Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cruising Around i: *' . * with s "Skipper" t For the benefit of a few who have expressed dissatisfaction over the col or at-ho in v of the nbw traffic signals gnj markings, let us state that this 1? the same idea that prevails iu all of the cltlea where trafflo setups are baaed oa careful investigation and due regard to the methods approved by safety groups and the bureau of standards a Individuals who have visited the metropolitan areas of the north and west will recognize that Camden la - per cent up to date In Its color program aud traffic markings. V. N ? ? 1 Well, they have started the Anvil Chorus because' of the disappointing showing of the Bulldogs in the game with Klngstree last Friday night, Neighbors and friends, an opening game is an opening game in any man's stadium and certainly Is not any clear- Indicative of what a team has or has not. And those of you who have elected to go Into the carpentry trade, let me add Just this? ihat Klugstree gang was no setup. It was a smart, fast and alert team aud should go far in the lesser bracket this season. ? 1 think a lot of the foiks had an idea that they would witness a scoring parade on the part of the Bulldogs. With but five regulars back in harness, we think the team did rather well. Anyhow, for the love of Mike, let's not be childish; - , ? , From fair away fields we hear s^me glowing^ reports of the grid skill of the Columbia, Sumter and Rock Hill teams. All power to them. "We wish them the best of luck. They may need it before the season closes. ? ? * ? A splendid crowd gathered at the Zemp stadium lor the opener. It would have been larger had the Florence team been playing. As we said before, many of the bugs had the idea that Kiugstree would be a pushover. Of course, there were frequent penalizations. Kingstree in particular suffering from an overzealousneSte with many oftside payments. And, of c'urse. there were fumbles with Camden having an edge in this feature. Sleeps Bobby Bell did some nice running and plunging, especially in the third period. Bell got a nice hand when he came out of the game iai the early part of the fourth quarter. Papa and Mama Mullen had plenty reason to be mighty proud of John , and Billy. Two fine kids and they give everything to the game. Some nice passing by Billy, In fact the first ^ pass of the 1939 season on Zemp field came in the first quarter when Billy heaved to McCaskill. successfully. ,. ? The Bulldogs were captained by that lanky, genial lad, Jack Marshall and .Jack did a swelligent job of piloting. * ^ ** Th visitors pulled a pretty play In tie- dosing minutes of the first half w ie'ii Red Montgomery threw a twern . . yard pass to Floyd who lateraled . Bryan. Bryan did a jitterbug dance ?, :i;making up his mind which way u run and then the Camden defense ' iu on him. The referee ruled : ..?; the lateral had been forward and play went haywire. And the cheer leaders, led by Doris M-Leod, showed military precision in .M ir Charleston movements and cer-cnly had plenty of volume from their n id speakers. The group introduced one or two new formations which were good. Those on the cheer lead* r group with Captain McLcod were: Nancy Sanders, Margaret McDowell, Margie DeLoache, Margaret Salmond, Mary Pitts and Betty Blakeney. CHILD KILLER CONVICTED Neal Brown Given Life 8entence For Decapitating Hit 8on l^ancaster, Sept. 22?A 23-year-old:?-x t i 1 e worker, Neal Brown, began a life sentence today after ft Jury convicted him of murder and recommended mercy. Brown was tried on a charge of decapitating his six months old son. The Jury deliberated one hour and twenty minutes. Under the Verdict a life sentence was mandatory..* Brown told the Jury that he suffer d a complete loss of memory for about 12 hoars the day the Infant vitas killed. Something kit me on the head, And I fell to the ground, and that was the last I remember until I came to in Jail with a photographer making v'/.'* .'i*?: * l' . - When It Purple Purple? Motl People Don't Know When Is purple purple? When is green green? Moat of us don't know. In an age when science reproduces daszling accuracy the myriad colors of nature, we are inclined to j folor ,pr *ranted. Until related colors are examined closely, side by side, or until someone disagrees with us over the description of a color, we do not worry much about color names. After all, "what's in a name?" Thanks to the corner druggist, and -to the national association of which he is a member, science has at last undertaken the job of solving the color name problem, writes John H. Crider in the Scientific American.* In fact, the national bureau of standards in Washington, backed by ths American Pharmaceutical association, has Just about finished the classification of the color names of powdered drugs; the naming of microscopic structures and crude drugs is well under way. , The object of the work at the bureau of standards, financed by the American Pharmaceutical association, is to provide "a means of designating colors in the United States Pharmacopia, in the National Formulary and in general pharmaceutical literature; such designation to be sufficiently standardized to be acceptable to science, sufficiently broad to be appreciated and usable in science, art and industry, and sufficiently commonplace to be understood, at least in a general way, by the whole' public." Word 'Canard' Started By Ducky French Story It is interesting to note the manner in which we have come to apply the term "canard" to any slander or outrageous story. - ^'Canard" is the French word for "duck." About 50 years ago a French journalist set all Paris talking by an article in one of the daily newspapers, purporting to tell of a wager he had made with some other newspaper men to the effect that, "given one [day to prepare, be could eat 20 ducks at a sitting." According to his tale his wager was eagerly taken by all who heard it. Then, according to his story, he went to the market, bought 20 ducks, and, by the process of h?Ur|y killing one duck and "feeding it to the others, he arrived, in 20 hours, at a final duck with all the other* inside it. This, the journalist wrote, he promptly killed, roasted and ate "at one sitting." The story caused endless comment, was copied all over France and in other countries?until some curious person raised a public demand to know whether or not this procedure was accepted by the other bettors I as a bona fide performance of the wager. Eventually the journalist had to explain that the whole story was a fake, written merely to "excite commei. " As a result we have the word "canard" to define just that kind of a yarn. U. S. Ship Was Germany's The U. S. S. Callao is the former Sierra Cordoba, which was a German vessel interned in Peru at the time of the World war. It belonged to the North German Lloyd line. The ship was purchased from Peru by the United States shipping board and arrived in tow from Callao at Panama on September 24, 1918. The vessel was operated by the navy department from April 26, 1919, to September 20, 1919. After 1919 she was reconditioned and used in coastwise trade on the Pacific coast. She is now called the Ruth Alexander and is owned by the President Terminal Steamship company of San Francisco. __ Early Masks 'Horrible' ?? Beauty and the mask have rarely gone together. When ancient peoples made their masks?and man has been making them from primitive ages?they were made as horrible as possible, says the Washington Post. Their purpose was to protect the wearer from "evil spirits." No. more beautiful are the masks of today. And there are many. Besides the much publicized air raid mask, there are padded leather "faces" to protect boxers during training; smoke and gas guards for firemen and policemen; sand-sifting nose and mouthpieces for dust bowl storms, and, of course, the mud pack fbr milady's complexion. CjeaniBg Instructions To clean pearls, first rut) them with a cloth dipped in alcohQl diluted with warm (not hot) water, or in a weak solution of soap and water, then dip another cloth in els an water and rub the pearls until they are dry. Be careful not to leave them wet. Either salt, rice, pearl-powder, or some exceedingly soft substance may aid in cleaning them, but no abrasive such as ground pumice, electro-silicon, or any powder that is sold as a polishing powder, should be used. 4 ' ' ' \ 16.56 a Year The easiest job in England, that of ringing the old curfew bell of Stogursey, West Somerset, has recently been filled. The bell is rung only twice a day, and. the ben rope is so arranged that it hangs down into die bell ringer's bedroom. He need "not even stir out of bed in order to carry out his duties.. For his efforts he is given $6.50 a year, O joint of meat, about two tons of ?** # ?*>?. .I?d?n. SfF Think*You Are a Tost? Then Try Out This Test j Are you a poet? Here's a test cited I by Sister Mary Mudeleva, president 1 of St. Mary's college Notre Dame, Ind. The test concerns the moon crescent sometimes visible in the early morning, says the Syracuse Post-Standard. If it's "a thin crust of a moon" to you, you have something of the poet within you. But if it reminds you of a "toe-nail" then you aren't much of a poet. That every worker may have within him a poet was Sister Madeleva's contention. She decried Plato's phi- , losophy of the Ideal republic, with its triple division of the population into philosophers, the "choica souls," the merchants and soldiers "to take care of the philosophers economically and defend the country," and the slaves "to do the work." That reduces most of the world to a condition of slavery to support the philosophers," she said, pointing out that such a view was contrary to the viewpoint of God. "The worker becomes a collaborator with God in creation," she claimed. "The level of work is lifted from slavery to s deiflc plane. The worker has the opportunity of contacting God in his work. The poet in the worker goes a step further, to fashion what he sees into a thing of beauty." Quoting from Jacques Maritain that "Poetry is to art what grace is to moral life," she claimed there was "no finer tribute paid ta poetry, and no greater stimulus for reading or writing poetry, for grace establishes us in friendship with God, , gives to everything we do a super> natural quality and value." Farmer's Account Book Reveals Eye to Thrift A New England farmer's account , book of the 1830s reveals the price ! of meals and the watch which housewives kept on boarders' appetites. In the autumn of 1834 the charge j for the school mistress was a frac- ; tion over four cents a meal, room I rent apparently included: _ "To boarding school Mistress 10 days, $1.43;" and "To boarding Mistress one week, $.92." A farm hand's meals cost more than twice as much?from 8V4 to 9V4 cents, room rent excluded, each entry stating specifically, "meals of victuals," says the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. That housewives kept a sharp eye out for second and third helpings as well as the difference between a woman's and a man's appetite is shown by the varying prices of the farm hand's meals. "To 38 meals of victuals, $3.17" the entries dated August 25, September 1 and October 13 read. But on September 29 the charge was one cent more for one meal less, and on April 27 the rate was all of cent a meal more: "To 38 meals of victuals, $3.02." It may be deduced that just preceding September 29 and April 27 the farm hand had a more than usually hearty appetite for pan! cakes and apple pie. Balance Between Moon and Earth , Earth and moon behave like a gigantic steel yard with the big, heavy earth on the short end of the balance and the little moon on the long' end. The earth weighs 81 times asmuch as the moon and therefore the cejiter balance of the earth and moon lies inside the ball of the earth but by no means at the center of the earth. This center of balance " is about a thousand miles beneath your feet, and always keeps under the moon. The remaining 3,000 miles of radius of the earth acts like a lever, whereby the moon, in its motion, is able to Shake the whole earth and move it and make it vibrate to every distortation of the moon's orbit. Why We Keep to Right The automobile driver in the United States drives on the right side, father than on the left as is the custom abroad, because the American became accustomed to driving his covered wagon on the right. And the Jack he uses in changing tires isn't so new?similar jacks were used 100 years and more ago by covered-wagon drivers. But the American automobile driver owes nothing to the covered wagon when it comes to brakes?the covered-wagon driver had to get out and behind his wagon, setting brakes on the rear wheels from the rear. - Milk Easily Delivered The milkman at Nome, Alaska, does not worry about spilling his milk. He calls from house to house and delivers a block of frozen reindeer milk or cream equal to a pint or a quart. A white cord frozen into the block of milk serves as a handle to facilitate delivering. The blocks of milk and cfeam are wrapped in oil paper and look like ice cream. As long as it remains _ frozen there is no deterioration in the quantity or quality. n " Shield Underground Pipes Shields for underground pipes are being made of cellulose nitrate plas tic. Pure rubber is also bejpg used experimentally. The coatings protect the pipe against cdrrotive soil. Where the line is buried very deep, or across timers and creeks inaccessible during flood periods, two I wraps of celluloid are employed.? Industrial and Engineering Chen*\ istiy. ? W.. . Ci Green Feed Needed For Healthy Flock Ulemsou. Sept. 23.?Green feed provides health for the flock aud profits for (he poultrymau, says 1*. 11. Gyodlug, extension poultry specialist, ?minding flock owners tliut provision must soon bo made for ample winter graxjug, "Green feed supplies vitamins A and G, particularly valuable for laying bens," the specialist explains, "since both of these vitamins are necessary to get maximum egg production and hatchabillty. Vitamin A is uecessary also to prevent an eye trouble similar to roup, lu addition to Its nutritional advantages green feed tends to keep the birds satisfied and probably helps to prevent feather pulling and cannibalism. "Thus the birds should have access to a green range at all times," Mr. Gooding asserts, adding that a double yarding system would not only supply an abundance of green feed hut It would also aid in combating diseases and parasites. Mr. Gooding suggests that oats seoded at the rate of tlvo bushels per acre will make a sod douse enough to afford grazing for a (lock of hens much longer than when lighter seed- f lugs are made. Italian rye grass, at the rate of 40 pounds per acre, also makos an excellent winter grazing crop of hens. It may be planted In the drill or broadcast and should be covered about one-half Inch deep. | If the yards used* for hens to range I uro limited or if there is any Question about not having ample green feed for the hens at all times, lespedeza meal or alfalfa leaf meal should be added to the mash. This can be added at the rate of 5 to 10 pounds per 100 pounds of mash, and may be substituted for corn meal or wheat middlings. It will not materially increase the coat of the mash and' it will supply' the food factors which are normally supplied in green feed. In large American logging camps, the humidity In the air is checked regularly with a psychrometer to determine If the atmosphere is dry enough for a . chance spark of any kind to start a disastrous fire. When It registers as low as 30 per cent, all logging Is stopped. A major crime Is committed every 22 seconds In the United States which country has a crime rate seven tlmeB greater than that of England. Malvern Hill Older Youth Club The Malvern Hill Older Youth Club hold Its monthly meeting at the homo of two of its members, Clarence and Cyrus Watts, with twenty-two members present on Monday night, September 18. The president, Miss Lucile Robinson, opened the meeting by singing "America, The Beautiful." Miss Lucile Moomeyham read the devotional, the members repeated the lord's Prayer. The secretary called the roll with twenty-tow members answering to their names. We finished up with the old business that was left from our August meeting. Miss Robinson then asked MIsb Margaret Fewell to help re-organize our club as this is the month for reorganization. For the next year we are to have at the monthly meeting the following of fleers: President, Mack Munu; vlcepresldent, Annie Mae Godwin; secretary, Inez Parker; treasurer, Louise Brunson; club reporter, Ruby Brunson. Our next meeting will bo hold at the church on October 4. We?will have O. Ronialn Smith with us. We are urging that every member will bo at this meeting, as he will give ua our plan of work for the coming yoar. After business we went Into the yard where fl&mbos were lighted and gamos were played. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. Troy Denton, Annie Mae Godwin, served delicious refreshments consisting of lemonade and crackers. The meeting then adjourned to meet on October 4 with Romaln Smith at the Malvern Hill church.? . Contributed. Get Out Your *? i Fall Suit or Dress AND SEND IT TO US TO BE DYED. IT WILL THEN BE ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES. WE'LL MAKE IT LOOK LIKE NEW. 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