The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-07-14

mile further each way Green
ville's population would double, and
probably give her second place among
South Carolina cities in point of pop
ulation. Greenville leads the state in
the number of beautiful homes, and
while the figures are not available
just at this moment. yet we feel safe
in saying that she has more paved
streets than any city in the state.
AS newspaper town Greenville
ranks with any town of similar size
in the United States. She has two
newspapers-a morning paper and an
afternoon paper. Fhe morning paper,
The Greenville News, is edited by
B. H. Peace, and The Piedmont. the
afternoon paper, is edited by Col ].
Rion McKissick- Both papers are
modern and progressive in their
makeup, and carry from IL to 16
pages with every issue. The famous
paragraph column in the Piedmont is
conducted by Geo. r. Koester, one of
the states best known writer's. Until
a year or two ago Mr.. Koester had
devoted his entire time to editorial
work. He is a brilliant editorial
writer and his work was known and
appreciated even outside the borders
OF his native state. A year or two ago
force of circumstances compelled him
to take over the paragraph column
of The Piedmont. Until then he had
never attempted paragraph work. He
has made the paragraph column of
THE Piedmont famous throughout
America. Not only is it the most wide
ly quoted paragraph column in Amer
lea, but its "squibs" are flashed on
the moving picture screens in every
city OF Importance in which the Eng
lish language is spoken. Col Nc
Kissick and Messrs. Peace and Koes-
ter are charming hosts and the news
paper men who attended the meeting
last week are greatly indebted to
them for many kindnesses and court
estes during their stay IN the city.
We brought back with us not only
a distinctly fine impression of the
city of Greenville and its charming
people. but most pleasant and
agreeable impression of the Piedmont
lsection as whole. We do not like to
make comparisons, but sometimes the
plain truth bluntly told does good, in
that it makes other sections see their
shortcomings and encourages them to
lgreater accomplishments. The Pee
Dee is a great country-it leads In
agriculture-but taken as a whole it
is 25 years behind the Piedmont. We
left the train at Spartanburg and
made the journey to Greenville by
way of automobile, distance of some
80 miles A car running at what they
call average" speed makes the trip
in As minutes. The whole Piedmont
is network of fine roads. Leading
out of the principal cities for many
miles one finds concrete roads and
when the concrete gives out well
place. The road from Spartanburg to
Greenville-part concrete and part
sand and gravel-is what the younger
generation would call dream" It
Is SO smooth that a car glides over
it at the rate of 40 miles an hour
with scarcely tremor. There are no
wooden bridges. Where it is necessary
to build bridge, concrete and steel
arc used In it's construction. The only
road gangs We saw were those doing
permanent work. We presume that
either Greenville or Spartanburg has
ten times more road mileage than Dill
lon, Marlboro or Marion, and we feel
safe in saying that their road repair
BILL is less than either of our three
Pee Dee counties. Much of the road
development in the Piedmont is due
to the efforts of Mr.. Chas. o. Hearon,
editor Of the Spartanburg Herald, a
member of the State Highway Com
mission. and strong good roads ad-
lvocate.
] Mr.. Courtland Smith. of New York,
delivered the annual address before
the Association. Mr.. Smith Is a much
travelled man. The train on which he
arrived makes a daylight journey
from Greensboro to Greenville. and he
had an opportunity to see the south's
greatest manufacturing section He
!, was astonished at what he saw. In
a conversation with the writer he
said this section would measure up tc
some of the best manufacturing sec.
ltiOns Of the north And east Ha said