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fjlje jecaii) unD Jem [ ~ i KatftrW at tko Pc?tof?c? at New-; ^ ft W|, 9. C., at 2nd cla?s matter. j t E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, March 3, 1922 I THE MOVING PICTURES U The motion picture industry has p 'been severely criticised lately on ac- a count of some sensational matters t which have happened at Hollywood, e near-Los Angeles, in the motion pic- y ture colony. It should be remember- c ed that one or two cases of this kind g should not work to the detriment of v a business which has such a high ed- t ucational value. Most of the pictures t n-ra /*loon onr] frVlOV amilSenient t UllVi VilVJ M** W. x. ? v to thousands of people who would not k be able to take advantage of high- t priced shows. 1 There is hardly a child in the entire h country who does not enjoy the mov- t< ing picture shews, and it is very sel- c dom that they ever see anything on the screen that would detrimentally ti affect their minds. Every mornin? P and every afternoon, in these times n of depression, the grown people who v are not able to afford other forms of tl legitimate amusement go to the pic- o ture shows and enjoy them, and it is d very seldom that they ever see any- f; thing on the screen that goes to 'b shock the sensibilities of even the o most morally scrupulous. It is true b that occasionally the best managed c motion picture theatre is imposed up- L on, but this is very rare. P In some of the larger cities, we a have heard that there hav been o: shows presented which would not be b. allowed in South Carolina, but the instances in which even the most scrupulous might be shocked have been P very rare in this state. c< The motion picture business is performing a mission in South Carolina t( which it would be very hard to over- o: estimate. Properly conducted?and a: our observation has been that it has/h; been properly conducted in this state, ei so far as the managers of the theaters 1J are concerned?it is a legitimate bus iness whose educational value is sec- K only only to that of the churches and tl the schools. oi Certainly in Newberry the picture? u have been kept clean at all times, so rc far as the manager of the local then- s< tre could keep them clean?and he is t! always "on the job." c The fact that Arbuckle has been twice tried for manslaughter, and that Taylor was killed, should have ro tl effect on the-minds of the public, s:> w far as legitimate shows are concern- s: ed?and we have only legitimate s* shows in Newberry and elsewhere in South Carolina, so far as our o nervation has extended. We are net p( passing judgment either upon Arbuckle, nor are we expressing any u opinion as to who killed Taylor. That ie is a matter for the courts. But ti do sav that the educational value . ? such leg't mate shows as Manager Wells presents in Nowbervy, and of >3 such shows as other managers present S( * ? tUI < +?<? pViminn* no nvp V Ill Llllji SlUtCi ouuma iiub w v v - gj looked, and that in the?? times of de- ^ pression th's is one of the cheapest tc forms of leg'timase amusement offered to the prMIc. C( We o-ote with approval two parp-rcph^ f'ou an editorial in ''The Moving- Picture World" of recent ? < date: ir "Our troubles have grown to pro- h; portions that none save a 2re.1t vitall- f( ty could withstand. The Arbuckle s< case was laid, not at the doors of in- o' dividuals, but at the door o? the in- v< dustry. . . . The Taylor tragedy ti was not the murder of an individual A but, if the newspapers are to be ere- s< dited, an outcropping of the wild, hectic, dissolute, druu crazed seethin?." and so on. "With fortitude ^ we endure, and our gain will be the ? ph'icsophy with which we will con- ? found our traducers.*' ? Let us not under-estimate the educational value of the motion picture t! and the amusement it affords to hun- pt dreds of thousands who are nst able ti to afford any other kind of amusement. g ci A traveler to Columbia on Tuesday s' phoned us after his arrival in the a capital that the worst portion of the li road to that city is the detour at the fl underpass just below Prosperity. And if wp siifnect that he is ricrht. Even the d k new work below the paved part is not c v so bad. And we wonder why the an- tl thorities do not insist that something be done. The fact is the underpass c should not be closed. There is noth- c ing but fast and reckless driving that p will cause an accident at this place, "u With warning signs on either side of t: the entrance to this place there is ti no reason why there should ever be y an accident here if the warnings to ii ** i i i nnL!_ j ? tDe careiui are oDserveci. inis noes c not mean to say that the underpass "w should not be widened, but in the tl meantime with the danger warnings y j t could be used. If the underpass road is not to be sed then why not make the detour nto a road that can be traveled and lot have it said that the worst part of he road between Columbia and N .v erry is in Newberry county. Let us nsist that something be done. SECTION THAT NEEDS A ROAD There are many sections of the ounty that should have some road fork, and while we have made great rogress in the matter of highways nd have opened up some line secions of the county so as to make it ~ * X ^ 1 asy to go irom piace 10 piace, nave ou ever thought that we need some ross country roads so that we might et from one parallel road to another . ithout going too far around the rail of a triangle. In other words ake that section of the county out ~f V! vi o e fi?Am Vtorn 0 lilt' I'lgHU Ui iviliaiuo xivui iiviv; now as the Tabernacle section or hat portion in which is located or 'abernacle school, these people out ere should have some sort of outlet o the highway so that they could ome to Newberry or go to Kinards. is it is now there is no way for thc-m o get out except on horseback and ossibly in a buggy. From Ts-beracle down by the home of Mr. W. V:. Riser there should be a road and ne two roads that now go from there ut to the highway could very well be ;spensed with, and a good road built rom the Laurens line to the highway y Mr. Riser's coming out at the colred church, and then the road should e extended on across by Bush River hurch and tap the highway out by ongshores, and in fact on to Chapells, but at present the people round Tabernaclc should have an utlet. And the best route is down y Mr. Riser's into the Piedmont highay this side of Kinards and it will lake an outlet for many of the peole on the lower edge of Laurens )unty. There is need for some cross roads ) get out to the higways, and this is ne section that needs something bad, nd to carry out the idea that we ave the road should be taken on ovr to Cromers so that the people who ve in here could g-o cither to Whit [ire or get out into the highway for inards or Newberry. Carrying out le idea of the highway commission f the county the chaingang will be sed on the building of permanent >ads and there should be time very >on to get out this side and do someling for the people of this section r the county. The leg'slature will go at least iree weeks beyond the six weeks hich is ?et for the length of the se*on. But then congress remains in 11 17- _ J ?ssion an tr.e year ruunu. ^ i Some of the signs on the highways Dinting the direction and giving the istances are not correct as to distnce. But they are a great conven;nce and a lot of company to the 'aveler through a strange land. . i ? I The Herald and News will print the ewberrv county supply bill just as >on as it is completed by our dele^ ^J ?ta /ion co/?nvn n Tt i tlUii C* 1IU W L d XX C4 l V C4 V/ J AW as been our custom for many years > do this as a matter of news and iformation to the people of the )unty. Gov. Cooper did well to veto the >rolut:on extending the time for payig t-ix, but the resolution should ave been passed if passed at all be>re the day before the time was out, ) that the officials as well as the peo!e might know what to do. It is erv nrobable, they say, that the me will be extended to the first of pril, but with what penalties no one ?ems to know at this writing. l AMONG THE SCHOOLS <S> i < > <5> <T> < > <S> A ^ <3> The following circular issued 'by i -r + le state superintendent 01 euut#iwn ives the result of the fall examinaons for teachers in the state. It rill be seen that an opportunity is iven all teachers who stood that examination and who failed to secure a tate certificate to sfand a soecial exmination which will be held in Co i-mbia March 23 and March 24 by tie state bureau of examiners. And ? there should be any others who esire to take an examination to seure a state certificate they can take ae examination also. I I have had some inquiries in this ounty about securing: rtate certifi-j 1 T "*irV? r\ OY. ates ar>a i nope an ui mnu ^ ect to teach the coming session and ho do not have state certificates will .ike advantage of this offer to secure he certificate. You will have to bear our own expense to Columbia but : is an opportunity to fit yourself to each and to be paid for it. Those ;ho hold permits should remember hat a permit 3? q;oori for only one ear .tn<i can nor !>? i mewed. Rend j % the circular: Columbia, February 18, 1922. To the County Superintendent of Education. Dear Sir: Results of the regular fall teachers' examination held at each county i courthouse October 7th and 8th have i already been reported to the several county superintendents of education. Applicants taking- this examination were as follows: White men, 112; + ^ OQJ. whitp hnth SPXGS. W III CC 7 1106; negro mon, 161; negro women, 719; negro, both sexes, 880; total for both races, 1,986. Applicants earning and receiving certificates were as follows: White men, first grade 7; second grade 6; third grade 18; total for white men, 31; white women, first grade, 54; second grade, 124; third grade, 221; to tal white women. 399; total white, both sexes, 430; negro men, first grade 0; second grade 2; third grade 52; total negro men, 54; negro women, first grade, 5; second grade 32; third grade, 223; total negro women, 260; total negro, both sexes, 314; grand total of all certificates issued for both races 744. These figures show that 1,242 ap plicants failed. Some of these applicants began work in the fall before the results of the examination could be ascertained and announced. Wherever such a teacher failed the county superintendent as usual secured for him or her a permit for the session 1921-22. This protection, of course, could not reach and relieve that group of teachers who had been given permits during the scholastic year 1920-21. A few of these DISQUAL IFIED PERMIT teachers are requesting another chance in an extra special ex?mination. In addition, there are some similar scattering requests from other folk under varying circumstances and conditions. In order to meet this demand, the state board of education, upon a request and recommendation of the sta;e superintendent of education, has authorized an extra spocial teachers' examination to be held in Columbia Thursday, March 23rd and Friday, March 24th, by the state bureau of examiners. Please notify any teacher in your county who may be interested because of his or her classroom service for which payment may not be legally .made because the teacher is without valid license. Kindly notify aI?o any prospective teacher who may wish to come to the capital city for this extra examination. Your cooperation in this endeavor will greatly aid these unlicensed teachers and will help both the state superintendent and the county superintendent to handle satisfactorily rural graded school applications, high school applications and equalizing applications from districts receiving state aid. One single and central ex animation in the capital city will impose small cost on the taxpaying public. Applicants coming to Columbia for the examination, however, will be compelled to mee their own traveling expenses for the trip. This private expense feature of the examination is unfortunate, but 'the holding of such an examination at the forty-six county courthouses would cost something like $500.00. The state board of education, the state superintendent of education and the state bureau of examiners hope that all teachers requesting this examination will understand and appreciate the necessity of public economy. 1 I shall be glad if you will write me * 11 ' ' i* ii. _ x T a detailed use 01 trie leacners m your schools who may be interested in this extra examination. Yours respectfully, J. E. Swearingen, State Supt. of Education. HI > TEACHERS OF STATE SOON TO ASSEMBLE IN COLUMBIA _____ i Rock Hill, Feb. 28.?The program gram of the State Teachers' associate have just come from the press and R. C. Burts is mailing them out to the teachers of the state this week. The proeram is a forty page bulletin. In it will be found general informa tion about the railroad rates, hotel arrangements, etc. About twenty pages of the program are given over to the advertisements of school supplies, etc., which will be of interest to teachers. There are almost twenty depart mental programs, all of which will be carried out on Thursday and Friday of the association. These departmental meetings have many practical and helpful subjects for discussion. j The general sessions will be held on Thursday evening, Friday noon, Friday evening, and Saturday morning. On Thursday evening Dr. T. E. T/->Viort'n T oncirior Afir>hio,nr> whr> is OKJIHIOVJU VA considered one of the leading educators of the middle west, and Dr. E. C. Brooks, who has gained a wide repu4?4'?? nMn-nnr ennarmfonfloTltc nf pd_ Icl ilUIl ^UytillUtllV4V4ivu V*. wv ucation of the South will be the speakers. Friday at noon Or. Henry P. Phil lips, rector of Trinity church, wil ; speak on the subject of hi.^h schoo athletics. Dr. Phillips was formerly | president of the S. I. A. A. and has a wide knowledge of interscholastk athletics. Superintendent J. E. Swearingen will speak also at this meeting on "The Outlook for 1922-1923." On Friday evening Dr. Hugh S, ; Magill, field secretary of the Nation al association, will speak. Twenty minutes will be given to the illiteracy commission at which time several pu! pils will speak on the subject, "What , Adult Schools Have Meant to Me.' Saturday morning a business session will be held. I The prospects are there will be more than fifteen hundred teachers in attendance. From all over the state have come into the secretary's office 'reports of teachers planning to at tend. The Jerome hotel will be headquarters at which place a bureau of information will be maintained. The railroads are offering reduced rates, 'but in order to secure the:;e rates identification must be secured from the secretary. These have been mail ed out to all of the teachers whose names could be secured and a supply furnished each county superintendent i of education. TAXATION TERRORS JL IIC UiCCUti O V-4 c* ? v, v The active business men and farmers of this country are to have their taxes still further increased. People not in business, people with capital who do not have to work are taken care of?thanks to the 50 percent surtax feature of the existing law. The high cost of government is already drawing the life-blood out of the veins of production and distribution, and the end is not yet. We suggest a national defense league, to which no political appointee or aspirant shall be eligible, to be organized and operated by "wireless:" just a solemn oath taken by each law-abiding, patriotic voter, regardless of party or class affiliation, to? "scrap" a lot of things, in addition to the battleships to be junked. <<There ars. boards and bureaus and jbommissions and bond issues, state,national and municipal, and wastes without end that are bigger drains directly and in1 * * 1 A Al IV _ airecuy upon taxpayers xnan xne navy has ever been. It is time to use the axe. We have reached the point where it is a question of not how we may levy more taxes,: but how can .we reduce those that are already bleeding' the country white. There is probably no one tax that is working such widespread havoc just now as the transportation tax, which is, of course, failing to produce, as planned, because' it is 30 heavy that it cannot be collected. It is a virtual embargo on any free interchange of commodities. A farm product rots or is burned in one community when it is badly needed in another. The sidings at central poinfs are jammed with idle cars and dead locomotives. Certain food products and the bare necessities of life are moving at the excessive rates prevailing because chaos and famine would otherwise re suit; but traffic everywhere is on a minimum basis. Sales and shipments that would liquidate debts and supply employment are in many cases quite impossible. And the fault is indisputably the government's. Through the instrumentality of the Adamson law, the labor board and the interstate commerce commission this intolerable transportation tax has been 3 _ Ti. J.1 ? i. maue pussiDie. ix is, tnereiore, jusi, as much a government levy as any form of direct taxation. Let us hope it will be lifted before the billions called for by new legislation now in prospect have to be provided. A Colorado alfalfa-grower received $160 for 20 tons of alfalfa hay, delivered at Kansas City. A Florida buyer paid $325 freight on it from the Missouri rivnr. The know ing that there is a surplus of this commodity in the west?and real need of it in other parts of iho country?has been endeavoring to bring: buyers and sellers together through the medium of advertisemenvs. He gets correspondence, but freight rates kill all prospects. That is the whole situation in one sentence. W. H. BOULWARE DEAD 1 Native of Laurens County Died at His Heme in Florida February 21 Laurens Advertiser. i Frienc's in the county of Mr. W. H. Boulware will be sorry to barn of j his death, which took place at his adopted home, Mcintosh, F!a., Tuesday, February 21st. The deceased was born in Cross Hill, this county, J 1 1 x _ T-n _ ! _ 1 A 1 1 U ~ ana niovea 10 nonaa in juh?, wnert he had resided until the time of his : death. The following account of bis death was taken from the Daily Star, of Ocala, Fla., under date of February oo. The funeral of the late VV. II. Boul*.varp of Mcintosh, who died on Tuesi i, day faternoon, was held yestorchv afI'ternoon at Mcintosh, interment be jing made in the cemetery there, i George MacKay & Company had charge of the arrangements. -j The deceased was seventy years of ; age, having been born in Cross Hill | Laurens county, S. C., and moved tc .! Florida in 1913. -i He was a consistent Christian, a 'i loving father and husband. He is -! survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice Wad j dell Boulware, and several children, ; namely: W. A. Boulware, Columbia, 'i S. C.; Mrs. R. S. Bonnell, Sardis, Ga.; i W. F. Boulware, Bradentown; Jas. P {Boulware, Greenwood, S. C.; Miss ? Elisabeth Boulware. Aueusta. Ga.: R. ;! M. Boulware, Palmetto, 'Fla.; Mrs. :j Joshua Gist, Acala; Mrs. W. M. Ab: | ernathy, Jacksonville, and P. M. Boul. | ware, R. C. Boulware and Mrs. Mor. decai N. Gist, Mcintosh, and one brother, R. C. Boulware of Bethany, ? La. , j There are numerous friends ir ' South Carolina and Florida who wil] . be grieved to hear of his death and I who will sympathize with the bereav; ed ones in their loss. r J ? " * Will Hays has gone into the movies. I but we don't believe he will ever be| come a popular matinee idol. | The road to Easy Street is paved | with good resolutions faithfully kept. r f ! r-J i ,/jj 41 T\ j JP" (I TI rii l ne <unari the Ecc In selecting this si we have kept consta: t\ r>i m F1KST, every gain standard of quality ii ness; SECOND, and Ifered at a low price i quality while reducii 1 1 .?? ueveiopeu auiniy xuj how wonderfully we a representative sho1 in Suits, Coats, Dres; prices that cannot b< the Southland. I I I I. li! naiuwa j "The G I ? Wah, Wah! I "Golly, Moses! Dey ;rot .strawber[ rics and cherries and all kinds o' fruit jcovered wit candy. What kind shall ah git?" , | "Git a choc'lat covered watermil> lion." j N01 i ! We have mave Stand, to lower I J. McWhirter's S and vou will re I courteous treatm .! prices. See us bef< ] R. G. Wall j i i ???????? r'iM! dtk_ i K r IL n of Individ >nomy of Low )lendid showing of new S ntly before us two outs lent presented must live i n material, workmanship no less important, every n keeping with the times, ng price is indeed a test ? service. We want you ' 11 we have succeeded in t wing of the new season's ses, Capes and Sport Apr a surpassed for true valin Surprises a NEW SPRI Pleasant surprises, too, --- 1 i. i. _ 4.1 Spring season urougm iu u wonderful variety of brand gear as we are now showing will suit you as though it w< and you will rind it markec has been possible l'or mai Spring hat today. nger & G /? ir i rowing Store ot l\e> Newberry, So. Car. y Sic 'em Tigc! ''What you need is a tonic to sharpen your appetite," said the doctor. "By the way, what is your occupa1 tion?*' ''I am a sword swallowjr in a circus sideshow," replied the caller. I ncE id from our old Vlaln Street, at C. tand come down iceive the same ent, with the right jreyou buy , i n n lace ? Son ?1 mSSt / i ? . m [uality-rius r Prices / pring Outer Apparel standing principles: ip to this store's high and style distinctivegarment must be ofTo maintain such '1 i- 1. : l or tnis store s mgmy to come in and see ringing to Newberry most exclusive styles >arel to be offered at ~ TriirViTH C CHij vvuviv jlia wait you in ? ? ^ V V ft ?TP1 IN(i tiAlS for never before has a he millinery section such a . new conceptions in head r. There is a hat here that ire made especially for you i at a price far lower than ly reasons. Choose your irpenter wberrv" # l