Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ieroEt anil mm, Baitered at the Postoffice at New S. G, as 2nd class matter. 1. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, June 26, 1917. Suppose the exemption "boards, as charged by Mr. Blease, are partisan "what more is there to it than he him self would have done had he been governor.?Greenwood Journal. x Surely you would not justify a par tisan board on such ground or argu ment as that. Certainly not, since you have condemmed Blease so vi-j gorously for sticking to his friends.: These boards are to pass on the life; and death of the young mannooa 01; this State. They are to say who Is to go to the firing line and who is not ? the young men who have register ed. They should be above small poll tics and little partisanship. They aay be. 'We do not Know. Butj if there is any good reason except J to get a partisan board to change the j regular order as applied to other I States in the appointment of these! boards then we would be glad to! kave you say so. And is it not a lit-1 tie strange when the governor chan-! ged the regular order that he could j wt find any but his followers for ap-| pointment. Wten they come to make' th?k selections under the law these boards will scarcely confine their se lections for the ranks alone to the supporters of the governor. We re great the necessity of bringing par tisan politics in so serious a matter as the selection of our young men to go the front. - We notice that Mr. John A. Law of Spartanburg, who was charged with murder in that he ran his automobile over a citizen and killed him has beeg acquitted. The statement is that the accident was unavoidable because "it ^as dark at the time of the accident ""J owAfkai. nar iraa Mr <UIU auvwci ?w?0 Law which blinded him with the lights." Then how about the man who was driving with those blinding lights flaring up in the heavens and the face of every one near. There ka aavma ttto tt f a roorn loto A1* miUUiU ouwc noj w 1 Vb?>?vv ?. Abolish these terrible Rights which blind people. We have seen them right here in Newberry. The wonder is there are no more accidents. The editor hopes to get off on Wed nesday. to attend the meeting of the press association which will he held ? ?- ^ V. ?. An T^V* 11 T*c?r^o ?r 4JU LUC Cil-jr Ul ucauivi I, uu x j-ini. juu; and -Friday of this week. He will be accompanied by Miss Woodie Bow man, our' society editor for the past year. We regret that more of our suft **r4bers whose time is out did Dot renew on Saturday so that we might fiave been able to be in the class "With Ed DeCamp with one or two At those Rockefeller shirts but we will go and do the best we can to Aold up our end of the log. But we hate moce than this to have to part with so many members of our family at one time. We know it will be on ly temporary for they will all come back but the good things they will j miss when the old Herald fafls to| fee in the mail box Tuesday and Fri day. We know this is a season of the year when money is a little scarce imt fifty cents will carry the subscrib er to October. Speaking of factionalism we com mend to the careful reading of an edi torial which we copy from the Char leston American on the subject. It I** Vk aa/1/vJ a " Tf rvraf* mi ucaucu x uc uiiici cuvc. ao yisk ty clearly expresses our views on this subject. It is all right to stick to your friends and exercise your right to be a partisan so long as the' matter is in reference to civic or poli tical jobs, but when iit comes to the mateer of life and death then it is trelow the part or a great ana gooai citizen to deal in little politics. It takes a very small mind, as the American says, to conceive it "to be kis privilege to claim the distinction for South Carolina among the sister hood of States that her boys who go to the ranks shall be picked by fac tional machinery." What do you think it, those of you who have boys to' be selected? Bring it home to your self. That is the way to solve these' human problems. If his purpose was; to be fair and impartial why should he desire to change the rule adopted for ail the other States? That is the ; question. Why want special privi leges for him in South Carolina? Let the governor answer. We are not a i bitter partisan and never have been. We try always to be fair. But why ask for a special rule to govern in South Carolina that does not govern in other States? Why couid not the officers selected in the general rule be acceptable to the people of South Carolina? Is Manning more compe tent to select men than the people? As we have said, we have no objections ; to the men appointed in Newberry, but they are no better than hundreds of others, or the men elected by the | people who would have performed the I 1# A ?*? lis ? /3 /N*V^/V J ? ^ mm A> uuucs cue i uic ouvjyicu iui uiuci | States had been in force in this State. ! This is a serious matter, and not some little political game that is being played. It is proposed by congress, so a dis patch states, to list news print paper as a nonessential, in the conduct of the war. Mr. McAdoo comes out in a government circular in which he soys, in speaking of the success of the sales of the liberty bonds: "Their (the newspapers) efforts greatly con I inisuieu. 10 making it a double suc cess," and in another paragraph: | "The influence and assistance of all ! publications in making the loan a J success are simply incalculable." So the paper may ,not be so much non ! essential after all. becanap Mr iu> Adoo is in position to know what he j is talking about. It has some how < looked to us for some time that all I legislation and regulation and rule in regard to the postofflce department and the regulation of newspapers was against the newspaper, and trying to make it harder to exist. No one expected that Dr. E. C. L. Adams, president of Audubon society, would be a suitable person in the mind of Gov. Manning for appoint ment as game warden. As we un derstand it, Dr. Adams has not been j a supporter of the governor, and that | is essential to "suitability/' How ever, it is a little curious, this rea soning, or the statement in the letter of the governor returning the nomi nation of Dr. A.dams. He says ne wants the recommendation in the regular and legal way from a meet ing of the society. If our recollection is not at fault a meeting was held some time ago and a recommenda tion made. But it was not "suita ble" to the governor. It happened to be the former game warden, Col. A. A. Richardson, who was not a nnlitl cal supporter of the governor. This in the face of all that we have i ! heard about the governor of all the I people and doing away with faction I alism in this State is actually nau I seating. It is all rig.at to do away with factionalism, so they say, but it is only one-sided. Do away with It, ves, but appoint no one who was op posed to the dominant element, ! even if only temporarily dominant. | So far as we are1 concerned we be ! lipvp in stif>VinPr tn vmir frinriHc ond giving whatever plums you have to distribute to them. That would be our rule, so far as political job3 I might go, and we do not criticise any one for doing the same thing, but we do hate to see this rant about fac tionalism and abuse of it by the fel 9ws who are the most extreme ex-' ponents of it. It is a sypocritical ranting that is sickening. We notice that one of our exchang es speaks of a corporation at or near Columbia working on some construc-j tion on the Sabbath day, and says that permission was granted to do this work-by the authorities. And this paper asks what authority has the right to grant this privilege. We do not know that the work is neces sary, but if it is there is authority of j a high order for doing tffe work. We do not propose at this time to dis cuss the merits or demerits of the contention. In some places the hlue, fravrs are sf strict that it is against the law to buy a cigar or a gallon o! gasoline or a cold drink ami so on We heard a gentleman remark the other day that this war was getting too far away from the church any way. Now we do not know aboul that either, but we do believe thai one of the causes of the great up heaval throughout the world today and all the wars, is that the people are getting too far away from God And we are not going to preach a ser mnn TVi a nannlo Vioi;c Vioor iuvii . iaw ^ wlit* * v wvvj. I I too constrained to worship idols oJ | gold, and the money power has toe much influence on tie minds anc I " : hearts of the people, and they hav* . gone astray from the right path i Otherise war would be impossible | It is nothing more or less than th< i ! assertion of the brute that is in u? I over coming the good and the human j and the love of power swaying th< ! hearts and minds of the people. Democracy means not only equalitj of opportunity and equality of obli gation but it also means equality o: I service. We must all serve in a ae mocracy. There is something for ev ery one to do. The road from Newberry to Pros i perity is in a<bout as bad conditioi i now as we have ever seen it. Anc it would be so easy to make am keep it one of the best roads in th< county. If the people would Just ge together and raise a fund to have i split log drag regularly applied th( ! thing is done and it would cost so lit , tie the amazing thing is that it is no done. ; A PLEA FOR FA/CTORY PEOPLE I I I Athens, c*a., .Paper. ' You may think we factory people ar an unimportant lot, | And the reason why God made u: was He simply just forgot; | And after He'd created us he though He'd let us stay j And ramble around on "earth awhile t pass the time away. I j Well. I know we're unimportant ii 1 one sense of the woins, j For to the triumph of earthly fam Our names are seldom heard, ' But many of us have hearts that ar uuuit;, ii uc aaiu A.iiiut 'With a sunny disposition, and a gen tie, loving mind. We'll divide with those in need if w only possess a dime? We know the Lord will give it bac' to us some other timt. Our treasures are in heaven, not her in gold and rank; j We'd rather trust it to the Lord thai put it in the bank. i i And thus it is, while at our work, w card, we spin, we weave; j We're happy and contented, with lit I tie time to grieve; | While the rattle of the spindle, tn slubber or the loom I Puts sorrow, care or pain to flight o dispels a cloud of gloom. j We all forget our troubles and ou j trials here below I While we listen to our shuttles a: they rattle to and frq; Yes, we watch the busy shuttle a back and forth it speeds, And with pleasure watch the cut man a-winding through the reeds. ; Oh, if I were a millionaire or finan cially so stout j I could own the whole of Athens an< the county round about; I could't then be satisfied unless had to go And send my looms to working whei I heard the whistles blow. Say, you don't like factory people Well, that's sinful, I declare; If by chance you get to heaven, there'l be factory people there; And when you meet us there pleasi don't elevate your nose; We'll not have black oil on our hand! nor cotton on our clothes. Buy Land ifcrk News. '*": ?{ With cottota selling at 25c. a poum ar-d everything else that is raised or a farm selling at record-breaking Driees. it seems to us that now is the ! time for everyone who is working ren I ted land to *uy a farm. The govern ; ment will loan 50 per cent of the val ue of the land at 5 per cent interest and doubtless individual parties whc have land for sale would be willing tc take a second mortgage for the 'bal ance 01 the purchase price. The rem at the present price of cotton woulc | pay for a small tract of land in a feu years. The man who works a one horse farm now and pays a thousand pounds of lint cotton is paying $25C a year rent, which in a few year* i would buy a farm even at $40 or $5( an acre. It seems to us that oui real estate now practically by paying with those who do not own land anc point out the advantage and oppor tunity for the tenant class to acquire real estate now praceically by paying rent money. If this country devel ops rapidly, as it likely will at the end of this war, and emigrants come here, as they will, lands that are no^ worth $50 an acre will likely be worth $100 an acre. Now is the time to buy real estate. LIST OF TEXT BOOKS FOK THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS I State Board of Education Makes Very I Important Changes, Affecting All j Public Schools and Thousands j of Parents in South Carolina, r ! i Columbia, June 23.?The full list -fj " i textbooks adopted by the state board j ,; of education for use in the pubiic >! schools of South Carolina during the ! next five years, shows that some im j portant changes have been made. A | j number of new books have been ad- j 1! ded to meet the requirements of the; C j courses of study. j > i The board was in continuous session j 11 for two weeks. The matter is one ol ; I fiar-reaching importance, and every j book submitted was given thorough j consideration by the board. Many j " j thousand school children in South ? 5' Carolina are affected. The parents of! ; j these children are also directl" af- j f icvtcu, 111 ludi a cuiLuge invuivea an s additional outlay of money on their, part. "The board tried not to put any ' unnecessary expense upon the people in the purchase," it says in a state-! r ment which was issued today, "and only such changes were maffe as, In t the judgment of the board, were, ! A* ^-3 V J i I VIV?1 ucuiaaucu uv ^UUUU priJJCipiCS { of educational practice." Simms' History. Among the several important changes made was the adoption of . Simms' history of South Carolina, as i revised by Mrs. A. D. Oliphant, which j j will take the place of White's "Mak ing of South Carolina"; changes In 1 readers and arithmetics and in the 3 Latin text books, and the adoption ofj t the Tate-Brown-Withers works as I ' supplementary readers. ! Simms' History of South Carolina i was written by William Gilmore j Simms in 1840, for the instruction c!! I his only (laughter. It gained a wide i popularity and was used in the I schools. A second edition was neces-! sary in 1843. Both these editions were1 | puDiisned in C -arleston by S. Bab-: ! cock, grandfather of Dr. J. W. Bab-1 e cock. of this city. Dr. Babcock now! ! ? i has the desk on which the book was: 3 | written?a present to his grandfather, t by Simms. In 1860 Simms published the third edition, bringing the history 0; down to that year. It is this third j edition of which Mrs. A. D. Oliphant a! of Columbia who was Miss Mary Simms, of Barnwell, granddaughter e of William Gilmore Simms, has made p her revision. She, of course, has made ci . _ . i many alterations and changes In her -'grandfather's text, in the interest of ] clarity in simplyi'ying it for children, I and in addition she has written chap Better B< *! A VAST Fl sand million d Act of Congn ing and busin? THIS FUND is SYSTEM of whicl ables us better tha MERS with the cr 1 1 j aucing crops ana ORGANIZED ma IF YOU are nol OUR DEPOSITO] HELPS YOU. V. TTia NofiAn iiic nauuu B. C. MATTHEW?, T. K President Send for Booklel ters covering the period of the War' I Between the States. Reconstruction j and later periods, bringing the nar-1 rative down to date. The last para- j ^ graph in the history recognizes the fact that in the summer of 1916 the -\anonai ouara oi boutn Carolina was j ci sent to the Mexican border. The book S will be profusely illustrated with j n some rare pictures, as well as pic-1 s tures of governors and other proml-1 e nent Carolinians of our own time.' a South Carolina has never before in: any state-wide manner recognized i E William Gilmore Simms, probably the | t ' .. j state's most widely read historian and: a novelist, though the city of Charles- j y ton has recognised his genius by; t the rection of a bust on the battery j t <U1U 111 i\>US UlUCI Vt ny^. j Q Lore of Nam*. I One of the authors of t^e Tate- s Withers-Brown readers te the late e Prof. W. K. Tate, for several years 2 state supervisor of rural schools of 1 South Carolina, and later called to j c the chair of rural education at the s Greoree Peabodv College for Teach- ? ers. The object of these readers, car-1 ried throughout the series is the! bringing of &e home and school into; close touch, and the instilling into the : ^ child, through its studies, a love of nature?to place the child in its own ^ world. The list includes several other, i South Carolina authors whose books have been readopted. BIDS SOLICITED. We invite sealed bids until July 4th, 1917, for the following books and sup Dlies for the office of the Probate i Judge \ :: Marriage License Books for colored, 2 Marriage License Books ^ for whites, one Annua] Return Book, one gross Spencerian pens?No. 2, 1 ^ box rubber bands. Bids to be made on the whole. Right reserved to reject; 1 any and all bids. i , J. C. SAMPLE, 6-25, 29-7-2 County Supervisor. BARBf Big Barbecue Prepared by on* given at Chappells, S.C., July 41 and evening? Best service and 0 Coidially invited. H. H. Miking Ser Farmers JND now aggrei lollars has been ? sss to stand bacl ;ss interests of tl the FEDERAL RESE t* m * t\n & mjTT^njri [1 WL AKL A MH.IV11 in ever before tofsup edit and currency th< PROTFrT THF.I rkets. : linked up witk this: RS come in and let u al Bank of JOHNSTONE, H. T. CANNC Cashier Asst.Xai "HOW DOES IT MLMETTO YOUTHS EM?R NAVY CORPS >umber of South Carolinians Ad mitted. Washington, June 23?The presl lent today nominated the following louth Carolinians to be assistant pay aasters in the navy: James Ander on, M. W. Wallace, George W. Clem ent, Gaillard Rembert, Wallace Prior, .nd Thomas E. Hipp. Arthur Rembert has also been ad uitted making it a most unusual hing that two brothers are admitted, it the same time. Both of these 'oung men were recent honor grad lates of the (Virginia Military insti ute, Gaillaid Rembert in the class >f 1911 and Arthur Rembert in 1915. 3oth are now holding responsible -po rtions, one in Columbia and the oth ;r with the Dupont Powder company it Hopewell, Va. It has also been earned that out of a total of 53 hon >r graduates of various colleges just ;elected for these positions, seven will fo from South Carolina. AMERICA'8 MEN. Ne are America's men. Strong, forceful, and free. JVe are America's men, Children of liberty; *eady to march at the trumpets call, iteady to fight, ready to fall? ^nd ready to herald, "Peace for all!" We are America's men. !Ve are America's men, 1 Brave, dauntless, and true. Tie are America's men, Ready to dare and do: Heady to wield the sword with might, Heady the tyrant's brow to smite? ^.nd ready to sheathe the sword?for Right! I We are America's men. IVe are America's men, Loathing the despot's rod. ^e are America's men, , TTnripr the rtile of God: i *eady to battle giants grim, ?6ady to fight till the day grows dim, 3ut ready to sheathe the sword for Him! We are America's men, ?Thomas Curtis Clark. CUE i of the Best cooks. Will be th. Dancing in the afternoon rder guaranteed. Everybody Waits, 'happells, S.C. vice for fating a thou issembled by t of the farm ip rAiinhrv :rve banking ber, and it en ply our far ;y need [for pro VI against DIC system as one of s tell you how it Newherrv )N, |W. W. CROMER shier Asst. Cashier DCWrCIT ME?