The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 31, 1920, Page FOUR, Image 4

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||t gtot) tui few. j ; Katind at the PostofSce at NewM&-' t ' \ .'mWf? 5. C.? u 2nd class matter. E. a AULL, EDITOR. ' I r ? ' : *' ?? i Friday, December 31, 1920. ANOTHER YEAR. 33> * - i This issue of The Herald and News closes another volume. It is the last / day of thfe old year.- The first issue' v> * i i 5--\ for this volume was tne secona cay; of the year. So it has been about as j ||| *- long a year for the volume as it is! possible to make it. The record of' Bp-.' the year is writ and the book is closed. It has in many respects been a .hard year for many of us, and yet! - it fright have been worse. The edi-! tor and this newspaper are optim-j ists by nature. They can't help it. 1 igV They are just , built that way. j There must be sadness and sorrow! so long as'human nature remains as| it is. But we,always feel that -no matter how 'dark the hour or how black the night ifc will be morning: and the sun will shine. We know that it is much easier to preach the doctrine of smiling thar : it foHo practice it, but somehow wt ??* < have always tried to practice the Poh =^-y Ivaaaia spirit, and to believe that n< I mager how hard the road it might have been harder or something m:gh "have come to make the burden mort trying to bear. ^ And yet we were struck with. "Hap j py-Tioo yean from Mutft and Jeff." Di / Sfomebow we are inclined to like Jeff Etter bat we read scmewnere u i :oani of Fisher that his pref ! ! was for Matt Bat in * this j new year greeting which ap rthe other day Matt wa. ing the idea that h( smile and Jeff found it rathe: t in the face of the $acfc thai his OVSTCOat ail( ** ? that it had $8.80 in the pocket, a] I the change he had. Matt was try \ iqg to persuade him that it niigh j t have been worse, for instance ht j might have broken his leg by fallim i on the slippery sidewalk. In the j meantime Jeff's dog tore Mutt': j coat'to shreds and he was informe; i that'his little store,had burned an* j tliat he- had no insurance and Jel | turned the philosophy of smile bttel | to .Mutt, and. told him that jt mign have-been worse, that he had save: the. pit'kles from the flames arid the: might have been lost too. Then i was-that Mutt could not practice hi own doctrine, and thought that Jef k- was a sap. And so it goes. It doe make a "difference whose ox is gore? b?? it is . ?pod doctrine to be optim istic and to feel however hkrd ma: I have beeijtiie road it roigb^Jiav been worse, and to smile even in ad versity, because really it . does- n? good to mourn and to cry except tha it may be a good safety valve. This has been a very trying year at least the last half of ft, and it ha . been made very hard for many pec pie, but . in this country we ^should b thankful for the many blessings tha we enjoy, and we should look to th< J~ J I future wttn strong nanus stiu gvw courage to make the way better an< others happy because we are travel k ing. this wayi Vl The main trouble with the peopl. : ikof this country is that they sperr ^ too freely when times were prosper 10Q& 2tnd every one had plenty o money. We did not conserve fc fhcsse times which we might hav? known were inevitable. But what': the use to whine about it. That wii j not help matters. And 'the truth i: i L*jQ> ? *,*'? X' ?v f the whininsr which we hea j about bard times is really making th< ' times hard. There is no reason fo.! any man with strong body and soum j mind to suffer in this favored land \ What the world needs is for mori j people" to go-to work. And really the-1 deflation (we believe that is wha they call. it) in the currency an< prices is a 'good thing and will be ; blessing,; because if prices had re J mainecT where they were every otu 1 t ?-'a . TiNoir V?r?rl n 1 .< WOUU1 iUiVt: quii nvtn. ? )k _ roost done thaifc very thing already B* And there ^pould really have been : shortage of .something to eat and t< K. -wear. Because we could not havi continued <to exist on money. It i alf right so long as there is something to buy to have plenty of money, bu' if/every one had quit work there sooi t^ 'i ^vould have been a shortage of some a v . tiling to eat and something to weai Sfe and then money would have beer heJpless to shut out the cold and tr assuage hunger. We are one of those who dees not j believe that there is any overproduction and will not be so long as there are people in the world starving because they have not food, and freez ing because they have not clothes tc wear, and that there is something radically wrong with our tracte relations in the world. .Did you read what Chas. M. Schwab b&d to in seme siie-^ lights from his specch which we print-j n ed. Here are two: ! t! "Efficient production is the only j si guarantee of employment and cf; e, higher wages. Never in our life time j have the shelves of the world been so , bare. . ! f. "At the moment our export trade ! ^ hangs by a sienrter tnreaa.-' "The whole world owes the United I ^ States money and the whole world is p hungry for the things the United ' States can supply." And he suggests that we mustj think internationally, and he is right,! and we must trade internationally. It j ^ is no further now from America to j ^ Europe than it was in the other days i $ from Newberry to New York. We no j r< longer measure distance in miles but j ^ in hours. The war is over. ' We j should open trade relations with the J people who need what we have to > 1 sell. And we will. There is a bright h day just ahead of this country and a] when prosperity comes as it will n ? - * t - j : soon it will be on a souna Das:s ana i \\ there will be really good times. j v; L-ook to the future. Smile. Be of: e1 good cheer. Work and then work some more, li will be morning. And one more thing might be add- d ed to this story. Tote fair with your 11 fellows. If you have made a contract I: stick to it. If you owe a man and j 0 can't pay him now go and tell him jc| and then do the best you can and the j d ; man you owe will treat you right and! s: : give you a chance if he be the right j P sort of man. The truth is we have; t) J always found that the people would j ^ ! always be willing to give a man t! v chance who was doing his best and IP (acting honest in his dealings. Facc j -< the future witfi courage and go to: P work cheerfully and the morning cf j P better iBays will come and it will not i S be so long. , j d M j We were reading in The State the j 0 other day an article referring to Columbia's growth and giving the taxa- CJ bie property and itemizing or rather classifying^ the property.' The total n taxable property in Colombia as we gathered from the article is $.16,000,000. And of this one-twentieth ? is in automobiles. The polls are n 1 rtArt mnva fllOM fllO TinTl* aUUUO J..WVV tuviw tr^rr , * i vi ulation of the town of Newberry and j the population about seven time.1 i ^ more ariE yet the taxable property isj only five times. more, and -this c:;tv I ^ the capital of the state. Now in the $ inequality as among the counties of $ the assessment of property is where ^ there is need for reform in our tax 4 Methods. We have heard it said thai j the imaginary line which divided the j counties of Anderson and Abbeville j v <;Eat the land on one side of the line ,> vas valued at about three times what j .t was on the other side when it canic j p to the assessment of the land for the J ? Durnose of taxation. And there is nc ! % 1 *?'" * I j doubt that there is great inequality j jj j among the counties in the valuator j ^ ?f all property. j f - ? \ jh What the state need? just now i: ; i1 iot to find a new source of income ir. j t: ;he way of taxes but rather to find ; I e way to cut down expenditures. Wc ! a >?ant .that there is inequality in the ] I assessment of property for taxation s and. necessari-iy inequality in the j1 axes the people are called upon <toj.i1 jay, and there always has been anc! i h always will be so long as taxes an e levied and governments are run,-but s vvhat t^e need to study just now is the ij nethod of chitting down expenses I s< md loppiog off unnecessary office: ) md expenditures generally. This is ti i time when every one is called upor, t] o use a strict economy and to curtail n vherever possible. a We understand that the special tax ii commission appointed by the legisla- e: ure has a very able report and no b loubt that is true. But the burden T | >f the inquiry has been to find new ti -f ~ wnfUav +V>i? t/i firxi a' j <9lirCC UX lilCUiUC lamii uiww vv ...... _ I vbere the expenses of government si : might be curtailed without detriment tl 'Co the public service or to the cffi ? I -iency of the administration. b w ? _ j ? ' We agree entirely with our friend,! Y. I. Hutchinson, that with new machinery and new presses.' The ^ herald and Now? should be printed >etter, but as we stated before "the ni ^oys" have claimed that it was the c< oilers and they have been made and & .hipped and we hope will arrive in *( ime for this paper. The print has sc been bad and there are other im- ^ Drovements which we hope the boys tc will make with the new year. We e5 have been missing the mails at sun- 01 iry times and .there should be no exrase for the constant recurrence of 52 "his and the papers have not been " properly delivered by the carriers in sc the city and we hope they will see ^ :hat this is improved also. No use e] to labor to get up good stuff for the ^ paper and then print it so it can't be 111 read and no use to be a day or two w late in getting the paper <to the sub- s* briber. We are expecting to see J ^ improvements in all these respects j s* md they must be made. j V : ? ? iC( WHO WAS MOSES''FATHER-IN-1 sc LAW? j ei At the request of art esteemed sub-1 th scrib^r The Herald and News in its j pj last issue asked this question. Two j th A cplies have been received and for ic benefit of the subscriber ".vho deIres the information they are printd: J noticed, in your paper Some one au requested to know w>.-> Mo:?s! ither-i:i lav was. If ; 1:3 ill read the second cb.r-pt.:-r an i V*. 7 and 18 verses of '-::oda. Li \ i ! *'I /vnf TTo n'qs r.f iist of iiV.1 VUl. ^ - , - lev. also third chapter ;;^c: :i? t erse of Exodus shows the- sa:ne. n. j. Newberry, S. C., R. F. D. <5. Dec. 27, 1020. he Herald and News. Mr. Editor: I saw in your paj-c-t riday the question asked, Who was [oses' father-in-iaw? Ke was Jerh3, priest of Midian. You will ii. ; in Exodus, 1 Sth chaptcr, first vers'. Sincerely, (Miss) Novic Crapps. The Christmas season in Newberry as been very quiet and \?e hope ^ent in a pleasant and profitable iaiHier by all the citizens. Somehow e like the quietness which has preailed. But then we never do -much rervescing. When we say there is no overpro uction in our opinion we go r.c lean to indicate that the ceUtr armer or any other farmer s^sii '<( n planting and growing food nr.[othing below the cost to him of pron^ino if: and if the Drlce of C-.ittor ? ? huuld be kept down to the yi-:?w rice, or even very near it. the besi ring for the cotton planter to do i. :> reduce production and hold on tc 'hat he has until the world make, revision to buy it, or if there is sally overproduction, until the sup ]y somewhere near reaches* the cos f production. No use to keep 02 /*/i+fr?n if tViPTA reaHv nc I WfcWVM VMWV ? y emand for it. . f ' And 3*et that does not change oui pinion that there is no overproduc on, but that there is something radially wrong with the manner of disribution so that those who reallv eed the clothes might have them. This paper will be made up larjeh t ?,-?r.ol wnffAr? nf news and oninioi nd we will miss some of the genera ews of the world, because in thi: apid day news a week old is almos! ncient history and there is no neec o print it. mi / ? ' AMONG THE SCHOOLS #<s * - * Union School. This school sent rae a special initation to attend a. Christmas e>: rcir.c on Friday before Christmas am sorry that i could not keep mj roniise.to be with' the children r?: his occasion.. It v/as my in-tentio: o be there a-; pruxised, and I e?:-^ ome io go and when i went to s'.ar lyfcar the seif starter would net-sent he engine off, and"after trying to-- alf hour tovmafce the car go i gav-: t up. I appreciate the iir.r- inv:. [on of Mrs. Bessie Pugh, .the teach r, and the children'to be with nd regret that I could not make ft am 'going to see if I can have ins elf starter ^fixed so that when I wan1 0 go I may- be abte to go. I S"jpp03 1 was well that I did not get- oil' owever/ so far as office is concern d, because there were several per ons in town that day to see me ant ' I had gone I would have missc* eeing them/ I want to. express my appreciationd the children and the teacher foi lie thoughtful kindness which re lembered me in the gift on the tree nd Mrs. George Enlow ::or bringing i the gift. I am mentioning it tc spress my thanks and appreciation. ut also to adorn a tale, so to speak 'he teacher suggested that the- gif; ike the form of something useful nd asked the children to bring ; mall sack of sweet potatoes, which icy did, and when emptied into ov.z * j-i- - i. *civ xoi tut u~ee M&y uuc usbel and a peek. Now that wo? ice and every child in the school ad a part in the useful gift. This is simply confirmation in a mgible way of the? gospel that 1 ave been preaching in all the communities that I have visite'd, that by jojperation we could accomplish reat things, and that the only waj > do anything worth while for the :hool or the community was for aii le forces in the community to work >gether and cooperate ior tne gen:al good. The sack of potatoes ci ne child would not have amountac > much, but when twenty or more icks were put into one, you see i\ teasured over a bushel, and made miething worth While and useful ow if all the children and the teachrs and the patrons of the school ould cooperate and work together i the right spirit there is no telling hat we could accomplish in a very lort time, and the burden, if burden be, would he very light on each loulder and the result would be orth so much to the school and the >mmunity. I am going out to this hool very soon to thank this teach.* and these children, personally for teir thoughtful kindness, and' I apreciate that even more than I do ?. 1. J. te gut risen, uxougu cucai giiis I come in mighty well ir tp'Si- times. :c j I am writing the teacher at Ccjn- ; : rr.l that I ivill visit htr school on < I _ " ? " 11 ;noay, January ?, as soon at a can; rev h :ho school zi.tcv the avriv ? ! of.' j "vhc C., I.'. & L. train at Little p i Mo:?r.t-;;n. v.v-1 i.aks it v-'i".'1 p-:fc:: I i*-.- * r? ?j ?/ '?* 1 k r*Vi lx r' ?s 1 v ' , j . .4 > j r; .#Jt wl i: v'Uw'i t* c. ^ U c * ? % ' | (/cl:.c . Or i v.ill say al h:;:f.3 j pa?.1 i o'clock., beer.use that will give ' | i?e linic 10 wait for the t-ain f ron*. ; J I Cclamoi:; will bring along Mr. < i ! Jos. H. Shealy from ihe slate de- j: part-riant c.f c lucntion who hash ' prornisc-;; to be wiih us that night at;; Pcmaria. r-r. Shcaly. you know, is ; irv>\ Little Mountain and he is now : one of the ^cavil of state examiners ] of teachers and has. ofnees with the 1 -j stats superintendent oi education m j: j! Columbia. I would be pleased to |' I'lv-ieei all-the patrons and friends ofi< school -.hat day to talk over the!; . j school conditions and what is best toj1 .; !:c- none" to make this a better school') ; and to improve conditions generally.1 - Fjj'.jHc !V'c2Lie.? at Fomaria. - At the request ?f some cU ! ] izsns at Pon:::na we "wiil a pubJilic meeting in tho auditorium of thoj 5 ifchoo] house on the night of F?:--Icy. j Tanuaxy 7, at 7:30 o'cW-k, and wej [ would be gbci to sen nil the people ojf | * the covr.Mi:iTi!ty present. Wv. want to L talk school and tlie betterment of f.hL-j 9 school. and I,have invited Proi. J. i-i. ' Shcaly of Columbia to be wUh vr! 5 an.d he has accepted, and I will pvob-; 3 j ably bring one or- two others prora:-j Jneht* in school y;orfcTo m?.ke brief; ^ j-talks- and the?) v;e wa!d like io ;>C2"j 1 from 2o:re of the locsl people. Thej ' i crest thing in getting things done for f | any community or any seliooi is W.| j ?; t the people v.'ho are directly con-! *| corned interested, and to get up-the! " | right sort of enthusiasm, and then' ,the thing is done. But until you canwake up and arouse the people of the community themselves, there; is not much chance that' anything will [! be done. You must got up steam bc! fore you can make much progress * with the engine and the train. Y\re want to see a ir> and an enthusiast!-. : .4 O , meeting of the men and the women; of this community present at Flo- j | marie school house next Friday even-; , j ;ng and aho'ef the people of the ad-' , 1 joining districts.- Whatever is done' | *or the improvement of any school; any community must be done by the people themselves. If they do not themselves shew an interest io,i.% very difficult to interest any one els v. n their behalf. And I Viave always our.d thst ?fi you can convince the . :cr.-le what as bes:, that they vril): i e'.e::?.l1y uo that thing, but the biji j ask is to mf~l:e them sea it, same- ' ; :mes. at " f * ' 1 : ; jvl C^ucu Gcholi. All applications for ruv;U r;r;- oe;:; :} vi aid yf&Fe r,h.'d with the state-j : ??tion on Tuesday > . December 21-/ except for St. Lukes, i '.uvcr.-icreui and Xranwood, and they; ; "/ere filed cn* the 24th. For thesi ! : ? lire?; i had. to ^efc some additional j i'. .^ormntion. AH of the applications; : except the chree mentioned have beer i -naA l.tr Ui> D T T nvrita thr-i . j .a^KJil Kj\y -o - . -w# v..? j' upervisor of'rural schools, and nave;1 -ibeer. approved except Kunter-De-1. .7alt, Big Creek and Johnstons. Ii ; j aave answered the objections raised j ; )y the supervisor and'hope they will j j- 10 approved. It will be of interest tc j' : i he schools, and that should be of in-!' I :crcT.t to all the readers of this paper.;1 > j :o know what the supervisor has to : ] :' .2v about the applications, and there- ;1 ; .ore i. am printing his ietttr m re-: Mrt V<1 4 f V*. /I * I ?iV. U 4. vi*w 11 . t , I " Department o.C Education ':1 Cclurniba, S.' C.f Dec. '2j, 1920. j' ) Zol.-E. H; Aull, Sfv/hevzy, S. C. Dear Sir: I have just completed j' I he job oL looking over your rural; | jrp.de d Rhaol applications, and J j ! hare, been able to approve all e:;- j \ : j ?ept. Johnstone, L'icr Cr-.-vk ami flun-j < ?:er-Dfc\Va;!-. The reasons .for not np-j 1 i proving fi'Q ^iven in copies of lt-t j i. i- . . ? Lers cr.uoseu 10 you. | Please get in touch with ' these i i ;hree schools at once.' l>ave 1 hem 1 ! "o qualify, as we ?rc i'-vxiouii" that . i^.hese schools get the aid. f | Copies of letters to trustees arid ' | principals of other schools are merely. 1 I :U?ge.rtive, and rni^ht be discussed by. ' : yoti with the respective trustees and I * j escfcors,.er at one ox your teachers.^ : meetings. j I " I congratulate you on the fine; - j-'lowing your county makes. You :{have stror.g districts financially with;* . he exception of Hunter-PeWalt, andj; your schedules compare very favor-j a nhly with those of the schools of oth-: si* counties. Yours very truly, * D. L. Lewis. ? ] I immediately wrote him about the t other schools mentioned aiiu the let-it rers were sent of? lust Saturday. \ n A.L"o the applications for St. Lukes! v - ' '** - C 'r - v r ,-ri <v<- "Cl?;! Il ; { ittU J J'llJjWU'JU mm ijlivtiomtv tt * vn . | the additional information required, n land I hsve no doubt tliey will be ap-, t [proved. ' i j The sussestions oS IvL*. Lewis were s 1 t ilors: the lir.es char there should be' nore attention to iVv'iundr ner.t? \ iiitt C'"peci:diy to the reaching of *T:tl:*T and the tilings which consti"uu s. 1-.0 foundation o:' education, and. .hisi in some esses the dnil;r session j ni .i.i be macie a little longer. J' ;o*"o :hr- tm*!"oe? and the principals | vill prci'it by the suggestions made i >y ??:. . Lewis, because they arc along i :he right iir.es for our rural schools.: in this connection I want to quote: In fail one letter and I do it because; It gives me pleasure to quote the nice! compliment he pays to this school,! and in addition because I hope it will j act as an incentive to the other! schools to take more pains and to im-j prove and to equal or excel this one. j The matter of regulating the daily: session is left with the trustees, and I take it they leave it with the teach T +1,; V%1r 4-Viaf + li?nr<n cV>AnTH , sirs. X jiiydCll UllillXV biiab biiviv UiivwiM , be a minimum of at least five hours of actual teaching in each school, and better if there should be six, for j i do not see how any teacher can feci j that she has done justice to. the pupils j with less. But here is the letter: Mt. Bethel-Garmany. Department of Education. Columbia, S. C., Dec; 22, 1920. j Mr. E. H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. Dear Sir: I wish to commend the teachers of Mt. Bethel-Garmar.y for the athairable program sent in. -with rui'sl evaded school application. It i tii-2 best T have *sc.cn for any three tencher schoyl. It r.-ives me pleasure to approve the application 'for this school. Vr.;:rr. vr.V? trill v. ! D. L; Lw is. ; 7 Hi* says some nice tilings about some of the others, but finds suggestion: lo make. For instance, he comments the work of the principal of Whee-r.nd. And Rinards he finds the "schedules arc admirably arranged? v. oil arranged as they could be for ten graded" He says that it is the policy of the state department of ed-i ucat'oii for a two teacher.school not; to make an 01101! to carry more than; flight grades. Where it is attempted, j he says, some of-the grades are going i to suffer, and it is usually the lower, i And of the Chappells school hcj ) says.. "In examining your application j for rural graded school aid, I note! that your skeanle of recitations is ad-1 rnirnbly arranged," but he makes j certnir. "suggestion's which I am sure; will bo helpful to.the teachers. ?| But nearly all of the su'gges- < J " V~ tvf r.I C Tl t ;:K; i:ii;<yivui>vb v?* Sivitf&'niCi'e attention to vrriiijr# r.nd the fu:v'r rneruah?. r.r.d r feel rare i,hac those suggestions vrill be acted i upon tv the leathers and that the:.-! vi.'I be helpful. We are all here fcr he j?ip.OcC cf doing the best we can;j ;r.d to coopeiate for the good of the ;h;lcron under oar instruction, and .hat is v/hat the people have raisec J ' /I r D10I16V I'jr, aim wir >\<*au w uv 7 ihe best v;e car./ar.d I have mention- i id these things here to help all of i as to make greater efforts in our re-f :-pective spheres. Wrting and spell- j ing and reading and civics are very! iir-portant, and should be taught in j all of our public schools. More im-j portant than Greek or Latin or evenj higher mathematics. Especially in; aur rural graded schools and the oth- j srs as well. I desire to see a gen-j srous and helpful rivalry, each4doing! the very best work possible, and,, each j teacher anji each child and each patron feeling a proper and just pride n his or her school, and doing every good thing to make the school lead ill the rest- When we get that feel- j on the part of all the school j igencies we will be doing something! ivcrth while in the education of the; ihildren under our charge. The sug- j vestions cf Mr. Lewis are not intend-: :d to discourage, but rather to be; 'clpful, and they should bo taken in j ;hat splxit. And I am sure they ' yill be. : . Twer.fy-nire ~ehooL; have been ag:; jroved foi* term .extension aid, each 'eceivirp; $100: The money for 28 j i?s already been sent, and the uthci; >ne would have been but 1 thought at j he time: that it would qualify fori urai graded school, but it did not lave the enrolment necessary. It only akes an enrolment of 40 for a two eacher school, but this school has ess, and I have applied for term excision and the application has been i tpprcved, but the money is exhausted i T.d this one will have to wait for the i ?ioney until the legislature makes the | ppropiiaticn. j Twenty-two schools have applied j cr rural graded school and the ap-i IS C . ilications of 16 have been approved.1 i'hree x;cr? sent in on the 24th, and; he thr? e that were held up for fur- i her ir.formation have furnished the; lecessa.y information and I am sure /ill be approved. To obtain this aidj] hero iiiuit be a la.: cf at least four,': ' tii-% / !*: ? r't j- nrj/j for ih ! wo teacher school an enrolment of' ! I least forty, and for a three ieach-.j 1 r school 7o, and for a i'cur teacher - i chooi ai*least one* hundred. There jj ' i vre two four teacher? schools, sixf th'ie teachcr schools and fourteen i l a o teacher schools applying for'ru-j mi &rndcd school aid. The two! i teachor school receives $200, the j throe teacher school $300 and thfcj fcur teacher school $400 state aid. i There are four high schools in the! county that receive state aid. And: then under the equalizing law a num-j ber cf the districts have complied j with the conditions by voting the j eight mill tax and will not be able j ^ %**" ** ^ wiAvifVie nv*/^ o vo ! IU iUil itvgii m\jXI w 10 M11U Ui V, I pecting to get aid from this source, j The total state aid that the schools! of the county are entitled to receive! under the state law granting state aid J will amount to between $25,000 and S30,000, nearly as much as the entire three mills tax in the county. If the legislature should fail to make the appropriation to cany out the acts of the former legislature inducing districts to vote special tax many of the schools will be in a very deplorable condition financially. But I - '1 1 -! A Ml T. 4.1.^ Deiieve tne legislature win Keep me | faith and provl.de the means to carry into effect its own acts. I I will send to each trustee within! the next few days, if it is not already sent before this is printed, a statement of the approximate income and expense of the district for his j school, and I ai-k each trustee to con-j siut^r and study it carefully and co-l operate with me in >-><? arranging that; the district may rfot show an over-; draft ;rt the close of *Jie schooi, that the may run the seven niontrw we are trying to reach, and run within its income. The- 5gn*:s are not guaranteed hut arc very nearly correct. ... i I wish to extend to teachers, trus-i ' *** " ^ ^ ov*/l i 0 ' '.'CCi ttUU UilU WliUUiv.li v*sw, greetings of the season and to wish! for each and every one a very happy j and prosperous new year. We can have it by al! of us cooperating and working together and doing our part in the betterment^of the schooL / I should have stated above when talking a^out state aid that there are three, districts in the county that can not qualify for state- aid, though each has a special school tax. The balance on hand at the beginning of the school year and the income was sufficient to run the school, and the state does not grant aid in such cases. These disricts are Mt. Pleasant, Rea?in and Utopia. The districts in the county varyor ranjre in size from 1,700 acres to 19,000 acres. The minimum fixed in the constitution is 5,760, or nine souaic miles'. Some of those that are =mali in area and weak financially ire strong and rich in children and that is the thing for which the school is established, the children.. E. a A. SENDS CHRISTMAS CHEER FROM WILMINGTON, DEL. Wilmington, Del., December 25, 1920. Mr. E. H. Aull, Editor, Newberry, S. C. My Dear Sir: I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and the same to all of my friends and acquaintances in the old town of Newberry. The Christmas spirit! seems to be more prevalent this season than for many years, and I ami glad it is so. > i We have two street ?curb markers' in our city, one on the east side andj one on the west skie, each extending for several blocks, and it does one's heart good to walk through these markets to see the bountiful provisions of everything conceivable that can be produced on the farm as exhibited by these farmer market peo pic?. But. everything is still high in | price, prohibitive to a great many of , oar citizens. Our table today will { be graced v. itb a turkey oui. of onej of these markets, and it is a fine one! r i i i! assure you. i hope you sre liav- j ?ng <<:s .One weaiher for Christmas ? 3\ we have today. The weather here cool and crisp, and the sun is shining brightly; an idea] day. Now, I. want to give The Herald and "News a little jar. Something about which we "do not understand." Why it is, when we have a new press! and new machinery installed, we do I not get a readable paper. Lastj Tuesday's paper was out of sight ;j that is some of the printed matter' was. But, I sense the difficulties that may occur in a printing office, and hopefully wart for the improvement promised. Very respectfully, Young I. Hutchinson. "11 1 Toff cf.rppf UX i. uvji Automobile Licenses. The chamber of commerce still has a few application blanks for the registration of automobiles. These are intended for the people of New-j berry county and citizens living in j Lhe country as well as the residents.' :>f Newberry should feel free to call! [or them, I i - 4. Uncle way . DOMINANT WOMAN 1 k <4rT*HERE'S much truth in the old X saying that a bachelor is merely half a man," observed the professor. "I suppose you are trying to take a fall out of me because I don't get mar- , ried," said the low-browed man. "It < may be true that a bachelor is only a half a man, bat Jwhen he accamu- y." vliii>fi'"''iyir*T t late3 a wife? usually only a I^PiP quarter of a man, l eiSllth'' The m0T* I see of married iH*& men, the more' thankful I am V ' my bead. "Old Doolittle has been married a *1 ' long time, and he's got so used to being bossed by his wife that he doesn't know what to do when she isn't around. If you offered to lend him $5 * ? . he'd say hed haw* to consult Eliza * Jane about it Cr.e time, when his wife was away, visiting, he ate about a peck of greea cucumbers, and the colic shut Mm up like a folding bed. It. was the worst* case I ev&r saw. I heard liirn yelling for the r>olice, and when I rushed over there and saw him -V on the floor, with his feet clasped across the back of his neck, I phoned J for a doctor at once. We put him to bed, and the agony that man endured was sickening. And as he rolled around there, expecting to go off tiro ^ . hooks every rafnute, he kept saying, . > 'What will Eliza Jane sm: when she \ hears I called in a doctor?' "After his wife came back, I was over at their house one night, and she , -'-J roasted me to a crisp for sending for a doctor. i;he said that if I had the first instincts of a gentleman I'd pay the bill, for I wasn't authorized to call in V ? a sawbones, and she didn't; want one in . the house. Doolittle sat there and heard his wife roasting me until my whiskers curled and, although he knew --f the doctor saved his life, he never said * # a woru. "^fler I left the house, he sneaked out and overtook me, and told me he i was sony for what had happened, but * experience had taught him that it's no use to butt in when his wife has. the , " floor. ^ "Gooseworthy came over this morning while I was feeding the cows, and told me a tale of Woe. His wife has about five hundred female relation's, aunts and stepsisters and cousins and such people,1 and she keeps tl.e house full of them all 'the time. Ee has to * sleep on a sanitary couch in the hall, * lJ while his own feather bed is occupied by an aunt who weighs about 400 ( pounds. Hg has a comfortable rocking chair he bought for his own private use, and now he never gets a whack at it. His wife'3 step-sister, who f brought her tortoise-shell cat along, is always.! using it. He said he was getting plumb disgusted with such a con i?i. v. ? Ittiaw anion oi aaain?, uul uc uiuu t, &uv<i what to do. "I asked him why he didn't read the authorized version of the riot act to Ills wife, and tell her to ship all those rel- J* ics out of the house. He seemed shocked at the suggestion. fYou don't know what you're talking about,' he said. 'You've never been married.' "The queer.thing about it is that n.incDwnrthv fs A srreat stickler for his rights vyhen he's away from home. He's as sassy as a bobcat, and will light at I ' the drop of the hat if anybody tries to ' " impose on him. He walks with" his head back and his chest out in front of him, but as soon as he reaches his own front gate he begins to look so blamed abject that the neighbors pity him, "Then, there's oid Major Seudoff, jwfnnmiew h'msnlf ?n many a HU UUUUt,UI.I?t.u w crimson battletieid. Ele Las eoiira^' er.n;;^h for three regiments. But he- ifl ro.'irru'd the Widow Bunkum a. couple >l years ago and she makes.* hi'.u do the family washing, and bang the <*h>thes >ei the lirio, aod I suppose he "J does the iroi.ing, too. X could tell you / of hundred such eases?" JH "I suppose you could," sighed the professor, "but I don't care for scQsational fiction." ML I . k Russia. M The Russian empire, prior to world war/comprised o, 7o4,58G square* I miles. Cyclopedists divide this ter-^|H9^H rilory, one-sixth of the world, into four parrs. Russia in Europe (ineluding Poland and Finland), the Can- jH I casus, Siberia, Russian Central Asia. i9HE^I Russia in Europe has an area 1,- MM 011,032 square miles-. f-rencn ncsiutuw. Of the presidents of Franco, J|fl^^B^fl Poincare was only the fifth to >:;;> the j B full term. Thiers, the first, heiJB^H^^HH lice for only three years, <:i<i 3Iac* I B Mahon. Faurf died at the eitdjdLj^^B^^^BB fourth ear, and Casiiuier ivrie? re- 1 B signed after one year. His Status. ' "What do you know about tbe hfckl 9 COSi 01 liWUgi "Nothing. I'm merely resfia|H|^^BHHH LodsylUe C^urier^oTig^BM^Bj^B^^B -? -~" H