The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 22, 1922, Page FOUR, Image 4
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E. H. AULL. EDITOR.
Friday, December 22, 1922.
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A VATUPD rHRKTMAS
| . Another Christmas season is here.
This will make thirty-six annual and
consecutive times that the present
s editor of The Herald nad News- has
sent the greetings of ;he season to
the great family of the paper.
:. * Some of the young members of the
b family will say that it is a long time,
fl Well, looking forward it is a long
time, .but looking backward it seems
but yesteryear. During that time we
Si have been tossed and beaten by the
- waves of many stormy seas,.and the
journey has not been free from its
twn'if on/? nor<ichin<. and vet there
'LJiltllO C4;itA uuiuwt??rv7 ? %r - ^
have been many pleasant places and
. many delightful oases. The breakers
| many times have been h:gh and
? strong ana the riding has been difficult,
and we might say the storm is
} -' still raging. But the people of Newberry
have been kind and considerate,
and we have always had in mind
p wha: is best for all the people, and
j. . we have the satisfaction that nothing
has been set down or writ in malice,
but arlways with an eye single to that
which we conceived to be for the best
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fc interests of the people of this commuV
nity.
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* *. 1 And many times before ihe Christp#?fv.
mas of 1887, has The Herald and
News carried messages of cheer and
111 V good will -to the people cf this com.
0*> munity, because the old paper has
been here for more :han three quarry;*.
' ters of a century, and we hope it may
fs . . ibe able to ride the breakers for many
many more years, and carry its message
of hope and good cheer, and be
able to sympathize with those who are
? passing under the rod.
As we have often remarked before.
we believe that a country newspaper
. . such as The Herald and .\ews, snouin
coma in close personal contact with
its big family of readers, and sympa521
thize with them when they mourn,
and rejoice with them when they are
. happy. v In other words, there should
| be that close personal relation that
K; - exists,, or should exist, in the family.
j|: Mr.ny of the readers and subscribers
? o?, the paper today were not born
c- when we began our connection with *
I " it, and yet we are young with them
and try to keep their viewpoint, and
at the same time keep the elbow
* touch with those who have grown up
with us in the community and have
B > been readers of the paper all the
years.
And to all of them we are permit|
' ted again to send the greeting#of the
I seasojf, and this we do, and wish for
. every one the right sore of enjoyment
and happiness on this the greatest of
I all the festivals of the year. Without
the birth of the Christ there would be
no hope for the human race. Without
the manger and the cross and the resurrection
this would indeed be .a lost
and a hopeless world and the future
would be dark and gloomy.
This season ^ means the greatest ?
gift to man, snd should be one of
^ * good will arid peace. "Peace on earth, (
V good will to men." was what the star .
* ; in the east meant to the shepherds as
v they tended their flocks on the hills,
[I . and that is what it means to us tod=ay?
but there will be no peace until ,
we get righteousness and right think- .
- ing into the hearts of men and worn- .
en, the same spirit that was in the
angels when they sent forth this cry |
to the shepherds nineteen hundred ,
Hfc; years-^go. .
R5 - * It is the season when we should .
bear gifts and good will to all men,
ar.djitlless you have that same sD.rlt
you are not properly and fittingly
celebrating the g:tat event. The be;^
way to celebrate the Christmas is to
make someone else happy, help those
qjj / who are in need by bearing gifis, and
' always remember the poor and the
?h" > children.
Some two years ago Miss Carrie
* iGreneker, who but a few days ago
went to join the angei host, sent us
the beautiful poem by James Russell
fegf. . Lowell, accompanying'it by the following
personal note. Fdi* same rea
son we did no: print it then, but it
will be fitting and appropriate at this
time. : Her personal note reaas as folflows:
"This would be good for the
paper on the first page, would you
please use it? Or ask The Idler, everybody
would see it if he put it in
his column, and they could not help
reading it." The Idler has not writ*
ten anything for a long time, but we
hope he will resume soon. We will
not print it on the first page but in
our column. We extend the greetings
of. the season to all the readers of
The Herald and News, and where
there are vacant chairs around the
hearthstone that were not vacant last
Christmas time ni^y you have consolation
in the fact that the Prince of
PpVo i-s bom and that He was horn
that you might have hope of a brighter
day and that the morning will
come, when there shall be no more
sorrow.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By James Russell Lowell
"What means this glory round our
feet,"
The Magi mused, "more bright than
morn?"
And voices chanted clear and sweet, j
"Today the Prince of Peace is born."
"What means that star," the shepherds.
said, 1
"That brightens through the rocky
glen?"
And angels, answering overhead.
Sang, "Peace on earth, good will to
men."
Tis eighteen hundred years and
more i
Since those sweet oracles'were dumb.
We wait for Him, like them of yore.
Alas, He seems so slow to come.
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But it was said in words of gold
No time or sorrow e'er shall dim.
That little children might be bold
In perfect trust to come to Him. j
All round about our feet shall shine
A light like that the wise men saw
If we our loving wills incline
To that sweet life which is the law.
So shall we learn to understand J
The simple faith of shepherds then,
And clasping kindly hand in hand.
Sing ''Peace on earth, good will to
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And tbtey who do their souls no
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But keep at eve the faith of morn.
Shall daily hear the angel song,
"Today the Prince of Peace is hern!''
"TOO MANY ENGLISH SPARROWS
TALKING STATESMANSHIP"
Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Coker
college, was one of the principal
rpeakers at the American Education
week rally held in Columbia last
week. In his address he made some
'-trlkingly strong statements, as follows:
''The educational line is our firing
line now, and all the strength used in
the war is needed in peace."
"Teachers are not paid enough to
make their work a profession."
"The influence of parents must be
used to keep the children in school.
The false conception that causes a
"nan to say, 'my boy has as much education
as I had, and that's good
enough for him,' must be removed."
"Cutting a few dollars off some
fellow's* salary causes more discusJon
in the legislature than a comprehensive
school program."
"We have too many English spar
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. OVV5 laiMJlJi SOClOCSlIiailOilAy in uuuui
Carolina. I would like to see some
man launch a campaign to double the
rappropriations for schools and guarantee
a high school education to every
boy aiid girl in South Carolina.
The men who pay the taxes are willing.
The man who pays the least
and gets the most .benefit is the man
who opposes education."
Every one of these declarations by
Joctor Sikes is true. The Piedmont
i oncurs most heartily in the last.
State Superintendent of Education
John E. Swearinges, who has always
i hampionea economy in the expendirare
of the public money, has estimaIjd
tha: the state must spend at least
C$,000,000 more on its-public schools
lefcre they can approximate prevail;.ig
and desirable standards. Compare
South and North Carolina. This
' ?ar- South Carolina is spending a liii
e more than S9,000,000 cn its pubi'"
c/'hnnlc wliilo Vovth Carolina is
pending $37,000,000. That's one
t;2scn why North Carolina is so far
[.head of '' '^tate.
One of the SuULh's greatest educaL'ona!
statesmen in the last half ceni
iry was Walter H. Page of North
( arolina. distinguished editor and
r. rbassador to Great Britain during
t le World war. Many years ago he
! ;unc*hed an indictment against North
( arolina that is true today of South
(. arolina.:
''From the days of Kirg George to
t .is day, the politicians of North Carolina
have declaimed against taxes
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l-ius laying tne iounaations ci our
p n*erty. It was a misfortune for us
t'lat the quarrel with King George
happened to turn on taxation?so
g 'cat was the dread of taxation that
was instilled into us."
The people of South Carolina want
better schools and are going to have
them, despite yie demagogy of selfPeking
politicians and timid legislators.
The slogan of tn'e new popular
e.iucational movement is: "South
Carolina wants the best there is. and
can afford ro pay for it.''
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The above is copied from the
Greenville Piedmont and we copy it
h re to 'give as much prominence as
we can to what Dr. Sikes has to say
cn this very important subject, ami
aNo the comments of The Piedmont.
There are a lot of English sparrows
talking other things besides srate?
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The Commercial
! to extend to its patron:
; every person in Newberr
! for a happy Christmas ai
j Our message to each on
mistakes, and make then
efforts and endeavors an
to the future knowing cor
full duty, work and cons
limit, even greater jiappii
our portion at the end o
Count your many blessin
and all things will he rh
JOHN M.
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manship, and we are afraid the great
trouble is that too many of them are
lacking in vision. They can not see
far enough, or at least they make no
effort to increase their vision. And
then there are too many with the
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purely selfish spirit, ana me.\ tan
only themselves, and the trouble is
with this nearsighted vision, they do
not see what is really best for them.
These English sparrows talk about
taxes, and when the thing is brought
down to its last analysis the ones that
do the loudest talking, a* a rule, are
the ones who pay the lesst taxes and
get the greatest benefit from the taxes
that are paid. And that, strange
to say, is more largely true of education
and schools than almost any oth.21*
one thing. The man who has property
and pays taxes that count, is
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generally ioig enougn aim uiuau
enough. and has sufficient vision to
see that even from a purely selfish
standpoint his tax for the school is
the best investment ho makes, and it
pays the biggest dividend.
' What we need most just now from
an education or school standpoint is
really not so much more money,
though there is need for more money
to have a worth while system of
schools, but we really need more education
for our dollars- that we are
paying just now. And one way to get
? fn (rot rid
tHat, IS. 25 Lil <jr> iJuscuit,
of many of our little schools that are
finiply st/uggling, and rot getting
very far along the way, and where
this can be done it is always to the
benefit of the child, but the trouble
is to ge: the people to see it.. Take
our own county of Newberry, we are
not getting near what we should get
if we would see the advantage of putting
many of our schools together,
and instead of the one teacher have
two or three or even four teachers,
and then in many places in the rural'
communities we could have ?.ta:e high
schools. But until some one is given
authority to do this, and has the
nerve to do it, and to stand the criticism
that would come to him for doing
that which is best for the children
of the county, we are going "to
continue to have these little schools,
because me peopie nave nut mc
ion to see the advantage*of bettering
them. After it is done then they
would bless the one who did the job.
but woe be unto him while it is being
done. In many localities in our own
county it is costing from.one hundred
dollars up per annum per child to pay
teachers even in the class of schools
that are maintained for six and seven
months. Some pl^-es a consolidation
of two or more schools is not practical.
and in these we need the very
best teacher that can be obtained,
and at a salary that would command
that, class of teacher, but too many
people have an erroneous idea that
any sort of teacher is fitted for this
work, and the child suffers. But we
are' ma-king progress and improvement
and gradually getting the vision.
And we must keep hammering
the truth home and after a while the
scales will fall, but the Great trouble
about that is the children who are
passing along now will no: travel this
road again.
Tr;e best thing that has come to
Newberry (iurir.fr the past year is the
creamery. And we are pleased to
learn that it i? making money, and it
eoui(1 and would make more money
if the farmers would furnish more
cream, ami why should they not uo
this. We do not think it would he
wi<e for the farmer4; to ivi\v rhoif en
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s Greetiiifis
Bank of Newberry desires
5 and friends, and indeed,
y County, lis best wishes
id a prosperous New Year.
a nf vmi is fo frrcpr nas}
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i stepping stones to renew
d a more hopeful outlook
ifidently that if we do oar
;erve our resources to the
less and prosperity will be
f the coming New Year,
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tire time to furnishing* cream, "but
every farmer could keep a few cows.:
and should keep them any way, and
no doubt does, and if he would give
them a little more attention, and ihen
we could get a few creamery routes
out on the country places where every
farmer, even if he did not keep
but one cr two cows, could be able
to send in his cream two or three
times a week, it would be surprising
ihow much it would mean to
I'him, and it would be just that much
extra money. As Mr. Mills states..
he could give the skim milk to chick-:
ans or pigs, and that would be another
source of incpme to the farm.!
The creamery is a good thing for thej
town and the county, and that is the
sort of industry we want to encour-.
age. We have got to go on growing;
cotton. There is no doubt about that, t
but it must be done 021 tne inieiuiwj
plan. We must plant less, fertilize it,
better and work it better.
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Mr. Mills in h;s farm column calls; .
attention to what two farmers are do-|
ing in the matter of diversifying;
crops. It is the same eld story tlr.ui .
The Herald and News has told voaj
for the past thirty-live years. First;
make your farm self-sustaining by!
growing on the farm what Jyou i;eed |
for the farm and then grow cotton.!
And in addition sell some of the sur-i
plus food stuff. The truth is. the sou-:
thern farmer has always thrown away;
enough to feed twice as many people j
as he had on the farm. We are just;
now beginning to learn to save and ;
;o conserve our resources. We have,
the* finest country in the world, but!
we have always been ton profligate
of our resources. The boll weevil
has done good in the matter of mak- j
ing us realize what we could do in,
I this country on the farm. The dayj
of the renter is passing;, and as some
one remarked the other day, the town j
farmer is passing also. You must live !
on the farm to make it pay.
If we can see straight Col. A. K. j
Saunders, superintendent of the pen-!
herniary, made a strong defense Jf
against the pre-election charges of J
the parlor prison reformers of the j
Public Welfare board.?Calhoun j
J Times.
i We agree with you most heartily, j
| doctor, and it look? very much like a
J political lineup. This state board of I
I charities is right in a good many!
! things as we see it, bu: there "is too!
'much supervision. And the whole
j business is based on theories that are ^
j largely impractical. We believe in huI
mane treatment of criminals and
| that punishment should not be fori!
j the sake of punishment alone but we.
'mav earn* that t'neorv entirelv too'
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J criminal class would fare much bet- !
ter in prison than out.
EDUCATIONAL MESSAGE
BE FLASHED BY RADIO!
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Washington, Dec. IV.?John J.J
Tigert, commissioner of education an-j
! nounced today that Thursday his bu-,
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of educational messages by radio, j
jTht* messages will be broach-as: Mon- j
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I . p. m.. eastern time, on a wave j
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tne Anacostia naval station.
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j Secretary Denby announced that j 1
I drilling offset ga.- wells to prevent ij
idrainnig of oil r-serves on naval re-jj
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