The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 12, 1932, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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U. S. LEADS WORLD IN USE OF PHONES ,y* . ?" More Than Half of Total I* Found in America. ? ... 1^. , ... V . I -y. > - f '-'4 Washington.-?There were 3.VI30.407 telephone* In the entire world on Jau* | uary 1, 11)31, according to atatlatlcw recently compiled by the American Tol ephojie and Telogruph coinpuny. It tiikcH some time to secure authoritative, data froiu the more remote countries, and January 1, 1931, Is the latest dale (or which coiuparahle Information Is available In full. The United Stairs then had 20,201,070 telephones, or inRro than half of the wnrld'H total. The I'nlted States and t.'uiintla together had more than twice as many telephones as the whole of Europe. Thirty per cent of the world's total telephoned were In Furope ami n per cent yvero scuttered widely about the globe. Adverse h.uslnesa conditions slowed down tho rate of telephone growth in 1030 ami oven caused a few countries to lose tele^ phones. Tho total number <?f telephones In the world Increased hy^HlKV 721) during that year. The Increaso of 133,053 telephones In the United States during the year exceeded thut In any other country. Private Phone Companies. Privately owned systems operate more than Iwo-tldrds of the world's telephones. In the United States all telephones are operated by privato companies. This country Is not only equipped with more telephones than all the rest of the world put together, but It Is likewise outstanding In the number of Its telephones relative to population. With 10.1 telephones for each 100 people, the relative prevalence of,.telephones In the United Stales Is more than eight times that In Europe. Canada. with II telephones per lot) people Is the only could rv whose tele-' phone facilities in proportion to population approach those of the United | Slates. New Zealand takes third place with 1 U.2 telephones per I'M! people, followed h y I >el i liia rl>, with !>.!>; Sweden. with V7, and Australia with s. I telephones per 11ai people. .Most ot the telephones in holh I'aliada and l?enmark are operated h.v private com \t panics. Argentina Leads in S. A. CJerm.any ranks second to the United States In absolute number of telephones, hut has only tlvo telephones per 1 (h) people. Ureal Britain lias 4.3 and France only U.S. In all three of these countries the goverivment operates the telephone system. Argentina, with 2.0 telc-phones per U*? people, has nearly one-hnlf of all the telephones In South America. Japan and the Union of South Africa, each with only 1.4 telephones per lOU'People, lend In telephone development In Asia and A fi*len, respect ivel y. The small towns and rural sections of Amerfrrn are notably well provided with telephone facilities. Communities In this country with less limn ,rvO,(KMl population each have at their disposal an average of 12.2 telephones for each TOO Inhabitants. Tn Europe s N even the larger cities are for the most N. part less nde.pial ei> supplied with telephones than these small American cominunil ies. Giant Windmill Towers, Berlin Engineer's Plan U.erlin, ? Hermann llonnef, Imilder of the giant lowers of (iermunv's largest broadcasting station, Koenigswusterhjtuseir, has developed an idea for a series of mammoth windmills, which he claims, if followed out, would supply enough electric power for nil of Germany at ? cost of one pfennig per kilowatt hour. llonnef got his idea during construction of the 250 meter radio tower. According to Ids design, a tower 270 meters high would be built, like a rndio tower. Crossbars at the top would support horizontally three giant wind wheels, each with a diameter of 100 meters. He declares that 00 such towers. strategically placed throughout Germany. could. In connection with the existing water power plants, supply the entire country. Pennsylvania's State Police Conduct School Ilnrrishurg. Pa.-?The Pennsylvania state police "keep school" each night cn the tr! state police teletype s\s tern The pupils nre the munir'.il p,?]),<,?. i .n in the *:.it.i?n houses Pnked with J t ; . t. ' i > * \ j,, ! r;! n s tm ; ? ? . "II in V u .I.Tsey, New I 'irk .and Ivnr.-.v!vn r I a *1 he lc.N.-?on.-? ,;;e :".ict.o;. ;a crim , jnH law and eronited lure rem t '.led fr<?tn the source >.f studv given ' | the state policemen in their training jueh. m.'i lo-re. No examination* are e..nduefe?| n?>r grades given^uit results nre reported as "satisfactory" both to teachers nnd pupils. Man Cut When Runaway Tire Crashes Into Store West Newton. Mass.?Philip J. Meld ugh. twenty four, was rut by flying glass when a tire rolled off a passhig automobile. Jumped the curb, and crashed Into a drug store window here recently. Rheumatiim Coitt $10,000,000 London. ? Rheumatism, the most prrvnlent disease of civilization, costs Great Britain $10,000,000 a year. Among Its 40,000 annual victims, 0,000 die. I.. Two taaix ... O ? 111111 ^ Moving Freight on Shanghai'# Bund. (Pr.parod t,y. National O^ograt-Mc Society, j ton. I* O.) ? WNU # ...n I SHANGHAI, which because of mil- j 11iiry activities became the een- . tor of world Interest ?h the now I year got under way, grow In- , evllnbly to ho tho most Important j commercial city in Ohlnn, (f'A0 first ; Important factor in this growth was j the city's location near the mouth of | the Yangtze river, Asia's greatest natural trade artery. A second reason J for growth was the fertility of the sur- , rounding region, the Yangtze's delta, which has been called "China a garden j spot." Finally, Shanghai has had time j In which to develop, and'western guld- , ance; for It was one of the tlrst Chi- I nose cities to he opened to westerners < t and western trade, one of the live orig- ? inal "Treaty Foils" established in j 18-12. This designation of Shanghai as a treaty port '.HI years, ago lias resulted In the dual character which the t>By liew |ioSf,esseH. For there are two Shanghais : the closely built,. teeming nati\ e city, and the foreign concessions with their wide streets and avenues and their solid, western t\pc buildings. British merchants were the lirslt to - move in alter the opening of the port in IS 12. They obtained a concession to manage their municipal alTairs in their settlement. The French and | American residents Joined In the ar- ; rangenient, but later the French set up u municipality of their own which Is maintained separately today, ltesl- ( dents of other nationalities have thrown In their lot with the British j and Americans, and today about twenty nations have arrangements with China In connection with trade and , extraterritorial rights In Shanghai. The entire urban group?Chinese, French and International?that bears ^ tho name "Shanghai," has a population In excess of one and a half million peoI pie. By far the larger part is Chi- ' nese hut the concentration is not greatest in the narrow st rceted, dirty, smelly native city. So well have the foreigners governed their con cessions That Chinese have Hocked to those sections. The interna;ioiinl city is especially u favorite residence for retired Chinese officials from other parts of the country. It has become a model, too. in the matter of street pa\etneiils. drainage, sanitation and police methods, . and since the revolution lias been Copied extensively .by Chinese cities In other parts of the country. Not on the Yangtze. Shanghai is near the mouth of the Yangtze river and close to the Grand canal. Around it for ninny miles st retches Intensively cultBated gardens. This strategic situation has made the city not only a great commercial emporium hut as well one of the greatest Chinese Industrial centers. In-sense, however, the city Is out-ofthe-way. It is not directly on the Yangtze, but on a tributary, the llwangpoo (Whanpoo) twelve miles from the great river. The meeting place of the two rivers Is called Woosung. The largest ocean steamers can not asceijd to the city, but must anchor In the Yangtze estuary near Woosung and transship passengers and freight to steam tenders. Smaller ships can cross the bar, however, and the war vessels of many nations are constantly on dill v off I he Blind As one approaches the city from Wwii.sUii-. ll.o \illagcs. ci'uu'J ai ds and anchored ships of nil kinds become more i ;.s he draws near the wham es. The hum and roar <-f f.ie - and . .-::.-n noil- o, p.-.-> time 5,.; ,. 55,,. v,-;,| ;it m.??p' . e of tics me Ha.p..1.x i f ? entr.il i'!i.mi. It is m>t o.,. Penvv. hnIf-"!"henin? srrr" ,. f he.IM oil. III. el.-e. oj. i U 111 MlU'ke and .f human beings penetrates itie in>> tr.K thai the true Asiatic t!a\.>r of the tdt y Is r. \ ealed. Although the quaint Kiangsji Junksare rapidly disappearing, the cargo Junks, sampans, and speedy sl.pper boats still \ le witli the motor launches of huge steel and wooden vessels from every port on the globe. Shanghai, like Venice. Is a city built largely upon pil#s sunk far into the soft black sand and saturated clay upon which the city resis along the bunks of the llwangpoo river. Huge rein f^?red concrete rafts are hurled in this clay, and the foundations of the build lncs are laid on them. The foreign apttlenients are delight fully modern, with plenty of space, light and air. and are us clean and or dorly as occidental cities. T t.' 1 rehch maintain their own conoes-io * under n tpvv?rnment separate from Snot of the other twenty powers, with their own lunguuge and the "rues," "quais" and other blgns typical of the hqpuv lund. Gay City In Peace Timer The hybrid city of Shanghai?u city of both Kast and West?is In peace times what many a traveler finds Paris is supposed to'be but Isn't: perpetually gay and carefree. Europeans and Americans, forced by business or government assignments to live there on the other side of tho world In a none too kindly climate, seem with one ae<*ord to have determined to make the experience as pleasant ns possible. White men's working hours might have been framed by a visionary Socialist for the year 2000. Many offices open at ten o'clock, grant a rest period from twelve to two, and close at four so that harassed merchant, and hanker nnd clerk may hurry away to club or casino or tennis court* g?lf links or househunt, for what Robert Louis Stevenson called "the real business of life." The Rund, the waterfront thoroughfare of occidental Shanghai. Is normally crowded with prosperous, unhurried westerners; and Pebbling Spring road "f an afternoon is thronged with stylishly dressed men and women of leisure and fashionable equipages that would do credit to Fifth avenue, the Champs LIysee or the Klng-Strasse In the days of Vienna's glory. The city Is thoroughly cosmopolitan. Perhaps no other city of the world surpasses it In?this respect except Cairo. Every western country has nationals In Shanghai, and there are besides representatives from all parts of Asia. In the Old City. In striking contrast lias been the old Shanghai, where most of the Chinese live. Going through the gates of the native city one passed into another century. Old temples, cramped courtyards. where flowering peonies and chrysanthemums could he glimpsed in passing, nnd an endless succession of narrow streets, hung with roccu'o banners of Chinese characters, nun filthy and recking with a thousand odors, differentiated it at once fropi its smaller modern cousins hut a short distance away. A tea house set in the middle of a stagnant p<md 's one of the breathing places of the old city, where sellers of Jade and cheap Jewelry, letter writers, fortune tellers, cobblers, menders, peddlers. Jugglers, am] others of Shanghai's polyglot population gathered over teacups or chattered endlessly in highpitched "Voices. The Chinese theater is another native oddity. Tho want of scenery, the din of the orchestra, and the piercing Intonations nnd gaudy costumes of the actors furnished a spectacle, which, while not always pleasing to western tastes, was always | colorful and unusual. Shanghai's sobriquet, "The Paris of the Kast" hns referred more to the gaiety of Its social life than to any external resemblance to the French capital. It is not nearly so picturesque as Hong Kong, or that queen of oriental beauty, Foochow. Shanghai cannot set out a thousand lanterns on a dozen hills 1.S00 feet up Into the night, as Hong Kong can. but her more Intimate house and garden decorations have been famous. There were lanterns everywhere, certain types were used as shop signs, and with their nonsputtering cold tallow candles they sued n periect iighi. Along Unhiding Well road in happier days a panorama of the city's life passed In review. Once the resort of | closed broughams and fine ears ef f>rI eign dignitaries, it has lately ech... 1 i to the ra'ile of nn \ tiling that <a:i .o ! ,,|| it?-?*!-, and I he rickshn\vs ft wheelbarrows of the natives, d.ir1 g in and ouT among the carriages. :..\.s and limousines, have funds) ,-,| M ? ,y and motley spectacle all day 1 i . Shanghai Is not only a great merciul emporium, handling to-.orly half the foreign trade of Chirm, but It has also become. In recent ye irs, one of tho greatest Chinese lndustral centers, with a large laboring population. Cotton nnd slik cocoon winding ndtls employ thousands of workers. In addition there nre large nua;'. -s of smaller factories, manufacturing matches, paper, cigarettes, fireworks, wood carvings. Jewelry, etc. Much of the occideutalizatiuii :?.*? has come to China In the past half century has filtered through Shanghai, especially through the great printing establishment there which has turned out excellent translations, into Chinese, of the literature and Ideas of the West. Shanghai a'.eo possesses *t t| daily newspapers, printed In b?>th foreign nnd native languages. __l II I CHAKLKY ROSS KIDNAPING Made an Much Interest and Indlgna* tion a? Does Lindbergh CaHe Pifty-eight years have paaaed Charley Ross was stolen from his home in Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia. If now liVing he is 02 years oldi and ignorant of his iden tity.' In the Intervening years many other children have been stolen, and some never heard of again. The tale of this lad's abduction remained tho great and tragic and moving tale of child stealing until tiho abduction and killing of tho Lindbergh baby. The Ross family was made up of the father and mother, four sons and three daughters. The father, Christian K. Ross, conducted a business in Philadelphia. On the evening of July first, 1874, Mr. Ross returned home. Not seeing tho boys about the place, Mr. Rosa asked the servants whore they were and was told that they had been playing on the side-j walk in front of the house. Mr. Ross felt no uneasiness' until teatime, when the children were still absent. Miss Mary Kidder, a neighbor, said she had seen Walter and (Charley pass hor home with two men in^.a wagon. Mr. Ross, now greatly alarmed, started to the police station. On his way, about 8 o'clock in tho evening, he saw Walter, dn charge of a man, coming toward him. This man said he had found Walter in Kensington, a nearby suburb. * / A long series of letters was received from the abductors, who demanded paym^ht of a ransom of $20,000 for the return of the boy. Mr. Ross was willing to pay the money, but because of a hitch it was not delivered. But a clue to the abductors was soon to bo found- A man came to one of the police captains in New I York city and said that some time be| fore he had been asked to join in a plan to kidnap one of the Vanderbilt I children. This man refused to take ' part in the scheme. When he heard ; of the kidnaping of Charley Ross, his 1 suspicions were aroused and he at | once connected the crime with the ! two men who went under tho name ! of Johnson and Clark, but whose real ' names were William Mosher and Joseph Douglas. The letters of the extortioners were submitted to this man, and he at once declared that the letters had been written by Mosher. Both men were known to the New York police. Each had a long record of crime, i At 2 o'clock on the morning of ! December fourteenth, 1874, two burglars were shot as they were leaving a residence on Long Island. One of them was dead, the other mortally wounded. When asked who they were and where they had come from, the dying man said: "My name is Joi seph Douglas and the man over there 1 is William Mosher. It's no use lying now. Mosher and I stole Charley Ross." 1 He was then asked who had charge | of the child. ~To this he responded: ! "Mosher knows all about the child; | ask him." When told Mosher was j dead, he exclaimed: "I don't know j where he (Charley Ross) is. Mosher i knew." Douglas died within a few I hours. When the bodies were removed to the morgue at Brooklyn, Walter Ross identified the corpses as those of the men who had taken himself and his brother from in front of their home in Germantown. Mr. Ross lived for twenty-three years after Charley's disappearance; he spent $60,000 in investigations and took part in examining into the mysterious cases of more than 270 children who resembled his lost child. Mrs. Ross survived her husband fifteen years. In the half century that has passed since Charley Ross was stolen, several persons have come forward to say that they were Charley Ross. If ho is living today he is a man of some 62 years of age. Was Time To Pray Tho Alabama Baptist prints the following anecdote, and it must be itrue: i A preacher at the close of one of i his sermons said: "Let all in the 'house who are paying their debts i stand up." Instantly. every men. ! woman and child, with one exception j rose to their feet. I The preacher seated them and said: 1 "Now every man not paying his debts j stand up." The exception noted, a ' care-worn, hungry looking individual, 1 clothed in last summer's suit, slowly ! assumed a perpendicular position. ; "How is it, my friend." naked the minister, "that you are the only man 1 not able to meet his obligations?" i "I run a newspaper," he meekly answered, "and the brethren who ! stood up are my eobscribers, and? "Lot us pray," exclaimed the minister. Pickled! A man in New Jersey committed suicide by jpmp>i>fr into a BO-gallon I jar of vinegar. Just a case of "sour } grapes" we suppose. At any rate | he is well pickled now.?Marion Star. Silk Worms "Smuggled" Into Europe by Monk? The discovery of the thread of the cocoou Is credited to a wife of a Chinese emperor as fur hack as $009 11. O., but It was not until the Sixth century since tlie birth of Christ that tjie manufacture of silk worked westward tuto Europe. The first of the worms to bo brought- west were curried by two Persian monks in hollow canes, who brought them to Constan. tinople. >, After eventually vouching Francev tho silk Industry received a considerable. acceleration which later drew England into the field, for many silk weavers Were forced from France by the edict of Nun tea. Seeking u supply of cocoons, the English sought to foster the production of the silk worm In the Colonies^ The tlrst were Introduced Into Virginia, wilU bounties offered for the production of silk. Virginians found, however, that tobacco was a more profitable crop and the'sllk worm languished. Efforts wero also made to establish the worm in South Carolina and in Connecticut, while 75 or so years ago an attempt was made in California, but they all came to nothing. # / ? \ Made Religious Rite of the Brushing of Teeth The ancient Indo-Europeans of 1700 B. C. made a religious rite of the brushing of teeth, according to Dr. George V. Bobrlnskoy, assistant professor of Sanskrit at the University of Chicago. These early Indians had no tooth pnstes, but they brushed the teeth thoroughly, he said. For a tooth 'brush, they used a twig taken from a living tree, a species of fig tree being recommended for the purpose, lie continued. It was imperative that the bark remain on the twig. The "tooth brush" could be used but once. There was a long list of days when the rite must either be omitted or performed In a different manner, he said, and on such days the cleansing of the mouth by rinsing with twelve mouthfuls of water was ..^substituted. A prayer to lie delivered before and after the brushing of the teeth was translated as "O Lord of the Forest, grant us long life, strength, glory, progeny, cattle, riches and knowli edge." When Bread I> "Stale" Definition and explanation of staling: "It is rather difficult to define stalement fully in a few words. From the standpoint of the consumer, bread is considered stale when, measured by the sense of feeUng and taste by contact with the skin and pulate, it appears dry and harsh, and not acceptable as fresh. There are, of course, various degrees of staleness, and there exists no absolutely definite^jjiykllng line between the so-called/ freshness and staleness of the lonf. In general, however, bread which is termed fresh possesses a crumb which is somewhat translucent,* elastic and springy, while the crumb, of stale bread is more opaque and at first tough, then later crumbly or hard, with a noticeable lack of flavor." Famous Fishing Ground "Bank" In connection with the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, means an undersea elevatiop which produces a shallow. The Grand bank off the coast of Newfoundland, which is 300 miles long and less than 0O0 feet under sea level. Is believed to be the top of an old submerged mountain range. It Is famous as a fishing ground because codfish resort there every year In May anrf June In enormous hordes to feed on the crustaceans and mollusks developed In the shoals as the result of sea plants brought in by the meeting of two currents. Australian Ocean Gtmt Practically all the opals In the world now come from Australia. And Its pearl fisheries have produced some fine gems, Including the unique Southern Cross, a series of pearls Joined together to form a perfect cross, which the finder regarded as a direct sign from heaven. Today "pearl" buttons on shirts are more Valuable In Australia than pearls, for the pearls fished in one year, reoeuliy were worth only ?20.000. whereas the oyster and trochus shells, which used to be wasted, were worth ?-110.000, Immenie Stalactite Cavern j One of the largest stalactite caverns I in the world is In Slovakia. It has 1 been given the name DomenJca after j the mountain within which it lies. The cave is nearly 5,000 yards In length and consists of a labyrinth of corridors nnd hall like caverns. The stalactites take the form of waterfalls, veils, clusters of water lilies and mounds which look like coral Islands. A professor of Prague university has established that the eaves were once inhabited by primItlve man. Removing the Beard There Is no record us to when men* first shaved. Drawings and pictures In ancient history, such as that of Egypt. Chnldea and Ur, all depict men being clean shaven. The American In dlan used a sharp flint to share him self nnd It is presumed that in the earliest stages of history prehistoric man used the same thing. As steel was known In Egypt and Clmldeu, it is believed that these peopl * made some instrument with which they could shave themselves. A large specimen of the king c bra, one of the most deadly 0* ,, reptiles, and belonging to the 0* tional aoo in Washington, has totally blind. Dr. William Mann IT rector of the zoo, will attempt to Z. move scales froqa the snake's ev by a surgical operation. (Such an 0Z oration will endanger not only the life of the snake, but the zoo direct^ as well, This, operation has been i?r formed only once before, by Dr. Djt mars on a cobra at the Bronx New York. ?' (Despite all efforts to avert wlr both Paraguay and Bolivia continue their feverish work towards 8et. tling their dispute -ovor territorial rights by force of arms. Two Boliv. ian aviator observers were shot down near Ascunsion, Paraguay, on Saturday and their planes destroyed. IMPORTANT NOTICETXT CANDIDATES Many of the candidates believing that one week for the speaking dates would crowd tob much into one single week during this hot weather thereby making it too strenudkis for some, and at the request of many I have ordered the date for the filing of pledges and gaying of assessments to close on aturday, August 18, at midnight, instead of Saturday, August 20, and the following itinerary will" be f0j. lowed for the campaign dates: Blaney, Monday, August 15, at 10 a. m. Rabon's Cross Roads, .Wednesday August 17, at 10 a. m. Antioch, Friday, August 19, at 10 a. m. Bethune, Monday, August 22, at 10 a. m. Mt. Pisgah, Tuesday, August 28, 10 a. m. " ? Kershaw, Wednesday, August 24, 10 a.-in. .Camden, Thursday, August 25, 3 p. m. Westville, Friday, August 20, 10 a. m. Camden Cotton Mills, Saturday, August 27, 8 p. m. The committee appointed by the County Democratic Executive Committee, composed of W. T. Holley, D. M. Kirkley and N. P. Gettys, have fixed the assessments, of candidates as follows^ Clerk of Court, $75.00. Superintendent of Education $50.00. Master in Equity, $100.00. House of Representatives, $20.00. Township Directors, $5.00. Magistrate at Camden, $25.00. Magistrate at Bethune, $15.00. Magistrate at Kershaw, $15.00. Magistrate at Blaney, $15.00. , All other Magistrates, $5.00. Coroner, $5.00. S. F. BRASINGTON, h Chairman. H. D. NILES, Secretary. (alotaDs TRADE MARK REO. For lazy liver, stomach and kidneys, biliousness, indigestion, constipation, headache, colds and fever. 10? and 35 ft at dealers. r 1 NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSBfl Mads In Camden And For Sale IK DeKalb Pharmacy?Phone M ^ c_.. E ROBT. W.MITCH AM Architect ( Crocker Building, 1 9 I Camden, S. C. j ft* KERSHAW LODGE No. SI A. F. M. Regular communication of A\,s&y this lodge is held on u* * first Tuesday in each mont?*a. at 8 p.m. Viaiting Brethren are welcomed. W. R. CLYBURN, J. E. ROSS,. Worahipful Master.^ Secretary. . 1-14-27-tf m DeKALB COUNCIL N?^ Junior Order U. A. Regular council seoond \ fourth Mondays of , month at 8 p.m. ?Visiting are welcomed. J. W. THOMPSO? L. H. JONES, Councillor* Recording Secty. ^ < __ EYES EXAMINED I and Glasses Fitted THE HOFFER COMPANY I Jawlf mmi 1"] '