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B jpje jerdll! dud jenis, m Kat?r*d at the Poitoffica at New. aWrjf, 3. C.f as 2nd cI&m matter E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Frdiay, December 23, 1921. NO PAPER TUESDAY As heretofore announced The Herald and News will take holiday on Tuesday and there will be no paper issued that day. For many years we have omitted one issue at Christmas. This year we understand that the business office will be closed on Monday and Tuesday. The editor expects to be out of town both those days. We wish for all our readers a Happy Christmas with many good things, and that the day may be observed in accordance with its significance. I I m I NOTHING NEW. j The State of Tuesday published a short article in which it says that "an interesting situation in regard to trustees of state institutions developed yesterday when a search was made i of the records of the secretary of state to find where vacancies will occur next year when it was discovered that some trustees who have been ^ serving for a considerable length of - time have never qualified accordirg to law." SThat is to say, have been serving without having any commission and have never filed the oath in order to secure the commission. j ' Bless you dear life, you have r.oi discovered anything new. This same i thing has been going on for twenty I years to our certain knowledge, ar.d we have no doubt it has been the I same thing since the adoption of the constitution of 1895 which inhibits the holding of two offices. Some of them went so far as to take the position that the little matter of tru> tpp was not an office, and therefore we presume that they thought it was not necessary to have a commission. rOr may be, they took the position that if they failed or neglccted to take the oath and secure the commission that in that event they could go on holding > two jobs and -because they were not commissioned, would not be violating the constitution which inhibits the - holding of two offices. Failure to . take tne oatn ana get a cuuuuimiu i was in itself an admission they were acting in violation of the constitution. And as for acting as trustee without authority of law, that is a small matter. But as a matter of fact many of them have failed for many years to get commissions. Is a trustee a public officer? You had better setti2' that question. Didn't the senate pass a resolution some years ago that one person could hold a trusteeship 1 and at the same time be a member of the legislature? Is a member of the * 1 ? qr\m legislature a puwit umtw. how we have a sort of dim recollection that the matter came up in ths senate a few years ago when it was found that several members of the senate were trustees of various state institutions when the question was raised by some radical in the senate that one man could not hold two offic es under the constitution. Or did 'the legislature or the senate say? what was the famous remark, about the constitution when it stood .between us and what we wanted to do? And did not The State take the position that a man could under the constitution be a trustee and a member of the legislature at one and the same trme without violating the provision of the constitution about holding two offices. The fact is they have gone on holding two offices right along and what does it matter about having a commission? Nothing new you have discovered. ^ And if a trustee is not an officer what matters if he takes the oath and is commissioned or not. If he is an officer, then he can not hold another office without violating the constitution and to avoid that he fails to take the oath and be commissioned. But what's the use and what's a little constitution among: friends. We notice from the daily papsrx that are writing about the approaching session of the legislature and the various offices to be filled by election . of that body that among the circuit judges whose terms expire with the next legislature, or whose terms have to be filled a: this session, that the onlx circuit judge likely to have oppositoin is Jud?e I. V/. Bjwman of Or angeburg. He, it is said, will be opposed by Mr. M. M. Mann at present the clerk of the senate. We hope the legislature will reeicet Judge Bowman. He has made a gco:l judge and there is no reason that we can see for making a change. And besides, it is not the right thing to do , to turn out a man, who has served hi; state well, after twelve or more year?, 1 ^ r and besides we are more ana more ui the opinion that circuit judges should be elected for life or during good behavior. At the age to which a man like ^ jM? ? ?? ( Judge Bowman has arrived it will' be impossible for him to regain his practice, and having given his life to the profession of the law he is hardly fit for any other business, and when a man is thought qualified for this position and elected he should either be retired on a living salary or given the opportunity to continue the service, especially if there is nothing further against him than that some other fel,low wants the job. The legislature will do well to make quick work of these elections and reelect all of the present -judges. We notice that there is some talk of some opposition to Congressman Dominick. We take it that Mr. Dominick will stand for reelection, and we had believed that he would be ur.cp ' poseci at tnis tiaie. oenuimy wc ku very sure tha-t he will succeed himself if he stands for the place again. There is no more able representative in congress today from South Caro-' lina than Mr. Dominick, and he has given his time unstintedly to th? corvice of the people of the stat? and this district and will succeed himself despite opposition. , i There are just two things tha: will bring this country back to normal and tho times where the oeoolo will again begin to function as they did in former times, and those two things are economy and hard woik, and then some more hard work and economy. There are very simple remedies but our people have been in sue . a wild state of recklcss spending and fast living for the past several years, and the shock from deflation some one year ago has got them dazed, an,d they are just now coming to their senses. UovVJ w/\vlr n-riH opftvrnMV .ITld PCOTIOmV end hard work arc the two things that ; will bring U3 back to norma!. The fact is, that too many people forgot; the art of working. . <S> <?>! ? AMONG THE SCHOOLS *' i You will notice from a statement!' from the state department of edaca-! tion that Newberry county stands at the head of the list among the cout}- j i- w. W^v. n-p onVirtCklc Q n fi CltJS Hi tut: liuuiuci uji owuvw**? amount of aid for term extension. I;, regret that this is the case. It does < not speak well for our system of ! schools in this county. Of course I! am glad that we got this amount since , we could not qualify for any more, but it is not a good showing fcr any J county to have so many schools re- ( ceiving aid under the term extension act. It means that we have too many one teacher schools, and you will notice that some of the big counties havp onlv a few schools receiving: aid under this act. Two of the schools for which we receive term extension aid have two teachers, and they are j good schools, but can not qualify as ' rural graded schools because they have not the necessary enrolment, and yet the communities maintain two teachers and we get the SI00 term extension aid and that helps some. We really have thirty one teacher schools in this county, more than half of the schools of the count v. It should not * be so and yet it is almost absolutely necessary on account of geographical' boundaries to have the one teacher school in some of these districts, but a good many of them could be rerr. ranged so that we could have two and three teachers, and even high ??bo< 1 instead of the small school that we now have, and in this way could get more education for our dollars. if we could only make the people see it. May be when we get the survey of the county made we may ii-V fl-AV * ^ 4" f\ f \ f\IT. 1 Ck W7 Vj Q "f" UVT LVJ ciic > v n co ciiv tt iiuv I would like to see is more money for the rural graded school and more of them. I have made application .for rural graded school aid for twentyone schools, and that is much better than it once was, but we should have at least ten more of these schools. The money for the term extension schools has already been paid and is 1 in the hands of the county treasurer. It amounts to $2897.50 and the rural graded school aid will reach around $5,000 or S6.000 for the twenty- one schools. And they are all two and more teacher schools. j J va cp I want to repeat a request in this column that I made of several of the parties who made the rounds of the schools during American Educatior week, and that I made of the secre xary 01 ine cuumuct ui that is that I would be glad to have each party write a short statement of the condition of the schools visited, and any suggestions that may appear to them of improvement thai could and should be made to bettei conditions. I think it would be helpful and do good to print just such ? - r\ nloin O T A "Poll symposium, JUSl a Jjiam ui^u iv??4 statement of the conditions of th? schools as they appeared to the members of the party. One or two of the visiting parties have promised tc write such an article. Just one 01 two would fail to accomplish what 1 thirk would be the result if we coulc Eet such a statement from each party. It would act as a survey of the schcc!z of the county. Thn improvement associations have been doing some mighty fine work in a number of thexschools. And they have been placing a good bit with 'the county treasurer, and I hope have been making the monthly reports required by the state organizer. The county organizer, Mrs. E. Ii. AuH. has received monthly reports from the following societies which I am sure are not all that are working and that are turning money into the treasurer, but I take it they are reporting direct to the state organizer. I asked Mrs. Aull to act as county organizer so that I might keep in close touch with the various associations, and further because there is no pay for the work and that I might be rble to assist. Bush River, Chappells, Dominick, Maybinton, O'Ncail, Pomaria, Rutherford, St. Lukes, Wheeland. I know that there are several ethers that are very active, but if they have :er.t reports they have either been misplace! or not received, and I would like to keep a record of the work and the meetings. These reports have been sent to the state organizer and I suppose other associations have sent their reports direct to the state onganizer, which is all right,, except that we have no record of the meetings here in the office at Newberry. And I would like very much to have that record. We have some blank reports and would be glad to cend them to ar.y association requesting them. [ am hoping that Miss Thomas will oon b? able to send us that new bul let in which she said was in the press. WE TAKE THIS TO WISH YOl A Merry ( ai A Happy am New Pharmacy & ?WMCgBaW ? MB?M Bath & PFJig /sfffe i NS ? ^ ;'and that we may get suggestions f ? |programs and for meetings and so c i I hope the teachers and child r - may all have a pleasant and a hap] 1 Christmas and come back to boo ; after the holidays with a determin t tion to do even better work during t ; remainder of the present school se -. sion. u f (~\tri Xlfn wifh V/ii i? uuat^ua^ ?? v- <IMU - Prof. Verd Peterson from the sta i department of education. He is charge of the vocational educati' ; and we have a few schools teachii - it. At Whitmirc Mr. Wilson h ; charge of it and at Pomaria Mr. J. > Bedenbaugh and at Little Mounta Mr. W. H. Derrick. Last session [ had several more schools in which a I rieulture was taught. Of course ; ' ~ ^ . understand tnat :ur. j. rooie n > charge of the department in the ci ci-hools and he also teaches in t Prosperity high school two days in t week. Then there are two neg schools in which agriculture is taugl 1 Vaughnville and Mr. Hebron. Gc Grigsby is teaching at Vaughnvi! and J. C. Bedenbaugh at Mt. Ilebrc > I , Or. Wednesday Mr. Peterson des: : ed to visit the schooi at Mt. Hear; and at Pom aria and Little Mour.tai I went along and we had a very pies ant and I hope profitable day. T! vinm-^os o-?r? nnf t r> L" n T ip ifltGTT ' 4JV^^X0'^0 U1C iiui/ **V* ? , in the school at Mr. Hebron that th< :should and unless they show more i , 'terest the agricultural departme may be taken cut. The work at P maris and Little Mountain is gettii alc/ig very nicely except there is ne< of more equipment. I arranged my s.-heduie so thr.: v might have dinner with Mrs. J. Sot-7l<ir ?rH T rln nr.'. winder that t many of the traveling; men make tl 41. same sort of schedule so that may have dinner at ihlz fine e?.tir house. Mrs. Setzler always has good dinner and every time I e: there I am reminded of what I hcai Mr. Brinson say of his hotel at Gree; wood when he was opening the la time. He said he wanted to fix up : that when the guests ^arrived the would have a feeling that he had fi: ed up because they were coming, ar I have that feeling when I eat wil Mrs. Setzler, -that she has fixed up tl dinner because I was coming, ar yet I know that she has these goc dinners every day. E. H. A. i kv?bwbpw wmmmmmBmmnmmtaamrwQamnmmm mw rrvm^ I OPPORTUNITY J AND YOURS ru ulII wi/fmu i Prosperous Ypar L Jgaaj Jewelry Co. b 1 or ROADS NAMED FOR n. TWO DIVISIONS fit to ?n The State. th Py ' As a memorial to all North Carolina ^ *s men serving in the world war the ! n" Asheville-Moorehead city highway and EC ne the Asheville-Wilmington highway ?s" the two North Carolina "trunk lines" j] from the west to the east, have been ?e designated as "The Old Hickory high- j1? wav'' nnd "Thf> Wildcat hierhwav." re f "*V " " ' "c rpectively, according i.o information n. 111 received in Columbia by the Wildcat ]-,c 0:1 Veterans' association. These two ^ r,? roads will be marked by the insignia as worn by the men of the two divisions _ ar.d when completed, according to m the North Carolina state highway ve commission, will be equal to the best highways in the country. The naming of the two roads was taken by the North Carolina highway ^ commission in accordance with a resn p ; elation passed by the North Carolina he legislature, the move having Its inro ccpiion with Miss May Jones of Ashe V A i 1L" J WliLJ V"? X cttitunj v/awi V?*^ 10 .," S18th machine gun battalion in [1 ? France. It is now planned th.it each maiker along the two roads, bearing the insignia cf the division after ir- which the highway is named, shall al>n so commemorate some incident in the n. organization's career. In this way is- the curves, etc., would receive the, 'ie ' name of j ome battle in which the divi- _ st sion participated while the mile posts ~ y/ would tell the story of towns hberat-. n- ed, German position taken, rest camps, nt etc. This, it is thought, would mo:e o- nearly carry out the purpose cf the * " 1 ? ^ rJ > V? I 01 . J: 1*6 01 HitJ lii UVC CillLl ill li Utu -4 make the two permanent highways a imcmoi.al to the men who served in the war. An official copy of the WilJfe'?i (Eirrhty-first) division insignia, p. with a list of the?engagements, etc., r3 cf the Wildcat division will be fcrle warded the North Carolina highway ?y i commission from the Wildcat Veterj-r'ans' association headnuarters here. ^ ! ?* ' TVio nossof) 'iv fliA iCortll <1 i it Cavclira legislature follows in part: *d j "Whereas, bcth of these divisior.s : n-_ did valiant and noble service upon the st field cf battie and both of them are closely identified with the history of T; North Carolina and have brought hor.K~ or upon cur state: and, lc* j "Whereas, the state of North Car"V> 1 olina is about to engage in the ccnle struction of trunk line highways of a permanent character, to be built from state funds: and, l ? i J l_ i ! I j "MAKE THIS B 1 i I j nr* .. 7 I lo the TU iQ May our appi and good will < j be expressed i i i : . A Christmas and a p ever "J :o close ??BBaanaam?w? ?? a ' Whereas, there can be no more i tin? dedication of these highways <s t the public service than in honor of: < e men who offered their lives in the; orld war; now jj "Therefore, be it resolved by the r nate and the house of representa- ^ res of the state of North Carolina, i' bat is the sense of the general as- J ir.-bly that the trunk line highway, j' iretofore referred to as the Central ( ghway, be officially and permanently j r lined 'The Old Hickory highway' in r jr.or of the Thirtieth division, and at the state highway commission be j Vulcanizing Ford P We Wish Our A Merry Ch A Happy 1 HIM 1 & * * 1506 Main Street BOJOJwa^BB ? !! > ! lull IFOUR FRIEND VERY BEST ? A Merry C a/ cnc A Happy 1 Meals That Service Par BUSY EE G. N, Nichas c ANK YOUR BUSI istmas Gi People of R'ewi von and Countj . r ii reciation or in our friends i n this wish for < ) of joy and all goo prosperous New Ye increasing happine The Bank of the People" out I instructed to mark said highway with :u:table markers containing the official insignia of said division. "And that the trunk line highway leretofore referred to as the Wilnington-Charlotte-Asheville highway >e officially and permanently named Tfre Wildcat highway' in honor of the Eighty-first division, and that the i tate highway commission be instructed mark said highway with suitable narkers containing the official insignia of said division." Subscribe to The Herald and News. arts Repair Work Many Patrors nstfuus usm '- Jew Year 3R0S. Phcne 405 _____________ i a /%r*vw t rirfi?nrti iiiMii i?rrr??m-r S WE EXTEND r'iSHES FOR Christmas J i V V Sew Year You Enjoy Excellence E CAFE & Co., Prop. 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