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|||)e |fcraHs and jeios. | Entered at the Postoffice at New-; *?rry, S. C., as 2nd class matter, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, March 5. 1915. Old man S. L. Drag is a mighty good siriend to the people if he is encouraged a bit with a good pair of mules and a driver.?Bamberg Herald. And sure he is. And he is getting some encouragement in these days and we see the result in better roads. THE SPLIT LOG DRAG. The split log drag has contributed more toward the economic maintenance of public highways than any implement of modern usage. It does not require special acts of the legislature, bond issues nor expensive educational canpaigns to make it available as usually precedes construction work. A drag can be built or purchased for a few dollars &nd is easily operated by any one who can drive a team. We need more drags in tfais State.?Anderson Intelligencer. 'It does Dot require special acts or bond issues, but it does require an educational campaign. We have been ' ^ conducting that campaign*for the last several years, and for a long time had very few converts or apt pupils, but now, we are glad to see, the followers are increasing and results are being Obtained. KATE MA HER ifOMPLI.1TEXTED. In his letter of resignation to the governor, Comptroller General Jones commends his office force for their fidelity to duty. In concluding he states that one member of his official staff deserves more than passing attention. Miss Kate MaTaer, of Barnwell. the clerk in the Dension depart- t ment, is not paid on the same basis! as other clerks. While [Miss Maher is a stenographer, she in fact has been an executive clerk for several yeafrs. Miss Maher is known to be a woman of large sympathies, and frequently has taken upon fcerself a doublp portion of work to relieve some little stenographer in the city who was desperately in need of a rest and could not afford it.?The Record. Miss Maher is one of the few officials who still remain at the State house since the days we were there. Wp dpsirp to arid our prtdnrsement to t'.:e good things said about her. There is no one in the State who is as familiar with the pension laws as she, and sue isa lways courteous and obliging, as well as competent. It will take us some time to get matters in running order. We were forced to carry over several items that we could not get in the paper on Tuesday. We did not get the machine to turning out type until Saturday, and it took some time to get it in running order, or rather to running smoothly. Then there was an accumulation and we are trying to catch up. We missed our Kinards mail also. xThis we will try to avoid in the "future. IWte are gratified at the many kin J words which have come to us during the past few days, and we will strive most earnestly to deserve tioettC ^heu these encouraging messages h*ve come in the way of quite a number of new subscribers with the cash. It is all very encouraging. The Herald and tNews will stand . as it has in the past for all that is good and of good report, and will go on the even tenor of its Way with no grouches. GOVERNOR'S MANSION. We notice that a great deal of w<..rk -is being done on the governor's mansion. Well, the old building needs a i ew one, but we.do not see why there Miould be need at this time of so much repairing. We heard while in Colum Ma some days ago that everything l.ad been taken out of the building : nd all of the furniture sent to the r.sylum and that the papering was taken off the walls and the floors taken up and everything worked over. We suppose the idea is to get rid ot everything upon which the eyes of Blease looked. iWe have known t'.:e pension pretty well for a number of ;-:ars and we would be willing to wager niir la<;t vwr's nannrrm tViot wlitm \Trc Blease left the mansion it was in better condition in -every way than it was left by any occupant in many years. As a matter o .act. the 3.ate should j * 1 not undertake to furnish it. And t at i i is the burden of our remarks at this , time. To take $200 and $300 suits of j furniture out every four years and send them to the asylum, not to speak of fine rugs and carpets and matting and lace curtains, and have the State replace them, is a very expensive thing. Each governor should furnish i the house fcimself. We think the apr.onni-i'otiAw Kill no rr-iae or?ma ?Q flfifl jji iativii iw/xxx v-cix jl jlv,o owuit- yw^vu j for repairs. We recall that only a few I years ago about $1,000 was appropriated to buy a dining room suit. The crazy people would not have much use for that. ASYLUM REGENTS. \ in Tuesday's paper it was our pleasure to commend several appointments ! by Gov. Manning.. WTiit!:.out going out j of our way to find fault, we desire j to keep the record straight, and inas-1 much as {The Herald and News was | not being published at the time, we desire to say that we think the governor went out of his wray in removing the regents of the State Hospital for the Insane in the manner tfaat he did. There was no immediate cause that we have seen ?for him to have made the removal in the erly (hours off, a Sunday morning, without giving them an opportunity to resign or to show cause_or do anything. They are honorable gentlemen and deserved to be treated as such. They had served the State and the hospital faithfully while in office, and were appointed for a term of years by authority of law*, j There was no occasion that we can | v j see for sending that message to the j general assembly. 'If the governor j naa aesirea 10 mase me new aypuiiitments before the legislature adjourned then there might have been some little excuse for his undue haste. It is j now ten days and the appointments j have not yet been made. The only | reason th^t we can see is tihat these! gentlemen were appointed by his prejdecessor, and yet he proclaims that his administration is free from partisanship, and that he is the governor of all the people. We expect him to appumi nib JUICUUS aiiu buyyuxtcis, uui i i.'rom his professions we would have expected fcdm to have acted differently in this matter. , And tlien his letter to Attorney Gen\ eral Peeples would indicate that 'he is to be the governor only of those who agree with his policies. We simply mention these matters so that our position may not be misunderstood. It shall be the purpose of TT.ie Herald and iNews to commend where we think it deserves, and where we do not agree to speak out and say so. FOR GOOD BOA?S. The Richland county delegation in the legislature did a very bold tihing, but we think a proper thing, when it passed a bill authorizing the issue of one and a quarter million dollar bond issue for permanent -vcork on the roads of Richlaad countly, and it -specifies the roads that are to be built, ? J)) _ Al. ^ 1 or pavea as ine Dili says, it look | some nerve to do a tfring like that. It too frequently happens that our representatives are afraid , to do What they know is for the best interests of the people. It also too frequently happens that the people who would be the most benefitted by a little tax and who pay the least are the strongest in their opposition. The first road mentioned in the act Vor permanent work is th?e CapitolPiedmont highway from Columbia to the Lexington line. (This is the main road from Columbia to Newberry and will be about twenty-two miles to the Lexington line. The point of this article is to urge Lexington and Newberry to take up the work on the road through these counties and then we will have a good dirt road ifrom Columbia to Newberry. Surely the other two counties should be as progressive as Richland. Tihe 1 Lexington portion is only about eight \ miles and it is the worst part of the road. It would not take a great deal of work for Newberry to put this highway in fine Condition from Little iAlbuntain to Kinards. and it should be Just twelve years ago the editor of The Herald and News introduced a bill similar to the Ricib-land bill, but that was before the constitution was v. - w / \ amended, and we had to make it appl / i to the entire State. We are pleased | to see the work begin. We kne,w twelve i I years ago that it was coming and we ' are glad to be here to see the work start. Greenville has a similar bill to the Richland bill. And Anderson also, except tl^iat the Anderson bond measure is to be submitted to the people. 'No better investment than money put into permanent improvement of: the public roads. A great deal of i money is wasted every years in temporary work. mm i THE TAX PROBLEM. * The Herald and News Tias not been i able to comment upon tlie '.arious acts of the legislature and will be forced to take up matters at this time. r'vV-e will endeavor as far as possible to 9 publish the more important acts, or | at least to give our readers informa- j tion as to them, but in many cases we j will be -orced to presume in our com- ! ments that the reader is familiar with the action of the legislature. One of tlie most important and far\ reaching of the laws put on the statute book by the legisature i$ the one in regard to the assessment of property and which carries with it the creation of a new department of the State government, to be known as the tax department, or tax commission. Governor Mannaing has appointed the board provided for in the act, and we heartily commend at least the appointment of two members of this board. The purpose as we understand the new law is to get an equitable and just assessment of all the prop-1 i ertv in the State for the nurDOse of I taxation. This is a very commendable purpose, but it will brecatfe something oif a revolution, at least tempo- j rarily, if it is carried out. At one time we were heartily in favor of all property being assessed | at its casfr value. After service of some years in the legislature, our views on this question were very much modified. The trouble is that the average legislator can not, or does not, differentiate between a levy and an appropriation, in otner words, we i mean that a great many either believe or fool themselves into believing that | if they liave not increased the levy j they have not. increased taxes. Any j student of the fiscal history of the,! State will see that as the assessments have increased, instead of the levy decreasing, it has really increased at a greater ratio. The last legislature, wit)'.]- the largest valuation in the history of the State, I'ras the largest levy, at least for the last forty years, which means,' Oil course, a much larger appropriation bill. (All corporate property, such as cot- ! ton mills and banks and railroads, is now assessed at about 60 per cent of its value, or capital stock, while land and mules and things of that kind are i assessed sometimes less than 10 per cent of actual value. Of course tiiat is not equitable, but just at this time when the farmers are having it pretty hard, ifl and, which is now assessed at $4.85 the acre, and which would seil for $150 or $200, should be raised to 0 per cent; and mules tf at are assessed'~at ^.$40 and $50, that cost $200 or $300, should be raised to 60 per cent, of their cash calue, we opine that there would be a very forceful kick from the farmers. If, on the other hand, the corporate property sfcould be reduced in the same proporton, then the levy would have to be increased and the burden would bear equally heavy on the classes above re erred to. Mr. Jones, in his letter of resigna- j uon, says: i ne puunc snouia kiiow this does not mean an increase of taxes on property, but is only for the purpose of equalization. <4lt would be unwise to increase i-'ne valuation u^til the arbitrary school tax has been made flexible by a constitutional enactment or by legislativeaction.'' i As we have stated, the history of the tax question in this State demonstrates that as assessments increase the expenditures of the State and tie levy increases in a greater prooortion, and in fifteen years the expenses of the government have been more than doubled and the levy for State purposes has s:one from four and a half to seven mills. The tax problem is a very hard one and ' as.puzzled the minds of the law- J i makers sinc e government was organ- j ized, and will never be equitably solved i ?o long as human nature remains as ! it is. We may approach its solution. ! i .i_ __ I .. 11(2 euon LU UO SO uuunnciiuauic. The boys in congress from South Carolina stole a march on the office seekeds and handed out tLe plums in the new Federal district before anyone knew the district bill had passed. Too bad. The appointment of Mr. W. W. Brad ley as assistant to t'.;e State bank examiner is a good one. Mr. Bradley is a good accountant and will make an excellent official. He had been secretary to Congressman Aiken for sev-j eral years. Tlie Herald and News prints in an- ; other column the supply bill t'or New- , i berry county. Through t.e courtesy j of CVIr. Holloway, attorney for the | county, we used a certified copy, so j that the bill as printed is just as it j passed the legislature. 'V\? also print t' e bill relating to the fiscal affairs of the county, which authorizes the borrowing of $30,000. These matters should be of interest to the people who pay the taxes. ? Gotv. Manning has. appointed the board of regents. It is an entirely new board, but all of them are good substantial citizens of the State. On good lady of the town came in ! on Tuesday morning and paid sub- j scrjption to (The Herald and News for two -years in advance. We appreciate tfce confidence and mention the 'i'act simply to show that there are those who have .'ait':/ in the perpetuity of the old Herald and News. There are, as we have said, several whose subscription has just expired, or has been out for two or three months. A payment of fifty cents by each of these would ':elp very much in these times and be very easy on the subscriber. Miss G-oggans will begin her educational page in the issue of Friday, March 12th I;.' you have anything for , that page fcand it to Miss Goggans at once. iim i miiaci umvuiLimrUff 1)1<CT/1\TQ STATE'S "FA xii/aiw^o i The official connections of. the State ! heard with regret of the fact that John E. Holmes, of Columbia, wouM retire from the service o- the State on account of ill healtn. Mr. Holmes ; nas been the "paymaster' of the State j for several years, in connection with ?. his duties in the comptrollers office, and naturally he is a man much sought after on the first day of each month. His uniform courtesy and tact have endeared him to his asso... * J ciates. He just returned bus weeK from Charleston, where he had been recuperating from a severe attack of neuritis.?^The Record. Mr. Holmes was a very efficient and a very accurate bookkeeper and we regret that "his health is such as to J force his retirement. He was always pleasant and agreeable. Our hope is b.:at his health may soon be entirely restored and that many mo-re years of. active usefulness maybe his. Natural. Being From Newberry. | Bamberg Herald. Patrons and friends Of tioe College for Women all over the State and elsewhere will learn with regret of the resignation of Miss Euphemia McClintock as president of that institution. Under her wise and energetic management there has been no finer college for women anywhere in the 'South, and for Southern women, and the atmospihere has been ideal for the development of the highest type of Southern womanhood. As a patron of the institution and as a cit- j izen of the State we deeply regret that! she has decided to sever her connec- j tion. ' JSRADLEY SPECIAL AUDITOR. I . I Manning Appoints Examiner for all State Institutions?Act of Legislature. The State. W. W. Bradley, of Abbeville, has been appointed by Go.\ Manning as * ' L J- - C* ? -?? /nv.O TV* 7 _ I an assistant to tne oiait; uaurv. cAaimner to audit the accounts and books of all State institutions. The appointment was made in accordance with an i act of the last general assembly. The i salary is $1,800 a year. Gov. Manning j recommended the creation of this po- j sition in his inaugural address. The appointment was announced by I. M. Mauldin, State bank examiner, after a conference witfc the governor. c\ Sri 17 /m?<4 A VI Start your For< Self Starter. I charge and electr trouble. The De last as long as tl l..i <m e DUL yi&t When equippe< a driver of a For< while sitting at t he has full contr< throttle; and with * CC a. 1.1 i errorc man wun i matically released kick, no damage erator. . Just received a Model Ford cars provements. Cal demonstrate to y< the best car on tli Get our prices rich, Goodyear ai Tires, and all oth< Vulcanizing a s Summer's % \ LO< Here Is a Matter of 1 INSURE Metropolitan life Insurant "The Company of the People b Outstanding Insuran Assets $496,862,770.63 . No. of Policies in force Decern! (More tho thai of uj otkr csmpacy in kwesia aa Number of Policy-Claims paid(Averem we policy paid % eicry 46 ?e Amount Paid on the Above (Averaging $232.07 a minute of 626 per day in number of claij 8,040 per day in number of p< Bonuses apportioned, payable $6,357,652.42. POLICIES ISSUED FOR A PREMIUM* W. L. GRIF] Newberry, f To Be Greatest Hit of Season. The comic opera. 'TThe Pennant," which is scheduled for March 4th and 5th, promises to be the greatest hit of the season. The cast of characters include some of the best talent in Newberry, Miss Pauline Gildei, with her rico, mellow voice, starring as the heroine. Supporting the main characters is a chorus of seventy-five voices, with orchestra accompaniment of two violins, clarionet and piano. Fifty children trained by Mrs. J. H. Harms, will take part in action songs. rtpr 3r J Cars I 1 with a Denver * batteries to ical parts to give ,, nver starter will le Car and costs V 1 I _ T\ l wim a i^enver, 1 starts his motor he wheel, where ol of spark and a great deal less he crank. Auto[ in case of backto motor or opcar load of 1915 . t l . 5 with latest lmII in and let us mi what we think le market. on Ajax, Good- J id United States i er accessories, pecialty. - > Garage j ll OK 1 r nterest to Everybody IN THE :e Company, of New York y the People for the People." tee $2,991,114,069 j Liabilities $496,862,770.63 J ber 31, 1914 14,843,108 JL it . t m ?l ._- f , i i \ I MR uai jw ? an foerc uiiimu, wa mc.j hh in 1914 .... 189,809 H oafc ?f eaek kaaaen fef af 8 tars.) $33,751,797.29 H each baszress day of 8 bows.) ms paid. ^Hj Nicies issued and revived. 1915, on Industral Policies, (' 3 CENTS PER WEEK AND UPjHj FIN, Agent II South Carolina >OTICE. * Policy holders of the Farmers' Mu- M tiial Association of New- I berry County will meet at the Court < House on Saturday, March 13th inst., j at 11 o'clock a. m. -jul R. T. C. HUXTER. Pres. L. I. 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