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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ?
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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."
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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.
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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.