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Educational Program < State Board of Education Holds Important Meeting. Columbia, Jan. 2.?A special meet ing- of the State board of education was held Tuesday night in the office of John E. Swearingen, State super intendent of education. This meeting ha^been'-called-.fcy Governor Manning in order to wind up the educational affairs of the State board of education for :iS-?8, and also the educational program of the governor's administra tion: The seven appointed members oi the State board were named by the governor in April, 1916. to serve un til April, 1920. Resolutions of sym pathy for "governor and Mrs. Manning for~the death of their son in France were' offered by Dr. S. H. Edmunds of Smirter and were unanimously adopt ed by the board. ?The schoiarship recommendations for ihe University of South Carolina, 7suhmitted by Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, and for the Citadel, submitted by Col. O. J. Bond* were received and con firmed. . A constructive program, rec 'ommended to the general assembly byr'fhe State superintendent of educa tion^- in the 11 items suggested in his forthcoming report, were scrutinized by^the board and unanimously in dorsed for favorable action by the lawmakers. The State superintendent was au thored to notify the 45 counties that an extra teachers' examination would be authorized for the third Saturday in' . January, in any county whose county ' superintendent might request the same'.. The .war emergency license, which has been granted to graduates of "State aided high schools, holding a -State high school diploma and to col lege matriculants, . has not supplied ad^uately all the needs for teachers. T^^Chis estra examination will afford an -'^ppoi'tunity for prospective teach ers^ to qualify. The members ?tending the meeting were:, / Gov. R. I. Manning, Supt. E. ' A-Montgomery, Dr. S. H. Edmunds, President S. J- Derrick and . State .Sn>jU .Swearingen. Soldier Kills Preacher Rev. W. iL Roman, Negro, Cut to Death in Difficulty at Restaurant in Latta. J : J^itta,. Jan. 1.?In a difficulty here last/night resulting from dissatisfac tipn/over the ' award in a shoe shine I contest, the Kev. W. B. Roman, pas tor- of the Latta Baptist Church for negroes, who also conducted a res - taurant for negroes, received two . gasSpTnT^Vleg from' which he bled to,'death before medical assistance could be had for him. Roman's son and*' another negro, Irvin Legette, T^r^'sBmihg shoes-'*?f a third negro. Bj?liard Xolen, under an agreement w$th Nolen that the one who did the bj|st work, was to receive the pay for -the shine. The Roman boy became dissatisfied over the award, which Was given to Legette, and took the matter to his father, who was in an adjoining room at the restaurant, and a/Jfrght ensued, in which,bottles were freely thrown. The elder Roman is sajd to have backed off when he saw a^azor in the hand of Legette and in attempting to get out of the way fell into the gutter and was then cut by JJagette. Roman died in a few min ute*! Iaegette had recently been dis charged "from the army and was in Urform when the difficulty occurred. 23jex succeeded in evading the officers and is stiH at large. Newso^me w as arrested and locked up. Roman was highly regarded by the wi?jjre people of this place as well as by^?s own race. He was pastor of the -Baptist Church here during the last year. Formerly he had served maiiy churches in the negro Metho dfei' conference. He was industrious affi"L\made money in his restaurant. H?)came to Latta from Marion. . i_ Can't Solicit Labor. Columbia, Jan. 1.?John Lee Davis, fe^?al director of the United States employment bureau for South Caro lina,- has emphatically prohibited con tractors and builders of other States soliciting labor in this State. Firms hi North Carolina, Florida and Vir ginia want South Carolina labor, but the director will not allow them to solicit. He said that the labor in Bout Carolina already is short, and to permit other States filling their wants from South Carolina would greatly embarrass the situation. It n ? ^Archangel, Tuesday, Dec. 31.? American troops yesterday recaptur ed) the village of Kadish, on the mid dfe sector of the northern front and today they pushed forward their lines a -distance of two miles south of the v3Iage in the direction of Vologda. ' \%Tmr%T\TVQ. FORTIETH VY UUi/ O ANNIVERSARY Seed Catalog Gives the fullest and most up-to-date information, not oMy about Seeds that can be planted to advantage, but also about crops that prom ise to give the largest profits during the coining year. OUR 40 YEARS' EXPERIENCE, and an equipment that is unsur passed In this country, give us un equalled advantages for supplying . 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Each year questions involving the development of our several state col leges are settled in this way. What do you think of this system for planning and ordering our scat tered and growing group of state sup ported colleges? At first glance you realize the im portance of the subject. For one thing, expenditures aggregating $600, 000 annually are involved. Before going further let me set your minds at rest as to what is to. be said about- this particular Citadel pro ject. It is not going to be support j ed nor attacked in this article. It is ! cited only as a striking illustration of !the need of a more. rational oential i izd control of our colleges. \ South Carolina, has seven institu tions for higher .learning: the .Uni versity, Clemson, -Winthrop, the Cita del, the School for the Deaf and Blind, the Medical College and South Carolina College (for negroes). Lo cated in six different counties, they i are scattered over the State from the j mountains to the. sea. They were j started nad located haphazard. They have been developed haphazard, ex.. cept for such incidental symmetry ol development as the legislature could give. As one who has for fourteen years watched the efforts of the leg islature in this undertaking, as one who has been intimately associated wjrh. and a part of this machinery of ?? ordination. I advise you it is unsat isfactory, and unsuited to the pur pose. There Ought to be a central board ! chosen for its qualifications to pass on the general problems involving the development and management of these institutions. Such a board of specially trained' men could plan the growth of our colleges along well con jsidereu lines. It would stand between th<- legislature and the proolems in volved. But the legislature would have the same power to accept or re ject that it now has by reason of its j control of appropriations. Such a board would assist the two ?appropriation committees to -.ct in telligently, and it would relieve the iinstitutions of having to pursue the j den: oralizing methods now nece ssary j to get the wished for appropriations. (This last consideration is perhaps as important as the first. ! Today, if one of these boards of ! trustees decides- its college needs a inew building, or other large item. I what is the procedure? The whole {legislature must be appealed to and 'particular attention, paid to the two j appropriation committees. Individual ! members are often written to and jseen, public opinion is worked on through newspaper: articles. Gradu ates are stinv 1 ???> activity, the medi .cal fraernity is culled m if a medi cal biulding ;s wanted, an-1 the law fyers if it be a law building. Finally the legislative committees hold long 'hearings where these organizations (focus on the thirty-odd bewildered : members all the influence they have ?mustered. J These campaigns develop a certain ? college loyalty, but they are not good ;fcr the institutions. Much time and {energy is wasted building up quasi | political machines, and a premium is jput ori activities designed to pull 1 wires. This is not said in a spirit of criti jcism of those who'employ these meth-. jods. The blame rests with legisl-i i tures that have made these methods {necessary. Perhaps some of lie ex I pressions used may give offense if it j is not thoroughly understood that ? those responsible for the conduct of these colleges have been required by 'conditions over which they have no 'control to enter into this competition. ?They have been sufferers, not offend_ jers. I We have partisan efforts in the in terest of particular institutions. There is no 'one to present the case ,for the colleges as a whole. The leg jislative committees attempt to consid er all demands, but they have not the ?knowledge, the special training, nor ! the time to arrive at well-balanced !judgments; though they must, under 'our system of government, be the j final arbiters after the facts shall have been gathered and digest u .... ithe theories developed and set forth jby the experts. i There are practical difficulties to be j wisely decided on and provided for in ,the terms of any act covering the j I subject. But these are matters of de ?tail that can be arrnaged one- the policy has been adopted. Time will be required to work out. many ?ea jtures of such a system which only ex perience can perfect. But now is ihe time to begin. Under our State Board of Charities (the activities of our various penal aiid icharitabie institutions are being or ganized and buiit up into a \vc. sidered system. Taking advantage or its investigations and reports th?- leg-j islature is placing South Carolina j among the leading Southern States. | In a similar way the development of I our colleges may be rounded out into a balanced whole. We should think of our seven iust'- i tuti?ns of hi^h"r learning as parts <>f; one greal State university. The fact 1 ithat they are geographically separat ed by large distances and must, in all j human probability so continue, is no reason why they may not he managed : as parts of a whole. in this way de- I moralizing competition will give way to helpful cooperation. Instead of) fostering jealousies and mustering ouH alumni int<? hostile oamjxs we will give them the assurance that their < several alma maters will r?jc<,iv<- cm-j pet?mt cnosideration. Much duplica-J tion in curriculums can <>e avoided and standards tor scholarship raised.j The closer touch will bring the cuu?- i dence and inspiration that flow from united efforts. Talk this over with your delega tions. These are your colleges, sup ported by your money and educating your children. Neils Christensen. Working for Roads Owners of Automobiles Will Pe tition Legislature to Author ize Bond Issue. Columbia, Jan. 2.?A large attend ance of representative men from over the State is expected at the confer ence: to be held at the Jefferson hotel in this city Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at which plans will be made for a .vigorous campaign to have the legislature pass an act authorizing- a vote on the proposed $25,000,000 bond issue, i '? Delegates have been elected to the meeting by the commercial bodies of a number of the cities of the State and it is expected that practically ev ery county will be represented. It is expected that a number of visitors will :reach the city tonight. R. Goodwyn Rhett, of Charleston, author of the plan endorsed by the good roads convention for a $25,000, 000 bond issue to be paid by a special tax oni automobiles, will attend the meeting. Mr. Rhett has been in Char leston.since Sunday, but will arrive in Columbia tomorrow morning from the national capital. He will make a talk and develop the plan fully for the benefit of those attending the meet ing. At the meeting Friday the ways and means committee, which is composed of . Mr. Cofield, R. A. Wilson, of Rock Hill, R. E. Gr?bel, of Anderson and James O'Hear of Charleston, will make its .report through Mr. Gr?bel. The conference .will act upon this report and provide for a permanent organization to push the good roads movement through in this State. It is expected that following the meeting headquarters will be opened in this city. C. C. Kirkpatrick, who is to be con nected with the State organization, arrived in the city yesterday after noon from Anderson and Greenville. At Anderson Mr. Kirkpatrick ad dressed a meeting of the chamber or commerce. He reports that gopd roads enthusiasm is running high in /(he Electric. City and that there will be representatives from that city and county h?re for the conference to morrow. Greenville will also send down a delegation of well known cit izens. Petitions asking the members of the general assembly to pass the en abling act are being circulated a:nong the automobile owners of the State and it is expected that by the time the legislature meets they will have been signed by a majority of them. Carranza Is Dictator Mexican Confess Grants Him Extraordinary Powers. Washington, Jan. 2.?Mexican con gress, it was reported today to the ?State department has granted special powers to President Carranza to raise or lower import: and export duties at his discretion. ? 270 Drowned in Wreck of Yacht British Vessel Strikes on Dan gerous Rocks Off Scottish Coast. London, Jan. 1.?Two hundred and seventy sailors were drowned today as the result of the loss of the Brit ish steam yacht Iolaire off Stornoway, Scotland. The yacht had. 300 sailors on board. They were on New Year holiday leave. The vessel struck on the dangerous rocks known as "The Beasts of Helm," near Stornoway harbor and onry about thirty of the sailors were saved. Many of these were terribly injured in their efforts to reach the shore. All the officers and crew of the Iolaire were lost. The Iolaire was a vessel of 362 tons. She was built in 1902 and before the war belonged to the estate of the late Sir Donald Currie. Congress in Session Senate Will Start Talkfest on Peace Conference. Washington, Jan. 2.?Congress got back to work today after the holiday recess. It is expected that most of the senate session will be devoted to discussion of peace and other sub jects. House leaders have planned an other effort to send the war revenue j bill to conference. [House Means Business Revenue Bill W2? Be Pushed Through Wihout Delay. Washington, Jan. 2.?House leaders have resorted to a special rule to force the war revenue bill to confer ence, without holding it for debate on demands for votes on certain senate amendments. The rule was unani mously reported by the rules commit tee and adopted with only a few scat tering negati-e votes. Washington. Jan. 2.?An extens ion of the investigation of the Hog Is land shipyard to a preneral inquiry :nto the accomplishment s of shipping board was voted today by the senate commerce committee. A resolution was adopted willing on the board to furnish detailed information re.'ativ to all its work since the building ; ro gram was undertaken. Basel. Dec. 30.?TIv Poles are mas ters of Posen (German Poland), a ? cording to the Vorwaerts of Berlin. They have; disarmed German offi< ers and soldiers. some <>f whom. lh<- pa ? per. adds, were shot after being tried by court martial. Violent fighting has taken place in the streets between German and Polish soldiers. TRADE MARK REGISTERED,, My life's work has been devoted to the improvement of Southern Crops and Soils. P. S. ROTSTER F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md. Toledo* 0. Tarboro, N. C. Charlotte, N? C. Columbia, S. Ci , Spartanburg, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. ?I Making Men Out of Street Waifs Former Governor Brady of Alaska an Example of Work of Children's Aid Society. New York, Jan. 1.?America as a kind of opportunity even for street waifs, orphans and foundlings was re called by the recent death in Sitka, Alaska, of John G. Brady, former governor of that terriory, and the t&ei that when a child young Brady had been taken from an almshouse and placed in the custody of the Chil dren's Aid Society of New York which educated him and placed him on the road to fame and fortune. Hundreds of other cases similar to ex-Governor Brady's it is said, could be cited by the organization which for more than half a century has been taking homeless boys and girls off ci :y streets and sending them to farms in the West where they grew up to be f self-reliant, trustworthy and honored citizens. A certain delicacy surrounds the publication of the names of the more noted of these former waifs but,' the report of the Children's Aid Society for 1918 shows the following harvest of "careers" up to date: One governor of a State, one gover I nor of a territory (John G. Brady of Alaska); two members of congress, two district attorneys, two sheriffs, two mayors, a justice of the supreme court; a federal judge, four State judges, two college professors, seven high school principals, two school su ' perintendents, an auditor-general of \ a State, nine members of State legisla ! tures, 24 clergymen, one cashier of a life insurance company, two artists, a seriate clerk, six railroad officials, ? eighteen journalists, 34 bankers, 191 physicians, 35 lawyers, 12 postmasters,! 3 contractors,' 57 teachers, 4 civil en-! gineers "and a vast number of other; business and professional men, clerks, r mechanics, farmers and their wives-], and others who have acquired proper- IJ ty and filled positions of honor andj, trust." Among' the American forces sent L overseas, it is pointed out in the re- I port, are twelve commissioned offi-j( cers and about 7.000 soldiers and sail-,( ors who were once wards of the Chil- L dren's Aid Society. ^ All were rescued jj from the streets or from asylums and L orreetive institutions. i( The society, since its foundation onjf January 9, 1855, has placed 32,031 i orphans and deserted children In goodjj homes in the country where many of;! them were later adopted. In addition 13 >: 1.472 older boys and girls have been J | :enl to farms in the West where they ( have been put on their feet and. be- j coming owners of ranches, have j diown their appreciation in later; years by taking orphans into their! own homes. 'c It-has been estimated that the co;<t r ?f salvaging a child from the streets, c; recording to the plan of the Society, j ( s ?."0 which not only defrays the cost id of pTacing the youngster in a com-ic forcible country home but provides for h supervision so long as i is necessary.' f The'society keeps in touch with thejl? boys'or girls thus s*mt otit a 1 has on n Hie*thousands of grateful letters wr;-:v ten by them after they have grown id t fnanhood. 1 I An instance of this gratitude was I recorded in the report for 1918 of Ed win G. Merrill, treasurer of the so ciety, who acknowledged ? bequest of $5,000 from the estate of Dr. Michael A. Jordan, a physician and educator of Logansport, Indiana. Dr. Jordan many years ago was a friendless or phan in New York City and was be friended by the Children's Aid Society. Many similar legacies from former wards have been left to the organiza tion in the past. Ellison Capers Dead Son of Late Bishop Passes at Summerton Home. Summerton, Dec. 31.?Ellison Cam pers, fourth son of the late Bishop El lison Capers, died yesterday at his home in Summerton. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a widow and several children, the oldest of whom, Ellison Capers, Jr., was a resi dent of Columbia for several years be fore he entered the army service. Three brothers, Bishop William Theo ditus Capers of Texas, the Rev. Wal ter T. Capers of Tennessee, John G. Capers of Washington and one sister, Mrs. May Capers Satterlee, also sur vive. Ellison Capers was the postmaster at Summerton for a number of years. He also owned a drug store.. He at tended the University of South Caro lina for several years about 1890, and for several years was a successful school teacher. Drouth in Florida Liquor Lid Is Put on Hard and Fast. Tampa, Fla., Dec. 31.?The enire State of Florida became "dry" at mid night tonight, when the constitutional amendment making sale or manufac ture or transportation of liquors, J wines or beers illegal in this State. This city was really the iast stand 3f the whiskey interests among the large cities of Florida, and in only J ] Dne other county was the sale of li-11 l'uor being carried n. The mail order' < md package houses operating her.j< nanaged to get rid of their last 11 'emnants of stocks today. One large 11 concern carried an auction sale for ;wo days this week to close out. A feature of the new law is that a line of $500 or six month's imprison nent or both, is the minimum penatly for drunkenness, first offense, and a [ine of $3.000 or three years in jail, >r both, for the second offense. Railway Heads Meet New York. Dec. 31.?The standing :ommittee <>f the Association of Rail oad Executives, in session here to lay, decided upon a general meeting )f heads of member roads next Sun lay morning in Philadelphia. The rommittee will attend the meeting taving adopted today a tentative plan or the return of the railroads to u-ivate operation which will be sub mitted to the general meeting. It ras not the intention, it was said, o make the plan public until formal y presented to congress in January. Allies in Constantinople Detachment of French,/Brftish and Italian Troops Hold Different Quarters. London, Jan. 1.?A battalion of French troops has been. detailed to occupy the Stamboul distric^of /Con stantinople, while a British Dattalion will occupy Per?, the European quar ter. Italian forces will .occupy an other district *of the ttfty? .f Three Thousand Land Transport Arrives^ at -Newport News With Large Force. Newport News, Jan. - 1.?Carrying about three thousand returning troops the steamer Princess Me toika. arrived here today. They include' approxi mtaely one thousand wounded^ NEW WAR SAVING ?Ti?tfPSL New Scries Maturing in 1924 are Now On Sa le. Charleston, Jan. L?Commencing January 1 the new series of war sav ings stamps?known as the 1919 se ries?will be on-sale, and will mature January 1, 1924. The sale of the 1918 series ended, on December 1, and post masters and agents of the second class have received supplies of thja new ?tamps and have them for sale. The lanuary price of the new W. S. ?. is $4.12 each, and this, price-will ad vance one cent each month. They cvill be blue instead of green, and are slightly smaller in size than the 1918 series ,of which nearly $10,000,000 ;vorth were sold in South Carolina. New cards, on which the new. stamps are to be stuck, have been prepared, and no 1919 stamps should De placed on a 1918 card. If a 1918 ? var savings certificate has been only martially filled, it is perfectly valid and ?ach stamp will be redeemed for $5 it maturity. The treasury department has plans n progress for continuing the cam >aign of thrift during the year, and hese plans will be made known in !uo ccurrc. In the meantime, the :overnment urges that he people con inue to invest as much as they can of heir savings in war savings stamps. Peanut Marketing Suggestions. On, a basis of 30 cents for cotton, he 1918 peanut crop should not sell or less than 10 cents per pound for armers' stock. The ratio between he price of cotton and peanuts usu lly runs one to three and this is not n unfair basis. The general im ression is that the peanut market will pen at 10 cents for good dry stock, f the farmers will only use a little usiness judgment, save tlieir peanuts l the best possible condition, fill the icks well (because when sacks are f) cents apiece, every crevice should e filled), place no peanuts jon the iarket till they are dry, then market owly. there is no reason for this rop not selling for 10 cents and bove. Immediately on the price roping below 10 cents, sales should ?ase.?The Progressive Farmer.