Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-28
FRIDAY, JULY 2s, 1911.

tilizer samplers. 1t was decided that
tive committee. The movement to es-
tablsh state tuberculosis camp was
recommended and addresses were heard
from Governor Blease and Clarence II.
Poe, the latter being editor OF the
Progressive Farmer OF Raleigh. The
new officers are: President, Z. w.
Dabs; vice president, B. +. Keller; Sec
retary treasurer, c. Whitner Reid;
chaplain, w. f. Bodie; conductor, Z.
w. Suber; sergeant-at-arms, w. r.
Caskey; doorkeeper, A. F. Calvert;
member of executive committee for
term OF three years, II. L. Morrison;
delegate to the National Union meet
ing September 5. at Shawnee, Okla,
j. B. O'Neal Holloway.
- Columbia Record: There Is no
such office as that of state chemist
according to Commissioner z. ]. Wat
son, and in this statement concurred
the attorney general, Mr.. Fraser Lyon
who was present when the matter
came up in conversation at the
state house. There Is staff Of chem
lists attached to the state experiment
station at Clemson, the state board OF
health has a laboratory here, and
Commissioner Watson has designated
as "chief chemist" Mr.. A. c. Sum-
mers, who Is in charge Of the labora-
tory maintained here by the depart.
ment of agriculture, commerce and
industries But all these chemists
have their special routine work, those
at Clemson being engaged in analyses
for the experiment station and in fer
tilizer analysis and the departmental
laboratory here beirg devoted exclu-
sively TO the testing of food and feed
suns, the samples submitted being
those drawn by Commissioner Wat
sons inspectors, under Chief Inspect
or Sloan. The laboratory maintained
at the university Of South Carolina by
the state board of health Is devoted to
special work mapped out by the board
and is not available for analyses to
determine whether crime has been
committed. Research work Is done
but it's function Is preventive, chiefly,
it's principal services being the ad-
ministration Of the Pasteur treatment
against hydrophobia, and the manu-
facture of smallpox vaccine, anti
diphtheria serum, hookworm treat
ment and typhoid immunization tac-
term. The typhoid bacterin has not
yet been put into distribution. An
idea persists in remote portions of the
state that DR.. w. B. Burney Of the
University of South Carolina Is state
chemist This idea arose from the
fact that under the state dispensary
system DR.. Burney made analyses OF
liquor samples submitted to him. His
work ceased with the death OF the
state dispensary system. County
newspapers occasionally contain ref
ersnces to state chemist. These al
lusions are usually made In connec-
ton with circumstances giving rise to
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used. on man or beast. There is no
general state chemist obliged or en-
powered to make analyses OF suspi-
cious substances or of human or ami
NAL viscera for the detection OF
crime. When local peace officials OF
their own motion or at the urging OF
interested parties, wish analyses made
for determining whether poison has
been used with criminal intent, they
must call in the services Of general
commercial chemists, Of whom there
are a number in Columbia and Char
lesion. and must make provision out
of their own funds for the payment
Of the chemists fees. The amount to
be charged is In each instance a mat
ter to be arranged between the par
ties. Not infrequently local peace Of
ficials send suspicious substances or
viscera here for analysis by state
chemist" thinking there exists some
provision for free analysis In criminal
cases, and refuse to go on with the
investigation when Informed that
they must make some arrangement
with a commercial chemist to do the
work. The making Of such analyses
Is a much more delicate, disagreeable
and complicated process than the un-
itiated realize and often the unin-
formed balk at paying the fees de-
manded, however reasonable these
may actually be in comparison with
the prices charged generally, In the
profession for such service.