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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
By J. K. BREED IN
Beauty abounds in South
Carolina. Some seem to think
that it is concentrated in
Charleston. Much of it is in
and near the ^rand old city,
but what do you know of other
places?
The State as a whole first
We are washed by the ^reat
Atlantic at Charleston, George
town, Beaufort (Port Royal)
and Myrtle Beach. True we
have a lot of water near Char
leston, especially counting a!
the rivers nearby.
We also have some attrac
tive level land near the center
of tlie State; wi also have roll-
iny plains and hills, as well as
mountains. You can travel ir
your car from the Atlantic t<
the mountains in a few hours
lets’ say eight hours — from
Charleston to the mountains o’.
Pickens county.
What of floral beauty? A
lot of it can be seen all over
the State.
Have you seen the residen
tial areas of Columbia? There
are many miles of flowers, of
all kinds, and that applies to
most of the State.
Have you seen Brooks St.
in Manning, or parts of Church
Street in that attractive small
city ?
Have you visited Sumter?
But I thought of telling you of
Charleston first. Charleston a-
l-ounds in parks. Let’s see some
of them: Kntering Charleston
from the west, say coming in
from Columbia >011 observt
formal parks and other areas
of restful appeal.
Travelling eastward o n
Meeting street \ou meet an
old park a whole bmek—
Wragg Park a restful appeal
it offers.
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Pleasant. Those
great
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idges
are so high
in
order
to
permit war vessel
s to
steam up to the Naval station
at all times—about six or seven
miles. We must not bottle up
the Navy, you know.
The Battery—all of it—will
gladden your eyes as you
watch the waves washing the
land, and across the way you
see Fort Sumter, James Island,
Morris Island and the appro
aches of the broad Atlantic—
about seven miles of watei
from Charleston.
Charleston has much in com
mon with England, the British
like privacy and seclusion, as
do our friends of the old city
many of w f hom have spacious
loveliness in their yards, awa>
from the view of us visitors.
If you enter Charleston by
Rutledge Avenue you see sev
eral small parks and then you
come to Hampton park, a
whole array of flowery beauty.
That is one of the finest parks
in the South.
Just to the rear of Hampton
park is The Citadel, the Mil
itary College of South Caroii
na, an even more impressive
arrangement, I think, than that
of the great U. S. Military
C allege of West Point, on thm
Hudson river, you know.
Continuing eastward on Rut
ledge you come (at Cal hour
street) to a beautiful park
which holds the Museum.
Some blocks on you come tc
The Pond, as the lake is known.
Beyond the Lake you finally
come to the Battery again.
If you have crossed to Mt.
Pleasant on the great bridge
over the Cooper river you can
cross the city and travel over
two other bridges, these too
cross the Ashley river and
carry you to several flourish
ing suburban cities which lead
us to some popular watering
places.
^ cars ago there were ships
that plied regularly between
Charleston, Mt. Pleasant and
Sullivan’s Island.Now you ride
over the bridges. And there
were steamers which offered
sight-seekers a view of the
harbor Fort Sumter-, the Wan-
do river and stretches of the
Ashley—about as far- as the
approach to Magnolia Gard
ens, said to be the most beau
tiful park in the world.
There are parts of Rutledge
avenue which seem to breathe
a (piiet dignity, instead of all
the huhbuh and fury of lift
on East Bay street, beyom
Calhoun (and a few others too)
are some fine old Mansions
which seem to breathe the at
mosphere of early ease ant
comfort.
Broad street, once the center
of big hanking and insurance,
1- not so impressively expan
sive today, for banks flourish
in all parts. In truth we seem
to have a race between banks
ami gasoline filling stations,
for both art 1 going up by leaps
and hounds.
If you wish to see Charles
ton in all its splendor y o u
must go in a boat up and
down, taking in all the harbor,
parts of Wando river, the
Cooper and Ashley rivers.
America for Americans!
Let’s get up on big Party
pol itics.
I sympathize with crafty old
DeGaulle. As he looks over
France he sees Americans and
British like the sands of the
sea.
On every hand DeGaulle sees
signs of America, and Great
Britain. I think he is right to
want France for the French.
Now let us take a leaf from
DeGaull’s book and proclaim
to the world America for Am
ericans!
One important step is to
restrict immigration. We have
more foreign blood than we
can possibiy assimilate within
a century ot two.
Another step is to eliminatt
all the folly of foreign aid. Dc
business all over the world but
have no more foreign aid.
I’ve never known who initiat
ed the foolishment we have as
foreign aid. Don’t we know, as
a matter of common knowledge
that as soon as any aid, easy
credit, or other hand-out is
available we have thousands
ready with hands out in a
manner of supplication. We
know that. I think our trouble
is that we have very few peo
ple who really know ^he value
of a dollar. And in public life
it is easy to give a million
dollars or a hundred million
because the average man in
public life never had so much
so he regards all gifts beyond
a hundred dollars as about the
same.
Why should he worry or even
think of the gift of a hundred
million? He never saw, or
handled or really came in con
tact with anything beyond a
thousand or two thousand dol
lars, so he can as readily vote
for several million or a hund
red million; it is all the same
to him.
I think it is beyond dispute
that we are suffering from
the blinders of housands of
citizens who don’t know the
value of American history or
tradition and who don’t even
speak a few words of our lan
guage.
I could never be a good
Frenchman for I don’t know
the traditions or the language.
One cannot become a French
man because he can speak a
few words of French.
I speak English and have
taught English history but I
am far from being an English
man; so with hundreds of
thousands in New York. They
are not Americans. America is
to them a land of easy living.
So I advocate an America for
Americans; If we would have
a nation of Americans let us
close our gates and undertake
to make real Americans within
two or three generations who
not only speak the language
but are indoctrinated with
American tradition.
PROPERTY
TRANSFERS
Newberry No. 1
Mabel B. Shealy to Paul N
Shealy and Willie Mae Shealy,
one lot and one building on
Charles street, $1150.00.
Leland L. Wilson to Helen
Wilson, 3 lots, $5 love and af
fection.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
J. B. Brock to Elberta M.
Brock 0.97 acres, $ olove and
affection
T. Gerald Manemann and J.
L. Manneman to David Thomas
one lot and one building $5
Silverstreet No. 2
Jimmy Knight and Dorothy
K. Knight to Thomas R. Fant
and Sylvia S. Fant, one lot
and one building, $3,700 and
assumption of mortgage.
Bush River No. 3
A. J. Tinsley to Henry M.
Tinsley, -1 acres. $5 love and
affection
Pomaria No. 5
Charlie C. Dominick and
Elizabeth S. Dominick to Marie
Sease Leitzsey 1.88 acres, $5
and exchange of deed.
Little Mountain No. 6
S. C. Electric & Gas Com
pany to F. E McLemore 110
acres, $1
Mrs. Lillian S. Fulmer to
Reba F Epting and Homer 0.
Epting, two acres, $5 love and
affection.
Mrs. Lillian S. Fulmer to
John L Fulmer and Adelaide
W. Fulmer, 580 acres $5 love
and affection.
Prosperity No. 7
Lillian A. Chapman to Har-
riette E. Epting and Harold
Epting, one lo and one build
ing, $5 love ai. affection.
Marvin E. Bouknight to Ver
non D. Force and Alma T.
Force, one lot and one building
$500.
THINGS”
By DONALD E. WILDMON
Little things aren’t too im
portant, are they? No, most
of the time they aren’t. Or at
least we don’t think they are.
Robert Romano of Staten Is
land would have probably
agreed to such a statement a-
bout little things up to a
short time ago. Then some
thing happened.
Romano was driving home
early one day when, at a de
serted intersection, his car ran
ever a small nail in the road.
A tire blew, Romano lost con
trol of his car, and it hit a
street lamp. The impact bent
the street lamp double. The
auto careened off the lamp-
post and snapped off a fire
hydrant, causing flooding un
der the street.
The deluge undermined the
intersection, which collapsed,
leaving a 50 foot crater in the
street. The cave-in ruptured a
gas main and police in hip-
boots evacuated 17 nearby res
idents to safety. Luckily, there
were no injuries to anyone in
volved.
Little things not too import
ant? One little nail, at the
wrong place at the right time,
caused every bit of that to
happen. Guess we better say
that all little things except
little nails aren’t too important.
But that won’t hold water,
either. Best we admit the truth
and say that little things are
important.
Marriages
Frank Thomas Suber and
Toni Yvonne Mars, Whitmire,
were married at Whitmire on
June 30th.
Henry H. Giles III and Betty
N. Reardon of Newberry were
married on June 29 at New
berry.
Tony Edward Willbanks of
Whitmire and Ruby Rebecca
Medlock of Joanna, were mar
ried at Greenville on July 2nd.
We are sorry for the damage
done in the accident caused by
the one little-bitty nail, but
we are glad it was there. It
made us stop and think and
get some of our values back in
line. It reminded us, in a
dramatic way, that little things
do count and count a lot.
You know, we will find life
that way. Little things count
ing, I mean. Remember the
time we looked over the shoul
der of the classmate in front of
us and nut their work down
for our own when we didn’t
know the answer? It counted,
alright. And remember the
time we took that first little
sip because we wanted to be
one of the crowd? It counted.
Sure did. And then there was
the time when we took that
one little, measly dollar wich
the full intention of paying it
back later. That counted, too.
Little things, you see, still
count in this world. They count
because they are important.
They may seem too small to
be of significance but they
count. Sometimes there appears
in life little nails which we
had not considered important.
And we learn, sometimes, the
hard way, that little things are
important. Oh, how important
sometimes!
“You have been fruitful in
managing small amounts, so I
will put you in charge of large
amounts. Come on in and share
my happiness-” That’s what
He said. And He is the one who
makes little things im ortant.
Our job, you see, is to be good
caretakers over the little we
have. It doesn’t really matter
in this life how much we have.
But it matters a lot h >w we
manage what little we do have.
Are little things important?
Ask Robert Ramano. Better,
yet, as the Galilian Carpenter.
Then watch for the little nails
in the roadway of life. They
are there.
DO.VT FORGET
to take along some insurance on
that boat and accessories. Fire,
theft and liability is available in
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