The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 04, 1919, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Entered as second-class matter April
1.891, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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$2.00 PER YEAR. i
Volume 2S. Xo. 3G. 1
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Thursday, Sept. 4, 1919. 1
The Orangeburg Times and Democrat
is now issuing a daily newspaper. <
The first issue was received by The' 1
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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The famous Holman Bibles are on
sale in Bamberg only at the Herald
Book Store. A few family Bibles on
hand.
MAXTOXE?The guaranteed tonic
for chills, fever and malaria. 25c
and 50c bottle.
"It Must Have Been Dead at Least 6
Months But Didn't Smell."
"Saw a big rat in our cellar last
Fall," writes Mrs. Joanny, "and
bought a 25c cake of RAT-SNAP,
broke it up into small pieces. Last
week while moving we came across
the dead rat. Must have been dead
six months, didn't smell. RAT-SNAP
is wonderful." Three sizes, 25c, 50c,
$1.00. Sold and guaranteed by
Smoak & Moye, Bamberg. S. C.
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