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VOL. XXXIL
WALTERBORO, S. C. AUGUST 3, 1910
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LEA6UE ORCANtZED
COLLETON COUNTY GOOD HOAD'S AND
DRAINAGE LEAGUE ORGANIZED
MONDAY. OFFICERS ELECTED.
If there was ever any doubt in the
minds of any citiien of the county
that our people are interested in the
building of better roads, that doubt
has been diipelled. The meeting
held here Monday for the purpose of
organizing a Good Roads and Drain
age League was proof conclusive
that the time for building good roads
all over the county has come, and a
delay in doing this will not be longer
tolerated. There is some chance
now that the results so much desired
may be accomplished for back of any
effort will be the organized influence
of intelligent and progressive men
pledged to work for and vote for
good roads and good roads measures.
That the question of submitting a
bond proposition to the vote of the
people of Colleton county will play an
important part in the coming cam
paign is no longer doubted. In fact
the league went on record as favor
ing a bond issue of front $2tX),000 to
$300,000, if the unanimous endorse
ment of the speakers count for any
thing. Candidates for the legislature
had as well make up their minds to
answer on this point, for the ques
tion will be asked them on the stump.
It was the opinion of those present
Monday that the county will vote
for a bond issue as soon as opportu
nity presents ftself, as Mr. Acker
man expressed it, “so the rest of the
coqnty can have some good toads as
vrelMs Walterboio.” The present
plan ail concede is good, very good,
but it is too slow. The idea seems
to be to get the good roads and then
pay for them, as will be the case if
they are built with the proceeds of a
bond issue.
• State President Cosgrove was very
much pleased with the earnestness
and interest manifested and re
marked several times that it was the
best meeting he had seen thus far.
He complimented the ability of the
speeches made, and hopes for big
things from Colleton.
The president has appointed mem
bers of an advisory committee from
each township, whose special dul>
at this time is to organize the town
ships in the same manner as the
county is. organized. These com
rmttemen are known to be earned
advocates of good roads and drain
age, and will form a board on which
the Cour ty officers may call for
aid at any time.
COL. COSGROVE SPEAKS.
The meeting was called to order
at 11 o’clock at the tonrt nuse by
W. W. Smoak.'the member of the
State Executive committee from this
county. There were present about
‘75 panora, which number grew to
more than a hundred. It was re
marked that it was the nrost repre
sentative gathering seen in the court
house for a long time. Every sec
tion of the county almost was repre
sented. The chairman stated the
object of the meeting and introduced
State Presdent. Col. James Cos
grove, of Charleston, who gave a
pr§ctical address setting forth the
it advantages of good roads
inage to the people of this
elation of the State. He thought it
wwfmre proper for the National
liiipiuiiient to give aid to draining
the low lands than te irrigating the
arid plains of the West, for the
reason that the government would
-not only^Rjeiedaiuiing saluabft prop*
erty, !■£.would be fightinr a disease
which Ihlis effects comperes with
that of the M creat white
J. D. Ackerman when called upon
said the good roads movement was
one of the most paramount issues
before us now. God helps those who
help themselves. Colleton needs
roads- better roads. Four-fifths of
the roads in this county can be placed
in first-class condition with the ma
terial at hand. At Cottsgeville the
chaingang made four miles of sand-
clay road w hich demonstrates what
can be done. Mr. Ackerman believes
a bond issue would be the best issue
in the campaign and he would not be
afraid to enter a race for represent
ative or senate on this issue. Good
roads should be built by direct taxa
tion and not by personal tax. We
need good roads over the county
away from Walterboro and the way
to get them is by bond issue. It is
an issue, and properly so. and one
that will not down till we have
good roads.
Paul K. Crosby, president of the
County R. F. D. Association, was |
next called on. His remarks appear
elsewhere. ( r-
E. T. H. Shaffer was called on and
said he was not a politician nor a
speaker. He was not opposed to
politicians, at least not to the extent
of having them taken out and shot.
He favors good roads, as everybody
does, and State aid to good roads
and drainage. He had seen vast
areas ruined by water dammed up
by the mouths of there rivers being
filled with mud. He favors good
roads.
W. W Carter of Rufiin favors good
roads and a bond issue for the county
as tl is is the only chance t^get good
roads all over the county. He tninks
one year-of saving w ? ould pay the in
terest on bonds. It is the only feas
ible plan, build the roads and then
pay for them.
A. A. Patterson. Jr , was in favor
of good roads and thought if it were
explained to the average taxpayer
how little his tax would be increased
he would favor a bond issue.
P. W. Warren of Stokes thinks the
county well represented here today.
He thought we should have wider
rafeds and to get these we need bonds.
Sam B. Saunders of Stokes wa*
worried to death-. He had to fight
mosquitoes last night and he did not
know what kind they were. He waa
always afraid of debt, but just now
ie would he willing to have his taxes
ioubled to have good roads. He
favors txmd issue. Is raising funds
for roads taxation or investment?
Supervisor Griffin said that the
vorK on permanent sand clay roada
lad tx-on started and would not be
itoppid w hile he is in office,
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Fallowing tnese addresses Col.
jos^rove explained the objects of
die Good Roads and Drainage
League, and read from the Consti
tution adopted.
The election of officers for Col
leton County Good Roada and Drain
age League was then - entered into,
if ter enrolling the names of those
wishing to join. The following were
W. W. Smoak, Walterboro, preei-
Jent.
J. D. Ackerman, CottageviUe, vice
president.
E. E Jones, Walterboro, secretary.
ADVISORY COMCnTEE.
The preeideet appointed the fol
lowing members of the Advisory
Committee, one from each township:
Adams Run—S. J. Rumph k Adams
Ron. . „ •
Belle—Paul K. Crosby JUffin.
Blake—8. A. Marvin. White Hall.
Broxtoo—D. If. Vam, Islandton.
Collins—J. W. Msntt, Ravens*.
F^er—W. E. Haskell. Jr., Jack-
sonboro. >*■ •
Glover-W. A. DuRant, Cottage
viUe. ' • . .
ORGANIZE! S. S. WORK
a*
DEPARTMENT FOR ORGANIZED SUN
DAT SCHOOL WORK, CONDUCTED
BY MISS I. M. FISNBURNE.
The next annual convention of the
Colleton Coutfty Sunday School As
sociation will be held September 30
and October 1. at Walterboro.
There remain, therefore, only two
months more for our Association to
bestir themselves before “accounts”
will be reckoned, The burden of
this work should not be shouldered
by a few workers. Each school,
each individual member, has the
privilege and should feel a responsi
bility in part for the good standing
of his township. Those associations
that have not yet completed the elec
tion of department superintendents
should call their executive commit
tee together at once and see that
this is done. It is very desirable that
superintendents be chosen for each
of the following department*:
Teacher Training.
Cradle Roll.
Home.
Organized Bible Class.
We print again Conditions for the
Cjunty Banner.
Largest number of department
superintendents doing active work.
Most complete statistical report.
Largest number of adult Bible
classes.
Largest number of home depart
ments. • ’ ,
Largest number of cradle tolls.
Largest number of teacher train:
ing classes.
Most complete representation at
County Convention.
Greatest number of teachers’
meetings.
Largest enrollment in proDortion
to church membership.
Large.-t number of schools kept
open entire year.
Each township must have held one
annua! convention to be eligible to
enter contest.
The following schools entered
pledges for Organized Sunday School
Work at the last county convention:
ADAMS RUN TOWNSHIP.
Osborn—$5, paid.
Adams Run—$10, paid.
• Ravenel—$6, paid.
BELLS.
Bethel-$5
Tabor—$3, paid.
, B toftoN.
Ashton—$5.
Cross Swamp—$5, paid.
Wesley Chapei-3$5, paid.
HEYWARD.
Salem—$15, paid.
Shiloh—$5.
SHERIDAN.
Bethlehem—$5, paid.
Providence—$5.
Providence Bible Class-$5. paid.
Riverside—$5. «
VKROIER.
Ebeneser—$6, paid.
Pleasant Grove—IS.
Walterboro. Praabytarian— T
Walterboro, Methodiat—f 15.
Walterboro Organised Bible Clam
—$5, paid.
Mt. Carmel—$5, paid.
Zion—12. J
WARREN.
Tabernacle—$5.
Grata Pood—$6,
*5. paid
paid.
allowing (foraWpa
compfeta atatictkal jamnitR af last
years won. Anama rani ■
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INTERESTING ADDRESS
FOLLOWING ADDRESS WAS DELIVER
ED BY PAUL K. CROSIT AT GOOD
ROADS MEETING MONDAY.
The good roads problem is the
most important issue new before our
people. We could not dodge it if
we would. We should not dodge it
if we could. We should lay aside
everything, even politics, until this
problem is settled and settled satis
factorily to the people. This will
not be until we actually build good
roads.
This is no partisan or political is
sue, but is one which concerns every
inhabitant ot our country. The
common idea of its being only a job
for our law' makers and our super
visor. is all erroneous. Our l^v
makers may construct laws and our
officers may carry them out to the
letter, each one performing his
whole duty, yet we have not obtain
ed the desired end. The legislative,
the administrative and the. execu
tive, cannot do that which is the
province of the judicial or the
judges, and when I say the judicial I
mean we, the people. This agitation
must become so general that it will
enlist the sympathy and co-opeiation
of the masses. It is for the public
good and must be carried on by the
public. We need to create an en
thusiasm that wi 1 be general in iU
scope. If it becomes necessary to
organize a Good Roads League, why
then let’s organize one—the more
the better. If we have to have one
in each township to interest our
people, then let’s have one in each
township, or even in each communi
ty. The automobile is an incentive
to good roads. The autoist must
have good roads ant) is willing to do
his part to obtain them. The auto
mobile has come to stay. Their
number would double each year and
constitute a large item of taxation if
our roads would admit of their gen
eral use.
The two factors whith have done
more to create the demand for good
than any others. Are automobiles
and rural free delivery.. The rural
carriers are already interested. He
may be looked upon asacarelem
and happy-go-lucky sort of p soft
snap, but let me tell you, he has
learned enough to know that bad
roads are one of his most expensive
luxuries.
He is aware, as perhaps no other
is, of the great expense such roada
annually impir. And we most im
prove our methods, if we would im
prove our roads. Advanced theo
ries must be followed by advanced
practices. Twentieth century evila
must have twentieth century
remedies. Why should ws advance
or keep pace with all the modern
arts and sciences in everything else,
and yet lag so far behind in road
construction! * Have we learned any
thing by our defeats? Have we
been benefitted by our sucoeans?
Do we realise that the world is
growing better?
Looking from the pionsde of the
20th century down the ages, tines
to dimb topward, th*
of biologist naif historian
spread before as picture after pic
ture, depicting bis struggles trith
the dements! forces of nature. The
grim eonflfet skews bfan continually
battRag for sowe agtitianda, - but
ur. albeit DsAufttUy’,
■towiv. step bv step
hoary
another yields to his onalantibts till
the phytMugi mi ties* ef
fcr«* b
M
fkresd bf his no-
! istence is as intense—in some of its
! phases even more intense—today
j than it ever was before, but with a
difference, a difference that consti
tutes an imjiassable gulf between the
past and the present. In the degree
that civilized man is removed from
the savage, that spiritual man is
separated from animal man, is the
plane on which the struggle for life
is conducted today, compared with
that on which it was conducted in
the past. The world is growing bet
ter, because it must obey the immu
table law of progress which governs
all God’s creations.
Yet our progress in road con
struction has not kept pace with our
advances in other phases of our 20th
century achievements. Ah, some
of our roads constitute a perpetual
monument to a past error—not past
“era.”
. e
Let’s now start at the very foun
dation and in some places we will
have to go below the foundation and
go forward, on, on and on. Take aa
our model the incorrigable, invin-
ciable, immortal Columbus, who
opened up the greatest highway the
world has ever known:
Behuti him lay the gray Azores.
Behind the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores.
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: “Now must
we pray,
For io! the vei*y stars are gone.
Speak, Admrial, what shall I say?”
“Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and
on!”’ ^
FEATHERSTONE TRUE
TOKKVILLE ENQUIRER TAKES ISSUE
WITII STATE IN ITS CHARGES
AGAINST NEXT GOVERNOR.
grow mutinous day by
f/-
and
“My men
day;
“My men grow ghastly wan
weak.”
The stout mate thought of home; a
spray
Of salt wave washed his swarthy
cheek
“What shall I say, brave Admiral,
say.
If we sight naught but seas at
dawn?”. . v
“Why, you shall say at break of day
“Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’’
They sailed and sailed, as winds
night 1
last the blanched mate
might blow,
11 at
Until
said:
Why, now not even God would
know
Should I and all my men fall dead.
These very winds forget their way,
For God from these dreed sees is
gone,
^fow sjpeak," brave Admiral, speak
He said: “Sail on! nil on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then
spoke the mate:
‘This n
mad sea shows its teeth to
night.
He curls his lip, he lies in wait.
With lifted teeth, as if to bite!
Brave Admiral, say but one good
word:
What shall we do when hope is
gone?”
The words leaped as a leaping sword:
“Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then pale and worn, he kept his
deck.
And peered through darknew.
Ah , that night
Of all dark nighta! And then a speck.
AUghtLAUght! Alight! A fight!
It new, a “
ft grew
flag: unfurled!
ni time’s bunt of
Ha gained a world; ha
world
Its grapdrat lenon: “On and on!"
‘—Joaquin Millar.
Wa noad a bond iane of at least
$600,000, with a proper administra
tion for its distribution. Wa cannot
hofeto beUd nod-day roads over
the entire county, even in; the next
decade, but if our reads ware pfb-
pnfy laid oat, dbvntad, ahaped*and
The following is taken from a re
cent editorial in the Yorkville Enqui
rer:
The Columbia State is printing col
umns to show that Mr. Feathers tone
is inconsistent in that he once advo
cated local option and now stands for
state-wide prohibition. We are not
very muchr impressed by the State’s
arguments, and we don’t think the
State is either. We rather see in the
situation that the State realizes full
wdl that Mr. Featherstone ia the
real anti-liquor candidate and the
man who must be licked out of the
second primary to give the other fel
lows a show. Our contemporary’s
position is a little embarrassing to
itself though. It knows full well
that Mr. Featherstone is a very ible
man of high purposes, and that he ia
in no sense a crank. It would much^
prefer to aee him in the governor’s
chair than Mr. Blease, for instance,
and for that reason it is just a little
hampered. But there is nothing in
consistent in Mr. Featherstone’s po
litical record. He has understood
all along that states and counties par
take in large measure of the same
characteristics as individuals. When
the state was sodden with dispensary
liquor, he understood how absurd it
wouldjbe to appeal to it as a whole
to come back to decency. He knew
that there was no way to get atten
tion except by appealing to the indi
vidual couhties to atand fo{ the right
of having a say whether they should
have prohibition or continue in the
way they were going. The idea won
after a long fight. But just as an
individual #ho has once been addict
ed to the use of liquor, reforms and
goes back to drink, so counties and
states are liable to the same danger.
The state is now prohibition with the
exception of six large counties. There
is still a large minority of liquor
people in each of the dry counties.
Mr. Featherstone understands very
well that if things are allowed to
continue as they are, with the ma
jority sentiment lulled to sleep may
be iff the fancied security of better
conditions, there U danger that the
element which looks to the dispen
sary for political prestige, may
again ride to power on the still
gnawing appetites that once guaran
teed their supremacy. The only nfe
thing, he understands full well, is, to
outlaw liquor entirely in every coun
ty end to make the return of die
legal sale of liquor impoerible, except
on a majority vote of the people of
the state. The Columbia State is for
local option on exactly the same
principle that Mr. Featherstone
for local option, except that It wi
a different thing. Mir. Feetherel
has always besn for proMMtioa,
is foe prohibition now. Tbs Col
bin State hat always fcwn fa
and is for liquor now. Ha
bia State wants local option hi tkte
lend ‘
tion will ensure ths
Columbia. If it thought iosai
would drive liquor out of
it
Ur.
tioaasa
draltod. md the split Igg drag $std
judiciously, wo. would havo good
prMhgo of
May of the
fUQ UPPO’ PHTw pi bpjMI
sod I -fell /sure that Colleton
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