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Minerals and Iodine Found i Clemson College, Jan. 5.?'The : Mineral Content of Feeds, Soils, and 1 Waters of South Carolina is the title i of an important publication issued i as Bulletin 252 of the South Carolina < Experiment Station?important because it shows that feeds, soils, and 1 waters in this state contain important 1 quantities of minerals, and also be- | cause it shows the noteworthy presence of iodine in these snbstances. 1 The bulletin, divided into three ] parts, discusses the analysis of many j samples of feedstuffs grown in this state, samples of soils taken from various parts of the state, and the odine content of soils, plants, and waters from various sections of South Carolina. Regarding minerals in South Carolina feeds, the studies reported in the bulletin show that feeds grown in this state compare favorably with those grown in other states and that there is, therefore, no canse to believe that South Carolina -cattle suffer from dietary deficiencies due to ? Specialist Takes ... Pin From Lungs Spartanburg, Jan. 3.?Agnes, tho two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Thomas Hughes, 4241 Forest street, following that tendency often* exhibited by those of her length of years, took a safety pin from the dress of her Christmas doll this morne^ ing und put it into her mouth. The pin, following Agnes coughing and intakiug of breath, found its way to the child's lung, open an<| pointing outward, but it did not long remain there, thanks to the work of a Spartanburg opecialist. The Medical Association code militates against the use of his name and the names of his assistants. By use ol special prepared instruments, the pin was removed. Karly on Monday afternoon Agnes seemed well on the way to recovery in the physician's office, on awakening, she gave ample evidence of the power of her lungs. Agnes' was playing with her sister, Kita, U, when the accident occurred. ! She pointed to her mouth and said "Fin." Her father, who works nt night at Spartan mills but who was away from the house, soon returned; her mother, on the day shift, was also summoned. | The child was taken to the general j Hospital where the pin was found by an X-ray picture. The baby was thence removed to the operating physician's office. A New York stock exchange sea} changed hands last week at $585,000, the record price up to that time. absence of necessary mineral matter in feeds. It appears that the soils of the state supply the feeds grown with those mineral elements. Drinking waters c? the state analyzed and reported in the bulletin show an average of two to three parts per billion of iodine, and plants analyzed show the presence of very considerable quantities of iodine in various vegetables in both the lower part of the state and the Piedmont. , Of the vegetables analyzed spinach, , mustard, lettuce, and srweet potatoes showed greater amounts vof iodine than did other vegetables. Bulletin 252 may be had free from the Division of Publications, Clemson College, S. C. SEEKS PARENTS OF VETS SHE NURSED Countess Wants to Comfort "Gold Star" Homos, PoiU'H City, Oklu.?Calling on 'he mothers of American soldier* who in her hoti>ltut in Franco k iiuvnlt?Kl<?ii of Coy tit ess ?Onslanee HIHyer 4? Caen, who Is now making u tour of Amejrlcu for that purpose. She ku.vh she Is doing this to fulfill a promise ,to dying Americans who guve their uli to u world-wide cause. Over 2,000 American soldiers came under her supervision during the World war Site expresses appreciation for the op portunlty to muke a t<>ur of the amer lea that site came to'know ho well through the soldiers who suffered in her country. Miss do Caen is In Poncu City at the present time and will rcmuin here several weeks, visiting the mother* of American Indians she saw die In France. Iter pilgrimage, as she calls It, is ono of mercy to the "gold mar" homes of America. It is Infrequent that the members of the "gold star" homes tire able to converse with some one who was so near to their sons as was this woman. She volunteered her services to France when the war-torn country most needed this kind of assistance. Sons Did Not Rrturn. Her activity did not stop with the signing of the armiMlce, hut 1ms curried on to the extent of attempting to reach fathers ttnd mothers vvhp&e vans did not return from "over there." The countess lias made six trips to the United Slates In an effort to complete her mission and has renewed .friendships made wi lt many wounded veterans -she aided in the wr.r tone. Tito countess talks very little uhout iter family and royal connection. She Is descended on tier father's side from some of the oldest families of France, i and through her mother from Admiral Sir .lames Hlllyer of England. Her -'pnternnl forebears were French generals, her grandfather, Gen. Charles "Count de Caen, u defender of Metz in the war of 1870. The countess was born on the French island of Pondl cherry in the East Indies. As a child she spent many years with her mother in London, where her niother was an intimate associate of Queen Victoria So she speaks English fluently tmd I with very little accent, j Honored by Celebrities. Letters from alt over the United . States from American Legion post commanders and auxllinry presidents of every state that she has visited are valued treasures of her pilgrimage. Pictures with Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and many other distinguished ^Americans are carried with her. Her .pride In the American soldier and doughboy Is constant. ? "It was an easy matter to get in touch with parents of boys who could tell us of themselves, but the Indians, in whom I am especially interested at this time, were unable, to mnke me understand. I could not loam their talk .and I've forgotten some of the names they told me," says the countess. f "I bring n message to the parents from the dying soldier. During the time that America participated in the war, we cared for, and aided about two thousand dying American soldiers We gave them the last comforts before the last call. It Is to the mothers and Relatives of these boys that I especially wish to speak." .. Oiie hundred and fifty American Indians died In the hospitals and were given care by the society of which the countess is the founder, the society which had for its purpose keeping contact between the American soldier and his home folks, and the administration of little comforts to them when they were confined to French hospitals. "The French love America," says Miss de Cnen. "We love the memory of your boyS,r and If you could see the French people going to the graves of your dead and placing little floral remembrances of love upon them, you would realize that we hold dear the memory of the boys and their help to us In the war." ' Prehistoric Burial of Children Revealed Flagstaff, Ariz.?Two child burials finve been uncovered In the prehistoric Indian ruins of the Wupntkl national monument In Arizona. Jess** C. Clarke, custodian of the reservn tlon, who made the excavations, re ports that in one burial n cradle I board was lying over the body, which * bOre a shell "necklace and was accompanied by three pieces of pottery. In the other burial the cradle board was underneath the body. Four pots were found with It,- Both bodies had been wrapped in matting, hut Alois ture crept In and spoiled it ; o that only a smftH -piece could be sn;mgtyd. It Is believed that the prehistoric buildings nt Wuputki were construct ed by the Snake family of the Hopt j Indians In their migration from the t Grand Canyon, where, according to their mythology, thel*"ancestors came I upward from the 0H(d$rW0rId. The Hop!, or People of Peace, are among i t^a.^niost picturesque of existing Indian tribes. _ Shaw Is Sarcastic London.?Out cornea George Bernard Shaw Nrlth some sarcasm against the removal of government- restrictions against the radiocasting of Individual opinion, to-wit: "Humbug and rubbish r Controversial sttltr, he ajrs, has been broadcast from the be^ 'J y-v; ? " 1 ' Jgk, ; f ' ... Dr. Frank Crane Says: (This newspaper will for some weeks continue to publish the work of the late Dr. Frank Crane. Dr Crane recently passed away at Nice France. Before leaving for Europe ' he had prepared u number of articles < in advance.) Theory Bays. A very common notion is that theory has not much to do with practice. We dismiss a proposition with a wave of the hand when we characterize it as nothing but theory, or as impractical idealism. ' We praise the inventor who devises ( some useful application of knowledge, but have a tendency to overlook the discoverer who finds out the knowledge that the inventor applied. As a matter of fact, all our great inventions rest upon great discoveries made by painstaking theorists who love knowledge for itself alone. Wireless telegraphy, the telephone, aeroplanes, radium, antiseptics, antitoxins, spectrum analysis and X-rays were all discovered in the course of purely scientific and theoretical in- , vestigation. Lord Kelvin said that no great law j in natural philosophy had ever been ] discovered as a result of practical ( experiment, and that "the instances , are innumerable of investigations ap- ] parcntly quite useless which led to , the most valuable results." ^ For ^-eighteen centuries many great minds gave their lives to studying conic sections. This work was , far from useless, for the laws of projectiles, the building of great bridges, , the curves of ships and the rules of navigation depend upon conic sections. Wireless telegraphy goes back to ~ the studies of Lagrange in purely abstract mathematics, and td" Professor William "Thomson, who laid the foun-\ dation of electric oscillations. I Th?. man of deeds, the practical' man ^yaould be saved many a-foolish I, experiment and would be kept back1, from many a useless trial if he knew1, the background of thought that1, should underlie his actions. f( ' Uncle Bob Smith Wins Second in Contest Trenton, January 2.?B. R. Smith of Trenton, Edgefield county, again enters the list of winners in the South Carolina Cotton Contest, he having won the second district prize of the middle district with a yield of 11,130 pounds of seed cotton and 3815 pounds of lint, having a staple length of 1-1-32 inch. In 1026 Mr. 'Smith won the second Btate prize in the contest'.^ He planted Colter's Cleveland ^84,^'Mr. Smith's total costs were 6344.941 and the total value of hie crop was $1091.50, leaving a profit of $746.56 on the five acres. Mr. Smith's own statement in regard to his five acres is very brief and to the point: "So much rain I don't see how I made ari^thing. Insects awful bad. Rotation of crops on sandy loam soil helped.'? Mr. Smith fertilized his five acres with a mixture of 6,000 pounds of acid phosphate and 700 pounds of muriate of potash, this being applied in the drill. >He has, by the use of legume cover crops, ho built up the aitrcttj^i content of the soil that he lid nW think it necessary to put any nitrate fertilizer in the drill, tie did, however, supply his growing cotton with quickly available nitrates in the form of nitrate of soda, using 2,000 pounds of nitrate of soda as a side ? application on his five acres. He controlled the boll weevil by the use of molasses-calcium arsenate mixture, this poison costing him $6.00 for the five acres during the year. a ? When 1928 died and new license plates for automobiles became good form, the state department had issued 79,450 plates for 1929, and receipts for them were $974,999 which is half the total receipts for 1928. > Motorists must pay a half IV dollar more for plates now, but will not be . ~ arrested for using old fashioned ones until January 15, on which date -the? open season for delinquents begins ind all officers will get busy. j^iiininsBiniiiiiiiimniiiiiiRSiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiinnsiniiiiiiiiiisjsniiiiiiiiiifisiiiiiiiiiiisinni^! '1. 1 | THE OFFICERS AND DISECTORS|Of | 1 THE LOAN & SAVINGS BANK j J | S Submit to the Public the Following Com B y densed Statement from Report to the g H State Bank Examiner on Call' = December 31st, 1928 | ... 1 1 RESOURCES jgi Loans and Discounts $252,308.19 "jSj y Overdrafts .... 624.24 s Real Estate 6,219.95 .3 Furniture and Fixtures 4,000.00 ~ S ? - Stocks and Bonds J .- ffl; = C^sh and Due from Banks . .. 3 1 Total ...-. $434,951.29 - 9 J Capital Stock . $100,000.00 ? r Surplus and Undivided Profits 8,643.95. is . ? Dividends Unpaid 3,012.00 ps m .1. - Bills Payable . * None B Dediscounts 7,769.67 Deposits 315,525.67 1 g ' Total ... $434#5l?9 ? > ' 1 THE LOAN & SAVINGS BANK 1 3 OF CAMDEfa, S. C. 3 j WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS 1 1 'I . ? Real MONEY I from your Cotton I \A/HY 001 deckle now to make a real ^ lUU V Y profit from your cotton crop? It's not j u u matter of luck. Be sure your cotton lu*s Chilean Nitrate of I ; !i Soda ut planting time and at chopping time. 4 I You'll mak?* more cotton per acre and it will fl cost less per bale to make it. Starts cotton oft | | || well. Makes strong healthy plants. Helps to set H an early crop ahead of the weevil. 12 llalea on 5 Acres! I , i Peter M. Aiant, Page land, S. C. winner of j j the State Cotton Contest in 1927, used 761 j||ll| lbs. Chilean Nitrate per acre ax aide dreaaing in addition to other fertiliser at planting. i His yield was 12 bUea on 5 acresl j ! Now is the time to make sure of your Chilean j Nitrate. Figure out your needs. Your County Agent will help you. Then place your order H I and be sure of a money-making crop the com- I N A New Fertiliser Book?FREE !j|J Our valuable book "Low Cost Cotton" will help you make a better crop. It is free. Ask I'M for Book No. 2 or tear out this ad and mail it I with your name and address on the margin. i Chilean Nitrate of Soda "IT'S SODA NOT *-OCK" ^H|| EDUCATIONAL BUREAU I miiiMMj iu Carolina Lif? Slug., Columbia, S. C. MB IIII j In writing please refer to Ad No. A69 | AUTHORIZED DEALER I PREST O-LITE BATTERIES I EVEREADY RADIO I HASTY'S BATTERY SERVICE I ; ;2K~v **