Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(society news ,:Club Meetings:. Bridg* Club M#?u With Mm. Yatea The Wednesday Morning Bridge rlub whs entertained at its meeting for ibis week by Mrs. C. H. Yates at her home on North Broad Street. Besides the regular club members urg. Yates' guests for the morning were Mrs. J. H. Guthrie and Mrs. John W. Orbett. Mrs. Leroy Davkljofv whs awarded the score prize for the series completed with this meeting of the club, After cards the hostess served a delicious salad course. Mr. and Mrs. William Thrower, of Charleston were visitors in Camden Monday. Mrs. Thrower will be pleasantly remembered here as Miss Mary Benson. ^ Mrs. I.omansky Entertains On Tuesday, May 14th, Mrs. Lewis Lomaiisky entertained at bridge in honor of her sister, Mrs. M. D. Levy, of New York City. Mrs. Lomansky's home wns beautifully decorated for the occasion with cut flowers in all their Spring loveliness. Four tables were arranged for bridge and Mrs. B. H. Baura won the prize. The guest of honor received a lovely piece of lingerie as a reminder of the afternoon. After cards the! hostess served a salud course with coffee. PERSONAL NEWS NOTES Mi?s Host MdL*od is visiting friends in WalhaUa, S. C. Mrs. Jack Welkins, of Miami, Fla., Is the guest of Mrs. L. U Clyburn. Miss Kitty Hodge, of Miami, is a guest at the home of Mrs. S. L. Perry. I . Mr. Thomas Leaoir, of <CUrksdale, Miss., is spending sometime here with relatives. Miss Ruth Shaw spent the past week end here with her parents, Mr, [and Mrs. C. . Shaw. # . Mr. Jim Wallace, of Atlanta spent last week here with his parents/Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wallace, Miss Margaret DeLoache has returned # from Charleston where she visited 'during the past week. Mr. George Nicholson, of Hatties- { burg, Miss., is here on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J, C. Nicholson. Mrs. B. L. P?rry has as her guest Mrs. J. T. Letter, of Orangeburg, j who will spend several days id Cam-1 den. Mrs. S. W/Wilson and Miss Ch*r*; lotte Boykin have returned to their home in Charleston after visiting relatives here. Mrs. J. H. Watk/ns and mother, Mrs. K. S. Netties are guests of Mrs. Steve Perry, where they will spend several weeks before returning to Miami. a Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Zemp, have (returned to Camden for the summer Ifrom Gainesville, Florida, where Mr. .Zemp is attending, the University of rFlorida. ? Mrs. J. C. Peers, of Orangeburg, is !the guest, of her sisters, Mrs. C. M. Coleman and Miss Zulene Rhame this week. I ll Engagement Announced Summerton, May 14?Mr. and Mrs. William JieUtoad Andereon announce the engagement of their <Uvght?r, ICIi&abeth Charlotte Anderfiofl, to Henry Savage, Jr., of Camden, the wedding to take place in the fall. Spartanburg, May 14.?Simultaneously with the above announcement which was made by Mrs. W. H. Anderson at her home "Wildwood" in Summerton to a group of her friends on the birthday of her daughter, Dr. Mary Wilson Gee, dean of Converse college, of which Miss Anderson is .1 graduate, made the same announcement to the members of the class of 1928, at the Converse college alumnae luncheon. ' This announcement will be of great interest to the many friends of this popular young couple throughout the state. Miss Anderson is a graduate of Converse, class of 1928 and while there took a prominent part in college activities, became a member of the B. A. T. club and the Alpha Sigma honorary fraternity as well as being voted in 1928 the most beautiful and most vivacious Converse girl. Mr. Savage is the spn of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Savage of Camden. He is a graduate of University of Virginia academic gnd law department and is a niember of the Phi Sigma Kappa social fraternity, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa society. Mr. Savage is a practicing attorney of Cam- i den, president Qf thfi .Camden. and Kershaw county chamber of commerce and is president of the junior chamber of commerce of South Carolina. Club Met With Mrs. Anderson The Midway Home Demonstration Club held its May meeting at the home of Mrs. Joe Anderson. The meeting was called to order and fifteen members answered to their names. A reading both appropriate arid interesting was enjoyed by the fhernbers. Pamphlets were given each one on "Stumping Out Diphtheria in Our Community." Th*' lesson for the month was jelly making and testing and as it is jelly time those present grasped the opportunity pf learning the new way with much enthusiasm. The recreation leader led ip a few tmusing games. After all business was finished the' hostess served lemonade and delicioug cakes. The Red river of Texas and Arkansas is at flood stage and a wide territory is roenaqed by the Mood waters. Wind and rainstorms 1n Texas took two lives and injured teu persons iaBt week and caused much property loss. Charlotte is getting the' final <ieI tails for the general reunion of Confederate Veterans to be held in that city during the week of June 8-7, all worked out and according to the ' estimates of the general manager of the reunion, from 4,500 to 6,000 old soldiers are expected to be present for the gala affair. According to the figures of George D. Ix?vy of Sumter, department commander for South Carolina of the American Ijegion, the legion now. has a membership in this state of 5,8X8, the largest number of ex-soldiers ever to have belonged to the organization in this state. MBBWBSBBSBgggBWMBBWBKWBBBBUliJ Camden City Schools ( Iose On June Uth The Camden City Schools will close on June 11. The plans for commence- > ment have not boon definitely settled & yet in all details. The general outline ? will be as follows: June 7th, Friday > night the Senior Class will present / their class play. On Sunday evening, I1 June U, 'Rev. Walter K. Alexander, " pastor of First Baptist Church Florence, S. C., will deliver the' baccalaureate sermon. Monday even- t ing, June 10 class exercises will take J place and Tuesday evening, June 11, j the graduation exercises will bo t given. S ? The school auditorium is being re- ^ painted and the curtain for the stage is being dyed. Everything will be ready by commencement time. ?. The members of the senior class v are: Benton Burns, Arthur Davis, ( Lynell Fouts, Frederick Graham, n Louis Guion, George Jenkins, ltay ? Johnson, Robert Kennedy, McLean t 'King, Duncan Lang, Raymond I^ee, v Francis Montgomery, John Nettles, Lucius Ogbum, H. A. ltabonk Mendel i Robinson, Willis Shedd, Roehelle Sheom, fi, R. Truesdale, Edward " Wooten, Helen Baker, Catherine Boy- t kin, Carolyn Burnet, Betty Cureton, 1 Esther DeLoache, Louise Drawdy, c Inez Gardner, Nell Goodale, Ora I Hinson, Lucy Kirkland, Sarah Mills, I Nancy Pearee, Caroline Richardson, i Althea Sanders, Grace Sawyer, Elma i ShiVer, Anne Turner, Anna Kate * Watts, Nellie Watts. ji ' 1" Majestic Program. MONDAY AND TUESDAY , May 27 and 2b Alice White in a First National /itaphona Talking Picture "HOT 1TUFF," What every Mapper wants 0 know! What every Mapper does now! Hey-Hey! Let's be gay! See Hot Stuff," and get that way! tdded Vitaphone Acts and News WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY" May 2H and .10 ..jM What is the sin that is greater han any other sin? See 'THE UK1KKMING SIN," with Dolores Cosel lo and Conrad. Natfel. The Warner brothers, Vitaphone All-talking picure, It's a sin to n(ilas "Redeeming lin." Added Vitaphone Arts anq Novelties. " *VuiDAY, MAY" ' ^ * Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez in, THE WOLF HONG." Hear bewitching Lupe Sing "Yo. Te Amo" 1 lxive You) and other haunting love | nelodies. A picture of beautiful ongs actually sung by members of he cast. Also comedies and Vaudeille Acts. SATURDAY/ J UNE' I Tom Mix with his pony, Tony, in SOFT BOILED," but he's a hard oiled guy in this spirited western >icture, with action, thrills and omcdy. Added comedies and Vitaihone Acts. The Bpworth orphanage, Methodist nstitution of Columbia, last week told 112.6 acrep of land to a realty company for $110,000. ' G ' L 1 f i fcttfew wniirfMcrifrikrrjrrrrrrrrr~r~ HHn ^^myj^ijXriinirrr J0B "At Industry Prospers?So Prosper The People" Cotton Mill Earnings?Who Gets Them? m M yi HIS tremendous importance of the cotton manufacturing industry to South Carolina is unquesJl I x tioned. Here is an industry which furntehes direct support to a fifth of the state's white pop? I ? ulatioji, and indirect support to many mbte of her citizens; an industry whose finished products T I 4 are worth three times the cotton crop and almost twice as much as all the crops her farmers m m grow. 'Such an industry must exercise a profound'influence on the economic and social life of any commonwealth in which it exists. . What ?hen of the thousands of men and women whose investments make that industry possible? Axe .they receiving' the profits which the importance of their industry would seem to warrant? The plain truth is that cotton manufacture is not the profitable enterprise that some believe it to be. Earnings are dependent to a large extent on conditions beyond the control of the management or. .. stockholders, and are not in keeping with the risk involved. Violent fluctuations in cotton prices, unstable markets for cloth, frequent style changes, and economic depressions all operate to make profits un-~ certain and management difficult, _ Net returns on actual invested capital in South Carolina mills during the past two years have averaged little more than pgr cent. In some recent years there were no profits, and if the abnormal war ? period were disregarded, the average for the history of the industry in this state would probably not exceed ,4 per cent. Earnings in almost every other leading industry have far exceeded those of textiles. Even rafl, roads, long regarded as the invalids of American business, have fared better than the textile industry. While the securities of most other industries have enjoyed a steady, and in many cases remarkable increase in value during the past five years, those of textiles have with rare exceptions, either remained stationary or suffered a decline. ' V . * Despite their low earnings, the cotton manufacturers of South Carolina -have persistently en- ? Hoavnwri to better the.living-conditions of those who hohped to make their industry possible. "Data collect-ed by impartial fact-finding bodies indicate that the weekly pay check of the average operative in South Carolina is today more than twice as large as in the pre-war period." Moreover, the houses, the schools, the churches, the recreational facilities and the provisions for insuring health have all been greatly improved; improved at a cost of millions of dollars to stockholder's. -g - .. v' V * . > '< ? " In many instances, cotton mills have operated at actual losses for the purpose of furnishing employment to their operatives. Truly, it-may be said that by far the larger portion of cotton mill earnings has gone to operatives, and not to stockholders. ' fcgg&imm : - . v g . * ' , .fexx:. . . \ COTTON M^w^^^rI^^^^sociation ? ^^outh SlftouNA - 3;^. . IgEp, I?