The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 19, 1920, Image 4
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A. B. JORDAN . . Editor
Dillon, S. Felniiaiy 19, Ki-O
'It bas gotton tQ the point where
to carry a flask is like carrying concealed
weapons.
Uonev out into the savings banks
represents money that the profiteers
didn't get.
Fortunately; nobody needs to believe
the propaganda that the fanners
re going broke.
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With some young people, getting
out of bed in the morning will never
become as popular as fox trotting.
A fellow was telling a 'Hon man
the other day that i' , hadn't
smoked for fifteen years he would
be owning a house. But the man ask-'
ed, "Where is the house you own?"|
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Merely judging from the pictures,
seen in the movies, the bathing girls
beat the high cost of stockings by not
wearing any.
1HK EARNING CAPACITY OF A
ROAD.
Has a good road earning capacity?
That is a question well worth asking
and answering.
It takes money to construct good ,
roads, and usually it requires a bond
issue to pay for the highways. The
must he naid off after a term.
o.f years, and in the meantime interest
must be paid regularly.
If the roads have earning capacity
meantime, and that earning capacity
were sufficient to pay for the sinking
fund and interest on the bonds, the'
roads would take care of themsel-j
ves financially and pay for themselves,
like ? manufacturing plant.
But it is a very difficult task to
prove the earning capacity of an im-j
proved highway, though ii is perfectly
logical tQ asunie that indirectly
the earning capacity of a good high-,
way really exists.
The easiest way to come to a con- i
elusion is to determine whether a
motor truck pays more dividends
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than a horse drawn vehicle. The owners
should know. Then it is neces-i
sory to determine whether automo- j
biles pay dividends, the owners like- [
wise should know. By combining the
results one should be able to deter-j
mine whether a gooa roaa nas eam-i
ing capacity, and the answer most.
likely will be "yes."
HOW IT TOUCHES US.
When the talk about "foreign exchange"
first struck the average
man there was a distinct feeling of
ennui. "Merely financial dope," was |
tthe colloquialism that summarized
the logic of the home burgher.
But when the talk began to take:
on the hue that because of the "demoralized
condition of foreign ex-1
change" vast exports to Europe thaC
had been contemplated probably
conld not be delivered. the busy man I
stood in his tracks and began listen-1
Ing.
Prospect of a forced drop in "prices
of ererything*' was something he
could understand.
'.The .thing is not complicated. Foreign
money is now worth so little
rsbej) compared with American money
that it cannot buy much in American
goods. Even the British pound sterling
is of such low estate Miat Britishers
are rubbing their heads in
dlamay when they contemplate buy-j
ing the enormous amounts of goods
r*e have stored in warehouses. As :
tfor the money of France, Italy, Germany
and Russia, it is closer to zero
*?] the order named.
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'ATI oontinenfal European eoun-j
tries have been printing money faster
than prudence would dictate.
JPranre expected t0 make good on its
paper currency through the ideranitv
it wished to wring from Germany: I
Mie latter country expected to make
naper currency good from the mon?ey
it contemplated exacting from EngTand
and the United States. The wartime
regulations now being impossible.
water is seeking its level.
American exporters have borrowed
heavily from the banks on the val-|
,3Bte.Qf.the goods in warehouses. If
it is impossible to sell these goods to
rE^ope, they will have to be distributed
in the United States, and the
rsmilt can easily be imagined. The
prices will slip in proportion. The
public at large will gain, but large
portions of the producers will lose?
also the speculators and middlemen.
TCOWKIX-FAUST.
Mrs. Mary Addie Howell has an-j
pounced the engagement of her
laughter. Pauline Marietta, to Mr.
"AVtliiani Winfield Faust, of Ocall ?.
Via. Thf? wedding will take place at
ICpworth Methodist church. Savrm-j
r ih. Ga., some time in February. |
SI'IT. ROBERTS FAVORS
LONGER SCHOOL DAY.
Practices What He Advises for Other
Sellouts.
The following article recently publisheu
iu Souiu Carolina Education,
is lruui the pen of VV. u. Roberts, Superintendent
01 the Lnuon schools:
Some advantages 01 the double
session day:
i. It gives sutfieient time in which
to n0 a lull day's work;
Within the memory ot soine of us,
the school day began at an early
hour and continued till late of evening.
Otten yot. could see ihe school
children and >ne ploughman returning
home together, tacn having
done a full day s work. Now the
? u,.?t -u:i * w u..
bl'iiuui uiiiuit'll u*> liicj i 11 u i 11 iiumtfrom
school otten meet the ploughman
as he returns to the field to
begin the second half of h?s day's
work. Just who is responsible lor
this contracted school day no one
seems to know. But the tact remains
that we are attempting the
impossible when we attempt to do a
full day's worn between the hours
of nine and two. A longer day
greatly increases the amount of
work done, and at the same time
meets with the approval of every
business man in the community.
II. It gives time for supervised
study.
Under the single session plan,
practically every minute is given to
recitation. No time is left for |
study. No wonder that, in some i
instances, parents complain that
they have to teach the lessons to their
children while teachers merely hears
them recite. One of the greatest
needs in school work today is teach-J
ing pupils how to study. The teacher
is the only one who is competent to j
do this important piece of work, and
the clas room is the only place where,
it can be done; therefore it is neces-,
sary to spend more time in the school
room than is needed for recitation
alone. The teachers' task is not merely
to find out what the pupil has
learned about a given subject through
his own efforts and the help of oth-i
ers, out nit* greaiei" pan ui ins iu?*
i3 to teach the subject in its fullness
to the pupil.
III. It makes tlie work less irksome
to both teacher aim pupil.
T0 work at high tension for four
or five hours causes fatigue to teacher
and pupil alike. No one can do
his best work with the dissipating
effect of hurry ever with him. This
can easily be remedied by taking
more time to do the work of the,
school day. If we begin the day at!
nine and run till four or four fifteen
?giving one hour for lunch? each
teacher will have at least two peri-,
ods in which to produce supervised
study, ana each pupil will have at
least three periods in which to
study. This breaks the strain of
continuous recitations and much
more real work is accomplished in
the school day.
IV. The double session fits into
the home arrangements.
Most homes (at least in the Pee
Dee section) have dinner about
twelve o'clock. The children come
home and eat hot lunch along witl\
- 1- -At U ~ -P <U/v #A*v>tl?r
Hie oilier meiiiueis ui nit? ittiiiuj.
This, of course, is better for their
health. Then the mother is relieved
of the trouble of keeping food
warm for the children when they
return home about two o'clock, and
consequently the trouble of serving
two dinners.
Many other advantages might be
mentioned if space permitted.
The above conclusions have been
arrived at after years of experience
with the double session day. I find |
parents and teachers very enthusiastic
in its favor. Personally 1
would not attempt to run a school
on any other plan.
W. D. Roberts.
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WILL ERECT BKJ WAREHOUSE.j
Dillon County Business .Men Willi
Provide tor the Handling of
.Next Year's Crop.
The secretary of state has issued a I
commission to a number of Dillon
county business men authorizing
them to secure subscriptions to the
capital stock of the Dillon County!
Warehouse and Marketing Corporation.
The new corporation will have
a capital stock of $50,000.00 divided
into 500 shares of the par value
of $100 each. Books of subscription'
will bt> opened at tlie following!
places next Saturday at noon: Thei
Bank of Dillon, the Bank of Lake
View and the Bank of Latta. More
than $25,000.00 of the total capital
has already been pledged and it is
understood that the remaining $25,000.00
will be widely scattered
throughout the county.
The new corporation will store audj
sell co'ton for members of the Amer-i
ican Cotton Association. Tlie plan isj
to invite the other warehouses of
the county, both public and private.;
to join thg "ew corporation and
thus combine them all into one big
corporation for the handling of cotton.
An expert grader will be ent-j
ployed and every bale of cotton will
be weighed and graded as it is put
in the warehouse. Th,? cotton will be
sold in bulk, or in other words if a
certain number of farmers desire to
sell at a certain time the cotton will
be offered in bulk an(j sold to the
highest bidder. This plan will enable
the farmers to get a better price than
if they sold in small lots.
Tliere will be no delay in getting
the organization on a working basis.
As soon as the capital stock has been
subscribed a charter will be secured
and officers elected. A site i 11 be
purchased and construction work
started in ample time to complete
i|i" building before the next crop begins
to move.
The following gentlemen are behind
lh,> movement: P. L. Bethoa, W. H.
Smith. T. L. Manning, R. M. 01iv<r,
I.. Cottingham and J. H. David.
FOOD SOON TO TAKE A TUMBLE
New York, Feb. 16?Food prices
are expected to take a tumble that
will be very satisfactory to the consumer
within a very short time, udginl;
front reports received tonight.
Both by land and water huge quantities
of food stuffs are expected to
reach here tomorow. Meats, butter,
eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables are
reported either awaiting delivery here
from miles oftrains which have been
held up by the storm, or are on ships
from foreign countries to exchange
for American gold or credits. In the
face of this great influx, it was declared
tonight by men conversant with
market conditions, profiteers who
have heretofore been holding out for
high and ever higher prices will have
to sell at pnices far below what they
have been receiving.
To strengthen the belief that food
prices in the nited States have reached
the apex and are due to break
sharply, there canie tonight from the
Institute of American Meat Packers,
of Chicago, a statement which read,
in part:
The export trade of the packing
industry, which is the largest industry
in America, has practically ceased.
The significance of this fact will be
apparent when it is remembered that
the United States normally exports a
considerable part of its federally inspected
pork products. Exports of
pork products in the yea** Just closed
exceeded 2,500,000,000 pounds.
"Since the last regular monthly review
of the meat and live stock situation
by the institute, there has been
no adequate improvement in the
foreign exchange situation. This accounts
for the practical cessation of
pork exports. Beef exports ceased
some tinie ago."
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Sunday School Conference.
The Sunday School Convention of
District No. 1. Dillon County Interdenominational,
will be held with the
Methodist church at Little Hock on
the Fifth Sunday In February, the 29.
at 2 p. in. The programme will be
published next week.
The following schools compose the
District: Dillon Methodist, Baptist
Presbyterian schools; Little Hock
Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian
schools; Dot han. Pleasant Grove,
Heedv Creek, Mint urn, Hamer and
other contiguous schools.
A full representation from each
school in the district is requested.
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MOTHKIt OF 22 C'HILDltKX.
Frank Watkins, the wellknown
proprietor of Wat kin's Warehouse
who has been taking the census in
Bethea township, tells of having discovered
a woman in his township
who was the mother of 22 children.
She was twice married, said Mr.
Watkins. She had one child by her
first husband and 21 by the second.
Not many days ago one of the New
York papers made a big news item
nut r\f tKo cJ ic/iAvori' Kv o nnncnc mm.
nierator of a New York woman who
was the mother of 18 children, but
the Dillon county record has the
New York record outdistanced by
several points. Mr. Watkins said the
mother was still a strong and active
woman.
NOTICE
Play and Entertainment.
There will be a play "The Dust of
the Earth," given at Kemper school
house by the higher grades of Kemper
school on Thursday evening, February
the 26th at eight o'clock. Probably
there will be some other amusements
also. Everybody invited.?2 19
NOTICE OF ELECTION
State 0f South Carolina,
County of Dillon.
Whereas, petitions signed by more
than one third of the qualified electors
and a l?ke proportion of the resident
freeholders of the age of 21
years of Union School District No. 13
of the County and State aforesaid
asking that an election be granted in
said district on the question of increasing
the levy tor ordinary school
nnt.nAi.Ao K.r > millo K??nn
jiui u> o initio uu * c uvcn jmc*
sented to the County Board of Education;
now by authority vested in us
under Sec. 1742, Civil Code 1012,
said election is hereby ordered to be
held on Saturday, Februaiy 28th, at
\V. A. Lupo's store.
The trustees shall act as manager?
of said election and only such electors
as return real 0r personal property
tor taxation and who exhibit 'heir
tax receipts and registration certificates
as required in general elections
shall be allowed to vote.
Each elector who favors the piopo'U'd
levy shall cast a ballot with the
wot(i "Yes" written or printed thereon
and each elector opposed to sa; 1
kv\ shall cast a ballot with tie worn
"No" written or printed thereon.
W. C. MOORE,
H. X. COUSAK.
It. S. ROGERS,
Members of the County board ot
Education 2 l!t 2t
l>lt. C. It. HAMS
Veterinarian.
Office tit Kentucky liorse AL- Mule
Co's. Stables.
Day 'Rhone 226
Night 'Phone
NOTICE.
Take notice that the Spring Term
of Common Pleas for the County of
Mil Ion will com en0 at Dillon, S. C..
on Monday, March loth, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon.
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2 io it. c. c. i\ a: c.. s.
No Worms in a healthy Child
All children troubled with worm* have an unhealthy
color, which indicates i?K.r hlood, anil as a
rule, there is more or less stemmh di turhanc.C.ROVE
S TASTELESS chill TONIC civ.u r<nlular'>
wrtwoor three weeks will enrich the hlood it.i
prove the digestion, and act as a (Jcncru! Strength
i ninj; Tonic to the whole system Nature will tie n
throw ofTor dispel the worms, and the Child will 1?. :
ta perfect health. Pleasant to take t, u i?rl>cti'.
W1LHELM TO BE INTERNED.
The Hague, Feb. 16?The latest
allied note to Holland regarding the
extradition of the former German emperor
reverses the original demand
I lor his surrender and only Asks his
interment with the suggestion that
the former monarch be sent perhaps
to one of the Dutch islands in East
Indies. The associated press learns
on excellent authority that the Dutch
government has already determined t0
reply with an offer to actually intern
Wilhelm at Doom, Holland. Holland
would accept full responsibility,
to prevent him from endangering the
peace of the world by establishing a
guard over him and enforcing a
strict censorship.
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I AXTIQl'lTY OF INFLUENZA.
'Medical Historians Trace Disease
I Back 2&L2 Years.
I
I .Medical historians seeking tracer ot
imluenza epidemics back through
I the centunes, have gone back to 412 |
[B. C., when there was an epidemic j
'described by Hippocrates and Livius.j
After that time, however, there is:
la long break in the history of disease.
ll it is the same malady which s
caused the old epidemics, and the '<
next authentic record is dated 1173 <
A. D. In that year the illness spread i
o\er England, Germany and Italy.
For fifty years the disease existed only
in sporadic form or in mild epi
demies, for it is not until 123!) that <
another severe epidemic occurred. 1
Since that time there have been frequent
visitations in every century
and recorded in the histories of many
nations.
In the chronicles of 1510 we find
lhe first mention of the pandemic,
which spread all over Europe. It had
its apparent origin in Africa, and
the illness of that year took only a
mild form.
Stinted Here in 1557.
In 1557 occurred the epidemic in
the history of which is found the first
mention of the spread of the disease
to America. In 1580 there was another
pandemic of especial virulence.
There were several epidemics in the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth I
(centuries. One of them ceased in 1737
and it was currently reported that the
cessation was due 'o earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions.
In the seventeenth century the disease
acquired the name by which it
is best known, "influenza." The
designation is of Italian origin and
means simply "influence." The Italians
ascribed the disease to the influence
of certain malign stars. The
French name "lagrippe," came into
use in 17 13, and the names "petite
poste" uii,j petit courier'' in 1762.
Later in 1780, the widespread character
of the epidemic gave it the name
"general." Ancient and mediaeval
medical works contain accurate descriptions
of the disease, with its
symptoms, course and spread.
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VUtUICWIO Mb OUli
A curious fact that is recorded in
the histories of influenza is its oc-!
currence at sea, on ships and in fleets j
that had no recent communication I
with land. In 1782 the English squad-|
ron commanded by Admiral Richard:
Kempenfelt, the sailor who went
down with the Royal George, had to
return from the French coast to England
because the influenza disabled so
many members of the crew.
Medical history says that the disease
never disappears. It exists always,
somewhere on earth, but some
of the epidemics are far more severe
than others. Probably the one that is
best remembered by the present generation,
before the one that is now
scouring the United States and is
probably a continuation of 1918, was
that of 1889-90, which spread itself
all over the globe.
The disease was rife also in 189394
and in 1905, and some authorities
say that these later visitations were
only recrudences of the epidemic of
1889-90, not new epidemics. Between
1890 and 1891 there was a
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ureaiv which was caused, n is ueueved,
by the summer weather.
The great pandemic of 1889 and
the subsequent years was often called
the Russian epidemic," because it
began its course in Bokhara in Asiatic
Russia. From Bokahara it spread
to Siberia, and then went eastward. I
It appeared in many cities simulta:
eously.
FRENCH MEMORIALS.
Tlie Local Post of Thf. American
Legion has received a War Memorial
from the French Government for every
Dillon County man who died in
service during the great world war.
It was intended that a public meeting
be held to deliver these memorials,
but owing to the influenza situation
it is deemed unwise to do this, i
The Local Post has therefore decid-t
ed to mail these memorials to the
nearest living relative of deceased
soldier or sailor.
I)r. 11. F. Darwin,
II. L. Lane,
Sam McLaurin,
Committee.
ItOOKS OF Sl'BSt IIIITIO.V.
Pursuant in u commission issued to
the undersigned as a board of cnrporators
by the secretary of state Hon.
\V. Banks I)o\e. initio,. is hereby
given that fh,. books of subscription
to the rapital stock of the Palmetto
Hotel Company of Luke View, S.
will 1),, opened February 2 >th at
10 o'clock a. in. ai the office of The
Bank of Hake View The capital stock,
of the proposed company is Fifty
Thousand t ?50.0u0.00 ( Dollars divided
into r.UO shares of th,? par value
of (In,. Hundred (Sl'in.OOi Dollars.
\\\ M. Baddy,
\V. B. Ford.
L. B. Miller.
.1. B. Arnette,
J 1 ' 1' Board of Corporators. |
drove's Tasteless thill Tonic
restores vitality and energy l>y purifying aud en
richingUic bluod. Vou tan sonu feel its Streugtl> i
er.iug. Iuvigorating KIT ct Pre e go* I
Meritone,
New Tom
McLaurin Drug Co. is (
for Wonderful New
Gained Sach Ren
In Large
Meritone, the fatuous new system
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[ueuiciut;, is nuw uu saig m i/muu.
McLaurin Drug Co. has been awarded
the exclusive agency for Meritone
in Dillon and agency that is prized
highly by druggists in all parts'
of the country.
The wonderful success Meritone
has gained since it was first placed
an the market less than a year ago
has made it famous. In that short
time the fame of Meritone has spread
iniong millions of people and thousmds
upon thousands have started
taking it and prize it highly for relief
it brought them.
In such larger cities as Nashville,
Knoxville. Chattanooga, Lexington,
Ky., Birmingham, Ala., and many
others the demand for Meritone has
become such as to astound the very
112 Millions^k ip jj\!
used last
to KILL COLDS^k
hill'S \
cascaraQj quinine
k flltOMlDfc
Standard cold remedy for 20 years
?in tablet form?safe, ?ure, no i
opiates?breaks up a cold in 24
hours?relieves grip in 3 days.
Money back if it fails. The
i/^'nilA^Hyk genuine box has a Red '
(hV n n 1 w ? * 11 Mr- *
^3k At All Drug Storm,
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Carrying a'
for less ths
Freight rates have plaj
in the rising cost of livii
Other causes?the wa
| duction, credit inflation
to the cost of the ne
freight charges have ac
The average charg
of freight a mile is
A suit of clothing
before the war v
miles by rail fron
Angeles for 16& a
\
Now the freight (
and the suit sells f<
The cost of the suit hat
The freight on it has in
Other transportation c
cost of the finished artii
to the mills and the clc
these other charges am<
more.
The $10 pair of s
sell for $5 goes fro
land factory to the
a freight charge c
one cent more thar
Beef pays only ty
a pound freight
New York.
American freight
est in the world
'-Tfiis advertisement
Slssociation of til*
Those 1,'S'ring ln/orntail-n eonrei
obtain literature '?/ writing t >
Liucutives, 'jl liri'Ui
fir. ' T iS i ^
F nmniiQ9
ic, is Here'
liven Exclusive Agency
Medicine that Has r
nark lble Success
r Cities.
druggists who have it for sale.
Meritone's success is due ouly to
its real merit. Meritone is the compound
of a trained chemist who spent
years to bring it to perfection and
finally blended Meritone from sixteen
vegetable medicinal ingredients which
his knowledge and investigation told
him were best for the ills of the ?
human system. As it stands today
Meritone has no superior for ailing *
conditions of the stomach, liver or
kidneys, catarrh, rheumatism and the
like.
Because of Meritone's real merit it
is expected that a nimmediate heavy '
demand will be created in this city,
and for that reason a huge supply of
Meritone has been shipped here to
McLaurin Drug Co., where it can
now be obtained by the public, ltadv.
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Ion a Mile
in a Cent
red a very small part
n&.
ste of war, under-pro- j
?have added dollars
tcessities of life, while
ided only cents.
e for hauling a ton \
less than a cent
that sold for $30
/as carried 2,265 . ^
i Chirafro to I>os
snts.
:harge is 22 cents
ar $50.
i increased 20 dollar*.
icreased only cents.
barges enter into the
:le?carrying the wool
>th to the tailors?but '
sunt to but a few cent*
hoes that used to *
>m the New Eng- jj
Florida dealer for
? I
if 5% cents?only
l the pre-war rate.
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iro-thirds of a cent
from Chicago to
il j'
rates are the low- ,
f> nuhlislipci In/ the
ailway executives
-r?'n<j (in railrocd tUuatvyn m iy
Thn .Intonation of Rav-xiy
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