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file ||erQli) and Jem j Entered at the Postcffice at New-1 bui), S. C., as 2nd class matter, i E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, September 14, 1915. "TO DEBAUCH LOCAL -NEWSPAPERS." The letter of Dr. George B. Cromer to the editor of the Daily Journal1 - - - - J 3 I which appeared in weanesua.v imcinoons paper states the case just ex-J actly as it is with reference to thej efforts of foreign liquor houses to debauch the electorate of this State by subsidizing the press. "If the newspapers are ready to sell themselves to i the liquor interests, we are gone,"| says Dr. Cromer. j And this is just what has been done by every newspaper that accepted the advertising sent out from Columbia i under the name of the Local Option 1 league. They sold out to the liquor! houses of the country, and, yet, some; of the papers that accepted this adver- j tising refuse to publish liquor ads. No i wonder these papers find themselves! in a very awkward position from which | they are trying to extricate themselves by attempted explanations, and in j most instances by justifying their; course. Thf> onlv thins: to do, gentlemen, is to make an open, candid confession. State that iyou were caught and blinded by the liquor business with its millions you sold out to them, and gave them an opportunity to come into our State and seek to control the votes of our citizens by subsidizing the press. JThey could not find men who would dare go before the people and address them in the interest of the dirty liquor business, but they sail under false colors and use you to enter the homes of our citizens. x There is more in this than many have taken time to consider. Buying vote6 and corrupting the electorate is a crime and those who are parties to such corruption are equally guilty with the principals. The local option league eo called should be prosecuted.? Greenwood Journal. It is not our purpose to have any controversy with Dr. Cromer or the editor of the Journal. We esteem both gentlemen very highly. As one of the i ? j , papers mat iias camoa me au'^i nocment of the local option people, however, we can not help resenting the ^ charge that we have sold out to the lifluor interests. We have no confession or apology to make. We believe that local option is the proper plan to promote temperance, and eventually prohibition that is worth while-. If we diH not. wp p.nuld carrv this advertise ment anyway without offense to our conscience or our sense of right. We have no interest in any liquor business, and never received a i cent from any liquor house except for work done in a legitimate way. Some months ago we decided not to take liquor advertisements. That has nothing to do with the advertisement from the Local Option league. But the point is, not that the advertisement is wrong, but that the newspapers that have accepted it have been bought by the liquor interests, is the o i*o-a r\p iviaca +tta iliotin criiictia^ cmry _ V/XXCfcl ^-y\J VI in V/ UiOtiUJ. Ui^UUU wjVU" tlemen. We worker if Dr. Cromer real"7 believes that the newspapers that run this advertisement have sold out to the liquor interests, or if the editor of the Journal really believes any such thing. We believe that these newspapers are just as honest, just as true to the State, just as patriotic and just as honorable as Dr. Crosier or the editor of the Journal. It would be proper to take this advertisement if the editor was a prohibitionist, just as some of the prohibition editors have done. The editor of tiie Journal we do not suppose nrouches for the efficiency of all the patent med"cine advertisement that may appear in his columns. The fact is most of these medicines are largely dope and tfo more harm than good pure whisi ley. We do not question the honesty or the integrity or the motives of Dr. Cromer or of the editor of the Journal, -or their sincerity in their advocacy of State-wide prohiibtion, and they \ ?*ave no right 10 question ours. We ;;ve them the right to hold their own ~ ? j -.1-.: ~ .:ews, ana we ciaim me same rigm iu : old and to express our views, and they ave no more right to question our totives or to charge that we have been orrupted than we have to question their honesty and sincerity. The editor of this paper has never V 11 Fountain | Every I Have you set r:n: d IJCU I" tiling I CI1J an improvesnen the old were ov were used a hui simple that a ch pen in the ink a your pen is rea( Ivy c invite ju show you this w We reccomenc Ideal Fountain the best, but d r? I i Coi tlf Jewelers believed in the principle of statutory prohibition, though just as strong and sincere an advocate of temperance as Dr. Cromer or the editor of the Jour"" ' 4-V> ^ rrantlcmon nai. rne cnarge ui mcoc jsuwvmvu that the newspapers that have taken this advertisement have sold out to the liquor interests is unworthy of them and the high position they hold in the community. ! ' But as we have said aforetime, most ! of the advocates of prohibition are the ; most intemperate of all the intemperi -j. 1 - T~ " VJnV, +V1/5. TX-OT-1 rl VlPC > 3.16 VV iLii v> iau "uiiu , to deal. /They seem to think that every j one who does not agree with them is .: dishonest and would sell his 'birthright for a mess of pottage. That they and they alone must save the world j from the demnition bow-wows, and ' that it must be don by statutory enactmen. We do not agree with them, and if they want to think that we have sold out to the liquor interests, or any other interests, they are at liberty to j so believe. We would not feel right I j if we had to hold the opinion that ev! ery one who did not agree with us was ! for sale and a grand rascal. No, gen- I j ! I *1 ^ r\t-> +V1QT0 n ra met oc oflftfi TTIPTI and ! j CiCiUCU, tUCi t C4.A JU>-C w W ! just as true who do not believe in i State wide prohibition as there are ! who do. It is not a question of the abuse of Whiskey and the evils flowing i therefrom, but it is a question of the j best plan to promote real temperance j cnri thus nvniri the evils that follow ! intemperance. Be broad enough and big enough to give the fellow who does ! not agree with your plan the right of honesty and integrity of purpose that you claim for yourself. "Debauch" is an ugly word. A good prohibitionist should not use it. ? TAKE THE CHIP OFF TOUR 1 SHOULDER. ] ( The Piedmont has indicated in posi- < tive expression its opposition to the continuance of a system by which the ^ | mill schools are controlled Dy tne au- . thorities of the corporation instead of by those of the public schools. The mill ' schools are to a great -extent sustained ( ! from public funds. They should be controlled by public authorities. < The Herald and News of Newherrv ; was kind enough some time ago to republish with its commendation an editorial of ours upon this subject. Hon. ' J. E. SwearinEen. State superintendent } of education, has taken The Herald i and News to task for its "attack on j the policy of the State department of education with reference to the improvement of mill schools." i The Herald and News replies very | properly that its article and that copied ! ! from iThe Piedmont were not attacks | : upon the department of education, but, j I n-ry tVi/i. nnri + rnrv worp P Y n r OTl 5 rvf I VII UI^ VV111UU 'I ?? VA v >. W - , ' I i the desire tliat the work of the public i ; educational authorities be extended so ' , as to include, as they should, mill j 1 schools. As stated by The Herald and ! ' News: "The 'very purpose of the crit! icism of The Priedmont was against the effort, as it seems to us, to treat the i>ecple who live in the mill villages I I Fens to Suit One's Hand - I in the Waterman^ New s? They are as much of t over the old style as er the old quill pens that idred years ago and so 11 r*n it _?i iL _ lid can nil mem; put mc nd press the lever and iy to write. u to come and let us 'onder in Fountain Pens. i I and sell Waterman's \ Pens because they are i repair all makes. Jenns & npany and Optoaietrisis I YOUR apprec our service? have made this the institutions o: It's a source of < t to us to iook aro and think over th come to us seaso their hats. It is not given so and the worldHave you seen th ami nais anu jjw/for Fall? SUMMER 1 j.i_ ! r uoining jl as a separate and distinct race who aeed a separate and distinct plan of education, and also against the mills Dwning and operating the schools instead of having them under the same board of trustees and the same superintendent as all other public schools." TT-m Hcra'/i anri Wws has correctly u / expressed our views. We intended to assist and not to oppose what we beieved the ultimate purpose of the State superintendent of education. Mr. Swearingen is too "thinskinned." He must learn that there rvtVm-r^ u'lin havA views besides him 11 ^ vvuvi ^ ?? "V ? v/ self and that others are interested in sducational matters. When suggestions are made, or even when criticisms are made, they should not be regarded by him as "attacks." Let him "take the ship off his shoulder;" no one is seekirs: to knock it down.?Greenville Piedmont. ? ' ' * * >- - i J? *1.:-. We puDiisn ine a.uove m uns tuunection as answer to a letter which we ha've received from the State superintendent in reply to our editorial on the mill school proposition. As we stated, he was after the wrong trail. If there was attack it was the Pied mont and not The Herald and News, though we did and do now commend the position of the Piedmont. Stater The Cc ( i At the close of business i RESOURCES: Loans $; Overdrafts, Secured and Unsecured Real Estate Cash on hand and in Banks __ 2 We pay Depository State of Soutl our ample resources as is Freely on cotton proper will be delighted to serv produce the wealth of tb The Bank T JNO. M. KINARD, Presic i iation of style? and Stetson Hats hat store one of f the town. keen satisfaction und at our stock j le customers who ! I n after season for - . . l! to everybody to j -note in style. e Stetson Soft Hats, conforming Derbies 3R0S. CO., )epartment The State superintendent says that we "decline to outline your (our) own i policy with reference to the schools I | and mill village in manufacturing cenj tree." The point we made, or tried to make, I was, what use or what wisdom was j there in having any separate policy | for the mill schools. Why not treat j the mill children as other children and as part of the children of the State. Why not make the mill schools part of the school system ot tne state ana nut have them owned and controlled by the mill corporation, and the corporation paying for their maintenance. The corporation paye its part of the school tax, and why should the corporation j be expected or permitted to have sep! arate schools maintained by the cor; ; pcration. That's all. If that is a poi, icy, then that would be our policy. To ! treat the mil! children just as yo-i 1 treat other children, and have the 1 j I I schools in the mill village a part of i j I the school system of the State, and ! f j why have a special State supervisor i I for mill schools, as if the children of i the mill village were not the same as j J nent of the Conditic mmercia D* Newberry, S, C., seDtember 2nd, 1915, condei - - M~ State Bank Examiner. id 395,338.21 Capital Stoc Surplus and 1,723 66 Dividends 1 16,07225 Deposits 89,257.70 502,391.82 Interest in our Savings Depa a Carolina County of Newber 3 shown by the above statem ly stored, and also other &\ e you, as v;e are'determined ie country. hat Always Treats lent 0. B. ft v v la J. If. SHALL, lashier Opera Tuesday, Sej World Film Pre.? Howard T 1 THE BU with Barbs A SHUBERT FEi PRICE 10c the children of any other part of the State. , The state superintendent in ins letter to the editor of The Herald and News very truly says: "Public school needs and public school problems are too great to be soKed by any one man. Through the co-operation and support of many people the work is progressing, although we have done little more than begin." That was our purpose?to co-operate ?when we quoted the editorial from the Piedmont, and then we received the letter from the superintendent charging us with attacking the department of education. The school problem is a big problem and when one makes a suggestion or offers a criticism it is> little discouraging to be charged with attacking the State department. We have for manyyears taken an active part in trying to help solve the problem and in doing what we could to improve the condition of the schools We are pleased - r 4 \ >n of I Bank iftpH from renort to tlie liabilities: :k _$ 50,000.00 . Profits 73,942.36 Unpaid 2,159.00 376,290.46 $502,391.82 ^ irtment 1 ry and city of Newberry d ent enables us to Loan ^proved collarteral. We to stand by those who You Right. MA VCD v:.? lfmiLlV, fltC-riCMUCUl 1 i % BaBnaauHnHnHHnMHHHBBBMnHii House I v 1 4 J.l I stember 14th Corporation 4 / ;ents Estabrook N . ' . TTERFLY ira Tennant VTURE in five acts Children under 12 5c -wnwni??? now to be assured by the State superintendent that be invites criticism and suggestion. The day after today is tomorrow an# ^ tomorrow is the loth. It may not appear that there is anything remarkable ' in this statement, but there is more j than appears. We requested those 501 | or more subscribers whom vre hare I . been carrying during tne sumnuer to pay at neast a small amount by the 15th, and we tried to show them that even fifty cents from each would mean ; a great deal to us and that it wa-s a ! very small matter for each. The re| markable thing about the whole mat! ter is that only a few of them have : thought of it, and there is only one 1 day left. We desire to say that we can ) i write a good many receipts in that one si i day and none need remain away.for | fear they can not be waited upon. Come ; right along. j|H