McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, September 27, 1928, Image 2
^Thursday, September 27, 1928
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina.
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An Engineering Feat
The National Park Service, of the
Department - of the Interior, an
nounces that reports from the field
are to the effect that the spectacu
lar malelong tunnel wh ch is being
blasted thx-ough the sandstone walls
of Zion Canyon* in Utah, is nearing
cc'mpletio::.
The contractors a:'e advancing this
tunnel at the rate of 37 feet per day.
It is now about 80 per cent complet
ed and is expected to be finished in
another month.
This tunnel is a part of the Zion-
Mt. Carmel Highway, which the
Upited States Bureau of Pubi c Roads
is building for the National PaiK
Service. A mile of this lu.meling
throush sc,-’d sandtt-rc seems Hko a
'difficult undertaking, but when it is
finished it will be followed by furth
er work of the same sort cf thi r
same highway which in the end will
bring this kind of construction up to
about five miles. In addition to the
boring of the tunnels, gallaries are
opened up ^every 1000 feet cr so
which make it possible ic>: travelers
on this highway to look out into the
canyon which is one of the chociest
bits of scenery in the West.
x
Business Crimes
Business crime is exacting an an
nual toll of $1,600,000,000. Sounds
like a lot of money, but not so much
when the fact is taken into consid
eration that the opportunities for
crooks to prey on business ar*e almost
unlimited.
In the small rural comlnunity,
where the banker know T s practically
all of his customers by their first
name, and the merchant is acquaint
ed with nearly everyone with whom
he deals, the loss from bogus checks
is small.
However, the criminal of this class
all too frequently finds a credulous
fellow who is ensnared and business
writes up the sum on the loss side
of the ledger.
Honest business loses $100 000,-
000 a year in this country alone
through forgeries and a similar
amount because of embezzlements.
Then there is a loss of $400,000,000
charged up to credit frauds and $1,-
000,000,000 to stock frauds.
Stock fraud losses are due chief-
jly to the sale, of corporate securities
of no actual or potential value and
losses ffom Bucket shop and other
illegal forms of trading in securities.
Over $3*000,000,000 have been stolen
from the people of this country since
the war through the sale of spurious
securities.
Little wonder, then, that business
men have been aroused to action and
that they have spurred legislature on
to enact more stringent “blue sky
laws.
The fake stock promoten is the
limit in business criminality, be
cause he preys on the weak and takes
advantage of their lack of knowledge.
He and all c«f his confederates who
make a living “by their wits” are
levying too heavy a tax on business.
They will have to be routed sooner
or later
IX1
Our Modem
Day Schools
The public high school as it ex
ists today is distinctly Amer’can,
jtnd is of comparatively recent devel-J
Dpme.'.t in the history of educational
institutions. The first public high
school was founded in the city of
BostcAi in 1821. Today, ^pprox'mate
y eighteen thousand high schools
hroughout America a re bringing od
ucational oppoi^umfies within easy
•each cf more than two and dne-half
nillion boys and gi ls.
Prior tc* the development of the
public high school the only train ng
beyond the elementary level was pro
vided in the Latin Grammlar Schools
during the period from 1635 to 1750
and through the private and religious
academies during the century from
1750 and 1850. Since 1850 the rise
of the American High School has
been i&pid. Although founded orig-
nally to provide preparation for the
college courses thrt led directly into
professions, it has in the later dec
ades broadened its course of study
to meet the widely varying and rap
idly changing conditions of modern
life. The high school has become
the “people’s collage,” bringing with
in tlrt easy reach of every child
the opportunity to train foil a fuller
life while at the same time develop
ing specific vocational skills and
abilities.
The high school of a generat on
rgo included duly those pupils who
expected to attend college. Today
practically all the children of all th
people, regardless of vocational in
terest arc coming under the influence
>f some high school. In order to
meet the needs of this increased en
rollment the curriculum must be
'uaged in accordance with the vary-
ng interest and capacities of the
'aiger group. A great modern edu
cate." has said: “It is the business of
;he school to teach the child to do
better the things he is most likely to
do anyhow.” In light of this prin
ciple. “The Secondary school pre
plan cf studies must be conceived
and operated as to enfccce, guide and
dkect the act'vities of the pupils
both within the school, and in rela
tion to other educational activities
a the community.”
The high school of today is com
parable to the college o: yesterday.
X
The Tone Of Senator
Robinson’s Speeches
(From The Charlotte News.)
places all his stakes on one turn of
the wheel. Even the professional
gambler dees not stake his all on one
throw of the dice. The only safe
farm is a well-balanced farin. The
total loss of one crop would not ab
sorb the profits of two or more other
crops. The farmer who plants a small
acreage per plow of three or more
money crops and cultivates them in
tensively is playing a safe game—a
game that will win four times out of
five.
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Hoover Democrats
Smith Republicans
(From The Kansas City Star.)
In every national elect’on, and less
er ones for that matter, party lines
rre broken. From various sources,
not at all sectional in character, we
already are hearing of Hoover Dem
ocrats and Smith Republicans.
For obvious reasons, the most
obvidus being the liquor issue, many
Democrats w'll vote for Hoove: 1 and
many Republicans for Smith. Indeed
there will be in the coming election
remarkable political disalignments.
If one could compile these disalign
ments and closely estimate their net
result he could make a safe bet on
th'i election. We shall not only have
Hoover Democrats and Smith Repub-
Tcans because of personal prefer
ences for the respective nominees,
but wo shall have wet drys and dry
wets, city-against country voter's in
the centers and country-against city
voters in the rural sections.
There is nothing new about jump
ing the party fences except that it
seems more pronounced than usual
in this el-cctior. We had Cleveland
Republicans and McKinley Demo
crats, Wilson Republicans and
Hughes Democrat^. The one thing
that party disaffection has demon-
strrted pretty clearly is that third
party movements rarely get any
where. The only outstanding in
stance of success was the forming of
the Republican party and its absorb
ing of the Whigs.
X
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
There are more than 3,500 distinct
var.'cties of gladiolus.
Swordfish sometimes attack boats,
mistaking them for whales
The wr*'d malaria comes from the
Italian “mal aria,” meaning bad air.
Women of the Samoan islands
sometimes wear beauty patches
made of a thin lumindus fungus that
shines at nighh
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Ladybird beetle v which are avoid
ed by b ? rds, are a chief article of
food for trout.
Persons exposed to measles almost
invariably take it if they have not
been previously infected.
Tungsten, which is so impc<:tant a
factor in making incandescent lamps,
was scarcely known a generation ago.
A recent survey shows that only
1.4 per cent of all the doctors grad
uated in this country in the last ten
years Tiavc gone to practice in rural
d’stricts.
It is easier, now, to kill insects
—and keep them away. Bee Brand I nsect Pow
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Steel tapes used in international
boundary surveys and other measure
ments of outstanding importance per
mit of a precision of better than one
pert in a million.
Br’tish farm experiments show that
strawberries should be- planted as
closely together as possible, because
a picker spend more than one-fourth
of each hour in walk'ng from plant
to plant.
And Now Bare Legs
(From The Macon Telegraph.)
A fly lays from 300 to 400 eggs
in a lifetime.
Clouds are classified as cirrus, cr
icr tncry clouds; cumuluri or clouds
with rounded tops; stratus, or sheet
ciouds. and nimbus, or rain clouds.
Senator Rob-nson is making a very
fine impressiccr upon the audiences
rwaiting him as he swings through
the South. They of course, aife aud
iences that-would be friendly to him
ard to the purposes in his mind as
he attempts to swing sentiment
throughout this part of the country
to the Nafonal Democratic ticket.
For the most part, he is discussing
the od issuer the points of differ
ence between the two major parties,
incidentally putting in some effective
strokes against the record of the Re
publican candidate for the presidency.
In other words, Senator Robinson
‘s not accepting a defensive battle.
He is making an offensive of his
own, the psychology c." that course
being apparent. For that reason,
we take it, he has as little as pos
sible to say about the chief objections
that rfest in the mind of the Southern
people of Governor Smith’s candid
acy. He has chosen to make his bat
tle not in defense of the Democratic
cand date so much as in castigation of
the Republican candidate*, and he is
ma king a distinctly god job of it.
j XI
Gambling Against
Natural Laws
(From The Dillon Herald.)
Now is a good time to think about
next year’s erdp—but not in terms
of cotton. The disaster ■ that has
r .'ertaken cotton farmers of the east
ern belt of the Carolinas is grave
enough to convince the most optimis
tic cotton-tot that the man who relies
cm cotton alone for a money crop is
taking a gambler’s chance. The Her-
old does, not think it would be a wise
plan to abandon cotton altogether. A
crop that has been fastened on a
people for 150 years could not be
abandoned entirely without causing
serious economic disturbances, but
icreage could be reduced with safety
to a point that a total failure would
not produce financial distress. The
one-crop system of farming belongs
-o an age when people lived at home
and had very little need for cash
money. Only a small amoant of com
mercial fertilizer was used and very
little cash money went into the mak
ing of a crop. There were no debts
to be paid in the fall, and a crop fail-
a c did not cause a ripple on the sur-
ace of the financial seas. In recent
years farming has become a highly
organized business in which millions
if dollars of borrowed capital are in
vested. The man who farms on his
vwn capital is taking a long chance
>ut when he farms on borrowed cap-
tal he is taking a still longer chance
f l.c plants only one money crop he
The Nation has always been radi
cal and perhaps it feels the necessity
of upholding its reputation when it
says:
“Bare legs? What cf them?” said
William J. Blogan superintendent of
Chicago schools when the important
quets’on o ? rtcckirgless girl students
came to him for final judgment. He
•egarded such questions, he said, “as
being none cf my business—and rone
of the business of the school teach
ers.” Th's sounds to us like cl:l
fashioned horse sens'' of r. variety
infrequent among Ech'ol superin end-
ents. Let the girls come to school
in one-piecc bathing suits, f they
want to—and the trend of the times
seems to indicate that they may soon
want tc*. It will do nobody any harm,
and perhaps, if they meet no aston-
ishmert cr rebuke they mry discover
that they prefer ankle-length skirts
or some ether novel and exciting form
of clothing. The prurient meddlers
who have been shocked in the past
by low necks, short sleeves, bobbed
ha'r, and knee-length skirts have
gradually become accustomed to the
idea that there is nothing inherently
immoral in certain portions of the
human figure, and rs time goes on
bare legs may well become as com
monplace as bare arms. Bare legs arc
no more indecent in a schoolroom
than on a bathing beach and Chicago
is a better city for having discovered
that fact. The world will be a more
ccoifortablo place and a decenter,
when we progress to the point when
both men and women can comfort
ably go to work in bathing suits—
with pockets.
While we are not horribly shocked
at the sight of bare legs, we say in
frankness to the girls who contem-
pate abandoning stockings that bare
legs are about as ugly as anything
ought to be. Next to knees, which,
we insist, are as pretty as old-fash
ioned white door knobs and no pret
tier, barte legs are the ugliest append
ages of the female body. Nature does
well enough: but man has improved
upon her in decorating the human
body,. The silk stocking manufac
turers have done most toward that
end.
Twelve million people died in Indi^
during the influenza epidemic of
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lasv
A rai.:d op is an aceumulatior oi
water condensed upon a particle of
dust in the air.
Cockroaches arc fond of the starch
tx* other material used as filler in
cloth bookbindings.
The iivrr of the polar bear is pois-
. cus and is never eaten by the peo
ple cf the arct’c.
Ea.naclcs and other sea creatures
that damage ships avoid copper and
zi.'.c more than other metals.
Ruins cf a Roman soldiers’ te nple
to the sun-god Mithra, dating back
to before 352 A. D., were recently
discovered in Germany.
The Aztecs had considerable knowl
edge cf dyeing and other chemica.
processes long before Columbus
came to America.
Weather records covering twenty
years showed that San Francisco had
fewer thunderstorms than any other
city in the United States.
XXt
Use Of Motion
Pictures On In
crease In Schools
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24—
The use of educational motion pic
tures is becoming an important fac-
tort in the schools of this country. The
use of “teaching filmis” has spread to
approximately lij 000 educational in
stitutions since its establishment only
a few r years ago. Many state uni
versities maintain film libraries in
their extension departments and sys
tematically supply films to schools
and community organizations in their
respective states. Yale University has
participated in the preparation of a
series of films co American history,
and Harvard is co-operating with a
big film-producing concern in mak
ing films relating to science. Some
universities make films on their own
account and upon a rather extensive
scale.
In ir ng the films a teacher may
give her lessons in the usual fashion
and the r adjust the window shades
md pi ■ ct lantern slides and illus
trative film to supplement her verbal
instruct on, and thus ^ leave an en
during impression upecr the minds of
he; 1 pu’ Is by showing in actual mo- ;
tion the things that involve motion, i
Great effort has been expended in |
recent years to develop text films for
classroom use. Experiments have
been cor ducted for the past two years
under the direction of Dr. Thomas
E. Fi.iegan, Dr. Frank E. Freeman,
and Dr. Ben Dl Wood.
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