The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-02-02


history of the country,
ing. 1t is always pleasant to know
that some one somewhere is read
inc and enjoying what one says.
try always to say something tnat Is
helpful. whether it is we'll said or
not. But as 1 have frequently writ
ten. it does not really concern me
very much whether any one reads
or likes what l write or not. But
let me give you what this subscriber
saws. and then l will add another
comment:
81 have just finished reading to-
davis (Friday's) paper and your piece
(The Idler), for I am sure you are
the one that writes these lines, OF
I am badly fooled. 1t has been my
pleasure to hear you speak on
good many occasions and your tafKs
ana The Idler's are along the same
line so much that when l read tnen
sometimes l think | am listening 10
you
ANY way I enjoy them and tell
him to continue to write. After read
ing Idler's piece today / thought OF
what I read in the Christian Advo-
cate. Then and Now, or Now and
Then It impressed me and T ana>
going to clip it out and enclose Il, 80
Won can hand it to The Idler. would
like to read the book, when Man
a Man.
81 have been reading too "The
Annals of Newberry," and have
learned something about my own
folks 1 did not know, and many
things about Newberry and its peo-
pie that l enjoyed and will be heipful
to me.
msn't it about time you were tax:
ing up the history of Newoerfy ana
her people where Mr.. Chapman LETT
off Not wait so long and miss so
many things that will be missed L
il is DELAYED? Think about this and
if no one is preserving the hlstcry
of Newberry so it can be gotten hold
of YOU start the ball rolling and let's
have another addition to the Annals
of Newberry {by AulD- l am sure
YOU have the ability to do SUCH
work. did not intend to make this SO
long" and so forth.
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Well. what do you think OF that?
7 know the editor is tickled to deatn
10 think that some one accuses MIN
Of being me. lAint it funny? VI
course. I could write him cracker
lack speech, and | have no oouot
but that he has been approprlatlng
some of my stuff and getting 1t on
az his very own in some or the
speeches he has been making around
the country. Well, really l cant
blame him very much. Some OF II
would sound mighty good II one
knew just how to get it off. ! nave
quoted the whole letter of this friend
of the editor because / appreciate
the kino words he has to say ABOUT
nv articles, and appreciate also the
fact that he enjoys what l write, ana
that he should desire that con-
tinue. And l will continue until the
editor tells somebody my real name,
and then at that very moment l am
down and out. But also have quoted
this letter to endorse what this writ
er saws about preserving the history
of the county, and I think also that
someone who is competent should De
preserving the history, and put 1t III
permanent shape so that We might
have true and correct history OF
the county. 1t is big undertaking
and of course must be a labor OF
love and patriotism, if any one should
be brave enough to undertake II. In
this dav and time the people do not
appreciate the man who is Wiling
TO do that kind of work. and he must
be willing 10 be criticised and laugh
ed at and able to buy his own bread
and butter apart from his work. Now.
I really couldn't write these articles
for The Herald and News if | had to
depend on them for my bread.
read this question in scnle pa
per the other day: Don't you know
a man whose highest ambition seems
to be to find fault with what other
people are doing?' And the fellow
who undertook to write the history
would find a lot-not man-Whose
ambition would be to find fault with
what he was doing. Don't you think
so? Well, know it. And there are
a-iew of those kind-not a man
but several. right around here in
this good town of Newberry. Yes,
and one or two women also. Those
who have nothing apparently to do,
whose greatest ambition seems to be
to find fault with what the other
fellow is doing. And they can do
it so much better-but they never
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