The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-12-01

dent who made it point % use
elegant" English by saying, Be
tween YOU and l." and straight-out
expulsion would be the penalty for
,..e second oHense The word per
ftc;ly' would be abolished, and
'.cM:c" applied only to babies. and
then without the perfectly. OF
course, all babies are 1.-The cutest lit
tie things ever" but it is little too
much to dub them ''perfectly cute.
when they are so helpless to defend
themselves.
A strict rule would :5e that none
of the young ladies could spring
! French upon an unsuspecting public
until she had ct least a S:llatterlng OF
French grammar and French pro-
inunciation. q know DR.. Settler viii.
say this is bad English, because he
always contended that none" was
plural, going to that same intermin-
able Anglo-SaXon to prove it; but he
never did convince me that it wasn't
singuler, though | could no, argue
with him then. as can now, at long
range. | have been wanting to tell
, him this ever since l left college
that l believed he was wrong then as
ito ':none," and | still believe SOY
i The city of Newberry and The
county have made rapid strides along
educational lines within the past dec
ade-not that the teachers are more
capable or devoted or loyal to the
truest and highest type of education
but that the tools with which to
work are better, and the salaries are
somewhat better, too, though the
teachers, except in the big universi-
ties, are the poorest paid people in
the state today. and this in face of
the fact that there is no higher pro-
fessicn and none whose influence is
more vital to the future Of the state
and nation, and of civilization and
Christianity.
Education, after all, is the teaching
of and the learning of how to labor.
We are living in an age Of re
forms" America is in the throes of
a fanaticism which would continually
try to legislate morals into people.
This will pass, however, though while
it lasts progress toward true reform
is hin1ered. Education in the highest
acceptation of the word is the only
source from which that true reform
can flow. In newspaper published
in Columbia this morning the
governor of the state was quoted as
saying that he thought whipping Of
'convicts might be inevitable as last
resort" at times; and yet the funda-
mental law of our state, which the
executive is sworn to uphold, provides
that corporal punishment shall not
Ibe inflicted" Sometimes those in
lhiga places seem to forget that the
moral law is the foundation upon
which all other laws are based, and
that courts of justice and the pro-
cesscs of the judgments of courts are
for the protection of society, for the
reformation of the criminal, if pos
sible, and not to wreak vengeance.
In all the work that lies ahead of
the human race today, each has his
part to perform, and the manner in
which he performs it is dependent up
on his fitness for the task. To create
fitness for ones labor is the part of
educaticn-ftness and enthusiasm. In
an address delivered in Boston some
eighty years ago, Emerson said that
"every great and commanding NOM
ent in the annals of the world is the
triumph of some enthusiasm" AS an
example, he pointed out "the victo-
ries of the Arabs after Mahomet,
who, in few years, from small and
mean beginning, established larger
empire than that of Rome" And,
looking into the future, he prophe-'
sled that 'there will dawn ere long
on our politics, on our modes of liv-
ling, a nobler morning than that Ar
abian faith, in the sentiment of love.
This is the one remedy for all ills, the
panacea of Nature. We must be
lovers, and at once the impossible be-
comes possible. Our age and history,
for these thousand years, has not
! been the history Of kindness, but OF
selfshness. Our distrust is very eX-
pensive. The money we spend tor
courts and prisons is very i'll laid out.
| An acceptance of the sentiment OF
| love throughout Christendom for a