Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 02, 1921, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED 1855 YOj i IC, S. C.. KRT.I )AY, I )TX 1EMBE I J 2, 1921. _, NO. 96
VIEWS jVND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIKER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning F9lks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading,
"No, we have not decided on what
we are goir*; to do next year," said a (
leading Yorkviile supply man to Views,
and Interviews yesterday. "The fact is
we don't kndw what we want to do. We
know, of course, what we would like,
to do; but we do not know what wt |
can do. We would like to go into next, '
year in the belief that the boll weevil '
is not going to amount to anything and; 1
that cotton will be a big price the next ! '
fall. Nothing I can think of would
suit us better. IJut my good common 1
sense tells me that while like every-^
body else, especially the farmers, we
are willing to take our part of the risk 1
of drought, excessive rains, hailstorms,, '
trifling labor and all that, 1 am not going
to tako too much bhances on the I,'
boll weevil. He's a gentleman we can- j '
not calculate on, and 1 am not going '
to try it. The man^vho wants to put j 1
in a heavy cotton crop will have to do '
it ut his own risk."
Constitutional School Tax.
Heard two men the other day talk- v
ing about the constitutional school '
tax, and one of them gave it as a rea- {
son why it would not do to raise the
assessed valuation of local property,I .
because the effect would be to make f
York county pay more school tax than j
some other county foP tin: benefit or (
the state at large. The other man di'l
r.ot know any better and therefore ac- ^
cepted the statement as a fact with- f
out challenge. ' j
As a matter of fact both men needed (
a little instruction on the subject; but ,
as Views and Interviews did not feel:,
warranted in breaking into that parti- i (J
eiilar conversation, he had nothing t??I v
say. However there may be others j
who are mixed in this matter.
All the constitutional three mill ^
school tax that is collected in York ^
county for instance, is distributed in
York county, pro rata, according to
enrollment among the common schools. (
For instance, on a report of enrollment
in all the schools of the county?enrollment
of the common school class ^
? the county bo-ml of education divides
the total filial by the total number
of pupils and th'-n apportions to ,
each school district the amount of r
money to which it is entitled on a ,
basis of enrollment. : j
Although the school tax does not (
enter into the proposition the party t
had in mind, still this party was hit- ^
ting at another proposition that is of, ;|
very great importance. That is the j
assessed valuation of York county
property in relation i? \tie nrsosscu ,
valuation of other counties. If York >
county property is assessed at a high- <
or valuation than Chester county, for
instance, then York county pays more |
tax in proportion to what she ought i
to pay than does Chester county.
Registration, and Voting. I
They were discussing in the sheriff's t
office the laws, with reference to regis-'i
nation and voting, and in connection i
with the qualifications for voting one i
of tlum asked whether the treasurer (
could he required to issue a receipt for (
poll faxes paid until after the taxpayer 1
had p-fjd all otln r taxes. I
Tile question W?l.S suggested hy thai I
provision of the law v.hiHi stipulates |
as a pre-requisite t<> voting, "and slia'l |
have paid six inontlis before an idee- |
tion any poll tax tin n din- and puya- i
lde." | (
Some of them could not see why a (
man could not pay his poll tax at one |
time and his otlar taxes at some other
time, so after dispute, the matter was j
referred to Treason r Neil, lie put it |
up to Views and Interviews like this: |
"I am unnhle to liml any aiithorit.v in |
the law for the issuance of a receipt for |
poll tares alone if the taxpayer is liable
for other taxes. 6f course, since
\vc make up the hooks hy townships,
making si parale charges on .account of ;
the taxes in inch township, if a tax- <
11-?> ! \V]I * lias property I I III II' 'I i'l t
M'M nil townships, sln.ii'd nsU for In: |
1 i 1 ?l in juiy |i.iitirul.ir township. 1 |
riitlM ;i11<i wuilil give it I" 11i111': lull 1 ?
don't how I roiiM tike liis in.ill. \ .
for it | < 111 in x iilolir ; i ml leave tin I ml >
illlee of till* t: X' S llllp.lid oil til"' I"" lis. |
"Itii; us I s? < il," .Mr. Nril < < iiliiiini!,
";i poll titX rrrri'lt would In- of no v.ll'ir '
anyway, heeause iind. r tin,' law. the
managers of tin- ? Irrtion, l fori- allow - ,
in ; a voter to east :i l.iillot, must r- iplire
proof of the payment of nil titx<
s. iinluding poll tu\, assessed and colketihle
lor the preecdin:. year."
Then iinotli"t of thus.- pi-, sent ?-:tlit d
iitteiilion to tin- faet that a voter entile
t lawfully, use :i suite ri gistr ition
i ?-rtili.-iite within thirty da>s sifter iis
isstiiimv anyway. IN- might manage in
i. mu:iiei|Kil e'vetion, where h" votes or
;i tntinieipiil registration eertifieut.e:
hut where ;i state eeriifientc is re. i wind
it is no good until i: is thirty days old.
However, it voter eannnt lawfully proetir*
:i iminieipul registration eertili
until he lias exhibited proof of H;e
| : t \ > 11? fit ";i : 111 illhl < ??llllt\ tsi.V ;11141
?I j1.11 11!i ii u ill"
ni? > < sir.
Finest There Is.
I> \ 11 !:ii'uv IJi-v. II Wilson. .
AU*0>nm ll.svilh? If y?m ihm'l y<?u
11 - i 11 I II" " |i.c ?n- i.| <"li\-"'l"
church d<?wn there, and he just tits
the place to perfection and that moans;
a whole lot, for those McConnellsvillej
folk generally are some people.
Rev. Mr. Wilson dropp d into .the
^Tlieo of the superintendent of education
Wednesday' to luiy some school
books. He was accompanied by his
two little boys, both of them fine looking
chaps. Views and Interviews happened
to he in at the time and there of
course developed ;i pleasant exchange
of activities, during which the general
subject of McConnellsville came up.
"We have a fine community," said
Mr. Wilson, "one of the finest of which
I have any knowledge."
Views and Interviews did not question
the statement, because he knew
it was absolutely true.
"You and Mr. Carroll should drop in
?n us some Sjinday," Mr. Wilson went
>n, "and we will show you a fine Sunlay
school, and the liveliest Christian
Endeavor organization you ever saw."
"It is generally understood that you
lave a good one," said Mr. Carroll.
"Wyatt A. Taylor said once," Mr.|
Wilson stated, "that the McConnells- j
rille Christian Kndeavor jsociety was1
he last in the Cnited States."
"< ?f course," suggested View* and |
Interviews. "Why not. You have old
established families of good people who!
tave been long and consistently work-*
ng along this line, and of course you j
tave made trenyndous progress."
"You have sized tlieni up all-right,"
eturned Mr. Wi'son, "and that rcninds
mc of another thing. Of eq.ur.-f
ou are aware that the common oharictcristie
of o!d established communiies
is snobbishness. That is one of the
irst things that an observer of,
cnowlcdge and experience thinks of in,
oniiectkm with such a community. Hut
want to tell you that tlmre is nothing
if that kind to be noticed in McConlellsvillc.
or in Olivet congregation.
Taken altogether our people arc legi.'i- ,
nate heirs It) all the pride that is a!owable,
lieeatise of long and honorable
amily records: but there is not a more
lemocratic community to be found
mywhere. livery individual is taken
in liis own in 'lit.-:, ami nobody assumes
uperiority on any other cotisiderntion. i |
t is a most d'-lightful community."
"I don't hesitate to say," commented
"jews and Interviews, "that you have ,
iaid a liigln r triiiute to McConnellsi'le
even titan that paid by .Mr. Wyntr
l. Taylor."
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OUTPUT OF THE GINS
" I
fork County Figures Much Ahend'cf^ ,
La:t Year.
Tim Department of O nun ?
brough the Ilureau of the Census, an- ,
lounets the preliminary report 0:1 rot- .
on ginned by counties, in South Cuvoina,
for the crops of 1021 and JOJO. :
trior to November II. The total for
lie state was made public at In a. m..
ilonday, November 21. (Quantities ;
re in running bales, counting round as |
mlf bales. I,inters are tu t included.)
County 1021 102U J|
Ibbt vil'e 2-1.'M i ,
Liken 13,232 37,014 ,
111.....ii.. I.L'IIT 11. '17
Anderson rM.S.'M (i2..'!S.'5
iamlw;' :i.M ; is.lit i
iurnwt'll 7.724 Ji'./Jl't
i.'ituforl 4 :1S7 lit J (
{"rk?'l?y S'J:J ."..7:5J
lallmun 4.SI 1 VS.7H1 (
.'iiff k? i- i i ::.??71
'hrstiT ....... ".'..".77 i 1.1'JS
'lirstn lit 1<1 '.'I.J.')! '_'1
71?i i'CMiflon 7.I-7-; I!."., J J'I ,
'ollfton l i.7J r?,7s:j
J:ulin^lt?n ....
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lorry IS.iti'iiI
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Carolina l/ni uo < ' \\'< mil V vn
is in.v. 11j.i \i:.i:iii i;.l p: | . ;-j*; ion
for IutiiichiiiK iln ii'.'i- fur slat? I
l Ir.iiiin iii ?-: rry < ( 1'n |.. * < -: i
"i llm Shcpjiard-'JVwitcr . I'l-rinlly
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1 ' si-all aiiiii'uiH'ial*.'
si.-ite funds t nui'.ch ti > f funds
til 1 \ -li: l> li s ! "!>. ? i
loll \\ iI Im . id; ?!? ill' > I lir 1 ! JL' It i.'
l iliiri' !< ] 11'\ i-if l:.ini>- !'H < i . yih;
t ill lilt IM'UViriliKH lif till* : i i ".I this
Tin Sin piisiiil-TnwiH'i' ' I v
I'TOVidi* IH?.|U\\ ftil* in: Mi. i l " iu-l Uflit.ji
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liii.ili'S I.-i\ mill; .'I ilit'i.ii':
.nit i ;
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in iii hi i In- |:111.*!11 i:; yn ... i .
mtlillii-r hi >i.us liit: n . i^in'I. . im.' '
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WEST ROAD LOCATION
Important Question Requiring Inteliigenl
Consideration.
WOULD UNWIND A WINDING W!.\D
Savings of a Few Months Now V.'oufd
Tlirow the Town of Yorkviila Out of!
the Line of Travel and Itrtpocc Untold
Inconvenience cn Future Generations.
Editor Yorkvillc Enquirer: *
in, you uiiow iii'' space m ,\>'iii
paper 1<? call the attention of the peop'e
of Western York to v.bat I consider
a very prove mistake they arej
making i:i sittintr idly and allowing "tie
or two men to say where tlie West !
road sliall lie located?
I am aware of the fart that the law J
Rives the county supervisor and commissioners
the right to s; y where they I
shall work the chain gang, but the law]
also says they shall build a north.:
south, cast and west road with tin ;
pang. The north, south an V east
roads have Imwh built; but tIfe West
road will never be built if they follow
the survey tliey have mapp d out
for it.
I think the law says the county scat!
(York) shall be tin- starting p< int for
these roads. The north, south ami
east roads began at the center of York;
but the West road wi I begin on" and
one-half miles up the north road.
Just think what a round about wa>
?-- 1- -.< fi.L-'o rVo.lf li.v ,1
IIIU |JI !?i?n; "i. n n ^ . wv .? ...
ship will have lo ro to rot t<> the county
seat. A man living*, say five mile:
south from Sharon is within eleven
miles of York eourthousc 1>\ a straight
road. If he travels what is bcir.y built
for the West road"lie will po fourteen
n|i oj j.>3 oj I'vini t[i uu>j--u:o pen
eourthousc. Then win n he a !s rtndy
to start home h> will travel one ami!
one-half miles din- north, which is in
the opposite direction from hi- lame,
before ho turns in the direction that
li wants to yo.
I Know they say tlvy ran littilcl the'
load they have mapped out clasijcr
than they can build the shorter route.
Hut after th y e, t it btiilt,.will it be
what the people want? I don't b. '.icy
it will. This loail may he and m>
iouht will he tin d for Kciicrulions, a:i'
I don't consider it Rood judgment t<>
force the traveling public, espeeial'y
I he people of U'cshTn York, to travel
three and on -fourth mii< s extra each
ui'ip for lla next hatch- d c.f years in
r Itl- to i \ I 'i.- t i iu .i:.if o
! . months work. In ether wont-,
wlrit is a ft w months titn to tiio chain
jany in comparison to tin convt nit net
tnd expensa of thousand* of people
for maybe hundred-; of. yea: ?
(live Western York Jut proportionit'
time of the yanif ami tin y can
leiild <1 r<?::d ax straight a.-; u Iiti<* can
lie drawn fr-nt Veil: to Sharon. "They
will ask you what is tin- e and ope-1
fourth miles of good r< ad for an automobile.'
I say it is about ten minutes
time, lost, but 1 want to ask; what in
thrce ami one-fourth inii' > to th
noor man who has to c-v?t that dis
I;i!i< with i>M "Alike ami Meek'.'" I
m.v it is mi" hour's lmit. Not mi!;
!Hi hour hut if li" i-onios t<> to', a .ml
returns ho will lose two hours, on
ominjr ami oim Kuiiur. Tin- < :tia tiin
li t driwrs i f '>1(1 "Mis an<l 11? > !<" ;.m
lift wear "ii luttuiicliilv 11.1 in :;oin
this l!:? * : :vi one-iourih mis will
in t' :i years til!:", |?.iy tin* tlilT"i< : i in
rush <- ! building tii<- divert . "I.
If ilistars <">uutx noihiiiK. \.i." ' '
let the ] ample of north-western York
no l>/ (i.isttiiii't ami those joiithivt
tern York by Alei'mmoU ville, to
rent-It York?
Tin n :!?i"'iitT ? i ?!' He ir :ir i
ments Is this: "We have to connect
With s i" "i i id": out I",
a ili town v.ii! t??muiM ?h? i? r J
I <> t h" low it I: mil titi I h 1111 i i :" : i *
We'l if til. i i : i li ulli in I;"
ttuimnt, I say ili i.?iinir> p? mivhi
in hii t" t I.i tout ami ,M* < '"iiiii 11\ i'i
ami "llirr Ji'.ii - ami stop wiieli tin
;-.i i there .- nil 11 .: i inn iin- !"V, a of
York has .mi. nit reh nt >.in; 'I it
. ! l"C ah . Kill I. ! : doTl'l '
' ii.iii,- i.. iI nun
Ill I' ..II- . . ...
;trtTiiin ri. I know k li : i w
I" fellow. . Nut I . ' know >!:
ii.is hi' "12x12" fellow*. ii you i uc h
nil : ;i| i* 1 hi III I!. ' I V I I .1 III
tho i it will ii? *i" ji'it ami iiM-i I
the IVi : i*i ul i a : |>*iini Jhi
ofli' i i) il* ' i iii'.
I i.iii'i 111*111 : i ii il iii - i i I . . !. if
ill;; a i mimI (: ! ii f: r11 York (<
im:i. tor i :i*.i i t. Wli.-'i I ?Vi.ul i
Willi I I.IW . ' I \. in.nl, I
ri, i . -ul ii i u i 11' iii s
I' I wihi 'I *;i * .1 ; l .1
,
for 11" \V? l r ul. I iloii* li' Ii- \*i t *
]n .m;. who will I'.-fvH ilti ro.il uiifl
vim will hi ' tw !i Iji |mI.. f > i* il i:i
iucoiu "nil nt i' v. i!i nv lor ii. hi. i:
Iny will jurt i' i lilt ft* thought,
:
;! Milt lie hi i ' im > '? I . hi
.
tcrent. l i iiiil .\l. 111:?i:tii.
Vork No. 1. Nov. 30, l.'.'l.
COMING OF FOOH
Gtner.ili :icoo c.f o.! A fir. -i Will
Visit ;;t GrsC'iwo*.!.
(- .1. N..V. ?V ? iO
I.1 ! : i; v. iii v.
< !r?-< :i nni! hi; In . iiiln i ! . ,i i : tl '
'; i y Mill ( i . v I
: i'
I-I" ' ' 1 ' 'i i' . v i ' 1
! I !.! "li ll'lllll I' l' Hill . I
m
j Morris <*. Lumpkin, who was assured
hy both Franklin D'Olier, former national
i ritnnt iruler of the legion, and
Hanford MacNi?er,* present legion
eommiinder, that IWurshal Focli would
make only one stop intSoiith Carolina
and that would h<> in Greenwood. Jlis
special train will reach Greenwood, at
4:25 p. m., and j he will remain in
! Greenwood 30 mittutes.
I .. i..,? Ik- ?rai.
< M?Y<-I IIUI V in.jfci II...1 ..|,.? I.I.IJ ......
fl< <1 Greenwood that ho and his staff
and as many of the state oflleials as
possible will be present to welcome
the great French generaIissimo in bohalf
of South Carolina. Invitations
will he sent to all governors attending
the conference of governors at Charleston,
just previous to the visit of
.Marshal Foch ti? Greenwood, to come
to (Ireenwo d on the occasion of his
visit.
Greenwood is already in a fever of
preparation for the marshal's visit
and tlnnsamls arc expected from all
parts of South Carolina.
Many Legion Members.
Morris C. Lumpkin, state legion commander,
h i:: notified the local post of
tin- Am'uiean Legion t,hat hundreds
of i? gi< naires from all over the state
will come. Col. Mjpiro Johnson of the
famous Johnson's* engineers of the
I lain how division! has notified the
local legion post fihat lie expects to
come and bring every legion man in
Marion county if possible. Col. Holmes
I!. Springs of Grctnvi lo also declares
that Greenville lcgionuircs are prcpaiiiur
to c??me to welcome Marshal
Focii in larxc numbers.
A nu-etiiiK.of officials of the Southern,
l'iedmont ?V: Northern, C. W. C.
anu H. A. L. railways will be held here
tomorrow at no.,n to discuss the numl>er
ofv special trains necessary to
handle the crowds coming to Greenwood
on December !?. The police department
is making preparations to
take care of the parking problems l>\
sec tiriiitr vacant lots wherever jwssible
tit he us?d by the thousands who arc
expected to conic by auteniobi'e. The
American Ivu'ion has hcjjun steps to
1> cunt the raising of rates by hotels
and restaurants, os many \\ii?? come
will If ob'iso d to stay overnight here.
Marshal Kuril's special train will
he met by a delegation of notables,
iriil the marshal and aides conducted
to the eent< r of tl?I> business section
of Greenwood wheiv from a platform
decorated with the Stars and Stripes
and the French tri-co!or, Governor
t'oap. r ar.d othor^distinfirulshcd leaders
-in South Carolina will forma1 ly
wr-Ieom" the corr-fcjwidor of the allied
irmit ; to South Carolina and to Green wond.
A iinhiue programme is hcinir
worked out, the details of which havenot
hei n announced.
Turkey and Qua?!.
Marsha! l-'och will lie tendered a
turkey dinner, prepared as only South
("a;-" ina cooks enn prepare it, Owinrr
to the fact that he can be here only
r,A rninut s. a arch is being1 made
for lb" largest turkey in this section
which i'!!l be prepared with cvcr>
other dish that goes to make an old
Southern turkey dinner complete, and
pi :c -d on his special train. Greenwood
p irtsm- 'i also plan to supply the
- ?r U.HJ,
fit: 'i i i i i .w .. mi 11 ii.... ......
;i Jar*. quantity of fircenwood quail.
(li'cciftvood will lie decorated as n.?
other town has be n docorated In Uiis
s c?ii??n lirfn i', tlm. iti charge of arngo:
i' rit declare. 1 'rofessional deei?r
11 -s \ ;'! in- < ngag i to liav.' charge
of d-<'or;i< ions. Twenty thousand
!Vouch and Annie an liags have boon
ord'T. d a:t I *T*.ii* -s mis of yard:! of tri>
< ! ! Iqinliii" wi'l ho t.aught.
'I I- it: - x\v? re y-nl tonight I"
1:1:;. I 'IS of a'l lie |?l ill' iji.i I towns of
S :Mi i'.i lira, nvMiiiei.: of emigres*
. ii I senators from South Carolina and
a eiiiiil.i r <>i iitln " le orni ioiil < ilizeins
I South 'a, inviting liem to
le- |'l eSellt.
'i ! ( . nlili* * it i"' II hip of (Jl'ri !1.
i. ..I i: imbed in n ? ffoi I mate
II \ i ..I of I.ir.aiaI I'oeli a memo.
niId -oasion in South Carolina Wain,
v. N'1. .ill., tie \i It of Mir.llli
do I. '.i vol le to Soii'li '.irolinn has
ill slat' I a linmn ?-I |.y ;-n dislinvm
!i? I :i :.is .1 . file tiio.se in
: r.e o! preiKiratioi , and even the
,t of lei. -tie (.111 i o| compare
w . !I I ie le o f si IV of l!,e eoinlliatld
r of all lii" a Wild urine.-:, they ; .y.
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y hi'tiu.! in Spsil*;
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SURGERY ADVANCING
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Many Amazing Feats Are Now Performed.
'LYES MAY YET BE GRAFTED IS BELIEF
^ i*aiA I rv> ni*a\/a ?v> am! U i c Q aam M a rl n In I
Artificial Limbs?Bandages Are Being
Discarded in Treating Wounds
Surgical advances as 4he result of
the great war will he comparativly as
i groat as it was after the American
Civil war and the Franco-Herman
' struggle. That seems now to he sure.
For one example the Carrel-Dakin
treatment for wounds, which kept
them during the war in several Paris
hospitals under a dripping antiseptic
' fluid, open and unbound, while healing,
I has been proved and now is accepted
j by the medical end surgical profession
here as a vast step in advance of the
Id method of bandaging and airless
healing.
Much larger surfaces can be treated
in this way than could be by the old
methods. One amputation, due to
burns which, in connection with the
I burns, left an area of more than three
square feet of flesh quite bare of skin
j or other protection has healed perfcet,
ly. I am told, under this treatment,
I without any bandaging whatever and
i in li ss than half the time estimated
as likely to bo necessary for its rei
'
covcry.
The achievement, therefore, of the
j distinguished French surgeon Dr.
1. P.. ..Ma1 I. VI/V tt'nu V?<u won!
; .\u Ai.*i v ai n:i, ?iiu wito fsivuu uio ^icac
chance l?y the Rockefeller Institute in
New York, is likoly to be of vast importance
to humanity, not only in the
j ease of another war but in instances
of industrial accidents, street injuries,
etc.
Wonderful Artificial Limbs.
Notable in another way has been the
advance which for a time was doubted
but now seems generally to be ac,
knowlcdgcd. made in Italy In the'eonslrurtion
of artificial limbs. The ingenious
creator of this scheme combines
the arts of surgery and mechanics
Jor the benefit of maimed men in
such a way that perhaps it may be
possible for a man who has lost his
hand or hands, for instance, to move
all the artificial fingers which will be
supplied to him, at will, through an effort
of the brain and with them to
catch hold of objects, point, and so on,
almost if not quite a.^ well as he was
able to before ho lost his arms.
This ingenious plan entails a special
operation at the time of amputation. By
this operation tho muscles which control
the thumbs, fingers, etc., are left
protuberant from the stump and
formed into loops. As the wound of
tho operation heals these muscle loops
are hardened and made unsusceptible
to sensitiveness.
Fingers and Thumbs Work.
The new Italian artificial limb has
lingers, thumbs, etc, so arranged that
I lit 3* t* til UC IHMIM'U lll? Willi llivoii mun- .
(1(? loops by cords. Thus the wearer j
of the limb, who lias control over the j
ntti. cle loops by means of his nerves j
which are the subjects of his brain, j
unite as lie has always controlled the :
muscles, finds them again connected'
with lingers, thumbs, etc. even though
these be but artificial substitutes.
Thus, by an effort of the will, lie is
enabled l<> grasp things, open and shut
his hand, bend specific lingers, and
perform other movements of his artificial
limb in such away as to make it
almost as complete and perfect a servant
ef his brain as the old, natural '
li; ml once was.
Can Eyes be Grafted?
That is sufficiently wonderful for:
lie days writing, but it is by no
means the most wonderful thing which
I s been or is being developed by the
".. its in surgery who have been
a nte l^by the tremendous need and
the |>1 .iiIn 1 practice which the war
supplied.
The most pitiful of all victims of
the war were those who lost their
:a.iil through it, and there were many
thorn .inds of them are, indeed; thevr
m: be seen in sorry groifps in the
various homes which have been osi;Mi.-lied
for them in all the warring
eiilii-s and v.ill be seen in evidence
ui oil the street in any stroll which ?>ne
may wish to nial-e anywheKe in Ku:
ope.
All sorts of splendid efforts have
i a made to mob r somewhat more
i? 1'T.il?!e than otherwise they might be
ii>. ii" : i,f these unfortunates, but
i tin s along ?iti announcement
u hit h one must mention almost with
i .i'i .I In'f 11h. being careful that it
it it-; :n?i get in tiie minds of any blind
Ik until it lias been proved out, be
-at: it might rouse in burdened hearts
' in i s which if it should prove ineff<
live, woiiltl be succeeded by very
I i'ti r di;. ppointment.
Ti: tremendous tiling is the
: . :i. \i im at believed to have been
1". a Viennese I'rnfessor, Dr. M.
K' i'.'.iin i. distinguished during the
war for bis skit! in treating injuries j
f the i and induced to make in:
enitius t \perim?. ills by the magnitude
to' tin lilintfed in the Austrian and
(ierman aimies.
The p! a v.hi h he i: said to have I
i worked out Willi promising success
was lirst suggested as a possibilit}
it > \. irs. I 111 liner ii: s mill i'ir-i
vio l: !y uriiiully :itt ni|itr<l. so far as
I i vpi-ils in Paris, |iy anybody
It i- i yi'-nraftiliB.
Iir. Kuppanvi is said to liavo siic! '
full' -_i it . 1 livi* PVff, iiito 1140
heads of blind reptiles with complete
success, and, after many failures, to
have made a complete success in the
case of one blind animal?a rat.
The sensitiveness of the grafted
eyeball to the touch of outside substances
is said to have returned, in
the cause of the rat, after the eyeball
had been in its new home a week and
sensitiveness to lierht after it had been
there for about six weeks. Soon after
the sensitiveness to light returned
sight was actually restored as was
clearly evidenced by the rat's actions.
Besides this, really great advances
have been made in the treatment of
eye-injuries. The use of the electromagnet
for drawing particles of metal
out of injured eyes has been entirely
perfected, and, while this had been
used in the United States before the
war, notably at the Cary steel plant,
its use in Europe dates from the time
of its utilization in the treatment of
soldiers eyes affected by flying metallic
fragments during the war.
MADE A GETAWAY
Penitentiary Convict Escapes in Mysterious
Manner.
Columbia State, Wednesday.
After hiding out "somewhere" inside
the state penitentiary walls gince
Friday afternoon, Jack Fields, white
prisoner, Monday night took advantage
of the absence of the special
guards who had been searching for
him since Friday, and scaled the state
prison walls, so making: good his escape.
A board, a rake and a piece of
rope, all mute evidence of the prisoner's
escape, were discovered leading
over the penitentiary wall yesterday
morning. Tracks on the ground outside
the walls were also found where
Fields had dropped from the rope bqside
the wall and then walked away to
freedom.
Fields was reported missing at the
roll call Friday and since that time
had been hiding somewhere within the
prison walls, waiting for the opportunity
to make his getaway. Friday
night, Saturday night and Sunday
night the penitentiary authorities,
working on the theory that the prisoner
was hiding still inside the walls,'
kept a special guard force scattered
along the walls to catch Fields, should
he come 'out of hiding and make an
effort to scale the penitentiary wall.
But no such attempt was made, and
a diligent search of the penitentiary
grounds having failed to reveal his
hiding place, the prison authorities
wai'fiucun.vlnced that Fields had already
made his escape, Col. A. K. Sanders,
superintendent of the penitentiary, advancing,
the theory that the prisoner
had concealed himself beneath one
of the motor trucks operated in and
out of the prison each day. The wall
had been carefully guarded and no evidence
had been found of his escape in
that way and no sign of him had been
discovered within the walls, so the
p,,i Sanders thought, offered
the only means of an exit from the
prison.
Guards Taken Off.
Persuaded then that their man had
already made good his escape, the
prison authorities Monday night took
off the special guards and Monday
night Fields elected to make his attempt
at a getaway and he succeeded.
Fields went over the wall just back
of the chair factory on the canal
side, climbing up a long board and
then hooking a rake over the edge of
the wall to draw himself up to the top.
The trip to the ground on the outside
was negotiated with the aid of a rope,
the footprints being found on the edge
of the canal just beneath the swinging
rope. There is no evidence of assistance
being given the man either
inside or outside the penitentiary, Colonel
Sanders says. . Both the board and
rake, without which Fields could never
have scaled the 15 foot of stone standing
between him and "the outside,"
could easily have been picked up in the
penitentiary yard, Colonel Sanders
says. How the rope was obtained,
however, remains as deep a mystery
as flic location of Field's hiding place
within the walls.
On Two Theories.
For three days and nights guards
searched every section of the prison
and the missing prisoner was not
found. Only two tenable theories
have been presented in an effort to
cletr up this mystery, Col. Sanders
says, and both of these present diffl...iiiu.sj
it has been suggested, the
superintendent says, that Fields hid
himself in the store room of the
chair factory where it would have
been practically impossible to find
him. This room, however, was locked
Monday night and there is no way
known by which he could have made!
his exit during the night to reach the
prison yard. The other theory is to
the effect that lie hid In the drain inside
tlie prison yard, but this, too,
seems unlikely as it is not thought
that a man could stand the fumes, etc.,
of the drain for so long a period.
The night, dark and cold, was almost
.,,, t.sCane.
? America's sift to France to commemorate
the victory of the Alarne,
costing $USU,00ft which was raised
tiirough theVree-will offering of four
million individuals in ' the Failed
Slates, will l>e placed at the Forte (
Maillot, near the Arc de Triomphe, in
I'aris.
? The War Department is working
on a plan to make Camp Dix. in New
Jersey, one of the chief polo centers
in the country. The sport will be promoted
as a feature of military training,
experts declaring it develops daring,
courage, i|uicl? thinking and acting.
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BIGGEST OF THE GEK1HAM5
Hup StinneS Continues as tbe Han
of the Hour.
TO SOME A iftlNT TO OTHERS A DEVIL
I, . :
Master of Industry, He Controls the
Nation's Cjoal, Iron and Stael, as
- - aUa Dam1/? en?l Nsuutniniri.
Outranking in importance the proceedings
of ?the Washington Conference
this week, including even Mr.
Briand's diatribe against Germany aa
an excuse for keeping the French ntition
in arms; outranking interest lit
the presence of, the reparations commission
in Berlin, were the blazing
headlines in type in the newspapers
announcing that "Stinnes has gone to j
London?Lloyd George wanted to talk
things over with him."
Stinnes stands alone, so writes
Maximllllan Harden, Germany's foremost
publicist. Never has such power,
capital, boldness- and enterprise
been concentrated in ore German. To
the Socialists he is Satan embodied,
tn StlnnsaliA the whole
nation. To the pan-Germans he Is a
Messiah, sent to avenge and save
Germany.
In reality, he is quite different. He
is neither a devil nor a savior. He is I
far from being a world benefactor like
Carnegie, nor has he Harriman'a
sceptic wisdom and majestic common
sense. Stinnes has never given largely
to charity, nor has he ever written
an aphorism.
Purposely Dresses Shabbily.
He gets his eyes from his mother,
an intellectual, artistic woman who
Hugo loves tenderly. Stinnes purposely
dresses shabbily. Albert Ballin,
creator of the Hamburg-American
Line, to whom I personally introduced
Stinnes, only persuaded him in
the last year of the war to buy a din- j
ner Jacket. He despises luxury.
He drinks only light dinner wines,
does not snoke, and if he occasionally
goes to the theatre it.is only for his
wife's sake. He does not care for
music or art, and smilingly admits
that he never reads books, adding: "My
business has enough claims upon my
imagination." (
Stinnes resides at Mulheim-on-the- J
Ruhr and leads a simple family life.
He arrives at the1 breakfast table at 7
o'clock fully dressed. His workroom
is scarcely larger than a cell.
liut Htinnes aiways uisaains osientation
and cares only for power. He
was a great Industrial power even before
the war and was regarded as having
the boldest head in the Rhineland
He was at Castein, an Austrian resort,
when war was declared. He had never
delved in politics, but had shared
with his Rhine colleagues a distrust
of the wealE, moody and ostentatious
Kaiser.
Was Adviser of Ludendorff.
So Stinnes hastened back, to the
Ruhr and sat telephoning for fourteen
hours daily in his narrow study
until industrial mobilization was
ready. For four years thereafter ho
was director of all commercial war institutions
and confidential adviser of
Von Tirpitz and Ludendorff. It was
he who provided the cruisers Goeben
and Rruslau with the coal which en- \
abled them to reach Turkey. It was
he also who provided Italy wlth^coal
in an endeavor to prevent her entering
the war. The same was true of
Holland and Scandinavia.
Stinnes fostered all inventions that
I were sumbitted to him, and enabled
Germany, though blockaded, to continue
the war by substituting iron for
copper, nitrogen for saltpetre, soaked
paper for munitions cotton, and even
a coal by-product for oil. >
He never learned to think politically
and believed in the threat of force to
break all resistance.
He was sure that Beatty's Skagerrak
Josses would force England to sue for
peace and he smiled Incredibly at the
danger of America's entering the war,
having no idea of America's youthful
and almost sentimental idealiam, nor
even of her productive power. Stinnes
thought America would not diminish I
her war profits by mobilizing. j
Had Stinnes's advice prevailed tho
war would not have lasted so long,
but he would only have consented to a
peace giving Germany control of all
raw materials necessary for her industries.
This remains the ideal of
the man who, though a national patriot,
mocks at every suggestion of
human feeling or the humanizing of a
state policy as mere childish phraseolagy.
'
Tli is man Stinnes's patriotism is
identical with his personal advantage,
just as it is with many great personages.
Since the defeat his power has
grown enormously. He is the master
of great banks whose directors tumble
when Stlnnes orders them to come
I to see him at S o'clock in the morning.
During the war Stlnnes manufac
wirt'u cunnun uuu nuimuuiia, uuub
foundations, new harbors, built up &
trade In ore and oil and foodstuffs,
bought lands and factories, hotels and
houses, bought forests and created for
[Germany a new type of super-busluessman.
He now controls our coal,
iron and steel, the Slemensschuchert
Klcctrie Works, the Austrian Alpine
Mountain Company, the Hugo Chemical
Dye Works, textile mills, newspapers,
printing works, paper factories,
&c. Yet he has not reached the
I limits of his power.
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