The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 24, 1908, Page TWO, Image 2
PRESIDENT FINLEY'S SPEECH.
He Speaks of the Railroad as a De
veloper and Says It Is Not In
Politics.
Spartanburg, S. C., November 20.
At a banquet given by the chamber of
commerce of Spartanburg tonight to
celebrate the coming of the Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, Presi
dent W. W. Finley, of the Southern
Railway compnay. responded to the
toast "Our Railroads."
After welcoming the new railway
and epressing the conviction that
"the resources of our Southland are
so great and varied, and their rapid
development is so certain, that we
can confidently expect an abundance
of work for its transportation agen
cies, both old and new-both by land
and by water. Mr. Finley spoke of
the identity of the interests 'of the
public and the railways, and said:
"The topic which you have assign
ed to me this evening--'Our Rail
roads'--is one which is suggestive of
the identity of interests to which 1
have referred. The railroads which
serve your community are your rail
roads in a very real sense. They are
your highways to the markets of the
world; they are essential to your very
existence as a prosperous and growing
community. Great as 'are its natural
resources, human existence in this
Piedmont region would be possible on
ly on a relatively primitive scale, and
your splendid agricultural and ,indus
trial development would have been
impossible without modern means of
transportation. The railways which
traverse your section are, +herefore,
your railways. They are part of
you-the veins and arteries through
which flows the life-blood of your
commerce. Your interest in the,
healthy expansion of your. railways
and in their ability efficiently to
h'andle your commerce is identical
with the interest of a man in the heal
thy operation of his circulatory sys
tem and in the unobstructed flow of
his blood through his arteries. Your
agricultural, industrial, and commer
eial growth can continue only if you
are served by carriers able to trans
port a constantly increasing volume
of traffic. Just as the clogging of
the arteries would be disastrous to
human life, so would the choking of
your highways be disastrous to your
life as a community. Health'y prtis
perity for your railways, therefore,
means enlarged opportunities in every
field of human activity in your local
ity. This economic truth was very
aptly stated by a manufacturer of
cotton goods in your sister State of
North Carolina who recently declared
to me that he considered every addi
tion to the facilities of the railway by
which his mills were served as an in
crease in. the efficiency of his plant
and an addition to its value. What
This man said of the dependence of
his business upon the adequacy of
transportation facilities may be said
with equal truth by the farmer and
by every man engaged in production
or manufacturing.''
Mr. Finley pointed out that this
view of the railways as helpful fac
tors in' economic development is of
especial importance in a region like
the Southern State, rich in natural re
sources and capable of almost inde
finite growth in population and
wealth. Referring to the importance
of transportation to agricultural and
industrial development in the South
ern States, he spoke at some length
of the interest of the farmer in good
cQuntry roads and said:
"Good country roads increase the
profits of farm operations, add to the
value of all farm property, and
broaden the social life of the residents
of rural communities. But the inter
est of the farmer in transportation is
not limited to the prQvision of good
country highways. He must depend
on rail transportation in large meas
ure for placing his products in their
ultimate markets. The best market
for a large proportion of his products,
where it is available, is a nearby con
suming center, suc-h as a manufactur
ing town, and especially is this true
if the industries of that town include
those which use as their raw materials
the products of neighboring farms.
Spartanburg with its market for farni
products of all kinds and with its in
dustries drawing raw materials frorn
the surrounding region is an excellent
illustration of w' at constitutes an
ideal home market for a farming com
munity. But the very existence of
such an industrial center depends up
on transportation. The raw mater
ials for its factories the fuel for it.
power plants and the supplies of all
kinds used by its inhabitants, must
be carried from far and near, and
the products of its industries must he
shipped to markets where they are i:
demanid. Destroy the transportafno
facilili!' of' such a11 indust rial een
ter and it will die: restriet them and
it will cease to grow. In either event,!
not only the town itself, hut also the
ig1ricultural comimaunity surrounding
.t. will suffer.
"Contemporaneous with your prog
,ess in agriculture, the last quarter
>f a century has witnessed a remark
ible industrial development. A gen
ration ago manufacturers in other
localities thought of the South only
is a region from which raw materials
vere to be drawn by the manufactur
:rs of othlr sections and other coun
tries. They did not then give serious
-onsideration to the possibility of ef
ective competition from this section.
You had a climate favorable at oice;
to the efficiency of labor and to a low
eost of living proximity to sources of
supply of raw materials the possi
bility of cheap power development,
and last, but not least, a population
.apable of being trained to a high de
gree of technical skill. The essential
conditions for an industrial develop
ment were all here. It needed only
the faith and courage of such men as
vour own D. E. Converse and John H.
Montgomery to set in motion a move
'ment which has convinced Fall Rivei,
Hanchester, and other manufacturing
eenters, that Southern competition la
a very substantial fact. The growth
of Spartanburg, from the village of
1880 to the splendid city of today, is
typical of the development of the in
dustrial communities which abound
in all our Southern States, from the
tide-water counties to the mountain
towns, and which stretch in an un
broken chain along the entire length
of this Piedmont section.
"It is not a mere accident that this
industrial development has been con
temporaneous with an improvement
in the transportation system of the
South, and with the amalgamation in
to through systems of the disjointed
railway lines which 4ad survived the
Civil War. With6ut this railway de
velopment your industrial progress
would have been impossible. Those
advantages of climate, of natural re
sources, and of the industrial adap
tability of your people, which are des
tined to bring to this ection supre-I
cay in many lines of manufacturing,
would still be lying dormant had there
not been provided the means of plac
ing the products of your factories in
markets where there exists an effec
tive demand for them. As -your indus
trial progress in th past has been
made possible largely by your rail
ways, so, in the future, the carrying
eapacity of your railways must keep
pace with your industrial progress."
Mr. Finley spoke of the importance
of the people of every community co
operating with their railways, within
their proper sphere and along practi
eable and reasonable lines, in econo
mie educational movements. In coo
elusion he said:
"We have seen that, in a very real
sense, the railways by whinh Spartan
burg is served are, in, the language it
you toast, 'your railways.' They are.
your highways to market. They have
made your past progress possible, and
they must be important factors in
your future prosperity. You are de
pendent on them and they are <%pend
ent on you. The people of any comn
munnity can not afford to stand apart
from their railways. Out of this mu
tual dependence grow reciprocal obh
gations. The obligation rests upon
your railways to give to you the most
efficient transportation service in their
power, without unjust discrimination
between individuals, localities or comn
miodities, and at rates tha.t are not on
reasonable. when measured by the
service performed. The obligation
rest upon you to see to it that your
railways are not subjected to unjust
or unduly restrictive public p)olicies,
and to recognize the fact that if they
are to be efficient factors in your
social and material progress, and if
they are to be able to increase their
facilities so as to keep pace with
your increasing demands upon them,
their earnings must be such as to
yield a suffieient margin over the
eosts of operation to induce new capi
tal to seek investment in railway en
terprises.
"There has been criticism at times
>f what has been believed to be the
political attitude of railway com
panies. But it must not be forgotten
that, a few years ago. their p articipa
nion in political affairs was not only
tolerated by public sentiment, but
was urgently solicited. They were
entreated to assist, as a duty of the
highest patriotism, in securing the
success of men, of parties, and of
principles deemed essential to our
eivilization as a people. Whether or
not such participation in political
affairs was ever justifiable, it is so no
[onger. It has passed away with
many other political practices which
have been condemned and abandoned.
Your-railways are out of polities, but
their property, their buisiness atnd
their ability prop)fe rly' to discharge
thir 5er\1iCe t'' the pubI~lic are sutbject
to political art:4n. This places Iupon1
vou the obliigationi and the responsi
bility of seeing to, it that their con
i rds does not result in tilei oPres
sion. It places upon you the obliga
tion and responsibility of seeing that
they are accorded just and fair treat
ment. It places upon you the high
(Iuty of securing the adoption of such
public policies in State and Nation as
will assure to the railways and to
those who invest their money in them
the equal protection of the laws, and
the free enjoyment of every right
guaranteed by the constitution, in
t:luding that fundamental right af
Anglo-Saxon liberty-the right to be
heard in petition and in protest, be
1,re the people and their representa
tives, on every question affecting
their rights and duties."
REFORMATORY IS OPEN.
Governor Ansel Calls Attention To
The New Industrial Home at
Florence.
News and Courier.
Columbia, Nov. 19.-Governor An
sel has written to all of the circuit
judges. calling their attention to the
fact that the new Reformatory and
Industrial school at Florence is now
open and ready to receive such boys
as the courts may, nnder the terms of
the Act commit to the institution. Un
der the act establishing the Reforma
tory, white boys between the ages of
eight and sixteen convicted of a crime
for which the penalty is imprison
ment in the penitentiary or service on
the chain gang, may be sent by the
court to the Reformatory, and any
boy of the same age may be commit
ted to the institution by his parent or
guardian on approval of the judge of
the circuit, probate or city court.
There is now plenty of room at the
institution. there being only ten boys
in the inqtitution, seven of whom were
transferred from the penitentiary.
DETECTIVE TRICKS.
Trap for Postof!ice Thieves-Skill
Displayed by Letter Openers.
A postoffice inspector says that
catching letter Openers is now an im
portant function of the postal detee
tive.
"Detective work is a plain,
straightforward business, like mining
coal or selling a breakfast food.'' he
added. Crime -generally runs along
regular channels, and its detection is
more or less conventional. Of course,
as in every other calling there is
chance for individual ability. In the
postoffice our main reliance is the
fact that when a man begins to steal
he seldom quits except for an interval.
So its merely a question of the pat.
ient sending of test letters until we
eliminate all the innocent people and
nab the crook.''
''How can you induce a man to
steal your decoy letters?''
''They are not decoy letters. They
don't subject him to any more temp
tation than any other letters do. Of
course, they are addressed to the firm
or firms which the clerk or carrier
has been in the habit of robbing. He
knows that certain houses receive a
good deal of mail containing cash.
Some men acquire wonderful skill in
detecting money in a letter from its
mere feel. Sometimes they pass e
needle and knotted thread through
an envelope that looks promising.
Enough of a bill will cling to the knot
to shows its presence.
"People invariably put the foldedi
edge of a letter into an envelopt
first, because it goes in easier thai
way. This trifling fact has helpeil
me greatly at times. Once a mer
chant complained that postal en
ployees were stealing his mail. Now
it doesn 't pay to begin with the the.
ory that guilt lies int a eertain quar
ter and try to make facts accord witi
your idea. First you must suspeel
every one possible, and then elimin
ate the iinocent people. So I askei
the man which of his clerks handle(
the mail, and found that one buv hmai
ample etance to take any letters.'
He Tried Not To.
When 9-year-old Teddy displaye<
the shining new quarter which Mm
Ringloss had given him down at
corner store, mother very natural,
asked if her little boy had sai
"' Thank you'' to father 's friend.
No answer.
"Surely you thanked Mr. Ring
loss?'' she persisted.
Still no answer. Trouble showe
on the litt'le face.
"Teddy, listen. You ought to hav
said 'thank you, 'sir.' Did you?''
No answer yet- and trouble thea1
ened to produce showers.
"Come here, dear little son. Te
mamma, now. Did you thank M
Rin2doss for the gnuarter?'
Then the st orm broke, but .hetweer
the sobs~ andl tears camel( the rendrei'
informration: "'I told him thank ymi
an' he said not to mention it, an'
tried not to.' '-Philadelphia Ledgei
LADIE
$12.00 tc
duced to
$10.00 C
$7.50.
$9.00 C
$6.75. :
Tans, Br(
All sizes.
SFuarantfee F
RAZOi
Free Safety Ra
With every order for
4 3-4 gallons of our
"Korking Kc
3 gallons, -$5.95 12 quari
4 3-4 gals, $8.45 16 qiarl
"This is a High-Class
IExpress charges pre
good. Ouir shipping
which gives us the be
money order with orc
A. Hatke & C
P. 0. Box 371.
We Lc
Buy
We provide eai
SWe enable bori
in Monthly Instal
allowed to meet 4
it is cheaper th4
to saVe OnleytC
Contract.
If you want to e
take a Security C
Call on A. J. Gil
iITreasurer, at offi
streets, next dool
SECURITY LO1
GS OATS
$15.00 Coats re
$10300.
oats reduced to
oats reduced to
>wnlS, Blacks. :
Come and buy.
or Free Watch Fob
hree or With every order for one or
two gallons of our
rn" "Korking Korn"
$645 1gallon, - $2.45 4 quarts, - $.0
s,$52 gailons, -$4.7O 8 quarts,.-$4.95
s,'- $8.95 124 pints, or 48 half pints,.- - - $6.70
3d Corn Whiskey, Yellow and Melow"
~paid and losses and breakage made
ouse is next door to express office,
st and quickest shipping facilities. Send
!er and write for big price list.
.) Distillers Richmbnd, - Va.
Established 1867 (800-806 East Carv Street
TO
Homes!
y terms of payment.
owers to accumulate am d
Iments, on which interest is
bligations at maturity.
m paying rent. If you want
buy a home take a Sec.urity
ave money for any purpose
ontract. It pays.
son, Asstant Secretary and
'ce corner Boyce and Adams
to Copelanid Brothers.
N AND INVESTMNT CO1
frs. Alice Robertson,
TEACHER OF
foice, Piano and Harmony.
Studio Over Mower's Store.
Open Mondays, Tucsdavs, Thurs
lays and Fridavs.
Phone 263.
Buying a Piano
)r an Organ
s not hard
when you come or write to us.
Our Pianos and Organs are guaranteed
Lnd up-to-date, and at a reasonable price.
The cases are. beautiful, the inside is
nade by the best and most experienced
nen in their line, so it is no wonder our
Pianos and Organs hold their sweet tone
L lifetime.
Write us at once for catalog and special
yri,-es and terms, stating preference
?iano or Organ.
Vaone's Music House, Columbia, S. C.
PIANOS AND ORGANS.
fi 0s -
LA. . Rlosea, M. D.
OffIce with Dr. Hou.seal.
{8 to 9 a. m.
Office Hours - 2 to 3 p. m.
16.30 to 7.30 p. m.
Boozer Bros.,
CITY MARKET,
1311 Main Street.
Fresh Meat.
Quick Service.
Phone 34.
FANCY GROCERIES,
The best the markets
afford.
We C sk a Trial Order.
BOOZER BR.O$.
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the
books of registration for the town of
Newberry, S. C., will be open on Tues
lay, September 8th, 1908, and the un
Lersigned as Supervisor of Registra
ion for the said town, will keep said
books open every day from nine A.
I. until five P. M. (Sunday excepted)
including the first day of December,
1.908.
Eugene S. Werts,
Supervisor of Registration.
The Standard Warehouse
Company BeWs to Announa:
1st. The rates of storage cover all costs
to the farmer, including protection for
his cotton from fire and the weather, and
the rate is as low or lower than the
farmer can insure his cotton when housed
at home.
2. Its warehouse receipts are regarded
as the highest class of bankable collateral
3. f money can be borrowed on any
thing it can be borrowed on the receipts
of The Standard Warehouse Company.
4. The identical cotton that you place
in the warehouse is returned upon the
surrender of receipts.
5. In case of fire your cotton is paid
for at market value, and you have no
difficulty as to insurance, the full in
surance being maintained by The Stand
ard Warehouse Company.
6. The Standard Warehouse Company
is absolutely independent of any othei
organization and conducts its affairs upon
strict business miethiods.
7. The paid up capital stock of The
Standard Warehouse Company is $350,
ooo.oo and the company is absolutely
safe, and its warehouse receipts come
ahead of the stockholders.
S. The Standard Warehouse Company
is anxious to have cotton of farmers and
others stored, and offers the most com
plete protection and encouragement for
farmers dlesiring to hold their cotton.
9. Rates will be furnished upon appli
cation to Mr. J. D. Wheeler, Local Man
agr Stan dard Warehouse Newberry, S. C.
T. B. STACKHOVSE, President,
Columbia, S. C.