The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 07, 1934, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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OnTree Belt
the Middle West there is a dr>
! Iveral hundred miles wide and
* *Uni? for 1.300 miles southward
Clf portions of North end South
^ Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma
\mvx?< which has tout from 20 to
annual rainfall. Theaa
,', ?ilh a total area of 450,000,Sire,
are by nature ?reele?a to a
extent. Their original, forest
' of approximately 06,000,000
has been cut to about 36,000,?
I at* of trees together with
iim.al cultivation has caused a
JLtly lowered water table. Lack
fie and grass roots has permitted
fine ?oil to be wasted away by
ind and rain. > .
To reclaim this region President
-Lvelt has issued an executive orJTllooating
$16,000,000 to start the
Lk of establishing a great tree
liter belt, It will be 100 miles in
uth and will extend the entire 1,300
' le8 across the heart of the prairie
uteB to '.he Texas Panhandle. The
jory behind the project is that the
)tce 0f the winds which sweep across
w region will be broken, leaving the
ne soil undisturbed. Instead of
piping olT most of the precipitation
ill be retained. Experiments of the
orest Service With test strips of
planted 600 feet apart have
bown that between the strips the
ntporation is reduced aft least 80 per
lBt, wind velocity from 20 to 30 per
.nt'and at least three inches more
uter is retained.
At present government agents are
Bsy selecting the land to be used and
n securing leases and options prefatory
to starting several thousand
irmers to wof-k at once plowing and
therwise preparing for commencelent
of the actual planting next
pring. Collection of seed and estabsbraent
of additional nurseries will
Ijo be important part of the early
ork. The project will be in full
ting by 1936 and will toe completed
d about 10 years at a total estimated
$ of $75,000,000. As much as 90
er cent of this will go directly to the
irmers for labor such as plowing,
kilting, cultivating, and fencing.
The plan will affect some 65,000,000
(res of land although the actual forded
area will cover only one and a
?!f million acres since the trees are
obese: in strips about 125 feet wide
t intervals of about a mile. This
gves the land between the strips
ree for farming purposes as the
pwrnment will secure title to only
k actual reforested areas.?The
Ithfinder.
)il Gains Cotton's
Crown In Texas
Steady growth of the consumption
nd production of oil during "the auimobile
age" has finally dethroned
king" cotton from the state of Texas
ind put in its place "king" oil as the
fading crop of the largest state in
he union, it is pointed out in the
nrrent T. S. Hose review.
"Much has been done for the benet
of the cotton farmers of Texas
rith the hearty approval of the ma?rity
of the citizens of the country,"
ays the review, "but the many helpil
measures to the oil industry
rhich the National Administration
? sponsored have been criticized in
Jme quarters as an aid to monopoly,
his is due to lack of understanding
! the nature of oil, which is a crop
ut as cotton is, and anything which
(nefits value as a commodity helps
>*ny more people than it would in
fe case of many of our other basic
Jmmodities.?Christian Science Mon?r.
Mark Arle of Champaign, 111., at
andalia. Okla., broke 197 clay pig>ns
out of a total of 200 and thus
*ame the champion of champions
1 this line of sport. Paul Earle of
tarr. S. C., came next by breaking
M out of a possible 200. He ran his
rst 1 Oo shots without a miss.
America's Old-Time
; Spirit-Where Is It?
f Throughout the world the governl
ing forces seem to bo turning to dicl
tatoriul powers.
i Democracy may have to take a seat
k far in the rear.
> iSlavery of mind and body may be
i faced in many countries of the world
- by future generations. Not the slave.
ry of the whip and lash, but enslavei
ment that crushes the spirit and de'
stroys all hope of freedom.
, Italy has shackled the press.
Germany?hae?cam out the Jews.
And trials have been behind closed
doors, exacting the death # penalty,
giving out no names.
The murder of Chancellor Dollfu&s
of Austria indicates the intentions of
the Nazis. They are determined to
align Austria and Germany?the same
combination that faced the nations in
1914. Let us hope that the suppression
of this revolutionary spirit will
be permanently maintained.
'Russia is under Communistio jrdles
which are more rigid and exacting
than some forms of slavery. The
average citizen has no voice whatsoever;
he is merely part of a huge human
machine and must obey orders.
England and her colonies are still
trying to follow democratic principles,
but th6y are facing many difficulties
in trying to retain these governmental
ideals.
And in this country, supposed to bo
the home of liberty where, it is maintained,
free man can develop in accordance
with individual ability, shall
the democratic principles which have
builded a nation of such colossal
power be restricted and hampered as
in the various countries in Europe?
Where is the patriotic fire and fervor
of pioneer days? Where is the old
time American spirit which we have
read so much about?
It is largely noticeable because of
its absence.
In the past we were noted for our
courage. The American pioneers were
brave"men. They were fighters. On.
frequent occasions they had to face
emergencies where their lives were at
stake. They often had to work in the
fields with their rifles at their sides.
If we go back two or three generations,
we find that the hours of labor
in farming districts began at daylight
and sometimes continued offer
dark. Farm workers toiled sixteen
hours or more daily. Today we comI
plain about eight hours.
Gradually life is being made easier
for us. Hard work is no longer considered
necessary. And there can be
no criticism whatever of this tendency
to make life more pleasurable,
provided leisure time is used prohtahly.
,
But we well know t?he popularity 01
many forms of dissipation, and what
we call idle time is often worse than
wasted. We cannot evade the selfevident
truth that is the struggle in
life that builds strength. It is the
victories we win in combating emergencies
which develop self-confidence
and power. When we make life too
easy we not only become soft and fragile
in body, but we lose mental and
moral courage.
We frequently view with nonchalance
costly governmental mistakes,
great outstanding evils. In the De#1""
ning of our national life there would
have been a hoarse cry of rage from
every citizen at deviations from ,governraental
rectitude, but today our
people? often feel hopeless and hapless
when facing these conditions.
They are frequently afraid or mdiiferent,
and are even inclined to keep
their views might have to suffer
personal inconvenience if they expressed
them too freely.
Unless we can find some method
of reviving the old-time American
fighting spirit we might as well discard
dreams of future national greatness.?Bernard
McFadden, in Liberty
Magazine.
The government of Ireland has
banned the importation bf pneumatic
tires.
Draws Curious In
Great Numbers
Chances are you won't see many
timid people around Four-Mile House
on the Old State Head north of Charleston,
just' cast of U. S. 17.
\ In the shadows deepening into
night, ghosts may stalk-spectators of
ill-fated travelers who had put up for
the night and been robbed and murdered.
At that time, some years before
the first trains on the first rail*
road of America were running in
sight of the h^use, the wholo peninsula
known a^ "The Neck" was infested
with white desperadoes who
knew no bounds.
People avoided it after nightfall
because of its unbridled lawlessness.
Wagoners and other travelers who
found it necessary to pass this way
kept rifles and pistols cocked.
The most notorious of the dreaded
outlaws' haunts was Four-Mile
House, kept by John and Lavinia
Fishor. Only hapless strangers with
no knowledge of conditions* stopped
here. The authorities waged ruthless
warfure upon the outlaws, and
finally the hand ofv-1ho law gripped
John and Lavinia.
At their trial shocking evidence
found in the cellar proved them coldblooded-murderers
with robbery as i
the motive. They Were convicted of
atrocious crimes and some of their
ill-gotten spoils were eventually recovered.
The community followed the 'Fishers'
trial with bated breath, and a
great throng gathered when they
were led to the gallows. Lavinia believed
that because she was a woman,
last-minute clemency would be vouchsafed
her. When she realized her
neck was about to be broken, she lost
her insolent calm and shrieked and
screamed to be saved.
If you are interested in seeing the
site of the gibbet on which the only
white woman was ever hanged in
South Carolina, you'll find it in Charleston
on a hill east of Meeting
Street about 800 yards north of famous*
old Line Street.
Out of the hanging of notorious
Lavinia Fisher, "master mind" of
the slayings at Four-Mile House,
myths have grown. One of these is
that a woman's skeleton in Charleston
Museum is hers. Another is that
the majestic" oak in the middle of
Ashley Avenue was her gibbet. But
the record of Four-Mile House is
shocking enough without enTbeliishment
with fiction.?Esso Tours.
Girl Kidnaped,
Then Released
Abbeville, Sept. 3.?Sheriff F. B.
McLane said tonight his department
was following all clues available in
the kidnaping of an 18-year-old
daughter of a prominent Calhoun
Falls family, who was found late today
blindfolded and unconscious in
a field.
Sheriff McLane declined to divulge
the name of the girl.
He said the girl said she was grabbed
by two men early this morning
while picking tomatoes in the garden
near her home. 'She told the officers
that the men blindfolded her and
knocked her unconscious.
Sheriff McLane said the girl was
found about four hours later by relatives
in a field of high grass about
a quarter of a mile from her home,
her hands and legs bound.
Nearby was found a pocket handkerchief
bearing a penciled note:
"We will return her for $1,000."
Sheriff McLane said ^ie had few
clues to work on and that the girl
was unable to say whether her abductors
were white men or negroes.
She was /reported In ? nfghly nervous
condition tonig<ht.
Announcement has been made by
King George of England, of the engagement
of Prince George of England
and Princess Marina of Greec<
?the handsomest royal couple o:
Europe.
^p??WW?P?
Can A Whale
Swallow Man?
This question has arisen many
times in the past, prompted by the
Biblical story of Jonah. It is assumed
that the physical rather than the
miraculous side of the story is what
is questioned. George W. Stimpson
has discussed the matter at great
length and some of his findings are
given, here. It is quite possible that
fishes and whales of various species
can swallow a man whole. Most
whales, it is true, have small gullets
and the throat of, the blue whale is
only nine or ten inches in diameter, i
The sperm whale or cachalot, which
feeds chiefly on squids and cuttlefish,
has a throat large enough to swallow
a human being whole. In 1914 Sir
Francis Fox was told by the manager
of a whaling station in Northern
Britian that the largest thing ever
found in a whale was the skeleton of
a shark 16 feet in length. David Starr
Jordan, an authority on fish, stated
that a fairsized young sea lion was 1
foun<^ whole in the stomach of a white
shark. These fish have vicious .teeth
and it is inconceivable that one could
swallow a man without killing him.
It is also improbable that a human
being could be long retained alive in
the stomach of a whale. Although
the stomach of these creatures is cavelike
in dimensions, the high tempera
ture, the powerful gastric juice, and
the spasmotic contraction and expansion
of the stomach would be fatal
in a very short time. Certainly a man
could not live in a conscious state inside
a whale's stomach more than a
few minutes. He might be able to
live in an unconscious state considerably
longer. One authority states
that the normal blood temperatifte of
whales is about 104.6 Fahrenheit. It
is generally the verdict of scientists,
notwithstanding numerous reports
that such cases do occur, that no man
could survive being swallowed by a
whale.?Philadelphia Inquirer.
Those Two Added Hours
Just whose bright idea it was to
keep the polls open in Anderson
county for two aditionnl hours, or
until 6 p. m., in the primary elections
this summer, we do not know. But it
was an act that was quite unneces- ,
sary, in our opinion,
With a heavy primary vote, such
as that which was cast Tuesday, it
requires the unofficial tabulators all
night to get the results to the public,
and with the polls being held open
for an additional two hour period, the
returns are delayed even more.
One of the first acts of our next
legislative delegation, and we hope
the members will bear this in mind,
should be the repeal of this act of
the 1934 assembly providing for the
polls to be kept open for this additional
period.?Anderson Record.
I^ewis Douglas, budget director of
the Roosevelt administration for a
year and a half, has resigned and
been succeeded by Daniel W. Bell. It |
is being stated in some quarters that
the reason for Douglas resigning was
because the president insisted on allocation
of funds that Bell maintained
would overbalance the budget.
m There is to be a general reorganization
by the NRA to simpify the
codes. The 600 or more working
codes for as many industries are to
be classified into 22 groups, so as to
have all allied industries grouped together.
William Green, head of the American
Federation of Labor, asserts that
the country is rapidly losing ground
in re-employment and declares that
unlearn the government devises a plan
for relief "We shall find ourselves in
a worse problem of unemployment
this winter than we bad last year."
General News Notes
Two 18-year-old college boys paid
finep of $20 each at Barnstable,
Mass., for stealing traffic signs.
They admitted stealing the signs to
hang in their rooms at college.
The Pacific fleet, which has been in
the Atlantic for sevoral months past,
will go back to the Pacific, the start
for the transfer being set for October
28th.
Nineteen bulloons, three from the
United States, will participate in the
Gordon Bennett balloon races which
are to start at Warsaw, Poland, on
September 23.
Senator Hiram Johnson, running
on the Republican, Democratic, Commonwealth
and Progressive tickets,
has been renominated for the senate
from California.
A treasury report shows that for
the 1(5 months of the Roosevelt administration
ending June 30, the government
had spent a total of $8,812,112,212.
Guy McAlister seriously wounded
his estranged wife on a street corner
at Yonkors, N. Y., and then committed
suicide. He formerly lived at
Spartanburg, S. C., and his body was
taken there for interment.
' I
Experimenters, trying to causo it
to rain by dropping bombs from ail
airplane, almost lost their lives near
Waxahatchie, Tex., when a bomb exploded
near the plane and set it on
fire. Tho pilot mado a forced landing
and the five persons in tho plane escapod.
v
Operatives of the King cotton mil!
ut>-Ajigusta, Ga., voted 1,941 to 16
against the proposed strike of mill
workers. Employes at Langley and
Bath in South Carolina, voted 1,237
to 35 against a walkout.
Chairman Parley of the state Democratic
committee of New York, has
called a meeting of state committeemen
to be held September 6, to draw
up a platform and lay plans for tho
campaign in New York state.
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