V0L 86 EDGEFIELD, S. G., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20,1921 JOHNSTON LETTER New Books For Library. Rev. W. S. Brooke Conducting Meeting at Chappell. Many Visitors The town library is now being made a very attractive place and is opened twice a week. Sixty-four new books were received during the past j week and these are such good ones that they should be read. The library is expecting to receive a box of books from the government, the only condition with these being that all World War veterans have free ac cess to them. The library is over the Farmers and Merchants bank and the opening hours are from 4 to 6 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crouch and M"!*s. L. S. Maxwell have been at Dillon, S. C. as guests of Dr. and Mrs. John Halford. Mrs. James Edwards entertained with a very pleasant dinner party on last Thursday, her guests being sev eral of the elderly ladies. All of these were girls together and so a very happy day of reminiscences was had. ' Mrs. Mena Calhoun has returned to Greenwood after a stay in the home ' of her daughter, Mrs. Ben Wright. 1 Miss Blanche Sawyer has gone to } Charleston to nurse a patient. She is a good nurse and has been kept 1 busy part of the summer. . ^ Mrs. Yeomans of Fairfax is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Cox. 1 Mrs. Hames of Jonesville, is also vis- 1 . iting in the home. Miss Lillian Smith. of Edgefield is ' visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. W. Hardy. 1 Mrs. Dorn of Spartanburg is the ' guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Do- 1 bey. Other guests in this home for 1 the week-end were Mr.- and Mrs. Nixon. J The Baptist Sunday school now ] numbers 503, and it is hoped that the extra class^ rooms^ can soon be^ar- ^ but is now improving. { Misses Sallie Dozier and Isolene 1 Westmoreland are at home from a ( visit to the latter's sister, Mrs. Frank Wierse at Charleson. 1 Mr. J. M. Turner returned on Sat- ! urday from the University hospital, 1 where he has been recovering from ] an operation. 1 Miss Ella Jacobs is at home from J Winthrop college where she attended summer school. 1 Mrs. Ella Perry Moore of New- 1 berry is visiting Mrs. Alice Cox. ? Upon her return she will stop in Co- .' lumbia for her little son, Guerney, { who is now going to school at Ep- . worth Orphanage. i Mrs. McClung who has a position '. with the Norris Millinery Co., has gone to her home at Saluda for a vacation. Misses i Reese and Long of Wash ington, D. C., have been guests of Misses Conya nad Elliot Hardy. Mr. George Hardy has returned to Birmingham, Ala., after a visit to his home folks. Miss Mary Lewis of Meeting Street was here Thursday en route to Charleston to spend a while with her friend, Miss Shiver who has just con cluded a visit to Miss Lewis. Mrs. Leland Chester and little son and Miss Maude Wright have gone to Macon, Ga., to visit in the home of Rev. Chester. Miss Louise Boyd of Chester is vis iting Mrs. Walter Sawyer. Misses Sara and Louelle Norris, Mrs. M. R. Wright and family and Mrs. McClung have been for a visit to Tybee. Mr. and Mrs. Sammon of Macon, Ga., are guests of their daughter, Mrs. Joe Wright. \Miss Marguerite Simmons is visit ing Miss Sallie Dozier. During the spring she was with her cousin, Miss Simmons in North Carolina. Mrs. Eugene Kneece and children of Ridge Spring spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Clark. Rev. W. S. Brooke is at Chappell this week conducting a meeting at Cross Roads church. He will return on. Saturday afternoon to fill his pul pit on Sunday. Messrs Clerence and Robert Saw yer are now in Charleston where they fill good positions. Mrs. Jenkins of Vidalia, Ga., is visiting in the home of her nephew, MT. G. G. Waters. Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Corn are at home from a week's stay at Wal halla. Mrs. Walter Sawyer entertained her visitors on Friday afternoon with a picnic at Smith's pond. Mrs. Cecil Kenney of Warrenville has been for a visit to friends. Mr. Robert Tribble of Newberry spent last week here with his sister, Mrs. M. W. Crouch. Government Considers Offer of Henry Ford. Washington, July 15.-The gov ernment is giving earnest considera tion to the offer of Henry Ford to purchase the great Muscle Shoals ni trate plant on the Warrior River, Alabama. The Ford proposal was brought up at the cabinet meeting today and re ferred to Secretary of War Weeks, Secretary of Labor Davis, who al ready have begun a study of the fed eral waterpower commission later. The Detroit millionaire automobile manufacturer has offered to pay $5, 000,000 cash for the plant and to take a 100-year lease on the dams and equipment. Secretary Weeks stated today that no decision will be reached until a careful study of the offer has been made. Ford will be asked to come to Washington later on for a confer ence with Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, it was learned today. There is every indication that the government is favorably disposed to the Ford proposal, since it would provide completion of ,the Muscle Shoals project and would include al most immediate conversion of the big plant to the making of explosives in the event of war. Mr. Ford's pro posal to use the plant for the manu facture of cheap fertilizers for the farmer also meets with the entire ap proval of the government. New Method of Using X-Ray to Treat Cancer, it last, that cancer can be successful ly treated by means of a new discov ery in the use of X-rays. ' Hundreds and thousands of men and women all over the world who ire at present suffering from cancer ?rill be encouraged by the fact that a new scientific treatment for this dreadful disease has been discovered, according to a new report. Hitherto many drugs, serums and Dther treatments have been adopted, but without success. Among others, X-rays have been used, but in the past they have not been powerful enough to kill large growths. Radium will undoubtedly kill can cer cells, but its influence is very limited. Operation Abandoned. One of our leading radiologists has recently returned from a special trip to the University of Erlangen, Ba varia, where Professor Herman Wintz has been treating deep-seated cancers by extremely powerful X rays. The difficulty in the past has been to get the full, adequate dose of X-rays which will kill the growth down to the center of the cancer with out destroying the healthy structures between it and the skin. This has been overcome at last. So successful have the results in the women's clinic at Erlangen been that all operations for the removal .f cancer have been abandoned. Eighty per cent of cancers have been apparently cured by this meth od after a period of three and a half years. The word "apparent" is used be cause no doctor dare say that cancer is "cured." All he can say is that the growth has not recurred. One or more exposures extending over several hours is enough. No anaesthetics are necessary as it is painless. The patient can eat, sleep, and smoke while lying on the table. Within five years, one authority states, not 10 per cent of cancers will be treated by surgeons. Professor Wintz's apparatus has been installed at the West London hospital at a very great expense. With the exception of another owned by an X-ray specialist, it is the only apparatus of its kind in use in Eng land. A demonstration was recently giv en at West London hospital before a large number of London and provin cial authorities. I Stage Fright, What It Is and a Possible Cure (Written for The Advertiser by Signora De Fabritiis.) 1 What is stage fright, that terrible sensation that has been known in.1 rare instances to render absolutely: impotent the voice of an* actor orr] singer or the fingers of a player? Stage fright, the real thing, must' not be confused with the form of ner vousness felt by almost every sen*; sitive man or woman, when he or shj^ appear^ beforfe an auditnce lnigfe^ or small to interpret some literary^ or musical idea. Not to feel this "trembling of the; : knees" this "sinking sensation at the,' j diaphragm," this dry throat and parch ed tongue, is to brand ones self as; too insensitive to emotions, too dull' ; of feeling, and therefore unfit to be': an interpreter of the Musis of Musk?j ? or Drama. We have always held to the belief, that knowledge of one's craft, built painstakingly and intelligently, did:' much to help put in the back ground the spectre of nervousness. A poise of mind and body that' comes when the individual ceases to i think of the personal. appeal during; a performance and thinks only of th?"- ' subject in hand, trying to be a pas?; sive medium through which the J thoughts and moods of the composer- \ find audible expression, this is a grea; aid to poise. In a recent issue of The .Musi Digest, a weekly paper that plays wonderful part in the development dfj discriminating musical taste in Amer-^ ica, by giving without bias or preju*' dice, the press reviews of the great mass of concerts and operas given in New York, Chicago, London, Pa: and Rome, we find this question.? stage fright, most interestingly !ed. For the benefit of our Tea"1 who do not have access to this pap? we quote the following: j: Miss Geraldine Farrarr whose (is almost a household-word; " who rose to the top round of the ladder of fame in her own America and abroad; stimulates the imagina tion of many aspiring young singers, says in part: "Stage fright is not, to my way of thinking, a germ, but a state of mind. It is really, if we look at it clearly, a matter of self hypnotic hysteria, which affects most emotional people. We have all felt nervousness in some form and personally I am seldom subject to the kind of nervousness that interferes with the fullest use of my resources." Miss Marcella Craft thinks that "It should not be confused with the excitement which may cause the heart to beat and the knees to trem ble a bit, especially just previous to one's first entrance upon the stage in either opera or concert. That ex citement is wholesome, if a bit of a nuisance at the time .... Without that tremor of excitement a sort of phlegmatic dullness is apt to kill the effect of a performance perfect from a technical standpoint. Mary Jordan holds that "Stage fright is caused by lack of prepara tion and a lack of concentration." We are m complete sympathy with the above, for lack of knowledge be gets fear and fear is at the root of all acute stage fright. One cannot con centrate on a thing one does not know well, so hand in hand with lack of knowledge goes the lack of clear visualization that gives vitality to the uttered thought. In our own career as concert sing er aid also as we have helped others to a public'career, we have found one of the surest cures for their ner vousness was to concentrate on ryth micsl deep breathing for ten or fif tenjminutes previous to a perfor mance. This, plus a habit of never chojsing for a program a song that had not, been absolutely mastered in all details, and rehearsed a sufficient nunber of times, as to seem, when sung, an improvisation, gives to the performer a buoyancy of mind and boiy, an enthusiasm that is at once its'own making and its giving which brings the audience into immediate syinpathy with the artist, and creates the ..mosphere which banishes ner vcusness. ;We have one coupe, one touring esr, and one run about m stock that w? can deliver at once. Phone 82. YONGE & MOONEY. . . Miss Florence Mims Write From Seattle and Portland j and the Journey to San Francisco. Dear Advertiser: . :; Leaving Livingston, Mont., Wed ?esday, June 29, we arrived in Seat tie, Washington, late Thursday night JvThe United States made a grea gajin when it included this territory among the numerous ones added ic the original thirteen colonies, for ii 3&>indeed, a land flowing with mill Slid honey. ^/Strangely true, that though this State and Florida are as far aparl flfany two on the map, they are verj ?fike in climate and products. The ?warm Japanese current gives Wash ttjgton, Oregon and Southern Alaska acclimate that added to the natural j&rtility of the ,poil, makes it one .o? rag finest fruit raising districts in fct?? country. It never snows in Seat ?l; a fact that I have had to think 035? a long time before I could be lieve it. ftP- seems to me that there is only one business enterprise that would n?fcflourish in Seattle and that is the florist shop, for the avenues, yards and vacant lots were all a riot of bloom, with magnificent roses and flowers of every description, and the sweet corners were gay.with flow er venders like sunny Italy. '';Before going to Seattle, I was told that the .most interesting of all Seat t?Ss.'show places was the public mar ke* It had never occurred to me that anything, supposedly so common platjce, could be a thing of beauty. In driving along, it was not necessary (ImeHold just where the1 markets raKi^for ' along the streets there flapped a colorful display of fruits, V?g?tahl?s and flowers, of such per fection that a vegetarian would prob ^Kthink it an earthly paradise, and ^Hio am essentially a non-vegeta SSEj^ught that even I might be in ^RLto :ea?..su4jh^ca?q es"ls T saw in a fe?Tand y?tm'w'color scheme. This was a rainbow design reaphing to the earth with pots of gold close to hand for the venders, and wealth in nourishment for the purchasers. One is amazed at the very small price at which these things are sold, partly perhaps because of the ease and quantity in which they are rais ed, and partly because they are near ly all sold by Japanese men and wo men, who have a cerain thrifty ca pacity for living on a very small in come. There were monstrous straw berries and cherries about twice as large as any I had ever seen. Instead of looking at buildings as I went about sight-seeing, I was look ing at the flowers, amazed at the pro fusion with which they bloomed, es pecially the Dorothy Perkins roses, which have long since bloomed and withered at home. I left Seattle with the same im pression the Norsemen had when they visited America and called it Vine land, for I was as surprised to find grapes instead of snow in this far northwestern corner of the conti nent, as they were to find such veg etation on the eastern shores. Portland was also a veritable or chard and rose garden. Early in June every year a rose show in held. This city is older than Seattle, and has not grown old as gracefully as some I have seen. I am continually surprised at the enormous stretches of country that lie between the large cities in the west. Travelling on one of the fast est trains in the west, the Shasta Lim ited, we spent a day and a half and a night from Portland to San Fran cisco. On any other train it would have taken six hours longer. The morning of the second day we passed Mt. Shasta, and I looked up to behold the most beautiful mountain I had ever seen. Certainly it could be well compared with "the monarch of mountains" Mont Blanc. Snow lay along the sides in deep ridges and water falls came down its sides. The train stopped for all the passengers to have a chance to drink the really famous Shasta water. Al ways such water has a medicinal taste that certainly does not appeal to me. I would probably have gotten out and taken a long draught had I not only too recently had some water from a similar spring in Yellowstone Park, where the ? car stopped one morning at an iron spring supposed to contain the finest water in the Park. On such a recommendation, I filled my cup and expecting a sort of nectar, I drank some liquid that tasted like extract of quinine and green persim mons, and I then and there resolved that in the remaining few or many years of my life, I would take my water and medicine separate. We arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday evening, having ferried across the Sacremento River, and later acrpss the Bay, seeing San Francisco outlined by thousands of lights in the dim distance. FLORENCE MIMS. 3101 California St., San Francisco, Cal. July 4, 1921. Resolutions on the Death of Mr. H. M. Dibble. A special meeting of the' Directors of the Bank of Western Carolina was held at Aiken on last Friday, July 15th, which was .largely attended. Resolutions upon the death of Mr. H. M. Dibble were adopted, and the matter of selecting his successor was considered. As arrangements had been made for conducting the affairs of the bank during the next few months when Mr. Dibble was expect ed to be away on vacation, it was decided not to elect a president at this time, but to postpone action until September 15th, and in the meantime Mr. P. M. Buckingham was elected to serve as president pro tem. The res olution as adopted is as follows: Resolved, That inasmuch as the President of the Bank of Western Carolina has. departed this life, and it is not deemed expedient at this time to fill the vacancy in the presi dency caused by his death, because it is thought advisable that not only the Directors but the Stockholders of the bank, and its patrons should consider well who should be appoint ed to this, important position. z*P6e&?6r?-; the- B?ar