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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-21

But this article to which we refer
makes the claim that Mr.. Grist is pos
sibly the oldest editor in South Caro-
lima today in continuous service or
the same paper. His service is long
and honorable, and we take off our
hat to him, because he has done good
and valiant service for South Carroll
ma, and has published fine paper all
the thirty years that he haS been with
the Yorkville Enquirer, and has the
record Of longer family service than
any paper in these parts, because
there are very few if any that have
been handed down from sire to son
for three generations in the same
town. But as matter of fact there
are two or three newspaper men in
South Carolina who have record
longer than Mr.. Grist. Mr.. N. G. Os-
teen, our good friend Of Sumter, if
he is still connected with the paper
in that town, as we suppose he is,
dates his newspaper career back in
the ffties of the last century and the
last time l saw him he was young and
active. Then here in Newaerry my
contemporary, Mr.. W. Il. Wallace.
. has been connected directly with the
newspaper business in this town Ger.
tainly back to 1876, and / believe 8
little further back than that, and he
IS still young and vigorous and virile
| know he was the editor Of the New.
berry Herald. published by Mr.. Thos
F.. .Greneker, as fer back as 1877, be
cause It was then that came to New
berry to enter Mulberry college. True
for few years of that time he wa:
professor in the Columbia Methods
college for women, and after that su
perintendent of the Newberry schools
and for one year editor Of the Dali!
Greenville News, but all the while
4 he kept mis- interest in the Observe!
!; which was foundede by him and Mr.
~. H. NJ. Kinard and Mr.. William P
/ Houseal in the early eighties. It is
: long and honorable career.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-21

From FairMsw we drove over to
the negro school which is a joint
school for Faitview and Wheeland
districts. It is taught by NJ. G. Hare
and the bui1diaagy is small and uneonT7
Portable, very sinilar to all the negro
schools in the1 county. The room is
about II by 1ss and there are 30 chill
dren enrolled and they are packed in
the small ROOM with. scarcely room
to do proper work, though the teach
ing by Hare seemed to be of the rlsht
kind and the ssst Of order prevailed,
One Of the colored trustees, named
Dominick, owns some land adjoining
the church property on which the
present building is located, ana ne Of
fers to sell four acres for school at
a very reasonable price and ID con-
tribute 500 toward the building,
and l think we may be able to get
some other contributions down that
side, and I am going to try to DO SO
and get some of that Rosenwald mon
ey and put up building here during
the coming summer. It seems to me
almost a prodigal waste Of money 10
undertake to have school n Some CT
the buildings for the colored folk IN
the county, and while we can get the
money from these northern phlianv
thropists who seem anxious to help
the colored people, am going TO get
all that can
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-21

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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-21

This is rather far afeld from wha':
II took up my old typewriter to say
But before / return to base | want
to say that I think it is mighty poo.
Judgment for the newspapers OF the
state not to keep ug that old couste-
sy of exchanging with one another.
The reading Of other papers will help
you, to make a better paper for your
own family. Mr.: A. B. Williams used
to tell me that he always read the
country correspondence in the week
ly newspapers as well as the editori-
ais and that it was the best way to
get an index of public sentiment that
he knew. He could tell generally what
the fellows away back yonder We're
thinking about, and he knew what
their needs were, and he could the
better help them and the better edit
his daily paper. The Greenwood pa
per just positively refuses to ex-
change with The Herald and News.
and we do not get even the Winns-
bort paper just across the river, and
the Daily Times at Union told me
that it would come along, but the
only copy I have seen in years is the
one the editor gave me when he said
he was going to place me on his ex'
change list. And the Greenville dai-
lies they do no longer recognize the
country press, or at least so old a
paper as the one we edit, though Rion
McKissick said he was going to send
the Piedmont. And even the old News
and Courier that we have read fo1
forty years, and for which we were
for many years the local correspond
{ ent, refuses any longer to come oul
way. Of course, I suppose one paper
! from town like Newberry is al
these big papers care for, and that
one happens not to be The Herald
and News, which is entirely all right
and I'VE are not protesting, and
reckon in this purely commercial agt
it is the right thing to pay the casl
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-21
AMONG THE SCHOOLS
3 @ o o o o o o . o o o o o


Fairview
According to his promise Mr.. A.
H. Counts came to Newberry on We'd
nesday and we drove down ito Fair
view reaching the school about ten
o'clock or little earlier. 1t was the
coolest day Of the winter so far. and
even a Ford going part of the time
in low did not keep your feet any
too warm. But the roads are not bad
and much better than l expected to
find them, and we made the trip right
along. If the roads had machine
like the town machine to be run over
them after the rains they would be
fine for the country as roads 60 IN
this county. The school at Fairview
is taught by Nj. Willie Hack Derrick
and Miss Samrnie Lou Hare and
there is an enrolment Of around ff-
ty, but the school will scarcely be
able to Keep up the average attend
ance necessary to participate in the
equalizing fund, though an eight
mills tax has been voted. A new
school house has been erected here
within the last couple of years and
it needs little more to complete it
entirely. But i is very roomy and
comfortable. # spent a couple OF
hours with the school and the WORK
seems to be getting on well. The
children are .abright and interested
and believe idosng good work. Two
of the trustees Mr.. M. A. Hamm
and Mr.. S. P Mills, came over while
we were there. :
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-21
A RETROSPECT


Tread a few days ago, in the Colum-
bia Record / think it was, that my
friend w. D. Grist had celebrated h.s
goth anniversary as editor Of the
Yorkvilie Enquirer, and that it rep
resented the longest service Of any
newspaper editor on any paper III
South Carolina, and that he is the
third or fourth generation in the same
family in service on the same paper
in the same field. That is fine rec
ord, and the old Enquirer used to be
a mighty good paper, and l reckon
still is. For some reason the Enquirer
ceased it's visits to our desk, and after
sending the Herald and News on fcf
quite a while, it also stopped because
its visits were not returned. l am
sorry. because l always enjoyed read
ing this good poper. But the war and
the government regulations were SO
construed that many papers ceased
that good old courtesy and custom
of exchanging with one another. AT
least a good many that / had read
for a quarter Of century, II they nae
been, in existence so long, ceased,
and missed them just as / would the
coming of a friend who had been IN
the habit, of making regular visits 70
nv home Il may. be that some OF
them had fallen out with The Herald
and News in one way and another,
or for one thing or another, and would
manifest their dislike by declining to
come to see us any more. just Ike
some people 4 used to know, they
would show their dislike by refusing
TO speak, and then. there are some
few right here in this good county OF
| Newberry who do not read The Her,
aid and News, or they claim that they
| will not, because they happen not rc
! like me personally. am sorry fo'
them. 1t always seemed to me to <6e
mighty poor way to manifest ycu'
dislike. I would not be usrpsised, Il
the truth were known, that they dc
| read The paper, and l am pretty sure
! that the paper has done more fol
them and theirs than they can DIS
icredit, if they should continue to thE
third and fourth generation to fas
!. the flames of their dislike by refusing
to read it. But this dislike only caus
!; es them to lose q whole lot OF mighty
!, good and helpful stuff, and does no
iinjure the old paper in the least.
4
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
Ely FREDERIC j. HAsKIN

Washington, ID. C. Feb. 4.-There
are over two million acres of desert
and unproductive land in five western
states, which are ut present of prac-
tically no value to anyone. This land
not only produces neither food nor
taxes. but IL Is also burden to the
railroads which are forced to cross
the desert wastes between East and
West without gaining either freight or
passengers.
At the same time there are in these
regions streams, which are almost as
useless AS the deserts. Some of them
lrriEate little patches here and there,
but most of their waters go to waste.
and all of the great power which
those waters gather in their descent
from the mountains goes to waste.
Now this country is suffering from
TOO much money, from over-produc-
ment. And the number of unemploy-
ment. And the number of unemplay-
ed is being constantly swollen by i'm
migrants
Why not let the United States Gov
ernment gather these idle men and
put them to work damming these
streams. capturing their power, irri-
eating the waste lands, making farms
for the men who are out of work?
This question former Secretary OF
the Interior Franklin X. Lane puts to
the American people. Mr.. Lane. since
his retirement from the Cabinet, has
been the vice president. of an oil COM
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
IODAY'S EVENTS

Queen wilhelmina OF the Neither
lands celebrates her Goth wedding an
niversary today.
today celebrates his 18th anniversary
as p. e. bishop OF Michigan
The sixth National Tractor show viii
be opened at Columbus, o., today and
continued thru the week.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson heads the list
of patronesscs Of the Southern Relief
Bali to be given in Washington to-
night
The opening OF the South Florida
Fair and famed Gasparilla Carnival
is expected to attract many visitors to
Tampa today.
attending the Duke of Connaught's
visi. to Delhi will be the inauguration
OF the Chamber of Princes today.
The new Joseph Medili School OF
Journalism. affiliated with Northwest
orn University. Chicago, is to open ats
doors to students today.
For the first time in the history OF
the Manitoba legislature assembly a
woman will hold seat when 1t as
sembles for Its 18th session today.
Much interest attaches to the result
OF the federal by-election in West
Petcrboro today as showing the pres
ent trend of political sentiment in the
Dominion.
The first exposition OF the silk in
dustry in America will be opened to-
day in the Grand Central Palace. New
York city. to continue thru the week.
The trial of John j. McGraw, man
agcr and part owner of the New York
National league baseball club, accused
Of violation of the Nolstead act. Is
scheduled to begin in the Federal court
in New York city today.
The national executive committee OF
the American Legion meets in wash
l., Hprtdp lNhpthgf
cept the offer of s.. 600, coo gift from the
knights of Columbus for the erection
of a Legion war memorial in the ma
tional capital.
President obregon has called n
special session of the Mexican con-
gross to meet today to consider new
banking laws, a new labor law, army
reconstruction. international commerce
and tho controversy over the petrol
cum deposits.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
IN DAYS NEWS"

Foremost on the list of subjects to be
considered by the Mexican congress at
its extra session beginning today is
the petroleum question as it affects the
relations between the United States
and Mexico. In its consideration Of
this problem the congress is likely to
be guided largely by the advice and
opinions of Rafael Zuharan Capmany
who ia in charge of the department of
industry, commerce and labor in the
Obregon government, and who has
been bending all his energies to
straighten out the petroleum tangle
and to bring about more cordial rela-
tions with the United States. Zubaran
is a lawyer of Tampeche and one of
the able men of the republic. He has
had a long government experience and
at one time served confidential
agent to the United States and later
as Mexican minister to Germany.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
PUT THE DESERT TO WORK

pany. But hc has by no means re-
nounced that interest IN the develop
mont of the public domain which
brought him into the Cabinet. He
urged n systematic reclamation of
the arid lands of the West as a means
OF providing returning soldiers with
farms. A complete and detailed plan
was offered Congress, but Congress
was too busy to attend to 1T Now
Secretary Lane points out again the
great opportunity that is waiting in
the West, and how II may be taken
advantage of in such way as to re-
lieve the stress of threatened hard
times.
What he offers is again n complete
and well-considered plan. The OBJ
lection will be offered that a people
overburdencd by taxes resulting from
a great war is not in n position to
undertake an enormous public work.
whatever its value. Mr.. Lane replies
that this work can be financed by a
taN-free bond issue. with the farm
lands and the power which the pro-
Ject will produce as a security.
Lame Offer. Complete Plan
Mr.. Lano says that anybody can
figure the advantages of rcclama
ton project. because the proposition
is SO clear and simple. Here are one
hAAAANll h'i CO VI isfilis "a lllAlt o~h'u
by individuals, some by the states,
some by Indian Reservations, most by
the United States. and some by the
three railroads that run thru the
desert country. Taken as n whole the
land is worth ) to so cents an acre as
1t is now.
Practical engineers. skilled at this
kind of work, have estimated conser-
vatively that they can build three
dams and power plants on the Colo
RADIO river, which runs thru this coun
try. and make available enough water
to irrigate all OF this desert million
acres, and at the same time produce
over one million horsepower in cleo
trical energy. The cost of the whole
operation is estimated at from fifty to
eighty million dollars.
Because of the many different inter-
ests involved. Mr.. Lane does not feel
that this could be accomplished by pri
vatc enterprise. He says that IL is
essentially a public work, and that is
where his bond issue plan comes in.
The railroads and the municipalities
near the desert are in the market for
all the power as soon as developed.
Tho Chicago, Milwaukee, and st. Paul
railroad has proved the immense ad-
vantagcs of using electrical power in
the propulsion of it's trains. The re-
suits are known to the officials of all
the railroads that cross the desert land.
They would be poor business men not
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07

than enough to meet all the operation
expenses and requirements.
Before the water came to them tho
lands that now receive water from the
Roosevelt Dam were mostly worth
less desert. Now they are valued at
from two hundred dollars per acre
upward. Under tho cotton growing eS-
citement last year some OF the Salt
river farms sold above seven hundred
dollars per acre.
III the only purpose OF developing
these lands was to add to our arabic
territory, and to increase the wealth
and productivity OF the United States,
II would still be n splendid business
for the government" says Mr.. Lane.
But 1t means also that thousands Of
citizens will be made independent work
ers, contributing hnndaor'e'v 80 ~"
general welfare, without any cost to
tho National government. 1. ..Vu.a
seem to be our imperative duty to get
started at once and get some of the
idlers out OF the cities to work on these
projects"
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
Why?
WHY CAN'T A BABY TALK

WHY CAN'T A BABY TALK
WHEN Vt Is BORN Z
(Copyright, 1920. By The Wheeler Syn
dicate. Inc-)
To the average person talking Is such
simple operation and ono which re-
quires so little thought that we arc
apt to regard it as belonging TO the
perfectly natural functions-like
breathing and seeing-while 1t prop
crly belongs to tho acquired abilities" !"
rs do walking. reading. and the like.
A baby, therefore. requires a con-
siderable amount OF practice before II
can master the coherent sounds which
we call speech" When 1t is very
young II reverts to first principles
crying. instead OF saying. II am hun
cry" and reaching for things instead
OF announcing that II want that"
Moreover. the part of the brain
which controls the tongue and enables
US to talk" Is not developed when
a baby is born. This section, togeth-
er with that which translates sound
into mental images. becomes gradually
stronger as time goes on. and about
the end OF the second year the baby
begins to give utterance to the sim
pier forms OF speech, Initiating the
sounds which II hears and learning
to distinguis between them.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
The Romance Of Words
.cPEDIGREE.-


fCopyrirht, 1920, BY The Wheeler Syn
dlcate, Inc-)
When we speak OF a persons pedi-
gree, or even the pedigree of dog or
horse, We do not at least consciouslN'
mean to infer that he has anything
in common with tine foot of a crane
hut this happens 70 be the literal
meaning of tho word, which like a
number OF others, had found Its way
into English because OF the difficulty
Of applying the proper pronunciation
to French phrase.
A pedigree is. OF course nothing
more than a family tree or n list of
ancestors. and this. when blocked out
in the chart form so dear to the
hearts OF geneologists, takes the form
of connecting lines radiating from the
common progonitor OF the family TO
his descendants. The French. who
have always been fond of painting
word pictures of familiar objects. refer
to a chart of this nature as a pied-de-
grue, or cranes foot. on account of
the resemblance between the two, and
the English lifted the term bodily and
translated 1t phonetically as ''pedi-
gree"
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07

to buy all the hydro electric energy
they can use. They want to do so.
Mr.. Lane feels sure that there could
be made a general bond. covering the
security OF the improved land at about
fifty dollars an acre (about one-fourth
the current price of fair irrigated iand)
and the contracts OF the proposed pow
er users, making a bond something like
the present farm loan bonds. AS in the
case OF the farm loan bonds the Ma
tional government would add its back
ing and endorsement. The bonds
should be free from taxation because
they are to be used to create taxable
property and for the public good
With the present effort to reduce the
expenses OF National government, this
plan would not conflict because these
bonds would go at once on the open
market for Government securities. Be-
ing of the highest security and tax
free, they will get good price at once.
1t is to be remembered also that in
making these bonds tax free, the gov
ernmcnt will be a large BENEFICIARY. be-
cause tho proceeds or these bonds are
not to he used for government tax free
expenditures, but are going at once to
create industries subject to all Federal
and state taxes.
A Bond Issue
While Mr.. Lane was Secretary OF the
Interior he had a conference with some
of the largest bankers and bond deal
ors in the country to ascertain their
views on his project of providing farms
for the returned soldiers. These dis
tributors of securities told Mr.. Lane
that a half billion dollars worth of
tax free bonds. paying 3is per cent,
could be absorbed at once. Mr. Lane
thinks this equally true of the recla-
nation project bonds on the plan he
has outlined.
Mr.. Lane points to the Roosevelt
Dam and the resulting irrigation of
nearly two hundred thousand acres OF
land. besides the production of over
two hundred thousand horsepower in
electrical energy. The farmen is now
paying less than four dollars per aero
per year for the water he uses on his
land and he has wntcr when he wants
It. The city OF Pho tn;x and It's peo-
pie are getting cheap electric light and
power and SO are the smaller cities
thruout the region. And the result OF
these successful workings is that tho
whole undertaking will be fully paid
for by these earnings before It is all
due, and that thereafter the farmer
will get his water for irrigation free
because the power revenue viii he moro
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-07
Horoscope
But DO Not Compel"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921.

Copyright. 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
Astrologers read this as a most un-
lucky day. for Saturn, Mars and Nep-
tune are all in malefic aspect
There is also a sign that seems
to foreshadow propaganda that will
greatly disturb the public mind and
distort the national viewpoint
The sinister star that is believed to
ings of diplomatic complications and
trouble with other countries.
A representative of the United
States Is to gain world fame, owing
to his part in International negotia-
tions.
Again Saturn gives warning con-
cerning the resources of the earth,
which will be the cause of trouble.
Neptune Is in a place that Is sup
posed to indicate furry over oil
and even heavy losses in stocks.
This IS particularly unfortunate
rule for those who seek to con-
vince legislators OF the wisdom of rad
ical policies that affect precedent in
the army or navy.
1t is not a favorable day for start
ing on journeys that may bring gain
thru commercial transactions the in
turbing.
Speculation should be avoided all
thru this month for the stars indi-
cate sudden slumps in the market.
! Railways are to have a year of
prosperity, despite all pessimistic pre-
dictions. it is prognosticated.
Danger OF accidents Is supposed to
be increased, under this direction Of
the stars.
! Severe earthquake shocks are
threatened soon after the new moon
this month.
Saturn on the mid-heaven in Rus
sia and Mars on the nadir denote
grave troubles. The assassination of
distinguished man Is foreshadow-
| ed.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is
should pursue routine affairs during
7 the coming year and avoid liuga-
ton. Attention to business will in
sure success.
Children born on this day may be
exceedingly psychic and should be
trained along practical lines of
thought and activity.