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SAYINGS OF THE STATE PRESS *- IateB!K«8c«r: O'i* of tb« candidate for' who to fc^ktsf acaliwt the «o-^tll«4 a elitni- a^etlac ♦* Colombia, to said la bo a btoaao mao Baaqaeradlog and wCl get tbo Btoaatr roto la (be low eoantry tboofh not known >a tbo ccuapalgi as a Bloaoo man. Jacob and Eaaa. Colombia Record: AD tbcT ginger oeems to hare goao oat of Gororaor Blease's tpeecbes. Jeonings aad Pollock appear to .hare aeeared a monopoly of tbo article for uae, la tbelr attacks on the Governor's THE PRESS AMD .STANDARD, WALTZZE0R6, S. G August 19, 1914 I *- LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE —* AN APOLOGY. , “ The Press and Standard apologizes for its shortness of news this week. Reason: The linotype is “cutting the buck”; gasoline engine hairing “spasms,” and worst of all the editor is sick. Bear with us please until next week.— The Force. ^ yioreace Timet: A war dispatch taro that the Ger* an attack on Limberger, Holland! and wore repulsed. Doubtless the Potchmea harried come of their cheese lato'ihe German ranks *—* EDITOR!ALETS ••• By W. W. S. * — * - i « War! War!! War!!! — - »- What did Sherman say? Greenville News: The people who never drink make the rales about rum. stye Life. Well, what of It?. The people who don't kill make the laws about marder, aad the people who don’t steal Slake the laws about stealing. What's wrong with that? 1. ..iV-b . Laarens Advertiser: Senator Smith’s Call for a conference on the' cotton question Is certain to be charged agatast him as a political move. It might be. for nobody knows except the Senator himself. Poli tics or not. we advise the farmers to listen to "Ed” whether they are going to vote for him Or not. The cotton situation In the South Is serious today, more serious than that of say other industry in the United States. 'Sugar ia *weet.” Arid high! v ——— Can you stand it another week? X —— It appears that Duncan, also spoke. « n — And ko did J. B. Adgt*r ilullaljy. # s- . A friend to Cupid: Colleton’s Probate Judge. ' * ^ V. Laurens Advertiser: Governor Blease is authority for the Information that fce has an organization which covers the state, that b* <an tell from his orraniza- tloti exactly hoW.everj^ box will go at the election. It is hardly prohihie. hovever, that ihe organization is tin Information haVau or!*.*.- It Is expected primar ily, we imagine, to solidify the Blhase vote and. de liver it to v.'hem soever the ‘Thief'-’ jnivht dictate. Will the organization be able to effeiiver the vote? Th> devil never takes a vacation; if minis ters do. Marion Star: Our a^ltiant Devil t-'V'tyt th? trash out of this ean'Tim on Monday momonr and the. * 14- tor is suffering with a severe cold art a result. It Ik needless to add tha£ the assistant Devil lost hi* job. “Feathers on his legs.’” Where did We hear that before? ; « . So is Richards also being talked about during the campaign. > ■ . V The censor is an incensor.—The State.* Oh, pshaw! • , “ ^ Well, now, G. Albert, are you sty busy issuing marriage licenses? * * / ? Compulsory school attendance is at least be ing talked. Thanks to the campaign. # - • ' / Mr. John T. Duncan has a Bill Nyesqife way •of paying things.---Greenwood Journal. So has Bill Gardner. / Why c^nld not the wdV hav. the first of the year after cottoi) ered and nearly all sold? ce started i on was all about: gath- The person who wou|d. sing “Home, Sweet Home’’ to a crowd of Anderson refugees would be in greater danger than if in the Liege Forts. Manning ' r lm‘*v: v : The, call. for . the cotton confer- enc^Jg Mm*ry. rn<f w* hope It wifi be attended by u many cottop-grower*, and we also hope that politician* will not tike advantage of it to farther their aspira tion*. We do not know what can be done by a c<\n- ference of this'nature, hut there fa this much certain. lt v ran do no barm. ,aj»d it might accompltoh roitie good. COTTON CONGREKH. / ■ Did anybody “ay annulling about it being only a short time till schools open? Talk about com- ' nuNory school attendance, wfcot boy ever starts back to school without compulsion? “Return with your shield or on it,” said the Fnartan mother. “Return with the treasurer’s office or skidoo for you”; candidate Lyqn’s wife. What was the “incident” in Treasurer Jones’ ’ official career which “put him out of hurror”? We thought nothing woyld do that. ■f-< Twerty-nine district* with special ta: levy in Colleton. Pretty good, but why not make it unanimniiav x \ unanimous? “No man who has reached the age of thirty is worthy of the time* unless he has caught the spirit of progress ” From A. C. Padgett’s cam paign speech. Good, Gus, goojj}. You are right. Memory of that sand bed from Walterboro to Snider’s makes that promise of Jack Smith sound mighty good up here. ", ' Dennis* picture in fait -week’s issue of The Presa and Standard looks as if hfe name is al ready ‘mud.” ^ ' “W. W. S.” is badly mistaken if there is not alrsady a law on the statutes of South Carolina forbidding race track gambling, What is need ed is an enforcement of this law. Virginia’s governor stopped ft; Oklahoma’s v governor stopped It, so the fault lies riot in the law but in its enforcement. From tbo Anderson Intelligencer: On the heels of th* ‘onnouncement that the eottou crop this year will not exceed 13.S09.000 bales, comes the terrible aituatloa that embroils Europe. From a moment of pleasant expectancy the Fouth to plunged into a condition of sorrowful contemplation. A long and continued war i n Europe would mean the loss of mllliona of dollars In the South—in the descending price of cotton, and' would also cause finan cial disaster unparalleled becEise of the fact that the last few years of plenty have extended and inflated ,rcth*r than curtailed the eredit system upon which agriculture in the South Is based. For instance the present crop wan planted during a period of compar ative plenty, and ulil be gathered.! as indicated at pres* ent, during a period ef the greatest financial depres sion. and at a time when the price mil have been cut in half; Therefore it to imperative that the Sooth should have some kind of organlsatloa to meet the crisis, yes the crash. Grain producing elates will be helped by this war, bat cotton to a commodity which cannot be eaten^ and what the world will goon be demanding at fabuloua prices will be something to eat. not some thing to wear. Saturday Senator E. D. Smith Issued a call for a meeting of business' men to be held in Columbia to discuss the matter. We have *ee« no definite datj? set for the meeting. But Colonel E. J. Watson, president, has called an emergency meeting of the planters of the South to be held in Washington on the 13th and 14th of this month to plan some mean* for protecting the South against the depression which will follow fhe beginning hostilities. This meeting should be attend ed by representatives from every section of this state. Aa Anderson to the producer of the largest number of bales In this state, we hope that some trill go from here, and in fact we suggest that the Chamber of Com merce and the Farmers* Union and others call a pre liminary deemed suitable and necessary. In issuing his call. Colonel Wataon says: “In the past few days the great .European cotton consuming countries have been plunged into a war. which, it mow appears, brings the grower and handler of cotton face to face with disaster. In two days the price of cotton has begun to fall atartllngly. Cottoft to about to movo to the markets; the murk eta are ‘•boot t* be curtailed by millions of botes and .cioagg. From tbo standpoint of tbe flamnciol stability end In tegrity of the nation Haolf, of tbo prod neon, of the bonks and bankers, of tbo mercbanuTTlnd business 'men. of ovory commercial interest, of our own textile plants. It to vital that tbe 1»14 crop of American cot ton shall not be sacrificed to tbe irreparable damage of a preposterous and rapidly developing section of tbe Union aad of tbe nation. “I do not boltovo in business hysteria and for sev eral days have awaited and watched tbo coarse . of event*. It to dear that groat damage has already bona don*, certainly more than wan be undone ware tber an Immediate suspension of hostilitlco. Whether th* danger of a total, financial loss for one year at least to growers of.cotton'to impending to Immaterial; the danger to sufflclently manifest to show that the tiam for concerted action Wween growers, merchants, bus iness men. bankers, cotton manufacturers and oven * national government itaelf has come. */ r Tam therefore exercising the authority yusted Ik me,-and after consultation wfUi eiBcUis of 4b* Fann ers' Union, the most Important rsgutar organization of the Southern' cotton growsin, and wtt)r business men, iaaing vhU call for aa extraordinary; session of the SouthonrCotton Congress to bo hold August 1314 ‘ 1114.** ' * Dear Mr. Editor: . , - Th* writer Is in the "Land of the Sky,” bat more j epproprtately it would teem the iano of th* clouds', for, a* b* sits upon the waatera side of fcamburg Mountain alxaoA at high noon, he secs mountains in all dlr*ct|oas and clouds over their summit* and around their sides.. Looking westward at my feet 1 aeo the little town of Weoverville. N. c. f and stretch ing for some live or six miles the beautiful French Broad valley. Riding about over the valley there is scarcely any level roadoray. yet losing over It from this mountain aide It looks aa level v Old Colleton in contrast with the. vast mountains In all directions. Sonuj ten eleven years when I last was in Weaver- yille there we»* possibly not over twenty families liv ing ia the’place and to-reach It one must needs take a two-hours ride over mounUIn roads In a'mail hack from Asheville or In horse conveyance from Alexan der, a railroad station 'live miles westward. Now a modern interurban trolley whirls me quickly around mountains, through valleys, modern bouses or bunga low* built or building at almost every turn and into old village with three times the population as then,, electric lights, waterworks, banka, brick stores and a population at present cosmopolitan, composed of tour- tots and visitors from every quarter. At the home where I am resting ther e were two ladies from Cin cinnati, and two from Savannah. High up on the side of tbe mountain I ait under a n apple tree laden with red apples— my seat tall, heavy grass and clover—my umbrella^ completing the resting place. All aroun'd are orchard tree* and sleek cattle, browsing under neath. yet paying more attention to the fallen and falling fruit than to the luxuriant growth of grass. They are literally In clover yet paying little attention to it. X . , Elsewhere in the Village I pas* along streets 'vfcer^ quantities of apples lie in the roadway and lookin'; across the fence I s^e them lying on the ground—r just htindfetls of th*>m. Gues* some of my Coli-toa boy and girl friends would have some trouble 'refra n- ing themselves from trespassing. To be perfectly frank*, boya .you wouM not eat many cf them, b - cause' red and beautiful, they are ha-d and will not ])* good eating until winter. With the girls, of.jouri-e. it would be different, because from time immemor:“»t they have been lovers of fruit and with some of them it would seem green apples are < hoicest: My letter is hardly begun, yet I am hungry and the many great black ants crawling over my hand*, over the page and up my sleeves are setting too rami Ha*. I can’t be quite as friendly as they, so down th^ moun tain I go to alarm my landlady at dinner table. I was writing about the mountain country and had hardly begun to tell you about* It, but I must desist or >ou will not let your readers have it at all. and to them —the people of old Colleton, ray mind turns and won der* when "Lutie” Beijinger, Haekel Moore. Frank Guess, and all, tbe folks from walterboro to Wiggins, down to Combahee and up to Asbepoo, will be able to atepcon and off a trolley line at their dfors. And the guests at the Grand Tourist Hotel on the hill north west of Walterboro be able to take a ride in observa tion car* around the rice field belt. ' I-—wonder how long It will be before Hendersonville has community light* and w ater and be rid of-chicken eating bogs in the streets. All these v thlngs I prophesy will soon be realized. I have not seen a copy nor the manuscript or had told me anything, but I venture that Dr. Daniels* book, ‘The Bottom Rail,” now ready for delivery and .that I am so anxious to see, wi!l make more startling disclosures than these; of flowing wells, of scientific, intensive farming of lands perfectly drained so that a)l surplus water moves promptly, keeps rolling tbrofuh ditches and canals to the sea. When moa.- quitoes and files will be pests only to be remembered and our people shall be as healthy and prosperous as any. * If In the midst of all thtse we shall foster relig ion in splendid churches and learning in well equipped school houses with a public ftreulating library in e|v- ery community, good will and cordial good fellowship universal, we shall indeed live In God’s country, en joying a Christian civilization, less than which is 4ot well pleasing to God and with less than which we should''wot be satisfied. I left better crops at Hendersonville than I saw until I reached St. Matthews, and better at these two points than I have since seen. I saw great fields of CLASSIFIED ADS. WANTS. • cotton at St. Msttiew* that looked that It would yield | two balsa per aero aad ptoaty of qora that, promised 11* return sevonty-Sve buaheto par acre. I Getting down to personalities, I did not realize ho-v weak I was aatil I (sacked Spartanburg. My good lather, now eighty-ctx years old, of the two actual./ seemed more spry and active. After a week’s res; there I came on to Weavervill* and a mnow about de termined to live a few years lopger. I am getting anxious to be home again With those who love me an 1 those who love me and those who don’t. There fir-: will be glad to see me and give me a smile; those lat ter may be encouraged by remembering that confer ence to only three months oR and Providence m^y favor them with a preacher as handsome.' intellectual and aa gracious as themaelvco. God bless th*m all. * , Affectionately. W. A. KIRBY. Wesvervllle, August 10, 1914. Editor Press and Standard: ' In educational matten we have no great reason t a be proud of the Standing of our State. It fa true he: present condition to quite an improvement over her own past. Bat as compared with other States sh> lags In the race. If we have modern Ideals, whether by our misfortune or our fault, we hare not yet come to the point where accomplishment keep* pace with them. And perhaps this slowness to get in line with modern progress to more marked in our own section, in Colleton and Its neighbor counties, than in other parts of the State. South Carolina, enjoys the pre-eminence of being tbe second State in Illiteracy in the Union. It is said that pne-flfth of her people are downright illiterate?, unable to read and write. This, in itself an alarming condition, tends to become worse. For ignorant makes ignorance—especially when, as matters slan t at present,,these illiterates control the educafional destinies of so many boys and girl*. This, if nothing is done, v.ill result in a deterioration of th» neopie The compulsory education Issue, they say. call-* :o • money—more morey t'^in can well be retired. S hoc.* houses will hr.vfe to be enlarged and new one- bn it * > nreonjmodat* the increased lumbers of* school dren. If this is ro, then ccr ; .>lf:!y tho?e addfDo"! ‘ school bouses ought to be,built without delay, \V rre peer indeed if v.e havb not the r;ean* to safe^arM the quality of our future citizenship. It is f or su< j as these (and! crifi one such r that the funds of th - State are held / ih trust; and not what they should ; so long as a Single child has to be left out of the cal culation. It Is not so much the money taa* is lacking as it Is a sbhuine in*e^est in education. Let the people at <ttfc decide tfcr.t they must have adequate school buildings and appropriations, and the money will be forthcoming; there need be no fear of that. It is, of course, true that, many parents take their children from school to help make a living. But it is exceedingly rare that this is an absolute necessity. In nearly every such fnstancJ the parent ia simply in different because, on account of illiteracy, .he ha* no true idea of the value of an education. .M* is unwill ing to make sacrifices that his child,may go to school In other words, he prizes a small present profit mor-* than a rich future harvest. A good role is in force in the State of Ohio.’where for some time they have had compulsory education. Tb* regular reboot instructor ascertains the financial status of every family in the school district, and in event of real poverty, the head of the home is paid for the loss of the child’s labor. This generosity of the State to its children la worthy of imitation. It is an excellent investment. It is assumed by some that compulsory education would interfere with personal 'liberty and paternal authority. What teacher has not known unlettered parents who allow their children to miss school, or to stop altogether for any cause or no cause? One father, for instance, let his boy stay from school for a day or so to look on while a new fence was being buiit <h-' was too small to help). Another sent his children to school at the beginning of the session "to see w}*/- ther they liked it or not.” Of course they soon tire I of it, when they were allowed to stop. Thia-'is the kind of liberty that would be interfered with! Com pulsory education would mo more interfere with per sonal liberty than does other law. Why should we give'll literacy thq casting vote when education is at stajee? Is it not like giving the pas sionate man the^Hoerty to commit murder if he so chooses? . / HELEN E. MALONE. Waakctl*’—at once: Young men for automobile business. Big pay. 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