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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE1 ;r5-57r?T7 ! PubUahod .vjry , ' 1109 North Hrosd Htreol. * l>t>?lo?lc* th. C*.*ouih l'rlc. P<?* A* ??roml tlw ,nT riiiilon? uK?n for i , fUr ??N;.(r^ ?n ?"?i?Vu??*? looa than HI* MOlUtt*. ^ pay*- I th? #ub*crlptlon prk? ' ul>>crlptlon? *? bl. h? ?dvfnr.?>^rlbZr f*U? to r?n?w. I 31? r?'l?bl.,aw}l'lMloS"ol^"JSubS'ul n?*| r,'"^""3'J3:i::.....u. ": prto*. ? " Friday, Juno 18, 193? I COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS (By Spectator) In u recent Issue of The United H tales New?, of Washington, L). C.,. uppeartt an article by our well-known and esteemed fellow Carolinian, J. Skottowe Wannamaker, recoRnlaed as a loader In cotton economics. flrst president of the Farmers and Taxpayers league und one ot the moat onor-i goilc and resourceful Intellect* 1 have I over known. The two friends or mine, who wore always awake and alert/ mentally, were the late John J .Mc- j Mahon and J. rfkotlowe WahUaiAaaor,, happily Ht111 with urt und always "re-1 deem lug the time," as the Apostle ad- ^ molilalia* us. Recently Mr. Wannamaker received high recognition for , a biographical work of general tutor-^ est. i Speaking of thoHO two stimulating minds?and they always kept me on, the Jump?I Hud that the death of. John J. McMahau took something out of my life and left a place untitled. ^ j 1 have been rich In friends There's, my loyal, partial courtly friend and. champion, Colonel W. W. Bruce, now re-establishing his health In Abbeville.j And Doctor Hurts! Truly a mail among men and an apostle in all good ^ workH. And there's my valiant friend,a knightly soul, Lewis Rice, of Union; j may he come back renewed In youth like the eagle. Rut, really. I'm embarrassed with a wealth of comradely spirits who have enriched my life and renewed and strengthened my faith in humanity, j Ami .) J Law-ton, a noble soul and, lover of mankind, who amid all tho cares and demands of varied interest*,, yet took time to write mo a letter of encouragement. I But I can't write about till the choice friends 1 have and have had/ Mr Mc Mahon crowds out other thought* at the moment, lie was a brilliant man. his brain never tagged, m-\er tested Spectator has Intellectual impulses, bill th'-y "peter out.", After a snatch of something serious I renew my touch with baseball and pin my faith on Dizzy Dean, hoping. l?o, that Bob Fuller will "fog 'em"j past all the batters In fact I'm one ^ of the boys except for this whang-( doodle so-called mountain singing I hear over the radio. Sunday afternoon I was rejoicing in tho beauty of Faust, as It canto over the radio; but a dose of pills or some-^ thing else followed so quickly that my thirst was not quenched. But Mr. Mahon had no small talk.j no cheap jokes, no smutty stories, no. foibles lie wanted Ideas and turned them over and about, up and down,, delighting in the intellectual exercise. Oh. you might not agree with him ? but he made) you think. If you Should liken pure Intellectuaiism to the porterhouse steuk or fillet miction tnos* of tts small bites of those cuts, teeding ottetier on s ,.w meat, and not seldom on tho haml-Mru.T, .u.d hot-,I ., * of the higher life. Most of it- ate m- n'ally indob-tit and need lots of prodding to keep off asposiopesi*. j U * ' II- we quHll. imbibe, and Mb it. quarts ./ dope to k-",-p our bodies awake. So I never (c.ise to marvel at nic-tt w ho are always wideawake, intently aw.ii" of , verv'hing and running under a full head of steam day and night. U.-member Dr Mir. hell, the *< holar-, )\ pr-'-ideii; of our uni\er-;'> who really carried c)Ul t'arollna to the people" If wasn't safe to make casual ^ remarks to him. for if there was even the germ of an idea the Doctor looked r over, examined it carefully. anal>z-| ed It, speculated on it. dug into the antecedents, grilled you about It and thrilled over It?and put you through > jur paces. j A survey of our condition in Soma Carolina Indicates that tho farmers have passed through a disastrous year.! This Is equally true of our Industries,* a* well as of our mercantile establish-j ments. This argues against any newtaxes A very poor state should study howto increase its revenue through increased production and Individual in-, come. Increasing state revenue byfurther squeezing an Impoverished, people Is not sound statesmanship nor: wholesome finance. Tho problem, then, is to remove cer-j tain taxes which militate against new| Investments and operate to discourage and diminish those which we have. By universal opinion of informed men the Intangibles tax keeps out wealthy men who might become cltl zens. If citizens, they would pay largely to the general taxes of the state. I should suggest a cut of fifty per cut of the general Intangibles tax and should exempt entirely from the Intangibles tax dividends from S->nth Carolina enterprises. It has boon estimated that at present we have as property holders men of large wfjlth'who pay heavily to other states on their Incomes. Some of those men wouiil like to tieeoine citizens of this ?tat? and uoiiid contribute more, S'toral shims more, in income taxes than \\e should lose through reduction in the g. m-rui Intangibles tax. This I should regard as a highly constructive effort to rebuild the state, for we should become a very definite Interest In the minds of those men as citizens. No property tax should be levied by the state. All the studies which have been made indicate that our local taxes are much higher than the local ta\os in most other states By reimposing three mills we not only break faith with the voters, but put that burdcp back on Industry as well as on the homes and farms of the people No argument Is needed against an increase in the Corporation Income tax If business Is not allowed to earn protlts and set aside something to take up the slack of dull periods It will mean the end of employment during alack tlmos, for It la known that all large units of business frequently operate at a loss rather than to shut down. The proposed additional cent on gasoline will work against not merely gTeat contractors and trackers, - bnt against ministers, physicians, traveling salesmen, farmers and a multitude of small concerns. As a matter of fairness the emergency one mill Increase In the Capital Stock tax should be removod, leaving the tax at two mills and computing it from the same base as at present. JUNE FARM CALENDAR Brief reminders by County Agent W. C. McCarluy for buoy farmers show much important work for early summer. Agronomy?As soon as moisture conditions permit, plant cowpeas, soybeans, velvet beans, or erotalarla In all corn middles and stubble land. Stub acreage of legumes will aid In mooting the conditions of the new farm program, will produce food and feed, uud will conserve and build up the soil. Horticulture?Apply quickly available nitrogen to garden crops If not growing well. Cultivate crops shallow but frequently to save molBture. Mulch tomato plants heavily with straw or leaves to hold moisture anil prolong fruiting season. Hack vegetables and fruits In the right kind of attractive puckago and get better prices. IMant a few tomato seed for a late ofop. Order celery plants for late July or early August delivery. Insects uud Diseases?Col the boll weevil early with pro-square poison. Examine banded apple trees every ten days and kill codling moth larvae. Stop the spread of red spiders by burning weeds and badly Infested plants and applying superfine dusting sulfur. Spray or dust beans with derrls to control Mexican beaiv beetles. Refrain from planting main crop of corn late to avoid "shatter worm damage. Spray or dust peaches to control brown rot and curcullo. '1 runsfor and requeen bees. Children and Blasting Caps Renewed efforts are now being mado by county agents, teachers and safety organizations In all parts of the country to lessen the number of accidents occasioned by children playing with blasting caps. These uceldonts often result in children being blinded, or losing lingers or hands, and thus going through life In a crippled condition, in some cases children are killed. Most of these accidents occur In country districts where children llnd the caps In the neighborhood of b.asting operations, where, in many ca3cs, they have been left by careless workmen. Playing with these caps?such as picking them with nails, hitting them with hammers, or throw ing them into bonfires, usually results in an accident. Blasting caps are small copper cylinders used to detonate explosives in mines, quarries, construction work, and in blasting ditches, stumps and boulders They are closed at one end and loaded with sensitive and poweiful explosive. Electric blasting caps are similar to the regular caps except thut they have wires attached and are detonated by an electric current from a blasting machine. When the cap explodes small particles of copper fly In all directions. Any child nearby may be hurt. All parents and teachers are requested to warn children not to play with these blasting caps, but when they do llnd one, to notify an officer of tho law or other responsible adult. By telephone, the human voice can go around the world In one-fourth of a second. Nobody's Business Writ tun fur The Chronic!# by U?* Mc<l#e, Copyright, 192H. FLAT ROCK HA8 ORGANIZED A GARDEN CLUB. a big guiding tdub has been oggeinlzed in tint rock. the followliiK o'flsors wuro eleckted on tho fifth bullot: mrs. slim chance, Jr., pressldont; mm slim chance. sr., aoekertery and treaaure. Miss onlio chance, vice pre?aidettt. - mrs. holaum nooore got her feeling* hurt when she wan dropped out of the ballottlnK In the second rouud. there were ao inanny chances preaaent. she did not have much of a prospect to begin with. Mrs. chance, the presaldent, spoke a nice speech of welcome and returned thanks for being so highly honnorod uuaoforth. her first effort will be to plant Jhonnle quills and sunflowers around the cltty hall and the callybooze so s strangers wont know what It Is and will make up their minds that we have a town without crime as thoy wont be able to tell whether or not we have a place to Incerrate lawbreakers In. she will allso plant morning glories on the old Ubborty stable where tho all-nlte Barrage Is now housed. ?mrs chance has rote seeker-terry w all Is for some bubbs and shrubs and plants to set out all over town, someboddy told her that the mayor In now york cltty got such things for his parks ansoforth, so she says why not flat rock, meetings will be hell every third tuesday at 5 p.m. at such a place as lininght he picked out by her. she had horaelf rote up Hi the county paper with her pitcher and everything in it with a pot plant In her lap. ?flat rock now has a big future ahead of her and her streets and vacant lots will soon bud like a rose and sweet Incense will spring from every outhouse and fence corner which will be wafted on the breezes as odors from pretty bushes, cauliflowers. splnnaches, blue bells, dog woods, clinging vines and honey suckers, so says our fine pressldent. whoever has auuy stuff to contribute please rite or foam mrs. slim chance, jr. ta 1-J. yores trulio. .mike lark, rfd, corry spondent. WORLD'S FAIR, HERE WE COME. ?miss Jennie veeve smith, our local sellol 1 rpiuclple of the flat rock high : scoll. has oggernized a world's fair tour, she has engaged the services of 1 slim chance. Jr.. to bo her buss driver and guide atul she will be the boss, chapperoue, hostess, and sights explainer. ?miss smith is studdylng up on tho world's fair now and will know it by hart when her first trip takes place which will be as soon as she gets 24 persons signed ou the dotted lines and 2.">$ apiece paid into her coffers, she will give slim chance Jr.. so much per trip, amounting to and his board. ?this world's! fair tourist trip will be the flnnest ever heard of in the south, she will go via Washington, d. C., and will show her tourists tho cappitcrt and jim farloy and vice pres. garner and the* museum and Washington s monument and penn. ave., allso the house where lincoln got shot and arlingum. she will charge only 2$ extry tor these side trips. ? for only 4$ mure miss smith will ta.se her crowd thru baltlmore, md? and liil>-defy where the cappitol used u i.e sh?- invite- everboddy to t.ik>- a pillow along if the boarding hou.-es Itl J (?U l e ha I > p< its to be crowded a:. 1 tb<- tourists camps can t handle t:au^j. ^ cvet boddy must take enougn food to iast them 2 days on the way ui>. -whoever goes with this party wi.l have to pay his or her way into the fair, allso for food and clothes bought while inside, as well as for soft drinks, rides, shows, and walking sticks, send all monney to the undersigned, hon. mike lark, rfd. and he will turn It over to her, less his commish of 20 per cents, the buss will leave In front of the drug stoar and will go thru the county-seat. Come one. come all. and seo these sights while' you earstill living. yours trulie, mike lark, rfd. corry spondent. Oh Boy! This Will Be a Classic Can a good team of hard ball pasttimers defeat a high class gang of softball aces? That question will be answered on Monday evening at the high school athletic fleld when Beck Russell, of the Camden club of the Palmetto state league stacks a team of professional hardball stars against Bobby Bell's boys. One of the big features of the game will be the father-and-son umpiring of John Nettles and Jack Nettles Ospreys sometimes carry off articles of clothing that hare been left unguarded by the owners. COST OF ADVERTISING NOT FOR TIMIO PEOPLE Newpapers supply reader# with news about the receipts at public events such tts prize fights und world series, and the public Is prlco-conaclous about automobiles and radios and | soap, but hardly any lay person knows anything about the prices paid for the advo/pslng that all of us read und hoa/?, We Intend to supply some of this Information. When you leaf through the first section of your Sunday New York Times, please be advised that each page of advertising that you read or don't read cost somebody $2,980. If you read the New York Dally News on Sunday, which has a clrculatlon of more than 3,000.000, you may like to know that each page (much smaller than the Times' page) cost $2,000. An advertiser has to pay the Detroit News, $1,205 a page In order to tell the 329,944 readers that he is In business To reach more than 3,000,000 buyers of the Saturday Evening Post with your advertisement on one ordinary page, printed in black ink, you have to lay down $8,000. ir you want to sell Coca-Cola or cigarettes, using the back Cover in full color, you pay $15,uuo. Life, guaranteeing 2,000,000 circulation, get $5,700 for a black and white page- and $10,545 for the back cover in four colors. If you tune in on the Charlie McCarthy hour and Charlie isn t as good as you have heard him, you may be sore but you won't be as sore as Chase Sanborn who plunked down about $lu.000 for the hook-up. That pays only for time. The talent uao to bo paid, too. The radio pay schedule Is complicated. For example, the night rate on the NBC basic radio network which Chase & Sanborn use is $8,400 an hour, but various supplementary groups aro available such as the Ca nadian group, $520; Southeastern group, $1,000; South Central group, $1,400; Southwestern group, $1,320, and so on. Big time advertising, whether newspaper. magazine or radio, is no game for timid or pinch-penny people?The Imperial Magazine. SOYBEANS, FED TO LAMBS DO NOT PRODUCE SOFT FAT With soybean production up nearly ;.. times what it was ten years ago, both fanners and scientists are look.tig for now and profitable uses for i this soil-improving crop. Soybeans are a highly nutritious feed for livestock. Fed to hogs in too great quantity they may produce the undesirable "soft" pork. For lambs, however, results at the Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md.t Indicate that soybeans may be fed without any "softness" in the fat. Three lots of lambs were fed In the experiment, conducted by the Bureau of Animal Industry. One group received the usual ration of cracked corn, cottonseed meal, and alfalfa hay. The second lot received only cracked soybeans and alfaflfa hay. The third lot received a ration of equal parts of cracked soybeans and cracked corn with alfalfa hay. Lambs in each lot averaged more than a third of a pound a day gain while on feed. Most lamb feeders are satisfied with this daily gain. It was apparent, however, that lambs on the corn-soj bean-alfalfa ration ate more readily than those on soybeans and alfalfa. For this reason, j If both corn and soybeans are available, the combination probably is better than soybeans alone, although there was little difference in the carcass quality of the lambs from the three lots. To Play Game Today A softball team composed of Rotarlans under the leadership of Dee Mays will play a team of the Young Men's business and professional club, managed by Jack Halle today. The game will be called at the high school athletic field at 6:15. Guess Who Lynn, Mass.?They've called off a Liynn beauty shop contest to guess the number of pennies displayed In a Jar. During the night somebody sneaked in and stole the Jar, which contained 2,100 pennies, sponsors told police. Police told everybody. The body of Francisco Sarabia, Mexico's knight of the air, killed when his plane crashed Into the Potomac river near Washington last Wednesday. when starting his return nonstop flight to Mexico City, reached the latter city Saturday and was received by a throng of 2,000,000 at their air port, on its arrival in one of the United States superbombers and another 300,000 lined the four-mile route to the federal communications building in the heart of the city. Sarabia's wife witnessed the crash in which her husband was killed. There are 9,500,000 piano players in the United S,tates William Penn occupied the first brick houses in America. Personal Mention r Mrs. W. If Harris Is In Saranac I.4?ke, New York, for a visit. Miss Paulette West lias returned from a house party ut l'awley's Island. * Miss Mabel Todd Campbell loft today for Sliver Springs, Maryland, where she will visit her aunt, Mrs L. C H. Cole. While away Miss Campbell will also visit Washington. The following left Tuesday to at- ^ tend summer school at Winthrop college: Mrs John 8. Davidson, Mrs. D. C. Hlnson, Mrs. lJossle l^ee McCasklll, Miss Lou Pearce, Misses Hel- ' en Phelps, Nancy Watts and Gertrude Zemp. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Nicholson and sons, George W. Nicholson, Jr., and Hilly Nicholson are here on a visit to Mr. Nicholson's mother, Mrs. J. C. Nicholson. Mr. Nicholson is Doctor of Mathematics at the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Miss. Mrs. W. J. Dunn, Mrs. H. *L. Rlchey j and Miss Jennie Whltaker attended the graduating exorcises of Miss MAzlo Whltaker at Thornwell Orphanage Monday evening. Miss Whltaker will be pleasantly remembered here as the only daughter of the late Chief Andrew G. Whltaker and the late Mrs. Mae DeKay Whltaker. Tom Ancrum leaves Friday to rep- ' resent the Camden Rotary Club at the International convention which convenes in Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, i Mrs. Ancrum and children will accoin- I pany hint us far as Baltimore where they will go by rail on a month's < visit to her sister In Locust Valley, L. I., and will also attend the World's Fair lit New York City. The following from Camden attend ed cite Pitts-Lanu wedding in Chester, last Saturday evening: Mrs. R. B. Pitts, Miss Mary Pitts, Mrs. Stanley Morse, of New York, Jolly and William Pitts, Mr. and Mrs. ^5. B. Cantey, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Cantey, Jack C. Blakeney, Mr. and Mrs H. G. Carrison, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. DePass, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Guy, Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Hlnson. Mr. and Mrs. A. Stanley Llewellyn, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mayfield, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Zemp, Misses Gertrude Glllls, Marion Glenn and Mary Rlchey, Sam Boykin, Julian Burns Jack Halle, Mr. and Mrs. Nettles Lindsay. Mrs. Elizabeth Porter and Mrs. J. H. Burn3. j A sperm wliale eau eat a toa of 3 ood daily. ? Wants?For Sale >1ANO FOR 8ALE At a barg|^| Loolta new and good us new. It at 1602 Fair Street, Camden, 8 Or 12-14 Dd 5URTAIN8 STRETCHED?At reatSZ able price, all work guaranteadTiJ dreaa 904 Campbell atreet, Canidan 8. C. 34 tf' ' -RE8H EQOS-iFraui mash-fed heiu ij 25 cents per dosen, ?8. N. Nlchol. son, 934 Broad Street, Camden ft. C. 12pd '1 NVE8TIQATE?Duo-Therm oil ht*6 ^ ers. No ashes, no soot, no flre# to build on cold mornings. Made In sizes for one or six rooms. H. 1 Beard, Camden, 8. C. ^ FOR 8ALE?Jlaby Chicks, 2,000 0# " hand and two more hatches on the 20th and 27th. Barred Rocks, White v Hocks, Reds, Black Qlants. |5oo per hundred. Also two weeks old chicks at bargain. Hush order to Graves Hatchery, Pagelaml, s. C. 12pd. >HOE8?For snoe reouUdlng and r? I pairing call at the Red Boot 8hop -1 next door Express Office, 619 Rut. J ledge street, Abram M. Jones, Pro- \ prletor. Caxnden. 8. C. 9,1, GAS FOR COOKING?and water 1 heating, available everywhere with 1 Kssotane gas service. Phone 48] H. K. Beard, Standard Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 44tf ' J NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will apply to the South Carolina Tax Com> mission for a License to oper< ate a Retail Liquor Store at 1 Main Street, Bethune, South j Carolina. J. W. WEST June 15, 1939 12-14pd fffl HBMMMflMT JHM flBHHHIP M Hour food-rising*, |M palna, ' fifl bloating, dtmajr apella ud bUij on* *tt(icki doe to delayed JM elimination quickly relieved | U through the POW-O-LJN treats meut. Tour neighbors recoro- 1 I 11 mend It. Relief or money back. I I BED. 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