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' ruua Jfte fftnin! iinB J|o5& iBtered at the Postoffic? at New* tarry, 8. &, as &ad class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOB, Friday, August 1, 1919. THAT STATE MEMORIAL. * j . * It was proposed to erect in Columbia a memorial to our soldiers in the : recent war, the building to be strictly a memorial building, in which could be kept the record of the soldiers and any relics of fhe war, and it was not : to be in any sense an utilitarian building. The idea is a good one, and ; we hope there will be accepted no proposition to make it in any sense an utilitarian building. There should y at least be one such memorial in the State, and the proper place for it is at the State capital. The State.library might be moved to the building and the library made a real library and visitors who visited the memorial would have easy access to the library. We notice in one of the Columbia I papers that a proposition is made to i turn the memorial into a hospital, j and increase the amount proposed j for the erection of the building* from $500,000 to one million. So far as j ? i?^ we are concerneu we uu^c wan ?*** . not be done. A hospital is a good thing, and a great many people go ; " every day from all parts of the State to some one or the other of the Co* iumbia hospitals, but we would not like to see the proposed memorial to our soldiers in the shape of a hospital. A hospital is not a place you care to go unless you are sick or N crippled or something is wrong with j the animal. A memorial should be a ' place where you would like to go j whenever you visited the city, and j 'where you would have pleasant and i pleasing surroundings all the time, j and where you-could have easy access f to the record of any soldier who took j part in the great world war. The | two things, it seems to us, do Jaccord j with one another. We trust that the commission charged with the erection of this memorial will proceed along the lines at first agreed upon. In a small community like Newberry, where the i > memorial is to be a county affair, I and where you could not afford to j ?rect a; purely memorial building j 1? * onrl roliVc ' Willy iUl UOC UX Itvuiuo uuu ,the proposition is entirely different. ^ iWe could and should, as we see it, combine the utilitarian idea with the memorial, because then you would have the memorial and it could be used for other things, such as rest room and a county library, as we Jhave already suggested. A VERY KIND LETTER. We appreciate the very kind letter received from the Rev. Y. von A. Riser .enclosing check for renewal of his subscription Jto The Herald and/ News. We try always to be polite and courteous, because it makes us feel better when we know that we have been, and then it is good judgment and pays and costs very little ' and not as much as to be otherwise. And then we are trying to make, a good newspaper and do and say those things which we believe' to be for the best interest of the people of j this community and for the people j jof the State and the nation. Thank you, Mr. Riser, for your Icind words. They are helpful. Strange, and not very strange either, I but at the time your letter was hand-1 ed us we were trying to write a little j story about the roads and suggesting i how we believed tliey might be made I better. We are going to take the liberty of printing the kind letter "from Mr. Riser. He is the same who "was pastor of the St. Pauls pastorate some years ago, and his good wife I .is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Summer of Pomaria. Gibsonville, N. C., July 29, 1919. jJecu- rTie^ds;: That was a nice, polite notice sent out, upon which I olfer sincere congratulations. It did not seem like a "dun" at all. Yes; I want "The Herald and News." En ClUSt?U 1I11U. ct UUlldi ClilU CL JL1C41JL tv puj for twelve months. The paper is better than it was. The' editor takes sensible views of things; has stood by the president; been patriotic to the core; wants Newberry and Newberry college to build up; almost , fights for good roads and the road { i drag. It takes men like that to make \ J the world go right; but, as Adraham j * iLincoln said it takes patience and j | ""pegging away" to bring things 1 * round where they ought to be. . j. Yours very sincerely, % Y. von A. Riser. ? 7 "Exploitation of the negro by .v; politicians" is said to be largely retl sponsible for the race riots in Chicago. We warn our negroes m South Carolina, if they want to live in peace and comfort, against permitting themselves to> be exploited by jgi)iitisiaas? Iftlurre should be a-di I vision among the white people on the j matter of politics, which being ini mpans e-ettins" some office which will benefit only the few who get the offices, then these few politicians, office seekers, will undertake to exploit the negro for this personal aggrandizement, and further than i that they will have no use for him. i That has been the rule. We were against the independent j away back yonder before we could {vote leagally, and then again in 1890 j we fought the independent movement I headed, by some good men who had j proved their love and devotion to J.1 + ? "VI wianv o ft Tl f] [ Lilt: 11 OkiltC Uii manj u ? j we are again them now. It is best i for the white people and best for the | negro that there be no division i amongst us. Beware of any move| ment leading in that direction by j whomsoever led. NO TIME FOR INDEPENDENTS | We regret to see in the papers that i Gov. Blease has announced that he ; will be a candidate for congress in the seventh district as an independent in the general election. This is no j time for an independent. It is a j ' time above all others in the history of our State when the white people i f should stand together as one man. ! Independentism means an appeal to J | the negro vote. That means trouble j for the negro and the white man ! both. , | We can not see how Gov. iJlease I can square his present position with the many speeches he has made over the State denouncing the independent and the Haskellite and all that j sort of thing. We do not believe that he will find many of his former supporters who will endorse his present position. And when we consider that the people of this State have honored him with the Whest position in their gift we can j not understand how at this time he | can find it right to announce that he ; will no longer trust the white people who are in charge of the government, and become an independent candi- i date for congress. We can not believe that the mem-1 i bers of the State democratic execu- j tive committee, however much they may hate him personally or his politics, would fail to give him a fair deal if he went into the democratic primary, but that even does not justify an independent movement, and we feel sure that the good people of that district will put 'their seal of coil demxiation hard down on any such attempt to divide the white people. THE COLUMBIA ROAD. I have written so much about roads during the past several years that I j am wondering sometimes if it j is j worth while, and if really there is I any good that comes from it all. I! have tried to encourage the people j and the county officials to do some- j fhino- t.n <Hve us better roads, and 1 o- - ? have frequently called atttention to 1 the improvements that needed to be 1 made at once, so that travel might j continue over them. One- can never | tell what the results may be from a j continuance in the matter of calling : ! attention to needed improvements, i It may have some good result?, and | I then sometimes I am almost persu-J aded that it does not do any good.1 | But somehow I just can't help writ- J ing about roads, and telling where j there should and could be something j beneficial done. | I had a little business matter in Columbia on Tuesday,, and then I j also went to represent Newberry ! county at the meeting of the State j executive committee. I went down j on the C., N. & L. train in the morn-! i ing. Sheriff Blease and Rastus Eison were also on the train, the sheriff , I taking a negro woman to the State hospital, and Rastus going along so I that he might come back with the sheriff in his car which he was, i forced to leave in Columbia when he j j took the negro Harper through, the j roads at that time being in such coni dition, it taking him five hours to go , to Columbia, that he did not feel like I bringing his car home. He kindly invited me to come back with them, : and as I always enjoy riding through j the country, I readily accepted the : invitation. Going down Frank Lever joined j us at Little Mountain. He had been on a visit to his kinsmen, Joe and Kes I Derrick, at Little Mountain, two of I the good and substantial citizens of ! that section. None better anywhere. , I was pleased to see Frank and hear | him talk. I had not seen him for : several months, except to shake hands with him the afternoon he spoke at Little Mountain during the Liberty Loan drive. Frank is the i sump nIH hnu that. Tip nspd to he. The , ? i big job he has on the land loan board ! has not made any change in him, and ! if it had he would not be the man for . the place. He has made good up in j Washington, and the beauty about , this appointment, it came witnoui ms | knowledge, until he got it. He didn't , even know there was a vacancy on the bou-rck That is- sufficient to i | demonstrate that the president and i the men at Washington appreciate ; his* good work up there. The unexpired term which he'is to fill is for five and a half years, and if he I should be reappointed, as he will, the | full term is for eight years. And in ! all nrobabilitv it is a life job if he j desires to remain on the board, be| cause under its establishment it is | bi-political, that is two members are i to be democrats and two republicans, j Well, I am glad he has the job, if he I wants it, and the work is in the line j of the legislation which he advocated I in congress, but I would like to have j him remain in congress. This diver] sion is leading up to the Columbia j road. f I The State executive committee i was in session a very short time, and i delegated the details of the primary ; for the two districts in which there ! are vacancies, to a special committee. i The democrats not only of these two i * districts, but of the State, should . qualify to vote in the general eiec, tions, and not only that, but they i should vote. If they do not they are J going to wake up some morning and find the nominee defeated by default. And a small vote always gives ground for a conte~?, and at this time both the senate and the congress up at Washington is republican. In this State there can be only one party for the white people, and we must stand together and see that the white party rules. It is best for the negro that the white man should rule, and he is going to rule. There is no doubt about that, and a few disgruntled whites can not change that position, even if they should make the effort. We left Columbia, Jefferson Hotel, at 3:10 p. m., Rastus Eison at the wheel, in Sheriff Blease's big Chalmers. The going was fine for the greater part of the first 15 miles and we made that in just 30 minutes. From there on to Chapin the road is worse than I have ever seen it, even away back when ?I was but a kid and went along with the wagon teams when the cotton and produce from this scetion was hauled to Columbia on wagons. The Richland county chain gang is camped along the road and is working out the Richland end of it, and where it is worked the driving is fine. Just before we reached Chapin, along down where all the red clay is, we ran into a heavy rain and it was some eoine to ?et over the red mud. We found two >cars held up with punctured tires and it raining as hard as you ever saw it. But we got by and over the red hills and came into Chapin, due largely to the good driving of Rastus Eison, and, by the way, he is a good driver, and theiyhe had a good car, but she did slide around pretty lively over that red clay. But there was no rain at Chapin. And very little on to Newberry. The distance from the Jefferson Hotel to Chapin is 24.1 miles. ?o? After leaving Chapin under the advice of Dr. G. Y. Hunter and Dr. J. S. Wheeler at Prosperity we came around by Piney Woods church and up the Bush river road to Prosperity, 1 to avoid the bad road between Chai pin ana Little Mountain, as well as ; the fresh worked, or rather the road that is now being worked between Little Mountain and Prosperity. The distance is verv little if any further ' than by Little Mountain. And the greater part of the road is very good as roads go in this section of the I world. I kept a log book on the i road but have misplaced it, but I i think it is less than 14 miles this way from Chapin to Prosperity and by Little Mountain the distance is a little more than 13 miles, so there is very little difference, so little that you can't count it. If that Lexington supervisor is going to baild this road so as to keep , these good people in Lexington county, as the Lexington News-Dispatch says he is going to do, he had , better get busy, because they are coming over into Newberry unanimously, and that very soon. The , road from Chapin to Little Mountain j will have to be relocated if there is ' ever to be a road over which you can travel. It could be easily located so as to cut out the heavy hills and the | swamps and not increase the distance. We.hope to see this done i sometime very soon. It would cost j too much to build any sort of road -* ? -L J T J T 1 j over tne present. roau ucu. ? uavc i been writing about roads and telling j of the defects and talking about the i split log drag and self help and co: operation with the county officials i now for a long time, many years. I i am going to write a series of articles j on the maintenance and building of roads for Newberry county before j long, and I am going to make some suggestions for betterment of the roads and their maintenance which 3 think are practical and within the reach of the pocket book of our neo' J -1- AT-'-. __I pie. i am going id go cms just us soon as I can get the data that-'] ? f i want. , ?o? i The distance from the Jefferson j Hotel in Columbia to the Newberry ; j postoffice by the route we came as 11 stated above is even 44 miles, so , you see there is very little difference , i in the roads. And by the way, there ( . is one mOre suggestion that I want; , to make before I quit the Columbia . | road, and it is that Suprevisor Sam- j j pie please do something right away j i on the road from Prosperity to New- j j berry. Why even the new road that j ; he cut out so as to avoid road cross- i j ings is nailed and barred up at either; | end and the people have to go around | by the old road. They say it is im-, i possible to travel the new road. Cer- j j tainly the supervisor could find time . I enough to put th's much traveled ; road in at least passable condition,' | and I mean by that in such condition ! that we could drive over it. Please S do this right away, Mr. Supervisor. j i We made the trip in two hours i and fifty minutes, and that included j stops of at least 15 minutes, and it ! was good riding even over the bad i road due to a good driver at the ! wheel and a good car. ; ?0? J It was some change to get out of ' | this big car yid hook up 111, but; ; this is what I did, because I had I j promised to be at Mt. Bethel-Gar- j ? 1 * * T . many at 7 o'ciock, ana as soon as in could get some of the dust out of myj eyes I hooked up and loaded the two American boys and their mother and off to Mt. Bethel-Garmany we went to keep an appointment to encourage the organization of lay by; schools. We did not have a very large \ crowd but we enjoyed being with I them and talking over the importance j of reducing the illiteracy in the white population in Newberry county. Dr. W. C. Brown and Miss Ola Brown also made talks to the folks and after that was over we all enjoyed the j picnic which w^s spread in the beau- j | iful yard at this school. Gn our way j back we stoppecKwith our friends Mr. i j and Mrs. B. B. Leitzsey and Mrs. ; I Leitzsey anticipating our stopping! j and our coming and knowing our j ' 1J ^ ctwac A Tintll i WyUKllCbb, iiciu a tauic ?? ? some of that fine cpuntry ham for J which she is famous, and so we ate i some more, and the wonder is?well, I the good eats that the people of this.j county know how to fix up so well I .never make any one feel ill from in- j duluging. This Mt. Bethel-Garmany community is a fine section of the county j and the people are alive to the best j interest of the community, and the I good school they have erected in their midst is evidence of their progressive spirit. They have painted the building and it' helps greatly, i Now they need to instal some light- [ ing system, because that is very im. portant to any country school, because so often you desire to and should use the school building for various kinds of meetings and it is so nice to have good lights that are not dangerous and inconvenient as are the old kerosene lamp. The drive against adult illiteracy j which is being made under the direc-; tion and supervision of Miss Sadie ! Goggans and Miss Ola Browp in this county should have the hearty co ^11 nrkAnl A On/I AG. 1 [ operation ox an uui pcu^itj unu vu pecially should those whom it is in- | tended primarily to help welcome the ii opportunity gladly and attend every j session of the school. But it will l help the entire community. Even the meeting that was held at the school house on Tuesday afternoon did good. It got the people together irand they talked pleasantly with one j another and they came to know each other better and good will flow from this little gathering even if there should be no class organized in this district. E. H. A. inr?i A Man's Job. Two charming damsels met in the street one afternoon and at once greeted each other with rapturous I kisses. "Another injustice," said a passing youth, just demobilized, to his I friend. "More unfair competition." ' | "What on earth do you mean?" , exclaimed his companion. "Why, there's another case of women doing a man's job." VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. At $25.00 per acre. To settle an estate, 400 acres in Newberry county, within one and one-half miles of Blairs, on Southern railway, lying on Broad and Enoree j | rivers. One hundred acres in extra j i! good timber; 50 in pasture; 80 in | cultivation. Sand loam with clay ; | subsoil. Fourteen miles from Poma;jria; 16 miles from Newberry. Six-j : j room dwelling house; 3 tenant houses ^ : j 3 barns; other out-buildings. One-j : i half cash, balance on terms. Come and see?better than writing. jJ ; j Thomas P. Adams, Executor, j . | Biairs, S. C. j j ;, Eugene S. Blease, Attorney, j 1 ; S-l-4t. Newberry, S. C.'j JUST REC Timwrn i unnir All Var Original P STREET i uii cuiu ai u August 4, 191S I. duty will be re< I i out the pene making a total E. L.RODELS Chi ! DO YOU NEED i WE HAV DO YOU NEED WE HAVE! I We carry in stock frc I ferent makes of buggi you in the make of youi the High Point, the' Br ! others. I The Piedmont and ( ons. None better. . Prices correct. Bett ! lection now while we ha I Moline Mowers and Ka] [ It takes money to buy what you need from yo The Pun I Newberry, OIL MILLS AND CC We have a large stock of Cotton Frame made by Howe Scale Co. Alf We carry everything in the way o: er Belt. Large stock Pump Jacks, us on some of our Special Friction service almost equal to Leather Belt COLUMBIA SU 823 West Gervais Street 1 "There is a use for everything in ^ his world." ' tee, "So? Well, tell me the use of a f0r jealous wife.,; plat "Certainly. If there were no cor jealous wives, how do you suppose eve: lomely stenographers could get P^s jobs??Galveston Tribune. \ pub V \ ; ZEIVED iNDRETH'S SEED | ieties I 'ackages I # DUTY HHBHHHBHIHHHHflHHflB *4 . / \ < er Monday, j . >, no street 'V :eived withJty, $2.00, : of $5.00. ' PFRCF.R. t . t r a* i ter or roiice > Tmn ? r E IT A WAGON? < 0 T TOO >m two to four difes and can please i choice. We have 'own and several "Ihattanooera Wasr- [ w x w er make your seve 'em. Also have kes. Save the hay. it. Better gather ur own farm. :ell Go. j S.C. I )TTON MILLS j 1 Beam Scales complete with so lot of Cotton Trucks. j f Rubber, Gandy and Leath- j Pumps, and Cylinders. Try Surface Belt, will give you ? PPLYCO. Columbia, S. C. . Jewell City woman had all her :h pulled and had to stay at home weeks while waiting for her x. Just as she was ready to te forth looking younger than r, a new tooth came through and hed her plate out;?Jewell B2- 4 liVan. . i