The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, February 12, 1919, Image 2
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The Press and Standard, jValterboro, S. CL
Wednesday, February 12, 1919
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Press and Standard
Tte Master sat by the roadside,
Far away from the tows sad its din;
Aa4 the Pharisees brought (or Judgment,
A woman o'ertakea la aia. ""
A woman whose same had been tarnished,
And blnckened by tongue and by pen;
JVboae erery misUke had been publishe«
By n rabble o( self-righteous men.
And they told of her life full of errors.
With many an *Tve beard" aad "they say,’*
Bat she stood mute, nor era- made aaswer.
Nor turned from the Master sway,
gb# stood thus aecused^sad sad friendless,
. With no one to take her part,
Aad rusted her ease with the Jurist ‘
■ Who judges the human heart.
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The Master sat listening in silence ,
To epch charge by the rabble bold; .
Aad the law laid down by the lawyers.
With precedent bonry and old;
But.He spake nerer a word nor a sentence.
As He gaxed on thfe throng pressing round—
Ho alone knows erery life-story-^ ; ^
Aad He stooped and wrote on tbe ground.
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wrote in the sand of the desert.
That no record might ever be made.
That no other eyes might behold the Unes,-
Nor tongue repeat what He said.
Aad the shifting sands of the desert.
As they tossed in tre playful wind.
Wiped out the words that the Master wrote.
And left no record behind.* . *
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Be wrote not on parchment nor paper; ,
He wrote not with pencil nor pen;
His words were tor the time and the moment;
For a woman and self-righteous men.
Blit the moral will.live through the ages,
. And forever as pattern will stand;
Teaching mortals to Judge kindly of otheri
‘ Aad write.of their errors In sand.
We know nought of what was then written.
For the writing ptsse<l with the day';
Hut the indictment penned hy'tire' Master
Caused the accusers to steal way.
Perchance, ’twas a tale of men's Honor;
Purchance, of their crime and their shame.
In which each self-righteous ^accuser
Saw written his own guilty name.
Or again, perchance, of the woman;
Of her life and her friendless lot;
Of the temptations spread out' before her;
Of the many hard battles she’d fought.
We know not on* word that waa written,
.. But here is u thought that's grand:
That the Master wrote with his finger,
And wrote In the shifting sand.
The aland'rous word, like an arrow.
Goon forth on an out-going track;
And the calumny, once It is spoken,
■ .Will Bevar, Be never, come back.
Then, let's carve others’ virtues in granite—
la roeka—that forever shall stand;
But If mt know aught of their, errors,
LWrlte these la the shifting sand.
E. C. Gottry, C,. K.. R S
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four pigs fi
will have to agree te
sire aad retara te oae <*f
> IhprpwatU
that the first Utter should be six
of the club win have the sow aad
for cartas for the oae pig for oaly
about tea months or at moot a year. While it will
be n good thiag for the beak. If the bank wished to
la" oa the propositioB. It Is eqamUy a good
thing for thf hoy. aad the hoy stands to make a bet
ter profit than the bank dees. • Bat. tke beak does
not intend to "cash la** on the proposition, hat Intends
to use the two pigs turned la to glv* to two boys la
the t««"« manner. Thus the endless pig club will
stock Colleton county with registered pigs in a short
bile. By all Aeons let the boys Join this dob
sad raise pure bred pigs. Outlaw the scrub hoe.
scrub cow sad scrub mao. Put is pure bred stock
(torn bog up or down.
Volt THE PEOPLE OF THE (XH XTRY
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WALTKRfKmo NKEIM BETTER MTRKKTtt
It is asid that there ia considerable opposition to
the continuance of the Home Demonstration work on
th^ part of the people of the country. We have
heard oolr a very few persons any anything against
this work, and these were not seemingly very de
termined is their opposition. As soon as they were
shown the advantages of the work they have admitted
that they 'were under wrong improsaiona, and wen:
away seemingly satisfied.
If we could get some one to express their opposi
tion in words,-and give some taaglble reason for it,
we woftild try to combat these ideas and render argu.
menu in favor of the work. But it is only a vague
rumor now and then which reaches us, with no rea
sons ntfsehed. This is a dangerous kind of anta.
gonial for. one Sever knows where he stands nor how
to meet his opposition. It is seldom founded »oa
reason. At the risk of proving tiresome, we desiro
to answer a few of the ideas we have heard in op
position. ?
Representative Langdale says that he thinks that
with three years of the work, it should be able to
ccptlnue of its own volition. . He seems to think
that the fact that certain girls have been taught
carries with their teaching enough impetus to con.
tinue the work even without an agent at all, Put for
fear that it might lag he favors one agent. Let us
look into this a moment. Had we not just as well
say that aw schools have been running for a number
of years, we could £hut down and have no school for
a year or so. - The pupils have been taught, and
many of them have been graduated from the school*
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of the county. The work of education #ias recehed
thereby sufficient impetus to carry it on for a few
years without any teaching. * So let its cut out all
appropriations for schools and stop this expenditure
end sax'e this mon«> for the county. Another
thought: The legislature has been meeting ’ for
many years amf seemingly has legislated on every
conceivable thing under the sun and over it; so why
not call off the legislature, for several years and give
the people a rest front law making and law repealing?
Can you not see the logic of this situation? If tim
reasoning is sound in dne it is sound in the other,
Rut the reasoning is not sirutjd, and the conclusion
t * ached by‘the le-islator is iaulty. . All the girls in
the county have not been instructed. . Other girls
arc grown up to need the same'kind of instruction'.
Many of these instructed have not concluded their
course. It is progressive, and requires four years
to complete the courMV The war has bOugnt new
conditions, and larger .fields for the girls and women
of the country, They need to keep intormed. A->
well stop preaching' because all the people hg\*•
heard a sermon. As well stop the physician from
practicing because every family has had to have him
once or twice.
Let us look at this work from another angle. It
in for the people of the rural districts particularly.
The boya and girls of the average country diatrici
In Colleton county shpuld have the same advantage!
a* those of any other county in this State ’or any
State in the Union. This work was started parti,
cularly for the people of the country. It has done
more them than any other agency the govern,
ment baa ever started. It has carried home comforta
to v. It hpa carried social life in remote sec.
lions. ‘ It has taught them how to save and produce.
It has added to the comforta of the home and to the
variety and healthfulnean of the food. H has enabled
women to come into their own in many inatances.
It has developed womanhood. It has been educa
tional. It has opened avenues of service to young
nomeft. It has proven inspirational to thousands of
It is for .the country.
Then, too, this is the only agency at work for the
girls and women: The men and the boys have the
farm agents, and dozens of other ag'eneies to help
them in their problems. The boys corn clubs, tht*
boys pig clubs, the boys calf clubs and the boys sheep
clubs ail are liberally 'supported. But for the g-irL
and the women i f the country only the home demon
stration agents work. This being true, does it not
seem iff tie enough to do for them? The girls of
today must learn to do many things girls never need,
eu 10 know before. Thi-* opens up a field of service
Big Auction Sale
At Ehrhardt, S. C.
NEXT SATURDAY, FEB. 14th
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I will sell at my new barn 25 head of fresh shipped
MULES and HORSES and about 10. head of sec
ond hand stock. These stock were personally in
spected in Richmond and are good lookers, good
workers, right ages and are to be sold at your own
prices. DON’T MISS THIS SALE.
F. K. GRAHAM
EHRHARDT, S. C.
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We do not think a better time has ever come than
now to begin agitating a bond Issue for building’ bet. j gtrls in the country
ter streets in Walterboro. The present condition of
the streets here seems to prove that the system lol-
lowed in building them heretofore is a failure. Sexerul
of the most important htudness streets thave been
almost impassable f^ the two week*. Traffic !ih.<
Increased many times. Dirt surface roads or street"
Will not longer hold up under the strain. It t»
necessary that our streets be built of something nmn
durable. That this is true is evident to the most
casual observer.
Therefore, the only thing to do is to,, provide
means which will issure the permanent ty pe of con. I ami ol opportunity which *a# never dreamed of bc-
oruction. This ran be done in a town the size of M" r ** Many thousands have grasped these oppo:-.
Walterboio only by means of a bond issue. Jdst Rindtles'ln ,hi!< and Otle* .•»*«!♦“* and are making in
raw this Is in the range of possibility , and w® trust ‘It pendent livings. The women of the State have
that a movement will be started at once looking to b««*n discriminated against educationally long- enough,
the Issuance of a sufficient amount in bonds to pave J The boys have three State colleges and tlv* girls'but
with brick or concrete at least the principal business | cue Give them a fair chance.
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when “SHUBERT” is paying such extremely high prices.
“SHUBERT” Wants South Carolina Furs-All You Can Shin
For more than thirtv-five years SHUSF-RT* has been giving Fur Shippers an koMit and liberal anortmeat aariae the v
mark -t pricM-vrviine return* on- promptly-reedfiac “better •eretee"-“Qai«ker."
A “SHUBERT TAG ENVELOPE” on your shipment n*.ns "more »££■
(or your Furs- V ucker’’-“tb# bret aad prompt at SERVICE in die world" t
GET A SHIPMENT OFP TODAY. * /
SM IP YOUR PURS DIRECT TO.
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A.B.SHUBERT/«c
THE LARGEST HOUSE LH THE WORLD DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN
AMERICAN RAW FURS
25-71 W. Austin Ave.lhpt ^Chicago, U.S.A
The delegation could have idade the appropriation t ton, and in other counties, and only one at
end the ^people would never have known it, If nothing j C harity fifcould begin at home.
homo.
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Streets of the town.
The achool bonds will be retired this fall, and the
treasurer has sufficient milney on hand now with
Which to pay them off. Tht* will make it possible to
at least 920,00(1 of street bonds, and this
int will give concrete street* with curbs and side,
walks oa all the principal business streets of ttw
No, bonds are not popular, but r/m>4 streets arc.
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THE KSDLICHM CHAIX IMN CLUB
ISanaty Agent Rlaher lg. meeting with much ea. I home demonstration agent. He would crest?,
**®**® ,>M *t orgfipltlng the boys into hia endless I two additional commissioners (men l to act as a kind
fig club. Already he haa aecured quite a few mem. o f fifth wheel to the county government, and be of aj
from every section of the county. There are n’tioh use. So it cannot be the matter of mean*
•f boya yet who should Join, and they will •’Kh him. nor with any member of the delegation.
® tkl* method It ia poesbile for I nor with any person in the county opposing •» this
la the county to secure a registered pl< work.
without hutting up a penny In money. The boy J "Too much publicity has been given this matter.
Lastly, th* county, i* abundantly able to pay for
Ihi* work, and It should do so The additional ap.
propriation for the two workers in the county would
net cost over a thousand dollars to the county . Th *
delegation thinks nothing of appropriating thirty' to
ferty thousand dollars every year for raods an I
bridges. ’Court expenses come in for four to five
thousands, and every court more money is wasted in
paying witnesses and jurors that are never used than
this additional cost would be for the entire year.
Representative Langdale would cut off the license on
selling seed cotton, and this alone would pay for tfH<
had been said,” we wer^ told recently. Yes. that
Is doubtless true. Hut The Press and Standard did
not start the ball to rolling. The work was attacked
first "on the quiet^and .It Is equully true that the
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appropriation could have been cut off and the people
v ould never have known of it. The Press and Stand,
ard expects tt> champion those things which mean
the upbuilding of- the county, and the education of
the boys and girls of. the county. Wa do not intend
to sH quietly by'and see their rights taken from them
withoat'protesting: We do not intend to sit dtown
and let the boys and girls of Orangeburg county, of
Atrderson county, of Darlington county of of hoy
other county get things we need Just as >adly as they
do and not proteat. - Truth qf the matter ts we think
more of the boys and girls of Colleton county than
thoaa of any county in the State, aad we object to our
delegation’s making appropriation^ (pr Orangeburg,
Darlington, Anderson, and not for our county.We
should not be forced to help support throe agents in
Orangeburg county, two In Anderson, two in Darling.
At*e we right?
ANSWER THESE giESTIONS, PLEASE
Suppose Colleton county had no county farm agent
there are some persons iu the county who do not
think he is worth anything to the people of the coun.
\f. Who would order hog cholera serum? Who
would Inoculate your "raxor backs’* when-they are
dying of cholera? Who would order your fruit treea
at a saving o> two.thirda of the cost? ’ Who would
work up orders for tavern men t nitrate of soda at a
saving of 920 per ton to the farmer? Who Wuoid
secure registered piga for the boys who Join the
elubs. Who would offer advice on crop pests, and
secure expert knowledge for farmers problems?
All the above applies with equal force to the county
home dcmonstratlcn agent. Do yott not think »Le
women and the girls have'problems fust as important
to them aa tht above are to the men? Th« n write
yonr representative* not to curtail this work bn*, to
enlarge It ^ Make it worth while.
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