The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 30, 1920, Image 6
DESTINED TO LIVE
Not All War Phrases Likely to Bo
Forgotten.'
t?m? o1 Them Are Welcome Addition*
tp the Language, and Those That
Are Not Will Not Long
Retan Favor.
The Buffalo Kxp^V appeal* {or 8
OfW W|( Vocabulary. It elti t *ll
(tbriife* a* cowmoti u*e and d.eet.af ?*?
chat they have lM ?*ii yse<J so '?)?< h that
they uiCvXi nothing. U demand* that
writers cudgel their brains to ftnd new
phrn^ s (Q Uk# tb.-lr place*..
11*? r? - ?i'.> the all ptotupM '''ft i
!>CCUSlOn? tl tills attack ?
ttJIun." "drive." "over the top," "d<^
lag ,,..r Nit." -VtirruHK on" anil
"strafe,"
Though |K?Hxlh!y all of these vowl*
-and to them should hav? been added
l!.M-h?" Mini "fuiui.itrJHK''" least?
?re beln*' ov.tu .n k. ,|, th.-rr Is much
l0 i?. Iti) D tin''ir behalf, and most of
it,?n jffltl sitldi
natural and unpremeditated course of
word manufacture, new ones develop
to take their place, the Duluth llerald
obnerves.
And the main thing to be sold for
them Is that they are very useful, be
rause every one of them exmesses
poignantly an Important thought. The
purpose of language la to convey
thought, language that conveys a
thought most effectively to the most
people, especially at a time when
clearness and deflnlteness of thought
ire mo Important as now, Is the best
language to use.
"Hun" Isn't likely to go out of use
so long as Americans remember Bel
gium and northern France and the
bombing of cities and the destruction
of churches by long-distance guns and
the work of the submarine. Not to
speak of the rare availability of the
.word for the uses of head writers, who
have he(lp?d to make It common, the
connotnttons of th?? word lit so ae
curately the common opinion of the
character of the Germans an devel
oped In this war that there Is small
chance of Us retirement.
"Over the top" has been worked
hard In the same connection, used aft
er a quota has been tilled; and In that
sense wenrlness of It has led to 11^
graduaf disuse. Moreover, there Is like
/V 'y 1? he leas trench warfare and more
wnrMn the open henceforth, and as
"over the top" means a leap of the at
tacking force out of Its trench this Is
the phrase most likely to be dropped.
Yet. Its tdgnificance In stouthearted
valor and daring among those who
have gone "over the top" Is so deep
that It will never be forgotten 6y them
or by us.
"Doing your bit" It Is well enough
to retire, not because It has been over
worked, but because it has been mis
understood. In Britain, where It start
ed, It means "doing your share." It
doesn't mean doing "a little bit.-" ? It
means doing all you can. But our
sense of the word having that- large
difference, it Isu't a good phrase for
us to use, and we should retire it on
a pension and substitute "do your ut
most."
"Carry on," another British phrase.
Is splendidly and nobly Anglo-Saxon
and should not be sacrificed for any
consideration. When the British at
Mons and after were overpowered and
overwhelmed and outnumbered and all
but crushed by the enemy's superior
ity in strength and equipment they
simply "carried on" and so made the
reversal at the Murne possible. What
ever betides, however black the houc
may grow, however hopeless the out1
look may seem, It Is the Anglo-Saxon
habit to "carry on" and the courage
and persistence It stands for have
plucked victory out of many a defeat.
"Carry on" will have won this war; so
let us. who share the same spirit with
our British cousins, never forget the
word and th<? spirit It stands for.
"Strafe," being German, we could
spare readily enough, as well as the
spirit <>: \oiiom and hate that it sig
nifies.
Words don't win or lose wars. Let
us launch our "drive" "over the top."
each man "doing his hit," and let us
"carry on" until wo "strafe" the "Hun"
foro\ ermoro.
Great Genealogical Record.
In mysterious Mecca's archives Is
rhe most wonderful genealogical rec- j
urd In the world?a roll of parchment '
about 50 feet long and four feet wide-?
on which each ruling emir of Mecca
has written with his own hand his
nnmo. Kvery one Is descendant of the
Prophet Mohammed; die thirty-sixth
:n direct line of descent, and therefore |
'he chief <>f the tribe of Korelsh and |
K'-i'l.<'r?-4?t-he?Holy?PlneeH, is?H-tt*?
M,n. now king of the Arabs, whose |
?-jst* insured the downfall of the Turks.
The thirty-seventh on the list of (hose ;
who wear the prophet's green mantle j
l? IV!>al, (he thlrty-tw o-year-old son i
of Hussein, who Is now ruler of the
Syrian covernment. with his seat in ?
Siiladit. s eity of f ?ain:?s<uv lie is at
present .n i'nris.
During the War.
The lif'y'c and t?r.?!> crooin had ut
tern! 'heir s<>!? mn \ow.s, the celebrant
tird bl?*vstd the couple and the service
wps o\rr, when '?>?? {?r??-*.??probably
from fot<T i>f habit, he had don?
rhe c?une every Sunday *1nce the war
had begun?solemnly announced. "l>et
us now pray for pea<-e "
Break* the Gl***.
Mj uue'e told me in n leitc.r that
th#r^ \?* ? a mun in hi* '\irnp that wm
?? ugly he had m *)ip u,> on u dipp?v to
yat a drink ?(!?!' ?)(?> I *ihuu?'
? GATHERING OF CROP1 , DATA
.
| Information Showing How T(?oroufl?
Is the Work of tho Oepsrtinent
of Agriculture.
At) outllue of the organization do
? veloped in the department of agrlcul*
ture through (BQft than half ? century
1 of experience In crop estimating. Indl*
? CStlng the ritrr tttttl thorooghne?* with
which government ctop report* are
prepared, la given Id the annual re
port of the Secretary"- of agriculture.
For collecting original data tho bu
reau of crop estimates toss two main
sourcesi of Information?voluntary re
porters and salaried held ugems.^The
voluntary force comprises 33.743 town
ship reporters, Ott# for each agricul
tural township; 2,753 county reporters,
w hii re|K>rt monthly or oftener on
county-wlde conditions, basing their
estimates on personal observation. In
qulry and written reports of aids, of
whom there are about 5.800; 19 special
lists of co-operators, aggregating 137,v.
000 names, who report on particular
products, such as live stock, cotton,
wool, rice, tobacco, potatoes, apples,
peanuts, beans and the like; and 20,
1Q0 field aids. Including the best In
formed men In each state, who report
directly to the salaried field agents of
the bureau. The total voluntary staff,
therefore, numbers approximately 200,
000, an average of about 00 for each
county and 4 for each township. The
reporters, as a rule, are farmers. They
serve without compensation, sod are
selected and retained on the. lists bo
cause of their knowledge of local con
ditions, their public spirit, and their
lntereot In the work. All except coon
ty and field ald9 report directly to the
bureau, and each class of reports Is
tabulated and averaged separately for
each group and state.
Girl Farmers.
South Bethlehem, Pa., probably bad
one of the most active organizations
of the woman's land army In the entire
United States during the summer Just
ended. Farmers In that locality In
many instances reaped the largest
crops In history, and they praise the
conHclentlous and efficient work, of the
girls and young women who assisted
them as among the best help they ever
had.
J'ltchlng hay Is really a man's Job,
but the girls on the farms near Beth
lehem were ready to try any kind of
farm work, and made a fine record In
harvesting the hay crop. The work
for which they showed themselves
best adapted, however, was horticul
tural. They were Invaluable In the
truck gardens, weeding onion patches,
picking berries, bunching asparagus
and doing the various other odd Jobs
that must bo done to keep gardens
productive and neat.
Soturday night meont a time of rest
for the girls, and they celebrated with
"sings" ordinarily. They nlso gave oc
casional vaudeville and minstrel shows
and dinner parties. Many of them are
college girls and have gone back to
?chool, but others are engaging In oth
er forms of work during the fall and
winter season.
Almanach De Gotha.
Wo pity the colleague who at pres
ent has to edit the Almanach de Qotha,
the directory of all courts. The next
edition, which, by the way, had almost
been ready for the printer when the
great tumbling of thrones happened
and therefore will have to be radically
revised and will look very different. We
cannot imagine that tho good people
who used to place the bible of aris
tocracy and the court directory on the
most conspicuous shelf of their book
case will ever again have the desire to
Inquire "who is who?"
No fewer than 278 names belonging
to former reigning princes will be
missed. And those are of the ruling
families of Germany exclusively; not
to mention the Turks, the Greeks, the
Bulgarians, etc. The new almanach,
which no longer will have to speak In
cringing humility of the Uohenzollern,
the Wlttelsbachs of Bavaria, the Zaeh
rlngers of Baden, the Coburgs and the
Schaumberg-Llppes Is a list of war
gains. Of course, it does not compen
sate entirely for all the sacrifices
which hundreds of thousands of better
men had to sufTer before these 278
highnesses of dlvlno right were per
mltted to become ordinary mortals, !
but it is. nevertheless, one fruit of oor j
victory. And the house-cleaning still j
goes on.?German Democracy Bulle> j
tin.
New Members.
Little Albert's mother had alwaya
Insisted that he wear his hair In long
curls. The other boys had their hair
cut but not Albert thounh he longed
and longed for that ceremony. Finally
an uncle came to visit at tho home and
he soon decided to make Albert Into a
real boy. So to a barber's shop ho hied
his nephew and hla locks like Samp
son's were shorn. Then uncle snd Al
bert went home.
After mother's anger had spent It
self Albert went to the mirror to sur
vey himself. He stood and looked at
his Image for a few minutes. And then
he rushed hack to the family. "Oh,
I've got ears, too," he reJol?ed.
have got ears!"
Putting War Gaa to Good Use.
Experts from the federal department
of agriculture and from the war de
partment will begin a series of experi
ment* In tho South In the effort to
utilize ? powerful gas that was used
by the American army In the war to
Europe. The gas will be nsed In at?
tempt* to destroy the cotton boll wee
vil, the pink boll worm, caterpillar*,
poth?> *r.?gs nrnl other Inaect pests tbat
ravage crops. It Is said to be a by
product of ?<>ottc?D pin a.
Estate Sale Monday
''-Owing to tb* extreme bad weather on
Mouda> last tbe ?ale of pewonsl prop
erty of tb* estate of Luther Ualey, de
eea*ed. did not take place and notke
If 1j.t.4?> given that the **id property
will be *ol3 ?n Monday nvit, February
.'ml, at nwne jdaoe as formerly adver
vd, m>uxjneuclng at> 10 u'cl^lt. Hale
will tak?* place this time rain* or uhlne.
The pfopsst? to be sttid I* ?* frrtMrs:
i lot ?'f porn hn<i faddsr, l i<?t of
ik< *, 1 l??g chain, 1 rutU'ii plnnter, I
*om planter, 1 wir* fltretcher, I double
>uggv it it <1 barue**, 1 distributor, 1 Cole
tlantSr, 2 two-horse wagon* and set of
hgjrfie**, 1 grain cradle, I rolls <-f fttttjt
vlte. 1 log wagon and jack for'same. 1
\...v *ulk riiitcr, 1 set flf >hop tool-,
t lot of plow storks and cultivator*. !
(?t of plow lioe* and heel iicripvn, I
lie hoi'He wagon and harneiw, 1 two
hur*e wagon. 1 pair of plow g?-ar?, 1 corn
!i.ll.r, t faun bill, pots, tub*, grind
?H-k, 2 gray mules, 2 black mules, 1 two
Hnrse plow and I Dixie ploW*, 2 aiqpotb
tig j^froprs, I hay rake and I disk
harrow, one lot of fchoat*.*
U M. HALEY,
Administrator^
Camdeu, S. G., Jan. 3D, 1920.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
State of 8outh Carolina, .
< <iunty oi Kcrahaw. 4
A petition signed by one third or, more ,
or the M|ualifled elector* and a like pro- j
portion of the realdent freeholder*. of;
the age of twenty one ytears having been (
filed with the County Board of Educa-j
tion asking for an election in School ,
district No. 80 to determine whether a |
special tax oif four (4.) mills shall be j
levied on all the taxable property for;
school purposes and tbe petition having
been granted we tbe undersigned troateea
will hold an election at Thornhill School
House on Friday Feb. 13th, 1020. After
giving notice of name for two weeks iri
a newspaper and pouting in at least
three public placet* iu the district. .Polla
will open at 8 a. m, and clpw at 4 p. m.
Thoae who reside in the district and pre
sent their regiwt ration certificates and
tax receipts will be nllowed to vote in
this election. Election will be conducted
under the rules of general election.
0. T. FA LK EN BE R U Y
C. ta FALKENBERUY
IIAQOOD WILLI AMR
Trustees School District No. 30
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Notice To Woodmen.
1 To the members of Live Oak Camp :
No. 49 W. O. W.: You will please let:
rue know by Fetyrtiary 1st, 1920 what
option you will take, option 1, 2, 3, 4, !
or 5. It is very important that I should
know and if you intend dropping your ;
insurance in the Woodmen please advise
me to that effect. |
41-3 / M. G. Huckabee, Clerk. I
DiamondConstruction Makes
This Bridge Strong
Like
the .
The bridge it strong because it it supported in
every direction by sturdy diagonal brakes that form
diamonds everywhere. ?
The battery is strong because its plates, like the
bridge, are built on the Diamond principle.
^
That is why the plates do not buckle nor lose
their active material That it why the battery is
.. * . . ..
Guaranteed for Eighteen Months
That it why we are the official Phila
delphia Service Station.
Expert battery re-charging and repairing.
Free inspection?-any battery?any make,
any car, any time. Drop in today and let
us look at the condition of your battery.
W. 0. Hay's Garage
South Main Street
Camden, - South Carolina {
. ? ?' i
If you own a Ford, Chevrolet, Dort, Maxwell ?
or any other car using30x3-,30x3'/2-> or 31x4
inch tires,.you can well take advantage of
the high relative value built into all Good'
J?, f ? V -;SV
year Tirel. . . f
You can well do so because you can sedurc
in the small Goodyear Tires the results &?
such skill and care as have made Goodyear
Tires the preferred equipment on the high
est'priced automobiles of the day*
You can well do so because these small Good
year Tires are easy to obtain, being produced
at the rate of 20,000 a day, and because
their first cost usually is as low or lower than
that of other tires in the same types and sizes*
r * . ' .1
Go to the nearest Goodyear Service Station
Dealer for these tires, and for Goodyear
Heavy Tourist Tubes* He supplies many
other local owners of small cars.
30* Goodyear Double-Cure $20??
Fabric, All-V/eather Tread
30 * 3 V4 Goodyear Sinj
Fabric, Anti-Skid Tread
30 x 3 l/z Goodyear^ Single-Cure $ | ^65
Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes are thick* strong tubes that
reinforce casing* properly. Why risk a good casing with a*
cheap tube ? Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes coct little more
than tubea of less merit. 30x 3'/i size in water*- |l90,
proof bog iii i - '