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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE! H. D. NIL ft 8, Kditor and Proprietor I Published every Friday at Number HOT North Broad Mtreet, and entered at the Camden, South Carolina Poetoftlce as second elaae mall matter. Price per Year 13 00. No SUbecripllons taken for less than 81* MontHk' In all Instances the subscription prloe Is due and paya> bio In advance. All subscriptions are cancelled when subscriber falls to renew. Represented In New York by the American Press Association and elsewhere by ell reliable Advertising Agencies. We accept no advertising of a doubtful nature and try to protect our patrons from misrepresentation by Advertisers. Ne Liquor Advertisements accepted at any price. Friday, August 18, 1939 mi , i i . , .i BILL WHITAKER Those who move about the city will miss a friendly smile and u cheery word from one whom we always deliKhted to meet us vye passed along In our dally work. Bill Whitaker Is dead, and there are many, from the humblest of our citizens to the most affluent, who sorrow, for there were none so low but to whom ho reached out a helping hand, und there were none so high but sought his counsel. He moved among us In a friendly, helpful, unostentatious way?ever ready to lend aid and encouragement to those less fortunuto than himself. Possessed of a good mind, his advice and counsel were often sought by those in authority, and his Influence was often brought to hear for the good of the community. Camden Is farflung. Its streets are many and long. It boasts several parks. Thousands of trees Hue Its streets and beautify Its parks. As stifet commissioner of the city, mil Whitaker worked untiredly to keep the city beautiful, and every citizen knew that this work was in capable, friendly hands. A true friend, an honorable, worthy, public servant, has gone to Ills reward. He was our friend?we shall miss him. FIRE IN THE FOREST "He careful of fire In the forest, lest a spark should lay waste the treasure of tho generations," says an edltorlul In the Portland Orogonla. "The time of danger Is here again. It Is true that not all forest fires are started by careloss vacationists?perhaps no more than a minor fraction of them?but were tho forests miraculously restored that have been destroyed hv vacationists the green area of them would be vast. "II Is best not to smoke as you pass through the friendly forest, but if you must smoke be sure that the match -Ts out7 ami that the ember of the cigarette is extinguished. Be careful | even to what may seem absurdity? for there can be no absurdity In such "precautions. Put out your camp fire. With water. To the last spark. You have to be careful of fire In the forest. "You are only one of us who is seeking the comfort and coolness, tho green recreation, of the living and beautiful forest. It Is your forest. It is the bequest of happiness and health und healing you should leave to your children's children. How cruel a thing It must seem If your love for the forest Is the unwitting Instrument that makes of it a pillar of smoke by day, of flame by night. Be very careful of fire In the forest. It Is that time of the year again " That eloquent message should bo remembered. And be careful too of fire In tho fields, in your home?anywhere you may go. It takes but a little thought, a little effort. And It pays magnificent dividends?to you, to everyone else, and to posterity. THAT JOBLESS QUESTION Tile editor of the Florence Morning News wonders whether the 11,000,000 unemployed so frequently mentioned i re 'out of joi'S by preference or not." We dare sav a good portion of these 1 | _o.ni.ooc wouldn't work if they had a steady job offered them. As the editor of the Morning News write-, a i-11"t often that a man who really wants to work fails to find it." Motor Horns Quieted 'r KM it or Huckle, of the Rock Hill Herald visited recently a former Rock lltlliaii residing lit Reading. Penn During several hours of sightseeing there. ""We did not hear a horn blow." he reports; and quotes his h?v*t as saying. "The people just do not blow (heir horns around here. The officers see in it that Mi.:.- is no horn-blowing nuisance." Mr Huckle believes there is more unnecessary use of the motor hoi n in Rock Hill in twentv-four hours than once can hear in several days in Reading, Washington or Baltimore,? Columbia State. A dapftnese^army spokesman assert?.ed..?fenerallsilnio Chiang Kai-shek 1 as begun a recruiting campaign In Japanese-occupied areas of China, and in tho International settlement, and French concession in Shanghai. He charged that the leaders in, the campaign were Wu Yu-sen, former Shanghai banker, whom he characterized as "the former number one gangster of Shanghai," and Chow Raueh-han, "his number one sidekick." COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS (By Hptx-tutor) A one-home farmer?cat) ho make a living? Moat of ua have fancied ourselves aa one-horse farmers. We huve figured It ?H out and proved to ourselves that there should ho u good living from u farm of one horse or one mule. The possibilities vary with the section where the farm may he situated. For example, in the Houlb there may he cotton; lu some parts there may bo tobacco; vlu other sections there may be other products. Let ua plau a one-horse farm, rememberlug that In a dozen South Carolina couutlea there might be one, two or three acres I of tobacco; lu other watermelons and asparagus; * lu another potatoes and vegetables, and the like. How large Is a one-horse farm? That depends on the kind of crops. Assume a tract of thirty acres, with some forest lu addition, If possible. Let us set aside live acres for the home, flower garden in front, vegetable and truck patch In the rear, stables, barns, small pasture, orchard, also to the rear, quite appreciably to the rear. That leaves twenty-live acres of land for farm crops. According to ruling percentages, the cotton allotment toi this place would he about six acres. So we start with six acres In cotton, then twelve acres In corn, with puaB In the middles, live acres In peas for hay and soil building, and two acres for sweet potatoes. Cotton la a one-crop affair, usually. The soil Is prepared In March and the seed planted about the middle of April. Cotton Is picked In August and September. Our farmer should be able to break up his land In October and sow small grain for grazing. Cows, mule and hogs could graze It m January and February and until it must be plowed for corn the following spring. That grazing will help the stock, particularly the cows. 1 he small grain will serve as a binder to prevent land washing. Corn may be planted and harvested during the same months as cotton and (he land may also be planted to small grain for grazing. Five acres were devoted to hay. That would be broad(.?8t about the middle of June and harvested about October. 1 ho hay land could be used for wheat, one ^ acre, and oats, four acres. The wheat and oats would be allowed to mature ^ for the family and the stock. Two acres might seem a lot of land tor sweet potatoes for a one-horse farmer. 1 am thinking that he might sell his "first." eat his "seconds'' and M - the ' Hte-hegft?shall we alternate with awet potatoes. The land may be used for potatoes from May until September, digging ,he potatoes before frost. 1 ha allows two acres in Austrian wlutei ^ peas or rye. What of the yield In pounds or bush- < els on this plan? Six acres of cotton, live bales. That Is very ordinary farm- ^ lng. Any "book farmer" will tell you ^ that 1 think a real farmer might ^ muke seven bales. That , pend on seed, soil and fertiliser. Tbat | IB bla principal money crop? perhaps $300. Including seed, lie might sell _ forty bushels of potatoes at seventy cents a bushel. For himself and stock the farmer might have six bundled bushels of corn. That would provide for the family, the mule, two cows ten hogs fattened tor butchering and > two brood sows. 1 am assuming that ( about ten pigs will be sold during _ the year. The farmer will also ha e his flour, and to spare, lie will have an abundance of milk and butler picaty of eggs and fifty hens He w 11 have vegetables and fruit, melon , cantaloupes, potatoes, hams, bacon, Haiisnuo uihI lilts liVtti. Any thing Impossible about this? ( H?m?-mb?r 'h? ark of gothet wood. Well, alter the experiences of the last ^ two weeks of July 1. 1 thought it ap- 1 prop, late to read attentively the well known account in the seventh chapter of Genesis. Perhaps one of the most comforting of all assurances given to mankind is found at the very end of the eighth chapter: "While the earth remaineth. seed-time and harvest, and void and heat, and summer and win- | ter and day and night shall not cease.' The rejection by the national house uf representatives of the# three-million dollar lending bill of th? President la a happy indication that congress Is capable of thinking for itself occasionally. It means that congress has recovered a measure of Independence and cannot always be driven Into ?v?*ry fantastic scheme that can be devised to pour out public money. Governor Maybank Is striking his stride. He la proving hU qualities as a business man and executive In many of his recent official acts. His Intention to bring about a central purchasing arrangement for all the penal Institutions Is thordiighly flue and businesslike. The governor's purpose Is admirable Of course I know that central buying of Itself Is not a miracleworker; those In charge must know more than merely to Invite bids. Spectator ventures to offer a suggestion to our capable governor by way of cooperation. The suggestion is that tile penal institutions Invite ail other state institutions to sit in a t voluntary conference for cooperation and general benefit. Particularly would 1 recommend that H. T. Pattersou, treasurer of the state hospital, be in-, vited to sit with the board when it considers bids for supplies. Mr. Patterson is. generally^ regarded sa a good buygr, as a man who gets the fullest value for the public money he spends. The governor may not have the authority to require the other institutions to send their buyers to a general council of state purchasing agents, but I am sure all would attend at his invitation. The combined ^dcfmviie?tg?-and ability of such men as Mr. Patterson, of the state hospital; and Mr. Graham, the very competent bursar sf Winthrop college, would be worth a lot of money to the state. I don't know who buys for The Citadel, but I'm sure General Summerall knows ?very item and the uttermost farthing paid for it. j The Budget commission?the goverlor. Senator Ward, Winchester Smith right to notlt' .s' i ? services :o stay within the appropriations made for them by the legislature. Incidentally it would be just as well to scrutinize expenditures. It is well known that some services feel bound to spend all the money authorized. Our state must face the issue of more taxes, more revenue from present taxes and reduced expenditures. No institution of our state should lie planning new courses or other extension of activities. What we really need is a survey or re-appraisal of ill the courses now being offered or it her work being done. The best managed industrial corporations find It profitable to re-appraise their departments. They find that barnacles cling to the bottom and foul the hull?to use ship terms. Likewise, we have been creating new services and new departments^, as well as fostering the aid, with little or no study of their , i 1 real value. l^et us be more alert and productive In the people's business. ? ST, } The Hatch bill, which congress has passed and the President has signed Is a timely bit of legislation. So many are now drawing their pay from the government that the federal service almost dominates the political scene. I-a st year the Sovjtth Carolina Democratic convention voted overwhelmingly against all the New Deal proposals and adopted measure# which put the New Deal on notice that South Caro-1 Una does not belong to office-holders, \ nor can she be turned into a negroDemocracy because the New Dealers] have made deals with two million northern negroes. J The Hatch bill means that these brethren will have to stay away now.' The truth is that they were destined to a larger lose of 1 '.appointment next spring. The Hatch bill will save their faces. General News Notes | Admiral Harry K. Yarnell, retiring commander-in-chief of the American navy In the Fart Kant, left for the Culled State* with his wife Tuesday] from Shanghai. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Admiral YurneH* successor and hla family, accompanied theiu In the admiral's Iiuiko down river to the liner President Coolldge, on which they suiled homeward Wednesday. (). H Israel, Des Moines, lows, grocer, fainted when a young bandit shoved a revolver at him several nights ago over store counter Hut the buudit made' a mistake when he walked behind the counter, shook Israel awake, und told him to ''put up your hand." Israel revived, grabbed a billiard cue, knocked the bandit's gnu out of his hauds, hit him over the head and chased him out of the store. Harry French, an old-time hardhanded editor who must have read and shaped aud handled more news copy than any other man alive, retired from the Associated Press this week In New York, to do what so many other newspapermen have wanto-1 to do and never did?go down to Florida and sit on u back porch aud watch the flowers grow. For forty years he has been a newspaperman. For thlr'.een years his hand has run a big b'.tck pencil over current history of the world, for thirteen years he had held one of the hardest Jobs In tho AP? day west wire editor. Two proposals for investigating allegations that oil seized from Americans In Mexico has been sold abroad with the assistance of other Unite 1 States citizens, were Introduced in the senate this weeek in Washington and Immediately referred to the Foreign' Relations committee. Senator Nuely (Democrat, W. Va ), an administration supporter, offered the first proposal, which asked an investigation of reports concerning the "activities of cer-, tain American citizens with the Mexican government in connection with the sale, barter or exchange of Mexican oil." We like people who know where they are going and what they want. J Bntchart*u Washington Digest 7 ~ ' Blame Absurd Relief Policies For Widespread WPA Strikes 1 ' J i <W1 t <t Misguided Effort to Force Government Into Greater Gifts To Thein; Yell Radical Accusations When Soft Snap Is Ended; Honest Distribution Congress' Aim. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Pr?M Bldf., Washington, D. O. - * WASHINGTON.?It is sometime# possible, I believe, to And an %cuse for violent action on the part of a man who is hungry. Likewise, that individual's desperation may be explained when his children are near starvation. It is a social condition that perhaps merits sympathetic understanding rather than harsh treatment. When those individuals have had the specter of starvation removed by the generous hand of government, however, it strikes me that there can be no justification for revolt against the government or the people which have been responsible for the charity. That is to say, neither the government nor the citizens can be held responsible for the hard luck of any of us, nor does any one individual have a divine right to such generosity. Yet, there exists in this country today an extraordinarily large number of persons who seem to feel the government must bend its knees to them. They have lately taken the position?largely misguided by the lowest grade of leaders?that they can dictate to their government and their neighbors the terms upon which they will receive government relief. They have gone so far as to use the strike as a weapon to force, to coerce, their government into greater gifts to them, and it is one of the most dangerous , trends to be noted on the horizon of our country. It is traceable, of course, to the utterly absurd relief policies that have been practiced, heretofore. To go back a bit for a review, the relief program enacted recently by congress for the year that is now starting specified that all WPA workers must put in 130 hours per month in order to get the maximum government relief. It was included by congress as a part of the law upon recommendation by WPA Commissioner F. C. Harrington, and no right thinking persons can find reason to disagree. The purpose is most commendatory. The increase in the hours of labor was designed to weed out those who were receiv- . tng"WPA checks who were satisfied to go on without any thought of ever obtaining a private job again. There is that type, you know. Congreaa Sought to Set Up An Honeat Diatribution The rules that expired June 30 had made it possible for some workers to receive the maximum pay in as ""little as two weeks of work. Skilled workers were being paid wages that were equivalent to the rates in private employment in the area where they were. So, some workers stayed on the job two weeks and had their month's pay; others worked longer and were paid much less. Congress, therefore, tried to set up something like an honest distribution and it directed that everybody receiving the WPA checks had to work 130 hours in order to receive the full amount. There were some other provisions, too, that irked the WPA workers. One of them, for instance, makes it necessary for those who have been on WPA relief jobs for 18 months, to take a layoff of one month. That was designed to give some other unemployed person a chance to get WPA relief. The third big change from last year and the earlier years of federal relief was a specification as to wages. The legal language is too complex for me to understand, thoroughly, but the intention is to make the rates of WPA wages have some relationship to the cost of living where the unemployed are given '""PA jobs. These things are in the law, this time. In previous years, congress had been unable to break the grip of the professional relievers, like Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams, and the rates of pay and conditions of work were determined largely by such men. Mr. Williams will be recalled as the man who said in a speech to WPA workers they should use their numerical strength politically and support only those officials who turned loose the most money. Under the previous system, the WPA workers could attack rules and regulations laid down by individuals. But now Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Williams are not in the picture, and a hard-boiled army officer heads up the WPA organization. Strike Againat Government la What Confronta Country The condition that confronts the country, therefore, is a strike against the national government, because the elected representatives of the people as a whole laid down the rules, this time. Of course, the Constitution guarantees to all citizens the right to petition congress. It does not grant the right, however, to use force or violence to change the action of congress. The WPA workers who went out on stride, therefore, in my opinion, were right close to the border line of a serious offense against the government. It ia one thing to strike, as a union does, against an employer; it Is quite another thing for a union to be organized to perpetuate government charity and to use that union In a violent fashion as has been done In this Instance. And, speaking of unions, there are two of them?rival organizations? among WPA workers. There Is the Workers Alliance of' America and the Workers League of the United States. The first named is headed by David Lasscer and the Second by Lloyd Leith. 1 do not know the background of either man, where they came from or what their mission In life may be. Of this, however, I am sure: very few men and women In this world of ours ever work for absolutely no pay. 1 wish that congress would dig into those two organizations and see how much these "leaders" are paid and find out where the money comes from. It is difficult for me to believe that either one of them or the several dozen "field men" and secretaries and others with titles are such lovers of humanity that they are not being well paid for thpir work. To believe that these men are emulating Our Lord to that extent is stretching my credulity too far. Why ia a Union Neceaaary Among Theam Workara? One might also inquire quite properly, I think, why it is necessary to have a union among these workers. I fail to see why they should spare any of the meager funds that the government gives them for living purposes to be used by union leaders. Those fellows cannot do anything to make congress change its mind. Oh! They can come to Washington ? and they do ? and issue statements and shout threats before congressional committees and see their names in the newspapers, and accomplish nothing. That is, they get nowhere except that they are able to show the poor, wretched souls on relief that their "leaders" are great "fighters" in the cause. While there neveT was a chance of congress amending the law and anyone with a grain of sense must recognize it, these self-appointed, self-annointed saviors of the WPA workers did succeed in calling something like 40,000 workers off of their jobs in various parts of the country. The result was that those workers lost just that much money. They also ran afoul of the Harrington determination, which many of them did not realize was not a Hopkins or Williams chin. Colonel Harrington promptly issued orders that those who stayed away five days would be replaced, because there were thousands willing to work and had no jobs. Obviously, that brought a good many back to their jobs. Some others, however, let their passion and unwise leadership of their unions put them in a position of cutting off their nose to spite their face. It is to be noted, in passing, that conditions now are somewhat different than when the policies ' of the professional relievers were operative throughout the country. There were numerous instances, it will be recalled, when Hopkins and Miss Perkins, secretary of labor, advised that sit-down strikers should be fed off of relief funds. State relief directors and state charity leaders seem generally to have taken a different view of the current situation. I Seems There Are Some Very Stupid Local Labor Leadera The national labor unions, like the American Federation of Labor and the Lewis organization, the C. I. O., came close to getting involved in this picture. I do not know whether the heads of those great unions were responsible for the general aloofness, but they were quick to explain that strikes by any of their memberorganizations in behalf of the WPA workers were "entirely local." If this be true, the explanation lies in the fact that there must be some very stupid local labor leaders. Surely, with union labor's prestige at its lowest ebb in many years, respectable labor unions could hardly expect to gain in public esteem by participating in such ludicrous proceedings as a strike against the government of the United States. Notwithstanding the gloomy phases of the story told above, attention should be drawn the meanwhile to the healthy aspect that can be found upon examination of the circumstance. Consider the courage that congress showed in taking a position which admits the existence of certain parasitic elements. That is to say, congress has taken a positive step toward placing relief on a basis that will reduce waste, to some extent. It has made some gains, in the direction of sweeping out a eMail part?very small, it 4s true-rfcft/fth*/ political influences that hitherto op- ' crated. And, more important than the rest, the congress over President Roosevelt's .opposition, has act4d to compel greater fatal responsibility for use of public money. (lUku*d by W?HiwyifM Uatoa.) KERSHAW COUNTY WORKIM^*" I ON 8ANTEE-COOPER PR04tCT I Charleston, Aug. 17.?Nine worker. I from Kershaw county have been e?. I ployed by the contractors on I Cooper project, according t0 ^ I Cooper, general mauager of the souUl I Caroilna Public Service Authority I builders Of the 940,000,000 hydro-^1 trie aud navigation development ue4r I this city. Mr. Cooper states that work now t, I in full progress and that the Pinopo. I lis dam is being built rapidly, uud b* I fore long foundations will be laid fori the power plant aud locks in coiinee.! tlon with that dam. Bids will be opeued for the Sant^l dam on August 20, 1039, and it u ex, B pec ted that work will beglu upon thU I feature of the project within a month I or forty-tlve days after the awarding I of the contract. : Following are the persona employed! from Kershaw county: J. m. Uard-I ner, carpenter, McBee; Claude Ureg-I ory, oiler; Roy B. Merrell, oiler; vM B. Munn, truck driver; Blrt Trues! dale, oiler; T. E. 8mlth, tractor oper.l ator; Earl Hinson, tractor operator;! Ray F.' Gregory, tractor operator; and! John Floyd, laborer, all of Camden. I CHAMBER WARNS HOU8EWIVE8 ! OF THE IRISH LACE RACKET* ' The Chamber of Commerce has 1*1 sued a caution signal to housewives! over patronizing lace sales people, I who annually at this time of the ye^rl | visit the Carollnas. I j The result of past visits of these! Irish lace venders has been a source! ! of a headache to many Camden house* I [ wives who have found the Identical! merchandise which they paid a,fancy! ! price for on sale In dime stores for! Ave and ten cents a yard. | Be sure and ask the lace salesman! or saleswoman to show a Chamber oil Commerce soliciting permit. fl Flve-year-oia Nile Gay, of Scott*! bluff, Neb., was astonished to see a| fire truok and a score of firemen dash! up to his house Just after he telephon-! ed his father about a minor domestic! mishap. "I thpught you said you start-! ed a fire," gasped the perspiring fath-l er. "I said," repeated Nile severely,! "That I spilled the flour." NOTICE Of Intention To Apply For Charter fl Notice Is hereby given that we. the undersigned, will apply to the$ecre-^| tary of State for the State of South * Carolina on Tuesday; the 22mbnfaTTjt* August, 1939, for a charter for South-* ern Acceptance Corporation. scriptions to the capita] stock of */^* corporation \frill be received at offices of Harold W. Funderburk. torney, until twelve o'clock noon o** Monday, August 21, 1939, at which* time and place the books of subscript tion will be closed, and the first meet-* lng of the subscribers to the capital* stock of said corporation will be held* for the purpose of perfecting the or-* ganizatlon of the company. US. WHITAKHR, * O. E. McLAlN, Board Corporators Camden, S. C?? H>, 1939 Wants?Far Sale 1 MAN WANTED ? For 800 familyS route. Sales way up this year.* Permanent If you're a hustler. Writ#* Rawleigh's, Dept. SCH-20-123, Rich** mond, Va. LAND FOR SALE ?One hundrMj* acres, three miles south of Bethune,* one mile off of No. 1 Highway. Tea* acres cleared, balance woodland. I Price, 1200.00, easy terms. Addr** P. O. Box 650, Cheraw, S. C. 17-SIA* WANTED?One good second hand* trunk. Telephone 304-J, Camden,^B S. c. " APARTMENT WANTED?One unM#-* Ished four room apartment wantea^B Address P. H. Wilson. ManU?* Rose's 5 and 10 Cent Store, Cae^B den, S. C. CURTAINS STRETCHED?At reason-| able price, all work guaranteed. A?* dress 904 Campbell street, CanjWj^B 8 C 58 ! FOR SALE?Gullet gin system obJ* fit; a forty-horse power Fries gine In good condition; one reT0'* ing hydraulic press, uses oil ter; one good suction fan; aW^* and pulleys of all sizes; pair * banks seed scales for Inside house. Will sell cheap. Addreia** H. Small. Route 1, Heath SprtM** S. C. 2i5a FOR RENT?On August first, moce^* five room bungalow on B CourL Address Agent, Camden, 8, CT kM^^B INVESTIGATE?Due-Therm oil ers. No ashes, no soot, noflrw build on cold mornings. .* sizes for one or six rooms, 'm Jjj* Beard, Camden, S. C. 6HOE8?For snoe reoutKWng pairing call at the Hod Boot next door Express Office, 61 ledge street. Abram M. Jones, prietor. Camden, S. C. Jm FARMERS?Oet your lightwuoq^j heart pine fence posts now w*"^* have them. _.We_jleliver t trucks here on our yerd or,_ j* farm. Last call! Distributing Co., Fitrick.^- TIJ GAB FOR COOKING?omljSj^H heating, arailabls everywhere g Basotane gaa asrrlce. H. B. Beard, Standard Oil Oomr? . Oamden. 9. C. ? ,**?* WANTED?-Colored tomUy JJM or more cotton pickers to nwp ||* er crop, WW P*T furnish food bomiwood free. Will come for 7^-JrTcM P. D. Stokes, Route 2,