The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-11-21

this truth into the hearts of the
people that every man will count it
honor and Joy to rise up at mid
night and help any soldier find hon
est and lucrative employment.
eve also owe it to the soldier to
make it easy by laws, state and ma
tional, for him to acquire and pay for
home. This is not charity. 1t is
common sense. It is craftsmanship.
The most impr egnable line of fortifi-
cations that the nation can erect to
check the blood-red tide of bolshe-
vism is network of homes that will
cover the land from sea to shining
sea- The mightiest forces for law,
for peace, for prosperity are
"'The wee cot and the cricket's chirr,
Love, and the smiling face of her!'
"a homeless people may at any
time make of US Russia or a Mex
leo, but the citizen standing under
his own vine and fig tree is at once
the builder and the bulwark of the
republic.
Must Maintain Principles.
Further pursuing the idea that the
nation owes an immense debt of
gratitude and honor to the soldiery
that fought its battle, he said that
the duty of the country was to main
tain in purity and power over here
the principles for which they fought
over there. The first principle, he
said, to which the American soldier
gave Spectacular and immortal re-
cognition" was that no individual
citizen has any rights whose asser-
ton would prove fatal to the happi-
ness of all the people.
Then Governor Beckett drew the
eloquent and impressive word picture
of how the American soldier answer
ed the call upon the declaration of
war, forsaking ease and opportunity
in mercenary matters to give his all
for the cause that his country es-
poused.
His return, said the governor, was
met BY a situation that dumfounded
the soldier that had been dreaming
of the United States as heaven on
earth. The first few days of his
Homecoming were marked by happi-
ness, joy at being back, and getting
back to the things of old.
"Then," said the speaker, zone
morning he stepped out into the
streets, saw the people gathered in ex-
cited crowds, went up to see what was
the matter, and he read in flaming
headlines in The Constitution, in The
Georgian in The Journal, that
Atlanta, the Gate City of the South,
was isolated from the rest of the
world. No telegraphic, no telephone
communication, no trains could enter
or leave the city.
ssThe erstwhile soldier exclaimed: ::
Am dreaming? Is this some fright
ful nightmare, or have I been living
in fools paradise? Have those
peskv Germans tricked us after all,
and in a mighty aerial squadron
swept across the sea and surrounded
this city in a single night?'
ssThe neighbors said, oh, no, SON
no Huns around anywhere. The
employers and employees in the
telegraph, telephone and railroad
companies have had a disagreement,
and everybody got mad and quit.
They won't work themselves and they
won't let anybody else work.
"And then the doughboy laughed
aloud and said, you just leave it to
ne and III settle this damned fool
ishness in fifteen minutes And
then he threw back his head and in
stentorian tones that had many a
time made the Hun tremble lii his
dug-outs, he cried, Uncle Sam! Un-
Gle Samr Instantly there stood be-
fore him the tall, gray figure that
had touched him on the shoulder in
the spring of 1917.
Some Remedy Needed.
''The soldier said: Uncle, two
years ago you needed me, now need
you. Way up in the mountains the
dear old mother is wasting away. The
last letter that came said that she
was son anxious to see her boy be-
Gore she passed over the river. l
::annot hear from her any .nore---no
nails, no telegrams, no telephones.
: would Ike to go up and see how
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