The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-31
IN open Letter.

10 Tie NeHo..., legauon in the
,s:siatu!-:
.p.!ie. c.i Saturday u Supervisor
Ill .ti a sn.;. / Hei.>e 20 u, some
stamps to carry on tas ncces airy col
urG.. sc oi TIE affi, o! COUNTY up-
'.n,cnGeHt Of education, for if you and
lie supervisor 40 cot know it, / have
ally fund il necessary at times II
write i. letters in the proper CO.
duct of the 3fice He SCENE: sa pris d
and thought that one who received as
big a salary a: the county SIP .lnteao,
1T OF education should pay for his own
sta,ars. am not complaining about
the saiary, because 1 knew what 1t
IS when | took the office. but as
natter of fact | have not ssen any
..Iary from tho county but for
onth since have held the office. The
cou.ty give: you little du bill, and
if You want the money you have to
get some one to discount it at a big
late of i--+2rest. ut stamls is Wha. /
want now. Mr. Hill says the county
has no mon>y and the postmaster will
ot sell them to me even Gil th= credit
of the county. And will not haul my
letter. unless put the s1a.@Es CT
them. Mr.. Hill says it Will t@ke $3i,-
600 to put the county out OF Gebt. Ana
he can not pay for any stamps.
You gentlemen have been III The leg
islature for veral years, ard it
seems TO me that it is up to you to do
something to relieve the situation, or
do you think that the little county Of
fcers should borrow money to run the
necessary correspondence of their Of
fees. O, yes, I know it is a small mat
ter, but when no salary is coming it
might be big thiug to SOM of Us.
For the information Of Mr.. SuperVis-
or Hill | want to quote a ection Of the
general school law. Section 1928
reads: County to fur certain
things.-The county board of commits
sionrrs of each county are authorized
and required (note "required'0 to fur
nish the county board of education of
! their county with comfortable a@d
| convenient office and suitable. office
furniture, and to supply said Office
with fuel lights, stationery. postage
(note the word) and such other Incl
dentals as are necessary to the proper
transaction of the legitimate business
of the Office" The county superintend-
ent is secretary of the county board,
and is supposed to run the office, and
to keep up with the correspondence,
and it takes a f9w stamps Maybe
the county board of commissioners
could buy the stamps even if they have
no money. l don't know about that:
But they say they will not. The fcrmsr
supervisor said if would buy stamped
envelopes from the governme't he
world pay for than. and he did,
don't know how. Refore ordering this
tine I enquired if I should go ahead
and order through the government
Mr.. Hill said I could, but he had no
morry to ray the bill. 1T will do no
good to order unless can pay. What
must be done? Please answer. Why
not put the county on a cash basis,
.?nyhow? 1t is bad enough for the peo-
pie to have to run on credit. The
cou"tv shoul1 nav cash. 1t would be
eronomv. Rrt how about some stamps
to write a few letters?
Your. humble servant.
E. H. Aull.
County SUPERINTENDENT CT Education.
T. p. S-The only reason | have for
orinting thls j. The Herald and News
s that fare no stamps with which to
sud y>n personal letter. and nv
credit is good with The Herald and
Vows for small bills. and understand
the paper is mailed you eaeh issue
without charge. F. H. A.
President Robinson to visit Newberry.