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? . j|te gercID attD Hears. ' Entered al the Postoffice at New? berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL. EDITOR. Friday, December 22, 1922. ' Bp " A VATUPD rHRKTMAS | . Another Christmas season is here. This will make thirty-six annual and consecutive times that the present s editor of The Herald nad News- has sent the greetings of ;he season to the great family of the paper. :. * Some of the young members of the b family will say that it is a long time, fl Well, looking forward it is a long time, .but looking backward it seems but yesteryear. During that time we Si have been tossed and beaten by the - waves of many stormy seas,.and the journey has not been free from its twn'if on/? nor<ichin<. and vet there 'LJiltllO C4;itA uuiuwt??rv7 ? %r - ^ have been many pleasant places and . many delightful oases. The breakers | many times have been h:gh and ? strong ana the riding has been difficult, and we might say the storm is } -' still raging. But the people of Newberry have been kind and considerate, and we have always had in mind p wha: is best for all the people, and j. . we have the satisfaction that nothing has been set down or writ in malice, but arlways with an eye single to that which we conceived to be for the best BCTH1 ? ' fc interests of the people of this commuV nity. j&rf| * *. 1 And many times before ihe Christp#?fv. mas of 1887, has The Herald and News carried messages of cheer and 111 V good will -to the people cf this com. 0*> munity, because the old paper has been here for more :han three quarry;*. ' ters of a century, and we hope it may fs . . ibe able to ride the breakers for many many more years, and carry its message of hope and good cheer, and be able to sympathize with those who are ? passing under the rod. As we have often remarked before. we believe that a country newspaper . . such as The Herald and .\ews, snouin coma in close personal contact with its big family of readers, and sympa521 thize with them when they mourn, and rejoice with them when they are . happy. v In other words, there should | be that close personal relation that K; - exists,, or should exist, in the family. j|: Mr.ny of the readers and subscribers ? o?, the paper today were not born c- when we began our connection with * I " it, and yet we are young with them and try to keep their viewpoint, and at the same time keep the elbow * touch with those who have grown up with us in the community and have B > been readers of the paper all the years. And to all of them we are permit| ' ted again to send the greeting#of the I seasojf, and this we do, and wish for . every one the right sore of enjoyment and happiness on this the greatest of I all the festivals of the year. Without the birth of the Christ there would be no hope for the human race. Without the manger and the cross and the resurrection this would indeed be .a lost and a hopeless world and the future would be dark and gloomy. This season ^ means the greatest ? gift to man, snd should be one of ^ * good will arid peace. "Peace on earth, ( V good will to men." was what the star . * ; in the east meant to the shepherds as v they tended their flocks on the hills, [I . and that is what it means to us tod=ay? but there will be no peace until , we get righteousness and right think- . - ing into the hearts of men and worn- . en, the same spirit that was in the angels when they sent forth this cry | to the shepherds nineteen hundred , Hfc; years-^go. . R5 - * It is the season when we should . bear gifts and good will to all men, ar.djitlless you have that same sD.rlt you are not properly and fittingly celebrating the g:tat event. The be;^ way to celebrate the Christmas is to make someone else happy, help those qjj / who are in need by bearing gifis, and ' always remember the poor and the ?h" > children. Some two years ago Miss Carrie * iGreneker, who but a few days ago went to join the angei host, sent us the beautiful poem by James Russell fegf. . Lowell, accompanying'it by the following personal note. Fdi* same rea son we did no: print it then, but it will be fitting and appropriate at this time. : Her personal note reaas as folflows: "This would be good for the paper on the first page, would you please use it? Or ask The Idler, everybody would see it if he put it in his column, and they could not help reading it." The Idler has not writ* ten anything for a long time, but we hope he will resume soon. We will not print it on the first page but in our column. We extend the greetings of. the season to all the readers of The Herald and News, and where there are vacant chairs around the hearthstone that were not vacant last Christmas time ni^y you have consolation in the fact that the Prince of PpVo i-s bom and that He was horn that you might have hope of a brighter day and that the morning will come, when there shall be no more sorrow. A CHRISTMAS CAROL By James Russell Lowell "What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn?" And voices chanted clear and sweet, j "Today the Prince of Peace is born." "What means that star," the shepherds. said, 1 "That brightens through the rocky glen?" And angels, answering overhead. Sang, "Peace on earth, good will to men." Tis eighteen hundred years and more i Since those sweet oracles'were dumb. We wait for Him, like them of yore. Alas, He seems so slow to come. i But it was said in words of gold No time or sorrow e'er shall dim. That little children might be bold In perfect trust to come to Him. j All round about our feet shall shine A light like that the wise men saw If we our loving wills incline To that sweet life which is the law. So shall we learn to understand J The simple faith of shepherds then, And clasping kindly hand in hand. Sing ''Peace on earth, good will to ' men J" And tbtey who do their souls no i wVAnor But keep at eve the faith of morn. Shall daily hear the angel song, "Today the Prince of Peace is hern!'' "TOO MANY ENGLISH SPARROWS TALKING STATESMANSHIP" Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Coker college, was one of the principal rpeakers at the American Education week rally held in Columbia last week. In his address he made some '-trlkingly strong statements, as follows: ''The educational line is our firing line now, and all the strength used in the war is needed in peace." "Teachers are not paid enough to make their work a profession." "The influence of parents must be used to keep the children in school. The false conception that causes a "nan to say, 'my boy has as much education as I had, and that's good enough for him,' must be removed." "Cutting a few dollars off some fellow's* salary causes more discusJon in the legislature than a comprehensive school program." "We have too many English spar 1 Yi QnnfVi . OVV5 laiMJlJi SOClOCSlIiailOilAy in uuuui Carolina. I would like to see some man launch a campaign to double the rappropriations for schools and guarantee a high school education to every boy aiid girl in South Carolina. The men who pay the taxes are willing. The man who pays the least and gets the most .benefit is the man who opposes education." Every one of these declarations by Joctor Sikes is true. The Piedmont i oncurs most heartily in the last. State Superintendent of Education John E. Swearinges, who has always i hampionea economy in the expendirare of the public money, has estimaIjd tha: the state must spend at least C$,000,000 more on its-public schools lefcre they can approximate prevail;.ig and desirable standards. Compare South and North Carolina. This ' ?ar- South Carolina is spending a liii e more than S9,000,000 cn its pubi'" c/'hnnlc wliilo Vovth Carolina is pending $37,000,000. That's one t;2scn why North Carolina is so far [.head of '' '^tate. One of the SuULh's greatest educaL'ona! statesmen in the last half ceni iry was Walter H. Page of North ( arolina. distinguished editor and r. rbassador to Great Britain during t le World war. Many years ago he ! ;unc*hed an indictment against North ( arolina that is true today of South (. arolina.: ''From the days of Kirg George to t .is day, the politicians of North Carolina have declaimed against taxes ' l-ius laying tne iounaations ci our p n*erty. It was a misfortune for us t'lat the quarrel with King George happened to turn on taxation?so g 'cat was the dread of taxation that was instilled into us." The people of South Carolina want better schools and are going to have them, despite yie demagogy of selfPeking politicians and timid legislators. The slogan of tn'e new popular e.iucational movement is: "South Carolina wants the best there is. and can afford ro pay for it.'' ?? t The above is copied from the Greenville Piedmont and we copy it h re to 'give as much prominence as we can to what Dr. Sikes has to say cn this very important subject, ami aNo the comments of The Piedmont. There are a lot of English sparrows talking other things besides srate? I I i I I I The Commercial ! to extend to its patron: ; every person in Newberr ! for a happy Christmas ai j Our message to each on mistakes, and make then efforts and endeavors an to the future knowing cor full duty, work and cons limit, even greater jiappii our portion at the end o Count your many blessin and all things will he rh JOHN M. *T IIIIIIB. M " Tin manship, and we are afraid the great trouble is that too many of them are lacking in vision. They can not see far enough, or at least they make no effort to increase their vision. And then there are too many with the ' -- J M .NAA purely selfish spirit, ana me.\ tan only themselves, and the trouble is with this nearsighted vision, they do not see what is really best for them. These English sparrows talk about taxes, and when the thing is brought down to its last analysis the ones that do the loudest talking, a* a rule, are the ones who pay the lesst taxes and get the greatest benefit from the taxes that are paid. And that, strange to say, is more largely true of education and schools than almost any oth.21* one thing. The man who has property and pays taxes that count, is 1 ^ generally ioig enougn aim uiuau enough. and has sufficient vision to see that even from a purely selfish standpoint his tax for the school is the best investment ho makes, and it pays the biggest dividend. ' What we need most just now from an education or school standpoint is really not so much more money, though there is need for more money to have a worth while system of schools, but we really need more education for our dollars- that we are paying just now. And one way to get ? fn (rot rid tHat, IS. 25 Lil <jr> iJuscuit, of many of our little schools that are finiply st/uggling, and rot getting very far along the way, and where this can be done it is always to the benefit of the child, but the trouble is to ge: the people to see it.. Take our own county of Newberry, we are not getting near what we should get if we would see the advantage of putting many of our schools together, and instead of the one teacher have two or three or even four teachers, and then in many places in the rural' communities we could have ?.ta:e high schools. But until some one is given authority to do this, and has the nerve to do it, and to stand the criticism that would come to him for doing that which is best for the children of the county, we are going "to continue to have these little schools, because me peopie nave nut mc ion to see the advantage*of bettering them. After it is done then they would bless the one who did the job. but woe be unto him while it is being done. In many localities in our own county it is costing from.one hundred dollars up per annum per child to pay teachers even in the class of schools that are maintained for six and seven months. Some pl^-es a consolidation of two or more schools is not practical. and in these we need the very best teacher that can be obtained, and at a salary that would command that, class of teacher, but too many people have an erroneous idea that any sort of teacher is fitted for this work, and the child suffers. But we are' ma-king progress and improvement and gradually getting the vision. And we must keep hammering the truth home and after a while the scales will fall, but the Great trouble about that is the children who are passing along now will no: travel this road again. Tr;e best thing that has come to Newberry (iurir.fr the past year is the creamery. And we are pleased to learn that it i? making money, and it eoui(1 and would make more money if the farmers would furnish more cream, ami why should they not uo this. We do not think it would he wi<e for the farmer4; to ivi\v rhoif en f s Greetiiifis Bank of Newberry desires 5 and friends, and indeed, y County, lis best wishes id a prosperous New Year. a nf vmi is fo frrcpr nas} V VI jVM ?v - O-- I , i stepping stones to renew d a more hopeful outlook ifidently that if we do oar ;erve our resources to the less and prosperity will be f the coming New Year, gs and not your failures, ;ht. r> f ajnakv, rresiaeni j i i ' I i - i tire time to furnishing* cream, "but every farmer could keep a few cows.: and should keep them any way, and no doubt does, and if he would give them a little more attention, and ihen we could get a few creamery routes out on the country places where every farmer, even if he did not keep but one cr two cows, could be able to send in his cream two or three times a week, it would be surprising ihow much it would mean to I'him, and it would be just that much extra money. As Mr. Mills states.. he could give the skim milk to chick-: ans or pigs, and that would be another source of incpme to the farm.! The creamery is a good thing for thej town and the county, and that is the sort of industry we want to encour-. age. We have got to go on growing; cotton. There is no doubt about that, t but it must be done 021 tne inieiuiwj plan. We must plant less, fertilize it, better and work it better. 1 v 1 i Mr. Mills in h;s farm column calls; . attention to what two farmers are do-| ing in the matter of diversifying; crops. It is the same eld story tlr.ui . The Herald and News has told voaj for the past thirty-live years. First; make your farm self-sustaining by! growing on the farm what Jyou i;eed | for the farm and then grow cotton.! And in addition sell some of the sur-i plus food stuff. The truth is. the sou-: thern farmer has always thrown away; enough to feed twice as many people j as he had on the farm. We are just; now beginning to learn to save and ; ;o conserve our resources. We have, the* finest country in the world, but! we have always been ton profligate of our resources. The boll weevil has done good in the matter of mak- j ing us realize what we could do in, I this country on the farm. The dayj of the renter is passing;, and as some one remarked the other day, the town j farmer is passing also. You must live ! on the farm to make it pay. If we can see straight Col. A. K. j Saunders, superintendent of the pen-! herniary, made a strong defense Jf against the pre-election charges of J the parlor prison reformers of the j Public Welfare board.?Calhoun j J Times. i We agree with you most heartily, j | doctor, and it look? very much like a J political lineup. This state board of I I charities is right in a good many! ! things as we see it, bu: there "is too! 'much supervision. And the whole j business is based on theories that are ^ j largely impractical. We believe in huI mane treatment of criminals and | that punishment should not be fori! j the sake of punishment alone but we. 'mav earn* that t'neorv entirelv too' i - i i far, so that a great many of the J criminal class would fare much bet- ! ter in prison than out. EDUCATIONAL MESSAGE BE FLASHED BY RADIO! I . Washington, Dec. IV.?John J.J Tigert, commissioner of education an-j ! nounced today that Thursday his bu-, I > >.>,i witniri ;i retrular schedule jf ! 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