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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
WHILE MOTHERS FIGHT
Poor Little Helpless Babies Suffer-
One Dead Other Burned

Last week The Record told of a
peculiar case in Atlanta which reiates.
TO the identity of two babes ana two
mothers. The babes had in some way
gotten mixed. One was more attrac-
tive than the other. Each of the wo-
men claimed maturity of browr-eyed
Louise Madeline and neither claimed
the motherhood of blue-eycd Mary
Elizabeth.
Fate took hand last Friday in the
tangled claims to blue-eyed Mary
Elizabeth and brown-eyed Louise
Madeline, 8-months-old babies, over
whom the mothers were going to
court, when pneumonia claimed Mary
Elizabeth, whom neither mother want
ed, and Louise fell into an open CRATE
sustaining burns on her face that
physicians said might prove fatal or
mar her looks for life.
The children were born the same
day at the Grady Hospital here and
Mrs. John C. Garner recentlv ar
nounced that the blue-eyed child given
her was not her own. She claimed
Louise Madeline, as the brown-eyed
girl is known. Mrs. Daniel L. Pittman,
to whom nurses at the city institution
gave the brown-eyed child, maintain
ed it was her very own.
Mrs. Garner first offered TO take
both children to be sure she had her
own and later sought habeaa corpus
proceedings, which were set for hear
ing Saturday. Mary Elizabeth, whom
Mrs. Garner had been rearing, had
been i'll for several days and her
death, which ives not so unexpected,
came on the very day that the other
tot SCARED herself for life.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
REGISTRATION NOTICE

The office of the Supervisor of
Registration will be open on the 1st
Monday in each month for the pur-
pose of registering any person who
is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been resident
of the State for two years, and OF
the county one year, and of. the
polling precinct in which the elector
offers to vote four months before
the day of elction, and shall have
paid, six months before, any poll
tax then due and payable, and who
can both read and write any section
to him by the Supervisors of Regis
tration, or who can show that, he
owns, and has paid all taxes collecti-
BILE on during the present year, prop
erty in this State assessed at three
hundred dollars or more.
B. E. CLARKSON,
Clerk of Board.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
GOOD ROADS SAVE GAS
Trucks Use Twice as Much Fuel on
Dirt Highways, Test Shows
IFrom the Columbus Dispatch

[From the Columbus Dispatch]
That good roads cut the cost OF
gasoline more than so per cent. is
stated by Freight Transportation Di-
gest." A loaded 2-ton truck was used
in test end in running 100 miles on
an earth road consumed 17.3 gallons
of gasoline, making an average OF
5.7S miles a gallon. The cost figured
at 25 cents a gallon was $4.33. The
same truck was used on concrete
road and travelled the same distance
on $40 gallons of gasoline, making
l1.7S miles per gallon. The cost in
this case, based on the same basis,
was S2.12. The net savings in cost
of gasoline on the improved highway
was therefore 1921, or more than 100
per cent.
StatisticianS could step in here and
conjure colossal sum to represent
the savings in gasoline cost if all the
highways of the United States were
paved. They could, for instance, as
sumo that all of the half million mo-
tor-trucks in the country were two
ton trucks, and on this basis figure
out a saving in gasoline costs equal
to couple of Liberty Loan issues.
This enormous reduction in gaso-
line costs, coupled with the ability to
handle larger loads with less attrac-
tive effort, has become one of the
strongest arguments for good roads.
The two tests cited in this instance
show conclusively that poor roads are
expensive to the farmer and merchant
alike. The farmer who hauls with a
motor-truck is getting only one-eighth
of the profit he could get and the
merchant and inter-city freight truck
operator is paying out twice what they
should for gasoline and are getting
only one-eighth of the profit they
could get.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
Cured of LeprOsy

Honolulu, Feb. 6.-Forty-eight per-
sons in Hawaii afflicted with leprosy
were cured during 1919 according to
the statement of DR.. ]. T. Mcdonald,
attending physician at the Kalihi lep-
rosy investigation station in Honolulu.
The products used in treating the
disease, said DR.. Mcdonald, are re-
fined from vegetable oil by DR.. A.
L. Dean of the College of Hawaii.
The surgeon general at Washington
has asked for a detailed description
of the work for publication in the
United States health report, and this
is now being prepared.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17

"TASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 12.-After
wv over a century Of steady gravitatiOn
toward the west, the population of
the United States seems to have shifted it's
course. One of the duties of the Census
Bureau is to determine the center of pOpula-
ton. This year the chief geographer of the
bureau believes that the center may be found
to have moved east instead of travelling as
usual to the west
1t has come to be tradition in the United
States to combine progress and the west.
The primal lure of the west has worn OIL, but
there is still far more room there than IN the
crowded east. If the war had not INTERVIEWED
since our national counting of heads, or had
the war been fought in Asia instead OF Europe,
our center of population would doubtless have
continued it's journey west in big leap. AS
it was, the war attracted the people to the
eastern business and industrial centers, and
the people thus gathered to @the cities seem
loath to return to the farms.
From the beginning of the republic, the
census was taken, and each ten years the cen
ter of population had moved westward in
stretches of from fourteen to eighty miles,
showing that the people were taking posses
sion of more and more Of their domain. AT
the first census in $780,, the 100000 popu-
lation of the United States ran north and
south along the Atlantic coast with the center
twenty-three miles east of Baltimore.
By 1900. the center was eighteen miles
west of Baltimore, and from then on 1t con-
tinued west, passing near Washington, WOOD
stock, Va; Moorefield, w. Va; Clarksourg,
WA, Chillicothe, Ohio east of Cincinnati;
then west of Cincinnati; east OF Columbus;
southeast of Columbus; and at the last census
at Bloomington, Ind.
The census of $40 was the first time that
the center ever happened to be in town or
city, and Bloomington, being college town,
celebrated in college fashion. Several pro
fessors located the exact spot by astronomical
observation. 1t happened to be under lum-
Der pile in the yard of a furniture factory,
but the students made short work OF remoV-
ing the big logs, and proceeded to place a
stone on the exact spot and conduct appro-
pirate and tuneful services.
The furniture manufacturer was so proud
of the position of his factory, that he had his
stationery engraved with the heading, "Lo-
Gated at the center of population" After this
year, he will doubtless have to preface his
assertion with "once."
The exact pull of the eastern cities on the
center Of gravitation of our population will
be known positively only when the census fig
ures are all collected and tabulated. In the
meantime, Mt. G. S. Sloan, chief geOgrapher
of the Census Bureau, is of the private opin-
ion that the point will be somewhat east of
Bloomington, probably still in Indiana.
For the past two decades our cities have
been growing in size and number much more
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17

RAPIDLY than our rural districts. Anything
over $500 population is now termed city
in census parlanCe, which rather broad con-
struction makes the growth of city population
seem less extraordinary. In 1890 the city
claimed over one-third of the population. In
1900 it had about 40 per cent, and by 1910
it had 46.3.
This year the advance may be even greater,
for the attraction of the cities was intensified
during the war. Every other. girl in the
United States wanted to be war worker and
go to Washington, and apparently most of
them got what they wanted. Many of these
girls, country bred, have found city life with
it's theaters, restaurants, libraries and clubs,
too fascinating to be easily given up. So they
stay on when they are no longer needed by
the government, or wander to New York or
some other city, in search of job within
walking distance of the bright lights,
Take the case of Mamie, a young school
teacher, who came from the country to do war
work with her head buzzing from a hectic
magazine acquaintance with high life IN the
city. Rouge, lip stick, and swagger walk,
added to natural prettiness, got her string
of followers, and Mamie became so enamored
of city life that when her war job ended she
was fully city broke and just couldn't go
home.
She answered an advertisement for a soda
fountain clerk, and prefers the city with it's
chances for amusement to her country home,
the little red school house, and her farmer
boy STEADY"
This is not, perhaps, a typical picture of the
war worker from the country, but it is faith
full likeness OF many of the eX-War workers
who are represented by the long columns of
unskilled positions wanted in the daily papers.
Besides the opportunities for enjoyment
offered by the large cities, there are the edu-
cational advantages and the conveniences.
These attract large numbres of families with
growing children. Indoor plumbing, cleo
tricity and automobiles added to the modern
country home, have done as much to keep the
farmer and his wife on the farm as all the
new inventions in farm machinery. But farm
ers who cannot afford these improvements
and luxuries do not seem to desire them so
much, as they want better education for their
children When the teachers in country
schools are paid enough so that rural educa-
tion can be at least as efficient and progress
sive as that in the city, we shall find fewer
farmers selling their land and moving to the
city to give advantages to Harry and Sarah
Ann.
1t is our biggest cities that seem most allur-
ing. New York is the Mecca of nine-tenths of
the nation. Some people have been known to
declare that they wouldn't live in New York
for anything-with all the noise, and that
awful subway" To the majority of Ameri-
cans, however, New York is the place where
fortunes are made, fashions are started, and
plays are opened.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
Ali Aboard for Mars,

Does anything happen or is any thing pro-
posed in this age of daily wonders, which
was not anticipated by some romantic seer?
Tennyson pictured 1.-THE nations airy navies"
long years before practical men dreamed of
World war in which flying machines would
play a decisive part. Milton described, if
he did not foresee, this same achievement
and many another which science has brought
to pass. Now the book worms are remind
ing us that the latest of all audacious pro-
jects, that Of shooting huge rocket to Mars,
or to some far range of interstellar space,
was written of by Jules Verne; and it is
recalled that in his story the heroes in the
projectile did tland upon the moon, but
pierced and travelled far beyond the earth S
atmosphere and the force of gravitation, SO
that when one of the dogs which died was
cast overheard it kept abreast of the pro-
projectile "did not land upon the moon but
ton opposite that of the earths gravity
pull" Well, our forbears laughed at proph-
ecies of the submarine and the airplane.
Let Us not be TOO sure that the voyage to
Mars VIII NOT yet be comprised, .
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
.$7,O22,012,OOO $3,418,184,OOO

AS the Manufacturers Record remarks it
will take some years of this Astounding pros
perity to give to the South the great accu-
mulated wealth Of the North and West.
For fifty years. says the Record, chose
sections were piling up billions on top of
billions of dollars while the South was
struggling to overcome the bankruptcy of
1865. Fifty years ago the North and West
were already high up on the rung of the lad
der of Astounding prosperity; the South was
down at the bottom struggling to get a foot
hold on the first rung. 1t is climbing upward
now 1t begins to see the daylight shining
over the depth of poverty, out of which 1t has
been moving steadily upward. What it has
accomplished in the last few years is only
indicative of the vastly greater things which
will be achieved during the coming years
We rejoice in the knowledge that
tae South has at last come into it's own and
today is one of the greatest assets of the
most resourceful nation of the world.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
DR.. Crawford w. Long

The Augusta Chronicle: DR.. Joseph ia
cobs, we'll nown throughout the, state, has
recently published booklet giving interest
ing personal recolections of DR.. Crawford w.
Long, the discovery of anaesthesia. The
pamphlet is a splendid tribute to the distin-
gished Georgian.
T. Dr. Jacobs makes opportunity, in connec-
ton with the publication of the booklet, to
draw the attention of Georgians to an omis-
sion which should be promptly rectifed.
Mhen Allen D. Gambler was governor the
legislature created commission to select two
Georgians who were to be honored in the ma
tional Hall of Fame at Washington city
Eighteen years ago this commission named
DR.. Crawford w. Long and Alexander H. Ste
phens. Since then nothing has been done
about the matter, and the statues of Craw-
ford and Long have Mt been placed in the ma
tional gallery.
The newspapers and public men through
out Georgia have begun to call on the legis-
lature to attend this important matter, and it
will be stressed to the attention of he gem
eraI assembly this year. The state must no
longer be laggard on this.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Bridget was one of the new type of "domes-
tic help" She knew all about the science of
the thing One day her employer-there are
no mStreSSeS nowadays-remarked to her:
"The water you brought for luncheon this
morning tasted rather peculiar, Bridget"
The Irish handmaiden-that'S the only way
of calling them maids" in our Unrestricted
as she replied:
Sure, maam, there's wan thing about it.
know there wasn't single germ left in it, for
re-" it all through the meat grinder twice.
"You are charged with permitting your
horse to stand unattended for over an hour
said the magistrate
well, 1 defy anybody to teach the brute
to sit down." protested the prisoner before
being dragged away.
What is your opinion on this subject?"
Haven't read my mail this morning. re-
piled SeDa' Of Sorghum. "-Mi | can give you
DIT this moment is my yesterdays opinion.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
Mr.. Lansing,s Resignation.

Vt is with keen regret that the country
learns of Mr.. Lansing's retirement as
Secretary of State at so troublous
sjunctllre of Governmental affairs. His eX-
perience and judgment, to say nothing of
his diplomatic equipment, have been con-
sidered by the unlocking public as specially
valuable at time when Americas foreign
relations as unsettled as now and when
the responsibilities of the Cabinet are I'M
commonly grave. AS ranking member of that
body Mr.. Lansing faced peculiarly difficult
and delicate duties That he was quite equal
to them, the country took for granted, and
drew assurance from tthe thought that in the
midst of recent changes in the Presidents Of
fetal family there remained this steady hand
WHO had been identified with the Administra-
ton in important capacities, almost from its
beginning.
i When, however, relationships between the
the Secretary and the President reached the
unhappy status which the published corre-
pondence between them discloses, there was
nothing for the Secretary to do but to offer
to resign, and just as inevitably the offer was
accented. Hasty judgment on incomplete
evidence is always to be stunned But If the
President has stated fully his side OF this I'M
fortunate situation, can but feel that he
has misunderstood Mr.. Lansing's conduct and
motives, certainty in so far the latter
calling of Cabinet meetings was concerned.
Even had there been no precedent for the
Secretary's course in that matter land it ap-
pears that in at least two historical. instances
he found guiding example), would not COM
mon sense and the eXigencies of the situation
have prompted him to the very path which
he pursued and which had the entire Cabi-
nets concurrence? He however viewed, the
incident is highly regrettable in all it's cir
tcuinStances and all its contingencies.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Secretary Lane declared last week that he
considered himself ''just as much responsible"
as Secretary Lansing for the calling of cabinet
meetings during the presidents illness. He
said Mr.. Lansing called him on the telephone
and obtained his approval of the idea before
calling the first meeting, and "presumably
secured the approval of other cabinet mem
Defs Also" I'VE all thought the meetings
were good thing" said Mr.. Lane who re-
tires as secretary of the interior March l.
Circumstantial details have been revealed
of plot by which it is alleged former EN-
peror Charles made futile attempt to enter
Hungary under false passport and re-estab-
lish himself on the throne, says an Associated
Press dispatch from Budapest.
Documentary evidence said to be in the
hands of the government indicate that it had
been planned for the ex-emperor to cross the
Austrian frontier Under the name, of Kaspar
Kovacs, accompanied by three other persons
whose identity has not been definitely estab-
lished. Then he was to proclaim his return
with the expectation that his former subjects
would support him, it is declared. 1t is al
legged the plot was arranged by Colonel Lehar,
who has just been named governor of West
Hungary and by Minister Benitchy, the latter
having attempted, it is asserted, to have the
passports issued. The Swiss consul to whom
application was made, however, recognized
the photograph of the eX-emperor, it is said,
and reported the matter to the authorities
The first congress of the League of Women
Voters was held in Chicago last week. The
league replaced the National American
Woman Suffrage association, which will pass
out OF existence when the thirty-sxth state
ratities the suffrage amendment to the con-
stitution.
Replying to a question in the British house
of commons as to whether Vscount Grey
would return to Washington as British am
bassador, and if not who would be his sue
cessor. Premier Lloyd George said last week
that he was unable to make any statement on
the subject.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17

Representative citizens of Dublin, Ga. have
lndorsed George B. Davis as South Georgia's
candidate for attorney general of Georgia
Judge E. D. White was named chairman Of
permanent campaign committee. A finance
committee consisting of S. J. Lord, r. M.
Daley and B. A. Hooks was also named last
week.
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless
biography, said last week that the United
States heads the list of all countries in wire
less inventions, her inventors having sur
passed all others in producing practical ap-
paratus for transmission of the human voice
by electric waves
A strange phenomenon is that the most
progressive countries of Western Europe have
not yet developed wireless telephones while
China, the most backward nation, daily uses
the wireless telephone for communication be-
tween cities and rural districts" he said
Within this year wireless telephones will
substitute the present clumsy system with
great economic advantage, suppressing the
cost OF the telephone lines and their upkeep.
They will also do away with the interruptions
due to atmospheric causes"
new charter Of American industrial rea-
tions has been completed by the seven
teen members selected for this work by
President Wilson, and their report, which
goes deep into the subject and in which they
reach some striking conclusions will be ready
for submission to the president and the pubiie
in another week, it is understood.
Among the more important recommends
lions is that the minimum week shall consist
of forty-eight hours. This is based upon the
extraordinary need for production which the
conference regarded as the most important
objective to be attained in any consideration
of the problem at this time. In no trade is
the maximum week to exceed eighty-four
hours. Compulsory arbitration, as such, is
not included in the recommendations.
The senate agriculture committee has Or
dered favorable report on the new Kenyon
Kendrick bill to regulate the meat packing
industry.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17

They were talking about clubhouse, which
was to be called "a Temple of knowledge"
During the discussion one man moved that they
have veranda. After discussing it for some
time a man remarked:
"You have been talking lot about this
Veranda business so to test the feeling of the
meeting | move a resolution that we have
yeranda But at the same time l don't think
therere chap in the room that can play it,"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
Foreign Exchange and the II. C.. Of L.

TANOOGA NEWS (Dem.), but cutting of
most OF 1t would be sure to react injurious
ly."
These opinions are forecasts of a serious
financial panic unless trade relations with
Europe restored to something like .I3r-
mality. Az; p-st such fears the CHICAGO
TRIBUNE (Ind. Rep.) offers this advice
The American who gets clustered or pan
ic-stricken because the law Of cause and effecr
is operating in Europe with drastic logic
is both weak and foolish Americans have no
reason to fear the present or the future if
they will think of the mistaken rock on
which we stand and go quietly to develop the
resources and opportunities before them"
The BOSTON POST lind. DEM flatly de-
clares that there is not going to be any 'old7
fashioned panic anything of the kind"
For instead Of waiting until the panic posi-
bility was at hand, the Federal Reserve sys-
tenn has taken time by the forelock and has
started in ample time to avoid trouble.
A panic that can be DIS easily foreseen as the
one now s@ia e = - s'=ht will never even
tuate."
And, to reassure us further the SEATTLE
TIMES Ond.) points out that:
Next summer there will be a big tourist
movement to Europe, equalling if not exceed
ing the movement prior to 1914 Tens of
millions Of American dollars will be left in
France by these visitors and these SUNS
will offset the purchases made by the sister
republic i'm the United States.