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(2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921. Established in 1891
Report of D. L. L
Rural School
Hon. J. E. Swearingen, Dear Sir:
I give below summary of conditions
as seen in the country schools of Bamberg
county during a three-days'
visit ending with Friday, Feb. 18:
On Wednesday I visited Midway,
Hydigger, Embree, Edisto, Hunter's
Chapel and Pine Grove, all oneteacher
schools except Hunter's Chap-1
el. I found all the one-teacher build-'
ings constructed without regard to !
lighting, ventilation, cloak-rooms, j
and general equipment, several of the
school-rooms having immense rostra
or platforms taking up one-fourth or!
one-third of the " room. Midway, |
with a few changes, such as placing
the lighting on one side and removing
the platform, can easily be converted
into a good school-room. The
other one-teacher buildings could
hardly be converted into good classrooms
with respect to lighting, cloak-1
rooms, etc., as the principles of con-i
struction were faulty, and not in ac-!
cordance with modern school architecture.
The only remedy would be
new school houses. Hunter's Chapel
was found to be a splendid building
and reflects great credit on the community.
In the one-teacher schools we found
as good teaching being done as we
could expect to find in a one-teacher
school. It is high time, however,
that people everywhere begin to realize
that our children cannot be educated
in the one and two-teacher
schools. The one-teacher school can
teach only seven grades, and the twoteacher
schools can teach only eight
grades.
What is to become of the education
of the country children after they
complete the course of study in the
one * and two-teacher schools? No
^country community should be satisfied
with a school having fewer than
three teachers, and, just as soon as
Dossible, every country community
should have schools of four teachers, j
A good county system of schools will
place every country child in reach of
a high school or a good consolidated
? country school. The country children
deserve* just as good education as do
the town and city children, and only
by giving them the opportunity to attend
such schools as those named
above will they get the training they
deserve.
At Hunter's Chapel we found three
teachers. Such a school can teach
nine grades, and some tenth grade
subjects, and can go far towards giving
the country children adequate
training.
On Thursday Hampton, Clear ;
Pond, Heyward, St. Johns and ThreeMile
schools were visited. All of
these schools except St. Johns are
one-teacher schools, and the remarks
made above apply to these schools :
also. Several of the one-teacher;
schools had in attendance only five;
or six pupils, indicating either a very j
scattered population, or very poor at-1
tendance. We did not have time to:
see the compulsory attendance officer
to discuss with him the poor attendance
in some of the schools.
On Friday Govan and Salem, both!
one-teacher schools, were visited. I
Govan has a good building, and it
seems that such a community would i
NEGRO WOMEN TO APPEAL. j
Colored Females Protest Against Al-1
leged Disfranchisement.
I
Negro women of 20 states, meeting
in Washington at the call of the national
association for the advancement
of colored people today presented to
the national woman's party a request!
that it urge congress to investigate)
the alleged disfranchisement of negro <
women in the south at the last gen-'
eral election.
"Violations of the intent and purposes
of the Susan B. Anthony amend"
ment," a statement prepared by the
negro women declared "occurred in
the elections of 1920 in the southern
states that it has not been made se-j
cret that wherever white women were
not allowed the ballot, it was counted
worth while to relinguish it in order:
that it might be denied colored women."
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Stork Defies Cold.
Boston.?Zero weather has no terrors
for the stork. Mrs. Rose Masons
gave birth to a daughter in an open
vehicle while on her way to a hospital
in Lynn.
xwis on the
s of Bamberg Co.
have a school of three or four teachers.
The general impression gained, is
that Bamberg county has an unusual
proportion of one-teacher schools,
and very poor country school buildings
very poorly equipped. Of the
thirteen schools visited, only two,
Hunter's Chapel and Govan, were at
all in accordance with modern school
architecture.
With such country schools, it is
not surprising that many of Bam?1.1'
nnnnlo ot<o mnirin(r to
Utirg is CUU11HJ pcwpic a.i Xiawizxig, tu
town to educate their children.
It is easy to criticise. And criticism
is destructive unless just, and
unless accompanied with practical
and practicable suggestions as to improving
conditions criticised.
My reason for criticising conditions
found in the country schools of Bamberg
is, not an effort to reflect on the
country people for not doing their duty
by their children, for I have always
found country people thoroughly
responsive to suggestions as to
school improvement when the necessity
for such improvement is made
clear to them. My reason for criticising
the country schools is because
of my interest in the country children,
who, if educated, will prove
the bulwark of future civilization.
Country children have been taught
to work and to know responsibility.
If we educate such children, their
possibilities are unlimited.
What does Bamberg county need
worst of all? A leader in education.
It is a great mistake for Bamberg
county not to have a county superintendent,
a man of successful teaching
experience, a leader, who can
give his whole time to supervising
the country schools. If the four
high schools in Bamberg county, each
with from ten to tweynty teachers,
these being teachers of successful experience
in most cases, need the supervision
of a good principal or superintendent,
how about the country
schools, most of them of the one and
two-teacher type, the teachers ofttimes
being without any experience?
Such a superintendent could see to
it that school houses of the most
modern type were erected, that consolidations
were made where feasible,
that good teachers were employed,
that these teachers did the best work
of which they were capable, and could
be a safe and sane leader in all matters
educational. Of course, such a
system will cost something, but
which is better, to save money at the
expense of the country children, or
spend money to make them the men
and women they should be made? The
unfortunate thing is, that the people
living in town, knowing only the
town schools, think that Bamberg
county is doing just as well as other
counties for its country children.
Such is not the case.
If Bamberg county cannot arrange
for a county superintendent, then
certainly it should have an expert
school supervisor, who will spend
her entire time in the country schools
Bamberg county is a fine county,
with good lands and good people.
Let us no longer neglect its best asset?its
children, especially its country
children.
D. L. LEWIS.
ROBBED AND MURDERED.
Reported Prominent Branchville Citizen
Killed Tuesday Night.
. It was reported in Bamberg yesterday
morning that Henry Smoak, a
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wen Known citizen ui Diautuvmc,
had been robbed and murdered some
time Tuesday night. Very little of
the details of the reported tragedy
could be learned here yesterday, but
trainmen on a passing freight stated
that th? body of Mr. Smoak had been
found near the coal chute in Branchville
Tuesday night.
It was first supposed, the trainmen
said, that Mr. Smoak had dropped
dead of natural causes, but when he
was closely examined he was found
to have had his skull crushed in the
back, according to the information
reaching here. It appeared that he
had been dealt a terrific blow with
some blunt instrument.
The report also was that his watch
and perhaps other personal effects
had been taken, although it was stated
that a $2.00 bill was found in one of
his pockets, overlooked by the robber
or robbers.
Mr. Smoak was a man of about
thirty-five years, and was well known
in Bamberg county.
BARNWELL JAIL DELIVERY.
Five Negroes Gain Freedom Through
Back Window.
Much excitement was created in
Barnwell about seven-thirty o'clock
Wednesday evening when it became
known that five of the prisoners, all
negroes, had made their escape from
the county jail.
Jailer Main was at supper on the
first floor of the jail when a negro
janitor who had been upstairs with
the prisoners' supper returned and
i reported the delivery. This was about
ten minutes after the escape had been
made.
The negroes effected their escape
1 through a window on the second floor
' by unscrewing a tap that held a bar
' in place.
At the time of going to press WedI
nesday night the escaped prisoners
were being pursued by the county officers
and a large number of citizens
' with the assistance of the county
bloodhounds, and it is thought that
1 they will be captured.
Those making their escape were:
* Mary O'Neal, of Williston, in jail for
' giving bad checks; Sam Jefferson,
of Williston, grand larceny; John
Davis, of Blackville, store breaking
1 and larceny; John Ashley, of Willis'
ton, housebreaking and larceny; and
! George Pruett, of Blackville, for
' false dealihg.?Barnwell Sentinel.
man ^
Kansas was visited by an army of
i Spaniards in 1541, but was not set,
tied by whites until 1806.
Carter Leads All
Balloting Fo
Carter Leads on 18th Ballot.
, Special to The Herald:
Columbia, Feb. 23, 1 p. m.?The
thirteenth ballot for associate justice
this morning gave:
13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th
Carter 40 41 46 47 48 50
. Marion .. ..25 27 30 31 30 40
Bonham ....32 30 36 38 43 38
| Shipp 26 23 27 27 27 30
Rucker, Sease, Moore and Mclver
, have withdrawn. The, balloting will
be again resumed tomorrow.
T> T> -DTTiT T TMr'TTD
XV. X". X)XjIJX/Xl>UUlt.
Although many ballots have been
taken by the house .and senate in
j joint session, the balloting so far has
' failed to elect an associate justice to
the supreme court to succeed the late
- Justice George W. Gage. Hon. J. F.
' Carter, of Bamberg, took the lead in
' the balloting last Thursday, and has
1 steadily maintained the lead with
! slight gains through the balloting.
! On the first ballot Thursday Mr. Car!
ter received 32 votes, and..in the
twelfth ballot Tuesday he received 37
' votes. Eighty-one votes are necessary
to choice. His nearest opponent
on the first ballot was Gen. M. L.
!i Bonham, of Anderson, who received
27 votes. Gen Bonham increased his
vote to 33 Friday, but fell on Tuesday
to. 28. He has maintained sec1
ond place throughout the balloting.
Senator J. H. Marion, of Chester, has
held the third place in the balloting
throughout, with 18 votes on the first
' ballot and 20 on the last ballot Tuesday.
Ten names were presented to the
joint assembly Thursday for successor
to Justice Gage. These ten were:
J. H. Marion, of Chester; Judge S. W.
1 G. Shipp, of Florence; J. F. Carter,
of Bamberg, M. L. Bonham, of Anderson;
Judge W. H. Townsend, of Columbia;
E. M. Rucker, of Columbia;
Judge Thomas S. Sease, of Spartanburg;
Judge Edward Mclver, of Cheraw;
Judge Ernest Moore, of Lancaster;
and Judge H. F. Rice, of
Aiken.
The names of Judge Townsend and
Judge Rice were withdrawn Friday
morning. Scattering votes were given
during the balloting to various lawyers
as a compliment to them.
The first day's balloting resulted
as follows:
1st 2nd 3rd
Marion 18 19 19
Shipp 13 14 14
i Carter 32 31 34
! Bonham 27 31 32
Townsend 6 4 5
Rucker 22 21 20
Sease 15 18 16
Mclver 11 12 11
Moore 7 7 7
Rice 8 7 6
The balloting Friday was as follows:
4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
Marion --20 20 21 21 20 20
Shipp 16 17 15 16 15 15j
WOMAN FOR SENATOR.
Miss Kearney Would Succeed John
Sharp Williams.
A woman has entered the race in
Mississippi for the United States senate,
relates a Jackson, Miss., dispatch.
Miss Belle Kearney, of Madison,
county, has announced her candidacy
for the seat of Senator John Sharp
Williams, who has declined to run for
reelection. She will be opposed by
ex-Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo and exSenator
James K. Vardaman.
Miss Kearney will make the fight
on a platform indorsing a league of
nations, clearly safeguarding American
interests, education, law enforcement
restriction of immigration,
child welfare, protective legislation
for wom^n in industry, ownership of
homes, public health, soical morality,
j economy in government, reduction in
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taxation, icuerai aiu iux idiuicio, industrial
courts and labor legislation.
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It Could Not be Worn.
?
Everett, aged six, had been left
j with a neighbor while mama and paj
pa attended an amateur theatrical
show. ' "
When they were alone together
the neighbor remarked: "Your mother
certainly looked nice. She was
certainly dressed up."
"Yes'm," Everett responded, "she
I had on everything new she got for
Christmas 'cepting her percolater."
Opponents in
r Associate Juctice
Carter .. ..33 35 36 36 36 33
Bonham ....30 31 33 32 32 31
Townsend 3 0 0 0 0 0
Rucker.. ..17 20 18 16 14 17
Sease 18 18 16 16 13 18
Mclver .. ..14 14 15 12 12 12
Moore .... 7 7 6 6 5 5
Below is given the results of the
three ballots Tuesday:
10th,11th 12th
Marion .... - 16 18 20
Shipp 14 15- 15
Carter 34 33 37
Bonham 28 30 28
Rucker 13 14 12
Sease 16 17 14
Mclver 15 13 13
Moore 3 5 5
Following is given the personal of
the twelfth ballot Tuesday-morning:
Marion (20): Senators Bailes, Bas"
kin, Beasley, Bethea, Butler, Chris!
tensen, Clifton, Hart, Robinson and
t
j Young, and Representatives R. O. Atkinson,
Barnett, Moise, W. F. Brown,
Buckingham, Carey, Glenn, Mitchell,
i
Parsley and Wolling.
Shipp (15): Senators Baker, Harrelson,
Jeremiah Smith and H. L.
Smith, Jr., and Representatives Anderson,
Camlin, Hilliard, Hughes,
Lewis, McCutchen, McElveen, Prince,
Searson, West and A. H. Williams.
Carter (37): Senators Black, Duncan,
Gross, Hubbard, Johnson, Kennedy,
Lightsey, Padgett, Stabler, and
Wightman, and Representatives Allen,
Bailey, Binnicker, Bodie, E. A.
Brown, Busbee, Coney, Connor, M.
R. Cooper, Cunningham, Folk, Gerald,
Horton, Hydrick, Kearse, Keller,
Killingsworth, Martin, Merchant, McMillan,
O'Rouke, Riley, Toole, Wade,
Hunter and Whaley.
Bonham (28): Senators Bonham,
Mason, Moore, Watkins, Wells and
Wideman, and Representatives Babb,
Ballard, Beachman, Bramlett, Clinkscales,
R. M. Cooper, Jr., Dalton, Dick
son, Gresham, Hall, W. R. Harris,
Hendricks, Leopard, McDavid, Moon,
Moore, Mower, Nance, Putman, Sheppard,
Sherard and Willis.
Rucker (12): Senators Hutson and
Pearce, and Representatives Barr,
Bryson, P. A. Cooper, Cox, Curtis,
Ford, Goodwin, Scarborough, Smith,
J. O. Williams.
Sease(14): Senators Crosson, Johnston?
and Rogers, and Representatives
J. B. Atkinson, Amick, Counts,
Foster, Gibson, F. G. Harris, Hendrix,
Kennedy, Lancaster, Lybrand
and Mabry.
Mdver (13): Senators Goodwin,
Lanev, McColl and Miller, and Representatives
Alexander, Pegues, Ellerbre,
Evans, Mclnnes, McKay, Sellers,
,Wannamaker and Windham.
Moore (5): Senator Massey, and
Representatives Carothers, Faile,
Hannahan, Robinson and Simonhoff.
J. R. Hart, of York, (1): Representative
John K. Hamblin.
George S. Mower, of Newberry (1)
Representative Kibbler.
James W. Hanahan, of Winnsboro
(1): Senator Ragsdale.
County Tax Levi
Nine to Seven at
Hon. J. Carl Kearse favors The
Herald with a copy of the county appropriation
bill, wrhich is given below.
It will be noted that the county levy
has been fixed at seven and one-half
mills, which is a reduction of one and
one-half mills from the levy of last
year.
Appropriations are provided for
continuing the home and farm demonstration
work; the jailer is allowed
forty cents a day for dieting prison:
ers, instead of thirty cents, and the
other usual appropriations are made
in iiiQ Kill TtrViinVi fnllnwc in full*
XAi V JUL V/ kj A A. A y T? UiVU LVliV II W AU. LUiAi
A bill to provide for :.he levy of
taxes in Bamberg county, for county
and school purposes, for the year
1921, and for expenditure thereof.
Be it enacted by the general assembly
of the state of South Carolina:
Section 1. That a tax of seven
and one-half (7j) mills *s
hereby levied upon all the
taxable property of the county of
Bamberg, for ordinary county and
school purposes for the fiscal year
commencing January 1st, 1921, for
the amounts and purposes herein
stated respectively.
Sec. 2. That the amounts herein
set out under the various items below
shall be the amount to be expended
for the purposes therein named, and
any unexpended balance at the end
of the fiscal year of any item shall
revert to the general funds of the
county.
SECTION 3.
Item 1. Chaingang, roads
and bridges $12,000.00
Item 2. Salaries: Clerk \
of Court 300.00
Sheriff 1,300.00
Treasurer . 000. 0 0
Auditor 600.00
Superintendent of education
150.00
County attorney 75.00
County physician 250.00
Coroner 150.00
Janitor of court house.. 200.00
Jailer 250.00
Supervisor 1,500.00
Two county commissioners
at $200 each .... 400.00
Constables 820.00
Magistrates 1,075.00
Board of education .... 60.00
Board of equalization .. 200.00
Item 3. Court, jurors and
witnesses .... 3,500.00
Item 4. Poor 1,300.00
Item 5. Post mortems, inquests
and lunacy .... 600.0C
Item 6. Public buildings,
including water, fuel,
lights and insurance.. 800.0C
Item 7. Printing, postage,
stationery and looks ... 1,000.0C
Item 8. Miscellaneous contingent
fund, to make
up for any deficiency
in the appropriation
for all other items
herein 2,000.00
Item 9. Jail expenses, inAIKEN
COUNTY KILLING.
Thomas Craigs Slays Raymond Bryant
Tuesday.
Aiken, Feb. .16.?Tuesday nighl
Tom H. Craig, a white man, of Aiken,
surrendered himself to Sheriff H,
H. 'Howard and was placed in jai]
charged with the murder of Raymond
Bryant, also a white man oi
Aiken. The shooting occurred at the
home of S. E. Holley, a brother-inlaw
of Craig. At 4he coroner's inquest
the jury presented the verdict
that Bryant came to his death by
gunshot wounds at the hands of Thos.
Craig. Mrs. S. E. Holley, sister of
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I Craig, seems to Have oeen me oniy
eye-witness to the tragedy. She
claims that Bryant, after some
words with her brother, cursed and
was advancing on him with an open
knife. Craig told his sister to get
out of the way and stepped into the
hall, picked up a gun and fired two
shots which killed Bryant instantly.
Bryant and Craig were related.
Hard on the Bucks.
A country housewife of good inI
tentions but with little culinary
knowledge decided to try her hand
at cake making. The result was
somewhat on the heavy side, and, after
offering it to the various members
of the household, she threw it to
the ducks in disgust.
A short time afterward two boys
tapped at her door.
"Say, missus," they shouted, "your
ducks have sunk!"
i.'
I Reduced From
id One-Half Mills
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V
eluding dieting of
prisoners 800.00
Item 10. Miscellaneous:
Home demonstration
4 ...v .v
work 900.00
Farm demonstration
work 800.00
Vital statistics for 1921 260.00
Premiums on officers' .
bonds 300.00
For erecting shed for . / ...
for county trucks. .... 450.00
, item li. expenses per diem i
of sheriff for work in
'
criminal cases outside
the county, $2.00 per
day, if so much be
necessary 150.00
Conveying prisoners to
jail and chaing gang.. 150.00
. Item 12. Incidentals 300.00 .
Grant total $33,240.00
. Item 13. That money derived
\ from the commutation tax shall be
? expended on the repair of the roads,
in the county, and for no other pur- '
i pose, having due regard for the law
. i now in force requiring the said money
LI to b? used on the roads of the com|
munity in which it was paid,
i Sec. 4. That in addition to the ,
r | levy of seven . and one-half ?
d (7?) mills, above provided,
i for ordinary county expenses,
11 there shall be levied and collected
I
[ within the county an additional two
, (2) mills for the purpose of building
and constructing public highways in
conjunction with any federal aid that
might be obtained,
i Sec. 5. That hereafter the sheriff
i
.v:i ~i n v- -n J A
ur jaiitji auan ue ctiiuweu lui cy tcuia
i per day for dieting each prisoner, ini
stead of thirty cents as allowed -Uj
i heretofore, which is to be out of Item
i 9 of this appropriation.
Sec. 6. That the county supervise ,
i or shall act' as clerk to the county ' ^
i board of commissioners, but in the
i event of the said board desiring a
i clerk then the supervisor shall pay
) for the said services out of the
i amount allowed him as salary in Item
III
Sec. 7. That after the application v >
i of all funds derived from the state - ?0
i and county special taxes for good
> roads, and the ten thousand ($10,-'
> 000.00) dollars surplus fund appro-"
i priated by an act known as Act No.
718 of the Acts of 1920, should there
I be a deficiency with which tp supple>
ment the amount of Federal aid in
the county of Bamberg, then, the
> county board of commissioners of .
Bamberg county is hereby authorized
and empowered to borrow, in the)
name of the county, such sum of ;
money on th? best terms possible, as A
) may be necessary to acquire the total
amount available from the -federal <
government which shall be used for
the purpose of supplementing said '
federal aid fund. .
Sec 8. This act shall go into effect M
> immediately upon its approval by the
governor.
SAVED IN SENATE.
. State Tax Conunission Continues its
Autocratic Service,
> -. " :
Columbia, Feb. 17.?By a vote of
30 to 14 the senate yesterday post-.
poned indefinitely the bill by Senator
I Wightman to abolish the South Car
olina tax commission. The action of ?
! the senate in postponing the bill of jM
.
s the Saluda senator is a mild way of . ^
killing the measure.
The vote came after many hours of :
hard fighting, which began several
' weeks ago and broke out anew Tuesday.
Senators Marion, Pearce and
Crosson all spoke for the tax com'
mission and Senators Black and
' Wightman for the bill to abolish. *i
' On the motion of Senator Young
to postpone the measure indefinitely
the following yeas and na>s were recorded:
Yeas, Alexander, Bade-*, Baker,
Ecthea, Butler, Christensen, Clifton,
Crosson, Gross, Hart, Hutson,
Johnstone, Johnson, Kennedy, Laney,
Lightsey, Marion. Mason, .VUssev,
**111 T~? - J 1.1.
iUCUfiee, Miner. .raugeii. * *~-n. o,
Robinson, Rogers, Jeremiah Smith,
H. L. Smith, Jr., Watkins, Williams,
and Young; nays, Baskin, Beasley,
Black, Bonham, Dennis, Duncan,
Goodwin, Hubbard, McColl, Moore,
Ragsdale, Wells, Wideman, and
Wightman.
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High and Steep.
Gladys: "Madge has a high color,
hasn't she?"
Gwen: "Yes, the dear girl. That
kind costs ten dollars a box."
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