The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 20, 1937, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H. P. NILES. Editor and Propr)?to?
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^Friday, August 20, 1937
8TATE FARMS' HAS FINE CROPS
11 wuh tbo pleasure of thin pub
lishor, In company with friends, tc
ride ov.nr tbo immense farms owned
by the state and undor the super visIoii,of
Captain John M Oleun. There
urn acres and acroH of both blKbland
and lowland* corn, which appealed to
iih iiiohI of all. Tbo forage crop, sorghum
crop and vegetable crops are
all abundant- and there are many
acres of cotton of the finest kind.
Tills does not appeal to US?because
we do not believe In the ntute labor
compelIng 'with tbo private cotton
grower. There arc hundreds of cows
and bogs, tbo latter furnishing ample
meat tor the guards and convicts, as
well us supplying food for tbo state
"penitentiary. The land Is all level
and well drained and whoever conceived
the Idea of buying these two
tracts for the state knew their farm
landH. The upper farm Is In Kershuw
county and the lower farm In Sumter
county, Camden and Kershaw county
folks will be Interested to know that
W. A. (Blllle) Rush Is assitant manager
of the Sumter county farm.
Wo are reproducing an urticlo from
a special representative of the Columbia
Record In another place which
describes more fully the magnitude
of one of the state's greatest assets.
Captain Glenn Is a most affable gentleman
and cordially welcomes visitors.
LISTEN CAMDEN
Just le-nr with me Mr Camden and
Mrs Camden. This Is just an intimate
cliat with you in matters pertaining
to Camden.
Are you active in tin? commercial,
industrial and civic life of Camden?*
Are yon one of those giving interest,
attention and thoughtful consideration
to every movement for tlje advancement
of the general welfare of Camden
?
You may think y/iu are not needed
-you may think that Camden can
get along without you?you may feel
that what you cau do Is too unimportant
to he worthwhile?you may think
that your counsel and judgment of
little value.
Rut irrespective of what you think
or feel about your value to Camden,
there are men and women, many of
them, who know you run render good
service to your city, and that service
you can render Is the service that is
needed.
Have you ever stopped to think
what several hundred men and women,
representatives of the commercial,
professional, financial and civic interests
of the city, knitted together into
an organized force, systematically and
ronsi ii-ntiiuisly working lor the ad\
;itn im-iii of Camden as a whole,
(lore I til I I- III I I e i|ll"Slloll lis to tile
tutuie i eiiiinei t ,a| p r? > i i c i .mil prosI
et i! > ||,.0 Will | ollow
1 a m-1< 11 i <!? lio n :i:ii! w > -mi ll who
1 itioii.lt a I-- I < a Iti.l ii o u j \ it'o
m'\ pel sol;.I; lull le- - a lid per- j
M?na! M-ivi-i- t'ei'sonal , |-\ j, ,. is
'be lent you pay for the room you
in vUp> in lite ('aiioii a wants the
i>ej sona! service rent of hundreds of
its men and women
It lots been demonstrated that the
individual efiort of a large number
working separately counts for little,
hut when collectively asserted through
organization, it becomes a potent factor
for development.
Your chamber of commerce offers
>n Ideal opportunity whereby men and
women of Camden can invest their
services with the assurance of getting
a dividend of greater value than is
retuined by any other kind of an investment.
FRANK H. HEATH
DROWNS WHILE ATTEMPTING
TO RESCUE HIS COMPANION
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 17.?CarJ
Ricker, long a smiling figure on Jacksonville's
steamship piers, was miss I
ing today from his usual haunts because
he gave his life to save another
little negro.
Carl, Arthur Duncan and Willie
Oulllns, each 11, formed a triumvirate
which sought out tourists and offered
a shine or a buck-and wing for a
nickle.
Yesterday the three were swimming
In Hogan creek. Duncan went under.
Ricker dived to his aid while Culllns
ran for help. Duncan was pulled out
and re-rived but Ricker drowa^L,
Mrs. Carl Hallquiat, 45, at Jamestown,
N. Y? on Tuesday gave birth to
her 16th child. All are living.
' General News Notes
; It Is claimed tbut ahoet 40,000 work[
era left the silk milIh of New J.-r??y
, and P.-iiusy I win lit Monday, on the cull
i for m strike by the (' I Q.
| The navy popart men t has Just lei
' contract* for the building of four 1,.
500-ton deitfoyei * by private ship
> yards
Helen Keller, deaf and blind educa\
toi, now in Japan, has canceled her
> b< liediiled trip to (!IiIIIh on account
of war condition* there
1 Efforts to re Moat the light CJ. 8. 8.
, I Omaha, aground off Custlu island in
I the llahainaa, have a* yet been unsuc'
cossful.
Cattle on foot reached a top price
J at Kausab City, Mo , Monday of $18.76
i per lot) pounds, with receipt* of 29,j
000 head
CuHtoins agent* seized L'2 pounds
J of heroin, valued at $110,000, from
la steward on hoard the liner Manhattan
at Now York, Monday.
Three portions wore killed and 14
i Injured during an electrical storm that
swept the south shore of Kong Island
on Sunday
1 Condon had rain on Tuesday for tho
ilrst tlmo In IS day's, which gave temporary
relief to the folks suffering
from high temperatures?approximately
80 degrees.
William Leslie Kd'^on, ?r>8, son of
the late Thomas A. Edison, and an
Inventor of note, died' Tuesday at
Wostover Hills, Uelaware, after an Illness
of six weeks.
Forest fire losses In the United
Stutes In l'J29 averaged 315 acres per
/Ire. The past year the average was
only II) acres per fire, says a government
forestry report.
The department of agriculture is
setting a goal for American hens by
1945 or an average of J00 eggs per hen
per year, as compared with an average
of 82 eggs per hen in 1935.
J. Henry Roorback, Republican party
chairman of Connecticut and utilities
magnate, who died May 19 of a
self-inflicted wound, left an estate of
$3,201,111.59.
The National Association of Mutual
Savings Hanks, operating In 18 states
announces that on June 30, Its associate
hanks had deposits totaling $10,207,803,494,
the highest on record
Ry a vote of 227 to 73, the house
has passed u hill authorizing the appointment
of six administrative assistants
for the President at a salary
of $10.^00 per your each.
The first wheat laden boats to leave
the Chicago port In inoiv than two
years hound for foreign countries
cleared the last 24 hours with 188,000
bushels for Europe via Montreal
Comes a story from Washington to
the effect that workers In the offices
of John L. Lewis und his C. I. O., nro
thieatening a sitdown strike unless
demands they are making for better
working conditions are acceded to at
once. These workers are now being
organized into a C. I. o. affiliate.
Stanley 'A. Martin, unemployed automobile
salesman, told New York
police that* he climaxed an illicit love
affair which had become hopeless, because
they were both married, by
strangling the woman at her own reboost
He planned to take his own
life, but his "nerve failed him.
Johnny Mountain, aged 9 years is
n a Pittsburgh, Pa., hospital following
an operation for appendicitis, from
wnich he is recovering nicely. The
doctors found that his heart was on
the right side instead of the left, and
that the appendix was on the left side
instead of the right, and all the rest
i?n reverse.8 "innard8" we "Nowise
In the trial of Andy Wright, negro,
Al| l Scott8boro cases" ut Decatur,
Ala., the state for the first time
waived a demand for capital punishment
In case of conviction. Wright
is one of the nine negroes on trial
Price ma88 raplnK of Mra Victoria
An Arkansas posse of officers, huntg
or three escaped Texas convicts
In southeast Arkansas, shot one to
cleath and captured another, while a
lib! "ti , ,ia <>8cape 1,1 a hot Runnir
rnh!, I ?? WUH HUSi>octed of having
lobbed a hank at Weiner, Ark., a
ioupI?> of weeks before.
The H7th anniv-rsary ?r the forma
, OMnblisiiiiit-iu Coast
, ?>' congress in I7:m. Was cel.*hiaie-l
Tuesday 'I lit- C?a.-i Guard
1 11 , alJcd i he revenue marine, was
the lirst i'oiimvss in l 7?n?
a' >e cemin. nial mux b).on
. " I1"'1 '."r >? "> the tiny revi
ot cess?>|s was the nai"'iis
only arm. fl for. ? afloat
>"ii.aor N'yr, Republican of North
Dakota, wants a senatorial investigaHon
of the enormous profits being
inad. by half a dozen concerns out
the buying and shipping of junk
scrap iron and steel to Japan.
Pour persons were killed and five
others Injured, when a 14 passenger
Eastern Air Lines plane crashed into
a newly constructed power line near
the airport at Daytona Reach, Fla,
early Tuesday.
Mrs. Marguerite Fox Delbow and
Norman Drlscoll, under sentence of
death at Trenton. N. j.( next week for
the murder bf the woman's husband,
have been reprieved for 30 days by
Governor Hoffman.
I-rOuls J. Taber. master of the National
Grange, assures farmers of the
country, that though they are now
harvesting thotr biggest crops since
1929 they need not fear "unlimited
production ahead "
Mexico s air mall and passenger service
to the United States from Mexican
and Central American points, has
been resumed after being stopped
Blnce July 17 by a strike of aviation
company employes.
When Police Chief H. L. Johnston
was ordered by tho city council of
Lubbock. Texas, to resign by Thursday,
following his charge that "class
legislation and enforcement" had
prompted local prosecutions, he unlocked
the city jail door and released
eeven prisoners charged with drunkenness.
"If somo can be turned out
or jail, then others can," he declared.
1 know?I have the key."
Sausage of Middle Ages
Made Tasty With Spices
The development of modern sausage
took place mainly in Italy
and the Germanic countries. These
peoples had a real flair for the
I blending of flavors and developed
techniques far in advance of other
I countries, according to an authorI
ity The warm climate of Italy
J led largely to the preparation of
| dry sausages preserved witlt salt
and the more vw ,e spices, such
as pepper and garlic, Scarcely a
city of any importance exists in
Italy which does not have a type
of sausage named after it?Miluno,
Bologna, Homuno, Genoa, Salami,
etc.
In Germany, thp cooler clitnate
and the use of caves led to the
development of fresh and cooked
sausages, most of them being
adapted to frying. These varieties
included brat wurst, liver sausuge,
blood sausage, head cheese and
Berliner sausuge (a ham sausage).
In addition, the Germans made
many varieties of summer sausage
(that is, a suusuge made in winter
to ho consumed during the summer).
The Germans and Scandinavians
were more partial to the milder
spices than the Italians, but the
rapid spread of the desire for sausage
and its convenience for trade
during the Middle ages led to a
further competition for trade with
the spice countries.
The motivating impulse in
Columbus' discovery of America
was the short route to the spice
countries of the Indies, while
Magellan's passage south of Cape
Horn, and Hendrick Hudson's
search for the northwest passage
alike were stimulated by the desire
for a shorter trade route to the
spicy orient than the land route
through Asia Minor or the water
route around Africa.
Extinct Dodo Was About
Size of Well Known Swan
Most famous of the extinct birds
was the dodo. Its chief characteristics
seem to have been extreme
clumsiness and a touching confidence
in the kindliness of man and
its fellow-creatures. European settlers
and the animals they imported
had exterminated it in Mauritius
by 1681. The dodo was about
the size of a swan, and Portuguese
sailors spoke of Mauritius as the
Island of Swans.
At one time this bird had made
its home in South Africa, and the
carcass of the rare bird is exhibited
at the Natural History
Museum, says the New York
Times. Anything less swanlike,
however, it would be difficult to
imagine; its Latin name, "Didus
ineptus," is appropriate, for it
seems to have been singularly
inept.
Its huge bill ended in a large
horny hook. Its plumage was multicolored,
and its short legs were
quite out of proportion to its enormous,
clumsy body. The curly tuft
at the end of its stumpy tail lent
the final touch to its absurd appearance.
With its usual optimism,
it laid one large egg in a heap of
grass.
Tell the Bees
In savage countries and in many
country districts of England and
the world over, the bees are held
to be members of the household.
A death in the family must always
be "told to the Bees,"?otherwise
they will be offended and desert
their hives, taking away with them
the luck of the house. When a
wedding occurs the bees expect
their hives to be decorated with
white ribbon or rosettes. When
treated with this consideration the
bees an? supposed never to sting
members of the household. Other
superstitions about bees are that
one should never shout at them,
but tell them important news in
whispers; one should not quarrel
near a hive, lest the bees fight,
too, and destroy one another. Nor
will bees sting half-wits, even when
disturbed.?Tit-Bits Magazine.
Yellow Fever Germs
In 1888, when people still thought
that yellow fever germs flew or
drifted about in the air, an epidemic
of this disease took place
in Jacksonville, Florida. In the
belief that the microbes could be
killed by concussion, writes M. B.
Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida, In
Collier's Weekly, cannons were
fired for several days in the principal
streets?to the delight and
profit of the glaziers.
Amount of Rainbow Seen
The amount of a rainbow seen
at any time depends upon the height
of the sun, being low when the sun
is high and high when the sun is
low. On high mountains or from
balloons, when the sun is very low,
completely circular rainbows are
observed. Lunar rainbows, formed
by the light of the moon and aj>>
pearing as luminous arcs with very
faint colors, are occasionally seen.
"Coal Trees"
"Coal trees," trees that have remained
complete through the ages
which turned them into coal, are
one of nature's strangest sights.
They are found in mines, standing
in their normal position and as
perfectly formed" as the day they
reached maturity, except that their
roots, trunks, branches and even
their leaves have been converted
Into black, gleaming coal. ? Collier's
Weekly.
DEAR MR. PRE8IDENT EVERYONE
WRITES FR
Now York, Auk. 7.- Have you written
the President lately? If you have,
you are In a largo company, for ftotu
2,000 to 7,000 persons wrote him the
day you took your typewriter In hand.
When you wrote, y6u had three In
100 chance# of being answered from
the White House itself, according to
Hen Whitehurst In "Dear Mister Presl1
dent," Ju#t published.
The other 07 per cent of those letter#
went to the correspondence division,
where a clerk "bundled'' them
in the way clerk# have.
Jf thy day wu# bad when you wrote,
you hud more companion# in epistolary
ofTort. The #ame If you write
in the midst of u.calamity of some
sort?mujor disasters ulway# Increase
the President's mull.
And the emullcst news story ubout
a favor done by some one in the
White House plays the very devil.
Mrs. Roosevelt once gave u graduation
dress to a high school girl.
She got better than 10,000 requests
from other girls who wanted to receive
diploma# in White House
clothes.
This tremendous quantity of mull
is pew to the White House, partly,
Mr. Whitehurst believes^ because of
the fact that the country has lately
become conscious of Washington in
a big way, but more particularly to
the President's habit of inviting people
to write him every time he delivers
a "fireside chat" over the radio.
The President see# only mail from
the family and friends, as a rule.
Twenty-flve clerks open and route the
other letters to various government
agencies. These make mistakes quite
as ludicrous aa some o? the letters
themselves, according to Mr. Whitehurst.
One letter from a close associate
of Mr. Roosevelt's began, "It was a
great relief to hear from you." The
ulerk who opened It saw only the
word relief and routed the letter to
the FEU A.
ljoth humor and put hot* come out
of those overstuffed mail bags, Mr.
Whltehurat aaya.
Each la more effective when uucouadoua,
and the humor uaually la
uncoriacloua. Dike the negro whoae
clothea were giving out: "I got to
get my akin out of people'a eyeeight,"
he wrote.
A few are genuinely grateful in
curioua ways: "Dear President Jtobsevelt:
Next month my wife is getting
a baby. The relief office says It la
i all right and la going to pay for It.
Wife and 1 think it would be nice If
we called the baby FERA, the name
of your relief outfit. If Congress has
no protest and Its name la all right
with you, please let me know by letter."
Doth patience and Badness came
from this Rochester, N. Y? woman:
"I appreciate the roof and food you
dole out to me, but how would you
like to go year after year without
pleasure? No radio, no bathing at
beaches, no teeth filled, no headache
medicine, no yarn to knit, no fruit
to can, no JarB. Oh can you blame
me for wanting to go where things
smell and grow? Please send us to
Alaska before the tree* ar?
pad down 'a? that we can chop down I
a few'." T*?
Children cause their bhare of fop 1
tore. Here ?w ^yvo. H
j "A? f *0* Ihe father of fourteen QhU-1
dreu and have been on relief for some I
time, will, you kindly wend me all I
available information on birth eoutroi I
Thauk you in advance." -f H
| "Bir?I aiu forwarding my niarrlag% I
certificate and my two children, on? I
of which ia a mistake ua you will bee." I
This is from a scholar:
"I am a student of literature. The!
more knowledge a man haw, the bet-'H
ter prepared he ia to lead. Aa I Hit H
some time and plunder upon a word, H
I am lost for information."
Naivete baa ita place In the lott^rs; I
"I am a nice good girl who likes I
everything clean. I am very. ugly.
l ite ?>ply thing i have ia my honor, I
ray nice reputatlo.n I appreciate my. fl
self better than diamouda, jewels or H
millions dollara." H
Mr. Whitehurat omita to finish this H
one:
"1 am writing thla letter in long-H
hand ao that your stenographer may I !
not know ita contonta. It is strict- I
ly confidential. I don't even want H
you to t <11 Mrs. Roosevelt about It." H
Two more:
"Please send my money at once. H
I have fallen Into arrears with my H
landlady." H
"I've tried since last June to get H
in the insane asylum but they don't H
seem to want me because 1 am not H
insane. The Joke is on them."
H
BAD BUSINESS
About the best argument against
huge centralized organizations to do
the country's business Is the case of
Reno K. Stitley. Stitley was a
voucher clerk in the park service In
Washington, drawing $2,300 a year.
Hut it cramped his style.
Through his hands passed vouchers
to pay for work in CCC camps. So
Stitley created a CCC camp in his
own mind, Invented names of imaginary
people on the payroll. Imaginary
projects, and even wrote imaginary
complaints from the Imaginary
workmen. More important, he cashed
the checks with which the government
paid the imaginary workmen.
Fantastic? Certainly? Yet Stitley
got away with it for three years,
swindling the government out of more
than $84,000. The shuddery thing
about this is that it took throe years
to catch him and And out that $84,000
of tax money had been tossed into a
CCC camp that didn't exist. And that
speaks more than a big volume on the
dangers of a great centralized bureaucracy.?Sumter
Dallly Item.
Senator George of Georgia, wants
President Roosevelt to authorize the
building of a $22,000,000 hydro-electric
dam and plant on the Savannah
river.
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