The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 24, 1918, Page 4, Image 4
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tRje panther5 Heralb
J ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Thursday, January 24, 1918.
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The hardships caused by the war j
are being felt; and it is our opinion
that they have just started. We
think people may as well prepare
themselves for further sacrifices. The
war may close soon, though we can
see no eal reason for its doing so.
To be on the safe side the people had I
better make up their minds as to
what is coming. With war not yet
actually begun on the part of#America,
and preparations for war not yet
fairly under way, it may be assumed
what conditions are going to be later
on. We are not pessimistic at all,
but facts may as well be faced. There
is no reason to believe that America
will not be in a state of war for!
> months?maybe years?to come. j
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The fuel administration's order
- not allowing any industrial plants to
* operate for five days from Friday to
Tuesday, both inclusive, hit The Herald
plant pretty hard, but we are not
complaining. If the order will do
anything' toward relieving the fuel
situation, we will feel amply repaid.
Inasmuch as our current is generated
during the daytime at the cotton mill,
which was closed down, our plant
could not operate even on newspaper
work. Under the order all printing
dnwn hilt
eStaUll&UULiCUlO ?C4V vivsvu VI" ? ,
were allowed to publish newspapers.
As we had no current with which to
operate the linotype and were forbidden
to do job work, it pretty well put
ns out of business. Monday was a
holiday with everybody, pretty well,
in town, and the spirit as well as the
letter of the order was apparently
kept.
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Not many job printing offices in
small towns have the privilege of filling
orders for printing from a disv
tance of 825 miles. The .Herald has
received such an order from a gentleman
who formerly lived in Bam'
i berg. He now resides in the Middle
West. Naturally, while a resident
of Bamberg, he knew of the excelr
\7- ;
lent quality of job work executed by
this office, and availed himself of the
opportunity of having his printing
done here instead of sending it to any
. of the large cities, inasmuch as he
received the same quality of work at
' / home. A few days ago, his supply of
stationery running low, he fired an
>y v order in to The Herald for "the best
,thing you have in stock." The Herald
keeps in stock some of the finest
paper known to the trade for just
such discriminating customers, so
this former Bambergian will soon
Ifr . again be stocked with stationery
"made in Bamberg."
1TSWA1X WINS ON 2nd BALLOT.
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?>... Chosen to Preside Over State Department
of Insurance.
f Columbia, Jan. 17.?W. A. Mc'*
Swain, an insurance man of New/'
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berry, was elected State insurance
commissioner 'to succeed the incumbent,
F. H. McMaster, of Columbia,
who did not offer for reelection, on
the first ballot this morning. Mr.
I McSwain received 100 votes.
The new insurance commissioner
is a native of Cross Hill, Laurens
county, being born there 47 years
ago. He moved to Newberry 18 or
19 years ago, and has resided there
: since. He began his business career
as a bookkeeper, after going into the
insurance business. He is now vice
president and manager of the Security
Loan and Investment Company of
Newberry. He is trustee of the Newberry
city schools, the only political
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ouice ne xxas evei xxe:u. nc x? a
brother of Capt. John J. McSwain,
of Greenville, and is married.
When the joint assembly convened
today the names of Sam M. Grist, of
York, and W. A. Barton, of Greenville,
were withdrawn from the race
by their sponsors.
The vote today, which was the initial
one this afternoon and the second
of the race, as one was held yesterday,
was as follows: McSwain,
100; J. R. Fulmer, of Columbia, 12;
Harry G. Cooker, of Darlington, 19;
and S. L. Miller, of Columbia, 2. F
M. Phillippi, of Columbia, did not re/ceive
a vote.
Trustees Elected.
Col. August Kohn, of Columbia:
and Dr. W. T. C. Bates, of Columbia,
were reelected trustees of the University
of South Carolina. B. A. Hagood,
of Charleston, was elected trus
tee of the same institution to succeed
James Q. Davis, of Columbia
who .declined to enter the race because
of the feeble state of his-health
as announced by Senior Kitchen
of Fairfield. The university wanted
a trustee from Charleston, which is
not now represented on the board
and Mr. Hagood was largely th*
choice of the Charleston delegation
Dr. T. A. Crawford and W. J. Roddey,
both of Rock Hill, were reelected
to the board of trustees of Winthroi
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college, and D. S. Henderson, of J
Aiken, was chosen to succeed the
late Dr. E. S. Joynes, professor emeritus
of the University of South Carolina.
There were two vacancies on the
board of the Citadel, the terms oi
Col. D. A. Spivey, of Conway, and
Col. E. M. Blythe, of Greenville, having
expired, and there were four
nominations, the incumbents and the
Rev. A. N. Brunson, of Columbia,
and Senator J. G. Padgett, of Colleton.
There was only one election on
the first ballot, that of Senator Spivey,
who received 95 votes out or a
total of 132. The votes for the other
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nominees weie. i au^i,.., ?
son, 57; and Blythe, 53-.
Judge Ernest Moore, of Lancaster,
was reelected yesterday judge of the
sixth judicial circuit, Judge Frank
B. Gary, of Abbeville, of the eighth
judicial circuit, and Judge Thomas
J. Mauldin, of Pickens, of the Thirteenth
judicial circuit. None of the
judges had opposition.
Statement by Mr. Wyman.
To the Editor: A news item from
Bamberg, S. C., appearing in "The
State" newspaper on Jan. 23, 1918,
contains the paragraph quoted below
relative to a car of coal received by
the toWn of Bamberg: "The car was
diverted here by State Fuel Aministrator
B. B. Gossett, who had previously
given permission to do so to
J. A. Wyman, Bamberg county chairman
of the fuel administration, but
Mr. Wyman did not care to exercise
that authority and consequently Mr.
Gossett himself came to the relief of
Bamberg, which is greatly appreciated
here."
This seems to be an attempt to
create the impression that as chairman
of the fuel committee for Bamberg
county I have refused and neglegted
to provide coal for our citizens
when it lay within my power to
do so, and for that reason I wish to
make the following statement:
I have authority to divert only
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SUCH cars ui cum AO ilia; uo tTAbUAM
the county. There has been no car
within the county to divert. Mr.
Gossett has authority to divert coal
from any point within* the State to
any other point within the State, and
he is the only one clothed with this
authority. Mr. Gossett therefore at
my request promised to divert a car
of coal to Bamberg. I made this
request on Jan. 15th at Anderson, S.
C., personally to Mr. Gossett, who at
that time stated that he would not
divert a car of coal to us until other
cities more in need had been supplied,
as he felt that there was no
actual suffering among our citizens.
Certainly our situation was not as
serious as in other cities. He stated
that as soon as possible he would
send us a car of coal. I did not expect
a car for some time, but the recent
order curtailing industrial activities
evidently gave Mr. Gossett
an opportunity to supply other needy
cities and Bamberg also at an ealier
date than had been anticipated.
Therefore in accordance with my're
A-j a._ n.
quest tne coai was aivertea tu oauiberg.
I do not want the citizens of my
county to think that I have been unmindful
of their interests or that I
have failed to do my duty as I saw it.
I have given my time, without compensation,
gladly and willingly when
called upon by the government, first
as chairman of the fuel committee,
. and then as chairman of the legal
. advisory board, and in pursuance of
the duties devolving upon me I have
given the major portion of my time
since December 1st,, last, to public
, affairs, and only last week I went in
person to see Mr. Gossett relative
to coal for our county needs. It was
on account of my efforts that the car
of coal was sent to the town of Bamberg,
and I have been assured by
Mr. Gossett that the citizens of Den;
mark, the industries of Bamberg and
Denmark, and the Carlisle school, as
well as the town of Bamberg would
have coal as soon as possible.
Mr. Gossett informed me of the
diversion of this car of coal for Bamberg,
and I arranged with the town
authorities for its distribution. I am
' very happy to think that mv efforts
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relieved 10 some exiem. uiie uumcam;
needs for fuel of our citizens.
(Signed) J. A. WYMAN.
Chairman Fuel Committee for Bamberg
County.
, Liars!
"Horses!" said the Yankee.
"Gess you can't talk to me about
horses. I once had an old mare that
licked the fastest express on a thirty,
five-mile run."
"That's nothing!" said theCanuck.
, "I was out about fifty miles from my
, house on my farm one day when a
I frightful storm came up. I turned
5 the pony's head for home and, do
, you know, he raced the storm so
i close for the last ten miles that I
. didn't feel a drop, while my dog,
- only ten yards behind, had to swim
I the whole distance."?Jack-o'-Lan>
tern.
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DUPES OF DRUGS.
New York Investigation Develops
Horrible Revelations.
What an insidious and terrible
thing is the drug habit has been
demonstrated in the investigation
now being conducted in New York.
A score of fashionably dressed women,
several of them heavy veiled,
voluntarily appeared before the investigating
committee appointed by
the authority of the New York legislature
and confessed that they were
oririiVfQ flfklina that they had
U' "to , w been
bled by unscrupulous physicians
and imposed upon in sanitariums
where they were not cured. A half
dozen men were on the witness
stand, one, a mere boy, the others
in the prime of life. One nattilydressed
business man of about fiftyfive
years of age left the investigation
hurriedly, explaining that he
had to go home and administer the
drug he craved.
One woman whose fingers were
encircled with rings, said that she
was forty years old, but that she
felt as if she had "lived a century."
She has been taking morphine for
ten years, following an oper&tion
after which she was given the drug
for ten weeks. She has tried "stylish
sanitariums" and been " pronounced
cured, but the "old cravings"
always have come back until she
would "suffer the tortures of the
damned" and beg for narcotics. At
?TI-O o tnlrl that
UlifcJ Silil 1 ld.1 1U 111 sue TTU.O I.u>u -
she would be cured in two or three
weeks, but no help was derived.
Another witness, a young, handsome
and apparently normal woman,
said that a few years ago her father
broke his leg. The physician to ally
J the pain administered narcotics. The
daughter broke down from nursing
him and was accorded like treatment.
The mother then acted as nurse,
broke down, and was given "dope."
Father, mother and daughter today
are addicts and have wasted a fortune
of $100,000 in vain Quest of a cure.
A professional woman "well known to
the public" prefaced her story with
a plea for "a civic and humanitarian
endeavor" to help the "persecuted
victims" of what she considered a
"definite disease." Narcotics administered
by physicians after a
delicate operation brought her into
"slavery." That was in 1903. Two
years later she was told that she was
well. In 1912 she became ill and a
hotel physician was called in. He
suggested a hypodermic. She remonstated,
telling him that she had been
an addict. He said that there was
no narcotic in the drug he gave her.
Nine weeks after she discovered that
she had been deceived. She developed
all the symptons of the morphine
slave. She was told that the same
physician "had made addicts of
scores of men and women." She
went back.to New York "after three
years of unutterable torment." After
remaining in a hospital several
months she came forth "a free woman,
once again." Another woman,
"elderly to the point of feebleness"
said she had been taking morphine
since 1889, averaging from 8 to 10
grains per day. "Have to take that
much to feel normal you know," she
said. Once she was quite wealthy,
but it has all gone to the doctors
and for the drug. She is practically
penniless now. The last doctor
she went to, when he found she had
no money, took her diamond rings.
The National Committee for the
Study and Relief of Drug Addicts
says that narcotics play a great part
in recruiting young girls for white
slavery and in keeping them there.
It declares that "this relation has
not been at all appreciated. The
inevitable and intolerable torment
which follows denial of narcotic
drugs to one who has developed the
disease of narcotic addiction easily
Decomes a weapon ui uuciuuu emu.
bondage."
George Weston, once a movie producer
of note, testified that in 1914
he fell 160 feet in an airplane, breakings
legs, arms and nose. Morphine
was given him and in two months
he was an addict. He went from
hospital to hospital in search of a
cure, spending thousands in the effort.
He went to the top of Mount
Blanc in Switzerland, leaving all
drugs behind, intending to stick it
out there until he had mastered his
desire, but failed. The next morning
he chartered a special train to
take him down the mountain. When
he came to this country he finally
found a disreputable physician who
wrote him five-grain prescriptions
for $5 each. He got in with a gang
of drug fiends of the most criminal
type from whom he bought an eighth
of an ounce of morphine for $26.
Thieves would bring him booty to
exchange for the drug. He then
went to a State institution in Ohio
where he was nearly killed, o-nce
being chained to the wall. He obtained
the drug from one of his
keepers at last. He got himself
sentenced to a chain-gang in Florida
to work out his salvation, but
couldn't stand the strain. A little
Birthday of Robert E. Lee.
Georgia has honored the memory
of General Robert E. Lee by making
the 19th of January, his birthday, a
legal holiday. Though its observance
is confined to the banks and a few
public institutions, and Confederate
memorial organizations, this action
stands in the statutes of the state as
as a lasting memorial to perpetuate
his memory in succeeding generations.
Where ever there is a student
of warcraft and of battles, the memory
of General Lee is assured. An
honor-graduate of West Point, the
descendant of Revolutionary heroes, a
soldier by training and inheritance;
already distinguished by his military
achievements before the outbreak of
the War Between the States, he became
in that four years struggle not
only the commander in chief of the
Confederate armies, but one of the
world's greatest generals. He was
not only great in military leadership,
but great in character. When the
war closed, and he received offers of
princely salaries to link his name
with commercial enterprises, he
waived them all aside to devote the
remainder of his life to the instruction
of young men at Washington &
Lee University. His well known
utterance, "The sublimest word in
the English language is duty," was
the keynote to his character and his
daily life.
His was a personality too conspicuous,
a career too great and a
character too noble to belong to any
section, and his memory is enshrined
in the hall of fame of the nation.
The other day in Liouisvnie, ivy.
Dr. W. W. Landrum, well rememberer
as a former pastor of the First
Baptist church in Augusta, delivered
an address to the Confederate veterans
in the auditorium of the public
library. His theme was "A Tribute
| to the Americanism of the Old
i South," and Dr. Landrum stated that
! it has been inspired by a visit to
Columbus, O., where over the enI
trance to a cemetery where 20,000
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Confederate soldiers are buried there
is inscribed the words: "These are
all Americans."
"January, the speaker observed, i
was especially a memorable month to
the Confederate veterans because in
this period they observe the birthdays
of both Lee and Jackspn and
commemorated the precious legacy of
undying fame each left the Southland.
"So long as wars of defense are
honorable; so long as self-sacrifice
impresses and loyalty inspires so long
will the memory of Lee and Jackson
be revered and the name of the ConJ
Ttrwif f nr\ Viiorll 1 n
I ItiUtJlclCe 5U1U1C13 uc milieu 111511 iu
the annals of fame."
Referring to the morale of the new
army Dr. Landrum drew an eloquent
picture of the old Southern home to
which he ascribed the credit for the
true spirit of the old South and the
foundation of its ideals?"where
religion was supreme, where men
were gentlemen and women ladies,
and where heredity and environment
gave birth to character and
courage." "As intensely American"
he said, "is the South today. With
a broader vision perhaps, but not
one whit less loyal to ideals and
traditions. The sons of the South
will do their duty in the war today.
'We shall win the war. America will
accomplish that stupendous result
and in the accomplishment there will
be glory enough for all; there will be
no dissension in giving a share of
the credit to the sons of those who
wore the gray."
As thp blue and the erav of the
sixties have merged in the khaki of
today, so the North and the South
have been fused into Americans in
this world-war, and with a common
heritage of valor and patriotism, and
the same lofty ideals of courage and
love of country, and the soldiers of
this great united nation can on this
anniversary of the birth of the heroic
leader, stand at attenton and sulute
the name of Robert E. Lee.?Augusta
Chronicle. ,
while ago he unsuccessfully tried
to kill himself.
Many other horrible stories were
related voluntarily.
The information and subtle growth
of drug habits is often derived
I from use of narcotics in regular
medical treatment, as the testimony
cited tends to show. It does not
suffice to declare the use of narcotics
a crime and to treat addicts as
vicious because the habit prevails
among a criminal element. The drug
habit is first of all disease. The
methods employed to check it should
be corrected, rather than punitive. If
it could be discovered to what extent
the habit is encouraged and developed
by physicians' prescriptions, it
would be possible to take remedial
action along that line by legislation
j restricting to a greater extent the
pathological use of morphine and
other habit-forming drugs. The
federal statutes on this subject have
effected a great deal in the way of
correction, yet it is evident that
much remains to be done.?Greenville
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Help the Operators Serve
You Better
Telephone subscribers are urged to call by
number and not by name. In a community
of this size the operators cannot possibly remember
the names of all subscribers; when
you call by name you delay your service and '
hamper its efficiency.
All telephones are known to the operators
by numbers which are on the switchboard directly
in front of them. The directory is your
index to the switchboard and should be consulted
before making a call.
Call by number and help the operator
serve you better. " v*jj
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I now have 33 parlor suits which I
am offering to my trade at a low;er
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J price than they can be bought at at a
^ the factory today at wholesale prices. V
This Contract was bought last fall
X before furniture as well as other ^ *;
^ merchandise commenced jumping in
?? price, and my contract holds good
X only for 33 more suits. These suits ^
^ are made up in 3 or 5 pieces, either X
?* fumed oak or mahogany, with mule ^
X skin upholstering on both seat and ^
<T back. I can furnish cuts and prices 4
upon request. If the goods are not ^
? exactly as represented or even better,
I will ask that you not take them out X
y of your depot, but return them to
^ me, and I'll pay freight both ways.
X Write for cuts and prices today be- jL '
, V fore it is too late. Freight paid on J
all out of town business.
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IF. K. GRAHAM |
" The Furniture Man." EHRHARDT, S. C. Cash or Credit ?*
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