Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'jf General Gorgas a Savior of Men. i^H| The Columbia State pays this editori^l tribute to the memory of this ^^A^^derfui man: Gen era] William C. Gorgas, who ^^^kd in London Sunday morning, was, possibly few exceptions, the most ^^Hnous man beyond the borders of own country. His name is known ^Knd honored wherever man engagps Win struggle with fever and contagion, ? wherever >the forces of life and death ^ wage weir truceieas ??i. "General Gorgas will be remembered and honored by his own countrymen and the peoples of many generations in other lands, for many achievements, all of them tending to make human life endurable, or comfortable |H where life itself had not been posH sible before. His mo3t memorable achievements were the redemption of Habana. Cuba, and of Panama. "He made the Panama Canal possible. He made the great waterway possible by first making it possible for Caucasian peoples to live and work |^^B in the most torrid of tropic climates. ^^B "At the sendees in his honor in London he was described as "physician to the world." He was a physi^^^B riftn that, like the ideal Chinese doc rtor, keeps people well, rather than waiting for some onslaught of illness from which to heal them. He did more than any other one man in history, not excepting the great Julius, who drained the Pontine marshes and drove mosquitoes and fever from the Italian Campagna, to protect mankind against the ravages of disease. "General Gorgas and his theories and methods of safeguarding communities from attacks of yellow fever and malarial fevers were the best fruits of the Spanish-American war. The liberty of Cuba would have come in a short while, in any event, but such a genius as Gorgas needs his hour and opportunity. Both were afforded by tH American occupation of Habana. Given full authority, k General Gorgas went to work to cleanse that city, stupendously filthy because of the manner of life of its people, and rendered more filthy and pestilential by the terrible conditions rtf the lone guerilla warfai-e with ? Spain. He worked out the mosquito theory, and, by ridding the city and vicinity of these pests, he drove out every vestige of yellow fever, which had been, up to that time, the most dreaded scourge of the tropics and even of portions of the temperate rzone. "His marvelous achievement at ! I This is , Out a display i also look wel . before entrustir I We havt with a large cap merit it, and vo We payplaced with us i r | The 1 KINGSTRE1 v ' - | Panama followed his triumphs in Cuba. He transformed a tropical death-hole into a sanitary, wholesome, salubrious home for tens of thousands of workers. The French, even under j so magnificent a leader as the great j de Les8eps, were twice routed in their j efforts to conquer malarial fever in j the Isthmus. But with the methods of General Gorgas, the Canal Zone | was made healthful and comfortable, j There are no mosquitoes?a thing that j can't be said of Columbia or of very j many cities in General Gorgas' home country. It is almost certain that i there is more malarial disease in proportion to population in any Southern city than there is in the once fatal ! Canal Zone of Panama. | "These things?very difficult to present and hold before the contempla; tion or recognition of men, that are too intangible for any definite appeal to our emotions or our intelligence, leavinc only a fading memory, and with the almost certain fate of being forgotten or deliberately neglected by his successors, so that the jungle | and death will surge back and re! claim the Isthmus region?these things, these brilliant achievements at Habana and Panama, constitute i his appropriate monument. "About the time that General Gori gas was rescuing Habana and Panama, the British invaders of Malaya wished to establish a healthful port at Kuala Klang?since called by them Port Swettenham. The place was a morass, infested with mosquitoes, and a hotbed of fevers. The methods of | General Gorgas were applied, and Ku' ala Klang was transformed into a port as salubrious as a mountain sanatorium. i "General Uorgas was a native ui Alabama, the son of a brigadier in the Confederate army. His first post as a physician was at Fort Brown, Texas, where it is more than likely he received his first impulse to study j malarial fevers and their prevention." o Then and Now. t Seven years ago a young married couple could Live a month for $36.33. I These figures are actual, not approximate. A couple did live for the month | of June, 1913, for $36.33. And in| eluded in the amount is $10 rent, ice, butter and milk, besides the groceries and meats. At that time steak sold at 18 cents the pound; eggs were ten i cents the dozen and frying chickens i 20 to 30 centi each. In the items of expense of tie couple may be found on one day, Irish potatoes, 25 cents, PB not a sue bustin' p id for discriminating 1 into their resources ig their savings and s : passed the nineteer lital and a big surplu U sleep well and rest you 5 per cent. Intei jp to July 15th will 1 i Bai E, 4 < steak, 18 cents, vegetables, 15 cents, a total of 58 cents, which possibly provided two, if not the three meals, with Irish potatoes left over. Today a dozen eggs and a frying | chicken will cost $1.50. A pound of steak 35 cents, and including rent the couple will pay out from $75 to $100 for living expenses. A five of sixrooms house will rent in the average small town for $25 to $35, whereas, in 1913, they rented for $10. i It is true that wages and salaries ! have increased, but not to the extent | that the necessities of life have soared. There are so many reasons given for increases in prices that it is useless to describe them, but many I are unwarranted. For instance,, the I price of shoes, we understand, dropped a few days ago 50 cents per pair, I while there is almost no piarket for hides. In 1919 we bought newsprint paper at $44 per ton. The other day we bought a half-ton for $155.?Lancas- j ter News. i THE "CONFEDERATE COLLEtE i No. 62 Broad St., Charleston ,S . C. i A boauiing and day School for : gills. Begins its sessions September i 28; 1920. Historic institution situl atoxi in a healthy location Advantages of city life, with large college yard for outdoor spoils. A WELL PLANNED COURSE of: studies in a homelike atmosphere. A BUSINESS COURSE open to; j Seniors, and Elective courses to Jun-' j iors and Seniors. TWO DOMESTIC SCIENCE j COURSES, giving practical and theo- j retic knowledge of Cooking. A well equipped LIBRARY. For catalog and further informaj tion apply to the College. 7-3-13t. 1785 19201 i THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | I _ CO-EDUCATIONAL Entrance examination, and examin1 ations for the free tuition county : scholarships at all county seats Fri day July 9, at ?? a. m. ; Four-year courses lead to the B. A. 1 i and B. S. degrees. Special two-year i pre-medical and pie- technical courses are given. Spacious buildings and athletic grounds, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled library facilities. Two dormitories for men. Expenses moderate. For terms and catalogue, address ' HARRISON RANDOLPH. Pres. 3tp. NOTICE~0'FlELECTt(>f} ! Whereas, a petition signed by more i than one-third of the resident elec- ! tors and more than one-third of the resident freeholders of the age of 21 years of Hemingway School District, No. 12, in the County of Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, has BUM ; r ( :ker proposition ic itthi to ll> IfAl^ people and others wl ?, earning capacity an iurplus funds. ith year mark of our s and profit fund. V easy once it is placet rest on your Saving 1 )ear interest as if plat ak o been presented to and "iled with the School Trustees of sai l School District, petitioning and requesting: an election to be ordered a id held, thereby submitting to the qualified voters residing in said Schoo District, the question of issuing tonds of said School District for and in the sum and amount not exceeding Twenty Thousand ($20,000.00) Dollars, and not under Fifteen Thoisand ($15,000. 00) Dollars, for the pu -pose of building, constructing, anc equipping a, school building or bu ldings in and) for said School Distrirt, or for the purpose of enlarging the existing school building or bui dings therein; and Whereas, The said School Trustees of said School Distric by resolution duly adopted, passed, ind ratified in session aissembled on the 15th day of June, 1920, did order md direct that an election be held and conducted at the store of W. C. Hem ingway & Company in the Town of Hemingway, in said County and State, and in said School District, on Tuesday, the 6th day of July, 1920, for the purpose of | submitting to the qualified At>ters re-| siding in said Schorl District the | queston of issuing bonds of said j School District in the sum and to the amount of Sixteen Thou ! sand ($16,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of constru< ting, building, and enlarging the existing school building in and for said School District, by which aid resolution, adopted, approved, jnd ratified as aforesaid, it was ord(red and provid| Bricks! I We have 6000 Bri< mi We are offering $2.00 pi Have your Oat! Proa Hu> Willi il 11V T V 1U1IU1 KINGSTREE, cEi nor 3 proposit of a a io favor not only eft d immediate manage corporate existence Ve have the experier i with us An/\n fr pnmnnf^rl L/cpuaiu, tumpuivw :ed on deposit July 1 >f K ed that for the purpose of said elec- j tion the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock in the forenoon and closed at four o'clock in the afternoon by Van D. Harper, J. T. DuRant, and H. L. Baker, the managers in and by said resolution duly apointed and directed to hold and conduct the said election as required by law: Now, therefore, notice is hereby given That pursuant to said petition and resolution and laws of the State of South Carolina providing for and regulating the same, an election will be held in said Hemingway School District, No. 12, in the town of Hemingway, in said County and State, at the store of W. C. Hemingway & Company, on Tuesday, the 6th day of July, 1920, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters resid-1 ing in said School District the ques-1 tion Of issuing bonds of said Shcool j District to the amount and in the sum of Sixteen Thousand ($16,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of constructing, building, and enlarging the existing school building in and for said School District, said bonds to be issued and sold as provided for by ai. - r* 1 A?~?Ul ? I special act oi u1c vjtziieiui assciuui^ of the State of South Carolina, approved the 12th day of March, 1920, which provides that said bonds shall be issued for a period of twenty years frerm date of issue, with the right redemption after fifteen years from date thereof, and bearing interest at a rate not in excess of six per cent (6%) per annum; and that in and by said resolution yan D. Harper, J. T. Bricks!! t ks good as new, dug II beds, going at $25.0 ir bushel for Corn in the shu i and Wheat THI ipt Service Guaran isburg Liberty snir ? w w T ion busted icient service from b ment, as well as th< are prosperous a ice and want your J every three montf e st, the beginning ot ingsi SOUTH DuRant, and H. L, Baker have been by said School Trustees duly nominated and appointed managers of election, to hold, conduct, and manage said election, and that for the purKse of said election the polls snail opened at sen*n o'clock in the forenoon and closed at four o'clock in the afternoon, and that said election shall be conducted pursuant to and in accordance with .the laws now in forec providing for and governing such elections, and that at said election the qualified voters residing in said school district and such persons as may be qualified and entitled to vote at said election under the laws now in force governing, providing for, and regulating the same, may vote'Tor the Issue of Bonds" or "Against the Issue of Bonds". Voters opposed to the issue of said bonds as above described and provided for shall vote "Against the Issue of Bonds", and voters in favor of the issuance of the bonds hereinbefore mentioned and described and herein provided for shall voto "For the Issue of Bonds". In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, F. E. Huggins, G. B. Ingraham, and A. E. Hill, Trustees of Hemingway School District, No. 12, Williamsburg County, South Carolina, have hereunto set our hands and seals this 19th day of June, A. D. 1920. F. E. HUGGINS, (L. S.), G. B. INGKAHAM, (L. S.), A. E. HILL, (L. S.), Trustees of Hemingway School Dia, trict No. 12, Williamsburg County, 1 South Carolina. 6-24-2*. Bricks!!! I * t 588 from the old oil 1. . 0. . '1.1 ck delivered at or plant 1 > : LEASHED here. J teed. 1 ?; TH CAROLINA I 5?|o I sucker I tanks, but who 1 sir Directorate, I nd progressive, 1 business. We || is. Any funds 1 this quarter. 1! tree I CAROLINA 1 * i