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rttE CAMDEN CHRONICLE ,1^P.N1LB6: HAHoTand PublUbf SIS "Viruisn, Mouth Carotin* peatgflftoa M ?*c?iid class maU roattsr. Pries psr annum It 60, payable In aOvanca Friday, August 14, 1936 1 1 : .? CQTTON HOLDS ITS PLACE IN SPITE OF SUBSTITUTES 1 . - ' ' /. While rayon and other textile fibers may be taking the place of cot ton la some uses, the klux crop at the South it more than holding Its own in tbe textile fiber field, says Kodney VVhJtaker, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture. The Increased use of cotton for industrial purposes has helped to maintain the crop's position as a textile fiber, VVIiltaker reports. Me cites the automobile industry *s one of the many industrial uses of cotton. In 1929. a peak year, the automo? bile tire Industry used more than 700,000 hales of cotton. A sharp decline was noted during the depression years hut In 193.% inure than half a million bales were used iu automobile tire manufacturing. Additional quantities of cotton were used in car tops, upholstery, and seat covers. A study of the cotton situation over a long period shows the total cotton used has more than doubled since t 1890. Use of all textile fibers has a little less than doubled. In tbis way, Whitaker points out, cotton bas more than held Its position in the textile industries of the Nation. MATCH BREAKER REDUCE8 FIRE HAZARD If4 WOODS ' The careless smoker Is a forest enemy. The careful smoker Is a forest friend," says the United States1 Forest Service. Careless smokers?' who neglected a few simple precautions?caused 47,845 fires last year, or 23 per cent of all forest fires. Careless smokers started more fires than were started by railroads, logging, and debris burning, more than three times the number caused by cferelessiy left campfllreH and more than three times the ntitnber set by lightning. A real woodsman always breaks his matches in two before casting them aside?a little habit which makos sure that every match is "out," says the Forest Service. He also crushes out the fire in pipe ashes, cigar or cigarette butts on a rock or in mineral soil. He does not even throw "dead" butts into brush, leaves, or pine needles. Ho drops them into the dust of trail or road and tramples them, to be doubly sure they are dead. The careful smoker not only observes these rules but while traveling through forest, brush, or grassy land smokes only in a safe place where there Is no inflamable material or inside a vehicle with an ash re' oeptacle. Big Price For Newspaper New York, July 31.?For a price "In the neighborhood of 115,000,000," M, I... Annenberg has purchased the Philadelphia Inquirer, he announced today. The Inquirer, oldest morning newspaper In Philadelphia, has a history extending back more than 100 years. It was owned, at the time of Its sale to Mr. Annenberg. by the Elverson corporation, which was controlled by Raymond Paten. It behooves South Carolinians to change their habit and vote at the general election in November, this year, or lose in representation rft tho" national Democratic conventions, Secretary I^ane L. Bonner warns. Tbe Philadelphia convention instructed the Democratic national committee to work out a new plan about the number of delegates each state Is to have, based on the party vote at the previous election, instead of the state population. On that basis, and the vote at the last general election, South Carolina would be entitled to only a couple of delegates to the national convention. The 1936 tobacco auction sales began at Tipton, Ga., Wednesday and growers reported very satisfactory sales. I . tntf ^ &?. pofc) foltl I dMM it at Fenway's sbt weeks balocs I asoded ) n>it|. Now .that it's / . coM. tfce coot is ALL MINE. No Mi collotsor Hampton Attorney Named Legion Head Charleston, Aug. 11.?Hugh O. Iianna, of Hampton, was elected department commander of the Booth Carolina department, Ainericau legion, and Mr* C. W. Harris, of Bishopvllle, wan elected president of the Legion auxiliary In the final ae**lou? of the annual convention which ended here today. The convention of the Legion and it* auxljlarie* opened here Buuday morning and more than 1600 delegate* were registered. Four thousand vieItors were In the city, Including the delegate* and their famllie*. Mr. Hanna, preaent department judge advocate, will succeed James F. Daniel, of Greenville, October 20. Mrs,. Harrl* succeeds Mrs.. Morris Lumpkin, of Columbia, who was chosen national executive committee woman. Other I region officers named art: _ District Commanders: James C. Bush. North Augusta, Dlst^ct 2; Robert Ashmore. Spartanburg, District 4; George W. Terrell, Marlon, District 0; and It. K. Wise, Columbia, District 7. Department Vice Commanders: J. K. Cannon, llartHvllle, for Districts 1. 2, 6 and 7; for Districts 3, 4 and 5, I Gary Evans Foster, Spartanburg. I Department Historian, Thomas B. Watt, Hartsvllle; chaplain, the Rev. A. . Holler, Aiken; and service offiIcer, Earl C. Bethea, Dillon. TroPhles were awarded as follows: Rock Hill post drum and bugle corps, I champion; F. D. Baker, Rock Hill, best bugler; "Molly" Davis, Columbia, best drummer; Winnsboro post, No. 16, Morris Lumpkin cup for percentage Increase in membership; R. K. I Wise, Columbia, Seventh district commander, Fred Graham cup for membership Increase in district; Spartanburg post, No. 28, auxiliary cup for increase In members; District 2, SpafI ford cup for membership increase ovIer three-year average; Beaufort cpunI ty, Llewellyn plaque for having 56 I per cent of Its World war enlistments I In the Legion. Albert F. Miller, Route 1, Pauline, 1 won the new car given by South CaroI Una Ford dealers. | In appreciation of his outstanding I service as commander, James F. Dan-j I lei, Jr., of Greenville, was given a handsome silver bowl, the presentation being made by S. L. Latimer, Jr., alternate national executive committeeman, on behalf of the members of 11he legion. Frank E. Samuel, of Wichita. KanIsas, and Indianapolis, national adjutLant, spoke at today's session and for I the second time attacked pacifism. He I advocated preparedness and neutraliI ty for thu United States. He prayed I that the time never will come when Americans will refuse to fight for their country. The auxiliary began its day with a past presidents' parley breakfast. Mrs. Frank H. Carpenter, of Sour I^ake, I Texas, national vice president. Southlern region, spoke and Miss Christine I Wise, of Saluda, was selected as chairI man for the next parley. Miss Wise I was selected, alternate national commlttecwoman. I Mrs. Carpenter spoke at the session Ithat followed the parley and covered I the general work of the auxiliary. I Other auxiliary ofTicers elected are: I Mrs. Hughey Tindal, Camden, vice I president; Mrs. H. H. Mertz, SpartanI burg, Becond vice president; Mrs. WllI liam D. Sohwartz, Jr., Charleston, reI cording secretary; Mrs. Cecil Morris, I Greenville, historian; Mrs. Hugh DudI ley. Clemson, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. fC. W. Busch, Aiken, auditor; Mrs. | James R. Turner, Bennettsville, chapI lain. At a post-convention board meeting I Mrs. John S. Reynolds, of Columbia, I was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Delegates to the national convention I were elected as follows: District No. II, Mrs. William D. Schwartz, Jr., deleI gate and Mrs. John W. Califf, alterInate; District No. 2, Mrs. Charles I Skinner delegate and Mrs. J. C. I Pearce. alternate; District No. 4, Mrs. IC. Morris delegate, and Mrs H H. I Mertz, alternate; District No. 5, Miss I Etta Skipper, delegate, and Mrs. I Hughey Tindal, alternate; District No. I 6. Mrs. Joe Flanigan, delegate. Commander Daniel will - appoint I delegates to the national convention I at Cleveland later. The next state I convention was awarded to Rock Hill. Governor Injured J In Auto Accident Dally papers and radios yesterday I reported that Governor Olln D. JohnI ston was struck by a Pennsylvania I car driven by Mrs. Marie lxx>pe, of I Ebled, Pa. The accident happened at I Richland and Bull streets In ColumI bla. He was temporarily stunnned I but after an hour's examination at I the Columbia hospital he was allowed I to return to the mansion. I Chief W. H. Rawlinson, who parI ticlpated in the Investigation, said that no case would he made against Mrs. Loope. He aided her and her passengers in finding a plaoe to stay tor the wight Says Drought Is The Greatest On Record T. \V. Secrest of Waxhaw township recalls a drouKht in 1866, the year after the ending of the war between the states, which he saya waa by far the worst drought in this section during his memory. Mr. Hecreat is 80 years of age and hale and hearty for a man who has seen eighty summers come for he still is active as a surveyor. _Mr. Hecreat writSs as follows con earning the drought In 1866: The drought which we have just witnessed has had Its effect and, I have heard many persons speak of drouths during the past sixty years but the worst drouth that 1 remember was in the year of 1866 after the close of the confederate war It waa ao long that many trees six to ten Inches In diameter died tor want of moisture. The streams, springs, the branches and creeks all dried up in our neighborhood. I was living near Monroe at that time. But one lake waa filled with water and that was a body of water we called the "blue lake." At that time there was. no stock law nobody fenced In their livestock. As a result the woods were full of wild game as well as tame am Imals. They came for mileB to drink out of this lake. It was not a strange Bight to see dozens of a!) kind* of animals drinking at the same time. Within a few feet of each other's house dogs and squirrels would toe drinking out of this lake. They sepmed to pay no attention to each other for after drinking they would scamper off. Near this lake was a camp grdund and a church which was called Tabernacle. In August the camp meeting started. One day, I think it was on a Tuesday, Russel Winchester preached the 11 o'clock sermon and his text was "Great and terrible la the reward and who shall be able to stand in the great coming day." For the afternoon service prayers for rain were planned. About fifteen good women and a few men started to Jump up and shout, hugging each other, praying for rain and praising God. Soon a little white cloud appeared In the sky above this little brush arbor. The cloud grew darker and heavier. Soon the rain began to pour down. I^ater in the fall the people almost drowned In the heavy rains. The rain came too late to do the crops much good and few people who planted corn got their seed back. People had a terrible time getting enough food to eat as this was the greafewr drouth In years and occurred Just after the soldiers had come back from the war. We had a terrible time that year and I remember that ray mother had a most heart rending time In providing us with food. Could You Have Figured It Out? Sidney Lenz, whist expert, noted for his disbelief in mind reading, was once invited by a friend in London to attend a vaudeville performance which Included a demonstration of second sight. During the exhibition Lenz was startled to hear the blindfolded performer say: "There's a gentleman in the second seat from the aisle, In the eighth row, who doesn't believe In second sight. In this man's left-hand vest pocket is his little yellow purse, and In that purse Is a flve-pound note. The number is X809761." Lenz felt in his vest pocket where he usually carried his money, for the little yellow purse, and In that purse was the flve-pound note with the number exactly as the woman had said. "Are you convinced now?" whispe* ed his companion excitedly. "No," firmly replied Lenx. The Incident might Indeed have convinced the average skeptic, but Lenz figured out what must have happened. "She knew the number of that bill," he declared, "long before it came into my possession, and she knew somebody was going to get It. So she arranged with the box-office man to give It to the first person who presented a large bill to be changed. ^ hen he gave me my change, he made a note also of the number of the seat he sold me. The rest was easy enough."?Fred C. Kelly. Mrs. Ruth" BusbV" Killed On Highway Lexington, Aug. 12.?An automobile accident near here last night claimed the life of Mrs. Ruth Busby of Horatio, Sumter county. Mrs. Busby, riding with her five children and sister, Mrs. Sadie Gillian, was instantly killed when the car overturned. Mrs. Gillian, driving, was not hurt. Two of the Busby children were slightly hurt ...? The accident occurred. Sheriff HCromer Oswald said, when Mrs. Oil. llaa'a car stmck another la attempting to go aroand it - Village Life in H U N *3 A R Y Color ?nd Cushion? 8urround a Mezokovesd Baby. Pr*pfcr*4 *>y th? National Otocraphlc Badmtr. Washington. D. C.?WJOJ Borvioa. NOT many years ago It was held , up against the Japanese that they never indulged in athletics. Today there are In Tokyo two huge stadiums, one origl. nally seating 65,000 people, but enlarged In 1031 to accommodate 80,000, the other 30,000, and on the days of baseball games there are few vacant seats. With the exception of wrestlers, there are no professional athletes In Japan. Teams are made up largely of undergraduates In the various universities, and it Is the Intervarslty games whith draw the largest crowds. baseball, skillfully and Intelligently played, Is as popular In Japan as in the United States, but It is not the only popular athletic sport Rugger football Is played everywhere and played well. As it Is part of the army training and as something like 100,000.. young men go through this training annually, rugger may well supersede baseball In popularity. Hockey and association football are played more and more and boxing is becoming popular. Wherever there Is space In Tokyo, there Is a tennis court. The Y. M. C. A. pool is always full of swimmers, as ore the great outdoor pools in summer, and Japanese swimmers hold some world records. More and more rowing crews in racing shells are appearing on the rivers and lakes. Golf clubs ore springing up, and, as In America, the links are used largely by business men. At the army maneuver field, on the outskirts of the city, you can see magnificent riding. So the old accusation of lack of Interest In athletic sports can no longer be made. These modern games have not entirely driven out the old* purely Japanese sports. Thousands gather, as of old," to watch the wrestling matches, where the immensely fat men so well known In Japanese prints carry on their strange matches under the ancient rules. Archery Is also ^pular among the chosen few, and the great matches are almost always sponsored by some of the Imperial princes. It takes a strong man even to bend some , of the tough old bows. Athletics Build Up the Race. It would be impossible to .estimate ' what athletics are doing for 'the Japanese as a race. The Bible says that no man by taking thought can add 'a cubit to his stature, but there is no .doubt that succeeding generations of Japanese are taller. When you meet 'young men in Tokyo, dressed In gym.naslum costume, running through the .streets; when you see the finely pro: portioned bodies of the boys in the jY. M. O. A. pool; when you go to a university graduation and see the stu'dents all together, you no longer think of the Japanese as a particularly "little people." With a better-regulated and better-balanced diet and with physical training from the earliest years, through all grades of school, the Japanese are growing up physically. They grew up mentally a long time ago. It Is said that the generation now reaching maturity is, on an average. an inch taller than the preceding gent eration. As a generalisation, one should doubt this, but at the same time . one feels sure It Is true In the cities where modern ideas of exercise and diet are prevalent. There Is probably no phase of life Tokyo which more clearly shows the contrast between the old and the new than do the theaters. Ydu go to the Kabukl-za or to the splendid Tokyo theater and there see ancient dramas given in the old style of acting; or you go around the corner to a movie theater and see the latest Hollywood production. One seems Just as popular as the other and Just as crowded. The Kabukl and Tokyo theaters are enormous, thoroughly modern, handsome buildings. The orchestra seats are like those In an American theater, except that they are lower. The boxes have no seats, because people seem to prefer to sit on the floor. In the old s'tyle. The plays begin?there are generally three or four given In succession?from two until fonr o'clock fto the afternoon and last uaUl tea o clock at night. ? Hugs Theater Stags. The stage la enormous, the lighting and scenic effects superb. It Is probably true that the Japanese were the ,71 have a revolving stage for quick ahlfts of scenery. The actors strut in the ancient stylettnd chant their lines. In fact, if the Un&r'are emotional, they are sung by the musicians at the sides of the 9tage. since it Is not considered proper to show too great emotion. But, In spite of all this, the actorsmen, ot^urse, take the women's parts, ' and a Japanese lady explained this as being necessary "because men are so much more graceful"?are ijeally great and make a profound impression on any foreigner who has the itfteligence IS rise above the "queerness" of the performance. Bjay b? true, as some have said, that the living actors of the stage adopted their stilted style from the puppet shows of old. but the style cannot hide their power of character portrayal. You feel, on leaving the tneater, that you have been living in all the color of past centuries. And then the movies are Just as crowded as the theaters. There is a movie Industry in Japan, but this does not detract from the popularity of the Hollywood production* Talking pictures were hard to deal with at first, but now a solemn individual f at the side of the picture and translates, apparently to the satisfaction of the audience, as the play progresses. The translator's endeavors to keep up are more Interesting to the foreigner than are some, of the plays. The contrast between the two types ,<ot"tal"n,eht l? merely character??tic, llke all the other contrasts. The Japanese are voracious readera of newspapers. Newsboys run or bicycle throughout the city, dropping their papers in every shop. At !mX?"? ,?treet cornere eland women with bells, which they ring continually to show that here are newsstands with the latest paper* w.Tbn!! ?fty yeara a*? the newspaper was unknown, they now are read far more generally than In the United states, two of the great dailies bavin* a larger circulation than any standard-sited papers in the United States. .,Ahe?e. great Pnpnra are thoroughly ' nliin ? Thej haVe re*0lar air n c^LrT " "J ,he,r OWB to carry Pictures from Osaka to Tokyo, and transmission of pictures by wireless rr . bl as much used as in the Hotted state,. Moreover, the paplr' 1 ?tn ,ar*e humanitarian work in the maintenance of hospitals or welfare enterprise* Lets of Qay Cafe* Toyko Is full of cafes, always crowd^. modeled ,omewh.t on tho cafe, of .. In former days people gave gelshs parties, those rather solemn af! '*jT at !rhIch fslabaa danced their symbolic dances. They were very expensive, and those who coud not afford the expense contented themselves with p cnics. Now the cafes are crowded their principal patrons being, perhaps' the mobos" and the "mogas." ? JaPenese, more than any other , * ebbrevlBte, and "mobo" irwi 2w ^T. n for modern boy, and -iriogtf la the abbreviation for modern girl. Indeed, these mobos and mogas. dressed almost always In Enrepeto clothes and trying to adopt the freedom of,,European manners, are tX lftht 80 on nlmoot Indellnltely if .M ?* ""i ,he T,rton? eontfMte of ihl. City, Where at army point the contrast, between the old ,od new between the oeeMenW amKtb. ?? "trlkl?8- It ahould never ww hmi .h " bo,h *nd the new, both the we,tern and tho eastern, , ?ra reel lo Tokyo. Somewhere In Iho fusion of the two lies 'the truth hr! wesfera MheD ?Kne rwneml* that the western ideas have been naturalised ISLlHh f* * OM oan under Joseph F. Stevena of Jericho, K. formerly a winter resident of'Ctar leston, bequeathed tti.OOd to tltoe eeua of the City by the Sen. L BBWBmin5SSS to tu MfUto Hom Bnlay KM attir Mt OOOttO? 0P<1 fishta* off tfeo I Find Way To Kill I Influenza Germs I Cambridge, Mass.?Two Harvard University scientists announce that I they Ijave discovered a means of km. in* influenza germs by violet ray an* , I J?ope eventually to perfect a technique that will remove the disease from among inan'a major scourges. l>r. W. F. Wells, an instructor in sanitary science at the Harvard I School of Public Health and Dr. H. W. Brown, of the London School of " Tropical Medldde. have been working I a year on the experiments, uaing a specially-constructed, hermetically, sealed tank. tj Influenza virus from the lunga of I an infected ferret were sprayed into the tank, then drawn off In test tubea 'y Ferrets that were given the treat^ I ed vlrua failed to contract the dl*. esse,- while those jtbat breathed the I untreated virus Immediately develop. ed influenza. "In view of the proven possibility of infected matter being carried by air," Dr. Wells said, "reasonable efforts to free air supplies from living microorganisms are justified in the light of general sanitary principles. I The effectiveness of ultraviolet light for such purposes would also seem to be demonstrated by our experiments. * | "The great reduction of intestinal disease through water purification I since the turn of the century might I prompt us to hope that some of the . j diseases which are transmitted through the respiratory tract may be I checked by methods of purifying air supplier" I The air in which the virus had been I sprayed had to be burned after the I experiments. The vlrua is fine enough to pass through the smallest filter. The original material for the expert- I ments was obtained by field workers of the Rockefeller Institute in Puerto ! Rico during the influenza epidemic. < Thirty-five boy hotdog salesmen at I Newark, N. J., won a strike and are back at work at two stands, with la- I bor differences settled and pay In- i creased. The boys said they had to I work at least 70 hours per week for I $3 to $6. Now they are to work 48 ' 1 hours, with a pay increase of $2. A city bacteriologist of Detroit, has j been discharged by the health department, after he admitted that a high officer ofr the Black Legion "approached" him nine months ago?and he did I not report It?with a plot to contaminate the milk supply delivered to Jews with typhoid germs. j R. L. Harrison, pf Lowell, N. C., I father of Albert Harrison, deceased, i has filed suit for $50,000 damages I against Joe Jacobs, Gastonia business man, for the death of the son in an automobile accident. 1 I Wants-For Sale I LOST?Large black mare mule. R. C. Richardson. Phone 6?02, Bishop' ville, S. C. 21-pd. FOR RENT?Six room house on West I Laurens street Price $17.50 per I month payable in advance. House i in good condition. Call William L. I Goodale. Phone 19$. 21-23sb CHOICE8T BUILDING UOT8 ?In j city, on Blast Walnut street Fine neighborhood, quiet, near business, churches, schools, theatre. Car cost saved in five years will repay for j lot. For sale, prices and terms j reasonable. See J. B. Wallace, Camden, 8. C. 14 tf. FURNISHED COTTAGE?Five rooms, I sleeping porch, bath, moderate rental. Available at onoe. Address Shannon Realty Company, Tele- ! phone 7, Camden, 8. C. 12-21 ab HOU8E8 FOR 8ALE~-W? have some ! very desirable homes in all sections . I of the elty at very moderate prices. See us. Shannon Realty Company. Telephone 7,- Crocker Building, j Camden. S. C.- 19tf ! FOR SALE?A desirable Eve rosm bungalow, with bath, for $2^50, sasy term.. For further Information apply Enterprise Building A fl Loan Association, Camden, 8. C. Ssb I FREE ROAD SERVICE-?Creed's Fill- I lng Station Flfty-MRe Free Read I Service. Call Telephone 480. Cam- j dsn. 8. O. I FOR RENT?Cottage . ofc, six rooms fl and bath. Nice loeatioa. Apply to I Shannon Realty Ooakpany, Tele- I phone 7, Crocker Building, Camden, 8. C., 20-ttib FOR SALE?rA seven room renovated I residence on M1U street. Easy terms or monthly payments. Enterprise I Building and Loan Association. . Camden. S. C. 1M1 eb. I FOR RENT?Six room house on High. lnnd avenue. Prloe $17.60 per fl ?month payable lb * advance. House?fl in good condition. Good else let I with garage. Call William L. Good- fl ale. Phone 198. 81-23rfb fl BUILDING LOTS?Are Increasing I? prices. Buy now and - save. We I have- five fine lots $2x188, dose iel?-fl three choice lots 75x160'in cents? of residential section; three more fl near Brevard Place. Other beautiful lots. No advance In pricee ? fl these. Address Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Camden, 8. C. ? 19-2 Is b NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CLEMENCY ? Notice is hereby given that j Johnson, now serving a eentenosft* I ^rdary^.'pstitfrX j