The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-04-23
GREAT COUNCIL RED MEN.

GREAT COUNCIL RED MEN.
The Great Council of Red Men met
in Greenville last Tuesday. l attend
ed the session on Tuesday and went
from there to Easley in connection
with my census work. 1t may not be
uninteresting to the readers for me to
say word about the organization and
the meeting and to make some other
observations on the trip.
The order showed considerable
growth during the past year and there
was much interest in this meeting.
The attendance was good and the
best report on growth came from
tribe at Anders a., and was made by
J. O. Havird, a former Newberrlan
now practicing law in the live city OF
Anderson, and those present at the
meeting frankly admitted that the
growth of this tribe was due in large
measure, if not altogether, to the
good work done by Mr.. Havird.
Another Newberrian, or former New
berrian, now living in Anderson, Mr.
H. C. Summers, was made head OF the
order for the next year. Former
Gov. Blease was present at the meet
ing and took a prominent part IN the
proceedings. He has great influence
with the members of the order and
generally carries whatever measures
he advocates. Speaking for Mayor
Blease, Hon. Fred H. Dominick ex-
tended an invitation to the Great
Council to hold the next convention
in Newberry and the invitation was
unanimously accepted.
do not travel much any more,
and am glad that do not have to.
All railroad trains and hotels and
restaurants are crowded all the time
and there is little comfort or pleas
ure in the job of travelling. We stop
ped at the Otteray hotel and the
strike fever is so spreading that all
the walters at the hotels in Green
vile went on a strike the day we ar
rived. I do not know that our coming
had anything to do with the strike,
but it was on. At breakfast at the
Otteray the walters in the cafe were
Furman students. The young man
who waited on my table said he was
from Anderson and that he was IN
the junior class at Furman and that
he had gotten up that morning at g
o'clock and come over to town to act
as waiter and that he would be back
to his class at 9 o'clock. At the
Imperial hotel at which I took lunch
the walters were young ladies, some
of them daughters of the manager of
the hotel and some of them boarders
and some telephone girls who were
doing this job in their rest hours. l
rarely make comparisons but the
young ladies, it must be said, know
better how to do the job than the
Furman students, though both filled
the places remarkably we'll. When
that young student from Furman was
serving our table / could not help
thinking of the strike of the Clemson
bows who did not want to serve when
they were relieving their fellow stu
dents who were working their way
through college and were temporarily
sick.
Talking about the crowded condi-
ton of the trains and the hotels it is
remarkable how many people are
travelling about these days. I want
to 60 somewhere and I want to come
back seems to be the slogan in this
this day of unrest. We will all be
glad, I know, when the times get
down to normal once more. ! spent
the night of Tuesday at Easley and l
wanted to see the hotel man and to
be sure that he was home I phoned
and asked him to save me room and
he said he was crowded and might
have to double, but fortunately he
gave me a room all to myself. What
this country needs at this time, it
seems to me, is for more people to