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jjfee ||eralii and Jems, j Watered at the Postoffice at New- j B?rrj, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. _ i Friday, March 3, 1916. j DECIDEDLY STKA3UE. Whether or not the statement was au- j thorized by Representative W. R. Brad-! I ford, we are unable to say, but we have seen a published assertion that in case he sees lit to do so, Mr. Bradford will not allow the fact of his having been j elected clerk to the printing cominis- \ sion of South Carolina to interfere with ' his candidacy again for the position of Representative in the lower house from York county. We would gather from -i-??i r i such a remark tftat Air. uruiuiu m-. tends making the race again to represent J the people of this county. iW'ithout desiring to criticise Mr. Brad- J ford, we must say that this is certainly j something new under the sun if it can be ; done. We never heard of any man in South Carolina being allowed to hold two public offices at once and it cannot be done under the law. The constitu- ' - o , tion oi Jo;;, article 2, section 2. says:; ; * '"But no person shall hold two offices: of honor or profit at the same time." j There can be but one construction of j this section and under tnai one cunsu u?.- ; tion Mr. Bradford is clearly forced to relinquish one of the two offices. As ! clerk of the printing commission he is j holding a position of honor and is also receiving $ 1,000 per year, which makes the office one of honor and profit and as a member of the house he receives $200 : per session, which is also an office of both honor and profit, although some 1 * might question how much honor there is in holding a seat in the legislature. If there is any other information on this subject, by which a man might be entitled to hold two offices at once, we j would like mighty well to hear about it.?York Xews. Nothing at all strange about this. It would be exceedingly strange if Mr. Bradford should not hold on to what he has and take all that is coming. Where have you been all of these years? You must have been asleep, or you are speaking ironically. Where is Senator Tillman and Governor Manning and the senator from Newberry and the representative from Chester and the representative from Richland, who defeated a gentleman from your town? They are all holding on to two offices and the people are not complaining. Why not .iMr. Bradford? fThere is a statute, it is true, which makes it a criminal offense, | but who pays any attention to that small thing? You should keep up with contemporaneous history, my boy, and >then you would not see anything so strange in the reported action of Mr. Bradford. Mr. Bradford, we understand, is in the employ of the State printer, but so far as we know Mr. Bradford is a fine fellow and will make a very efficient clerk to the printing committee. So far a; we are concerned we would just as soon Mr. Bradford have the job as any one else, though, to be frank, we think it is a job that could just as well have been done away with, or not made, just like some orher jobs that have been made by the recent legislature. The Columbia correspondent of The \ News and Courier prints some figures from the report of the solicitors in which he reaches the conclusion that there is evidence of law and order and decrease in crime in South Carolina in iqi5 as compared with IQ14. The record shows that in 1914 there were 2,591 cases tried and 1,634 convictions. In 1915 there were 3,210 cases and 2,121 convictions. The increase in cases was twenty-four per cent. Just how to reach the conclusion that this record shows a decrease in crime we do not see. The percentage of convictions was an increase of 3 per cent. The increase in the number of criminals was 24 per cent, and yet, according to this rorresoondent. this fatt shows a de crease in crime in South Carolina. The reason given, or the argument used, is that the officers were more diligent in the discharge of their duties and violators of the law were brought to trial. That may be. but the same prosecuting officers are on the job that were in That was a great speech of President Wilscn at the Gridiron chib, and which we publish today. It is short. It will I pay you to read it. He has some phrases in it which will last. Note this: "The United States was not founded upon any principle of expediency; it was founded upon a profound principle of human liberty and humanity, and whenever it bases its policy upon (iny other foundations than those it builds on the sand and not upon solid rock." His definition tntnrc anri is e'l \aiui will IIH. HI mv. ? fine. "Valor is self-respecting. Valor is circumspect. Valor shtrikes only when it is right to strike. Valor withholds itself from all smal' implications and entanglements and waits for the great opportunity when the sword will flash as if it carried the light of heaven upon its blade.'' He says another thing in this speecli which a great many of our public men would do well to heed "I would a great deal rather know what they arc talking about around the quiet firesides ail over this country than what J they are talking about in the cloak rooms of congress." That is the fountain of J justice an<l the foundation of our liber- ! ! ties. A B. Williams used to say that he | could get a better idea of what the great I mass of humanity was thinking, and j thus a better idea of what the people! wanted, by reading the country corre- j spondence in the weekly papers, and he! i'ic:-e in preference to editorials in! the big dailies. Read this spcec' and cut u out and paste it in your scrap ^ook. H[|r? There is one amendment we would suggest to the traffic ordinance recently passed by city council, and that is, Lhat motor vehicles that are required to stop at the entrance to Main street be required to stop before they enter the street or cross it. mere is no need to stop after you have driven even half way across Main street, because if you are going to collide with a vehicle passing along Main street you will do so before you cross it. There once was a stop Sign at one of the streets is Prosperity which read something like this: "Stop, and stop before crossing." That is a sensible thing to do. Not much use to stop after you have crossed. What good would it do to stop at a railroad crossing after you had crossed the tracks We see every day motor vehicles stop at the streets mentioned in the ordinance, but do not stop until they have crossed Main street. As we j have said before, ii does seem strange that it should be necessary to pass laws and ordinances to make people protect themselves, but every day we see the necessity for it, because when they refuse to protect themselves they endanger the iives of others. This is a good Drdinance if properly observed. According to the bill rendered we used some i0,ooo gallons of water dur ing February, and we had a plumber to work on the pipes in the office along about the first of the month. The biggest water bill we have ever had, and chat, too, since the recorder holds that j nothing can be stopped in transit from j the express office to the home, and, j I therefore, none of this water could have- been used as a tracer. And then Henry Turner does not use water any more freely than he should in the art of cleanliness, though we have been pleading with him for some weeks past to see if he could not make the place i brighten up a little. And yet, some 16,000 gallons of good pure water have traced themselves through the water meter, and all this good pure water wasted. What a pity The city of Laurens is without a charter and the police are acting undjr the sheriff. The charter was permitted to go by limitation without being renewed. , The gallon a month law of 1915 says you must get your gallon yourself from the express office, and that if you keep it at any place besides your residence that you are guilty of storing, and that you cannot take a drink or open it in your office or in the home of any one, if you du yuu are guilty of storing. Y/ej do not see why the law makers struck! out that section which required you to label your grip, because if you have any in there you are violating the law by storing it some place other than your home, or you are transporting. We invite you to read the farmers'; f , | exchange as it appears on the second page <ji this paper. If the farmers will t.-ike the interest in this column and ! keep in touch with Mr. (Mills and Miss lA'ise as to what they want to buy and what they have to sell it can and will he of great value to them. It will appear in the issue of Friday of each week and all communications for it must come through Mr. Mills or Miss Wise. It can only be of value, however. in its use by those for whom it is intended. Mr. J. T. Xorris, in renewing his subscription to The Herald and News last week remarked that he had been a subscriber since he was eight years old, and that he was now?well, he has been a subscriber a long time. He began as a subscriber to the News. After his r.ither's death he sold fruits and other things from the farm and he became a friend of young Tho>. Greneker. and became a subscriber through that boy i*:mti he h:is been on the list regularly since, not missing, as he says, as many as three copies ji the paper during all these years. That is a fine record. Our family tree dates away ? back vender and we do not want to lose ' a single member. Therefore, we have given and are still giving you the op- ; portunity to remain with us, if you will just do as Mr. Xorris has done, come ' along right now and give lis your share ;>f the cost of the support of the family. ' Mr. Xorris' father had been for many years a subscriber to the old Herald. We are proud of the members of our family and it will grieve us to lose any of them and we hope we will not. GOOD EYESIGHT AND GOOD WORKMANSHIP often go hand in hand. The workman who is handicapped by defective vision is Jof ten nnrnnscinnslv limiting his opportunities for advance ment. It yoi r work requires the concentrated use of your eyes for long periods at aj time, be sure that your eye- j sight is all that it should. If you need glasses, by all1 means get them at once Neglect of your eyes wil show in the pay envelope. P. C. 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This amount is necessary to meetactual expenses. >Ihe amount of property on j i u- T ~ ^ uie i;i-\ uoot\> i"i lino wuui^, i tun informed. is about $7,250,000. A 3 1-2 mili levy on this will produce in taxes about $25,000. The one mill levy for roads and bridges on this amount will !)riij? in a liiile over $7,000. This added to the $25,000 makes an Income of $23.coo. To this add about $3,000. the amount collected from other sources, and we have $35,000 with which to pay $45,000 worth-'of debts. Perhaps some people may be able to explain how to pay a dollar's worth of debts with fifty cent?. I frankly admit that I know no such way. We are now about $10,000 in debt as a result of this deficit from l.-i-t year. About $10,000 had to be taken out of money borrowed for this year's f expenses and paid on this deficit of last | year. So this fall we, will be in debt | ab-'Ut $20,000. 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