The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 11, 1936, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Cotton Picker Is
Not Here As Yet
Htoneville, Miss., Hept. 1.?Farmers
and cotton specialists who witnessed
the first public demoiiMtratlon of the
Huat cotton picker aKi'ced today It
can pick cotton hut auveral expressed
doubt uh to its oconmlc practicability.
Mack Rust, Memphis, co-inventor of
the machine with his brother, John,
directed the demonstration while the
latter is en route to Russia to demon
etrate the mechanic*! picker to the
Soviet cotton .furmors.
Mr. Rust said thqj his machine
would pick an acre an hour on ah I
average, goinK over a row only once
und that the total cost, Including the
tractor to pull the picker and two operators
would be about $1 to 5150
an hour. On that basis, the machine
Jn one hour would pick us much cotton
as live iuborers can in a day,
saving approximately '|38 to |40 a
bale in picking
Yesterday's demonstration was the
ilrst step in testing the machine,
Charlie A. Dennett, engineer in charge
of cotton ginning operations of the
department of agriculture and F. L.
Gordon, federal cotton technician, reserved
their opinions on the picker.
"The government Is deeply interested
in this invention and we are
going to follow through from the
fields to the textile mills," Mr. Dennett
said.
Farmers were impressed with the
way the picker got the cotton yet did
not disturb the unopened bolls. The
stalks were skinned slightly and bent
over a trifle but growers agreed that 0
the process would not injure seriously
the future development of late cotton.
Oscar Johnston, manager of the
largest cotton plantation in the world,
ut Scot, and manager of the government
cotton pool, declared the machine
"seems basically sound."
A group of negroes from Tuskegee
Institute In Alabama watched the
picker's operations Intently but were
skeptical of its results. J. R. Otis,
director of the institute's agricultural
department, said:
"The machine will have no effect
economically or socially on the million
negro cotton pickers."
10. C. Westbrook, cotton specialist
of the agricultural extension Bervlce,
headed a group of 35 Georgiu farmers.
told the United Dress he was
thoroughly impressed w^^ the machine
and believed It <^nd he perfected
for use lit America's cotton
fields, but did not think it was ready
for the fields now.
John and Mack Rust, owners and
operators and inventors of the machine.
have pledged themselves to use
any profits from their Invention in
cooperative endeavors for the betterment
of share-croppers and farm
laborers.
Negro Electrocuted
Last Saturday afternoon George
Fisher, negro employee of the Dlshopvlllo
Ice &. Coal Company, was electrocuted
at the plant. Just how It
happened is not clear, but the switch
" thnt turns on the power for the plant
had "kicked off" due to some electrl- ,
cal disturbance on the line at some
pplnt, not In Dishopvllle. It was some (
time before the ratn storm Saturday. (
The man was about 35 and unmar- |
ried, went to the switch to turn on ,
the current and the accident occurred.
His body received the full force
amounting to 2300 volts. We understand
the man was a regular hand
und was accustomed to handling the
switch. He had recently taken out
some Insurance, so the company has ,
or will pay the accident paymeut.? ,
Dishopvllle Messeugor.
Because eight lives nave been lost (
iu abandoned coal mines in Missouri
within two weeks, the authorities ore
moving toward forbidding the reopening.
of such mines until after thorough
inspection as to safety conditions.
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Innocent Convict To
Present Bill To State
Ashoboro, Sept. 1.?B. F. brlUaln
Ashoboro luwyer, said today he had
arranged to have a bill presented in
tiit> 1037 Legislature asking that tilt
etate pay f 1,500 to Ous Langley, win
twice escaped the electric chair by a
mutter of minutes und then proved
his Innocence of u murder conviction.
Brittaln said the state would be
naked to reimburse the 33-year-old
house painter for work he did during
bia three-years ?imprisonment ? In
State's priaon.
Langley was convicted four years
ago in Aahevllle for the murder of a
filling station operator und was sentenced
to death.
Pardon Commissioner Kdwiii Gills'
Investigations satisfied Governor J. C.
B. Kbrlnghaus the painter was in Wilmington,
M. C? and could not liave
boon in Asheville the night of the
slaying and the executive paroled
him.
Brittaln and. State Senator H. L,
Ingrains und Stute Representative O.
L. Davis had promised to support the
bill seeking remuneration for bangley,
now u resident of Morristown,
N. J.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Langley, the painter's
estranged wife, living with their
two children ut Mrs. Langley's parents
home at Wilmington, said her
husband should "give some consideration
to the support of the children
Mrs. Langley said it was largely
through intervention of herself and
"his unpaid lawyer, Mr. Scroop Styles
of Ashevllle," that her husband twice
escaped the electric chair.
Langley said In New Jersey that
Just in North Carolina Is based "upon
a man's bank account," In recounting
Ills court experiences.
Conserving Crop Rotation Needed To
Hold Fertility of Land.
"Because of serious depletion of
soil resources by over-cropping and
erosion, one of the most Important
problems for South Carolina farmers
Is to maintain the productivity of the
soil that Is still good," says W. C. McCorley,
county farm agent.
Hechxpluins further that in order to
guuruntee future productivity it is
necessary for farmers to make a
change from former practices of overcropping
by reducing acreage of soildepleting
crops and Increasing acreage
of soil-conserving crops.
"The farmer who makes the necessary
changes in order to conserve and
Improve hfs soil resources has to increase
his acreage of soil-conserving
crops and as a result his acreage of
cash crops is reduced," Mr. McCorloy
continues. "While yields may increase
as a result of Increased soil fertility,
total cash production will not bo Increased
because of the reduced acreage.
By producing cash crops cn fewer
acres of more fertile soli, costs of
production will also be lowered."
Mr. McCorley points - out that it
takes the farmer who devotes onefifth
of his land to soil-conserving
crops each year, five years to get
around to all the land on his farm. To
really maintain soil fertility, land
should be devoted to soil-conserving
crops more than one out of five years.
"It is a continuous fight to keep
noils producing even as well as they
are now, and it will be necessary for
farmers to continue growing soil-conserving
crops," the agent asserts.
Fatal Lightning Strokes.
Mr. Monroe Willis, 59, and his
tlaughter. 24. were Instantly killed
about 5:30 last Thursday afternoon
when a bolt of ligtning struck the
home of the elder Willis' son Burgin,
In the Flay community of Cleveland
county. N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Willis and
Mrs. Brittaln. sensing danger from
the dangerous looking cloud and the
heavy lightning and as their home set
openly exposed on a hill top, had left
In a retreat for refuge.
Mrs. Brlttain, widowed sometime
ago by an automobilo accident In
which her young husband died, accompanied
her two year old daughter and
her parents to the Burgin Willis home
Thursday afternoon just before the
heavy electrical storm broke, accompanied
by heavy winds and a down
pour of rain.
The elder Willises, Mrs. Brittaln
and her small daughter, and all the
members of the Burgin Willlrs family
were sitting In the living room at
Burgin'8 home, awaiting the passing
>f the storm, when the trngody struck.
The elder Willis, as the rain and
lightning appearod to be subsiding,
walked out on the porch to look at the
elements, and had Just returned to
the living room and remarked that "it
looks like the storm is about over,"
when the fatal bolt struck him and his
daughter dead before the eyes of the
other members of the family. Several
other members of the family suffered
shock from the lightning bolt, but
none of them were seriously injured.
At Newburgh, N. Y., Mrs. Dorothy
8herwood. 28, a widow, entered a iurprise
plea of guilty to the charge of
taring drowned her eon, aged t years
in a creek laet Aagnet
i Heads Funny Paper
i As Quake Strikes
, The following article written for
I the Huinter Herald by H. O. Clark, of
i Manning, will be of luterest: >
Manning, Sent. 1.?Fifty years have
> passed since South Carolina was
i allocked by the earthquake yet the
I terrors of that night are still fresh
In my memory and 1 can recall vivid*
i ly the scenes and incidents of that
night a half century ago.
I, was living at that time In the
r town of Manning, county seat of Clarendon
county, where my father opi
orated the popular hotel, Tho Benbow
House. The day, August 31, 1886, had
been unusually hot; a scorching sun
had heat down upon us; no breeze
stirred and leaves of the giant ogks
and the shades of approaching night
brought no relief.
I was sitting with my sister at the
southern end of the piazza that ran
the length of the building, seeking
some relief from the oppressive heat,
vyheu a traveling salesman who was
stopping with us gave me a small
comic paper to read. I unfolded It
und by the light of a street lamp near
by hud read the motto of the paper:
"What fools these mortals he."
Suddenly, from no particular dlrectlon
and Without the slightest warning,
the quiet of the night was rent
by a sound Impossible to describe?
a sound resembling a heavy and prolonged
peal of thunder mingled with
the roar of many freight trains.
The bench on which we were seated
began to rock and the floor seemed
to rise up under our feet while the
house shook so that we ran out into
the street. Then I remembered that
a littlp sister was asleep in the house
and I rushed back to find her still
sleeping, unhurt, though the plastering
from the walls was falling thick
about her.
Things began to happen rapidly
then and imprinted on my memory
are events both tragic and amusing.
We were plunged in sudden darkness
as tho street lamps (they were really
lamps in those days) went out; dogs
began to bark; people were screaming;
one could hear the splashing of
water in open wells; someone was
crying, "It's the Judgment Day."
A guest of the hotel rushed frantically
out clad only in his nightshirt
and carrying his clothes on his arm;
yet in his panic, still mindful of his
manners, exclaimed: "Excuse me,
ladles, it's the Judgment Day!" An
old negro couple stood on the street
gazing upward, unafraid, as they waited
for the "Chariot of de Lord.
As the first shock subsided,, the
people, unaccustomed to earthquakes,
feared that it was the forerunner of
still greater shocks and from every
section of the town they gathered on
the courthouse square to await the
coining of they knew not what. Every
walk in life was represented, all were
keyyed to the highest pitch, excited
and tense.
From somewhere in thatjdrowd a
man began to sing, "Jesus, Lover of
My Soul," feelingly and alone he saug
until an ominous roar and rattle announced
the coming of another shock,
then voice after voice took up the
strain and when the second stanza
was reached, like a mighty anthem
rose Heavenward the appeal "cover
my defenseless head with the shadow
of Thy wing."
The earth tremors continued for a
week and during that time a marked
change for the better came over the
people. Fritfnds estranged forgave
each other, money borrowed was paid
back without the asking, and on the
Sunday following the earthquake every
chuch in town was crowded with
worshippers. The people of the community
were drawn closer to each
other than ever before?or since.
HOME-MADE TYPE SLOT
MACHINE LATEST THING
Inventive genius came into its own
in the city during the past week when
North Carolina's own model of a
home-made slot machine made its appearance
at several points, says the
Albermarle News-Press.
The "machine" is simple in design
and construction, has no intricate
springs or gadgets to cause suckers
to wouder if it is "fixed," and every
player lias the satisfaction of seeing
just where his money goes.
A large glass jar constitutes the
greater portion of the machine. The
jar is filled with water, and sitting
directly in the center of the Jar Is &
cup with an ordinary-sized mouth. A
tin cap la placed over the mouth of
the Jar, a slit cut to- allow for insertion
of pennies, and you're ready to
play. The idea Is to drop the pennies
through the slot and into the
glass at the bottom. Should you succeed,
you reap a reward of five to one.
Should you fail, you have had the
fun of watching your penny at it
slithers around in the water, coming
agonisingly near the lip of the cup,
only to elide away and come to feet
along wtth tha many other unajy
that hare been similarly devoetted?
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Small Towns Retain
Their Places In Sun
Iowa City, lowa.-7-Small towns are
not doomed to disappear la the face
of a motorized population so long as
they continue to deal in "servicestation"
types of trading, Dr. C.
Woody Thompson of the University of
Iowa and director of Dustiness and Industry
* Surveys for the Iowa State
1'laniiing hoard, declares.
Dr. Thompson's findings are based
on u detailed survey of trading habits
of tooth rural and urtoan populations
in the whole state of Iowa. The
committee's conclusions are definite,
its report to the state said.
"The small town as a general institution
is in no sense doomed to
disappearance," Dr. Thompson states.
"It continues to have a very important
place In our social and economic
life, though of course the automobile
has changed its very markedly
from the small town of 40 years ago."
Here is what the small town has
lost, according to the commercial expert:
'"It is no longer the shopping center
for either nearby rural.,, folk or
its own inhabitants for such things
as are classed as shopping goods. Our
survey showed that for such things as
clothing and shoes a larger nearby
town ordinarily controlled most of t>be
trade- of the small town and the surrounding
open country."
Forty per cent, of the open country
trading for shopping goods is controlled
by the 15 largest towns in
Iowa, the survey revealed.
"The future of the small town has
in its continued catering to what may
be called the 'service station' aspects
of trading," Dr. Thompson said.
"Almost every one of the 800 Incorporated
communities of Iowa controls
its own Inhabitants and the farmers
of the surrounding countryside for the
purchase of such things as groceries
and similar convenience goods. It likewise
plays a part equal to the largest
community In the sale of lumber and
cement.
"Apparently, things'which are fre-,
quently purchased such as groceries,
will continue to be bought indefinitely
in the nearest town. Bulky commodities,
such as lumber and cement, will
likewise be purchased in the nearest
town because of the mounting cost of
transportation with increasing distance.
"While the general store may continue
for years to come, it seems reasonable
to conclude that the quantity
of sales of things where styles and
selection are important wilj^ ever be
on the decline. .
"The radio and the automobile hive
made rural people as style conscious
as are the people of the larger cities.
"The success of the small town in
selling farm machinery depends essentially
upon the dealer since an
enterprising dealer In even the smallest
hamlet can develop a high class
service organization."
Apologizes For
Blocking The Road
Ridgefleld, Conn., Sept. 3.?Francis
J. Bassett, Democratic town chairman,
who recently shouted to Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt to "get off the road"
when her car blocked his, showed
friends today a letter from the president's
wife in which she told of feeling"
very humble" because of her
action.
Bassett, a high school economics
teacher, said it was a reply to a letter
of an apology he had written after
the incident.
The letter, signed "Eleanor Roosevelt,"
read:
"I did not know you had been rude.
Perhaps being a little deaf Is a good
thing.
"I was simply conscious that you
had to swerve far out to pass me and
felt very humble."
Bassett said a car which he later
learned was Mrs. Roosevelt's blocked
his path on a road here recently. He
shouted as he passed, and then stopped
his car and returned on foot to
give the driver a lecture.
When he recognized the president's
wife, he stammered an apology and
hastily returned to his car.
"That's all right young man," he
quoted Mrs. Roosevelt as saying as
he backed away.
Charles Bullard, farmer, is held under
a bail bond of $1,000 on a charge
of "careless and reckless driving",
which resulted in the death of William
M. McDeod near Laurinburg, N.C,
last Saturday McLoud was a former
mill superintendent In Yorkvtlle, but
for several years past has been a superintendent
at Cherryville, N. C.
Sheriff's posses have not yet captured
John H. and Coke T. Brlte,
mountaineers, accused of killing two
law officers and a vacationeer at
Yreka, Cal. It Is believed the fugitives
have escaped to the mountains of
Oregon.
John Onfllory, fugitive convict, was
hot to <Mtth in RAjrMk U, when h*
[rtrtafed arrest ant stabbed an o?re
Oho tried to arret hist.
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Fargo Dally Forum Rlaaa To Defend
Reputation of North Dakota.
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Fargo, N. D.?Resentment felt by
citizens of the two Dakot&a against an
avalanche of faked drouth pictures
and highly, colored stories of the
plight of these two great slater prairie
states was crystallized recently in a
powerful edition of the Fargo Forum
calling the attention of the nation to
the actual conditions existing. *
The Forum picked an opportune
time for its edition. As a train bearing
President Roosevelt and a largo cm
tourage of newsmen entered the state
at Fargo, thoy were met by the morning
edition which carried on page ono
a biting open letter to correspondents
of eastern (tollies -acfe news syndicates.
Surrounding t^e letter were,
several of the "phopey photos" which
had such a wide circulation in the
Fast.
One picture, circulated among both
weekly and dally newspapers by two
syndicates, purported to show a herd
of starving cattle grazing on the lawu
of North Dakota's 20-story capital
building. The spot where the cows
were presumably grazing is a graveled
parking lot at the rear of the building,
practically filled with cars at all
hours.
No one was spared. Nationally
known writers were singled out by
name and addressed in the first person
wherever the Forum felt that a
bent for sensationalism had resul'.ed
in flagrant misrepresentation. To a
pair of widely known Washington columnists
who had written "For 12
long, dreary, heartbreaking years ibe
people of North Dakota have been on
government relief," the l^orum pointed
out that in the past 12 years the
cash income of North Dakota farmers
has been $2,000,000,000, or an average
of $25,000 per farm.
The letter waxed satirical in the
case of another correspondent who
toured the state by air, then returned
to his home office to eloquently describe
North Dakota as a "vast, barren
desert of rolling hills and prairie."
Concluding its >case against the "skywriter,"
the Forum Interposed, "Swell
writing, Mr. Blank. You must come
down to earth from your airplane
some time."
Perfectly timed with the President s
visit to the state, the story was given
front page space In eastern papers,
drew commendatory remarks from
men prominent In the publishing and
other fields. Bernarr MacFadden of
Liberty fame, stated:
The Fargo Forum is deserving of
the highest praise for revealing the
true story of North Dakota. The expose
will go a long way toward driving
home to easterners the fact that
North Dakota Isn't on Its last legs and
being kept alive' only by relief funds.
Congratulations to the alert and aggreeive
Forum."
Said Frank Parker Stockbrldge.
, consultant editor of the American
Press, publishers' organ, and widely
known as a veteraA newspaper man,
i columnist and author:
"It to positively the duty of every
newspaper to endeavor to expose anything
which should be expbsod. That
goes without saying. The Forum has
long enjoyed the high esteem of the
newspaper profession and Its latest
expose Is in line with its achievements
ih the past."
Others commending the Forum's
efforts were Gilbert G. Hodges, member
of the executive .board of the
New York Sun, the Union Leaguo
club of New York, John G. Ryan, edi
tor of Newsdom, Earle Pearson, general
manager of the Advertising Federation
of America, and George A
Nichols, editor-in-chief of Printer's
18 THE HORftK VANISHING?
(By John P. Dinney in Our Dumb
? Animals)
The horse is waging a game but
apparently losing fight against the advent
of machinery. Figures compiled
by the Census Bureau are cause for
grief to horse lovers, in 1035 the
equines have decreased over 2.000.00Q
from the 1980 mark, the present population
being somewhat In the neighborhood
of 11,000,000. There is, however,
a ray showing through the murk.
The Bureau reports 140,000 more colts
frisking the fields and meadows than
in 1930, which fact may be interprets 1
as presaging an increase in the number
of horses during the next few
years. To all lovers of dumb animate
thw must needs be an encouraging
indication, A further good omen is
the increase in the number of equines
in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and
Rhode Island, three highly industrialised
states where, without a doubt,
the horse first felt the effects of the
advent of the machine age. The Bureau's
flgrues also show man's passion !
for speed and efficiency being reflected
behind the plow or harrow. On au
average the individual horse Is cultivating
two crop acres more than fire
years ago, which means that Dobbin
is being forced to work harder and
faster for the rigJ?L to exist. Apparently
we are not content with driving:
ourselves to a frazzle, but most
foist our mania upon the truest friend
man has ever had.
MOST 8PANISH CITY IN
8PAIN REBEL 8TR0NGH0LD
Washington, Aug. 29.?"The most |
Spanish city in Spain"?such, says .
a bulletin from the Washington, D. I
C., headquarters of the National Geo- j
graphic society, is the boast of Seville,
which has been madfd the seat in
southern Spain for the forces operating
against the government.
"Visitors have found that Seville
typifies their popular notions of
Spain/' continues the bulletin, "a city
of frequent fiestas in narrow streets
between the fronts of whitewashed
houses; flowery patios with flashing
fountains; mantilla-a-dorned senorl- |
tas; a busy city In the midst of a
rich land of vineyards, orange groves,
and silvery green olive trees.
"In times of peace, boats from man?
countries, at wharves along the lazy j
Guadalquivir river, take on cork for
insulating refrigerators and for lining
metal bottle tops, tile and porcelain,
olives and olive oil, and tobacco
from factories where many a Carmen
has worked without inspiring another
opera like Bizet's.
"Seville is the distributing center
for one of the richest olive-produc- !
ing areas in the world. To Its varied j
articles of commerce, gysy tribes, settled
nearby, contribute artistic
wrough iron.
"The magnificent Seville cathedral
Is one of the largest Gothic edifices
in the world. Besides it stands the j
famous and beautiful Giralda, a tower
used by Moors to call kioslema to
prayer.
"Seville, fourth city In size In the
country, with a quarter of a million
Inhabitants, is capital of the province
of Andalusia in the south central part j
of Spain."
Morris Olddings, negro, has been
turned over by New fork authorities ;
to Virginia authorities to be taken
back to Newport News to stand trlsl
for the killing of his brother, James
Page, In 1934.
Blast furnaces of the American
Steel and Wire company of Dulutb,
Minn, cold since 1930, will be in operation
within the next six or eight
weeks, and employing about $60 workers.
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I Now is the time 11
I to buy a farm^ 11
I I HAVE SOME FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN, AND
| j SMALL RATE OF INTEREST. A GOOD WAY TO I >
I INVEST YOUR BONOS. '
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