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TOiCSE LIU, SUMBEK 93 V>K v' jEHBEKBY, S. C? FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916. TWICE A WEEK, *U? A YEA* L JtAlDlEKS C ALLED TO MAKE I PLANS TO HOLD COTTON K President of State Union Issnes Call to AU Planters to Gatber in Columbia to iHear Farm Loan Bank LocaWm tion Discussed. r &$>$><?><$<?><$&<$><$><?><$<$<$><&<$><$ $> <?> <?> The farmers of South Caro- ^ & lina have been called to meet in ^ <!> Columbia on October 25, when <3> ine ciaims 01 -LoiumDia win >ue presented for one of the fed eral farm loan banks. The call Bp is issued by H. T. Morrison, of <?> ^ jMcClellanville, president of the State Farmers' union and is 3" F <s> addressed to the farmers of ^ ^ South Carolina, irrespective of whether they are members of ^ tie Farmers' union. Attention is <? called to the fact that a large <? ^ ? ? - ? ?- ^ 1 ?/*** A O v aumoer ui lairn ivmu aoowm- - j ! tions have been organized in <^j r<^ South Carolina, and it is urged j <& that a delegation be sent from v I <? each to come before the na- <?; tional board, which will be in <$ j & session here that day. r State Warehouse Commissioner John L. McL&urin, in a statement given to The Charleston American tonight, expressed his gratification in the holding movement sustained toy the farmers of SOjuth Carolina in regard to their cotton, and expressed the hope that they "would respond to the call of President Morrison of the State Farmers* union, and come to Columbia next week dur it* thfl IDg U1C uw |UU 6^ W5b?uw U. . I discussion of matters affecting their f own interests. W?nl* Soar. "Those who have been keeping up x with the situation,* said Senator McLaurin, "will remember that I made A the statement at the cotton conference H in Columbia about a month ago, that K a holding movement one-tenth th.e size of the one we inaugurated in 1914 7 would put cotton to 20 cents a pound, Since that time there have been con lerences in Memphis, Texas and various other southern states, and the (advance of nearly 2 cents a pound has ' > \ demonstrated conclusively that my an* 1 ? alysis at the conference here was oorL rect. It also Shows the possibilities I that lie before us. No one can esti- * mate the effect on prices of the in- ' Cation of the currency. Nobody can tell how high cotton is going. There 1 is only one thing of which we may be sure, snd that is that it going as -? *?? i I much too mgn as 11 nas ever uwu iw lew. "I "have learned from friends in New York that efforts are being made to ' get tlie British government to fix a ? inaximum price on cotton, and let all 1 be purchased by the government. There 1 was a great howl when the farmers 1 5 talked about establishing a minimum ^ price, but they don't seem to think < ^ it is any harm for the government to 1 " " " 5 TVio fonrn. ] restablisn a maximum yi IV/C. x uw A*- j ers of the south occupy a very strong J position at this time, which cannot be changed toy even the British government. ' Those who have cotton can borrow money on it, pay their debts, and f&old the spots. This is one time IV lieu, j spot cotton is going to dictate uc price, and when tne price is going to ^ be made on the farm, instead of in Liverpool. The only thing that I regret about the situation is that some | ^ Of. our farmers have made almost a j complete crop failure." r Failures. \ "I had a man to tell me this morning that he would get only two bales of cotton from a four-horse farm. In ? epetion. and in Adams my luiuicuiuiv ~ , ville township, in Marlboro county, we have fine crops, but the crops in o'her T>arts of the county are almost a complete failure. Marlboro has made a3 m high as 85,000 bales, but this year will I hardly make over 30,000, and most ot I this will be in two townships. I wish n there were some way in which the law W of compensation could work for those ? fv.rvm bad seasons, have failed to | ^ VV uu, x* VU. make a crop. A man who has nevei I grown cotton can never realize what t sickening thing it is to work all the year and make no crop. Then, in addition to that, when you see anothei-J 'man, making a good crop and getting, .j NEWBERRY SEEDS NEW JAIL JPROTRtTION OF PRISONERS *r A ^ AlS?k AM'4- Sn a*l TAf*V low Jir. ll> UUpiliflH 111 an iiiu.1 i?/u With The Herald and New* Says >'ewbcrry Jail is Antiquated And Unsanitary. The Xewberry county jail presents a more serious fire hazard than any other jail in South Carolina in the opinion of A. D. Oliphant, assists secretary of the State board of charities and corrections, who has per sonally inspected for the board .almost every county jail in the State and who :has seen reports to the board on those jails which lie has not yet visited in person. The representative of the board, wnich has visitorial and advisory powers over all the penal and charitable institutions in the State spent Tuesdey and Wednesday in Newberry and while here inspected the county jail, county almshouse, and the fhr^p rrnintv chaingsana: camps. "I do not believe," iMr. Olliphant declared, that there is a farmer in Newberry county who would not think a Very long time before he stabled his li\estock in a place which was as liable to catch fire as the Newberry county jail if he would have the same difficulty geting them out in case of fire that the officers -would have in nrionnorc out of the iail. The Jail was built before the war foetwen the Sections. Wood was used very largely in its interior construction, even the walls of two of the prisoner's "cages" being built of this material. It is threestories high, and it is necessary to use three stoves to that the quarters of the prisoners, third floor tne pipes from the two stoves in the prisoners' quarters stretch over half th^ width of the building to a chimney. This system of j heating increases the .naturally large lire hazard tremendously.* The representative of the hoard of charities and corrections said, too, that the quarters of the prisoners' built long before modern ideas of sanitation were thought of, were bad ly lighted, got little or no sunlight l -nd were poorlyj ventilated. The| floors on the second and third floors i are so worn and full of cracks that they cannot be scoured as when water is poured on them it filters through the cracks into the sheriff's quarters on the first floor. This has happened ilso when one of the flush toilets in the prisoners' quarters got stopped up *nd flooded. "During the period in which the | board has finished compiling its record, an average of 9.4 prisoners a day were confined in the Newberry county jail," said Mr. Olliphant. "A very! targe majority of the prisoners in this jail, as in every other jail in the State, were people .who were awaiting trial and, accordingly, were innocent in the eyes of the law. Yet they were forced to stay in this jail in great danger from fire and a serious risk to their health. Newberry county needs and should have a new Jail as soon as possible." Mr. Oliphant made it plain that no county offi-cial was responsible, nor | should be criticized for the structual defects in the jail which make the.( danger from fire\in it gre?at and make it likewise a menace to the health of the prisoners confined in it. Death of Jlr. L. J. Watkins. Mr. Luther J. Watkins died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Q. Watkins, near Chappells, of typhoid fever on Sunday morning, m two o'clock, he service was conducted by the Rev. G. R. Pettigrew. He was twenty-seven years old. Mr. Watkins had been living in Greenwtod but took sick while on ^ visit to his parents. Miss Tessie Hagood is on an extend-( or*, -vistit to friends in Newberry andj Columbia.?Easley Progress. 20 cents a pound, it makes one think I that Satan ought to have tempted JoI> to 'curse God and die' in that way. It is a heap worse than boils. "The farmers, through the state warehouse system, are in position to t;:ke care of Nthemselves as they neveti were before." I j > ? I ?> TKE IDLER ' $> v I $><?><& <$><&<$><$>$><& ? $> ?> ? <$> ? $ ( 1 i.ave received the following com^j munication from a good woman of ^s'ewlerry, and I want first to thank "her for her kind words about myseif. It is so seldom that one' who is trying to do something for the general weal gets any word of encouragement. This comes like an oasis in the midst of a dry and barren desert. I' am: afraid that our town is not so much' a sleepy town -as it is a town in the midst of a noble self satisfaction with itself?now, I know that is not ex actly properly stated, t>ut it expresses two things, satisfaction and selfish- < ness?well, I am Afraid the trouble with us is, as I was saying, we are too well pleased with our noble selves, i that we do not care to have any one .; come in and abide with us, and in be ing in that state we make it impossible for our young blood to remain. Now. ( if I was fifty or seventy ye.irs younger ] I believe that I would go to a real < ' ? ii-.i ?ia live town myseu, ana one mat tuum j and vouid appreciate, a person who, , wanted to ljelp things to move. Now,', don't misunderstand me, I am not ; knocking?no, no, I am not a knocker, j I am a booster, as this good woman j says. I always feel, j "If any little word of mine _ j May make a life the brighter.; 1 If anv little song of mine ] May make a heart -the lighter, God help me speak the little word, And take my bft of singing, And drop ft on some lonely rale To set the echoes ringing." ~\ . J That's the way I feel about it, and the hope with which I write, that T may set the echoes of good will and i good cheer ringing some where in ] some soul. But here is tnat leuer: ??00O00 Newberry, S. C., Oct. 5, 1916. Dear 5?r: Idler: I am sending you "a piece" to read and to use as you may think best in some of your booster write-ups in The Herald and News. You have tried ^ - - J T Vi rvno hard to boost .\ewnerry auu i av^c ^ you will yet succeed ip waking up ( "the sleepy old town.'' , The young folks sny "it is a dead town, too many old people in it." , Well, I am old myself, but I am not , t * - 4-%*^ Ttrttrr nrrnnh Tnn expecting -iu uc m un. ger, hoping to be called tip higher. I'AThy not let the1 young folks have the town and get it on a "modern boom?" 1 Let 'em try their hand, Let 'em "get things humming on' a regular tare." J Then if they fail to get up on time some bright morn and things bust up. 1 then we "antiquated folks'' can pt?h things through to a ffnfsh. All we want is to get their ideas and a start, we have got the push all right. I hav#> never had "the pleasure of meet ing you" but I have an idea you are a I' hard" worker - and not an idler.. At any rate you Have good horse sense of "the- olden- type" and! I like your writings and wish you wrelL Please be sure to publish "the piece" I: send you for I want it printed, so I can get a copy for my scrap book. See! May be some of the knockers will become boosters, rather than be classed lower than the rattlesnake, the hyena, the scorpion and the skunk. An Old Woman. ??ooOpo Selected for The Herald and News. "When the Creator had made all the good and beautiful things in order1 that they might be truly appreciated, He then made the beasts, reptiles and | poisonous insects. fvYlhen He had finished. He bad left over scraps that were too bad to put in the rattlesnake, the hyena, the scorpion or the skunk, so He placed all these together, covered it with suspicion, wrapped it with jealously, marked it with a yellow steak and called it a knocker. Then as a compensation for this fearI ful product He took a sunbeam and | put in it the heart of a child, tee love of a mother, the brain of a man, wrapped these in civic pride, covered it with brotherly love, give it a mask j of velvet and a grasp of steel and called it a booster. He made him a lover of fields and flowers and manly sports, a believer in equality snd justice. And ever since the?e two were created, mortal man has had the privilege of choosing his associates/' 00O00 It is very kind of this good woman to say tliat she has an idea that' f am i hard worker and not an idler, j Wfjii recKon some peopie wouia say tha'C I am a hard worker, and gome would say that I do nothing. It is a pleasure for me to write, and as I Have said several times, I do it for tfhe pleasure it is to me 'and not for lue compensation I receive, because I do not get enough in monef out of it, as the old saying is. to keep a jay bird alive. But if I can say some^ thing that wii^d?: some soul good, and start a thought in some mind that -will be helpful, I fcave my reward. You know, I believe very strongly, as I have frequently said, in tlie Bible, and that justice and right will prevail, and also that bread cast upon: the waters will return after maaay days. Sometimes, it is true, it does seem that the lays <are very many, but then we do not get the true meaning of the sentiment if we cast the bread with the expectation of its return, because that commercializes the -bread. The nat- J iral offspring of commercialism is I iclfishness. That causes the people to forget the general welfare1 and to think only of themselves. 'And of the money they may accumulate. You may remember what the old poet;. Goldsmith oatfi nf n land in his 'beau Lifal little poem on the Deserted Village: 111 fires the land, to hast'ning ills a VTCJ, Where wealth accumulates, and-men decay; Prinees and lords may flourish, or may fnjria 1 A .breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never, be sunDlied." I do not mean that this is a deserted village, but we need to hie 'back ;o a little less selfishness and a little nore concern for our village and the general welfare. The great need of .his community as I see it is for more rooperation .and more public spirit and nore get-to-gether for the general jood. The spirit that I am talking jrbout is expressed in the following ittle poem: MY TOWN! [ knotc my town, and I love my town, And I want to Tiel# it t>e k ? mm tn AY#>rv QTlft it i.vv?u w ?- - w As it seems to be to me! l prated my town and I ebeer my toir?v And I try to spread its fame; find I know what a splendid tbinf; 'two-aid be if wm wmild do the same. -- J ? trust vssj town and. 1 boost my town, And I "want to do ray part To make it a town that all may praise From the depth of every heart! [ like my towa and I sing my .own, And I want my town to grow; If I knocked my town or I blocked my town,. . f That wouldn't be nice, you Know: I think my town is the very best town In all the world?to me! Or if it's not, I want to get out And try to make it be. I talk my town and I preich my town, As I think a fellow should Who has more at stake than to win or make For the love of the common good! I bet on my town, and I bank on my town, And I think it fine to feel? i When you know your town and you love your town? That it's part of your honest zeal! I'm proud of my town, .1 love my , lovrii, i.And I want to help it rise? And that's the way to help a town?i Not curse it and despise! ?BENZTOWN BARD. ooOoo How many people do you hear talking about Newberry like this bard sings of his town? * mean the peo-.4: Encourage Yon In Circula First Real Campaign Day H Time the First Voting Pe Qualify by Starting Duri The names of the ladies who have been nominated in The Herald and News' Circulation Campaign, togeth er with the number of votes that have been cast for them, which appears in today's issue no doubt will create unusual interest, not only among those who have entered, but the entire community in which The Herald rand News circulates. An unusual large number of votes are being sent in by the candidates themselves,. a? we5I as their friends during the past few days, and quite a number of our subscribers have been clipping: the renewal coupoa and sendeing in with their remittance requesting that their -rotes be placed to the credit of their favorite. Subscribers are urged to look over the list of candidates, select their favorite, and send in with this remittance requesting the votes to be placed to the credit of their favorite candidate. Immediately upon receipt of this remittance the Campaign Department will notify the candidate that tehir subscription; hats been; sent in and a receipt will me mailed from this office to subscriber. Subscribers are also; ursred" to> send iii. their remit tances at once, as their subscriptions iow will count for more votes now thsn any other time during the Campaign. By casting your vote tor the .oung ladies who have entered will ao doubt encourage them and it may je tiie means of drear securing one >C the valuable prizes for ^hich thej ^re working. Value of ExtfOBcagemeoL. Encouragement is the greatest factor towards success. To be successful one must haye the encouragement o:* their friends, and good, fellowship of comrades. A little word of encouragement has untold effect which makes the success of the encouragers. Some people ar.e. critical, tey nature. A gre?t many times they do not mean to be, but through habit they have become so. They mean, to encourage, their friends, and do so through criticism and by sending in one or two Free Voting Coupons. This manner ia really unfair to the friend whom you wish to encourage, wmie m-ee vot-i. ing Coupons count but your years J subscription will amount to so many mora votes, ami. will grove a source of. a more substantial encouragement. So Mr.. Reader come forth with, the right sort of encouragement, and they will go right ahead and succeed,, but if you will encourage them only by c whiph is fhft wrone kind, yi UUliOVU, nM.VM -W w?- w :hev may hesitate and fall. T*e First Toting Period. The first voting period in the Herald and News -Circulation Campaign will expire next Saturday, Oct. 21st. Con sequently we urge cauuuuttica c?j in every subscription possible by that date because thev will receive more pie who live here and who have interests here? How often do you hear them saying nice things about the people of the town? And is it not the reople who make the town? When they are saying unkind things of the people are they not knocking the town? How many are trying to do their part to make this really the best town? You Know sometimes jou say more against your town <and the people who live in it by a shrug of the shoulder or a sarcastic remark than you can by coming right out Think on this little poem and on the questions I have asked and then ask yourself, "i?V!hat *m I doing to make my town the very best town." How many people do you know who are talking about this town out of which they are making their living and, where they have made their money what this poet says? Think about it ?that is if yoa ever stop long enough to think. The Idler. | "V ir Friends tion Campaign fill be Saturday, at Which riod Expires?Many Will ng the Next Few Days. votes on the regular scale than they will receive at any other time hereafter. Candidates who have not yet started an active CamDai^n should lose no time but get busy at once and send in as many subscriptions as they possibly can by Saturday and they are urged to take advantage of the present extra vote offsr and make every minute count. 5Ca-ke them to your advantage, and show your friends , that you are willing to co-operats with t'hem and that yon are determined to be numbered among the successful ones >at the dose^of the campaign. Anyone of the" valuable prizes aro worm your wane, an mat is required is a Iittfe energy properly directed on your part. With your ccKjperation with the friends who have so generously Seen voting for y<ju, and with the assistance this office is willing to render, you will have no troaBSe in being' among those who will ''wear the- smzSes that won't come- off" at the close of this campaign. Remember one of the most striking features of this Campaign is the fact . that every participant who faiis t? -nr,A nf fVlo roflr 1OT rVTI^.P* 'Will X t V W Jk V 1/ UUV VI W h V * VJJ AMW r. .?> positively be awarded a cash prize. So do not delay another day,, do- wot be & receptive Candidate. Show your friends that you; appreciate' tSteir effort? 4>y starting am active Campaign "* t CoefoT. By doing, so> you will show the frfeads who nommated. you t&at yoa are worty of the confidence they bestowed uponvyou, by selecting yon a3 their favorite and casting their votes, for you.. If' yooi &o not understand the details of the Campaign, write, phone or call at the Campaign Depart msnt and have- Che detail's: explained1 in - full. THE OPPORTUNITY CO?CFRONT& WHAT ARE YtD-U GOING TO DO ABOUT n: ' SOCIETY (Writtea foe last fis3tre) A very charming acair of the week was the- britfge party given Wednesday afternoon 1>y Mrs. GX. H. Johnso* and Miss Pauline Gilder at their lore!y home, "The Oaks'*' rn compliment to> " - * -J Oo?~?. Hnrtaoul cne onue-cieti, iuim Fotzr tables were: placed 3a the lovely drawing room, which- was artisticallydecorated with pink roses. The scora cards were dainty hand painted cupids bearing the inscription "To Tha Bride." After the games a delightful luncheon was served. Miss Honseal was presented with a lovely brids'j book. ? Mrs. A. T. Brown was hostess Wednesday afternoon to the members of "he Young Matrons Rook club. At tha conclusion of the games the hostess served. On Thursday afternoon Mrs. J. B. Hunter was the hostess of the mem bers of the Main street rook club and a number of other invited guests. After the games a delightful ice course was served at the small tables. Delightful in every detail was the u;9a heart dice party wun vmicu iuwa Saydie Bowers complimented Miss Ress Kibler, whose wedding will occur on October 20th. Partners were chosen in a very unique way and the / ecore cards were pretty heart shaped cards. A salad course was served at the conclusion of the games. Misa Kibler was given a lovely crocheted center-piece as a souvenir of the occasion. The 0. L. Schumpert cnapier. cnnadren of the. confederacy, had a rery delightful meeting Saturday afternoon w ith little Miss May McClure at her home in Main street. Fifteen mem^'ere present and after an interesting program, in which a new member was added to the roll, a delightful course ^as served.