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Bradley school, L. J. G,iilln,
Mt. Moriah, Miss Morrow,
Miss Nannie L. Kcllar, on
&. w. Johnson's place. 3 mos. COOK
PAID FOR SCHOOL HOUSES.
For white ch1ldrcn."........... ........S 1O0l
For cOlorcd ren.......--.......-.....-. S50s
G5.Gi
REHABILITATION.
For teaching white children.-..S3l990
For teaching colored children. 2iU UG0-s5j9H
For school houses.~"............ a1OC
Total payments. 80 sG5 l.9C
Total Payments for white schools s.......> ~
Total payments for culored schools. ...... 32jGl
In his speech at Aewine's Mill, the School
Commissioner said that the white people re.
ccived about twothirds of the public school
fund. We presume this remark did not ap-
ply to the locality in which the children oi
white persons who rent land are denied a
school. The above official statements show
that the negroes in White Hall are better pro-
vidcd with schools than the children Of white
persons who rent land.
TIE WHITE HALL SCHOOL GRrs' LIONS
SHARE.
Tho reports of the teacher of the Trustees
School at White Hall show that the monthly
attendance was but fraction over fifteen
scholars, and the pay certificates show that
these fifteen scholars received 500, out Of the
1919. proving that these fifteen scholars at
White Hall received about one-thlrd of the
total public fund for white children in that
township; We are speaking Of facts-not sin
fuenceS."
We. have shown that the Trustees own
s.,,I ,i4k, t. xt,k l,x,
Mr.. 7. J. Gritlln, at Bradley, which is in I,i-
dian Hill Township, are paid five months,
and that none OF the other white children re-
cciYed more than three NOR tbs benefit of the
school fund. These statements are official
and as furnished us by the records on file In
the School commissioners office. Docs the
fact that they recognize, establish, or continue
twice as many colored schools come from that
footsteps Of their predecessors of fifteen years
ago?'
THE UTTER USsELFIsIINEss OF TIE TRCs-
The Trustees say:
awe positively deny that our being patrons Of the
White Hall schoul Influenced either Of US in our ac-
tiUn"
The Trustees are honorable men, and we do
not gainsay their word. But why make the
disclaimer? We were influenced TO our ac-
LiOn lot lNc TCtSOn llluC INC WnlLe ''TCnLeTS
OH the East side of Hard Labor sought school
facllitics, and they wanted the Trustees to di-
vide the public fund from which they had been
so long so literally helping themselves. (We
are speaking of facts without the slightest
reference to the 'in1luences' that may have
brought about the action of tho Trustees.
The fact being that their own school was
kept open five months, while other white
children received but three months tuitiOn.)
The refusal of the Trustees to pay the teach.
cr Of the New School, and their unSclfflshness
in tho matter, may be better understood
when it Is stated that they continued color.
neighborhood, in which the petitioners dcsir-
cd to establish q school Ior white 'rcnters."
II the Trustees would explain how they can
keep their own school open for five months
with three months, 1t would no doubt prove
interesting reading to those who get SO little
benefit of the public money.
If the Trustees would explain why IT Is that
more schools are not open for the white chill
drcn I'm that township, it would also prove 10
be Interesting reading.
If they would explain why they can open
four schools for the negroes while they grant
only two to the white children, further inter
est would be added to their official career.
THE WAY MIR. SEYMOUR AND Ills CHILDREN
WENT TO WHITE HALL.
Capt. Carwile says:
1T IS true also mat Mr. seymour taught inc W nle
Hall school for several years. and came from the side
where the obccting parties ve and brought his chill
drrn with hiu, some Of whom were Of the minimum
age"
1t is true that Mr.. Seymour taught that
school for year. II Is also true that no man
on the East side of Hard Labor lives nearer to
White Hall than did Mr.. Seymour, and 1t is
also true that Mr.. Seymour came to ;Ie school
on horseback, or in his buggy. and it Is also
true that the younger Of his children rode
with him.
TIE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CoLoRED "HEST-
ERs" AND WHITE "RESTERs"-TuE
FORMER GET A scIIooL-THE
LATTER DO NOT.
The riddle embraced in the following long
understand the negro situation at White Hall,
nor are We exactly certain what Is meant by
rec!ting the iilct that tue negroes unmurmur-
ingly submitted to their ruling, ut n time
wien we were appealing from their action
against MS. II they wished to explain to the
Commissioner what mighty men they were
in their own locality, 1t would seem 10 us to
he an inopporLunc time to boast OF their pow
CT. II they meant to create the impression
that the negroes Of White Hall were better
citizens than the white renters" OH the Eil. /
side OF Hard Labor creek, the official imputa-
lion against ncighbors who are IN every re- re-
understood than explained. Especially is
this true when 10 Is remembered that they
were not seeking from the Trustees certiti-
Gates OF character, but were merely asking for
that official aid In the education Of their chill
drcn, to which they thought they were justly
entitled, however much they may have been
mistaken. The Trustees say:
We will state further rs gerrian to this article that
on The grounds rs the appellants based their ap-
pcation c0lOrcd school WAS appiaGl for and lnr the
inpl In hn he'd
the fact of their being In reach Of other schools ana
we will here State inrilcntly that their application
nnch more reasonable. from the fact that the col
orcd children had to the same creek and besides
walk two and half miles, and at this writing children
of the cnnrcd walking from the cross roads
White Hall to school ut Bradley, and these chill
lrcu Of those parents VINO applied To us Tor new
cuurcd schgul and when refused, accepted, the sua-
ion philuS"phicay and went ON in the even tenor 0l
their way
With permission, VIC would state that the
colOrrd ''rrntrrs' Oh the Fast Silcuf Hard la
hor creek. have enjoyed the benefit OF pub
lie school for yeas, and This cnlnrrd sch"oI
house being moi distant rom the very spot on
which the white "rcntcrS pray l"r Il school.
Another matter: If lie Trustees did right
in refusing Il schGUl al White Hall for colurcd
same place for their own children? Could
they not walk to bradley as we'll as The negro
children?
Another matter: The constitution OF the
State of South turnl;ma provides that the
fright Of the people to petition the
or any department thereof,
shall never be abridged" Then why do the
Trustees assume such Lofty airs and presume
iu Uilrr the :cratuituuS Insult contained in tie
last lines oi the above quoted sentence? 1t
was h:h enough for tlI.'m (" refuse 10 The
white "rrntcrS' the same benefits That they
hal been Iur years comforting upon the color
;.u "rri!irrS." Giit The white .'rvntrrS' arc
;,rmaxcI that educated gentlemen should oIrr
SUI! IN insult tn every friend nt the proposed
SrlIunI for white "rcIiirr>'' in III" same locali
Is where rrl,irrG "runic:S have gotten their
school wear atrr year without question:.
The l,n;lItl ut Trustees may rest assured That