uit of clothes from Henry Doe. lenry tells him that the suit is worth ar 20.00. John says that he can buy * hat same suit from some concern ^ i Chicago for $17.99. Now we will m ee if John has saved anything. He ^'c rites a letter, stamp costs him 2 at ents. Money order for $17.99 osts him 15 cents. Suit costs him 17.90. Express charges from Chiago will bring this amount up to t0 he $20.00 that Henry priced the uit to him at. and the first time he ta 66 ets the suit wet he has to go home i a barrel, the suit having shrunk. v lad he bought the suit at home, he ould have gotten another for it. for nc lie home man takes care of his cusp], omers but as it is he writes to the !hicago firm and they write back nd make fun of him. zii 1' 4,1? v, ^ rtnps not 11 Lilt? IIUIUO ? eep what you want, make it profita- " le for him to do so and he will do t. This works both ways. If every lan does his duty, the common good ni nd prosperity of the whole commulity will have been promoted.? tu CP \'alterboro Press and Standard. l)r. S. G. Meriwether, 88, Dead. sa de Allendale, Jan. 27.?Dr. S. G. pl leriwether died at his old home, leriwether, Friday, in the SStli year *s if his age, and was buried Saturday * nth Masonic honors, in the Meri- Sc retlier cemetery at Clarks Hill. He p? eaves one son, Mr. J. G. Meriwether, if this place, and one daughter, Mrs. a( i\ L. Middleton, of Meriwether. Read The Herald. $1.50 per year. ci CASE TO SI/ritkMK COUHT. vCorniick County Advocates Win Ilefoje State l?oar<l. Columbia, Jan. 27.?After an exuded hearing this afternoon the ate hoard of canvassers reversed ;6 Greenwood county board and deared that the election for McCoriek county had been legally held. F. arron Grier, attorney for those op)sed to the new county, declared iat the case would be taken to the ipreme court on appeal. iieai i'it?oi. "I will prove my love not by words it by deeds." "Oh. George, are they title deeds?" -Baltimore American. Toys and Psychology. One of the toy stores in this couny last fall established a novelty? consulting expert for parents in ie matter of fitting the toy to the iild. The consulting expert was )t employed simply for the period ecious to the holiday season, in der to encourage a larger sale of ys. He is a permanent feature of ie establishment, and has already nazed and peeved the firm's salesen by spoiling some of their bigist sales. Benjamin Levin is the name of the loveltv." His father is a noted New ork alienist. The young man has ade child psychology his life udy, and has had much experience child welfare work among the ew York settlement houses as well > being assistant manager of the eorge Junior Republic. He believes 5 has opened a new profession in hich experts are sadly needed. "The biggest thing I hope to acimplish," he says, "is to induce paints to select their children's toys > intelligent as they are beginning > select tlieir children's diet. We 1 know that the child learns trough his play. Many systems of lucation are founded 011 that knowlige. Toys bear a certain relation > a child's development. "Our American cnildren," declares lis expert adviser to parents, "are to nervous. Instead of giving them cciting toys, they should have someling soothing. I induced one father ? have a sandpit installed for hisj iry nervous little girl. Sand is 1 jothing. Just dig your hand into a! in of sand and let it run slowlvl irough your fingers. Note how jothine it is to you. It has the same | Tect on a child which needs to get s toes into the sand as well as its and6.- 1 "Children are destructive. It (eras to be the natural bent. Then hy give them mechanical toys that lly need winding up to make them )? I invariably advise against such >ys. The child soon has them deroved in an effort to see what akes them 'go.' Give children ime'thing constructive. Give them imething to make. They will value hat they have built themselves and . the same time they are overcomg the destructive tendency. The ivenile courts are busy with those lildren whose tendency to destrucveness has never been curbed or verted." Just about this time parents are 'ginning to wail over the fate of ie expensive toys given to their lildren last Christmas. Few of ese toys survive the first month, ost of them are broken or the child tired of them by the time New sar's day arrives. Sunday I stopped into tne nome ui i acquaintance where there are ree children. I had seen their toys e day after Christmas. They were any and expensive. I wondered >w the parents, who are in modere circumstances, could afford to iv them. Like other parents, they ere proud of the expensiveness and lantity and felt that "nothing is 0 good for our children." But on Sunday I discovered a to1 indifference toward their new posssions, by tfie children. They had vorked them all out," and ''shown em off" to their friends, and the >veltv was gone. The" small boy is discontentedly kicking at the ectric railroad train. The small rl was humming to herself while e cut paper dolls out of a magaae. The older son was having more n with a cheap magnet on a string, at picked up pins and needles from e carpet (he'd found it in^ his other's sewing machine drawer), an in the complicated moving picre machine his rich uncle had prented to him. "The American middle class," ys Benjamin Levin, "seems to be insely ignorant about the sort of aythings fitted to their children, aey seem to think that if a thing costly it must be just 'the' thing, am afraid that parents too often :iect for the child what pleases the irent." But don't think he will advise you :cording to the age of your younger. "I must 6ee and talk with the iildf" he says.?E. K. Wooley. i lo! here aim: honks of a ok of stoxks, foh hhowx ami jones. If Hrowii or Jones or You Would See 'Km Just Take the "L" to the Museum. When the new year burns merrily, hilarious, one likes to hear about the Casuarius. The Casuarins was a patient beast that died three million years ago at least. Its bones?if you are curious to see um?are now at the American Museum. They lie there mute; they haven't been loquacious since lava floods ended the Age Cretaceous. On Christmas, Barnum Brown, the gentle giver, brought 'em to us from out the Belly River. (The Belly River's title shouldn't hurt a sweet single soul; it's way up in Alberta.) The Casuarius is a beast and bird: it's thirty-five feet long. 'Twould be absurd. To say his brain, he wasn't brightly quick?but still his skull is forty inches thick. The thing most strange about this fossiled sage is that he preservpH his hide throughout the aees. Three million years, through slime and silt and sin has Casuarius retained his skin. Living today he'd bite at e'en a house and lot on Long Island. He's got teeth, 2,000. If you love birds and buds and children, won't you go see this pretty trachodont?or don't you? ?New York American. Why She Gave Up Her Card Club. In the February Woman's Home Companion appears a page entitled "An Experience .Meeting," in which contributors speak frankly about card clubs. One woman explains in nart as follows why she does not be I long: to a card club: "As the card season draws near. I am invited every year to join a card club. .My reasons for not joining I feel are good and sufficient ones. Once started on the game all play like mad. At the close of 'the afternoon refreshments are served, and while partaking of them all relax to some extent except the hostess, who is on needles and pins as to whether the 'eats' are all right. During the social hour there is a short time for exchange of thoughts and ideas?and the subject of these ideas? Almost without exception you will find it the game just finished. I find life all too important and time too precious to give up one afternoon a week or even one in two weeks to that sort of card playing; for we as progressive women have ample opportunity to devote our time to something really worth-while." The First Victim. Chief Justice Doberty used to relate an experience which befell him during a visit to a country house in Ireland. His friend, the host, sent a cart to the railway station to bring him to the place. He had not gone far when the horse became restless and finally upset the cart into a ditch. The judge asked the driver how long the animal had been in harness. "Half an hour, sur." "I mean, how long since he was first put in harness?" "Shure, I've told you?half an hour, sur," answered the driver, "an' the masther said if he carried ye safe he'd buy him."?Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Dangerous Case. Louise?"Troubled with loss of appetite, isn't she?" Julia?"She doesn't even want to eat the things that the doctors forbid."?Life. Modest Ohio. Ohio has four republican aspirants for the republican nomination for president in 1916. Modest Ohio.? Knickerbocker Press. RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catolog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. 1 LOMBARD IRON* WORKS & ! I ' SUPPLY CO. I I Augusta, Ga. m IJ ~ 1 < It-is absolute FOLLY for a man who intends to marry or who has a WIFE and GHILDREN directly dependent upon HIM not to save a part of his income from his earnings or his business. A bank account is like a ball of snow; it will meltaway unless you ADD to it. The habit of constantly INGREASING the balance to their credit will make any man or woman RIGH. Make OUR bank YOUR bank We pay 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly on savings depsits -A-Paf*mai>e fir Mpifrliantc Raillr LU1 A11V1 0 1T1V1 VIIU11MI WVMMk | EHRNARDT, S. C. J ' -f|? Telephones on ;Jj| afcl*)' Farms at Wp Rates .. -ihfjte ^ o per cent raiu uu yivm^ i/cpvpno. ^ Riiv a Inprmnmpfpr 'fki we have just received some nice ones, 25c each, at HERALD BOOK STORE. * Come in and take a look. ? ... .?.y-,- . '-fig If there is no telephone on your farm write for our Free Booklet telling how you may get Service at 50 cents per month . and up. ^ |||i| A postal will do! Address:Farmers'Line Department. ? ' 'Mt BOX 108, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. Money at Interest is the nearest thing to perpetual motion ever discovered. when vou have a bank account where interest is paid on your account. You can start it here wlMf|f?pwv /ifiViSTw with a very small sum. ^ Enterprise Bank , ? ? 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