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Future Farmers Flan
a Summer Program
Archie Btlen culled A meeting of
the Camden high school Future Farmer*
Monday night at the high school
agricultural room, and presented
plan* to be worked out which Included
the selling of cold drink* at the
baseball games to raise money for a
farin shop at the high school. The
muking of plans for tables uud tool
boxes for agricultural room. The selecting
of tools for shop by an appointed
committee. Educational und
project tours. Future Farmer camp
at Ulufton. Future Farmer convention
at Columbia, the first week In
August Progress In project work.
Select a program for the next meeting.
A committee was appointed to
sell cold drinks at baseball games?
Jack Smyrl. chairman; Oscar Hough,
Herbert Richie. Norman Baum.
These member* were Instructed
to sell drinks for class. Robert
Hall, Jlrnmle Little und Eric Reeves
to make plans for tables, tool boxes
for agricultural room. Robert Smith,
Paul Jordan, Archie Stein and Prof.
H. A. Small to select tools for shop.
Archie Stein to organize group for
Cainden section on educatlonul tours.
Jarnes Graham, Malvern Hill section;
Ellison Cureton, Liberty Hill section;
Lloyd Truesdale, Kirkwood section,
were appointed to organize groups
for educational tours. Matthew Rabon,
Marvin Smith. Johnnie Boulware
appointed on group committee. Archie
Stein and Johnnie Boulware delegates
to Future Farmers convention,
Hiid John Henry Clements, Henry
Hlggins and others to attend Future
Farmers convention as representatives
from Camden It wuh recommended
to get Richard Relger. district
forester, to have charge of program.
The meeting closed and caids
will be sent out to the seventy-six
members when another meeting will
be held which will be within the next
two weeks.?Marvin Smith, Reporter.
BAUM TALK8 OF PORTO RICO
BEFORE CAMDEN ROT A RIA N 8
The Camden Rotary Club was entertained
Thursday with an interesting
talk on Porto Rico presented by
Billy Baum, a native of this city, but
now engaged In teaching school in
that colony. His talk described the
Island. Its people, their customs and
politics.
Past president Robin Zemp also addressed
the club, his subject being
"Cooperation Within Rotary."
Guests attending the luncheon included
Lieutenant Dan Miller, l*. S
N . who is soon to take up his residence
at the 1'nlversity of California,
also R C Stuckey and O L. Arnold
Hay ward Pearce, Jr., of the Decatur.
Ga , Rotary club, was also a
guest
John Glenn, superintendent of the
State Farm at Boykln, was welcomed
into the club as a new member.
BYRNES AND SMITH.
Speaking In the senate last January.
Senator James K. Byrnes declared
with emphasis, without qualification.
that the negroes 'are In control;
of th?* Democratic party" Wht-rt]
Messrs Johnson and Brown are mnk-.
itig light of Senator Stni'hs p s tion
on tl.e negro in politics th'-ir sun ties
apply with the same force to Byrnes, i
Byrnes and Smith see eye to .\e in
this matiet i Possible the two gent.e
men may look forward to the oppot i
tunity to argue the question with Mr j
Byrnes on the stump when he comes j
up for r.-election in l'.'U > If Messrs
Johnson and Brown believe that Senator
Byrnes was 'In error In his statement.
why have they not said so? Itj
is not too late I hey can tackle
Byrnes This power of the negro In
the national Democratic party Is of
the utmost seriousness to South Carolina.
or it is dot. Smith has no monopoly
of the issue It is Byrnes'S;
issue too. If Messrs. Brown and John-1
ston disagree with Messrs Smith and
Byrnes and other Southern senators'
?they should come forward with!
their arguments. Surely gentlemen
offering for United States senator'
have the ability to discuss a national
lsshe of extreme importance to the
life of our people without exclusive
reference to the candidacy of E. D.
Smith. Byrnes Is no 100 per center.
fsTews and Courier
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President Roosevelt has signed a
bill permitting the use of 21.500 eni,
listed men of the army in the air ser??:
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
(By Spectator)
f The New* and Courier i? gratified
i to observe the independence of the
other South Carolina papers. It la
notable. For a long time the torch
was borne by The News and Courier
and H. H Woodward, of Conway, with
Dreher, of St. Matthews, interpoaing
a pungent commeut now and
then; the rest of us pencil pushers
looked for the laudable alms to engage
our thoughts and saw nothing
but sun behind the clouds. The State
was so straight and stalwart that Jt
walked sway backward. What's the
matter now? How is it that our politicians
tumble over one another in
swearing allegiance to any and everything,
while our newspapers speak
out critically? it is because newspapers
have a tradition of Independence;
they may be wrong, but they
do not deliberately muzzle themselves
for political reasons; nor will they
swallow Just anything because the label
is attractive.
We who read the South Carolina
papers observe from week to week
vigorous discussions of public questions.
A politician watches to see
how the wind is blowing; but our editors
start a little breeze of their own,
without consulting anybody.
Did you observe that the politicians
thought our recent Democratic State
convention would not touch Rule 32?
And the politicians would not hove
touched it?or come near It. But the
newspapers, from Charleston to the
mountains, called on the people to
proclaim their independence of Tammany
i>oliticians and Northern meddlers.
Result? The convention vot-i
ed overwhelmingly to amend Rule 32.
The politicians were amazed; they
were flabbergasted. They had not
reckoned on the force and influence
of an untranuneled press.
Are the newspapers engaged in a
campaign today? Yes, decidedly so.
From Charleston to the; mountains
again the press is assailing the 100
per cent me-too-ers. South Carolina
will not elect any man to office who
proclaims his own unfitness for public
office by promising to be guided
by some one else.
What sort of men should we elect
to the legislature? There is no more
Important questions for our consideration
Just now. One point I'm sure
of: If you have a man who really
serves the state it would be advisable
to reelect him. A new man, however
capable in some afTairs is as green as
grass for a year or two in the legislature.
If. however, you have a man
who votes wrong, let him stay at '
home.
South Carolina is spending fortyodd
million dollars a year. It is. then,
a pretty large business Few men,
very, very lew, ever learn much about
the business of the state; most of our
legislators vote for or against a measure
becauso of some man. they don't I
know the real "innerda" of the affair, j
A mere handful of men know what
Is going on. So if your man is a true- j
blue, a clear and level-headed mun j
you will gain time by sending him
back.
I remark as indicating a good legislator
An economist; a man who surveys
the whole state and tries to serve all
the state; a man without an> isms or ^
p* : pM-jeets or fanciful schemes, a
man who knows that we must earn'
our bread by the sweat of our brow
and who will not forget that when he
is <alled ou to vote f >r appropriations.
a man who is not representing j
any group or c!h*s. a man who will
do what is right, regardless of his
political future
We need men who will try to serve;
the state even though a powerful spec-J
lal group of men threaten !h>*m with
defeat We need men -that's all?!
men! The state needs men!
This office receives many inquiries
relative to the gentlnien who have
announced themselves as candidates:
for the senate or the house We be !
lievo that our state ran develop best '
through Lhe encouragement of industries
to come here We do not think
If necessary to give concession but
we think we should create an atmosphere
favorable to the dovolopment
of our commerce.
We think our major problem is to
create work for our people who want
to work and a market for the things
we make. All of us are probably In
agreement about that;- but when It
comes to carrying the Idea Into effect
we are very much at variance. We
can't become any richer by further
dividing what we already have. II wo
have a milium dollars in a community
in' the hands of a half lulllioa people
the community will not be richer
by puling the same million dollar*
Into the hands of a million people.
The reault the same?one million
dollars. Obviously the community
cannot become still richer by taking
the same million dollars and giving
it to two million people.
Of course 1 know that a million dollars
in the hands o( a thousand men
is worth more than a million in the
hands of one man. There is & limit,
however, as to the progressive development
of that; it is known to Economists
as the Uw of Diminishing Returns.
Before some one makes a protest.
let us prove it: If 100 pounds
of 10-4-4 per acre will make an average
of 200 pounds of lint and 200
pounds will make 400 pounds and 400
pounds will make 800 pounds, is it
true that 8t)0 pounds will make 1,600
pounds of lint? Not a chance, buddy,
not a chance. If it worked out like
that we poor cotton farmers would
put all our fertilizer on one acre ana
guide our feet through the cotton
jungle with a compass as 0Editor
Hucks, of Moncks Corner has to do
when he travels the great swamps of
Santee studying the Santee Canal.
To know how far he can add fertilizer
with a profit?that's quite a
problem for the farmer. I once found
out that 1 made as much hay using
two bushels of peas to the acre as I
had previously made with three bushels.
One of my farm partners poured
out peas at the rate of seven bushels
to the acre In one small place, I think
to raise the level of the land; but we
didn't receive a proportionate benefit.
From the deeply ingrained habit of a
teacher let me take two more cases.
You've heard It said that a tree with
fifty peuches will produce larger fruit
if thinned out. So let's knock off
twenty-five peaches. Then why not
knock off twenty-four more, leaving
one. Will that one remaining peach
be as large as the fifty? Must be a
limit somewhere, eh? Well, Well!
That principle applies to money and
labor, too.
I know the weather is hot?real cotton
slzzler?and all that; but let me
propound this: If you feed five meals
at one time to one man will he do
as much work as five men? Or, conversely,
if you take one meal and
feed it to five men will they?all together?do
only as much as one man?
After all is said and done it would
be more enjoyable to catch red
breasts in Little Hell In Allendale
county than to worry with these figures.
I wandered a long way from the
40-hour week, didn't I? Well, that's
the way it is in hunting and fishing:
You go a long "spell" before getting
a bird or a ' bite."
If you want to build our little state
we must remember that states compete
with one another for factories
and citizens. Just as individual merchants
on Main street vie for business.
We as Carolinians must bring
in more business, must get new industries
and must make this an inviting
'place for new citizens. We
want people with money; we already
have a heavy consuming population.
Let us atop our habit of free spending
and ill-advised restrictions on industry
so that we may have a charce
to make of our state the playground
of the nation, a place in which people
would like to establish l?4mes and in\
st their money.
If we continue as. we are now going.
Greenville. Spartanburg, Anderson.
Green wood?and all our Piedmont
region?will lose their mills and
become like deserted villages.
William A Moorehead. manager of
one of the largest and most modern
cotton mills In South Carolina, has
prepared a report in his character as
chairman of the Power Committee of
the Cotton Mills. After comparing
the rates charged by four power companies?all
out of this state except
Duke?says that the I>uke Power com- ,
pany has reduced its rate twenty perl,
rent since 1929. hut its taxes in South
Carolina have increased in the same
period from IM8.000 to 11,767,000 and
now pays in taxes 22 per cent of Its
gross Income. Now If we produce j.
power under tax-exempt conditions?:,
with government money, who will payj(
the taxes? ,
An organization Is being create in (
Texas for the purpose of boosting
Vice President John Nance Garner
for the presidential nomination In I
1940 by the Democratic party.
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rules qift must stick
Judge Say* M^Twho G.vs "'"8
Took Own Chances.
cmtcago, June tO.-U a girl is lucky
enough to get an engagement ring on
her finger, Judge Thomas Green ruled
today, It'* hers for keeps whether ?ue
marries the contributor or pot.
He explained this theory to Bernard
Berg. 29. who had filed a MOO
damage suit against Mrs. I dell
Saunders. 23, to whom he gave the
ring In March, 1937. when she was
still Miss Udelle Rick lea. l>?n>r ahe
married another man.
When a lover gives his sweetheart
a present." the court said, "he's taking
his own chances tha^ everything
will turn out all right. Let s see the
rlD-T used it as collateral for a $125
loan." said the girL
A negro woman who shot and killed ?
a white man was tried and found not
guilty at Walterboro last week. The
testimony showed that the deceased
was clearly in the wrong and was responsible
for bringing on the difficulty
that led to his death. The verdict
was. therefore, a righteous one. and,
in accordance with the law and the
facts. The verdict met with the bear-j
ty approval of Hon. J. Henry Johns-1
ston, the presiding judge, who ex-!
pressed himself as follows. I hope
our friends in the North will hear of
this verdict as it will show that a
negro can get justice at the hands of
a white jury, and after all. that Southerners
understand race conditions
better than those who live elsewhere."
While there may be room
for improvement in the particular referred
to by Judge Johnston in the
opening part of his statement, we are
in hearty accord with his second proposition
and believe he is entirely
correct as to that.?Chester Reporter.
Gates Hill Club Met
The Gates Hill Home Demonstration
club held Its regular meeting
Thursday, June 9, at 3:30 o clock, at
the school house with fifteen members
and seven visitors present. The
devotional was given by Mrs. T. A..
Rozier. followed by prayer. The roll
call was answered with their favorite
summer flower. The minutes were
read and appVoved. The Creed of the
Council of the Farm Women was read
in unison. Ruth Rozier favored the
club with a poem, "The Wind. The
meeting was on "Citizenship" and the
creed of a good citizen was given.
The R(*v. F. R. Morse, of the Presbyterian
church, of Bethune. was the
guest speaker for the meeting. Tak
ing as his subject. "Citizenship." using
first "Ship." comparing the good
and bad, also the active and docked
ships stressing the importance of our
being active ones with hopes anchored
to Christ, being assured we can
safely weather the storms, winds^ and
waves as they come upon us. Every
one enjoyed the talk. Refreshments
were served, after which the club adjourned.?Contributed.
Camden Defeats Cheraw
Camden's Legion Juniors jumped
on a hopelessly outclassed Cheraw
outfit here Thursday to win. 21 to i in
the opening game at the new Legion
ball park. Camden outplayed Cheraw
in every department, the visitors'
lone run coming in th*> eighth when
the locals let down after a seven run
rally in their half of the inning Features
of the game were seven hit
pitching by Williams for Camden,
with one error support from his teammates
and a homer with two on in
the eighth by Hearon. the first on the
home grounds this season.
R H E
Cheraw 1 '
Camden ' 21 23 \
Batteries: Camden. Williams and
' Cheraw, Hunnlcut, Johnson.
Smith and Horton.
Negro Plows Up Bars of Gold
Washington. N. C.. June 20 Dallas
Jordan, a negro, plowed up thret* bars
of gold on his farm near here and
loday he was enroute to "big" ashIngton
to convert them into cash. ,
n was estimated the gold was
worth $2,000. A similar bar of gold
was found by a negro woman on an
adjoining farm a few years ago.
Presumably the treasure was burled
by Blackbcartl. the pirate, who
once operated In this section, or by
someone In Civil War days who meltMi
down his valuables and cached
them underground.
Four members of congress staged a
milking contest In Washington last
Thursday. It was declared a draw.
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JOHN T. DUNCAN DIE8
IN COLUMBIA HOSPITAL
Columbia, June 18.?John T. Duncan,
seventy-aU, a widely known political
figure iu South Carolina a decade
and more ago, died at a hospital
here today after a long illness. j
Duncan, a Columbia attorney, was
a candidate for governor several
times. <
Survivors Include a son, Daniel T.
Duncan, of Ninety-six; a daughter,
Mrs. Sara Duncan Olsen, of Chapel1
kHiU. N. c.: a sister, Mrp. W A. Dunn.j
of Newberry; and a brother, J. C.1
Duncan, of Newberry.
Moves Plant South.
Detroit. June 14.?Walter L.. Fry,
Detroit manufacturer who gained j
publicity last year as the nation's j
No. 1 sit down boss, announced today
that "trapped among President
Roosevelt's great experiment. Governor
Frank Murphy's labor policies
and Michigan's high labor rates," the
company would move its manufacturing
operations to Columbus, Ga. Fry
said the company had Its choice between
moving and going out of business.
it manufactures automobile
seat covers. Headquarters and minor
operations will be continued here.
Judge J. Henry Johnson in the
course of his charge to the Grand:
Jury at Walterboro Monday went out|
of his way to say something that is,
sorely needed at this time, something I
for which he may be criticised, but, j
which, nevertheless, represents hls|
deep-seated and earnest convictions,!
and for which he will be glad to stand I
the consequences. What we refer to
is the attitude of the Northern, Democrats
to the race question and what
this may mean to the South. Whether
it is generally realized or not, the
Solid South means absolutely nothing ^
to the Northern Democracy. The
purchase of the negro vote in pivotal'
states and the abrogation of the two-:
thirds rule have killed Southern Democracy,
and all there's left to scramble
for are the crumbs that fall from
Dives' table. The colored vote is
now the balance of power in several
big pivotal states having a combined
electoral vote of 281, and as 266 con-i
stitute a majority it may be seen
where the South comes in. Judge
Johnson deserves thanks as one of
the state's leading thinkers for calling
attention to this situation, and
we hope others occupying positions >
of prominence and responsibility will
speak out on this same subject which
is fraught with so much of importance
to South Carolina and other Southern
Slates.?Chester Reporter.
General News Notes
The French freighter Gaulois was
sunk in the harbor af Valencia on
Wednesday by Spanish insurgent
bombers.
Henry Johnson, 72, pioneer in England
and the United States in the
rayon industry, is dead at Coventry,
England.
The British government is advertising
a $400,000,000 3 per cent national
defense loan, payable in 1958. The
money is to be used in rearmament
plans.
King Gustav V. Sweden, celebrated
Ills 80th birthday anniversary yesterday.
To mark the day a special
fund to fight infantile paralysis was
established by public contributions.
A bill to centralize supervision of
commercial aviation was placed on
President Roosevelt's desk this week i
for his signature, along with a bill |
creating a maritime labor board.
U. S Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy.
to the Court of St. James. Lon-j
don. is on his way to Washingtcn,
and it is expected that he will discuss J
the British war debt to the United
States with the President.
Mrs Madeline Force Dick-Astor
has divorced her third husband. Enzo
Fiermonte. an Italian prizefighter.
Her first husband was John Jacob
Astor, who lost his life in the Titantic
disaster.
France is taking steps to increase
its standing army to 1,000,000 men, as
its answer to the unsettled conditions
of Europe It Is, estimated that the
army of Germany now numbers more
than a million men.
Granted a divorce at Reldsville. N.
C.J H Steagal, aged 81 years, from
his wife to whom he wa.s married 11
years ago, he hurried off "to secure another
marriage license to marry Mrs.
Maggie Smith, aged 54 years.
William Wallace Campbell, 75. regarded
as one of the world's greatest
astronomers killed himself at San
Francisco. Cal.. Tuesday, by jumping
from a third floor window of his
apartment
Senator Maloney, Democrat of Connecticut,
opines that the compromise
wage hour law would be "Inefficient"
to correct the ills of labor. says
that it waa wrong to delegate power
over wages and hours to a board or
administrator.
Met With Mre. Gulon
The June meeting of thb Camden
Garden club was held at the home of
Mr#. L. 1. Gulon Monday, June 13,
with l?rs. Leonard Schenk and Mr#.
Douglas McArn a# assistant hostesses.
Mrs. A. C. MeKain presided
' and welcomed the visitors present.
, Miss H^len Phelps had charge of the ,?t
program. She presented a paper 1n
which she discussed the different
names of flowers and their derivations.
After, this she called on various
club members to tell of some
outstanding feature in their gardens.
Mrs. A. C. MeKain led the discussion
with an interesting account of what
her garden means to her. Kefreshments
were served, after which the
guests were invited to see Mrs.
Gulon's lovely garden. The blue ribbon
was awarded to Mrs. A. C. MeKain
for a bouquet containing fortyflve
different flowers. Mrs. N. C. Arnett
also won a blue ribbon for a
vase of handsome gladioli. This was
the last meeting of the garden club
until fall.
WANNAMAKER CHANGES
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L. Caston Wannamaker, of Cheraw,
surprised everybody a few days before
the campaign opened by jumping
from the gubernatorial race into that
for lieutenant-governor. His sudden
unheralded transfer left the fleld free (
for Ben Adams in the governor's race
as representative of the - Johnston
group in South Carolina.
Hefering to his sudden decision,
the Columbia Record said: "The decision
of Wannamaker, a member of
the house of representatives from Chesterfield
county, came, after conferences
extending over two days in
Columbia with leaders of the political
forces headed by Governor Johnston.
Wannamaker was Johnston's floor
leader in the house and the governor's
unsuccessful candidate for the speakership
two years ago."
Sidetracking Caston's ambitions for
the time, "leaders of the political
forces headed by Governor Johnston"
managed to prevent two of their
crowd jamming into the same major
races. As it stands now, the governor
is offering for the United States
senate, Ben E. Adams for the governorship,
and Caston Wannamaker for
lieutenant governor. If this is correctly
pictured, each should get the
united support of the governor's
friends throughout the state.
There is only one little possible
hitch in this line-up. according to
some suspicious political onlookers.
It is too early to know whether Adams
represents the governor's faction
in the gubernatorial race. The two
leaders had some strong differences
towards the end of the recent session,
and Adams openly broke with
his supposed chief over the truck legislation.
So, Ben may not be that
man?in which case some supposedly
wiseguys figure another gubernatorial
candidate, and if this is so there will _
be some surprising political doings
this summer, especially between the
first and second primaries.?Orangeburg
Times-Democrat.
No Improvement
Toledo, O.. June 16.?A conscientious
teacher?who refrained from signing her
name?mailed $50 to the board of education
a year ago with the explanation
she felt she had not full}- earned her
salary.
The hoard received aifcther $50 this
week, and wonders if the contribution
will be annual.
Thrifty
Roanoke^ Va.. June 16.?A bird in the
hand is worth two passes on the bus to
a family living outside Roanoke. -j
Policeman J. P. Cralle Bald he Saw a
passenger alight here frrtn a suburban
bus, attach his pass to a homing pigeon,
and send it back for other members of
the family to use. *
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Camden Theatre
FRIDAY, JUNE ?4
' Dorothy Umour, Ray Milland in
"HER JUNGLE LOVE"
The picture of a thousand thrills.
In Technicolor "\ ^
SATURDAY, JUNE 26
WILL ROGERS In
"LIFE BEGINS AT 40"
With Rochelle Hudson, Richard
Cromwell
Added, Serial
"Flash Gordon" ,, ?
and Comedies ^ j \
Saturday Nite at 10:30
"MR MOTO'S GAMBLE"
With Peter Lorre, Keye Luke
Dick Baldwin
MONDAY and TUESDAY
JUNE 27?28
"COLLEGE SWING"
With Martha Ray, George Burns,
Oracle Allen. Bob Hope
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WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 29 '
"KENTUCKY
MOONSHINE"
With the Rita Blethers ?
Tony Martin
Tony Martin "
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