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;|k f|eni$ a# jam, j Entered at the Postoffice at >"ewfcerry, S. C., as 3nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Fridav. March 22. 191S i DRAGGING THE KOADS j l I Brother Elbert Aull, editor of tha ! Newberry Herald and News, has been i a constant advocate of the idea of : keepings the roads in good condition with the road drag for a number of j years. In a recent issue of his paper j he says: "A good time to drag the roads af- j ter the recent showers. We are glad j to hear that the dragging is going on j all over the county It is wonderful | how many' friends the old drag has j now. We are proud of it. There wa3 j a time when he was sort of an or- j phan and nobody seemed to care for j him, but we are proud that we always : stood by him fatihfully and that now j he has so many friends, and we hope there will be plenty to keep him j busy serving, for the great life is the j life of service. Even Ed DeCamp in his Gaffney Ledger is advising the people to drag the roads." k All of which is very good indeed, except that last sentence, from which most people would infer that The Ledger is a recent. convert to the road, drag. Some years ago-?about fifteen, we "believe?a Mr. King, who lived in ] one oi the northern middle states Wisconsin or Michigan, began to exploit* the road drag. The government 1 aaIta/? inf a fV?A rv-? off Ar r\ ^ + V? r\ 11 cr V* ^ 1 Juuacu iniv/ ihc uiaii^i aim iuvu^ui, j so well of it as to get out a small \ pamphlet telling how to construct and j use them. We received one of these | pamphlets, had an engraver to copy j the cut that accompanied the article . and printed the same in The Ledger. ! And from that day to this we have been an advocate of the split-log drag. We even went so far as to raise a fund, about ten years ago, construct -? ? ? * t Ui^ a arag, ana nave me .\auuuai n^u- : way from Grover, N. to Cowpena, j S. C., dragged. This was done to give j our county officials a practical illus- | tration of the operations of the road j drag. One time since then we raised j another fund by public subscription , to repeat the lesson, but it seems that ; we have so far been unsuccessful in ! converting our county officials to the j cheapest and most satisfactory man - j ner of keeping our dirt roads in good I i; condition. j However, Brother Aull; let us not j vvannm ft titdq rv in \vell_i!oin<>\ for It i nvui; .. may yet come to pass that our | preachment may bear fruit. In the j * meantime never again insinuate th!tt ! we are late in advocating a good i thing.?Gaffnev Ledger. Ceratinly, Ed., we apologize if we did or said anything that was not correct, or that we in any way misrep resented you in the matter of the old j drag. We^ never expect to become weary in well doing. We have advocated many progressive steps in this community which after hard and constant fighting on our pa?t came : to pass, and whe nthey did we were ; forgotten and others took the credit,: % I but it has never dismayed us or made us waver in the slightest in our prownrV anrl we har | only gone : S'cooi'v .. , . the harder after those things, which ' were for the general welfare. Others ; have rushed in at the end and it was j "me and Patsv "killed the bear," and J i mostly "me," but that even has not. > ~ -J imii- orr^nr in in the least uampeueu well doin^. Let us keep doing the things which ; we know are for the general welfare, J even if we are misunderstood and the I people do not give us credit for it. j And' one of the good things is to keep ! boosting the use of the split log dracr.; 1 ! Xo use to build good roaus uu>^ von are going to do something or provide some plan for their maintenance and one of the cheapest and best methods of maintenance is to use the split log drag. And now remember, Ed., we never intentionally misrepresent any one, or do injustice to any one if we know it, and wherein we have done either to you we apologize- ~nd af^sorry. When Ed DeCamp and Elbert Aul! finally enter the pearly gates a*d tread the streets of gold they are probably joing to demand that som* t inp- firae and go one get out we _ to work.?Spartanburg Journal. There will be no need then for split log drags. When we enter the pearly gates we will walk the golden streets and have only pleasant recollections j of what we tried to do for our fellow | J I creatures here below. And the people who take our advice and use the old drag down here will have a much liner chance being with the chosen few who will be permitted to enter those pearly gates and have the delight in walking the golden streets. \ We will know that we did our duty , in giving the people the right directions to make ease of mind and com- i fort of soul. }oin the fcand and come along and help us in the good work. . And prepare your heart for entrance to the pearly gates and to walk the i golden streets. Governor Davis of Virginia has called an extra session of the legislature J which lately adjourned because h-3 J thinks the appropriations in s. few j cases are excessive. The cost of tha | extra session will probably be great- j er than any economy that can be ef- i fecte-i.?Creenville News. The appropriation bill was some- j j thing over twenty million dollars and by the extra session it was reduced one million. Whether wisely or not we do not know, b.ic the extra session scarcely cost that much, This action of Gov. Davis is in striking contrast to the action of on.' chief executive. We understand that he vent before the free conference committee of the two houses and told them if they did not give the amounts he wanted he would ?ith?r veto th? j entire bill or call an extra session. I The difference between the two houses was something like half a million. The house conferees g^ve in and the governor got what he wanted. And Aiir or\nrnnrici + inn Villi ovnoorlc oil i VUl vrllut*vu ui. | bills under any Democratic admrnis-1 tration by something like a million dollars. Whether wisely or not we do not pretend to say. Certainly in these times when every one is advising the conservation c?. our resources and trying to save to win the war the legislature should have been careful in the making of appropriations and should cut off I wherever possible to do so. It seems to us that some of the items could have been left off without impairing the efficiency of the government. But that is another story. t-i Somehow we do not think much ot the daylight saving bill as a practical j matter in the saving of anything at: all. If the people who work by'hours would keep their hours the same an.i you should move up . clock it would mean to go to work at 7 a. m. instead of 8, and to stop for dinner at 11 a. i i m., instead of 12, and to knock off in tlie afternoon at 5 instead of 6. Of course the clock would show that it was 8 and 12 and 6, hut as we now have it it would really be an hour j earlier If the people will just ob-j V 1 serve it, however, it will give thosa 1 who are shut in offices and shops an hour more in the afternoons, and they i can do a great deal in the way of working gardens and conserving health and getting acquainted with I the wife and children, and we hopsj that the hours will be observed. That j is the way we see the practical work- j ing of the law. But suppose t!v?J ruan who has been opening his storo j ?at 8 in the morning and closing at | in the afternoon will say when you ' push your clouck up an hour that he will open at U in the morning ana close at 7 in the afternoon, where is the saving and where the difference? We think that all the stores | and shops in this section of the world j keep too long hours, and we ha^J | heped to see the stores and shops in j Xewberry close an hour earlier in the | summer anyway. For the editor him| self he must work more than the i hours named, but then he has an cpj portunity to get/out in the opne, and | does not have to sit or stand in one i place all day. And that makes a ' Lrreat difference. | We are printing several articles in j this issue which were due for the j Tuesday paper but were crowded out. j We print them so that the record may . Vw?? 1 ? y* i. H* A.AXT * T"? * O f T'All Til ^ T? j uy CtllU vv tj Sfl.Y 11J1S U1UI j v/n iiiu.i know we had the copy but an overflow of advertisements prevented iheir insertion. Advertisements in th$se strenuous times must have tha right of way. We even left out the regular installment of the story which is resumed I in this issue. RESPONSIBILITY. We notice that oar local contemporary, The Observer, in a leading edi: trial, believes in one man power and one man rule, a sort, of czar in government. We do not refer to it for the :-';rj ose of disputation or to argue thot point, but to say that is the tendency. That was the tendency in old Home and when the thing came the great old Roman empire crumbled. But what we wanted to say is the editor talks about the division of responsibility, and that it is better not. to divide responsibility and so on to the end. It seems to us that we heard Dr. Cromer say on several occasions in some speeches that we have heard him make, that there was no such thing as divided responsibility, that responsibility is indivisible, and we came to the conclusion after hearing his argument that he is correct Wonder if Dr. Cromer remembers those <>ood old speeches that he used to make, and if he would be willing to te^ us if he still holds to the view that responsibility is indivisible. So far as we are concerned we do I not believe in a czar, but are still an j advocate of a sort of representative j democracy by which the people have an opportunity occasionally at least to say whether a majority of them approve the way the leader has been j handling matters, and if it is not sat-! isfactory they may change command- | ers. That may be old timey and out' of date in these strenuous times in ! i which have fallen, but it is well oc- j casionallv to hark back to the good old days even if it is only in reminiscence. For instance we hate to contemplate the thought that we would have to spend the balance of our days under the present chief executive of th:3 State. We believe that it would kill our optimism, but the idea and the thought that maybe we will be able to try a new commander some time m the not distant future, gives us hope to press ever onward. And some other leaders and commanders socalled that we might mention. Now we are not talking about President Wilson, he suits us all right, but it would be bad for the stability of our institutions even if he were to be a real dictator. But we did not intend to write even " this. What we wanted to oo was task Dr. Cromer about that division of responsibility. Is that possible now in these days upon which we have fallen We notice from the Greenwood Journal, we failed to see it in the Fieunior.t. that Congressman Lever ia sending out a lot of questionnaires as to whether or not the people are demanding him to enter the race for the senate. We have no doubt he will get a lot of answers urging him j to make the race. If he listens t > the replies he will be a candidate, *vir. I he has been in politics long enough to know that a few hundred letters do | not always represent the 150,000 j voters of South Carolina. He may be | able to win. We do not pretend to i i-nnw or to say, but $s it appear^ to | us his place at this time is in the I house where he is the chairman of t.hp I most important committee of the con aress. The government is asking people ! not to cumber the mails. We wish some of the various boards, councils, ; directors and what not would read ; this. The Index like all other newsj papers gets from five to ten pounds of j matter every day. One tenth of it | would fill up the paper. One council has The Tndex on its mailing list . three times and triplicates of all its stuff is received. We have called at ! 1 ention to it but it is not heeded.? I Greenwood Index. i The same thing here, and we have remarked on it several times, but the ! stuff still fames and goes in the waste i j basket. We understand that the , price of waste rsaper has increased i j very materially and therefore we may be able to use this as we have made arrangement a sain to bale our i waste. Let 'er "roll. These fellows in the departments and the clerks and f stenographers get good pay for send. in? the stuff out and we can sell if . for scrap paper. VARIOI'S AM) XL:. \ivOTT. Pa* reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that houses are in demand for renting purpose?. i Newberry is ^rowing. New houses ought to be built, and old ones re! paired and repainted Tnis city har> Hue workmen and the space. All she needs is to get busy. Among the delegates named by Governor Manning for the conference in Charlotte Friday and Saturday to discuss the education needs of the 1 cotton mill towns and villages in Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina ! and Geogria. is Mayor Z. F. Wright. Mr. George I). Brown is one of the ! delegates from Columbia. Miss Irene! Dillard aoes from Whitmire. j The Laurens Advertiser says: i ("Laurens company high in the list ( : after test: stands forth in the regi- i j ment as the result of recent tests." j ! Well, Companies B and K, both from ' i r ! Anderson and each having Newberry ; boys in the membership, come re- ! ! sDectivelv fifth and sixth, being next' ; highest after the Laurens company |?Company D. I They are forming: poultry clubs la {some towns. The best thing a poul- j [try club could do would be for each! ! member to keep his or her poultry [ at home. To that end if would be a good idea to put the emphasis on ths i"try" and pronounce it in the broadi est sense In this connection war I ; gardens could be attended to with ; neatness and despatch. i Vitagraph's stupendous melodrama i i serial of adventure, "Vengeance and j [ the Woman" is getting a gripper hold j on the public. The jam of people at the opera house overflows throughout thA nresentations. The ninth episoda will be shown Saturday. If you don't | want to be bothered by the jam crowd j go earlv and take a front seat. And vou will also see the Keystone ani j i ^ Drew comedies. j Littlfl Charles Rowers. ! only six i j I ; years old but one hundred per cent j ' true blue in his loyalty, ran into the i (home one day la^t week with a^papsr J ; in his hand (exclaiming that he had j o-ood news?the kaiser was dead, had | .been killed. He said the headlines! | in the paper stated that the kaissr j * 1 o ctroot M? I naci Deen ruu uvci u? ? In addition to his brightness, Charles ! , has a keen imagination and much , humor. The last issue of the Easley Pro- j i gress contains an account of the, j death of an old Confederate veteran, j | Mr. Jno. A. Higgins, whose funeral } services were held by the Rev. E. V. j ;Babb of Xewberry, a former pastor.) The body of the deceased was j . dressed in an elegant suit of Confed: erate gre^ and buried in West View ? A /vronrlonr'J I cemetery. jvour sons, j and two sons-in-law acted as pall j bearers. | Occasionally "vanda" slips in a cclI limn among the little items, .fust ! to satisfy any natural curiosity that J may exist we will explain. In prej paring copy there are certain "marks" i for the different departments of the I naner?"ners" for the personal col | umn, "v and a" for the "various a*d jail about," etc. .The linotype oper! ator runs the "v and a" together, makjing "vanc^a." and the makeup man i sometimes forgets to "take it away." j The people who live on salaries are i hard hit. Even though tliey are favor\ I mm I it Will I To See I A C We, We I Buy cans pac __!iL ? wun caps, ar up cans. 77 One < will be he we will b( i Sum " \ 1 -> 1 - ' v.": ! ; n ;m vavuo oi twenty -or i v i t.urty per cent. tin's h".* n'i means a"- i qe*' rha idll in buying power of tr.n ; ( ^voney received. Ministers, t^neh^r", I %, ... . | *? service employees and lilci ' j classes are feeling .he pinch of war j j ?i7v.c> more and mrvre??partanlv.;r.~ ! r, j 'Ter^ld. ''Then." as Browning says, i I "weV-ome earh rebuff that turn? i i ! rvrtb's smooThr.e^ rousri. each srir.T ! I . ! ftint nor git r-or standi?]j:t ?o'p<^ our joys thro? parts nr.!n! Striva'.il ami hold cheap tlir* strain: l^nm nor account the pang: dare, never rndja <h3 'hme! For thence?a paradox v.-'v'-h comforts wh'Ie it mocks?sh^I \ ! Ti-'o sur-r-eefl in that it seems to fail." \ \ \ j A dron letter post marked March | ! ""S. 2:f,0 n m.. was prcnrtlv rece'vcd i I by TIealth Officer T,. M. Player. Tho j i4 letter" was as follows: "There are,* SOinP hfl?5 OT1 H;p"b P^int onrl w'z'n I on would kindly look after it, for the health of the place." That wa? j all. No signature and nothing els?. | As "brevity is the soul of wit," and j "variety is the spice of life," thr* let- j ter is a bright contribution to both i conditions above quoted. Player I asks The Herald and News to state ! for him that while he duly appreciates the interest any citizen takes in the welfare of the city, he wishes al! ; communications to him would be mora explicit and properly si?-ned. The sender of the brief letter should have specified the owner or owners of the _ - i i .1 -u _ __ i ? i said no.^s auave ins ui ntr iiinue. a::- j . onymoiis notes don't carry weight ? ' i' "WE RECOMMEND TORIC LENS. / > / / ' \ When your eyes trouble you think of P. C. Jeans, the Optometrist, who will give' you satisfaction or your money 1 refunded. P. C. JEANS AND COMPANY, Optometrists and Jewelers. < i v ' CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. ; THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Xewberrv, ! By W. F. Ewart. Probate Judge, j Whereas, John Henry Baxter made I suit to me to grant him Letters o! 1 Administration of the Estate and ef1 fects of P. Frank Baxter. i These are. therefore, to cite and j admonish all and singular the Kind! red and Creditors of the said P. Frank j Baxter, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court o? ? ; g" ! ! W. C. I Optom< Practice limited t< and to the fittii ! - Tolanf?nnp O 1 f mmmmmmmmmmummmmmmmmmmrnrnm tuaA JL m *ay You Us About? 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