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ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C.% FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1921. NO, 76
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQDIKER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed!
For Quick Reading.
"Any partridges down your way?" |
Views and Interviews inquired of j
W. A. Mitchell, prominent young far- j
iner of Bullock's Creek township, the
other afternoon.
"Oh, a. few," replied Mr. Mitchell:
"but," he added laughingly, "I don't
want to catch you or anybody Oso
down there shooting them. I never
,, rt.il ?tS t VOnrB inst how
valuable birds?any kind of birds and
especially partridges, are. I've quit
hunting myself and 1 hate to.hear oi
anybody killng partridges. With the
exception of crows there are very few
birds in this country that do any harm
to crops. They tell me that the partridge
is a great destroyer of insects
and crop pests and 1 know from experience
that it is so. Now we ha\e|
the boll weevil and if each part rid g< |
cats a dozen boll weevils early next
spring the partridge will have helped
the farmers like everything. No, sir.
I want to see the birds?especially
partridges increase in number."
The Clean up Squad.
Miss ElUs of Atlanta, representative
of the American Red Cross and
advance agent of the government
"Clean-Up Squad" now touring South
Carolina in the interest of disabled
soldiers was a visitor in Yorkviile |
Monchiy and while here conferred with
officials of the American T^egion and j
the local chapter of the Red Cross rel- j
ative to the coming of the Clean Up j
Squad to Rock Hill during the week ,
of October J.OCCl I
pledged their utmost support in the i
work of bringing ex-service men be- I
fore the squad for examination.
"Every man who served in the woild
war," MJa? Ellis went on to say, "is
entitled to an examination by this
.'.quad which will have its headquarters
in the Chamber of Commerce building
in Koek Hill. If any ex-service man
is disabled 10 per cent, or more since !
his discharge from the army he is en- j
titled to an examination and to compensation
and the squad will see ,
that he gets it. It would be well for '
every ex-soldier to take this examination
whether or not he is in bad phy- \
sical condition. The Clean-l"p Squad
will be in jiosition to give nil information
about disability claims and compensation
and government insurance
and every service inan in York count> !
owes t to himself and his country to
appear before this squad and bo examined.
It is necessary that each man
bring his discharge with him. Without
the discharge or a certified copy '
of it the squad can render no assistance."
$1 Per Hundied in Texas.
"See you had an interesting article
in The Yorkville Enquirer of Tues.inj
in regard to crop conditions in Tex- I
as. I have here a letter from a relative
in Texas in which he encloses a
Fort Worth, Texas dispatch telling o 1
the demand for cotton pickers and the j
price being paid in the state and you
are welcome to use it iif you wish.'
?iid a Hock Hill man this morning:
Kort Worth, Sept. IS.? Western Texas
is calling for few cotton pickers as
compared with ronnor years, saw i
employment officials in Port Worth. |
who dolly register requests from nn- I
employed men for work in the fields i
of the state.
Port Worth has sent approximately 1
L'OO cotton pickers to the fields this |
season, it. was announced. Although j
calls for pickers are received daily, the J
number wanted ifi few. The prevailing
wage lor pickers in Texas, employ- J
ers report, is $1 a hundred pounds.
Many unmarried nun, they say, are re- j
luctant to accept this wage without
provisions for meals. However, few
employers are offering to "eat" thci:
help, as Itoarding in the fields is termed.
They employ the men with the;
stipulation that the workers "eat
.themselves."
The cotton labor situation, as pointed
?>ut at the Port Worth cmployim lit
office, is vindicated in the announcement
that one cotton oil mill h ue.
which usually began operations the
lirist.of September will open this year
on .October 20. Another similar mill
has suspended operations indefinitely.
The cotton picking in this region will
be finished early this year, tanners
predict. ,i .
Some negro families that work at
i(,i?y. in the city during other
?easons have o'"n>' lo ti< Ids for (ho
cotton picking:- Among: those are colored
women, who receive $1 for doing
a family washing in town, hut who receive.
si or more for picking inn
l>oun<Ls of cotton. They say they prefer
to pick cotton at this wage than
wash clothes.
.Most of the demand for cotton pickers
was from south Texas, said \V. S.
(icorge, head of the employment office.
Even there, the decreased demand
this year is reflected in the diminished
number of Mexican families
that made their annual migiation
from across the Itio Ornnde for
the present picking season.
Insidious Deadly Cancer.
Ordinarily I do not like the idea of
making myself conspicuous as an
alarmist; but the horror of the situation
with regard to cancer has overcome
me to the extent that any delicacy
of feeling that I might otherwise
have in that connection has been entirely
overcome."
So declared Dr. \V. W. Fenne'.l, the
well known head of the Kennell Infirmary
at flock Hill, to Views and
Interviews Wednesday. The declaration
was made in connection with an
address that was recently delivered by
Dr. Wesley Long at Winthrop college,
the manuscript of which Dr. Pennell
was submitting for publication. "The
doctor has been making especial and
particular study of cancer for a number
of years past, and he is easily the
ofiHtnir nnthnritv on the subject in the
southeastern part of the country.
"The medical profession has made
considerable progress in the study of
cancer during the past dozen years or
much more progress than the public
has any idea of; but now there is need
to wake up the public to a sense of its
danger in this regard, for after all the
most bnportant requisition to the successful
handling of the situation is
proper educational work."
"We have done a lot during the past
few years toward the contra', if not
the eradication of tuberculosis. Every I
mature man and woman in this country
of reasonable intelligence is aware j
that the ravages of tuberculosis are
not nearly so terrible as they werel
only a few years back. What has been j
accomplished has been accomplished
largely through educational work. People
have been brought to realize how
essential is plenty of fresh air, the
necessity of being careful with sputum
and the like, and to exercise various
other precautions. Tuberculosis hasj
not disappeared to be sure; but it is
certainly not quite so common as it
was.
"For hundreds of years the world
understood the deadly nature of yellow
fever without any detinite idea of the i
cause of it except that it would not
exist in high altitudes or latitudes and
it always disappeared with frost. It
was commonly believed that frost killed
the germs. Not until late in our own
generation was it clearly established
that the disease was transmitted and
communicated by a particular kind of
mosquito and it was this mosquito instead
of the yellow fever-that was killed
by frost. Now we stamp out the
yellow fever by killing the mosquito I
by other means.
"For so long back that it is difficult (
to establish the beginning, the best in- |
tc'ligencc of our civilization was firm- ]
ly convinced that malaria was due'
sole'y to poisonous atmosphere. The
word malaria comes from two words
'mnl' and 'aria' meaning hard air.
Within our own generation it has been
definitely established that the air has
nothing whatever to do with the
disease?that it is transmitted solely
by mosquitoes, and we know now that
the way to avoid malaria is to protect
ourselves against mosquitoes.
"Formerly we thought so strongly
that we were dead sure of it that we
got typhoid only from drinking water.
During the Spanish American war it
was proved absolute'.v that typhoid is
also carried by the common house fly.
"We now have a serum that is a J
jpccific for typhoid, a serum that has
robb?d diphtheria of its terrors, a
serum that has lessoned the mortality
from spinal meningitis, a vaccination
igrrinst smallpox, and we are now able
to cope with many other scourges before
which we were formerly helpless.
"Hut of all the diseases I have montioned
cancer is the most insidious and
most deadly. The medical profession
has learned more about cancer within
the past fifteen or twenty years than
during all time previous; but it is a
fact, a terrib'e fact that the public at
large knows Jess about cancer than
it knows about any of the other
diseases, and herein lies the trouble. If
people could only be made to realize
the truth as to cancel* so they could
l?e brought to take proper precautions
in time, the ravages of this disease
would be tremendously reduced.
"Itegaidlers of the popular conception
of the matter, I say without hesitation
or qualification that more pen
;>li' are suffering Mom cancer ua-ipnm
and developed, than from any other
disease, and that also cancer causes
more d<aths."
HICKORY BATHERS
Indecent Costumes Brought to Attention
of City Fathers.
Agreeing with assertions made in a
local newspaper l?y perrons who are
supposed to know that bathing suits
worn by Hickory matrons and girls
; could not pass the censor anywhere on
the Atlantic coast?from l-'lorida to
Maine, including' Atlantic City and
Coney Island?member:; of the city
council discussed costumes for the womenfolk
at their regular meeting last
night, hut deferred the <iuostion ! ?
some future time, says a Hickory N.
dispatch. This was done in tile
hope that regulations would be imposed
hy parents though there wis
small basis for the hope, it was said.
The father of several hoys had suggested
in a local paper that nowhere
in the Atlantic states were such suits
worn as in Hickory, and council members,
who are not had observers tlieinniln
him The bathing
season here is of short duration, it was
agreed, and the mat tor might rest nni
i' next spring.
? Daniel Defoe, author of "IJohiuson
I C'riiKo" was the soil of a luiteher.
CO OPERATIVE MARKETING|
Clarence Poe Delivers Worlh-Whlle
Address.
THE FARMERS llEED BETTER SERVICE
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Nation Wide Movement in Which a 11?
Farmer# Have Heretofore Been
Heavy Losers For Lack of Organization
and Taking an Interest.
I Co-operative marketing was the keyi
note of an able address that Clarence
i Poo, Editor of the Progressive Farmer i
I delivered at the "Made-in-the-Caro
Unas" exposition in Charlotte, last
week. The addi ss, in substance was
as follows: I
"I came as the representative of no
mere local movcmc.it, but of a movement
which is sweeping over the
United States. Everywhere farmers
are seeing that the only hope for them
is to adopt the same common sense
methods of selling their products that
other businesses use. They st?. that
they must quit 'dumping' their proj
ducts on the markets of the world,
and instead must 'merchandise' their
I products. That is the whole purpose
of the co-operative marketing move- .
ment.
Co-Operative Marketing Sweeping ,
America. ,
"The grain growers of the west are .
now signing up to cell their wheat co- |
oporatively. Among cotton growers ,
Okahoma has led the way with more (
than 400,000 bales of cotton already j
signed up. Texas with COO.OCO and ,
Mississippi a quarter of a million bales. (
Arkansas and Georgia are getting un- |
der way, South Carolina is sure to get (
its 400,000 bales and North Carolina ,
starting only to get 200 000 bales by (
January 1, lias over 250,000 bales al- {
ready. Meanwhile the tobacco marketing
campaign goes on from victory to
victory, and the latest news is that .
Kentucky will soon sign up 75 per cent. ,
of its barley production. I
Condition of Agriculture. ! 1
"Cotton farmers as wc'l as other i1
farmers 3cc that something must be 1
done. Farmers as a whole have been I
producing the world's food and the raw !
material for its clothing, and have not 1
been getting even their yearly support 1
in return. We have been paying for (
fVin t?rivi5r.frr> nf farming bv giving UP '
| U.v I" . ? ..-o- - ?
each year a certain proportion of the 1
capita! we formerly owned. *
"Consider what has happened in
the last 40 years. Of American farm- '
ers in 1880, only one in four was ten- (
nant. In lfllo prac*.(pally two out 01 i
live were tenants. 1
j "These figures mean simply that
( year after year and year after year
we have lieen giving up a little of I
our real estate in order to support our t
families and to stay in the business of <
making food, tobacco and cotton for r
other peop'e. We are exactly in the 1
plight of a merchant who finds his in- 1
ventory showing him worth $100,000 In
January this year, $1)0,000 on January |
1 next year, and $80 000 the following
; January. Such a man would be pay- i
| ing for the privilege of selling food and i
clothing. We hove been paying for |
the privilege of producing food and f
| clothing for other people.
"IJut granting that the farmer has <
| not been living on his annual income |
I but has been sacrificing a part of his I
capital?that is to say, his land?year t
after year, in order to continue in (
business, what has been the trouble? t
And what is the remedy?
Dumping vs. Merchandising.
! "The main trouble, I believe, lies in '
I our present system of dumping farm J
j products on the world's market. The
i remedy lies in intelligent co-operative '
[ marketing.
"I think it is plain enough that the
farmer lias suffered more than manufacturers,
merchants, or union laborers.
Why? Because in farming every
single individual farmer sells his produet
for himself, not knowing what ^
grade it is or what price he really j
ought to get. and without any undcr1
standing or co-operation with his j
brother farmers, and no matter how
glutted or overflowing' a market may j
be, we keep on selling and thereby
, ruining prices for ourselves and all our
brother farmers.
"A friend of mine gives the following
dialogue as representing all that
the farmer has to do with the sale of (
his products under the existing sys!
tem:
"What have you got on your wagon?"
"A bale of cotton."
"What grade?" ,
"I don't know."
j "What staple?"
"I don't know."
"What does it weigh?"
. j
"1 don't know."
"What price?"
I "I don't know."
"Now. I want to ask you if you have
ever seen anybody else but a farmer
j sell bis products in this way? When
you buy from merchants or manufacturers,
they always know what theiri
i
products oufjlit to bring and they name!
| the price you are expected to pay. That J
is 'merchandising' a product. When i
t we sell our farm crops, we simply
throw them on the market and take|
whatever the buyers offer. That is
'dumping' a product on the market.
Vim never heard of a merchant,
I saying I want to soil my stork of.
| goods? right away, so what will you I
give mo for my calico, ginghams,
shooting, shoes, sugar, etc., etc? Come
on in and name your price.'
"Suppose each factory worker went
out in the fall, loaded up a few wagons
with all the manufactured goods he
and his family had produced during
the year and 'dumped' his year's crop
of manufactured goods on the market,
naming no price on it, hut simply taking
the best offer that he could get according
to the degree of his ignorance
of helplessness! Everybody knows
that with such a plan of selling manufactured
goods, prices of such goods
wou'd be cut all to pieces and profit; '
would disappear. Yet that is the way
we sell farm products.
"And what I have just said about the
imjxntance of group marketing to
manufacturers applies with equal force
In the case of organized labor. War
time wages of industrial labor climbed
higher than wages of farm labor,
and yet industrial labor, as a rule, has
had its wages cut only a fraction of
the extent to which the farmer has
suffered losses.
"Why this discrimination? One of
the chief reasons is that, industrial
labor has co-operative marketing of
the only thing It has for aa'e?the
Jaily labor of its members. The farmer
sells what he has to sell individualy.
Supply and Demand.
"Talk about supply and demand?it
las a great deal to do with crqp prices,
ind I would be the last man to say
:hat it has not. But you can take the
very same identical conditions of supjly
and demand and a system of inteligently
merchandising farm products
should get us twice as great profits as
die present system of recklessly dumping
farm products. (And if we can
iouble profits for Ndyth Carolina farm?rs
we will d >uble tor North Carolina
business men. Remember that. I am
lelighted that North Carolina business
men are showing so much interest in
:his great movement, as business men
ill over the South are now doing.
What it the Remedy?
"The remedy that our farmers should
idopt, therefore, is the co-operative
marketing system, which has already
irought prosperity to California, Ire
lauu, i^fiiui.ii iv, etc. \y c muai rci cue
farmers in every state to sell their cotton,
tobacco and peanuts together in
freat quantities. We must hire the
smartest, brainiest business men we
:an get as selling agents. Our selling
igcnts must study c?ndition3 the world
Jver, ask a fair price, and sell scientlfcally,
gradually, wilh proper provision
for financing the 'gTower while this
rradual marketing ik effected.
"We must have bur crops sold by
Tien who are tryingflo see how big they
?an make the farifln's share, instead
>f how little.
Six Chief Features of Co-operative'
Marketing.
"Much has been said about the California
pfan of co-operative marketing,
that being the plan on which we are
jrganlzing. It avoids the mistake;
nade in former co-operative attempts.
It is strict business* and so appeals to
lusiness men and business farmers.
"Here are some of the outstanding;
in inciples:
"1?We must organize by commodity
ind not by locality. That is to say, we
Tiust organize to market a specific
>roduct scientifically, and not just or-1
janlze a miscellaneous lot of farmers
ivho happen to be living in a certain
:ommunity, county, or state. A large
>er cent, of the growers of any one
>roduct must sign a legally binding
igreement to market all that they proluce
through the marketing associaion,
which they themselves contro'.
"2?We must organize commercially,
ind not just fraternally or sentimenally.
It is ali well enough to have organizations
to develop the fraternalj
iplrit, provide social meetings, visit the |
dek, bury the dead, etc., but if we are
to get better prices for our products
ive must have an organization specifically
devoted to that one particular'
job.
"3?We must organize permanently,
lot temporari'y. We shall never be
successful?and we shall never deserve
success?until we are ready and willing
to stick to one another in a com "
' ? nrtrnnlifoMnn h I'n llirh
|Jai:i uuniiienn h"'"''" ?.**? uuh..
hick and thin, for better or worse, till j
success Is won. The contract is for j
tive years.
"4?We must organize legally, not
loosely. We have no place for slackers.
N'O organization can succeed unless
ivery member is legally bound up
'Ivough an Iron-clad legal contract to
:lo his part in making the plan a success.
' 5?The association will pay each
producer during the continuance of his
contract 'pool prices' of the product.
That is to say. the farmers' product Is
graded and turned over to the association.
The association managers sell
it when they think best. The farmer
gets for each grade of any product
that he markets the average price of
that grade during the season. In other
words, the farmer having organized
;ind employed the ablest possible men
to sell for him. simply takes their
judgment as to when sales should be
made and accepts the average price.
Just as large an amount as It is safe
to advance on that particular grade
will be advanced the farmer when he
delivers his cotton.
"Each producer simply says in effect.
'I should rather trust the selling
judgment of the biggest and brainiest
organization we can hire than to trust
my own judgment. 1 know, too, that
the plan will insure wise warehousing
and fairness in grading and classing
which I, as an individual, cannot enforce
for myself, I know, too, that by
(Continued on l'age Two)
FACTS ABOUT CANCER
Most Dreaded Disease to Which
Flesh is Heir To.
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CLAIMS ITS VICTIMS IN MULTITUDES
Fearfully Common in All Countries and
I.. All Wa,.<s of Life, and Gets In Its
Destructive Work, Mainly Because
Intelligent People Know So Little
About It.
Among the most ab'e, important and
worth while addresses before the recent
summer school for teachers at
Winthrop college, was one by Dr. Wesley
Long, noted physician and surgeon
of Greensboro, N. C. The attention of
The Yorkville Enquirer has been called
to this address by^ Dr. W. W. Fennell,
who endorses every word of it,
and who is especially desirous of its
publication because of the need for education
in this connection. Following
is Dr. Long's address in full:
I assure you that it is a very great
pleasure to visit South Carolina and
especially this beautiful, progressive
city. Rock Hill has had an Interesting
history since it was chartered as a village
in 1870 and as a city in 1892. The
industries which this community has
developed are a modern demonstration
of what can be done through the enterprise
of an intelligent citizenship.
I am especially interested in your
State Normal and Industrial college,
since we have a like institution in
Greensboro of which we are very
proud. I can not conceive of any work
which a state may do that will bring
forth a more abundant harvest than
the education of the young women of
the commonwealth, who are to be the
future wives and mothers of the state.
' 'I thank Dr. Fennell and Dr. Johnson
for the honor fhey confer upon me by
inviting me to address the teachers of
South Carolina, the representatives of
the various welfare organizations of
this community, the city fathers and
my own professional brethren.
I count myself most happy to speak
to you upop a subject that is for many
reasons of vital interest to every family;
indeed, :o every individual in the
state.
But, now that I am here and realizing
my own limitations, I feel somewhat
as I imagine a certain king did
when called upon to face an embarrassing
situation. As the story goes
this king was a mighty warrior. It was
his gentle custom, when he captured
another king to cut off the thurhbs and
groat toes of his captive ana reea mm
upon the scraps from his table which
he threw upon the floor. Imagine a
king crawling around upon the diningroom
floor, his thumbs and big toes
fcone, scrambling for a piece of bread.
After he had caught and treated seventy
kings'* in this manner, the tide
turned and he was tilken prisoner. According
to the historian, whenour king
was sent for to come into the presence
of his captor he remembered his own
atrocities, and as he approached his
majesty, "he walked delicately."
Coming upon the sacred soil of this
great commonwealth, standing in this
famous institution of learning, looking
Into the faces of those to whom is committed
the education of the youth of
the state, und realizing the importance
of the mission upon which I have
come, I feel that I too should "walk
delicately." Therefore, if I seem to be
embarrassed, remember please that I
am your captive, a most willing one I
assure you, and deal gently with the
young man.
In order to get an intelligent conception
of that dread disease called "cancer,"
it is necessary for us to consider
one or two primary principles. Embryology
is the science of growth and
the study of it explains many of t"he
mysteries of life.
The development of every living
thing, whether animal or plant life, depends
upon cell growth or cell division.
All life starts from a single cell. One
cell divides and becomes two ce'ls, two
cells divide and become four cells and
so on. Without cell division there can
be no growth. We are told that order
is Heaven's first law. Embryologistp
learned long since that order is also
the law of growth. As cells multiply
by division, they arrange themselves
systematically, orderly, observing always
the patterns of theif peculiar
species and the special part of the individual
to which they belong-. Agassiz
says: "I can not repeat too emphatically
that there is not a single
fact in embryology to Justify the assumption
that the laws of development
now known to be so precise and definite
have been less so, or have ever been
allowed to run into each other."
As an example, the cells of the skin
are arranged in overlapping layers,
somewhat like the shingles on a house,
while the cells of the secretory glands
and other specialized structures are
p'accd n single layers resembling upstanding
columns packed closely together.
Always there is beneath the
cells.a so-called basement membrane,
which has among other duties, the special
function of limiting the advafice of
cells in its direction.
The first tiling to he observed in tne |
development of cancer is that it is characterized
by exuberant, irregular cell
growth. Not only is the multip'ication
of cells enormously Increased, but the
order of their arrangement is seriously
disrupted. The cells crowd upon each
other making many layers, where formerly
there was only one; they force
their way through the basement mem
brane and Invade all surrounding
structures. In a word, cell growth goes
upon a rampage, and order gives place
to chaos.
It is interesting to note in this connection
that plants and trees have cancer
just as a human being does, and
for the same reason.
*
The second peculiarity about cancer
is its relation to chronic irritation. As
the constant drop will wear the l'ock,
so irritation continued for a sufficiently
long while will disturb cell growth.
The result Is that cell division is
speeded up, as it were, and instead of
simply producing new cells, sufficient
to maintain the normal equilibrium, we
have the exuberant sprouting cauli
flower growth, characteristic of malignancy.
We are all familiar with cancer of
the lip, ami its frequent occurrence in
men who smoke a short stem pipe,
holding the stem almost constantly between
their teeth. It is the irritation
due to the pipe stem and the nicotine
that disturbs the cell growth of the
buccal mucosa, thereby " initiating the
morbid process which we call cancer.
Once started, cancer grows without
further attention upon the part of its
host. May I express the hope that if
the ladies of South Carolina ever adopt
the ultra fashionable habit of smoking
a pipe, as I understand they are now
doing in London, th'at they will not use
the short stem variety.
Chronic irritation is often produced
by curious customs, but its effects are
the same as those we see in every day
life.
In certain countries "the chewing of
betel nuts is universally practised by
the women. They hold a large wad of
the nut inside of the cheek, thereby
often causing cancer.
In India, oxen are used as draft animals
almost exclusively. Instead of
placing the yoke upon the neck as In
this country, it is fastened to one horn.
It has been observed that cancer of the
horn upon which the yoke works, is
quite common, while it never occurs in
the other horn. ]
The irritation need not necessarily be ]
mechanical, sometimes it is due to
thermic influences, especially heat. Dr. ,
VVm. J. Mayo lays particular stress upon
the influence of both heat and cold
as a cause of cancer.
In certain parts of China, where the ,
principal article of food is rtce, It is |
customary for the women to wait upon
the men first, serving: them while the
rice is hot. Afterwards the women
take their rice after it has become cool.
Cancer of the esphagus is quite frequent
among the men of China, while
the women never have it. So there is
some advantage of being a woman?in
China.
In the region of the Himalaya mountains,
there is a country known as 1
Kashmir. Those of you who have read !
Moore's Lalla Rookh know something 1
of its fame. It is more than twice the 1
size of the state of South Carolina and 1
contains a population of 3,000,000. The '
country is a cup-shaped valley five or '
six thousand feet high, surrounded '
with mountain ranges upon which lays
perpetual snows. One of these mountains,
Nangar Parbat, 26,656 feet, is the I
fourth highest mountain in the world. <
The people of that country are subject 1
to many calamities, such as floods, I
earthquakes, famine, pestilence and i I
fires destroy the wooden, thatched- <
roofed houses. One of the peculiar i
customs of these people is that they 1
wear a small brazier under their cloth- ]
ing, which swings against the skin of i
the abdomen. In this brazier they car- y
ry Jive coals of Are to keep them from ?
freezing. The almost constant presence
of the fire burns the skin of the
abdomen, resulting in cancer so fre- j
quently that it is known as the Kangri ,
cancer. ,
Again, the Irritation of certain chem- ,
ical agents play an important part in ,
cancer production. The reaction of the ]
stomach secretions, is, as you know, |
distinctly acid, while that of the duo- |
denum, being that portion of the bow- :
els which joins the stomach, is alkili. ,
Cancer of the stomach is quite com- (
mon, comprising about 38 per cent of ,
all the cases occurring in every portion (
of the body, while primary cancer of (
the duodenum has rarely been seen.
Cancer of the stomach presents a
rather complicated problem. The late
symptoms, such as pain, hemorrhage, 1
vomiting, emaciation, tumor, etc., 1
points clearly toward the cemetery by 1
the short road. Recently a dear little ;
woman, who was emaciated till she
was only a "hank of hair and a pack of '
bones," as she expressed it, was refer- 1
red to me for operation. (She had
passed through the hands of the stom- 1
ach specialists, who told her six months '
previously, that she had a growth in '
her stomach which they thought they '
could "wash away.") I could do noth- 1
ing more than a gastro-enterostomy, '
which gave her temporary, but grateful
respite in tne aownwara course. x-c?sons
who have pronounced persistent 1
stomach trouble, should seek compe- <
tent professional advice, and do it ear- 1
ly. They should have a gastric analy- '
sis and X-ray examination, both fluro- '
scopic and radiographic, and above all 1
go to a surgeon and an internist who ]
work harmoniously and intelligently '
together. <
Perhaps the most irrefutable argument
that cancer is due to irritation, I
is the fact that out of every 100 cases <
of cancer of the uterus, 97 of them oc- <'
cur in women who have borne children.
In other words, the uterus that has not
been traumatized is practically free <
from the danger of cancer. I think one
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CLOVER NEWS BUDGET
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Not a Single Bale of New Gottw
Placed In Local Warehouse.
COLORED FARMER SOFTER} LOSS
Swimming Pool Popularity Waning-?Hard
Timo Clotting Wator From
New Well?Work on Chureh Suilding
Temporarily 8topped?<Other
Newe and Netoe.
i if |
(By a Staff Correspondent.) ,
Clover, Sept. 22.?Of the ceveral
hundred bales of new crop a cot toil
ginned -here so far this season not a
single bale has been ttored in the local
warehouse, according to V. Q. Hambright,
custodian. Not more than
per cent of new crop cotton has been
r?n rrtorl Knmn nftor o4nnlitat* Vvnf t Ko
great majority has been sold as it has
been ginned. Clover cotton men art
busy. Clover merchants and other
tradesmen ore busy receiving pay*
menta on last year's accounts and Mnoe
the opening of the season the tow?
has been a veritable hive of industry*
The first Idea of farmers of this section
who are selling cotton is to pay
old debts as far as possible and then
buy necessary supplies with what Is
left Consequently everybody is hajppy
and predictions of booming business
along all lines here this foil are
being freely made on every side.
Mr. Stroup to Marry.
Imitations were received here this
week to the marriage of Mr. M. M.
Stroup of Clover to Miss Clara Beatrice
Cook of Iva, S. C., the wedding
to take place on Wednesday, October,
5. Mr. Stroup is assistant cashier of
the First National Bank of CloverMiss
Cook is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Cook of Iva.
Negro Farmer 8uffere Lees.
Jack Jackson, a well known colore#
farmer had the misfortune to loee hie
bam, two mute* & horse, on automobile
and a lot of farming machinery
and provender by lire Friday nigbfc.
The origin of the Are is unknown,
Jackson had returned to his home laite
In the evening, having been out In fyh \
automobile. . It is possible that th#
barn caught Are from the automoto$fc
hiit there is no eartaintv about the
matter. There was no insurance.
Clover Chamber of Commence. 'fpPlans
are being discussed for
eral interesting and valuable meetbUa
of the Clover Chamber of 'OotodbefPll
during: the fall and winter, accor^btfr
to members of _ that oiganlxe-ttiifc.
which was formed in Clover sovertl
weeks ago. The Chamber of Commerce
of which C. N. Alexander
iecretary has a membership of sevna.
ty or more and all of the members are
:itizens who are ahx:ous to eee the
town of Clover grow. The Chamber
has not been very active here of late;
hut it Is expected to take on, new life
this fall and winter.
Baseball ie Missed.
The baseball season is at aa end.
Hawthorn Park, where many an eatsiting
and interesting game has bepa
played during the summer just coming
to a close is deserted and lonegoittt
looking and Clover fans and fannetfes
ire missing keenly the sport, fun and
imuscment afforded them during the
baseball season. While the Clover
High school may go in for football
ind basketball the town wBl- be devoid
of sports of any character for sevsial
weeks now.
Work on Church Held Up.
Work on the new First Presbyter*
lan church building has been held up
temporarily because of the inability
at the carpenters to get certain necessary
supplies just at this time. It
was stated today that there Is no
foundation for a rumor which ha*
l>een prevalent to the effect thai the
building will have to be abandoned
for the present because of the shortage
of building funds; but on the
other hand it is certain that the work
will be pushed as rapidly as tho necessary
materials can be assembled on
the grounds.
The Swimming Pool.
With the coming of the claee of
iummer, interest In the Clover swimming
pool which has afforded so much
pleasure and enjoyment to people
young and old lias begun to lag.
While there are lots of youngsters in
the pool dally, still there are not so
many grown-ups around now as there
were a month or six weeks ago. That
the swimming pool has been a community
enterprise well worth wMl*
this summer there is no question snd
-!f>ver people say that next spring
ind summer Jt will prove more popuar
than it has this summer.
Trouble Getting Water.
Hard rock which uaderMes the sur'ace
of the earth In the vicinity k
Clover Is proving a sort of "Jonah"
tor the well digger who Is engaged la
coring a fourth well for the town of
Hlovcr. Up to Wednesday the con*
:ractor had bored to a depth of about
166 feet without finding & sufficient
Inw Af nr'itnr onH tKfira nm a v\r%
nation of when it -would be reached,
rhe town's water supply is derived
from a system of deep wells and recently
It was found necessary to Kd<l
mother deep well to the systom.
Personal Mention.
Miss Ethel Adams has entered WinLhrop
College, Rock Hill. " '*
Mr. and Mrs. O, A. Ntell recently
rtsited Rev. and Mrs. A. A. McLe&a
it Lenoir, N. C. ^