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Show M O R T n CAROLlNA s" j i I 1 ': "J r . ' 1 I 4 v 'v I ; ' ' l '! I - ' - I " ' 1 f ; r- ' I fe-- vi Lv.v.-:-.'.'.v..-..-. :v . -J r. . anv : -Wwi'-OOMW By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features. T T THY not enjoy living? We VV doi" Backed by over 400 years of history, his-tory, tradition and romance, soft-spoken soft-spoken South Carolina is still glamorous glam-orous and appealing. Consider for a moment that 90 per cent of the South Carolinians in the armed forces, when polled, indicated their intention of returning to their native na-tive state when they got out of uniform! uni-form! Though they had seen the world, they found nothing to lure them away from the Low country, the Up country, and the Piedmont lr. between. South Carolina has had a glorious glori-ous past. But also it has a future! It endured terrible years of Reconstruction Recon-struction following the War Between the States, and it was not until tjaa turn of the century that order ca out of chaos. Then South Carolina was aware of itself again, ready to cope with its problems in the light of progress. Each decade has seen improvement, improve-ment, and a further step toward the fulfillment of its'destiny. South Carolina Caro-lina is vibrant with new life, new energies, and a will to progress. Wealth has been introduced by textile tex-tile and other industries, including RANSOME J. WILLIAMS Governor of South Carolina self-government. They overthrew the proprietary government and became be-came a royal province under the king's charter. They finally revolted against the king himself, and became be-came one of the 13 original American Ameri-can colonies. They reasserted themselves them-selves again in 1860, and there followed fol-lowed the Civil war. Through all the years, in massacre massa-cre and war, through storm and fire, despite earthquake and pestilence, pesti-lence, the people of South Carolina struggled on. They explored the wilderness wil-derness and located new towns and more plantations. They built roads through forests and swamps, and threw bridges across rivers and streams. They built houses of "tabby" "tab-by" a composition of crushed oyster oys-ter shell and of thick hardwood logs. They spread out from the Low country to the Up country. They built for beauty and utility and discovered the dignity of life. "Charleston is the place where the Ashley and Cooper rivers meet to form the Atlantic ocean," is the traditional geography lesson of a Charleston child a lesson as significant sig-nificant as it is descriptive. Men and women of South Carolina believe be-lieve in themselves, in their state, and in their destiny. They have produced pro-duced leisure, culture and a high responsibility of citizenship. They have drawn character from the land itself, and courage and integrity integ-rity from their labors. More than 250 years of war-torn history have molded and tempered and strengthened strength-ened a people until they know their metal. . Gloriously patriotic in World Wars I and II, South Carolina has furnished, fur-nished, fed and trained men for ev ery battlefield in the world. Her heroes have followed Old Glory to the farthest ends of the earth, gathering gath-ering Purple Hearts and battle stars and filling lonely graves. South Carolina's motto is Dum Spiro, Spero (While I Breathe I Hope) ; also, Animus Opibusque Parali (Prepared in Spirit and Wealth, or Ready with Minds and Resources), and at no time in her history have these phrases been more fitting than they are now. From the mountains to the sea, South Carolina has 31,055 square miles of inviting land! - f H , 1 h ft. 4 H t ' f " -1 ; i L , . -j . h I'V'V I v si ' 1 r ' " s f a I . f ' I ' " ' 1 k s - ' f f ' ? I '-' 4 ifv " in the Low country. It was the ill-fated ill-fated Spanish settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape. Other Spaniards came, De Soto and Juan Pardo, to explore the interior inte-rior about the Savannah river. Competing Com-peting with the Spaniards were the French, who in 1562 briefly settled a body of Huguenots at Port Royal. None of these ventures endured, however, and it was left to the English to establish permanent settlements. set-tlements. Charles I in 1629 granted to Sir Robert Heath "all America from sea to sea between the 36th and 31st parallels of latitude under the name of Carolina." Even then the country coun-try remained unexplored until 1663 when Charles II chartered the same territory to eight of his loyal friends. They became lord proprietors propri-etors of the province of Carolina. Ir March, 1670, the first settlement, consisting of 148 persons, was made at Albemarle Point and named Charles Town, the Charleston of to-dt.y. to-dt.y. Cavaliers and Puritans came from England to swell the population. popula-tion. The fame of Carolina sunshine spread, and the story of its fertile soil was repeated in many lands. From across the sea and from other American colonies they came, until there were Cavaliers, Puritans French Huguenots, Irish, Dutch and Germans. Many Quakers arrived early, and one of them, John Arch-lade, Arch-lade, served as governor of the province. Later more than a thousand thou-sand suffering Acadians found a refuge ref-uge and a home. Added to all these were the Negroes, bringing an unsuspected un-suspected gift of rhythm, and furnishing fur-nishing the sinews for the struggle to build a new land. Like all colonists they brought with them old hatreds and differences differ-ences of class and creed. Some came for riches, some for adventure, adven-ture, others sought relief from religious re-ligious persecution. They quarreled often among themselves, but stood together against any common enemy. They repulsed the attacking Indians and they fought off pirates from the coast. In 1718 at Charleston, 49 pirates swung from the gallows in one month, with 22 of them dangling there one day. They fought for the right of local Old grist mill, Anderson county t c . t ' , , , ' A ' ' " J plastics and chemicals. Soil reclamation, rec-lamation, reforestation, flood control, con-trol, hydro-electric development those are the projects of today. Agriculture has been spurred to new heights by scientific aids. Fields of cotton, corn, tobacco and peanuts still remain; but new crops have been added and more will come. And new industries too, for South Carolina is rich in natural resources, re-sources, many of them as yet undeveloped. un-developed. "Open for business," South Carolina Caro-lina advertises, and points to excellent ex-cellent highways, rail and water transportation, and main routes of airplane travel. Favored by a mild all-year climate, it beckons1 to those who want a home, pleasure, jobs, business, manufacturing, farming and a good life. More than 80 years before Virginia Vir-ginia was founded and over 90 years before the Puritans reached Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, a white settlement was founded on what is now Winyah bay . I Typical Low County road, Edisto Island. Table Rock mountain, Greenville, Green-ville, with reservoir In the foreground. P$ r" r-w -Vv -1 Table Kock mountain, Green- Je - i'-p' j vtlle. with reservoir In the fore- :, "H ' - w . t ' ground. ?(., - . t- . k ... .,- - v ' . . "" - '' . " V -9 . .- . 1 r,- . ' . ' V i - i i , " : ' -..'..' ': L , "-:. .. ; ' , . . .. i |