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?t Mi ?rai Altered at the Postoffice at New. i J fe?rry, 8. Cn as 9md class matter. - - - , K. H. AFLL, EDITOK, ] " / m - _ ? -XT 1 1 1 imn JLuesa3y,,i>ovemot;r ai, iviv. fiAKEUP. , The election on the bond issues 1 ^will be held today, Tuesday. Do not13 fail to attend and cast your ballot, ] for the advancement and progress j of the town, wJbiqh means that you j must vote for t&je fconds, and when : i the debts are wippd out we want to! < vote some more bonds so as to get, t the monev to build some streets in i 1 the good old town, 1 < Newberrians who visit at Green-1 ] wood or Abbeville or .?ny of the j other live towns in thi? ^reat Pied- j t mont section can not "help saying, j \ why is it that Newberry does not; c keep pace with these live towns in ,i the matter of street improvement,; t and this street improvement *n these | s towns is telling very effectively in, i the matter of the growth of the j s towns in other very improtant re- j c spects. The only reason we can giye f in answer to this question is, that 11 our people need tp be waked up, ; e They are asleep to their own hurt,! a Every one will tell you that there! c is no better town anywhere than \ t Newberry, and it is true. The peo-!c pie are the best, the business men j ** are the equal of any, the ..farmers ;t are-among the best in the Stater In 9 the matter of intelligence there is j none to excel, and then why do we! not^wake up and do something. | Time was when Newberry was the j. . largest town in the State above Columbia. Time was when Greenwood i was but a hamlet compared to New-11 berry. ^ Newberry should get the , step and keep time with the prog-: ress of the age. In order to do so11 she must spend some money and then some more money on her, streets and on other improvements! that afe greatly needed. Go out and vote, the bond issues \ proposed so as to wipe out the" debts < that "now exist and give the council i the leeway to impose more taxes to s wnintt AYTkPtf&es of the 1 ya.j vxiv, ^ r ? t town, and then get ready for more < money to make needed improve- 1 j mentis. .Now is the time to act. ; ^ ... * ~ v !i t KIND OF MEMORIAL ^ "This movement is a State move-]* ment and not one that has anything < to do with tiie University of South 1 Carolina. j < 'The Memorial Building, not a 1 chape, is to be beautiful in design and i architecturally a gem, - to face on' i Main street, on State property, and ! i the approach to it will be from' * Main street and not from the Univer- 1 sity grounds. \l "The building will be a half of j 1 archives under the care of the State i Historical Commission. It will be a j monument to those who made the: supreme sacrifice and the names with : the records of every white South: Carolinian who fell will be in-1 scribed in bronze and the deeds of all; who served, civil as well as military, "will be recorded there. "In this Memorial Building will be an auditorium where veterans of this j " t- -1JI ^4. j war and otner wars can noiu uiecu-, ings. The building will be distinctly j! non-utilitarian but commemorative j' and will be distinctly a memorial to i1 " those who served fn the war." ?' f We are glad to see the above an- i' nouncement. v The Herald and News : some time ago, in speaking of the memorial, suggested that it should not be built on the college campus, . but should be placed^ on some of ihe j university property Which faced on I Main street so that the people going j to Columbia could not help seeing it.! * And besides, then no one could say j that it was part of the State univer- j sity, but would ieei tnai it was really a State memorial. If it had! been placed on the college campus . very few people would have had | opportunity, or at least would not have taken the trouble to go there. It should be in fact a State memorial. This action of the commission car- . ries out the idea of the legislature j to place the building on some of the college property, and yet takes it away from the campus and makes it easy of access to the people who will visit to the city. It should be a - * it J i i _ _ place wnere an xne peopie may go and be easy of access. The people should be glad to contribute to stich a building to perpetuat the deeds of the boys who went over there, and every one should - esteem it a privilege to have part in the building and to feel whenever he j gees to Columbia and looks on the! memorial that he had contributed; something to its erection, however j small the amount may be. If the ! amount pays for only one brick so much*the better. It would be bet-' ter if the confcribr.t'cv.s wer* suCi-: ciently numerous tha~ euea one p~i'i >. yi;lv a part. It wcnld iLc n be * / ? * * L??tmmmm?mm?mtmmrmm 9 in reality the people's building and . i memorial erected by the people. Another good thin;* the commis-' sion has done is not to consider any if the proposals to make it an utili-! tarian building, bat a strictly memorial building where the records of the : soldiers may be kej3t and where the ; * - - 4..* e: people may go lor iniormatiun cuji- : ;erning the great world war. Mr. B. C. Matthews and his cotji -; r^ttees in Newberry are going to ' raise the portion that is expected from Newberry, and if yon have not pet taken a part do not wait' any longer but see Mr. Matthews at o- t. We regret that we will ha-. 1 ibandon *the idea of getting ou<. Christmas edition which we had con- j ;emplated and for which we had already secured the advertising. We lesire to thank the business men of j dewberry for the readiness with irVii/>Vi tVioTr aoTPPrl tn t.alcp ^sr>?p.e in ,f wv. -W -X ;hat edition of the paper. In fact ; ve had 'orders for a sufficient amount >f advertising to warrant the printng of a 40 page paper, but owing to; he amount of job work at the office ind the scarcity of help it will be mpossible for us to undertake the J ipeci'al edition. We regret this be- i :ause we had planned to get out a f ine paper, but just now the office s short of help in tho mechanics!. ind and there is a limit to the: i imount of physical endurance even >f a printer, and we have to give up 1 he idea of getting out the issue as :ontemplated. Practically every business man hat^ we approached readily bought pace and we regret that the pro- j ect has to be abandoned. * i Today is the first anniversary of he signing of the armistice which neant the cessation of fighting in the ' greatest war in all recorded history. SVe are still at war but it is hoped j Knt it will rtnt he so lone^ before the jeace treaty is ratified. It would De a fine celebration of the signing >f the armistice for the senate to go ilong and ratify the peace treaty. 1 ?m We notice from our local column ;hat the new recorder had the first speeder before hifti the other day. We do not know just what the jpeed limit is in Newberry, but we biow that there are a great many jars and drivers besides the one before the recorder that are going through our narrow streets at a nuch greater speed than is good for : ;he safety of the pedestrian and >thers as well. And from the acci- i ients of which we read it does seem 1 Jiat no one is safe even if he is m the sidewalk, because it was over lere at Greenville just the other day j ffhere a car mounted the sidewalk i ukUkilled one man and seriously! Injured another, and. the two were j landing there engaged in conversa- j ;ion feeling no doubt that they were it least safe so long as they "were on, ;he sidewalk and not at a street! crossing. But the automobile has all rnflrfo and thiners that are not roads : for its own in this day. Very few lars in this town give any attention to the stop signs at street crossings,' md as for the speed limit if there is t my it must be- the limit of the car. j Fortunately we have had no acci-! ients. Another thing, how about that ordinance as to the cut outs? Some- j bimes in these .offices fronting on a j street you can not hear yourself or each other think for the noise of the : cut out. But thfs is a strenuous age, in ' which we live and one must keep out of the way if he does not want to be run over. j The world "is groping about just j now,, trying to reduce the cost of living by increasing wages and lessen- j ing production; both nations and in dividuals are hard at it cutting down the tree in order to get the apples.i When sanity returns, they will dis- j cover that neither nations nor in-: dividuals can live unto themselves, but that their interests all hang together on one and the same apple j tree, with its many limbs and. branches." This sentence expresses a great I f-rntli and strange to sav our great men and leaders seem not to see it. The great cry is to increase pay j to meet the high cost of living and at! the same time cut down the hours for work which necessarily cuts down production, and the truth is the only way to reduce the cost of; living is to increase production. But maybe after awhile the world, will return to sanity and get down, to ordinary and simple rules of life and of living. Until it does this1 great unrest is going to continue and we will be in a state "that there is I no telling what the result may be. It would be well if we could but hark back to at , least some of the good old wuys of life and of living. The rale is simple. The only way to settle all these disturbances is to idcpt the Golden lisle and whan we come to deal wuh one anof'-sr disyued ground to make an honest otjv.rt to oufe vbuoself It? the 0V4 r~* ZcVui o p*'aee c.nl v.zl V* \* 1 w - n 'i C ^" ' tcC> . :? ' * were reversed. That is a simple rule but it seems to be hard of application in this day of unrest and nervous strain. SOMETHING ABOUT KIDS. We ask you to read an article by Herbert Corey which we reproduce from The State. J. T. Thomas, who is head of the Granada bank out in Mississippi, gave the boys and girls of that county a tryout. and by so, doing put the county on the map and put the older people as well as the ikids to thinking and doing something that is worth while. We have always >een of the opinion that the best way j develop sturdy and worth while maiihood and womanhood was to trust the -boys and girls and put them on their Jionor, so to speak, and that this thing *>f not trusting any one and requiring every one who wanted to get something and to secure some help so ?bat he might really do some-' thing was the same as going on the principle that every one was a rascal and guilty of something wrong, in- i stead of the old doctrine that every one is presumed to he innocent and honest until the contrary is proven. I Whenever you require every one who wants some help to put up twice the amount you are going to let him have, it is virtually7 saying to him - Uiwm %/! 1^/v r\ntrc tTAii umv JfUU UUUUt aiiu lie j/ajo ^uu simply because he feels that he is obliged to. do so. . We mean to saythat such a plan has that tendency. Of course, we do not mean to say that a man must be careless with what he has accumulated and simply throw it away, but if we would trust our boys and girls just a little more and let them understand that character and honesty and integrity would onnnt for iust a little in the com mercial world as an assst, it would develop a higher type of manhood ard womanhood. This man Thomas, according to the story undertook to help every boy and girl in the county, who was willing to go into it, each boy torbuy a pig and each girl a pen of. chickens, and the result was that there was not a real defaulter in the lot. it is stated that one of them died and in. one case the pig died, but all of them paid up the stake with interest, and * i i .1 _ ? _ the girls, it is stated, maae on an average $52.43 after paying off the note or stake furnished by Mr. Thomas, and the boys made on an average $75.00. One bay made from his pig $125. And more than that, each one was given a new vision with a determination to do something and be something. And it is stated that an equally important result was that it aroused the men oT the county to the realization of the fact that the county could prosper even if the boll weevil had come. We suggested to a banker of this town the idea of trying a similar plan here several years ago. Take young men of character and integrity and help them to get a start and to get a home and take their character as the greater part of the collateral, and if he had done so we do not believe that he would have' lost a dollar, and greater than .that he would have helped many a young man to become a home owner and a good substantial citizen, vand would have helped his county. Of course the thing could nnt. he done indiscriminately. But the point of printing the article referred to and the writing of this article is to say that even with the boll weevil actually in our midst it is not an unmixed "evil. There may be some good in it if it will only teacb us not to depend absolutely and entirely upon cotton. The story referred to in the above was printed several issues back and we hope every one read it. The editorial above written and put in type for the same issue but had to give way fo rads. i CENSUS INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD "FARM" | Washington, Nov. 3.?What is a farm ? / | Seems a foolish question to ask, doesn't it? Almost anyone can tell off-hand just what a farm is and ?'nov.rs one when he sees it. But do you happen to know the interpretation Uncle Sam places on the word "farm" for census purposes? No? Then read how his Bureau of Census defines the word: I "A farm for census purposes is all the land which is directly farmed by one person conducting agricultural operations, either by his own labor or with the assistance of members of his household or hired employees." In further explanation of this definition the Census Bureau points out that the term "agricultural operations" is used as a general term re >ferring to the work of growing crops, producing other agricultural products and raising domestic animals, poultry or bees. Prom tills definition it will be seen that a fc.rm may consist of a single of land or of a number of rvrd distinct traces. And ! ' % Sou M /v & V NOVEMBER 11,1 Loyal, true, p duty as nobly as t gave their liver; v ate their mem one cause? - Think of it. died that you and dom we have, wit been called upon war. . ; For this we and we are due t< privilege of contr; ' \ ' W Let everyone by subscribing, ar amount subscribe \ I ? c v ? v j ' under different tenures as, for in-11 stance, when one tract is owned by 1 : the farmer and another is rented by ] | him. Thus i? a man who owns 100 i acres rents an additional ten acres 1 from some one else and operates both ! the 100 acres and the ten acres, then J his "farm" includes both tracts of land comprising 110 acres. By the sarne .token when a landj owner has one or more terints, ren- 1 Iters, croppers or managers, each ^ j different tract of land operated by ( any such tenant, renter, cropper or ! manager, is considered * a. separate and distinct farm by the Census ! Bureau. Or, to give an example, if a man owning 120 acres of land rents - 2 j 40 acres to a tenant and farms the ! remaining 80 acres himself, his farm is the 80 acres which he operates not < !the 120 acres whitrh he owns, while ] the 40 acre tract which he rents to ' a tenant comprises a separate farm j to be reported in the name of the tenant. i Another question to be determined j is how important does an agricul tural enterprise have to be in order to secure recognition in the census oo o -fn-rm? A small vegetable crar-( MU U> ??* - - -0 ^ den or a chicken yard accomodating a few busy hens will not be allowed ; to qualify as a "farm" in the census ;no matter with what pardonable ! pride and satisfaction the proprietor j may view his agricultural enterprise. ; But if the garden or chicken yard ; expands until it covers not less than j three acres of ground, or until it requires for its care the continuous services of at least one person, or yields products annually to the value of! $250 or more, it comes within the j : census definition of a farm and will i be recognized as such and counted. The agriculture schedule contains many questions regarding farm values, expenses and live stock as 1 i well as the average and quantity of \ crops raised in the year 1919. Cen- j sus Bureau officials are urging far- j mers everywhere to prepare for the i census enumerator by looking over ! their books and records so that | accurate answers may be furnished ! to questions. f i In this connection the Bureau of | the Census emphasizes the fact that j the information furnished to census ' takers is absolutely confidential, made ! f so by Act of Congress, and that un-,: der no circumstances can any such j information'be used as a basis for,, taxation. "Cooperation between farmers and the census officials next January is more necessary and viial than ever before/' dcclarcs Diruclor oi? the Con- . i > rial Coram 1918 NOV: ?a trio tic Newberriai he men did who w< /hat will you contri js? Can you name Their lips are seal< 11 might enjoy the hout which you an to pay the entire cc should be thankfi -t o avail ourselves * ibuting something s get on the Honor id notify the treasi d. o B. G Mat reasurer and Coun Mrs. L W Chairman Woman's sus Sam L.' Rogers. "The worlc war and the part that the farmei played in it and will continue to plaj in the rehabilitation of Europe serv( bo make the agriculture section of th< Fourteenth Decennial Census th< most important in the nation's histon Absolute accuracy and completeness in the census returns is the goal to ward which every citizen shoul< 3trive." SAVE AUTUMN LEAVES. Best Soil Builder Known Is Nature' Own Compost. -f Atlanta Constitution.. There is more truth than poetry ii the statement 01 a contemporary wu? said that people who burn all thei: leaves and then spend money for com mercial fertilizer need to have thei heads attended to." The time is close at hand in thi latitude when autumn leaves' wil cover the ground, each day's fall be ing a matter of dread to the smal boy whose duty it will be to kee] walks and Awns free from the trees discarded habiliments. The traditional and customar; manner of disposing of autumi i ~ ~ ~ nlnffor fVio ctvrppfrs am ICClVCD L11C4U V/lUbVVii V"v ??? private grounds is to rake them int? piles and set fire to them; but tha constitutes only another proof of ou lack of thrift. Leaves contain every element tha is necessary in the development o floral life. For that reason they cai be converted into the best fertilize known. The process is very simple, further more, consisting merely in letting decay. Piled, or. better still, dumped int< a pit, and permitted to rot by nature'; own process of decomposition, leave; become what the gardeners call com post?a commodity of rare valu< both as a fertilizer and a permanen soil builder. Put on the land and spaded in, thi, compost not only supplies all the ele ments of plant food, but, in additioi to plant growth, it puts humus int< the soil?vegetable matter -that aid in the conservation of moisture an< in keeping the ground loose an< friable, thus aiding root development All of which proparties are lost? with the exception of the noncom bustible mineral ingredients?whej the leaves are burned instead of re turned co the : >il. 'The richest type of so;'i known i; teaf moid, which is fo^ed b? ? ^ ! ( kimo, iiim nission ^ EMBER II, 1919 \ as, let us do our ^1 m this war. They bute to perpeta- Uj a more worthy * . ;d in death. They Hhertie* ?nrl . mm mm* w m w?*-ww MM id I would have ^ >st of the world \ *' ' " Lilly appreciative, :>f the honorable ! ubstantial. '; i-'^K r* w a A M m 1 Subscription Koll urer immediately -. a thews, ty Chairman. Floyd, Committee. ^ L nature's process of making compost r of the fallen leaves. [ THE FARM. ? i . u (From The New York Times.); 5 nvi mm % ? ? ine iarm s a pleasant place? . 7 There are the beasts I love; B 7 I White calf and spotty pig, " Gay cock and gleaming dove, A thousand golden bees?^ _ 7^-" ' My pride and care are .these! Yet I would slip away Up yonder woody hill, s As up a magic stair, ^ Pale green and wondrous still? Fair, when birds built in May, 1 Fair, now they've "flown away. i 3 For where 'neath birchen bough r Tarried, most delicate _ And gay, the violets, r Now blue, now yellow?where sate; Green lilies lightly down, s Softly of May winds blown. 1 # _ Now purple flowers droop 1 Like quaint dames listening ' 3 J^eneath a gallery * ,? Where sweet the minstrels.? sing,. ? 1 Briars of Michaelmas . v, , ^ Above them in the grass. - \ i! 2 j Where April showers come | So fair one scarce believes J That rain like that can fall So drab from cottage eaves, r White clouds stray hither and yon? How lonely every one! t i f | Uphill I see those clouds, 1J Mirthful at harvest-tide, r j Bidding me clean forget j Cares in the valley that bide. ; The'farm is good, but stui ? 1 Tis better up the hill! | ??NNE W. YOUNG. * S | Bees Took Carload of Sugar. s j Near the station of Fontainebleau, - j France, a carload of crystallized b sugar was held up and within four fc days the entire load had disappeared in spite of the guards. s Not far from the station at Avon, - there are large bee farms, and while i the bees covered the car in swarms 3 no one supposed that they could car 1 XT s i ry away the crystanizea sugar. i\or i could they. But industrious and ini ; genious they betook themselves to J* nearby basins and fountains and car_: ried drops of water to melt the sug_iar! The dampened sugar formed a l' syrup that was easily transported to . | the hives. igi 3! Subscribe to The Herald and j _ News, ?2.00 a year. J V