Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In an attempted get-away from the Kastorn penitentiary of Pennsylvania, located at, Philadelphia, Tueaday, of four prisoner*, one man was killed by a tfuard, one was recaptured and the other two made their escape. ' ? The man who is down and out is the man who when he was up and in never banked at ? Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits Is a Recognized Convenience A Checking Account It saves unnumbered annoyances. It is the judge and jury when arguments arise re garding paid bills. The check is irrefuta ble evidence; its testimonjT is absolute. The First National Bank is an institution of many years stnding . It enjoys the con fidence of its customers and community. It welcomes checking accounts ? large or small ? and assures every assistance con sistent with safe and equitable banking methods. Just Received CAR LOAD OF FINE v Young MULES PRICES RIGHT Springs & Sh annon ( Incor poraU-<j.> torn Oat? Hon f;$ WCSS KELPS WAR'S SUFFERERS Aids 200,000 Veterans and Their Families? 27.000 Dis abled Still in Hospitals. SPENDS $5 866 255 IN YEAR Individual Attention Assured to All Physically Ailing or in Distress. Washington. ? War servlca five years after tha armistice, which on November 11 the American Red. Croaa mark* with the Opening of the annual membership canvass; shows that 4ur? la? tha past jear assistance waa ex tended by the Red Cross to soma t%Pr 000 ex-eervlce men or their fami lies. To ISO hospitala throughout tha country approximately 75,000 ex-aenr loa mssi ware admitted for treatment, and ta tS,Stf of theaa men definite and specialised service waa extended, the Red Cross annual report discloses. In all hospitals under government opera tion a total of nearly 17,000 disabled veterans were reported by the Sur geon General of the Army. These facts of the aftermath of physical and metal disability fire years after the World War, and the burden resting upon the relatives and de pendents of the ex-servloe men, show conclusively the great need of the Red Cross to act an a supplementary arm of the government In service to these many thousands of men who wore the uniform of the United States. It should be emphasized that govern ment assigtanco la necessarily stand ardized along specified lines affecting them as a whole, The Red Cross serv k?o is to tho individual man and the solution of his problems. This the Red Cross designates "home service" for Its aims to give tho loving care and Interest of the home to these men undergoing physical reconstitutlon far from their actual home influences. Year's Expenditures $5,866,255 In tho year ended last Juno 30 the Red Cross reports $3,920,000 spent by Its Chapters in extending Individual attention to tho ex-service men and f 1,946.255 spent by National Head quarters of the Red Cross, a total of $5,866,25Fj In behalf of the men called to duty in the World War the Red Cross since July 1, 1917, has spent n<e?rly $164,000,000. Today there ura 2,608 Chapters In as many localities carrying on this work, aiding the in dividual veteran, assisting his family, furnishing creature comforts and funds to tide over troublesome periods. The strong connecting link betwoen the Red Cross and the United States Veterans' Bureau takes the complica tions out ot difficult cases of claims. Tho Red Cross in this work requiring ; personal representation of the ex-serv- I ice man has acted In appeal cases, in- j surance matters, personal and family problems, camp and hospital activl tios, and In cases of death. This, serv ice handled nearly 12,000 compensa tion and insurance claims, and 2,225 allotment and other claims. Solves Serious Problem Tho financial problem of the ox-scrv Ice man when truvellng to and from hospitals Is a serious one, and In meet ing this constant demand the Red Cross expended $138,334.17 during the year. For extra recroatlonal equip ment in Veterans' Bureau training centers $14,306 was spent, and for tho blinded veterans In the government school funds wero supplied to enable some of these nnfortunate raon to en ter business as storekeepers and poul try raisers. In Veterans" Bureau hospitals the record of a single month Illustrates j tho large service rendered by the lied Cross. For example, 15,504 new case* required attention, and a total of 26, 007 catws were acted upon; 40.368 let ters and 1,86.1 telegraph messages written, and more than 1,600 enter tainment given in recreation houses for the benefit of the patients Authorities declare that the pres ent is a critical time in tho lives of ; many of the disabled ex service men ! who during the five years since the armistice have developed misgivings of recovery. Work Among the "Regulars" Service to the enlisted men of ths : Army. Navy and Marine Corps is a charter obligation of the Red Cross, , which in the last year recorded over 200 0i)0 cases of assistance extended j and V14.420 visits to the sick and dis abled Inquiries by the Red Cross at th>> request of Government author!- I !!??* into the ho!: ?? conditions of sol diers. .sailors and marines aggregated . 17 7 It. and there were nearly fi.OQO instances where the Red Cross loeat- 1 ? d men for their families All these activities constituting a; -;ngl.> responsibility of thn American j Red Cross demonstrated during the year that its "war service" in b"ha!f Of the veteran and tho man enlist, d : in fh?- n.ition's defensive arms must ?o forward unfalteringly and wi?h on? stint of funds. The work of the i la^t five years has welded a close bor. 1 of regard betvwen tho men who ' sacrificed and the Red Cross, whose , i .Tor* - are praised and Indorsed by , the veterans' organizations. To do ' all that can be done fo soften the'eon- ! of iltn W.?wm of wtkf i '? supreme d"J*V of the ?'.-?d Cross. ;r, r. '* " ~ ' it s b^ .-l ?ork and moat lib : v r* ;cc. TUB FAITH OF THE FATHERS. "Beware of Bureaucracy" Wa? Their Warning Cry. John Basil BarnhiU, in the Dearborn Inde|>endent. You can trust the people, but you cannot trust the politicians.? -Patrick Henry. Other liberties are held under gov ernment, but the liberty of opinion keeps governments themselves in duo subjection to their duties. ? Lord Krskine. The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. 'Where there is least liberty the pas sion for power is the most ardent and unscrupulous. ? John Stuart Mill. Like almost all his contemporaries La Rochefoucauld saw in politics little more than a chessboard where the people at large were but pawns, and the glory and profit were reserved to the nobility. ? Encyclopedia Britan nica. Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when Jo reap, we should soon want bread. ? Jefferson. Just as a man, at a certain age, passes into second childhood, so all nations, during their period of deca dence, manifest a return to bureau cratic forms. ? Wordsworth Donis thrope. ? ? Progress necessarily depends on moral factors, moral leadership, moral responsibility. But the first thing the government does on assuming a new function is to declare its irresponsibil ity. The citizen cannot enter its courts and sue for justice. ? -Yves Guyot. The people who, in their corporate capacity, abolish the natural relation between merits and benefits, will presently be abolished themselves. ? Herbert Spencer. Corruption is the soul of centraliza tion. It would make a scoundrel out of a saint to give him unlimited power in spending other people's money. I do verily believe . that a single con solidated government would become the most corrupt government on the ea r t h . ? J off erson. Bureaucracies always try to sup press agitation, but without agitation society would become hopelessly stag nant arid corrupt. ? Wendell Phillips. Government is always stupid, slow, wasteful, corrupt. With its essential limitations it is qualified to be merely a watchdog; we are lucky if it is merely an honest one.? Herbert Spen n eer.. Government at its beat is a neces sary evil: at its worst an intolerable one.- -Thomas Paine. No history is copious enough to record the evils that have ensued upon the dep^a\.t^f ^j^rAy.-r-Greville Mc Donald. Under a complete bureaucracy no means could be found by which public resistance to official aggression could be organized. ? Max Hirseh. It is a universal tradition, founded on universal experience, that man is corrupt by power. John Stuart Mill. Where everything is done through the bureaucracy, nothing to which the bureaucracy is adverse can be done at all.-^-John Stuart Mill. The crimes of history may be sum med up in the words ? abuse and power. The teaching of history is that power is always abused. ? John Stuart Blackie. The^graves and moat instructive fact revealed to us by this grand spec tacle of civilisation, is the danger, the unsumountable evil, of absolute power in any form. ? Guizot. .Under a bureaucracy, "the individ ual withers and the state is more and more." What has destroyed the liberty and the rights of man in every govern* ment which has existed under the sun ? The cbncentrating all cares and powers into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France or of the aristocrats of the Venetian senate. ? Jefferson. The Deadly Logic of Bureaucracy; What is everybody's business is no body's business; what is everybody's profit is nobody's profit; what is everybody's loss is nobody's loss; therefore, if the government squan ders billions (of your money) no one has lost anything. Why should the government spend money "like a drunken sailor?" Why should it not do so? It is only 'spend ing other people's money. These staggering losses, impersonal and im perceptible at the moment, are not felt till mounting taxes and a depre ciated dollar brings home to the peo ple that thousands of "lame ducks" filling utterly useless "soft govern ment jobs" cannot have their cake Without eating the people's cake. The British auxiliary schooner Lou- j ise F., was captured olT the coast of | Florida Monday after a three-hour ' chase by prohibition officers within (the twelve-mile limit. The schooncr, j a rum runner, had on board 3,900 cases of liquor, valued at $375,000. Helping The R?ral Carrier*. It has been mentioned before, but perhaps it will not be amias to say something about it again. What is said only relates to the people who live bn the rural mail routes and the rural carriers. Usually a rural car ier has to keep going to make his rounds on schedule time, and a de lay of a minute or two here and a minute or two there and maybe five minutes somewhere else counts up to an hour after a while and the lost time means either late arrival at the home office or a speeding up of the old hoss or the car to make it on time. Rural route patrons are responsible for some of the delays of the rural carriers. They don't make them selves the cause of the delay iuten tionally ? truth is it is almost always a case of thoughtlessness on the part of the patron "rothe rural mail ser vice. The rural carriers don't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody ? wouldn't do it for anything. But the source of much delay and perhaps sometimes annoy ance and perhaps cause for use of a swear word is the habit that some people have of dropping a letter in ? box and then dropping in two pennies to pay the postage. The carrier comes along and finds the letter with no stamp. He has to look for the pennies and dig out the stamp and attach to the letter. Sometimes this is quite annoying. Just try it yourself, pick ing up two slick pennies out of the botton of a metal box, and especially if you have on gloves or your fingers are a bit cold. The best way and the easiest way is for every letter writer to lay in a supply of stamps or stamp ed envelopes and use them so that when a letter is placed in the box it is ready for the rural carrier to pick tip, simplifies the operation and the car rier doesn't lose his temper. Just a little matter of giving some consider ation to the other fellow and he wilP appreciate the thoughtfulnesa. ? York ville Enquirer. Cadet Owns Powerful Radio. Greenville, Nov. 7. ? John B. Knight, son of J. Broadus Knight, in broad casting from his radio station here, was heard on September 6th in Sale, Cheshire, England, according"' to a postcard received from W. R. Burn, of Sale. Young Knight is a cadet at the Citadel and is reported to have one of the most powerful amateur stations in the world. He has been heard on the Pacific coast and in all parts of # the United States. His station is 4DX. 1600 Acres Farm Land Near Camden South Carolina Monday, November 26th At 1 0:30 A. M. This farm is known as the Red Bank farm, now belong ing to F. M. Wooten, located on the Charleston Road?' 8 miles from Camden, S. C., and is one of the best farms in the State of South Carolina. This farm has been sub divided into small tracts, giving each tract a good road frontage. There are two good 6-room houses with all nec essary out buildings on this farm; also 16 tenant houses and outbuildings; there are also two tile silos. This will be a grand opportunity to buy a small farm, well located. Every tract will be sold at the price you are willing to pay. Sold on easy terms. FORI) CAR G IVEN AWAY ! GOOD MUSIC ! Sale Conducted by PENNY BROS., World's Original Twin Auctioneers AMERICAN LAND COMPANY J. M. MILLIKAN, Manager." GREENSBORO, C.