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MORE DANGEROUS
TO WALK STREETS
NEARLY POUR THOUSAND PER- <
SONS KILLED IN 1920. J
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Increase is Noted. 1
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Census Bureau Says Automobile ;
Death Rate Gives Food for
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Serious Thought.
Washington Dec. 5.?A total of
3,808 persons wer? killed in auto- J
mobile accidents or died as a result
of injuries therefrom during last 1
year the census bureau announced to- 1
day, in a statement offering sugges- 1
tions for traffic improvement. An au- ]
tomabile accident death rate of 14.1 1
out of every 100,000 of persons were J
reported for the year 1919, an in- 1
crease over every year since 1915
when the rate was 8.0 and an increase 1
of 245 in the total number of deaths
over 1918.
"Each year it becomes more and (
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more dangerous for a person to walk
the streets," the bureau's statement
says. "The reason usually giv- '
en, and probably the correct one, is '
that the number of automobiles in
use is constantly increasing. How '
then, shall this ever increasing dan- i
ger be lessened. The. obvious remedy
is to improve constantly the traffic
regulations to keep pace with <
the ever increasing number of auto-'
biles."
Suggestions made by the bureau t
for traffic improvement follow:
* Erection at street crossings of 1
curbed safety isKnds, which, at the
most dangerous spots, should be very
close together.
Construction of additional cross- '
ings in the middle of blocks, where
automobiles can approach from only
two directions. *
Demonstration of great skill in'
driving each machine before granting
a driver's license for that ma- 1
chine. ]
Reduction of the speed limit, especially
at crossings.
Fine, revocation, of license and imprisonment,
each .to have its place as
an autual penalty.
Youngstown, Ohio, leads the list
of 66 cities in the automobile death
rate with 28.5 per 100,000, but showed
a decrease from the previous year
when the rat? was 31.9. Richmond,
Va., had the lowest rate with 5.9,
but showed a slight increase over
1918, when it was 5.4.
New York had the largest total
number of deaths with 780, an increase
of 89 over the previous year
* and more than double the number
in 1915. New York's automobile
death rate was 14.0 per 100,000 persons.
Chicago's total deaths numbered
328, an increase of 37, a death rate
of 12.3.
Statistics for other cities of 250,000
or more population follow:
Philadelphia, total 191, decrease
35, rate 10.6; Cleveland 126, decrease
42, rate 16; Pittsburg 94, decrease
11, rate 16.1; San Francisco 85, increase
11, rate 16.9; Kansas City 42,
decrease 22, rate 13.1; Denyer 41,
decrease 2, rate 16.1.
Statistics for southern cities include:
Atlanta 43, increase 23, rate 21.7;
Birmingham 21, decrease 2, rate 11.9;
Dallas 19, increase 6, rate 12.1;
Houston 14, increase 1, rate 10.3;
Louisville 19, decrease 9, rate 8.1;
Memphis 26, increase 7, rate 17.4;
Nashville 18, increase 4, rate 15.3;
New Orleans 30,, increase 8, rate ,
9.4; Norfolk 24, increase 11, rate c
21.1; Richmond 10, increase 1, rate ^
5.9; San Antonio 14, decrease 9, rate ^
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Nut Stuff.
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"Yes," said the mess sergeant.
"We'd have had a change from this j
everlasting slum diet if Washington
had let that cargo of walnuts come t
through. But they stopped it."
"Walnuts? Stopped it? What t
for?"
"Well, you see, buddy, they said i
there was danger of the shells ex- 6
plod'ing and striking the colonels." I
Unsurmoitntable Objection.
"Mama," cried little Willie. "Do
you think I'll ever grow any bigger?" j
"Yes, duckie, of course." ^
"Well, I'm hanged if I see how," (
retorted the bright infant. "My head t
is in the way."
By order of King George of England,
two captured German guns have been
placed in the grounds of Buck- i
ingham Palace. 1
FINGER PRINTS NOT SURE.
Great Identification System Scored by
ExPerts, Tests Being Made.
Officials of the International Association
for personal identification in
New cork, an organization havintg for
its object the "finger printing" of every
man, woman and child in the United
States and Canada, have started
an inquiry into the charge made by
Milton Carlson, a Los Angeles handwriting
expert, that finger prints can
be forged.
Carlson says he "forged" the finder
prints of a convicted murderer
in New Jersey in human blood on a
butcher knife, making a perfect
thumb impression of a man 3,000
miles away. Experts, it is said, pronounced
it perfect. So far as known
the Californian is the first man to
innounce successful duplication of
Bnger prints used for the past 1,000
years as an Mailable means of identification.
Forged finger prints are possible,
but ineffective, it is said by officials
Df the association. "A criminal," said
th6 secretary of the association,
'would have one chance of success in
i million in fastening a crime upon
an innocent person by means of a
forged finger print. Our researches
show that in every case of a reproduced
'print' the lines are palpably
false. They show up under a strong
magnifying glass like a rubber stamp
?r wood engraving and not like the
Driginal finger lines, which, .by reason
of perspiration and oil, are clear
ind sharply defined.
"Handwriting experts may attempt
:o discredit finger prints because
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Liieir use ueiracts uuiii ixxeii uusmess
3ut the fact remains that human
seals,' as the finger prints are called,
ire an unfallable test so far as identity
is concerned. They have practically
superceded the Bertillon system
in New York state, but, antil the
[aw is changed the Bertillon must be
used in the penitentiaries. When
the lines are blurred, as often happens,
a finger print is worthless, but
if they are clear it is infallable evidence.
It has been shown that if the
Snger ridges were shaved off or sandpapered
they came back.
"It is popularly supposed that finder
prints usually are only shown in
blood. The fact is that you leave a
anger print upon everything >ou
:ouch. It is quite invisible to the
aaked eye. The expert, however, will
take a bit of powder?a dark powder
pn a light surface or a light powder
pn a dark surface?and will quickly
develop' the print. The powders usPd
are lampblack, graphite, cinnebar,
red and mercurious sulphide and dragon's
blood.
"Nature has carved on our fingers
;hese 'seals' and they should be put
;o civilian as well as police use. Unloubtedly
they have been the means
pf detecting thousands of criminals.
Hundreds of individuals who come to
\Tew York and are swallowed up in
:his great city, their bodies finally
anding in tne moirgue, mignt neverbe
buried in the potter's field if we
lad a national finger print registry
civilians."
The New York finger print organization
officials say that despite Mr.
Carlson's charge genuine finger prints
ire an invaluable aid to identify vic:ims
of train wrecks or other disasters,
and for ascertaining the identi:y
of persons who have temporarily
lost' themselves.
Literally Speaking.
A patriotic Scotsman was present
it a meeting at which an eminent
Shakespearean scholar dwelt on the
virtues of his favorite author. . At
:he close of the lecture the Scot approached
the lecturer and said:
"Ye think a fine lot of Shakespeare,
doctor?"
"I do, sir," was the emphatic reMy.
"A' ye think he was mair clever
ban RnhhiA "Rurns?"
"Why, there is no comparison be;ween
them."
"Maybe no, but ye tell us the nicht
t was Shakespeare who wrote 'Unjasy
lies the head that wears a croon,
s'ow, Rabbie would never hae writen
sic nonsense as that."
"Nonsense, sir!" cried the indigiant
doctor. i
"Ay, just nonsense. Rabbie would j
lae kent that a king, or a queen ei;her,
disna gang to bed wi' the croon
)n his head. He wad hang it ower
,h' back o' a chair."
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"There will be no meeting of the F.
VI. Bambeitg chapter, U. D. ., this
nonths on account of the Christmas
*ush.
MOVE BY
TO ASS.
Inquiry Begun Into Situation
ture With View to Sendi
ington to Urge Leg
Conhribute
Harrisburg, Pa., I>ec. 1.?Governors
and governors-elect, representing
more than half the states of the union,
voted at their annual conference
here today to begin an inquiry into
what was variously called "acute,"
alarming" and "tragic" situation facing
farmers of the country with a
view to recommending federal legislation
to assist them.
As a first step toward carrying out
their plan, which was suggested by
Gov. \V. L. Harding, of Iowa, the conference
appointed a committee, consisting
of Governors'Harding, Bickett,
of North Carolina, Holcomto, of
Connecticut; Parker, of Louisiana,
and Goodrich, of Indiana, to make
a preliminary survey and report back
before the convention adjourned. After
that it is contemplated to send
the committee to Washington-to urge
legislation before congress which convenes
this month.
The object of the state executives
which is said to be without parallel
in the history of American government
is for the organization of governors
to. suggest to congress and actively
advocate passage of legislation
necessary to refund the debts of farmers
who are pinched by falling markets
with heavy stocks of surplus products
on hand, so as to give them a
year or more to recoup losses and wait
for a strengthening market. It is supposed
to do this through extension of
adoption of the federal reserve system.
Foreign Made Plan.
A second proposal, also scheduled
to receive consideration by the committee,
is another by Governor Hardong
that a foreign.trade corporation
be formed to finance purchases of
American farm products by foreign
countries unable, through present
lack of funds to come into the American
market.
Acting on Governor Harding's suggestion
Governor Bickett introduced
a ' resolution providing for appointment
of the committee to act under
instructions of the conference and
take the propositions up with congress
direct. This motion received
second and was about to be voted on
when it was objected to, that the constitution
of the governor' conference
forbade formal resolutions or action
of the sort. At this, Governor Sproul
of Pennsylvania, pointed out that no
such formal action was necessary and
at the call of Governor Bamberger, of
Utah, who presided, a vote was taken
on the suggestion to appoint the committee
informally. Approbation of
the governors was overwhelming.
One voice,, that of Governor Edwards,
of New Jersey, was raised in
objection. The eastern executive, who
is a banker, said he thought federal
legislation, such as is contemplated
by hs colleagues, would be "economically
wrong." Conditions should be
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leit to adjust tnemsexves, ne ueciai-j
SOON TO RETUR
MAL BASIS Fl
Washington, Dec. 5.?The dose of
the business year of 1920 is described
by the federal reserve board in a
statement tonight as the turning
point in the transition from war produced
conditions to the normal economic
basis of industrial life.
The reserve board's statement
which reviews the economic and financial
situation confronting the nation
during the year, treats of present
conditions generally in an optimistic
manner, declaring that the
difficulty of transition will not be
much further aggravated. It also asserts
that owing to the nation's
strong banking structure, a normal
situation will be restored with far
less than the usual distress usually i
attendant on periods of readjustment.
The board declares that previous
periods of marked readjustment have
been accompanied by sharp reduction
in prices, heavy decreases in production,
extensive unemployment and
business reaction, often involving
bank failures. While necessarily urncomfortable,
the transition through
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PERNORS
1ST FARMERS
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i Facing Workers in Agriculng
Committee to Washfislation
That Will
to Relief.
ed. .
Apprehension regarding agricultur
al and industrial conditions throughout
the country characterized most of
the expressions by speakers today.
Several states, represented by the
chief executives or governors-elect, 1
were reported in a condition verging
on the extremely critical, while
spokesmen for most of the others assented
to the general proposition that
there is a genuine cause for alarm in
the outlook.
Menace to Existence.
Conditions in Iowa, Governor Harding
said, menace the very existence
of the agricultural industry. He urged
on every state offical the necessity
of emergency legislation to protect
farmers from impending ruin.
Few people, he said, realize the extent
to which they are dependent upon*
the farmers. Most cities, he declared,
"are within 48 hours of starvation."
The farmers, he warned,
are facing conditions under which
they will be unable to supply cities
with the necessities of life.
Production of foodstuffs will positively
cease in the Mississippi valley
within the next two years if better
conditions are not quickly brought
about, Governor J. B. A. Robertson,
of Oklahoma, told the conference
when he was introduced at a lunchen
tendered the visitors by the Har
risburg chamber of commerce.
Governor Robetson told of huge
supplies of grains and foodstuffs as
well as -cotton- which, he said, have
crowded warehouses in) the southwest
following bumper crops which
could not be moved from their points
of origin when prices were still high
on account of the car shortage, while
present prices received for the commodities
are not sufficient to pay expenses
of production and transportation
to markets.
Cooper Adds Word.
The same fears were echoed by
Gov. J. H. Bartlett, of New Hampshire,
and Governor R. A. Cooper, of
South Carolina, who added that his
misgivings extended into other fields
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of necessary production as well.
Governor Cooper emphasized the ;
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meed to preserve the morale of the
country in facing the difficult situation
growing out of disproportionate
relations exisiting between supply and
demand complicated by labor and
transportation conditions.
He said necessary readjustments
can not take place without casualties,
adding that it was foolhardy to i
could be weathered "without some '
bankruptcies."
Other activities of the conference
today included, a discussion of the
Kansas court of industrial relations
by Governor Allen, of Kansas, and a
dinner tonight at the executive mansion
as the guests of Governor and
Mrs. Sproul.
N TO NOR IOM
WAR TIMES
which the country was passing the board
asserts, has thus far been attended
with only a minimum of these
unfavorable symptoms.
The fiscal situation, both at home
and a*broad, however, is still uncer- .
tain, the board declares. This is
held to be due to the late date at
which the war was over in the fi
nancial sense and to uncertainty as to
think the present economic storms
the best methods of taxation.
In international trade a return to
normal conditions is not in progress,
the board says. With the exception
of agriculture in which the output
was the largest on record, production
has been decreasing since the spring
of the year, the board says. Textiles,
ship building and very recently ,
the iron and steel industries are said <
to have exhibited tendencies of this 1
nature.
The board describes the tendency s
in the retail trades as downward, the j
lessened activity occurring for the* 1
most part considerably later than the <
BIG FIRE IN ORANGEBURG.
Thousand Bales of Cotton Go up in
Smoke.?$75,000 Loss.
Orangeburg, Dec. 8.?One of the
most spectacular and destructive fires
seen in Orangeburg in many a day
consumed the large cotton storage
warehouse of the Farmers Marketing
association located on South' Railroad
avenue early this morning at a <
loss of around $75,000. Flames of
undetermined origin were discovered
in the structure aibout 12:45 and an
alarm wa9 turned in. Firemen of
the city stations at once responded
and upon arrival found the building
a mass of fire. At 3:30 this morning
the firemen were yet on the scene to
prevent the smoldering debris from
igniting surrounding structures. The
oss is amply covered by insurance, according
to the manager of the association.
\ One thousand bales of cotton
were involved in the fire.
Neither the manager nor other officials
were able to give any theory
as to the origin of the fire. The
building was absolutely fireproof and
had not been opened since early last
month. Its construction and distance
from the railroads tracks made its
ignition from sparks but of the question.
Among certain spectators this
morning was advanced the belief that
the destruction of the storage plant
and contents was the work of incendiarism.
No clue along this line had
been developed early this morning.
The Official Vote in S. C.
The following is the official vote
cast in the general election on Nov.
2, for Cox and Harding:
Ins. Reg.
Dem. Rep. Rep.
Abbeville 868 13
Aiken 1,649 13 51
Allendale 440 " 11
Anderson .-..2,489 33
Bamberg , 688
Barnwell 721 25 1
Beaufort 265 134 15
Berkeley 548 ^24
Calhoun 631 7 *34
Charleston 2,929 . 19 354
Cherokee 1,771 24 24
Chester, 1,^37 22
Chesterfield fe,066 14
Clarendon .... ..' 902
Colleton 990 15
Daiiimgton 1,262 18
Dillon 1,003 5
Dorchester 874 2 58
Edgefield 976
Fairfield 737 15
Florence 1,763 79
Georgetown 245 16 22
Greenville 4,409 20 124
Greenwood 1,568 15
Hampton 623
Horry 1,709 2 47
Jasper 219
Kershaw 1,156 42
Lancaster 1,633 10
Laurens 2,263 4 31
Lee 734 18
Lexington 1,813 59
Marion 808 1
Marlboro 1 960 5
McCormick 557
Newtberry 2,015 5 28
Oconee 1,249 8 62
Orangeburg 2,526 32 252
Pickens 955 13 50
Richland 2,434 295
Saluda 1,111 3
Spartanburg 4,584 26 156
Sumter 1,150 26 185
Union 2,162 12 4
Williamsburg. 895 12
York 1,582 35
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Totals 63,490 366 2,266
Oil Wells Found.
Oil wells with considerable quantities
of oil have been uncovered in
Formosa. ]
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More than 7,195 Canadian soldiers j
have settled on grants of 1,726,000
acres of free land throughout the Dominion.
The next convention of the Ameri- 1
can legion will be held in Kansas
City, Mo., October 31, November 1 i
and 2, 1921.
'Supply of box files just received 1
at Herald Book Store.
turning point in production. J
The slowing down of the export
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trade of the United States during the
year is attributed to the exchange situation,
which, it asserts, has steadily
deteriorated. America's export seems
to be closely conditioned upon the
volume of imports, the board s^ys,
and warrants the inference that there
should be a larger movement of goods
into the United States as a result of
the extensive credits granted foreign
countries.
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MOVE TO REVIVE
FINANCE BOARD
ACTION BY CONGRESS SOUGHT
IMMEDIATELY.
Byrnes in Fight.
South Carolina Representative Will
Introduce Resolution in Lower
House This Week.
Washington, Dec. 4.?^First steps
toward remedial legislation for farmer!
at the coming session of congress
will take the form of a concurrent
resolution directing restoration of the
war finance corporation. This was
made clear today in a statement toy
Senators Harrison, of Mississippi, and
Heflin, of Alabama, and Representative
Byrnes, of South Carolina.
The necessity for action by the
president would be avoided, it was
continued, by making the resolution
concurrent in form and it would become
effective on adoption. .
"We intend during the first week
of the coming session of congress/'
declared Senator Harris, "to pass a
resolution directing the secretary of
the treasury to revive the war finance
corporation so that our agricultural
poducts may be marketable."
"The south and west have votes
enough in the house and senate to
pass such a measure next week,"
Senator Heflin said. "The conference
of the southern senator's yesterday
and the joint meeting of the
house and senate committee on agriculture
wrhich brought together representatives
and senators from the
south and west in my judgment will
speedily result in action by congress
in granting the necessary relief.
"Sufficient sentiment has been created
during the week," Senator Harrison
said, "to impress upon those in
authority that it is necessary that
some immediate action be taken to re- )
Iieve the critical situation."
The agricultural committee today
heard Governor McKelvie, of NebrasV
ka, tell of the situation in his state.
They will meet again Monday morning
to hear any more interests desiring
to present views and then formulate
recommendations which are
expected to include proposals for
methods of procedure to be followed
in both houses.
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Washington, Dec. 4.?Resolutions
proposing the immediate reestablishment
of the war finance corporation
will be introduced in the senate and
house upon the convening of congress
Monday, Represntative Byrnes,
of South Carolina, will offer the mea
sure m tne nouse ana senator uaider,
of New York, will present it in.
the senate.
Representative Barnes, who has
been attending the hearings before
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the senate and house agricultural
committees, said today he was convinced
that the reestablishment ot
the corporation was the most feasible
plani of aiding the farmers in the
present period of depressed prices
for their products.
Proponents of the resolution in the
senate said th|y believed they had
enough votes to insure passage of the
resolution.
Governor McKelvie, of Nebraska,
presented at the joint committee
hearing today the resolutions dealing
with the agricultural situation adopted
at the governors' conference.
Asked if the states planned any
assistance for the farmers, Governor
McKelvie said he proposed recommending
to the legislature of his
state some system of land loans
through long time credits. The gov
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ernurs generally, uc saiu, ich iuat
in the present situation congress must
act as the conditions were national In.
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Carolinians Win Case.
Atlanta, Dec. 1.?A. B. Powers,
charged with larceny after trust in
connection with an alleged horse race
swindling game here, was found guilty
by a jury this afternoon and sentenced
to five years imprisonment.
The principal witnesses in the case
were Wade Lamar and H. C. Holley,
Df Aiken, S. C., who testified that they
fvere swindled out of $11,000 by Pow
ers.
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Best-Sandifer.
Allendale Nov. 27?Mrs. C. E. Best*
of Allendale, announces the marriage
of her daughter, Clyde Serene Best,
to Otis Pinckney Sandifer, cf Denmark,
Thursday, November 25.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Wendell White, of the First
Baptist church of Fairfax.
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