The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 17, 1917, Page FOUR, Image 4
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K. H. AULL, EDITOR. j
Tuesday, August 17, 1917.
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In a very sane editorial on McLau- j
f rin's letter (which was a letter to Mr. |
Coker offering his services and wtacn
was construed as being against Blease
and urging all the people co get together
in this great crisis which now
confronts this nation) the Greenville
Piedmont says: "To some of us it has
i>een a mystery why McLaurln was not
called to take a prominent part in the
work of the State defense council."
^ And then it goes on to speak of the
W peculiar fitness of McLaurin for this
"work on account of his large experience
and wide acquaintance and his
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familiarity with public affairs, all of
is very true. And then a quo
H tat ion is made from McLaurin's letH
ter: "I am writing to you as chairman
g ?f the council of defense because ypu J
I seight hesitate to call upon me because
I of the fact that our political affiliaMbong
iave "been different." And that
9?xplains why he has not been called.
b In this county, so far as wa recall, so
l-?ee -lias been called to any leadership
was not a partisaa of the gover
Speaking of Blease's Pomana
?^>eec&, iB thai same editorial, the
MPiedrooat very truthfully says: "But,
VBle&se made it perfectly plain that
BTTtiile he felt this country should hare
8 been kept out of war it was the duty
B #f everybody in this country, now th*.
I it is-at war, to do everything in hrs
1 \power to uphold the country and en'
abel It to wage war successfully
[ Ffc&t was a most sttrtous charge Cok- i
er made against Blease and it is natural
that it should have made Blease!
angry, but his aliger would have been j
more effective had it not expressed1
* . *
itself in personalities." - j
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* Treason and sedition are very ser- I
Z ious charges, and as we have said J
fcefore, so far as we can see mere wa.3j
jmothing treasnoable in Blease's speech, j
B the State council of defense is go-;
ing to create a sentiment in favor of J
"war in this country it should go at the j
Imsiness a little different from the |
* start made at that meeting in Colum-j
inH narj-isan and factional poll
VIA*
Ities should be laid on the shelf. This
is a time when the country needs the |
hearty cooperation of all her sons and
daughters too and no man who can j
not rise above little petty polities'
should long be kept in position ot
leadership..
^
Wonder if there is not some way !
'. s j
by which we might induce the South-j
era Bell to give us another Vi>f? to
!
prosperity. Ninety-nine time oat or
a hundred when we call i rosperity;
the line is busy. Maybe it is fixed by;
fate that we are never to get that
good place, Prosperty. And for get-.'
I
ting Pomaria, that is almost out of the j
question. This is not a complaint!
against the operators, because they j
are always nice, but rather against.
the "system". Why could there not!
?-- - frnm Pnmaria to New- 1
UC Ct line UUVV.I 11 vu. - ?
I
fcerry instead of having to go through
Prosperity. Maybe it just happens 10.
us that the line is busy and fate ha3!
fixed that we are never to have prosperity.
OLD MAX TROUBLE
I used to (I reckon that is good)
like to get the Atlanta Constitution, j
xnainl *o read "Just from Georgia" byFrank
Stanton, and I remember that
he frequently had" something to say
?beut old man Trouble, and the point
he always made was that you neev!
not go out looking for him for he was j
?ure to meet you more htan half way:
UUtv li * v/wn?.
Quite frequently of late lie has been
coming at least seven eighths of the
way down the road, and we have not
been hunting for him either. In fact,
since our boy left for the border
with the National Guard more than a
year ago we have been more or less
mixsettled as to a linotype operator.We
eow have a fine young man from
Greenville and he is just getfi!?T
in" and w? kav? aot y ex-1
^ gkt if with Ik* type.
he is ''called" to appear at Grec.. .j '
j
on Thursday for examination, and so ]
we are printing this issue of the paper J
on Wednesday afternoon instead of:
Thursday that he may answer the j
call. I am hoping that he will be ex- j
cused so that we will not have tr> j
make another change.
Only Monday, Mr. Charley West, j
I who has been with us during the year;
; and was just getting his hand in, went
i to Columbia get some of the good
j pickings at the work there on the
! cantonment preparatory to being
! called next week to the army,
i i
i Sometimes I wish I had gone to the
i
| trainng camp myself, for I feel if
j my frind John McSwain could man
! age to get a captaincy I might at
t
least have gotten a second lieuten <
ancy. But I am going -to stick to this
job on which I have been for "nigh
fory year." and try to tell the peop.<v
the truth as I see it, if the war does
not take away all our help. The country
newspaper has had a pretty rough
J A. 1 ?L 1 _ ? 4. L,.L
i UO.U tu trarei rvr wq past year, uui
business will be better this fall I
am sure. And maybe peace vrill come
soon.
E. H. A.
A LITTLE SHOP
We b&we freqaeatiy said tbat we
like to hare little coafidentiol talks
witfe our subscribers now and again,
and as we bare not bad one in some
time we thinfc it is about time. We
want to say that a day or two ago wd
corrected our mailing list up to date,
and that we took off all names that
were not paid up to August 1. Except
possibly one or two who tare
asked us to carry them for a few days
which we are always glad to do. We
had to part wii^ some of those wno
nao Deen m me iaumy iur a tuug
which we very much regretted, but
unless the are willing to do their hi
to support the family we can not cary
them.
Now there are a few whose time is
out on August 1 and 15 who have not
yet been notified, and we hope to send
tVmrrt o r>othic wppkv and if thev I
tUV/U.4 U vi** v* t. ,
do not renew there will be no more
visit from The Herald and News until
they do. You may look at the date
on the label opposite your name end
find out just how you stand and if
there is any error let us know and we
will take great pleasure in correcting
it. This is very important. Do
not neglect it. * I
We notice in going to Prosperity
the other day that some one had dragged
thq road just below the Fair
place where that red clay hill is, am!
where it was so bad, and that it .3
%
now in very passable condition
where we were told that our friend
1 r ~ nf v fii'l I
Tjiilljr IS Xianniiio <-?i x i _....
the job, and we want to thank him fs? j
it. and wish he could get some of j
i
those who travel the road interested ;
with him, and that he could get them j
to cooperate with him in this good j
work. We refer this to Mr. >W. EL
Wallace and suggest that he and us
hook up with Hayne and see if v\ e j
can't get that dragging proposition j
started as a permanent thing.
The most sensible thing that ws
have seen is the message froni the var.- j
ic-an by the Pope that he would inter- j
est himself in bringing p<" ce to th31
world. The Pope has sen: a message i
to all the neutrals and to the belligerents
that peace be restored and
suggests a meeting of representatives
of the various nations to consider the
proposition. We have often wondered
why the heads of some of the great
protestant Chrsitian denominations
had not taken steps to bring about
peace. It would be a'little remarkable
if it should be left to the head of j
the great atholic church to be nstrumental
in restoring peace.
The fact is, that it was our opinion
after the election of Woodrow Wilson
that he was to be the man of desti?
naoM fr? th? wdrld and
iiy iu U11U5 ?
after his great speech of peace without
victory we still thought that in some
way, we did not know how, that ha,
as the head of this great country of
ours, would be the instrumentality by
which peace would come, but lately
he seems the most warlike of all the
rulers of the great nations now at war.
If P&pe Benedict should be the an?
striaest tfcreugh which pe&ce may
come he will go down in history as the
greatest man of this generation. Ler
us hope that something may come on
of the proposal.
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RULES OF TllK R0 \1>.
Not only rules of the road, but the j
statute law on the subject, may be of
j interest to some of the officers of the
! law, if not to those who travel tho
I roads and violate the State law every
day and every time they hook up a
! motor driven ^vehicle. And it is the
| criminal statute that we are referring
to. It is a pity that it is necesssarj
to have a criminal statute to make
good people do that which the common
amenities of life should dictate that
they do without, any law on the subject
.
Section 601 of the Code of 1912 criminal
Code, says: "Xo person shall
operate a motor vehicle on a public
highway at a rate of speed greater
than is reasonable and proper at the I
time and place, having regard to the
traffic and use of the highway and its
- a- - a
condition, or so as to enaaiiger me ine
limb or property of any person, or in
any event at a greater rate than flfi
teen miles an hour, subject, however,
to the other provisions in Sections 602
. ... . ;
to 60S, inclusive."
Section 602 protides that upon approaching
a crossing of intersecting
^ ~ /3/vn^iAr\^a'XiA waV?
roaufe, ^iincs auu uwwuo
must be under control and the rate
must not be over six miles an hour,
and in no event greater than is reasonable
and proper. That may mean
to abolish the fifteen miles an hour
in Section 601, but if it does then
there is no law, because what is rea
soaaDie ana proper wouia ?e cousirued
by each driver and one might say
that, fifteen miles- is .reasonable and
another forty miles, or if may refer to
the* six mile provision of the section.
608 refers to the sign or number
which must be located "upon the back"
of the vehicle. #
The penalty for violating 601, and
602 is not less than $10 or more than
30 days and not more than $100 or
30 days. For violating 608 not les3
than $10 and not more than $100 or
30 days.
But ail these sections seem to try to
do something without wanting to do
it. and without being explicit. We
are referrng to the law mainly to
quote 61)5 as to passing ana meeuns
vehicles and we want all who travel
the roads to read this section.
Section 605 reads: "Whenever a
person operating a motor vehicle shall
meet on public highways any other
person riding or driving a horse or"
horses or ether animals, or other
draft animals, or any other vehicle, j
shall as soon as possible turn to the j
right, so as to allow free passage on !
the left. Any person operating a mo-1
lor vehicle shall, at the intersection
of public highways, keep to the right
of the intersection of the centers of
such highways when turning to the j
right, and pass to the left of such in- j
tersection when turning tothe left."
There is a penalty of ten dollars
not to exceed $100 for the violation
of this section or an imprisonment not i
to exceed 30 days.. This is a good law
or regulation and should be strictly
observed by all who drive the roads.
* ~ *- !/??? cVirvnlcl h-O j
ana it 1101 men uuu ian ..
strictly enforced. There are so many j
of tliese motor vehicles in the road j
now that it is very important to have j
some regulation, and unfortunately |
there are so many people who have no
regard for the rights of the other fellow
that it is necessary to have a law.
and to have it enforced. The city
SilOtl 1CI Have <AII oruiuauvc v-vj uiuuv /.w
absolute that all vehicles keep to the
right and that they observe some sort
or regulation as to speed and the cross
ings.
But the entire section of the Code
from which we have just quoted will
have to be revised and it should be
nt nnna onH Wo havp Tlf) dOllbt
Vll'UC O. L uutt, uuu > V
that at the next session of the legisla-1
tare some one will introduce a bill.
And then something should be done to
regulate these big glaring electric
headlights that blind everything a*d
everybody in front of them.
Of course, those who are getting j
2'ich out of a continuance of the warj
and the war council do not want to!
I
s>ee peace juat yet. Uttt aboat-i
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the great mass of people who are do- j
ing the fighting and whose sons ar^.
being slain and the people who are
suffering from a continuance of the |
war? They want peace, and we should !
be glad to see President Wilson a !
leader in the negotiations for peace, j
We believe that the people in all the I
nations at war are going to demand i
peace and that it will come within j
ninety days.
This paper is dated on the anni-1
i... I
vveiSHry 01 me oirmuay or me euuor.:
No use to say which one. Sufficient
to say that it is not the centennial.!
We warn our friends not to send too j
l
many diamond remembrances, .lust a J
few new subscribers and renewals j
from those whose time is out will;
be sufficient remembrance.
We were late with the last issue
ahead with this one. You can never
tell what you are going to do in these
times. We held over some matter that
are tryng t adlettttttttteee eeeeeenoci
thr o etoin shrdlu etoin hsrdlu eto!
h o rra ar\ n o in lilflf 14CMA
[ We are trying to handle all the local
matter we have for this issue. We
made up our mind long ago to do the
best we could and not worry about the
L * -* i
consequences. . \
Wonder where in the name M coca- i
. . . i
mon sense Blbert A,uli gets till the j
monev he buys gasoline with for his i
- I
"flivver?" He don't teem to be doing i
a thing tkese days but ridin' about.?
Gaffney edgrer.
Now Ed., you shoukT&ot be personal
like that. You know, with the fine
roads down this way it does not take
much gasoline. And then we do not
ride so much after all, but we say a,
lot about it. ' See?
There are so many fine people in'j
this good old county we just ''got ter"
to go to see 'em. We can't help it.
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Pretty Lawn Party
Miss Marjorie Martin of Silverstreet
entertained with' a lawn party Tuesday
evening in honor of her guests.
Miss Marie Clark of Chester and Miss
Vera Walton of Johnston. The lawn
was beautifully decorated with Japanese
lanterns. The evening was pleasantly
passed with progressive conver
sation and other games. About SCty
were present.
<
We are fc
*he peep!
before, b<
Federal 1
Do not
even you
Bank and
tell you
these pro
Hu Motinn
1 III/ 11UUU1K
B. C. MATTHEWS, President
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"The Bunk of
*r
A itrikinerlr original and Dowermi
story makes "The Brand of Satan" an
unusual production, which will vte
seen at the opera house Monday, featuring
that well known and well liked
screen actor, Montague Love. The
story told in this drama is of a man
with a dual personality, tie is originally
of a likable, good-hearted character,
but later develops a peculiar;
kink which turns. him?at certain !
times?into a veritable brute. The
man is in love with two women?ono
a sweet, charming girl whom he loves
when his normal self, and the other
whom he loves when he is his abnormal,
self.
The Servant Problem.
Lady? And why did your last mistress?
Anniinant floftilv)?Excuse me, ma
dam!
Lady?Well?er?your last employ
I
setter prepared
!e financially t!
sing a membei
\eserve Bank.
sacrifice anyth
r time. Drop
! let some of oai
how to make
sperous times.
al Bank of
T. K. JOHNSTONE. Cashier H
W. VT. CROMER, Asst. Cashier
"HOW DOES IT
Bank Your
Home.
he Time
te your next summer's
open Savings AcState
Bank today, and
Each Week
k allows
ZINGS 4 PER CENT
e Bank
the People''
J
er?
Applicant?I beg your pardonr
madam!
T o rJir AX/oll +Vl on VftllP Tact?or?
I If UAVM) J vui ?vww>,
pray what do you call those in whose
service you are engaged?
Applicant?Clients, madam. (Collaps
of interrogator.)?Punch.
Not to be Caught
-?r mA.VM
UOClOr XOU art5 Siigunj muiuiur
my dear lady. You should look about
you and marry again.
"Widow?Oh, doctor, is?is this a
proposal?
Doctor?Allow me to remind you,
madam, that a doctor prescribes
medicine?but he doesn't take it.
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