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u li |- i - . i ? ? 1 INFLUENZA ALARM NOT WELL FOUNDED Disea.se Th?s Year Less Violent Than Formerly?Four Counties Now Suffering. The State, Oth. Dr. (\ V. Akin, past assistant surgeon and asb.otant state health officer, addressed the lower house of the general assembly yesterday, at the request of the members, seitin^ forth in clear and convincing detail the virulence of the present epidemic state. Dr. Akin said the type of the disease this year was not nearly so violent as that of previous epidemics and that there was no immediate cause for alarm. The following is his statement: While influenza has been reported from widely separated communities in South Carolina for the last month or six weeks, not until January 28, 1920, did reports indicate its occurence in epidemic proportions. Tonvmrv 1020. the state health officer sent a telegram to the sheriffs of all counties requesting a general survey for the purpose of determining the prevalence of the disease in each county. Within 48 hours replies had been received from 30 ' counties. The consensus of opinions expressed indicated the reappearance of epidemic influenza in nearly every part of the state, but certain significant features made it plainly apparent that South Carolina was not Tirflofonorl wit.li such an overwhelmn till VMVVA4W* ?? ing disaster as was represented by the epidemic of 10IS and early 1919. * In comparison with the previous epidemic these features are outstand- j ing: Epidemic Came Later. (1) Influenza in . epidemic form made its appearance nearly four months later than in 191S-1919. (2) The virulence of the virus causing the present manifestation of the disease is apparently less than before as is evidenced by slowness of spread, a lessened tendency to the production of pneumonia, the generally less severe type of pneumonia and the lower death rate. To date, there have been reported roughly 5.000 cases of influenza, 200 cases of pneumonia and 40 death*. If these figures be correct the disease is spreading more . lowly than last year, only 4 per cent, of cases develop pneumonia, and of the pneumonia cases only 20 per cent, die. Regardless of the type of pneumonia, a 20 per cent, mortality is extremely low. Influenza is sharply epidemic in certain sections of the state. A large number of cases have been reported from Charleston, Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Greenville. Certain communities, and, in the instant of Greenville county, one county have voluntarily imposed restrictions against public gatherings of all sorts. Unless the general situation becomes worse the state health officer will not impose a blanket quarantine over the entire state as was resorted to last year. Each city and county after carefully surveying the influen za situation may recommend such quarantine measures as seem necessary to control th elocal epidemic, and these may be assured that the state board of health will assist in the enforcement of such measures as are undertaken. No Cause for Alarm'. # We frankly believe that there is no immediate cause for concern as regards the state as a whole. Of course, certain communities, both ur ban and rural, are experiencing distinct epidemics. Certain people, ill with influenza, do develop pneumonia and, as may be expected, certain of these die. Whenever a case of influenza, a case of pneumonia or a death occurs in one's own family one is induced to hold a very gi corny view of the general situation. Certain of you gentlemen are feeling the personal nearness of the present epidemic because members of this body have developed influenza, while the disease has made its appearance in the families of jthers. This naturally brings the matter closely and pointedly to your attention, but nevvon can not conclude that similar conditions exist in the majority of families over the state. Permit me to refer specifically to the matter of the adjournment of this body in the light 01 the present epidemic. If you gentlemen propose - ?1-- ? ?_ ??'ll Ja oa !n nrrlftv t C to aujuuin yuu win 'isj &\j in v>uv. accomplish one of t*.vo ends. Eithei you will consider that adjournmenl serve the best interests of the state as a whole, or you w:ll be ler.v^ns Oo!um>:a 1 orru^e f the d"~roi* tc Wtvcb yea are . ctc-j by . : ur - ' "sv.1:c. "' , ' 'v ' " i.1 /es. ?' ? . ' V ? ' Ii?< b VAr <:c ' <V- t] p-. . e y j. v ; ' Y. .* V T "' *? [ and certainly some of yoa would be ! returning to localities in which the : i disease is more prevalent tnan here. No Funds Available. | If the present condition -onlinues it will only be a matter of time until ! vour state health officer is \iiled upi % on to provide medical and n.irsing ; help to needy peo{<I-'\ 1 would be j 11 ^ . inconsistent for :ne t o ton you i>n , the one hand that there is no dangev and on the other twit the state health officer required a large fund ! to provide help to people stricken j with influenza. The state board of i health is without funds to meet anv i * 'call for help, no matter how great the need. We can not tell how soon we will be required to give material i assistance and even though we do not j need the money at this immediate time an emergency epidemic fund is j urgently demanded so that the state j health officer may prepare to meet whatever need arises. This fund , should be so arranged that the state health officer can spend it for whatniivniwd and need arising be , V V t. j cause of the occurrence of an epidemic disease. Other communicable diseases occur during an epidemic of influenza but a community in the grip of such an epidemic is not in a position to properly handle any extra TV.O cfofo Vipnlth officer bJtUclliUil. xav uvu w will. be called upon to handle any and all epidemic diseases which ordinarily the community could manage. You will help in this emergency as you have always done when the health of the people of South Carolina was menaced?as a further, ' and more generous assistance to your state health officer give him an elas-1 tic fund which he can use to help j needy people as you desire them to I be helped. i ; i | At the close of this discussion sev-' 1 eral questions were asked by members of the house concerning personal precautions to be observed. Dr. ! Akin advised careful attention to personal hygiene, stressing the neces sity for elimination by means of laxatives, etc., and also recommended that personal contact be minimized. He stated that there was no specific preventive for influenza. MANY HOUSES SWEPT AWAY BY BIG STORM I >.t? v?!* Pnor? Ft:"! Famine i vi n . ? as Snow Continues to Fall. ? New York, Feb. 5.?Huge waves, rolled up by a fifty-mile gale, were still sweeping the North Atlantic coast tonight, while cities and towns along the shore were trying, with indifferent success, to dig themselves out of the deepest snow drifts of years. Damage done by the sea to resorts and summer homes along the New Jersey and Long Island coasts was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Shipping remained at anchor or moved with the utmost caution. In the land-locked waterways around New York huge ice floes menaced J-'? nfftowiov \f o iri ?> navigation, x nc istcaum iuutnvt ~_ the New England Steamship company, was driven ashore on the north end of Long Island and four other Sound liners were reported creeping along through fields of ice. The Maine, w) :ch carries five passengers and a crew of sever. , was reported j in no immediate danger and a tug i has been sent to her relief. I i Faces Fuel Famine. Cold, snow, ice and high seas have j made it almost impossible to transport coal from the tidewater reservniv nt- Forth Amboy to New York and the city faces a fuel famine which will force all its transportation lines to suspend operations unless weather moderates swiftly. While mountainous seas were battering the coast the highest tide ever recorded in New York harbor caused floods alone; the Harlem and Hudson rivers. Ferry houses on the New York and New Jersey sides of the Hudson were Hooded and water from the Erie terminal dropped into the Hudson tubes at Jersey City. Homeward-bound commuters fretted and fumed as they waited for ferry boats to get them to the trains mey knew would be far behind schedule in reaching their destination. Snow Plows at Work. Two-score bi? snow plows were at work today on the New York Central between New York and Buffalo. Snow has drifted from fifteen to 1 eigtheen feet deep in some of the big cuts. Through trains from all ; directions were running hours late. ; Suburban traffic, especially on Long > Island and Staten Island, were seri' ously impeded. ' Seabright, long a target for the > waves, suffered more than any of the r o'her Northern New Jersey coast re> Tf ^vas estimated th>t the hi?rh ---- 1---1 CO-fi _ - t'ro and'nervy seas :u;u uunc v,in VuiVh^aclr,. streets and r^sid'- e~ tho^e. A recently eo'm. pieted bulkhead raved the ma'n resir>nrt ri? t''*-' . TV* railroad traoks between ' I Tj:,*h 1 v r > ; f?C': 0' LV'J {* / 4 , r ? ? 4 ^* *,** ? ' r?'- ?t^A^ - 1 I ' ^ a \ 4 * - x' 1 " ? ? 7> h : \/i? tncilc'i a - >. vV b'Jiig Ox'?, : forty-suite apartment house, bath houses and dozens of small structures were washed into the sea. Pavilions Swept Away. Several bathing: pavilions were T1.. v-, J .,,,,1 swepi away c;i v u:il \ i.^unu ?im. ?.???. first floor of the big Sh el bur no Hotel at Brighton Beach was flooded. Tiafiic in the snow-filled streets in Xevv York dwindled to 15 per cent, of normal. The street-cleaning department asked an emergency appropriation of $150,000 to clean the streets. An urgent appeal was made for workers and it was said that 14,000 would be hired if they could be found, but that only 3,COO were available. t mnn tr> form shoveliner can.its, i ..civ. i ic, iuvii 160 motor plows are being used to clear the main arteries of travel. The health department has declared the accumulation of snow a menace in the influenza epidemic. DANIELS GIVES WILSON CREDIT FOR ENDING WAR - j a i 1? Declares People naa mrcauj * They Got Gold Brick" by Electing Republican Congress. New York, Feb. 5.?President Wilson was given credit here tonight by Secretary Daniels, speaking at the Democratic club dinner to national Chairman Homer S. Cummins, for having seen the necessity of shutting German submarines off the seas as the only effective method of combattine them before r.aval staffs "on either side of the water" moved to that end. "You must shut up the hornets in their nests," the President was quoted by Mr. Daniels as having said in a quarterdeck speech to officers of the battleship Pennsylvania, early in the war, "for you can never end the submarine peril if you let them out and then have to devote yourselves to chasing them over the ocean." America Responsible. "'l'ne Darrage mmiijr kj C4 11x^.? the North sea," said Mr. Daniels, "was the American navy's answer to the President's counsel. It was proposed by Admiral Earle, chief oT 4 " 1 r" vNv\>*/\xr/?./ ! ordnance in Apia, by Admiral Benson ard Adnrira.1 Mayo, by the .e^nera! board, by th Secretary of the Navy and by the President. It was the greatest robstructive naval measure cf. c rect'vness in the whole war. It was a fa tor both in destroying the mo "ah of the German ravy ard i-n :ts deadl' destruction of submarines." President Wilson had also pointed 1 r Il'll r>rf}'PF'Z h?d OUI. oeioie i,c. reached that conclusion, Mr. Daniels said, "that the only wry to most surely safeguard merchant ships was to send them in convoys, protected by armed ships." The secretary attacked the record of Congress since ll'iO, W1IC.1 uiu honest appeal to hyphenated politics enabled the Republicans to elect a majority of this Congress," and declared the people "had already found they got a gold brick." That record, he characterized as certain to defeat the Republican party next November "as it is certain that the Democrats will have the wisdom to go forward and nominate a great leader who is r>-f instructive nimsen a picinvim v* legislation." League as Means of Peace. Mr. Daniels said he believed that a League of Nations, such as that proposed in the treaty would enable the world to maintain peace without competitive naval building but without such a league, American duty was "as plain as a pikestaff." He quoted t??Wiicnn's statement in 1916 rresiucuu n .? ~ that the navy should be "incomparably the most adequate navy in the , world," and added that none of the present American building program would be delayed or abandoned. "We are to have a league of nations with America making as large a contribution as any other country to 1 ?1: ? lflrrnt " be tiie mODlie ponce - said, "or we are to have- a navy 'incomparably the most adequate navy in the world.' Which is it to be? It must be one or the other." Rej:ub!ivan Neglect. Reviewing the history of the merchant marine through '"forty years of Republican neglect and indifference" the naval secretary declared it was not until President Wilson's first in? ?1 >--V>it-trtinnr hill was aucruranon, vmicu .thuj/.u,, ~ introduced in 1914 by Representative Alexander, now secretary oi commerce, that a "constructive measure to give America a merchanl marine with administrative backing' had been presented. "This new merchant marine is ir * ?? * -'J "TTv,1rte.e jeopardy again, ne saiu. people register their high resolve never again to let America be ae pendent upon foreign bottoms, thi: Repub'xan Congress will start th( mcvchrr/ mark's down the toboggai slide out ol which Wood row Wilsor pulled it against Republican opposi tion and hostility." LETTER OF AD MI?1 ... of S?*?Litii C . ; \ v of ^ nfc,-r f-v V*. ; V. i-.-c.i-; J. 1 >'_n ;v" ' " : 11 ' ^. . istration of the Estate and effects of Stanmore G. Lansurforcl. j These are, therefore, to cite and !admonish" all and singular *he Kindred and Creditors of the said Stanmore (r. I.anjrford do?.-eaSt*d, that they be : ?? I l.~f - w. tli.* f'niivt ; ami uvuik' 11.v. i.. tui. -t v. ?. ? oi I'n/bate, lo in- heid at Nc.viji-ny | on Monday 2-?r;I < ;?y of February. next, after pablic;;t:en hereof, m 11 ' o'clock in the forenoon, to show eau~e, if any they have, why the said ; Administration should not be jr/anted. Given under n?y hand this 5th day | of February. Anno Domini 1020. W. F. EWART. P. J. N. C. i THE MOLLOHON MANUFACTURING CO. ! The annual meeting of the stockholders of The Mollohon Manufactur| ing Company will be held in the ! chmriimv's nntown office at Xewberry, IS. (!.. on Tuesday, the 17th day of [February, 1920. at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the election of Directors ! ?/->> tlin ?>ns;iinfr and for the j trjv>crf +;on of nthc* Please attend in person or by proxy, j GEO. W. SLMMER, President and Treasurer, jc. D. WEEKS, Secretary. 2-3-4t After you eat?always take ! FATONIC Ml ( FOR YOPR AOD-STOMACg) I Instantly relieves Heartburn, Bloat- j ed Gats j Feeling. Stops food soaring; | I repeating, and all stomach miseries, j ;J- J:?mil MiMiitfl. Keens stomach i IIWI? UlgCTUWM ? ? 6weet and etron#. Increases Vitality and Pep. i EATONIC iB the beat remedy. Tens of thou- i eanda wonderfully benefited. Only costs a cent i cr two a day to use it. Positively guaranteed to please or we will refund money. Get a big lax today. You will see. Gilder & Week* Co., Newberry, S. C, ; Ijjij Ask ^'Dealer lg$gp " |j I Grand PrizeMsftuljl I Firearms 61 Ammunition i| j^rllj VvYste for Catalogue I|l { '?^1 THE REMINGTON ARMS UW.C. CO. INC ^ v*ooi.v?o#?th Ci-cck N.T* yo?x Crnr * fetgi j -Vifl 1 . u . \ .o i ne ileraKl and News. $2.00 year Tl ^ _ Q | iiw *3.1 If you have a of resolutionsstep for succe* here is a sugg Make Februai year--an impoi coming one ol Every month ; vaneement. ^Kalrp nff flip ftka/ ii JSL LAIa V VA JL V&A >>/ > : The Natior Newb< 1 B. C MATTHFW-. 1 presid^Pi S ' t >-un A & ? A Pool of Oil 3ANDERSVILLE, WASH) A lew dollar* invested no mairnate. Why not oil in this If you are jrame you can g 'irul ImUp 'a fhanc.3. A comr - ? i and the land purchased and oil. A sufficient quantity to f] considerable excitement and j. predicting wonderful develop pool of oil underneath and Do you want to be a member < and share the profits. If yo Buford who has headquarter; Johnson and Son and he will < your subscription to the stoc across tfte savannan in ueorc MIDDLE GEORGIA See M. M.E Newberry While there is some stock 1 drop Capt. Buford a card anc CAN YOU BE CURED? WHAT WILL IT COST? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? Dr. P. J. O'Neill Carolina National Bank Bldg. Columbia, S. C. e-rr-sp er a m KfW? ATTENTION GA - * * /? /I You should have one 01 our 1CO pounds of Standard Nuts, Bol Spring; Bolts, Set Screws, Machine useful articles too numerous to m* All necessary in the daily cond This outtit will cost you $7.50 f. < an assortment in our window whicl and which will give you some idea ; COLUMBIA SI 823 West Gervais Street iiortest 5 Mowed January -to roll by withe ss by making oui estion: ? xl ? y?me siiuriedi i rtant one in you : our patrons. yoii delay hinde shackles-come lal Bank of 3rry, South Cai T. K. .JOHNSTONE, Cashier Iv f: nd City ^ v r b edevv.i kasem * Near Home [NGTON COUNTY, GA. [ d \v may make you an oil S > part of the globe? ^ et in on the ground fioor >any has been organized they are going1 alter the { lash and burn has caused geologists and experts are ments. There must be a they are going after it. A of the party to go after it ? u do see Captain M. M. 1 5 at the store of William explain the plan and take k. The oil field is right :i3. f am OIL & GAS CO. | B luford ) 3? C? eft. If more convenient ' , 1 he will call to see you. < =1 I treat successfully: PILES. Without operation* flK pain or loss of time. STOMACH, KIDNEY, BLADDER, SKIN DISEASES and NERVOUS TROUBLES. 4 Special effort made to avoid / delay in out-of-town cases. i .RAGE MEN A arage Assortments containing ts, Rivets, Cap Screws, Studs, j and Wood Screws and other J ;ntion. 1 uct of the successful Garage. -> ^ "CV*P have j J U J_y Ctl U11.J .'JL IV 44 ( f w _ _ . i we will be glad to show you, as to what this assortment is. JPPLY CO. | 4 Columbia, S. C. i I rlonth. I 14 -the month ] >ut getting in r bank yours, ( nonth in the I r life by bef f ' j f ; j :rs your ad . 13 in! i ' I : Newberry ' *olina I W.W.CROMER | Assistant Cashier. I Depository ; 1 h stem t J wmmi wwm iraw.n ?wi?mmm<??mmm ?