The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 26, 1934, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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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
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* 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
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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.
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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.
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General News Notes
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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
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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.
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And to/ Help Finance Fight on Infantile Paralysis
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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. ,
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