The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 17, 1922, Page FOUR, Image 5
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SatcrW at the Poatoffice at New-;
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K. H. AULL, EDITOR.
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Friday, February 17, 1922.
Now comes Solicitor Callison and
says he can not accept the trusteeship
of the Universiay to which he
was recently elected. That he can
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not hold two offices under the con
stitution. KemarKaoie.
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We notice from the papers that
Congressman Dominick and Senator
Dial are the only two of the representatives
in Washington from South
Carolina who are opposed to the bon-;
us bill. We must say that to our way
of thinking and seeing they are the
two who are right in their position.
The boys were injured should be
L-t? m'vori whatever is
LHAtll Care Ui anu 5?t \,n ....?
necessary for their comfort, but the
boys who went and came back in good
and sound health do not care to be
beneficiaries of the government in
this wey, we should think. The experience
was worth a great deal to (
them. And besides the amount each
one would receive from the bonus,
should it pass, would be very small,
the largest being less than a thousand
dollars.
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IS IT POSSIBLE? i
Well, well, is it possible? We invite
you to read editorial which
we copy from the Greenwood IndexJournal
and written by the editor of
the Piedmont. We make this explanation
for the reason that we do not
see the Piedmont. The subject is,
"Well Done, Senators," and .we want
you to read it for yourself. Those
who are old enough to remember a
campaign in this county some sixteen
years ago will recall that it affirms the
position we took then and there has
been no legislation to change the constitution
of the state since that time
in this regard.
Permit us to quote a few paragraphs
from this editorial:
"This may seem an unimportant
matter, but it is not. It recognizes
and lays down a sound principle in .
state legislation which is that members
of the general assembly should
not hold two offices, that a legislator
ought not to serve as a trustee of a
state institution."
And then the Piedmont adds this
f
paragraph:
"This principle is simply a reaffirmation
of the requirement of the constitution
of South Carolina that no
person shall at the same time hold
two offices in this state."
And then this paragraph:
"So far as the Piedmont is informed
this is the first time that either
branch of the legislature has recognized
that clause in the state consti
tution and voted to obey it. No other
provision in the organic law of the
state has been more frequently ignored
and violated."
Some years ago it seems to us the
senate appointed a committee to look
into this matter and the report was
there was no violation of the law to
be senator and trustee at the same
t'me.
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And J1CV0 iS aiiuwxci
from the Piedmont editorial, and th's
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is really one of the main reasons
why a leg-is! 2 tor should not at the
same time be a trustee of any institution
about which there is a probability
that there will be legislation, and
there is always something in regard
to the various institutions:
"Here is one vice of the practice
ihciv korc nf lpcisla
Ui. CiCVl/UIg Iiinm/V.w -,5-,
ture as trustees of state institutions.
The people of the county elect their
members of the general assembly to
represent them?and them alone.1
When, however, a legislator is elected
trustee of a state institution, he is
committed to the proposition that he
sh U also represent it?and there
may be a conflict of interests. How
will he vote? Whose interest will
he defend?
"No legislator siiouia oe a trustee
of the University of South Carolina;
or any other state institution."
But how many are there that are
acting in both capacities, and they,
are going to continue to act despitJ,
this resolution of the senate.
We are making: no comment outj
simply calling; attention to this resolu-'
tion in that it vindicates the position '
we took some years ago. But the or-'
granic law will continue to he violated,
because there are too many members
of the legislature acting in the dual
capacity. And many of them have'
not been commissioned, thinking in
u-qv o-pr around this constitu-!
tional provision.
AN ERROR AND AN OMISSION J
' We thank Mr. Thos. W. Keitt for
calling: our attention to the error'
made in the article regarding the
proposed road to Broad river. Of t
course we bad in mind Strothers and!
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not Shelton as we understand that'
Strothers is the place on the river at
which the Ashford ferry road reaches
the river.
Personally we do not know anvf
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thing about the crossings at the river
and so far as we recall never crossed
the river at any one 01 uiem except
once a great many years ago we came
from some point on that side to Newberry
when the railroad tracks had
been washed up from a freshet and
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we-think it was Strothers at which]
we crossed. Mr. J. D. Wheeler, the
present clerk of court, says that he
was +he ferryman at the time the
party returning from a Lutheran sy- I
nod in Knoxville came that way in
order to sret home, being met in bug-.
gies at the river. In the party were J
Dr. G. W Holland, Dr. G-o. B. Cro-'
mer, Captain H. H. Folk and the writer
and may be some others.
At any rate we must have had in
mind Strothers and not Shelton when
we wrote the story about the extension
of roads. j
And the omission was the road.
from Newberry out to Bush River
church, or rather we should say, out to
Tranwood school house on the road to
Capt. E. P. Matthews. It was decided
to build out this road at least five,
miles. i
We have asked some of our good
Baptist friends out at Bush River how
it was they had the largest and most
flourishing rural congregation possibly
in the state, and how they could
endure to put up with the worst roads
in the state. Why, in weather like we
are now having it is almost impossible
to get to the church from any direction
in any way except on foot or
on horse back and that would be
difficult.
We desire to commend the program
outlined by the highway commission
for the extension of the highways
of Newberry and hope they may
soon have the extensions built, because
then, as we have said, Newberry
would have a fine system of highways
permeating almost every nook cf the
county and certainly within easy
reach of all the people of the county.
OLD TIMES RECALLED ]
In reading the comments on the
Sunday school lesson for last Sunday
as made by J. E. W. in the Anderson
Mail, it carried us back to the days
when we were on the farm just as de"
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scriDea oy J. &. w. ine lesson, as an
Sunday school children will recall was
on Elisna and the Shunammite woman
and the death of her son and the
bringing back to life of the boy. We
take it that J. E. W. who writes these
comments is none other than Dr. -J. E.
White, though we do not knew.
At any rate, he says it was harvest
time when the incident took place as
recorded in Kings, and that harvest
time is now and was then a hot time
of the year, and that the boy had
been out in the field with the reapers,
and. the boy was to carry the water
to the reapers and he complained
of his head and no doubt had sunstroke,
but here is a sentence, or Lhe
paragraph that we are after quoting
now, and while it has not so much to
do with the lesson taugh, yet it brings
to our attention some of the things
that we have been thinking about and
occasionally daring to write about.
J. E. W. says: "Nowadays w*hat with
selfbinders and the like, harvesting is
much simplified, but there are yet many
who will remember in their own
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Wjy UUUU ua)3 UU wc > buv v>u
grain cradle, or the reaping machines,
when all the binding was done by
hand. It was a boy's job to carry
the water. A boy with whom the
writer has always been on the most
familiar terms, and whom he recalls
now, used a big brown jug, which was
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cJOOUI an ne COUlCi tarry wueu nncu
with water. He would fill it at the
spring and carry it to the thirsty men
in the field, all cool and dripping.
They would turn it over their shtulder
with a twist which he envied and
drink out of the mouth of it, while
the water made a peculiar gurgle,
gurgle, and was apt to run down their
?- 1. i.L!
hot breasts. There was 110 sucn tiling
as individual drinking cups then, but
if any of those men ever died from
any germs on the mouth of that
brown jug I never heard of it."
It may be that there were not as
many germs then as there are now,
or it may be if those men had had
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individual cups iney niignt nave uvcu
to be twice as old as they did. We (
are inclined to the opinion that in j
those good and happy old days the
germs had not yet been discovered,
and therefore there was no fear of
them and the school children as well
+i-,o man of frtp fW-liJs drank from,
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the same jug and the same gourd at,
the spring, and many times bent down ;
and used their own lips for jugs and
gourds taking the water from the
spring itself. Sometimes we are of j
the opinion that the human plant is ^
too tenderly nursed from the cradle j
nn trt rlpvoinn into n stronsr and virile i
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and vigorous and healthy tree.
Sometimes an article is sent for
publication and does not appear just ^
when the writer feels that it should. |
Do not conclude that it is bccause
we do not want you to send us communications
for publication. It oftens
happens that we can not handle
all that come in for the first paper.
Sometimes the advertiser waits for
the last day to get in an advertisement
and the ads as a rule have the
right of way. In these times we must
all help one another and learn to bear
and forbear. If we do we will pull
through all right.
In sending articles for publication
please do not forget to send your
name, not necessarily for publication
but that the editor may know who the
wirter is. This applies to news items
as well as other articles.
Clarence Poe looks just like he did
some fifteen years or more ago when
he addressed the State Press association.
He says it was at the meeting
at Check Springs in 1908. We do not
recall the date ;but it seemed to us
it was further back than then.
He made a fine talk to the farmers
in the court house on Monday. Sorry
we could not hear him tnrougnou? bu;
being press day we had to be out.
There was the largest crowd we have
seen at any meeting of farmers in a
good many moons.
Cooperative marketing is all right,
and no doubt a good thing, but the
first thing the farmer in this section
of the country must do is to reach
the point where the cotton is his when
he makes it, and where he does not
owe for it even before he grows it.
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He can then marKei it as ne pieaoco.
All of us farmers should start out
this year with the determination to
make all we need for the farm on the
farm, and then what cbtton we can
grow will be our? and we can market
it cooperatively if we desire.
We are ready and willing and anxious
to assist the farmer in any way
that we may be able, and if cooperative
marketing is a good thing they
should adopt it.
We second the nomination of the
Hon. Harry L. Watson by The State
for a trusteeship in the University of
South Carolina.
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0> 'AMONG THE SCHOOLS <?>
<8> < SCHOOL
FINANCES
A Word to Teachers.?We Cannot
Afford to Clo^e the
Schools
I hope no teacher in Newberry will
get stage fright. And that r.o trustee
will get cold feet. Some arrangement
will be made to, finance the
school. It would be a calamity to
close the schools of the county at this
time. And we are not going to close
them. Never had any idea of doin^
it In some of the districts the money
is out temporarily, .but some arrangement
will be ipade to pay the
teachers. In the districts that are out
of funds payment of claims has been
held up until arrangement can be
made.
The legislature in its wisdom has
seen fit to extend the time for the
payment of taxes and as a result in
some of the districts not more than
20 per cent of the tax has been paid,
and will not be most likely until after
the school closes.
I have made up a statement as
nearly accurate as it is possible to
make it, showing the mount of cash
to the credit of each school district,
and I have taken as a basis of apportionment
of the three mills tax 60 per
cent of the actual apportionment.
The dogs and polls represent the
amounts actually paid.
I have taken these figures from the
treasurer's books with the assistance
of County Treasurer Schumpert. In
the expenditure account I have only
included the amounts paid to teachers.
Of course in some districts
there have been some incidentals. I
have included state appropriations
only for term extension, and that
money has been paid to the county.
I have taken no account of building
expense. That will take care of itself.
It will be seen from the tafble
i-vairtur +Vnjf thpvp are nineteen dis
UtlV?? Vi*uw V.V. ?
tricts that have overdrafts. Many of
these have the guarantee of a seven
months' term under state laws and
have complied with all the conditions.
The money has not yet been appropriated,
but I can not conceive how
the legislature can fail to keep faith
with the children of the state, and I
feel sure that the appropriation will
be made, but until it is made I can
not check on it. And if by any mishap
the legislature should fail to keep
the faith I am sure that our own
COUXlty Will mane u p mc
because we must take care of the
children.
In the tabulation, I am giving the
total taxable property in each district
and the amount upon which the
ta.< has been paid. And also the special
levy for school. The tabulation
Jo rviorlo nn +n TTobriiorv 1 ft A fpw
claims woro paid on Saturday in the
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districts that showed a balance. And
some taxes have been paid.
; I am asking the trustees and the j
teachers to meet at the court house'
.next Saturday, February 18 at 11;
o'clock so that we may discuss the fin- J
ances and determine what we shall do.'
By that time the joint resolution of |
Representative Blease will no doubt j
be through the legislature and we can j
determine about how much money it j
, will be necessary to have in each dis
trict and make arrangement to get!
it. Let every trustee and every teach-1
er attend this meeting. It is impor-:
tant. We will meet in the court !
house. This meeting will take the j
pxaue ui me icguiai uiuunnj .
of the teachers. j
It will be seen that the total ?over-:
draft in the nineteen districts is!
$7,647.30, and the total balance in
the other districts is $33,846.98, leaving
a balance to the credit of the
school fund as of February 10 of
$26,219.68. This amount will not
pay the loan already made.
But we have nineteen schools that
qualify as rural graded schools and j
their applications have been approved j
for a total of $4700 and the state has
!not failed to provide for these in the
appropriation bill since the passage
of the law, and will not this year. The
following are the schools that have
their claims approved for rural graded
school aid: Bethel-Garmany,
Hartford, St. Lukes, O'Neall, Monticello,
Fairview, Midway, St. Phillips,
Rutherford, New Hope-Zion, Wheeland,
Jolly Street, Chappells, Reederville,
Bush River, Smyrna, Trinity,
Jalapa, Silverstreet. Then Newberry,
Little Mountain, Prosperity, Whit?
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mire and Fomaria nave quaimea ior
state high school aid. I
!
The statement of the financial con- j "
dition of the various school districts ; *
takes up a good deal more space than e
I thought it would when I decided to. e
publish it in this column, but it is in- a
formation that will possibly be of in- u
terest to all the people, and then I j t.
will use the paper to give the inf or- j t
, mation to the trustees by subscribing c
for a paper for each one and also a . t
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subscription ior eacn icaciier anu mat ( will
be cheaper than making out and . a
mailing a statement to each trustee, j d
i I wnat to make it clear that the P
statement includes the amount actu- t.
ially paid of the special tax up to the 0
i 10th of February, and represents 60
per cent of the apportionment of the b
. three mills tax and all the polls and ( a
; dogs that had been paid up to that t
time. And the expenditure represents
only the amount actually paid to
teachers up to the 10th. And does not
include any state aid except the term
extension money which has been re- ^
ceived. It will be a matter of easy j1
calculation for the trustees to see how , ^
much more money it will take to op-' a
Financial condition of Districl
amount paid from all sources and
, Newberry
; j, Area, 3,1c
i Taxable Property Amoun
i $3,215,740 $2,35
! Balance v
Poll Tax
3-Mill Tax 1*.
Dog Tax
Special Tax
1
I
i
White Teachers
Negro Teachers
i
Balance
Bethel-Garm
Area 18,91
Taxable Property Amount
202,920 8:
Balance
Poll Tax
| 3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special\ Tax
White Teachers
Negro Teachers
Overdraft
Maybinto
j Area 16,2
Taxable Property Amouni
! 100,o40 2!
I Balance
Poll Tax
3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special Tax
State Appropriation !
!
White Teachers
i Negro Teachers
I
?JCK<Cki i ^ r
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Long Lan
1 Area 9,95
Taxable Property Amounl
83,240 1!
Poll Tax
3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special Tax
Mate
Haltiwa
This we
and marking
Millinery.
Saturdc
on displ
Dresses, 5
Blouses a
We thii
best values ?
been able to
We wa
invite you tc
If you t
. the season si
-i
to enjoy tnei
Haltiwa
rate their schools for the term they
xpect to run them. It is not probble
that much more tax will be paid
ntil after the schools have closed for
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his term, it win De easy iu wicuwic
he amount of the special tax yet unollected
by taking the difference bew*een
the total taxable property in
ach district and the amount paid on
nd multiplying by the levy in the
istrict. In one district only five taxayers
have paid. And in several of
hem not much over twenty per cent
f the tax has been paid.
That tax will be paid some time,
ut just now teachers and trustees
nd patrons and all others must work
ogeiher to keep the school going.
r^rvnn
UVW
I have just had a glance at the appropriation
bill and it appears to me
hat the ways and means committee
las done well by the public schools?
,nd it is well.
ts, Feb. 10, 1922, showing total
[ amounts paid to teachers only.
, No. 1.
>i Acres
t paid on ' Special Levy
0,400 12 mills
$ 4,894.36
446.00
2,552.40
273.00
- 28.204.80
$36,370.56
15,944.00
2,180.00 18,124.00
$18,246.56
any No. 2.
)3 Acres
t paid on Special Levy
3,000 8 mills .
152.44
ST.00
A *7? A A
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125.00
664.00
$1,455.44
$1,220.00
276.00 1,496.00
$ 40.56
n No. 3.
10 Ac res
t paid on Special Levy
3,320 2 mills
$ 60.93
20.00
300.00
97.00
40.64
100.00
$618.57
$300.00
145.00 445.00
$173.57
e No. 4.
8 Acres
t paid on Special Levy
9,320 4 mills
$ 13.00
132.00
66.00
77.28
100.00
$388.28
.nger & Ca
ek we have been busj
I new spring Ready-t<
ly, Feb. 18th we
ay, New Sprir
Suits, Coats, Cap<
nd Neckwear.
ik this collection de
ind prettiest styles w<
offer.
int your verdict am
> see them.
kiitr riAiir i/Afi TA7i11 rrpf '
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tyles and too have a ]
m.
nger & Ca
Deficit
White Teacher
Overdraft v *
McCullough
Area 8,665
Taxable Property Amount
68,380 12
Pell Tax
3-Mill Tax .V
Dog Tax
Special Tax
State
Deficit
White Teacher
Negro Teacher
Overdraft
Cromer T
j
Area 6,466
Taxable Property Amount
j 51,180 iy
Balance r
Poll Tax
3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special Tax
State
i
White Teacher
XT T 1
x^ugiu i uatiiei
Balance
Re&gin r?
^ Area 5,704
Taxable Property Amount
62,530 22
Balance .
Poll Tax
3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special Tax
State
White Teacher
Negro Teacher
Balance
Deadfall ]
Area 5,260
Taxable Property Amount
GO, 760 20
Balance
Poll Tax
3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special Tax
State
White Teacher
Negro Teacher
Balance
Utopia N
Area 8,514
Taxable Property Amount
85,850 25
Balance
I'oil i ax
3-Mill Tax
Dog Tax
Special Tax
/lis Ck V
?i line A cav-ntx
{ Negro Teacher
Bfthnce
rpenter
j unpacking
^-Wpar Anrl
will have
ig Hats,
3s, Skirts,
scidedly the
3 have ever
rl n/\vrlinlivy
u tui uiaiijr
hi
the pick of
longer time
rpenter
$ 24.34 - '
450.00 474.34 " O
QC Ail
<? ov.w
l No. 5.
Acres
paid on Special Levy
,660 4 mills
% 9.00 "
135.65
30.00 ^
i 50.64
100.00
y
$322.29'.
3.67
400.00 ,;vs
35.00 438.67 "
$ 96.38
*o. 6.
Acres
paid on Special Levy
,950 3 mills
$ 60.83
io.oo
.' 129.60
36.00
'59.85":
100.00
$396.28
$225.00
80.00 305.00
$ 91.28
lo. 8.
> Acres
paid on Special Levy
,690 # 4 mills
$118.53
11.00
211.95
32.00
90.76
100.00
i
$564.24
$3-00.00
180.00 480.00
$ 84.24
No. 9.
Acres
paid on Special Levy
,100 4 mills
$ 93.70
11.00
209.23
30.00
80.43
100X)0
3524.38
$340.00
135.00 475.00
5 AQ 28
O. 10
Acres
paid on Special Levy
,860 1 mill
$ 530.54
11.00
468.45
i 33.00
25.86
$1,068.85
?450.0U
210.00 660.00
$ 408.85