The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-18
PLEASANT OUTING AT CAPITAL
Not Only Pleasant But Profitable
Good For Children and Gr0Wnups
To Go Oil Occasionally.
Editor The Herald and News:


Editor The Herald and News:
AS substitute for "clildren's day"
the Smyrna congregation gave the
Sunday school a trip to Columbia
Tuesday. This was departure from
the established custom but we think
more excellent way Smyrna invited
the other Sunday schools of township
to go along.
Children's day requires no little pa
tience and tact to prepare for about
an hours entertainment, and all soon
to pass away and be forgotten, but an
outing like the one referred to here
will fix impressions upon the minds
and hearts of those children that will
not soon fade away.
Low rate fare was secured for the
occasion over the c., N. & L. to the
capital city and about 200 or more
persons took advantage of the low
rates and crucial tests of their pow
ers of endurance on those grimy,
dusty, humping, screeching, out-of-
date cars, but nobody expects first
class fare on less than half-fare rates
something for nothing.
The schools represented were New
berry, Bush River, Smyrna, Mt. Zion,
New Chapel and Do-n:n1ck. All SEEM
ed to enjoy the entire program OF tae
day-heat, thirst, good shake-up on
the train, bountiful dinner spread
at one of the parks of the city-in
fact everything. No one complained
of anything that happened to not be
up-to-date.
A fine rain in the city pushed that
shiny stuff in the Thermometer down
little and from an aerial battery
we were saluted by, genuine old
time display of natures fireworks.
The old, but silent, pieces of artil-
lery that help to adorn the court yard
of the capitol bear mute testimony to
the sanguinary horrors Of the coun-
try's past history-its achievements IN
blood and carnage-but now peace
national peace-"the lion and the
lamb can lie down together and the
little child can put his hand into the
mouth of those once blazing, thbn-
dering instruments of death which
now, from year to year, are associat-
ed with the monuments of some of
Americas illustrious heroes. These
monuments and pieces of artillery are
more than mere heirlooms of this big
American family-they arouse the
chivalry and patriotic feelings OF
every true Southerner as well as
American citizen. Every child Of the
entire State should have the privi-
iege of visiting, at least once a year,
the capitol of the State, wher laws
are enacted and where capital crimes
are punished. Let the children see as
well as hear. The imaginary becomes
real to them, the question mark
straightens out into an exclamation
point. If the enlargement of vision
is good for a man certainly it is good,
if not better, for a child.
Many of the children who went to
the city that day had never before
witnessed the contrast between the
charms OF the city and those of the
country; some would not exchange
their simple, quiet country life for
the strenuous way of living in the
city, while others are perfectly fasci-
mated, if not infatuated, with the rush
and roar, fast and fashionable strain
on life. Truly this is an age of peace
"a cessation of bloody nostilities-
but it is not an age of idleness.
Swords have been beaten into plow-
shares" and spears into reaper and
binder, but the warrior is admired
only in bronze and marble statutes.
T. E. Croker.