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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-01
FERTILIZERS
ARE DELAYED
Side Application After Planting
Advised by Agricultural Au-
thority if Plant Food Is Not
Received In Time to Put
Them Under the Crop

Southern farmers are demanding
more fertilizers than ever before; but,
unfortunately, all indications are that
srough fertilizers cannot be manufac-
tured and delivered In time to meet
this demand before the crops are
planted" says Director J. N. Harper
of the Soil Improvement Committee.
who has been travelling extensively
throughout the farming sections of the
South.
In this sxigenoy. what is the farm.
or to dot Sit idly doFn and say there
II no use tryinSi By no manner Of
means. He should proceed with mis-
preparation and planting. He stculd
persist in his efforts to get bis feI.
tiliEers until he does get them, then
apply them a. q side application to his
crops.
side applications have long been
practiced under normal conditions, and
now necessity demands that q large
quantity Of the plant food be applied
In this way. The plant can feed up
on the fertilizers when they are put
on as a side application just as well
as when put under the crop. The
first application can be made as soon
as the fertilizers are received, even
If the cotton is up and has made some
growth.
Under bon weevil conditions, it is
desirable, of course, where possible, to
apply the fertilizer under the cotton,
bl a farmer Is not taking as great a
cnance at failure with a side applica-
tor as in attempting to grow the crop
without fertilizers.
cit is not as economical to make a
side application as to distribute the
fertilizers and prepare the land with
the same operations as is usually
done at seeding time. But the present
demand for all farm commodities and
the prices they are bringing abund'
antly justify this comparatively small
additional expense.
"The factors influencing the short.
age of fertilizers have been beyond
the control of the fertilizer manufac'
turers. The main difficulty has been
the scarcity Of gre d phosphate rock,
from which to manufacture acid phos'
phate, due chiefly to the protrscted
strikes in the phosphate fields OF Flor
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-01
MORE MONEY CROPS
FOR SOUTHERN STATES

Though cotton will always remain
the south's main money crop. there h
no good reason why Il should be the
only money crop that q southern
planter should raise, especially when
there are 30 many others that pay q
well, or better, than cotton.
Referring to the crop reports Of the
GATED States Department Of Asrseu&
turs for The year 1913. 1t vil b found
that the gross returns % some oe tn
leading crops srs vs1 Attractive ~
compared to esktoa. The returns psz
acre, - shown IN this report s1e q
followH
Cotton average. 37o.s7 per snrs.
Peanuts average s7o.ss Per srre.
rcA.eco average ssss.s7 par aass.
Sweet potatoes average t-A.1s 1ss
acre.
Sugar cane (syrup), averages $2eaN
per acre.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-01

ida, and to the railroad car shortage
The factories have been unable to run
at full capacity. not only because OF
insufficient raw materials but because
OF a lack Of labor. The manufacturers
are making every effort to get sui
ficient materials and labor to operate
their factories at the highest poseci6ie
speed.
"The farmers should accept the sit
uation, proceed with his planting
utilize what fertilizers he has, II any
by putting them under his crop, and
apply the rest as he receives them
and feel confident that SATISFACTORY
crop can be made"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-01
"Found Seven Rats Dead in Bin
Next Morning"

Robert Woodruff, says: My prem
ises were infested with rats. l tried
RAT-SNAP on friends recommenda-
ton. Next morning found seven dead
rats in bin. two near feed box, three
in stall. Found large number since
No smell from dead rats-RAT-
SNAP drys them up. Best thing l
ever used" Three sizes, Csc, soc,
$1.0O. Sold and guaranteed by Pal
metto Hardware Co., and Moody
Drug Co. MO.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-01
CARD OF THANKS.

We take this method of thanking
the many friends who were so kind
and thoughtful of us in our recent
bereavement. Their kind attentions
were a source of great comfort to
us and helped us to bear up more
bravely under our great misfortune.
Our prayers are that Gods richest
blessings shall be their reward.
... Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Myers.
Little Rock, March 29, 1920.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-01
"And There Wasn't the Slightest
Smell from Dead Rats

Writes John Simpkins, farmer OF
Annandale, N. ]. Rats were cost
ing me hundreds yearly; tried dogs,
ferrets, poison, could not get rid OF
them. Bought $1.00 pkg. Of RAT
SNAP (5 cakes). Used half, not q
live rat since. Dead ones aplenty.
like RAT-SNAP because after killing
rats it dries them up-leaves no
smell" Three sizes, 25c, SOC, $1.OO.
Sold and guaranteed by Palmetto
Hardware Co. and Moody Drug Co.
mo. adv.
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MARRIAGES

CLARK-MITCHELL- Monday, April
II. at St. James's Episcopal Church, New
York City, by the Rev. F. W. Crowder.
Marguerite Frances Mitchell, daughter of
Mrs. John R. Carleton, to William NJ
Clark.
HAND-CAREY-At St. Thomas's Chantry
New York, on Saturday, April 10, 1920,
by the Rev. DR.. Leach, of St. Thomas 8.
assisted by The Rev. Aoneo Cushman
Stewart. Of st. Augustine's Croton-on- Hud-
son. Florence Read. daughter Of the late
Alanson and R. Anna Carly, to James
King Hand.
LANDON-WALKER- Saturday. April
10, 1920. at st. Thomas's Church. by the
Rev: DR.. Ernest M. Stires, Mrs. Jessie
Spalding Walker. of Chicagot to Mr. Hugh
McKennan Landon. Of Indianapolis.
OAKLEY-CALL-Miss Emily Payson Call
to- Mr.. Berford Seaich Oakley. at Church
OF the New Jerusalem. New York City.
papers please copy
OLYPHANT-HUET DE COURJAMONr-
On Tuesday March 50. 1920. at Paris
france. Anne Marie, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Huet de Couriamont to Donald DIV.
plant of New York City
RANSOM-PEABODY- and Mrs. Pea
daughter, Emma Peabody. necessitates the
recalling of the invitations to her wedding
to Mr.. Charles c.. Ransom. Jon April H. :
VAN DER LYN-REENS-Mrs Sophie
Brunwasser, Of Chicago announces the
marriage of her niece, Miss Rae Reens.
to Mr.. Arthur II. Van Der Lyn. of New
York, on April 20. The couple. after an
extended tour Of the West will reside al
45S West 162d at. New York City. =
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OBITUARY NOTES

CHARLES FRIEDMAN, sixty. of l444
President Street. Brooklyn. a clothing mer
chant. died at his home on Sunday He was
Dorn in Austria and had been Il resident o,
Brooklyn since early childhood. He is sur
vivei by his wife. two sons and five daugn
tiers.
ROBERT REID. for more than twenty
years employed in the Sub-Treasury as de-
sector Of counterfeit money. died unexpected
" last Saturday ut Monmouth Beach N. J.
He was seventy-eight years old and is sur
vived by his wife. Julia Benedict Reid
OLIVER II. BERRY. a retired soldier, en-
ployed at the army base in Bay Ridge, was
stricken with heart disease in subway
train on Monday and died on the Eighty
sixth Street station platform. He is survived
by his wife, Mamie Berry.
JOHN s, NUGENT. sixty-ninc, a retired
manufacturer of paper boxes. is dead at his
ZONE. 81 Hancock Street Brooklyn. He
old Brooklyn Union League Club. He is sur
vived by his. wife. a daughter. two soas, two
brothers. assister and a grandchild.
JOHN w. sEsNON. eishty-fve. of 1o7
Adelphi Street. Brooklyn. died at his home on
Sunday. Hs was for many years 4 brick
layer and 0iastarsr and during IL Civil Wa,
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to be the stormiest one of the many
for increased salaries for teachers
The two organizations which will not be
represented are those from which the
slush fund charges emanatcd. Teach
ers who protested against the charges
yesterday said that they are simply
part of long series of Developments
"desgHed to block the passage of the
Lockwood Donohue BILL"
A Joint Protest
Among those who have been invited
to attend the meeting this afternoon
are President La Guardia Of the Board
OF Aldermen and President Curran Of
the Borough Of Manhattan.
Among the teachers who protested
against the slush fund charges yestcr-
day were group from Public School
pressed in the form of Joint state
ment, which follows:
Ieachers of the upper West Side
aroused upon being informed Of the
charges made by Mrs. Bryant that they
were coerced into supporting the Lock,
d..Donohue bill, wish to state that
they have been and are 100 per cent in
favor OF the bill and that they have
not been asked to contribute, neither
fund" '''
This statement was signed by the
following teachers: Anna f. Niece.
Mary Cahill, Florence Patterson. Jen.
ME White, Marie Sheridan. Marv
Walsh, Elsa Katz, Clara Benton. Anna
keegan. Mildred Gabel Carrie Moore.
Jane Rodman, Edith Durant, BERTHA
Gaber, Martha Wolfeil, F1anic Eglan-
timer and Julia Stevenson.
protest against the nlush fund
charges was sent also in the form Of
telegram to Mayor Hylan bv teach
ers Of Public School SO, Manhattan.
Protest Break in System
In a statement issued yesterday by
representatives of various women's well
fare organizations in New York I'M
mealate Legislative action is urged to
relleVe the present state dis
integration of the school system" The
statement follows:
I'VE believe that since the Board of
Education Of New York City has so far
failed to maintain salary schedules at
point which will retain the number
OF teachers necessary to keep open the
schools. or to attract to the TEACHING
profession the required pumber to fiji
such schools we therefore urge our
state Legislature at Albany to pass at
once such measures as will stop the
present statewide distintegration Of
the school system and will offer ner-
manent solution Of the problem.
eve believe that such a bill should
include a direct state tax of one and
one-half mills or more-sufficient to
meet the states share in financing a
salary schedule based on the 40. 30 and
20 percentage increase specified in the
Lockwood Donohue bill. We believe
that such a schedule adopted at once
offers an equitable method of stopping
the present disintegration and Of at
tracting the type of teacher required.
I'VE further believe that a commits
sion should be appointed to study the
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rooms on the sunniest days. When it
rains four lights offer a Pickering
illumination that is steadily weaken
ing the eyes of small boys who may
be needed by the United States army
ten years hence as rifemen, just as
their older brothers were needed in
the last war. The gas light, of course
is just as hard on the eyesight of
the little girls.
There is only one window in some
of these rooms. On a hot summer
day the atmosphere becomes an over
towering stencil. Yet when the chill
dren are dismissed for their luncheon
at noon and depart for their teneme mt
|omes the teachers must eat their
cold luncheons in the same vile smell
ing rooms.
.GrotesQue shadows are thrown on
the walls and floors Of many of these
school rooms by clothes hung out to
dry on lines stretched from tenement
house windows a few yards from the
windows of the school rooms.
Crowded Glasses
A room that was intended to be used
as an assembly hall when the school
was built is now shared by three
classes, two of them studying stimuli
the same grade. One A. the other
is Three A class. One of the teach
ers is Miss Loretta Bee and the other
is Miss Christine Bosch.
Their charges are separated by an
imaginary line that is aided slightly BY
a couple of burlap screens and black
board. While Miss Bosch is teaching
her forty-four pupils how to spell
what" "who," "dove," chow" and
similar words, Miss Bee is struggling
to give her forty pupils bit of nature
study. and the children of both classes
wouldn't be human if. they didn't be-
come curious at times about the ac-
tivities of their neighbors on the other
side Of the room.
The two classes of Grade Ia pupils
that use the right-hand side of this
schoolroom are on what is known
system as double session" schedule.
At $3.50 O'Clock in the morning in
Class y, forty-two tiny, black-eyed
children troop into their seats and re-
main there until 1890 a. M, when
they go to the play yard, dingy, mar
row place. Their half Of the class
room is then taken by Class B, forty
four pupils, who remain until 1890
p. M, when they 60 to the play yard
and Glass A. having had luncheon, re-
sumes its studies from l until p. M,
when it is dismissed for the day Glass
B is dismissed at 1880 p. m. A virtue is
made of necessity in double sessions
and it is defended on the ground that
such small children ought not to be
kept in school for the day.
Class Hours Cut
There is one teacher at Public
School 1870 who lives in Cresskll, N.
]. She must catch train at 6:43 a. m
in order to arrive at school at 8:4C
8, m. She gets there at $3.50, but if
I she took the next train she would be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
Funeral of G.. T. Ferris, Veteran
Editor. Is Set for Tomorrow

Funeral services for George I.
Ferris. veteran newspaper man, who
died Sunday at his home, II Park
Place, Bloomfield, N. j., will be held
tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Ferris, who was seventy-seven
years old, began his newspaper training
early in life as a member of the staff
Of The Chicago Times" Subsequently
he held editorial positions on THE New
YORK Commercial" "The Newark Even
ing News" and covered other metro
politan daily papers. At the time of
his death he was associate editor of
THE Montclair Times"
Mir. Ferris was a native Of New Or
leans and was graduated from Yale
University. He served in the Civil
War on the staffs of both Generals
Grant and Mcclellan.
He is survived by son, Oliver B.
Ferris, OF this city, and sister, Mrs.
DR.. Anna White. Of Chicago.
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Teachers Deny
'Siush Fund.-

Teachers representing all teachers
organizations, with the exception of
Two, will meet this afternoon at the
washington Irving High School to re-
fute publicly the charges made before
the Board Of Estimate on Monday after
noon that teachers in New York have
bee n forced to contribute to a "slns,,
fund" to obtain the adoption of the
iLo:kwood-Donohuc teachers salary bill
by the Legislature.
Teachers all over the city protested
yesterday against the slush fund testi-
,mrony of Frederick c. Lewis, of the
teachers Welfare League, and Edna
NJ. bryant, of the Professional Ele
nlentary Teachers Association, who told
the Board of Estimate that teachers
nave been compelled to contribute l per
cent Of their salaries to the alleged
slush fund
The meeting this afternoon promises
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
DR.. Ennoch Perrille Dead
Professor in Englisl, at Buck.
nell University for "a Years

DIR. Ennoch Perrine, for the last
thirtyfour years professor in the
English department Of Bucknell Univer-
sity, died Sunday night at his home
in Lewisburg, Pa, at the age of sixty
seven. DR., Perrine was born in
Hightstown, N. j., and was graduated
from Brown University in 1874 For a
year after his graduation he was editor
Of THE True American" of Trenton,
N. j., and then became editor of "The
Seaside" of Manasquan, N. j.. until
1878, when he went to Peddie Institute
as teacher of Latin. In 1886 he was
made John P. Crozier professor of
rhetoric at Bucknell University, and
in 1902 he became professor of Eng
lish language. which position he held
at the time of his death.
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late to school. All morning she
teaches a "a Grade class. Perhaps
she drills them on the mysteries Of
two times two and how to add six and
two. At noon this class is dismissed
for the day, and this teacher then eats
a cold luncheon in the room, preparing
herself some tea on little gas stove.
There is no restaurant anywhere near
the school where the teachers can get
their midday meal; neither is there
any provision for serving lunches for
the children
At l o'clock her other class arrives
to get its two hours Of instruction and
the teacher then proceeds to go
through the same dreary round of two
times two. One class gets three hours
and the other two hours instruction
each day. Each class is entitled to
flve hours. In some of the uptown
schools it would get five hours, so the
arrangement is hardly democratic.
The teacher then takes a 4:22 train
home and reaches there at s D, M. cx-
hausted.
Losing Cultural Side
"These pupils are losing all the
cultural side of school," said Miss
Matthews. "They are not getting any
drawing, physical training, music, sew
ing or construction work. 1t is just
the old three RS, reading, writing and
ARITHMETIC. We have gone back to the
ago. None of the advance in educa-
tional work is reflected in such teach
ing.
THE teacher who has the two part
time "a classes is responsible for all
the clerical detail and records of both
classes. She is under severe strain
such strain as only a person who
has taught school can visualize. There
are four classes in this school that
get only half days instruction."
The teachers are just as badly of as
the pupils at Public School 1870. The
rest room provided for them is about
SIX feet square. 1t contains nothing
put washstand and toilet. What re-
'axatlon the teachers get during the
cay they must get in their sitting class
rooms,
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Only One Per Cent Spen,
ON Upkeep and Many Are
Poorly Ventilated, Foul
Smelling, Fire Hazards
Four Pupils to One Seat
Wooden Stairway in Gas
Lighted School 1870 Men
ace to Lives of Children

There are 539 school buildings in the
New York public school system. With
the furniture and other school equip
ment, these form what manufacturer
would call his plant. The value is
about $160,000000. 1t would cost in
excess of s30O.O00,000 to replace this
plant to-day. Yet the value is dimn-
ishing at a tremendous rate annually
because of niggardly policy in appro-
priation for repairs and upkecp.
If these buildings were apartment
houses the owner probably would spend
at least per cent of their value in re-
pairs and upkeep each year, if figures
obtained by the Public Education As
ISOLATION may be accepted. Though the
wear and tear on schoolhouse is much
greater than on any apartment house,
the amount appropriated annually for
repairs and upkeep of New York's
school plant has averaged less than l
per cent Of the value.
r, Many Are Fire Hazards
The result is seen in hundreds of
badly conditioned, overcrowded school
buildings, poorly ventilated, poorly
heated, foul smelling and unhealthy.
On top of this some Of them are men,
acing fire hazards.
In 1913 the appropriation for upkcep
and repairs was $1,414,000; in 1919 it
was s926,000; this year it was. $780,
600. This last figure was compromise
offered in place of the $S0O0,O00 that
FIRE prevention work was stricken out
of the budget by the Board of Estimate.
There are available plenty of charts
and tables of tabulated figures to illus
trate the needs of the school system
and school teachers, but there are none
that will show how the children of the
city are being robbed OF advantages to
which they are entitled.
Public School 1870, at 143 Baxter
Street, is not the worst school in New
York: neither is it the best. Miss
Matthews is the principal. She has
been there about seven years. 1t is
what is known as an Italian school.
Nearly 100 per CEN. of the pupils are
the sons and daughters of Italian
speaking tenement jewellers.
The Police department. had it's dead
lire across lower Manhattan below
which no crook was immune from ar
rest, no matter how virtuous his pur-
pose there. The public school teachers
also have their deadiine. 1t is Four
tcenth Street. No teacher wants to be
assigned to any school between the |
Battery and Fourteenth Street. The
new teachers nave no choice, but al
most invariably they seek a transfer
to another school above the deadline at
the earliest opportunity.
Wooden Stairway
In Public School 100 the hallwa 35
are narrow and dark. The rear st air
way-there are two in the building
from the second TO the first floor is of
wood. 1t is hateful to think Of what
would happen to the hundreds of small
children crowded in that building If
a fire gained Roadway.
Some of the rooms are crowded with
pupils sitting four in . seat intended
for two, close together that their
shabby little elbows are continually
brushing against those of their neigh
bors. One such class is that of Miss
Mabel Farleigh.
A gas light burns in some of the
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question of financing our public educa-
tional system leading toward a fair and
equitable wage for each employee.
MRS. CLARENCE LEWIS.
Women's Municipal League.
"MRS. ROGERS H. BACON,
New York and New Jersey Section,
Woman's Department of the Ma
tional Civic Federation.
"MRS. JOSEPH r. SWAN,
Women's City Club.
MRS. WILLIAM SPORBORG,
Council Of Jewish Women.
"MRS. WILLIAM P. EARLE JR..
Civitas Club.
"MRS. MIRIAM SUTRO PRICE.
For the Women Of the Public Educa.
ton Association"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
Lieut.. Winfield Dies Abroad
Former Highland Falls Judge
Victim of Typhoid Fever

HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y, April 49,
Word has been received here of the
death, on April 10, of Lieutenant George
W. Winfield, U. S. A., former judge of
this village, while on duty with the
American troops in Reval, Russia
Typhoid fever, according to a commu-
nication sent to his wife by the War
Department, was the cause of death
Lieutenant Winfield was fortv-six
years old. Two years ago he sailed
for France, just before the German
army launched it's final drive for
Paris. While overseas he was made a
lieutenant and was transferred to
Russia.
He began his army career by enlist
ing as private in 1897. After COM
plotting an enlistment in the engineer
detachment at West Point he retired
from the army and became merchant.
When the war broke out he gave up
his Office to reenlist.
Lieutenant Winfield is survived by
his wife and three children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
Nine Latin-American Nations
To Attend u. S. ARMY Schools

WASHINGTON, April 13. - Nine
Latin-American republics, including
Mexico, have notified, the War Depart
ment that they have accepted its invi-
tation to send officers OF their armies
to attend American army service
schools next September. Mexico will
send four officers; Nicaragua, 10; Qua
temala, 3; Colombia, Z; Venezuela, s.;
Ecuador, d; Peru, 9; Chile, 7, and b.
livia, g. They will be assigned to the
signal corps schools at Camp Alfred
Vail, N. j., coast artillery school at
Fortress Monroe, the field artillery
school at Fort Sill, Okla, the army
medical school at Washington and the
ayr service schools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
THOMAS ]. FLAVIN

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-Thom-
as J. Flavin, postal inspector, and
brother of Michael Flavin member of
the British Parliament from Ireland.
was found dead in his office here yes
terday. Mr.. Flavin was one of the
men who established mail service to
Alaska.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
PAUL A. QUEEN

Paul A. Queen, former judge of the
Court Of Common Pleas in Hunterdon
County, N. j., died Sunday in his
home, in Pennington, at the age of
sixty-seven. He was a teacher before
he began the practice of law, and for
several years was solicitor of Hunter
don, County, and later elected Surro-
gate: He was member of the Demo-
cratic State Committee.