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' Wednesday, June 21, 1916. PAGE TWO THE PEE88 AMD STANDARD JOKE reowiws HBI CUKE Text of Eloquent and Foreefnl Presentation of Grand Inquest DejfreredstOpeniiiffof Session, Mondar, June 1Z Mr •f tkn Foremen and Gentle Grand Jury: Ton have been already charged na to your dnty and the court will not take na eery Much tlfne thi» ■orn- ing, giring yon only a geeoml charge as to your duties. Ton remember, of course, that you are the grand Inquest of the county; that you are the representatives of the people; Hint K M your' sworn duty to look niter the best Interests of the county from every angle. sympathy froi are not cooftaed. as the petit Jury »] trustees. Ant to the consideration of any paftNUr lar ease nor any special class of cases hut your duty tfe general and that comes within the purview of your authority. You hare been selected on account of your high character aa men, your high standing in your community and your experience in businesa and your Judgment of hu man nature, so that you bring to the diacharge of your duties the highest qualifications of a ciUaen. Vou are all drawn from different parts of the county so that you ure probably and moat likely In touch with every phase of social activity in this coun ty. Now, 1 have no doubt thst dur ing your period of service up to now you have discharged every duty. „ t want to aay, however, that there are several fundamental matters affect ing the public interest that we can't be reminded of too often. The first is economical management of onr county government. It la your doty to look into the management of your county, the conduct of your public officials and the correctness of their a«ts. It has been said that Government by the people is the most expensive business and that there are more lax methods in dis charging the public duties and such lax methods as would not be tolerat ed in private business. Now that ought not to be so. There is no rea son why there should not be as mnch efficiency in the administration of public office and the discharge of public duty as there is in (he man agement of any piivat« business. So it becomes your duty as grand Jurors to aid and assist and require a dis charge of public duties by your pub lic officials as economically and ef ficiently as possible.. The people ex- pe< t it* of you and every officer who performs his duty will court your rigid investigation. So that, in your Investigation of the public offices of the county, you will have in view simply the public good. Of course you will remember that you have been sworn to do your duty without fear or favor, reward or hope of ro- ward; that you will not present any one out of hatred or Ul-will, so that when yon bring to bear upon your dutiea these great requirements, you will then satisfy both the officers and the people. Now, the next thing 1 want to call your attention to Is the matter of the public education. Now, of course, you have only a general oversight of that. The superintendent of educa tion and trustees of the various school districts have the immediate supervision and duty of carrying out the school laws, but as a matter of public interest and the education of this county it certainly thnt it is!vnown of many cases where of rnteUoubig or politics or for any other local emnss. and that the only test, or rather the main teat, for the employment of a .teacher should be efficiency, character and ability. I am not surprised, however, that teachers are changed so rapidly be cause K is i> many cases the result of lack of support by the people of tLe community. Many tbeaehers haven't had a oquare deal because they* hare had no support and no parents and Ihe And agate I am not Mr- prised that the character of teachers in some communities ^ is low, the standard Is low, because they are not paid enough. I u^nt to impress up on you the fact thst you cannot em ploy the best talent for nothing and 'If w« can get fixed in the mlnd&\pf our people that It requires the ed*, ployment of talent of the hlgheet order to make a good teacher, then will our people be willing to pay them a salary commensurate with their services and with their value. A person who la competent to con- trol boys »nd glrla, if In other de partments pf life would make a great deal more money than he can make as a teacher. It takes ability of the highest order and it ought to be adequately compensated for. And right again at the foundation of our school system, we must get it down that they ahall be paid and paid adequately. How many of you would be willing to work tor a per iod of eight months of the year and then be out of employment for the other four? How many of you could support a family by working four or six or eight months? And yet you expect a teacher to accept a contract to work the school term and sometimes that term is very un certain. 1 am told that in some places it lasts but four months. Then how can you expect a person to get out and prepare himself for this great calling and then be out of em ployment for six or eight months of the year? So then we want to lengthen our terms; we want to pay our teachers and then demand of our teachers the proper service. Now, there is another thing I want to call your attention to in this con nection. There is a law on the Stat ute books now—and that ia what I want to call specially to your atten tion—and that Is the law providing for each school district td have com pulsory education, to compel the chtMrea of that school district to at tend school. Now, I do not know what your views on the subject are but I want to aak you to Investigate that subject. We have had a great deal of discussion pro and con on this subject of compulsory educa tion. Our Legislature has not seen fit to pass a general compulsory edu cation law, but has made it local so that each school district can get the advantage of It If It sees fit. Now we want Colleton county to be far beyond every other county In this State, not only IjTall other lines, but especially In educational equipment And we want the children of this county to attepd the schools when we provide schools for them and pro. vide teachers for them. I have out of tea. It doon drop i. 41 faHa to your duty f 0 see aa far as possible that we have an efficient school sys tem. And there isn't anything that is more important. The future of our county and of our people de pends upon our education of the ria. ' ing generation. It is a trust impos ed on us from which we cannot es cape; it is a responsibility that we cannot place on other shoulders and there is no duty greater than that for ua'to provide for the proper edu cation of the rising generation and to place them in a better position to discharge the duties of a citisen than we have been placed In. It la not suflcient that they do as well as we hav e done. It ia not sufficient for us to say that we have done aa well as our fathers have done. We must do better than they becanaex we hav* better advantages and greater opportunities. And If w c do not do any better than they have done we haven't done as well. We cannot stand still. So it is our duty to pro. vide a settled policy for the educa tion of-the youth to take our place so that they may be in a position to render better service to their county and State than we have been able to render Now tber^ cannot be any effective school 'Without a good teacher. It is impossible for the blind to lead the blind. Ton had Just as well have Uo bclooI at aU aa to put in it a teacher inefficient, care- lee« and incompetent. So at the very foundation of our, school system would be s good teacher. And 1 want to call to the atteation of this grand Jury and to the people of.the county through you that there can be no permanent education without the employment of competent and cooaecrated teachers. It strikes at the very bottom, at the very founda tion of our school system^ If we cannot get competent teachers then our children cannot be trained, and if they can’t be trained, what would be the future of Colleton ' county? Now there is a habit in some com munities of electing any kind of a teacher, so long as she meets with certain local requirements. Now l do not propose to go into an elabora tion of this phase of the employment of teachers, but I wish to say that no chtld should be handicapptd in its preparation for an education by the employment of a teacher because the hildren were taken out or allowed to leave, they are not - being taught. Now, that la due in a very large measure to the indifference of parents. That Indif ference is due very largely to the failure of parents to appreciate the necessity of education. And that is the sad part of It—that those who need it moat are usuaily the ones who oppose every attempt to bring to them these great Advantages, say that that Ig the general rule that the persons who need it most are the ones who oppose it and op pose our efforts to help them. Now, the people, most of them, who are opposed to compulsory education are those who most need education. It would not be thought unwise to compel people to conform to certain I’oe* of conduct by the government, nod yet some people say it is wrong for the State to equip themselves for the dutiea of cttisenshlp. f shall not give you an argutaent in this matter, but I wish you to investigate and consider this subject with a view of spreading the system throughout this county, I have seen in the paper the last few days that some school district is taking steps to put this into elfect I wtsh it could be put into operation in every school dlstri<t of the coun ty. 1 have taught school myself and I know what J am saying when 1 tell you that there are hundreds and hundreds of children who are allow ed to go free from school, not be cause they ar e needed at home, not b*canae they are needed to help feed the family, but because .the parents do not recogflixe the necessity for an education for their children. I have known parents to allow thMr chil dren to stop school for a week-(o go down in the low country on a fishing i ip. right in the middle of a term. And I have known others who are supposed to have the interests of their children at heart allow them f o fn away for a weeg i n the midst of the term, and of couxae. when the cMld ponies hack to school, he is out of harmony with the balance of the qtae* The child is behind. It can not comprehend the lessons for thl* week because It has missed the lea- sons for the past week It is not fnng before the .child becomes discourag ed Then it wants to drop ouu and te ate* out. And If it works on, pass the examinations gad is huntil! a ted before the parents and the class by felling behind, and In nine cases out of r jtoa t 11 is because the-parent allowed the child, to go off la the midst of the term, get ont of tonch with everything, and the* it has lost oet ia Its race of life. Every child Ought to have a square deal and-ev- try one ought to have an equal op portunity, but t^ey can not In such cases where the parents do not real ise the. necessity for an education and do not se« that they get the edu cation necessary to enable them to meet the problem^ of afterlife. I hope it won't be long before every child in this county will be required to at tend the echool during the term. Of course, that presupposes that you have a school. That is up to the older people; and as 1 have stated before, have It taught by teachers who are worthy of the name, and when you pay them the compensa tion they are entitled to, then you will find men and women who are willing to give it all their time am all their talents. There is another thing I want to call yonr attention to in connection with this subject of education and that is 1 want you to think along the S ol a practical education of out c. I think a great deal of time money has been spent uselessly to tekeh branches that are of prac tlcally no value; and on the other hand, the great fundamental lines of developmenVthat we most need have been neglected. In a recent Act of the Legislature's provision has been made for the teaching of agriculture in the common Behind Now, we are aq agricultural people. . We all know that. Our future and the future greatness of our county depends upon our development along the lines of agriculture. We hgve no mining interests In the county. ,We have no manufacturing Interests of any consequence. The timber prac tically is gone. And the future of this county depends upon the de velopment along the line! of agri culture. Now, there Is about one boy out of ten who goes to the high school and about one out of twenty- five that goes to college. Now. what are you going to do with the great masses of people who never go to high school or to « college? Our system of teachinf is confined of ne cessity to theory, things seldom used. And when the boy comes out of school, all that he knows is a lit tie smattering of the rudiments Then, I think that it is a wise pro vision and I think it worthy of your consideration that there shall be requirement that every teacher should teach the subject of agricul ture and its allied subjects. Aa said before, most of our people are (armern and when the child comes out of school, he knows nothing oi^ fanning from a scientific standpoint; and all that he learns he muni ge by actual practice. What we need now and what we must have is scientific study of this great subject that means so much to our future development. The time is past when people aay they don’t believe in book learning. That day is gone. We are on the eve of a new era and we cannot say we don’t believe in scien tiflc farming. That age is past and your boy aqd mine must know some thing^about the laws of nature that control the life and development of planis. He must know something of the component parts of the soil and the laws of nature that affect it in its influence on the development of the plant. -He ought to know some thing about the marketing of crops All of this, as I said before should he discussed. It has been introduced over here in Darlington county, I am ad vised. under such circtmstances. with a plot of ground for each class, where they can get not only the the ory but the practice and watch the growth and development under the care of both the teacher and the pupil. Then these poor boys who never see a college when they come out have something practical that they can carry home and help^them the balance of their lives. I think that is a very hopeful sign of the future—that we must get training that la practical and that will help our children. 1 wish to call to your attention and that of the people of this < ounty that Act of the Legisla ture Now, of course, you know your duties with respect to roads and bridges of the county. No extended charge is necessary But I don’t think w P can be reminded too often about the necessity for good roads. The day of bad roads and of living In the back-woods is past. The world is moving these days at a rap id rate and we have got to work hard to keep up. There is not anything more necessary in the development of the county than the development of its roads. The value of your land is regulated by the character of roads to It and from it. If you can’t get your produce to market, then you can’t rais e it profitably. If you can’t gwt it to market economically, then you fall behind in your race for success So that, transportation !« one qf the fundamental requisites for th* success of any people. And ^^e of the firs; things that the Romr.s^ government did when they con ed a province was to build coo.i roads through i> and some of those roads are there today after two thousand years And it is one of the eviden- j with it any mora. I think tkat in one of thn great leaks In onr system of bnlldln* roods and an expense ts the county—that whao a road la built. It la left te Itself. That ought not to be. We ought to have a regu lar system and there is no doubt that tt would be bo if w * had the means to keep It up. Now, in or der to build roads and keep np roads, you have "got to have money. That’s a matter that I ahall not dis cuss, but I mention It to you to you can .think about It and so that means may be provided by those in authority for the build ing and maintenance of good roads throughout our county. It ia said that land te the heart of Africa la worth one cent an acre. It is aaid that land In New York City la worth one hundred thousand dollars a front foot. There are two instances. One ia Inaccessible to the tforld and therefore valueless. Thp other ia in the heart of the metropolis, easy of access from every part of the ™ rld - The conclusion Is inevitable. If e would make our property valuable and make our people prosperous, we must have the means of easy economical transportation. Now, one other word and that is about your duty of looking after the enforcement of the laws. 0 U, \R OV * ernment is supposed to be a Chris tian government and every Individ and severity of the punishment as there li in the certainty of the punishment. If the peeple of Colleton county knew that so sure as they commit a crime, they are going to be tiled be fore n Jury of this county aod con victed. there would be mighty few crimes committed in the county. It s th« certainty of the punishment. If they knew that Just aa sure as they violated the law. they ma Bt » u * er y then.they would hesitate before they took human life and pause before they violated the laws. t , I believe that the fundamen^ cause of crime in this oopnty mad te this State la the lack of enforcemen Su! £“i*»««< h *'!* the indifference of our people to the violation of tow. Now you £ sworn not to present any person be cause of hatred or Ill-win « d •re sworn further not to leave Smy one unpresented on of love or sffection or friend ship or rewsrd or hope of "Ward. Now, it to very easy for you to com ply with the first requirement be cause I think there are very few peo ple who would present another for hatred or ill-will, but the trouble te Colleton county. as I u - ^ your relatives and your friends and your friends’ children commit a crime, an effort is made to cover it up and to smooth It over. And very often it becomes a stench in the nos- ual Is given the maximum HherlyJ® tril8 of the people of the community the pursuit of happiness, but that tbey ^ an outrageous crime liberty must not be so great as committ ed and see it compromised interfere with the liberty and I and the great body of interfere with rights of others. Now, the grand jury of the county Is sworn to pre sent any person for, the violation of and settled, and the great body people stand by te silence and see the law violated. And* of course. It is nothing but human for white the laws. You are the guardians of ^ coIored people, when they the law. The extent of the clvillxa tion of a people may be measured by the habits of the people In the observance of tow and then regard for the rights of others. This court has no business here today except to punish the wrong-doer and to set free those who are brought to trial without foundation. Its the public purpose is for the enforcement of law and the administration of Justice. Now. this fundamental principle, I think, will be admitted—that people like to live in those communities where rvance of tow. And ill or has see a crime committed and the per petrator escape without even a trial, that they shall go and commit the same act or-even a worse act. And there cornea the real test of char acter, the essential part of your duty, that you shall leave no one unpresented on account of friend ship or affection. It is not easy to bring in a verdict against your friend, but the real test of a citizen la to stand np for duty in the face of friendship and to hew to the line. It la a matter of patriotism. And 1 tell you that I believe that is the fundamental cause of lawlessness and the spirit j/of lawlessness. The law-breakers are pot brought to jus tice, and when they ane brought to of anything should, of IU live in vwruauj ~ - there is an observance of law. An people do not tike to live god wi not live where thbre Is violation < contempt for law. ^very man ^ i right to liberty and the right of I tria j as I *ee sometimes, they are security fer his property and the[ not But that is part of a right to be secure in the pursuit th# duty the grand jury# That is of happiness and te tha pos- ^ roalt „ for you to think about and session of property; and in * u ~* county where there is no \w-1 Now j don - t think speot for those rights, the grand jory I l8e eK cept that you should **-- * those persons those rights. People do not ,nvest I duty to present the wrong-doer for their money where property to not trial aUd the duty of ,he petit Jury secure and no people can prosper I convlrt upon proper evidence and where there is violation cf law. If til e duty of the court to sentence, a man has to lie down at night and ofUn ttK , y have been put into lio awake for fear he will be stuck- aBd it lg th e duty of the gov- ed by robber*, he is not going to live ernm ent to aee that they are hu- in that community long. And It 1* maiiely treated and 4t ia the doty of the same way with property. The the yrand Jury t0 ^ that the efrfi first thing for a grand Jury to do i»| C e rg m charge of these wards of the bring before the court (epyrse look after our county chain- rsons who have vlo 1 ®^ . a w s and our jail. While it is your to look at the whole situation and not only bring to the court the pre sentment that is handed to you te any case where the testimony war rants it, but you have the authority on your own motion to present any body for the violation of the law, whether It is brought to you by the Solicitor or not. If It comes within your knowledge that the law has been violated and a person should be brought to trial, you don’t have to wait for the Solicitor, but you may present it to the court and then the Solicitor will prepare the Indictment. Yours powers are plenary. You may bring the pr* sentment upon the information of any other p<|-son, without having to go before a magistrate or being directed to do so by the Solicitor. Your powers are made so full In order to meet that provision of our tows that the law-breaker shall be brought to justice, and in your rounds throughout the county, if you find a violation ef the law and that the public security is being un dermined. it is your duty to bring itabefore your bo<ty and then pre- setft ij to this court. So that, one of the highest duties of the grand jury is to bring to trial those per sons who ought to be brought to trial. There can be no happiness in our county, in our State, unless th* county are treated with proper con- sidejatien. Now. of course, that doe* not, mean that they are to be allowed to Idle away their time, nor does it mean that they are to be fed on delightful and delicious delica cies, but it does mean, gentlemen of the jury, that these wards should not be taken advantage of and that they should not be brutally treated and that they should not be required to work under conditions of hardship that would impair their health.. It is a notorious fact that the criminal doe* not live, I believe, according to statistics, over eight years. You can draw your own conclusion. The con clusion that I draw is that the con ditions of work are such that his constitution is undermined and it is not long before tuberculosis sets in or some other disease that soon Car ries him off. We want to see that the convicts of this county,are treat ed humanely, but at the same time, we must not interfere with the offi cers in charge so as to affect the dis cipline, because there must be dis cipline. but 4hat discipline must be administered in a humane way. Then our jail should be sanitary as well as our convict camps. The State wllj not let a private citizen maintain a place as a breeder of dis ease. but will condemn it as a nui sance and this court will vacate it. flUSBANB IN BESPAIR SICK ALL HER Lift wife had Leased eating, AND SUFFERED CON TINUALLY HAS APPETITE NOW Mrs, J. H. Johnson, of No. 7 Char. Jotte street. Charleston. wif e o; j" H. Johnson, the well known engine > r on tha Seaboard Air Line Railroad, after having received medical adv: In Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee at different intervals since she was fifteen years of ag e to the effect that she was suffering from ulcerated stomach and gall stone, give* a vivid illustration of what Tanlac Is daily accomplishing for like sufferers. She had stomach trouble all her H-i^ k "A br0U * ht t0 ^ and | Then the State certainly would not would not be Itself c** of prog-es« and develop™- tit rf people, and n* has been said te- ore. one of the indices of <he (To rres* of q people is the condition of its roads Now. J think are W be congratulated upon the fact ttv>t all our roads are being developed verv rapidly every year, hut they re not being built fast enough. An other thing is that sort*'of our peo ple Imagine that as soon as a road is built, there Js no use to bother punished for It. I find here in the Jail report that there are four persons charged with murder and I find on the calendar here that there are two cases of mur der. That means that there are six people who have been Tent to eter nity. or at least, that six pepole are charged with having sent people to eternity. One of the cases has been on the calendar for some time; the other one is new. That six people should be before our court at this term chfrged with the awful orim* of murder I think should be suffi cient to make us pause. There must be somethirg wrong In our system of government or else in our admin istration of justice. That six hu man beings, assuming that each one is presented for killing one apiece, should be presented to this court for the wrongful killing of a fello* human being* p ix ln a ahort t „ rTr ike this! Now. of cou-se, it is not the province of the court to comment on the fact*. ^ In fact, the court has nothing to dp with the fact*, but th« bald statement is before the cour - be a party or would not guilty of keeping its convicts in a place where disease would be bred. The grand jury should view these camps and the jail. Y want to ask you to go Into every nook and cor ner and see how they are and report back to this court, as you usually do. I know nothing about these conditions. I assume that they are all right. It is not your business to assume that they ar* all right, but it ia tour business to find out if they are. Then, again, of course, you will fbok after our public buildings, and, as I said before, our public office*. There are a great many other things that I could call your atten tion to. but you hav<» been already charged generally, and 1 shall not take up any further time life, waa prone to fits of vomit,n^ and was absolutely lacking in apa tite. After taking only two doses of Tanlac. she declares, she ete the first food that she had eaten n -ix- teen weeks. *T suffered from stomach t:o'ulO all my life,” states Mrs. Joiin?on. “When I was two year* old I v.;i~ given.up by my physician to die. and again when I was fifteen >*. •- old. I have had. according to emin ent medical advice in Virgin.a. North Carolina and Tennessee. gaM stone and ulcerated stomach, an ! they finally, said an obstruction in my stomaTh. On consulting medical advice in Charleston, 1 was Inform ed that it was impossible to state / Just what the trouble was. “My most distressing symptom \ was vomiting.' For sixteen week< ' before I took Tanlac I had been un- / able to retain anything cn my stem. / ach—not even medicine or raw eggs. I was told that 1 would have died for lack of nourishment if I had not been so stopt. I weighed 227 pounds before I took sick, and I have really lived on superfluous flesh for bodily nourishment. My husband had giv en up all hope. One evening re cently I remarked how badly and emaciated I looked. Mr. Johnson burst out crying, snd said. ‘Lucy, don’t say that. Just think! One month ago I thought you would die. I had given np ail hope, and here you are nearly well.’ \ “It is true. I have taken a little over three bottles of Tanlac. Aft* r taking only two doses—now, don’t laugh; it is a fact—after l had tak en two doses I ate the first food I had eaten in sixteen weeks. I con sider that wonderful indeed. I am now eating nearly everything I want. I hate not vomited since 1 took my second dose of Tanlac and I am feeling much stronger. ”1 certainly do recommend Tan- toc for what It has done for me. 1 had nearly given up hope, and Tan- fac has done what I didn’t think any medicine or physician could do. is simply wonderful. 1 cannot *.i> enough good things about it.” Tanlac. the master medicine, is «old by John M. Klein in Walterborn exclusively. Price: $1.00 per bott; straight. tie CASTOR IA For Infant* and Children In Usn For Over 30 Years Always bears -h* Signature at A ! v ' r u c u- t ~ , r 1 i J r C'C0 r Here are six people to be tried for murder. And I say that Mate hear | alone is sufficient for the grand Jun to feel the need of an inve*tlgat‘or of the condition.® under wh.ch vo Hvs. • . Now, the only way. a* I see it. to prevent crime, or at least, the -most effective way to prevent crim*. is fo- the evil-doer to be broupht to .riol to be brought to justice 1 do not think that there i«vso much in th (HfEK-NEAi5 COFFEES Bey. . [very Te-sr Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bennett, of Ehrhardt, accompanied by little Misses Louise Freeman. Mrs. Ben nett’s sister, and Katharine Robert.-, 6t Ehrhardt. passed through Wal- terboro last week en route to Char leston for a few days trip. 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