The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 14, 1919, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Entered as second-class matter April
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. i
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Volume 2S. No. 33.
Thursday, August 14, 1919.
Think of this, please: If every
man in Bamberg was the same sort
of citizen that you are, what sort of
town would this be?
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There are more automobiles in
I Bamberg, no doubt, than in any town
its size in the State; yet there is a
woeful'lack of public spirit.
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It is said that last winter in some
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Northern cities, during the time when
influenza was an epidemic, that pallbearers
had to be hired. Now we
would be delighted to serve as pallbearer
free for some men we know.
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The greatest liability of the Wilson
administration has been one A. S.
Biirleson, postmaster general, and
the president should have handed
him the pink slip long ago. He is
one of the most prolific sources of
trouble for the present administration.
Our best wishes go out to Charleston
for next Tuesday. On that day
we trust she will be true to the g^rious
traditions of that city and bury
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forever that most notorious German
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I sympathizer and American hater,
John P. Grace. He has no business
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in this'country?Germany is his propSi.:
er abiding place.
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What has hannmp nf that, ire nlant i
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that was going to be built in Bamberg?
We understood some months
ago that arrangements were being
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for the manufacture of
Pice here. An ice plant has been in
operation for several years in Walter/
horo, and it is evidently a paying investment,
for we note from the Press
and Standard that the capital stock
of the concern has been doubled, and
that the capacity has been trebled.
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The president has at last opened
his mouth and condemned the out??;'V
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rageous robbing of the people in the
Scgfe- prices
of food, and it is to be hoped
that both he and congress will do
something besides talk. Some of
these food robbers ought to be shot,
and this robbery, as the president
truly says, is not confined to the large
wholesaler either. The retailer is as
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guilty as anybody else. The crisis
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must come soon, if conditions are not
bettered and that right speedily.
However, we might as well put
the blame where it rightly be_
longs, and that is on the government.
They could have protected
the consumer and they
have not done it.
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After the United States declared
war the government got down on its
belly and groveled to labor, and it is
now reaping what it sowed. At the
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construction of the military camps in
LUIS OLCLLC uunajcuus na^cs \?cic
paid to most incompetent laborers,
but the contractors did not worry?
they were being paid a profit on the
cost of construction, so the greater
the cost the greater their profit. As
a consequence of this, negro brick
layers and other laborers whose work*
v does not require any special skill or
training are demanding and receiving
wages about double what a skilled
and expensively trained technical
man is receiving. In this town negro
brick masons are being paid $7.00 a
day, and many white men, whose
work requires fifty times the brains
and skill, are receiving about half as
much. Is it any wonder that the salaried
man has little confidence in and
less respect for the government?
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cOne great trouble with the negroes
gennerallv is that the vicious and
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criminal negru siauua juol m&u
in their esteem as the honest, industrious,
law-abiding- negro. The white
people?at least the Southern white
people?differentiate between these
two classes. A good negro can get
along anywhere in the South, but a
bad negro soon finds the atmosphere
to warm for him and is forced to seek
another home. Let the negro learn
this lesson: let him refuse to countenance
in church or society of any
kind these members of his race who
are vicious, immoral, and criminal,
and lie will have gone a long way toward
convincing the white people that
he himself is a good citizen.
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A few days ago we noticed in a
negro newspaper an editorial from
the New York World, and along with
it a half dozen or more letters to the
editor congratulating him on the editorial.
These letters were from negroes
or from white people who are
negro crazy, belonging to that class
in the North who are fanatically try
ins: to "uplift" tlie negro dv preacning
social equality to him. But most
of the letters were from bitter Northern
negroes, and some of the expressions
contained therein were of
the character to produce trouble between
the races. The editorial from
the World had reference to the recent
race riots in the North and West.
Th's negro paper that we allude to
is published in South Carolina, and
is edited by a negro who runs an orphanage,
supported by contributions,
much of this support coming from
Southern whites. He is too shrewd
to give expression to such devilish
views in his editorial columns, but
he copies from Northern papers. This
is the case with every negro newspaper
in this State that we know of.
They are doing more to create friction
between the races than anybody
else, and if there is trouble with
the negroes in this State these papers
will have had the major share in
bringing it about. Again we repeat
that the negro race has no worse en
emy man me aveiage ucgiu newspaper,
no matter where published,
and one which will do him the greater
harm.
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C HA RL r'STG X.
Charleston is the metropolis of
of South Carolina. The result of the
election in Charleston next Tuesday
will likely be looked upon by
the rest of the country as an,
inbex to the people of this
State. Will Charleston dis-Grace
herself? We hardly believe it.
The people of South Carolina are loyal,
and we are not prepared to believe,
now that the light has been
shed on the disloyalty of Grace, that
Charleston will do otherwise than repudiate
Grace and the Charleston
"American" in no uncertain manner.
COTTOX PRICES.
Recently the price 'of cotton advanced
two cents a pound in a single
day. Two or three days later cotton
declined two cents in one day. Incidentally,
it continued to decline some
more during the few following days.
In all cotton has declined in the space
of about ten days some four or five
cents a pound, going first up and then
down. To the mind of the layman,
there is no real or apparent reason
for such tremendous fluctuations.
One marked decline of two cents was
attributed to the marine strikes. If
someone will kindly tell us what the
marine strikes has to do with the
supply and demand for cotton, we
would be glad of illumination. Of
course, they will say that cotton cannot
be exported with 4he shipmen on
a strike. Anybody with intelligence
knows that the strike will be over
some time, and that not a bale less of
cotton will be consumed because of
it. Somebody pockets the difference
in price. Who gets it?
After all, we are inclined to the
belief that if the government fixed
the price of cotton at a fair figure,
everybody would be better off. You
would know where you stood anyway.
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
President Wilson has laid down
the law to congress on the high cost
of living. The magnificent address
of the president should cause some
of those in congress to be ashamed of
themselves. Their recent disgraceful
conduct in seeking to ridicule the
president, instead of doing something
to benefit the country in these perilous
times, has evidently got on the
nerves of the president.
As the president says, the country
is now neither at war nor peace, due
to the dilly-dallying of Lodge and
some other senators and congressmen
who are talking the country to
death about the peace treaty. They
grasp everything that they think
they can possibly use against the president.
And in the meantime the
country goes on suffering. We are
paying war prices for everything we
buy. although the war has been over
eight months.
The president recommends the
passage of needed legislation to get
the country on a peace basis again,
and we hope congress can stop wrangling
long enough to accomplish something.
That there is no sense in the
prices being charged ought to be apparent
to all thinking people. Somebody
is making billions at the expense
of the people, and it is high
time this thing is stopped.
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CAN'T LIVE OX THANKS.
The South Carolina Cotton association
the other day very graciously
rendered thanks to the newspapers of
the State for the excellent publicity
the cotton question has received at
their hands. This was mighty nice
of the cotton association. But newspapers
down this way have ceased to
live on thanks. Thanks, as much as
they are appreciated, will not pay
grocery bills nor buy the family
shoes.
The cotton association, we believe,
voted to hire a publicity director.
That's fine. Our cotton matter now
wilfTje all dished up for us ready to
serve. The publicity director, howevever,
is not to work for honor and
glory, we believe, like the newspapers.
One hundred and sixty thousand
dollars, we understand, is what they
say is needed to carry on the cotton
association programme in South Carolina.
A magnificent sum of money.
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one hundred and sixty thousand dollars?
Why not ask everybody else,
like the newspapers, to work free?
That would save quite a lot of mon-j
ey. Give them thanks. The officers J
of the association are more obligated
to work free than the newspapers.
We have not been receiving but
about ten or fifteen columns of cotton
association matter a week heretofore.
We ought reasonably to expect the
volume to be doubled, at least, now
that the newspapers are to have a
regular director of publicity; somebody
to tell us just what to print and
what not to print, you know.
Through the postmasters of the
country the war department has offered
for sale 341,000,000 pounds of
foodstuffs. The postmasters and rural
carriers are to act as salesmen
and in informing prospective customers
as to price.
NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE.
Pursuant to an order of the Court
of Common Pleas in the case of Mrs.
Elise B. Walker vs. Elizabeth Baker,
et al., the undersigned as Master for
Bamberg county will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, at the
Court House, Bamberg, S. C., on the
first Monday in September, 1919, between
the legal hours of sale on said
day, the following described lot: "All
that certain lot or parcel of land with
the buildings and improvements
mereon, situate, lying aiiu uemg m
the town and county of Bamberg, in
the State of South Carolina, measuring
and containing one acre, and
bounded on the south by Church
street, measuring thereon two hundred
and ten feet, on the east by lot
of Jerome Smoak. and measuring
thereon same distance: on the north
by lot of J. J. Simmons, and measurj
ing thereon same distance: and on
the west by Cox avenue, and measuring
thereon same distance: the
same beina the lot conveyed to T. J.
j Baker by Mrs. Felder."
Terms of sale: Cash.; purchaser to
pay for papers.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR..
Master for Bamberg County.
August 13, 1919.
NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE.
Pursuant to an order of the Court
of Common Pleas in the case of the
Equitable Home Company vs. Andrew
J. Bennett, et al., the undersigned
as Master for Bamberg coun
ty will sell at puDiic auction to me
highest bidder, at the Court House,
Bamberg, S. C.. on the first Monday
in September, 1919, between the legal
hours of sale on said day, the
following lot of land: "That certain
lot or parcel of land situate in
the town of Bamberg, county of Bamberg
and State of South Carolina,
containing two and three-fourths acres,
more or less, and bounded on the
north and west by lands formerly of
E. M. Cox: south by the public road
leading from Bamberg to Barnwell,
and east by Cox avenue: said lot of
land being the same of which Andrew
J. Bennett died seized and possessed.
Terms of sale: Cash; purchaser to
pay for papers.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.,
Master for Bamberg County.
August 13, 191t?.
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