The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-22
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THE IDLER
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1 am very much mortified that the
editor would publish in The Herald
and News any such reference to me
as appeared in the local columns OF
the last issue. l don't belong to the
species who can be "sicked'' on TO
ANYTHING. l write what think, but
I always try to be polite and court
eous to every one, and try to refer to
those l mention in the most proper
and deferential terms, and the pollt-
est language l know how to command.
I hope this will not occur again. l
believe Mr.. C. E. Summer is going to
do what he said he would do. 1
know he has the capacity to do it, and
am going to believe that he has the
public spirit and patriotism to do 1t.
Now, you, Mr.. Reporter, don't get TOO
fresh, and see if I am not right. But
really it is getting time that some
thing be done, and 1 don't see any
good reason for any further delay. ]
am satisfied that if Mr.. Summer Will
lust get the automobiles organized
and permission from the supervisor
to do something, that it will create
public sentiment in favor Of road
Improvement, and the people who live
along the roads will get busy and
help to do something: People like to
help things that succeed and that 60.
If any one can just succeed in arous-
ing among tae people real strong
good roads sentiment it will go far
towards securing better roads in New
berry county. That is one reason L
hailed with delight the statement that
Mr.. Summer was going to organize
the automobiles, because if they would
inst get interested it would not take
so long to crystalize that sentiment
and then something would be doing,
- s.
was reading the SpartanbuFg
Journal the other day, and while no
name appears at the top of the column
as editor, am told that the paper is
edited by Capt. Chas. Petty, veteran
journalist. was impressed with the
leading editorial On the oldfeld school.
It carried me back to my boyhood
days as a pupil at one of these old
field schools. think the old building
is still standing with very few chang
es. There may be new and modern
desks, for in those days we had a
long table and long benches made OF
slabs, but we generally had a good
teacher and the boys and girls had to
know their lessons. 1t seems to me
that the principal books that we
studied were the blue back speller,
Smiths grammar, Davies arithmetic
and Goodrich's history OF England
and maybe the same authors history
of the United States. We had no his
tory of South Carolina. believe
that the book from which received
the greatest benefit was Smiths
grammar. It contained thirty-three
rules which we learned by heart and
! believe that when a child got those
rules down right and knew how to
apply them that that child was in
pretty good shape to speak correct
English. To this day when hear a
public speaker use incorrect grammar
or see incorrect grammar in print
one of those rules comes to my MIND
Immediately. l know the modern
teachers and, educators will. call me
| old foggy and out Of date, but ] am
firmly convinced that, it would be a
good thing for the correct speaking
and writing of English if the children
in our schools could be taught Smiths
grammar, and they would get more
out of it han they get from the mod
ern grammars with all Of their dia-
grams and so on. Another very i'm
portant factor to the credit Of these
o1dfeld schools was that they develop
Cd the individuality of the child. They
aid not consider the cH1Id so much Of
machine as these modern graded
schools do.
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I found in this same paper some lit
41o obrn1,e of nhilosnDhy and wisdom