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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31
FLAT TO LET

I will let contract to build fiat at
strothers Ferry on Broad River Sep
tember 8, 1917, at 10 o'clock, A. M
Sealed bids solicited. Bids may bt
handed to either member Of the Boara
or it's Clerk. Bids will be opened al
nv Office. Any information may be
had by applying at my Office. R1gn'
reserved to reject any and all bids.
J. C. Sample, County Supervisor.
Insert August % and 30th.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION OF GARMA.
NY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. q.

Whereas, one-third Of the resident
electors and a like proportion Of the
resident freeholders of the age Of
twenty-one. years, in Garmany School
District No. %. Of the County Of New
berry. State Of South Carolina, have
fled a petition with the County, Boare
Of Education OF Newbtrry County,
State of South Carolina, petitioning
and requesting that an election be
held in said school district On the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31
BIDS INVITED

Bids are invited for the following
supplies.
$50 bushels Of corn.
800 bushels of feed oats.
, tons of mixed feed
Is tons Of No. l hay.
1910 pounds Of fat backs.
100 pounds Of rib bacon.
200 pounds Of salt.
! dozen ) cent black peppers.
/ case rough rider baking powders.
l case cooking soda.
120 bushels of meal.
12O gallons Of syrup.
6 barrels first patent -four.
100 rovrds Brown Mule chewing TO-
bacco.
y pounds Of coffee.
100 pounds of sugar.
10 pairs OF brogan shoes.
4 cases Of salmon.
4 cases tripe.
50 pairs Of socks.
100 pounds OF stew beef.
so pounds Of steak.
"a bushels of COW peas.
10 kegs of forty penny nails.
Bids for the above will be received
as whole
Also separate bid for 10000 feet CT
good oak or pine bridge lumber.
Sealed bids for the above to be
handed to either one of the under
signd or any member of the board on
or before September 5, 1917, 10 a. m. at
which time bids will be opened and
contract awarded Right reserved tol
reject any or all bids.
J. c. Sample, Supervisor.
H. C. Holloway, Clerk
8-23-31-9-4
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31

What these concrete war aims are,
he said, 81 must confess that the peg
pie do not clearly know but they
should be stated, so that the way coaia
be cleared at least for a conference
and a basis for peace terms. He
declared that any man who would
write or say that it is dis!oyal or
cowardly to ask fair questions nse
that is either knave or fool. ind
he quoted Wilson's former statement
&c the effect:
Let each of the warning nations
say what they want and what will sa3-
isfy them, and let them see if they
can't get together and stop this mis-
erable massacre o. men and wealth.
Along these lines former Governor
Cole L. Blease also spoke with his &C
customed vigor. Thousands of DEM
ocrats proved in the hand primary
that they are in fullest accord with
him. He discouraged any fight on the
draft law, stating that it ought to DE
oheyed to the letter, and that it is bet
ter to give ones life in obeying the
law than start legal fight to defeat
what he does not think can be legally
defeated. Hence he has refusd many
offers for legal fight against it. But
his hand primary refuted the sta,e-
ment, as far as large part OF tAe
real democracy Of Seuth Carolina rs
concerned, that "my people clamers
for war" Being in it. however, ae
stands as ready to dc his bit as say
man in the Stste. But he Is aeRae-
erat and naturally not in love with
autocracy. Had his offer to raise :
third regiment, not been haughttly
rejected, we weuld never have been
confronted with the problem Of en-
camping negro and white troops TO-
gether in South Carolina. He proved
how the money of the taxpayers Isl
being sauandered by the present state
administration, how they are paying
tht whiskey eonstabulary'h bills inI
hawdy houses, and were left without
money to prepare camp for our brave
soldiers; aad and came to- the conclu-
sion that "the ADMINISTRATION Of Scott
and Moses never saw anything like
it"
He strack the keynote by stating
how the State ceu get rid of the gang
that automatically rules, because the
free ballot has become a farce and a
delusion by stating:
'You must organize, I tell you, an
begin to organize now, if you are to
secure and maintain your rights. You
may vote from now until the emo OF
time, and pile up majorities of votes
as high as the Alps, but it won't Go
you any good unless you have fair
count and an honest declaration OF
the result. And you can never Sc
cure this until you go to the club
meetings in April, and to your county
conventions in May. and take over the
election machinery and place it where
it will register the will of the major
ity of the voters of South Carolina,
and not of minority. Yes, take it
out of the hands of the election thiev-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31

healthful as We'll as beautiful for sit
uation.
Fine air and pure waterfall th'
G. adltion5 conducive to good health
A Christian atmosphere and posi-
tive Christian teaching.
Moderate terms in order to place
these advantages within t.le reach o.
as many as possible.
Next session Degin September 10th.
Catalogue furnished on application.
Inquiries should be addressed to
REV. z. E. MONROE, President.
Leesville. S. C.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31
ORGANIZATION THE WATCHWORD

Charleston American.
The political campaign in South
Calorina is young, but not previous. 1t
will be fully six months before it IS
in full swing, but the issues are nov
as clear cut as they will be six months
hence
There can be no doubt about it that
the old Palmetto State is wide awake
FSlbert-Pomaria- these
three names will go down in history.
Future generations will call them
with pride. They will point to these
places as the strongholds of democ-
1acy, where the first vigorous blows
were struck for the redemption Of the
State.
Saturdays mass meeting of demo-
Gratis at Pickens was nothing short
of remarkable. Apparently there
were no dissenting voices on the is
sues. that mean so much for our peo-
pie All the speakers were highly
patriotic, as South Carolinians will
ever be. There was none who is not
wiling to sacrifice life and substance
for his country. But the nationwide
propaganda for blind subservience 10
the dictates Of any one man, the agt-
tation for the REIMBURSEMENT Of the
power of Congress, the methods Of
f-ightfulness employed against free
speech and free press-all these re-
seived a severe check in Pickens,
Stste OF South Carolins. The Spirit
OF '7s," the unconquerable spirit OF
independence, can never die in tAe
Palmetto State, of this we are new
very sure.
The words of Congressman Fred Fl.
DaniRick were the words OF Sourn
&arolina manhood. And who is there
throughout the land who can truth
eadly assert that they were anything
but truly democratic and highly pa
tFietie? -. ~s e. ;-:"">''-
81 have been accused Of being
AGAINST the administration, said
Congressman Dominick, "but the
President of the United States and the
members of Congress get their COM
missions alike from the people"
He explained why he voted against
the war, and his explanation canno;
fail to carry conviction to the hearts
of any red-blooded American that.
having arrived at the conclusion he
did, it was not only his right but his
sacred duty to vote in accordance
with his conscience. OF course he was
vigorously applauded when he said
that a man who went to congress to
vote simply as he was told by the
President, had no business in WASH
ington. And he had the manhood to
come out boldly with the statement
that southern ideas of democracy are
at variance with the democratic IDEAS
published as coming from the War
Department to the effect that in war
for democracy there should be no ra
cial distinctions.
And best of all he met the now un
iversal clamor for a statement of this
countrys war aims, by endorsing this
demand of the people unequivocally:
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31
BIDS INVITED FOR
ROSEMONT CEMTERY ENCLOSURE

Bids are requested for furnishing
and receting One Thousand and Three
feet of granite wall and alse same
number of feet of Iron Fence. Sepa-
rate bids are requested for wall and
fence. or full information apply 20
F. n. Martin, Secretary Enclosure
Committee of Rosemont Cemetery
Association
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31
CROMER DENOUNCES
UNPATRIOTIC AGITAT0RS
Meeting ADOPTS Resolutions Bespeak.
iny Loyalty to Country and Conf
dence in Speaker
The State.

st. Matthews, Aug. 25.-The CAM
paign of education on the war sltua-
ton began here last night with DR.
George B. Cromer of Newberry as the
speaker. A crowded house sree,ed
DR. Cromr and he held his audience
in rapt attention for an hour. Many
expressed the wish that he could have
spoken longer. The frequent applause
which interrupted the speaker attest
ed the sympathy of the audience.
While DR.. Cromer always carries with
him fine diplomacy and polished mar
ners, he does not wear gloves when
he goes out after a subject that ce'
serves to be handled with pitehfork
aad he had the instrument with him
last night. Without the use of harsh
words, he spoke words that cut to tLa
root of the question and he did ao-
speak BY inuendo, but called things
by their proper names.
DR.. Cromer relieved the audience Of
any doubt as to what his ultimate
motives were by announcing in the
beginning that his speeches were not
for the purpose of getting votes and
that he was seeking no Office. His re-
view of the events which led to the
war and of the various stages of the
conflict and the relations Of the United
States to the war was perfect in de-
tail. His statement of the course of
President Wilson in all his relations
with the warning nations and OF his
honorable efforts to keep us out of the
war was refreshing and without omis-
sion His defense of the course of the
administration was mastery. His ar
raignment of those who are opposing
the conscript law and thereby dis
heartening the soldiers called into tac
army was unequivocal. He shower
that the agitator who was putting the
poison OF sedition into the mind OF
the brave but unlettered soldier was
smart enough perhaps to escape
punishment for his sin, but the ur-
suspecting and trusting victim WHO
urageously and enormously follow
ed his advice was the victim. The
contrast. as to how the mothers of tcs
Sos sent their boys to the front with
a kiss and bade them Godspeed, and
as to how so many parents were now
hunting for shield behind which
their boys should hide was vividly
drawn.
DR.. Cromer spoke yesterday morn
ing to a large audience at Cameron,
and as a testimonial of the enthusiasm
with which his speech was receive'l
many of the Cameron people came TO
St. Matthews last night to hear him
again. In the audience were men,
women and children from the rar-
therest points OF the county.
At the conclusion of the address, a
resolution expressing thanks to Dr..
Cromer for his address. approving his
patriotism and his utterances, and de-
claring the steadfast and unqualified
support c. the administration in its
policy and conduct of he war was
adpted by rising vote
The meeting was opened Nv the
singi~y Of the doxology. led hv the
Rev Daniel Iverson. and r"avnr by
Re- q. F. Kirby and at the Ell
clroion Of the address a prayer OF
dismissal was made by Mr.. Iverson.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31
SUTHERLAND COLLEGE,
FOB WOMEN

Offers These Superior advantages.
An ample and capable faculty.
Genuine interest in the individual
student.
Modern buildinge splendidly equip
ped.
Ideal location. "SuRlnerland" Is
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17
THE PROsPEcr OF CHINESE COMPETITION.

WNTRUrING Of the general situation in Chinas trade
the Statistical Secretary OF the Inspectorae Cen
nal of Customs. Shanghai says:
"A very hopeful symptom to be seen in the growth
Of all kinds of Industries and the statistics show that
the competition of certain homemade articles such
cotton goods and matches is being felt moro and
more BY Importers . Chinese factories are in
creasing In number It Is certain that given
adequate railway system practicable roads and con-
served waterways, the exports from China could be
Increased to an extent that is hardly realized"
This country has chief loser in sales Of cot
ton cloths TO China In 1912 Fiscal year, we exported
to China 1OsoOOOOO yards of cotton cloths having an
export value of $7s72OoO. In 1918, with our cotton
industries marking time on account OF tariff agitation
export to China fell TO s0500O00 yards worth $685.
600. This fiscal year the expectation fell to less than
100000 yards, worth about 100000.
It is bad enough for our cotton manufacturers to
have to lose what for many years has been a very
lucrative trade because 1t has become quite imposs
bic to sell in country where such a low wage scale
prevails that OF China. But the danger does not
stop there The Statistical Secretary declares speak
ing Of the cotton spinning and weaving industry 1T
Is practically certain that this will show rapid ex-
tensive expansion. The Japanese are fully aware OF
what must and intend Increase the number OF
their mills in China from which important results are
likely TO follow"
Under the Democratic tarn policy the important
results will include the injury our domestic market
In cotton goods At present Great Britain the lead
having doubled her exports us over protective years
IN spite OF the job she has had her hands; but
even Great Britain might eventually be driven out
this market by the output the Orient employing labor
at dime day, labor which is willing to work twelve
hours a stretch.
Chinese export trade to the United States today !.
already something at which to marvel totang nearl,
s12o000ooo for the fiscal year just ended compare,
with S40000000 In the protective year OF 1913 an in
crease Of 200 per cent while sales 10 China
increased from s2eOoOO0o to s400O0OOO. With Japai
providing the capital and China the labor we will hav
the Orient to reckon with after the war and Demo
uatic tarif policy will meet the situation.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17
Spirit of the Delmarvia Press
CUT OUT THE FooLlsHNEss

CUT OUT THE FooLlsHNEss.
From the Snow Hill People.
That Snow Hill should become the
scene Of race riot, or anything ap'
preaching one seems to US quite un
necessary and uncalled for. We know
Of no. special reason why bitter race
feeling and luminosity should be gen
Grated between the two classes In
this section. where both have lived
amicably for generations. There is
the recourse to law when It is VIC.
lated, which is the proper, intelligent
and sensible procedure when one is
imposed upon. in this way the col
ored may be assured of equal treat
ment with the whites.
To endeavor to take the law into
ones own hands is to breed lawless
ness, outrage Justice, bring suffering
TO the innocent, and to court capital
punishment. Let everyone attend tC
HIS own business, cut out the s"bie
talk" keep to the right, and much
trouble will be averted.
Teh officials of the county have
had conference over the matter and
are determined to punish to the full
extent of the law any who partici-
pate in any further demonstrations
as we'll as those who took part in lasi
Saturdays affair.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17
With The Photographers

Evidently the President has decided to practice
economy and get along with his old cabinet n II
is not strictly modern and uptodateMarnette Eagle
Star.
The owl, according to Professor Hopknson. is the
farmers friend. From tree where barn owl had
nested at Keswick taken ia pellets" containing
the skulls OF nineteen small rats 126 long-taed and
short-taed field mice, sixty-nine shrews and three
small birds (green hnches) but game He suggests
and hawks should be preserved and that rocks
and wood pigeons be ruthlessly Observation-Disclosures
TmNs.
An eminent French banker suggests that Americans
and Englshmen accept The franc as the international
value all the civilized world excepting Amer
and Great Britain has accepted the metric system
OF weights and measures. IL would simplify exchange
II there were an international system of currency
which should be of course decimal system but the
dollar. not the franc. should be the unt-Syracuse
Post-standard -. .-..aA. "a.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17
Germany and Hospital Ships
(From the New York SUM

1915. with 100 wounded aboard. BY
q wonderful display Of discipline the
lives of all but about 80 were saved.
Loath TO believe that any enemy
would deliberately sink clearly
marked hospital ship, the British
Inscribed IFS destruction to a mine, hut
the Germans at once respondent
"The Britannia was transporting
fresh troops for our enemies. II she
had not been>dolng so our submarines
would never OF course, have torpe'
doed her"
The British Government fatty de-
MED the charge, but the Germans
have repeated It in all subsequent
cases with parrotlike insistencc
In March, 1916. the hospital ship
Portugal was torpedoed In the Black
Sea. despite her distinguishing marks.
Her officers clearly saw the submar'
Inc approaching but had no idea that
an attack would be made on a Red
Cross ship. A torpedo literally blew
her into two parts, which sunk in
stantly. There we're fortunately no
wounded aboard at the time, but 40
Red Cross officials, including Il
nurses, we're drowned. as were 40
members OF the crew.
March 20, 1917, the hospital ship
Astur,as was sunk despite her bright
ly lighted Red Cross emblem. Forty
one killed, including IL in the medi-
cal service. April IA the Germans
bagged two hospital ships-the Saita
and the Gloucester Castle. The form
er, however, was struck by a mine.
On April q the Donegal and Ian
franc were sent down. On the former
20 wounded men we're drowned; on
the latter 10, all British. There were
125 wounded Germans on the Len
franc, all of whom we're saved from
the murderous designs Of their fellow
countrymen.
SO numerous have been the German
attacks upon hospital ships that the
British have abandoned the practice
of painting them distinctively and
displaying the Red Gross emblem. II
invites rather than averts the muir.
derous attentions of the enemy.
Military cxigency is a plea that has
covered a multitude of sins. We doub.
however, whether in the eyes of the
world It will excuse the crime OF
planting a torpedo under a ship filed
with wounded and blowing all to etcr'
nifty.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17

Hair way and rather shame faced
apologists for the outrages upon hu.
mainly deliberately perpetrated by
German military and naval autnori.
ties say that they are not committed
wantonly, but rather In the pursuit
OF some military purpose painful
duty, but still a duty. Thus II Is
sought to excuse such barbarities as
gathering thirty. eight OF the crew OF
the Belgian Prince on the deck of the
submarine that sunk her and then
submerging, leaving them to drown,
on the plea that to make the submar.
Inc warfare on England effective the
number OF sailors alive as we'll as
the number Of ships afioat must be
reduced. The devastation left behind
by the retiring German armies in
France is excused by the assertion
that the country must be left incap.
able Of supporting an army in pur
suit. The attacks on unfortifed Eng.
fish towns are defended by the plea
that the practice kept innurlerable
British airplanes at home on guard
which otherwise would have been in
Flanders helping British gunners to
get the range on German trenches.
For every atrocity there is a plaus.
ible reason. Indeed, If the world &C.
cepts the German plea Of military
necessity as a complete excuse for
the violation Of Belgium all the rest
follows logically.
The systematic sinking Of hospital
ships by Germany and her allies is
explained by them as a logical Sc.
quence OF their war on merchant ton.
mage. for If a hospital ship is sunk
one will have to be withdrawn from
the mercantile feet to take her place.
The murder of a few score wounded
on the ship is of course a deplorable
incident. but It must be remembered
that some OF them might have recov-
cred and taken up the weapons Of
war again. Besides, It is so easy to
sink a hospital ship, which is always
unarmed, and the officers OF which,
until Germany barred her murderous
purpose, were always unsuspectlng OF
peril.
A pamphlet issued by authority OF
the British Government enumerates
some cases OF the sinking of hospital
ships, with comments of the German
authorities upon them. The first was
the destruction Of the Britannia in
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17
ooon YEAR EoR EARMERs.

From the Dover State Sentinel.
It now looks as If Delaware fern.
ers would have a good year he
strawberry crop did not much more
than pay expenses Of labor and fer
tillzer, but It brought a good deal OF
money into the State. The early APP
pie crop has been good and prices
have been excellent-not equal to
the proportionate prices OF steel pre-
ducts and other things that have en-
tered into the war munitions, but
more than satisfactory. II IS true
that only a small proportion OF Della
ware farmers grow apples, and SO
this prosperity IS confined to a few
people. The tomato crop Is much
more general, and While the yield pei
acre will be short, the acreage Il
large and the price a paying one, i
the yield is near the average tbs
profit will be enough to pay for la
Dor, fertilizer and a good margin FOL
Investment. Wheat is about an aver
age crop, say sixteen bushels pei
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17
EDITORIAL OPINION

THE ANSWER TO la TOILETTE.
From the New York Sun.
Whatever may be Robert M. La
Follette's purpose in seeking to pre-.
cipitate a discussion OF peace terms
in the Senate at this. atime. the In
depreciation Prussian propagandists
will endeavor to put upon HIS con-
duct is obvious. With utter disregard
for the facts they viii represent him
as an important factor in our ma
tional life, and picture him as the
leader OF a powerful faction Of paci'
fists. His resolution will be cited in
every country, belligerent and neu'
trail, as evidence Of discord among
the Allies, and as proof that tho Uni
ted States wants to quit It's fight for
freedom before it has even begun to
show its power.
Senator La Toilette knows this as
well as anybody else. He under
stands the methods employed by the
Imperial German Government to de-
ceive and dishearten its enemies, and
to discourage their people. Yet In
the face of this, the Wisconsin Sen,
ator persists in course that could
not be better designed to embarrass
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17

the United States II It had originated
with a Prussian statesman.
Within the United States we are
competent to judge the exact signifi.
canoe of La Toilette and to put
true value on his acts. The domestic
effect Of his performances will be
negligible. But he is capable Of doing
us some injury abroad, and this pos
sibility should not be overlooked. To
meet It the Senate's answer to his
proposals must be delivered prompt.
ly, vigorously and unequivocally; and
that answer must leave no question
of our purpose to fight until we have
beaten the Imperial German Govern
ment into a state OF submission in
which It or its successor will con.
sent to conduct It's affairs in accord
ance with the teachings and the prac'
tices Of civilization.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-08-17

acre, and at two dollars and twenty
cents per bushel there is a profit.
Corn is the largest Delaware crop
and promises to be about 30 bushels
per acre. OF course the price will
go down when this new corn comes
on the market, but it will still be
high Potatoes and most vegetables
became low in price before the Della
ware crops came on. But altogether
this will be a good year for Delaware
agriculture. This is also true of the
country in general. The result will
be still larger aereages and better
crops next year, and so q general
lowering Of the high cost of living.