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DR. STEPHEN SMITH
SAYS CENTURY UFE
V IT IS MAINLY A MATTER OF PREVENTION
RATHER THAN CURE.
Appreciable Progress.
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Yellow Fever Wiped Out and Tuberculosis
Decreasing?Not so Much
Typhoid as There Was.
Meet Dr. Stephen Smith of New
York, who, in 1922, is celebrating his
hundreth year of residence on this
?arth. He is not the "old Dr. Smith"
of greatly advertised memory. As a
matter of fact, he resents the adjective
"old." Dr. Smith is'a real doctor
of medicine. He has always been interested
in movements to promote
healthful living, and a pioneer in
public health.
Fifty years ago when the American
Public Health association was bprn,
Dr. Smith officiated at the ceremony.
He was its first president. Last November,
the association, now grown
. to be a mighty power in the land,
held its semi-centennial in New York
City, and made it an occasion to honor
its first president, striking a medal
which bears the imprint of his fea\
, tures.
Dr. Smith, vigorous and energetic,
appeared at the meeting and declared
that he had a tremendous announcement
which he would make at the
banquet given in his honor. When
the time came, he calmly broached
to the hundreds of visiting physicians,
and other men of science, the
audacious statement that instead- of
his age being exceptional it should
be the rule, that all men should live
to be one hundred.
"We have too long been content
with the Mosaic dictum which places
man's life at three score and ten,"
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said he. "We now live under very
-c . different conditions. Science holds
sway. Man's physical construction
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is adapted to a service or iuu years.
Let us push our standard forward
30 years and count man's normal life
a century."
A common belief exists that our
ancestors lived much longer lives
than we of this generation. Accounts
, of very aged persons spring from the
records of olden days in great profusion.
England's Westminster Abbey has
a monument to Thomas Parr, an
"'old, old, very old man who lived in
the reigns of ten kings," and died
at the age of 152.
In Yorkshire, England, there is a
monument to one Henry Jenkins, an
English laborer, setting forth the inter-1
esting testimonial that ^"he lived to
the amazing age of 169."
Many Ldve to Be 100 and Over.
It was claimed for a Hungarian of
the name of Pierre Zortay that he
lived to be 190. Norway had a claimant
for honors in the person of Drakenburg,
who admitted himself to be
146 when he died.
Every country worthy of consideration
entered at least one candidate
in the old age tournament, the apex
of their claims belong in inverse ratio
with the reliability of their registration
records. Some of the claims
modestly submitted by natives of
1 troipcal countries might well make a
certain Methuselah tremble for his
? record.
Of course, one is constantly reading
newspaper items and patent medicine
advertisements that speak lightly
of ages that exceed the century by
many years. They are records of
tradition rather than fact, however,
most of them having reference to illiterate
persons who find counti g
.* by multiples of 10 to be the easiest
way.
But the fact remains that persons
-do live to be 100 years old ana over
and evidently many more accomplish
it than a British authority would credit.
The British, however, made
his investigation into the lives lived
more than a century ago, when the
expectation of life was much lower
than it is at the present day. By
expectation of life is meant the duraation
of the average of human lives
from birth to death. It is impossil
ble tG say what this may have been
in the days of 'Moses, but a glance
back over known facts for the last
three centuries is instructive.
Records kept in Geneva, Switzer:
land, show that seventeenth century
lives averaged a little more than 25
years; eighteenth century brought
the average up to 33 years and nineteenth
century, from 1801 to 1S83,
* gave a record of nearly 40 years. In
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Harvey Quits Post
at Midnight Hour
Columbia, March 17.?When midnight
was reached last night in the
senate Lieutenant Governor Harvey
declined to preside further over the
senate if general statewide bills were
to be taken up and acted upon, this
action following on the heels of the
withdrawal of Senator Johnstone of
Newberry, who declined to participate
further in the proceedings.
Somewhat of a general row took
place when Senator Johnstone moved
at midnight that tne senate aajourn
until Monday afternoon, this being
the cause of his withdrawal from the
senate chamber a few minutes later
and also the withdrawal of Lieutenant
Governor Harvey.
Would Not Adjourn.
After the senate had passed the
"hour of midnight a general confusion
began to develop and this brought on
the motion to adjourn over until Monday.
An effort to do this was lost.
{When this was lost the lieutenant governor
asked the senate to choose a
presiding officer as he did not care
care to preside "except for the general
appropriation bill.
Lieutenant Governor Harvey requested
Senator Laney to take the
chair, stating that he did not care to
be regarded as a stickler and was
prepared to remain in the chair as
long as necessary to adopt the appropriation
bill then in free conference
irrespective as to the time when it
was brought in. He however, preferred
not to preside after midnight
Saturday night if the senate insisted
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on continuing to pass state-wide laws.
As the senate proceeded to pass laws
and began to take up the bad check
law the lieutenant governor vacated
the ohair, turning over tfce gavel to
the senator from Chesterfield and re
tired.
Bad Check Bill. ,
After Senator Laney had taken the
chair the so-called "bad check" bill
was taken up and badly defeated, a
motion to continue this measure prevailing
by a large majority.
The senate then continued everything
on the calendar, this motion
taking in a number of state-wide bills
of importance. Bills in free conference
were not included.
During the discussion after midnight
a good deal of levity was allowed
and the general situation was
characterized as "bad legislation" on
the part of the senate.
He Didn't!
Gedrge Washington never told a
lie for the following excellent reasons:
He lafd no income tax blanks to
fill out.
He was elected president without
making any campaign speeches.
Wlhen -Martha found a strange hair
on his shoulder, she always figured
it came from his wig.
The Anti-Saloon league never
asked him where he stood.
| The tough*breaks he suffered that
: winter at Valley Forge required no
exaggeration.
He never applied for life insurance.
our own country the record was a little
higher, and by the close of the
nineteenth century we had reached
45 years. We have marched on at a
still better rate since then, for the '
expectation of life in the United
States in 1910 was 51 1-2 years and
although absolute figures are not
available, it has undoubtedly increas
ed in the last decade.
Let us see why we live longer. It
is only a step back to 1878, when a
great epidemic brought 125,000 cases
of yellow fever to the Mississippi
valley and caused 12,000 deaths. A
century before, in 1793, the disease
had invaded Philadelphia and causj
ed the death of one-tenth of the city's
population in six and one-half weeks.
But in 1900 the discovery was made
that yellow fever could not spread
unless carried by the Stegomvia mosquito,
and thus the disease became
a terror of the past.
Few persons realize how nearly typhoid
has been conquered. The work
has been going on so quietly, yet so
steadily that the death rate has
dropped almost without notice. Let
statistics show that whereas in 1900
some 36 out of every 100,000 citizens
of the United States died of typhoid;
in 1919, only nine per 100,000
succumbed. Given a continuance
of the 1900 rate some 27,000 more
Americans would have died of typhoid
in one single year.
Everyone has heard of the tremendous
victory gained in the fight
against tuberculosis. It has decreas
Levy of Seven
for State
Both houses of the legislature iSunday
afternoon adopted the free,
conference report on the general ap-|
propriation bill and as finally passed j
by the legislature the bill carries a j
total of $5,839,106.04 and a levy not
to exceed seven mills as compared
with a total appropriation of $6,534,925.82
and a 12 mill levy in 1921.
The bill is a decrease of $695,819.78
over the 1921 appropriation i
and the -levy is five mills below the
figure of last year.
Under the bill as passed by the
house the appropriations were $5,670,610.83
and the levy was five !
mills and under the measure as pass- <
ed by the senate the bill provided for
a total appropriation of $5,805,909.09
and the free conferences increased
the amount to $5,839,106.04
as the final total.
Snme nf the r.hanpps made hv the :
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Legislative department
Governor's office
Judicial department ....
Secretary of state
Comptroller general
Attorney general
State treasurer i
Adjutant general .... ;
University
Citadel
Clemson college ....
Winthrop college
Medical college
Confederate Home college ..^
State negro college ....\.
De la Howe sohool
Deaf and blind school
Department of education
Historical commission
State library
Confederate museum
Relic room
State hospital
Penitentiary
Welfare board
Pardon board -
Feeble-minded school
Boys' Industrial school
Girls' industrial school ....
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Negro reformatory
Catawba Indians
jueai ana Diina commiuee
Law enforcement .
Board of health
Tax commission
Tax review board
Insurance department
Bank examiner
Railroad commission .
Game warden .
Medical examiners
Law examiners
Board of fisheries
Board of conciliation
Printing committee
Agricultural department
Warehouse commissioner
Public service commission
Pharmaceutical board
State electrician
Highway department
Sinking fund commission
Confederate infirmary
Confederate veterans
State house and grounds
Contingent fund
Approved claims
State fair society
Budget commission
Miscellaneous
Grand total
ed 37 per cent, in 12 years, and is !
still losing 1
Little children do not die from summer
complaint as they used to do.
In 1900 two babies out of every five
died without a chance to reach their
first birthday. Now less than one
out of five meet such an early doom.
These victories over disease have
not been due to the discoveries of
wonderful new medicines. With the
possible exception of the use of anti-diphtheria
serum in fighting diphtheria,
the improvements have been
altogether along the line of prevention
of disease.
Watch the Little Things.
It is to prevention that you must
look if you are personally interested
in joining Dr. Smith and his group is
of centenarians. You must*discover
the "little things" and give them
early attention if you would check
the degenerative diseases that are
apt to rob you of your prime. Few
indeed are the deaths that occur from
genuine old age. Men go to then
deaths with bodies capable of splendid
function save and except for one
diseased organ. Perhaps it is the s
heart that is at fault, perhaps the i
kidneys are incompetent, possibly I
lot be developing into full power in c;
' our 80's or 90's and placing your- ^
;elf securely in the list of those who
nay see "a century well done."? 5
Dearborn Independent. b
Mills
Appropriations
conferees were highly important, in- :
eluding; the reductions in amounts j
and the increasing of other amounts. ;
The Miller amendment not to al- i
low any institution or school teaching
the Darwinism theory to draw j
money appropriated under the terms
of the bill was rejected by the free i
conference. ;
Under the terms of the bill the 1
statement of Senator Pearce and Rep- <
resentative Sapp shows that the bill i
will be financed as follows: <
Corporation taxes & fees $ 470,000 <
Department Inspec. etc... 330,000 j
Institutional operations.... 170,000 '
Gasoline tax 350,000 i
Ad. corporation taxes 125,000 i
Income taxes 1,000,000 ;
Property tax (7 mills).... 3,179,000 i
The appropriations varried in the <
1922 bill as compared with the 1
amounts granted last year follow: <
1921. 1922.
.. $ 119,155.00 $i 123,088.00 ;
21,400.00 19,569.24 .
157,698.66 157,698.66
11,675.00 10,040.00 , "
749,970.34 723,856.34 .
20,000.00 14,331.25
258,212.27 258,068.62 '
35,817.50 47,396.50 j
243,355.00 206,203.70 !
252,315.00 150,059.86 1
226,147.15 242,862.85 J
398,694.60 373,130.96 '
100,117.50 85,455.00
4,000.00 4,000.00 '
63,005.21 70,450.00 j
57,488.00 56,702.04
161,333.33 104,620.00
.. 1.528.930.00 1.321.540.00
4,760.00 4,258.30
4,115.00 4,220.00 '
100.00 100.00 1
1,000.00 1,120.40 i
784,123.94 631,559.40 ]
103,093.08 vioo, 000.00 \
29,666.00 29,574.50 1
300.00 400.00 J
45,000.00 47,342.00
126,270.00 70,786.23 *
29,015.00- 15,979.50
46,077.00 28,532.00
7,700.00 . 7,700.00 1
500.00 ' 200.00 1
28,400.00 28,400.00 j
199,255.00 177,265.00
46,200.00 59,600.00 1
1,500.00 550.00 .
20,745.00 22,826.25 ]
24,525.80 24,025.80 \
20,141.20 39,447.20 1
11,125.00 11,125.00
3,000.00 3,000.00 \
450.00 450.00 |
10,500.00 10,500.00 ?
1,000.00 500.00 1
60,445.00 76,851.00 S
82,743.40 83,570.70
50,720.00 58,705.00 (
2,000.00 1
1,500.00 2,000.00 1
66,195.00 34,245.00
130,590.00 103,315.75 (
18,192.50 9,262.50
62,000.00 31,012.64 *
1,500.00 1,500.00 :
7,125.00 5,835.00 (
75,000.00 98,000.00 1
7,236.69 19,421.19 1
5,000.00 5,000.00 ?
6,750.00 6,600.00
15,252.66 {
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$6,534,925.82 $5,839,106.04
some other organ. But searching
back to the real point of origin,
there will be found some apparent trifle,
a few decayed teeth, a little shortness
of breath, a slight cough that
might have been corrected easily if
taken up in time.
Let us be sensible. Modern aids
to diagnosis make it Quite Dossible w
to find the flaws in the human ma- 8
shine, while there is yet ample op- 1
portunity for repair. Once a year
submit your body to a searching ex- r
imination by a skilled physician.
Place no confidence in the smiling, 1
irbane individual who can tell at a
iiere glance that "you are perfectly 1
ill right." Go to a real medical man, s
me of the kind whose researches 1
topped yellow fever and are conquer- g
ng typhoid, and pay him a reason- t
ible fee for a thorough examination.
\s long as you go quietly along from d
fear to year, repairing small faults c
lefore they grow into big ones, keep- a
ng up efficiency regularly, there is 6
10 reason whatever why you should 11
Income Tax Bill
Now Law of State
Columbia, March 11.?Of course,
the most important and outsanding
piece of legislation enacted at this
session of the general assembly is the
income tax bill. This has been primarily
a session devoted to an effort
towards doing something definite for
the reduction of the tax levy on visible
property.
The two legislative branches were
at decided variance over what is
known as the committee bill and
what has been called the McGhee
substitute. Lnitl early this morning
the members of the free conference
committee were in a deadlock, but a
compromise and agreement was effected
evidently along these linest
Phose who advocated the committee
or house bill surrendered that text
md machinery to the advocates of the
McGhee substitute, by their consenting
to increase the rate from 25 per
cent, to 33 1-3 per cent, for the state.!
based on what is paid to the federal
government.
First, net incomes of over $2,500
for a married person derived on business
incomes during the year 1921
will be taxable and collectable this
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year.
For the first year, that is, for the
taxes collected this year on the revenues
of 1921, an affidavit is to be
submitted to ,the tax commission,
stating what amount has been paid
to the federal government, and the
income taxpayer will be due the
^ r\ $ o m Annt no iH
51(116 UUC til 11 U. Ul auxv/uuw p?iu
the federal government for his insome
tax. A copy of the receipt
from the federal government must
be submitted, together with the af
Sdavit and payment based upon onethird
of the federal tax.
After this year, that is, upon incomes
derived subsequent to 1-921,
the taxpayer musf submit a duplicate
of his federal income tax return.
The idea is that the state
ind federal income tax returns, that
s, as far as returns themselves are
concerned, should be duplicates.
The taxpayer here again pays the
state one-third of what he pays the
lederal government.
These personal and corporation
'eturns are to be made in the same
nethod, that is, either by affidavit
>r duplicate returns, and the same
casis of payment is applicable on
let incomes. r
The exemptions, allowances, crests,
deductions and everything else
ilong these lines are absolutely
dentical for the state as they are
.'or the federal government, except
;hat provision is-made that the state
shall not tax federal incomes, pensions,
interest from government
jonds and other exemptions that the
state must recognize.
The exemptions for individuals,
corporation^, dependent children,
taxes, losses and the like are identical
in the free conference bill,
vhich will be. the law, and the federal
statute.
The free conference bill refers to
ind enacts for this state as did the
M'cGhee substitute, the federal income
tax statute of 1921 and all of
;he rules and regulations of the internal
revenue dpeartment, on the
subject.
The free conference committee late
this evening added several sections to
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ne mcurne ia.x uin.
First, it included excess profits,
;hat is, under the bill as adopted
;his state will collect the 33 1-3 per
?ent. of what excess profits are fraid
he federal government. A penalty
s provided for not making returns at
he proper time.
A new section was added to proride
that any person or corporaion
doing business in several
itates shall pay an income tax on
ill net earnings accrued from operaions
or other sources in this state.
The income tax act was ordered
atified and its friends figure it
vill, as amended, raise at least a
nillion and a half dollars.
There are no rates provided for
n the bill, either as to normal or
urtax, the basis being simply onehird
of what is paid to the federal
:overnment, either for normal or sur
ax.
Insurance premiums, insurance
lividends and the profits of insurance
ompanies are not taxable. There was
considerable discussion as to whethsr
insurance companies doesftusiness
1 this state would have to pay income
ax upon their profits, but this feature
as been eliminated.
It is estimated that the federal
overnment will receive this year
etween ' four and five and a half
LIFE SAVING AWARD
WON BY CONDUCTOR
CONSIDERED BRAVEST DEED OP
ITS KIND.
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Rescues Colored Child.
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Atlantic Coast Line Employe Performs
Deed at Siding Near
Darlington.
Atlanta, Ga.? March 11.?The
Southern division of the American
Red Cross announced today that the
first tfrize of $50 fronr the "William
Howard Taft fund" for meritorious
action in life saving was awarded to
J. E. Woods, of Florence, S. C., con-'
ductor, Atlantic Coast Line railroad,
for heroic action in saving life of a
colored oaoy at isiine-Miie siding,
near Darlington, S. C. This fund is
limited by the terms of the anonymous
donation to persons employed
on railroads.
The incident for which Woods received
his award occurred December'31,
1920. Woods was coming
from the telegraph office and look- x
in down the track in the direction
the engine was moving, he saw
the child sitting between the rails
playing. He immediately signaled
but the engineer, who was watching
the rear brakeman. for signals, did
not see him. Woods, realizing that
his signals could not be seen in time,
rushed down the track, seized the
child from between the rails and
jumped to one side just in time to
save its life and his own.
This was deemed by the judges
to be the most daring and heroic
action performed by a railroad employe
that came to their notice since v ,||
their last awards were.made. Witnesses
to the incident declared tSat
Woods very narrowly avoided losing
his life in making the rescue. The 1
"cowcatcher" of the engine barely
brushed him as he leaped off the
track with the baby in his arms.
WANTS LIBERTY FOR MONSTER.
Society Pleads for Protection of Giant
"Pet."
Buneos Aires, March 12.?A protest
against the killing or capturing
of the Plesiosaurian monster, which
is reported to have been seen in an
Andean lake in Patagonia has been
placed before the ministry of interior
oy the "Cociedad Protectora D Lot
Animates/' which corresponds to the
American societv for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
The society urges that if sueh an
antediluvian creature exists it be allowed
to roam its native heath unmolested.
Invoking Law No. 2786, dealing
with cruelty to animals, the society
demands that the expedition which
proposes to bring back the animal
alive or dead to the Buenos Aires zoo
be prohibited.
The protest is voiced in a letter by
Dr. Albarracin, head of the society,
who calls on the ministry to instruct
the Governor of Chubut, a territory
in the southern part of Argentina, occupying
part oi the tableland of Patagonia
to instigate the truth of the
report of the creature's existence, and
if that is established, "to do what is
necessary in fulfillment of said* law
to prevent the hunting or capturing"
of it in any form, leaving it in peace,
fcy reason of its being a valuable specimen
which nneht to eniov full libertv
and be allowed to reproduce itself."
Dr. Albarracin asserts that, like
the Penguin, it probably would die
if brought north, by reason of the
change of climate, and adds:
"If scientists want to study the
creature, let them do it in a humane
way in its habitat while it is
enjoying full liberty."
Meanwhile Prof. Onelli, who first
announced the existence of the enimal,
said the expedition will start at
the end of the week: provided additional
funds are further coming.
million dollars of personal and corporation
income taxes, exclusive of
excess profits, and, therefore, the
state will receive, if these figures
hold up, one-third of that amount.
It is estimated that the receipts
from the income tax legislation will,
therefore, be approximately one million
dollars. Some figure that the returns
will run as high as a million
and a half dollars, but this is doubtful
as the net returns now being filed
+ f V?a infornol vOtrAniiA O t
v>itll lii^ lUb^i a?i X Vy t yuug tunwvw* %?v
Columbia indicate a decided slump in
net incomes for 1921.