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.K-,- ** B ■. PA6B EIGHT THE CUliTON CHBONICLE, CUMTON, S. C. THCSSDAT. JUNE IMMO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Miunbia, S. C. HOW CENSUS FAaS ARE COUNTED D. M. DOUGLAS, Pwilfcrt Scholarship and Entrance Examinations ExamuiHtions for award of vacant Bc^larthipa in the University and for entrance will be held at the County Court House Friday, July 11, 1930, at 9 A. M. Applicants must be 16 years of age. Scholarships are vacant in the fol lowing counties: Abbeville, Aiken, Al lendale, Anderson, Barnwell, Beau- Each Individual Is Reprwcnted By a Card Punched Full of Holes > Classified BF'Machines. fort, Berkeley, Charleston, Cherokee. Chester, Chesterfield, Florence, Lau rens, McCormick, Marion, Oconee, WilliamidiurK. York. Applicants for scholarships should write to Committee on Normal Schol arships for application blanks, to be returned by July 9th. Scholarships worth $100 pkis tuition and term fees. Next ssesion will open September 17, 1930. Summer School June 18 to July 30, 1930 WE OFFER THE LOAF OF BREAD That Was Awarded FOR tJllAIJTY CUUSSEN'S Since 1841—South’s Favorite’ (Written for "nie Chronicle by Caleb Johnson, Through Antocmatcr Service.) You are a cord 6% inches long and 3 Ml inches wide, with 31 holes punched in it. That is the way you appear on Un cle Sam’s records in Washington, pro vided the census enumerator found you and turned in his report accord ing to schedule. And, so far as the government at Washington is con cerned with your case, tlwt’a all they know or want to know about you. Your name does not appear on the card. It is on the enumerator’s sheet, of course, but those are all baled up and stored away in a vault where there isn’t one chance in a million of your individual name being dug out for any imaginable purpose. In the course of time these old reports will go to the paper mill, and then the only identity you will have left is the punched card, looking somewhat like a rectangular square of Swiss cheese. As fast as the enumerators’ returns come to Washington they, are turned over to several hundred young women who sit all day in front of electrically- operated punching machines and transfer the enumerators’ information to these cards. A punch in a certain position on the card means that you live in a certain ataite or territory. Another punch indicates your county. all the same size, the only difference for each fact recorded being the posi tion of the hole in the card. 'There are as many keys on the punching ma chine as there are possible different facts about any individual, and the operator merely presses the correct key and the machine punches the hole in the right place. A punch in one po.sitiun moans that you live on a farm, in another that you don’t. Whether you are male or taking of the census, Chey pointed to the •24th chapter of the second book of Samuel, which tells bow King Da vid sent Joab to number the people from Dan to Beersheba. Joab, the first census-taker on record, made a count which showed 800,000 inhabitants. But this impious act was followed by a pestilence which killed off 70,000 of them. It is no wQndcr that a people who took every word in the Bible as literal truth feared the census-taker! The influence of this belief extended into the other colonies, so much ro that in 1712 Governor Hunter of New York, charged by the home govern ment in London with enumerating the people of the colony, apologized for the inaccuracy of the count, saying that the people were so superstitious that they thought an epidemic of ill ness had followed the last previous count. Something of the same reluctance to be counted baffled the census-tak ers who tried to enumerate the in habitants of the different colonies ear ly in the Revolutionary war, in order to apportion the cost of the war equi tably among them. It was realized then that only a strong central au thority could make any sort of an ac curate census, an4, a provision for such a decennial count was therefore pro vided in the Constitution when it was adopted 4n 17bT. WOMEN HAD PART IN REVOLUTION Tilled Fields and Hade Gun Powder While Men Fought At Battle of King’s Mountain. Gastonia, N. C., June 14.—During the rigorous days of the war for American independence, while men in the (’arolinas fought for liberty oh. r..-iiiH The Oldest Profession E ven in the day* when Moses was tci\dinK the fliK'ks »>f his father- in-law at the foot of Mount Horeb, there was in existence a collection of ^ formulas (preserved in what if now known as the Ehers Papyrus), calling for many drugs in common use today. Pharmaerr h:is been referred to as the oldest profession, as in those early days the pharmacist was the physician, the chemist, and the botanist as well. In these days the pharmacist must have an intimate knowledge of all the modem agents which the physician prescribes, a knowledge which he can only gain through long years of edu- catron irnd training. BuT fn order To make a living the druggist must sell merchandise as well as professional service. Only the neighhorhtnid which shows an appreciation of this fai:(t can hope to suppAirt a drug-store with a well-equippc‘d prescription depart ment, ready for service when sickness -MERCK F*r Yowr Medicint Cafcinet—SeUil Merck’s pure ptchIuOs »vi>ut I\>ctor.and Druasist do sful have yinir prescriptions filled by SADLRR-OWKNS PHARMACY f*hnneM 377 and 400 AT UNION STATION *1 WAM in a vwy w«ak condition from • MriouE BfcLneEa,” writes Ifrfl. L Leonard, 671 Joseph SL, New Orleans, La. "1 was so weak, 1 wanted to aleen all tha tuna. 1 did not hava strength to do anything. My back a^ed nestrly all tha tima. 1 was just in misery. *’My mother told me I must aroose myaelf from the sleep- ineaa, and take something to help get my strength badL She had taken Cardni and had bean hMpad,so 1 decided to taka Cardoi, too. After defeated, were forced to hide them- !c is indicated by another punch i Tory vengeance, their in a different plare: Color or race, age, i tilled the fields and managed whether married, single or widowed, I fauna. They, like their hu-sbands vour education status, occupation and ; fathers, were hardened to the dis- h1! of the other bothersome questions ! P'oneer living, and many which you have to answer for the cen-1 incidents of their pluck and bravery su.s man, all are reduced to holes in a card.' c- \Vh<‘n all of the required holes have hiM'n punched in a card, it is fed into another highly ingenious machine, which at one operation adds the facts which the card contains to all the oth- have been recorded in histories of that lieriod. On October 7, 1780, the day off the battle of King’s Mountain, many wo men waited anxiously for news of loved ones who had joined the moun taineers in their search for Colonel er facts of the same character. This I I’atrick Ferguson and his Tory mi- .second machine has hundreds of little ■ litia. That there would be a desper- inetal rods or plungers, one for every j Etp battle they knew, hut of the time possible position of a hole in a card, ai^d place they were uncertain. At Nothing happens when one of the plungers touches the surface of the card at a point where there is no hole. hut wherever there is a hole in the card, one of the metal plungers goes right through it. F9r example, if you arc a Chinese, none of the plungers in dicating Mexican, Indian, Japanese, Filipino, Hindu, Korean or Hawaiian blood would go through the card, but the one which is connected‘with the tTmrei^courrier^ootrTpiss thfrough the hole which indicates Chinese least, about three o'clock in the af ternoon there was heard the thunder ous noise of Pearly two thousand riUes ThcessahtTy Hrlng as BritisK and .Americans fought. According to old letters in the possession of her fam ily, one woman of Lincoln (now Gas ton) county. North Carolina, was plowing in the field when the guns were heard. Knowing that her husband was with Colonel Campbell’s men she LAND SALE The State of Sotith Carolina, County of Laurens, , In Court of Common Pleas. The Federal Land Bank of Columbia, Plaintiff, x vs Bob Wilson, et al.. Defendant. Pursuant to a' Decree of the Court in the above stated case, I wiH sell at public outcry to the highest bidder, at Laurens, C. H., S. C., on Salesday in July next, being Monday, the 7th day of thi month, diving tbe legal hours for such sales, the following de scribed property, to wit: All that certain lot, tract or parcel of land containing seventy-two (72) acres, more or less, located, lying, sit uate and being in Laurens township. County of Laurens, State of South Carolina, being bounded on the north and northeast by lands of Dr. Jack H. Young; on the east by lands of Dr. Jack H. Young; on Che southeast and south by lands of T. J. Blalock; and on the west by lands of Mrs. Sallie J. rens County in said State; a*c<^y of which plat is attached to the abstract on file with the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. Terms of Sale: One-half cash, bal ance to be paid in two equal annual in.stallments; the credit portion to be secured by bond and mortgage of the purchaser over the said premises, bearing legal interest from date, with leave to purchaser to pay his entire bid in cash. Purchaser to pay for pa pers, stamps and recording. If the terms of sale are Rot complied with, the land to be re-sold on same or tome subsequent Salesday on same terms, at risk of form«f purchaser. The suc- fiw-kun derson tract; and having such shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fully appear by referen<;e to a plat there(^, Inade by B. B. T. Todd, Engineer, on April (Mh, 1920, which plat is recorded in plat book No. 1, page 168, on April 14tli, 1920, in the ofHce of the Clerk of the (}ourt of Common Pleas and R. M. C. for Lau- Wham, formerly lands of J. G. Wham, and by lands of Nichole Anderson; the s^ve described tract lying about four miles northeast of C^linton, South Car olina, on the public road to Clinton; being known as a part of the old An- of his good faith in his bid as is re quired by the terms of the decree. THOS. W. BENNETT, C. C. C. P. and G. Laurent, S. C. Dated June 11th, 1930.->6-26-Stc. H. D. HBNBT r. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry a Company INSURANCE STOCKS - BONDS • REAL ESTATB LOANS NEGOTUTEO 1 dred (flOO.OO) dollars sis a guaranty ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY UCENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY ^ **At Union Station*’ PhoBOB 877 and 400 • Phones 877 and 400 I ' ■■ ^ ^ 4 After the Viret IPwrenty-tive 'Thousand JUfleA \ The VALUE of sound design, good materials and careful craftsmanship is especially apparent in the new Ford after the first twenty-five thousand miles. Long, continuous service emphasizes its mechanical reliability and economy of operation and up-keep. , As you drive the Ford through many months and years yon will develop an increasing pride in its appearance and a growing respect for the substantial worth that has been builv into it. From every standpoint—in everything that goes to make a good automobile—you will know that you have made a far-seeing, satisfactory purchase. hofse“frojfPtHp plow and mounting, rode in the direc tion of the firing. On the way she was j4)ined by some of her neighbors who were equally anxious for news of the outcome of the battle. • These hardy women, guided by the noise of battle, reached King’s Moun tain late in the afternoon. They stop ped on the edge of the battle-ground and, removing their voluminous under- [ birth. In doing this it makes an elec trical contatet which registers another figure on the counting machine that records the Chinese population. And so with each of-the other plungers which finds a hole to go into. All thirty-one of them make their records simultan eously, and the punched cards pass through each one of dozens of such machines at the rate of 175,000 a day. j skirts, tore them into bandages for Any other way of classifying and : the wounded men. Their assistance totalling census figures would be so j was timely, for the Americans had alow, with a population of around j no such luxuries as medicine chests 125,000,000 to be counted, that it, and first aid kits among their scanty might be a year or more before the provisions. After the battle those who complete total was known. iwere too badly wounded to be taken There were no counting machines or j on the hurried march from King’s ! electrical appliances when the first Mountain were left in homes in the 1 census of the United States was | surrounding district, where they were! made, nor for nearly a hundred years' cared for and nursed back to health'. ‘ after that. Everything was done in] Another interesting stor>' is that' those old days slowly, by hand, and the] ,nuch of the powder used by the moun- records kept in books, some of which | taineers at King’s Mountain Was made Wherever you go, you hear enthusiastic praise of the* car and this significant, oft-repeated phrase—“Pm glad 1 bought a Ford.” are still preserv'ed. And nobody kn whether those records were corre]^ or not, with the chance in favor of their being decidedly inaccurate. For the early census enumerators, who were y an Englishwoman who lived on at is still known as Powder creek,' in Tenessee. An American general who^ found that she knew the trade of' powder-making built a mill for her! paid only $1 for each fifty names, there to help supply the colonists with had to cover a lot of territory, in most; ammunition. This patriotic woman cases, and doubtless overloked many i gave five hundred pounds of her valu- inhabitants. The census of 1790, the j able, product to the men of the Wa- first under our present form of gov- • tauga settlement before they set out lernment. was not completed until across the mountains in answer to' 11792, when President George Wash-1 Ferguson’s-challenge. She later re-! ! ington reported to congress that there j moved to Cleveland county North were 3.929,214 persons in the young! Carolina, where her descendants still republic. In all probability there were live. I more than 4,000,000, or eight times as i j many as there had been in 1700, 1 ninety years earlier. In that year, 11700, the population of New York, Boston and Philadelphia combined was only 15,000, and the total population of the colonies less than half a mil lion. One reason why accurate counting of the population was not possible in colonial times, and to some extent since, was the belief that to enumer ate the people would bring a curse upon them. The pe<^le, especially in the New England colonies where they tried to run the government strictly in accordance with the teachings of the Bible, which they interpreted lit erally, feared the wrath of God if the people were counted. For proof that Divine vengeance would follow the A Crmt DUcoouf When Phsteur dieoovered, in 1883^ that the infection of wounds was caused by malignsnt bacteria, be pei^ formed a eervioe of inestimable value to mankind. Since then medical seienoe has been producing better and'better antieepticB, to km these germs that enter the smsUest oit and give as diaeseea su^ as typhoid, tuberwdoaii r, sU you have to do to and lockjaw. Now, be sure that theee dreadfid germs will not infect a wound, is to wadi that wound, however smau, thcrouddy with Liquid Boaoeone. the modem antisep- tk. You can get liqidd Boroeona, In a fit soar needav to fit yov n«*edi and SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY WHAT DO P. S. JEANES DO? A Ford owner in New York telb of a 13,000-mile trip acroee the United States and back in sixty days and aaya *^the cor was extremely economical to operate, com fortable and speedy.'' A grateful father tells how the Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield saved hia wife and children from serious injury. To test tires, a lar^o company drove a new Ford day and night, for on average of COO miles every twentysfocr hours. It was ■till giving satisfactory service after 103,000 miles. A Ford car that had fallen into Feman I.ake was submerged for twelve days be fore being rained. After a new battery and carburetor bowl were inslallcdfitwas driven back to Spokane under its own power. Many police departments have written of the special advantagea the Ford in crowdiid traffic because of its alert speed, acceleration, and case of controL An in creasing nnnJier of fleet owners are also pnrehasing the Ford because their cost figures have given oonclosive fMToof of its economy of operation and npdceep. In action to important txinmpks In Germany, France and Italy, the Ford won six out of seven leading placet in atsontesl in Finland, first and seeond in the Rafada rmtea in Argentina, first and seeond in the mn from G>penhagen-to-Paris-to-Copen« hagen, three gold medals in England, first ranking in the durability test over the tortuous Amancaes road in Pern, and first place in the 1930 reliability mn conducted by the Royal Automobile Qub of Sweden. This contest was an exceptionally §o» vere test of endursmee and sturdy con- etraction because it was held in the dead of winter and covered 600 miles of steady running over snow-covered country roada and monntainous blllf. l.#W FOBB PffilCBB Roadster . $433 Conpe Phaeton • 440 Tudor Sport Coupe ..... De Luxe Coupe .... Three-window Fordor Sedan Convertible Calwiolel . . De Luxe Phaeton ... De Lnxe Sedan Town Sedan . Sedan $49S 49S 325 545 600 • • • • 640 660 AU f.0. thm Vi Ciwik Wm4 A- ’■ -St Ford Motor Company . n .S I . n ■■ . ■