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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
THAT BAD BACK
Do you have a dull, steady ache in
the snail of the back?sharp, stabbing
twinges when stooping cr lifting?distressing
urinary disorders ?
For bad back and weakened kidneys
Kingstree residents recommend Doan's
Kidney Pills. Read this Kingstree
statement
Mrs. R. W. Speigner, 310 Railroad
Ave., says: "Doan's Kidney pills are
the best kidney remedy I have used.
Not long ago my kidneys were not
acting right and their irregular action
cause^ my back to feel weak.
I noticed a tender spot in the small
of my back. My limbs felt heavy as
though a weight were tied about my
knees pulling me down. I had a tired,
languid feeling and felt rather depressed.
Doan's Kidney pills bought
at Scott's Drug Store made me feel
better in every way."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy?get
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mrs. Speigner had. Foster-Mriburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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