The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-04-15
PICTURE
PUZZLE.

PUZZLE.
The Greenwood Index got off a
pretty good joke at Abbeville's ex-
pense in it's "Booster Edition" The
CITY of Greenwood has planned a
number of booster trips into adjoin-
ing counties, one of which took in
parts of Abbeville and Anderson.
The routes ran out from Greenwood
very much as a ''granddaddy's" legs
90 out from his body, showing the
body very prominently and striding
magnifcently over all petty objects
in the path. One foot and leg OF the
magnificent "granddaddy" extended
over sections of this little place and
Anderson. The whole made a very
attractive picture for Greenwood,
that was displayed in the Booster
Edition of the Greenwood Index,
and distributed all along the route.
Under the puzzle picture were print
ed the words, "Find Abbeville."
Knowing that some citizens of
Greenwood were a little hazy in their
geography, a number of Abbeville
citizens in automobiles met Green
woods booster party at Due West
ndSiloted them to the mother city.
Once here the old mother did her
best to extend a motherly welcome
to the p~aternal home; did it in a
cordial way, and is hattered in the
belief that the visitors were pleased.
Some one has said that ~"affection de-
sends but does not ascend" in the
same degree. That is, that the
mother loves the child much more
than the child can ever possibly love
the mother. Perhaps this is true of
counties springing from the mother
county, as it is of the family relation.
One thing is certain: Abbeville has
no quarrel with her offspring if she
can make all the world beside see
the axis of the earth sticking up
right in the middle of the town, just
as the Index sees it. And as long as
Greenwood is not ashamed to. come
back to the old home, she will be
welcomed, and we will even 60 out
to meet her. :.
Some day, when all of the fourteen
miles of space now separating Green
waod from Abbeville, will have been
covered by the westward growth OF
that progressive city, some OF her
captains of industry, worn and weary
with the world struggle for civic su-
premacy, may build a home in our
quiet hamlet. "Far from the mad
dening strife" of business. cares, from
the whirl and furry and rattle OF
congested city life, the Greenwood
business man might rest here at
nights, refreshing himself for the
greater struggle on the morrow. In
some such way business men of At
lanta, Chicago and New York find
rest and recreation. Why not the
business men Of Greenwood? Any
little suburb will serve as a resting
place for the mind racked business
men of a metropolis.
That Greenwood is sure to be a
mighty metropolis her people are
confident and we are hopeful. All
the signs are good, and she has al
ready passed the soap bubble period.
Only the addition of some hundred
or two thousand inhabitants is neces-
sary to make of it a real city, and
she is reaching out after them. AL
ready the ten thousand mark is in
full view of some Of her long-sighted
citizens.
When Abbeville becomes a sub
urban town we ask just this "poor
BOOM: "Will you kindly let us re-
tain our corporate EXISTENCE? This
much agreed on, we will concede to
the Index all that it claims for Green
wood. We will not ever ask for a
place on its booster map.
Seriously, Greenwood is a progress
sive town and we can but admire her
spirit of enterprise. We make no
pretense to a like spirit of enterprise;
though we think we have a good
town. Greenwood deserves success
and we. hope she may attain the
measure she has set for herself.