The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 24, 1936, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
INFORMATION ON
SWEET POTATO GROWING
Clemeon, July 18.?That the aweet
ut0 (h an important crop In South
oirolina la Indicated by tta rank aa
fifth among the atate'a crops, accordjut;
to K H Hawl, extension horticulturist,
who points out that the state's
average of 61,800 acres In sweet potatoes
produces an annual average of
4 4Cf),"00 bushels with an average vat
w 0l *Ub2.1QQi
The state's sweet potato crop, how*
ever, is now valuable chiefly as local
market crop and as a feed aud food
crop tor the farms," says Mr. Rawl.
'from the long-time viewpoint, there
eeein? to be an opportunity for an
' iroportunt commercial sweet potato Industry
in South Carolina. The tenyear
average yield of 86.6 bushels per
acre compares favbrably with 90.16
bushels for the United States, The
ten-year average farm price in South
Carolina has been 73.2 cents per bushel,
the range being from 40 cents to
one dollar."
To help promote a commercial sweet
potato industry Mr. Rawl has prepared
Extension Circular 162, Sweet Potato
Production, which dlacusBes good
seed stock, growing the plants and
~ vines, soils and fertilizers, and cultural
practices. The publication, now
ready for free distribution may be
bad from county agents or from the
Publications Department at Clemson
College. ?
DO CATS HAVE FUN?
The Winston-Salem Journal finds
the witless witlclsm: "People hare
more fun than anybody" Intriguing,
and Alls space wlth'^jvery clever arrangement
of argument to refute the
wag who authored It, but like the
music that goes 'round and 'round, admitted
at the end that "after all, probably
people do have more fun than
anyboddy."
But in canvassing the members of
the animal kingdom as a factor in his
build-up, the editor makes this one
mistake: But one animal we feel sure
has never had any fun In any of its
nine lives, and that is the house cat.
You can just be sure that she is not
having any fun, not even when she
purrs, for behind that purr Is some
sinister deception, some deep guile.
She wants to make you feel pleased
with yourself, so that you will con
tinue to treat her kindly."
It's fallacious to say that a cat never
has any fun! Fun is always pleasing,
and what could be more pleasing
than to be free to roam around at
, night with no one to check up on
you? Every motorist sees them traipiing
along the highway at night, and
knows that they are not out looking
for trouble?it can be nothing more
than the fun of the thing.
And then there's that argument on
the back fence at night Indeed, it
must tickle the cat's funny bone to .be
. able to disturb the slumber 6f humans,
in perfect security against old
shoes and the human curses that accompany
them. Take it back, brother.
A cat has fun and plenty of It.?
Statesville Landmark.
INVENTIONS AND JOBS ' I
InvemU'""'" *** 0B# of w??Uat
bbl ?. eV?r couc,!lvl'<1 by man wa,
ftooty? bP-ratloo the Meraanthaler
If th?8>> who Inaht that machines
rob mo? of joba are correot. then doa?,'?.,!row,h
,h?re
nrln.l .i , a workl,'K 'or the
1?5, l,Kl?"l'y. But What are the
a iT8.'"Wn ln compiled by
jaua? sta,?? Bureau o( the CmL'"1^
?.ur Population wae ,round
I ' . ' ln 1929, It was not quite
Iwkli? (hat 121,000,000. In 1888.
which waa before the linotype really
made Itaelf felt, there were 50,000 persons
employed In the printing Indua?,? kl
"bP-'b. therefore. woM
Indicate that slightly leaa than 10?,.
000 persons ihould have been employI
^ y the printing industry in 1929
But if we accept the claims of the anti-machine
advocates, then there
should have been only 20,000 employ,
ed in the printing industry in 1929.
Actually, while population was
growing only loo per cent, employwent
in the printing industry was ris<ng,o1?rly
600 per cen*?from 50,000
in 1889 to 281,000 in 1929.
i J^he8e figures, of course, do not
take into account the thousands at j
new jobs created by the increased de-l
raand for paper, ink, printing, machinery,
and similar supplies. Nor do they
allow anything tor the great educational
advantages ofTered by less expensive
books.
W we listened to the anti-machine
agitators, we would go back to the
days, before the linotype was invented.
Should we??Industrial Press
Service.
| For Men Only
'Alice, I'm going to give a lot of
these old clothes to the'Charity organization,"
Brown announced to his
wife. "Here are socks and shirts that
ought to do some fellow a lot of
gopd." /
Alice came over to look into the
matter.
' "I guess it will be all right," she
agreed. "But, my! I can't send that
stuff out like that. Why, there are
a lot of buttons off the shirts, and
the socks need darning."
In a few days Alice had the garments
fixed up and announced to hubhy
he could send the package off to
the charity organisation now..
,'But Alice," he protested when he
looked at the stuff, "you have it in
such good shape that I am going to
wear them a while longer myself."
As Alice went out of the room,
hubby smiled contentedly.
"It worked! It worked! - he observed
under his breath.?-New Outlook.
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in Chicago j^ince July 6th, when
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by the National Orographic Boclety,
Washington, D. a?WNU Service.
ENGLAND'S sunny Isle of Wight
Is a sort of cork In the harbor
of Southampton. The Incoming
tide splits on the Island.
It plies up the Solent funnel on one
side; then, s few hours later, tt follows
through Splthead on the other
side. That Is why the world's biggest
liners can dock st Southampton.
On the landward coast M the Island
Is Cowes, famous city of regattas.'
Along its narrow streets quaint, ancient
houses alternate with stores that
display anchors and steering wheels,
nautical caps and field glasses marine
photographs and all the burnished
brass appurtenances of yachting. Every
few doors tearooms offer tempting
scones and crumpets; and there are
miniature branches of famous shops
of Regent street and Piccadilly.
Along the water front spreads the
spacious Esplanade, with the Royal
Squadron headquarters projecting upon
it This Is the yachting capital
of the world. The sun glistens upon
tha plate glass of the protruding gallery,
grandstand for royalty and high
paval officers,, who largely constitute
the membership of the "most exclusive
club In the world."
There they watch the races of Regatta
week, when the Solent waters
are flecked by fleecy clouds of canvas,
dotted by rainbow bunting and pennants,
and, when night comes, aglltter
with myriad bobbing lights. Members
of this clnb, and none other, may fly
the white pennant of St George on
their yachts; only members and officers
of the Royal navy are privileged
to land at its neat jetty. One worldfamous
yachtsman, who spent millions
upon his hobby, was not admitted to
membership until* shortly before bis
death.
By night or day all the big ships
that pot In at Southampton must pass
the deeper channel within half a mile
of Oowes. The parapet of the Espla- 1
nade seems built as an elbow support j
to keep sea-gaxers from tumbling into 1
the water. All the houses on the gallerylike
hillside of the town have enormous
plate-glass windows turned toward
the sea. As a place to watch the
world go by in ships, Cowes la an unsurpassed
marine grandstand.
Bast Cowes la Industrious.
Across the leisurely Medina river,
East Oowes takes on the industries
which Oowes proper, and consciously
prim, seems to spurn. There Is a shipbuilding
yard which supplies lifeboats
for steamers and for beach guards, and
there in an aircraft factory #b!ch
builds amphibian planes.
Every store on fne precarious hillside
streets Is a reminder of the Island's
Intense preoccupation with the
sea, offering paraphernalia ranging
from oyster tonga * to hawsers, and
there are many shops that make shiny
marine engineering parts.
It was among the marshlands of
East Oowes that Queen Victoria as a
girl collected seaweed, and formed an
attachment for the island that led to
her purchase of Osborne House, w&lch
became her favorite place of residence.
It is there s today, very mucb as she
left It, a gift of King Edward VH to
the nation In her memory. The terrace
commands the marine view
which the good queen loved, vistaa of
bine ocean through groves of exotic
trees?corks. Hexes, deodars, as well
as pines and cedars. i $ .
To reach any part of the Isle of
Wight entails no longer journey than
^lng a taxi across Greater London;
ll la not quite 23 miles long and nowhere
wider than 13 miles. Driving
due south from Cowes, across its axis,
gives a quick picture of Its peculiar
geography. At first the countryside Is
wooded, and the clearings are fields
k and meadows where cabbages, carrots,
sad broccoli grow, or sheep and cattle
grass. T ~
Forests and Truck Farms,
From the thick forests of the aorth
era island came the timbers of many
an old mansion and cottage of southr
ern England, and today their diningroom
tables are provided with vegetables
by the Wight's truck gardens
and rich milk from Its herds of Guernseys.
Anyone who has eaten in English
inns or on English trains most
wonder about the tource of all the
cabbage served with potatoes at nearly
every meat Wight can account for
many tons of 'it.
Soon the trees' and fkrml give way
slenai low; ' tees* ?5he
downs, with as many sectional adhts
as a London strict are formed by
chy uplanda Wtta strata sMght
, 7 .? tt?e? -I"
thrusting fraotured fragmenta Into the
I aea at the Needles on the west and
Culver Cliff on the east. The pedesI
trlan who yields to the spell of their
I lonely paths gets an Impression of a
height much greater than the altitude
warrants. One can climb across them
In an hour's walk at their widest part
The southern half of Wight is a
"bowl," sagging between the downs
and the seaside cliffs that look ao
i bleak to ship passengers as they round
the island .for Southampton. Barren
i-they are, these corrugated cliffs, but
; the Islanders call them their son trap
because they cut off the fogs and temper
the ocean winds. The trees are
not so many, but the soil Is fertile, the
climate is milder, and the crop yield
greater in this sheltered saucer.
Iv Most of Wight's attraction for visitors
and Its wealth of historic associations?ranging
from the Boman occupation,
through Jutish immigration,
Danish assault, French attacks, and
pirate raids?cling to Its coast Eastward
from sedate Cowes is the up-andcoming
resort town of Ryde, with its
lamp posts that wear garlands of
dowers, its tiny tramcars, and Its spick
promenade where, on cloudless days,
women knit as they garner sun tan.
Its long, spidery pier is landing place
for thousands of "trippers" from Portsmouth
every summer week-end, and its
domed pavilion offers concerts and
"snack" counters for their entertainment
Second only to Cowes week is the
regatta of Ryde's Royal Victoria Yacht
club. And a pretty touch Is a children's
regatta, held at their large boating
lake, where young mariners sail elaborate
toy craft and ride about id paddle-wheel
boats propelled by handle*
Bra ding an Old Town.
An hour's easy walk south of Ryd*
is "Ye Kynge's Towne of Bradlng,w
where beaches and bathing machine*
i piers and yachts seem very far away.
Yet along Bradtng's high and dry High
i street ships once sailed under the eaves
' of the timbered buildings, and one
might pick from a score of shipmasters
to take a cargo into the most distant
port Brading recalls the days
when towns were set far up the Island's
meager rivers, or well back In
some arm of the sea, as a protection
against invssion or pirate, raids. Yet
the Inhabitant* expert in their knowledge
of tides and treacherous channels,
could put out . to salt water to
fish or trad* Long ago silt blocked
Bradtng's harbor, and now dikes have
thrust the eee some two miles from
Its center.
Brading church, the oldest In the island,
is mentioned in Domesday Book.
In Its chapel is burled Sir John Oglnnder,
who was garnering his salty
Chronicles of Wight while the Pilgrims
were struggling to survive *t Plymouth,
and the early Maryland settlers were
putting forth from Cowes to St Mary'*
East of Brading, sheltered among
the cliffs, is the lovely seaside village
of Bembridge, which the/world seems
to have passed by. The towls.Jles
along the embankmenty"the only levtel
mile on the Island," w?lch has Bevered
Brading Harbor from dts name town/
and this sltuatioivgtvesAlt the aspect of
"Little Holland/ > Beauty
of the Cliff*
I | it! The camera, better thah words, can
portray the bold beauty of the Foreland,
the majestic curvature of White*
cliff bay, and the crumbRpg promontory
of Culver Cliff, where the downs
bare their chalky face to the sea. Very
often the encroaching tides have
carved under the steep cliffs until they
lean out, like the sagging old houses
In Brading and Shanklln. Walking too
near their edge Is precarious, for often
huge, blocks break off and tumble sev^
hundred feet into the ocean.
"Back of the Island," as the southeastern
corner is locally known, such
subsidence on a large scale has produced
the Under cliff, where ages ago
the sea and the frost, together with
numerous springs, toppled over the
cliff top for some sly mile* forming
a- benchlike secondary cliff.
The island springs have cut deep
fissures through tho cliffs; two of the
moet famous of these are Blackgang
Clilne and Shanklln Chine. Near the
entrance to the latter is a graceful
fountain with a shield bearing tha
English, rand American flags and 11 nee
written by Longfellow when he visited
"leafy Shanklln." Bot the dlffalde
town's principal literary association la
with ReaU, who, during many happy
months there, wrote "Lamia."
WW* 8hank!I? is VOartilbr, Wight's
miniature Atlantic City. Long rows ef
DtttUX* bathtrig machine* painted (a
meny colors tnd odd design* SM chfl?e*
Mar posies on the hart and.
five Its beach a sprightly asffWh
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AMAZON UKADIIUNTKUM CURE
AND SI HUNK HUMAN HEADS,?
The shrunken heads, known as the
II vitro heads, are prepared with spe
rial riles by native tribe* inhabiting '
tho A in axon Jungles, They generab
ly dre'ilie heads of eneiufea slain
In battle.
After having been severed from
the body the heads are placed in
hot sand, and the akin, flesh and
muscles peeled off, leaving the skllll
clean and naked but for the eyes "
and teeth. They are then filled with
sand and placed fn apeolally I,prepared
pots made of baked ekiy, to
which water Is added. The water
is allowed to heat and the heads
are removed Just before reaching
the boiling point. When they are
removed the heads have shrunken
to about one third their size. More
hot sund Is poured Into them and
they are Ironed with hot stones,
picked up with the aid of palm
leaves. This process Is continued
for about 48 hours until the outside
of the bead Is smooth and hard as
leather and has gradually shrunk
to the site of an orange. They are
hung in the smoke of a fire to preserve
them.
How Cellulose 1* Made,
Discovered by Two Women
Two women scientists working at the
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant
liesearch at Tonkers, N. Y., announce
the discovery of how plants make their
. cellulose. While studying cotton fibers
they detected the process, hitherto one
of the mysteries of science, In the cytoplasm
of the cofton cells. Cellulose Is
of vast Importance to the modern in*
dustrlal world, it Is'the chief constituent
of thousands of products. Paper
Is made of it and the cotton In clothes
Is 00 per cent cellulose. Wood and
plant life in general la the only source
of this material now. Therefore, should
tho recent discovery lead to the manufacture
of cellulose without the aid of
plants It would greatly change the
world's industrial system.
How British, U. S. Tax Compare
Reader's Digest quotes Robert Duncan
as saying: "The Briton pays $30.60
per capita income tax; our federal tax
on personal Incomes figures out $8.88
per capita (both 1034 figures). This Is
supposed to prove that we Just don't
know what heavy taxes are. But the
-discrepancy Is. not so great as appears
on the surface. When the Briton has
paid his taxes to the Crown, he has
paid more than three-fourths of all
the taxes he will pay to any one. When
the American has paid his federal
taxes, he has paid only one-third of all
his taxes. Considering everything, the '
total per capita annual tax bill for
1033-84 turned out to be $74.87 for the
American and fOo.ll for the Briton?
about one-third more." ^ .
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How Far Skins Are Cleaned
The National Bureau of Standards
says that one method of cleaning furs
Is to tumble the sklbi together with
fine hardwood sawdust for two to four
hours or longer. Occasionally a little
asbestos or aoapstone Is added to the
sawdust. For white or very light col.
ored skins gypsum or white sand Is
used, either alone or mixed with sawdust.
After cleaning the sawdust must
be removed from the fur either by
shaking or rotattnf in a cage built like
a drum.
Hew Phone "Hallo" Started
According to biographers of Thomas
A. Edison, F. P. Fish, president of th*
American Telephone & Telegraph com*
pany, gives the credit for the use of
"Hello" on the telephone to Thomas
A. Edison. When the telephone was
first used people were accustomed to
say "Are you there?" "Are you ready
to talk?" etc. One day Edison took.up
the receiver and said "Hello," The
word Immediately became popular.
Hew Large Pecaa Trees Grew
Jumbo, a pecan tree In San Saba,
near the Colorado river (Texas) Is
claimed to be the largest pecan In the
world. At two feet above ground Its
girth is 24 feet. It Is 120 feet high,
with a clear length of 41 feet to Its
first limb. The spread of the main
branches Is 100 feet. It is said of this
veteran that a thousand years ago it
was a hardy sapling.
* How Sugar Toys Aro Made
.. It Is necessary to have plaster of
parls molds to make sugar toys. The
sirup Is made of four pounds of sugar,
two ounces of corn simp, one pint of
water. It should boil c to 240-242 degrees
; stirred until cloudy and poured
into the molds, which have soaked In
' cold water for two or three hours, then
drained.
How" Surf Board Is Made >
A surf board should be 6 feet long,
90 inches wide and one inch thick. It
should b? made of a light wood such
as while. Pipe, white cedar, or spruce
A rope for steering should be placed
on the sides about 18 Inches from the
front. ' VT *
How Italics Originated
The style of type called Italics Is
Mid to have been an imitation of the
handwriting of Petrarch.
How Raw Purse |? Divided
Usually a $1,000 puree Is divided as
follows: First, $700; second, $160:
third, $100; fourth. $60.
How "Fiancee" la Pro*o*a*ad
Fiance and fiancee, the feminine
form, are pronounced exactly the ata*
?fee-ahn-say.
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Dice Seems Loaded
Against Wild Ducks
New York, July 22.?Drought relief
tor wild waterfowl, on a par with action
taken to alleviate distress of the
farmers and domestic livestock, was
urged hero today by John H. Ilaker,
executive director of the National Association
of Audubon Societies,
"By his various activities, man has
loaded the dice ^gainst waterfowl,"
Mr. Baker said, "He has destroyed breeding,
feeding and resting places.
To correct these conditions will re- '
Quire yoars. The only available means
Of quickly restoring the duck supply
is to stop killing them, giving them
a chance to Increase under natural
conditions. '
"The need of prompt action, thru
closing the season this fall on tho
hunting of wild waterfowl, is dramatized
by the drouth and by tho offlclal
news Just issued by the Bureau
of Biological Survey, that agency of
tho Federal Government charged with
the responsibility for the conservation
of our wildlife resources. The
BUivey states, 'Left behind at dried
potholes and small lakes are the bodes
of many young ducks. Some of
them died In their nest*=ruthflr^ perKr^TeUng
over,antl with the
, adult birds In search of food and wa|
er. Much of the natural cover for
ducks has been destroyed and under
severe drought conditions young
ducks commonly die In a few days
The drought region includes extensive
nesting areas of Pintails, Scaups
Spoonbills, Mallards, Teal, CanvanOne
f ^dhead8 RDd ?ther
doJL r* 8er,?UH aft*r*e"?*ts of tho
drought fon ducks In the Great Plalna
region wiii' probably be n
Tar* u* naturaI aquatic food.
I^arge numbers of these food plants
have already been dried up by the
seeds'*' ^thout bearing fruit or
. ''?ne u,d th,n* that duck hunters
would he among the first to demand
a halt in the kfll when the devastating
effect <* such a droulht at
ttrtT lUrrent ,n 80106 of prlnclpel
duck breeding states In this
dAni118 8Uper'mP?8?d on all other
depleting agencies which have
brought the total continental duck
supply to such a pitiful remnant. Vet
S in?W? CertR,n Wtsmen are
etrongly advocating staggering a 80ly,8er?nihrough
a 6<>*day pep|?<j ^
iee zone8 witbin
States, and some go so far as to urge
ltd hati?n of the U8e of 1,ve dec?y?
limits aDd GVen increa?6d ***
p,cture you what that'
m^gTd~ ,n thr6e 8?n6i would
mean to the migatory duck wingln*
8 .way ac~" th* continent from
^btO80uth- That duck would face
gunfire from early September, when the
season opens in the Canadian
prairie provinces, to the end of DeJLP6rl0d
of neaply 'our
months; During some of these days,
to be sure he would be spared, with
frh^r he would over his
fright and be a surer target on those
weekend days which are the easiest
for the greatest number of hunters to
arrange to spend in the field. That
such views are held In this emergency
would be ludicrous, if it were not so tragic.
"Conservation organisations and Individuals
throughout the country are
now appealing to President Roosevelt
to iesue an executive order closing
Ir iQQfl tt1 hunt,ng 8ea8?n this fall
of 1936. The time has come," said
Mh' u6r; ,,t0 Cal1 a *** on deliberate
kill of ducks by man."
Three Are Held In
Shooting Scrape
Columbia, July 21.?Police Chief W
H. Rawlinson said today he was holding
three persons for questioning in
the shooting of R. R Nance, eldest
son of State Senator Carroll D. Nance
Rawlinson said those held were the
man's estranged wife, John H. Nance,
Jr., the wounded man's younger brother,
and Earl Ashmore, a furniture
company employe.
Nance was seriously wounded last
ri!w hi! Wlfe8 a*WPtoa?nt, where,
Chief Rawlin said, he had gone with
his brother and Ashmoro.
The chief quoted Mrs. Nance as
ensued and that \
,flrM ? SHBpnifco-i
returned the fire.
her hpshawd was wounded,
add also fired jaRhlr
Only the elder |S5m* bit.
An emergency operetlon wee percondition
we. eedd to be erlttceL
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