The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-13

and training are neglecting our great
creative businesses, such as agricul'
ture and manufacturing and all the
others.
Encourage White immigration.
AS for my next proposition. name
ly that to build great civilization we
should have a predominantly white
population, I presume few will disa-
gree with me. We cannot bl:o1 our
selves, you say, to the fact that the
negro has nowhere built up genu-
inc civilization or made any impor-
tant contribution. There has not
however been such recognition
of a fact which I think follows as tie
night the day, namel5, that the more
largely predominant is the white e!e-
ment in the makeup of the popula-
ton the greater the percentage of
whites we have in our population, the
higher the type Of the civilization we
may hope to devlop.
There are a THOUSAND things to
which you need to give attention in
South Carolina, as We in Nohth Car
olina, but there is nothing else half so
much worth your attention as increas'
ing the percentage of your white pop
ulation. In twenty years, if me record
Of the last decade is maintained, you
will have over half of YOU population
white, but this should '. satisfy you.
Before that time more than two
thirds of your population ought to be
white-even if you have to spend ten
million dollars advertising your re-
sources and inviting thrifty Northern
and Western white farmers to come
down into what should be one OF
Americas richest white common
wealths.
Another policy that I regard as ab-
solutely necessary both to retain our
present white rural population and to
provide conditions suitable for invit-
ing further white immigration is that
of segregatng the races in our rural
districts. Throughout the South thou
sands of white farmers are being driv-
en- from their homes by the growing
number of negro farmers around
them and the consequent lack Of an
adequate white social life. We must
develop a public sentiment which
will require negroes to buy land and
group themselves in communities by
indiscriminately sandwiching white
and negro farmers together. advo-
cate this policy not only as vital to
the welfare Of our white people, but
for the good Of both races. For ex-
ample, fifty negro families and fif-
ty white families together in a dis
trict can only have half as good
schools for either race as ttey could
have if all the hundred families were
of one race: and with regard to
churches, libraries, cooperative So
cities, social meetings Of vial cIvill-
cation the same thing is true.
Practical Education.
T said in the outset that our great
est need is a predominant white pop
ulation, grouped in white communl-
ties, home owning and trained-both
young and oln-to a high degree of
efficiency. I have already referred
briefly to the need for making our
schools practical, but the subject
certainly demands fuller treatment.
The plain truth is that ~e are not
getting out of our schools what we
ought to get out Of them, and we are
not going to do so until our Farmers
Unions and other farmers organiza-
tions organize a veritable rebellion
against the blighting medaevalism of
the present system. I saw the other
day, for example, not unusual bud
get of expenses for an American city
school system. It shows that fifteen
cents of it's every dollar is spent for
Latin, eleven cents of every dollar
for French, six cents for German,
and one cent for Greek total of
thirty-three cents of each dollar for
these foreign languages, while one
half of one cent in each dollar goes
for snopwork and mechanical! draf-
ing and less than half a cent for
domestic sciencc-thirty three times
as much spent to teach foreign Ian
guages that not one boy in hun
dred will ever use, as to give training
for work that all should use. And
all this in the face of the sact that
so eminent classical scholar as Am
bassador James Bryce in his new
book says that half of the boys who
study Latin and fve-siXths 0f those
who study Greek never get far
enough to get anything whatever
from the literature.
Our farmers themselves, however.
are largely to blame. The law pro-
vides for teaching such practical
subjects as agriculture and hygiene
whether one country child in ten now
studies them. Here is a chance for
our farmers to come forward and
help a mighty movement along! Let
them show themselves as progressive
as a State Superintendent OF Educa-
ton who said to me the other day
that a farm boy had better study
health than history and agriculture
than geography-if he had to cHoose.
Let us resolve on these things:
l. That every South Carolina farm
boy over twelve shall study agri-
culture this fall.
2. That every boy and girl over
twelve shall study the health book.
9. That every girl who can shall
study domestic science.
4. That three times as many boys
and girls shall be enrolled in corn