Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-08-13

Monday the fourth of August. Mrs
Norris talks beautifully on the Cen
tenary Celebration which she attend.
ed.
To be permitted to attend the Cen
tenray Celebration held in the beauti-
full Capital City of Ohio was very
great privilege, and we heartily wish
ed that every white ribboner could
have been with US. We seemed TO be
going at the right time as the weather
was ideal. The night we spent on the
Pullman was so cool that we found
blankets very comfortable.
The scenery from the car windows
was simply magnificent. Persons who
have never seen the mountains cannot
intelligently sing "My country tbs OF
thee
love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills,
NV heart with rapture thrills etc.
With their heads touching the
clouds and little white cottages nest
ling at their base and their quiet
grandeur and serenity, all seem to i'm
part strength and comfort just to look
at them. And then that lovely French
Broad River threading its way in zig
gag fashion on and on through field
and meadow, made picture that on
ly an artist with paint on canvas
could reproduce.
For miles and miles the car tracks
run along with beautiful fertile val
ley and lovely river on one side and
the everlasting hills on the other. We
marvelled at the ingenuity of man
that could perch a little home away
up on the mountain side and idly
wondered how they got the lumber up
there to build it.
Farther on you come to the under
lating fields of golden ripened grain
ready for the harvest dotted here and
there with substantial looking farm
houses, a glorious country. 1t was for
this goodly land that. our brave boys
sprang to arms and came from office
store, factory, shop and farm to de-
fend her ideals, her principles and her
soil, even with their life blood.
We were saddened to think of the
heart-broken women in Ohio, in Ken
lucky, South Carolina and in the
North, East, West and South, "Rach-
ael weeping for her children and
would-not be comforted because they
were not" and overseas the dead
forms of our hero boys are lying in
Flanders fields where poppies blow"
After reaching Centenary grounds
there were many interesting things
taking place outside of the wonderful
exhibits in the buildings. We went
up in the grand stand which seats
seventy-fve thousand people and saw
educational pictures on the largest
movie screen in the world, one of the
big things at Columbus. Its picture
surface is 115x115. Six men work the
lantern. We heard McAdoo speak out
there and witnessed a most beautiful
pageant called "The Court of Colum-
bia." 1t gave an American thrill to
see the lor line of cow boys and In
dians, and agriculturists and Mex
Americans all dressed in their native
costume. Mountain and school chill
dren dressed in red, white and blue
costumes etc., all pass in review be-
fore Columbia and representative
lay an olive wreath at her feet.
Columbia is the most beautiful
place in the whole wide world to-day,
and the Rainbow Division played
"My country tits of thee," "Dixie,"
"The Star Spangled Banner" and
"The Son of God goes forth to war"
That seemed to be one of their favor
ite selections and we wondered why,
oh why, did not the Sons of God go
forth to war sooner than they did on
the prohibition question. We were
trained to think away back yonder
that our blessed men could legislate
anything in and legislate out and we
trusted them to do no harm, and be-
cause the God of this world had blind
ed their eyes with the big American
alver dollar and the whiskey revenue,
they fell down on their job and be-
cause every hillside and hamlet of
this fair land was groaning under the
insufferable burdens imposed them by
King Alcohol, the Daughters of God
,,yant forth to n,or and instead Of