University of South Carolina Libraries
DESTITUTE! HAWKS ?KOWIN? In Numbers-Moro Needy in Rich* laud (lian Other Counties. (Columbia State.) Twenty-eight counties in tho State bave reported children needing aid to the child-placing department of the State Hoard of Public Welfare .since January of thia year. Response has been made to every county do siring aid, but it has been Impossi ble to reach every case so far, says Mrs. W. C. Cathcart, superintendent of this department, in making out her soini-annnual report. Thc three workers, Mis. Cathcart, Mrs. C. T. Wooten and Miss Claire Kcarse, have been constantly in the Held in an swer to these calls, taking Hie most urgent first. Needy children are reported from almost every Beetloo of every coun ty. Iticllland county has bad the largest number of children reported for help of all the counties, this number being IS. Dallington comes second with twelve children, and Charleston third with nine reported. Mrs. Cathcart says tho greatest number of cases do not frome from the most backward and un progres sive counties, as might be expected, bul from the counties with Hie most progressive citizens and wide awake social workers. One hundred ami twoiit-fotir eases have been reported since January, '.m ol' which have been personally in vestigated. Kori y live (di i ld ron have been accepted and placed and I I have been accepted tor placement, but not yet received. There were ii!) appli cations on hand thu llrsl of January and l{S have been received since then. .IS of these applications having been investigated. One hundred and lil' teen visits have boon made lo chil dren placed and IRK! interviews held relative lo different cases. VI Ol ?Ii XT STORM AND ll IO AT Aro Responsible for Four Deaths in New Vork City. New York. July '21.-Oppressive heat and a violent (storm whfich) broke over the city shortly before nightfall were held responsible to day for one drowning, one death by prostration and two suicides. Tile thermometer rose to a temperature of St) degrees shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon ? nd fell t l degrees during tho stol'?. wh eh lasted foi nearly tv/o hours lo the iccompani mon' of a ?'IbtOul ?l?etrlc?l display. Tho li um id Hy hovored about 15 dui lng the hottest period of the day. In Brooklyn Mrs. Elizabeth Lance, 'Jd years old. terrified hy the light ning, coin m i Hod suicide and attempt ed to end the life of hoi' four-year old daughter by turtling on the gas in her bed room. Neighbors said she had become hysterical during pre vious thunder storms. Marlier in the day James W. ill fell 111, a bank tidier, shot and killed himsolf while at work'. Ile bad com plained ol' su tiering from the heal ll short tillie before. Harry Heres. T'.i years old. ol' Rayonne, was drowned when he left his work lo escape the heal by a swim. The Presbyterians Show (hillls, New York, .Inly :!il. The Presby terian church in this country gained ?w,4;'H? communicants last year and now has a total membership of I, d?t 2,.r?f>S, it ls announced. Tho Sun day school membership is I, I,'Rl,2!)'L Total contributions to missionary, educational .. ' benevolent purposes for the year were $ I 7,0315, I I ._'. During Ibo year lill.!! S ii members were dismissed, death took lO.O?S from the rolls and tl I, If? 7 were sus pended. To Organize Negro 1'reiglii Handler*, Washington. July iiS.- Aniiounce ir.eni that ii had undertaken to Rd the negro freight handlers in Hie South in organizing and lu the pre sentation ot' their grievances to rail road managements was made to-day by the American Federation of l.a 1 <>r. Tho promise of assistance.which Will be extended until such lime as lite negro unions may be admitted tn membership by the railway bro therhood including freight handlers, was given, il was said, as the result nf recent conferences between repre sentative; oi' the brotherhood and the interested negro unions. DODSON'S f.lVKR TONK, KILLS CAT/OMKIi SALI!. Don't sicken or salivate yourself or paralyze your sensitivo liver by taking calomel, which is quicksilver. Your dealor sells each bottle of pleas ant, harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under an ironclad, money-back guar antee that it regulates the liver, stomach and bowels better than cal omel, without making you sick--15 million bottles sold.- -adv. Subscribe for Tho Courier. (Rest) GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS HIT Hurd by Hoad of Bureau of War Risk Insurance-One a "Mad House." Washington, July 28.-Re-exami-1 nation of tho four and a half mil lion former servlco men and elimi nation of the statutory red tape was suggested to-day by Col. Charles 1?. Korbes, director of the War Risk Insurance Mu roan, as the best solu tion of the s Idler relief problem, 't would cut of much "Justifiable crit icism," he said, and build a Urn foundation for future dealings with veterans. Testifying before a Senate COMI m ii tee Col. Korbes said that the bu reau still suffered from too much "allidavitism" and too little hum tn Interest and contact. Pending claims for compensation for more than 20'), iiuii men when he took barge Apel L'S. hu said, had been reduced to '.o tweeu forty and fifty thousand. Col. Forbes said that applications for claims were coming in at the rate of nearly a thousand a day largely menial and nervous -ases and he saw no "peak" iii prospect. I)iIii'ti 11 ios attendant on Kelling claims through the bureau had caus ed a m w class of "parasite ?" '.> I spring up. and such persons ar- rob bing ami bleeding ih" former service men faster than any shyster: ever discovered before, ho declared. Choi-act eri/.ed ns Mad lion .'. 'fbi' Johnson City. Tenn., Old :>>! (Hors' Home was characterized a "inad lioiee" and Hie Kori Mclb tiry, Mtl., hospital was described m - lng iii on1; for a sewage dis] -il plant to-day by Col. C. lt. Korbe in his testimony given before a Sea'te com tu i 11 ce. in bis plea for broa 1er powers io meei ibo hospital needs of World War veterans. Conditions at the Johnson Ci'y Moine, Col. Korbes asserted, wen- ! plorable in countless aspects. He s. id that liquor and narcotics were sold among the DOO former servi e men quartered there, and thal he War Risk Bureau was powerless lo| corred the sil nat ion because of a lack of jurisdict on. (?un "toling" was declared by Mi? insurance head to ho common, and he added that "when patients take attendant:', and throw them oat something is radically wrong." Mo said there was an entire lack of discipline nt the home, and urged ?ha1 legislo Mon be enacted which would place ail institutions in whi ii fenn or service men are con hued uii '''.?. th dil.ont roi of i lo- Kedoj 11 government. As for the Kort Mc Henry Hospital. Col. Korbes said he had set his foot down on furi her expenditures there, and declared that if ii were to be expanded il should be converted into a fertilizer plant, Ile did not com plain about the management or ike I rca tiiieu' there, conaning his criti cism to physical conditions. Col. Korbes explained that there were many oilier available locations for hospitals in the country, and he could not see the necessity for de veloping such plants as that of Kort M cl len ry. which, through its loca tion, he said, was utterly unfitted for the purpose for which ii was intend ed. The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealef.s, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. I<iq. Replacing Opium in ( binn. Washington, July 28 More liquor ls going Into China as the use of opium falls off, according to a report to tho commerce department to-day from Consul General William ll. (?ale, al Hong Kong. The net revenue collected in Hong Kong from liquor duties and licensed warehouses during 1020, Mr. Male said, was 77?..uno, compared With $730,000 In MM!', while the revenue from the opium monopoly in 1020 was $1,300,000 as compared with $6,800,000 during l!"l!?. Subscribo for Tho Courier. (Best) The next time you buy calomel ask for TRY "HWKBT POTATO ? tn ('andy Mudo from Syrup of Hon iii 's Staple Tuber Ila? Fine Point?. Columbia, July :in. - The South Carolina Development "Board has conducted some very interesiing^x perlments in making candy of the syrup made from the sweet potato. The syrup was secured from the Uni ted states Department of Agriculture and was made-ut Fitzgerald! Ga. Tho straight syrup will noi crys talizo or harden on cooking to make candy, and this was to be expected, for the substance which gives it sweetness i- <w>f cane sugar, but malt sugar, l'I c y rup may be u . to advantage n muk ii g fudge,-' uni it makes a prodm I of tho hlgifl quality as attested by experts in feront parts of the country who lute tested the product. When chocolate fudge is made it requires less choco late lo give the desired davor, and this should interst the professional candy-maker. Peppermint and lemon fudges were made and found to he flue eat ing. When the sweet potato syrup ls used the resulting fudge keeps moist longer than when made by the usual reel 1)0, and has a smoother texture. Tile Recipe. _ .", cups of sugar. :,i cup sweet potato syrup. Rutter size nt" walnut, '.j ?'iip Raker's corea, 11 cap of water. Flavoring extract to suit taste. Mix sugar and cocoa; add syrup mid water. Pul mixture on a very slow burner until Ibo sugar is com pletely melted, then let it boil hard until it forms a rather linn ball WIIM dropped in cold water. Stir mixture occasionally both before and after it boils. Add butter, then flavoring ex tract. Cool quickly by cooling In >i larne pan of cold water, for this makes tho fudge thick and elimi nates the necessity for beating. Pour in a deep buttered dish. A TONIC Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying (ind Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the checks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is dmnlv (ron ?eui Quinine suspended In syi '< ?>? pleasant even children like it. Ti - ud ICJO.'S QUININE to Purify i? .rv ^K . ? Enrichit, Destroys Malarial gen ana Grip germs by its Strengthening,]_?or ating Effect. 60c. IUH TOR STANDS RV PH H DICTION Cumming- Prepared to Report to the President on Pellagra Situation. Washington. July L'S. Surgeon General Cumming, of thc Public Health Service, was prepared yester day to report to President Harding on thc result of preliminary confer ences with Red Cross ollicials and others as to necesary measures to meet threatened pellagra epidemic in large sections of the cotton belt. Despite protest from eigln southern States that the seriousness of tho situation had been exaggerated in government reports, Surgeon (?ene ral Cumming said to-day the Pub lic Health Service siiii siood hy Its prediction that unless radical relief measures were taken lhere would be at least loo,OOO pellagra victims in the cotton belt this year, and that ten per cent of them would die. The Public Health Service head and Dr. Joseph Cloldherger, pellagra expert Of the servite, held a lengthy conference yesterday with Dr. Liv ingston Farrand, chairman, and oth er Red Cross ollicials, bul no an nouncement was made as to the con clusions reached, These will he sub mitted to the President today. Virginia Kng'iuccr is Killed. Portsmouth, Va., July 28.-- On glancing up from Ibo bery mouth of his engine Oil Seaboard Air Lint; train No. li!, altoni three miles east of suffolk. Va., to addie;; a remark lo his engineer, Ihe fireman, Henry Mason, discovered thal the locomo tive was running without a pilot. A hasty search convinced hiin that tho engineer. R. H. Buckner, of this city, was not on the locomotive or iender. and the train, carrying pas sengers from Birmingham to Atlanta was literally running away. Hastily halting the train tho fire man and tho rest of the crew went back along tho track about a quarter Of a mlle, where they found the body of Buckner. His body, slightly mutilated, was founl alongside the tracks, Buckner, the theory is. was knocked from tho tender by a low bridge. (10(1 cures .alarla, Chills and Fe ver, Bilious Fever, Colds and Lu GHppe, or money refunded, adv. Internal revenue collections In Chicago run $100,000 more than a year ago. DIBS IN ATTR??I*T TO RESCUE Mis Wife-Fell to Dentil on Motin, tain-Widow Will Recover. Banff, Alberta, July 28.-Dr. W. S. Stone, president of Purdue Uni versity, at Lafayette, Ind., gave bis life in the solitary fastnesses of Mount Kanon in an effort to save his wife, who had fallen to a narrow ledge on the face of a deep crevice. With Mrs. Stone in his arms he was attempting to scale the almost per pendicular sid< of the cliff when he lost his footing and was hurled to the bottom of the chasm. Mrs. Stone, who slid back to her former position far above the body .her husband, will recover froii Injuries and the effects of being II Hy without food for eight days nd nights, according to fragmen tary reports reaching hore from t li o rescuing party. She is being taken by stretcher to a camp on Marble creek. Tho body of Dv. Stone has not yet been recovered, lt is wedged be tween two Jagged rocks at the bot tom of the crevasse, the precltltous walls of which render descent ex tremely dillicult. His death is be lieved to have boon instantaneous. Mr. and Mrs. stone loft Banff on July ifj io attempt the ascent of Mount Fanon. Both were oxporl enced mountain climbers. Shortly after the ascent was be gun, reports reaching hore say, Mrs. Stone slipped and fell lo a ledge on Hie -face of I lie crevasse. The uni versity president lowered a rope to his wife, but his strength was not equal lo the task of raising her to whore ho stood. Finally lie descended to her. and, taking Mrs. Stone in Iiis arms, at tempted to climb with her up the almost perpendicular wall. He lost his fooling and was hurled lo tho bottom of the chasm. DA Util IT Flt KN FW OF THEFT Of Half Million Dollars by Father, President of a Chicago Hank. Chicago, July 29.-Vivian Spur gln, daughter of Warren C. Spurgin, missing president of the closed Mich igan Avenup Trust Company, who, with her mother, returned to Chi cago from Detroit, whore they fled following Spurgin's disappearance, has admitted that she had knowledge thai hoi* fa thor had taken more 'han $500,000 of the han ; '?. money bi fove lu- fled, it was announced to.-day i>y .lames McShano, assistant State's attorney, and Ben Newmark, chief investigator for the State attorney's office, who questioned Miss Spurgin and her mother upon their arrival here. Miss Spurgin slated, according to ?the State authorities, that the Infor mation was given to ber by her mo ther following a conference with her father, during which he bade them good-bye and said he would proba bly never see them again. Both Mrs. Spurgin and her daughter aro being detained for further questioning. Questioning of the women brought out that Spurgin and his wife had been estranged, that he told thom that he contemplated Hight, and then turned over to them $75,000 worth of insurance papers and gave each $750 cash when ho told them ho would probably never see them again. They fled to avoid publicity, they assorted. The search for Spurgin has de veloped two now clues, one leading to Colorado, where he is said to have mining interests, and the ot lici to the neighborhood of Mobile, Ali., where, it is said, he had many per sonal friends. Two Indictments Returned. Two Indictments against Warren C. Spurgin, president of tho recently closed Michigan Avenue Trust Com pany, were returned in the Circuit Court before Judge Hugo Pam yes terday. Ile fixed hail nt $50,000 on each Indictment. Fach indictment contains wo counts, one charging operation of a confidence game and larceny, and tho oilier of a confidence game and ob taining money by false pretenses. Spurgin's wife and daughter, who have just returned from Dottroil, after being questioned hy the state authorities, were kept nuder guard at a holed until afternoon, when they won? again escorted to the Stale at torney's office for fun her question ing. Rub-My-Tlsm is a powerful Anti septic. Cures infected cuts, old sore?, totter, cte.-adv. There ls a llsh that lies buried in the coral sand of thc South Seas, the spines of whose dorsal lin are hal low, like the fangs of a rattlesnake. When stepped on it ejects a poison ?Euclid's "Elements" has been in use in schools and colleges for more than 2.000 years. Highwood, (H., a suburb of Chi cago, is going to have a city council composed entirely of women. MUM nu ll inim^^MB^- l^-I r ' " Cords ^^^WjHHS^1^^ Fabrics Low Cost Mileage For the Big Car Every FiskTire is a guar antee that you will get mileage at a low cost. For satisfaction, safety and economy you buy j a "sure thing" when you J ? buy Fisk Tires. I You are safe when you j ? buy a known and repu ja table product at a low j price \ I Sold only by Dealers S. C. HOY NOW IX WASHINGTON Holds Record ns Youiigcsi Veteran of tho World War. Columbia, July 251.--To a South Carolina youth residing in Washing ton, D. C., belongs the credit of be ing the youngest veteran of tho World War. Stephen Frederick Tillman, grand son of Hu- :?.to Coi. stephen I). Till man, Ot Columbia, left school and enlisted In tho District of Columbia National Guard when President WU son called out tho national guard organizations on June lit. I ill t?, for duty on the .Mexican border. Ile was bul Ilfloen years of age at the time. In order to get in the service it was necessary for him to plat his ago at IS. Wherein there lies another story. In order to be enlistel and yoi re frain from falsifying his age. young Tillman, it is said, cut the numerals IS out of an old calendar and pasted them In the heel of one of his shoe., so that when the recruiting officer I asked him his age he replied. "Over eighteen." Ile was only eight or ten days in the service, however, as ho was rejected on a second physical examination. Undaunted, three months later he re-enlisted, having gained the re quired weight. Ile did duty on the border willi his regiment, serving as bugler to Gen. Pu ns ton's funeral in December, I J) lt!, at Kort Sam Hous ton, Texas. In July, 1?I7, Tillman was again rejected on another phy sical examination. A few months la ter he again entered the military service, serving tlve days as a second lieutenant before being discharged on S. C. l>. Ho holds the unique record of 'Do ing Ibo youngest veteran of the Ceo. Washington Post, No. I, of lite American Legion, in the National Capital, and incidentally the "baby" member of the office of sorgen U-at nrms of tho pioneer post of the Le gion. During the National Ship-by Truek Hood Roads Week of May IV '??2. 1020, ho was selected ns thc manager of the week in ?he Na tional Capital, although only nine teen years old. At present he is en gaged in the newspaper game in thc city of Washington. SOLD BY ALL D HU 0 STORES XPECT?W MOTHERS^ For Th re o Gc nor nt ions liavo Made Child-birth Eusicr By Using -- Wmtirc? BOOKLET OH MOTHERHOOD Anoint DARY.mil BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., DEPT. 9 D ATLANTA, CA. -rn . A heavy snow-fall was reported al Now Orleans in 1S">2. WAV .NOW OPEN EOE FIAT NU Dato for Armament Meeting-.Japan Has Definitely Accepted Seat. Washington, .luty 2 8.-The way was regarded as open to-day for the beginning of negotiations between the United States and oilier princi pal Allied and associated powers as tn the dato and meeting nineo of the proposed conference on limitation of armaments. Definite fi coop I a nco by Japan of a Beul .ri tho conference, announced in a note from Tokio yesterday, made public by the State Department, com pleted tho second step in the move ment for disarmament. Little dilllculty is expected by of ficials bore in (he reaching of an agreement tlie place for tho meet ing, no decided opposition having developed *o the suggestion that tho conference bo hold in Washington. Differences of opinion as to the time of the convening of the confer once aro known to exist, however, among tho in'erostod nations. Tho American government bas mentioned Nov. ll-Armistice Day-bec .use of its appropriateness to the occasion. Premiers of thc British dominions, however, aro understood to have urged their government to suggest a later dato, as many of tho dominion legislative bodies meet during Ibo. I fall months. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days .LAX-FOS WITH PKPSIN" is a specially prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c per bottle. Kninfaii and Temperature. Below ls a record of meteorological observations taken by ll. W. Brandt, co-operative observer ot tho Weather Bureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, during Hie week ending .Inly 24th, 1921, ni 7 p. in. ( Tho Instrumental readings aro from gov ornmont standard instruments ex posed In tho manner recommended by tho chlof of the Weather Bureau): Tompera Charactor of tare. Day. i ? Hate ? 1 z: ? July I s ptly cidy. . 8.'. 70 July 1 !i Ptly cldy. . 40 sr. 7 1 .Inly 20 Cloudy . . 2 1 Sn 72 .Inly 2 1 Clear.(Kl S I (',7 .Inly 2 2 'Ptly cldy. .77 s2 (57 .Inly 23- Clear. ....... 82 (?I .Inly 24- Ptly cldy. . 26 87 CC Total rainfall . . .'2.05,'. 70 Moonshine Stills Sold as Junk. Haleigh, X. C., July 2S. Seventy "inoonshino" whiskey stills, repre senting throe months' work of pro hibition enforcement officers in Wake, county, this Stale, after being bat terer.' to pieces, were sold as Junk yesterday by Sheriff Harrison. Tho Junk brought three couts per pound and was bongin hy a local dealer.