The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, August 12, 1919, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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Lancaster, S. C., uader act of Congress
of Marcb 3, ls7 9. shade proc
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Country 'Tio of Thoe, 8w??t Land
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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
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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- + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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$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
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