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I Cruising /V' ' Around *rtU? ' y "Skipper" to be war and foot-j m hiti <*?** Rn<1 ln ^eaklllK of I lar It occur* to u? that It wouldn't * g0 bad If the Natl* were willing I t0 lel other .nations live in their *oria # e e The most Interesting pussies lately are ?he war dispatches. You try to guosa bow many of them are true. Well, well, well. We uote that the km sages assert that Dewey and Bridges are too young and Garner d null too old. It sure looks as If the present crisis In world affairs Is | going to Influence the age of the t United States presidential candidates. He will have to be around tbe middle of the century as well as B the middle of the road. ' ?~ J I \Vo note where a British flyer re nor ted a. "colossal" explosion after he had bombed a Nazi sub. We'll bet ' that British flyer has been seeing American movies. * Now that Britain has officially sta ted tlmt she has the Bremen, we sug gest that Mayor McCorklfl send out a scouting expedition onK Hermitage V Head in the paper the other day I that Blng Crosby's twin sons ha^e hail their tonsils removed. As if the I world hasn't enough troubles without I clearing the throats of two more potential crooners. I speaking of football-we note by I some of the state papers that SumI ter is being picked to larrop the BullI dogs tonight. In reply we say with all emphasis, the Gamecocks will know they have been in a football game?at least. I Rather Ironical that Paul Derringer ! ?former Cardinal, was the laddie who pitched the Cincy Reds to the ! National rag over his old team mates. I can remember back a few years when Derringer was the wildest sonof-a-gun on the hill of any pitcher in the minor league. ? ?-? The question of the hour?was the English lleet beaten by a German bombing squadron. The British say nay" and the German high command; says "aye.-* Personally, we are inclined to believe?the Johnny Bulls, but at the same time, we think that all nations now in the battle lineup should join the Burlington liars club. The Camden Bulldogs invade Sumter tonite with two scalps on their belts and eager to add a third. Darlington rell easy prey to Carpden last Friday by a score of 20 to Had the Bulldogs cut loose In the second half they could have added as many more points, but the entire squad engaged in rehearsal,of passing taotlcs. . South Carolina" looked terrible against Catholic last Friday night. The Gamecocks lack offensive power and right now we want to go on record as saying that if they take Davidson they will bp lucky. . Frankly we believe if they succumb to son they will go thru the season with' om a win. That is, if they continue to play as they did against Catholic U. Notre Dame and Purdue, two of the greatest teams in America staged a dramatic battle on Rockne field at South Bend last Saturday, the Catholics winning by the margin of one field goal. Tulane defeated Clemscm 7 to 6 and the Green Wave was grateful when the gun ended the game. Well folks, next Thursday will be Cotton Festival Day and it looks like h winneT again. Three bands, several military units, fifty state police In as many motor units, sixteen to twen ty floats, a beautiful queen and her fair ladies ln waiting, an exquisite coronation ball?these will be a few of the big events. <* m m m m , ~ JAll we hope Tor Is a good brand of weather?and then watch the fo s o from all over this part of the itnte pour Into Camden. _ * j Camden m&h&dts can cooperate very nicely ' with" ^ the Camden city street department It- whett^-Aiyj sweep the store* eat*.they will -gath*! into the street. *&e latter is Juat a careless habit and mnkee the etreete. look messy and nntidf. ; * e By the way, It looka ae If the city and chamber of commerce will go to town on the matter of radio Interference, which, for some reason or other, has become a publio nuisance in then^Sfcl "several" weeks7 The chamber office has been beseiged by complaints and appeals for actlod to eliminate the nuisance, which c6mes either from loose connections of the i electric light system or from some [ old-fashioned equipment for electric power purposes. We incline to. the i latter belief. I i The chamber of commerce has appealed to the Federal radio commission for counsel in the matter and if i we are not mistaken, that body will advise the chamber and city just j what to do to ged rid of the interference. COMMITS ON MEN AND THINQ8 - (By Spectator) .A new hosiery mill will be built in Union, the papers tell us. Juat at this moment a new industrial plant is worth more to South Carolina than ten thousand old-time orators talking about the poor, man, What a poor man\npe4s is n chance to work at lirlng wages. _ The cotton mills, paper mills, and other industries are doing more to raise the standard of lirlng in. this state than all other influences combined. A state can't lire on oratory, and certainly it cannot thrive on empty iberds. Progress,v or the enjoyment of a fuller or more abundant, life, largely depends on easing the strain so that- a man's whole life shall not be epent tn getting Just a few crumbs from the great bounty of nature. For yean a certain type of politician lg Association Will Sponsor Contest Seeking to eucouiage the interest of the gliia and boys who will soon bo among the loading cilisous of the cuqmty, the Kershaw County Tuberculosis Association is sponsoring two contests in all white schools. There Is to be an essay contest for high school students ou the subject? "Crosses in History." A.mTse of teu dallars )u cash , is to be Awarded for the best essay submitted, to the committee of Judges, of which Mrs, Donald Morrison, of Camden, Is to be chairman. A poster contest, iu which the doubio-barred cross and other crosses that tave been famous emblems in history are to be featured in attractive arrangement, is open to students of the slxjh and seventh grades. Mrs. J. W, Bruaaou is to be chairman of the oofaf&Hfljbn tor the poster contest,. Mrs. John Mullen, Christmas Seal Sale chairman, asks that every student in the grades mentioned enter with enthusiasm Into the contest for which he Is eligible. It Is also requested that members of ho^ae demonstration clubs and p/arent-teacher associations urge students living in their communities' to take active part in this educational program, which will broaden their scope of thinking and lead to a better understanding of the need of a tuberculosis program and what is being done in the county to meet the need. Information relative to the contest will be In the hands of Bchool superintendents and principals not later than the second week In October. 78-YEAR-OLD-MAN PICK8 300 P0UND8 COTTON DAILY Newberry. Sept/ 29.?-This has been a great season for big records In cotton picking, the dry weather and beautiful khite fleecy staple caused many people to exert themselves and really see just what they could do, but here Is one that is hard to beat: Jeff Sease, a white farmer of the St. j Phillips section, who is 78 years of age, picked around 300 pounds of cotton every day for a week, according to reports reaching Newberry. A bale and a half of cotton picked by a man nearly 80 years of age In a week is some record for any person, anytime and anywhere and at any age in life. D. tJ. Stephenson, who boasted he was "the-law'1 tn Indlana durlTig The heydey of the Ku Klux Klan, mapped with counsel this week in Indianapolis, the strategy of another legal maneuver to evade a life term imposed in 1925 in the death of Made Ober* holtzer, a statehouse employe. The former klan grand dragon was brought to the scene of his conviction Tuesday night from Michigan City prison for a conference with his lawyers preliminary to a hearing October 4 on his petition for a new trial. Seeking a feature story, a Seattle reporter tried the old stunt of selling dollar bills for 60 cents at the Ameerican Bankers' association convention. The reporter pulled out a dollar and offered It for 50 cents to the first banker he saw, thinking the banker wouldn't buy because It sounded suspicious. The financier took the dollar,' turned it over for a quick glance, pocketed it, handed over 60 cents and disappeared into the crowd. ?? qorantly denounced ail thoao who had a few dollars. Public men In this state are learning better. A few clear-sighted men have poluled out that high wages are paid for things which command a high price.. A thousand men making radios will receive more money than a thousand men digging potatoes because the radios will sell for more money. Perhaps society receives more benefit from the potatoes than from the radio, but practical men study problems on the basis of realities, not of dreams. One of our tasks, theu, Is to bring lu,> organise or develop Industries which will mean higher wages. It must not be overlooked, of course, that we are not fully appropriating the means at hand, nor are we developing even the markets for cheap things. We might set out as a program that we shall make more and bettor cotton, corn, oats, hay, and the like per acre, per man and per dollar invested than ever before. What an asset It would be, and what a, source of dollars and cents, If South Carolina cotton, hogs, corn, oats, wheat, rye and the like were the best to be had! A people devoted to developing finer strains for plants and animal life might in time Improve the human strain. What is life for? To develop meu, not hogs. But it Is quite conceivable that men may be Improved while improving seed-oats and seedcotton. A typical farmer sniffs with scorn at a road-side farmer. Perhaps the farmer who puts in "extra ltcka" along the road Is showing a bit of vanity which is close kin to an admirable pride. That little extra touch at the roadside proves what he would like all the crop to be. So let's all develop a bit more of pride In what we do. Spectator went to Memphis recently, he and Mr. Waring. Coming froip the proud old state of Carolina we showed our disrespect for traffic lights by crossing on the wrong light ?and escaped wholly sound. But the day I ventured out alone I observed all the traffic rules scrupulously. And with what results? When I crossed on the right light some fellow would turn the corner at my back and scare me out of a week's piety. That is my daily experience In Columbia. Just as I start to cross some one comes around and threatens to hit me in the back. So In Memphis: the time I was most cafe ful 1 was soon doing a wild Indian war-dance In the middle of the strt>ot, the car-driver and 1 performing the stunts of agility worth a circus cow-, tract. The Georgians have taken three illustrious names la a manner which baffles ine. There is Athene, Georgia, where the state university Is. All very good. Then there la Home, Georgia. Will amyono suggest any characteristic of that burg that la Hoiuun; or suggestive of the Romans? There isn't a single Caesar there, nor yet a Mussolini. Worse, still, Is Bp&rta, Georgia. Now the Spartans stood for hardy virtues, partlcularly self-deuial, discipline and rugged stoicism. Auythiug suggestive of that lu Sparta, Georgia? Nay, nay. Over in Tennessee some one with a taste for reading made hla influence felt. 1 found towns called Fayetteville, Pulaski and Bolivar. Fayettevtlle, 1 assume Is for the Marquis de l^aFayette of pur Revolution. Pulaski, I think, was a Pole, who fought in our Revolution. I hoard him called, that Is the town, called Pee-Las-ki. Too bad, liko the boys over lu "Georgy" who speak of Albany as All-bonny. Bolivar, the great Liberator of all South America, Is Do-lee-va, but they call it Bol-t-var in Tennesson. My sainted Aunt! But why should wo say Paris? The Frenchman callB his city Paree, and why should tho Spaniard speak of "the United States" as Los Estados Unldos? Anyhow, tho world will wag along, eYeu if some of my Barnwell friends will | say "Blagvul" for Blackville or "Clutu; by" for Columbia. And some staunch ! citizens of "the Ridge" apeak of our big Georgia neighbor as "Gusty." You must eat lunch at a low-price, popular place If you would see Amorcans In frenzied attitude of push and rush. After you push and are pushed you may get a seat and make a beginning. Everybody being close together your neighbor may get your bread, but you may appropriate His pie. Next to a mid-day meal go to a bargain sale. If the ladles don't tear you limb from limb It is because you are tough. Northern people coming to this state talk about our one little toll bridge as though It were a monumen-, tal crime. Yet other states have toll bridges. Tennessee has them; so has Louisiana; and so has Pennsylvania. And, doubtless all others. I talked to a Tennessee farmer the < other day. He predicted a third of a crop of ootton and a half orop of oru. But even ao, there la no mar ket, he aaya, for their cotton. "We I hear," ^ he aatd "that the President will arrange a loan, but taint no uae to loan money In January, we need It now." v * Recently I attended a* meeting of the Cotton Council In Memphis. Men were there from Arkanaaa, NJlsalsslppi, Mlaaouri, Texaa, Virginia, htorth Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama. Tenueaaee, Loulsianna, and Oklahoma?all at peace, all speaking the same language, having the same religion, same schools, same budlnesa methods?all one country. Think of it?Texas is blggor than Germany with all its .new possessions, not counting Poland. Those cotton states represent more territory than equals England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Hollaud. And what a difference! No frowning forts protect Louisiana from Texas, nor South Carolina from Georgia. England?one language, one set of customs, one system-of laws; France utterly different though only tweuty miles apart. Sweden and Italy! As wide apart In traditions, customs, luws, Ideals as two nations could be. And Holland and Belgium, though neighbors, are as different as thoOhhigse and Japanese. Here, millions of meity~4n a vast empire, live in peace, in harmony, .In cooperation. Truly this is the land of the free; the home of the blest? though I'm not so sure about it as the land of the free. Let our minds dwell on tho good fortune which favors us. One can drive on tine paved roads from Charleston, South Carolina, through, the steep climbs near Asheville, North Carolina, and encircle Lookout Mountain and Its gorgeous scenery, near Chattanooga and up and down across Tennessee?nearly eight hundred miles?without seeing a soldier, without seeing a custom house, without a challenge from anybody. . ' ' ' I ' 1 * WANTED AT ONCE 500 TONS SCRAP IRON and METAL Highest Prices Paid For Same CAMDEN IRON & METAL CO. _ Telephone 154 :: Camden, S. C. K'i i yiiiii'iiimii ?when you buy a Greyhound 4(^1 ROUND-TRIP TICKET Samplo Round-Trip fa ton boiumDia .... $ Charleston ... 3.15 Charlotte .... 2.00 Sumter 90 Cheraw 1.55 oavannan ...? Wlns-Salem 3.80 . New York ... 15.25 Washington .. 9.66 > Miami 16.30 ji GREYHOUND TERMINAL East DeKalb St Telephone 249 fp 1 1 ? 0 ? FJ ? p D Q Over a Million Dollars in Resources and Growlhg Steadily | WE SUBMIT BELOW FOR YOUR INFORMATION A CONDENSED STATEMENT OF OUR CONDITION ! I AS OF OCTOBER 2, 1939; THUS BANK WAS ORGANIZED AS A STATE BANK IN 1904, AiND CHARTERED AS A NATIONAL A BANK IN 1908. UPON THE PASSAGE OF THE FEDERAL AOT OF 1913, WE AUTOMATICALLY BECAME j A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM AND HAVE SO CONTINUED. AFTER THE GENERAL IBANK HOLIDAY IN 1933, WE WERE LICENSED BY THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY MARCH , j 18, 1933, TO OPEN OUR DOORS WITHOUT RESTRICTION. . ... __ J ;"T FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THIS BANK IT HAS BEEN OUR POLICY TO BE OF EVERY SER-TJ " VICE POSSIBLE CONSISTENT TO GOOD BANKING. DURING THIS PERIOD WE HAVE MADE PER- i SONAL LOANS, INDUSTRIAL LOANS AND AGRICULTURAL LOANS AND IT IS OUR AIM TO CONTINUE , , TO BE OF EVERY SERVICE POSSIBLE TO THIS COMMUNITY. WE APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THE CONFIDENCE AND PATRONAGE OF THE COMMUNITY. - | | !l , ? J; ! RESOURCES Loans a$d Discounts $ 104,340.23 Overdrafts ; .. None Banking house, Furniture and Fixtures.. 28,542.67 Real Estate other than Banking House.. 11,681M$5 fl Bonds .......7.. : 487,690.77 Cash in vault and due by banks 373,584.27 , , * TOTAL $1,005,747.49 LIABILITIES Common stock $ 60,000.00 , Preferred stock . 5,000.00 Surplus and undivided profits w ? 29,773.75 Deposits 909,473.74 ' Bills payable . " None j: | Rediscounts . ^>tene ' Reserve Fund . 1,500.00 ! 'Tpb'AL $1,006,747.49- -1 i The First National Bank of Camden I I ' -r -rrr , .?r?-.CL'l -ft ~ ?t Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation * $5,000 Maximum Insurance For Each Depositor < ' ' DIHSCTORS ' , ' G. J. SHANNON. ^ 1 R. N. SHANNON ^ 'c. >. SHANNON. 4TH "Ifcf 1| M. H. HEYMAlf^ W. A. BOYKIN <?'' LEWIS L. CLYBURlT. Mil ? I . " S. W.,VanLANDINGHAM l