The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-04-01

essary to do the job has been taken,
and the balance will be, so that all
the debts may be wiped out and the
day for which I have looked and
! longed through many years will
come, and may be relieved Of the
business and mechanical manage
ment, and be able to devote whatever
ability l may have to the editorial
work. The fact is l am no good bus
iness man any way, and very poor
collector, and I am glad to be re-
feved Of the effort. / have made lots
of money, but being a good spende:
and a poor collector it has made the
road pretty hard sometimes. When
we went on the cash basis some years
ago / charged off some ten thousand
dollars due on subscription BY peo-
i pie who had the paper come to ther1
from one to 20 years without ever
paw for it, and since then less than
ia lr dred dollars OF that has been
collected. A new company has been
| formed, Herald and News, Incorpor'
ated, and it has taken over, the plant
beginning with this issue, and a
board of good business men has been
! chosen to direct the buiness end ct
the corporation, and I hope and be
lieve that it will be run on business
basis and that it will succeed. The
charter was issued on Saturday. The
board consists Of Henry B. Wells, 3.
C. Matthews, Harry W. Dominick, ].
Walter Richardson and James L.
Aull. The board has elected H. B.
Wells president, Harry w. Dominick
secretary-treasurer and James L.
AuN general manager. I am going
to remain with the paper Of course
and will continue to do the editing
and will give it the best work that
. I can do. The new machine about
which we have been talking has been
shipped and should be In by next
week, and then we will be able to
handle all the matter that is neces-
I sary and will appreciate it II our
friends will send us items for publ
cation that are worth while and they
win receive prompt attention.
As stated some time ago the policy
! will be to make The Herald and
News a real county paper, and We
hope to develop a series of letters
from every section Of the county. 1t
shall be our purpose to stand for
! everything that it is good and for the
uplift Of the people of the county.
We do not expect to have every one
agree with us in all matters, but we
! Will be pleased to have differences of
opinion expressed without malice OF
, ILL feeling on any and all subjects
that affert the welfare of the county.
In the change of management it
was the opinion of the management
that one man should be able to edit
the paper, and for that reason the
services of Mr.. Greneker were dis
pensed with He was not "d1smlssed'
or "discharged'' in the offensive sense
ae his farewell would indicate. Every
one knows that he Is good gatherer
OF news in the local field, and I do
not expect to handle or gather as
much as he did. I can not help say
ing, however, that l regret that he
felt he should write his farwen in
the tone and spirit that it appears to
me. I felt that for his sake it should
not be printed, but 1 did not want
him to feel that any one desired In
the least to be unfair to him, and,
therefore, it was printed as he wrote
it. The Herald and News has been
good to him. He left us once when
he was offered more money, which
was all right, but when he was Laid
off from that position after brief
service, he came back and we took
him in, and while we could have got
ten along without him during the
war, because we could not handle
great deal of matter any way, we do
not lay him off, but carried him
through the war, and when the new
MANAGEMENT came along and did do
so, 1 can not help but feel it was q
little unkind and unappreciative for
him to knock the bridge that had
been carrying him along. But there
is no feeling and I only wish htiu
we'll.