The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 11, 1908, Page THREE, Image 3
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LET US HAVE RURAL POLICE..
* AND FARM VILLAGES. *
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* By Bishop Warren A. Candler in *
At? ata Journal. *
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It is of the utmost importance that
Georgia encourage her people to live
,in the country and cultivate their
ifarms. When the drift cityward is
strong all the interests of the State,
from highest to lowest, suffer.
Material interests suffer, for when
the ~ tides of population set toward
the town .the tendency is to draw
away from the farms the most intel
ligent classes and leave in the rural
districts the least capable people who
stay behind because they cannot get
away. This damages the very soil
and deteriorates agriculture.
But higher things than soils and
crops suffer. The country school is
damaged. The number of pupils be
ing reduced, the reward of the
teacher is proportionately diminish
ed, and the best teachers cannot
,be -had.
The country church also suffers.
And that means the ministry is de
pleted; for city churches produce few
preachers, and when the churches of
the rural districts are not prosper
ous religion suffers in both town and
country. Whatever may or may not
be true of other countries, it is a
fact in the United States that the
rural churches are the strongholds
of Christianity.
For these and other reasons it is
important to encourage the people to
live in the country, and it is a
good omen for the future that condi
tions in the rural regions of the
South have greatly improved during
the last ten years. While the move
ment cityward has not been wholly
arrested, it is not nearly so strong
as it was some years ago.
. Rural schools have improved, and
are still improving.
Rural free delivery of mails has
also done much for the improvement
of country life. Papers and books
are circulated as never before. . The
schools tend to create a thirst for
reading, and rural free delivery does
much to satisfy that thirst. The
country people read more and know
. more than ever before in the history
of our Southern section. The politi
cians will do well to note this fact.
Fooling the people is a much more
difficult thing than formerly, and
every year it will become more diffi
cult.I
The long-distance telephone also is
penetrating the country. While I
was at a camp-meeting some weeks
ago I heard an intelligent and pros
perous young farmer telephoning
from his tent to his coanty town.
That meant much. He is in touch
with the great outside world without
having to live in it. Hle is in speak
ing distance with it, and yet escapes
much of its contaminating influence.
But there is one more thing needed
to make rural life in Georgia and the
South inviting. Rural police for the
safety of the women and children is
needed. It would cost something to
provide such protection, but it would
be worth far more than it would cost.
If men felt that their families would
be absolutely safe while they were
away from their homes toiling in the
fields, many would engage in agricul
ture who do not now seek that noble
vocation.
In both Cuba and Meixco rural
guards are scattered throughout the
1;uyal districts, and, despite their
faults, they are a great safeguard to
homes of the country people.
Two or three monuted officers in
each militia district would be ain u.n
speakable comfort to our country
people. The very fact that there
were such offiecfs about would pre
vent much disorder. They would
forestall far more crime than they
would be called on to punish. Vici
ous tramps and brutal negroes would
be held in wholesome fear. Illicit sale
of intoxicants would be rendered too
unsafe to be profitable, and that
hateful menace to the safety of wo
men and children in the country
would be effectually put away. Now
one of the most diabolical results of
liquor selling falls on the people in
thd conrtry, because they are with
out adequate protection by officers
of the law.
Until so'me such defense of the
rural home is provided much that has
been done to make country life at
tractive will go for nought. Good
roads, good schools, rural free-deliv
erv of mails. and the long-distance
telephone have done much: but with
out the added advantage of seenrity
to th e home they will fall short of
making agriculture as inviting as it
should be and as it would be if men
fel their wives and children were
sentt ithe tields.
kit rcl vrc' tIe col ie t Ulet'rtin l
would be less pcrplexing iI \Ve had
rural police. Crime would be dim
inisll.l and criminals would not be
so) albnfl(ant. Im-uraly erimnal
men would not be inclined to tarry in
a State where they Woui be - o eas
ily overtaken and arrested in their
misdeeds. If we had mounted offi
cers moving daily throughout the ru
ral districts we would not need so
inany wardens and whipping bosses
to run our penal system.
The increase in land-values conse
quent upon increased security in rur
al life would go far towards provid
ing the taxes required to pay for
rural police.
If then our country people would
adopt more generally the plan of vil
[age farming we would have almost
ideal conditions. Our farmers live too
far from each other. It is better to
zo two niles to one's work than to
live two miles from one's neighbor.
rn no other country in the world is
farming life so isolated as it is in
the South. Neither in Europe nor
Asia is such the case. Farmers live
in villages and hamlets in those lands.
and they are thus of mutual protec
tion and pleasure to each other. If
our farmers lived thus grouped in
the South they would have better
schools, better churches and better
farms. Coming in daily contact
with each other would quicken their
minds and improve their methods.
A. mind which lives alone. becomes
morbid and torpid. It does not bear
fruit as does a mind in touch with
another. A lonely stalk of corn in
a cotton field makes more cob than
corn, and a lonely mind is equally
sterile. King Solomon, who has the
reputation of having been the wisest
man who ever lived, said: "Iron
sharpeneth iron, and so a man
sharpeneth the countenance of his
friend." But men can not sharpen
each oth.er unless they rub together
daily. Our country people are not
dullards, but they need attrition one
with another to brighten their minds
and quicken their faculties.
If they lived in farm-villages they
could easily have winter courses of
lectures, and many.other such enter
tainments .that would enliven and
enrich their social life.
Of co'urse in such .villages tie
shurch and the school house would
be the centers around which the life
>f the community would be organiz
ad and this would be. a distinct ad- 1
rantage. A community held togeth
er by mental and moralties would
ive under the most elevating condi
bions.
Such social centers, secured by the
sure and strong defense of the offi
sers of the law, would draw men and
women away from the congested
irban centers by an almost irresis
:ible attraction. Farming, wisely
mnd diligently pursued, is not an un
profitable business. I know ignor
mt negro.es who as tenant farmers
rake more nmoney each year than
nany young white men who are en
raged as clerks in stores. Very many
ren in Georgia are rapidly accumu
lating property on their farms. The
recent panic hurt the farmer less
than it did any other man. He was
very little affected by it. His invest
ents were not in inflated and un
sertain securities, but in the steady<
values of his native soil. His lands
aave 'steadily appreciated in value
or many years past, and they will
rise -still higher. Their increase ini
value would be mightily accelerated
f adequate protection were thrown1
iround his home.
If our lawmakers would frame a
tatute providing for rural police,
ound by bonds and moved b h
ternest penalties to the faithful dis
~harge of their duties, a vast advance
n agriculture would speedily follow.
'he products of the soil would be
nultiplied by so much as the peace of]
he community would be preseryed.
It ought never to be forgotten that
:he peace and prosperity of the rural
;etions of the South have much to
1 with the welfare of the whole
sountry. The cotton crop of the
South goes fari to keep the balance
>f trade in favor of the United
tates. and thus it breaks the force i
>f panics land averts the perils of
inancial depressions. Our northern<
1eighbors may lecture our people, as
f virtue were a growth native only
to the States north of Mason and
Dixon's line: but if the cotton crop e'
>f the South failed to come, they
would find themselves in very great
traits. New England, as Old Eng
and, could not live six months if i
hut up to the products of its own
~oil. "'The lazy Southerner.'' ;oseaU~-]
d by his selfeomplacent Northern 1
eighbor, has much to do with mak
ng life tolerable in the land of cod-li
Eish and dried apples. The truth is a'
+ha thi much-critiised Southerner
i 'lli I i r lil I li111iI:1 lc i ill
ri 1n 111 , 7i ru'ral l:+,m v l1l; t I 'le wit i11
Il have a ,ood crop of yung Puri
:ans to save the republic in some
0iour of stress and <am11er.
Rural police and vili;,e fa rlin,
vould make his habitat1ion the most
)lessed in the world. Hi-s (-iimate is
1Ot enervating. as some ignorantly
uppose. le lives between those
)arallels within which have been
>roduced the greatest men of the
vorld. Messrs. David. Isaiah, Paul,
)emosthenes. Homer. Plato. Alexan
ler, Hannibal. Ceasar, Virgil. Dante,
'icero, Napoleon. George Washing
on, Madison, Robert E. Lee and
stonewall Jackson were all Southern
nen. They were not specimens of
mervation, but samples of'the high
1st sort of energy. The Southern
-limate is not enervating; it is in
,piring. But the rural home in the
south during this period of transi
:ion needs better protection. Let us
;ee that it has it-at least in Geor
na.
Living expenses in New York have
>een increased by 11 per cent in one
7ear.
BARBECUE.
We will give a first-class barbe
me at Bethel Academy at Pomaria
)n Saturday, September 19, 1908.
Dinner 40 and 45 cents.
H. M. Wicker.
Jno. A. Graham.
The Remedy That Does.
"Dr. King's New Discovery is the
-emedi that does the healing, others
nomise but fail to perform,'' says
Ifrs. E. R. Pierson. of Auburn Cen
;re, Pa. "It is curing me of throat
md lung trouble of long standing,
:hat other treatments relieved only
:emporarily. New Discovery is do
ng me so much good that I feel con
ident its continued use for a reason
ible len;th of time will restore me to
>erfect health." This renowned
?ough and cold remedy and throat
mid lung healer is sold at W. E. Pel
1am & Son's drug store. 50c. and $1.
rial bottle free.
The Standard Warehouse
ompany Bess to Announa:
1st. The rates of storage cover all costs
o the farmer, including protection for
is cotton from fire and the weather, and
he rate is as low or lower than the
armer can insure his cotton when housed
tt home.
2. Its warehouse receipts are regarded
S the highest class of bankable collateral.
3. f monecy can be. borrowed on any
hing it can be borrowed on the receipts
f 'The Standard Warehouse Company.
4. The identical -cotton that you place
n the warehouse is returned upon the
urrender of receipts.
5. In case of fire your cotton is paid
ir at market value, and you have no
lifficulty as to insurance, the full in..
urance being maintained by The Stand
mrd Warehouse Company.
6. The Standard Warehouse Company
s absolutely independent of any other
>rganization and conducts its affairs upon
trict business methods.
7. The paid up capital stock of The
standard Warehouse Company is $350,
>oo.oo and the company is absolutely
.afe, and its warehouse receipts come
head of the stockholders.
8. The Standard Warehouse Compan'y
s anzious to have cotton of farmers and
>hers stored, and offers the most com
1ete protection and encouragement for
armers desiring to hold their cotton.
9. Rates will be furnished upon appli
:ation to Mr. J. D. Wheeler, Local Man
~ger Standard Warehouse Newberry, S. C.
F. B. STACKNOUSE; President,
Columbia, S. C,
!EWBERRY SCHOOLS TO OPEN.
The next session of the Newberry
raded Schools will begin on Mon
lay September 21, 1908. The schools
vill open promptly at nine o 'clock.
The pupils who were not present on
rcount of sickness last June and also
iew pupils will report for examina
ion and classification at the office of
he superintendent on Thursday, Fri
lay, and Saturday, September 17, 18,
nd 19, for the purpose of regrading.
W. A. Stuckey,
Superintendent.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that
books of registration for the tov
Newberry. S. C.. will be open on'
day. September 8th. 1908. and th
dersigned as Supervisor of Reg:
tion for the said town, will keep
books open every day from nir
M. until five P. M. (Sunday exce]
including the first day of Decei
1908.
Eugene S. Werts
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The best of all teachers is e:
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BARBF,CUE AT JOLLY STRI
We, ihe undersigned, will furn
first class barbecue at Jolly Stre
Saturday, September 12, 1908.
The Rev. J. A. Sligh and Pre.
0. Counts will be present and
to the farmers on the cotton u
These men have had great es
enee in farming as well as in ei
tional work. Everybody is
heartily invited to come and
the day. A good dinner and
speeches and a pleasant day pr
ed to all who attend this barbee
Admission to the table will 1
cents for ladies and 45 for genthi
T. D. Richardson
J. Walter Richar
NOTICE.
The County Board of Registr
will be at the places mentioned 1
for the purpose of granting reg
tion certificates to those who
not secured same, viz:
Township No. 2, at Mt. B
school Sept. 1st.
Township No. 3, at Mt. Ple
school Sept. 2nd.
Township No. 4, at Whitmire
3rd.
Township No. 5, at Jalapa
4th.
Township No. 9, at Prosperity
5th.
Township No. 1, at Newberry 4
Sept. 7th.
Township No. 6, at Longs]
store Sept. 8th.
Township No. 7, at Chap
Sept. 9th.
Township No. 8, Utopia Sept.
Township No. 10, at Jolly SI
Sept. 11th.
Township No. 11, at Pomaria
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