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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New Qerry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, April 23, 1909. AS TO SEWERAGE BONDS. The city council has ordered an election for sewerage bonds in ac cordance with the petition which was presented from the majority of the freeholders of this city. It is purely a municipal election and if council has not submitted the question -to the city attorney we would suggest that article 2, section 12, of the state constitution be look ed into in connection with the opin ion of -the supreme court in the case of Hunter vs. Senn, 61 S. C., the con stitutional provision is as follows: "The general assembly shall provide for 'the registration of all voters be fore eaeh election in municipalities.' As we undestand the decision of th,e court in the case of Hunter vs. Senn, it is that a registration must be had before each election. Speaking of the act of the legisla ture to carry out this provision the supreme court says, after quoting article 2, section 12 of the constitu tion of 1895: "It would seem, there fore, from a comparison of the act regulating registration with those of the constitution just quoted that the general assembly has of its own mo tion and not in obedience to any mandate of the constitution provided an additional requirement, namely, that regist.ration of qualified voters in municipalities must be had only for what may be called regular as contradistinguished from special elections'in order for them to be al lowed to vote on any question sub mitted -at the special election." From this decision it is gathered "that electors of the municipalities must be registered before -each elec tion and the provisions of the aet as to municipal elections conflicts with this constitutional provision where it requires registration only before general elections." ,The Herald and News is in favor of these bonds but we better be sure we are right before we proceed. * * *THE IDER * **** * * * * * * * * * * * *1 Have you seen the good work that Supervisor Feagle and Bill Miller are .doing on the new court house square ? This will be a beauty when they get through with it and every citizen of Newberry county will be proud of it and glad that it is done. I told you that Supervisor F'eagle 'would do this work and do it right. -0 The Civic Association got the plans and got behind 'the authorities, too. There i's no doubt about it and much of the credit should be given the members for getting the plans and for insisting on having the work done now. By the way, while I think of it, and as I have just used the word, I want you to spell, Now, backwards. See what the word is by using the letters from right to left. Had yon ever thought that doing a .thing that is to be done now means you have wz'n, and won a great victory. But I want to say somet hing more about that court house square. A nice side walk is being put down on two sides and a retaining wall of granite and above ~his the giound will be sodded and from each of the four sides of the court house a walk will lead up to the door and a nice paved walk way is to be made from Thompson street to College street along by the Crotwell hotel and no wagon way is to be made - of this. When this work is finished and the ground is planted in flowers and grass it will be one of the prettiest lawns in the city. -0 The Civic Association can accom plish a great deal by persistent and con-tinuous effort, but a great deal more could be done if every, citizen in the community, who i's interested in the city would become a member' and a live and active member. It takes constant and persistent effort to get things moving in the right di rection, but once the ball starts it is rnot so hard to move it along. -0 They tell me that the Clinton team objected to Herman Wright as um pire and the Newberry boy's agreed -to take him out of the box. Well, I don 't know anything about baseball, and, therefore, I have a perfect right to exPress an opinion on it. I saw him o"'T e~ a ?':ine once and I believe lie was one of the hest I ever saw. lie we\1 gik. prompit. positive, ir:n. fair and impartial in his decisions and when he made 'em he stuck to "em. Nw,r I would like to know what else Could be required of an umpire un less you wanted him to be unfair to the other fellow -and give you the ad vaimage always. Of course, an um pire Will now and then make a mis take, but if he does he must stick to it. Whenever he wavers or hesitates he is lost. Herman has a good keen eye, is active and his decisions were always prompt and to me appeared to be absolutely fair and correct. Of course, I don't know anything about the game and therefore my opinion is worth more than some one else who has a technical knowledge of it. The only mistake the Newberry boys made on Tuesday was in con senting to take Herman Wright off as umpire. The rules of the game did not require it. You should be nice to your guests, but your guests have a duty to be nice, too. I heard a judge say once that if he did not know the law he tried first to decide what was right and just be tween the litigants and then he went to work, if a law case, to find the law to sustain that decision. A judge who will follow this rule will never go far wrong even if he cannot al ways find the law to suit the case, if he cun find what is right and just among the parties, that should be the law. -0 Talking about baseball, The Idler is not crazy about it but I would not like for .that to get out, because it might injure my standing in the com munity, and especially in the college community. The main purpose for the existence of a literary college now is to furnish the best baseball team in the intercollegiate contests. And that is a high and noble purpose and I would not for a moment dis courage any efforts to its full and complete accomplishment. -0 I go now and -then to see a game and I enjoy it because other people seem to enjoy it. If, the "rooters'", I believe that is what you call these fellows that holler through mega phones and tin horns and who ring cow bells and jump up in the air and act the savage generally, if they did not make quite - so much noise, I b~e lieve I would enjoy it more, but you know it will not do to say that be cause the community will put you down as out of date.. I often wonder if all that savage noise helps either side'or rattles either side. It seems to me if the friends would cheer lus tily some good play or score that it would do more to inspire the player, than this continual howling of voices and rattling of cow bells, but then you must remember, I don't know anything about the game. -0 Now, I was talking to Dr. Gilder the other day, and he say.s it's a great game and he likes to see a good game bt, it is nothing as compared with " Town Ball,''' where they had soft balls and broad flat paddles, didn't call 'em bats in those days.. I don 't remember much about "Town Ball," though I 've heard of it and I have o doubt it was a great game in its day and I know Dr. Gilder was a star player. Fact is I believe 'he would ake a good player on a baseball nine. In my young days the great ational :eollege game was marbles yes, marbles-and a great game it was. In this enlightened 20th centu ry, where the ''rooter'' is ''it'' when the great national game is on, they never heard of marbles. That, I am afraid, is one of the weaknesses in our present educational system, that they never heard of the great national game of marbles. Well, I will tell you about it one of these days when I get reminiscent. The Idler has received the follow ing. pertinent communication. I can' do more to-day than pass it up to those -who are in authority. Wel.1, Mr. Idler, you received my questions so kindly last week that I come again. First, I want to discuss with you a little fu'rther, the question that at this time, is of paramount import ane in Newberry-the schools-but more particularly the location and building. Are there as many as half a dozen lots in town that have not been offered for sale .to the trustees? Do you think that there is an abso lute necessity for the purchase of two lots? But to go back a step, is there an absolute necessity for two build ins? There are some towns in South Carolina very much larger than New berry, with school systems that can't be criticized. yet they have no High School building. Instead the new buildings -that are erected every now and then are very large and in them the grades are domiciled as the su neritendenft sees fit. Why cannot ewerry have one large, commodious and up.-to-date b)uilding that will ae commoi(date not o nly all the ch idren in the pim!ary andi in'itrmedjat *:aeis from a specified section of theit tow, but also the chib1renm comp' ig the Iligh School classes-these fro th entire town. 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