The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 13, 1928, Image 2
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CROSS CROSSINGS CAUTIOUSLY
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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*'
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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8efety gasoline tank at rear.
Larger balloon tires 30" a 4.50".
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A. C. oil filter.
A. C. air cleaner.
Single-plaiffiry disc-clutch.
New prankcaic breathing
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New two port exhaust.
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