The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 24, 1939, Image 1
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"volume 51. V 1 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1939 ^ _~" NUMBER 35
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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
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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.
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THANK GOD, WE'RE AMERICANS!"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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