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? VOLUME Tjnn KUMBKK S9 JiEWBEMY, S. C,, FRIDA1, OCTOBER 6, 1916. TWICE A WEEK, $m A IEaE, , . * BACK FROM BORDER BY NOVEMBER FIRST Mr. Caldwell Thinks Palmetto Troops May Return in Time For State Fair. News and Courier. Columbia, Sept. 30.?The training O^ii + U {~*n rnlino VaHfm ^ tiiC OVUI/ii vax V11UU 41MVAVM a! Guard is receiving on the Mexican "border is fitting them for duties which are performed by the regular army, and' the results which the Palmetto men are showinw guarantee that it will be hard to tell them from regulars when their period of training in ended. Those young- men of South Carolina who went to the Mexican border in response to the 6a 1 of President Wilson were inspired by the same patriotic and high minded purpose that has characterized this State in all the occasio (Tit the past when the call to duty went forth. They are descendants of the men who helped to put down tyranny m r<vt>, tougm tue sewuui wiar of independence againse England in 1812, subdued the red men and the lawless regimes of the earlier days <of the republic, conquered Mexico in \ 1847, and poured out their life blood on the many -battlefields under the banner of the Stars and Bars. South Carolina was the first to respond1 then *md she was among the first to mobilize when the President of the United States sumoned the National Guard to A ""arms in the closing days of June to guard the border between this country and Mexico from bandits and to be ready for whatever might take place. ? ?^ On Border Two Months Excepting Virginia, South Carolina was the first of the Southern States to send her National Guard to die border, and they were ready to go several weeks before the orders came for them to move. In fact, the Palmetto troops were ready as early as those of New York and the other Northern "States who were rushed to Texas just as fast :as they could he gotten ready. As it was the Palmeto troops have been an the border for two months and " n x it is only in the past rew aays mat the National Guard from the other Southern States have begun entraining for Texas. This is noi said with any disparagement to the other States of the South, y but it's the record, and it is nothing but due those men v/ho left their husnriASS in Hill Darts UVJLU^D auu M&VA* V ^ of the State to call this item of credit to the attention of the public. During the seven weeks I was in j camp at El Paso, Texas, with the 'South Carolina soldiers I had daily reason to "be proud of my State and my State's soldier boys. Time and: again I heard it stated that they came > to the border better equipped, better prepared and more efficient in every way than most of the National Guard regiments. This was due to sederal things. They are well officered and their personnel is high and they hav? that patriotic devotion to duty that '* ~ 1 frAtri tTieir fathers. iney ua,ve iuucihcu wvu ? apt. J. >T. Graham, U. S. A. tend, too, South Carolina, has been ^ fortunate in having as inspectorinstructor of her National Guard Capt. J. Malcolm Graham. He knows his "business and he was all business at ^ Camp Styx, while the boys were being Bfc equipped and made ready for the bcrder. He kept things moving and, t?oc ,^v officers j UitClvcu up 4*0 _>T W of the -various organizations, the South Carolina comands were mlade ready and sent on their way in much "better shape tto.m was the condition of L the average National Guard organlza* tions of other (States, judging from j what 1 have heard while in camp on * ~ -11 *JT*mV the border, ah or uie iCgUtai ui w,- | officers speak in complimentary terms of Capt. Graham and there is ! no better officer or genial gentleman. J ~ r>,?kavc hnvp been ! I Tfte soutn uuv iiixa uvj u I undergoing a strenuous .program of ! I field training , first by companies,1 I then by bitallions, next by regiments, j | that followed by brigade and now they | S Slave been formed into a division with J ?? hrizades from other; flCUl auuiuvua. w States and will be put through sev-1 F days oj field manoeuvers. The division "will be nnder the command i Of Gen. Morton. The press dispatches of tJiis week from El Paso mentioned i the fact that Palmetto soldiers with J 'iM \ -iie rest of the division would be ta. ven for a hike to Las Cruces. Xew .Mexico, which is some seventy miles irom their camp. They will go fully equipped just as if they were taking the field during actuul war and wiil undergo me traiiiiug wmuu army experiences in the field during war times. South Carolina Third Of all the National Guard organizations which were encamped in the ----- - j El Paso patrol district it was saiu that 'Massachusetts regiment flanged first in efficiency, -Michigan second and* South Carolina third. Both Massachusetts and Michigan had been on the border six weeks 'before the Palmetto boys arrived and it must also be remembered that those States appropriate many times the amount r?f for National Guard ! that South Carolina does. Their j States are more prosperous and | have more money to give them for one j thing. I believe that given the same j length of training on the border the ; Palmetto boys w,ill rank No. 1 in effi! cien-cy over all the Mitional Guard orI ganizations of all the States. ? - ?- -XUi? Vv Pw/VvM C/Ml + Vi it means somemiug iu ue uwu ovum Carolina. i'vYfhen you told anyone that you were from the Palmetto State they were as cordial and friendly as j you could wish. It's an open sesame to i have <4X. G. S. CL* on your uniform 1 nvj/l if iiief notnrollv mar?a me "feel j ailU 11 JUOt iiUtUi * ! good all over" to observe this fact, i The soldier boys are all working hard and doing whatever is given them without murmuring. Of course, they think a lot of home and. would like to be back with their people and "cussing" like sime I heard, They do feel as if they ought not be kept cit+fn.o- rfown on the Texas plains ia W*VV141*3 " ? a concentration camp indefinitely. They respnd to the call of tirms when it looked as it there was going to be trouble with Mexico, and they to-day would go over the Rio Grande with a shout if orders came from Washington to invade Mexico. They have 'been in camp now since the 18th of June, eithei at 'Styx, or in their present location, seven miles out of El Paso, on the Texas plains. Like all soldiers, the Palmetto boys are ready to fight, but there is little prospect of any trouble at present. About Coming Back. Since coming back, to Columbia I have been asked time and again when thought the fccys would-^fcome fci'Ck and I have said in about thirty days. Of course, I have no direct information* but I believe tat either by November 1 or shortly thereafterwards all of the South Carolina soldiers will be returned to Styx and mustered out of the federal service. It seems to be a plan to return them home in order in * * * * J which they went to tne "Doraer aim this means that from the El Paso district the Pennsylvania, Massashusetts and 'Michigan Xatinal Guard will be sent fcbck befre the South Car<>" lina, for they went there beofre tliem. There are some 14,000 Pennsvlvanians, ~nd prcb-bly 3,000 troops from Mich 3 T+ ' 'fl.lfPS igan a.xi u UOWVO* *1/ V? time to move soldiers and the equipment which is carrying the Georgia, North Carolina iand other troops to the border will be used for returning thctee regiments now on duty there home. 1 T -J ?"?"It- r\ Tinvo 'Anotner reason "?-ny x uuiua will be home in thirty dlays is that the field manoeuvers will be over by the 15th of October and unless they are sent on patrol duty along the border they will have nothing to do. I know too from 'talks with some of the higher army offici/.ils that they are expecting the National Guard to be sent back home.and mustered out of 1 -awriAA in "Vnvpn"ber. 1 L6 leuei cti O^-JL 'ivv 'u think there is good reason to hope that the boys can be gotten beck in time for the fair and efforts are being j made to this end now by the Chamber I of Commerce of Columbia. However ! it. will not do to count too much on { any partifclar week or day, "but 1 ??orfoi'n that t.hev will cLIII I CdSUliaUi V be back either on or immediately after the first of November. El Paso Folks Cordial The people of El Paso have been most cordite 1 to the South Carolina I soldiers and made their stay on the j border all the pleasanter by reason of the attention -vvhiih they lUiTe shovn the men1 from time .to time. The people of the West are naturally ,<$> <s> ! THL IDLEK. & ! <5> ? !?><$>^<^'^^,<^^><$><j><s><$><J><s><^><$><^ ' ? ? 1 ?-? ** * T l-? r\ A fAm ftf Hin or 1r/s. OQ V j ill illv lciso l iiau juuicLUiufj i.\j about the schools and so on. I do not rec.ill just what I did say, but I know it was all right and along the right lines, though I have little j doubt that some of the modern school j teachers and profeseors did not agree j with me. I sometimes believe that there is more to be gotten out of the old blue back speller and Smith's : grammar than any or tne mouern books. I le.irned by "heart" all those 133 rules in Smitli and even to this ; day when I hear some public speaker I : get up and use wrong grammar one or more of those rules immediately appears to my mental vision. Talking about schools I hear that the county board of education rand the Newberry school district are taking into the Newberry district all the territory' contiguous to it. It reminds me of what I used to hear the old ! folk say about Mr. Fred H. Donlnick, I not the congressman, but his grand-; ! father. Every salesdav he would be ' I in Newberry and he always bought hor>ri Ms unc s hie land owner. 1 can remember that it was said of him that he wanted to buy all the land that joined his. If the expansion idea of Newberry district continues it will take in all the districts that adjoin it. I know that it does not make 'any difference to the peoi pie what I think about it and to tell the plain truth it makes no more difforonpp t(i what the people think 1 iV*V4?W - _ about what I think, than it does to them. But here it is and they can read it and' think about it or not just as they like, but I am going to say whrt 1 think regardless of what , any one else thinks. iThstt is e-nppos! ing of course that aft? of us really ; and truly thinks. And that is the crying need today of our schools and our people?none of us think, and when we do try to think we so often think wrong, or from our own selfish motives and purposes and interests. ?o? But really and trullv I have thought sometimes, and I still have the hi.ibit, and scmehow I just can't get rid of j it. But here goes : j If the Newberry schools really want {to be a help in developing education- ' _ _ | al interests and advancement ot tne county they can do a great deal that will help. Not by taking in more ter- I ; ritory and increasing numbers andj | getting more mioney?and that is the j real meat in the cocanut?it would be a whole lot better to develop the I hig-h school and cooperate v;ith the schools in the county to bring uj the common schools so that the chil dren might come from these country schools to the high, school at Newberry. And make it free to all the children of the county. And develop it to the very highest point of efficiency. Then you would i>e doing something for the education of all * T17A the ciiiiGren or uxe tuuuv. out need to encourage the country school to develop, and have ias many rural graded schools as we can get. But here I am talking about something that there are lots of people in the county that know more about than I do. And who will not take my advice a hospitable people and in spite of the j many thousands of soldiers who are <en'ca:nped in and around El Pasl, many of the leading citizens of the city have taken time to make the Palmetto men feel that they are appreciative of their presence and realize fully that they uire there to pro-1 tect and defend them and the other | Americans who live on the boundary v ~ between tne two countries. r<*iucularly has this been true of the First ysbr-m rfA-o ao sh hm vbgkqjbgw National Bank and' the Chamber of .Commerce, and many other business places. They make you feel at home in ttm Peon. Q-nH rpfnsp to let vou feel that you are in a strange land. The border is a very interesting place and in another article I will undertake to tell something of the j feelings regarding the Mexican prcb^m, the daily life of the people and something about the camp life of the South Carolina soldiers. W. F. Caldwell any way. And really it amounts to very little whether they take it or not, so long as The Herald and News will print what 1 write i am going j lO say w-nat 1 think and the consequences will have to take care of i themselves. Of course, 1 am always ; - *-- - ?Vt i *1 >. ! going io try to uiiiik. ngut iauu juslij and do those things that 1 taink are for the best of all the people. But then, you know, the person who does that is never appreciated by his cotemporaries but he has the .onscious-1 ness of 'having pointed the way and j the satisfaction of the knowledge that! sooner or later the people will coma j to his way of thinking, though they ? /srr/N 4- Vti * 4- V% r\ rvtrA>? win never aciiauwicgc uu.a ct^j. thought that way. But as I have remarked time without number, that is of very little concern to me, bei cause I have my reward for pointing ' the way and having served my day | and generation even if no earthly j credit ever comes my way. But sup- j pose we talk about something else, roads for instance. I * - ? *?Wi Icq ' i i flr- rP \ ?- ' ^ Roads and good comfortable country life and good schools and good1 churches in the rural districts are "handmaidens of each other, and go' along together, land it will ever be1 so. . I came across a copy of the j Spartanburg Herald the other day; j and I found a pretty and appropriatej i little nr>em in there and I cut it out and it is appropriate to the subject! of roads land I am going to give it to you in this connection d I want j you to read it and then remember what j j Ceasar did and then go ahead and do ; likewise. Here it is: -- .& | WHAT CEASAR BID. (Ohio- Motorist.) ' MnV a westward ride' YV UC1I v> V,UkJUl VV And grabbed the Gauis for Rome,' ,' i Wilt it was the first thing that he did; To make them feel at home? Did he increase the people's loads, 'And liberty forbid Xo, he dug in and built good roads?' That's what old Ceasar did. i i . "Did Ceasar put the iron heel Upon the foeman's breast, j Or did he try to make them feel * ? ? ? ? "K f O | Thiivt Rome ruie was uie ucoc; What did -he do to make them glad ! He came their lands amid? He built good roads in place of had? That's what old Ceasar did. i "He built good roads from hill to hill. Good roads from vale to vale; T./xadq movement j n.c i ah m; s"vu ! Till old Rome got all the kale, j He told the folks to buy at home, i Build roads their ruts to rid, j Until all roads led to Rome? That's what old Ceasar did. t<> -a n-<r town would make itself " ?J The center of the map, Where folks will come and settle down And live in plena's lap; / If any town its own abodes Of poverty would rid; Let it go out land 'build good roads? I J?ust like old Ceasar did." The Appian Way was built 300 j years before Christ by Appius Claudius. one of Rome's greatest gener-1 als, connecting Rome with Capua, ana later was extended to Brandisi. This highway is still bearing the burdens of commerce and the fume of the j builder, which proves that there is no monument so enduring as a highway. ?o? That is good dope. The best investment that the people can make hnildine of roads IS Iliuiicy put in ^ and th,e wonder to me is that with the great number of automobiles in this county and the great number of people interested in the sale of thes? things that there is not more interest in the building and maintenance of t/-. ./-To Rut there isn't. And a lot of people will not do an/thing, they tell me, because some one else may get a little benefit from what he has done. It is wonderful and remarkable just how selfish human nature really is. And thpn v. a are living in a Chr'stian age. It should teach us, if it teaches anything, to serve one another and to help one another. I fear sometimes we haven't got the right "brand. The right kind is all right. If more us had it there wouldn't be so much need of so many laws and so many 'aw officers. The Idler. y Nominations Si Now to Inst Campaign Simple and Easily x- r\ TLI. io KJvercoTne?iviuin inn the Valuable Awards Enters Will reo The Herald and News Great Corculation Callpaign is getting under way. Tlie grand start will be uade in a few days when the names of those nomine t.eri this far will be uublished and I then the campaign will last only sev-j en weeks and during that time scores of people will be casting their votes for their favorites. Some people have an idea tliat it is too 1/a.te to enter the campaign. This is not tme. It will not be too late until the nominations are closed which will he two or three weeks yet. However, the earlier your name is sent in, the better it will be for you to get a good start. Each day brings new names of en-! ergetic people who will share in the Herald and News list of valuable awards, which includes fa; Maxwell Touring car fully equipped with electric lights', self-starter, etc., and! numerous other valuable ond f"rsirable awards! Perhaps one of the most striking features of the campaign is, that every lady who enters will receive a reward. inose wxi'j <xre luiiiAiit^ V/JL CVi ~ ing the campaign should do so at once. There no time like the present. especially so, on acoUnt of the starting Opportunity offr which is now *nd will close Saturdap, Oct. 14. The rewards are great, so the quicker the start is made the betttr it will be for thos who are determined. If vou i\re only thinking of enter?>?r. don't wait any longer. Do so at o^c. Immediately upon receipt of ; your letter of inquiry or nomination, I we will send'you full particulars also a starting opportunity recipt hook with full instructions. You will note the nomination gives each candidate 10.000 votes. The first $6.00 in subscription sent in by each candidate will oecure 1000,000 j fWfe are glad to state that Westminster will soOn have a hospital where the sick und wounded can be treated, j ?Tugaloo Tribune. The idea of lit-) tie Westminster having a hospital ol "or own when such a big place as Newberry can never have one. Hiram H'earst, Jr., paid $10 in the j recorder's court Tuesday for break- j ing Mary Lee Talcnd's arm with. a| stick, while John (Brown, under indictment for stealing chickens, forfeited a $10 bond. The trade that is going to the Hug store shows that the public has read Mr. Vigodsky's advertisement. It pays too. Te Hub has good goods. It pays to. The past season has been the best j for nea vine b'.iy and some other j things that has ever rolled around in j this part of the country. When Baker and Oxner ha^e their I new garage built it will improye alonjr Main street wonderfully in that part; of town. Pretty and brilliant Ethel Clayton, with, the great Holbrook Blinn, both j well known ?nd well liked in New- j berry as bright, particular stars of the movie world, will be featred in I "Husband and Wife" at the Opera1 House next Tuesday through the cele-1 brated Warld poctures. rr-u:.. ^,-niiunoM S^nt.ember-Oc- I iillb in iyut,nu?,vu ^ ~ I tober weather with its gale Dreezes. j A special from Atlanta to South O rolina papers will please Mr. T. MJ Mills mightly. It says: "Cattle, nogs j and sheep are now "being grown in i +>ip south to such? an extent that the j Southern railway as found It necessary to establish a daily fast livestock service," etc. , That active and graceful rieien Gibson will be "Hurled through th% Drawbridge" at the Opera House Friday. While "Worth I While'" will al go h3 shown with. Marguerite Clayton J i.'nd Bryant Washburn, two very popular players in the motion pictures. hould Be Made ire Early Start y Understood?-No Obstacle ng is to Start Early For ' -Every Laay Who eive a Reward. extna; votes, an additional $6.00 in subscriptions will give 200,000 extra votes provided it is sent in to the Campaign Department on or before Saturday, Oct 14th. These votes are in addition to the regular scale of rotes. The Free Voting Coupon which appears in each issue of The Herald and News is good for 500 votes eaoh and candidates may secure as many of these as possible. There is no limit as to the number of free voting- con-., pons that may be casit for any dandij date. These votes above will give j you a good start and may be tho 1 means of securing the prize of your choice. Fairness of the Plan. / ? Already nuxuercrus teiepuicme vaaio and persons calling at the office have commended the splendid list of awards and the ftairness of their distribution. It can be readily seen' that the undei:aking of the Herald and News is not of a philanthropic nature, it is a plain business proyosition, pure and simple. In other words The Herald and News proposes to gain hundreds of new subscribers within the next few weeks, and instead of employins scores of solicitors (strangers) they, have decided to reward their friends and patrons who will help in the \vcrk. The awarding of the prizes will be left in the hands of business and professional men of Newberry. -s This assures absolute fair and impartial treatment to all. X . Everybody receives a rewlard in the Herald and News Circulation Campaign, that reward repends entirely i on the co-operation each candidate give those who nominated them, so there is nothing left for you to do but to start at once. Send in your name today. ?s> ^ COTTON MARKET. # ? Newberry. <? j f cotton ^ lb.oo v i<^ Cotton seed, per bu 77c ^ I <8> Prosperity. Cotton 16.62 ^ <?> Cotton seed, per bu 77c j Pomaria. % iCotton 1G.70 Cotton seed, per bu 76.50c. ^ Little Mountain. * Cotton 16.50 " J v 70/? ^puouoii seeu, pt?i i ov v 3> Whitmlre. $ <? Cotton 16.50 3> Cotton seed, per bu 76.50 ^ <S> I'liappells. ^ Cotton 16.65 Cotton seed, per bu 79.50 & ? > Silrer Street. Cotton 16.50 ?> Cotton seed, per bu 78 Klnards. ~ <?> Cotton 16.40 <S> Cotton seed, per bu 76.50 <3> S'.v-^ot Blanche Sweet, who is also beautiful, will be seen in "A Temporary Truce"' Saturday at the Opera House. We wish Newberry would get interehted like the Edgefield and Greenwood people. Senator B. E. Xichol? ?ato Wnrt7ftpr of Green SOU i ILC3 iUOJVl VM.g wood tiiat the ^Edgefield committee is going ahead on the Augusta-Edgefield-greenwood highway proposition. Mr. Henry Lane of Hendersonville is in the city. I Dr. W. G. Houseai accompanied his son G-us to the Charleston college last week. Mr. J. J. Davis, who hlas been living in Newberry, has returned to Columbia to make bis home and will go into business with his father, Mr. Geo. L. 'Davis.