The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 24, 1936, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
Newspapers Better
Than Radio in News
New York, Jail, 2.? I'rtfnacy of the
newspaper proas uh the "only real uml
trustworthy medium for dissemination
of news ami the inouldlnK of lnthllo
opinion" wits upheld today by Winston
Churchill, noted Fugllsh statesman.
After a thorough analysts of the
aubJuUi-AUu.-X'huabllJ k.^iiyiti^
"there can be no really serious ('habl
lunge to the press from either radio
or moving pit lures," ami, looking further
ahead, from promised television
' "I believe that huth Kngland and
America can he proud of their press,"
he says, writing in Collier's. "I believe
they cun trust their press.
"In other countries whose peoples
are less Intelligent or where education
Is less careful of the Individual
mind, the future of publicity may lie
with radio and moving pictures. Under
dictatorships the press Is bound
to languish, and the loud-speaker and
film to become ever more important,
ihil where free institutions are indigeoiiH
to the soil, and men-have the
habit of liberty, the press will continue
to be th* fourth estate, the vigl
lant guardian of (h<- rights of the
ordinary citizen."
Mr. Churchill sees no "menace in
, advertisement" nor does he believe
I here could ever be any mucci-shIuI
corner ur news and opinion in the
Culled Slates or Flighted.
It w<>111<I In- aili-etation in ignore
two burning ijin-stloiis," tie- Colliet s
n i m i 11 <-i i n 11 n ie v I 111 line'' it I r.i I ion
hi iio\v>pup<-r ow 11?-r.-1111 in relatively
t.-vv baiels and the power ot ;elv> rtis
i i>, to db tale polit y ai'i- both held to
trespass n poll tie* lioeilom ol (hi:
pl'ess.
"Frankly, I think that hot.li these
features aie i saggerah d There is
salety in liillllhers. A pit ss combine
must, as a matter ot business, d? h*gate
<i large measure of responsibility
for policy to its ciiitoVs and a gnat
editor stamps his own-personality up
on the- paper which he controls; and
no newspaper can afford to suppress
Important news which Us rivals will
print.
"There Is certainly no menace in
advertisements. It was the development
of commercial advertising that
lira! enabled the press to stand on
its own feet, without relying on subsidies
front governments or politicians
and revenue from ibis source Is still
the bulwark of its independenee today.
"Advertisers are business men
they pay to havo their unnouneements
placed before the largest possible public,
and they ought to know that permanent
circulations can only be secured
by honest news and hottest opinion
''
In a more specific consideration of
the subject of news as offered to the
public by means of radio as compared
to newspapers, Mr. Churchill declares;
"People who listen to radios do not
as a rule, concentrate on it. They
switch on the se.t and carry on with
whatever they are doing. Ideals can (
not be apprehended so casually. Hut
we sit down to read newspapers. We
concentrate upon it. So the ideas .
which we find on the printed page
reach out to us. We think them over. (
They help us to form considered opinions.
which we may he glad to have
relnforeed upon the radio."
Mr. Churchill also discusses news
conditions In other countries than
Fnglund and the United States, pointing
out that if the press !s to live up
to its traditions it must be free.
"The fate of the press in (lertnany
i> an objri t lesson." he says "Journals
whose names were household
words, whieh lieu- read and quoted
all over Kurope. huv. teased puldien
t ion. I 'i e; i rile d .lint -Inn kh-d. doprive.i
mti* i" inletn . or the rmlil
to, e\|ite-.-? opinions, honestly held,
they Lav. di- d oin a., oiu Those
newspaper- which remain, the servile
mouthpiect s ef tie. regime, pap-fed
by the ministry of propaganda, see
their circulations dwindle dally.
"Dictatorship lias allowed a wider
measure of freedom to (he Italian
newspapers, but there, too. prestige
of the press has suffered from the
knowledge thnt it enjoys only a shadowy
indepe.mlenee and that no editor
dares to offend the I)uoe.
"I helieve that only in Russia has
the circulation of newspapers increased
under a dictatorship. But that Increase
is due almost entirely to the
tact that a much larger proportion of
the population than formerly is now
able to read. And Russia, it may bo
remembered, never possessed a free
press.
As a general principle we may say
that dictatorship and the liberty of
the press are incompatible.
"A free press Is the unsleeping,
guardian of every other right that
free men prize; it is the most dangerous
foe to tyranny," Mr. Churchill
writes. "No wonder Iheg that the
great democracies have always been
quick to resent any attempt to limit
Its Independence or to bring it under
regulation."
Labor troubles, processing taxes and
the 40-hour week are assigned aa a
reason for a met loss of fl.lSMtt m
1936, by the Naunkeag steam cotton
company of Massachusetts.
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BIRTH AND BURIAL PLACEb
Of Our Presidents May Be Of Interest
To Headers Of History,
George Washington wax horn at
Wakelh-ld (Westmoreland couniyL
Va. lli< Hum hurlod in the funiily burInl
vault at Mount Vernon.
John AdaniH was born in Quiticy, I
Mass., and It la horn, in tho granite
temple of the First Cniturlan church,
that ho IJe? buried. '
Thomas Jofforson was boin ul Bhud
well t Albemarle couulyh Va,. uuti wub
buried at Monticello (Albeinurle eoun!
ty t, Va.
Juines Madison's birthplace whh Port
Conway (King George. county), Vu.,
and IiIh burial place, Mont poller (OrttiigH
county), Va.
James Monroe's birthplace, Westmot
eland county, Va.; burlul place,
Hollywood cemetery, Itichinond, Va.
John Qulncy Adams, born In Quincy,
Muss.; burled in the granite temple of
Firm I'nltarlun church, Quincy.
Andrew Jackson, born in Lancaster
county, South Carolina, buried on tho
Hermitage ostute near Nashville,
Ton n.
Martin Van Huron, horn in Kinderbrook
(Columbia county), N. Y., burled
in the Kindorbrook cemetery.
William Henry HarrJaon, born at
Horkeley (Charles City county), \ a.,
buried near his old home In North
Mend. <)
John I yler. horn at Greenway
(Cliarlex City county). Va., burled in
HoiHwood cemetery, Kb lunoiid, Va.
James Is Polk. born near Pjucviih
M? < kleniiiiiM county i. X buried
" 'ho stale- rapitol grounds, Nash
'.lb', 'I ?mi
/..i? In s > i a \ lor. I).ii'n in < ) range
< ount . \ iri'iiiia. buried m-a i t in- old
Taylor home t Springlield >. about, m-v
" miles east of Louisville, Ky.
Millard Fillmore, born in Sumiui rbill
i Cayuga c ounts ?. .V Y., buried
in Fon-st l.awn <-? nietery, Buffalo, N
Y.
I* in11kIi11 Fieric, born in .Millsborough.
X. II.; burled in Old North
cemetery. Concord, N. H.
lames Muchauun, born near Cove
Hap. Fa : burled in Woodward Kill
cemetery, LnncuKter, Fa.
Abraham Lincoln, born near llodg'
nville, Kv.; burled Oak Kidge cemetery.
Springfield, ill.
Andrew Johnson, born In Kaleigh,
N C.; burled in Greenville, Tenn.
Flyases S. Grant, burn in point
Fleasiiirt, () ; hurled in Kiverside
Falk. New York City
Kuthertord H. Hayes, born in Delaware.
(> ; buried at Fremont, ().
James A Garlic-Id, born in Orange
township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio;
hurled in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland,
O.
Chester A. Arthur, born in Franklin
county. Vermont; buried in the rural
cemetery. Albany, N. Y.
Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell,
N. burled at Princeton, X'. J.
Benjamin Harrison, born In North
Bend, O.; -buried in Crown Hill cemetery,
Indianapolis, Ind.
William McKlnley, born In Nlles,
(>.; buried in Canton, Ohio.
Theodore Roosevelt, born in New
York City; burled at Oyster Bay, L.
I.
William H. Taft. born In Cincinnati.
0.; buried In the Arlington National
cemetery. Arlington, Va.
Wood row Wilson, born in Staunton.
Va.; buried mi tho NatlOhal Cathedral,
WashlngtonAD. C,
Warren GAHardin, born in Morrow
county, Ohio;\ burled In Marlon, Ohio.
f alvin Cool edge, born In Plymouth.
Vt.: buried at Plymouth.
Herbert ( lark Hoover was born in
West Branch, la . and President
Koosevelt at Kruin Elbow, Hyde
I'ark. N Y
TODAY
^ FI' ll>e setting sun. vour liop?-s
<<t > st tela> died out. All right. That
was >esterday Things didn't materiali'/.i
the way you dreamed they
would. All right again. Now?the
present hour is Today. Yesterday
bears no relation to it, except perhaps,
the relation that a nightmare bears
to the morning after. Forget all about
yesterday ... it is dead and buried
in tHo cemetery or Time.
Today is alive. Are you? Well
then, got busy! Fling from your
shoulders the depressing weight of
those hopes that haven't come true.
Stand erect. Man, the world is yours!
You have Just ns much claim on its
good- tilings?on the things you've
longed for nnd prayed for and worked
for?as the other fellow has.
1 ills hour has been handed to you
as a gift from the overflowing storehouse
of Eternity. What are you doing
with it? Answer that. Moping?
Growling? Despairing? For shame!
God jias favored you with another
chance to make good. . He has given
you Today. Prove your appreciation
by making n stepping stone to happter,
worthier tomorrow!?Cleveland
Star.
Charles W. Anderson, Jr., a negro,
of Louisville, Ky., Is to be seated In
the Kentucky legislature after a contest
decided In his favor. He will be
the first negro to hold a sest- in the
Kentucky legislature.
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Everybody Loses
When Woods Burn
K. W Helger, who is the Houth Curollim
Htate Forest Service's District
Forester with headquarters In Camde.ii,
has recently made u tour of his
district, which includes Kershaw,
Richland, Chester, Chesterfield, Fan
custer, York, Bumter, Leo and FairHeld
counties,
TLui forester aluK'b th?t In traveling
over these counties Jie was forcibly
in pressed hy the marked contrast between
woodland areas which have
been protected front forest Area und
those which have been allowed to burn
over periodically. The two types of
areas, present generally two very different
pictures. Ah a rule on areas
over which fire has repeatedly burned
there is a noticeable absence of
young tree growth and seedlings,
which constitute the landowner's surest
guarantee of u future timber crop.
On areas where ft res occur annually
the seeds, especially pine, seeds, are
usually destroyed by lire, thus making
the establishment of a young tirn
her crop Impossible. Other areas, on
which tree growth and other vegetation
has been destroyed by fire, are
now subject to water erosion and tons
of valuable spll are each year being
washed from these exposed ureus to
eventually tlnd their way, into our
creeks and larger streams where they
have a tenduncy to kill our (ish and
in sonic instances' result in the
si reams hm oming subject to overflow
tin ring period* of excessi vo .rainfall.
Another damage . incurred by lire
i>u lands from which it is not excluded
is that of reducing the productivity
of the soil by destroying the organic
manor which is supplied by litter
from ilie trees. Tibs litter, if not destroyed
by lire and allowed to accumulate,
also acts as a sponge und has
a favorable influence on the soil with
reference to its moisture content. It
also regulates stream flow in that it
retards the speed with which rain
water finds its way to the stream.
Trees on a few tracts, including
some that had been burned and some
that bud been protected from fire,
were examined from a standpoint of
growth rate, and it was brought out in
every instance that fire had materially
reduced the rate of growth. Many of
the trees on areas subjected repeatedly
to fire had diseases contracted
as a result of fire injuries. A fewtracts
were observed on which timber
of saw-log size had been destroyed,
and enumerable instances of sawtimber
having been materially reduced
In value were perceived.
On many of the protected tracts a
young timber crop was well established
under the older trees. In woods
or this type there was a deep covering
of forest litter which was constantly
disintegrating and decomposing
to add to the productivity of the
soil.
On areas, over which fire had swept
uncontrolled for a number of {iraes,
any value which might have been
termed aesthetic was not in evidence,
and the sight presented by woods of
this type was far from inspirational.
Fires resulting in conditions similar
to those described herein are certainly
resulting in a financial loss on the
part of someone, and a close study of
the woods' worst enemy substaniated
the statement that everyone loses
when the woods burn.
Gimme, Too, Says
Bennettsville Man
lh-nuettsville, Jan. 10.?When a
resident' <>f Mennettsville read in a
newspaper that the town had distributed
Christmas gifts totaling $
in the form of cancelled water, light
ami power bills, for December, he
caim to Mayor Troop L. (Toslaml for
his gift.
Asked if lie hadn't received hi- l)e
i-ember bill marked paid the man replied
he had neither light nor water
in his house. Since he did not lie
figured he should h^ve received instead
$2.4S, the average of the water
and light hiU^X
The mayor advised him to put in
water and lights"~and hang up his
stocking for Santa Claus next year.
17-YEAR LOCUST HORDES
TO COME OUT THIS SPRING
Urbnna. 111.. Jan. 14.?Kmerglng
from a 17-year retirement for a hare
three works of life, mllltons of
cicadne. which usually are referred to
I as locusts, will make their appearance
I In seventeen states oast of the Mississippi
this year.
Cicadae will bo abundant during
May and early June in southern Michigan.
Indiana. Ohio. Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina. Virginia.
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Dela
ware and parts of New York, particularly
lx>ng-Island.
The 17-year clcadae, socalled because
of the time lapse between appearance
of adults, are not harmful
to cultivated crops. Instead all of
the damage la done by depositing
eggs in the twigs of shade, fruit, or
forest trees, or In ornamental shrubbery.
nil.I .y M?
Soybean Seed Fraud
Headed South Again
Clumaoi), Jai^lfi.?With reports uiready
coining in that large amounts
of Ebony soybean seed are bejng
trucked Into the south from Illinois
und being wold uh the Otootan variety,
K. W. ilamilton, extension agronomist,
cautions all buyers of soybean
Heed for planting purposes to determine
carefully the source of the seed
which they are buying.
"Those who were growing soybeaus
in 11*144 will recall the famous South
Carolina soybean Heed fraud thut was
perpetrated upon Otootan soybean
Heed purchasers in that year," says
Mr. Hamilton, "The Ebony seed,
which was the seed used in 1924 to
imitate or substitute for the true Otootun
seed, is again the seed being
ubed tills year. These unscrupulous
Hellers use Ebony Beed for this purpone
because the seed of the Ebony
and Otootan vurietieH present the peculiar
botanical fuct of appearing
identical.
"The characteristics of the plants
ami the growth of the plants, however,
are entirely dissimilar, the Ebony
not being adapted to the conditions
of growth and purposes for
which South Carolina farmers plant,
the Otootan."
Mr. Hamilton points out also that
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
reports that in some southern states
a yellow bean of the Macoupin' variety
is being sold as the Mammoth Yellow,
and tins Norredo variety is being
so hi as the Laredo variety. Such
sales, (it" course, are fraudulent subsi
it ut ions.
"Anyone purchasing Otootan, Munimoth
Yellow, or Laredo seed should
make such purchases only after having
satislied himself that the seed being
purchased were .grown by a reliable
grower who is known to be producing
seed of the variety desired,"
Mr. Hamilton concludes.
Sees Roosevelt Re-elected.
Columbia, Jan. 20.?"That Roosevelt
will be re-elected president was
the majority opinion of students attending
the annual convention of Student
Federations of America in Kansas
City recently," declares Thomas
F. Mauldin, president of the University
of South Carolina student body,
who attended the conference as the
University's representative.
Girls who work in the Iowa liquor
commission's office at Des Moines,
are forbidden to have dates with
liquor salesmen or newspaper reporters.
The reason, as a commissioner
explained: "So there'll be no leaks
as to official business." ***.
'Poultry Movgjnent
i From State Heavy
l Columbia, Jan. 18.?Approximately
ttuo.OOO pounds of poultry lias moved
from South Carolina to eastern markets
during the past six weeks, states
George 10. Prince'of the C'lemson Cob
lege Kxtension Service, Division of
Markets. This poultry was ?!d
through cooperative ear-lot and D-ia.i;
schedules arranged by Mr. Prince's offlee
and county agricultural agents.
I Some 6,.">00 growers in 24 counties participated
in these sales and received
around $48,000. This amount of poultry
would hll 20 cars.
"Prices of poultry in the eastern
| markets which have been relatively
low during the past three years ad1
vanced considerably during the fall
months," says Mr. Prince. "Dealers
I are now offering higher prices than
, those being paid locally. This has
j resulted in heavy loadings on all schedules
operated recently unddr the Di'
vision of Markets."
! Additional schedules are being ar|
ranged weekly and Mr. Prince anticiI
pates that at least as much more poulI
try will be moved from South Carolina
during the next two months. Reports
to his office indicate that more
1 growers than ever before are taking
advantage of these schedules to con'
vert a part of their farm flocks into
cash.
Pop Corn Crop Much
Larger This Year
Pop corn is not ho much of a luxury
thin year as last. The
farm price in December 1934
averaged within 2 cent* of $0 per
hundred pounds. In the early monthsof
1930 some eastern dealers asked
12 to 13 cents a pound for certain varleties.
The December price to farm-"
ers for the 1935 crop was $2.15 per
hundred pounds.
In 1934?the drought year?the crop
in the three pricipal producing States
of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska totaled
a little over 5,000,000 pounds. The 1935
crop Is estimated at well over 34,-000,000
pounds by the Crop Reporting
Board.
Records show that a surplus of pop
corn Is more coinmqn that a shortage.
Because a court ruling was against
him, John W. Keogah, member of an
uristocratic Chicago family, went wild
and shot an attorney to death and
sent the judge scampering to safety,
missing the judge, by inches when he
fired at him three times.
Senator NorriB, Republican of Nebraska,
bluntly told farm leaders in
Washington that no law regulating
agricultural production would be held
constitutibnal in the light of the supreme
court's AA'^ decision. " '
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