The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 11, 1919, Page 4, Image 4
?be pamberg Herald
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 28. ^'o.37.
Thursday, Sept. 11, 1919.
Looks like the government would
not take any action to reduce the cost
of living until the railroad employees
made a demand for such an enormous
increase in wages. Well, we are glad
finmpthinff made them get busy.
A town ordinance, which has been
on the books for a number of years,
says that no salt water fish shall be
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sold in Bamberg from the 15th day
of May until the 15th of September,
\ yet salt water fish have been sold
right here on the main business street
all summer. f- ?-. *The
Yorkville Enquirer came to
our exchange table last week in a
new dress. The Enquirer has been
published as an eight-column paper 1
> for many years." Now it has gone to
the more convenient seven-column
size, increasing the number of pages
from four to eight. The Enquirer occupies
a distinctive position among
South Carolina newspapers and deservedly
so. It is without question
one of the best edited and printed
papers in the country, and it should
be the pride of York county.
This is the day of investigations. 1
Investigating committees are in their '
glory now. And if they ever accom- '
plished much we have not heard
of it. Congressional appropriations '
for investigations have piounted into
the" hundreds of thousands of dollars. :
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thousands of dollars of expenses, re- 1
. > main in session for months, make voluminous
reports covering hundreds of
printed pages, receive the thanks of
congress, and that about ends it.
In conversation with a friend several
days ago we stated that we were
trying to organize a "patched breeches
club" in Bamberg, the object of
^hich was to reduce the cost of
goods, each member pledging himself
not to buy any article of wearing apparel
which was not absolutely necessary,
wearing his old clothing and
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having them patched if necessary.
Since then we have noticed-in the daily
press where in some town out West
the men pledged themselves to wear
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their old clothes as long as necessary
or until prices were reduced. If men
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$11 over the country would do this
prices would soorf take a tumble.
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If city council will pardon us for
the suggestion, we would recommend
as a most important piece of legislation
the extending of the fire limits
of the town, that is, increasing the
area in which wooden buildings cannot
be erected. Our recollection is
that wooden buildings cannot be
erected within 150 feet of Main
street, but this limit should be extended.
The fire risk on wooden
buildings is too great to allow them
anywhere near Main street.
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The suggestion has been made that
it would be a good thing for the Bam
berg city council to fix the fees charged
by drays. At present there is no
uniformity in rates. The draymen
usually charge not what the job is
worth, but what they can get. A few
days ago one dray made a charge of
40 cents to haul a trunk less than
a block; others charge 15 cents for
the same hauling, and still others 25
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cents. In other words if they can
get 40 cents or 50 cents they charge
it,'according to whom they are hauling
for. Of course the strangers in
town have to invariably pay the higher
rate. Other cities and towns have
found It necessary to fix uniform rates
for the protection oMhe people, and
it would not be a bad idea for the
Bamberg council to take similar action.
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THE RED CROSS.
Do the people of Bamberg and
Bamberg county desire the Red Cross
organiation to be disbanded? The
organization to be disbanded. The
chairman, Rev. Geo. P. White, in a
communication in The Herald today,
calls for a meeting of the Red Cross
Friday afternoon at the Red Cross
rooms to determine this question. Mr.
White has tried repeatedly to get a
meeting of the Red Cross here without
success. Not enough members
jan be induced to attend the meetings
:o transact any business whatever.
Now there is something like $4,300
in the local treasury. This monsy
is available for use in Bamberg
md feamberg county. If the organisation
disbands, this money will be
:urned into the general treasury, and |
Bamberg will not be very likely to
jver hear of it again. In order $o
ise this money, the organization
nust be continued. The matter is
strictly up to the people as to whethiT
they desire to retain this $4,000
:or use in the county or turn it into
he sreneral treasurv. The county is!
entitled to the money. Under the
Red Cross campaign plan, a certain
percentage of all money collected was
:o go for local wCrk.
The chairman states that he is absolutely
discouraged in his efforts to
?et a meeting of the local Red Cross
ihapter, and that, failing in this last
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his year. This is one of the :
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! effort, he will make no further at|
tempt in this direction.
The meeting is to be held at five
o'clock Friday afternoon at the Red
Cross rooms in the main building of
Carlisle school. Let everyone rememl
ber the date, the hour, and the place,
: and if they value these four thousand
dollars, let them come to the meet.
ing to decide on the important matter
I of their disposition.
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THE ATLANTA SUFFRAGISTS.
| Considerable interest has been cen;
tered in the recent election in Atlanj
ta because the women voted, this bei
ing, we believe, the first Southern
! election in which the women partici!
pated. As an indication of what woI
men taking part in politics will lead
to, we have only to read an account
the Augusta Chronicle of Tuesday of
| what one of the suffragists herself
says about it. Mrs. Mary L. McLendon
is described as being "the-oldest
and among the very first advocates of
woman suffrage, not -only in Georgia,
but in this section of the South."
Mrs. McLendon has issued a statement
in regard to the action of the
central committee of women voters,
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in which she says the methods and
tactics employed by that committee
was "as dirty a political trick as I
have ever heard charged to men."
This is sad news. We thought
when the women got into politics
politics would be cleansed. Now
comes this leading suffffragist who
says the women were as "dirty as the
men." Well, it tftey are as airtv as
some of the male politicians they are j
a pretty bad lot. Mrs. McLendon |
goes on to say that the work of this
committee was underhanded, and several
other things.
We dp not imagine that the ^firing
of these troubles will be any impetus
to the woman suflrage movements although
we don't suppose it will stay
woman suffrage. It goes to show that
if women dabble in politics it will not
be long before they will be about on
an equality with the men in other
ways than merely voting. And we
have enough bad politics without the
addition of women. This same woman
writer says that because of the
Atlanta affair there "has been a
dreadful setback for woman suffrage"
in Georgia.
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EXTRAVAGANCE.
There is no use for people to complain
about the high prices and keep
on buying expensive luxuries. The
prices on clothing of all kinds wOuld
soon go down if everybody, men and
women, would wear their old clothes.
True, one must eat, but they can wear
old clothing, hats, etc. Think what
a difference it wouia maKe-nsui next:
in Bamberg if no man would buy any
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I absolutely compelled to have, and ev:
ery woman would wear her last seaj
son's coat suit, cloak, hat, etc. In
i short reduce the buying of all articles
: of apparel to actual necessities. If
this was done don't you know that
; .there would soon be a drop in prices
right here at home? One great reason
why goods are high is because of
1 the extravagance of the people.
| Silk socks and stockings are now
at least three times as high as they
were a few years ago, but it is certain
that if everybody would q,uit
wearing them prices would soon drop
to normal. And so with other luxuries
which can easily be laid aside.
Let. us have nlain livine and Dlain
dressing for a while and soon there'll
be no holler about profiteering.
The writer has not bought a suit
of clothes in more than two years,
and is wearing his old ones. He has
refused to buy clothing which he can
do without at present prices, and will
wear patched breeches if he has to
before he will pay the outrageous
prices now being charged. But, alas,
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there are few like him. And the women,
why bless your soul, they are
are wearing more finery than ever
before. We'll warrant there will be
few trimmed over hats worn by Bamterg
women this winter. And so it
goes. People who can and who can't
afford it are getting more extravagant
all the time in the matter of
dress, and 3s long as this continues
prices are going to be too high in proportion
to the actual value of all
kinds of dry goods.
-A rising of Polish workmen against
the Germans is taking place in many
towns in Upper Silesia.
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Lake Erie produces more fish to
the square mile than any other body
-of water in the world.
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| MURDERED AND ROBBED
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George Gladden Waylaid and Killed
in West Wateree.
Camden, Sept. 6.?George Gladden,
; a seventy-year-old white man, was
| waylaid and murdered early Wednesday
morning as he was going to his
work on at the Wateree power dam in
West Wateree, and his b.ody was rob
bed of a considerable sum of money.
He is known to have carried a
large sum of money with him at all
times and his relatives state that he
was relieved of around fifteen hunI
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crime occurred just before daylight
on a by road leading to the Hardaway
Company's works, and two negroes
following close behind Mr.
Gladden state that they saw the revolver
flashes and could hear the
. murderer as he made his way through
the woods. The assassin evidently
sat beside the road and awaited his
victim. Three shots were fired two
taking effect, one passing through
the body, entering from the back,
> causing instant death.
Meltofc Banks, a white man who
worked alongside of the old man at
the Hardaway works, was arrested
soon after the crime was committed
as being a suspect.
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NOTICE TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
The law provides that all teachers employed
by trustees shall register ,
their certificates with the county superintendent
of education as soon after
beginning work as possible, so I
urge you to see that all teachers engaged
will register in my "office before
the end of the first month of the
school term.
Xo claim will be approved for any
teacher unless he or she is register
ed. W. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Education.
Sept. 8, 1919. It
NOTICE OF TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.
The regular fall examination for
teachers' certificates will be held at
the court house in Bamberg, S. C., on
Saturday, October the 4th, 1919, beginning
at 9 o'clock a. m.
Teachers holding second and third
grade certificates are urged to take
this' examination.
The usual subjects will be given as
follows: Algebra, arithmetic, English
grammar, pedagogy, geography,
physiology and hygiene, .history, civ- .
ics and current events and agriculture.
W. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Education. *
Sept. 8, 1919.
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