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PAGE FOUR TheLancasterNews "" """ 1 (SRMI-WKEKI.V.) would aff( BsUbllslied 1852. the ownc Published Tuesday and Friday course of BY THE are built LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. crete roa< Lancaster, 8. C. K. ' The Ness GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN prediction Editor and Manager cans, if tt - theui, wil The New* is not responsible for the . o lews of Correspondents. Short and 11 " e"> rational articles on topics of general the childr Rarest will be gladly received. _____ _ that woulc SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: means. T Cash in Advance. trees woul Ome Year *2.00 the hlghw Six Months 1.00 come a lor Entered as Second Class Matter gathering October 7, 1906, at rhe I'ostotflce at . , Lancaster, S. C., uader act of Congress of Marcb 3, ls7 9. shade proc ^ We supi _ ^ builds the Country 'Tio of Thoe, 8w??t Land of Liborty." the benelil " " they will TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919. times SHADETKEES ON THE HIGHWAYS T() A while ago The News commented rp^e rQ upon the suggestion that shadetrees toba< be planted along the permanent ] roads being built and to be built in , very few y South Carolina. It is quite true that ,, liquor was shadetrees cannot be planted along- , . b and people siuc urn. nwus luruugu ine ihci inai driven out the roads need all the sunshine possl- repeat jts( ble in order to dry out aftetr rains. wjjj p But along concrete roads It would af- .,Kajnst ford a source of pleasure to the mo- . , ? to a degre torist and to others who use the as liquor. roads. The Charleston News and ... .. . . will find t Courier is evidently misguided in this . . . job when respect for it advocates the planting out of shadetrees along the present high- That jt ways. To follow that suggestion ,, ... ble, althoi would be suicide for what we have of ... . Nearly ev< "good roads" in South Carolina. Take, , direction s for instance, a part of the Charlotte * nection wl road north of Lancaster, a road, we (JUO]. .should say. as important and as heav- .. , ' ' Associate ily traveled as any in the state. Un- ? . .. . Prohibitioi der past conditions it has been im- ti,(n Temp passable in winter, and were shade- st.irl tjlc ^ trees planted alongside, it would be ^ hear it f Impassable for a great part of the An(j jt<s summer. However, the Charleston )li(i ^nisli |ia|wr a hum is a goou one applied to concrete roads. oric "In at least one state." says the News and Courier, "the planting of trees along the highways has received ' official recognition as an integral part ('hangebu .. ...... ,.... The wis< of the road-building program. Michiant, for h< gan, which has voted $50,000,000 as ners ^ a good roads appropriation, has stip- ihe ignorai ulated that part of the money is to Seeing vas be used for the planting along the ,0,mat'on , , , that life it roadsides ct torest trees native to the a thorough state. This example should be fol- most j,np0 lowed everywhere. In the South, par- The sur ticularly. we should take note of it, sore hot-a , . oonch V%n r% tor we nave ueen sadly toolish in re- " " .is tOO igni gard to this matter. Tne trees along , chasms in most of our roads where they pass ment jje through cultivated districts have been that huge cut down ruthlessly and the traveller scheme of in summer passes tor miles along ^f> !'<,ah . . . . ?f the ad' glaring unshaded ways where tie* sun are we not beats down with blistering force. anct>. wh Here and there is a notable exception cient mind ?like the main ro.nl on historic adaptation Kdisto island, for instance. Here the 101 1 the most wayside trees and shrubbery ha.e w hen com] been left standing for the most part: XVere as ca and the highway is delightfully shady The tHit and inexpressibly beautiful lying be- hide our \ tween walls of green foliage. of tho past tice? Are ' All our roads should be similarly selves. les< lined with trees and native shrubs qf 0j(j? and vines which will spring up in when it i abundance under them if they are look yours given the chance. It is an easy and muc>1 ' .. ancestors i an inexpensive thing to do and on all accounts it should be done. The Forestry association's effort should be /q pushed and in the South especially There is it should be given the encouragement ' niay be which it merits." name is someth A short wlille ago we were on a . . suggest si train and across the aisle a man. jnj; j, j, whose business was the planting of ciety awft pecan orchards, was explaining to an 'he humar other traveler what is to lie made r,ys'a' VVil . , and staim from-them. We listened and the idea . , memories came to us that pecan trees along COntamina the highways the con# rote high- confused ways, when we get them -would bo erything I an admirable addition to tin- pleas- 'nK anf* 1,1 - . . . . . . . people is ures afforded by the highways. Immunity an cans, we heard him say, sell for 50 onroun,Ke fents the pound, and he was explain- country. THE LANCA i few acres in pecan trees and It being so, is it not ard u luxurious' income to there should be any de< ir. Suppose that in the that would vltiate the ml and make less worth; the next five years there .. them? Of course, poor o a thousand miles of con- thority and legislative is in South Carolina, and do not seem to care for t will stand sponsor for that things, but it is quite , ,. they are not so blind thi , the revenue from the pesee them. le highways are lined with ( be great. Who will get Romance of Coca , somebody will. Perhaps (Savannah Pre! en living thereabouts, but " Candlers sell th . . . . . , . formula and business f 1 not be a drawback by any 000, another romance of he purpose in planting the worM wi? have been wr d be the shade afforded for thing like twenty years i ays and if somebody can Candler bought the form ig and make a profit by cola f?r a small sum, the fruit. it would not placed at $50(K We hav< he had associated with efficacy of the trees as . . ,, _ . j gist or some other bus lucers. | who did not stick thro ;iose that pecan trees could pressing period of intro I as cheaply as anv other, later he sold his holding something in the neighbor- handler. The investmen until now we are told a 25 per hundred, so we have busim>SR so,(, for $25>0 hut if the county which bottling privileges are no road can in any way derive this deal. I from the fruit produced. Coca-cola has been the pay for themselves manv aml dIacus8ed leverage drink variety ever conco are those who say it is that to drink it is to fi KOHIIll r TOBA< CO? difficult to break off. O liibitionists going to pro- hand, there are those wi ?co? Well, it's a far cry. ls merely invigorating am believe it can be done. A liarnif?l- 11 has had the more than one Georgia ears ago sentiment against . . ... . . but nothing has ever b< only beginning to mould ourb the Raie of lt- Thpr said liquor could never be some very readable editc But it was. Will history newspapers of the state ilf? We don't believe it thp drink in no others just as readable de asy to create sentiment . . , , be a harmless beverage. >acco. It may be injurious But whether it is hari e, but not nearly so much or whether its effects an and the anti-tobacco folks lhe system, we are not hey have taken on a big 3S*' But we do knOW formula has boon sold f they undertake to drive it _ . .. . . . .. .. sum indicated in the disp Atlanta, that coca-cola m will be attempted is possi- place with Standard Oil, I lgh by no means certain, dak. Bell Telephone and irything you hear in that that have had Phenomer after modest beginnings it this time has .some con- . .. . passing through periods Ith the driving out of li- pression before finally be< i latest is a charge by the derful successes. m Opposed to National I Coca-cola has been tin t" that the Women's Chris-j of ,he Candler fortur . . | Candler would probably leranee union is going to .... I millionaire without co( Ight. It may, but we want much of his great wealt rom a more direct source. | from it. We imagine i a far cry from the start to ( building in New York, a s , ing in Atlanta and prope ^ of the C'andlers elsewhere the great income from n ISOKS AND PASTK. has been a source of vast Colonel Candler has been his disposition of It. gnorance of Wisdom. . rg Times and Democrat.) ANDREW CAUNFOI ?st man is the most ignor; sees into nooks and cor- STEEI. KIN(i e fields of knowledge that nt man never knows about. (Continued From I*aj >t fields of unexplored inthe wisest man realizes * AltNl-A.IK II.\Pi'lKs I * self is too short to acquire AIX I III*. MO\l . understanding of even the l'eace, charity and ed rtant things of existence. 'he three institutions th; e, talking, boastful, cock- cflted most from the vai ir-artist knows it all. be- of Andrew Carnegie, He nly knows such a little. He own memorials in the :t i arant to know of the vast "'at perpetuate his name his own intellectual equip- world, in the $1,500 is too blind to understand of pence at The Hague, mi i # * ? i ji*ii in iiirs ?" ?*' ? ???w uu wi ?i things. and in the many other t of our great achievement, bestowed in later years, ranee of civilization. Hut Of all the money baro boasting in blinding ignor- SVi,s the happiest, at do we know that the an- One thing he hated at Is did not grasp? Certain to 'I'4* "unwept, unhonoi s of intelligence have been sung," as he wrote in hi nactical purposes, but even Wealth," in 1891. ancient races on record, struggled through pared to us, had minds that boy and ever after retain pable as our own. ?ry ?f it as a stimulus fo t veneer of civilization may was born in poverl ices, but what meannesses said, "and would not < are we not willing to prac- sacred memory with the we less apt to conceal our- iionaire's son. Give me t t hypocritical than the men boy whose mother is r Progress can only be real stress, washerwoman, co s revealed in individuals; angel and saint, all in on< lelf over, ask yourself, how father is guide, exemplar mprovement am I over the Andrew Carnegie was r>r my rtice": fermeline, Scotland, N< 1835, the son of a poor Contaminations. 1 1 he came with his pare hlo State Journal.) ica and settled in Allege i a play- the Scarlet Trail Carnegie's first job wj fit for decent society, but mill as bobbin boy, for doesn't signify it. There ceived 20 cents a day. ing about it that doesn't came a messenger in th mple living and high think- office of the Ohio Telegra t a theme that bothers so- and in his spare time lea illy. Don't you know that phy. i soul is like a glass of pure Starting as telegraph iter, which is soon colored the Pennsylvania railro; ed by low thoughts and month, Carnegie worked > There is nothing that so division superintendent i tes public sentiment as this of the railroad. He was personal experience. Kv- Col. Thomas Scott, then hat encourages low think- perlntendent, when Scotl idermines the virtues of the tip. He advised the boy a distinct harm to a com- Adams Kxpress stock, id whoever engages in such Carnegie had n? moi nient is an enemy of the mother mortgaged the lit Isn't that perfectly plain, had built with her savin STER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. strange that ?* + ed permitted nds of people Jj^ y citizens of ^ Id public auarbitrariness A his condition ? Z\ certain that it they don't -tola. ^ 33.) eir coca-cola ?? or $25,000.- A *17 the business Y ClI itten. Some- i _ . A ago Col. Asa J ula for coca- 1 commonly I iTODllV b understood ?? J him a druginess friend ?___ ugh the de- ^ duction and ;s to Colonel has grown I part of the A ^k i 00,000. The & fl fl B fl X fl I fl I | X V/' most cussed <T of the soft cted. There ? a drug and I arm a habit Ji n the other 10 declare it 1 in no ways attention orjV pypfv Roi legislature.) ?? EiVCry DO sen done to'X . k TXT t e have been A ing AW/ >rials in the Jfc r:t2T? <? 15th entit iclaring it to _ _ _ hand aboi nful or not. ??? lr'Z'n"! lo'T applicatio that if the j or the mtv get yours. atches from j lust take itsj4*? Eastman Koother stocks i lal advances; ^ i nnil at'tf>r ? , of early do- ? roming won-' V B <^x oanK ie. Colonel have beon a a-rola, but ^ h has come he Candler iinllar buildrty holdings ^^^ ? came from ~ oca-cola, n him $600. Carnegie bought 10 sh wealth and of s,ook- That ^'i18 the beginntn generous in!'118 Prosperous career. Carnegie was still working Scott when a man named Wooi! F THF presented a proposition to ] '' ' I Woodruff was inventor of the 1, PASSES 1 sleeping car, anil Carnegie was a: \ to "finance" him. With the foi see One.) i tjon nf u,0 Woodruff Sleeping company, Carnegie's road to fori f>l ' was begun. A GABON'S, The next venture was bridge lucation are struction. Carnegie, Scott and ano it have ben- formed the Keystone Bridge wi st donation* and later the Union Iron works, erected his was the first to bring to this cou Mlfl lilirartoQ ?h<> lt.->s??"iier nrnr???<s of making f throughout in 1 868. i,600 temple. That set Carnegie on track %\ Holland, in he followed to the end of his d tional funds lie organized company after comi charities h?* in the iron and steel business. After heading the firms of ns, ( arnegie nogie, I'hipps A- Co., and Cam Brothers & Co., he combined thesi ?ove all was terests into the Carnegie Steel < red and un-|pany( ,u 1809, and In 1901 came s Gospel of, eventual consolidation into the , 000,000,000 United States Steei poverty as a poratlon. ed the mem-i , . r .? . i VV ith the formation of the steel r his gifts. I .. i# . porauon i aruegie retired. hih v lio onoo ' ' i come was $20,000,000 a year exchange ita.... _ and his fortune was estimate richest nul- . . . .... ^ , nearly half a billion. In 00 y he life of the .. ? . ... I the Carnegie estate had grow n 1 iurs?. seam-. a joan jgoo a fortune of 9? 0 ' V a?, Gr' 000,000?more than 98.000,00 s, and whose year, and friend.'* In his later years Carnegie r orn.n as much as 925,000,000 a year, ivember 25, ... .. ... . . , until then did he begin giving i weaver. At , . , , i nearly as much as he received 1 n s to . mer investments. His donation? 1 n v [ h I taled more than 9300,000,000. is in a linen ~ ...... . . . , . Carnegie started giving in 1 wh cli hp rp ., . . with donations of 920.000 and \ovf ho Kn """ I 000 for libraries, e Pittsburgh) ph company. Hy 1!,?0, ra eK'e had given rno(| telegra-'000'f,0f) for thf> erection of llbr in America. Kurope. Africa. Aust operator for ftnd Asla? an(1 only $60,000 for < ad at $25 a PurP?8P9I his way to T'pon his retirement in 1001 n Pittsburgh though he continued adding tr secretary for fortune by some $25,000,000 am division su- Carnegie made gifts that aver I gave him a $22,000,000 a year, to invest in Carnegie gave $10,000,000 en inent toward International p ncy, but his $1,500,000 for erection of the | tie home shej building at The Hague and spent gs, and gave er mil.ions for various educat * I TUES r- ^ 00 FR] io Boys and Girls y and Girl saving enough ? VR SAVINGS STAMP by led to keep the Bank. W nt August 11th instant. # n now, so that you will b< COME IN TO SEE US THE . of Lane LANCASTER, S. C. i>rksi - I ! purposes. Fenne ntryj Carnegie married Miss Louise week, it00/ whitfiold. of New York In 1887. lie Mr. leaves her and one daughter. Mar* some hlch garet. born in 1887. who falls heir to are II. lays. the famous Skibo castle in Scotland, , >any the imposing mansion of Fifth avenue, New York, besides the Carnegie ,l,<' Car- millions. " egie sin- + + + + + + + + + + + + + -?m- ? TABERNACLE. * the + + $1. cor. Tabernacle, Aug. 11.?The health of this community is very good at present with the exception of Miss Ida Taylor, who has been in a serious eonI IH' ,, . _ dition for some time. then (1 at Miss Alma Shute Brewer, of MonFears roe, N. has returned home after from ^Pending a week with Miss Odessa >00.0 a Mr. Charles Taylor arrived at home Sunday. He has been in service 19 nade months. Oyer a year of this time j^ot being spent overseas. tway Mr F. Clyde Funderburk, reprefrom sentative of the Tabernacle Council, 1 to- No 7 2, is attending the state council Sljri Junior Order U. A. M., which con88.1 vones at Aiken this week. an^ |30,. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith and chtt- tho dren of Charlotte, N. C., are visiting Cljr . lrt relatives here. I 140.. | Th, arles Miss Maude Blackmon, of Douglas. ralla returned home after several days', Cor >ther visit with the Misses Taylor. j Mr. A. C. Howell made a trip to the ^ j , al- Haile mine and other sections Inst ? > his week on business pertaining to nual- schools His daughters. Misses Annie, Qn( aged M Idred and Huth Rowell and Miss ___ 'Etta Belle Funderburk accompanied dow- hi?- Lsr eace.j Prof. J. T. Clinkscales of Wofforfl >eace J college delivered a lecture at the oth- church Sunduy night, August 10th. | ional Miss Cynthia Itowoll went to the i iDAY. 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