The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-28
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THE IDLER.
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nOtlce from T. papers lnaL IAe
park is really going to come. am
so glad that | scarcely know how to
express myself, and yet l do think
after all have mad to say about park
that it would have been common cour-
tesy to have invited me to some OF
the meetings and given me the honor
and privilege to have been at tie birth.
But l am not grouchy in the least.
l lave said time and again that what
| wanted was to see the park estab
isaed before | died, and was honest
and sincere in it, and if l had been in
vited to any of the meetings | would
most respectfully have sent my dec
lination, with my appreciatin OF the
consideration, Of course. l notice my
good friend, Mr. Wallace, in his little
paragraph about the organization, has
this sentence: what is to be the
name of the park?" Why Of course,
the question should carry the answer.
The logical name is The Idler's Park.
There is no other conclusion, but OF
course that will not be the name. 1t
Will probably be the Wright park or
the Spearman park, or carry the name
of some who who is now in tie run
ming, and l do not care, because the
park is what | have been working so
hard for all these years, and there's
nothing in name. Then, am
dreamer and can see a vision, and
am glad of it. an somewhat like old
man Columbus He had vision ana
discovered America, and some years
after there came along a man called
Americus, and 10, they called the new
world America, and the old man With
the vision was for the time forgotten,
but now the average school child can
tell you more about Columbus tEan
Americus, and in TACT doubt if many
of them ever heard of Americus. This
world is made up for the most part
of those who take but never give,
sharing in all but sparing naught, who
c.eer a Crude but grudge a cheer.
'Wherefore the paths of progress have
been sobs of blood dropped from the
broken hearts of dreamers.' Makers
of empires they have fought for big
ger things than empires, and higher
seats than thrones"
So let the park come and no one
will all it with more unalloyed Joy
than will The Idler. The dreamers are
the blazers of the way, the men VINO
never wear doubts bandage on their
ewes. Men who hold to courage and
TO hore. 'Walls crruble and empires
fall; the tidal wave sweeps in ana
tears a fortress from the rocks. The
rotting nations drop from off times
boughs, and only things dreamers
make live on "Tfey are the eternal
conouerors, their vassals are the
years" That's me, and therefore why
should l care what happens so the
mark is assured. And don't, and don't
you forget that.
l heard somebody remark the other
day that Supervisor Sample had said
that he would nave had the court house
lawn moved and the ilover cut down
and the grass encouraged to grow, II
there had not been anything said about
it in the papers. Now, to be frank,
and not to contradict any one, do not
believe any such statement, and hope
this it not offensive language. | say
it because 1 don't believe Supervisor
Sample is made in any such small CAL
ibre as that, and 1 believe he is always
willing to take suggestions from any
source. and to act on them if they meet
mis- approval. And am sure ie is now
convinced that 1t is his duty 10 nave
the clover moved and the lawn made
a thing of beauty. And l know ne
will do it.
That reminds me of a little poem
some one sent me. And, you know, as
l have said heretofore, that l would
rather be brought to mind by people
when they read sentiments like these
than the have the park called The
Idler's Park, because it is evidence
that 1 have touched some soul in a
tender spot and made it have higher
motive and a sublimer throught. This
little poem is headed "The Fellow Peo-
ple Like And I believe it fits jim
Sample, because we all like him, be-
oouco u-o know that he is honest and