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When Dog Sucks One Egg, No Nest Safe Aug generation affords an excelexample of the truth that pride rtti before a ty]. I J( boasts of its worldly wisdom and Uects a hard-boiled sophistication, L its gullibility surpasses anything L world has seen since the sharpers Ej gold bricks and lightning rods. Observe, for example, the multid^e'g pathetic faith in the honor of kootleggors. Despite the grim evidence afforded the blind, the lame and the poisoned dead, the liquor buyer clings to his child-like faith in labels and regards lis own bootlegger as the one incorruptible exception in a vast company of rogues. Consider, also, the daily report of rictims fleeced by plausible strangers vho offered them u share in some money-making enterprise not sanctioned by law. In every such case the sharper is k confessed rogue, for bis get-richluick scheme is based on some form if trickery, yet tho victim's lust for issy money blinds him to the truth kit men who live outside tfie law live no rules or standards that lntrfere with taking a profit. Is further evidence needed to prove his a generation of suckers? If men in legitimate business, suported in virtue by fear of the law nd public opinion, shame our civilution by their frequent dishonesties,' iho but a low-grade moron can put is trust in men who are avowed eneiics of the law and protected in rasility by the assurance that their vi> nis dare not make complaint? This generation is easily tricked cause it no longer understands the (nificance of honor, fears ago I heard a man boast that ! regularly cheated a railroad by irchasing a ticket for a point many iles short of his destination. Fifteen sirs later I heard without surprise at he had robbed the institution at trusted him with its funds. A man's honor is like a woman's rtue. He is wholly honorable or he without honor. If he is dishonorable in one particur, nothing but fear of punishment eps him from being dishonorable in . If he cheats a stranger, assurce of safety and sufficient prize II induce him to cheat his brother. Honor is a state of mind, not knack' keeping out of jail,?Fountain Inn ibune. As an attorney defended Mrs. Lule El lis, 26-year-old mother in the iourt at Memphis, Tenn., on ' of driving a car while drunk, poison and then telephoned sand, ordered an ambulance taken to a hospital. 'Her arrived at her bedside shortshe died. try Doak of the labor deat Washington, reports that fil 1 to July 31, his departgggded in placing a tntj.1 of inemployed persons, and in an with-state, city and other during the same period a 638,698 persons were placed yment. >y Henri de .Saird of 'New La., is in Boston to defend rterriman, negro, descendant ives of the de Saird family, Iran aiouf oi tne law m x?ostfording to de Saird it hgs al*n the custom of his family old family retainers who rouble. *nks of Germany, closed more weeks ago by decree of klindenberg, were opened day for regular public busiuring the period the banks 1?ed to regular business with^ore allowed only for apPurpo*es such as payrolls and Staling $1,700 have been or the arrest of the negro n a young society woman m'ngham a few days ago and tvvo others after jumping on ^ board of their automo1 ding them for four hours ono of them escaped and NFUL 'DIGESTION 5~ss36"Aa B write, Mr.. oubw?u,??e. h,T* J ^digestion? i?r mr ni ^7? nnd and [ fooa woulg o* <o WeTawey Vh14 "MM HiI Ml |I||mIhIII ] i H ? GETTING BUSINESS GLOOM BEHIND US By HOME C. STEPHENSON Pretidemt America* Hankerm Atsaciotio* TIERE 1h such a thing an over-atayfiiK a depression Just as there It of overstaying a boom. Over-confl deoce makes the great majority miss the turn In a boom, aud uu der-conf ldence makes them hiIhh 1t In a depression A leadlug York banker wa* asked recently whea he could teH that a turn fer the better had come. "About three month t after it has hap yunuu, ne candidly replied. There is more significance in that remark than appears on the surface. As more and more manufacturers and business men reulize that the turn has already come and that they are overstaying the time to adopt ponstructlve policies, they begin cautiously to presB their selling campaigns, to speed up their production, to enlarge their work ing forces and increase their commitments for supplies. It is the gathering weight of their Influences that Anally raises the pressure of confidence to 'tho dynamic power of recovery. The surest way to bring the nation out of the business depression is to raise the pressure of public confidence to the point of becoming such a dynamic force. It has invariably been the push of that force which has started recovery in the past, and it is the gathering power of this force ! which will start recovery from this present depression. It is a favorable sign of the times that there seems to general agreement that the bottom of the depression has been reached and all eyes are peeled and looking ahead for the first indications that the turn for the better is in sight. Who knows but what the first thing we know we will find ourselves looking backward Instead of forward as we realize that the turn has already come. It is a rough and rocky road that runs across the bottom of the valley of business depression, and most of us are too busy steering the old Ford from bump to bump to be able to take in all the scenery. So who knows but what some Important changes in the landscape are already taking place. % ??m R. C. STBPHBNSON ? ? i?V BANKERS FAVOR GRADUAL CHANCE National Commission Believes Local Sentiment Should Govern Evolution in Methods of Conducting Banking. IF substantial changes are to be * brought about in branch banking in the United States they should originate within the states rather than from Washington on inter-state lines as proposed in "trade area" branch banking plans, a recent report of the Economic Policy Commission of the American?Rftnirftfp AannnUfinn declares. Such changes, it adds, "should develop by evolutionary rather than revolutionary stages." "The extension of branch banking through state,action would mean that states not now permitting state banks to have branches or else closely re^ strlcting them, would individually'liberalize their )$Wb as an expression ofchanging local desires and conditions, liberate, evolutionary proceBB," the report says. "The other method, that Is, through Federal action, would mean a sweeping change for the ooqntry as a whole, for legislation granting branch banking powers to. national banks in all states, regardless of localsentiment, would, of course, Induce equivalent branch banking enactments in every state in the Union not now permitting or really wanting state banks to have branches, in order to keep them on a competitive equality. Upholds Sues Privileges "We find some bankers who feel that a proper stimulus to the development of branch banking would be given by the Federal Government taking the initiative through granting broader privileges within state lines to national banks than they now enjoy. It is argued that state governments could then follow suit as to state banks and that in this way a more progressive branch banking attitude might be promoted by the national banks taking the lead. While we do not deny that there may be some merit in this view as to some specific localities, we stand firm nevertheless on the principle that no such grant of powers to national banks should cross state lines, or exceed the privileges that state legislatures could and would grant to their state banks. "Moreover we believe' that if the eholce between these two possible courses of extending branch banking were put up to bankers they would fee generally opposed to eny forcible lmrosltlon of branch banking on the states through the medium of the national bank system. We believe it would be preferable for any change to come about through the more gradual and democratic method of the states granting their banks branch banking powers state by stati where, if,, and aa local conditions and sentiment might be ready for a change." ?W-.A- 0* t * - - ' ' ^ ,\ Alaska's ranhantllo ! Geographic Harbor on Southorn Coaat of Alacka PeAln.ul. (I r?ii#r?4 by the National Q?ogr*phlc Society, Washington. D. C.) P'-AN.s of Colons! and Mrs. Lln<J jergh to fly to tho Orient und their first rejKjrted Intention to fly westward focuses attention on the ulr route to Asia along Alaska's southeast "panhandle," the greut Alaska peninsula and the Aleutian. Islands, all under American jurisdiction; Kamchatka, a part of the Soviet Union; and the Kurlle Islunds, northern extension of Japan. J he route is an ideal one as fur as lauding places ure concerned for planes fitted with pontoons, for while most of the ground Is rough, there are innumerable coves and harbors among the Islands nnd in their indented coastlines. The route wus first shown to he practicable by the group of United States army flyers who flew around the world In 1024. The first leg of the route, after tho United States proper Is left, lends over the straits along the west coast of Rrltlgn Columbia, then over the Island-studded Inland Passage of southeast Alaska. Reyond the northern end of the Inland Passage comes the open water of the Gulf of Aluska until Kodlak Island Is reached, south of the Alaska peninsula. It Is froui. the tip of this peninsula that the l,.r?00mlle crescent of the Aleution Island chain sweeps off toward Asia. The Aleutians are volcanic, a fact made plain by the first and largest of the "stepping stones," Unlmak. Although It has an area only a little larger than Ithode Island, so many craters occur on Unlmak island that there is often a great deal of confusion as to the location of the various eruptions reported. Mount Shlshnldin, often reported active, is the most striking and beautiful of the eleven major craters of the Island. It has one of the most nearly perfect cones In the world, seeming to float suspended in the air above its cloud-girt base. What Unlmak Is Llk?. Despite Unlmak's size and Its separation from the mainland of Alaska by only a narrow strip of water, it is of little Importance. There are no good harbors around ItR shores nnd only one settlement, Cape Alsit village, is listed. Cod fishing on the great banks to the south of the Island, which are similar to those of Newfoundland, and the mining of small quantities of sulphur and pumice stone are the principal Industries. The inhabitants are mostly j the remnants of the original native tribes found here by the Russians In the Eighteenth century. ? Like its sister Islands, Unlmak Is In general desolate and scraggy along Its rocky, grass-covered lower slopes. It is treeless, and, except for Its heavy rainfall and fogs, has a delightful climate. Summers In Unlmak are cooler than places farther north, while In .winter the weather is milder than that of Tennessee or Kentucky, twenty ^flegreesjpf latitude farther soutly. The warm Japan current, wnicn creeps tip the coftst of Asia and around the Aleutlqfts, gives It a January average of thirty degrees above zero. Grasses of all kinds grow In abundance on the lowlands all year round, but the climate Is too damp to mature grain. ^^Ithough the soil is rich; being composed of a vegetable mold ir^xed with volcanic ash, the land Is rugged and there are no places where farms of any size can be made. Small though the island Is, the Interior has never been thoroughly explored. Unlmak and other iRlands of the Aleutian chain, believed to be the route by which man first migrated to the Western hemisphere, should he better known to the world at large, for they are on the shortest route between our northwestern states and Jnpnn. The great expanse of the Pacific and the curvature of the earth places Yokohama almost due northwest of Seattle. If one follows the most direct path. The American world flyers remenv hew Unlmak as part of one of the most difficult stages In their globe circling trip. Port Moller. the com munlty to which Major Martin made his way on foot after his ptane crashed) Is about ISO miles farther east. The district presented the same | pitfalls for'aviators as Unlmak. con leal peaks and sharp ridges rising suddenly out of dreary fog-hidden tundras and marshes. Portage Ray, where a frt'rced landing was made. Is on the mainland opposite Kodlak Island, but Is similar to the few Indentations of Unlmak's shoreline. with rocky cliffs and treacherous sand shoals. The Aleutians, however, have an added handicap In the "wlllle-waqs," cyclonic winds peculiar to the region nnd probably attributable to the meet Ing of the cold winds from the north nnd the warm breezes from the Japan current - f . . . - s i - ' .SnjSOfcV. * i . jT C Unalaskn, h hundred miles farther east, In the tecuml largest of the Aleutians. On it is sltuuted Dutch Harbor, port of call for vessels plying between Seattle and Nome. This harbor has deep water at its wharves and a protected anchorage that could accommodate the largest battle tleet. 'J he shortest sea route between Seattle and Yokohama (the great circle route) ilia* practically through Dutch Harbor, and it may some time become an (m portntit Coaling and provisioning point. Because of the dangers from fogs and rocks, however, ships now swing well south of the Aleutians. Only a few natives and whites live at Dutch Harbor. Nearby is the village of Unalaskn, a native community. The Aleut la tis were born of volcanic action, and the activity is not yet spent. Hogoslof island, some 50 miles from Dutch Harbor, is continually changing Its form, roaring one smoking promontory after another above the waves and withdrawing others. Volcanoes are to be found in the Aleutians in every stage of development: youpg and aged volcanoes, active and dormant, not only cones whose symmetry rivals that of Fujiyama, bat also the Jagged stumps of mountains that have been blown to bits by recent volcanic explosions. Vulcanologlsts consider It one of the best known fields for the study of the problems of vulcanlsm. Attu Is the easternmost of the Aleutian islands. 2,700 miles from the coast of Washington state. Because the International Date I.jne lies Just beyond Attu, an airman, rising from the Island to continue his flight, plunges directly into another day without the lapse of any time. Thus, If he starts from this westernmost American station Monday morning, he will be flying a few moments later In the morning of .the day that to the Eastern hemisphere Is Tuesday. Traveling In Kamchatka. The Aleutian route strikes the main land of Asia at the coast of Kamchatka, 450 miles east of Attu. This peninsula and the country north of It to theBerlng strait contains a large area of tundra or Arctic plains; soft spongy morasses during the few months of summer; frozen, snow-covered wnstes In winter. In the higher land impenetrable underbrush springs up in summer. What little travel is possible at this season Is done on the backs of sturdy ponies who must wnde up the shallow streams or plod through the sticky swamps. In winter travel Is easy. Teams of dogFH n d~r otrrrt ee r wtriKlr iaden-sletlgesover the frozen surface of the streams and across the snow of the tundra at a rate, under favorable circumstances, of 75 miles or more a day. In the summer the curse of the inolst regions of the north strikes the Kamchatknn country; swarms of mosquitoes and files thicken the air and make life miserable for all living - thijurA.. The nomadic^, flee with their herds of reindeer to the sea coast, where the breezes give some relief. The Kamchatkan peninsula proper Is about 750 miles tn length, and the distance from Its roots to Bering strait is an equal distance. Kamchatka lies In the same latitude as the British Isles, while the country north to the Arctic ocean Is In the latitude of Norway. The Kamchatkan region is bathed by cold Arctic currents Instead of the warm Gulf stream, and Its climate Is Therefore much colder than that of Britain or Scandinavia. From the southern tip of Kamchatka the Kurlle Islands sweep southward to the major Islands of Japan. This distant string of fog-enshrouded, storm-lashed Islands Is the most westerly group of the north Pacific's bridge of Islands. Like the Aleutians, the Kurlles a$y a string of volcanic peaks, dead and alive, whose smoking heads protrude above the cold and stormy waters of the North Pacific and stake out the Sea of Okhotsk. Thus, they form a haven for the Japanese fishermen who swarm over this lsland-glrt sen In summer. Stretching between Kamchatka and the Japanese Island of Yezo, they have long been known to the Russians who exploited their valuable furs. Not until recent years have the Japanese become interested In these next door neighbors. The desolate islands are "a cradle of blizzards," hazards to the mariner and aviator alike. Storms and squalls spring up from nowhere, low-lying fogs bug the water's surface In spring and summer, hidden rocks lie In wait for the unwary navigator and swift currents mee through narrow straits However, the lost sailor may tell when he Is close by the vast fields of brown seaweed or kelp which float on the water. Old suits who can "smel. Hi* beach" when ner.r lnnd are n t alone In this useful ability when ?alLng then* foggy wutera. ^? Nobody's Business Written far The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1928. ... About the only property the average poor man wants i? plenty chewing tobacco to keep him busy chawing, a couple of "hound dogs to suck his eggs, an old Ford to keep him poorer, and K or 10 yoiinguns to work for him. .... The majority of the sunrises are just as pretty as the majority of the sunsets that so many people throw fits over. The difference between the two is. .there Hint nobody up early enough to see the sunrise except farm hands who don't like sunshine, and that's why sunsets have it on sunrises. Nature ain't grand to everybody. ....The railroads will be able to cu: their operating expenses very extensively just us soon as they get that 15. percent advance in freight rates. They can tuke off at least 25 percent of their trains and train crews, as lire ttucks will haul most of the freight. The trucjc trains are looking forwa d with much glee to the advance in rates..because they can advance their rates 15 per cent too, and still be in line. COTTON LETTER New \ ork, Aug. 12.-?Due to some thunder in Oklahoma and the Fanhandle, spots broke 10 point's in anticipation of moisture, which is n.?t needed. A red spider was found in Alabama last week, and as soon as his whereabouts were reported to New Orleans, the nearby months eased off to a new low for the season. If stocks break again, cotton will follow, as cotton is sympathizing most sincerely at present..with stocks and call money. We advise holding for a probable squeeze. ....While keeping batch lust month, I learned how to prepare a great many delectable dishes. My eggstews were simply grand. Here's the recipe for egg-stew: Take .1 freshly-laid eggs (if possible), put them in a quart of boiling water (if your gas has not been cut off), let them boil till you have read the morning paper, if your subscription is not out, then take eggs out of water with a spoon?don't use your naked hands..hull them, pour into a tea-cup, if a cl^an one can be found, crumble up some stale bread, and empty the mess into a bowl and eit with a spoon or fork or knife or your fingers, which ever is clean.' Wipe egg-drippings from shirt front; and go to work. HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TOWN . , . .Trade at home. Pay your debts. Go to church. 'Support your town council and chamber of commerce. Let your own doctor treat your liver troubles. Speak well of your neighbors. Love your own wife. Boost your friends. Stop growling. And put your money in the bank. ^JUST DRIFTING ALONG A ... .Verily, verily, it seemeth to me that we are floating back to the (socalled) good old days of 19 and 10?when a dollar was a giant, and a dime waesent any baby to be sneezed at. . ... But we now find our cities, towns, scnooi urscrrvrvn, tvunncc, a most individuals burdened with debts that they knoweth not what to do with. We are afflicted with taxes from center to circumference, and the end is not yet. .... Raw materials ain't worth the fertilizer it takes to produce them. Eggs ain't fetching enough to pay the hen for wasting her time laying around. Wheat and sand are selling at the same price. And other farm products are worth more if permitted to rot on the land than they are peddled to the public. ....If you work for a dairy, you go to work at 4 a. m. If you work for a farmer, you begin to tickle the soil at 5 n. m. If you work for a cotton mill, you must begin to spin at 6 a. m. If you piddle around in a grocery store, you are expected to begin piddling at 7 a. m. If you are in a bank, you may begin to "turn down" checks at 8 a. m. But if you are employed by the public?and paid with money received from taxpayers, 9:00 a. m., or 9:15 a. m., or 9:30 a. m., or possibly 10 a. m. is O. K. for you to drop in and take your seat. And that's that. ....At last, some folks have begun to think. Taxpayers leagues are springing up here and there. They won't be able to help themselves one jot or tittle till they nominate and elect men for public'office with guts enough to stop wasting money and cut out useless jobs and face the facts and figures relating to appropriations that beget graft and extravagance, and have some regard for | ' i m,x. mi I l II, L [the man who is left half starved when J10^ay8 ^'8 taxes. (Apparently, no public official 1ms ever thought 01 cutting expense* ) .States are striving to raise money honestly, where possible, but where t?uch means are not to an end, they me raising money anyhow. The highway commissions are hell-bent on getting everything in sight. They huiit roads for the use of automobiles * yet?each state i? now forcing outsiders to licenses of *11 kinds and prices ^for privato as well as public trucks, operating for profit, or without profit), and it won t be long before a bull-frog will have to wear a metal tag on hiH tail for home-hopping and extra metal t?g for visiting-hopping In other words, don't, dare leave your own state with a truck load of anything to sell or exchange Take my advice, *tay at home unless you ure walking, or riding a mule?even then, don't venture across tho line. General News Notes A shortage of $20,022 is " barge I against Ed Hugh U-e. for the past sixteen years n Kaloigh, N. C? tax collector. He says the amount resents mainly worthless checks ho * ' had accepted from friends for taxes. BiiJ Kinsey, 11 years old, of \V?tronton, (iu., cut off his own finger with a pocket knife to avoid tho danger of water moccasin's bite received while he was swimming. His brother refused to cut off the finger, so Hill did it himself. A New York tAxicab driver on Wednesday returned to Mrs R S Keynolds-Hitt of Washington, a bag of jewelry valued at $200,000 that he had found .in his taxicab which she had left as she alighted at u New York hotel. When Philip Magna, 01, was buried at Hazelton, Pa., iSaturday he wus in a casket that cost him $16,000 and which he had bought two years ago. He was for many years the janitor of an office building und had acquired considerable wealth. C hancellor Bruenning of Germany, made a frank appeal to the German people over the radio Tuesday, and told them that the only force that could pull the country out of its present economic plight is the people of Germany themselves. Of 11G automobiles stolen by thieves in North Carolina during July, 66 were recovered, thirty cars stolen during the first six months of the year were also recovered for their owners during July, making a total of 106 cars recovered from thieves during the last month. A palatial 176-foot yacht was seized by coast guards sixty miles off Cape May, N. J., Sunday night and seven men and two women were arrested after they had jumped overboard as the vessel neared the shore. The yacht was found loaded with a liquor cargo with a value of $120.000. "v; / High White and Mike 'Connor will "have to tun a aecond wnre fur the? Democratic nomination for governor of Mississippi as the result of Tuesday's election. George T. Mitchell, who had the support of Governor Bilbo, apparently trailed the ticket of four gubernatorial candidates. " Renew Your Health by Purification Any physician will, tell yon that Perfect Purification 6f the System HpJm? ??re wi. of Perfect Health. Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermining your vitality? Purify your entire system bv taking a thorough course of Calotaba*?once or twice a week for several weeks?and see how Nature rewards you with health. c.?!!S?.b".Por,,?Jth? Mood * aeM. * dneyt,.tomach and 666 n it LIQUJD OR TABLETS * Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first %??naciecks*Ma,aria in three dayfl 666 Salve for Baby's Cold. * KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 A' F* M* jk^Hegular communication of this lodge Is held on the first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. W. R. OLYBURN, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf " R. H. HAILE I FUNERAL DIRECTOR FOR COLORED PEOPLE 927 Broad 8t. Quadm, S. C. We have secured the setyhiea of Lovett Proctor, Licenced Bmbahnfor S. C., who iSTbs with as .permanently to do our embalming. Residence Phone 29S-J Ofiee Phone 148 / ?* Tr *