The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-04-12
AS TIE EDITOR SEES IT.
GOOD SCHOoS:=As the worlt

advances SuUCdtIOu oSSOASo ~
more and more absolute ,neces-
sity in social and commercial
life. Without it but slight sue
cess in either will be achieved.
We need a whole. souled cam
paign in the interest of our
schools, for in the efficiency OF
our educational system lies to a
great extent the future of our
children and our children's chill
dren.
GOOD CHURCHES. We need
spiritual as we'll as mental de.
velopment, for without it we
cannot hope to attain that de,
gree Ct manhood and womanhood
which our expanding inteAects
demand. Good churches and
more churches. are needed, and
we need to view them from with
in instead of from without. ''Go
to church Easter
GOOD HOUSES. The most
brilliant of minds are dulled and
blunted by dismal surroundings.
Good houses and attractive
homes are excellent food for the
mind. Clean up, paint up, and
keep the home up. It costs pen
nies and breeds dollars.
GOOD BARNS. Not all of our
attention should be given to the
home, for your faithful horse
aud COW should come into their
own. They speak not, complain
not, are paid not, yet are a
source of revenue which you
greatly prize. Humanity bids
Won give them a home that IS a
home, one worthy to be called
their homes.
GOOD STORES. Great mer-
camille successes are never
achieved from dismal and unat-
sractive surroundings. Bats, sowls
and a few others seek the dark
ness, but all others bask in the
sunshine of life. Neatness, tidi-
ness, brightness, happiness, all
are attractive to the one whose
soul IS the same-and humans:
like the butterfly, seek the bright
spots of existence. Be wise.
GOOD SHOPS. Even the shop
may be in keeping with the mind
and the energy of the man. 1t
may not be as spotless as other
pisces, but it may show a spirit
of thrift and perseverance which
breathes Of success in after life.
Good shops bring good results
and make better towns. But as
is the man, so is the shop.
GOOD ROADS. No other thing
is.qnite so essential to the sue
cess and<development Of a com
nunity as good roads. No other
element Of success is so easy to
assain where all of the people
have the will and the determi-
nation to do. Good roads mean
everything to US, collectively
and individually, and we need
good roads and better roads, and
we should go after them and get
them.
GOOD FARMS. Good roads
are productive of good farms,
and prosperous farmers are the
foundation and framework OF
every community. Without good
roads the farmer is retarded and
handicapped, his earning capac-
ity is reduced, his opportunity
for improvement and expansion
is lessened, his working capital
is impaired, his profits are elm
mated and his future is cloudy
and obscure. But good roads
make good farms, and we want
every farm in this community
TO be even better than good.
Build up the roads, and the
farms.
GOOD BUSINESS. We can
have it, if We pay proper atten-
ton to our, schools, and our
churches, and our houses, and
barns and stores, and shops,
roads, and farms, and all of the
thousand and one other elements
shat have place in the making
Of a prosperous commercial CEN
Ter. We want it, and we can
get it if we go after it with the
spirit and determination to sue
ceed, but we must go after it
as community unit and not as
one or two isolated individuals.
Who volunteers for better bust