The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 06, 1919, Page FOUR, Image 4
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S. H. AULL, EDITOR.
Friday, June 6, 1919.
DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW.
It may be some satisfaction to
Congressman Fred Dominick to
know that some of the people who
opposed his election and who used
as an argument against him his vote
against the humbug known as the
daylight saving bill, are now strongly
in favor of the repeal of the measure.
The truth is there never was
any sense in the passage of the
measure in the first place. We
were just trying to fool ourselves.
We can not save daylight by moving
up the clock. The sun rises and
sets as usual and the moving up of
the clock doesn't make any more
daylight. Yet we all remember that
Mr. Dominick's opponent tried to
make much of the fact that Dominick
voted agfeinst this bill. There
never was anything to it. The only
thing we like about it is that it
brings the afternoon trains in a little
longer before the sun sets and that
could have been brought about by
moving up the schedule.
PAY THE TEACHERS MORE.
It is said that there will be 50,000
* vacancies in the teachers for this
country. The teachers are going in?
N to other callings because the pay is
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uctver aim uw umica xess ejututmg,
and no one can blame them. We
have all along been paying our
teachers too small a salary and now
that the price of everything has advanced
there should be a corresponding
advance in the pay of the teachers
of the country.. We may talk
about education and the importance
and necessity of it, and all that is
true, but the first step toward securing
these things should be to
properly compensate the teachers of
the schools. They are about the poorest
paid of any profession. We
Trie on ronl nnt ilia en.
pervisor, and yet some of them are
inadequately paid. In this time
above ai others there is need and
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.demand for an educated and enlightened
citizenship. And to secure it
we must provide the proper teachers
for our schools, and especially is this
. necessary in the grammar and high
.r, schools* :for- it is true that in these
schools the character is formed and
the'Sfj^trtdations are laid-for the making
of* tEe* men and women who are
soon to be. We nef* to wake up
along, this line. >. ?
? President Derrick in a recent
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speech quoted a noted educator who
had visited South ^Carolina for the
, purpose of studying our schools and
reporting on them. He found after
studying the schools in. certain typical
counties that we had made great
. progress in school buildings and
school equipment, but that we were
sorely deficient^ -'teaching. That
n!!ay to a certain extent be true, but
we should scarcely expect any man
or woman who was worth while to
start out in life in this day of opportunity
with a view to making teaching
a life work with the possibilities
before one who has to make a living
as well -as teach. There is not much
prospect. Our rural school system
needs to be changed and improved
' in many ways. We have not yet
started in the right direction. Sixty
or seventy five dollars the month for
seven or eight months scarcely
brings in sufficient revenue to support
one for twelve months in the
year. There was a time when that
amount may have meant a bare living,
but not now. No wonder there
is a shortage in the teaching force
and that very few start out with the
idea of making it a life work.
That's a fine paper .of Miss
Frances Wheeler on raisins and
their food value. We didn't know
that raisins had so much food in
them. We can remember when we
thought it was a very fine fruit
though in recent years we have not
eaten much of the fruit. Wonder
what food value there is in the apple.
That is our favorite fruit just
now, though the past winter the
things sold so high we could not get
. as many as we would have liked. We
have always heard that it was
healthy to eat fruit.
It costs some money to be even a
candidate in the Charleston city primary.
The candiates for mayor are
assessed each $500 and for alderman
$75 each and for school commissioner
$50. If we had $500 in cash all
at one time we wouldn't want no office
at all. And then to think of having
to put up that sum and maybe
not be elected, the money and office
tita enc?r\a/>f
an gvuct niiu ucoiuco VT ^
it takes some money beyond even
the assessment to have a look in on
the job.
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| Nearly every day we read in the |
I newspapers where some child or
other, person was run down by an au'tomobile
and either killed or seriously
injured, and the statement is
also generally made that while the
{accident was unavoidable the driver
: of the car deeply regrets it. Of i
course most of them do regret it,!
I that is those who have any soul, but
| we demur that most of these acci- j
Honta nre unavoidable only because '
'the driver is going at a speed that j
[should not be allowed and generally]
!with the idea that he was the sole
, owner of the highway and it was the!
duty of every one to keep out of the
jway because he was coming. In,
? other words there is too much reck-1
less driving of cars and the wonder,
|is there are not more accidents.^
Nearly every day right here in Newi
berry there are near accidents all
from careless or fast driving, and
some day there will be real accidents j
and then .we will endeavor for a season
to be more careful, but we so
soon forget. With the narrow streets
and no regulation as to keeping to
the right there is always danger at
the corners. We trust no innocent
child may be the victim.
We would be glad to have any
one who has any news to phone it j
jin to the office or bring it or send j
J it. We will be glad to print it. We'
'mention this in this connection forj
the reason that for so long a time we j
were unable to handle the news!
promptly that many of our friends
hesitated to send it, but now we
hope to be in position to handle anything
in the news line on the minute.
There are some things even
|the live reporter can't know unless'
| some one tells him. We are on the,
I irvV* warn Vnon +V10 Kail rnllinff.
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It was very gratifying to hear the
superintendent of the Prosperity
jhigh school speak of the fine cooperRation
which she had in her school
'work during the past session. And
'the result is that this school probably
'made as great progress if not great'er
during the past year than any
'school hereabout. She stated that in
: the matter of war work that the I
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school had raised and contributed an
average to all causes of $5.00 in
'cash per capita. That is mighty
'good and in order to do it there had
;to be cooperation. And it was un-|
jder the leadership of the school that.
some twenty French orphans were
adopted.
Mayor Wright has called a meeting
of the citizens for next Monday
; night to be held at the court house.
|We suppose the purpose is to consider
the matter of doing something for
the improvement of our streets. If
; so it is well, and we hope every citizen
who can get in the court house
will be present g>t. the meeting. It
is very important that the tfrwn .devise
some way of raising money to
| do. something worth while, or at
j least stop wasting what little money
jwe do raise by filling up holes with
,8and hauled up from Scott's- creek
| to be washed back to the creek at1
the next rain. : ,
If you don't read The Herald and
News each issue you sure will miss
something you, will want to see. We
jmay sometimes say something that
.some people may not like or endorse,
ilf so we are sorry, because we all
!like to have the approval of our fellows,
but we can't (help it*. We can
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jilUt ucip aaj/xiig wuati vvc buuia) aiways
endeavoring to say it in kindjness
and to speak the truth as we
see it.' People may come and people
may go, but like Tennyson's
I brook, The Herald and News goes
jon forever, and undisturbed by the
j criticisms of those who may not
agree with all that is printed, or
I even the fault-finder. We shall try
always to do somethng and to say
something that will be helpful and
for the forward march of this community
and this county.
Former Governor Manning has
just recently returned from an expended
trip to Europe. He made a
special study of the cotton situation
j while abroad, among other things,
and he says the world is short on
! cotton and that what we have on
hand and even a big crop this year
| will not begin to supply the demand.
[There is not much danger of a big
crop.
Mr. Manning in a very optimistic
interview which he gave out on his
trip says of cotton, "The world is
j undoubtedly bare of cotton. Cotton
and cotton goods are needed in Euirope
second only to food. There is
(urgent need for every bit of the cotjton
in the world today and all that
|we are going to raise." He thinks
jwe will have profitable prices for all
that we can grow and that the
South's opportunity is now at hand.
But we must feed ourselves and then
grow cotton.
Our renowned conversationalist,
Colonel House, might attend to the
Germans if the Conference decides
| upon letting Rantzau rant at us.
"THE RED GLOVE"
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We don't pretend to know
much about the eague of na?VTA
rtnw'f CAA VlAltr TITA W? Q T7
11UI1S UUt v> C can t occ iivn rrt iiiuj
expect any sort of permanent peace
without some sort of* league of the
nations to observe .the terms of
peace once agreed upon. It should
be a part of the peace treaty, because
any other sort of peace will
be only very temporary.
DISPUTE OVER HUMAN BONES
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Discovery In Florida Gives Scientists
Opportunity to Indulge in a
i LiveJy Squabble.
Geologists and anthropologists are
having a lively controversy among \
themselves over certain human re- :
mains which have been unearthed at \
Vero, Fla. Human bones were found j
in geological formations of the pleistocene
or glacial period; man existed
in America during that early age. But,
objectors interpose, tha skeletal remains
are those of a modern sort of
man, a regular Indian type. So recent
type at that period is incredible. The individual
must have been Juried in the
ancient strata. [
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xne otner siae answer* mm uun?? ,
Is out of question. The formation of
the earth above the bones Indicated
gradual natural accumulation, and not
the heaping of earth into a grave.
That the bones were scattered some
twenty feet from the others, which indicates
that they drifted while on the
surface (how could buried bones move ;
twenty feet through the soil); and,
further, that the fact of the remains
being of a modern type of man merely
shows that this modern type of man
lived in the pleistocene age.
Fortune Telling in Germany.
Very curious forms of divination are ,
practiced in Germany. The methods i
of forecasting the future vary, of
course, in different localities. In many
parts r,f Germany for in:?tance, a girl
vrho ii desirous of knowing the vocation
of her future lover is told to j
listfn to the singing of a large kettle. |
With more or less accuracy the trade j
or occupation is determined according
to the various tones.
A popular German amusement is the
telling of fortunes by means of walnut
shells. Good or ill-luck Is foretold
according to their movements in |
a bowl of water. Casting lead Is another
amusement to which the German
devotes himself. The molten matter
is poured into a basin of cold
water after being placed over a spirit ,
| lamp. In tracing the various shapes
assumed by the lead great amusement
is afforded. For they are all presumed,
by the way, to be symbolic as regards
the future.
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' Sympathy -In Plants.
Plants possess feelings and emotioo
similar to human creatures, and it
may be found some day they possess
^powers of reasoning.
Plants? which have been occupying a
large sunny window become attached
to each other, and It very frequently
happens that When separated they become
sick and finally die. A begonia
becomes very much attached to a
fuchsia, an<f if the fuchsia is removed,
the begonia will be apt to show in
Its appearance that something is seriously
wrong.
Plants seem to be aware of each
other's presence, even in the garden.
It is difficult to say how far such
things really go in plant life, and it
is a study we should all take more
Interest in as we observe the* curious
things In nature.
"Doctor Jim's" Burial Place.
The body of Sir Starr Jameson, better.
known as "Doctor Jim," of raid
fame, rests beside that of his beloved
leader and friend, Cecil Rhodes, ami<*
the solitudes of the lofty, lonely Matop- I
pos,* in Matabeleland. The remains I
were removed trom ungiana ior tnai
purpose.
The lead shell In which "Doctor
Jim's" body was Incased was quietly
removed from Kensal Green cemetery
and shipped to Africa. Thence the
remains were conveyed to Bulawayo
and onward through some of the most
charming scenery in Rhodesia to that
I famous lonely hill in the 5,000 feet
high Matoppos, called by. Doctor Jim's
friend, Cecil Rhodes, "The View of the
World."
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The Busy Wife.
"I see by the paper that your wife
Is going to preside at the Woman's
club meeting tomorrow night"
"Indeed! It doesn't say what she's
doing tonight, does it?"?Life.
CITIZENS MEETING.
There will be a meeting of the
citizens held Monday night, 8:30 p.
m., at the new court house for the
purpose of discussing important matters
concerning the welfare of the
city.
Z. F. Wright,
Mayor.
June 4, 1919. 6-6-2t
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