The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM STATE CAPITAL
GEORGIA LABOR FEDERATION
THANKS GOVERNOR BLEASE.
Veterans i'm aiken This Week Look
ing Forward to Gettysburg.-GOT-
ernOr BleaSe on Education.

lutions condemning Governor Brown
of Georgia, and lauding Governor
! Blease, of South Carolina. upon the
attitude of the two governors. res
| pectively, as to ordering out troops
| in the street car strike some months
AGO which affected Augusta, Ga. anc
the Horse Greek valley, in this State
Governor Blease has received a telc-
gram from the officers Of the Georgia
Federation conveying the thanks OF the
FEDERATION.
The telegram follows:
Augusta, Ga.
Governor Cole. l.. Blease, Column
bia, S. C.-The Georgia Federation OF
Labor in convention assembled desire
to express sincere appreciation of your
attitude regarding use of State troops
during recent street car strike. SINH
lar action on the part of Governor OF
Georgia have prevented bloodshed and
death of innocent victims.
"S. B. Marks,
President,
"Rohert Fechner,
Secretary-Treasurer.'
Governor Blease replied as ollows: !:
april %, 1918
"Hon. S. B. Marks, Presidet Geor-
gia Federation of Labor, Augusta, "a.
Dear Sir: l am in receipt this morn
ing of night letter from you and the
secretary of your federation express
ing appreciation of my attitude re-
garding the use OF State troops during
the recent street car strike. I desire
to express to you. and through you 10
your federation, my thanks for your
action. md to assure you gentlemen
that the cause Of honest labor has
had and will ever have in me friend.
Governor Blease is in Aiken IN at
tendance upon the Confederate Vet
eran's reunion. He is accompanied
by a good many lnembers of his MIL
itary staff. The governor will return
to the city tonight.
A good many of the old soldiers nave
bo0n in Columbia on their way to the
reunion. Comrade was meeting COM
rade here, and all were looking for
ward to the meeting of other comrades
in Aiken. None of these men is young
ANYMORE, but when they don the gray
oP the Confederacy and begin to i've
over again in reminiscence the Gays
when they battled for the South, they
are young again in spirit, at least and
their eyes kindle with the old-time ire.
*a&
Already some Of the veterans are
planning to attend the celebration OF
the fftieth anniversary Of the battle
of Gettysburg, at Gettysburg, Pa,
Jnlv /. 2, 3 and 4. This promises TO
be the greatest reunion of the Blue
and the Gray since the war, and an
occasion memorable in the history OF
the nation. Any veteran may secure
all information he desires either from
the States representative, appointed
BY the governor, the Hon. ". Jasper
Talbert. Parksville, S. c., or the State
member of the L. c. V. committee,
Col. C. X. Henderson, Aiken. S. Z.
An elaborate program has been ar
ranged for the occasion.
Virginia's Gettysburg monument to
Robert E. Lee ana his men is now be-
inc erected on the Gettysburg battle
field on the spot where General Lee
stood during Pickett's and PettigreW
charge. It is stated in the pamphlet
giving information Of the coming cele-
bration that "this is the originally &C
cepted design of the eminent sculptor,
F. VIM. SEWERS, Richmond, Va, but
it has been somewhat altered and inn
proved" The cut Of the monument
shows handsome and elaborate work
of art.
The Herald and News is constantly
preaching common school education
and good roads. There is no doubt
these are two of the most important
questions before the people OF the