The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-04-05

lust now, and as | understood
statement given out by the comms-
sion some time ago this road is to be
built as one of the roads now under
construction. The road to the Lau
rens line will soon be ready and then
the road to Whitmire and then the
road to Chappells and all of them
should b we'll under way this year
We drove leisurely along making
a brief stop at Ninety Six and an
other at Greenwood. At Green
wood l took time to run around to
the Index-Journal Office and have
brief chat with Joel Bailey and the
others and to ask him why he had
quit the good old rule of exchanging
with the other papers of his section,
as 1 would like to read the Index
Journal and he said that they paid for
all The papers they had and sold his
paper to any one who cared to have
it. Well, reckon that is the business
way to do things, and in this age of
commercialism 1 made no complaint,
but whenever I think of this new Gus
tom, reckon that is the way to speak
of it, think of my good old friend
who, in the good years now gone,
used to be the manager for the News
and Courier bureau in Columbia, Col.
Elliott, a gentleman Of the old school.
When l would happen to be in Colum-
bia and would go to him for copy OF
the News and Courier and offer to pay
for it he would refuse with the re-
mark, "a shark will not eat shark" "
Now I do not mean to intimate that
he looked upon newspaper men as
sharks, or that any of them could now
be considered sharks, but he meant to
emphasize the courtesy which he felt
should exist among the brethren of
the press. Well, Joel Bailey said ne
would exchange with The Herald and
News and make US an exception. Of
course. I do not want him to make
special or privileged character out OF
US, but I would like to see the paper
and would be glad to exchange and |
can not get to the point of securing
the papers of the state in any other
way. While I have read them for
many years and always enjoy doing
so, 1 expect to remain just old fash
ioned enough to deny myself that
privilege if I have to be classed as
subscriber. And yet do not care to
be understood as criticizing the GUS
tom or of objecting to it.
After we left Greenwood county
we had good roads only in spots. And
from the Greenwood line to Honea
Path, which l understand is in Able
vile county, there is no good road
and no prospect that there will be any
good road very soon. That is to say
there is no evidence of any work be-
ing done along the road. From Honea
Path through Anderson county there
are some good roads and at the other
places the contractors are at work
building the missing links and very
soon the road will be fine all the way
to the Oconee line, and in Oconee
from Clemson College all the way to
Walhalla where the road has not been
built work is in progress and soon this
road will be in fine shape. The worst
section of road that we found, or ra-
ther 7 should say the road that gave
the most trouble in getting over, was
from Seneca to Walhalla, but that
was due to the fact that the road is
now being built and is fresh plcwed
up, and there was heavy rain IN
that section the night before. 1 think
I can say truthfully that there was
never a period in the history of the
state when there was as much road
building at one time as there is at
present, and it means we'll for the
progress and development of the
state. Good roads mean good schools
and good churches in the rural dis
tricts and these mean happy and
prosperous and contented farmers
and citizens. And the great prob
lem before this age is the building OF
the rural communities.
At Honea Path / made brief stop
to call on my friend, Geo. Moore,
who runs the Honea Path Chronicle
and is mayor of the town and a good
all round fine fellow. At Anderson