Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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u 1I Cruising Around T 11 11 with The Skipper c i! : f0Hr thought for thiB wwk: -Only man in ? thousand is a leader of rn,. other "ro followers or tu 11 omen." Anil 1>el l)eeve of tho woek: pt>i-aou who occupies both elGreets nf a thertter seat." ?* 1 ? among the famous last words fthe week: "l*)t me tell you about v operation. ' 9 l guilden thought: "Isn't it funny )W toon after marriage a man betoea lax in helping his wife remove ?r lipstick." " Right off the handle wo could not how many shopping days to ^istmas. but we do know that at ,l8 writing it is Just 2^ days until ie opening football game of the sea)D between the Camden Bulldogs and ie Florence highs. Ben Team deserves a lot of credit g getting the Sea Scout patrol or^lieil m Camden. The lads who fear the bell pants and Jumpers are ping to have a k>t of fun through the lea Scout program. Nice work Ben. We can Just Imagine how much Jessure the high school football lads ire .having up in {he cloud-misted 5lades of the Carolina mountains. The regular day activities, the football Jrills, the good eats and the bed time itories by the Colonel certainly looks like a nice living menu to Imbibe. 1 think the silliest excuse offered by some of the local bugs for failure lo attend the state league games here was that there were too many errors. We'll admit the Chiefs were far from perfect, but speaking of errors, there were more errors rung up In the sectional and regional Junior Legion games at Columbia and Sumter than Id any games played here by the Chiefs and opposing teams. And yet tbee same baseball fans had the temto refer to the brilliant playing Who Legion games. We take .off our hats to Sumter. Chev cmtainly put over one swell ihow And that baseball plant over here is just about the last word for i town of that What we really Ike about the Sumter system Is that hey keep their plant up to snuff all if the time. O f Camden has a good background for i nice baseball park. T'nder the preset setup with a sun grandstand base)al! will never draw any crowds. It akes a lot of loyalty for a man to [o out to those two hour and a half lames and sit in the glare of Old Sol ind then go home with a headache. a The expense of moving the grandtand to the northwest corner, split he present bleachers and place half f them along the west fence or what toflti be the first base line, relocate he diamond, do some excavating In he present grandstand corner and In [eneral do a face-lifting Job on the irestnt iiie-t), would entail a" very mall expense. But we would have a ark then Pans could go to the ball antes ami enjoy them in comfort. The polieo department is to be commended for the decision to put a stop 0 the motor car gyrations of a bunch f Juvenile lame brains who have been ourtinc accidents by their reckless riving ? As we predicted?the Berwyn, 111., nnior Legion baseball team gets a hancm .) the national title by reason f a 111no per cent Invasion of the Nmam,.-nt held at Sumter, In which he bo; > Tom Chicago, sponsored by hat gr- newspaper, the Dally News, ccessfully triumphed over all their PPonen:.-. 9 Sotni- of the gang have been holler"luck." Yep, perhaps so, but the k league scouts and others who unfrstand baseball declare Berwyn won cause it had by far the better team, at, aggregation of Chicago sand * ball players and believe you me, aure had that "never say die pint." * Esuiliy the others teams scored but after four or five innings the ?yR from the Sucker state found the ln6e and then the firing started. of the board members has a that Camden to going to stage toerry jaunt to the state title. If * Bulldog* wind np the regular seaundefeated, well we may get a at Colombia again. What a that would be. *"-7 1 ft ; * Umter. where sport saih miasm is balunced, where the fane support the King of Sports, "Baseball" is ready for pro ball. Abe Fennell of the Columbia State, Is authority for that statement. And Abe, who has been living in Sumter for a week during the Legion playoff series, ought to know. Newberry would like to have a Class D lineup. They have a well lighted baseball plant over there. Sumter Is putting In lights next spring. We think Florence, with a population estimated at about 18,000 can support D baseball. Charleston should be a fourth city In a pro wheel. Rock Hill is big enough to support a D team. As a sixth team Union might be considered. * So far as Hartsville, Lancaster, Cheater or Camden are concerned, the experience these cities passed through this season in a strictly amateur league was disheartening. And in line witit. the baseball patter this week, It is interesting to note that Cincinnati is seeking to buy the Syracuse team of the International league as a farm club. According to the Syracuse sport writers, tf the dealis made, Dick Porter, present Chief manager will set sail for Pasadena, Calif., where Jack Corbett, former Syracuse Chieftain owner, has bought himself a ball club. Porter will manage the Pasadena team for Corbett. While chinning with some of the major league scouts who were at the Junior Legion games at Sumter I was quite Interested in their reaction to "Lefty" Lynch, the Spartanburg pitching ace whom a lot of natives of this commonwealth believe to be a sort of super-hurler. All of the talent hunters declared Lynch would need a lot of coaching to make anything but a kid-nine pitcher. Frankly, in view of the ravings of some of the fans regarding this southpaw I was surprised at the opinion of the scouts. Not one of them was interested in the lad, but they did express their admiration of the Augusta pitching ace. "Lynch would have to be made over entirely," said one of the big time gents. "He doesn't have any idea of what pitching is. In the first place when he throws the ball, he is clearly out of position and in any professional game would have a balk called on him every time. The kid is good for high school or other small baseball, but that is as far as he'll ever get, unless he is made over." "He stopped the Berwyn batters after he went in about the fifth inning, said I. "That doesn't mean a.thing," said one of the group." The history of the series played between the Legion teams at Sumter clearly indicated that (ho Illinois team required four to five innings to solve the delivery of a pitcher and then it was curtains for that particular mound man. What would have happened if Lynch had pitched from the start of a game is hard to say but my guess is that the Berwyn batters would have found his number about the fifth or sixth inning." Well, the state league magnates from Sumter, Chester, Hartsvlle and Lancaster met here last Monday night and after arranging for the playoff series, the talk naturally drifted to what the 1940 horizon holds forth. All of the gang were reluctant to make any prognosications in the event of a World war, but if the dove of r peace hangs over this nation, there I is almost a certalnity that there will be a six club pro league. Chester, Lancaster, Kershaw and Camden admittedly cannot support an amateur league team, much less a professional outfit Sumter is ready for pro ball and Hartsville may find ways and .means, to pat-a team ia the^-fleld. Florence ia another city that looms up ai an entry. Orangeburg and Newberry are both hot to get a D circuit started. Differential On Cotton Lancaster, Aug 29.?Congressman James 1*. lilchards today telegraphed Secretary Wallace. Department of Ag< rlculture, Washington, D C., urging the establishment of u location dttteretft ia 1 <$\\ cotton for the Southeast,! when a loan on the 1939-1yto crop is announced by the department of agrii ultimo. Richards and Commissioner Jones are contending that if the Southeast had hud a location differential for the 1938 crop our farms would have boon able to have borrowed approximately $5.00 per bale more, and they further contend that this section of the country Is entitled to the differential over the West on account of differences in freightage costs from the producer to point of manufacture into cloth. Workers are clearing away wreckage left by a twister that flicked ,lu from Chesapeake bay, killed one man and leveled houses along the llayside from Fleetou, Va., to Mundy Point, on Sunday. Damage was estimated "in excess of $100,000. Rationing System In Full Force Berlin. Aug 29.?A hundred dollar bill, or 1.000 marks, could not buy two sticks of shaving soap, u doxen handkerchiefs, or three dresses In Berlin today. j And without ? letter, stamped and sealed by u Nazi authority, the richest man in Berlin couldn't buy a pair of shoes. Many Hermans, most or whom are fairly prosperous these days, learned with a Jolt yesterday money Is useless when a government, as determined and efficient as the retch, decides to clamy down a war-time rationing system. A man could buy one, but not two sticks of shaving soup. But to get even that one he would have to give up a little ticket which would not bo duplicated for live months. Any woman with two dresses could not buy a third. In a situation approximating war time conditions, Nazi authorities held, two dresses are enough for a woman. Many things went wrong yeaterdrty as Berlin introduced the rationing stystem. The rolls weren't delivered. The milk didn't come until noon. Worried merchants tried to figure out the regulations. They attempted to make dpHtmrlos despite the fact motorcyclqjJ had been requisitioned and thousands of drivers summoued for service. They tried tc^pacify customers who thought they ought to have more tea. The sudden application of the ra-' tioning ay81em was an unexpected blow which drove home with a bang the realization war may be very near. -? I GUERN8EV CATTLE 8ALE AT CHE8TER SEPTEMBER 10 Chester, Aug. 26.?Continuing Its announced policy of holding a consignment sale of purebred Guernsey cattle every year, the Chester County Guernsey Cattle club will hold Its (fourth annual consignment In connection with the South Carolina Guernsey Cattle club at the Chester county fair grounds at noon Tuesday, September 19. ' K.~ IT'X'aTJwell, well known pioneer Guernsey breeder and banker of Chester, Is president of the Chester organization, and M. C. Craln, Chester county farm agent, is secretary and sales manager. "The fact that the South Carolina Guernsey Cattle club has joined with the Chester organization in this sale means that consignments will be made from oth'er outstanding herds throughout the state," says C. G. Cushman, dairy specialist of the Clemson College Extension service. "This cooperation promises a widening of interest in this year's sale of fifty selected females ahd five bulls, the latter coming from well known herds throughout the southeast." Chester county, widely known nationally as the South's outstanding Guernsey breeding county, is the only county organization of purebrel dairy cattle breeders In the South to have established an annual consignment sale. "It has been estimated that private sales of grade and purebred Guernseys from Chester county throughout the year, plus the returns from this sale have reached a total of a quarter of a million dollars in 1938," says Mr. Cain, who states that sales through 1939 so far have been reported heavy. SHIP CONTINUES JOURNEY AFTER LION 18 KILLED Cape May, N. J., Aug. 25.?There was a dead lion at the bottom of the sea today and the ship the beast commanded for more than eight hours steamed peacefully on toward Caracas, Venezuia. First Sergeant Michael Peskaln, of the marine corps, coast guard chief boatswain's mate John Williams and seven coast guards found "not a soul In sight" yesterday when they came alongside the Dutch freighter* Amazone, six miles southeast of here, In answer to a wireless call for "someone with a gun," to kill a prowling Jlon. The Amazone's crew of thirty and nine passengers had barricaded themselves below decks when the lion, one of a group of wild animals consigned to the zoological gardens in Caraca^ broke loose and prowled the forward deck. Peskain and the coast guards threw a boarding ladder to the midship deck and climbed up to see the lion poke its head around a corner and growl. The lion backed away, and the men went aboard. "The lion was lying in a very awkward position between a hatch and a wall," Peskain said. "I had to gc into a cabin and shoot through a porthole. They told me I would have | to hit him In a vital spot, ao I aimed for his eyea and hit him right be tween them." ^ According to surveys, modern ba biea eat about four times as mucl food as did their parents when thej were infants. * -i*- --- Farm Family Food In Winter Turnips Planting plenty of turnips now for winter homo use will in* a real help In living at home at lower cash cost, advises County Agent \V C MeCarley. 'Turnips and turnip greens are one of our principal fall garden crops," says the agent, "and when sown during September and October will produce salad during the lull, winter and ! early spring. "The Seven-top, Shogoin and TonI dorgrecn arc the best varieties to | plant for salad and for turnips the Karly Purple Top is an excellent variety." ' ! Mr. McCarley advises that the turn-1 ip patch should be made rich with well-rotted stable manure, prepara-. tory to planting. The rows should be three feet wide and the seed plant-; ed In the drill and covered not more1 than one-half Inch deep. If for salad,! the plants need not be thinned but If grown for turnips the plants should, bo thinned to three or four Inches' apart in the row. If desired, and the soil Is full of weeds and grass seed,, the seed may be broadcast. For winter turnips the Rutabaga is the best type to plant and the seed j must be planted between August 16 and September 1, and the plunts bo j thinned to eight Inches apart in the row. The roots will grow rapidly in] the fall and before freezing weather should be harvested, the tops cut off, and the turnips banked in the soil the same as sweet potatoes. Tales of strange birds and exploding octupi were brought to America last week, aB globe-trotter George Vanderbllt and his wife headed back to the Philadelphia drawing rooms they deserted for Sumatra's Jungles. The couple told of discovering a serlnus, canary-like bird believed long extinct, and several new species in the Atjeh country of North Sumatra. A LESSON FROM HOLLAND I Tho American people can learn a valuable lesson from the lifeguards at tho beaches of Holland! For, according to an item In the j Dairymen's League News, of New York, these guards make a practice of drinking a glass of milk every hour . to give them greater endurance. Medical men and dieticians often 'observe that the per capita consumption of milk in this country?by both 'children and adults?is far lower than it should be, in the interests of health. Few foods contain 'as much nutritive | value as milk, fetf fire more palatable, and few are loss expensive. A national milk consumption double or more that existing toduy, would result in marked betterment of the average standard of health. And, Incidentally, it would mean a great deal to the dairy farmer, who has been faced with excessive production over consumption. The Japanese foreign office in a statement yesterday insisted that economic questions at Tientsin were purely British-Japanese matters and rejected as boyond comprehension a British suggestion for the participation of third powers in the discussion. I I 1 ' Announvinu load Actionized" ViBH/CAJ\QH Your Car Greostd Undmr Actual Road Conditions W? Ikm >Mt Inataflad Oloba RocItXOm, (tva umViu, mIwM hbriwrtno di?in tM rocka oar* out^r up and dvwu ?Kxioc lubtlon Son. ThW |MtW MU ? actw.lt* lUt af a aar ant an tha apao nw] ?vanuta iba Hibriaante la panatrata aomplataty, akua ft>? Wat^h* b lifted ott ipHofk ihftrkUi. kiMNi actluu baauinpa, ktntf i?k? and (tcailim kinnihfc "Road-Aattoohrina" atfaa* fcaatea drrnwb that cauaa ajucaka ?makaa your aar rida Ilka naw atak Coma b?M m wpUla tha datalk of thia naw hbrigadoa wvba /Ci?7IX City Filling Station I Soo It ! \ ' ? I Op ratio* J Telephone 70 1 _ U_ ' i| REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANY J SALES SERVICE ANNUAL USED CAR CLEARANCE SALE I ALMOST EVERY MAKE OF CAR BARCAiH PRICES LIBERAL TERMS Probably your present car will cover the down payment on a good Used Car. COME IN TOD A Y. The sensational demand for new Ford, Mercury and Lincoln Zephyr cars has stocked us with good Used Chevrolets, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles, Ford V-8s, Pontiacs, Dodges, Lincoln-Zephyrs and Buicks, etc. We really mean to "clear out'* these cars. Our prices are bargain price9?on cars reconditioned for thousands of miles of safe, economical transportation. IPs your opportunity ts drive a bargain J TYPICAL USED CAR BARGAINS IN OUR STOCK ? i 1 I 1938 Chevrolet Coach, Extra tC7C Clean 1935 Ford (OAA Truck $LV\) 1933 Ford ?1Q? Coach vli/O 1938 Chevrolet CCCA Coach ?pODU 1934 Ford Sedan New C97C Motor ?P?< I D 1934 For Coach - ' Good 499C Shape - I REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANY . T" ' ' SALES SERVICE ; ' We?t DeKalfa St. Cuwiea, Sooth Carolina . Phone 140 [. ? * -.^- . C4 I "~ ~ #. ? - --.? -? - - " * Z? "* V l?'?i