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THE TOWN CRIER (BY FRANK H. HEATH) We learn by experlentMh The softball Hotup lu Camden la all wrong The present arraugewtsitl requires youth, ability and stamina and bant participation of the very Individual* who should be getting the fun and exercise The suggestion Is made that another year two leagues^ ?jtrh of four teams be organized. One league would be for boys between the ages of 18 and 28 and the other for a group of men 28 years and over. If a lighted field is available, each ..league will have a gazue an eveuing. The "oldsters" would play at 8 and the "youngsters" at ? o'clock. When 1 discussed this plan with some of the boys a few nights ago the question was raised. "Are there enough men 28 and over who would be Interested In such a program?" I would say "yes, there are." For instance I believe men like Tom Antrum, John delxmch, liasil Bruce, BUI Net Lies, Moultrie Burns, Sain Karesh, I-ee Little, Bill Moore. Jack Mullin, Stan IJewellyn, Joe McKain, Irv Pearce, Uryce Herbert. Douglas MeAm, Dewey Creed, Hubert Wilson,1 Dr Humphries, Theopolls Hall( Klrby Tupper. Arthur Clark. Sid Zemp, A.1 J. Kddings, George Cooley, Cliff Mc-' Kaln, J Moxley, E. Jones, Fred Mose-' ley. Ferrlll Parker, Brevard Boykiu. W. C. McC'arley, Lee Mays, John Vllle-, pigue, Jack Vv imager, Frank WooU n. Bill Oox, Bill Goodale, Don Morrison. Grainger Kornegay?well, 1 could name others it 1 Just put my thinking cap on, who would be glad to Join in such a recreational program. i r 9 xiX 1 This group would play the game for the fun and sport there is in It and not with the tenseness of the youthful group who have gained an idea that there must be u $'>,000 pot at the end of the rainbow for whoever wins the municipal league race. Frankly folks, have you ever stopped to consider Just what a lot of healthful exercise Is available In Caihden If we can get a little cooperation. The city has several well located tennis courts but they ar^tiot playable and In consequences the scores who want to play tennis have to go to the Court Inn court. Quite a number of the tennis enthusiasts are for forming a club and having competition all the year around. Fine Idea, now to havo-4he courts In Hampton Park, Rectory Square and at Laurens and Broad fixed up. The are starting work on the new Seaboard park on August 11, and the first Job will be toward fixing up the proposed polo field. It Is our earnest hope that the full extent of the suggested recreational layout be carried out and not confine the improvement to a mere landscaping job. Areas for tennis, baseball, horse shoe courts, etc., will pay bigger dividends lu health than all the park lawns and flower beds In an area the size of New York. ? ? Don't get the Idea that I do not believe In landscaping, gardening, etc. I think such a program would be swell, but I do protest carrying It to an extreme wjjere play areas would in? eliminated or alighted. Tbe big push la the metropolitan centers today la for more and more aud more recreational area a. Camden baa plenty of outdoor apace for auch arefls ao why not have them. * ? I Jual for diversion's aake. we'll chat-t ter about something else. Which re-' inlnda me of the laugh 1 got out of j the atutement by a certain minister to tbe effect that there is no buying or selling in heaven. Of course not, that isn't where business has gone. f 9 9 Politicians, we believe should make good bedfellows. They all use the same bunk. , 0 0 0 0 1 have always had great respect for a man who can figure out an Income tax or read a railroad time table. 9 0 0 0 I^et's hop over Into the football arena. The game on August 16, between the Black UhlanB and the Golden Hears, to be played at Zemp stadium as a benefit for the camp fund of the hjgh school grid stfuad should offer a lot of fun and thrills. The game is scheduled for 8:15 p. m. and will feature the grtdlrou "comeback" of a group of thirty or more former football "greats" of Camden. ! Coach Clarkson, Rhame of the Bears, and Coach Jack Nettles, of the llhlans are both breathing expressions of confidence as to tbe outcome of the titanic struggle. Each coach is claiming a victory. 0 0 0 0 I Anyhow folks, it 1b up to you to show your appreciation of the fine work of John Villepigue, head coach, [and the boys of the squad, by turning out in goodly numbers for the event. The admission Is reasonable. So lets go! 4 m ' The midwest varsities and colleges carried off the bulk of honors in the 'returns on the nation-wide poll to determine the personnel of the AllAmerican college team which will meet the Washington Redskins, champions of the National football league at Soldiers Field, Chicago, on the night of August 31. i Papers In this part of the country have been woefully remisB In "cover-' lng" this greatest of all pre season j football classics,, For the benefit of j those who have not learned of the! all-star personnel, we give you the re-: suits of a poll that covered the entire, nation and resulted In over five million ballots being cast. 000 For ends: Sweeney, Notre Dame: Schwartz, California; Koyatch, Northwestern; and Zachary, Purdue. For: tackles: Markov, Washington State;! Schryer, Purdue; Shirley, Nebraska,! and Woltman, Purdue. For guards: ( Routt, Texas Aggies; Monsky, Ala-i bainu; Zarnas, Ohio State; Kuharich,, Notre Dame. For centers: Wolf, > Ohio State; McCarty, Notre Dame; ; Wojciechowiez. Fordham. and Weg-, uer, Northwestern. For quarterbacks: [ Pupils, Notre Dame; Robblns, Arkansas; Filchoch, Indiana; and Spadaccini.i 'Minnesota. For fullbacks: Patrick, j Pittsburgh; Davis, Indiana; Famlgliet-. tl, Boston university; and Blackaby, Butler. For halfbacks: Isbell, Pur-' due; Uram. Minnesota; Heap. North-: western; and Kilgow, Alabama. i Asphalt Used For Paving Long Ago "Asphalt is a forefather of modern ?photography." says a bulletin from tile Washington. P headquarters of tie* National Geographic Society r'Tt ua- i-cii under the n'tnie ot umen of Ju'iea." hi experiment; by t hat pioneer ratiuTa fan. the nineteenth ieiiturx Freneh inventor, Niep( e. Wii 11e visiting his brother in Kew. Lllglaud. iu vHrne?heri n metal plate \si:h a thin layer of asphalt ox posed it iu his small primitive box camera "developed" it by washing it with oi! of turpentine, and brandished before skeptical Hritish scientists a recognizable picture of Kew church. Asphalt's sensitivity to light had made possible the first practical process for photography. Silver aurplanLa asphalt on photographic. platea today, and the surfaces now being most frequently coated with that bituminous covering nre highways and roofs The flame Oildurance, which Mesopotamia!! users praised 5,000 years ago. now prote< ts 70 per cent of the hard-surfaced road mileage In tho 1'nlted States. Onefourth of all highways in this country have been fortified with asphalt against wear and weather. This syrupy black road surfacing, called asphalt and bitumen and pitch down through history, was already on the Job In ancient Dabylon, where King Nebuckadnezzar had streeta paved . with It. "A road glistening with asphalt** was a contribution to civilization of which he boasted.1 About 60 per cent of today's produc-i Hon of asphalt in the United States,' twenty-five centuries later, serves the same purpose Nebuchadnezzar a paving involved the use of burnt bricks embedded in asphalt. The modern highway can be i I'ated diiecti> with a rubbery sheet of the ages-old material, or a bituml-i nous lllb-r ma> serve to cement road j gravel into stability About half the1 paving asphalt used in tlie United States is in the form of "cut-back" mixtures ImuuimU hy mUmg wttle oil which evaporates after the paving has b?'?-n poured and leaves a solid I asphalt surface. Itetween modern improvements, i however, and the ancient idea stretch-1 es a long lapse of memory The eott' venlent road-surfat ing was learned j not from Nebuchadnezzar but from 'small deposits of asphalt in rock form 'in France. Germany aipl Switzerland. Philadelphia tried a sidewalk sample In lS3fc; Paris and lx>ndon then ven-! 'lured upon some asphalt strips; in -the !7e's two American dtleS. Newark | and Washington, tried experimental' patches of the same material Hy i lu.'t6 two million tons of asphalt were being poured yearly upon roads in the United States alone. j , The thirst of dnsty stroets was j originally slaked from the asphalt ["lakes' of, Trinidad and Venezuela. ( ' Froni these two black expanses?; Trinidad's 114 acres and Venezuela's ( ahallower thousand?virtually pure! mineral pitch la chipped In 40 to #0i pound chunks by pickaxes, and within j a week the pockmarked surfaces are I relatively smooth again. The Trinidad "lake" Is solid enough to bear a small loop of railroad out toward its center for transporting newly mined a-sphalt blocks back to "shore." Sir Walter Raleigh pronounced this South American asphalt to be "most excellent good." He gleefully reported to Queen Elizabeth such an "abundance of stone pitch that all the ships of the world may be therewith laden." His further cause for rejoicing was that Trinidad asphalt "melteth not with the sunne as pitch of Norway." and he recommended it for waterproofing ships that trade in tropical ports Since his report, extensive digging has lowered the level of the Trinidad lake by 20 feet. Native asphalt is believed to be the residue of lakes of petroleum evaporating in the sun for countless aeons Enterprising modern petroleum refineries have learned to speed up geologic processes and quickly to separate asphalt from oil. Only 22.000 tons of the natural product came to serve the I'nited States from Trinidad last year, and refineries produced four and one-third million tons. Honemade asphalt has the advantage o1 being kept soft, while the natural product is too hard for direct use. in some forms it is even brittle. After roads, the next greatest us>for asphalt in the I'nlted States is 'roofing. Ttl sIiIngTes an J In coated roof felt and other insulating materials asphalt Is as important to building today as it was when it serv ed as the slime" or mortar, with which the Tower of Babel groped its 'confused way toward the sky Jus? as buildings are roofed against rain, other construction Jobs are "roofed" with asphalt against dampness and water aeepaget pipe* are painted with It to prevent rusting, tunnels are lined with it. building and bridge foundations are wrapped In its protection. Asphalt resists some acids as stoutly as it repels water, therefore It is entrusted with a Job important In this mechanical age?It is shaped into txixi*8 to hold batteries Molded into buttons and switches for electrical fittings, it endures the friction of frequent use The protective qualities of asphalt were known to ancient Egytiana and used to help preserve their dead. The word mummy comes from mumiya, meaning "asphalt", a term originating arohnd the Peraian Gulf where bitumen has been uaed for fifty centuries. APPLICATIONS TO M TAKEN FOR FARM TENANT FAMILIES "Farm tenants, sharecroppers, la borers aiul other families who live In this comity and who can qualify under the provisions of the lintikheadJones Farm Tenant Act,' may make application fur federal loaus to linanco purchase of family sized farms this year," said B. P. DeLoache, county FSA Rehabilitation Supervisor. Thlg county was designated to have the tenant purchase loan program in addition to the other services of as slstauce to low Income farm families Included in the PSA Rural Rehabilitation program. Families in this county who wish federal aid to purchase a good farm inay visit the local PSA Rehabilitation offices in the Agriculture building, in Camden. Information and appllcatiQn blanks may also be secured from the county agent, W. C. McCarley, In the Agriculture building. Application forms and Information may be secured from the vocational agriculture teachers at Mid'way school. Hlanev school. Baron DeKalb school, Bethuoe school, Kershaw county PSA Advisory committeemen. The application period will be open for a ahort time only so all who are Interested are advised to act without delay. Applications made In this county are sub mltted for examination of the local PSA Advisory committee, composed of residents of this county. Approved loans will be certified by this committee within the limits of the funds available for the present fiscal year's program. 1-and must be bought at reasonable prices and must be capable of affording an abundant living for the family and margin of profit necessary to meet loan payments: F8A "will not list land for sale, said B. P. DeLoache. Options may be taken for lands only after the application period Is over. The FSA will recognize no obligation to buy until after appraisal of land and official approval of the purchase proposition. Farm and home plans will be made out for each farm considering the available family labor and the production possibilities of the farm to be bought. No loan will be approved In this program where the farm and home plan does not reveal sufficient probable Income to Justify adequate farm buildings. All services of the Rural Rehabilitation program will be made available to farm families who acquire lands in this program, concluded B. P. Delvoache. Federal old age pensions paid in June totaled $861,530, which went to 18,061 claimants. The average payment was $47.50. The total of 9W age insurance payments since January 1, 1937, is $6,915,367. THE PLIGHT 9F THE JEWS Condition of God's Chown People l?j Almost Beyond Belief. | ???- i I When representatives of thirty-two ' nation* recently met in France to dlsl cU?* the refugee problem and attempt to arrive at some sort of a solution. It didn't make headline ueda. But to the thoughtful observer, the conference nerved to emphasize the fact that thla la one of the moat tragic, land difficult social and economic problems of the modern age. I Never In modern hiatory has the plight of racial minorities, principally the Jewa, been ao bitter. The programa of ancient times almost pale iulo insignificance beside those of today. Germany, of course, Is the aeat of the Jewish oppression. It la apparently Hitler's desire to completely eliminate Hebrew tufluence of any kind 'lu Teutonic territory. In Germany, and also In Austria since the anschluss, Jews have been forbidileu to engage In most fields of profitable occupation. Even when they are not driven out of business, their stores aro placarded, and the German who trades with them comes at once Into conflict with the dread Nazi secret police. Jewish professional men ?doctors. lawyers, teachers, writersare boycotted. In German schools, the Instructors tell their pupils to have nothing whatever to do with Jews, either socially or as a matter of business. Persons with as little as one-eighth Jewish blood are classified officially as Semttlcs, and are consequently ostracized. In brief, the Jew. under Hitler's dream of a race of Nordic supermen, Is regarded as an enemy of the state. Matters would not be so bad were the Jews allowed to leave Germany and Austria with what resources they possess, to seek a place in other lands. But the Jew who Is given a German passport Is necessarily a bankrupt. His money, his property, even his personal effects, are taken from him. He must leave his homd and his occupation with no resources with which to make a fresh start. And, according to late reportB, the German government is going even farther in the case of rich Jews, and Is virtually holding them for ransom. For example, it is said that the re lease from Austria of Louis Rothschild, head of the Vienna branch of the great European banking house can only be obtained when and If his foreign friends and relatives give $10,-1 000,000 to the Reich. A biting commentary on the ques-, tlon is found ih the fact that Myron ^ C. Taylor. American delegate and chairman of the thirty-nation conference. recently pleaded with Germany to permit refugees to take their personal belonging away with them?and received no answer. Some time ago it seemed that the problem might be solved by the ac1 tlon of England. In opening Palestine I to Jewish colonization, and setting it ' aside as a land where the Jews might | create a nation of their own. Today 1 that hope Is largely gone. The Jews ' came to Palestine. They liked it. They proved to be "excellent settlers and capable business men. But the Arabs, whose religion is sfcrongly antiSermltic, Immediately began to fight I the migration. Hundreds have been ; killed in guerilla warfare. Arabian sentiment against the Jews ' has steadily Increased, and it is said | that there is grave danger that the ! cause may develop into a holy war. ! England now has 12,000 troops in Palestine to defend the Jews and still the rapine, slaughter and pillage continues. The result is that onl> 12,000 Jews a year are to be admitted to the country?a drop in a gigantic bucket. There are about 1,000,000 Jews ! remaining in Germany and Austria ' alone. The thirty-two-power conference tooK all this into account. Its attitude was extermely sympathetic toward this oppressed people. But talk -was about all that resulted. No major country is willing to open its gates wide to the Jews, or to any . other refugee. In the case of famous men, there is usually a place?many ' educators, for Instance, have left Germany for England and this country and obtained suitable occupation. For the rnnk and file of Jews there seems to be nowhere to go. All the big powers are occupied with unemj ployment problems. There is not ! enough work for their own people. and not enough money to go around. I Thus, they pity the Jew. they realize I the injustice that has been meted out to him?and they regretfully say. no, ! when he ashir permission to enter, i As Oswald Garrison Villard has ! written. "The roan who could show the way out would deserve the greatest rewards bestowed ever upon aoybody." That man has not appeared ? j Yorkville Enquirer. I Three men have been placed under I arrest at Ponce, Puerto Rioo. on I charges of attempting to assassinate Major General Wlnship. gdVernor of the island on Monday- * Two Puerto RIcaps were Wiled and thirty or more wounded In the attempt to kill the governor. _ ... vr...,,. ; ---" ' r? BUMPER WHEAT CROP RAI8ED IN UNITED 8TATE8 Washington, July 19.? Faced with a bumper wheat crop which < 7u*y cii'ua! iu? necouu mgnesi m an jits history, officials here ure ecuI ceriied with the world wheat situation and the effects upon the elaborate mechanism of limiting production which the New Deal Is attempting to establish. The heart of the enormous surplus problem now facing the Department of agriculture, and the American farmer is shown in statistics. As against a normal wheat crop of 750,000 000 bushels, the July 1 estimate of this year's crop is 967,412,000. This is a surplus of nearly 220,000,000 bushels. Prices Head Lower That is not the whole difficulty. In addition to this bumper crop there is a carry over from last year of 180,000,000 bushels, according to latest estimates. This makes a total available supply of 1,147,000,000 bushels in round figures. Such aj golden hoard of wheat has been collected rarely if ever in American history. It becomes niore Impressive when matched against domestic consumption which is estimated at 683,000,000 bushels. Subtracting the one from the other, that means 464,400,000 bushels of wheat to find additional outlet for, or almost a crop in itself. Farmers have expected to grow rich from their bountiful supply of nodding grain. But the prospect of, a glut has forced down the price and a standard high grade which brought $1.22 9 bushel a year ago now Bells for 69 cents. Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, vainly tried to adjust supply to demand, but first there 'were droughts, and now the bumper crop. As an inducement to farmers to restrict production and to hold off crops for better prices, the Govern-1 ment will make loans against advance crops. A condition for such benefits is, of course, that acreage shall be restricted. Under the terms of the 1938 Farm Act, Mr. Wallace has set the acreage to be planted for next year at 55,000,000 or one third less than the unusually large plantings of this year. Only this much acreage can participate in soil-conservation and crop-loan benefits. If more is planted, compulsory marketing quotas may take the place of these controls. The situation graphically illustrates that the farmer has two difficulties, small crops and big crops and how to get the happy mean unless sheer chance is to govern is the problem of the Government. Limited amounts of wheat are being taken off the market. The Commodity Credit corporation expects to make loans to farmers, taking liens on their crop as collateral. This will take some grain off the market. The prospective loan rate will rub between 62 and 80 cents a bushel; the farmer will he offfired aiiouah ^ jwheat worth fl.15 a bushel, the parity price set by Mr. Wallace. The Federal Surplus Commodities corpora tion also is buying upward of 125,000 barrels of surplus flour for 'free distribution, requiring about 575,000 bushels. Now attention has turned to the export market. Mr. Wallace last week expressed the hope no other nation would precipitate a general resort to export subsidies and added that the United States "would like to stay in the world wheat market on a basis of cooperation with other countries and on a basis of getting our fair share of the export demand." He warned that "we probably can go farther than anyone else "if susldles should be forced. SOME TIMELY RECIPE8 As Furnished by County Home Demonstration Agent Pear Honey?Peel, core and grind pears. To each quart of ground pear add one can of crushed pineapple; one lemon, using juice and chipped pulp, grating the yellow . from the white, peel before cutting it to obtain pulp and Juice, then peel the white peel from the lemon and with a sharp knife or preferably scissors cut It into threads, stir Into the mixture. Add four cups of sugar and two" cups of water. Boil until it pones. Seal In sterilized glasses or Jars. Pear Conserve?Qrind peeled and quartered pears through the meat mill using the plate with round perforation, to each quart of the ground pear use one can of crushed pineapple, two lemons if small or one, if large, (prepared as above) one tap. powdered ginger, four cups sugar, three cups water. Boil until thick, seal. Candied Figs?Six quarts figs with stems, four quarts boiling water, one cup soda, three quarts sugar, eighteen pounds water for dissolving it. Place the sugar in the preserving kettle, add the water, stir until dissolved, let come to a boil, skim. Add flgs and boil rapidly until all the syrup is consumed. Place them on platters or waiters pressing them flat, dry in a warm place until there is no stickiness, pressing them flatter every few hours. Sprinkle with sugar and pack in boxes with paraffin paper between each layer of figs or place the layers in a jar, so they can be kept closed. A Chicago motorist drove past a red light in order to be stopped by a policeman, and when stopped by the policeman's whistle, told the officer that he had a passenger who had robbed him of 90 cents. The thief was arrested. .III > I J - . -\T Be the f Y OU Judge What U the right price for a funeral service ? You be the judge. Complete funeral prices are marked on each casket in tihe Kornegay display and patrons are urged to make th^re own selection in keeping with what they can afford to pay. KORNEGAY FUNERAL HOME ' - A COMMUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1SS8" Phone 103 Camden, S. C. . ll Examples of one-way fare# from Camden New York $13.40 Philadelphia 11.60 Washington 8.90 Richmond . . . rr . . . 6.60 ~ Tampa 11.15 St. Petersburg 12.00 Miami 14.25 J. L. Carter, D.P.A. Seaboard Office Room 1 Arcade Columbia, 8. C... Phone 3821 Every modem appliance hat been installed in Seaboard coaches for your enjoyment ol S XH>-1| clean trip. Reclining seats, softly upholsteced, clean head rests. Meals, pillows?low cost. Conn; pleto wash-room facilities. Subdued lights at night. Go this way! Convenient connections frost Ijere L RAILWAY ...