The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-11-09
THE IDLER.
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Somebody has sent The Idler a
COPY of a. part Of Spartanburg pa
peri think it is the Spartanburg
Herald. There we're two pieces
marked. One Of them is headed,
Playground" The other IS as tol.
lows: "The '-- Playground.
How would that sound, with some
honored citizens name in the blank,
through all the coming years. just
what T have been trying to suggest
to some of our people who have
means. but I can't get noise OF any
kind that would sound like that. A
playground and a park are about the
same thing. The purpose is the same.
What a great blessing one would be
to Newberry and no town the size
Of Newberry has the natural adVan-
tages that we have for making a most
beautiful park. Well, it will come
some time and the words I am vast
ING now will bear fruit in the coming
wears and some one will give the park
or start, the movement, even after L
am gone and forgotten. So it comes,
I don't care anything about the cred
It. The people who really do things
DON: get the credit for the doing.
Tie article in this Spartanburg pa
per says: "Thickening density OF
population steadily brings new con-
ditions to which timely readjustments
must be made, if we would escape Sc
we're penalties hereafter" Now that
sounds good, doesn't it? I wish l
could write like that and maybe l
could arouse our people to the I'M
portance Of getting busy in the build
ing Of park as have suggested.
I mean, maybe I could get some one
to make noise like starting the ball
rolling. No town has superior nat
ural advantages. The north fork OF
Scots creek from the railroad. to
Glenn street would make an Ideal
park. Listen again to this Spartan
burg editor, I suppose it is the editor
"Gifts Of Fairgrounds to the city,
dedicated forever to the childhood of
our community and named after the
donors would be fine expression OF
civic spirit, for instance. In any case,
however, it is a matter to be think
ing about"
Yes, something to be thinking
about. That is good. Anything to
keep US thinking, or to put us to
thinking. I mean the people. As
for me, I am thinking all the time,
Sometimes thinking about where /
will get money enough TO buy bread
and sometimes thinking about the
clothes I will wear during the win
ter, or rather where I will get any at
all, and sometimes and mostly think
ing about the improvement and beau
tifving of this good old town Of
Newberry and how I can best get the
people aroused 10 the Importance of
doing things as they ought to be
done. Well. any hing to get the peo,
pie to think. That is what makes
life and what distinguishes man
from the brute. The power to think
but what good is the faculty if it /:
not exercised. You remember the tai,
ems spoken Of in the Good Book
The man who buried his for fear he
would lose it-what became Of him ?
Now. you people who have talents,
vol would brtter put them to use and
not bury them in some old bank
vault. What good will they do in
there.
T read in some paper The other day
where some citizen of one Of the pro-
gressive towns Of this State had sued
the town for injuries received from
falling in hole III a. sidewalk anc
that he had gotten verdict tor sew
erai thousand dollars. and that tht
town had carried the case to the SUI
<Dreme court and the supreme eour
bad sustained the verdict Of the low
er court. and the town will have K
eay up. I simply mention this as
warning to the city council OF New
berry, and would suggest that tht
citv attorney look up this case an'
call it to the special attention OF clt!
council. Not that there are any hole
in the sidewalks on any of the street