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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

Consolidated SchooIs.-The number
of white teacher schools in South
Carolina has been reduced by 452 in
five years.
Consolidation Of schools in the last
five years has decreased the number
of white schools by IT'S and the NUM-
bcr of negro schools by 81
On the other hand there are still
915 white teacher schools in this
state.
"Icre is the weakest link in our
educational chain," State Superin-
tendent of Education Swearingcn de-
clarcd in his report this year. These
classrooms require the maximum of
effort, energy and ability. Now they
are too frequently eddies in our edu-
cational stream"
Approximately 10000 pupils are
Most of them are in the country.
Consolidation of schools is going on
in South Carolina at reasonable rate.
1t is estimated, that in five years con-
solidation will be completed In Iowa,
although the movement started only
four or five years ago. Indiana has
more than 1000 consolidated schools.
Ohio has POO Tennessee has more
than 800 and Texas more than 700.
In these states consolidation is COM
raratively new undertaking.
The Kansas City Star proclaims this
truth:
"Thc Onc-room school has become as
obsolete as the onc-horse wagon. 1t
cannot provide the education that the
boy and girl of today demand. :.
Progress in a number of states has
been slow; but it need not be. The
boys and girls of the rural districts of
today have a right TO the best educa-
tional advantages that can be placed
before them. 1t will require neither a
stretch Of optimism nor undue gencr-
osity to see the majority of these
boys and girls with the advantages
they deserve several years before their
school years have passed"
1t stands TO reason that one teach
or, no matter how competent, cannot
efficiently teach Il large group Of chill
drcn Of various grades. That is more
ti.an any on" person can do. The con-
S.li1rtr1 SChp1l proyiIcS nnt only a
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14
SUICIDES INCREASE
Seventy eight South Carolnians Died
by Own Hand Last Year.

Suicides in South Carolina in 1921
totaled 7S or at the rate of As per
1000 of population. according to fig
ures taken from the records Of the
bureau of vital statistics. In 1920
the total number Of suicides was 5S,
which was a rate of 34 per 1000 of
population.
Homicidcs in 1921 tOtalcd 30l, which
was a rate of 17.5 per 1000 Of popula-
ton. The number OF homicidcs in
1920 was 256, or Il rate of l5.2. These
figures have recently been compiled
by the bureau of vital statistics, Of
which C. Wilson Miller is chief clerk.
Legal elcctrocutions in 1921 totalcd
seven, or a rate OF Al per 1000 Of
population. In 1920 the number Of
legal clcctrocutiOns was three, or Il
rate of IT.
Deaths from automobile accidents
in 1921 numbered G2. or rate of 3.6
per 1000 population. The number Of
deaths from automobile accidents in
1920 was 81, which was a rate of 40
per 1000.
Deaths from railroad accidents in
1921 totalcd 5S or rate of 81. In
1920 deaths from such accidents total
cd 63, which was rate Of 81 per
1000.
Lightning killed almost twice is
many people in the state in 1921 as in
1920. In 1921 the number of deaths
from lightning was % and in 1920 the
number was IA. '''
Diseases of the circulation brought
about moro deaths in 1921 in tho state
than any other ono cause. The num-
bcr Of deaths attributed to this cause
WAS 2,SG5, or rate of 1861 per 1000
OF population. In 1920 the number Of
deaths from diseases of the Circula-
tinn was 1873, which was rate of
170.6. Pneumonia also claimed many
victims in 1921. The number of deaths
frCm this disease was $50. In 1920,
however, the number of pneumonia
dcTths was 1.725. Pulmonalis tuber-
culosis in 1920 claimed LOGS victims,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

Advice to Lounge lizards.-A Ger
tain visitor to certain town not
necessary to mention, said recently TO
4 friend who lived in that town, Il
did not know you had so many idle
rich. people in your town before. see
crowd OF young people with nothing
to do but ride around in cars all dress
cd up or loafing around some drink
places"
The friends reply was that not all
those he saw dressed up and riding
around were rich. In fact hardly any
OF them could be so classcd. The
parents of most of the young men and
young women seen riding around were
people of only ordinary means. They
had been hard workers all their lives
and had saved a little, owned their
home perhaps, and that was all. The
chiIdren had persuaded them into buy
ing an automobile and now the chill
drcn were in it most of the time. The
children were using up the labor of
their parents in money for gas and
oil and repairs. The parents were got
ting older, showing some lines and
wrinkles in new places almost every
day but the children never seemed to
notice or to care.
The boys want an easy life. Some
times it leads to crime. They see other
boys having a good time and not work
ing and it is easy to drift into schemes
to get money without working. Be-
fore long these schemes lead to others
bit more shady and then the line
over into downright stealing is easy to
cross.
Liquor, joy-riding, gambling, steal
ing, immorality-thcy follow each
z
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

In 1921 the number was 1,iO5. Pclla-
gra, according to the statistics, claim
cd 33i victims in 1921 and 25S in 1920.
Diphthcria took 1i6 lives in 1920 and
156 in 1921.
Typhoid fever in 1870 claimed So
victims. In 1920 the number of deaths
from the disease was 3li. Smallpox
in 1920 killed two persons and in 1921
mine Malaria in 1920 brought about
aJ4 deaths and in 1921, 212 deaths
Diseases of the kidneys caused many
deaths in each of the two years. In
1920 the number OF deaths from such
diseases was 1871 and in 1921 was
1,451. Tctanus. is cahrged with -
deaths in 1920 and ten in 1921.
General accidents" caused the death
of 315 people in 1921 and OF sos in
1920.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14
Buggies at Reduced
Prices

Old Dobbin an dthe snappy looking
Buggy is not yet extinct in this county
and you'll be several years older be-
fore these become extinct like the dodo
--hence every now and then some man
wants TO buy BUGGY, and that Is
the place where we can best serve you.
WE HAVE THE BUGGIES-and our
Buggics are of best qualities In work
manship and styles, and furthermore
and also to the point--WE HAVE THE
PRICES THAT WILL INTEREST
YOU IN A MINUTE. If you want to
buy n BUGGY take time to visit our
wareroom. We will be glad to talk to
you about Buggies and Prices, and to
be sure if you have a FORD CAR that
you would like to exchange for a bug
gy, VIC will talk to. you about that, too.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

ing of our people:
Now, therefore, /, Warren G. Hard
ing, president of the United States, do
hereby make proclamation, directing
all persons to refrain from all inter
ference with the lawful efforts TO
maintain interstate transportation and
the carrying of the United States
mails.
"rhcsc activities and the maintain
ed, supremacy of the law arc the first
obligation Of the government and all
the citizenship Of our country. There
fore. L invite the cooperation OF all
public authorities, state and munich
pal, and the aid OF oil good citizens
to uphold the laws to preserve the
public peace, and to facilitate these
operations in safety which are essen
tial to life and liberty and the Sc
curity of properly and our common
public welfare.
"In witness whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to hc AFFIXED.
Done at the city of Washington.
this 11th day of July. in the year of
our Lord orc thousand nine hundred
and twenty-five, and of the indcrend-
cncc Of the United States, the one
hundred and, rorty-scvcnth.
"WAHREN G. HARDING.
by the president:
Charles e. Hughes,
Secretary of State"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

to conflicts and worked un the temper
of both sides.
The government heretofore has
been able TO rule through the support
of the middle parties. These have
taken alarm at the repressivc measures
and are inclined to turn 10 the Right.
If they desert Chancellor Wirth he
must take the radical Communists in
to the government and they will join
only if the reprcssive and taxation
methods are made more stringent.
Wirth has been negotiating with the
radicals, and the reactionarics are re-
spending by preparing to resort to
violence.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14
GOVERNMENT TAKES HAND
President Issues Proclamation on the
Strike Question.

President Harding in proclama-
tion issued at the White House Tues
day night, directed "all persons to re-
frain from all interference with the
lawful efforts to maintain interstate
transportation and the carrying Of the
United States mails"
In the proclamation, which was is
sued after day in which continued
reports had reached the postoffice de-
partment of interference by railroad
strikers with mail trains; the president
invited the cooperation Of all public
authorities, state and municipal, and
the laid Of all good citizens" 10 up
hold the laws and TO facilitate these
operations in safety which are essen
tial to life and liberty, and the Sc
curity OF property and our common
public welfare"
The peaceful settlement of contro-
versies between shop craft employees
and carriers. it was stated, "in ac-
cordance with law and due respect for
the established agencies for such
settlement, are essential to the secur-
ity and well being of our people"
The president took the position
that men willing 20 maintain the opcr-
alton of railroad trains in order to
transport mail have the same ind;s-
puta5ie right to work that others have
TO decline to work."
President Harding, was occupied
throughout The evening With the pre-
paration of the proclamation, delaying
his dinner one hour in order TO go over
the first transcript. lie returned TO
the executive office after dinner and
remained there until the proclamation
was made public about 1O:A0 p. m.
Text of Proclamation.
The text of the proclamation fol-
lows:
"A proclamation:
Whereas, the United States rail-
road labor board is an agency of the
government, created by law, and
charged with the duty Of adjusting
disputes between railroad operators
and employees engaged in interstate
commerce; and,
"Whercas. the United States rail-
road labor board has recently handed
down decisions, one affecting the wage
iUS the shop craft employees, the other
declaring the contract system of shop
craft work with outside agencies to
be contrary 10 the intent Of the trans-
portation act and therefore, thtt such
practice must be discontinued; and,
Whereas, the shop craft employees
have elected to discontinue their work,
rather than abide by the decision
rendered, and certain operators have
ignored the decision ordering the
abandonment of the contract shop
practice: and
Whereas, the maintained operation
of the railroads in interstate commerce
and the transportation of United
States mails have nccessitated the
cmplOymcn, Of men who choose TO ac-
cept employmcn, under the terms of
the decision ard who have tho same
indisputablc right TO work that others
have 10 decline work; end.
Whereas, tho peaceful settlement
of controversies in accordance with
law and due respect for the establish
ed agencies Of such settlement are
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14
thcr like seed time and harvest.

other like seed time and harVcSt.
IdlcncsS is no sign of wealth; it is
no sign Of prosperity. 1t is Il sign of
lazincS3. 4 sign of weakness, Il sign
Of nc'cr- lowell. If you have nothing
to do, get off the streets. Go fishing.
Hang around home You will never
get job riding around in an automo-
bike all dressed up.-Grccnwnod IndcX-
Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

Supercregation.-"Do you ever oil
your hogs?" asked a tourist.
"Oil, EN-? Heck, no." replied Gap
Johnson, of Rumpu9 Ridge. IT'S hard
enough to kctch 'cm and hold 'cm
nov, without Sticking 'cm up any"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-14

- OF 100000 persons living in the
mountain country of eight southern
states. nine-tenths are Of Anglo Saxon
pioneer stock, the purcst blood in
America tOdaV
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02
WERE THIRTEEN YEARS" OF
LATIN WORTHWHILE?

Certainly. How otherwise might
boys and girls be warned of the waste
and loss in taking the study, for only
those who know Latin would be COM
petent TO speak about it. Thost who
spend their learning years in making
tables, chairs, LOOMS" or in putting
on invisible patches" could not per-
form the public service of telling us
well what is good for boys and girls.
Nor could they swing the terms
"strenuously," "eminently," "declen.
sions," "negligibly," "fallacious,' ain.
fallible," with such certainty and ef-
feet. But how are those who are to
render this service Of warning TO be
found? Who knows what boy must
take Latin to do il?
Moreover, II one who has taken
Latin says that his time was wasted
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02
To Worship God.

II there were no future-no Judg.
ment nothing but this earthly life.
and sheer extinction at the end Of IL.
prnyer might still he prompted by u
sort Of faith in a ruler u life-in u dis
penser Of It's blessing; praise might
now and then be suggested by oc-
caslonal gratitude. but the greatest
OF all motives for worship. public and
private. would not exist As II Is. we
Christians adore our God the Father.
the son. and The Holy Spirit-If in
telIIgently--we adore Him with view
Of that vast eternity which Is certainly
before us. and compared with which
the claims and occupations Of all here
are Infinitely little. We try to learn
m worship. as by God's grace we may.
to tore the manners, the occupations.
the mental and moral bearing which
will engage ~ In the countless agss
of ut.. 10 came H u. LIdton.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02
IMPORTANCE OF LATIN

The Importance of Latin needs to
be explained, just as the need of any
other kind of education needs to be
explained. Why should red-blooded
boys and girls turn aside from the
active pursuits Of life to study under
tutors and professors, year after
year? Plenty Of men like Horace
Greeley and VIM. Dean Howells have
skipped high school and college and
still done more for the world than
most college graduates and doctors
of Philosophy.
The answer is that men like Horace
Greeley studied by themselves and so
got the training and the information
which school work is supposed to
give. Others could do the same, but
we are not all as smart and as de.
termined as Horace Greeley, and SC
need tutors and professors TO give us
our start. No doubt the sooner a
man can learn the art Of study, and
master the tools Of scholarship, and
become an independent scholars
self-starter-the better. Many stu.
dents grow stale and dependent and
lose their initiative by staying in
school too long.
But if you are in school, what, shall
you study?
First Of all the things that will
help you to keep on learning, like
reading, and the use of language
(grammar), and the beginnings Of
Home Science, Agriculture and the
use Of tools. And at the same time
the things that stretch your mind
and stir you up, like history and some
elementary science. as Physical &c.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02

A DAY IN MID-ATLANTIC
BY Joseph M. Pierce, Berea Academy


The U. s. S. Zeelandia was "roll.
ing right along"-or tumbling, rather.
Every one, even seasick passengers,
slept peacefully, profoundly. We
were in mid-Atlantic. more than fif-
teen hundred miles from anywhere
but what did that matter? Nobody
was sufficiently worried TO be awake
but each seasick, homesick lad was
in his individual corner Of Shut Eye
Town, each one dreaming, dreaming
There was John Anderson, who haG
been perhaps the sickest man in the
regiment going over; there was Ar,
thur Thompson, whose usually sweet
disposition threatened TO collapse un
der the combined attack Of seasicl,
ness and mumps. On the right, on
the left, above and below, the mer
lay sleeping.
OF what did they dream, Of
French rest camps and muddy hikes
of the last farewell at Pauillac, O.
their own fair hills and spaciou:
skies, Of the happy firesides and I'll,
loved ones who would meet them
with outstretched arms and smiling
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02
Normal School

Tuesday, January "a, at the chapel
hour, members Of the Senior Glass
represented the Normal Faculty
The seniors were initiating the fac
ulty at a Faculty Meeting" Min.
utes of the last faculty meeting were
read and many interesting things dis
cussed. It was very enjoyabale
chapel exercise for the entire student
body of the Normal School. Some of
the seniors were clever enough to get
some Of the clothes of the persons
they were to represent. The full
back of the football team was wear
ing the coach's hat, whom he was
impersonating. .
The basket ball season for the Nor.
NAL School has been a successful
one thus far. On Monday, January
80, the Foundation School was de.
feated by the Tutors. The game was
exceedingly interesting from the
first moments of play. The Founda.
ton boys were in the lead by small
margin for some time. 1t usually
takes the Normal School team sew.
eral minutes to get the wheels going
just right, especially when the girls
are not present at the game.
The Foundation School should bt
commended on their basketball team
this year. It is probably the bes
team they have ever had All tn,
players are good sports and play tn,
game with a snap.
Score, Normal II, Foundation Is
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02

and then shows by his discourse that
he got out Of it what the boy who
makes tables and breeds stock could
never do, which are we to believe,
what he says or what he does?
Still further, one good witness can
not discredit Latin, if there are just
as good witnesses who believe in it.
Possibly one can look so long at the
tools that frame pictures" and "put
on patches" as to forget that mar
velous tool, the pen, that most skill.
full member Of the body whose prod.
uct is convincing speech.
The fact is, one great purpose of
education is to reveal the abilities OF
boys and girls. Every boy has q
right therefore, to be tried out both
on the care of forests" and the care
of his speech thru Latin, and how
shall boy study "trees" when the
names and the terms are in Latin
He must pause to learn terms whose
very letters give their meaning to the
Latin student, and the barrier is the
same with the study Of birds, fishes
and insects The path thru the
sciences thru college is strewn with
serious obstacles for the one who
knows no Latin, and even Social Sci.
ence is no exception. Look at It
sOcius. fellow; scio, know. Knowing
your fellow.
The path to forceful, eloquent
English was no whit shorter OF
easier for Abraham Lincoln than fol
Gladstone OF Roosevelt with theiI
Latin and Greek. Few boys and girl,
today would take Lincoln's regimen
for English rather than Roosevelt,
way by Latin declensions and conju
cations. No one has a right TO say
that a path is Of no use because som,
have come by another, nor has on,
a right to say 10 the youth of an,
region, your path in life is TO be tina
of the farm and home. Noble an,
useful as their services are, the farm
and the home will be better IL tn,
speech and the life there are richer
even thru Latin.
Not the Culture" of reading tn,
translation of Latin author, but tn,
culture and light Of life that COM
from seeing that comfort is CON
FORTS, brave with one-that cultur
is the right of boys and girls, and /
may be the duty Of a school TO hav,
them try for it. II boy or girl I
going thru academy or high school
four years of study-and IL the IAtj,
is rightly taught, there is no stud,
that may open up the doors o
knowledge, of power and Of enjoy
ment as may Latin.
The writers strong contention
however, is not that every boy O
girl should take Latin or French o.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02

real estate men, and when they
learned that the garage man and the
plumber had become partners, they
hired a special train and loaded II
with their gains and fed and departed
from that town saying, "Yea, this Is
no place for n preachers hon. Let US
flee lest we be robbed and our gains
become a spoil unto this plumber and
unto this garage man." And the
people Of that town saw them no
more, but they all became servants
Of the plumber and the garage man.
This parable sheweth that Fortune
favoreth the wise.
Alison Baker
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-02-02

ography. Then you must learn the
things that will help you to be a
useful citizen, to earn your living and
help others. Here come Arithmetic
and larger study of Home Science
and things that bear on your life
work and your power and response
bility as a voter These things pretty
nearly fill high school course, and
the person who is really started in
these will be reading and studying
all his life. Graduation is not an
end, but a commencement of inde-
pendent study. The chief reason for
not taking Latin in high school, how
ever, is that there are few high
school teachers who know how to
teach Latin.
But if one is going to study beyond
the high school, he should seriously
consider Latin. Latin is not for
everybody, but it is highly important
for select few. 1t does give, when
rightly taught to the right kind of
students, a kind Of mental develop
ment. that can hardly be gained by
any other study. 1t is an immense
help in any advanced study of science,
history or literature. And anybody
who proposes to be real leader and
user of the worlds resources of
learning wants to know the meaning
Of the ever recurring Latin quota
tions-E pluribus unum, Vincit qui
patitur, Ne plus ultra, Sine qua non,
and a thousand others.
And if one is to study Latin, he
should begin it, if possible, in early
years. Every teacher should be on
the watch, like "Domie," in "The
Bonnie Briar Bush," to discover the
clad o PARTS" who has it in him to
be a scholar, and get that boy into
some academy where Latin is taught
by a teacher who knows his business.
A Friend Of Learning and Boys