The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, May 26, 1915, Image 7
MAY ADD ANOTHER
YEAR'S WORK
School Trustees Considering the Ad.
1isability of rlving Four Years of
High School Work,
The trustees of the city school have
under consideration the advisability
of adding another year's work to the
high school course, making four year's
work instead of three. Tihis is being
considered largely to place the Lau
rens schools on a parity with the other
schools in the state whose diplomas
are accepted as (ualiflcation for en
trance into the colleges of highest
standard. Of course. also, the inten,
.tlon is to provide for Laurens children
not able to attend colleges the same
advantages brovided for school chil
dren of other cities. In view of this
contemplated movement on the part
of the trustees, the following letter
from High School Insepctor W. H.
Hand is oppo)rtune:
"Columbia, lay 8, 1915.
"To the Patrons of the High Schools:
"I feel an intense interest in every
high school in the State. I am anxious
to see them grow in attendance and in
efficiency. Hence, I am asking a mo
ment of your time to discuss your own
school.
"How are you pleased with your
high school? Is It well attended, reg
ularly attended, and doing good work?
If so, does it not pay? Is it not a
good public investment?
"Is your high school failing to do
what it ought to do for your comnmun
ity? If so, what is the trouble Are
your people standing shoulder to
shoulder trying to make the school
better? Are you keeping your own
children in it until they complete the
course, or are you and others sending
your children away from home before
they get through your home school?
Suppose all your neighbors were to do
this, what would become of your
school? Where is the economy in tak
ing your child out of your home school
and sending him off to school at a
minimum cost of $250 a year? Where
is the wisdom in sending him away at
a greatly advanced cost to do the same
work, possibly under a different name?
"How many years have you in your
high school? If you have but three
are you satisfied? .Do you believe three
years in the high school enough to
give ade(Iuate preparation to enter a
standard college without conditions?
More than 80 per cent of our high
school pupils never see a college. Do
you believe that only three years
should lb offered to this army of
young people who do not go to col
lege? Do you not believe that the State
is the loser when so few pupils have
even a chance to go four years to the
high school? -low many pupils have
you in your third-year (10th grade)
high, school class? Have you not
enough to justify your adding the
fourth year? Would not any com
munity be justified in establishing a
fourth-year class with eight pupils for
a beginning?
"Has your high school a single
course of study or more? If but one,
do you believe all the pupils are get
ting a square deal? Does any right
thinking man today believe that any
single high school course of study is
equally well adapted to any group of
fifty pupils? Does your boy or girl
need precisely the same course of
study every other pupil in your' school
needs? Has God made themn ail alike?
"The colleges of this State are real
ly desirous of gettIng better prepared
students and of doing a higher grade
of work themselves. To act singly wvas
difficult anid not until very recently
have they begun to act unitedly. An
epoch-making step was takenm in this
matter by the colleges less than a
month ago. Should not you and your
neighbors come to fie aid of the col
leges as well na the high schools by
makiug the~ high schools better' and
eeping your children there until they
complete the work? The colleges are
yours, the high s~hools are yours, and
tiie children are yours.
"IHas your high school enough teach
ers to do the work pr'operly?~ Are the
clasres too large to (10 effective work,
or are the recitations too numerouis or
too short to (do good work? Are the
teachers competent to (10 the work
well? Are you paying enough to get
competent teachers and to hold them,
or are you experimenting every year?
Are your people giving their teachers
the proper moral support, arc they
standing aloof, or are they finding
fault?
"D~o you believe that your omnmnity
cati hhve andl will have just such high
sc'hool as your' citizens deslro. Will
not your school squaye with the Ideals
of your peoiple? The means wiil be
found to make the school youar people
set their hearts upon. Miay t heir ideals
be highl
''W. H. H-and,
"Staste High School Inspector."
Forge allhents' of4 Sroiedu / R.1
SIMMON'S 'SQUAW VNE WINE) is an
effectiff regnedly It orroct s.4rregu
~~ ful spi and restores a
ad Pn~rice $1.0
tdSP 8otie. - bh all druggits,
* AgrIitrIII11 (onditionis in South *
Carolina, *
O 4 * 0
The very informing articles which
have been printed in The News and
Courier recently relating to agricul
tural conditions and prospects ini
South Carolina do not. encourage the
belief that the State's production of
cotton is likely to be cut Vbore than 25
Iper cent at the outside provided the
seasons for making a crop are favor
able from this time on. In Colleton
the acreage in cotton is not likely to
be reduced more than I. per cent. The
same estimate obtains as to Cherokee.
From Fairfield comes the report ihat
from 80 to 85 percent of the normal
acreage is being planted. So it gcesi
all along the line. The estimate.ed1 Cui
in Sumter Is 20 per cent; In Lee 25; in
Pickens 18; in York 20 to 25; in
Darlington 15; in Laurens 20; in Marl
boro from 15 to 20.
Less fertilizer is being used in all
these counties. The reports to The
News and Courier state that the re
duction in the use of fertilU-.er in
Marlboro will amount to 25 pu,' cent;
in Laurens to 60 per cent ;In Darl
ington 50; in Pickens 30; in Lee M'-1;
in Sumter 50; in Fairfield 50; in
Cherokee 35; In Colleton 30. These are
estimates, of course. They suggest
that the average fa-rmer is probably
trying to get along on about half the
the commercial fertilizer he has been
accustomed to use, but that in many
cases he has already concluded that
he will not be able Ato do this. It Is
not likely, however, that above 70 per
cent of the normal supply of fertiliz
ers will be purchased in South Caro
lina this year.
All the letters which have been re
ceived sound a cheerful note. Labor is
costing less, and the supply is abun
dant. On this account it is suggested
in a number of the reports that the
production of cotton may not be far
from normal, despite the reductions
which have been made in acreage and
in the use of commercial fertilizers.
Everywhere it Is stated that farmers
are keeping down expenses and are
doing their best to live at home. Not
as many hogs will be raised as ought
to be raised, owing largely to the dif
ficulty of getting as many hung pigs
as are needed; but much more meat
will be produced in South Carolina
this year than ever before, and much
more poultry also. This is true also
as to wheat and corn and oats; al
though the experience of the average
South Carolina farmer the past win
ter and spring does not invite the be
lief that this Is likely ever to be much
of a grain state. If the seasons had
permitted the planting of more grain
this year the acreage in cotton would
have been reduced much more than it
has been.
The reports to which attention is
called are from all sections of the
state and are probably fairly typical
of conditions throughout South Ca-ro
lina. There will be regret that the
acreage in cotton has been reduced
so slightly, but as rTe News and
Courier pointed out again and again
last fall and winter, in opposing the
acreage reduction law, nothing else
than this wvas to have been expected.
WVe have In South Carolina a large
colored population which is absolute
ly dependent upon the growing of cot
ton for a livelihood. These people had
to be taken care of some way and
they could not have been provided
with work If the cotton acreage had
been cut in half.
The situation which exists today is
on the whole one which encourages
optimism. One great lesson the peo
pie of South Carolina seem to have
learnedl fairly well already as a re
sult of their experiences of the past
year-the obsolute need of economy.
Another and no less important lesson
is beginning to impr'ess itself upon
their consciousness--the fact that the
tenant system of the State is wvaste
futl to the last degree. fl'he farmer
andl business man quoted by our
l)arlington correspondlent as saying
that diversifleation of agriculture is
impossible in South Carelina so long
as the present tenure system is re
tainedl is right. Pr'ogress will follow
this reform almbost automatically, b~ut
progress caninot precede it.-News
and Courier.
FEl!ITI LiZElii TAO TAiX.
Iteceipats at Clemsoni (ollege Fifty-live
Per ('ent of 1914.
Clemson College, May 2.-The fer
tilizer tag tax for the period from
.July 1, 1914 to May 18, 1915, was fifty
five per cent of the tax for the same
period last year. Figures from the
offIce of H. M. Stackhouse, secretary
of the state board of fertilizer con
trol, at Clemson College, show the tax
receipts to May 18 to be $148,102. The
tag tax -rceipts on May 18, 1914, had
reached $270,244. This year's tax is
to ,date, ee re, ftygfiy ifrept
Of EmS Mr l atnel period last year
and fifty-three per cent. of the total
for' lathear~which\ws $277.000.
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"ALL ABOARD-FOR BARG INS"
Our First Summer Excursion Train will run Saturday
Special reduced prices in all departments of
RED. IRON RACKET
First stop, No. 1 Store, old stand, 210 W. Laurens St. Second stop, No. 2
Store, 0. B. Simmon's old stand, South Side Public Square.
Our two stores are rammed, jam full of very near everything you may
need. Everything going at Red Hot Summer Excursion prices. All aboard
for J. C. BURNS & CO.
We haven't time or space to list only a few items picked at randum from our big stocks.
"All Aboard" Conductor Burns says "Let her roll."
BIG STOCK OF MEN'S AND BOY'S 84c ad save 16c. Call aud see. 3000 MEN'S ANO BOY'S PANTS
CLOTHING NOW R EAI)Y AT NO. 2 All $1.00 bottles, sale price.......84
ST ORH. All 50c bottles, saE. ie.........42 B' '1'ts .25, .39, .48 up to 1.48 a .
Men's Suits, Crack-a-Jack Suits .. 6.39 All 25e bottles, sale price.22 M 1'ats going at .98, 1.25, 1.48, 1.98,
Special values in Men's Suits 4.98 "p to $1.00 bottle Squaw Vine..84 2.25 34 up to 4.95 fort $65 ind
14.39. Some of the best suit bargains ev- $1.00 bottle Mytic Wine of Life 84 Wolk id we wiat you up.
er shown in Laurens. $1.00 bottle Wine of Cardui. .. ol fie a g t 0
Red Iron Racket is making famous by sell- $1.00 bottle Beef, Wine and Jm'oii 84 cafed...................5.9
ing the same goods for less. $1.00 bottle 3-S. S. S. for the Blood. .84 (101(1 fil W garatd 20
$1.00 bottle 3-B1. 13. B3. for the Blood. . .84 l pair Lacie ourtham -99 o1.00
8,000 PAIRS SHOES AND SLIPPI'ERS $1.00 bottle Wampoles Cod Lier Oil .84 Otpar Lae Curtais..7
NOW READY. $1.00 bottle H1o's Sarsaparilla......84 OtP La2e Cutain .
Ladies' white canvas low eut Slippers .98 bottle Ayers' i
Ladies' low cut Slippers, dandy .. 1.48 $1.00 bottle i'aiiic.'s Celery Compound .84 lle Cves Scrs Pillow .13
Baby Shoe.....$1.00 bottle Sioii's Liver Regulator .84 ..a . . . ..... .1
Big line Children's Slippers, white, black, $1.00 bottle Thedford's black Draught .75 il..... .. ...48
Co $1.00 bottle Warnier' Safe Cure * , . 84 3.000elars bes .25,.39.48, 69aupco 14
tan and patent-leather. We have Shoees
for the whole family: Every-Day Shoe., 'r bB a "aly est d .0
Sunday Shoes, Knock-About Shoes, Heav8 I ......0
toiii't ~~~~~Ii.00 bot tle 1)1-. ['iere's Goldenl MIel- ).)0l0.aes ev I )il...0vn 1
Courting Shoes, Sweetheart Shoes. Hi iry 1 o]Is Wall I ya .10
Bi Csok .e'sGos l h 0 l Ic Choe 8 Wec have the bigstfw'ok ol, Men 's aiad
your spring bill here and save dollars. 5) bottlei Expectorant .42 S a
Big -stock Dress Gloods, all thle latest-111 118'1dH t.A lcl
weaiives and colors, inl Ripplets, Ratline, M'4 1 sae m t'
Crepe', Crinkles, Poplins, Silks, Silk t ti rehis. M ions Hit
Brocades, ~50v bott(t l)i-. Miig's Ne I)iscovery .42" slls onic( 1at harZis.3n' Pm a
BrocadeLinens, Pajama Cheeks, Sniow 50 le Dodson s Liver Tone. .39 ii oig Ili .39. .8 .75, .98 on up to
l'lake Crepes and Wool Skirti lig l o 2.98 for a Joii . Sttsmi I lat worth $5.00
faicv Waistings and staple Dry Gtoods,
at Special pries. Cash business makes 2 St raw I hts, Sill hts .05. .10, .15 ad .25
it possible for us to under sell all coipe- "e, h ' Mother's Joy alv .22
tition. 25c bot tIe Cal. Fig Srp........*a $7.00 pa amia hat. Our hats er
I DIurhami Duplex Razor, guaranteed .25 -, mt C ig Sru .22 1 ie heads or the people or ile 1'icdinot
I solid gold Band Ring ..1...... 00
1 Pai' s~cCuff utton...........25 5c bot tle ( laniberlaiil's hii'a Balm .22 sc o ietl (wevisli c
1 pair 50e Ciutto ttons .... .. ...25 2e bol C('amberlaiii's Diarrhoea Big valiles ill en 's i'd Boy's Caps .10.
10(. Co lar Hutton ..5 ..5 ..5 .. ..8. .'om ..ll .05iis ~oi
I Show Case of Jewelry, yomr choice .10 Remedy..22 .15, .25, t. Il.' eap hmra lion *
each. CifY Pills, liar i s, I ger Rings,
C'm lto is e f1 ins r Tic C's)s 5v bottle Il del i ('s HIomie Relief .. .22 We w\ill cover it.
uy uttons, soarf Pin Ie Clasps,Pap.10
Beads all colors. 25( bottle \Vislow's Soothig Syrup .22 5 Stlspelmdlrs..10
12 Cohiar Biuttoiis .............. .03 ROLL LET i-ni ROlL 10(! Slis)(iiders..08
144 Shirt Buttons..05...et in the gallc while Red .ro.. Rakets 1.c .lalidkerehies . ..08
10C card Pearl Buttons ........ .05 Ii good I Ii eh k's..10
35e card Pearl Buttons ........ .10 Sale is on. 9 Whisk lroi.10
Big lot Colored Dress Buttons. cakes best Was 25
$3.50 Eight-Day Clock ........ 1.98 1 Cr i
$6.00 fine Mahogany Clock .. .. .. 4.45 i d 1st- liiv ( 'oki.............1
$2.50 large Fa mily Bible ........ .98 Zg I inc of Smoking T obacig
S boxes Mate(lies...........25 enet~ ialsaii leii oac
$3.00 1Hollow-Grounld Razor ...... .98
I six foot Iuggy Whip ........ .10 ...
v 5' -I m. hoittIe Lemon orw ni a xrc 0
Fine Whips .................25, 39 to .69 Itstlntowe iiilloncoRdGodSololsh.........0
3 enkes fine Toilet Soap .... .... ....10
I box Tooth Pickksii hih .. .). Aiiii- .).- 10..otleTu..i i........05..1
1 lar-ge Tablet ........ ........05 Gv
2goLedPencils .. .. .. .. .... .05 osThed(es od)ho
I Lead Pecncil, good .... .... ......01 -ctosl rc.........5 XstotCn3 ~prmn.Bs
Needles, Pins, Kei Chains.. .... ....01 'blsTrasae~ .....0 cohsm wes e~l.....1
15e Combtourrprice....................1
Coarse and fine Combs .. .. .. .....05 l~)~o edesl ~iC---0. Wno h~ds m lmPls 'm s
10ec Pocket Purse.. ........ ....05 ~Ple fPusl )'c.....0 hmI.OuilBx slncPns o
Spe(cial lot Pocket Kives . .aim,.si.el.ce.--.--.--.10
1 big JDutcher Knife ............10 paagsEiepcal111....0 ('vitS: sanShti,'Ii-i.
1 lig Breadi~ Knife .... ...... ....10 boPaeanEneoesl...0 leiin IIehng CicndRkt
1 big Meat For-k.. .. .. .. ...... :10 3sik lig odLcsl mie.5Gosml pei u ntbe. myt
U big Cake Prmoxide Bath Soap . . .. .10 eie annvSasl rc 2 m~nel 'neadlc
U big cake Ideal Carnmation Toilet Soap .10 akieCelliSti-hsme--.1 smeyoirui
1equality Tooth Brs . . .. .05 me~5Gl ~ut sl 1ie...2 hswnefu araiahu
20e (qul1it y Tooth Br-ush... . .. . . . .05 Je1iWshai.........0 as lIi12loIen-prc-- .10
I1 nice Memora~inda IBook .............51O-.1mrg IiuIuke......10 GiaialtedFntin''ici foe
3 ph igs good Tobacco .. . ... .. . .. .25 I) pr aepi...........5 l oda IS o2c o......1
2 good C igarIs.................... .....05ii((rait eetlsl 10(otIqalt~ i-i1g.........1
7 good Cigarus, Stogas...................1 J il(s iI -e.......3 le'tt5 ldii 0
Scissors .10, .15, .25 up to .45. Cutting-il) 1lmguptg -vriie vmI 1.0 -11 eailI, ~a iy h uy foee
$1 .00 Alarmi Clock .... ...... ....60 aiia ll ,~ )i~..........w'v',orls-ole hie.....1
75e l'mbriell I.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... I.59t1i0V o 11Cli -i lit aI~aI1t f~ i.iE '' iw15
$1,25 I 'mbriella.. .... ...........98 $ 11 tt(Co-i d(I r lts ml 6 iu oke ot.......1t 4
$1 .50 Umrlla ~Ch.... .... .... ...1.25$1(()-edetmadCiiaCupa i
45e Umlbrella, speial...............25 ame-, ml ni........6 10a-tsgot('lio.......3
See (mull IHosiery. We have a big line 1StIIie. o(,5i( ~'~.........' etLIIln....0
from the mills which we are selling at .10 Welve'ostes.1Iseitltfor Sela'yyl- 'tl hetilg....0 12
a pa ir. E-xtra good valdues.a d mlI ths rt'msaic -it- fllo tI-li--t'1Itllts111. ........0
Mihiuil-lllinery iry blomm iinl-tlalhlhseliof.lI I)ihetisligioryI llt t'tblooming tthlMIlii- in -
fall. Now (come and1( s.5 t uu~~atih h agis.0 -
j0e inoll Toilet Paper.......,.......08lttiig1 1-t-tuat-4iigiims11( Mtns .0
1 i-ol l'Toilet Pamper .... ...... ....05 ist Jl iIginlatmimt Fl, ll'h~ll~ lgiils..........0
1 Art- Stluar-e hlx12 fett, a Ildnd forl 2.48 li,('--km -.llam wa-, ag,1i-Glte I'ot........2 1
$1.0 ~Jute SamyrnIa Rug.. ......1.19 alisWallpr.rittltmLttl lt Alt-otggi
EpecialI lot. Ih-uassels Rugs, ourn pmice .98 51)I'~* I
I Sewinhg Mat-hi no, drcop head, guam-alntIend ~ IIP ~ .IIecl(fi' mll tlla .)lO 0
for1 10 y-earis................13.39 Lw(itTnIl........9ad.91I '' L dleeIii--------2
1 Sewing Mlachiin e, drcop head. balI bearm- CiiIl-e 's Iipins 'hiIe 1latka11gotlrtn. ............2
ing, a dand~y, gurned10 years t16.50 o ~l il1...........3
(1 lbs fmne pmirelied Coff'ee fori..-..-..1.00 Iddl5'lw(itSos uI tbak a, : ae c olt o ......1
7 lbs goodi parlcd Coffee, good( .. ..- 1.00 gii,.8 .5 .8 .8tpt .71pu'goiO-al........4
11cme is some of the best Standai-d Medi- Brnyorfostit;wwilo-e-Iprbstllci eias......9
cinesyou cn buy $1.0 hot ~es hreAfo $1.n0 bot fines adpricey. .oy's. .-ll...........84,.7
.4. C. BURNS & COMPANY'S
1 1000 BAIArM ALWAYS BUSY. THERE'S A REASON 1000 BARGAINS
No. I StorE 210 West LAurens St. Next to Bramlette Shop. No. 9 5ore South Side of Public Square
O 0. 8. Simmon's Old Stand
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