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CLOSING EXERCISES OF POMABIA SCHOOL Pomaria, S. C-, May 3.?The Poma ria graded school taught this session by Prof. K. R. Krepps and Miss Ethel JBeybt will close a very successful school term Monday, May 9th, witn the following program. Exercises to render on the following evening be ginning at 8:30 p. m: Opening' Song?by School. Welcome?Louise Graham and Henrv Counts. Duet, "Basket of Roses," Mazurka, Streabboy?Marion Setzler and Mar jorie Graham Recitation, "Vacation"?Clyde Hentz. Duet, "Gladdis Waltz," I. H. K. D. ?Allien Williamson and Mary Hentz. Dialogue, "Uncle Peter's Visit to the School"?Two Boys and Three Girls. Solo, "Happy Parmer"?Frances Hentz. ' Recitation, "The Party"?Lucile Stone. Duet, "First Ball, Waltz,"Streabboy ?Mary Hentz and Ruby Kinard . * Tr" innio T?uth ?JUCt, V aloe, uucuuuv; '^uiu.v ? Swygert and Marion Setzler. \ Dialogue, "Going Somewhere"? Olin Stuck asd Lonnie Sheeley. .Duet, "Tripping Through the Val ley," Blsfce?Marion Setzler and Claudia Sheeley. Recitation?Marie Sheeley. Solo, iValse, Duvernoy?Sarah Setz ler. Song, "We are Little Soldier Men" t-ULlXC uu;d, Trio, Dress Parade?Sarah Setzler, Mary and Frances Hentz. Pantomime, "America"? Eight Girls and Bight Boys. Solo, "Meditation," Morrison?Mary Hentz. Dialogue, "A Slight Misunderstand ing"?Marion Setzler and Otis Seybt. Duet, "L& Corbeilla de Roses," Stre abboy?Willie Livingston and Marion Setzler. -n-wt* Recitation, "The Dead Tat"?Sarah Setzler. Trio, Gallop?Marion and Sarah Setzler and Claudia Sheeley. "Tfae Wedding of Tom Thumb and Lillie Putian"?Primary Gradsa. Solo, "Evening Shottiche," Elick er?Claudia Sheeley. Solo, "Pearly Dew Drops/' Birbeck ?Mary Hentz. fl^nor ?Thp star Snansled Banner** ? ? - w ?School. Recitation?Elbert Ringer. Dnet, "Whippoorwill," Riche?Mary and Frances "Hentz. Recitation, "When I Dit Drowd"? Louis Aull. "Fifth Nocturnie," Solo, Loybock? Marion Setzler. Dialogue,'"The Picnic." Duet, '"Waves of the Ocean"?Marv Hentz, Sarah Setzler. Pantomime, "Lead Kindly Light"? Ten Girls. Duet, III Corricolo, Degran?Marion Setzler, Pearle Ballentine. Good Night Drill?Eight Little Girls. Good Bye?Six Boys. ? T7"t"~ Crtntr?Pv onl. UUlUg X1VJ.LUC uuue ?ws of Excelsior. Bxcelsior, May 3.?Excelsior school closed last week. We are dry and need rain badly. The farmers can't finish planting until it rains. Mrs. T. L. Wheeler has returned tome from a few weeks' stay at tne Columbia hospital, much improved, glad to say. Miss Jennie Ruth Counts is visit ing at Saluda. Mrs. Joe Lovelace !s visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. G. Counts. Miss Helen 'Wheeler has been on a visit to friends at Fountain Inn. Mr. and Mrs. j. a. *ai>tei- Si/cui Smday with relatives in Mt. Tabor section. Mr. L. S. Shealy and family of Lit tle Mountain and Mr. G. I. Kinard and family of Bachman Chapel speui Sunday with Mr. Jas. P. Cook amd family. Miss Rosalee Wheeler, teacner of the Fountain Inn sch->ol, accompanied by two of her friends spent Sunday with her father's family nere. If the farmers fail to raise plentX of corn and other feed stuff this year it wfll not be for the want of advice. The farmers should raise an abun dance of corn and other food stuffs, war or no war. You can't perish man or beast if you have plenty of corn. The Rev. J. M. White will preach in the school building next Sunday night at 8 o'ciock. ruDnc coruumj invited to the service. Mr. Elmer Long of Clemson college is spending a few days with, the home folks in this section. SAILORS GET RAISE TO EQUAL SOLDIERS 'Washington, May 3.?A $15> in crease in the pay of all the enlisted men of the navv during the war was agreed upon today by the house nav * 1 *""* tA tllO Si comnuttet;. as aiu^uum^nv w mv naval bill. It equalizes the enlisted pay of the army and navy. THB HERALD &Sf) N3W3 0?BV TEAR FOR lljO. WHY HISTORY CONFEDERACY SHOULD BE ' KEFX ALIVE"; I (Paper read by Mrs. L. W. Floyd at: the meeting oi' the Drayton Ruther- j ford Chapter Daughters of the Con-, ieaeracy ai uie meeuiig ueiu au luc home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W.j Keitt May 1, 1917.) It has been said, with a great deal of truth, that the South has been so busy in the making of history that she has not had the time to write it. It has been a surprise to many that a people so proud of its ances try. so assertive of its rights, so jealous of its reputation should be so indifferent to the preservation or, its history. j Southern >oung men and Southern young women are teaching in South-5 ern schools the things unjust to the' South and do not know it. 'Why?, j Because tiiey were taugnx ircuu j i Northern text-books. How car we j expect the writers of Northern texi-j i books to know what we do not know j j ourselves. The North is right to. i place before her young people the j j heroism, the fortitude, and the valor j i of the great men of the North, their j j deeds have been and will be always j I well recorded in history, and so: j should we of the South place before j j our young people the heroism, the! anr? the valor of the South. I | It has been said that "books are! ; the only things that live forever,"! and very certain it is that impres sions made on the minds of our boys , and girls in their sGhool days are j rarely, if ever, eradicated. How lm-; J portant it is then to know what these j books they are studying contain. So ' ?u A ;-n viom tha TTnltod < j WUU LUIS CUU 1U iivn, wiw ~ . i Daughters of the Confederacy,: j through their State superintendents! of education, are getting the names of histories and readers being taught I in the schools, examining them care-1 | fully and seeing if they were fair to I the South, and truthfully presenting j the issues and incidents or uie u i j Between the States. The history of this struggle and of these sacrifices has not been fully written. The U.j D. C. are sometimes accused of j j "stressing dead issues," but we stand i for the truth?past, present and fu I ture. The principle for which our j fathers fought was States' rights, i the right of each State or sovereign- { < ty to govern itself according to the j demands growing out of conditions! ot each section?the most reliable' . historians of after years liave declar-! ! ed that this view of the 8outh wa3 correct and was the intention of the | men who framed the constitution, i Nothing so arouses the indignation of a just man as injustice and impo-; ! sition. Most of the Confederate sol-; diers enlisted in the beginning of the 1 1 war because they felt the injustice ?A i?r^oi+i-rvr? nf the federal govern-; ( uuu un i _ ^ ! ment and were better soldiers for I | it. They did not come like "dumb! ; driven cattle," but for reasons which , were higher than a mere call from; their Confederate leaders. This spir-1 it in itself gave to the Confederacy j ! the finest war record known to his- j * *i Tr-?.n nnd fair- I lory, ah n | j minded persons in every section ot our country now know, and a great j many admit, the truth of the princi-1 i pies for which the Southern people j fought in the sixties, but there are clear signs that if our young people are not faithfully taught in this gen ; eration in ten or twenty years from ! now they will be found apologizing frtr o?r nart in the war and our j j grand children will be found con-1 i demning it. Is the South to go1 down j in history with a blotted escutcheon? j She need not if only her daughters i will be true. Until we have fulfilled j the duty of teaching this principle j to our children in the school room j 3nd through the press, we snan not j have done the first duty to our dead. There was a strong editorial in one . of our Southern papers several years | ago emphasizing the importance of i "keeping alive" the history of the J j Confederacy?the incident that occa-j ( sioned this editorial was an unjust] ;and false criticism of the only presi-j . dent of the Confederacy by the son j of a veteran. j From a recent edition of Collier's! Weekly we read this false statement: j "Benjamin Ryan Tillman is a veter- j an of the Confederacy and in hfs ! ; first contest for the United States j | senate defeated General Ben Butler, j j carpetbagger." This was a sad but j j unintentional reflection upon the la- j vr r PintiAr. And again the j meuLcu ji. w. -? _ j Literary Digest quotes from the Wall j i Street Journal, "Germans say the j enslaved Belgians are happy, and j I they can get similar arguments from I I tha South before the Civil War." And this from reviews of new \ books, "Thaddeus Stevens Place in j Civil War and Reconstruction Hls I tory," by James Albert Woodbum; . the biographer writes that the dras j tic procedures for which Steven3 j contended during the four years of fighting tfere wise and lawful, thatj the efforts of Lincoln to maintain at nominal respect for the constitution I j betokened unintelligent squeamisn-i , ness; that the policr of reconstrue-J j tion advocated and in a measure se-1 ! cured by Stevens was the only pol-! icy that was founded on eternal truth; I and righteousness. There are doubt - - fjmQ *,{a_ j less otner siuaems ul wai-wmS ? , tory that agree with Dr. Woodbum j .. in liis judgment on these point3,; : though the trend of well-informed 1 opinion is rather the other way. i The United Daughters of the Con i federacy have too long neglected calling attention to such misleading statements and the work will be slow, but it can be done, especially { now that sectional feeling lias disap j peared and a national spirit prevails j rimrmnds iustice and truth forj . all sections. The torch has been | lighted, showing the danger of ad I mitting prejudicial and untrue lit j erature and the loyal U. D. C. will I keep the signal lights burning and i keep up thfe work, until we know the truth of Southern history is known over the entire world. Veterans! Let not the South alone i tos which you fought, be proud of wmx. Let such valor as yours, suchj fidelity to_S*ch a leader, be remeffl-l v ' r- T*. - -f, ;?. bered as long as there is memory in the land. Goodiy is the heritage thai you hand down to your children and your children's children. To teach j tiie lesson ana to write tne mstory j of this glorious struggle is the duty which the United Daughters of the Confederacy have taken upon them-j selves and generations yet unborn' will feel the influence of their work; : they are gathering the data which: will be "handed down to posterity. No one can estimate the effect of this; influence. How can one tell the et- j feet upon the mind of one youth of! OrtntVi rtf o frim rvintnro ilrfltl'n the heroism of the men who wore the gray, who were not defeated, . bui simply overcome, which spirit makes | the Confederate veteran walk proudly ' among us today, conscious of the' fact that secession was not a rebel-' lion. Conscious were they also tliat! secession was not meant to destroy 1 the union as their fathers gave it j to them, but that it meant a super-' guarantee and security of their' j rights. Thus they accepted the con-; test forced upon them with the eager i and resolute courage, characteristic j of the South's proud spirited people.j One cause for indignation to the j Southern soldier was the charge that | he was fighting to retain the insti-! tution of slavery. He knew that from j among the fighting ranks not one sol- j J1?- o A rtwn oH nr OYnwt- I ed to own slaves. How was it that Lee and Jackson had seen fit to free their slaves at their own pleasure and yet Gen. Grant saw fit to retain, hi? Liitil the proclamation of emanci pate? Was it the great spirit q? the North in mercy for the black? Indeed not, and the Southern man knew it. And so it was from the spirit of defense that old men and j nrloHlf VlrCkH fmm Hi Ai 1* ' y \J{JL LLfy UJU11 f-ykOL\U.AJ n U1UVU ~UA ? homes of peace and through hunger; and cold and heat and pain until i four long years had dragged their j way to a close, they gladly waged a; war on coei cion and conquest, beat-! ing them back until every resource | had been spent. This spirit is the i proud heritage of the South today j and will be through all the tomor- j aP f V? & Tsror-QWAnt "OWb. l lie iuiuic wi vu^ .* i** ^ South would have had no hope if her j sons and daughters had been of; weaker fibre, but the same strength 1 that upheld them through the four | year struggle came to their rescue' and they have conquered."' Now that after the lapse of so | many years the North and tlie South j are united under one flag and North era and Southern men serve together j in the same armies, they inherit the j traditions of both sides in the Con- j federate war. Which shall they fcl-j low? Those or snerman aim oucn dan or those of Beanreguard and Lee. No answer is necessary in a day of high civilization like the present. Today with the roar of the cannon almost in our ears, war with all its horrible features again becomes a reality. History repeats -itself, it is t natural that it should, human nature j Is the same in all ages. To quote from President Wilson's recent speech to congress, "we shall fight i for the things which we have always j carried nearest our hearts?for de- j mnr>ranv for the right of those who I Our Coming' Prog'am FIRST AF Introductory Exercises Concert Children's Hour FIRST Concert Lacture?"America and the World o Maying: Pictur?* SECOND ] Children's Hour SECOTO Al Concert SECOND Concert Lecture?"A? Arualysls of Success* a Ha Moving Pictures Tuicn \i Children's Hour THIRD AF Concert Lectare?"Moonshine" THIRD Concert Moving Pictures FriI'PTU 1 Children's Hour FOURTH A! Concert Antonio Sala S Indian Songs and Legends FOURTH Concert Indian Song's, Legends and Dances.. Lecture?"The Passion Play"....Frai Mavlner Pkrtures FIFTH M Children'* Hour FIFTH AFr Oboral and Orchestral Program. .. .0 FIFTH ! "The Mikado" Gilbert i (Complete Production by Companj Moving Picture* SIXTH M< Children'* Hour SIXTH AF' Lecture?"How to Meet the High Co: G< SIXTH : Mother Goose f estival Lecture Moving Pictures SEVENTH : Children's Hour SEVENTH AJ Grand Concert SEVENTH Grand Concert Creature's Band, Moving Pictures Giuseppe Creatore will direct Creatore (KIMBALL PL O ' ~ ?' " ' submit to authority to have a voice in their own government." Jonn Temple Grave says the Confederate reunion at Washington cannot fail to carry a national signilicance. They could never come to a better place at a better time. The sight of them ?the sound of them?those old men with CT-T-av oriel hrr?1rt?r? hrirffp? and brave hearts and above all, the love and honor, the respect and rev erance shown them after 52 years of memory, will tell the republic some things that it needs at this time to remember. It will tell to the young American manhood of this crucial day. facing the perils of war, that the men who cAfVP thpir nwn land HfMrdin? t<i their own convictions and have been willing to offer their fortunes and their lives upon the altar of a co pies' convictions, have never yet been forgotten and never will be forgotten by the people for whom they fought. J. Li a I it 13 a 51 cat uiaic j. * -.j which we Americans come, that we are the "sons of the sires," that we are the spawn of heroes who knew how to fight and did fight as men have seldom fought before. These men in their presence will breathe from the battlefields of 1S61 65 a message of duty and devotion to our country today. They show by their presence in the capitol of the nation that they arp wpr TAa^v to maintain the hon or any integrity of the United State3 as they were for their own beloved Southland. Surely the history of men of such deeds of valor and loyalty should not be allowed to pass -unrecorded. Ola Clark Floyd. Drayton Rutherford Chapter, New WC1 i J. Note?We are proud that Xewberry county has done so much to save the names and perpetuate the memories of the soldiers of the State, who died upon the fields of battle. Xewberry furnished three historians or the war. John A. Chapman, in his "Annals of (Newberry," has collected the names and war record of every man that went from the county. Major J. F. J. Caldwell, a member of Gen. McGow an's staff, wrote the history of the First, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Four teenth regiments of South Carolina Volunteers, uapi. u. a. uxuvon wrote the history of Kershaw's bri gade, giving a detailed account of teh Second, Third, Seventh, Eiehth, Fifteenth and Twentieth South Caro lina regiments, also the Thirteenth batallion. 0. C, F. >*ews of Little ^fountain. Little Mountain, May 6.?Miss Doris Kinard ana Mr. jtrnesi i^rncu: ncic married at the parsonage Wednesday night. May 2sd, by Rev. J. J. Long. Only the immediate family and a few friends of the contracting parties were present. Mr. and Mrs. Derrick will make their home in Treacheys, N. 0., where the groom has a position ?** ? Mi'liiAn/1 nnmnoni* The YWLZl U1C 1IUUUBU v,ULUt/?uj. - ? young couple has the good wishes of their many friends in Little Moun tain. The annual meeting of the New berry County conference of Luther O S Chautaucma I by Days TRRNOON. The rtobemian Orchestra In Charge of Children's Worker NIGHT. The B^Hrmian Orchestra f Tomorrow" Dr. Martin D. fiardi-n of Chicago HORNING. Community Sinsrinc ?TERNOONT. Beulah B*ek Ladies' Quartet NIOHT. Beulah Buck Ladies' Quartet n<i Failure" rrv L. Fogleman of New York City ORNIN6. Community Sinainj? TKRNOON. ...Members of the Oratorio Artists ....B. F. McDonald of Newark, O. NIGHT. The Oratorio Artists MORNING. Community Singingr ^TERNOON. pantah Cellist a-nd Assisting Artists ...The Indian Princes* Watahwaso NIGHT. The Sala Trio Princes* Watshwas? tleifl Maris Mayer of Oberammergrau ORNJNG. Community Singing rvpvnnv filbert and Sullivan Opera Company NtIGHT. ?nd Sullivan's Famous Light Opera r of Thirty, Including Orchestra.) ORNING. Community Singing rERXOOX. it of Living" sorge I a McNutt of New York City S'IGHT. ....In Charge of Children's Worker To Be Announced MORNING. Community Singing [-'TERNOON. Creatore's Band muiiT. Led by the Great Creatore Himself 'a Band at the Evening Concert only. *NO USED.) I I an Young Peoples' societies will be j ; held in the school building at Little I Mountain on Sunday, May 20th. There) | will be both a morning and an after- | ; noon session, and dinner will be' ; served on the grounds. Several j ' pruin;ueni speakers win aaaress tne ! conference and it is "hoped that many j delegates and friends, interested in the young peoples work will be pres-1 : ent. i i The Little Mountain high school | will close Friday, June 1st, and corn i mencement will begin Sunday, June, 1 3d. Rev. H. A. McCulIough, D. D., of! m Kt irHl r\r??iO/^Vi f It eate sermon to the graduating class, j which consists of ten members?six j ' young ladies and four young men. | Mr.- and Mrs. W. A. Counts and Miss j Mayme Swittenberg went to Coluvi-: bia Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Cleveland and Miss Wise were i at the school several days ago and ; helped to organize several clubs. A Pig club was organize-d with twenty j members, a Poultry club with twen- i ty members and a Garden club with sixty members. Mr. Raymond Shealy ' was elected captain of the Pig club, Miss Maude Epting captain of the poultry club and Miss Bessie Stock Excursion bares Y way System from Spartanburg, Account of Music Festival, Carolina Firemen's Tournamen 18. final limit June 2, 1917. New Orleans Account Southern Baptist Cc r 1 -16 with final limit May 31, i June 15 by paying fee of $1.00. Washington, Account 27th Annual Reui | erans tickets on sale June 2nd 1 Extension until July 6th-pay me Lake Junaluska i N. C. Account Lnautauqua period, ers' Conference, Board of Missi on sale July 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 10, ii, 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19, li sale. St. Louis, IV Account United Editorial As; I3i wiiu lium iiuui ixiay Rock Hill, < Account Winthrop College S Juue 18, 19, 22, July 4, 5, 6, fi Nashville, T< Account 12th Annual Sessi< (colored) tickets on sale June i 21, 1917. Dallas, Te: Account General Assembly < tkkets on sale May 12, 14 and Nashville, T< Account Peabody College Sui June 11, 12, 13, 14. 21, 22, Jul; days from date or sale. Charlottesville Account Summer School Unr sale June 17 to 25, final limit i? Atlanta, ( Arrn?>nl Tr.tprnatinnfl! As^nri on sale June i$: 16 and 17, limi Black Mountain I $e %P%J? 4 Account Various Religious As 31, June i, ii, 12, 13, 2i, 22, 2 .27, 30, August 1, 6, 10, 14, 17,, of sale. Birmingham, Account General Assembly S< tickets on sale May 14 to 17, fir Athens, G Account Summer School Unh 30, July 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 3 from Hate1 of snlf* Proportianately red points. CaH on local agen tion or address S. H. McLf S. C. man, captain of the Garden clul>~ One hundred of the pupils are or ganized in a ' Little Mountain Pre- ^ paredness club"; so the people of, this community need not expect lu be hungry. MRS. WILSON TO GIVE MADAHE JOFFRE HAtf "Washington, May 4.?Madame Jof fre, wife of the marshal of France, is going to get a fine, big, sugar cured Virginia ham. a gift from Mrs. Wood row Wilson, when the marshal returns to Paris. During one of the marshal's calls at the 'White House Mrs. Wilson * learned that Madame, Joffre was very fond or American nam, wuo is *ci? scarce there. *Mrs. Wilson sent to Virginia and procured an extraordi narily fine ham and sent it to Mar shal Joffre, asking him to take it back to Madame Joffre with, her compli ments. The liam, carefully packed,, will go with the marshal's personal effects when he leaves the United. States. THE HERALD AND NEWS ONE rEAR FOR ONLY S1.&0. ria Southern Rail Newberry, S. C. 5. C. $2.45 Shrine Meeting and bouth t, ticketsjon sale May 14 to , La. $20.90 invention, tickets on sale May [917. C?n be extended until D. C. $10.65 lion United Confederate vet :o 6th with final limit June 21. :nt of fee of 50c. aid Waynesville, $5.45 Sunday School Board, Work ons, iipwortn league, ucxets 23, 24, 25, August 2, 3, 5, mited 17 days from date of lo. $32.25 sociation, tickets on sale May 23, 1917 >. C. $3.65 ummer School, tickets 0*2 sale inal limit August 6, 2917. snn. $13.80 )n Sunday School Congress, 1, 12 and 13, final limit June X. $41.70 of the 'Presbyterian Church, 15, final limit June 8, 1917. ci? an wULllc / LFtUV urner School, tickets on sale f 20, 21, 26. final limit 15 . Va. $16.50 wersity ef Virginia, tickets on 5 days from date of sale. la. $6.15 ation of Rotary Clubs, tickets t June 25, 1917. lidsrecrest N. C. 10 sembiies, tickets on sale May 7, 28, July 5*6, 13, iq, 20, final limit 17 days from date Ala. $14.55 )uthern Presbyterian Church, lal limit June 1, 1917. la. $3.95 rersity, tickets on sale June 0, with final limit 15 days luced fares from other ts for further informa lAN, D. P. A., Columbia,