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f pe ^eroiil aid | entered at the Postoffice nt Vevv*r*"v. S. C., as 2*vi class matter, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, January 2, 1914. STATEMENT. On January first the active manage-: merit of tfte ?. h. auii company auu The Herald and News was assumed by j i Messrs. John K. Aull, James L. Aull and Humbert Aull, the three sons of E. H. Aull. Mr. James L. Aull takes charge of the active business management of the plant. This does not mean that I Ihavfe severed my connection with the pa'*N^sxNeeT>eiy*or that I have been retired. My name will still remain at the head of this column as editor, and I will be in position to do better work for the paper than heretofore. The boys have I consented to relieve me ot tie details | the business end snd much of the j ther work. They are practical prin- i prs and practical newspaper men,} laving been brought up. so to speak, In the printing office. I I shall expect them to throw all the energy and vigor of youth into the business and Tbe Herald and News, and bespeak for them that encouragement and co-operation which their ef forts may deserve. It snail be the Ws purpose of The Herald and News to g? play the glad game and to advocate those things which tend to the progress and development of the community and the uplift of the people. This arrangement places The Herald and News in position to be a better newspaper than it has ever been, V and no effort will be spared to make Mr. John K. Auli will cover the Columbia news and write such editorial HM^natter as he may find time. I will Ko ir? tho r>fnr>o anH f>nntin:io tn write* r editorials and such other matter as : may be of interest to tine readers of the paper. j "With this, brief statement I wish > everybody everywhere a happy and v prosperous New Year. E. H. Aull. NEW YEAR GREETINGS. We trust that ail our readers had a "happy Christmas, and our wisfr for each and every one of them is that the year upon whidh we nave just entered may be better than any year in . .their lives which has gone before. 1 In tbe life of the nation and in the life of the State, the year just past was one of remarkable progress and advancement. South Carolina has had \ : twelve months of unsurpassed material prosperity; educational activities -have increased and broadened, and in every line of endeavor our people have gone forward. Newberry county has maintained her record as one of the I v best counties of .a progressive State, and the people of the county 'have just cause for congratulation. , The rermvi nf thp venr ic r?n ln/'on. i tive to increased endeavor to make ^ this year even better, as it should be W ?-for stagnation is death, and each succeeding year ought to be better than the one which ihas past. A healthy moral and commercial life can grow only out of moral and material progress. We want to see tUe people of the! county seat and the people of the! county work together this year for: a better town and a better county.: We want to see a community of in-', terest. j* ? To this end The Herald and News pledges its best endeavor. The Her-! aid and News wants to see Newberry ! grow, broadened out and upbuilded by a united people working for those | things which are for the common . good. The Herald and News will strive earnestly to do its part. I A year brings many changes. As ' ure take stock, as it were, in the be-, ginning of this new year, the inventory will bring gladness to some, and for others it will frold sadness. As the human mind regards blessings, some few have been greatly blessed, while into the lives of others great sorrows have come since a year ago. Whatever the record, however, it is writ, and it is for us to start again, 'With faith in an All-wise Ruler, w&o I knoweth and who d'eth w'mi Is ]>? . .. and with the determination to act well j our part, however great or however humble t'/.at part may be. Again we wish for our readers a year of peace and of happiness and of prosperity, and again The Herald and News pledges its efforts and its endeavors to those things which may be helpful to the people of Newber % ry, of Newberry county, and of the State. "We shall try to make the paper a better paper than it has ever been, and we ask the co-operation and the encouragement of our people. Happy and prosperous New Year to everybody. New York should put some of her alienists on trial and determine if it were safe for so many of them to be nut of Matteawan. Let everybody get busy now and play the glad game. It is a great game and beats football and baseball and basketball and all the other ball j games. Nothing like it. ! Start the .now year right by subscribing to The Herald and News, if j your name is not already on our mailing listi We are going to make the best paper we have ever.made. Conditions in Mexico do not seem ! to improve. About the only prospect | of peace' down there seems to be the j extermination of the Federals oy the] rebels, and of the rebels by the Federals. We notice that the Coutnibia correspondent otf toe News and Courier rhqt. Senator Johnstone, of New berry, is being urged to run for governor. The boys who are in say the water is fine and the swimming good. We do not agree with Prof. Hand that the State should go outside its borders to select school men. We believe South Carolina fras men who are competent and our own people know conditions better and understand our people better. wmim* TJ'.ie ,firs? man you hear knocking this year send him out to Gum Springs. He is not needed in Newberry. We are going to organize a boosters'-club and we wan* only a few true and tried members, and They will give the'spirit to the remainder of the town. South Carolina begins the newyear with her full quota of State mili- i tia, and with a better spirit prevailing n the organization than for a long r*r?of TJtt 4-V* rv rofntjol nf OV\V U111C paoi. UHO 1 Vyi UOUl \JX. J3U T ernor to muster out the twelve companies which the adjutant general recommended be mustered out, an entire regiment was saved to the State, and in toe fight which was made to retain this regiment, in which fight the governor had the sympathy of almost the entire militia organization, all the companies have been brought up to a higher state of efficiency. For weeks before a session of the legislature convenes there are always predictions as to what will be done and what will not be done, and j fa ere are always lots of opinions and advice as to what should be done. The several weeks before the coming session have been no exception to the rule. It strikes us the best thing the legislature can do is to go quietly at the work in 'hand, get through witlh it, and adjourn. We have often wondered what would happen if all the bills introduced should become laws. There j may be a few new laws needed, but; we are already overburdened with laws. J In the mater of a tuberculous hos-! pital, advocated by Gov. Blease in an j interview given out by him from Co-1 lumbia some time ago, it might not be out of place to suggest that a por- j tion of the land purchased the past j year by the State Hospital Commis-j sion would be admirably suited for such an institution. In order to secure adequate water supply for all time the commission purchased some three hundred acres near Killians, a station on the Southern Railv ly, about ten miles above Columbia and two miles from the site of the new State hospital for the inMOM c. c1.;" 1 not adjoining Ian.is. T .? j K I-olin tract contains about one linn- [ I drcd and twenty acres and has on it a ,[ | good substantial residence of eight j rooms which could be used, with a small expenditure in the way of repairs, for the hospital. Only a small portion o this land will be absolutely tn V?ivitor ciinnlv Vint tTio J J CV 1 J LU *1 (l I.V- 1 ? >y u ? v*?v> I whole tract was purchased because it | would tjave cost nearly as much to se- ? cure a small portion. It is a healthy j location and "was used at one time by the family of Mr. Lumpkin as a res- j idence on account of its healthfulness. If the. State should decide to make1 * I the experiment of a tuberculous hospital it had occurred to us that the experiment could be made in this way I without Che outlay of a great deal of j money. Then, too, it would be suf-; ficientlv close to the State hospital for i the insane that the physicians in rhnree of that institution could be of service to the tuberculous hospital. ! I ! I Prof. W. H. Hand is in the main | correct, if a little severe, in his crit! icism of the school system of South I ! Carolina, or rather lack of system, j I There is no doubt that our school laws $ 'need revising. It is impossible to 2 reach the ideal, ye; ,>e might approx- j J imate it a little closer than we do. J It is true, as he says, that too of- u j ten people do not vote for men for | position on account of their fitness for I the position. This is true, not only of I school officials, out or an otner po.sa- I r' lions to he rilled by popular election, j and if yon rake the State superinten- ! f dent of education out of C^e general | election it might be true that a Slate a board would not always be governed g by fitness. TVe are ail hnrran and are ; governed largely by our prejudices. $ Unfortunately we still loo!-: upon "a p State superintendent of education and | a* county superintendent as a minor 2 office and too frequently conclude that | any fellow is qualified for the position. ;K and if he is a good fellow and a good hand shaker he gets the vote, regardless of his peculiar fitness for the! position. j We ha\e not yet realized that toe1 education of the children of the commonwealth is a big business, and we j ' are spending lots of money in it and i? , ' i too frequently without intelligent di- t rection. ' j \ ' s Taking these officers out of the popular election might help matters, and then it might not. It is worth considering. Tue education of the children is now taken over by the State and the State should go about the matter in a business way. Two and a half million dollars a year is a pretty big sum, and it should be handled to the best advantage of the children. With all this money we pay our i school officers and our school teactiers too little for any of them, especially in the common schools, to think of making the work a profession for life, 1 and we can't expect the best results ( so long as those engaged in the work ^ are there only temporarily. The fault i lies largely with the parents. Tfrey i need to be waked up. They need to * \eee the light. Then there will be 1 something doing. Agitation of the c v right kind will do good. \ ? "FOR THE BEST THINGS." j f If I could tell you half tine things i I'm wishing You, Today. I If I could just surround your Path t With Happiness alway; s If I could banish every care c And drive away each tear, # a You'd have no carping worrying h thought j To fret you througih the Year. S f If only I could see ahead c To know just what you need; t If I could give you just those Gifts t I sfcould be glad indeed. My eyes are dim, I cannot see, j Nor am I wise to know 1 So I am simply asking God, His Best things to bestow. ?'Mary Cromwell Lord. ^ i PROF HANDS'S PLEA TO BETTER SCHOOLS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.) : r and the direction of the education of f ^ T C* ~ r\ AAA ~ C AT. ^ n more man 3ou,uvv cuuureu m tut: State? Out of Politics. d "An effective and responsible school administration must be taken out of t politics. There is no more reason for t putting the State superintendency of S education into a political campaign t ' j ^TwmuwvMKvanoMMM m???paureni MiTriiBiiwi We V | S We thar J eral patror During the the past, u | please our I full value be our ain: / ried a stcc and mainfc < I s - . ' "Th< > MnMHMaKjnBMMMHMBBaa ban there^would be for putting the jresidency of the University, or of ^leiiison,' or of Winthrop, or of the >itadel, into a political primary. What vould become of eithere of these coleges thus immersed in politics? The state superintendent of education should be elected by a State board of :ducation elected by the people. The state is already divided into congressional districts. This State board night consist of one member from ;ach congressional district. The term )f office should be at least six yeai*s, md the board should be a continuing mo TVio hnmv? wrmlri he riireetlv re sponsible to the people and would feel ts responsibility in a way impossible :o the mere voter. State lines should De no limit to tfce territory from which a superintendent might be chosen. If the proper man could be ?ound inside the State, so much the setter. But. should he happen to live n another State, get him. The State s after an expert, and it should put 10 geographical limits on itself in the search. If Charleston, Columbia, Spartanburg or Greenville were lookng for a city superintendent, a local >oard alive to its job would look beyond either municipal or State lines or the right man. "The cheap politician and the two>v-four statesman may be depended ipon to oppose any such plan on the ipecious plea that it would be un[emocratic. Should such a pl^n be idopted, they and taeir kind would lave one fewer pawns in their little >olitical games in election years. !uch a plan would emphasize fitness or the office instead of stump bumombe and campaign bargaining? he hope and glory of the cheap poli^ /?QinoorAO^TD '' IU 1 CI II d UU. U^UI?5VJj v*\-. iOTHING UNUSUAL CALLS FOR TISIT iind's Desire to Talk to President Not Bred of Any New Developments in South. Pass Christian, Miss., Dec. 30.? 'resident Wilson has given permision to John Lind, his personal repesentative in Mexico, to come here rom Vera Cruz for a conference on lexican affairs. Mr. Lind asked through tihe State iepartment whether he could have f- nil aboard the cruiser Ches er, whicfc was to leave "Vera Cruz oday, and messages passed between ;.->er t'?T' Daniels of the navy and he president by which t)he Chester j \ /ish all our Cust lk our friends fc lage during the : coming year wi se our every er customers and for their mone i to offer as larg k of good goods im our reasona ; House of 1,000 Thi I ? I Going up?the in in world-wide ' 11 down?the cost I transportation. hundred fifty fivi now in use are k tation cost at ; world over. Five hundred dollar the Ford runaDOut; five fifty; the town f. o. b. Detroit, co: Iment. Get catalog Summer's Garagi ! ; i was to be held pending Mr. Lind's decision. Late tonight the president I had received no official confirmation as to whether or not Mr.. Lind had ! availed himself of this opportunity. . The president declined to discuss j ! tJlie meeting, moreover, that there was j j no particular development in the sit- ! j uation which had impelled Mr. Lind j * - with tho nroei. I j 10 seen an ciuujiciiv-c niiu ^<. . ' dent at this time. Mr. Lind's request j for permission to come referred only | to a brief vacation from his long isolation in Mexico, and it is assumed j therefore that he will go back. after J he has talked with the president, I though definite plans were not made known. I FOR BAPTIST HOSPITAL Committee Named at Bennettsiille Organize in Colombia. Columbia, December 31.?The trus: tees of the South Carolina hospital, who were recently appointed by the Baptist State convention in Bennettsvillc to establish and maintain a hospital, fheld. their first meeting- in t \ / i I omers \ 1 \ s'\ \ \ r their libpast year. e will, as in . J ? - i lueavor iu give them y. It will e and vaas possible ble prices. Store I umber of Fords service. Going of motor car More than three 3 thousand Fords eeping transpor- a minimum the s is the new price o'i the- touring car is car seven fifty?all mplete with equip ana particulars irom Newberry, S. C. I Columbia this afternoon. Permanent organization was effected by the elec- y tion of Rev. Louis J. Bristow, of Abbeville, president; kev. E. C. Burts, / * of Columbia, vice president; Andrew / J. Bethea, of Columbia , secretary^/ John M. Kinard, of Newberry, .tr&asurer. An executive committed consisting of Rev. L. J. Bristow, Rev. E. C. Burts, A. J. Bethea, John M. Kinard? Will Evans, R. J. Alderman and Rev. W. b. Wakefield were elected. Matters pertaining to tne organization and management of the hospital were discussed. A committee was appointed to procure a general secretary and manager and a superintendent for the hospital. 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