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SPORTS SENSE V AND NONSENSE FRANK H heath . V. I I M? I ll_ i ll, i II ' i i I 1 Well. those bruising Chicago Pears waited until they faced the Wasblugtou Redskins aud Btuuuiy Baugh before a mammoth crowd at Miami and then proceeded to turn on the steam. The Bears won 16 to 10 and Bgugh was as helpless as an infant in a crib. Sammy attempted 11 passes and completed three, none of them figuring in the scoring. The last quarter of the game was s fight in which eight play -1 art weke seat to the showers. , [ To add insult to injury, the Beard, losing the national pro title to the' Redskins last Deoember. handed the Wahhfrffeq-here the* last touch, down when with hut a few seconds to go and the ball dh the Bear 0 yard line, the Bears put in a full team of subs and when hflllner of the Senators took the hall, no one made a move to halt him as he raced over the line. e %t * -? It was Just ono of those Georgerc Halaa gestures of contempt and It sure peeved the Redskins. { * ,f r i One of0Baugb's passes fell into the hands of Bausch of '4he Bears who raced through the Washington line for a touchdown. , 1 Mans have booh * completed for a best two out of three gam^s TOr the world' pro title tills year. The first game will be played in the home of1 the team Winning the eastern division honors, the second in the home of the western division chamnlnna and a third, if necessary, will be played at Miami. No^ a had idea. * * ' Camden fans who tuned in on the Sunday game via shortwave received some thrills, for It Was a of hard, fierce battling from start to finish. Back to Polo. That Sunday game was really nice to watch. The riding was better than in any game this season. The only complaint the ex-| acting fans had was that the boys were a bit off in the handling of the ball. I The Ramblers won 7 to 6, with the Yellowjackets staging a rally in the final chukker that threatened to tie up the count. Joe Bates was the scoring hero. - - * * ^ Dick Floyd had shifted the lineups somewhat. tHempt, a Philadelphian, was at NO. 1 for the Jackets, Lightfoot was No. 2; Floyd was at his old job as No. 3, but Anc Boy kin was placed at No. 4. On the Rambler front we found Tupper, DuBose, Pomt roy 'and Bates playing In the respective positions numerically. .... When a man bites a dog?that's news and' we also chirp that when Emily-Post spills llngen-berrles on die table cloth?that also Is news. That berry spilling affair shocked us?deeply if I may so state. Mrs. Post was eating out, a dinner of the Gourmet society in deah old New York. The affair was a whopper in attend- v ance because everyone wanted to see the great authority^ manners tie Into her groceries.. They all know Em would have on her party manpets and offer a demonstration of eating that would make the late Lord Chesterfield look Hke Henry the Eighth. We like the way Bob Toder tells of the tragedy. It seems that course after course went by and Emmie was Just splendid. She was hatting 100 per cent and fleldiug like the heat In the iugjors. And then came the ninth inulngI mean, the dessert oouise. And then-^horrors?it happened. Emmie spilled the berries. A dozen other diners eager to be as Km followed suit. Then the Idea struck home. Km* nfle had busted Into the error column ?ehfc had fumbled a perfect peg to the home plate. But let us be oharitable. Let's overlook the unfortunate episode. Just because we have all the advantages doesn't mean that we should turn up our noses nt the rough* homespun t?pe, Let's dsrsod Eftllr She's beep a square shooter In the past Always eating according to the rules, only asking enough elbow room and an even break at the atart.. She never has beefed when a rival beat her to the last pork chop! "i never will believe that the berries fell off Emily's knife," says one anxious woman. "If she upset them it certainly was an accident. Mebbe she just hit the berry dish with a lamb chop or perhaps Just put her elbow on it." Some folks \ claim that tbe berries spilled when Emily engaged In a struggle wlt^h her neighbor over a roll. Others bay she might have been hit by a bun. And stilt others say she was reaching for the toothpicks. Anyhow, our candid opinion Is that Em better add a paragraph to her book on etiquette and advocate the use of a blotter when eating berries. ? - ?L ft 0 ' Well the old myth about the ground hog?beg pardon?the woodchuck and the weather for six weeks ahead still prevails?especially up In the north land where the old chuck holes In deep under the snow?for the duraIon of the winter. Our friends in the north advise us that the woodchuck would have been plumb loco to come out of February 2. Too much snow and Ice. 0 0 0 0 I was reading the other day that science is trying to eliminate the glare of headlights. But nothing has ever been done about that of a wife whose husband trumpB hey ace. 0 0 0 0 Read the other day that an Irish farmer has taken to wearing skirts and silk stockings In protest against the female encroachment on men's fashions. I think that this chap has the right idea. He Is just telling the girls to "StAy as Sweet as* You Are." \ * The decline in meat sales is reported to have butchers in a stew. We note by the press that the latest to be tossed upon the public Is a National Spring Millinery week. Boy, j howdy, bnt that should bring things to a head. . We note thgt Uncle Sam Is going to remove the buffalo from the nickle. Just another example of how the present administration can throw the bull. ? . J We wonder Just how many of thdse silk stockings the girls burned in protest against the Japs had runs in them. , ?- ? - ? A noted New York divine says that the world is full of foolish prophets. And take it from me brother the world is also full of fools who listen to them ^ Speaking of ftunous lines?what about the Mason-Dixon line. WAYNE COUNTY NEQRO DIES IN NORTH CAROLINA OAS CHAMBER " r~? " Raleigh, N. C.. Feb. 4.?Penitent ' and still thankful he had never killed anyone, James Marshall, 30-yeer-old Wayne county negro, died today in the Central prison gas chamber for first degree burglary.. Men on death row sang spirituals and hymns Just before Marshall was led tntfe. the death chamber. As he left, he add, "good bye. Bill." to Bill Payne, North Ca rolfoa1 desperado under sentence of death for murder. - TO the o there, Marshall called, "good-bye, you all." Marshall was the first person to die for burglary in North Carolina since February 18, 1981. Warden R. H. Wilson said the negro admitted his guilt' in the entering of the, horns of Robert Smith and the theft of a straw hat and fountain pen.' - . V 1 " "" Ore at Britain and France are said to have as many as seventy Ships in the Mediterranean, all set to sfnk-at lght any "pirate" submarine that may make its appearance above the ? - " -- - *" ' ? ' > mMMMttMiiMMmm - JSE aag^g,?????JLJxaasggsasagaasaaaaattac it-? * \7 Bethel - You Judge! Wh?t h tbi rifht prfei fafa fawrtl laniia? You be the judge. Complete funeral prices are marked on each casket in tih'e Kornegay diaplay and patrons are urged to make there own selection In keeping with what they can afford to pay. Ml,IIIUXH' n-.'.'-.J >'<> < I I 1 " '"'ll |1|R/Hintjn Washington, reb. 4.?One of the greatest problems now facing our district and state Is the farm tenancy situation. It is generally acknowledged that real progress in agriculture can best he accomplished by Increasing; the number of our farm owners and thus decreasing the number of our tenants. jln 1W0 fifty per cent of our farmers wers tenants. in 1900 sixty-one per oerit, In 1920 sixty-four per cent, in 1932 sixty-six per cent, in 1936 Ihe 1 percentage dropped to sixty-two per cent on account of the government's efforts to raise price of farm commodities and its. efforts to relieve the. farm mortgage situation. | According to a survey in 1936, madeg1 of the United States department of,' agriculture there were 102,926 tenant' farmers in our state. In that year, there were 2,242 tenant .farmers in Cherokee county, or seventy per cent; ' in York county, 3,631 tenant farmers ( or seventy-two per cent; In Chester | county, 1,918, or sixty-seven per cent; I, in Fairfield county, 1,486 or sixty-five ( per cent; Lancaster county, 1,891, or i sixty-five per cent; Kershaw county, ; 8.048, sixty-two per cent; Chesterfield i county 2,397, or fifty-nine per cent. | These are the counties that make up I' the Fifth congressional district. i It will be remembered that last yeftr congress, in an effort to solve this problem, passed what is known as the Farm tenancy Act. Under i this act a few tenant farmers, select- j ed in every state after exhaustive investigation, will be allowed to borrow money from the government to purchase farms of their own. The terms were very liberal, only 3 per cent in- 1 terest and 40 years to pay. Only sixteen counties of the state 3 of South Carolina were selected for this experiment by the regional office J of the farm security administration, ' located in Montgomery, Alabama. We ' were fortunate in that four of these 1 sixteen selected counties are from the * Fifth congressional district. The Counties are Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and %York. Only from five to ten purchasers of farms by ten- i ants will be allowed in each of these counties.?: -r-. Offlces of the county farm security , rehabilitation supervisor, who will act , as secretary to bis county committee, j will receive applications for the tea- , ant purchases. The county, commit- , tee is made up of three farmers, who i actually live upon their farms. Those i applications, approved by the county advisory committee, will be checked in the state farm security administration office and forwarded-..to, the regional headquarters at Montgomery* for executive action. The farm ..security administration will assist applicants, who receive loans;'in developing sound farm and home management plans, and all proposed purchases will, be iohecked to determine whether the farm desired is capable of producing a living for the purchaser and his family and the additional income necessary to maintain purchase payments, An official of the farm security administration has said: "families will be picked first of all because they are team workers. Husband and wife and children must all .pull together in close harmony. They will be selected because of their Interest in community affairs and because they cooperate with the county agent in carrying out improved farming methods. We will not take any families that live out of tin cans and paper sacks. They must be the kind that will have a pantry full of home grown and home-oanned vegetables and fruits, and a yard full of chickens and a lot full of oows and hogs." It must be remembered this program has only begun and will be for a year or two In the experimental tage. if it succeeds, more and more worthy tensnrtrannrf win he ; given a chance to buy a farm each year. At this writing the confereee of the house-mid senate f$*9tttl tied up on the farm bOL Senator Smith, howover, has ieeued a statement that the conferees have gotten together on ell JP$lhta .except md that any day how the free conference report will be substituted to the house and Senate for ratification. There to no doubt that both the house and ?^ts will ratify jhe conference report just as won us ft to submitted and the PiesIdent will sign thh bill. Rev. Morgan At Baptist Chu. h -***' W H Morgan, vice preaJfent of Coker college, at Hartaville, occuitod thwpnlptt at the First Baptist -ckuriL U~t Sunday. . ^ Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McUee, Copyright, 1928. .. WIS 8TKPPKU DP A D1TT1.E .. .1 was raised (not reared) on a farm. | When I was about 10 yeara old., my , father bought a f?r?? In the upper , part of Dark Corner Township. At \ that time we were living In the lower t eud of that towushlp. ..We paid a mighty high price for ] our new land. vi?i 1700 per acre. We , sold pur old river place, where 9 of us 1 children first saw the light of day. < for $3.00 per acre, and agreed to take < cotton for It over a period of yeara. i It went to 3c the neat fall and stayed < there till we lost the place. It was 1 Ic when the trade was made. ^ .Our old homestead consisted of gul- I lies mostly, pine thickets generally, I and hill-aid** a-plenty. We moved In^ i to a country that had lots and Idts of i people living in It; we had neighbors < who resided only shout 2 mllea away, I Such was not the case with the old l place. And our new homo had a 1 school house only 3 miles away as the < unuko crawls. ?>'J . .The moat excited 1 (and the other younguns ever were) was when we i got Into our new location, It was an l Did house, but it had 2 glass windows 1 in It, a loft In 2 rooms, and 1 room i was actually celled. The one flre-place( 1 was wider than our old fire-place, and i the glass windows wore simply beau- 1 tlful; they were In the '"company 1 room. ' < ..The ash-honner At our new heme was larger than our old ash-hppper . and had an iron spout?made out of < the skein from a wagon axle. The I barn had 3 stalls In It, thus exceed- ( Itig our old stalls by 2. The well was ( only 30 feet deep, whereas the old ! well was 90 feet deep. The cow pas- I ure was In front of our new home ( nstead of In the rear. * ' , 5 ..Another thing; Our new place had , a hole thru the roof for our kitchen ^ stove-pipe to poke thru* The old ^ place had a hole In the side of the ^ weather-boarding for the stove-pipe to j poke thru. When the wind blew from the east, we couldn't cook or eat. And we had both a front and a back 1 pi-lzza in the new location; the old | Dne had none at all. We Just stepped out on the ground. ..We were all flighty happy in our j hew place. We'saw our first train the night we moved In. And by the 1 way, that train killed our fine dog, r DTcTTblly, by-name, and we cried for j1 5 weeks. We finally got straightened J out, and soon became citlsens. We i1 found that it was customary for boys I especially to wear more clothea in the j new neighborhood than we wore In I the old community, but we soon gotL used to britches and ahoes. And we J j lived happy ever afterward," till weL got grown and had to make our own , living. - - Jl WHO SAID HARD TIMCftf- j ..Folks have been talking hard times]' so much of late, I have been I reminiscing to spmejlktefit, and. have L called to mind certain conditions that 1! i h-1- ?4 rhe Flock Follows The Bollwothoro |( Byron or somebody once wrote I, ibout a few drops of ink that make I millions think. What he meant was I hat few really think. We foolishly J i el pert in the World War, It created 1 >n this side of the ocean enough lies jo sink all. our battleships. We were then to have peace on earth. You have]1 heard more about preparedness for 1 war since then than was heard be-| Ore, all told, in over 100 years. They call it preparedness for peace. They I1 know they are lying. It is prepared-1 noaa for War. A few old bellwether I er militarists started the new propa-l g&nda. Now, you hear little elae, in] or out of congress, except "National j Defense" and "Preparedness/' If you] would spend forty billion dollars on 1 ybur army and navy, you would hear] the same old squall, if the leaders! would tell them to squawk. Now is a good time to work the] propaganda. Bay what we may, there I is a strong undercurrent of fear that I Japan will coma over here and gob-! Ma us up. It la really amusing-tot read the bunk about It in The Con-! greesional Record. They are all war-! riot's.* It starts off on tikis Qm: ''We I are a peace-loving people, bat, and to I forth, etc." And we are now spend-1 ing about five tlmee as much for war J as we did before that world hokvl CSUSt, You remember the paltry few iu congress who went to fight that ] I war. Rave you heard of any general, I even Colonel, or Congressman that] was gassed, or came limping home] one one leg, minus an arm or a mind? Noy they are hollering for proparalena to fight Who* will shed the btoOd? The poor drafted d?la'who] can't help themselves. They are not] eves countenanced to vote"o*h?s ad-| vteaMttty of a foreign war. We agree tHth Owald Vlllard Garrison that this rag* for ^rmameuts suggests s race] among morons.?Calhoun Times. ] A-V Jv I I,, i =ac existed when I was a boy that were considered "normal" conditions. na. -i I ..Our fainily was not considered the poorest family In Dark Corner; there were 2 or 3 that larked a few points In the matter of living up to MoUee standard, but neither them or us ever I'outplaiuod about our lot or our holdings. Families were few and far between In our neighborhood. ?* -P. V , ..We had a company room; this room tiad a looking glass iu it that hung on the wtall. Every time anybody looked Into it, they appeared to be Drying. We also had a cheap washstand and a feather bed and some pillow shams and a straight-back jhalr in that room. It was oertalnly ixed up nice, so we thought. , .The ot^er two ropms In the house had I or 3 beds eaqjt, plus 8 or 3 trundle beds. No other furniture was needed and desired, as there was no room for any> We had no mattresses ?r bed-springs or pillows. We had inly enough "klvver" to keep warm. >ut we did boast of one glass window in the house. That's where we led the flock; that was the only glass window in 7 miles of us. .. Kverybody worked. Everybody ate ind enjoyed corn-bread and buttermilk. We hud wheutbread for breakast every Sunday, but the wheat that went into it was home-grown, ,We iad very few clothes, and 1 never reaall wearing a new garment of any cind. Everything was handed down 'rom Jim to John to Bill to Gee. When it got to me, it was Just about thru ivolting. , .We Qwned a cow or t\yo( 2 or 3 >ld mules, a 2-horse wagon, an old ^uggy, and 2 dogs. We walked to church (4 miles) every fourth Sunlay, and sat as still as possible trying o absorb an 80 to 120 minute sermon hat we didn't care anything about. Jur entire worldly possessions, on tolay's market, would possibly sell for *25.00, excluding the livestock which wasn't for sale. We got along. We were satisfied. We never complained. kVe didn't know how to find fault. We *espected the Commands of pa and na. We paid our honest debts, and lever bought stuff that we couldn't lay for. But now? FLAT ROCK 8TARTS THE NEW YEAR WITH A FINE SHOW .the entertainment which was put m by the 1981 class of the local high icholl last frlday night Was a huge tuckcess from every* angle and It was mjoyed to everboddy's hart's conant;?It was tot up oy miss Jennie" reeve smith, our principle, assisted >y her twin sister, miss sallle veeve. ..the song which brought down the louse with 4 encores was entitled? 'three blind mouses." several other itants were pulled, auch as, "red riding hood," allso "robbing hood and the 8 little hears." mustck was going mought nigh all the time from a radios Like they keep going In pitcher shows ndurlng the show ao's noboddy oan't jutte hear everthing. ..upon special call and pleadings, yore corry spondent, hon. mike Lark, rfd, sung a duet and a quartet ac? companniod by mips JUdle lOU Dark on the planno, both of which were slightly' out of tune, his deep base /olce Was a puzzle to the audience who had newer heard anyboddy alqg . tjune so.low and coarse, and hold heir notes so long. ..goobers and Ice-cream combs were Bold while the performance' was in >rogress, and a right smart of reddy :ash was realized in this effort, the lghts went out onch or twlste, but the players hell their positions like a dog had set a bird till they came back on. verry few of thorn had to road their aqnips bat recited ci'* ^ i thing by hart. r* ..the monney rained.at this show will go to help bay a new rug tor miss Jennie veere's deck which 4a wore out leaner count'of her feet letting in oaav,,:^ place ail of the time while teaching^! from same, it will oost 2.98$ from mr. roebuck ansoforth. It wili be green with a red border, and pond miles in the center, and betwixt the corners. .-.no disorder to amount to snaytblng : took place, two fights were stopped (while miss tiny moors -wag.ejh|ini?ifep wish you were dead, you rascal jyou," but the newer paid no attention to nothing but her own part Ot.ir': the programmy. the pofeeeman put them out, and they kept him out too, thus missing a mouth-organ quintet by his 4 darters, door reseats. 1.36$. candy and ice-cream reseats, c80. yores trulls, mike Laifc, rfd. \ corry spondent. I ARCADIAN NITRATE PATS Oats aadWkeat , " -mM flft SOUTM CAIOIDIA trnj&getgcm 1. Qsts crop oil to a thrifty, | sturdy start 1 DtTtlopi dark-green vigorous plants.; 3. Thickens the stand . ? ? improves grazing. 4. Makss crop tall enough to cut r* ' " - 1 5. Produces mors and % ' larger heads... makes if hsavisr and fuller grain. j; 8. Doubles and trebles th# yield, as reported by & hundreds of Arcadian | / users and by experiment stations. 1 v?r' . i . . .v,?o 7. Means less teed to buy . . more money to p.nd. GUI Th?M f B?n*fits In ARCADIAN NITRATE, Th* Amtrioin SODA THE BARRETT CO. COLUMBIA. S. a I I'-JI'LI 1 ' ^ ' I GOLDEN OATS RACE HORSE OATS cumo OATS No. 2 WHITE OATS S??A NATIVE HAr