The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-01
LET THE LAW DO IT

LET THE LAW DO 1T
There is no use in working
George" overtime when the law can
do it. That probably accounts for the
proposed bill by members Of the South
Carolina legislature from the cru
dite county of Newberry to prohibit
by law any farmer from planting
more than mathematical one-third
of his farm in cotton-corn, peanuts,
cabbage, rhubarb or turnips, as the
case may hereafter appear.
Already State and Federal consti-
tutions have been revised downward
until they, provide for everything
except milking the COW and rocking
the baby to sleep and we shall not be
surprised if they now add sections to
prevent US from taking bath, ex-
cept on Saturday night, or wearing
a full beard on Thursday:
If we are going to make the farmer
plant as we say and not as the moon
or the trade dictate, we further move
to amend the proposed bill, fixing
fine and Imprisonment, one or both,
at the discretion of the court, for all
the farmers, whose cows bear spotted
calves in 1921 And "we have every
reason to believe it will be upheld by
the courts. Columbia Record!
That is just about what The Her
aid and News has been saying for a
long time, even before the thing be-
came so patent. Let the law do It.
Look to the government for every
thing. Let the government wet-n1rse
you all the way from the cradle to
the grave.
The tendency for many years. has
been toward government control. The
next step will be for the federal gov
ernment to take over the schools, and
that will be truly a bad day for th.:
section Of the country. Better rock
along with less money than turn the
education of our children to the cor
troll and direction Of the federal gov
ernment. But it is coming, and very
fast. We do not object to some of tha
money, but we do want to see. on:
people continue to control and direct
the education of their OWE children.
But federal aid means fedora. cen
troll, and until you pay the expenses
Of the supervisor and the control eS
penses you have paid out just about
CROUCH to pay for the education of
your children without federal aid.
Take the federal a'a to the roads,
and when we get through paying the
expenses of expert supervision we
have Just about our own money LETT
to really build the roads.
A friend and business man Of The
town cut the above from the Record
and left it on our desk. We do net
believe any such law is constitutional
any. way, but it may be, and even II
4 is to have it enforced would take
an arny of officers and The expense
would be great. If the farmer has
not got .sense enough not 70 grow
anything when it costs him more to
grow it than he gets for At we do not
see how you are going to give him
that sense by an act of the iegisla-
ture. 1t should not require any legls-
lation or any pledges Or any resoiu-
tons to make a man who has COM
mon sense quit growing cotton at
fourteen cents the pound when II
costs him thirty cents to make II,
and all the laws and resolutions and
pledges will have but little avail II
he has not got the sense to see Il
without them. He will never see be-
cause e., Of the law or the resolutions
or the pledges. It is getting time for
US to quit. looking tosthe government
for relief every time we get in a 5llt-
tie trouble. -