Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f G R A D U A T I O N G I F T 1] Beautifully packaged^powders, Perfumes and Compacts CANDIES Fountain Pens ^ ^CODAKS * ^Stationery I Zemp's Drug Store both preschiptioh stores 9t~- City Drug Company I ' BROAD STREET?PHONE 30 DeKALB STREET ? PHONE 130 ? ? - i " I??II II I I I III I III I REAL PIT COOKED BARBECUE PORK AND HASH EVERY WEDNESDAY ? READY AT 9 A. M. Come in and get yours earl) Home Stores Economy Market Six Home Games on "Bulldog" Schedule 1 The Camden high school football team?runner-up to the state championship Columbia Caps in 1938, has elx home games scheduled for the 1939 season, which opens on September 22 with the Florence high school grldders here at Zemp stadium. The football squad will muke its annual pilgrimage to the summer camp in the North Carolina mountains in August returning home In time for the opening of school, will start the polishing off training on the stadium turf here. The teams to face the Bulldogs this year are about the same that fell be-| fore the precision-trained grldders of John Villeplgue In .1938. There Is one exception?that being the GafTney highs?who play at Camden November 24 The Columbia Caps do not) appear on the Camden schedule. Cast year Camden played tho Caps at Co-j luinbia, lite game bringing out the greatest crowd?! .() () to lU.nOu people' tn witness a high school game in the history of sport in the state. Camden lost by a small margin, due to the fact that West and Lynch, star playits of the Bulldog machine, were crippled and played with bandages wrapped around Injured limbs. Till* complete schedule of the Bulldog team this year follows. September 22 Florence here September 2!' Darlington hero October ?J Sumter at Sumter October 13 Newberry at Newberry October 2o MmoUland Cayee here I October 27?Chester here November 3 -Orangeburg here November 1" -Harlsvilic here November 17 Open date November 21 GafTney here November 30?Charleston at Charleston. j I; is believed the GafTney game on November 24 will he the homo-coming game here. half ton of paper yearly u8ed by average family The average American family con* Humee more than half a ton of paper coating about $40 in a yeai, according to economist* of the Forest 8ervlce, United States Department of Agriculture. The total consumption In the United Statea In 1937 wan shown by census figures to be nearly 16,000,000 tons of paper?more than half the paper produced In the world. The figure Is the highest ever reported for any one nation. Paper consumption In the United States has practically doubled In the last 15 years, the Forest Service reports. Of the 246 pounds of paper consumed or used by the average person, about H>o pounds represented newspapers. books, and writing paper. The remainder was used as cartons, building boards, wrapping papers, and numerous miscellaneous products. The Forest Service points out that four-fifths of the paper consumed here was made In the United States. The remainder was imported principally in the form of newsprint, of which about 3.00fU>??0 tons came from Canada. In addition to the imports of paper large <|uantities of pulpwood and wood pulp of certain kinds' are imported annually for manufacture into paper in New Knglulid , New York, Pennsylvania, and the Igikes States. About half of the wood liber used iu paper in the United States is grown on foreign soil Spruce, hemlock, and fir furnished three-fourths of the wood fiber. Rough estimates indicate that the paper used in 1937 required the cutting of pulpwood on 3,0"tUiuO acres of land in i he United States. Canada and I nort huestern Kurope. Apparently seheduled for revival is the young-looking "baby blouse" in bat iste and sheer. Moth worm angarl? aat tha untraatad piaca of biankat. but do oot touch ' th. ERUSTOCIDE lraalad ptida. YOUR BLANKETS fresh, clean, fleecy-soft and MOTH-PROOFED Before putting your blankets away for the summer let us clean them by our ERUSTOCIDE process. We'll return them to you delightfully soft, sweet-clean and germ-free. The MOTHS won't like them, but YOU'LL love them. Palmetto Dry Cleanery Phone 6 403 DeKALB STREET Phone 6 COMMENT8 ON MEN AND THING8 (By Spectator) A flue young man auks Spectator: "Are all Hare flebermen, or are all fishermen llare?" Perhaps I'd better paaa that up. Spectator recall* the great flah story, said to be the ouly truthful tale by a fisherman. "Master, we have tolled all night and caught nothing." Still, the fact is beyond cavil that by actual measurement our creeks, lakes,1 ponda, swimming holes, rivers, bays, estuaries and back-waters, all taken together, could not accommodate In actual space one-half of the known and recognized liars. Our public business la sometimes very casually attended to, about like our private business, kivery time 1 have occasion to look into statutes or constitutional provisions I yearn for somebody to edit the great enactments. Here'a something to mull over. The Constitution of 1895 (which is the present Constitution) requires the levying of a 3-ixiill school tax. 1 hat is what we pounced on so Jubilantly last Bummer and voted off. The legislature of 1896 (1 think It was) assuming ,as I muBt believe, that the Constitution required a statute for Ub fulfillment, paBBed a law imposing a 3mlll school tax. The law of 1896 does not refer to the Constitution of 1895? so we ought to be glad that it did no' occur to the free-spenders to collect 6-inilla. Our Attorney-General, John M. Daniel, who is like a rock in a weary J land, opines that the voting off of the! Constitutional 3-milla means that the^ statutory 3-mill tax is dead. Hut Mr. Daniel soundly believes that such wat-j tors should not be left open to doubt,j since-the legislature Is in session and. should legislate. A calm survey of our condition will | show that the senate, while unable to j agree on retrenchment, is not entirely committed to details. 1 believe the senators would be glad to have constrictive suggestions. Candor compels me to say that we who are outside the senate can't understand why the public services can't be cut. We cannot understand why Clemson, Winthrop. the Medical College and The Citadel must have more money. We cannot understand why they can't operate on less. Hut since all this is beyond the correction >f mortal men, a sort of sacred right, apparently, we might as well assume that by impreseriptable loreordinatiun whatever is, is, and must be, legislatively, so we must start with the senate's total. I think there will be general agreement on the following. There should be no 3-mill property tax, there should be no Jncrease in the corporation income tax, there should be no additional cent for gasoline. And equally* 1 think, general agreement will be on the following: There should be an elimination of the lax on dividends from investments in South Carolina, called the surtax on intangibles, then there should be a reduction on other intangibles, and there should be ,i 'eduction of one mill of the capital stui k tax. Reduce welfare to one million dollars and restrict administrative cost to $.?U,uOO. Now wlu-re shall the money come from, if we eliminate some of tin* proposed taxes and reduce 'others? An increase is suggested for liquors. Increase the loan from the highway to two millions and also issue five yearly notes for $?<?' .0<>U each. Dower the income brackets of single men and women to $?2'C payable monthly, and of married men to $ 1 ,2i.ni, payable monthly. Surely no argument is needed for the elimination of the property tax. tiur county governments- and our schools rest heavily on property taxes. Our towns and cities add almost a- much more When the voters voted off the 3-mill tax they "voted off a tax, they were not a lot of pettifogging police lawyers. They meant to vote off a tax. If that tax is put on again it will lie a breac h of faith with the people. One legislator said to me "That vote doesn't mean anything, because the people would vote off all the taxes if they had a chance." 1 agree with him about the voting off, our people are predominantly in favor of reducing until they become legislators. That seems to change the point of view. Hut If the people want to take ofT a tax shall the legislature become a body of Hitlers and fnake us pay? As to the corporation Income tax. The impression (hat eliminating the surtax on intangibles will help the corporation is entirely an error. I We need new capital here, we need new business, we need new people of wealth. If we remove the surtax 011 intangibles we shall help our citizens who own our home enterprises, but we must go further, if we wish to atract outsiders to become citizens and die in our midst, leaving their estates to pay to South Carolina millions in inheritance taxes. The business enterprises we have are not prosperous, if we want to bring in others we must not add to their burdens. Likewise, common fairness and justice requires that the emergency one mill put on capital stock in 1933. should be removed. The emergency is so far gone that wo have raised millions in new revenue since then. Now the raising of four millions through two loans can be amortized so that a revival of business, even to the 1937 scale, will absorb a considerable part of it. Incidentally the senate has made provision for funding part of the debt. I think there can he no sound disagreement with the limitation of welfare undertaking, as we now have it. I heard no one defend it as it is. Some few suggested a million as the ceiling. I think I do not not misjudge general sentiment if I interpret it today as favoring either the doing away with tlie welfare program, or the severest llrrlitation on it. If we reduce welfare to one million dollars the loan could be reduced by nearly a million and a half dollars. Now is the. time to curb it before it becomes another giant. Government Area Tor Wild Turkey A bill directing the secretary of agriculture to acquire approximately 30,000 acres of privately-owned or county-owned lands In South Carolina for a "national wildlife refuge primarily for the protection and perpetuation of the Eastern wild turkey" has been introduced Into the senate by United States Senator E. I). Smith, of South Carolina. The bill has obtained approval of the senate committee on agriculture and forestry. Harold E. Blakey, of the United States bureau of biological survey, a unit of the agriculture department, pointed out that the land to be purchased would be In the basin of one of the three great South Carolina river systems, the Santee, Pee Dee or the Savannah. It Is In these basins that the wild turkeys survives In a strain as pure as that offered in any other Hectlon of the country. Senator Smith, In his bill, points out that while the original pure wild turkey was found in great abundance by pioneers on this continent, the wild turkey now survives In "only a few limited areas." In this state lumbering operations are "rapidly depleting their remaining favorable habitat." The secretary of agriculture would be authorized to permit such lumber-, ing operations as would not inter 1 i fore with the effective management of wild turkeys. He "may distribute,' sell in open market or otherwise, or' exchange wild turkeys from said ref-. uge for stocking, restocking or pro-i pagating purposes, and may accept funds and other aids and-enter into; agreements with landowners in the1 development of the program authorlz-l ing by this act for the perpetuation and restoration of wild turkeys, including such original or cooperative research in the problems of wild turkey management as may be necessary ' to efficient expansion ahd promotion of the program herein authorized." j One-fourth of the gross proceeds from any sale off the land would go to the counties in which the refuge is located, proportional to its area in each county. I Auditor's Office Gets Hoube Cleaning li you happen 10 drop iu the office of county auditor Fred Ogburn at the court house, do not be surprised if you gather the imprepsion that you are somewhere else. The spic and spat) appearance of desks, conuters, the newly painted fire-place, hearth and the like, are not flgmentB of imagination. The county auditor called upon the N. Y. A. boys and when they finished with the reno-J vatlng process, desks and counters all looked like new. iMr. Ogburn has announced the ap-| pointment of S. Wylie Hogue as his chief clerk. Approximately one out of every seven persons bitten by a poisonous' snake dies of the poison. j The value of cattle, sheep, horses, pigs and chickens in Wyoming is estimated at 63,017,000. | I DOQ RETRIEVE8 EXPL08IVE WHILE DYNAMITERS FLEE 1 Representative Ansel M. Hawkins, J of Greer, told a atowv vA?t?Niav . .9 r ?V V4 ? ^ Quiet fishing party that turned into 1 a group of men fleeing for their iivss I when a retrieving dog caught up |.i lighted stick of dynamite and chased 4 them. The Greenville . county legislator ^ said they were friendB of his who 1 decided to "clean out" a fishing hole J in Greenville county from which they " had caught many fish. A stick of dynamite was tossed into 1 the water?but without reckoning on \ the retrieving habit of ohe fisher. I man's dog the animal jumped after I the stick and started back to the bank ) from which the men started running ) when they saw the dog had no intention of heeding their warnings. The animal was about to overtake his owner when the latter turned into i a newly-plowed field. There the go- \ ing was bad for the dog?allowing .] the man to put more distance between ~j them before the dog- was blown to j bits.?-Thursday's Columbia State. REV. HERBERT WILL SPEAK .|| ON M ETHORIST UNIOK 3 ffl Because of the importance of the great adventure that the Methodist church is making in Christian fellowship by bringing together three branches of that denomination, anil . i. because of the desire of many to . understand more clearly the plan by j which these three branches will live-3 and work as one, Rev. R. Bryce Herbert will speak on this subject at the j regular morning service hour at Lyt-! tleton Street Methodist church oh Sunday morning. You are cordially; invited to attend. The service is at ; i 11:15 a. m. VENETIAN BLINDS | Installed in your home as low at* $4.00 per window, complete with I Facia board to hid* mfc^jlniiin. I JENKINS SHOP I North Broad St. Camden, S. C. 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