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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
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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.
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 con
solidating said district with
Newberry District No. 1, the
said petition is hereby granted
and the election ordered held
Saturday, April 16,1949 between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m. at the School House in
said district. The trustees of
said district to act as mana
gers of the election.
All qualified voters (having
registration certificate at least
30 days old and issued since
Jan. 1, 1948, a tax receipt show
ing taxes paid in said district^
be a resident in the district,
where voting takes place, for
4 months prior to the time of
the election, in this district)
shall be- eligible to vote, and
if a majority of those voting
shall favor consolidation the
consolidation shall become ef
fective, and the patrons of said
district shall enjoy the privi
leges and responsibilities of
Newberry District the same as
those now in the system.
Newberry County Board
of Education. 4-l-3tc
NOTE change in date of
election.
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tration, together with the faith
ful cooperation of the older
son, made possible the heavy
spending and riotous living of
the wasteful young fellow. Who
saw only his own enjoyment
of the moment. I am aware
of the spiritual leson, but I
wish to think of the problem
in its earthly aspects.
We are becoming like that
Prodigal. Through generations
of hard work this country be
came enormously rich. Not
every man became rich: at no
time and in no land has every
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when He said,
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This may be found in Matthew
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the world today is under the
spell of those who have done
little to promote the general
prosperity, but who, like the
Prodigal,- have their hands out,
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Politicians and half-baked
goods that falleth to me.”
theorists think to win the pop
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gain and nothing to lose—at
the moment. And if they
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will result in the tyranny of
masterful gt-oups who will rise
from the ashes of a burened
out economic order, they would
hug themselves with the ec
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and say like King Louis XV:
“After us the deluge.” Right;
after you and I haVe shuffled
off this mortal coil, we care
not what calamity befalls. In-
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