The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 07, 1935, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by G<*
MKJee, Copyright, 1928.
what broke us
The boll weevil didn't biiHt uh. our
bills didn't do n either, only half the
notes of I ?:{?? ami roll were e\?-r
paid. Our i ropH have brought an
much money every yur since r.ik'l
as they ever brought prior to ltfls .
bused on the cost of production
The drought of lust year was only
the straw that broke the camel's buck
Wo were wobbly uiid wenk before
(but calamity befell us NV?? tire having
to pay for what we eat because'
of It. v
Ihil listen, folks What broke tne
and you was extravagance. We made
'I dollars and spent 4 We let interest
eat us up. The Indiscriminate
jtnrchase and use of automobiles contributed
materially to our downfall
Milk stockings and fur coats aided
and abetted to some extent.
Speculation was the entering wedge,
busy credit is the mother of speculation.
We borrowed money with
our eyes shut, and bought stuff with
out thinking of value. We counted
our wealth on a basis of equities, and
when (ho show-down came there wore
IIO equities.
Wo figured that wo were Worth so
much above what w,- owed hut never
figured how we were going to pay
ouj debts. We are still living beyond
our means I am talking,about both
you ami , me: We tire enjoying luxuries
that wo can't afford and we
know it.
Ninety per cent of every dollar you
and I make in the form of wages or
produce Is spent several weeks belore
we earn it. Our wages are now
pledged ill most cases ti months ahead.
Now people, -what are we going
to do about It? Nothing at alt. That s
right. I ho standard of living not
exactly too high for the good of the
country educationally and morally,
but it's too high to bring forth a pros'
porous and honorable citi/.ensbip We
are still trying to keep ahead aff the
Joneses.
'' 's ridiculous to hear sensible
people talk of reducing taxes without
noun- manner of reducing expenses
lirst being inaugurated How can we
have what we want and what we tire
uat'd to without taxes? High taxes
didn't bust us either, hut until We get
better oO taxes should he lowered
if possible.
I he man who succeeds from this
day hem e is going to ?ierlt success.
mike writes thePgovernor
on an important matter
gov. olin d. Johnston,
columby, s. C.
deer govvernor:?
1 notls by the newspapers where
one of your faithful constiturants
?cnt you a Jaw bone of a jack ass for
you to use in connection with getting
3 ore unruly highway department
straightened out. and 1 am riting to
?n> that 1 hope It will serve his purposes
ok. 4
you will not have as mutiny phillls
teens to combat as sampson had. so
>ou ought to be able to take care of
the If, gentermens in question, but
plese be careful it you have newer
wielded a Jack ass Jaw bone, you
must get onto how it should he hell
In yore hands when being used.
if you will ketch the Jaw bone at
the other end and wrop yore thumb
and big finger around the left molar
Just below the eye-tooth, it won't sltp
out of yore hand when landing an
upper cut to the chill. if the jaw
hone Is sound, you don't run no risk
iu hitting straight down
it tnought he a good idea for \ on
to rite the nam. s of all the members
<" high \\ a> department that you
contact on (he sid. of th. both- ill
red ink so's this instrument of relief
tun lie placed in lb. /on or museum
tor inspection by future puhli. k of
ii>'. rs that t rv to miii i-v rt lung
" > on find the jaw I ,,, question
unsat istaetory. p|,-Se rite or loam me
i't oik and i w ill send \ on a better
one 's there anny way for von to
till bet her or not the former owner
ami .,.o\vi r ot the jaw hone now in
pes.-, ssion ever run tor congress
r ' ggislature, or anything?
" 1 M>l'cti to a good man
'be place of or ti of the
present member* <d ,|,? highwai de
P.-trtm.-ni. kindly le, know; ,
niought he willing to lake over the
entire works if th. i, Johs is open ,
...v.- IH..I a riK.it Mi,ar, .
a,?! , r, oontlOm,
, ran ,akr ran- ?r ,h,s o,v
Mining, if anny.
yores trulie.
mike Clark rf-1.
iorry spoiuleiit.
the pied piker
I have never worked in a newspaper
office. I don't know anything
about the technique of getting'up or
petting out a newspaper, but I learned
something about a newspaper office
today that I never knew before.
1 he first thing I discovered was
newspaper offices are full of literature.
Here's how I got my first Insight
to the making of a newspaper: 1
write 6 articles each week under the
title of "Nobodys Business." My copy
?- - ? _
\n sent to the newspaper office every
Friday to be set up. A proof is sent
to me the following Thursday to be
read and corrected.
I sent last week's copy in due time.
It was set up. A proof was sent to
uie as usual, and 1 corrected it and
returned it-as usual. I called for the
U set-up and printed articles Friday,
as usual, as that is the day 1 mail
my "copy" out to the various papers
which so kindly features my stuff.
Imagine my surprise when one of
t ho devils that's what they called
him) told urn that my type had been
pied. 1 said "Keen whatted?" He
meekly said "pied." He explained
that he or siuut\ other rube in the
place ha<f turned out a table upon
which reposed in\ t\ pe, ready to he
used when needed, and NOIIODYS
lit SIN'KSS was nobody's business
for once, at l< ast.
About 1" other devils and m>self
hunted high and low for the prooliv.nl
copy, hut it ?mild not he found
Sotnehod> had evidently pancaked it.
Then we began a search in rubbish
i>\.r waist deep for my original copy,
and rooted thru piles of stuft 1 "> yards
long, and got ink and lamp-black all
o\?r us for our pains'. The same fellow
had possibly stewed my original
copy.
Well, folks there 1 was without a
single word tot'- next week's releases
which meant that I had to go oft
and write ?; columns of my usual junk
and get it off in one day. or else permit
my re.oh rs to cnjo> going thru
'? newspapers on.- a day i without
having to stumble over my so-cnlled
feature. This is the lirst one of those
articles that 1 must' write hurriedly,
painfull), and tin willingly, so?please
forgive mo if they are as sorry as
all of the others that 1 have imposed
upon you in the past
Your friend.
Gee McGee.
P S 1 have offered a reward of
one quart of tine imported corn or
rye whiskey to any member of the
newspaper force (56 in all) If they
will locate my copy so's I wouldn't
have to write new ones In their stead.
When I left them, all 56 of the employees,
including the 2 editors, were
down on their al fours crawTlng
around under linotype machines and
presses looking for those precious articles
of mine.
Gee.
Advises Farmers
Raise More Hogs
Those who art) in position to Jt^ow
say timt prices for meats will for
Home months he Just as high as the
ubiliiy of consumers to i>ay, says V.
W. Lewis, general live stock agent of
tin- Atlantic Coast Line railway.
For cxumplef note comments by the
I'itit?<1 States Department of Agrlcult
n re:
' In moHt of the important producing
countries there are fewer hogs
than at this time a year ago, and decreased
slaughter supplies art? in
prospect during the remainder of 1936.
"Most prices have advanced sharp*
)y In recent inonths, largely because
of greatly reduced supplies uvailable
lor consumption. The umount of meat
from federally Inspected slaughter
was 27 per cent smuller in the first
tour months of this year than In the
same months in 1934."
Furthermore, the United States Department
of Agriculture shows approximately
35 per cent reduction in
number of hogs In the United States
January 1 ,1935 compared to January
1. 1934. v
During tiie past few weeKs we have
Hud Inquiries for pigs from muuy
smtes outside the south. We need
to retain in the southeast every available
pig to at the coming food crops.
During the past few months corn in
Die south has sold much cheaper than
in Chicago because we are short on
hogs to consume surplus corn.
Since it is ordinarily detrimental
to Die farmers' best Interests to sell
corn as grain rather than through
good live stock, it is to be hoped that
farmers of the southeast will uvuil
themselves of the opportunity afforded
in an increased pig crop in the
near future.
...... 4
Midway Honor Floii For Ninth Month
tirade 1 -Margaret Elliott. Dertha
Hayes, Hetty Jane McCuskill, Julia
Rider. Sarah June Kozler, Donald Holland.
Calm! West, Jr.
tirade 2 ?Hetty West.
Grade I?Azulle Ingram, Colcne
Hall.
Grade 5- Troy West.
tirade 0 -Pauline Catoe, Luninll Elliott,
Carl Holland, Myrtle Horton,
Lewis Lee West.
tirade 7?Ferris Joyrter, Ida Lee
Threatt, Margaret West, Margaret
Yarborough.
tirade 9-?Sadie Corbitt. Emily Mc-j
('oy.
tirade 10 ? Ethelyne Corbctt, Ruth j
Walters.
tirade 11?-Willie C. Anderson. Ora-'
lie Hrannon, Margaret Holland. Martha
Moseley. Floree Kozler, Theltna
j Stokes. Hlanche Threatt. Uuby Guy
West, ltoy Parker
.
Senator Pitman of Nevada, Democrat.
has introduced a bill by the
terms of which World war veterans
would be paid SO per cent of their
bonus certificates in cash. He expressed
the hope that the president
might be induced to sign a bill that
is more liberal than the Harrison
compromise measure.
Tall Stories Arise
With Dust Storms
Greenville, May 27.?The recent
disastrous dust storms in ttiu west
and middle west may have led to dire
predictions that America will be another
barren China soon, but they also
produced enouKh tall tales to last
until that lamentable event, according
to M I). Harrison, Greenville traveler,
who lately returned from Wyoming
Among the more credible ones, all
gleaned from Mr. Harrison's anecdotes
and from his Wyoming newspaper
clippings, are the following us
reported by the Greenville Piedmont:
A check by surveyors after one of
the storms disclosed that the Wyoming
state line hud blown a mile and
three quarters east.1
A traveler reported seeing a prdlrie
dog 100 feet in the air, burrowing.
Jack rabbits, their noses irritated
by dust, twitched themselves to
death.
An old bachelor near Cheyenne
harnessed the sand blast which rip- (
ped through his kitchen keyhole, holding
his pots and pans in it until they '
were splc and span.
"Over at LaGrange during the last
dust storm a motorist saw a ten-nallon
hat utop .a pile of drifted sund.
Stopping to pick it up, he was surprised
to find u man's head underneath.
"Can I lend you some assistance
inquired the motorist, deeply concerned.
"No," replied the man, "I'll make
it to town. I'm on a horse!"
An old-timer in one western town
I unsmiiingiy said "Let 'er blow?It
takes grit to live out here."
! A man and his wife, returning to
Omaha from the west, drove 200 miles
in-- a circle in one storm, refueling
three times at one service station
Wild ducks flew buckwards to k-*ep
the sand out of their eyes.
A suddle horse, left tied to a tree
overnight, was found hungeds 'I he
wind had blown away the sund on
which he was standing.
Hut it's an ill wind that blows mrbody
good. A printer in one town
digging deep for his type crises, is
reported to have struck gold.
An old settlor, chasing his hat |
through a storm, finally found It ?
with a poor pair of overalls, some
ladles" lingerie, two CCC caps and j
seventeen felt hats.
As for the best?
A sixty-mile gale had blown so long I
in husk. Wyoming, that when a lull
came the other day everybody fell
clown.
An aviator said he struck a sand
bank at 1 ,">00 feet, breaking his prop?*llor,
necessitating a parachute jump.
He was six hours getting to
the ground as he had to shovel a
path most of the way down.
Bruno Stolid As Last
Court Fight Nears
Trenton, N. J,, May 31.?Neuring
th?? day of tiin last-ditch light from
conviction for the murder of the
Lindbergh baby 41 Bruno Richard
llauptmun 1h the "calmest persot) in
tije state prison," according to a prison
attache.
iiaiipttnann demonstrated iiis re*
ntarkable coinposure earlier this week
when visited l?y Mrs. Kmma Oloecknor,
of Los Angeles, a sister, whom
he bud not seen in several years. Airs.
Gloeckucr wept hysterically at the
sight of her brother, iiauptmann,
dry-eyed, and unruffled, blandly consoled
her.
Iiauptmann has proved u complete
puzzle to prison authorities. Drawn
more within himself than ever, he
seems serenely resigned to whatever
fate has in store for him. Officials
gave up hope of getting a confession
from him long ago, and are convinced
that if and when lie goes to the chair
lie will take with him the inside story
of the crime.
Strangely, Iiauptmann, whose philosophy
previously had no place for
religion and recognized only "will
power" and "strength" has beeome
profoundly xeligious since lie entered
the death house lust February Hi
He eagerly welcomes the weekly
visits of the Rev. D. (J. Werner, a
Bronx <N. Y.) clergyman, and reads
all the religious works he can obtain.
While Hauptmann's every statement
011 his chances of winning his
appeal June 20 is optimistic those in
close touch with him believe that deep
in his heart he Is not fooling himself
uiuj in reality is prepared to die.
Five leading manufacturers of clothing
at New Orleans, employing 5,000
workers, will draft a voluntary code
for their future conduct as to hours
and wages paid workers.
Deaths From Flood
Reach High Mark
Death estimates in three midwestern
states und lu Mexico mounted to
the GOO mark today as rampaging
floods continued their widespread destruction.
More thun 3oU persons were officially
estimated to have loat their Uvea
when a wall of water awept down on
the fertile valley of Mexico. Only
seven of the throng of worshippers in
San Pedro church escaped.
Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas still
were lashed by raging streams. An
estimate baaed on reports from relief
workera placed the number of
dead in Nebraska at 140. An unofficial
list compiled by the Associated
Press included 94 persons.
Kansas had eight deaths and Missouri,
three.
Property damage in the three states
was estimated at $17,000,000 with the
greatest loss in Nebraska.
Windham Kills Himself
Lynchburg, May 30.?Colie Windham,
23, shot himself Tuesday afternoon
about 2 o'clock and. died about
4:30 o'clock. Funeral services were
hold at the grave at Wells cemetery
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock,
conducted by Rev. Mr. Ingram of the
Methodist church. Besides his mother
he leaves several brothers and sisters.
Out of seventeen candid&tes for admission
to the South Carolina bar,
this month, only two passed the examination,
J. Rivers McCall, teacher in
the Florence schools and a third year
law student at the University of
Georgia.
Captures Large Sturgeon 1
"Marlon, May 23.?l4tst week J |l
Williams and Irving Kiehardaon w|
Marlon, made a new record in fjJj
water Ashing when they landed | ml
pound sturgeon at Dunham's niufl
the lower Big Pee Dee river. The Hal
measured eight feet, Aye inches gl
length und 46 inches In clrcmajjl
ence. They used a shad seine fgj
a 11-foot boat. The sturgeon rul
weighed more than 50 pounds. I
citation"
The State of South Carolina, I
County of Kershaw. ?
By N. C. Aruett, Probate Judge;
Whereas, Augustus Carlos ???J
suit to me to grant him I/Ctteri <S|
Administration of the Estate and gfl
fects of Lola Carlos.
These are, thereforo, to cite
admonish all and singular the Klud-fl
red and Creditors of the said Lngfl
Carlos deceased, that they be andt^l
pear before roe, in tin; Court of Pr^B
bate, to be held at Camden, 8otthl
Carolina, on Monday, May 27th nut,-!
after publication hereof, at li o'clock I
in the forenoon, to show cause, ill
any they have, why the said Adnli-fl
lstratlon should not be granted. I
-Given under my hand this. iMr-fl
teenth day of May Anno Domini IDllI
N. C. ARNBTT, I
Judge of Probata?
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