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H? ||ernlii anil Jems. I ' Kitirtd at tho Po? toffies at Nowy aWiJ$ 3. C*, at 2nd class matter. ?. K. AULL, EDITOR. _ I ' . Friday, December 2, 1921. K ' ' THE REPORTER SICK. Mr. R. H. Greneker, the faithful and painstaking and efficient reporter for The Herald and News, has been I ordered by his physician that he must give his eyes a rest, and that he must do no reading nor writing, and there- ' lore Willie ne is not sick ne nas to uctk.tr ^ an enforced rest. We know that his many friends along with The Herald and News will hope that his eyes may ' soon be so improved that he will be able to resume his daily duties. i It will be impossible to keep his column to his standard, because so far as we have been able to observe in a long newspaper career there is no on who is his superior in his line of newspaper work, if there is any one who is his equal, so the reader will have to bear with us and hope for the speedy restoration of Mr. Greneker to his post. ! NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK j Next week is to be observed all over the United States as National Education week. All our people should take sufficient interest in this great subject to lend their influence to making it a success. The purpose is to arouse the people to the importance of doing something to improve th'tf conditions of our schools and our t,;*n?2*.ionaI system. In other words, to create a sentiment which will result in better schools and improvements in equipment. The big problem before this age in these troublous and transition times is the proper education of the .children of the country. Not so much the literary part of the education, but the training to manhood and womanhood and to citizenship. Arrangements have been made to have a meeting at each school house in the county and a number of gentlemen and ladies have agreed to go out on the campaign and talk to the children and the people, who will take interest enough to come, along the lines of citizenship, which covers^ the whole subject. Note the date at si vour school house and the hour and take enough interest in the betterraent of your community by attend ing the meeting. ! K I A GOOD ORDINANCE. The Herald and News is pleased to see ciiy council adopt the ordinance, relating to driving to the right and ; to stopping cars on the street. And we advise all drivers of cars to read | it carefully, and to remember its pro- J visions. Chief Rodelsperger says he! - is going to have it enforced, and all who violate its provisions will do so j at their risk and may expect to be! taken before the recorder. The Herald and News advocated the j passage of this ordinance several j - years ago, during the administsration j of Mayor Wright, but he seemed to j I think the Newberry streets were too j narrow, and it seemed to us that the j l narrow streets were an argument m favor of the passage of just such a! | regulation. It will be a very easy ordinance to obey, and there is scarcely a driver of a car in Newberry who when he goes to Columbia, for instance, does not /' just naturally keep to the right, and who obeys the .other provision of thisi V?1C POT AT) ordinance as to sw^wg u? v.;** the right side of the street. It may take a few fines to impress the memory that there'"is such a law on the books of the town of Newberry. It t makes it better for the pedestrian to 'have- this regulation, as well as for the driver of the car, because the man J who is walking can always expect the car to be on the right side of the1 street. Thpn this ordinance also has a pro-! vision against parking cars on Col- i lege street, between Main and Friend streets. Better get that in your system also, because the chief says this will be enforcd, and there will be no / respector of persons or cars. So you have fair notice, and if you have, to pay' a few fines it will be your own fault. We understand that both these laws become effective next Monday, j Take a copy of the paper and read the law over and let it be writ on the tablets of your memory. Judge Watkins is correct. The 1 bootlegger would soon go out of bus-' iness if no one bought his stuff. We ^- might say also if no one drank liquor there would be no need of a prohibition law, because it would not have been manufactured. And we will go a step further, if there had not been - *-' ? VlOVQ drinking to excess mere ?uuiu been no prohibition law. If we are to punish the man who buys the liquor just as we do the man ) who sells it, why not punish the man who abuses the use of liquor and let is the man who can us it in moderation have his dram. Punish the man who abuses the use of liquor. We agree with Judge Watkins that there is too great a let down in the morals of the country. We do not know that we can endorse hib position that the fault is with the schools, and the employment of immature girls and * - i tit u Doys as xeacners. w e arc hmmh^ great forward strides in the matter of the improvement of our schools, and there is yet a long step to be taken befove we can be rid entirely of the immature teachers. We must standardize the teaching .profession so that young men may be induced to enter it as a profession with the prospect of being able to make a decent living out of it, and not use it * - ? ? ? % *"? r\ AfUnY* as a stepping stunu cu sumc umu profession. But we have made wonderful pro-; gress in the matter of improving our; schools in the last few years. We think Judge Watkins might have said, if we may be permitted to make the suggestion, that the foundation of the unrest and the let down in the moral standard, if there is let down, is back of the school, and unfortunately is in the home in many instances. We need to guard more carefully the * ^ urn oro f A great num^ u move upward in the moral standard. But we are making progress, and when we get through this great tran-! sition period and normalcy comes we will find that everything is all right, and that we have made progress in the right direction. We are going through the testing period, so to speak. In the matter of sale of fresh ~? ??*?> i-M +Vi a +rvTX7r> V>v flip frrTYIPr OT HiC&Ud 1X1 bilV WV '* 11 vj v?? -w . ? the producer of the meat we are told on authority that the law or rule or regulation has been so modified that the farmer may' continue to sell his. own prodact and so the friends of the editor may bring along their sausage and pudding and spare ribs and chitterlings and we will be happy still. And the other hungry people in the town may be fed by their coun try cousins who have the real tnirgs to eat that sustain life. We are glad the regulation has been modified. ? ; $> <$>' * AMONG THE ^SCHOOLS ? ' * . , On last Saturday evening I drove down to'Fairview to attend the supper iand entertainment given by the people of the community. Miss Woodson of The Herald and News staff has kindly written the story of the exercises for this paper. It .was really refreshing and pleasing to see so many people present, and to ob ? ??i serve the nne spirit wmcn pervaueu the audience. But every time I attend one of these entertainments in the evening I am more and more persuaded that my position is coirect, that all rural schools should be in reality rural community buildings as well as school buildings, and that there should be an auditorium just as there is a class room, because in fact * -L -i? __i 1 such a room is almost, 11 nut quite, as important as the class room. The school should be the community center and it should also be the comi munity building, and to serve that purpose as it should the auditorium' is second only in importance to the class room. And in this day every! such building should be lighted prop-1 erly with either the electric light or j some other modern system of light- j ing, and not be forced to use the old kerosene lamp. It is dangerous, and 1 then it is not a good or convenient light. And there should be the work room which could b? used in prepar- j ing the refreshments which are serv-' ed. And it is good for the commun-' ity for the people to get together, and j thus come to, know each other better. .1 And these things are coming in the 1 rural districts. It is about 13 miles from Newberry to Fairview. The road to Prosper- ! ity of course is all right, but from J there at least to the Warner place it is bad, and nothing to brag on from "r"' * * fv. 4-foirolirtcr fVlP ; there to rairview III , road from Prosperity one would be j almost justified in reaching the con-j elusion that all the rocks in Newber-I ly county had been piled up in the! middle of the road. We have manyi rocky roads in the county but this one seems to me to cap the climax. And then it is too narrow and needs a general overhauling all the way down. But this is a good community. The people live at home and have plenty good things to eat, and while cotton is not bringing a big price in compar j Ison to the small crop, ana muuc^ , is a little scarce there is no scarcity t in this section of something to eat. j The school is taught by Mr. 0. L. Shealy and Miss Hattie Bell Lester J and the enrolment is around sixty, j and there is good work being done, , but if we could get a little rearrange| ment of districts down this side so I that we could get more money and j have another teacher we could greatly 'improve the school. A new building:[wi has been erected in the last few years L: i . i .'and it is comfortable and according sc , to state plans, but it needs an audi-. to torium, and may be when we get the m district lines located be can rearrange E< trie lines so as to give vs oen*:* acm- ?>> ties down here. j bi ; th i i i On Wednesday I went over to Mol- ar lohon and McCullough. I had in-; in tended to spend Tuesday down in the te St. Lukes district, but owim' to the | w< rains and the recently worked roads ve I have postponed that trip for a few is days. The Mollohon school is taught ar " ? ? ? IX," A An! again tnis year uy y?. .-m- f drews. This school is now on the highway to Whitinire. There are some; co thirty children out here and they.at should have a longer school term than ur they had the last session. Jsc ! a From Mollohon I came hack and ur made a brief stop o; McCullough, \ I taught again this session by Mrs. E.!te M. Suber. There are about twenty-; c0 five children in this school. The! j. thing that should b? done up here is for McCullough and Mollohon to go se together and have a good community th building with two class rooms and ii? two teachers, and it would bo so easy pe if the people could only be made to sc see it. . to ne I am writing tonight to the two th preachers whom I understand are lo< holding Dreachins: service at these ph two school houses o?i alternate Sun- of day afternoons, asking that they take to the next two appointments, that is, su the one on December 11 and the one as on December 18, and let us have an ch educational rally and let me come and '' go with them talk to the people and sug- so gest ways and means of bettering the in school conditions for the children of to fUic oart+i"r>n TVlO npnnlp will TDTOb Ill 10 Ct C Vlli A *1 W W?T. V - - ably attend the preaching service when they would not come if I an- w* nounced a school meeting, and the of church and the school must go hand on in hand. If it is agreeable to the two ho pastors, whom I understand are Revs, of Gregory and Ross, -I am going up ho there and make an effort to do some- at thing to help the children. A fine th highway through this section means ge that more people will come in the fo community, and a good school tyould th be a erreat inducement to them to pe come. inj th I had not been beyond the residence of Mr. John Baker since work had been started on the highway. From ^ Newberry to Indian Creek there is no <?> better road in the county, though <$> some little part of it would have been helped had it been scraped. Mr. <$> Boulware tells me that he has sent the repair force out that side. But Up the bridge at the creek is very badly w< needed. The road where you detour, w} awaiting the building of the bridge, Va is about a? bad as I have ever seen it, and that means some bad road. pi, But when completed so that you can ha ?* r-_;j? .'J. ?:n cross tne new oriole it wm uc a uan- co dy. And Mr. B^ulware says that vi? work on the bridge will begin in a er few days, may be by the time this is th read. I hope so. From Mr: John M. $ = Suber's on toward Whitmire the new road is completed nearly to Mollohon school house and the force was at work at the school house on Wednesday. And they say that with the ex- s0 of n little stretch rierht here the road is finished, or about so, all mj the way to Whitmire. And the bridge over Durfcan's creek is also about completed. M I am about ready to admit that a g road engineer knows more about loeating a road than I do. When I was told that the highway would go m. around this way to Whitmire I felt it was a mistake, and that it would go through swamps and et cetera, as Ring Lardner would say, but since it p: has been opened you are forced to conclude that it makes a fine highway l and there is very little grading and the road will be much easier main- p tained and will cost less than to have followed the old road. And it can p( not be any further and possibly a little nearer this way. Certainly you get p, rid of several very heavy grades. And a( it is going to be a fine road when cj completed. And then it will go right through the live and progressive town of Whitmire. And this is right also. In fact since I have been able to go ^ over this much of the road the newlocation suits me all right. I On the return I made a brief stop at the negro school at New Hope, I I i believe the one in the McCullough ^ I district. Like most of the negro j I schools there is no building and a very ; i small hut and about sixty children. jc The negroes up here should get coi * gether and do something to better'/ conditions. I feel that when we spend i ! money for a school in such a place we , p' J are just about tnrowing ine mvuc.y,^ i to the birds. I .-t ?.. , !c I also made a brief visit to the Beth . Ffion tausrht by Miss Eve j J^ominick. She has about twenty- 'a i five children. And she is doing good f * , I ork here. I did not stop at Long me as the new road places the hool at an inconvenient place to get it, but that is not the reason I did >t stop. I had not been to Beth :len this session and could not very ?11 make both schools. Since the lilding of the highway out this side ese two schools should get together id have a good three teacher school stead of two schools with three achers and they could do it very ?11 and not make the school mconnient to any of the children. That if I know where the district lines e. I hope every teacher in Newberry unty will make an extra effort to tend the teachers meeting on Sat day. It will be held in the high hool building and I have also sent card to every trustee asking and orino- him t.n come to this meeting. ? -- _ think you will find the meeting inresting and your presence will help make it interesting. I I And next week we are going to ob-' rve National Education week and e program for the schols is pub-1 hed in this paper. If the weather rmits we are going to cover every ( hool in the county on Wednesday) discuss briefly our educational eds and problems and help to solve j em or at least make suggestions jking to that end. I was very much ! Based with the interest on the part' those I invited to meet at my office 1 take up the matter and as it was! ggested by American Legion I, ked Dr. J. B. Setzler to take the airmanship and he is doing some! od work to make it a success and is the chamber of commerce and j fact all the organizations of the: ! Wii. At these meetings appi inted we ; mt every patron and every citizen ; the community to attend at least e of the meetings appointed. I j pe that every teacher will take note the schedule of meetings and the 1 ur that the speakers are to arrive j the school and let the people of j e community know about it and t them to come out to the school I r this half hour and take part in is p^eat movement to awake the j o ople to the great importance of be- j ? aroused in the education problems at confrnot us at this time. E. H. A. RED,, CROSS NOTES <$> - - - ~ /v <?/ '?> ^ V V -J ^ ^ V ^ , - - , There is still a good deal of follow: ? work to be done by the Red Cross1 :>rkers in the way of seeing people j 10 were not at home when the can- j s was made; so the campaign in ! iwberry county is extended. Peo2 who missed an opportunity to join ve been so good about dropping in pay in Newberry that it seems adsable to publish a list of people ovthe county to whom they may give ? *1 nn. $5.oo. $10.00, $25.00, V, Y-*v vy ~t * >0.00 or $100.00 dues for 1922. Township I.' Hal Kohn, Mr. Hix, r. Jno. B. Setzler. Township II. Mrs. W. C. Brown. Township III. Mrs. Watt Hendern. Township IV. Mrs. J. J. Brockan, Whitmire. Township V. Mrs. C. A. Matthews, rs. C. M. Smith, Kinards. Township VI. Mrs. W. D. Senn, iss Dollie Mae Senn, Mrs. Geo. P. oozer, Mrs. C. S. Cleland, Mrs. J. D. ithrop. Township VII. Mrs. A. P. Colean, Chappells. Township VIII. Mrs. Henry Felrs, Jr. t1?ty r>r Hon. Y. Hunter, JL UVYllOlIiy a . rosperity. Township X. Miss Elberta Sease, ittle Mountain. Township XI. * Mrs. J. J. Kibler, omaria. Township XII. Miss Mamie Crooks, eak. The secretary hopes to be able to ablish shortly a complete list of the dult members of the Newberry lapter, A. R. C. Sadie Goggans, Publicity Chairman. HE YOUTH'S COMPANION HOME CALENDAR FOR 1922 The publishers of the Youth's Comanion are sending to every subscribr whose subscription ($2.50) is paid Dr 1922 a calendar for the new year, 'he tablets are printed in red and ark blue, and besides giving the days f the current month in bold legible i/pe, give the calendar of the precedlg and succeeding months in smaller ype in the margin. The Companion rome Calendar has been published "1 3 5 -C wnntr vc onrl i stanuaru lunn iui manj ; everywhere in quest because of its onvenience and novelty. However, when it comes to Lenine nd Trotsky, Russia has its stomach all. [burn or plow under cotton i plants to control weevil I The great destruction wrought byj, the cotton boll weevil this year has: ; made the problem of its control a J vital one to practically all cotton! j planters. Everywhere the question , is heard, What can be done to avoid i this loss next year?" | For many years prior to the devel- i I cpment of poison-control measures ! I the United States department of ag-:, |riculture advocated fall destruction': : of cotton plants by burning or plow-j ; ]ng under, as the most important step ! I in controlling the boll weevil. It is still good practice as an auxiliary to : control by poison. ji i The proper time for the destruction ; : of the plants in the fall is whenever!the weevils have become so numerous < > i that there is no prospect that any ;, more cotton will be made. It is an j easy matter for any planter to deter- . inine this point by an examination of a few plants in his field. Whenever ^ it is found that all, or nearly all, of ,. the squares and some of the bolls are being punctured, there is no hope for ] producing any more cotton. The far- , * mer should then wait until the bolls ^ already set on the plants have open-!, ed, and destruction should then take , place immediately. [ 1 By all means, if possible, destruc-; tion of plants should take place be-\ fore frost, but destruction after frost, j j though not nearly as efficacious as ? oovlv r1o?frnr>fif>n cVirmlrl 5(1 wave ihp i practiced when it has not-been pos-j, sible to remove the plants previously, j ^ The plants should be plowed under j j deeply, or completely destroyed byj ^ fire. No sprout cotton should be left;-, to furnish breeding places for the1 ^ weevils. I { There are four principal rea? is j why the process of fall destruction: j sheuld be practiced universally by ;? planters in infested regions: First. Fall destruction prevents! absolutely the development of a mul- i titude of weevils which would other- . wise become adult ' within a few : < weeks of the time of hibernation. |; The destruction of the immature j ] stages of weevils in infested squares 1 i and bolls is accomplished, while the ; further growth of squares which may j; become infested later is prevented, ij This stops materially the development of weevils which would normally hJoernate successfully, and by de- : creasing the number of weevils which Ml ' ,1 . Al_ _ _ 1 _ win emerge in tne spring xne cnances j for a successful crop the following J | - J !T% 1 I rauu SPI 9-4 and 10-4 I Androscoggins Outing best gr< n ] i_ r\. \ vjuou grcuie ui 36 inch Sea Isl Misses Union S 36 inch Percal< Happ grade Oi Blue Buckle 0 - Southern Silk ( Good check He 50 dozen To we Jeans Pants Men's Sweater* All Georgette1 Spool Thread, D mum #1 A 1 % uuai grauc jL/iu Misses Undervc Blankets, $3.5( | Men's heavy U We are selling A11 i U? ah juciuies na II J T T Paul I & MVM J |r season are very greatly increased. Second. A proper ma* t. elation of the stalks will bring: about the destruction of a great majority of the weevils which are already adult. Third. It has been shown conclusively that the bulk of the weevils which survive the winter are those which reach maturity late in the season. It is evident that the weevils that pass the winter and attack the crop of the following season* are among those developed latest in th<? fall and which, in consequence of that fact, have not exhausted their vitality by depositnig eggs for any considerable length of time. Fall destruction of the plants, increasing the length of the hibernating season, J - - ~ ~ fUn nnwiKor A"F IVPP 1 Iliclil V 1 U1U tuc Iiuiiiuvi *. ? vx, vils in the fields that would otherwise emerge in the spring to damage the cotton. Fourth. Clearing of the field in the fall makes it possible to practice fall plowing, which is not only t.iL proper procedure in any system of cotton raising, but also greatly facilitates the early planting of the crop the fol [owing spring, me grouna oecomes clean by this practice, so that but few places for shelter are left for the weevils, and various climatic conditions still further reduce the number of the survivors. The early planting of the crop next spring and the use of an early maturing variety are also strongly urged, rhe fail destruction of plants will reduce the number of weevils which will survive the winter. By getting the cotton crop started early it is of ' ' ? n _ ten possible to get it wen on tne way :o maturity before the few wreevils surviving the winter have time to propagate to the point where they become destructive. Destroy the cotton plants in the fall and plant early the following spring. News of Excelsior Excelsior, Dec. 1.?The Rev. W. R. - - 1 "ft c Anderson ol L?aurens win spena ivion;lay night with Mr. E. M. Cook's family and will preach in the school building: at 7 o'clock p. m. The public is cordially invited to the services. Mrs. W. E. Cook has been spending a few days with her father's family in Newberry. Mr. Jacob Hawkins and family of Silverstreet have been visiting her father's family, Mr. J. I. Sease. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Cook and Mr. W. E. Cook spent a few days with friends near Greenville last week. , 9 ^ n* ni _ eperell Sheeting Bleaching ide iting and, 10 yard limit iuits, all sizes e, special /eralls number 300 derails Dheviots >mespun jls, 40c value, 5 lim m m m % 5 Waists value up to ?' 6 limit line iAAAIU ists 3 value 11UW1 ?V/OlO good Shoes cheap, fs go at a price. L able number 1 9 able number 2 $1.! able number 3 $2.' [The party went by automobile and report ^ood roads and an enjoyable trip. Mr. J. J. Singley and children went down to Charleston Friday to spend a few days with relatives in the city I by the sea. Mr. Arthur Nichols and family will move in their new home here next week., J .Miss Chelsy Kibler and Miss Victoria Crosson of Prosperity spent ! Thanksgiving day with Mr. and Mrs. j H. J. Kinard. Rev. C. J. Shealy and family of Prosperity visited his members in . this section last week. Have had good rains and small grain is looking nicely. Officers Elected Kiwanis Club At the last meeting of the Kiwanis club officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Dr. J. W. Carson. Vice president, W. S. Matthews. Board of directors: T. K. Johnj stone, 0. B. Cannon, Dr. J, B. Setzler, J. B. Mayes, J. B. Hunter, W. W. Cromer, J. H. Wicker, Dr. E. E. I Stuck. District trustee, J. Marion Davis. ' Dr. Carson will take charge as president the first meeting in January, I 1 Q99 I-1" ? Two for Company In a Southern town two young colored men, each with a lady of color, [were going along the street, with a j third dark rose walking unaccompanied between the two couples, when another young colored man appeared ! from around the corner. " called IIUWU^j -*r??? !the nearest pair; "hit's a mighty fine I day. Cain't you come ovah and jine. us? Here's a vacant lady." j.... When You Really Suffer It is a terrible thing to have a i neighbor's daughter five years old | quit speaking to you because she and your son have had a falling out, es? I pecially in view of the fact that you ; have been thinking she liked you for * * -i t :sen aione. ' . m * A Remarkable Hor*e "Gen. Braddock," wrote the small ,s ? * boy in his painfuly written composi-ition on early American history, "was , killed in the Revolutionary'war. He* ;had three horses shot under him, and' ! a fourth went through his clothes." f The way of the transgressor is ' jhard, yet they are not on easy street, f j . erson ???i ' Cf? ?4 k7 41c 20c 15c 10c 5c 45c 10c 89c 98c _ 1 Pin 8 l-3c it - 10c $1.98 98c up $10 - $1.98 5c 20c 35c $2.39 50c ,ook these over. 8c 98 48 I I 1 erson , I