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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1922
THE CONFIDENCE IN FORD.
"One must infer from the protests
of a number of cities ana towns in
' northern Georgia and of Alabama
against the acceptance by the government
of the proposal of the Alabama
Power compnay to take over the
Muscle Shoals property that that concern
has not earned popularity as a
corporation furnishing electric powei
for public utilities. It appears that
numbers of communities have had all
the dealings with it that they wish
and that they do not wish that it be
placed in a position to control another
great source of hydro-electric energy.
"The Henry Ford corporations on
the other hand are unique among the
great and tremendously wealthy cordorations
of the United States in that
they have gained popularity throughout
the country. Henry Ford is the
one American multi-millionare whose
acquistions have not excited jealousy
and suspicion among the people.
"Other things being equal, the widespread
publilc confidence and good
will that Mr. Ford enjoys are entitled
to consideration by the government
as a factor in arriving at
its decision in respect of the Muscle
Shoals property."
We fully agree with the Columbia
State, in our opinion, if there is any
one individual or corporation in the
United States that can put through
the Muscle Shoals project in a iprvnner
that will be advantageous to the federal
government and at the same time
be of inestimatable sendee to the
people of a great territory that person
is Mr. Ford. We have confidence
' in him individually or as the head
of a grvat corporation. It looks like
on ulter waste of energy on the part
of federal officials in considering
other propositions.
Andrew J. Bethea of Columbia, who
has served two terms as lieutenant
governor and made one canvass of
the state for the governship, has announces
his intention to enter the
gubernatorial race again this summer.
It has been known for some
time that Mr. Bethea had the matter
under advisement, but this announcement
is the first definite statement
f;om him with regard to the
matter.
It's a disgusting sort of thing under
any circumstances for needlessly excited
officers and citizens to stage an
artillery display such as has beer, displayed
in Kingstree several times in
recent years when a supposedly rabid
dog was at large. It is true, a rabid
deg is a thing to be feared, but as
the Hartsville Messenger says, there
is a way to get rid of them without
sprinkling the streets with a leaden
barrage that endangers the life and
limbs of everybody within shooting
distance. It is even more disgusting
wl n we. look at the brutality of the
method of killing; when we see a
mangy, flea-bitten cur dog pursued
by a dozen or so citizens and officers
armed with enough ordinance to
equip a regiment and shooting up
and dewn the street apparently without
regard to the safety of children
or other people on the streets. In
this connection we call attention to
a recent editoral appearing in Our
Dumb Animals, by which we can well
profit:
"Once more we say, don't kill the
supposedly rabid dog. This for the
sake, not only of the dog, but for
your sake if you have been bitten.
If the dog is mad, in all probability
he is not, he will be dead in eight
days from rabies. If he doesn't die,
you know he isn't mad, and anyone
bitten need never worry about having
hydrophoba. Catch the dog somehow,
if possible, with some sort of
net or noose. Get him into any kind
of enclosure, or yard, or kennel, and
keep him under observation for a
week. The average person thinks
that every dog that bites anyone must
be mad, and that he must be shot.
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If every man and woman were shot|
who, irritated, worried, hungry, thirsty,
sick, frightened, snap at and bite,
metaphorically speaking, the first
I persons they meet, what a destruction
of the population!"
|: . SELF-RELIANCE.
1 (By Brownlee Frix) v
. John D. Rockfellow's father used
to lend him money, payable on de!
mand, and just when he thought John
D. could not pay it, would demand
every cent. This sounds cruel; few
| fathers would treat their sons in such
J j a manner, but it taught John D. to
,' be self-reliant, to be resourceful and
i j to have arrangements always made
I for sudden emergencies.
An eagle pushes her young out of
the nest, as if to say, "Fly or fall!"
i But she does not let them get hurt.
Before the young eagles hit the
, ground she swoops down and catches
them on her back.
Andrew Carnegie used to say that
the only true philanthropy is the
kind which helps others to help themselves.
To help a poor boy or girl
\ get an education is pnuanmropy 01
the purest ray serene. To encourage
and inspire them to work for an edu
cation is splendid. Did you ever
know a man who had worked his
way through college who was a bus'
iness failure? I never have. The
i efforts' that he made to make buckle
i and tongue meet were the very mak
ing of the man.
i Some years ago in North Carolina
there was a young farmer who had
a very wealthy bachelor uncle. The
i old man had bought land near a town
' which grew into a city and the land
; became immensely valuable. One day
1 when the young farmer was plowing,
i a negro came into the field and told
! him of his uncle's death. Leaving
the mule and plow where they were
. he started running to the house. The
i negro said, "Boss, what yer want me
i to do wid dis yere mule?" And the
farmer said, "You can have the mule
and the plow, too!" TTiat fanner has
spent all that he inherited and is now
i as poor as he ever was.
Give some children money and they
will spend it; give them property and
they will sell it or put a mortgage
on it. But give any child an cduca1
tion and he cannot lose it or spend
it or put a mortgage on it. It will
stay with him and help him as long
as he lives.
It is the desire of the average fnan
and woman to do good as they go
. through this world. Sometimes in
their eagerness to do good they do
! positive harm. We all know men and
women who are big, overgrown babies,
spoiled by over-indulgence.
A large percentage of life's failures
i have a sneaking notion that they
i can get something for nothing. Like
a nest of young jay birds, their
mouths are wide open waiting for
some one to fill them. The word "free"
has advertising magic in it But
sometimes advertisers lose by displaying
that word too prominently. A
boy that I know ordered a bicycle,
because he thought it was free. When
it came C. 0. D., forty dollars, and
he got a card from the express agent
t.? that effect, he would not go near
the office. He did not have forty
cents. The bicycle was free to examine
only.
For the past two years at Christmas,
every 'orphan child in and around
Richmond, Virginia, has been invited
to a banquet at the finest hotel
in the city. Amid the strains of music
and the perfume of cut-flowers the
little folks feasted on turkey and
cranberries, cake and ice cream and
many other good things until they
were filled up to their necks. These
banquets were given by a business
man who was himself an orphan. In
his childhood he wanted to go to
parties and have a good time like
other children, but that pleasure was
denied him. He told these children
that one day he was standing on the
street wondering at the inequalities
of life, when a lady spoke to him.
Presently she said, "I like little boys
and would like to be your friend."
"No, no, lady," he said, "you don't
know me?you just don't understand."
"Yes, I understand," she said, "and
I want you to come to see me." And
she gave him her address. "But,
lady, I haven't any Sunday clothes
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looking like this!" The good woman
convinced him that regardless of his
circumstances, she wanted him to
visit her and to be a friend. He went
to see her and as he walked up toward
her palatial home he was tempted
to turn around and run back.
Had he dreamed of seeing this lady,
or was she leal? He rung the bell
and a servant opened the door and
he was so scared that he could not
say a word. No, it was not a dream,
for there came his wonderful friend
smiling at him and welcoming him.
She told him about One who is a
friend to friendless little children.
She bought him some clothes, and
encouraged him and stuck to him and
under her kindly influence he grew
up to be a big, self-reliant, Christian
business man. That good woman has
been dead now for several years, but
the good that she did is blooming.
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RABBI WISE SCORES I:
NEW YORK JEWS
FOR FAILURE OF RELIEF FUND.
SAYS SINS ARE INEXCUSABLE.
From Monday's New York Herald:
With only naif of New York's quota
of $5,000,000 reached in the national
campaign for Jewish war sufferers
and the original time of two weeks
at an end, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, in
his sermon yesterday at the Free
Synagogue, came to the support of
Jacob M. Leob of Chicago in his arraignment
of the Jews of New York.
When the campaign was launched
here, Mr. Loeb challenged the Jews
of this city to make good their failures
in previous relief campaigns, denouncing
them as selfishly intent on
their own pleasure and deaf to the
needs of the stricken membei-s of
their race in Eastern Europe.
Rabbi Wise supported Mr. Loeb as
having told the truth, adding that
"much more could have been told
than he told." He also replied to
those who have attiickea Mr. Loeb
for his criticism, and rebuked them
for their resentment.
"I would rather," he said, "leave
the ministry today than feel under
the necessity of pleasing Jews by defending
them when they are indefensible,
by excusing them when sins
of commission or emission are mex-i
cusable.
"Perhaps the gravest tiling about
it all is that the present failure is
not an isolated case, as Mr. Loeb
pointed out. It is a culminating and
discrowning failure, and still worse,
it is a symptom of a state of affairs
that obtains in the Jewish life of
New York.
"Rabbi Wise said one of the worst
things about the situation was the
attitude of those well to do Jews who
have not responded because they are
unfriendly to Jewish immigrants from
eastern Europe.
"The little Jewish orphans and refugees,"
he said, "are being penalized
because their cousins and kinsmen in
America demand the closed shop.
Let the Jews of New York remember
that the children of east European
lands have been orphaned because
they are Jewish, not because they
are Polish or Russian or Ukrainian.
"It is true that some Jews cannot
give decently or at all, because they
have nothing left after using up
everything fcr themselves, their needs,
their tastes, their appetites, their
luxuries. They are poor because they
mortgage income and resources in
order to fe*nl and clothe and amuse
themselves. They eat too much and
dress too well and go to the theater
too often, and yet seem to be insensible
to the cry of need.
"Even success now were failure.
The effort has been too great. A
quiet, and orderly campaign should
have been effective, and it should
have been possible to depense with
all the fireworks."
The Jewish women of the city will
try to raise $150,000 more than was
pledged by the women's division of
the New York committee, it was announced
at campaign headquarters
yesterday. When the drive was started
Mrs. Henry Moscowitz, chairman
of the women's division, gave a
pledge that the 5,000 volunteer
workers would raise $100,000. When
their returns were tabulated yesterday
the total was found tc exceed .
$130,000. The division expects to
raise as much more within the week,
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Adult Classes at Hemingway.
Hemingway, March 7.?Starting
Monday evening March 13th, there
will be part time classes for adults
held at the high school building here.
The different truck crops will be
[discussed, also dairying, swine raising,
forage crops and such other problems
as confront the fanners of this
community. These classes will meet
twice a week for four or five weeks.
Mr. E. L. Rogers, teacher of agrfc
culture, Mr. Cathcait, county demonstration
agent and others will help
with this work.
Miss Dess Gowdy was called home
Sunday on account of the illness of
her father.
Miss Verna Ard returned to Florence
Sunday after spending the weekend
at home.
Mr pnd Mrs. H. E. Eaddv and fam-1
ily spent Sunday with relatives at
Pamplico.
Mr. and -Mrs. Cary Rollins of Rome,
were pleasant callers in town Sunday.
Capt. C. Jones of Hamlet, spent
last week here on business.
It is not dead?it will never die, but
will go on and on, touching and transforming
the lives of orphan children
until the end of time! Those banquets
were given in remembrance of
her.
I think that encouragement is one
of the noblest words in our language.
There are many who are too proud
to accept alms, but we all need and
appreciate encouragement and thej
self-reliance that it gives.
SUICIDES LAID TO j
WAR'S REACTION i
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MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE TOOK !
THEIR LIVES LAST \
YEAR.
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New York, March 6.?Reaction fol- ]
lowing the war was blamed tonight *
by the Save-a-Life League for the !
large number of suicides in 1921, f
20,000 tjj^msand of which were estimated
to have taken place in this
country. The number of cases
broughtto the league's attention was
12,144, of which 8,410 wore males
and 3,734 females.
"This waste of life, the result of
recent disturbed economic conditions
and the aftermath of war," said a
report by Harry M. Warren, president
of the league, "has caused commercial
failures, loss of employment
and much real suffering. The growing
complexity of our modern life,
the feverish unrest, crimes, divorces,
questionable dress, unhappy home re- "
lr.tions, the decline of religious senti- x
ment, and other things have caused
deranged nerves, depression and less
selfcontrol. With impro^d business j
which is sure to come the suicide
rate will be reduced and prosperity
and happiness will return."
One of the stliking features of the
report is the increase in the num- j
ber of suicides of children, which was ]
477 in 1919, 707 in 1920 and 858
in 1921. There also were 509 war i
veterans among the suicides last
year.
All classes of screty were includ- j
ed in the list of those who took their j
own lives. There were ten editors,
ofii/lAnfo fiffv.nnp tflinfll tflSfh- I
ers, twenty-one clergymen, thirty- I
nine brokers, fifty-seven judges and f
lawyers, eighty-six physicians, seven
mayors, eighty-eight heads of large
corporations, seventy-six millionaires,
thirty wealthy women and ninetythree
bankers, including thirty-seven
bank presidents. The oldest suicide
was 100 years old and the youngest
five years.
All sorts of reasons were given
by the victims. One man hung himself
because his wife was "too good"
for him; another because his wife
was spending all his money; another j
because he coul not stand the noise J
of a neighbor's piano, and another B
because his wife refused to kiss him.
One spinster took poison, leaving a <
note that "no man in the world is !
good enough for me," and a mother |
took her life because her son would
not marry to please her. One man ,
left a note stating "beware of grass ]
widows," and another killed himself 1
for "the good of the L W. W." !
In New York city there were 840 J
suicides last year, an increase of 103
over 1920. \
Ireland has fewer suicides than any J
other country on earth, Mr. Warren <
declared in his comment on world !
conditions. Germany leads the world, ;
especially in child suicide. Japan has <
many thousands of suicides annually .
and China is said to have a half mil- ]
lion every year. ?
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Cox to Speak in Columbia. j
James M. Cox, former governor of i
Ohio and Democratic nominee for J
the presidency in 1920, will address ?
the House of Representatives at 8:30 !
o'clock tonight in the hall of the [
House. '
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