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Cfce Pamberg f^eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1.891, under Act of March 3, 1879. . i $2.00 PER YEAR. i Volume 2S. Xo. 3G. 1 ] Thursday, Sept. 4, 1919. 1 The Orangeburg Times and Democrat is now issuing a daily newspaper. < The first issue was received by The' 1 \ Herald Sunday morning. it con- n ' sisted of 44 pages, and if the sue- 1 ceeding issues are patronized by ad- i vertisers as well as the first, the pa- < per will certainly be a success. ? The action of the president in announcing it the policy of the admin- ( istration to postpone the wage in- ^ crease demands of the railway employees we consider entirely right. There will never be a resumption of normal conditions so long as increases are allowed on every hand. The I railway employees in our opinion have no cause for dissatisfaction. They are better paid by far than any other class of workmen at present, and one increase is scarcely granted before another is demanded. A lit- . tie consideration ought to be given to the public once in a while. mm ? There is so much to be done in Bamberg there seems to be no real good place to begin? / after Main street is paved. Why not have one big bond issue to take care of all civic improvements needed and de done with it for a while? Orangeburg has adopted this course, and will issue three-quarters of a million dollars in bonds in the near future. Bamberg "does not require such a huge sum, yet the town does demand a sum much larger than has yet been contemplated to carry out a programme of progressive improvements such as the growth of the town demands. For ten years or longer Mexico has heaped insult upon insult on th^Uni v ted States. We do not know how long the patience of America is going to last, but it is yery evident that unless things change pret ty soon, something is likely to occur that Mexico is not going to relish. By force of an element of his character not generally understood by the country, President Wjlson held the Mexican problem in abeyance during the war with Ger many. How it was done probably cannot be explained, nevertheless it was done. But the Mexican question is still yrith us, and must be settled somehow. Things are getting to be > very critical, however, when the United States government has to pay ran? som to save the lives of Americans caught and held captive by Mexican bandits. And everybody seem to be bandits in Mexico from Carranza down, or up, whichever way you choose to look at it. / ? NORTH ASKED TO "HANDS OFF." The Herald wishes to commend very strongly the stand taken by the St. John's Missionary Baptist Negro association, at a meeting held recently at Austin, Texas. This is the most sensible action we have any knowledge of recently. The i'ol lowing Austin dispatcher Sept 1 is a summary of the action of the colored convention at that place: Resolutions declaring emphatic opposition to "people of the North who do not understand conditions in the South interfering with our relationship" adopted by the executive board of the St. John's Missionary Negro Baptist association, were made public at a meeting here tonight of 2,000 negroes and more than 100 white persons, called to discuss the race question. ^ ~ i.n x - * ' ii we die leu 10 ourseives, tne resolutions declared, "we will, in time, adjust our differences for the gtod of all concerned." The Negro Baptist association, which called the meeting, fias a membership of 20,000 negroes in the vicinity of Austin. A portion of the preamble to the resolutions declares: Those magazines, newspapers and ! periodicals published by negroes. tha*- i magnify the wrongs and minimize the ! good, that publish and brandish be-! fore the eye incendiary articles at this ! ,wr time are enemies, rather than friends ! o* the Tace." Negroes here say the Austin meet- j ing is the beginning of a nationwide , movement to establish a better un- I derstanding between the races. j 1 NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR. When the government dlsires tc transport a large shipment of freight from the Atlantic to the Pacific, does it issue a circular to the railroads requesting them patriotically to carry the freight without charge? By nc means. It would be a waste of paper. The railroads don't do things chat way, even when they are undei government control. Even to win the war, did the government ask the contractors to build :he cantonments, not free, but without profit? , Xot at all. The contactors were allowed to make enormous profits at the expense of th country's emergency. When the government desired tc ;ell billions of dollars' worth of bonds n order to get money to win the war, lid it ask the newspapers to boost the loans, to give almost unlimited space, :o the advertising of the campaigns vithout a cent of cost? Yes; it did :hat. No sort of pay whatsoever was jffered the newspapers, but they were issured they would be patriotically supporting the government in doing :n And thp newsnaners did it. But now the war is over; the newspapers have no right to feel ashamed bf the part they contributed toward ts success. But if the newspapers continue to give the government that 'or which they are justiy entitled to pay, in peace or war times, it is an issured fact that the government will ;ontinue to pursue this policy. The pnly way that #re know to get the government to pay the newspapers lor space used for purposes everybody else has to pay for is to refuse ;o give such space. The contractors, the munition manlfacturers, common laborers, and ibout everybody else except the newsbapers who worked for the government, got big pay for their work. The lewspapers received not one cent Irom the government for advertising Vi nortianc a few fiX auu witu ~ - ? options, neither before nor since the rar, for that matter.- It is about ime the government advertising were carried on in a business manner. Since the above was written, The lerald has received from the Assoiated Agencies Corporation a conract for 3,000 lines of advertising or the United States government, for he recruiting service. This is the irst contract that The Herald las ever received for ^adverising directly from the government, leretofore this newspaper, and we >resume all others, have been asked o carry recruiting advertising without pay. ? IF YOUR NEED IS ] THE HELP OF SOI] TICE, IT WILL AT TH And in any event to have vou call < ?/ ness problem the Our only excuse for e: Service we can re / always Yc Capital'and Sur .Aim iiiilhljI h*ro paid oh sav.'mgs accounts AX UNSUSPECTED BIBLE. , How Gorman Spy Communicated War Messages. Nobody would suspect one of the institute Bibles to figure in a dramatic bit-of crime, but one of them did. Last month an officer of the fed> eral court came to the building and . asked to see one of the Bibles which . are placed upon the table of every bed ruum in the building. He wanted one that had been used. It was necessary as a piece of evidence and a few days later we discovered the*eircum [i stances that led to his visit. . r A man in the employ of the German I government had during the war gone j to sea as a mess boy. He was not a regular seaman, but he managed to ' | secure a job. And among the belong| ings he had a Bible with seamen's , | Church Institute stamped upon its , i cover. We have not found out where | he got it, as the records do not show ' i that lie ever stopped in the building, ! i but the book was in his possession. In these Bibles are two fly leaves ; of plain white paper and on these , were written important messages in I invisible ink. When Robinson (the ' i spy) got on board ship he went at 1 once to the ship's library and put the ' book on the shelves. The careful search of the belongings at Halifax revealed nothing. And, of course, the investigation of the books in the library was very casual. When he got to the other side he managed to get the book again from the library, i tear out the leaves containing the messages1 and deliver them. Of course he was extremely clever to take position as mess boy. for only in that way would he have any I access to the ship's library. And anyi how, even if in the search officers , had gone through his things they would scarcely have suspected a Bible with the name of an institution stamped upon it. Robinson was not 1 under suspicion, moreover, so skillfully had he covered his operations. In Europe he got a message to bring back to America and this he pasted inside the black paper which faces the Bible's binding. On '! board ship again he put his book in i the library until he landed, came : ashore with it and delivered the mes . j sage. He was triea ror treason, hlcaus.ed by Mme. Marie K. de Victoria, who admitted that she had written 1 the secret r messages which were to be delivered to the German consul general in Rotterdam. The plan sounds like a particularly ingenious movie plot. There is something peculiarly innocent about the 1 Bible that lies, often unopened, on a i bed room table. Robinson chose ex. j tremely well for his purpose.?The i Lookout, published monthly by the , i Seaman's Institute of New York. I "Mrs. Kea> h Tells How She Got to Know Hat-Snap." I "Have always feared rats. Lately '! noticed many on my farm. A neigh| bor said he just got rid of droves with RAT-SNAP. This started me J thinking. Tried RAT-SNAP myself. | It killed 17 and scared- the rest j away." RAT-SNAP comes in three j sizes. 2.7c, 50c. $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Smoak & Moye, Bamberg. LEGITIMATE, WITHIN | rND BANKING PRAC- I BE GLADLY MET I IS BANK. ; we shall be pleased )ii us with any busiit confronts you. ristence as a Bank is the nder?so consider us >ur FRIEND. plus $100,000.00 Skingco^I WHALEY INTRODUCES BILL. To Build Canal Connecting the Santee and Cooper Rivers. Washington, Aug. 30.?Representative Whaley has introduced a bill to authorize the Columbia Railway and Navigation company to construct a canal connecting the Santee and Cooper rivers in the State of South Carolina, subject to approval of the work by the War (Department. ^ < ! ? Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Aug. 30.?J. E. Johnston, president of the Citizens' Bank, spent several days in Greenville last week. Mr. Walker Smith, after a visit of two weeks fn Baltimore, has returned home. .Mrs. H. C. Williams and Miss Pearle Youmans, of Brunson, oassed through en route from Tybee to their home one day this week. Mrs. Erlish Harter has returned from Atlanta, where she spent some time. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Miley, of Crocketville, were the guests of Mrs. J. W. Jenny this week. Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Lancaster, of Atlanta, arrived in town Saturday. Mrs. A. S. Arnold and children left for White Springs, Fla., Saturday. J. J. Knopf, Jr., Harold Hill and Be"n Knopf, Jr., were visitors in Savannah Sunday. mm ia> 9m Then He Got It. Young Walter had thoroughly exhausted his teacher's patience and she was just about to spank him when he yelled out: "Teacher, teacher, I've just been vaccinated!" With her hands in midair she hesitated. "Where?" she asked anxiously. "Down on West Main street." i > ? The famous Holman Bibles are on sale in Bamberg only at the Herald Book Store. A few family Bibles on hand. 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