The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-11-25
CONFERENCE FOR
THE COMMON GOOD
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were many fake ideals" The coat
of-arms used to be the great thing.
Now 1t is the arms in the coat. Some
people used to consider it sin to be
wealthy. 1t is now considered a sin
not to make living for your family
and those dependent upon you. Rath-
er than listen to the counsel of
preachers and other public speakers,
some people prefer the appeals of
politicians. Many fine men, he said,
have been crucified because of rot
ten politics. We must find the rem
edy and it is education and educa-
ton alone. Amid the ignorance
which prevails today, the demagogue
holds sway and good men are sent
back as not fit to hold Office. Build
school houses" advised Mr.. Stewart,
"and the future will take care of it
self"
Trivial circumstances keep our
people apart, he declared. Many
people from the country come to
town and listen to the pessimism and
bitterness of some man out of en-
ployment. They tell him some un-
truth about q certain merchant,
banker or professional man and the
farmer, believing what he hears,
goes home and tells all his friends
man will criticise some rival in his
profession instead of building his
success on merit. Or again, some
automobilst by reckless driving or
another by a careless jostle in a
crowd may easily offend a man from
the country. Likewise the farmer,
by transacting his business in care
less, slipshod method, charging all
he buys for whole year, comes to its
end without knowing what he has
spent, yet insists that the merchant
who has credited him is a crook. All
these things keep us apart.
"In unity there is strength" So
let's go away determined to make
town and country one.
Mr.. Murchison, the chairman,
arose near the close Of the evening
and thanked all those who had con-
tributed to the success of the meet
ing He expressed his thanks to the
men who had come from a distance
to address the conference, as well as
to our local men, to The Lancaster
News, and the local correspondents
for the state papers, to Professor
Minter for the map he drew and to
Mr.. P r. Moore for furnishing data
for the map.
PROF. w. X. TATE.
The closing address of the con
ference, by Prof. w. X. Tate, brought
to a splendid climax a day never to
be forgotten in Lancaster. Professor
Tate declared that he had never
found a more attractive school build
ing that the Central school, in which
the conference was held, that it
showed care on the part of teachers
and children and that all the patrons
should take a look at it. The speak
er sounded the keynote of his ad-
dress by giving a very apt illustra-
ton. "Some years ago." he said, Il
attended a concert in Columbia. My
little daughter was in the children's
chorus and l took her behind the
scenes to reach her place on the
stage. A terrible din almost deafen-
ed me. Each musician was practic-
ing some difficult part, and the SUI
prano, at little distance, was going
through a last rehearsal. l soon fled
from the noise and discord and found
my place in the audience. Within
fifteen minutes came glorious har-
mony from the same instruments,
which had made such dreadful din.
The sounds were now blended into
sublime melody. A parallel to this
is found in South Carolina, Mr.
Tate declared. We are all one class
and we are generally right but each