The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 18, 1921, Page 7, Image 7
I TO BUILD HIGHEST DAM.
Giant Structure Will Harness the Colorado
River.
{ The highest dam in the world, to
I join the states of Nevada and Arizona
K and harness turbulent waters of the
If Colorado river for extended irrigaF
tion in the southwest, is to be con-j
| structed in the near future by the j
' United States reclamation service.
The dam, according to the tentative
/ plans, would rise to the unprecedent
ed height of 500 or 600 feet in Boulder
canyon, where granite abutments
rise more than 1,000 feet above the
water surface. Engineers of the reclamation
service, afloat on barges,
are now boring for bedrock beneath.
A lake varying from 30 to 50 miles
in length would be backed up in the
Colorado and Virgin rivers; and in
\ this basin would be held in check for
irrigation the drainage from almost
the entire Colorado river basin, including
parts of six states.
The proposed structure would be
higher by far than the world's highest
dam at present?Arrowrock dam,
on the Boise river, Idaho, which rises
348 feet?and would top other famous
i
dams in the United States, among the
highest of which are:
Shoshone, on the Shoshone river,
Wyoming, 328 feet; Elephant Butte,
on the Rio Grande, New Mexico, 300
feet, and Roosevelt, on the Salt river,
Arizona, 290 feet.
Preliminary work on the Boulder
canyon project is being done under
* authority of congress, which appropriated
$20,000 for investigation. An
additional $75,000 was contributed
local irrigators. Engineers have located
a site and are making borings
for foundations. While these are incomplete,
bedrock has been located
at a number of points and the outlook
is favorable, according to Arthur P.
Davis, director reclamation service.
Interests from the irrigable region
are expecting to bring their problem
before congress at the present ses
sion, and through the committee on
irrigation seek government aid, it is
understood, but the exact nature of
their proposal, whether an out and
out appropriation, government loan,
or extension of credit has not been
announced.
So unmanageable has the river
been ia the past that it has often
changed its lower channel. Like a
huge elephant with body over seven
states it swung its trunk about
through the solf-silt delta, uncontrollable
at flood and destructive to
canals and levees.
So active did ihe trunk became in
1895 that it entered, the California
Development company's imperial canal,
running through part of Mexico
to the Imperial valley, and poured
1 the entire river inio tie Salton sink,
200 feet Deiow tne sea ievei. 11 aie
out the canal, enlarged the Salton
sink and formed a cataract which
| threatened to work its way back
through the soft lard, with great
damage. Only the activity of the
I Southern Pacific railway in building
9 a rtam arrncs thp widening mouth Of
the canal channel, after a hard fight
with the river, were able to swing the
channel back again to the Gulf of
California.
The Laguna dam, built in 1899,
joining Arizona and California, has
resisted flood water, but complaints
of broken levees, and later scant water
for the rapidly increasing area of
irrigated land, continue. Complications
with Mexico in the Imperial
canal add to the problem, and the entire
situation is pressing southwest
interests to action.
In addition to the Boulder dam
project, the Imperial Irrigation district
is pushing a plan to tap the Leguna
dam and build an ail-American
high line canal on a higher level, irrigate
more extensive acreage and
avoid Mexican relations.
The Boulder canyon dam project,
located below * the ~ Grand canyon
near Las Vegas, Nevada, where engineers
are now boring, is the most
advantageous position of any project-1
ed sites, according to the preliminary j
report made to congress by the re- i
clamation service. ' A dam there
"wrftiili? intar^am mnet nf fho rlrain
age of the Colorado river, and, therefore,
be a more complete solution of
the flood control problem," the report
says, "Such reservoir would also be
more valuable in the irrigation of
lands on the lower river on account
. of the great proximity to them, and
the consequent possibility of regulating
its flow more nearly in accordance
with the fluctuating needs. Incidentally
it would furnish a large amount
of power."
The irrigable lands of the lower
Colorado river as listed by the re- j
} clamation service comprise many val-j
i leys and projects, with a total of 1 .242,000
acres. They include Cottonwood
island, Mahave valley. Cheme
huevis valley, Parker project, Palo
Verde valley, Palo Verda mesa, Chucawalla
valley, Ciboia valley, Yuma
project, Imperial irrigation district
wm and these extensions of the Imperial
W valley; East Side mesa, Dos Palmas,
Coachello and West side.
SMOKING AMONG WOMEN.
In Spite of Denunciation the Practice [
Increases.
The shades of Sir Walter Raleigh j
and Queen Victoria should be -sum-'
moned to Washington and made to!
appear before congress, when Repre-j
sentative Johnson's bill against smok-j
ing by women comes up, remarks The
New York Tribune. Sir Walter at j
least migtit be able to throw some
light on the subject. Lytton Stratch-!
ery, in his Victoria recently published, j
says about smoking that so long asi
she lived the great queen "would not!
withdraw her anathema against it. j
Kings might protest; bishops and am-j
bassadors, invited to Windsor, might |
be reduced, in the privacy of their j
bedrooms, to lie full length on the j
floor and smoke up the chimney?:
the interdict continued."
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Victoria s eaict was uirecieu agamst,
men. But even in her day the habit,
had begun ^mong women. To Margaret
Asquith the master of Baliol
wrote: "The Symonds girls at Davos
told me that you smoked; at which I
am shocked, because it is not the!
manner of young ladies in England."
Smoking among women, if we may
judge from observation, appears to be
growing more common, though many
men who smoke themselves deplore
the fact. In spite of passionate denunciation
the practice develops. To
the assertion it does physical harm,
the pert answer is returned. "Who
would live forever?" Nevertheless it
may be predicted a reaction will come
? -A Al ? <vi AMnln rtV VvTT I
not Oil lUB sourt; ui muiaio, \ji uj
law, but because smoking is smelly
and dirty.
Lament of the Low Country.
By H. D. 0.
Clouds all dark, an' rain pours down;
Tobacco most ruined, an' corn all'
drowned;
Roads all ten feet deep in mud,
Bridges are gone from where they
stood.
? > J Jatt*
?rice OI COtlOIl gum uuwu cairn uaj ,
No money to buy western high priced
hay.
Mules most starved, an' money all
gone?
Sometimes wish I never was bom.
Cotton is puny; boll weevils fat,
Enough on each hill to fill my hat,
Dustin' with poison, but tain't no
> use
Don't hurt 'em no more than grass
hurts a goose.
Stock laws makin' the cattle all thin,
Ain't got no pasture to keep 'em in,
An' th' price of meat is low as mud,
But the cost of wire is where it stood,
A 1 1 1 ~ ^ J * V? /V VTAAW Krtf AT?n
-ri.il lasi year auu cue ;cai
Never in reach of the farmer poor?
Wish I could borrow a dollar or two,
But the bank's most busted, and <th'
cashier's blue,
He told me, when I asked for a loan,
To quit high livin' and eat corn pone;
Twarn't no use for me to git mad,
But the kids are hungry and th'
missis sad.
Taxes goin' up to the moon,
Sheriff will sell us out soon;
Mortgage is long past overdue,
Interest pilin' up, while the water
does, too.
'Sows won't farrow, and pigs all
dead?
Cheer up, Pal, worse times ahead.
Business everywhere not worth a
damn;
Everybody's credit fell down with a
slam;
But the clouds keep spillin' in spite
o' prayer?
We'll, all be drowned by the end of
year.
Might drink poison, but what's the
use,
Funeral expenses cost like the
deuce?
I'm givin* up farmin'. I'm through;
I'm done,
I'm goin' to make a livin' selling'
moonshine rum!
My Auto, *Tis of Thee.
My auto, 'tis of thee, short road to
poverty, of thee I chant. I blew a
pile of dough on you three years ago,
now you refuse to go, or won't or
Thrmi?li town and rrnintrvside.
you were my joy and pride, a happy
day. I loved the gaudy hue, the nice
white tires so new, but you're down
and out for true, in every way. To
thee, old rattlebox, came many bumps
and knocks; for thee I grieve. Badly
the top is torn; frayed are the seats
and worn; the whooping cough affects
thy horn, I do believe. The perfume
swells the breeze, while good
folks choke and wheeze, as we pass
by. I paid for thee a price; 'twould
buya mansion twice; now everybody's
yelling "ice"?I wonder why? Thy
motor has the grip, the sparkplug has
the pip, and woe is thine. I too have
suffered chills, fatigue and kindred
ills, endeavoring to pay my bills,
- ' ? ? * n.Ar? a ic? mv
since inou wen mnic. uuuc ic
bank roll now, no more 'twould choke
the cow, as once before Yet, if I
had the monr so help me John?amen
?I'd buy a car again and speed some
more.
Buy tablets by the dozen, only 45c,
at Herald Book Store.
A
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Instructive Percentages, Including
One Relating to Automobiles.
If the choice were given the average
man between an automobile ride
and an attack of scarlet fever, it is
altogether probable that he would
choose the former. However, auto
mobile riding is shown by government
census statistics for the year
1917 to have caused far more deaths
than scarlet fever. The disease
claimed only 4.2 persons' for each
100,000 of population, while the loss
of life from automobile accidents was
8.9. Deaths from motor car spills are
increasing constantly, the figures
show, while the fight to conquer
scarlet fever is succeeding to a large
extent. To be sure, there are many
more cases of automobile riding than
of scarlet fever, and the proportion
of deaths to rides is much less than
that to cases of fever, but the figures
are, nevertheless, impressive.
The death rate from measels was
14.3 to each 100,000 in 1917, and
the whooping cough death rate was
10.4. Diptheria's mortality rate was
16.5, there having been about twice
as many deaths from diptheria as
from motor car accidents. The rate
for street car accidents was 3 to every
100,000, making deaths from street
car riding fewer than those from
scarlet fever. More than 10,000 people
committed suicide, and murders
ran into the thousands.
People have a dread of diptheria,
scarlet fever, and similar diseases,
and, well they may because they
have taken toll from many families.
Strict quarantine is maintained
whenever these diseases are discovered
and every precatuion is taken to
prevent their spread. Tuberculosis,
in 1917, caused 110,285 deaths, the
rate being 146.4 to each 100,000 people.
To get thefull meaning of these
figures the public should remember
that scarlet fever?striking terror to
the hearts of parents?only caused
deaths at the rate of only 4.2 for
every 100,000, while the tuberculosis
rate was 146.4. Health authorities
are trying to make the public understand
the menace of tuberculosis, yet
there Is no quarantine against the
disease, and the person so afflicted
may move about at will, perhaps infecting
hundreds with whom he may
come in contact. Those who call attention
to these things and demand
a stricter enforcement of the tuber
cuiosis regulation laws are Known as
health cranks. There is need of more
cranks of that character. More of
such health cranks will mean fewer
funerals.?Indianapolis News.
Peppery Paragraphs.
Fine feathers do not make fine
I
birds for a pot pie.
Self-made men are scarce, but selfmade
fools are plentiful.
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xvnu w icugc ui uui uuuca 10 uucu
as important a9 the performance
thereof.
Men are seldom as good as they
pretend to be or as bad as they are
said to be.
Some girls are kept so busy becoming
engaged that they have no
time to marry.
Don't think that amateur photographers
are pessimists just because
mey iaxe poor views 01 me.
Many a youth who aspires to become
an A. M., is in after years glad
to settle down as the village P. M.
Every mother thinks there is no
baby like her own and every other
mother is glad of it.
Man's best counsel is a faithful
wife.
Life's sideshows cost us more than
the real circus.
If a woman fails to understand a
man they are on equal footing.
The best efforts of the chairmaker
are constantly being sat upon.
Why does the bright idea we think
of just before going to sleep depart
never to return?
Sometimes a man's idea of chivalry
is to protect a woman against every
man except himself.
If candles were made in the form
of a cross some people would burn
them at all four ends.
Life insurance is no doubt a good
thing, but what some men need is insurance
against fire.
Lazy men are always harping on
the luck of fools.
Sometimes genius fools people by
wearing good clothes.
Babies are the mainsprings in the
watches of the night.
When one man tries to flatter another
he has something to sell.
All in the Good Book.
"So you attend Sunday school and
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you Know your ijojic ?eu. aan.cn a
minister of a proud little girl.
"Oh. yes. sir.*' she answered. "T
know everything that's in it."
"Ah. how splendid! Suppose you
tell me some of those wonderful
things."
"Sister's beau's photo is in it, and
ma's receipe for vanishin* cream, and
a lock of my hair they cut off when
I was a baby, and the ticket for pa's
watch. They's all in it."
A TOTSIG
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enriching the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening, invigorating effect, see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like it The blood
needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigorating
Effect 60c.
DR. THOMAS BLACK
DENTAL SURGEON.
Graduate Dental jjepartment University
of Maryland. Member S. C.
State Dental Association.
Office opposite postoffice. Office
hours, 9:00 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
J. WESLEY CBUM, JR.,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Bamberg, S. C.
Offices in Herald Building
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Loans negotiated.
S. G. MAYFIELD
ATTORNEY AT LAW
PrartiPA in all ponrta. State and
Federal.
Office Opposite Southern Depot.
BAMBERG, S. C.
If you want to buy or sell anything
use The Herald Want column.
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the fluffiest of cakes a
browned biscuits.
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a draught which drive
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against the cooking
sooting it. Soot is si
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Habitual Constipation Cured
in 14 to 21 Days
"LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a speciallyprepared
Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual
Constipation. It relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action It Stimulates and
Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c
per bottle.
No Worms in a Healthy Child
All children troubled with Worms have an on*
naaitny color, wnicn indicates poor dioog, ana as s
rale, there is more or 1 ess stomach disturbance.
GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood,
improve the digestion, and act as a general Strengthening
Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be
in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.
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The Quinine That Does Not Affect the Hes4
Because of its tome and laxative effect, LAXATIVE
BROMO QtJININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness noc
ringing: in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 50c.
A. B. UTSEY
INSURANCE
Bamberg, S. C.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fail*
to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get
restful sleep after the first application. Price 60c.
NOTICE OF DISCHARGE.
.\ untie is ueieu,y given tu an persons
interested that the undersigned
administrator of the estate of Robert
Williams, deceased, will on the 19th
day of August, 1921, file his final report
as such administrator with the
udge of Probate for Bamberg county,
and at said time will ask for Letters
of Discharge as such administrator.
J. R. CHITTY,
Administrator.
July 25th, 1921.
Have you seen that 25c box paper
at Herald Book Store, all colors.
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