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^ YOLUME LIII., NUMBER 87. . ~ NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 19ir>. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR, I.I " " " , I GALL ON WII SON L FOR PEACE MOVE W??F\ T'RfJF CONFERENCE OF SEUTRALS. i Appear Optimistic as to Results of Their Appeal to the President. Washington, Nov. 26.?Efforts to win President W:*sof s s1 j>port for a con% * ? - ** ? ^ 1 ~ lerence 01 neutrais iu muiaic ^tav: i proposals in Europe reached a climax today when Wme. Rosinka Schwimmer ! of Hungary and Mrs. Ethel Snowden, wife of a member of the British par- ; Itemenr c^Ii^d z-.t ti e write house with La a personal appeal and word that they had definite information that the ma jority of the belligerent nations would not turn deaf ears to suggestions from a neutral gathering. The women talked with tke president for more than half an hour and Ik went away much pleased over their reception, though the president had made no promises. About 400 peace j advocates, fresh from a mass meeting ' * * 1 3 - x ? ?-?AnAm noniDrl f Vl C* ^ JIC1Q. ?11 d llicaici , avvuuil/uut^u uav Op president's callers to the white house.. W The president was urged to initiate a peace conference or at least to signify i L that he would appoint a delegate from P the United States if another neutral I nation called one. He was told that pea'.o a'". ocares ia every bel-' Wr /igerent and neutral nation in Europe i "belie-. e from talks with officials abroad Vof r<sCll1t? Wmild Cua i pi av/ vivui i vwv?.w ^? v. - w - - ? Officials For Peace. He was also informed that Henry j Ford, the Detroit manufacturer, had in his possession statements, some of them signed, from officials in some of the countries of both sides of the Eu- j i ropean conflict to the general effect J that they would interpose no objection , k to the calling of a conference of neu- i trals to make peace proposals. j Mme. Schwimmer, who saw the pres. I Cflrorol mrvnthc QPTk ATI thP same ! JUCTUb octiai tuvuvw ~ ? j subject and was not optimistic then,! said tonight that she believed the presIident was deeply impressed with information laid before him. 'The president made no definite promise," she added, "but I think you will hear something from the white house before very long." At the white house it was said that there would be no statement regard ing the call. Up to this time the posiLr tion of the president is that he had H had nothing from Europe which leads him to believe that the time is oppor' tune for him to take any step. Call For Conference. At the mass meeting resolutions Trere adopted urging the president to k call on neutral nation-? to appoint repm resentatives to & conference "for con Istant mediation without armistice and dedicated to finding a just settlement of this ^conflict." The resolutions recited that envoys sent by theN International Congress of Women at The Hague "ascertained from the governments of the belligerent nations of i Europe tha* they would have no objec- | lions to the calling of a conference I of the neutral nations of the world | ? ' *? ivn. i xt r n looking ro rne possioie termination 01 j ft the war." W Mme. Schwimmer presented these ^.. resolutions to the president and told * him that the common people of all the nations at war wanted peace. Mme. Schwimmer was one of the women who ' - * - J -flC ?. ? U?lli o?/\wAn f o ? J > r\Ji rVIJ>JH*U DUlUiao CM emu neutral nations several months a^o. Addresses were made at the meeting by Mme Schwimmer. Mrs. Snowden. Mrs. Louise Post, wife of the assistant secretary of labor: Henry Ford and other peace advocates. Mr?. Snowden declared that the cen sorship hoard was preventing the peoin this country from knowing: of the widespread demand for .peace. She fold" of two recent speeches in the L hou^p lords in Txmdon on peace. which sh? said the censorship had f prevented from beins published. Henrv Ford's address was brief. "Out of the trenches by Christmas and never hark r>srain H my motto." hp said ard sat down. I In the campaign wmcn nas oe^" | carried on for a wpek fo influence thp j president. about .".000 telesrrams bare fA "bppn re<^pivpd af thp white house. Onp of tnpse Tne<W2?s was from Mrs. Carr:^ Cbanmnn Catt president of the Inpr ternational Suffrage alliance. iiALKAX SITUATION LOOKS DARK AGAIN I John Bnll Fears Greece Will \ot Toe the Mark, According to Promise. London, Xov. 27.?London's cheerful view of the Greek situation has been j succeeded by something in the nature ( _ r 4-U * n^Avm'lin rr r\r\'r\ ' Ol it rtctCtlUll cilia liic pic?ainiig, u^m- | ion is that the press and public jumped j too quickly to the agreeable conclusion j that the Greeks would concede readily i f i all the allied demands. Although all the forecasts and spec-! illation regarding Greece's reply to the entente ministers' new note, embodying the detailed demands of their gov ?- - ? X ~ ^ "AAA/N rrno^Onf AA C ernmenus, ui<il uicctr suaiauvcc curity and liberty of action to the' Franco-British troops on Greek soil, j continue to be optimistic, the latest information from Athens clearly indicates that Greece had not yet definitely abandoned the dilatory tactics which caused the allies such uneasiness. It is reported from Athens that t1:? i Greek government probably will pro-1 pose that military experts representing the entente power shall be appointed to discuss with the Greek general staff the demands which it has heretofore been assured were already sati^factor ily answered. Hopes Frustrated. The Bulgarian operations in the neighborhood of Monastir apparently have frustrated the hopes of a union of Serbian and allied troops in southern Serbia; hence the use of the railroads in Greek territory to effect guch a union has become of the utmost importance. The-Germans officially announce further progress beyond Pristina and Mitrovitsa, and central Serbia apparently is almost cleared of Serbian troops. But In the southern sector, in the neighborhood of Krivolak, the French are at least holding their own, if they have not gained a slight advantage in the series of attacks and counter-attacks whicn have given the fighting here the character of an almost continuous battle for several days. Notwithstanding the persistence of the Bulgarian advance, the Serbians continue their strong defensive south and west of Prilep, and, according to a late unconfirmed Athens dispatch, they have retaken Krushevo. , Russia is now said to have 350,000 troops near the Roumanian frontier in preparation for an attack on Bulgaria by land or sea, but this has no: precipitated any definite declaration of rntonflAnff nuuuiauia o THE >EWS OF EXCELSIOR. Farmers Sowing Grain?Working the Roads?Use the Drag?People Coming and Going. Excelsior. Nov. 29.?Miss Annie Singley has been visiting in Columbia. Miss Ollie Counts spent Thanksgiving at home. Mr. Ira Nates of Columbia has been on a few -days' visit home. Miss Rosalee Wheeler, who is teach ing scnooi at rouniam inn, syeu; Thanksgiving at her home here. Mise Jennie Ruth Counts has been visiting relatives in Newberry. Misses Tarso and Chelsy Kibler are visiting relatives at Pomaria. Mr. Willie Shealy and family have moved from the fVJt. Pilgrim section over on the Columbia road near Mr. j E. G. Counts' home. Mr. A. A. Xates has been on a visit ! to his daughter, Mrs. Willie Blanton, i in Orangeburg. nia/t tn fipp the nrice of cotton hasn t i ' w" " r kept the farmers from sowing grain. A large acreage of grain has been put in. Mr. Herman Kibler and sister, Miss Kate, and Misses Tarsa and Frances Kibler have been on a visit to relatives in Saluda county. Messrs. Thomas Richardson and Elmer Werts, two good road men, have put the Columbia road in good condi j tion. Mr. Werts has also Deen using the drag on the roads. Drag the roads. Miss Pet Dominick came up from Columbia and spent Thanksgiving at ! her home here. I Miss Dollie Buzhardt is spending a , few days with Mr. F. A. Bolani's famiiy. (Mr. and Mrs. I>. S. Long and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kinard and Mrs. Carrie Hartman spent Sunday with relatives in Leixngton county, making the trip I in Mr. J. E. Long's automobile, with I Mr. Long at the wheel. NIGHT SCHOOLS ARE ORGANIZING TWENTY-FOUR FORMED IX SPAR. TAN BURG COUNTY. Kacli of Twenty-seven Textile Comm unifies in County to Have School. I The State. George D. Brown, state superintendent of mill schools, spent yesterday in Columbia in conference with John ?. Swearingen, state superintendent of education. The last two weeks have bet-n consumed by Mr. Brown in organizing night schools in the mill villages of Spartanburg county. There are 27 cotton mills in that county, and night schools have been j organized in 24. Meetings to effect; organization in the remaining three j have already been scheduled for this j week. The Spartanburg delegation appro- J priated $1,400 last year to be applied ' to night school effort. The county! board in disbursing this amount ap-1 nortioned $1,000 or organize the nightj schools in the mill villages with the remaining $400 for rural district work. Miss Linda Hunter was also employed as mill school organizer for that county. In commenting on the Spartanburg! plan, Mr. Brown characterized the ap- j propriation as "the greatest blessing] the delegation could have contrived j for mill people." "We are earnestly linninor" hp said, "that the aDnronria- i tion will be continued, and that other | counties will follow the worthy example." The work has geeti greatly handicapped in many sections because of lack of funds. iMr. Brown said yester-; day that it would be possible to con- j duct night schools in every mill village in the State for three months at least in year were funds available. The total enrollment in Spartanburg county is now 823. No one is allowed to enter under 14 years old. In some Instances registrations show the ages to be above bu years; Dotn men ana women enroll who have never attended school enough to enable them to read the simplest English or to scrawl their own names. The schools meet three nights each week for sessions of one and one-half hours. Mr. Brown also emphasized that the mill people are wholly responsive to the leaders' efforts and that the schools are overcrowded. ''The Rose Dream. All of the children taking part in "The Rose Dream" are asked to meet at Holland hall Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. This is the first operetta that pas ever been attempted by children in Newberry. So you may expect to see something different from anything you have ever seen here. The play gives fair promise of being a great success Marguerite Burns, as Little Rose, the heroine of the play, is simply fine. You will surely be pleased with her. Troxelle Wright, as the lovely Fairy Queen, and Griffin Williams, as Hop-o-MyThumb, an elf who guides Little Rose through Fairyland, both act their parts well. In fact, all of the characters, under the efficient training of 5frs. Harms and the committee, have proven themselves to be real actors and actresses. Read the synopsis of the play found elsewhere in this issue. If you love pretty children, enjoy beautiful music and delight in good acting, come to Holland hall Friday evening, December 3rd. The curtain will go up promptly at 8 o'clock. The play is given for the benefit of the college library. Admission 25 cents. iieatn 01 Jirs. tmma narsTayt;. Mrs. Emma Hargrove, widow of the ^te -Toe Hargrove of No. 4 township, died last Thursday night at the age of 62. The body was interred in the Mt. Tabor cemetery Saturday at 1! o'clock. She is -Furvived by three sons and three daughters. Death of Mr. Charley Coleman. Mr. Charley Coleman of Saluda county died at his home'Thanksgiving day and was buried at Chestnut Baptist church the following day. iMr. 'Coleman was the fathjr of Mrs. John M. Halfaore of the St. Philips community of this county. NO CHANGES IN NEWBERRY. Rev. Dibble, Hauknight and Smith Returned?Appointments for Cokesbury district?Key. Taylor i i\ Prftviipritv Special, to The Herald and News. Spartanburg, Nov. 29.?The appointments for the preachers for the coming year were read today and the Carolina conference adjourned to meet next year in Greenville. The following are the appointments for the Cokesbury district: Cokesbury District?W. 1. Herbert, presiding elder; Abbeville circuit. J. X. Ison; Abbeville station, J. L. Dantzler; Butler, W. P. Meadors, Jr.; Broad River, IW. A. Duckworth; Cokesbury, R. E. Sharpe; Greenwood, Main Street, L. P. McGee; Greenwood mill, J. E: J. Earle; Greenwood circuit, J. Clarson Steadman; Kinards, W. H. Murray; McKendie. to be supplied. Newberry ? Central, F. E. Dibble; O'Neall Street and Jalapa Gobe, Smith; Newberry circuit, W. R Bouknight, R. F. Morris; Parksville, 0. N. Roundtree supply; Phoenix, J. H Manly; Prosperity and Zion, E. P. Taylor; Princeton. J. TJ. Ccnnelly; Saluda, W. E. Jeffcoaf; "Waterloo, B. H. Cov1.n-.'/m: Vt"lihm:r?\ J M Fridy; Lander College John 0. Wmon, president; ass.^tart Sunday school editor, L. F. P'-i.?rv PrriVr-*.T.r ak i ander Cftlle"ee. D. 0 Lawton Rev. E. V. Babb. On . last Sunday evening Rev. E. V. Babb preached his farewell sermon to a large congregation as pastor of the First Baptist church at Easley. Mr. Babb and family will leave in a few days Tor Newberry, where he will serve the First church as pastor another year. For tile past four years he has preached for the Baptists in Easley, during which time the church has mad^-much progress in the work for the Master. We regret*his leaving.? Easley Progress. The question of Heaven and Hell resolves to this: Some men expect their reward in the next world and believe in Heaven. Another man takes his reward in this world and believes there is no nen. "A ROSE DREAM"? SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAI Little Rose, who has wandered away from home and is lost falls asleep. The fairies find her, and the Fairy Queen designates Hop-o-My Thumb to guide her through the I-and of the Lost, and later to Fairyland, her kingdom. Little Rose, with a band of roses as her bodyguard, sees much to delight and interest her. The fairies, with their aainty cucum, mc imov/iut<vu>) who are never at rest, it would seem; the giant Forgot?all these she meets through her wonderful guide, Hop-oMy-Thumb. In the second part they have brought her to Fairyland itself, where the lovely queen of the fairies hdlds court, Can and Can't, the twins, are here, and little Rose finds a tiny Rose Bud amidst her bunch of Roses. The fairies and the elves do their best tc entertain her, the queen is most gracious to her, but all this delight can not keeD a mortal, Little Rose, from getting tired and sleepy, and as thesf are fairies of the day. the queen sends Ho$-o-JMy-Thumb with a message tc Little Rose's mother 'neath the trees ir the park, and the last charms of the fairies, preparatory to taking uight leave Little Rose sleepily leaning against the fairy throne; even her attendant roses are drowsy and drooping, since the queen tells us "A mortal child can never stay In Fairyland but for a day." And so the fall of the curtain end* the riav in Fairyland and A Rose Dream. Characters. The Doo^ Fairy Elizabeth Harms I Little Rose ...Marguerite Burns ! Queen of the Fairies. .Troxelle Wrighl Hop'O-MyThumb (an elf) Griffin Williams The Twins "Can and Can't" Hubert and Edwin Setzler The Rosebud Margaret Farrow The Giant "Forgot" J. B. Setzler The Roses, the Elves, the Fairies. Specialties between the ">cts will be the singing by little Mary Devore and the ringing and dancing of the latest "song hit" of the season, "In Tulip Time," by seven larger boys and girls. ) 3> * <?> THE IDLER <$> <$> <S> The following, the editor says, was clipped from the York News: 'The Newberry Herald and News opines that before long there win oe laws to prohibit even' whistling. York has had some such foolish law on the ordinance books for a long time." Xow, that's real funny, isn't it? A law against whistling. Why, that's one good way of letting the steam off and keep the boiler from bursting. It acts as a sort of safety valve, for a fellow to be able to whistle. 0, I reckon the News is talking about the . whistling'trains. 'Why, I think we had . an ordinance, or maybe it is still on the books, to prohibit the ringing of the car bell or the blowing of the whistle as the trains passed through the city limits. That was- because there were early morning trains that , rang the bells so long and so loud 1 " ?? aii?? mat it woKe up sume \jl uui &wu v/iti? zeris too early in the morning. But let the individual whistle, and let the "bells ring and the steam engines blow, . I say, for I like to hear 'em. Then I read in a paper the other day ' where they have some sort of law over in Spartanburg that you can't sell cigarettes to minors. iThat's curious, isn't it? That there should be such a law for Spartanburg and not the remainder of the statfc. Almost every' ' r 1 where i nave Deen a uave own muc boys puffing away on cirgarettes. But : tben maybe they didn't buy 'em. I bej lieve that cigarettes and dope do a j great deal more injury to the human : system than does good beer?and it's all good. But then I don't set mj judgment up against the combined wis-, dom cf all the other cranks in the universe. and so I accept without murmur . whatever is. ~f TT- n T mil mm_v i Bv the way. did you read this edi torial in the State so-me days ago? I think it was the State. Now you just read it. I want you to read it first: Now Look at McColl! A few years ago a great deal was said and heard about civic leagues in numbers of towns and cities, but one had begun to suspect that all of them I had succumbed? one hears little about them nowadays. A gentleman informs the State that this impression is mistaken?rthat though some of the leagues ' have ceased to be active, there are others that persevere in good work. "In 1 McColl," so we are told, "the civic league, of which Mrs. T. B. Gibson is president, is especially vigorous and vigilant and the town is always clean ' and attractive. The league lpaces a placard wherever attention to premises is needed and, usually, the attention is promptly given. So McColl 1 maintains the appeara-!^ of a model town?and in town prosperity what I r?mint_s so m'*^h as appearances?" Cleanliness of premises contributes s to the health of person and property. , Germ carrying insects thrive on filthAccidental fires, the most fatal of 1 property diseases, thrive on trash. j The town government that encour? ages and assists the civic league con ducted by the women of the commui frk a ?ood government. i :ih,* io nrvv w, ?? ? ^ w I ?0? i There is a civic league in Xewberrsy, i and while it has not been able to do a > great deal, it keeps alive and' is aci complishing something for the com> munity, but the cavi league, nor any , other league can do but very littlfe ,r. without the co-operation of the people of the community. But the reason I f is not onlv to say that CI III 4uuuuq ? , Xewberry has a civic league that is active and doing wlac il can to improve the conditions of the city, not > only as to appearance, but also from s a sanitary standpoint, but mainly to call the attention of the reader to the modus operandum?is that the proper i way to put it??well, you know what I " TVToPi-LlT } mean, it is -s<iiq mdi m mtwn vuv ; town is aiv/ay.J cieaa and attractive." That is fine. Listen at this: "The i league places a placard wherever attention to premisses is needed and, usually, the attention is promptly given." Just think of it, if such a plan were adopted by the civic league in Newberry, the placards that would be necessary, and my, how the city would appear with all these placards. ; Wonder if the president of the civic > I?a2'.ie in >\?Ab*rr? ^ould be brave enough to placard all the premises that <S> COTTON MARKET <& $ Q <t> dewberry, , ? ^ Cotton ll^c ^ Cotton seed, per bu 65c * <$> " <? <$> Prosperity. <? / ^ Cotton : ll^c <S> Cotton seed, per bu 63.C ' <$> -1- ^ Pomaria. <?> Cotton ' ll%c '<$> Cotton seed, per bu 64%c I <$> Little Mountain. ^ Cotton v. ll&c ? <S> Cotton seed, per bu 64%c & Q 4 ^ -*> SiWerstreet ^ Cotton 12c ' ^ <S> Cotton seed, per bu 65c ^ 'V ? <$> Chappells. <s> Cotton ^ ^ Cotton seed, per bu 63c ^ <8> & Kinards. ^ & Cotton 11 & Cotton seed, per bu 63c <$> <S> WhJtmire. > <? Cotton seed, per bu 63c ^ Cotton 11M* > \ ^ A black eye in a woman may indicate temper. A black eye in a man may prove "the other fellow" has the I temper. \ noe.led atiPAtio;: from a cleanly and I neat and sanitary standpoint? But j it would be a good thing if some plan j could be accp .ed by wLich more of the premises could be kept neater and in a more sanitary condition. I just thought I would call to the attention of the president of our civic league the plan of Mrs. Gibson of McCoIl and sugI gest that such a plan might be tried i in Newberry if it was thought necessary. I ' j I would like to quote,one or two sen, tences from the State above quoted: "Cleanliness of premises contributes to the health of person and property." j "Health of property." Have you ever I thought of that before, Well, now, it ; is very true. There are people who seem not to think so much of health, cf person, but when you come to talk j about property, that is the thing that , is on their mind. I was just thinking i the other day if every resident and i i?-?~ ~ fimi wmtiH insf sweeD j every ousmcao mm U*U ? 1 ! once a day the paved sidewalk in front t , of their doors, how much it would add j to the appearance, and haw little of t time and effort it would take. Some time when you are walking along the street you just stop long enough to take a brief look at some sidewalk alongside some other sidewalk, the one swept every day and the other not at all, and see what a difference in aprearance. Now, I am not in the least personal, bat we do have some sidewalks that are swept every morning, &nd then we have some that are not swept at all. It would improve the appearance, ever so much if all the ^alks were swept each day, and it would be too much for the city to employ some one to do it. But very little ** on/i for pach resident I c c. <^u,vv:v ? and each business firm. Then another sentence I v ant to quote again from the State: "The town government that encourages and assists the civic league conducted by the women of the community is likely to be a good government." That's true. Whatever the women of the civic league do in the town you may put it in your pipe and smoke it, it is for The good of the town. They are un selfish and patriotic in their work, and should be encouraged and helped in all that they undertake. I do not know to what extent the town government is assisting the ladies, but it should be done in a material and substantial manner. They did stand by the ladies in the planting of some flowers around the old court house, I am told, and ?ee how pretty the flowers were all summer. That was a small thing, but the spirit was good. Encourage the good women in what they undertake and you wiil not go far wrong. I don't mean the suffragettes. Please remember that. THE IDLER. r 1