The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-06
APPALACHIAN HIGHWAY
VLANEWBERRY- -WHITMIRE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED
TO PUSH WORK. I
Enthusiastic Meetings Held at Whit
mire and Glenn Springs-Great
Interest Manifested.

'You can't build roads with spoon
and megaphone," some one remarked
On the trip over the proposed Appa-
ladhian highway at one of the meet
ings on Wednesday. This is very true,
literally speaking, but it is also true
that the megaphone and a certain
amount of "hot air" are necessary to
get the people aroused, for as Ben
Tfllman said in his famous campaign
some years ago, you can't get your
reforms through unless you can get the
ear of the people, and in order to get
the ear of the people they must be
aroused
It takes agitation and certain
amount of enthusiasm to accomplish
anything. You must first wake the
people up and make them see things
before you can get them to do things,
and sometimes things that are for
their own personal good.
Some days ago Commissioner E. }.
Watson went over tie road from New
berry to Spartanburg via Whitmire,
Union and Glenn Springs, on to Spar
,tanburg, with view to scouting out
a highway for travel from the low
country to the mountains, via the
mountain highway from Spartanburg.
AFTER going over the road and making
a map and taking measurement Of dis
tances, hesappointed Wednesday as une
day to bring along a government en-
gineer and to hold meetings at the
various centers touched by the high
way and talk the matter over with the
people and determine if an effort would
be made to build the ROAD.
Tie rains of the first part Of the
week and the threatening weather on
Wednesday caused some Of the New
berry people to conclude that Col,
Watson would postpone the trip, but
when he makes an appointment it
takes more than little rain and mud
(, dy roads to cause him to abandon it.
So he rolled into Newberry Wednes-
day morning about 10 o'clock from Co
lumbia and some Of the citizens got
together and arranged for two cars to
go with him. If the weather had been
good there would probably have been
some dozen cars and number OF
ladies in the party.
Accompanying Col. Watson in his big
6O-horsepower Mitchell were Engineer
w. L. Spoon, LaCoste Evans, good
roads booster from Chesterfield county
and Mr.. Blackwell. Going from New
berry were Alderman J. R. Green, DR..
w. E. Pelham and B. c. Matthews,
driven by B. 1. Hodge, and Supervisor
Sample, B. B. Leitzsey and E. H. Aull,
driven by Sam Johnson.
The party left Newberry at quarter
to II o'clock and went by what is
called the lower road, down by the
Caldwell place and out by Charley Su-
ber's and John NJ. Suber's. This is the
road surveyed by Col, Watson and is
shown on the map of the Appalachian
highway published in this paper. This
road. for the first nine miles, Eas
always been considered one of the best
stretches of road in the county. The
remainder of the road is fairly good
in some portions, and in others it IS
not so good. In fact, all of the road
is now in need Of repair. The party
arrived at Whitmire something after
u O'Clock and soon after arrival
meeting was field in the school audi
torium, presided over by Mr.. VIM. Cole
man. There were about $50 persons
present, many Of them being farmers
along the road. Mr.. Watson said it
was one of the best and most enthusl-
astic good roads meetings he had held
in the State. Mt. Coleman, in intro
ducing Col. Watson, said he had Geard'
ne did not know if true of not, that
There were people in NeWberry who
did not want a good road from Whit
unire to Newberry. He could not un-
derstand why tnat Should be. Whit
mire was anxious for tie road and he
was sure such road would be bene-
fetal. to both towns.
Col. Watson spoke Of the value OF