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L H. AULL, EDITOR. Ekntered at the Postoffice at New Serry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Friday, May 6, 1910. SIXTEEN PAGES. The Herald and News prints today a sixteen-page edition devoted large ly to the day we celebrate. This has been our custom from time to time for many years. We feel that it is well that the children should know what the day means. In celebrating the day and com memorating the deeds of our fathers we do not yield one whit in our al legiance and loyalty to the Stars and Stripes, but we desire that our chil dren shall have a right conception of the Stars and Bars. It will not be long before the last of those who took active part i great struggle will have passed be yond the river. We especially appreciate the liber al patronage of those merchants whose advertisements appear today and ask our readers to give them ate tention for what they, say is part of the edition. The boys in the office got up the ads and did the printing in the regu lar course and only started on it last week. And the advertisers pay our regular rate. To all of these the editor feels grateful. Mr. F. W. Higgins in this issue of The Herald and News pays a beauti ful tribute in rhyme to "The Boys in Grey." Read it. All places of business should close this afternoon and give every one an - opportunity to attend the exercises in the oper9 house. * * * * * * * * * * * * * T HE IDLER2 * * * * * * * * * * * * * The little monument square rear of the old court house building has had the grass moved and a couple of. the trees that stood in the midst thereof have been cut down. I am told that Mayor Blease cut these ti ses with his own hands. The place looks nice and just think how much better the whole thing would look if Mayor Blease had just put that coping around on either side and in front and a little park was in grass in the front. And the old build ing had a little attention given it. -0 Here -is another outburst from' "Uncle Eli." How easy it is to be misunderstood. But suppose youi read Uncle Eli first and 'then you will understand what I am going to say unless you just insist on ~not understanding, as I believe some people do. -0 Mr. Idler: I see you are still ham riering on the minds of the people about a park. Don't you never get tired of the same thing? If you don't the people that are worth while will * soon stop reading your letter for * they will know it by heart. You said in Tuesday's Issue that you wanted to see Mr. Wood before he .addressed the 'charmber of commerce and tell him about your park. I"l tell you, you had better not let Mr. Burton or Mr. Kiard see him before you do, they will bring him over to * Willowbrook, the loveliest ~spot in N\ewberry, right then and there youc park will die. Selfishness, yes, selfishness. What did you say it meant? You had bet ter study it a little yourself. Why don't you write a letter to heaven and ask for a special day for East side to be passed in to avoid the world. If you get an answer at all I would be tickled to death to see it and I know Mr. Aull would be glad to print it for you. What else do you call it but selfishness by wanting Mr. Wright to give you a special night (off-night), yes, it will be an off-night and I think you will be off when you receive an invitation to that effect. Don't you, know Mr. Wright has already given Eastside an invitation to Willowbrook, and he made it as plain as any one could, it was, so plain that all the little tots from two years up to sixty or seventy understood it. The people of Eastside have already tasted the joys of a park, if they had not they would not come as they do. Come on, Eastside, you are welcome, are the words of Mr. Zach Wright on open ing night; if he did not mean it don't you know him well enough that he would not have said it. Of course he meant it. Now let me tell you it will take. you a long time to got a park on Ostside as the one in West End. Yod will have to write more than one pleading letter. Think of the beautiful green grass with flow ers planted in and about it blooming all the year round, then the beauti ful fountain, the skating rink where hundreds of people enjoyed them selves last summer and some have this year, the rustic bridges and seats, the swings and the see-saws for the children and young folks, then last, but not least, the lovely grove of mock oranges and the beau tiful shade trees that were set out by Mr. Wright and Mr. Rome Franklin, who has been very faithful since the beginning of Willowbrook. Now you ask Mr. Wright what it has cost to put Willowbrook where it is and you will see how long it will be before you will have a park like it. Your park, the spreading and three-legged stool suits some people and you are one of the crowd. Now don't ask for a special off night as you have, any more, Mr. Idler. Seems 'like to me that you don't want the people of Eastside .to mingle with the factory people as they are called by some people. Now you are old enough to know that. one person is -as good as another in the sight of Almighty God. Factory Are a class of feople who have to work every day for their~ living and they get it honest: if they did not they would not stay at the mill long, espe cially the Newberry mills, for they are operated by men who are men. -Not in my mind only, but in the minds of all of the operatives. Now come all let us all be together at Willowbrook. If -you don't I am mighty afraid that you will not get that off-night that you so long for. Do all you can for that Y. M. C. A., Mr. Idler. It will be a great help to the people and the city. When you get it invite Uncle Eli over and that will mean' West End; but I will tell you before you start if we can't come some night when Eastside iso there, we don't want any - off-night, for we are always glad to~ enjoy togeth er as much as gossibles I agree with you, the old court house would be a very good place for the Y. M. C. A. Let it stand as a land mark to New berry county. Now you may think that I am a little off tonight, if you don't, I know there are others who do, for it is a hard thing to write sto please every bQdy. So ta ta to off night, but come when you feel like it for all are- welcome. Yours, Unclo Eli. -0 Now, then. No, I never expect to get tired of writing about that parn until it comes and then I will have to brag about it and tell of the nice purposes it serves, just as I have been doing about Willowbrook; and as Uncle Eli is doing now. Xnd 1 am going to see Mr. Wood first, too, and I am going to ask him what he thinks about a park; and I see the chamber of commerce is inviting some one from Anderson and Abbe ville and Greenwood. I am going to ask them about it, too, if I can get to see them, for I am told there a-e beautiful parks in all of these towns. I think I heard some one say that the representative coming from An derson, or rather the secretary of the Anderson chamber of commerce, was a Mr. Carpenter.. Seems to me that is the name of the editor of a paper in- Anderson called~ the Daily Mail. I hope he is the same. I se that paper occasionally and it is a pretty good paper for a country towna like Anderson. If they can have nice little parks in these towns there Is no reason why we should not have a great big park in Newberry. --0-.. When I was talking about an off-. night at Willowbrook I was not thinking for a moment that Eastside would object to being present with West ~End. Nobody would have thought of it, either, but Uncle Eli. Eastside is about to monopolize the regular nights, and I just wanted to get Eastside over and let them ex perience how it would feel to have a park. West End is ahead of Eastside because Eastside has no park. I love the West End people myself and have lots of friends over thtere whose good opinion I appreciate, and it was in their behalf and as their friend T made the suggestion. Bless your life, West Eud is all right. I would like to know who in this town works any harder than I do and who gets less for it. I am always trying to 'do something to help somebody. don't believ.__no I won't sa-y that-' Jut very often my efforts and my good intentions are not appreciated. -0 We can all get together at Wil lowbrook and have a park on the Eastside, too. I am coming over my self some of these bright moonlight nights when I can see how to get along. It is a beautiful place. I passed along there once in the day time and it must be just lovely at night when all those lights are on and the pretty girls are swinging and see-sawing and skating and on the rustic bridges. -0 Of course Newberry is going to have a Y. M. C. A. building and the old court house building could be made an ideal place and $15,000 would go a long way towards mak ing it a convenient and comfortable biulding for this purpose. Some body ought to get busy and formulate the plans and let the people know just how it is to be done. The thing will not take care of itself. It needs a leader and an organizer. But it should be remembered that the erec tion and equipping of a building means the employment of a paid sec retary and a keeper of the building. The building will not make a Y. M. C. A. of itself. It takes something else. Don't forget that in your cal culations. --- Before I write again Memorial day will have come and gone. One by one the ranks are growing thinner and every year finds some old veter an who was presenl the year before missing from the .roll call. Nearly a half century since we went to battle. The youngest of the boys who enlist ed are the old men now, In years, if not in spirit. They will soon hold their last reunion here. Looking backward it does not seem so long ago since the grand old days before the \War and yet when we look at the progress and achievements we mar Vl that so much could be done'in so short a time. But even with it all the world will never see again such a fine type of civilization' as existed in the old South before the war. There was then time for study, tinle for ease, time for comfort, time, to be chivalrous, in short, time to be a gentleman. Now everything and everybody is in a hurry to get rich. Then it was that a man's word was his bond. Now you must show the collateral. But I reckon it is all (Continued on page five.) 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