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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02
Item of Interest Omitted From
Timmerman-Williams We'd
ding.

Sunday morning coming from Ine
Presbyterian church, lady accom-
panying the writer said "You did
not mention in The Advertiser any,
thing about the dinner at the Tim
merman-Williams wedding. Why was
that?" The reply was that it was
written because the delinquent scribe
remembered distinctly the process of
thought gone through in planning
what was to be written. NO.. said
the lady, mot word appeared about
the dinner" Such an oversight could
not be neglected, so the continued
account of a most delightful occasion
Is herewith added.
There is one rule of etiquette
which is continually broken and that
is the one which forbids the asking
of what the hostess had to eat. 1t is
very foolish rule too, for what's the
harm in wanting to know what your
friends had to eat at dinner or
party? AT any rate the newspapers
know the people want to hear, or they
wouldn't be publishing it for, their
benefit. 1t isn't just idle curiosity
either, it is genuine interest, and
desire to know, that they may see
if they themselves can follow suit on
some succeeding occasion.
At least half dozen people had
asked this question and it was with
genuine pride and. pleasure that the
request was granted by those who
were privileged to be guest on this
happy occasion. Perhaps this is the
reason it was not in the paper. Some
times friend says "Why did you
not tell me that bit of news before?"
and the answer is, ooh, thought 1
had told you," when the fact it was
to another that the news was told.
Immediately after the beautiful
marriage ceremony had taken place,
by which time it was near the noon
hour, friends began to enter with
the refreshments, a bountiful and
well selected menu for the noontide,
consisting of chicken salad, turkey,
cranberrics, crackers, pickle and
several varieties of delightful sand
wiches, passed more than once.
When the first course had been
finished hot coffee and whipped cream
with fruit and pound cake were
served, followed by mints (which have
become an indispensable accompani-
ment or ending to a wedding feast.
1t was most appropriate and
bountiful dinner for the noon hour
and enjoyed by all the large number
of guests.
F. A. NJ.
4
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02
Kindness.

"Kindness weaves a golden thread
In the silver cloth of life.
It's moonlight when dark paths we
tread,
It's star that leads from strife.
It's sunshine on chilly morn,
That warns you through and
through;
It's a song bird that sir s at dawn,
Fills you with music too.
It's love sweetest impulses stored
For & rainy day;
It's opening spreads delight where
scared
Clouds of gloom and poverty.
Kindness brings rich reward, too,
When it's freely given;.
For it will return and bring back
to you
The key to an earthly heaven.
w. S. G. HEATH.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02
An Informal Luncheon.

Mrs. w. L. Dunovant of Edge
field, president Of the Congaree
Presbyterial, Mrs. j. B. Stillman and
Mrs. F. S. Flanden were charming
ly entertained on last Thursday at
noon with luncheon at the Rosemary
Tea Room.-Columbia Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02
A Good Medicine For the Grip.

A Good Medicine For the Grip.
George w. Watt, South Gardiner,
Me-, relates his experience with the
grip. 81 had the worst cough, cold
and grip and had taken lot of
trash of no account. Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is the only thing that
has done me any good whatever. |
have used one bottle of is and the
cold and grip have left me-"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02

WANTED: The people to know
that 1 now have Giles Butler, who is
an expert horse shoer in my employ
ment. Let US shoe your horses and
mules. Satisfaction guaranteed. Don't
forget also that we do all kinds OF
repairing in wagons, buggies, etc.
A. L. KEMP.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02


and Mrs. P. P. Blalock
Rev. P. P. Blalock will preach in
the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning at 11:15 o'clock.
Dr. R. G. Lee accepted an invita-
ton to preach in the First Baptist
church of Chester last Sunday.
The Buncombe mud deepens and
there is no hope for a better condi-
ton until the sunshine of spring
comes.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Peoples Bank will be held in the
rooms of the bank Thursday, Feb
ruary 8.
Miss Alleen Dozier came over from
Columbia to spend Sunday here with
her sisters, Mrs. H. A. Smith and
Miss Charlton Dozier.
Mr.. Harrison Parks who is now a
popular young business man of Co
lumbia came over to spend the week
end with the home folk.
Mr.. John M. Schroeder of Savan-
nah was a welcomed visitor in Edge
field last week, receiving warm
hand clasp from his friends here.
Miss Lot McDill of Abbeville is
visiting her friend, Miss Margaret
Cothran at the home of her aunts,
Mrs. Susan B. Hill and Mrs. w. C.
Tompkins.
Miss Emily QUITS who is a student
of the Edgefeld High school, making
her home with her aunt, Mrs. w. H.
Harling, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert QUITS
at Elmwood.
Mr.. James Cothran was among the
weekend visitors in Edgefeld, hav-
ing come to visit his sister, Miss
Margaret Cohtran who is making her
home in Edgefeld with her aunts,
Mesdames Susan B. Hill and w. c.
Tompkins.
Every teacher and every school
trustee in the county should come to
Edgefeld next Saturday to attend the
meeting of the County Teachers As
sociation and to attend the luncheon
to be given in their honor immediate
ly after the meeting by the ladies of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
Mr.. w. P. Gordon's business as
public cotton grader is picking up as
activity increases in business circles.
He went to Trenton yesterday and
graded 1913 bales of cotton and has
orders to grade several hundred more
bales. Those Trenton farmers are
wise and know the advantage of hav-
ing their cotton graded.
The new system of working the
roads adopted by Supervisor Ed
munds seems to prove satisfactory.
He appoints overseers and they no
tify all persons who prefer working
on the roads to paying the road tax
report for duty on certain day. Mr..
L. Y. Bryan has recently worked the
road from the town limits to his home
by way of the Gary place.
You can form some estimate of a
school teacher by their interest in
the County Teachers Association. An
alert, active teacher who is eager for
new ideas and new methods is always
glad of an opportunity to meet with
other teachers for an exchange OF
ideas and methods. The Indifferent
teacher is generally in the teaching
profession for the salary and nothing
more.
The Advertiser is pleased to learn
that Mr.. R. H. Adams has decided tc
make his home permanently in Edge
field county. He came to Edgefielc
about two years ago to engage in the
saw mill business. Recently he anc
his father and brother purchased
about 800 acres of land from Mr.. H
H. Sanders in the Antioch section
They will be very desirable addition:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02

FOR SALE: A good farm mule
Apply to H. A. Smith.
2-2-1tpd.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02

Rev. P. P. Blalock will preach in
the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning at is o'clock.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. w. S. Boyd of Salter's Sta
ton, is here visiting her parents Rev
and Mrs. P. P. Blalock
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-02

DR.. R. G. Lee accepted an invita-
ton to preach in the First Baptis
church of Chester last Sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
The Principle Of Censorship

We have yet to see one argument
urged in behalf of censorship of
moving pictures that is not
equally applicable to censorship
of literature, art and the stage. If
censors of the films are provided
there is every reason in logic why
censors of books, newspapers, pic
lures and the play should follow.
That is the broad ground upon
which The Tribune urgently op-
poses censorship of the moving
picture.
1t is sometimes agreed that CEN
sorship of the movies Is needed to
protect the morals Of children. But
motion pictures are not thrust
upon children. They go to them
only with the consent of their par
ents in most cases. It is, in fact,
easier for parents to protect their
chlldr n from the improper motion
picture than from the improper
book or picture. These pleaders for
the censorship talk as if the motion
picture were patronized chiefly by
children and that it must therefore
be written down to the level of
their immaturty. Nothing could
be further from the fact. The
newspaper and the theater, equally
with motion pictures, are patron
lied by large numbers Of children.
But the main support of every
such medium is the adult. If one
is to be held down to what is safe
for the child all should be.
AS a matter of fact, we think
there is frequent exaggeration as
to the effect of frankness upon
minds. We are excluding
from consideration the obscene and
the indecent picture-the exhibi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
Railroad Clerks Reduction

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have read The Tribune for
nearly three years, the length of time
that l have been employed by the New
York Central Railroad, and have al
ways found it to be fair to both sides
OF a question, but this morning in
your editorial "The Real Railroad
Owners" you make statement that
l think is quite unfair: "The rail-
roads are being run at loss (their
deficit for February was $7,205 ,oOo)
for the benefit of the 1,9s3,524 en-
ployees."
The railroad workers are not looking
for charity, but square deal. Feb
ruary is not an average month, because
the railroad traffic was, l understand
way below normal A reduction Of
81 month to each employee would
more than cover this deficit, whereas
the proposed reduction of the wages
OF clerks is s26.52, with no promise of
immediate reduction Of rates.
Why is this? A CLERK.
New York. April IL, 1921,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
Fluid Franchises

Caution, of course, forbids draw
ing sweeping conclusions from news
paper summaries Of Supreme Court
decisions; so until the publication of
the full text of Mondays opinions in
the Texas and Iowa cases modesty in
Interpretation is prudent.
But, unless there is gross misread-
ing, the court holds that the rate
clauses of a franchise contract are
not binding when earnings thereun-
der do not pay fair return on the
value Of property used in the public
service. This is equivalent to saying
that as to a most important matter
a contract may not be binding that
is, no contract at all.
Moreover, if a franchise holder
can get rid Of an onerous burden it
would follow logically that the pub
lie can do the same-~is not bound to
pay specified fare when earn
ings give more than a fair return.
If this is so, all franchises, at least
with regard to fares and rates, have
become fluid.
The old doctrine was that con-
tract was a stiff and unyielding
agreement, Interchangeable except by
mutual consent. depreciation or
depreciation in value" says Willis
ton, the principal authority, cor
other events subsequent to the for
nation Of the contract will not ordi-
narily afford ground for refusing en-
forcemeHt by equity, even though
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
Liquor Law Enforcement

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune of April reports
that Governor Miller, in signing the
dry enforcement bill, said that it is
likely that an amendment will be in
PRODUCED which would permit prosecut-
ing officers in New York City to bring
dry violators to trial without q Jury;
that the suggestion for this amendment
was proposed at the hearing before
Governor Miller in the executive
chamber, at which time it was as
serted that, because large percentage
of the population Of New York City is
opposed to the dry law, it might be
difficult to find juries which would re-
turn convictions.
I am curious to know what The
Tribune thinks about denying trial by
jury because juries are likely not to
be in sympathy with the law involved.
Governor Miller said, "The way to
find out whether or not the people
really want a bad law is to enforce it,"
Wouldn't it be more democratic to
accept the fact that if jurics (the peo-
ple) repudiate law by refusing to
convict under it it must be bad at
least to the extent Of not representing
the people? Or, if it is amply a
case Of determining popular sentiment,
wouldn't it be still more democratic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
How College Teachers Fare

-
1t is a great year for the colleges
in point of student attendance. But
how do the college teachers fare?
The question is answered in a new
publication of the General Education
Board, by Trevor Arnett. 1t is shown
by exhaustive data that institutions
Of higher learning which are sup
ported by endowment are grievously
menaced through lack Of funds to
pay adequate salaries.
The colleges have made earnest
efforts to bridge the gap between
the meager salaries and the in
creased cost Of living. Yet the re-
plies to the questionnaires show the
rise in salary on the average
amounted in 1920 to only 20 to IS
per ~ent of the other increase.
To obtain funds tuition and other
fees have been lifted, but they bring
in but 87.5 pr1 cent of the salary
roll in the men S and co-cducational
colleges. And higher fees would keep
many of the most desirable students
from college. America does not want
higher education to become a class
privilege.
A second method Of relief-the
solicitation of gifts for an emer-
gency or sustaining fund - has
brought good results. Alumni and
friends have given generously. But
the relief is merely temporary.
The familiar "drive" is a third
recourse. These campaigns for
larger endowments are still in full
progress and are meeting with sue
cess. But the funds so contributed
are not Immediately available, and
meanwhile the teacher is little bet
ter off.
Seeing the small prospects of bet
terment, many teachers have left to
enter far more lucrative fields. The
mortality" in college faculties in
some cases is as high as SIS per cent
and on the average fully IS per cent
ut is of the highest importance, ;"
wrote Mr.. John D. Rockefeller. when
presenting $50,O00,O0O to the Cen
eral Education Board to provide
more adequate salaries to teachers.
that those intrusted with the edu-
cation Of youth and the increase of
knowledge should not be led to aban-
don their calling by reason of finan-
cial pressure or to cling to it amid
discouragements due to financial
limitations"
There is need for generous giving
by the well-to-do who believe in en-
dowed colleges and in paying the
men and women Of every college
faculty wage commensurate with
their service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13

The state utterances of Mr.. Har
ding show one steady quality which
is so valuable as to outweigh verbal
brilliancy. His preoccupation is not
fine writing, but careful, continu-
GUS effort to be .acc~~c ..e-to express
exactly what is nis~ !, and neither
less nor more than " hat is meant.
This quality does not make for ease
of reading or for the picturesque,
imaginative phrase. But we suspect
that these qualities have seldom been
present in the best papers Of state,
however great or momentous. The
Monroe Doctrine was announced in,
singularly colorless and diplomatic
phraseology. The Constitution of the
United States makes hard reading.
So does even the more popularity con-
ceived Declaration of independence,
which, after few sonorous general
tiles, turns into a detailed indict-
ment. The Magma Charta is singu-
larry heavy.
Orations and debates can be NOV
ing, imaginative, absorbing. Presi-
dental inaugurals and addresses to
Congress are rather legal pleadings
than personal appeals. Their aim is
nominally to propose clear, specific
courses of action rather than to stir
or enkindle. Such being the fact, we
think the official utterances of Pres
ident Harding show a rare fitness
for their purpose. The war led to
wealth of loose thinking and hazy.
emotional speech here and around
the world What is now needed is
hard thinking and accurate lam
guage. Not more fuel under the boil
ers but more accurate navigation on
the bridge is the call of the hour.
We are glad to feel in Mr.. Harding's
speeches that by disposition and in
tention he stresses the right manner
and method of command.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
No Turning Back ON the Seas

What President Harding had to
say yesterday about the American
merchant marine will relieve many
discouraged minds. We made the
war experiment Of constructing
great carrying fleet. 1t was built,
naturally, without much regard to
immediate cost. In the period of de-
preston which has followed the war
it happens to be in excess of tempo
rary tonnage needs. A great deal Of
the money spent on it will have to be
written off as war loss.
Dual operation by the government
and by private owners has made adj
ditional difficulties. We are in the
backwash, and the nations shipping
experiment doesn't seem to be getting
on. Yet these depressing conditions
ought not to shake our faith in the
policy we have adopted. 1t doesn't
shake the Presidents. "This is be-
fitting OCCASION" he says, "to give
notice that the United States means
to establish and maintain a great
merchant marine"
We can never attain full national
growth until we have our own carry
ing fleet. Our geographical situation
makes US a maritime power. Our
commercial and political interests
forbid our delegating to others
worldwide service which we should
perform for ourselves. A fleet to do
our own work is an investment
which will pay in the end in MAJ
ways, visible and invisible. 1t would
be folly to turn back now from the
experiment because of temporary
overcOnstruction and underdemand.
or because of frictions between pri-
vate operators and government oper-
ators. Our shipping will eventually
, be coordinated with our inland trans
portation, to the benefit Of both and
to the advantage of our expanding
foreign trade. We have only begu4
to work out the problem.
Under this Administration the long
er and larger view will prevail. The
merchant marine is national
agency and will be encouraged as
such. Government operation has not
succeeded and is inadvisable; but all
the power Of the government will be
put behind private operation. This
the President promises, with the firm
conviction that we must have an
American carrying fleet to round out
our economic development. Garry
ing" he says truly, sis second only
to production in establishing and
maintaining the flow of commerce to
which we rightfully aspire"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13

they make the performance Of the
two parties unequal" Never before,
it would seem, has the Supreme
Court countenanced the doctrine that
mere hardship in fultillment voids
contr; J.
Whe.her or not the decisions bear
on the New York traction question
is disputed. On the one side it is
said they clearly do; on the other
that they do not, because Of the
peculiar character of contracts un-
der which the city is the owner Of
the subways and there is definite
provision relating to cancellation.
This difference Of opinion is not
likely to disappear unit, New York
case reaches the Supreme Court. In
general the interest Of the decisions
is in the tendency they indicate of a
breaking down of the old rigidity of
the law of contracts, matter con-
corning every community and public
service corporation. If franchise
corporations are mere tenants, with
their rent alterable from year to
year, fundamental change has
come in the status of all public serv-
ice corporations. At present a
loosening up is sought by the compa-
MES, but will it be safe to invest in
utility property when commissions
can mark rates up or down and the
only protection against investment
loss is the confiscation clause of the
Federal Constitution, which has been
only weakly protective Of railway in
vestments?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
No Escape
from The Portland Orego,.,c,y

from The Portland Oreoo,,csJ
Inc Minister OF Home Affairs .or
hungary Is reported, in Budapest dis
patches. to have abolished the modern
dances set to "jazz" music, and TO hsye
deereed that the old Magyar dance
must be revived - if any dancing is
done. The Magyar dances are the
ancient measures of the Hungarian
peasant, the folk dances that were wild
iy stepped, but never wild" in the
modern sense. They were natural eS
pressions Of JOY, depicted in the dance.
1t is unfortunate that America has No
minister OF home affairs, nor any Mag
var dances, for that matter. There are,
of course, the tribal revsls Of tae
Sioux, the Blackfoot and the agile
Apaches, which might be borrowed With
effectiveness. But one imagines thal
these simple devices would not conten'
generation that. bows down to 'jaSz'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13

ton OF which Is under existing law
a crime and which the authorities
have ample power to suppress
and punish. The play or book or
picture presenting an adult problem
decently and candidly is not in the
least likely Ito corrupt the young.
1t usually passes over the head of a
child and merely bores him. ANY
occasional damage is many times
compensated for by the blessings
OF freely developing national
mind.
These are the broad principles
under which our literature and art
have developed and we can view
any departure therefrom only with
the greatest suspicion and fear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
I!:3p
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc.

has been thinking of getting married,
but that our article on Monday has
made her undecided 1--WE are think
ing of getting married ourselves" she
writes, "and would do so if it could be
done tomorrow, but, as you say, how
can anybody possibly want to do any
thing eight weeks in advance? And
we arc afraid if we engage the church
and the minister, the bridesmaids and
ushers, the invitations and announce
ments, the caterer and the florist, the
wedding gown and veil, we may change
our riind!''
True words, we feel, and yet with all
these handicaps getting married and
staying that way remains the most ex-
citing Of all two-handed gambling
games.
Michael Strange's new volume Of
poetry, Resurrecting Life, is not ii
great deal better than her first volume.
published two years ago, but what of
IL Is better IS so very much better
that she is at least in the class of the
little girl who had little curl. At
her best she is fine. There is, for in
stance, a poem called "The Future, .
whjch begins:
Il DO care for the future
Knowing we'll my capacities to deal
with it
Are breeding up from the fullness OF
my response
To this single hour"
Here is wisdom. and luciditv. and
music. Other odds and ends of things
in her volume are OF piece with this.
She is apparently becoming a person
with something to say, if slowly, and
she has made progress toward saying it..
But there is verse of John Drink
waters, called Mystery" which she
could read to her profit. That clear
eyed mystic is severe on the mystifca-
ton that lesser poets dote on. He saws
bluntly that strong thought is clear
and all strong feeling simple, and
that the weak throw 10 kerfoozlum
as smoke screen. Some of Michael
Strange's poetry is so mysterious that
we cannot make enough of it even to
scold it. Some of it makes a great
TODD about an ego that has remained
single in world that presses for en-
trance, and is therefore unimportant
But there is no sense in dwelling on
her faults. We expected them from
her former volume, and they will fall
away to I Ching if she can from this
on follow tha light she has found for
herself