The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-14

Wonderfully woven in terrible travail
in the days of its beginning. 1t is that
same spirit with which our people are
imbred today-that spirit, in 90 made
CAPTAINS Of industry out Of captains
OF shattered companies.
strengthened by the trials and en-
DoIdeued b. the triumphs Of the past,
South Carolina today looks with
.sura2ce to the future. Commercial
victories are being every day achieved
by her people. Her progress is com
ulaadins the attention Of eysry section
Of our great couaUy The Na'ioha'
Com Exposition Will soon be held IN
South Carolina capital city. Hun
dreds of people conver=ant with the
resources and development OF every
State in The Union viii be welcomed
within oar borders and the Palmetto
state will have no fear Of comparison
Dy them Of progr IS here and else
where. They VIII see what great
State ha: done and is doing and is de-
,elniHed yet TO do This national
gathering in the interest Of one Of the
..0rDrrys oreat staple products Will
bring South Carolina closer than ever
before to her sister States Of the Amer
lean Union. ard Wi!l no doubt stimu-
late greater friendly industrial rivalry
I have endeavored to. outline brief
Iy a few OF the bare facts upon which
| have based claim for South Carolina
Of a prosperity which must substantl-
ally increase. it is not given to Us to
know the future, but, if we may judge
It by the past, believe the facts VII
bear ne out in the statement that
South Carolina has only entered upon
an era Of surprising progress, in
vi,icn material Development and the
continued intellectual and moral up
lift of all her people will go steadily
forward hand in hand.
Education.
In my OPTION, gentlemen, the most
serious proposition which ccnfronts Us
today, ana the one, beyond the shadow
of doubt, that is aIl-important, is the
education Of the children OF our State
You have your higher institutions OF
earning, which are being most extrav-
agantIy supported, while your coun-
try schools are receiving a most mig
gardly support, are bsing Woefully
neglected, this negligence going tt
such an extent, l regret to say, as to
be tantamou1t to wiIfUlnezs. If you
will travel through the country ant
see the unclean, uncomfortable, ragged
aEl unpatched-to express it in word
mos-miserable-l looking buildings, thai
are called schoolhouses, and not fee
ashamed OF what your State is doing
for the education OF her future citizens
ynen surely you have no sense O.
shame. Gentlemen, l can not pain
the picture too black-schoolhouse:
with holzs in the walls and floors ant
roofs, where children have to huddlt
together to keep warm; schoolhouse:
so small and 50 crowded that children
must be so close together they actual
ly have to breathe into their lungs thu
breath Of which comes from the bo
dies Of others. Each year thousands
Of dollars ara appropriated for new
buildings for your State colleges, anc
these poor, helpless little countr!
children are expected to get education
enough to reach these institutions O
learning, freezing almost to death
sometime crowded actually to death
unco nfortable and unprotected.
Look at your handsome buildings OF
your South Carolina University campus
ore costing $4,000; others costing
large amounts. lock at your magni
dcent buildings at> Clemson College
costing, I presume, into the millions
Look at your Winthrop College, witt
her thousands and thousands of dollar.
in brick buildings. Look at you
great Citadel, the best military schoo
in this country, where boy can re
ceige free education. Of these insti
tutions we are all justly proud, anC
we point to them to the outsider a
monuments to Carolin's prosperity AM
iaudable ambition. No man who love-
his State would take one brick from
tham; no man would do single thin;