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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11
PLAY TO BE PRESENTED AT
O'NEALL school MARCH IL

ga play, "The Sweetest Girl in
Dixie" will be presented by the pu-
pills and teachers of O'Neall school on
Friday night, March II. Following
is the cast of characters:
Col. Howard-A. F. Pugh.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11
The Essential Thing

81 don't understand a thing about
the income tax, do you?"
eyes; | understand that it's got to
be paid. Boston Transcript.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11

We drove back to Newberry after
the meeting and found the roads in
fairly good condition. The road from
Newberry to Cromers is not as good
as have seen it and the bridge at In
dian creek is badly in. need of re-
pairs. From the Brick house on to
Whitmire they have put the road in
fine shape having worked it and put
on a top dressing.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11

Rub-My-Tism relieves Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Sprains.-Adv.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11


also visited the colored school at
this place. The negroes are awake
and want to build a school house and
seem interested and / suggested that
we would have. a meeting down there
some time soon and we would then
be able to see. how much they were
really interested. There is need for
a better school building and it seems
to me that the right and proper thing
to do here is to build a house that
win accommodate the children in the
old Swi1ton or Sigh district and the
children from the Red Knoll and
Little Mountain, but we will talk that
matter over when I go down.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11

i had invited Mr.. j. B. FELTON,, the
supervisor of rural colored schools
to meet me at Little Mountain and
go over to Mt. Hebron colored school
so that he might accept the new
building which has just been com,
pleted at this place. 1t is a very
handsome building and by far the
best building for colored schools in
Newberry county 1t is to serve the
three districts of Hunter-DeWalt, St.
Pauls and the former Excelsior dis
trict. There is just a little finishing
to- do. to this. building and when I am
able to report it completed Mr.. Eel
ton will send US a check for $1,000
from the Rosenwald fund 10 ASST in
paying for the building.
Every now and then / meet some
one who says, 'I was at your Office
at the court house and did not ind
you" My reply is Invariably, "That
is very probably true and will be true
again very likely, because 7 do not
conceive it to be my duty 20 sit in the
Office at the court house anl warm a
chair, but my work is out among the
schools" And that IS true, as I see
the duties of the Office. I can do a
great deal more to help the schools
Of the county by getting out among
them and encouraging teachers and
children than can sitting down in an
Office. In fact that has been the
trouble with this Office too long. 1t
has been viewed by too many people
as simply a disbursing Office and the
dlties Of the county superintendent
to sit in the Office and approve claims.
Myqwork is. going to be among the
schools of the county. will approve
all claims, where there is money,
promptly and no one will have to wait
for. his or her money on my account.
Twill be about the Office enough to
keep the books posted up to date. 1t
is a very comfortable Office aid it
would be great deal easier to sit in
there and just do the things you have
to do. but ! love to accomplish re-
suits and do things for the good Of
the children of this county, and to do
that YOU must be moving about. ]
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11

On Wednesday night went to
Flint Hill colored church and talked
to the colored people and endeavored
to explain to them how to proceed IN
order to build school house. With
the exception of Vaughnville and Mt
Hebron there is not a colored school
house in the county that is a fit house
for any sort of school. And most OF
the ones in use are not owned by the
district. I invited the trustees OF the
district to meet with me and they
were there. We drove over to MI.
John w. SCOTS in the late afternoon
and had supper with him and Mrs.
Scott. Mrs. Scott was kind enough
to humor my peculiarity and made a
nice lunch for m to eat after the
meeting. We had a pretty good at
tendance and the colored people
seemed interested and if they go to
work and do their part along the lines
/ suggested I will be glad to help
them all can. And will secure what
ever outside aid may be available.
But they must cooperate with the
white tr,' S of the district and do
something themselves in order to Sc
cure this aid. The school is taught
by Ethel Duckett, very competent
teacher and a good leader for her
race. took along U. S. Gallman, the
colored supervisor for this county and
he made talk and also endeavored
to show his people how to 60 about
the work to do something worth
while.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-11

simply mention this SO that there
may be no misunderstanding. ! am
not here simply to put in time, but
to do things. And l will thank any
friend of the schools and appreciate
it if he will make any suggestions
that will help, or will ell rie wherein
l have failed to do my daty or to at
tend promptly to all matters elSaln-
ing to the Office.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26

streets are not the type who commit crimes
| The latter class wear good clothes and nave
plenty of money on which to live Crime is
their profession They plan every JOB that they
expect to execute. They go well armed and
will not tolerate resistance Thus it is folly, when
a criminal gets the drop on you, to attempt to
] defeat him The Rock Island grocer who was
/ wounded in his store Friday is to be admired
| for the courageous fight that he made against
/ an armed robber, but it would have been wiser
had he obeyed the commands given him The
money he would have lost was not to be COM
| pared to the periiing of his life.
The professional criminal wants only money
or negotiable valuables. Therefore citizens
should not make practice Of carrying large
sums of money on their persons or keeping big
sumo in their homes. Likewise they shouio
either adequately insure their valuables or
place them in safety vaults in their local banks.
Those travelling through the country by auto
mobile will spare themselves possible losses If
they will leave their diamonds and watches at
home and carry just enough money to get them
to their destination. Then when they are held
up in their travels the bandits will get little for
their trouble. They will not be carrying
enough to fight about When bandit runs up
alongside your car on the highway and sticks
gun in your face the thing to do is to stop and
deliver. The bandit wants your money and
valuables, not your life, and when he does take
a shot at you as rule it is your own fault.
There ways of defeating the crime
wave, but the people have to be as smart as the
fellows who are terrorizing the country if this
is to be done.
Furthermore, states must deal more speed
lily and justly with criminals. When bandit
kills a citizen assuming that he is caught and
convicted, he should be sent to death as quickly
it is possible to dispense with the legal pro-
ceedings Technicalities should be taboo. The
professional criminals are banded together.
When one of their number gets in the tolls the
others raise fund to defend him. and they US
ually hire the best criminal lawyers in the
country to handle his case. The leniency of
our laws is more largely responsible for the
present crime than any other influence.
The law must be made terror to the criminal.
Then, and only then, will he hesitate in the
wild harvest in which he is now engaged
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26
Plotting Curve of Prosperity.

AS the scientist has plotted the course of
the hayward winds, 50 the economist today
plots the curve of business prosperity The
course of business, it seems shows distinct
cycles or periods. Every cycle begins with the
peak of prosperity and is accompanied by large
profits and high wages. When the peak is
reached it becomes a danger signal to those
who know. For it means ordinarily descend
ing movement. A high wave in business is
likely to be followed sooner or later by
trough. Carelessness and ineficency set in.
Then come profteering and declining bond
prices The feeling of citation and prosperity
runs high and expresses itself in extravaganza
and abandon Then come some unemploy-
ment, retrenchment and increasing serious
ness in life.
Improvement starts again when thrift be-
comes more evident and people realize their
fo''ies An interesting feature of the curve is
the close relation between economic conditions
and the social mind. Mental citation rises with
the price schedule. 1t is important to notice
also that the seeds of business are sown in
periods of prosperity and the foundations of
= new prosperity are laid in times of depression.
Fhis curve of business is well known among
Economists, for there are natural laws in bust,
ness even in physics or chemistry The sig
mails of economic truoble are well known, but
In spite of this the same old bIunders are made
and the same old cycles repeat themselves With
the curves of business so accurately plotted it
would seem that the next step in the science of
business would be of needing the signals
when they appear. If prosperity is known to
SOW the seeds of its own undoing it ought to be
possible for the public mind by control and
restraint to ward off depression and to extend
prosperity
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26

- 1t is reported that Eugene V. Debs will re-
fuse to accept full pardon from President
Harding on the grounds that to do SO would
imply admission OF guilt of the charge on which
he convicted and sent to prison. Brother
Debs may feel in his heart that he guilt
less, but one would think that he would be so
glad to get out in the open again that he would
he willing to take his release in any form the
president chooses to offer it TO him. Debs will
not lower himself in the estimation of his fell
@lowmen by admitting that he made mistake.
Bigger men than he have done wrong and have
admitted it.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26
ShouId Children Drink Cocoa

ktaVu19 AAHA SOCU3S
In our talk about tea and coffee
the other day. dear children, we
Learned that these beverages do not
retard or interfere with the diges-
Ition OF food in the stomach When
chocolate or cocoa is taken as q
beverage, however, the effect is
lQuite different, and in pointing out
the difference / would direct your
attention. at the same time to the
practice in some school cafeterias
or lunch rooms of furnishing cocoa
as a beverage for young children
who are none too well nourished
to begin with.
Tea and coffee are stimulants.
having practically no food or fuel
value in themselves, aside from the
| food value of the sugar and cream
or milk taken with them. Cocoa or
chocolate has some food value in
itself, insignificant in the nutritive
reQuirem ents of the child, but a
| definite food value nevertheless.
OF course cocoa is a stimulant to
the brain, spinal cord. heart and
| kidneys, particularly the kidneys
| and this is another reason why it is
not advisable for children-but
| compared with tea and coffee is
f, only a mild sdmulant
When one drinks tea or coffee
| with meal the effect is much the
same as when one drinks a glass
Or two of water with the meal
and one always should take a glass
or two of water with every meal.
The effect is stimulation of the flow
of gastric juice into the stomach
from the glands. The tea or coffee
or water remains only a short time
in the stomach, perhaps 10 to Is
minutes, and is then sent on into
the intestine, but the flow of gas
trio juice the tea, coffee or water
has initiated continues for a time,
so that the food taken at the meal
Is better digested by reason of the
stimulation the beverage has pro-
duced
Now cocoa doesn't do anything
like that. Cocoa doesn't leave the
stomach for perhaps two or three
hours, for, remember, cocoa is itself
food, but its content of carbo-
hydFate, protein and fat material
lnsures prolonged sojourn in the
stomach, for the stomach has more
real brains than many an owner
carries in his skull, when it comes
to the essaying of the diet. Remem-
Der that cocoa is a milder stimu-
liant than tea, coffee or water in it's
effect on the flow of gastric juice.
So there you have a case against
cocoa as a child's beverage. It
lodges in the stomach, where it
fails to initiate the free secretion
of gastric juice to take care of any
real food the child may be coaxed !
to take with his stomach loaded |
with this fake food, and the child |
runs away to NOPE and fret, stom- |
ach full, to be sure, but no uninter-
rupted stream of nourishment 60
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26
The Crime Wave.

The crime wave that is sweeping over the
country has reached alarming proportions.
Respite the extraordinary precautions of the
police authorities and the watchfulness of the
public in response to the warnings that the
present winter would probably be one of the
most serious in this regard in the history of
the country Eventually it will subside. but
before it does there will staggering sacrifices in
life and property
PerhapS the easiest explanation to offer for
the crime epidemic is that the industrial de-
preston has made otherwise peaceful men des
perate and that they have turned criminals in
order to maintain themselves and their fami-
mes Ii 1t were not for the daring and ingenu-
ity Oh most OF the crimes this might be a
plausible theory, but the police authorities
cialm that' except for an occasional holdup or
robbery, the jobs are the work of professionals.
while there is no questioning the fact that I'M
employment has brought great suffering over
the country, no is justified in turning tn
crime In order to live. Every city has agencies
prepared to care for those who are out of work
and hungry.
The nation has faced more serious indus
trial depressions than the one through which
1t is now posing, but the period has never
been marked by so much crime as now. 1t
would seem that every former crook has re-
turned TO his old ways, and doubtless the stu
alton has been seized as an excuse for others
TO make their venture into the game of the
mask and the revolver.
One cont walk down a business street in the
city that he isn't stopped and asked for money
oy stranger claiming to be hungry and home
less. But the honest man who is hungry is us-
ually accommodated in such requests, DESPITE
that some of them are not entitled IN any ,s
slstance because they run to the first bootleg
ger with the money they receive. l
Z But most people who are solicited ON the
streets do not stop to inquire how the beggar |
$ TO spend the money. If he says he is-hungry !
ne will receive a lift
THESE men who solicit assistance on the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26

dancing. The charm touched Jim
my, too.
Peg" he stammered, I've been
as slow as Browne, but thought
you understood. I've always loved
you"
Jim, are you going to propose?"
asked Peggy. The seriousness in
her eyes belied the hippancy Of the
words.
Eyes, 1 am" he answered stout
ly.
Then let's go down by the river
I'd rather receive a proposal by the
river than by rubbish bin
Jimmy eyed her suspiciously.
"You look as satisfied as the cat
that stole the cream" he told her,
with a sudden relapse to the man
ners of the neighbor's son. What
have you been doing?"
Merely proving theory
twice.. answered Peg. demuely.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26
The Daily Short Story

est thing l ever did. It made tn
beads stand on my erstWhiIe mar
BILE brow"
Jim, that was fine-so direct,
;said Peggy, admiringIy.
| ANY reward?" asked Jimmy.
Chatting dish supper after tn
movies. Just we too" offered PEG
You're on" declared the neigh
boris son. Cream crabmeat list
ems good to me-
/ Peggy conducted her campaign
skilfully. She missed no opportun
| lty to acquaint Miss Henderson
with Mr.. Brownies excellence. She
sang Miss Henderson's praises t.
Mr. Browne. She arranged many
an accidental tete-a-tete. To Jim,
my's teasing she merely replied:
| The charm works gradually.
haven't lost home yet"
Its your turn to do a desper-
ate deed. I've done mine. Some
| thing in the nature of a shock.
will reward you with an evening al
the theatre in town." said he.
I'll do something desperate -
promised Peg, joyously.
What neither could know was
that Mr.. Browne, though he was as
deeply in love as a middle-aged
druggist might be, felt quite hope
less. Because of an injury he
walked with a limp which his SEN
sitiveness still further exaggerated
until he believed himself repulsive
to the feminine eye Neither could
they know that Miss Henderson had
missed no single item of Mr..
Brownies excellence. She was not
one to wear her heart upon her
sleeve.
Dame Fortune sometimes favors
the wicked. Peg in this case rep
resented the wicked and the afore-
said dame brought opportunity to
her door. Coming around the cor
ner of the house she picked up a
match. Miss Henderson sat on the
back piazza, marking papers. Peggy
noted that the metal rubbish con-
tainer was empty of all save a
scrap of cloth and a pair of old
shoes.
The fire can't possibly do any
harm, and little propinquity may
DO a great deal of good" argued
the wicked one.
She scratched the match and
dropped it in.
oh, Sara" she called. This
is smoldering. I'm going to
call Mr.. Browne"
Miss Henderson had taken a
hasty look at the rubbish container
drawn a pail of water at the out
side tap, and, just as Mr.. Browne
rounded the corner, launched il
with all her might at the big boy
Mr.. Browne was in time to re-
ceive a large share of it. The rest
the feeble blaze
"Mr. Browne" she gasped .eWhat
will you say to me and what can r
say to you?"
Mr.. Browns mouth opened. and
his own volition, uttered
these astonishing words:
I've a great mind to ask you to
marry me-
Very WELL" said Sara, coolly,
Why don't your"
behold how great a matter a
little fire kindleth.'" quoted Peggy
10 Jimmy, who had Just reached !
he corner. Time to fade away, /
Jim- The charm is working" !
Her cheeks were pink, her eyes
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady. M. D.
Noted Physician and Author.

ing to the child's body tissues
Your cocoa has just tricked the
/ child into the belief that he has
had good meal. Feeding the ole
horse sawdust when the oats are
out would be about the same thing
And yet some "dietitians, who
should be called dilletantists, would
play this little game on the very
children who need extra good fare
| because OF their poor nutrition.
The reason cocoa remains over
j long in the stomach and so with
| holds from the child the stream OF
energy he should receive for few
hours from that meal. is the fat in
cocoa. But that fat is of little
value when or if the child finally
does digest it.
QUESTIONS Il. , ANSWERS.
Danger for the Baby.
Is it dangerous for person with
syphilis to fondle and kiss a baby ?
MRS. C. r. A.
Answer-It is dangerous for the
baby to be kissed by a person who
has syphilis of recent origin Qess
than two years duration. for in
stance), for the virus of syphilis
may be conveyed through the sa-
Iva. No one should be permitted
to kiss the baby about the face.
Syphilis is but one of many ser
ious diseases which may be COM
municated through a kiss.
An Ignorant Trio.
A friend claims that eating GER
tain fruits or vegetables causes
such blemishes as blackheads and
pimples. l claim he only betrays
his ignorance by making such a
claim. What do you say, Mr.. Brady?
P. J. W.
Answer-Your friend shows his
ignorance, as you say, by defending
such an absurd idea You show
yours by giving me the wrong title.
Then, to make it unanimous, l be-
tray mine by calling attention to
yours. It's an ignorant world,
largely.
1 am q great lover of peanuts. I
eat from three to four pounds every
week. They seem to keep my bow
els regulated. However, neighbors
tell me they will do me harm later
if not now. R.. C. A.
Answer-Peanuts have about
twice the food value of beef. Here
is an average analysis for compar-
ison:
Pro- Carbo- Min
Water tein Fat hyd eraI
Peanut E. 90 25.S S86 PA 20t
Beef bis 23.5 20.4 90 1.2i
The Baby Holds His Breath.
.....A year old baby losing !
his breath whenever he cries, and |
does not get it back until after con-
siderable shaking. His face gets |
very purple and also his lips.
say the baby has some kind of /
heart disease, but the mother....
Answer-Not likely. Perhaps
neurotic.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26

Q. How many of the American
soldiers fought in France?
I'D. NJ.
A. The war department says
that it has been estimated that the
total number of Americans who
fought in France was l $50 900.
Q. What are the four words in
the English language which end in
"dous?" A. L.
A. The four words in our Ian
guage which end in "dous" are ire
mendous, stupendous, hazardous
and jeopardous.
@. Is it not a fact that wild
ducks as well as geese will fly in
''V" shaped formation when NOV
ing south in the fall? D. o.
A. The biological survey says
while ducks do frequently fly in a
''V" shaped formation, this is not
an invariable custom
Q. Why were leases made for
80 years? G. Y. L.
A. Ninety-nine years was used
as an expression of time for the
passing of three generations-three
times SO years.
O. Were French prisoners ever
executed by drowning? F.. G.
A During the Reign of Terror,
the Revolutionary agent Carrier Of
Nantes had prisoners who were