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# jeroiD anil jms. Entered at tlie Postoffiee at Sew.' fcerry, S. C., as Sfrid class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, October .19, 1917. The sketch which we printed Tuea day of the fife of Col. D. A. Dickert "was read the past spring by him before the Calvin Crozier Chapter and prepared by request of the chapter. It was a correct record of the career of Col. Dickert and a valuable contribution to the history of the period of which it is a record. ftov Keith Xivelle of Nebraska who is also a millionaire has resigned his office as governor and enlisted in the army. He has been appointed colonel of the Seventh Nebraska regiment. He says: "I can not go on urging the people of my State to enlist unless I enlist also/' That is the sort of waf orator after our own heart! . _ / What has become of the old time farmer who used to bring the newspapers a half gallon of the old time home made syrup.?Tugaloo Tribune. We have been wondering the same thing. We have been trying to gei a little more than a half gallon of that old time home made molasses but so far have not been able to do so. We liave even promised to furnish*the v jug or the bottle. Farmers, you want to raise some wheat if you possibly can and you do not want to let .anything keep you from it. We are making the suggestion not so much on account of the public as on account of i ourselves. For the most part you have been ' ,!1? nonnlo- llllf ftuying wneai line uuci now we are coming up against a situation in which very few people may be able to buy wheat, or flour. The 'best assurance of eating flour next year is to raise the wheat yourselves.' ?Yorkville Enquirer. j This is a good warning^as well as 0 I ^good advice. The farmer should notj ^ t i I (be induced by the present price of cotton to plant all cotton^ It should; ' *>e borne in mind that while cotton is & good price, it is a good price only to the farmer who grows his own hog and hominy/ If he has to Wy bread aod meat at the present prices of these articles the price of cotton Is not very high as he will find. And thpn there may be none to buy, so the wise plan is to plant some wheat i . and then plant some more wheat. _ ; .... . y Our garments are old, and tattered and torn; the soles of our shoes aire shockingly worn; the crown and the rim are gone from our hat; our cupboard is empty?not even a rat would stay 'round the house for fear he would starve, or that we might think him a good chance to carve; and yet we ask nothing but what is our due; and if we but had it?perhaps, sir, from you?instead of this sad tale of woe that we sing, we'd joyfully shout and live like a king.?Gaffney Ledger This is the tale of woe that Ed DeCamp chants in his Gaffney Ledger' and yet we note from the daily papers that he has donned his sporting clothes and is off to New York to see a base ball gam^. What do you think of that? iAnd poor us we can't even ?o to Atlanta to have somehting worth while done. One man did pay us fif| ty cents the other day on some old eubscription that he said he owed from the time when we adopted the cash system, and when we took from <mr list some ten thousand dollars of past due subscriptions. If it would just oocur to some of the others to fio likewise we might get off also, but not to see a Dase <Dan game even n it were in the National series. Every one who can should buy a Liberty bond. It would be good for the country if the people of small means would invest in these bonds, good for them and good for the country. It is not well for the country that the bonds should be owned by the rich and the interests and corporations . The bonds will be?? taken. There is no doubt about that. We c,an not understand why the State newspaper shoo Id hare carried a JMg i headline in a recent issue to the ef-j fct that the effort to sell the bonds was a failure. That sort of headlining, is worse than anything that could be! I i done, and hurts the sale of the bonds.1, > I because it is not human nature to! push anything that is considered a' failure by those who are advocating j the cause. Let every one get busy! now and talk about the success of thai effort to sell the bonds, and it will be the truth, and then more of the fel- i lews who are not buying will want to '. buy and the sale will be faster. Oft course the bonds are going to be sold and more than sold. 1 - 1 I- ^ The Greenwood Journal is very1 much concerned because Mr. Coker! I the food director for this State has j asked the pastors to preach on the ^ | bond issue, and says that it does not! | believe that the pulpit is the place' | nor Sunday the time to talk aboat j bonds, but that the day should be; ' I j one of worship and the church should j j be the place where the worship is j ! v.u j i - ... ; ueiu, anu inai Donas ana otner secu-1 j lar matters should be attended to on j ' the other six days in the week. And j J we agree with the Journal. We can, not disregard the laws of God unless | we suffer for it, and yet we have heard I high officials, say that in war times \ .there was no Sabbath. And then it I | I seems to us that we read in some pa- j per that Mr. Coker did not believe in( j Sabbath observance, and did not ob- j i serve the day himself* as one of j rest and worship. We do not know I that it is true, hut if he does not be- j 1 lieve in Sahbath observance himself, 'it is not strange that he should ask' ! the preachers to talk about liberty' bends on the Sabbath. i .. _____ THE FLOOD OV PUBLICITY. In one mail yesterday The Xews j received publicity in the following' quantites of space with the request' | that it all be printed free of charge: j Automobile 3 Column? , ! Liberty Loan 1 1-2 " Food Econoy 11-3 " I ~ ' 1 rtea cross 1-3 U. S. Department of | Agriculture 1-3 " National Emergency, Food Garden Commission 3 1-2 " Prohibition 6 " Antiprohibition 9 " i National Security League 2 " Armenian Relief 11-2 " American Forestry As* sociation 2 1-3 " I Southern Commercial I rAProco * n ( w-o Movies 1-2 Children's Patriotic League 5 Fraternal Orders 2 1-2 " \ The total space required to print all < , this matter would be approximately j forty-three columns. If all that were j to be printed in this issue, there j would be left just two pages for news,' i advertisements, editorials, and 'other | matter. Nor does this figure take in . such matter as comes in locally, and J not through the ma such as local j articles referring to iae Liberty Loan , food ecenomy and the like. Most of this publicity is accompa-' nied with a plea that its publication would be a patriotic act. The - aiv n o sometimes gets less matter from some, of these organizations and sometimes more, but the average is high. Obviously, only a small part of it I can be printed, however great our desire to do our bit. There is one great .lesson that the purveyors of public"a ity have never learned and must learn j ?condensation. Jf the press agents | had the art of brevity, the7 would j achieve very much more. Often The ' News gets from some Government i agency an article a column and a half long which could withoikt impairment be iboiled down to half a 1 column. The News hasn't time to I condense for these people?consequently, unless the article is very investing, which isn't often the case, \ i n goes into the waste-basket. I 1 j The newspapers have given and will | give millions of dollars in free pub -\. I licity to governmental and patriotic' f I activities, for which they have re- j ! ceived very little recognition from I either the Government or the peeopie. | | Their taxation has been increased;,' | the Government has so far been un-| I ahlp to roliairo +T-io-m v-.. "?~~v i ?- iucui u? oiuctaiiiiig ine paper trust. The flood of propagan-i da publicity threatens to overwhelm' them.?Greenville News. The Greenville News Is correct about this. We receiye by every maiL enough stuff to more than fill tike papar, and it all saye ther.e teJH) appro- j, priation to pay for it but as a patrio it is ho;:ed that we will use it. W are tryng to serve the country as bes we can. but we have to pay the print ers and pay an exorbitant price fo the print paper we use and then tr to live on the little that is left. I has occurred to us that tlie newspa pers are about the only class of citi zens that the govern: ent'has asked t give to the government what it has t sell, its space. The newspapers ar * A -11 ? ? ~ on/J ni*a nr?t rnrr doing wnai ucj tan auu a* ^ plaining, but it does seem sometime that some of the requests are unrea sonable. Col. Joe Sparks sends enough t fill up each paper we print. An then he does not hesitate to ask th? we display some of it on the firs page. I We are today running just little bit and that little bit about fill \ ?n cnflpo wp have. ail tut. - - - . IWe may be a kicker as one of th committee of the Liberty Loan sai he felt satisfied that we would kicj about something, but tbe record wi show that for the thirty and mor years of service that we have give to this community no good cause hd ever failed to have our most heart support, and in many things durin that time The Herald and News ha been a pioneer. We know that w are no Pharisee, but only a plain ever day sort of a sinner, 'but some ho we just can not get ouJ consent th* :* w,-o-v>t nr nroDer in a Christia 1L IO l v land, where we all pretend to serv the God of the universe, to violate or of the plain commandments b launching a purely commercial can paign on the Sabbath day, and hole 'ing these meetings in the churches. Somehow our patriotism says the we should be willing to give at leas cne of the six days set apart for ma 4 to labor, to the Liberty Loan cam " ~eotr iiv havins: it o PS1 ^ 119 AIUU OUj . w Sunday that we are too busy to talc one day for this patriotic purpose That's the way we feel about it, an we can't help saying as much.. Ta men who are on the committee /V professing Christians and church of ficers, and they may know more tha we do about these matters, but w ? firmly believe that it would have bee i * . better , to have said to the people c Newberry county that we will tak off one day of the six and givii on entire time to this, work, and that : would have been mg^e successful. We are giving prominence to th meetingof the committee whish ct cided on this campaign, and to th appointments which they have madi and would gladly publish the name of the speakers who are t(f make th: campaign, if the names had been fui nlsted. We had our doubts about the Re Cross campaign but that was an er tirely different proposition. Sellin bonds is commercial. We reckon th people are commercially too busy ma* ing mqney and looking after Ihei own affairs to give a day to this bon business, so it was necessary to ap Ipoint the Sabbath. We would like to see the peopl generally take these bonds, and w have borrowed the money to take on or two, but let us *?o to the people i; the work days of the week and no take the Sabbath for such work. Th bonds are goingvto, be sold. Tber is no doubt about that. And the ma: -who does not take any will have pay the tax to meet the interest o: bonds taken by the more fortunate. ESTERTADiatEST FRIDAY AT ZIOT SCHOOI Last Satarday two pretty and swee little school teachers honored Tfc, Herald and News office with a visi and asked us to print the notice o an entertainment that is to be givei this Friday night at the Zion 6choo and we promised them faith fully to write a nice notice for their that is, as nice as we can sprite. An< somehow we did not even mention th entertainment. Now, we beg thei pardon and assure them that it wi< not intentionally omitted from Tuos day's paper, but in the rash, and thi desire to write a nice notice we jus kept waiting for the spirit to move ue and we entirely overlooked the no tlce. Well, -with this poor apology we <3e s'~e to eay that there "will be a boBi rper. and that means aometMnj t! housewives of this section of the. e' county know so well how to make. ' 11 when you talk about eating in that i community, at Zion school house Fri-! day night, October 19, and the pro-, r ceeds wili go for the benefit or the y school. And you are cordially invit;t ed to be present and enjo: tiie e/e-; i i Tlinir Cl 1*1/1 hoi n 1 11 - I ^ ?v/ip a vu u * v? * The two bright young ladies who! i are teaching this school iIiis session! 0jare Misses Nannie Mae Yi'iiliams and i ? Minnie Lou Bobo The school opened 3 a couple weeks ago tr.sl ! > petting on t_', nicely. i ' ,3 < * Remember this is to be ? coy sun-i S per?supper, mind you?and not sim- j l~! ply a box party. Seems to us that j j means that there is to be something o to eat. And there will be good coun,' 3 try ham and country fried chicken' and country made cake and all the j other good things that the good' >t i . I rnx) AT ( VAd a run la.iiuiu ;g? Hon. Z. Ff. Wright is hereby nom>nated for re-election as Mayor or Newberry and is pledged to abide the rules of the Democratic primary elece. tion. - i d, pc! FOR ALDERMAN?WARD 1. u' I hereby announce myself for elec-j : tion as Alderman for Ward 1, and 'e I will abide the rules of the city Demon; cratic primary election, fc, . CLAUDE H. WILLIAMS. yi FOE ALDERMAN?WARD L Cr ( P. F. Baxter is hereby Bomina.ed 13, for e-election as Alderman for Ward 1, subject to {He Democratic Primary I 71 FOR ALDERMAN?WARD 3. w I Haskell Wright is hereby nominated for election as Alderman from Ward n, 3. We pledg-e him to abide the re rules of t.he Democratic primary. l8 1 Citizen. J 71 FOR ALDERMAN?WARD 3. u Clarence T. Summer is nomina/.ed j for re-election as 'Alderman frjm Ward 3 and will abiue the rules of j it the democratic primary. j FOR ALDERMAN?WARD 4. 3 j John A. eSnn is hereby nominated j l- j for re-election as Alderman from j v. ^ Ward 4 and will abide the rules of e the Demicratic primary election. FOR ALDERMAN?WARD o. W. H. Hardeman is hereby nomie. nated for re-election as Alderman; 1 i e1 from Ward 5 and will a'ride the rules Jo? tb.e Democratic primary election/ j_ "1 ;; "" : At tk of ( is ri M n I id u I We will g ; wishes to Save 1 i * I LIBER 1 ii i * * . L > ,J J t I? ^ >; The proceed used to profit 1 Who is it t *' protect his ow n 1 "" ! The Nation; B. C. MATTHEWS, Pt. T. t I I. Member F * n I William Desmond in Triangle play, ' ff WILLIAM I)ESMO>D in ' ; i "FLYING COLORS" Opera House I Monday, October 2*2. J r EVE SCHOOL who buys a pe WYCHE'S D1 at Prosperity will emt which will tell good time whi*e g Dependable Progressive, Sanil N Young Moseley Bro National Bar j 1 . + SI n e Serv Our Ci ladly help an; buy, a T LOAN h of these Bom ourselves. :liat is not wil n? i n.?i_ H DanK m i K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier H. I. W. CROMER, Asst. Cashier *?>rl,ovrtl WMV f A M/w v v ALICE BRADY 1 \ 1 <kKFTSY ROSS" ~m Opera House ^ Friday, October 19. :ry fHTI.D :j ncil tablet at KUG STORE m a & be given a preshow to have a . 1 oing to school. Dentistry j; tary, Equipment wn,B. S.,D.D.S. Jc Building | ' . . ' j i % t || ice nmty , I j 1 y one who I " j > i * RDA/Dl 1 1 * A - j i i \m ' is are to be ling to help \* i I ! ___________ ^ Newberry T. CANNON, Asst. Cashier , / System. ' mmmmmmnammmmmmmmaBammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnui . ^