The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 28, 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.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Volume 2S. No. 35.
Thursday, August 28, 1919.
THE TOWN DEMANDS SEWERAGE.
It is absurd to attempt to convince
oneself that a town can grow and
compete with other towns without a
sewerage system. A town without
'sewerage is about on a parity with a
home having mud puddles in the front
yard. Now that Bamberg has already
taken on new life, there should be not
a moment's let-up until the town has
a system of sewers. Sewers not only
are demanded for the health of the
community, but by the spirit of progress.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the
paving of Main street is only a start
toward the accomplishment of the
many things demanded by Bamberg.
We do not belittle the paving of
the business street. It is the finest
thing yet done in Bamberg, but the
day a sewerage system is completed
will mark the biggest advance the
city has ever accomplished.
It is argued that the cost will be
too much. Regardless of cost the
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does not regard cost when the health
of his family demands improvements
on his premises. He. does not hes- i
itate to go into debt to save his family;
does not even hesitate to mortgage
his. home if necessary in order
to remedy unhealthy conditions. Then
why should' any citizen of Bamberg
object to paying a small amount of
extra taxes in order to better the
health of the entire town?
It is probably, in some respects,
unfortunate that a septic tark was
ever installed in Bamberg. It has
been demonstrated here and elsewhere
that a great many of these
tanks not only do not better the
health of a town, but likely actually
are a menace. There are several, we
' understand, in town which are endangering
the health of the city, and
which the board of health may find it
necessary to condemn. We do not
mean by this that many of the tarks
in town are npt satisfactory, for those
properly constructed.have never been
the source of trouble. Those citizens
possessing satisfactory tanks are likely
to feel that inasmuch as they have
gone to the expense already of providing
their homes with sewerage,
they should not be called on for further
burden for this purpose.
We feel sure, however, than on serious
reflection, there are no citizens
of Bamberg who would deny to others
the benefits of sewerage because
they already have it themselves. This
would be a selfish attitude. Not a
man in Bamberg would see his neighbor
suffer from hunger because his
neighbor is in less fortunate circum
stances than himself. And he would
not, directly, see him suffer in health
if a few dollars would prevent it.
Bamberg is a small town, and everybody
in it are neighbors, so to
speak. Where there is one man financially
able to provide his home
with sewerage independently, there
are probably 25 who cannot.
Now that the start has been made,
let's go the whole distance, provide
the entire town with sewerage, and
thereby take a decided step forward.
THE CHARLESTON ELECTION.
While it is quite evident that the
Grace faction in Charleston was de
feated, and that certainly John P.
Grace did not receive a majority of
the votes, the result of the primary
is a deep and abiding disappointment
to the people of South Carolina.
Never before in the history of Charleston
has an issue been so clearly
and forcibly presented as in the primary
for the selection of the Democratic
nominee for mayor. Whatever
the people of Charleston think of
it, the rest of the State is compelled
to belirTre that very nearly a majority
of Charlestonians have absolutely
no resentment against the position
assumed by Grace during the
war. The issue was clear cut. The,
people were acquainted in no uncer- \
tain or vague manner with what
Grace wrote in the Charleston American,
for the publication of which
that newspaper was barred from the
second-class mailing privilege and
was not reinstated until the postoffice
department was assured of the
resignation of Grace as its editor.
The fact that the Grace faction
took the election?and there seems
to be no reasonable doubt of it?
does not greatly alter the situation.
If Mr. Hyde had been declared the
nominee, he would have had a majority
of one vote as the first count
indicated, or a few more if he had
bden given credit for the challenged
votes to which he was doubtless entitled.
'rtiat Charleston will suffer from
her folly we have no doubt. That she
should suffer is nothing more than
fulfilling the law of "he that soweth
to the flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption." It is a matter for deep
regret that the good people of Charleston
must suffer for the sins of the
other element, yet we are forced to
believe that 3,500 loyal and true citizens
of Charleston should have exerted
more influence than they did in
the election.
Charleston has received a large
patronage from the rest of the State,
and within the past three or four j
years Charleston has taken on a re- j
markable growth. Whether it be so i
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or not, the rest of the State is labor- j
ing under the impression that- condi-;
tions are going to prevail under the i
Grace administration which will make ;
the city undesirable in many respects,!
and the people of that town may not
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Congressman Byrnes, in the House
Monday, gave expression to views in
regard to the negro question identical
with those expressed by The Her
aid recently. Race antagonism, says
Mr. Byrnes, over the country is due
to incendiary utterances of would-be
leaders of the race now being circulated
through the negro newspapers
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that in the South where the negroes
are alleged to-be ill-treated the selfrespecting
element "is making rapid
progress accumulating money, buying
property and educating their children."
That the negro newspaper is
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"when white people become civilized,"
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