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Thursday, May 24, 1928
McCORMICK HIGH
SCHOOL PAGE
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grammar school piano
RECITAL.
MABEL STEWART
Presents Her Pupils
In A
PUBLIC RECITAL
High School Auditorium
\ May 11, 1928, 8:15
Program
MOTTO:—“Music washes
from the soul the dust of every day
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Chorus—Harebells Newtoh
Solo—The Horse Race Newton
Whitfield Cheatham
Solo—Soldiers of the King Rolfe
Frances Robinson
Solo—Little Boy Blue Martin
Nelle Mathis *
Sole*—The Hero Spaulding
Clyde Fooshe
Duet—A May Day Rathbun
Doris Charles and Mary Fuller
Vocal Solo—Pansies Cox
Rosella Rankin
Solo—The Tale of a Bear _ Spaulding
Nylena Strom
Solo—Dollie’s Dream and
Awakening
Mary Sue Coleman
Solo—Jolly Little Raindrops
Spaulding
Margaret Robinson
Solo—Pretty Little Songbird
Spaulding
Sarah Louise Strom
Solo—The Sandman Spaulding
Mary Fuller
Solo—(The Clc'se of School _ Presser
Margaret Robinson
Solo—Pretty Star Rowe
Julia Brown *
Solo—Dance of the Fairy Queen
Bugbee
Lucille Floyd *
Orchestra—Norwegian Mountain
Dance First Grade
Duet—The Myrtles Wach
Mary Sue and Eva Coleman
Solo—The Buzzing Bumble Bee
* Spaulding
Mary Ellen Edmunds *
Solo—The Sleigh Ride Treston
Henrietta Brown
Solo—Minuet in G Beethoven
Helen Crawford
Duet—Jolly Darkies Bechter
Julia Brown and Eula Caudle *
Solo—Birds and Blossoms —Johnson
Eva Coleman
Solo—Harebells Behr
Doris Charles
Solo—The Hunting Song —Gurlitt
George Dorn
Duet—Maypole Dance Ashford
Sarah Louise and Nylena Strom
Solo—A Song of India —
Rimsky-Korsacov
Kathryn Brown
Duet—Playful Kittens — Lawson
Frances Robinson
Vocal Solo—The Lilac Tree
Rear-Admiral
Robertson Visits
Beery And Hatton
Has Nothing But Praise For
Stars Of “We’re In The
Navy Now”
Dixie Theatre Monday and Tuesday
Takes News And
Courier To Task
Mrs. Dunovant Makes Strong t
’ And Effective Reply To The
News And Courier
IT'S a wow
This, in the vernacular, is the com
ment of • Rear-Admiral ’Ashley H.
Robertson, Commandant of the
Eleventh Naval Distrcit, when he
recently saw “We’re in the Navy
Nc*w” being filmed' at Paramount’s
West Coast Studio. The Admiral
Editor The Edgefield Advertiser:
I am inclosing a reply to the edi
torial which appeared in the Char- (
leston News and Cdurier, comment
ing upon the letter written for the
W. C. T. U. of South Carolina by
its vice-chairman, Mrs. J. L. Mims.
I shall be glad to have you give it
space in your paper that our people
may know that we are not neglect
ing to work for the enforcement of
the amendment and do earnestly so
licit the whole-hearted and courage-
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spent a full hour on the set where
Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton i ouS SU pp 0 rt of the Christian people
with two hundred uniformed gobs 0 £ our s £ a £ e< |
wore portraying their riotously fun- j n re pi y to The News and Couri-
ny “enlistment” in the Navy. er , s editorial we shall attempt 4nly
“If the work Beery and Hatton to answer i n par t. Since he dwells 1
did before the camera today is a
fair sample of the Navy comedy, I
am satisfied that I won’t be com
pletely happy until I‘ve seen ‘We’re
upon the question, “Why pick on
Smith” we will attempt to answer
that in particular.
His caption is, “Quiescent As to
in the Navy Now,”’ was his enthusi- other Wets.” He attempts to make
artlc comment.
“I’ve been a:i ardent admirer of
Beery and Hatton for years. Their
admirable portrayal of trench fun in
‘Behind the Front’ was one of the
best. I’ve ever seen. But I’m con
fident that there is even ’more lat
itude for comic characterization in
their new field, the Navy.”
“Both Beery and Hatton are ex
cellent siilor types,” according to
Admiral Robertson. “The Navy has
many, and is always looking for
more men of Beery’s remarkable
physique. But I don’t think we’d
get along if they were in the Navy
—they’re too full of fun. As for
Chester Conklin, if he’s as good a
captain in ‘We’re in the Navy Now’
as one who looked like him and
served under me, I am sure he’ll be
indispensable to the picture.”
Before leaving, Robertson made
several suggestions to .Director. Ed
ward Sutherland regarding technical
points, and congratulated him on his
effort to depict the funny side of the
sea force for the screen.
“We’re in the Navy Now” comes
to the Dixie Theatre Monday and
Tuesday. Both Beery and Hatton
are starred. Chester Conklin and
Tom Kennedy, featured pilayers, head
the supporting cast. John McDer
mott scenarized Monty Brice’s orig
inal story.
Gartlan
Rosella Rankin
Solo—The Little Rogue Krentzlin
Eula Caudle *
Trio—The Awakening of the
Birds—Lange
Kathryn Brown, Doris Charles,
and Herietta Brown
Orchestra—Amaryllis
Members of the Piano Class
* Students who have been studying
less than nine months.
some
and
CAROL J. ADAMS
Presents Her Pupils
In A
PUBLIC RECITAL
High School Auditorium
May 17, 1928, 8:15
Nina’s Last Ldver
Izola L. Forrester
Nell Mathis
The Princess of Make-believe
Sara Strom
The Little Mouse That was Me __
Mary Sue Coleman
There Ain’t No Ghosts
Ellis Parker Butler
Wilbur Strom
Rabbits and Other Eggs
Cutting from Miss Minerva
William Green Hill
Helen Cheatham
Incident of the French Camp
Browning
A Marsh Symphony
Roy L. McCardell
James Dorn
Buds Fairy Tale
James Whitcomb Riley
Rebecca Drucker
The Whitwashe d Fence
Cutting frdm Tom Sawyer by Mark
Twain.
Mabel Strom
Who’s Afraid Marjorie Benton Cook
Eva Coleman
The Little Lazy Cloud
Repentance — — — —
Virginia Cheatham
high school are now playing
post-season games.
Since the tenth grade has not
enough to make a team of its own,
its members have consolidated with
the ninth. The eleventh and eighth
grades are able to get a team each.
The ninth and a mixed team were
engaged in a very fast and interest
ing game Tuesday, May 15th. Both
teams played good ball, but due to
the lack of air-tight support for the
mixed team they lost by a score of
12 to 3.
The line-up is as follows:
Ninth Grade Eighth Grade
Rankin c McGrath, Daniel
Jennings cf Fooshe, Larkin
A. Richardson rf Crawford, Robt.
W. Richardson If Burnside, John
McGrath p Schumpert, Welbourne
Bradley lb Giles, Edwin
Henderson 2b Britt, Billy
ss Talbert, Robt. J
3b Williams, Richard
COWAN McBRIDE,
FRANK CORLEY.
Blackwell
Acker
AGRICULTURE CLASS
HAS PICNIC.
The agriculture class had its an
nual picnic at Cuffytown Creek on
Tuesday night, May 15th.
A large crowd was present, includ
ing the agriculture boys and friends
whom they invited. They played
several games,' after which time they
ate. The girls served sandwiches and
the boys served ice cream.
About 11:00 o’clock the crowd be
gan to scatter and go home.
WILLIAM MOSS,
GRACE DUNLAP.
CLASSES OF HIGH SCHOOL
HAVING BASEBALL GAMES.
As the varsity hasn’t any more
games the different grades of the
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A piano tuner was here at the High
School Monday morning for the pur
pose of tuning the high school piano.
Mrs. Adams’ expression pupils of
the grammar school gave a recital
in the high school auditorium on
Tuesday night, May 15th.
The seniors have received their
invitations for the graduation ex
ercises to be held dn Monday night,
June 4th.
Miss Mabel Stewart will present
her High School music pupils in a
Recital in the High School Auditor
ium on Friday night, May 18th.
The Valedictorian of the Senior
class for this year is Gladys Dilla-
shaw, and the Salutatorian is Sophia
Dillashaw.
JXX
Ben Tillett, famous British labor
leader, began his career as a circus
roustabout.
out a case of inconsistency against
the W- C. T. U. because, as he
claims, they are “picking on Smith”
and are content to leave the enforce
ment of the law t<? other wets. Be
fore we go on to reply, or rather to
enlighten the editor as to why we
pick on Srfiith, let us say that the
problems of enforcement are largely
creations of the fact that the duties
of enforcement are placed in the
hands t'f men who have no convic
tions further tha n that they are out
for a job, and their eye-service is
usually of that quality that will pass
muster in the camp of the political
faction in office. This is not wholly
true, but as the editor states, it is
largely true. We are glad that he
has called our attention to this and
that we have had a chance to pass
the informatic'n on. There was some
thing said about putting the prohi
bition enforcement into the hands cf
teetotalers in the race for governor
but evidently that pledge has been
forgotten, if the editor is right, ant
we think he is.
He cites men high up—presidents
and judges and cabinet officers who
like to take the.r little “nip” upon
occasion, and some others who ridi
cule the law and bring into misuse
that much worked principle of state
rights and personal liberty. There
are many reasons for the attitudes
of these men and the apparent ac
quiescence of the W. C. T. U., but
we shall not go into them here, since
we can, for lack of space, only an
swer his question. “Why pick on
Smith?” Suffice it to say that this
attitude to be found so largely
among men of political ambition is
one of the factors that brought the
W. C. T. U. into being.
Now, to Mr. Smith. We pick cn
Mr. Smith because he is the out
standing exponent of the “wets” and
he is asking for our franchise for the
highest office in our power to give.
It has been said without refutation
that Mr. Smith would hail the day
when he could again put his foot on
the rail and reach for a foaming
schooner. Their name may be legion
who would hail the same, but they
are not running for president.
Mr. Smith sponsored the legisla
tion that repealed the prohibition
laws cf New York. Mr. Smith is
wet, soaking wet, all through. There
fore the W. C. T. U. picks on him as
the most impossible candidate
\tyje have two witnesses as to his
future action—his past and his pres
ent. Granting that he is perfectly
honest, as he sees honesty, is it more
than a pretty theory that he could
enforce a law that he conceives to be
an infringement upon his personal
rights, so well as a man who is per
fectly honest and who is in accord
with the law? We say not. It can
not stand to reason. We want a man
who can approve of what he does.
Therefore we pick on Mr. Smith as
the most impossible candidate.
SC long as Mr. Smith is a private
citizen we have no objection to his
holding these views, for it is none of
our business, but so soon as he
comes out for public office it does be
came the business of every voter in
the land. If they are at variance
with the voter’s views that voter has
a right to pick on him and hold him
up, if he can, because of them.
Mr. Smith is running for president.
The power veted in the president is
the greatest in the world, yet that
power is not so far-reaching as the
influence of the personality back of
it. Mr. Smith might enforce the law,
but he cannot give the enforcement
the support of his personal influence
and approval. We want a man who
can do this. Therefore we pick on
Smith.
The editor seems to be impressed
with the inconsistency of the W. C.
T. U. and its contentment with
things as they are. Inconsistency for
fighting Mr. Smith only, and leaving
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others unmolested. The editor is
playing to the galleries—he knows
well that those men he mentions in
the national places were not in any
way the choice of the W. C. T. U.,
and he knows well why they are not.
Most of them have never come with
in the range of the organ’s fire, this mies. Mr. Smith is a very powerful
he knows well. Besides this, how
could he know that there have been
no petitionings for a change?
Originally the W|. C. T. U. was
organized, not as a political body but
to protect our homes from their ene-
Seemed like Jim Staples
couldn’t save a cent
TX70RKED like a mule, too, Jim
•V <Jid. Tough Juck always seemed
to land on Jim. If the weevil didn’t
get his cotton, the drouth did. When
he got a pretty good crop, prices
went down, and Jim didn’t clear
enough to buy the Missus a new hat.
One day John Thrifty’s wife stop
ped by to see Mrs. Staples. She was
going to town to see some silk things
that the big store was having a sale
on. She wanted Mrs. Staples to come
along. “All right,” said Jim’s wife,
“bu,t I can’t buy a thing. Poor Jim’s
had terrible luck. Don’t know how
we’re going to end up.”
And so the women got to talking.
That night Jim was reading his
favorite paper. The page he was
looking at had the “Soda” ad on it.
“See that coupon, Jim. Mary
Thrifty told me John’s good luck
started the day he filled it out.”
“You sound like the banker and
that young county agent fellow,”
said Jim. “All they talk about is
Soda.”
Mrs. Jim said no more about it..^
bat aho sent in tha coupon. Right
away some booklets came by mail.
They didn’t cost a cent, but they
were full of interesting things. Jim
read every one of them, and half
heartedly agreed to try a little Soda
as a side-dressing for his crop. It
was too late to put Soda under hie
cotton, but he used 150 lbs. of Soda
per acre around it after chopping out.
Say! Jim couldn’t believe his
eyes. His 80 acres gave him nearly
80 bales!
“Better luck this year, eh, Jim,”
said the buyer who took Jim’s crop.
“Luck, nothing,” said Jim; “It’s
Soda!”
• • • • e
Note: Jim Staples is one of the
most prosperous farmers in his
county today. He always uses Soda
now, at planting, and as side-dressing.
You can do exactly what Jim
Staples did. Ask your banker. Ask
your County Agent. Look JK the rec
ords of the 1927 Cotton Champions.
Every one used Chilean Nitrate of
Soda.
Just below is the famous coupon...
the one Jim Staples used. Just tear
it out, fill in your name and addre
and mail it today.
Chilean
EDUCATIONAL tBUREAU
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Chilean Nitrate of Soda, Educational Bureau
i Carolina life Bldg., Colombia, S. C.
I Please send me a free copy of your new, 24-pace Ulus-
I trated book—"Low Cost Cotton,” showing how to make
Carolina Life Bldg. money In 1928.
Columbia, S. C j
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•/using thm coupon,pUm— .
^ Other cropa in which I am
IT’S "SODA”—NOT LUCK
ally of a very great enmey. There-
fcV-e we pick on him.
The organization is rot in politics
because of choice but because of ne
cessity, nevertheless it has done all
that it could to keep out of office
men who were what the editor calls
wet. They have brought to bear
every resource, not forgetting pray
er, and with most encouraging re
sults despite existing conditions.
(May we pause to ask, do the wets
i
carry the cause of liquor in their
; daily petitions?)
We hope we have made ourselves
plain. Mr. Smith is the most ihflu-
ential ma n of all who favors the re
peal df the 18th amendment. The
plans are avowedly laid to repeal the
j amendment, if they can, and if that
is too remote, to work for the an-
I nulment by every trick shown to the
shrewd politician. This is why the
W. C. T. U. picks on Smith.
One final word. The editor refers
to the alliance between Mr. Blease
and Mr. Richards. What he says we
grant We do not presume to ex
plain it but we half believe we could!
Since women have had the ballot
it has been rare that a man has ap
peared upon the hustings for whom
they could enthuse. Nevertheless
| they have conscientiously tried to do
I the best they could with the material
in hand.
The W. C. T. U. of S. C. has not
been as aggresive as it might have
been—but having made its maiden
effort in natidnal politics by picking
on Mr. Smith, it hopes to establish
its consistency and from time to time
refresh the mind of the public there
with, but it also hopes to establish
its discontent with things as they
are, at least until Gabriel blows, or
sin and all its train be returned to
the place from which it came.
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