Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A SUGGESTED OltGANZATION OF TIE STATE AND COUNTY DE. PAlTTMENTS OF EDUCATION FOR THE DETTER ADMINISTIRATION AND SUPERVISION OFTHE RU. UAL SCHOOLS. (Continued from Page Two.) for Country Schools: who will visit the untrained teachers in their school rooms, show them how to organize and manage their schools, and how to teach the common school branches. These Supervising Teachers should have charge of the School Improve ment Organization as it has been car ried on in this State. 2. A County Supervisor of 'Negro Schools. As stated above, the negro schools of South Carolina are, most of them, absolutely without supervi sion of any kind. We are not even able to check up in any way the en rollment of the schools, although the equitable distribution of 'the 3-mill tax depends on the correctness of this enrollment. Through the assistance of the .Jcanes Fund Jnegro supervisors of industrial and agricultural work 'have been employed by several of the County Superintendents. This work should be extended to all the counties. 3. A County Director of Elemen tary Agricultural Work: This posi tion will correspond to that of the or ganizer of the Iloys' Corn Club. The County Superintendents and County Domonstration Agents will, no doubt. agree that the boys' work demndu(s all the time of one man. This ofilcer would work under the direction of the County Superintendent of 1Education and the State )irector of liementary Agricultural (Education. 4. A County Director of the Girls' Canning Club and Home Arts: The desirability of this ollicer has already been proved in South Carolina. In or der for her to do her best work she must be directly related to the coun One of the largest and officers and assistants. and modern buildings, e LOCATION AND ENVIRONME The College is located in 0 'County at the toot of tho Blu~e Mountains, on the homestead of C. Calhoun and later owned b eon-in-law, Thes. 0. Clemnon. College is over 800 feet above th: level and the climate is healthfu~ invigorating Temptations to die: or spend money foolishly are re to a minimirm. Trho students are under mi governanjnt and every effort is to train up manly young men wh reflect credit on the Cllege ai the State. ty school system, which possesses the only organization capable of giving authority and continuity to her work. She would co-ordinate the county work of the United States Government and Winthrop College directed toward practical homemaking. VI.--The District Board of Trustees. The district board of trustees should also be a continuing body composed of three members, one of whom should be chosen each year for. a term- of three years. This board of trustees should be the local advisory commit tee of the County Superintendent and County Board of Education. They should hold an annual meeting of the school patrons and voters of the dis trict, at which a report should be made of the receipts and expenditures of the year. They should also present their recommendations and the finan cial budget for the new year. The last item of business at the annual school meeting should he the election of the trustee. If a'district fails to avail it self of the privilege of electing a trus tee, the County Board of 10ducation should fill the vacancy. VIiI.-School Support. The money for the support of the schools should come from three sourc es--the State, the county, and the dis trict. At present there are glaring disparities in the per capita of school revenue in the various districts of the State arising from the unequal distri bution of wealth, the unequal race distribution, and especially from the prIesence or absence in the dlistrict of railroads, power plants, or other pmb lie utilities. 1. In my opinion it is highly de sirable that we have a State appro priation or a State, tax sufficient to guarantee a school term of three months in every school district. 2. There should be in each county a county tax sufficient to provide for three more months. 3. There should be a special ills he len South C best equipped Agricultural at Over 800 students. Every co juipment and sanitation. 219 ) M - conle No Iuden w~iean Ede Feha Caswoi NTse qIe. rmet o Sane No student will be adm Jnoat not yeasonl atheathy of tiuced contagious diseases, ic culosis. litary Applicants for the F~re: malde 1must stand examination will their county Beat or at the id on 'less they can fill out sal proscribed certificate, furr trict tax sufficient to provide for the school building and incidental ex penses, and secure the additional school term desired by the district. Part of the State appropriation should be used to encourage the local! dis trict to help itself by voting . special tax. At present one of the most glaring disparities in district revendes arises from the fa.ct that a school district has the right to impose a special tax on public utilities situated within its borders. There are many -lis ricts in South Carolina in which the railroad pays half of the total school tax It is comparatively easy for such a dis trict to maintain a school, while an adjoining district, which the railroad does not touch, is placed at a great disadvantage. For this reasoi many school districts in the State have beer gerrymandered so as to take in the{ greatest possible railroad mileage. A district which is blessed with t1 Lirge railroad mileage running through a swamp where nobody can live ha:; sometimes considered itself axcep tionally blessed. A minute's tho'ight will convince one that a railroad, a power plant, a telegraph line, a tee pllone line, or any other form of pub lic utility should not he conside 'd an object of exclusive taxation iby the school district through which it r - es. On the other hand. it shoul he an asset of the enItire It'rritory Whi ch it serves, and from which it ohtalns its revenues. In practice the present condition works disastrously both for the general public and for the public utility. The more aboundant revenue and the better school facilities which are made possible for the towns on the railroad have a tendency to attract the people from the surrounding farms, and Consequently to decrease rm111' prod uictti vity nimd tile 0an 'lling power of the railroad which pays the taxes. The only solution which oc curs to me is to segregate the proper isonA arolina's School of ] id Mechanical Colleges in the unty in South Carolina repres \gricultural and Textile Schoh It . Fsion. j oll, shwn I einds.. Ctudleeadoing t iitted wo tie Agiulue,(o noda freafro (ecanfat nd fromg tie Teoing, ivtEnine tectural En gineeri ihman Class Four-Weeks Cot s either at ('For young men o3 College, unP- gins January 12th, isfactorily a Four-Weeks cou inked by the log. (Begins Janu ty beyonging to the railrpads, power plants, telegraph lines, telephone lines, and other public utilities, and to levy on all this property a State tax which will provide for the expenses of the State government, Including the State school taxes already mentioned. These forms of properety should then be ex empt from local taxes. This, howev er, is a phase of the whole tax ques tion which now demands the best thought of our people. IX.-The School. While' It' will be many years before the one-teacher school becomes a thing of the past in South Carolina, the inevitable tendency in the more progressive communities will be in the direction of a school employing at least three teachers. Such a school affords a better classification of the pupils, stronger social incentives to good school work, and an opportuilty to introduce special work in agricul lure, homemaking, and manual train ing designed to secure a better adap tation of the school to the needs of the community. An elleient. country school will gradually acquire some of the following distinguishing charac teristics: 1, The teacher. or at least the principal, will remnaint for a termu of years in the same position. Ile will he elected for a period of at least three years, and the country school will follow the lead of our best city systems and adopt a salary schedule under which the teacher's salary will be increased with increased experf enee and ellicieney. 2. The school term and the va cations will be arranged to meet the couittmaity necessities. The minilntttt term will he eight months. The teacher will he employed for the year, and will be given a vacation of six weeks. Itt sections where it is nec'ev sary for the children to work on the farm the school will have a summer term of two months and a winter term ricu1ture Engineering and Agi South. 1,544 acres of land. ented. Twelve degree courses, Lrships. Scholarship and Entra tLraorprpr-T -Yr Yea Cor yon fr ofSuy eisOt >u-ya*cure'o I' dere f aheo re: hecot ourssectorhemistrya Tr foryea yon.gor bfar ofs Stny Agiutue erandr Ot er er of d Bacelo Thn Tuit < ourses) Chemisrhose hoa irse In Coricntrd. Te costd ary 12th.) tifral Course of six months, with a fall 81(1 a spring vacation. When the school itself is not in session the teacher will still live in the cominunity, and will have charge of the boys' and girls' agri cultural and club work. 3. The school will be a cominunI ty center. In its auditorium the com munity meetings or fathers, mothers and young people will be held. Its library will expand into the coInimun ity library. The school will utilize the knowledge and experience of the whole district in its daily work. 4. In many cases a teacher's home will be built at the school house, and his garden and the school experiment plot will serve as the central agency for the dissemination of agricultural knowledge throughout the community. Though the universal attainment of these Ideals must be placed indefinitely in the future, there are now many schools in South Carolina which are steadily approaching them. Respectfully submitted, W. K. 'l'ATI. State Stupervisor Rural Schools. Waterloo Sehool. The first schoolhouse was buill in W:terloo in 1825 antd was located a it tle to the northeast of the town, by the side of Ihe old .lethodist church and the cemetery. It was at ugly t wo-story wooden building. Tie school occupied the first floor and the M1ason" rented the second floor. In 1176 another schoolhouse was built. This building was better than the first but would be considered at very poor onc in dlays of modern school building. It was very poorly ventilated and had but one large rooms with a large fireplace in on3e end. The children sat on slab seats. 'There fore the room was very u1ncom forta ble. In 191(7. through the determined ef forts of W. Carl Wharton, there was built a large, commodious two-stor y SColles -iculture Value of plant over $1,300,1 Four short courses. Twent nce Examinations held at count .0 Ah)llNlIT T I ON D IINI Ap. CILUALHL 1s ad nd Jue1s. rcorses or Ttle. To. hoet o inourseis$t188.4 (per arev1 ci's1 rsnt c 0ver over.T 1tand ales exUept 1t.r re abne o thpwevay..1. rf theseseoretreATricuh.at, Is $1m7.4t Thies aountex modern school butilding in Waterloo. The building has three large rooms, a wide hall and cloak room dsown stairs, and has a large auditorium up stairs. The school is classed as a rural graded school and has an enrollment of 79 pupiIs aml it las ten grades with Iihtreo teachers and is an eight months school. P. 11. Parbrough Is principal, Miss layl Culbertson and Miss Mat tie McFadden, assistant teach ers. We have a School itmprovement association and have given two pub lie entertainments lately, from which we realized about $18 prollt for the school. Our school is get ting along nice ly and we hope to get some of the blue ribbons at the School Fair. J. C. Smith, .Jr. USE "TIZ" FOR SORE, TIRED, SWEATY FEET "''I%" makes sore, burning. tired feet. fairly dance with delight. Away go the ie('s and Iains, the corns, cal louses, blistors and(1 hunions. "'' I 'Z" (raws ott. the acids and * poi'sons that puff up your feet. No imatter how thard you work, how lons; you dance, how far you walk, or how lonlgl-, you remain on yoI r feet, T"'r brin1gs rest fll foot com fort. .. " I'Z" is wvonderfutl for tired. aehing, swollen, starting feet. 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