The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 04, 1923, Image 4
The Horry Herald
CONWAY, S. C.
Entered at the Post Office at Conway,
6. C., as eccond class mail mutter.
H. H. WOODWARD, Editor.
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THURSDAY JAN. 4^ 1923
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It is often the case that a man is
placed in a position that he is not
competent to fill. He gets into this
trouble without knowing it.
A man is competent to fill some
positions to which he may aspire, or
to which his friends may wish to have
him appointed, but there are other
positions in which the work would be
to him the same as Greek to a tenyear-old
school boy.
There are many contractors, farmers,
and'even factory superintendents
of one kind and another making great
success at their work and becoming
so popular on that account that perhaps
some friend or set of friends gets
them pl/iced in a position where accounting
and bookkeeping is called into
play. What do they know about a
set of books? How can they look
over such things and come to a correct
conclusion ? They cannot do it,
-hence it turns out that they are in
"positions, at last, which they cannot
fill. They then have to take the word
of somebody else to cover up their
own shortcomings, and the result may
"be disastrous for those whose funds
are concerned.
We would not select a farmer to
die*.k up the affiairs of a bank. \Ne
would not select a country merchant
to look over loans and pass on
whether or not they would be granted.
Such things would require the
services of a thorough business man
and no other could possibly do justice
to the job.
Men in the wrong place are often
the cause of trouble to others. They
are smart enough in many ways to
except those particulars in which they
are lacking, and they often know how
"to place the blame apparently on
somebody else.
Many a store has come to nothing,
many a bank has failed, many an en-terprise
has gone into the bankrupt
oourt on account of the lack of the
right kind of man at the head of the
important affairs of the thing.
Men should remember that no matter
how successful thev may he in
*ome particular undertaking, this does
^not mean that they have the power to
'bring' success in some other where
they have not had the experience and
the training necessary to make them
efficient therein. Men should always
liemtate about taking on themselves
responsibilities that they are unable
to carry.
To the contrary we find some men
over-anxious to take on their shoulders
new tnd untried Thev learn
veiy often after it is voo '.at th.it they
rh'iuld have refrained.
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* HORRY HERALDING |
We a*p doomed to wade until the
streets are paved.
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We believe in religion but not in
fpoing crazy over it.
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We believe in giving but not in
making a mess of it.
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Necessity is the mother of the lip
stick and face powder.
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We should approach the making of
debt* with fear and trembling.
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A farmer who will not work will
come put in debt without a crop.
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Many a man has been injured for
life on the day that he obtained a
loan.
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Men fall out and fiicht about trifles
*while they lot the l>ijut things go by
without notice.
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The man who is hunting f\ fight can
usually find it. * If he wants peace
1 lie can find that. ?
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: . f-Cnarity tovsome people is an in,
jury and not a help for it learns them
to depend on others and not on thenv
selves.
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' A business that is neglected is not
a good business, we do. not care what
; j it concerns, nor how much ability the
manager has.
. Some men will work for vyiges and
' then spend their money for things
they could do without and call or
charity for aid in buying the necessaries
of life.
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The farmers of this eoimtv nw? fut)
coming out of the depression which
beset the country some time ago. Thej
are not yet entirely out of the woods
Imt they are beginning to come.
The boll weevil and general depres
*1on brought about by the insect ,an<
other things equally as bad, was a!
most too much for the farmers of thii
flection to stand, but they stood then
all, and they are coming out. Thi
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New Year will do much to take the in'
further along the road to prosperity
in spite of all handicaps.
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WASHINGTON COMMENT
At a recent meeting- of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, is commander, Col.
T. L. Huston, proposed that the organization
work for a thorough revision
of textbooks of history, now in
use in United States schools, with
the idea of ridding them of un-American
ideals and misleading "facts."
A committee is to be appointed by the
veterans at the request of the American
Book Company to co-operate in
making a study of its histories, with
a view to eliminating propaganda and
to see that the histories teach nothing
but American ideals.
Doubtless the veterans have overlooked
the fact that the Knights of
Columbus are already rewriting American
history!
But if they have nt forgotten it. it
may be that the appointed committee
and the American Book Company will
bear in mind that foreign propaganda
can come from the inside as well as
the outside. It is just as bad, from
the American viewpoint, to teach a
susceptible child that the Pope of
Rome should properly be the Secular
Head of the world as it is to instruct
him that the Kaiser is a much maligned
and misunderstood ruler. It is
lust as bad, from the standpoint of
the ideals of Americanism, to stress
to children the religious convictions
of national heroes (especially when
such facts are perverted from strict
truth) as it is to stress the value of
Bolshevism and Sovietisni as world
papaceas.
Few of us know, and less of us care,
what was the personal faith of Washington.
Jefferson, Nathan Hale. Perry,
Parragut, Grant, Lincoln. Their services
to America are not measured in
terms of what dogma they believed,
but what they did. There is no more
need of a history written by Catholics
for Catholics than there is one written
by Protestants for Protestants.
What is needed in history is truth,
and nothing hut the truth, uncolored,
unbiased, unashamed.
If the American Book Company and
the committee .ipnoint.ed hv the Veterans
of Foreign Wars will bear this
in mind, they will, indeed, do America
good service.
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What are you going to do in 1928
to make the "Happy New Year" your
wish for all you greet in January 1st,
come true?
"What can I do?" is the natural
answer.
Here is something you can do; you
can interest yourselves in your
schools. You can visit some of them.
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not your own children are being adequately
cared for, properly taught,
wisely made into real Americans.
"But I have no children," is no good
answer. You have an American birthright.
You have an American ideal.
You Relieve in Democracy. You believe
in freedom of thought, of religion,
of the press, of action, within
the law. You believe this is the best
country in which to live. You believe
that here, rather than in any other
land, man has the greatest opportunity
to he happy.
But you won't be able to believe
these things if the generation to come
after you does not so act that vau can
believe them. And the generation to
follow you is not going to be tmly
and wholly American, unless its members
are taught now, today, this minute,
in the fundamentals of the American
doctrine.
You pay your taxes and comfortably
leave the rest to a School Board,
or a superintendent of schools, or a
board of aldermen. When you give
mi o?der in business, do you forget
it .or watch to see if it is carried out?
When a woman tells her cook to prepare
dinner, does she rest satisfied regardless
of how the dinner is cooked,
or train her cook to better ways if it
is ill-done, or get a new cook if the
old one can not be taught? Well,
which is most important*, the order in
business, the cooking of a dinner, or
the education of children- You have
given your orders, as a voter and a
tax payer; it is your business to see
that they are carried out. If you find
them unexecuted, you can protest. But
if no one looks to see, if no one proI
tests, if no one takes an interest, not
I only the children, but America, your
I America suffers!?Contributed.
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Reptiblicean Traffic in Federal Jobs
Continues Merrily.
Washington, p. C.?Additional evidence
of the Republican practice of
peddling Federal patronage in Southern
States was given to the country
by Congressman T. W. Harrison, of
Virginia, when he read to the House
of Representatives a bundle of original
letters written by and to Representative
Slemp (Republican) of thai
State, and his secretary, L. B. Howard
on the subject of this traffic.
Canceled checks drawn in Representative
Slemp's favor and indorsed
by him were also included among the
exhibits of this Republican barter and
sale of public office.
Checks produced by Representative
f Harrison showed that more th/ui $90(
had. been collected by Howard anc
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HE HOBBY HERALD, CONWAY
turned over to Representative Slemp.
Some of the money garnered from
successful applicants Tor Federal jobs
went to the Republican National Committee,
the letters showed.
"I have your letters in regard to
the collection of money for post offices,"
Representative Slemp wrote to
one of his collectors. "One must be
careful about this," he cautioned. "It
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will wring tne p^riy into disrepute,
which would be bad for every one.
We must preserve our standing- with
the people and the administration."
The tenor of the other letters is indicated
by this extract from one that
Slemp's secretary wrote to one "Dear
Ben" on the subject of an appointment
obtained for the son of a Mr. Jones:
"I have succeeded in pulling your son
over the top and am ready to make
the appointment, but before we do so
it will be necessary for you to get in
touch with him and .arrange for some
money. We will have to have at least
$1^0 in order to come out whole * * *
It is a very delicate matter and I had
to do some strong wire pulling to get
it through and I know you can work
it in the right way."
Representative Slemp's expression
of concern about preserving the
"standing" of the traffickers "with
the administration" seems to have
been promoted by undue caution.
James W. Tolbert, Republican National
Committeeman for South Carolina,
was charged several months ago
with having sold Federal patronage
in his state .and the Senate Judiciary
Committee failed to confirm his apnointment
by President Harding as
U. S. Marshal for the Western District
of South Carolina.
In the face of these charnres and an
additional showing that Tolbert had
been convicted of embezzling Federal
funds while postmaster .at Ninety Six.
South Carolina. President Harding
has eriven him a recess appointment
and he is now on the job and drawingsalary.
Symptoms of the same practices
are manifest in Louisiana.
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COW IN BOLL
WEEVIL TIMES
Clemson College.?The Department
of Agriculture has given us for ye?rs,
before the arrival of the boll weevil,
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facts, even though the farmers believed
not and heeded not. It has
told us tha* the dairy cow is one
means for the salvation of the farming
industry of this country. And the
one thine: that will do more to pull us
out of the hole than any one thing
else. Why then do we stand back:
And why do some bankers and business
men discourage the farmers by
saying they don't see much to it?
A trip to some of the states where
they have had the weevil longer than
we have, and where may be ic.en a
few cows on almost every farm and
more creameries now than there were
herds of. cows before che weevil, will
convince any man that the sooner we
stock our farms with a few dairy
cows, with a steady, though small income
every week from butter, fat j>?g?
to sell all during the year, and ; nice
bunch of milk-fed chickens and fertilizer
bills cut down, the better it will
be for us, says W. J. Keegan, Extension
Dairy Specialist,
Any man with intelligence knows
that we should never plant a 4 y cotton
crop again. What are to do
with that land. We can not all go
into truck, tobacco and other special
cash crops. But if we plant pre in
and forage crops without increasing
our livestock to consume it, we have
ruined ourselves again. How can we
market these crops to the best advantage?
Through our dairy cattle.
Some bankers draw their conclusions
about dairying from the way
thn iriHiiQtrv vim in tlif> nftst.
With high priced cotton no forage
crops were grown even for the work
stock in South Carolina. So the dairy
1 cow, as the farmer himself, was fed
from the surplus feeds of the West at
high prices on account of high freight
rates, instead of being used as a factorv
to manufacture our feed crops to
he sold as finished products at profitable
prices.
Lewis Larson, of Manti, Utah, v.ivs:
"I cashed my hay through my dairy
cows at double the hay market, with
butter fat selling at 34 cents a pound,
and had skim milk and manure besides.
With the skim milk I fattened
my pigs and chickens, and with
the manure I built up my soil fertility."
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Millions of dollars worth of dairy
products, eggs and chickens are being
shipped into Soulh Carolina every
year. Hence butter fat and all dairy
products are high in South Carolina.
HIGH CLASSES
MOSTLY "BUNK"
Some time ago college men were
startled by a statement which was
said to have come from Thomas A.
Edison, to the effect that college graduates
were not fit for any of the hard
work of life upon which success depends
in modern times.
A great deal o? weight is due any
statement of this kind made by the
great inventor. In his time he has
done more actual work than about
any ten men put together. He knows
what it takes to do it.
In line with the idea of Edison
comes an article published in a recen4
issue of Brain Power Magazine, and
which was written by Bernarr Macfadden,
the apostle of physical culture
and who has risen from nothing
to a high eminence in a work that
would have been impossible of success.
His article on higher education covers
hut one page but there are truth'in
it which might cover an entire bo<?k
.and it meets with the views of The
Herald to such an extent that it if
here reprinted in full just as it appears.
IS HIGHER rci)TTC\TiON MOSTLY
"BUNK?"
"The so-called education require'
in bi?rh school and college is mosth
"hunk."
"In Benjamin Franklin's time on'
learned by doing.
"If you wanted to ho a shoemakc
you started to work in a shoe?\aker'
shop. You secured your education ar
learned vour trade there. If yo
wanted to become a lawyer you gc
a job in a law office at something?
anything to give you an opportunity
to study the legal literature. If you
wanted to become a doctor the same
rule was adhered to. You came in
direct contact with the actual, practical
workings of the trade or orofession
which you wished to emer.
"Since that time education has
grown in complications. Now you
can spend so much time in the educational
process that you are ready to
die before you are ready to live.
"We came to the conclusion that
education is a good thintr. that we
^ould not possibly acquire too much of
it and?we worke dthe idea to death.
We have, in some instances, almost
made education the object of life instead
of the preparation for life. Con
sequently, great numbers of our immature
citizens have been mentally
smothered by this process.
They are stuffed wit*? Vnowledge to
such an extent that their reaso:
faculties refuse to act.
Now, it is not what you learn that
makes your life profitable. It is what
you use.
I have met numerous individuals
whose knowledge was far greater
than my own but they were doomed
to mediocrity. They had lost the inspiration
thiit comes with initiative
Their self-confidence and enthusiasmwere
snuffed out. They were actually
smothered by an excess of so-callet1
knowledge. They were fitted out with
an unlimited array of this importan'
requisite we call knowledge, but the'
did not know how to use any part o'
it.
The old system of education suppli
ed a working system. There were nc
vnis?y clouds of theory that led n*
where. You learned by doing.
Much of the so-called knowledge
thM is being round into the mind
of young America can be classed sr
frills and furbelows. It is irere ornr
mentation and really clouds the issue.
It clogs the brain to such an exten
that you cannot do effective work. T*
doesn't give the boy a chance to "find"
himself. He uses so much of hi?
energy learning things that are of
little or no importance that he has
none left to apply to the solution of
the great problems of life.
"Education should emphasize that
which is useful. When student's
brain is filled with the vast array of
information that isn't useful, it hinders
his effort in the attainment of
real success. It fails to emphasize
the fundamental principles of life upon
which success depends. And,
furthermore, it represents tremendous^
waste of mental energy.
A good grammar school education
is f\W that is needed to start any boy
and girl in some sphere of interesting
activity. It should enable them to
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"find" themselves. It ought to uncover
^ome special work for them in
which they can become deeply interested.
If it fails to accomplish this,
then their efforts should be devoted
to something which is useful and profitable
until they "find" themselves.
Nine-tenths of the studies with
which the brains of America's youth
are being crammed in high schools
and colleges are pure waste of time.
Study the great men of the past. Go
over the list of a few of the big men
of today and then find out the proportion
who have had a high school and
college education.
Useful knowledge is a mental gold
mine. You* cannot dig to the bottom.
Every day it represents an invaluable
storehouse.
But every bit of mental waste in
the form of knowledge for whirh von i
have no use helps, to u certain extent,
to block your progress. It takes
mental energy that cowld be used for
a better purpose.
Knowledtre is power when it is useful,
but otherwise it can be rightfully
classed as 'hunk.' "
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The Civil Service - Commission invites
special attention to the fact that
in an examination held recently in
Washington, D. C., and other cities
throu<r-houv the United States for assistant
observer in meteorology,
Weather Bureau, applicants were not.
in the number desired, and
that this examination will be held
again on March 7, 1023.
Persons interested in this or other
examinations should apply to tho
Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service
Board at the local post office for detailed
information and application
blanks.
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TODDVILLE ITEMS
(Intended For Last Issue
Mi ss Alice Hardee, a nurse at the
Burroughs Hospital, is spending the
holidays with her parents, Mr.^ and
Mrs. J. A. Hardee.
Sam and Van Dusenbury returned
home from High Point, N. C., last
Thursday.
Miss Georgia Owens, who occupies
a position with the Sparks Co., cf
Conway, is spending the holidays with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Dusenbury.
Mrs. Donald Dusenbury and little
daughter, El.ain, of Georgetown, are
visitinpr friends and relatives here.
Mr. Leigh Hardee sj>ent the weekend
in Mullin*. y
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Don't Take Calomel! "Dodsoi
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Lose a Day's Worl
Ugh I Calomel makes you sick. It's
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ou8 dm# tonight and tomorrow you
may lose a day's work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile crashes into it, break*
ing it up. This is when you feel that
awful nausea and cramping. If you
are sluggish and "all knocked out/' if
your livor is torpid and bowels constipated
or you have headache, dizziness,
coated tongue, if breath is bad
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\V. L. Edihon'i;;on made a trip to
town lust Saturday.
Mis. M. E. Oa.-onb'iry was in town
day last wee*.
The Christmas >ree ?t Union church
was a great success, and was enjoyed
by everyone. Too much praise cannot
be given to the ones who got it up.
A masquerade party was given at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Har->
per, Tuesday night. Several games
were played and as each guest was
found they took off their mask. Later
refreshments were served. It was enjoyed
by every one present.
L FARM GOSSIP
^Vould you be rich? "Wealth is in
the land," says Clemenceau.
Even with tractors and oth&i' power
machinery* it takes horse sense to run
a farm.
Some farmers are known by the
land they fail to enrich.
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nappiiy now are come the days
when farmers practice the gentle art
of pig-sticking.
Organized labor insists on an 8hour
day, but farmers do well to get
an 8-hour night.
Timid suggestions to the makers of
special weeks: Why not have a "Buy
Home-Grown Products Week?"
There were 109 different crop diseases
recorded in South Carolina in
1022. What are you doing to help
control them ?
To establish .and care for & good
home orchard is an obligation each
farmer owes to his family.
Better prices for what they have to
sell now will do farmers more good
than any amount of credits and other
so-called economic aids.
Winter fires are not only good to
warm by. They are the best killer*
of disease-infected garden refuse ever
invented.
Nothing adds more to the attractive
appearance of the farm premises
than the grouping of scrubbery in
| suitable places to cover bare and unsightly
spots.
There is no beauty in art like the
beauty of Nature's fields and woods
and streams, and their winter beauty
exceeds even their summer glory.
"COLD IN THE HEAD"
is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh.
Those subject to. frequent "colds" are
generally in a "run down" condition.
HATE'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is a
Treatment consisting of an Ointment, to
>e used locally, and a Tonic, which acts
Quickly through the Blood on the Mu nus
Surfaces, building up the System.
*nd making you lesn liable to "colds."
Sold by druKKtets for over 40 Years*
V. J. Cheney A Co., Tolodo, O.
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the middle-man's profit. ?
discount for Cash.
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r Make You Sick?Don't
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or fttomach bout, just try a apoonhiT
of hafmlesH Dodaon's Liver Tono tonight.
Here's my guarantee-?Go to any
drug storo an<l eet a bottle of DodBon'e
Liver Tone for a few cent*. Take
a Bpooniui ana 11 it doesn't straighten
you right up and make you foel fine
and vigorous I want you to go back
to the store and get your money.
Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the I
sale of calomel because it is real liver j
medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore
it can not salivate or make you 9ick?
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