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f] , WASHINGTON COMMENT. g "If the great daily papers of the United States are not controlled by1 a power behind, which uses their in fluence for private and personal rather than for public and economic purposes, why is it that none of them carry criticisms against the honesty of the press when such are uttered by people whose experience and services to the country entitle them to be heard?" The question is often heard in Congress. Senator Heflin, of Alabama, said in a speech in the senate recent ly: "I am not afraid of the press. I I am the firm friend of the honest press. God knows I would not ham|| per the press in the discharge of its duty, or take away from it any of W its rights and privileges to give the v news to the people, and print the I views of those who own the papers; ' but I am against the scheme that * some of them have of suppressing the news of events of importance that take place right here in this chamber, around this capitol, that the people of the country are entitled to know about. Why is it that you never see a line about a lot of important matters discussed in this chamber?" This speech was reported in few if any of the great metropolitan dailies, nor was the interlopation made hv Senator Watson. of Georgia, with Senator Heflin's permission. Senator Watson said, in part: "The time is coming when the press will have to be free if it wants to exist. This country can not live and tolerate a press which it knows is a hireling press It will not pay for such papers. It will not advertise in such papers People will not buy from those who advertise in such papers, and the worst of the fight is past. ' When the espionage law was passed'and so mar.v hundreds of newspapers were crushed by arbitrary orders of the post office department, freedom of press was more in danger than it ever had been sice our government was established or since Charles Fox, Lord Grey, and John Wilkes had made their noble fight in England for the freedom of the ? TTVclrino haH maHp pjTC&dy auu 1 iiviiiao .....^^ his glorious fight for trial by jury instead of arbitrary directions of verdicts by judges. That time is coming again. The forces of conflict are arraying themselves against each other again. That battle is irresistible. Nothing on earth can stop it and nothing, on earth can silence the people. They are going to be heard, or we will have a revolution in this country." The foundation stone on which America is built is liberty. Liberty of speech, liberty of thought, liberty of political action, liberty of conduct within the laws of the land, liberty to worship God, liberty from tyran.ny, oppression, Slavery; liberty of . opinion. Take away liberty and there is no United States. A </.svnt?\1l?wV nrpes is a blow at liberty. A great newspaper is a public institution. Its owners, publishers, and editors have the American right of liberty to their opinions, personal and political; they have no moral right to attempt to color the thoughts of their readers by supression or alteration of the truth. 'A newspaper which suppresses truth, or one which changes truth to lies for its own purposes is no newspaper, it is merely thea a mouth-piece. Great newspapers are expensive, they require vast capital to conduct. As such they can be controlled if there is interest enough behind them to buy them. But there is not money enough in America to buy and control all the papers of the United States. The country press, the smaller papers, the weeklies, the countyseat papers,are too numerous and too red-blooded with patriotic American owners and editors to be bought. Against the evils of a controlled - * 1- .4 press me American peupie must n^ut, and fight hard; the penalty of losing the battle is to see this country a democratic only in name, an oligarthy in fact. In that battle the field artillery and skirmish line, the trench diggers and the advance guard is the country press. The flame of truth is white hot and fatal to evil. Lucky the people who read the journal of a man unafraid of its heat; fortunate the editor who can look his readers in the face and say "I keep the holy fire." o What kind of fertilizer is cheapest? This question is in the minds of many farmers now as a result of the increased prices of clover seeds. Don't decide to leave off planting clover in cotton middles, corn middles, stubble land, or elsewhere just because the price of seeds is higher than last year. The farmer can buy fertility for the 1923 crop far cheaper now in legume seeds than next year in fer- ' tilizer sacks. Clover planted now and turned under next spring will furnish plant food much cheaper than the same amount of fertility purchased 1 as fertilizers. The higher prices of clover seeds can be offset to some extent by ordering in big lots. Here is an opportunity for the farmers of a neighborhood to get together and order seeds cooperatively. Call on the county agent and get his assistance. Get price list and order the seed right away.?The Progressive Farmer. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the lest of these, ye have done it unto me." There is no man or woman who reads these lines who would pass by a hungry, cold, frighte.ied, abandoned child in the street and say, "Oh, I can't be botheied." Xo man or woman who reads these lines but would instantly share their dinner with a woman, gaunt with hunger, a pale and sickly baby at her breast, an injured and helpless child at her feet. The cry we hear, the sight we see, touches our hearts. The cry we hear of, the sights we are told about?they do not reach. Five hundred thousand women and children and men?more babies than grown-ups, more women than men, raise thin arms and send a pitiful cry across the sea to us?to you and to you and to you for help. Not theirs the cause of the disaster; theirs but the price to pay. Not theirs the glory of war; theirs but the bodies to suffer, the souls to cry in anguish at the pitiful childish wail for food that is not, for shelter that is not, for clothing that is not. Not theirs to understand why; theirs only to face the West, the great and glorious and prosperous and happy and safe and secure West?our West, our United States, and ask for aid. The president of the United States has asked your aid. The Red Cross stretches out eager hands for your dollars, to use in aid. Your own chubby baby, healthy child, strong and well young son or daughter, is an appeal to y&\i that you pass these suffering one of the near East not by; that you do not say, "I can't be bothered," but that you put your ten pennies, or ten dollars, or whatever you can afford, in an envelope and send it to the nearest Red Cross headquarters, marked "For Near East Relief." And no one will know about it, except you and God. "Whenever a newspaper ridicules a law, plays up a policy of contempt for law and its enforcement, and in its news and editorial columns fosters law-breaking, that newspaper is doing more to destroy American institutions than a federal judge can do to maintain them," declared Attorney General Daughtery in a recent speech. No one will disagree with him. But there will be many who disagree with the implication some may find in this pronouncement, that disrespect for law is bred in the American press. Without trying to place any blame where it belongs, attention of the thoughtful is drawn to two recent instances in which those who administer the law taught people to disrespect it. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a man, charged with wife beating, was being tried before a magistrate. Becoming intensely incensed with the prisoner because of the character of the evidence given against him, the magistrate jumped over his desk, gave him a black eye, had him stand up and blacked the other eye, after which he fined him ten dollars. There is here no sympathy for the wife-beater. Doubtless he deserved more than he got. But he didn't deserve, in a court of law, anything but a calm, dispassionate, and judicial hearing. The law does not provide for magistrates doing their own eye-blacking. The governor of a middle-western state commuted a death sentence to life imprisonment, first getting the convict in question to sign a paper agreeing that should he or his friends attempt to gain further clemency for him, the commutation will cease and he again face the death penalty. "Poetic justice," perhaps, but is there a law anywhere which permits an official with commuting power to bargain with convicts? And does it make for respect for law to deprive any convict of hope? To most of us, law is impersonal; it is the law officer who makes the law live for us. As we respect him, we respect that for which he stands; as we may laugh at, or sneer at, or condemn him, so, unconsciously, do we wrongly but very humanly condemn the law. NOTICE. The Kingstree Ginnery will onl^ operate Friday^^ each week^pgifr ning Novemb|^^L Subscrib^w^ror^The Record. When you need printed matter, any kind, The Record is the place to have it done. 666 quickly relieves a coicL BAD TIME TO HUNT A GOVERNMENT JOB. Civil Service Commission Shows Government Employees on Decrease. (Capital News Service.) Washington, Nov. 6.?The number of civil service employees on the government rolls (exclusive of army, navy, marine corps and legislative employees) is now 559,663, the smallest number since the United States entered the war. At the time of the 1 11 IftlO 4-Ua armistice, wovemner n, x?xo, w?c number was 917,760. The number ot separations in the last four years has been 338,097. The civil service employees in Washington number 68,718. Separations in Washington, the chief center for federal employees, are proceeding at the rate of 400 a month. At the beginning of the war there were 40,000 employees in Washington. Because of war activities the number jumped to 117,760. The reduction has been slow, and the figure never will be so low as it was in 1916, because of the new activities of the government as a result of the war. The chief additions have been in the treasury department and in the veterans' bureau. There will be furfher reductions in the forces of the war department, the navy department, the United States shipping board, the railroad administration, and the Alien property custodian's office. It is thought that 60,000 clerks will be tne level finally to be reached in Washington and 475,000 for the nation. That Man Hope. The Spartanburg Herald asserts that, now that they have elected him State Superintendent of Education the people are asking: "Who is Hope?" Then The Herald adds: "It is up to Mr. Hope, of course, to answer that question within the next two years by his record in office. He assumes the duties at a time when South Carolina is committed without reservations to advancing the cause of education. He comes at a time when public sentiment is back of the job and in his administration of the office to which he has been elected he has the opportunity to make a great contribution to the welfare of the state and its people. "Mr. Hope has the floor and he can answer for himself the question, "Who is Hope?" From what it has learned of James H. Hope, The Piedmont believes that he will answer the query satisfactorily. . In the first place, he is a man of plea^ng personality, affable, always courteous and kindly in his attitude toward all people. In the second place, he has had long, practical experience as a teacher in country, city and mill schools and as principal and county superintendent of education. From leading citizens of Union county, where Mr. Hope most recently was engaged in school work, The Piedmont hears nothing save what is in his favor. The Union people, who endorsed him with an exceedingly handsome vote, say that he is both popular and efficient; that pupils, teachers and patrons like and respect him; that he did much to upbuild the cshools, with special reference to those in the country. He has experience, ability, energy and good character. The Piedmojt expects his administration of the state's educational system to be efficient, and progressive. He was chosen by an amazing majority which is generally attributed, whether correctly or not, to the school people who were supporting him and quietly working lor him. He will administer the most important office in the state government at a critical and momentous period, and our belief is that he will discharge his duties wisely and well and in the interest of the public welfare.?Greenville Piedmont. o Returned War Medal. I Christ A. Meletis, of Pittsburg, I who served in France with the Twentyeighth Division and was wounded six times has returned to President Millerand, of France, the Croix de Guerre and citation which had been conferred upon him by the French government. "A good bit of me is left in Franco, but the wounds I received from the enemy were nothing in comparison to the wounds I received when I learned that France was helping the Turk," said Meletis' letter, which accompanied the decoration.s. "I am doing this to express to you and your government my personal disapproval of the policy of France in the Near East. Meletis is vice-president of the cMek-American World War Veter- i ^is, recently organized in Pittsburg, j DR. FRANK O. LENTZ DENTIST Office Over Baggett's Jewelry Store, Main Street i OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and 2 to 5 p. m. Rub-My-Tism, an antiseptic. 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