The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-26

! AZ The farmers around the town o.
Summerton should cooperate more
freely and fully and should immediate
ly form a society among themselves
with that in view; said society should
own a joint bull and bear and jack and
the people who do not belong TO said
society should be made to pay for the
services OF said jack, bull or bear: and
sain society should fort thwith devise
progressive method of distributing and
cultivating better planting seed; better
schools could be maintained iu this sec
tion if the hslf-starved private schools
were ABOLISHED and the patrons made
to co-op,ra,e with some central hi b
school of good standing, with good
teachers, and the county superintend'
snt of education should give his i'm
mediate attention to this phase OF the
school situation: the State or the Cour'
ty should furnish all school books at a
nominal rental. and teachers should be
instructed to require their pupils to
use the old-time slate and pencil in
lieu OF expensive scratch pads, which
have become 40 outrageous expense TO
po,,r parents; the farmers do not read
enough good books and magazines. but
take too much cheap literature and
whiskey advertisements; the privles in
this section are an abomination, in some
cases the white man and the negro US
ing the same privy, the result being
that hookworm abounds; it is difficult
TO fnd bathroom, with a tub OF sufh-
cient length for q farmer to stretch
himself, the result being that skin dis.
ease of various kinds are prevalent;
the patent medicine venders are an
enem, to the people and the ordioary
country physician is carrier OF disease
ia lieu Of healer of disease, and in
many instances entirely too intimate
and familiar with the women, espec-
tally the married women, much to the
ANNOYANCE of husbands; the farmers
purchase TOO much chemical fertilizers
and are negligent 10 the matter OF
growing winter crops and maintaining
the proper fencing for hogs, cattle, and
sheep, with the view OF saving the
droppings from these animals and the
waste of various description on the or.
dlnary farm.
(5) The farmers and the people IN
general of Summerton and clarendon
County demand better laws aud the
better enforcement OF existing laws;
the farmer should have lien for all
advances made 10 a tenant without a
writing of any kind, in order TO contro'
labor: farmers should be better pro-
tected from the trespassing domestic
fowl. including the goose. chicken and
guinea, since the writer knows OF
whole crops being destroyed by the
fowls of adjoining neighbors, without
the farmer having any legal remedy or
protection, and the Legislature OF
South Carolina should Immediately
pas an Act to meet this deplorable
condition OF affairs; the rivers and
streams and lakes of this section are
practically without any fish at all, o"'
ing to illegal trapping, dynamitlng
q, seininy; the average Magistrate of
the law is great enemy t, the farmer,
by standing 10 with the outtmea5
merchant and illegally arrest'ns the
tahorer for debt; better roads and
bridges should be constructed ano the
County Supervisor should investigate
the use of Cement 10 building public
roads as is now done in Michigan and
the continued use OF the plank Or board
bridge over our streams should be pro-
hlbited by law and brick or Cement
culverts substituted; a segregation land
law as advocated by the Editor OF the
Progressive Farmer should be enacted
Forthwith in order that the majority
of the white people OF given com
muuitv could prevent the Sale OF lano
10 neyros 10 said community, since the
town of Summertoa is fast becoming an
ordinary negro settlement, there being
in his own certain dirty white men
who prefer TO sell land to negros; but
the greatest OF all enemies TO- the farm
er is the average crooked politician
and it DOW appears that most pollu'
clans are crooked; the people OF this
county being honest voters should de-
mand that all primaries in this State
be placed Immediately under the same
legal restrictions as pertain 10 general
elections, in order to protect them
selves from railroad domination and
crooked politicians, who avowediy IN
the name of the poor white man, but
really in their own crooked interest,
do not wish fair and honest primaries
in South Carolina.
{6) The town of Summerton aud sur
rounding section are overstocked IL
the matter of churches an the people
are being ereby impoverished anc
improperly instructed; in the town o.
Summerton, with q white population
OF not over five hundred, there are five
different denominations. each endeaV
oring to maintain a half-starved con
gregation and preacher, whereas one
gooi, prosperous church in this com
muuitY would really place the cause O
religion on better footing; Pincho
and Roosevelt and other able men II
the East and North are giving thl:
question of single church combination:
in small communities very serious con
l.;aor+;on an6 tho nronositiOn ia beipG