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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Is A SERIOUS PROBLEM
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH IS TO
MAKE WAR on PELLAGRA.
State Health Officer Hayne Says Dis
ease is Most Serious Menace to
Good Health.

Good Health.
At the recent quarterly meeting OF
the State board Of health. the peila-
gra situation was declared to be the
most serious health problem OF South
Carolina. It was determined by the
assembled doctors to make practical
survey Of pellagra conditions IN the
State with the intention of suppress
ing and eradicating the insidious dis
ease.
DR.. A. ]. Hayne, State health OIL
Ger, had the following to say as TO
the pellagra situation: "Pellagra is
at present the disease that is giving
the State board of health more trou-
Bile than any other health condition
in the State. From the following 1t
may be seen that a pellagra survey
Of the State is very necessary.
"For the month of June ST cases
have been reported to the board from
% counties out of the IS. In the re-
naming counties the disease is prac-
tically as prevalent as within the re-
ported districts. The counties report
ing pellagra are Abbeville, Anderson
Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Char
lesion, Cherokee, Chester, Chester
field, Darlington, Dorchester, Fair
field, Florence, Greenville, Green
wood, Horny, Kershaw, Laurens, Lex
ington, Newberry, Marlboro. Orange
burf, Richlard, Spartanburg, Union
and York.
What percentage of pellagrins re-
siding within these counties has beer
reported? The case of Laurens coun'
| ty may furnish some idea. From the
entire county two cases were report
ed to the State board of health. In
the town Of Clinton, with a popula'
ton of about 1000 souls, an inten'
sive pellagra survey, conducted by
DR.. Jos. F. Siler, of the Thompson
McFadden pellagra commission, now
working in Spartanburg county; DR.
a. E. vipond of Montreal, Canada
and Dr.. T. L. w. Bailey, local board
of health secretary for Clinton, re
vealed SO cases Of pellagra, wet ane
dry varieties.
''In the past three months ter
deaths have occurred in Clinton a:
the result of pellagra, nine of the
fatalities being the case CT married
women, their ages varying from 81 tt
5S years, and the duration Of the dis
ease from three months to four years
The pelIagra situation in Clinton i:
not exceptional in South Carolina. i
is merely cited, because the field ha:
been thoroughly surveyed by abb
men. During his three years Of WORK
| in Spartanburg county DR.. Siler ha:
reported 500 cases of pellagra in tina
district -
| DR.. Hayne said that the people ad
wise with their candidates for th'
State assembly and prevail upon then
ito appropriate funds for a proper
State survey for pellagra; that case
may be found; that their severit!
may be reported on; that the prob
liability of it's spread may be deal
with, etc.
"Lest the public become too alarm
led" said DR.. Hayne. 'T am glad tt
Estate that the death resulting from
EpeIlaga is exaggerated frequently. I
lis probably not more than per cent
Aside from the mortality yiewpoin
we are facing a far worse situation
in actual pellagra conditions than il
the possible appearance Of the bu
bonic plague"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Dealt With as Criminals

A telegram received at Los Ange-
les purporting to be official message
from Carranza says all who took an
active part in the assassination of
Madero will be dealt with as crini-
mails.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Italian Miner Killed.

After an Italian miner had been
killed at Meadow Lands. Pa, in a
ffht with constables there was dan
ger of an international conflict Tues
day until the arrival of the sheriff
and 80 deputies.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Resigns Under Fire.

Representative McDermott of Illi-
nois, who has been under fire as a
result of the Mulhall charges, resign
ed his seat Monday.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Air Reservoir Eyplodes,

The air reservoir of a Gaffnev
manufacturing plant exploded Tues
day with a loud report, and blew us
part of two floors, but no lives were
lost.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Marine Dies at Vera Cruz.

John McDermott, an American ma
rine at Vera Cruz, was drowned Tues
day while in bathing.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Killed by Pitched Ball.

]. T. West, aged 21, Of Richmond,
Va, was killed Tuesday by being
struck by pitched ball in a base
Gall game.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29

central or State organization in Co
lumbia;; that such and such men were
in the organization and that a county
chairman in each county had been
named and meetings Of the admins
tTation followers organized in every
county, but remained to absolutely
confirm the names of the Blease
State chairman and secretary.
There is NO douot that the State
administration has organized or at
tempted to organize in each county.
It was known that in Georgetown
3 county caucus Of the Blease forces
was held following the speaking of
the candidates for State Offices there,
and it was openly reported that the
caucus had agreed to support John
Richards for governor ane the
Blease ticket right down the line.
This was said to have been the same
method followed in Williamsburg
county, where, however, the Blease
forces are in hopeless minority.
Georgetown is going to be close, for
the Bleasites are well organized there
and have control Of the county execu-
tive committee
1t is also Interesting to recall in
this connection that W. c. Irby Jr.,
in his speech following the Lexing-
ton meeting, I believe it was at Sa-
luda, attacked Mr.. W. H. Sharpe, the
Lexington Senator, who is the State
chairman of the Blease forces, for
helping to hold up the two-cent rate
in the last general assembly, and
stated that Mr. Sharpe is supporting
Mr.. Richards for governor
Mr.. Irby had made plain his inten-
ton Of not being left "out in the
cold", and he as well as Mr.. c. C.
Sinms and Mr.. J. B. A. Mutually are
friends Of Gov. Blease, just as Mr..
John G. Richards. It is going to be
q pretty fight to see which lands the
support Of the Blease organization. |
for while the governor has declared |
he viii not take hand in the first |
race it is obviously impossible for
him to keep his followers from cen
tering on one man if they so desire.
It was reliably reported that the
Biease men in Georgetown and Will
liamsburg agreed on Mr. Richards for
governor and that other counties L
hare followed suit in some instances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31

ring of with feelings not unfamiliar
to our own time. Or he will say
Wills at dinner with his family, LET
us go to the OPERA" and passing into
the next room and turning OF the
lights he will punch button and be-
fore their eyes on screen as we'll as
into their ears will pass grand opera
being enacted that moment on the
Metropolitan stage in New York. oh
it is great age and promising to be
greater. The world stood not long
ago with bowed head before the new.
made grave of Wilbur Wright. that
indomitabls spirit II he did not
hitch his wagon to a star he at least
dared to launch it in the veritable
path of the storm. 1t Is to him and
his associates that We have an ara
that like young robin Just out Of the
nest, is trying its wings upon the i'm
itless fields Of the air. 1t is for the
years just ahead to make the aero
plane as safe as the automobile. Three
hundred years ago Andreas Block
sailed up the Hudson in his Dutch gal.
ley. The ship was burned and An
dreas built on Manhattan Island the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31

first house Of logs. Only the otnen
day noted an account ola buiidins
now going up on the site Of the oio
Equitable building In New York; the
site, only about $50 feet square, coss
the equivalent Of one hundred thou
sand acres Of Iowa land at $50 per
acre and the building that IL to riss
over 1t is to cost the equivalent ol
one hundred thousand acres OF iowa
land at $140 per acre-a veratapio
Aladdin's palace conceived and ensr
I'd by an iowa boy. Last year :
was travelling in an auto across .n'
illimitable prairies OF western Can
ada
The keoIkuk Water Power.
Not tree was in sight, onu
the encqess rolling prairie. Al :
point on in the distance We saw
herd Of . thousand horsS OF the
plains. They heard our auto. up
went their heads and then they camo
down upon us like an avalanche ~
within about . hundred yards. w
could hear the thunder Of their hoon
We oould see their silken sides slls
tening in the sun, the play q tne''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31
Factor. In History Making.

You veterans and early settlers sit
ting before me were witnesses and
factors in the great political move
ments between 1910 and 1860. You
felt the onward sweep OF the spirit
Of democracy as its rising tide chafed
at the barriers of human slavery. You
were FESTIVE at the presence of this
inconsistency beneath the stars and
stripes and felt the peril involved to
the state. You listened to the discus
sions that stirred society to its
depths. You were on the line of the
underground railway and saw many
human being Of black skin hasten
ing to the Canadian border. You re-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31

nounce that no rule shall have our
cooperation as a nation that is found
ed upon murder-a diplomacy tnat
has not hesitated to brave the Cer's-
ion OF the blase cabinets OF the con-
tinent and takes its stand not upon
temporary expediency, but squareiy
upon a question Of right, OF what IS
consistent. with our common sense OF
honor and conducive to lasting peace.
1t Ia these things, not smoking chin
neys or crammed ledgers, that make
a nation truly great Let II. be our
proud distinction as nation that con
ceived in thu aspirations Of. our COM
mon humanity and dedicated to the
spirit Of freedom and brotherly love
we are not afraid to carry into both
our domestic government an0 our for
eign relations the freedom-br sathilns
spirit of new world. Is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31
Civilization Complex.

Civilization has become In our day
more commercial, more complex. In
our great advance toward dominion
over the forces of nature, the ags has
become scientific. 1t has given us the
telephone, the moving picture, the
phonograph, wireless telsgraphy, and
we shall be Disappointed if the youth
OF the world do not give us even
greater things in the years just
ahead. Why in those days some man
in my audiences, whose wife, then as
now, will be travelling in Europe,
wandering down into his garden some
May day will rush breathlesly back
to the house end taking down his
wireless phone he will ring up not
Chicago, not New York, but London.
and calling for No. II Piccadflly, he
will shout to his wife at the 9th n
end Of the line. "Oh Maggie, the rad
ishes are up" And then as she calls
back to him, ooh John, send me a
draft for another thousand. he will
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31
Our Philippine Policy.

Having accepted tfusteeship in the
Philippines, we will defend that trust
and lead at whatever expense our
dusky wards in good time cut into the
light Of free self-government. To DO
less is to renounce our place in the
worlds advancing civilization-to
abandon the one quality that has CIV
en- our history its special spl :ndor.
Liberty and the right OF self govern
ment are as the air we breathe, are
and must remain the dominant ideals
of our people. If we abandon tn use
for ourselves or our wards we at once
lose that which is the very life-blood
of the noblest scheme Of government
conceived in tn hearts of men. Al
truism may be national as well as IN
dividual. To preserve 1t In our ma
tional relations and as the peculiar
spirit of our nation is to keep our
country precious in the hearts OF our
people No one can read Mary An
| tins "Ths Promised Land without
being thrilled with pride that our ma
ton can be SO glorious an inspiration.
Such books give Us this splendid per-
spectiye-should fill us with desire
to be worthy the ideal.
| Distance no longer counts much In
| human relations I 1t has been anniht-
| lat cd by science and we behold today
world knit together by our common
human need. To serve it by clean
living and with sense of our uni
versal relationship is worthy the seri-
GUS purpose of every American boy
and girl. To be obsesssd with plea
sure and personal indulgence is I'M
worthy our heritage-is to be un-
mindful Of the fearful cost at which
the gifts of freedom and opportunity
have been spread at our fest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31
Results Of This Victory.

This splendid victory WIN Its su
render OF $4,000 confederates, thrill
ed the north, gave hope to Lincoln,
gave to Grant his second star anu
gave to the whole war movement a.
a watcbword Grants laconic reply 70
Buckn .r: mo terms can be cons1d-
cred but absolute and unconditlona'
surrender. / propose to move im"e-
diateiy. upon your works
On and on went the struggle nov
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31
In Cuba and Mexico.

VI Su0d aUo WS~sSS
In Cuba we have answered tn
synfcfsm of the old world with pur-
ity OF purpose, patience and a spirit
Of unselfish service unsurpassed In
the annals OF history.
In Mexico, her people, bsnight ID as
the masses are. are entitled to a gov
eminent that shall advance steadily
toward the solution Of the deep ur-
d srlying economic problems that lie
AT the root of the prevailing unrest.
In this they must and will, believe.
have our unself1sh aid and co-opera-
ton. Along this path only can come
permanent peace And as one step in
making our attitude clsnr. | take on
INV hat to the diplomacy that can an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05
FOREIGN NEWS

Geneva, Switzerland, May RE
ports from Saint Barnard Monastery
as late as april 10 said that snow was
Il and one half feet deep in the region
around the hospice. Snow fell "a days
in March without intermission- An
avalanche came down the mountain
recently and struck the monastery but
its thick walls, centuries old, with
stood the assault. Not for so years
has so much snow fallen and so many
avalanches descended the Saint Ber-
nard as during this winter.
Zurich, Switzerland, May Doctor
Kleiber. a chemist in the service of
the Swiss government, analysed dur
ing a recent visit to Pomeii and Her
culaneum the Vesuvian ashes and
debris, and found that they contain
large percentages of potash. suitable
for the manufacture of fertilizer. The
potash syndicate, established by the
German government, has almost a
monopoly of potash. The Italian gov
eminent, learning OF DIR. Kleiber's dis
coveries, has communicated with him
upon the possibility of developing
potash mines in the vicinity of Vesus-
ius. He is looking into the matter.
The largest market outside Germany
for potash fertilizer is the United
States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05
GENERAL SICKELS.

The death OF General Daniel E. Sic
kIes removes the last of the great COM
manders of the civil war. His was a
powerful personality. his ability being
manifested in the callings OF peace.
as well as in war AS a statesman
and a diplomat he served his country
in as distinguished a manner as he
did on the field OF battle. The latter
years OF his life, which were charac-
terized by family dissensions and
financial reverses, formed a sad end
ing to his career. But the mistakes
of his advanced age should not be
charged against him, for they were
evidences of the ravages Of time.
Let US remember him as a dauntless
soldier, a brilliant statesman and a
clever diplomat, for he was all of these
and as such he will always stand as
national figure
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05

'Mr. Speaker he began. L ueslre
to add my word of tribute to the men,
DRY of the men, the plain privates,
who fell yesterday. l had the honor
of serving with the plain privates for
Is years. remember well how was
first impressed as to the character and
spirit of the plain private"
Captain Hobson, who is probably
the most eloquent orator in the house,
then related how at sea in a storm he
was witnessed futile effort of private
seamen to rescue some of their COM
rades who had been swept overheard.
81 never forgot the promptness. the
agility. even the lighthearted way in
which the crew manned their boat
and put off to sea to try to save their
comrades, knowing full well how
meager were their own chances of ever
getting back.
81 have seen seamen, plain seamen,
jump overheard to save a comrade, so
many of them that the officer of the
deck had TO order that no more should
go overheard, exposing their own
lives to try to save a comrade.
THAT was my first int oduction to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05
CaDital Comment
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER
Congressman from this Fourteenth District.

the spirit of this plain private. And
remember, gentlemen, they are really
nothing but boys. The average age In
the feet that is off the coast OF Mex
leo today is 81 years."
Then when Captain Hobson was
selected to sink the old Merrimac and
bottle up Cervera's fleet in Santiago
harbor, Admiral Sampson called for
seven volunteers from the sailors in
the American fleet.
'The call was issued by signal from
the flagship, and more than thousand
responded" said Hobson. The main
trouble l had was in refusing the ap-
peals of men, some who had been my
old shipmates pleading with me on
personal grounds, others on other
grounds, all begging me to let them go
in"
And then he described the scene on
the sinking ship at night with Spanish
shells tearing the laundering vessel
TO pieces, and the eight men on the
deck alone.
"My men would say, Now can we be
OFF, l would say, No, no man move
until further orders At last the ship
gave a lurch and heaved as though
she would turn over on us, and we
heard the gurgling and rushing round
of the whirlpool approaching. But
they stayed with me. gentlemen, every
last one of them, and went down with
me. no man knowing whether he would
ever come up again"
And that night, prisoners In the
Spanish fortress, having been captur-
ed after hours spent submerged in the
shark-infested water clfnging to The
edges of a raft, the men sent to Hob
son this message: THE men asked
me to tell you that they would go in
with you again tonight"
81 want to tell you,' said Captain
Hobston, "that the confidence you
have placed in the plain private, who
represents the plan, average Ameri-
can citizen, out there at the front,
where the drum is beating, the flag is
flying, and the thunder is in the air
the confidence however great, you
have placed in them and in the officers
that command them, will not be mis-
placed"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05
FORCES AT WORK IN MEXICO

To have recognized Huerta and CIV
en- him moral support would have
been TO deny all the proper tenden-
cies OF the age in which we live. The
civil war must have come in any
case, for the people Of Mexico would
not have submitted to a government
of tyranny established through treach-
cry and assassination To balance the
personal character OF the bandit Villa
against that of the soldier Huerta, was
not to arrive at any conclusions worth
the attention OF the student of politics
and history. villa came TO the fore
front because he happened TO be a
fighting man who had identified him
self with an irrepressible revolution
This revolution, says the American
Review OF Reviews, means the break
up OF an old regime. Whatever the
results may be as regards the issues
OF war. there can be no return TO the
kind of government in Mexico that for
merry maintained and that Huer-
"a would have tried to perpetuate. As
a result of this conduct there must be
the clear beginning Of a system that
will develop the peOn into a citizen
Mexico needs reconstruction. Those
American military and civilian experts
who have accomplished splendid po-
lice, sanitary. educational and other
reforms In Porto Rico. Cuba. Panama,
and the Philippines. could render as
sistance OF almost inconceiyable value
70 our Mexican neighbors II they
should be set at work TO direct the re-
construction of Mexican life and gov
eminent. Perhaps & peaceable way
may some day be opened for the per-
Torrance OF this desirable service. But
the time has not yet arrived, though
may hasten ~.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05
America Educating the World

Abundance of higher education op-
portunities in the British Isles and on
the continent of Europe has not pre-
vented nearly 500 European students
from coming to America to go to col
lege. Great Britain and Ireland are
represented by PIP students; and Ger
many herself the mecca of the studi-
Gus. sends 122: The others. in order
of number. are: Russia, 124; France,
As; Sweden, Al; Italy, 80; Austria
Hungary, "a; Switzerland, %; Nor
way, 26; Greece, %; Spain, 20; Meth
erlands. 10; Bulgaria, Is; Roumania,
6; Belgium, 4; Portugal, 8; Montene-
gro. 1.
Even Australia and Africa have stu
dents at colleges in the United States.
There are Sc students from New Zea-
land. Africa is represented by Is
from Egypt; from Liberia, and Al
from South Africa.
From American possessions 434 stu
dents came to college in the United
States; los from Hawaii; 215 from
Porto Rico; and Ill from the Philip
pine Islands.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05

ments over the ordinance which 1t Is
intended to replace. Outside OF the
increase in the license fee to $500 per
annum the new features mainly aim
at improving facilities for enforcement
that is. changes have been framed
with a view OF making violations more
difficult. Such features are commend
able.
But, after all. satisfactory regula-
ton under any kind of ordinance de-
ponds upon the city administration.
The protest in Rock Island has been
less against lack of law than against
lack of enforcement. II there is That
in the new ordinance which will in
crease the vigilance and stiffen the
backbones of those exercising police
power in Rock Island the entire pop
ulace will rise up and call it blessed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-05
FOR THE GOOD OF THE

All Woodmen, especially those here
in Rock Island where the society has
it's home. will hope that the admins
tration and insurgent factions, if they
cannot fully agree in their state camp
tomorrow will at least disagree in
harmony. There is nothing to be
gained on either side by aggravating a
situation which already has done the
society much harm. Leaders on both
sides feel this way about it and are
using their best endeavors to prevent
any display of feeling on the part Of
their followers. That they will sue
coed there is not much doubt, for the
men sent to the Modern Woodmen
state conventions are of more than av-
erage intelligence and have more than
an ordinary interest in the society.
If it comes to the worst, a split. the
recent Rock Island county camp fur
nishes a very good working model for
the state meeting to follow. There
fraternalism was at no time over
looked and nothing was said or done
to carry personal affront or to leave
a sting afterward. All who paticipat-
ed appeared concerned with the well
fare of the organization as a whole
rather than with personal glory or
position.
And whichever side wins, or if both
sides win, it is due to the society and
10 the state that a resolution be pass
ed instructing delegates to the head
camp to work for the retention of the
head Offices In Rock Island.