The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 08, 1938, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
The Swan a Most
Savage Bird
i Condensed From Coronet, Frank E.
1 Crott)
One day last April the body of teayear-old
Eileen Foreman wai fouud
floating In a shallow poud uear her
home tn a suburb of Manchester. Eugland.
.
Police were at a loaa to account for
the tragedy! The child had drowned
In water only waste deep, yet there
was no evideuoe of foul play?no sign
?f struggle no footprints but her own
on the muddy shore, and no trace of
au accidental slip Into the water. Suicide
was possible, but highly Improbable.
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Then a newspaper account of the
mystery mentioned the fact that a
solitary swan lived In the pond. Immediately
the police received letters
and phone calls "putting the Anger"
on Mr.-Swan as the murderer. This
aeemed incredible, but In the next
few days the police studied up on
a wans. They decided that Eileen
must have stood on the bank and
loaned ovet to admire the feathery
lord of the pond, whereupon the Bwau
caught her*dress In its beak, pulled
her into the water, and drowned her.
This was* not just a handy explanation
to advance in the absence of
a human attacker. The swan, so beautiful
In outline, so graceful In motion,
m at times, the nastiest customer for
its siig *ttd weight In the antmat kingdom.
Tts elegance conceals a savage
nature combining the treachery of the
snake, the ferooity of the wildcat,
and the tenacity of the bulldog.
One ' afternoon' In August, 1936,
Frank Thomas went fishing in the
Thames near Reading. Terrified cries
downstream brought him on the run
to find four swans pulling a small boy
into midstream. Thomas plunged in
and managed to get the lad away from
hi8 attackers, bringing him to shore
half-drowned. The
hoy had been tossing pieces o
cake to the swans. Suddenly two of
the birds seized hit* pants legs and
dragged him into the water. The others
pecked savagely at the helpless;
child, and a peck from a swan is a
dangerous blow.
In battles between swans and dogs,
the swans nearly alwhys win. When
a fox terrier rushed a female swan
sitting on her nest on a bank of thej
Clyde near Glasgow last May. the
head of the family swiftly Intervened.
The female left everything to her consort.
and he justified her confidence
by knocking "the Invader sen"e*?88'
with beak and wings. "Then, picking
the terrier up by the neck, the swan
took it into the stream and drowned
R People living near HempBtead
Heath pond during the. summer of
1930. were mystified by the disappearance
of four pet dogs. The animals
fate became apparent, however, when
witnesses saw a fifth victim dispatched
by Hercules, ap old male swan.
Hercules left the water as soon as
he saw the dog, an Irlah terrier. They
joined battle' at once, and for Ave
minutes the terrier gave a good account
of himself. Then the hlrde ad
vantage tn weight and weapons began
to tell, and he beal the dog In ,
Inert maes. When two boys rushed
,o the rescue, Hercules hauled his op
ponent Into the pond and administered
the finishing touches heyond In
terference. _
On a June day In 1925, Jean C P
was cycling along a road near Mett.
Suddenly a swan crashed dow
him and bowled him over With two
vicious thrusts of the beak, t e
broke Carpln's nose and blinded his
right eye forever.
On July 16, 1*20, a seven-year-old
hoy named Eric Baumer, the son or
a-Mortmund manufacturer, went w^d
1b* in the River 8tever. HU nursemaid
but under a tree twenty feet
way on the bank, watching him.
In a few mlnutee, three sWane came
float In* around a bend in ^he river
and swam up t0 ^e youngster. They
formed a semicircle around him, and
for a few seconds Krlc and the swans
tared at each other. Theu the uurae
sensing trouble called to Eric and got
up and started toward him.
She hud taken but a step when the
center bird Innged at the child A?d
grabbed his shirt. The lWrifled girl
dashed forward, but one^ofi(1i$ other
[Swans left the water to meet her on
shore. While she tried to dodge past
the big bird its two mates dragged
the boy farther out into the stream.
The nurse ran to get help. ' She
fouud two meu who rushed bactf with
her to the river, but the swaus, still
mauling the boy, were out of reach.
Neither of the meu could swim, and I
they could not get within twenty!
yards of the murder belug enacted
before their eyes. When a boat arrived
-half an hour later, little Eric
was beyond saving.
Such is the crime sheet of the
Jekyli and* Hyde of birdland?the
beautiful feathered savage- which will
go for anything and which when it
can get its adversary in the water,1
seldom comes ofT second best.
Commenting on- this article, a noted
ornithologist writes: "It Is true that
swans can be quite formidable, but I
in JuBtlce to these graceful ornaments j
-ol-our ptuda and riYera it should he
said that the chance of.a child's being
killed by one is infinitely less
than that of being atruck by lightnlug."
ANNUAL LEGION CONVENTION
TO BE HELD AT FLORENCE
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The Twentieth Annual convention
of the American Legion, Department
of South Carolina, will be held in
Florence, S. C., beginning July 10 and
running through July 12. Florence Is
making great preparations to take
care of the largest crowd ever assembled
at a Legion gathering in South
Carolina. Legionnaires from far and
near will assemble to enjoy the festivities
and take part in the program
for the three days.
The guest speaker for Monday will
be Honorable Douglass McKay, President
of the New York Title Insurance
company, of New York. Mr. McKay
is in outstanding insurance man,
and has been very active in the affairs
of the American Legion In New
York State.
Also appearing on the Monday program
will be Colonel J. Monroe Johnson,
Assistant Secr^'ary of Commerce,
formerly of iftarlon.
The main speaker for Tuesday will
be James F. Daniel, Jr.,' of Greenville,
S. C., National Vice Commander
of the American Legion.
Why No Visit To 8outh Carolina?
The New Deal has its candidate for
the United States Senate, marked, labeled
and branded for public identification
and recognition in Kentucky.
The President is going iout into
Kentucky to lend him a hand in his
contest.
The New Deal has its candidate in
Georgia similarly marked, labeled and
branded, and the President is going
to Georgia to say a good. word for
the opponent of the present Senator
George. o
! K the New Deal really, as has been
claimed by one of the candidates for
the United States Senate in South
Carolina, has its man in the thick of
the light across the line from us, why
does the President not include South
Carolina in his friends-helping trek ?
South Carolina has a right to feel
itself to hpye been Presldentially
slapped.?Tuesday's Charlotte Observer.
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||AR0LINA THEAT
FIND UTAH PLATEAU
SCENIC WONDERLAND
Rock Painting* an4 Dii>o?aur
Tracks Revealed.
Salt Lake City,?Geologists returning
from exploration of the vast
and desolate KaiparovHits plateau in
southern Utah found it a scenic and
archeologic wonderland, where they
discovered:
The tracks of a dinosaur embedded
in a sandstone slab.
Numerous ancient rock paintings
in which the swastika is a prominent
feature.
A "mountain of tire" that h?m
b?en burning for centuries.
Five members of the Utah Museum
society composed an expedition
that set out into the 600-milasquare
wilderness of deep-out canyons
and high, almost inaccessible
table-lands.
Byron Davies. student archeologist,
said the rock paintings, several
thousand years old, were found
on towering vermilion cliffs twenty
miles southeast of Capnonville.'
"Among the subjects of the paintings,
remarkably "vivid and well
preserved," he said, "were characteristic
square-shouldered men, a
woman kneeling, a large red German
cross, fourteen human hands
in various shades of red, green and
yellow, huge butterflies, a number
of swastikas, and two human figures
?a man and a woman?exercising
on a sort of trapeze.
?ur second day out we discovered
some perfectly preserved
dinosaur tracks on a slab of ripplemarked
sandstone of the Wingate
formation. This was significant because
other footprints of fos&il monsters
found in Utah are in the
younger series of the Mesozoic era.
"There was one mountain at least
a thousand feet thick partially met*
amorphosed by the burning of its
coal veins. Millions of tons of clays,
shales and sandstone have been
melted into a muse of the most complex
colors imaginable.
"Further On we saw this burning (
j process in operation. From a se- t
, ries of abysmal cracks all along the
top of a mountain smoke billows up
from ancient but still-living fires.
As the smoke comes to the surface ;
it deposits on the rocks a yellow, j
waxy material which, contrasting j
with the blackened surfaces, heightens
the 'inferno' appearance."
The expedition, Mr. Davies said, j
disclosed that there was an amazing 1
wealth of untouched scientific material
throughout the Kaiparowits
plateau.
Abandoned Rail Coaches
Converted Into Dwelling
Niagara Falls, N. Y.?Two abandoned
railroad cars which several
years ago carried tourists along the
now extinct Niagara gorge route,
have been converted into a snug
dwelling by an enterprising Niagara
Falls bus driver.
Willard Lockhart, unable to get a
loan to build a house on a lot he
owned, seized upon the opportunity
to purchase the bodies of the cars
for $50 each.
After having the cars set parallel
to each other on a cement foundation
he had built, Lockhart, during
his spare time, replaced the old
floors with hardwood, redecorated
and painted both cars and blocked,
out some of the windows.
The vestibule of one of the cars,
serves as a kitchen with an electric
range and other modern equipment.
The remainder of the car'is used as
a parlor. The other car is parti?
tioned into three bedrooms.
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Weather Man Points tc
Cat as Fair Forecaster
Amarillo, Texas.?H. T. Collman,
weather man who has been on the
job for 28 yerira, places a lot of
faith in cats, telephone poles, fiddle
strings and in the weather.
"4 house cat is a fair forecaster
at times," Collman said.* "When a
- cat puts on heavy fur in the fall,
you can look for a hard winter.
When a cat wants to eat all the
time. It's a good sign a cold snap
is on the way. But if the cat eats
little or refuses to eat in winter
months, ifs a good sign of continued
warm weather, | -
^Tou can go pretty far by telephone
wires, too. tt a telephone
line sings, and sings loudly, you can
look for a cold spelt
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Dove Sates Largs Appetite
Rutland, Vi.?A dove flew into the
' home of Frank M. Capeless end ate
four0plates of chocolate pudding,
a pound bar of gutter and the contents
of the sugan bowl before it was
ejected. y , .
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I Wedding Parades Out,
^ Police Chief Rules
Lorain, Ohio.?A wedding ia a>
- very happy event, agrees Police
Chief Theodore Walker, but hebelieves
it no occasion for eh**
dangesing the lives of sane and,
non-participating citlaens.
% decreed .
"Blissful brides and grooms
and hilarious attendants mustJ
~ call a halt,to their post-marital
. parades through* the city^jvith
; ^torns tooting madly, a half-dozen
f- cars speeding in 1an unbroken
? line, loud"cheerthg and w?ef;
manifestations of unusual happinass.J,,~
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Health Is Problem
Of While People
lu au article written for the Survey
Graphic I>r. Thomas Parran, Burgeon
General, United State* Public Health
Service, nays: "Health 1* the problem
of the whole people. Tuberculo la
and syphilis because of their prevalence
and preventablllty are today's
greatest health problems. My early
I Intelligent treatment of the individual.
we cau check the spread of both
I diseases In the uatlon as a whole. If
t*a determined an effort were made
against human tuberculosis as has
been made to eradicate bovlue tuberculosis
by conjunction of federal and
''atate action, in a single generation we
could bring It down to the level of
typhoid fever which now la luconsld-,
arable as a causa of death. If as con-'
certed au effort were made against
syphilis as has been made against the
boll weevil, we could stamp it out as
a pubUo health menace In only half
a generation, for, we have somewhat
better tools against It. To do this
moans putting Into effect the same
basic program for both diseases,1
Which Is; Find all cases early, treat
all patients, continuously, considerately,
competently until they are
^cured.
"Disease Is ao respecter of persons.
.Yet in the nation at large tuberculosis
and syphilis are menaces because
treatment Is frequently dependent
upon thp status of the persons. We
could not exist as a nation?half
slave and half free. We cannot exist
as a nation?half whole and half digeased.
"Let us develop our life-saving
practice to a point which Is comparable
with our life-taking armaments;
let us begin where there is the greatest
useless loss of life, which Is
among our negro citizens. Let us attack
the great plagues of tuberculosis
and -syphilis among them and
among ourselves simultaneously and
systematically for a final victory. Lot
us bo realistic enough to take the
short cut to the attainment of that
victory by intelligent team work with
the negro himself.
"Until the economists show us how
we can equal material opportunity
lor each child, let us at least make
sure that each boy and girl born an
American, whatever his race or parentage,
has an equal opportunity for
life and health. We have no defpnse,
unless *11 are safe among us."
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There are about 40,000 Eskimos in'
the entire Arctic.
CANADA'S FRIENDLY ACT.
The quadrant of Admiral John Paul
Jones,""FAther' of the American Navy,
was formally presented to President
Roosevelt by Mayor D. Lawrence
MacLareu of St. John, New lirunswlck,
as a gift to the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Md. The presentation
was made on June 2, 1938, when' the
President addressed the graduating
class at the Naval Academy.
There 1h an Interesting history attached
to the relic. After the death of
the naval hero, his quadrant was
given to his grand nephew, Simon
Graham, who came to Canada from
Scotland and settled at Rexton. N. B.
Graham's son gavo the quadrant! to
D. L. MacLareu, father of the present
Mayor of St. John, Mayor MacLaren,
In company with Sir Herbert Marler,
Canadian minister to the United
States, presented tho relic to President
Roosevelt.
This friendly action on the part of
Canada had the warm approval of
Prime Minister MacKenzle King, who
expressed himself as pleased that a
Canadian restored this historic treasure
to the United States. The Incident
| will further promote, the friendly re
J latlons existing between our two
' countries.
During the administration of President
Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor lit*
Laren's father wrote the Chief Executive,
offering to give the quadrant to
the United States. Thin letter never
reached the President. Some White
House aide, whose'"racial and rellgMous
views evideutly bore no love :
either for the Father of the American
Navy or His Brltannle Majesty's ^reat
Northern Dominion, sent the elder
MacLaren a moat discourteous note
rejeoting the generous offer,
In this day of conquest, greed for ;
territory, suspicions, hatreds, undeolared
wars and the like, it is gratifying
to And the United States and Canada
in Buch complete accord. In fact,
in view of our coffimon interests,
closely similar democratic principles,
and almost identical idelogles of government,
it is rather difficult to de-'.
termine just where the United States
< ends and Canada begins, as borderfortifications
and armed soldiery are,
happily, absent.
Mayon volcano in the Phllllpptnes,
is again active, after being quiescent
or several weeks.
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Loans and Discounts ,....$222,042.92
: - Overdrafts RRSJitjUXlii'lULat/AjuUi ONE
Banking House and Furniture
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Real Estate Other Than i
Banking House 13,122.68""
Bonds '. 452,707.62 ?
Cash in Vault and Due by
Banks 157,801.41
TOTAL - $875,723.10
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Capital.Stock Paid in $ 60,000.00 II
Preferred Stock 12,600.00 II
i Surplus and Undivided Profits
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Deposits 778,489.22 ||
Bills Payable ..........NONE ||
Rediscounts NONE ,||
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Reserve. Account 1,500*00 ???kJ
Retirement Fund Preferred
Other Liabilities 8.88 I I
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