The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 08, 1920, Image 7
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FREE STATE OF ILLITERACY
-MCommiiMB Calls on All Patriotic
Citizens to Assist in Work.
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The illiteracy commission of South 1
fe' Carolina is endeavoring to remove the i
stigma of iilliteracy from this state, i
sad has designated the present week ?
m "Write Your Name Week."
Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, chairman
of the commission, has given out the i
following statements: 1
"Let everv natriotic citizen in South 3
Carolina help the South Carolina illit- i
eracy commission in its fight against 1
adult illiteracy. 1
"You can aid: i
"First : By securing the cooperation
of your county with the South Caro- i 1
lina illiteracy commission. ' i
"(a) Get your county superintend- 1
?nt of education to employ a county
organizer for illiteracy work for at <
least six weeks this summer. The 1
cost to the county would be about 1
<150. i
"(b) Secure the interest and co- 1
operation of local school boards or j
trustees.
"(c) See that suitable teachers and '
schools are provided where needed. 1
"(d) If possible get the county suonrl
hnarrtc nf trustees
to assist in paying the teacher, giving
for every $2 spent in their county 1
by the state department of education
for adult illiteracy work.
"Second: Get list of adult illiterates
from club rolls, from factories, banks,
and business men. See these illiterates
personally and persuade them to 1
attend illiteracy schools during August
"Third: Write in making 'WriteYour-Name-Week'
a success. During
this week personally teach some on?
or more illiterates to write name, age
and address.
"Fourth: Awaken interest in the
subject of adult illiteracy among your
friends.
"Fifth: Report to the adult school <
supervisor August 1, and September 1
what you and your county have done.
"Further information can be obtained
from the South Carolina illiteracy
commission, Columbia, S. C."
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Age Bp,ng? Benefits.
As you grow older. Mfie Is better
At your bear: expands and your sym/
Uttlw widen, your friends will be- 1
4 ttme more loving and sincere.
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New Fizz for Christening Ships.
The other day, at one of the Delaware
River yards, a big steel oceangoing
ship slid down the ways into
the foaming waters and the charming
lady who stood at the bow and did
the christening act broke a bottle
af?ginger ale! An ancient mariner
who had voyaged all the Seven Seas
in every kind of ship from the sixmast
windjammer to the gasoline
burning turbine, took the clay pipe
from his mouth as he saw the gasserrirttror
inii* flood the DfOW Of
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the noble ship and made a few of
tho^e ominous remarks which ancient
mariners are accustomed to deliver
when a frivolous landlubber world
turns away from an ancient and cherisher
tradition of the men who sail
the ships.
A painted ship upon a painted
ocean 4s all right enough in its right
place and the ship of state may sail
through moonshine seas without going
on the reefs. And a ship christened
with sea water might be in*
good favor with Neptune and Davy
Jones, but all the mermaids must be
weeping over this new-fangled scheme
of christening ships with ginger ale,
sarsaparilla, root beer, bromo seltzer,
the milk of the cocoanut or any
other old beverage that can be procured
in this era of kickless fluids.
Ancient poetic ideals are up against
this new idea of controlling all human
habits, or of trying to control
them, by legislative enactments and
amendments to the Constitution.
Christening the ship is now very much
a go-as-you-please affair?go as you
please to the juice to be sprinkled.
The ribbons around the christening
bottle are really the important thing.
?Baltimore American.
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New Tobacco Marketed
The first load of new tobacco marketed
in the State this year was received
on the Mullins market Monday
by A. B. Edwards, manager of Brick
warehouse. The tobacco was grown
by Mrs. W. Rogers, of Fork section,
whom it is remembered, marketed the
first tobacco made in' this State last
year. There were some eight hundred
pounds of primings in the load,
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[AMSBURG COUNTY !
. D. MILLS, Aaat, Cashier, '
3YLE SINGLETON, Bookkeeper,
RS. J. C. KELLY, Bookkeeper,
Declarations in Democratic Platform.
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The Democratic party, in its national
convention assembled, sends
greetings to the President of the
United States, Woodrow Wilson.
It salutes the mighty people of this
great Republic, emerging with imperishable
honor from the severe tests
and grievous strains of the most tragic
war in history, having earned the
plaudits and the gratitude of all free
nations.
We advocate the immediate ratification
of the treaty without reservations
which would impair its essential
integrity; but do not oppose the
acceptance of any reservations making
clearer or more specific the obligations
of the United States to the
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We reject as utterly vain, if not
vicious, the Republican assumption
that ratification of the treaty and
membership in the league of nations
would in any wise impair the integrity
or independence of our country.
During the war President Wilson
exhibited the very broadest conception
of liberal Americanism.
Guided by the genius of such commanders
as Gen. John J. Pershing,
the armed forces of America constituted
a decisive factor in the victory
and brought new luster td the flag
We condemn the attempt of the Republican
party to deprive the American
people of their legitimate pride
in the financing of the war.
The last Democratic Congress
enacted legislation reducing taxes
from eight billions, designed to be
raised, to six billons for the firsl
year after the armistice, and to foui
billions thereafter; and there the total
is left undiminished by our political
adversaries. Two years aftei
armistice day a Republican Congress
provides for expending the stupendous
sum of $5,403,390,357.30.
We condemn the Republican Senafc
for adjourning without passing th<
amended measure to make rural lif<
more tolerable.
With respect to government serv
ice, we hold distinctly that the rights
of the people are paramount to th<
right to strike.
We advocate full representation oi
women on all commissions dealing
with women's work.
The shocking disclosure of Republican
corruption of the people has
created a painful impression throughout
the country. It indicates the reentry
under Republican auspices oi
money as an influential factor in elections.
This convention repeats the severaJ
previous expressios of the sympathj
of the Democratic party of the Unite*
States for the aspirations of Ire lane
for self-government.
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On Weevil Catchers
v^iemson College, July 1.?Count}
Agents and others have written Prof
A. F. Conradi, rmtomoiogisi ior un
Crop Pest Commission, for advice &.<
to the value of txdl weevil catchers
and his reply may be summed up ii
the statement: "None of these contraptions
have been found of value
in accurately conducted tests." He
writes as follows:
"Referring to the boll weevil catch
er, will say that in principle of construction
it resembles a great man)
of the various contraptions that have
been devised by various people ftair
the earilest days of the weevil's entrj
into the United States. None of these
contraptions were found of value ix
accurately conducted experimental
tests.
"There are a great many facton
that make for or against a cotton crop
as every farmer knows. Some oi
these factors are controllable, while
the greater number ore beyond the
farmers' control A great many creep
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upon a iarmer su uiai> uc uv? ?<
recognize them until it is all over anc
then he says, 'If I had just knowr
that'
"Time and again these factors arc
favorable and the farmer makes a
crop in spite of himself, and ther
again they are unfavorable and the
farmer cannot make a crop in spite
of himself*
"Time and again a farmer uses
some scheme, maybe a boll weevil
catcher, a brush, a square collector
or anything else, and he makes a
crop. Had the test been accurately
conducted, and all factors guarded by
properly laid checks, he would have
discovered that the success of the
crop was not at all due to any one 01
more of his schemes but to weathei
conditions and parasitism and good
management Frequently such teats
are inaccurately made and are made
only in a single season, which a
trained experimenter ^ould not at all
accept as conclusive."
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Lawsuit That Lasted 400 Years.
The longest lawsuit an record lasted
over 400 years. It waa a dispute about
some land In Poland, the people Interested
being the SobleSkls of Orolowo
and the Sobteskls of Podlowa
It begaa In the year 1490, and a settlement
was arrived at In 1800. the
land being then divided among the
then representatives of the original
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Born, Not Made
From day to day proof is forthcorai
ing that genius is spontaneous and
hot a slow growth?that is is of the
type of Minerva, who sprang foilarmed
from the head of Zeus. This
is evidently as true of the genius of
the mart as it is popularly supposed
to be of the more esthetic forms of
genius.
An instance in substantiation of
this opinion was recently related by
a veteran business man as a side
light on the why of the success of a
well-known industrial leader.
"I remember him," it was related,
"when he was a lad of six years. He
wanted to trade a lantern for one
owned by a playmate, which he admired.
Coming to his father, he ask;
ed counsel about the matter and was
informed that he should use his own
1 judgement.
i u 'Well, dad/ said the boy, T believe
I'll trade; but wouldn't you take
the oil out first ?'"?Wall Street Jouri
nal.
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Black Hens' Eggs.
> Ernest Hardcastle dropped into the
Hennessy grocery department yesterday
and asked for "a dozen black
hens' eggs." The pu;:zled clerk stared
' at him. "I can't tell a black hen's
" egg from a white one," he said.
! "T mn." said Hardcastle.
"All right," responded the clerk,
' j "go to it."
1 Hardcastle began to pick through
5 the case.
^ "Here," exclaimed the clerk, a mo:
ment later, "you can't do that, you
' know. You are piclring all the big
eggs."
r "Sure I am," said Ernest "That's
5 the way you tell a blick hen's egg."?
5 Anaconda Standard.
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; TIME TABLE, JANUARY, 1920.
South 13 Mind
No. 88 10:22 a. m.
No. 79 10:47 a. m.
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No. 89 9:22 p. m.
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j No. 80 7:16 a. m.
No. 46* 11:42 a. m.
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