The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 30, 1922, Image 8
WASHINGTON COMMENT.
For shame, Indiana.
John Mollick, sixteen years old, oi
phan boy in short ti ouseis, has entei
ed the Indiana ste.tc prison at Mich
gan City Tor life!
The judge who sent him theie i
Judge Loving, \ alpariso circuit cour
It mak^s no difference vhat hi
crime may have been. It happens t
have been shooting to death his fostei
mother. But can crime, no matte
how horrib'e, which i? committed b
a legal, moial and mpntal infant b
justifiably punished by the lifelon
expiation of the man into which tha
infant will grow?
This is no argument that John Mil
lick shouldn't be jailed, or that th
doubtless moderate and humane law
of the sovereign ?ind great state o
Indiana should not be carried oul
But it is an argument against, wha
seems to be a travesty of so-calle*
"justice." If laws are we1! t > serv
the body politic they must not onl;
bo just laws, but must be adminis
tered so that justice results. Joh;
Mollick may be criminally insane?
if so, he conld either be cured or no
erred, but doctors, not jurists, mus
say. John Mollick may be morallj
responsible for his act, but he is on
ly a child. Let the reader of thes?
lines who sees'the justice whi?h Chris
taught, in making a man pay all hi!
life for the crime of a boy, ask him
self whether he thinks he should b<
whipped today for the apples he stoh
when a child?
Doubtless some wise and tcieranl
governor of Indiana will see to it thai
John Mollick gets a chance to b<
something else than a victim of i
court procedure evidently more inter
csted in the letter than the spirit o1
the law. Meanwhile, Indiana, anc
many another state, can look serious
ly to their laws, courts and method*
to see what manner of "justice" is
this which can wreak society's venge
ance upon children.
"What is the matter with the public
schools? The only answer is thai
ie frtrt mn/>V nnWiV too little ol
VUVAV AO WV tuuvit |/wv??v; - ?_
the school. From one end of th<
land to the other we need more anc
more schools. More schools, so thai
the cherished hopes and ideals anc
hard work of the whole teaching force
from the superintendent to the assistant
teacher may serve the natior
A3 they so sincerely aspire to and
plan for." - ? ? t *1
) The quotation is from "The Teacher
and the Taught," an article ir
the March issue of Harper's Maga
line, written by Grace Irwin. Ever}
friend of the Americanization feature
of the work of the public school should
r?ad it; every legislator who raises
a hard or a vote against liberal suppert
to the public school should be
tied to a stake and made to lister
to it. For it is not only the child
of foreign parents or the child borr
abroad and emigrant to the United
States who needs Americanization; it
is the street child, the child of pov
eity and ignorance and wretcneaness,
who must have it And it is hew
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]tl at he gets his first ani often his
only knowledge of what real American
citizenship may be; here in the
public school, he learns not o ily the
iw three Rs but what truth, honor and
r- deceny mean, and what the rights of
i- others stand for in young lives otherwise
lived only in selfish egoism,
is Would there were more Grace Ir- i
t. wins and more Harper's Magazines ;
is to publish articles like this; articles <
o which show the American public 1
- school in a more grim light than that ;
r which illuminates merely pretty buildy
ings on a West end avenue to which
c the children cf opportunity go. For
g it is to the public schools, down in \
t the slums, standing often the one ,
clean spot in a wallow of civil, politi- 1
- cal, moral and actual filth, to which .
e 'America must look for the fires which
s toil the melting pot. And the more ]
f we know the facts, the more we read ]
ard understand the truth, the more <
t v ill we demand of our city fathers j
J toot these, the cradles of American <
e ideals for all our youth, be well made (
y and adequately supported. (
c
ii Ideas are epidemic, as well as in_
flaenza. Someone sees a "ghost" j
t J which throws stones or sets the house <
t j on fire, and behold, all over the coun- {
, try comes reports of "ghosts." Some (
. one who has a reason fur not wanting ,
? the children of today well educated t
t sees a mythical objection to the Tow- c
; ncr-Sterling bill, now before congress, i
- which provides for a department of r
? education and a chief who is a mem>
ber of the cabinet, and all over the a
country little men of little minds echo :
t the cry of "parternalism." c
t The Towner-Sterling bill requires t
; these three things in a state before it t
i can receive the "paternal" federal aid f
. to education provided in the bill: 1
f 1. A public school opportunity of t
I not less than 24 weeks. - a
2. Compulsory attendance at some p
; school, public or private, fo~ at least t
5 24 weeks in the year, of all children
- between 7 and 14. i
3. English as the basic language d
of instruction in all schools, public d
. ar.d private, in the common branches. 41
t The man who comes out in the open t
f and says those provisions are wrong, t
j or un-American, or vicious may have a
1 courage if not sense. c
; As a matter of sober fact, there a
i are no real objections to tne dm,*"
s even by those who dont want it! It
. The only persons who don't want it
i are the people who have always fought n
I education, who see ih sducatfon of f
the masses the end of spiritual and I
. thus civil tyranny. But the people ii
t of the United States as a whole want a
. education, believe in education, de- o
r mand education, know that education p
i is the one and only salvation for tl
I both the individual and the nation,
t Talk is cheap. Action takes thought tl
and time. When the Towner-Sterling ii
t bill passes it will pass because enough v
i newspapers, clergymen, educators, in- f
[ fluential men and common, ordinary, d
i every-day citizens have printed, talk- ii
I en and written about their convictions i<
; both to and at their respective legis- A
latere. z
, You who read this have a repre- w
i sentative in congress and the right
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s and will be
as in the past.
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to address two senators. Three twoecnt
stamps and your convictions sent
to these gentlemen will aid in bringing
to your schools, your community,
your children the same federal aid
which has helped you and other communities
in reads,in agriculture, in
oostal facilities, in reclamation, in
mining methods, in forestry, in all the
hundred and one ways in which Uncle
Sam assists Americans to be better,
abler and more prosperous citizens.
De it now!
In defense of his stand against the
teaching of biological science in general
and Darwinism in particular, Mr.
W. J. Bryan defies anyone to "make
a monkey out of him."
Surely no one would try, Mr. Bryan.
Doubtless the priests who wished to
Durn Gallileo as a heretic because he
;aid the world was round and moved,
n face of their assertion that it was
stationary and flat, defied the Italian,
>1 anyone else, to make monkeys out
if them, walking on a round earth,
sometimes upside down!
One recalls with some pleaslre the
Mathematical proof wmicii Professor
Simon Newcombe, unquestionably one
>f America's greatest scientists, adluced
to show the impossibility of
i man ever flying in a hiavior-thanui
machine. Doubtless he consider
!(! that anyone who tried to prove
c the contrary would be making a
aonkey out ol him!
Yet, somehow, the world wac round
ind did and does move, and men did
.nd do fly in heavier-than-nir mahines,
and somehow even the voice of
he distinguished Democrat, crying in
he wilderness, does not appear suficiently
virile to remove from books,
ibraries, schools, or men's minds the
mths which Darwin first gave an
istonished world and which, in our
>resent knowledge of evolution, from
he basis of much of biology.
The Americanization Committee of
he American Hotel Association in unertaking
to abolish the French "cart
!e jour" and substitute the American
bill of fare." Anything which has
he magic word "Americanization"
acked onto it is sure to find favor,
no doubtless this movement will seure
many advocates, especially such
? are unable to determine whether
pom de terrc" is a hair cut or somehing
to eat. The
English language owes too
lany of its strongest words to France
or us to be able to forget the debt,
t is somewhat doubtful if eliminat
1. ?:n l.
ilg a woria-wine custom wui uc ui
s much aid in Americanization as
ther activities in which so large and
owerful an organization as that of
he hotels might engage.
It has been proposed in France
hat laws be passed to encourage the
nmigraticn of young American men,
rith the idea that France needs youthol
males to marry and have chilren.
The proposal includes the payig
of a bonus to such ynmg Amer:an
men as will come, give up their
jnerican and take out French dtipnship
and agree to marry French
omen.
It is not a matter for worry, but
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South Carolina. Eg
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for laughter. Any American man
who would give up his American citizenship
for a bonus would be well
lest to this country, and but a poor
gain for France. Some Americans
do become naturalized citizens of
France, just as Frenchmen become
naturalized citizens of this country.
America welcomes as citizens good
men and true of other countries, as
France welcomes an American who
wishes to become French.
But not for a bonus!
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R. J. Scarborough and Lewis Windham,
both of Lamar, are seriously
wounded in a Florence nospital as
the result cf a snooting affair which
occurred in Windham's store at Lan-ar;
Scarborough is a ru'al policeman
and attempted to seareh Windham's
place for whiskey, it is alleged,
and v.-:* shot. I. D. Fields,
a Lamar policeman, '.*ho was assisting
Scarborough ;n the alleged search,
immediately fired on Windham seriously
wounding him. Windham is
iot expected to live. Scarborough's
condition is very serious, but it is
expected that be will recover. The
oViaaI Cv* iM-a/1 'of n 1 o of wor.l'
Rub-My-Tism. a pain killer.
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of the most complete and up-to-dat*
printing offices i i this section of the
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