Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-07-28
Cooperation Counts.

Cooperation Counts.
Not until a community learns the
value of cooperation will it grow and
develop to the fullest extent of its
possibilities. One shoulder against the
wheel counts for but very little but
put n~inety-nine other shoulders along
side of it, with one strong push all
together, and something will happen.
A very striking instance or object
ilesson in community cooperation is
found in the recent action of the cit
liens of the town of Williston, as
shown by the following paragraph
taken from the news columns of the
Augusta Chronicle:
Son July % the trustees of the
Williston High School asked a few
representative citizens to meet with
them and discuss The immediate needs
of the school. At this meeting it was
decided to draw up a note-as the
voting of bonds would delay matters
too much-and ask the citizens to
sign same, so that money could be Sc
cured Immediately to erect a new
high school building. A committee
was appointed to ask other citizens
to sign this note, and before night
nearly sixty of the leading men Of
Williston had put their names to a
document that means much for the
boys and girls of this section. Not a
person approached refused to sign.
This is just another instance of the
true Williston spirit, or as is general
ly said around Williston-this is the
Williston way of doing things"
Moral and Physical Courage Needed.
Law enforcement officers generally
possess physical courage but are
sometimes lacking in moral courage.
In other words. they sometimes keep
their ears to the ground and enforce
a law when it is popular to do so but
are blind to violations or fail to en-
force a law when it is unpopular.
For an officer to hold the respect and
confidence of the people, whom he
can not fool or deceive, he must pos
sess moral as well as physical courage
and be answering in the discharge
of duty.
The sheriff of Lancaster county
was recently put to the test and
proved that he possesses moral as
well as physical courage. From some
time the operatives of the Lancaster
cotton mills were on a strike and it
appears that some strikers threatened
those who desired to work in the
mills. On the day that the cotton mills
resumed operation, the sheriff, ac-
companied by a number of deputies,
went in person to the mill to preserve
order, and he was criticised by some
persons, very probably the strikers,
for his action. By way of explanation
of this official act, he gave out the
following statement, which is alto
gether r%eassuring in this day of
seeming disregard for law:
"On account of many threats to do
violence if the mill doors were open
ed, and to prevent those. from work
ing who wished to do so, my depu-
ties and myself were there to see to
that every man, woman, boy and
girl who wished to work might do so
without any molestation from any
source. I have no apology to make
to anyone and under similar circum-
stances I would do the same thing
again, if I never looked inside of an
other office.
Il like to see everybody feeling
good, happy and free to do just as
they please, 81 long as they please
to do right and stay within the
bounds of the law.
4 went to the mill with the deter
mination to see that no one was in
Inundated and turned back from work
by enticements, persuasions Or any
other procedure. I also went with just
as full determination to see that no
one was made to work who did not
want to do So"
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