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EDUCATION THEME OF MASS MEETING CITIZENS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION IS FORMED. Survey of State Wanted Legislature Requested to Assist By Giving Financial Support to Schools. Spartanburg, July 15.?More than .three hundred leading men and women of the state gathered in Spartanburg today and organized the Citizens Educational Association of South uaronna. j. ityon .ucrvissick, ui Greenville, was elected president and the following were named as vice presidents, each representing a congressional district. First district: Legare Walker, of Summerville; second, Bert D. Carter, of Bamberg; third, Dr. Geo. B. Cromer, of Newberry; fourth, J. B. Atkinson, of Spartanburg, fifth, T. B. But' ler, of Gaffney; sixth, Bright Will iamson, of Darlington; seventh, Mrs. S. O. Plowden, Dalzell. "South Carolina wants the best there is, and can pay for it." This was the slogan adopted by the association. The meeting was presided over by R. Goodwyn Rhett, of Charleston. Addresses were made by Howard B. Carlisle, president of the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, president of Wofforcl college; Governor Robert A. Cooper, George F. Zook, of the United States Bureau of Education; State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearings - u gen, Dr. John E. White, of Anderson, . and others. Dinner was served the visitors in the dining hall of Converse college. After dinner the comipittee on reso; ' lutions reported, memorializing the legislature to have made a thorough survey of the state to find out its true educational status, recommend% * ing the law making body to give education such legislative and financial support as it merits aiiu outer icsulutions defining the scope and purposes of the conference and appealing to press, pulpit, platform, and to the various civic, social, religious, commercial, patriotic and other organizations to exert their strongest influ, ence to arouse public sentiment to this end. Governor Robert A. Cooper's discourse on the needs and the aspira' tions of South Carolina's educational i ? -f i.1 system was uue 01 iub uuisiauumg features of this morning's programme. The University of South Carolina, Furman university, Wofford college, Converse college, Winthrop college, and other institutions were represented. i R. Godwyn Rhett, of Charleston, long identified with every movement tending to promote the common good of the state, was chosen to act as ' presiding officer of the meeting. Mr. Rhett's opening address contained many pertinent and surprising bits of information regarding the needs of Sauth Carolina's educational system as it exists today. "The most vital subject in any commonwealth," said Mr. Rhett, "is education. Economic progress is dependent upon education in large measure. In 1776 our fathers be. queathed to us a creed that all men are born equal. This being true, education became a prime consideration. Strange to say, however, the federal government did not see fit to super"n.'nn fVl? ZSrl 11 rtO f ir?n nf fho WOftnlo nf V IOC bUC VUUVUV1V/U yJL (/UV v* the commonwealth. It delegated this * work and the states in turn passed the work on to the shoulders of the ? counties constituting the states. On these counties this duty has rested ever since. The result in South Caroline naturally has been that the state stands lowest in the Union with regard to illiteracy." ' "It is possible," said Mr. Rhett, "that the presence of negroes in the south has retarded this section in its educational progress to some extent. This particularly may be the cause in South Carolina. We have been afraid' to educate the negro, and this has been a great mistake." Mr. Rhett urged that we not allow education to hault because of the presence of negroes in the south. "Our prime concern now should be," he said, "the investigation of conditions obtaining in the schools of the state and the prompt application of remedial measures." Mr. Rhett then introduced Dr. Henry Xelson Snyder, president of Wofford college, who paid eloquent tribute to the personnel of the gathering at the conference. Dr. Snyaer aeciar* ed he was particularly gratified to note that there were present men and women who are not officially identified with educational work in this state. In the last analysis, declared Dr. Snyder, it is the people, the patrons of the schools, who make the education of the state. We want to 3 ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS. Vigilance of Crews on Coast Line Prevent Accidents. Florence, July 16.?According to information received in Florence today three separate attempts have been made within the past week to wreck trains on the line of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, formerly known as the M. and A., between Florence and Augusta. A peculiar feature of the attempts, none of which was successful due to the vigilance of the train crews, particularly the engineers and firemen, is that they were made at or very near the point where Engineer Joseph Temple was killed when his train was wrecked several weeks ago. Another peculiar feature is that only Atlantic Coast Line trains were sought by the ttain wreckers, trains of the C. and W. C. railroad having been allowed to pass witnout any attempt at mndrance. In the case of each of the attempts to wreck the trains the ties and rails had been tampered with. The last train that passed found that the switch had been turned. Renew your subscription today. be self-respecting in South Carolina, asserted the speaker and "in order to be so we must busy ourselves immediately with our educational system." Governor Cooper expressed the belief that what South Carolina needs now is systematic enlightment. First, the people must be furnished authentic information concerning the faults and the needs of the present system of educating the boys and girls of the present generation. After the people grasp the sifinicance of this information they must be told what the system needs in order to bring about the results so indispensable in a state that wishes to take rank with its sister states. In this state, for instance, the governor pointed out, "we do not know what it costs to educate a child. We have no official authentic figures upon which to base our calculations. On the contrary, California knows the per capita cost of providing a child in that state with an education. When a new school is desired in a community in California, officials know ju$t what -it will cost to operate the new school when they are provided with facts concerning the number of chil dren who will patronize the proposed institution." The governor declared that he does not know how much it will cost to bring the South Carolina educational system up to the desired standard, but he does know that it will be worth the cost. Dr. George F. Zook, specialist in higher education, with the United States Bureau of Education at Washington, D. C., delivered an informative address on the subject of educational surveys. ' What Kind of Survey? Each state, of course, must decide whether it needs an educational survey, and then bring the survey about through its own efforts, he said. Surveys of this kind are comparatively new in this country, Dr. Zook stated, having first come into prominence some ten or fifteen years ago. The United States Bureau of Education has felt that one of the best ways in which education can be intelligently promoted is by means of survey, he said. Dr. Zook gave his hearers the impression that a survey in one state, or possibly in one county, might not be entirely applicable to an adjoining state or county. Local conditions mu9t be known and met. A state's natural resources, its people's method of earning their livelihood, its climate. in fact, many things must be learned by those conducting the survey before a report will be of any value to those whose duty it is to employ corrective measures to the delinquencies of the educational system. Dr. Zook gave the conference information concerning ways in which a survey can be obtained, Its cost, the lA- A ~ tvi* /%f n results inai may uc J. E. Swearingen, state superintendent of education, was introduced and diagnosed South Carolina's trouble as a failure to relieve its education to such an extent as to be willing to pay an adequate price for it. What ' the state needs now is greater revenue in order to operate its educational system upon a proper scale, he declared. "We need a new constitution," asserted Mr. Swearingen, "and I believe that the people who chased the scalaw-ags, who fought in the civil war and broke the Hindenburg line, are the people who will get it." Capt. X. F. Walker, head of the state institution for the deaf and blind at Cedar Springs, was introduced just before the noon recess. Dr. Robert P. Pell, president of Converse college, was unanimously 1 given credit by the speakers today for having conceived the need of today's conference and generous tribute was 1 paid his vision of the possibilities of lasting good that may accrue from thft meetins:. Resolutions defining the scope and purposes of the conference 1 were adopted. MAY HAVE FOUND NEW POWER Greenville Man Claims to Have Invented Fuelless Engine. Greenville, July 16.?A Greenville county man, E. D. Pym, claims tc have invented an engine that wil run without fuel. "Gravity and leverage" are the two powers that Mr Pym claims to have harnessed in the engine he says he has invented. Lubricating oil is ail that is necessar> to its running, the inventor states "Start it and it runs until stopped; started and stopped like another engine; for stationary purposes only; capable of producing from 1 to IOC horsepower"?this is descriptive oi the machine in the words of the man who claims to have invented such a remarkable device. When Mr. Pym told his story here this week he was asked if his machine was not the long sought for perpetual' motion device. "Call it what you want to," he replied, "I don't call it perpetual motion. People lau?h at me and say I am crazy, but I am glad to know that I have mastered this great problem. Nobody will believe me but I am glad to know that I have mastered it just the same, i may De uneducated out i am not crazy." Mr. Pym says his machine is the product of 15 years of labor and study. He says he constructed a model last year which he harnessed to a magneto used in a launch on the St. John river in Florida to supply current for lights and the launch motor. This model ran the magneto foi 32 days, he claims. An attempt was made to steal the model one night he says, and rather than have the device taken froraf him he destroyed il and has not had once since He tells of having had another invention stolen from him by a patent attorney. Mr. Pym has absolute faith in the ultimate success of his device. He is confident beyond question that it wil! work. He is seeking a chance, hs says, to demonstrate his engine tc the patent authorities in Washington Financial backing is necessary to gei the engine patented and later to pui it on the market, Mr. Pym declares He is a poor, man, according to his statement, ana nis macnine must remain unproved and useless to the world until some man of means is willing to back him up. Mr. Pym refuses to reveal the nature of his engine, merely stating that he has harnessed "gravity anc leverage" in a device that will produce power. COFFIN CAUSES DEATH OF TWO Tom Hays and T. F. Ramey Killed in Warning Sent to Man, C P Tnlv 1 r, Ttvr auuucuil) M. V. y uuij x v. x if v men are dead and four men were committed to the county jail this afternoon following a shooting affraj in the Carswell Institute community 15 miles below here, yesterday after? ? T! rv r 1 ri lrill A/1 Allf I1UUU. i Ulil nil^CS, Ul was nmcu uui,right, and T. F. Ramey, died in a local hospital this afternoon, his bodj having been pierced with shoi and his skull gashed and fracturec by blows from a pick handle. Th( enmity between Hays and Ramei dates back a week or more when i small coffin and a warning note was found on S. T. Bagwell's veranda warning him to get out of the county Bagwell and Ramey are related anc when the latter suspicioned ^on Hays Ramey became involved in' th< quarrels that followea. Allen Emerson, Walter L. Hays George and Ed Wilson are held at th< county jail, Hays and Ed Wilson be ing charged with the murder of Ra n-nA a-ne:rir> anH rionrCP Wil LUL ^ > anu umui ovu uaju vw* son held as accessories to the crime The four men accompanied by Ton Hays went to Ramey's house Thurs day afternoon. Mrs. Ramey testifier at the inquest today. Walter Hay! and Ed Wilson drew their guns 01 Ramey, and told Tom Hays to bea Ramey until he "was satisfied." Hay! used a pick handle filled with sho< tacks on Ramey's head inflicting three blows before Ramey opened fire three of the shots striking Tom Hays wotto tpog nion \cnnnded bv a rifl< bullet which Barney Ramey, 13 veai old son is accused of firing. Afte: Ramey had fallen to the ground, hi! widow testified that Walter Hayi stood over him and brutally beat hin across the head with a small rockin? chair until one of the rockers wai broken. All the men were heavily armed when they went to Ramey'! house. Allen Emerson and Georg< Wilson, held as accomplices in the killing of Ramey, were both parolee during Governor Blease's tenure o office. Reason for Soreness. "Your mother-in-law, Mrs. Young seems to he sore at the minister whc 1 officiated at her husband's funeral,' said Mr. A. "Oh, yes," replied Mr. B. "She hac ! good reason; he mentioned in his ser 1 mon that Mr. Young had gone to i better home." ALL THE FISH. . Do Not Live in Rivers and Creeks and Branches. j .Monday afternoon an unknown > stranger came to Saluda and took j 11 out probably several hundred dollars - of good Saluda money by a shrewd I . and new method (so far os Saluda is i concerned.) The fishing was good j - with him. the suckers falling all over! themselves to bite, relates the Saluda! Ctonrlor/I JVi-nct lio on! A fin Tor tit-ictc UCi XX VI CX 1 VI . J. IX OC XX^ .'JUIU X^XX ^ V., 1 1 ixx^o j for 50 cents each, afterwards return-: . ing the money paid in by each of the1 buyers and to some giving double i their money back. Then he sold raz-i ; ors for $2.00 each, likewise returning! their money. Then he sold a number j of $1 bills for 50 cents and $5 bills! for $4. When he had them baited j ? real well and the suckers were fall- [ . ing all over themselves for a chance to take the hook and run under a log with it, he commenced selling watches at $5 each. Some say that as i many as 100 were sold, some men buying one, some two, some three . and some as many as four, all of them expected to have their money n t?ti Ok rl o n r? f r\ H a allrvrrnH t n fcppn i ^/tux ugu auu tu uv_- uixv u vu ?.v i : the watches. However at the end of { the watch selling, there was no talk of any refund and those purchasing ! went away sadder and wiser men. Some of Saluda's staid business men bit like little school children and now if some friend tries to sell you a watch and chain that looks like gold, don't bite, for "all is not gold that glitters." The unknown stranger was taken ; in by Policeman Edwards and Sheriff , Sample after his little game had been - played, and contributed $500 to(the ; county's coffers for peddling without ; a license. .He had previously paid the - town license of $5. ; TARRED AXD FEATHERED. > I Woman Taken From Hotel Porch in i nr ~ r. T/x.-oo } x tiiaim , xc.tas. ) Shreveport, La., July 17.?Mrs. t Beulah Johnson was taken from the t porch of a hotel at Tenaha, Texas, stripped, tarred and feathered, acj cording to advices reaching here today. ; The assailants, masked and wear? ing white uniforms are said to have made their attack Saturday night. Three automobile loads of men, all , armed, are said to have filed out in [ front of the hotel, placed the young woman in one of the cars and taken i her to a point two miles in the coun-j try. There, after her clothing had been removed, she was tarred and feathered, again placed in the mat chine and carried back to town. Mrs. Johnson claims to have been working at the hotel as a maid and cook. She says she did not know any of the men in the automobiles and i " that all were masked. > _ | _ Have you seen that 25c box paper ' at Herald Book Store, all colors. t 3 "J ! G ; ba r Prineo Albert is sold in toppy red ? f bags, tidy red tins, XT handsome pound and half pound tin j^J 3 humidors and in the ma..**// a7/ffi M> ... humidor with tv r sponge moistener ry top. . 1 Copyright 1921 1 by R. J. Reynold* fl ' Tobacco Co. i Winston-Salem. LIGHTNING KILLS BOYS. At Supper Table?Other Members of Family Uninjured. Greenville, July 15.?While seated for the evening meal last night Thomas Odam and David Odam, aged 10 and S years, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. David Odam, of the upper section of the county, were instantly Kiiiec! wnen a 0011 or ngntnmg strucK the house. The family lives about eight miles above Greer in the Mount! I Lebanon section. None of the other; members of the family were injured, j The house had recently been equipped; with an acetylene lighting system and it is said the elctricity came down the fixtures and into the dining room.i A double funeral for the two boys was held this afternoon and was at-1 tonflQfl V>ir q lorffo tTirrmo* ThA lit'tlp boys had been inseparable compan-j ions throughout their life and the two bodies were buried in the same cas-j ket. ====================: The Herald Book Store can sell j you ledgers, cash books, etc., at prices | cheaper than elsewhere. DR. THOMAS BLACK j DENTAL StJRGEON. Graduate Dental Department Uni- j rersity of Maryland. Member 8. C. ^tate Dental Association. Office opposite postofflce. Office hourse, 9:00 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. BiDBBDBBHDDB as aa S I ! t? S g inaigesnon g 3 Many persons, otherwise H S vigorous and healthy, are 9 |B bothered occasionally with g gg indigestion. The effects of a n m disordered stomach on the J~j system are dangerous, and prompt treatment of indiges- El H tion is imx>ortant "The only Q n medicine I have needed has 9f * 1VI 1. -1/1 J]nnn II *^i Deea sumeiuiug w uiu uiaw ? 13 tion and clean the liver," 0 g writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a g JJ McKinney, Texas, fanner, gj D "My medicine is &3 S Thedford's 8 Rl JflK.nRAIIfiHT ftiuiuu uiinvun i B tor indigestion and stomach B S trouble of any kind. I have Eg M never found anything that D H touches the spot, like Black- gg "n?o 11 rrVif T talro It In hrnVfin Pr Bi/lOU^UIw * W ?li y * M* mmm __ doses after meals. For a long B g| time I tried pills, which grip- Eg Bed and didn't give the good ?.? results. Black-Draught liver B H medicine Is easy to take, easy |?j tm to keep, inexpensive." Get a package from your !! druggist today?Ask for and S3 Insist upon Thedford's?the D D only genuine. Jj ?2 Get It today. H no em hb BflBflflflflBBBBBfl ^U Bu set the joy that We print it right here that i Foo1,> art A -fViQ frion^cViin n-f a IvVA UUU tuv V* M 0 GET ONE! And?get soi mg a howdy-do on the big sm For, Prince Albert's quality agrance?is in a class of its o\i ch tobacco! Why?Sgure oui your tongue and temper wl rinro A ran't hifp ran't r wi?? V ?V, - r itented process fixes that! Prince Albert is a revelation ii y, but how that delightful f ad, how it does answer that ibert rolls easy and stays put t. And, say?oh, go on and get 3 it right now! KlNbt A the national joy i NOTICE TO CREDITORS. United States District Court.? Eastern District of South Carolina. In Bankruptcy. In the matter of J. W. Copeland, Jr., Bankrupt. To the Creditors of the said Bankrupt: i Take notice that on the 6th day of | July, 1921, a petition for discharge j of the above named bankrupt was | filed in this Court and that a hear|ing was ordered and will be had i thereon on the 16th day of August, i 921, before said Court at Charleston, I S. C., in said district, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and that all creditors and otner persons in interest may appear at said time and place and show cause if any they have why the prayer of the said petition 9hould not be granted. RICHARD W. HUTSOX, S-ll . Clerk. A TOINIO Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic restore* Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even children like it The blood needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigorating Effect 60c. J. WESLEY CRUM, JR., ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Bamberg, S. C. Offices in Herald Building Practice in State and Federal CourU. Loans negotiated. S. G. MAYFIELD ATTORNEY AT LAW Practice in all courts, State and "Federal Office Opposite Southern Depot. BAMBERG, S. C. To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which stops the cough by ! healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Group is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup. The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey inside the throat combined with the healing effect of Grove's O-Pen-Trate Salve throogh the pores of theskin soon stops a cough. 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