The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 30, 1917, Page FOUR, Image 4
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* R. aULL. EDITOR.
Tups/Iav .Tanuarv 30. 1917,
The Newberry Herald and News is
still advising the farmers to use the
split log drag 011 the roads.?Anderson
Mail.
And, bless your dear soul, we are'
going to ke. p it up to the end of the
chapter. And we take this opportunity
to say that now is a good time to use!
the drag. i
Worse than the boll weevil, we be
tfieve, are tho&v auto-driving mutts j
who always try to set how close they I
t-n o n/itKor V<?hi<-> 1P without !
V<VL1 U1 i IV auvMivi f v*?*v-v
hitting it.?Pickens Sentinel.
Yes, and those otk-r mutts who nev
er give you any of the road and make
you think they are going to split
riglit through you. 'We believe they
are worse than the othu?r kind. And
the trouble is you find' so many ofi
them. Regular road hogs.
We notice that the Newberry boys
have introduced a bill to authorize
the borrowing of $26,000 to pay past
indebtedness and have made a levy
of one-half mill to pay it back. So
long as they fail to make a levy big
enough to pay the necessary expense*
of the county there will be need of
some such legislation every year and
the debt will pile up and we will have
big interest charges to meet. We nev
er could see. the good judgment in
providing less money than was-nec
essary to meet the expenses of the
county. And requiring the people
who work for trie county 10 wan iur
their pay. While they are passing
laws to make corporations their
help weekly they should pass some
law to make the county pay its bills
at least monthly, and not do it Dy
giving you a little evidence of indeb
tedness.
A subscriber from the country
writes: "i ll agree wnu u?c auuch>'c
Medium. You make a dawgun go<xi
paper. And I am glad to see you
have cut out the liquor advertise
ments." That's kind of him to say
it. We just can't help it, and don't
deserve any special credit for it. It
just comes natural like, you know, i
And we are going to make a better!
paper as the days go by. We like to
do it, you know, and we are pleased
to have the people appreciate our ef
forts. It is an encouragement to,
have them say so occasionally. As to!
liquor advertisements we cut them1
out long ago. 'We did not say any
thing about it in the paper because
we do not like to talk about what
we do along that line.
Mr. Mayor, Wright and Mr. Street
Supervisor A'erts, how about using
the split log drag on our streets? It
would help some and would not take I
much time. j
Revenue officers raided several J
moonshine stills in Oconee county last j
week. Why doesn't 'the legislature;
pass a law against operating moon- j
shine stills??Anderson Mail.
That's the idea. Why doesn'^the
legislature do it? Pass a law. That s
the thing to do.
A woman was killed in Newberry:
the other day while walking on the
tracks of the railroad. Jour other,
persons, we are told, were killed by.
the railroad about the same place at .'
different times while walking on the1
road. Why doesn't the legislature
pass a law to stop people from walk- /
~ J * ? I
lllg UIl uie lamuctu uatAs. i as& a
law-and cure all the ills flesh is heir
to and make people good.
The legislature has now finished
three weeks of the session which j
usually lasts for six weeks and no
bill has yet been passed and ratified. J
That is a fine record and if kept up!
the boys will have the well dolie of!
the folks at home.
Tlie Spartanburg delegation in the
legislature is going to pass a bond
bill authorizing the issuing of one mil
lion dollars for the building of roads
in that county. That's the only way
to get them. And they are going to
safeguard the expenditure so that
when the money is spent the people
will have the roads. If that is true
the people will say well done.
There is certainly need for some
thing to be done for the building of
^ roads in this county that will be good
when we need them and tnat will re
main good all the year. It* takes mon
ey and the only way to Svt money
is to tax the people. Wonder what
our Newberry boys are going to do
tc help us get some better roads. Ap
propriate the money and provide no
way to raise it as they have been do
ing. That's poor business.
P"
In charging the grand jury of Spar
tanburg county, Judge T. J. Mauldin of
Pickens took occasion to declare that
the road question comes within the
afftna rif t"h#? PTAiid iurv's, duties. He
made the statement that more money
is wasted under the present system of
road-working than in any other de
partment of county affairs, but ex
plain^ that he did not censure the
road officials but did criticize the peo
ple for permitting such a road sys-,
WANTED?
tern to remain in force. The judge c
hopes to see the time come wh-c-n ev- 1
ery county in the State will get value i
received for every dollar spont on t
road improvement.?Gaffney Ledger.
We are very much afraid the good i 1
Judge Tom J. will never live to 6ee! s
that day. And we sincerely hope that: i
he may live to a good old age. Wei f
do need some better system of road I :
working than we have, but all these, i
systems take a whole lot more mon-1 I
ey than we have.
The Greenwood Journal carries!1
eight full pages of advertisements in ! .
one issue from one firm. What do you j
think of that? We have been think- j
ing of seeing our merchants in .New- 5
berry and try to find out how many {
of th. m would like such an ad in The
Herald and News. It would be a pay- j
ing proposition and get more results;
than sending out big dodgers. How'
many want such an ad?
i
AS TO STATE COLLEGES. j
Dr. Poteat of Furraan .University
lias a good article in The State on the;
subject of scholarships and free tui-i
tion in State colleges. We print It.!
His first paragraph is sound and
states the position that we have tak
<>n from the time we first took any po
sition on this question, and that was
some little while ago, that we quote
it here. !
l<rPT*a Cfof n'c r*V\HcrotiAr* in ar\ rt _
i iiv vjuait o
cation is to all the people rather than
to a special class. That means that
college students ought to wait for
' State aid of any sort until adequate
facilities have been provided for the
1 education of the whole people. This
is a matter of fact, and is not an ar-'
1 gument against college education, j
But, South Carolina can not longer!
overlook the children who will neverj
; go to college. If the Sta*e has money j
to dispense 'in aid of education, let j
| it put it where the need is greatest, j
! Let this be the slogan for the next j
' ten years in South Carolina: 'Bet-1
j ter schools for all the people." *
I That has been our slogan for twen-1
ty years and more. We have argued }
for many years that so long as the j
| common schools were in the condi- J
tion that they are and have been, and j
J that so long as so great a proportion j
| of the children never get to college, j
; that it vas and is almost criminal j
! negligence for the State to spend j
' such large sums on higher institu- j
I % 11 xl T_ r 1 _ - a. a. f
j nuns, as v\? can uiem, wane at cne ;
* same time neglecting tlie common j
' schools. But in spite of all that we j
said the State has gone on from year !
to year piling up more and more mon- i
ey for the colleges while the common j
schools suffer and languish. True1
there is more money being given them i
now than in former years, but the in
crease to the higher institutions has
been in the same proportion.
All scholarhips should be abolish- i
oH 10 n/i o.. n e o in tVm
VVI U11U bUVi V JLO uv OL HOC 1X1 C11 ^ uiacu I
trying to create a loan fund, and what j
surprises us is that some of the de- j
nominational colleges are encourag- J
ing it, if the fund is left for the use i
of the student and for him to choose j
his own college. It is not the right'
spirit, as we see it. They hold that j
it is not the correct principle but if li i
is to be then let them share in it.!
As to tuition in State schools our |
position is that every one should be,
charged, or it should be absolutely j
free to every one. We should no
longer tolerate the farce which has J
existed for so many years. We do not :
believe that free tuition in the State J
schools would injure in the leai? any j
of th.e denominational colleges. But
it is certainly tFTie fhat South Caro
lina is spending too much money on
State colleges, and every year the de
mands increase, and so long as the 1
legislatures accepts invitations to vis- i
it these institutions and are wined!
and dined by them?at the expense of
ttie State, of course?they are going j
to gt-t almost what they ask. But I
there will be an awakening some time
in the future.
I
Piesident Poteat is correct in all j
that he says in his article about State!
institutions and higher education by i
the State.
He does not advocate a State loan
fund for scholarships but takes the j
position that if 3uch a fund is estab
lished it should be left optional with
the student as to what college he shall
attend. That is sound doctrine, but
there should be no State loan fund.
WALKING OX RAILROAD TRACK
STRUCK BY TRAIN
Woman Instantly Killed by Southern
Train.?Jury 8a>s Unadvoidable Ac
cident.?Woman Was Deaf.
It is stated that live persons have
been killed by a train on the railroad
tracks between the Cline street cross
ing and the union station. We can
recall four in the last few years. It
has not been long since Mr. Williams
and Mr. Bouknight were struck by a
C. X. and L. train on a Sunday after
noon as they were walking on the
track about the same spot that. Ellen
Brice was when she was struck on
Saturday by tlie Southern train. And
shortly after that Elbert Brown wa??
walking along the same place and J
was killed by a C. N. and L. train. And j
a little child was killed at the station]
while attempting to cross in Main j
street
On Saturday Ellen Brioe, an aged j J
To borrow a BA
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colored woman, was coming from her
lome in the country to visit her son
n Newberry. She was walking along
he track of the railroad from Helena,
rhe evidence is that she was walking
between the two tracks when first
seen. That some one attrasted her
attention to the coming in of the pas
senger train on the Southern and in
stead of stepping on the C. X. and L.
track, she undertook to cross on the
Southern, thinking, perhaps, that It
was a C. X. and L. train, and as she
attempted to cross the track she was
struck by the engine and killed In
stantly. The evidence is that she was
hard of hearing and that she was
about 70 years old. The jury of in
quest reached the conclusion that the
death was an unadvoidable accident,
and it so appears to us. The moral of
it is, you should not walk on the rail
road track. 'And it is dangerous to
walk in the public road. So the only
tiling lor iae people wno waiK 10 iio IS
to take to the woods.
The following is the testimony be
fore the coroner which wae taken on
Sunday morning at the undertaking
parlors of Baxter and son.
January 28, 1917.
Inquisition over dead body of Ellen
Brice hold by Coroner Lindsay in Bax
ter's Undertaking Parlors Sunday
morning.
B. F. Xicely, sworn says:
I was engineer on passenger train
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No. 18 with engine 942 coming into
Newberry on January 27, 1917.
1 blew the signal for road crossing
for Newberry. When I turned the
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curve coming from Helena I saw sev
eral persons on the C. N. and L.
track. My track was clear. Saw a
woman between the tracks. She was i
clear of both tracks wh-n I saw her.
Just as we passed my fireman saTd,
"Hold on. look out. we have struck
some one." I put brakes on and stop
ped as soon as 1 could. The bell was
ringing; and I backed up about three
coach lengths to where woman was
struck, and they loaded lie/ in bag
gage car and brought her to Newber
ry. I did not see her myself.
In answer to question by Juror ^
j Player Mr. Nicely said further: My,
; fireman called my attention to the wo
! man. She was clear of track the
I last time I saw her. She was on
i other side of track from my seat. The1
I engine was just rolling. Had cut off 'l
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B. F. Nicely, Engineer.
Dr. J. K. Gilder sworn submitted
; the following statement:
j I hereby certify that Ellen Brice v
j came to her death from the effects j.
. of a blow received upon her head, or
by falling, the fall producing concua
. sion of brain. Both arms and the *
right leg also being broken. ^
James K. Gilder, M. D. t
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Fields Robinson sworn says:
Was fireman on No. 18, Southern
lailway, January 27, 1917. Turning
he curve saw several men walking
iown C. X. and L. track. I noticed
i woman walking between the tracks.
3ne was perfectly cl-.-ar of botn tracks.
Something attracted her mind and
he turned around and looked back
inH drii train mm in or iiiiri cho aimp?i
o run across track. I hollered to
ingineer and he put on brakes
nice but struck her before she got
in track. In answer to question wit
less went on: She was about as
ar from train as from here across
itreet. She seemed to get frighten
id and turned wrong way. If she
lad stood where she was train would
lot have struck her.
Fields Robinson.
iPeter Neel eowrn says:
I saw old lady, Ellen Bric-e, com
ng down railroad between Southern
ind C. N. ond L. tracks. Little before
he got to crossing I heard train blow
or Helena. She was on other side
'line street crossing toward Helena
vhen I first saw her. I came on down
ailroad and got oft' and train had
[nocked her down. I saw hf*r hen
rain struck her. She was on town
ide of Cline street when train struck
ier. When I first saw her she was
>etwepn the tracks and she seemed
o think it was C. N. and L. train and
tepped on Southern track. Did not
tear whistle or bell. When I saw
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| James Connor sworn says:
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! an old lady on the railroad. I holler
i ed at her. ' She was on C. X. and L.
; track. She got off C. X. and L. track
, to go on Southern and at that time
| the train struck nsr. She was be
I tween Mr. Baxter's and Mr. Wicker's.
; I was beyond Cline street crossing
* going towards Helena. I was on left
hand and she on right. Heard train
blow and a.? train passed me the bell
was ringing, ^on't know how old
she was.
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James Connor.
Henry Shell sworn says:
I knew Ellf-n Brice. She was about
70 years old. She was h?rd of hear
ing.
Henry Shell
The tfury returned the following
verdict:
"That the said Ellen Brice ??ame
vto hf-r death by being struck by. en
! gine No. 942, train No. 18, on South
ern Railway company's tracks, it be
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