The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 27, 1922, Image 7
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FED;CHICKENS
BY TELEPHONE
"These are not all the funny
things that happen in the telephone
business, either," said a local telephone
man when he turned in the
copy for the company's advertisement
in this issue. "Come around
some day when you've got time and
I'll tell you a few things that'll
, make you laugh."
"I'll hear them now," answered the
reporter, there being no time like
the present when news is in sight.
So the telephone man talked, and
J here are a few of the things he told.
This one, he said, did not happen
in our town; it was told to him by
another telephone man at the state
convention, how a subscriber fed his
chickens over the telephone. Yes,
just that! "You see," said the telephone
man, "This fellow lived away
out. on the edge of town, a long ways
from his job. Th6y had a bunch of
little chickens, hatched via the incubator,
when the wife was called away
to attend a sick relative. The
chickens had to be fed at noon and
it was too far for hubby to go, but.
lie had a telephone?and of course
' the Independent telephone will do
CVCI (V tiling) %yuu MIUW ?
"Here's the way he fixed it: He
put the chickens in a box and set
them directly under the telephone,
then he wrapped some chicken feed
in paper and hung it loosely from the
clapper of the telephone bell. At
noon he simply 'rung up' his house;
the vibration of the clapper dislodged
the fastenings; the paper fell down
and the feed dropped in the box?
"Then there was the case of a
certain telephone that acted queerly
at times, as if the receiver were bein
jr left off the hook. We inspected
it, but whenever the lineman got to
the house, the 'phone was always
O. K. Hut one day the troubleman
dropped in casually ? .iust happened
to be out that wav?and here's whaf
he found: The lady of the house was
darning the family stockings and
was using the end of the telephone
receiver as a substitute for a darning
ball! It makes a very good one
too, but the company doesn't recommend
its use for the purpose,
since it is pretty likely to ruin the
telephone service at that particular
house.
"And I might tell you about the
lady who called 'Central' one day and
someuiing nice This: rm going over
to a neighbor's bouse for a little
while, and my babv is asleep. I'll
1 just leave tlie leleohone receiver on
? the pillow by it^ bend?if it wakes
lip and cries, couldn't *fou smg to it?
Rut the reporter had fled.
THESE P * v?s v a v who
FORGOT IS FORGOTTEN
Bv J. T?. Hamilton
Foxier Advertising Manager
of Wanamaker's, Philadelphia.
Fven the man who forgot to set
the semaphore and killed 100 people
is we'dom romomh^i'pd bv name. He
simn'v nas.c-?s out of the lives and the
* activities of men.
\ It behooves us ;ill to remember.
And memorv? Memory is the shortest-lived
of all the faculties.
In some scientific tests made a few
years ago it was found that memory
reaches its clearest vision .about twent
minutes after any occurrence.
From then on the picture dims. And
what we hold so vividly in our minds
years after an occurrence is not the
memory but the imagination of it.
Now hundreds of people are trying
to impress some big idea upon our
fleeting memories every day. They
are trying to tell us about their store,
or their merchandise, or their advantages
of some kind or other. They
are trying to impress upon us the
advantages of their time-savers or
their monev-savers. They are trying
to tell us of some luxury we ought to
have. They are trying to give us a
/ mental picture of some necessity.
They are spending a great deal of
money in doing this. And it seems
onlv fair when they go to all this
effort, for our benefit that we should
at least give them some small part
of our active attention.
The reason these people advertise
again and again and again is because
we will not compel our eyes to see
nrltof (Unir fn cflt) iu>v /"kill* mJlulc
VYIIttU IIUTV WV/ i?MtT lav/I \y v? i i?i4.av?t>
to remember it. And so they are
obliged to compel our memories for
us. And so tbev do it in spite of us,
because they have also learned that
constant repetition is the greatest
method of training the memory and
instilling an important fact into our
minds.
But the point is that advertising is
far more important even for us who
buy than for those who sell. For advertising
has come to signify an act
and an emblem of good faith throughout
all the channels of trade.
And so those of us who have not
learned to read the advertising and
to remember its message are constantly
being tricked in price and
fooled in quality.
We are the ones who lose out in
the fight. We are the man at the
semaphore. We who forget are forgotten.
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LAW BLANKS.
The Herald has in stock a big lot
of new blanks in attachment proceedings,
just the tiling that lawyers
have hern lookinif for all this time.
\\ They aro good 1'or use in any court in
which attachments are granted, and
are u ;ed equally well irv common plea?
or magistrate, or in tlve rlfeW county
court if the citizens see fit to vote
I that court in.
* Try the Herald's blanks and you
will use no other. They save the
time of the busy lawyer and business
man.
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The press association of this state
will come to Myrtle Beach for then
annual meeting this year They could
not select a more suitable place;
BONUS FOR THE STORK
A queer sort of landlord lives ir
Chicago. His name is Harry I. Dalsey
and he says, "I >vqnt see
of children in my building, for the,)
mean happy homes." His neu
thirty-three apartment house will br
built to accomodate large families
with special compartments for bab>
carriages. Twenty-five dollars re
ward, or bonus, will be paid by the
landlord to t.be parents of every chili]
born under his Hoof. He'll double 1;
for twins.
Children are noisy, chi'dven arc
troublesome; children inflict more
| wear and tear on houses than mos1
[adults. Hut everyone can't own hi>
| own Home, and unless there are children
soon there would be no nee*,
for houses.
j It is possible for several families
all with children, to live in oik
apartment house. And, strange a
it may seem to some landlords, the
Uttle beasts do not kick out all the
window panes or smash the door'
every week or so.
All landlords do not object tr
children, but a surprisingly larg"
number do. Even in Worcester a'
everyone knows who has any house
hunting here.
Harry I. Dalsey. May his tribe increase!?Worcester
Gazette, (Ind.)
MOREENGINEER
HELP IS NEEDED
The War Department is very hopeful
of obtaining the fu1! quota of en|
gineer officers in the reserve corps bj,
| enrolling competont engineers, whe
during the World War served as en!
listed men.
j It is a well known fret that durinp
j the early months of our participator
in the World War, engineers anc
others of known education, ability anc
experience waived the opportunity tr
obtain commissions and enlisted ir
the engineer regiments that were being
recruited for immediate service ir
France*. Thus it happened that ir
many of these regiments a large proportion
of the rank and file were
graduates of colleges or technica
schools, with all the qualifications
requisite for engineer officers.
In the event of a future emergency
such men by reason of thoii
professional accomplishments com
bined with their military experience
would bo of inestimable value woulr
nevertheless be greatly enhancer
should they accept commissions now
for by this moans they would keoj
in touch with military developments
Thq present project for six volunteer
field armies for the national do
fense calls for {in ultimate strengtl
of 9,000 engineer officers. The present
total, including regular army, national
guard and organized reserve, is
less than 4,000. .It is the policy ol
'lie War Department to enroll in th<
engineer section of the officers' re
erve corps those who served as en
listed men during the late war, pro
vided they have the technical (juali
fixations to warrant such appointment
They will he appointed in grade
commensurate with their position
and responsibilities in civil life. Mei
of this type can be enrolled in th<
higher grades without affecting ii
rnv degree the appointment as sec
ond lieutenants of Oie young and in
experienced graduates of the Ii. (). rI
C. units of our universities.
In considering applications of en
listed men for commissions in the en
gineer reserve corps. examininj
boards will exercise a wide discretioi
and will give great weight to pro
fessional and technical ability rathe
than ,a detailed knowledge of niili
i,Mvy rogulations. Candidates for ap
point ment will be expected to demon
strate by their past achievements am
I present worth that they have the ca
! pacity to adapt themselves to the mil
j itary system should occasion arise
but they will not be rejected becaus
of oresent unfamiliarity with militar
subjects alono. Officers so appointee
will bo given an opportunity to re
ceivo the nccessary instruction i
military subjects before they ar
called upon for actual service in thei
grades or before they are eligible fo
promotion to the next higher grade.
Detailed information may bo ha
by writing to the Chief of Engineers
Washington, I). C., or to the Corp
Engineer at the headquarters of An
of the nine corps areas into which th
country is divided.
MAJOR G. R. YOUNG,
Charleston, S. (
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CEREMONIAL BATHING
IN THE "HOLY GANGES
Writing in the magazine Asia, /
Coyle gives a colorful picture of th
ceremonial bathing in the "hoi
Ganges," sacred river of India. Th
scene is laid at the city of Benares
"The men and women bathed tr
? /nmufrlnrl nlncPS. but fUl
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ther up the stream were a few set
of rafts and canopied shelters, pai
tially reserved for women. The nvs
culine intruder did not seem to mat
ter.
"The women stepped into the watc
in the sari, and, when they emergo<
they wi'apped a dry length of clot
about themselves and dropped the wc
garment from underneath as they ai
ranged the fresh sari in graceful fold
"I saw plastic loveliness that woul
have maddened any sculptor. Mar
in hand, a couple of slender girls, eki
in-soft lemon and lavender, which a
ressed each movement of the hod
, and each gracious curve of the limb
, fluttered to the music of their o\v
laughter down the steep ghat.
! "Beautiful, too. were some of tl;
, women as they tiptoed to water tl
, sacred tu'lsi plant upon its pede$i
of clay or stone, and as they clasps
their hands upon its root and bowc
their heads in praydr; but most beai
| tiful of all were those who, standin
' in the river and molded into exquisii
1 statues by its wet embrace, lift*
their arms in worship toward the sun
THE HORKT HE BALD, CONW;
GREAT LOSSES
! TO BE PROVED
y i
Washington.?The first official admission
that duplicate numbered Liberty
bonds were erroneously put in
' circulation was made by Under Sec
retary of the Treasury Gilbert.
This has been charged as one of
he reasons for the sensational shakeup
in the bureau of engraving which
Kim wfl 1^1 *11 i
^ imwv ijc-cii fiouucti witn so much mys?
tery ever since the thirty-two executives
were summadily dismissed by
. President Harding.
While Mr. Gilbert .asserted the beI
lief that the duplications were the result
of mechanical errors in the numbering
machinery and that no loss to
I the government had occurred, another
; high official of the Treasury revealed
, that testimony to the contrary will
> he given by a number of bureau of!
. engraving employes.
Fraud Charged
, It was originally charged by For,
mer Assistant Registrar of the Treasury
J. W. McCarter that through the
duplications millions of dollars worth
of bonds have been fraudulently issued.
That the investigation of the bureau
affairs will be searching was
made plain when Louis A. Hill, the
new director of the bureau, appointed
to succeed James L. Wilmeth,
I called at the White House.
Mr. Hill declared that he would
designate 100 of the most trusted employes
of the bureau to work with
* Department of Justice agents in the
investigation.
' The Treasury also will conduct an
inquiry into the property account of
the bureau, it was stated by Under
* Secretary Gilbert. For this purpose
j an interdepartmental committee will
J be appointed to represent all the government
activities concerned.
Deputy Assistant Tait will head the
1 committee and other members will be j
selected from the post office depart1
inent, the Federal Reserve board, the
Bureau of Internal Revenue and the
[ offices of the Comptroller of the Curj
rency, the Treasurer of the United
States and Secretary of the Treasury.
Reports Minimized
In attempting to minimize reports
, of the huge losses which have been
reported as due to the liberty bonds
, duplications, Under Secretary Gilbert
j said that careful checks on the duplij
cate numbers traced had not disabused
any actual frauds thereby.
^ With more than 200,000.000 bonds
engraved it was not surprising, he
* said, that mistakes should have occurred
in their numbering. All such
1 errors had been due to mechanical irregularities
in the numbering ma?u:
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iuiiu> v;111piujmi, in1 u^erteu, rani'M
, than to any dishonesty on the part
p of the bureau employes.
> Direct testimony to the contrary
1 will he given by a number of bureau
. of engraving and printing employes.
_ it was stated by another high official
_ of the Treasury, who has close personal
relations with President Hard's
in?*
s Not only will evidence of fraudu
lent duplications in the bonds be
R given, it was stated, hut testimony
rt will also be offered to show that the
_ face value of the bonds was altered
_ in a number of in^tonces.
One affidavit already submitted in
this connection is that one woman
_ employe testified to the fraudulent
_ raising of one bond whereby $67,000
n. was illegally procured.
n Criminal Charges
"There is every indication that
r criminal charges will be preferred
. against a number of employes as p.
_ result o'* the bond investigations," the
_ official in whose possession the evi
(1 denco has been placed decided.
Regarding the purposes behind the
_ other investigation which will be
> into the property of the bureau, L'nP
der Secretary Gilbert would not comy
ment further than to say th.at "'now
[\ is a good time to make it."
The last inventory of bureau nvon.
n erty was made in 1020, it was e\c
plained.
v In the Senate the resolution by SenY
ator Borah to ask the President for
his reasons for the wholesale disniis(\
sal, was referred to by Senator Borah,
. who said the Senate has no right to
s ask such information of the Presiv
dent. If the President has done
*e wrong, the Senator said, Congress
has its remedy in the form of impeachment,
but has no authority to
} inquire about any executive order
s made by him.
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When a carnival pitched its tents
on. his hotel property and an appeal
^ to the authorities proved of no avail,
? Charles E. Young, Sr., St. Augustine,
y Fla., used the old sea method of showe
ing distress and hung the American
? - flag on his hostelry upside down. The
>- American Legion protested the act
and Young publicly apologized.
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HY, S. 0., APRIL 27, 1922
STRANGE THINGS COME
TO LIGHT IN HUNTING
Groesbeck, Tex?Hunting up land
owners and titles to property, which
has become a brisk business in this
section since the discovery of oil at
Mexia, near here, has brought to light
some sttbnirp tViitwrc Hni.. ? **"
n - wui(00< u i*;v.
days a^o Thomas Rogers of Fort
Worth, representing interests tha*
desired to 'lease certain tracts of laund
in a remote part of the country came
upon a little cabin in the hills, several
miles from the nearest railroad point
Fipm the tax records he had th<
name of the owner of the land, bu1
until he knocked on the door of the
hut and an aged negro woman came
to the door he supposed the proper
ty belonged to a white man. The
woman told Lawrence her name was
Sam a nth y Johnson and that she wa
92 years old.
"You do not own this land?" Mr.
Lawrence questioned. "The title is
in the name of Washington Johnson;
I suppose he is your son."
"No suh!" the woman replied.
Dat's my daddy. He's loafin' around
here somewhere this minute. Wait
and I'll call him."
She let out a loud whoop, and
there was an answer from the bushe
that fringed a nearby creek. Then
ambled up to the cabin old mai
Johnson. He bowed low to the
white visitor, and cheerfully asked
what service he could be to him.
"Are you Washington Johnson?"
Rogers asked.
"Indeed, 1 is," was/the reply.
"How old are you."
"I never jes figured it out. but
I was born in 1801, back in Virginy."
"That makes you 120 years old."
he was told. "Do you feel spry?"
"Jes as sprty as a- colt," was the
reply. "I'se been fishin all mornin'
and am powerful hungry."
The white visitor stayed to dinner
and the aged negro signed up the
lease. If oil is found he will be
made rich in his old age.
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It isn't what men have descended
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the things they descend to.?Xaconui
Ledger.
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Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
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needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
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Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor
Ving Effect. 60c.
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The doctor was going away for a
d*\y's outing, so left instructions with!
his assistant to carry on best he1
couid til! the doctor's retvtfin, additig
that he did not expect anything at all
serious was likely to require his attention
and that he himself would be
back that evening.
Everything went well during the
forenoon, and the assistant was beginning
to enjoy a quiet afternoon in
the doctor's study, when suddenly the
telephone bell rang.
"Hello! Is the doctor in? May !
speak to him?" rnmo in e
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tones over the wire.
"I am sorry, madam; he is out at
present," replied the assistant; "but
perhaps I may be of use to you?"
"Oh! Is that you. Dr. Brown? It
is most unfortunate that the doctor
himself isn't in. I am speaking: on
behalf of Mrs. Thompson, and it is
rather important," replied the lady at
the other end.
"Then, can I take a message for
him when he returns?" replied the obsequious
Dr. Brown.
"Well," replied she, "tell the doctor
immediately on his return that
Mrs. Thompson has a gymkhana coining
on, and she wonders if he could
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| YOURS TO SERV1
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The Postal service for rural
X through the establishment of a 1><
the public of some of the difficult
performance of his duties. It is
its purpose to provide adequate an
+ be possible, to all persons residing
X cannot be attained without the f
T the efforts of postmasters and car
T Whatever facilities the wor
to the patrons for the greater ea
<9 may cover his route, the earlier ;i
So patrons of rural delivei
% helping their carrier, seeing to it
are clear and the roads kept in g
after a storm.
The postoflice department i:
serve from May the 1st to the Gtl
? is my desire that all the patrons
J brook, S. C., will do their best t
T readv to co-onerate in this work
v service better by co-operation.
1 am yours to serve and sei
I JOHN A. TY1
t ALLSBIM
J April 24, 1022.
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Reading This A<
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>unty and your state. You ne
paper for the past twenty ye
ent will prove every word of
um through which all classes <
have their say on any matl
t has stood for no particular m
Horry County as a people, a
credit of being one of the ver
or any state. Compare it witl
re convinced.
hen support the paper as it des<
iption but with your advertisin
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th the paper that is all home pi
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3 chock lull ol the local ncwi
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"Certainly certainly," replied the
resourceful assistant. "I'll tell the
doctor the moment he returns; and,
in the meantime, tell her to put a
mustard poultice on it, and renew
every two hours."
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Bec.'ise of itq tor.ic anrt laxative e fleet. LAX AIT'K
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Qu.'a.iie and does not cuuse ncrvou*u??s nor
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too*, for the ?# nature o< H. W. GRuVK. 30c.
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+ I am now in the market for
^ all your woo!, green hides and ^
? furs. 1 am paying host cash
V prices. Bring me your goods at O
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