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Jpf? jeraiS and ||? Stotered at the Postoffice at NewS. C, as 2nd class matter. K. H. AULL, EDITOS. Tuesday, August 7, 1917. We had been a little curious to 5 knn-a* in?t o.-v'haf- thp Stafp P,r?nrmil of* f ! Defense proposed to do, or what was the work before it, but we were just a little afraid to ask because perchance our motive may have been misunderstood, but now comes the Columbia Record and admits that here are others who do not exactly konw what the duties and purposes of this organization are, and that "the objects and purposes have not been clearly de ?ned, yet they will be in good tome." The Record says that the meeting called in Columbia the other day was for "the purpose or having some kind of formal understanding of the gen erisU picLU UI viuii iu uc uuuciiancui $y the State council through the county organizations, for the purpose of arousing the people to a sense of their responsibility on account of the war." "It was quite incidental," says the Record, that the meeting got off into politics and did not have time to outline the work to be done. Even Gov. Manning -who went to tne meeting "outline a program of work" did not to so "for the lack of time and on ac ?ount of the unexpected turn that the 4?eussk>n took." Now tuat is too oaa. we are surprised that the Record woul dadmit such a state of facts. It seems to us that < we read in one or the other of the accounts published of the meeting that one of the purposes as stated by Chairman Goiter is 10 nave meeuugs over the State to arouse a war sen- , timent amoug our people. If that is < found necessary there must have been some mistake about "my people clam-' oring for war" as we heard some, months ago. \ ' .It is unfortunate that the discussions j took the turn they did, as the Record j; eays, hut who made them take that j . I ' turn but the members of the council | 'who were present. And we would! like very much to know just what the i work of the council is to be. Cer tainly this is a time for all our people ; to cooperate, and as we safd before this is 110 time to be abusing one another or for factional politics, but if Mr. . Manning has not ou Heroded Blease in ; that line then we do not know what we 1 read, and he has gone so far as to take 1 it into tne war appoiunueuis. ( mt ! 1 i. From the rei>orts of the speeches i ' the daily papers as made at the meet- * ing we can not see much defense work fceing done. It' reads more like offensive than defensive. i The Herald and News is printing! today two reports of the Filbert meet-j ~ 1 rkf TllP 1 ing. une Dy iiie wncaiA/uuvut State, and one by the correspondent j of the Charleston American. Both! i reports seem to agree pretty well,fouf we want to be fair and give the re-, port from two viewpoints. The temperature must be rising inj * +Vi rv (the? Kecora omce m way editor lias been talking about; the weather and the heat. Even the 1 "milk evaporates." ( We sa wa near accident at one ofj the street crossings in Newbery the. other day, and it was where one of; { those "auto stop" signs hang. Both; wpre attempting to cross street j before stopping. Fortunately neither j one was going at full speed, because j if either had been there would have1 i been a crash. No use to stop after you cross the street. We are pleased to note that the Southern is going to resume the Pull-1 man service between Columbia and j Greenville on the morning ana nignt; trains. It should never have been ta-! "ken off and we are glad that the rail-! road realized its mistake and is cor-i recting the error. Our goou friend, B. B. Leitzsev, who went with us to Greenville on i Sunday to see our soldier boy, says he has about lost faith in III. V\'e are truly sorry for that. And it is ^^ g^otiustifiejL She ran beautifully to' i Greenville a;id back to L.u..:er.:;, i>nt f i from Laurens to Newberry something j got out of adjustment and we aid havo J a pretty hard time making it home. j but we did get back. We will tell j the story in Friday's paper. f wp p-hpss Mr. Wallace is right: ,f v O _ ^ I about calling on the poor people to | look after that road because If it; were not for the poor people tne! rich folk would soon starve to deatn.l The poor after all are the backbone; of the country when it comes to! " - - * -3 ' making a living for tne country au.i; also when it comes to making roads, j The rich people have neither tlie time ; nor the money to fool with suchj things as the roads and making a; J living. We seldom make excuses ror our shortcomings, becausc we know they * *- ? TC f'9*! P J are many, dui we icci men. *?. to say that we have gotten this is-1 sue out under difficulties. We havej a new linotype man who just came! in Monday morning anC has had no time to get accustomed to the machine, or to the style?yes, a newspaper has style, though sometimes Itj is not in keeping with the very lat-j ocf Parisian stvles?and. therefore,; ~ ~ ' I we have been forced to "pad" just a little, something we dislike very: much to do, afcd have not done for a i good while. We are satisfied when ' the new man gets accustomed to tne | shop and acclimated, so to speax. that we will have more matter than we can print. He came from the good old county;, of Greenville and is "home raised"; and we hope that it will not he nee- < essary to make any cnanges for some time to come. ' , "" ? I, Our good friend W. E. Wallace is joking us and III just a little, Dut( we are going to call his nana. He is? j1 not in our class when it comes to 'poor people," because he has Droad,1 of fipo cotton nnd corn and will I ?> ? i-or-vest, but come along now, Mr. Wallace, and we will puti : n 1 or get ^ list of the fellows; who travel the road regularly anii Vinm r>-inr>Vi fhov nrp intprpste'T liiiU uui avrr inuvu ? and we will have this road dragged. J We do not want to do too much be-; low the Boyd crossing, because we! understand that Supervisor Sampte; is going to take out the railroad 1 crossings, but until that is done wej might at least make this road pass-; able. Yes, and we would like forii i Dr. Hunter to look after tTie end to j the DeWalt quarter and that wilt;] ?arry it as far as we desire to travel j i regularly. And in spite of what Burj : Leitzsey says about III you will seeji tier moving smoothly up and flown j; this road again soon. She Is now in j j the hospital but the doctor promises j to have her out very soon. Let's geq < together on this road, and the job i3 ] lone. 1 Miss Jessie G. Rutherford and Dr. ( Wm. E. Crooks will be married at the! 1 residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J1 W. D. Rutherford, at Blarrs, tomor-j' row evening, and will leave at once for London, England, where Dr.:1 Crooks has a position as surgeon in j the navv Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Garrett and ba-i by returned Monday from Pickens, i The picture of "il'nconquered" wuij be exhibited at the opera house Tues-i day, with Fannie Ward featured. !r this play she is the wife of a relentless mi ionaire and has an opportunity to display many of the most j *? ?- - ? ~ - ucciutuui gowns irom ner wonaenui wardrobe. Mr. B. M. Scurry has returned] from Fort Oglethorpe. He was turn-j ed down with a number of other| young men by tne Eliminating Board, owing to the surplus of materia?. Where there are so many applicants! there must be some eliminations. Magistrate Douglas held court Sat-: urdav to dispose of the case against! ! Drayton Bouknight, colored, for as- j sault and battery. Boukniglit pleaded! guilty to the charge and was dis-j' charged on the payment of $ ">. The! magistrate held another session Mon- I day for the trial of Charley Harris llff 1A VVWAO nV\ AP TVAA AA U'UIAV 1 iv/i a, nine ui catu ui pcatc, *> uiVsi j cost the guilty mail $5. Resourcefulness. Some time ago. when a local corps ! was reviewed by Sir Ian Hamilton,! one officer was mounted on a horse j that had previously distinguished it- j self in a bakery business. Somebody; recognized the horse, and shouted j "Baker!" The horse promptly stop-, ped dead, and nothing could urge it I on. "The situat. was getting painful,! when the officer was struck with a i brilliant idea, and remarked: "Nothing today, thank you." The procession then moved on."?Tit-Bits. VOI R HAM) fS PALLED ' ; BY THE EDITOK AM) fir ; i i i ' Editor Herald and News: i ; I heartily endorse your edito'rial j; in Friday's issue of The Herald ana | News concerning the road from New-: ( berry to Prosperity. I for one i join hands with the "poor'' editor of! : The Herald and News to raise *: j ' * J ; ? ? -v ?J ort ^ rvA fund to Keep cms roaa in gouu . . for automobiles and tin boxes. T;< would suggest you call on the poor;, people like the editor any myself to , raise Ihis fund, or if you should fail, i to raise sufficient funds by this metn-j, od I suggest you take care of tiie1, road as far as Prosperity and let DrJ ; Hunter look after the other end that . leads to the DeWatt quarter. This I , think, Mr. Editor, will insure a sare . return for III. oYur friend, i , W. E. Wallace. |j m? ?t ? "--J TTO C -r> Mr. \V. jn. narueuiaii "?o ... , Greenville Sunday. v j Mr. C. E. Bedenbaugh and family i motored to Greenville Sunday. i National Guardsman Beale Cromer i ot Greenville was in the city last } week. . Mr. u'ill Scurry of the Quarter- ( master corps. Charleston, spent Sun- ^ day in Newberry. ' Messrs. Gray and Eflflle DicKert of ( the Greenwood Coast Artillery wer- ( in the city last week. ( Miss Minnie Lurey has returned from a visit to relatives in Spartan-j" burg. I 1 The tract of iand iL Gravoltown advertised for sale by Probate Judge Ewart was not sold salesday. It ww be, up for private sale. Wallace Reid and Myrtle Stedman,; the popular Lasky-Faramount arusw, v?ll seen at the opera nous~j Thursday in "The World Apart," a a unusual and exciting story of We3- tern life, prepared especially for them: In ^"Madcap Madge," the latest j Triangle play, in which Olive Thomas) will make her screen debut Wednes-j I day, the mysteries of what takes j j: place in the exclusive and expensive: i; seminaries are revealed. FOOD? A pair of spectacles, goal I rim left in Mr. B. H. K. Bushardt's automobile at the reunion at Little Mountain last* Friday. Owner may haveyby calling at The Herald j and News office and paying for this , notice. j , 8-7-11. | ' j THE PEOPLE CONSTITUTE THE GOVRNMEXT WITH US; Charleston American. It was rather a presumptlou? meeting held in Columbia Tuesday b> J the so-called Stae Council of Defense. | It undertook to lecture those who iare to differ with the policies of tne administration, and to denounce them as disloyal to the government of tne' Cnited States. These enlightened statesmen, consisting of such highbrows as Mannings, seem to confuse the "administration" of government with the government itself. No doubt Governor Manning believes that he is the government, and not merely the governor of South Carolina. Fortunately he will become an ex-governor next year, but the government win go on forever. As to Mr. Coker and the other indignant patriots who are about to start a campaign of education for war, they too. while all estimable and honorable men. are identified with the national administration, but are not. after all, the government of the United -States. , ? " ? 1-a I. - 11 rrJr-Q remaps u migm ue wen m these learned propagandists a few; nrimarv lessons in what is govern ment, to which citizens owe loyalty in 1 this land of blessed liberty. iWe owe allegiance to our Institutions, not to mere transcient, accidental and easi-, ly dispensable persons who "run" the government. Back of these institu-' tions are the sovereign people, whose power founded and whose right in *he language of the Declaration of Independence it is to "alter or baolish" them whenever in their srover-. eign judgment they deem it wise. ?* ?i- - -1- ' .These msiiLuLioiKS w menarc?(jw1 \ i well ' ' I in 'THE PRICE OF PRIDE" Monday August 13th. OPERA HOUSE m pie founder! are "buitsd. bounded ani surrounded on all sides by certain guarantees of liberty intended primarily to remove from the mere persons and iidni;: istration of government the character of sacrosant. Not even George Washington, the first and greatest of our Presidents?wnose name, as .Jefferson said, is entitled to tli? "fairest pa^e of faithful history," = nd who was president of the con vention which framed the constitution and who, therefore, must be presume,! to know something of what that document meant, imagined that he was the government and that the soveieign citizenry owed loyalty to him. Lest the idea might grow tha we were * nation subject to men ana not institutions, he declined to allow himself to be elected for a third term. tn Europe, where kings and not people govern, the subjects owe loyalty. V) their sovereigns. Let us thank fortune that in his country w*e are the sovereigns ourselves. And as such we tiave the right to make, unmake, rervi o Y? o nT%lon^ T1 ma V.1 U^^XUUUf VVUVtVLUW and in every manner whatsoever review our laws and all things done t>y our servants in pursuance there* yf. And when this right is destroyed, those responsible therefor, instead of laving made the world safe for denocracv will only have made Ameri a sale for autocracy. Does the State Council of Pe?en?e wi?h to be -in luded in that category. V:. M:;-} . , ; . . ! 'JPg I. < Dorothy Dalton, Triangls Star. Dorothy Dalton in "THE FLAffE OF THE YUKON" Wednesday August 15th. OPERA HOUSE Keepin j Would it b< these times if money into th by the Feder< which is stanc the business ii You Can D< ney With Us j on cJenosit wii where it will b IN THIS WAY en THE SYSTE ITS PROTECTIC 3. C. MATTHEWS, T. 1 ) President Send for Bookie ?- ? I | Make This Bank Your 1 ^ Business Home. i i ! , I Spending Money is Serious k ? 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