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I " v ' "GET READY FOR THE WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FAIR-NOVEMBER 9, lO. 11 AND 12 * ?jje Co untaiJccorii. 1 L VOL. 36. KINGSTRBE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1920. NO 35C ^ f IIAW IN EFFECT J MONDAY, NOV. 1 DMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTftNDB ANCE ACT WILL BE EXFORCE ED IN WILLIAMSBURG Bl wish to csil attention to the fact Bat the period for the compulsory law in this county begins on Monday, November 1. For the better enforcement of this law, a number of blanks have been prepared and ^re now being distributed among the schools of the counts, These blanks include: 1. Pupils' *or a^sence? which is to be vAfcmded the child by the teacher and v^^^ght back by the pupil bearing ^p^fcten excuse submitted by parent Tflp- guardian. Each excuse may be **Ecepted or rejected by the teacher, principal or superintendent in charge. All excuses should be kept on file fo inspection by the attendance officer. 2. The monthly report of all absences, which is to be filled out by the teacher and submitted to attendance officer at the close of each school montfc . The data inserted on this blank should correspond with the record in the teacher's school register. rne correct ana wxunu; vi the register in each classroom will not only simplify the teacher's work, but greatly facilitate the service of the attendance officer. 3. The Exemption blank, which is for children who are permanently excused from- attending school. Reasons for exemption may be found in a copy of the school law. 4. The Delinquency blank, to be *+ used for boys and girls morally ineligible for attendance on public schools. Reformatories for boys and industrial schools for girls have been establish* ed for the delinquents. 5. The Transfer card, to be used the teacher, principal or superin^^^endent, in dismissing boys and girls from one srhool to another. Many teachers have heretofore shown considerable carelessness in the enrollment of children. Both the monthly enrollment list in the teacher's register and the annual enrollment list in the same register, should be most carefully filled out by even,- teacher. The Transfer card is meant for any boy or girl who has attended school at least ten days during the school term whose name has been placed upon the enrollment list, and who may ask to be dismissed in order to enter any other public school. Our schools last year had the heaviest enrollment and the fullest attendance in the history of the county. It is hoped that teacher will cooperate fully tnd heartily with the attendance officer in placing and keeping in the classroom every child in compulsory age. ^ ^ It may be of interest to the public ^^to know th.it as a result of the splencooperation of teachers and patrons with the attendance officer last year, it was found necessary to prosecute only one case for non-compli f ance with the law. Yours respectfully, J . BELLE HARPER. County A tendance Officer. Death of a Well-Known Citizen \ Mr. Frank M. Buddin died at his home near Lake City, Thursday evening at 6 o'clock, at the age of 63 years, after a lingering (illness of nearly three years. His remains were taken to New Zion Friday afternoon, where interment was made in the cemetery at 4 o'clock in the presence of a host of sorrowing relatives and friends. Mr. Bucidin was well-known all over Williamsburg and Clarendon counties, having spent his childhood and early married life in Clarendon, but later seeking tetter opportunities in Williamsburg. moved here, where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr; Buddin's was a life of a devout christian devotioon and sendee to his family and fellowmen. He is survived by his wife and six children and twenty-three grand-children. The k _ children are: C. A. Buddin of Cades; Rev. Francis A. Bud in. Pamplico; Mrs. HL M. I. Coker, Lake City; Mrs. J. B. Player, Kingstree; Mrs. G. W. Scott, ^^^ Salters and Mrs. J. A. Mouzon of Greenville. We extend our deep and heartfelt ' sympathy to the bereaved family. May the Lord comfort and bless them and enable them to say "The Lord fr giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Mp Blessed be the name of the .Lord." BISHOP WRITES OF WORK Enthusiastic Over Prospects of Campaign. Bishop W. A. Guerry, D. D., of the diocese of South Carolina, has sent out an enthusiastic letter to his workers in the Episcopal nationwide campaign. The letter follows in part: "I wish everyone in my diocese could have been in Columbia on Monday, October 11. to have heard the stirring and inspiring addresses of Al- - - n ,1 ImtmAVk t? ??n C?/\T\ 4" IvTl _ me Clergy imu ia.> men pitotm m ^ half of the nationwide campaign which we are planning to put on again this fall. "When it was proposed that in view of the depressed financial condition of the country, and on account of the large amount of last year's quota still unpaid, that we re- | duce our diocesan quota for this year the suggestion met with instant and pronounced objection, i "The leaders of the campaign in the diocese and those rectors whose parishes had given most generously last year felt that to retrench now would be a lowering of standards and a surrender of ideals. They said that they could not go back and face their people on any such program as that.; Their faith and enthusiasm swept the conservatives off their feet and cariried the convention by storm. The ' meeting, before it adjourned, I am' i Droud and haDDv to say, unanimously i vfced to keep our quota, both diocesan and general, at the same high , figure as last year?that is $160,535. "In this action I heartily concur. Better to hold up a high standard, even if we fall short, than to lower ! a standard already set up and try to : acommodate it to the exigencies of j the hour. The call, therefore, has gone forth. The challenge has been flung far and wide. There is to be no ] retreat sounded in this diocese. No I retrenchment. No lowering of standards. Let us take courage and ask | forgiveness for our lack of faith and of vision. "I write now to call upon every man, woman and child in the entire , diocese to rally to the cause of the nationwide campaign, which is the church's cause, and, therefore, the cause of Christ and of His kingdom. To make the campaign a success requires faith, courage and determina ition. Above all, it calls ror earnest, constant prayer and a spirit of gen-? nine sacrifice. But I dare to appeal to that spirit of loyalty and cajiacity for service which 1 know is in the I hearts of our people and which the j war brought so wonderfully to light. I believe it is there, waiting to be called forth. "The Rev. Walter Mitchell, D. D., of the Porter Military academy, as chairman of the commission on missions, is in charge of the nationwide campaign and has appointed an executive committee, which has already advised you as to the chairman of the various departments and can communicate directly with them. The ; diocesan headquarters at Columbia stands ready to serve you in any way or to furnish you any informa- j tion needed. "Our organization is now complete.; j It only remains for you to make use: I of it. Following the campaign, be- j ginning November 23 and going through to December 12, we expect to hold a preaching mission. TTiis is part of the program sept out from headquarters in New York, the idea being to seperate the offering of love and or personal service from the offering of money on November 21. By means of the preaching mission, which is designed to take in the whole diocese, we hope to gather up the spiritual fruits of the campaign .which after all, is our main objective. "While, therefore, many of our diocjesan projects will have to wait, I | believe in the end our hopes and | dreams will be fulfilled. However great our disappointment, surely our ; gifts should not be conditioned upon what we expect to receive in return. This would be unworthy of us and such consideration should not be allowed to inuuence us at the present time. "I pray to God in this hour of opportunity arid privilege to put far from us all selfishness, all lukewarmness and half-heartedness. all lack of faith anc courage to go forward ? -- ? j in the Master's service. Let the J words of hymn 253. which we sane in Columbia at the close of our great conference, be our motto for the days and weeks of prayer and sendee which are ahead: " *Fling out the banner,wide and high. Seaward and skyward, let it shine: Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours; We eonquer only in that sign.' " S. C. OPPOSED TO GOV'T. OPERATION Editors of State Report Their Communities Against Socialistic Experiment. The South Carolina public is overwhelmingly opposed to radical government experiments, according to the results 01 a questionaire on the subject cf government operation ol" industries sent out to the editors of this and t..ie otner Mates of the country. Of the 2'J editors who replied, 28 or y7 per cent, said that the citizens of their communities were opposed to the government going into business in competition with its citizens. The questionnaire was sent out by the T'ress Service Company of New York City. While the inquiry was based on the general principle of government operation, the so-called Muscle Shoals bill now before congress was used as a concrete example. Under tliis bill a government-owned corporation would be given power, among other things, to produce at Muscle Shoals various fertilizer products and sell them in competition with private manufacturers and dealers. As to the wisdom of the government adopting this policy toward the fertilizer industry the editors were asked for their personal opinion. Of the 119 editors who gave an opinion on uus point, 24 or 00 per ixuv. were unqualifiedly opposed to the scheme. The political affiliations of the Souti Carolina papers whose editors answered the questionnaire were: Republican, 0; Democratic, 26; Independent 1 and miscellaneous, 2. A summary of the results of the questionnaire from the country at large shows that this opposition to government operation is general. Out of 5154 editors replying, 4466 or 86 per cent. voted their communities | against the proposition. This is an increase of 3 per cent in the opposition as compared with the results of a similar questionnaire sent out by the Press Sendee Company a year ago in conection with the question of turning the railroads back to their owners. Tie papers heard from in the present poll are 1857 Republican; 135c Denipcratic; 1458 Independent and 462 miscellaneous. Not only did political bias play no part in the replies | but sectional differences seem to have no appreciable effect on the result. The combined circulation of the pa- , pers whose editors replied is 11,428, 817, which means a constituency of at least 44,000,000 readers. o STUDEBAKER CLIMBS STEEP GRADE IN HIGH GEAR First Car to Go Up Famous Stodley Hill, Near Makme, N. Y.?Repeats Performance Five Times. Society folks and others at such famous New York summer resorts as J Saranac Lake, Massena, Lake Placid and Plattsburg have a new topic of conversation this year. They art I talking about the first motor car to ascend Studley hill in high gear, a feat which hundreds of them witnessed recently. The car that finally turned the trie!: was a Studebaker Bix-Six, driven J. Frank Sharp, of Ogdensburg, Y. and just to show that the performance was due to the power of the car rather than to any element of luck Mr. Sharp repeated the climb five times in succession. Studley Hill is known to thousands of tourists as the steepest grade in the Adirondacks. Located near Malone, N. Y., it is 1900 feet high and more than a mile long. Motorists have been awed by its steepness and alarmed by its sharp turns. Some of the more skillful drivers have at times tried to make the ascend in high gear, but have been forced to shift before they got one-third of the way up. When Mr. Sharp made it known thai he intended to essay the climb with his Studebaker in high gear, speculation was rife among those at the various exclusive summer i-esorts a> to the outcome of the test, and few believed it could be accomplished. " - J -J -r ii * ? J 4-J,^ nunareas 01 uicm mmcu uui tVi uiv occasion, and much to their surprise, the Studebaker, with Mr. Sharp at the wheel and another passenger at his side, wormed its way up the long steep, twisting road. The car began #s journey at 50 miles an hour, reachthe crest at 35 miles an hour, and never once did its s]ieed drop below 15 miles an hour during the climb. Advertisement. FREE SCHOLARSHIPS GO BEGGING HERE COLLEGE ENTRANCE STANDARD TOO HIGH FOR WILLIAMSBURG RURAL SCHOOLS The following correspondence between State Superintendent of Education Swearingen and County Superintendent J. G. McCullough will be of interest to every reader of The Record who is interested in this question which is so vital in Williamsburg. The County Record refrains at this time from any further comment on the subject beyond an endorsement of Mr. McCullough's opinion. The correspondence follows: i Columbia, S. C., Oct. 21, 1920.! Supt. J. G. McCullough. Kingstree, S. C. Dear Sir:?Within recent years there has been much discussion of the State's system of free scholarships , in institutions of higher learning. The University of South Carolina is allowed forty-six scholarships worth $100 a year, plus tuition and college | fees. The Citadei is allowed sixtyeight scholarships worth $300 a year. Win thro p is allowed one hundred ! twenty-four scholarships worth $100 ;a year and free tuition. Clemson is j allowed one hundred seventy fourj year scholarships and fifty-three oneI moot ncrrirnltnraJ scholarshiDS. Each I Clemson scholarship is worth $100 | a year, plus tuition ana college fees, j The winner and holder of a scholarship is a young person of merit and J distinction. The public generally considers a scholarship award' to be a j fine index to school efficiency. Today scholarships go begging for lack of qualified applicants. Enclosed herewith I a\ seeding j I you the record for the year 1920-21, the scholarship places and holders for your county. Please look over the data and write me your opinion of the situation. * A copy of this letter goes to your superintendent of your courthouse (public school and to the editor of j your county paper in the hope that these two agencies may also be induced to comment on the situation. Yours respectfully, J. E. SWEARINGEN, State Superintendent of Ed. \ State scholarships for Williamsburg | county: I University of South Carolina, 1? I Holder, J. R. Sul'ivan, appointed 1919; I appointment, regular. 9?HnlHors R_ C. Per I ry, appointed 1917, appointment, reg1 ular; J. E. Adams, appointed 1920, appointment. at.large. Winthrcp, 3?Holders, Annie Li-! 'frage, appointed 1919, appointment, {'regular; Nora E. Kinder, appointed ! 1920, appointment, regular; Italy M. {Taylor, appointed 1920, appointment, at large. Clemson. -1?Vacant. One year ag- ( j ricultural scholarships, W. B. Scott, f J. K. Burgess, at large. Mr. McCullough's reply to Mr. i i Swearing en: Kingstree, S. C., Oct 25, 1920. i Mr. J. E. Swearingen, Columbia, S. C. i Dear sir:?Your letter relating to scholarships and the way they go begging touches a matter that has occu- j ; pied my mind for some time. I should say the trouble is: The icolleges have gone ahead of the public schools, on which they should depend. It is easy enough to raise the standard in the few higher institu- j tions, but another mater entirely when J it comes to building up a system of I high schools in an equally short time ' to meet the requirements of the raised standards. In Williamsburg there are only two schools that fit pupils for [entrance to college, and these schools I are in reach of only 17 per cent of , the pupils of the county. A boarding [ pupil at one of these schools costs i practically as much as if at college, j I do not think it is a matter ofjnj difference on the part of our youth 1 but rather a recognition on their part i that they cannot pass the entrance examinations. That explains a lack of ?nni;?o?tc fnr- onme of these scholar appuvoiiw? AW* ? _ ships. I note there is one scholar- j : ship "at large" for our county at; Winthrop. There was certainly no i ! dearth of bright-looking girls who took the examination i nJuly. This brings me to a resolution I had offered and discussed at our recent trustees meeting (see copy in- j closed). I have come to the conclu-, sion in recent years that the ordinary j rural graded school cannot do satisfactory high school work and wc must | stop expecting it. Williamsburg J TO MEET IN KINGSTREE Q ; Baptist Southeast Association to Convene Here November 4. _____ The Southeast Association, comprised of all the white Missionary Bap- El tist churches in Williamsburg and Georgetown counties, will convene with the Kingstree Baptist church Thursday morning, November 4th, and ?,11 a? j? -?? i j Or I win continue in session ior two uay&. --tis There are in this association 31 churches, 3,500 members and 17 pas- ^ tors. They pledged 139,000 to the 75 Million Campaign fund and will pay around 20,000 of this amount this cf' ! year. < The representatives of the various ^ missionary, benovolent and educational enterprises of the Baptist denomi- ^ nation in South Carolina will be in attendance upon this meeting. The ^ following are some who will be expected: Dr. Z. T. Cody, editor of the Baptist Courier; A. T. Jamison, superintendent of Connie Maxwell Or- ^ phanage; Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, pres- . ident Furman University; Dr. W. M. go< Whitesides, superintendent Baptist ^ hospital; Dr. D. M. Ramsey, president ^ Greenville Woman's College; Dr. J. W. Sikes, president Coker College; Dr. ? W. T. Derieux, secretary State Mis- ^ sions: Dr. Chas. E. Burts, general sec- A retary-treasurerBoard of State Con- ^ vention; Dr. Chas. A. Jones, educational secretary; Thos. J. Watts, Sunday- ^ school secretary, and possibly Dr. John E. White, president of Anderson , college. ? In addition to -the above named, it ^ is expected that each of the above 31 ^ churches of the association will be y0 represented by at least three delegates ? * - 1 AL _ TUft viomoc - in aaaiuon to uie paowi. uauiv? ^jqi of the pastors arc as follows: P. H. ^u1 Bussey, Andrews; W. J. Morris, Hemingway; B. K. Truluck, Cowards; E. an( A. McDowell, Kingstree; W. C. Wal- ^ lace, Johnsonville; W. R. Smith, Lake j City; J. R. Funderburk, Greelyville; me J. Turner, Cades; J. D. Harrelson, y0 Rhem.-; K. T. Atkison, Georgetown; me J. T. Littiejohn, Ecianton; W. C. , Blount, Bloomingvale; B. D.. Thames, mQ Nesmith; J. W. Truluck, Cowards; ^ Dr. T. P. Lide, Georgetown; I wil G re sham, Rome. me Lunch will be served each day during meeting of the associatioon on the en church grounds. tha The following is a program of the jey meeting: ter Thursday?Morning Session lop 10:30?Devotional service directed by Moderator. ' j ] 10:45?Organization. of 11:15?Report on Sunday-schools by jj01 P. H. Bussey. Ch; 12:30?Woman's Work, W. C. Blount. Qf 1:00?Dinners of Afternoon Session rh? 2:30?Education :Colleges and Acad- ^ emies, W. R. Smith. hei Ministerial, M. S. Smitn. j 3:45?Benevolence: Orphanage. B. wj, K. Truiuck; Hospital, W. C. Rol- tra lins; Aged Ministers, W. C. Wal- ^ lace. an< 4:45?Miscellaneous and Adjourn- m0 ment stu Friday?Morning Session sta 10:00?Devotional service. 1 * 10:15?75 Million Campaign, R. W. ;ex| Lide. ma 11:15?Missions: Home, J. W. Tru-1 ma luck; State, B. D. Thames; For- ^(x rign. L. A. M c Dowel. * 12:15?Temperance, J. D. Harrelson. 8pe 1:00 Dinner. Jmi Afternoon Session ?u 2:15?Song and Praise service. lea 2:30?State of Religion and Digest tha of Church Letters, J. T. Little- hU] john. ma 3:00?Obituaries, E. M. Hicks. ma 3:30?Report of Executive Commit- tra and Adjournment. schools and transportation should be provided for all school pupils to these schools. P" This year Kingstrce is being flood- al ed with high school pupils from many ^ sections, most of the m having to board in town. Cedar Swamp, nine on' m.ies away, ortlinarily a four teacher ^ school, will have only three teachers un< and 8 grades, most of the high school e"4 boarding and attending Kingstree school. I would like to see a provision like that called for in the rosolu- ?n tion, that when a 4 mill tax is voted ing for transportation of high school pu- me pils, the State would supplement the fund thereby raised for transportation A* C4-.*fr? ViinrVl of these pupus w svmc uioia. iu5?> , school in reasonable distance. I! } think 8 or 9 miles would be practical. Wi I would like to know what you by think of this suggestion. Lei Yours very truly, an1 J. G. McCULLOT'GH, jcla Co. Supt of Rd. jdej RGANIZED SEARCH,. FOR Hl? LINK CPEDITION GOING TO THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE WILL LAST FIVE YEARS I An Associated Press dispatch says: ganized search for the well-adver ed but undiscovered "missing link" the remains of the near-man that entists since the day of Darwin ve longed td examine?is to be tried on . in Asia for a five-year ped, beginning next February. An expedition financed by a $250,3 fund, will penetrate remote re-' f >ns, and even if it fails to uncover nnants of man's rude prehistoric -ebear, it is planned to bring back New York "the greatest natural itory collection the world has ever ;n." rhe American Museum of Natural story, which is sponsoring the exrations, announced tonight its asliates are the American Asiatic S?- < ty and the Asia Magazine. These nee will finance the expedition, with i help of private'contributions by *s. Willard Straight, J. P. Morgan, orge F. Baker, Childs Frick, W. Harriman and Mr. and |(rs. ar L. Bernheim. Cowboys and Huntsmen Huntsmen anjJ cowboys, as well as idite professors and scientists, will included in the big party, for it planned to trail some of the wildest Id animals in the world in the Gobi sert and bring them back to New rk alive. 'AntiloDes that can run 60 miles an ir," wild horses with less speed t more control in their kicking apratus, and wild camels, wild asses i long-haired tigers "can be run vn in motor cars, lassoed by MonI cowboys, and some of the specins brought back alive to the New rk Zoological Park," said the statent anouncing the expedition. 'On the Tiberian steppes are cnorus yak, snow leopards, giant pan- ? > and beautiful golden monkeys ^ h blue, upturned noses," the statent continued. "In China is the tai, a creature with a veritable 'goldfleece,' a strange ox-like animal it roams the highest mountain vals and actually represents an inmediate stage between the antee and the goau" The Chief Aim t is the hope of finding the bones a pre-historic ancestor of man, vever, that is held highest by Roy apman Andrews, associate curator animals in the American Museum National' History, who will be in irge of the expedition, and his asiates. The party will have its idquarters in Pekin. In 1891 a Dutch army surgeon, ile excavating for fossils in Cen1 Java, discovered part of a skull, > molar teeth and a thigh bone, 1 thereby "unearthed one of the st perplexing conundrums in the dy of human ancestry," said the tement. 'Were the remains those of an reraely early type of pre-human n-like animal? If so, this apen must have lived approximately >,000 years ago. 'With the exception of the Java "cimen, all fossil human fragments ,-e been discovered in Continental rope or England. Nevertheless, the ding scientists of the day believe it Asia was the early home of the nan race and that whatever light y be thrown upon the origin of n will come from the great Cen1 Asian plateau." o Mayor of Cork Finally Dies Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of rk, the most prominent of the Irish iger strikers and said to have been brains of the republican army in land, died Sunday in Brixton prisEngland. The end was not unexted for the lord mayor had been :onscious for several days. He was ering upon the seventy-fourth day his hunger strike as a protest rinst a sentence of two years' imsonment on several charges, includ; one of having seditious docunts in his possession. o Pleading to Deaf Ears Washington, Oct 26.?President lson has been formally requested a committee from the American gion to dismiss from office Assistt Secretary of Labor Post. They im Post responsible for causing wrtion of aliens to cease.