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k derail) auB &s. Watered at the Postoiftcc at New- j Av-Ty, S. C., as 2nd aass matter. *L H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, April 6, 1917. *rn nikvno adui i i It is not the purpose of The Her-1 aid and News to get into any,discus-! sion with any one in regard to the bom> question, but there are a few! facts which the people should have, j and which should be stated so that' there may he no cause for misunder-; standing the position of any one. The principles laid down in the ar-j tides of Dr. Mcintosh are absolute-, ly correct, and are in accord withi * J ~ ^ ??of oo irl " wnat me neram aau .\chs u iol oa?u about this bond business. The pur-; pose of the commissioners of public I works, as we understand their posi tion, is to do the very thing for which JDr. .Mcintosh is contending, so far j n?a ohlo e/i tr> Ho Ctb lUCJf aiC auiv ov ww >.?, The sinking fund was created spe-, ciijcally for the payment of the bonds' when they mature. That is the pur*: pose of the sinking fund and no one will say that it should not be so ap-' plied. J, There are three issues of bonds; for the city, water, ltgnt ana sewer systems. j < The $?5,-000 issue of 1902 for sewer < has no sinking fund provided, and 3 when it comes due it will have to be l either paid or refunded in full, unless j some provision is hereafter made. 1 These bonds run for forty years. j t The issue of 1910 for $40,000, $33,-! < <KM) for sewer extension and $5,000 t for extension of lights. There is a ' sinking fund provided for in this is-;} sue sufficient to pay the bonds at ma- j < tiirifv. In the reDort of the commis-' i ? ? - . 8ioners the sinking fund in their " hands was put, in one item for both ' i bond issues which provides a sink tag fund. The sinking fund for the forty . thousand issue is about $9,400. and should be deducted from the $42,400 reported on hand as a sinking fund , ? ^ nf f Vi q q mn>i n t nf flip WC UaiA, VI tlAV UUAVU44V W*. v..v j linking fund available for-the pay- . ment of the $42,000 issue, which would r leave about $32,000 in the hands of j the commissioners in cash and se curities for the t$42,000 issue due in e 1937. The f^wn still owes a little * over $8,000 to the commissioners on ^ the sinking fund wThich it is provided c to be raised. The remainder is New-; terry college bonds $10,000; Chicora ^ college bonds $3,000; Silverstreet . school district bonds $4,000; City of iNerWberry sewer bonds $3,000, mak- r ing a total of securities of $20,000. ; ^ We agree with Dr. Mcintosh, if j these securities can be turned into * ? ? ? - ? j ii \ casti it should D aone ana uie muuej applied in retiring the bonds of the r town, even though the securities ; should bear a little higher rate of r interest than the town refunding ^ "bonds. j * But it is incorrect to assume that c the commissioners have the full t amount of $42,400 either in securities j or cash to take up the $42,000 issue. \ because the "money in the sinking t fund for the $40,000 is^ue could not i be applied to these bonds. i v The $42,000 issue does not require t the commissioners to retire them in a 20 years, nor does the statute make I it mandatory but it in in the discre-! tion of the commissioners. We think 0 it would be wise to use dilateverj a fund they have in so doing as far<3 as possible. j j. > The following are provisions in the i bonds of the issue themselves: ! v "And whereas, the Mayor and Al- j l dermen of the Town of Newberry, S. j v r.. have declared by ordinance that h the foregoing \ecitals are true, an<!'t have created a sinking fund fcr the r\ nf noM Vt/vn/^o of v l ^tiuu \jl oaiu uvuuo at, uiatui x- | i ty, and made all other legal provis-j r ions for the assessment, levy and col-I fc lection of a sufficient annual tax in s A Bugle Call i Th "THE 1 "Tlio Fa 111V 1U A Drama of the ( 2 Houi '' A DP A r cnm a Admission 50c. Performances Coi addition to the annual tax levies foi other purposes to meet the intere? to uecome due on said bonds, am also, to raise the sum of at least ou6 fortieth part of the entire bondei debt as a sinking fund in aid of tin retirement and payment of saic bonds." The bonds are payable at the Caro lina Savings bank of Charleston or the first day of .January, 1937, "witt the privilege of redemption on tk< tirst day of January, 1917, with in terest thereon from the first day ol i ? 1 v'QT ot t-Vio rafp i J clU Uttl A. L/., lUt/l, ui. u.v. ?. six per cent." We understand that the commis sioners of public- works will ask tht purchasers of the bonds to permi: them to issue only $20,000 Id bonds o\ the new series instead of $30,000 ana thus retire $20,000 of the $12,000 is sue. The State newspaper of Thursday quotes a sentence from an editorial in The Herald and News of several issues back and proceeds to say that it "is a specimen of flings at the gov ernor of South Carolina from a small group of newspapers," and then goes on to say what the Manning family is doing and that one son is a West Pointer and another is a member ot the National Guard and that both were at the border. And that the Mannings never shirked any duty. Roniamin at the border also as a private and we have never shirk ed any duty, but the time has now come when those who were so loud in their clamorings for war to .show their patriotism by their actions. We intended no "fling'* at the governor )ut we still think he misrepresented :he people of this State when he gave Dut that interview in which he said ;he people of South Carolina were 'clamoring" for war. But the time! ias now passed for this sort of dis- j ??.eoinr> Tlip Herald and News and ts editor will stand with President Wilson with all the strength they nay possess. The hour has struck. This country s now at war. The time for lond jrotestations of patriotism and clam pings for war has passed. The time ( 'or action has arrived. The call now ; s for men. Men at home and menj n the front and men in the trenches., rhe munitions ad the money may be j aised easily. "It is the time that stirs men's j ;ouIs. and men will respond nobly to lie call of dire necessity. We do not leed the blusterer and the propagan-1 list any longer. We now need men >f action, we need efficiency, and the; all for it in civic life does not stand >y the breadth of a hair behind the; all for army and navy. I We need ; nen everywhere. The hour has struck ' or all men to respond." We do not need to abuse those who i vere not in favor of war and who did ; iot believe we snouia go into u aiiu, rho prayed that +his country mlgm emain at peace and lead all the vorld in the paths of peace. They 1 rill do their duty and will ho foun^ landing by the government in many ; ases more loyally and patriotically han some who were loud in their' >rotestations for war. Robert E. Lee I .as against secession and thought; hat war should not be, but when! lis native Virginia went into it he I rent with her and there will be none : o say that he did not do his duty < ,s a soldier, and there is none more | tonored than he. We had hoped and believed 'tnat! >ur president, who is in our opinion' good and a great man, and who i3 ( loing the right as he sees it. may: iave kept us out of this struggle, but j t seems that he could not and of J ourse those of us who did not want' i-ar will stand by the government.; ."he Greenville Piedmont has some-1 ^hat of our ideas when it says, "we; Lave an idea that those who wish | his country "kept out of war will; aake better soldiers than the valiant | owdies who by force tried to de-, rive them of the right guaranteed iy the constitution to freedom of peech." ! n A fmc fni? M MM MJLJLKf A VA A omas Dixon's Great Sequel t 3IRTH OF A NAr \ of a Origin and Fall ol r vi 11 i n rs or i nniis ana oe >E THE ne Day OnJ Y APRI Children Under 1 itinuously from 3 F \ . * \ 3IR. BOB DEMO RE ST . lomeuiau ?un me Demurest suuc* ( o. all >ext Week. ! Commencing next Monday night the well known Demorest Stock Co., numbering fifteen people, will open a week's engagement in their tent theatre in Main street and will pre sent an entirely different repertoire of plays from those played here on ' their la-st engagement last Novem ber. I ? ^.1?:.. ? ? : ? 1., ' rur iiitrn opening piav .uuuuo* night they will present the pretty play in four acts, '"Wedded and Part ed.'' The play tells a beautiful love story with plenty of comedy through out the play, interspersed with hish class vaudeville specialties net ween the acts. The price will be the same, ten and twenty cents. The other plays will be announced each night. AX ORDINANCE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, TOWN' OF NEWBERRY, BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of New berry. in Council assembled: 1. That the rules adopted by the Board of Health of the Town of New berry on April 3rd. 1917, in reference to keeping, maintaining, or permit-1 ting closets or toilets in the Town of Newberry and connecting same with the sewer line be. and the same are hereby approved and are declared to have the effect of an ordinance of the Town of Newberry; said rules be ing as follows, to wit: Rule 1. "That in order to safeguard the health of the citizens of the Town of Newberry and to make the Town more sanitary, it is necessary, with in certain areas, to require all clos ets or toilets connected with the sewer of said Town wherever such sewer is available, and to require all surface closets or toilets that are allowed under these rules to be prop erly screened in accordance with plans and specifications to be furnish ed by the Board of Health." Rule 2. "That no owner of any land in the Town of Newberry with-: in the following limits, beginning at j a point 300 feet down the railroad; from 'Higgins oi Boundary Street! and running thence on a parallel i line with HigginsCor Boundary Street' to 300 feet beyond where the unnam-j ed street coming into Higgins or j Boundary Street, near the residence' of George Mower, would if extend-' ed intersect such line, thence alon^i a line parallel with said unnamed, street to within 300 feet of Johnstone j Sfrnot + Vi ?>> ?/ ? ol nnu o 1ir>o tvq to 11 i L11 V>11 V/ V/ UIVU^ u 41A1V U1 UiiVi J to Johnstone Street to a point 300; feet beyond where Amelia Street If extended would intersect such line, thence along a line, parallel with Amelia Street to a point 300 feet beyond Main Street, thence along a line parallel to Main Street to with in 300 feet of Calhoun Street, thence along a line parallel to Calhoun Street to a point 300 feet beyond the | *n/-vr*tVi rr CLrknf-fo PranV +Vi An I1UX Lli. JJI UH5 \JL UV.VLIO v> X LUVilV>^ along a line parallel to Scotts Creek to the railroad, thence down the rail onal Defense noN" Nation" Our Republic. auiy. LATRE Iv f L 6th 14 Years 25c. M. to 12 P. M. I f . I j read to t.ie point 01 commencing., i : shall construct, maintain, permit or ' : allow ijny surface closet or toilet on | I;is. her or its land within three Iiun- . I dred feet of any sewer line of the j said Town of Newberry, but all own j ers of land within the above limits i | desiring to construct, maintain, per- 1 | in it or allow any closet or toilet with ! in three hundred feet of any sewer j | line of the said Town shall connect; i same with such sewer line and sup ply suitable fixtures for the use of the people residing or employed on said premises, such connection wit'i : ; said sev\er line to be made, and suit table fixtures supplied witmn nv* ; months after the approval hceof by ; 1 the Town Council of the Town ot \ Newberry; and all owners of land! i within the Town of Newberry con-; j structing, maintaining, permitting or : j allowing any surface toilets or clo3- j lets anywhere in the Town of New - { i berry, including those that are al ! lowed in the above restricted area | by not being within three hundred i ! feet of a sewer line, shall have same l j properly screened within five months, j i after the approval hereof by the! ' Town Council, and keep the same so ; ! screened in accordance with plans and specifications to oe turmsnea Dy j ! the Board of Health. Any owner or j j owners of land failing and refusing J ! to comply with any of the terms of | < these rules shall be subject, upon I , conviction thereof before the Record-f J er, to whatever fine or imprisonment | that may be fixed by the ordinance ' of the town approving these rule3, land every day of twenty-four hoiirs1 i shall be deemed a separate violation ; of the provisions hereof; Provided/ i that if the owner of the property ; snail De a non-re9iaent or a person not responsible in law, then the agent of such owner or the person having charge of said property shall become liable to the said fine or imprison ment for failure to comply with the provisions hereof." 11. That any person, firm or cor poration violating any of the provis ions of the foregoing rules shall, upon conviction thereof before the Recorder of the Town of Newberry, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than One Hundred ($100.00) Dol lars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty day? in the Town guard v /% >, o ^ /m> urwn f(ia U'ArVc nf j 11UUOC VI uywu WHV II Akw w. the Town; Provided that if the own er of the property shall be a noa resident or a person not responsible in law, then the agent of such own er or the person having charge ot said property shall become liable to the said fine or imprisonment for failure to comply with the provisions of said rules; Provided further, that every day of twenty-four hours that the owner, agent or person having charge of any property shall fail to comply with the provisions of the foregoing rules shall be deemed a' separate violation of the provisions thereof. DONE AND RATIFIED in Council assembled this the 4th day of April. 1917. Z. F. I WRIGHT. Mayor. Attest: J. W. CHAPMAN, Clerk and Treasurer. The never # If he lias <^y,\ Daiuv nt worriec works b And HE is the man w "looking" for the man wh< care of his own money is t reliability, it's good c< Be wise today. Open ai Put We pay^4 per cent i The Nation B. C. MATTHEWS, T. K. President "Two Su tK tlJLV A & 1V1 A man who $35 to $40 when considerii "I can have t had one before. I will have m money. I will have How does the to you? Concentration o advertising to mak great volume, as th rity?foresight in I of manufacturing quality that keeps 1 _U iL- j.1 il. ?in mc umc?inai s You get style pli perfect fit, plus gua J. H. Si S'H LEPLU CLOTHES "The Same Pric mai\ with iv els laid off wfoi *r"r nthe! } is i\ot Is he ?Uer. caflblBir ho gets PROMOTED. ' i SAVES. He knows that ;he man to TRUST. Savii ommon sense, too. n account with the money ; YOUR money in OUR ba interest. al Bank of i JOHNSTONE, H. T. CAfN Cashier Asst.* nber Federal Reserve Sysl lits for s of One" has always worn clothes remarked ?g Styleplus, $17. wo suits where I ore wear for my the benefit of a it argument appeal n one price?National e that price known? e result of its popula >uying materials?cost largely reduced?and the volume increasing the Styleplus principle. is all wnril faKrirs nine ranteed wear. lfMtMAM 7 r*w iiumti lu. 3 $17 e the Nation Over" tor\ey ?never ihe man with money is the man who can take lg money is the true test i : T^vmnTirrt yuu nave 111 yuur ruuivrii. nk. IT 1 newDerry i I 4 INON, SW. W. CROMER Cashier Asst. Cashier