The weekly news review. (Florence, S.C.) 1922-1923, June 22, 1922, Image 7
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
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55 East Evans St. Florence, S. C.
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BRYAN A PROPHET
Whatever may be thought of Will
iam J. Bryan’s political stunts, it can
-lot be said that the illustrious Ne
braskan is not a prophet. His
theories advanced 25 years ago on
prohibition, equal rights for women,
inqome tax, became realities, al
though at the time Bryan suggested
these reforms he was branded ^s
.vildeyed and hair-brained. Time
nroved Bryan’s foresight was better
ban most people’s hindsight.
Therefore, the world at large will
-ive serious thought and reflection
o Bryan’s latest predictions, that na
tional and state laws will be enacted
to vindicate labor’s right to organize,
to bargain collectively and to per-
uade wage earners to join organiza
tions. 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
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The fellow who is always looking
for a snap usually lacks ginger.
ROBERTS GIVES BLOOD
Louisville, June—“Rod” Roberts,
champion of the Centre football and
all-American star in 1921, gave the
third pint of his blood yesterday, in
the transfusion operation in two
weeks in an effort to restore health
to his sister, Mrs. Kenneth Hum
phries.
Physicians reported that Mrs. Hum
phrics would need no more assist
ance from “Red” and that she soon
would be on her way to recovery.
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Every
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Remaining Day In June
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Howard Player Piano; original price $850; now .... $465
Aeolian Player Piano; original price $850; now $465
Siegling Player Piano; original price $850; now $465
Siegling Straight Piano; original price $500;
now - $287.50
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