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poultry And Egg Situation Good .'V v vSgMMiPp ( iem??)?. March 20.?Thoae farmers who grow out pullets this spring for layers should receive a good price for eggs (luring the winter of 1937 unci I9J8. ml vines F. H. Gooding, extension sultry man, on tba basis 6f a report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Hence, it would not be wise, he thinks, for farmer# of this state to fail to brood chicks this spring and have to depend on old hens for eggs during 1938. ' From the Bureau's report of March 9 Gooding cites these statements on the poultry and egg situation. "The growing evidence of a reduction in the 1987 hatcji from that of 193d, for which a feed, situation unfavorable to, the poultryman is large* ly responsible; the jgreater than usual seasonal decline In the size of the farm laying flock, <i?lso due to the feed situation; and the less than usual seasonal decline In the farm price of eggs?attributed in part to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration egg purchasing program?which gives promise that spring prices will be no lower than in 1936. "The feed-egg ratio in recent months has averaged 40 per cent above the level of a year earlier, from which it has been estimated that the total hatch (farhi and commercial) is likely to be some seven td lO per cent less than in 1936. From the standpoint of poultry prices thlB will probably result both In greater ease In clearing the present large storage holdings and also in smaller poultry marketings next fall. The seasonal decline In poultry prices which usually occurs after May Is likely, therefore. to be less than average; or It may not occur at all, as In 1935.' "From the standpoint of egg prices, the lighter hatch, together with a more rapid reduction of laying flocks now, points toward fewer egg marketings this fhll and In early 1938 than a year before and, hence, to somewhat higher prices If consumer dmnand is maintained above the 1936 level " Chancellor L?. A. Smith, at Oxford,! Miss, ruled that Mrs. Janelle Wise Elliott, a bride, was entitled to an Injunction against the school board, In an effort to make her resigp her position as a teacher In ttye city schools. The court held that being married did not make her Incompetent to teach school. Recreational Head Gives Easter Parties *xh w?Aglvvrj"z COWmunity hall Friday evening under the supervision of Mrs. W, w Mungo ma?iaK?r of the recreational center ana ? the N Y A K,r,u Oamea and contest* were enjoyed Miss Mar " Vr k?n winning prizes in the conteata. String uuslc further added to the enjoyment *5? ?V6n,nK Sandwlehee, cake and t Were Bervy(1 About seventy gueata were present. Friday morning the children of preschool age were given an Faster egg the afSiJwK comlmunity park, and In J?,.1afternoon the grammar school children were entertained at an egg hUWt' ^th *iven b* Mrs. W w Mun whhW/he ? 2'i A girlB H88l?ting with the entertainment. week6 ?(!trI12PU bl',dKe c,ub met last week with Mrs. Frank Lee. Early spring flowers brightened the rooms wheie tables were arranged for the SO!?11','.i A!vln c,yburn won high Sf n EH?? .ttt brldgo and Mrs. U. E, Mc( asklll bingo prize. Following cards a delicious sweet dourse was served by the hostess. ui^- Bnd .Mrs. 'M D. Marshe and Miss Kitty Best, of Columbia, were tea guests of the B. W. Best *onday evening. ' ,Mury AItce Helmsy-of Flora5 McDonald college and Leanaer Helms, of Uemson, spent the Easter holidays at their home. John Edwin Williams a senior at Furman university, was also a guest In the Helms home. , "Jr. and Mrs. J. L. Byrd, Jr., of Gastonia, N C have moved to Bethune. hey will be pleasantly remembered us residents here a few years ago. U LH,*bef of Columbia, is with won i Jfer' J' W Smlth- wb? 111 with Influenza. .The ?ast meeting of the Bethune ifi3 E* C' was held at tbe Hut with Mis. "a. B. McKinnon hostess. The president, Miss Stella Bethune, presided. Ix?vlng service?Mrs, Margaret Marlon, Mrs. G. B. McKinnon, Miss Elolse Miller. Finances?Mrs. D. M. Mays, Mrs. K1 Z. Truesdale, Mrs. R. E. McCasklll. Contributing to the program were: Mrs. J. W. McLaurln, who gave a pen sketch of Hampton, 2nd, life. Mrs L. Z. Truesdale, "Christ in the Camp," by J. W, Jones. During the social hour which followed a congealed salad course was served. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Best, of Beunettsvllle; Mr. and Mrs. L. W Best and daughter, Nancy, of Sumter, visited relatives here, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs,-Morrison Graham had !as guests durirfg the week end: Mr land Mrs. Floyd Bryant, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Rev. and Mrs. J. A Graham, Lynchburg; Miss Joe Graham and J. B. Foster, Mt. Pisgah... Miss Margaret Hearon, of Duke hospital, Durham, N. C.. has been spend-' ing a while with her parents, the T E. Hearons. Miss Eunice Severance, Dr. R E Severance and little daughter, Marguerite Louise, of Pamplico, were dinner guests Sunday of the D. T. Yarbroughs and Mrs. Margaret Marion. Miss Carrie Yarbrough, who is teaching at Mayesvllle, accompanied them home for a visit to her parents. Miss Mary Ellen McLaurln, of Flora McDonald college and Bethune McI^aurin, of Lees-McRae college, spent the Easter holidays with their mother, Mrs. A, B. McLaurln. Scottle Robinson, of Lees-McRae, was also a guest In tbe McLaurln home. Miss Virginia Brown, of Rock Hill, has been the recent guest of her sister, Mrs. J. H. McDaniel. Miss Rachel Williams, of Winthrop college, visited Miss Katherine Foster during the holidays. Miss Thelma Davis and Miss Marguerite Foster, who attend Limestone college, spent the Easter holidays at their respective honjes here. ~ Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Brant and little son, George, of Holly Hill, were week .end guests of Mrs. M. O. Ward Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Best and son. Blllie, visited relatives In Columbia l.ast_.Thursday.?BUlie remained over for the week end. ? ^ Mrs. David Holley was called to Columbia Wednesday, on account of the illness of her sister, Miss Frances Severance. Miss Severance underwent an appendicitis operation Tuesday evening. Among the students at home for Easter holidays were: Miss Elsie Mae Hammond, Winthrop, and John 'Smith, Clemson. * t! Miss Mary B. Ratcliff, who holds a position in Camden, was a Sunday visitor In" the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Ratcliff. Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Best and Mrs.' J. D. Stokes were dinner guests of the B. W. Bests, Sunday. Mrs. L. D. Robertson Is spending the week In Winnsboro with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Thomas. 1 ? " ' ,, COMMKNT9 ON MKN AND THING*! (By Spectator)' What Ik a Democrat? A lady writesI from Aiken making this queatlon. i really don't know how to anawer with I an abstract deflultlou, Perhaps we I might reason It out together. There was a time when the Democrats advocated the strong state gov-] ernments and a sharp limitation on | the power of congress. ^ Mr. Hoover] hegan to feed the people through the] R. F. C. Hoover was a Republican. | Perhaps you remember Mr. Hoover; | he used to be president. Mr. Roosevelt feeds more people and so multi-] Plies the organisations that wherever | we look we see a new Federal organ-1 ltatlon, or one changing its name I [C. W. A., W. F. A, P. w. A., E. K. A., in. O. L. C?J and so on; but not one | of them shows any of the spirit of the D Q- *n 'act, tlie highway warning sign which lieu Sawyer must| have contrived in a moment of hu-j I uior ?tlow men worklng-iH thought to refer to W. P. A. labor on the | roa(1?- Roosevelt, as you know, is a Democrat. He was nominated, by | the Democratic convention and all the | states of the union, except two, voted I for him us a Democrat. I The Republican party used to be the champion of the colored man; but) Mr. Farley has brought them under thawing of the Democratic party. SoJ now, you can't Judge a Democrat by] color. ' J President Rouseveit wisnos to hold J a sword over the supreme court. Af-j ter all these years the smart, alert politicians have "got the low-down" on the great court. If the president he right, then those who disagree must be wrong. If the president's program be desirable, then the opposition must be squelched. Even though the court be of equal rank with the I president, the court is "just out of j luck." For a time, you know, I began to think we might have to call in that charming teacher, Dr. Courtney Carson of the university, for wel seemed to have to solve the old prob-1 lem of the Irresistible force running! into an immovable body. An act of congress, however, i8 proposed as a solution. And so one of the mooted questions of physics will be solved by the brain trust of (he Democratic party. Put I fear we haven't answered the question of the lady from Aiken. Wq might try another slant. I^et's see J who's who. The president is a Democrat, and. so is Jimmie Byrnes. But how about "Cotton Ed?" Where does he come in after all these long years | under the Democratic flag? Then there is Doctor Ball of Charleston and Ben Adams of Richland?both Demo-1 crats; How can we reconcile these brethren of the quill? As to spectator well, he is churning about in a maelstrom and neither knows what J makes a Democrat, nor yet what un-1 makes him. As a matter of fact, what he knows isn't so; so that lets him out. In the realm of higher mathematics it is said that the zero power) can be proved to be worth something. In this day of intellectuality we must I have a lot of great mathematicians in our legislature. They've been i squeezing figures _ out of zero for sev- J eral ^years. ^ Earnest thought and profound study have brought me to this conclusion: Whatever the Democratic party "gets through."- congress?is for the public good; Is inspired as surely as were} the tablets on Sinai; but whatever proceeds from a Republican source is corrupt to the core hnd destructive I of the national welfare. We are the people and wisdom wjlll die with us, as Job said to his comforters. But I don't know what a Democrats; though I know who he is. * ] - As my memory serves me I think I recall that the house of representatives of our legislature recently adopted a resolution declaring stoutly against the election of a member to any office within the gift of the legiglature, but more recently (Just about1 ten days after passing the resolution) a member of the house was elected a trustee of-one of our institutions and the father of another member was elected a trustee. That Is what causes so many citizens to hold the legislature in very scant esteem. I have no doubt of the qualifications of the trustees referred to, but I do not hesitate to affirm that the legislature not only violates the conititution In electing its own members to trusteeships, out It arrogates too- much to Itself In the m08t capable men are within its membership. AH popunaArJa7*maklng wo disparaged ihey "own to be quite ind fferent to public opinion or the ethics of the case. ?SZT2' haTe ?ondered whethM mad* a* *>?th i. . p,ln""nk * policy Which In keeping lmeetora out of the atate. At any rate there la no sign that JaThat'wo' y'l? ,0 pr0Tld? ^ remedy, i. - 7, 7 'ndustrlea and lnnaton 1? well known to informed people " ** -ton lh? irrefutable proof la given of oar dlandnrnntaaee M colnPa^ed'with neighboring states. in || i? I?ywcg??WBBBM? For qfcaniple, how can we hope to get new business or new investors when i we contemplate these facta: The tax per spindle on cotton mills ia 21c in North Carolina, 27c in Virginia and 66c in South Carolina, so manufacturers tell mji who have mills In the three states,, A manufacturer with one mill in North Carolina and a mill the same slue In South Carolina pays 67,000 property tax in North Carolina and $21,000 ia South Carolina. Now a prominent business man comes with his statement and shows his Income tax return. On his return he will pay 6^99.86 in South Carolina and would pay only 639.16 on the same return in Georgia. This gentleman Is a trained accountant and thoroughly informed as to tax requirements in this stute and Georgia. ' Aren't there some men In .our legislature who will ponder rtiese facts? Certainly all of us, whether hlghspeiiders or low-spenders, are agreed in the wish to build and develop our state. What we need is to apply business to the politics of the state instead of upplying so much politics to business. Only recently the house passiHl a 40-hour bill, though our competing states have 65 hours. A fact which Beems to escape our political leaders is that all business except thut of pdttlng on taxes is Highly competitive. Within constitutional limits (theoretically, of course) the legislature may impose almost any kind of tax and any sort of disproportionate tax burden on business or property; It is exclusive In Its rights, except as congress and municipalities use the same tax, but business has no exclusive field; it competes with close neighbors, with industries of other states; and of other nations, as the cotton mills which not only compete with other mills in this state but with the mills of Massachusetts, England, Germany, Francd and Japan. Too many of our public m^n have no business orientation; they seem to think that as cotton is sold to a local buyer that ends the matter, though Itraztl produced a million and a quarter bales last year and Is becoming a serious competitor with our own farmers. All business is a world struggle I and we South (Carolinians can't build ^ a wall around our little state; we are In the current of worldwide business and must sink or swim in that current. South Carolina has Gogtvtwo editors this week. Isaac Ingrain Appolt, for forty years connected with The Manning Times, joined the great army on the other side of the river. Spectator loses a friend of his youth and the press of the state loses a quiet member, who, year after year, was always at his post. The other edlotr yet lives with us, lives so much, in fact, that he retires in the vigor of youth to enjoy the calm of a fisherman. O. F. Armfleld, ,of the Newberry Herald and News, lays down his pencil and goes aflshin*. This is a loss to me and to the stateT even though friend Armfleld should oatch a whale and a shark pvery we&k. A man like Armfleld ought not to go back on,his old comrades like that; there should be a law hgin it. - IMPROVE EGG QUALITY * , MARKET AGENT ADVI8E8 Columbia, March 20.?"Though It takes approximately eight days to transport eggs from California to New York City, yet California supplies more eggs to New York etty than uny other state. Then evon after eight days In shipment to New York, those California eggs sell for more money than so-called nearby fresh eggs. This denotes only one thing-?California Is a specialist when it comes to handling eggs properly," says George E. Prince, chief of the Division Of Markets of the Extension Service. "Now If California farmers produce such high quality eggs, why cannot our South Carolina egg producers improve the quality of their eggs?" With the summer season approaching, Mr. Prince points out that quality eggs bring a premium during the summer months, and makes these suggestions, urging that we take a lesson from California: Gather the eggs often. Many farmers gather them up as many as three and four times daily. Keep in a cool place until ready for market. Feed a balanced ration which will insure the hens laying quality eggs. l^et the retailers Improve their facilities for handling eggs. They should handle eggs as carefully as milk and meat products. ?v Poultry specialists claim that 100 hens each laying 160 eggs per year will produce the same gross Income as five bales of cotton. If that be true ,then there Is money in producing quality eggs. But what good Is there, Mr. Prince asks, in producing quality eggs if they can not be placed I In the hands of the consumer in a 1 fresh state? , . < /I /I /? ch?k* 666 C^DS V V V FEVER Liquid, Tablets first day Salve, Noss HEADAOHE Drops 30 minutes Try "Rub-My-TIsm"? World's Bsst Liniment - >t ' MONEY- TO LOAN... from private source on city real estate, Kirkland & deLoach Camden^ S. C. SIGNS OF ALL KINDS I Camden Sign Shop Opposite Court House : ^ I Paving Assessment 1 I Due April First fl ! i ' * ' i I PLEASE ATTWD'TO THE PAYMENT OF I I THESE AT ONCE AND SAVE PENALTY.: 1 ALL 1986 TAXES WILL. CARRY AN ADDED I PENALTY BEGINNING AiPRIL FIRST. I I J.C.BOYKIN, I I CLERK, CITY 6F CAMDEN, S. C ^ 711 FERTILIZERS | i . . ^ | .. . 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MONDAY and TUESDAY, APRIL 5 and 6 "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937" with Dick Powell and Joan Blondell V 9 - <9*9 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7 | * "The President's Mystery" with Betty Furness and Henry Wileoxln -T_^ m m w 9 THURSDAY And FRIDAY, APRIL 8 and 9 "ONE IN A MILLION" with Sonja Honlo and Adolph Menjou SATURDAY, APRIL 10 "HIT THE SADDLE" with 3 Mesqulteers j OWL SHOW 10:30 P.M. "FUGITIVE IN THE SKY" with Jean Muir and Warren jflull > ?r SAS y-rrS WW 99 SWF d ? w 0WWW Admission: Mstlnes and Night Children 10o., ' ''u 1 A bill has been introduced by Rep* resentative Reece of Tennessee, to* permit the eolnage of 25,000 half dob?? lars as a memorial to the Rainbow division in the World war. ft 1 Wherever Smart-Wom?n G^t Together Priiitt Ara this Choioi, . y " " ' / -kv '* t ' s ' ' < ' I * jj Fashionable Frocks I at Economy Prices . ..? ? Mt# $2^8 j | !! These new frocks are so dainty and attractive, and | I 1 the priceis are so very moderate. Exceptionally fas| | cinating . - jfap light or dark background . . . sleevej less or with long sleeves. ji The very newest style tendencies of II o the. season find charming expression II ?intbese-dresses? l|