The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 30, 1940, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
tied Bible for Scheme
iTt Postal Laws Got Them
ET.th shall sprin? out. ?' .**;
Bl^Tnd righteousness shall lbok
i *<?m heaven. Yea, the Lord
MST* that which is good; and
-yff shall yield her increase.
Carole a little group of men,
W headquarters *re in Chicago,
of their reams of circuH/22n
they were spreading the
K., 0i pleaocracy in 1933. It was
the many ways of "explain ?
how money sent to them would
mjl 30 per cent annually.
E\ then their troubles included
B\T?te court proceeding, after
I h they changed the name of
Hfr organization. Then came a
Ka) injunction tha.t^ resulted in a
Hi sentence for one of their offl- |
B Tlie latest episode occurred
K. a federal grand jury indicted
Ef their leaders on charges of deWLlmti
hundreds of persons
J^hont the country of several
K^d thousand dollars.
H^ever before," explained the
^^Locrats, to the reader who jterE*j
"has a plan become availEtothe
people that operates in
Crdance with the rules and reguas
set forth in the Bible.
Eft* 30 per cent natural increase
^Eally in Plenocracy should not
Eonfused with 30 per c$nt interest
; I money." it was explained, "beHjse
the 30 par cent natural inEJi
in pienooracy is a genuine inHtase
and the 6 per cent, 10 per
HatT20 per cent or 30 per cent on
I Eey would ^ an artificial and
^Etious increase.".
! K0w were the Plenocrats to make
general idea was that they
Euld operate a large number of
i C| in all sections of the country.
Kv of loss would, be eliminated
.^Ejuse of the geographic and cliEfc
diversification of the lands
Evere to be operated by experts
"scientific methods that would
[fill to yield 30 per cent yearly.
Ke government charged; however,
K the few farms controlled were
Eitiy in this area, that they were
Etrated by managers, tenants or
^ nner unsuccessful owners and
| Bowed a loss instead of the promWirror-Making
Changed by
New 'Silvering* Proce??
The ancient art of mirror making
^ u yielded at last to modern indus|
Bial science.
Since 1835, when Baron Justus von
Biftig, a German chemist, poured
H*ering solution out of a white
^Eh>>a pitcher onto a pane of glass,
^Be pitcher has been the principal
Hoi of the mirror manufacturers,
^^ he process was slow and tedious,
But despite its handicaps more than
H00 mirror makers produced an es^Lmated
80,000,000 square feet of
^fcirror glass annually by the pitchHr-pouring
process.
I William Peacock, Philadelphia
letallurgist, is credited with bringH
streamline, mass production
Bielhods To the mirror industnr.
^Efter nine years of experimentation
^End thousands of tests he found a
Better, quicker method. The prin ipal
feature of his new process is
silvering solution that instantaneBtisly
deposits a film of silver on-a
Because of this, instantaneous ac^Eon,
Mr. Peacock was able to spray
Bu silvering solution onto the glass
^Eith a spray gun, not urtlike those
fed to paint automobiles. Mirror
Bass which formerly had to be laid
Ml on a table can be stood almost
^Eect on racks, saving valuable floor
ace and cutting down the time re uired
to turn a pane of polished
late glass into a silvered mirror.
Street Pays $60,000 Tax
Streets of New York that are not
B^lic thoroughfares, some dingy
pd obscure and others of modem
B"?our, are called to mind by ttlt
Hjoovery that there is one in Rockefeller
Center on which is paid an
nual $60,000 tax. It ia Rockefeller
to* and it runs under the lee of
ty skyscrapers through the mid*
* of a plot bounded by Fifth and
hh avenues from Forty-eighth to
aty-first street.
land itself ia under a long*
rm lease from Columbia universiW'
which requires the Rockefeller
krests to do nothing that would
ftage her title. It therefore is
W m the lease that any private
established in the area must
'enced or ba*Ted for 12 hours
Brtry year. That act proclaims that
* Place is not a public highway
Euch as 1113 traversed. If t^e cere ?ny
were omitted it might be
Batted that through uninterrupted.
Et??the passa8e was to effect dediHted
to the community. *
Manhattan teems with traditions
j Private byways and paths which
H^itually become streets largely
j ugh their being undisputed pasBff'
Lovers' lan^ and other lanes
T" less romantic names were
fentualiy absorbed in the city plan.
. Cinderella of Old
before the Christian era, S
"^rn of the Cinderella story waul
BzY1 b> the Egyptians, and it was
r, r also to the Greeks. It may
?Upd among the German fojkE
tales of the Sixteenth century
"*? the delightful collections of
Mrj "tones of the Brothers Grimm.
t/an?u8 English versions are
^!abr,ns of the narrative of
Hrr*3 Psri auil, a famous French
?? fairy tales.
Correct Posture Helps
Homemaker Avoid Fatigue
Not the work hut the way it often
is done gives a homemaker backaches
and makes her tired, maintains
Miss Fannie Brooks, extension
specialist in health, University of
Illinois college of agriculture.
Every time a homemaker stoops
over to put a pie into the oven or
to collect dirt in the dustpan, she
uses 55 per cent more energy than
she does lying down. Sitting requires
4 per cent and standing 12
per cent more energy than lying
down. The point to remember is
to keep the back straight by kneeling
down rather than stooping over,
Miss Brooks said.
Every time a homemaker can sit
to iron, to prepare food or wash
dishes, she saves her strength. Since
standing straight takes less energy
than bending, any equipment which
enables the homemaker to maintain
an erect posture will forestall fatigue.
Thus a long handle on the
broom or mop and a high oven instead
of a low one are devices to
minimize energy output.
More backaches probably occur
because the kitchen table, sink and
the laundry wash tubs are too low
than for any other reason, Miss
Brooks said. These faults can easily
be remedied by having the' table,
sink or tubs raised on blocks of
wood' Hanging out the clotheB also
becomes a less burdensome task if
the clothes basket is placed oh a
medium height portable cart or a
coaster wagon.
Fatigue not only affects a homemaker's
physical well-being but indirectly
affects her mental well-being,
Miss Brooks pointed out. Thus
the family's happiness may be dapendent
upon such small factors as
f too short a broom handle or an undersized
table.
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Home-Loving Sex
Now Hat Wanderlust
"This is a woman's world, and in
planning our trips and cruises we
first ask ourselves what 'the head
of the family' will think," says Robert
R. Mathews of the American
Express travel service. "Over 50
per oent of all those who travel for
pleasure belong to the so-called
"home-loving sex' and, in making
choice on traval, we figure that
feminine fancy is a directing?if not
the deciding?factor in the {najorlty
of cases."
The average woman traveler is
very tolerant of the shortcomings
of her fellowman?up to a given
point, says Mathews. She can take
her dictators or leave them; she
doesn't mind rags or poverty as long
as It's picturesque; or lack of plumbing
as long as it is somebody else's
plumbing.
But heaven help the unfortunate
cruise director who brings her to a
hotel that hasn't all the latest nickelplated
fixtures, and if even fcq much
as one humble cockroach should in
advertently cross her path?why, the
trip is off.
Plan Census of Salmon
One of the first steps to provide
for a continuation of the salmon industry
in Oregon waters is thp establishment
of an experimental salxnon
?Ultuw.. station; at Big Eddy.
The construction and operation of
the station is a result of co-operation
between the canning industry,
the state and federal fishery agencies.
The state of Oregon took the first
move in stocking the station with
fish by delivering 200,000 young Chinook
salmon. These fish will be held
in the pools of the station for a period
of time for study by members
of the federal bureau of fisheries,
the Oregon state game commission
and Willis Rich, internationally
known ichtyologist of Stanford university.
The fish will.be tagged and recorded
for future checks as to migration
and loss through activities
of salmon fishermen and predatory
fish of the ocean.
All fish caught later by the various
groups of fishermen will be reported
to the fish commission. When all
figures are compiled, at the end of
the four-year period, the difference
between the number of fish released
originally and those which return to
Five Mile creek will represent the
total loss of fish during the period
spent in the Pacific and caught by
fishermen.
Colored Rain and Snow
White snow and'rain water are
occasionally varied by the most unusual
substitutes.
About 12 years ego yellow snow
fell on the northwest coast of Japan,
and everyone was curious as to how
this strange phenomenon came
about. Some Japanese said it was
brimstone and sulphur as punishment
for sins. , ..
It was traced, however, to the yellow
dust that had been whirled up
from the Gobi desert in central Asia
and carried in snow clouds to the
Japanese districts where it fell.
Yellow rain, too, has been known
to fall. It was discovered to be
caused by flower-pollen blown by the
wind up to the rain clouds.
Black snow has been known to fall,
but this, too, was no magical manifestation
being traced to a violent
eruption' of Mount--Etna, in Sicily,
where dust and as>es had got mixed
up in snow clouds. .
Red rain, caused by myriads of
tiny little 'red insects, has h??*1
known to f?H in France, Holland, end
elsewhef.
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New Fuel May
(Change World
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Science Finds ? Substance
Tbat Beats Gasoline
3,000,000 to 1.
NEW YORK.?Pioneering physicists
ut Columbia university have
separated into pure form a natural
substance so powerful that one
pound of it will give off as much
energy as 3,000,000 pounds of gasoline
or 5,000,000 pounds of coal.
This discovery, which is discussed
in the current issue of the Physical
Review, official publication of American
physicists, has brought from
scientists the cautious forecast that
if the substance can really be harnessed,
a revolution in ppwer greater
than the introduction of the steam
engine impends.
One Step Remains/
Prof/'John R. Dunning, who headed
^he Columbia team whose research
led to experimental proof
of the potency of the newly isolated
pubstance, was said to have
told a colleague thet oply o ne step
remains before its use will be available
to man. That step is the improvement
of methods of extracting
it frond ores. Other physicists
agreed with Dunning.
In the beginning only infinitesimal
amounts were available. In
two months' time these amounts increased
200-fold.
Tentatively the name U-235 has '
been given to the substance, which
is a close relative of uranium. It
is reckoned that a 10-pound chunk
of it would drive an ocean liner
around the world many times, and
that a piece the size of a man's
hand would enable a submarine to
cross any body of water in the
world, including the Pacific ocean.
Not much of it would be required
to fly an airplane around the eafth.
The report stressed the ease with
which U-235 can be made to give
off its tremendous energy. All that
is necessary, it was said, was to
put some of it in a tank and supply
it with a constant stream of cold
water.
Minnesota Successful First.
Until a few months ago, not even
a drop of this substance had been
extracted into pure form. Scientists
were skeptical whether it could
be done. Toward the end of February
a minute fraction of a gram
was isolated at the University of
Minnesota physics laboratory, under
direction of Prof. Alfred O. Nier.
This sample was sent to Columbia,
where Prof. Dunning, Dr. E.
T. Booth, and Dr. Aristid V. Grosse
tested it in the university's 150-ton
cyclotron (atom smasher). It
worked well, but the scale of the
experiment was small, and only after
much larger quantities had been |
extracted did the experimenters become
satisfied with the prospects.
They now entertain the hope that
in a short time a way will be found
to isolate the material in pounds
instead of millionths of a gram. It ,
is known that large manufacturing
companies are interested in the experiments
and that research men
for General Electric have separated
a bit of it and got results similar to
those at Columbia. i
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Ancient Indian Battle
Is Traced in New York
ROCHESTER,.N. Y.?Wars have
been waged throughout the world for
thousands of years. Historians have
recorded the deeds of many famous 1
conquerors of Europe, Asia and the
Americas. i
Now it is disclosed another war ,
raged in central New York state
about the time Alaric, the Goth, ,
was busy sacking Rome.
Archeologist William A. Ritchie,
of the Rochester Museum of Arts' 1
and Sciences, thus interprets the find- <
ings of an expedition to Frontenac i
island, in Lake Cayuga. About 100 j
Indian skeletons and thousands of.]
primitive implements, ornaments,,
and weapons were unearthed by the , ^
expedition.
Three of the skulls, he said, show
decided dents, A fourth bears a l
wound inflicted by a flint arrow and <
knife scars. l
The scientist is positive the ]
wounds were received during a prolonged
battle between an archaic (
people who held Frontenac island
and an invading Laurentian people 1
who migrated from the northeast j
and eventually conquered the Archa- r
ics. Entirely different weapons and
implements of the two cultures were
found in the same burial site. '
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Dam Workers Turn Up (
Gold During Off Hours J
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. ? Men t
employed in construction of the e
Ruck-A-Chucky debris dam on the r
American river near Auburn have
turned to gold mining in their spare
time, George Pollock of Sacramento, c
contractor for the dam, reported. 1
Site of the dam is in the foot? t
hills of the Sierra Nevadas in the <
Mother Lode country made famous |
by California's gold strike of nearly .
a century ago. ~ " '
.About 40 men are employed at
the dam and some of them have 1
made as high as $100 a day in working
high quality ore from a pocket *
opened by the Folloolf company in t
cutting a temporary roadway at the
dam site, the contractor said. ,
The men have not deserted their
jobs, he added, but they merely
turned to prospecting while H was
too wet to work at the damsite for
construction work. J
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
lly Spectator
-i,
Our next legislature should address
Itself seriously to a survey of our goveminent
in South Carolina. At one
time 1 thought we needed n new state
Constitution; 1 don't think there 1s a
need of any urgency. Considering the
pronounced tendency of the day to
disregard principles and fundamental
ooucerns, and to adopt all sorts of
unsound theories. I should not like to
take a chance on what theorists would
try to embody in the surpreme law
of the State. Our people are not constltutlonaltists
today. A few years ago
everybody cited the Constitution to
prove everything; toduy very few enro
anything for Uhe Constitution. Not
only are the very young impatient of
restraint; lawmakers, likewise, are
prone to put on the law books measurses
which are opposed to the old
basic ideas. Kegardless of the plain
terms of the Constitution a bill once
passed by the General Assembly is seldom
challenged in court. Who Iihb
the money to run Into court every
time u doubtful bill is enacted.
If the Constitution means anything,
at all, it forbids extra pay and weekly
mileage, lu very clear language It
declares "No General Assembly shall
have the power to Increase the per
diem of its own members". (Seotion
19, Article 3) Everyone even with
the very least knowledge of the Constitution,
knows well that this is a
prohibition of extra pay, X^ere 18 no
reason why we should quibble about
it; the prohibition IS-clear and it is
absolute. When the legislature tries to
find loopholes In the Constitution, in
order to pay more to its members,
it not only makes a plaything of the
Constitution, but sets an unwholesome'example
of a steward taking
money entrusted in hie care. The legislature
should have the courage and
the wisdom to fix the pay as the law
permits.
If we do not respect such clear provisions
of the supreme law, why bother
about a new Constitution?
The Constitution of the United Stat-i
es allows to members of Congress so
much a mile for one trip to Washington
and the return home at the end
of the sessiou. That was the very obvious
purpose of the provision in the
State Constitution^ which reads:
"Each member of the General Assembly
shall receive five cents for every
mile for the ordinary route of truvel
in going to and returning from the
place where its sessions are held."
Since 1895, until a year ago. everyone
understood the intent of this; but the
tendency today is not to respect or
observe the Constitution, but to get
around it. Legislators who now collect
five cents a mile every week are
pettifogging.
Very few men study the Constitution;
still fewer study It historically
In order to Interpret it in the light
of a broad policy. This superficiality
Is not confined to state legislators,
but creeps out In Congress. We've seen
the fight to call the National Guard
into servloe^ According to the Constitution
of the United States it is
doubtful to my mind fhat it could be
called by the President, even for
training; but the doubt is still stronger
when the law would empower the
President to call the guard into service
under present conditions. The
Constitution speaks of armies and the
militia. The National Guard is the
militia by other name, put the only
authority for it is the authority for
the militia. The Constitution says:
The Congress may provide for organizing,
arming, and disciplining the
militia, and for governing such part
Df them as may be employed in the
service of the United States, reserving
to the States respectively the appointment
of the officers, and the authority
of training the militia according
to the discipline prescribed by
Congress." The Congress shall have
power to provide for calling forth
he militia to execute the laws of the
Union, supress insurrections, and re?el
invasions."
I fancy I can hear someone say,
'Oh, bother about the Constitution;
et's do as we please." Well, there
rou are; so why talk about new Constitutions?
A little fellow seven years old walked
with me acrose a court house
square. The little boy pointed to the
Confederate soldier on bis pedestal
ind afcked, "Who ie that"? I would not
ceep alive or revive bad feeling, but
he historical background of our Constitution
and our monuments should
sot be forgotten. The Confederate soiliers
were great soldiers, and some
>f them were great men; and their
leroism and greatness should inspire
is to high patriotism. Likewise the
Constitution was spoken of by the
treat British statesman Gladstone as
'the greatest work ever struck off
it any one time by the mind and pur>ose
of man".
I fear you are weaj^ of the Constitution,
so'let's pa4f bp to somehing
else. \ '
It would probably help our state fo
jass a law restricting punitive damiges,
and. to Investigate our constant*
y expanding institutions.
We can m? at a glance that if suits
nay be brought for large sums of xnon*
+ .t i fLv >
ey for triv&l injuries, those with money
to invest will not look kindly to
us. I admit that as a citizen trying
to earn a livelihood 1 want to see our
state prosperous. That is my selfish
interest of a more or less general
sort. So. I should like to bo? new industries
come here. But I have a personal
or narrowly selfish interest also.
I pay liability Insurance on my car
and it cost me about nine dollars
more than a Georgian pays for the
same policy. Our unlimited rights to
sue for unlimited damages raises the
cost of liability insurance to every
man who has a policy. It is said that
we send out of our state two million
dollars more than Georgians pay, for
equal policies. Of course if that
helped-our state government it would
not be so bad; but this two million
dollars goes out of the state to causally
Insurance companies so that they
may pay the excessively heavy ver-dlcia.
given by. flom&..of our_Juries Jil .
damage suits. Since those who favor
this present practice are Just a few,
all the rest of us are paying what
amounts to a heavy tax in order that
| the damage suit industry and ambulance-chasing
may thrive. Of course
I there are meritorious claims for damages;
no one would restrict an injured
person from recovering fair
damages. , in proportion to his loss;
but the punitive damage practice frequently
is not concerned primarily
with Justice, equity, or anything like
that; but rather with the effort to get
from the person sued, usually a corporation,
all than can be squeezed out.,
In the practice of Law all men are entitled
to Justice. Whether rich or poor,
Justice is justice, and right Is right.
Our courts should be given a broad
discretion In assuring that blood shall
not be squeezed from turnip^ in the
name of the law. And It might be a
desirable safeguard to allow the Su?
preme Court to review the whole case
on appeal when punitive damages are
asked. '
We may not bo a totalitarian government,
but we are running in that
direction. The Secretary of War, finding
skilled labor scarce, ?ay# that
certain labor will be used longer than
eight hours a day for five days or
five days and a half?and that Mr.
Sidney Hillman has given his consent.
So that's what we've come to! In a
grave crisis, a great national emergency,
we draw men to the army and
navy, for any sort of hours and conditions
which war service may Impose,
but only with Mr. Hillman's "O. K.",
can we use men at home! Well, well.
Now who will "O. K." the new taxes?
Surely there should be one man to
do that too. And whe will "O. K."
the farm program? And who will
"O. K." something else?
Why waste million of dollars and
millions of words with a perfectly useless
Congress? Why not have a Mr.
Sidney Hillntan to give his "O. K."?
A half dozen Hillmans could run the
whole shebang.
What is behind this is the eternal
hunt for votes. Our government is
so afraid It will lose a few votes that
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It is afraid to act energetically In
promoting preparedness.
When all Is said and done, ^or people
are citizens first and members of
j unions second. They will make any
sacrifice for the nation, if they ana treated
with the same consideration
accorded to others. It la the polltlo
Ian on a bant lor rotes who fears to
tfct With confidence, afraid that he nuy
lose a rots.
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NATURE'S CURIO SHOP
BY JOHNNY MOCK
mi VERNON LIND
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THE ANSWbKx Apparently certaih plants do have intelligence,
according to certain evidence* South of the equator thoae which
climb by twining spirally about 'a support make their ascension by
twining from right to left, whereas north of the equator, with few
exceptions, the spirals turn from left to right . . and nothing will
Induce them to change their course. If you wish to be convinced,
try compelling the common morning-glory to do otherwise. Take
a sprout which has not been winding itself about a support and
twist the vine about it from right to left. If it is not prevented
from doing so, the vine will reverse itself and begin to climb
in the correct manner. Fastened in the wrong position, it will
make a loop or double back to resume its normal and accustomed
procedure of climbing from left to right. Seeds taken from one
hemisphere to the other have produced plants which follow the old
maxim, "When in Rome, do as Romans do." The plants will adopt
the custom of their foster country*
Aiken Doctor Stabs
Man In Barber Shop
Aiken, A'g. 25.?E. B. Smith, 40year-old
WPA worker, was stabbod
Just under the heart In a barber shop
here this morning and Dr. L. .P. Nevill,
an Aiken physician, was arrested on
a warrant charging him with the
crime.
Smith, bleeding flternally, was reported
to be In a serious condition
at a hospital.
Policeman Ray Lybrand quoted
witnesses as saying Dr. Nevill reach- <
ed over and seemingly in a playful
manner began to slick Smith wlth^ttL
pocket knife, and Smith pushed hint
off, saying that the knife hurt.
When he did this, the officer said*
Nevill reached over and stabbed
Smith. Nevill, the policeman related.
himself in his office, farther up the
street. Officers had to break the door;
to arrest him, Lybrand said.
The officer said that Nevill was
Smith's physician and that Smith recently
had been a patient at a hospital
here with an infected leg. He
waf^ dismissed from the hospital only
ten days ago.
NOTICE OF OPENING OF BOOKS
OF REGISTRATION FOR COTTON
WEIGHER8 ELECTION IN
KER8HAW, 8. C.
Notice is hereby given that the
books of registration for the registering
of voters of Kershaw and Lancaster
counties for the Election of
Cotton Weigher in the Town of Kershaw,
S. C? on the 24th day of September,
1240, will be opened at office
of Clerk and Treasurer of Town
of Kershaw, S. C., at City Hall on
August 24th, 1040, and will remain
open until 4 o'clock p. m. on September
18th. 1840.
All persons desiring to rote in said
election must register with olty clerk
and Treasurer, and each voter must
present to clerk and treasurer his
or her County registration certificate,
before being entitled to registration.
L. R, BLACKMON,
City Clerk and Treas., Town of Kershaw,
8. C.
NOTICE "
All parties Indebted to the estate of
Sara K. Babln, deceased, are hereby
notified to make payment to the undersigned,
and all parties, if any, having
claims against the said estate
will present them likewise, duly attested,
within the time prescribed by
law.
STANLEY A. BABIN,
Administrator.
Camden, S. C., August 10, 1840.
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