Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-07-17
ADDRESS OF msS MARYE sHELOR,
President OF White Rock Library and School
Improvement Association.

Association, held at White Rock
Academy, at Tugaloo, this county,
on May 10Th, 1901:
My Friends: You have elected me
your president and librarian. thank
you for the honor, not for honor's
sake, but the talsman that draws me
to accept is, place to work for
"Our Country"
TO make this association success
we must let "brotherly love dwell
among u.s." Draper, in "Thc Intel
lcctual Development of Europe"
said "All mundane events are re-
suits of operation of laws. Every
movement upon the earth or in the
skies proclaims to us that the uni
verse is under government" Let it
be so with us. We have made
equitable laws, and we must obey
them.
Our motto, "Dum vivimus dis.
camus;" our colors, blue and white
our name, White Rock. When we
analyze these we find we must learn
all that is pure and true. Let our
character be solid and white as the
old "Whitc Rock" that gave our
school and library its name.
BY the help of God | have tried
to do my duty to the school and
library. The value Of the library to
the community cannot be estimated.
Baron Montcsquicu tells us: "Thc
love of reading enables n man to ex-
change the weary hours that come
to one for hours of delight" We
found this true; the long winter
nights were spent in delightful com
pany. Pope said, after entertaining
distinguished guests, "Af,cr this day,
as much company as have kept,
and rs much as love it, | love read
ing better" Books are our best
friends; they are Interchangeable. We
should read only books that will cul-
tivate our minds and make our
hearts better. Cultivate taste for
history, poetry, philosophy and good
fiction.
Dickens tells us that so many
bright minds are crippled in their
early school days by poor teachers
that in after years good teachers
cannot eradicate their false ideas. 1t
is true with reading. Reading is Il
sure road to educational success.
Mr.. Johnson told us at the Semi
Centennial that call great men had
good and intelligent mothers" Edu-
cate the women and you educate the
world. TO be great men and women
you must be educated. Who knows
but the "little tyrant of the fcld''
may some day be an immortal Stone
wall, or sainted Moody, or our Chief
Executive? That bright-cyed girl a
Clara Barton, Francis Willard, a
Miss IIavcrgal? Let us be up and
doing to help them on. Train our
boys to "bc men," and when our
conntry's call is heard they will be
"heroes in the strife" Educate our
girl to be "thc wife" Irving so beau
tifully described in his "Skctch
Book" a man is what his wife
makes him-Shc can make him d
saint or demon Let our inllucnco
be for good. Educate the girl'>
head, heart, hands; then she can
truly be called can accomplished
young lady"
Girls, be hcroncs like Ounta Luc,
in "Thc Y's and their Works.
Then Talmagc can say "Thc worlt
is growing better" and our mother.
say, like Cornclia, the noblcst Roman
OF them all, when asked to show hc
jewels, said "Thcsc, my sons, ar,
my jewels; their virtues are m,
only ornaments"
| am glad to say the tcmpcranc,
books have been well read, and
hope it will he put in to practic,
here. If there was ever tim,
when the "whitc ribboncrs" shoul,
work it is now. Wine flows frccl,
at our social functions whiskc,
every whore. Even the grand oil,
Palmetto State sells it to cducat
the children. DO evil that 600,
may come Of it? Never! Tn
young man drinks to satisfy Iii
beastly desire, congratulating him
sell that he is helping to educate tn
children. We must submit to th
powers that now exist, but teach tn
children, by setting them the exam
pie, to be like Stonrwall Jackson
who cleared the first drink nor
than Grants whole army"
The first year OF The association
dying. Hear the tolling OF the bell
warning us to appear before til
Judge to give an account Of on