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I VOLUME JLVII, NUMBER 82. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 ,1921. . ' ' TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR \ ' NEWS OF THE WHITE WAY ? GIVEN THE HERALD AND NEWS ^ Superintendent Homer W. Schumpert Writes Interestingly in Answer to Request of Reporter We asked Superintendent Schumert about the lights for the new White Way and he gave us some data from ^ which he said we could take what we wanted. It is all so interesting we print it in full, as it would spoil in curtailing: Dear Mr. Greneker: In compliance with your cour:eous request for information concerning our new White Way system, I shall *> now ask and attempt to answer some , of the many questions which are daily asked about this system?and subcoi/? -fmm which veu mav i>e iUib OftJu ittvw x? ? . _ ? - able to select something of interest for your paper/ 1st. Have the long looked for poles aacrived? 'Yes, but the ornamen.al cappings and glasfware are still en k \ route. * \ 2nd. How many poles were order^ ed? Eigjrty-five. 3rd. Are they to reipain black in color? No, we expect to follow th? advice of the King Mfg. Co. (of Chicago) and paint the entire iron work a very dark green. 4th. Has all the material arrived? No, but the above said glassware will, when received, be the last required /V for immediate service. / 5th. If globes are not all, then what next? Well, as our proposed Singlelight, Duo-^Flux standard will be the second of its kind in the' states, we - * ' ? ? J xi n are forced to go siow ana uiu? msiau only that portion which is absolutely < sure. TJie agent of General Electric company <which company designed and made the top3> has assured us that these unbought relay cut-outs will soon, be ready for market, and that he expects to sell said accessories I to us at cost. 6th. Just what is the object of the - above fifth ftfem? this is necessitated by the fact that as bngnt ngnts are ; needed only during the first part of the night, some method of reducing I lighting expense must be employed afI ter midnight; and consequently it is" I proposed to place a *tip-up, 400 c. p. ' light in the base of the one big globe ^ and the big light is to burn until some I predetermined hour, after which the &id relay will trip the current onto a 100 c. p. tip-down lamp (which we I hope to later install in the top of this same over-all globe). 7th. If other cities are not em -1 2 V? r\ur ploying tnis reiay trip, uicu juci, uun do they accomplish this dimming after midnight? We understand that-they install just double the xrable and connect" every-other post to one of the two cables; and burn both circuits until midnight, after which time one of the circuits is turned off. uruo* 4c +V10 to the ObUU TV iiav ao viiv wj ? ? 7th item? In the first place the cable is very expensive (we toould have to purchase 20 M. feet instead of the installed 10 M. feet) and then too it - is agreed that all light burning dirrJIy after midnight is more pleasing to tourists, etc., than the system where f ovrAv other lamo is entirely dead. In \ the 2-cable system, the larger lights > burn out earlier than in the system which we hope finally to have; and as the 100 c. p. tip-down lamps are only 30 per cent the cost of the exi pensive 400 c. p. lamps, this is to be considered. 9th. Until this new system is ready for market, and as we actually have rtnlv nns r?hlp. will we not be forced V"V ' , '4 to burn the 400 c. p. lamps all night? No, we can dim our tub transformer at the power house until these said large lights reduce to about 100 c. p. at which service their lives are greatly prolonged and^here will be a large saving in power. But not so great as in the desired new system. 10th. In what portion of the city will lights be stationed? On both sides of Main street, from between railroad tracks to upper side of MowI er's new garage; and on north side of Friend street from railroad u. Coates; and on south side of Harrington from McKibben to College; and on Boyce street, and also all around the old court house and in vicinity. 11th. Is the single globe type newer than the 5 cluster type? It most certainly is! For "unity means strength and efficiency;" and even by bunching the fingers of your hand before your face you are enabled to demonstrate the fact that the rear * and side fingers are 'not in absolute view of your eye and consequntly could not radiate unobstructed light if they were capable of doing so. Or in other words, light rays will thus be obstructed by adjacent arms, other glassware, lamps and filliments, to the possible extent of about one half of your light wasted. But are not the 5 clusters more or? ? ? 9 T nrtf +Viir>lr en* Vill f ilCtlUCIi l<Cli . X UV UVU IIUUIU UV) IVM. admitting such as the case; the primary object is light! Hence why not strive for your money's worth?or else place a^ pot of lovely flowers on each corner. If glassware arrives within the next six days, how long before lighting system will be completed for use? About five days after receipt of said final material. What do we propose to do about the unsightly wire and old wooden poles in the white way district? It :s earnestly hoped that each store and building will place his entrance or ^ u:? I cut-in wires in tnc veni* u? ma uuauing, and thus enable the commissioners to construct new and up to date lines on the rear streets and alley ways and finally to remove every line pole and wire from the white way district. Do the commissioners have enough money to make this change? They will have enough if each property owner will consent to do his part relative to changing his cut-in to the rear, and thus make our streets more sightly and certainly more safe against lightning and storms. You pay one half for paving adjacent to your property; why not pay small cost of changing and improving your wiring? Respectfully submitted, H. W. Schumpert, Supt. 1 Same as in Saratoga } j The uniquue lighting system now being inaugurated in Ne^Eerry is the jsame as that in use in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. It speaks well for this city that one of the two Sighting systems of the kind is in our city. You can get some iclea of it by reading the follownig: Along with other projects devised in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to stimulate 1 *? 1 A _"?o m All C popular interest m mia nvnu-xaaivuv watering resort, the Saratoga chamber of commerce has advocated and successfully carried through a movement to establish a modern system of lightjing on Broadway, the main thoroughjfare of the city, and through Congress park. W. D'A. Ryan, director of the illuminating Engineering laboratory of the General Electric company, was requested to design a lighting system for the city, and he decided to equip ! Broadway with the initial installation | of the new Duo-Flux lighting unit. This is the result of engineering investigations of several years' extent. It is a lighting fixture which combines beauty in design with a distinctive utilitarian feature. There are two i lamps of unequal canc|le*<power Jin each globe, and by the means of a relay cut-out, operated by short-circuiting the transformer at the station, the large lamp is extinguished at m;anight and the smaller one lighted. iThis arrangement will permit the use i illuminat.iort at. midnight j without a duplication of lighting cirj cuits. The Broadway standard is co> lonial in design and has two Duo! 0 Flux units. MANY CONTRASTS SHOWN IN SPECTACULAR FILM I "What's Your Reputation Worth?" a Corinne Griffith production, which will be shown at the opera house on Thursday, is a film of contrast, j Wealth contrasted with poverty, beaujty contrasted with plainness, the j crowded city against nature's beauties in the open country, the cabaret Ion New York's "Great White Way" (set off by the simplicity of the plain jfare in a country farmhouse after the sleigh-ride are some of the oddosites shown in this picture. The varied incidents, the rapid succession of events and the intensely human story, together with the remarkable ability of the star make this picture one of J 1 1 Jn/ifmnp r\ ? f Q rOilV |me oesi, piuuuuiui^ v/i vnv Richardson-Glymph Miss Olive L. Richardson and Mr. j E. K. Glymph were married at Pomaria on Thursday by the Rev. H. A. Kistler. All of Pomaria. The way to <ret business is 10 get busy. . 'CROP ESTIMATE AT LOW FIGURE Condition in Scuth Carolina Cotton Production Placcd at Forly Per Cent of Normal '] Washington, Oct. 3.?Further de cline in the condition of cotton during September resulted n the reducton of 500.000 bales in the forecast 'of production, issued today by the department of agriculture, which places the total crop at 6,537,000 equivalent 500 pound bales. C \ ' The condition of teh crop September 25 was estibated to be 42.2 per icent of normal, indicating a yield of 118 pounds per acre. The* forecast of production; in ; equivalent 500 pound bales, and the ' condition of the crop on September '25, in percentage of normal by states, follows: Virginia: Forecast, 10,000, and condition, 53. North Carolina: 489,000 and 54. South Carolina: 644,00 and 40. Georgia: 722,000 and 33. Florida: 16,000 and 50. Alabama: 468,000 and 46. Mississippi: 646,000 and 48. Louisiana: 245,000 and 41. Texas: 1,863,000 and 38. Arkansas: 677,000 and 53. Tennessee: 217,000 and 62. Missouri: 48,000 and 70. s Oklahoma: 405,000 and 38. California: 68,000 and 73. Arizona: 45,000 and 81. All other states: 7,000 and 83. Forecast of Lower California's production was placed at 31,000 bales, included in California's total, but excluded from United States' total. Cotton ginned prior to September j 25 amounted to 2,907,950 running j bales, including 69,319 round bales, [counted as half bales, 2,376 bales of j American-Egyptian and 229 bales of sea island, the 'CSrTSus bureau announced today. | To September 25 last year ginjnings were 2,249,606 bales, including 75,026 round bales, 3,365 bales of 'American-Egyptian and 37 bales of sea island. Ginnings by states this year to (September 25 follow: J Alabama, 229,927; Arizona, 2,970; .Arkansas, 152,050; California, 1,182; j Florida, 3,567; Georgia, 391,756; ! Louisiana, 100,851; Mississippi, 251,.001; Missouri, 14,376; North Carolina, 141,757; Oklahoma,* 139,405; South Carolina, 215,290; Tennessee, |42,l'o0; Texas, 1,220,281; -Virginia, 11,051; all other states, 354. I New York, Oct. 3.?One of the i most .rapid and exciting movements , of the spectacular sessions on the cotj ton exchange occurred today in con, nection with the publication of the , government's crop reports. After an j early rise of unusual proportions, prices broke violently until within ten .minutes a reaction of 125 to 195 , points had been recorded. Before the publication of the report there was a good deal of buying in expectation that the figures would show a con| dition of 40 or under. When the acttnal figures of 42.2 were flashed on I the brokers' wires and new tickers I the market was overwhelmed with 1 selling orders. December contracts i j which rose approximately 20.50 to :21.Go, a new high mark for the sea| son on the sharp early upturn, slumpI ed to 20.00 and active months gener1 ally wer emarked down for net losses j of 30 to 65 points. Almost as quickly as it came, the rush of liquidation subsided, and the market became steadier on trade buyi inn- ivith rppnvpvios in the later trad I"1* ling. ! In brokrage houses crowds of i traders were lined up in front of the ! cotton boards. The government rej port, pointing to a crop of 6,537,000 I bales, was only slightly above the av! erage of the private reports recently 1 issued, and the selling which followed publication of the figures :was attributed chiefly to liquidation ! of speculative accounts. l i | New Orleans. Oct*. 3.?Gains of a quarter of a cent a pound on cot! tracts for delivery this year were re| tained by cotton in the New Orleans market today after one of the most ! exciting days in the history of the local exchange. The outside public looked upon the (government crop condition report and the report of ginnings as bullish and |a ce.rtan foreshadowing of a cotton famine before the year is out. The public buying supported the market and gave it a good rally after i it had dipped approximately two cents 'a pound immediately after the reading of the crop report which did not 'show as heavy deteri-oraton as had been expected. PEACEMAKER iT NEW ROLE FOR BUCK JONES \ "Strainr'pf Frnm the Shoulder." a , William Fox picture starring Buck j Jones, will ije the attraction Sl't the .'opera house?Xuesday. j I "Strai^fej|rom^ths Shoulder" is ' about a big lieartbq westerner who j has made a habit of being a peacemaker. His success5 these efforts 'are due mainly to hillability to fight for peace; and he fi/ids many who 'don't like his kind in1"the great wild |west. He is quick with his fists and he is A No. 1 on speed in drawing a gun; and regardless of the knocks he gets he is always ready to keep at it. All the scenes are laid in the west and some pretty photographic effects have been made by F"rank Good, the cam era man. Helen Ferguson is Jones' i-jading woman in "Straight from the Shoulder." .Norman Shelby, well-known to the newspaper reading public as Kid McCoy, former heavy-weight pugilist, plays "Wild Bill" Higgins. Herschel Mayall and G.' Raymond Nye also have improtant parts, Nye being the "bad man," as usual. / "7 YEARS BAD LUCK" IS FUNNIEST PICTURE INew Robertson-Cole Super-Special Production Gives Max Linder His Best Role ? You'll agree that the funniest picture you have ever seen is "Seven Years Bad Luck," a. new RobertsonCole super-special with Max Linder, which will be here Wednesday. For the first time in years, ths moving picture lover is privileged to see a I roaring*comedy which has not the least suggestion of slapstick humor in any of its five ree's. Max Linder returns to the scresn- after a notable record in the army of Franc? during tVip late war. To see him again is to know how much he has ben missed. You may divine that the "Seven Years Bad Luck" comes to Max through the breaking of a iooking glass. But this is all you will be able to dope out. There i? a series of convulsing episodes which, until he has seen the picture, are beyond the imagination of the layman. With Max Linder is a strong cast including: Thelma Percy, Alta Allen, Betty Peterson, Loca Gonzales, Harry Mann, Chance Ward, Ralph McCul.lonn-h and Hugh Saxon. Large and Fine Pecans Since mentioning pecans we have another story to relate. Mr. W. I. Herbert of the Utopia section has shown us some pecans that are worthy of relating in these columns. ' ve i years ago Mr. Herbert's son, Mr. John IE. Herbert, budded the trees. They I have been bearing for two years, but this year the first good crop was borne. The nuts are of the Admiral Schley variety, so named for the fa* mous admiral at the time of the battle of Manila, when this variety was first introduced. Mr. Herbert has a hicki at-tt hparins: the same nut. He yji j v*w w jhas budded about twenty hickory 'trees this year and intends to turn all the small hickories on his place j into pecan trees this "year by topj budding, as this is a good year for 'budding on account of the sap in the trees in July. Paving Extended Thp balance of the work settled in eludes the following sidewalks: | McKibben street from Main to Boyce. j Boyce from end of paving to McKibben. College from Boundary to south end of street. Caldwell from Z. F. Wright's to C. |H. Cannon's. 'j Johnstone from McKibben to Cald' j well. Drayton from Main to Jones' store. Academy from crossing to Rodelsperger, and from Davis to Cromer. ! Poplar and Lyles streets. Perhaps some people prefer to be J miserable because time doesn't fly so rapid! v. i J PAGEANT PRESENTED BY YOUNG PEOPLE'S BAND Excellent Presentation of "The Search for the Light" at Opera House Sunday Evening. A pageant, "The Search for the Light," was presented by the Young People's Mission band of the1 Church } of the Redeemer at the opera house |Sunday evening before a vast throng 'of ^ewberrians. The pageant was j written by Laura Scherer Copenhaver land Katheii.ie Schei?er Crok, and its 'presentation Sunday evening was i i j-iiiost impressive ana pleasing. J Just prior to the pageant Dr. C. A. j Freed, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, read a passage of Scripture, the 96th Psalm, and led in prayer, after which an offering was taken. J The choir opened the regular program with the song, "Lead on, 0 King !Eternal," and the-pageant was presented with the following as an outline of the story: | America with her hand-maidens j enters and calls for a pageant of the ! nations of the earth in search of the light of truth. She calls on the . trumpeters to herald the pageant and the trumpeters come forward to lnar Ki<4rl}>1 o- The interpreter of U \J liv^i * ..w .... x | history* and the seeker for light enter. The seeker says she has searched over the world for the light but has failed , to find it. As she names the different | peoples and religions through whom 1 the has sought the light the represeni tatives of these sects enter. Judg, ment is passed on them and through | their own testimony it is learned that , they have not found the light. The I interpreter asks if the seeker has 1 sought the light among the Christans j of the world and the seeker has not. i Then the prophets enter and read of the coming of Christ?and a bright star shines in the midst of darkness, , while songs of praise are sung by the i choir. A group of children from nonj Christian lands enters and a repre. sprtative of the crroup asks that the ! light be brought to them. The handi maidens of the church enter, bearing . lighted torches and in their midst is j the Church?bringing the, Word of ' God from which she reads. America j tells of her opportunities for learning I of the light. The Church then calls j for volunteers from the ranks of the I young manhood, and womanhood of I America. _This call is answered and | numbers of volunteers are given the | torch of light by the hand-maidens of I the Church. When the seeker ot j light and the non-Christians hear the ! Word and learn the great message , they bow humbly before tlie Church and acknowledge that they have found the light. The Church, bearing the cross of Christ, leads the processional from the stage. The characters appeared in appropriate costumes and the acting was well done. All who saw this pageant Sunday evening were high in their praise of it and those having part de1 envvo rvmr>Vi proHit for the manner in which it was carried out. rm TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MrcT WFYT Q ATI IRHAY i ivy njujt i. k/i > | ) The county teachers association ' will meet next Saturday at the high 'school building in Newberry at 10:30 ' o'clock in the forenoon. All the teachers of the county and ' th trustees are urged to attend. State | Superintendent of Education J. E. : Swearingen has promised to be presI ent and talk to the teachers and trusI N j tees and I want a large attendance. ; He requests a brief program preced| ing his address to consist of a talk by j some of the trustees and teachers and j the following has.been suggested and j those named will please be prepared I to give five or ten minutes talks. The relation of the high school to the community, Prof. C. M. Wilson and Trustee J. B. Derrick. The relation of the rural graded school to the community, Miss Mattie j Cromer and Trustee J. H. Diekert. ! The relation of the one teacher j school to the community,/Miss Mamie i Crooks and Trustee Werts. j The Whitmire teachers are coming in a body and I hope the trustees will also be present. Whitmire will furnish the music for the meeting with the violin and other string instruments and the piano. I hope Little Mountain and Pomaria and Prosperity and , Chappells and .Silverstreet and others | will also come in n body. We want to make this a rousing meeting and show the state superin| tendent that we are real live wires in Newberry when it comes to the schools. Especially do I desire that the trustees and teachers of the equalizing schools be present at this meeting. , The science department of the Newberry high school has promised to furnish a light lunch. Drop Prof. 0. B. Cannon a card if you expect to ; come so that he may know how to j prepare. And be sure to come. E. H .Aull, County Superintendent of Education. ? i Tho Trees of Columbia The State. When Joyce Kiimer wrote, in his exquisite little^poem on Trees: Poems are made by fools like me, I But only God can .make a tree, he was magnifying the case a bit too j much. Man is making trees every 1 day?new varieties of trees, and betjter varieties of better forms and foliage and fruit and flowers, and is transforming trees into what shape arid a?nprt. he chooses. One has but to note the difference between the forest-grown trees and those that have been carefully trained and pruned and cared for by a master hand . and a loving devotion. Or to glance at the wonders wrought ceaselessly by the greatest master-builders and artificers of trees, the Japanese. The trees we see about us, indeed, are ganerally man-made, and generally man-marred. Trees that would grow into noble proportions in a field, or under the watchful and trained care of a tree expert, may be crowded or dwarfed or broken into misshapen, stunted, starved, hideous objects, fit only for fire-wood. . Columbia enjoys some little reputation for its trees. It had, up to a few years ago, many of as fine specimens of oaks as could be seen in any Southern city, except, perhaps, Savannah and Augusta, where the gen- j ial influence and spirit of Oglethorpe ' are still visible in the ma'gnifiicent ? - T riolrc /\y in rto frvw picturesque juivc vano ui m ?nv. *~ I ering Willow-Oaks. But the city is fast losing the finest of these old i trees. They can not be replaced by : their peers, and very little effort is making to replace them at all. This indifference and destructive ignorance must cease soon, or the streets will have but few continuous rows of fine shade and ornamental trees. | ? Personals From Points of Lexington DispatchATe\vs, 5th. I Miss Annie Kinard of Newberry spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Carrie Rister. Editor Oxner of Leesville stopped over for a few minutes Monday on 1 - ? , nis way xrum ^uiumuia. Mr. W. Aug. Shealy, one of the bc:t educators in the state, always prominent in education interest, was he.e on business at the court house ' Monday. ! Rev. W. II. Riser, formerly pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran church, was j a visitor in Lexington Monday. Mr. j j Riser is now making his home at Chapi'n, having resigned the pastorate , j of a church in Lynchburg, Va., on i ! account of his health. i Mr. E. U. Black, Leesville, Route ! 5, was here Saturday and as formerl ly promptly paid his subcsripticn for 'another year in advance. I Mr. M. Anderson of Leesville Satj urday concluded he just as well be |out of the world as to be without the j Dispatch-News, so he will read it for another year and he is now satisfied. , j Mr. J. S. Clark of Chapin, always in a good humor and cheerful, was here on business Monday. % j Miss Annie Ballentine of Chapin spent the week-end with her friend, ' j Miss Marguerite Dent, and has re-' turned to her home to the regret of her friends in town. I , Her Only Fault "WoH T'll fpil vnu." confessed the j j would-be seller of a second-hand Hootin' Nanny. "There is just one i thing the matter with this car. j j'Twasn't for that she'd be just about perfect. That is, when you step on 1 the preddcator, pull the alleviator and push the pessimist, it takes her a little ' bit too long- to make up her j mind whether you mean for her to | backed or go ahead. And that's kinda an noying." "I gezzo," answered the prospective purchaser, 4 - DIVERSIFIED FARMING MEETING AT PROSPERITY Prof. N. E. Winters to Be Principal Speaker. ..Creamery to Be Discussed Also There will be a meeting of farmers and business men at Prosperity Friday, October 14th at 2 p. m., according to an announcement made public Monday by T. M. Mills, chairman of the agricultural committee of our chamber of commerce, and county demonstration agent. The meeting is for the purpose of discussing the best methods to produce cotton under boll weevil conditions and to encourage diversified farming. This meeting is in connection with the campaign recently put on by our chamber of commerce m the interest of diversified farming. Prof. Winters to Speak The principal speaker of the meeting will be Prof. N. E. Winters, who has had ten years experience in the Texas and Mississippi boll weevil fight. Prof. Winters is an able speaker and is known throughout South Carolina as the "Billy Sunday" of agriculture. His broad experience especially fits him for this work. Creamery Project The creamery project which has been agitated by our chamber of commerce for some weeks past, and which is receiving favorable support will also come up at the meeting, and it is hoped that every farmer and business man in the county who is interested in any way will avail themselves of the opportunity to attend this meeting. Prof. D. C. Badger of Wiscousin willl .be principal speaker on the creamery project. It is needless to say that Prof. Badger is an experienced man in this business, for the agricultural committee of our chamber of commerce put forth their best efforts to secure only experienced men for this meeting. ' , We are now passing through a critical period in our agricultural situation and every farmer and business man in 'the entire county should attend this meeting if they possibly can. It is planned to have another meeting of the same nature in Newberry at seme later date, and an announcement of same will be made just as soon as speakers can be secured. Tin n't f nvzrp.t thff rtieetiner at Pros perity Friday and look for the announcement of the one to be held in Newberry. Her Amazing Eccentricity "My Aunt Hester Huckerby is the most remarkable woman of my acquaintance^' admitted Hostetter Smith. "Although she belongsHo several clubs and is middle-aged and quite welll-to-do and nearly as fat and shapeless as a hippopotamus, she never thinks she is obliged to reprove poor working' girls f&r skimping their lunches to buy silk stockings. Instead she cays the pretty young things deserve to have srilk hose because they have the slender ankles to wear them on and should not be compelled to wait untX they can afford them and are 30 fat and clumsy they burst them right out. "Ar.d every lit'i.e wh'le she fins one of those kills ar.d send: her to busi ness college, so she ca*n earn an me silk hose sho need^ or introduces her to-some clean, up-stancing young fellow who is able to provide her with the foolish fripperies that Aunt Hester insists young glr'3 ou^ht to have. She caills his attention to what a pretty little creature she is, and by and by if her calculations work out properly, gives them a nice wedding present. Of course, all women with missions hate Aunt Hester like a snake, but the girl she has helped and the young fellows she has favored think she is just about as right as a woman ever gets." His Hiers. <lT lacf nicht. flhoilt a 1 w <ac> icauuif, ry ? ? feller that left each of his children a farm," remarked Gap Johnson, lof Rumpus Ridge, Arkansas. "But, then, he had only five children. I've got fourteen and prob'ly about the best I can do will be to leave 'em three or four dogs apiece." "What's all that noise over at the minister's house?" "Oh, hes memorizing: his sermon; he always has to practice what he preaches/'?,Tudt*e,