Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The necessity of treatment and of prevention is work for us today; thereby wiping out much crime and dependency in our state. The Newsletter, beginning with the July issue, will present to you the true history of feeblemindedness as it is today in South Carolina. Other states are in the same plight, but the subject has not been brought so smitingly to our attention before. The subject for our next month's issue will be "Feeblemindedness in Our Public Sc". ools." This subject will be disputed fully, stating the facts as they exist today, the causes of feeblemindedness, and what is being done and what should be done to relieve oui state of these deplorable conditions. Quarterly Meeting of the Board. On May 24th the State Board of Public Welfare met in the office ol Governor Harvey. The board considered reports from the office and fron: the institutions under its control. II also authorized the parole of a number of inmates from the state industrial schools. Colonel M. O. Dantzler of Orange burg Jias resigned from the board o1 publA: welfare and has been succeedec by Mr. Walter B. Wilbur, a prominent attorney of Charleston. Col. Dantz ict s interest m the work and his spiril of helpfulness made him a valuet member of the board. For years Mr Wilbur has been prominently identified with social work in South Caro lina. In 1920 he was president of th< South Carolina Conference of Socia Work. He is now president of th< Charleston Social Workers Club, th< Juvenile Welfare* Commission, and i member of other organizations foi the promotion of social betterment. CMW Placing: "Aid Case*." The Child Placing Bureau of th? State Board of Public Welfare is ofter called upon for advice and assistanct in cases where children are taken can of at the expense of relative* or or ganizations. In such cases the on!) expense incurred by the State 13 tit time of the workers. The Child Placing Bureau has secured several excel ^4. -j^lfc |^(| |^(| <^| , CI The llnu URF 0 \ IT SHAFFNER & W I & FOSTER SHOES, ivn 10 QUICK?BEFOR uir DAI J1VT D/iP MIOP BAN! 1^1 ^ 3m^)M$H$M$M$M$H{<H$H$H$? ! lent boarding homes for children and in these homes, "aid cases," as they are called, are placed. There are at present eight children who are being boarded out in these homes. For various reasons these children can not be cared for in their own homes and are being temporarily provided for until ' they can be returned to their homes 1 or some other permanent arrangement can be made for them. The children's ' parents or friends are allowed to visit them at convenient times, and regular reports are sent to the parents or friends advising them of the welfare of the children. These children | are under the direct supervision of the Bureau at the request of relatives or friends. This phase of the work is growing in popularitv and ?rn.?i?p? to be of invaluable service to children who are not dependent financially but who are in need of temporary assistance. 1 Leads Campaign to Protect American Musicians i Cnicago, May 31.?The recipient of ( three European decorations which . were bestowed in recognition of war . service to European countries, and ths . first American share-holder in the . British National Opera Company, . Ltd., Mrs. Archibald (Eleanor Ever. est) Freer if Chicago is leading a r campaign to protect American music . and musicians from what she regards [ as omnoius European competition. The campaign is being waged, she explains, "with the intention of excluding nothing good, but of including the J musical art of this country." f Active during the world war in . work for the national defence, Mrs i Freer runv asserts that the "greatest t legacy we can leave?next to the . country?tho music of our land still . must be saved." Declaring that "it has been definite. ly proven that no country has greater T or better art than our own," she conI tends that American musicians and t composers, like opera in theii' mother . tongue, arc denied a chance in their t own country by a discrimination for 1 things foreign that threatens to piakc . the United States "a nation of art borrowers" while every other country where opera is heard hears opera in ? its vernacular. 1 Mr*. Freer has been made national i chairman of two affiliated or^anizations, the opera in our language founi dation and the David Bispham Mer mcrial Fund. The former organization has launched a million dollar campaign to establish "an American s opera house where native talent can i be heard." This, Mrs. Freer maini tains, "is the only hope of the Ameri ican composer, librettist singer, stage manager and orchestial player, if this f most popular form of music?opera? ? is to become national." Mrs. Freer is herself a composer of note. During the war aha organ JEA Dn ClothI rv?i IRX SUITS, ALL d ALL STETSON A1 UST i E WE LEAVE. iKRUPTr SI CI KRUF IF YOU WAIT YOl A AA A 4^4 4^4 A^a A^A fy f^f fy T^r^rf^ ^ Ty ^r T^r T^y T^y T ^ ized the Lake Shore Drive Surgica Dressings Unit, the War Relief Clu and the Paris Chicago Hospital Func She was awarded the Medaille de 1 Reine Elisabeth by the Belgian gov ernment, the Medaille de la Recon naissance by the Fronch governmenl and the Medal of the French Re Cross. Archibald Freer, her husband, like wise was decorated for war work. Th Belgian Cross of the Legion of Honoi which js also referred to as the Meda of Leopold of Belgium, was conferre. upon hini, and he was made a Knigh of the Order of Leopold. Mr. Free gave one million francs to France fo war purposes. "After a careful study of condition in our musical and artistic world th laRt 20 years," Mrs. Freer said in tell ing of the Onera in Our Languag Foundation, "it- has been definitel proven that no country has greate or better art than our own. But de prived of the prestige that we gran anything with a foreign label, wheth er because of apathy, ignorance, in difference or policy, the America composer and artist have no place i; their own sun. "For 30 years in New York and 1 years in Chicago, millions of Amerj can dollars have gone into two oper houses where our lan'guage, ou artists, our composers practicall have been banned. To get a hearin; we are forced to leave this countrj denationalize ourselves in art, and i returning renounce (or denounce) ou mother tongue and our art. "Until We hear foreign operas i our own language, we shall not wan to hear our own operas. We have th composers, we have the artists." China Adopting Western Custom Peking, May 1.?(By Mail).China's picturesque capital is grad ually adopting western customs. Th Ancient salutation of bowing ha been replaced almost entirely b handshaking and by the lifting o hats. Walking sticks in the hand of Chinese partiarchs, portfolios un der Ihe arms of brisk young official and European clothes are the evi J * " * ~ uences in me streets which promp observers to predict that Peking wil soon lose its pre-Manchu appearand Even/ the boys who pull 'rikshah have found it profitable to learn Eng lish and French sufficiently to ai< their foreiggn patrons, while Englis shap signgs are becoming conspicu ous in remote parts of the city. Shakespeare, after centuries of pa tience, also has won recognition, foi while the text of his plays are seldor read, the stories of his plots are regu larly told in the class rooms of th high schools, thus giving new avi dence of the universal appeal of th English bard. Chinese boy scout or ganizations and braaa bands playini Mi ng Compj VfEIS iLCO AND CURLEE ND KNOX HATS, SO AH GET YOURS TODA BARGAI1 LOT] ?T ST( ] WILL PAY HIGHE > < > : > * < . < .. . tl airs familiar to American ears are "o other innovations. I. But while the new ideas are adopt? ed many of the old ones are tenaci ously adhered to. Thousands of men i- in Peking still refuse to part with t? their queues. Among the coolies one J in every hundred still carries his "pigtail" eitlfer dangling over his ' back or wound around the top of his ? head. r? About 200 automobiles have been introduced, but side by side with them in the congested streets may still be t seen the caravans of camels starting r on their long journeys over the Gobi 1 desert just as they started centuries ago. s ? c Australia Wants to e Increase Population y r Sydney, N. S. W., April 29.?(By Mail).?The paramount need af a 1 greater population in Australia was stressed in an address here by Prime Minister Hughes who said that i it n was inconceivable for the present n population to carry the load of 400, 000,000 pounds debt. "Australians must show themselves " worthy of the great heritage that 1 has been left them by the pioneers 1 of the country,' he said. ^ "They could not develop that heri" tage as it should be developed by the ' present population in Australia. "Five million people simply cannot do it," he said, "and the only chance for Australia's salvation is t to make the way easy for a great influx of new population to help bear the burdens. I am not one of those who believe that the fewer people there are in Australia the better will 8 be the opportunities for advancement for those already here. That is an utterly fallacious doctrine, for the ~ more people there are in a country, I- At. - me more prosperity tnere is ? up to e the point of over-population?the s better it is for the people of the y country and there are better oppor^ tunities for individual advancement. 8 "But at the same time I do not believe that the government of Austra9 lia should encourage promiscuous migration, as there is a grave danger 't of such immigrants gravitating to the " already over-crowded cities. We * want people on the land and no mi8 gration policy should operate unless it has this as its main object. We d have millions and millions of acre* h of undeveloped land in Australia that are admirably suited for settlement when the necessary means of coml* munication is provided. That will r? require courage aad enterprise and n the expenditure of many millions of '* pounds sterling." e .. ... i- The belief prevails in China that e women who wear "bobbed" hair will, w in the next world, bo transformed into g men. 4^(1 A^A J^A A^A. A^A A.4 y y ^gy ^jr ^#r ^#> j^A j^A ^t- v^y ^ ^ ^y 5W my Bank J?HI CLOTHES, ALL B/ ALL SHIRTS, COU r onc Y. COME QUICK \S EVEI HIN< )CK S R PRICES LATER. ^ A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A "4^4" "4" # ^ ^ ^ ?#> %" + 4 4^A 4^A J^A 4^4 A^V 4^4 A^4 A^A A^A V^A A^A A^A Hogs and Dairy Cows e< Florence, June 3.?Some very en couraging results have been obtained 1 by W. C. McKenzie, a farmer of Flor- u ence county, in a recent feeding dem- " onstration to ascertain the cost of 1 feeding pigs 011 skim milk, corn meal, and rye pasture, the records showing that very economical gains can be I made with a small amount of concentrates when skim milk and pasture U are available, and indicating that, F with the development of the creamery industry in the state, farmers might w well consider the hog-dairy cow com- s bination for a practically sure profit. Mr. McKenzie had 43 purebred d Hampshire pigs farrowed between a January 10th and Jan. 20th, 1922. The feed which the mothers consumed il while the pigs were suckling, as well a as all the feed consumed by the pigs h up to three and two-thirds months of age. was charge/1 against thorn \!/< attempt was made to have the pigs o put on weight fast. They simply received all the skim milk'produced on ^ the farm, with the proper proportion |of corn meal, the idea being to have n the cows support themselves from the sale of cream and have the milk to feed for profit. ,, The 43 pigs weighed the first week 7 in May approximately 60 pounds each. j( Altogether 76 bushels of corn were t. consumed and 14,300 pounds of skim ^ milk, or an average of 43 pounds of corn and 119 1-6 pounds of milk daily Sl for the 43 pigs, which gained an average of one-half pound daily from I birth. | The total cost of raising the pigs, without counting labor, was as fidlows: 75 bu. corn at 80c $ 60.80 14,300 lbs. skim milk at 40c cwt 57.20 2 acres rye pasture at $12 per acre 24.00 Vaccination 10.00 Total cost $152.00 The cost of feed per pig was therefore $3.53. But. as Mr. McKenzie wished to keep only the gilts, he sold the ten males for $5.00 each. This made his 33 gilts cost an average of $3.09 each for feed from birth to 60 pounds weigh.An Extension ^ervice livestock specialist who cooperated with Mr. McKenzie in conducting the demonstration states that the work was carried on under average farm conditions without facilities for doing accurate farming. He thinks that considerable more rapid gains might have been made during the last month or si\ weeks if more concentrates had been fed, and that it is not most profitable to feed skim milk in a larger proportion than 3 to 1. He advises also that corn meal is much preferable to corn and cob meal because of Its less bulky nature, but as no sheller was available the corn was used as com and * <^H^? rupt Stoc JRR IRRY, B0ST0N1AN ,ARS AND TIES :e AS TIME IS S ?y day jr CI ALE >t A "V % v w > . . . . . . . . .?. . <r_ . ob meal. |< From the dairying- side of the venire it may be said that the cows < 1 o Ir. McKenie's farm, which are mostly rade Guernseys, are more than pa\ lg for their keep with the week!; f ream check. Monarch Letter t .John Gregory, of Greenwood, spent c ist week end with his mother, Mrs. t lien Gregory. 1 John Sims, of Buffalo, spent th > \ reek end as guest of his brother and : istei, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson. 1 R. I,. Knight, who is still very sick, 1 oes not i..end fast. His many friend; re alarmed over his long illness. 1 Miss Genelle Herlong, who is very ! 1 with appendicitis, will, in all proh- i bility, be carried to the Baptist ospital in Columbia. Frank Knox is also quite ill with ( ppendicitis and it seems likely an peration will have to be given. Miss Young, our club secretary, ' ave us a good report of our meeting ' ist Saturday, but the old "Cat" re- ' tains pat. Maybe he didn't g. t ' nough to eat. This scribe intends to lay off a part f his correspondence for The Daily 'imes during the next few weeks, a< ; seems the paper can't give us all nough space. After a fellow has otten up a letter and given time and rorry to do so, It is discouraging i<> vk 11 pass over into me waste has HOME CANNING MADE EASY! Food conservation is a mi i of civilization. With the abo solved. You can can from yoi of fruits, berries and vegeti | Come in and let us demonstra ful little machine. No solder Are. Simple, scientific, sane. LEWIS IV At The Union ' _ _ . _ . KKKKKKK* <$> <C* <fi?ft Ptx YV yJ YY tt YY YV YY YY vv k?i II t? m 7" YY If ?! YY 1 ft YY YY YY YY II HORT. || vv Y Y yy *1 V yy ft YY 3 $1 || it II 11 Y y Y y TT ii YY :et for lack of space. Success to the cannery, The Times, Id Cat and the correspondents' club. C. T. C. Jaby Inhales Talcum Powder; May be Fatal Newberry, June 3.?This afternoon lw, i;+?i~ ai- ?* * '? .it- jinn* trig in mourns oiti Doy ol ! 111her Hipp, who lives in the Ebenezer (immunity about three miles fiom .eiv, inhaled some talcum powder .vhich lodged in liis windpipe. As s ?on is this was discovered the child was ushed to Clreenville for treatment. >r. Carpenter said that In* thinks the towder lodged in the child's lun^s and hat he will await developments i e'ore operating. The child's condition s serious. Left a widow with three small Iren, Mrs. Heat rice 1*. F'nley. Tulsa, Okla., has supported he? 4:>r>y her own work and at the saim t .ai* aken a liipli school cours. N las been awarded a university i. trsbip and plans to tit herself o ifofessioti of leaching. The . i.tiii' livir.tf papula; a.i ?.f n 'lobe, div ide I iiit<? fatllil es - ft: e pet <>ns each, could bt* located m T?-\a . ach family with a house <>n i half u-re lot, and there would still remain >ome vacant lots. Sol scribe to The 1'nion I>:ti 1 y Times > s \ ?' rK * *:& ? w. m Sy ighty factor in the progress >ve machine the problem is ? ur garden all you will need sbles for the entire year. r te the value of the wonder* ing, no standing over a hot j 1. RICE Times Office.