The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-09-02

ing in ones makeup.
We were down the Covington road
on our trip of last week and we spent
an hour with ore of the rosiest and
happiest old ladies in our county if
She only knew it. She pointed to
her children out drying fruit, some
cutting apples and some spreading
them on the scaffold. She mention
ed that the children had worked hard
and made a good crop and were now
drying fruit for pies in the winter.
She said they would make plenty to
do them the coming year, but that
she was tired of seeing her children
give up a big part of their crop for
rent. They pay, we found, $3.50 for
what they tend, including a pretty
good house, stables and fire wood
one bale of cotton at present prices
vii! pay the rent and yet they never
dream that they are lucky and bless
ed, and are going to the Scottdale
factory if they can get jobs there, or
else to town, either Decatur or At
lanta.
Rents in Town.
Bless you, old lady, you will have
to pay more rent than you now pay
for just a house, and then buy what
YOU burn, coal or wood, which will
cost about four times as much as
what you pay in your prosperous
country home, if you only could be
made to see it. The three girls and
two boys came to where we were
along with the old man, who was
loaded with two big melons in a
sack, and sent the boys back to the
spring for more when he discovered
Judge George and me and Brown.
When the melons were cut l look
ed upon the circle in admiration. The
girls and the boys impressed me as
being so, trong, so handsome and in
telligent. 1t does seem strange to
me that such a family would crave
to go to the factory or to town, but
they must go to be convinced. They
must 60 and try the life to find,
when too late, that they had -. a
thousand times better to have re-
NAMED in the country, rent or no
rent.
Experimenting, they have notions
that they can accomplish great
things at the factory or in town.
Just as Brown thought he could ac-
complish fulfillment Of Mr.. Finch's
notions of flying machines, but
Brown knows now that he has had
to suffer with his back. and go
around in kind Of stopped position
for 40 years. Just from experiment
ing with that flying notion that Mr..
Finch had put in his head.
Now, here is family of five chill
dren, three girls and two boys, and
as fat, as happy and as saucy an old
mother as lives in DeKalb. with .
working old father, like most old
fathers, who knows nothn4s out 20
yield to the great majority that the
good lady can always muster to her
side of any argument on the !ques-
ton of experimenting, all anxious TO
leave from where they have been so
admired and so prosperous, if they
only knew it, to go to where they
must live from paper sacks and little
tin cans, to cease to be admired as
the good country girls that they are
and swap their mantle of innocence
and chastity for cloud to envelope
their lives in doubt.
Safety first" is the wisest maxim
we have known the young genera
ton to adopt. To see this family
drive up to Indian Creek meeting
house, see the department of both
girls and boys and the pride of the
mother as she leads the way and the
content of the old man as he bring:
up the rear stamps the impression
that the family is now on safe lines,
safe to be admired, safe as bless
ing to the future generations and
entirely too safe to try experiments
on the lines that have proven so dis
tressing to many good families that
have went before-God bless the
country and bless such county folks
and Brown says amen!