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COTTON MARKET Cw Corrected bi Nat Gist. Good Middling. .14% Strict Middling. ...14%,1t Middling. . .o...14% By Robt. McC. Holmes. Good Middling. . 14%M Strict Middling. .. .14% Middling. . . . . - 14% Cotton seed 30 cents. VOLUME XLYI NJUMBE 48. NEWBEERY, SOUTH CAXOLIJA, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1910. A WORD ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS. Taxpayer Protests Against the Blund ers of the Board-Should Respond to Public Sentiment. To the Editor of The Herald and ws: As a well-wisher of our public ools and one who voted for the x%d issue in good faith, I wish to pro st against the many blunders of the resent board of trustees, and to beg them if they are to continue in office to be careful in future that our schools may not be wrecked by un wise legislation on their part. Search their past record and one will find a seeming inabilty to deal with ques tions of such magnitude as our schools demand, and a series of failures to meet with a broad and in telligent grasp problems and condi tions which they have had to handle. They are all good, clever, well-mean ing citizens, every one, but seem to be utterly unfit for the duties encumb ered upon a body to which has been delegated the responsibilities of trus teeship for schools of a city the size of Newberry. And if the public sen timent that is being pretty generally felt and expressed should be respond ed to by the present membership of the board, every one would resign, -and let some others of more discrim ination and tact and broadmindedness be selected in their stead. For it -would be a shame and a calamity that 'the future of our schools should be hampered and endangered by ill-ad -vised management. The recent communication of one, if not other evidence were needed, shows that he does not appreciate the situation intelligently; the election of a young OhiQ Yankee not yet out of college and with no experience what ever in p.lic school work and with a ignorance of Southern conditions a Southern view-poi -'end ed upon the recommendation of who knew nothing of him and his alifications save from reputation, d that too having attended a .schoor kto both races; the displacement rs. Fair, a teacher of long and essful experience, and of State re giuatioxi, the creation of a school building, when it is there will be several vacant in the Pope building. These re utrrors on the part of the board, Sg-o any further back, show an lack of appreciation of their sition and have tended to force the ublic to mistrust their judgment, and deep down in the hearts of the people is the wish that they should get out of the way. Be it understood that this criticism of the unwise displacement of Mrs. F'air does- not question the ability of her successor, whoever she may be. It is the frank and plain statement of an unvarnished fact And if the su perintendent-elect should remain at -the head of the school for a genera tion he could not outlive or 'vercome the bitter and intense unpopularity *caused by her displacement. For, it *is generally understood, whether rightly or not,'that he is responsible in a large measure for her failure of re-election. Hundr,eds of mothers who speak with glowing pride and affec tion. of Mrs. Fair that she started their little ones in their school career, and the hundreds of children who took their first lessons from this teacher of unsurpassed ability in this particular sphere, will not become. reconciled for many years. It is unfortunate that we should have at the heads of our schools, su perintendent and principal of the high school, young men educated under en vironments distasteful to our people, and from a social standpoint, so far as the principal is concerned, positively harmful to our school. For our young women will likely shy of any young man coming forth from such sgrroundings, however fair and repu table and free from taint.he may be. If there ils one thing that can be said to the everlasting honor and glory of our true Southern women it is that1 they have an utter abhorrence and loathing of anything and everything that borders on social equality of the races. And our people will not stand unless I mistake their temper and de. ese convictions are written in all ness and frankness and with mal towards none but with the good of e schools. at heart. No man, or set of men. should block the way of the our schools, for let us ever remember we are building for the future of our children. Taxpayer. WHO IS TO BLAMEI For the Road Condition -Have the Roads Been Ordered Worked as Law Requires? Editor Herald and News: In the report of the grand jury! to the court of sessions occurs these words: "It is impossible for the sup ervisor and the chain gang to work the roads of the county section by section," etc. Then: "We urge upon th'ie people, especially the country people, that they take greater pride in their roads," etc. Now, what is the law in reference to road working? The law puts the working of the roads in charge of the supervisor. The supervisor shall ap point the time of working the roads and the number of days at each work ing. I have heard the supervisor grumbling that the people will not work the roads, but I have seen no order from the supervisor to work the roads this year, and six months of the year are nearly gone. I do not believe an overseer can, under the law, make a man work the roads un less the supervisor has ordered the working, except under some great emergency. Last year a great many of the overseers failed to put in the full time as required by law. This tte supervisor and county commissioners -know themselves. Did they try to enforce the law? I have been in formed that the commissioners had the matter under advisement and de cided not to prosecute\ the offenders, preferring to violate the statutes themselves. I worked the roads six days last year on my section.. Other overseers worked from one to three days. Is it just to the hands on my section to let the others go free? If the super visor had ordered two or three days work on the roads in March and had seen that the order was enforced, our roads now would have been in fine condition. But what is thd present status of the roads? The holes made by the wet spell of February are still on hand. I know the farmers can't stop now, but I want the blame of the condition of the roads to rest where it belongs. I am satisfied that sev eral sections of roads in the county have no overseers. If the supervisor knows that an overseer has not done his duty, does he have to wait until-'some man shall come forward and report the over seer or is it his duty to enforce the laws? Let the honorable grag~d jury read the law and they will see where the blame rests. Overseer. THE CASE OF W. T. JONES. Arguments on Convicted Union Farm er's Motion for New Trial Made Before Judge Gruber. The State. Union, June 18.-The reading of the affidavits in the motion for a new trial in the case gf W. T. Jones was completed late y4sterday afternoon and this morning arguments were heard by Judge Gruber. The opening speech was made by John K. Ham-I blin, representing the defense, who was followed by J. A. Sawyer and P. D. Barron for the State, after which Ben F. Townsend, representing the defense, spoke. He was followed by F. B. Grier of Greenwood, Solicitor Otts for the State, they being followed by Col. George Johnstone, of Newberry, Jones' leading attorney. The argu ments were all listened to by an un usually large crowd in the court house and an exceedingly strong plea was made by the defense for a new trial. Judge Gruber, who now has 'the motion for a new trial under consid eration, announced that he would ren der his decision next week, and he in structed the sheriff not to adjourn court sine die until further orders from him. The motion for a new trial in this case has been a hard fought. legal battle and the decison of Judge; Gruber is awaited with interest. Civil court will convene here Mon day morning, with Judge Gruber pre-! HAILED IN TRIUMPE. Roosevelt Returns-Vast Crowd W comes Hunter Back From Elbaesque Jungles. New York, June 18.-Theodo Roosevelt set foot on home shoresi day for the first time for nearly teen months and received arotisi welcome. He bore with his usual buoyancy day of heavy fatigue,. public duties a private emotions commingled and 4.40 o'clock this afternoon, after family reunion at the home of Ther Butler, grandfather of his prospecti daughter-in-law, Miss Eleanor But Alexander, left the city he had si veyed the same morning from afic reviewed in parade ashore and gre ed by explicit word of mouth to welcome more intimately by his li long neighbors at Oyster Bay, L. tonight. Tomorrow he will rest. As a private citizen he was still i same vigorous man the city h known for 30 years in various pub offices from assemblyman to pre dent. P Claims 'Em All. "By George, that's one of my ship he exclaimed, "doesn't she look go( I built her nd those torpedo boE too." In the excitement and suspense waiting for the time when the retux ing marine parade should bring I colonel to his appointed landing po at the Battery, there were many I tle incidents that showed the teml of the crowd. One stevedore unlom Ing a ship laid down his hook watch and wait. "Hi," shouted the foreman, "y come back here or I'll dock yoa hour." "Dock me a week," shouted bE the recaletrant, "I'm going to have look at Teddy." Another waterfront sightseer c ped a long -tale of wonders by aski naively, "Who is this Roosevelt al how?" A Costly Query. The next thing he knew he was the river, propelled by indigna hands. A policeman~ fished him < and an ambulance carried him te hospital. The mayor in welcoming Mr. Roo velt said-: "We are all here to welcome I Roosevelt to New York. We hE watched his progress through. E rope with delight. Wherever he I gone he has been honored as a -m and as an exponent of the princip of the government of this country. was received everywhere in Eurc and honored as no man from tJ country ever was honored. We gk in all that and it only remains for : to say now, Mr. Roosevelt, that welcome you most heartily and are glad to see you again." The Whole Business. "Mr. Mayor, fellow townsmen, a to you, my fellow Americans," i colonel began. A tremendous we of cheering went up as the wt "Americans" received especial e phasis. His voice was a little hoarse, 1 he spoke with his usual force and 4 clamatory effect. Replying to Mayor Gaynor, C Roosevelt said: "I thank you, Mayor Gayn Through you I thank your comxm tee and through them I wish to tha the American people for their gre ing. I need hardly say I am m< deeply moved by the reception giv me. No man could be received by sui aa greeting without being made to fi very proud and very humble. "I have been away a year and quarter from America and I have se st-ange and interesting things all in the heart of the frowning wild4 ness in the capitals of the mighti4 and most highly polished of civili2 nations. I have thoroughly enjoy myself and now I am more glad th I can say to get home, to be ba in my own country, back among pt pe I love. Ready to Join. "I am ready and eager to doi part so far as I am able in helpi solve problems which must be solo if we of this, the greatest democra republic on which the sun has e' shown, are to see its destinies rise the high level of our hopes and opportunities. This is the duty every citizen, but it is peculiarly duty, for any man who has ever be the United States is thereby Iforev after rendered the debtor of the Amc Al. ican people and is bound througho his.1ife to remember this as his prii obligation and in private life as mu as in public life so to carry himsi re that the American people may nev :o- feel cause to regret -that they on if- placed him at their head." ng "Did I follow copy, 'boys?"' he as ed as the cheering still lingered ov a his closing words. nd A word came back, an appreciati at chorus from the press stand. a ,Off for Oyster Bay. on At 4.15 he left the Alexander hou ve and drove to the east Thirty-foui ter street ferry to Long Island in an a tr- tomobile. Witi him were Mrs. Roo. at, velt and Mrs. Longworth, Miss Etl et- Roosevelt and Richard Parr. T be others of th:e party remained behii fe- All the way to the ferry, despite t I., pouring rain, crowds lined the stro and packed the ferry boat. he As Col. Roosevelt stepped into I .as special train at Long Islaid City lic delegation from Oyster Bay met hi si- In acknowledgment, the coloi went to the rear platform *of his c and said: 3," "I. take this opportunity to. tha )d. my friends and neighbors for this Lts votion. And I want also to tha the New York police for the wond4 of ful work they have done today. I 9 n- proud that I was once one of the he Good night." nt it- At Home Again. er Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 18.-Th4 Ld- dore Roosevelt is back once m( to among his neighbors. He arrived Oyster Bay from New 7 -k at ou o'clock today on a special train an .6aged by the Roosevelt Neighbors' soclation of Nassau county, 400 me ,ck bers of which made the trip with hi a .1-e run from Long Island City Oyster- Bay was made without a st Lp- through a driving rain. ng Teddy for Governor. Utica, N. Y.; June 1.-"For govei or of New York Theodore Roosevel in That is the slogan of the Repul Lnt can club of Oneida county, sounded >ut a special meeting here tonight, wb a resolitions were adopted ~ calling other Republican clubs ini this St, ee- to get behind the Roosevelt boom. Speeches were made,- all of whi O.* acclaimed Col. Roosevelt as the c ,ve man to continue the Hughes polic: :u.. and to unite all factions of the par mas an SENATOB SKITH TALKS es OF ATTACK ON BUL1 pe Tigorously Denounces Cotton Prot is eution as Unwarranted Interfer ry enee With Private Business. ne Washington, June 18.-Senator C: e ter's ambition to obtain a vote in t we senate .today on his motion to conc1 in the house amendments to the pc tal savings bank bill failed to rea nd zation due to the difficulty of keepi he senators in the chamber on account ,v the excessive heat. The bill was u ird der discussion for a little more th m- two'hours and then went over uni Monday when it is hoped a vote w >ut be reached. ie- Senator Carter's concurrence ii tion was discussed by its author a ol. by Senator Smith of South Carolit who antagonized the motion. l\ r. Carter made an argument in supp< it- of the house bill as in the interest nk expediency and progress. at.. In connection with his speech 3 >st Smith discussed the indictment en New York of a number of cotton brc ch ers on a charge of entering into rel conspiracy to raise the price of cott< IFinding in the house postal bill pi a vision for the establishment of a gc en emnent banking system, he charg ke that the government was preparing r- enter upon a general system of intE st fering with private business. ed The New York indictments were ed specimen of such interference an said. ek 1Referring to the charge that t brokers had cornered the visible su ply of cotton, the South Carolina se tor vehemently deo 3hat "nev nwas a more bare-f _ ralsehood ra greater fraud perpetrated than ed jthis indictment." tic He reveated his previous charg -er' that the law had been invokedi to: put down the price of cotton in t its interest of foreign speculators a: of said he had been informed that the ny torney general had been at one tii en a partner of the attorney for the ci er LITTLE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL r ut One of the Best in the State.-Ha ae some Bullding.-Took State ah Prize. ilf er The accompanying cut is a pic ce of the school building at Little Mc tain taken shortly after its com k- tion last fall. This building, toge er ve se th U- - el he id. he et Lis a m. Lel ar k te ak with the exterior and interior provements made, won the first p of $100 offered by the school .impr M' ment associatin of the State last - ter. The Little Mountain school disl contains about three and one 110 Tsquare miles, a little less in area t re the incorporate limits of the t in The assessable property of the 6 trict is about $63,000, and the p< lation of the town less than 400; ts- the people have built a school hi m that represents one-tenth of the M. to HAS NO APOLOGY TO WICKERS11 in t. PRESIDENT OF SAXON MI i- TALES OF PROSECUTION. at en John A. Law, of Spartanburg, G on 111il Men's Side of Govern Lte ment Raid. c The State. ne Spartanburg, June .18.-When Les ed today as to the government ind t ment of the cotton bull operat with which the name of the Sa mills was connected in yesterd S- Associated Press dispatches,. Jno Law, president and treasurer of e- Saxon 'mills, made the follos statement: "We have no apologies to mak Lr- the New York grand ju.ry, nor to he torney General Wickersham, nor r- the Republican administration, wl & he represents, for .such part as li- have taken in the alleged conspir rg which in spite of the governmie of misdirected opposition has interft n- and is still interfering with the an forts to depress the price,.of cotto: til "Though being a manufacturer ill cotton, a buyer and not a produce1 seller, we have. never felt that n atural and legitimate source of nt ad ufacturing profit consisted in bu: La, the raw product below its intrii Er. value, based upon the cost of mal! >rt the crop or upon the season's scar of or abundance. The Mills' Duty. fr. "The more fruitful field of effort in the manufacturer should, as we v k- it, lie along the line of economie: a actual manufacturing and in ende n. oring to obtain by opening new n 0- kets or making goods of special ci v- acter a legitimate profit for the xx ed ufactured article over and above to price of cotton. As citizens of r- South, we recognize to a profound tent tha. her financial recovery, a education of her citizens and he proper development of her natural sources are peculiarly dependent he on the obtaining of a fair price P- cotton, representing not only n- South's but the nation's greatest er port valbe. or "We have deeply deplored thE in parent tendency of the cotton ma facturing business to become, nc es business of small economies, bu to 'hit or miss' affair, dependent u: he favorable purchases of cotton dur ad suddenly manipulated depressi Lt- land sales of goods prior to the ne imoraized it.cidents to such depi >-n.The dry goods market has able property, and one that Prof. Hand, high school - inspector, says ad. would do credit to a town of 2,500 inhabitants. The district carries 7 1-2 mills tax levy for school purposes, 4 1-2 of :ure which is for the bonded indebted un- ness incurred in the erection of the ple- new building. :her The school has just closed a very im- successful session under the mannge rize ment of the following teachers: V. B. ve- Sease, principal, and Misses Annie &in- Davis and Rosalyn Summer and Mrs. W.- B. Shealy, assistants. Th4 same ict corps of teachers have been elected half for another year; but the resignation han of . the first two mentioned has re own sulted in the election of F. 0. Black, dis- .a graduate of Newberry college, and >pu- a teacher in "the Prosperity high yet school last session' as principal, and )use Miss Ellie Jacobs, of Peak, one of the tax- kraduates of Winthrop this year. raid made in January, last, after the shortness of this season's crop was 4 apparent and after the domestic dry goods market had advanced steadily along with the cotton market to a liv LLS ing price for both producer and manu facturer. To Protect. Cotton. ives "In an effort to avoid- a repetition of the bear onslaught and a further depression of values in both cotton and cotton goods, some of the most progressive, and at the same timeo a.sk- most conservative manufacturers of ict- the South, agreed in the event of a ors, similar raid, to purchase a consider xon ble block of spot cotton on the New. ay's York exchange, to demand actual de .A. livery of the cotton, and to ship it . the South for manufacturing purposes. ring The season's needs of the Saxon mills 'not having been fully supplied, a por' to tion of the remainder was thus pur. At- chased and its delivery demanded. An to examination by the governpnent of the iich recent education in the New York we certified stock, as well as an investi-* ~acy gation of the steamship movements nt's on actual cotton to Southern cotton ~red mills, will afford sufficient refutation ef- of thei statement that the cotton is n. now being taken for actual use. It is of perhaps true that the effect of the or transaction upon the.dry goods mar the ket has been greatly minimized by the an- inexplicable attitude of the govern ring ment in joining in the hue and cry asic of 'conspiracy' instead of meting 'prop ring er punishment to those guilty of en city deavoring to depress a great agricul' tural product by selling that which. they did not possess. The honorable for department of justice is, in our judg ew ment, simply 'barking up the wrong in tree.'" iar- AS TO TROLLEY LINE. ian- edntHunt of the Chamber of the Commerce Names Corn. the 'mittee. ex- - the -Committee appointed to'confer with the the proper authorities in reference re- to extending the inter-urban trolley up- line from Laurens to Newberry and for to take such steps as- are necessary the to accomplish that purpose: ex- George W. Summer, chairman; John M. Kinard, James McIntosh, Z. ap- F. Wright, B. C.1 Matthews, M. L. au- Spearman, W. H. Wallace. E. H. Aull, at a 0. .B. Mayer, Alan Jonnstofie, Arthur t a Kibler, W. H. Hunt, C. D. Weeks, G. pon B. Cromer, E. M. Evans, G. T. Sum -ing mer, W. G. Mayes. ons Chairman George W Summer re de- 'nests the committee to meet at the 7es-; chamber of commerce at 5 o'clock not Tuesday afternoon. All members are