The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 05, 1938, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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
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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.
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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.
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Politicians, we believe should make
good bedfellows. They all use the
same bunk. ,
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1 have always had great respect for
a man who can figure out an Income
tax or read a railroad time table.
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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.
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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!
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' 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.
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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.
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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. |
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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. _ ...
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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.
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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.
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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
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