The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 21, 1921, Page 2, Image 2
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
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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
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the commonwealth. It delegated this
* work and the states in turn passed
the work on to the shoulders of the
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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.
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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,
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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that all were masked.
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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!
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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
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boys had been inseparable compan-j
ions throughout their life and the two
bodies were buried in the same cas-j
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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.
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