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English Language
Has Been Altered
Ohicago.? What three centuries of
use have done to the English language
? at least as much of It an Ilea from
A to Ra?la revealed by the editors
of the "Dictionary of American KngHah"
in the first section of their work
published September 8 by the tnlverBlty
of t'hicago Pre**.
Eleven year* of scholarly enterprise
, on the part of iflTZAYJlUfUU. i'nil&le,
editor of the Oxford English dictionary.
and an expert staff assisting hjm
her/-, ui?. at last bearing fruit in publication.
Five years more of Intensive
editing and the remainder of the dictionary
should be off the presses, and
then libraries of the world will have
a work which shows changes in English
speech us u result of Its being
translated to American soil in lbu7.
The new dictionary is not a glossary
of slang of Americanisms, It
contain* only words which attained
respectable social standing Hi the language
before 1900.
There are various classes. One consists
of English words that took on
new meanings In the United StafeB
to describe new institutions and landscapes,
like "capltol" for seat of government,
"creek" for a small stream.
Another includes American colloquialisms.
Such a word was the adverb
"uwfully," derived from the word
meaning awe-Inspiring. One Mary
Dewees wrote in her Journul in 1788,
with feminine superlaUve. "It was
really awfully pleasing to behold the
clouds," and the dictionary now
quotes her comment to mark the
change in usage of one English word.
Other words, like "baggage," declined
in use In the mother country
but became current In the new world,
and took on a variety of new partners
In such compounds as baggageroom,
baggage-master, baggage-car.
American Inventiveness shows Itself
particularly in the making of new
hyphenated combinations the editors
of the dictionary note. A striking
one Is bee-line. ^ The settlers brought
the first bees to this country from
England and with them the noun,
hut it remained for the dwellers In
the new country to devise the term
bee-line to designate two points.
Angle-worm is another American
compound.
Americans have shown themseives
resourceful in putting old words to
new us?-s as well as In devising new
ones, the editors of the dictionary
state. The latter variety, like buncombe.
lynch, bosH. boom, are better
known than the former, which have
slipped quietly into current English
use without tlie earmarks of Americanisms.
In this group the dictionary
makers place such words as dexpresslons
as census immigrant, loafer,
schooner, wall-paper, lawabldlng,
lengthy, to belittle, to cave in, to
clear out, once In a while, time and
again.
The dictionary treats the development
historically, giving examples of
early use from written American
English with the date for each quotation.
so that it becomes easy to trace
the rise of Americanisms.
The dictionary has been financed
by a grant from the General Education
board and from the American
Council of Learned societies, as well
jih hv funds from the University of
Chicago.
Revealed In Death
As A Woman
San Francisco. Sept. 21 ?A kindly
little individual known in San Fran<
isco for forty years as Jack H. Garland.
ti7, social worker, former newspaper
man and writer, was revealed
in cleatit yesterday as ti woman.
"Jack" collapsed in a street Friday
nifjlii and died in a hospital next
morning Dr Holla It Hess, deputy
eoroner. who performed an autopsy,
said today, "Jack" was a woman.
A friend. Mrs. Mary Haines, reported
"'Jack" Garland turned to masquerading
as a man years ago to
facilitate her desire to help the needy.
Associates said her real name was
Beatrice Garland.
Senator Wallace H. White, Republican,
defeated Governor Louis J.
Brann, a Democrat for the United
States senate for Maine, by a vote of
1*7,037 to lc>2,tMi2, in Monday's election.
Secretary of State l^ewis O.
Barrows, Republican, was elected governor
over F. Harold Dubord. Democrat.
by a vote of 172,170 to 129,084
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Favorable Trend In
The Hog Situation
CJemson, Sept. 21.?The drought
over the middle West, resulting In
what appears now to he the smallest
corn crop fn more than a half century,
has it seems changed the course
of hog prices from a lower price trend
to the probability of an upward trend
during the next two years, says O M,
("lark, extension agricultural economist.
"The last peak In the cycle of hog
number was reached in 1932 when on
.January 1, there were 62 million hogs
on the farms of the L'nlted States,"
Mr. Clark explains. "by January 1,
1935, the number had declined to 39
million head. The cycle of hog numbers
was on the downswing after
1933, and the severe drought of 1934
caused the number to decline to a
lower figure than otherwise would
have been the case, and hog prices
rose to pre-depresslon levels.
"Since ithe low point on January 1,
1936, the numbers have been on the
increase. The 1936 spring pig crop
was about 29 per cent greater than
last year's. The fall crop was expect- i
ed to he about 14 per cent., greater
than that of 193f>, and approximately
60 per cent greater than the very i
small fall crop of 1934.
"The short corn crop this year will
quite likely slow up or probably stop
temporarily the increase In numbers.
The Indications are that the short i
feed supply will cause more than the
usual proportion of the hogs on hand
June 1, 1936, to bo sold before January <
1, 1937. Many gilts that would nor- i
mally have been bred this fall for i
farrowing next spring and then sold i
after furrowing will be sold this fall." i
Pointing out that this more rapid
than usual marketing of hogs will
probably depress the fall price, the
economist concludes:
"The Indications are that the situation
will cause higher prices In the
spring and fall of 1937, which will
probably carry on through into 1938.
That is to say, the unusually short
feed supply caused by the drought
will result in sending to market more
hogs this fall than otherwise would
have been the case, depressing prices
this fall as a consequence, but It otherwise
has Improved the outlook for i
hogs for the next two years."
Austrian Peas, Vetch
Make Soil Productive
Clemson, Sept. 21.?The sowing of
winter legumes for sol! Improvement
has always been an excellent farm
practice from every standpoint, and
now that the Federal government is
placing such emphasis on soil conserving
and soil building. South Carolina
farmers will plant a larger acreage
of winter legumes than ever before,
says Ft. \V. Hamilton, extension
agronomist.
The Alabama FCxperiment station
has recently Issued a publication covering
many years' experimental results
with vetch and Austrian winter
peas. These results, which are applicable
to South Carolina conditions,
Mr Hamilton summarizes as follows:
Where cotton and corn were grown
on certain areas each year, vetch or
Austrian peas < turned under) increased
the yield of seed cotton by 628
pounds and of c?rn by 13.6 bushels
per acre.
The increase in cotton yield due
to the vetch or Austrian peas was
worth $3.78 per acre more than the
increase from 225 pounds of nitrate
of soda or its equivalent after considering
the cost of the legume seed
and the soda.
Where corn was grown without rotation
and was preceded by vetch
or Austrian peas, the cost of the increased
yield whs lti cents per bushel.
Vetch or Austrian peas grown it; a
two-year rotation (cotton-winter leguine-corn
> increased the corn yjeld
eighteen bushels per acre at a cost
of II cents per bushel. Furthermore,
the residue the second year from these
legumes increased the cotton yield by
213 pounds of seed cotton per acre.
Vetch or Austrian peas, when not
fertilized with a sufficient amount of
phosphate, usually failed to make
enough growth to increase cotton and
Corn yields economically; whereas,
with a sufficient application of phosphate
they made enough growth to
increase greatly the yields of subsequent
crops.
T^ furnish sufficient nitrogen for
the. succeeding crop. It Is necessary
to turn under the tops of vetch or
Austrian peas since about 90 per cent,
of the total nitrogen in the legume
plant is in the tops at the proper time
for turning. *
The government of Spain has notified
all foreigners to leave Rilboa, and
notified all commanders of foreign
warships that the harbor is now mined
against rebel ships.
Claud Pepper and Fred P. Cone of
Florida, Democratic senatorial nominees,
a*sure President Roosevelt that
he hasn't anything to worry about
"down there."
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SHALL WB FORM A "PURC ELECTION
LEAGUE"?
The editorial of last week discussing
the flections recently held in Colleton
county has elicited more comment
than auy editorial In a long
time. Many comments have been
made to ua and of which we have
heard Indicating that there is much
Interest In this matter, and that the
consciences of all the people have not
been dulled or burled under the avalanche
of money used to buy the sacit
d right of suffrage from the needy
of the selfishly profiteering group who
prey upon candidates, and voters alike.
We are pleased that there is this show
of interest at this time. It la a long
time till the next primary election
will be held in this county, and it
would seem that it were better to
wait till Just before that election, t ut
we desire to call attention to these
Irregularities while they are fresh in
the minds of the people, and make
thus a record of the evils as they are
In mind for future reference.
Conditions were really worse than
we thought them to be. Vote-buying
was the order of the day. We have
heard of many instances where money
was used. Two little girls, daughters
of a vote seller, were proud of
new dresses they were wearing. Asked
where they got them the Innocent
little girls replied: "My mamma
bought these with money Mr. paid
my daddy and mama for voting for
him Tuesday." They did not think
that their parents* had done any
wrong in selling their votes, nor were
they old enough to realize the wrong
done by "Mr. " in buying the votes*
of their parents. Another worker at
one of the polls drove by a field where
a farmer and his wife were picking
cotton to ask If they wished to go to
vote. Their reply was "If you will
pay us $2 apiece we will go with you
to vote." The "workers" replied: "I
haven't any money to pay you, but I
am going on to town and If I get hold
of any I will come back by and get
you." Another woman voter whose
husband is working In another city,
remarked that several people came to
her house to get her to go Jto the
polls and vote, but she would not
go with them for her vote was not
for sale. A worker at a poll In the
county was seen to have a big roll of
dollar bills early in the morning and
he was quite busy all day and at night
when he was leaving after the poll
had closed he bought some drinks
and pulled out two dollar bills, all
he had left. This worker actually
used his money to buy votes as he
was Instructed by the candidate to
do. Another "worker" went to a town
in an adjoining county and told a
friend there: "I have forty-odd dollars
given me by a candidate to buy
votes for him at the polls Tuesday, I
but 1 am not going to do any such
thing. I am going to pay my taxes
with the money."
The above are only a very few of
the incidents in connection with the
election held last Tuesday. Others
might be recited but it is no use just
to multiply incidents of this nature.
They are proof enough, If anyone Is
a doubting Thomas, to convince that
there were wholesale buying and selling
of votes in the primary elections
held in this county. All kinds of rumers
are going around of all night
riding, calling up "workers" from bed
at all hours of the night before the
election, leaving money with them and
instructions as to its use, and to pay
for their "time," etc., etc. It is enough
to create nausea and to almost make
one despair of ever having an honest
election in Colleton county.
The Press and Standard is not writing
these editorials to prefer charges
against candidates who used money.
It is not a personal attack upon any
candidate or candidates, but it is intended
to be an effort to arouse the
people of the county so that they shall
put down any such practices in the
future. We rtre of the opinion that
this use of money and the intimidation
of the voters U as distasteful to
the candidates who Indulge in it as
it is to the rfght thinking voter who
sees the choice of officials lowered
to the strata of the slums. Certainly
no candidate who does this to win,
if such be his ultimate object, can
take any pleasure or view with any
degree of satisfaction the expenditure
of more money than his office can pay
during his tenure of the office. If the
candidate aeea in his office a chance
to recoup and make other hundreds
and thousands of dollars, then he is
f^lso a scoundrel and should not hold
any office in the gift of the people.
Certain it is that under the present
status of running for office in Colleton
county it is impossible for a poor
man to enter a race for one of the
main offices in the county with any
hope of winning if there be competition.
A prospective candidate said
to us in connection with this fight we
are making for clean elections: "1
hope you will so stir up the people
of the county that the use of money
will be prohibited. I wish to run tor
an office but unless the use of mmjgy
can be stopped it will be no use for
J me to run, except I can get all ifrt
['breaks* in the election."
I Several lady voters have said, *tt
was so rotten and distrusting at my
poll that I do not think I shall ever
vote again." May we suggest that
the women of the county have It in
their hands to clean np the elections.
If they will support only clean candidates
who will not use money to hay
support and votes, and if they will
all vote, they hold the balance of
power. yt~
The Press and 8tandard is thinking
of making an attempt to organise n
Sun May Replace Oil j
and Coal As Fuel'
Washington.?An engine run by
sun-power, and described aa likely to
enter the commercial field in "not so
many years," gave world power experts
a startling glimpse of future
possibilities recently.
Distinguished delegates to the third
world power conference crowded into
a little open-air laboratory behind the
Smithsonian Institution to examine
the flrat practical "sun motor," designed
to convert solar heat Into
cheap energy.
Dr. C. G. Abbot, the institution's
secretary, who designed the engine
after twenty years of research, told
his guests that such machines might
some day replace the earth's dwindling
oil and coal supply.
A minor accident kept the delegates
from seeing his invention in actual
operation, although earlier It had
driven a chugging little steam engine
before a battery of movie cameras.
The grey-mustached inventor, in
short sleeves and an old straw hat,
explained that the generation of power
was ail done with mirrors.
The heart of the sun motor was
i three curved metal reflectors, clamped
in a nine-foot rectangular frame,
i They focused the sun's rays on threepencil-thin
glass tubes, containing a
dark fluid with a high boiling point.
When the concentrated glare had
brought the liquid to 400 decrees
Fahrenheit it flowed through insulated
copper tubes to a boiler, which
in turn drove a one-half horsepower
steam engine.
Engineers and industralist^ from
four continents tossed eager questions
at the Washington scientist as
they stood on tip-toe to glimpse details
of the motor.
Dr. Abbot, smiling with pleasure,
told them he had used a similar device
to bake break and cook meals at
Mount Wilson, Calif.
"I have estimated," he said, "that
such machines erected on a large
scale could produce 40,000 horsepower
a day from the sun falling on a single
square mile of desert."
Gano Dunn, of New York, president
of the J. G. White Engineering company,
predicted that sun motors "will
enter the commercial Held in not so
many years."
He added that the device already
| had been perfected to such a point
j that mirrors covering the surface of
the waters impounded by RouJder
Dam would develop more power than
the dam's own generators."
Dr. Abbot told the delegates solar
heat had been utilized In similar devices
"for many years," but that his
motor was the first which could compare
In efficiency with other power
sources.
"According to my calculations," he
said, "this machine can compete with
steam engines burning, coal at a cost
of $3 a ton."
"Pure Elections League," or seme
other kind of organization, whose
members will pledge themselves to
use their influence to put a stop to
the use of money and the use of eleventh
hour campaign lies. What do
you think of this plan, office holders
and prospective candidates? More to
the point, what do you think of this
plan, voters? This should be no more
the fight of The Press and Standard
than it is of every voter in the county
who values the sacred use of the
ballot to secure great men "to reign
over us.' l>et us have your views?
we shall be pleased to give publicity
to them, whether you agree with us
or not.
Meanwhile we may pause to see
what others are thinking of our election
methods In Colleton county. The
Greenwood Index-Journal says, in
commenting upon our last week's editorial
:
"Colleton county does not have a
very savory reputation in politics in
other sections of t'he state.
"The Press and Standard's editorial
will tend to confirm this low rating.
Cnfortunately there *are indications
that It is not entirely alone in this
sorry business of rotten politics."?
Press and Standard, Walterboro.
The six children of August A Lutke
of Oxon Hill, Md., have been barred
from the school of Prince George
county, because of refusal to salute
the United States flag. Lutke belongs
to ? religious sect known as "Jehovah's
Witnesses," -who refuse to put
temporal things before God, and consider
a salute to the flag an ofTense
to their religion. A
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Befs will not drink, nectar of flowers
from which the petals have bean
removed.
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S.C.GAME ?,FISH ASSOCIATION I
Iftnc SlatfuxJe GoperaUoft Game,
"fish A Jorest can fcMauriallu*
increased for ike Benefitof An.
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WHAT 18 A 8PORTINO 8HOT?
By Havilah B&bcock
It 1b Important to know how far a
gun can kill. It is still more important
to know how far "a gun can't kill.
Last year I encountered a group of
bird-hunters who were bombarding a
drove of doves?with number ten
shots.
"Getting any doves?" I asked.
"No," one man replied. "But we
are having a lot of tup."
I wondered Whether the doves were
or not. The next day the woods nearby
were full of maimed and disabled
birds.
"Wasn't that duck you shot at a
little far?" I asked a neighbor in a
duck blind last year.
"Yes. Really out of range. I just
took a sporting shot at it."
"About what chance would you
have of actually killing a duck at that
distance?" 1 asked.
"Oh, one in ten maybe," he an-1
swered.
"You mean that at such a distance
yoh would probably wound nine to
every one you bagged?"
"Something like that,'! he said.
"Then why do you call it a sporting
shot?" I asked, but like Pilate, I didn't
stay for an answer.
To maim or disable a bird or .wild
animal when the chances of bagging
it are almost negligible is about the
most unsporting practice a man can
engage in. It is not only inconsiderate
and cruel but wasteful, since
wounded but unbagged game does nobody
an ygood yet helps deplete the
Btock. Some of the light wild-fowling
loads advertised by ammunition makers
as "sporting" are really Just the
reverse. The real sporting load is
that which carries death most surely
and swiftly, leaving no injuries.
The same thing is true with fishing.
Within late years over-sophistiCated
anglers bate made a fetish If light
tackle, tackle often Incommensurate
with the else and proweee of the fish
angled for, with the result that many
hooked fish that escape are left defenseless
against their enemies, or are
permitted to die of Infection, that
arch-enemy of wild life as of the human
race, Light tackle and light
loads are fine?if they are adequate.
There is ndtBfBg finer that a clean
hit?unless it's a clean miss. When
people begin discussing how far a gun
can't shoot, it will be a lot better for
game conservation.
Germans Are
Ready For Call
Berlin, Sept. 21.?Millions of Germans
between the ages of 25 and 45 !
are carrying In their vest pockets a
secret order telling them exactly when
and where they must report in the
event of war. >
This "Kriegsbeorderung," (order to
take part in war), as it is headed, is
causing admitted anxiety, especially
among the older men who themselves
experienced the horrors of the World
War.'
Outwardly they display enthusiasm,
but in private, confidential conversations,
their beliefs are .. often quite
different.
With Prussian exactness, the order
specifies even the barracks to which
the recipient is to- report, what he Is
to bring with him in the way of clothing,
what he is to do in case he meanwhile
^changes his residence, etc.
TheSrrder is a blue sheet of paper,
eight by five inches. Written crosswise
on |he face of it are the words:
"This order serves in lieu of a ticket
on the railways to the point- where
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