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|p? ||eralD and Jem Entered at the Postoffice at Newlarry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, Januar/ 19, 1915. "A Stfltp marketing bureau. a State board of charities and a State highway board are some of the new departments of government it is proposed to establish for the people to support. It is a high compliment paid ir. James A. Hoyt to be elected speaker without opposition and it is his first term as a member. He is a fine gentleman and perfectly familiar with the rules of the house and will preside with fairness and impartiality. A great many people want to know why Gov. Blease resigned and a number of reasons have been assigned. We should say he did it because he wanted to and had a right under the constitution to do it. Isn't that reason sufficient? 'Gov. Blease certainly was "played up" good and strong in The State after his resignation. The State not only printed his name several times but his law card and his autograph on the first page in the centre of the page. It would have cost him a good many dollars to haive gotten that position in the paper ordinarily. Gov. Smith said he would have closed up the race track in Charleston if it had not been closed. We understand that Gov. Blgase and the attorney general's office closed up the Charleston race track some weeks ago though there has been no mention made of it in the newspapers. If Gov. Smith had desired to do f something to make his brief adminittration notable, as a prohibitionist he could fcave closed all the dispensaries in the State and we would hr.ve had .Statewide prohibition for a few brief ^ O trf 1 DI ATI/ The last th keep you aw? One lot of Boy* j 15c One lot of Men $1.19 Everything m Rer I HI A i Suppose the farmer should just determine to sit back tMs year and say: "I have plenty to eat for the year. I will only plant what I need to live on and make no cotton at all/' Have you ever thought what would be the result? And yet cotton has been no asset or security for money with the people who have money. Wlhy should the farmer make any more? T^e exports have been about as large as they were last year and the price is said to be around twenty-five cents in Germany, and cotton not considered a valid security for money in this country. But you can't get the farmers to unite and work together for their own welfare. It is passing strange. It seems that the advocates of prohibition are going to make their bill as drastice as possible. A man is to have no personal liberty at all in the matter of beer or whiskey and his home, which has always been considered his castle, is to be subject to cco r/^Vi The measure proposed is far reaching. It means the establishment o: a consta,bulatory that will be given opportunity to go further than some of us have been taught to believe is the prerogative of government. But if that is what the people want let them have it. There is no more personal liberty, or personal right under the law any way. Some one gets an idea that a reform is needed the first thought is to pass a law until we have more laws than observance of law. We believe in temperance, but our observation has been that of all the intemperate people in this land of liberty it is the prohibition advocates. APPROPRIATIONS ASKED. We publish in another column an estimate of appropriations as made up by the comptroller general from the estimates of the various departments of the State government. The estimate is little more than two and one half million dollars. To make all the DRY G( RSDAY, MAI ree days of the ay. Here are s Pants ?ne ^ fore t's Hats One Ic coal lust be sold by ? nember tl PROS appropriations asked for will require a levy of more than eight mills. The levy the past year was six mills. % in the ievy. Then there are propoIt will mean an increase of two mills sitions before the legislature to create at least two additional departments of the State government?that of a board of charities and <y. public roads. These will require more money to run and so there is no telling where the appropriation bill will land by the time it is completed. It would be a good idea for the leg isiature to go just a little slow at this | time in the matter of increasing the j expenses of running ths government. The taxes for last year in a great many cases have not yet been paid. The time has been extended to the first February without the penalty and many will have to pay the penalty and carry it to the first of March. It is stated that the University wants the legislature to erect a grand stand at the ball park for the foot I V?r 11 o rwJ Ko pa "V\o 11 /"?1 nKc uc;;i anil uaoc uau viuvc. i uit other 'maintenance expenses of running these educational institutions will have to be increased. The University and -Wintbrop want a total increase this year over last year of nearly or quite $100,000. We suppose for the erection of new buildings. If the fcrtlizer tax falls short, as every one expects it will, Clemson will be coming and asking for an appropriation for running expenses. It is 'i problem but if the State wants all ai. ^ : .-"U ^ iiaese ir.gJier iusuluuuus ol iwruius she must expect to pay for them. & PASS A LAW, When you want anything whatever, pass a law. The News and Courier gives the text of a bill introduced in the legislature by Mr. Boyd, of Spartanburg, on advertisements. This bill, we should think, does not affect the newspaper, and yet there is doubt about who is meant, the newspaper for publishing or the advertiser who pays the bill. Xo doubt it is all right but to our mind it is not the prerogative of government to be wet PODS CO I mil C4TT1PI11 i uiiu UJtii uni/ii Sale we will aln ome of the barg Dt of Men's OxIs on >t of Youth Overts $2.98 >at., Jan. 23rd. tie Time a ^ x fiBJ iriii 5?5 wre A uv/ FERITY, SO nurse for everybody and everything. The following is from the News and Courier: Bill on Advertisements. When is an advertisement "untrue or misleading." That is the crux of a bill today introduced in the "house by Mr. Boyd, o: Spartanburg. Here is v>;? . iiia mcaa ai c . ISection 1. It shall be a misdemeanor to make, publish, disseminate, circulate or place before the public, or cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the public in this State, in any newspaper, magazine or other publication, or on any sign, handbill, placard, poster, sign board or advertisement of any sort, regarding merchandise, securities, service or anything to be offered to tl;n public which advertisement contains statement, assertion or representation which is untrue or misleading, with intent to sell, barter or dispose of any merchandise, securities, service or thing to be offered, directly or indirAf+lv to tliij rmhH/-> fnr coin /it rlic * VVViJ , tw IUV y U A.V/X VX UiU % . tribution, or to increase the consump- ' tion thereof, or to induce the public to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire any interest in or title thereto. Section 2. That any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of the foregoing section shall be punished by fine not exceeding ($100) i one hundred dollars, or imprisonment < not exceeding thirty days. ] We suppose it is intended to mean ; that the advertiser and not the news- ; paper publishing the advertisement i shall be guilty of the misdemeanor, i Then, as the correspondent of the ; XftWS nriri Pniiripr wpII s3vs Tvhpn is : an advertisement untrue o:' mislead- ; ing, and who is to judge. < (Suppose a merchant should adver- ' tise a coat suit for $5 that he says : cost $20.00 and it really cost him i only $10. is that amenable under this < law. Or suppose he should advertise ] a $50,000 stock of goods on first of i January , and return that same stock ! for taxation at that time at $2,000, who is to judge which statement is i true and which is misleading. i ( Wouldn't it be a good idja to pass ; < a law to make it a misdemeanor for a ? politician to make untrue and mis- ( leading statements in his speeches i when he is a candidate for offioe. i 'In fact, wouldnt' it be a good idea j to pass a law to make every one speak i the truth and to stop people from say- t ing unkind things of one another. And to stop all gossipping tongues and if 1 MPANY *T V i ?TT r 4 f\VT - I, JAINUAKi ZJ aost GIVE GOO ains. One lot of Li Shoes 79c One lot of Fig Lawns lie per yJ n __ i\ain or snine. nd Place-1 UTH CARO *hey insisted on wagging ro punish the owners of such tongues' as for a misdemeanor by fine or imprisonment. But what's the use of it all and so many laws. Even the best* and most law abiding citizen will, -without intention, violates some laws each day of his waking life. He can't ;help it. It all creates a disrespect for law. All Have Troubles of Their Own. IT'he reporter was telling a fellow the other day how it felt to be stopped every other five minutes to write a notice of some kind while in a burr/ cn busy days tor something of more importance and with only a few minutes of time in which to get it. The fellow said, "I beliei.ve your job is about as hard as mine.'; That set us to thinking, as "The Idler" says people don't think enough. Every man thinks his job the hardest. The man that tells his troubles to another doesn't get any sympathy. The other man r& not listening, he i.-; thinking of his own hard job. Wni'e vcu are telling of yours ae is com-, ing back at you with his. So what's the use? But it seems to be human nature for j a .nan to think that if the other fellow i'.:ad his job he, the ^aid other fellow, -would hav? something to ta'r about; that he didn't know anything ahnu Vila T + rvi:r h' no vr if? c. 11 tr? f f ixxuuuiv. AC in ft i*. U-) uJi I.V look around and compare notes. There is annoyance, and vexation of spirit in every calling or pursuit. Ther*' are no "flowery beds of ease"?t':e thorns are there. One man who thinks his job is the hardest may, for instance, look at the postoffice officials engaged in their work and think that they have a mighty easy job in their pleasant and comfortable, surroundings; and yet that man, were he to stand in there all day and open boxes for everybody who had left keys at home, and answer questions as to whether "it is all up/' and to everything else that is required in an up-to-date postoffice, especially during an overworked sea* 5011 in bad weather, would be glad to ?et back to his original position. We imagine that the same could be =aid of telephone offices, water and electric light plants, Southern Power company stations, depots, cotton mills ind ot:.er things. Everybody thinks everybody else has an easier time, when the fact is that all have it rough md tough enough in place, as well | is smooth spots, which would be more lumerous if we would only look for hem. IThe poor have their troubles. So\ lave the rich. But>t is just like the Prospei let 7?nil and > LUlj LlLdllU UUU 4 DS AWAY. S idies' One 1 | 3c ,ured One lot at l 71-: Let nothing ke? You Knoi 1 UNA Lutheran Church Visitor sair* editoria:3y in its last issue: "Tbi poor man thinks he would be happy if he had his neighbor's wealth, and the rich man thinks he would he 'happy if he had his neighbor's health." 'A-s a poet i has well said: "Some have much and some have more, Sbme are rich and some are poor, Some have little, some have leas, Some have not a cent to bless Their empty pockets, yet possess True ric.es in true happiness." 1 Southern Uouble-Tracking. Washington, D. C, .Ian. 16.?Southern railway will proceed at once, to revise and double track the 28.7 miles o. its Washington-Atlanta line lying be tween Orange and Charlottesville, Va., the work to involve an expenditure of $1,500,000.00 and to result in a greatly a improved line botn as to grades I curvature. Bids for the grading are hpinjy rArpivpd !.rom contractors to day in the office of 'Mr. W. H. Weils, ? chief engineer of construction, under 1 whose direction the work will be done. The completion of this work together with other work now under way will give the Southern a con- J tinuous stretch of 121 miles of double track out of Washington and a total of 338.7 miles of double trach between Washington and Charlotte, leaving only 41.3 miles ft' single track, divided into four stretches the longest of .which is 20 miles. (The revision between Orange and Charlottesville will eliminate 1303 ae- ,' grees of curvature or nearly four 1 complete circles and will give a max- 1 imum grade northbound of 0.9 and | southbound of 1 percent as against | 1.41 Dercent in both directions at I present. J The work'.to be done is very-' heavy and will furnish labor for a large ||| number of men and cause heavy ex- - M penditures in the territory immediately affected. In undertaking it at Jli'S this time "w&en receipts from both "Em freight and passenger traffic are much wgi below normal Southern Railway com- fl|| pany is giving striking evidence of ||| President Harrison's faith in the bus-'B|||j iness future of the South and his de- JBii termination to furnish adequate fa-?M^ffl cilities, the necessary capital for-' tunately having been provided oeiorM^sj the outbreak of the present Eur^B pean war. Two O'clock Saturday, oM -V-' dresses, all sizes ' | > rfVMjiCiJ insons's Ten Cent StoraB'^lj^1!^ . . W dow display. ^B^^MpSSS m ity, S. G I o let nothing |^l ^ ammanme ot of Ribbon V per yd I Standard Drill 2c per yd \ 'ijj jp you away. I N 4 SI "