The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-16

come prevalent that teachers could be
manufactured in colleges. It was all
right to train men and women for the
great calling Of teaching, but it re-
quired special talents in that direction
to make teacher love the great work
of teaching, and natural qualifications
for this high calling. We pay one Of
these manufactured teachers as much
as we pay a man who was qualified
for the great work Of teaching. The
men had quit the schools and We had
turned it over to the pretty little girls
between 16 and % who did not 60
into the school room intending to
make a life work Of it, but simply to
wait for that one scholar to come
down the pike whose life education
she was willing to undertake. 1t
might be that some women below
thirty had adopted teaching as life
>work, but the majority Of those un-
der thirty were simply waiting-walt-
ing for their destiny. The children,
were being turned over to mere novl-
ces-the children at that age when
their character was plastic-when the
slightest touch endured through time
and eternity. We wouldn't It think of
employing a novice to build a house,
and yet the children were turned over
to mere novices to be trained for God
and country, for time and eternity.
Just about the time the PRETTY girls
began to be useful and learned the
art Of teaching they married. Just
about the time the young men learn
ed the art of teaching they realized
there was not living in it. And so
We were doomed to infeliority, except
in some of the larger graded schools.
Judge Prince said he recalled the
time when his father paid $40 per
pupil tuition for his children. And yet
the people of today thought they
could run a school system on paltry
3-miH tax, and kicked about that,
when the great northwest, which had
so far outstripped the South, was pay
/ ing from IL to Is mills. The whole
thing had been turned over to the
State in South Carolina, and the
State was not furnishing enough mon
ey to provide for a frst-class school
system. He characterized it as a
grand farce.
He wanted the grand jury to visit
every school in the county by COM
mittees Of one, and to see whether the
teacher was exercising the proper dis
cipiHe, teaching tie great lesson of
obedience training the child so that
when it went to college it could get
through without expulsion, or if it
did not have an opportunity to at
tend college that it would be obedient
to law. If the trustees were not do
ing their duty and employing the pro-
per teachers, while there was no way
to punish the trustees for mere in
efficiency, the members of the grand
jury could at first quietly protest, and
if there was not Improvement, they
should write a strong presentment,
naming the trustees who were not do
ing their duty, or who were inefficient.
The following true bills were re-
turned yesterday morning:
State VS.. Perry Latimer, car break
ing and larceny.
State VS.. Lou Singley alias Sue
Singley, murder.
State VS.. Stanmore Langford, muir
der and carrying concealed weapons.
At the request Of COL George
Jo1nstone Of counsel for the defence,
" stated that it was necessary for
hi to 60 to Edgefeld yesterday af-
ternoon in connection with case
| there IN which he IS interested, Judge
Prince consented not to take up the
case Of the State VS.. Stanmore Lang
ford until Friday morning. Solicitor
Cooper stated that he would press for
trial in this case this week.
Pleas of Guilty.
At the afternoon session Of the
court Perry Latimer, colored, charg-
ed with car breaking and larceny,
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
serve one year.
Robert Griffin, colored. charged
with privily stealing from the person,
pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and
was sentenced to serve thirty days or
pay fine Of 500.