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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Armfield Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act pf Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., f 1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Summing up our travels, as requested, what stands out in our memory? We travelled 7600 miles, not a direct route going or return ing. We went by New Or leans—which was out of the way—but like the days of France, when all journeys in cluded Paris, so one may trav el many miles to enjoy New Orleans. So, New Orleans stands out, with its tumultuous, crushing Mardi Gras. Baton Rouge, the Capital of Louisiana, is remembered for •the beauty of the State House and surroundings; and for the tragic figure of Huey P. Long, standing in frozen silence on his pedestal commanding a view of the entrance to the State House. That man had brains and ideas; and he knew no restrain until th e assassin’s bullet carried him to the little plot. All through the travels, my mind played with Huey Long and the great “if” of history. Houston and San Antonio al ways repay a visit. Houston’s people have made many mil lions; have built a great city; have planned to make this the first city of America. And they may do it- They have men and they have money too. Above all, they have the en thusiasm and zeal of evange lists. Any town which can make itself a great seaport, while rixty miles from the sea is cabable of doing anything. Against the bustling aggres siveness of Houston there is the milder temperament of San Antonio—the beginning of the West. An American might pro fitably renew his patriotic fer vor by spending several hours in the Alamo. While remem bering Davy Crockett, we might refresh our memory of the two South Caolinians who are imperishably of a part of that tragedy—IW. D. Travis, who was the commander of the garrison, and James Butler Bonham of old Edgefield, who tried t° g et re-enforcements. Crossing Texas is a great journey — about a thousand miles. We were on the way to El Paso, the pass, one of the gates to Mexico, just across the itio Grande. El Paso is typi cally western in its warm wel come and comradeship. Every one was so gracious that I shall hold in grateful memory the visit to the great boder town. I have visited several of our border towns along the “Great River,” as Rio Grande means The truth is that the Rio Grande is not a big river. But it flows so many desert miles that its early explorers must have thought any river a great body of water. I’ve been to Laredo, and on through Mexico; then to El Paso, and over the line several times; again at Del Rio, Texas, though I didn’t cross there. However, at Douglas, Arizona, we crossed and visited the Mexican town of Agua Prieto, the others over the line being Juareth, and Nuevo Laredo. Standing most prominently was our visit to sturdy old John Nance Garner, long a great public figure, now in the mellow period of effective age, sitting in a rocking chair in his chicken yard, admiring his chickens, thinking, perhaps, that chickens, like people, have short memories of benefits re ceived. A chicken is a million miles from a dog, in appraising its qualities. And they are far apart in other respects: a chicken gives its life to give us the thrill of a good time; but the dog lives to make v us happy. “Take my property, if you will, but let me have my inde pendence,” said Cactus Jack Garner. I asked if I might quote what he said. The old warrior’s eyes twinkled as he said: “I never give interviews, you know; but you can say you head me say it.” Oyer the long stretches of desert miles; and twisting in and out of the mountains, I saw Huey Long and John Nance Garner — one struck down while full of ambition and plans; the other quietly musing over a long period of public service, ended by his own choice, as a matter of principle. Mr. Gamer sent his regards to James F. Bynes, whom he knew intimately in the Sen ate; to Olin D. Johnston, whom he knew as Governor; and to Burnett R. Maybank, who, as Mayor of Charleston, was host to Vice President Garner at the Azalea Festival Their warm and appreciative letters I have sent to the old patriot of Uvalde. I haven’t left Texas yet, have I? Well, it’s quite a State, with lots of room, as my comrade Brutsch said. White faced cattle looked at us in Texas, and thoughout the West, when anything look ed at us except the hills and mountains, or the endless des ert, as it sometimes seemed. We cut across a corner of New Mexico, on the way out, but saw more of it later, and struck out for Boo thill Ceme tery, Tombstone, Arizona. My friend Brutsch had probably read a lot of Wild West staff when he was a lad and those victims of violence were heroes from his boyhood. Every man in that cemetery, I’m told, died of violence, in those tempestu ous days of two-gun brawlers, except one: he died of small pox. No man was willing to touch that dead man, so 0 cowboy lassoed him by the feet and dragged him to an open grave, dumping man and rope into th e grave. Three oi four of the men were hanged, one by mistake, as the inscrip tion reads. By now it is all the same to him. • Next we went to the Grand Canyon, driving miles through the park, spending the night there, in all the snow and ma jestic beauty, a grandeur that is like the awe of a great sil ence. As we walked about, Friend Brutsch spoiled some films of the monumental scene by having me in the picture. Even Nature rebelled, for I’ve heard nothing more about the pictures. At the Canyon, Comrade Brutsch suggested that the whole Canyon be made a res ervoir—217 miles long, 4 to 20 miles wide, and a mile deep. I endorsed the idea, and we wonder why Congress doesn’t act at once. Wie went over to Hoover Dam, a project involving nearly three times as much as our Santee-Cooper, een though us ing part of a Canyon. That delightful lunch in a tea room in the desert—Santa Claus—came before we went to Hoover Dam. Through Las Vegas, we set out for the California desert, making our way to Los An geles Snow rested on the mountains, snow lay on the road level, too, though the roads were clear. The dry air must hold the snow. In time, we reached Los An geles, but only after passing through the pretty town of Pasadena. All the idea of finding fruit everywhere, and fruit juices, was lost in the reality, for I’ve bought pur e orange juice in Greenville, South Carolina, in Augusta. Georgia, and in New Orleans, for less than we paid along the way. And now Los Angeles. What a great city! An Am erican city in greater degree than New York, Philadelphia or Boston, I think. Those wes terners are a whaie-eouAed, breezy lot; I liked thqra. Los Angeles has a great pop ulation; it has money; it has ambition: and it has abound ing faith. These Californians don’t hesitate to undertake new things. They rr*ike 693 pounds of lint cotton per acre and expect to become the fourth cotton State in number of bales. Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles, is known all over the world for its movie activities. I did not see a movie hero or heroine; it was just a pretty city to ihe. Our trip from Los Angeles For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE 1014 Main Street Opposite Memorial Square 24 HOURS SERVICE elephone 31 IW to Sacramento included the glamorous city of San Francis co. We enjoyed San Francis co. as a great city with a mag nificent bay, but it suffers in comparison with Los Angeles. It reminded me of the exquis ite art of the French and Bel gians, the wondrous master pieces of painting, of glass, of cathedral facings, as compared with the bareness of some of our American speciments. Of course the* best that can be moved has been brought to America but much cannot be moved. * Cities being largely the han diwork of men may be repro duced. We saw some founda tions: for beyond question, much of the greatness of Cal ifornia has grown out of that feverish rush of a hunded years ago. San Francisco is a great city, but how much of it grew of the digging and delving, the sacrifice and sorrow, the hopes and disappointments, the suf fering and the hardship that we can associate with Caloma, where James Marshall found the nuggets in th mill race of Sutton, his employer? That discovery of gold and the mil lions of gold taken from that valley, from Caloma to Jack- son were the rejuvenating tonic for America, as were the ship ments of Peruvian gold the re vitalizing influence about four hundred years before. Wonders we saw aplenty, such as the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert. That wood, bearing its bark, now all pet rified, transformed by the al chemy of Nature into beauti ful stone of many shades and colors, any part possible to use as a setting for a ring. And through Death Valley to Scotty’s Castle: The builder of tins remarkably attractive plaee spent a great fortune in con structing in the desert a place of singular charm and comfort. He is a character of romance, a story-book hero, yet a man of flesh and blood, a friend and companion of Buffalo Bill and other figures of our Western development. The Prodigal Son lives among us he is legion, multiplied by thousands, perhaps millions. And the spirit of the French King, Louis XV is here, hand in hand with the Prodigal. Said the Prodigal to his fa ther: “Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.”— and he went his way, enjoying the fruits of his father’s hus bandry and the patient toil of his brother. If both sons had made the same request, at the same time, the father would have had nothing left. But the father’s prudent adminis- NOTICE OF ELECTION A petition having been filed with the County Board of Ed ucation asking tor an election in Midway School District No. 19 for the purpose of electing a trustee to take the place of one whose term expires in Ap ril 1949, the said petition is hereby granted, and the elec tion ordered held Saturday, Ap ril 16, 1949 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the school house (White) in the said district. The trustees of School District No. 19 to act as managers of said elec tion. Only patrons and resi dent taxpayers shall be eligible to vote. Newberry County Board of Education 4|8-15c NOTICE OF ELECTION A petition having been filed with the County Board of Ed ucation asking for an election in Johnstone School District No. 12, for the purpose of elec ting a trustee, the said petition is hereby granted, and the elec tion ordered held Saturday, April 16, 1949, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the school house (white) in the said district. The trustees of School District No. 12 to act as managers of said election. Only patrons and resident taxpayers shall be eligible to vote. Newberry County Board of Education. 4-l-3tc NOTE change in dale of election. 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