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RURAL LIFE CONFERENCE TO
BE HELD AT CAMP LONG
The Extension lturul Life Conference
for boyb and girls between the
ages of 10 and 25 years will be held
at Camp Long. August 8 to 12. A
very Ihstructlve and Interesting week
has been planned. The theme for the
week will bo "Advancement of Rural
Living." The following boys and girls
from Kershaw county plan to attend:
Front tho Older Youth group af Lugoff:
Vivian Lee, Halite Lee, Eunice
.lordon, Mildred Rabon, Richard (let*
'ye, Gm'ijn, ami Honjamlu
(lettys. From the Malvern Hill group:
Lena Sinclair, Luclle Robinson, Mack
Munn, and Robert Hall. Miss Alice
McCartei', local leader from the Lugoff
club, assisted by Miss Nancy
Nelson, will 'company the group
down there and will bo tho official
chaperons.
Interesting features on the program
are an ffilloWs: *'
"PreejmxV~end Future Demand of Rural
Youth", Eugene Merrltt, Extension
Economist. U. S. Department of
Agriculture; "Farming As a Life Vocation,"
I). W. Watklns, Director,
8. C. Extension Service; "The Family's
Contribution to Society," Dr. B.
O. Williams, Rural Sociology Department.
Clemson College; "Making the
Most of Your Opportunities at Home."
Lonnle I. Landrum. State Home Demonstration
Agent. Wlnthrop College;
"Personality Development," !>r. D. W.
Daniels. Dean. General Science Department.
Clemson Colleg*e; "Out-of*
School Rosources for Continuing Education."
Dr. J. Ryon McKisslck,
President, Cnlverslty of South Carolina;
Conference Summary, Eugene
Merrltt.
Program for the Afternoons: "Appropriate
Dross," Elizabeth Watson, Extension
Clothing Specialist and Ro-|
malne Smith, Director, Camp Long;
"Sources of Farm Credit," Henry S.
.Johnson, Farm Credit Administration;
"Forest Farming as a Means of Increasing
Farm Income." Donald R.
Brewster, Extension Forester.
From 3:00-4:00 o'clock there will
be a choice of activities: "Live Saving
Test." P. B. HoltzendorfT, III,
Camp Ivong Counselor; "Community
Itecreat Ion," Roy Shclton, National'
Recreation Association; "Community
Chorus Development." Mrs. O R.
Smith. Camp i>ong Counselor; "Home
Crafts," Jane Ketchen, Extension
Marketing. Specialist; "Electrical Ap-j
pliances for the Farm and Home,"
(I H Stewart. Assistant Extension j
A grim Rural Engineer.
The evening programs are as fob 1
lows: Monday. "History and Purpose,
of Camp Ixing." A H. Ward. District}
Farm Agent; Picture: Sain Farmer's
Cotton." .Lewis Riley, Extension Vis-j
ual Education; Acquaintance Party:
In charge, Komalne Smith. Camp'
Director. Tuesday: "By Products of|
Cotton Seed," J. H Moses, National I
Cotton Seed Products Assistant "Social
Recreation," In charge, Roy Shelton;
Wednesday Talent Night, in
charge Mr. and Mrs. Romalne Smith.
Members Camp Iauig stall. Thursday,!
Camp Fire Program. In charge, Har-i
riet F Johnson. State Girl's Club!
Agent.
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fBUY THAT DRESS TODAY
you h ave eight more weeks of warm
A weather in which to wear summer
dresses. \ isit our store and select one
o f ese bargains.
Two racks of Dresses formerly sold for $3.95 sl.OO
One lot of Dresses former ly so for $5.95 $2.00 I l;
All Lace and Linen Dresses, value $7.95 s3.oo I I
value {2.95 .... $1.00
ALL MILLINERY 50c and $1.00 .
SILK WOOL PORESPUN
DRESSES, value $16.95, now $5.00
THE SMART SHOP v
Railway Express
Buys Southeastern
Arrangementa have been completed
by the Hallway Express Agency
to (uke over the exprpaa operations
on the Southern Hallway. Mobile and
()|?lo and twenty-seven hther lines on
August 1. It has been announced by
L. O. Head, president of the Hallway
Express company.
The transfer. It Is staled, Is being
made without Interruption of the
vice. "The development comes as a
result of an operating agreement
made by the various railroads and
express companies Involved, which
received the approval and authorisation
of the Interstate Commerce commission
on June 1. it has the effect
of enabling the Southern system to
gain proportionate ownership In the
Express Agency, under the same plan
embracing the eighty-six class one
railroads which participated In lt?
formation in March. 1929. In addition
to the two major rail systems,
twenty-eight shortllno railroads and
steamship companies tire Included In
the new express plan.
The incorporation of former Southeastern
express operations Into those
of Railway Express will add 9.642.54
inlles of steam railroad lines to the
nearly 200,000 rnll mileage or the Kxpress
Agency, as well as additional
miscellaneous mileage of steamship
and truck lines. The agency will
thus bring Its service to 850 new
points throughout the south and provide
more comprehensive coverage of
all centers of population throughout
that region.
Several advantages are expected to
accrue to the shipping public, as the
result of this elimination of duplicated
expreBH service, offices and equipment.
Consolidation of business will
make possible the Inauguration of additional
scheduled through cars be- j
tween prlclpal Southern cities and
those in the country generally. There
will likewise be an elimination of delays
involved in transfers between
companies.
The Southeastern agency which has
been at the Southern railway station
has been moved to the Railway Express
agency on Rutledge street with
F. N. McCorkle In charge of both.
Met at Baron DeKalb.
The Children's story hour met at i
Huron DeKalb school Friday. July 29, j
at 3:00 o'clock It Is directed by Miss,
Willie Mae Peach, the Kershaw coun-j
ty librarian, of the DeKalb school.
The roll call and minutes were!
read by Betty Horton, the secretary.
A Bible story entitled. "How thej
Iron gate was opened." was told by |
T. J. Peach. Jr. Then a short .piayj
called "Playing Indian." was enacted
The characters were: Pocahontas,
(Peggy Threat) and Hiawatha. (Leila;
Workman ) Miss Willie Mae Peach j
gave an article on the Indians of the
present day. Then two Indian stories,
"The little hoy who became a robin"!
and "The story of the first woodpeck-j
er." Lastly a game "Famous Book |
Characters." was played
Read the label on your paper and !
watch the date.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
(By Spectator)
Governor Johnston has done well lu
vetoing the act tor Hubmit a proposed
amendment to the State Gonatltution
providing that our judges may retire
on a pension.
If our Judaea are men of Bound
bualneaa thinking they will devote ten
per cent of their pay for Insurance
If with the high salaries now received
they cannot live comfortably In our
little towns and aavo money. too. r???y
ueeu guardians
In South Carolina Charleaton, Columbia,
Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson,
Greenwood and Aiken are
probably our moat expensive towns,
on account of rents. Groceries ami
some other items, however, may offset
that. Hut in the towns mentioned
thoroughly desirable and convenient
houses can be had for $50.00 to 175.00
per month. The coat of food aujjBfue)
need not exceed $60.00 more. With
clothing at $50.00 more we cover the
essentials, and liberally at that. What
m?v he required for other things, iiie
social imponderables, is more or less
a matter of choice. Clearly even lu
Charleston a Judge may live com
fortably on half the salary. Why.
then, a pension?
If our Judges need a pension I
should favor compulsory annuity Insurance
for them, chargeable entirely
to their salaries.
I say this with warm regard for
our Judges, all of whom I respect.
Our Judges are well paid, considering
the prevailing scale of pay. Those
Judges living In smaller towns are
almost plutocrats, being beyond a
doubt among the most richly emoluniented
citizens of the bailiwick.
The suggestion that we Increase
our pension payments In order to get
more federal aid is the same as saying
that we tax our taxpayers more
In order to get more federal aid. l|
cannot endorse that. The Idea of Increasing
our spending In order to get
more money is unsound; we ought to
clear our thinking and stick to wellconceived
plans of public finance.
It goes without saying that the
same reasoning argues against the
suggestion of a special session. No
special session is needed. We are
threatened with a heavy deficit as
matters now stand. How, then, shall
we do anything in a special session?
Special sessions cost as much as
regular sessions. The Constitution so
provides. While the Constitution may
not amount to three whoops in restraining
the avidity of the boys for
extra^and special pay. we may be
sure that the boys who collected all
the extru and special pay?contrary
to the very clear prohibition of the
Constitution ?will show great respect
for the section which allows the same'
pay for extra sessions as for regular
sessions. The danger is that they
might Invent some more extra pay
even for the extra sessions.
Kvervbody is an Economist, and If
his economics won't stand the test
of proved experience he sidesteps by
regarding himself as a sociologist.
That seems to cover everything. Present-day
sociology in the hands of politicians
is anything that will savor of
a broad and charitable attitude toward
the so-railed underprivileged,
even if it tears down the social ordr,
and. economic foundations
Much Is being said about the South
as a national economic problem. The
idea seems to be that our wages are
too low. What wages? Farm wau?s.
How tan we increase farm wages'" Hv
prodin ing more per man. That means
m rr-n'T n?r nf machinery and a
larger and more scientific use of f"> rtilizers.
as well as better field management
Hut this will put people
ont of work. If you increase prod notion
you run atoul of the government's
plan, and if you increase unemployment
you further embarrass the nation.
yet a higher wage is conditioned
on those two tilings
The low wages here , meatj.. that;
prices of our products are low, a condition
favorable to the masses; and
they mean a wider spread of work
among the people
Just to stand off and talk at random
about low wages and low standards
Is easy; but what Is the remedy
that will embrace not only those Individuals
who will be favored, but
the whole mass of the people?
A deficit In the operation of the
state government may be avoided
The General Appropriation bill has a
proviso which authori2es the Budget
commission to reduce the approprla
tlons If revenue should be Insufficient.
The state auditor keeps in touch
with the Income of the state and Is
able to tell the members of the Budget
commission If expenditures are
running ahead of the Income.
The members of the Budget commission
are: Governor Johnston,
Senator S. M. Ward and Chairman
Neville Bennett. The state auditor,
J. \1. Smith, is secretary of the commission.
High wages usually are associated
with high prices. Products of the
soil or manufactured products command
high wages if the products sell
at high prices or yield large profits.
High wages can only .be paid for lowprice
products and commodities if by
use of machinery the power of the
man is greatly multiplied so that instead
of a score of men at low wages
one man may be employed at a relatively
high wage.
If our farmers should introduce machinery
on a large scale we should j
be able to raise farm wages. Thatj
would result in reduction of men em-j
ployed. Any such reduction would ;
further aggravate the serious condi-j
lion of unemployment. It is well j
known that the more machinery used j
the cheaper will be the cost of each ]
article produced. Finally the constant,
cheapening enables more people to
buy, etc., until In the long run more!
people will be employed because thej
cheaper the product the more we can j
buy, and the greater demand will re-,
suit in a still greater production at;
constantly lower cost per unit. Thatj
is the well-known view of the econo-,
mist and it has always worked out!
that way. But the sociologist is great-1
ly conceived about the condition ofj
the thousands who will be displaced j
by machinery and must continue with-,
out work until widened markets so j
Increase the demand for the goods
as to stimulate productive processes]
to the point of absorbing all the people
unemployed through the introduction
of machinery. All this, it >
seems to me, points to the fallacy of(
trying to regulate wages by law. Busi-j
ness thrives on flexibility, just as the
beat business man is the one' most
ready to make quick adjustments to
| new conditions. The Apostle Paul]
I said something about "buying up the
[opportunities." That is the essence,
of business But if statutes are to:
' control all the factor* of cost wr shall[stifle
the initiative which made this
a great nation.
I wish the weather man in Columbia
would let up on the rain We are
making, or have virtually made, a fine
corn crop 1 don t want an^ more
moisture for a spell. Past week the
boll weevil was distinctly groggy. He
looked like Schmelllng. But if thew^alher
man isn't careful the weevil
will get up on the count of ten < as
Tunney did) and win over' ua by a
fluke.
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Why do we have senators? Is it a
test of senatorial fitness that he shall
promise to follow wherever he may
be led? Is the senate a body of hum!
ble followers; or Is it an important
I and a responsible part of our govern[
men??
In all his talk about 100 per cent
this and that. I am wondering wheth'
er a state senator should be on good
! terms with the governor. Just as the
[president fssls * the **r\or
of the nation, so rioOs a governor feel
that in him lies the hope of the state.
It must be true, then, that if an ambitious
and idealistic president has
a right to expect 100 per cent support
from a senator of the United
States, so must an ambitious and
idealistic governor feel entitled to 100
per cent loyalty and support from all
state senators. Yet 1 am led to believe
that some of our state senators
did not give 100 per cent support to I
Governor Johnston and that one, at
least, boasts of that.
So how can we understand a recusant
state senator who balks at a t
contumacious United States senator?!
If a state senator points with pr'dc'
to his thwarting the governor, how
can he upbraid a United States senator
for a mild show of independence?
Cotton Ud didn't organize a fight on
the president. >et rumor hath it that
a certain state senator prided himself
on being a sort of Jack, the Giant
K iller.
FARMER AND BU8INE88 MAN
ENDORSES WYNDHAM MANNING
At the second primary In Septem-j
ber we will elect our next governor.!
I am personally supporting Wyndhamj
Manning for the following reasons:
He Is an extensive and successful
farmer, a graduate of West Point,
and was a Colonel in the World War.
His grandfather was governor of
South Carolina during the War between
the States, and his father was
governor of South Carolina during
the World War. Through heredity
and personal training he Is a born
leader of meh. J
As a farmer and business man who
owns real estate he is fully conscious.
He believes In the prompt and impartial
enforcement of all the laws.
He Is an old line Democrat, believing
In states rights and in local selfgovernment.
He is young enough to
be progressive and yet old enough to
be conservative. j
If elected governor of South Carolina
I think he will uphold the dignity
and traditions of this proud commonwealth
better than any of the
other candidates.
Wade Stackhouse !
Dillon. S. C? July 28, 1938.
Ex-Sheriff Hunter
Writes Of Old Days
When I was a boy seventy years
ago in my neighborhood five miles
southeast of Lancaster court house
every able bodied person, big, little
young and old worked hard to make
their living by titling the soil with
common grubbing hoes and with
plows made at home in black-smith
shops, for then it was either work or
starve as there was no government
relief funds to depend on like many
are doing now. But as hard as times
were then I never heard of any one
starving or complaining for something
to eat. Every planter tben saved his
own plaiiting seed from, year to year,
and raised his own hogs, cows and
chickens, ^pur cotton and wool were
carded with hand cards into rolls and
the rolls were spun on hand spinning
wheels into thread and the thread
was woven into cloth on home-made
hand and treadle looms. So this was
the way the cloth was made which
our clothes were made out of. We
would dye our thread which oar cloth
\V88 made of with indigo which we
raised on our farm and would use
other dye stuff which we would hunt
up and get out of the forest nearby.
1 have filled many thousand quills
and helped my dear good old mother
to weave on one of these' old looms,
for then we had no cotton mills ip
this country like there are now. I
guess if there had been I would have
been a cotton fill man instead of an
old broken down ex-sheriff like I am
now. I have written this to let the
n\ost of our good people who are
much younger than I am to know that
they have never seen such hard times
as I have and I do hope that they
never will.?John P. Hunter in Lancaster
News.
Sneak thieves entered the police
station^at Phoenixville, Pa., and carried
away everything they found lying
around loose, including the equipment
of the fingerprint expert?his identification
photographs, .camera, flashlight
bulbs and fingerprinting equipment.
The thieves left no fingerprints.
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Camden's $24,000 Agricultural Building
Shown above is the Agricultural Building, recently erected on West DeKalb Street. Interior worn is neany
finished and all offices except the Home Demonstration Agent and the Cbunty Health Department have
moved in.
NOTICE
.
Current will be off between hours ~
of 2:30 and 5 p. m. on SUNDAY, II
AUGUST 7, 19&8?account of
Carolina Power and Light Co.
changing poles in main feed line. _
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