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I jfre ||era!0 nnD JfM i Kitsrs^ at ths Postoffics at Now'wry, S. CM as 2nd class matter. C. H. AULL, EDITOR. TnpcHav Jarmnrv 10. 1922. We hope we may not be misunderstood, but it seems to us that the health unit is a pretty expensive proposition, and yet it may not Toe, because we may not know all that it does. As we understand it the county pays $5,000 a year for it and the ftftn onri tVip fp.^pral govern CX.C4VC tpVjVVV Uiiu w*w A ^ nient $5,000. And that part of the duties of the unit is to examine the school children and vaccinate the children. We have never seen or met the physician in charge of the unit except once, and then we told him that as superintendent of education we would be very glad to cooperate with him in any school work that he I had to do. Since that time we have , , i not seen him at alk We understand that he, or the nurse, has been visiting the schools. The health of the child plays a very important part in its education, but as superintendent cf education we do npt mind saying if the health unit is to be retained in New.berry there should .be a closer cooperation between it and the department of education in so far as the work it does among the schools is concerned. As superintendent of ed ucation we will be giaci :o cooperate as far as we may 'be able and as far I as we may be permitted. , SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT j The special legislative committee to 1 A'f look into the financial conuiuvu ui state and to make report and suggestions as to how the business of the state could be run so as to reduce expenses and save money for the tax payer has been submitted. It is a very valuable document and shows that the committee has gone thoroughly into the various departments of the state government. But it seems to us that in making recommendations where appropriations may * 5 j-mlv Vnt. the be reduced mey na<c email jobs and have not touched on the .big bills which count in making up the total. They recommend a total in the appropriations, which means a reduction to that extent, of around half a million dollars which would _ iy, levy of ? permit icuuvuvu ... little more than one mill. The two biggest items in which reduction is proposed are the game warden and the welfare board of $75,000 each. It seems to us that some of the expense of the state highway commission might be cut off. We do not believe that the department should be abolished but it should be -made less expen S2V6 DV some It is also suggeted that it would ibe a good policy to place all the stare supported colleges under one management. We suggested that some twenty years ago and had planned to introduce a bill in the legislature at that time, but we saw it would be useless, and then we did not have :he details properly worked out, but s ich a plan would do away with the jealousy that now exists and the rivalry in attempts to get money out of the' state. All of them could be placed on T-*- - ? ? f?/?npQc+(V(1 the same iDasis. it is ujsu ou^wuvw. <by the commission that the fertlizer tax that has been going to Clemson be placed in the state treasury and appropriation ibe made direct to this institution just like the others. We proposed that also seme twenty years ago and had a -bill prepared and introdeed in the legislature, and we were told that it could not "be did," and if it was it would knock up all 41 were refer tfiC 1CIU11<>C1 lu.v v...? red to some dscision of the court in a North Carolisa case, the Patapsco Guano company, or something like that. In those days the tag tax was a big thing and gave Clemson more 1 money than was needed, and now the tax is small and does not furnish enough money to run the institution and the state has to be called on for an appropriation, a loan they call it, and therefore it is conceded to oe best to let the tax go into the state treasury, or that seems to be the argument. Some of the building programs at the state institutions might very well be postponed for a time. They are too big any how. And it costs the a l-i-in tVip^p c olle^es. I siatt* iuu iiiuvii iu i v??? ...... ^ ^ It does not cost for the maintenance j of a student at denominational colleges over $150, while at the state in-1 | stitutions the cost is from $300 to 5500 per student. We mean this in adri.tion to what it costs the student : ! for board and living: expenses. The i j difference is too great for the advan-' tages given. In fact in our opinion! the student who attends the denomi-j national college has the better ad-j vantage. And the training and the | culture and the scholarship is just as, good as in the state college. t If we arc not mistaken the average j of state aid for state institutions is i around $700 per pupil and about ?7 { | per white child in the comnonj schools. Tiie proportion is out of( joint. The committee does not propose to! reduce any the amount given common; schools. It will take the amount asked for by the state department of education to carry out the laws enacted i by the legislature, and until tnose are i repealed or modified it would be bad faith with the children of the state, not to provide the means to carry them out. The investigation and the report by this legislative committee will do. good, .because it will give the people a clear insight into the different de-j partments of the government and an; opportunity to see where the money, goes. It should have a large public- j ity. The Hera'id and News hopes to. ririnf frnm timp tn timp thp svnnnsis of the report. i ON THE RIGHT TRACK President Johnson of the chamber of commerce is getting headed in the right direction and on the right track, when he talks about establishing a cold .storage house in Newberry. And in connection with it a warehouse and a sort of clearing house for farm ! produce. A place where the farmer or the producer as you please to call him, can bring what he has to sell: and get the market price for it in any quantity he may have it, and knew j when he brings it he can turn it into cash without waiting or peddling about the street. A man in charge of the clearing house whose business it will be to keep posted on the market daily, and in touch with the buyer, and be in position to sell at the best price, any farm produce. Such a place will be worth all your : curb markets and your farm programs and all the other things they ' are telling: the farmer how to do, and all the advice about diversification and all the othtr stuff that is teing 1 <11 ^ TV_J J.T__ . resoiutea aoout. nnu uie mainci <mu be ?.'ble to take the produce at the market price and pay the cash for it, ] and the produce will be made, even J if the bank will not lend .money un- ' less you diversify. 1 Thpre is a demand for all the 1 things we can grow. But meeting ' and passing resolutions and arranging 1 farm programs and all that sort is not the thing we want, we do not c;.re 1 who suggests the program. Dig down in your jeans and establish an ex- ^ chance and a cold storage and put a 1 man in charge who knows the business ; and who can and will find the market ' and the produce will <be forth coming. ? - .... . ? ^ i Until you do it is nou jromg iu yc. The curb market, or we believe they call it now the farm market, is all ' right, but if the people who have to 1 depend on some sort of market in ( this town for what they eat had to ( depend on that there would not be ( enough for one meal a week. What { would they do the balance of the ' week. ^ If you want to help the farmer to ( diversify and produce something be- ' sides cotton, put up your warehouse 1 where you can take care of and han- ' die something worth while, and tha 1 diversification will come, and the < f?vTi program will arrange itself, and 1 put somebody in charge who knows "I ' ' - J ? V. oil tVio VPst ] ilOW io qo trie juuj anu cin will come. The potato house was a * step in the right direction, and now you have got to teach the world how 1 to coolc and to eat the sweet potato. ^ After you do all these things then s proceed to raise all the cotton you 1 can, because the South must clothe ' the world. And cotton must continue 1 to be our main money crop. ij i -rcn. One of the first bills introduced in the legislature is to postpone the pay- < ment of taxes to the 15th of July. '< If that should pass there will be J mighty little more paying of taxes 1 until that time. 1 ?... ji Wonder if the officers and direc- -1 tors of the chamber of commerce con- J suited many of the members of that body when they adopted resolutions 1 a:kir^ the legislative delegation iu continue the health unit in Newberry.,1 Governor Cooper deals almost en-' tirely with the tax problem in his annual address or message to the leg- < islature. It is the most important matter now before the people and the ; onp most talked about. He says that. "Our government is not too expensive, but our method of raising revenues is intolerable and indefensible." We agree that we should make some : very material changes in our method of raisin? revenues. We think also fha1- wnip nf thp exnense of running the government could be very well cut off without detriment to the efficiency of the service or the government. The Laurens Advertiser in speaking of the hard problems which will confront our legislators at the present session savs very trulv: "It is I very well that expansion of state in-' sti tut ions for higher learning be stop-' ped for a year. There is reason to believe that financial conditions will cause a reduction in the numbers reeking collegiate education for the next few years, and the colleges are now able to meet the demands of the time, at least in regard to buildings. Improvement of courses of study - I sncuiu go on. , The Advertiser then speaks of the repeal of the minimum wage paid to teachers. There is no minimum wage,, but a maximum wage is fixed in the | law and of course trustees always fix that as the salary where the deficit is to be made up by the state. And in that view it might be called a minimum wage. For the right sort of( rervice the wage is not too much. They say down at the farmers meet-' ing on Saturday President John M. Ki-1 nard of the Commercial bank told, ~ rlivorcifiration and! (.HfJU <111 auuuu v? . . v. w? pledged to let the farmers have the money if they diversified, and that he j had rather tend on sweet potatoes ' as security than on cotton warehouse receipts. We could not get to the hn+ wp hear that he also WW .. ^ told them about a Duroc 'bull that his bank ordered some years ago in an effort to help in the matter of cattle raising in the county. <S> <S>! ?> AMONG THE SCHOOLS *j > ^ j Talking about the tax situation and the reduction of the levy and the: cutting down of appropriations, this1 is a time when there should be a cut wherever it can be made without detriment to the efficiency of the government, or the development of the citizenship. But th.v* paragraph was started in this connection to say, if the appropriation is cut so that the acts of the legislature can not be enforced in the matter of schools, it will be very poor economy, and I say this in the face of the criticism that [ am saying it 'because I happen to ao nnnn<?f>t.pd with the schools. If! provision is not made to carry out the laws there will be great demoralization, and some of the best schools in [his county, and among the schools ioing the good work where it is needed, and where there is enthusiasm on the part of the patrons and children, ivhy they can not run longer than three and four months. They are the -chools that have compli-jd with the ? portm'n t.prms and aw ^uaiaiucciu^ vv>k?... ? they have made contracts under the guarantee of the s-.ite. Here <-re iome of them: St. Philips, HunterDeWalt. Trinity, Bush Rir/er, RoederI'ille, Silverstreet, Pomaria, Little Mountain, St. Lukes, MonticcJlo, D'Neall, Fairview, Rutherford. Tnere may be others, but these I recall without looking- at the record, where the children are lookirg to the state to ;arry out the guarantee made by sets >f the legislature. I do not believe ;he legislature is going to fail to keep faith with these little children, and ?ut short the school term, because the contract is binding and then the memDers of the legislature know that these children do net come this way but one :ime, and the opportunity once gone :an not be recalled. But the trustees ' ^ wpII to let the members Illglll v; v/ .. v.. *:om this cuanty know what the people in their communities think about ; :his matter. The equalizing aid and ,he rural graded school aid and the J ligh school aid are the main items so : :ar as the common .schools go. I have ' submitted the matter to our delega-1' ;ion and will do so again in writing, but it would be well for the trustees ;o let them know the sentiment of the < people. : Next Saturday is the time for the ! :ounty teachers association to meet, j and I hope all the trustees who can make it convenient to do so will at wo Mn tllPTl tend tins meeting, turn . ;alk the whole matter over, and we expect to have some one talk to us. [ will try to mail out a notice to all teachers and trustees to be present. We will meet this time in the court house. It will save making a fire at the high school building and .be more convenient at least for the trustees. i ! ? > ? t 1. Mr P. L_ On luesaay j. jug u w iui ^**.4 ?-. ? Parkinson, the state inspector of high schools, at Pomaria and we spent a very pleasant forenoon in this fine *rhool. Mr. Parkinson spoke very nicely of the conditions at this school. And said he would approve it as we had complied with the high school law. He .made several very valuable suggestions which we will try to carry out as far as we may be able. Mr. Parkinson is a very efficient school j man and I am very glatl I have nati; the opportunity to see even this much of him. His views and mine are in agreement on several matters regarding schools, where I did not expect we would be in agreement. His view of th^ state furnishing aid to the schools is based on the proposition that it is the business of these state \ aided school? to make men and women ' and good citizens. In this he is entire- | ]y correct according to my way of j thinking. I have said as much a num-! ber of times at several of the schools j during this school term. We should ; at all times keep that idea in mind. Pcmaria school is getting along very J nicelv. A nice and comfortable: \ building, good teachers and bright j children and the parents cooperating! in the right spirit, and we are obliged! to have a school. I am delighted that i it has been accepted as one of the, state high schools and I know the peo-: pie 01 tne community win tunuuuci the good work they have been doing | to maintain a good high school. I am sure that this school will soon rank; among the 'best of the state aided . high schools. The people are now j relieved of any feeling of uncertainty and can and will go to work for ihe! betterment of the school and with the: 5 ' ' " 1 - 1 X1- ? ;? ' amoinon xo msKt; men smuui mc ; school in the state, and they are fine j workers in this communtiy. I went on Tuesday afternoon to Peak and; had a talk with the trustees and some of the patrons of this school. ' I am sure that we will put up a nice j community building at this place dur- j ing the spring. We practically se- j j slfa -Pn v tVlP T1PW I lecieu a utruutii ui cm,6 .... ^ ?.. , building: on land belonging to Mr. j W. M. Wilson, and it is on the hill! | near the edge of the corporate limits, of the town and a nice building there will add very much to the commun-j ity, and if there is a district in the county that needs a new building that i V W iu * VV?.., I On Wednesday I went over to Vaughnville to meet with the trustees to talk further over the -building we are to erect in that district. I am hoping to be able to build a community building up here and a little more , time is being taken to get careful j estimates as to cost 'before making j " 11 * ? T ~^ +lvic in k nnai decision. 1 uupc w UV i/i liw) | the next few days and then we will decide what kind of building the trustees will erect. . i i % I must say a w<^r? or two about the roads. I drove tfr Pomaria on Tuesday and went down the highway to Mr. Singley's and then across by St. Pauls. The highway is very good but the use of the split log drag would improve it very much. The only really bad place is where the detour is made on account of closing the underpays at the rai!roa&below Prosperity. After you leave tne^highway the traveVng is bad. The'kfad is narrow and not properly drained and yet this read if better than it once was after a rain. I was afraid to t^y to the red hills ? ^ ' - 1 T 4. ,] from Jfomar.ia to rean so i wem 021 the train. Coming back from Pomaria I came in Jby Jolly Street as I wanted to make a stop at the Anil hills. That road is a'bout the same as the other only pos|ibly a little worse. I was afraid to Try the direct road to Pomaria, as the highway stops at Mr. Caldwell RufT5, and then part of that has but recently been, finished. This is one highway that should be extended to Pomaria and on to Peak. The people down this side should have some litle part 'Of the highway, ine new territory that has but recently come into Newberry gets none of the highway except a ]it '> bit of the Columbia road below Little Mountain, and the taxable property in this section is nearly $700,000. I understand from Mr. Bouhvare that the road is to 'be extended to Pomaria and . on to Peak. This should certainly be Hone. Then with this road and. the j 1 road on down to Broad liver the coun- j ty would be pretty well covered with S( good roads and one would be in easy j reach of almost every citizen of the'p county. jyj jy< The highway to Chappells is very P good and in good condition. Some fi: (fVlrayO i <t O-rM t MPPH of SOlIie T)i UiV.iV AWT vv.. more top soil and some attention giv- fi en to the drainage of the road. From tl Little river ta the long bridge most of g< the road to Chappells is fine. There tl are short stretches where the drain- vi age is not good and the water stands r< in the road and should have attention, tl From Newberry to Silverstreet there sc % _> ^, are some mighty nne pieces 01 rouu uj and some bad. From Newberry to te Bush River there is need of attention d almost all the way. But I take it this w road has not yet been completed. The h; road from Chappells to Vaughnville k was dreadfully muddy and in great s( need of the split log drag. It is too ir flat and the water stands in the road n* and the travel soon cuts it all in holes. s( A little attention right now will save T this road. It was fine before the it i rain. C Every time I go up this way I can not help feeling- how fine it would be T when the road is built on from Chap-, pells to the river. And I wonder how ; long, oh, how long, before the govern- S1 ment will be ready to let the contract n: so that work may be commenced. It is greatly needed and should be .built now, and why should we have to wait a I Condensed statemer The Commeri at the Loans and Investmer Overdrafts secured Liberty Bonds (Unp Cash on hand and in Capital Stock Surplus and Profits Dividend No. 49 due Bills Payable We wish our eustc New Year. It gives cellent statement of a prosperous one, an< bring even greater pr The clouds of inactiv to a very marked chj of prirlpfivnr durine-1. To the Stockholders of Th< Your Finance Commits of the affairs of the Bank t that all accounts are in ba^ 10th, 1922, which is hereto It is gratifying to repoi Bank discloses that they an sures a high degree of mor; Aitention is called to th Barks and its large holdin also that the correspondent country. These things put ing year in assisting the coi In closing this report th prudent and conservative cc flation and uncertainties, a the Bank are in a splendid judgment and careful man x '-'r JNO. M. KINARD, Presidei FLOYD BKADLEY, Asst. L ! MISS TILLA WEST, Bookl H mi " The Bank ) long to get the work started. I should say that at Pomaria Mr. j arkinson an-d I had a fine dinner with ; [rs. J. P. Setzler, the place where j ou always get a good meal. Mr. j arkinson was so impressed wifch the ; ne crackling bread that he took a 1 iece to .Mrs. Parkinson, and it was! ne, but then the good women down lis way know just how to prepare a ood meal and to cook all the good j lings to eat. And over at Vaughn-! ille I always manage somehow to i igulate my schedule that I reach lere around the dinner hour. And it i 4-U^4- T A i rcr> or I ) Happens iAinu JL get wxic uiuuv& ?*v ne or the other homes of the trus-! ;es. On one of these trips I had [ inner with Mr. L. H. Senn and one : ith Mr. J. 0, Johnson and now I j ave had two with Mr. R. E. Wat-! is, and after driving 25 miles this ^ason of the year you get up a j ligty fine appetite, and the good wo-! ient at these homes always have onifc* YYtx7 onnat.it.P I ;im:uuii? men. juoi cu'ao m* , he next trip I am going to accept the j ivitation of Mr. Coats. E. H. A. ITATION OF LETTERS OF AD-' MINISTRATION he State of South Carolina, County; of Newberry, by W. F. Ewart, Pro bate Juage: Whereas, R. J. McCary hath made lit to me to grant him letters of adlinistration of the estate and effects f A. J. Hollingsworth, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and 1 dmonish all and singular the kindred nd creditors of the said A. J. Hoi Statement: it from report to State Be Condition of cial Bank of New close of business 31st Dec RESOURCES: its and unsecured ledged) banks LIABILITIES: January 1,1922 >mers and friends a pros us pleasure to call attenti our bank showing that th i we confidently expect osperity to our customers ity are rapidly passing, ai mge for general improve: he good year 1922. REPORT FINANCE COMMITTI s Commercial Bank: ie begrs to report that it has mad ;hrough the closa of business Jar lance, as set forth in the Daily attached and made a part of this *t that a detailed examination o; i well secured, and that the perse al obligation. le strong position of the Bank as gs of Government bonds which ;s of the Bank are among the st the Bank in a position to do its f mmunity through what may be a1 .e Committee feels that it cannot urse of the management through nrl wioVioc jjorenn tn pnrnh assist* +1 liquid condition, which could agement. Respectful it. J. Y. McFALL, V lash. JNO. M. KINAR: weeper. JNO. C. FLOYD, UNT, HUNT, & HUNTER, Attys uuiiifui um Newberry, S. C, /y/i/?/?vc fronts ' &.4C.V4.1 MiLVM^ W % * ( lings worth, deceased, that they befs and appear before me, in the court js of probate, to be held at Newberry, (g S. C., on Tuesday, the 15th day of j January, next, after publication here-; 0 of, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to | COE-MORT Quality Fer Reliable Crop growers for sixty years Formulas fo SEE QiiTnmoi? Ri^AC VVI Johnson-McCrackin C< M. L. Spearman ink Examiner of the 'berry, S. C. 1921. $ 825,681.60 , 732.06 140,950.00 232,057.98 $1,199,421.64 $ 50,000.00 112,337.56 3,000.00 50,000.00 $1,199,421.64 sperous and happy on to the above ex e past year has been the New Year to and friends at large, id we look forward mnet along all lines :e. e a thorough examination 10 1Q99 nnH finds luaij JL V/ y Balance Sheet January report. ? the loans made by the >nnel of the borrowers int to cash on hand and in are unpledged, and note rongest and best in the ull share during the cornvery trying period. pnnrimonH fnn VnVhlv the WW - *-0 -- the period of recent de- ,t he fact that the assets of result only from sound ly, W. H. HUNT, GEO. W. SUMMER, F. Z. WILSON. ice Pres. and Cashier. D, Jr., 2nd Asst. Cashier. Collector. > Bank you right" how cause, if any they have, why the aid administration should not be ranted. Given under my hand this 19th day f December, Anno Domini, 1921. W. F. EWART, - IMER'S tilizers 11 r all crops ? i d? Newberry, S. C. v NowKprrv S. t!. Newberry, S. 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