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The Camden Chronicle r "volume 51. V 1 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1939 ^ _~" NUMBER 35 n LJU ^ , IWI 1,1111, It L.I I II I I I, U -L- ., 11... I , UOUll ? - T-i . M-U. I ... . J. |ll. - . - J. .OJ14^ [J I II ll? Red Cross Workers Aiming At A Record The Ktut Cross roll call la progross. g a moat Htttlafaotory pace, there jnK at>M\e 530 members on record ? to 5 o'clock Tuoaday afternoon. # Mih. VV. H. Harris, roll call chairman, has urged all county workers to turn in thelr reports as aoon as pos,lble. The roaponse to date has been generous and Cooperative and the workers are enthused over the proaof reaching thJb quota assigned (0 this county. Mrs. Harris la still"* of the belief that If every adult ln^ the county would give careful thoiflght to the Red Cross situation, there would be ne difficulty in realising on the slogan, "Every Adult a Member." Kjoin the school units comes encouraging reports, several of the groups having gone over the top^with 100 per cent listings. The workers believe that all of the schools will attain this goal. Through the business district are aeen the one hundred per cent emblems Indicating the business and professional men are backing the drive jn a whole-hearted manner. The colored group Is working hard to increase its membership to 250 this season. Dr. Thomas has some^twenty enthusiastic workers under his leadership. Moving pictures of R$d Cross activities will be shown in the schools between November 24 and 29. A number of fine Red Cross window displays are In evidence in the Camden downtown area. The Fashion Shop has a fine display. There is also an attractive one In the Thomas drug store. Polo Players Are Ready For Season Coach Cyril Harrlsdn, of the Camden Polo Club, will arrive In this city Friday or Saturday and will inaugurate a series of training periods for his polo artists at the Number 2 field, u T\kely" several hundred fans will motor to the field Sunday afternoon In the hope of seeing Borne action by players and ponies. Repairs and renovations at the number one field this season will feature some new goal posts. The posts will be painted In the club colors. Repairs are being made to the fences and the grandstand and these will later he freshened with paint. Charles Little, coacfc and captain of 4he Lancaster, Pa., polo team, whOj completed his first season with the Quaker state several weeks ago, has; ,.decided to make Camden his head-] quarters this winter and will play with one of the Camden teams during the progress of the many tournament events. C. P. DuBose, Jr., Kirby Tupper, Carl Llghtfoot, Moultrie Burns and others who delight In '.hp sport of polo, have all beef! work-J ing out of late and will be in first class shape when the opening game of the season, the first of a series between Town and Country for the De>iu" cup, is played on Sunday, December 3. Finds Old Editions Back Of License When James Zemp, proprietor of lb- L.'Kalb Pharmacy, corner Broad ar t DeKalb streets, decided to clean ib> glass panel covering a pharmaal license issued to his father. V ( ,. prank M. Zemp. he found of the license form, several n^St^of an 1894 issue of the Hostillustrated United States almar.a< Also used for the evident purpose of k eping the license form pressed c 1 o. ,tgainst the glass was a Buist Gar i,Guide and Almanac of the yea: 1x94. The colors of the Ink used ' n he Lithographing printing process of 'r.n htnist alihanac were as clear an'i fast d* when originally printed. Mr Xemp also has in bis possession a Morchead Family Almanac that was P1*! pa red by hlB grandfather, FYancls L. Zomp,' M, p., In 1858. MrcjlfriMcMurtry Throtighter,4rr6r in last week's Chronicle, the family of Major George G McMurtry whs mentioned a? being Hajor and Mrs^McMuttry and a four year old son. The item should have re&d, "a four year old daughter", Paper-Late Thla Week The Chronicle will be several hour# reaching its ladders this" week. The entire force took Thursday as a ""'WW. :^| Llewellyn Speaker At Legion Banquet The American lxigiommlres of Harttvllle Post No, 63 were entertained last Friday nlghf, November 10, by the Auxiliary with an annual Armistice Dau banquet at the Hut. After the large crowd had found places at the prettily decorated tables, Commander 1. W. Hughes asked everyone to join In singing "Amerh ea", followed with sixty seconds of silence In honor of departed comrades. Then RevT H. L, Hoover gave the invocation. Mrs. L. D^Crabtree, president of the Auxiliary, gave the address of welcome. ^Specfftl guests were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Llewellyn and Dr. and Mrs. DePass of Camden. Several new legionnaires were introduced. Rev. H. L. Hoover, as toastmaster, called on Mr. John Martin, Mr. C. E. PreBCOtt and Mrs. J. P. Evans to make some presentations. Mr. J. V. Fagan, the past-commander, was presented a lovely Legion token; Mr. L. S. King, a membership card by the Legion in appreciation of his years of service as Post Adjutant; and Mrs. D. L. Byrd, a tevely pitcher by the Auxiliary in appreciation of her services as its efficient president for the past year. Stanley Llewellyn, the guest speaker, was Introduced by T. B. Watt. Mr. Llewellyn spoke very forcefully and interestingly of the need for National Defense, so that the world will listen to America and thus she can make "right the master of might". The entire program was interspersed with songs and Jokes, incidentally to help everybody digest the quantities of delicious turkey and Its accessories which were consumes.?Hartsville Messenger. ' Impressive Rites For Soldier Dead An Inspiring memorial service was conducted in Hampton Park by the American Legion Post on Armistice I day, the 11 o'clock observance period being featured by an eloquent address by Father Burke of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Despite the fact that the custom of several years of having the services at the Intersection of Broad and DeKalb street had to be abandoned and a transfer made to Hampton Park, a large number of patrioticminded citizens gathered to Join with the Legion Post in the dramatic and beautiful ritual honoring the soldier dead of the world war. There was the usual roll call of dead comrades, a wreath being placed upon the cross over the symbolic grave each name was given. Then followed the sounding of taps and in turn by the firing of a volley oyer the "graves". The blowing of whistles and Are sirens called public attention to the solemn 11 o'clock period of silence and all business in Camden paid tribute to the world war dead and the signing of the armistice by a cessation of activity for the five minute period. Father Burke's address, while brief, was eloquent in Its appeal for world peace. The Catholic divine, himself, a world war veteran, was able to portray In vivid word ^pictures the back"groUnd of the American Legion and what the armistice meant to the world and to humanity. An armistice day observance was presented at the Mt. Zion community house by the Council of Farm Women with Hon Stanley Llewellyn as speaker. On Friday nlghi Mr. Llewellyn attended the armistice celebratioq at Hartsville. Ho was accompanied' by Mrs. Llewellyn and Mr. and Mrs. William DePass. . Kershaw Man Fatally Shot Kershaw, Nov. A.?-E. W. Cox. Jr., 18, Is said to have been accidentally killed at the home of -his parents, about two. miles north of here, this morning. He was shot through the bead with a .22 rifle bullet and died almost Instantly. He had been cmployed at a filling station and lunch stand here and was well thought of by all who knew him. Besides his parents he is survived by Ave brothers, Roy,Rock Hill; Dock, Ernest, Olin and Frank Cox, all of Kershaw; six sisters, Mra. Elsie Lasricfaicfc and Miss Mary Cox of Chicopee, Masa.; Mrs. Tom Deaton, end Mrs. D, JL Belk, Lancaster; Miss Leila and little Bottle Ann Cox, Keritn. i. " x - " , -i\ 'i< Mr . ' t- % THANK GOD, WE'RE AMERICANS!" _ _ J Dutch Luncheon At HoteJ Camden Mrs^ Thomas Ancrum has been named chairman of the committee on arrangements for the Tuberculosis Association's second annual Christmas Seal Sale Rally and Dutch Luncheon to be held at the Camden Hotel Friday, December 1st., at one o'clock. Invitations are being mailed to one hundred and fifty people, living in Camden and other sections of the county. Rev. A. Douglas McArn, chairman of the speakers' bureau, announces! that Mr. Robert Barrie, formerly connected with the National Tuberculosis Association and now doing an outstanding Job as Executive Secretary of the Richland County Anti-Tuberculosis Association, is to be guest speaker. Interest in the j^lans for the Christmas Seal Sale Luncheon is so keen that Mrs. Ancrum is expecting at least one hundred persons to be present to hear Mr. Barrie and to listen to an outline of the proposed program for the coming year. Your home will be safe from the ravages of tuberculosis only when every other home in the county has been made, safe. Purchasing Christmas Seals will be like giving wings to your dollars which will be spent for the protection of every home Lu the county. ScoUsville, Ky., bans the employment of bachelors in the municipal government. Mrs. Clark To Train Her Junipers Here The announcement of Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarke of Westbury, Long Island, whose horse, Kellsboro Jack, won the Grand National Steeplechase at Alntree, England, four years ago that Bhe has decided to return to steeplechaslng and selected the Srpringdale course here for her winter training quarters has created much Interest In local equestrian circles. Mrs. Clarke has been ^successful with her small but select stable of flat horses and her re-entry Into steeplechaslng will be welcomed by all devotees of this form of racing. Clarke will have six horses /or training for steeplechase racing. They will be under the supervision of Dolly Beyers who formerly rode for the Wltjeners and others and later trained for William duPont, Jr., of Wilmington, Delaware. Home For Thanksgiving The following girls were home for Thanksgiving holidays from Winthrop college: Mary McLeod, Lois Rhame, Margiej Creed, Frances Baruch, Elizabeth Pitts, .Nancy "Watts, Caroline Nolson, i Dally Jackson, Dolly Stokes, Betty| Holland, Margaret Wost, Sara Harvin and Jean Cooper. From Lander: Olive McGulrt, Elizabeth McCoy. Betty Sowell, Wlllene West, Lorena Van I>andingham, Mary i Zemp, Grace Rhoden, Ben Mildred Sowell and Sara Sheorn. Investigate First "Investigate before you invest", is a slogan that has been preached incessantly by bankers and other financial advisers; but In spite of this caution, and of frightful losses sustained by ill-advised Investment through itinerant stock salesmen, many people with a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to invest continue filling the coffers of unworthy enterprises and of unworthy representatives of such enterprises. < Whenever the financial outlook begins to generate an optimistic point of view, literally myriads of stock salesmen a?je sent over the South to solicit investments In new enterprises, or in the capital of struggling existng enterprises. Many of these projects may be absolutely sound, and their I owners entirely honest. But the instances are rare where there is Justi- | flcatlon for making an investment. j Salesmen who have absolutely no Interest in the matter except to earn . commissions manage in some way to get "sucker lists" consisting j largely of names of widows and others who are supposed to have some j money or valuable securities. Through a point of view that is utterly < incomprehensible, -many of such people will hand over money or securi- ' ties to salesmen whom they have never before seen, or to mushroom i banking houses of whom they know nothing, In payment for stocks or bonds issued by corporations that the investor has never even heard of before. The astonishing thing is that many people who are thus gullible would not think of trusting even their own best friends, however much confidence they have in such persons, without following the soundest business policies; but the glib salesman disarms such persons and with high-sounding phrases and promises of large income and profits bbtains money and securities- for investment in corporations whose security should never be permitted to be sold to the public. It should bo more generally understood that many a stock proposition is absolutely honest, and yet Is sound only from the standpoint of the officers and owners of a majority, of the stock. These people in one way or another can always get the first fruits of the earnings of the corporation. But it does not at all follow that the stock of such a concern is safe for the outside Investor. Common sense should Indicate that the "insider" and the "outsider" are in very different ppsUioBS,1-even- v*here there Is no dishonesty. Through the banks in the County there are means to check up every investment proposition. No stock salesman or broker should be able to put <qrr?r a sale of stock or bonds without the advice of an Impartial financial adviser, and the bank la the best place to go for such advice or to find out Where such advice can.be obtained. This advice is peculiarly applicable at the present time. Fine Work Done By Scout Leaders From a modest beginning two years igo to a membership uf ovyi- eighty mthusiastic Scouts, the Catndtv* Hoy i Scout program ha*1 stepped Into the ' ront ranks of progressive movements 1 n this resort city. v The present administration, under The leadership of W. F. Nettles, Jr., lias established a fine record of achievement during the year that hi jnst closing. The tlrst year's pro* (tram was ably supervised by Heury Savage, Jr, and his commit toe workers. There aro exactly 81 Boy Scouts on the Camden roster. These lads aro divided Into three troops. Troop No. 30, in charge of Hen D. Team and Ernest Wooten as Scoutmasters, and W. C. Moore, M. U. Muller and Oliver Rico as troop committee, has 19 boys on the troop record. They are David Barnes, J. Marlon Brown, Billy C larkson, Donald Clyburn, Dprgun Jennings, John C. Langford, rjelbert McDowell. William 1,. McijUiwpdl, Joe H. Nelson, Joe B. Kharae, Leonard H. Schenk, Ben D. Team, Hughey Tlndal, Bill Van Dandlngham, Oscar J. Wooten. Julian Culverti, Marion Schlosburg, Allon Huggins and Danny Wllillford. Troop No. 38 has 19 members and is in charge of Scoutmasters Harold McNinch and Joe Jenkins, with W. J. Major, I*wis Clyburn and Rev. Caston as troop committee members. The members of the troop are as follows: William Clyburn, Brlona Cox, James L. Creed. Harry S. Qaskln, Joseph Jackson, Claude Lamoy, William Major, Jr., Thomas C. Massabeau, Edward Ogburn, Rector Wallace, Randolph Smith, James Thornton, William Thornton, William Waters, Bobby Wilson, Bill Vance Burns, Jasper Newton Owens. John Robert Partln and Charles Haymon Scarborough. Troop No. 39 has 32 members and Is In charge of H. D. Canup and F. E. Culvern, Jr., with E. D. Newton, H. J. Mobley, D. J. Blackmon, F. E. Culvern, Jr., and C. R. Blakeney, as committee members. The members are: Jack Floyd, Robert L. Mobley, Blake J Floyd, Calvin Deaton, William Dea-| ton, Gene Estridge, .Paul F. Gardner, Harry Gay, William Hough, Everett Hilton, Billy Dlndenswelg, T. J. Gardner, Herbert Gregory, Perry Hendrix, Aster Ward Hilton, Douglas Mackey, William A dam 8, Junior Barren, Willie C. Catoe, Iva B. Catoe, Jack Hilton, Glenn Jones, Richard Kunkle, Robert Kunkle, Harry Moreland, Shannon Catoe, Bobbie Cook, Herbert McPherson. William Robertson. Francis Wallace, Edward Newton and Richard Newton. W. F. Nettles, Jr., deserves major credit for Scout activities in Camden as he was loader of a troop that was supported by a gnetip of citizens for several years before the movement hero became affiliated with the central council. Troop 30. with Ben Team and W. C. Moore, as Scoutmasters, is sponsor-' ed by the Presbyterian church. Mr. Team is also the leader of the Sea Scout patrol, which he organized himself and which has aroused much interest among tho listed membership. Troop 38 is sponsored by the Baptist church with Harold Funderburk and Joe Jenkins as Scoutmasters, while Troop 39 Is made up of boys at Kershaw, with H. D. Canup and F. K. Culvern as Scoutmasters. Another troop,'to be made up of boys of the Grace Episcopal and the Dyttleton Street Methodist churches, and under the supervision of M. B. Burns and W. F. Nettles, Jr., will be added to the Camden roster. South Carolina is fortunate In having two ^ible executives in charge of Scout work. "Bill" Czarnitzki and Jim Gibson, chief Scout and assistant Scout executives, have built up the I Scout Avork in the state in an amazing manner. They In turn, give full credit to those who have co-operated with them in the various communities. And thil is particularly true of Camden, where the movement has made a most satisfying record. f Noted Baptist Worker Dies Dr. Charles E. Burts, retiring president of the State Baptist convention 'and a leader of the prohibition forces of South Carolina, died at the Baptist Hospital lu Columbia Saturday j night. In the ?lst year of his age. Dr. Burts, whose work for his denomination started almost fifty years ago, was admitted to the hospital a week ago, a day after he became ill at 8t. Matthews, where he was pastor of the Baptist church. K ' Postmaster DuBose Advises on Mailing: "Large numbers of Christmas greetings, mailed In unsealed envelopes at the third class rate of postage, are disposed of as waste each year bocause they are undellverahle as addressed." said Postmaster C. P. Du* n?? sr. 'Who fact these envelopes are not (lowered Is duo to the removal of the addressee or some other cause," ho continued "Such greetings are not entitled to the free forwarding privilege accorded those mailed In sealed envelopes at the first class rate- and consequently tho senders In many cases never know that the greetings were not received by the addressees. This would not occur If tho greetings were mailed sealed at the first class rate. "In view of the foregoing. 1 am urging mailers to send their holiday greetings at tho first class rate. By so doing they may be sealed and contain written messages not otherwise permitted, therefore having a personal appeal which Is of course more highly appreciated by the recipients. "It Is also true that such messages are dispatched and delivered first, also get directory service and If 110ceHsary. are forwarded without additional charge. If undellverahle, they are returned without charge provided the senders return card la shown on the envelope. "Greetings mailed al the third class rote, which cannot be delivered as addressed because of the removal of the addressee or some other reason, must often be destroyed as waste, thereby causing disappointment." Sources of Radio Interference Located Up to Sunday night over twentythree corrections In the lines of the Carolina Power and Light company and those of the Camden Municipal light system had been made by a crew of experts from the power company In the. drive to clear up sources of radio Interference here. Sunday morning tho experts had planned to install new Insulators at the Bub-statlon near the Kendall Mlli, but'rain prevented any work. Practically all of the Insulators at the substat^n had been damaged by bullets from rifles or stones from sling-shots, all being of a malicious origin, according to the light company officials. It Is believed that these wrecked Insulators are the sourceSft a greater part of tho Interference In radio reception. Already tho elimination of dead ends on city and Carolina Power company lineB has improved -reception. The experts, sent hero by the Carolina Power and Light company following a petition from the Chamber of Commerce, declare It frequently requires many months of investigation before all sources of interference are located and eliminated. Hagood Song Bird Is Heard Over Air Miss I>oulsa Sanders, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Sanders, of Hagood. made her initial appearance as a radio singer over Station WCOS Tuesday night. Miss Sanders was on the air for fifteen minutes in a repertolr of semiclasslcal numbers which Included many old-time favorites. She Ik to be heard twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday evenings over the Columbia station. Miss Sanders has a sweet contralto voice of good range and quality. Those who hoard her Tuesday night were loud In their praise. Miss Sanders sang on her first radio program "Can't You Hear Me Tallin' Caroline"; "The Sunshine of Your Smile;" "Ah, Sweet Mystery of j Life"; "Alice Blue Gown" and "The End.of a Perfect Day". Member of Borsd Volunteers Charleston. Nov. 21.?-Cadet William W. Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bates, of Camden, is a member of the Bond Volunteers, which is the crack drills platoon at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. In ordeY'to become a member of this organization it is necessary to compete With the .other members of aie junior class. * * r The Bummerall Guards, which 1b the senior crack, drill platoon, and the Bond Volunteers drill between halroe of the home football games and most a of the gamee played away from home. < '- f ? * ? . . .j