The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 03, 1922, Image 10
CAMPAIGN PARTY
HERE LAST WEEK.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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"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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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