The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-04-01
A EOREW9RD.

I am an optimist by nature. I can't
help it. l am just built that way, and
without speaking egotistically, 1 an:
glad that I am. 1t matters not how
dark the night or how lowering and
black the clouds. I always feel and
believe that it will be morning, and
the sun will shine and the birds sing
and the clouds will roll away and that
somewhere and sometime it will he
Gods morning For thirty-two years
on the 7th of March just gone have
been. at least nominally. part own
er of The Herald and News. On that
date w. P. Houseal and myself bought
The Herald and News from A c.
Jones, Neither one of US had any
money, but we had friends who were
willing to lend helping hand.
have been with the paper contina-
ously since that date, and have been
editor during the years. We were
young then and the future looked
bright and looking ahead 32 years
seemed a long time. Looking back
ward it seems but as yesterday. They
have been years OF struggle and hard
ship. and many times the clouds hung
overhead heavily, but l never lost
faith or hope. There are very few
people here now in business who
were in business here then. Many
changes have taken place. Many times
it looked like we would be unable to
meet the payroll, but we met it. And
do not recall that any one ever
worked for the paper who has not
been paid all that was promised. But
we had the burden of debt In look
ing back, am proud Of the boys who
learned the trade With us. 1t makes
me feel good every time I go to Co:
lumhia to hear some In the craft who
knows, speak Of the good record the
boys VINO learned to set type with Us,
have made. And believe that can
truthfuuy say that large majority
of those who got their start with The
Herald and News are loyal to the
shop to this day. In dealing with the
men who worked with us, I have al
ways tried to put myself in their
places and ask how would like 20
be treated if I were in their place.
And then to act accordingly. And
always polite and courteous. And
whenever they were offered better
places, however much I may have re-
gretted to give them up, I have ad-
vised them to take the better job.
Three great sorrows have come into
my life dur ,g the years, one the
greatest that can come to anv man.
but l have not complained or whined
I have believed that it would be
morning some day. The people OF
Newberry have been kind. The Herald
and New has carried debt since
that famous 7th of March. The kind
ness of a few friends helped me to
raise the first payment, and without
calling names there is one of them
who has been true during all the
years and has been an endorser for
me all the time, and has never b.
word or sign made me feel that I
was under any obligation to him. and
there has never been time when we
could not get some one or more
friends to endorse, il we needed the
money, without asking for collateral.
And with no expectation on their part
rat they would have to pay the note
There are others who have received
our aid and help when they needed
it who are not now on friendly terms.
We are sorry for them, because we
have always tried to do the right.
and many times they have felt the
cood work of The Herald and News.
but then some people are lacking IN
appreciation when they think you
can no longer be of service to them
We have no feeling in the matter and
will continue to do the right as we
see it.
In the changes which have come in
all things, and the upheavals that are
Going in the world, and the high
prices of everything, it IS no longer
rossible to conduct even a small
country newspaper without more
,~orev than the management for the