The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-24

desire to cali to your attention is
this playing OF foot ball. You certain
ly Ought TO put some restriction or
regulation on it. ] hold in my hand
a headline in the paper, Has Broken
Nose" Another big headline, John
stones Spinal Column Is Wrenched,
May BE A Helpless Cripple" | am
proud to say that l understand the
young man is getting better, and l
hope he will We restored to his strong
manhood. But, here we find an arti-
Gle written by the editor of the Colum-
bia State, in which he has the ef-
frontery to say that foot ball is the
quickest device ever invented by
which many lad may overcome a COL
lege handicap, and going On to say
that it breaks down the barriers OF
social distinction, and by being good
foot bali player the lad gets to be bet
ter in society, has more recognition.
Ine tact his being foot ball player
carrying him into society he could not
otherwise reach, says the Columbia
State. Gentlemen, that is the first
time in my life l ever heard that a
man had to show the capacity of a
prize fighter or a bun dog to become
a gentleman. Yet here it is in the great
advocate of your State colleges-the
great paper that hollers for your State
colleges. The Evening Record comes
out and says, with big headlines, DIR
ty. Foot Ball. and writes of the dir
ty manner in which the game is play
ed, the dirty manner in which some
young men take advantage of others,
to cripple them, if you please, and
get them out of the game.
Now, l think you ought to do one of
two things: either abolish foot ball
playing in your colleges, or else fix a
degree for it, and confer upon man
Doctor of Society because he has the
tenacity of bull dog or the fighting
capacity of Durham bull.
The Song OF Prosperity.
Now, my friends, from every city
and hamlet in South Carolina we hear
the song of prosperity. Notwithstand-
ing We were told that if Blease was
elected governor South Carolina
would be financially ruined, that she
would go to the dogs, yet if yol will
read you will find, in all the history
of your State, the year 1912 towers in
prosperity above all the years that
have gone before. More capital has
been invested in your State Gial ever
before, and today one of the appeals
that is being made to You for higher
appropriations is based Oh the fact
that the State is so prosperous. Aid
yet they said if Blease was elected the
State would be ruined.
Charleston Race Course.
l want to call your attelIio:3r to
another false impression that the
newspapers are trying to create. they
are trying to lead uninformed people
in this State to believe you have a
special Act on the race course in Char
lesion. There is not @.yr.t of truth
in it, and the editors write these things
knowing they are writing what is not
true Here is your Act
''That any person wl.hlls this State,
who engages in betting at any race
track, pool-selling, or hooi-nak ing,
with or without writing q, ;lhy time or
place; or any person Mho keeps or
occupies any room, sued, tenement,
booth or building, float or vessel. or
any part thereof, or who occupies any
place or stand of any KIND, upon any
public or private grounds, thin this
State, with books, papers, apparatus,
or paraphernalia, for the purpose OF
recording or registering lets Or Wa
gers, or of selling poois, and any per-
son who records Or registers h.'.s or
wagers, or sells pools or make; hooks,
with or without writing upon the re-
suit of any trial or cont:st OF skill.
speed or power of endurance, OF MAJ
or beast; or upon the result o. any
political nomination, appointment, or
election
Suppose you had all the fellows IL
dictad that bet on the prinnry last
summer, gentlemen; I would have to
have some more pardon blahks PRINT
ed. Now, listen: They are yelling,
"What is the governor going to Go