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E.H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New ierry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday. May 21. 1909. WHY "CLEMSON?" The Edgefield News. founded a couple of years ago by William P. Calhoul. has ceased publication be- - eause Mr. Calhoun, who expected to t operate the paper as an avocation, a with tha practice of the law as hisl vocation, finds the double duty too laborious and worrying. In the last issue of his paper Mr. 0 Calhoun makes a' contribution to cur- h rent history that, coming from him,I a has more than ordinary interest. We refer to the references to Mr. Clem son, in the following !editorial: n "Many suggestions have been made e about the muddle at Clemson college. t We do not propose to offer any solu tion, nor to condemn any one. It does not make any difference as to who is right, as the college has its hands deep si in the pockets of the State and pulls a as much money as it wants, and more than it ought to have. Clemson took his wife's money and property that belonged to his granddaughter and 0 gave it to the State, not to advance u education, not for his love for man- n kind, but simply to gratify his vanity and private spite. He despised !his fellow-beings and was without relig ion. He told us several years before ? his death that there was no room for an honest man in South Carolina 'Why,' he exclaimed, 'if there was) ever such a man as Christ, and if he would come to South Carolina he could not be elected to the office of tI a constable.' 0 "We omit in relating the above the a number of oaths stuck in at every point. b "A college founded by such a man with other people's money through 1 vanity and spite, can not -expect to e get on smoothly. Clemson's sole aim in giving 'his wife's money to South * Carolina was to keep the Calhoun family from owning Fort Hill, and he said so with many oaths; and to c make his spite complete, he stuck his P own name to the college, not one dol- ~ * lar of the money nor one acre of the t] land he gave the 'State being rightful lv or morally his own.'' But the more astonishing part of s t;his business is that the college should have been named after this Pennsyl vanian and misanthrope, whom Mr. t Calhoun says was a blasphemer and I an atheist, and that while his' money i: -or other .people's money which he i gave away, according to Mr. Calhoun -does not furnish five per centum * of the income of the college, the con trol forever remains in the self-per- c * petuating agents of Mr. Clemson. South Carolina pays for the bandc but has no controlling voice in the choice of the music. Why was not c the college given the name of a South 1h Carolinian? Why was not its control s~ vested in South Carolina ?-Columbia State. The above needs no further comn * ment. Scarcely any one in South Carolina ever heard of Mr. Clemson 0 until this bequest was left to thea State and it does seem just a little queer, to say nothing else, t'hat the T * hestead of South Carolina's fore- t most citizen as the seat of a great a college should have that college bear tl thie name of another. It would have been eminently proper to have called the .college Calhoun college. However, that is immaterial. The point is d this institution should be under State ~ control if it is to get aid and not un control if it is to get State aid and not under the control . of the representatives of anya individual and they be self-perpet uating. The sooner this is taken out s] of the hands of such a board the p better fur the college and the State " and this is said without intending any o criticism of the life members. Life t.l tenure of office in this State is repug-h nant to the fundamental law. 0 TWO PAPERS FOR ONE. In another column we publish a a clubbing offer with The Herald and News and the Columbia Daily Record. e: The Record reachres Newberry every V afternoon at seven o 'clock and is dis- a tributed at the postoffice the same e evening. It is a good, clean newspa- s' per and takes full telegraphic dis -oatches, and devotes considerable S space to affairs around the capital. i The subscription price for the Rec- p ord is $3.00 per year. We are enabled.e to give to our subscribers the Record bi and The Herald and News for tire t ro i~ Ie ilec'ni. $ *0.1. I mi. (Ilu sl ubscril)ers desire to l,ke a(1 anjlita,e -i t is offer we will be very lI to reeilve the:i subscription arnd forward their name. The Herald and News desires to all attention again to the arrange ient which w-e have withi the News nd Courier of Charlesion h. which e can send y-In The llerald :m11d ews. the weekly N ews- and Courier vie-, a week. the Home and Farm. ud a pair of shears, all for $2.23. This offer which we have with the ews an dCourier will contine for ily two weeks longer, and we would e glad to have our subscribers take dvantage of it. This offer holds for old as well as ew subscribers. but cannot be accept i for less than one year's subscrip on to each paper, namely $2.25. The dispensary winding up commis on has gone to work again. The ylum and dispensary commissions iould not sit at the same time. One ill somewhat cast a shadow over the Iher and divide public attention. Let s have one one week and one the axt week. Wonder how long it will take the ipreme court to decide our office ise? You can get a pretty good idea of ie personal habits and tastes of the eupants of property by the appear ace of things about the premises. the yard is full of rubbish, the ashes untrimmed and a dearth of owers and other evidences of care ssness, the chances are that the oc ipant is untidy and loose in habits. n the other hand, if everything is ean, neat and tidy, flowers bloom ig, and a homelike air of content Lent prevades the premises the chan as are that the occupant is neat and rogressive. Let all keep these hints i mind and clean up and beautify 1eir property.-Ex. Wonder if this is true. Look around o and see. We would be glad to e every yard in the city a beautiful twn with roses blooming and every aing presenting a tidy appearance. could be so and at very little cost every 'housekeeper would take a ttle personal pride in having it so. he Herald and News has not dis assed the school situation because e did not feel that any good could >m.e to the public by entering the dis assion. As to the location and se ction of lots we are not in posses n of the facts and any position we ight take would be ex parte and ight be modified if we had full in >rmaionl. There is no use to discuss the action the board in its recommendations year or so ago nor the bond issue hether it be too large or too small. hat is done. As to supervision the 'ustees have elected all the officers id. teachers for another year and for tat time at least t.hat question is set As to the, high scholl we 'never un ?st ood that -Newberry was attempt kg to have a real 'high schol depart :nt and if she has and is as far wn in the list in the attempt as rof. Hand says we are sorry the ;tempt was made.__ This we will say: The trustees iould settle the location as soon as assible. And it should be settled ith a view to serving the interests C the entire people and not to sell ie property of any individual. We are felt from the beginning the lot SMrs. Y. J. Pope was a most de rable location being centrally locat .1on the opposite side from the pres it building and having good drain e. There may be good -reasons why 1e board cannot purehase this prop ety if they should decide not to do so le suppose that the board had just 3 well make up its mind that what ver is done some one will be ready to iy t'he other should have been done. As to the school itself Newberry mould have a school second to none i the State. We are now going to ay as goiod salaries as any of the -hlIO s and we' should command the est talet and most expert teac.hers CLEMSON COLLEGE. A --I-cal Hns.. . beellj) ni' with in ilr- las el W Weeks abl111 ( Clellsol e>1ea e. \ i itiIl M.iI i : , 0 re View al11\ Of Ille colmllents or all Y f the facts as they have appeared. in., tlie newspap'ers. we would merely say F l;i ba e do not see how the State is t o preserve its self respect while al ]owing,- Clemson trustees to control a State institution. As we understood, Clinson ogave $90.000 to the college wihll He proviso that the board ap )oilted by himself should be self-per- 1 petnating. And his trustees are a ma jo-rity of the board. The State fur nishes minority of the trustees and more than twice as much money an- j nually as Clemson gave at the start. It is stated that a million and a half is has been furnished against Clemson's 0 $90,000. It is probable that there is not a college in the State that would not gladly let. the State make. large ap propriations for it, if the present owners were allowed to have as com-a plete control of it as Clemson now has of Clemson college. d Without doubt the legislature ought a to give back Clemson's gift and take entire control of its own college. If for no otehr reason the inefficiency of its management and the dissafisfac- ] tion in its conduct is enough to in-IS, duce the State to either stop its ap- a propriations or to take control of the a institution.-Abbeville Press and a Banner. a That puts it just about right. The State ought to own and control Clem son or it ought to stop supporting it. The 'State has invested large sums of money in the college and has a very n valuable plant there which does not belong to the State and which is con trolled by the Clemson trustees. This year the privilege tax to the first of this month had reached $169,000 and f judging by the payments of this tax t in former years the -total foor this year ii would reach very nearly $200,000. a a This is a big pile of money for the 'State to spend on one educational in stitution. That it is a big amount compared to what is being spent on a other State institutions. For instance t at Winthrop less than half that amount is being spent. And this is only one source of revenue for Clem- t son. t a * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * x **t * THE IDLER. *f * * ** * ** * ** * ** * * *** S I 'h'ave read with a great deal of interest the articles about ou.r schools and have heard a great many remarks -some pleasant and some otherwise. Threse things have amused me very much. In fact about as much as I could be amused at the Amus-U. If t I was a taxpayer and a patron of the school I would feel like saying 'some thing myself. I wish the editor would let me print some of the things I hax?e heard, but I know he wonfl't so I will have to be amused all to my self. Maybe that is just as 'Svell, be cause some of the things I have 'heard said would amuse some people and possibly make some people mad. a -0- F It is a very serious matter about p whi< h to be amused but for an humblee citizen to sit quietly on the outsideh and hear the people talk and watch a results, one can 't help being just a little amused. Of course I feel greatt interest in the school and want to be able to say that. Newberry has the best school in the 'State and in order to get that we must all get togethera and lay aside all petty prejudices t and personal likes and dislikes and have only the welfare of the school in mind. -0 It is a pity 'we can't settle things without questioning the motives of one in Newberry with out suspecting one another and settle them on their mer its. Maybe we do but sometimes it doesn 't appear that way to me. It sometimes looks to me like its a ''tic kle me and I'll tickle you'' proposi tion all the way through. --- It sometimes looks to a "koon up the tree'' that, the influences which are potent are those which are apart from the real questions at issue. But then, you know, I am not going to say anything but this: Our trustees ought to go to work and locate tihe school. The longer they delay the more talk and criticism and division we are going to have. Why it would n't take me three minutes to decide the location. -0 The Pope p)rop)erty is the place and new tintd you. I hiaven't a particle of interest in it but it seems to me from 'VIt Ij I;I Ii1,': . S IN 1 'hl 11 ---l)l bet t rC' 4i-e lia1 .Il W I t h1iit I 1) y1 ;aiiid l,e yol ;1l 11 1 % T tI I d\'ilnltaz (c, fo I..000. Ynu (n [ h]illd that 11ouIs( i,(] \' for t ,e n lit\'. Ile i \'(lit Iar leIrN of rooil for a --radet scloo uibiling and phrygroun.~ )lId gIalore . It is a little amusing to talk abot king ai acre for $6.000 with a "nev tia would be of Io.) is'e li 'fIer'nee o an old " lo01 e will ix iw(-es of --romud. A little eoulinoi A'iie s!(uld be applied. But it i: onje of my business and as I have n< iterest one way or the other 1)ossibll had better not have spoken and : eally don't chargce anything for m ugestions and will not be offende< r have my vanity in the least shakei the board of trustees and advisor' ommittee pay no attention to m; views. -0 Th-en there is a whole lot of tall bout efficient supervision and thi etion of the board. Well, that' one and. what are you going to di bout it ? You can't change it b, -riting about it in the newspapers f the trustees have made a mistak ou can't change that mistake now etter go to work and help make th hool what it ought to be. Lets loo head and avoid the big -rocks tha re in front instead of looking bael nd quarreling about things that ar one. -0 It is \true that brick and morta an 't make a school but when we ge aem they are permanent fixtures an 'e can get new supervision if it i ecessary. -0 Of course the paramount questioi -ith the trustees in the selection o: .ose who are to manage and teac 'e children should be efficiency an< amily relations present or prospec v-e should 'have absolutely no bear ig but you know we are all humai nd sometimes unconsciously we ma: verlook the main question-the bes iterest of the children. -0 But then, you know, I don't knov nything about it and I am not goin! be persuaded into writing abou -0 It does seem to me, however, tha Eere are a few faithful teachers il he school who :have been there fo: any years and who have done goo nd faithful service and who are d oting their life to the work and no ac~hing for a year or two to prepar< or that other sphere of womau' york who have not received the eon deration from the trustees the: hould. Unless I am mistaken somi ew teachers have been put in wit: ereased salaries and given more han these faithful and t.ried ones t may be right but I can't square i ceording to my arithmetic. Bu hen I don't know anything about thi ehool and I am not a trustee and i none of my business and I am no oing to say anything about it. -ant to see a first class school her eause it helps the town and the ildren here deserve it.. -0 I came down Boundary street thr ther day and I noticed some worn uperintendent Wicker is -doing thei nd it looks to me like it is alright 'ity the city wouldn't do more per anent work in the streets. It wouk( ay. If the Baptists could be induc i to fix up the grounds around thei: andsome church this could be mad< beautiful place. And the sam >uld be said of the grounds arouni re Methodist and Lutheran .churches no. Mayes has been trying to ge >me grass to grow on the Methodis t but has has had indifferent succes: ad the Means grass is still king or is lot and will come up to a gooc and every ten days and is not worti uch for bay either. -0 Did you hear Dr. Daniel at the HOE Any one can hoe more cotton and hoe it better if they have the right kind of a hoe. WE have this kind. Thin Steel Blade, riveted, and a Full Length Stout Handle We consider it the best hoe made. Every one guaran teed to be riveted. Come In and See Them. Sinmer Bros. Co. L ~46 Renders the food more wholesoi perior in lightness The only baking I made from Royal Grape Cream Methodist church last Sunday! If not then you missed something. His Sundav night address was on Fidelity to truth. He said that every honest man and woman was bound to be sav ed but the trouble about it was that so many here in Newberry and else where were prancing around thinking they were honest when they were not. That is worth thinking about. Ac cording to your opportunity and your I knowledge is your responsibility. I The Idler would like to suggest to the Civic association that one day during the week before commence ment be appointed as cleaning up day so that we may at least put on a good appearance to the visitors and it will do us good, too. I suppose the new trash ordinance is being carried out. I have not seen the trash cart but then I am not expected to see it. I know some of the streets around the I city are in need of a visit from some 1 one. ...0- . I read in the paper the other day where a woman was seeking a divorce 1 from her husband because he had been distressingly sober for a year or t more. She should be taken in hand by the W. C. T. U. -0 The Idler wilR be delighted to have any citizen ask questions and if I can I will answer them but I want it understood that I am not responsible for them. The editor told me the tother day that a gentleman wanted to Sknow who Idler was because he Ithought Idler was the author of cer tain questions which appeared in The ~Herald and News. I am trying to be tpolite and courteous to everyone and Sonly make such suggestions as ap - pear to me to be for the best interest of the town as I stroll around. -- 2Talking about the school-it is the live question-I know that the rule in most schools is to let tire superin tendent select his own teachers. He ouh to be better fitted to select c ompetent teachers than almost any board. The board ought to be comn petent to elect a good superintendent tand then he should be given authority and instructions to select the very best teachers to be had for the money. -0 Ihear Mr. Childsis going to take the Civic association to Clinton Friday to show them the beautiful new de pot he has erected there and how the ladies have made a park around it. I hope this trip will result in some need ed and material improvements at our depot and grounds. But then it is not much use to improve over ther4. for it will not be long before we will are a new union station in Caldwell street. But Mr. Childs and Mr. Williams CLUBBINI FOR FIVE The Herald ad News, New berry, S. C. For FIVE DOLLARS and News arnd The D dress for one yvr. ?s and New-', and net un< to The Daiy Record. The Dai y Record. ui gives to diay's news t< Capital city in the afte rural routes n-ext morr to get a daily taper ear As9ociated Press Spoci-! j irket R< Live CU:Mati New Soul !Una Ai A c..an, . erpri: ing Powder solutely fure ne and su and flavor. mwder of Tartar. ought to make some little needed im provements over at the ticket office. They are walking the ticket sellers to death. , -0 A copy of the Charlotte Observer came into my hands the other day and in glancing through it my eyes fell upon a heading which read "Scrib blings of an Idler.'" Of course I be gan to read. The first paragraph in this department is along the line of my thoughts recently. It reads: "They are telling it upon a certain preacher in this State that once upon a time he preached in a town where there was a wealthy old sinner whom they were all very anxious to get into the church. The pastor interviewed him upon the subject and told him he ought to join the ehurch. Being a man of very liberal mind, he did not lay down very rigid restrictions for his prospective member. The old gen tleman objected that he could not join the chureh as he' drank a little sometimes. 'Well,' said the minister softly, 'we'll let you drink a little sometimes.' 'But,' said the old gen tleman, 'sometimes I get mad and swear a little.' 'We'll let you swear a little,' said the divine. 'Yes,' came the reply, 'and you will -let me go to hell a little, too. Good-day, -0 I have sometimes wondered in my ignorance and my unsophisticated simplicity, if it were not true that the preacher as well as other mortals did not exercise more encern about the "wealthy old sinner,'' than the poor, struggling, unfortunate one who nieed thei'r assistane most, and in my simplicity I have 'wondered again if it were the soul and the spiritual welfare, and the help that could be given the "wealthy old sinner'' that caused this interest or if'it were the money possessed by him that they were after. -0 Anyhow, sometimes, I am almost Iconvinced that the end and aim of almost all endeavor is the deller and the gnan who has the dollar has the entre but I desire to commend to those who are being permitted to en ter thus,' the answer of the "wealthy old sinner'' and to say that even in j this world they will receive fellow ship only so long as their dollar lasts, and 'when it is gone, "yes, you will let me go to hell a little, too. -0 Well, I hope that is not enti-rely true. ,I have made up my mind to have faith in my fellowman, to be lieve him always, to think well of him, to speak well of him, to believe that he is always going to observe the golden rule, and now I don 't want anybody to deceive me or to do any thing to force me to change my mind. I The Idler. iOFFER. DOLLARS and The Daily Record, Columbia, S C. we will sen d The Herald aily Record to one ad nd mnoney to The Herald ier any circumstances der new management, >-day, rand leaving - he rnoon, goes ou/t on the ng. Your best chance -ly. Dispatches, ports, ng- family pa n..an