The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 07, 1918, Image 1
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KX-I*!?I>I!)ENT J.
This commencement closing is th-2
' ^nd of the service of Dr. Harms as
presfdent of the college. (Speaking
for The Keraid and Xews we are very
sorry that Dr. Harms has decided to
leave Newberry, not only for the sake
of the college but for the town as well.
Dr. Harms is just the sort of man tor
the presidency of a college like >*
ViArrv. and iust at this it is unfortunate
for the college that he is going.
Dr. Harms is a graduate of the colx
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Dji. PARTIXG WORDS
Address to the Graduates?The One
Great ?ed Today, is for Good
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True.
My friends, this is the final service,
of an acedemic nature, which your ;
college has to do to you,?to put into ,
your hands today a testimonial of
character and scholarship. We have ,
gathered here today to award ?ou a ,
diploma, a degree. For four years j,
tout has striven to nrovide .
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you with an intellectual and a moral,
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stimulus to manhood and womanhood.
For four years you 'have responded I
with satisfactory zeal and diligence
And -this is the final service we can \
render you. except to follow you for- j
ever with our prayers and benedic- j <
lions.
It is not necessary, 'my young j.
"friends, to remind you mat you are ; ;
leaving college in an interesting and
tragic time in the story of our world.
"1 know you feel the thrill of the great [
events which are transpiring all about j
i us. The poet addressed his age [
many years ago. and sang, "We are liv-1
ing. we are dwelling in a grand and 11
awful time, in an age on ages telling ; <
to be living is sublime." We smile to- I
day at his presumption. For no mat- j;
ter when lie lived, no matter what hs
felt so deeply about the tirq^s which
he descrbes, no matter what the clr- j
cumstance. scene or season which m- ! <
spired the song he sang, we know he
never lived in times so profoundly
tragic and significant as the times we '
live in now. This is the most event- i
ful era our world has even seen, ex- <
cept the one in which our blessed '
"Lord was horn. We are living in the 1
grand and awful time, in an age or ;
4ges telling. To be living and living <
now is solemn and sublime!
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AKU i Iieeu IH :L ?JV L licit It is LUC j
war that makes the difference. When ^
that midsummer sun set on the even- j <
in? of Friday, Ju!v 31. 1914. it set [ <
upon a world upon which it never was
to rise again. Since you entered college
radical and revolutionary changes
have taken place. And as you leave
it now you are face to face with a
problem of personal adjustment the
like of which you did not dream four
years ago. xour nauon :s no u>nger i
like an ostrich, plunging its head in
The sands of isolation, politically unconscious
of other nations in this
-vrorld. Today it is allied, in the providence
of Cod and the service of humanity.
rr^h nations in th*
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lege in the clnss of 1 $93* and his leaving
is the 2.">th anniversary or his
graduation. He is also a graduate o'
the theological seminary of Gettysburg,
Pa., and he has served as pastor
at Chambersburg, Newport and Harrisburg,
Pa., and is goin from Newberry
to a church in Philadelphia, the
largest and most influential in the ;
Lutheran church in America.
We wish him mighty well, though
we hate to see him go. , j
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greatest war of all recorded history,
ail its policies, all its resources, all
its influence and ideals added to the i
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common cause of freedom and worI5
democracy.
And wo are proud to send you out j
in times like these, to tasks so chal- j
l^fging and daring and divine. Others i
have preceded you to the battle line, j
and we would be remiss today in !
pride and remiss in justice too, if we 1
did not look upon that banner with its
one hundred and fifty stars, and thank ;
God that those loyal lads who studied ,
under the scarlet and silver grey were
not afraid to fight under the (Stars and ;
Stripes. One of them is a star of
gold. No musketry or cannon rear dis- j
turbs his dreamless sleep. And as j'
the weeks go and the months go and
the years go there will be other stars, i
changing one 'by one from blue to
gold, from the true -blue that they are, j
In brave devotion, to the dear o-old of j
a compete and finished sacrifice.
My young friends, emulate the fine
example of your companions. "We
send you forth todav to battle! It,
may not toe to battle with shot and
steel. It may not be to battle of
blood and death, as yet. But in another
sense, whether to trench and
camp- or farm and store and home,
right royal battle.?to do your part,
your bit. your best, to save the worl.t
from impending woe and make it fit .
to live in.
Be true to the idealisms which your !
college has tried to breathe into your
souls ir. these four years, in class .
room and lecture hall. If you have
ever Keen allured, in a moment of
douh' or cynicism, to base ambition
or Ic' * turn vo:ir back today :
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Oh. submit s >ou love your life. as
you love your honor, as you love your
Alma Mater, as you love your country
?submit to the will of God who made *
you for heroic effort to serve His !
kingdom in this world. The great
danger in these times of turmoil and '
distraction is that we will forget t.ho
big need, the great and paramount 3s- j :
sential of national glory and success? ;
that ^*e will forget conscience, be- 1
lieve in -God and righteousness, the
gospel of the son of God. Be true to >
your religion. For the only thing that ;
can ever heal a<rain this ~oor bat- , 1
tered. broken, bleeding world Is your 1
religion, the religion of the Christ of
Va + .-V /I A tr "r V* sw% f\ O y?rt Q TIT?
oraimcc ics, iuua? iiicic " ! c iiiuuj
of us who worry because we cannot
KO to France, that worry because we
canno* buy more fc>nds, that worry ;
because* we canvof serve constat
AMERICANS SATED
THE DAY AT MARNE
With the Americans on the Mams,
June ">.?Americans fighting the Gernans
on the 'Marne furnished the
nost drastic moments of the war
since General Gallinein's taxicau i
irmy saved Paris. Rushed from a
listant area under French command
:o Chateau-Thierry, they did the work
)n the battle line at that point that
.s surpassed in history only by the i
exploit Of Gallieni's troops.
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The Americans now confronting the ,
Germans along the Marne at the point
:>f the farthest advance toward Paris
*nd who drove back the enemy after
:he river had been crossed, received
iialf an hour's notire to start for the
critical spot. Railroad trains, auto
trucks. French camions and every
possible vehicle was pressed into service
and speeded off with the Americans.
having the full right of way over
ill roads. They arrived at the battle
line at night and were fighting in the
morning. Soon after the Americans
arrived the enemy attacked. Our
troops, which included marines, wers
the reserve. The marines toolc up
the fighting. It was close, open Held
warfare-. American fighting brawn
n-oo voafr."hr>rl o<rn?rst that of the OCT"
;v:an< in a short bitter sfrngele. which
the Yankees won. The Bc che has re.
revert his attacks out t.ne ime stuj
holds. ^
The French are heaping the highest
praise upon the Americans. They are
proud of their stand at the Marne.
where civilization was saved by turning
back the Germans in 1914 and
where the foe must again be throw.!
back.
SPECIAL SPEAKER AT MAYER
MEMORIAL E. L. CHURCH
On next Sunday af amoon at 4:30
o'clock, nothing pre" -ng. Mr Baba
Thorn? s of iXewberry college, and native
of the far country of Armenia,
will address the congregation in respect
to the persecution and suffering
of his own people, the Armenian
Christians. A collection in their bohalf
will be received at this service.
All are invited to attend.
ants upon the battle line. My friend,
you can do as fine a thing as any of
them. You can keep the faith, you can
stay at home and believe in righteousness
for men and righteousness
for nations. You can cling with
prayers and intercessions about the
altars of your God. Believe me, the
cation needs good men more than it
needs soldiers, much as it needs the?r.
and sure as it is to sret them. Above
the need of soldiers, above the need of
statesmen, above the need of authors
and scientists and engineers and inventors,
there is one need of this nation
now, in these tragic days, which
overtops all others?It is the need of
good men and virtuous women. T
isn't guns, its clear goodness which
will win out in the end. And as wp
part from you today we call vou to
goodness. We dedicate you to service.
We ordain you to high endeavor. We
s' " " o'.it to be contr'butors, not
a""?.es, in rio hive of human progress;
bj;!d?r? up. not tearcrs down
Keep your lips from evil and your
tongues from speaking guile. Cursed
is the slanderer! Cursed is the man
who will sfab another -in the back!
We shudder at the tale of cannil -lism,
the savage slaughtering and carving
and eating of a human body. But your
savage is a saint compared with the
cannibal who will kill and cut fo
pieces a neighbor's reputation. Young
men and women, there are men to3nv
whose hearts are wounded sore
^nd courage broken, and influence
VvTecKea Deyona repair oy tne wniapered
lie. Down with the muck-rake
raan or woman! Speak no slander,
no, nor even listen to it!
Be true to yourselves. Yes, firs'".
io thyself be true, and then it must
follow, as night <"he day, the; cans:
not then be false to any man.
Farewell then You and I leave the
old college today together. Let us
cherish it forever. And let us fear
nothing more than to bring the stain
of a dishonorable a in; or ac-ion upon
its nobie record.
Good bye. and may tlie God of aV
l;race and mercy e-ver Iceep yoti ?aie
a>id keep you true.
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President, Sidney .J. Derrick.
j The board of trustees at its meHin^
on Monday afternoon elected Prof. 3.
I J. Derrick to succeed Dr. J. Henry
[ Harms ss president of Newberry college.
Prof. Derrick is an alumnus of
the college and has been a member
of its faculty for many years, and is
in position to be familiar with th*
work and the needs of the institution.
I The Herald and Xews. rnder t;:^
j present management for the past 30
l years, has been a steadfast friend of
the college, and we have been untiring
and diligent always to boost and advertise
the college whenever occasion
presented, and sometimes when it dirt
not we made the occasion. The files
and records will bear out the statement
that so far as our ability ex
| tended the college has had no more
I steadfast friend and supporter. And
yet sometimes we have been made to
feel that there should be such a thing
I as reciprocity of allegiance. It is
well to .preach and talk the obligation
of the alumni of the old college, but
there should also be prea^sd the
doctrine of the loyalty a nd stead fastness
of the old mother fo her childi
ren. In other words, the relat;orx3
should be reciprocal, rhe m.e^standing
i Vy and cooperating an-! 'c'.ping the
i other, if such ~ relation doe? not
exist then the obligation of nr- her
: r.irounts to much Lo^! a*::.nni s a
; ?"r>d doctrine. nnrl ? anr1 deI
voted mother is just as ^ound in its
i rrincini?3, if you are to have the coI
operation thai counts .
I ^."e can not help sj?"\z. even with
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! '" e danger of being * :r.!-rstood.
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frank, t::r.t personally we uo noc owe
the new president. Prof. S. J. Derrick,
j anything, because he has never failed
; to fight us. not in a personal way. bur
I in a way that sticks, when he had the
opportunity of rendering a service to
rs without cost to himself. And yet
' after saying this we want to say that
The Herald and Xe'vs will do what it
can in its feeble way to make his administration
a successful one. as we
h'!ve tried :o in the cof his pre1
decesors. He is not the college, and
yet the men who control and direct
j the institution are the college in the
i true sense, for certainly the brick and
mortar in the walls of 'he buildings
! and equipment, however fine they may
be, do not r.:-*1'"1 a We understand
that President Derrick sa\~*
I that there shall he no politics in the
I management of the college, but that
his one aim shall ibe to run the instii
tution for the proper training and ed
i r.cation of the hoys and Tlrls who
may enter, and if that Is lived up io
it will be well for hi3 sdministraton
and for the success of ta> institution
There is a great opportunity presented
to I?im In them 'ryimr testing
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j work. We trust that he may measure
|| i:n ro the occasion and the times and
| meet the responsibilities that win re."
upon birn.
So we srreet- the new president and
say to him in all frankness and
truth and incerity, here we are, :i
we can be of service to you to help
make your administration a successful
one. rail us and we will respond.
| The following sketch is taken from
[ the Charleston American and was
I written bv Harrv W. Dominick. SV't?
3lso append from the same corres- [
nrmderce the tribute- to President J
Harms which we must heartily en- j
dorse:
Prof. Derrick has for the past 22
j vp.qrs served a? a member of the facI
ultv of the institution. Graduating in
! 1892, after receiving many honors duri
ing his student career at Newberry
! r-ollege. Prof. Derrick was so?n afteri
wards elected the head of the prepara!
tory department of the institution,
! serving in this capacity for about ten j
j years. He was then given the chair J
! of history and economics in his alma
! mater, at the head of which department
he is now serving.
Prof. Derrick is about 50 years of
age. He received his early educational
training in the rural schools of his
j community near Little Mountain, in
! Lexington countv, and at the Mount
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. Tabor high school under Prof. E. 0.
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; Counts. He is the son of J. J. Derrick
j and Martha Kessler Derrick and an
I uncle of Congressman A. Frank Lever.
| The newly elected president of Xewi
berrv college has at all times taken
| an active interest in educational af- j
j fairs in South Carolina and is now 5 j
; member cf the state iboard of educa- '
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! ton. l'pon which board his influence j
1 is generally recognized Since the or- j
' ganization of the war board for New- 1
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berry county. Prof. Derrick has served
as its chairman.
' The many attainments of the new
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nosition to which he has been eiecteti,
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and there is no doubt of the fact that
h<* will orove himself a worthy s:;cc-~3sor
of the retiring president, Dr. '
Harms, whose administration of the
affairs of the college has been second
to none anions: the presidents of the ,
institution during the fil vears of its
I history
Dr. Harms resigned as president of
Newberry college about six weeks ago
ro re-enter the ministry, having resigned
"i large Lutheran pasSbrats it;
Rarrishurff. Pa.. 10 years ago to ac
! cept the presidency of his alma mater,
j He will q:o to Philadelphia as pastor
cr" r'l"1 ^h'lr^h of the Holy Corn
rv:"nion familiarly known as "Seis.-*
r'(i 1 pit.** coeause the fact that this
! pj.stornt^ w*s Tong served and made
famous by tiie late Dr. [os. A. iSeiss.
The Ii of the Holy Communion is
: ])" r -Cv"!^nizeci as one of the
... - - t-> ^.. of America,
TOTAL OF THIRTEEN
SUNK BY SUBMARINES,
Xew York, June 5.?Two more vessels,
a Norwegian steamship and one
schooner, were added today to the
list of ships known to have been sunk
by the German submarines which are
t raiding in American waters. The total
now stands at 13?five steamer3
'. ind eifcrht schooners.
The fact which stood out most prominently
in the day's developments is
that the inboats still are operating
near the coast and have not returned
to their bases.
This was demonstrated when th9
Norwegian steamer Eidsvold was
I sunk off the Virginia capes late yesj
terdry. n?vy department renortj
ed yesterday an 'encounter between
i a d^rnve^ r*"'1 a submarine off tha
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i f-r,;: . rc Maryland.
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1 Another fact- which is regarded as
! trv-M-; "irn^f :n marine circles here 13
i that none of rhe vessels reported ? ink
thus fur was sent to the bottom hy
a torpedo. It. is considered certain,
that the undersea eraft 'carries torpedoes
and that they are conserving
i ' '."lO-'i in the hope of atiackjr.s: a trar.si
povt loaded with American troops.
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Possibility tnat vessels still unreported
may have been sunk was seen
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i ir> a <t :*ement of the. master of tne
! schoonvr Samuel C. Mengel. who aril
ved here today. He declared lie was
told by the commander of the suh'
marine which destroyed his ship that
the ii-boat had sunk three steamers,
! one a passenger liner, and three
schooners, last Saturday. Xo 'vessels
have been reported sunk that day and
it is believed either the u-?boat capj
tain was lying or that Captain Hanj
sen misuderstood him. So far as
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j the New Y-ork and Porto Rican liner
( Carolina and that was established at
only 16 by revised lists, showing that
there was about 218 passengers and
111 in the crew, making a total .it
329 instead of 3?">0 as originally reported.
All those who perished evidently,
were lost from the life boat
which arrived yesterday.
REGISTRATION OF tfE> COMING
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The registration of the young men
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come of age since the 5th of last Juna
took place on Wednesday. There were'
235 registered in this country. 104
whites and 131 colored. The rigistration
was as follows: Xewberry
122, Prosperity 43. Pomaria 24, Little
Mountain 10, Whitmire 18, Chappells
18.
>EWBFRRY ELK'S WILL
OBSERVE FLAG DAY.
A meeting of the Newberry ?Iks
was held on Wednesday night at
which District Deputy Whisnant was
present. The lodge has not "been
meeting regularly for some time but
those members who were present decided
to revive the lodge and will
hold another meeting this Friday
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evening in the office of i^'rea \n. ajuminick,
the lodge having let the ladies
use the rooms for the war work. A
committee hbeen appointed consisting
of F. R. Hunter. C. E. Summer
and T. P. Wicker to arrange the
program for Flag Day services and a
speaker will be secured to deliver an;
address- aopronriate to the occasion
and the exercises will be public. Deputy
Whisnant will come back to the
Flag Day exercises and they will
probably be held o:i Thursday evening
the day before Flaer Day as he has to
bo in Greenville on. the l^tn.
end the calling of Dr. Harms, th>
-~.Mng <?x-president of New
berry college, to this pasto**0^ jg evidence
of his'stand nmor.fr the lenders
of his denomination "n fV ignited
?:af" Harms ard hi? family will
leave Newberry for his ncw field of
labor in about two weeks. He leaves
hoViirm him a wonderful record o?
for X^wberry ro\\nfrn.
ar.d his public spirit and leadership
in all things that -yere for the welfare
of this community and So:ith Carolin.
will be .zreatly missed. He oarr;?
'.*?th him *o his row bert
wishes of his many friends in Xew>
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