Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Outlook For Soft Ball Next Summer By The Skipper * , ltH ? fur ory from the holidays to tht? spring debut of the aoftball laddie* on the hlgh ocl1001 athletic field, uul believe it or not. the bug lias been biting the gang and already the Dot stove league Is hgvltlg some heat preseason sessions. But listen wkat the various managers have to say regarding the 1938 prospects of the various teams. jayte '^Nettles, manager of the Wolves?"We finished runuer-up In the race this year and had It not been tor thy absenoe of myself and Clarkson Ithame tn the fastnesses of the North Carolina mountains I firmly believe the Wolves would have won the title. My belief Is given argumentative support by the fact that in a post-, season game, with our lineup intact, we defeated the champions. Of course Plarkson and myself regret that we had to be away during the crucial series, tyut our duty to the Bulldogs required that we lend our brains to the mapping out of the gridiron campaign and to the operation u of the Camden machine on the striped field. Percy Mays*?"Phoo-e-ey to Jack. We won the rag because we had the best team and just because Jack and Clarkson had to pester John Villepigue when that gent was trying to condition his players Is no occasion for this belated alibi chatter* The White Sox will repeat In 1938, take it from me. We have 801119, new faces already signed and I am telling the world that the Pale Hose will make a runaway race of the first and sec- end half next summer." Carl Lightfoot?"Talk Is cheap. J Actions speak louder than words. A < rolling stone gathers no moss. Keep ] your eye on my team. I have youth ; as an outstanding feature of the 11*38 j model and believe me Skipper, we 1 are going places. I do not want to j appear in the position of bragging, ( but I'm Just telling you we're going 1 to be good." 1 1 Hubert ^Wilson?"Last season we had a team in the Merchants group ? that finished In the sub-basement In in the first half and then started to stage a performance that won the plaudits of the fans. We really had u team I mean and when we take the Held next April, believe me, you'll see some aoftball that will astonish you." O. R. Funderburk?"My team, well -yea^-w-e're going to be rlgM ~la~-theie- _ lighting vrlth the*rest of them. * The Professionals got bad breaks last season and we are due to grab off a bunch of good ones next year. Of cours6 we'll have a stronger lineup and after 1 have taken the kinks out of the arms and legs of my gladiators. Well, it's Just going to be too bad for the rest of the teamB." Purvis Sanders?"We hope to. have a Guards team that will uphold the glory of that famous fighting uuit. Had we not gone stale last season just at .the finish, we would have won the title. Our team will be stronger than ever, this year. Mark Ilj vordi' Fred Bryant?"It's too bad that ourteam did not get a chance to get working right?due to the late start In the season and the refusal of the other captains to allow us to join the league, but let me tell you one thing --we'll be right In the thick of the fighting this coming season. What? r tell you my lineup. Never! Never! - ever. Some of the other lads would L be fineggling to grab our talent if 1 were to make It public. All I can say in that my team Will be a truly representative outfit of the group we r represent and yon can depend on us ^ to give our all in every game." liill Owens?"Well, folks, I gave up \ the managements of the Redfearn Motors because of stress of business but it rested in capable hands when we secured the services of Carl Lightfoot &nd his eminent side-kick, Staney Ba[ bin I think Carl Is going to be in there fighting with the leaders ne*t f season. I will be out on^ttae sldep lines cheering for dear oid Rutger ev^ ery time I get a chance."" Stanley Babln?"I'm like Bill Ow^?na. 1 was a manager and then I became a first-baseman. I will hang my hat beside that of Carl Lightfoot ^hext season and let me tell you ^friends, we expect to win the bunting.'' ~ "Bock Russell?(motioned as capt tain of a new team.) "Don't bother with this hot atove league stuff. Jtn busy buying Chriafcmaji gifts end "tidying up on my Shakespeare. But, t*l?* it from me fraas?if I do have * team, well, what a pity, what a Jiti?for the other team*.-- There la 0nlf one name that wo could take to *t ear skin and ability and tljat would J? to snitch the well known pseuhi?m ?f th* N6* Tork Yank*"' but '-+T * * xood Sooth Carolinian, the JMter Q*me would bardir bo ooctpto? ** "owever, name or no name, *?1i emulate tb? Tanks and make a 0X11 of race." aWppe^-^TWfi* all pre-sea . T . V II] , TTTT-r i'-AHUI SPORTS SENSE j Z I AND NONSENSE i frank h. heath i _ , Speaking of the polo game Sunday, good old Dick Floyd tried to Btago a | scoring apree all by blmaelf to pull (victory from defeat in the Humbler I tilt, but all Dick could muster was five goals. Which, if I may ho state, Is some shooting. He fell JuhI shy of tying the score in the final minutes of the sixth chukkor. Ann um Hoykln was another shoot-1 ing star In the afternoon constolla i Hon. "Anc" gathered three swell shots. Kirby Tupper annexed two. while Robinson and Williams each snared a single. Chuck Mttle did a Hying impose act in the second chukkor but escap<?d serious injury. He retired from the game at the end of the chukkor and wus succeeded by Moultrie llurns, who In turn gave way to Carl Lightfoot in the sixth. I * It was a bad afternoon for the Charleys. lu the third Charley Rbb-1 inson and his pony both crashed | near the curb on the grandstand side of the field. Fortunately both home t and rider escaped being hurt. Robinson rolled free when the horse skid-1 ded .and fell, but was up and back on ! his mount In a minute. Nice work Charley. ;> * The game, while slower than the one the preceding week because of! the wet ground, had its thrills and. this time the Ramblers finished at the top end of a 7 to 6 score. * * * * Tt\o Ramblers started to town in the first chukker when Tupper and Boykln counted. Forty seconds after ' the start of the second chukker Dick Floyd went the length of the field and pushed the ball through the uprights. When little David Williams tucked one home later, the score was tied. In the third Boykln put the Ramblers to the front but Dick Floyd again tied it up for. the Yellows. In the fourth the Yellow Jackets forged to the front'* tfor the first time on Floyd's third goal. The Ramblers missed a penalty shot. In the fifth Tupper and Joe Bates of the Rambler four put their teams to the lead igaln. In the sixth Boykln and Robinson shot successive goals and the Ramblers led 7 to 4. Referee Little called successive fouls on the Hampers and Floyd made good on the penalty shot each time. ? And that, folkB, constituted the jcorlng of the Sunday game. And we are happy to auy that the almanac says good weather next Sunday,: , which lu Indian language, means another swell game. I And now for a few digs and Jana. i We'll lead with a left and mention that the fellow who starts life on a I shoestring these days has to be sure I that It Is a government shoe. ? We note at the bottom of a New Orleans racing chart the following: j "Lone Hand Sulked." l>arn it folks, i we dou't blame him. This old beetie has been racing around the coun-' try so steadily and for so many seasons that we looked for his, sulking stuff many moons ugo. ., Our friend Harold lckes says that ! the world is threatened by a new! madness of nations In nightshirts. What seems more menacing to us Is | the threat of all those reformers in pajamas. * * * # " | The "big apple" has been tabooed ' at some of the northern colleges, which leads us to believe that the apple must be getting rotten. i * ^Aunt Dora is beginning to get the! owdown on the political football | game. She Bays that for every buck ou the line the government wants a quarterback. * t By the way, you admirers of art and things artistic, did you by chance notice the decorative idea carried out in the windows of Slick Zemp's drug store on DeKalb street? If you did, you certainly reached the same conclusion 1 did?that the idea and execution was distinctly feminine. And so It was?and the artist?Mrs. Jack Nettles?better known to her intimates as Maxine. ? ? And now for New Years and the big football games. How're you betting folks, v I'm hoping Alabama cops at the Rose Bowl, but I'm afraid those Bears are going to be too heavy and fast for the Crimson Tide. * Down at the Sugar Bowl I look for Santa Clara to nose out Lousiana State; Colorado to win over Rice a,t the Cotton Bowl and Michigan State to defeat Auburn at the Orange Bowl. At the Sun Bowl I'm picking West Virginia over Texas Tech and at San Francisco I see a victory for the east over bhe west. In a season of upsets, my choice is 3r~"' -J -L -IJBBWWMMe?? Death Toll Heavy Over United States Violeut death claimed at least fOO lives us the natlou's price far uae of its most extensive Christinas culebiu tions In years. The double holiday, crowding highways with an unusual burden of homeward bound travelers, swelled the toll above normal years. Traffic accidents caused many times as many deaths as any other cause. Hut week-end merrymaking was also cut short by gunfire, hanging, suffocation. burning, poisoning, drowning, plane crash and futal household accidents. While millions foastod in choor, at least 14 men and women died In despair at their own hands. There wore 30 homicides, 28 by shooting and two by stabbing. Pennsylvania led tho nation with 41 deaths. Illinois followed with 38, Ohio 35, California 30. In Kentucky 22 persons died violently, Including live by gunfire, one1 by stabbing aud one killed in the explosion of a dynamite cap. Two were killed In a Texas plane crash. I Eight negroes lost their lives when a motor car plunged through a bridge guard near Chinquapin, N. C? and overturned in the Northeast river. j The toll by states: " ' Alabama 25, Arizona 8, Arkansas 9, California 30, Colorado 2, Connecticut IS, Delaware 5, District of Columbia 3, Florida 15, Georgia 14, Idaho 1, Illi-1 nols 38, Indiana 8, Iowa 3, Kansas 4,1 Kentucky 22, Louisiana 12, Maine 8,' Maryland 18, Massachusetts 11, Michl-' gan 15, Mlnesota 9, Mississippi 5, Mis-' sourl 13, Nebraska 4, New Hampshire! 1, New Jersey 12, New York 14, North I Carolina 12, Ohio 35, Oklahoma 8,' Oregon 6, Pennsylvania 41, Rhode Is-1 land, South Carolina 7, South Dako-j ta 1, Tennessee 11, Texas 18, Utah 2,' Virginia 10, Washington 9, West Virginia 10, Wisconsin 6. Vice President Garner and a party of friends spent Wednesday In Elk county, Pa., on a deer hunt. j as good as the next guy's. So If I miss completely, I'm not going to lose any sleep over It. I MU8T PRESERVE NATIVE VALUE8 OF RURAL LIFE ' Clemsou, Dec. 4.?Land in tho foundation of tho family and tho family la tho foundation of the democratic atato, said Dr. O. K. Haker, ohiof of tho llureau of Agricultural Economics, U. 8. Department of Agriculture, speaking at Clemson Thursday, December 2. Dr. Haker was in the state for a Berlos of discussions with Extension Service specialists on rural problems. The increasing drain on tho human and economic resources of rural life in support of urban lifo. Dr. Haker pointed out, is making more and more serious the problems of agriculture and rural life. "To rescue for human society the native values of rural life," Dr. Haker said, "is the key need. Hence the importance of restoring in the hearts of the farming people confidence in themselves and in their occupation, both as a way of lifo and as a moans of living.". Regarding the needs of that "other half of the farming people" with desperately low income, Dr. Haker mado these Important suggestions: A decrease in their cash income?this by a greater degree of self-sufficient farming. An Increase in income through home industries to supplement Income from commercial crops. A return to the practice of oldfashioned industry, thrift, and frugality with less efTort at "keeping up with the Joneses." JapaiKhas banned Santa Olaua. A homo ministry ordinance forbids the iHuu) ' festive manner of celebrating Christmas. Jui>an, altho not a Christian nation, had been celebrating the day with growlnK ardor annually, with department stores feuturlUK Suna Clauses similar to the American variety. TRY* CvU, l V** A** Plus Tsx I NEW YEAR'S May 1938 bestow much happiness and prosperity upon YOU is our wish. GREETINGS Barringer Hardware Co. Who Gets The Cotton MU1 Dollar ? The value of any public asset it measured by its service to mankind... How much it it worth to each citizen; or, to put it more bljratly, what does each man, woman and child yet out of it? . . r * 4 It is important to revalue our public -assets from time tp time and determine their true worth. The Cotton Textile Industry is generally recognized as one of South Carolina's public assets, though in reality it is financed by private capital. What then is it worth to each citizen of the state? Is it really worth while? , Who gets the cotton mill dollar? Let us see. Half of each cotton mill dollar goes to the farmer for cotton, and while farmers of South Carolina in 1936 only raised 70 per cent as much cotton as our own mills consumed, practically all of what they do raise is sold in the state. The farmer has a huge stake in our mills. Then 27 1-2 cents goes to the operatives. Together the farmers and the mill employees got over threefourths of every dollar spent by our cotton mills in the'ir operations the first half of this year. Of the balance, 22 1-2 cents, fully half the amount is spent in the state for taxes, power, supplies, materials and services of all kinds, repairs and general office and administrative expense. These interesting and authentic figures are baseed upon the experiences of a representative group of South Carolina mills for the first six months of this year (1937). DIVIDING THE COTTON MILL DOLLAR "*" * COTTON SO Cents . SWAGES 27J " ^7^^ Supply, Power, Fuel lit M /J'/J ff 1 / /Taxes, (not including income v/ ' r ' /J /A taxes) and other expenses, l\///27 i/ A, such as insurance, selling, etc, 9 " L \g^\y y/ -ADMINISTRATION 1 " ~ : Office and Genera! Expenses 1 " TOTAL ~ ' #1.00