The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 08, 1937, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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;
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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
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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
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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.
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sums up the aspirations of a New
World which is trying to eyohre an
effective guarantee against war and
bloodshed.
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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.
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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
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I have just a few farms left in Ker- I
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I See me at Hotel Camden any Tuesday I
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