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iije fleroN! an& penis. | Catered at the Postoffice at New'wty, 3. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, June 7, 1921. ARE WE MAKING CRIME RESPECTABLE? "We are making crime respectable, that's the trouble, and as long as we do that, we will never get anywhere. It matters not what the crime is, whether it is defrauding the poor, stealing, cheating, making or selling liquor, it should be tried in the court of public sentiment. As long r.s people can commit crime and keep their standing m the community, tnere is not much hope. The disapproval of public sentiment must be stamped on the lawbreaker before we can check lawlessness." This is a paragraph from the charge of Judge H. H. Watkins in the federal court, to the grand jury just the other day, in which court there were several hundred cases against breakers of the law as to faking and selling liquon The seeds of lawlessness are being sown and they will bear fruit in the generations yet unborn, unless something is done to create a sentiment in favor of law . -and order. We must set up a standard and then work to it, but so long as we go along and condone the lawbreaker, it matters not what the offense may b?, we are sowing seeds that will bear fruit to our undoing; we will leave a heritage for our children that will not be to our credit, i This is not only true as to v.he civil laws on our statute books, but it applies as well to our conduct and the standard that we set up of right liv-; ing and right thinking. , Judge Watkins says further in this same excellent charge: "Let us have a standard in our community and let it be so high our children will net reap the seed of this lawlessness. Those veterans who wore the Grey returned from the conflict law-abiding, God-fearing, debt paying citizens and that is the heritage they gave us. What heritage are we leaving for our children?" That is a very imonrj ji vprv solemn Question ]/VlbttUV M??Vk ^ --v, which it would be well for every good citizen to ask himself. What heritage aTe you endeavoring to leave to your children? What are you doing to set up the propel- standard of living in your community? What are you doing to help mould that public sentiment that will stand for righteousness, and that will be so strong chat the lawbreaker will not have h:s standing in the community, whether it be the breaker of the statute law or, the laws of society. I Speaking of "forceful charges'* by the judges, both state and federal, the Abbeville Press and Banner makes this comment: "What does the man, 1 ~ 1 ^nll^rs in wno IIltth.es LWW uivudHiivt --five months in the pursuit of a criminal avocation care when he may with a part of his ill-gotten gains pay the . law's penalty." That may be one way of creating a healthy public sentiment against law1r>? -1" *- Vio o yiorVtr iessness. cmi mere niuo. c* thinking and a right standard set up to which we will endeavor to live before we can get the right sort of public sentimen:, and even heavy peni-, tentiary sentences will not deter the criminal, though we saw it stated that crime was lowest in percentage among the Chinese of any other nation, and it may be that the old custom among! these peoples of the infliction of the death sentence for all crimes was a strong deterrent to crime. The belief that punishment is certain will act very strongly as a preventative. No doubt about that. And it may b3 that in many cases our judges have been too lenient in the imposition of sentences. But the surest preventive, is a hearty and wholesome public sentiment in favor of rifht living-. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, in a speech at Anderson the other day stated that failure of America to ratify the peace treaty, had more to do with the business depression than any other one cause and that it was responsible for the low price of cotton and the cry that there is over production, and therefore ro demand for the cotton. And we have been and are of the same opinion as Mr. Daniels and have said so several +v,:c Ahmit three Times uciuic fourths of our cotton was sold abroad and the failure to ratify the treaty has been responsible in large measure for the taking: away from :'ie producer the large market for his products. And there is going: to be continued depression until a peace treaty is * signed and the channels of the normal trade are opened. It has helped to make a few people rich,but the real producers of all the wealth of the? world, and the only wealth, have had . a* . to suffer and are still sunume. ^ There can be no overproduction of [a cotton or of food stuffs so lor.sr as V ! there are peoples in the world suffer- ,:i ! injr for the lack of proper clothing h | ami starving for the lack of proper h : nourishment, and what we r?ivd to; u i open proper trade relations with the u ; peopled of the world, and give them a an opportunity to ko to work and b make what they need to eat and to a wear. It would be a whole lot better r than to be? for them and to jrive them j c : from our abundance. Better let them ; \ have the opportunity to work and ( then thev will feel better and be bet-is * . ter. j a ? ?- 11 I Wp fpel sometimes that if some of : the folk who are endeavoring to have v | ' i ' the street paving: extended from the college on to the city limits would de-' ^ vote just a little of that energy to ^ Lave the driveways and the walks in J f I ^ u Rosemont improved that thev would! ? . ' * accomplish much more. At least their, c (energy would be directed in the ri.srht j. 1 way. A good road from Ohe college j to the city limits will serve every. + I t i good purpose, but certaialy something j should be done to the driveways in ^ the cemetery. We know it is very! ^ difficult ?to get the trustees of Ro.-e-j ( 1? ? < ! a om?f oinnr mont even to perjc .v l?u uw ?uvy chw.^, ^ 'or to suggest anything in this place,: * i * ' i and we know also that they will nc*':1 _ i a do anything themselves. The man ; who is there told us the other day j j : when we asked him about cleaning; some of the rubbish out of -the drive- A way that -he had nothing to do with n I that, that it was a street anr the duty j ^ to kep up the streets and to clean the i ^ rubbish out was a part of the duty of; the town. We do mot know about! i 1 c that, but if it is then the town should j" , -j. I v send its force over th^re ana spena m least a half hour cleaning out the jc J strets and filling up the ditches and j 1 | , g make some sort of effort to keep them j ,from washing into gulleys. Here is a;* good work for the civic association ja and more important than having the i ^ I , j i It : paving expended. | . i ? it. ' n We notice from our local columns j ^ that there has bee one colored driver. brought before ?':he magistrate forjc speeding and a fine of $10 imposed. I That is all risrht, but we would like' . r - ? +v?a fatinwe Viio^Vipv ntf, to see suiijc vt nic ii.uvhU ...0? _ ^ brought up for this speeding business, j so that the people who travel may be|^ assured that there is no respectcr of; .person in this matter. If the traveling., public comes to understand that they ^ will be pulled if they speed on these *, roads there will be less of it, and the only way to teach them is to bring them up when they violate* the law. j , Over in Greenwood county and in | Laurens county they are bringing j1' them up for violating the speed law! and the travelers are beginning to re '|r alize the fact that they will be fined; * ?i if they violate the law, ana mere ii' more respect for it. It is not only,^, necessary to stop t'he speeding in or-! der to save the lives of ?the people,11 who travel, but it is also necessary in i 0 order to save the roads. Twenty-five ; a miles the hour is plenty fast on anyj." road. It is aboi^t the speed of a pas- i11 senger train in this section where the;v train has a track upon which to run!n and nothing is supposed to be in the J [ way. j ^ ? j s' In going to Whitmire on Monday 0 afternoon we drove down by the G'b- 11 son place, now the Brown place, and !a on by Kings creek. The road is bad I J1 and especially from Kings creek to;1S CuKor'? From there to^ iVIl. UUilil i?x. uuuv> - WhVmire it is very good. The cross- i * ing at Indian cieek is bad and the Je high hill leading up to Mr. Suber's (^ is about as bad as it ever gets at this j n time of the year. The new road that is being built j is going around by Bc?h Eden andjSl comes into the Appalachian highway!*1 at Mr. John Baker's. Just how it is ! * ' going from here we do not know. We j ^ understand that Vt is to come into'1' Whitmire around by Mt. Tabor church a leaving the Appalachian highway just j11 above Mr. John M. Suber's, but of this, a we ar not sure. There are a great ic many hills all through this section and j * ; it is going to be a difficult road to!1' j build any way you go, but by good jc engineering they mav be aide to go!*' ! V ' around the hills and bv ge:tin* ? lit- * tie more than a one degree curve ^ ! n-ay ne able xr keon t:;.? pri!'; d:Avnjc to normal. Certain y we nee 1 a road ,u out to Whitmire. 111 ? ! a \ That was a fine essay by taric k Chandler in the Newberry hi^h school j si i contest for the Aull essay medal on j o the Agricultural Problem of the J w South. Jt was published in the last p , issue of this paper and if you did not a read it you should hunt up a copy of j a i the paper and read it. Mr. Chandler ti J is a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Chand-! A | ler of West End. Newberry. j is r <t? <s> <?> <i> <S> <?> w <s> <$> &> ><$><?> <$> j n I +> gl ; & AMONG THL SUI-hjul:? 0 j" ? o | <?> <s> -3> <$><$ <$> <s> ?> <$> $> ?> <$> <?> $> ^ j, Whit mire j j] j I could not attend the class day ex- j; Iercises of the Whitmire school, be-'a cause of a previous engagement to he 1 s i t Little Mountain that night. Mr.) Vilson said he had a contest in dec-la- ' lation by several young ladies which e would have on Monday night, and ii' would postpone the announcement r .\ ?!1 ! !I lilt' Willilt'I 1>1 lili." U i 1 tSO<ltV Iiiv-Iiai < mtil that night, if 1 would come over . nd bring; President Derrick of Xewerry college alonir. This I agreed to. ,nd on Monday afternoon I hooked ay "ninety day wonder'' and we I rove over in the early afternoon and tad a fine supper with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilson, and then went to the chool house where there had already .ssembled a large audience to hear he exercises. There was a contest n declamation by seven girls, and it j vas one of the bee that I have everj learii. There was not a poor one in he lot. In fact it was a very difficult ask to say which was the best and hen the judges did nc<i agree. The tverage was fine and every one deerved a medal, and certainly the lighest commendation for the manner i n wViifh thev recited. It evidenced ! " "_V'v he most' careful training. The folowing young ladies were in the cones!: Misses Mayme Nelson, Eugenia Sard^n, Minnie Lou Reid, Sara McCarley, Virgie Mae Deas, Rosalyn lhannon, Mary Mayer. The medai was J /on by Virgie Mae Deas with honorble mention of Sara McCarley, the nesenration being by the Rev. Mr. loss. The Aull essay medal was won by iliss' Mary Mayer with honorable lention of Miss Minnie Lou Reid, the I >rese.-i ation was made by Col. E. II. Lull. I President Derrick made a good j peech suitable to the occasion ami it i*as thoroughly enjoyed and appreiated by the audience. I hope to ave now closer relations be) ween this chool and the college than has hereof ore existed in a better acquaintnces among them. When we get the ood road built it will bring 'the two owns closer together, and that means hat the college will be closer to Whit-1 lire and Whitmire closer to the col?ge. Some of these high school boys nd girls should come to Newberry ollege from Whitmire, and that is rhat I. mean by establishing closer elations between the two towns. Mr. ) Vilson has done good work a*t Whit- ; lire the past?session and will continue I be fine work during the coming year. I hope t>hat the trustees will see ! lat all claims against the district for bis school year are approved and sent o my office just as soon as possible. I will not approve any claim al> er be 15th of June until the school year 5 closed. ji The above story \va? written for .the j1 1st issue of the paper, but so many j 1 ds came in at the last moment that {; 3me other stuff had to give way that' he pa -t which kept the mill grinding! light have right of way. The editor): r the reporter or the correspondent!' lways feels that his stuff should have he right of. way,, but the one who is 1 the counting room can appreciate ; ery keenly the kind of stuff that 1 mst hnvp the rizht of way in the or inary country newspaper if the mill I > to keep grinding. So it happens < ometimes that what even the editor j; r the reporter or the correspondent :; lay deem as exceedingly important, ; Imost in the class of the d. i. m. class ( as to be held over for a subsequent < sue to give room for that which j] eeps rhe whec-ls going round and j cund and makes it possible for the j ditor and the reporter to have a job. i ind so it is frequently I let my school ; latter stand for a subsequent paperi \ i And that reminds me to say that j ometimes I hear people say the paper , as nothing but schools in it, or that ( ' J in I . hey want to see wnat is sums w. ... , w schools. Well, I am glad to hear < nese remarks, because even if they i re not meant to be complimentary ^ ; means that the people are reading ? bout the schools as contained in this!, olumn, and that is what I want. If J, can get them to read this column,, here is hope that it will do good, be-1 ] ause there is no bigger thing before i, tiis generation than the schools. Ij( ave felt that even our own legislative . ^Wation. when it came to matters j . i oncerning the schools, have looked h pon the department as of secondary , nportance, and have paid no heed to , ny requests that have been made ] Doking to the betterment of the | ehools or the building in this county! f a system of schools that would be ;orth while, but if I can get the peo- , le to read th;s column and to think bout these things there will be an wakening, and it will be for the bet- j erment of the schools of this county. l!1 that is necessary to do something ji ; to get the people aroused and to j ealize the importance of the depart-1 writ and that the building of go oil | chool houses in the county and thej; rjranizinjr of pood schools through- ; ut the rural communities is of vast-J ?* more importance, and will do more :, n the enforcement of the laws of the and, than the building: of fine jails nd that the organization of the chool folk will do more in the mak-l ?r i lif iidiuwdin Nftw ^ We have ji pattern V< and Colore* mand now. unusually a * I s fiwHni ing of a law-abiding citizenship than : Thursday the organization of the finest systen> direction of policemen that you coukl possibly called fc organize. And that it will be worth about the a whole Jot more to our county, and of the cc we will f&el better and be better to: school. 1 be known as the county that has the ing up an finest system of schools in the state, that will than the county that has he finest jail, I say thin though wejare and should all be proud The peopl that we have made it so that the; school an< Ml 1 ~ C* V\ *1 1 /I hot prisoners win nave immune ucauuciu. cuuuiu nu That is right and proper but what we j what I ca ivant is for our peoi'le to realize that, we do nol the department of education in the put on a county is no longer simply a disburs-; nine rnoni ing office, where the school claims are maria n< approved, but. that ii is in reality the doing in most important department of the was a :cunty government, 'and that a good day evei school in every community in New- j ed the rig oeiry county will do more and be Mr. -J. H worth more in the development of a and made P.ne citizenship, and will be more po- teach the honf i*n nnlift nf nur neonle. than any other factor in the county. To T _ j JL W cl S o ( ;hat end the people must magnify the : ^ office and the department, not the of-. prjf|ay ev ficer, and let our legislative delegation] , . , , enough to understand that when tnev come to: . . . . * , . . meht t:mi consider matters pertaining to the ed- ^vo ^eacj1( ucation of our children they are con-', , had a nini sidering the most vital thing that has balance Lo do with the life of this county, and A , , o. /. t next s the most important. So if- I can get , n , , , , T ,, and Gertr ;he people to read tnis column I w.ll ,, , i ...u_ +urt"the Past 1 ?et them interested ana mien mc . . , J , , ...... return foi people get aroused they will do things or know the reason why: And this all T I nromif leads me to remark what 1 have said1 . ^ , , , ^ at Reeder nanv times before, that we can not T i , , , as I was i 2ven begin to lav the foundation for ? . , , * , C. -Alatthe anv sort 01 svstem of schools ,, . . ' , ., . tnere was n this countv, and to build was necesj tor the future, until we know ,, ...... , the recorc ivhere the sc-hcol district lines are, and . , , , , ... should be :hat one of the most important tilings , . ., i , * u -i ' ; only thing in the development of a scnool svstem , . . , , ,. 'here and ror tne countv is to nave the lines, . J . obey as n made and a map of tne countv so that ,, . . > . . tn:s picnic ivo mnv kr.nw what we are doing > , >vhen we come to consider the buildin<r of a school house, and this thing I have asked the legislative delega-^ ? tion to do, but mv request has 'fallen-,,. V , r ' -ii -,llss Iren r>n deaf ears. \ot even considered. One year is lost and may be another ? tl?U | will be, but the thing: will come the'^ommuil4t. . .... to secure next vear but the children are not ... , . . * .. . will be net waitmir, thev are passing on out of ,, , , ' ,, , . , . will secur the scnools. (icntlemen, the cnildrer. , ... x . , that we n ire the bluest asset the countv has. , ... , , . , the com in; Worth more than the heirs and the cattle. But more of this for another j issue. ;. Lost?Or.i : blem of I attended a meeting of the good | pjease i people of the Pomaria' district on last j (5.7, cRaKoanBiiBaBBH^KsscsaBHBBaBanHBBWHsawi ? I ist received tl >ile and Dre j A., J:_ ? u vjrganuie su The qualities. ttractive. ;1I Home evening. It was under the i Death of a of the civic- association and! Ruth Rebecca, 1 >r the purpose of talking: daughter of Mr. am school and the improvement Brooks of the count: mditions and bettering the morning at 3 o'clocl tell you the people are wak- at Enoree church .? d you will hear a noise soon j at 5 o'clock, servit arouse some other things.: Carson. gs, yes, that's a good word, j - --c + i Calvin Gilder; co! " LfllS U.btl it I W & ill a ii i^ii j ? ? ? ;1 it seems to me that they' mitted to jail S; :e one and I am going to do j Sheriff Cannon G n to help them to get it. If charged with assault : get one this year we will, intent to kill by sho< nother teacher and run a gun one Caldwell, c< ths school. Watch Po- j Q- Wilson's place Sa dw and see s omethingj' * school matters. There: The sashes of colli fine meeting on Thurs- . the corner posts 1 ling. The people show-,around the girls?or Kt cnivif nrwl rmirh interest, i the posts are not . Bedenbaugh was present graceful and pretty a good talk. He is going to j school the coming year. , Jurors for the se: j vening July 4 will 117. Drry that I could not get to ; Ml if of the Kinards scnool 011 Charged with ass ening, but I was not well Frank Wrig.ht co]ore ' undertake the trip m the ( arrested and jailed t TVn'c i"c! nno nf thp fine 1 t t J. X 11 lO X J VliV W i. v>. w . . __ ! -Li. iU. I kjaiuLuc ?r rural schools and one that, _! ?^ 1 months term and will have J When a Colu' in the treasury to start; Sp0ke of furniture ession. Misses Lucy Risei people, it is of cou ude Smith who have taught' people# Typographi session so successfully will. in all newspapers. ' the next session. [this for the benefit o : people. It. is so easj cd to attend a school picnic se* ^link for ^]jni ville on Saturday but just'we shouId write of ibout ready to start Mr. B. lace on a woman>s \\ s called me and said that,^j.pes an "j certain information that it jace sary to have gotten up from is in my office, and that it ; The ]ittle grandchad that day, and that the -p q p00]>s were ; for me to do was to Siay|urdav afternoon, \v1 get it. Of course I had to by a number of iitt tueh as I regretted to missj pjsyin(r jn th(, ,arge The school house at this' J,f "Mrs p00,.g bea. been finished and painted; Harrington street, rrmrids cleaned off and it is : n f '.he neatest and best of the MEETING OF CITI er schools in the county.! HEAR REPORT e Workman has consented j he coming session and the: The trustees of y is exceedingly fortunate ; city schools will mak her services. An assistant, port to the citizens ?ded and I hope the trustees j school district, in th e one at an early date so j Friday, June 10th, a lay have a fine school here W. G. Ma; x session. J. Y. McFall, r n A NOTICE TO ABUT ? , TY OW.N 1 rord radiator top with em- Xotice is hcrebv tr American Lejrion on top. j tinjr property owne return to D. A. Livingston, street in the Town IC., between Friend Istreet, that pursuan / is IJ^jL ACS A A M.)3 | te pretty new ss Ginghams * much in de# and prices are Patterns lenter, Inc. 1 ? 4 n Infant , 'filed with the Town Council of said the 2-months-old Town by two-thirds of said abutting i Mrs. George L. i property owners and an Ordinance of * \i- j c" j 'said Town providing for the permay, died on Sundaj, , ngnt improvement of said street, that k and was buried the assessment roll, showing the Sunday afternoon j amount to be assessed against the e bv Dr J W.' particular pieces of property abutting 'on said street, has been filed in th<j j office of the Clerk and Trea^uror of " ; I the said Town and the same will le lored, was com- rnain there for one week from- the aturday night by' date of the publication of this notice. Biease He is'Any anc* Peri<ons concerned in said , , * ..." assessment roll may inspect the same ana battery with;anfj :n writing with the Clerk and )ting with a shot-, Treasurer exceptions or oDjections 10 Diored on Mr D suc h assesment or any one of such asturday afternoon, jfessmenis. After the expiration of J i tne period of one week from the puo! ligation of this notice said assessege colors around ment roll, together with such excep?i? Hnn<? nr nhiV.^tions as may have filed OOK ilKe sasnes ; ,i*? thereto, will be referred to ihe Town , c * i Council, for corrections md ratificaby any means as tion and such action as the Town and short. . Council may see fit to take. j Published this the 7th day of June, saons court con-11921. } w> CH\PMAN, be drawn June C]erk & Treasure?> Town of Newberry, S. C. 6-7-11 ault and battery NOTICE JURY DRAWING. d, of Helena was Notice is hereby given that we, . t\ ,,(j. the undersigned Jury Commissioners n Deputy bheritt ,^or xew berry, will at 9 o'clock a. m., ty? | June 17th, in the Clerk of Court's of fice, openly and publicly draw the mbia newspaper ina es. of Jhirty-su men to serve as : -petit jurors, for the Court of Cornmade by b.mk .mon pjeas aruj General Sessions rse meant blind ; which convenes at 10 o'clock a. m., ical errors occur July 4th, 1921. ! J. D. WHEELER, only mention j j B HALFAcRE? f some Newberry j C. C. C. SCHUMPERT, r for the machine Jury Commissioners for Newberry d, the same as if County. ' some beautiful i "TT I | . . . n - ! oBck Ached All -? The Time hildren at Mrs. ^ a n!,rtv Sat" n:JN?? Art Fr*elv. Followed lich was enjoyed i by Rheumatism Attacks. Tells How le invited guests I Dreco Gave Quick Relief. and shadv snaces! ~ This is what Mr. C. F. Jenkinsori of Lit if ul place off 212 YV. Liberty St., Sumter. S. C.. says: 1 ; "For u number of years I hnve suffered from rheumatism and awful pains in my hack and limbs. Sometimes it 7FN<; TO fwraed I could not keep at work for z.c.i>o ikj those terrible pains. Mv appetite fell OF TRUSTEES off.J[ didn't sleep well, and was bothered with constipation very much. Recently ? j my joints and hands began to swell up \* ,..u ! an(1 wcre very painful, ana my muscles trie oeir> , ached. I had about decided that I ' ---- rmiirin't ever cot straight airain. as every e tneir annual re-j . , , ,, , thing I had tried failed. A friend asked of the Newberry' eh* one day why I didn't give I)reco a , , * trial, as it was working wonders with e court house on; many people. I Ifought a bottle, and It f nV1r>r-W r> m i helped me so much I got the second. ' " ' and it is truly wonderful the pood it has i*es, Chairman. ; done me. The swelling is all gone and the pains have left me. My appetite has Secretary. I returned : I sleep sound, and am entirely relieved of constipation. Dreeo has sureljr TTMP PPOPFR helped me when other things have failed, l x.\vj aR(j j (]on-r hesitate to speak a good IERS. i word for it." 1? ;" " v,n.mi(.co romftdv hut aura f rv fWp n h 11 T - * '? VW 13 a uai UJICOO * v"?v .rf ? ? *' u L ,, v snd ccrtaln. It is made from tho pure, rs upon v Oiiejrc , natural juices of roots and herbs and of Newberry, S. contains no mineral acids or dangerous und Vair metallic salts. c an Dreco is sold by inost good druggists, t tu the petition fintj highly reivuniueiideu