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| 11 1 1 m~mnnw*rn i n I i I Plan Effective Use I For Rented Acres Land which is taken out of cotto^ production for 11)34 and rented to the ,Sec, rotary df Agriculture under the l(,tton adjustment contracts may be put to effective use by growers under the terms of * the reduction ngreeI ments, says Henry I), Green, Kershaw t-ounty agricultural agent. An opportunity to conserve the fertility of the contracted acres, in .or tier that they may produce efficiently I in the future for less labor art less cash outlay, la offered in the provision of the contract that the rented | i {teres may be planted to soil-improvj ing and erosion-preventing crops, I Such crops he cowpeae, clover, vetch, I lespedeza and <jther legumes may be I planted for these purposes. ' since much of the lands in cotton I have been for a long time getting II poorer and poorer each year-as a reI suit of clean cultivation, the wis? far- < I mer will see in. this adjustment plan I the opportunity of a life-time to use a large portion of his land-ipr soilI impvovement cropy^<ei^ion-i ^ntI | ing crops and pa/ture a~nd\m(ufdow I . crops as a first/step in readjusting I his program," pays J. Phil Campbell, i I of the replacement crops section of ! the Agricultural Adjustment AdminI istration. yho rented acres may also be used a under the terms of the contract for the production of food crops for copsumption on the farm by the pro| j ducer and-feed crops for the producj tion of livestock or livestock products j I for consumption or use on the farm I by the producer. j Production adjustment programs I similar tox the cotibon plan are being j put into effect throughout the United States by the A. A. A. for other lead ing "basic" crops, in an effort I I duce ruinous surpluses all along the j | broad front of American agriculture. I In signing contracts for all these proI grams, farmers everywhere are agreeI ing not to plant other basic crops on I the lands rented to the Government, j The cotton grower in signing his ad| justment contract also agrees not to plant on the rented acres any crop for. sale, directly or indirectly, and I | thus is cooperating with his fellow j farmers elsewhere in the national ! movement for agricultural readjusti ment, the qounty agent points out^ I "WftO KILLED EARL WRIGHT?" Widely-Heralded Murder Trial To Be I Held I ] Camden residents won't have to I I leave their own streets to see and II hear a murder trial, for one is to take | j place at the Baptist church WednesI day, January 31, at 7:30 p. m. A young man, Christopher Vaughan, | will be "tried" for murder, and the j whole setting will deal with the "killfl ing" of- a man by his friend, whom, fl it* is shown, was under the influence j ' of liquor at the time he struck the | j blow which snuffed out a life, left a widow and family of fatherlestf chil" dren. I The "trial" ia^ being put on in co operation of the churdhes and is ! means of, pointing out a lesson on temperance. ^Twenty-fiVe prominent local leaders of this city will take part in this trial, j The cast follows: Judge, Rev. J. T. 'I Littlejohn; sheriff, Rev. B. S. Broome; j Jack Stiles (bootlegger), F. N. Mc-1 Corkle; deputy sheriff, Bill Nettles; 1 court reporter, Prof. C. P. Goodyear; . j Flank Lloyd (defendant), Christopher I I Vaughan; Mrs.French (star witness), | Mrs. J. G. Richards; Mr. Cook (corI I oner), Dr. A. W. Humphries; Mrs. I Lloyd (defendant's "mother), Mrs. I J. H. McLeod; Mrs. Wright( wife of i I deceased), Miss Elizabeth Clark; i I counsel for defense, Rev. N. R. JohnI I son; prosecuting attorney, Dr. C. F. ! f Wimberly. j Summoned for the jury: J. G. Richards, Jr., W. G. Wilson, H. E. Graham, J. S. Lindsay, Dr. W. R. Clybum, J. H. Osborne, C. T. Swann, J. E. Moore, Prof. C. T. Baldwin, Hughey Tindal, W. T..Redfearn, J. B. Gureton, T. V. alsh, Dr. C. A. West, F. C. Jones, Hobson Branham, R. E. Barnes. Admission free. A voluntary offer- ' ing will be taken. The question of . whether or not P*?x>ns~ under indictmont for viola- , _ tion of the national prohibition laws before repeal, must be prosecuted, was put up to the federal supreme court on Wednesday. The departciaoi tp ,trflGer- -less uJdrcmfwyp ment of justice holds that repeal has . no effect on the charges against persons who violated the laws before repeal. Mrs. Irene Saunders and the bodies of her three children were found in ? ftn automobile near Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday of last week. She is in a I hospital suffering ?from a self-inflicted wound after she had killed her ?bildren. She left tt note for her eetranged husband which said: "I nev?r had any happiness except for the ??st six months of our married life, whiskey wracked our home." Stony M APS I "in " ..virt'.A w.v aii,.im "l, " ' '.a r ?i ' ^ " 1 r- 1 ,i . - -- ? si*t * Sixteenth Century Map of the Pacific. jropared l>y National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.-WNU Service. MOltli} than 3,000 years ago llumeues II, who is credited with making the ilrst maps, "A ' outlined estntes along the Nile river. What would lie think today If he walkbd into an automobile ^ service station, railway station, tourists' bureau, or airplane office and could take his pick oi^ maps that would show him the best route to almost anywhere In the worl<|? Probably the greatest spurt In the map-making industry Ws been made In the last few centuries, but In the ???0*t museums of the world there are many maps and charts that were crude but helpful forerunners of the efficient work of cartographers today. Most famous of all early maps are those In the atlas or "Geography" of Claudius Ptolemy, an eight-volume work dating from about 150-A. D. Though lost to the wojrld of learning through the Dark ages, Ptolemy's books were later rediscovered. One of the oldest manuscript copies was found at Mount Athos, and a reproduction made in 1807 is on display in the Library of Congress at Washington, D. C.^ Six of his eight books consist of tables* of latitude and longitude for about 8,000 places. In his remaining books Ptolemy discusses the stars, mathematical problems of geography, the length of days, the sun's course, and differences In time at ^different places. With his books are maps of 26 countries and one map of the world. In Jiis colossal task Ptolemy used all ! geographic lore thaf had accumulated [ to his time. Though crude and full of mistakes, it was the greatest step ever made in presenting world geography in scientific form. His maps show how traders and adventurers had pushed the rim of the known world^ as far north as the Shetlands and g$en size and shape to the British Isles More of the Nile was shown and part of Africa below the equator. , The Indian ocean got a new and more accurate mapping, based, no doubt, on notes brought by silk trad.eraJCrQJBLlbe Far East.I?, Road Maps for Crusaders. To meet the needs of the Crusaders, flocking down the highways of Europe and into Asia Minor, there developed a sort of pictorial road map.. A good example,, in the British museum is a copy of^i drawing by a St. Albans monk, Matthew Paris. Its crude pictures show, the towns along the route from London to Jerusalem. The "map" of Palestine also shows the sea, with ships carrying crowds of people. ? China, Persia, Egypt, all had their part in early map science i and the Arabs undoubtedly borrowed from Ptolemy. Yet it was the Arabs who, when Christian learning lagged In the Eighth and Ninth centuries, made the most important geographic advances. Printing, which, like the compass, probably came to Europe from the East, had the same galvanic effect on map making as on some other arts. Ptolemy's "Geography," now translated, became so popular that It was to go through more than.fifty editions. Columbus used it; despite its errors, or thanks to them, he accidentally found the New world, which discovery ultimately set all civilization to revising its maps. , For decodes after the voyages of Columbus, Europe seethed with ex-. citement and new Ideas. When Charles V receive'1 letters from Cortez descrlb- .. ing the splendors of Montezuma s court, with its golden dishes asjgte as carriage Spain. wfitnW?!tated. WJienHRra broke that I izarro had caught an Tnca kinjf and -held him for ransom of a roomful of gold, equal to *15,000,00$ excitement was almost unendurable. All nations that could build or borrow boats put to sea, and map making nourished. As the world's true pattern took ftfrm, medieval maps with nnexplored areas decorated by sea'aerponts meimaids, wrecked galleons, and chubby angel faces blowing the winds, began to fade from ose. Mercator's Great Work. Gerhard Kremer. known by his Latinized name of Mercator, was among ^ dltlons. Famous wtlhematlclan - -??<?? cartographer of Flanders, ho drew a world chart In 1569 on the "Mercator Projection," which gave navigators a new and safer system for plotting their courses. By this projection lines of latitude and longitude are mathematically spaced and " drawn at right apgles to each/Other. On thisfgrld sailors have merely to rule a straight line as their course and sail to port Because the earth Is round, this does not i^lve the shortest route between two points,, but It does show the right "bearing," In his time, Mercator helped to change map making from an art Into a science. New and accurate lnstru* ments for measuring the ground were coming Into use, and slowly they led , the way to topographic surveys. . 0 Mercator's son, Ruroold, carried on his father's map trade. When Rumold died his brother-in-law, Judocus Hondlus, took It ovfer. The Hnndlus earth map of 1595," now In the British museum, traces Sir Francls; brake's I course around the world. \ Dutch map publishers led the world I In the Seventeenth century and the French In the Eighteenth. A French scientist rolled a carriage wheel across the northern French plains to measure 1 a degree arc of the meridian. In time I came D'Anville, issuing a new map of China drawn by the Jesuits In 1718. Other good map makers arose In Germany, England, Austria and Switzerland. No country is so well surveyed* as I Great Britain; no maps anywhere are comparable, for information and range I of scale, with those of its ordnance 1 survey. Early American Maps. Before the Revolution such maps of J our country as existed were drawn mostly by those European powers who | had colohles here. Among such were the early Spanish maps of Florida, the | Southwest, and California; also Lewis Evans' map of the "Middle British Col- | onies In America," published In Phil- I adelphla In 175& } What has been called the most Im- I portant map in United States history \ Is that draw^ by Dr. John Mitchell, I showing the French and British do- J minions In North America. After Cornwallis yielded at Yorktown and | British diplomats met the Americans I at Paris to frame the treaties of 1782- | 83 this map was used. Of It John l Adams wrote: "We had before us | T~7~. n variety of maps; but it was I the Mitchell map upon which was marked out the whole boundary lines of the United States," During the first half of the Sixteenth century such Spanish explorers as Cabeza de Vaca; Coronado, Do Soto, I and others had made crude maps of [ their routes; so had the French, voy- j aging the Great Lakes and canoeing down the Mississippi. William Clark, V of the Lewis and Clark expedition, In | 1804-6, made a map showing their | route to Oregon and the north boundary of Louisiana, then In the upper j Missouri basin. Later came Zebulon Pike, the Santa Fe traders and the beaver trappers from St. Louis?Bonneville, Walker, Fremont, and othersall shown on Frank Bond's "Routes of the Principal Explorers," published by the United States land office in 1907. No ship can enter port safely without a chart that shows buoys, lights, shoals, channel depths, and Prominent objects ashore to steer by. The JJnitgd StHtW guaflt~and geodetic survey | has been nutflng such charts for 116 y<After the CJvll war, mapping of the United ****n particularly of the ercat West, began In earnest, directed by the newly created United States I geological survey. Long before that, to aid settlers, the government land office had done much mapping, often under contract and not always ac- I - Because the United States Is so vast, j no private firm or person could afTord to survey and map Its whole area. For more than 50 years the geological survey has been working to complete | the topographic mapping of the Union. Of its total area of more than 3,000,000 I souare miles, about one-half la now 1 ISrveyed and the result* published in Marly 3?0Q topographic maps. V . ' OT ' Production Control ) (Means High Prices . Olemson College, Jan. 18.*?"The undoubted effect of the 1988 cotton ui'ira.uv rcdiu-lion as a prime factor in raising the price of cotton from aVound six cents per pound to the lCLcent level gives us good reason to feel sure that a further reduction of acreage in 1984 will mean a still better price for cotton produced this year," says I)r. W, W. Long, director of the Extension Service, who feels that this benefit from the acreage reduction campaigns is not being given the Btress it deserves as an argument for hearty support of the campaign now under way. As great as are the gains to be derived from the rental payments and the domestic allotment benefits, he thinks 'the biggest gains to farmers and the genora! public,, will come from tho bettor prices sure to follow production control. In this matter Dr. Long endorses heartily the statement from Cully A, Cobb, chief of the cottoh production section A. A. A., who says: "The grower needs no further assurance that a better price per pound will be received next fall than his own experience following tho successful plow-up campaign which farmers made effctive last summer. "The cotton-consuming world was probably skeptical that Southern farmers would cooperate so heartily in taking out cotton acreage in the summer of 1938," says Mr. Cobb, "and the fact that this was done nqt only removed this doubt but had an excellent effect on the price of cotton last fall. A part of this better price, however, was-basod on the belief that the growers would cooperateagairt in 1934 further to reduce the crop." Cotton farmers therefore are urged by Dr. Long to make the present program effective and to collect for themselves theo'tbtee-way benefit which will accrue to them by cooperating with themselves and with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Carlos Hevia has become provision^ al president of Cuba on the resignation of President <Grau San Martin. The new president is 33 years old and a graduate of the United States naval academy at Annapolis. Dr! Johnson, a negro physician of Tampa, Fla., found a negro burglar in his home. He fired twice through a door and wounded the intruder. He then took him?to-a hospital-anddressed his wounds before turning him over to the police. A gang of bandits, 'believed to be of the John Dellinger outfit, held up and robbed a bank at East Chicago, Illinois of $20,000, after killing a detective, as they made their get-away. ' 8 1 General News Notes f;\ ' . v ' I It is reported at Mexico City that > tho estate of the late Dwight Morrow, former United States ambassador to Mexico, Will make a donation of($00,? 000 to tho National Univorsity of Mexico. August Heckseher, New York millionaire philanthropist, is sueing John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for $10,000,000 damages, alleging , unfair practices in tho renting of tho- Rockefeller building ' v; Fred Wells* of Cherokee county recently butchered a hog Avhich weighod more than 900 pounds.0 The hams weigh 90 pounds each and the ahoul- i der? 80 pounds. A screaming tramp, convicted of having set Are to a farmer's haystack, was hanged at Graz, Austria?| the first man to die under Austrian martial law and the first legal execution in Austria since 1918. Anderson has been given an atlottment of $191,000 for paving, and Hampton pno of $40,000 for a waterworks, both being loans Of 70 per cent of the amounts. The treasury department has ordered all diatoms collectors to refuse en- * . try and delivery of any, foreign merchandise bearing the Nit A blue eagle. Plans are well underway for the expenditure of $97,000 for a national park at Guilford battleground, flvo miles northwest of Greensboro, N. C. The GatTney public library in 1933 7 had 43,052 books taken out, an aver-. > age of 3,500 a month, by 40,000 persons. A New Orleans brokerage Arm has sued the Chipley corporation and Martin S. Chipley, Greenwood cotton factors, for $47,433 alleged to be dua in. dealings. REAL ESTATE J RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPERTY HUNTING PRESERVES Repairing and Care-Taking of Property ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO I Crocker Building ?- ^TdlepJbee^^ ?-" rr-?? ? - ?----- -f I BIGGER and BETTER | I QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY I I Cleaning Dyeing Laundry I I f 11 ^ ; H AVfES | TELEPHONE 567 I * Our service will please you and the cost is no more J 1 SUITS 65c PLAIN DRESSES .. 65c I I ^1 n i Called for and delivered I I I DesChamps, inc. I . 1 East DeKalb Street | I | DRY CLEANING and DYEING for particular people I I MODEL LAUNDRY I j ASK US ABOUT RATES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY 5,000 Birthday Balls to Honor President January 30 ~ And to/ Help Finance Fight on Infantile Paralysis V I " ' 11 J--' - ..v! V--JiiLll^lUKiWSitUeyswe^'1'SpSMi^^; -y.'i 7 j f GETTING READY FOR THE BIGOEST BIRTHDAY PARTY*IN AMERICAN HI8T0RY (; Every community In the nation will honor President Rooeevelt when ho becomes 52 years old op Tuesday, Jan. 30, by givfhg a local ball to help endow an extension of the nation-wide work of the~Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysia In whioh the Preeldent ,le so deeply Interested. Upper left, the Preeldent and hie mother, Mrs. James A. Roosevelt, who bought the first box sold for the New York ball In the Wal~ dorf-Astoria, upper centerir, Colonel Henry L, Doherty, chairman of the oommittee of leaders arranging the observance of the President's anniversary; upper right, the official poster contributed to the movement by the^amous artist, Howard Chandler Christy; lower picture, child patient# at Warm Springs sharpening 'up knlves and appetites for the largest observanoe of the President's birthday ever held at that health center. The cake, weighing 344 pounds and said to be the largest birthday oaks ever made, was presented to the . children for their party by Chairman Doherty. , - - - - - -'?J " % <? v't