The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 13, 1934, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
Ston Crop Will Be
Smallest Since 1878
The Government estimate of 1,286,000
acres of cotton in cultivation in
South Carolina on July 1 is a decrease
{W peivent froim that in cultivation
" July 1 laiit ywttr 1,111 itJ only ul,out
j percent below the 1,379,000 acres
^vested in 1933. V
The 424,000 acres removed from
cultivation under contract with the
Agricultural Adjustment Administrate
i? tlie summer of 1933 accounts
principally for the difference of 24
rreceot between that in cultivation in
July iasty ear and the amount finally
jurveated, and the small acreage thiti
ear is due to the continuation of the
gr?age adjustment program.
The present acreage is the State's
jmallest since the year 1878 when
11^3,000 acres wero harvested, and
torn pa res with an acreage of 1,915,000
Kres i" cultivation on July 1 for the
yfars 1928-1932. South Carolina's
largest acreage was that of 2,849,000!
planted in 1918.
The acreage of cotton in clutivat-l
ion in the United States on July 1 is
estimated by the Crop Reporting
Board to be 28,024,000 which la 31.** j
percent less ?han on July 1, 1933 and '
32,4 percent less than the average J
acreage for the years 1928-1932.
The decrease ranges from 25 per- I
cent in Georgia and North Carolina to
36 percent in Oklahoma Arizona ana
California are the only states showing
an increase.
The western states show a higher
reduction from 1933 than the eastern
sate3 due to a relatively larger
acreage planted in the west last year.
The droip in acreage is due chiefly
to the reduction program of the Farm
Administration combined with the rejtrictive
influence of the Bankhead
Production Control Act on planters
who did not sign a voluntary reduction
contract. -v
The present acreage is the smallest
?ince 1905 and about 1,700,000 acre&
Wow 1921, the only year since 190t>
Vlow 30,000,000 planted acres. It is
tiro about 1,964,000 or 6.5 percent bekw
the 29,978,000 acres harvested
tat year.
The acreage of Pima Egyptian
long-staple cotton in Arizona is estimated
at 29,000 acre? this year compared
with 27,000 acres in clutivation
July 1,1933.
No report on probaJble production
*ill be made by the Board until Augart.
Foe Of White Plague)
Wants New Members
With Dr. George II. Cromer, Newberry,
us chairman, the membership
committee of the South Carolina tuberculosis
asssociatiou mailed its annaul
appeal for members yesterday to
a list of interested citizens in counties
that havq no tuberculosis associations.
In order to reach prospective members
whoso names are not on the association's
list, editors of newspaper^ in j
the unorganized territory, which includes
Kershaw, have been asked to
help by making an appeal through
their -papers.
The funds derived from memberships
are used to supplement the
Christmas seal funds for the support
of a field nurse who works in the
counties in which the appeal was
made. Tho following story from tho
nurse's June report gives a picture of
one of her many problems.
"I am greatly Interested in Joe",
the nurse writes. "A year ago his
hoano was broken up. 11 i3 father,
mother and nine year old brother
were sent to a sanatorium. The other
children went to live with the fatleer's
parents, but Joe, who is sixteen
now, has drifted from one relative to
another, and has gained the reputation
of being 'hard to mange'.
When his mother heard that I wan
going into their county, she wrote to
ask me to be sure to have Joe examined.
I inquired about the family and
was told that 'it was no use to try to
do anything with that boy'. The
neighbors were wrong. When I told
Joe that his mother wanted him to
be examined, he responded eagerly.
Later, He "Told me that he would be
willing to walk all tho way to the i
sanatorium to tell his mother that he j
had had a negative reaction to the
tuberculin test. I drove him to the
sanatorium, 150 miles from here.
If you could have seen Joe with
his mother and little 'brother, you
would agree with me that he is not
yet a 'hard case', and that there is
still a chance to save some of the
members of this home that tuberculosis
has wrecked."
S. C. Tuberculosis Association,
1218 Senate Street, Columbia, ?. C.
i ,
| I enclose $ to help carry
on your program of education and
prevention of tuberculosis. Enroll
me as a member.
(Individual membership $1.00; organization
membership $5.00; sustaining
membership $10.00).
Name
I
Address
I suggest the following as possible
members:
The sheriff of Pickens county, John
B. Craig, said by the Pickens chief
of police to have been very drunk,
was being taken home by his son,
Arthur, 22 years old, when the sheriff
shot the son seriously in the thigh
and twice in the leg. He then started
for a Greenville hospital with
the wounded young man and wrecked
the automobile on the way. Local
persons took the wounded man on to
the hospital. The sheriff went back
home to Pickens and next day resigned
his office. The coroner took
over the sheriff's officii, Governor
Blackwood was notified and said he j
was .shocked, and the solicitor said i
no warrant for the ex-sheriff was
contemplated. The sheriff says he
has no memory of what occurred j
when he shot his son, but next day ;
checked up on the affair and found!
he had made a mistake.
Outwitted The Ghosts
"Ah had to go through dat grave- |
yard all alone las' night but Ah walked
backward all de way."
"Whut youall do dat foh?"
"So no ghos' could sneak up on me
fum behind."
MURDER IN SOUTH CAROLINA
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Palmetto Editor Puts Vitriol on Ilia
Typewriter Ribbon and Write?
Mr. Johnson, the mild mannered,
golf playing, poet appearing editor of
The Marion Star, has had hi a, attention
called to homicide in South Carolina,
and forthwith sat down and
wrote about it thus:
When this writer was a baby?before
he was born?we do not know
exactly?three negro men were hung
in the Marion jail, after having been
convicted for killing a Marion business
man, Some years later one
Somerset, negro, was hung for the
slaying of the uncle of the present
day professional man of Marion.
Since then hundreds of people have
been murdered in Marion county,
many of them in cold blood, and not
one killer has pftid for his crime with
his life.
Is it any wonder that men feel that
they can slay with impunity? That
they calculate that they can rid thornselves
of their enemies and suffer, at
the worst, a few years in prison? For
the hundreds of killings in this county
a paltry few men arc in the state
penitentiary, and practically every
one of them are negroes?
Our citizens worry about prohibition,
taxes, legislative and' congressional
delegations, and really organize
and fight to put over their wishes
in these matters, which, after all, are
of small moment in the scale of life
values. What do we do about murders,
and murderers? There is not
now and there nevei^ has been a serious
demand on the part of the public
to punish men for "toting" guns.
The ji^ry says "not guilty," as to the
killer, and nothing is done about
making him pay for having packed
a deadly gun in his hip pocket and
having gone out into the world, ready
to kill at the slightest provocation.
The truth is, we. are not interested
in murders and killers. It matters
not to us that our courts are jokes
and that even when juries convict
shyster lawyers and llop-kneed governors
find a way to undo the work of
the courts and the jurors. We get
excited about all kinds of things, but
take cold blooded murder for granted
just like the tides, the sunsets and
the measles.
The blackest mark against the
state of South Carolina is her murder
record, and the futility of her courts
and her officers to do anything about
it. Our public views murder with
apathy?and the killings continue to
blur the pages of our newspapers and
fill the dockets of our courts.
What is needed! js a speeding up of
trials of men charged with murder.
Do away with postponements of trials
on flimsy excuses. Force killers to
face juries of their peers, speedily
V i
and certainly. Cut out the! red tape
of the court room, which permits a.ppeahs
and reversals of verdicts on
sheer technicalities in the laws. lieform
court procedure in many respects,
in order that the truth may
be ascertained in any fair manner.
Tf^te away the pardoning power of
the governor and let the verdicts of
juries stand. Enact laws which will
hold a killer, even when acquitted of
the murder charge, if the killing be
done with a lawless weapon.
Life in South Carolina is very, very '
cheap, anil it will remain cheap as1
long as our last desire is to do something
about it.
We hate liquor, but we South Carolinians
dearly love a ruthless, colUv
blooded killer! We are going to be
dry, even if wo have to kill the wets,
for murder is a lighter offense in this
state than drinking or bootlegging!
The bootlegger is ostracised by our
best citizens who calmly view the
killer as an unfortunate man who
felt that his neighbor had reached
the end of the trail?and aided him
in getting away from his earthly
trials. l>own with liquor?long liVe
the ""killers!
(. range Meet a With Mt. Pisgah
The ffrst regular meeting of the
recently organized Pomona or county
grange will meet with the Mt. Pisgah
grange on Thursday night, August
2, at eight o'clock. All fourth degree
members of the county are invited to
attend this meeting. New members
will- be received at this time. The
Kershaw County Pomona Grange is
the connecting link between the community
or subordinate grange and
the state grange. Join your subordinate
and Pomona granges and
strengthen the best farmers fraternity
in America.
Death Kay Now a Reality
Ever since the war there have been
rumors of tjie discovery of a "death
ray" that would instantly wipe out all
life which it comes in contact. Such
a ray actually has been perfected and
is now in possession of the U. S. government
as told at the recent Inventors'
Congress in Omaha by A. G.
Burns, president of that organization.
The death ray machine was invented
by Dr. Antonio Longoria, physician
and electrical engineer of Cleveland,
Ohio.
"I witnessed a demonstration of
the machine in Cleveland last October,"
Mr. Burns said. "Dr. Longoria
turned the ray on rabbits, dogs
and cats. They fell over, instantly
killed, their blood turned to water.
The same thing happened to pigeons, i
turned loose and allowed to fly quite,
a distance. They fluttered to the ground
and were dead when picked
up." |
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It's a Good Story; J
True or Untrue
From Chesterfield comes the story
of how h man carried the star route
mail from Jefferson to Chesterfield
several years for less than no pay on
account of an error in his contract.
There is probably some foundation
(or the story, which is a good one, I
true in whole or part.
After Lee surrendered, Pink Brant|ley,
who had been a scout in lioncrul
Wade Hampton's cavalry, rode a
' horse, which had been captured from
| a federal soldier, and reached his
home three miles from Chesterfield,
which was directly in the path of
i Sherman's army which had passed
! some three mo lit lis earlier; Sherman's
men had taken everything
from the small farm',
j The mail service in the county had
i been discontinued with the collapse
of the Confederacy, and the federal
t government was taking stops to re1
store the service and advertised for
hiils for transporting the mail?three
times a week between Chesterfield
| and JetTersQii?20 miles. Brantley
I wps the successful bidder?his bid being
$300 per year.
The contract specified that the payments
for the service would be made
quarterly, and that should the service
be increased or decreased, or if the
route should be lengthened or shortened
that the puy would be>adjusted
in accordance with the stipulated
price.
The road was a sandy one, and
Brantley carried the mail oji horse
back, making the round trip each
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
After three months the check arrived
from Washington and it was for
seventy-five cents whereas it should
have been $75. In due course he got
a reply that seventy-five cents was
correct?that his bid was $3.00, and
that the contract had been awarded
him on that basis?investigation
showed that in making out his bid
Brantley had put a period after the
3, so the bid was $3.00, instead of
$300.
Brantley then wrote that he was
going to quit?but was reminded that
if he did his bondsmen would have
to pay to have the contract completed,
which ran for four years.
The bondsmen were Brantley's
friends; in those days personal bonds
were given as the bonding companies
of today were not doing business
down this way.
| So Brantley, to protect his bonds!
men continued to make the trip three
times a week; then he was notified
.that the service would be daily?so
his next quarter he got a check for
$1.50?it now to6k two horses to
maintain the service?then another
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July Livestock Notes
Sent Out By Clemson
Clcmson. College, July 2.?In midsummer
livestock need careful attention,
say specialists in timely notes:
Animal Husbandry.?-See that hogs
| have all green forage they will consume.
Plant soybeans for late summer
grazing ? it is not too late.
| Fence fields and be ready to hog down
corn in the glazed or dent stage.
1 Provide hogs some animal protein,
such Ash meal, skimmilk or tank'
ago. Wean late lambs and get ewes
j bred as early as possible. Change
i cattle on pastures every three weeks
I if possible. Save food by using permanent
pastures while horses anil
[ mulest are not working.
lhuiying." Mow pastures frequent-*
I ly. Destroy breedmg places for Hies,
and use skimmilK-formahlghydo poi!
son in shallow pans to kill Aies. As
i milk production fulls off, supplement
: pasture ? with balanced grain mixture.
| Feed up to two pounds of grain daily
to growing stock to maintain normal
growth. Keep market cream container
in barrel or tub of cold well or
spring water. If ' retail milk producer
willx surplus ut this season, dry
otr all lowiproducing cows that are v ,
bred for fall freshening.
Poultry.?Keep mash before laying
hens; it helps to keep their bodies
cool and stimulates egg production.
Reduce feed cost by culling nen-layers
and not by reducing feed. Keep
a grain feed before the pullets and
don't start feeding a laying mash
until the birds are at least Ave
months old. If troubled with roup or
chicken pdx in past years, vaccinate
pullets when two to four months old.
At Gaffney, an uutomobilo thief
was not expert enough at driving to
drive through the other cars in the
alley down town where he took Guy
Kirby's automobile, and when he tried
to back out of the alley, he smashed
into a pole. Also, he could not run
fast enough to get away from a crowd
chasing him and was caught and jailed.
He is a white man named
Graham Johnson.
post office was established 7 miles
beyond Jefferson and the service was
extended to this one?it bearing the
unattractive name of Catarrh?three
horses were now necessary?and the
check for the quarter was now $1.98
?at last the four year contract expired,
and the congressman from this
district got a bill through congress to
pay Brantley the balance of the
amount due him on basis of what ho
had intended to bid.
Mark Twain heard about the incident
and in one of his humorous
stories wrote it up, using fictitious
names.?Lancaster News.
WYNDHAM M. MANNING
Candidate For Governor
It is -.t i that the real cause of the
catn ( :' time. Curie, the world's best
flour. M.an scientist, was the acumuia*
. of radium rays in her sys'*
injured the organs produc ?
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g'ay Friday, July 13
re?Saturday, July 14
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We've never seen the equal of it?the way
car owners have flocked in, looked, listened,
bought new G-3's these last ten weeks?and
it's the same everywhere we hear. What's
more, people who got G-3's months before
the public announcement, report it's better
than claimed! THey cite mileage records to
prove they're getting better than the 43%
more non-skid mileage averaged by Goodyear's
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