The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 8

THE GAFFNEY LEDGER, GAFFNEY, S. TUESDAY, APRIL 15 1924 -t PAbE EIGHT MAH-JONG IS GAME tells of many Chinese who have lost their entire possessions by playing the game. Having lost their for i tunes, they become bandits and rob OF "CHINK" DOPERS bers. According to Keverend btenss: "If you get the Mah-jong fever in Don't LET, Your Eyes Go Bad Attention IN TIME very often verts serlouB trouble. China, you no longer can be trusted.

STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK GAFFNEY, S. C. AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS MARCH 31,. 1924 CONDENSED FROM REPORT TO THE OOM PTHOLl OF THE CURRENCY It is a great surprise to me to OF ITS TABOO IN note how rapidly the game of Mah- COUNTRY ORIGIN. jong has gained such popularity in tin United States.

Mah-jong is the igamo blamed for the present corruption in Chinu. I know men and wom en China who have lost their entire Popular Pastime for America Beard possessions playing this gnme. There R. C. Garland Optometrist Office In Peoples Drug Store PHONE NO.

10 Unsavory Reputation in Orient, are few games so contagious, and I am sorry to see it getting such hold Say Writer. .11 on America. In China it is a saying that the (By Donald Strickler. in The Dear born Independent.) victim of the Mah-jong habit can no longer be trusted. It is sure thing that he will soon 'come under the Pung Chow Mah-jong! Ameri 1 ca has frfund a new amusement.

And LIABILITIESi Capital Stock 150,000.00 Surplus and. Undivided Profits 13,409.28 Dividends Unpaid 120.00 Circulation 37,500.00 Bills Payable NONE Re-Discounts NONE Deposits 1,189,941.29 Total $1,515,970.57 RESOURCES! Loans ami Discounts Overdrafts Liberty Bonds 75,000.00 U. S. Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness GG.GOO.Ob United States Bonds 37,500.00 Btock Federal Reserve Bank G.OOO.ofl Bank House, Furniture and Fixtures 33,033.15 Other Real Estate 10.02 Cash in Vault with Banks and U. S.

Treasurer 1G5.Q00.5G Total $1,515,970.57 "The pnstime that the Chinese have what could bo more romantic? To sent to America is not a lolieitious offering. 1 know how many young begin with, it. is "Mado in it includes counters which look. like chopsticks; there is all the myftery Americans are fleeced over there by their Chinese friends in this game. I also recall from history how the of a magician's cabinet; with it are little blocks of polished ivory or bone Chinese have been long accustomed to overcome their opponents by mak- and bamboo dovetailed together.

The characters on these Chinese dominoes ng them presents, when they could are dragons, circles, bamboos, winds, not beat them in the play in any oth flowers and seasons. er way. But tha members of our elite so 'In order to ruin others they have ciety, sitting down to their afternoon had recourse to two other methods Mah-jong clubs, little guess that it is women and gambling. The Prince iof RESOURCES OVER ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS WE CORDIALLY INVITE ACCOUNTS LARCE OR SMALL Interest Pali on Time Deposits and Savings Accounts. onnosed by government and moral in Lu, who, owuig to the tireless labors fluonces in China and that it is beipg of Confucius, had mane his kingdom played only by street denizens and Wof ford Summer School JUNE 16-AUCUST 9 For College Students; 1.

Who must make up fail- -ures 2. Who lack foundation for subjects they will For High School Srudents; 1. Who are irregular in their classes." 2. Who neecT review 3. Who lack credit for college entrance.

Both young women and young men admitted. Wof ford College Fitting School For boys Opening date, September 10. Write for a catalog and information. W. C.

Herbert, Headmaster. a model state, was induced to give up dope fiends in the gambling resorts and opium dens. The Mah-jong game ster in China has about the same rat the performance of his duties and the business of the government by being presented with pretty girls with whom he played cards, and of the ing as a bootlegger in the United States. Emperor Kwang Hsu it is said that itis aunt, Empresa. Tzu Hsi, who per Students of American universities 3L enthusiastically receive this- novel ceived that the young Emperor was game into their tratermty but engaged in working for reform, led him by' means of Mah-jong to a life do not know and are not told that in China Mah-jong more thai: immoral ot idleness.

lty has ruined the, lives ot multitudes Whether played for stakes or not, of students and caused 'them to drop Mah-jong is essentially a gambling their books. game. the game originated, with this purpose 111 view. In the first Chinese Christians are expelled from their churches playing this place, it is to be played singly. There Pre-Easter Sale of Ladies' Fine Coats Here's Good news for you beiated Coat buyers.

Beginning today Every Coat in our House Reduced 20 Per Cent game. 1 isno teamwork. Responsibility for After the World War it was found losing or winning devolves upon each necessary to explain to the East why individual Every possible de vice haseen worked out to intensify the so-called Christian nations of the West had been grappling at one another's throtits. It seems that now the element ot chance. From the small dice to the building of foui we are facing a similar paradoxical walls, every possibility of controlling A group of Chinese Chris: the draw is eliminated.

tians ars saying that America and The most insidious gambling ele England are setting China a had ex ment, however, is to he found in the ample through the introduction of POPULAR EXCURSION TO CHARLOTTE, C. EV3onday9 April 21st, 1924 Via SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM system of The whole game $20.00 $23.20 $28.00 $10.50 Coats, now 19.00 Coats, now 22.50 Coats, now Md-ii-jong as a social institution. The National Christian Council of China 25.00 Coats, now 29.00 Coats, now 35.00 Coats, now $32.00 $13.20 $15.20 $18.00 00 Coats, now is built around this ingenious system. The original count may be very small, but the principle of doubling or pyra has written an open letter to the Fed eral Council of Churches in America miding the score may. easily run the concerning tne vogue ot the game number -ot points which can be won here.

he lollowing statement is into lour or live mere are quoted from this letter: many difJeretit stipulations for doub ling the score. Some of these doubles Against Law in China. "Mah-jong is almost invariblv The season's smartest styles in all the leading colors and most wanted materials are here for your choosing at this substantial reduction. We have only a few in each price group and we urge you to make a visit to this store today, 'I-1 SPECIAL TRAIN may be partially controlled by skill, but the element of chance is always played for money; The stakes are often very high, and as much as predominant. The person who hap 1 pens to be "East Wind" has his total Schedule and Round Trip Fares From Stations score doubled.

The mere drawing of one own Flower or Season doubles Below To CHARLOTTE, N. 000 has on occasion been lost or won in a night. It is played by all classes, but broadly speaking it is not countenanced by the' Chinese themselves of a1 high moral standing. To our great sorrow, the practice of playing the score. The same' is true if three P.

H. Byars Co. Beautiful Easter Dresses Beautiful Easter Millinery or four of one's own Wind are drawn. The niain fact lies' in the possibility The Quality Shop" Mah-jong tor. money is increasing not of winning only in China generally but in the two hands back, or losing, in one or the result of the whole 1.70 1.00 evenings play.

it stakes are not used, the game Rinses around piling up big scores and winning. The 8:48 A. M. A. M.

9:13 A. M. 9:28 A. M. 9:45 A.

M. 9:55 A. M. 10:05 A. M.

1.50 ,7:30 A.M. J2.50 v. Clifton M. 2.WJ Lv.Cowpens 7:55 A. M.

2.60 Lv. Thicketty 8:03 A.M. 2.40 Lv. Gaffney 8:10 A.M. 2.30 Lv.

Blacksburg 8:20 A. M. 2.20 Lv. Grover 8:25 A.M. 2.10 Lv.

Kings Mt, hristian church. This increase in 'not a few cases can be traced to the fact that the game is now being large ly played in the so-called Christian Lv. Greenville Lv. Taylors Lv. Greer Lv.

Duncan Lv. Wellford Lv. Fair Forest -Lv. Hayne Lv. Spartanburg Lv.

Converse nickname "Just One More" holds e-ood 1 either case. One more round, so countries, wmcn is supposed to give 1,40 1.30 1.2,0 1.10 a certain sanction to its use by Chris- that the evening's laurels may go to tians here. you instead of the other fellow. One 1.00 8:35 A. Mi 2.00 Lv.

Bessemer City 10:15 A. M. M. 1.90 Lv. Gastonte- 10:25 A.

M. Arrive Charlotte A. more chance to be "East Wind," which means winning (or losing) a large numbeV of points. Mah-jong is one of the oldest Chi nese gambling games. It was fi'st Opening Ball Game South Atlantic Association Spartanburg, Monday, April 21st, 1924 "We do not feel that in view of the; terrible curse to this land which comes through gambling, and in particular through this form of it," whether enlightened Americans ought not to consider the effect of the Mah-jong craze.

"It seems anomalous to say the least," comments Daniel S. Dye, a missionary who is in America on furlough, "that America should take up played with cards, and it is only with- ine lasi, nrty years that tne miae domino-shaned blocks hep-an to ho used. Tourists became interested in Excursion ticketrwill be sold for the above special train only on Monday, April 1924, and will be honored only on special train leaving Charlotte 9-50 P. 21st. Children between the ages of five and twelve years will be sold tickets at half the above fare.

I For detailed information call on Southern Railway System Agents, or address. the game that is taboo in China." This taboo comes not only from the church; the government, as well, rec the game and it soon became a popular source of entertainment on shipboard; thus the. game was introduced into this country. "sets are now manufactured here. The blocks are imide from paper, wood, and vulcanized rubber.

But the most fascinating are those made from Chinese bamboo and bone dovetailed together. The importation from China has been enormous. The bone sunnlv of China ognizes the menace of Mah-jong. It against Chinese law in many portions of China to play this game in R. I' i S.

A. Cathey, Ticket Agt. Gaffney, S. C. C.

Cotner, Dist. Pass Agt. Spartanburg, S. C. public.

A student who has recently returned trom tne urient even found it impossible to buy a set of Mah-ione was exhausted, and'a shipload of knuckle bone from the Chicago Stock Yards was sent to that country to fill the shipments on order. Simplified for America. Mah-jong is sweeping America as if by storm. As played in China, the n' -A. I in Peking.

He was told upon inquiry that it was not for sale. The actual has been brought to students in American universities by a Chinese girl who is about to receive an advanced academic degree. She tells us what Mah-jong has done to her own neighbors; that many of them have even lost their houses as takes in their gambling, "I know what this gambling game has meant in China," she says. "I know what it has done to my own neighbors and I hate to see it coming game is scientific and complicated, but tne Americans have simplified it to me extent that everyone can play it even cniidren as young as five and seven years are known to have learn ed'the game, after a fashion, i one evening. They are attracted by the Kitchen ill I CaiS3H2i Jgga I saves into America.

"I'll telkyou about one of my neigh pretty diocks and cry tor them as they would for toys. It has gained a ready entrance into many clubs in our cities. Men who sit oVwn at the bors in Nanking, China. He had al ways been a very industrious man, a shoemaker by trade. One night was tempted in a gftme of Mah-ione-.

luncn hour. to play for a 'short time nnu tnemseives spending the, after Before the year was over he had lost noon. Ihey have given it the name oi Just One More," because it is so his shoe shop, so, to pay back his losses, he began to rob. Soon after easy to win back their whole evening's this he was caught and put in iail. losses aunng one hand.

"Do you think this man is an ex There is certainly no denying the fact that Mah-jong has become tre ception I asked. Oh, no, she replied, "he is onlv mendously popular in this country, one of thousands. Just now I am thinking of two more of my own During the Christmas season thousands of set were sold in one department store alone. Last year it is said neighbors, one a lumberman and the "I have been carrying Building and Loan stock since I was eighteen yearsof age and never expect to be with-, out it as long as, I am financially ble to keep it up. It is a most ideal, way for any young man to get a start." THE WAY ONE MAN OK Gaffney expressed himself recently about Building and Loan stock.

He stated that he has two. boys and he intended to start them to saving their money by investing in Building, and Loan stock. EVERY YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN should carry a few shares. Payments are made monthly and your myney draws interest from the date of each pay ment. 1 The shares are only $1.00 each and you may take as many as you like.

Our New Series Opens On April First For further information apply to other the owner of a tea shop. Both tnat tne sales of Mah-jong sets and lost large fortunes ulaviner Mah-ionir accessories amounted to millions of dollars. The game is being- widely "The greatest gambling time tomes A kitchen Cabinet is a. necessity because it saves time and saves work. It makes kitchen work a pleasure and makes the whole household happier.

during the two weeks of vacation auverusea tnroughout the country, Mah-jong classes are announced from the windows of the shonnintr distnVta beginning with the Chinese Twelfth-month, or Chinese New Year's Day, which corresponds to the fourth d.iv of our cities. Many daily newspapers of February this year. Just lx.f..ri are conducting instruction columns in I Ift Nanking on last New Year's. Alan-long, There are so many conveniences in our Kitchen that we woujd like to show them to every woman in Is it only a nassinc fad. nr i it Ana.

the father of my roommate lost two tiionsand dollars in one evening. The next night he tried to win his money tinea to menace the West as it hi. the East? Various onininn havo been expressed. The situation is. at back na instead lost five-hundred this community and best of all tne price is very reasonable.

least, important enough to call for a knowledge of those facts alwjut Mah. more. Addicts, Not Trusted. do you-think there is about jong that are above set forth Please come in while you are here let us show you our Mah-jong that makes so fascinat ing: 1 her. it is xne possibility 0f winning Peoples Building Loan Association U.

S. LIPSCOMB, Secretary The Better the Printing of your ttntionery th better the impression it win Morai Havo tout print hack all the money in he nexthand. The Chinese keep on playing all nighl lone in many cas, hoping that each hand yill be Iheir lucky one. When th-y gee their fortune slipping away from them, they pet mad! Yoj may not believe me, but one man grew angry over his great louses, that he rut off hts right hand that he could never play again. And before many moons he was playing with hi.

left." Rev. Georre Stenz. S. V. now artistic furniture and furnishings.

Come in Let us furnish your furniture. Shuford LeMaster Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking Phono 53 "At I M. P. National Bank ln doao here on a furloueh in thig country after thirty yi-am' experience in China, corroborates thi statement. He also 3 A..