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Entered at the Postoffice at New gerry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, April 14, 1911. The railroad crossings approaching the union station on every side have been put in terrible shape by the re cent rains. These crossings ought to be given attention by the city, and some kind of crossings of permanent nature made. It gives a bad impres sion of the city to have to wade through mud and slosh as soon as one gets off the train. MRS. DANIEL'S ADDRESS. We publish in this issue the address of Mrs. Mary T. Nance Daniel, de livered before the State Teachers' as - sociation, at its recent meeting in Co lumbia. This address will be of in terest to every citizen of South Caro lina because it deals with the im provement of conditions in the rural districts. We believe the reading of It will help every person who will de vote that -nuoh time to it. Besides, it is well written, and breathes in every sentence patriotism and the devotion to duty, which must inspire every good citizen of this State to renewed efforts for the uplift of the people in the rural communities. Mrs. Daniel well says that no com munity can establish and maintain a good school without receiving direct benefits from it, and by putting forth efforts for the betterment df school conditions in the rural districts you will stop the movement of the people from the old homesteaa and its asso ciations to the towns and cities in or der to educate their children, and if this is done, there will be no need of the slogan, "Back to the Farm," be cause the farmer will not leave the farm. Mrs. Daniel and the Rural School Improvement ,association have been; the most potent factors in the devel opment of everything that goed to make rural life delightful. We have been preaching this doctrine for many years and it is gratifying to us to seeI some results even at this day. Feeling this interest in this work is our reason for presenting this most! excellent paper of Mrs. Daniel to our readers. THE FLAGS OF COMIPANY B. Yesterday was the fiftieth anniver sary of the departure of Company B, 3rd South Carolina Volunteers, Con federate States of America, for the front to do battle for the Southland, and Mr. W. G. Peterson, who was a member of that company when it left that spring morning a half century ago, and Mrs. James A. Burton, of the 'Drayton Rutherword chapter, Daugh ters of the Confederacy, went to Co lumbia yesterday to carry the flags of Company B and to deposit them in the 'Confederate relic room in the State capitol. These flags are precious relics of the days of glory and of gloom. No braver men ever did battle for home and State than those men who car ried them through the flash of the~ cannon and the -shriek of shells and' 'on many a field planted them on the ramparts of everlasting fame. Many of those men who left Newberry 'that day fifty years ago saw their loved ones for the last time upon this earth that Sunday morning. 'Many of them sleep in unknown graves on the fields where they yielded up their lives. Most of them who were left have since crossed over the river and pitched their tents in the camp eter nal. It will not be long now until the flags which waved over the heroes of; the Southland will be all that will be left us of these men-these flags and the undying heri:age which they are handing dowr and the undying me mories which will be cherished so long as pat.riotismf shall live. The grey ranks are steadily march ing through the valley of the shadow to the mountain peaks beyond which, rear their heads through the clouds bigh up into th3 white li<rht of the;: eternal morn. But the flags will be preserved and the memories will be the sacred pos session of our children and our chil dren's children on down through the ages. PLAYGROUNDS AND PARKS. Under this head, the Spartanburg Herald calls attention to what is be ing done by cities throughout the country. "Atlanta," says the Herald, "is the second city in the South in point of population. Memphis is fourth. Atlanta spent last year for the maintenance and extension of her system of parks and playgrounds $58, 472. Memphis spent for the same pur pose $399,450. Commenting on this situation the Atlanta Journal says: "There is no timelier lesson for At lanta to study and none that lies clos er to the city's prestige or the peo ple's daily interests-their health and enjoyment and their children's op portunities. "There must come an awakening in Atlanta on the subject of parks and playgrounds and public recrea tion centres. Whoever fancies that these institutions are so many fur belows without practical value or ne cessity, must come out of his cave and take a look over the country and realize that the world does move. "This city cannot hope to hold its reputation by complacently sitting back and admiring its census figures. A reputation remains an asset only so long as it is treated as a respon sibility, unless it is lived up to it will pretty soon be lived down to." The Spartanburg Herald goes on to say in regard to a park for Spartan burg: "Of course, Spartanburg is not to be compared with cities of the popu lation of Atlanta and Memphis, but it has -even at this time reached a point in its -growth where we realize that it would have been well had the city, years ago, provided for public parks somewhere within that area that is now built up and gone forever beyond the city's reach. In the years to come we will look back to the present, and say it would have been the part of wisdom to have provided for parks then. It is just a question of how long shall a matter of so great im portance be neglected. Spartanburg is without parks, and each ye3ar finds the cost of establishing them increas ing." We hope these remarks of the At lanta Journal will be read and pon dered by the people of Ne'wberry. Now is the time for Newberry to get busy: and get her park. As is the case with Spartanburg, Newberry "is without parks, and each year finids the cost of establishing them increasing." Now, all together for the park for Newberry. * * *** * * ** ** * *** * * *1 *THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * ** ** * ** * * * *1 I read the following don't the other day: "Don't criticize all the time; ju dicious criticism is wise and helpful, but it becomes an intolerable nui sance when it becomes chronic." I heard some time ago that there were people in this good old town of New berry who were cruel enough to sug gest that I was a chronic kicker, and I <suppose they thought-if they didn't say it-that I was getting to be an intolerable nuisance. That may be. I don't know. I do know this: If at any time my' contributions are not wanted, all the editor has to do is to say the word and they will cease. I don't have to write. I get mighty little pay for it. I have lived here a long time without it and I reckon I could manage to get along the few remaining years. I had nothing in money when I came and I have man aged to hold my own tolerably well. I do not desire to offend any one, but I am going to speak the truth as I see it, because I am not afraid to do it. As over against that sort, however, read the following beautiful and true lines: The Story of a Kicker. (By Holman F. Day.) There lived two frogs, so I've been told, In a quiet wayside pool; And one of those frogs was a blamed bright frog But the other frog was a fool. Now a farmer man with a big milk can Was wont to p)ass that way; And he used to stop and add a drop Of the aqua pura, they say. And it chanced one morn in the early dawn When the farmer's sight was dim,{ He scooped those frogs in the water he dipped -Which same was a joke on him. The fool frog sank in the swashing tank, As the farmer bumped to town, But the smart frog flew like a tugboat screw And he swore 'he'd not go down. So he kicked and splashed and he slammed and thrashed, And he kept on top through all; And he churned that milk in first class shape In a great big butter ball. Now when the milk man got to town And opened the can there lay The fool frog drowned; but hale and sound, The kicker he hopped away. Moral. Don't fret your life with needless strife, Yet let this teaching stick, You'll find, old man, in the world's big can, It sometimes pay to kick. -Lewiston (Me.) Journal. -o I am not fretting my life with need less strife, but I am going to churn the butter. I know it will get on the other fellow's bread, but I don't care, and there is where I show my pat riotism .n id my unselfishness. I have' lots of iun making the butter and don't you forget that. Mr. Idler: I would like for you to enquire of the chief of police for me if he has received instructions from headquarters and passed them on to his force to enforce the stopping or dinance, as to certain automobile drivers and not to see others. If not why is the ordinance enforced against some and not as to others. I think it is a good ordinance but I believe in the doctrine of "Equal rights to all, and special privileges to none." One Interested. -0 This can't be true, because I am satisfied Chief Bishop is fearless and impartial in the discharge of his duty. But it does seem to me that I read in one of the papers, a report of city council, in which the chief wanted council to tell 'him if the ordinances were to be enforced, and that some thing was said .by the mayor about .the way he was managing one of the ordinances, but I don't think it was this one. 'At any rate, 1 believe that Chief Bishop will enforce this ordi nance to all alike unless he 'has in- I structions not to see somne. Let us know about this, chief. Treat every body alike. Have a sign 'put up so that strangers may also be put on Id guard. I, myself, what little time -I d spend on the street see some carso come to a stop, and some do not. Eu- 1 force it or repeal it. It will be too 1 late after some one has been killedp or crippled. . g ---- I noticed the following in some pa- i per ,the 'other day but somehow I don't i think it was one of the Newberry pa- b pers, though it -may have been: The following 'has 'been received by Mrs. , president of the Civic league, , S. C.: The board of health of invit es your organization to join with them and all health organizations in the 0 celebration of a State-wide "Health Festival," on April 10, the day to be known as "Clean-up Day." i 'Trusting the invitation will meet i with your approval, I remain, Yours truly, President Board of Health.a The league, through its president, has signified its willingness to co-t operate with the board of health. On March 22 the league held its indivi-c dual clean-up day, which though it was the first in the State, was a com plete success. The working plan of' this body is so systematized that in a t few hours notice an. efficient commir- t tee can begin work on every street in the city. The members are grat'ful to the city authorities for the splen!-t did assistance they rendered this or ganization at the time of it's clean-up day, and are anxious that the one ofd the board of health be as great a sat-h isfaction to the board and benefit to the 'people at large as the first. C( te It would be a good idea if the board of heal-th of Newberry-I believe we f have a board of health-would adoptt this plan. I know we have a Civic' league because that organization held a meeting some time ago and passed te resolutions Pndo'rsing The Idler's park and promised co-operation. Minc~ you,' I said promised. Newierry organiza-h tions are long, on that suit. If the a Civic association would just get busy. and go out for two days I am sure c they could make my park a sue5Ss, and what a zlorious and Jasting mlonumen:t it would he to their pat-i riotic devoh"' ~' est.s of; Copyright 19( M ANY pe they des tion but few atta not set about acc an intelligent ma: Few ambitio puh If you do not poss ger in taking the Newberry OF NEM JAMES McINTSHl, Presit aii community. Will they do it? This Smy last call. Iread in -the Sunday State the ad rss of Mrs. Mary N'ance Daniel, as eivered before the recent meeting fthe State teachers in Columbia. It wort*h reading and preserving in entirety, but I want to call es eial attention to its closing para-! rph. It is beautifully written and athes an interest and an enthus-"" m and a sympathy that is inspir . Mrs. Daniel, I understand, has ee in the work for several years. ad this: "The great work we set out to ac )plish is not yet all done. There estill many places in our dear old te that need the quickening touch sympathetic hearts and willing ide. There may not be the maxi ur amount of glamour and notoriety rthose who spend their days build .up the .byways and hedges; but,. ,ehow, I think that the sturdy sons toil who cling to .the old home ghborhood because they love it,. l because those brooks sing the vetest *mgsic to their ears, and se breezes blow the gentlest to ir honest brows, have souls that .f be made to shine as brightly in ediadem of American citizenship td lives that can be made as useful any that walk paved streets. But. y feel that they have missed some ig in life; that the world rushes -" past them, and but-few hands are cahed out to lift them up and give m a chance in life. There is ,no eto bemean these rugged folk and ythey should move to another and erent neighborhood: that is their )e. Carry them the sympathy they d-let them understand that you e not to criticize, but to help; en into the problems they have to de, and one of these days you will l more warmth of heart at seeing se boys climbing up in life's strug- caii write I than can be measured by a few~ s piration. ra dollars that you might have got nelsewhere, with less opportunity doing good. For I reckon that ta o real builders of' this broad wo3rldstrycu e been teachers that have caught ady cie igher conception of life's meaningthrwol n can be measured in dollars and pvdsrt ts.p v d te . --0-- P. s. I ow, I call that good citizenship I would lik~ ipreatr+iotism. Anyne who Maids is no .7 DAY DREAMS EVER COME RUE WITHOUT tANK AccouNT ople see the things ire in their imagina in them, because they do omplishing their desires in nner. ns today are accom ed without a ACCOUNT ess one, why delay any Ion first step toward success? =THE Savings Bank BERRY, S. C. et I J E. NORWOOD, Cashier J ew Shi pment Easter H ats~,' Artistic Beauties We have' just received a new ship ment of nobby Easter Hats. They are the latest creations by the most fash ionable designers. Each one is an ar tistic beauty, both in design and trim mings. You must see them to appre ciate them and to see them means to buy them. There are only two more days till Easter and you should come in today and see them. irs. Emma.Hair zin Street - Newberry, S. C. ike that must 'have the in-an ifs,tsgethtit oudb The Idler. anatochrttopaeom ar it were not for the factthtpse ermitkep utote d again some of thesemu,a th tonitoport I try folk move to the town thewls .I to bring up the average Ibe nobody to make the Sfiin T. I. L vleCuirJunl don't like postscripts, but "1~satdafitto ihald eto know if the Bachelorwh tundotobesliga en charitablkslroudothguninisation, yloeiaaso0 ast