Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, June 07, 1922, Image 2
The Prize Editorial.
Announcement has been mad
the winners of the Pulitzer wri
pr'zes, among which was the edit
prize won by Frank M. O'Brier
The New Yoik Herald. His edito
"The Unknown Soldier " appeare
the issue of November ll. It
beautiful piece of work and wo
of admission into eve::y scrap b
Because of the honor given it we
print the editorial herewith in i
"The Unknown Soldier."
That which takes place todaj
the National cemetery in Arlina
is a symbol, a mystery and a trib
It is an entombment only in
physical sense. It is rather the
thronement of duty and honor. ?
man who died for his country is
symbol of these qualities; a far m
perfect symbol than any man cc
he whose name and deeds we kn
He repiesents more, really, than
unidentified dead, for we can
separate them spiritually from
war heroes whose names are writ
> on their gravestones. He-this sp
whom we honor-stands for the
selfishness of all.
This, of all monuments to the de
is lasting and immutable. So long
. men revere the finer things of 1
the tomb of the nameless hero \
remain a shrine. Nor, with the shi
of time and mind can there be
changing of values. No historian st:
rise to modify the virtues or 1
faults of the soldier. He has an i
munity for which kings might pr;
The years may bring erosion to 1
granite but not to the memory of 1
unknown.
It is a common weakness of 1
inanity to ask the questions that c
never be answered in this life. Pn
ably none to whom the drama of t
unknown soldier has appealed Y
not wondered who, in the sunshi
of earth, was the protagonist of 1
days' ceremony. A logger from t
Penobscot? An orchardist from t
Pacific coast? A well, driller frc
Texas? A machinist from Connec
cut? A lad who 1 eft his hoe to ri;
among the Missouri corn? A lon
shoreman from Hell's Kitchen? Pf
haps some youth from the tobac
fields, resting again in his own V:
ginia. All that the army tells us
him is that he died in battle. All th
the heart tells is that some worn;
loved him. More than that no mi
shall learn. In this mystery, as in tl
riddle of the universe, the wise wo
ider; but they would not know.
. - What were his dreams, his ame
tions? Likely he shared those coi
mon to the millions; a life of pea?
and honest struggle, with such stat
success as comes to most who tr;
and at the end the place on the hi.
side among his fathers. Today to c
.honor ar his last resting place con
the greatest soldier of the age, f;
mous statesmen from other cont
nents, the President, the high judg(
and the legislators of his ov;n coui
4;ry, and many men who, like himsel
fought for the flag. At his bier wi
gather the most remarkable grou
that America has seen. And the tom
which Fate reserved for him is, ir
stead of the narrow cell on the vi
l?ge hillside, one as lasting as th:i
of Rameses and as inspiring as Ni
poleon's.
It is a great religious ceremonj
this burial today. The exaltation o
the nameless bones would not be pos
jsible except for belief. Where wer
duty and honor, the well-springs o
victory, if mankind feai'ed that deat
drew a black curtain behind whicl
lay nothing but the dark? So all ii
whom the spark of hope has not diet
can well believe that we, to whom th?
soldier is a mystery, are not a mys
tery to him. They can believe that th<
watchers at Arlington today are na
merely a few thousands of the living
but the countless battalions of th<
departed. "Though he were dead, ye!
shall he live"-there is the promist
to which men hold when everything
of this earth has slipped away.
All the impressive ritual of todaj
would be a mockery if we did not be
lieve that, out in an infinity which as
tronomeds cannot chart or mathema
ticians bound, the unknown soldier
and all the glorious dead are looking
down upon this little spinning ball,
conscious of our reverence. And
when noon strikes, signal for the
moment of silent prayer, few of
those who stand with bared head will
iack conviction that the rites at Ar
lington are viewed by other than mor
tal eyes. Only in that spirit may we
honor the unknown soldier and those
who, like him, died for this republic.
Unknown, but not unknowing.
"Everybody is ready to sustain the
law he likes. That is not in the prop
er sense respect for law and order.
The test of respect for law is where
the law is upheld even though it
hurts," says Charles E. Hughes,
Secretary of State.
Methodist Minister Killed by
Aged Inmate of Alms
House.
Columbia, S. C., "May 28.-The
Rev. Vincent Davis, retired Metho
dist minister and superintendent of
the Richland county alms house, was
shot to death early Sunday morning
by John Watts Crocker, one of the
inmates of the home.
Crocker was arrested soon there
after by Sheriff T. A. Heise as Crock
er was sitting beside a window with
a loaded pistol in his hand, waiting
as said "To shoot the first damned
dog that came in the yard."
Two shots were fired, one enter
ing the right nipple, penetrating the
heart and lodged, in the clothing on
the left side, the other made only a
flesh vound on the left knee.
Crocker denies the shooting, al
though there were several eye wit
nesses, a young white girl employed
as assistant cook and she saw the su
perintendent as he started to hand
Clocker some tobacco when the pis
tol fired. The girl said Crocker was
standing in his door with the pistol
in his hand. An aged inmate said she
heard Davis and Crocker in a conver
sation Saturday afternoon, when Mr.
Davis asked Crocker to allow Mrs.
Crocker to help in the kitchen. Crock
er objected to this, and according to
this same witness Crocker made
threats against the life of the super
intendent.
Crocker is a native of Sparanburg
county and will be sixty-four years
old in October. He came here two
years ago and obtained employment
in a cotton mill. He had been in the
alms house seven months.
Mr. Davis is seventy-two years old
and retired after serving in the Meth
odist ministry many years. He had
been superintendent of the home for
four years. He is survived by his wid
ow and four sons, who are all well
known young business men in Co
lumbia.
Are Your Cows Profitable or
Unprofitable ?
Clemson College, May 29.-Many
South Carolina farmers are just
starting in the dairy business, ar.d
the closer they follow orthodox busi
ness methods the greater will be
their success. Starting right will make
success easier. A business man who
is successful always knows the status
of his business, that is whether each
division of his business is netting
him a gain or loss. So it should be
with the dairy farmer. He should
know whether each cow he owns is
producing enough milk and butter
fat to show him a profit or loss above
feed cost. To know this he needs only
a milk scale, which can be purchased
for about $4.00, a milk sheet to en
ter the weights at each milking, and
a book for entering records, says I.
R. Jones, Assistant Dairy Husband
man.
A sample of milk should be tested
once per month. A fair sample should
be an average of 2 to 4 milkings, at
least of one morning and one night
milking, since cows vary in test much
more in morning and night milkings 1
of the same day than in correspond- !
ing milkings of different days. The
milk should be thoroughly mixed by j
pouring from bucket to bucket before
sampling. A one-half pint sample is '
sufficient. Any creamery, ice cream
factory, vocational agricultural high
school, or the State Agricultural Col
lege will usually be glad to do this
testing. The owner himself can easily
learn to test once he gets a Babcock
tester.
The p ounds of milk for the month
multiplied by the test gives the
pounds of butter fat. The feed.cost
can be figured at the prevailing mar
ket price. A profitable cow should
produce not less than 6,000 pounds
of milk or 200 pounds of butter fat
in 300 days.
WINTHROP COLLEGE
Scholarship and Entrance Exami
nation.
The examination for the award of
vacant Scholarships in Winthrop Col
lege and for admission of new stu
dents will be held at the County
Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9
a. m. Applicants must not be less than
sixteen years of age. When Scholar
ships are vacant after July 1, they
will be awaided to those making the
highest average at this examination,
provided they meet the conditions
governing the award. Applicants for
Scholarships should mite to Presi
dent Johnson before the examina
tion for Scholarship examination
blanks.
Scholarships the worth $100 and
free tuition. The next session will
open September 20th, 1922. For fur
ther information and catalogue, ad
dress Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill,
South Carolina.
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The Pan-American Conference
of Women.
For women of. twenty-two coun
tries of North and South America, all
roads, during the last week in April,
led to Baltimore, where, in the larg
est hall in the city could furnish, that
of the Century Theatre, over one
thousand women from outside, in ad
dition to those in the city, assembled
to discuss all that has to do with hu
man welfare-the care and education
of children, safeguarding of women
in industry, sound health and mor
als-the fundamentals that appeal to
women of every clime and tongue.
In the first session, one hour and for
ty minutes in length, twenty-two wo
men, coming from all of the Ameri
cas, sundered in actual miles almost
as widely as the north and south
poles, spoke, each speech strength
ening the note of unity which pre
vailed throughout all the conference.
Most interesting were the mem
bers of this company of women, a
goodly number of whom were not
only officially appointed delegates
from their own government^, but
were also specially commissioned to
collect information on educational
institutions and public organizations
of various kinds in this country,
which could be adapted to the needs j
of Central and South America.
The only continent where as yet
woman has not attained to the priv
ilege of the ballot is South America,
but the delegates from Brazil, Uru
guay and Chile reported on their
suffrage movements, Donna Bertha
Lutz of Brazil telling of the bill now
pending before the Brazilian Con
gress to enfranchise women. The six
day program was filled to the brim
with enthusiasm, international friend
liness and boundless interest. Gov
ernment and state officials and edu
cators, representatives of the Cana
dian, Central and South American
countries, as well as prominent lead
ers of the women of the United
States, addressed the immense au
dience.
During the last session of the
Pan-American meetings a resolution
was passed calling for a permanent
organization, and the Pan-American
Association for the Advancement of
Women came into being, with the
general aim of better education for
all women, freedom of opportunity
and responsibility, and particularly
the promotion of "friendliness and
understanding among all Pan-Ameri
can countries for the purpose of
maintaining perpetual peace in the
western hemisphere." The officers are
from the United States, Brazil, Pan
ama, Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay.
Woman Mayor a Terror to
Bootleggers.
Dr. Amy Kaukonen, the twenty
three-year-old mayor of Fairport, 0.,
has been creating quite a stir locally
through her efforts to "clean up,"
with special emphasis un bootlegging
and gambling. Much to the discom
fort of the lawless element, who im
agined they would have little to fear
from a mere slip of a girl, she is liv
ing up to her pre-election pledge to
make Fairport as spotless a town as
lay in her power, and has already es
tablished herself as a forceful ex
ecutive, with little mercy for law vio
lators.
Dr. Kaukonen, who is of Hunga
rian parentage, is the youngest grad
uate of the Women's Medical Col
lege of Pennsylvania. Upon her elec
tion to the chief executive's office
she calmly appointed herself to sev
eral other offices, so that as chief of
police she arrests bootleggers; as ex
pert chemist, she analyzes, and as a
board of health she pronounces
against the liquor taken in the raids.
Make the Law Supreme and Its
Violation Dreaded.
It is undoubtedly true that the fla
grant violations of the prohibition
laws-the very apparent fact that an
army of men find setting the law at
defiance highly profitable in a finan
cial way and not particularly danger
ous-is increasing lawlsesness gen
erally. When those who are criminal
ly disposed see any law held in con
tempt, they are quick to take it for
granted that the law is weak. In a
sense they are right, and it is be
cause they are right that the forces
which stand fo- law and order are de
manding that more teeth be put in the
statutes-that the law be made ter
rible for those who hold it in con
tempt.
Increasing lawlessness has brought
the country to the point of alarm.
And when folks get alarmed they get
busy with preparations for protect
ing themselves and their property.
That is what the law-abiding citi
zenship of this country is doing now.
It will not surrender its heritage
without a fight. Either the law must
be supreme or lawlessness will be
Albany (Ga.) Herald.
Don't say shock absorbers
say "Hasslers."-Y. M. C. j
CORRECT NUMBER OF
EGGS FOR HATCHING
Poor Turkey Hatches Often Due
to Crowded Hens?
Fowl Will Cover From 15 to 18 Eggs,
and Sometimes More, Much De. .
pending on Her Size-Incuba
tors Are Successful.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Turkey hens and chicken hens ordi
narily are used to incubate turkey
eggs, although Incubators are used
where turkeys are raised on a large
scale. During the early part of the
laying season it often happens that
there are on hand a number of eggs
that should be set before the turkey
hens' are through laying their first lit
ter," and become "broody." In such case,
and also when it is desired to have
the turkey hens lay a second or third
litter, some of the eggs have to be
incubated under chicken hens or in an
incubator.
About a week before the poultry are
to* hatch a sufficient number of tur
key hens should be allowed to sit to
take all the poults hatched. They
can be given a few eggs from the incu
bator or from under the chicken hens.
Turkey Hens Are Close Sitters.
and allowed to hatch the poults them
selves, or at night a newly hatched
poult can be slipped under each tur
key hen that is to be given a brood of
poults, and by morning they will take
them, poultry specialists In the United
States Department of Agriculture say.
Turkey hens are close sitters, and
if managed properly they are the
surest means of hatching turkey eggs
that can be used. Incubators are
quite as successful with turkey eggs,
however, as with chicken eggs. Poor
hatches are a very frequent cause of
complaint among turkey raisers, and
this ls quite often due to crowding
more eggs under the hens than they
can properly cover. One egg too many
means that every egg In the nest prob
ably will become chilled at some time
during the four weeks of incubation.
Turkey hens cover from 15 to 18
eggs,j|nd in some cases more, depend
ing W*Bie size of the hen. Chicken
hens of the general-purpose breeds
cover from eight tp ten turkey eggs.
The turkey-egg capacity of an in
cubator is approximately three-fourths
of the chicken-egg capacity.
YIELD TO PROFITABLE COWS
Every Dairyman Should Weigh Each
Milking and Have Sample Test
' ed for Butterfat.
"Every owner of dairy cows should
know if his cows are giving enough
milk or butterfat to make a profit over
the cost of feed," says A. C. Baer, pro
fessor of dairying at Oklahoma A. and
M. college. "A scale to weigh the milk
in the barn can be bought for S4. It
takes only a few minutes a day extra
time to weigh the milk from each cow
and write the weight on a milk sheet
.tacked up in the barn. Once a month
a sample of milk can be tested. Any
creamery, ice cream factory, or cream
station will usually be glad to do this
testing. Every schoolhouse can be
equipped with a tester at very little
expense, and the boys at school can do
the test i n cr.
"A profitable cow should produce 0,
000 pounds of milk or 200 pounds of
butterfat in 300 days. Are your cows
all profitable? Why not find nut? Is
milking dairy cows a business propo
sition with you? If so,- why not ap
ply business methods?"
GLUTEN FEED FOR FALL PIGS
Corn is Not as Satisfactory for Swint
as it is for Sheep and dairy
Cattle.
It has been found that corn gluten
meal is not extremely satisfactory as
a feed for fattening fall pigs. It ls
not nearly so good a feed for hogs as
for cattle and sheep. It brings better
results with dairy cattle than with
beef steers. It seems that the most
satisfactory returns are made from
corn gluten feed for hogs when lt is
fed in a self-feeder alone with corn
self-fed in another feeder and tank
age in a third feeder. The results are
improved if this feed is fed in connec
tion with good pasture.
KEEP HORSES IN CONDITION
_ m
injurious Practice to Permit Animals
to Go for Weeks Without Some
Attention.
Don't neglect to curry the horses
these days. It is injurious to allow
them to go for days and weeks with
out attention. A good currying once
or twfc? a week will not only make
them look better, but they will feel
better and keep in better condition.
THE FARMERS BANK
OF EDGEFI?LD, S. C.
Is Depository for Public Funds of Town of Edgefield, of
County of Edgefield. of State of South Carolina and
of the United States in this District.
The Strongest Bank in Edgefield County
SAFETY FIRST IS AND WILL BE OUR MOTTO
Open your account with us for 1922. At the same time start a
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All business matters referred to us pleasantly and carefully
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Old Beck Chop Feed
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Whether you have one cow or 100, you will
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Happy Chick Growing Mash
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Happy Chick Scratch Feed
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exercise-keeps chicks hustling 'and healthy.
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