The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, June 17, 1920, Image 4
THE FLORENCE DAILY TIMES THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 17, 1920.
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Pubtlahed Daily Except Sunday at
Florence, 8. 0.. by
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Mason 0. Brunson, Editor.
Chao. 8. Gardiner, Business Manager
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THURSDAY JUNE 17, 1920
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While the people of Florence for
the most part sympatbize with Mr.
Weston and the Mayor in their trou
bles with the ice and water problems
respectively, at the same time they
are averse to having their sympathy
“workeid on,” as the saying goes,
and fey this they mean they do not
.expect either of these gentlemen tc
let up a momnt in their efforts to
put the plants in - the shape they
should be. Work should not cease
for a minute day or night. We have
bad occasion to remark oftimes that
Florence people arc a long suffering
peopt& but it will not do to tread
too heavily upon them. They are
accenting present conditions with
praiseworthy good temper but how
long R‘will last is. a Question. To Mr
Wfestbn' amri Mr. Gilbert we are sure
that “Verbum Sap—” ■
^ * 66iLf• IMiWM 1 NEW TEMfLE OF THE GODS
When the Unionist Government was - , . ~ ^ ^
formed during the war he was offer- Mexico That I. Avoided by
ed and accepted the post of Minister
it Agriculture at Ottawa. , In 1919,
however, he resigned his place in the
cabinet and left the party in conse
quence of the budget proposals of
that year. Since tben he has cam
paigned over a large section of the
potpiuion in the work of organizing
Wait Ms been styled by its adher-
spts the National Progressive party,
alW ot which he is the recognized
Idifder.
ft TODAYS BIRTHDAYS ♦
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Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, wife
of the former Secretary, of State,
born at Perry, 111., 59 years ago today
Hon. Thomas A. Creyar, leader of
the Canadian Agrarian Movavent,
born at Molesworth, Ontario, 44
years ago today.
Edward J. Berwind, eminent New
York capitalist, born in Phllad^pftM
72 years ago today.
Philip B. Douglas, pitcher of the
New York National league baseball
team, born at Cedartown, Ga., 30
years ago today. -
Tommy Burns, former champJii
heavyweight pugilist, born at Han
over. Canada, 39 years ago today.
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Today is the 175th anniversary of
the capture cf Loulsburg by the ex
pedition under Pepperell and War
ren.
Boston and vicinity will keep a
holiday today in celebration of the
145th anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill.
The Society of the Cincinnati will
open its triennial general convention
today at Exter, N. H,
At least 10,000 college students are
expected to attend the reserve offi
cers' training camps which are to be
opened today at various points throu
ghout the’ United States.
Conditions and problems confront
ing the tobacco industry will be
discussed by the Tobacco Association
of the United States, meeting in an-
Tina) convention today at Atlantic
City.
Trav*lvr« for a Meat Excellent
Reaeen.
Revolutionary bands and brigands
may ride up and down Mexico, but
there is one strip of territory that even
the hardiest and most daring of them
will not brave. It is a desert country
that extends from a point near the eltv
of Duraugo to the borders of the state
of Zaeatecas, about seventy-five miles
long by fifty miles wide. It is as
serted that myriads of scorpions infest
this region and are the most deadly rtf
the species.
In the city of Durango, although re
garded aa outside of the more deudty-
zone, the death rate, due to- scorpidn
stings, is high. This Is,especially true
as to children. The alachrane, ns the
insect is commonly called, is regarded
as such a deadly pest that- for many
years the municipal government hfis
paid a bounty of one centavo, equiva
lent to about onedialf cent of Ameri
can money, for each one killed and
delivered to the official 'custodian of
dead scorpions. Something like iOO.-
000 of the scorpions are killed and
bounty paid for them annually.
Killing scorpions is a regular indus
try with many men, women and chil
dren of Durango. One is told that
some of the - natives ev£n go so far as
,to establish regular colonies of the
poisonous insects In their homes for
the nnrpose of breeding them for the
market.
GERMS FUTURE WAR WEAPONS
NO SALE YET
Petitions for an election on the is-
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suance of bonds to the amount of
$576,000 by the city of Florence are
to fee circulated. It is stated that
the Chamber of Commerce has under
taken the task of securing the eight
hundred or more names necessary to
call'the election. Whether'the Cham
ber of Commerce should sponsor, this
movement of not is not the question
which we shall discuss nonrV We
presume that the canvassers are arm
ed With sufficient information to pre
sent the proposition to the property
holders intelligently. What the tax
payers will \taiit to know is Why tfee
past indebtedness? What was it for?
Afe$ what have they received in re
turn for the money expndeif? Then
it is likely that they would like to
klibvf Jitst what is to be done in the
way of watdr Works'and sewerage
extension, what - streets are to he
entered, and so forth. It appears to
u« that a fill preBCtitatlotf of tire
case, citing figures, etc would be in
order just now.
No
Answers to For;-‘er‘ Kaisers Ad
vertisement Received
The Hague. June 17—The horses,
carriages and other belongings of the
Voihher German Emperor Wfliam
which Were adv/ tised recently offer
ed for sale by advertisement in the
Handelsbiad are still at Berlin, but
the seller, who will probably be Wil
liam himself, guarantees their
pfopipt delivery ii> Holland, Tlvi
prices quoted is free on rail and boat
from Berlin. t
Two court carriages are offered at
96,000 marks and 65,000 marks, the
hunting wagon at 50,000 marks, two
sets of silver plated harness at thir
ty thousand marks each, the Pope's
present of plated gold harness at six
ty thousand marks and two saddles
together at twenty flvq thousand
marks
The horse named Wallacb, which
was foaled in 1912 and is offspring
frem Ramoess and Vizikonigin. is of
fered at ninety seven thousand marks
rulBs chiliSren CANNOT
BE SENT BY PARCEL
POST AS LIVE ANIMALS
THE SPEfiG MANIA
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(Columbia Record)
Speeding along a connfry road- at
a .rate Of seventy •miles an hour,, an
automobile diTVeh By a’ young man of
Augusta turned turtle when its driv
er undertook to take a sharp curve
nekr that city last Saturday morning,
and lahded Id a creek. A yddfig wo
man passenger in the .car was killed
almost instantly. Two other men suk
tallied seVere injuries,- escaping death
only ;by a miracle, rtie man at the
wheel got off lighter than any.
What happened was exactly what
miipt have been expected to happen
as. the result Of fkecrimiriaF reckless
ness of the speed fiend who, in his
tnadfiess, drove that young woman to
h$r death. He disregarded the odds
against safety i t that losing -aco
With death.
Disaster Is too often invited by
speed maniacs. It would not be so
had Jf fthey alone were in. danger.
But the danger is fo many. The than
at-tfae wHeel T whether he - be a com-
mercial or a' private driver,, has at
his ’ifeercy those Who ride with him.
His responsibility is for them and
for other wayfarers on the road. He
has no right to endanger the lives of
either.
Seventy miles an hour on a country
toads It t» hardly possible to impar
tlally Judge a man who,- merely for
the sake of speed, would take such
a desperate chance with so precious
a tWlg hs human life, though he will
probably find immunity in the plea
thttiHl was an accident.
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Washington, Jtoffe 16—Children may
not be transported os parcel post,
First Assistant Postmaster General
Kooas has ruled in passing upon the
application received at the Washing
ton City Post Office for the transpor
tation of children through the mails.
Mr. Kocns said children did not.
come within the classification of
harmless live, dnimh’s which do not
require food or water while in trans
it. One of the applications received
by the local Postmaster was from
g 9 y&M old girl Who entered the
main Post Office and asked that she
be sent to Kentucky.
SPRINGS GIVES LARGE
SUM TO PRESBYTERIANS
Spartanburg, June Announce
ment was made here today that Col
onel Leroy Springs, of Lancaster, S.
C.. MW given - $50,000 to the million
dollar fund being raised by the Pres
byterians of South Carolina for th *
endowment of church schools. C- K.
Graham, of Greenville, .sometime ago
pledged $160,000 on condition th;>t
the remaining $900,000 be raised.
KANGAROOS ROAM
Honolulu, May 24—Kangaroo are
roamhig the hills back of Honolulu
where none was ever seen before
1916. In that year a male and fe-
male kangaroo escaped from a pri
vate menag'-ro her** ••mi fe other
day they were seen the Oahu foot
hills with- a family or three little
kangaroo in their train. So far no
effort his been made to capture the
animals.
The President and Mrs. WiTson
left Paris for Belgium.
Wexlcan Ambassador at Washing
ton • protested against American
troops crowing the border. *
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Scientist Draws Dark Picture of Sav.
agary That Will Be Part of
Next ConflicL
Mobilization of the mosquito, the
house-fly, the louse and various other
disease-carrying pests for the dissemi
nation of deadly germs in enefny terri
tory is n possibility of “the next War”
pictured by Prof. Maxwell Lefroy, a
London scientist.
“I foresee the mosquito from Brazil
starting yellow fever in new lands, the
house-fly, duly infested with cholera,
dysentery or enteric and the typhus-
laden louse doing their deadly work
much more effectively than spies poi
soning wells," said Professor Lefroy
in a recent address.
‘‘This would be part of the work of
a uar office of entomologists—ttie
working out of strategic plans for the
distribution of these pests by airplane.
It seems that the world is Intent upon
furnishing an airplane service for
these pests, many of which are now
held somewhat In check by natural
enemies In their native climes. This
will give them .lust the meuns of tran
sit they have required. It will be a
peace-time danger as well as one that
could be used very offensively in war.
The danger from these ‘winged battal
ions of death’ is more serious than ohrt
dare estimate.”
Beautiful Spot in Southern Utah That
la Off the Beaten Trail of
the Tourist.
Tn the ordinary sense, no part of
the United States properly can be
called unexplored. The' new Temple
of the Gods, in southern Utan, is a
discovery as far as the average tour
ist is concerned, though by no means
Is It unexplored or “new" territory.
A bare 17 miles to the west runs the
well-traveled state highway from Salt
Lake City to the Grand canyon. . An
old trail branches off from the road
between Panuitch and Tropica, in Ger-
field county.
In the distance is Table Cliff
plateau, source of the Escalante riv
er; nearer, the broad amphitheater of
the Paria valley; at his feet the New
Temple itself, a veritable sunken gar
den, about one by three miles, of ex
quisite daintiness and beauty. Wlfhin
its tortuous walls of marl stand ob
elisks and towers, castles and fort
resses, impressionistic statuary and
Japan Want^ h aire
leHl
Of SeaSlsland Trade
Tokio, June 17.—Japan is ambitious
to obtain a larger share of the trade
o fthe South Sea Islands which is es
timated at 2,000.000,0(Jo yen a year.
Of this Japanese exports amount to
only one and one-half per cent but
have increased rapidly since the war.
Some Japanese commercial leaders
are advising that in order to increase
the sale of Japanese 'goods inithe
South Seas Japan must import from
the islands rubber, sugar, chemicals,
dye scuffs and spices in which tfeese
islands abound. President Kimura. of
the Singapore Japenese Emporium
urges that Japan establish direct
trade agencies with Sumatra andiMa
nila for expansion of Japanese trade.
Enla-ged Picture BeeL
If you want to get a large photo
graph of any object, take a small
Clean-cut picture and enlarge it. The
result will be niueli better than wlten
a large picture is taken directly by
placing the camera close to the object.
rhlijWtism
is compierw wasnea ert of tits
system by the celebrated SMfftt
Mineral Water. Positively guftHtn-
teed by money-back offer. TAstea
fine; costs a trifle. Delivered any
where by our Florence agents, Gregg
A Anderson. Phone then.
USE NO MONEY AT THIS STORE
Berlin, June 17.—At Haiensee ,near
Berlin a general store has been open
ed for a moneyless interchang;e of
country products an dtown-made ar
ticles* Country farmers barter /their
dairy produce against boots, shoes,
giant sculptures, kaleidoscopic in their . co il° n > yarn, candles and similar'enm-
coloring and framed by the tufted yel-1 The accepted unit of >alu *
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PUNCTUALLY AS
WE DELIVER
our clarified and pasteurized
milk, we often find a kiddy or
two waiting for us and it. For
the youngsters do certainly like
our milk. You can’t make them
tired of it. And the mofe they
drink of it the stronger and
quicker they grow. Let us
leave a bottle or so at your
house mornings. The kids will
like it, friend husband will like
it as well as the cream and so
will you.
CENTRAL MILK STATION
Phone 746.
low pines and the red manzanita.
The startling color changes and
lighting effects of this great geological
stage are, indeed, its most extraordi
nary feature. In the shifting rays of
sun and cloud, the tall, slender shafts
and ornamental turrets gleam white,
glow suddenly to a cherry heat anil
suddenly cool to purple black.—J. C.
Alter in Popular Mechanics. Magazine.
BIG GUNS MUST BE MOBILE
is eggs.
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Good Friday.
Good Friday lias been observed
since the earliest days of Christianity
in memory of the crucifixion of /Jesus
Christ, which event is said to .hove
occurred Friday. April 15, 29, Ai D.,
or April 3, .‘13, A. D. The expression
“Good (probai -y God’s) Friday" isi said
to he peculiar to rite Church of JEng-
tand. Good Friday is observed thet Fri
day bftfore Easier. j
•Otherwise in Future Ware They Will
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Airplane Ha< He Limite. '
The officials of the United States de
partment of agriculture have been in
receipt of many suggestions relative
to extinguishing forest fives with the
use of gas bombs dropped from air
planes that It has been found neces
sary to issue a statement: for the pur
pose of explaining that the scheme' la
not feasible. For‘The purpose of over
coming a detachment of men, a mix
ture of one part, of virulent poison to
1.000.000 of air would be entirely suf
ficient to accomplish tile purpose, but
one of 750 parts t« the thousiliWf would
not be powerful enough tAJqkehteli a
conflagration. Another thing to -be
taket} into consideration is the diffi
culty of dropping the bombs with the
nece^vry precision. . The art Of strik
ing a - target with any degree of ac- v
curacy has not been developed at this
time, and there Is no prospect that It
will' be sufficiently perfected fo the
point of becoming available for the
purpose of fighting fire*.
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To Destroy Grasshoppers.
Poisoned bran halt Is « simple, re
liable cpd" cheap method of destroy
ing grasshoppers. The formtiia Is:
Wheat bran, 25 pounds; Paris greyn.
one pound, or white arsenic, one
pound; lemons, or oranges, si* finely
chopped fruits: low-jfrade moMsses,
two quarts. . The mlxtar* Is si-uttered
over the fields. Beneficial results hav#
been obtained from' the pelfcon, hut In'
whatever Jhfocess is followed, comtmm-
iention must unite, ’for if one farm
is rid df ihe insects, it new irtvWiWfl
will come In from the adjoining farm.
An interesting Incident of all poison
halts is that lemon Juice is added-, thus
It seems that it is necessary to hand
the hopper a lemon in order to get rid
ot him.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
(Wyatt A. Taylor.)
Columbia.' Jude 16.—About two
hundred and fifty young people of the
Epworth Legues of the Methodist
churcft Ifi South Carolina are attend
ing the summer conference at Co
lumbia College, this city. The ses-
sibhe ebver three days, ending Thurs
day of this week.
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Hon. Thomas A. Crerar, who today
ontars upon his forty-fifth year. Is
.*fe* outstanding . figures In
''*RM* an politics, in recent months
u jeen . especially, prominent
b' his leadership of the so-cal-
fitrarian movement in tfee Domin
. Mr. CrftHtr whs born ac Moles-
, Fine tn Maine
Rockland. Maine June 16—Fourteen
buildings In the business district
were burned today with a loss of six
hundred thousand dollars.
Light Acta on Door Bell.
A newly married couple, who are
both deaf and are trying housekeep
ing without a servant, have devised
ah ingeaioua substitute for a door
bell. When a caller presses the elec
tric button- all the lights In the house
np, gild hlft presence la made
Be Quickly Wiped Out if “Spot
ted” From Above.
While the war Was In progress new
military inventions and improvements
were for obvious reasons kept secret
in America. Now, however, they are
beginning to leak out.
For example, there is a new 14-inch
gun, whlcp Is called “pride of the)
army.” AH big guns in future will j
be made mobile (on rails or drawn by |
gasoline tractors), because otherwise
they would invite their own destruc
tion. With the help of “spotting" air
planes they might be quickly wiped
out.
The guns which now defend Amer
ican seacoast forts are stationary, and
the big ones of no larger caliber than
12 inches. They are to be replaced
by 14-inch rifles on mobile mounts, and
it is manifest the plans,of the fortifi
cations will have lo he altered.
Newest American battleships carry
14-inch guns, which have been deemed
the most effective weapons of their
type in the world. Some of them did
duty on land in France toward the
end of the war. But this new rifle (a
prodin-t of army ordnance experts’
best ingenuity) is superior in several
respects, ft will throw a shell 35
miles.
Whale Teeth Used as Currency.
Whale's teetli pass as currency In
the Fiji islands. They are palinted j
while and red, Ihe red teeth feeing
worth about twenty
as the white.
times as much i
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NO MORK
NAPPY
Volmot mntre*
kinky hairslnui'ht
•on and nice. Takes ,
the curl Out of unruly, ,
kinky.hair. Makes it ao diet
you can easily comb it or brush
■t any style. Thousands of colored
women endorse it. Also eels rid of
dandruff. Keep* the hair clean,
rieasantly perfumed but not sticky.
Ask your druggist;or willsendpre
paid upon receipt of 25c.
AGENTS Wanted—Write for Term#
Velmot Chemical Co.
Birmingham, Ale.
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Symph
'myjsavm
The Paper with the Inviting Texture
H OLD a sheet of Symphony Lawn Writing
Paper to the light. Note its translucent
dearness. Then feel the beauty of its real lawn
texture. It invites you to use your pen.
Then observe the water mark—placed there for
your guidance and protection.
Symphony Writing Paper is the choice of dis
criminating women—not only because it is in good
taste, but because of its splendid writing surface.
Made in three finishes and several fashionable
tints. Sheets and envelopes to be had in a number
of styles, permit expression of personal taste.
Correspondence cards and envelopes, also. .
Peer Racking Causes Waste.
Few persons considering the cost ot
living realize t)iat more than SIOO.OOO.-
000 is added to the cost of their food,
clothing and oilier necessities each
year because of the waste caused by
damage, unscientific loading and the
trepiendous cost of packing these
commodities. The railroads and the
shippers realize it. as shown by their
conducting a campaign to reduce to
the minimum the waste through dam
age, ahd to utilize to the utmost the
capacity of freight cars, which are
hauled half empty.
These are some of the items which
enter into this waste estimate—dam
age and theft, $100,000,000; wasted
lumber used only once in packing
cases. $240,000,000; empty car space,
$209,000,000; and the staggering cost
to the railroads of hauling half empty
cars more than 6,000,000,000 miles,
$157,000,000. It is estimated that from
10 to 25 per cent of the cost of food
stuffs goes to pay for the crates
which are thrown away.
Big Railroader's Hobby.
Carl R. Gray, the new president of
the Union Pacific system, has one
hobby—that Is his family in which
he takes the greatest interest and
pride. “When his two boys, who are
now at college, were attending pre
paratory school at Baltimore," says J.
G. Donley, Jr., in Fobbes’ Magazine,
“he never missed'”a baseball or foot
ball game In whlYdi the school team
participated unless he was away from
home. And he knew every boy on the
teams by his flfst name. One of his
greatest delights was to get out on
the baseball field on a summer evening
and ‘bat flies’ to his boys. When not
on the road or In his office, he spends
all of his time with his family.”
Europe Take* to Chewing Gum.
The jaws of Europe are wagging
on American chewing gam. Efforts
were made at different times to pop
ularize chewing gum In the countries
of Europe, but always without success
until the American soldiers took some
over there, after which the gtiin-chew-
Ing habit became a '-eriiable craze.
Clipwing gum to ihe value of $2,164,-
29Q was exported by the United shales
during the year 1919. and England
was the heaviest purchaser. During
the war chewing gam became very
papular in the munitions factories »t
England, where It took the place of
tq'mcco, smoking being barred.
Probably So.
“Everything lias been said, even on
the subject of lots.''
“On that subject, however, the girl
lutemsteti is apt to find the beginnei
quite as conviuclug as Shakespeare.”--*
LouUvIHe Courier-Journal.
What Birthmacka Indicate.
According to a French scientist
birthmarks in families not now of
good social position Indicate that they
laris of knightly descent, the marks be
ing due to the fact that their posaea-
ancestors wore armor.
Hia Ambition.
Ten-year-old Ted made ids first long
visit to the country. He was much
impressed with the returns of farming,
hut not with the Work which brought
the'returns. He'studied the occupa
tion of forming diligently in order to
see what part it Whs easiest. And
one day ’he discovered what he
thought was.
“'Then he went to his mother. “I al
ways said that I would be a farmer
when 1 grow up,” he told her, “but I
guess 1 won’t he a real farmer. T
guess I'll he a hog slopper.”
RILEY DRUG CO.
Opp. P. O. “THE REXALL STORE” Phone 38
-X.
Diamond
CORD TIRES
Nothing Doing.
“The overall Mub is a fine Idea for
men, hut I'm afraid it won’t work
out."
“Why not?”
“Well, we’re going to have trouble
If we try to get the women to fellow
suit and appear In public in ho use
v rappers."
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CmCHESTER^SPILLS
y*tn known u Beit, Stfnt, Alwayt *elliL«
UlIBBY n«r.r,KT*wfVFflVUUlltf
wiamond makes fabric tires so
good that users prefer them to
me original tire equipment on
their cars
So Diamond makes a cord tire to
have and hold the same place of
preference in the cord tire class
D. W. ALDERMAN, Jr-
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