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||l)e JtralD anil Jems. Entered at the Postoffice at Xew**rry, S. C., as 2nd class matter, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, April 2, 1915. I ? : State Superintendent of Education j J. E. Swearingen has sent us a copy of tT:e new compulsory school attendance law. The editor of The Herald and News Las for a long time been an advocate of a compulsory attendance law, but we are not much inclined to the piece meal way provided in this law. We think if it is a good thing it should be State-wide. Ana j then it provides for an election in each district and in one section says the election must be held on the "second I Tuesday in June, one thousand nine j hundred and fifteen, following the til- j ing of the petition, or on the second j Tuesday oT June of any subsequent * * year." Then section 13 of the act provides: IT'his act shall be in. full force and effect from and after the first day of July, one thousand nine bundred and nrteen." can an eiecuon be fceld under an act before the act becomes law and if held would it be a legal election? Our friend, Sam T. Reid, cashier of the Bank of Commerce, of Spartanburg, who also reads The Herald and News, sends us a statement of His bank and attaches a clipping from The Herald and News in which we referred to the I statement of the People's bank of Anderson. We stated that the People's bank showed an increase in deposits on March 23, 1915, over same date last year of $75,000. Sam, with that true Spartanburg spirit whicfb we I admire, says: "Anderson will have io come again if toey get ahead of Spartanburg." And she will, for this little and young Bank of Commerce, according to the statement of March 23,1915, shows an increase in deposits over the same date last year of $103,644.71. And it li?3s no bills payable?that is the ! I bank ewes no money and has about $85,000 in cash. It should be able to take good care of its customers, but j plenty of cash.in the vaults and owing : no money does not always mean that j the bank will let out any money even on good collateral, and if it will uot the cash does not do the community much good. Sam, we are coming to Spartanburg before long, and we want you to be on ttoe job, so that we may get a new spring suit for tJ':e Press j association. WHAT IS THE LAW? We published in The Herald and J News Tuesday the full text of the opinion of the attorney general as to the meaning of the "gallon-a-month" act passed by the last legislature. We publish today an opinion on the same law by Solicitor Cooper. On at least one very material point t?e two opinions are at variance to each other. As we read the opinion by the attorney general it would not / ho tin lair fit! fnr an indivi^-iia! t/\ rmr chase liquor from a dispensary in Coumbia and bring it to Newberry if it were for his own use. In other word6, if he came into the possession of the liquor in a legal way he could carry it to a dry county if tie did not do so for illegal or illicit purposes. Mr. Cooper says, would be ^unlawful | for any person to purchase whiskey | at a dispensary in Columbia for his j personal use and convey it into the county of Newberry." Mr. Cooper also holds' that it would be lawful to have one gallon shipped :from out the Stale to Columbia or any other county and convey it from the express office of Columbia or any otJ:er county to New berry county. Mr. Cooper intimates very strongly that in his opinion the act is unconstitutional. But what is the law? That is the point the officers charged with its enforcement are trying to find out. Gov. Manning says to Sheriff Blease: "Mr. Cooper being tl:e solicitor of your circuit, I think you have done well in seeking advice from him. As governor I can not pretend to construe the law, but hopo that you and your magistrates "Will urp vonr utmnst onriAflvnr +/-? 'or. force it." The question would arise, enforce what? The law as construed by tJae solicitor or by the attorney general? Would ti e governor have the sheriff construe the law when he can not.' 'Yet the governor calls upon tv:e sheriffs | to enforce it. We would suggest, if | permitted, and we will do it anyhow, j that it would be a good plan for the I : governor to call upon the attorney general to make a test case in the supreme court and (have the law construed by the power authorized to construe the laws of tne State, and then we will all know what it is. There is no use talking so much about enforcing the law when there are sucia divergent opinions by the law officers as to what i? the law, and when ttbe governor him self says he "can not pretend to con- j strue" it. Let the supreme court settle it and then enforce it. But before we begin enforcing it, it seems to as i t!:at we should know what is to be enforced. IW'hen is a room not a room and i when is a room a room and wfry? These are some of t):e questions puzzling the officials in regard to the "gallon-a monin law passed Dy tne last legis-1 lature. FOR SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATION Shall South Carolina move forward as a unit or shall progress be by townsbips, cities, villages and counties? {When the State Teachers' association resolves that a State tax should be had for the support of common sd.ools, the proceeds to be used for V ~ ~ ,-vV. ~ _ .-vi ~ O * ? * ? ? .. { Luc aviwvis oiatt; i*cg<n sJi the locality of collection of the tax. it takes ground for South Carolina's uniform progress. Some of the counties of the State have comparatively dense and wellto-do populations. Others are thinly 1 settled and tibe people are poor. One of tfte most populous "white" counties stands at or near the bottom of the list in literacy. The imposition of a three mill tax for schools is of small assistance to j th-A Stflto oc n rt-hnla cv-k lrmo- n<3 rlip ! money thereby raised is spent only \ in die county where tfre tax is paid. | The city of Greenville pays more j than a proportionate part of the three! mill tax used for the support of i schools in a remote mountain township of the county. Why should not the county of Greenville, or RicLland, or 'Charleston, in like manner, help to place the schools of Berkeley and Horry on a better footing? In short, it seems that South Carolina as a whole is worth rescuing from illiteracy. I State pride and State common sense j should overcome county pride and self- i is?:ness.?The State. If we are not mistaken, one of the i I candidates who made the race for gov- i ernor last 'year had something in his platform about making the three mill school tax a State tax and not a county tax, as it is now. And give to each child in tJ:.e State the same opportunity that is given to every other child, so far as tiae amount of money is coni rerneri frnm thp State, and then eac'Jl locality could do as it pleased as to a local tax. The rich counties, like Charleston j and Rid':land, where they have more money than they need for their schools, would then i:elp the poor counties where the great majority of the white children are. The three mills tax is now virtually a county tax. By making it a State tax every child would be given t^e same amount. But if tJ:e manner of its distribution and application were as now it would give the white children j - A V _ XT_ - "l_n 1 ^ 1 A .1 m me inicKiy populated negro cuunties the advantage of the white children in the largely white communities. Diese are matters tfoat would adjust themselves, however. We had so much attention given to | the liquor question and the so-called jlaw and order business during the campaign that there was very little 'ime lefj to t):ink about matters educational and constructive. Before we can lhave tlbe improvements that we need in the rural districts for the schools there must be more money irom some source, me towns and corporations in the various counties now contribute very largely from the three mills tax to the support of t):e rural schools and ^\y not the | rich counties help the poorer? Anderson voted pretty strongly j against bonds for the building of roatis. | Well, we know of no better investj ment the county could have made than money put in permanent roads j 'The trouble is to convince the people jtbat the roads will be built after the : bonds are issued. There is som^ ~isk | about it. but in order to do anytl in^ j you have to trust some one. The Intelligencer says they will go ahe^d and build roads without bonds. TIm: is the spirit we like to see. IThe article by Pror.'Anderson in issup of Thp Hpralri nnd \>v;s dAsprw*s ' the serious consideration of t'he peoi pie of Newberry, especially if they are i interested in her material progress ! and development. He writes of a quesj tion that we have written about so : much that we are almost afraid to I ! mention it again. He puts the case very forcibly and if it does not bring : forth at least a small noise tJ.en it is almost useless to agitate the matter ; any further. Read rais article and then do as he suggests?act now?not tomorrow. It is of vital importance to this community. GREAT DAT. Yesterday was a great day in Newberry. Think oif 2,000 children in line and all in happy spirit and' joyful. If it does not make you. forget the war and t'zaxd times cry, then there is not m 11 r>"h Vij-vtvc. frvr vmi TT-i-ori l/\nV at tViof dinner that "was spread out over the campus at the college. fT'he bright and cneerful children in their uniforms was a sigit worthy the gods. There .was good cheer everywhere and every one will go away feeling better and happy that he liye,s in this age and that he could contribute his share to fce joy of the children. To be sure, the display made meant r\ 1 ho iirAvlr Am f ViL? r>o rf r\ P t h D a lUt Ul uaiu n v/i xv. v/n cuc ^au vi | too poorly paid teachers over the co iuty, but they had their recompense in the Happiness which their efforts madepossible lor these two thousand children. 3-iss Sadie Goggans, the supervising teaefcer, was the moving spirit in the success of the day. To be sure s'^e had the hearty co-operation of the teachers, and everyone in lact who was able to do anything, The parade reacned from tJ'n-e court house to the colloge. The coming togetl:er of-the people J from a>ll parts of the county in these annual gatherings surely does good. State Superintendent of Education ! Swearingen and State Supervisor of j Rural Schools Gunter and Lieutenant i Governor Bethea were present during t'~e day and enjoyed the exercises and were high in their praise of the showing made. POLICY OF THE PRESS. | We are somewhat surprised and i not a little disappointed to see the ati titude of certain newspapers in regard i to the Manning administration. One ; or two, we have noticed, and one in particular, never lose an opportunity to criticise the acts of the chief executive and often, in our opinion, at times when no such criticism is necessary. We had hoped that this would not be the case because we are absolutely convinced that South Carolina j has experienced as much factionalism j as she can stand for awhile and it ! seems to us ti at a united people would ! do more for this State during the next | fine years t'r.an any 10 or 12 factional | parties could do. i We do not believe that we shoiil-d commend Gov. Manning or any other State or county officiial every time he turns around. We do not see that the wnnnAi^A/1 nV* Avi.lrl moVii J-CLV^U Y\ C CCU J-L1JJLL Z5 iiVU iU UAiWkv such a foolish thing necessary and we do not intend doing so. We have seen certain papers in this State rushing in to applaud the governor on occasions when such approbation was clearly unnecessary and in our opinion this is just about as bad as criticizing the administration when it is unjust. The point we are striving to emphasize is ti':at newspapers should try to be as fair and impartial as may be | possible. If criticism is deserved, it ; may be very well and commendation in its place is certainly all right, but we should carry neither to an extreme. ?York News. This is well said, except that we have not noticed any captious criticism of the Manning administration by any of the papers. Some of them have criticized some of the things done by tl':e administration, but so far as we hajve observed the criticism has been fair and courteous and free from anv ! I factional bitterness. The supporters of Gov. Wanning, sometimes, we will be permitted to think, carry their admiration a little too far, as the News suggests, and it has seemed to us, they almost hold the doctrine that tfce "king can do no wrong." But so far as our observation goes the preso fcas been * | fr.ir and impartial in dealing with the I doings oi the administration. Yv'e do | ! nor suppose the administration nor! ; the governor expects or desires to be jabove lair and just criticism. What we desire to commend in the above is t* e statement that we should let factionalism go and neither carry jour commendation nor our criticism to t e extreme. Let us liave moderai ticn in all things and the.press to have ; influence must neither be blind to the j virtues nor to the faults of any individual or official, but be able to see both sides of the shield and to deal fairly, courteously and impartially witi i all public questions and public men. When we rcach t:.at point the press will have influence. But for the past four years the majority of the press has seen only one side and has found nothing good or kind to sav about certain officials in j higii places. We hope tO.at era has passed and we welcome this suggestion from the York News. As stated in The Herald and News I some issues hack, we have wiped the I slate clean and no factional bitterness ! rankles in our heart, if it ever did, | which we -do not admit. We have^never been blind to tfre faults even of the men and measures that we have in many respect endorsed. We stand for d constructive developement of our State and the betterment and uplift of our people, as we have always stood. And whatever tends to that end shall have : our support, we snail commend or criticise as it may appear to us right so to do, always trying to be fair and impartial ;\id courteous to those ; who may not agree with us. When ! tj e press does that as a wiiole then | it will be a power. Until then not. ' THE ONLY GIRL"' GREAT SUCCESS A Box Party?Communion Services. Grain Crop Poor. St. Paul, April 1.?Preparatory service will be held at St. Paul on Friday, ! the same being Good Friday, at 11 j a'a! aaIt o t-v-i nv? fnllAiiTin o* Slin. \J V/iUVIV U. JULX. KJ iJL iV/HV niiig day there will be communion service j in the forenoon, with Easter service ' by tv.e children of the Sunday school in ti e afternoon. Everybody is invited to bring their dinner and spend j the day an<f enjoy the Easter exercises, j There will be no meeting of the Lu- ; j ti er league Sunday night, but will bo i postponed until Sunday one week? i i April 11?being at 8 o'clock at taat | time. There will be an entertaining | program arranged. I \Ti?c; Anna Knon's sister Miss Felic(\ j | of Pomaria, spent the week-end as th? ! gnest of Miss Willie Boinest. | Mr. and 'Mrs. IW. C. Crompton, of th? . jVatic F HA\ For the first time specting, trying on, an men of the leading citi pend upon Regals for ( The new Spring n styles in every popula exactly the same price' We are proud of t any shoe values equal 1 here is your chance to I Sumni' ( St. P ili;>*s section, spent Sunday with the famiiy ol' ur. Walter Wicker. There will be given a box party at the St. Paal school, taught by Miss Lthel Counts. Friday nignt, April *\ , beginning at 8:30 o'clock, iI ho public is invited. T.-e proceeds will go! to the benefit of l:.e school. In spite of t) e threatening weatner and railing rain Friday night of last week, about 2f>0 people attended theplay, ""The Only Girl,"' given at tne Hunter-DeWalt school. All who at- I tended seemed to be more than pieas^d ! with t.'.e results. The members o: this : play are to be congratulated upon get- j ting up su-ch a play, and tie manly way in which taey entertained the aw ;inr5ifnf>p fnr ahont two hours. There has been and still is a great j deal of sickness in this section. The following are confined to t'.eir beds: Mrs. D. W. Wicker, Mrs. A. C. Richardson, G. Talbert Werts, Miss Etls<? Hii.i arison. All seem to be on the mend at present, we are g'.ad to state. The grain crop in this section of the ! county doesn't look much at presenr, | and the outlook is that the grain crop I will be very short in and about here, | except at r e parsonage, where yo?i j can see some beautiful grain, cultivat- I ed by Pastor Riser. It looked Wednesday morning as if we would have a very Heavy snow, but we were glad to know that behind the clouds the sua is still shining. | A Card From Prosperity Ice Man. , To My Friends and Customers: 1 wish to thank ycu one and all for , the nice business you foa^e given me ! in the ice trade. I want to say to j 3*0u d .at I will run the ice house at | my same old stand this season. I want I I to be better prepared to serve yo.i than I have ever been before, and the price wil be th? same as otoer years?' except t:.e credit part will not be recognized at all. I am now carrying , tons of ice on my books for which I I will never be able to collect. So don't j send for ice on credit, or you will | certainly be disappointed. If you haven't got the money ask me to give you a piece of ice and I will gladly do so, but I will not put any name on my books for ice. Please bear thio in mind. Yours for business, G. W. KINARD. Prosperity, S. C. j i For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard sreneral strengthening: tonic, i GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC drives out Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonic ?nd sureApt>et;zer. Foraaultsnnd children. 50c DR. F. C. MARTIN Eye Sight Specialist Examines the Without the use of drugs j Satisfaction Guaranteed Office over Anderson's Dry Goods . Store. i *egal Shoe: fE COME TO NEWBEF ) in the history of Newberry you ha1 d puichasing Regal Shoes?just the i es of the United States and 39 forei< :orrect footwear. lodels are ready for you here. The ir last and leather. And you can bu^ ; that are charged at the factory doo hem. We are pleased to show them to them anywhere else in town. If 3' give regals a trial. er Brothers Coir Clothing Department TOUR CORS WILL YAMSH ^ in a few days if yea "will use our com , j cure as directed. And going to theother extreme our scalp lotion wiUH remove dandruff just as Quickly anc j effectively. Those are only two of thp pnnrf thinaa to be had at thia. drug store. We'll tell you the others if you ask. 1 Mayes* Drug Store Phone 138. Xewtorry, S. . NOTICE OF FLNAL S?TTLEKE?iT. 'A j? Notice is her?by gfcen tf:at thV ua- J dersigned will make final settlemen|^^H of the estate of J. W. Wicker, deceas4B in tfce probate court for NewberB county, State of South Carolina, oil Tuesday, April 13, 1915, at 11 o'clock* in the forenoon, and will immediate* thereafter apply to the judge of pj| bate of Newberry county for a &M discharge. All persons indebted I the said estate will make immedi^H settlement with tJ:e undersigned, and^^H all persons holding claim* against the fl said estate will present the same duly 1 attested. G. A. C. Wicker, jBI Administrated. 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