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CHILDREN ON WHEELS
The chance of an automobile ac
cident is much greater if the driver
is under twenty than when he or
she is over thirty, according to sta
tistics compiled by one of the large
accident insurance companies. The
records of some four million licen
sed automobile drivers were exam
ined and it was found that by far
the highest percentage of accidents
occurred when children under age
were driving a car.
There are still a good many
states and communties where very
little or no inquiry is made into the
qualifications of anyone who wants
to drive a car. In the majority of
the states today licenses are re
quired, but the examinations and
driving tests vary. And there are
still a great many places in which
any child who is physically able to
hafig on to the steering wheel and
reach the pedals is allowed to
drive.
Of course, the earlier in life one
learns to drive, the more confid
ence the motorist acquires and the
better he or she is likely to be as
time goes on. But we think there
is a great deal of wisdom in the
law which obtains in some states,
tinder which no one under eighteen
may be licensed to drive, and then
only after a severe road test of
ability. In order to learn to drive
before applying for a license, young
people in states where this law ob
tains must always have with them
on /the front seat an experienced
licensed driver.
There will always be parents who
will let their children talk them
into taking out the car, whether
really fit to drive it or not, and
children will always want to get
out on the road and “step on it.”
That is human nature, and it would
not be anybody else’s concern if
people driving cars were not a men
ace to other motorists and pedes-
.trians. '
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things that have come your way,
since last Thanksgiving.
There is, perhaps, spiall consola
tion in that for people who have
lost their faith in spiritual things.
But we believe that the great ma
jority of Americans, by whatever
name they may call their religious
creeds, still believe that there is a
Divine Providence which has guid
ed and still will guide our nation,
and when we consider the state of
most of the people of the rest of
the world, we feel that there is
ample ground for a National
Thanksgiving Day. •
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WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH
. AMERICA?
THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving Day has become
such a universally observed nation-
al holiday that few people realize
that its general observance on the
last Thursday in November is quite
a recent development. All of the
states of New England and some of
the other northern states,, had an
annual day of thanksgiving by the
proclamation of the Governor, but
while this custom came from the
earliest colonial times, it seldom
happened that more than two or
three states picked the same day.
The real “mother of Thanksgiv
ing Day” was Mrs. Sarah Joseph
Hale, who was the editor of the
first magazine published Especially
for women, Godey’s Lady’s Book.
Mrs. Hale, before 1850, tried to get
the President of the United States
to issue si proclamation for a na
tional Thanksgiving Day. Mrs.
Ruth E. Finley, in her new book,
“The Lady of Godey’s,” tells how
she bombarded president after
president with her demand until,
in 1863, President Lincoln issued
the first national thanskiving
proclamation, naming the last
Thursday in November as its date.
From that time on every President
has , issued such a proclamation,
and since the 1870’s the Governor
of every state has also proclaimed
the last Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day. Since there has
We have not seen any more in
telligent or biting explanation of
the economic depression from
which the country seems now to be
beginning to emerge than that
which was written a little while
ago by Miss Emily Woodward, pdi-
tor of the Vienna (Ga.) News. This
is what Miss Woodward said about
it:
A people, for the most part ac
customed to living moderately and
even frugally prior to the war, we
launched into an orgy of spending
such as has never been known in
the history of man. Although en
dowed with a modicum of reason
ing power, we have deliberately
thrown discretion to the winds
changing our standards of living
from quiet simplicity to frenzied
luxury. Equipped with sufficient
mathematical knowledge to know
that four from two leaves minus
two, men and women with incomes
of $200.00 a month have spent at
the rate of $400.00. This has ap
plied quite generally whether the
income has been $25,00 or $2500.00.
Farming and other businesses
are more or less demoralized, but
it is not due altogether to 5 cent
cotton and the tariff. It is due in
part to our waste, abuse of credit,
poor business management and
laziness.
Before we see the end of this
many of us who are now riding
may be walking, but that probably
would be as it should be. The men
and women who honestly work
their ways out of the present
economic labyrinth will be those
possessed of the proper intestinal
stamina. For some time now, we
have needed something to divide
the sheep from the goats. Crooks
and deadbeats have been sailing
along in the vanguard of society
and the church, enjoying all the
privileges and often more than
those who make up the ranks of
honest citizenry. If the present
crisis serves as a leveler in the
business and social realms, much
will be gained. The seeming suc
cess of the dishonest during the
reign of extravagance through
which we have just passed, has had
a baneful effect, serving to give
sanction to the theory that the way
to win is through shady paths.
night” by the students, a young pQ^toil Ginned
people’s meeting, largely put on by
the students, is held in each one of
the churches. Each Sunday School
has special classes for students, or
ganized and controlled by the stu
dents themselves. The purposive
endeavors of the church members
and the entire atmosphere of the
churches have especially adapted
them to the needs of the students.
Clemson College offers voluntary
Shortened Season
By S. C. Counties On Waterfowl Opened
Noon November \(
COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO NO
VEMBER 1 IN SOUTH CARO
LINA: CROPS OF 1931-1930
The Department of Commerce,
through the Bureau of the Census,
elective courses in Religion taught announces the preliminary report
by the local ministers. Altho this
work is not, financed by the Col
lege, the ministers are requested by
the college authorities to under-
on cotton ginned prior to Novem
ber 1, by counties, in South Caro
lina, for the crops of 1931 and
1930. The total for the st^te was
take this instruction only when ma de public Monday, November 9.
they meet the regular require-, (Quantities are in running
ments of the Southern Association bales. Linters are not included.)
Religious Influences
Of Clemson College
“Why is it that we get such ex
ceptional co-operation in our
church work from Clemson men?”,
is a question put recently to Dr.
E. W. Sikes, President of Clemson
College, by a group of prominent
ministers. “Why, in my church,”
exclaimed one, of the preachers,
“some of the best help I get comes
from Clemson men.” In many
churches of the State, it is the
Clemson men who may be counted
on to take up collection, sing in
the choir, become crfurch officials,
or take active leadership in churcl^
affairs. On a number of occas^ 1
ions Dr. Sikes has been asked the
reason for this. His answers dis
close a situation at Clemson in
some ways quite unique.
Four local churches, Baptist,
Episcopal, Methodist, and Presby
terian, .are almost on the campus.
Students are on their honor to at-
never been an act of Congress on tend a church of their choice at
the subject, Thanksgiving Day is the Sunday morning worship serv-
not technically a national holiday, ice. All other religious activity
but it v/ould be difficult to keep the is ourely voluntary,
people of any state from observing J The religious leaders and church
it, even if the Governor forgot to workers of the community strive
issue his proclamation. definitely to make the work of
In recent years there has been a these four churches of greatest
tendency to take Thanksgiving Day possible interest and benefit to
lightly. We are all too much in- Clemson students, who form a large
dined, in good times, to take credit part of their congregations. Their
to ourselves for our blessings, what- choirs are composed mostly of
ever they may be, while in times of students. The collections are tak-
distress it is a very human inclina- en up by them in at least three of
tion to ask “what have I got to be the churches. They are urged and
thankful for?” We hear lots of encouraged to take an active part
people asking that question this in the social activities and in the
year, but in our opinion one of the regular work'of the church. Every
iest cures for pessimism is to stop Wednesday evening, called “Church
elective courses. Interest in tk
classes 5s keen.
A great part of the religious, the
recreational, and the social life of
the college and of the community
is centered in the Clemson College
Y. M. C. A. The “Y”, housed in its
own building, has become the chief
social gathering place and about it
is focused much of the voluntary
religious activity. Controlled and
carried on to a great extent by the
students, bhe religious programs
and work are so conducted as to
produce many opportunities for
training in religious leadership.
Over six hundred students last
year were members of voluntary
Bible Study groups, organized on
the different Company halls in
Barracks. Evening Watch groups,
similarly organized, meet every
night after call to quarters for a
few minutes of daily Bible reading
and bjrief sentence prayers. Re
cently B Company had an average
weekly attendance of 51 and A
Company of 41. A “Gospel Team”
has already during the present
session gone to a number of col
leges and to nearby towns to put on
religious programs, furnishing stu
dent speakers and special music. A
special committee of upper class-
men receive and aid the Freshmen
on their arrival. Class Councils are
similar to Freshman councils in
other colleges, but have been car
ried into all the upper classes at
Clemson. The Senior Class has
over tfiirty men engaged in this
form of active religious work at
present. Sunday night Vesper
Services, including devotional ex
ercises, music, and travel reels
showing the life and customs of
the different peoples of tl^e earth,
are attended every Sunday night by
from two hundred to four hundred
students. These and other activi
ties affording training and experi
ence in religious leadership are
carried on by the “Y” Cabinet and
its various cbrhmittees, with the
counsel and aid of two trained sec
retaries and df faculty rtiembers
invited by the students to assist.
The Work of the Churches, the in
cluding of Bible study in the cur
riculum, the activities of the “Y”,
and the general activities of the
College, affokd not ojcily religious
instruction arid training in leader
ship, 1 but seem’ to be quite effec
tive also in producing a will to do
—a spirit * of oo-opetation.
Perhaps’ the most unique char-
acterstic of the religious programs
of Clemson College is the vital and
leading part taken by the students.
The activities come up from the
students ' rather than ‘ being
brought down from the officials
either in the form of compulsion or
of “things expected” of the stu
dents. “Y” leaders point to the
fact that the men who give a good
deal of time to these activities are
being constantly called on for lead
ership in almost every student ac
tivity. The voluntary character of
the whole religious program has
proved its value in the activities of
Clemson men after they have left
their Alma Mater.
County
1931
1930
The State
829,898
814,105
Abbeville _ __
— 16,600
13,064
Aiken
— 27,458
25,064
Allendale _
— - 6,191
6,830
Anderson
—_ 58,843
51,038
Bamberg _ _ _
— 13,571
14,799
Barnwell _
— 17,632
18,870
Berkeley __ __
— 2,122
3,150
Calhoun
- 15,076
14,856
Charleston
446
1,240
Cherokee
— 15,723
16,313
Chester
19,301
17,809
Chesterfield _
— 28,650
25,790
Clarendon __ _
— 16,323
18,485
Colleton
— 8,838
10,053
Darlington _ __
— *18,322
16,051
Dillon — _ __
— 21,456
21,642
Dorchester __ _
6.913
6,344
Edgefield __ _ .
— 17,899
16,364
Fairfield _ _
9,690
8,791
Florence
— 15,531
15,489
Greenville
__ 40,664
42,867
Greenwood _
. _ 14,857
13,943
Hampton _ _
— 6,381
7,021
Horry _
697
1,608
Jasper _ _
_ 1,517
1,827
Kershaw
_ 18,892
17,977
Lancaster _
— 13,520
11,213
Laurens
__ 30,219
26,255
Lee
__ 26,186
23,958
Lexington
14,425
14,603
McCormick
__ 6,326
6,057
Marion _
6,722
7,618
Marlboro _
_ 35,789
35,214
Newberry __
20,705
17,272
Ocoilee
14,656
15,829
Orangeburg . _
56,503
57,961
Pickens _ __ _ __
__ 18,171
19,738
Richland
__ 7,016
7,579
Saluda __ _
._ 11,464
9,712
Spartanburg
__ 61,430
68,207
Sumter _
29,009
28,415
Union
__ 15,167
14,364
Williamsburg
__ 13,917
14,548
York _ _ _
__ 27,585
26,297
All other __
_ 1,495
1,980
CHILDREN
CRY FOR IT—
/CHILDREN hate to take medicine
as a rule, but every child loves the
The season for hunting wild
ducks, geese, brant, and coot open
ed at noon on November 16 in that
part of New York known as Long
Is’and and in New Jersey, Dela
ware, Maryland, the District of Co
lumbia, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Cali
fornia, Oregon, and Washington.
The season in these States will
close at sunset on December 15. I taste of Castoria. Thii pure viable
In Florida the season for the same preparation is just as good as it tastes;
birds opens at noon on November just as bland and just as harmless as the
20 and closes at sunset on Decern- recipe reads.
be i’ ^ When Baby’s cry warns of colic, a.
Persons are cautioned against few drops of Castoria have him soothed,,
hunting wild ducks, geese, brant, Uleep again in a jiffy. Nothing is more-
and coots in the States mentioned valuable in diarrhea. When coated,
prior to noon of the opening date tongue or bad breath tell of constipation,
or after sunset of the closing date, invoke its gentle aid to cleanse and!
under penalty of prosecution in regulate a child’s bowels. In colds or
Federal court. This statement was children’s diseases, you should use it.
issued by the Biological Survey of keep the system from clogging.
the U. S. Department of Agricul- Castoria is sold in every drug storer
ture, which has charge of enforce- the genuine always bears Chas. h!.
ment of the Migratory Bird Treaty j Fletcher’s signature.
Act and the regulations thereun
der.
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CASTG.RI A
Pickens Clubster Winsj
In Livestock Judging
PIEDMONT DISTRICT TEAM IS Seek Changes In
FIRST; MANY CLUBSTERS EN- O
joy benefits I o. C. Government
PICKENS, Nov. 14. — Furm an SIX SUGGESTIONS UN
Hunter, 18, Pickens county, who
Rev. J. F. Anderson
' Taken By Death
Aroused President’s Ire
WILLIAMSTON, Nov. 8.—The
Rev. John Fletcher Anderson, well-
known Methodist minister, died at
his Main Street home here Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The Rev. Mr. Anderson was a na
tive of Anderson county and was
80 years old, his death following an
illness of several years. '' He at
tended private schools in Anderson
county and in 1884 was licensed to
preach by the Rev. T. G. Herbert.
He had been a member of the Up
per South Carolina Methodist con
ference since that time and had
served various pastorates through
out the state. In 1919 Mr. Ander
son retired after 35 years of active
ministry.
In 1876 the Rev. Mr. Anderson
was married to Miss Katherine Sul
livan Richter, of Edgefield county,
and in 1926 they celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary. He
had lived in Williamston for 15
years.
Besides his widow, the Rev. Mr.
Anderson is survived by one son, J.
Courtenay Anderson, of Woodstock,
N. Y., and four daughters, Mrs. W.
J. Nichols, Orangeburg; Mrs. C. S.
Link, Jr., “Laurens and the Misses
Kathleen and Corinne Anderson, of
Williamston.
Funeral services for the Rev. Mr.
Anderson were held at 3 o’clock
Monday afternoon at Grace Metho
dist church in Williamston. The
services were conducted by the Rev.
F. E. Dibble, presiding elder, as-
sir .d by the Rev. J. E. Mason, pas
tor jf Grace Methodist church and
th' Rev. J. A. Cave.
r _ Ae following were the active
won first honors in the 4-H live
stock judging contest at the recent
State Fair, won for himself and for
bis county agent, T. A. Bowen, a
trip to the National 4-H Club Con
gress which will be held in Chicago,
November 27 to December 4.
According to the records in the
boys’ club work office at Clemson
College, Furman is not only an ex
cellent judge of livestock but is a
wide-awake all-round clubster. He
is president of the Pickens High
4-H Club which has 25 active mem
bers, and has been in club work
for four years, doing most of his
work with poultry and cotton.
Jack Funderburk, Uhesterfield,
and Burton Sease, Newberry, were
the other members of the winning
Piedmont district team, which
stood first among the three dis
trict teams.
The Savannah Valley district
team, which won second place, con
sisted of Kempton DeLoach and
Billy Coleman, Saluda, and Thomas
Edwards, Calhoun; the Pee Dee
district team consistirig of Harris
Beach, Colleton, Ronald Jones,
Florence, Dick Moorer, Dorchester.
These nine clubsters won first
through county and then district
contests in which altogether a
large number of clubsters received
valuable instruction and experi
ence in judging livestock.
X
SI DERATION BY STATE BUD
GET COMMISSION
Churning
COLUMBIA, Nov. 13.—Neville
Bennett, chairman of the House
ways and means committee, dis
closed today that six suggestions
for wide-spread changes in state
government are under considera
tion by the budget commission.
1 The proposals were advanced by
Mr. Bennett, who with Governor
Blackwood, ex-officio chairman,
and S. M. Ward, chairman of the
Senate finance committee, compose
the budget commission.
i County Budgets
They include suggested state
control of county budgets and bond,
issues, creation of a central state
purchasing agency and an execu
tive budget bureau, and statutory^
consolidation of certain governv
ment functions.
Changes in the designation of
the fiscal year to make it uniform^
for all divisions of the state gov
ernment and provisions for hand
ling local legislation “at home” to*
relieve the congestion in the Gen
eral Assembly also were proposed.’,
by Mr. Bennett.
He said the suggested changes, at
least one of which already has
come before the Legislature, would
be taken up by the budget com
mission at executive session. The
commission makes recommenda
tions for the drawing of the annual
appropriations bill, and it was pre-
Temperatures sumed that the question of making
2 I a- recommendation on Mr. Ben
nett’s proposed government
changes will be considered.
Result From Study
Mr. Bennett said his proposals
One reason why butter fails to
come after the usual amount of
churning is too low or too high a
churning temperature. Usually 1 res| ]i te d' trom a study o'f South
Carolina state government in con-
temperatures of from 52 degrees to
60 degrees Fahrenheit in summer
and 58 degrees to 66 degrees Fah-
nection with other states. The
.... . . ^ study, he explained, led him to the
renheit In winter are the best, but ^ that .. judlciary instituted
it is occasionally necessary to warm
the cream as high as 65 degrees to
70 degrees Fahrenheit. In very (
warm weather the best churning
temperature is usually below 60 de- !
grees. Too thin or tod rich cream
will not churn easily; the cream
economies” could be applied in
South Carolina.
A bill to create “an executive
budget and to prescribe the powers
and duties of the budget bureau,”
one of his proposals was approved
... . . . . ^ by the House of the last General
should contain about 30 per cent . . -
,Ko, Assembly under the sponsorship of
the ways and means committee. It
is on the calendar of the Senate
foi\ the 1932 session.
Mr. Bennett said the full details
of the other proposals had not
been worked out but he believed
butterfat. Cream that is ripened
slightly churns more easily than
sweet cream. Do not have the
churn more than two-thirds full.
If too full, the Churning period is
longer, and if the cream foams it
fills up the churn and prevents x. « x
picvciiLs, the suggestions, if put into effect
cn was
: ai :ton.
concussion. Ropy fermentation of
the cream also orevents concussion.
jor.rers; Dr. W.'Frank Lander. This ™ ay . be Panted by sterlllz-
,: 0 GcodRion, T. M. Mahon. G. m « the “ tcns,ls and blueing the
Aildep, W. #. Sullivan and Al-i mlU L and under sanitary
* , . j conditions. Other reasons for dif-
flrderson ' *
ureters who attended formed!?™ 11 ch « rnin S ^ cows or the
The interm- i feed ’ A cow Wlth some indi vidual
peculiarity or one far advanced : n
the lacation period may give cream
that is hard to churn. Feeds that
escort.
in the cemetery at Will-
would be of great value to the
state.
State control of county budgets
and bond issues, he said, would
prove valuable in establishing a
state-wide credit on a sound basis.
A central purchasing agency', he
continued, should result in large
savings through bulk buying for all
str c departments and institutions.
gular
dividends every three
William Howard Gardiner’s criti
cisms of Mr. Hoover’s naval re
trenchment program have led to a
public airing of his charges.
produce hard fat—such as cotton-
! You may buy Telephone Bond seed meal and timothy hay may
'and Share First Preferred on the result in cream that is hard to mc 'ths. Buy Telephone Bond and
' monthly savings plan. Ask any churn. Linseed meal, glutten feed, Sh re First Preferred for Safety,
employee of the South Carolina and succulent feeds such as silage Asi. any employee of the South
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