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Ufa jerolii and Jems. | fotered at the Postoffice at Newtery, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday. January 28. 1916. NOTE AND COMMENT. I spent Wednesday in Columbia and took a look in on the legislature. .Most of tne time was spent in the house. 1 was not in the senate at all while it was in session. For ten or twelve years I spent the entire time of each session in some official capacity in Columbia during the legislative session. For the past seven years I have been there only occasionally during each session. There have been many j changes during this short time, anfl j there are many new faces in both I branches of the assembly. There are ; some of the old familiar faces of the I I old guard, but not many. Some who I j "w-ere in the house are now in the sen-j ate, but even in that branch of the j assembly there are many new faces, j Senator Banks and Beamguard and 1 Lide and Brioe and S'narp and Black; and Hughes aild Verner, and possibly! some others have gone over from the | liouse to the senate since the days "when I was in Columbia. (There are not many of the O'ld boys left in the house. There is D. L. (Jack) i Smith, and Toole and Graydon whoj have come from the senate to the' Chouse, and then there is Dixon and j McKeown. and that is about -the bunch j that is left so far as I now recall.' Yes, there is Tom Cothram and Brooks Wingard and Joe MeCuHough. But srreat maioritv are new men. Well,! 1 guess it is right. Even Charleston ' is sending a new set, except Lofton. He is on guard again. The senate has put up a large and handsome rostrum and everything is spic and span on that side. The house !has the same old rostrum. I saw by the papers that they were tninking and ; planning to build a new rostrum over j on that side also. ?O? f The two houses met in joint session at 12 o'clock to hold the elections, and j until that hour I spent most of the morning on that side, as the senate Tvas engaged in routine matters most of the time up to t'ne hour of holding the elections. I would like to hear some of the discussion on the tuition and scholarship bills, but they were not up. ?o? The house took up most of the time discussing the 14th circuit bill. It passed, second reading Tuesday with practically no opposition. When it came up for final passage in the house a motion was made to recommit, and! there was considerable debate. The i J ibill was finally passed by a vote of j 53 to 50. Workman and Chapman i voted against the bill and LMbwer for j it. It has been only a (very short time j when we had only eight circuits in the j state, and t'ne cry was for an additional | circuit to prevent the congestion and so stop the necessity of special judges. uVow there are already thirteen and there are more special judges than ever before in the history of the state. fLhe new circuit will be composed of Hampton, Colleton, Beaufort and Jasper, which leaves Charleston in a circuit by itself. There will be little opportunity to reduce t'ne appropriation when new jobs are being created that take money to operate. I From 12 o'clock until recess hour; the time was taken up in voting. (There "was no opposition to any of those voted for while I was there except the warehouse commissioner. Well, Brooks WilLfirarri was nnminatftd for oirmiit judge to succeed Judge Devore, but there was nothing known of his running until He was nominated, and then he didn't run much. The opposition to McLaurin was political. There were those who would have been pleased to vote against him, but they were ii~ a dilemma, and couldn't just figure out what the result wauld be, and, therefore, thought best to vote for 'nim. That is my opinion only. Anyway he got a good vote. Two of the Newberry /VTVI A./J 1* T/vU?* JJUL^iuvc^B VVCCJU <*5aiu;>L mm?ouuii stone- and Mower ?the others- Chap-f mail and Workman?voting for him. ' it seems to me that it would have been unwise just at this time, even for political reasons, to 'nave put some one else in charge of the, warehouse system. It would have been like swapping horses while crossing the stream. The system is yet in its formative stage and a new man would not ha>ve understood just all the details that had been worked out in the completion of the plans of the commissioner. The sentiment in favor of the warehouse j system is growing very fast and Mr.! McLaurin should have been given, as j he has. the opportunity to develop and 1 perfect the system. i There had been some talk of oppo-j sition to Justice Fraser in the person of r. George S. Mower, but it did not materialize and Mr. Mower's name was not presented. Tiie appropriation bill will be pre-! sented this week, so Mr. Coihran told' me. Just how it will be possible toj cut down the appropriations I do not! i see. because there is no room to do so with all the new departments and big amounts asked for. and yet I supi pose they will currail to some degree tlifi h:if1o-r>r ocl-orl t'nr rrtllpws Hilt ! l-ii c WVIUf>V. C t* U. J Ul Ci*V Wlivjjvv., VV* w then there is Clem son to be taken care i of this year, and there will not be i i much opportunity to cut. And the i common schools are wanting more | money, and if the state is going to in- j crease the amount spent on education ' that is the place to spend it. iT.he sentiment against scholarships and the practice of so many free tuitions is; growing among the members. Mr. D. L. Smith had a pretty good; bill for the increase, or rather the re- i i adjustment, cf salaries for state officers, which had many good features. \ He proposed to increase some and to reduce others. There is no doubt that some of the salaries are ridiculously low, while others are too high in pro- j portion. The governor s'nould receive more salary, but even his is better than the salary of the other state officers, because it carries with it some honor that is worth while. The state treasurer, for instance, who is re quired to give a bond for $90,000, gets only $1,900, and the clerk to t'ne board of charities receives $3,000, the same salary paid the governor. There certainly should be a readjustment and the salary somewhat in proportion to the duties and responsibilities of the nA-ci f ?/vn puoinvil. ?o? I could not help thinking while I was sitting in the nail of the house that while the solons were trying to pass laws to regulate the temperature of the mills and such like institutions, that it would not be a bad idea for them to start on the hall in which they were meeting. It was so 'not in there that you felt 'like it was a good old August day. And then coming home on the train that afternoon the temperature was fearfully warm. In fact if the members start out to regulate these things they will find their hands full. ] Talking about the railroads reminds me to say that I told my friend Jo'nn Richards of the railroad commission that I hoped they would not force the "Dutch Fork special" to go around to the union station, even if the railroad did not build a passenger station at Gervais street, and really there was not much use for a station, because the passengers when t'aey arrived immediately went up town and when they were ready to leave, the train wras there and they could get aboard and had no use for a passenger station. And to go around to the union station would; make it necessary for us Dutch Fork! people to lose about an hour of the time we would like to spend in the city, instead of going around to the union siation. me accommodations on uus train are all right, bet it alone. (And then just at this time it seems i iu me uiai it wouia oe Detxer 10 iet tbe passenger rate alone The railroads i are not getting rich out of the pas1 senger travel any way, and if they ! are making any money let them put it in better equipment and better serv-' ice. That is the way it looks to me. E. H. A. Congressman I). E. Finley of this j district expresses his idea of states- j manship in the following, which he! wrote to Senator Tillman concerning ' the Chester postoffice appointment: "I j r-1 oil + J ? ? ? r\ c * r\ r.ir.Aan irro iUt'>C I t'iUSi'U <11 ail inline iv/ i ! factionalism in the Fit'th district So long as a man votes for me and iI ! otherwise qualified, I am satisfied he I is a sood citizen."?Gaffney Ledger. What is wrong with that position? I Is it not probable that Mr. Finley, hav_ ! ing received a majority of the votes in j the district, would likely find just as | ! competent men for the position among i his majority supporters as he is likely to find among the minority, and if a man does not stick to his friends who is I he to stick to? But we notice from: the papers that Col. Cunningham -is! f probably not altogether agreeable to. * ? n TT".. ^ U* n > ^ m ^ f I .VI r. SIRIIX1. TV U S U pjJUSt' UC WOO- I1UL ' a supporter of Mr. Smiths and, there-! fore, Mr. Smith thinks that the ap-! i pc-intee should be taken from among j his supporters. Col. Cunningham is j a!! right. He is a food citizen and a J grod man and will make a competent! official. We do not know whom he supported. But we have understood that the senators agreed to leave the i I cstmasters to the representatives, and i we suppose a? Cul. Cunningham seems! lo be agreeable to Mr. Finley and Mr. I Tillman that he will be confirmed as ! postmaster at Che-.stt r. as he should be. J <? ..In writing a very sensible editorial j on the power of publicity and urging; the importance of the city of Spartan-, burg doing some publicity work, the Spartanbuorg Herald closes with this: "Don't lose sight of the fact that publicity is power and advertising is the use of t'nis power. Ignorance of | this fact has cost the South much in! commercial opportunities lost. The fellow who says he does not believe in advertising is right in a class with the guy who used to say there 'ain't no such thing as electricity.'" And yet now and then you will hear a man say it does not pay to advertise. It pays the town and the community to advertise just like it pays the merchant who has wares to sell. And the best medium for advertising is the newsDaner. We judge from readitig the papers that Representative Dixon has managed to get a bill through the nouse making notaries public and school trustees come within the inhibition in the constitution against holding two offices. Well, trustee" came within LiltJ lliliiUI 1UII UCiUl C, UUL OV111C \JL solons did not so construe it, because they wanted to hold on to what they had. The bill will not likely pass the senate. The ginners' report should certainly put up the price of cotton, if a short crop would have anything to do with the price. The report shows something like 4,000,0-00 bales less than the crop of 1915. IW'ie notice that Senator lVerner has another bill on the scholarship question. The State reporter refers to the! bill as a "revolutionary" measure. Well, the senator wants to investigate and see who has been getting these scholarships, and we suppose ascertain w'nat per cent of the people who have been sending their boys and girls ro the state colleges are not able to pay the tuition. That is not so revolutionary, though it might reveal a deplorable condition of poverty on the part of those who have been educating their children on scholarships and free tui UOD. There will be some fine opportunity now for the dragging of the roads after the rains. Drag the roads and we will have good roads. We are not going to send statements to any of our subscribers. Those who want to remain with us and are behind can find by looking at the label and the date opposite their names will tell how far they have paid. On the second day of March we will take off all those who nave not Deen proimneu at least to the 1916 class. You can get there now by paying one dollar or two dollars and you can get a year by paying one dollar whatever your date is. Don't pull it off. We want you to remain with us. 1 i Prof. Hand is correct in his annua! report when h< says theiv is great edur.iti/Mi-il lV'ietn i Cr.:it n P'J rr?i in a It v. a i iv/uui ?? a i v. 1.1 ui \ ui * ? | is just wiiu; we ha1'.e bt-en spying for ithe past twenty years or more, but 'instead of decreasing tae waste, it has | been increasing from year to year. We i did not say it in just the way Prof. ' Hand does, but ii is the same thing. ! ; We have too many higivr institutions | cf learning and we are spending too , much for higher education in proportion. T'ne people are beginning to see it now. It took them a long time, but J it is never too late to mend. The first J speech we ever tried to make was i along this very line, we mean speech 1 on the educational question. And we ! have written editorial without numl ber. In fact so many tbat we had almost despaired of being ever heard and had decided to bide our time, j 'T.here will be another revolution soon.; We must nave them every twenty j years. The time is ripe. i Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gallman of Xew- j b.rry have been visiting I\I r. and iM'rs. j Walter Long of Saluda. Mr. Roy K. Friek Xewberrry college spent the week-end witn his parents-, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Frick.?Cha-j pin cor. Lexington Dispatch. i^.isses Lois Hentz as sergeant-ai-; arms, Kathleen Counts'as secretary; and May Crumpton as librarian are Newberry county girls at Summer land j college who have been recently elected! to serve as officers for the Mary Arden , Literary society. Cotton ginned in Newberry county' for the year 191.1, 36.0.">7, against 32,743 for the same time in 1914. The auditor or a representative will be at Mr. J. L. Crook's store next Monday, January 31, to take returns and not on the 30th as puDiisnea in the last issue. Caldwell & Haltiwanger have on a white goods sale. Remember they are now in the two (Mower stores at the corner of Main and College streets. Call and see them. Mr. R. E. Allen, recently of Newberry, but now music director at Chicora college in Columbia, has re cently been elected organist and choir master at the First Baptist church in j Columbia. The Bryson Wholesale Grocery com- j pany have a half-page ad in today's I paper and will be ready for business in the McCaughrin block next door to! the J. T. Mayes & Co., on February 1. j ilhey are going to sell in unbroken; l packages only and will sell a little j cheaper. CAPT J. HARRY GAILLARD RESTS IN ROSEMONT Died in Spartanburg Wednesday? n?!/>J -? tTsWr-K.nOTCTT ThllVO/itlt Dllljeu HI iicnucilj JL 11 u* OU"; Many Years Citizen Newberry. Captain J. Harvey Gaillard, for many years a citizen of Newberry, died in Spartanburg on Wednesday. He was laid to rest in Rosemont Thursday morning. The following is from the I Spartanburg Herald of Thursday: The remains of Capt. Josiah Harvey j Gaillard, whose death at 1 o'clock yesTTiArni"n<r /"flucpH widespread itri ua j vv^ -*r sorrow in this section, will be taken at 7 o'clock this morning to his old home at Newberry for funeral and in- I terment. Capt. Gaillard was 81 years of age.! Death came at his home at 118 East j Cleveland street, after an illness of ?i.. ^ Hare T'..o interment will ijiny a. it- tv \j.vlj -. take place in the family plot at Rose- J mont cemetery, at Newberry, this morning. The deceased is survived by t'ne following children, Charles R. Gaillard ! of this city, William Frank Gaillard j of Glendale, Ohio, James H. Gaillard of Columbia, Mrs. John C. Morgan of Virginia, Miss Elizabeth Gaillard, I teacher in the ;South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind at Cedar """inore and Miss Elisft Gaillard. of opi this city. Katiye of Newberry. Four years ago the late Capt. Gailj lard came to Spartanburg from Newberry to make 'nis home here with his children. He was born in the Pendleton district July 20, 1835, being the eleventh of twelve children of Josiah ^ ^ ] 1 o ?? rl \X cU.il a.1 U. In 1865 Ci.pt. Gaillard went out with. Butler's Guard from Greenville, which later became a part of Hampton's Legion, and with this detachment he served throughout the entire campaign in Virginia. He was with the commissary department with the i rank of captain. t Capt. Gaillard was married to IMIiss Elizabeth Chick Maybin of Maybinton, Xewberry county, in 1S68. He resided at his old home in Xewberry until the death of his wife in 1911, after which he came to Spartanburg to reside. He was chief of police for 'Newberry from 1873 to 1877, under the admin is [ | Take the Chil< yOU need never be afraid 1 * Paramount Pictures. Nothing offensive is ever al gram. 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He was a member of the Masonic order, haying been admitted to membership in Charleston in 1858. He was T fTsPEClAL^ M ! FEATURE T0 DAY BaBwaaDanpHnHHWHuv iren with You :o take the children to see lowed to appear on our prowill enjoy the high quality J excellent acting?the mag- r T 1 V :nic aispiays. ?> :rs as the leaders and the \ NUARY 31ST lm Co., Presents DORO ttm i r / v i r /\T!1 1 f A T\ T TH99 lhj MUKALiS ur 1VIAKOUO)CKE. In five acts. RUARY 4TH snts Mary Pickford in >S NELL" by George C. Hazelton, Jr., Film Co., in five acts. ARCADE i . Prices 5 and 10c. UnlTCF ights Jan. 31-Feb. 1. Extravaganza FF oy-Shop : CAST 150 > autiful Dances, Special isic, Clever Comedy. jzier Chapter U. D. C. 25c, 35c, 50c R BACON er will preserve ike it, keep out * it shrinkage. $1.00 bottle for eat. > 117 1 weens S. C ' ??? admitted to Amity lodge of Masons at Newberry in 1868. At the time of hie death he was the oldest member of the lodge. He will be buried witl* Masonic honors. Capt. Gaillard was a member of the Second Presbyterian church of this H city. For the greater part of his life ^ he faithfully served as a member of Aveleigh Presbyterian church at Newberry.