The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-04-13
WASHINGTON COMMENT.

Some people don't want education,
either fer themselves or for others.
Those who do not want education
for the people of this country are
rot patriots.
Unpatriotic people are usually liars.
Hence it is not surprising to hnd
some opponents to the Towner-Ster-
ling bill, which will establish de-
partment of education with o secre-
tary in the presidents cabinet, say
ing that "the people don't want 1t. j"
Here are the names of some organi-
cations which do want it: The Ma
tional Education Association, the
American Federation of Labor, the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution, the National Congress OF
Mothers and Parert-TeacherS Asso-
citation, the National League of Wom-
en- Voters, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, the Women's Re-
lief Corps, the American Library AS
scciation, and the Scottish Rite OF
Freemasonry.
Some enemies of the bill, who don't
want to see public school education
in this country extended, raise the
cry that the government must not
"interferc" in state education, or
make any part Of an education pro-
gram Compulsory"
If any man ought to know what
the bill is intended TO do, that man
is one of its authors. Representative
Towner has just stated in regard to
this very point:
1--WE have a department OF agri-
culture, yet it in no way attempts
to dictate to the farmers, but only
to help them. We have a depart
raent of commerce, but it does not
tell commercial interests what they
shall do. We have a department of
labor, but it does not assume to die
tate to labor.
Similarly, department of educa-
tion would in no sense dictate edu-
cation, but would place education in
the place where it belongs, and signi-
fy the interests of the national gov
eminent in the problem of education,
and help in every way possible"
The reason enemies of education
fight the Towner-Sterling bill with
falsehoods and peversions of its
means is because there are no pa
triotic American reasons which can
be urged against it!
eff you haven't got what you want,
strike. If striking means dead ba-
bies, suffering women, enormous loss
of property and general demoraliza-
ton to industry, never mind. You
may get better weges"
If that isn't the argument Of those
who believe that a coal strike or a
railroad strike is the one best bet
when it comes to getting more money
for less work, what is?
"The right to strike" is undoubted.
But it doesn't stand alone. It can
only have real existence when coupled
with "the right to work." But strik-
ers want not only to step work them
selves, but to stop Others from work
ing; not only to cut off the flow of
coal from their mines, but to pre-
vent, by sympathetic strikes of 9TH
ers, the inflow Of coal from foreign
ports or from non-union, non-strik-
ing miners. In other words, it is not
TO be the justice of striking demands,
but the suffering, the loss, and the
general damage of a strike, which
IS to get those demands granted.
We are a patient people. We have
extreme tolerance for anything done
in the name of liberty, even if it
hurts us. We like to exercise liberty
ourselves.
But some day these United States
Of ours will realize that the 3.3 pei
cent. of US who mine-aye, and the
&c per cent. of US who are engaged
in transportation-have no right, call
it by what name you will, to injure
the 96.7 per cent. of US who don't
mine, or the 9l.3 per cent. of us
who don't transport, in order to get
what they want for themselves.
When we do so realize, 4 strike in
any industry essential to health will
be crime against the United States
Speed the day!
MCLEOD HERE LAST WEEK.