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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE IDLE". * ** I read the following in a paper :the other iday and I want to print it. It was the opening address of a col *red bishop of the Methodisi church: New Orleans, January 20.-"] have no faith in a negro who sits around and complains in a bus3 world like this," declared Bishop E W. Larnpton, in calling td ordei -thE Louisiana conference of the Afriear Methodist church here last night. "Complaints and wailing nevei yet made a race, and never will,' continued Bishop Lampton. "OM people must do something more thax talk. teach the loafers of the race and make them something. Industr3 and honesty will help the negro mor than a thousand men going around and aboasting as race leaders, and ineuleating a spirit of strife be twen the races." Now,what I want to ask is 1don'I you think that is pretty good gospel It is good for the negto as a race anc it is good for the white man too "Complaints and wailing never yel made a race, and never will." No and "y never have am-d never wil make a man. "Industry and hon esty' will int only -help to make a race, but they are things of whieh men are built. Take this thought along with you, U-0 I have been reading where the leg is lature went to Winthrop and to 'Charleston and to Clemson and L did not know it was such a large 'body and that there were so, many ladies connected with the law makig branch of our grand old State. I no tice where there were "455 passen gers" on the train for the legislative trip to Charleston and to Clemson there were 100 ladies in the party and "it a. raining." That was nice. I am sure a good poroportion of those "400" who went to Charles ton were ladies, too. It would be a mighty du:1 trip anywhere without the ladies. There are still- three weeks of an ordinary session left and the -legislature -should take a junket to Orangeburg to see what sort of a new college building Torn Miller needs and anothrer trip to Florence to see the agrieutue school or college the Stt setb lishing over there and then the Ce arSprings Institute should be vis ited and three hours might be spent in Spartanburg. I am sure Spartan. 'burg does not iike ila that the legis ~lature went right through that town and did not stop 'and spent two hours in Anderson. I would like to sremind the statesnien that Spartan burg is the biggest vEting county in the State. Of course, I know none of tem eare a.bout thbat but then it is well to have this knowledge on hand. It might come in wel.1 some time. As I don't .pay any tax and can't eat any meat and am not permitted to take a drink in Newberry and 'can't get out .of town, I don 't care much what the legislature does. IAbout all my liberties are gone any way and I can't ibe hurt or helped much anyway. But I am still hope ful and happy and I am going to take Frank Stanton's advice: * * * - Rse Up! Little sense in sighin' Settin' thar an' eryin ', While thunder is a-fixin' for to rum ble Bette~ 'fa.r' to rise An' face the frownin' skies, An' help to make high prices take a tumble. "Happy on the Way." Trouble enough in the world today, The rose is elose to the thistle, But we make-believe it 's a pleasant An' sing to the storm, an' whistle! And vet sometimes I feel like the hopeless o::e that lie tells us about: The Hopeless One. "How in the world," said the Old Grumbler. "can a feller hold his own when he doesn't own anything to hold? There used to be plenty of space in the air abhove us, but the tall bui-ldings and the airships are taking even that. So there 's no hope at all!" Speaking .about the legislature go ing to Charleston did you see where Marion Rucker and Jno. Richards and several other statesmen were 'all grouped together at one table, coc-ked and primed to 'make speeches and somebody announced there would be no oratory. I am sure this ran made by a Charlestonian for no one in Charleston would be so rude. It was terrible. What will become-of that pent up oratory and when it was ready to come. They are all fine fellows and can make good speeches, but when you go to Char leston they tell me the trip is not complete unless you take a sail around the harbor and that took time and they .could not take it and have oratory too. City council is going to make it possible to have a small park. What .is the matter with the civie associa tion centering its efforts and its money in fixing up a nice little park in front of the old court house-or the building once used as a court house-that is the way to call it.. Get that coping put around so as to prevent driving over the grounds. I am mor.ally certaint that Mayor Blease and his council will cooper ate. This would not be a big under taking and when it was done-if properly done-would be a boost for the association. The eivie associa tion ought to do something and not spread out its energies too thin. -0 You know that reminds me to re mark that this thing of doing things is what appeals to me in the present city council. I had rather have a city council that does things if ocea sionally it does something wrong than to have one -that never did any thing at all. I read in the paper the other day that there were a half millon Amer ican .tramps. And they have held a national convention. Three fourths of, them are highly educated. This teeii and twenty-one years, and many of them reh ighly educated-. This is a problem right h-:e at home that the missionary workers might tackle. It is estimated that fifty per cent. of these young fellows develop into hu man wolves ard prey upon the pub lic as a profession until they die of exposure or are killed by the rail roads, shot, 'hanged or imprisoned. Think of it for a moment. They all had loving mothers. Some of them came fVom homes of refLnement and culture and luxurj. The Idler. A Ten Hour Law. Editor Herald and News: In The Herakd aidd! News oi Feb ruanry 1st; appears a letter by Mrs. Ethel Thomas addressed to the S. C. Legislature prohibiting interfernce with the work in the millk. The lady makes specious plea against the ten hour law whieh is be ing proposed. The argument pre sented consists whaolly in .the pre sumed fact thiat sub,h a 'kaw wou-ld de prive the workers of their Saturday afterndon vacation. Without arguing "pro or con'' tlhe principle involved, but -readily ad mnitting 'such undesirable result 'wou-ld follow, yet there are better ways of a.pproaching the subject than through inveetives against ian imaginary enemy applying "thumb screws to her (womian 's) interest.''" If peradven.bure the legislators were aequainted only with the bless ediness said to reign at the Newberry mills and at the same time were ig norant of the adverse conditions at other mills, then strong language may be exiousable; but when, -as the writer knows, periodicals .in ether States every now and then refer to the inhuman conditions existing in the cotton milks of South Carolina, though they may be exaggerated yet there must be something ,wrong some where, and more plases than one. Our State pride rebels against these alsions, but also demands 'legisla tion on the ?ubject, to say nothing of feelings of 'humanity, -even if .the wrongs should exist only isu a si.ngle comnmuity-it should not be possi ble to exist in anywise. The legislators proposing the bill must be aware of the necessity of it, without the remotest idea to "deny every Go'd-given light anid! privi lege,'' nay, rather to secure and strengthen them. The object contemplated by a ten hour lair is that employees be not imposed oni with overwork. If, as Mrs. Thomas says eleven hours per day is not too much, still other mills may exact twelve, possibly more, nor give the half day vacation per week. The workers should be pro tected, though Mr',. Thomas' vision extends no further than the tall chimneys about Newberry. The lady has errred in asserting thart what she was pleased to call "unrea sonable bills'' for thle welfare of workers are "proposed through mis ::ken ideais of a few who are not oneerneii~d.' It is known to the writer that a list cf measures pre ~ented to the legidlature at its last ~ession was framed in the hails of more than p?obable that the bill for a teoi hour day in the cotton mills has emanated from the cotton mills. That the plea of Mrs. Thomas makes for the mills of Newberry to continue the same policy merits con Sideration there can be not a shadow of doubt but not to the extent of setting aside measures of relief to the workers in other mills needing protection. Cast vituperation to the winds and pekition for an amend!=ent to the bill, in substance as follows: That the employees of no mik be jcompell ed or allowed to work more than sixty hours in a week nor more thaa eleven hours in any one day'-This would prevent the working of hands more than ten hours per day six iays in the week, and at the same time permit the arrangement for work eleven 'hours five days in the week and five hours on a Saturday with the half-day holidy. ,Comparison has be.n made with farm labor, bat there is a great dif ference in the varied work on a fann. The frequent chainges from one thing to another have the effect of a rest is a rest of the various muscles in turn. Eleven hours continuous work at one thing, at the machine is surely stretching the limit of strain on the mervous system. Yet a half day ex tra rest and recreation (in addition to Sunday) compensates for the one hour too much each day. Wishing good! to all. Hilmanitas. VIRGINIA MAY VOTE ON STATE-WIDE LAW. Anti-Saloon League Proposes to Sub mit Liquor Questions to Test of Elections. Richmond, Va., Feb. 5.-In pursu ance of the plan of the Virginia Anti Saloon league, Senater Strode today introduced a bill providing for an election by all -the qualified voters of the State on the subjeet of State wide prohibition to be held whenever .petitioned for by a number of voters equal to 25 per cent. of the number voting at the preceding general elee tion. The bil was referred to the comnmittee on privileges and elee tions. -Its introduction will open the door for a great deal of discus sion b.efore the general assembly. Public .hearings by comimittees will probably bhe had and more or less aerimonious debate is likely to ensue. 'The Braggart. ''Hulko, Jimmy! Are you coming to s0hool1' ''Not me-I've got the measles.'' "''arn! I don't believe yer, you 're allus braggin'.''-M. A. P. The Piece do Resistaneet. "'Did t'he -ah prisonahi offer any -ah-resistanece?'' 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