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POMP AND DIGNITY MARK JNAUGUHAL OF McKl88ICK Columbia, April 6.?Pomp and scholastic dignity marked the Inuuguratlon day of J. illon McKlssick, former uewspuper editor, u?i J tit !i president 0 of the 132 year old University of South Carolina. Amid y; the pagontry of anti-helium tradition the new president formally took over his office toduy with a promise that forthwith the University "Is taking the aggressive. God, willing, proposes not merely to repel attack hut also to advance." Hevereal thousand students, faculty members, legislators and representatives of other colleges and universities formed {he academic procession which marched from the center of the campus to the University Field House where McKlssick took his outh of office and delivered the inaugural uddress. A huge luncheon, uttended by 1,000 guests, a rally for alumni and a banquet honoring the new president and the Generul Assembly stopped the day of celebration. McKlssick struck sternly at what he termed the "insidious cumpalgn of slander" against the school. "Nothwithstanding the incalculably valuable service of this institution to South Carolina for 132 years, I know of no other Slute University which in the last llity years .has been so often impoverished, so often the targel for unjustifiable criticism, und so often discriminated against in the allocation of public funds. "The most important task of the University now, as 1 conceive it, is to build itself constantly higher into the good will of the people of South Carolina." McKlssick listed "as policies for advancement of both the University and the state in the immediate future which the institution should follow:" "First: Development, by all wise means, of the moral and religious character of our students. "Second: The University should more directly and speelficully train her students for useful, effective citizenship. "Third: Since by far the greatest number of our students will spend their lives In tills state,, their education here should cause them all to know South Carolina better. Fourth: The University should bo. enabled to help greatly in the social, I economic and industrial developmentv of South Carolina through the up-1 building of Its research facilities and ! of its graduate school. "Fifth: The University should ex-1 tend its services to ull the people oft South Carolina who desire them but j cannot directly avail themselves of such benefits. "Sixth: The University must be improved und upbuilded upon Its sound and enduring foundation in the liberal arts. "If I can accomplish something however little, for the advancement I of my native state through my Alma Mater, I shall attain the only arnbition I have." * President lien E. (Jeer of Fur man unlvet'Hlty, speaking in behalf of church schools of the atate, aaid: "Under the leadership of our friend, tiie University pf Houth Carolina will itave a large pari In promoting Christfaulty and in raiaing up Chriatian ieaderahlp. In thla common taak to, which church schools and tax-supported achoola ure dedicating themaelvea, I pledge President McKlaalek the aymputhy and the cooperation of the chtircl) achoola of Houth Carolina." I'realdent Hlielton I'helpa of Winthrop college spoke of other atate* aupported colleges. "Public higher education paid for by the atate left independent by the atute to week Ita own way, open to all who have ability to profit by it, ia the only wuy out of the preaent alt nation to u continued representative democracy." .fainea Monroe Smith, preaident of Louisiana State University, apoke on behalf of educational institutions of the nation. fie described the functions of a university, and declared that "those tilings should be wrought into the ideals and character of the oncoming generations as the.only true and dependable safeguard of democratic institutions." Governor Olin Johnston presided at the exercises and Chief Justice John G. Stabler of the State Supreme court administered the oath. * Everyone connected with the University attended the induction ceremonies. Students marched in the procession and filled tiered seats to hear the new president. Professors robed In academic gowns were also In full force. Even Janitors and maids of the various university buildings dressed in freshly-starched uniforms, took seats high in the rear of the Field House where the rites were held. James Ition McKissick was born at Union, October 13, 1884. After education at South Carolina University and Harvard he went into newspaper work, lie was chief editorial writer of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and editor of both the Greenville News and the Greenville Piedmont. Ho was elected president of the university In December, 1935, while Dean of the School of Journalism. He took over the office in July, 1936. Senator Joseph Robinson, Democratic leader, made a strong reply to the address of Senator Glass, in a radio address Tuesday night, in which the Arkansas senator supported the proposal of the President to enlarge the supreme court. Robinson quoted at length from past speeches made by IJorah and Glass, in objection to the confirmation of nominees for places on the supreme court. He did so to support his contention that it is proper to consider the economic views of the appointee in making such an appointment. Nobody's Business Written tor The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1D2$. 8IX DAYS WITH THE FLU ..At about 2 o'clock a m., last Frl day, I awoke with a Jerk, ready to combat a dozen little (flu) imps that were trying to qntcrtw the top of my head with a big pipe wrench. They ad already stripped 3 threads when I discovered them. ., 1 soon realized that I was afflicted with the old 191S-model, (Jurihau-type long-slung, 10-cyUnder flu. I happened to be alone at home. My tempera turo in bed was about 103, but In the bath-room, it touched 104 ..I searched the medicine chest for remedies. I took a little dose of everything 1 could And except ipecac, door polish, hospital gauze, teething powders und gum arable. Nothing seemed to relieve my suffering. I re tuined to bed to await the arrival of daylight. ..Cvery bone in my body, including my head, was hurting, throbbing and Jumping; even the bridge-work in tny mouth had begun to ache. I had to remove that before it hopped out of its own accord. My left little toe was trying to turn itself into a gimlet and bore its way back Into my fallen urchen. . .As soon us the very, very slow sun began to peep over the neighbors fence across the street, 1 called for a doctor. He promised to be right over. Hut I later learned (from the elapsed time of my call and his not coming) that lie had a call to make in Berlin and one in London. He got over at 11:30 a. in., Just 15 minutes before the undertaker might have been called. ..Before I knew it, I was in bed with 2 nurses, a mustard plaster, a footpad, 3 fever pills, 2 doctors, and half of a drug store. The crowd watched the man count my pulse, take my blood pressure and view my thermometer record, all with shaking heads, and knitted brows. The entire day went along about like that. SIX DAYS WIT|7THE~FLU SECOND DAY ..Saturday morning came bright and early I knew it was Saturday morning by reason of the fact 1 smelt breakfast being cooked about hour earlier tlfan other mornings. She (the cook) gets off earlier on' Saturdays if she's thru work and she usually gets thru all right. ..I had slept some, thanks to 2 long, slim capsules, and a pint of alcohol which had been rubbed into my body thru my back and spinal column, but. up to now, no intoxicants had been thought of as flu medicine to be used Internally. I ached worse than ever in sppts. But took things easy, knowing that my will had already been made and my notes renewed for 90 days. Along about 9 o'clock, the nurse brought me In some food. The oat meal, the coffee, the orange Juice, the milk-toast each tasted like spinach, spinach, spinach, and spinach, respectively. i learned from peeking and guessing that my temperature had back fired, and instead of being 102, it had dropped to around 96; that's truly a flu trick. , ..About noon, the tendon that sprouts up from my left heel toward my calf began to contract and twist itself rope-fashion. It hurt so bad, I didn't know whether to just go ahead and die ji natural death or wait for the! doctor, i Farmers who happen to read j this will know that the tendon I am talking about hi the one a skewer is slipped behind when a hog is being hung up to be messed). ..One of my. friends came to see me about 1 o'clock, but my other friend didn t come at all; be was afraid of catching the flu and 1 admired his good sense, as well as his wife. Besides suffering and hurting and aching and being hot on one end and cold on the other, nothing in particular took place. <r> ..The nurse brought me the paper to read. The first thing that appeared directly in line of vision was the obituary column which told of about 2 men and 3 women having died the dav before, most them from flu relapses; but one. about my age, passed out from what was called a heart collapse. I let the paper fall in its track, ayd kept niy right hand on my heart the remainder of the day. The Long Arm of The Law 1 olice <ars can now reach out and "grab" a fleeing automobile, much as the patrolman lays a heavy hand OTV the shoulder of an escaping thief Sir Maleomn Campbell, the automo bile speed king, has invented a claw arm, which can be operated from the driving compartment of a police car can turn in any direction, and can reach six feet In front of the car to faaten on the bumper or spare wheel of a fugitive. Duke Gives Out Nearly Million Charlotte, N. C., March 31.?'Trustee* of the Duke endowment, 1" alon here yewterday, appropriated $93&,499.3U for 95 hoapitala and 44 orphan homes in the Carolines. In additional 28 additional hoapitala were expected to apply for aid on their 1936 budget# on the baala of one dollar a day for approximately 148,000 day# of free care. Of the amount appropriated today, *824,213 went to hospital# and $114,286.30 to orphan homes. In it# announcement of today'a appropriation the endowment aald nonprofit hoapitala in the Carolina# had increased from 48 in 1924, when the endowment wuh established by the late James 13. Duke, to 123, and the average free patients from 500 free patients daily to 2,656. In addition to the rate of a dollar a day for each of these, the endowment will beiasked to contribute, it said, approximately $12.50 each for 78,000 free patients. The announcement said the percentage of free patients in hospitals aided by the foundation had increased from 30 per cent in 1924 to 50 per cent in 1936. Orphans cared for in homes aided by the endowment totaled 6,060 in 1936. Today's appropriation for 1936 brought to approximately $11,500,000 the sum allotted to hospitals and orphanages since establishment of the endowment. The list showing the name, location and the amount appropriated today to hospitals included: Abbeville County Memorial hospital, Abbeville, S. C\, $1,860; Aiken County hospital, Aiken, S. C., $10,361; Anderson County hospital, Anderson, S. C., $9,157; Arthur 11. Lee hospital, Summerville, S. C., $1,843; Baker Memorial sanatorium, Charleston, S. C., $1,108; Berkeley County hospital, Moncks Corner, S C., $6,939; Camden hospital, Camden, S. C., $8,689; Columbia hospitfil, Columbia, S. C., $38,582; Conway hospital, Conway, S. C., $1,576; Good Samaritan hospital, Columbia, S. C., $12,310; Greenville General hospital, Greenville, S. C., $27,883; Greenwood hospital, Greenwood, S. C., $2,988; The Hospital Laurens, S. C'., $419; Marlboro County General hospital, Bennettsvilie, S. C., $5,158; Maternity Shelter hospital, Greenville, S. C., $3,182; McLeod infirmary, Florence, S. C., $20,536; Newberry County hospital, Newberry, S. C., $1,456; Pryor hospital, Chester, S. C.t $1,388; Roper hospital, Charleston, S. C., $72,496; St. Francis hospital, Greenville, S. C., $8,729; St. Francis Xavier infirmary, Charleston, S. C., $2,888; Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, Greenville, S. C., $22,040; South I Carolina Baptist hospital, Columbia, S. C., $15,021; Spartanburg General hospital, Spartanburg, S. C., $37,415; Summerville infirmary, Summerville, S. C., $1,837; Union Community hospital, Union, S. C., $1,096; Wallace Thomson hospital, Union, S. C., $1,571; Working Benevolent Society hospital, Greenville, S. C., $3,281. Following is a list of orphanages which received appropriations today: Brumer Home, Greenville, S. C., $1,046.82; Camden Children'^ home, Camden. S. C., $339.74; Carolina Orphan home. Columbia, S. C., $1,251.74; Charleston Orphan house, Charleston, S C., $2,999.31; Children's honu\ Sumter, S. C\, $1,211.83; Church Home orphanage, York, S. C., $2,409.88; City Orphan asylum, Charleston, S, C., $1,052.29; Connie Maxwell orphanage, Greenwood, S. C., $6,538.67; Epworth orphaiiirge, Columbia, S. C., $6,619.48; Greenacre Juvenile Protective association. Greenville, S. C., $289.12; Jenkins orphanage (Negro) Charleston, iS. C., $3,438.62; John do la Howe school, McCormick, S. C., $3,548,64; John K. C'rosswell Home for Children, Sumter, S. ('., $582.67; Spartanburg County Children's home, Spartahburg, df. C., $846.26; Thofnwell orphanage, Olinton, S. C? $6,548.88; Wilkinson's Home for Orphans (Negro) Cayce. S. <$., $643.61; Williamson Orphan home (Negro) Columbia, S. C., $316.86. Three C's Club Held Meeting. The Three C's Home demonstration club held its regular monthly meeting at the school house February 25. In the absence of the president, the vice president presided. The proI ject song for the month was sung by i the club members. Mrs. Will Cauthen had charge of the devotional. The roll was called, each, member answering with number of baby chicks she 1 * " had. The minutes of last meeting (read and approved. The club chairj iden were asked to bring letters reJ <4lved from council chairman to next, club meeting to get reports from club members. The picture, "Harp of the Wind," was studied and garden lettors for the month distributed. Miss !?>Bwell made an interesting talk on renovating old furniture. She also gkve aome hints on upholstering and repainting furniture. The meeting than adjourned. {s Snake bites are killing people In India at the rate of 2,MX) a month. Ancient Legend* Account *? for Eclipse in Odd Ways Whether or not we believe that an eclipse is a portent of evil, the ancient races invariably linked it with disaster. In mythology an evil dragon was said to be lurking in the heavens and that he made periodical attempts to swallow the sun or the moon. In the Nore# legends the sun and the moon were driven across the heavens by charioteers, with huge wolves ever in pursuit. The ancient Greeks held that the sun rrtust always be provided with a chariot and horses to keep it safq, and once a year a chariot and four horses were thrown into the sunlit sea as an offering. . * .. \ . Among many races, an eclipse 01 the sun signified that the giver of light and life had been caught by an evil- monster. The only thing to save the sun from being devoured was to frighten away the monster by making noises. The Chinese used to chant choruses and bang gongs. In Greenland the natives climbed on to the roofs of their huts and banged kettles und pans to make us much noise as possible. The oldest eclipse, in history is believed to have been noted in China, 2158 B. C., relates a writer in Pearson's Weekly. Two mandarins who practiced astronomy were put to death by the Emperor for having failed to give due warning of the phenomenon. The eclipse of Nineveh in 763 B. C.' is believed to have been foretold by the prophet Amos when he said:- ^'And it shall come to pass in that day that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the Earth in the clear day." Samuel Meredith, First U, S. Treasurer, Wealthy Samuel Meredith was the first treasurer of the United States. Here is what a biographical en cyclopedia says about him: Samuel Meredith was among the first to espouse the cause of the Revolution, in which he served and suffered and acquitted himself with credit at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and was one of those who enjoyed the confidence of Washington. "He served for a time in the legislature of Pennsylvania, was a delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1787 - 88, and on the organization of the federal government he was appointed by President Washington treasurer of the United States, continuing in that office until 1801, when he resigned. ? "He owned a large estate in Wayne county, and died at Belmont, his seat, in 1817. He and his brother-in-law, General Clymer, gave 10,000 pounds in silver to carry on the war. On being appointed treasurer of the United States he loaned the government $25,000. His father also loaned large sums to the government to carry on the war. "A statue of Samuel Meredith by F. Barnicoat stands at Pleasant Mount, Pa." , ' The Presence of Beauty Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds in the numberless flowers of the spring. It waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precioqs stone. Not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple, and those men who are alive to it cannot lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side. Giant Kites in Japan Each summer in Japan numerous villages compete with one another in the making and flying of giant kites, some of which are 3,000 square feet in area, weigh half a ton, cost nearly $1,000 and require 200 men to hold them steady while they are in the air. Sometimes even this number cannot held one of them in a stiff wind and those who courageously hang on too long j are carried up by it and fall to then deaths.?Collier's Weekly. Tenacity of Purpose Tenacity of purpose is characteristic of all men who have accomplished great things. They may lack their desirable traits, may have all sorts of peculiarities and weaknesses, but the quality of persistence. clear grit, is never absent from the man who does things. Drudgery can not disgust him, labor can not weary him, hardships can not discourage him; he will persist no matter what comes ?or goes, because persistence is part of r.is natuie. I Ancient Home's Tax Program Imperial Rome of ancient days imposed a legacy tax of 5 per cent on sums over a certain amount left to other than near relatives. The introduction of this tax was partly due to the anxiety of Caesar Augustus to encourage matrimony, i Only Roman citizens at first were subject to the inheritance tax until | the whole empire was enfranchised I to increase the revenue from this source. ^ : I : 1 : A- v,T.. 'v - ' ;.'i*yK?r Midi ? ^ THt "?Ven BVJRNINQ ] K,PT ALIV" Mo>JNTA,H| 8alu<U. N. c! April Morrl. who k.?p. North ,C??> I ??r buroln* Are" In hi. n,u ' I lain how. near here, waa J day by word tbat .Up. Ww# 4 ? I taken to carry on bis work whe k 1 relinquishes his ancient trust a" T I must in the not-distant future' I Fiddling softly before tlie' which bis family tradition suy, i lighted when the United States 1* 8 an infant nation, the 77-yettr 0id 1 recalled the origin of the blUZe wa/f 1 In his later life, has become, he J? 1 his principal aim in living, ^;B About the time of the Frenchwl Indian wars*David I)aiton cai?eT 1 the trails from South Carolina h*w21 his logs from the mountain forest HM became the first White settle,- of ? , I bort Cove. . Matches being unknown, . *'l his fire, and Morris says he kuow. J 'i has never gone out, because his moth 1 er told him how it was cafrcfully(SM ed, and how each marrying child car I rled chunks of coals to the new ho, 1 Old Davlddied in 1829, but the fir* 1 he UghtqAis gazing on nuinerJ" 1 hearths, before the Confederal I war, even the parents of Morris set 8 up housekeeping in the cabin wbettS l?e now lives, young Mrs. mZ3B brought along a .chunk from: ZM grandfather's great; fireplace. 9 And so the descendants of MorthM far-removed grandslre had lived in I Holbert Cove a hundred years befall the railroads came, and when the day 1 of matches dawned the fire had jJS come the only remaining symbol of 8 the men who conquered this frontier 1 To William Morris came the tradi- I tion. Living alone, he sat through the8 long winter nights, playing his fiddle 8 -*-the "Battle of Waterloo* is his far- I orite tune. In recent years thousands I of visitors have visited the spot, aid I to dome of them the aged man baa 8 expressed his fear that young, scat. 8 tered branches of the family migujB forget the fire when he is gone. 48 But this week, at the state c'onveaJ I tion of the Daughters of the America# j Revolution in Charlotte, a resolution was adopted to ask the national paifB service to provide means for the flre'i8 perpetuation. Why The Rush J The building contractor on hla8 rounds found a gang of men digging8 frantically in a trench near a new 9 house. He walked up to one of the JB men. .. jfl "Does the foreman know that thltffl trench has fallen in?" "Not yet," replied the man. We're 9 Just digging him out to tell hlm.V 8 ^id-Bits. James Bryant Conant, preside!# of Harvard university, says the proposed methods for changing the supremejB court are "dangerous in the extreme* 9 "My opposition to the President's pro-; 8 posal,", he explained," "is based pH^ 1 marily on one point. The adminied**:! tion % .intends to bring about wist J seems to most laymen a constitutional. B change without a special appeal to^B the country--an appeal which might j have been submitted to ,ihe voteiKlB few months ago. ? ii i" v? FINAL DISCHARGE . Notice is hereby given that one a month from this daterOn May 1, lMVJ we will make to the Probate Court ofS Kershaw county our final returh m,B Administrators of the estate of A. C. 1 Gregory deceased, and on the ssmo.a date will apply to the said Court for J a final discharge as said adminlBtra* B torft of said estate. E. K. GREGORY B B. F. GREGORY Administrators. Camden, S. C., April i, 1937. Notice to debtors anuI creditors All parties to the estate of J. C.B Jones are hereby notified to male "l payment to the undersigned, and all-M parties. If any, having claims against | the said estate will present them HtovB wise, duly attested, within the prescribed by law. G. H. JONES "-V9 MRS. LOIS BROWN _ Administrators Camden, S. C., March 29, 1937. . M NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITOR8 M . . S All parties to the estate1 of Anna Stevens are 'hereby notified t*B make payment . to the undersigns* and all parties, if any, having claims j against the said estate will press?* ! them likewise, duly attested, witbttB the time prescribed by law. \^B JOHN T. STEVENS Exedutor of the Estate of J. Anna Stevens, Deceased B Camddn, S? C., March 18, 1937. ": ?i? ,? i ??-??"""TB NOTICE Notice Is hereby given, that the derslgned, as executor of the e*W*J of J. Anna Stevens, deceased. wIH *3 the 26th day of April, 1937, apptf *B the Merchants and Farmers Ban* Bethune, South, Carolina, for new er j liflcates of deposit, to take the pl*vB of the following lost certificate# deposit, all datod March list, 1 each In the gum of One ($100.90) Dollars, and being noniNjfJ as follows: lit, SH NMM JOHN T. WTYBW I Executor of the Estate of J Atf Stevens, Dsoessw^^^e "Ifs pretty hard to beat MATURE" Mighty Mules Hitched to a dynamometer (a strength testing machine) these powerful mules record their strength for the photographer. HIRE is a famous pair of mules ?mighty creatures with the pulling strength of a pair of four-legged giants. At a recent university test, they threatened the world's pulling record. What makes these mules unusual? Mother Nature gave them something?her own natural balance of many elements; strength, staving power, the willingness to work. So in actual value, these sturdy mules stand out from ordinary mules ?there's just no comparison. And Nature gave a n.wural balance to Natural Chilean Nitrate, too?a natural balance of many elements that combine to make this nitrogen fertilizer a reliable food for your crops. Natural Chilean is known for its quick-acting nitrogen, of course. But nitrogen is only one of its vital elements. Because of its natural origin, Chilean Soda also contains, as impurities, such elements as iodine, boron, magnesium, calcium and some 28 others. And always remember that these vital elements arc present in C hilean Soda in Mother Nature's own wise balance and blend. For better crops . . . Natural Chilean Nitrate. Aaiurnl f hilrtau NITRATE of SODA NATURAL AS THI OROUND IT COMIS PROM With Vital Elementm in Nature'? Balanee and Blend RADIO ?"UNCLE NATC5IEL & SONNY" FAMOUS CHILIAN CALINDAR CHARACTERS See announcements of leading Southern Stations