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iffokts sense IjLN'D nonsense I By i FRANK H. HEATH ! i ! ^ /? ^CLwhoro in Kentucky abroad tbe HE; ?umi?!r ,fy apw'nl mail ?erHan the Camden Chronicle. m u> * * ML* Camden?we are speaking bai'k seat, e# our KaUopiug, MtbuH8> somewhere lit tin- blue ML piate, en route to Chicago and '? ',,01 III and went. mv * * yd a" r,iMt when we Ej (he bus out of the good old Kggundit> morning and headed for Etthburg, Ashevllle and KnoxHf * Hd it uot been tQr thttt r?Qujred KTitart in order to make the jaunt IE }n short order time, would have Mover in Charleston with the rest ML loyal rooters for that game beRy, (he Bantams and the Bulldogs. e f BjwaklDK of Charleston?^lld you T^at explosion that the News Courier sport scribe staged beKp we took eiotptjOd to his print Mutenient that Camden had a team leteran players, most Of them be ksr and three jyrjppn. Sfaskly I was wrnrlaad at the ti tirade thia sport scribe cut loose with. 1 have worked with some of the biggest sport writers of the midwest, have rubbed elbows and cooperated with some of the big sport shots of thp eastern uewspaper ranks and I never encountered anything <ji?ito as out of the ordinary us this episode. I * And after this riot of rhetoric tho same chap hud the nerve to wire me for the names, playing numbers and weights of the Camden players. Sure, we sent them?that is- -the names and numbers, but not the weights.. * I'd like to putts the plum pudding to the Sumter police department' for the excellent manner in which they handled the big crowd at the SuiuterCamden game. Intended to meution this last week hut clean forgot it. * The way those bluecoats kept the gang along the sidelines down so as not to obstruct the view from the bleachers was swelligant. ' ? * ' It was a real pleasure to go over to Sumter that night and see how fine everything was handled. Congratulation* neighbor. Bib News Notes jestvllle, S. C., Sept. 29?Return* from town Saturday afternoon we E opposite Cool Spring Plantation Et appeared to be a "beggar sunE" but recognized as Uncle Dan* Jackson, colored octogenarian, of Ehaw, and probably the best Ern citizen of that race In the Ety. We stopped to give him a pas far as we were going, which appreciated mightily. m colorful old character, Daniel pws just where the best 'slrnmons p sweetest bull&ces grow?when fishes are 'bltln' best?each phase the moon changes, and as he says E Herb that grows, ah knows tare 'tis and what's It good fo." He ftpclaimB that he can cure certain ||ient8 by going into the woods and Slag a beetle-bug and pulling his Ll off, which sounds pretty farIfched but the old negro has much pin his doctrine. We all too soon pe to our place and parted comm but with his promise of some pod 'simmon beer in the near future.' Ih'rs. Ira Hamilton and two little! Ighters, Iris and Jerry, of Greer, j pre tisitors in the home of Mr. and j It. J. C> Anthony recently. pe county bus drivers were en-,1 DeKalb last' week. * rDeKalb last week. hfr. and Mre. L. C. Clyburn were Its at the seventy-fifth birthday fiversary dinner of A. S. "Vest" ptn on September 19. Rffi extend our sympathy to Mrs. ies Owens on the loss of her fathl-R. L. Sowell, of Kershaw. r. and Mrs. Dixon Williams, of Ifelgh, N. C.# were visitors - Sun* of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Truesdale. Br. and Mrs. C.'Q. Busbee and Har* Littleton spent Saturday In CoRrs. CurtlB Ogburn entertained Sat??J evening with three tables of We at her home. Late summer En were used in the party rooms. Clarence Ktters, Mrs. Sam Truesdale and Mrs. L. D. Broome were prise | winners. After cards Were laid aside a salad course was served. Quests playing were: Mr. and Mrs. Cyril B. Buabee, Mr. and Mrs. Shelby j Truesdale, Mrs. L .D. Broome, Mrs, Sam Truesdale, Mrs. A. B. Williams, I j Clarence Etters, C. G. DuBose, Harold Littleton and K. C. Ettors. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Pace and Eva Owens spent the week end in Clover. Beatrice Truesdale, of Lake City, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Q. It. Truesdale. Mildred Owens is spending this week with her aunt, Mrs. Sam Truesdale and Mr. Truesdale. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Anthony and Wilhelmina Aiken, of Rcdc Hill, were guests Sunday of Mr. an.. Mrs. W. H. Stokes. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Clyburn attended the funeral of D. Reese Williams, prominent attorney of Lancaster on last Wednesday. Mrs. L. C. Clyburn, Jr., accompanied by her sister, Miss Lillian Hegler, of the Camden hospital, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hegler, of Lancaster. _ >* Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hilton and Ruby Brannon visited Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Brannon of the Midway section Sunday. '?Br. W. B. Turner and sister, Miss Mattie Turner, of. Kershaw; visited Mrs. S. S. Clyburn, who is seriously 111^ at her home, Sunday. At last reports her condition was slightly improved. Mary Rutledge. of Lancaster, visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hilton Tuesday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Clyburn, Mrs. F. L. Thomas, Mrs. John Henry Clyburn, Mrs. A. B. Williams and Mrs. L. C. Clyburn, Jr., attended the funeral of R. L. Sowell in Kershaw Friday morning and with the exception (of Mrs? Williams, they attended the funeral of Mrs. Sarah B. West in the Providence section of . the county on .Friday afternoon. * Misses Minnie Hodges and Annie Lee Smith spent the week end with Miss Smith's father, in Blshopville.; Mary Lorlck spent Monday with Helen Broome. . * -J Francis Revere spent the week end at her home near Columbia. Blanche Keels, member of the Hillcrest school faculty, spent the week end as a guest of Mildred Jones and Clara Lee McComb. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Clyburn, Harold Littleton, Minnie Hodges' and C. Q. DuBose motored to Blshopville Sunday. Dorothy Moffatt was a guest In the home of her uncle, R. B. Qrler, of Columbia, over the woek end. Mrs. Curtis Qgburn and children, Barbara Anne, Sonny and Alice Stacia, spent Sunday with Mrs. Ogburn's mother, Mrs. J. B. Williams in Kershaw^ ? /rI Misses Carol Nickels, Dorothy Moffatt, Annie Lee Smith, Minnie Hodges and Clara Lee McComb were recynt visitors to Winthrop College, 1*. flock Hill. Superintendent Cyril B. Bus bee, Harold Littleton and W- H. Carter spent Tuesday ** left w?* to Columbia on business. Mrs. L. C .JClyburp delightfully entertained the , weekly bridge club Monday afternoon at her home. Prises were won by Mrs. Curtis Otfmrn and Mrs. Cyrlf Bushee. Sandwiches, cake and cocoa were served the members playing. -.. ; The DeKalh ' Home Demonstration club meets today at the home of Mrs. Shelby Truesdale to complete plans for the fair booth they are tponaorlag this year. ~ Over a quarter mittlondoUsra worth fUhat^ltation farms to South CaroiT ^r.urr^ Prehistoric Shavers of Metal; Copies of Flint The early Egyptian razors were of metal, and it is plain that they were close copies of the older (lint ones. In the Ea^Jy Dynastic period (about 3000 B. C.), there was usecf a rectangular razor with four bevelled edges. An older form, found in Late Predynastie times, gives the appearance of a brOad, doubleedged knife with a short tung. Most, such razors seem to have been sharpened only on one side; for example, the specimen found in the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres. In Europe, at a date compare-, lively not much later, states a writer in Pathfinder Magazine, razors had a long blade with slightly concave sides, rind a strange indentation at the lower end.The most i reasonable explanation of this indent is that it was used to allow the j forefinger to feel the skin while one shaved. In Western Bohemia, about this time, the blade waa hroad and double-edged, with an openwork handle cast in one piece with it. During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (about 1000 B. C.), the razor, in Upper Italy at least, again assumed the rectangular outline. The early British razors . were shaped like a maple leal. There was a tang projecting from the base of the blade to take the handle, and often it was continued downwards by a midrib along its face. Tea, Coffee as Beverage, Traced Back to 350 A. D. The use of tea among the Chinese, from whom it has extended to all parts of the world, cannot be traced with certainty any further back than to 350 A. D. or approximately that time. This use did not become general in China until about the ninth century. Tea was introduced into Europe by the Dutch in 1610, says a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. - . How long coffee has been used in Arabia, its native country, is not certainly known. It was introduced into Egypt in the sixteenth century. The first coffee house in Europe was established in Constantinople in 1551. The first person to make it known to western Europe seems to have been Leonhard Rauwolf, a German physician, a great traveler. Once introduced, the use of this beverage spread rapidly. Coffee houses sprang up in all the chief cities. The first one in London was opened by a Greek in Newman's Court, Cornhill, in 1652; the first one in France was opened in Marseilles in 1671 { the first in Paris in the following year. Big pleasures and great happiness are but "many little ones bound together as a loaf is many crumbs in an aggregate. True happiness is the art of finding joy and satisfaction in the little privileges of life; a quiet hour in the sun, instead of a far-away journey; a little outing in the nearby woods, instead of long trips away; an hour with a friend instead of an extended visit to relatives; a few pages of a book instead of hours of reading at a time; a flash of sunset, a single beautiful flower, a passing smile, a kindly jpord, a little thoughtfulness here and there as the day slips by?these are the crumbs of happiness. Do not despise them, lest when the evening finds you, you be hungry and disconsolate and unhappy. Sir Launfal, after traveling the world over in search of the precious cup, found it, you will recall, in the hands of a needy beggar at bis own gate.?Writer Unknown. Royal Wrestlers France's king, Francis I, twentysix, and England's monarch, Henry I VIII, twenty-nine, met in 1620 upon the "Field of the Cloth of Gold."! between Quines and Ardes, for the! most expressive wrestling match i ever held. A gorgeous palace was especially erected for the occa- j sion and furnished with gold dishes. ] gilt furniture and rarest ornaments. ] The most beautiful women and dis-1 tinguished men gathered in magnificent dress. More than 2,200 sheep and other viands in similar j proportions were prepared for the feasting that followed. Altogether $5,000,000 to $10,000,000* was spent upon a bout at which nothing was ?t stake and entrance was free,, Nelthef of the kings was a good wrestler. President Andrew Johnson . Andrew Johnson was elected vice i president Jh 1864 and became president txpdn. the death of Lincoln, April 15, 1865. He was Impeached in 1888. and his trial before the Senate began Marbh 13 and ended in his ,a*,.orl K*y 28 of that yearHe had been spared by one vote, and continued therefore to sit as j president until the inauguration of j his successor, Grant,'on March 4, 1889. ' . Three Legs Coat of Arms The Isle of Man in the Irish sea - is known everywhere for its Uknx< I caJ*.thmt j*?ve no tails, its romance celebrated by Scott in his "Peveril ^ ,or I J*!?' ,whloh constat at three LJ HjJL?J? -.-U -I* L? ... I ,111 I The Home-Town - Editor Speaks (By W. Karle Dye In Hotarlaii) When you married "the fluoat ghl in the country," where did you look,, for that notice thut meuut no much to you?and so little to nearly everybody el#c? In your hometowu paper. When your home wan invaded by u blue-eyed girl, or a bouncing boy. to whom did you immediately give details about the time of arrival, aex, weight? The editor of the home paper. In after years, when aome young fellow took that blue-eye^ girl to a home of his own, or the boy, now a uiau, was given a partnership in your business, to whom did you tell the new#-?which once more meant much to you and so little to everyone else? To this same editor of the same hometown payer. And when trouble invades your home, and you add to your earthly possessions that desolate bit of real estate in the cemetery, and somehow the sun doesn't seem to shine as brightly as it did, and there's a flutter uf crepe on the front Gobi, and i the chair that has been beside you for years Is vacant?when this happens, who Is It that makes It his business to "write up" the obituary? Again-it's thp editor of the home paper. Did you ever stop to count tho times you begin conversation with the words, "I see by tho paper . . . ? Staying at home, you may not appreciate your hometown paper, but Just take a trip, and be away from you intimate friends for several months and then pick up a copy. You will welcome it as you would your closest friend. I hnve always disliked publishing information about misdeeds or misfortunes of others. When I could do so, 1 have left such matter out, or have given the main facts, without going into details. To my way of thinking, there is something wrong with a Journalism that brings tears to the eyes of an old man, or causeB a mother to feel stabbed to the heart by publicity given to an erring sou or wayward daughter. I do not, however, mean that a newspaper should entirely suppress crime news. A hard and fast lino between what news to print and what to omit cannot be drawn. The mitigating circumstances, and the farreaching effect must be studied and decided upon. ^ ^ province of newBpaper to print the so-called crime news as it occurs. In so doing, It provides a safeguard to the communr ity at large, which is invaluable. Men are deterred from criminal actions by fear of publicity. Judicious use of printers' ink can do more toward law enforcement than a dozen peace officers. Newspapers, like all human agencies, make mistakes, but such errors are generally traceable to misinformation given the newsmen. I remember one such Instance which happened to me In my early days. During? the absence of the editor a communication came telling of a marriage of a young, couple in a near-by community. The letter wa? 80UTH AMERICAN PLANT REALLY REPEL8 IN8ECT8 ? ' Here's something to mark on your calendar! Starting next month?October 1?the seeds of a plant which actually repels common insects will be distributed throughout the United States, free of charge, by the PanAmerican 8oclety of Tropical Research, Gulfport, Miss. Captain J. Mortimer Sheppard, head of the society, first happened on this unusual plant-;?"Yerba de la Pulgd. is its name?while traveling through tho interipr of the Republic of Colombia. Captain stfeppard, wha has more than a balT dozen Journeys through the Jungles of Central and South American countries to his credit, thought he had discovered something new.. But he soon learned that'It was a common slghtvto the natives, who placed these plants at advantageous ft pots about their huts for protection against flies and mosquitoes. Th# captain's original plan was to grow the plant, pot them and put them on the market In the United States. The financial possibilities were j tremendous. But after considering the humanitarian aspect, he decided to distribute the seeds of the Yerba de la Pulge gratis. According to Captain Sheppard, one plant placed In each room of a house is sufficient to ward off insects. Each person requesting these seeds will -be sent, on receipt Of a stamped, selfaddressed envelope, four of them, rwlth Instructions about planting and noil treatment. - *--ObvtottWtfTthls plant will be a godsend to the many hospitals, cafes, hotels, not to mention private dwellings. t mills# in *D?? ZtTz apparently iu the handwriting of one of our correspondents, and In good faith I published tho atory. A few daya later, a sandy-haired citizen, accompanied by hia older aon, hie wife, and daughter, stormed Into the office. "I've come here to see the rapscallion who put a notice in the paper about my daughter's marriage," he shouted, In his hhnd Vrks I'lotig oldfashioned "blacksnake" whip, held at a dangorous angle. Before I replied I stepped to the door leading to the shop and aHked the two men at work there to come up front. Then I told my visitor that I had edited tho item and, summoning all my nonchalance, casually inquired whether anything about it was wrong. As he cooled down a little? helped perhaps by the .sight of a stove poker In the hands of our Irish foreman printer?he explained that the report was false, and that his daughter was not married. I had BaYed the letter which told of tho marriago, and showed it to him. It then developed that it had been written in spite by a young lady who was going with tho same fellow as tho man's daughter! Another apparently grosB error, charged to me, happened when my make-up man transposed two handfuls of type. When the paper came out, an irate hostess called me and wanted to know why I had put the nameB of her bridge party guests In the "Farm News" column?Just under an account of a sale of registered bulls! I am confident that all newspaper editors will go to heaven. No matter how eloquently the editor may boost for the development and progress of his community, no matter how diligently he may labor to build up his home county, no matter how loyally he supports a friend in politics, extolls the virtues of a famous native son, stretches the truth to praise a local prima-donna to-be, or gently lays a metaphrolcal wreath on the grave of the departed, he Beldom hears a "Thank you." Rarely does anyone say, "Well done." Almost never does he hear, "We appreciated that," ? But Ipt him make a mistake. L*t him say that Sam Jones did something he didn't do, or Mrs. Smith Brown said something,she didn't.say! Everyone in town then takes a whack at him. And that Is why I believe that all newspapermen go to heaven ?they get their share of hell on earth. ? I ,NIt is surprising how much people expect a country newspaper editor to know. A week never passes but what there are many calls for varied information, facts, and figures, and if they -are not instantly supplied the editor is put down as an ignoramus. Typical are the following, noted in the course'of-a few ordinary days: One woman called by long distance to know if her husband had divorced her. A boy wanted to know how to get an agency for a magazine. A farmer wanted to know if a man summoned for service on the petit jury had to serve on Juries in criminal v 17r trials. A womuii called (or the adUreas of tho District Public Works Administration diroctor. A touribi wanted to know the boat route to a distant city. Six school children in succession came in (or the names of the members of the President's Cabiuet. One man wanted to know the address of the divisibn manager of the State Highway commission; the next asked about the tJovernoFs sal- ? try. So it goes. Coming in contact intimately with every business aud profession in his territory, the successful editor has to be well informed intelligently to handle the news of the day. Too, he must-?or should?know the peculiarities and family relations of everybody. Fifty years ago, the newspaperman was largely regarded as a necessary evil, sometimes was the object of charity. Tho fault was all his. Instead of conducting his business on u business basis, he was content merely to exist on the gratuities of the community. Nor was he Judged by any highor standards than thoBe by which he Judged himself. Advertising carried In his sheet was generally conceded by his fellow busiI nessmen aB a sort of a donation, necessary in order to koep the paper alive. Today that is no longer true. Your successful home-town publisher is a keen businessman, recognising the value of the commodity which he sells. If he is asked to bid on printing, his figures are submitted on the businesslike basis in most instances. Ho knows his costs, and his work Is figured accordingly. If hlB competl- . tor undorfiguros his bid?well and good. A Job taken below cost is worse than no Job at all. Efforts to build up a circulation, the newspaper's main stock in trade, have caused more hard feeling between rival newspapermen than any other thing, politics Included. The home-town newspaperman is Jealous of his subscribers, and will fight to hold them. A story is told of an oldtime editor who lay dying. The pastor had been called to administer spiritual comfort. The physician bent over the prone form of the editor, placed his ear on his chest, and said, . "Poor man! Circulation almost gone." The dying editor's eyes opened. He rose fn his bed. "You're ? Hart" he" shouted. "We have the largest circulation In the county." But rivalries are today less acrimonious, in yea/s not so long past, newspapers were Judged by the amount of hitter and cutting invectives that they hurled at competitors. The editor who said the most mean things was the one who, generally, had the largest following. But a better day has dawned In small-town Journalism. , Editors recognise the value of competition, and they have their own codes of ethics. They recognise that their competitors are pretty good, men, as worthy of a place In the community as are they themselves. L, 1 \ Camden Theatre.. OOOC 000000000+000?g00< FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 Final Showing Of It miracle musical of the year? "THIN ICE" Jth 8onja Henie?Tyrone Power. RgB that make it as delightful to Ma to as It's lovely to look at. saturday, OCTOBER 2 v Harold Bell Wright's ? "IT HAPPENED OUT WEST" 4*lth Paul Kelly?Judith Allen. Wo "Jungle Jim' and Comedies I Late Sho#?40(30 |?t>ert Wllco*-Judith Barrett "ARMORED CAR'Vj, 000060 6 < P&NDAY and TUESDAY, l october 4 and 5 p * s-Ritz Clrcns ; . with a dojen r split-yonr-side shows! LTjfe begins n^tS&tEGE" W (t) ' Rltz Brothers and Joan l^viR, Tony Martin and 43gaRptR Stewart. 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