The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, January 28, 1914, Image 7
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JANUARY 28,1914.
THE PRESS AND STANDARD, WALTERBORO, & C.
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WANT EXPERT OVEN SCHOOLS
W. H. Hand Says Office Should Bo
Fillod by State Board of Educa
tion and Not Politically. *
Pointing out tha? an eff«-rTive and
responsible school adu.ir.t.-: ration
must be taken out of politics. W. H.
Hand, state high .school inspector,
ba saddressed a coumuniration to
the public, advocating that the offi* e
of state superintendent ol education
betaken from politics, lie declares
that the superintendent <-hoi.ld be
elected by the state Board of educa
tion.
"Considering the amount of < apital
invested.” says Mr. Hand, "the i.iap-
nitude of the undertakine. and the
import of the results, education is by
far the bifrgest business of the mod
ern state. Year by year the capita! is
increasing and the business is grow
ing. Year by year the need of trained
leadership is emphasized. At present
there is admittedly too little effi
ciency In our school work, finaneially
or professionally epeaking. School
finances are directed largely by men
of no demonstrated financial acumen
or training and the organization and
administration of schools are often
directed by men of no professional
equipment.
“No state can hope to have good
schools until It has a good school
system. No good system can be had.
unless it is uninterruptedly presided
over by a competent 'head, by a
man with a national outlook and of
approved executive force. He must be
£ seer, a builder and a leader. In
an age when big business is on the
constant watch for Juat such men. it
is nothing less than childish to hope
to secure and to retain the services
of men of demonstrated rbility to di
rect the education of a state for the
beggarly salary now paid by this
state to its superintendent of educa
tion. Hundreds of people honestly
believe b 1 * salary ample and liberal.
Are thinking mmi willing to permit
such narrow notions to prevail^ It is
but commonplace to sa ytbat There
are many citizens ready to take the
superintendency at the present sal
ary. There are doubtless not a few
willing to take it at half that salary',
but does the state desire such men
at any salary? Say what we please,
the state is in the open market for
competent men to fill its offices: th*-
state must compete with other posi
tions of responsibility and remuner
ation. *
“What state determined to have a
good, permanent school system can
afford to depend upon a political pri
marv to get and to keep a competent
manrat the head of its system? What
American state has done so for any
length of time? As a matter of plain
fact, at the biennial state elections of
this state what per cent of the total
voters ritanifeet any intelligentcon
cent as to who is to be elected sa
perinteodent of education? It is safe
to My that fewer than one-half care
ByJflthe time the average voter has
given attention to his favorite randi
date for governor and for lieinenant
governor, be is ready to vote for any
oody or for nobody for superintend
ent of education. Is not our system
of public education largely a matter
of political cbdnce? What a weak or
a bad administration of public educa
tion who can place the responsibility?
Is any system sound when weakness
or corruption can not be located and
somebady held responsible? Can our
people continue to have no more con
cern for the management of more
tnan $2,500,000 of their taxes and the
direction of the education of more
than 350,000 children of the state?
The Charleeten Navy Yard.
The roll of civilians employed at
the Charleston navy yard at present
numbers 422 men. and slightly over
$2,100 is paid'out to them every day
WKh the starting up of the clothing
factory in the near few weejrs the
civilian force w*H be Increased fully
75 people, which will increase the roll
to 897., Up to a year ago the num
her of people employed at the navy
yard averaged 500. showing that the
enrollment now is not far from dou
ble of what -it was a year ago. The
highest number of civilians ever em
ployed at the navy yard was 915. but
the fact that less than this nuaibet
are now employed doe snot signify
that lees work Is be'ng done Tin
“weeding out” of "dead timber." it
is stated, Is responsible for s smaller
force now employed then at the time
when the roll numbered 915.
Bill to Reouirer Cotton Reports.
A bill will be introduced at the next
session of the general assembly to re
quire cotton growers and cotton buy
ers to report to the state department
ol agriculture the number of hales of
«otton her.dled from time 'o timo.
•‘Bir.mi>sioaer Watson -.aid a. few
dr.'s a t 'o !;'at the bill, w.ti.-h he pre
pared, had been indorsed at the an
nual meeting of the commissioners of
acriiuiture of the states of the South,
and that it would l»e introduced in
Encourage Poultry In Btatn.
Beginning poultry work In South
Carolina was the subject of • confer
ence between State Farm Demonstra
tor W. W. Long. Mr. Hare, poultry ex
pert for the United States Cbvern-
ment, and Commissioner E. J. Wat
son recently. It is the determination
of those behind this movement to
confine tire work to U' counties, which
haw already been selected. ^Poultry
associations will be orunnized in each
of these counties and the members
general assemblies of all cotton ' vi, l b* 1 treated ag poultry demonstra
tfc*
beit states
The bill, he said, was modeled after
the measure requiring tobacco ware-
housement to make reports. He said
the measure would^enable the com
missioners to arrive at more definite
estimates of the cotton crop and that
the statistics would be more accurate.
. The following is the measure to be
introduced at the next session of the
general as^mhly:
“Section 1. Every gin. firm, indi
vidual. < ompany or corporation doing
a (inning business within this state,
whet tier square or round bales, shall.
.through the general manager of said
gin. at the beginning of each ginning
reason number the first hale ginned
No 1. and so on consecutively to the
end of the ginning season. ■*
“Sec. 2. That the manager of each
company, firm, corporation or indi
vidual doing a ginning business with
in this state, shall on the 1st and 15th
of each month make a correct report
in writing on blanks furnished to the
commissioner of agriculture, com
merce afid industries, of the number
of bales of cotton ginned during such
period: Provided. That if the 1st or! tng the same breed on the different
15th shall come on Sunday, then said : farms a neighborhood can easily make
report shall be made on the day pre- up a carload of the same type of beef
vtous. | cattle. This tfftwayn means two or
"Sec. 3. That the foregoing provl- ■ three cents more a pound than for a
sions shall apply to. all cotton buyers | carload made up of different breeds
as to making and filling reports, and
that in those reports each and every
person or corporation engaged in the
tors.
Mr. Hare will visit the farms of the
demonstrators for the purpose of in
structing them on the matter^,of feed
ing. housing, breeding and marketing.
It sill be the policy to encourage the
Yaising of one particular breed in a
county, for the reason that very much
easier^and more profitable results can
be had in the selling of poultry’ of U>e
same breed in the Northern and East
ern markets. In certain markets of
the North the brown eggs bring two
or three cents more a dozen than do
white eggs, and the same conditian
exists in other markets in favor of the
white eggs.
Mr. Long was fisked as to the devel
opment and the poultry of the Jive
stock work that is now being done by
Clemson College in co-operation with
the Federal Department of Agricul
ture. He said that the policy of or
ganization is the same as outlined In
proposed poultry work. It intended to
advise the use ot the Hereford brded
of cattle. The idea is to have the
farmers raise from three to 10 head of
beef rattle on each farm, and by hav-
business of buying cotton in the state
of South Carolina shall accurately
stats, under oath, the number of
hales of cotton bought, the weight
per hale, the actual price paid, and the
grade, giving also divisions of total
amounts by grades The commission
er shall collate this data by'markets
for pulilic ation, hut shall give no in
formation as to any one s business to
any pe rson
"Sec t The owner, owners, opera
tor or operators, or manager or man
agers of All warehouses in the state,
and all spinners, shall at the periods
set forth in the- foregoing sec tions file
with the commissioner full reports un
der oath of all steaks of cotton on
baud in suc h warehouses, stating nun:
her and weight of bales.
He added that great interest is be-
i ing manifested in the livestock devel
opment. and that Clemson college is
advising the development.
New South Carolina Enterprises.
Secretary of state has issued a c om
mission to the W. M, Hyrd company
of Mullins with a capital of )2,000
Petitioners are W. M. Hyrd "C T
Byrd and II L. Hyrd
Santee Hunting club of Sumter
county has been commissioned with
a capital of $1,000. Petitioners are
R M Berwick. J H Mc Leod and
8. T McLeod
Hartzog Ginger Ale company of
Greenwood has been commissioned
with a capital of $5,000. Petitioners
are H. 6. Hamog and M. R. Sanders
„ Fulmer A Jones Co of Norway has
been commissioned with a capital of
$12.fifid. Petitioners ere H P. Fulmer
J 8 .Jones and N 8 Jones
Gibbet Machinery company of Co
lumbla has been commissioned by the
sec retary of state with a capital Mock
of $300,000 to do a general autotno
bile and machinery business P«ti
tinners nf the company are A M
Gibbet. F. II. Gibbet and C J Cate
Commercial Insurance agency of
Sumter has been commissioned witli
a capital stock nf $5,000 The peti
tinners are R. A Brabham. It D
and H M Brown?'
Cllcord l-and company of Klloree
in Orangeburg eounty has been com
missioned with a capital stock of
$4,000 The petitioners are K F (rich
and Robert Llde
Duffle Machinery company nf Geor
get own has been commissioned with a
capital stock of $20,000 The petition
ers are C ). Whltton, It L Duffle and
C C Barr.
Ontral Hotel company of Manning
has been chartered with a capital
stock of $1,700 The officers are: C
H Breeden, president, and Mrs G A
Sistrunk. secretary and treasurer
Faust A Gilliam of Denmark has
been chartered w th a capital •fttock
of $f b00
Delegates to National Corn Shew.
Delegates to the National Corn Ex
position. which meets this year at Dal
las. Tex.. February 10 to 24. were
named a few days ago by Commission
er W atson on the part of the state of
South Carolina. The delegates to the
exposition are:
It M. Cooper. Wisaeky; E. w.
Dabbs. Mayesville; C. \V. Josey. St
Charles; o H Moyer, North Augusta:
L ' Chappell. Lykeslaod; J. A.
Shanklin. Columbia: X Sw.inton
Whaley, Charleston, Samuel G. Ston
ey Charleston. W\ W. Ixtng and J
N Harper. Clemson College; W. J
McKinnon. Horrei Hill: W. T. Walker.
Blackville; K. II Aull. Newberry: P.
N. I aim. Johnston: G. A. Gulgnard.
Hrookland: J5. J. Browning. Union; I*
L. Baker. Bishopville; M L. Donald
son. Greenville; Mclver Williamson.
Moniclare: George M McCutcheon,
Elliotts; D. F. Efird. Islington: Er
nest M. Joye. Venters; .! H Man-
nlns. Dillon. O. P. Goodwin, l^urena;
J. Mack King. Belton: Charles R.
Weeks Rock Hill.
1 The South Carolina exhibit to the
National Corn Exposition will be in
charge of Prof. H. W. Barre of Clem
son College and four Clemson College
demonstrators will be with the party.
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City Plan* Mutual Relief.
For the purpose of affording relief
and assistance to the white employee
of Columbia in case of elckness. Injury
or death, an organisation to he known
Association'' has been proposed and
is being worked out by Wade Hamp
ton Glbbea. mayor, end W. F Stleg-
Ills, councilman. City council will be
asked to.'approve the plan and make
an appropriation of about $500 to en
courage mutual relief end assistance
1^,, among tha* city employ** in the po
lice. fire, street, waterworks, park and
tlerlcal departments of the city
It Is proposed that each member of
the association, shall pay to a treasu
rer to be designated by council the
, sum of 25 cents a month; the associa
tion to consist of not less than 30 em
ployee With a contemplated Increase
of men In the departments on account
of Hie ertension of territory about 150
employes' will lie affected by the plan.
As to the benefits, members in good
standing shall' be entitled under the
plan to $5 a week for each full week's
disability by sickness or Injury The
sum of $50 will tie paid upon the death
of any member, to his family, and !25
will he paid n member upon the death
. of Ills wife
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Delay Railroad Work.
Newspaper Man Resigns.
Yorkville.—W. A. Fair ha* realrued
aa editor of the York News, hi* re«
ignation taking effect January 1 Mr
Fair accepted the position in Septem
her on tbe^organization of the York
Publishing Company and has r be«n
very successful in his work prodm
ing as excellent county paper He
will make Lincolnton. N C . his home
and will engage in newspaper work
or in some other local busine-s Mr
Fair’s principal reason lor returning
is that he is captain of Tn*op \ of
the North Carolina Nwtiona^ Guard
To Plant Tobacco.
Camden John T Mackev hv *’
and planter, issued a ««!! lor a’! r-
Tpers in Kershaw county irt'< >« •*'!
ir. iho plantmi: of tobacco to
< atuden. and a restiV tv ■ ,
'« ?rtainty of 13*5 acres j.:.:t t* <!
this year, with a jtossibil.ty *'f it-
i-creage being inev^-.-d t . I?" 'T 17'
ores Among three - ' 'if
I-l&i.tir.R tobacco «.re th»* n.o.-i pre ui
"t-nt fnrtr.ers nf jhe eounjy ..nd the
f verage acreage oj each *-xpcr:menial
crop will be about fiv> acre« It ;
believed it will prove successful.
Want Motor Cycles Registered.
* State registration and license fee*
for niotor vehicles In South Carolina
and the construction and maintaining
a systerrt of state highways under the
Department of Agriculture, Commerce
Purchaae 25-Acre Pair Ground.
The Pee Dee Fair Association will
in the near future purchase a tract of
25 or 30 acres on the edge of Florence
for the annual fairs and a pleasure
park A number of offers have been
and Industries are provided for in a made by people who would not sell
'■bill which will be introduced in th* Ui*ir la ad /or any other purpose, and
General Aseembly\wlien It meets in
January At present South Carolina,
with one ori»er state, ha* no state reg
bt rat ton of automobile* Nflie rtbjecy
of th* proposed hill I* to provide tor
the building M)«1 iiuun enance of'" a
-gr-teni of highways
will Aell a<
the fair W bssoc iation will dec lare
a dividend of 2(f p« r c ent profit on tbe
«'r>< k paid in for the first year out
c-f the proceeds of the tirM fair, and
»t i rcmiiiderably increase the capital
stork. »
Lancaster is P*csye'ing.
U.ncv-ter i- wi v ^ v every day
NofBh* T of 1 * [.. • "tll> It Ml illf
lit -citio.’i* i-t • county and'•late,
Y>u’ A’-ct NVrtl » .jrolina ami cP'orata
well
I lit ■
reelin'*
village.
' tyed.cal Soc.ety W.ll Help.
At the regulnr lnceting; of Pic ken*
o'* ifKy Medical socte-ty field at Pick-
• recVjitly an unusually good utti t)d-
: n c AiisX.H and a tue/st hurmotiiciu*
.ltd er,Millsshs^ic meeting w.is held.
There were MV < i> 1 eminent p!:> sj-
I'mn . pn-sent, .u'.iT m.i'tc-r of grave
j.f« r<,ir.t* v.:iv„(i..-ob ? -.ed. This topic
a*'’Jo* dtsc ir- iotj ot b, movement of
. tlrt; ifierta.-e In. 1 ^iedb al Sex lutj\to request
uiat:on „ hcMit 7-'. w« II. ^ .legislature to appropriate $x.C'00
.11.Hal five nod *lx ,M ^ ^ the work of fighting germs
• c r m and bear the qiIJL uud ?ptdendc* and to lietter equip thb
t.avc just he*b 1 • mpiKed. >**boratoiy for more work.
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r»- .ind u> er
NEW STORE inaugurates a series of Special'
Offerings' in^ the i necessaries of life, and these will be
sold at[the' lowest possible prices. The Specials for this
week followg. X
Dunlop Superlative Flour, $5.75 Per Barrel
Goodj’Grade|Rice,[$3.00 Per Sack
New Line of Spring, Shoes for Men, Ladies
And Children
Ready Made Qotinng
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It will save you'money to see our line before buy
ing, for all of our prices are reasonable. To the cost of
running our business we add only a small profit, and
we believs in quick sales and small profits on each sale
rather thrn a few sales and large profits on each sale.
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CHARLESTON, S. C.
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day, Feb. 2nd.
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