The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 15, 1916, Image 1
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TOtPME Lin, SWBEK 13. M-WBKRKI, S. C, TI ES1.AY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918, ' , TffIC? A ^ ^ ~ ^ '
This Week Wi
End Leg
1 SENATE WOULD DRIVE
THE SOUTMt ASIERN OUT
SENATE WOULD DRIVE SOUTHJ
EASIER^ OUT.
.New Judicial Circuit Created?Senate
to Dispose of Appropriation
.Measure Tliis >H*k.
Special to The Herald and Xews.
Columbia, Feb. 14.?This week will
probably witness the final adjoudnment
of t'ne legislature of 1916, though
there is a possibility ihat the session
may run into next week. The finance
committee of the senate is expected to
repodt the appropriation bill to that
body early in the week, and the appropriation
measure ought to be ready
_ k,t lattpr nart ol
ror tne goveiuui uv , ^
the week.
Idles Chaining Bill
Tlie Liles cnaingang bill, as it has
^ CGme to be called is ready for ratification.
The senate amended the bill
^ so as to make it apply only to convicP*
tions on selling liquor, eliminating
transporting and stoding. The house
concurred in tne senate amendment
so that the act as it will go on the
Prv y
statute books makes tne pena* l> 1UI
> selling liquor a straight chaingang
. sentence without the alternative of a
fine, and the punishment for trans-porting
and storing remains as a1
present.
As was stated in the last issue oi
The Herald and News, the senate has
voted to cut down the amount ol
liquor which may be ordered in any
one month to two quarts, but would
all-jar 60 pints of beer in lieu of the
t wo quarts. The house has yet to act
/-vrvc
on this amendment, ine UUUSC uui.
night last week decisively voted down
a bill to except beer from the provisions
of the gallon-a-month law.
Directs Against Southeastern.
A good deal of the legislation ol
rhe session has bee$i revolving arounc
the State warehouse system, and the
insurance feature in the system. A
i* resolution was intdoduced in the sen*ate
to require the commissioner *c
? fnrnfs.h nanes of the companies from
I which he has secured his low rates
F on State warehouse cotton. The reso|
lution was emphatically voted down
I deceivin only six votes. In his annual
I report the commissioner charged that
> the insurance trust, of which the
1 Southeastern Tariff association is a
I part, waited the information for pur,
-poses not friendly to the system, and
| condemned the Southeastern Tarifi
-- iM/\lotinn
I association as a comume m
of the federal anti-trust laws and oi
the constitution of the State. On Saturday
morning the senate passed a
bill, introduced by Senator Laney tc
prohibit insurance combinations in the
State, which would have the effect ol
? dissolving the Southeastern, so far as
South Carolina is concerned.
There are bills in both houses tc
authorize the warehouse commissioner
io act for parties in the State seeking
insurance on any kind of property
f These insurance measures have created
wide-spread interest, and are
causing a great deal of activity
among the insurance people.
Employers' Liability Measure.
The house has given final passage
to the senate bill defining the liability
of railroads for injuries to employes.
The house amended the bill so as tc
ft exclude the recovery of punitive lamages
under the act. It now goes to
the senate for concurrence in the
amendment. The measure conforms
to the federal statue.
New Circuit Created.
This legislature has created a new
judicial circuit, and if the act is approved
by Gov. Manning, South Car
clina will have 14 judicial circuits, inBj
stead of 13, as at present. 'The ac;
leaves Charleston in a circuit by herself.
and puts Hampton, Beaufodt.
: f Colleton and Jasper counties in a new
14th circuit. A motion to strike out
C the enacting words, made by Senator
Wrightman of Saluda, was killed by
H r: vote* or 10 to 21.
Ir Inheritance Tax Killed.
The bill by Mr. Dixon providing for
II Possibly
islative Session
I an inheritance tax, which is in ef- 1
feet in all but six States in some form 1
i 1-niorl ivi t\io linnso rvn a vpa and I
| U ao *11 CA.4.V/ liV/MUV V*i *.+, -W
nay vote of 65 to 44.
i
, It was held out in *ain that the in- '
j heritance tax was just in that it would
j levy a tax on intangible property. 1
such as stocks ana .bonds, while t'ne
(
"poor devil with a mule and house1
hold furniture'' is taxed out of pro'
portion. The bi.l. in substance in- '
dorsed by the State tax commission, [
provided for tile exemption from taxation
of a widow's inheritance to the
amount of $i0.000 an 000 for each
child. '
There ought to be~ an inheritance [
. tax law in Soutn Carolina, and it is
; hard to understand why some measure '
> of this kind can not get through the '
-general assembly. The late Mr. Geo. 1
R. Rembert. as a member of the (
house from Richland coun.'y, made
: an earnest fight several years ago for
a law of this kind. Such a law 1
'1-rmiri rAnph iidonertv of th wealthy '
; which ou^ht to be reached and would! 1
. help the i.oor man in a just way.
[ For Board of Conciliation.
Gov. Manning has sent a special 1
r message o the general assambly urg- 1
; ing the enactment into law of the '
pending measure to create a board of 1
> conciliation to deal wth disputes be- :
. tween capital and labor. The adI
1
: ministration bill alon& tnis j^ne pass-j
L ed the house wthout opposition or j !
. debate. It provides for a board of !
three mebers to b appointed by
"*e governor, one for two, one for four !
? and one for six years which will tnere- i
. alter be the term of service. The per!1
> \ j 1
diem is fixed at $10 and the board can ,
.be called into session by the governor (
I or attodnev general or either of the
i lggrieved parties. (
; The duties and "functions of the : 1
> board shall be the "conciliation of in- j
i dustrial disputes or strikes or lock-,,
outs and the removal of cause for in-!
dus'dial dispute's- or strikes or lock- j j
outs." The board is given power to ',
<
I summon witnesses and compel them 1 j
[ I to testify, to compel the production |
. I of books and documents, to inspect! .
property and to examine into workL
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. ing conditions and sanitary condtons. ]
, Agriculture in Rural Schools.
H
L Without opposition the house pass- i
t ed the Toole LeGrone bill, providing i
for an appropriation of $5,000 for the j,
teaching of agriculture in the common J (
schools of the State under certain',
. conditions, involving the cooperation I j
. of the schools and the kind of schQjii^!,
, This is one of the measures t'ne pass- ,
. age of which was urged by Gov. Man- f
^ ning in a special message.
> The bill provides tha: State aid to the i .
i1
extent of $750 will be given when
> three or more school districts rase a
similar amount; ihe aggregate *"ill j
provide for the teacher's salary. Any ,
} public ^ school, however, cooperating j
? n this work must have an enrollment .
; of at least three dooms, a Gneshrdl ,
. attendance of at least 40, three teachl%
^ f~ a lr\r?ol
ers, a. term 01 en mumug, ?
} lax cf eight mills, a sanitary building |'
of at least three rooms, a plot of not
less than two acres, satisfactory
equipment and use of the adapted textbooks.
The biil also provides for the
free enrollment of a pupil more than
^ 14 years old who desires 10 pursue
the agricultural course. The bill does .
not prevent school districts from receiving
State aid for term extension.
Rural Credits. j
Debate on several bills in the sen- j
ate was discontinued until Monday 1
night. Leading these is tne group of
three bille introduced bn Senators Mc- ,
| i
Cown. Nickels and Sbedard. An amend
ment has been offered by Senato.- ,
Williams of Lancaster to sirike out
the enacting words of the Sherard bill,
which hlds the rignt of way over the
(
other two. and -o subscitrte therefor
the amendment providing for a com- *
misson of four members to study exi
isting rural crelits laws and to make {
certain recommitvi.* as to the
expediency of the venture.
Two other bills on which debate was
adjoudned tl fonight were that w'nich
would allow C-lemson college to print
the analyses of fertilizers on tags
rather than on basfs, ard ;he Sherardfihristensen
bill to provide a com- I
mission to investigate the need for a | J
State traning school for the feeble I f
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nnded and to provde certain informaion
with dglinte reconimandation as to
necessary buldings and site to next
general assembly.
(?radcrs' Bill Killed.
The senate IiilL^d the Lanoy-Bpaili':
r.easure fo arloyt :ho r'ederal grades
:or cotton in South Carolina and to
icense cotton yrai-'rr. Tbe friends cl
he measure pomr"i out tne immen.-"
oss to the fadmers of South Carolina
mder the present system. For instance
under the revailing system,
jvery bale of col o:> LO'd in South
Carolina is graded a: least one ^rade
mder the grades adopted by tne fedMai
government. The c-ottor, of
*ourse is sold on the federal grades,
rhe loss to the far.nc^ on eacn bale,
mder the present system, is from
^ * A" "A - 1 1 ~ >T1% a
}> I. ? ) cO 5>^.0U ci 111c l- mi v^u
States government has adopr?.l coram
standards, and the Laney-Pi-aitie
Jill would have enforced thes.? standirds
in this State, and prevented t ;is
uinual loss to the farmers. Th?? bill,
low over, went to the grave yard where
)tlier good bills have pdecedtd it.
rutting Out Fee Patients.
The senate has uassed and sest to
lie house the Wightman bill to disconinue
tne practice of collectng expenses
from i-Ttan patients in the
lospital for the insane who were able
o pay. The bill would admit all parents
free to the hospital. During
he last fiscal year $3,567 was collectd
from th's source, n consequence of
investigations conducted by the fiscal
igent of the State board of charities.
The Lane- t ill io increase the number
of the board of -usitors to the Citaiel
from five to six has passed the
senate and been sent to the house. It
ivill be recalled that during this session
of the legislature, Col. W. \V
- " ' - - nV.ninmon /-\f flip
' .6 WIS, 01 I OI IIJCT i iiail uiau vi w*x
Doard. was defeated for reelection b?
Representative Hammond of Richland
county.
The ho;.s'- leconve^ed at noon tolay,
and the senate meets at 8 o'clock
tonight.
- (ieo. E. Hawkins.
The State.
Prosperity, Feb. 12?George E. H'aw
kins of Prosperity died mis moriuug
it the home of his brother, A. H. Hawkins,
with whom he had lived for
many years. Mr. Hawkins had beer
in failing health for several months
uid his condition became serious onlv
four weeks ago and critical on Friday
night.
Mr. Hawkins was born in 1843 and
was among the first to volunteer
tthen the call of the South came. He
erved his country faithfully the four
years in the Thirteenth South Caroina
regiment under Col. Lester, Mcbrigade.
Jacksons army Mr
Hawkins is widely known throughout
:he State, having traveled for W. L
A-ebb of Charleston for 25 years. Leaving
the road, he entered the mercanLile
business here in Prosperity and
engaged in farming. He was a faithful
member of St. Luke's churcn and
ivas held in high esteem by all whc
know him. Only one brother. A. H
Hawkins, survives him. but he has
\ wide family connection.
He will be buried Sunday morning
it the Prosperity cemetery at 11
s'c'ock with Masonic honors. The
Daughters of\the William Lestei
chapter will have charge of the flow?rs
at the grave.
County Touchers.
The county teachers will hold a
n etting in the high school building
\t Newberry on Saturday. Dr. Josiah
Morse, professor of philosophy at the
University of South Carolina, will de
liver an address. county aujierm*
tendeni Barre is very anxious that
?very teacher in Newberry be present
at this meeting.
Suber-IMrror.
Sunday afternoon, Feb. 13, at 6:30
)'ciock, Miss Laura Suber, daughter
>f Mr. W. F. Suber, of Uomaria and
VIr. Jno. Parrot also ot romana were
narried by Rev. S. C. Ballentine at
:he Lu:heran parsonage.
Mr. and Mrs. Parrott will makeUheir
lcme in Pomaria.
Smith-Sease
On Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
Ur .Timmie Sease was married to Miss
Lueile Smith, daughter of Mr. Mark
Smith, keeper of the county home.
j SEWS OF PROSPERITY.
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Ii of Mr. Geo. E. HawkinsOther
Happenings.
I Prosperity, Feb. 14.?Mr. George E.
Hawkins died Saturday morning at-'
ter a lingering illness at the home of j
his brother, Mr. A. H. Hawkins. For
i the past year Mr. Jfawkins has been
j in failing health and five weeks ago j
I he was stricken with paralysis and!
. j til is with Brights disease causcd his j
death.
Mr. Hawkins was born in 1S44. Ho j
volunteered in the Confederate cause j
iti August. 1S61 in the Thirteenth J
South Carolina regiment, under Col. j
I Lester, AIcGowan's Brigade, Jackson's)
1 army, and served through the entire!
?
i war. He was a gallant soldier. Af- j
j ter the war Mr. Hawkins traveled for J
t W. L. Webb and company, a prom- j
' i.
j ir.cnt Charleston firm and was well j
; known throughout South Carolina and ;
j Georgia.
I After leaving the road he engaged '
i in the mercantile business and farm-1
I
1 ing at Prosperity.
The funeral servicse were conduct- j
ed by his pastor, Rev. B. W. Cronk,
;! assisted by Rev. E. W. Leslie, after
:! which the Masons took charge, buryi
^ ^ ~ h A To c* nn i n imnni'c
j 1II? 1111X1 Willi ^UUOViliV uvuv?u,
Only one brother, Mr. A. H. Hawkins
i
| survives him. The exceedingly large
j - xowa attested the high esteem in
which he was held. j
The bodv of U r. A. H. Wheeler of i
near Concord. X. C., was brought to I
j Prosperity for burial on Saturday. Fori
; > a number of years f\*'r. Wheeler was a|
;! resident cf Prosperity and at .one timcj
J was ccunty treasurer. The funeral!
. | service was conducted at Grace church
;. by Rev. E. W. Leslie and Re. . .T. J.
r: Long of Little Mountain.
[j He is survived by his wife, two j
i daughter. Mrs. Vivtor Xorman of Cb-j
llumbia; Mrs. Lelia Moffet of Texas, j
.' and one son, Mr. Clarence 'Wlheeler of
Washington; one brother, Mr. Nathan
Wheeler of Little Mountain an a
; host of relates.
i ?! he old 'veterans are fast passing
' pany, the sdme regiment and served
ed on the same day, for the same com'
panf. the same regment and served
through the entire war side by side
1 and buried within a day of each J
ether.
' | "w-s. .T. M Werts friends will be j
aorry to learn that she iias had a,
relapse and is quite sick at her home j
1 cn MrtV'ary street.
' j Prosperity is very progressive, the'
'i noiv ornroor0 Viavinsr sold SPVPn auto-I
| lit" S?? ?ov -?~ e? ?
'j mobiles during ihe past week.
Mrs. P. C. Singley has gone to the
' Columbia hospital.
Tne Valentine party given under
3ncr>ices of the William Lesterj
j chapter was a success, $20 being rais-!
' ed.
Mr. F. X. Calmes has accepted a po^
siiicn with the Ethridge - Woodward
Gprage.
' Mr. J. C. Taylor has returned to
1 Batesburg.
A lttle colored boy on Col. N. H.
; Youngs place accidentally shot himself
with his grandfather pistol. He
- was carried to Columbia to a hospital
by Dr% 0. B. Simpson.
Mrs. T. Eric Barnes of Saluda, is
spending the week with her parents
' Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kohn.
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Mr. and Mrs. h'icKens uerncK. ui.
attended the funeral Suni
f
day of Mr. G. E. Hawkins.
1 Mr. Burr Barnes and IMiss Mattie
Barnes, spent the week end in Xew1
berry.
1 Messrs. W. T. Gibson and .T. H. Cros'
j'on bnve returned from Saluda.
The Misses Mayer of Little Moun;
tain, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. R.
l. ~ ouatmayer. ,
Mr. L. A. Black spent Friday In Saj
~ The many friends of Mr. Fred H.
Schumpert will be surprised to hear
of his marriage on Saturday, February
12 to Miss Georgia Carter, of 'Augusta.
Mr. and IMrs. Schumpert are spend
ing a few days with Mr. Schumpert's
mother. Mrs. Fanny Schumpert.
Death of Mrs. Ellis.
Mrs. Annie Ellis died in Columbia
Friday morning at the home of her
j brother. Wl'r. Brock Davis. The re1
1 1 - XTy* nf V*. r\ ntr C!o f _
j mams were Drongm 10 .>cw'ucnj uoii
urday afternoon and interred in Rosemont
cemetery. Mrs. Ellis was about
55 years of age.
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THE IDLER. ^
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My, my, Bob of The State?pardon
me for my familiarity?but have you j
seen that that there legislature is
talking about reducing the allowance
to two quarts a month and maybe only
one. Have you written that there [
note to them about increasing the al- j
'owance of beer and wine? If not, j
get busy, old pal?excuse me again, j
If they are going to keep on reducing!
it I think the best thing would be to j
cut it out for all purposes and let the
old State have straight and unadul
terated prohibition?the real thing.
?o? j
1 was reading the other day in some |
newspaper where a Rev. Mr. Diffen- j
bach, a Unitarian minister, preached
a sermon on "Our Debt to the Press.''
He declared, the article says, that the j
newspaper men held the greatest pow- i
er for good of all men not excepting ;
the ministers of the gospel. Then the J
article continues:
He declared that the newspaper, if i
well regulated, was an ally of religion !
and that it had contributed more than .
anything else to the abolition of sects,
though it occasionally would exploit
controversies as it did comparatively j
recently in Hartford.
On the other hand, Mr. Diffenbach
mentioned some of the faults of the
average paper such as the "delicious
fictions," "sacred cow," "twisting of j
i'acts" and "exploitation of passsion j
for the purpose of boasting circula-!
tion.''
He declared further that finished
in npursnaners had become!
r r almost
a arity. "Journalism cannot |
flourish when money making is its {
goal." he said. "You can't make money !
out of the big services to humanity, j
I don't know why you can't but yoii |
can't."
Three periods in American journal- j
wprp outlined bv Mr. Diffenbach. j
:T.he first period, lie said, was that of
the elder Bennett, who put the news- i
paper on a business basis; the sec-,
ond, that of Dana, who brought the I
art of writing into journalism, and the
third, that of Pulitzer, who introduc- j
ed into journalism the age of exploit-1
ing the crowd and of stri-ving for sen-;
sation. H'e quoted figures alleging that j
of news investigated, 23 per cent, was |
J ? 17 nor r?pnt unwhole- !
ueiuuicu 1&IU&, 11 ~ ^?,
some, 21 per cent, trival, and 39 percent
worth while.
I quote this article to. call attention
to one sentence or two in it. Listen
to this: "You can't make money out
of big services to humanity. I don't;
know why you can't but you can't." j
Now, had you ever thought of that?
And isn't it strange, but if you will
stop long enough to think about it for
a minute, and of the men and the
?-T ? iio-ira Irnrvwn and
women wuuui vuu no.?^ ..^
read about, you will conclude that it
is true. It is a great consolation to
me?pardon me. I am not vain?but
I have been doing big things for humanity.
and I know now why I have
never made money. The truth is tliar
those who are engaged in doing big
things for humanity never stop long
enough in their work to think about
money, and, therefore, they never have
any worth while. Especially is this
true of the country newspaper man.
"Journalism cannot flourish when
money making is its goal." Well, I
am not a journalist, but I know I
would never get rich writing this column,
because I have been doing it
long enough now to have a little
something, but the trouble is the editor
never thinks about including me
:n the weekly pay roll. Somebody j
must serve humanity, and I reckon it
just as well be me as anyone else.
?o?
But this was not all that I quoted
this statement for. Thing of statistics
that the gentleman gives on the in-J
rwf thn ripu-c that is nublished I
nucuvyc; vi cue **v ? ^ ? A? and
passed on for news. Only 39 per
cent of it is worth while. Twentythree
per cent demoralizing and seventeen
per cent unwholehome. Wonder
if he means by that.when he says
that the press is more powerful even
than gospel ministry to say that such
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a large proportion of the sermons are
unwholesome. 1 don't think so. I am
no newspaper person, but I have always
thought tnat many of our papers
printed too much crime and too much
of the detail of crime. I reckon they
do it because that is the sort of stui
the people want, and the newspaper
makers want to sell teir papers and.
give their readers the kind of diet
they want. But then I don't know
much about it anyway, and I reckon
I had better try to write about something
of which I know. And yet if I
did I reckon I would be like a good
many others who try to write, I would
not write i\ery much.
Talking about newspapers reminds
me that 1 read another article from
some one else on the point that it
would pay the churches ao advertise
their services. Here it is. Read it.
And then some of the merchants might
take heed.
"The time seems to be approaching
when business men in churches will
insist upon business methods in
church1 work," says Xorcross in the
"Church and Clergy" column of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. "Instead
of a three, five or ten-line 'notice' in
the newspaper, announcing the services
and the minister's topics, they
will nave 100-line, and often 500-line
display advertisements, which ?very
newspaper reader will see and read
with interest. It requires no prophet
to predict that within 10 years most
- ^ i A M /v AC wrvll O /I
OX our tiUlCl pi lOMJg *-Uu i wics ty ni a.u?
vertise their services in large type,?
"Some will ask the question: 'Does t
it pay to advertise a church?' It does.
Xo one can estimate the value of the
souls that may be saved through the
medium of this advertising; but there
are more practical results which will
appeal to practical church officials.
A young minister of'North Philadel
phia, who has astonished cnurcnmen
by his publicity methods, brought two
of the wealthiest families of his district
into\his church by means of his
newspaper campaign. These families
make a handsome contribution to the
current expenses of that congregation.
And newspaper advertising did
it."
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Now I quote this because I think
it is true, and because there are those
among the ministry and among the
laymen who do not think it right or
in good taste for a minister or pastor
to advertise his services, or even the
services of the church. I am not one
of those who believe any such thing.
I believe in publicity of the right kind
and in this age the man or the cause
?-1- fa nnK1/? ia
Lna L IS ULOL ncpi ucivi c iiuuiv
going to be lost in^the shuffle. The
successful merchant is the one who
knows how to advertise.
THE IDLER.
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P. S.?Say. please let me have anv
other word to my stuff for this week.
I have just* read in the News and
Courier of (Thursday that the senate
on Wednesday night passed an amendment
to trie liquor bill and sent it to
the house allowing a monthly stipend
of five dozen pints of beer. Just think
of that, it is sixty pints a month. Two
every day. Now. Bob, you of The
State, I am sure you wrote that note,
though I see that my own dear senator
from Xewberry lead the fight
against that amendment. Just think
of that, will you, and when I have
been such a fool about them Johnstones
all my life. Well, the point
now is, write a note to them mem-'
bers over in the house and see if they
will agree to the senate amendment
and the country will be safe yet. It is
Just like one of the senators said, I
believe t'ne one from Charleston, such
an amendment is in the interest or
real temperance. Way the members
of the house come to their wits also.
T. I.
Death of Mr. TV. iC. Slice.
Mr. iWilliam Calvin Slice died at bis
home in West End Saturday afternoon
was bured Monday afternon at 1
oclock at Wateree church near Chafin,
Rev. S. P. Koon conducting the funeral
yTt.. luafl a. mP'Tn'iWTT
(U SCI V'XUCil.. .ui . UJ i 1_ v- iiiw ?.?
cf Mayer Memorial Lutheran church,
and was about 64 years of age.
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