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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24
AMONG THE SCHOOLS

O @ O @ @ @ % 90 y y 90 " - v "
Tuesday afternoon l went to
Vaughnville to lay, or to assist in
laying, the foundation for the new
school building the trustees are 60
ing to erect in this district. They
are going to build model school in
this district. 1t is to be of tile with
brick veneer and to contain two class
rooms and two work rooms, one for
the girls and one for the boys, and
an auditorium that will seat 200 peo-
ple. The material is all on the
ground and Mr.. W. B. King who has
the contract was to begin work on
Wednesday, Washington's birthday.
He expects to complete the work IN
thirty to forty days. Mr.. j. E. Sum-
mer kindly went over with me and
drove his big car and it did not take
long to reach Chappells, but the road
from Chappells to Vaughnville in plac
es is rather bad. Along out from
Chappells by the fine farms of A. T.
Coleman and J. B. Scurry and ). L.
Watkins where they keep up the
dragging the road is fine. and really
the only bad place is the bottom just
beyond the home of Mr.. Jahns, and
Mr.. R. E. Watkins and the neighbors
are dragging this regularly and when
the new soil gets we'll settled 1t Will
be fine. though the other day 1t was
rather hard pulling to make it. This
is very important highway. 1t leads
out by Vaughnville and on to Cross
Hill and is travelled great deal, ana
the highway commission of this coun-
tv worked it up well some months ago
and relocated it in many places and
when the new soil gets we'll settled,
if the maintenance is kept up, it will
be fine road. l am sure it is going
to be kept up.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24
Slim Picking

The red faced man sat in the court
room listening to along list of indict-
ments being read, the majority of
which were for bootlegging.
GOSH he breathed, "what would
this court do without prohibition?"
Tales.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

There is where you are exactly
right. These boys and girls that are
in school now can not wait. They
could not if they wanted to, because
the years are going right along and
no one has any power to turn back
the wheel OF time. There are things
in that appropriation bill that could
wait.
The proviso in the bill to pro rate
the amounts is the worst feature OF
the whole business. In other words,
to say that the laws say you must
do so and so, or if you do thus and
so, the state will do her part, but
here comes along the time when the
state must come across and keep the
faith and a provision of compromise
is inserted, as much as to say We
know this thing is not going to meet
our part of the obligation and we
will force you to compromise with US
and take what we say and give you
no voice in the making of the COM
promise or the terms thereof. Some
how it does not look exactly right to
us. We are not arguing whether or
not the state agreed to give too
much. We do not believe that 1t
did. The only thing is that
ury tax but possibly the peoples
or not the state agreed to give too
much. The only thing is that the
the state agreed to do certain things
and now when it comes to the doing
she proposes a compromise and you
must take it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

The streets leading out of town to
the main highways have not been put
in good condition as yet. In fact
several of them are among the very
worst streets we have. This should
not be. Give the stranger as he en-
ters a good taste of your city and a
good way is to have a pleasant and
nice entrance.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

The legislature has done this year
just as it has always done, leave the
appropriation bill for the closing
houre of the session and then rush it
through. But human nature is about
the same all through the ages and we
could not expect any sudden change
at this time.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

Mrs. C. V. Tenny returned to Co.
lumbia Saturday after visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. SPOTS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tenny left Saturday for
Dallas Texas, where they will be
for the present.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

stand aside until their terms as leg
islators have expired by the operation
of law.
In the name of the people, in the
name of justice The Piedmont con-
graduates the senate of South Caro-
lima on the excellent policy it has
laid down and urges the house Of
representatives to concur in that
course.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

This is another fine community
that should have a road and the ex-
tension proposed by the highway COM
mission goes out this way about five
miles but that will lack one mile OF
reaching the school house and then 1t
should 90 on to Bush River church
which is only five miles more. But
five miles is a good start and better
than no miles at all.
E.. H. A.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24
WELL DONE, SENATORS!

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Greenville Piedmont:
The senate of South Carolina at
this session will do nothing wiser or
iuster than it did Thursday when 1t
voted that hereafter no member OF
the general assembly shall become an
elective member of the board of trus-
tees of the University of South Car
olina. The Piedmont warmly COM
mends the author of the proposal,
Senator Samuel H. McGhee of Green
wood, as we'll as his colleagues.
This may seem An unimportanr
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

Something Missing
She: You are perfect dear!
He: Not perfect, darling, you have
my heart!-Wayside Tales.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

l came back by Captain E. ?. Mat
thews and made stop at Tranwood.
This school is taught this year by
Miss Dorothy Buzhardt and she has
an enrolment of thirty-four and they
are all present every day. That is,
unless some one is really too sick to
go to school. They had two teachers
here last session but the trustees de-
cided it would be better to have one
teacher with a longer term for the
school than two teachers with a halt
term and they are right. Miss Buz-
hardt is doing good work here and 1t
was a pleasure to look into the faces
of these bright boys and girls and to
talk to them. The school house looks
much better and is much more COM
Portable since the partition has been
taken out and both of the small rooms
turned into one large one.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

l had promised to go to Tabernacle
on Wednesday but l have been suffer-
ing with a severe cold for several
davs and l tried on Tuesday night to
get a message to Mr.. j. E. Majors
that l could not come as he told me
that part of this road was impossible
bv auto. | will make this trip in
few days. Sorry if l disappointed
Mr.. Nabors.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

This is fine community, this Rec
derville and Bush River section, and
big fine farms and until the approach
of the boil weevil the people were
as rule prosperous farmers, and
they will get over the boil weevil.
In fact I am inclined to think that
the Bush River Baptist church is one
of the largest and wealthiest of the
purely rural churches of this denoml-
nation in the state. And that it con-
tributes more to the benevolences OF
the church than any other rural con-
gregation. The congregation sup
ports its pastor and he devotes all of
his time to this congregation. But,
and this is hte main thing want to
say, they need some roads out this
way. Some of the roads do fairly
well. but those right around and Lead
ing Up to the church are fearful, and
they remain in this condition all the
wear round. From the church up to
school house has been bad for two
years to my certain knowledge and
the road from the church down t.
Newberry is bad and has been for
two years at least, and the road out
by Singley's mill, the one over which
most of the traffic goes, is bad and
has been for the two years that l
have been going there regularly. This
is too fine community and TOO fine
rural chul ch 10 have such roads
leading up 10 IL: It is about four
miles to the highway at Garys and
1 do not know how ?ar 20 tie high
way to a,rgshores. but at least as
far, ani The question is D beng able
to reach this highway at some sea-
sons of tha lear. Yes the commUn-
ity needs to get together and do some
self help and then get county help
and build some roads. The highway
to Kinards is fine with a few excep-
tons. There is one very bad place
iust about a mile this side of Kin
ards at or near the place of DR.. L.
H. Pope, but of course we shall eX-
pect that to be repaired very soon.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

I drove from Reederville around
to Bush River. This is also a two
teacher school and the teachers this
year are Misses Monts and Living
ston. The enrolment is sufficient for
a rural graded school but the district
can not qualify for guaranteed sew
en- months term under the state law
for lack of the children. 1t takes
not less than fifty and the enrolment
is around As, but the average attend
ance has been almost perfect and
that is what really counts. But when
the tax is paid we will have sufficient
funds without state aid to run the
school seven months.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24

on Wednesday 1 decided that would
take little round to Reederville and
Bush River and Tranwood, so | left
Newberry about 10 o'clock and made
this trip. l stopped short time at
Reederville. The work is getting along
nicely at this schiol and the people
are taking much interest and cooper
ating with the teachers. Two sisters,
Misses Mann of Abbeville, are teach
ing the school at this place. The av-
erage attendance has been fine, in
fact almost perfect, and even during
the bad rainy weather the little folk
come right along to school.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07
THE LusrrAN1A.s CARED

One of the outstanding features of the war in which this country was vi- tally interested was the Lrsitania dis aster. That was a deliberate and pre- arranged sinking of passenger vessel by the German submarine service in which over a thousand non- -combatant lives were lost It was for the purpose of striking terror to Americans and the chipping of all nations. It had the ef- feet of boomerang and contributed to the victory in later years of the allied nations.
 In connection with the sinking of tha. big ship with It's big. cargo of humanity, It has been persistently maintained by Germany, as Justification for It's ruth less act, that the vessel carried troops, guns and explosives, and therefore il was subject to attack. Denials have been made that such claims were iusti- aed, and 1t has been asserted that the big liner was not engaged in any othe: than legitimate business and that Ger. many's act was a gross violation of the tights of a merchantman.
 By the report which has just been Eiven out by the collector 0f the port of New York as made to the secretary of the treasury at the time, 1t is shown that the ship carEasd no guns oe any kind. son any deck, masked or unmask'
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07
THE EXPOSITION IN ACTION.

Those of you who have been to the industrial exposition at the armory can in all probability join hands with that individual who exclaimed. "Wly, I never knew Norwich manufactured all those things"
 This is invariably the result of such this kind. The wheels of industry hum from day to day, we see thousands of working men and women going daily to their employment in this mill, that fac tory or shop and yet there is little con ception of what they are actually pro- ducing in the way of marketable goods. Too often is it the case that we know more about some industry outside the limits of our own community, because of the publicity that has been given u it, than we do about some wnicn Ars right under our observation.
 An industrial exhibit is of irnnrens! value for bringing about an under standing as to what the manufactured products of 8 community are. Norwich has always been fortunate in it's diver sity of manufactures, and yet there arr very few who have any idea of jus what is done here in the way oe InEnu factured products.
 It is an excellent thing to knov about what other cities are doing. bu it is quite important to have a goo grasp of the activities of your own cit, and town. Not all that Norwich ca! boast of is to be seen at the exnrotC a the armory but it serves as an eye opener, quite the same as those tha 1 have preceded it and as those wh:cI l will some time follow it.
 The exposition in action surTlasse' expectations and provides an educatio along industrial lines that would b next to impossible to get in any othe
 way in so short a space of time. should be not only of temporary bu lasting benefit to Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Henry White, who is to be the host of Georges Clemenceau during the viAlr oI the former French premier in Washing ton, beginning today, was prominent for many years in the American diplomatic service. His last important post was am- bassador to France, which he re- tired in 1909. MT. White began his ca reer in 1883 as secretary of Ehe American legation at Vienna, and a year later was promoted to the London post, being promoted to the full secretaryship two years later. In 1903, havin., aeld various diplomatic offices in the interval, he went to Rome as ambassador, but held that post only two years, being transferred to Paris. When he arrived in Paris he was warmly greeted by President Fal- Heres, who delivered an unusually friend ly speech. MT. White was born in Bal timore, in 1850, and received his edu. cation at the hands of private tutors and in private schools in America anc in France.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07

'If I wanted to send a letter to Helen in Los Angeles, think I'd address to Los Angeles, instead of to Chicago! ironically remarked the older daughte' of the house, who was looked upol proudly by the rest of the family as model of accuracy and level-headed- ness.
 The younger daughter of the family reached for the returned letter with jump. "Oh, goody!" she exclaimed. I'm glad I addressed it wrong because now I haev it back instead of Helen getting it. You see,"' she explained to the won dering family. T asked Helen to send me one of those real Chinese dolls, like the one her little sister had when I was there. I want to give it as my contribL- tion to the dolls booth at our bazaar. But the date of the bazaar is the 18th instead of the 18th, as I thought, so that doll wouldn't have reached me in time, even if she had rushed it right out"
 "I never saw a family like this for making mistakes of one kind or another" 7" declared the older daughter. Yesterday father walked off with MT. shelton's um- brella instead of his own, and"
 Mighty lucky thing for me I did !'' cheerfully interposed the father of the family. When took back Shelton's um- brella found him in conference with a man I've long been anxious to meet"
 "oh, of course" scoffed the older daughter. there's a happy ending"'
 The mother of the family looked up suddenly with a little guilty laugh. q suppose next thing you'll be reminding me of how in my hurry, I poured the
 liquid from the cooked spinach into soup instead of the sink !' she said. 'fWhy, mother, that wasn't a mistake that was a real inspiration !'' enthuseC l the younger daughter. That spinach l liquid gave the soup the most beautiful green color and improved the flavor too i Even Mrs. ScaddS, wonderful cook tha she wanted to know how you made tha soup! That was happy blunder!' 'FWen it turned out a- right" nodded the mother of the family in pleased ' fashion, because the sYup had c1oket
 down rather thick, a1i adding tha
 amount of liquid made it of just the righ
 consistency, besides, as ytu say, givini 1 it nice flavor and color!'
 There you go again !'' remarked tn
 older daughter, Shrugging her shoulder
 amusedly, eff any of you make a mis
 take, you always have some good ex cuse why it was a very good thing tha you didH'
 ''I wonder meditated the younger daughter of the family, what woul happen if you once, just once. made good rousing blunder like the rest of u
 poor nortals '" turning to her sister wit
 a smile.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07
American Education

uliteracy the Cause of Many Accidents.
 Not only is there loss in production because of the low wage earning power of the illiterate foreigner, but there is tremendous loss in accidents and casual ties amoug the foreigners engaged in dangerous occupations, Marion K Clark, of the New York State Industrial Commission, estimates that one-half of the ac'D tents in factories with a result ant loss of $50,000 per day to indus tries, are due to ignorance of the lan- guage. There are 0,000 factory work CTS in New York state who can not speak English. In 1916, $11. 100000 was paid out in that state in accordance with the workingman's compensation law, an amount which would be increased to
 $S5,00O,000 if to it were added loss of wages, labor turnover, doctors bills, and administration of the law. Statistics of the United States Bureau of Labor show that the rate of accidents in the iron and steel industry during a period of eight years was highest among the non-Eng- fish speaking workers and showed little decrease from year to year. The Ford , Motor Co. officials state that accidents have fallen of 54 per cent. since their school was started in 1914.
 In mining, the most hazardous occupa- tion in this country, lack of ability to read the English language is a tre- mendous handicap. In 1910 the Direc-
 tor of the Bureau of Mines stated that ] 465,O00 men in the mining industry
 came from non-English-speaking races,
 and that many of them were illiterate i He stated that if these men were taught
 to read and write English it would be a
 tremendous economic factor in the in dustry through a reduction in the cas-
 ualty list. He says: This is plain
 business proposition to prevent the death
 of at least 1000 miners each year
 and to prevent the injury of more than 150,000 miners each year. Thousands of
 illiterate foreigners, many of them un-
 able even to read or write their native Language, are poured into the great American mining machine each year and
 with most d strous results. The mines that employ numbers of foreigners gen. erally have the precautionary rules printed in the different languages; but if the foreigner can not even read his own language, these safety guides are of nc value to him. The best estimates from a number of the larger mining states are to the effect that the non-English- speaking foreigners suffer twice the fa- .talities that the English-speaking min CTS do This means an excess of 93O
 on-English-Speaking foreigners killed each year. and I may say unneces-
 sarily. If the average state compensa- tion is S3,000, which is a fair figure,
 the total economic loss each year to the country through the excess of deaths oi non on-English-speaking miners alone
 amounts to $2,7so,0OO. On the same bas.
 is it is estimated that the excess of non.
 English-sp speaking miners injured eacf year amounts to 69,750 men. This is 2 loss in wages alone of. $1,743,750. Tax ing the excess of deaths and injuries itogeth6b due to n-English-speakins ' foreigners, the economic loss each yea ? reaches $4,533,750. This is entirel! aside from the other costs to the indus try in production lost"
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07

ed, that there were no troops, groups or organizations, with or without uni forms, that there were no explosives in any part of the ship, and that the only munitions of war were 5400 cases of ammunition, which under the ruling of the department of commerce could not be rated as explosives.
 It Is nearly eight years since the Uusitania was sent to the bottom In- dignation certainly ran high when the news of its destruction was flashed In the world, but it would have gone still higher had the collectors report been made public at the time,
 That this report will figure in the part which the Uusitania will play in the history of the war is to be expected. Ii knocks the props out from under any high hopes which the Germans had that they could prove their contention concerning the war cargo Of the de stroyed vessel
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC. End, 1922
 11,819
USING sUBsTTTUTEs.

Because there are those who have gotten the impression that the coal shortage is not as acute as represent ed, because much relief has been ob- tained through the mild weather of the past month, because there are many who have been too willing to fix the blame for the shortage rather than make the most of the opportunities 10 protect themselves through the use of substitutes and because there is that tendency to believe that everything will come out all right there Is a sud den awakening in New York to the fact that there isn't coal enough.
 That means of course that there isn't anthracite enough of the particu- lar size with which they are familiar, and that they have been permitting the appeals that have been made to avail themselves of the great quantities of substitutes to go unheeded. A little cold weather causes a scurrying to get fuel. It Isn't to be had and still substitutes are scorned to the extent that barge loads of them are causing congestion because of the unwlllingness to resort to that form of fuel.
 New York isn't the only big city that is similarly troubled. Boston is distrib- uting at cost 5000 tons of semi-an- tIIracite coal in lots of one and two tons and is getting such a big response that the force of clerks handling the orders had to be increased.
 In New York the allotment of hard coal is two million tons short of sHav year. That means that a quantity of small anthracite, or bituminous coal must De used and the quicker this is re- alised the quicker win the consumer be. come accustomed to it's use and preRen; discomfort.
 What is true in New York is tru. elsewhere on smaller scale. Economy may well play its part but the utiliza tion Of other forms of fuel than have formerly been burned will relieve tn, situation The time is long past for tn, proper realization Of the real situation
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-07
Today's Anniversaries

180S-Hugh McCulloch secretary of the treasury under three presidents, born at kennebunk, Me. Died in Washington, D. C., May 24, 1895. 1S22-William Saunders, the originator of the seedless orange in America, born in Scotland. Died in Wash ington, D. C., Sept. Il, 1900. 1S41-Noah Noble became fourth state governor of Indiana. 1S66-Brazil issued a decree opening the River Amazon and its tribu- taries to navigation. 1e7S-Rt Rev. William E. Armitage, Episcopal bishop of Wisconsin, died in New York City. Born there, Sept. 6, 1880. 1S94-Ferdinand de Lesseps, creator of the Suez Canal, died at La Ches- nave, France. Born Nov. 19 1895.
 1S9T-New extensive discoveries of coal ~ deposits were reported from Cape Briton.
 1920-President wilson sent his farewell message to congress. 1s21--Irish cabinet was summoned Ito consider British treaty.
 One killed and many hurt in meat packers strike riots in Chi cago.