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THE NEWS & FARMER
Entered as second class mail matter at the post office
in Louisville, Ga., under the Act of Congress,
March 8, 1879.
Published Every Thursday.
MISS VIRGINIA POI.HILL Editor
J. \V. WHITE Associate Editor
One Year, in Advance $2.00
Six Months, in Advance SI.OO
LOUISVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922.
CHILDHOOD THRIFT.
Future Rockefellers and Morgans are now
in the making in the public schools of West
Virginia. The school children of that state
are being taught the elements of banking and
business through practical thrift. Banking
has been made an important feature of the
grammer and high school curriculums. It is
not simply a case of teacher-talk, and black
board calculation: It is a plan whereby every
school child in the state, rich or poor, may
become the possessor of a real bank account.
West Virginia is the first, and so far the
only state to introduce a workable savings
bank plan in her public schools. Six month’s
trial lias proven its wonderful success. Thou
sands of school children who used to rush
with every nickel to the nearest candy shop,
are now building bank accounts; for, the plan
makes possible savings accumulation in so
small an amount as five cents. Its simplicity
recommends it; and other states will, un
doubtedly, soon adopt it.
Briefly stated, the details of the West Vir
ginia plan, installed under authority of the
state board of education, are these: Every
school child is furnished with a book of ten
pages; each page holds twenty stamps valued
at five cents each; teachers supply the
stamps at that price; with $1 worth of the
stamps pasted up, the pupil takes his page
to his bank, endorses it on the back, and has
a credit of the amount entered on his pass
book. Only three to five minutes are consum
ed daily in the classroom in this practical
instruction in business and finance. The tea
cher deposits her receipt, through the school
principal, in one selected bank; the children
may carry their accounts in any bank they
choose, as the clearance plan is simple.
At certain times long lines of school chil
dren may be seen at the savings windows of
banks in 120 West Virginia towns and cities,
making their dollar deposits. Keen rivalry—
individual and class pride—brings into grow
ing savings accounts thousands of nickels
that once were squandered in childish luxury
and extravagance. Loans are made the chil
dren for good purposes, by the same methods
and upon the same principles as are employ
ed in general business. Girls or boys may
borrow, if they wish to invest in materials
which they work into finished products and
sell to increase their savings. Saving is, of
course optional; there is no coersion beyond
the teacher’s advice and the spirit of emula
tion.
Although the school savings plan in actual
practise has had but six months trial, West
Virginia school children have already saved
thousands of dollars; and school authorities
are enthusiastic over its success. In one city
with 10,000 school children, more than 0,000
have bank accounts. This is an exceptional
record, but others are coming along in pro
portion. The plan has the warm approval
and support of the West Virginia bankers.
But what is far more valuable than the
bank account, is the spirit of thrift and the
business knowledge and instinct, which each
pupil carries away from the school. It is
foundation-laying for lives of usefulness and
success.
Teaching thrift in America is no new
thing. It was preached in “Poor Richard’s
Almanac” a century and a quarter ago. The
teaching was long chiefly advisory and sug
gestive. It was slow in accomplishing results.
Real development of the savings spirit has
required other factors than mere suggestion.
One of the most potent of these factors
was found in the Liberty Bond campaigns.
Savings had begun to grow before the Euro
pean war; but they made no such strides as
they have since, that is, within the same
length of time. Today the combined savings
of the people of the United States are close
to six billions of dollars, and one of the main
factors in the industrial development of the
nation.
Now West Virginia has brought into play,
in thrift building, one of the most powerful
of factors—child ambition and child emulat
ion. It is sure to spread and grow.
With millions of school children busy sav
ing their nickles, American savings accumu
lations will mount to a pace difficult to con
ceive. Another six billions may be added be
fore we know it.
Better business men and more of them;
better understanding between employers and
employees; fewer wage disputes ami fewer
strikes; more profitable and more service
able industry—these are some of the big
things promised from the growing spirit of
thrift.
West Virginia is laying a wise, firm and
substantial foundation. It is a future busi
ness—and character building program which
other progressive communities will not be
slow to adopt.
—Atlanta Constitution
JUDGE WILLIAM H. FISH.
In another column appears the announce
ment of Judge William LI. Fish as a candi
date to succeed himself as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court. Judge Fish, is one of the
best known men in the state and is held in
high esteem by the people and the lawyers.
He has been a member of the Supreme Court
since 1896 and has rendered the state splen
did service.
Judge Fish was born in Macon, Ga., and
at the'age of four his family moved to Ma
con county. He graduated at the University
of Georgia and took a law course at the Uni
versity of Virginia.
In 1891 he was elected Judge of the Su
perior court of the Southwestern Circuit by
the legislature to fill the unexpired term of
the late Allen Fort. He was re-elected for
the full term without opposition the follow
ing year, and in 1896 was again re-elected
without opposition for the term of four
years. Prior to beginning his new term on
the bench, the membership of the supreme
court was increased from three to six judges
and Judge Fish was nominated for on of the
new places.
He has been re-elected ever since that
time. In 1905 upon the death of Chief Jus
tice Simmons, he was appointed Chief Jus
tice by Governor Joseph M. Terrell and was
re-elected for the full term of the following
year. Judge Fish has now been Chief Justice
for seventeen years, and has made a splendid
record as a member of the highest court in
the state.
His friends in every section feel confident
that he will be re-elected to the position
which he has honored.
LLOYD GEORGE ON INCENDIARIES.
Mr. Lloyd George made a dinner speech on
Friday night in which lie sounded a solemn
warning that the war spirit is again abroad;
that more terrible engines of death than ever
were devised before are being created; that
the next war would be a war against civil
ization, and that unless we “lock up the
ammunition” and likewise lock up the class
of persons who are “likely to drop the
match,” the tempest was sure to break.
All of which sounds terrible enough, and
would be much more impressive, if it were
not for the fact Llody George himself has
proved to be about the most reckless of the
potential ineindiaries and is today more
greatly to be blamed for the unrest in the
world than any living man.
It is almost a crime for a man of the Brit
ish premier’s position to talk in generalit
ies such as we have indicated, when his own
position can be so easily shown by analys
is to be vulnerable in the last degree. It is
mere babble to speak of the next war being
specifically a “war against civilization,” as
if the onslaught of the Huns, meditated for
years and carried on with a pitiless calcu
lation, were not the most deliberate attack
on civilization we have ever known or ever
will know.
If the unity of the Allies had been pre
served unbroken, we might have defied the
world in arms, and it is Mr. Lloyd George,
more than any one man, who caused the Al
lies to drift apart. During the war his slogan
was that the Germans should pay “to the
uttermost farthing.” But since the war, see
ing that England had nothing more to fear
after the German fleet had been destroyed,
he sees that Germany will have to pay chief
ly in manufactured goods, which come into
competition with the English market, and he
is all for scaling down German indemnities.
France naturally feels that she has been
tricked. The Germans have never paid one
solitary penny towards restoring the devas
tated districts. Standing as she does on the
very frontiers of Germany where she would
meet the first shock of a renewed war, she
has never been given the guarantees against
agression she was promised at the Paris con
ference. And the pleas for tenderness toward
the Germans, always interpreted as weak
ness in Germany, have merely tended to stif
fen the pride and insolence of the Germans,
who only a few days ago, had to be summar
ily ordered to discontinue proceedings which
ineffect were strengthening the defenses of
the Kiel canal.
But this ill-timed tenderness towards the
Germans is not all or perhaps the worst of
Mr. Lloyd George’s offenses. How the head
of a civilized government could blandly and
blindly persist in fraterizing with the bloody
despots of Russia passes all understanding.
At a time when a $5 bill is worth 17,000,000
Russian paper roubles, what childish non
sense it is to talk about entering into trade
relations with them. When the Soviet gov
ernment boldly and even insultingly flaunts
the fact that it does not recognize the rights
of private property or the validity of con
tracts, what idiocy it is to go through the
solemn farce of sitting down with the Bol
sheviki at one council table after the other.
Russia is producing prac-ticall nothing, and
any loans, bonuses, or other funds, given her
as the result of a treaty would merely en
able her to carry on much longer the system
of government which never rises above loot
and assassination.
The careful and sober observer can see
now real clouds on the horizon which are not
directly or indirectly traceable to Russia or
Germany, and no living man has done more
to raise that war cloud than Lloyd George.
So when he gets before an assembly of
intelligent men and .women and talks about
putting “the man with the match” in jail,
we can only wonder how he remains at liber
ty.
The perfect peace of the world is still afar
off, and certainly we will not attain to it
until we get to the point where we can talk
common sense.
■—Macon News.
THE NEWS AND FARMER, LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA; AUGUSTS,TS22;"
Equalization of Equality
By W. J. BRADLEY.
The most fecund source of our
world confusion, unrest and disaf
fection is traceable to the belief that
our rights are inherited while our
duties are optional. Of the three
leading aspirations and forces at
work in the last three centuries,
liberty, equality and fraternity, the
idea of equality is the most thought
provoking and subtly problematical.
Liberty has been re-defined as con
formity to law instead of doing as
one pleases; fraternity has been en
larged to embrace humanity and to
overcome the destructive rivalry of
nationality, and equality must he
interpreted so as to include the
growing inequalities of goods and
attainments. This increasing in
equality is explained by increased
opportunity arising under our ex
panding liberty to give expressioi
to differences in native capacity.
This quality for which we iong de
mands an approach from the moral
and Christian point of vantage. Anil
just here let it be said that all real
history is at bottom moral and spir
itual development, and of this truth
the world is more convinced today
than ever. Out of every settlement
that is unethical will inevitably is
sue a larger unsettlement. The
great war has been most instrumen
tal in establishing in the minds of
the thoughful once for all, let it he
hoped, this persisting claim of the
ages.
Our age is one of reconstruction.
Our old phrases remain, hut new
and larger meanings must he added.
From the functional point of view,
all things, institutions and organiza
tions are measured in terms of
their value of service worth, not
primarily in tlie commercial sense,
hut in the larger scientific sense
of adaption and social efficiency. By
their fruit all things arc rightly
known and evaluated. We know
a tiling by discovering through its
activity its use an dsignificance.
This is the modern functional or
dynamic view of the natural and
social sciences.
The nineteenth century inherited a
static view of equality from the
eighteenth century political and eco
nomic thought as represented by
Housseau and Adam Smith. Equality
was a possession in us simply to
Ik* admitted and recognized by the
state instead of a great task in the
performance of which man could
achieve and enjoy as an actual fact
a dynamic equality. .lust as mod
ern liberty has increased with the
growth of just laws and regulations,
so equality comes only as we render
honest and efficient service. The
old conception of equality led and
will lead to violent revolutions; the
right view will lead to greater so
cial peace—a peace that is positive
and constructive, and not a nega
tive peace maintained by a sort of
police. In the doctrine that all
men are equally endowed with equal
strength lies* the strength of So
cialism. The exploitation of such
a philosophy is causing in this cen
tury economic and social revolutions
just as it caused political revolu
tions in ttie last two centuries, when
men thought there was nothing to
do hut to ask and demand. There
was no service to render, no ob
ligations to fulfill, no imperative
duties to he undertaken. Legisla
tion was the panacea for all opr hu
man ills. The State was looked un
to as an absolute sovereign with the
power to supply as if by magic our
social needs. Government v/as re
fer red to as The government instead
of On y government. The govern
ment had all the responsibilities and
the people only had rights and
privileges. This sort of philosophy
has invaded and vitiated our think
ing with reference to the family,
school, church, business and other
institutions than the State. Vot
ing imposed no duties hut was re
garded as a sort of badge of honor,
something to display and not to ex
ercise for the public good. That
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the vote is a trust, a revocable privi
lege, was foreign to the thinking of
the century and to the general think
ing now, though it is interesting to
note that in England and even in
France since the first French re
public, as well as in most countries,
suffrage has been very gradually
achieved as a result of merit shown
usually in education or in the accu
mulation of wealth. Woman suf
frage was late because woman was
late in entering into public and
professional relationships. Active
participation in the preservation of
the State is always attended with
a larger freedom and a larger equal
ity, and only in such participation
can we hope to keep what we have
gained, In some European coun
tries we find penalties for non-use
of abuse of the franchise and re
ward in the way of multiple voting
for those reaching certain high qual
ifications. Lord Bryce thought that
the great danger to our modern dem
ocracies was to be found in our in
difference to rights too freely con
ferred. This indifference, due to
a lack of responsibility, has caused
Lhc democracies of history to be
short-lived. History repeats itself
unless prevented.
The old equation of equality in
terms of abstract rights to he en
joyed by a sort of lazy contempla
tion must lie replaced by anew
equation iii terms of social service,
if our social order is to endure. In
our age of increasing freedom larg
er and larger equalities must obtain
if we continue to practice the eigh
teenth century view, but more equal
ity if we catch and embody the
Christian conception of equality of
service. The more necessary each
becomes in our complex social econ
omy, the greater is his approach to
the ideal of equality, which is to
discover one’s place and power, and
to be discovered by public recogni
tion, is the sort ot equality we are
striving for and without which wc
shall augment the much-talked’ of
Unrest of the world. This sort of
equality will not usher in any par-
program, just because they
are particularistic, hut it will bring
what society at large is in quest
for and that is peace on earth
through the service of good will to
wards men.
This sense of equality was illus
trated, it seems, by the Master in
the even distribution of rewards to
both those of unequal talents as well
as those entering the vineyard at
different hours of the day, and also |
in Paul’s description of the indis
pensable relation equally served by
the various members of the body.
Each member had a special work
that could only he done by itself.
There was an individuality and j
equality of function through a dem- j
ocracy of mutual service. Indc- ;
pcndence was through dependence,
equality through indispensable co
operative service. When our serv
ices become indispensable, all are
supediod, and herein Res the truth
of genuine aristocracy as well as
true democracy.
The parts of a clock are unequal, l
statically and analytically consider
ed, in material, size finish, weight,
and complexity, etc., hut equal in
function when properly related to a
clock that keeps good time. The
equality derives from perfect rela
tionship and adaption, and not
from the parts regarded singly and
in complete isolation. The clock
exists in performance and not in
pieces. And so it must he in our
social structure, social health rests
upon universal social service. The
Ghristia norder is the only one that
will not pass away.
Equality in this sense is far from
attained, hut is attainable in our
social, thinking because it does not
ignore the facts of social philoso
phy, and it hears good fruit in that
it is attained unto without envy or
any form of unfriendliness, prefer
ring one another in good works. It
is the Christian rivalry that must
replace false rivalry. Were men as
covetous of their duties as they are
jealous of their boasted rights, they
OLD LOUISVILLE ACADEMY
GROUNDS SOLD AT AUCTION
Sentiment as well as civic interest
centered in the sale last Tuesday
morning of the old Louisville Acad
emy grounds and buildings. This
tract was divided into seven lots, and
together with the buildings on it,
sold at auction.
Lots were bought as follows:
Lot No. 1. R. N. Whigham.. .$ 410,00
Lot No. 2. W. G. S. Rowe.... 250.00
Lot No. 3. R. N. Whjgham.. 150.00
Lot No. 4 R. N. Whigham. ... 399.75
Lot. No. 5. W. G. S. Rowe. ... 500.00
Lot No. 6. R. A. Rhodes 325.00
Lot. No. 7. R. S. Farmer 510.00
$2,544.75
Academy' Building, L. R.
Farmer $ 250.00
Building No. 1., L. R. F'armer 201.00
Building No. 2. R. A. Rhodes 201.00
Lots of lumber, 1.. R. Farmer 25.00
F'urintnre and fixtures, C. L.
Houser 41.00
$718.00
This giving a total of $2,262.75
This is thought to be a fair price
for this property under present con
ditions.
This historic old tract which, un
til the past year’s transactions, was
never bought or sold, has natural
beauty unit will lend itself to the ef
fect which the purchasers will make
to connect it into a beautiful resi
dence section.
Sentiment of which no true Louis
villean is ashamed, makes us grate
ful that this dear old piece of ground
is still in the hands of its friends.
WINTERS SHUCK 15
FEATURE AS ANSWER
IS IDE TO CHARGE
Candidate for Attorney Gen
eral of S. C. Arouses In
terest at Lancaster Meet.
Crowd Dwindles Toward
Last.
Lancaster, S. C., August I.—Re
fraining no longer from answering
the attacks of his opponents, S. M.
Wolfe and Harold Eubanks, I). M.
Winter, candidates for attorney gen
eral today launched an attack ill
answer to the charges and a count
er-attack charging that Wolfe dur
ing the rcetn war, rode around An
derson, his home town, on a horse
named “Prince von Hindenburg” in
honor of a German general and that
Eubanks had since the war been
in charge of a “hot dog" stand at
Conway, hi Horry County.
Winter was the last of the candi
dates in thi srace to he heard. Mr.
Wolfe was absent. Regarding the
military record of Eubanks during
the war, Winter, who says that he
was turned down three times on ac
count of physical disability, charged
that Eubanks had been in the S. A.
T. C. at the University of South
Carolina where military training was
necessary if he continued his stud
ies. Winter also stated at a recent
meeting, he had seen and had been
informed that Wolfe and Eubanks
were conspiring against him, and
that Eubanks was being led by a
Wolfe in sheep's clothing. Refer
ring to the fact that he is the own
er of a pass on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad, Winter told the audi
ence that the pass has been paid
for with a commodity which he was
contrained to believe neither of his
opponents possessed, namely regard
ing the practice of Eubanks, he said
that he had made more money in
would have more power and privil
eges in the form of blessedness to
enjoy and to share. Macon Tele
graph.
suits against railroad companies in
the past two years than Eubanks
had made during his whole prac
tice.
The crowd of approximately 800
citizens who gathered for the meet
ing today had dwindled to about
300 at the time these speakers were
heard. Eubanks promised that in
case of his electron, he would at
tempt to rectify the damage that
has been dope under the “awful”
administration of Wolfe. He charg
ed that his two opponents had been
backbiting him, and that despite
their efforts, if elected he would not
tell the people what he would do,
but would show them. He denied
that he was making the race to ad
vertise himself as had been said of
him by his opponents,
Not a little of confusion was no
ticeable at the beginning of the
meeting today on account of the
fact that the train fro mCaniden
was delayed, and the schedule had
been well distorted by those in
charge of arranging the speaking
order.
Thos. G. McLeod was the first of
the candidates for governor to speak
and continued advocation of meas
ures that will result in advancement
of the state educationally, economic
ally, religiously as far as law en
forcement is concerned, and physi
cally.
“Eighty-five per cent of the tai(es
of Lancaster County, go to paying
the expenses of the county, and fif-
per cent go to state purposes,”
said the speaker. He promised a
fair administration and that he
would he the governor of all the
people.
John T. Duncan, said that his hand
was against the rascals on both
sides of the political fence in South
Carolina and that he did not want
the people of the state to think from
the reports as published in the
newspapers that he was fighting
lilcase alone. He claimed that rob
bery in the state has been reduced
to a science.
Geo. K. Laney, was practically at
home today and was well received
by those who sedie in some con
gressional district as he. He told
th eaudienee that after the election,
Blease would find out who was prac
ticing on the political path of South
Carolina. Mr. Laney stressed edu
cation as the work that has received
the greatest effort of his twenty
years legislative experience, and re
minded the audience that he had
played a part in the reduction of the
state tax levy approximately five
and one half mills. Laney was pre
sented with the most handsome flo-
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LOUISVILLE, GA.
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Shadowland Theatre
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA.
Three Shows Daily, Matinee at 4:30; Night?
Shows 8:00 and 9:30.
Thursday, August 3rd —
Alice Brady in “Dawn of the Ea. .” A story of love, ad
venture and intrigue where West meets East and the shores
of the Yellow Sea.
Friday, August 4th—
J. P. McGown jn “Hills of Missing Men.” Romance that 1
makes your heart sing. Daring that thrills your whole soul.
Suspense that holds you breathless. Rough riding, hard ■
fighting. Also a one-reel Harold Loyd Comedy.
Saturday, August 5th —
“Isobel,” a hair raising western. Each inch of reel repre
sents a thrill. Also a one reel Snub Pollard Comedy.
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Monday, August 7th —
“Pleasure Seekers.”
Tuesday, August Bth—
“The Right of Love,” starring Mae Murray and David
Powell.
Shadowland Theatre
Next Door to Polhill-Denny Drug Cos. r
LOUISVILLE, GA. J
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They are GOOD!
ral, doubquets that have been seen
this summer.
Cole L- Blease deplored the fact
that several past legislatures had
ignored the constitution and had
seemingly attempted to put the
state under a commission form of
government.
The personnel of the state tax
commission, according to Blease
composes one lawyer, one said to be
business man, and one professional
politician of Horry county. The for
mer governor challenged McLeod
Laney to define luxuries at the
meeting tomorrow at Filbert and
promised for the correct definition
a vote two years hence.
The members- of the general as
sembly who favored the foundation
of a home for the feeble minded,
probably had their own welfare in
mind, said the former governor. In
closing the former chief executive
of the state said that he did not in
tend to answer the infamous lies
that are being circulated by some
newspapers and their hirelings wtyo
would like to see him deviate from
his regular speeches, but claimed to
have these newspapers yoked and
ho gtied, despite their feeble ef
forts.
The former governor was warmly
applauded when he concluded, and
frequent Aniens were heard during
the course of his remarks. The can
didates are anticipating with a bit
of added interest the opportunity to
meet with the people of York coun
ty, at Filbert tomorrow’ at the Bien
nial picnic of that community.
