Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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6 A Transparent Trick. Mr. Alfred Noyes. thf younj English writer of clevei verse may be forgiven the boast tha he is making poetry "pay," foi in our time shrewd advertising seems to be a necessary part ol an ambitious bard's campaign to capture the attention of ai indifferent and doubtful public But Mr. Noyes tries the patience of discerning readers when ht announces that Poe was not * poet and expresses surprise that Tennyson and Browning an still in favor instead of beiny tossed into the literary sera|: heap where they belong. This is merelv n renetitinn of the 'veil known advertising method of Bernard Shaw who made himself the talk of the English speaking world less by his undeniably clever plays of a more or less than shocking type than by his public and pretendedly serious declaration that his own productions were far superior to all previous pioneer efforts, including those of the immortal bard of Stratford-onn-Avon. Venturesome advertising of this sort pays because even an intelligent public likes to be startled ?and amused. But it can pay even the original inventor of the method only temporarily, and, without genuin^Oachievement to follow, it muat inevitably end in merited oblivion. Already even the daring Bernard Shaw begins to suggest a burntruit mutuAi. e -e A I ?>II I.n-ivwi cum II iir Kline U1 ..'Alfred Noyes. will likewise fade, and perhaps even more swiftly, unless he can build on his talents and olfer something more convincing and enduring than pert remarks on the subject of the great poets of the past.?Valdosta Times. North Carolina And Roads. The South Carolina legislature just adjourned did not see lit to go in?to the road building business. as it will have to do before many years, by the creation of a state highway commission, but that is no reason why such agencies as may be employed should not continue their activities in the direction just as energetically as they have in the past. South Carolina does not have to go further than just over the line into North Carolina to see what stimulus can be given highway building by a state organization. In that state Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, as president of the highway commission, with those whom he has enlisted with him in the cause, has accomplished great results. The influence of this organization is largely responsible for the road building that has been done in that state, and it is still working faithfully in every part of the state to inspire greater interest in highways. I he other evening at the annual meeting of the Asheville Motor clul) Dr. Pratt was the principal speaker, and in the course of his address he placed emphasis on the one idea that The Herald has been trying to hammer into the people of Spartanburg county for months ?and that is good maintenance. In North Carolina they call it the patrol system; in Spartanburg county we have been calling it the split-log daag system. But hear Dr. Pratt who has had as much, if not more, experience in road building than any other man in this part of the country. You have been, he said, constructing good roads in Buncombe county for the past ten or fifteen years, and yet in that time, perhaps, not a single mile of road has been maintained. Of course you have made re pairs of roads at various frimes, but there is a difference between maintenance and repairs. The road toward Fairview has been repaired at a cost of, say, $300 a mile per year. With the patrol he declared, this road could have been maintained with about $150 a mile expenditure, meaning a saving of $150 a mile to the county by proper maintenance. The patrol system has been inaugurated on the Capital highway from Petersburg to Fayetteville, N. C., and Engineer Winslow, of the government road department, is in charge. At the time the patrol system was inaugurated it was impossible for an automobile to go over the road in winter time. Since the patrol system was put in force Engineer Winslow has gone over the entire length of the highway in his Ford automobile every week rlnrtniv Uiu ??"?6 "??- J VUI , IVCCpillK uie road in splendid condition all the J time. When it snows, he said, the patrolmen go right over th< X road, dragging the snow off a ?i , a regular part of the road main bt t tenance, and in less than tw< i r days after a heavy snow tin t r road is in almost as good shap' n f for use as at any other tini i i during the year. The Hickory i Nut Gap road can be maintained . for all the year motor traffi > with the patrol system as easily ? 1 and as perfectly as the Capita ? i highway, while, as you know ' the road in Buncombe county is ce now impassable to motor traffic hi : Establish the patrol systen have the patrolmen make thei fo daily regular reports of work (!onu jmrl 11 f wViof -"J 1I ?..v, .,v tuiuv |/\sium, <11111 III question of that road will be settied, costing less for mainten 'ri ance than for repairs the old hj way.?Salisbury Post. ^ HOYS. Between heaven and the deep ^ blue sea there is no bigger or cft more complicated subject than eri this. All the future of "all the to nations?all religion, science, ho statesmanship, commerce, de- Th pend on the freckle-faced bc;vs tal of today. Pu The future of this village rests th< upon the boys of this village, of and the boys will develop into rej the sort of men their environ at* men has fashioned them to be. w? There are fine, manly boys in an town?many of them. They ty have sense, manners, ambition, foi They are clean of speech, not too es: arrogant, and quick to learn. th But there are others. There of are boys, not half through their ed 'teens, who are hardened to ev- wc cry vice known to maturity. 1 will not say they are depraved, pu That is a hard, uncompromising st; word. There is another word pithat describes them with singu- of lar and pleasing exactitude? nasty. They are nasty. en Before going auy further, let us admit that all fathers of boys fGi are vastly conceited. They fear p,i ...... ^ mil iiv/i, lUI II till V MS j-);l well as they have. In effect this mi is to say: "At your age, Son, I th< was rough, also. Now I am a fine, an clean man, but I'm afraid you can't do what I have done." That toi is the attitude of nearly all fr( fathers. sic Now let us get back to the tai boys. tei Is it their fault, and their rn( fault only, that they drink cheap re? whiskey, smoke cigarettes, tell su, filthy stories, and endanger their e.sj health with even lower vices? Set Is it their fault that they sti spend uncounted hours, during roi the day and at night, on the go, street in company with older sio j men from whom they absorb little that is good? sni Put a pup in a box with a set piece of meat. Whose fault is it re 1 if the meat is eaten? Surely not pa< j the pup's! He has no sense of | duty and responsibility, and he W* j has an appetite. Boys are what enviornment and training make them. Gei Once in a while the mongrel vrei blood will show in a boy's ac- an^ tions despite training and clean ^ surroundings. But such cases are rare. These vicious boys have parents. Do the parents know what the boys are? Or do they care? Btr Perhaps it is none of my busi- pr ness, but I hate to see good tim- Cr< ber wasted just because the He owner of it hasn't sense enough Hi to put it under shelter. 1)01 T 111 ? ? ? * i noici tnese truths to be self- SUI evident: That the boy who is in school or at work is apt to keep d? pretty clean, and that the boy Ell who is reading at home or is in ha bed at home is somewhat better coi occupied than the boy who is bo roaming about town at night. t0 T seldom waste much sym- to1 pathy on real orphans. Usually ^ they are given food, clothing and decent training in a sectar- ou ian or State institution. All that ja< you and I need do is to help foot sv the bill. But my heart goes out to the poor little half-grown chaps who are developing rotten spots mere- tin ly because their so-called parents flit lack the back-bone, sense and de- nis cency to train and properly develop them. Uo If I should say that these boys to are going to the devil, that might not appeal to you. "Going to the devil" is a vague phrase. But when I remind you of jo\ what you must already know, that is, that these boys are winning the scorn and contempt of all decent folk in the community, iB surely your sense of personal ?t pride will prompt you to do *ci something for them. "t* You ask me what to do? Man, dear, I do not know. I have no 1 1 boys. That is why I can criticise on you so blithely. / i hk l.\m:astkh sews, fei In your own househo'd you ] e the law. But it is not *po?si- a a ^ ; to legislate good morals into j J J* human being. I do not believe s possible to beat good moralto r. boy nearing maturity. Per :<? ?& >.ps you should have started or && le iob some fifteen years am JLJL I am no Greek oraclb.. But 'th < % ? do know. Man or boy thrive *f*f rt on industry, and bath e W* pe devilment when their nund>d hands aie busy it some de t nt tt k?Fountain Inn Tri Jk me. f f y v Drive Out .Hp'.ina V V Ant' II did Up The System % ke the OK. i. laid GROVE'S j i l lSTBLESS c 3: I '' NiC. You knov f t >at you are t. tit#' formula i. nted on every 3 del, bowing it '! I inine and I:r i i . ^ tasteless (oitr. > f ? ...v..,;.. .1. A.A. - x- - " - 1 W iq builds up '... ..r.J 13 cent. ] H hen Newspaper Men do Smile. ^ Newspaper readers frequently II attention to typographical $ ? rors, and are somewhat given saying that they "don't see VV w such a mistake occured." le wonder is that so few mis-IAA kes do occur. The Philadelphia! iblic Ledger recently revived ii e story that the Oxford edition j $ the Bible was read and reid ten times, and that immedi dy after its publication a re~|?n? ird of 50 pounds was olfered to ! & y one who should discover pograhical blunder. One was und in the first chapter of Gen*is. There is another tradition * at the man who read proofs i ?* the Lord's Prayer for that ?, * X ition went insane for fear he' Jt^4^* >uld make a mistake. X 4t4 One of the groat dictionaries \ blished in this country, .".'VA indard authority, was read in oof eleven times, and some of the most learned men in the & J lited Statess worn pnn?f:mili- 1 gaged in revising it, yet typo- X V aphical errors still may be und in the completed work. under in publications or ordi- !,* ry books, no matter from what blishing houses, are common. % ough thev are carefully read Lt d re-read. ! i Y In a newspaper plant, opera- ,^<8* rs of typesetting machines set VA >m the original 'copy" conlerable speed must be main- [ A ned, proof is taken of the mat-' A % * thus set and is read?never >re than twice?by a proof uler, who marks on the margin ch corrections as may be nec- V?x? wry. The lines marked are renew lines of type are sub- A 1 tuted for those in which er-! ^ X s were found. Then the type VV es into the form and imp res>n is made. Therefore, newspaper men iile when they hear, N'I don't Jt ? ? how such a mistake occur- X t d."?Richmond Times-Dis-jV V tch. ?etievcr You Need a General Tonic >. i. Take Grove's j j 'lie Old Standard Grove's Tasteless 11 Tonic is equally valuable as a tieral Tonic because it contains the X X 11 known tonic properties of QUININK : 1 IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives ^ Malaria, Enriches the Blciod and 1 t ilds up the Whole System. 50 cents, j ; yy Luck-Laden. % \n idle person chanced to see a ?&? * igon rolling slowly along Pulton \ JLi PPt Rail lll/?lf nnro.mJ It " ' A A ?mvi? puioucu 11. Al I ^ T oadway, the driver sleepily tried t< )ss in disregard of the traffic pc ?* ??* Oman's ample and warning hand s number was Jotted down in th< 1 X I ok of that recording angel and i rnrnons was handed up. A few rds beyond, and the horse, turninf avoid a hot-chestnut peddler, wen: J ^ wn in a heap. The pavement wat ppery, and he must needs be un messed In the shafts before hi old rise. Another block, and some ^ J dy was digging a hole in the street put in some kind of a main fo. ?* ?? mebody else. The off wheels of thi gon roiled too n.>ar, and the vehi i X t careeited and slid Into the exca Lion. It had to be unloaded labori sly by hand before it could b< ?ked up level again.?New York ? J ening Post. I vV J J Point to Consider. ; Dad," said the prodigal son, "now && it I'm home again and have had my > lg, I'm going to do something to i X 1 ike you proud of me." | 'All right, son," answered the cau-i<B?4> us fathei^ "That's the way for you i A A. talk, but I will reserve my con- I 1 * itulations until you make one point (J J iar." W >ur?ii Tf on, ubu s a a 'How much is this new venture of 7 JT urs going to cost me?" J Time's Changes. yj 'I see that Fift Flubdub, the actress, V T so temperamental that she swoons AA the door of tuberoses. 3o her man- T X reement has to watch her con- Jr J 'Ut> Time brings great changes j ?? mew her once, and she was raised A >, /-i a block next to m gashouse." ** * ?? 3RUARY 26, 1916 ^5r^rVW V V^rVV^I^I^rVVVirV^^r^' 4$ L |>% i^A A |i^| A |j^| |j^i|jf|^j| rV V V W V VVVV rV>' V Hr V V > BE A BOOST And Advertise THE NE\ THIS PAPER CC LANCASTER CO i and is the ONLY that does. It also lates in adjoining coi Lancaster is the of a. Big Trade Distr the people want to what our merchant to sell. Some Live Wires c ready Advertising. DON'T YOU? Our Job Department "On The Jol The Lancastc News _ m jfSA t' *if'' V' 2? "V" M j ' :'-v*v i* * 7- k'/" 'X6 8 ' ' *\ - m V*>?. -v. ? H$? ?%? ? ? <$? f ER I It >VS If .VERS 1 UNTY XXPaper VT circu- XX ?% unties. H XX center u ict and xx know :s have W V V yy yy XX ire Al- || WHY if ===== H >" |: ir P I y 1 < II