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f THE ?-l! 'contrast' Dock Street Tueaire^ BEGINNING MARCH 25TH First American Comedy For The American Way j ??t? j AMERICA'S FIRST PLAYHOUSE | Broadway and Hollywood Stars in Perspn Irene Purcell, Hiram 8herm*n, Joseph Holland, Alicia Rhett I j Arthur Gould-Porter j J Seats $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50?Mail Orders Filled I CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA ^ Falsehoods Gather Weight So one knows Just how these i hings happen, t>ut every once In ft while the most Innocent set of facts gets Jumbled up and emerges as a national legend without a grain of truth. Take the case of the Memphis, Tonn, dog pound, for example. When the building was tlrst erected In 1936, with the aid of WPA, the story got around that the place was so luxurious that Memphis canine population was openly Inviting apprehension by the dog-catcher Just to sharo the penthouse comfort of the new pound and to enjoy the shower baths which were supposed to be part of the project. Memphis tried hard lo stop that Mut the story, with embellishments, kept popping up dust the other day, It reached the halls of Congress when a representative referred to southern ladles bringing their poodles In for shower baths at the $i0.000 pound The facts? First of all the place cost only nn.non with WPA putting up $13,( 00 and the city $6,000. And there are no shower baths, except the garden hose used on badly soiled inmates Since the dog shelter was opened, there has boon not a single death from rabies; although, during the throe years prior to the opening, six deaths were recorded. The numhcr uf Pasteur treatments for rabies, costing $7 oaoh, has docllned from 2no In 103.") to 04 last year. With tears In her civic eyes, Memphis pleads with tho nation please to stop tho libel. That's not going to l>o easy. (live a lie a little push, and it grows larger and larger?about as easy to recall as a 10-ton boulder crashing down a mountain side. The classical example of a false-j hood that received wldo and official lecognitlon was H. L. Mencken's wartime story of the origin of tho bathtub In America. The tale was conjured up in the famous author's mind on a dull day. Scientists did research on the basis of it, wroto scholarly treatises. Plumbers used the story in advertising and speakers accopted it as gospol. It was not until about three years ago that Mencken chuckled a littlo, and admitted tho wholo thing was aj hoax. The story, however, will prob-j ably live on for years. If you're thinking of starting a1 fable you'd better consider well be-. fort> you start whispering.?Sumter I tally Item. ! J < - - ? JU-- . 1 There are now 1,085,000 automobile trailers registered In the United! States, according to the latest figures.. Nomads of Central Asia use leather I milk "bottles" to carry there ceremonial drink of mare's milk. A royal decree bringing martial law to the "greater part <>f The Netherlands" Is announced as being In preparation. The step is being taken in vlew of the "dangers of espionage." Some Dots About Pioneer Physicians .. By T. H. DREHER Recently a book of 852 pages came from the press, styled "Doctors On Horseback." It Is dlfferont from vn hat 1 expected, but Interesting just the same. Only a hasty account can, of course, bo given here, but 1 hope I can Infuse some pleasure to our readers. I will dwell on three of these early doctors?John Morgan, Benjamin Hush and ^William Bhippen, Jr. They were Philadelphia products and perambulated In gigs, uot horseback They woro society leaders, as well as physicians, with their medical education completer! at the famous Edinburgh University In Scotland. It Is said that "even our fabled Olympus gods could not live In peace with gods." These three old pionoors hated each other like game roosters aflghtlng. Morgan established the first medical college In this country at Philadelphia. Bhippen tried to steal (ho honor from hint. The latter, It seems, Introduced the dissection of dead bodies. It created a furor. He was almost run out of the city. Some wag spouted a littlo poetry ab0ut it, which ran as follows: "The body snatchers they have come v And made a snatch at me: ' It's very hard them kind of men . Won't let a body be! Don't go,to weep upon my grave And think that there 1 be,' They haven't left an atom there Of my anatomee." Bhippen opposed male obstetricians. That it outraged tho modesty and purity of female virtue and refinement. Ho had a beautiful and popular society daughter. A wealthy Livingstone and a poor diplomat fell desperately in love with her. She preferred the diplomat. Bhippen dragged her to tho altar and forced a marriage with Livingstone. When they arrived at his home she found a brood of Livingstone bastards. liefore a divorce could be procured a daughter appeared. Mother and daughter returned homo ami both drifted into a mild lunacy. Shlppen finally went very much the same way. Thus ended Shlppen, but not until he, Morgan and Rush had many battles. Tho Revolutionary War developed. Morgan was made director-general of hospital work. Shlppen had a strong putt with Washington and ' Congress. A bitter fight resulted. fcj'I'hey ousted Morgan and substituted I ShipjHMi It stirred up a mess that would have lost the war, but for the muddled heads and inactivity of the i British generals, and saved, above all else by Francis Marion. Sumter, with their lieutenants, and the King's Mountain Heroes who finally won the war. In spite of propagandist history, George Washington and his Conti: nental Army, with Nathanael Green j at its head, had practically lost out I when the brave provincials snatched I the brands from the burning. I It almost makes one weep yet to j read about tho shameful loss of soldier life as a result of the miserable ^jpanagement of Congress and tho doctors' squabbles in hospital, work with j lack of supplies and cooperation. It j is said that moro soldiers lost their j lives from disease tyfid neglect than . from bulb'ts. I now hurriedly refer to Benjamin j Hush, the other of this trio He also hated Shippen and had no special love for John Morgan, though he deI , liveied a handsome eulogy over the j dead body of old John a* his grave. , Hush was a < uriositx In spite of handicaps lie was. far ami away, tho 0 leader of medicine in this < . try for ! many years until hi* death A medi: ral College in Chicago 1- irs his none-. "Tib It. volution ?\ ;<John Mi r-'titt aside. His pupils, it.sh, lived and worked under difbr o conditions Though opposed uitting Kngland. he signed the I> uir^tlon ci? Independence He was not an j aristocrat. as were Morgan a:; i Shipj pen He helped to organize *he first anti slavery society. He biumi red inj to Congress for one term S:r>ng for 1 "freedom." ho shouted. Cash and gunpowder for the Yankees " He considered George Washington a failure and vigorously regretted it later "Cncle George" always believed. and it seems truly, that Bush was i a party to the "Conway Cabal." that schemed to put Gates in the place of Washington. Ho helped Morgan to discredit , Shippen. A regular dog fight all the , way. Rush had many vagaries. Wdth . a brilliant mind he wrote much, and i often foolishly. About using snuff, he j said each lost five days a year "openj ing the box and carrying the stuff to i tho nose." Predicted that by 1915 | "a drunkard would be as infamous as I a liar or a thief. On the 100th anniversary of his^ death, "delegates of the W. C, T. U. from forty statos planted an oak tree i on his grave. He hated tobacco. In four years two plagues of yellow fever Invaded Philadelphia. They died by the thousands. Rush at the head of the committee attributed it to the marshes on the river banks, and suggested burning gunpowder. Prom the windows all night long they shot at' i he miasma. After several were wounded the Mayor stopped it. Rush, the great Mogul .of medicine, bravely fought day and night to relieve the sick. Nobody, not even the great Rush, suspected mosquitoes as the real cause. Tie read a pamphlet which convinc-, ed him that, the only hope and specific depended on cathartics and bleeding. He gi\ve ten grains each Of calomel and jalap three times a day to his patients. He often drew nine pints of blood. Doctor Cobbett lambasted him for his treatment and his pernicious advice to the sick, in and out of the newspapers. Cobbett compared his methods of advertisements to the "Crafty old hypocrite Ben Franklin." A great churchman, his religious career was stormy. No authority but his own, satisfied. Four times he. chanced creeds in the Episcopal, Pros bytcrian and I'nitarian churches. Hej kept pews in all. At one time half of; the South Carolina Medical Society had been his pupils. He continued to preach bleeding and purging to the last. It was said that he shed more blood than any general in history. Yet he remained King of medicine all over the country. True to his doctrines ho demanded bleeding for himself in his last illness. He insisted on a repetition. Two physicians advised against it but he vociferously demanded. It was always a question whether this drain killed him. A fine scholar, with many gyrations and twists. A fighter to the last when he used a competitor for libel and won a verdict for five thousand dollars which he gave to charity, though his money and practice had greatly dwindled. In spite of his ldiosyncracies and mistakes, his age could have truly adopted the lines: "It is all for Benjamin Rush The flower grows.; The rose's thorns are but for us; For thee, the rose." Too long probably have I dwelt on this remarkable trio. Though city leaders, they accomplished little for the best future of modem medicine and surgery. The strlfo among them did vast harm. Hater on, I will go to the backwoods for two pioneers. Ephraln McDowell and Crawford Long, who biased the way for the humanity that had died in the throes of agony for thousands of years. First Prayer Of Congress (Newberry Observer) We take pleasure In inserting the following which was found pasted in an old scrap book by Mrs. H. M. Werts of Newberry, H.F.D. 3, who requested its publication, with the idea that it would be of lptoreet to our readers. Wo feel that it will be read with interest and will perhaps find Its way into other scrap books. The 11 rat chuplain of the American Congress was Uov. Jacob Ducho, and the following words constituted the first prayer offered in our national congress: "O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of Kings and Ix>rd of Ix>rds, who doth from Thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth, and reinoth with power supreme and unlimited over ull kingdoms, empires and governments, look down in mercy, we beseech thee, on these American states, who have fled to thoo from the rod of the oppressor, and thrown thyselves on thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on thee. To thoo they have appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to thoo do they now look up for that countenance and support which thou alone canst give. "Take them, therefore,' Heavenly Fathor, undor thy ministering care; give them wisdom in council and valor lu the fluid; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their cause; and, if thoy still persist in their sangiunary purpose, oh, let the voice of thin own unerring Justice sounding in their heart, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their hands in the day of battle. "He thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation, that the scene of blood may be speedily closed?that order, peace and harmony may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety prevail and flourish among thy people. Preserve the health of their bodies and the vigor of their minds. "Shower down upon them, and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessions as thou sees* expedient for them in the world, and crown them with everlasting glory In the world to come. "All this we ask in thy name, j through the merits of Jesus Christ, thv son, our Savior. Amen." The state of California pays a pension of approximately $50 a month to each blind resident there. Mrs. Ar-j thur Mcl.aglen handles the care of, the 7.000 blind persons in that state. timrod cuajb has meeting The Timrod Home Demonstration Club hold Its regular monthly meeting ut the sehoolhouao Wednbeday night. February 2?th. Mrs. J. K. Jones, our president, presided. The meeting was culled to order and all joined In lug two verses of ' America. Miss Atene West read a portion from the bible after which Mra. Ruth Jouea Parker led In prayer. The roll was called and the minutes of the previous meeting road by Miss Elizabeth Mann. The' president welcomed the 1 visitors and introduced the speakers. The meeting was then turned over to W C. McUarloy, our county agent. He began -his talk toy telling ua why our rural eleetrlo line had been delayed. Although the delay has caused much disappointment, Mr. McCarley assured us #*v*ould have rural electricity befoiV*4941. This being the Outlook meeting, Mr, McCarley talked on the Outlook for HMD. He said we are trying to grow too much cotton. We should decrease the cost of growing cotton by treating soed, plant fewer acres and fertilize better, W# should plant othor cash crops. Tobacco is a good substitute for cotton and the demand for tobacco will probably be greater In 1040 than In 1989. Peanuts are also a good cash crop as the hay Is very good for livestock. It can bo sold as well as the peanuts. Everybody thht wants to start raising peanuts should do so this year. After 1940 there will be an allotment on peanuts and if you haven t beefl growing thorn you won't got an allotment. Sweet potatoes should bo grown because they are good feed for livestock as well as a good cash crop and they are needed for tho family use. Then he stressed the need of livestock. The hog market has been low for the last year or so and will probably bo low In 1940 as the pig crop Is expected to bo largor. He said now Is the^tlme to start raising hogs because they are so low most people that are already in the business will quit. Tho time to go into business Is when others are going out. The beef and poultry markets are low at this time too. We should have plenty of poultry for our own use as this is essential In the health of farm families. Miss Fewell then made an interesting talk on how to spend money wisely. She said we should keep a family clothing budget. ... The ready-made garments will probably be higher in 1940 than In 1939. The prices of cotton yards goods are not expected to make much change. If you can sew well you will save a lot this year by making your own clothes. Wholesales of woolen goods have Increased sharp_ly. fllnce, jbtt-- ?of?last August and this will probably affect the retall prices of 1940. Rayon and silks are expected to be higher also. Shoes will be higher In 1940. Work shoes will not advance as much as dress shoes. Shoe repair as well as dally care will lengthen the lives of shoes. If a clotting budget is kept this year it will help the family make a wiser division of money to be spent for clothing another year. Each present received a helpful little booklet on "More Eight on Farm Living In South Carolina." The meeting was then turned over to the president. Gaines were enjoy-' ed and sandwiches, cookies, und I cocoa were served. There were twelve members and six visitors present. ?Secretary. Mrs. Baker of Bethune Dies Bethune, March 19.?Mrs. Juanita Collins Baker, 38, died Tuesday at the Camden hospital after an Illness of two years. She was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist church where funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Wednesday, the Rev. C. P. Cowherd of Bethune officiating. Interment will be in tiio oliurch cemetery. 1 Surviving are her husband, O. J. j Baker; four daughters, Louise, Audry, I Doris and Yvonne; two sons, Roecoo and Russell; her father, John Collins, Sr.; one sister, Miss Lula Collins of Bethune, and one brother, John Collins, Jr., of Columbia. News of Interest fl And Near liethB Dethuno. March 21 c|rcl ? her one and two or ([,<, Missionary Society utut Tu, tB ternoon with Miss Mlnie iL ? \lit? Frank Lee respectively number two oomplUnunted LJ*U Bethune with a shower fl course was served. 1 V Miss Mary King of Ninety fthfl her room-mate spent |hy with Miss King's parents u?B Mrs. B. J*. King. ' *'' Mr. and Mra. Cy Mltcheit hi J turned from a business trli> ?? berland, Md. 1 to^B Misses Robbie Newton MarJ Juanita Pate, of Llmes'tons^ll are spending their Spring holiSl their home here. Mrs. C. K. Bras well and ck#? Margaret and Jimmle, 8p??nt uJ? end In Wadeaboro, N. C, wittfl Bruswell's mother, Mrs. UatcljiB Mrs. Mark King, of Neesea, i.j? ing Mra. 1$. Z. Truesdell ii,? uiyl sons, Mark, Jr., and Robert! of blposes and Florence, jolned^l King here during the week-end -B Mr. and Mrs. M. O. King apentB day in Raleigh, N. C., with Ifrfl I Mrs. John Edwin King Mrs M land little daughter, Gene, accoM letl Mr. and Mrs. King ho'mn X-NwMeLaurln, of Holly Hjji the week-end with his family Miss Elizabeth Beach has wJ to her school work after recupgS for Beveral weeks at her ho3 Walterboro. M. E. Parker and family epent^B day in Lynchburg with relatim? Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beard and^B Ernest, of Beaufort, spent the i^B end with the J. P. Bethuneg. ^B Mrs, J. G. Richards and dad^B Ray, spent Friday with Mrs vl King.. 'S Miss Colia King visited MUafl riett Mays at Mary Washington^? lege, Fredericksburg, Va, and companled homo by Misses her* room-mate, Isabello Gordo^H Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. I^aurenco of Columbia, were Sunday their parents, the J. N. McLaiu^B Johnnie Davis and Leslie Best spent t-heir holidays In D^H ton with relatives. Little Iris I^aRue Grantham her aunt In Hartsville last weej^H Buster Cooper, of Colunibitu^^E the week-end with Charles Pati^H Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Edwards, a^^? 1 timbla, were Sunday guests'of? C. C. Pates. V The revival services wliicb ui^B Ing held at the Presbyterian di? conducted by Rev. F. R. Mortal well attended and much intdtyjB being shown. Mrs. J. D. Crawford and dau;? are visiting relatives in Honea I? Dr. E. Z. Truesdell is attend? five days course given in eye saw In New York City, ? Hog Shipment The Kershaw County FarmertB change will ship a car of, hogf? Tuesday, March 2t>, between? hours of 8:30 and 12:00. Pleao^B anyone whom you think w\\\ terosted in tJiis shipment, says McCarley, county agent. A group of tribesmen, 80 li^H. ambushed a passenged bus nea^^V1 nu, India, Thursday, killing kidnaping two, Including a polli^?' flclal and a wealthy Hindu ct^Hf ? 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