The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 04, 1928, Image 3
[ Braves the Arctic
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Captain George H. Wilkins, who
with hi' co-pilot, the Alaskan mail
flier Carl lb EilSon. startled the
aviation and scientific world by
completing a flight from Point Barrow,
Alaska, to Green Harbor,
Spit'/lwtgen. Among other danger*,
| the <1 starvation.
The hig dam making the reservoir
>r the Greenville water supply is beg
watched closely since it developed
crack and water is seeping under it. I
has 110 feet of water behind it now;
id a capacity for 130 feet head of
ater, is 600 feet long and 700 feet
ide at the base. Residents below it
t alert because of the seepage nod
ack, which at first was said to bo
consequential by the engineers in
large of the dam.
10 WE NEED
SOUTH AMERICA?
'Yes," Answers Edward
Tomlinson, Distinguished
Redpath Lecturer.
Is Southern Neighbors Will Mean
re to United States lit Future
Than Europe.
. As
Latin-America, which bought a
a and a half dollars' worth of
(lettired goods from us last year,
Stun s best potential customer?
at do these La'ttn-Americ&ns
of us, and what do we think of
aat do wo really know about wonSouth
America?
Iward Tomlinson, writer and auIty
on I.atin-Amerlcan affairs, will
uss these questions and many-.otfe^
In the light of his attendance at
recent Tan-American Conference
lavana, and of his detailed per1
Investigations in South America
1 he speaks here on ttye ^opening
l of Redpath Week.
" Tomlinson attended the .Conice
as special writer for the New
[ Herald-Tribune, -- ile - gives &
. lucid account c? the workings
Conference, interspersed with
thumb-nail word^ttffcs of
interesting personalities ns our
1 ambassador of th<^3fV:XlndL
Charles Evans I&gh?9, ^r"
ez of itrazfi, Judge Bustamente
iba, Maunua of Peru, V^reln of
. . u. j t'rreaon or Argentina
^Bother notables.
r- Tomlinson bns been an unotobserver
In South America and
an extensive survey ot the
republics. Here, In the broad
^B* nini fertile valleys ot thld Tast
^B stretching aweyjtenenth the
^Bhem Cross, he" getting
for the next greet net In
^^orld-drsma of civilisation.
^B< Tomlinson knows ftouth-AinerlVd
South Americans, end he tells
^Bt them informally and eotertaln^B
in bis popular lectttte, "The
^B^k or the Americas,** wbhh he
L Edward tomlinson
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LINDBERGH JOINS
SELECT COMPANY
Now Member of the "Did It
Alone" Club.
Washington,?He did it uloi*t
Col. diaries A. Lindbergh has
Joined a choice compuny of solo explorers
and adventurers, because "he
did It alone.'*
Dr. David Livingstone. Henry Sttuiley,
Alexander Selkirk (Uobluaon Crusoe),
CapL Joshua Slocum, Cupt.
Harry Ftdgeon, Lieut. Andrew ?.
Howan, John Colter, and 81r Galahad,
did It aloue.
"Adventurers 'on their owu' have
earned the world's best glory
wreaths," says a bulletin from the
Washington beadtjuurtors of the National
Geographic society.
"David Livingstone sleeps In Westminster
abbey because, traveling hy
hluisolf, he reveuled the geography of
the dark heart of Africa. David Livlngstone
was lost three yenrs to "the
world when Henry Stanley?alone, except
for native carrfors?cut through
the Congo to reach Livingstone at
UJ1J1 and leave supplies and medical
equipment for the missionary explorer.
"The solo adventbrer who carried
the 'message to Garcia,' like Colonel
Lindbergh, wore the American uniform,
Libert Hubbard told the etory
which thrilled and still thrills; bow
the young officer on the eve of the
Spanish-American war took the mes- \
sage from President McKinfey for the
commander of the Cuban Insurgents
deep In the trackless forest; how he
crossed to Cuba, braving capture and
death as a spy If caught; how he delivered
the message to Geueral Garcia
which put hope In the hearts of Cubans,
Sailed*Around the World.
"Difficulty In making a living In
New England prompted Cupt. Joshua
Slocum to embark on un adventure
par excellence. Alone he salted the
'Spray* around the world. Last year
Capt. Harry Pidgeon -also circumnavigated
the world in a still smaller boat,
The Islander,' a yawl 34 feet long
and 10 feet 0 inches on the beam. He
returned to Los Angeles, his home
port, after an absence of three years,
eleven months and thirteen days. On
ope leg of his voyage Captain Pidgeon
did not see a speck of land, a sail, nor
the smoke plume of a steamer for 85
days.
"Courage when It goes alone has
ever caught men's Imaginations. The
early .bards gave Oalnhnd, Beowulf
and St. George, the dragon slayer, no
weapon bearers or assistants. More
is the credit to the traveled Gulliver,
to the Connecticut Yankee In King
Arthur's court and to Jack the Giant
Killer, in the opinions of enthusiastic
readers, because they did their deeds
without aid. 'The boy stood on the
burning deck,' and the poet, who kfie#
the public's preference for heroes,
added, 'whence all but he had fled '
"51 any lone adventurers have died
lonely. This has been true of trail
makers In the Middle and Far West.
While Daniel Boone and Dnvid Thompson,
he who mapped by himself the
country between Lake Superior and
the Pacific coast, made their chief expeditions
with helpers, each traveled
much alone, John Colter left an estate
of $230, although he accompanied
Lewis and Clark and by himself discovered
what is now Yellowstone
pqrk. Colter's story shows one of
the hazards of traveling alone; no one
would believe his. descriptions of Yellowstone
wonders because he had no
partner to confirm them.
"In a cemetery In Shanghai stands
a solitary headstone to Frank N.
. Meyer, plant explorer, who by introducing
new plant varieties Into the
United States, "did much to promote
American agriculture.- Although 51 eyer
had Chinese helpers he pursued
constructive adventure without white
companions and finally sacrificed his
life in * Yangtze river accident
Alone In Ohlna.
"Out In China at the present time
Is Dr. Joseph Rock, who prefers to
travel alone. His hazardous Jourh^ys
to Tibet and Yunnan have yielded,
_among other finds, the frUlj of the
chaulmoogra tree, ^ which has been
found to cure leprosy. When Peary;
discovered the North pole the had the
Eskimos with him,t but he was-the
only white man to stand on top of th$
parth 1
"Alexander Selkirk's true story
proved so pathetically lonesome that
Daniel Defoe found It necessary to
gtye htm that fictional. companion,
Good, Man Friday, when be wrote
'Robinson Crusoe,' Selkirk, the real
Crusoe, had a misunderstanding with
the captain under whom he sailed and
asked to be pat off on_ uninhabited
. Juan Fernandez Island near the Chilean
coast. Hefe British sAllors from
the 'Duke' found him four years later,
scarcely able to talk, surrounded by
pet goats, parrots and eats. He* was
dressed In the skins of goats which
he was able'to catch by his amazing
fleetneas. A bronze tablet on the
Island now marks 'Selkirk Lockout.*
"One nonstop solo trip, not as long
as that from New York to Paris, to
be sate, .bat equally aa famous, was
made between Boston and Lexington
by another hero who traveled alone.
, Paul Revere."
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|4' . Styles Movs Eastward 0;
Son Francisco.?Shoe styles In Call
fornla are six months ahead and by
Ike time tha modes have reached the
5 Atlantic coast Oalffornians are wear
tng. something alas, assorts A. H.
Getrffng of FMTadilplita, president ot
tha National Shoe Retailers* sssocia
THIS WEEK I
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By AilWf Brkbiit
Mr. Brisbane's editorial# are published
as expressions of opinions
of the world's highest-salaried
editor and The Chronicle doee not j
necessarily endorse all of his
views and oonclusiena.
'[
? The bursting of a dam, part of j
Ix>a Angeles water supply in San
Francisquito Canyon, cost hundreds1
of lives. Reasons aro given for the
dam giving away, but no adequate
excuse. "Water, seeping into the
dam, weakened the hold of the gTeat
concrete wall." It should be someone's
business to learn why the dam ;
was built that way?and what danger
there is at other dams. Why fragmeats
of broken concrete crumbled in '
the fingers.
1 1 1 ' " Compared
with familiar disasters, 1
by flood, California's accident is for-1
tunately mild. 'There was the big
flood that drowned all but Noah's
family. The rainbow guarantees
against a repetition of that wholesale
calamity, but small flood* have
wrought havoc.
Five hundred years ago in Holland
i00,000 were drowned, and at
Kaifong, China, nearly three hundred
years ago, 300,000 lost their
lives; 200,000 were drowned at
Bengal, in India, fifty yenrs -,ggo.
Many times in history eruptions !
of the sea, river floods and similar
disasters have taken 100,000 lives
and jnore at n time. This country
can congratulate itself upon the fact
that the Mississippi flood of last
year, destroying hundreds of millions
in property, cost only two hundred
lives. That was due to admirable
work done by the army and navy, and
to prompt scientific direction by Herbert
Hoover, chosen by President
Coolidge in the emergency.
The Census Bureau says United
State* population on July 1 next will
be 1$SQ,018,000. At the em! of this
century, if birtha, death*, immigration
and health run along a a at preheat,
the population will be 260,000,000.
If the larger percent of that
number know how to think it will be
quite a nation. I
In the last eight years population
has increased 14,802,280. The
annual arrival of babies exceed by
one million the number of deaths.
That is good .news for the editor
publishing an up-to-date paper.
Bill Cnrley, formerly of Chicago,
now of New York, used to say,
"Every birth is a new. reader for
my paper, every death of an old man
means a reader forever lost to the opposition."
And it was true.
A gigantic "hook-up" of radio
stations will enable 8,000,000 Americana
to hear all that goes on in the
Democratic and Republican conventions.
From the first announcement of
Alabama's choice, to final howling
when the winner is announced, everything
will be heard. However, sad
to relate, many of the 8,000,000 thnt
might listen to the convention will
not listen. They will tune in for jazz
music, sad heart-rending aongs, or
daily dozens to keep thin. In this
nation, where only half vote that
might vote, there is little deep interest
in politics.
Speaking of slush funds, bribes,
etc., you should read the book written
by Judge Kavanaugh, of Chicago,
after thirty.-three years on the bench.
Three hundred and fifty-thousand individuals
make their living, partly or
entirely, by crime in our happy
country, he says. Last year they
contributed 12,000 murders to the nation'/*
news items.
Public indifference i? to blame,
says the Judge. Bach country gets
as much crime as its indifference deserves.
Judge Kavanaugh favors use
of the whip because:
| "No crime leader retains the respect
of his gang after he has |
winced under the lash. The moron
and racketeer fear the cat o'ninc
tails mdre than prison. Our 350,000
criminals steal yearly enough to |
build the Panama Canal."
1 They steal more than that. And j
public {fumbling at racetracks, another
form of crime, legalized by
grafting politicians, takes from the
public each year enough to build the
Panama Canal three times.
Wq have some millions of farmers
that would like to run this country,
partly, but they don't know how
to go about it. No Teal organization
for one thing. Next Fall they
will get wonderful promises and then
think it over four more years.
Arthur Thompson was steamed to
death, and R. E. Daney and Guy Orr
were burned, when there was a terrific
explosion in the boiler room of the
Connon mills at Kannapolis. The
three were the only ones in thq room
at the time, although forty or fifty
men are usually there. The room waB
made into a steam chest by the
omission of jj-reat quantities of steam
from the boiler.
Yeggs Get Payroll
Sumter, April 28.?More than $4,500
in cash was stolen from a safe
in the office of the D. W. Alderman
Sons Lumber 'Company at Alcolu, 15
miles south of here, Friday night, it
was discovered when a member of
the office force opened the safe. The
money included the payroll for Saturday
which was received yesterday
and placed in the safe along" with
other cash. A oheck-up had not been
completed at noon. There was no
sign of forcible entry to either the
building or the safe.
That neurologist who says that excessive
piano practice may causa
nervous disorders isn't telling anything
new to the neighbors of excessive*
piano practicers.?Springfield
Union.
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