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.? 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.
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foltl I dMM it at Fenway's
sbt weeks balocs I asoded
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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
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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.
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"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