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?egii-i. ..Mi. j. j CROSS CROSSINGS CAUTIOUSLY sy? . Winning Essay , in Crammar School Group, in Confe-at Conducted. (Tht' following essay, * which was written by Clifford C. Clarke, of Erie, I'a., received the firet prize of $2f>() in the nation wide safety content conducted by the American Railway Association, designed to reduce the mounting toll of i r?jurit*? and deaths due to accidents at grade crossings). Recoitis of ci'oa&ing accidents leveal four outstanding facts: Conditions are usually deceving and dangerous. Odds arc overwhelmingly against the motorist. Responsibility falls mainly on the motorist. Motorists appear insensive to these facts. Education, instructive, coercive and exemplary, is the remedy. Drivers must be brought to fully realize the dangers of intersection and the fundamental folly of inviting them by either omission or commission. Also, that responsibility for collision is primarily theirs. The train follows a determined course, passes u known point, advertises its approach more clearly, has no liberty of time, requires greater stopping distance, etc. "If You Are Wise." At the intersecting point you face these "driving" facts. If you are wise you will therefore: Consider the odds against you. Remember your duty to everybody Obey traffic rules closely. Study crossing accidents. See how it might huvu been you. Sacrifice everything to safety. Concede trains preference always. Reckon with possible machine fail ure. Operate sanely and fitly only. Stop, Ixiok, Listen. Suppress all "chance taking." Insist on quiet concern from everybody. Never trust to the engineer. Guard every angle of approach. Secure for emergency. He cannot *> swerve to avoid you. Consult records. They show autus constnnt losers. Apply simple arithmetic?30 miles an hour pquals 4.r> feet a second. Use your head. Train against excitability. Impress yourself with yout le.sponsibility. Omit no details of precaution. Under-estimate no "remote possibilities." Satisfy yourself thoroughly. Let nothing divert your attention Yield to no unsafe counsel. -) try, blackest of all black sheep, ha- just betrayed his one-millionth victim. Trained ( > lead a procession ot sheep through the long runways ot the Chicago -to yards, upon reaching a certain pen he sidesteps and the rest proceed to their death. A bed of live clams was unearthed by a steam shovel excavating in the side of the bluff twenty miles south of Kureka, California, and about the same distance inland from the Pacific Ocean. The bluff was 120 feet above sea level and SO feet above the Lei River. Placed in water the i * s exhibited unmistakable s:gn*' l\ FAMOUS "SLASHER" DIES George I ay lor. Convict for Twentynine Years. Washington, .Ian. t?.?George Taylor. alias George .Jones, otherwise known as the original "Jack the Slasher," died at St. Elizabeth's asylum on Christ ma- Eve. it w as announced by the authorities todayafter a final vain search for relatives of the famous prisoner. Through out the nearly 20 years since his confinement in tin1 Federal asylum, the authorities had made futile attempts to !o ate his kin. "The Slasher" earned the name by t< - orizing tin iapital for manv months in 1SS7. breaking into homes arrtr cutting to pieces thousands of (i'.lats worth of valuable furnituie and clothing. His depredations cul initiated in his capture by the police after a pistol battle near the capital. Jack s real name was never known; in the records it wa> "George ray lor. He was hopelessly insane fronji the day of his entry into that inst repeatedly claiming to b-> 20,lK)0 years old and the owner of Hundreds of acres of diamonds. From the time of his apprehension as a law-breaker he never mentioned relatives or friends. Gn April 12, 1Kt* t, he w as convicted in the District of Columbia on three charges of house-breaking and sentenced to 30 years in prison 10 years on each acount. He was sent to Auburn Prison, N. Y.. hut on July 14, 1890, becoming insane, was transferred to St. Elizabeth's where he remained until his death, caused by cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 60. His body will be interred in the emetery . ( ;he asylum. 1 FLORIDA FRUIT DAMAGfp Frefzln* We*(hcr Reported Ail ,F?r South Ah Orlando Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 5,-?Florida's fruit belt buffered it* worst cold wave of the year Sunday night and Monday, with forecasts of continued blizzard-like weather, growers are taking piecautiona againat further damage to corps. Freezing weather was reported as fur south us Orlando, where the thermometer dipped to the freezing point in the citrus producting areas Jacksonville, with 22 degrees, witnessed much damage to orange groves in its vicinity. North of Orlando and westward toward Tampa tin- cold wuve brought a heavy frost that cut down young vegetable crops, ('older weather is predicted for tonight and a much heavier damage to crops and fruits <>s feared, according to A. J. Mitchell, United States weather observer, who said officially that the freeze would inflict heavy damages. The Florida State Marketing Bureau here is now making a survey of the State to determine the freeze damage and its estimates will be announced tomorrow. It was stated unofficially that the loss to growers would approximate several thousand dollars. Youthful Murderer Electrocuted Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 6.?Calm and silent to the last, Floyd Hewitt, 17year-old slayer of Mrs. Fred Brown and her five-year-old son of Conneamut, went to his death in the electric chair at the Ohio penitentiary tonight. Hewitt, the youngest Ohio murderer to pay the supreme penalty by electrocution, was a bedraggled figure as he was led into the death chamber, his long black hair hanging low over his face. Not a word came from him, nor did he show any sign of emotion after a first starled look when he stepped into the room. The current was turned on at 7:41 p. m., and two minutes later he was pronounced dead. Bootleg Briber. W. B. Hildebrand tells of an interesting ex|>erience with a bootleg crook, with plenty of dirty money, (living his name as Roj Oxner, said to be from Columbia. he offered Hildebrand a thousand dollars down and one hundred dollars a month during the balance of his term of office provided he would resign at once. This was increased to 200 dollars a month. The officer went to Solicitor H yd rick with a view of prosecution. The law books were ransacked with the iesu!t that the solicitor could find no statute to apply to a case of the kind where it was simply a matter of Tying to secure a resignation. Mr. Hydrick * an able lawyer and couldn't find it. it is naturally presumed that it is not there. Technicalities and a great nuisance?especially so in a case like this, it is a pity that a crook like that couldn't be made to pick rock for a season <>r two at least. - Calhoun Times. GRANT'S FORECASTS On Weather Are Proving to l?e Nearly Correct. Chester, Jan. -1.?J. Mtftain Grant. Chester county's long-distance weather forecaster, had added another laurel to his hundreds by scoring 100 pei cent on the frigid wave that has gripped this section for the past few days. Grant m his lorecast published in this paper early in October had this to say in regard to December: "A regular storm period is central on the 29th and a Venus disturhanc" on the 31st. Warmer at the beginning of this period in the west traveling east ward followed by increasing cloudiness, rain turning to snow, followed h\ .clearing and a cold wave on the opening days of January." Mr. Grant says "this wintei is a return of the old-fashioned cold winter. However, this will only h?a preaide to the extra cold winter of 1928-29." He likewise toiiiast, as he has been, doing for a number of years that 1929-30 will also be another cold w nter, but will be somewhat modified : comparison with 1928-29. which w:l. be a winter that will remind one ot the blasts of ice and snow that swept over this nation and over Kurope during the winter of 1917-18, when the sleet and snow remained on th* ground for over a month. A rather singular thing those thai, have followed Mr. Grant's forecasts for many years will recall that he pied'Oted far ahead the terribly t rig id winter 1917-18. This Christmas Mr. Grant was the recipient of letters and presents from many of his admirers throughout the nation, some thanking him by wor 1 and others in * more concrete way for his successful forecasts, and howmuch they had meant to them iti many ways. _ ^ * Speed This is an age of speed. Kvery make of automobile going on the market for 15#2H is faster than before. It is faster for ordinary, every-day use, not just for teat purpose*. The automobile manufacturer* have met the demand for swifter machine*. But unless traffic regulation* are strictly observed, 1U28 is likely to see an unprecedented number lives sacrificed on the altar to the j god of speed. The situation culls for a general tightening up on the part of those responsible for the enforcement of speed laws. Tedestrian and motorist alike must be forced to obey the laws or be punished. It is better that they suffer mildly than that they die. If botQ motorists and pedestrians obey the rules, many lives will be saved and nobody will be really in convenienced. And if everybody obeys the regulations, traffic will move faster, too. Don't take a chance, for you may make it your last one. Breeders and trainers of canaries claim that both the voice and the temper of the songsters are spoiled by jazz music. NEW AIR LINE PROJECTED j t / J Charlotte, Cheraw, (Columbia, Savannah and Ortfiuboro In It. - Columbia, Jan. 3.?Plans to incorporate an organization for the establishment of airports in the southeast were perfected at a conference here by representatives of five cities. The cities represented were Cb-, lumbia, Charlotte, Augusta, Ga., Savannah, Ga., and Cheraw, S. C, The representatives voted to invito Jacksonville, Fla., and Greensboro, N. C., to join the organization. According to plans discussed tonight, each city will be asked to contribute about $200 toward a basic fund for the establishment of the landing fields. 'Hie rest of the j I money is to be raised through private ! sources? The corporation \yill be named the South Atlantic Airports, Inc. Representatives of the .cities affected will meet ugain in Columbia February 15 to perfect further plans. Forty thousand roses are required to produce one ounce of attar of roses. Kidnapsd Bay Bfa cuef by Bid Dag When Judson Jo nee,, ten-year-old boy of Baltsburg, Pa., was on his way to school one day recently he was asked by a stranger to ride in an automobile. The man speeded away, evidently with the intention of kidnaping the boy. Judson's pet dog, "Lidny," gave chase pnd finally caught up with the car in a traffic jam near Pittsburgh, The man stapped out of the car to look at his tires, when the dog pounced savagely upon him. Thereupon Judson got out of the car and was able to make his escape, with Lindy following.?Our Dumb Animals. Harry A Mackey was on Tuesday inducted into office as the 111th mayor of the city of Philadelphia, succeeding W. Freeland Kendrick. H<& declared himself for an "unrelenting, neverceasing war on crime." Novone Salvador, a sailor, swam 600 yards from the wrecked Italiaii tanker Clituano in the Black sea a few days ago, to carry u line to Hhore, over which the crew of 32 men were dragged to safety. Salvador lost his own life by freezing to death. John Evelyn, an Englishman, mention of the salad in his diary]? years ago. An excerpt reads: is a particular combination of certM I crude and fresh herbs, such atH.A uully arc, or may be, saf< ly eil , JE with acetous juice, oil, salt, etc,? give them a grateful gust and hide/ ** pssMaasHMvinsMj I 1 For colds, grip^H and fkt take fl 1 alotaLs I ||^B '+ 1 '! ': 'I 1 * , > > j pA iB FzggiBZC^zzizsaiL': - ---^ -. 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New Duco colors. Theft-proof steering and Ignition lock. A. C. oil filter. A. C. air cleaner. Single-plaiffiry disc-clutch. New prankcaic breathing system. New two port exhaust. Heavy one piece full crown fender*. Alemite pressure lubrication. Vacuum tank fuel supply. Improved Delco-Remy distributor ignition. J, Combination tail and stop light. CLYLlL Large 17' steering wheel with spark and throttle levers located on top. Rear view mirror. ' / mL 1 I Wheel . B VBrakes) MB U VBf X 1 - ifiy JPrices Reduced |fl Roadster $4951 Til y ? Touring Jpwi Coupe $595^| I The Four-Door Sedan ?JnJI?H The Sport '* *??j9 Cabriolet ?PWfl -The Imperial <j?h1K| Landau Light DeliV?ry ?q7S| (Chassis Only) Utility Truck AiAtl (Chassis Only) All Price.F. O. B. Flint, MiA ^ Welsh Motor Company 1 North Broad Street Camden, S.C. M quality a t j- o w cost.