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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NIL68, Editor and Proprietor Published every Friday at Number 1109 North Ilroad Street, and entered at the Camden, South Carolina Poetoffloe a* second class mall matter. Price per Year 92.90. No subscriptions taken for teaa than Six Month*. In all Instances the subscription price Is due and payable in advance. All subscriptions are canoelled when subscriber falls to renew. Represented In New York by the American Frees Association and elsewhere hy ?U reliable Advertising Aaenotee. . We accept ne advertising of a doubtful nature and try to protect our patrons from misrepresentation by Advertisers. No Liquor Advertisements accepted at any price. Friday, August 11, 1939 CLARK WILLIAMS, BENEFACTOR Fortunate indeed Is Caiudeu In the caliber of gentlemen who reside here during the winter month*?seeking haven* from their arduous dutlea and the severe winter olimate of the North. Several of these have seen fit to evidence their appreciation of our city by donations and activities which have placed Camden In an unique position In the stute and in the Houth. Among those gentlemen I* Colonel Clark YVIIIIums, of "The Cedft rs and The Pines," donor of the annual Camden high school Hcholar*h!p to The Citadel, elsewhere mentioned! in thl* paper?the first and only scholarship of Its kind ever given solely to Camden high school graduate*. The Chronicle Is certain that It expresses the desire of the entire city to Join with the Camden high school and all beneficiaries of this honor in expressing ardent appreciation of such a generous gift. By this moans, not only does our benefactor Implant In the minds of his beneficiaries knowledge which will be of life-long worth, but is aiding in building up the citizenry of our county, state and nation In such ways as shall be felt by our children's children for generations to come. Not only In this but In many other auoymous ways has Colonel Williams implanted his "footsteps In the sands of time," his only reward being the knowledge that Ills unselfishness has brought happiness and a lusting beuetlt to the recipients. We salute Colonel Williams! WHY MEN KEEP ON Why do successful men ke<?}> on working long past the time when ull their own needs and material desires are met? Law Kikman, sugar manufacturer, suggests an answer In the Rotarlan magazine: _ "Just as In the case of the arts, so in the case of business there are persons gifted with rare talents which they may apply for the benefit of others." ho writes. "It Is not the profits which attract the enterpriser, for how can we explain Ills tireless efforts and ceaseless endeavors which continue long after financial success has been achieved? "Many a capitalist, as we sometimes call the enterpriser, accumulates enough wealth to give up his business activities to enjoy a life of luxury and leisure. Yet ho keeps on. Why? "More and more, enterprisers are adopting the motto that 'ownership is a public responsibility.' They are realizing the Importance of their services to their country though the public may neither recognize nor reward them." In Greenville and In South Carolina one calls to mind offhaud uumbers of men who fit this description, and the general public is fortunate that their attitude is of this kind, whether the general public realizes it or not.? Greenville Piedmont. COST OF PLANTING A TREE ON PLAINS UNDER SIX CENTS llie en lira' cost to the federal gov-! eminent of this year's planting of field, windbreaks in the l'ralrle States Foresii> project is being kept to about 5 H I cent-" a tree or slnub, the Forest Service reports More than 42,000,1)00 trees in 4..*>0" miles of windbreaks have been planted at an average of a tree a minute in the planting season. This eost In* ludes investments in and depreciation of equipment, seed collection. rodent control and planting and case of about 7o.0u0.000 seedling* and transplants now growing in nurv 4?r> bed*. The government supplies the tree*, labor and super vision, and farmers Invest an equal amount by furnishing the land, fencing material and laborIn preparing the land and cultivating, the young trees during the first few years of growth. Cost of the prairie tree planting work is carried by W P A. funds and all labor Is furnished from W. P. A. roll*. Technlcaf and administrative supervlIs by" The Forest Service. The trees protect crops and soils for j twenty times their height and modify) tho wind to some extent for a distance of fifty times the height of the trees. The 1939 plantings brought tho total since 1935 to more than 127,000,000 trees In over 11,000 miles of field windbreaks on 20,000 farms In ?astern counties of the Dakota*, central and western Nebraaka, central Kansas and Oklahoma, and the Texas panhandle. T/VXE8 (Charlotte Observer) Our fellow-townemaV W. K. Price, recently in Texas, brought back with hint a newspaper clipping on taxes taken from The Han Antonio Lljtlit wldc-h, in hie Judgment, The Observer 'Wyuld do well to send out through Its circulation channels. We are In agreement with Mr. Price that the taxation issue in this country is of such gravity as to warrant ooustani iteration and reiteration and I that the public wilt never be held into retreat from supportugi the present extravagantly high cost of government until it is made intensely and Individ-J ually tax-minded. We reproduce the Impressive statement from The Han Antonio newspa-J per: Taxes are impoverishing the people of America. Taxes are impairing the people's purchasing power. Taxes are closing shops and factories and putting people out of work. Taxes are increasing prices and lowering the American standard of living. Tuxes taken from the industrious and thrifty are wasted on the lax and lazy. 'Paxes are plundering useful industry. Tuxes are robbing productive labor. Taxes are subsidizing non-productive politicians. Taxes are supporting politicians' entiro families. Tuxes are supporting politician's sycophantic friends. Taxes are supporting politicians' obedient henchmen. Taxes are undermining democracy. Taxes are building a dangerous parasitic bureaucracy. Taxes are creating despotism. Taxes are promoting militarism. Taxes are projecting America into foreign wars. Taxes are financing foreign conflicts . Taxes are involving America in alien political, social and racial disputes. Taxes are destroying faith in the practicability of self-government. Taxes are weakening faith In the elemental wisdom of the people. Taxes are on everything you eat. Taxes are on everything you wear. Taxes are on everything you use. Taxes are on everything you see. Taxes are destroying prosperity. Taxes are destroying liberty. Taxes are destroying opportunity. Taxes are destroying the land you live In. Taxes arc destroying the things you live by and the people you live with. Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! What are you going to about them? Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! Are you going to be a shorn sheep and endure them, or an independent American and end them? I'ndesirable taxes?unendurable taxes?unnecesary taxes?unjust taxes unAmerlcan taxes, are bearing us down?breaking us down. Your forefathers knew what to do about such taxes. Why do you not know what to do? Taxes once wrote a great declaration of Independence which set men free. Taxes today should write another If we are of the same mettle as our fathers. A "RELIEF BANKRUPT" STATE The State of New Jersey, financially strong in property, is in the unusual condition of being '"relief bankrupt. That is to say New Jersey owes the towns and cities of the state the sum of sixteen million as the state's share of "relief" matching payments. There Is no such sum Ui the slate treasury and it cannot get there, Governor Moore explains, except by one or two methods, or both together, and these two methods or plans are. Issue state bonds in the sum of sixteen million dollars or levy extra taxes to raise that much money. Neither plan is pleasing, to judge from the remarks of state high oflictals. It must he learned that money for public "services'' does not grow on trees nor can a state or any unit of government get money In any other way than by taxing the people or by borrowing frym the people themselves. Bond Issues art* simply loans from the people and have to be paid by taxes from the people. There U no other way, no matter how you may wiggle schemes and what names you put ou the schemes. Greenwood Index-Journal. Blow Up Lynchburg. Va.?T. K. Scott thot jwo patrolmen were mistaken when they told him three negro children had stolen two Virginia hams from him. | Taking the patrolmen to the basement of his flour mill, he showed thorn the "hams" hanging from their accustomed places. Scott was convinced, however, when the officers cut the ham bags down and found them filled with nothing but air. "We blowed 'em up after we took the hams, then we hung 'em back up," aald the youngsters. i -rrsgaWPiBWM??acg= Nalural Pearl* Cannot Be Duplicated by Man | Pr A. Alexander of the Mel j Ion institute has been studying I pearls chemically and physically only to reach the conclusion that nature's product has not yet been exactly duplicated by men. Cultured or artificial pearls, fine as they are. beur no more relation to nature's than gold filled jewelry bears to the solid gold article. As nearly everybody now knows, a real pearl forms In an oyster around a grain of sand. Layer on layer of "nacre" Is deposited. The color Is always that of the shell lining. Chemical analysis shows that a pearl is almost all calcium carbonate, which is formed around a delicate, lacy framework of organic matter (conchlolin) much as enamel is formed around the dentine of teeth. The difference between natural and cultured or artificial pearls seems to be not so much chemical as physical. Dr. Alexander bases his conclusion that natural pearls have not yet I been successfully duplicated" on some fairly new tests. One of these was devised by Chilovsky and Perrin. They found that light, totally reflected within the natural pearl, produces a characteristic flash. There is no such flash within the cultured pearl. Magnetic tests have been devised by Richard Nacken. These also differentiate between natural and artificial and cultured pearls. Simplest and oldest of all scientific tests is that for specific gravity. Cultured pearls have a specific gravity of 2.700; natural pearls of 2.683. The test has its limitations. Commonest of all tests is that of the X-ray. A natural pearl will scatter X-rays uniformly and form a ; 6 or a 12-fold "spot" pattern, which is really that of aragonite in the pearl. A cultured pearl gives a maltese cross or something that suggests it. Amazon Valley Shelters Gorgeously Plumed Bird In the dense fblrests of South America through which flow the Amazon river and its tributaries, lives the cock of the rock, according to naturalists who have described him, the most beautiful bird in the world, writes a correspondent to the Michigan Farmer. He is a glorious creature, in a coat of bright orange, black-tipped wings and tail, and a marvelous double crest which runs backward from the tip of his bill, over the top of his head, like the ridge of a helmet. To see them dance you must peep through the underbrush in the dense shadows. Tf you areTortunate, you may see a score of birds in a natural amphitheater, the spectators gathered on bushes surrounding an open space in the center? the stage. Here this radiant, feathered actor takes his place, and his solo dance begins. With lowered wings, and outspread, pumping tail, he walks round and round the stage, scratching the ground and springing into the air?the spectators in the bushes, meanwhile, giving every evidence of keen enjoyment of his act. When he ia tired, he Joins the spectators, while another male takes his place on the stage. Nobody knows how long the dancing continues?probably until every young brave has done his stunt. What About Mu? The mythical continent of Mu is pictured as having sunk in the Pacific just as the equally mythical lbnd of Atlantis in the Atlantic. A map of Mu which has been exhibited is a contour map of the bottom oi the Pacific ocean based on soundings. Hindu tablets discovered in India are alleged to show that the continent of Mu sank about 10,000 B. C., destroying 64,000,000 persons, including a ruling race of whites. None of these, nor their works, were saved, unless we except the carved rocks on some of the South Sea islands, the peaks of which were not submerged. Lemuria is another hypothetical continent in the Indian ocean, including Madagascar and other islands and home of the genus of mammals known as lemurs. Joke File on Sale Jokes of almost every type are offered for sale in the vast collection compiled by Fred Duprez, a famous English comedian, who died recently. Included are his sketches, songs, monologues, patter, wisecracks and many other types of laugh-provokers. As displayed in London all are efficiently compiled in a complete filing system, with index, neat paper packages carefully labeled and looseleaf notebooks beautifully typed and tabulated. There are reams of patter on marriage, mothers-in-law, lodgers, and horse racing. There are two minute blackout revue sketches, many pages of quick-fire gags for a pair of comedians. There is also material for toastmasters, also quips for introducing artists or speakers. Value of Refrigeration In scientific research work in the preservation of cultures. In working with toxins and anti-toxins, electric refrigeration is invaluable. Regular electric refrigerators work ad mirably in many phases of research work, because of their close tern perature operation within the limit td temperature range required. GOOD MEAT ON A DRV BONfe Arguments about economics fall flat on moat readers. A rather recent book on this subject by Harry Schurwau la au exception to the general rule. It la Interesting. *ane sensible. He takes up money und business from its earliest history to the present, it elucidates panics, bank failures and their causes. 'More than a rapid and cursory review is Impossible hero. Politicians and others pile up debts by the billions without any regard to paydays. He makes plain the fact that these can't be dodged, and must be met either by meeting lite obligations, or repudiations, dtp raulls, or bankruptcy. He considers government the biggest robbers of all. They know, as a rule, only "Jungle law." He discusses our Hevolutionary war period and how the people were burglarized out of millions. It was then that paper money wub dubbed, "not worth a continental." He says when the World war started the uatious Involved owed, all told, about thirty-two billion dollars. During the conflict 182 billion more were borrowed. This country loaned billions to forty nations and twenty-two defaulted long ago. Only America and Great Britain paid their own people more than a pittance, and they paid us little or nothing. Russian promptly stole all outright from the public and killed the Czar. & France gave her citizens about 10 per cent and stole the rest. He takes up Germany. Her case, is black and dirty. A truck full of her marks wouldn't buy a decent pair of shoes She then made war on the Jews, ran them out and stole all the cash they could get their hands on. He says that 3,200 taxable units in this country, federal, state, county, municipalities and schools, and the like, have already defaulted on principal or interest, or both. With reference to our federal deficits of forty-four billions, and increasing dally, that they can and will be paid, if paid at all, by inflation, or repudiation or both. He takes a gloomy view of the situation, and we believe he is absolutely correct. He says the politicians, even with their little seuBe or indifference about public waste, know this. He says further that they will not dare to pay these enormous debts by taxation, as they know that to do this, will blow them and their jobs into oblivion. This thing may drag along until the old people of the present generation are under the daisies. The younger element will see whether Sohuman is right. Even now, do you hear of any privates buying government bonds? Why are they still high in price?" We are asked. Because they are being forced on the banks by the government for the use and benefits of government credit. When government bonds go too low or default the whole machinery will blow up. Read | Shurman's book of 480 pages, study it carefully as you proceed, and draw your own conclusions about his arguments. To the writer, they appear unanswerable.?Calhoun Times. TWO PA8TOR8 TO MARRY EACH OTHER TO 818TER8 Whittler, Calif.. Aug. 5.?The Golden Rule says: "Do unto others ..." When the Rev. Theodore Koopmans, 26, La^Crescenta Presbyterian pastor, Is wed to Grace Kathleen Mills, 19, of Whittier, next Tuesday night, the Rev. Emmett Floyd Parka, Glendale Baptist minister, will officiate. At the ceremony's conclusion, Rev. Mr. Koopmans will pronounce the vows as the Rev. Mr. Parks, 22, is married to Eloys Aloha Mills, 22. The girls are sisters. The rites will be performed in a Christian church. Suspicious Denny McCarthy, who lives out near the ball park, is a believer in large families. He took his out for a walk to Mill Mountain one day. Some distance from home he was stopped by a policeman, who asked. "Whacha been doln'? "Nothing," said McCarthy. "Well, thin, what's the crowd following ye fer?"?Norfolk and Western Guide. Obliging Tulsa.?Lloyd Price, lunch stand attendant, protested to the gunman, "you'll cause me to be flred. "Oh. I'll flx that," soothed the bandit as he took $10. He scribbled this note: "To whom it may concern?I held this boy up Please hold his Job for him. I'm sorry for the boy. (Signed) "The Toronto Kid." The only person Michael Chofue and Esther Faber, of Philadelphia, found readily available to marry them was a magistrate hearing a wife-beating case. "I hope this hasn't changed your mind," said the magistrate after the hearing. "Nothing like that will ever happen to us, said Miss Faber confidently. And so they were marTied. Although the moon shines entirely by reflected light, dt is a poor mirror, for it reflects only about 7 per cent of the sunlight that strikes it. Hippocampus It Queer Personality of the Seas Perhaps in no other animal have been packed so many anomalies as in Hippocampus, popularly known as the seahorse, a systematic study of which recently has been completed by the United States bureau of fisheries. This queer personality has the head of a Lilliputian horse, a prehensile tail, plate-like scales like those of the sturgeon and, a pouch like the kangaroo's. The creature also reverses the ordinary way of nature in that "child bearing" is exclusively a function of the male, says Nature Mdgazine. The seahorse is almost world-wide in its distribution in warm ocean waters where there are growths of sea vegetation. Although they have provided the models for some of the nightmare monsters of t^e human .imagination, they are small, feeble and almost defenseless. The head is unquestionably similar to that of a miniature horse In general outline. The neck, however, is no neck at all. What looks like a neck is the forward part of its body. Its shell-like covering left early naturalists in doubt as to whether it was not some monstrous sort of a water bug, but it is a true fish. Its weight and its single fin leave it an inefficient swimmer, and it is able to swim at all onty because of a large air bladder so delicately adjusted to its specific gravity that if a bubble the size of a pinhead is let out vy a puncture the seahorse sinks to the bottom. There it moves clumsily about until the wound has healed. The greatest anomaly of tfce species is its way of reproducing. The male actually "gives birth" to the living young. Unfertilized eggs are laid by the female, who places them a few at a time into a pouchlike organ on the under side of the male'8 body. In some manner unknown to biologists they are fertilized in the transfer. The eggs are incubated in this pouch and remain for some days after they are hatched. Then the living young, fully equipped to take care of themselves, are expelled. New 'Back Drop' Aids in Television Transmitting A black "back drop" for the screens of television transmitting tubes results in more sharply focused and detailed television image according to a patent (No. 2,156,391) issued to Willard Hickok of Bloomfleld, N. J. The "back drop" is a film of graphite at the back of the transparent mica support on which are mounted the photo-electric elements that convert the scene being televised 4nto an electric imagewhich is broadcast through the ether. It is explained that when the scene is focused on the ordinary photo-electric screen of the "teleeye" tube, light from the image is reflected, bounces off the walls of the tube back on to the screen so that a double image may be formed. At the same time the photo-electric elements scatter the light. All this, it is indicated, blurs and makes hazy the image to be broadcast. The black "back drop," which is the subject of the patent, on the other hand, absorbs the light which would thus ordinarily be reflected. The result is a sharper, more detailed image. V * Temple Receives Statue A sandstone temple statue of Merenptah, king of Egypt, represented as Osiris, god of the dead, and dating from about 1220 B. C., has recently been presented to the Boston Museum of Art by the Sir Robert Mond expedition of the Egypt Exploration Society of Great Britain. It was given in recognition of the museum's contribution to the expedition from the Harriet Otis Cruft fund. The museum possesses little temple sculpture despite its great collections of Egyptian art. The figure was excavated by the Mond expedition *at Armant and is one of several life-size Osiris figures in limestone and sandstone found at the same site. Yosemite Wilderness The two great roadless tracts of Yosemite national park, combined, comprise an area of approximately half a million acres. Here, as in other wilderness national park areas, conditions are truly primeval. That is, all original plant and animal life is given full protection and no travel is possible except by primitive means. Unlike other mountain areas outside the national park system, no hunting or other disturbance of wildlife is permitted' and all forms are free to carry on their original natural existence. Forest and other plant life is fully protected. Grazing of sheep, cattle or other domestic stock is prohibited. Shower Bath Useful Addition of a shower to a bathroom incr ?ases its usefulness and can be achieved now in both the leg type and the built-in type of tub. There is a variety of equipment on the market, and the home owner may select one of the new types of showerheads said to effect a water savings of 25 to 50 per cent over the old style. Showers can be installed in any built-in bathtub by an experienced plumber in short order. Such showers involve no changing of pipes; they are permanent, fully automatic with a minimum number of moving parts, and low in cost and economical in the use of water. SUPPLEMENTAL PASTURE PRODUCES BETTER BEEF Having one grassing crop take ^ where another leaver off, sui-h as Kor eau lespedesa following Kentucky bluegrass in midsummer when th? bluegrass become* dormant, mean! more and better beef cattle gain* M shown by experiment* at Qrain Valley. Mo., carried out by the Unit* States Department of Agriculture itt cooperation with. the Missouri Bxperi. I meat Station, , As the bluegrass started its midsummer dormancy, thirty head o( steers were taken from the bluegras^ pasture and allowed to grase ou Kor. I ean lespedeaa for eight weeks. Another group continued to graze d| bluegrass for the same period. The group of steers pastured on lespedeza graced one grade higher I than those remaining on bluegrass, Department pasture specialists report. I In addition, the steers ou the supple, mental pasture prodli'ced 38 per cent ] greater live-weight gain. _ jiswsi lit Iron Man Greenup, Ky.?John Holley wouldn't I let a little cranial needle-work atop I Thrown through the windshield of I an automobile in an accident, Holley I suffered head cuts so severe Dr. H. H. I Holbrook took seveuty-ftve stitches to I close them. The work required two I hours. Then Holley, a merchant at nearby I Rush, Ky., resumed his trip home. A Russian communique Wednesday I reported seventy-four Japanese war- I planes and three captive balloons shot I down In three days of heavy aerial I combat over the ManChoukuo-Outet I Mongolia frontier. It admitted twenty I Soviet Russian planes had failed to I return to their bases. CARP OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends 1 for their kindness and beautiful floral I tribute given us during the recent bereavemeut of our dear wife, sister and I ni0CO' SAM BROGDON LESS IE BELLE BULLOCK KATE STEIN CITATION The State of South Carolina County of Kershaw By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge Whereas, H. R. Horton and S. B. fl Horton made suit to me to grant aqto H them Letters of Administration of the fl Estate and Effects of T. F\_HortonL_H deceased; These are. Therefore, to cite and ad- H monish all and singular the Kindred A and Creditors of the said T. F. Hor/W ton, deceased, that they be and appear :* before me, in the Court of Probate, to K be held at Camden, S. C., on Friday, . August 25, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock In the forenoon, to show cause, If any they have, why 1 ! the said Administration should not be ,M granted. ! Given under my hand this 10th day I of August, Anno Domini, 1939. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County I Wants?For Sale I GOOD ROUTE AVAILABLE?Of 800 fl Rawleigh consumers. No experience needed. Sales way up this I year. Large sales mean big pro- fl fits. Permanent. Full time. Write fl Rawleigh's, Dept. SCH-20-104, Rich- fl mond, Va. 20 pd. FOR 8ALE?Six room house, North 1 Broad street; six rbom house, Mill street; five room house, York street; fl six room house, Lyttleton street 9 Apply to Shannon Realty Company, Camden, S. C. 17-lHh J GOOD PAYING?Watkins route ope* I with established customers, No Investment. Write The J. R. WaUtM | Company, 123 W. First Street, Char I lotte, N. C. 20,8Vl LAND FOR SALE ?One hundred I acres, three miles south of Bethune, I one mile off of No. 1 Highway. Tea acres cleared, balance woodland. Price, $200.00, easy terms. AddreM I P. O. Box 550, Cheraw, S. C. l7-22sb. H WANTED?One good second band 1 trunk. Telephone 304-J, Camden. ^fl S. C. 19-21 sb. FOR RENT?Five room house, Hsnap * ton Street. ?Apply Shannon Reawfl Co., Telephone 7, Camden, S. C. 18-20 ab. CURTAINS 8TRETCHED?At rajMjJ able price, all work guaranteed. A dress 904 Campbell street, CamMJ I S C. I FOR RENT?On August first, modara I five room bungalow on Law*?? Court. Address Lewi* L. ^ I Agent, Camden, S. C.~ INVESTIGATE?Duo-Therm oil h?^| ers. No ashes, no soot, no flrw * build on oold mornings. # fl sizes for one or six room*. R- . fl Beard, Camden, S. C. . # ^fl SHOES?War anoe renullding anjmj * pairing call at the Red Boot Soo* I next doer Express Office. 5l? ledge street. Abram M. Jones, * prietor. Camden, 9. C. flj fl FARMER8?Get your llghtwood a* heart pine fence posts now wni have them. We deliver to J , trucks here on our yard or to,i. farm. Last^^S! Pine Distributing Co., jiQf GA8 FOR COOKING? heating, available every wb ere ^ fl Bssotane gae eerttoe. H. B. Beard, Standard OU ComP*^ fl fie laden, fl, G. ..uvuea WANTED?Colored family wi^JJfl or more cotton picker* to nwpjs*^-1 eC crop. "1TM pey regular furnish good home, wood aajrj free. Win come for.I *. D. Stokes, Route 2, _ ,v; I -