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Styt lamb?rg f mtlb $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1922. Established in 1891. - 1 ? DR. STEPHEN SMITH SAYS CENTURY UFE V IT IS MAINLY A MATTER OF PREVENTION RATHER THAN CURE. Appreciable Progress. ? Yellow Fever Wiped Out and Tuberculosis Decreasing?Not so Much Typhoid as There Was. Meet Dr. Stephen Smith of New York, who, in 1922, is celebrating his hundreth year of residence on this ?arth. He is not the "old Dr. Smith" of greatly advertised memory. As a matter of fact, he resents the adjective "old." Dr. Smith is'a real doctor of medicine. He has always been interested in movements to promote healthful living, and a pioneer in public health. Fifty years ago when the American Public Health association was bprn, Dr. Smith officiated at the ceremony. He was its first president. Last November, the association, now grown . to be a mighty power in the land, held its semi-centennial in New York City, and made it an occasion to honor its first president, striking a medal which bears the imprint of his fea\ , tures. Dr. Smith, vigorous and energetic, appeared at the meeting and declared that he had a tremendous announcement which he would make at the banquet given in his honor. When the time came, he calmly broached to the hundreds of visiting physicians, and other men of science, the audacious statement that instead- of his age being exceptional it should be the rule, that all men should live to be one hundred. "We have too long been content with the Mosaic dictum which places man's life at three score and ten," t * said he. "We now live under very -c . different conditions. Science holds sway. Man's physical construction ? is adapted to a service or iuu years. Let us push our standard forward 30 years and count man's normal life a century." A common belief exists that our ancestors lived much longer lives than we of this generation. Accounts , of very aged persons spring from the records of olden days in great profusion. England's Westminster Abbey has a monument to Thomas Parr, an "'old, old, very old man who lived in the reigns of ten kings," and died at the age of 152. In Yorkshire, England, there is a monument to one Henry Jenkins, an English laborer, setting forth the inter-1 esting testimonial that ^"he lived to the amazing age of 169." Many Ldve to Be 100 and Over. It was claimed for a Hungarian of the name of Pierre Zortay that he lived to be 190. Norway had a claimant for honors in the person of Drakenburg, who admitted himself to be 146 when he died. Every country worthy of consideration entered at least one candidate in the old age tournament, the apex of their claims belong in inverse ratio with the reliability of their registration records. Some of the claims modestly submitted by natives of 1 troipcal countries might well make a certain Methuselah tremble for his ? record. Of course, one is constantly reading newspaper items and patent medicine advertisements that speak lightly of ages that exceed the century by many years. They are records of tradition rather than fact, however, most of them having reference to illiterate persons who find counti g .* by multiples of 10 to be the easiest way. But the fact remains that persons -do live to be 100 years old ana over and evidently many more accomplish it than a British authority would credit. The British, however, made his investigation into the lives lived more than a century ago, when the expectation of life was much lower than it is at the present day. By expectation of life is meant the duraation of the average of human lives from birth to death. It is impossil ble tG say what this may have been in the days of 'Moses, but a glance back over known facts for the last three centuries is instructive. Records kept in Geneva, Switzer: land, show that seventeenth century lives averaged a little more than 25 years; eighteenth century brought the average up to 33 years and nineteenth century, from 1801 to 1S83, * gave a record of nearly 40 years. In i i t 1 Harvey Quits Post at Midnight Hour Columbia, March 17.?When midnight was reached last night in the senate Lieutenant Governor Harvey declined to preside further over the senate if general statewide bills were to be taken up and acted upon, this action following on the heels of the withdrawal of Senator Johnstone of Newberry, who declined to participate further in the proceedings. Somewhat of a general row took place when Senator Johnstone moved at midnight that tne senate aajourn until Monday afternoon, this being the cause of his withdrawal from the senate chamber a few minutes later and also the withdrawal of Lieutenant Governor Harvey. Would Not Adjourn. After the senate had passed the "hour of midnight a general confusion began to develop and this brought on the motion to adjourn over until Monday. An effort to do this was lost. {When this was lost the lieutenant governor asked the senate to choose a presiding officer as he did not care care to preside "except for the general appropriation bill. Lieutenant Governor Harvey requested Senator Laney to take the chair, stating that he did not care to be regarded as a stickler and was prepared to remain in the chair as long as necessary to adopt the appropriation bill then in free conference irrespective as to the time when it was brought in. He however, preferred not to preside after midnight Saturday night if the senate insisted \ on continuing to pass state-wide laws. As the senate proceeded to pass laws and began to take up the bad check law the lieutenant governor vacated the ohair, turning over tfce gavel to the senator from Chesterfield and re tired. Bad Check Bill. , After Senator Laney had taken the chair the so-called "bad check" bill was taken up and badly defeated, a motion to continue this measure prevailing by a large majority. The senate then continued everything on the calendar, this motion taking in a number of state-wide bills of importance. Bills in free conference were not included. During the discussion after midnight a good deal of levity was allowed and the general situation was characterized as "bad legislation" on the part of the senate. He Didn't! Gedrge Washington never told a lie for the following excellent reasons: He lafd no income tax blanks to fill out. He was elected president without making any campaign speeches. Wlhen -Martha found a strange hair on his shoulder, she always figured it came from his wig. The Anti-Saloon league never asked him where he stood. | The tough*breaks he suffered that : winter at Valley Forge required no exaggeration. He never applied for life insurance. our own country the record was a little higher, and by the close of the nineteenth century we had reached 45 years. We have marched on at a still better rate since then, for the ' expectation of life in the United States in 1910 was 51 1-2 years and although absolute figures are not available, it has undoubtedly increas ed in the last decade. Let us see why we live longer. It is only a step back to 1878, when a great epidemic brought 125,000 cases of yellow fever to the Mississippi valley and caused 12,000 deaths. A century before, in 1793, the disease had invaded Philadelphia and causj ed the death of one-tenth of the city's population in six and one-half weeks. But in 1900 the discovery was made that yellow fever could not spread unless carried by the Stegomvia mosquito, and thus the disease became a terror of the past. Few persons realize how nearly typhoid has been conquered. The work has been going on so quietly, yet so steadily that the death rate has dropped almost without notice. Let statistics show that whereas in 1900 some 36 out of every 100,000 citizens of the United States died of typhoid; in 1919, only nine per 100,000 succumbed. Given a continuance of the 1900 rate some 27,000 more Americans would have died of typhoid in one single year. Everyone has heard of the tremendous victory gained in the fight against tuberculosis. It has decreas Levy of Seven for State Both houses of the legislature iSunday afternoon adopted the free, conference report on the general ap-| propriation bill and as finally passed j by the legislature the bill carries a j total of $5,839,106.04 and a levy not to exceed seven mills as compared with a total appropriation of $6,534,925.82 and a 12 mill levy in 1921. The bill is a decrease of $695,819.78 over the 1921 appropriation i and the -levy is five mills below the figure of last year. Under the bill as passed by the house the appropriations were $5,670,610.83 and the levy was five ! mills and under the measure as pass- < ed by the senate the bill provided for a total appropriation of $5,805,909.09 and the free conferences increased the amount to $5,839,106.04 as the final total. Snme nf the r.hanpps made hv the : o I Legislative department Governor's office Judicial department .... Secretary of state Comptroller general Attorney general State treasurer i Adjutant general .... ; University Citadel Clemson college .... Winthrop college Medical college Confederate Home college ..^ State negro college ....\. De la Howe sohool Deaf and blind school Department of education Historical commission State library Confederate museum Relic room State hospital Penitentiary Welfare board Pardon board - Feeble-minded school Boys' Industrial school Girls' industrial school .... c Negro reformatory Catawba Indians jueai ana Diina commiuee Law enforcement . Board of health Tax commission Tax review board Insurance department Bank examiner Railroad commission . Game warden . Medical examiners Law examiners Board of fisheries Board of conciliation Printing committee Agricultural department Warehouse commissioner Public service commission Pharmaceutical board State electrician Highway department Sinking fund commission Confederate infirmary Confederate veterans State house and grounds Contingent fund Approved claims State fair society Budget commission Miscellaneous Grand total ed 37 per cent, in 12 years, and is ! still losing 1 Little children do not die from summer complaint as they used to do. In 1900 two babies out of every five died without a chance to reach their first birthday. Now less than one out of five meet such an early doom. These victories over disease have not been due to the discoveries of wonderful new medicines. With the possible exception of the use of anti-diphtheria serum in fighting diphtheria, the improvements have been altogether along the line of prevention of disease. Watch the Little Things. It is to prevention that you must look if you are personally interested in joining Dr. Smith and his group is of centenarians. You must*discover the "little things" and give them early attention if you would check the degenerative diseases that are apt to rob you of your prime. Few indeed are the deaths that occur from genuine old age. Men go to then deaths with bodies capable of splendid function save and except for one diseased organ. Perhaps it is the s heart that is at fault, perhaps the i kidneys are incompetent, possibly I lot be developing into full power in c; ' our 80's or 90's and placing your- ^ ;elf securely in the list of those who nay see "a century well done."? 5 Dearborn Independent. b Mills Appropriations conferees were highly important, in- : eluding; the reductions in amounts j and the increasing of other amounts. ; The Miller amendment not to al- i low any institution or school teaching the Darwinism theory to draw j money appropriated under the terms of the bill was rejected by the free i conference. ; Under the terms of the bill the 1 statement of Senator Pearce and Rep- < resentative Sapp shows that the bill i will be financed as follows: < Corporation taxes & fees $ 470,000 < Department Inspec. etc... 330,000 j Institutional operations.... 170,000 ' Gasoline tax 350,000 i Ad. corporation taxes 125,000 i Income taxes 1,000,000 ; Property tax (7 mills).... 3,179,000 i The appropriations varried in the < 1922 bill as compared with the 1 amounts granted last year follow: < 1921. 1922. .. $ 119,155.00 $i 123,088.00 ; 21,400.00 19,569.24 . 157,698.66 157,698.66 11,675.00 10,040.00 , " 749,970.34 723,856.34 . 20,000.00 14,331.25 258,212.27 258,068.62 ' 35,817.50 47,396.50 j 243,355.00 206,203.70 ! 252,315.00 150,059.86 1 226,147.15 242,862.85 J 398,694.60 373,130.96 ' 100,117.50 85,455.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 ' 63,005.21 70,450.00 j 57,488.00 56,702.04 161,333.33 104,620.00 .. 1.528.930.00 1.321.540.00 4,760.00 4,258.30 4,115.00 4,220.00 ' 100.00 100.00 1 1,000.00 1,120.40 i 784,123.94 631,559.40 ] 103,093.08 vioo, 000.00 \ 29,666.00 29,574.50 1 300.00 400.00 J 45,000.00 47,342.00 126,270.00 70,786.23 * 29,015.00- 15,979.50 46,077.00 28,532.00 7,700.00 . 7,700.00 1 500.00 ' 200.00 1 28,400.00 28,400.00 j 199,255.00 177,265.00 46,200.00 59,600.00 1 1,500.00 550.00 . 20,745.00 22,826.25 ] 24,525.80 24,025.80 \ 20,141.20 39,447.20 1 11,125.00 11,125.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 \ 450.00 450.00 | 10,500.00 10,500.00 ? 1,000.00 500.00 1 60,445.00 76,851.00 S 82,743.40 83,570.70 50,720.00 58,705.00 ( 2,000.00 1 1,500.00 2,000.00 1 66,195.00 34,245.00 130,590.00 103,315.75 ( 18,192.50 9,262.50 62,000.00 31,012.64 * 1,500.00 1,500.00 : 7,125.00 5,835.00 ( 75,000.00 98,000.00 1 7,236.69 19,421.19 1 5,000.00 5,000.00 ? 6,750.00 6,600.00 15,252.66 { t $6,534,925.82 $5,839,106.04 some other organ. But searching back to the real point of origin, there will be found some apparent trifle, a few decayed teeth, a little shortness of breath, a slight cough that might have been corrected easily if taken up in time. Let us be sensible. Modern aids to diagnosis make it Quite Dossible w to find the flaws in the human ma- 8 shine, while there is yet ample op- 1 portunity for repair. Once a year submit your body to a searching ex- r imination by a skilled physician. Place no confidence in the smiling, 1 irbane individual who can tell at a iiere glance that "you are perfectly 1 ill right." Go to a real medical man, s me of the kind whose researches 1 topped yellow fever and are conquer- g ng typhoid, and pay him a reason- t ible fee for a thorough examination. \s long as you go quietly along from d fear to year, repairing small faults c lefore they grow into big ones, keep- a ng up efficiency regularly, there is 6 10 reason whatever why you should 11 Income Tax Bill Now Law of State Columbia, March 11.?Of course, the most important and outsanding piece of legislation enacted at this session of the general assembly is the income tax bill. This has been primarily a session devoted to an effort towards doing something definite for the reduction of the tax levy on visible property. The two legislative branches were at decided variance over what is known as the committee bill and what has been called the McGhee substitute. Lnitl early this morning the members of the free conference committee were in a deadlock, but a compromise and agreement was effected evidently along these linest Phose who advocated the committee or house bill surrendered that text md machinery to the advocates of the McGhee substitute, by their consenting to increase the rate from 25 per cent, to 33 1-3 per cent, for the state.! based on what is paid to the federal government. First, net incomes of over $2,500 for a married person derived on business incomes during the year 1921 will be taxable and collectable this * year. For the first year, that is, for the taxes collected this year on the revenues of 1921, an affidavit is to be submitted to ,the tax commission, stating what amount has been paid to the federal government, and the income taxpayer will be due the ^ r\ $ o m Annt no iH 51(116 UUC til 11 U. Ul auxv/uuw p?iu the federal government for his insome tax. A copy of the receipt from the federal government must be submitted, together with the af Sdavit and payment based upon onethird of the federal tax. After this year, that is, upon incomes derived subsequent to 1-921, the taxpayer musf submit a duplicate of his federal income tax return. The idea is that the state ind federal income tax returns, that s, as far as returns themselves are concerned, should be duplicates. The taxpayer here again pays the state one-third of what he pays the lederal government. These personal and corporation 'eturns are to be made in the same nethod, that is, either by affidavit >r duplicate returns, and the same casis of payment is applicable on let incomes. r The exemptions, allowances, crests, deductions and everything else ilong these lines are absolutely dentical for the state as they are .'or the federal government, except ;hat provision is-made that the state shall not tax federal incomes, pensions, interest from government jonds and other exemptions that the state must recognize. The exemptions for individuals, corporation^, dependent children, taxes, losses and the like are identical in the free conference bill, vhich will be. the law, and the federal statute. The free conference bill refers to ind enacts for this state as did the M'cGhee substitute, the federal income tax statute of 1921 and all of ;he rules and regulations of the internal revenue dpeartment, on the subject. The free conference committee late this evening added several sections to - : ^?. u:n ne mcurne ia.x uin. First, it included excess profits, ;hat is, under the bill as adopted ;his state will collect the 33 1-3 per ?ent. of what excess profits are fraid he federal government. A penalty s provided for not making returns at he proper time. A new section was added to proride that any person or corporaion doing business in several itates shall pay an income tax on ill net earnings accrued from operaions or other sources in this state. The income tax act was ordered atified and its friends figure it vill, as amended, raise at least a nillion and a half dollars. There are no rates provided for n the bill, either as to normal or urtax, the basis being simply onehird of what is paid to the federal :overnment, either for normal or sur ax. Insurance premiums, insurance lividends and the profits of insurance ompanies are not taxable. There was considerable discussion as to whethsr insurance companies doesftusiness 1 this state would have to pay income ax upon their profits, but this feature as been eliminated. It is estimated that the federal overnment will receive this year etween ' four and five and a half LIFE SAVING AWARD WON BY CONDUCTOR CONSIDERED BRAVEST DEED OP ITS KIND. -tvSj Rescues Colored Child. t * " ,4' j|3B Atlantic Coast Line Employe Performs Deed at Siding Near Darlington. Atlanta, Ga.? March 11.?The Southern division of the American Red Cross announced today that the first tfrize of $50 fronr the "William Howard Taft fund" for meritorious action in life saving was awarded to J. E. Woods, of Florence, S. C., con-' ductor, Atlantic Coast Line railroad, for heroic action in saving life of a colored oaoy at isiine-Miie siding, near Darlington, S. C. This fund is limited by the terms of the anonymous donation to persons employed on railroads. The incident for which Woods received his award occurred December'31, 1920. Woods was coming from the telegraph office and look- x in down the track in the direction the engine was moving, he saw the child sitting between the rails playing. He immediately signaled but the engineer, who was watching the rear brakeman. for signals, did not see him. Woods, realizing that his signals could not be seen in time, rushed down the track, seized the child from between the rails and jumped to one side just in time to save its life and his own. This was deemed by the judges to be the most daring and heroic action performed by a railroad employe that came to their notice since v ,|| their last awards were.made. Witnesses to the incident declared tSat Woods very narrowly avoided losing his life in making the rescue. The 1 "cowcatcher" of the engine barely brushed him as he leaped off the track with the baby in his arms. WANTS LIBERTY FOR MONSTER. Society Pleads for Protection of Giant "Pet." Buneos Aires, March 12.?A protest against the killing or capturing of the Plesiosaurian monster, which is reported to have been seen in an Andean lake in Patagonia has been placed before the ministry of interior oy the "Cociedad Protectora D Lot Animates/' which corresponds to the American societv for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The society urges that if sueh an antediluvian creature exists it be allowed to roam its native heath unmolested. Invoking Law No. 2786, dealing with cruelty to animals, the society demands that the expedition which proposes to bring back the animal alive or dead to the Buenos Aires zoo be prohibited. The protest is voiced in a letter by Dr. Albarracin, head of the society, who calls on the ministry to instruct the Governor of Chubut, a territory in the southern part of Argentina, occupying part oi the tableland of Patagonia to instigate the truth of the report of the creature's existence, and if that is established, "to do what is necessary in fulfillment of said* law to prevent the hunting or capturing" of it in any form, leaving it in peace, fcy reason of its being a valuable specimen which nneht to eniov full libertv and be allowed to reproduce itself." Dr. Albarracin asserts that, like the Penguin, it probably would die if brought north, by reason of the change of climate, and adds: "If scientists want to study the creature, let them do it in a humane way in its habitat while it is enjoying full liberty." Meanwhile Prof. Onelli, who first announced the existence of the enimal, said the expedition will start at the end of the week: provided additional funds are further coming. million dollars of personal and corporation income taxes, exclusive of excess profits, and, therefore, the state will receive, if these figures hold up, one-third of that amount. It is estimated that the receipts from the income tax legislation will, therefore, be approximately one million dollars. Some figure that the returns will run as high as a million and a half dollars, but this is doubtful as the net returns now being filed + f V?a infornol vOtrAniiA O t v>itll lii^ lUb^i a?i X Vy t yuug tunwvw* %?v Columbia indicate a decided slump in net incomes for 1921.