Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f ; ASSOCIATED PRESS i ELECTION SERVICE ' Flash Yerdict of 16,000,000 Voters Few Jtfhmtes After Last Ballot Is Cast ?How it is Accomplished. New York, Oct. 28?F-L-A-S-H' - * ? ?4 is elected! On tne mgut vi i Tuesday, November 7, the missing name in the foregoing sentence win be supplied by the Associated Press. In the business of news->gathering ! jus developed by this world-wide or^ j ganization, the first wor'dhsent over the 1 wires telling of any extraordinary j event is "Flash!" It is the signal of a ! thrill. The ordinary routine of the . Associated Press bureaus and their | hundreds of newspaper-members is I often punctuated with the "F-l-a-s-h!7* I Operators from Bangor to ban jjiegc. i k from Tampa to Tacuma, tighten tneir ^ lagging nerves, and editors come scur"X Tying to the wires to hear a Pope is dead, a Titanic sunk, another country at war, a Lusitania torpedoed, a battle won, a king deposed, or a President elected. Like a Comet. This latter thrill lias a recognized periodicity, like the passage of a comet, and the experience of it is again imminent. Within a few hours after you have scratched- your ballot. The Associated Press will Have nasnea me verdict which yew and sixteen million fellow wiers have rendered?will have flashed it perhaps within a few minutes after the last of these sixteen million ballots has been dropped in its box in some of the Western States, where three hours difference in' time makes late the closing of the polls. How, in this brief time, anything approximating an accurate accounting ( of these sixteen million votes can be j achieved, the returns assembled, an1' the result made known throughout j tbe land is a process both simple ana marvellous. It is true, of course, that all of these sixteen million votes are not counted, but when The Associated Press announces the election, that announcement will be as trustworthy as i? they were. Cooperative Effort The gathering and distribution of returns this year will mark one of the .greatest cooperative efforts that has ^ been made on any similar occasion tc accomplish this purpose. In previous. ?lections The "Associated Press, relying f ' more largely on its own resources, lias done notable work in the prompt and Accurate reporting of the election figures. In the Roosevelt-Parker contest of 1904, the organization was abl* not only definitely to announce tne result, but also to indicate *he full extent of the victory as eariy as 8 o'clock -on election night. Equally remarkable service has been rendered in other -elections, and the value of The asbot -ciated Press' figures has been such that defeated candidates themselves have , on the strength of them, sent their telegrams of congratulations to their Tictorious opponents. The service has ' been such that it has invariably brought to the executives of the organization a flood of telegrams on the day after in tribute to the "compre-. | *hensiveness," "speed," and "accuracy with which the work has been done. ?????? " i , rui\ 101 acres'of land in toi u ? as the Ware Place. Has] cedent well of water wl y seaside or a mountain he \\ App R M U 4V#? JL jL.4 ii Sil I \ NOMINATK Good for 1( In THE HERALD A (tion Ca I nominate Mrs.. Miss.. Address Nominated by In the Campaign, only t sent in for each candidate w FREE VOTK Void after Novn THE HERALD ANE : Can GOOD FOH For r * Address Fill out properly, mail Office of The Herald expiration date. E [ I This yar it is possible that all records will be broken, for The Associated Press has for the coming election en listed the cooperation of its members from coast to coast in a more con- j certed effort than e. er before. Two Year* Ago. More than two veears ago prepara-1 tions were begun, under the direction or the general manager of The Associated Press, to "cover" the news which will b served to the public on the night of November 7. Election ex- i i^erto ox the organization have during these two years canvassed every state in the Union and arranged with the papers of each State to work together on a cooperative establishedbgkq er on a cooperative ba3is under the su 1 -U-U.J A :.i i pervision or tne esiaonsueu assul-icu- i ed Press bureaus. Thousands of special forms have been prepared for the systematic conduct of the service, thousands of typewritten sheets -distributed listing canaidafces and showing votes four years as a basis of comparison, special correspondents appointed and special wire facilities arranged for this particular work. In the collection of returns, the county is everywhere made the unit, and it is the purpose of the system to hear definitely from every election district of the more important States. In New York State alone ' * ' ' ' rrnn t?? t"l_ tnese districts numoer o,<uv. xu .Illinois there are over 5,0t>0 and in othei States a proportionately large number of districts to be heard from..Taking New York State as typical oi the system that will 'be followed in principle at least toy other States, the service there is worked out broadly as follows: Competent Men. Having arranged for some competent man to take charge of eaca county upstate and for cooperative Vio Von- VnrV Xews VliUt l n ivu. w? - W. .> v Association for the collection of the metropolitan returns, the New York head quarters of the Associated Pre3a is made the center of tabulation. The1 upstate county man is stationed at the most convenient center, -usually the county seat, from which he throws I cut his net for the gathering of his local returns. For the special work in hand, twenty-five extra wires are strung into the Associated Press offices in Ne* York, giving direct and exclusive connection with the principal cities. Before the operators is stacked a varied assortment of printed forms, whose blank spaces await the figures that tell the story. There are pink forms, green, yellow and white to make the various compilations of the vote for President, Governor, Senate, Congress, and tbe two houses of the State Legislature. In an adjoining room there have been assembled a staff of a hundred men to serve as tabulators. Previous to the election the* <Associated Press has arranged with some of the best banks in the city to furnish expert accountants for this work. They work in relays, the first crew reporting at the close of the polls at 5 o,clock, compiling the figures until 2 o'clock in the morning. The 'Work Begins Less than ten minutes after the cloA mm mmmm SALfc Mm of Silverstrett, known [a good pasture and exrich makes it equal to a me. Price $40 per acre. \y to a m AVIKU, Ivcntrect, South Carolina "kM RV AW ),000 Votes lND NEWS Subseripmpaijn :he first nomination coupon ill be counted. IG COUPON leber UtK, 1916 ) NEWS Subscription tpaign 200||VOTES or send, to Campaign i m 1 r aiiu new a uii ur uciurc in? of the polls, the work begins. The first returns in .\'ew York are in-! variably from some of t he upsiate ci- ! ties where voting machines are em- | ployed. There are, however some lo- j ^aiities < n Cape Cod and down in j .T-ViJi-.i-i fnr- vD5 rc havo nridpd >WlUC niliv.ll 1U1 J vui >j uu . v ? themselves in being first in with their I vole. In such small places the law ; permits the opening of the ballot; uoxes as soonas it has been made | certain that the full vote of the place ! i.as ueen polled, and the result Is j Lucii made known. It is only by driblets that the first J figures come in, ut once the ava- { lanche is started there is no let-up to the tick of the telegraph sounders ! and a swarm of the colored blanks is kept flying from the receiving op-! erators to the tabulators. The fig- j ure* are first entered by the tabulators J and passed along to the designated ;! chief who keeps a "Doomsday Book" i showing the running total of the vote I throughout the nignt. Every tifteen i minutes the ousines of tabulation is' punctuated by the issue of a bulletin | on Xew York State, which is rushed j to the leased wires of the Associated | Press?and over these main arter- i ies and secondary ones?some 47,000 i miles of them, some eighty different; ?the npwc oirnilatps. keen- ; Ing all the nine hundred and fort> ; newspaper members of the associa-; tion posted on how the country is, going. Form of Bulletins The form of these bulletins is known to thousands v.iio have seen them flashed on the election screens: "COG election districts out of 5,700 in New York State, for President, give Wilson ;Hugbes " So. district by district, these bulletins grow until it looks so certain to some of the experts that one paper or another will concede somebody's election. But the Associated Iress concedes nothing. It must know. In the year of the Odell-Coler fight j for Governor in New YorK m iyuy, lis j system bad a severe test. Coler ran j up a big vote in Xew York city, and j the heavy vote of Odell upstate was | overlooked by many of the newspaper* j which conceded Coler's election. The j Associated Press, in tne midst of this' confusion was led to wonder if its figures wire right. The general manager had an abiding confidence in his men and figures, but in the race of concessions that some of the papers were making of Coler's election, something must be done to check the matter He ordered a recount. The system provided for just such an' emergency, and this OdelHColer year is the only time it has ever been called into play. All of the country returns, after being tabulated, are hung on a large rack of hooks, classified by counties, wliere they are immediately available for recount. Off the hookb came those hundreds of telegrams, and in just fifteen minutes time the entire State vote was recounted. The head tablator forgetting for the moment that he was in a newspaper office instead of a bank exclaimed: "Mr. Stone, we check up to a penny!" The recount tallied exactly with the ficnpoe Atjnrtrinlp/i Press had Dre- ; --- J viously given out and the paperb which, independently of the Associated Press figures, had conceded Coler's election had eventually to armit their error. Accuracy The accuracy of The Associatea Press figures has seldom since been questioned. In conneceion with th6 recent New York State primary, fti the fight between Calder and Bacon for the Republican nomination as candidate for a seat in the United States Senate, the majority given by the Associated Press was only 79 votes ai variance with the official count. In i Massachusetts State election last year thA Boston "bureau scored a record Dy announcing the returns only three votes off from the official figures. The election machinery of the Associated Press is at work in all the States, but it is developed to its .highest efficiency in the States having the largest electorial votes and the smallest average of consistency in Presidential years. IA Definite Line Given a definite line on New York State, on Massachusetts, which is invariably prompt, and a reflection of the vote in the Central and Western States, where a difference in time is a handicap to early returns, the result of the Presidential election may be pretty definitely announced at an early hour and often the full extent of the victory indicated, so accurately has the gauge of election figures "been fixed by previous expehience. Knowing with a near certainty whether it is Wilson or Hughes will be sufficient for the throngs at th? bulletin boards on election night, out the Associated Press goes on to a still bigger task than the mere announcement of the result. That would not go far to complete the morning paper. There are colums to fill with State tabulations, with lists of Governors elected, the detailed constitution of the next United States Senate and | House of Representative, and similar j tabels for each State, locally handled, j on the constitution of tht State LeglsT'KrtfQ or'a efimnrohpntiivP i laiui c. liiuic ai v w "leads" to write in summary of tho figures, and contests* in particular States to e explained. The Paul Rerere. There is one human cog in the election night machine that is even more interesting than the general manager of the Associated Press. He is the Panl Rprorp nf thp hnnlfwriods district 1 who gallops his horse or drives his j motorcycle on election night to the nearest telegraph station. There are ! still some remote regions? a great ; many of them where the polling of [ a Presidential vote is almost a game 01 I solitaire, and from some of them? couriers must ride twenty miles he j 1 ^r-v V . . TL-lvA '1 ' IU1 C tiicjr I'dii icicasc ur rs ii. ^ cv/ u. waiting nation the fact that a plurality of one for? (it would be partisan to anticipate the name) had been i cast at ranch 49. There are several . such remote districts even in New York State, whence news leaks almost as slowly as in Montana or Idaho And there is no deprecating the importance of the vote that is cast at Clover Four-Corners. It is the will of the people that rules and the Associated Press can know no distinction when it comes to the counting of honest ballots. Otherwise it would not nay for that twenty-mile ride. New Jersey has been a thorn in the j flesh of the election tabulators for many years. In the first place it re-j fuses to close its polls until 7 o'clock, ^ and its law requires that the count- j ing of the entire ballot from top toj bottom shall be completed before another ballot is taken up. There are upwards of 240 names on the Jerse) ballot this year in some of the cities, asd it is doubtful whether on election night Presidest Wilson will know liow method is employed in some of the his own State has gone. The Jerse> Central asd Western States, adding a further handicap to the difference in time, but New York and a majority of the Eastern States put the Presidential electors on a seperate ballot to faciliate the count. If the foregoing has not helped you | to visualize the process by which the j greatest news-gathering organization j tries to satiate your election curiosity and furnish masses of figures to back j up its announcement of the victory, picture to yourself this one fact: On election night the facilities foi wire communications overpractically the entire country are for the moment devoted almost exclusively to the collection and distribution of returns. The miliage of those wire? j you will find runs up into the millions.! The Associated Press leased wire sys- ; tem itself, is almost doubled on elec-1 tion night, and the telegraph com j panies in their own way are cooperating directly or indirectly in the great effort to bring the figures to u head. Human Factlors Consider also the human factor?- j thousands tf operators at the key and telephone transmitters, newspaper re-porters and editors at work on local] situations, while the army of trained I Associated Press men are assembling ic nr oil mof aw o yi J vrm o f ioq an uucn iiiaici ? auu j \j ul auiTC at something like a general glimpse of all their matter, and you arrive at the efforts that will be made on elec- i eion night to supply the missing namuj in the first sentence of this article, j Surpassing it though it will public interest in the great war or in the multitudinous events that the world daily contributes to tlie excitement oi. he breakfast table, the news of a Presidential election will by no means atthact all of fhe orgus-eyes of a orginazation whose field is the world. So elastic is the system of this clear-; inn- f T4?r? aa?*ma.-? i mg nv/uog IUI uc n 0( HIO.U 1CD W1 ICJ) * . pondent in Peking maj come in at the height of the excitement ovxer the election with a new revoltuion in ; iChina, its representative in Panama with a disastrous slide in Culebra cut, I its bureau in Petrograd with a stir- i ring speech in Duma, or its men at ; the front with a great victory. Th* j usual designated men are on deck to handle any emergency, in the election or out of it. METEOROLOGICAL RECORD OCTOBER 1916. ?t Mean Maximum 75.0 Mean Minimum 01.8 Mean 63.4 Maximum 37: date 8 Minimum, 37: date 22 Greatest daily ranger 36 Precipitations. Total 1.75 inches Greatest in 24 hours, 79, date 19th. Number of days with .01 or more precipitation 6. Clear 14, Fair 10; cloudy 7. There has been a few light frosts but no killing frosts. Total rainfall 10 months, 37.50 j inches. ? W fl P*?t.ersnn. V. 0. ! I DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Selling of Diseased Chickens Should Be Stopped. i To the editor of the State: A dangerous practice was called to the attention of the writer yesterday afternoon that should be stamped out in the mort vigorous manner if there is any way to reach offenders of this kind. A negro farmer was selling chickens to housewives on Sumter street, and was in all probability do ing a thriving business, as ne was | *bout he sell a lady a number of chickens, she was told by a passerby, after looking in the coop, that the fowls were suffering with the sorej head. If it is not without the jurisdiction of the board of health to inspect all kinds of fowls offered for sale on the streets of Columbia the matter should be looked into at once, as the habit of selling diseased chickens is a dangerous one and should be stopped. t Columbian. BARBER POLES FOR ?A>GER SIGNAL* Hare Been Painted on Southern Railway Crogsing Gates. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 26.?"Barber i Pole" signs have been painted on all j Southern Rtilway crossings pates in I a further effort to attract the attention of i reckless automobile drivers and so prevent accidents at chossings. Experience has shown that many automobile drivers dash across railway tracks without regarding tne "Stop Look, and Listen" signs and j some of them have even crashed j through gates provided for the pro-! tection of crossings. The new device painted on crossing I gates is in accordance with the standard recommended by the American Railway association and con sists of alternate black and white stripes eight inches wide, running at an angle of forty-five degrees, which j gives the familiar "barber pole" ef-1 feet. It is hoped that by making this de- ! vice the standard for all crossing gates it will become recognized as a danger sign, so as to command the respect of even the most heedless driver of a motor. A "WHITEWASH THAT WOXT BTB OJFF Clemson College, Oct 26.?Whitewash it so common used around the farm that it is advisable to know J,. ?i. 1 ? 1,? 44. rnv _ juai. yuw lu maive it pruyviiy. lue following receipt for a cement whitewash is made use of by owners of ; cold-storage warehouses who desire a snowy white wash that dries quickly. adheres strongly to cement, brick or wood, and does not rub off on the clothes. Slake one-half bushel of lime with boiling water, adding the water slowly and stirring constantly until a thin paste results. A 5-foot plecb of 3-4 inch iron pipe makes a good , rod for stirring. The lime will be j lumpy if the water is added freely ( and the mass is not properly stirred. Add one-half pec!: of salt to the liiao paste; stir thoroughly; add water to bring the whitewash to the proper j ^nnclotoncv T h ryvrr- o cnrvrl hanrffnl J. " 1 v/ TT a. QV v?v* uw>>t\Ao " a of Portland cement in each pail of Whitewash, and a teaspoonful ol I ultramarine blue. Add the cement', and the blue powder just before tie wash is to be used and stir wel"!, otherwise the whitewash, will be i streaked. The cement makes the whitewash adhere strongly to any surface, and the bluing counteracts the grayish color of the cement and results in a w*hite appearance. The Boll Is Co If it isn't here next year the the year after and it is just go< prudence on the part of everv i A- r i. t stuns ior man ana Dcasi ai uuu | wheat and oats, corn, bogs, an< not be hurt so much by the bol The man who has these thin; out of a crop of cotton will be i r strikes him. Now is the time to sow when to make grain, if yoti arc in ea: you sow and use the Anderson takes the 41 tfc" eat of making j Anderson Pli Oil Co W. F. FARM! SeegGresham & Speet fm Stick Ci Toy and E Also Dolls, 1 other playth See wine Mayes'Bookan The House of a ' I / - XEW JOBS TO BE OPEX Chance for Bright Yonng Maa 1% Seventh, The State. Washington, Nov. 3?In the eveat th-r- Democrats are successful at ths polls next Wednesday and continue to hold the house, electing the speaker and the other officials, the larger part of the federal patronage of that body new going: to rhe reprcsenati^es from the different districts "w-ill re-? main with them. While it is quite likely that tfca Fame men who now carry cn tha v,\ rk of the :ioucu will continucj, tUor> :s always mor > or tfv~ patroaage to be distributed her? and the"* a? the result of a new congress b? ?1 nilliio Anut r\ In this connection Representative Lever will prohabty re.T.vn cba>* n^an ol the house committee on agriculture. He has four clerks under Mm?and two of these places will b? racant this winte;. W. D. Aiken is Mr. Trover's secretary and his salary is $1,F.00 a year. The clerk to the committee is D. S. Murph, and he draws tile usual compensation for such service, ranging $2,000 or $2,500 a year. Morris Lumpkin, who was assistant clerk to the committee, wae paid $1,800 a year, and as he *.s now a member of the South Carolina legislature, it is assuraei that some rne -*? ?sii 1 ~.. V,i?- in ; fifct: Will uc naui^u .ui ins jsvraiuwi 1?. Washington. Clarence Wertz recently messenger to the committee a; a salary of some hing like $1 a ^ <?5 in the CoJirr.Dia postoffice, having gone thf?? last spring. He, too, it is assumed, will give up his Watshington positto* with the beginning vt the comtnjj session of congress. This will permit Mr. Lever to award two places to young men in the Seventh district,, worth together about $3,000 a year. It is not yet known what changes will take- place among the other members of the South Carolina delegation when they return to Washington next Month. P. H. McGowan. Soon as a man begins to like th* sound of his own voice, he wants to enter into a joint debate with, somebody. IWhenever we see a beautiful young girl kissing a dog we tnmK sne ougnc to tell her beau to get the license on get out. It is reported that a German scientist hae found a means of making crow edible. Probable, though, this has n# special significance. I Weevil * ming chances are that it will be here >d business, it is jusst common faimer to raise his own food le. The farmer who has his d molasses cane at home will [I weevil. ~s to buy and pay for them n trouble when the boli weevil . and oats, if yon really want rnest about it, fertilize it whe* Fish and Blood goeds. TBat , grata. Now is t&e time. ? -- I. . I.I III! losphate and V '' - I t , ^ % - j niDsnv r V f IR, Secretary. i r, Greenwood, S. C. I ?: g Toys -aft. Tinker recto Toys. Hea Sets and mqs. low. / / / dVarietyStore Fhousand Hags. - -