The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 28, 1916, Page 4, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES
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FRIDAY,
JANUARY 28, li)l<>.
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We endorse the action of the directors
of the Union Chamber of Commerce
in the resolution passed Wednesday
evening opposing the bill to
compel the railroads to give a twocent
flat rate to passengers. The
railroads have been hard hit for the
past eighteen months. A lower rate
would mean fewer improvements, less
safety and poorer accommodations.
Trains taken off during the past year
would have to remain off. We believe
the board of directors are right in
their contention that we want better
service, not lower rates. And everyone
will admit that we need to increase
safety. Even now we are trying
to get the railroad grade crossings
eliminated. There are three
dozen or more such death traps in this
county alone. We believe these crossings
should be abolished. It will take
money to build bridges over or to tunnel
under the railroads. There is a
constant demand for better depots,
better cars, faster trains?all of which
means more expense. We do not hesitate
to say that such benefits should
be given to the public. Rut, to cut
down the revenue, and that too, in
the face of a panic, or just following
one. will make it an impossibility for
tile railroads to make these improvements.
Many of the railroads of the country
have recently been allowed to increase
their rates. It was seen to be
a necessity. We try to be fair in
judgment, even when a corporation is
to be judged, and we cannot see the
wisdom in the bill to put on a twocent
flat rate.
DEMOCRACY VS. PATERNALISM.
The democratic and paternalistic
conception of government are the two
extremes. The former, in theory, emphasizes
the individual citizen, the
latter the State, or the citizens collectively.
Democracy crowns a man
king; paternalism worships the king.
It appears to me that much of our
present day legislation loses sight of
the fact that our government is democratic.
Instead of bending our energies
to the building of character and
the making of men we are forever
undertaking to legislate for the benefit
of the weak. Our efforts are not
productive of any real cure, but are
merely paliative. We keep going towards
the idea that the government is
a loving father who should care for
his children, or a very ugly father who
forgets his children.
The government must do everything.
It must build roads, teach
farming, or anything else under the
shining sun. It must regulate this
thing; stop that thing or begin something.
All of which but shows our
drift. We are going, not towards
democracy but towards paternalism.
This is seen in our public schools. The
State must educate the children?so
far so pood; only it would be better
if the parents educated their children.
But, no sooner does the free school
come than the demand for free book.-,
and free rides to school come. This is
followed by the demand for proper
clothing; next will come the demand
that the child be fed. About all that
will ultimately remain to the parent
will be the right to give his child his
own name. All of which poes to show
the direction we are journeying. I
do not say that all these facts are to
be regretted. But I do say that most
of the legislation is remediable, not
curative, and we are confronted with
a condition that may some day have
the whole people a nation of babies,
not men; the babies will be holding
out their hands to papa, the government,
for bread, for clothing, for
everything. The picture is not inspiring
for papa, like all good papas
will feel that this baby or that baby or
all babies should be spanked, put to
bed, mere helpless creatures to be
done with as the imperial will dictates.
I may be wrong, but it does
seem to me we are going the wrong
direction if we believe in the principles
of democracy. Individualism,
liberty and full development are away
from paternalism and towards democracy.
DO NOT REOPEN THEM.
Most earnestly, sincerely and, we
believe, with good logic, we oppose the
reopening of the dispensaries here.
We dp not undertake to say what
should be done with the liquor now
on hand. There seems to be three
ways of disposing of the stock on
hand: Destroy it, sell it here either
under the gallon-a-month regulation
or as formerly until the stock is out
or ship it to some wet State to
wholesalers or whoever will bid it in
as a whole. Our contention is that we
cannot afford to reopen the dispensaries.
It would grievously interfere
with the enforcement of the prohibition
law, for it would put into the
hands of blind tigers all the opportunity
they need to operate on what
supplies they may now have or might
procure from the present dispensary
stock. Twenty odd thousand dollars
worth of liquor put on sale in Union
would put us in a most unfortunate
situation, also, in the good move now
in force to suppress the illicit traffic.
The vantage gained by prompt and
effective measures to suppress the illegal
business would be lost.
We have said, now say, and truly
believe that the best thing to do with
the liquor would be to destroy it. The
next best thing would be to ship it
.to wholesalers outside the State to
States that are wet. The worst
thinjr possible is to reopen the
dispensaries and sell here. Suereeding
generations would know,
if we destroyed the liquor that our
condemnation of the traffic was sincere.
It would have a good moral effect.
There are some people who cannot
see any possible good in destroying
the liquor for they say it is valuewealth.
Rut there are some times
that money does not count. We believe
this is one of those times. In
truth, we believe that while the county
would tret the twenty odd thousand
dollars it would lose in labor, efficiency
and even material value more than it
would train. But we do not put it
on that basis. The true measurement
of material values must be, in
the last analysis, moral. Money values
that have no moral base are not
true, not ondurintr.
But, we come back to where we
started. Please, Mr. Legislator, do
not allow the dispensaries to reopen
in Union. Hear the voice of the vast
majority which said: "Close the whiskey
shops." Give heed to the large
number of petitioners who have asked
that the dispensaries be not opened.
BUFFALO
Buffalo, Jan. 25.?A bachelor's club
has been recently organized here.
Those between the ages of 25 and 45
and never courted or proposed to the
opposite sex nor nev^1: ijit^nd to are
eligible to membership. An election
was held Saturday night in the office
of I)r. Fi'tzhugh Prathroe Salley and
the following officers were elected for
a term of three months: Dr. Salley,
president; W. M. Snoddy, vice president;
Harper T. Higgins, secretary
and Sam Gilland, treasurer. Much
interest has already been manifested
in the new organization, while the
membership at present is somewhat
small, though it is believed a large
one will be added in the near future.
Miss Annie L. Green spent the
week-end with her parents at Newberry.
Mr. Henry Todd of Columbia spent
Sunday with his brother, Mr. W. B.
Todd.
Mrs. Darwin, who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. P. C. Hundley, for
some time, has returned to her home
at Blacksburg.
Sam Stoudenmire, son of Rev. ano
Mrs. Stoudenmire, is critically ill
with pneumonia and little hopes are
entertained for his recovery. A
trained nurse from Spartanburg has
been secured and everything that loving
hands and medical skill can do is
being done. The family have the
sympathy of the entire community.
Miss Annie Belle Brown, one of the
efficient teachers in the graded school,
? ik- _:.i. if-* it:. ... i.
i.-s on nit- rsii'K iisi. mis weeK..
Mr. W. ! . I.aRowe of Illinois, who
is tra\elling over the South doing
evangelistic work, is conducting a revival
at the Methodist church here
this week. Mr. I.aRowe has served
six years behind the bars of the Illinois
prisons. It was while incarcerated
that he was converted, and
now he says his mission in the world
is to try and keep others from travelling
the road he has travelled. He
describes prison life and why the
cells are full. His sermons are attracting
large congregations and
some interest is being manifested.
Clyde Greer, we regret to learn, is
real sick with pneumonia. His numerous
friends wish for him a speedy
recovery.
Dr. F. P. Salley made a profesisonal
visit to Columbia Wednesday
of last week, returning Thursday.
Henry Dillard, a highly respected
old negro man, died Saturday night at
the home of his sister about one mile
from here, with pneumonia. Uncle
Henry will he greatly missed here,
as he was the faithful woodchopper
and gardener for the place. He was
polite and accommodating and attended
to his own business. He was
greatly liked by the white people.
Seldom a day ever passed that he did
not come to Buffalo regardless of the
weather, as long as his health would
permit, and by hard work and economizing
he had accumulated a good
little estate. He owned three or four
houses and lots near the Excelsior
Knitting mill, besides, I am told, several
hundred dollars in cash. His life
was one worthy of emulation among
his race.
Little Dolores Todd, who has been
seriously sick for the past week, her
many friends will be jrlad to learn
her condition is somewhat rmproved.
A trained nurse from Oranpeburg is
at her bedside.
Mrs. Todd of Anderson is visiting:
her son, Mr. W. B. Todd, on Duncan
Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Henry and children
of Lockhart spent Sunday at the
home of Mr. W. A. Johnson on Auburn
avenue. Pedestrian.
FOUR-YEAR GARDEN
COURSE FOR GIRLS.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 25.?To
meet the demands of thousands of
Southern pirls who have been successful
in raising: a tenth-acre of tomatoes
and who want to "jro on," the
renresentnl ives of tho Tlpnnrlmnnt of
Agriculture and the State colleges in
charge of the canning clubs in the
15 Southern States have worked out
what might be called a progressive,
four-year practical garden and canning
course for girls. The purpose of
this course is to start the gilds with
one crop and from year to year add
new annual crops, encourage them to
run winter and glass-frame gardens,
and finally in the course of their work
to lead them to plant perennial small
and orchard fruits. It is hoped that
under this system the girls will gain
knowledge of how to handle a wide
variety of garden vegetables and
trees and that the member by the
time she gets ready to go to high
school or college will have a garden
of perennial fruits that readily can be
cared for by other members of her
family.
The first year of girls' club work
throughout the Southern States consist
s in raising tomatoes in tenthacre
gardens. It is believed by those
in charge that every girl should first
master this plant and learn how to
utilize or sell its products before she
takes up other vegetables and fruits.
In sections where tomatoes suffer
from blight and wilt, however, it is
sometimes necessary to substitute another
garden crop.
The second-year girls continue to
grow tomatoes on one-half of their
garden space and devote the other half
of the space to one other crop, preferably
beans, peas, peppers, okra, beets
or onions. The girls also are encouraged
to start winter gardens in the
late summer and fall on one-fourth to
one-half of the tenth-acre plots. Lettuce,
spinach and kale are the crops
recommended.
The thirdyear girls grow three
crops, continuing the two that have
been grown the second year and adding
cucumbers, eggplant, fig tomatoes,
salsify, parsnips or horseradish. In
each case those in charge of the work
select the additional vegetables with ^
reference to local agricultural conditions,
market demand and suitability
for canning. Many garden combinations
other than those suggeste^.^
are possible. For instance, if the com- tH?
munity is interested in canning soup scl
mixtures and Creole sauce, they must st?
secure from their gardens tomatoes, mt
peppers, okra and onions. In fruitgrowing
sections the girls are ad- Cr
vised, when conditions are right to Ru
substitute from ?5 to 10 fruit trees \Hi
for one of the vegetable crops. The 'e
member then becomes responsible for Je:
the pruning, spraying and general Ba
care of these trees.
The development of crops of peren- Ms
nial vegetables and fruits is insisted ;
on at the end of the third year, and Ra
in many cases the work is begun at M?
the end of the second year. The peren- Ki
nials are substituted for seme of the Sp
annual vegetables and the girls are
crivpn privlit fnr iY?<? nnn/Hfinn I"1'
hushes or trees which are not yet
bearing and therefore do not yet yield Sn
a product that can he counted in the
canning score. Jo
It is hoped that as a result of this ('a
planting of perennial fruits and vege- or;
tables several thousand of the girls, nu
before many years, will have at the
end of their junior garden permanent A<
gardens containing some such profit- Hi
able combinations as the following:
Strawberries, asparagus and cher- Ai
ries.
Raspberries, rhubarb and plums. ha
Gooseberries, currants and peaches.
Strawberries, asparagus and ha
quinces. <iu
Strawberries, rhubarb and pears. va
Dewberries, figs and pecans. ia
Currants, asparagus and grapes. I.c
Blackberries, figs and scuppernongs. op
Strawberries, figs and oranges. ut
Asparagus, strawberries and kum- l'u
(pints. th
To enable them to use the pro- hy
ducts of these permanent gardens, ?t
the agents give the girls special in- | \1
suucuon in maxing preserves, jelly, ?h
marmalades, pickles, etc. til
RESOLUTIONS. 'J
Whereas Cod, in His infinite wisdom,
has seen fit to take from us our
much-loved friend and classmate,
Harriet Wagnon, be it resolved:
First, that we, her devoted friends, |
feel that we individually sustain an m
inestimable loss in her death.
Second, that, while our usual sixth
grade number can be reached again, ,
there shall never be another who can '
fill Harriet's place; for she truly be- j
longed among the chosen few "Who
reverence their conscience as king; rl<
who love the truth; who speak no
slander, no! nor listen to it; who wear
the white flower of a blameless
youth." / m
Third, that a copy of these resolutions
be sent to her parents and that p,
a copy he sent to each of the county Q'
papers for publication. T1
Emma Smith, I'
Pearl Charles,
Gladys Crawford,
Charles Murphy, us<
Ellsworth White, tc
4-It Committee for Sixth Grade. N
BIG S
NOW GOIN<
J. F. ALM
JONESVILI
We have decided to close 01
and Children Goods, consisti
Embroideries, Gloves, Cor
Scarfs, Sacques, Sweaters, J
Combs, Hair Pins, Supportei
and many other things too
All to Go at and Belo^
For Cash
And while this sale is going
attractive prices on other
and everything under the
latter, however, will be sold
Come Early, the Sale is o
AnHr QH flovrc o*?*l
V1UJ wv 1/UJ &9 U1IU lilt
Duplicated at
J. F. ALU
Jonesvlll
LOCK HART HONOR ROLL.
^gckhart, Jan. 26.?The names of I *V|
s pupils in the Lockhart Graded | | i
iooI, who have a creditable class H H I
inding and have obtained a deport- H '
;nt of 95 and over, are as follows:
Primary?Willie Cabiness, Johnnie
ocker, Alice Carter, Boyce Davis, ppj
ith Gadd, Howard Hallman, Elmore
11, Sallie Inman, David Lockman, |j
irman Meadors, Mary Lee Miller, pj
ssie May McCluney, Juanita Smith,
,rth Vaniford.
First Grade?Beatrice Childress, \j~ o T4p.)r,
iry Cabaniss, Floy Cabaniss. . * . . '
Second Grade?John Lee Master, exclusive piC
ilph Pressly, Frank Gregory, Ernest Only Hiotion
cCombs, Dewey Trollinger, Grace cinpp mavria
tchens, F ranees Meng, Sarah slilCC ITlcll 1 Id
arks. surrender to
Third Grade?Ralph Westbrooks, citV bv Genei
rest Koasley. o
Fourth Grade?Ernest Odell, Inez
|j Swedish Ste*
ith. wreck at me:
Fifth Grade?Odell Parks, Corrie 1Q1G vQein<r
hnson, Willie Blackwood, Johnnie ? S
irter, Willard Gibson, Willie Greg- fashions. Cc
y, Susie Hames, Mamie Lou Hall- WOOds. HaV
Sixth Grade?Maggie Baldwin, WOndei f Ul h<
kernel! Blair. Delia Collins. Frank Klicland. Cf
illman Marvin Sprouse. Angeles Spee
Seventh Grade?Clarence Sparks, -p. , 0 r.
thur Hall,nan, Thelma Bladwin. "ai'K bpeedW
Ninth Grade?Gaither Worthy. I OnstrateS wh
11 team was defeated byt uomm H p
On Jan. 22nd, the Lockhart basket- romance, an
11 team was defeated by the I'acolet gkjj i f qv
iinto by a score of 15 to 4. The p "
ime began with a snap. The accu- ly. Current <
te passing and the swiftness of the intf thinO'S rJ
(ckhart five almost bewildered their , j , p"
ponents during the first five min- .LaK6 r Or(
es of play. After a bit of confusion CagO. First
icolet secured the ball and sounded The C/'ll* 'it
e first alarm to the Lockhart boys y
' shooting the ball through the cov- And don't
ed ring twice in quick succession.
11 through the game Lockhart had Jp addition
e pep, however, and it was not un- n ,
the referee sounded the last whis- **" Star Cc
i that the defeated team ceased to
ay consistent ball. f /^1"1 L
CARD OF THANKS.
I wish to express my gratitude to ?.
e many kind neighbors who have I |<jrp|^xr t
ien so readv to minlatAr to mv nn<>d? tjlo A EjI^I X
my loneliness. During and since I Columbia, Sf
y dear wife's death they have placed H Uh-to-HatP r>i
e under lasting obligations. I he- H
;ve I have the best neighbors in the H put on LllG SC
orld and am grateful to God for hav- I OUT pictures
g given them to me in iny loneli- H ^ reason 0
*' . Tho?. J. Harris. 1 the Grand lo
> Drive Out Malaria I +u^?r
And Build Up The System w tney
ake the Old Standard GROVE'S the Grand?'*
\STELESS chill TONIC. You know 1
bat you are taking, as the formula is I
inted on every label, showing it is I; ?
uinine and Iron in a tasteless form. ??
be Quinine drives out malaria, the pj
on builds up the system. 50 cents p
There must be something wrong H
mewhere when the night latch fails H
> tumble to a buttonhole.?Chicago J
ALE
G ON AT
[AN CO.
.E, S. C.
it our stock of Ladies'
ng of Dress Goods, Laces,
sets. Ribbons, Collars,
ewelry, Toilet Articles,
rs, Hand Bags, Buttons
numerous to mention,
n Wholesale Cost
i Only
on we are going to make
goods except Groceries |
head of Hardware, the |
as low as the lowest. I
n Now and Will Last
> Goods Cannot be
the Prices.
IAN CO.
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TODAY I
(THURSDAY) I
st Vitagraph Pictoral News, showing f"
tures President and Mrs. Wilson, ti:
picture made of couple by anyone j|l
ge. Juarez, Mexico: Villa's troops i^l
Carranza. Scenes of occupation of
-al Obregon. At sea off Texas coast, j|
imer Carolina floats an abandoned P
rcy of waves. New Orleans opens
season. New York's latest skating j|>
uple live as Adam and Eve in Maine ||
re, France, Belgian cavalry display ?|
Drsemanship in action. Shorncliff,
madian cavalry sabre practice. Los jj|
d records broken at opening Ascot
ay. Chicago: Miss Lucile Todd demeelbarrow
suitcase. Fable of Busted l|
imated cartoon by T. E. Powers.
he Chicago Tribune Animated Week- |
events: snowing many otner interest
^he Liberty Bell on its journey. Polo
>st, 111. Celebrating July 4th in Chi- I
Cavalry I. N. G. at Fort Sheridan. I
the front. |f
forget we have Old Doc. Yak.
i to the above CRANE WILBUR and y.
ist will appear in j
d a Man Do More" I
n Three Acts. (Drama) ^
^OPLE! You dont' have to go to f
artanburg or New York to see good,
ctures. We are giving you the best, f
reen by an expert operator. Now if Si
are brighter, better, plainer, there is
?h joy, the actors in the pictures at I
ok like folks. |?
all say: "Ain't the pictures good at
MONDAY I
Master Picture f
rhc Cup of Lite" I