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IS MFK WORTH THE SA VINO? Ministers Urged to Sot Asido Third Sunday for Tili? Subject. To the Peoplo of Walhalla und Sur rounding Communities: The Walhalla Chapter of tho Amer ican Red Cross has been appealed to to help save the lives of some of tho little starving children of Europe. The editor of Tho Kooweo Courier in another column lias put the matter clearly before you. and I hope you will read what lie has to say. I have been asked to tako this means of bringing the urgent need of assistance for these people beforo tho people of our town and outlying com munities, and to request the minis ters of tho different denominations to .set aside the third Sunday in Jan uary to make this the subject of their discourses and to mention it to their congregations beforehand, so that they will come to services on that day prepared to donate liberally. 1 have been requested to ask the Sunday schools to let their contributions on tho third Sunday go for this relief cause. The teachers of the high school in Walhalla, and In all of the schools of the county, are requested to toll tho children of their respectivo classes about the little starving babies In Europe, and ask them to bring their pennies and dimes to help feed and save the lives of those unfortunate little victims of tho cruel results of an Inhuman war. These little children did not bring on tho war, but they are the innocent victims of it. I know that times are hard Just now, but starvation does not wait for prosperous times. Quito .the reverse. Ten dollars will save a child's lifo and keep lt in at least reasonable comfort until next harvest; ono dol lar will save a child from starvation for a month. How many lives will wo save? Let mo beg the ministers of the different churches to set aside the third Sunday ot January for this vital cause, and nlso let mo urge upon the teachers that they tell the children in the school rooms about the little babes of Europe that, unless America goes to their rescue, must surely die. ?rs J. A, Steck, . . ? Su Souihvri {< 'ucti:<it S ? i i v. Washington, Dec. 110.-Declaring that there would be no "force" bill passed to reduce Southern represen tation in Congress, Representative Aswell, of Louisiana, ranking Dem ocratic member of the House Census Committee, predicted to-day the Sie gel bill, which would make the mein bership of Congress under the pres ent census 484, will be reported out by the committee and passed at this session of Congress. The Siegel bill will pass because it is fair and non-partisan," Mr. Aswell declared in a statement following the beginning of tho hearings by the cen sus committee on the bill. "These attacks on the South are for home consumption, and the mem bers of Congress understand that." "We aro willing for the committee to be a medium by which they may relievo themselves of this partisan, political bunk," Mr. Aswell said. Oeonee (?innings :l,270 Hales Short. Seneca, Dec. 29.-Special: A tab ulation of the cotton ginning re ports for the county shows that there were 19,232 bales of cotton ginned in Oconce county, from the crop of 1920, prior to Dec. 13, 1920, as com pared with 22,011 bales ginned to Dec. 13, 1919. John C. Sanders, Special Agent "DANDER I N E" Girls! Save Your Hair! Make It Abundant! Immediately after a "Dandorino" massage, your hair takes on new life, lustro ami wondrous beauty, ap pealing twice as heavy and plentiful, because each hair seems to fluff and thicken. Don t let your hair stay life less, colorless, plain or scraggly. You, too, want lots of long, strong, beau tiful hair. A 35-cont bottle of delightful "Danderlno" freshens your scalp, check dandruff nm) falling hair, Thin Stimulating "beauty tonic" gives la thin, dull, fading hair that youthful brightness ?ind abundant thickness, All druggists, adv. PLIGHT OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN STAGGERS 3,500,000 Faolng Starvation Can Only Be Saved by America's Response to Joint Appeal. It ls utterly Impossible for one who hes not actually soon tho misery of the early Autumn lu Europe to visual tze what the children of the Eastern and Central portions of the continent face this winter. To say that 8,500,000 children have no alternative to starva tion or doath from disease except American aid, ls startling, but independ ent observera by the score and care ful scientific surveys of the economic ?nd crop conditions overseas brand the figure as conservative. In Poland, for instance, vi.ere 1,303, 000 youngsters last year subsisted al most entirely on the one free Ameri can meal a day that they received, con ditions as Tinter closes down, are worse than ever before. The Bolshe vik invasion stripped large pinions of the country of all grain. Professor K. D. Durand, Food Advisor to the Poliah KO vp rn ment, after an exhaustive survey, has reported that only forty por cent ls available ot the food neces sary to carry the population through th? winter. In (die city of Vienna teats conducted In th? American Relief Administration food kitchens showed that 08 per cent of tb? children b?twe?n th? ages of 0 and 14 w?re "seriously ued?r>mmrlsh .d." Thirty-three per cent were mark edly under-nourished, ll per cent were ?lightly subnormal and only 4 per cent approached tbe state of a normal American child. Th? Amerl au Relief Administration ls feeding 800,000 Austrian children every day now, aud thor? ia no chane? of dlmunttlon of need before nex harvest. Tb? spectacle of the medical needs of Europe's ohildron ls equally ap palling. Estimates reaching th? Amer ican Red Cross ? to needs tor medical service in the destitute, areal thia win ter iscittd? : Old Arstrla-Huignry, 750, 0?0; new Poland, 1?000,C^O; Czecho slovakia, 200,000; Serbia, 150,000, and Roumanla, 100,000. In the tscal year of 1010-20 the Red Cross has reached with the veritable gift of life 1,600,000 children In tim affected area?. Tuber culosis ls prevalent to a ter ri file degree. ? i. ' "r .i'te?cl ; rU-it?rttX 'ht rightimat! .ii ; v.!.?' . nouArUbii.*??'. ?o alniti.41 ci' *i . .,a&? .tholiwa litte UH grim head con stantly in one place and another. The European Relief Council, com prising the American Relief Adminis tration, tbe American Red Cross, the American Friends' Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribu tion 0< mmlttee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in Ameri ca, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. 0. A and the T. W. a A., seeks ?88,. 000,000 with which to meet the situa tion. It haa estimated that nt least $98,000,000 must be bsd for food and ?lO.OOOvOOO for mr Heal service to avert absolute disaster amor sr the threatened Children. Chocks may be sent to your local committee or to Franklin K. Lane, treasurer Europoan Relief Council, 42 Broadway, New York, or to the Child Feeding Fund, Literary Digest, New York City. Murder and Suicido in Hotel. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 30. - Breaking into a locked room of si local hotel early this morning, police discovered a man, believed to he W F. Meadows, 3 0 years of age, of Tul sa, Okla., dead, and a woman, who is thought to bo his wife, dying, as the result of bullet wounds. A warm revolver was found between the two, who were lying In bed tn their nighl clothes. Pistol reports aroused the hotel guests, who summoned the police Entrance was effected through a win dow, and the man was discovered with two bullet wounds through thc heart and the woman hy his side shot through the center of the forehead She was rushed to a local hospital hut ls still unconscious. Letters thal were found In the room were ad dressed to Mr. and Mrs. \V. F. Mea dows. Tulsa. Okla., and hank book? of a Shltook. Okla., and Droken Val ley. Okla., hank are made out to thc same persons. A key ring found in the clothes of the man. however, hears the name of "J. A. Sandorfeur, 518 South Robinson street. Oklaho ma City, Okla." Ate Firecracker-Dead. Bonncttsvillo, s. C., Dec 30. Perry B. Odom. Jr., tho 2-year-Olc son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy B. Odom died at their homo on King street about 5 o'clock this morning as thc result of eating a new kind of lire cracker, which has been sold in Ben lionsville during the holidays. Yes terday afternoon about 3.30 o'cloct the child's motlier found sometbinf around the child's mouth, and othei children told ber that he had eater a firecracker. About fi o'clock thc child bogan to show symptoms of 111 noss. Doctors were called in ant washed out tho child's Blom a ch, ant! about 1 1 o'clock the doctors paid tin PROBABLY FELL FROM A TRAIN. Investigation IANUIN to Different Tho orv us to Roath of Simpson. (Anderson Mail.-Deo. 30.) Evidence taken at the inquest thi.; morning over the body of Marlon Simpson disclosed facts which give iso to thc opinion that Marion Simp son was not killed hy being beaten over the head, and left out in the weather ali night, btu that he canto to his death from an injury receive! when he fell from a moving train. There aro many facts which temi to show that the theory of death from falling from a train is a logi cal one. While no direct testimony was introduced to show that he was oven on tho train, hearsay evidence was to the effect that he was soon in the town of Fondleton shortly before the train left for Anderson the night before his body was found, and that though he was not seen by members of tho train crew, acquaintances of, his are said to have hoard him re mark that he was going to Anderson, but was going to "ride blind." A number of witnesses were sworn at the Inquest, but the testimony of none of thom was such as to give any strength to the theory of mur- ! der, as was at first throught to be . tho probable cause of tho young man's death. i Pat II. Hobson, station agent at Sandy Springs, testified that he had j gone to the scene and han made two | circles around the scene, hunting fer , footprints, but had seen none. He testified that he saw partly filled holes that he took to be footprints, and what gave evidence of a struggle, ; but could not be positive that the holes were caused by footprints, or whether or not they were caused by an animal stepping there, or from ' what cause. He said that the rain of the night before had well covered I tho holes, partly filling them with loose earth, and that though distinct signs of where the body was lying showed that the man had attempted to move around, he would not say positively that the depressions he saw were caused by footprints or by j something else. j He showed a woolen belt, seem- ; jingly torn from a garment,^ a coat. ho ?rn id r et . h?\ < ' ho g. l?o aiMe J fflWi Vr ? ntl j negro cnitdren, wno useu mu rail j road right-of-day going to and from j school, and that this belt might have come from one of them, i Mr. Hobson testified that upon ! making his lina) examinations, and j that upon having heard a young man j In the station nt Sandy Springs say j that he had seen Marion Simpson at Pendleton on Sunday afternoon just before the train left, and that he had I told him that he was going down on ! the train, "riding blind." and that I It was his opinion that the man came ! to his death from falling from the " I train. Dr. W. H. Corbett, who, with Dr. Cray, made a post-mortem examina tion of the body, testified that there were two wounds In tho scalp, one about an inch below the other, and that tho wound which caused his death was a V-shaped depressed frac ture of tho skull. This wound, ho testified, in his opinion, was suffi cient to have caused death without the exposure which followed. FAMILY SERIOUSLY BURNED. Husband and Father Answers Alarm for His Own Home, (News and Courier, Dec. 30.) Mrs. Clarence Stokes and her four children were seriously burned In a Uro which occurred last night about 9.15 o'clock at her residence, No. 4 North Tracy street. They were talton to the Roper Hospital immediately after tho accident, where thoy are reported to be in a critical condition. Mrs. Stokes and the youngest of the children are not expected by the medical authorities to live. Tho three other children, it is thought, will probably pull through. Tho lire occurred by the explosion of an oil stove and an alarm was sent In form Box 7 M. The fire itself caused very little damage, (ho inju ries of the Stokes family hoing re ceived at tho time of thc explosion. Mrs. Stokes' husband, who is ? chauffent for tho local police depart ment, answered tho alarm in person with tho police patrol, not knowing that it was his own home that was afire. Ile carried his family to thc hospital, where treatment was ad ministered at once. other visit to the home and tho child seemed to be doing well. About f? o'clock this morning, however, one of the physicians was called over tho -! phone, being told that tho child was I I apparently dying. Before tho doctor I could roach the homo the child had - died. YOUTHFUL BANDIT^ ARK TAKEN. Ono of Twins Killed and the Other Surrenders to ()Ulcers. j Kankakee. 111.. Dec. 30.-One of tho two youthful bandits who held up tho New Orleans-Chicago flyer on the Illinois Central Railroad near hero on the night of Dec. 28 was killed in a battle with police and rail road detectives at Aroma Park, four miles east, carly to-day. and the other surrendered. Tho youths, .loso and .lacob Scott, twins, aged 21 years, were said to be sons of an automo bile merchant at Creen ville, 111., a few miles south of Kankakee. A hold-up of the Cincinnati-bound train on the Big Four Railroad was contemplated by the two robbers, lt was believed, but was prevented by tho station agent at Aroma Park tel egraphing a warning that two men res?mbling tho robbers were In his station waiting room. The two youths boarded tho train at Oilman, Ul., n few miles south of Aroma, and leaped off just as the train neared Kankakee. Several hun dred dollars in cash and a few thou sand dollars worth of Jewelry were recovered. HOMICIDES GREATLY INCREASED In South Carolina-Sixty Reported In Three Months, from 31> Counties Columbia, Dee. 30.-The homlcldo rate In South Carolina for the fall, months was twice what lt was for the year 1919, according to a state ment Issued to-day by Secretary G. Croft Williams, of the State Board of Public Welfare, based on reports for the months of September. Octj ber and November, received from 23 counties lu the State. Tho figures aro furnished by the coroners. "In the twenty-nine counties re porting," says Mr. "Williams, "there were 22 homicides in September, 17 in'October and 21 in November, muk mg 60 homicides for three months " Estimating the homicides for the whole State, from the reports re ceived from the 29 counties, "there mu?t have been," the Welfare Board concludes, "about 95 homicides in the State during September, October and November. At this rate tbn>n ... k..' ? ? . South Carolina." According to the reports of the , bureau of vital statistics there were ' 1S3 homicides in this State in 1919. and this report covered all of thu counties, "lt may bo easily seen, therefore, that unless some of the citizens of our State use a little more self-control we shall outdistance our former records," the statement of the Welfare Board says, j The statement from the Welfare Board secretary mentions certain causes for the crime situation. "There are many causes to which I this high rate of homicide may be i attributed," says tho statement, ' "such as economic instability, reac ; tion from war, and a standard of luxury that has recently been estab lished and that many find themselves ?unable to reach. But thc main sources I of homicide arc tho fooling among our people that to avenge with death is the only way to satisfy one's honor and the prevalent habit of carrying pistols. "A still more remott. yet powerful, cause of homicide is the lightn ^s.* with which human life ?s regarded among us. If our people firmly de termined to put down homicide, thc evil could be banished from South Carolina. Several of our counties this year will doubtless show a larger number of homicides than the city of London records in a normal year, and London's population is about four times that of South ('aro.inn." WIDOW OF JUDGE WILL OFFER As Successor in Office of the Late Judge Scott, of Greenville. Greenville. Dec. 29.-At the ear nest solicitation of hundreds of friends throughout the city and the county of Greenville, Mrs. Fannie Davis Scott, widow of the late Pro bate Judge, Walter M. Scott, who was killed In an automobile accident last Sunday, to-night announced thal she will accept the office of Probate Judge, to fill the two years of her late husband's unexpired term, if elected by the people at the special election to be called by the Gover nor. , Mrs. Scott was assistant to hoi husband durlrg the six year*? tba. he served as Judge of Probate, and her friends statt: thal she \? well quali fied for the place. If elected, it if believed that she will be thc first woman county officiai in South Caro lina. Mrs. Scott, who was slightly in jured in the accident which cost her husband his life, said to-night thai Here's YM Progressive Farme $1.00 year, The Keowee Courie $1.00 year, Either paper well \ Price of Both. C WHERE RABBITS Am: A MENACE Government Slaughters Them by the Thousand to Protect Property. A good, lively machine gun is harmless when compared to strych nine-at least it is found to be so when it ?B used to exterminate rab bits. In Lincoln county, Idaho, the far mers, working in co-operation with the Bureau of Biological Survey, of the United States Department of Ag riculture, report that one ounce of the poison killed 400 rabbits. The farmers In Gooding county did even better with their poison and avei aged 1,000 rabbits to the ounce. In Minidoka county, where an extensive poison campaign was conducted un der the direction of the bureau, forty thousand rabbits were killed. These figures are illustrative of the work that has been done under gov prnment direction in exterminating I rabbitH In tM Ve?**rn Ktu?whore tltej fire ito p??\ntB il *s u hu *.>:. It rom ely dost ruc ive I uruha'rd un.ul crops; Large, a V f . * ip.'ig!.-'. were Ington, Nevada, Utah and Arizona under the leadership of Department of Agriculture representatives and along co-operative lines in which the State governments, the State exten sion services and the land-owners as sumed a share of the responsibility. In addition to the poisoning meth ods, great rabbit drives were con ducted, some of which resulted in the killing of as many as 10,000 rab bits. The representatives of the Bureau of Biological Survey emphasize the fact that, in the West, the rabbit is a serious menace. Rabbits often de vastate large fields of grain and de stroy valuable orchards and vine yards. There are instances where or chard.?, representing the work and sayings of a life-time by the owner, have been completely destroyed In a single night by jack rabbits. ? OXE THOUSAND DOLI VHS PLAT?. Paid for Beef Stew-Funds Used for Saving Europe's Starving Babies. New Yoi":, Dec. 'AO.-Ono thousand of New York's men and ?v ?men of wealth paid $1,000 or mor? each here last night to sit at a plain board table and eat beef stc.v The "banquet" was . testimonial arranged by Herh?rt Hoover, chair man of the European Belief Council, of America's effort to succor the 3,500,000 starving children of Eu rope. Tho stew, accompanied by white broad and a cup of cocoa, was the same as served to starving children at relief stations throughout Europe at a cost of less than one cent and a half. Gen. .lohn J. Pershing, Mr. Iloo i vor, .lohn D. Rockefeller, .lr., Mrs. August Belmont and other notables carried soup bowls and wore first In i a lino that passed by army Held kitchens to bo served. The servitors were young society women. Fritz Kriesler entertained the dln 1 ors with sevornl violin solos. A vacant high chair, placed for tho I "invisible guest" of honor for tho . children for whom Hoover's campaign for $35,000,000 was launched, stood . a the head of tho speaker's table. Smokeless powder was Invented In . 1X86. If chosen by the people sho would ac cept Hie olflce, chiefly as a token of esteem for her husband. Her decis ion came after much pressuro had been brought to bear upon her by tho newspapers and tho public. .i i Ol'? ?"'U, Warb EChance >r. For Both For 12 Months rvorth Combination )rder yours now. FUEL CONTROL WAS COSTLY. According to Final Report, it Cost tlio Country $1,H?-t,081. Washington, Dec. 30.-The total cost of fuel control to the Federal government during the war was $4, 82 1.681, according to the final report of the business manager of the Fuel Administration, made public here to day. This sum represents all ex penditures, national and State, by the Fuel Administration from its or ganization in September, 1917, to the :t 01 li of June, 1919, when the admin istration virtually was abandoned, Appropriations made for fuol con trol totalled $5,813,818, and Law rence .Mitchell, assistant business manager, who prepared the report, .said there was a balance of $989,137 on hand on June 30 last year. Expenditures by the headquarters in Washington totalled $2,706.497, and by the State $1.948.618. By far j the birges* kum 'WM ?punt in New I 'i<u A State; Hie lota'I being ??l ???'?t"2 J while In Nov; Yuri, el ty ??>'l,fi-?F? wa.*. tQht Pennsylvania was i ie s'..\ui Ri a to in ib1' lia.1 -i i xpeu?Ruiva, Wi tb $84.025, while Illinois was third, with $66,849. In the New England States as a whole the cost was . $99, 812. A TONIC Grove's Tasteless chill I onic restores Energy and Vitality hy Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonie value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even c hildren like it. The blood needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening. Invigor ating-Effect. 60c. Still Sets Church Ablaze. Hartford,, Wash., Dec. 30.-Flro which broke out in a church in Hart ford yesterday was declared by dep uty sheriffs to-day to havo been caus ed by an over-heated whiskey still, which was in full oporation in the basement. The basement was rented by J. A. Drooka, a butcher, for whorh a warrant has been Issued on tho charge of operating a still. The church was not badly damaged by tho fire. To Cure a Cold In Ono Day Take LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE (Table??.) It stops tlie Cough and Headache and work? off tho Cold. E. W. GROVE'S siRnaturc on each box. 30c The State of Texas is planning tho building of a cement plant, which will be operated in order that the commonwealth may build permanent roads at reduced cost. "Pape's Cold Compound" is Quickest Relief Known Don't stay stuffod-up! Quit blow ing and snuilling! 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