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I Sun Obscene Matter Through U. S. Mails Encouraged by the 15-year Federal penitentiary sentence meted out to (iayle R. Cleveland of Pensacola, Fla., alia* Mies Georgia Clayton and Miss (iayle Cleveland, ou charges of seudlug obscene matter through the mails the Postal inspection Service has launched -a nation-wide drive on obscene correspondence clubs conducted through the mails, It was anuounced ttt. the Pogt . Office Department recently. Cleveland was the operator of "The Letter Club Different," one of numerous obscene corresponding clubs, which have for their purpose tho mutual exehange of obscene literature, photographs and drawings,' and >vhlch have been uncovered by postal Inspectors In various sections of tho country. ' The Pensacola "Letter Club Dlfforent" of Cleveland, was conducted in the same manner as are the other obscene correspondence clubs which are' BOW the subject of a far-flung roundup by the Postal Inspection Service. . As operator^ of the "club," Cleveland would insert advertisements In the cheaper magazines offering for a small fee, usually ten cents,, to put interested persons in touch with others df either sex who were interested in the exchange of literature and photographs of an obscene nature. Upon remitting the original fee of ten cents the persons answering the advertisement of "The Letter Club Different" were then forwarded an idea, tiflcation and descriptive blank, which, When properly filled out and returned to "The Letter Club Different" gave a minute description as to the sender's age, weight, height, features and physical measurements in addition to stating the type and sex of the person with whom they wished to correspond on obscene, lewd and lascivious subjects. 'r - ' \ Following receipt of this information "The Letter Club,Different" then assigned a file number to the individual, who then was required to forward two dollars for a year's membership to the "club." Upon payment of the annual dues, the member was then supplied with lengthy lists of both men and women, with brief de-. scriptions of each, who were identi-i fled by numbers rather than names. When the "club" member found a person, either male or fern,ale, answering the description of his desires, he then started correspondence by addressing "The better Club Different" enclosing his sealed envelope with its obscene contents, marking the enclosure for No.?. "The Letter Club Different" then forwarded to the person of the number so designated ^the inner letter and ^ contents. In many instances, rather* than continue to clear their obscene exchanges through the headquarters of "The Letter Club Different" the persons involved sign-1! ed their own names and following receipt of the first letter they carried on direct correspondence with the person or persons they, were placed in contact with originally through the "Letter Club Different." Thousands of obscene correspondence club members have already been rounded up by postal inspectors In every section of the country and prosecutions are to follow as rapidly as the individual cases can be worked up for presentation to Federal grand juries. The Federal statutes provide a five-year jail sentence or a five thousand dollar fine, or both for any person found guilty of sending ob. scene matter through the malls, and this penalty has been - Invoked on many occasions for the sending of a I single letter. ^ ' A second form of obscene ring uncovered by the Postal Inspection Service in its drive on the purveyors of obscene matter! are the magazine let-, ter exchanges which have for their purpose the dissemination of obscene literature and photographs and which are conducted as regular letter exchanges by the cheaper love and sex magazines. .r' ' * A third group which is being brought to justice by the postal inspectors are the dealers who distribute obscene matter directly through advertisements and lists purchased from the operators of 'the various obscene corresponding dubs and- other dealers in this type of objectionable matter. " The number of deaths, due to crash('H op scheduled airlines during the year, 1936, totaled M. 666 -1; Liquid, Tablets first day atva, Noes headache Dnope 30 ^mlnutee Try "ftub-My-Tlem"? World's Beet Liniment . . 1 I For Christmas Cheer The Poinsettla, Like Cinderella, Wai Heeoued from Obscurity by a Good Fairy and It Remalna a Vivid, Glowing Monument to Poinsett and Hla Aaplrationa for a Perpetual "Peace on Earth." (By Lewis Re* Miller In The Christlan Science Monitor) Because an American diplomat a I century ago had a love of growing things, America tyday lias a Christmas flower, Ux? poinsettla. Because this South Carolina gentle. I man of ante-bellum days saw much beauty in a humble little Mexican plant, shops and homes glow at the holiday season of the year with a brilliant dash of crimson. Because Joel Roberts Poinsett, llrst American Minister to Mexioo and luJter secretary of way under President I Vgn Hid en, took some cuttings of Euphorbia pucherrina home with him from his foreign post to Charleston, J S, C\, and lavished care upon them, I a considerable industry has sprung up, an industry which deals in such I delightful commodities as beauty and I Christmas cheer. I Over the broad expanse of the I United States at Chrlstmastlde glows the poinsettla. In New England, J these hothouse blooms stand out In I sti iking contrast , to the Ice and snow and evergreen of a wintry landscape. I In southern California, acre upon acre I of the same bright blooms stretch like a coronation carpet under a blue I December sky. And growers of the choicest stock in poinsettla land ship cuttings to florists all over the na1 tion on a vastly larger scale than Joel Poinsett ever would have drearped when he hrpught lits. little handful of cuttings to his ancestral home In I South Carolina. There are poinsettias and poinsetI tlas. There are white poinsettias, and I pink poinsettias, and even double I poinsettias. But to the American matron who decks her house at ChristI mas with holly, mistletoe and other I seasonable decorations, there is Just J one poinsettla, the familiar simple cluster of crimson leaves which always makes itself the focus of the I decorative scheme. | Almost everybody thinks of the poinsettla as a flower. But, believe it or not, It Is not a flower at all. That Is, the bright crimson leaves are not a flower. There is a flower on every poinsettla plant, but it is not the part I that we usuallyv describe as. the flower. If you want to see a poinsettla flower, you almost have to search for I it. It does not leap out at you. It remains comparatively obscure. It I consists, of the little, inconspicuous red and gold blossoms which cluster at the center of. the brilliant whorl of leaves we usually think of as petals. These leaves, which are the I plant's most conspicuous feature, are I not petals at all. They are simply leaves, or bracts. In recent years, the poinsettla has come to rival the cyclamen as the Christmas flower par excellence. All over the United States, professional growers devote whole greenhousees to its culture for some six months out of the year. This is necessary, because a higher temperature?a minimum night reading df,60 degrees? must he maintained for the poinsettla than for many other plants. By the same token, the poinsettla stands up better in steam' heated apartments than most of the other flowers that are available at this season of the year. To meet the Christmas demand, growers in every big metropolitan center get their plants started" In June or July. It is estimated that in the Boston area alone some 150,000 or 200,000 plants are produced every year, and the Industry is correspondingly large in other centers of population. Great pains are taken to have the plants at their best just before Christmas. Tl^ height of the plant at the holiday season is regulated by the time the cutting Is first taken, which is usually at some, time between June and August 15, by pinching the plants back that appear to be growing too tall during August, and by the amount of heat and space given to them in the greenhouse. Paul Ecke, of Encinltas, California, who has an international reputation as a growej of poinsettias, attributes the great Increase in their popularity as a Christmas pot plant during the last fifteen years to the fact that the growers have changed the varieties. The old pulcherrima, which was virtually the same plant that Joel Poinsett brought from Mexico a century ago, had a magnificent bloom, but is usually dropped its foliage within ttoo or three days after being tAken out of the greenhouse. New varieties which Mr. Eehfe has had a large share In developing hold both their bloom and their foliage for weeks. One still sees the pulcherrima growing out of doors In California, Florida, Texas and Arlsona. Planted boside a jiunny south wall of a bungs, low; it fcnnetlmee grows as high as the verandah roof. Mr. Soke has * they ofteu attalu a height of H or 16 loot, and carry a magnificent j bloom at the bead of the stalk long after the green leaves have fallen I away. Also popular ah an outdoor ornament plant are the double iceutors like peoulea. Single blooms sometimes measure 20 luchea In dia meter and 30 inches across the center of the ball. From these magnificent cultivated specimens, it is a loug look backward to the simple plant that Joel Poinsett first presented to the American people. Mauy a statesman und diplomatist has had his namo perpetuated on a marble shaft. Parks and public gardens teem with busts and statues of illustrious persons. Hut few indeed are the men of affairs whose moraory is preserved by a living plant. This is the rare privilege of Joel Poinsett. A man who rendered great services to his country, and throughout a picturesque and eventful career was much in the public eye, his principal memorial is a plant which brings his illustratious name agaiu into prominence each year, and at a glorious season. Happy the man whose monument Is a flower! In this year of the Pan-American conference, it Is especially appropriate that the achievements of Joel It. Poinsett should bo recalled. For he was cyuo of a few men who early caught the vision of a united America, North and South?united, that Is, not under a single government, but In the purpose of perpetuating lree and democratic government. He came ohto the stage of world ovents Just at the moment when South America was breaking away from the rule of Spain, when, to use the words of a British statesman, a new world was being called Into existence to redress the "Balance of the old. Just at the time when the Monroe Doctrine was being promulgated. Poinsett was in the center of things, first as a sepclal emissary, and later as the iflrst United States Minister to Mexico. At every opportunity he threw himself, Bometlmes at considerable personal risk, into the struggle to make his own country and Its southern neighbors free from European domination and dictation. . Poinsett appears to have been prepared by destiny for a role In these great intercontinental affair. Born just at the close of the War of Independence, he was of Huguenot ancestry. His forbears had known what it was to flee oppression and find refuge In the New World. Yet there was no spirit of narrow Isolationism in Poinsett's family and, like many another wellborn American child of that period; he was soon taken to England, where he spent four years of his childhood. A lad of 15, he was back in the United States, attending the school which had been opened at Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, by Dr. Timothy DVight, later president of Yale college. Then he was off to England again and for a time in Scotland, where he took up the study of medicine at Edinburgh. To escape the rigors of the northern climate, he spent a winter in Portugal?and .this was big with consequenced for his future. Hfe began that acquaintance with the Latin peoples which he was to continue on the western shores of the Atlantic, and he also began the mastery of languages which was to serve him as such an asset in diplomacy. By the time he came of age, young Poinsett had decided that he wanted to be a soldier, and set about laying the foundations of a military career at the military academy In Woolwich, England. But his father had other plans for him, and brought him back to Charleston to study law. Law proved no more attractive to Poinsett than medicine had been, and soon he was off again, to spend seven or eight years traveling In Europe and western Asia. Here he learned something of diplomacy at first hand, for he had personal interviews with such eminent persons as Napoleon, Metternich, Alexander I, Necker and the Prince de Ligne. i Small wonder that President Madison found Immediate use for this accomplished young traveler and shipped him off on a special mission to South America, which was to be a long series of "adventures. Even at this early date) before the outbreak of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States, Poinsett' found great sections of South America preparing to break away from Spain. In Buenos Aires he encouraged the revolutionary parties, and, proceeding to Chile, he actually took command of some of the Republican forces, attacked the Spaniards and recaptured some American merchant vessels which they had seized when it was rumored that Spain and the United States were at war. When war broke out between the United States and England, Poinsett wanted to return home, but prevented by British naval authorities at Valparaiso from embarking, so he crossedNthe Andes, Bailed from Buenos Aires? and arrived home to find that the war was over. Then came an interlude of several less adventurous years. Poinsett served two terms In the South Carolina legislature, and was elected to congress In 1821. But hardly had be. taken bis seat at Washington when j he was sent on an Important special1 diplomatic mission to Mexico. h j The choice of Poinsett was not i surprising. Few Americans knew Iberia and South America, Old Spain and New Spain as he did. The special mission was successful, and when the time came, in 1826, to appoint the first American Minister to Mexico, Poinsett's nomination was in the line of logic. For four years he represent* ed his country In the capital of Its neighbor on the south. And then It was that he came upon a little plant With bright red, petal-UK* leaves, which interested Mm. The pdtoMfctla was stUWn^embryo, hat the^OtfUrh ' ifi . 1 ; iv f -iL ... g^gggg $l2 ? ' ^ * '*"' :* * v /_ Poinsett, as Minister to Mexico, negotiated a treaty of commerce, and other accomplishments are recorded to his credit. Hut he wua always at heart a soldier rather than u diplomat, and he became known as a lighter rather than a conciliator. His ac! tlvltles In establishing Masonic lodges in Mexico City won hint the antagonism of religious authorities, and when bis term was up, both the Mexican and the United Htutes governments, along with Poinsett, drew a f sigh of relief and wrote finis to one of the most important chapters In the Bouth Carolinian's career. Home with Jblm to Charleston Poinsett brought the little flower that wus to perpetuate his name. Another peaceful Interlude followed Poinsett married and retired to a plantation near Georgetown. His little plant had prospered, and a Scottish nurseryman of Philadelphia named Robert llulst, bought some cuttings. Bulst chiatened the plant Kuphorbia poinsejttlanu, and introduced It Into Europe. In Glasgow, a botanist named Robert Graham, believing it to be a new genus, rechristoned It Polnsettla pulchorrimu, but later authorities bestowed upon it the botanical designation by which It is now known, Kuphorbia pulcherrima. Poinsett's name vanished from its scientific designation, but clung to the plant as a popular name. Whatever it may be to the botanists, It is polnsottla to the thousands who glory In its beauty every Chrlsn^aatlde. The polnsettla was launched, but Poinsett's career was far from over. When certain of his fellow citizens of Bouth Carolina placed the interest of their state above the Interest of the union, Poinsett sided with Andrew Jackson in opposing thoir nuUillcatlon measures. With characteristic forthrlghtness, Poinsett even formed a military company In Charleston to support the administration, and was supplied with arms from Washington. When Presldentz-Vjan Buren formed his cabinet in 183?,?.-;Poin8ett became secretary of war and served throughout the administration. The botanistsoldier found an outlet for his energies in greatly strengthening the military establishment of the United States. His term of office completed, he again retired to his plantation. Fighter and soldier though he was, Poinsett was opposed to the Mexican War. Despite his unpleasant experiences in Mexico' City, he still clung to the vision of a Western Hemisphere which should be a haven of peace and liberty. The Ideals which he had expressed and labored for nearly forty years to see realized continued to govern his thought and action. Turning his back on a strife, which appeared to him fratricidal, he continued the scholarly works of peace which had claimed much of his time throughout his eventful career. His services to scholarship had been considerable. He had present-' ed collection of natural history specimens to scientific societies In New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, had founded the Academy of Fine Arts In. Charleston and built the Mufyelam of the National Institution. These were his contributions to 'natural science and scholarship. They ars little known. But everyone knows and Is grateful for the Christmas flower that Poinsett brought from Mexico. Its crimson bracts are symbolic of his deeds of valor. Its popularity in Its adopted home auguY^well for friendship between the country of Its origin and the TJnlt^d States. Its annual message of "Peace on earth" Livestock Guide For January Attention Clemson, Jan. 2.?To start the new your right with livestock, extension livestock men suggest these ideus for Januury. Animal Husbandry?Balance cornc for hogs with flsh meal, skimmilk, or j tankage. Allow beef cattle ample cheap roughage. For fall calves turn ; bull wfth cows about. January 16. Give idle mules free access to rough! age, but cut the grain to half a ration. See that all classes of livestock have shelter, with extra bedding ; during cold nights. Make use of barj ley, rye and oats for hog and cattle ; grazing. Ropair the pasture fences, j Dairying?Make inventory of livestock, feed and equipment. Decide ' now whether you will have silage i next fall and plan for its production. ; Analyze herd records and decide 1 where you can Improve in management and feeding. Repair pasture fences, clean out undergrowth and stop washes in pastures. Plan now j for Improving permanent pastures 1 and for summer crops to supplement j 1 permanent pastures. Start the New I Year right by keeping daily milk and j feed records on each cow. Poultry.?Mate breeders for hatching eggs. Make special breeding pen of best hens and pedigreed male to | produce cockerels for next year's matlngs. Provide breeders with a green range. Get ready for baby chicks. Move brooder houses to new ground before starting chioks. Agronomy?Be sure your cotton planting seed for 1937 was bred to produce staple at least one inch in length. If sufficient grain was not planted daring fall to meet farm needs, plant this month, weather per* mitting. Clean up hedge rows and wood patches between fields. ii. sums up the aspirations of a New World which is trying to eyohre an effective guarantee against war and bloodshed. . : .... .. i mtmmmmm?mmmmm?mmmmmmmmmmmmmrn?mmmm Horticulture.?Prepare hotbeds and, coldfrumos for cabbage, tomato, porpor and tho like. Plant English pous, if soil la in condition. Prepare land for Irish potatoes, and order certified seed. Prune fruit trees and vines preparatory to spraying with lime sulphur of oil llordeaux. Plant fruit trees at once, If soil is In cppdltlon. Terrace all new orchard land before planting. Agricultural Engineering.?Plan to ^ lower production coBts in 1937 by more efficient use of labor, power, aud machinery. Arrange sheds and fni^in shop for bettor care of equipment. Make more efficient use of land and machinery by rearranging fields, removing stumps, constructing terraces and the like. If possible Include more fencing In the 1637 program. Insects and Diseases?Plan to treat cotton seed before planting. Continue cleaning orchards to destroy fallen fruit and limbs to control diseases. Prune grapes to remove and burn disease-harboring vines. Clean up the trash about edges of fields and gardens to kill hibernating Insects. Do not burn woods to control insects. Apply dormant spray to peach trees for San Jose scale and diseases. Fumigate, if necessary,' with carbon disulfide to save grain, peas and beans. . .1 I.- ?iUi r' .. . Herbert E. Hitchcock, state Democratic chairman of South Dakota, ham been appointed to the United States senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Senator Peter Nor* heck, Republican. GET UP NIGHTS DUE TO BLADDER IRRITATION? It's not normal. It's nature's "Danger Signal." Make this 26c teat. XJae e< buchn leaves, Juniper oil, and 6 other drugs, made into little green tablets called Bukets. Flush out excess acids and - impurities. Excess acids can cause irritation resulting in getting tip nights, scanty flow, ftrequent desire, burning, backache, and leg pains. Just say Bukets to y<our druggist. In four days if not pleased your 26c will be refunded.?-Sold fly DeKalb Pharmacy, Camden, 8. Ct I Farms for Sale I I have just a few farms left in Ker- I I shaw County. Now is the time to buy I I See me at Hotel Camden any Tuesday I I H. G. BATES, SR., Salesman I ! Federal Land Bank of Columbia * * j mi s 1 r -L.y. ~ "" ~ | S . ' ' ' ' 1 " H| 1 U. S. 1?A Motorist's Paradise From Maine To Florida I ' " ' " ? OWN through the historic and II scenic heart of the Original > || Colonies,, past New England's royal firs, the picturesque valleys of the 8usquehonna and the Potomac, Carolina's long leaf pines and Florida's palms, runs the famous highway, U. 8. 1. Ev$ry mile well paved, U. S. 1 joins six state capitals?Boston, Providence, Trenton, Richmond, Raleigh, Colujmbia?with magnificent and beautiful Washington. Historic Interest abounds in such spots as Philadelphia. Baltimore, Fredericksburg and Petersburg, while to the Mld-South's resorts ?Southern Pines, JPlnehurst; Camden, Aikeix, Augusta; all on U. S. t?throng the faujittds names of golf, hunting, polo, hprse rac ing and tennis. ? * All New England, long a famous summer vacatlonland, also pre- -1 sents a glorious array of winter sports amid enow and ice; and from Jacksonville to Miami In "The Empire of the Sun" vacationists find the sub-tropic wonders of Florida appealing all throughout the vear. * y 'y"f^' j 1 _1 ^AyHH^UHHjH . / . * . . ni* YORKjfmBBH (i)rwTMM| I ?">^hiude^B wattivhu {wAl^^rYnV j /l \^WOERICKS?U*G^^& * richmondV--?^^ \ . \prrEiisiu*G ^ ^'yS*UHA Ihenderson ~^'*AWUKTON sff. I w*xi wttrr x?,J> **"'<!? i_ . ( MONCVm/z" * SOUTHERN MMfJj J , * TO U S. 1 goes the distinction ot having the tirst North-South highway association organized- -v lor the promotion of highway safety, beauttfication and motor* ?] ing comfort. Free from annoying tolls and delays, following the Eastern fall line through the Ideal climatic belt, U. 8. 1* presents unsurpassed traveling conditions and possesses more three end four lane roadway than any other. To meet the demands of In* . creased motoring travel during thecoralng winter season, looalities - along the route are actively cooperating with the U. 8. 1 Highway Association. They have pledged to furnish motorists every possible service and convenience. ?, Dependable Information concerning the highway and Its faclllttea will be made generally available / at all times. . q L < i" ^ route from -dbs tJnWuffoUow an^d Ita towns supply of dependable stopover ^jrtUUw^bstwswi lbs North^Md