The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, December 02, 1909, Image 8
f^^Saviour Slain ^
Fighting Labor s Battle $
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Ey the Rev. Charles Steldle, of New York, ^
Superintendent of the Department of Church and <
Labor of the Presbyterian Church |
HE most important thins about the labor question Is to give
I 2 the other fellow a square deal. The labor question will
2 A Tiovor Ka * ~
1 _ ..... ootucu uuiii iue iui uay s work 18 done. Our
\ | Ideals are constantly advancing and no matter how high
A < > our ethical standard, the next generation will declare that
| our conception of the solution of the labor problem has
* been altogether inadequate.
As though it were the business of the church to Keep
down social unrest! Rather is the opposite true. It is the
business of the church to create social unrest. There are no labor troubles
In Darkest Africa but if the missionaries that the church is sending there
are on their jobs, you will soon hear of demands for better social conditions
among the workers.
The church must also make a fight for the masses of the people living in
our great cities. The filthy slum, the unsanitary factory, the dark tenement,
the long hours of toil, the lack of a living wage, the back-breaking labor, the
.'liability to pay necessary doctor's bills in times of sickness, the poor and insufficient
food, the lack of leisure, the swift approach of old age, the dUnial
future?these weigh down the hearts and the lives of the multitudes in our
great cities. Many have almost forgotten how to smile; to laugh is a lost
art. N? hell in the future can be worse to them than the hell in which they
iow are.
It is in meeting iho noo^o ,v. ???? " "
? ? wl mem- luui luv unurcn must be aggressive.
it mut tell the truth about the people, a? well as those who are oppressing
them. For this Is what Jesus did. It must tell the truth even though It be
crucified, as Its Master was. It was because Jesus we?t to His death for
your sake and for mine that His Power is growing today as it has never
(rown before.
Worklngmen are saying that if Jesus were on earth to-day He would
light the battle of the laboring man. and they are right. He fought them
when He was upon earth. They killed Him for doing so. The progress
?3Mule by working people throughout every generation has been due to the
Influence of Jesus in all ages. He has been their champion and their friend.
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: a Necessity Abroad f
ig Americans Should Follow Customs 1
of the Country Visited J
By William Allen White ^
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*T il IPS we uo-Ameriean. But if Americans don't like them
II they should stay at home. And if they don't stay at home
|i ^ they should conform to the custom of their hosts. But. on
l\ the other hand, the Americans shouldn't be fools about it
if ? - -? They should be victorious, like the young woman in the
U story, without being a fanatic on the subject. Tips in EurJj
ope go to honest, underpaid, hard-working people. It is not
kaissrsisssJ their fault that they have to live on tip3. It is partly the
' fault of the system of caste which keeps them servile and
dependent So when a hotel bill is paid one should take 5 percent of the
i?no more and no leas?and give it to tho help. The ordinary middlehotel
pension, where the rates run from $1.40 to $2.40 per day, will have
or Are persons who oould be tipped: thejiead waiter, the table waiter,
M3 chambermaid, the porter, and the concierge?or general factotum at the
dcor, who tells you what car or 'bus to take, who knows all about the town,
and whose friendship and good will are pearls of great price. Eur<peen
newspapers are filled with advertisements of men and women out oft
fork who can speak three languages. The heart-break of Europe is the^'5'n|
\ lreds of thousands of honest, intelligent men and women., awaktm^j'^y th
spread of free schools and universal education to aspirations^.^f'om Which
-mate and class lines bar them. And, if these poor people
to beg?and
.hat is what the tip system amounts to?Heaven knows (wo one shouid vlsl|
his wrath at the system upon the victims of the
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. 1 Uses for the A[orth Pole |
J 8v Professor Edward. C. Fickering. 1
w I Director of the Harvard Collega Observatory |
H HETHER both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook have aetu
i w w r ally stood on the spot that represents the northern end ol
the earth's axis is of cj real importance to science.
With the instruments they carried, the best that coulc
? i... . ? be expected is that they have been approximately at th<
i ^ _ North PoJe, or, say, a mile or so from the spot,
^ ^ The delicate observations and calculations necessary
hmmJ to determine the exact position of the i>ole can never b<
made until a meteorological station of seme sort is estab
li&hed near the pole, and 1 thitnk the United States government could besi
f take full advantage of the splendid work of these two explorers by sendini
up into the North a floating meteorological station aboard a ship equippec
Ve Nansen'B Pram that could enter the Arctic ice pack and in three yeari
lft across the region, while a body of scientists on board make the observa
lions and collect the data possible.
More than this, 1 think that, now that the public's interest Is aroused, 1
would be well to remember that the United States government could keep i
Hosting station of the Weather Bureau always in the polar region by sendinj
two or shree ships out at intervals of a year or so, in order that as one shi|
eras drifting away from the top of the world another would be approaching it
^ Telepathy to Mars ^
By Emi.e Pickhardt _C
WRDENBORG in big "The Earths in Our Solar Syster
S Which Are Called Planets" describes the inhabitants o
of Mars as being not only of superior intelligence but ulsi
of a high degree of spirituality.
' * If this is true it would seem rational to suppose tha
^ they must be unusually susceptible to psychio influences
and since space and time are no barrier to thought, i
. M . A ,IJ might be a good plan to have published throughout th
^wcrld the date and hour when the experiment is to be made
with the request that at that particular time as many as possible of the in
Habitants c-r this earth direct their thoughts to the Inhabitant* of Mar
with the purpose of urging them to give attention to what U going on here
This telep.thic impulse lrom millions of minds on this earth would perhap
have the desired effect.
flwedenberg clearly stated what is now generally accepted as being ex
treasely probable; that there are inhabitant* on Mara; that they are intoll!
gent beings, of much the same nature %a ourselves; that they are superio
to as iik psychic development, and that thoy are susceptible to the same physi
esl Influences. There would thus seem to be good grounds for the idea thai
gPMtlfig the possibility of producing a signalling apparatus of sufflcientl
groat dimensions to bo made use at in connection with tho telepathic schem
mhova outlined, communication could ultimately bo established.
"EASY THERE, UNOI
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?Cartoon
THE NEED OP '
There have been no more pertinen
observations on our National prosperit:
than those which were recently made
I which he deplored the increasingly hi
i scribed the cutting down of expenses
! sentlal to our continued welfare.
FOOTBALL IN 1909 C*
Highest Total in Many Years and /
and 1907?70 More Seriously
Figures Show That Majoritj
Players Trained by E
Tables showing the football casual- A
1 ties in 1909, as compared with the ties
two previous years, follow: stir
t deaths. ban
1907. 1908. 1909. city
High school play- the
ers C 4 9 up
College players.. 2 fi 10 g
Other players 6 .1 7 lngi
? ? ? tb.te
Totals 14 13 atl
causes of death. ' in ]
Body blows 5 ,, 2l R aus
Injuries to spine.. 2^/3 f> J
II Concussi<^tt7FaTh~-*'2 3 6 Sch
?l?^Ar*i)oi8oniug. . 0 1 2 C.,
J^Q'^uer causes .... 5 3 8 the
ixjubed. and
College players . . 67 G4 38 nex
i mgnscnooi piayers zt> 01 a rad
Grade sch'l play'rs 9 0 0 i
I Athletic c'b play'rs 9 16 F? at
All other players. 12 3 4 gar
*? and
Totals 131 134 69 tali
Chicago.?Twenty-six killed, sev- con
enty seriously injured, and scores of pia;
others painfully hurt has been the 'j
cost of football to the United States be
I thus far this year, according to the lest
" figures collected by the Chicago Tri- dea
1 bune. The list of the dead seems to pla:
" be a decisive answer, the Chicago her
paper says, to the assertion of the will
football experts that the development ure
of the open game would lead to a sue
lessening of the perils of the gridiron, pec
That is the grim, ghastly tale of Air
the gridiron covering a period of six- and
ty-seven days. con
The "open game," hailed to be i
j without brutality by college enthu- att<
siasts, wrought fearful havoc. Twelve wh
of the dead were schoolboys under mo
1 twenty years old. Six college men, foo
i properly trained for the bruising en- a A
counters, were sacrificed, while only upt
/ one member of an athletic club or old
3 semi-nrofessional team was placed on ing
the altar. sitj
Of the 209 players maimed, par- ma
alyzed or dying from the effects of in- eve
5 juries sustained 1G5 are wearers of life
* college colors. The giants selected 1
i from near and far for the perilous gre
pastime, conditioned and trained to ask
the "pink of perfection" for smash- ins
t lng contests, were forced to bear the Sor
brunt of the injuries. gat
Thirty-nine schoolboys, many un- ers
5 der fifteen years old, ussisted in swell- hoi
t> ing the grewsome total, while only tun
five semi-professional players were gat
reported in the list of cripples. be
The number of deaths is the high- lng
est it has been in years, and is almost 1
double that of either of the two sea- res
)sons recently passed. In 1907 there foo
were only fourteen deaths, and in sin
1908 only thirteen. adt
i It should be noted that the Tri- coa
i bune's total includes a number of son
L players hurt in games played during rul
* the past year or even earlier, who de?
J have died during the current twelve- dui
f month. Fo<
The facts also seem to disprove the Yo
n claim of the game's supporters that oua
, it is the games of the untrained boys rat
and the athletic clubs that cause the fol
0 fatalities. Of this year's dead the spc
n,?<n.llu -.1 -
luajuui/ WCIU tiMiCJD 1'iajCJ O, BUp- OI
t posed to have been hardened and tlci
; made fit for the contests on the grid- '
t Iron by expert coaches and long prep- bei
p nration. of
' Designs For New Poet Card Ca
Issee flave Been Accepted.
F Washington, D. C.?Designs for the ,
new postal cards to be issued by the Pri
8 Government have been approved. On 'tlo
the ordinary card the head of Mc- clo
[ Kinley will appear as now. and on tho on
small card a likeness of Lincoln. The tlo
two-cent International card will bear dat
a portrait of Grant. coi
r" On the first half of tho reply card am
l' will appear a portrait of Washington. ha<
y while (he stamp on the seeond half
* will he a likeness of Martha Wash- th?
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by Triggs, in the New York Press.
THRIFT.
t and potentially profitable
Y, present and prospective,
i by President J. J. Hill, in
gh cost of living and prennhlip
anil tirlvaU no oo
USED 26 DEATHS.
Almost Doable That of 1908
Hurt?Chicago Tribune's
r Killed Were College .
Expert Coaches.
is a result of the numerous fataliand
the agitation which they havo
red up, several colleges have disded
their teams, and many of the
high schools in various parts of
country have been forced to give
the sport.
teorgetown University, of Washton;
the University of Virginia,
United States Military Academy
Vest Point and St. Mary's College,
Kansas, were among those which
pended the playing of the game.
L meeting of the Board of High
ool Principals in Washington, D.
resulted in the casting out of all
games scheduled for this season.
1 the game will not be resumed
t year unless the rules are changed
ic&lly.
'he Faculty of Loyola University,
Baltimore, also canceled all the
nes for the remainder of the year,
I the School Board at Bellefonle,
Ohio, decided to rule out all
tests following the death of one
yer there.
'he State of Virginia will probably
the one which will give the heavblow
to football. Following the
th of one of the State University
yers and the injury of several of
youths within the State, a bill
1 be introduced into the Legislatat
the next session to forbid all
h contests in the future. It is exted
that this bill will be passed. I
eady the City Council of Norfolk |
I Portsmouth have forbidden all
tests within the city limits,
rhe death which attracted the most
>ntion throughout the country, and
ich revived to a large extent the
vement for the suppression of
tball, was that of Cadet Byrne,
Vest Point cadet. Byrne was an
)er classman, twenty-two years
, when he was fatally injured durthe
contest with Harvard Univerr.
His neck was broken during a
ss play, and despite the fact that
ry attempt was made to save his
!. he died soon after.
The interest in this accident was so
at that expressions of opinion were
:ed from the heads of nearly every
titntlon of learning in the country,
ne of them saw in it proof that the
ne should be abolished, while othurged
changes in the rules. Some,
vever, looked upon it as an unforlate
accident and declared that the
ne as it is now played could not
made less dangerous without takaway
the exciting features.
The deaths in football to date have
ulted in more agitation against
tball this fall than at any time
ce the present playing rules were
>pted. The representative 'varsity
iches of the country realize that
oethlng must be done, some new
es adopted, by which the risk of
ith or injury must be greatly re:ed.
The winter session of the
Dtball Rules Committee in New
rk this year is sure to be of unuil
length, and will result ip some
her wholesale and radical changes
lowing a discussion in which the
tnsors for football in every section
.mw ^wumvi j (/ivtijr buio iu par*
Ipate.
rhe new rules diminish the num
of fractured ribs, but at the cost
other broken bones.
it of Campaign in New
York Dropped $300,000.
Albany. N. Y.?The Association to
event Corrupt Practices at Elecns
announced that at the hour of
sing the Secretary of State's office
the last day for the filing of clecn
expense statements, 105ft randites,
76 county committees. 63ft subnmittees.
3ft clubs, organisations
9 leagues and two State committees
A filed statements.
The amount of money expended for
i campaign of 1909 was st least
00,009 less than during 1901.
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NEW CUSTOMS FRAUDS.
CJustoms Weigher is Arrested on an
Indictment Charging Him With
Conspiracy to Defrand the Government
in Connection With Importations
of Figs in 1906
New York, Special.?A new scries
?f alleged customs frauds was
brought to light here Friday with
'.he arrest of Thomas C. Giddings, u
eustoms weigher, on the indictment
charging him with conspiracy to deCraud
the government in connection
with importations of flgs in 1903, According
to the Federal prosecutors,
biddings underweighed two shipments
of flgs consigned to local importers,
recording the weight of the
Srst shipment at 30,000 pounds, instead
of 40,600 and defrauding the
government of the duty on 8,700
pounds of the figs contained in the
second shipment.
The indictment against Giddings.
it is intimated, is the first of a series
which the government hopes to obtain
from the grand jury now in session
as a result of following up Collector
Loeb's investigations and dismissals.
Two more assistant weighers were
dropped by Collector Loeb from the
customs service Friday.
Mr. Loeb announced that with
these dismissals the "general house
cleaning' in the customs house as
the result of the investigation into
underweighing frauds had been completed.
Some individual cases remained,
however, on which he might
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una it necessary to taae action, me
collector added.
Including' Friday's dismissals, a total
of 83 men have been removed by
the collector since the work of readjustment
of the staff in the customs
service began. The men dismissed
Friday were civil service appointees,
and their successors will be
chosen from the civil service list of
eligibles.
The collector said he wished to cor.
rect a misapprehension which appear
ed to him to be somewhat general, to
the effect that the civil service rules
had been disregarded in the dismissals
and apointments previously
made during the upheaval. This was
not the case, he declared, the civil
service rules having been strictly regarded
and appointments of new men
in all cases having been made from
the civil service lists. ,
Mrs. Ford is Indicted As a Participant
in the Big Four Frauds.
Cincinnati, O., Special.?An indictment
was returned bv the Hamilton
county grand jury Friday against
Mrs. Jeanette Stuart- Ford, whose
name has been mentioned in connection
with shortage of $043,000 in the
accounts of Charles L. Warriner, former
local treasurer of the Big Four
Railroad. The indictment -charges
Mrs. Ford with receiving funds stolen
from the Big Four by Warriner. Mrs.
Ford is now out on bond on a
charge of having received $1,000 of
the money alleged to have been taken
by Warriner. When informed by her
attorney that she had been indicted.
Mrs. Ford appeared in court and
pleaded not guilty. Her bond was
placed at $2,500 which she furnished
Five Persons Drowned.
Muskegon, Mich., Special.?Five
persons were drowned in Muskegon
Inlri* Ttmrsflnv nftprnnnn irlipn n
pleasure launch, carrying a party of
nine young people, capsizing us the
result of a panic following a gasoline
explosion. Four of those who lost
their lives were members of one family
The party started out to altend a
wedding on the north side of the lake
and decided to take a short cruise
before going to the festivities. They
encircled, the lake and were within
150 feet of the north landing, when
in some manner some gasoline exploded.
The girls became panic
Killed Two and is Killed.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special.?After
cutting to death Burt Woods, a showman
attending a carnival here, and
fatally cutting John S. Smith, a companion,
Jesse Altman was shot and
killed here Friday morning by Smith
just before the latter died. Altman
was known as a desperate character
and had twice been arrested for murder,
his former victims having been
negroes.
King Edward Arbitrator in Chilean
Dispute.
Santiago, Clie,, By Cable.?William
Pierrepont, the American charge
d'affaires Friday made a proposal to
the Chilean government that the
Alsop claim, which is in dispute between
Chile and the United States,
bo submitted to the arbitration of
King Edward, who is friendly to both
sides. The proposal was accepted
and the two countries will ask the
British monarch to act as arbitrator.
Reported Himself Dead to Avoid Hb
Victims.
Princeton, Ind., Special.?II. E.
Agar, who arranged a false report of
his death by drowning to escape those
whon, he swindled through grain ulcerations
Friday war, found guilty of
embezzlement. Sentence was deferred
pending a notiee for a new trial. Agar
was captured at San Benito, Tea.,
several month* ago after a chase
| which lasted nearly two years and
extended throughout the country.
SNAPPY AND BRIEF*
Items Gathered and Tofd Whitefig*
You Hold Your Breath.. J
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SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively end Crisp es They Are Garnered
From the Fields of Action
at Home and Abroad.
The Traders and Truckers Bank
of Norfolk has been closed and Terry
B. Gordon its president is indicted
on three counts. - t. S
President Taft does not' believe
there is need of modifying the Sher- ^
man anti-trust law.
Hon. David A. DeArmond, member
of congress from Missouri, lost his
life early Wednesday morning by
trying to rescue his favorite and
namesake grandson as flames were
consuming his home at Kansas City,
One of the 90 minorc pocnnn.l ilina 'N*
from the Cherry, 111., mine has since
died, leaving the number saved 19.
An enormous amount of dynamite 2^0
was placed under a fruit and wine
house in Danville, 111., and was ex- *^0
ploded early Wednesday, $50,000
damage was done hut no one was . -^0
killed. It is believed to have been
the work of the Black Hand.
Three wholesale concerns in Sati
Francisco plead guilty Wednesday to |p
violating the U. S. pure food law.
One had shipped apricot brandy that
never had an apricot in it. Another
bad sold peachless peach brandy ami
a third had been sellinz 45 oer cent ??
cotton seed olive oil.
It is said that President Taft sat
down to his Thanksgiving dinner,
which included a 50 pound mince pic, ?
a 26 pound oppossum and a turkey
of enormous size.
It is asserted that Americans with* ^
in Zelayo's territory are insulted it
they refuse to contribute to his war ^
fund and men suitable for soldiers wi
are imprisoned for not joining his ?
army.
An unusually severe Pacific storm ^
prevailed about the Oregon coasts,
early in the week. Considerable- ^
damage was done. ^
The Alsop claim now pending dip- ^
lomatically between the United States ^
and Chile is about to be submitted to
King Edward as arbitrator. ^
Five cars of flour have been seized
in Georgia (at different points) recently
as in vio\ation of the pure food
law. Chemicals were used bleaching 4
A woman in San Francisco recent- *
lv obtained a divorce on charges. t
which include about all the symptoms
of the hookworm. The judge insisted J
that he did have hookworm but
granted the divorce. ^
A collision by an auto and a trolley
ear at Los Angeles. Cal.. killed ^
five outright with two critically injured.
The ear that was taking the i
dead to their home was struck by a
car also and eight persons were more *
or less seriously injured.
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At Muskegon, Mich.. Thanksgiving
Pay a party was taking naphtha
boat ride 'before going to a wedding
or a iricna. A small explosion occurred
from whieh the girls took
fright and capsized the boat drowning
five of the party. Four were
members of one family.
Lyman Gaee, noted as President
Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury
was married his third time on
Thanksgiving Day. He is 73 and the
bride is 35.
The Women's Missionary Union in
session at Greenwood, S. C.. last
week entered a protest against the
wearing of exeeesively large hats in
church.
Richard Watson Gilder, publisher
of the Century Magazine, died last
Friday.
At Barnwell, Ala., Saturday night
a young lady refused to dar.ce with
a young man. Out of it grew a pistol
name resulting; in tlie death of two
and the injury of three. ^
Twenty of the entombed miners
at Cherry, TIL, were rescued alive
Saturday. There seems a faint hope
of rescuing others.
A farmer near the road between
Fairmont and Morganton, W. Va.r
fell upon the plan to make some tips
by deepening a little stream across
the road. Many autos come along
and of course they stick?cooled off.
He is handy with a team to pull them
out, only two to ten dollars. "
Mrs. Allen F. Reed was convjetol
Saturday at Denver. of dUmmi.
ing to extract $100,000 from
Genevieve Phipps by threatening to
blow her up with dynamite. Insanity
was pled in her defense. ?
Raleigh, N. C., has a complete system
of associated charities and begging
on the streets is at an end.
John D. Archbald things the late
decision of the Missouri Circuit Court
to dssolve the Standard Oil company
will lead to the repeal of the Sherman,
anti-trust law which he thinks interferes
with all combinations and corporations,
legitimate or illegitimate.
It is now believed 4hat tins John
Jacob Astor party yacht and all are
safe notwithstanding the reports that
all went to the bottom in West India
waters.
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