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Expedition Led by Captain
Bartlett Will Use
a:?
mrpiouco*
i. JUNE OF ftE^T YEaS . j
WILL WITNESS START
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Plan Said to Have Been Conc?Twl
bf A^s^ra) P?<7 Contemplate*
Survey in Much Detail and b
E*p?ct?d to ^4^1 Much to
SdflM*. 'v \
New York, Dec. 22.?An expedition,
to to l ett by Capt, Robert A.
Bartlett, poted explorer, will be sent
to polar reg&Ps next June, to
auralft the North POle by airplane,
according to ah announcement here
tojtitfit by ?e Aero ,Cfyb of America
1 Tie ptwir it W Miliwas conceived
by Rea? Admiral Robert E.
Peary, discoverer .of the pole.
The purpose of expedition,
which,itwaa said, would he the moot
completely equipp^e*?f qtoI
will be to "explore, survey andj
photograph the unexplored parts of|
tended, according to the announce.
mailt "ta Anion tlm muuf air anill
^^Umttid Stjft|r an4 to science will
dition," says the Announcement;
which added that the elub would
raise $250,00$'to* fixutyce the frip.
"The Nort| Pole haajbeen ^iacqvrred,
but-thte mafor part of the work
till xemaina to be done,"vthe announcement
abates* "Both AdwjraJ
Peary and Captain Fartlett want to
Jfo a great deal of scientific research
f jn the pol^ur bfaii* of vhich oyer
^,000,000 square miles remain unexplored,
and they would want to have
I* laboratory on the ship where the
<ftora rfnd'fauna from t&e ocean bottom
will be kept until the return of
the expedition. Little or iio data has
. been obtained from the bottom' of
the polar basin and no meteorological
surveys have been made in the
'polar region."
a Asserting that "with the cooperation
of the leading geographical and
Scientific bodies assured," it is plantied
to have the expedition leave
the United States next June, the
announcement continued.
DR. PRYOR ILL.
Dr. Pryor, of the Pryor Hospital
in -Chester, has been ill for . several
M . days with the flu, which threatens to
develop into pneumonia. ^
fij , Dr. 6. A. Neuffer, of Abbeville,
BBSB been called to his bedside on two
different occasions, one of which was
Mai Saturday evening, to consult with
HI pther physicians about the condiH
' tion of the patient.
B5? Dr. P^ypgi has. many friends,, ft
ran Abbeville,, and the people . geqeratyy
[$f ^ sorry for 5*?tr of His sickness.
jflflf No man whom we know would be so
3ii sorely missed by the people of this
Hgj section, 'should he be taken from us.
Bgg Let us hope that he will soon recover.
Ban ' i "f ?> w ?'* v
Mr. and Mrs. Wilt JTordfn, Aisis
B Mary Jordan and Mrs. W. J. McKee,
858 to th?
Wil Friday topping.
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WILL ASK MONEY
OF LEGISLATURE
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State Board of Health Wants Adequate
Appropriation?Tuberculosis
Hospital Need Modern Plant?
More Money Wanted to Fight
Epidemic.
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Columbia, S. C., Dec. 21.?Ninety/IaIIoihi
l'a f|)A Slim
l/IUXV bUVUiXtiiU UVitwi u aw WUV ?
that the executive committee of the
State board of health will recommend
that the legislature appropriate
during the coming session for
the financing of various measures
looking, to the protection and imro'vement
of health conditions in
South Carolina. This amount does
got include salaries, maintenance arid
vapipgs other items of necessary expftnsp.
Dr. James A. Hayne, State
health officpr? in speaking of the appropriations,
yesterday, said that the
board hopes to be able to keep the
expenses within the appropriation
granted last year which was $102,006
".bough some readjustment of appropriations
May be necessary.
To finance the establishment of a
ofciM health bureau, it was decided
at the meeting of tire executive committee
Thursday to recommend an
appropriation of $10,000. ?
It was also recommended that the
| work for the control of venereal diseases
in the be contjnu$fr *nd
mmchM *by the federal government.
1 riVTfiy ivm if.rtww!
WnlCn Sum will u0 sUppIumGiilCu Dy
a fiSfe raffount from tEe fnteraation^
-<';a<.Y r^r-.y-w-rv,--- a:.?jv.r-- " r*
aeajib coBUinssion, DoctcP Known as
the Rockefeller foundation.
Dr. Hayne said yesterday that on
mco\^ of %? recridqpc ence of, in-!
fluypjK; the bpard iejt that. ? larger
sum should be appropriated for the
evention of the spread of conta
gioua diseases* and that 190,000 will
be asked .'for this year. Last year
the sum appropriated was $20,000.
It was decided to tysk (or the sum
of $8,000 for the building of a moderh
dairy at the tuberculosis hospital.
For the maintenance of the
hospital, the appropriation asked forj
will be the game as that of last year, I
namely $15,000.
Tte report of the field secretary
of the sanitorium showed hoW much
benefit had been derived from the
appropriation for cooperating committee
for tuberculosis war work for
which the legislature last year appro- <
i priated $5,000. An equal amount will |
j be asked for this year. Dr. Hayne,
I in speaking of this appropriation
j yesterday, said that the negroes have!
been aroused to the necessity for
taking measures to care for tubercular
patients of their own race and the
legislature will be asked to provide a
fund equal to the amount raised by
subscriptions among the negroes,
this amount to be us^d to furnish
and maintain an infirmary at State
Park under the management of the
sanitorium for white people. The
building will be located near the
'saifte place as that occupied by the
infirmary for white patients, and Dr.
Hayne said yesterday that the board
f?lt sure that the legislature wduld
lend a willing eaij to this apjppal a?
it meamr better protection' for tSe
whites as well as for negroes.
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ATTENDING THE FUNERAL
1$. and Sfrf. Geofgpe Penney ariij
f Sfias Mary Pdrffai Went up to An,
derson Sunday afternoon to attend
g^fuj)teral of Mn. Alma Penney on
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ITALIANS LOSE
MANY THOUSAN
Half Million Sacrifice Lives in WarTwo
Hundred Thousand Soldiers
Killed'in Action, While Disease
Claims Remainder?
Figres in Detail.
' Paris, Dec. 21.?Five hundre
thousand Italians lost thefr lives i
the war. Of this number 200,00
n /ti'i An
WCfC IUUCU ill avi/ivu*
This statement was made to tl
correspondent today by Salvatoi
Barzill&i, former member of the Ita
ian cabinet, who {accompanied Eii
Victor. Emmanuei to Paris, . explaii
ing Italy's sacrifice and her claim \
territories previously held by tl
enemy. Signor Barzillai said:
, "On the. eve of the peace confe:
ence, where Italy must claim the te
ritories due her for reasons of m
tionality, ii is well the world shoul
know the sacrifices sustained by he
All Italians trust America as an in
partial judge. .
lin.l. CAA AAA J..A
IWUjr AUOb UVUjUUU UMUl * V VUVI
actually filled in battle be addc
300,000 >?hb died of disease, partici
larly malaria, contracted in Albanij
Macedonia and along the Piave. Tt
Italians severely wounded numb ere
300,000, while 500,000 of the 5
000,000 called to the colors were ti
k^prisone#;
. "TChe enormity of ^her . #acrlfic<
Italy more exacting in d<
manding restitution 6f the regioi
theiea4^A4w^..ItaJya<
Ss5?fE|iS8ffi
"A league of nations must ha\
as i fundamental nueletre the ei
tente countries and Amercia, 1
hich the others may join later.
CQBtooal, bo^y, constituting the si
||cren\e court of title league, must hai
legishttoa. power -limited to interrv
tional affairs, judicial power for tl
application ox its rules an4 executn
porter to enforce its decision. A
this implies the abolition of seen
treaties ai\d secret diplomacy ar
the abolition of armaments.
"Italy's war expenses reached 65
000,000,000 lire, which will be ii
creased to 80,000,000 through pei
sions and other financial burdei
consequent on the war. All this mu:
e deducted from Italian wealt
Few other belligerents underwei
;uch privations."
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Miss Ruth Howie is at home fro:
Brenau College for the holidays. SI
is accompanied by her friend, Mi;
Terry Anderson, a pretty your
ady from Arkansas who is atten
ing the Georgia school.
These young ladies are makir
glad many hearts and are adding 1
the pleasure and gaiety of the hoi
days.
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BACK HOME.
Dr. Jack Pressly has been di
charged from the service and is bai
at home ready for business at tl
old stand. The doctor is glad to I
hpme and says that nQthing cou
persuade him to stay in the arm
not even to having; fyia legs dressi
up in leather puttees.
LME OLt> TIMES.
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The Baptists are .back on the ja
(tf it wpttf Nke old times, i
cteecf, t& ha^e Rev. Louis J. Bristc
occupy their pulpit Sunday. A war
welcome was extended to the fami
by the large congregation present.
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DEATH TAKES TOLL C
D OF YOUNG PEOPLE
-j- 'early Four Thousand Die in Ten [
Months?People Between Twenty
and Thirty Succumb in Numbers
?Figures for November Not
Available.
>d A brief study of the vital statistics
in compiled by Dr. James A. Hayne, j
10 . itate health officer, ' for the ten t
aonths ending October 31, 11918, a
ie ings to light some; startling figures ,
re iB to the number of deaths in- South c
,1- Carolina among people ranging in t
ig age frpm 20 to 30 years. {
a- - Is these ten m'dntha, 1,141 white t
to- males.and 1,097 negro males between
ie the agee of _0 and' 80 passed away. ,In
the saale. time and" within the *
r- same age, limits, 480 white females c
r- And 1,209 negro females died, maka
: ? ? total of 8,938. When it is real- 8
[d ized that it is between the* age of'20
r. and 80 that the health of the individi
ual is at its best perhaps, the sig- e
lihcance of thej^gurea is grasped. '
ie Dr. Havne. in sneakine of the e
>d death rate for dctober alone, said t
i- of the total dejlffis, which amounted t
a, to about 1,800, a little .more than c
te 21B per cent, of the totfel number ecid
cu3hred among' people between the 1
r ages of 20 afid 90 years. g
i- ' The influenza, which In many cases t
developed into pneumonia, reaped a ra
fearftft harvest among people in the t
Br ftfll tirfe of their vigor. Dr. Hayne,
is ftai not yet available the statiitfies
1- for tiie death Rite for that month I
jg among the young and vigorous will c
be almost as heavy if not heavier o
^ 'an, the ktt fat October, as many t:
. I ri roc* A ?
1-*cases or pneumonia, occurred. s
10 The iftonber erf dea'tis amohg the fc
A whites during the year idl7 was 7,- {
l- 2fl6, white the lotal deaths f<Jr tie a
re same period among the negroes was
i- 12,150, making a total of 19^406 for
te whites and negroes, not including e
re ttte deaths among Indians. ?
11 The total Aumbere of births among p
at the' whites for nine months, ending; t
id September 30, 1918, was 14,793, the n
naleS slightly outnumbering the fe-Jd
males. The total number of births! e
a-l among the negroes for the Same pe-1
a-J iod was 17,527, the males totaling! g
is y,iZO ana tne iemaies nauiumu^
st 8,402. There were 16 births among j
h the Ihdians during the same period j,
it of time.?The State, Sunday.
, DEATH OF MRS. PENNEY. v
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Mrs. Alma Spearman Penney ^
m ied at the Anderson Hospital e
ie Saturday, Dec. . 21st, 1918, at *
88 eleven o'clock, after a short illness v
with influenza ' *
d" Mrs. Penney was the wife of the t
late William Penney, of Abbeville, r
to whom she was married in 1903.
t0 They lived happily together for a ^
year, Mr. Penney dying in 1904.
nee this time Mrs. Penney has t
made her home in Anderson, making
lerself useful to mankind in the i
a practice of her profession of ruts- a
^ ing. She had many friends who *
"i9 will regi&t her death. Mrs. Penney 1
- was buried Monday in Anderson. 1
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J, MRS. SIGN HOME. I*
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Ifrs. Gertrude Sign arrived in Abbeville1
Sunday and will spend the
holidays, with her home people, Mrs. t
b. Sign has been assistant book keeper \
n- at Alcolu for the Aldermon Co., and s
m ,is pleased with ber jyork. and: with \
n the new ^ien^? m^. Hie?; friends i
3y in Abbeville are glad to have her t
home. c
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:alls for return
OF THE RAILROADS
)efinite Proposition by Committee
of Railroad Executives?-Will Be
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Submitted Next Month, if Approved,
to Senate Commerce
| Committee.
New York, Dec. 21.?A definite
>roposition calling for prompt reyy
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urn of the railroads after the pasage
of remedial federal legislation
va's worked out at a meeting here tolay
of the standing committee of
&e Association of Railroad Execuives,
according to an announcement
o night,
, While provisions of the plan were
lot made public, it was said that they
ook into consideration every detail
>f the problem. The program will
>e submitted next month to the Senite
interstate commerce committee,
f it fs approved %t a full meeting of
he association called here.for Dec-'
:mber, 86.
Whatever the cost, it was said, the
ixecutives are opposed to extending
he period of federal control beyond
wenty-one months after the signing,
if peace, as prescribed by law. It Ja
nderstood that, rather than have the !
faae'extended to five yeart,. as. sug;ested
by Director General McAdoo,
hey would prefer return of the
oads without the proposed legislaion.
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A hint as to wh^t form the execn
r- ??' m * m mV: ? % ?
.res tmnK tan legislation snouia
ak'e is foun4 in the reasons they asrJbe'
for improved condition* effectd
by gp4renpent operation, addiionai
equipinent, abolition of the
kipper's power* > to rpute his own '
i?Sc ,increase in demurrage rates, !
ecreaae in time allowed Ipr.. loading 1
nd and .triet .up?. ;
ion of swpaents, .
Today's committee meeting follow- 1
4 a session held in Philadelphia
ist week, when a tentative draft 1
rogram was made. Since then the
wenty-four members of the com- 1
littee, it was said, had submitted the 1
raft to the leading railroad interT
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oftt in naviAtifl naWfa 4-Via AAtiwft?rr
ouo IU vaiiuuo pai w ux wuc j? ?
OUTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS
TO MEET IN COLUMBIA 1
i
Lnnual Gathering Called After
Having Been Postponed
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The Annual State Baptist Conention
will be held in Columbia at
he First Baptist church beginning on
anuary 13. Announcement to that
ffect was made Friday afternoon by
he executive committee of the conention,
after a conference with pas-;
ors and laymen from all sections of
he State, held in the Sunday School
oom of the First Baptist church.
The annual convention was to have
een held at Darlington December 92,
but was postponed on account of
he influenza situation at that place.
The convention will open at 7:30
r. m., With devotional exercises and
iddresses. The regular . order of
msmess prepared for the meeting at
>afliri?ton will be carried otft ther&
?he delates will not be entertained
ry Bajirtfets of Columbia but will ar
if..!. uiAJ.iUMM*
ange iuf vucu uwii cuboiMiuituvu?*
miss tt'cord better.
Miss Essie Lee McCord, who has
teen ai Pryor's Hospital for several
reelosj has sp far recovered as to be
ible {a return hpme. jfter friends
nil be to know that she is
apidly. r^Infog her strength and
liai she fiopes to be oat at an early
ia?e.
TO PRESENT APPEAL
Would Interest Entente
Powers in Restoration
of Order.
NO GOVERNMENT NOW
FOR TROUBLED L*ND
r*?r t*??*?
i uuiiHu E?rua ok uuorgini?n
Country, Excluhre of BoldwrQ^
Reprmntsd in r DvUftiioi v
Headed b* Prof. Paul
Miluko ff.
? Paris, Dee. 21-?Prof. Paul Milukoff,
leader of the Russian constfttitional
democrats, and foreign minis* . [fa
ter in the cabinet of .Premier Lvoff, '
which was formed after. the overthrow
of the imperial dynasty, has
arrived in Paris with Nicholas Schebeko,
former Russian ambassador at
Vienna, and ' four other Russians
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loyicaouuug uw VM1VUS pUUUCU
parties exclusive of the Bolshevfid
?nd. the extreme left of the social
revotatfonaHfcST Tlffi;1ra^lfiv1^4er8
say they have come here for the purpose
of interesting the entente powers
in the restoration of order in
Eussia so that a government may be ^
formed which will reunite Buttfat , *;
Rfid win recognition from tile irortd
.* - ;i4 *
powers.
> The party left Kiev tfc'wft' itoeks
ago ffnd traveled to Wtk by 4*y of
Ddeauu When Professor Mihiloff
left Kiev the 8K4rojpdski g^erimmn*
lUMJl A?j6t^ fcl.
MW WI*W| WHO UfMU |Uy0O9U l/W
;aese the German*' uitefr had pe*- \ 5
Bitted General SkorOjpadaki to <&>
?aniz? hi* own army end the tJkri&5tan
force was small after the tferrtStt
troops withdrew.
Professor Milukotf said General;
Skoropadski never Was jibpulai1 witk
the Ukrainians' because he advocated
n independent U&feine while the
public largely favored a united l?us:it.
Extensive agrarian moventent*
ilso have been directed against
Shoropadski, the constitutional democratic
leader &Med, and it is likely
l.U-4. iL- 1 I 1.1
uiiau unc geiierttT naa ueeri overwirowa
Government of.Denikine.
In the meantime General Denikine,
former chief of the Russian general
staff, has established a government
at Yekaterinodar, which Professor
Milukoff and his associates said the?
hope to see develop sufficient
strength to unite all the moderates
in the Ukraine and eventually to
merge with the government of Gen- .
>ral Eolchak at Omsk, Siberia, into
a central government pledged to the
promotion of Russian unity. Other
members of the Russian mission now
here are Vladimir Gurko, a brother
of General Gurko, who formerly
commanded the Russian Southwestern
front; Sergius Tretiskoff, former
president of the Russian Ecumenical
council j Alexander Getoc
and Constantino &rovopoafcoc. Tha
last two named members of the mission
are moderate Socialists. . 'fhey
specially are interested in the cooperative
movement and represent the
l'eft party in Russian politics. Professor
Milukoff represents thtf center
party while the other three belong
to various parties of the right.
Dr. and Mrs. H A. McElroy, of
Columbia, are here to spend the Holidays
a( the home of Mr. aid Sirs. &
H. Richey.
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