Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-10-06

deeds, his bit to save civilization
Let the American Legion get to worl
all over the country
But let others get to work, too, up
on other lists of naElSs. We have mer
Of science, dead and living, who de
serve this sort of commemoration
Fulton has it already. Edison mus
have it some day. And how about the
inventors of the -airplane? We havt
sculptors, st. Gaudens; painters, Win
slow Homer; architects, Richardson
Mck:m; musicians Haven
should have Horatio Parker Street.
illustrators, Mast; and every town in
our Rock Mountain, West should have
Frederick Remington Street. We
have scholars known throughout the
world of scholars: Horace Howard
Furness, Francis ]. Child, William
james. France would have street
| for every one of these. We have
great constructors in the materia!
world, A. ]. Cassatt, James ]. Hill
| A. T. Stewart, Z. H. Harriman-some
| of them held lawless in their day, but
all public benefactors on the whole
Should not DR.. Walter Reed be thus
commemorated? A hospital bearing
his name is not enough remembrance
for ridding Cuba of yellow fever And
should not Oliver Wendell Holmes
the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?
We have historians, Fiske, Pres
colt, Motley, Farkman; poets, Emer-
| son, Longfellow, Poe. 4
Only see, when we begin to think
| il over, what real wealth of men we
possess worthy Of giving their names
to streets AMI squares. ! have not
attempted to raTe even qua,~tr OF
them. Some men are great enough to
have a street in many towns, some
only in the towns OF their birth or
their adoption. Surely Uncle lsemus
should go farther than Georgia !!
Surely o. Henry should go farther
than North Carolina! Bret Harte be-
longs to us all. There is the town of
Emporia, Kansas, at which l stopped
once, purely to make the acquaintance
and to shake the hand Of one man who
lives there. May that day be far Off
but, when William Allen White shall
bid this world good-by, William AL
len White Avenue or Street will give
inspiration to the people there, will
provide mothers and teachers some
thing worth telling to inquiring chill
dren.
1t will be. for committees appointed
in the towns throughout our country
to decide for their respective cities
what names had best be chosen, and
how important the street allotted to
their various choices shall be. :
| should wish George w. Cable to
have a good wide street, but there
was a time when New Orleans would
have denied him back alley. James
Russell Lowell would not get even an
alley in Richmond, where James
Branch Cabell and Ellen Glasgow and
Thomas Nelson Page and Mary john
ston will each receive and deserve
thoroughfares full of sunshine. When
Robert Grant is gathered to his faith
ers, street should commemorate the
author of "Unleavened Bread" Bos-
ton might very we'll incline to. dedi-
cate to Edgar Lee Masters quiet
nook, but we may question if Spoon
River would accord him so much as
a sewer.
Yes, yes; there will be high times
| for the committees. But / am, GER
tain they will do it, and learn, there
by, a great deal themselves, besides
rendering their towns and their coun.
try true and abiding service. Were ]
to appoint such a committee, | should
make it small enough to meet often
and easily, and large enough to con-
tain a broad minded professor or
school teacher, a bank president, a
lawyer, a doctor, and couple OF
ladies, with the mayor of the town
ex-officio.
To the American Legion, to the
American Institute Of Arts and Let
ters, to all good Americans whoever
they be, commend the study of tha'
good French custom of naming high
ways after good Frenchmen. Would
it not do something more than mere.
ly relieve the uninspiring monotony
of Avenue A and Tenth Street? To
| me it seems that it would color and
strengthen the texture Of America.
patriotism, would give us something
not only richer for ourselves and
more highly favored for the stranger
but also a spiritual shield against the
| forces which would undermine and
destroy our Government itself. Let
us hoard every worthy drop of our
past, that it shall be strong tonic