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A LOTTERY WITHOUT A WINNER f By W. R MOREHOUIE RwMk on. Anvchun B?nk??m /tA#r? m artMBlW lirmirt lk? Am ?/ N>V4 / aniclM ?<n?o# U? ?<Im # xU ?r? ?/Ur wwr> / ALMOST unbelievable amounts are lost to the American people annually from unwise ventures. This loss, estimated at nearly one billion dollars a year, is accounted for when you take into consideration that practically ail of the money "invested" in numerous fake schemes and half-baked projects is forfeited by the investors. In presenting this series of articles regarding Sharp practices and various kinds of swindles we hope to prevent thousands of people from falling into the traps already set for them by irresponsible and unscrupulous promoters Through ths use of only actual cases selected from several thousand, it is hoped to prove conclusively the futility of taking a "gambler's chance" with your savings, for as in a lottery without a winner you are bound to lone. Much of the material here used has been supplied by the Better Business Bureaus throughout the United States which are nonprofit organisations serving the investor without charge and acting wholly in the public interest. Read these cases and an nie them away for future reference, for sootier or later you may find yourself on the verge of "taking a leap In the dark",?of speculating with your savings as the people here told about were ii(o p ? 1 4i -gooa nomtr kM ytt ever ?>n ?ashed 4m1i tku may othfr om Ma|. Every Ineapoulbl* promoter ^itUUiu In putting on m "good freet" In hit dealings with tbooo eh sis ho fleeces out of their savings. Whether or not ho Is successful Is das Is a largo degree on bow good a front ha U sblo to pat on In motion pto teres, the sets, or "props" as they are called, supply the sotting for the scans They are used to portray Shtags that seem largo, things that sees grand and beautiful. Peer behind those aele and what do you see (hers? You see that the attractive flsaate are supported hy braces asado of the cheapest, knottiest a?d poorest timber Imaginable Tbey serve their purpose injjtxm said of make-believe, but In real Me you cannot aJTord to buy Satanic cuolu^iwjr (all in 11m with their intended victim's likes mad die likes, his viewpoint and his hobby, mad vhto they hare gained his fa tor and trust they grow mora and mors eeafideatial, presently taking a great interest In bis welfare and happiness. Before long they are offering ad rice and pointing oat how be can better his own interests by making a new die position of hla available cash or by selling his present good securities and baying others recommended by them Your promoter will draw upon yeur imagination and paint a picture of a scheme by which you can make tboo ealj good fronts. Ycir fceeee must have reai rooms behind it, jour purchases and investments real values In the field of wild eat financing !f jou peer be fciad the "good fron." which the promoter putb on jou villi find that It lo wpported only bj deception, dishon otj and fraud Unscrupulous persons of the "good front" tjpe are expert sctors in the mis of "big brother" to inexperienced taveetors with moaej at their command. Ae protector and advisor to Iki widow and the inexperienced, which thej claim to be, thej are in , mailtj wolvee In sheep's clothing. Gaining the Victim's Confidence la personal appearance thej are Impressive. As conversationalists thsj ere convinclag. As atudeata of the traits of human nature thej rate Mgfc. la short, thej know how to Otatk their prej succeseftxllj. With (Ta* ???! artteh tm (Ms trriet *HU I ptfW / tk? inwUry hp wMc* U? unv?r | The Lure of Easy Money * rands ot uouars without effort or risk.?he may describe i some invention selling for an astoundI lng sum. or depict the prospects of a I fabulous mine or otl company that is : going to double and treble in value over nlghL As a climax he may paint the picture of a vine-covered cottage which Is to be yours in your old age. with Its radiantly burning Are on the hearth and with all the luxuries that go with a happy home. And finally, he may paint you silting before this fire, happy and contented?independent for life, as the result of an Investment made according to his advice. But there is a great difference be tween what you get and what the wild-cat promoter paints in the imagination of his victims. By the lure of easy money he leads them over the precipice of financial ruin. Instead of old-age ease and comforts there usu ally results poverty and privation fell of o eicvcr tchcmt practiced in mmy y are robbed of ISetr nonry ) W R MORlHOUU MORE HORSEPOWER FOR FARM RELIEF AU proposed plana hare thus tar failed to preside the tarmer with farm relief by increasing hla selling prices Industry, bowtrer, met a somewhat Hollar situation by lowering the coat < production A similar solution can be auccesefully applied to agriculture The Increasing of production p*?r srorker on the farm U being met to a certain extent by using larger unit* ?? power, whether horse or mechanical Where do* man was using a stng'e horse or team he la bow using from 1 to 8 horses, (has increasing 'be ground covered from two to fire times By the use of latter power units h-.re labor can be reduced or eliminated An analysis of raising corn dlrid-i costs according to the following Isnd . . FS perveei Ubor t? errant I\>w?r tC I? arrr*ni Of tbewr items one can t>* ?oasvc cred stationary name > ih? ksnd roe ftgtboi and p. eel -re ?-. ehSe so - bare been the mam obstructions 10 lower production costs. Larger power units are doing much to decrease labor factors A^bo. larger power units if used over larger farm areas can do much to lower the frower percentage Professor J. B. Davidson, senior agricultural engineer. United States De pertmeot of Agriculture, summing up Inv??tlga?k>nsl work In tC states, of fer* this equation for farming: i _ <H ? When t" li>oom? "ft" is eetiinc prtc* f" ts c*>st of pr--^luoi ion \J is the (joantlir of praSse tlor Professor Davidson stales '"Where quantity of produc;l'?n ts held upper most one flr.d* prosperous farmers who plan to farm, more acres althou t tacreaeing the overhead " Corn controls central western culture In that area the acreage one man can farm is dependent os the number be can caittvate With (ht single row cultivator be was unable to cultivate more than four to eeven acrev per day The two row cultivator doubted this amount Three and four row cultivators are now on the mar k?t?even six res wore aoed this era -?<a It cwlUvat? A ftp arres per day Highoot Dmty of Hon. to "Sorvm tho World" Life U u codices qm*i umI lu 1 will! to 4tUrwh>fd bj vtol w? rs looking for. It to ftot b^ nMr/ j ttol we itoll ted wkat we iwb. wri*? ?t a invdwtiMd |t?l and be to* to aware oumlvM wad tbe world triumphantly that tbe thing we bare attalbed U exactly what we always wasted. What matters frtaUjf to ttot we shall omUdm to strive end wwi coward It baa been etaety said (bat It to better to travel t*>pe fail/ (ban to arrive Aad **a tuatt ait a aa winy risks aa be raaa." Bat a mere restlessness doee sot wake a nfatlme oobla asd fruitful CVtodly. though limitless asd as appeased. of Itself proteose nalidng. We bawa toe aeorb witb aa tboee wbo wtab to be eiectrtBed continually by be ttojUi aborb of freab thrill* asd nnibaa fhcagh tbe react loo leavea them Spent, They eeem to bcUm tbe weetd waa made to amoae tbem; tbey are ea took era at a play, at roll ova through a maceum. perpetoai goeets at a teaet of bounty aad of beauty, whoever remain* outride and as fed Tbey seed a vial on; and It la forever true that "where there la so vl alon tbe people periab." Tbey need to eee that tbe world though made for each of aa. aa Browolng aald, waa mode that we might aerve It and not merely uae It; might give to it and wet almply take therefrom, and might add by tbe contribution of our tolling Uvea and thinking mloda to the am total of the truth and goodness that we found when we came here. Of Utile ^vail la tbe queet If the outcome, to but treasure trove that we put by for ouraeivea; and we are bound by tbe fact of our humanity aa well aa by our Inheritance of the divine to remember always that "the beet thing! any mortal hath are those that every mortal shares."- Philadelphia Led | ger. Potato Rich in Viiaminet The potato la an Important source of vitamins B?the anii-neurltlc vltamine, whose lack causes the die ease known aa beri beri. According to F. J. Lyman and Ines Blystone of the laboratory of applied chemistry at Ohio unlveralty. this essential element la distributed uniformly throughout the potato, and la stable both during cooking and storage. Meager tn calories, the white potato supplies about 12 per cent of the American dietary. Mr. Lyman and Miss Blystone have conducted a series of experiments In which they have found that rats throve and grew Ht a normal rate on a diet containing as much as SO per rent potatoes. When put on a diet of only 40 j?er rf?nt potatoes from wl.;< h other foods containing vltamlne B vv -ex eluded the rats showed a rap' 1 define In condition, which disappeared as soon hk a sufficient quantity "f vltamlne B was again supplied. Ne iv Death-Dealing Device A "death-noise." instead n? a "deathray" has i?eeri discussed before the Na ti'-nal Araderny of S< it-i es. The " lewtli-no!s?* v"uld have tuft! Inatidibie to human ears, out it consisted of s?>und wave. P)st ti.e .at e. and it kill? < 1 stnai. IN he* ate] otl-?*r aquatic animals In v? >*? !* of water in less than a minute. I'.y means of an elec' rb-al apparatus. high frequency sound waves have iveen generated at a rate of from lfsi.nri to -pXHVm -0 Sec?>nd: the upper limit of audibility to human ears is between LO.OtX) and j&mhio If a beam of these sound waves is directed toward the surface of the water, the surface is heaped up In a mound The vibrations heat the water, a rise of nearly six degrees centigrade in one uoitute having been recorded. Jap? Urged to Drink Milk Miik is to i>e introduced In Jupan as ? means of enlarging the stature of the people of Nippon. As the result of an investigation conducted by health authorities, it has boon found that the lack in the diet of the bone and teeth building minerals, calcium, phosphorus and lirue. Is n primary con tributlng cause for the smallneia In stature of the Japanese Milk users, the officials reported, have been those peoples who are large, strong and rig orous. and who have reduced their infant mortality rate. In no other food, they said, was there as plentiful sup ply of the necessary bone-building ma terlale.. Looking Far Into Fat are Itwlght !>. Rogers of Providence, R. L; Dr. James D. Gold of Bridgeport, Conn., and J. Benjamin Sedgwick of Plttsfleld' were a committee of three. In charge of tbe centennial celebra tlon of the North Cornwall (Conn.) Congregational church. The three were appointed to the committee juat fifty years ago. The aeaqoic*ntennlal committee, which will have charge of the exercises fio years hence, con* prises the following boys and girls: Jamea Rogers. Benjamin Gold, Oliver M. Hart and Alberta Hurlburt. Fh-et Paper From Wood "According to an old, old legend, tbe Chinese first learned to make pa per by watching the wasp build her neat," one learns from "Modern A led dins and Their Magic." by Charles E. Bosh and Amy Wlnslow. -a China man, watching the wasp one day, dla eoeered that she took a bite of wood, chewed ft tnto pasta, and smeared It en her neat. Wbea tbe paste became dry It terned Into something like our paper Thus the Chinese learned te (bake paper from wood long before ay ether people la the world." ; Bigham Picks Beans Columbia, June 21.?Edmund D. Bigham, serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for murder in connection with the slaying ofutive members of the Bigham family in Florence county six years ago, has been devoting much of his time since he began his term two months ago to care of a bean patch in the prison J yard. His two months of outdoor work, the first since his arrest in 1U21, have taken away the prison pallor from his cheeks, and reduced his weight fourteen pounds. Orangeburg Man Killed Orangeburg, June 20.?Hubert W. O'Cain, young white farmer, and son of Sam O'Cain, who lives near this city, was killed late Saturday night J when the automobile in which he was i riding near Jamison, about seven j miles from this city, turned over sevteral times. The neck and other parts I of the body were broken and death ; was probably instantaneous, i , WOMAN KILLS WOMAN And Badly Wound* Former Hustpmi At ColunMi " ' ~ Columbia, June 18.?Mrs. Alma Horn, also known as Mrs. Alma Finklea, is dead, Joe M. Stalvey, 28 year old carpenter was in the hospital with a bullet wound in the neck and ! Lillie Densdaill, also known as Lillie Stalvey, waa in the city jail here tonight charged with shooting both the man and the woman whom she found together in an automobile parked in an alley. The Densdaill woman immediately after the shots were fired ran to the street and surrendered to policemen approaching the scene. According to the statement made by George Stalvey, father of the wounded map who was standing by the automobile and talking to his son at the time the Densdaill woman approached the party as they were talking and fired five shots from a revolver, he tried to catch her but said she ran to the street, stumbling as she fled. The shooting occurred about 8:30 o'clock tonight. Lillie Densdaill, who the eider StalI vey declares Is not married to his j son though he says they have three | children, had previously made threats against the younger Stalvey and Mrs. Horn, who, according to the father's statement, had been going together for a year or more. Lodged in jail tonight, Lillie declared that she had hitended to shoot both Joe Stalvey and S^rs. Horn, according to City Detective\J. B. Quick, but was sorry now that she had done so. Quick also said that as the woman approached him, fleeing from the scene of the shooting, she said "I done it, Mr. Quick." Joe Stalvey, accordi:.g to his father's statement, had been sued for non-support more than once by Lillie. The seriousness of his injuries were ! not determined tonight. : Feasting His Eyes Mrs. Corntassel. from the rura' districts, stopped her husband at the city's busy corner. "Hiram." she expostulated, "the way you stare at the limbs of those shameless city hussies is something scandalous. One would think you'd ne.er seen legs afore." "Well, Maria," drawled Mr. Corntassel. "that's just what I was beginnin' to think myself." Colli** Hor?# Cave, ***** ?' Floyd CollL^M oument in Sand Ca*1"r,#B I Uiere attrtcUd the ^||4 j nation, has been pltftj* Crystal <W P ** I After Collins' body J from Km rwj Cave wh?,i? waled op for ?evet?| ? Mrburu.1 over Cry.ui P.3M Monday, Dr. Harry a TfchH dentist who own, twM the casket removed f Placed in the (frand c.sJtM C ave. 280 feet under ewfl -The top of the !ZU fastened down,- he uTM answer to question,, %!, tional with people whefcl^l at the body itself or tSM Kl**s top. It is in a preservation. Carlo. Hector Appoint* Columbia, June 16?<S , G. Richards this after J the appointment of C?j9 | a member of his con?h2H ?"d a former sheriff of^l county, to sUcceed tJu JM Sam D. Willi,, killed i?ZB at Greenville .Saturday mid* The newly appointed she* Columbia late this sfterno* out waiting to receive hie conuM whtch will probsW, reach bit onlay at which lime after anM * 'mod he will take over t'nil ?f the office. He i, forty-twf ?' age and a brother of the hm ^rix Rector, sheriff of Grf co n//' 'n w^? was Ml?Governor Richards in aJ f **** m&gm&Bt of Rector J he had not applied for the * that he had been warmly en^l numerous friends and acqu* I " ? 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