The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-10-20

The article that appeared I'm The
Herald a few weeks ago under the
caption Are We Headed for the
Rocks?" has been widely quoted. We
do not say this in spirit OF egotism,
but merely to show that the article
touched responsive chord 1t called
attention to the fast pace at which
the world is moving, and incidentally
mentioned that indulgent parents and
automobiles were largely responsible
for the fast pace at which the youth
OF the land are moving. Among the
comments is one from The Newberry
Herald and News which we repro
duce below:
We print an article fromthe Dillon
Herald, and also some comments on
1t from The Calhoun Times. 1t is a
timely article. but it is useless to talk
about the parents doing anything to
correct this tendency of which you
speak, because they are really en-
couraging 1t. Look around your own
town and note the automobiles park
ed from day to day along the streets
and see how many of them are owned
by your young business men who pos
sibly do not live two blocks from
their places Of business and many Of
the clerks and wage earners who are
young and working on meager wage.
and see why they are there. Go 20
Columbia and look how the streets
are lined with cars owned by the men
who live but a few blocks from their
places Of business, and inquire why
these cars are there. These people
cannot walk any more to their work.
1t is not the style. It is out of date
to walk.
And then the children can not
walk to school any more. Two miles,
why the idea Of any child having to
walk two miles to school even on a
fine road, 1t is preposterous.
And these cars parked along the
streets leave no room for the traffic,
and no place for the people who come
from the country to trade to park
their cars, and yet If you should men,
ton it these town fellows would say
that they have as much right to the
space as any one else, and we suppose
from legal point of view they have
but we should sometimes consider
the rights of the other fellow and his
. convenience, but that too is a lost art.
The auto intoxication is worse in
some respects than the liquor intox-
ication. because it is so much more
general and so respectfully ipdulged
in by both sexes and all ages and
conditions. whether financially able
to take of the draught or not.
If you should gently hint to a
young girl that it is not exactly the
right thing to be taking late night
rides with young man and suggest
that it would not have been tolerated
in your day. she is highly insulted
and takes you for an old out of date.
The old editors of the Times and
The Herald may be out OF date, but
the fact remains that they are speak
ing the gospel truth, and there has
got TO be halt some where and ; ME
time and that before so very long.
and we are now going at such d rapid
speed that the stop may be so sud
den that if we are not in perdition
we will imagine we are when the
shock comes. Then the autos and tn
auto rides have a tendencs- II create
among our young folk toe great and
too easy a familiarity, and you
may recall what the old adage il
about familiarity. And MAJ bC vo-
can take time to think what that
will lead to, and if you have Mt IN
time we warn you TO take it before it
is too late. We are JUS; IS young