The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, August 23, 1933, Image 2
This Week
b Arthur Brisbanb
Worried Cuba
Around the World, Soon
Do We Need Poetry?
Distance Kills Interest
The worry of the western world cen
ters In Cuba* Many have been killed.
Bad conditions are caused by much
poverty and suffering.
Because rthe Monroe' Doctrine doeu
oot permit ..foreign countries to Inter
fere oh xhls -hemisphere. Uncle Sam
f?iels responsible to other countries
whose citizens have been killed In the
Cuban rioting. TuOBe countries not
anreusonubly "say to Uncle Sam:
"If you cannot protect our nationals
we shall doijt ourselves."
Americans will read with amaze
ment the announcement that repre
?entatlves of Cuba's government have
tailed upon Cubans of all pu-'Mes to
"unite against an attack by the United
States."
Memory must be short to forget that
Cuba belonged to Spain a 'little while
ago, was taken from Spain by this
country and given hack to the people
of Cuha voluntarily.
And Uncle Sam didn't send In any
bill for his expense in thus freeing
Cuba from the Spaniards. Other
countries might have done that.
Blerlot, who designed the Rossi
Codos plane that has Just beaten the
world's long-distance record, speaks
with authority on flying. Twenty-four
years ago he was the first to fly the
English channel. Now his plane has
enslly flown the Atlantic, the whole
of Europe and on to Damascus. Bler
lot predicts "the enrth will be en
circled nonstop, either by a craft us
ing a heavy oil, or as soon as a means
is found for utilizing electrically driv
en engines."
John Masefleld, poet, says that what
the world needs is "the thrill of poet
ry." Lacking poetry, the world in
vents substitutes, like high speed In
Airplanes and automobiles. Poetry
would supply all the excitement
needed.
This innocent statement shows how
little a real poet knows his common
place brothers.
Fifty million In this country respond
to the purr of a 10-cyllnder automo
bile, or the roar of a high-power air
plane engine, that would find little
excitement In :
Charm'd magic casements,
Opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands for
lorn.
Distance makes nil the difference.
If the wife says, "John, there Is a
foot of water' In the cellar," you hurry
to the cellar.
The Associated Press says:
"Three hundred Chinese villages
along the Yellow river In North Ilonan
province are flooded, with heavy loss
of life."
You skip to the next headline.
The Yellow river Is far away.
Another dispatch from Seoul, Korea,
says 414 have been killed and 7,348
houses destroyed by typhoon and
floods. Again you pasB on. If you
heard that the great nebula in Orion
had exploded you would still skip on.
Before you worry about dollar In
flation read figures from the United
States treasury. Dollars In circulation
at the end of July were fewer by
more than 01,000.000 than In June.
And all our dollars In circulation,
now that we have gone off the gold
basis, are fewer by 00,540.000 than a
year ago.
All the monoy In the United States
amounts to less than $-10 for each In
habitant; ? That does not seem too
much, considering that a healthy
black slave In the old days was worth
$1,000. Should we not, on the con
trary, and "without any Inflation, hnve
at least $5,000,000,000 or $10,000,000,
000 more In circulation?
In the last 12 months the world
has used 24,725,000 bales of all kinds
of cotton, against 23.007,000 In the
preceding 12 months. American cot
ton URed In the Inst 12 months
amounted to 14,1*12,000 bales, a train
of 1,020,000 bales over the preceding
year.
This Is good news for American
cotton growors.
When men buy new automobiles It
proves they have money to spend
usefully, and money to spare Is the
surest sign of vanishing depression.
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of
General MotorR, announces that sales
of his corporation In the United
States, Canada and overseas coun
tries showed this July an Increase of
100 per cent over July, 1032. In July
a year ago the total number of (Jen
era! Motors automobiles sold was 30.
872. In July this year It was 100.018.
Mr. Farley, postmaster general, pre
diets that 3ft states will have voted
to repeal prohibition before the first
day of 1034, Arlrona, youngest state
In the Union, formerly bone dry, vot
ed three to one to repeal prohibition.
The tote was 34,380 for repeal. 10,147
against It Arlr.ona In the twenty-first
consecutive state to vote against pro
hlbltlon.
The dnnclng masters of America,
numbering 4,500, hnve Invented a new
step, called "Nlra,* In honor of th?
national Industrial recovery act. Th#
new dance Is a foxtrot with new an
rangements.
9), 1 IM, by Kin* Ptftture* Syndicate, loo.
WNU
CONSUMERS' COUNSEL
H Dr, Frederic C. Howe, bx-holur and
'banker, has been appointed "consum
!. era* "Counsel" t>f the Department of Ag
riculture. His job will be to wage a
natfon-wlde war on unfair food prices,
lie coines from Cleveland and received
his academic degrees from Allegheny
college and a Ph. D. from Johns Hop
kins university, later* studying at Ox
ford and In Germany nnd In law
Bchools of Maryland and New York.
He was a member of President Wil
son's staff of experts at the Paris
peace conference.
Ecuador Indian Legend
Tells Story of Genesis
Berkeley, Calif. ? The story of Ge
nesis as told In legend by the head
hunting Indians of Ecuador was told
here recently by Dr. Matthew W. Stir
ling, explorer nnd chief (of the bureau
of American ethnology of the Smith
sonian institution who just returned
from Pern. ^
In the beginning there were In the
world only Kumpano, the creator;
Chingaso, his wife, and their son.
Esta, the sun.
Out of mud, Kumpano created Nan
tu, the moon, ns a wife for Esta. but
she was shy and kept away from him.
The nlghtblrd, Auhu, fell In love
with Nantu, but she repulsed him also,
and one night disappeared far into the
sky.
Auhu, however, went In pursuit and
tried to climb n trailing vine to the
moon. Rut Nantu cut the vine, which
fell and became entangled among the
trees, where It still remains.
The eclipse of the moon occurs when
Esta strikes Nantu. When Nantu is
the aggressor, that Is the moon eclips
ing the sun. And when Nantu weeps,
there is rala.
These two persons were the parents
of the head-hunters' tribe, according
to their legends.
New York Plans to
Outlaw Its Slums
Project? Under Way Will
Cost Many Millions.
New York. ? They nre going to out
law slums In New York city ? some day
? maybe.
The big drive toward this Utopian
goal Is already under way. After many
years of agitating, planning, bickering
and otherwise mulling over the prob
lem, the city has finally cut loose with
measures definitely designed to elimi
nate two of the so-called "plague
spots" with modern housing develop
ments and Is turning over a third with
a view to early action of some kind.
At least two other projects are under
consideration.
The five enterprises look to the ex
penditure of something like $70,000,000
on up to date, fireproof, sanitary
housing to provlde cheap rental living
quarters to replace the rat- Infested,
disease-breeding hovels and tumble
down rookeries now disgracing the af
fected localities or but lately removed
preparatory to the "developments."
City Government Aids.
While none of the so-called "elimi
nation" plans Is a city project, the mu
nicipal government Is lending Its aid
and encouragement to the movement
In a general way and Is undertaking
to help out with street closing and tax
exemptions, leaving the financing and
management of the houses to private
capital. Most of the schemes, Inciden
tally, are conditioned on the outcome
of applications for loans from the Fed
eral Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion as well as on petitions for city aid
In the way of tax exemptions, etc.
One of them, I. e., the Fred F.
French Operators plan for replacing
the so-called "Lung Rlock" on Man
hattan's Fast side with a SO, 300 ,000
development, to be knovn as "Knick
erbocker Village" has already obtained
an It. F. C. loan for $S.07">, 000 as a
running start toward actual fulfill
ment. In announcing Its approval of
the loan, the corporations's board had
some nice things to say of the project,
among them observing that:
"The site of the development Is In
the heart of New York city's heaviest
tuberculosis casualty areas of the pe
riod Immediately preceding nnd follow
ing the turn of the century. . . .
The building of n modern, clenn, light,
apartment community will eliminate
a potential disease-spreading block of
buildings. The 'Lung Block' alone ac
counted for 201 cases of tuberculosis
between the years 1894-1001. Only
two houses of the block have been free
from the disease."
Warrant Tells Story of Witchcraft
Document Carries Signature of
Cotton Mather.
Denver. ? Witchcraft was n danger
oub occupation around Salem, Mass.,
In 1002, and Frank C. Mertz of Den
ver has the documentary proof.
An apparently genuine death war
rant, Issued June 10. 1002, for one
Rebecca Nurse, a Salem witch, Is
owned by Mertz.
The warrant has been authenticated
by the Massachusetts Historical so
' clety and by William F. Warren, cura
tor of the Hoston museum. It pos
sesses signatures of Cotton Mather,
the Indian King Philip, and other not
ables of the time.
The MX" signature of King Philip
makes the document especially valu
able, as there are said to be only sev
en of these original "X" marks in ex
istence.
Rebeccn Nurse was considered some
whnt of a neighborhood menace In
and about Salem.
According to the charges set forth
In the warrant, she caused the death
of some forty fowl and several swine.
Uebecca was not satisfied with pick
ing on the fowl and swine, but carried
her work further by cutting with an
ax "the Wench IMtuba," n member of
| King Philip's tribe. Several mysterl
Term "Poilu" Is Limited
to Front Line Fighters
Parts. ? Only the front-line fighting
i troops of the World war have the right
j to the famous appellation of "Pollu."
This Is the dictum of the dictionary
j committee of the French academy,
I which has recommended the Inclusion
j of the word "Pollu" In the next edition
I of the Academy dictionary with the
definition: "French soldier of the
| front-line trenches during the wnr of
: 1014-18."
Popularly the term since the war
j has always been used for any soldier
of the war who wore the uniform, and
| ip now often affectionately applied to
| tl*> soldiers of the present French
! army.
i
Child in Coffin
"Comes to Life"
Warsaw.? A five-year old child
"came to life" In her coffin on the
way to her funeral recently.
As the cortege was n'earlng the
grave the mourners heard cries
coming from fhe coflin. It was
opened and the child handed back
alive Into the armfuof the weeping
mother and taken nome.
Doctors state the child was In a
state of lethargy almost unknown
among children. ?
ous fires In haystacks were Inld at her
door.
Such activity on the pnrt a wom
an was enough to bring her to trial.
A court of Massachusetts notables
gave Rebecca h trial and found her
guilty of witchery. She was ordered
hanged by the neck "on a high hill
at high noon so that all might see."
Metz received the historical docu
ment from E. W. Ballley, a Ponca
City (Okla.) tourist, who had pur
chased It from C. A. Powell of Gre
nada, Miss. The value of the warrant
Is unknown.
Thief Rob* Priton Safe
Bellefonte, Pa. ? Rockvltfw penitenti
ary officials are looking for a safe
cracker ? a particularly clever and dar
ing one. The one sought cracked the
safe In the prison office and fled with
$201.85 ? funds contributed to the state
welfare by penitentiary employees.
Each building of the village will be
of hollow square construction, provid
ing a large interior court. Light and
sunshine will be insured for every
apartment.
It Is estimated that this project will
furnish employment to about 10, (XX)
men directly or Indirectly for a year
or more.
Plan Cheap Rentals.
Another project on the way to actual
fulfillment Is known as the Ohrystle
Forsyth street development plan, look
ing to the improvement of some sev
en blocks of the lower East side ? five
of them with modern apartments for
"rock-bottom" rentals to white-collar
workers and the other two to be con
verted Into parks.
The total estimated Investment In
the buildings will therefore be $9,280, ?
70S. The published value of $12,780,
708 for the development was explained
recently as Including a figure of
*3,500.000 to represent the value of
the city leasehold
Another* slum elimination project
that Is looking up In spite of the de
pression Is that known as the Itutgers
town plnn, which Involves the pro
posed expenditure of some $40,000,000
In a model housing development on
the East side, Just below Manhnttan
bridge.
The development plnn Includes an
Interior park and roof playgrounds.
Each building Is to be a separate unit,
12 stories high. Backers of the proj
ect are withholding a start of opera
tlons. pending action on their applica
tion for tax exemption.
The Hillside Housing corporation'
has the plans all drawn for a big hous
ing project to wipe out a slum area
In the Bronx, but there has been some
hitch In Its plans for wheedling a
$4,000,000 loan out of the Heconstruc- j
tlon Finance corporation anVl the en- I
terprlse is not going so well.
Other projects In a more or less ne j
bulous state look to the elimination of <
slum areas In Brooklyn and Queens. j
Man Claims Record of
45 Years of Insomnia
I'ort Elizabeth, South Africa. ? The
record for Insomnia Is claimed by Wil
liam Colson, seventy-three-year-ohl
curio dealer, who on reading of the
recent death of a woman who said she
had not slept for 22 years stated he
had had 45 years of complete sleep
lessness.
"I have not slept a wink all this*
time, and I never feel the need," Mr.
Colson declared. "I go to bed every
night, though, becnuse I formed the
habit before I lost the power to sleep
at the age of twenty-eight ? and be
cause- there Is nothing else to do at
night."
Judge Refuses to Take
Prunes in Lieu of Fine
The Dalles, Ore. ? "The United
States is not on a prune basis," ruled
Police Judge Fish, when Fred Miller
offered to pay a $50 reckless driving
fine In dried pruneR. He was paroled
and told to raise the money as soon as
he could.
Permit* Barelegged Coed*
Warrensburg, Mo. ? Mrs. O. L. Houts,
dean of womeji at the State Teachers
college here, has ruled that women
students may attend classes without
wearing hose. Economy and heat were
given as -easons for her action.
Jeweler* Turn Junlc Dealer*
Bangor, Maine. ? This city's Jewelers
have been obliged to take out licenses
as "Junk dealers" because they havo
begun to advertise, "Wanted ? Old
Gold."
Seal for the N. R. A. Co-Operators
Kv?ry ImihIiiohh llrni or Individual who ntcrwH to co-opornte with tho gov
ernmnnt In Its nntlonnl rooovery program In entitled to uro this xarI, which l?
endorsed hy th? President. The rather futuristic eagle holds with the talon*
of one foot n eog symhollr.lng labor's pine* In the machine age, and with th?
other claw the /.Ik *sg lines representing electricity.
U. S. PROBES WHEAT
PIT SPECULATION
Investigates Wild Market of
Six Weeks.
Chicago. ? An Investigation of big
speculative operations in the wheat
market has been launched by the fed
eral government, covering a period of
six weeks of one of the wildest mar
kets ever experienced. In this period
wheat prices soared 4f> cents a bushel
In Ave weeks and then dropped 30
cents in two days.
This Investigation was requested by
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agri
culture. under authority of the grain
futures act. Dr. J W. T. Duvel. fed
eral grain futures administrator, as
serted that a number of traders on
the board of trade had accumulated
the biggest individual "lines" in the
history of the grain futures adminis
tration.
lie pointed out that the maximum
line of 5.000,000 bushels permitted un
der an agreement between the govern
ment and the board of trade, drawn
In 11)20. had been greatly exceeded In
several cases.
Clearing house members of the
board of trade were ordered to file
with the grain future administration,
as soon as possible, a report of all
transactions from .Tune If) to July 31.
That the quiz Is Intended to delve
deeply Into all phases of market op
erations was seen in the fact that re
ports to be made are to Include all
accounts of 200.000 bushels or over.
For a period of about nine months,
ending July 21, no reports of open ac
counts were made to the grain futures
j administration under an agreement
[ whereby all such reports were made
I to the business conduct committee of
^he board of trade. Previous to this
period It was the custom of the grain
futures administration to get reports
on nil open accounts of r>00.000 bush
els or more.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS
President Roosevelt appointed Ar
thur Bliss I.ane of New York as min
ister to Nicaragua,
The bureau of Internal revenue an
nounced a $07,022 abatement to the
estate ot Samuel M. I'elton, of which
Hopewell I.. Rogers of Chicago is the
executor, because of an overussess
ment.
The meat packing industry has been
granted a modilled re-employment code
by the administration designed to
make work for 15-.000 or 20,000 men
and affecting In all about 1-10,000
workers.
Chairman King, of the senate com
mittee Investigating federal taxation,
promised that an effort would be made
next winter to repeal so-called nuis
ance taxes enacted tinder the Hoover
administration.
The agricultural adjustment admin
istration announced appointment of W.
C. McQueen, dairy farmer, as Its field
representative In Chicago to handle
disputes nrising In connection with
the milk marketing agreement for the
Chicago nrea.
The federal power commission re- '
sclnded Its action authorizing a license
to the state of Illinois waterway, to
allow the state to answer objections
lodged by other great lakes states al
leging excessive authorized Installa- !
tlon. '
Marines to Leave
Haiti Next Year
Washington. ? Withdrawal of United
States marines from Haiti late In 1934 1
and the establishment of an American
flnnnclnl agency to Insure payment of
Haitian bonds due United States citi
zens were provided In an accord signed
at fort Au Prince.
Under Its terms the 700 marines now
In Haiti will start home October 1.
1034, and are to he withdrawn com
pletely within 30 days. Thereafter pub
lic order in Haiti will be entrusted to
the native guarde de Haiti, trained
by the marines.
Interest of American holders of the
$1 f), 000,000 worth of Haitian bonds
outstanding was protected In the ac
cord. It provides for a fiscal repre
sentative and a deputy fiscal repre
(tentative, presumably A merlcans, to be
appointed by the presided of Haiti
on the recommendation of the Amerl
can President.
Iceland Reds Trample Nazi
Flag of German Consul
Reykjav'k, Iceland. ? A Communist
mob at the herring fishing center of
Slglufjord tore down a Nazi flag j
from the residence of the German i
consul and trampled It In the mud.
The consul had raised the flag for the
first time due to the arrival of a party
of C.erman tourists.
Cdtiini Fir?| S*nt?ne?i(l
Ashland, Wis.? Paul Collins of Kan
Clare, charged with carelessly throw
Ing a cigarette stub Into n brush pile ,
and causing a forest fire, was sen- |
fenced to 30 dnys In the Rayfield conn
ty Jail by Municipal Judge !<'. C. Hart. |
\
F?th?r of Rouldar D?m Di?a
Oakland, Cnllf.? Arthur Powell Davis,
seventy two, Internationally known en
gineer ns "the father of th? Boulder
dam," died here after an Illness of
several months. I
ROADSIDE
MARKETING
By T. J. Delohery
WHY PEOPLE BUY AT
ROADSIDE MARKETS
WHILE fruits, vegetables, poultry
und dairy products are the main
things sold over roadside markets, con
sumers will also buy fruit juices. Jams.
Jellies, preserves, canned goods, uut.1,
popcorn, honey and such unrelated
things as baskets, (lowers, shrubbery,
pottery and craft products.
These facts are revealed by the ex
perience of thousands of producers,
but more specifically In a question
naire which the Massachusetts state
department of agriculture sent out to
2,000 people representing a cross sec
tion of urban population. A survey of
1,700 markets along 2,800 miles of first,
second and third-class roads In Ohio
brought out the same facts.
The Massachusetts questionnaire was
the groundwork for assistance which
the state planned to give farmers who
wanted to sell products of the farm,
home and garden direct t-> the con
sumer. It was found, In the replies,
that roadside marketing, expanding
yearly, has a promising future.
More than GO per cent of the 2,000
replies to the questionnaire declared
that city and town folks regarded
roadside markets as satisfactory
places to buy fruits, vegetables, eggs
and poultry ptoducts, dairy products,
flowers, Jams, Jellies, preserves, fruit
Juices, canned goods, cider and honey.
Freshness was given as the reason
for buying direct from the producer,
with quality and price following in
the ordei mentioned.
In keeping with this desire for fresh,
quality products, 1,400 people de
clared thomselves very much in favor
of home-grown stuff. The reason is
quite plain. Green Holds, fresh with
dew. and the memory of the tasty
vegetables grown In the home garden,
to say nothing of tree-ripdied fruit,
are responsible. Surveys made in Illi
nois and West Virginia, vhere local
towns and cities were "importing"
many farm products which could he
produced locally, backs up the answers
of the Hay state consumers.
In Illinois, for instance, retailers and
consumers expressed themselves will
An Inviting Display.
Ing to pay 5 cents a dozen more for
locally produced fresh eggs ; and not
sufficient milk was produced In tlie vi
cinity to supply consumers.
Reviewing the compilation of the an
swers to the various sections of the
Massachusetes questionnaire, it was
evident that roadside markets offer the
fanner the opportunity to get a bigger
share of the consumer's food dollar, If
producers will only make a ill tie effort
to grasp It. Not all of the consumers
who answered the questionnaire are
steady patrons of highway markets,
hut more than 00 per cent declared a
preference for buying tlielr fruits,
vegetables and poultry products from
the grower.
Here again freshness was the reason
assigned. This feeling was also car
ried out In opposition to buying or
anges. lemons, grapefruit, bananas and
such other tropical fruits at road
slde markets. True, farmers do handle
fruits which they do not produce, this
practice originating with their acqnlr
Ing better knowledge of merchnndls
Ing, and knowing customers like to do
as much shopping ns possible in one
plaee ; lint few handle eitnis fruits.
In every survey made, freshness
stands out. In Ohio, where consumer*
spend 2.r> per cent of their irult, vege
table and poultry dollar nt roadsido
markets, freshness was given ns ttie
big reason why they went Into the
country for these products.
Wlille the mention of freshness was
general, it is rather significant In view
of eondi'lons that less than 10 per cent
of the consumers In both states were
Interested In price or the possibility of
saving money by buying direct from
the producer.
Another Indication that freshness
nnd quality are the dominating factors
In products to be sold at the roadside
market Is the time of day when most
sales are made.
Convenience Is mentioned because
consumers gave 1^ as one v.f tin* rea
sons they patronized these markets, It
outranking the much stressed necea
sary business requirement service.
Roadside marketing is still on the
Increase, despite general conditions.
Business Is good even though there
may be less cars on the road. Fndl
vidua) purchases Indicate Ill's; In vest I
gatlons by college authorities and the
records of Individual farmers showing
they range In average from f>0 to 7r?
cents. Kxpense of operating has
shown n corresponding decrease, la
bor, one of the biggest Items, being
considerably lower where hired help
Is necessary. The cost of other ne
cessities such as packages and ndver
tlslng vary with the volhrne of busi
ness.
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