The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 22, 1922, Section One Pages 1 to 8, Page Page Six, Image 6
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But Possibilit
By CA4IfJ SCH
Right this way, ladies and gentle
men, to Guam and the Carolines. See
Uncle Sam's far-flung outpost, the
last stopping point on this side of the
Philippines. Transfer at Guam and
go south to the Caroline Islands.
These are the spoils, or a part of
them, that the Japs got for fighting
against Germany. See Yap, little in
name and size but mighty. Japan
has a mandate over it, but our cable
to the Philippines lands there. There
are hundreds of islands in the Caro
!ines. See what the Japs are doing
there. See with your own eyes whe
ther they are abiding by the four
power agreement to cease building
fortifications. Right this way, ladies
and gentlemen."
The ballyhoo man, the "barker" in
the red cap, can be imagined or visu
alized as standing at the dock in San
lFrancisco a'd exhorting his hearers
to go West. But this young Horace
Greeley can only be imagined. IlIe
wears no red cap; in fact, he is not
there. If he were there he would be
shoutt ing the wonders of Hawaii. That
place is established in the American
ecnsciousness. We have acquired the
habit of going there.
Guam, still largely undeveloped, is
only a diamond in the rough. Yap is
just a pinpoint on the map. The Caro
I mes are just half a thousand pin
points. however, Guam has a length
of 30 and a width of six or seven
miles with a total area of approxi
mately 200 square miles. It is a stop
sigp point for Uncle Sam's transpaci
tic ship route and one of his cable
liacs. Ile has also there a naval de
pot and some fortifications not yet
linished, but as much finished now as
they will be within the next 10 years
if the status quo understanding of
the powers lives.
Guam is hot; its mean temperature
is 80 degrees. When it rains, it pours.
When it blows, look out for a hurri
cane. When the ground shivers and
you have a strange feeling of empti
ness or uncertainty, you may know
that old Mother Earth is quaking.
Ihurricanes make no last impression
on the natives. A furious storm de
stroys the lields sand gardens, wipes
out everything. The people are desti
tute and famine grips them. It has
happened several times. Some ship
conies in with food, and starvation is
prevented. The farmers grow just
enough vegetables for their daily
needs. They never have a surplus;
when disaster arrives, they are not
prepared to cope with the emergency.
The situation may he peculiar but
not entirely illogical. There mus he
an incentive of a positive character.
Here in America we grow more than
we need so that. we can sell the sur
plus and buy other materials with the
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money received. quam is isolated.
There is no market for the surplus.
The wants of the people are extreme
ly simple. The only possible need of
a surplus would come with a catastro
phe. The people are unwilling to an
ticipate a calamity, particularly so if
two birds cannot be killed with the
same stone.
Guam is not self-supporting, though
every home has its garden or rancho,
where the principal products are
corn and sweet potatoes. Perhaps
there will be a patch of tobacco or
some coffee bushes stooping from the
weight of the berries. Rice is grown.
Cocoanuts are gathered from the
palm trees. Copra, the dried meat of
the cocoanut, constitutes the only
item exported. By far the larger
part of the population of 15,000 is
engaged in agriculture.
The roads are poor, many of them
little more than mere trails. Even
the carabao, or water buffalo, and the
cart it draws cannot travel some of
them. This need for better transpor
tation retards the development of the
island. When roads are made, fine
lumber obtainable in the interior and
other materials besides copra will
doubtless be exported.
The natives are a picturesque lot
of mixed blood, with a range of com
plexion from white to dark brown. In
other days Scotch, French, English
and Spanish ships stopped in the har
bor of San . Luis d'Apra. When the
ships departed, some of the men re
mained and married the native
Chamorro women. If the tourist were
required to guess or identify the place
by the family names he would judge
himself to be in the British Isles,
France or Spain; if he heard the lan
guage and knew languages he would
perceive it to be the common tongue
of that section of the world; that is,
of Micronesia.
The men wear trousers and shirts,
but they vary the American style by
keeping the shirt entirely on the out
sie. We may laugh at the custom,
but they deem it a much more prefer
able method than ours. If we lieved
as near the equator as they do we
might see more wisdom in their ap
parent madness. The women like
ample skirts and waists, with sleevs,
but they save their shoes and stock
ings for special events.
The Guamese impress the traveler
as an amiable people. They are in
telligent and eager to learn. Their
enterprise in this respect must be re
garded as astonishing; for the Span
ish authorities frowned on education
because they thought the natives, if
left ignorant, would be more tractable
andl less likely to rebel against the
government. Since the American oc
cupation of the island at the close of
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T. M. . Young, adv. yksing sign
painter, Bradham Ave., s: "Not
long ago my kidneys trot{ gd me and
I couldn't get my prppgr" rest at
night as I had to get up often to
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numb feeling across the small of my
back. I began' to use Doah's Kidney
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the war with Spain, schools have been
established.
A marked filial devotion may be
noted between the parents and child
ren. When marriage comes, the in
terested fathers and mothers plan and
work together to give the young
couple the right sort of a start in
life. When the parents reach old
age, the sons and daughters repay by
taking care of them.
"It is not unusual," says one man
who has studied this aspect of Gun
mese character, "for a man or wvoman
of 40 or 50 years to ask permission
of the parents before engaging in a
business transaction. The spectacle
of old womon, abandoned and forgot
ten by their 'children, acting as water
carriers as in Samoa and among our
Indian tribes, is unknown in Guam."
Many of the houses have roofs of
colored tile and are constructed of
wood, stone or stucco. The Ameri
cans introduced corrugated iron as a
good roofing material, which some of
the natives have taken as an example
worth following. The older residents
or those of a conservative mind stick
to the customs of their forefathers as
good enough for themselves; they pre
fer dwellings tatched all over with
palm tree leaves.
Agana, the seat of government, is
an industrious little city that sets the
pace for the few others in Guam. The
houses are more modern and the
streets more spacious and better sur
faced than those of its sister towns.
In the public square you will see the
principal church of Agana and of
Guam. Founded in 1669, the earth
quake of 1902 shattered it; as yet it
has not been restored to its former
glory, but the native give it the same
degree of adoration.
"Its great bell," a former governor
of the island once said, "tolls every
morning at 4 o'clock calling the peo
ple to matins and to their daily tasks.
The church is a sacred possession
hallowed by the worship of genera
tions. The people could not be parted
from it nor from the daily observan
ces connected with it."
The island imitates Italy in shape,
though if that country can properly
be compared to a boot, Guam must be
reckoned as a pair of hose such as
men wear. The toe of Italy points
downward, and that of Guam takes a
similar position. There is a dissim
ilarity, however, because the Italian
boot projects northwest, while the
Gunmese upper prefers.the northeast
direction.
San Luis d'Apra, 10 miles from
Agana, has a better harbor than those
of Pago and 'Tarofofo, which are on
the other, or eastern, side of the is
land. Agana's own harbor gives no
assurance of safety in a storm, in
asmuchi as an anchor wvill drag read
ily in the coral bottom. A pra has a
clay bottom. Consequently, wve have
the queer situation of the capital us
ing the Apra harbor regardless of
the disadvantage of location entails.
Would you pick cotton from trees ?
Then go to Guam where three variet
ies grow wild. Trhe tree cotton
flourishes at a height of 60 feet.
G uami has other ermarkable trees
besides those that yield cotton. The
wvomen take the long leaves of the
pandanu and braid them into mats
and hmats. From the hau tree, the
men manufacture a strong rope im
pervious to wvater. The cocoanuts
here are the best in all the tropics,
the pineapple are juicy andl the bread
fruit delicious. The jungles contain
miany hardwoods valuable for ship
building or cabinet work.
The island, of course, is adlminis
tered l*' our Navy Department, be
eause of its great imp~ortance as a
naval station.-The Dearborn inde
pend~ent.
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NOTICE 01F SA LE OF -PElRSONA L
lOP~ERTY
State of South Carolina,
Cla rendon County.
The State
vs.
Jlake Plowden and Neta Myers.
I will sell at public auction to the
highest biddor for cash on Monday,
G. C. COOPER,
Licensed
Optometerist
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Materials are Taffetas, Can
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NEW SHIPMENTS O
The latest Spring Sh
$2.00, $2.50,
$4.00, $4.
LATEST STYLES IN \
Brown Kid, Satins and I
$2,25, $2.50,
$4.00, $5.
| The Peoples l
(FORMERLY THI
Phone 601 SUMTEI
April 3rd, 1922, within the legal hours I, J. E. Gamble, S
for judiciary sales, the following de- County, will sell n
scribed personal property: the highest bidder
One Ford Touring Car which was of the CouL't Hous
taken on the night of February 23, S. C., on Monday,
1922, by Rural Policeman J. M. Peavy April, 1922, bein;
and confiscated by the County of the legal hours fo
Clarendon for the illegal transporta- following describe
tion of Alcoholic liquor. All that tract 01
J. E. GAMBLE, County, in said
Sheriff Clarendon County. forty-three (43) n
bounded North by
NOTICE ./ DISCHARGE
I will apply to the Judge of Pro
bate for Clarendon County on the
17th (lay of April, 1922 at 1- o'clock
A. M. for Letters of Discharge as Ad
ministrator of 'ie Estate of Shadrie
Rush Mims, deceased.
Charlton E. Gamble,
pd. Administrator.
Tfurbeville, S. C., March 14, 1922.
NOTICE 01" SALE
State of South Carolina,
Clarendon County.
Court of Common Pleas.
Notice of Sale.
1H. J. Ilarby, Plaintiff, VJt
vs Wt
Susan E. Gaymon, Israel Gaymon, fra
Sarah Lawvyer, Madison Gaymon, ra(
Wallace Glaynmon, Jr., Susan Cordes, .cheCk I
Ocie Washington, Moses Cordes,
Ruth Cordes, Eleanora Stukes U>
known as Norvel Stukes, Sallie Call a
Ann Cantey, Rufus Gaymon known a
as Moss Gaynmon, John Calhoun Sy8telD
Gaymon and Eliza Gaymon, De
fendants.
Under and by virtue of a Decree of
the Court of Common Pleas made in
above entitled action to me directed,
LThe Most ProfitableGh
Acre on the Farm
by tai' t I reiptgiiized
if thli Cfarni, bt i often, neglectedI.
yoi V <-ike t. i i fr 'n a haltI
$ iitl pi I.,thn Is oti Ii i ettee
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1 your Suit,, Dress, Hat and
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Dresses Dresses
$17.95 $19.95
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,ombinations.
'MILLINERY DAILY
apes-Prices ranging
$3.00, $3.50,
50, $5.00
OMEN'S FOOTWEAR
atents. Prices Ranging
$3.00, $3.50,
00, $6.00
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heriff of Clarendon man; East and South by land now
t public outcry to or formerly of William Coulliette; and
for cash, in front West by lands of Washington Gay
e door at Manning, mon and W. S. Manning, and beiIng
the 3rd (ay of the same bonveyed to me '(Preston
Ssalesday, within Gaymon) by E. A. Weeks andl others
r judicial sales, the by deed recorded in office of Clerk of
1 real estate: Court of Common Pleas for Claren
land in Clarendon don County in book L. L. on page 509.
State, containing Purchaser to pay for papers.
cres, more or less, J. E. Gamble,
land of Rufus Gay- Sheriff of Clarendon County
w0ther
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