Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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at the Postoffice at New C., as 2nd ciass matter, t H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, January 9, 1917. ABOUT FREE TUITION. The Spartanburg Journal, the Greenwood Journal, Dr. L>ouglas oi j Clinton and some others are against j the free tuition proposition in tin? j * State colleges, and as one reason j claim that k will injure the denomin- j ational schools. Wonder if they have ever stopped j to consider and find out just ivhat! proportion of the students in the State j colleges are now paying tuition. If! tuition charges as now operated is not injuring the denominational col leges we would like to know how ii is goine: to injure them if it is made free by law. Dr. Douglas says better give the money to the free schools. That has always been cur position. In fact, our position is that it is no part o! the duty of the State to furnish high er education at all, but the policy of South Carolina is against the idea and has been for a period almost co-extent with its existence as a State, and there is no sense In arguing that point. The attempt to charge tuition is so - farcical t^at came to the conclusion Jhat the bouer j policy for the good of the State oulci; be to have free tuition. Either that \ or have no exception to the rule, but! we are inclined to the position of free J tuition, and no. scholarships of any j character. Say to the boys and girls j of South Carolina, "Here's the col lege, boys and girls, come along and j get the tuition it offers, but pay your i Own PYTiPTlRAS " iWe do not believe that such a pol- j / icy will injure in the least any of I the denominational colleges, and that j fthey will go* on doing their work! just as they have done. They are th? ' institutions that are to save the citi- i zenship of the State. And they will j ' be supported and they will live. We ! ' do not believe in the State having i, anything to do with them. We think j - it would be a bad day for their use- 11 fulness in the carrying out the m!-~-! 1 sion which is theirs, if they shoui I: , also become /wards of the State by; J having the State endow scholarships J in them. 4n fact we do not like that! ^ idea anyway. * j 1 S * i We are -printing today two esti?|t mates which should he of interest to, i tHe taxpayers. One is from the re- 2 port of the State tax commission, and' r the other is the estimates of the com- j \ troller general. The figures should a "be of interest to the people^ t' The comptroller general gives c.o: V requirements for the running of the a Staten Loans ar Overdraf Overdraf casn on i ' / Capital S Surplus a Dividend: Dividend! Deposits We will be gla desire to be of servi vancement and pro. sources. The offic JOHN M. KINARD, P State government for the year 1917,' and the estimates are made by the beads of the different departments of the government. It shows that it will ! take a ten mills levy for the year.! The levy is now 7 mills. The govern- j ment is behind. The tax commission ' says it will be necessary to borrow ; one and a half million dollars this' year if the appropriations remain the i t The comptroller general shows what I the money is wanted for and if the : people want all these things they J should be willing to pay for them.; The only way to raise the money is ! by a tax on the property of the State. | It is bad judgment to make the levy | less than an amount to meet the ap-j propriations. There is no good sense in appropriating more money than you | provide to raise. That is the policy j that has been pursued in the county I for the past several years, and the result in that the county is getting in debt every year. The unsettled policy of the State i in regard to the asylum is costing j the State a good big sum of money. mu ^ -.1 i ~ r ~ A.A. ai * - ? * ' i at; pmicy 01 auempung 10 develop j tlie property in Columbia and at State Park is very expensive and useless. Develop one or the other and save the people's money. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. The H- raid and Xews is a day late in order to give its readers the full t'-x- of Gov. Manning's message to i :'_c legislature the day it is delivered.! R ad it for yourself. We have noj space in this issue to make any com ments. We may do so later. SHERIFF (ASHLEY'S STATEMENT One of our best friends wrote us. a card the other day when he saw \ f Vl o H + tlo etdt/imfin* ? aaw-w&w otuwruA^iit tiiat c ttci c 5^" | ing to print the statement of Sher- i iff Ashley, to cut it out. ^That the; question was now a dead issue and j that it would do us no good to print i it and ,might and would do harm. Well, the article was in type when wp received the card. But we wouldlTSve printed the statement any way. We have very great regard for the opin ion of this friend, because we know he means well and would only say i what he thought was for our good.! Wb think Mr. Ashley is entitled to1 have his statement printed, and for that reason we are printing it. From 1 the message of Gov. Manning it would *epm that it is still a very live qu^s-! .ion. It is our purpose to print the news ind to give every one. whether we urree with him or no' ?? f--?*- > Gov. ?vlannin? asks the legislative o give him authority to remove shev-j ffs. f?\-or\ jf t'ie constitution has to he! tmended to do so. The legislature, nay do it. but it would he very un-"^ rise for such to he do^e. If he. or ny governor, is to he sriven that an-: hority better sive authority to. ap-. 'Oint the sheriffs and do awav with; ny elections except the governor. Of Eient of i iu invcsimt; ts, secured fa ts, secured a taiiu aim 111 , i tock nd Profits 5 No. 39, du( s unpaid d to have every person it rn nffcAfnrr /r?r??1/YV/7 /5i CC (ft IU( IVUI U g^ress of our County and zrs of our Bank wish on THE BANK 'resident |flayer, Z. F. Wright, L. V MOKJ-; SHOP TALK. I We dislike to talk so much shop ) in the paper, but it is impossible for 1 us to write all tne subscribers a per- ; bonal letter, and there are a few mat-; ters that we desire they shall all ua- j "* J ltt*~ K AArt TTArVi n 1T uerstanu. t nti?c uccu nuiamg long and late and early to get oar1 mailing list corrected and to avoid errors*. We do not des-ire to take off any name where the subscriber has . paid in advance, and for that reason j we want again to say that if the crea- i it is not correct please notify us and we will send the paper on pending investigation. We would rather give the subscriber a year than to take ( from him even a month. We always have made it a rule to give the su*>- ; scriber the benefit of the doubt, and; to take his word in regard to the; credit he should have, if there is any j question. It so happens that some have paid the young ladies in the contest for - ..? - ' ?-> a ?-Viq i t v>qo h<iAn jri V a } ecu , auu Uic 11V.J C-. , en, but that does not bring them up ; in advance, and, therefore, we cfffi11 not send the paper >on under thobe j conditions. And then we may have J the name on the wrong route or post office. All credits have deen ma-ae up to date, and those who have called our attention to what they claim are er rors will be investigated and the paper'continued until the matter is; adjusted. Those who do not get the paper'will know the reason is, that according to our list, the time has expired. we wouici De pieasea to i have all of -you remain with us but I unless you pay ve cannot keep you on our list. That is all there Is to it, and it is said and done in tne very kindliest of spirit .and feeling. Wcj have lost just as much as we can af-! ford and more on those who have not I paid for the paper, and never again ' will it be sent on credit. And wo want advertisers to hear in mind also that the price of display advertising has been increased twen- j ty-five per cent. We would like to' have a continuance of your business, ( but w<* find that the merchant has in creased his price so as to give him ft profit, and we are sure he is rot going to object when we do the same thing. If he does it is up to him not to pur chase. Then another thing, we may occa sionally print a four page paper, but as a rule it will be eight pages. 'We are not going to enlarge the paper simply for the purpose of having the ; pages. If we have the business from [ the adverti-ser and the news to print i we are going to print the pages nee- j essar'y to handle it. If not we will j print a smaller number of pages. We, try to deal honestly and fairly and i to do the best we can under the cir- j ;umstances, and if that does not ple2se eve cannot help it, an<f shall not wor-, *y ahout it. That is our creed.. We shall be glad if it pleases, if it doesn't vhythat is all there is to it. We do lot worry. j ? Newberrv. S Conditic RESOU nts >y cotton, ind unsecure Banks L1HD1L I * e January 2, 7 Newberry County read t very worthy interest and t dear old State as never bt e and all a Contented, He THAT ALWAY O. B. MAYER, Vice Pre V. Floyd, J. H. West, Geo., o TL? XT I lie 11 From R< SHOWING CC Loans and U. S. Bone Stocks anc Banking F Cash due i t Capital St< Surplus an Circulatior Dividends Deposits Re-discoui Bills Pay a! B. C. MATTHE Presi United Ste Sole Depositary South C >n j< RCES 1 n rv q>iu,u 'dj $3^2 ITIEJ 1917 he above statem mterprize durir '.fore, and to th ippy and Prospi S TREA' sident S. M y vver, W. J 1884 ONDENSED SI O F ational Bant Newberry, South eport to the Comptri )NDITION AT THE CLOSE RESOURC Discounts is - - - 1 Securities louse - ' From Banks and U. I Iota! LIABILIT >ck - - id Undivided Profits unpmu m jg m it with F. R. Bank lie Total IWS, T. K. JOHN3TC dent ( ites, State, County r for U. S. Postal [ Saving D and Greenwoc IE ICO L. / arolina muary I i 28.44 15.42 5 * lent of which we are pro ig this year. Let us one is end we hereby dedica erous Year. rc VAI T Dim llj X W XVAVJJ J. Y. McFAL Hunt, F. Z. Wilson, J, \ 'ATEMENT t of Newberry i Carolina oiler of the Currency. OF BUSINESS DEC. 27, 1916 :es $573,600.83 102,000.00 - 9,682.48 - . - 10,000.00 j. i xeas. o0,0/ o.ui - $758,859.32 IE5 $100,000.00 18,345.81 - 100,000.00 74.67 381,295.52 - 139,143.32 20,000-00 $758,859.32 iNE, H. T. CANNON, !!ashiar ? Asst. Cashier and City Depositary eposits for Newberry, Abbeville , 1917 1724,004.44 13,243.86 112,503.24 ;S4-9.S 11.54 $50,000.00 75,096.86 3.000.00 517.00 721,197.68 $849,811.54 ud. It is our consuming and all pull for the ad te ourselves and our r? l-IT L J6- A. L> Vice President and Cashier > , Y. McFall, Jno. ML Kinard. ]