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RURAL ROUTES IN DANGEER. Congressman Wyatt Aiken Makes Strong Appeal to the Public to Support the Service. Washington. D. C. Editor of Herald and News. You have doubtless noticed in the papers a statement from the Post Office Department, indicating its pur pose to discontinue a large number of the rural routes throughout the coun try, on the grounds that "they are not appreciated. Knowing ybur deep interest in the welfare of our country, and in the general upholding of the rural see tions, that make for material pros perity, I desire through your paper, to direct public attention to the neces sity for building up the busines of the rural service. Cities and towns only reflect pros perity, the country is its real birth place. Anything that detracts from or retards the advancement of the producer robs the nation in dollars and cents. There is a natural tendency in all men to gravitate to populous centers; it is the social and inquistive side of man's nature that asserts itself. Tele phones and trolley lines have done much toward blotting out time and space, toward making neighbors of those geographically far apart, but greater than either of these is the free rural delivery system. Not every com munity can have a trolley line, not every man can have a telephone, but the humblest citizen may have his mail delivered daily at his door. By these modern:agencies, the most re mote rural resident is in essentials, made a suburban resident of the towns and cities, and a long step to ward desirable life in the country is attained. Is it not passing strange then, that the Government, which must realize the importance of main-. taining the highest and most intel ligent citizenship in the rural sections, would snatch from these good people the only little mite of gratuity they have ever received, of the millions they have contributed to the Nation al Treasury. And yet, this order of the Post Office Department "to dis continue rural routes which .d.o not handle 2000 pieces of mail monthly,'' will do this very thing. ents as to the unw isdom of the vernment 's course are futile, when nfronted with its declared policy. NQne cannot help noting, however, tihe inconsisteney in appro priating at&nually, to the Philippines, an alien people, millions in excess of their revenue, with the single pur pose of educating them to the stand ard of goo'i citizensship,. while with hosding from its best citizens at home *the little enount necessary to supple ment rura4 routes not entirly self sus taining. * The :Movernment disclaims any in tenitici of discriminating against the Souti in this order, and we do not charge it with .discriminationl or see tio1alism, but the effect will be none thr less disastrous to Southern rural rcates because of the disclaimer. iere is searcely a carrier in the ppulous North that does not handle. four or five thousand pieces of mail monthly while many of our own .car riers seldom reach 3000 pieces and! some under 2000 pieces. Truly the Government should take the larger view, and .extend its bountry to those thinly settled ' sections which need' building up. but we need not expect it. So great have the Government ex *penditures grown, that the present excessive tariff rates are inadequate for the appropriations, and for once, the Republicans partly is forced to call a halt to its policy of extrava o-ance. Many appropriations hereto fore made. will be either left off en tirely or very much reduced: and "the poor man's lamb,"' the South's little mite will be taken. It is only too true that this order of the Post Office Department is no idle threat. Being. as yet, uninformed as to the amount of mail handled by the various carriers of the Third District, it is impossible to say which routes, if any, will be affected by the order. Some of them are doubtless on the ger line, and feeling the deepest interest in the people who are now served by the routes, and in the ever faithful carriers, I desire to stir them up to a realization of the danger that contronits the system. ~ should do this at once. There is no greater agency for public good, no better educator than the news paper. There should not be a white family in the District that does not take some good newspaper. Besides serving the immediate end of increasing the rural businless, it will tell for good in -our children and our children s children. Aside froi the paramount advan tages afforded by the rural delivery system for building up and making content sparsely settled sections, the mere matter of money let loose in the South thereby is a consideration. In this district alone, there are some thing like 130 carriers, receiving an aggregate of something like ninety or one hundred thousand dollars an nually, which is distributed through our avenues of trade. It is paid to as faithful and derserving men as our country affords; most of them earn in dollars and cents for the Govern ment and all of them earn in labor, every dollar and -more than the Gov ernment pays them. Will we, for lack of proper support, surrender this appropriation, with the greater ad vantage of a daily mail, stimulating trade between country and town, or will we meet the exegency? It is up to the good people who are served and the courteous carriers, for the Gov ernment has spoken. Wyatt Aiken. PYTHIANS WILL CELEBRATE Forty-Second Anniversary to Be Observed in Colnmbia. The proposed celebration of the forty-second anniversary of the or ganization of the Knights of Py thias will be held in the city of Co lumbia on February 19. It is en gaging the attention of the Pythians of Newberry and considerable in terest is being manifested in the event. The committe in charge of he celebration is making extensive preparations and the celebration promises of being the most notable Pythian occasion ever given in the state. The Hon. J. A. Summersett, past grand chancellor of the order, s in charge of the central commit tee having the matter under their supervision, and this fact alone at tests the thoroughness and excel lence o.f the proposed celebration. On the evening o;f February i8 the the anniversary sermon will be preached, and on February 19 the official celebration will take place, and will include featuires ranging from a street parade to a banquet. The railroads will give a low rate for those who attend. The supreme chancellor will be in attendance and addresses will be :elivered by the Hon. B. A. Mor gan, grand chancellor, and by the Hon. M. Rutledge Rivers, of Char leston, grand vice chancellor. Speaker of the house of representa tives, Mendel L. Smith is also on the program for an address, as the Dramatic Order, Knights of Kho rassan, will have one of their "hot times." Lieutenant Governor Sloan, Speaker Smith and a number of the rembers of the legislature. will go cross the hot sands in search of a We have 1 know tne be~ and have pi( them. THE CF vrsible Disc cooling oasis. The Long Form, Knight Rank, will be conferred some time during the celebration by Non Moltke Lodge. of Charleston. . It is probable that a number of Newberry ['ythians will be in at tendance in urder to enjoy the fes tivities of the occasion and to meet their brethren from other sections of the state. London. January 31.--It comes fronm the very best authority that Sir Thomas Lipton has not yet given up the hope of winning the America's Cup and that he is making plans now for another campaign against the New York Yacht Club next year. to win back the coveted cup. for which he has tried three times without suc cess. It is understood that Sir Thomas is considering plans for the building of a new challanger. which, lie hopes to bring to the United States in 1907. Just wh*at plans he is making, is not yet known, but, Sir Thomas seems to think that the next time he will be able to make a better showing. It is understood that his next challenger will be free from excessive overhangs and other freakish features. It is even believed that he may bring a schooner to the United States and that the new boat will be built up to the limit of that type allowed under the terms of the deed of gift, which is 115 feet on the water line. An Indian's Wit. Last winter, when the Indian foot ball team from Carlisle, Penn., came to Chicago to wipe up the gridiron with their paleface brethern from Wisconsin university, the copper colored visitors received a great deal of attention at the hands of the young women students of Dr. Harper's school. A group of the girls surrounded one of the swarthy athletes. and, hav ing taken him prisoner, began to cross-question him. "'Tell me . '' remarked one gushing, radiant creature. 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