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SCHOOL INFORMATION. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT URGED. Beautityina the School Grounds i Important Adjunct to Good Work I hereby request the trustees,teachers and patrons of each white school in Williamsburg county to meet at their earliest convenience for the purpose of organizing a local School Improvement association. The following is a copy of the "constitution of the local School Improvement association": Art I, sec I.?The name of this organization shall l>e the "Ascociation for the Improvement the public school." Art II. sec I. ?The purpose of this organization shall be to unite all the people of this community for the improvement of our public school (1) by placing in the school facilities for health, comfort; and education, together with objects Of beauty; (2) by planting trees, shrubs and flowers in the school grounds; (3) by encouraging the establishment of a library in the school; (4) by making the school a center for the community by furnishing instructive amusements. Art III, sec I.?Any white woman or child interested in this work may become an active member without the payment of any fee; any white woman may become an associate member upon the payment of a fee of 25 cents. Art IV, sec I.?The officers of this association shall be: A president, a vice-president, a secretary and treasurer, who shall be elected at each annual meeting. ' Art V, sec i.? mis association shall meet once a month or oftener, at the call of the president. Art'VI, sec I.?This association shall send to the secretary of the County School Improvement association a formal report of its progress annually. This report shall be sent in one month before the meeting of the State School Improvement asso ciation. Art VII, sec I.?This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 1 want to t>eg our pairons 10 read and re-read Article II, Section I. .Think well upon this as it means so very much to the eternal welfare of your immortal boy and girl. If an association has at heart the best interest of your own son and daughter, how much more should you contribute to the cause? A natural parent always wants his child to have the best training that our State, or any other for that matter, can afford; that training can be had at your own school if you take the necessary steps. Will you? Steps are being taken now to raise a number of prizes, money prizes and various articles of value to schools as prizes for improvements. These will be announced later. We hope to have some prizes that will attract any 6chcol. These prizes will be awarded not later than Major earlier than April. This will give all schools competing sufficient time to win a prize by beginning now. Which school will be first into the game? Have your organization pub{n Tko Pftiinto Pa/<nrH gnH JIOUCU IU X UV vvuuyj *wvvv* v?, mmm send me notice of same. I hope that I shall be able to make a most favorable report for Williamsburg at our State meeting in Columbia,March 13-14-15, so please do not delay. A few days ago I received this letter from Prof C F Niven of Clemson College: Clemson College, January 3, 1913. Miss Florence Stubbs, Rome, S C. Dear Miss Stubbs:? I have just received a letter from Miss Lizzie Rogers of Bennettsville and she told me that you were very much interested in the improvement of the rural school grounds and asked me to write you in regard to same. The Extension department here at j Clemson College is doing what can be done in the way of helping out with this work. Just at this time we are propagating p] ants to be sent out to these schools provided they will plant them on the grounds and begin to make infcrovements. Also if it is necessary we will be glad to visit the schools and do what we can in the way of helping to lay out the grounds and locating places for the plants. I shall be glad if you will communicate with such teachers of your county that you think are interested and also have them write me just what they are willing to do along this line and what we can do in the way of assistance. Please let me hear from you at I your earliest convenience. , 1 Yours very truly, 11 C F Niven. i. ( T -* - i.juohnrc } i wani iu iiisisi. yn iviivnw? and trustees who eaiv to accept Mr j j Niven's great orfVr to write him at onco stating the facts that he asked { for, and r.otif\ me that you wish to make name! improvements. It may be possible that I can assist you ; i by suggestions. Jj I would that I had some assurance that one-half of our patrons would read this and think it over from a1 business view-point. But, alas!! there come to my mind these thoughts: First, the great number of our people who do not even sub-1 scribe to your only county paper, i This fact is appalling. Is it possible j that our people are too indifferent | to keep up with the news of their J own county? It can't possibly be a J financial question. Will some one' answer this question,and tell us how j it can be remedied? Second, there ; is the class that will not read a county paper after it is in their homes. I always thought that everybody felt it a privilege and a blessing to have ! a good county paper,and that it was j a public servant to them; but 1 fear that the county papers often suffer j for a lack of patriotism, as well as the cause they represent. How are; we to know of the work that, is go-1 ing on in the different schools with-1 out the newspaper? We can feel j the pulse of public opinion only j through the newspaper. The fact I that public opinion is one of the | Greatest factors in success remains j unchanged. The following is a clipping taken from an article in a recent magazine: Even a hero cannot lead to victory withouc an army behind him,and the most heroic efforts are powerless against public apathy. Yet the ap athy is more apparent than real. Public sympathy is not dead, but remote and scattered and unaware. An organised effort to unite and inform it may be the one thing most needful: perhaps this will be one of the century's important achievements. It has been said that the cackling of a goose saved the great city of Rome; I shall feel very happy if my "cackling" will be the means of saving a boy or girl through the improvement of some school in Williamsburg. Grant that I may not be alone in my "cackling"; but that j there may be many to join in saving our boys and girls. ' The work of the world is done by a few; God asks that a little be done by you." Florence H Stubbs, County Organizer S I Assn Williamsburg county. The Word "Unique." Probably ore of the most over worked signs of ideas in the English language and, withal, for the main part unnecessarily so, is the word unique. It comes in very handily and conveniently and, on the principle of riding a willing horse to death, "unique" has well-nigh lost its proper significance. The meaning of unique is "single in existence"; that is, when a thing is unique it stands alone?there is nothing like it. Yet every day we see such expressions as, "the most unique event of the season", "nothing could be 'mnvo nninno' tKon on or\ rl oa " T il/n IUV1V uuivjuv VtlOll CU OilU OU. lil IVV "correct" and "perfect", unique does not permit of comparison and when it is compared the true mgnificance of a strong word is hopeless- , ly weakened. Unique, correct and perfect are superlatives within themselves and yet how often do careless writers offend good taste by making them comparative adjectives. If a thing be unique it cannot j be more so; if it be perfect, it can- ^ not be improved upon; if it be correct, there is no such thing as more ^ correct. If we be allowed a suggestion, we think it would be very interesting to , the teachers to point out in this col- ^ umn common errors of speech or writing?something like the discus- r sion of the word "unique" this week, j Many very intelligent and scholarly persons have fallen into slipshod ways of expressing themselves, \ both in speaking and in writing. We \ J* ? ? * *V ' ' relieve much pood might be done in pointing out some of these popular errors if our competent teachers will, take the matter in hand. "The ivorld does not so much need be informed as to be reminded." Getting Garden Keady for Spring. ; The manure you intend to use on the pardon will he better applied now thai: in the spring. Cover the' garden heavily -vith manure and let it lie on the surface all winter. Even where the winter crops of spinach.! kale and onions are growing I spread ; the manure, for the mulch between i the rows will be an advantage. On 1 some vacant spots I have sown crirh-1 son clover to be turned under in the spring, and in every way I try to maintain organic decay in the aoil, and then use high-grade commercial fertilizer heavily, for to make the best garcen crops, we must have these. The manure furnishes mainly nitrogen, and we want plenty of phosphoric acid and pctash to make | the fruiting of the crops. Therefore, after covering the garden with ma- j nure I add in the spring a fertilizer analyzing 2 per cent ammonia, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 10 per cent potash, as my soil is the light sandy soil of the coastal plafti and needs potash.? H F Masney. in The Fro. gressire Farmer. Best Cough Medicine for Children. "I am very glad to say a few words in praise of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs Lida Dewey, Milwaukee. Wis. "I have used it for years both for my children and myself and it never fails to relieve and cure a cough or cold. No family with children shoi Id be without it as it gives almost immediate relief in cases of croup." Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is pleasant and safe to take, which is of great importance when a medicine musi De given 10 young children. For sale by all dealers. * adv COTTON GINNERS* REPORT Shows 12,919,257 Bales So FarSouth Carolina's Crop 1,173,549. Washington. January 9:?The eighth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, issued at 10 o'clock this morning, announced that 12,9l9,2q7 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1912. had been ginned prior to Wednesday, If.nuary 1, to which da:e during the past seven vears the ginning avera^s 92.S per cent of th* entire crop. Last year to January 1, there had been ginned 14,317,002 bales, or 92.1 per cent of the entire crop; in 1908 to thatda^e, 12,465,298 bales, or 95.3 per cent and in 1906 to that date 11,741,0391 bales, or 90.4 per cent. Inclu ' " ] in the jrinnings were 77,799 round bales, compared with 96,227 bales last year, 109,292 bales in 1910, 143,949 bales in 1909 and 230,572 b.v 1908. The number of sea island cotton bales included were 67,329 compared with 106 988 hales last vear. 89.611 I bales in 1909 and 86,528 bales in 1908. South Carolina's crop so far totals 1,173,559 bales. Coold Shoot tor Joy. 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