Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm f ■ i f t # K K 1 ■ -B' l s t ¥ = ~- fMJH T^n ^ 11 * j, y . SHY DISASTERS | IN 1932 ADD TO NATION’S DISTIESS Red Cross Spends $2,760,000 To Help Victims of Catastrophes. In a year of great misfortune caused i>y economic depression, In which the American Red Cross assumed heavy hardens of relief for tho unemployed, the organization also responded to emergency needs in GO disasters In the United States and its insular posses sions. During the twelve months ending Jane 30. 1932, the Red Cross gave aid to 75,000 families totalling 338,000 indi viduals, with expenditures of $2,7G0,- 78C. These people were in distress be cause of drought, flood, forest Are, tor nado, snowstorm, mine explosion, or other similar great disaster. Prolonged drought caused the Red Cross to go with help to 58,000 families In the northwest. Here In 144 counties la North and South Dakota. Montana, Nebraska, Washington and Iowa the Red Cross spent $1,980,000 from Its own treasury to feed and protect peo ple through the winter and spring. Other grave disasters were floods in noutheastern states, where the organ isation spent $192,000 trom Its treasury and $86,000 local contributions to beR> 13,000 persons. ^ More than 50,000 people were home less from floods in tributaries of the Miaaisslppi river and again the Red Cross faced a long relief task, aiding these people. The national organization gave $108,000 and local contributions were $10,000, The Red Cross always malntains^a state of readiness to meet these sud den emergencies, and funds and other essentials to this work are supplied. In part, by the annual roll call, held «ach year from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day. Every citizen can support this worthy activity through Joining as a member in the local Red Cross chapter. Fithaa Do Not Drink When you say a man “drinks like m Hull,” you really imply that he does not drink. For Ashes swallow no wa fer for refreshment. When yon see a fish opening and closing Its mouth it Is merely breathing. Water is taken in, but it does not pass down the throat to the body. While the Ash breathes, its gullet Is tightly constrict ed at the back by means of muscles encircling the throat, and the water flows away over the gills. While wa ter does not pass the closed gullet, nolid food can force an entrance. When It presses against the hack of tbe gullet, the muscles relax enough to allow It to force a way down into the stomach. Fishes require fresh air ns much as humans do. Twain’a Famous Advica Then there is Mark Twain’s advice to young authors. You remember lie anM: **Yes, Agassiz does recommend au thors to eat Ash. because the phosphor ous in it makes brains. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat—at least, not with certainty. If ll»e specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I fOnnikl Judge that perhaps a couple of whales would he all you would want for the present. Not the largest hind, but simply good, middling-sized whales."—W. Orton Tewson, in the Detroit News. . ' ' Huge Task of Nurses V : Red Cross public health nurses, who work in hundreds of communities, are meeting the greatest demands in his tory for their services, duo to the de pression. Visits In maternity cases, protecting the health of infants and •children, and aiding mothers In dis tress due to unemployment of the bread-winners have taken them into thousands of homes. The nurses made 1257,008 visits to or on behalf of indi viduals, and inspected 949.000 school <chjJpfren. More than JiS.OOO adults were instructed in home hygiene and care e»f tbe sick. Blind Readers Get Books Sun and Moon Legends 4 of Primitive Peoples The natives of the Malay peninsula have an interesting myth which seeks to account for the differences between the day and night sky and also the motions of the sun and moon. According to this legend, both the sun and the moon are regarded as women, while the stars are the chil dren of the moon. The legend tells that the sun once had as many chil dren as the moon. The children of the sun wA*re bright like the sun it self. Fearing that the earth could not stand so much light and heat, the sun and moon made an agreement to eat their children. The sun carried out her [tart of the agreement, but the moon only hid her children. When the moon’s children, the stars, came out at night, the sun was very angry and began to pursue the moon. This accounts for the motions of the sun and moon through the heavens, which the Malay natives regarded as a pursuit of the moon by the sun. The stars go out as the sun rises. This, the natives say, is because the sun is still devouring her children. But the moon hides her children dur ing the daytime and brings them out at night. Among the American Indians we And the sun and moon generally re garded as brother and sister. . One legend of the Ottawa Indians tens of two Indians who “sprang through a chasm in the sky and found themselves In u pleasant moonlit land.” There they met the moon, who wds "an aged woman with white face and pleasing air." She Introduced them to her brother, who was the sun.—David Dietz, In the New York World-Telegram. Even Ordinary Mortal Is Rich in Ancestors “A pedigree like this Is, of course, such as few can claim,’’ says the Cana dian Mining Journal, commenting on an article on the subject of heredity. But, with reference to the pedigrees of very ordinary mortals like our selves, it Is Interesting to recall that a distinguished legal commentator has estimated that at ttie fortieth gene alogical remove—that Is to say, in the course of sixteen or seventeen centuries—the total number of a man's progenitors is more than 1,000,- 000,000,000. “ ‘All of us have now subsisting,’ wrote the great Hlackstone, ‘nearly '270,000.000 of cousins in the Afteenth degree; and if this calculation should appear incompatible with the number of inhabitants on the earth. It is be cause, by intermarriages among the descendants, a hundred or a thousand different relations may be consolidat ed in one person, or he may be relat ed to us in a hundred or a thousand different ways!’ “What a Aeld of speculation this train of thought opens up! Small wdnder that each of us is supposed to have a ‘double.’ ” Pelican’* Big Appetite It is interesting to see a Aoek of pelicans on the wing. They usually My in single tile, and when the leader si arts or stops flopping ids wings the others follow with mechanical pre cision. From three to five white chalk-in- crusted eggs are laid by the pelican on Its crude, bulky nest Usually not more than two birds are raised. When (lie chick breaks shell it is black skinned and the long hill already is noticeable. Within a few weeks the bird is downy white and his faint squawking is brought about by a desire for more fish dally. When lie is only three weeks old he must have several po’iuqls. of Ash daily. And when the young pelican renclres his fifth week he displays a ravenous appetite.—An thony V. Kngusin, in the New York Herald Tribune. City of Venice Unique Venice is at the head of the Adri atic sea, between the mountains and the sea. The whole of the plain has been formed by tlie debris swept down from the Alps by rivers. In (lie proc ess of time some of these hanks, as in the case of Venice, raised themselves above the level of the water and be came the true shore line, while be yond them lay large lagoons formed nmhiubtodly by fresh water brought down by the rivers and partly by the 4r ■ '"?T ,r \ 1HE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1932 BONES OF CAMELS FOUND IN NEBRASKA Mrs. S. jl- Mayfield. Denmark, Oct. 21.—Funeral services for Mrs. S. G. Mayfield were held at the Denmark cemetery Thursday af- Roumcd Jhiit Section About teinoon .at 4 o’clock. The services 3,000,000 Years Ago. were conducted by Dr. W. T. Derioux, of Columbia; the Rev. Waymon C. Reese, pastor cf the Denmark Bap- Denver, Colo.—The skeletons of A herd of eleven camels, found in Ne- tist church, and the Rev. F. L. Glen- braska, 3,000,000 years old, will soon adorn the halls of the Colorado Mu seum of Natural History here. \ The camels, although built almost the same as the modern camel com mon to the Sahara desert, are much smaller. The Nebraska prehistoric creature stood only three feet high. Proof that the camels lived In Ne braska -when that country was n desert of fine, blowing sand, comes from the strata of sand In which the fossils were found. They were na tive of the mlocene age, according, to Director J. D. Figgins of the museum. For many years the camels roamed the sands. They did not travel fast. Large herds of them, thousands per haps, would return for weeks to the same bed of sand- at night, would gather close together for rest and protection from night prowlers. During this period that a herd slept on the same spot, some of them were, bound to die. And In such a place were the skeletons found which were brought to Denver for the education of the world. Archie, the skeleton of archidls- koden meridonalls Nebraskensis, a mammoth elephant, which occupies an exhibition stall adjoining the small camels, also came from Nebras ka. But the two animals never met. They could not have lived in the same type of country. Archie Is only 20,000 years old, as compared with the 3,000,000 years of his neighbors. non, pastor of the Denmark Metho dist church. The pallbeaiers were J. A. Abee, J. B. Liles, J. S. Tant, B. B. Thames, C. C. Fanning and D. T. Spell. Ancient Indian Guards Ritual of Ponca Tribe Ponca City, Okla.—Only one mem ber of the Ponca Indian tribe is left who knows the secret ceremonies of the jnedicinc men of the Poncas. Little Dance, who does not know the exact date of his birth, .but does know he was a small child when the meteor group of 1833 passed over the United- States, lives on the reserva tion south of here, with his sons and daughters, and will not talk to white /men. From historical records, which ver ify his story of the comets, telling of a meteor showed on November 12 and 13, 1833, the ancient Ponca must be well over one hundred. Among the secrets of his tribe, which he alone could reveal and which will probably die with him, are the clan secrets of the Poncas. The seven clans of the Poncas—the Medi cine band, Buffalo band, Ice band, Deer band, ‘Snake band—all have lost their rituals. They are known only by the medicine man. Little Dance takes as active a part ns possible in the sacred dances, and always helps with the arrangements. Alone, he holds hundreds of secrets, from the mixing of paint to the cere monies of the forbidden sun dance. salt wqier tide which found its way in IBooks In braille for reading by the FJirwl are made by women under Red ! Czoss direction. Last year 2,813 such i Woks were produced in single copy 1 3.5J8 In double copies. Fiction, kiography, history, economics and xxkooi books were among those print- •W is braille. The Red Cross gives Ike® t© libraies for free distribution 'to blind readers. j Med Cross to Enlist Great Army *tj Members to Fight Distress Last year 4,004,459 men and wo- t joined the American Red Cross as members during the annual roll eaU, Armistice Day to Thanksgiv ing Day. A peace-time army eVen than this will be needed 032-32 to support and carry on tks nationwide relief work of the Croat. There are 3.63$ Red Crass Chapters and they ihave ' at the channels of the river mouths. On a group of these mud hanks about the middle of the lagoon stands the city of Venice. The soil is an oozy mud which can only be made suitable for erecting buildings by the artificial means of pile-driving. k Treasure Lure Strong Cocos island, in the South Pacific, is again luring gold hunters, notes the Atlanta Journal, referring to expedi tions to “that olden haunt of pirates in the South Pacific," in search of “treasure fabled to he worth between S’Jo.OOO.OOO and $7o.000,000—a treasure that has long proved a will-o'-the- wisp,” according to the Journal. “But,” comments this natter, analyzing the persistence of the search, “it isn’t the gold merely Hint these smitten hearts desire; it's the sea wind, the lonely beach, the forest tangle, the very hardship and danger that lift life above humdrum in their foretaste if not in reality. Men will ever be hunt ers and sailors; and the wilder the chase, the more perilous the voyage, Ihe better they will fancy it Uses Window in Chest to Study Internal Diseases Arnold’s Park, Iowa.—Use of a win dow placed in the chest to observe the action of the heart, lungs and di aphragm of animals in the study <*f internal diseases lias been perfected tty Dr. Waiter L. Mendenhall, former head of the Drake university physics department. Mendenhall is head of the depart ment of pharmacology at the Boston university school of medicine. The device is expected to prove val uable in the treatment of tuberculosis, heart disease and lung disorders. The windpw is made of photographic film q *»* i tu liitiN'iul in list oniMurur in - n lit I 1“ fTlttV T-Vt III V*«T7”V*»V *-»*. •* ■ sorted between the muscles..?- Physicians believe It Is possible that the window could be used for treat ment of disease by ultraviolet light by substituting a quartz window for the photographic film window. Doctor Mendenhall demonstrated his experi ment in April before the Federated Societies for Experimental Biology in Philadelphia. Famous Literary Group The name “Hartford Wits" was giv en by the cultivated circles of the United States to a group of Connecti cut professional men and literary as pirants., who lived in Hartford or met there for convkfse and collaboration from shortly after the Revolution till toward 1800.^ The exact composition of the group Is not uniformly agreed upon, but the unquestioned members were Richard Alsop. Joel Barlow, The- Dwtght, Lemuel Hopkins and David Humphreys. Benjamin Trum bull, the historian, is sometimes added. Famous Error* in Bibles The “Discharge Bible,” printed in 1800, received its name from a typo graphical error whereby the phrase “l charge thee before God" was ren dered *T discharge thee before God." says an article in the Syracuse Post- Standard. The “Wife-Hater Bible” spelled “life’’ with a “w" in the book of Luke, with the following result; “If any man come to me. and hate not his father . . . yea. and his own wife also, he cannot be my dis ciple.” One of Heaviest Trials To have produced works of genius and to find them neglected or treated with scorn is one of the heaviest trials of human patience. We exaggerate our own merits when they are denied by others and are apt to grudge and cavil at every particle of praise be stowed on those to whom we feel a conscious superiority. In mere self- defense we tunn against the world when It turns against us; brood over the undeserved slights we have re ceived and thus the genial current of the soul is stopped.—Hazlitt; The Spirit of the Age. point, frem among qualified*^ voters, the Managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and rejection of amendnfents to the Stake Constitution, as provided in the fol lowing JOINT RESOLUTIONS: State-Wide Constitutional Amendments. , Make Wise Use of Time Time is something grunted each of us in equal quantities—so many hours a day, so many days a week. It is the use we make of it that spells the difference between success and fail ure. Time Is vastly more important than money, so the wise man never wastes It.—Grit. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for Piesidential, Vice Presidential Electors, United States Senator and Representatives in Con gress will be held at the voting pre cincts fixed by law in the County of Barnwell on Tuesday, November 8. 1932, said day being Tuesday follow ing the first Monday, as prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage aie as follows: Residence in State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months, and the payment of six months befoie any election of any poll tax then due and payable. Prodded, That ministeis iir charge of <jourft the ballots therein, and con tinue w’ithcut adjournment until the same is completed, and make a state ment of the results for each office, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or' some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commis sioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the elec tion. V Managers of Election.—The follow ing Managers of Election have been appointed to hold the election at the various precincts in the said County: Barnwell.—Angus Patterson, W. O. Halfoid and Ira Fales; polling place, Court House. Blaekville.—J. D. Grubbs W. E. Matthews and A. V. Collum; polling place, vacant store. Snelling.—R. R. Mdore, J. M. Hill and H. M. Cook; polling place, Moore’s store. Robbins.—W. F. Duncan, A. R. Dtinbar and C. G. Youngblood; polling place, Muns’ Filling Station. Kline.—Victor Lewis/F. M. Hailey and B. M. Jenkins, Sr.; polling place, Lewis and Best’s store. Dunbarton.—T. W. Dicks, B. F. Owens and J. M. Killingsworth; poll ing place, vacant store. Pleasant Hill.—W. R. Rutland, Hoyt Rutland and R. E. Woodward; polling place, Pleasant Hill school house. Williston.—F. T. Merritt, J. H. McDonald and R. L. Hair; polling place, ForJ show room. Elko.—P. S. Green, Moise Hair and F. H. Hitt; polling place. Green and Company’s store. Hercules.—L. B. Creech, Aiken Creech and John A. Morris; polling place, Democratic club house. Meyer’s Mill.—C. O. Meyer, Gary Cobb and W. T. Hankinson; polling place, San Hill school house. The Managers at each precinct nam ed above are requested to delegate one of their number to secure the box and blanks foi the election at the Clerk of Court’s office in Barnwell, S. C., on Saturday, November 5th, 1932. J. W. Bates, J. Buist Grubbs, S. E. Moore, Commissioners of Federal Election for Barnwell County, S. C., October 22, 1932. V No. 1. A JOINT RESOLUTION Submit ting to the Qualified Electors of the State an Amendment to Section 5 of Article VI of the State Constitution Relating to the Manner and Means cf Codifying the General Statutory Law of the State. v / No. 2. ’ • v A JOINT RESOLUTION To Amend Section 10, Article X, of the Consti tution Relating to he Fiscal Year by Changing Same from the 1st Day cf January to the 1st Day of July, and Providing Authority to the General Assembly to Make Samfe Effective. Local Constitutional Amendments. No. 3. ANPERSON COUNTY. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an Amendment to Section 14 of Ar ticle X of the Constitution by Adding a Special Proviso as to the City of Anderson, so as to Permit Said City to Assess the Cost of Street Improve ments Against Abutting Property and to Issue Improvement Certificates or Bonds Thereon. No. 4. DORCHESTER COUNTY. A JOINT RESOLUTION To Amend Section 5 cf Ai tide X of the Consti tution by Adding Thereto a Provision Relating to Notes and Bonds heretofore Issued by Dorchester County, ami Providing for the Payment, Funding, or Refunding of the Same. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State cf South Carolina, County of Barnwell. Veteran Regains Memory and Kin After 14 Year* Notice i s hereby given that the General Election for State and Coun ty Officers will be held at the voting precincts prescribed by law in said county, on Tuesday, November 8, 1932, said day being Tuesday follow ing the first Monday in November, as prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualification for suffrage: (E) PAYMENT OF TAXES NEC ESSARY FOR VOTING.—Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any elec tion, before allowing him to vote, proof of the payment thiity days- be fore any election of any poll .tax then No, 5. GEORGETOWN COUNTY. A JOINT RESOLUTION To Amend Section 7 of Article YTII, Section 5 of Article X and Section 13 of Articlt- II of the Constitution Relating to the Bended Indebtedness of Cities and Towns, by Adding Thereto a Proviso a s to the Bonded Indebtedness of the City of Georgetown. No. 6. SUMTER COUNTY. A JOINT RESOLUTION To Amend Article V, Section 21, of the Constitu tion of the State of South Carolina. 1895, so as to Enlarge the Jurisdic tion of Magistrates in Sumter Coun ty. No. CLARENDON AND COLLETON COUNTIES. A JOINT RESOLUTION To Amend Section < of Article \ III and Section 5 of Article X and Section 13 of Ar ticle II of the Constitution Relating to Municipal Bonded Indebtedness by Adding a Proviso Theieto as t/ the Bonded Debt of the Town of Manning and the Town of Walterboro. v _ dug and payable. ’ The production of an organized church 'and teacher,, of a ce'rtificate Or ( f the receipt of the public schools shall be entitled vote after six months’'residence in the State, otherwise qualified. Payment cf taxes necessary for voting:—Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him officer authorized to collect such taxe s shall be conclusive prqof of the pay ment thereof. 1 The polls shall be opened, at such voting places a s shall be designated, at 8 o’clock in the forenoon, and close at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the to vote, proof of the payment; day of election, except in the City of Borne, X. Y.—Separated from His wife and children for 14 years by a lapse of memory, Lewis N. Greeney, thlrtr-ni no-year-old World war vet eran, has just been reunited with his family here. thirty days before any election of any poll tax ten due and payable. The production of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes shall be conclu sive proof of the payment thereof. Charleston, wheie the polls shall open at 7 o’clock in the forenoon, and in the cities of Charleston and.Columbia where the closing hours shall be 0 o’clock in the afternoon, and shall he held open during these hours without Registration: — Payment of all intermission or adjournment; and the Greeney was,TnJ[ire<Uflt Camp WadS- worth, S. D., in 1918, when he. saved a child from being run down by a truck. His memory was gone, and he knew nothing of his former life. Recently Greeney recalled he had once lived at Blossvale, X. Y., and through the taxes, including poll tax, assessed and collectible during the previous year. The production of a certifi cate or the receipt of- the officer au thorized to collect such taxes shall be ctnclusive proof of the payment theieof. Before the hour fixed for opening American Legion his family was lo- t he polls Managers and Clerks must Managers shall administer to each imig rsfln peisfln offering to vote on oath cated. Ban Bobbed Hair i for Choir Singers Wichita, Kan.—The girls and women who sing In the choir at the annual old-fashioned camp meeting of the Kansas State Holi ness association must not have bobbed hair and tliey must be dressed modestly. Women were requested not to appear on the platform with bobbed hair. They were asked to dress modestly. The religious services outlined were simple—prayer meet ing at 7 p. m., followed by song, service and preaching. The after noon sesaion followed the same routine. I take and subscribe to the Constitu- j ticnal oath. The Chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Cleik; a Notary Public must administer the oath to Chairman The administer the oath to Chairman. The ; Clerk. j I Polls at each voting jllace must he opened at 8 o’clock, a. m. ’and closed at 4 o’clock p. m., except in the Gty of Charleston, where they shall be opened at 7 a. m. 'fcnd closed at 6 p. m. and in the City of Columbia where the closing hours shall be 6 o’clock p. m. r , : The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy; and if none of the Manageis attend, the citizens can ap he is qualified to vote at this election, according to the Constituion of this State, and that he has not'voted dur ing this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Man agers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election, the manageis and cleik must proceed pub licly to open the ballot boxes and count! the ballots therein, and contiune without adjournment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the results for each office and sign the same. Within three days there after, the Chairman of the Boaid or some one designated by the Board, riiust deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, the boxes con taining the ballot s and written state ments cf the results of the election. place, Court House. Blaekville-C. CrSforne, E. H. Weis- singer and Victor ^ Martin; polling place, vacant store. * Snelling—W. B. Parker, O. D. Moore and J. Gilliam; polling place, Mcore’s store. Robbins—F. M. Youngblood, C. M. Turner and Atterbury; polling place, Muns’ Filling Station. Kline—J. F. Ready, J. W. Sanders and B. M. Jenkins, Jr., polling place, Lewis and Best’s store. Dunbaiton.—John hY ’ Bolt, W. R. Owen., and W. J. Rodgers, polling place, vancant store. HarrTW: 4 Election Managers. The ollowing Manageis of Election have been appointed to hold the elec tion at the various precinct s in the said County: . , Barnwell—James Mcore, C. W. Moody and S. H, Ussery, polling R. At the said election qualified elec- Byll and J. M. Weathersbee; polling place, Pleasant Hill school house. Hercules—N. A. Black, Paul H. Sanders and W. Hayne Dyches; poll ing place, Democratic club house. Meyer’s Mill—G. R. Peeples, D. W. Glover and J. F. SwetU; polling place, San Hill school house. Williston—H. B, Kitchings, E. D. Bates and Tom Bell; polling place, Ford show room. Elko—R. R Johnston, A. P. Wil liams and Charlie Hair; polling place, Green and Company’s store. The Managers at each precinct framed above are requested to dele gate one of their number to secure boxes and blanks for the election at Clerk of Court*! office, on Saturday November 5th, 1932.. PERRY B. BUSH, N. D. OOCLIN, HERMAN MAZURSKY Commissioners of State and'County Elections for Barnwell County, S. C. T * w ! . tor, «-:lf vote apen the adrption or * October 22nd, 1932. 42