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The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
APicture and
Its Meaninq

HHERE is typical human story,
one of thousands in the West,
- for the accuracy Of which
Secretary Wallace vouches:
A husky and thrifty farmland,
eager to advance, rented 800 acres
on shares. He and his wife worked
early and late. With the aid of
one hired man they got along until
they had accumulated 100 head of
cattle and as many hogs.
Their prices and hopes were high
until the slump. Then they let
the hired man 60 and tried to sell
the live stock. But what they could
get would not begin to pay what
the owed. So the last scene in the
picture shows these two discour-
aged, middle-aged Americans. piling
their few personal belongings into
wagon and starting back to town to
hunt any kind of a job.
Through no fault of its own our
greatest industry is in dire distress.
We all have to realize it is as much
to the interest of townsfolk as of
the rural victims themselves that it
should get promptly the utmost
help practicable.
One plan Of relief generally ap-
proved in principle would provide
credits for farming as sufficient as
the credit facilities now available
to manufacturing and commerce. Its
reasonableness is so evident that
the required legislation seems near.
Protection of cooperative mar
keting against unfair competition
and discrimination is also neces-
sary, to put this aspect of farming
on a par with other business.
Lower freight rates, better collec-
ton and clearing of farm data,
more accurate cost accounting, and,
Of course, the earliest possible
restoration of the foreign market
are other obvious needs.
These are matters for discussion
to clarity. The important immedi-
ate thing is to get into the souls
of city people the human meaning,
to them and to all, of that pathetic
picture Of the disappointed tenant
farmer and his wife sacrificing so
many years of hard toll and high
hope and driving back to town to
join the unemployed.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
The Railroads
and Politics

THE newly elected Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, Of Mon
i tana, has already distin-
guished himself by telling the truth
about the effect of our railroads
under private management upon the
return to prosperity.
He says the people Of. the West
are wiring and writing him, "The
railroads are running u.s."
Here is five years "thumb his
tory" of the failure of the railroads
under private management:
First-The failure of the rail-
roads to function during the war,
resulting, according to the Prime
Ministers of France, England and
Italy, in seriously jeopardizing vic
tory and compelling the Govern
ment of the United States also to
take the roads away from their
private managers and operate them.
Second When railroads were re-
turned to their private managers,
with the right to charge practically
anything they pleased, they pro-
ceeded Immediately to get them
selves into a freight jam which re-
quired the Government to take con-
troll again in order to get them out
of it.
Third-They raised the rates so
high that they destroyed their own
business and blighted the prosperity
of the country. Farm products
could not be sent to the market and
sold at profit after the extortion-
ate freight rates had been paid.
Fourth-They undertook "to de-
flate labor" and thus precipitated
a great strike, as a result Of which
their equipment is all shot to pieces.
How long are we going to toler-
ate private mismanagement Of our
railroadsi What is there sacred
about private management of rail-
roadsf The great countries of the
world do not have it. We do not
have private management of our
schools, our streets, our water. our
sewerage, our army or our navy.
Public operation lies in the course
of evolution.
When are we going to take the
step that most of the other coun-
tries have already taken, namely,
to operate our own railroads7 1t
is the only way to get them out of
politics.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Past and Present

AYOT many students of Colonial
~ history feel at their best
~ when reading of how our
forefathers hanged (not burned)
witches.
That witch-killing was a world
wide mania at the time and that
the killings our forefathers did
were petty compared with the kill
ings elsewhere is an excuse so far
as it goes.
In Germany, for instance, 100000
witches were slain; in France, TO-
600; in England and Scotland, 30
600; in New England only 90. Thus
it appears our pious ancestors soon
regained their poise.
Today, while all other nations
have released war prisoners, many
of ours remain in Jail and proposals
to free them still are looked upon
by some as unpatriotic.
Were the reactions of Puritanism
from mania to humanity quicker
than those of 100 per cent Amer
icanismi
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Paging Poor YoTick BY "Bugs" Buer

CHAKESPEARE flat-footed around
- Avon at least six yards of centuries
ago. And now American actors are
swapping at him like minnows at wet
bread.
EVERYBODY is playing Hamlet. II
- we ever got into another war with
Germany, we could win It with our
Hamlets alone.
WE may have to declare another war
w in order to supply skulls for new
rash Of Shakespeare that has broken
out in isolated communities. At pres.
ent. our drug clerks aren't making
enough mistakes to supply demand.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

CINCE Booth tuggled six Yorick skulls
- and beat Henry Irving Brodribb by
one up and two more graves to play,
Hamlet has been slumbering matinees
and evenings.
CpDIE FoY wanted to spade him up.
but coroner refused to allow Eddie
to perform autopsy. Singers. Midgets
have secured Boy Scout rights to play
and are enlarging their soap box to
accommodate audiences.
YoHN BARRYMORE makes very good
y Philadelphia Hamlet, but Raymond
Hitchcock's performance Of meloncol.
icky Dane Is marred by fact that Ray.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
An Issue in Brief

TRUITS, other food and lumber
shipped from the Pacific
L Coast by water via Panama
to the Atlantic Coast, and steel and
textile products shipped reversely
in the same manner pay an average
of 40 cents on the dollar less
freight than if freighted overland
by train.
Naturally, therefore, this water
borne traffic is growing rapidly.
Nor is it surprising, either, that
railroad opposition to Panama toll
exemption for coastwise shipping,
which would increase this differ
ential, continues firm.
Thus private interest fights pub
lie benefit, convincing reason why
private interest must be lifted out
of American transportation if serv-
ice is to come first.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Proverbs of Arabia

meeting is better than that parting
The cat though 10 hankering afte mice
q the key Of glory
A becomes q q q
dog
o goingout before you
Three united against q n.
What think Of onion. every
drava tearsf
her.
The wound
be cured
The of a good disposition is humility.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

is: II. too. have unrevealed
possibilities; and 1 am heart
ened to make new efforts to
transform the possibilities into
realities"
These thoughts are suggested
by an account Of . fruit called
the oapulin cherry which has
been developed In highlands
of tropical America. and
which is highly prized. we are
told, in particular. by the ma
tiyes Of Ecuador. The fruit is
a od-sized cherry which sp-
pears as a prominent market
product, huge basketfuls be-
ing displayed in the market
places during at least three or
four months Of the year.
THE capulin, we are assured.
L is a very palatable fruit,
and Mr.. william Popenoe.
AGRICULTURAL explorer for the
United States Department Of
Agriculture. assures us that it
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
The POlUer of Environment
BY Henry Smith Williams

MOST Of US resent the idea
~ that heredity has i'm
posed upon US definite limitations
Of mind and body. The idea
seems to imply the hamperins
OF our individual liberties. II
seems a clear arraignment of
the conception that all men
are created equal.
Whatever the implications,
however, manifestations of the
laws Of heredity are ever with
us. Certain hereditary nmi-
tations we must admit; but
fortunately the bounds OF these
are somewhat more flexible
han is sometimes supposed.
IN any event. il is always
l. stimulstive to learn Of in
stances In which environment
has appeared to challenge
heredity by bringing out un-
suspected traits OF character
's:ics. Ones mental response
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

mond refuses to put more than one
foot in grave.
GO many Hamlets now that Interboro
- Company is putting turnstiles In
graves. People mistake EN- for en-
frances to Hudson tubes.
oUrE MANN Is learning ventriloauism
II so be can make skull talk back to
him. Sam Bernard 10 practising his
perfect broken English.
THIS artesian well school Of acting
! is very popular. First Hamlet digs
hole. Jumps IN. And audience plays
follow-the-leadef.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
THE SPECTATOR
The Challenge of Waste

|STUART CHASE has written
an Interesting little pam
phiet entitled THE CHAL~
LENoE OF WASTE.
He aims to show that our
present method Of doing bust
ness ID attended with q waste
that is enormous.
II We add to this our waste
In our method of running row
srnments where We have prac-
teal international anarchy and
world In which the nations
are but bullies without supreme
law. the waste becomes colossal.
TUE sole object of business,
= as Mr.. Chase says, should
be to supply the wants Of man.
This includes not only his ele-
mentary wants. such as food,
shelter and clothing. but also
the needs Of transportation and
communication. and beside that
the demand for art, religion,
recreation, health. love and
knowledge
Only a portion Of the present
output Of human activity. how
ever. goes to supply these real
wants. Another portion 10 de-
voted to purposes purely de-
structive. such as habit-form-
Ing drugs. machine guns. pol
son gas. gambling. quack medi-
cines. super-luxuries. dishonest
advertising. and prostitution,
things which break down bodies
and pervert minds.
Instead Of wealth. such things
should be called Nth.
lie claims that IT is not i'm.
~ probable that the total Ia,
Dor power concerned in the
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

THE most dramatic and most
significant news item in the
L current newspapers is the re-
port of Sarah Bernhardt s recovery.
And that not because of her
fame and the honor generally given
this great actress. Nor because her
sickness or her health is more i'm
portant than the rise and fall of
nations. But because her attitude
brings universal inspiration and is
the eternal symbol of mans trium-
phant spirit.
Think of a woman Of seventy
eight, a great-grandmother, back in
Paris from a continuous tour of
acting in Italy, rehearsing a new
play soon to be produced, stricken
with syncope (Which the doctors
say is fatal nine times out of ten to
persons half her age)-and three
days after the incident she greets
her physicians with this remarkable
statement:
My vitality, triumphing over
my feeble body, comes from
the mind. ! am 50 sure that
my time has not yet come that
my recovery is certain. You
can do nothing for me, for my
best physician is my will power.
Call it Coueism or whatever YOU
please, such an assertion of spiritual
dignity and power glorifies our
common human nature, proclaims
it dauntless, deathless. divine! "La
divine Sarah" declares - with in
tuitive dramatic sense even greater
than her classic artistry 81
SHALL NOT DIE UNTIL l WANT
TO-"
We shall not let her die even
then.
THE biggest increase in Mexico's
j new budget is for education;
nearly 40 per cent. Perhaps the
United States will consent to recog-
nize that.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Stars and Stripes
CARELESS WAY TO SEND MONEY.

CARELESS WAY TO SEND MONEY.
Upstate editor has received postal card
from subscriber reading: Enclosed please
find 81 to Apply on my subscription
Europe's troubles come from the fact
that she insists upon marching behind
a band instead Of a plow.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES.

DO you realize that it's only a little more
than twenty years since the first automobiles
were brought out?'
"1s that all? Some of the taxis look as II
they must have been in use for at least a
century"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
WAYSIDE WISDOM
Copyright. 1929 -
BY S. E. Kiser-

Il ADY, let us cease to tarry
In the lonely single state;
Say the word, and let us marry:
Why keep asking me to wait!
1t is doubtful that ever
Shall put all my faults away,
And I'm sure that you will never
Weigh less than you do to-day.
no not keep me in detection;
adore you, as you know;
Come, accept my fond protection,
Nod consent. and let us go!
Kindly end the long suspension,
Let us make the sacred vow;
There's a reason could mention
Why we ought to do it now.
MEDDLERS everywhere are trying
A"A To have new restrictions made,
Very often the untying
Is prevented or delayed.
There are grim and restless forces
That will have their way at last;
Who can tell how soon divorces
Will be pleasures of the past?
ZONE, then, darling; let's be making
Hay while still the sun is bright,
While there's still chance of breaking
Bonds that have become too tight
In a year or two conditions
May be changed; therefore, 1 pray.
Listen to my fond petitions;
There is danger in delay.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

RESIGNATION.
One New York man has made over his
entire fortune to his landlord. That's
the right system. Why put It Off
Michigan is said to be the iuckiest
state In the Union. It 10 going to start
out fresh with two new Senators.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Instructive JUSTICE
BY Livy S. Richard

ANY honest banker-and de-
"A spite some impressions TO
the contrary, there are many
such-will tell you that more
loans are made on the security
OF personal reputation than on
pledged collateral.
The first question a loan COM
mittee usually asks about an
applicant for credit Is not How
much is he WORTH" but What
is his character?"
A borrower with an honest
past but small assets will often
receive a loan when a wealthy
applicant of more doubtful hab-
its will be turned down
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

A THIRD element Of waste 10
"A found in our imperfect way
Of production. For instance, an
electric light company. although
engaged in the commendable
business Of producing light. heat
and power. may be hauling coal
1000 miles to burn it ineffi-
ciently under boilers. filling the
city with SCOT and dirt. when
the coal might have been util-
lied at the pit mouth and the
power transported by wire. or
our nearby waterpower could
furnish all the power AT a frac-
ton of the present cost
Mr.. Chase estimates that all
this waste amounts to 20 per
cent.
This is worth thiking over.
for the problem Of progress is
not only to produce more and
better goods. but to prevent
waste.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
JURY In a misdemeanor

A JURY In a misdemeanor
"A case once found the testi-
mony SO confusing that 1t could
not agree. Neighbors had quar-
relied, there had been blows
and one had had the other ar
rested for assault and battery.
felonious assault and other
technical variations.
Under rules Of evidence the
Jury was expected to consider
only what had been developed
in court. Were a judge to
learn that a jury had been
swayed by anything else he
would be compelled to void its
verdict and censure 1t severely.
IT happened in this case that
Ouc VI tHo JuiOibb AhoWn "
his colleagues as a truthful
man, lived in the neighborhood.
The other jurors asked II he
knew the general reputation Of
the Iitigants. He said he did,
and at their request he de-
scribed 1t.
The defendant, he vouched,
was known as peaceful and
kindly; the other as cantanker.
GUS.
Thereupon the jury acquitted.
1t was irregular but substan-
tial justice; the kind bankers
practice in making loans.
Less hair splitting and more
OF this instructive application Of
everyday standards would prob
ably improve most criminal
court grists.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

AS ! read 1t.
IN THE daily papers
THE FILM star.
WAS OUT in .
rowboat.
ON A frozen lake.
AND IN the boat
THE STAR was
acting.
AND o: the shore.
THERE WAS .
camera.
SHOOTING AWAY.
At THE little boat.
THAT WAS floating
around.
IN THE frozen lake.
AND THERE came
q squall.
AND THE little boat.
WAS BLOWN over.
AND THE film star.
FELL INTO the
water.
OF THE frozen lake.
AND THE crowd
ashore.
TRIED TO launch Q
boat.
TO RESCUE the,star
BUT COULDN'T do It.
ON ACCOUNT Of tie
ice.
.
AND THE leading
man.
GOT HIS trusty
horse.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

4 ND what is true OF this
"A fruit is undoubtedly true.
in greater or less measure, OF
many another wildling OF our
fields and woodlands. There
is no question that our food
supply could be greatly added
to IL attention were paid TO
bringing out the submerged
hereditary possibilities Of many
wild plants that hitherto have
failed to attract the attention
OF the plant-developer.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Il o.pyrash. lsss. ~ ss.r Conway.
D.. II ~ D
By K c. B.

AND URGED him out
AND INTO the laka
AND WITH his hoofs.
THE TRUsrY horse.
BROKE ALL the Ice.
FOR ONE hundred
yards
INTO THE lake.
AND IN the channel.
MADE BY the horre.
THE LEADING man.
SWAN OUT to the
girl.
WHO WAS nearly
exhausted.
IN NE frozen lake.
AND THE horse
turned around.
AND THEY seized
the reins.
AND Ir dragged
them ashore.
AND I'VE just read It
IN A daily paper.
PRINTED FOR
people.
WHO HAVE good
sense
AND ! don't know.
IF TN gett crasy.
. . .
AND CAN'T
understand.
. .
THE THINGS / read
OR iF the press
agents.
ARE GETTING
crazy.
u14Ask you.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
MANY YEARS AGO.

when I was twenty" she said, II had all
the best young men in town at my feet
81 suppose" the one with the poisoned
tongue replied. that was when the great roller
skating craze was on"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

This notable achievement.
while It gives an interesting
lesson in the power OF envi-
ronment. at the same time
points out . neglected oppor-
tunity to the horticulturists OF
our own land. Cross fertiliza-
ton and selection would prob
ably do wonders with our
neglected black cherry. giving
us a new fruit OF marketable
quality.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
A FAMILY CHARACTERISTIC.

"Your son resembles his mother, doesn't
he,"
"Yes, in way. He can't understand why
l should ever have reason for holding out
any Of the money I earn"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

IT is believed that cultivation
l. under favorable climatic
conditions has resulted In IN
creasing this cherry to several
times the size Of the familiar
northern product. and at the
same time greatly improving
its flavor. This has been ac-
complished by natives having
no great horticultural knowl-
edge or skill.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

production Of nth 10 from a.
100000 to 100000 workers out
Of the aggregate working popu.
lation Of 1900 900.
Additional waste comes nom
our fafiurs properly 10 manage
the workers. From 1000 900 TO
100000 or s.oooy 900 are unem-
ployed each year. Lockouts.
strikes and prsventabie diseases
keep millions from productive
Industry.
Besides these are the volun.
tary loafers and the idle rich.
These items added up show
that In the best Of years about
100000. or 10 per cent. Of the
total working force 10 always
Idle. and In panic years like
1921 At least 5000. 900. or near
H 20 per cent. IN idle.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

is worthy Of being propagated
by grating for development
in various parts OF the world.
But the point Of present In
terest is the revelation that
this large and palatable
cherry Is believed by botanists
to be only a selected variety
OF the common wild black
cherry OF the United States,
which is 80 little prized that
its fruit is seldom eaten ana
almost never sent to the
market.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
,tutes, and to keep His commandments as at this day."

Text suggested by Howard F. Downs pastor Of Waugh
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Sarah, the Divine
HERE is a typical human story,
one of thousands in the West,
- for the accnracu Of which

THE most dramatic and most
significant news item in the
~ current naWSnanarr iS thu 70
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

lie claims that It is not i'm
~ probable that the total Ia
Dor power concerned in the
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1922-11-01
WHO GAINED?

The recent coal strike cost
81, 100. 900, 900 divided as follows:
Wages of miners. $3.50, OOO, 900,
railroads in freights. $500, 600, :
600, public in cost of fuel $4OO,.
600. 900, and mine owners, $4O..
600, 900.
1t is not hard to say who lost
out, this will enable one to say
who did not win. About the only
class who can strike e balance is
that class composed of the min
er's union officials. They sit
back in their swivel chairs, draw
their salaries ones too, chew
the cud, while the laborers or
dered out pay for the dance
These fellows won, or at least did
not lose.
Strikes should be made i'm
possible, and we believe this will
be done some day.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1922-11-01

We have no doubtsthat some
husbands are so mean and trif-
ling that they need to be killed
or disposed of in some other
way, but we believe they SHOULD
be legally disposed of by electro
cution or harging and not lynch
ed by wives. One trouble about
wives taking the law in their
hands is that it is establishing a
dangerous precedent, and there
is no telling where the matter
may end. 1t is possible. that the
innocent hubby might suffer.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1922-11-01

Is it any more harmful or any
more wrong for young minis
ter just coming into the minis
try to use tobacco than it is for
an older one Tin years or point of
service) who is already in SER
vice to use the weed? The dis
tinction is not exactly clear to
us as it looks like one and the
same rule should apply in either
case. If it is an evil in one in
stance it seems to US to be an
evil in the other 1t seems to US
to be hardly fair and consistent
to say to the recruits you must
give up the tobacco habit and at
the same time those who make
the ruling retain the habit. 1t
is just as hard for a man outside
the sacred fold to lay aside the
habit as it is for one on the in
side to do so. A much better eff.
feet would result if those making
the law would by way of example
first apply it to themselves. 1t
is, no doubt a good thing for all
ministers of the gospel to refrain
from the use of tobacco, as it.
would be good thing for any
other c!'SI of men to be non u.s.
er% OF H. weed. 1t is a useless
AID "Nil"nsive habit and wise
al l'.HI!nate is the man, minis
ter '''i',. nan who can say I do
it ':u:.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1922-11-01

The Halloween entertainnyent
given at the school auditorium
last Friday night was quite q sue
cess. The house was full and
the entertainment was goodt The
net receipts were $65.
Mr.. 1. P. Mangum Of Chester.
field was Pageland visitor on
Tuesday. He has not forgotten
his old home section. He renew
ed his subscription that his let
ters from home' might continue.
Misses Lucille Funderburl1 and
Eula and Beulah CASTOR and
Messrs. John Peay, Park Fun
derburk and Jasper Watts spent
Sunday in Rock Hill as guests of
Misses Celeste CASTOR and Faye
Funderburk.