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MOVEMENT STtBTED
TO MO SCHOOL DEPT.
Sumter Rural Children Want
Technical Man to Serve Vari
ous Consolidated Schools
A movement has been started by
Sumter county school authorities to
raise the standard of rural schools
in this county by- the addition of a
technical expert who would teach
the boys “how to put together a
steam engine, run a tractor, weld
iron, shoe a horse, and build a plow
stock.” Tht? quotation is from the
statement of J. E. D. Shipp, chair
man of the county school board, who
is an ardent advocate of the plan.
Under the tentative plan being ad
vocated such expert would visit one
of the six largest consolidated
schools each day in the week, when
classes would be conducted in this
branch of industrial education.
. Such a man, it is estimated, would
cost the county schools approxi
mately $1,500 a year, and it is
hoped through the operation of the
Barrett-Rogers act, half of this sum
may be procured from the general
government. The matter has been
taken up with N. H. Ballard, state
school superintendent and he is ex
pected to aid in the effort to in
stall this course here, the installa
tion to mark a departure from past
custom in Georgia’s rural schools.
In presenting the matter to Super
intendent Ballard, in a letter written
Thursday, Chairman Shipp, of the
county board, among other things,
said:
“Thesq schools are the jewels of
Sumter county and we are just as
proud of them as if they were big
Kimberly diamonds; but my dear
Superintendent there is one great
desideratum; we want a teacher to
go to the six largest consolidated
schools one day in every week to
teach the boys how to put together
a steam engine, run a tractor, weld
iroji, shoe a horse and build a plow
stock.
“What we propose is that we can
employ a good technical man for
Fifteen hundred dollars per annum,
and that as Sumter county already
is at the highest tension, that it
seems possible for us to pay seven
hundred'fifty dollars of this salary,
and weiwant the Barrett-Rogers
fund to Bay the other one-half of it.
Just think of the untold advantages
that would come to us if we could
take the boys in the sixth grade and
teach them mechanics one day in the
week foj five years, or until they
graduate in our public schools.
“I have tried to get Mr. Hill to
work this thing up for us and with
us. He is in the office at this time
and he qdvised that this letter be
written to you because he thinks
that if jrpu want us to have it real
bad you will find away to get it for
us. But Mr. Hill thinks that out of
the Rogers-Barrett act, because
Sumter County is already getting
about $2,000 a year, that it would
be difficult for us to get any more,
but it seems to me that if you would
start this thing up with us that it
would be of such tremendous bene
fit that the idea would be seized in
every other county in the state and
it would make Georgia a great man
ufacturing state and nothing else
would do this so well.
“The education of our boys has
been along different lines and while
Sumter County has now taken the
lead and offers to do this by paying
one-half of the teacher’s salary it
seems to me that you might be per
suaded to make up the other and
meet us half way.
“You could, at any rate, accede
to any other county the same priv
ileges and you would find it diffi-
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This' unusual series of stories
deals with the exploits of “Chi
nese’” Pennington, a detective
sent by his government to Bri
tish North Borneo to run to
earth The Yellow Seven, a gang
of Chinese bandits.
James Varney's bungalow was
a landmark. It it stood on the
Summit of a hill at the foot of
which the turbit Tembakut river
-—sweeping from some mysterious
point of origin in the Borneo hint
erland—swerved abruptly and, i
leaving in its wake a muddy delta
infested with crocodiles, contin
ued its onward course to the sea.
Varney knew that river and he
charted it as accurately as it was
possible to chart anything in the
lesser-known regions of a perplex
ing Orient. He understood the
habits and customs of the Dyak
villagers whose dwellings clustered
along the palm-girt banks. It was
possibly for these reasons that a
discriminating syndicate in London
—had seen fit to entrust him
with their interests.
Varney was thirty-seven; he
was short, moreover, and stockly
bulit, with a rugged, kindly con
tenance upon which the tropical
sun had set its unmistakable sign
and superscription. He had a
dog—a shambling, friendly ani
mal of unknown breed—an exten
sive library of faded, cloth-bound
books, and a marked preference
for Dutch tobacco. Varney—who
despised all other forms of person
al adornment—had from time to
time solicited the aid of the most
skilled t'atooer on the lisland—one
Zara-Khan—and, excepting for a
space the size of a dinner-plate on
his broad chest a corresponding
vacancy between his shoulders, his
body was covered with the grim
masterpiece of Zara-Khan.
Before the cyclone came, Var
ney had been worrying over those
two bank spaces. Zara-Kahn—a
tall, slim, brown-skinned scoun>
dr6l, with an ingratiating smile, a
gaudy turban, and a suit of white
ducks—had looked in on one of hjs
periodical visits to Varney’s area.
He had passed to a neighboring
rubber estate, hoping on the re
turn journey to find his lucrative
client less exercised in mind. Com
ing swiftly on the heels of aper
fect tropic afternoon, the storm
fiend had spread its cloak over the
entire heavens.
It .seemed that nothing short of
a miracle could have spared Var
neys’ house; but, as luck would
have it, the frenzy of the gale had
merely lifted the sage-thatch un
til 5t stood on end, allowing the
ensuing deluge to pour in; had,
deposited Varney's dog in the
river a couple of hundred yards
away, and left half the crockery
in the bungalow intact. The more
sheltered buildings—offices, clerks
quarters, store-houses, and the
like, had crumpled, like a pack of
cards.
cult to get any other county in the
state to offer to pay one-half of the
salary, because they have not been
educated up to it and it will be a
long time before 160 counties in
Georgia would be willing to put
money in teaching their boys any
thing more than is embraced in the
three R’s.| Sumter county stands
squarely on the three H’s now and
we are expecting and extremely
anxious that you tind some way to
help us in this proposition.”
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! Chang—the dog—had crawled
I back to the veranda and crouched \
: in a corner over a chunk of raw
' meat pillaged from a ruined store.'
| Varney, returned from a prelimin-1
.ary investigation of damage, was!
greeting the imminent fall of I
darkness through a tumbler of am- ;
[her fluid wherein countless silver
j bubbles scurried merrily upward, |
; A half-dazed Chinese boy—bare i
;to the waist—endeavored from a '
.complete packet of matches to dis-i
’cover one that would serve to ig-'
nite the wick of the oillamp. Some- !
i thing sputtered feebly, then leapt
into flame and the servant emitt-1
ed a grunt of satisfaction.
The Chinaman shuffled beyond
the rays of the lamp; the dog
growled with sudden fierceness •
and bounded toward the entrance,
where the trader intercepted it
skillfully—and, as if tossed by an
unseen hand over the veranda-rail 1
j a piece of pasteboard fluttered
j through the crpwd of humming in-1
I sects that encircled the lamp and
I came to rest on the sodden j
, bpards almost at Varney’s feet.'
I Varney raised his Voice.
“Chong-Hee! Come here! Go 1
down and see who’s porwling
around outside.”
I lie stooped and picked up the
card. It was as long as his middle ■
finger—a narrow, flexible thing
with rounded corners. He turned !
it over curiously between his sing- I
ers—then starter back in horrified
amazement.
“The Yellow Seven!”
A second later he was turning
i over a jumbled heap of moist
, documents, searching for the cir
cular he had received only two
days before from Captain John
Hewitt—Commissioner of Police
at Jesselton—a kind of formal
warning that this yellow seven was
the sign employed by a powerful
| secret organization—and that its
i receipt signified a warning of
I death!
He hooked forward a chair and,
I pouring himself out a generous
(helping from the square bottle, ex
amined the document and the card'
in turn.
Presently he folded the docu
ment carefully over the paste
board and, thrusting both into a
tunic pocket, leant back in his
chair.
It was fully ten minutes before
Chonge-Hee returned. He stood :
|on the threshold, shivering like a
man with the ague, and Varney
i beckoned him to approach.
‘I saw nobody, great tuan, but
I heard the voice of a spirit.”
The trader started.
“The voice of a spirit?” he
echoed.
5 ah, tuan. It was a powerful
spirit for its words rose above the
wind in the trees and the flow
ing of the river.”
“Ah!” The trader set his back
firmly against the wall and stuck
both hands into his pockets. “And
the spirit said?”
“I have come with a message for
. the white man who lives on the
! hill and who—up to a point—is
good.”
“Exeremely kind of him, I’m
sure.! Go on!”
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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
LEHONIIMRES Will
BOOST EOS GUM
Delegation to San Francisco
Meeting Plans to Advertise
State Throughout Nation
COLUMBUS, Ga„ Aug. 31.
Georgia as a state will be boosted
by the Georgia delegation attend
ding the national convention of the
American Legion in San Fran
cisco in October and more than
100,1)00 pieces of literature will
be distributed, it was announced
here following a meeting of the
special state publicity committee
of the American Legion.
The committee decided to allow
every community to send as mtuiy
individual pieces of two kinds of
their literature as is desired. In
addition they will have printed
50,000 copies of a broadside,
showing a large Georgia peach on
one side and the other devoted to
facts about Georgia as a state. The
large peach, in colors, will attract
the attention of many thousands
attracted to Frisco for the national
meeting of veterans. The broad
sides, in addition to being posted
about the convention headquarters
and other places the veterans will
gather, will be distributed from a
Georgia Peach booth.
The Georgia Peach will be built
in the shape of a peach and within
will be two Georgia “peaches,” th
most beautiful to be found, who
will distribute the broadsides and
the booklets and literature from
the communities. In addition to
the distribution at San Francisco,
the Georgia Legionnaires will dis
tribute thousands of booklets en
route and on their return.
State Commander Edgar B.
Dunlap is interested in the project
as he sees an excellent opportun
ity to make the publicity project
put Georgia before thousands of
young men who have not definitely
settled down jn any community
and who are looking for a place
with plenty of opportunities.
The' slogan over the peach will
■probably be: “Come to Georgia,
Veteran,” Posts of the American
Legion in Georgia are asked to
send sgugestion to the committee
Box 864, Columbus, Ga.
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