The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 08, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Thursday, February 8, 1917.
We trust that the meeting tonight
in the interest of organizing a chamber
of commerce will be largely attended.
It is something the city has
long been in need of. and such an organization
ought to be well supported.
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euiiuriai tuiuuiuo ?
the fact that the State warehouse had
15,000 bales of cotton stored. The
Herald had not seen an official statement,
but the Greenwood Index is
authority for the statement that the
amount, in exact figures, was 24,065
bales.
Tuesday the "bone-drv" bill was
recommitted to the committee by a
vote of the house, thirty-odd members
not voting. This action was
evidently due to the fact that a considerable
number of the members of
the house had not returned to their
duties at the time the measure was
brought up.
The Yorkville Enquirer says that
the "faction" headed by Governor
Wanning has always been the real
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liquor party in South Carolina. This
is quite a bit of information; we feel
sure there are q,uite a number of ad
mirers of Governor Manning who
never before knew that they belonged
to the "liquor party," whatever that
is. The governor's friends ought to
be thankful to the Enquirer for informing
them as to what they stand
for in regards to liquor.
Some Effects of the Thrift Habit.
Thrift is the foundation of good
conduct, and every man and woman
who has what we term good character,
has it and keeps it by virtue of
the habit of thrift in some form. It
need not be the thrift of money, but
thrift of time, opportunity, health,
the broad thrift?the "wise use of
what one has," lies at the root of
every life that can be called a success.
The employe who learns to manage
his personal affairs so that he
saves money, will use his employer's
time and material wisely. The man
who is careful about little things will
be careful about the larger ones. If
he keeps careful record of tthat he
spends, he will be careful in investing
his money. Big traits of character
manifest themselves in little
WIS.
As the man of thrift saves his
money, and sees his bank account
grow, he becomes interested in the
proposition of owning a home; for
every normal man aspires to own his
own fireside. Homes bring contentment,
and contentment better Work's
men, whose minds are on their tasks.
And when he owns his home he becomes
interested in his town, the tax
rate, the public improvements, the
paving, lighting and sewer problems
of the community. As a rent payer,
he has no interest in these things.
Once he becomes interested in these
things he becomes e better citizen?
a real asset to his town. The man
who has a bank account is able to
stay with a concern over a dull peV
riod and live on reduced wages if
need be, while the one without must
seek other employment and often
take what he can get. According to
statistics, 9S per cent of the wage
earners spend every cent of their
earnings, and appreciating how
wasteful and costly this tendency is
some employers are now forming
savings clubs of various sorts to
make it easy as well as profitable for
their men to save money.
If, as an employer, you were in
need of a man and had two applicants,
one of whom was "down and
rmt" and had nnthin? snvpd. and
the other could show you a savings
bank book with a weekly or monthly
deposit, however small, you would
without hesitation select the saver,
because you know he has the faculty
of self-control. The bank account
is evidence that he can live within
his means. He can deny himself.
-He can save.
Go into a bank and ask for a loan.
Show that you borrowed money before
and paid it as you agreed, it
may be but a dollar a week, and you
get the accommodation. Go into a
department store and ask for credit.
Show the credit man that you bought
a bill of goods, a piano, a victrola, a
house on installments, and kept your
payments promptly and up to the
minute, and you are immediately
rated a safe credit risk.
You never will appreciate how
much this thrift habit will do for you
until you try it out. You may be
careless, irresponsible, indifferent,
wasteful; but if you get the thrift
idea and practice it consistently, it;
will give you a thrift character which
is an asset to any man in any station
in life.
See our nice line of sample box paper.
Herald Book Store.
Mention was recently made in the
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The American Voice.
We must admit, although with
shame, that foreign observers in
the United States, and foreigners
who observe our tourists in Europe,
are right in declaring the American
voice to be the worst in the world.
Hearing it all the time, we Americans
do not notice how bad it is.
The chief offenders are not the
newsboys and other street criers,
who shout in our ears, but the common
run of people?men and wo
j men, boys and girls, of education
and social advantages, as well as
| those who lack both. We offend,
not in our loud talking only, but in
ordinary conversation. Our voices
are harsh, our tones nasal. It is
enough to state the fact. Anyone
can verify it whose ears can distinguish
between sounds that are
pleasant and musical and those that
are harsh and discordant.
It is easy to understand why an
English girl's voice is melodious
and rich, whereas that of an Ame'rican
girl is usually not so. Each acquires
in childhood the quality of
voice that she hears every day. Our
t-r?ir>oc aro \jL-hat thAv are because
they are like those of our fathers,
our mothers and our neighbors.
The fact points the way to the
remedy. If we wish to improve the
voices of Americans of the next
generation we must first train the
teachers, for some of the most offensively
sharp and penetrating
voices are those of "schoolma'am."
The work should be undertaken at
| once. It would be a good rule, if it
were practicable, for school boards
to refuse positions to all candidates
whose voices are disagreeably harsh
and nasal. Probably it is not prac[
ticable, for the double reason that
the ears of the members of school
boards are not sensitive enough to
apply the test, and that the number
of teachers required is greater than
the numebr of candidates who can
j meet the requirements.
| But our boards of education could
| examine and copy the system that
I is universal in Holland. In that
country every normal school has a
| specialist in voice hygienics. Each
j of the large cities aiso has an ex- j
I pert who gives free instruction to
j school teachers. The teachers, by
example and instruction, influence
the voices of their pupils. There are
| inspectors who examine the pupils
to discover defective and badly
trained voices, and to procure special
treatment for them. Moreover,'
there is a Dutch association for;
speech culture, which has a distinct;
influence in improving th * system
throughout the country.
Shakespeare wrote:
Her voice was
ever soft, gentle and icw, an excellent
thing in woman.
If it was true in his time, it is no
less true today, and not oniy of wo
man, but of men ana boys and girls.
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Netty Rankin in congress makes
1917 a most notable year. Now is
the time to subscribe for the Congressional
Record.?St. Louis PostDispatch.
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FREAK'S FROM OCEAN'S DEPTHS.
Fish That Sail and Some That Carry
Incandescent Lights.
Aboard the U. S. S. Albatross, off
Mexico Coast.?Did you know that
certain kinds of deep-sea fish carry
their own incandescent lamps to light
their way through the blinding black-;
ness several miles below the surface j
of the sea?
Did you know also that a certain j
species of fish 'carries its own fish j
pole with which to lure its bait?that j
in some cases this pole is a jointed
rod which folds up conveniently
when not in use?
Were you aware that a particular
sort of jellyfish, sometimes called a
. "Portuguese man o' war," is equipped
by Mother Nature with a sail
which it hoists when it wants to get
somewhere in a hurry?
And still another variety inflates
itself with water and goes sailing
merrily along with the tide much as
a toy balloon would travel in the
air.
These are only a few of the queer
inhabitants of the ocean which have
been discovered by the Albatross, the
United States bureau of fisheries
steamer.
"Perhaps the commonest of all
forms of water life is what the scien
: tists call diatoms," Naturalist E. C.
! Johnston, in charge of the scientific
; work aboard the Albatross, says.
! "The diatom is the jewel of the plant
kingdom. It is sometimes called the
'pillbox of the ocean,' because of its
; peculiar construction, being built in
| two halves, or valves, which fit toi
gether like a pillbox.
"The skeleton of the diatom," ex!
plains Naturalist Johnston, "is made
j of glass."
The majority of diatoms are boatI
shaped, but they travel with or
j against currents without oar, propelI
ler or sail. The secret of this erratic
j movement has completely baffled the
scientific world. Frequently theyj
j grow in a string like cluster, not unlike
a collapsible telephone bracket,
and the manner of how they extend
! and retract their strange family forI
motiftnc mn/>'h a f>o*r- fashirm r?f
! an accordian opening and closing, is
a mystery as yet ; unsolved.?Mark
Larkin, in the Atlanta Journal.
When Leather Gives Out.
For shoes what will come after
leather? Cloth of suitable kinds may
be used, and rubber or similar material
may enter into the product,
but manufacturers seem to look most
hopefully upon paper as the basic
substance. Paper leather of attractive
appearance, adapted for many
purposes as well as the natural leather,
is, in fact, said to be satisfactorily
made already. In a German process,
paper of long fiber is converted into
pulp, suitably^ colored, made flexible
with glycerine and non-drying oils
and waterproof with shellac^olution,
^given the grain of morocco or other
leather b'y pressing in a matrix, and
finished with lacquer.ff The matrix is
formed by taking an impression of
the natural leather in shellac.
Read the Herald; "$1.50 per year.
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Potter Palmer's Two Engineers.
I know a good story about Potter
Palmer which has never yet been
published. One day Mr. Palmer went
down into the engine room of his
hotel, and, in sopie way got into a
dispute with the engineer. Mr. Palmer
ended the matter by telling his"
employe to go to the office and get
his salary and get out.
Now, this engineer had been in
Mr. Palmer's employ 15 years, and
knew every pipe, wire and rope in
the big hotel. The manager of the
l ouse, who by the way, is now a St.
t l?>nrtlr?rrt was ^rpatlv rmt out
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when the faithful employe told him
that the "old man" had "fired" him.
"Jim," said the manager, "I don't
want you to go. We would be in
trouble for months if a new man
took your place. I'll tell you what
you do. Go and shave off that
mighty beard you wear, dress up in
your Sunday clothes, and go and
strike the 'old man' for your old
job."
An hour later Mr. Palmer was approached
by a smooth-faced, neatly
dressed man, who courteously inquired
if he needed the service of a
first-class engineer.
"That's just what I do," was Mr.
Palmer's reply. "The man I've had
has been discharged. He had been a
long time in the place, but he got
'sassy.' As your papers are all right,
you can try the place."
That happened years ago; but Jim
still holds the fort. Mr. Palmer has
never regretted that he "fired" that
"poffv Tim" and ViiroH in hie nlar>p
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the gentlemanly, smooth-faced man
who keeps everything in such perfect
running order.?Globe-Democrat.
The Accordion and Cinema.
Maite Edmond B., pleading before
the Correction Chamber of Appeals in
a case where the culprit was a boy
! 16 years old, said: "Before the Cinema
my client passed all his evenings
at home, playing assiduously on the
accordion. Since then he has attended
many cinematograph representa.
tions. He dreamed to realize the
crimes that there passed under his
eyes. So to rob some wine merchants
he procured masques, revolvers,
knives, handkerchiefs to bind his victims,
rubber gloves that he might not
leave his finger prints on the objects
he touched. This outfit of the burglar
became the vade mecum of this
boy who before the cinema played i
most faithfully, each evening at j
home on the accordion." The gamin !
of sixteen was condemned to four !
years in prison.?Le Cri de Paris.
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National Thrift Is the Slogan
of the Day.
STATISTICS show that the country today is prosperous.
Bank deposits have increased. Statisticians agree, however,
that a period of depression is possible after the European
war. Wise people are preparing by adding to
their bank balances. . Are you ? If you haven't a bank account,
open one today. If you have a bank balance, make up your mind
to add to it. See us about your banking.
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