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Chlorosis Green Sickness Delicate girls who are approaching the age of womanhood are usually subject to this disease. They are pale because the blood Is weak and watery. Their complexion has a sickly greenish cast which gives the disease IM name. They have no vitality and If exposed to any unusual excitement, eices'dva labor or cold dampness are liable to contract some disease (hat will ' ^astrously effect their whole future lives. It Is a most critical period. The right remedy to relieve this condition and bring back the rosy hue of health is DR. SIMMONS Squaw Vine Wine It Is a palatable remedy, a fine, pleasant tasting medicine. Its agreeable flavor, however, is no criterion of its efficacy. It does the work expected of it more promptly than the harsh, bitter tasting medicines. It begins the restorative process with the first doso and if used for a reasonable period, the misery/weakness and pallor disappear, the spirits rise, the appetlto becomes good, the Jfeep sound and restful and the thin, vitiated blood Is revitalized and goes coursing through the veins, carrying r-w life, strength and energy to all parts of the body. Sold by Druggist* and Dealer*. Price $ 1.06 fer Bottle. C r. SIMMONS MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Laurens Drug Co., Laurens, S. C. A I It I U NI.Vi U S At (. \ H V It's not the mechanical perfection of any one part of the Ford?it's the per fection of all its parts working in per fect harmony?that makes it the car of universal and unprecedented demand. Better buy yours to-day?the rush will soon be on. "Everybody is driving a Ford" ?more than 200,000 in service. New prices?runabout $525 ?touring car $600?town car $800 with all equipment, f.o.b. Detroit. Get particulars from Ford Motor Company, Michigan and Fourteenth Streets?or direct from Detroit Factory. / WHAM BROTHERy Laurens, S. C. BEAUTY AND BRILLIANCE There are so many beautiful and brilliant things here we believe you will be pleased to buy not only for their beauty but FOR THEIR REAL VALUE. They are full of good points, as an invest ment as well as an ornament. They are not cheap in the sense of being shoddy, but they are sold at a3 low a price as first-class goods of this kind can be offered. William Solomon Phone 328-2 Rings/ Reliable Jeweler Laurens, S. C. DRY CLEANING ===== AND s PRESSING OF THE EXPERT KIND Have your Clothes Cleaned and Pressed by men who know how. You'll find them here at this shop. E.V. FERGUSON Over H. Terry's Store Laurens, South Carolina ON SOME OBJECTIONS TO COMPULSORY EDUCATION By G. W. Cunningham, Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College, Mlddlebury, Vermont. As a native of Laurens county I have watched with growing interest and prido the advances 3he has made along educational lines during the last ten years. The educational growth of the county during this de cade has been remarkable. It is a record of which every lover of the county, both In the state and out of It, may well be proud. I wish to take this occasion tc express the satisfaction which I have experienced in following this growth and the hope that the future may show oven more marked evidences of education al expansion. That such a hope is not in vain the present wholesome interest in educational affairs Is ample gurantee. I am also especially pleased to see that there Is a growing Interest throughout the state In the problem of compulsory education. To my mind, this is one of the most hope ful signs for the futuro welfare of South Carolina. I am firmly convin ced that a compulsory education law, state-wide In Its application, is what South Carolina needs above every thing else just now. Holding this conviction, I deem it timely and ap propriate, now that I have been ask ed by Super'.ntendent Pitts to make a contribution to this educational issue of the Advertiser, to deal as vigorously as I can with some ob jections that are from time to time raised In the state against the com pulsory education system. Presumably there are few Individ uals in Laurens county, or in the state of South Carolina, who would seriously question tne value of edu cation in some form. All would doubtless admit that at least elemen tary education is of the utmost im portance in the life of the state. Certainly, no one whoso opinion could he regarded as having any weight at all would maintain the contrary. Therefore I shall consume no space with an argument for the value of primary and secondary schools. Their value is sun-clear and is generally admitted as a mat ter of course. Hut not all seem to he willing to admit that enforced attendance upon these schools is desirable. And this is not without apparent justification. One may feel that education Is extremely Important and yet at the same time conscientiously maintain that com. pulsory education is to be avoided. It may be very well said, even by one who believes education is essen tial to tho welfare of the state, that there should be no law compelling all children between certain ages to attend school during a specified num ber of dnys each year. There are cer tain objections to the system of com pulsory education which possess weight even in the minds of some of those who are firmly convinced that education Is basic to the well being of the body politic. Let us examine some of these objections and see what weight they really have. One objection that Is commonly raised In opposition to compulsory education is that it is un-American. For the law to step n and say to parents that they must surrender their claims upon their child for a certain number of days each year is, so the objection runs, contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of the Unit ed States. Did we not fight to the death at Thinker Hill for our liberty? Did we not go through frost and fire at Valley Forge and Yo-ktown In order to win our freedom? And shall we now pass a law taking from tho Individual the very sacred pos session for which our fore-fathers suffered and died? Why, compulsory education is directly counter to the spfa-it of the Revolution! Away with it, away with it! We will none of It! Give us liberty, or give us death! You have heard an argument, have you not? I have. As a matter of fact, It Is the argument which Is most generally made against the compul sory education law. It Is the stock Jn trade of cheap poritloflarts who thrive upon noise rather than logic. Perhaps, reader, you have at times used It yourself! Even so, let us calmly consider It and try to dis cover what It is really worth as an argument. And if we find that there is no valuo In It, let us not hesitate to throw It aside ns a valid objection against compulsory education and to brand as a weakling, a soprlst, the politician who trios to impose It upon us. Now, of course, tho word compul sion sounds hard and grating to American ears. We naturally pride ourselves on our freedom, and we justly resent outside interference in our private affairs. We do not want anybody to pry into our own busi ness. We will fight, if need be, to preserve our Independence, both as individuals and as a nation. We may be coaxed, but we can never be com pelled! And this is right; it is as it should be. This concession we? you, the reader, and I, the writer, of this paperMmay legitimately make to our vanity: It is a species of van ity of which we have a right to be proud! But all of this is no argument against a compulsory education law. It does not bear upon the real question at all. Have you ever stopped to think that all larw is compulsory? What! All law Is compulsory? Cer tainly. There Is not a law on the statute books of South Carolina that is not a compulsory law. Else, why the penalties attached? Most as suredly, we have compulsory hon esty, cumpulsory purity, compulsory justice, compulsory benevolence! Then why not compulsory education? It is no more un-American than any other law. If we can be true and genuine Americans, if we can retain our vaunted freedom, and yet at the same time enact laws restraining homicide and stealing and gambling and selling intoxicating beverages and cruelty to dumb brutes, then where does the inconsistency creep in when we enact a law restraining the worst of all weaknesses, namely, ignorance? O consistency, thou art in every truth a jewel. Let us no longer delude ourselves, nor permit ourselves to be longer deluded by this sort of nonsense. It is time for us to wake up, and see things straight! Freedom is a word to conjure with: how many crimes in the history of the human race have been committed in Its sacred name! In the past, rivers of blood have been shed In the name of freedom?In. eradlcaiblej blotches upon the fair page of history. And at the pres ent the word has lost nothing of Its witchery. Let a rattling politician harangue us for an hour, lustily pro claiming himself as the champion, and the sole champion, of our freedom, and we are ready to rise in arms and follow wheresoever he leads. Let him but shout in stentorian tones that a proposed law will take from us our Ood-given freedom, and we throw up our hats In honor of the' far-seeing dtaitesinan who has so effectually safe-guarded our liber ties. For our freedom must be pre served at all costs! This Is not a caricature of what happens In politi cal campaigns; it is a simple state ment of the fasts. Is It not high time for us to call a halt, and do a lit tle thinking, serious and sober think ing? Now, in all candor, what Is free dom? Is it really worth having? If you will consider for a moment, you will see that the answer to the second of these questions depends entirely upon the answer to the first: for, obviously, before we can tell whether a thing Is worth having we must know what It is. But, is it possible that freedom should mean anything but freedom. Certainly. Freedom may mean just the opposite of freedom, and not Infrequently does. There arc two types of freedom, and they are as different as day and night. The one conception has abso lutely nothing to do with the other. In the first place, there is a concep tion of freedom which makes it con sist In obedience to law. This Is what may, for convenrence be called limited freedom. It Is the freedom which characterizes the law-abiding citizen of the United States of Ameri ca. He is free to go where ho pleases, within certain limits, and to do what ho pleases, within certain limits. This we usually mean by freedom. You will not fall to notice, I am sure, that freedom In this sense is hedged about well-defined limita tions. An American citizen Is free to go where he pleases and to do what he pleases so long as, and only so long as, he pleases to ablho by com pulsory laws. Let him please to en ter a house against the wishes of the owner of the house, and he immedi ately ceases to be a free man. Let him please to break another man's head without just cause, and forth with the relentless law snatches his cherished freedom from him. Let him please to violate any law what soever, and the prison doors nre open ed to receive him. It makes no dif {5 RT RIGHT ^k^y METAL SHINGLES STORMl PROOF 1 They interlock and overlap each other in such a way that the I hardest driving rain or mow cannot sift under them. Wont pulaate or rattle in wind-itorntayThey're also fire-proof, will I W aa long aa the building, and never nfeed repair*. For se/e by Local Dealers or Cortrfght Metal Roofing Company 50 N. 23rd, St., Philadelphia, Pa._ NO MORE FLAT TIRES VULCORINE ENABLES YOU TO RIDE ON AIR! And Laugh at Punctures!! Vulcorine absolutely prevents loss of air when your Tire is Pinched, Rimcut or Punctured. 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