The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-30

times are now' and if We do ''chccr-
fulncSS and growth will surely
mark our progress.
Atlanta has passed a back yard
ordinance which I suppose being
translated means that you must keep
Your backyard clean as we'll as your
front yard and if YOU don't the sani-
tary department will clean it up for
you and charge you up with the ex-
pense. Is it not just little bit
strange that people have to be made
to do those things which are for
their own good. And then some peo-
pie get made if you make them.
There would be a good job done in
this town if the people could be made
ever persuaded-implored-to keep
their front yards and the streets iii
front of their front yards clean. Why
not get the board of health to pub
lsh th cleaning up ordinance or rule
if there is one, so that the people
would know what it is and then they
could throw the debris on the street
intelligently?
The Charlotte News complains that
in their town "It costs $40 to expec-
torate on the strteet, while the fine
for similar conduct in the court house
lis only S.. We think there should
be no competition of rates in this
matter, and the court should should
be reprimanded for underbidding.'
I think heard once that there was
an ordinance in Newberry against
"spitting,' not simply expectoratinG,
on the sidewalks. Am I mistaken or
| is there an ordinance on this sub
ject?
"To call man iar," says Judge
Arthur Powell, in handing down a de-
cision in the Georgia court Of ap
ipeals, "and raise a stick to strike
him, if in anger, is a menace Of viol-
ence and is calculated to excite alarm
or to provoke "a breth Of the peace.
Being to the manor born, the judges
of this court take judicial cognizance
Of the fact that in Georgia to call a
man liar, even without threatening
him with a stick, most generally
means a fight. There may be excep-
tions to this rule, but they are rare
exotics and find little nourishment on
Georgia soil and under Southern
skies. Judgment reversed.'
Over in South Carolina ''to call 4
man a liar' is "a menace Of viol-
ence' without raising ga stick to
strike him. Just what the courts
would hold on the subject I cannot
sa as I am not much Of a lawyer,
but the man who uses the epithet
generally finds out that words do
some times cause blows whether they
justify them in the sight Of the law
or not.
~
I heard the other day that the last
legislature passed an Act with this
title: "An Act to provide for the
recovery Of personal prosperity. l
am waiting with great anxiety to see
the provisions of this act. [ want to
know how this is to be done by an
enactment Of the legislature, I knew
the legislature had undertaken many
things but I did not know before that
they were going to provide for us to
recover prosperity. I am afraid,
however, that the law assumes that
the fellow once possessed prosperity
for how could he recover something
he never had. If so the courts may
declare it Unconstitutional because 1t
is not general in its terms. Bnt then:
YOU know, this is an age Of local 90
| ton. Still. if it is construed to mean
former possessit2 I am afraid 1t will
not help The Idler.
A gentleman in the poStoffice the
other morning, so I am told, suggest
ed that it would be a good idea to
have large trash basket placed in
the lobby in which the waste paper
which now finds its way to the floor
and on THE street might be thrown.
What says the civic association. You
have heard of the Texas congress-