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THE NEWS-HERALD, MORG ANTON, N. C., NOVEMBER 10TH, 1921 te te Tr AND BLIND VtWt AL FACULTIES Lins "Sees" by fears" By Feel ply 16 Years Old. J Jiaus girl in the 1 winning to do marvels V. .-a for boys, too. Stta'Uuggins, Ha V lw eves are blind and oriT. uut yi'" hmrs by feeling, ' an1 ! a"1 -ml an inmate of the totally nnl.' i . 1 uma -rhooi lor uiinv.. IS .:n.,ta became r "i was far from a ' 1 lv Ver teachers thought fj indolent. , i0t patience with her. ?' couldn't get things head." At 10 years of d got only so far as the randmother, who was in ami icttiij x ir ii, v,r two sisters and ,u' r, a little morefin-VvCV-ation than the oth v.come simple tests that h.C't see well or hear n ought to the atten- .1,1 - ont for the school for ; 'o'took her to the institu te despite .L,.oi voars. ''Liwir attention and sci 0A of the officials and . - hool. Willetta didn't "..1 Tier disposition,, if ;iiu eorse. JL i n ?he became deaf; a U hreame blind. For a yi more morose, if any 'V'lcfove. Then one day 1. v,i awakening the w sudden perception of f cmpllinir and feeling. a-iii.ttn Huererins, through pmont of her powers of and feeling, has become ...'r.imK than even Helen i tho eift of God in re -"the 'loss of my sight and js Willetta s only expiana- i 'stve been skeptical. They ie girl still had some pow jonr To convince them she ij yarn of six colors, in six a envelopes, and locked in a .utt at Chippewa Falls. . In Bess she opened the enve illcd the yarn, wrote the Ich strand on an envelope, ie yarn of that color in its v!pnveloDe. When the vault -cned it was found she had 'o mistake. can. hear by feeling vibrations, talks over the telephone, she places the tip of her finger rceiver diaph'Fagm. If she ing to someone converse, she r j finger lightly on the per at, shoulder or chest, te is her sense of hearing ;;: , that she can tell what indent J. T. Hooper of the is saying by standing 10 feet '.in; and taking hold of the end vooden pole, the other end of he rests on the top of his head, tti recently visited Governor '.Elaine at the State capitol at n. j She listened to him. by ; her fingers on his shoulder, e easily told the colors of his 7 smelling it. r E. A. Fitzpatrick, secretary Sate board of education, said '.ita: you tell the denominations she said. :ted her with $1, $2, $5 and cribacks. She identified each, v do you do it ? " he marveled .feeling the numerals," she i tills the number of persons by her sense of smell. A erod a room noiselessly? "Who cat in?" she inquired, immedi 'I smell it." told Governor Blaine: "I am "sppy without my vision and ' than I was before. I guess "ase I understand better, by 3 and feeling and so I make understand me better." superintendent Hooper of the sees a fear-reaching lesson in Briefly, it is: ;tta was miserable for years 2 she was misunderstood. She ? forced to use her senses t and hearing, which were uenc, wnue tne proper ''ould have been to develop ;s of smelling and feeling, V quite extraordinary. , -1 13 such a balance in every ; ow, with Willetta's aid, we g to work out a system HI enable us tn unrWsfnnrl tce, and to give the world of it for the training of uuren. word rebellion objectionable and un true as applied to the war of the 60s, then they utterly failed. to mani fest" their disapproval about eleven years ago, when they had the oppor tunity. It was in 1910, if memory serves, when ten constiutional amend ments were submitted to the voters of the State. One of these amend ments was designed to strike from our State constitution the word re bellion as applied to the War Between the States (how many people know that word is so used in our State constitution?) The amendment was voted down. Some of the Confeder ate veterans said they didn't want it changed, that they gloried in being called rebels. They were not con cered of course with the truth of his tory It may be said, and with ruth, that some of the other amend ments voted on at the same time, no tably one with reference to taxation, were so unpopular that the rebellion amendment lost through being in un popular company. But the amend ments could have been voted on sin gly and there was nothing to prevent the voter selecting those he favored and voting against those he did not approve. As a newspaper editor at the time 1 labored for the adoption of all the amendments with some dil igence and I was amazed to find so little interest among even Confeder ates and Confederate sympathizers for the obliteration of that objection able word in the State constitution which misrepresents the truth of his tory, as any unbiased student of his tory knows, no matter where he comes from. And so, when objection is made-to the use of "Civil War" or "War of Rebellion," in referring to the "War Between the States," just remember that North Carolina voters at the ballot box have given their approval to such use. But this is one in which we may decline to ac cept the dictum of the voters on the ground that they didn't realty know wnat tney were about not an un common failing of ballot box expres sions. And that isn't all. The worst is to come. They are teaching in North Caro lina high schools right now a so-called history formally adopted by the lua scnooi commission, wnicn not only does injustice to the history of the South in general, but which spe cifically says that "It is impossible for the student of history today to feel otherwise than that the cause for which the South fought the war of 18G1-05 was an unworthy cause." The same book, referring to secession, says that "Until a revolt is successful it is rebellion against constituted au thorities and the authors of it and the participants iri it are,. in the eyes of the law, traitors." And so North Carolina children are being taught not only that the cause for which the South fought was un worty, but that those participating in that war were rebels and traitors. As a sample of the information or lack of knowledge, or the deliberate misrepresentation of the author of this so-called history, he says in the book that "Lee handed his sword to Grant at Appomattox." Any writer of history who doesn't know that no such thing occurred at Appomattox or anywhere, is unworthy of belief. The Daughters of the Confederacy are protesting against the use of this book, but what is the protest worth? Absolutely nothing so far. Some educators boldly defend the book and all continue its use in the schools. At one place where protest was made the superintendent said the books had been bought and the pupils couldn't afford to discard them and loose the price, 'lhe logic of this is that if you buy medicine and find you have poison by mistake, you must use the poison to get the benefit of the money spent. It was also explained that the teacher of history explained ta the uuuna uif? otner siae.w mat is also fine. Put a book in the hands of the pupils that teaches him that his lorbears fought for an unworthy cause ana were traitors and rebels, anu uien explain ionim tnat some of -our folks don't agree to that. Great, isn't it? Some of us are simple enough to i. 3 Al i f l i i i cumenu mai 11 xne dook misrepre utm-o wui iiiaiui v. it, sxiuuru not ne taught at all; should be discarded re gardless of expense. For no matter what explanation is made, .the mere fact .that the book is taught is calcu lated to make its impress on the stu dent. And for the life of me I can't understand the idea that organized societies of Daughters of the Con federacy, Sons of the Confederacy Children of the Confederacy; that holds memorial meetings and builds monuments to perpetuate the memory of the men who fought for the South in the 60s, and the cause for. which tney loight,and then permit South T1J 1 j Vj A it era cmiuren io De taugnt in ooutnern schools that the cause was unworthy and that those who fought for it were rebels and traitors. Can we expec it as my private opinion, publicly ex pressed, that Charles Francis Adams, who did so much to free history from bias and prejudice and misrepresen tation of the South, was entirely right when ' he contended that the proper name for the war of the 60s is "War of Secession." Secession whether the States had the right to secede from the Union was the issue,, and it was esttled by the arbitrament of the sword. Slavery was only an. incident. The agitation of fanatical abolitionists on the one hand and fa natical Southern slaveholders on the other, helped to precipitate the con flict. But the real question at issue, about which there had been division from the beginning, was that of seces sion. Some of the States distinctly reserved the right to secede when they entered the Union; and that right was generally understood as re served when the union was formed. But when they undertook to put it in practice, the opposition was strong enough to prevent it. PendlNo.174 - - For Sale at your Dealer Made in fire craaea ASK FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND EAGLE MIKADO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK Whose Careful Druggist Am I? OU CAN DO IT WITH A REO It pays to read The News-Herald advertisements. f? Clark, OF IlEUEIXTON? 1 WAR OF SECESSION?" in The Unlift. LPted in the last issue of The w objection is filed to the Jvil War" in referring to COn Iff Af tha Oo TT-i a : ? thoughtless, of course, as Improper. As The Uplift ( few people who use the Yyd War have taken the ' tJJk up their meaning. The jibeen accepted without. ques "Se it has been custom to so a particular war, and :.;rs ?'ho use because it is .Jvenient than the approved vween inn Ctn a a milder name for r f r i at) i e to Southerners general- VfJ11 war is denned as a war ion. Xorth Carolinians really ob ' we woj.,1 "rebellion" in this Do we really object to aid tnat we revelled against f nty Cf the United States ft in 1861? "Of course we ,i uare you insinuate we do ,10ut the nrtirwinv -n,-,f Vii bdoved and sisters dear. if 01? 1 am driven int0 out" jess for asking a question ,, - you may consider in th Caroiina voters 'hold the the children to have any respect for us : If the Daughters are. really in desperate Earnest about their obiec- A? 1. ll 1 I Jl non co me nistory, tney can make short work of it. Whenever it ap pears in a home where it is not want- ( ed put it in the fire, and then ask the ...1 .1 i- .1 Ji. 1 J. xl are going to do about it. Far Jbe it i from me to encourage insurrection or rebellion, even in modified form, but I deny the authority cf any teacher to teach the children what is not true. or to force them to use books which they know misrepresent history. And let it be said here that I am not an extremist about Southern his tory or the Confederacy. I want his tory written neither from the South ern nor the Northern standpoint - but from the standpoint of truth only. And the truth of the book under dis cussion is challenged. Coming back to the beginning, the proper thing, if we allow this book to te taught, is to sav "War of the Re bellion." That's what we are teach ing our children the war of the 60s was; and if it was discreditable, re bellion, an act of treason to engage in it, .we should abandon all our or ganizations ?nd ouit building monu ments to "The Heroes of the Con federacy." We should stand for truth as we have believed it and taught it. or admit that we were -mistaken and aband'-n our position. In the matter of names I am giving Oxford! Foymidry - has opened a new Garage in the old Oxford Garage building near the railway station." No job on any auto mobile too complicated for us to handle, or too simple to receive our prompt and careful attention. We have a man thoroughly capable of building a com plete spring, if. need be. Special cash price on all automobile work 75c. per hour. We do all kinds of welding both forge and acetylene. We also take orders for foundry work at garage office. 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