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THE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW STATE HIGH SCHOOLS QUICKLY SIGN COLLEGE FOOTBALL STARS BETTER ATHLETICS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ASSURED AND OFFICIALS DETERMINED, IT SEEMS, TO KEEP THEM ON PAR WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS A few days ago we ran across an old friend who is now principal or superintendent of one of the finest schools in this section of the State. He remarked that he was here try ing to land an athletic professor and wanted a football man from the Cita del. In the course of conversation some rather interesting facts were brought out. In these days it seems that young man who graduates from col lege and decides to enter the teach ing profession has something of hard royr to hoe if he does not hap- to be a good athlete, and this Florence Lad Takes Honors GEORGE P. McCLENAHAN LEADS AT GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY good football good baseball pen necessarily means player more than man. The high schools of the State are centering more and more attention on high school athletics. Never be fore in the history of the State have athletics held such a commanding place. The deeds of the Bantams in football, the great records made by McColl as well as other schools, es pecially in this section including Flor ence, Columbia, Sumter, Camden, Lake City, Branchville, Orangeburg and others in one or more phases of sports, have caused the high school officials to get busy. If they do not provide suitable athletic instructors and put out teams then their ath letes are going to other schools. There is no denying - this fact. As a result the high schools want men who can teach one or two sub jects and also take charge of coach ing the football and baseball teams Not many years ago before a young man finished college he signed up with some teacher’s agency to land him a position. Those who are not athletes may do this now but the football man especially, as football is in its infancy in the high smhools of South Carolina, is sought after and if he is particularly good his ser vices go to the highest bidder as there is great competition. This friends remarked that of the Citadel football men who graduate he did not know whether he would be able to land a single man of the necessary calibre as all of them had been signed up. It was the same everywhere else, he remarked, for he had also been after a Carolina man Not only do these men get the best salaries but everything possible for their conven- ienie is done. The writer does not know where all of the good football men who graduate this year are going but it has been announced or reported that “Dode” Phillips, the famous Erskine star, will teach in the Ander High School; McManaway, Furman captain and all-State quarter, goes to Bates- burg-Leesville; Lee Rhame, great Furman back, will have charge of the teams at Florence; Antley, the Citadel football and baseball star, it is said, will go to Springfield; Gres- sette, Carolina captain, it is under stood, will be in Asheville, N. C. And there are a host of others. The number of graduates in the high schools of the State has been increasing rapidly every year and this year the total has reached a re cord figure. The high schools are improving their plants. That they should decide to give serious atten tion to athletics speaks weU for ath letics and means that the quality is certain to increase. That this in terest should center especially in football is a good omen for no game ever develops the school spirit, com munity enthusiasm or “pep” and fight as does the gridiron sport. The schools realize this. Football is strictly a high school and college sport. The action of the school heads in endeavoring to get experienced and competent coaches is a long step forward in improving the caliber of the games. Better football in South Carolina is an assured fact it seems. In this respect it is perhaps ap propriate to quote the remarks of President Thomas, of Penn-State University: “I believe in football because it fixes in every student the spirit of fight and the will to win It is all a mistake to say that the men on the bleachers get no benefit. They receive incalculable benefit in the spirit that surges through them in support of the team—the spirit of determination and irresistible at tack. “I believe in football because it infuses the college into a unity. Be fore the first big home game each year, the college is only a mass of individuals, but with the long yell that greets the team for its first big fight, a new and living entity comes into being. In the game the soul of the college is awakened anew, and he is no man at all into whose heart the thrills of the contest do not send cur rents of devotion and loyalty which will flow till his heart no longer beats.” in George Pinkney McClenaghan, a South Carolina lad, son of Capt. and Mrs. John C. McClenaghan of Flor ence was graduated June 12 from the Georgia School of Technology in At lanta with distinguished honors several departments, receiving the degree of bachelor of science in tex tile engineering. During the last year Mr. McClena ghan nas been cadet colonel, senior officer in the reserve officers’ train ing corps at Tech and Col. A. L Pendleton, the commandant recently presented to him the $5(T prize offer ed to the cadet who should accomp lish most during the year for the R. O. T. C. unit. Thetraining regiment embraces more lines of instruction than any other in the country, its courses leading to commissions in the infantry, ordnance, coast artillery, signal corps, motor transport corps and air service. The government equipment provided cost $450,000, large staff of regular army officers and noncommissioned officers is de tailed for military instruction and the standards are such that Tech is rated by the war department a dis tinguished” college. Mr. McClenaghan also won a place on the honor roll for scholarship and Phi Kappa Phi fraternities and also membership in the Beta Theta Pi and in the honorary military fraternity Scrabbard and Blade. He was pre pared for college in the public schools of Florence The class in which he was graduated nombered 198 students. Strange Clues Cause Capture Of Bootlegger Washington, June—Those who com municate with the spirit world have nothing on Uncle Sam’s force of dry agents. They are in constant touch with it And they have learned from long experience that the cunning of a Lupin, the keen deduction of a Holmes and the uncanny powers of a medium are vital if one must track the wary bootlegger to his lair. Almost any little untoward incident leads to the rum merchant’s arrest, as perusal of records in Commission er Hanyes’ office reveals. If a rooster and a goat, which have been sharing the same back yard sud denly engage in combat with the goat the losing ground, deduction Miss Europe is Seeking Future Husband in U. S. Washington, June—Miss Europe is seeking her future husband in Am erica. This is one of the interesting facts that will be set out in the re port of W. W. Husband, commission er general of immigration. The re port will show an excess of women mmigrants over men of some 11,500 during the year to end June 30. For merly the men far out numbered the Aomen, and Commissioner Husband believes the death of eligible hus bands due to war is responsible for the change. During the first ten months ended April 30, there were 124,563 males ind 136,048 females admitted. Dur ing the same period 127,748 male liiens returned to their native lands, compared with only 46,402 females. The latter figures are believed to in dicate the success with which Europ ean women have met in their search for husbands. More than 25 per cent of the immi- g.ants during the current year set- ,led permanently in New York State. Again the report will show that of the total number admitted, the larg est percentage is of Jewish extrac- .ion. Japan and China have been bene fited by the quota law for the reason that it is not applicable to either of .hese nations. If they were restrict ed to three per cent of their nation als as other countries are, they would be entitled to send less than 2,000 of their nationals each in the course of the fiscal year, but the “gentleman’s igreement” with Japan has enabled 3,815 to enter to date Despite the Chinese exclusion law, 5,451 have been admitted, under exceptions and special rulings. Under the three per cent limit act, the total number of aliens admissable this year is 355,825. Only 230.337 had been admitted up to Mhy 31. State Police Guard Jail Lansing, Mich.—A squad of state police today continued to stand guard at the city jail where George Straub alleged confessed slayer of Miss Alice Mellett, was held in safety last night as several score of Jackson men de manded the prisoner. Local officials also are on duty in all streets in the vicinity of the jail to disperse crowds or prevent demon strations that might lead to another attempt at violence. The band of Jackson men left that city by automobile late last night for Mason, county seat of Ingham county, where they believed Straub had been taken, but were informed enroute that the prisoner w - as still held at Lansing. They came to this city with the knowledge the prisoner was strongly guarded and no attempt was made to rush the jail, members of the band contenting themselves with Atlantic City, N. J.—Ectoplasmic! look at Straub who was routed from and other spiritualistic communica-'a peaceful slumber and brought into tions from the next world no longer, a corridor. Herold Mallett, brother satisfy Sir Arthur Coan Doyle. He of Straub’s alleged victim, led the visi has arranged for a complete radio tors, outfit to be installed in his home in Straub will be held here, it was in- England and with it he plans getting dicatcd, until his arraignment on a in direct touch with the immortals. charge of murder “I have been wondering if a knowl edge of radio would not help me in my psychic investigations,” he ex plained, “and now I am convinced it will. I do not know how much I can learn about it, but I am going to learn all I can.” This was after he had had the mys teries of wireless explained to him here. He heard broadcastings from Pittsburgh, Pa., and Newark, N. J., and was seized with the ambition to hear from places not on this planet. Radio Aid In Psychic Studies May Enter Potash Without Tariff Washington, June—Tiere was prac tical assurance here today that the efforts of Senator Dial of South Car olina and Senator Harris of Georgia to have potash placed on the free list instead of going through the tariff bill with a duty of $50 a ton as the Smoot bill placed it, have been successful and that hundreds of thousands of dollars will be sav ed the farmers this way. on issures the dry agents that the roost er must have imbibed of the same sub stance that encouraged a rabbit to attack a bull dog. And search of the premises reveal ed a perfectly good still. The same theory holds good when cattle anc swine appear to be suddenly stricken with the blind staggers, or birds flut ter to earth to take a quiet nap flat on their backs. The efficient cellar sniffers know ’.hat someone has been careless with their corn mash. It took enforcement agents quite while to figure why visitors to a cer tain saloon would select certain chairs from a row against the wal 1 and pay for the privilege. But it de veloped that each chair was an auto matic bar—the magohany ones for rye, oak for Scotch and white en- xmeled ones for gin. A cache under each chair contained a filled glass There was considerable speculation as to why one should pay 30 cents for a small drink from a liydrant. After a while they managed to have it produce white whiskey, One dry agent located a still by observing the peculiar antics of small fish in a mountain stream* He knew hey were drt^nk from eating mash thrown into the water There was a still on a little islam off the Florida coast. Agents knew !t was there but could not locate it. After nearly three months they dis covered that the moonshiners had -adio transmitting set in a tree and ^ach time they put out for the island vere successful only by being able o put the transmitting set out of commission. The Latest Out The latest style is called “The Pro digal Skirt.” It brings out the fat ted calf.—Judge. Increase Yield of Onion Crops Washington, June—Onion lovers can smack their lips in anticipation of a bumper crop this year. The commercial acreage of late on ions in twenty states, the Depart' ment of Agriculture estimates, is 43,- 325 acres, as compared with 42,370 acres in 1921. New York has 7,620 acres and Cali fornia 7,300 acres. The acreage in Texas has increased from 800 acres last year to 2,500 acres this year. Smart Boy Boy—I want to get some fly paper Storekeeper—Fly paper? Boy—Yeh, I want to make a kite. Octogan Soap, large size, 4 for 25c Caraja Coffee T 25c All This Week Quality Groceries M. H. GALLOWAY 55 East Evans St. Florence, S. C. 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These rights will be secured, Bryan promises, and the public will approve. Imagine the picture of horror by ')ig business when it sees organized labor gaining its rights through pop ular will. Bryan does not say these reforms will be won over night. Oh, no, it means years of persistent ef- ort, and concentrated political effort by labor, in which United States sen iors and congressmen will be made to respect the ambitions of “a” ma jority. As it is, senators and con gressmen pay little or no attention to labor’s demands unless the political distret is close and one vote may de cide an election —Printing Trades Bulletin. Made shapely in the newest styles, we have these in flat heels, low heels, baby louis and military heels. 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