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CAMPAIGN PARTY HERE LAST WEEK. (Continued from page 1) not regarded as popular to fight for the poor man. Harold Eubanks, candidate for attorney general, today said D. M. Winter his opponent, was the Atiintic Coastline's candidate. Mr. Winter, he * ~ /tomnoiflrn An saia, was masiug W1IC UUayiu^t* w-- . a railroad pass and that if Mr. Winter were elected all the railroads would have to do w?ould be to say, "Come here, Fido," and Mr. Winter would do their bidding. Mr. Winter had already spoken, giving his entire time to a discussion of the record of S. M. Wolfe, incumbent, who could not be present today. Gecrge W. Wightman, candidate for commissioner of agriculture, said be had gained the nickname of "Battle ^kxe" because of his fights to abolish the state tax commission, the highway commission, the board of public welfare and other departments. It was his measure, he reminded, which abolished truant officers who enforced the compulsory school attendance law. B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture, said he came to the county a number of years ago to prescribe remedies for the agricultural ills. If the farmers had taken his advice, they would not today be in the condition they are. Some had questioned the soundness of his advice to farmers. He challenged any one for \ a joint debate on the farmers' problems. An admission fee of 25 cents mould be charged, and if he lost, he would supplement the proceeds with |200 additional. The money would go to some orphanage. There were no takers. R. G. Craig, candidate for adjutant and inspector general, was cordially welcomed here today and was generously applauded when he had concluded. , Mrs. Drake's Speech. Synopsis of speech delivered by Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, candidate for state superintendent of education. "The womanhood of South Carolina having come into full citizenship -* ?J- onvions to rooDerate I St&HU> icaujf uuu wuw??? A , with the manhood of South Carolina in the splendid privilege but stupendous task of public welfare. "In responding to the earnest request of any of our leading educators, business men and women, doctors, lawyers, preachers, farmers and their wives, and many others, all of whom are deeply conscious of any abiding interest in the welfare of our home, our schools and our children. I feel that I am discharging a duty rather than exercising a privilege. "Education is the most vital qoes\tion before our state and nation today. Upon its solution depends our future. "What you would put into the state you must first put into the schools. rrrL - J??- Hmu) nations of an iOO iVAUU VI WIQ V?vw? ?. ? tiquity was brought about largely because of their neglect of childhood. Wherein do we offend? "It is conforting to know that a child's conscience is being aroused? that many questions pertaining to the child are being discussed today. The nation of the child is the nation of the future. England has put on a twenty year educational campaign. France has followed. What spa jroine to do about it? The{ nation of the child is the nation of the future. "Our boys and girls?your children and mine, are ours?yea the nation's greatest asset. They defy the cash register and the statistitian. They are the greatest religious assets, the greatest moral asset, the greatest commercial asset?you may combine all the incentives of life, but they cannot compare with the child as a driving force in keeping his parents at work for the future. Where there is no vision the people perish. Therefore bark to the fountain of childhood let our slogan be. "The war has torn down many which we thoUJfht Would stand the test of time. We have to build over again. We need leaders, cooperated leaders who will devote themselves and all that they have to the cause of humanity. "Should you favor me with your confidence and your votes I shall endeavor to lay deeper and wider the foundations of our educational system alorg the lines of intellectual, mora! and spiritual welfare. I shall strive foi the development of high schools already established, and for the establishment of high schools in communities not yet developed. I shall stride for a uniform standard of; schools so that children going from one section to another may not be at a disadvantage or on going to college may not be out-classed by others. I shall be the friend of higher education, for I realize that from this source must come the leaders of every phase of endeavor. "Best of all I shall be the friend of the rural school. It is here that one-half of the children of our state are enrolled and here the state must lack for a large proportion of its citizens of tomorrow. Here the average term is but one hundred and thirty-one days and the average attendance but sixty-four per cent. In this Democracy of ours it is essential to our very life and progress that the poorest child of the poorest community shall have the same chance as the child of the loftiest community. It is an undeniable fact that the greatest need for improvement is found where there is least taxable wealth. The rural school will never be able to reach a standard of efficiency as'long as they are required to raise by tax, close akin to confiscation, a stated sum of money and comply with other impossible conditions before they are allowed to receive state aid. Wherein lies the remedy ? "No one who reads the constitution of our state can fail to grasp the fundamental principle that tne state and not the community is the unit of educational responsibility Until South Carolina assumes this responsibility she can never be assured of a majority of people of understanding thinking to wield the balance of power. It shall be my constant endeavor to bring parents and teachers together for mutual consideration of the best interest of the homes, the schools and the children of our state. I shall stand ever ready to cooperate with them in such efforts, but I shall also respect their voice in the adjustment of their own local affairs. "The states of Coloiado, Montana, Washington, North Dekota and Texas have women as state superintendents of education. These states are in the navguard of educational progress. Why not South Carolina? "In my years of experience as a ??J ?o mAfliAv rtf hrn ICOU1C1 OllU no ?uv iuvvmv* v? stalwart sons, I have come to feel as only a mother can that problem of education is not merely a question, but a present day challenge to the fathers and mothers of South Carolina. Shall we rise to the occasion? South Carolina expects us to do our duty." Mrs. Wallace's Address. Mrs. E. B. Wallace, who is also a candidate for state superintendent of education said in part: "I am running for the office of state superintendent of education, because my experience justifies promotion. For ten years I have taught in a mill school. During that time, in the afternoons I established and helped maintain the Columbia Childrens' Clinic, where thousands of children were taken care of during the year. There are many smiling faces of little children now in the land of the living who are witnesses to the service that was rendered during the four years that I was priv ileged to work without a penny for compensation. After this I taught in a college. Then I heard the call of my country and went to Prance with the American soldiers. On my return to America, I went to Camp Jackson and helped to establish a school which I supervised for a year, where men were taught who could neither read nor write. From there I was ordered to Oglethorpe and established a training school for teachers. I was discharged from the senice last July. "Upon my return to civil life, I looked for the most useful work I could find for the uplift and up-building of humanity. At present, I am supenisor in a mill school at Great Falls. "I wish to state very frankly that I am not backed by any organization or clubs; but am supported by the love and appreciation of the peo pie 01 my state, ior 1 nave given my life to my city, my state and my nation. The memory of seventeen hundred men, marching to school, who could neither read nor write gives me the inspiration and zeal to fight ignorance. * "I have no campaign manager. You, the people whom I have served, I want you to form yourselves into a campaign so strong and so might that no opponent can be elected over Mrs. E. Barton Wallace. "I have appeared before the legislature and city councils asking for help for others, but never in my life have I asked anything for myself. And now, I am only asking you to make me state superintendent of education that I may be in a posi tion to more readily and more efficiently serve you. On the 29th of August remember the woman who has helped others and whose life is dedicated to public sendee, city, state and nation. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our appreciation to our friends of Kingstree for their many deeds of kindness shown us during the illness of our husband and father. Mrs. T. L. Joye and Children. Join the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association and let us insure your tobacco on your farm while you are getting it ready for the association. % k W. H. WELCH, Mgr. 7-27-2t. k Kingstree, S. C. WASHINGTON COMMENT. The best friends of labor, organized and not organized, are more and more fearful that "the right to strike" has been emphasized too much, and that when it runs afoul of the general right of ever^ one to peaceful life, it must give away to the greater good of the greater number. The country is tired of strikes. The whole people of the United States are tired of having their coal and transportation either interfered with - * ' *.!- - Lf_iL | or tnreatenea. since me uicui ui vxganized labor Americans have been in sympathy with the right of men collectively to bargain and collectively to protest against injustice by a collective cessation of work. But that sympathy has been extended to striking men, who fought a fair fight, who interfered not at all with the innocent and the nonpartisan. In the old days, in the far west, a man had the right to shoot, if he felt himself injured or threatened by another. The other man had a right to shoot, too. It was a case of a "fair field and no favor." When ' towns grew larger promiscuous shoot ing had to stop. The rights of the ' innocent bystander became paramount ? to the rights of two men to "fight I it out" j The rights of many innocent citi- J zens are paramount to the rights of a few to strike. It is the general feeling of legislators in Washington, strongest among the friends of or x l l?^?? if i o f/\ Irknr'c 1 gttuueu lawi, uwk > >a w ? benefit to find another way to settle difficulties than to strike in the essential industries?coal and transportation. It is their conviction that if labor can not or will not, the United States can and will. The innocent must not suffer that two disputants be allowed to fight; arbitration must take the place of interference with mails, stoppage of coal, halting of trains. If peacefully, willingly, so much the better. If by force of arms and drastic laws, so much the worse for those who put personal rights before the rights of the whole country. Two thousand years of history makes it very plain that civilization is no better and no worse than the average citizens who make and maintain it Two thousand years have not, and doubtless ten thousand years will not, teach every, one that a nation can not be legislated into Utopia. The "do as I do, thing as I think, or 111 "??? ? / nnq+itiitinnal amendment mak- < ing you" chap, will probably, like the poor, always be with us. But he will decrease in numbers as the knowledge spreads, that the spread of knowledge is the answer to all the problems of our imperfect life. When a man knows that a hot stove burns, he keeps his hands off it When he knows that oil soothes, he anoints his burned fingers. When we all know, what some of us now realize, that the imperfections of our existence are due to the fact that a lot of us know no better, We will all unite for better education, for more education, for finer education. We have too much reverence for "book learning" and not enough un uci du1uui115 xvi mxw vuuvavmw wwow-. acquired knowledge and acquired ability to think. It is education which teaches thinking, not dates and facts alone, which we all need. It is not only more schools, but better schools we must have. You have guessed it! This is another argument for the Towner-Sterling bill, now before congress, creating a Department of Education, which shall aid our forty-eight states not only to educate more of us, but accomplish that education better, quicker, less expensively, more efficiently. It is in education, not in army or conference, arbitration or treaty, that the hope of world peace lies; it is education, not legislation, which shall keep this nation in the forefront of the world's civilization. o A Defender of Blease. The oft-repeated aphorism, "Politics makes strange bedfellows," never found better verification than in the defence of ex-governor Blease by Rev. Baxter F. McLendon. And it wt.s the most doubtful of Blease's acts as governor that elicits the praise of this man of God. In a recent issue of The Pee Dee Advocate Mr. McLendon takes up more than a column fnrmor o-nv [ VI ugiguuiug 1 eraor's pardon record. The releas- j ing of a horde of criminals, whom the j State had, at great expense, apprehended, tried, and found unsafe to be at large, he likens to the act of Christ in granting forgiveness to the thief on the cross.?Chesterfield Advertiser. Let us insure your tobacco in the pack barns while you are preparing it for the association or market. Too much risk for yon to take. W. H. WELCH, Mgr. 7-27-2t. ^ Kingstree, S. C. n m 1111 m 1111111111111 ? > 1111111 > ! First Gra | ;; Purchased From and on Dis ft niiiniiiiinimniniiiiiiiiiini x iihimhhhumiiiiumiiiiiim ; II Third Prize ! IJ A $100.00 (Tr>li>( Am* I i! Furnished by :: U a Kingstree ! I i: Merchant ft HUMHMiiHiiiniiiiimimiMM jj Waiting 1 >: ii | If you will grasp op '! :: \ ii forelock, and 1 ;; IS i as well as i: ii "" ? mvm%w nm i %n\v^T I 1 IlIKli 9'1 AIWIHI I; Kingstrec \. Mrs. L. S. Dennis 280,900 5 Wm Maude Allenc Kinder _280.000 I Kingstree, R. F. D, 1. I Miss Alma Dukes 109,000 V Mrs. J. L. Mima 286,600 I Andrew! 1 Miss Bessie Howard 99,000 1 \ Miss Grace Parsons 60,000 1 * Cowards I *> Miss Pearl Anderson, Rt 1 __80,000 IJ Miss Alma Smith 111,900 II Presley Matthews 86,000 I \ Cades I * Hazel Hanna, Star Rt __80,000 Miss May Pipkin 86,000 i \ Mrs. W. F. Prevatt Z3t,uw , GreeljviDe I Miss Willie Register 100,000 | Miss Henry Louise Johnson _80,000 ! Henry | Miss Annie Carraway 55,000 1? Miss Minnie Britton 105,000 i \ Miss Margie Gamble 85,000 ? I I [No Time t< $ x :: 1 ii Only time 1 i vantage of t Bonus Cr< this week fc 11 Art Nnw | i Circulation^epL 1 lc j; Eingstree, N * fv \ mumniiniiiinnnniniMiiii Ub ?V^WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 0 VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVryMiMiHUhU rWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWV Hllllllll IHHI HI mUMtHIIIIIH ! 1 ind Prize I play at Mcintosh Motor Co. jj I J <| HIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIilllllllMWM ! I J Fourth Prizeiiy A $50.00 I |i|' ;; ;; 1 1 ' Trading Account jii ] || Furnished by II ijj I! a Kingstree jj j j/j T iTivi viiant r fj m illHIHHIIIIIIIIIIMinillltHM j||c muni I1 M For You!lly opportunity by the;: ;!;3 >e a winner as i;[f a worker. i;pf II I'I - t MM* Ill g G OF WORKERS ft Hemingway ! X Miss Gertrude Stucky 110,000 ) T Mies Nellie BarteU 80,400 ; V Miss Lela Burney 111,000 * C Miss Alga Harmon, Be. 2 80,400 | y Chloe Douglas 104,000 ] C i Lanes J y J. D. McElveen 280,000 ; ? New ZUm ; I \ Miss Vera Fleming 80,000 ' <, \ Nesmith < , Miss Hattie Stucky 230,400 J \ Suttons ! \ J Miss Jessie Lucas ? 55,200 ] Miss Pauline Cooper 101,900 < 1 j*. n rr oaa ' m ^ miss aaaie rarsons 00,000 , , . Miss Lelia Broach 110,000 J | J Salters Depot J i [ Miss Carrie BlackweU 100,000 < ( ; Miss Willie Sparks 80,000 | , r Marion McClary 80,000 J ^ Trio ; ' J Miss Lona Lockliear 100,800 ?1 > Miss Anna Files 80,000 i 1 Miss Mary Etta Moore 110,000 J i > 4 muniihiiiiiinimiiniMimiii j (> M i Hesitate! 1 ill 1 to take ad- i|fl he 100,000 jj \M idits given iji-j >r $15.00. jj i|: | 11 , l k T" 1 . iikl ? i o-aay: ? i i :: jif !! \ i J lie County Record, II1* :: ;i; i 5^ South Carolina.;; ?i; >| iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinn X J