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T Ihr ||rnilfl fipj Brai ? Entered at the Postorfice at Newb?rry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, May IS, 1920. In these dry and dusty days we would like to suggest that the city : give the streets a good soaking after they have been plowed up by the road machine and thus make it less a terror to have to work along side one that !???*. vn/innfliT Koon n 1 TV QTlrl npH ] liao XCV^llUJ UV.VA1 " VV4 * ?% wv?.r The dust makes it impossible to keep the place clean and a good place in' which to live. We notice that the county of Sum- j ter has just voted a bond issue for * road building of $2,500,000. That is the biggest yet. Now if they have j provided some way of maintenance of j the roads it will be worth while to. spend this large sum of money on :, roads, but if they have not then the ;; money will not be wisely spent. No j use to build roads unless you provide j for their maintenance. The chain gang moved down into j, the new territory, that is new as part of Newberry, about a week ago and is ( at work on the main roads in that ^ section, and they need it. The road j ^ from Little Mountain to Chapin1 ^ should be relocated so as to avoid j some of the big grades and bad t places, and it could be located so that the grade would be good and the road bed all right. ' * . ?. We would suggest that you read ( what Judge Prince says to the jurors - - - * ' ' J ?1 I * at Anderson aDout oemg e-u-useu, anu > on what grounds he will excuse' jurors. And what he says about discipline in the schools, and he might have added in many of the homes of the land. The child who is not disciplined in his youth will find it very difficult to suhmit to discipline when j he grows up, and truly says the judge ; "Knowledge without discipline is a j r dangerous thing." / _ I' The road out toward Longshores is j * ' now in good condition and if it had | * a; split log drag run over it so as to c take out the holes made by the one s track it would be fine the rest of the c summer. But the road from New- ^ berry to Silverstreet is about as c rough as we have seen it in many r moons. The county should have about * four road machines like the one the s town has bought, and if they should a be kept at work we would have some J < passable roads, and then let the chain gang build concrete bridges, and * soon; we would be rid of the broken * bridges across all the small streams ^ and water ways in the roads. / It seems to us that 'there is some provision in the traffic ordinance fix- v ing the age limit for children who are n driving automobiles, but then may be v we are mistaken, just as we were about the driving to the right provision. But it is very certain unless *' there are some sort of regulations oe- t sides the parking of cars on the y proper streets made and enforced j ' there is going to be some serious n accidents from the manner of the i: driving in this town at this time, a Drive to any side of the street and t turn the corner at any side of the s street and at any rate of speed and a any spfeed up and down the street, g providance will not continue to pro- f tect tlje people who have to walk t across-the streets and who try to , drive with some .care. } 9 We have been looking for it, and it came, but we didn't see it. Two < cars ran into one another on Sun- ] day afternoon at the corner of Cald- < well and Boundary streets and were i < made fit for the dump piTe, but fortu-j ] nately no one was hurt. This reck-'' less careless driving: is going to de-!' mand a heavy toll and the cars are getting so plentiful now that unless there are some sane and sensible1] traffic? regulations adopted and ob-i served it will be unsafe for the care- i * i mi. _ f ful driver to get into tne roaa. me majority of people in this day have < very little regard for the rights of the other fellow. In fact they act ! on the principle that the other fel- , low has no rights worth while. No j use to make rules and regulations. \ < however, unless some little regard is ! to be paid them. Better have none,. for then every fellow will be on' notice to take care of himself regardless of regulations. j: mm I President Wilson has thrown down the gauntlet of battle for the Democratic party in the approaching campaign. He says that the honor of the nation is in the hands of the democratic party and that it is bound to stand by the peace treaty and the league of nations as agreed upon at A r>/? versames, ami ae i=? m:.m. .-nui <the pj?rf.y will make that the battle cry ami go before the people with a f rood strong candidate success will be |, ;ure. The people of this countrv have !; enough of war, and our boys who ! 1 '.vent to the front, many of them never to come home again, fought for ; ihe principles of universal peace and . that this would be an end of war, and ; 1 the only way in which to bring this;: about is to form the association of . nations, and see to it through this < association, by whatever name called,1 ] that the strong shall not oppress the ' j weak, and that the rights of the little i' nations shall be respected by the big ones, and this country, the home of1; democratic principles, should be the leader in the world peace, and we be-' < lieve that the American people are ] gt>ing to stand squarely behind Presi-11 dent Wilson. ! j i i 1 J SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOP-: ] ____ MENT BOARD. At the call of Gov. Cooper and \ President Jordan of the Press asso-J ciation a number of the editors of the 1 State met at the Jefferson hotel in i Columbia on Tuesday to get infor- 1 mation about the plans and purposes 1 of the South Carolina Development 1 Board. A brief account of the meeting is ^ published from the Columbia State of :1 Wednesday. ji The plans of the organization as 1 ive understand them are to advertise I he resources and advantages of South i Carolina and to get the different in- 1 :erests in the State to cooperate for t ;he advantage of the whole, and to \ ind a market for what we produce, f md then to produce a sufficient quan- 1 ity to supply the demand. . 1 It was stated that about one-half Iv >f the land in South Carolina at pre-j sent is non-Droductive. j ( - None of those intereste din this c organization are to be the benefici- ( tries directly of any of the things { hat may be accomplished. In other f ?ords it is purely a patriotic service j he men back of the enterprise are 2 0 render, and they will be benefited i mly as the whole State is to be the 4. ecipients of the work accomplished. 1 rhat statement is made so that the )eople may have their minds disibused of the idea that the promoters * ire actuated by motives of self-' j iggrandizement, as there are always t hose ready to assign sinisters mo- t ives to any one who undertakes to t lo something for the general welfare.' c The idea is first to clean up your p >wn house and then let the outside j vorld know that you are ready to re-1 ^ eive them. That is to say, to make \c eady to do things yourself and then ( et the others know what you have \ ind thus produce a market for it,! md a desire to come in and help ou. ia Properly managed, as it will likely j >e, this organization should be able 5 TV*omr tTllTlOrft for South ' 4. V VIV* UiCWJjr 6wvv? ?( t Carolina. ? ' 0 % - ? ; b OCONEE AND ANDERSON. g This is not exactly the subject on i rhich I am going to make a few re- j h narks, but it will give some idea of "w ;hat I am going to say, possibly. j tl Sometimes I have felt that you o 'could point a moral," or "adorn a s ale" by making observations of what c ou may hear and see in going about h ust as well as in any other way, if h lot a little better. And frequently S n traveling on the train or in the i f :utomobile there are many things n hat I see and hear that at the time t ! I een&rto me to be good for a story, A aid possibly the telling might help f ome one, and for that reason I have r 'requently written stories Of trips t hat I have been called upon to make, i \t any rate here goes on a trip I g lad occasion to take last week. a ?o? a I left Newberry on Thursday aft- t irnoon via the Southern for Walhal- t i a as I had to make a trip out in the : ?ountry to look after some matters :onnnected with the counting of .the 1 people of fhis district. I arrived in ( Walhalla about 10 o'clock at night. 1 Thorp Vinf? hoen a freight wreck on 1 the Blue Ridge which delayed the < train a little in making: transfer of ? passengers. ' ?o? ? , i I rather like to go to Walhalla. 1 The people are always nice and clev- ; er and make you feel at home. Then 1 this is one of the best counties in < South Carolina. Every time I go I i am more and more impressed with ] the fine farm lands and magnificent : country places, and the prosperous 1 looking homes all through the moun- < tain section, and in the other sections i ? ?TJ-iit? f vi-r? m a in the ' d W C'li* X Uio bl vvsva* Oakway section, or to be .specific* .? into Center township. Early Friday \ morning my brother, the Rev. W. B. j Aull, hooked up his Buick; fby .the ! i way all the brothers have Buicks now except the editor, and we drove down to Westminster and from there on I down to Oakway some three miles < distant. ' And talk about roads, but these' roads in this section are fine, and they have just voted bonds for the county to make them even better.1 And the farms have a prosperousi " look and the lands are fertile and the j homes and surroundings make one ' feel good just to look upon them,' thnf if he over felt like he " ----- could ler.ve good old Newberry right j lo this section he would go. There is no better section of South Carolina.; At Westminster we stopped to inquire the way and Mr. 0. \V. Pitts kindly consented to go along and point out the road. On the way; back I had to stop long enough in j Westminster to shake hands with Editor Gossett of the Tugaloo Tribune. He is getting along fine but said he would be so busy with his pa- j per and his farming that he could j ! ?L Procs accnriat.ion ! I Iiut w C L Ull L-y 111C JL 1V.UO MWWWV?*.. I as the meeting came about the time i be had to arrange for the harvest of j his wheat and oat crops. j Speaking about these lands and the j fine farms Mr. W. 0. Pitts who was in ;he car with us pointed out one fine farm which had been settled some one sundred years ago and said that the j grandson of the first settler lived ;here now and that his grandfather * <? -Ll- - 1 J nought a thousand acres 01 tne i<mu 'or one muzzle loading rifle. The land ;oday I suppose would sell for somehing like $200 the acre if you could Duy it at all. And yet in that day )ossibly the old rifle was worth more n the making of a living than all the and of that section because he could ;ake the old rifle and go out in the j voods anywhere around about and , ind sufficient game upon which to j ive, and he could not work all the and. ?o? While in his office I met Miss Ethel founts of Prosperity who is the .^...,4-.. ^^wi/%nc'f'rafinri app nt for . U U11 LJ UCUit/uukiuu.v.. ?0 )conee county. Go wherever you )lease in this country and you will ind some one from Newberry and rou always find them doing things md making good just as Miss Counts s doing in Oconee. The people genIrally speak in the highest terms of ler work over there. ?o? One thing that struck me in trav iling through the "country for tne | >ast several days is that the crops up his side seem to be in better condiion and further advanced than down his way. There are good stands of | otton and the lands have been well i repared, but I was sorry not to see nore corn planted, but maybe they rill plant that later. The stands of :ottonv are fine in that section of )conee and in Anderson through . vhich I drove on this trip. ? r t ?. The drive covered about 50 miles nd we got back to Walhalla about 2 o'clock and in order to get home al !o+?*/iatr hv noon I eot my brother jth '?WUi w o drive me to Anderson, a distance as f 38 miles,, in the afternoon. To G: aake this trip we drove through th leneca and Clemson College. The of oads in Anderson are not as good, as ft n Oconee, though they are now at tv rork building some roads, and when A hey get through they will have fine d? oads in Anderson. The worst part to f the road from Walhalla to Ander- sa on is on the Walhalla side of the th ollege, and by the way I believe that to j in Oconee county. It is a shame to at ??u ? fVirnncrh this fine hf l&VC 5UCU a iuau VU4 v *-0.. tate property. Clemson is a beauti- if ul place but the road for a-mile. or I lore on the Oconee side is as bad as th he worsfr road in Newberry county, to Lnd it should seem to me that in this ta ine property there should be the A nodel road of the State. I suppose! tc he college authorities can not help A t, but I just thought if they would w jet in behind the county authorities a? ind impress upon them the import- ir tnce of a model road in 2nd around p; his farmer college that may be tl hey could get something done for it. m Anderson is going after the road ! Duilding in the right way. In all the ! rounties in which I have traveled all I he small bridges and the large ones | ;oo are in a dilapidated condition,' :ither already broken down or nearly '0, that they are dangerous to cro?s. fn Anderson where they are build-; ng roads they are putting up concrete bridges and they will be there as long is the road is needed, and even if they cost more will be cheaper and safer in the long run. They are build- j ing them over the small streams and 1 little ditches and also over the larger. streams, and why should we not do j the same thing. And tnen wnen it ( b ;omes to the road they are relocating and grading them regardless of the j rocks that may have to be dug out and blasted, and instead of grade! crossings at the railroads they are j going under the road or over the top,! =o that all grade crossings may be re- j moved, and that is right. In passing I might Fay that Mr. Ben M. Anil a son of Mr. William B. Aull formerly of Newberry is a member of the road commission for Anderson cour.ty. j -o- ; Y>Te took in & jkuii jusL r,c?yre we j readied Clemscn who liad had a col- jj lision ar.d was going: down on foot to ^ Clemson to get some one to go out 1 \ ' ? We have in securir following Haynes, and can offei for Seventeei dred and Eigl your door, one year fre cars on hand deliverv-also now have in i If in market I glad to give y v XT A c r rNewDerry, j. At Haddan Auto Co. id bring in his car. He said he was om Greenwood and I.-asked him )out Greenwood and he said it was le finest town in the State. I then sked him what the ' population of - - ? ' i*. i reenwood is and he promptly repnea at it was 10,000, just about the size ! Anderson, he added. Just a little irther dowri. the roa:d we picked up iro other men who wanted to %o to nderson. I asked them about Anirson and they said it was the finest wn in all the country. One man id he had traveled every State in e union and Anderson was the best wn he had ever seen. I asked him >out the population of the town and i promptly replied ^nat it was 5,000. I didn't tell either party who was or what I was doing. I mention lis to point the moral that o^e way i help a town is, if you live in it, to/ Ik about it like these men. And nderson and Greenwood are good ?wns but no better than Newberry, nd at Anderson the .automobiles ere lined up along the streets just 5 Mr. W. H. Wallace says they are l Columbia, and the streets are i aved nearly all over the town, and le same is true of Greenwood. I feiA I 1\ II I You Take No Ct Shoes, for we sel matter what the warrant of qualil Economy, Wear Every Pair Solid : been very I ig the agenc cars Mitrhpll ai AIMiVllVH MA r you a full five p i Fifty to Thirt hty-Five Dollars, With these cars p Qprvirp and can make handle Federal I transit one and t i for cars or truck; rou prices. MOT! i r Another thing that I could not ex- b > ' mi 1 J 1 f actly understand, mere naa ueeu good rains up there and the- ground 0 8 was in fine condition for plowing, but ^ there seemed; to be no one plowing \ T g except seipi-occasionally. But the v roads w&re lined with automobiles carrying both white and colored, and many of them in overalls, and I would judge their secondary business was o fawning. Of course their primary e and main business was to ride the h roads in automobiles, but it seemed e to ,me that at this time they should t at least have been eivine attention v to the secondary business, and yet | a they may have said the same thing j about me. My secondary business is a printing and editing a newspaper, but g I am always home on press days, and c if these are not pres3 days in the farm b then I do not know when they will ii come. But not only are the roads u lined with automobiles, but every 1; train that you get on is filled with 1< people. They are going somewhere r and they arc coming back from some- g where I reckon. The world is restless v on,} fVio normlp must: he movine* about, t U11U W*V ? 0 Some day may be they will get down v to normal. But unless somebody gets J "WEATHERBIRD" [ ^ tance When You Coi 1 the best shoes foi price may be, under ty. For Style, Servic ^riiomAnrl f CICI 5 i/iai&iuim Leather Throughout. , MORRI - - ' - *** ^ / ? 9 f "1 he Store of Satisfaction ortunate r .1 I :y ror me id Grant S tassenger car :y-One Hunr]plivprAV at a we give you , have these j immediate ' " : ? Trucks and wo ton Jobs. J " r > 1 s we will be i ^ < i. r? Ica Whitmire, S, C. t j i #A : ' I I . _ _ ?usy and produces more of the things o eat the world is going hungry. You Or?^f O MC-f Q 1T1 -fU/% KA/^TT A?i Oll^ AWI Akll AS au w ouotaiu uvujf uii oubuuivuuco nd money and riding over thfe connry. Somebody at least must till the round and plant and reap ; if the irorld is to be fed. I read in the Anderson Mail the ther day where the automobile dealrs over in Rome, Ga., numbering 51 ave formed an organization to haul ach a car load of cotton choppers o the fields and help the farmers to 1 X it 1 il * porK out tne crop, ana xney nave sked other civic organizations to oin'in the movement. I suppose the' uto dealers themselves are going to ;et a hoe as well and join the hoppers, and that is not a bad idea,, ecause labor to work out $ie crop 3 going to be scarce. You can't build ip the towns and increase the popuation beyond the normal growth unes3 you bring-the people from , the ural districts. And if the people are ' ;oing to move to town they should be rilling to hike back to the farm and **.? . . i lelp make something to eat ana to rear. It must come from the grouncU ' E. H. A. LJI yj&et&Mr _ " ^ ^OiaTTiand ^Btand" me To Us For r the price, no a "money-back'* e and Real Shoe Brand" Shoes.> 5 1 J