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PICKENS--THE-GEM4 OP TH ' O T I L l( PA E OF t'1C KEN VOLUME 51-NUMBER 0 PICKENS, S. C., NOVEMBER 17, 1921 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR PRAISES PICKENS COUNTY SCHOOU Mr. D. L. Lewis, state superviso of rural schools who recently spen a week with different' schools in Pick ens county, has submitted to the stat superintendent of education the fo towing interesting report of his visi here: .Nov. '?, 1921. Ilon. J. E. Swea-ringen, Cohlmbia, 'S. C. Dear Sir: Belo* is given -ummary -of schot conditions 'in Pickens County, as see by me' during week ended Nov. 5: On Tuesday '1 visited the Easle Grammar and High school. Thi school, under the supervision of J V. McElveen, is progressing finely On Wednesday, 'Norris school, fiv teachers; Cateechee, four teachers and Six-Mile Academy, ten teachers were visited. On Thursday, Dacusville, thre teachers, and Maynard, a splendi four-teacher 'building in process o erection, were visited. 'Thursday af ternoon was spent at the Picken County Fair at Easley. On Friday 'Oolenoy, a four-teache school, and Hagood Nos. I and 2, two teacher buildings in process of con struction, were visited. Saturday we attended the firs meeting of the Pickens County Teach ers' Association. The country schools of Picken: county are among the best this fa: visited by me. '1t shows that Pick ens county in the past has had effi cient and capable educational leader ship. This efficient leadership is go ing to be continued under the preseni county Superintendent. The number of one-teacher schoob in the county is reported as twelve There are sections of Pickens coun ty where, on account of physical con ditions. the one-teacher school is q necessity. It is well, however, foi school folk to realize that the one teacher school cannot educate th< children; it may perhaps save a com munity from illiteracy, but this i. about all. One unfojtunate thing out the one;-teacher school is, that it makes' people think they hav< something in the way of a schoo when they have nothing. Too often, the one-teacher schoo is only a monument to the prejudice of communities-prejudice in favoi of one's own community, and aganisi a neighboring community. Countr3 people everywhere must be made t< see by cur educational leaders that th6 one-teacher school cannot, from its very nature, suffice for the ed ucation of the country children. When country people are informed as to what is best for their children, they are always glad to take steps to im prove existing coniditions St att Supt. Swearingen says, "if you in. form the people1, then you can trusi the people." The great task of 01ui edlucat ional leaders is to inform th< people as to wvhat their children neet in the way of schools. The peoph will respond. Tlhe first great work, therefore, ih treduce the number of one-teachiei sehcols as far as practicable. Thili will necessitate consolidation. Wher( consolidation is attempted, it is bet ter not to stop) with the two-teach(1 school which, while much better tham Oh one-teacher school is still noi1 what our country chihiren must have possible, enough territory to su pport elevent h grade subjects. With college try children, if they wish to ente college, either to attend a good fou GIr miore teac'her school riunninj eight m' nths, or a high school. It is wvell for two-teacher school to be consonlidlatedl i nto four-teacht schools for the reasonts given aborv The fouir-fkacher school should be th standlardl sought by every countr' egmmunity. Of course, wh'len cor solidlations are madec, somebodyi going to be inconveniqe~led with in apect to location, but the person thu inconvenienced should reaIi ze thi consolidation -Is a give-andl.take pre V cess-one must be willing to give something in the way of convenience as to location, in order to get some thing much better in the way of a school. Pickens County, on a-count of its ,large white population,and the fact that the population is fairly dense, is an ideal county for consolidation of most of its territory into schools of at least four teachers. The en tire county has splendid roads being built, therefore it will be much easier to reach the sehtols than it was formerly. Pickens county schould also have I some centralized high schools. The a ideal country school system would - have a centralized High school within ' reach of every country boy and girl. c This would require ' he location of a centralized high school every ten miles apart. The three or more dis e tricts Maintaining such a high %chool would maintain their present schools , through the seventh grade, but would co-operate in sending their higher grades to the centralized high school. I We are not going to give our coun f try boys and girls the education they - deserve until we give them the oppor tunity to attend a high school. The nearest approach to such a high r school is the rural graded school of -. four or more teachers mentioned - above. We must 'try to educate more ade a quately our country boys and girls. They are the coming men and women who are going to save the State and the Nation. it has been true in the past, it is going to be true in the future. , They are taught to work therefore they know how to carry responsibility. They take great in terest in the Church, the very founda tion of our present-day civilization. I When these boys and girls grow up to be strong, capable manhood and womanho(d, with their idealsof right derived from their Church training, and their familiarity with hard work and responsibility, they make our very best citizens. The towns and -cities are educating their boys and girls, but the environments are such that it is much more difficult to make good men and women out of them. -fThe problem of the town and city boys and girls is a very serious one, becoming more serious every day, and it behooves town and city parents I and teachers to try to find a solution to it. The best. place in the world to rear boys and girls is the country. For this reason, the country must. be made more attractive to people. The country people should get better fi nancial returns for their hard work, social conditions should be made bet ter, which, with better financial re turns, would be possible, with good roads and automobiles, and the coun try schools must be sufficiently good to enable country boys and girls to eniter college from~ them. This idleal for the country is high, but it is the idleal that Pickens county should seek to attain. The teaching in the schools observ ed vlas good. Reading in the primary gradest' has greatly improvedl durinig the panst few years, owving to the mani ner' in which primary readin ~g has been stressedl by edlucators. Reading in the inltermedliate gradles, howvever is still very poor. It is being too mutchl neglected'( ir, (irderl I) teach~ other less5 important suibjects. Owing to this neglect of reading, pupipus in the inftermed(liate gradels Iind t heiri sc hool wo'(rk harid on acc'ountii of not be iiihr able to get the thought from t heir lesss. become dIiscou raged, and drop (but (of school. Jlust as much stress shoulId be placed on reading in t he rintermiiediaite grades as in the primary I girades. S S.ell ing should be both oral and wr itten. t he oral for ext ensive w'ork, :in odr to acquire a vecabulary, the I, wr iftten for inuteni)ve workt. All1 writ - ten work above the fourith grade r shoul b dlone wvith pen and ink. r Not slielent(1) stress is laid on wvrit.. ten anlss naithmetic, Pupils should write the analysis so as to S show that. t hey undlerstandl every stell r of a prolem. .Some teachers are't very car'eless as e to theo spokenl and writ ten English of y their pupils. This is inexcusable. - fEven worse is t he very (carelesus habit .of teachers themselves in their use -of English before their pupils. a Teachers hav'e been heard to use th( .t past participl for the pat tense, 01 vie vera. Use god rEnlsa na I[ROLIN[URMA Deer Pedro: Well I seen another one of them football games. What I mean is I shure 'nuff got to see- this one. 1 didnt have to stand up this time and have peepul steppin 0n my corn and when I hollered they (thought 1 was hollerin about the game when I wasnt thinkin about no game but how bad my corn hurt. I got to set down thanks to Mr. A. D. L. Etc. Barksdale who sent rile a ticket if I wood keep my mouth shut and not write no more offishul football dope but I am goin to compermize with him and write this and agree to quit witch will make it agree bull to everbody but I have .to thank Mr. B for one of the most delishus P. Ms. since Milwaukee seized to be famous for it was quite sum game as us sportin writers sometimes nonchantly remarks. You know it was the Gamecoks and the Purpul hurrican what was playin for the football champyun ship of the grand old palmetter state what reaches from the sun kist peaks of Pickens to the sea swept shores of Charleston and from the turbulent Savannah to the Ncrth Carolina line and I wanted to be newtrul but as the Lord spews them kind outen his mouth I decided to cone out on the Lords side and holler for the hurrican but it looked to me like they was also some very good pepul hollerin for the Gamecok boys and they shore did give me the dickens goin over and made me look like a boob witch I know you will say it wasnt hard to (lo but con in back they aint said nuthin yet and I didnt say nuthin neether con in back caus it was they car and it woodnt been polite for me to disturb them and be sids they was four of .them and just one of me and they looked like Mag gie when Jigs is around. Them boys said the gamecoks would raise more wind flappin they- winga than the pu l.ul zefer wood and the purpul boys was just little old babtist preachers what coo(nt do nuthin but pray and sing but I dont think these gamecok boys like the tunes they sing. Well Pedro the reason these birds is such good proffits is cause im gin to be the next ling of Eng land. What relly did happen was that hurrican blowed the gamecok feathers wrong side out and made it look like a frizzul chicken and the breeze give sum of the boys new mlona111 a11(1 took away they new money if all reports is true witch I have no doubt they is. I thought I know ed sumthin about this here football business as I is seen two games be fore including the battle of the cen tury between the hur rican and tigers! but I reckin I dont as 11 simpathisers has told me how the gamecok lost and they all told me (Ii ffrunt so if they is 19i ways to lose .that game it is too1 complykatedI for me and I have sent ini my rezine as5 sportin edl to the paper but .iust between me and you I think I km(.w why they lost but I ainit a goin toi say' cause sum of insist oii your pupils' using.' good Eng lishi. Tloo n'any teachers?1 do( not prepare heir lessons before hand, in order to st udy the best methodsh oft pre sentIing the lessons to thle pupils. ThIis a tso is inexcusable. .\ost te(ache(rs do not ex pec(t and requoire enough wvork of the plupilIs. As a i'esuilt, the teachers Iry to do( w~hat little is done. t he Pu pilIs arie lazy and bad, and learn nothing. They should( be kept so busy that' they will not have time to be hadl. The educational situation ini Pick ('ns is mlost encouiraging. Al uch ex ('ellent worik has been done*, much re' mains~ to be (lone. The process is Ii ne upoii line, pie-, there a little. Pickens is one of the ixieatI whiteo counties, withI as goodl pleople as can be fouri~d in Ameria, progressive, v'ery religious, tiiueduca. tedl but eager' to learn and to do W~hat is best for their c~h ild(ren. It enni he c'onid~(ently predlicted that Pickens ('ounity uinderi the educational le'ader ship it has had and now has, is go-' ing to make wonderful progress. j GINNERIS RlEPORT' T1'here were I17,:350 bales of (cotton ginnled in Pickens county up to Nov ember I this year, as compared with: 9,82l hales ginned at the same (late lnst yner I FOOTBALL GAME] these roosters mite jump on me 'ind I aint no purpul hurrican. Well Pedro' I- injoyed the game anynriow and when one little feller made a good play I hollered a little and a nuther distingwished lookin gent what was settin by me said that was Waters the hurrican full bak and I says huh and he says Waters full bak. Well I didnt say nuthin but ii seemed sor ter quare f.r a feller name Waters to be that way but I want to say for the boy that he looked as sober as any of them to me and a feller name Snipes made a bad play for the game coks and while I cant say I like to see anybody make a bad play if they has to be made Im glad Snipes made it cause I stayed out all night one time tryin to ketch sum of them Snipes birds in a sack and I aint caught none yet. Well Pedro as you is interested in cows you mite like to know that the feller that tells the purpul hurrican how to do it is name Laval the guy what makes de Laval cream sepperaters and when he got is all sepperated he called the cream the purpul hurrican and they aint no team around here what can skim it. And Pedro after the game was over they was a lot of noise bein made all around and so many folks I got lost from the ones I come over with but I lissened some and heard a big quietness over on one side and when I went over there shure nuff it was them and they was ready to go in fak they was anxius to go and they woodnt even stop ip town and let me get me a hot. dog they neednt think cause they didnt have no appetite I wasnt hungry but I didnt say nuthin as I remembered readin sum where that the creek is the better part of the valley so we cum on home with great gobs of gloom fil lin the atmosfear where we jurneyed. But Pedro mi tellin you honest now Gamecoks aint no bad name for that football team and you have heard of teams bein beat but not disgraced well thats them they got out there and played just like sons of this grand old Palmetter state wlat reaches (see above) ought fto ,ltny and dog my time if I way ;!t right sroud of the Gamecoks and P. hu r rican too. Well I cood do like the well knwn babblin brook about this here game but Pedro 1. better close & if you find me on the st. some night all beat up I want you to have all these Gam'ecoks around hk're put through the :t degree. Yours till the hurrican quits blow ii and the G. cok is crowing. Pete P. S. the score was seven 17) to 0 (nothing). P. S. Jr., With a lhobist president of the U. S. and a babt ist secy of state and a babtist gov' .f old S. C. and a baht ist football chamnpyun 1(d say these folks is raisenell this year'. huh? P'ICKENS SCHOOIS TO'( GETl L.AltG~E AMIOUNTr oF .\ONEY ('ounty Suplerintendent of' Educa tion F. V. Clayton priesenited to th State Supern t endlent of Educeat ion an (estimai~te ofI the state a id he woulId r'equest for thle schooIs' of IPickens' 'ounaty. The total requisit ion on the' State will amount to 875.9i:!.00. This' is the hiargest a moun t of non nv ever roequlestedl of the State fr~ om Pic kenis c'iot y. I ast year IPickeins cont r00 *ue The amulout~l asked thiis year' will abiout equal the amuoiunt of St ate tax - es we pay, andl if we( get it hack ini the form of aid foir the schools all lie taxes we pay in Pickens county will be s pent at huomie. Tlh is is in - -Ieed encou raging and shou hi miais (even more d1'.(eter'imi ned to puress i n to, ifrenter 'I things for' our sc'hools anad children i. PIC(K ENS COUI'NTlY F.\"A IEitS TO' G ETl $250,000 loose in P'ickens co~unty' this month and1( next through the l'edei'al Farm I..oani Bank. Al emibrs of the Easley as5(ciat ion arie niow r'ece(ivinlg loans from the bank and dur'ing this mont'h will r'eceive about $15~0,0J00. It is also expectedl that members of the Pickens association will receive about $ina non in loans durin Deem. COUNTY 'TEACHERS INSTITUTE He Held In Pickens Court house Nov ember 9-11. There will be a Teachers' Instituti held at Pickens,.court house Decem. ber 8th, 9th anji 10th. All the teach ers of the county are expected to be present and nu,eh good work will b accomplished. Supt. Clayton is now in communi cation with, some of the best educate men and women of the State with rt gard to teaching in the institute, an every etort, is being made tq mak it really wortlx vhile. It. has been stated that all th teachers who attend the institute fo the three days will be paid for th days they miss out of school, but un less they attend they will be expecte< to teach. It. is felt that the few days los out of school in attendance at the in stitute will be a greater gain in th sch.ol work than if at actual teach ing. The people of Pickens have gives their hearty endorsement and invita tion for the institute to be hed ii Pickens. They have p)ledged free en tertainment for the duration of th, institute, and are backing the pro ject with their whole hearted support Announcement will be made a some future time as to the educator who will lead the institute. MANY NEW SCHOOl. HUILDIN(G| IN PICKENS COUNTY. The following is a list of the schol houses built and being built thi scholastic year in Pickens county: Pleasant Grove and Town ('reek al ready completed; Maynard which wi be completed in a tew weeks; Hamt ton, Twelve Mile, Ruhanah, Iagool Holly Springs, Shady Grove, Pales tine, \Vclf Creek. Kings, Micea. An bier and Keowee are each havin another room built. to better accon m1olate the overerowd ing. Ma n more school districts Wished to some imlrovements this year but e account. of insufficient funds have hay to lpostp~one their huilding till anothe year. HONOl iHOILL NOlilIS GitAl)EI S('HOOL I" irst. (Grade--Martha Boroughs an Thelma Garrett. Second Grade-M lat tie Joe AleVWhoi ter, Frances Holding, James Whiten MAickler Whiten, Elzer .Johnston, liar Ohd Gaines and Flora Glover. 'T'hird Grade-"urman Billingsley ('lenison Hillingsley. Rtobert .Johnson Irene Gil.strap and l Thotas Horoughs Fourth (;rade--( arlyle ('hIayton an 111 Sixth Grade---Add ic Leet .4llnst (ion IIe en McIv'Vhorter and Willie (;rat Alullinax. - Sev'enth Grade-Alary~ ('4k, Way mani le'4Vhorter., Iriene lKelly ani HAl) SCiIAP'E (5lesses. .1. A.\. Gri1ffini .le TowI ~V ('harlie E'mersn and 0141lrightI lFeley all of Oconlee counlt y, were4 arriest (' ly Sheriff Roark and1( l'.liceemanl N'eu drun1k and disordeily. lIn maigis traite's court a11ll r fined4 $2.5 4arli firI;ed $25 add itional for I 'arrin ii oealil(ed weap)on and1( $50f miore fm disc5harginig firearmis upon1 the hub. lie highway. Half ai ga!!4l (of whis key was founid ill the car ill whliel they were riig. Thhe car* was c01n. fiscate(d anid each occu pant lounid ovei to higher couri t uponi a chiarge o1 trans portinlg v h iskey. Each nadk b)ond( ini the siimi of $200). The men werie comlinig toward P ickenis oni t he 1. ihierty romi14 antd ero aited (0on(s10iderab' exc itementi by sholoting aelong thle way as t hey 1rode Two~ werei( arreste:d wvithleouit troub Ie hut 1h 11'other tw ranP0 and; wVere (ebas ('d abou11t two mniles befor'e aught. ThIie I'l ('ly (11utrtt w~ ill S ig at Newry n'ext Saturda~ly ight and Sunl day morning, at Faiie i(wI Protestanit Methodist chiurc'h Sunday a fternioon at 2 :30, and1( at Zionl Sundi~ay nlight ait 7 :00. Tlh is qluartet is comnposed of the following singers: .John F. Lesley, J1. M. A bercrombi', W. T. Bolding anid Miss Nellie Redding, with S. C. A r nold soloist antd minnist SHORT ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST A Washington dispatch announces thit i commission has been issued to Rosa K. Winchester as postmaster at Sunset. Muny Pickens people went to the "Keewee Trail" pageant in Greenville last Friday and those who saw it say - it wis fine. The crowd which witness l ed the n'ammoth spectacle was esti e mated at. from 15,000 to 20,000 people. e Mrs. 'r. .1 Mauldin left Tuesday r for Charleston to attend the state L' convention of the D. A. R. She will - remain in Charleston until next week I when she will go to Batesburg to at tend the state convention of the U. t D. C. Mr. Ford Cox, that wily widower. went to( Greenville one dlay last week and from there went to his place near 1 Hendersonville. We understand that the Hendersonville trip was made with most interesting and pleasant - company. Keowee Lodge No. 79, A. F. M., held a special meeting Tuesday night at which time the second degree was conferred upon several candidates. Prominent. Masons from other towns were present. andt) relreshnmelts were served. A large nunher of Pickens county I people saw tihe football game between F lurman University and University of South Carol inn in Greenvile Satur -i day. The game was for the football clhifnnpionship of the state and Fur - mant wom by a secae of 7 to 0. Reuhen .). Stewart of the Pickens Mill village. has a Duroe-,lersey hog that weould take a prize at almost any fair. It is two years ol I and hogolo gists who have seen it estimate its weight at from 800 to 1000 pounds. (lo'rtainly it is an unusutl specimen and is beingj liokled ove' by iany Our god f'rienl Mr. Ed:1. (:astaint gut (IotVn his trusty rifle one (lay list (eel anmd deeided lie wtt.ed i a few spuirre Ils. lie went out and in I tw hou:: brl'o ught in fiftee. lig. ui'ing that if siqui rrels lilked nuts nuts mlust. like sqluirrels he brought ye edit or somie, and they were awful good. Acco'ding to the Greenville News, "Ilo'" Armstrong of Clemson was the only lman in the state who scored a touchdown against the Furman football team in 1919. "Hoo" is at present living in Pickens and is an engineer on the Pickens-Brevard highway. le was at star on the Clem sonI ,tL'am) several years. A tel1egraml re(ceivedl here Monday announEIIIced( the. marrPIialge (f Miss Eva Foreeiman i to Mr. lRichard Williami stoin, olf Lexington, N. C. Details (If t he marrii''iiage were' noit given iln thle te(legramlIl Tihe' bride is anI at tactivi daugh ter of Mr i. anid Mris. H. I". I reemn io(f near' Pickens and at. thle tim)e (If heri marr 'iiage' was a st uden~t at lhessie Tift College, For syt he, Ga:. Mr. Wiiliamst(on is ai trav.. i'Enlg nonh with headoquart ers in I eeniv il e. Th~e Sentinel joins wi VithI ot her i l end s ini e f feri ng congia t.uIa Mr's. TI. J1. MaubIn was an idleal hios tess last Saturm daiy aftern~oonl whien t he members (If t he local chapIter's of t he D). A. 1I. and I . I. ( wer'e de.. lightfully. enitertained in hIoor of tihe firist b irtIhay ofl thle folrm r rani tIa--gl tin Mis. Mauildini, dr'essed in blue geor'gette, wr's assisted ini reCeiving whit 'e goget e, thus I h' decoration vieI 'It. Qunantitie .4'of white chriIy I hie roomsI. A It erI anm in teriesting lit ermy irograml dinig wvhich Mirs. G;:.. IliH itt gave a few wVords of' greOt iny ro t'(i1Ih(e 1. I). C. to the D). A. U., thle gues('ts werle inivited1 into the~ diiiing r'o(IIn, whli('h was lovely with color1s (If'- blue and~ wvhite. Trho table had as5 a center'piece a lar'ge wVhite' birthdnay entke~ with bluie candle' and surr'oundedl by white chirysanthe mumslli. Delicious block cream andl IIound~ cnke wats 5Cerved. Coffee was poured by Mrs. J. Men Brue;