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' The man *ho poses afr'll* mode!
titlaen*ic bluest fake
'TB (own; ~ *
An excellent *ay to *«t rid of a
piouch is to forget that yci^have
cne.
No wonder men of today are i»c-<
coming stoop shouldered. Th** 'ios-
i-ry displays keeps every male eye
o n n downward slant.
If the high cogt of white paper
io ter (ere-, Tove leiiers can he Jn.d
r . 5,11, on any other <<>ltu
“No Illiteracy In 1920.*
By. k»*eping
ssome p«H»ple
nhvwhere
everlastingly af it
eventnally never get
Wc don’t chatge for smiles at this
office. They are free every tim$ you
hand us a dollar and a half.
The ways of some women iu ' r T ast
tioderstanding. and some have n.>
ways at all. "• ‘ 0 ..
Map „,(pjidly helieves that he is
the master of Jtis own home. But
he's the only one that believes it.
Make It a war o„ the high cost of
living and you have out unqualified
approval.
Miss Kaiikln, the new congress
man. fs receiving more proposals of
marriage store her election than she
tan possibly ^rept.
There is always one way In which
you can achieve populartiy arirong
your friends. Ia*nd * *
Do your Christmas shopping any
old time you like. Nv
You may not know it. but there’s
a lot of good in thls'world just the
same.
The principal activity of many
public officials consists of passing
the buck to the other fellow.
Thete are so many investigations
■of the high price of foodstuffs it
gives the ctissCs an excuse to boost
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We are wishing you a Merry
Christmas in ample lime for it to
g,-t hark to us in shape of a turkey.
Make it a home Chrislmiis for
home people ^jth horn * monry In
the home town.
The South Carolina Federation J
of Women’s Club® has adopted this
as a slogan. In 1910 this-State w as
one'of two having more than I'S pe,;
cent of illiteracy. The other.state was
Louisiana. South Carolina had mor-
than 50.000 adult white Hliteratee.
To accomplish this laudable purpose
It will be necessary for everybody to
Join in this movement and assist '
the good women in this great wgrk !
This accomplishment is .not.' how- j
ever, Ira possible. A few years a*o
Kentucky had a greater problem,
and in t*o years, more than 40.-
000 illiterates were taught to read
and write through the system of
night schools. But Kentucky es
tablished an Illiteracy" commission
headed by Miss Cora Wilson Stew-
aiTaf ifr fieair.'ttfff TiirntKtred'lrt-;-
with financial aid in her great work,
touth Carolina could well afford to
follow the example set by .her si 1 -
ter state.
- This State has rot 'been entirely
idle. There were last /whool year
!•» of Ihese night schools with s-u
enrollment .of mor«* than 5.000 pu
pils. Nearly , nil of these were t.i
mill towns where the people were
easy of .a««»"*s, ifud i,, many c..
the mills made the necessary prot
vision for teaching these adults at
night. The wu! problem Is how (<•
road, the ^literates in the turlf
districts. Kemote from tBe centers'
of education, then' is indeed a ffft’a.
work t.»i the self-sacrificitjir'teach
er to perform.
Colleton county h*s her share »f
these Ullterates^X Colleton county
hub no night 'sclutol for them, and
so far as we ran learn nothing at
all ban been done looking to the
estahlishmeut of such a school. If
'olleton's illiterates are to be
taught to read and write by 1920
it is time for a slart to he made.
Surely there .1^ in this . eounty
teachers who are public spiritej
enough to make a start along^ these
lines, and begin with the New Year
o wage a campaign for this great
work.
Miss Mary Eva Hite, whom manv
of us know so pleasantly as recent-
l connected with school Improve-
icnt work In this State, is now
♦ aching In Aiken county. Last
ear she organized n, night school
in the Bethea (/immunity of that
ounty, and in addition, to her work
as teacher of the day school she en
rolled 31 pupils in her night school,
among whom was one man over fit*
ears of age! Although he lived
several mil** from the school house
he won the prize for attendance for
the year. Hiss Hite also caused to
he built in that, community a mod-
in school house and held a com
munity fair, which \ excited • much
favorable comment. w
Are, there not some Miss Ev .
Hite's in Colleton county’s schools'.’
This great work must be done,
and vet there has been no meeting
of the teacheis nor of the trustees
of the county this fall to discus-
these important matters and plan
for doing ■ some of them. Perhaps
thein will be more activity after
the New Year.
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It is an easy matter for pdtne men
to ’’love their neighbor**'—provid
ed they are young and beautiful.
Should Future Generations Pay?
Connecting County Seats.
The Plena and Standard desires
heartily to commend the effort on
tl^f part of the Southern Carolina
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Amociation to connect the four
counties by good roads. Colleton
must build,.in order to ae?empBsh
this, rbads to connect wit*' *wo of
these county seats. One of th>y»e
toads has already h*»*'i bull* pearly
all the way to the HamplX county
line. Just a little •ill com
plete this road T"X 'dh 0 ’ courBy
to which we must build is ?\».uHort
Ind Inndentjafly Jasper through
the same. f(»ad Only about l'» to
12 mile* of road need tur’.w work**
ovei to a(»y*mp!ish .this. T o road
Ao Hemdersonville Br now fairly goo«l
and B would not l>e an expensr--
propoaition to construct the road
from Hendersonville to the Salke-
hatehle ptver bridge at Yeroassee
TVe tryt^t this will be undertaken
at an egrly date.
The other counties will soon be
tin, to build their portions of these
roads, and Colleton must meet them
o n the line
In addition to the local travel he
tween the four counties a good roat
via Hendersonville, Yemassee
Rldgeland will be on the branch of
the State Highway between Char
leston and Savaanah. which only
awaits the two bridges over the
Rdisto river and the Savannah river
to make one of the short euta and
popular routes between these two
points, aa well as for (raffle from
more remote sections which would
be attracted by the picturesque and
beautiful scenery of the mute, as
well aa by the historic aftaqclatlons
of many points of Interest In this
section. •*. 'j
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l„ all large public undertaking.-*
where permanent improvements
were sought to be made ' it- has be
come a custom to issue long-ti\n<'
bonds in order to secure the money
with which to finance the work.
Probably nine-tenths of the conn
ties of nine-tenths of the States of
the Union is bonded to a greater or
less extent, and scarcely a city or
.♦Own of any Importance In the land
hut cg/ries its bonded debt that hak
gone to pay for public utilities.
But In many cases the advocates
of the bond issue have had hard
fights to carry their project
through One of the most serlou
objections “ has always been from
the man who “doesn't believe .in
addling a debt on future genera
tions.”
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'Ne* let us see about this Sup
pose, for instance, our county ha
no railroad For generations our
ancestors, and wo ouruelves, hav
laboriously hauled In our supplie
and hauled out our products, real
izing. when all expenses were met.
but ' a meagre pittance for our
year'a work
Rut a railroad Is projected and
we are told If .we will bond our
eounty for a few hundred thousand
dollars, it will be ^>ut through Th‘ =
we do. Now artses the object'or
that we have placed a heavy debt or.
posterity.
Have we?
Yes. But at the same time we
have given posterity the means t»«
pay that debt and then he infinitely
better off than we and our father’:
were.
Compare for a moment the dlf-
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shipp.nc point. Do you see the
enormous saving we have effected
for prosperity in bringing the road
to their doors?
Again, take the question of good
roads. The same reasoning will
hold good there. Whereas we and
our fathers toiled through mud and
mire to drag fifteen or twenty bush
els of grain to market, our sons can
hitch up an ordinary team and tak«
One is as tender and as lovinig as
when the world was young, but the
twentieth century finds too many of
the human race bent, upon pleasure,
and profit, and revenge, and forget
ful of the beauties of life as seen
through eyes that are better and
holier than ours. ,
It is with this knowledge that the
people of our little community ap
proach the Yuletide time, when all
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a load of two or thr.fe thousand should be sunshine, qnd gladness
pounds with ease and In much less and Joy.
time than we needed.
And so on through the list of all
permanent public improvements.
But the work should be perman-
ent, or at least as nearly perman
ent as our best Judgment can make
it. When we have huLMed to the
best of our ability and have lain a
groundwork on which our children!
can continue to build J we have not
only benefited ourselves and not in-
>ured them, but we have benefit'‘d
them, and made It possible to at-
tain to condittons that were ent tc-
ly beyond our reach
A debt o n posterity is Jusst. pro
vided It represents a tangible asset.
Yuletide Again
is with us
The Yuletide -season
again. - v X *
It is with us. but not of us, for
much of the earth knows little of
joy today.
Upon many millions of people the
ference In their condition, and ours sun shine* as brightly as In the days
before the road waa built. The ar-Jof old. but It# Inatre Is dimmed by
orage county la about twenty-five the shedded blood of suffering hu-
But if we may not sway the re.-t
of the world. If our voice be noi
heard beyond the confines of our
firesides, we yet may look upward
with a feeling of gladness and
thankfulness that the horrors that
are engulfiing the rest of the world
have at least passed us ‘by
We may b< thankful that we„
have even an hour of pea< e an 1
prosperity for our country, though
no one knows whe n the witheriinr
hand of the blight of the century mu
be spread over our own fair land
Det us be joyful today, but let
us-mingle that Joy w ith con7(. $*ion
for the stricken ones of other lands,
to whom the Yuletide season is but
a mockery a»d an agonizing delu
sion. ‘• f
THE COLLETON BANKING COMPANY
OF WALTERBORO, 8. C.
THE OLDEST BANK IN COLLETON COUNTY. ALL
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
1 our Money will Grow In Our Havings Department.
DIRECTORS:—John F. Lucas. H. W. Black, Jr.. Paul Sanders.
R. LUDLOW FRASER. Cashier.
THE FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
OF WALTERBORO. S. C. / / v
Resources ..? .1310,000.00 ’
All Banking Business Solicited. Special Attention to Savings
Accounts, Large or Small.
R. H. WICHMAN, „ I. M. FISHBURNE, A. H. WICHMAN
President. ^ * Cashier. / Vice-President.
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BANK OF- SMOAKS
miles wide. Suppose that repre- manlty.
seated the distance te the nearest The benign smile of the Divin-
(Y»ngh Medicine | r t hiMr»'
Mr* Hugh Cook Scottsville
Y.. says: “About » te vears ♦.
when we were living in Garhmt *
Y..- 1 doctored two of tny chi’ r
suffering from colds with Chatr » £
Iain’s Cough Remedy and four
Just as represented in every w a
promptly checked their coug r
find cured their cold* quicker *•
anything I ever u**.t. • Ohtair »
everywhere.
SMOAKS, S. C.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
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SAFE. PROGRESSIVE. ACCOMODATING
. H - ' ARAV a. EUGENE YARN,
President / Cash lor. Vice-Presidont
Cashier.
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FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK
OF COTTAOEVILLE. 8. C.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS Ill jjn «o
r-lfcRl BAN KINO NEED FOR BUSINESS PKOPI E
^ Prlrfdi! 8, W ‘ * WILL18 ’ B. O. WILLIS. M. D.
President Catht*. _ Vice-President.
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