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|[{)e JjetalD pen? Entered at the Postoffice at New 'wry, S. C., as 2nc^ class matter. , E. H. AULL, EDITOR. . Tuesday, September 21, 1920. SPEEDING REGULATIONS. We notice that some man has ar nounced as a candidate for mayor t Gaffney and the only plank in h: platform is to stop speeding in th city by drivers of automobiles. II < says that he has no desi.-e for off.v' :of any.kind, but he sees the dan&tto life in the reckless driving in th town, and he wants lo see if it ca be stopped, and the only way is t get in position to have authority t |j - regulate the speed. If something is not done to choc the reckless driving of cars, with th pJ'S great number that no.v travel th road, it will be dangerous to \entur far out. There are some people wh fdriv^ that have some regard for th rights of the other fellow, bur ther are many "hogs" of the road sti driving. They drive around vo without givin? the signjil and whe you meet if yoy d:> not get out of th ? way you are liable to be ran into, f. * And the only rhing that che-vl them up in the least is the conditio ; . of the road, and tha<- has very littl cffect upon m?.ny v;no dri.Te. An really sometimes we almost hate t see the roads get in good shape fc then we knowxhat there will be d:ir ger to get far out. There should b some way to regulate the traffic. " 1. % law has no sort of eft cot upon m:?r , ; drivers. And where the road. Is goo 130 and 40 mi!<*s the hour is net cor . sidered fast at all. But we jfteafct to speak at th time only about the city an J the re; ulations h^re. There is no*7 rc;;ar |' / paid/ to the parking rejruhtior.r. b: I, any sidex of the strest is all right o wbich to drive, and as for stopping i % crossings the most of the cars sro after they are in the middle o3 th street they are crossing, if the/ stc at ail. ' ; V ' nHvnnty.se of ?? vve iiuw avg "r . * I . * yard fence, because but for or , fence we are sure that the hous would have been run over and ma be driven back in the garden or -j on the mansion of our neighbor, M Geo. W Summer. A few Sunaa nights ago an entire panel of tt ^ fence was driven away from the pos and .left in the middle of the yar< L and the only thing that saved 'tl house was the impact the car recei1 ed from hitting the fence. Comir 5-, < at sufficient speed to drive an entii ? panel of some 12 <?r 15 feet of fen< from the posts to which it was s< " ' 1 A e~? tlia Vir> curely nanea, dui iui mm, mt would have been knocked from i" p-: . foundations. We have not mention "\v?v r ' ed it before^ but as we have hear nothing from it up to this time,- v do not suppose that we are in an danger of a suit for damages becaus the fence was in the way and may b damaged the car. Of course ' tlfence should have gotten out of t? way of the auto, and had no bus nes3 in the first place to obstruct* ii passage, and if the fence had n< : been there-the house would ha\ pc: been in the way and the damage t car would have bee^ greater, an v/ . we\night have suffered a heavy dan age suit, because the house obstruc nnssntrp of the car. We ai ??.v, ^ o- -- ? glad there was no heavy damage done the car, and we are saved pa? ing it because the fence was in tli i? way. However, we have had tli ft. ' fence repaired and hope it may e: cape further damage. But there is need for some bett v.r traffic regulations as to crossings, an in these* narrow streets the wonde m is that the damage is not greate Two cars coming at full speed an both blowing and neither checkin up if both would happen at the cros: ing at the same time we do not sc ; how it would be possible to prever a crash and great damage. In our narrow streets, and they b: L"; ing close together, it might be we to have the streets so-numbered th? . cars would go only in one directio on each street. That is done in som places we are told, and it works ver .well and conduces to safety. Tha would prevent congestion on man of the busy streets, and then tli speed regulation should be observe more strictly than it is. We notice that the state highwn commission is talking about reguial ing the speed of heavy trucks an other cars on the state roads, and i it is not done there will be no road verv Ions: after they are built. To get back to the Gaffney canri date. His statement in entering: th race is given thus: "I am possess of no particular personal <ies'?v3 t hold office, but I have finally an<l ih | fii itely macle up my mind that so mi ! 0) e should offer for the* position < ... . mayor wno is determined to brcaJ up automobile speeding in thi tc?vn." Speeding is not peculiar I a- y particular town or any particu la.* road and even to any partial la - community, but seems to have takei charge of the entire army that i _ i driving automobiles. It is a pity tha | it is true that there is apparent nee< j of any law or any officer to force th i class of people who drive cars to hav regard not only for the life and safe !-?. A . 1 1 A . 1 T/? .jty oi otners out ot tneir own me am !, ; safety. But it is. j We have thought of the matter 0 ' cvcod deal and we have about come t Q } i the conclusion that the only thin; 0 that will stop speeding is to make i ^, a misdemeanor to sell or operate ; ! ei-r that is geared bevond a certaii n ir-' eed. And make the nenaltv s< c1 * j heavy- that the law will not b 0 j broken. !. ??? k j ABOUT ROADS AMD THINGS. e It is not go in:: to be my ourpos* e,to tire the reader with stories o e!t' avel, especially the meandering? o 0 t]fe editor, because if we wrote of al ! c; t ie rounds that we expect to mak e.: i the near future there would b ^jli-tle room for anything else. Bu u i r ?w and then we expect'to say a fe'. 11 j things about some of the roads an *-* ic'her things along the way. and w j 1. ,pe the reader will net be bore :3; c .*? weary. Now and then soma or. n! i : partial and kind enough to say ths 2 h-} really enjoys the reading- of thes 1? c ories, and then there are others r. ojc1 :ubt who are not so fond of then'i*: , here is this about it no one is unde r.r.y obligation to read these wander "?ii notes and if they are not read r. c c .Tense is taken, y; . ?o? For three days the past week l_ as going somewhere and some c the- ^urnevo were rather long fc T'2. On Friday I attended tne l ev; } .rry Lutheran conference in sei&ic >- : Pom aria. I hocked up and hr z'.or.g with me in add'tior. to ir.y tw i; ' :ys and their mother President Dc 11 : ar.d Dr. E. i>. Setzic-v. We due*. i way cf Prosperity, and as I a: P :..ppczed to say something about th 10 2. ads I would remark ttoat the roa P . 1 jtween Newberry and Prosper:! ;1 ;s not yet been worked or. eve ) < agged, and so far as I could hea a t'-.are was not even the fainter ^ I ir.r und like the beginning of work c '2 t\is read. Of course I went in b !'e Aull hills and Jolly Street, an ? t is read is net as good as it u?t r- 1 > be ar.d needs the app!:. cation of t). y ( ag. But it is really in better co* 1 - i r" lion than the main road be twee ewberrv and Prosperity and for th ^?ji"*o miles beyond along which w 10 t aveled. May be there \vill be lT~ : oise before long that will round lik l? i \ ork on the road. * j -0rej We reached the church m time t s"; i ^ar the sermon by the Hev. C. 3e j f >.ealy and he preached a fine se: ts,' ron ar.d delivered it with forc< ?l~ r. here should have been more of th r >od people of Pomaria out to hea re |because I am sure they would hav >y,' :en benefitted by listening to th 5C ( c Dqucnt and truthful and forcefi )C J - :>rds of the preacher. Aftsr th lc r?rmon there was a picnic dinner c lc. ? 3 grounds and an abundance c !" i i led chicken, cakes and pies and a , | \ r.S - ,-rr^r.A th'TCCl f ft P.lt. ! ? tilC 1 i .iC'i vV j ( noon there was a discussion, Evar re | r :iizalion in the Lutheran churcl ? t ':at was the subject, whether wore ^ ! 1 exactly that way or not, by th 1_ | r.ev. L. P. Boland and the Rev. \V Dutton. Their talks were goo >e :) ut the real speech on the topic, an 'c 11 am saying this without making com r j 7 arisons, was made by the Rev. Jo^ ie,Long. He said that what wa 1C : seded in this day was the preach 5~i':g of the pure gospel without s j :.:uch form and in a natural sort o ray and he indorsed what the othe !r' r Teakers had to say, but he believe d :i the preacher -being himsel !r : id preaching the evangelizatic r-! r ? the world in a natural an^, r :raight and strong manner, an thought it would have mor s"i -force to the salvation of th :e ; r '.nr.er than where there was s ^ i riuch formality. President Derrie |' hen presented the facts as to th -- i work at Newberry college and to! ^ of/the situation at Newberry, an 1 hat the prospect for the opening wa n'j1hat there would be more student ie',vian he could find accommodatio I y; for. but that it was the policy of th 1 (ollepe not to turn any boy away wh y j" oally wanted to get an education an e' had the capacity to take one. whethe - he had the money or not, a~d whethe i .1 vnnm nv v/~it flint h(> WO!?] j i.ll'ic \>aa n/uui \jt. ? ? y lind the room and provide for th t-1 .leans in* some way. He made d t': tron^ presentation for the college, f I ?o? Is; On the return trip we were ad i vised that we had better not take th I (Mrect road from Pomaria to Xew i- berrv as it would be even wors I e than the main line, so we came bac d, tlie same road, and strange as it ma o :oeni there was still no sound tha :-!??>uM be heard of anything bciu] Q :?r.e on this road. Saturday morn-' t ;: - earn* I drove to Coljv.ibia thNkto get back by eariy afternoon, J s ;d asked Mr. James W. Ilende:*>on o to v:o along and he kindiv consented, i - ' lie road aii the way had net been r \ caked even yet. and it was bad most j, n i the way. Even the new road s \ here ii is net warhed in holes has, t t >.e din and sand all swept out clean ; - ;1 and the sn.iall and large ro."ks are so' e r lent if u! that it is painful to dr.ve e t ver it. Wish there could be- some j - -. ay to keep some of the divt and : u i and alone: with these royks. Jf! there could be some way devised this a little stretch along about Slighs would ' o : idced be line. But no plan has yet: ? I een found, or if it has it has not t Lcen applied to this road, r.. -?o? I P ' I don't get to Columbia as often ! 0 as I once did, and there are so many! c ! < kanges in business and in the popu lation that I scarcely know any one; | now, and I want to get away as soon j J as I can. You scarcely recognize- it | ? ;'.s the Columbia of even a score of i ? years ago. I sat in my car for about j "!an hour waiting for Mr. Henderson! , j and as I watched the cars go by and J ' 'around the corners I did Jtot woncier i c i , j that every day or two you could read j in the paoer where some one had 1 /1 i j been run down by an automobile and j ^either killed or injured, and then j , | they tell me that the newspapers do j " t::ct even print all the accidents. Ii ?!-,ue?s not. I went down to the state! , j house and made a brief call on Gov- j ' i crnor Cooper. I have seen but little! o I ; of him since he has been governor.; .j lie-seems to be the same man that; .Jhj was wnsft he used to come toj 1 >"e\vberry and stay with me during; ' "nv.M/1/1 *1 c- or!,'] T WflS 1 ; . > cj.-J ju"vjkv/. ~ ..? ? :al!v irlr.d to see him looking go well; I c . T ' id I am pleased that.lie ha? made, - ".ch a fine governor, though I knew. . >) would be that very thins. There ; e many changes at the state house; , 1 ' co the drys when I was there. I i i; 1 ~l:.cve that the1 cr.ly man there new ' 10 was there then ir. Treasurer m Carter". He was then the chicf ? I ri: in this ?:m? of ice md h ") is .: w or.e of the most capable officials any slate. i j ?o? /j I had net been up to roe the.old :i! \lk at home in about two months or j ? > ?! vora, r.nci this being beyond my ai- j t Mr, led time for these visits I decided; ::! -*at Sunday was.the only day thivt; y j T would have in some time, so II I;' icksd up and at 9 o'clock was in ! 1! ! e read headed for Chappells and j ^ j on. I v;e"-t the Deadfall and; - .verstreCv road. The chain irar.g i:>' i v : n I : mped cut this road near Mr. J e j ".ong's, but as yet I did not see i s | v. here there had been very much j ai'.ork done except at a few places! 3 he road seemed to be better than; J t was the Inst time I wasx alon.r this! ! * ay. Beyond Silverstreet ?ilon/ ahout 31 he long bridge the road is better | . j han it has been for some time, but I -it is so narrow t'lat it is a clone; .ave for two cars to pass one an-j el Vher alon.? this w.iy. Li the town! ,r "'f Chappells there is need for some- j > 1 inf tn hp dnrsG and the road all the! C> " ? -? ray to the river is worse than it. has { :! ":cen lor a?lori<r time. Judjre Alien, j i j hom I met on the train Sunday; r. *5ght, says that the city authorities f V* Chappells are goin^ t. > work the 11 *cad in the city very soon. And the j YI1 beyond the river in Greenwood t- county has not yet been worked and i. "iceds attention very much. I felt 1- :ure thr.t Mr. John Sloan \vh;> is on c . h e highv?*ay c oairiiis 3 o n o t that! "cur.tv would have had thi-5 read lixed t il before now. He came down ever it j c! when he attended thai, meeting in i- Newberry some time ago. n ' _oMr. Henry T. Fellers overtook us j on this hill ar.d went along and spent i o i few hours with the folk at home.! f He had his two daughters and son in j - the car with him. One of the daugh- J 1 lers has gone over that side to teach I f Ihe school not far away. I was glad , ii' to have thorn spend the clay or part; rl! cf it at heme. You know h;5 mother - < d j was a sister of my father. I told this e j young daughter of his that there e | were schools in Newberry th.it I un-j e c^erstood were in need cf teachers] k nnd'I was sorry to see her going loj e j another county. But so it is. The d i trustees over that side came down: d j after her. I found the old folk quite ! s i well and of course clad to see vs. I s| ?0? n i Now here are .vast two other things e 11 cm going to say. They may sound 1 o i rimple and foolish to the experts, d j-.vho drive cars, but when I learn any- i r'thing I am r.hvavs glad to nass it on; l % 4 ' rjto some one else. A car will not run j d ; if the feed pipe, that is the pine tnat j e! feeds the gas to the engine, gets! a 1 flopped up and decs r.ol feed <he gas. j j That is what i"c is for, to feed the j | gas, and a car will not run if it does: I-; not get the gas. We found, out that j e on the Columbia trip. In fact we 1 - j discovered it before we reached Lit-j e ; tie Mountain, but did not know just J k what the trouble was. So we drove! y , down to Jim Shealy's doctor shop and I t h(? said rhat the timer needed clean-1 tiding cut and he did that, bat we hadj 'Sr% ^. ..... ":.: : gone more than live miles before f w had the- same trouble. But w< ?( t to Columbia. I did not have the 1 cav examined in Columbia because i there were so many ears there I did . not feel that 1 could even get to a j ihop. So we came along back with j the same trouble. At Eallentine we j stopped at Mr. J. E. Metis' place and ; he said that was the trouble, and he j tc-)k out some of the trash and ; started r.s out, but evidently he failed j to get it all out because we had not !. i i gine more than a mile before we had 1 the same trouble, but we managed j to make it to Little Mountain and |. put Jim Shealy and those fine boys J of his on the job a.srain, and this time i they did the job all right and we came along hoine, but only after being on the road more than five hours. ! o ! Sunday morning the starter halted i just a little but finally went off and ! we had r.o car trouble on the way up. ; When I wanted to start home even ! the self starter would not make the ; wheels go round, and neither would j the thing crank in the old Ford fash- J ion. After various efforts I had to ; I leave the car and get my brother-in- 1 law to drive us to the station and j come home on the train. Even thes^ j self starters will not turn the wheel j if you let the battery run down. Re- j member that you must have the feed j p:pe for the gas open so that the gas ! will go to the engine, and that you ! must have your battery in good shape even to operate a self starter, and if you do not the car will net run. ?o? | And yet with the bad roads and j the trouble with the car I enjoy gel- j ting out in the country. The cr'ops ! i they say are not so gcoa as was once ; ^ x ? i.: ^ fUic T Itiaw t.l? 2 T iiO CXCt!CUt(.lU!i) <i.iu umo -l cotton is oncnir^r very rapidly and if: the picki-*:*; is pushed it will not be X2tv long before it is all harvested, j E. H. A. j . ! ? _ I ^ ? < ' ' > < > <*> <? 'y ?> <J> * "CCU":CE3 OF IK COME FOR <? cur. common schools." tV * ? Dr. Chris. A. Jens3 in Br.plbt 'V V- Courier. ^ . ... <$> <S> <$? <$><?> <$><$?-$>^'<?.'''?><sv<?><?s3><?>,$> Your issue ef September 2, carried j a:i article on the , above subject by J ?;r. 01 In F. Crow .which I have read with pleasure and interest. Mr. Crow quotes a sentence from a set of j resolutions I am offering at the as-! scciaiior.s ar.cl :r.ys that he fears it is liable to misunderstanding*. TLj ' smtence is as follows: ''It is re-1 ported that the b$t legislature ap-! propriated from the public treasury j more than twice as^ much money for j T the state institutions of higher edu-;r/21 cation than it did-? for the common | j3 s:hools." It will be- seen that thisip-jj s'atement does not say that state ap- i p opriations arc the only sources of crjj " J 1 AAIC nAV }^ ^ h conic lor mo cumhjzi u * i iiw^ sr.eh implied in the ^statement. - When 'cjaj I wrcte it I thought that every man: cur in the state was familiar with local c;,i elections for .school taxes, for we ]. V( h"-ve al! had to vote on such proposi-, 0f t'ons several times in a life time, j ^ However, >:f the statement is liable v>-0, t"> such misunderstanding, I thar.k ?u.j Mr. Crow for calling attention to it. : r c For we are not after deceiving any ] -ja Olie. ; r.ic _ , 1" ; Of course, the common schools de-1 I tl rive t.heir funds from the constitu-1 r:ti tional tax, local taxes and contribu- j ron tions which, as Mr. Crow says, ;is in : r. :c the m?in in the form of soine sort of ] al bonus to stimulate local interest, j The Ti T rHs- rdv r unner, i suiJ[<yoc ovl; . trict in the state has voted local the; levies, many have voted all the law c.lu will allow, and some few districts; The have even asked the legislature for; will special laws enabling them to go be-' nes vend the ordinary legal limit. And pri\ yet, in spite of all this, it is manifest ros I think to every friend of public edu-: Irir cation that there is need for greatly in enlarged state appropriations for our cdu common schools. For instance, the in 1 legislature has in recent years en- mal acted three laws offering certain bgi bonuses to the common schools on app condition that the various communi- s trc t:es do so much. The interest in'r.ov education among the people is so V;hi great ar.d so many communities have : met the conditions laid down by the : ; legislature that the state ruperin- J ~ + t.mn was able to nay 3 ?. Ut'!' 1/ VI cu.uunu,. cniy -17 cents on the dollar to re-' deem the state's pledges. I have it on ?-oo<!- authority that it will take something like SG00.000 this school! year to meet the calls made by the; communities in the state under twoj _ c +i,? I ]ICTVI5> i ^ vied the past school year only $140,-! 000. If the state superintendent of education is enabled to meet the j calls under these two acts and the ! rormal increases under other acts previously passed by the legislature, j 1 am reliably informed that an ap-j propriat.ion approximately $2,000,-}] 000 will be required this school j! year, whereas less than $1,000,000 | was allowed the past year. This, I think, brings the matter 'j squarely before us as far as the Com-|J ^ ? ill! , . _ J > -.i-w .v'/ - . ' Q v ~ i --r p- T?f?' / .x r' ' - . *.. V,* '* }7? " ' . ' ! (. H - 'I <3^ . . ." ; N . ?! r- '-'.IB1 ; p! |?f i( i! ! ? | '| i ; ' t?j i\ ? : ^ 1 ' ** ' * L * M - HU v C . 5 ) >s_ > ) \\ J T~1 " ~ : '1 i . ' J ' 1 ' , ' fcJ .V f"1*'* i ' "!*f jj < j{ ti hn - vi ^ p S ">' P :.'f L-j ^ ?//* J Any business w ' Vw - . "8 . delivery can us( E / ! _ ij ers Business Cc : ?i because its opei and rnainte ' i I have been uni ~ i lished. N bz ' l EASTER8Y : = Laurens, S. C. I _ ? < r - i; ii ii i) ilp-^. ^, !"-!T" ,_r . !.'.'.?. .. n schools are concerned. There ' our state the stign such a wide spread interest i? rnorance. >lic education in cur state at this ' ^ e ihz.t I think it is little short cf ;L ^T^EkAN CHU nir.al for us not to take advant- j . WEST : of it and to press the needs and l ^ _ 7 ims cf our common schools upon1 ' ne Indie ' * 1 r?*1' mala* an int people. This is the psycnoiogj-; * ? moment, it seems io me, for every i * ;e -fccond bienn: er of his state and for every friend '-'iG United Luth our great common school system ;-,mer:ca' help to put over a great and : When the Unite :thy movement for the adequate i t'xa Virgin IsiaAd cort of our common schools. As c:-an church becai i . * itizen of this state, I am tired ofv a vigorous church ring of our illiteracy and our low j carried on by the iti'cn in matters educational and church and this t link the time has come to face the s on work in other tation heroically and to really do , I'idies is embodiec lething to change the situation tlie West Indies m I to save our fair state from the will be presented t i cf illiteracy and near illiteracy. r ial convention of j place to begin in our educational. c.an church in A ance is in our common schools, for j v-t Luther Place se are ihe foundation on which all ; Washington, D. C. cational progress must be made. ; The fields cover< s success of the common schools dies mission board . mean larger success and useful-Land the Virgin Islr s for our colleges whether state, : I uerto Rico dates rate or denominational. The pur- trance of the vie e of my agitation is to try to j troops during the lg the legislature up to the masses war when the lir their interest in common school ices were held wi cation and to cerate a conviction ; had emigrated frc ',n Vio?vt?s nf the masses that will lands. The begin: ce them willing to back up the ' ei'an, mission work slature in making the necessary ! lands dates back repriations. With a long pull, a to the time of th >ng pull and a pull altogether just tfon. r we can do something worth i jn MUer?;0 t?;c~ lo to wipe from the fair name of jrg missions in th {C* 9 jjf c # 0 t% it a & & & I & & 1 When yos Farm Ligh Newberry E!e< w r- " f.j ? ? ?? 1 ' ' : ~~~ ' * 1 WWrMtiMU: 'iv" ' ' | / ' ' I ^ ,r _ I _ ?:_J j 33 ?^;k3 _ a r_J <r?> A fr(LO H :.j:_i LAM. . g that requires jj. 2 ' s Dodge Broth- fj: g ir with profit, p;;v j rating-economy K .-x nance-economy versally estabi " = . MOTOR'CO. 9 Phone 200 * - - # ' 3 - ??7~"'>''<> r - - - :'* i L- '''*" \iM H ^^^^^-TTrmnr^nnT 11.1 ., j 5 5 imDlC-^==Ji la of illiteracy and Dayamon districts. In the ' 'Virgin Islands the mission fields are located in Frederiksted and King's Hill and RCH St. Thomas and St. John. INDIES MISSION . . . , , .. , , , . An extended educational and chari. . , I table work is carried on in this mis- , s mission boa id ?;on ^he educational work cres leport at. covers whole field of church,edua convention o 1 catjon from kindergarten upward is. .c.an c urc ,R j theological seminaries including vo. | rational or industrial education. d States purchased j rf here are orphanages for girls and the Lnited Luta-; toys, old peoples homes, and an in- v' v?n rp^nnrisihlp for i fnr bovs. 1 \ work formerly j ;? tjie governing policy of the ! Danish* Lutheran j West ]ndies mission board of the ogether with mis- xjpjted Lutheran church to extend as parts of the est | far as possible the teachings of the i in the report of ; r-0Spei jnt0 such other lands of the \ ission board which i sea anfj eisewhere as opportunity may it the second bien- j offer< board is recommending the United. Lutn- : f0 ^nc convention that active work imcrica convening 1)e ?aken up in San Domingo. Quite Memorial church, j a number of the Lutheran members , October 10th. j ;n the virgin Islands and Puerto >d by the West In-j Rico have emigrated to San Domingo arc in Puerto Rico 1 and it is believed that in a short time mds. The work in ; > flourishing mission field cculd be hack to the en-1 tablished there. tt)r:ous American members of the West Indies Spamth American i ijoard are the Rev. W. D. C. Keiter st Lutheran serv-j0f Philadelphia, president; the Rev. tn Lutherans who A. Hanson of Harrisburg, vice ?m the Virgin Is-1 Resident; Mr. H. F. Ileuer of Philr.ing of the Luth-1 adelphia, secretary; Mr. S. F. Telin the Virgin Is-: jeen 0f the Chase National bank, almost 270 years j \few York city, treasurer. The Rev. te Danish occupa- ; Zcnan M. Car'oe is the executive sec| retary. The headquarters of the there are flourish- | West Indies mission board are loe San Juan and icated in New York city. : ?: | Jber the & j \iamol 2 think of ting Plants ;tric Company -- > *?%