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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Henry Watterson Dead.

Jacksonville, Fla.-Colonel Henry
Watterson, known to the. American
people as one Of the last surviving
members of the old school of journal
ism and to his friends as "Marse Hen
ry," died at hotel here.
Death came peacefully, the vener-
able editor retaining consciousness al
most to the end and conversing dur
ing his last half hour with his wife,
son and daughter.
Colonel Watterson came to Jackson
Vile several weeks ago in accordance
with his annual custom OF spending
the winter in Florida, usually at Fort
Myers.
The immediate cause of his death,
his physician said, was heart failure
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Mad Bull Has Fit.

Poplar Bluffs, Mo.-William Daniels
admits that he Is as much opposed to
Hereford bulls as Ireland Is to JOHN
ny's bull" And William Is IN favor
of fits" Because an angered Here
ford threw a fit Daniels two small
sons are alive. The two boys, ten and
twelve. were attacked by an irate bull.
With the youths lying on the ground,
the infuriated animal was preparing
to gore them to death when he sud-
denly was seized with a fit. Frothing
at the mouth the bull was slain by
veterinary surgeon, who declared the
animal had hydrophobia.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

In some of the European countries
Christmas is almost ignored, save as
RELIGIONS observance, while the festival
of st. Sylvester or New Years eve
is celebrated with great ceremony.
One of the curious customs of st.
Sylvester'S eve that obtain among the
people of the Cevcnnes mountains. in
the south of France, is the blessing OF
the animals. A correspondent who has
Witnessed this curious and pretty GER
cmony, says of it: 1T is not known
that this custom is observed any
where save among this primitive,
credulOus people of the hill country of
southern France. The wealth of these
simple people consists of their herds
Of cattle and every New Years eve
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
RETAIL PRICES
WILL Be PR0BE[
PRICES IN MANY LOCALITIES
ARE FAR TOO HIGH, SAYS
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
DIRECTOR BURNS IN CHARGE
Retail Prices Of General Foodstuffs,
Fuel, Clothing and Shoes Will
Be Closely Studied.

Washington.-Federa investigation
of retail prices charged in various
parts of the country for food, fuel,
shoes and clothing was initiated by
Attorney General Daugherty. He
gave orders to Director Burns OF the
bureau of investigation of the justice
department to assign force of men
at once to the duty OF obtaining data
on retail prices in different localities.
Mr.. Daugherty declared that prices
of necessary commodities were too
high and that in some instances the
profits of retailers were "unconscion-
able" 1t would never be possible, he
asserted, to get prices down to the
pre-war level, but with wages lowered
and the costs of foodstuffs reduced,
he was determined to learn whether
the present badly proportioned" re-
tail prices should be maintained
Mr.. Burns was instructed to put his
men to work simultaneously to obtain
the variations in various localities in
the retail prices of general foodstuffs,
such as meats, provisions, beans,
bread and butter, fuel, shoes, and
clothing and to make schedules OF the
comparative prices. Reports will also
be gathered on the wholesale prices OF
wheat, beef and meats of all kinds in
order, Mr.. Daugherty explained, that
comparisons might be made of the
costs of these commodities with the
prices charged by the butchers and
grocers. The departments agents are
to be instructed to do their work care
fully as rapidly as possible.
Action to remedy price conditions,
Mr.. Daugherty declared, would be
taken. through several channels. In
the main, he said, the situation was
a local one and the states would be
asked to do as much as they could to
solve it with federal cooperation.
Secretary Hoover, he added, would
be invited to join with the justice de-
partment in its effort to lower prices,
while 1t was believed that the publi-
cation of the comparative wholesale
and retail prices would do much to
remedy high prices by conveying to
the housewives Of the country accu-
rate knowledge of actual conditions.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Kills Big Bear.

Scranac Lake, n. Y.-Charles Riv.
ers of Glen Valley, while deer hunting
in the Black Brook section, had q
thrilling experience when he killed the
largest bear on record in that section
of the Adirondacks since the days of
the pioneers. When creeping along q
low ledge in the wilderness, the hunt
er suddenly came upon the bear. He
did not seriously injure the beast with
n hasty shot and was instantly charged
by it. In attempting to get a better
shooting position, the hunter fell from
the ledge and dropped his rife. The
bear scrambled down the ledge anc
was almost upon his foe, when Riy'
ers recovered his rifle.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Europe Home
of White Race

elder sister. Phllologisrs concluded
that the home Of the Hindus must al
so have been the home Of the Indo-
Europeans, and this common home
they visualized on the banks of In
dias most sacred stream, the Ganges.
The study of the Veda soon showed,
however, that the Vedic people did not
know the Ganges, but lived in north
west India; so the primitive home Of
the O-Europeans was moved once
more, this time into the Iranian re-
gion east Of the Caspian sea-"
Professor Bender goes on to show
how philologians and theologians met
on a common ground for different rea-
sons and decided that the location was
southwestern Asia. He presents the
arguments in support Of this hypo-
thesis and shows how most Of them
have been disproved and presents the
method whereby modern philoogists
have arrived at this new conclusion.
Honey Bee Is Factor.
On account Of the fact that almost
every Indo European language shares
with Its cognates common word for
honey, or for an intoxicating drink
made from honey, 1t Is made clear that
the primitive home Of the Indo-Eur-,
opeans must have been land where
the honey bee abOunded. But not one
of the Asiatlc sites that have been
seriously considered by modern philol-
ogists as the possible home Of these
peoples, falls within the bee belt. In
Europe, on the other hand, the bee
Is indigenous almost everywhere.
BY continuing this process Of COM
paratlve philology and by the processes
of elimination the conclusion above
mentioned Is reached. "We have left,
finally" says Professor Bender, "the
great plain of central and southeast
ern Europe, which embraces roughly
the present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine
and Russia south and west of the Vol
ga. Almost every condition is sati3-
fled by the conception of the Indo-
CulppCuuo oOLC Dull VI
this plain as late as 5000 or $500 B.
C.. Geographically this central Euro
pean plain lies in the very heart of
Indo-European territory as we now
know It,"
In support Of his theory Professor
Bender states in the closing paragraph
of his lecture: Nor can we ignore
the notable fact that right here we find
the Lithuanian, which has preserved
into modern living speech more Of the
IndO-European past than any other
language on earth. Not a scintilla Of
evidence, historic or linguistic, has
been produced to indicate that the
Lithuanians have ever stirred from
their present dwelling place since they
separated from the other Indo-Euro-
pean speaking peoples.
"Indeed, 1t has been made very prob
able on the grounds Of llnguistics,
natural science and history that the
Lithuanian stock has dwelt In its pres
ent location for at least 5000 years,
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

English sparrows once inhabitlng the
rofters and overhead work inside the
docks would produce an amazing
amount of litter to fall into freight
and express shipments. A large amount
of grain is wasted every day on docks
which would attract and feed myriads
of sparrows but for the watchful eye
of the seagulls.
1t Is believed the gulls show the an.
tagonistic spirit toward the smaller
birds because they fear competition
in the salvaglng from the sea of thsil
daily food.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
A New Year Custom

they bring their precious animals 20
one of the little churches to be blessed
by the priest, that they may be
fruitful and multiply and bring pros
perity to their owners throughout the
year" The churches are often many
miles apart and often the people have
to drive their animals great distance
that they may receive this blessing
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

was a light on the
table and beside
it the house clock.
Norman noticed
that 1t told the
time as ten min
utes to twelve.
Ali was still and
solemn except its
monotonous tick,
and outside an Oc-
casiOnal echo Of
S h o in G, an
nouncing impa-
tient celebrantS
already prepared
to herald in the
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Habitat 5000 Years Ago Was in
Lithuania, Declares Profess
sor Bender of Princeton.
HONEY BEE seen AS FACTOR
Indo- European Language Indicates An
cient Home in Common Word for
Insect-Traeed Through Conn.,
parative PhIoIosy.

Princeton.-Whsre would your home
be if you had lived 5000 years ago?
The search by ethnologists and other
scientists to find just where the first
white peoples lived, before splitting
up into what are modern nations, Is
described by Prof. Harold H. Bender
of Princeton university, who declares
that our ancestors Of the cave man
period lived in what is modern Lithu-
ana.
AS a student Of languages and pro-
fessor of Indo-Germanic philology at
Princeton Professor Bender's investi-
cations have led him back to the or
igin Of all white races, before the dawn
of history. His conclusions, together
with description Of the methods by
which he came to them, are embodied
In "The Aryan Question, Did the Lam
guages of Europe Come From Asla"
lecture published by Princeton.
The Indo-European race, which flour
ished almost 5000 years ago, is the
founder of all the present peoples Of
Europe, save the Hungarians, Greeks,
Romans, Anglo-Saxons Ind other Ger
mans, Celts, all these people are de-
scendants of the one-time race, which
Professor Bender believes lived in that
section of Europe between the Baltic
and Black seas, or modern Poland and
Lithuania.
Comparison Of Languages.
Living before recorded history, In
what Is often referred to as cave man
times, this ancient people from whom
are descended all of the modern Eur
opean races left us little with which
we might learn Of their culture and
daily life. All that we have Is meth
cd of comparative language study by
which we find their own language. and
hence much about their civilization.
Phlologists have discovered that the
languages of a quarter Of @ billion peo-
ple in Asia and most Of the inhabl-
tants of Europe, North and South
America and other regions Of the
earth colonized by Europeans are fun
damentally alike. That Is, Latin. Ger
man. Russian ard Greek are at the
bottom OF same. having all descended
from the same parent language. Pro-
lessor Bender says: Language Is the
best evidence Of community. OF life
and culture. and we can at least as
sumo that mt some time and In some
more or less definite territory there
dwelt a people, or group of peoples
racially pure or racially mixed, who
lived 10 large extent common life,
and who spoke tongue which was
the common ancestor Of the languages
now spoken by the majority of the
civilized peoples of the earth.
"With the beginnings of the science
of comparative philOlogy early in the
Nineteenth century came the knowl-
edge that Sanscrit was the Oldest of
the mdo-E European langunges-if not
the mother of them all, at least their
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
LOVE OF MOTHER STAYS JUSTICE

he had grown up," she told the court.
81, not he. am to blame. ! should pay
the penalty. Let him 60 home with
ME and I'll keep him there, try to cure
him, and report regularly in his stead.
If / fail to do so sou can give me the
sentence you were about to impose Oh
him"
Judge Faust accepted the offer.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

q nurse ana tnen
a companion, 1t
came about that
she found a per-
manent home with
the mother Of the
man she loved.
She and NJ RS.
Hardy, with the
tyrant father, all
unaware Of 1t,
cherished a NUT
ual memory OF
the absent youth
and took comfort
in watching and
hoping for his re-
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Given "a Hours to
Mediate and Pray

Syracuse, N. 1.-TWO girls,
arrested for shop-lifting, were
sentenced to "24 hours Of medi.
tation and prayer" by Police
Court Justice Shove.
"Spend "a hours In medita-
ton and prayer" said the judge.
Search your conscience and
bare your faults before your
eyes. Then let me know you
are sorry-not that you were
caught, but because you STOLE"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
To Lower Freiuht Rates.

Omaha, Neb.-The railroads of the
country will put into effect on January
1, or as soon thereafter as possible, a
voluntary 10 per cent freight rate re-
duction on cotton, butter, poultry and
other commodities, as we'll as the re-
ductions ordered by the interstate COM
merce commission for western terri
tory on grain products and hay. ac-
cording to statement issued by F. W..
Robinson, freight traffic manager OF
the Union Pacific system.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

which would approximate the dura-
tiOn of the Indo-European period, so
far as 1t Is known. There g probably
no other part Of Indo-European terri
tory for which there is so much EVIL
dence against autochthonous, non-In-
do-European predecessors"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
EXPLOSION Kills Three.

Columbus, Ohio.-While the police
reported IL dead and 40 injured,
check of hospitals showed only three
dead as a result of a basement gas
explosion that partially wrecked
Wrights women's furnishing store in
Main street near Third.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Pacific Coast SeaguIls Drive Them
Away From Wharves and
Docks.

Seattle.-The Pacific coast seagull
conducts an eternal warfare against
the English sparrow. and because or
it keeps wharves and docks free or
the noise and litter so predominant
around sparrows' households.
Observers declare some older gulls
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Town Elected Six Mayors,
Each Serving Two Months

Political leaders of Pressburg,
a city of $4,000, in Czechoslo-
vakia, found that party feuds
would make it impossible to
elect a mayor or burgOmaster.
They got together and agreed
the city shall have six burgO-
masters, one to be elected by
each party, each mayor to hold
office for two months, succeed
ing one another. All parties are
now satisfied.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
ENEMIES OF ENGLISH SPARROWS

nc- rs sentinels and when sparrow
alights on wharf roof several i'm
medately chase 1t away.
On one occasion recently lone
sparrow flew seaward followed by half
a dozen gulls, who kept the tiny bird
so hotly pursued it fell into the water
exhausted.
Wharf operators are grateful to the
culls for this bit Of police work, as
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
NEW YEARS PRAYER.

The Old Year has done what It could for
me,
All of it that was good for me
Has now become a part OF me.
Whatever the New Year may bring to me.
May only the good Of 1t cling TO me
And enter into the heart OF me.
w. II. CARRUTH
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Peonaue Is Alarming.

Augusta, Ga.-United States Com
missioner C. ]. Skinner, Jr., announc-
ed that peonage conditions in Rich
mond county and other counties IN
this federal district are most alarming
and that he will recommend federal
Investigation.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Island Threatened.

Rouen, France.-The picturesque is
land of Mont Saint Michel is threaten
ed with destruction by landslides. En-
gineers have been rushed there to see
what can be done to preserve the is
land.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Report Mrs. Ralzen Insane.

New York.-A committee Of four
alienists appointed by counsel for the
defense diagnosed as insanity the
mental affliction Of Mrs. Lillian 5.
Raizen for months before and at the
time when she shot and instantly kill
ed DR.. Abram Glickstein.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

bors. ''That's me-" and he looked 1t
and acted it out until Norman fancied
he had been placed in the world simply
to become the butt and victim Of rigid
rules.
When Norman's tenth birthday was
only eight hours distant, his father
gave the order, sternly spoken: You
will be in the house for the night at
seven O'clock" and Norman moped
In a martyrlike way, envying his boy
friends who had mapped out joyous
New Years eve program of skating,
hill sliding, and like boyish pranks.
He wondered what was coming, but
his father simply viewed him specu-
latively and sent him to bed at the
usual time. He was awakened to find
his father roughly pulling at his arm.
Get up, Norman, and come down
to the Kitchen" said Joel Hardy;
"yOu needn't dress"
Norman arose, rubbed his eyes, and
followed his father downstairs. There
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Sleep Sickness Cure.

Liverpool, Eng.-Professor New
stead of Liverpool university says
German scientists have discovered
new drug which has proved invaluable
in the cure of sleeping sickness.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Supreme Council to Mcet.

London.-Anothe meeting Of the al
l'od supreme council. this time at
Cannes, on the French riviera, is the
outcome of the parleys between Prime
Minister Lloyd George and Premier
BRAND of France.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Ship in Trouble.

Baltimore. - The steamer Cam
bridge, bound from Baltimore to Clai-
borne with a large number of passen-
gers, was blown aground by north
west gale off Wades Point.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29
Copyright, 1921. Western Newspaper Union

ORMAN HARDY was born
on New Years day, and
deemed the fact a decided
misfortune. There was one
feature in which his father
specialized - system - and
this involved discipline. "a
strict disciplinarian," he
.,,,ld hnnct To hic nninh-
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-29

new year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-24
AMERICA REARING
CHINA OF TOMORROW
Correspondent of London Paper De-
clares II a Menace to Britain.

LONDON, July ga solemn warn
ing on the menace to Britain of the
Characterization of China" is uttered
by a special far eastern correspondent
of the Daily Mail, who recently at
tended the tenth anniversary celebra-
tion of the American Indemnity Using
Hua) College in Picking.
The college was established as a re-
suit OF the United States government
RENTING part of it's share of the Boxer
Indemnity.
"The boys here are Chinas future
leaders," the correspondent says, and
after pointing out that they all go
to America after completing their
studies in Peking, he continues:
Educated under the American sys-
tenn aware that they owe their schol-
arship to American justice, and satu-
rated with American sentiment by five
to eight years. residence in the United
States, they will look to America sole
ly for cooperation in the troublous
years to come America is rearing the
China of tomorrow.
"Why should not we" (the British).
he demands, "share an influence that
we aformerly monopolized and that is
now slipping away from us?" and he
goes on:
81 asked returned student as we
watched the boys at baseball why
China did not look to England as an
educational field.
"Sure we WILL" he replied, when
you remit the Boxer indemnity"
The Chinese president of the college
put it to the correspondent this way:
"Chinese- American friendship mas
become so proverbial that few people
take the trouble to investigate the
cause of such good international un
derstanding. Any country that wishes
nese can do no better than follow
the example set by America"
3. Lenox Simpson, an Englishmaa
who holds the post of political adviser
to the Chinese government and who is
at present in London, writes to the
Daily Mail that the profess of the
Americanization Of China is very
real one.
"Big business" he says, sis tending
to go more and more to American
firms, because the Chinese believe in
favoring those who favor them" and
he concludes:
"The helpfulness of America, not
only to Young China, but also to Old
China is subject of common CONVEX
sation throughout the immense Chi
nese society which fills the far-east-
ern continent. So far the results of
this have not been felt or understood
in this country, but unless we take
speedy action, we are destined to drop
during the next II months to third
or fourth place in the, Chinese re-
public, and thereby affect our whole
standing throughout Asia"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-24
RUSSIAN MONK TO
START REVOLUTION
Says He viii Fight for Peoples Cause
Against the Priests.

Riga, Latvia, July 2S.-The monk Iii
odor (Heliodorus), former preceptor and
afterward antagonist of the notorious
Rasputin. is again attracting attention
In Russia by announcing his purpose to
start a revolution in the Orthodox Rus
sian church. Heliodorus fled from Russia
after his break with Rasputin in the early
part of the war but returned after the
Bolshevik gained control. He was I'M
rocked by the church.
Ills temperance in public in Russia
was almost simultaneous with revival
OF fervor in the Orthodox church, which
the Bolshevilli now are trying to com
bat. In an address at the Tsaritsin (of
which he was formerly abbott he recently
declared:
II consecrate myself to the first for
the peoples cause and to start a cam
paign against the popes (priests) which
is to make a revolution within the
church"
Every Sunday and on many religious
feast days in Russia the churches now
are crowded. Communists themselves
are attending the services and this has
brought down on their heads a warning
from the government mot to set so bad
an example for the peasants" On this
subject the Moscow Pravda says that
some of the communists even have used
soviet official automobiles to take their
families TO church services, weddings and
christenings. The newspaper printed the
following warnin gfrom thhe party heads:
THE soviet power has no intention to
compel anyone by forcible means to leave
off the services OF professional darkness,
BUT the communist party as a whole has
a right and is bound to demand from its
responsible members that they not only
should not take part in religious cere-
monies aud services but should try by
example and explanation to others to
overcome all religious superstition. Every
member of the party directly and openly
should recognize and strengthen by the
example of his own conduct the truth
that religion and scientific communism
are absolutely Incompatible"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-24
PORTO RICO TAKING
CARE OF EDUCATION
School Budget for Coming Year Has Been
Increased $1,000 900.

SAN JUAN, p. r., July 23.-Out of a
budget of $4,000. 600 passed by the recent
legislature and just approved by Acting
Governor Jose Benedicto. a little more
than 100000 is set aside for the pub
lie schools of the island. This is 81 900. :
900 more than the last school budget and
the largest amount ever appropriated for
education in any one year
The budget is the largest ever approved.
Including bond issues and direct appro-
priations, the legislature voted expendi-
lures of s20,0o0,000 but several of the
projects involving large sums may be
vetoed by the governor. Among the bond
issues authorized We're those for SO, OoO,-
600 for the extending of railroad around
the island; 100000 for an insular bank;
Sz.VOo,oOo road extension and improve
ment bonds and $1,000, 600 for rural
schools.
A new income tax law provides nor