The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 22, 1917, Page SIX, Image 6
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MANNING'S MEXi
i
Burt Onlv a Small Select Circle Isj
utilized for Establishing: a Sad j
But lAmiislng Bureaucracy.
Columbia, June 17.?"There are so'
isany commissions, boards and coun-j
ciJs in South Carolina now n'Hh more
feeing formed, that there would be
room in all these various organiza
o rryart tor nnmhor ftf tViA fOV
HVIid ivyi a uuiuwi v*v .
amor's political friends and support
ers scattered over the entire state, if
fc would recognize more of them,"
said a close observer of South Carolina
affairs today. "But the trouble l*n
this regard is that most of the ap
pointments seem to be made from
anions: a very small nunroer ana
therefore the places do not begin to
?ro around.
"Take the civic preparedness com
mission with its central state com
icjttee and its 'battery of speak
ers; the chairman of the registra
tion hnarfK- the state council of
defense; the state war councli or the
jfced Cross, and the various other
FISK" on youi
antee that you hi
dollar-for-dollar
possible to buy.
more than Fisfy
jot sometning the
Fish Tires Fc
The Fisk F
General Office
^ Fish Branches
rtQ
World's C
Non Stoj
Car
The Standard Rail]
SPECIAL OCCASIONS; \
June
Ticket and Passenger Agents and C
As information we wish to a<
'sions have been booked up to date '
during the month of June:
Xaundry Association of the Cardie
Independent Order of Red Men of ]
North'Oarolina Bankers Assoclatic
Hardware Association of Ncrth anc
Southern Textile Association
Baptist Chautauqua, or Assec
We take pleasure in advising
-and rumors to the contrary, th; t ~*V
-season as in former years; tha* ne \
trictions whatsoever as to allu^ 1
"Lumina" will be open to the pu
improvements have been made in he
and in many respects the beach sea
?han heretofore.
WJ. CRAIG,
Passenger Traffic Maaa
boards arid councils and commissions.!
with a large aggregate membership. I
and see how many different men have!
been named thereon. There seems to1
be a circle beyond which the executive ;
has not been able to go. in iaci una
circle seems to be somewhat in the
nature of a 'ring.'
Sad Bat Amusing".
J "Were the times not so serious," the
; gentleman continued, "it would really!
| be amusing to analyze some of these
appointments, for the edification of
| hundreds of the very faithful whose
i devotion and loud protestations of
i loyalty have been passed by unnoticed.
| I heard one of them on me train the
| other day say that it seemed as if
in his old home county in the upper
I part of the state oniy tnree men seem
ed to be known to the present adminis
| tration in Columbia, and that his ob
i s^rvatioc was that this county appear
i e'1 be pqrticularlv 'fortunate.' if that
; be a fcvwa teiiu, in this regard, as
! in most of the counties the exist
ence of only one man seemed to be
recognized. Of the three men in the
j county of which he spoke, two are
' on permanent boards, and these (
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PHONE 172.
WBERRY, SOUTH CAROLJ^l
'oast Line
road of the South
Vrightsville beach, IN.
1917
onnections:
Ivise that the following conven
to be held at WriehtsvillelBeach
las June nth-i2tk
tforth Carolina " 13th- 15th
>n " i9th-2isc
i South Carolina... " i9th-2rst
" 22nd-23rd
ably " 27th-29th
further, notwithstanding the report
rightsville Beach will be open this
government has not made any res
ing the beach; that the hotels and
blic as heretofoie; that material
>tel accommodations and attractions,
son promises to be more attractive
T.C. WHITE |
,ger. General paseeage Agea
on temporary \v?r emergency boards.]
The other figures prominently ill about;
everything that comes up, siate-wide
or otherwise. In a number of other
counties which I have in mind one
particular man seems to be appointed
on everything that comes along. And
when 'conferences' are held liere,
these are the men who seem to gather
in Columbia and advise and readviso
among themselves and with the gov
ernor who calls them together.
Bureaucracy
' "I had thought for a time that the
idea was to have an autocracy In
South Carolina, but I have about
come to the conclusion that the policy
is a bureaucracy, composed of a num
tiritVi nfo r>f400 11 \r tllP
I uer Ul uuicauo, mm
' isame predominant membership on
j each?which gets right back to the old
! 'ring rule' which we had in tiie days
before the Reform movement and the
! primary system.
| "Many of the faithful whose merit
! has not been given recognition are
kicking and kicking violently, but
their kicking is as vain as it is
i violent. For the king can do no wrong
and has not his court been establish
ed, and does not it meet at frequent in
tervals in fhfi caDital CltV to issue
appeals to the subjects, and to lay
down the rules by which they are to
abide? And are there not in ths city
of Columbia the vice regents, who are
in daily elbow touch, so that in
every emergency ? and everything
is 'emergency' these days?the tele
phone may summon them Imme
d;?f?ly to the council tabler
surely the other Taction has
been given full recognition. Wasn't
PinhorHc of Hip Rftfnrm nar
ty, called into the governor's office and
asked to name six men known 'to be
politically opposed' to the governor,
for appointment on some of .these
commissions, councils and boards
(all inclusive) haven't four Reformers
been named? They have and their
names are there to show for them
selves. They are Messers. John G.
Richards, Eugene R. Buckingham,
~ ' -r-ri 1 ? O., Til Q,r
UtlO t^ieitner auu unu w. iucj
are good and faithful men all, and
true and loyal Reformers, but truly
they need to be as good men as they
are in order to make up for the Re
form party in personnel and the re
presentation which it lacks in num
bers.
"One wonders what the state coun
cil of defense >would have done for a
chairman had not tne duties of the
civic preparedness commission neen
about completed before the state coun
cil of defense was appointed. PossI
bly however, Mr. Coker could have
served as chairman of both, as he is
a'gentleman of undoubted energy. It
has been suggested, however, tnougli
the suggestion has not been authenti
cated, that maybe the delay in the ap
l>ointment of the state council of de
fense by the governor was in order not
to overtax Chairman Coker by requir
ing his services as chairman or ' both
bodies at the same time.
Lese Majeste.
"Don't put me down as a critic of
the personnel o fthe boards which
have been appointed. My lamentation
is not in that, regard?because it is
lese majeste in South Carolina thus
to criticize, even if one feels like it,
as I do not?for I am not :n me frame
of mind for criticism. My Lamenta
tion is for the hundreds of faithful
who have been ignored, even as the
Reformers have been ignored. My
sympathy is with them; my thoughts
are of them night and day. I under
stand that some of them were hope
ful that a third regiment for South
Carolina would be permitted, and that
they might get a place rn the sun
tnere. ?5Ut tne nope was vain, wiwi
matter 'tentative schemes' by the War
Department for the enlargement of
the national guard of the advisabili
ty of a South Carolina brigade to
make up the auota of the proposed
ninth division, to say nothing or tne
advantages of a state brigade unaer
its own brigadier genera!, which
would represent South Carolina as a
brigade of tht old Palmetto state?
No third regiment for South Caro
lina?no South Carolina brigade. Vain
hope! Vain regret!
Little Gratitude.
"T Vivo about come to the conclu
sion that a good many of these un
rewarded 'faithful' are almost willing
to venture the assertion that there Is
very little gratitude in an autocratic
bureaucracy. They have almost been
put into that class in which it has
heen attempted to relegate the Re
formers. They dare in the pitiable
plight, however, of being forced to
view the handiwork as their own.
while the Reformers can at least pro
test with consistency. They are see
ing the light though, and they re
semble the Reform party ^'n one re
spect right now?and that is, that
they are laying their plans Tor the
iuiure. me suucuug ia auuic, mjw
ever?and, to add to it all, every now!
and then some Reformer t>ot)s up and
tells them, 'I told you so.' And with
right good grace they admit it.
"I started out by saying that if the'
times were not so serious, the situa
tion would be amusing. It really is |
pathetic, and in future protests my
suggestion is that the Reformers, out
of the goodness of their
hearts. include our additional
protests for the 'faithful' whose
wail is heard in the land. Let
us extend to them a helping nand to
^j'UIUC Li.i.Cli.1 tiliuugii CliV/ vwi J\ OAiuu
ow olJ an obscurity whicli they creat
ed for themselves, ana through
which they are walking alone sorrow
fully and with halting and stumbling
steps."
Quite Easj
"Well," asked the doctor, "how did
yon find yourself this morning?"
"Oh, quite easy enough," answered
the patient. I just opened my eyes an<l
heTe I was."?Exchange.
TfhA
Avoirdupois?"I'll bet you 3 plunks
hat I can run around that track in
;ass than a minute. Has anyone got a
tsopwate?"
Wit?"You don't want a etopwat?k.
fler! Who's got a calendar?"?Life.
STATE COUNCIL DEFENSE ' i
IS WITH OCT AM FINDS! ,
i _
For Maintenance of Militia, $30,008
I ior Liquor Constables, $.">0,000;, j
and \o Money to Prepare for
Troops,
I 1
I Columbia. June 19.?For mainte-,
; nance of militia. $30,000.
For maintenance of liquor consta-i
bles (so-called "enforcement prohib-i
I i: 1_... ?>\ O-A AAA
j 11UI1 Iciv\
j So reads the appropriation bill of:
! 1917. ' !
; And South Carolina is without a dol
i lar to provide larger and adequate
! accommodations at the state mobiliza-j
j ticn camp for the reception of the two
; regiments of national guard and other
; South Carolina trocps.
i In the latter part of February, with j
the war clouds lowering and the war i
lighnings flashing and the war ttiun-j
/Ini'f ?Aorin<r o "1 O ir !in/1 r>" rl ? r'' a r1 -
; ministration provided $20,000 more
! forthe upkeep of liquor constables;
j than for the upkeep of the state's
! militia, and there is now* nothing it;
j all for the upkeep of Camp Moore.
Bad Business.
The result is that Adjutant General ;
! W. W. Moore has had to appeal to
j the department of the southeast, and, j
I through that department, direct to ;
i the War Department at Washington, (J
for assistance in sinking wells and,
building kitchens and mess halls for!
the soldiers of South Carolina, who,;
soon be on the fields of France, facing!
German artillery, while there is a fund
of $00,000 to provide for the salaries .
and expenses of a small army o*!
J liquor constables who are supposed
to wage war upon "blind tigers"?
and with what degree of success, ex
cept in getting rid of the money, lias
j already been fully reviewed in this
j correspondence.
! About $15,000 has already been ex-!
pended in the upkeep of the consta-:
bles. The records show that of the!
original $."0,000, available the last or
February, when the appropriation j
bill was approved, there remains oh !
hand today $35,192.43. The expendi-J
tures have been as follows: Febru-jj
ary 26. $134.45; March. $5,699.74; ;
'April, $3,271.40; May, $2,999.48; June,!
! through June 18, $2,702.50. This is
i $14,807.57 in three and one-half'
months, or just about at the rate of
$50,000 per year.
Fnnds i.Vsrain.
And then the call came for a third
regiment of South Carolina troops.!
"* * 1 ^ J C+ of Q o
wmcn WDUIU xiave given liic oiatg ;
brigade, under a South Carolina brig-.'
adier, the plea was made that South
Carolina would have to equip such a'
regiment until it was accepted in the,
federal service, and that there were!
i ro funds on hand for this purpose, j
Quoting a Columbia newspaper which j
j attempted to bolster up the govern- ,
or's excuses, "to raise a third regi-!
: ment it would be necessary to have
! armories and equipment, and the state
i at this time has no provision for such,
a sten." That a third regiment could)
have been formed in accordance with;
the plan for the enlargement of the
national guard is apparent?hut pov
erty is the plea that was made.
! It was suggested today that some:
of the $35,000 of the constable's up-;
keep mone still in the treasury might:
be diverted to paying the expenses:
of the state council of defense and
helping to put Camp Moore in. Qom- !
and sanitary shape for the
South Carolina troops. Tiie state
council of defense is without prom-!
ises from a majority of the members
of the general assembly that the next
legislature will provide $15,000 for;
the expenditures necessary to be;
made in order that the council may:
crpt. dn-vvn to work. It iwould take a!
very broad construction of the appro
priation act, however, to divert any!
of the ".Drohibi. on ^orcement" moa-j
ey, for the act provides, in making the j
appropriation, that "should the ex-:
igencies of any municipality ctr coun-j
tv this state justify or require the
prohibition laws now in force, and re-;
contly enacted, that the governor c?
the sta*e may spend in his discre-i
tivn $50,000. or so mucli thereof as'
may be necessary, to enforce state
laws." "Extraordinary measures'' is
a very appropriate expression, judg
ing from some of the "extraordinary";
vouchers drawn on this fund in the
past, already pointed out in tills cor
respondence?such as buying /whis- j
key, playing pianos in houses of ill-;
fame, target shooting, pool games, tip-,
ping hackmen and other thing3.
Poverty-Stricken.
Poverty stricken is South Carolina,
with a $3,000,000 appropriation bill,
when it comes to matters of vital im-,
portance in the war emergency affect-!
in? South Carolina's army in the field
?but rich is me ?ia raimeuo state
when it comes to oaring for, ia ten
derness and with solicitude, that oth?;
er army whose main claim to pat
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?Fr'-t-'titi < "7- - nmm
-iotisai is that all last year it prac
ticed target and pool shooting, at the l
state's expense, probably as a pre- ,
paredness measure in order to be able !
to pick off Germans at long range
with .22 caliber rifles. 'While there is i
no authentic information to that ef-i
feet it is presumed that the liquor j
which they purchased was of belli-!
gerent quality and thai me music
which they coaxed from the pianos
"downtown," in the brilliant glow of
the flaming red lights, was martial.
The entire appropriation for the !
adjutant general's office mis year is
$39,220, including the $30,000 for main
tpnanro militia TrnJv it hoor>
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