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wy;T gy.» ■ ■ r-.' ■ ■ ^ '■—»«■ ■ «•"« <•.•• ■ .n^^ , r . .. _ T . >v , -... . :T „., , v „ ..,. ' ' ' : ^ 1 V- , J" y/ * /., .' *V ^ V.' 1 '''- “ * THUBSDAY, APRIL 12TH, 1928. THB BABN1TSIX PBpf LB-SENTINEL, EARNWKLU SOUTH CAROUHX y Arthur Brisbane V A REVIVAL OF HOPE. PROSPERITY FOR FARMERS. IMPORTANT “CROP IIEWS.” NATURE’S There is revival of the hope that Presidemr~Coolidge witf consent to run for a ^cond election this year. Everybody^knows he meant it when he said ‘T do hot choose.” Everybody knows/fie means it when he says now he does not want any of his friends toil ft a finger to nominate him. But the oil scandal makes a differ ence in the situation, apd everyone of intelligence reserves the right change his mind. * to Cotton “pickers and strippers ” re placing human fingers with machin ery, are now working in northwest ern Texas. This is good .pews. Prosperity for farmers depends on machinery, on <loing with the earth’s products what Ford, first, did with automobiles. In. the Gary rolling mill half a ■dozen men roll out steel rails that ten thousand could"'not have’, produced with old sledge hammer methods. No *human hand touches the .iron, until a tall young Scandinavian runs his "keen blue eye along the finished .rail and signals another man, who straightens it. Machine dig the ore, put it in ships, unload it, handle it, cold and hot. Six men, some day, will run a 1,000-acre farm, and multiply its crops by ten. Don’t worry about over-population. 7x 2=14 x 2=28 BUlion DOUBLED and REDOUBLED ITHIM FIVE YEARS!! / Croton Dam^f the New York City Water System. - The infant death rate is down in Pennsylvania and New York. And that’s the most important “crop news” this year. If only civilization took as much interest in babies as it does in young calves, pigs, boll weevil and corn borer. Consider Nature’s limitless fecun- ■dity. Mr. Ringling shows you this year a sea-elephant weighing four tons that eats 5 per cent of his weight, or 400 pounds of herrings, at one meal. Any one of a dozen fishes in one generation would fill all the oceans . apd seas of the world solid with fish if they and their descendants all sur vive..,. , The. .elephant, on the other Jiand. lives a hundred years and only has two or three children at’ most. Wise nature. Canada has hanged George Mc Donald, forger, confidence man and murderer. His young wife, saved from the rope by public appeals, sent him "vvord, “I shall never ceas ing for you.” She, poor woman, will have Time to keep that promise mher life imprisonment. In Canada it MEANS life imprisonment. Sparing that woman is a step to ward civilization. Once thousands a year were hanged tor petty crimes. Hence the expression, ^As ’well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.” Chil dren were hanged and quartered in Franklin’s childhood. “Civilization” has ,stopped hanging children, and gradually will stop hanging women, and finally wifi* STOP HANGING. And men, aston ished, will see crime diminish. Tom Wise is deal. Shepherd of the Lambs’ Club, and a good actor. Years ago William A. Brady asked this writer to see Tom Wise in a play called “A Gentleman from Mississip- 1 pi” that Brady was producing. > * . This writer told Brady, “You have a first class play,.and there is in it young actor playing a minor part, jumping over chairs, etc., that is go ing to make a success. You ought to make a contract with him.” Thf young man’s name was Douglas Fair- 1 -anks. What Cooper wrote about the last noble red men. will soon be written of the last wild horses. Not long afterward, thanks to the motor truck, will come the last of the tarnty horses. In the State of Washington a thou sand wild horses yesterday were be ing driven toward Yakima, their hides to be sold, their fiesh fed to fox farms, or fed to dogs and chickens. The carcasses are worth $3 each. A big candy factory is closed" ill New York City, called “a menace to health” by Commissioner Harris. Buy pure candies from shops and manufacturers with established repu tations. All sorts of trash is .fed to children. A certain clay mixed and flavored and a little inferior choco late is sold for pure chocolate. That crime should mean twenty years in jail. DR. A. H .MEREDITH OPTOMETRIST and OPTICIAN Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted . Artificial Eyes Matched and Inserted. MEREDITH OPTICAL COMPANY, ‘ A. 748 Broad Street Ga. (Piyoared by the National Geograpnte Society, WashinKton. El. G.Y HILE New York Is a great city In many ways, conspiun- ons above every other phase of its greatness is its role as nn international trade’center. In re cent years New York has been han dling approximately one-third of the exports of the United States, meas ured In value, and about one-half of the imports. * Fo* such operations as these, ?^ew York, perforce, must hei a great me tropolis. In population^ It outranks any one of half the nations of the earth, surpasses that of The entire continent of Australia, and almost matches the combined strength of the six westernmost states of the Ameri can Union. In unmrnl expenditures it exceeds most of the nations on the map. Its water system could supply the whole earth with drinking •'water, and its storage reservoirs hold enough to slake civilization’s thirst f v or more than a year. Its electric transporta tion lines carry nearly twice as many passengers in 12 months as all the steam railroads of the United States. They could give every man, woman and child living a’ ride every ten months—so much for the yardstick of comparison. New York is of all cities the one where the majesty of small things is regarded as well as the greatness t>f large ones. Who counts a nickel? Yet the great est transportation system of the ages was buHt by nickels prospective, ami lyes on nickels realized Who reckons a dime,, which even the waiter in a (^lick-lunch room scarcely deems worth a “Thank .you?” Yet the world’s loftiest building, its crowning cathe dral of commerce, was built out of the small margin of profit . in ten-cent transactions. Who considers the dust in the street? New York has built up sixty-five acres of ground, valued at several mflllon dollars, out of street sweepings. Who feels the dust and dirt that adhere to his shoes? How- more than seven tons of the housewife’s enemy Is carried by tramping feet into the subways every 24 hours. One scarcely knows which to won der at most—New York, the cosmopo- Hs of civilization, or New York, tire metropolis of the Western world, It has more Irish and their sons and daughters than Dublin, more Italians and their children than has Rome and as many Germans and their children as Leipzig and ITanfort-ou-Muin to gether. Vast Foreign Population. —Any >dory df New York begins with its people, and in its vast aggregation of humanity there is a wealth of in terest. Let those who have been pessimis tic about our immigration study New York. It seems unbelievable; but If every resident whose parents were burn In America were to leave tin* city its standing as the most populous center in the world would not he af fected. In other words, the number of immigrants and their children resi dent in New York Is almost equal to the combined populations of Paris and Philadelphia^ and greater than the combined populations of Chicago and Berlin. Three people out of every four In the great metropolis were horn under alien flags or are the children of the foreign-born. But who that has stud ied the situation can gainsay New York’s Americanism? The story of how’ the one-fourth of the city’s population that is of native ancestry has Americanized the three- fourths that is foreign in birth or par entage Is revealed In the schools. Along yrfth many other cities, New York long since learned that a vast majority of the children who attend public schools do not go to college af terward. From this realization came the vocational schools. A day spent In visiting New York’s prevocatlonal and vocational schools gives one much heart and hope. Go to the lower East side, where the tenement flourishes in all its fabled glory, and visit a pre- vocatlonal school Here you will sea children studying the things an older generation studied In the little red school house, with touches of nature added here and there. There is a con stant effpH to grade the boys and girls, so that v each child finds full scope for his capabilities. Wtien one reflects that more than two-thirds of the children of school /age In New York are of Immigrant parentage, a situation is disclosed that might be termed startling, especially when it is remembered that the school army of Greater Gothaifi is so large that If it marched ten abreast in close formation the front rank would be boarding a North river ferryboat when the rear guard was crossing The Schuylkill out of Philadelphia. Next to The education of its chil dren for their life work and the main- ' tenance of order, a community’s most important task is to care for the pub lic health. And here again the big city shines. If there ever was a city on the face of the globe which to superficial judg- me’nt would seem a paradise for all the germs in the catalogue that city is New York. One of Healthiest Cities. But in spite of these conditions. New York is one of the healthiest cities in America. Nowhere else is there to be found a more splendid tribute to the success of preventive niedicine in combating “catching” dis eases than in thexmetropolis. - There are enough babies born in New York city every year to populate kosh, Wis.; Roanoke, Ya.; Ilamiltori Ohio, or Springfield, Mo. As many people in New York die annually as live in four cities like Elkhart, Ind.; Leavenworth, Kan.; Beverly, Mass., or Raleigh, N. C. So many births ■* mean an unrelenting tight and eternal vigilance to keep down infant mortal ity. In every phase of Rs development New York city is like an adolescent hoy who is always outgrowing his clothes; the city fathers are kept on tenter hooks to meet Its expansion. Its schools are ^always overcrowded because, rich as it is, the itiurfieipality cannpt buy sites and build schools fast enough to keep up with the ever growing jihild army. Its transporta tion lines are always choked with pas sengers because one subway cannot be completed before another Is need ed. Its bridges and tunnels are al ways pressed to capacity because the interval between the realization of a new need and-the opening of facilities to meet it is long enough in New ’ York’s rate of expansion fore a sue ceeding need to he horn.—— But. at last the city has found one place where engineering, construction is able to outstrip human expansion and prepare for decades ahead. It has built a water system that wil! take care of half a century of growth and form a unitjn the bigger system that may lie beyond that period. Water Supply Now Adequate. '• For generations.Gotham has had a hand-to-moutli water supply, as is The case with other municipal require ments. iThe gaunt specter of water famine, with all of its attendant train of gnomes—disease, uncleanness, crip pled industries, beggared homos—ever lurked in the shadows of the immedi ate future. The slogan became ‘^Xew York must have an adequate water supply.” One by one supporters were won to the idea—now the Manufacturers’ associa tion, now the Merchants’ association, now the mayor, now the governor-of the state, now the legislature Itself. All difficulties were overridden, and today there flows down to New York from the Catskills an underground river deep enough and wide enough to carry drinking water for the whole world. In size," In length, 4n the vol ume of water it will carry, as well as in the cosLof construction and the en gineering problems Involved-, it makes every other aqueduct of ancient and modern times look like a pigmy pro> eel If. is were /diverted into Fifth avenue, it would be a stream waist deep flowing at the rate of four miles an hour. j _ RETT E S E STATE it a* our bon* eat belief that the tobaeeoo used in Chesterfield dgs-> reties are of finer quality and hence of better taste than in any other cigarette at the price. Lrccnr A Urns Tobacco Go. 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