The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-11-06
WILKINSVILLE


Sunnyside school and also of the par
ents and friends of these little folk,
do we desire to take off our hat and
thank Prof. l.. b. Hayne and Miss
Bonnie McCluney for what they are
doing for them, by devoting part. of
their time, at least, to lecturing on
the lessons of the Sabbath sAool as
they are presented week after week in
the quarterlies. 1t is surprising to
see how much these little children
gather from this talk and how intelli-
gent they can repeat the substance of
the lessons as they appear from week
to week. Sometimes it is a restful
exercise for children to withdraw
from arduous duties of the school
room and spend short time in the
study of such great and absorbing
matters as best fit them for this life
to say nothing of the life to come To
successfully combine pleasure and
profit is the greatest discovery philos-
ophy has yet made or ever can make
No one has ever yet made a decided
success in a work they did not like to
do. This proposition holds good when
applied to child as we'll as to man
The home must be in sympathy with
the schools and the parents with the
teacher if the child'S best interests
are 20 be preserved. The home, the
school, the parent, and the teachc
form mill in which the child is raw
material is to be converted into a fin-
iShcd product-nan or woman. In this
mill there must be no friction,
Screeching or wabbling in the machin
cry if the output is to attain it's high
est possible market value. One single
defect in it would mar the beauty and
the excellence and CO rsign the whole
fabric to the junk heap. We yield to
no one in our respect for the secular
newspaper that permits its column,
to be used for the advancement of ed
ucatiOn in its several and kindred
branches that so vitality effect the in
terests of those whom it serves civil
ly, religiously and politically and we
frankly confess that in our poor judg-
ment nc other agency is so potentia'
in the furtherance of these several
courses. The reason is obvious. 1t
reaches the homes of all classes OF
people in which intelligence, virtue
and religion are welcome visitors and
where true Americanism is the idol Of
every heart. 1t gathers together tn
best thoughts of the rank and file and
stands four-square to every assault
that may be made upon ii. ThouS-
ands and tens of thousands read their
county and State papers who never
see the inside of Bible and who ncy-
er take or read the paper of tn"
church to which they belong. would
not be understood as discounting the
church papers or in any way cripplinr
their usefulness. Secular papers have
over them in reaching the masses and
cultivating the highest ideals to which
humanity has ever aSpircd or can as
pire. We know our own weakness and
imperfection as well or better than
any one else and are ready to admit
our serious environment. But | am i'm
the fight to a finish on the subject OS
thorough education and what it leads
to or makes possible to attain. | stand
by those OF OUT 2onipeers who are IL
the same fight for the same cause
Should they, or any of them fall by
the wayside or be sent TO the asylum
for dementia ] want them to bear in
mind the couplct as my greeting:
IF you get there before | do,
r. Please tell them I'm coming too"
During my recent visit to Union
county | had the pleasure of mec1mg
my brother correspondent "Smlkc.'
When l last remember seeing him, hn
was a mere boy.
want those of my brother farmers
who think they have the Give at
home" problem worked out to go and
see Capt. J. Wesley Scott'S farm ncar
New Hope church and find out how 70
raise corn on upland. "Uncle jay
Spears said long before he died that
he wanted to teach his son Ben that il
was possible to raise corn on upland.
Ben seemed to think that unless corn
was plant, / on Pacolct river, Broad
or Thickcty bottoms, starvation was
at the door. but "Unclc Jay" thought
different and expressed himself so.
Jim Mckown was much of Ben'S opin-
ion along this line; he raised corn by
the thousands on his rich Broad rive"
bottoms. He said it made him feel
hungry to go to Gaffney and see the
poor prospects along the road. He
even went so far as to tell those pco-
pie to quit trying to farm and come
down and he would let them have all
the corn they wanted. But in 1887 tn"
tide changed when Broad river com
menced overlooking the land ard d.
stroyed the crops for two or thl
consecutive years and many of the
river lands became practically worth
less for farming purposes. What
proved a disaster to the river lands
only put the upands to making corn
in abundance and Bob Alexander told
Jim one day to come up and he would
let him have all the com he wanted.
Since then the ridge lands have been
owning the best farming lands in
Cherokee county south of the South
ern railway.
As a matter of interest to his many
friends and relatives in Union county
/ take pleasure in saying that our
sheriff w. Wilkes Thomas, who is q
Union county boy, has been reeIee.,
for his fifth term in that office over
two formidable opponents by the Iarp-
est majority he has ever had He j.
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