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Morris tribune., 1922-08-11
COUNTY SYSTEM BEST
An Efficient School Plan in Use in
Many States

Already in use in ! more than
twenty-five states, the county-unit
school system is being adopted in
others. 1t is developing in some of
Minnesota's northern counties. 1t
was favored in addresses at the July
meeting of the National Education
Association in Boston, by the Nation
al Bureau of Education, the Minneso-
ia Department of Education, and
the Education Association, which is
recommending several improvements
in schools in Minnesota with the key
note, Equal educational opportunity
for all children"
FEATURES OF THE PLAN
Differences exist in the plan in
different states, but these facts are
typical. The county-unit school sys-
tenn means the substitution of the
county for the local community as
a school district. Cities having their
own superintendent and supervisors
are usually exempt from the opera
ton of the system, but the rest of
the county becomes one district, US
ually at the option of the local dis
tricts, and boundary lines are drawn,
teachers are selected, and school af-
fairs are managed by county board
of education working with the sup
erintendent who is chosen by the
board. The county is a considerable
contributor to school support. The
naming the members of the board.
ADVANTAGES
The United States Bureau of Ed
ication presents the following advan-
tages of the county-unit; namely,
small board for the management of
county schools; choosing the county
superintendent by board of educa-
ton instead of by popular election,
thus taking the Office out of politics;
insuring the choice of a competent
superintendent with standard quail
fcatiOns, and of better teachers by
the board and the superintendent;
equalizing educational opportunity
through equal school support, equal
terms, and equipment; removing
schools from unwise local influences
and rivalries; promoting consolida-
I1Ou duLOuS weaker SCHOOLS QrOV1Q-
ing supervisors and helping-teachers
and bringing business methods into
school Management.
RESULTS OF THE SYSTEM
Desirable results are already ap-
parent. 1t is shown that better edu-
Gated and stronger county superin-
tendents are selected and that the
average terms of both teachers and
superintendent are longer. There
is great saving by reducing the
duplication of boards, teachers, and
equipment. In one state the county
unit system increased the attendance
of children, the number who finished
the eighth grade being increased over
SO percent, and the high school 500
per cent. One county in Missouri
which had fifty or more one and two
teacher schools for white children
reduced the number to fifteen con-
solidated schools. This could not
have been done, said the superintend-
ent, except under the county-unit
plan. The sections of northern Min
nesota having the unit system are
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11
Hog Growers Want This Bulletin


Lessons in Economical Hog Pro-
duction" is the title of Special Bull
etin No. 81 written by w, L. Cavert
and G. A. Pond, both of University
Farm, and issued by the agricultural
extension division of the university.
Copies can be obtained without cost
by addressing the Office of Publica-
tions, University Farm, st. Paul.
Important factors making for eco
onomical production are given as ra-
tions supplying muscle and bone
building material, an abundance of
cheap feed, pastures of rape, alfalfa
or clover, never failing supply Of
clean water, liberal feeding of the
right kind of feed, safeguarding the
health of the herd, feeding and
handling brood sows so as to raise
uniformly large filters, and selling
the hogs at moderate weights.
A chart showing the average Chi
cago price of hogs, all grades, by
months 10000, indicates, say the
authors, that those who have facil-
tiles for handling early pigs will usu-
ally get better price if they can
have pigs narrowed in March and then
fed to capacity so they can be market
ed at about 200 pounds weight in late
September or early October. OF
course, if this plan were generally
followed, the tendency would be
changed, but the condition is likely
to be more or less permanent, as it
takes good facilities and skillful
feeding to get spring pigs ready for
market. The best market for fall
pigs usually comes in April" a
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11

These wage scales, according to-
Mr.. French, as rule, include board
room and washing.
Farmers now are paying approxi-
mateIy per cent more for all kinds
of labor than they were a year ago.
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11
LABOR DEMAND NEAR NORMAL
Survey Shows Farmers Are Paying
From $2.40 to $2.75 Day

Farm labor demand in Minnesota
is normal, according to F. L. French
secretary of the Minnesota Farm Blu
reau federation, who has just COM
pleted/ an exhaustive survey. In
seventy-1ive per cent of the counties
Mr.. French says, farmers are having
no more trouble than usual in get
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11
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getting good results and the local
districts are fast joining the county
district. No state has abandoned
the system after adopting it.
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11

ing hands. In rs per cent, mostly
in the Red River Valley, there APP
pears to be shortage, due to the
fact that harvest is under way.
The survey shows the following
average wage for various kinds of
WORK.
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11

be held October z to IA at the Min
nesota Fair grounds. Indications
point to che largest show in the his
tory of the dairy industry in this
country
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW OCT. TIA
w. E. Skinner, secretary of the
National Dairy association, has op-
ened Offices at st. Paul and has a
staff at work making arrangements
for the National Dairy exposition, to
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
Woman S Club Of Jackson
Gets Promising Start

Jackson, Miss, Dec. 10.-"Health"
Knowledge, Spirit, and Ser
vice" are the four departments Of
the Jackson Woman's Club which
was organized Wednesday with a
large membership and attendance
representative of other clubs. Under
these headings will function smaller
study circles along such lines as par
liamentary law, music, literature,
home economics, civics and art. Pend
ing the report of the nominating COM
mittee on constitution and bylaws
Mrs. Will Buck acted as chairman
and Mrs. w. C. Heathman as secre-
tary. The civic committee comprises
Mesdames w. c. Welty, j. o. Segura,
and ]. S. Turcett.
The Parent Teacher Association is
taking advantage of the art exhibits
of the Mississippi Art Association
and using them in the schools to give
interest and inspiration to the pu-
pills.
Jackson artists and friends inter-
terested in Belhaven college enjoyed
the exhibit "Belhaven Beauties and
Beauty Spots on display at the coll
lege last week. The work of the
Belhaven art students consisted of a
collection of scenes, Of. landscapes
near the college, done in the soft pas
tel shades of autumn. Pencil sketch
es and water colors and Christmas
cards were also shown.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
Trustees Sale.

BY virtue Of the authority con-
ferred by certain deed in trust ex-
ecuted by H. P. Durr and his wife
Mrs. Sara Durr. on the 9th day OF
March, 1920. to secure the payment
of an Indebtedness due and owing to
the Hartman Mercantile Company of
Brookhaven, Miss, which said deed
in trust is of record in Book No. 110,
page 444 of the Lincoln County rec
ord Of Deeds and Mortgages, the
undersigned Trustee, having been re-
quested by the beneficiary, will on
the 14th day Of December, 1922,
within legal hours, offer for sale at
the front door Of the court house of
Lincoln County, Mississippi. in the
City Of Brookhaven, at public outcry,
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described land in Lincoln
County, Mississippi, to-wit:
West Half (Wh) Of South East
Quarter (SEA) and the East Half
(Eh) Of South West Quarter (Sw
" Section Z, Township z. Range
q, East, containing 160 acres, more
or less.
Default has been made in the
payment Of the indebtedness secured
by this deed in trust and this sale
is made to satisfy the same and the
costs and expenses incident thereto.
This the 20th day Of November.
A. D. 1922.
p. e.. Jones. Trustee.
Posted at the Court House door
November 20, 1922.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
Women Voters Want Ballots Cast
With Prayer.

Religious observation of the Sun
day before election day will become
a national custom and citizens will
have impressed upon them the sa-
credness of the obligation of the bal
lot if the National League of Wo-
men Voters has its way.
The leagues campaign to put con-
science into the exercise of the fran
chise has a new champion in DR.
George Horton, poet, novelist, and
U. S. Consul General of Smyr-
ma, who is spending a leave of alb
sence at Washington. DR.. Horton has
written the following voters prayer
and given it to the league for circu-
lation:
"0h God. help us to realize that
this vote which we are about to cast
is the greatest instrument for good
or i'll which can be welded by hui
man hands; that it can set the wor-
thy, however lowly, in high places
and is thunderbolt to cast down
tricksters and tyrants. Help us to
vote thoughtfully, reverently and
prayerfully and with an eye single
to the common good. And especially
o God, to whom all minds are an
open book, save us from voting for
any selfish or dishonest candidate, OF
for any unpatriotic measure. And
this we ask for Jesus sake, Amen"
A prayer used by the Florida lea
que was widely circulated and in
some churches was read aloud from
the pulpit on prediction Sundays.
Times Picayune.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
THE GRABBING HABIT.

The habit of grabbing the biggest
apple or largest piece OF cake is ty-
pical Of childhood, but some people
do not outgrow it. You can see signs
of it almost everywhere.
If you go into crowded railroad
car, you may find several people who
have camped down In double seat
and who place bags and coats on the
space that some one else should take.
Other passengers dislike to disturb
such person, and frequently such
a one will monopolize double seat
for some time before anyone may de-
mand chance to share it.
Many people who ordinarily have
good manners will do such things
out of though tlessness But in 9TH
er cases it represents some survival
Of the spirit of the boy who snatch
es the big apple. Those who have
the true feeling Of courtesy are as
reluctant to grab more than their
share Of comfort, as they would be
to eat with their knives or do other
things considered boorish.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
BETTER FARMING BY THE Flu.
TURE FARMERS.

Even though it be near the holi,
days and everyone is thinking along
that line just now, it is also true
that farmers and those interested in
better farming should think some a.
bout the beginning of the new year
which will soon be here.
Every school teacher, every bust.
ness man, and especially those of oui
state, which is practically an agricul-
tural State, should lend every hand
possible, to better farming, better
home making, and better citizenship
This last, better citizenship, can be
made best from the boys and girls
of this day and those boys and girls
in our schools. Here the teacher has
great opportunity to do lasting
good, and should be vitally interest.
ed in all matters which pertain tc
education in its highest sense.
One Of the greatest educational
features of the day, which can bt
used should be taught in our schools
and especially in our rural schools
is this subject of better farming, ant
get the child fully awake to thu
fact that we need better farms, bet
ter livestock, better homes, better
cultivation, and when all this comes
we have a better citizenship for i
will bring prosperity to our commu
mites and when we have prosperit!
everything has a better mind to d.
good.
Teachers can not render better
service than to organize Boys Ag
ricultural Club and get in touch will
the Boys Club Division, Extension
Department of your A. & M. College
at A. & M. College, Miss, and ge
some information on this. Ever.
boy in the community between th'
ages of ten and eighteen years OF
or before Jan. / should be a mem
ber. This club should be organized
with real live, wide-awake clul
leader, and regular meetings held
The Club Department will furnisl
information from time to time OF
this subject.
Let us not neglect our boys on thu
farm and thus allow our agricultur'
to decay.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
OVER $4,000 WILL
JOIN ASSOCIATION
Farmers Give Themselves A
Christmas Present-County
Agents Help.

The Campaign Of the Mississippi
Farm Bureau Cotton Association has
been steadily making headway and
Is within striking distance of the goal
of 100000 bales signed up for CO.
operative marketing. The Victory
Week" drive gave an added impetus
to the sign-up but it is going to be
necessary for the farmers to con-
tinue their aid until the close OF the
Campaign on the night of December
23rd.
While visiting the headquarters of
the Mississippi Farm Bureau Cotton
Association in jackson recently,
checking up on the work Of the
County Agents in the Cotton Asso-
citation Campaign, J. w. Willis, state
Agent of the Farm Demonstration
forces, said, "The County Agents
have made the Cotton Association
Campaign their main progress of
work this fall SO that they could
make the farmers of Mississippi the
greatest Christmas present they ever
received.
There are approximately so men,
bers of the Extension Force active
ly taking part in the Campaign and
through their support and effort
much of the success of the Campaign
is due. Mr.. Willis commended a
number of the men who have been
doing excellent work in some of the
counties, but stated that there is
much to be done before the Cam
paign closes.
Hundreds of farmers are going to
put all Of their spare time signing
up their neighbors for the final days
of the Campaign and to insure the
success Of the drive it is going to
take the combined efforts Of every
man taking part in the Campaign.
There can be no doubt but that the
Farm Bureau Cotton movement is,
by far, the greatest agricultural
movement ever introduced into Mis-
sissippi. No other movement ever
approached it in Importance and to
the farmer, and in fact, to all the
people of the state, nothing can mean
more to them financially, socially
and otherwise.
The cotton growers of Mississippi
have examples in the Cotton Asso-
citation in nine other Southern states
that are solving the marketing prob
lens of it's members and at the same
time bringing them more money for
their cotton. Cooperative market
ing has proven to be success in
every part of the United States and
to be the salvation of the producers
The cotton associations have proved
to be a great stabilizing factor in
the price Of cotton and the greatest
cause for the rise in price this fall
during the so-called dumping season
With the farmers of Lincoln Coun-
ty receiving the benefits of cooper
ative marketing the whole county
will prosper. There will be better
homes, better schools, better church
es, better roads and better living
conditions. What will be true OF
this county will be true of the entire
state.
Whether the farmers Of Mississip-
pi are to have cooperative market
Ing association depends upon the
outcome of the last week of the cam.
paign ending December 23rd. 1t is
going to mean a great deal to the
farmers of Mississippi and theiI
friends to see the campaign through
to a successful close.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
WoMAN'S CLUBS ACTIVITIES.

One of the greatest forces of COM
munity life at the present time is
found in the clubs and other organi-
cations of women. Many movements
of civic betterment have resulted
from their efforts.
When these clubs first became
general, the majority went in for
literary study. A multitude of wo-
men through their programs became
familiar with inspiring poetry, dra-
ma and works of history. Later
the women seemed to feel drawing
to take UP practical lines Of effort,
and they went in for civic move
ments.
All such lines of work are bene-
fetal. At the present time one of
the best fields for women's club ac-
tivity can be found in political ed
ucation.
In most of the larger states, wo-
men have obtained the Suffrage on
ly within recent years. A great
many of them have no general con-
ception of political problems. This
is no reflection on them, as there are
millions of men who have no intelli-
gent grasp of political issues.
One of the best things woman's
club can do is to study such prob
lens as the tariff, the currency,
banking and credit systems, the la
Dor question, the duties of capital,
etc. Also it will be fine thing to
take UP the personality and charac-
ter of the leading statesmen. 1t
can watch carefully the proceedings
of Congress, its state legislature, and
the municipal government.
In taking UP such matters there
should be care not to do it in a par
tisan way. On controversial matters
both sides of the proposition should
be presented. If women's clubs all
over the country would feature such
questions for the next five years,
they would create a great body Of
woman voters who will look at pub
lie questions in an intelligent and
well informed way, and who would
be force for good government.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
''WORSE THAN PAIN
Louisiana Lady Says She Has stNev.
er Found Anything Better Than
Cardui for a Rundown
Condition =


Morgan City. La.--'.It would be hard
for me to tell how much benefit / have
derived from the use Of Cardui.'' = said
Mrs. ]. @. Bowman. Of 1919 Front Street,
this city.
Il was SO rundown in healtI, | could
hardly 60. | was thin. had no
appetite. Could not rest or sleep well.
! was SO weak, and SO very nervous. /
was no pleasure 70 myself.
II suffered some pain, but the worst
Of my trouble was from being SO weak
and easy to get tired and out Of heart,
This nervous condition was worse
than pain.
ssome one told me oi cardui, and
decided to use 1t.
After Using a few bottles, recained
my strength. wasn't SO nervous. and
began to eat and sleep, and grew
stronger and was soon wen.
81 have never found anything better
TOR rundown condition.
If Ifyousuiier as tllis Louisiana lady did
you, too, should find cardui helpful ioi
your troubles.
0ela bottle Of Cardui, today. Nc-l4z
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
THREE MEN DEAD
IN LABOR CLASH
Employment Agents Battle With
Planters in Madison
Parish.

Vicksburg. Miss, Dec. 9.State-
ments as to a gun and pistol battle
early this morning at Duckport, La,
twelve miles north Of Vicksburg, on
the opposite side of the Mississippi
river, between labor agents and
Madison parish planters. are conflict
ing, but all agree that three men
were killed and three injured.
The dead are:
Unidentified white man.
Will Crofton, negro.
Jake Stevens. negro. labor agent.
Injured:
Unidentified white planter.
William Wooten, white, 19 years
old who runs gasoline boat towing
barge,
Mem Dangerfield, negro.
Wooten and Dangerfield came to
Vicksburg in the gasoline boat at 2
o'clock this morning, went to the po-
lice station, where they said they
had been attacked at Duckport, and
the police took them to the Charity
Hospital. Wooten is shot through
the thigh, but the wound is not Sc
rious. Dangerheld is shot in the
back but the wound was slight and
he was discharged from the hospital
this afternoon.
Wooten said he was engaged by r
L. Kirtley, representing the Black
River Land Company, to go to Duck
port to get four or hve negroes ant
their families who were to work or
the land company's plantation. Ac
companied by Stevens and the Others
whose names are mentioned above
he ran his boat to point near Duck
port. Fifteen or twenty white mer
and negroes were on the river bank
They hailed the boat and he made fol
the landing when the men on shore
opened fire with automatic guns ant
pistols. Jake Stevens had a revolver
and returned the fire.
A second fusillade of shots from
| the men on shore brought Steven!
down with two others on the barge
Wooten cut the boat loose from the
barge and drifted down with Dan
gerfield. He said the men on shore
continued to fire at his boat until i
was out Of range.
Kirtley said he took Stevens t.
Wootens' boat yesterday evening t.
make the trip, as several negro fam
lilies at Duckport wanted to work fol
his company.
Sheriff Andrew Sewer of Madison
parish and District Attorney Garter
of the parish investigated the shoot
ing today and the latter declared HI
will prosecute the men who engaged
Wooten and Stevens for going tt
Louisiana to get labor, trespass ant
for shooting.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
FEARED HER HEART WAS
GOING TO STOP BEATING


digestion made me miserable after
every meal would almost go blind
with those dizzy spells that would
come on without warning and / sim
ply despaired OF getting we'll.
"0ne bottle of Stella Vitae made
me feel like different woman, and
a little more of the treatment restor-
ed my health and made me the hap
piest woman in the State
It is not claimed that Stella Vitae
will overcome disease in every case
where it is used, but 1t is known that
this preparation has accomplished re-
markable results in thousands of in
stances. and every woman who Is
suffering from female complaints
owes 1t to herself to obtain relief by
Immediately taking Stella Vitae.
Note-Stella Vitae may be OBJ
tanned from any druggist and is sold
upon the positive guarantee that the
purchase price will be refunded If
1T fails to bring relief Druggists
are supplied from the Van Vleet
Mansfield Drug Co.. Memphis, Tenn,
Distributors.-(a (adv.)
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13

Those who are in a run down. condi-
ton will notice that Catarrh bothers
them much more than when they are in
good health. This fact proves that while
Catarrh is local disease, 1t Is greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE con-
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves by local application, and the
Internal Medicine, Tonic, which assists
in improving the General Health.
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years.
+. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-12-13
This is the Way Mrs. Otto
Bletsch Describes Her Feel
ingsAHad Suffered Three
Years, But Stella Vitae Made
New Woman of Her.

Il had such awful spells that ]
really was afraid my heart would
burst and stop beating" said Mrs.
Otto Bletsch. R. f. d. No. /, Box
.S3, Otto, Texas.
s''I was in mighty bad way from
female disorders for three years, :
she continued. "and tried all kinds
of medicines and treatments, but
nothing helped me but Stella Vitae.
everything seemed to be wrong
with me. MY head ached like II
would split. misery in my back and
pains in my legs almost laid me low
and / got so nervous I Just couldn't
sleep to do any good. ! was badly
constipated, had no appetite and in