Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-06-20
CELEBRATION HERE
WAS Big SUCCESS
Large Crowd Present at Board Of
Trade Boosters Day" Speech
by Head Of Norfolk & Western.

The celebration on Wednesday,
under the auspices of the Taze-
well-North Tazewell Board of
Trade, a civic betterment
organization only a few weeks
old, was successfully carried
out, and demonstrated that the
Tazewell people are fully capable
of entertaining large bodies Of
people in most acceptable
manner.
E. At least 400 people were here
to attend the exercises, over $50
coming upon special invitation,
which carried all ex penses, on a
special train, run from English,
W. Va.
The special from English and
the special bearing President l..
e. johnson and party arrived
at 10 o'clock. The trains were
met by automobiles and street
cars and the visitors were
brought directly to the High
School auditorium, where the
addresses were made. The
auditorium was crowded and
the arrival of the speakers was
made the occasion for outburts
of applause.
President B. w. Stras, Of the
Board of Trade, introduced Mir.
Edgar L. Greever, who in turn
introduced the chief speaker of
the occasion Mr.. l.. e. johnson.
Mr.. Greever's Introductory
remarks, always timely and to
the point, were especially so on
this occasion. He called atten-
tion cf the visitors to the fact
that Tazewell offers unusual ad-
vantages to home-seekers, and
reminded them of salubriousness
of our climate, the accessibility
to the new coal fields and offered
many other unanswerable argu-
ments to prove that Tazewell,
in a great many respects, is in
a class by itself.
Mr.. Johnson began his address
by saying that before leaving
Roanoke he had asked several
persons what he should talk
about in Tazewell, and he had
been told that if he wanted to
make popular address to talk
about the Tazewell people and
tell them what a fine section
they live in, which he very aptly
did by saying that Tazewell
people were in a class strictly
by themselves, and their section
of country must have been
modelled after heaven, and is
populated by those a little lower
than the angels.
The speaker had been misin-
formed as to the habits of the
graziers in this section, saying,
"All Tazewell people have to do
is sit on their front porches,
drink mint julips and watch the
cattle grow fat.
Mr.. johnson spoke briefly on
the public schools, saying that
this was day of specialization
that in order for a boy or girl
tor each their height of useful
ness it was necessary that they
devote their time to a study of
some special branch, either in
the arts, sciences, trades, pro-
fessions, agriculture, or to that
to which they may have a
peculiar fitness. He believed
that great strides would be made
in this direction in the next few
years, and believed that woman
suffrage, which is soon to be
incorporated in the national
laws, will aid materially in
bringing about, these desired re-
suits.
AS to road building, the
speaker said this vexatious
problem was not unlike the
building of railroads-identical,
in fact, and that in spite of the
waste of money and mistakes
that are made by men in either
great undertaking the results
obtained out-weighed all other
considerations-that "a man
who never makes a mistake is a
man who never accomplishes
anything, and is not worth a
hurrah." Mr.. johnson spoke of
the activity in this county in
road building, noticing partic-
ularly the highway construction
in Clear Fork district along the
railroad.
Speaking of farming lands, he
said that the fallacy that land
can be worn out by constant
cultivation has been exploded by
recent investigation, a section
of farm land in Germany having
been found that has beer
cultivated for the past two