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? - . N() H0ME 1S SAFE FR0M TUBERCULOSIS UNTIL ALL HOMES ARE SAFE I Tin: Camden Chronicle I VOLUME 51 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938 NUMBER 36 I Pageant and Community Tree To Feature Christmas Show (^mden's Santa Claus Unto and Cominiinlty Christmas tree will bl|jue with lights Friday, December 8, when tolly Kris Krlngle will Invade this resort community for his annual vis lt, coming here direct by plane from ! Charlotte, where he la holding forth j I,( one of the large stores of the I North Carolina metropolis that week. 'Thousands of colored lights will convert the downtown district into a veritable Christmas fairyland. Mayor 1 y n McCorVcle will throw the switch 1 I that will open the Santa Claus Lane it 4:30 o.'clook In the afternoon., at 1 (which time the parade of escort to I Santa Claus will begin Its march 1 through the streets. Boy Scouts, fairies, elves, gnomes, ' I brownies and whatnot in fairyland * I lore will take part In the parade. A 1 I group of carol singers, garbed In the 1 I traditional green and red of the Yule tide wiH be stationed on a beautiful- 1 ly appointed float and will slug ' I Christmas carols during the parade 1 I and later at various points in the 1 I downtown district. It Is probable * I that arrangements will be made to I have the carolers visit the homes of ( I convalescent children In order that the 1 I unfortunate kiddles may hear the I Christmas music. The garden club, ? I under tne direction of Mrs. A. C. Mc- ^ I Kain and Miss Helen Harman have [ I charge of the carolers. Santa Claus will be on a float that ' I is being supervised by a committee 1 I consisting of Mrs. Reuben Pitts, Sr., ? I Miss Olive Whittridge and Mrs. Reu- 1 I beu Pitts, Jr. The Tri Gamma girls 1 I will decorate the float after designs 8 II worked out by the committee.* The I float promises to present some new * I and novel features and will be a de- 1 I light to the youngsters along the 1 I line of the parade. 1 The Chamber of Commerce has re- 1 - I ce\v?d many replies from schools * about the county, indicating they 8 will be represented with groups in the parade. Entries are also being re- I '-jfl celved from private groups and indi- 1 fl viduals Bicycles are being cleaned 1 I in readiness for participation in the 1 bicycle division of the event. Cash 1 prizes are to be given the winners in. < the six different divisions. Tile parade will form on I>aurens 1 I street opposite the Camden high 1 school and at 4:30 o'clock will move I to Broad street and thence south to ( ' I a point opposite the Wateree Messen- 1 ger building. The line of march will 1 | I then swing back on Broad street to 1 I IieKalb and east on DeKalk to Hamp- ' I ton bark, where it will dis-band. The . I float with the carolers will return to I the corner of DeKalb and Broad I streets where there will be a fifteen I minute period of singing. It will then I move to the residence district where I stops will be made opposite the ' I homes of convalescent children. A s'op will also be made at the Camden hospital. The Community tree this year will I be located in the Public Library yard, 1 I the city and library group having exI teml'-d permission for the trimming * I of the beautiful holly tree with strings of colored lights. The committees in chargfe of the I San a Claus I^ne program urges all 1 th? individuals and groups who will ^ I tak. part in the parade and strive,to c I win -he awards in the various divisl on.- !o be sure and register their nan., s at the Chamber of Commerce I office it is also pointed out that I thu-.- taking part are to report at I th?* high school area Friday afterI no-iu not later, than 4 o'clock, as the I parade will begin at 4:30 sharp, ill' Tin* judges will pass upon the merI its if all competitive groups or lndiI viduals before the start of the pa- ^ rad- making it imperative that all be I prf-M-nt for the Judging. } PLEA8E READ t I The letter enclosed with your ^ Christmas Seals. It tells a true story. a case history from your own j I Tuberculosis Association. It explains ^ I the opportunity of buying two Bheeta c I ?f the seals or returning one sheet of ^ I stamps with your contribution. B Your Seal Chairman. Miriam L. Mullen. f Fifty per cent of the people of the ^ *orid stll! carry amulets or other I charms to protect them from^ bad I luck, p-vii spirits and illness, It Is said, g John Howard Payne wrote "Home, a Sweet Home" while In Parla in 18*2. ? I Cleopatra was the last queen of < Egypt. [t Angry Flames Ruin Age-Old Residence Hearing flames that defied the brtlliance of a full moou and painted the Bky an angry red, coupled with billowing clouds of dense smoke, attracted over a thousand people to Lyttleton street to watch firemen battle a furnace of fire that partially destroyed the Henry E. Beard, Jr., home Sunday evening. The fire, discovered in the vacant building shortly after 6 o'clock by a ueighbor who telephone^ the alarm to the telephone operator who relayed It to the fire department headquartres, raced through the century old dwelling rapidly and in a few minutes flames were shooting high into the air. The red glare in the sky following the soupding of the fire sirens brought people from all sections of the city to the scene and in a few minutes the streets for blocks in evsry direction were lined on both sides with automobiles, deserted by their jwners who hurried to the scene of :he fire. The building, reported to be over i hundred years old and known sinpe 1868 as the Burns home until the sale ,o Mr. Beard several years ago, was ike tinder and while the firemen ought stubbornly to check the flames, he effort was almost futile?the roof, i portion of the walls, ceilings and urnlshings being destroyed before he tons of water poured into the itructure had any effect. For the past several months the )ullding has been in the hands of nasons and carpenters, Mr. Beard laving planned to rebuild the place nto an apartment dwelling. During he process of rebuilding Mr. and Mrs. Beard have been making their home it their cottage on Hermitage Lake. Persons living in the vicinity xexirt that twenty minutes. before the Ire was discovered, a group of boys were seen on the ( premises of the 3eard place. Whether these boys had >een in the building and carelessly Iropped a cigarette is not known, rhe authorities were acquainted with his angle but so far as is known, no nvestigation has been made. The building is an old landmark in Camden history. Just how long ago t was constructed is not known. The Burns family became owners in 1868, md it had - been in existence some :lme prior to that year. Postmen Help In Seal Sale The letter ^Orters"of Camden and avery other post office in the counly became active messengers of lealth today when they started their ounds with letters each containing wo hundred Christmas Seals for prospective purchasers. Post office employees generally jhow keen interest in Christmas Seals. About this time of year they watch letters for the appearance of .he Christmas Seals decorating envelopes. And they usually recall that t was one of their profession, who >riginated the idea of selling an exra stamp to raise funds for anti-tujerculosis work. "Every year," said Mr. Charles P. DuBose, "we feel we are taking an tctlve role in the fight against tuber:ulosis when we start handling the Christmas Seal mail. "You know the idea fort Christmas Seals came from a 'postal lerk. Elnar Holboell, a Dane, was iorting stacks of Christmas cards tnd packages one December night in 903 at the post office in Copenhagen. Je wondered what sort of Christmas was in store for poor children with uberculosls. Then an Inspiration :ame to him. 'Why not,' he asked timself, 'harness the Christmas spirit n a more practical way and fight the 4 Iread disease?' From his inspiration :ame the tuberculosis Christinas leal, sold first in Denmark In 1904, md adopted in this country In 1907. "You may be lure that It Is an anlual task that we undertake cheerully when we handle, mall decorated rlth Christmas Seals." Drilling for oil has, It is , claimed, Civen geologists the first completely scientific data about many underground formations. Oae-eil drill penttrated more than 16,000 feet below he surface of the ground. PICKS COflON y giTts r Cotton To Play Role This Christmas Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 26.?Adopting the slogan "give cotton?the King of Gifts", the National Cotton Council announced today that it was enlisting the support of shoppers, merchants, and the press in miking the 1939 Christmas shopping season the biggest cotton sales month of the year. The Council stated that its Cotton Christmas campaign would extend into each of the 850 counties of the Cotton Belt, with its county units cooperating with merchants, civic clubs, city and state governments and individuals to make the program a success. "There is po reason why the sale of cotton goods should lag behind others during the Christmas shopping season/' a Cotton Council spokesman said rfcoday. "Manufacturers of cot- ' ton &oods ranging from dresses to automobile seat covers are offering more attractive products than ever before. "The list of cotton products suit able for Christmas gifts is so long and varied that no shopper need be fearful of duplications when he or she makes out the family gift list." Pointing out that the Cotton Christmas plan offers great opportunity for a largo volume of cotton goods suIob, the Council said that should evefy person in the Belt doing Christmas shopping this year buy one cotton gift more than usual the sales of cotton products would be boosted by milllqns of dollars. "Every time a person buys a cottou article for Christmas he is buying Just that much prosperity for himself and the people of the American Cotton Belt," the Council declared. It ie au opportunity for cotton people tg lift themselves by their own bootstraps. * -V"T^ls year has been a banner year for sales of cotton. Since early upiiog mills have been running to i capacity turnipg out scores of tine cotton articles. By joining together to make this Christmas a Cotton Christmas, we of the Belt can make history for King Cotton. Clinton Wins State High Championship Clinton high school won the state B title at Zemp stadium Thursday afternoon, defeating Lakevlew, the southern state title holders by a score of 7 to 6 and getting revenge on the Lakevlew team for the 7 to 6 defeat meted out at Clinton last year in a B title encounter. A crowd of some 1,200 fans, with large delegations present from both! schools, watched the game. Clinton came down with a smart band that did some fancy marching and playing between, halves. The first half was scoreless with Lakevlew scaring the Clinton crowd by carrying the ball to the one yard line, where a scrappy Clinton team braced and took the ball. Again later in the half, I>akeview worked the ball to the ten yard line and lost it on downs. The first score made by Lakevlew came in the third quarter when Pitt-J, man took a long pass from Norman on the Clinton 30 and raced over for J the touchdown. The try for the extra | point failed. , In the fourth period, after being', pushed down the field by the confl-' dent l>akeview team, Clinton sudden-' ly came to life. They opened up a1, passing attack and a long pass that) Cranford, Clinton end took on his' own 20 paved the way for the win-!, ning points. Cranford was tackled1 so hard on the play that he had to be! carried from the field. Then Sanders,), a 135 pound lad in the Clinton back ) flejd took over the Job. His first' plynge carried him to the 11 yard stripe, his second to the 2nd and a half yard line, a third to the one foot line and on the fourth J^uck he went bver. In the try for the extra point1 Clinton lulled I^akeview into a be-' lief a place kick would be made, but; instead the ball was given to Sanders who went over like a cannon ball. London's famous clock, "Big Ben," is wound by an electric motor, which requires 20 jnlnutes to do the job. Men are much more susceptible to color blindness than are women. The mistletoe parasite makes it's home on apple, linden, locust, maple and thorn trees, and may be found on oak occasionally. ^>r*-4-? i/ Polo Fans Eager j For Opening Game The number one polo field, resplen-j dent In its new dress of white painton grandstand, stables and fences,' and with the turf in better condition' than at this time In previous years, j will be the scene of some real polo Sunday afternoon. The Town and Country teams, the former with Cyril Harrison, new polo) coach in the lineup, will clash in the first game of the 1939-1940 polo season. The event, the subject of countless inquiries from many points in North antf South Carolina for several weeks past, will attract a big crowd of spectators. Arrangements have been made for suitable parking and traffic convenience for all visitors. The opening game spectacle will, take on a colorful aspect as word has been received from Camp Jackson, that quite a number of the officers of, / I the sixth division In camp there are planning to drive over to watch the} Camden foursomes in action. Visitors to the number one field1 the past several days have been moBtj agreeably surprised at the spic andj span appearance of the buildings and; the boundary fences. New goal posts! have been erected and plans are also! being made for the Installation of aj new and attractive score board. The Chamber of Commerce has sent' an invitation to General Clement | Trott, at Camp Jackson, inviting all the officers of the camp to participate in the polo, golf and other sports offered on the Camden calendar. Committee Heads Named For SJiow Announcement is made by the Chamber of Commerce that Mrs. N.i R. Goodale, Jr., is chairman of the baby parade committee of the Santa Claus Lane pageant for next Friday,( December 8. Mrs. Goodale will name) her assistants today. Mrs. Samuel Russell will head a committee of five judges for the parade features,the Judges to be from the Camden winter colony. t The late King George V., of England, made a hobby of collecting bud-1 gerug&rs. the beautiful Australian lovebirds. . .. _ * . . . m Bulldogs Primed To Defeat Banty Team Football of 1939 will make It* last bow to ihu public toduy, Friday, Docembor I?at least?so far as tho Camden Bulldog team Is concerned. Tbo Bulldogs, accompanied by a delegation of rooters from the rauks of students and townspeople, will Journey to Charleston on that day to battle the Charleston High Bantams. It will be the twelfth game of the season, for the Bulldogs and If they will, it will give them a record of nine wins and three defeats, Sumter, Hock Hill and Gaffnoy being the stumbling blocks to a perfect record Already the state title problem Is one that will require an Elnslelu to unravel. Columbia high was silling I pretty as title claimant uutll tho Charleston Bantams drubbed them. I>V the face of the fact that Columbia had previously given Sumter a lacing and Sumter turned about and spanked Charleston, that group of teams Is all tangled up with title Ideas. If Camden turns the tables on Charleston, It will further complicate matters. lxjcal football rallblrds have a well defined Idea the Parker lllghs of Greenville rate about as strong a claim for title honors as any team In the state. With the ringing down of the curtain on the 1939 baseball season, the attention of tho Camden spoil followers will be extended to polo, basketball, horse shows and racing. Coach Huan Small of the state champion Canulen high school girls basketball team expects to start his squad Into a training schedule within a few weeks. Inasmuch as Small has some of his stars of the 1938-39 championship team eligible this year, the expectations are that the Camden niniden8 will be right up In tho thick of the traveling toward title-land again. The Camden boys team will go Into practice routine within a few weeks and with Coach Dynwood Smith teaching the boys the tricks of the sport, good team is visualized. Derby Event Is Won By The Dollar I The Camden derby, a "grudge" race between Frank Hampton's Silver Dollar and Dixie Boykin's Seduction, proved a race magnet for hundreds of sport followers at the Cherokee track here last Saturday afternoon. Silver Dollar with Kirby Tupper, Camden polo ace, up, nosed out Seluctlou with ,V. R. Deraane up, in a sensational finish. Seduction broke on top and led to tho first turn when Silver Dollar edged in to the rail and went by in a burst of speed that put the black horse out In front by several lengths as they came into the stretch. Seduction, under tho whip of Deraane pulled up almost even but Tupper called on the Dollar for a bit more speed and led by half a length as they flashed over tho finish lfne. The win of Sllvor Dollar was gratifying to the Columbia horsemen, Frank Hampton and Colonel Bob Brooks, the latter stating that Silver Dollar had given Seduction fifteen pounds In weight. Many notables in the exclusive Camden winter colony were on hand to see this classic between the Camden and Columbia entries. Harry D. Kirkover, leader In . the midsouth equestrian circles, was the judge and Granger Galther, well known trainer of the Ambrose Clark stables was starter. The time of tho race was fifty-four seconds flat. Woodward Club Has Interesting Meeting "The Theory of Flight" was the subject of study and discussion at a regular meeting of the Woodward Aviation club meeting at the Woodward airport hangar Monday night. In the absence of President Earl Frledell, Marion Schlosburg presided at the meeting. Much interest was expressed by the members of the club for the success of the wiener roast and dance that was held in the hangar recently. The club plans on having a number of these events during the winter season. It is an interesting fact that there has been no cessation of Interest in the aviation club activities since its organization last summer. TKe tnembers all have become Imbued with the study of flying and it is certain that some of the younger members will advance into actual flying tutleage before thS^summer months arrive. v - VI , ' , ?-V Town and Country To Open Season Siuitlriy will mark the opening of the polo season In Cuimlen?teams representing Town and Country to clash In the Initial turf rucus of the 1939-HHO program at 3 o'clock at the Number Duo field, Prom the many Inquiries received by the Camden Chamber of Commerco office regarding the opening game, it Is certain there will be a big crowd on the rails when the two foursomes go Into action. Cyril Harrison, the new Camden polo coach Is to make his debut as the No. four back of the Town team. Moultrie It Hums will be playing the No. one station, C. IV Dultosu, Jr., at , No. two and Charlie Little, uow coach at l^ancaster, Ha . but who w ill be lu Camden tills winter, will play the No. three position. On the Country team will be Charley Robert son at number one; Carl Llghtfoot at number two, KJrby Tupper at number three, 'and Joe Hates at number four. While It will be the opening action for all of the players with the exception of Little, the fans may expect some off-directional mallet work, but this may be apparent only In the early chukkers. This was true last season when these two teams mixed hi the premier event, but there was plenty of dash and sparkle before the final bell. Coach Harrison arrived I11 Camden the middle of the week and brought twelve flue polo ponies with him. These ponies with those owned by the rest of the playors of the club will enable the teams to maintain a high speed in action for the entire six chukkers of play. Inquiry regarding the Camden polo program has been received from points In Pennsylvania and Maryland where the sport Is outstanding and it Is certain players from these ' areas may be seen in action on the number one field during the season.. An Invitation has been extended to the officers of the U. S. Army Divisions at Camp Jackson to attend the games here. If there are any polo players In tho army ranks, It is probable arrangements may be made to enable these riders to appeur in the games during the coming season. 'Alfred M. McLeod Struck By Auto Alfred M. (Foot) Mcl^eod, age 48, member of the firm of McLeod and McLauchllu. may lose his right leg and perhups his life as the result of being struck by nil automobile driven by Stoney...Campbell, local Hudson motor car dealer, early Tuesday evening. Specialists from Columbia were summoned to the Camden hospital Wednesday afternoon to consider the question of amputation. Mr. McLeod, one of the most popular business men in Camden, was crossing the street in front of his place of business and . had, waited for one car to pass and theiifv^lt. Is said, walked into the path of the Campbell car. Hystanders declare that Campbell stopped his car within two feet after the bumper had struck Mr. McLeod. Mr. McLeod'B . leg was badly crushed and fractured, and he suffered a fractured Jaw. Xrays were taken Wednesday ovenlng to determine whether any Internal Injuries were In evidence. He was so weak early Wednesday morning that blood transfusions were resorted to. Friends will be glad to learn he Is resting as comfortable as could be expected at this time. Many Fine Horses j Arriving In Camden Five of the string of twenty-three fine horses belonging to the F. Ambrose Clark stables, that arrived here Wednesday morning on the Seaboard Airline Hallway, are back on American soil for the first time in several years, after spending some time In England taking part In the various raco events. The Ave horses were shipped from 'the.firitish Isles before sea warfare 'fctsfrted between England and Germany. All of the horses of the F. Ambrose Clark stables will be under the eye of H. Granger Gaither,'* supervising trainer for Mr. Clark. In addition to the twenty-three horses above mentioned, Mrs. Clark - has also brought Ave horses which will be trained for steeplechaae racing by D. Byers, nationally known as i a rider and trainer. He was formerly with William DuPont, Jr. ? ^ - * .j