Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS (By Spectator) The Orlrn Reaper never reaU Eight year* ago the Farmers* and laxpay era' league, which ha<^ been brought Into being by J. tfkottowo Wunnamak er and othera aa a muaa movement protesting agalnat mortgage forocloa uroa and oppressive taxea, began a campaign of intensive organisation In all the counties. Nlola Chrlatenaen, of Dgaufort. became president, and a little later 1 was associated with him, Pierre Maxyck and Itlchari} I. l4tno in going ubout the atate. No movement ever enlisted abler or more devoted men. Most of those men are living but bow groat baa been the loas In the paaalng of those stalwart leaders -Dr. Winchester Smith, of Willlaton; Dr. A. It. Johnston, of KoevoHvllle; Dr. D M. Croaaon and J. K. 11. McCartlia, of Leeavlllo; Jainea B. Gibson, of Dillon; Jainea II. Manning. of UUta; Mortimer V. Haselden. of Charleston; and I. H. Hunt, of Newberry. And now passes Nlela Chrlatenaen, tho leader around whom we all gathered and with whom we all worked. Still In vigor, abounding In energy, | enjoying his work, and meeting with| zest the calls of eucli day, Niels Chrlatenaen was cut off In a twinkling and has Joined the Immortal throng under the ahade of the trees. Mr. Chrlatenaen tnudo a name for himself In hla young manhood us an earnest man willing to devote hla ability to the service of Beaufort county and South Carolina. Hla twenty years In the state senate bore the Impress of line purposes and intelligent, zeal. He was a refreshing example of a man of Ideals who volunteered for the unspectacular routine of legislative grind. Even at that hla unHwervlng pursuit of truth and his unflinching courage earned a high place In the respect and confidence or the atate. In behalf of the taxpayers of the atate Mr Chrlatenaen rendered valuable service. Hla standing made It easy to rally the people, for hla record' and his manifest sincerity commanded respect from Beaufort to Pickens. 1 think I may apply to him that high tribute which the Master pald to another, "Behold an Israelite. Indeed. In whom there Is no guile. 1 have suffered a personal loss, but all of us have suffered a loss. Men like Niels Chrlstensen are rare. 1 review our association -or years and there stands out clearly the line man, the modest hut earnest and energetic public 11 gure. the chivalrous friend, the splendid gentleman. Colonel Wyndham Manning for the senate? Well. now. what Is this? Is the Colonel thinking about opposing Senator Byrnes? That would be a battle royal, for Jlmmlu Is a stout campaigner and is. moreover, a national figuie of commanding stature. The Colonel, too Is a tigure to be reckoned with In South Carolina. It has been taken for granted that Mr Manning would be la the race for governor hut there are rumors about a senatorial campaign. If he listens to some of his friends. The average town needs a trade group, whether a board of trade or chamber of commerce, In order that certain common Interests of the community may he promoted through the co-operative effort of the community; oven trade has a state or national, association for the general interest of that sp'-i lal group Such clearing houses ,iif supremely useful. There are farm groups, too, but agri'OiPire an enormous interest So Ul, i . this National Cotton connMl i is Mi <?r~an;/.ation .sponsored h> ?-.?: mi producers, ginm-rs. ? otton men h.i:.:\\ .u ehoii-nncn anil >eed ,.ruX s lino !..n- banded them,..!v... t:.:- .min.il to pro ? : c..:m:i 1 here are ... p- In- to -h it. bat that is I in . t > * ' ? in. i ea ? tin- om-umpii-n of . ' ' ... , ;i program which ore .inp rtot.' -,n h os getting t id o. ? riinmations against cotton shippers un 1 Cm makers of by products or tott,,u 'i >u know of course, that cott-m tf...-d i o:npete.s with lard and butj,.r rhere should be an open market a., who!.-some. legitimate pro Bii' the western dalrjiug In st - who a are closely and effic j. ., ;. orcani/. I. have prevailed upot co:.gri ss an 1 various state legislature! in discriminate against cotton by-pro ihiv's .o e:i to t:;e point ..if excludiu> lh,.in rne more cotton by product: thi' are sold, the more market fo the' cot ton farmer. If by organlxatloi the dairying group (an do that w would be Wise to organize to protec ouselvea and our products. When we look back a few yearsnormal years?and note that cotto used to yield to the farmers of thi mate a hundred million dollars a yea wo see that we are losing about aeenty million dollars from our trad That 170.000.000 passing through tb merchants. insurance men. fertilize dealers, doctors, lawyers, dentlata an others, soon reaches the banks, goln out again to facilitate construct^ and gainful endeavors' We are lo Ing that ftnd wo have been lowing that lor yearn. 1 do not think I exaggerate in saying that we have lost a half billion dollars since the war In the shrinkage of cotton values. That is the same as taking a half billion dollars out of South Carolina. (,)ur tremendous loss in revenue Is something to think about, but it is more urgent that wo do something about it. What can we do? Kvery time I read the annual relicts of great corporations 1 note the now uses for old products. Tin is used Instead of glass and glass instead of bricks; paper is used instead of cloth, and the like. Now in the Held of chemistry we are Just scratching the surface. it Is said that a cotton foundation makes an excellent road. Wo who have recently seen gum trees or our swamps successfully used for making paper should enter Into the gume of new uses with zest. Cotton is our crop; it la our dependence. The advice so freely given that we diversify Is good and sound and safe, so long as we don't all act on It. If one farmer or one hundred farmers or ten thousand farmers should abandon cotton and enguge entirely in raising hogs and cattle, fruit and truck, potatoes and peanuts?that might prove profitable to them; but as a program for two million farmois that would make confusion worse confounded. If one million farmers were to adopt that we should glut all the markets and paralyzo the agriculture of all the nation. lOven on a small scale the man who tries many other crops finds difficulty in marketing his products. Wo have a product to which all the South Is geared. Our labor, our Industry, our people?all are geared to it. It is a crop which does not spoil; It does not have to be picked at night, or refrigerated, or rushed to market to prevent spoilage. There is not only the challenging adventure to find new uses for cotton, but there Is a vast possibility in using ordinary sales psychology, or persistent. attractlve promotion, to further the use of cotton goods. We live In a day of styles or modes. Would our mothers have gone to the beach or walked all over a seaside resort three-fourths unrobed as is done today? Is It Immodest? No. it's the style! Well that allure of mode can be used to put 011 clothes as well as take them off. You have observed the ladles with furs in summer and low necks In winter. And you see the mode of brown stockings with white shoes.' That's style, however lncongrous. The wise salesman does not fight the style; he goes along with It. In using the same appeal, cotton goods can bo popularized from Canada to the tip of the Argentine. Oranges are shipped three thousand miles across our continent and sold in every country community. Those fruit producers are organized; they pay ten cents a crate 011 oranges to their association and the association is worth to them most of the price they receive for the fruit, for without the association there would be almost no market. Are we cotton people, we Southern people. Interested in saving and promoting our main crop? Then let's get! together and do something about it. That Is why we have the National Cotton council. Let's pep up farming; it Is too drab. 1 have an idea, boys. Recently a small warship was put into service. Instead of some officer saying to a subordinate "Start her up and get goinu." orders were issued from Washington to the admiral com niainling that naval station. He, in nun. issued a lot of orders and here's what P a pi" ti e;l A day was appointled. .1:1! on that day tie- admiral was ilho.ru with sword and gold braid His ' flag wa- Hying Other officers were i There; sailors w.-re there, the band .u.is thoie They fired a cannon. ' marched around and till thai. Then the lilt 1 e ship was declared to be in 1 service. Now then, if only we had a man of military genius to swankify our farming operations l^efs imagine the milj nary idea applied to a farm. Here , go?-s: At 4 a in. a small cannon 1 should be fired and the flag raised - in front of the farm dwelling. Al! 1 "hands" should bo present, witt ?! mules, tractors, hoes, and the like -'As the farmer steps out Jauntily al S. hands should snap to attention, heel; s clu king. A bit of music should en r liven the occasion, perhaps a militar; a] march, on victrola with amplifier, al ei taking a turn marching about for tut ti minutes Then the stern order "t your posts" wmtid send all and sur - dry to the fields, pepped up for th n battle with grass, weeds, boll weevl is tobacco worms, bugs. beetles. at; r what not. Including drouth and rait v- Just fancy the bands stepping abou e with hoes at "right shoulder." e I wish I could persuade my di: sr tlngulshtxi neighbor. Colonel 'Wyni d ham Manning, to tell how to go aboi g this He la a West Pointer, yet a dii e farmer of Sumter county. 3- Just think of plow-boys with re pants, epaulets and plumes! Oh. my s- Colonel, it's an Idea If you'll wor 1- It out and pull It off on your farm I'l it undertake to Induce Honorable J. I *t Drltton. an outstanding Sumter agr cuhuriat. to mount a noble steed an d review the parade. ^??WBlt l. ii i ipi RABBIT8 PROVIDE RABIES VACCINE AT 8. C. LABORATORY Columbia, Auk. 25. ?llabblts are constantly playing ft rol? uI humfm life at the state hygoulc laboratory bare, providing vaccine for antl-rablea treatment of over 3.U00 South Carolinians annually, Each rabbit furnlabea almoot 2.000 doses. Dr Herbert M Smith, veteran director of the laboratory, said today. Their brains are diseased purposely by the poison to produce the subHiance later used In human bodies, Dr Smith explained-* the procedure of examining mad or suspected mad dogs and how the vaccine Is prepared. That part of the animal's brain known as ammons born?ao named because of its shape?Is extracted from beads sent to'the laboratory by persons believing the animals suffering from hydrophobia. This "born has more rabies organisms proportionately than any other part of the body. A part of this Is smeared on a glass allde and a microscope reveals the organisms, unless the dog was killed too soon In the first stages of the disease, which is the reason the state health department always advises keeping a dog confined for ten (fays rather than killing It at once even though definite signs of rabies have not appeared. Should the dog live ten days, the fact alone would show that ho was not diseased, Dr. Smith said, as diseased dogs die within less than a Rabbits have furnished the vaccine since the laboratory was established in lt>09. This vaccine Is provided free to anyone In the state, although Dr. Smith figured the necessary twentyone doftos would cost $25.00 if they bad to be purchased. The vaccine originally came from the same substance prepared by the famed Dr Ixiuls Pasteur in France, the laboratory director said, as it was obtained from Washington where It was brought many years ago from France. j When the laboratory's supply of vaccine begins to run low, another rabbit is "shot", with the germs. Within seven days it develops hydrophobia. It Is then killed by chloroform. The brain, weighing about a quarter of an ounce, is extracted and ground up. This is mixed with glycerine which preserves the manufactured germs until they are enrolled to whip other germs in human bodies.^ . Before the mixture is sent out on orders of physicians, It Is diluted with a weak salt solution In a ratld that actually Is one part brain to 200 parts of the salt water. Each rabbit provides enough vaccine for about ninety peole, or around 2,000 doses. Many persons are treated who have been bitten by animals only suspected of having rabies and where a laboratory examination has not been possible, Dr. Smith said. "Out of thousands of cases, this method of treatment is very efflcacius as not more than one out of 4,000 die after taking It, and then only because of being bitten on the head, near the brain," he said. It Is dangerous in this case, he said, since the disease travels the nerves, and not the blood stream. This explains, too, *io added, why the vaccine, traveling the fast-moving blood stream, easily has time to start manufacturing protective substances before the germs affect the bitten person. Dr. Smith, a native of Conovor, N. C., came here in 1911 and has directed the laboratory since 1922 ATTORNEY CHARGES WOMAN SOLD HIM "WRONG WAY" HORSE Nt w Y.u-k. Aug. 29.?Glen N. W. Mi Naught.in. the attorney who once ] started a movement to offer Pro-Idem ' Rnose\ el t if lie WOtlld l'ei Sign, charged today in a supreme j court petition lie had been .-old a crosseyed race horse j He has filed suit for $L-~'"l against Mrs David A. Buckley, prominent Virginia horsewoman, from whom lie said he had bought a chestnut filly at the annual Saratoga auction August 3. 1937, for $1,000. McNaughton said that Mrs Buck ' ley had assured him a white spot In i the beast's eye was of no consequence 1 but that ho had since spent $2,901 1 trying to train the horse to rur > straight. The horse could win no races, Mc 1 Naughton said, because it looked li * one direction?and ran in another. v Maj. A. U Bunwlnkle. of Gastonia 1 N*. C . has unofficially announced tha k he will again be a candidate for ret 0 resentatlae frotn his district next sum k. mer, and says he hopes to be a mem e ber of congress whose personnel wll j be elected next year. He is opposeto a third term for President Roosc l. velb ?? Angry Crowd Asks Recall Of Mayor San Antonio, Tex., Auk. 86.?A howling, angry crowd which battled 200 policemen and flrumen and drove ,10(>0 terror-stricken men aud women from a Communist rally joday demanded the recall of Mayor Maury Maverick. Maverick, storm center of Texas politics from the time he entered congress a few years ago, had called out the entire police force and many firemen to protect the meeting, although declaring "I have no sympathy whatever for Communism." Police estimated nearly two score persons woro Injured In the lighting that raged more than an hour last niKht at Municipal auditorium, a memorial to American soldiers In the World war. A 14-year-ohl boy was arrested but released. The demonstration was against a meeting called by Mrs. Hmma Tenayuoa Brooks, young Communist leader. Maverick, known as a liberal and warm friend of the New Deal had declared that while bitterly opposed to Communism he would use all his power to guarantee free speech and public assembly. Police estimated four hundred loaders In the crowd of 5,000 stormed the auditorium with stones and clubs, I crashed windows and finally driving the one hundred men and women as-j sombletl for the rally out through basement and rear exits. The meet-j ing was broken up at the very start? before even a welcoming speech could be made/ An estimated 3,000 persons then jammed the big main auditorium to1 hear patriotic talks. Alexander Boynton, former district attorney of Bexar county (San Antonio) demanded Maverick's recall. He asked all those who favored Maverick's ouster to stand. The entire audience rose and shouted. The mayor could not be reached for a statement. Police patrols guarded his home throughout the night. At the height of the fighting police and firemen turned streams from fire hoses on the crowd and discharged volleys of tear gas. There were repeated shouts and yells "we want Maverick!" As far as known, the mayor was not at the scene. !, I" ... 1 ' [ Rapidly rising flood waters, inI creased by steady rain, has temporarily washed out Japan's nine-week blockade of the British and French concessions, in Tientsin," and brought one of the worst disasters in the region's history. Flood from the Hal river and other streams poured almost unimpeded across levelled dikes and embankments, put Tientsin's electricity supply out of commission and swept away communication and railroad service. A Japanese threat to "isolate" the British crown colony of Hongkong hu been reported from Canton. Despite Tokyo assurances that the Japaneee do nol Intend to blockade the port Hongkong learned that the Japanese army press spokesman in Canton made this statement Sunday: "Britain may assist the Chiang Kai-shek r* gime if she pleases, but the Japanese army will be obliged to sever Chinese transport routes even if it entails Isolation of Hongkong." Notice To j Delinquent Taxpayers I IN COMPLIANCE, WITH THE LAW, THE COMPTROLLER QK^JiAt'S OFFICE HAS IN STRUCTED MY OFFICE TO MAKE COLLECTION I IN ALL DELINQUENT TAXES IN KERSHAW j COUNTY DURING THE FALL AND WINTER; AND I IN ALL CASES WHERE THE TAXES ARE NOT PAID PROMPTLY, I AM REQUIRED TO LEVY UPON AND i SELL THE PROPERTY OF THE DELINQUENT TAX- 1 PAYER FOR THE TAXES. MANY AUTOMOBILES | HAVE BEEN ESCAPING TAXATION. MY DEFINITE I INSTRUCTION^ ARE TO SEIZE, LEVY UPON, AND SELL SUCH CARS, UPON WHICH TAXES HAVE i NOT BEEN PAID, UNLESS PAYMENT OF TAXES I BE MADE PROMPTLY. I HAVE NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER, AND I I HOPE THAT THE TAXPAYERS WILL COOPERATE : WITH MY OFFICE, SO THAT THE TAXES MAY 1 BE COLLECTED WITHOUT LEVY AND SALE, j WHICH WOULD NECESSARILY INVOLVE MORE | EXPENSE TO THE TAXPAYER. j J. H. McLEOD, I Sheriff of Kershaw County. j | WAIT! | Before you buy your 1940 car see our new I PLYMOUTH on display at our showrooms I within a few days I It's the Low-Priced Beauty I with the Luxury Ride I " HOTTER THAN A FIRECRACKER " I 5 H * i ???? ????? i i STOGNER MOTOR CO.I i, ; | ' DEALERS FOR I PLYMOUTH and CHRYSLER Cars I At Carolina Motor Company Building - I ? Camden, South Carolina '' JEM