The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 13, 1922, Image 9
Negroes and Rats.,
(By Dr. Frank Crane.)
The negroes last summer held a
grand demonstration in New York
and gave symptoms of standing up
for their rights.
The negro has been the most wronged
figure in history. Compared to
him, the Irishman has been, you might
say, coddled.
For some reason he hr.s always
carried the white man's burden. For
the white man is superior. He him^
self admits it.
White men have even circulated
L the story of Ham, son of Noah, that
B he made fun of his father who had
B got drunk anc/ kicked og the covers.
B That may not have been nice of
f Ham, but it was hardly serious enough
to warrant cursing his posterity for
! thousands of years.
Even in white folks' fiction the
negro gets the worst of it Every
time Robinson Crusoe meets Friday
ii: tne wilderness it is the black man
I who carries the wood and the white
man who carries the gun.
The negroes once lived in Africa,
yi a large continent containing a fifth
* or sixth of the earth's area. There,
according to the 14 points, they ought
to have had some say as to how they
were to be governed.
They had not.
They never came over to bother
the whites; the whites came over to
bother them. They came as explorers,
profiteers, slave dealers, rum
peddlers, government officials and
missionaries. 1
In their native land the negroes
lived at peace in the bosom of their
families, under their palm trees, and i
played nroond in a costume which ;
was much more rational for hot i
weather than any kind of clothes per- <
jnitted. in New Jersey.
They had their medicine men who ]
[cnaniea ineir own im^u, cia< ?.o ,
curs talked Latin, and gave powdered ;
elephant ears and grasshoppers' knees f
for bowel complaint, even as ours <
give more expensive dope, and with j
about the same success. At least they ]
all died after a while anyhow, even ]
as our forefathers. y
They had their little dances by 1
torchlight under the trees, as we 1
have our midnight follies atox the ]
theater. ]
They beat their tom-toms and wrig- i
gled their tum-turas, as also our jazz
orchestras perform and our young
folks shimmy and fox-trot.
They had their sorcerers and others
whom they paid to humbug them,
even as we have our own blather- ^
skites.
. They made war when they were (
^ hungry and needed food, fun and ^
women. We make war for no rea- ^
W son at all, and do not feven eat our
B foes.
It is a wonder Ham has stood for ,
his abuses as long as he has.
B He. now protests against lynching, j
that is against being hung by ama- ^
tears and not professionals.
I am for Africa for the Africans, 1
Ireland for the Irish, and New York
for the Jews.
The negroes are a happy, contented i
* - J t L
and lovable people, ana nave at> iuuui
light to their place in the sun, and
also in the shade, fcs white folks.
-- " Rats.
I One of the greatest enemies of the
ttuman raue is the rat. He is a friend
of dirt, which kills more people than
gunpowder, and an ally, companion
and carrier of the Microbe, which
takes a human life the greatest toll
of all
Rats do not bulk large in the public
eye. _ ^ ^
They nothing new. They have
hjways been .with us. |
They do not attack in the open, <
but skulk in dark places.
They do no boaatkg, have no |
propaganda and do not advertize. '
But they keep busy.
Bats, said Sir James CrichtonBrowne,
destroy as much property in I
England in the course of the twelve
months as was destroyed by submarines
around English coasts during
the war.
Through the bubonic plague and
other diseases which they propagate,
rats will destroy as much human life
in a year as was destroyed during
the war.
: We make much to-do over the danI
gers of war and call international
\ conferences at Geneva and Washington
to lay plans to avoid future wars.
But the devastation wrought by our
ftiMva common foes, the rat, the fly
V and the mosquito, far exceeds the
havoc of any war.
'And these three are right on the
job every minute.
An International Anti-Vermin Congress
would be even more to the point
tthan a Disarmament Congress.
A recent writer described another
r serious count in the indictment against
the rat. Dr. Burton Fanning gives
; an aoeount of a disease of r. very )
; grave nature caused by the bite of
.* a rat or of a ferret that has eaten
part of a rat.
Rat-bite fever, according to Dr.
Fanning's report, "has been recognized
in Japan for the last twenty years,
^ and 10 per cent, of the cases in that
country have proved fatal; but it is
j
only quite recently that it has been
identified in this country. Fifteen
cases have, however, already been
diagnosised and reported, and there
can be no doubt that many cases have
passed undetected.
"From a fortnight to three weeks
after the bite of the rat, sickness
sets in, and high fever, which" keeps
recurring at intervals of three or four
days, with swelling of the lymph ves- j
sels and glands, and a red rash ov> f
the body, vomiting and headache, with
emaciation and changes in the blood.
If unchecked, the disease runs on for
from three to twelve months, incapacitating
from employment and causing
great distress, sometimes proving fatal.
We do not yet know whether,
even when cured, it may not leave
unpleasant consequences behind it."
Men have always fought rats, and
there seem to be quite as many of
them as ever. They are as vigorous,
as numerous and as destructive as in
the days of our grandfathers.
"We have cursed him in eating and
cursed him in drinking,
We have cursed him in c -ughing and
sneezing and winking.
We have cursed him in sitting and
standing and lying, ]
We have cursed him in living and i
cursed him in dying. '
There never was such a terrible curse,
Cut what gives rise to no little sur- (
prise I
Is that the rat does not seem a penny
the worse."
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To Have Easter Rally in Lake City.
Theyoung people's organizations of i
the three local churches are making
plans for what is expected to prove
the biggest rally held in Lake City
on Easter Sunday afternoon, April
16, at 4 o'clock. The rally will be
held in the Methodist church under
the joint auspices of the Christian
Endeavor society, the B. Y. P. U. ami
the Epworth League, and an effort
Brill be made to have every young
person in this community attend. The
Easter music under the direction of
Misses Eva North and Dora Hinnant
will" be rendered by the three combined
choirs and a talk will* be made
by Rev. John W. Davi3, pastor of the
Kingstree Presbyterian church. The
people of Kingstree are cordially incited
to attend this meeting.
"THE RIGHT WAY"
"The Right Way" is a masterpiece.
This powerful feature, than which
nothing finer has been produced, is j
4 shocking exposure of the atrocities,
:ommitted behind prison walls under |
the cloak 'of discipline, during a cer-,
tain Dark Age regime in prison ad- '
ministration, is soon tc be produced
at the Academy Theater in Kingstree.
rhe exact date to be announced later.
Thomas Moot Osborne, nationally
lenown, wrote and personally vouches;
For the truth of every incident in this
picture.
The lives of two boys, reared in1
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Hardware. Paints, Seeds,
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diametrically opposite environments,
are contrasted; first in their boyhood,
and later in their young manhood.
The rich man's son, upon l-eaching
maturity, becomes entangled with the
type of woman that customarily preys
'upon just such boys; and when the
inevitable day of splitting with her
arrives, he buys her silence in the
usual way?with a check. But having
already drained the paternal exchequer
to meet her demands, he is I
this time obliged to summon to his
aid a boyhood knack for copying signatures;
and so his last payment is
made with a check bearing his father's
forged name.
The other youngster, caught redhanded
in some juvenile impishness,
is sent to a reformatory; and emerges
therefrom, years later, with a thorough
knowledge of the rudiments of
crime. And not having been trained
for anything else, he starts immediately
on a career of lawlessness.
And by life's inexplicable juggling,
the denizen of society's upper strata (
brushes elbows with the native of (
the slums; both boys landing in the J
same prison. j
"The Right Way" deals with a 1
problem that always has existed, and
always will, although we devoutly j
trust in a much lesser degree.?Adv.
566 quickly relieves a cold. |]
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