Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cruising Around | with | "Skipper" j Whereas. Increased coiiHumptlon of American cotton Is of major importam* to the south and particulurly iu our own Palmetto state we suggest aD you folks remind Santa Claus to make the coming Christmas a Cotton i'hi Istmas. dive gifts of cotton to every member of the family. Your merchant has a wide selection or cotton suggestions for all. Santa Claus picks cotton gifts tor style, durability and economy. t For instance ?take mother. You'll find towels, hankies, dresses, table a <*ar, sport purses, house coats, bath lobes, blouses, aprons and many othideas. For dud?lounging robes, breeches, hunting coat, slacks, sport .-.bins, tennis shoes and so on. For sister?pajamas, hankies, dresses, lonniu shoos, blouses, bath robes, smocks, riding breeches, sport shirts, collar and cuff sets, scarves, nighties, and the like. For brother?lounging robe, ties, overalls, shirts, hankies, sweaters, slacks, tents, and the like. * When you stop to think there are about 11,000,000 people who, are interested in tho success of cotton, you perhaps realize why Santa Claus suggests cotton gifts. m # Speaking of football, thut recent Notre Dame-Iowa scrap was something to listen to over the air waves. From our own personal observation the Catholic luds never And their way out of tall corn out in Iowa. Q When Duke and Carolina played In the Tarheel state classic a week ago, a delegation of one hundred and fifty (ronton, Ohio, fans Journeyed to Durham to watch the McAfee brothers of I ronton lead Duke to victory. ? They turn out some great football material up in the Buckeye statebelieve it or not. Getting right into our own yajxf: The Bulldogs Invade Charleston tonight and win or lose, we want to put this department on record as proclaiming the 1939 edition of the Camden 'grid machine a right smart outfit. In the games the Bulldogs have lost, two of the three defeats were due to the rival outfit getting the breaks. Take the Gaffney game for instance?Camden made 297 yards from scrimmage as against 35 rolled up by Gaffney. Camden made sixteen tirst downs and Gaffney one. When on the subject of the Gaffney game, did you see what I saw? The smartest drilled and best playing band we have seen and heard on Zemp field or anywhere else in the Palmetto state. That was the Gaffney high school band. By the way?did it ever occur to you that most men do not realize how much credit they have until they get married and their wives start charging things. The annual clamor urging you to do your Christmas shopping early has begun but stores on Saturday, Deceml.er 23, will probably be just as jammed with last minute shoppers as hey always are just before the holiday. ? ? ? This is really too bad because the merchants can not very well have their merchandise for the convenience >!' harrassed eleventh hour buyers. Folks who have tried checking off their holiday purchases early have found the holiday season a lot leas .-trenuous and a lot more fun. And that suggestion of Postmaster C P. DuBose to mail your gifts early and to send personal greeting cards as first class mail is mighty timely. Band Fund Benefit Held Last Night As The Chronicle went to press last night before the benefit performance for the band fund we do not know the winners in the contests held. Camden boasts many attractive and talented young people though bo we feel sure the Judges had quite a task choosing the winner. The "Mies America 1940" contest wag the feature Of the evening, with the kiddle parade, the junior beauty contest and the talent contest as added attractions. Official taats bara ?howi> ? >?' ">* j Garwood from Brlttab OolumOU U immune to attacks of fungus.^ mow Canadian homes are built of ttt? wood. * *"rr Merchant Marine Scarcely Dented L< of 152 merchant vessels uggrcKiitlug at least 602.962 gross ions fu twelve ami one hair weeks of war has cost the lives of many hundreds of persons and millions of dollars but the merchant marine or the world as .t whole has been hardly dented Lloyd's register lists a total of 29,76.1 merchant vessels with a gross tonnage of 68,509.432; thus, the loss of total tonnage amounts to less than uno per cent. The British empire, with the loss of eighty-two merchant ships of at least 303,016 gross tons, Is the greatest numerical loser, but the total tonnage destroyed ts only slightly more than one per cent. (The tonnage of seven of the ships ts unknown, as British officials have not identified them, merely announcing their sinking.) Lloyd's lists the British empire as having, at the start of litis year. 8,977 ships of 21,001,925 gross tonnage. Of Germany's listed 2,459 ships of 4,482,662 tons, 15 vessels of 76,221 tons have been sunk. France's losses number nine ships of 52,417 tons. At tlte start of the year her merchant' marine comprised 1, 231 ships of 2. 933, 933 tons. Non-belligerent nations have lost, forty-six vessels of 171,308 tons. In addition to the eighty-two merchant ships Britain has conceded as lost, she lias acknowledged tlie destruction of eight warships, but German authorities claimed the sinking of a ninth wardog?a heavy cruiser. They said a submarine commanded by Lieutenant-Captain Gunther Prlen, who last month sank the battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, sank the cruiser described as of the ixtndon class (32-knot ships of nearly 10,000 tons). The date was not given. Official, quarters in London said nothing was known of the Nazi claim and that it might have arisen from belief that the cruiser Belfast had been sunk. The Belfast was damaged November 21 by a mine-or torpedo. but the admiralty has denied she was sunk. If the German contention is correct, Britain has lost ninety-one merchant and nuval vessels. The ninetieth victim was accounted for in the sinking of the 2,483-ton steamer Uskmouth, with the probable loss of three of the crew of twenty-five. Lacking verification of the German claim, the grand toll of vessels in the war remains at 164, At least 2,343 persons have died. Several hundred are listed as missing. Total tonnage last Is 648,189. Coincidental with the landing In Scotland of seventy-three German prisoners, including twelve officers, who British officials said were survivors of three German freighters and a submarine?whose fate was unknown?allied naval sources estimated that forty-three U-boats had been destroyed to date. # Parliament heard from King George VI the assertion that his navies were "keeping free and open the highways of the sea", but German military experts declared that the British fleet had been cleared from both the North sea and the North Atlantic. Officers of the American West' African line freighter West Humhaw, arriving at Boston, however, said they saw a British aircraft carrier surrounded by ten other ships, including destroyers, at Freetown. West Africa, on November 8. Freetown Is in the North Atlantic although only about 550 miles north of the equator. The officers said they believed the aircraft carrier was the Ark Royal, which the Germans announced they had sunk several weeks prior to that date. The probable death toll in the sinking last Thursday of the British armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi was revised front 280 to about 263. Germany announced the rescue of 26 crewmen and 11 others landed In England. The Rawalpindi, sunk off Icelaud by the German pocket battleship DeUtschland, normally carried a complement of 300 men and officers. \- Names, Etc. "Name?" queried the immigration official. "Sneeze", replied the Chinese proudly. The official looked hard at him. "Is that your Chinese name?" he asked. "No. Melican name,"- said the Oriental blandly. "Then let's have your native name." "Ah Choo." Football Gam? Enda In Riot Darby, Pa., Nov. 23.?Police used tear gas and night sticks today, to quell a 35h?ft^tfte riot touched oft by a blttefTy-conteatei football game between the Darby and Collingdale high schools. One youth received a broken arm. another was knocked unconscloua and about fifty others w^ound up with bloody noses and black eyes. The rioting began when Coilingdale followers, celebrating their school's firft victory over Darby in thirteen years, attempted to tear down the taei iron pipe fotl posts. I* IlaiiffiFii'ff ?; cu COMMENTS ON MEN AND THING8 Vy 1 My Spectator* "CHARLES E. HURTS" IT thla man hail done nothing else but labor against legal sale of liquors he would bo known as a flamiUK cvan golUt of Prohibition For foil) >carat Dr. Hurls went from one end of South Carolina to the oilier arousing the people aguiust alcoholic liquors In spite of that dauntless devotion he was not thought of as narrow or oneaided. for his was a full life and his ministry ombinud not only the do nunclation of evil, but the love of God In ail its amplitude and power. Through his commanding presence, his rich, deep voice and his treatment of topics drew crowds to his church, ho was not less the sweet-spirited, sympathetic and helpful pastor. Dr. Units was a great force for achievement in all the pastorates of his ministry and in all the other phases of his broud and helpful service. He was a preacher of the Word and he was a doer of the Word. Spectator has paid tribute to the good Doctor on other occasions for his practical bciieflclonco and his ardent espousal of great civic causes. No son of ; South Carolina loved his state more or stove more valiently to enrich her life. All the foregoing is my trilnrto as one citizen to another. Yet In my own heart there is a profound sense of irreparable loss. I was a teacher In old Edgefield two years during the great ministry of Dr. Hurts. In very truth he was the bishop of Edgefield county, a leader in all good work, a lover of mankind, an unswerving preacher of righteousness. I knew him intimately In his Columbia pnstorate, in Ills leadership of the denomination, In his prohibition efforts unci as a friend. Dr. Hurts spent his means and he spent himself for the public good, he laid up for himself trensures where neither moth nor rust can corrupt. A sort of booster edition of The Sylacauga News of Sylacauga. Alabama, has come to my table. That seems to be a good town and the paper is a good one. I shall have a keen Interest in Sylacauga from now because Ira Armfleld is there?business manager of that paper. South Carolina lost a clean-cut, upstanding man when Ira Armfleld left us. I loved him like a brother?and still do. The state of Pennsylvania adver-j tises that it has cut the cost of adminstration 17 per cent. That is putting business Into government. Why don't we do something like that?; Could we do it? Oh, yes! If the legislature would adopt a 17 per cent cut and direct the budget commission to apportion necessary sums to each service it could be done. The legislature might say to each service "submit a program of unimpaired service, or resign." Result? Unimpaired service. There Is a number of fine citizens who fear to touch any public service. They act as though something sacred about public office makes Its mischievous even to suggest that we restrain the exuberance of the golden spenders. They meet us economists with a question which they think Is a real knockout. "What would you cut out?" they ask. "Would you stop the public schools? Would you close the hospital for the insane? Would you, close Wlnthrop? Would you turn out' the convicts and shut down the peni-j tentiary? And how wise they look; when they ask about those services! j Turn about is fair play, Isn't lt?| What is sauce for the goose is said] to be sauce for the gander; so let's j try that same knockout question i method. So let's ask "Can we con-1 tinue. year arter year, increasing appropriations without regard to the earning |>ower of the people?" Hold him right there, boys, and get a( straight yes or no. You will find that I the income of the people Is not even j considered. The prevailing Idea is toi have and to do, but the etynlngs of i the citizens are not o^hsiqpred. It should be a cle^ and basic prln-j ciple that taxation 'should not stifle or discourage the taxpayer. Taxes should be attractive so that more people would pay. That's business and that's how business makes profits. If Ford tried to get all the money pos-' slble for a car he would sell fewer; cars, so he sells for the least possible and makes money on the volume. That's the rule of Intelligent and progressive business. Make It easy to make money and the taxes will swell, but strangle It?and chop It at the roots! Any man of vision can see that we need more taxpayers In our state. Then why do we not use plain business sense to get them? A hundred million dollars brought Into this state would help distribute the tax burden and ease the strain. Well, why not? The answer Is that we are so eager to get all the eggs today that we won't leere anything for a setting tomorrow. We farmers are sowing oats (pretty late at that) bat ws are sowing oats we tared; we don't feed all the oats and expect Providence to f \ give us a voluteer crop.. 1 venture a .statement based upon, a considerable experience in public administration. Wo can conserve all the public services for considerably less money. By cutting salaries? Somebody will rush in and pull his hair, exclaming "don't cut the touchers; don't cut the poor clerks; don't harry the spirit of the professors." | Kven so. And they are right and wrong at the same time. When you see some public services (and some private services, too) pay incompetent girls, or girls of the most restricted intellectual output, more money than is paid a girl dedicated to the nerve-lashing business of teaching it irtakes you boll over. But are all teachers, or even a majority, so competent that, apart from style and beauty and sweetness, they register heavily as social contributors? You answer that. i We have in the professorial group some men of transcendent ability as teachers. They, like common school teachers of that type, are beyond all price. No man can evaluate the worth of Dr. Carlisle or Henry N. Snyder. Who can estimate the contribution of John O. Cllnkscales or D. W. Daniel? And the late Dr. Potest! Hundreds of men and women in towns and in the rural districts are the real builders of tomorrow. They are underpaid in dollars, I know; but can we say that of the majority? Only because a sort of vanity and educational pretension on our part makes us wish to appear very "progressive." in all the loose acceptation nowadays of that term. Here, I submit, is where we can bring about our saving. Study, investigate, examine, survey, appraise ?or call it what you like?every pub1 11c service and lop off dead wood, green wood and unnecessary limbs, branches and twigs. Ask yourself this question: Do we j need such-and-such an institution? If so, do we need each one of the branches? Are we building according to any plan; or are we throwing I things together? Are these things in I a fair relation to the earnings of our people? Are we so organized and so geared that we can get the maximum results from our efforts? Are we devoting our major study to the earner and owner who must pay the taxes, or to the spender who shows us the I promised land? Kvery sort of business, from railroading to retail bread-selling, has I studied Itself intensively and worked ' out plans for doing more for less money except government. In state and county and municipal government in South Carolina we have that problem. Many counties have re-adjusted themselves and their senators tell about It with Just pride; why can't somcoiie.v feel responsible for the state? r I submit that 20 per cent can be Cut off all our. services be brought to a higher state of efficiency. I' don't begin by reducing salaries; let us, rather, eliminate some salaries. The great temptation of Democracy is to make the public payroll the refuge of lame-ducks, friends, syco' phants and hangers-on. Let's wake up! Ssa > v 1 * - >L ~- " *?!* r-. / ; t f-X s -?- r -rr- '2 Blue Eagles Will Play All-Star Teanii I'hr Mather Academy Blue Kaglcs, which lakes on the powerful Yoorhees team from Ddumark in the annual homecoming game here tonight, has f>een selected as the most outstanding colored team of North and South Carolina, and will play an allstar team, picked from schools of the Piedmont athletic conference in the l.eglon Memorial Stadium, In Charlotte. Thursday night. December ?. The home-coming game promises to offer plenty of action. The Voorhvea team will enter the game as the favorite, by virtue of their hard charging. heavy line, and u shifty, alert hacktleld. Voorheea has scored 150 points against some of the toughest teams In the Junior college circle and has been defeated only by the Georgia state team of Savannah The Mather team has an Impressive record, having been undefeated in 8 status tins season. The Eagles have rolled up 1U3 points to their opponents' 3-1 McCJlrt, triple threat fullback. will be the spearhead of the Mather attack. He will receive a wealth of assistance from llulley, a shifty back, Jones, an excellent passreceiver, and Jackson, a diminutive quurierbuck. Observers declare that tills back field is the finest to he found on any colored team in tin- two Carolinas. While the line Is light compared to that of the Voorhees team, it bus paved the way for many Mather scores by reason of a fast breaking, hard charging offensive. Baynard, Hennegan, Calhoun and Jenkins liuvo played brilliant ball in the Mather forward wall. Italy is worried over the possible consequences which the allied blockade of German exports might have on Italy's commerce. A CHARLESTON FIRST" "Knjine! Enjine!?A Story of Eire Protection," by Konneth Holoorobo Dunshee. sumpuously published for the Home Inaurance company of New York, says that "the Erlondly society of Charleston. S. C.. founded In 17:10. seems to have been the first tire Insurance company organized In America." Early insurers against tire In this country, following the practice of their English predecessors, affixed to premises under their protection what were termed "fire marks," these beltrg plates, usually of lead, bearing the initials or insignia of the company and frequently the number of the policy. A few years ago a number of dwellings in Charleston still bore these marks; some may bo still in place; and there is a collection of them in the Charleston museum.? Columbia State. 8chool Improvement Association The Pine Grove ? School improvement Association held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday. November 14 The president called the meeting to order. The devotional was conducted by Mr. McEachern. The roll was called by the secretary Miss Mlttle Gladden. Husiness wus discussed and the Ixnd's prayer was repeated by all. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs. Juanlta Dowey, Mrs. Corrle Rabon, Mrs. Ileulah Dowey. The United States postoffice department is not daring to make promises about deliveries of Christmas packages in the war zones of Europe. Parcel post deliveries have been stopped in several European countries because of the war. | HUGH L. OLIVER AND YOUNG SON DROWN Georgetown. Nov. 26. ?Hugh Luw son Oliver. forty-two, and his tonyeur-old son and uamosuke were drowned late today when their boat capsized in the Santee river, about ' fourteen inlles from here. , Cylde Dusenbury. third member of the party, swam safely to shore. | The bodies hud not been recovered tonight. Oliver was a World war veteran and was county service officer of the | vojeran's administration He was wounded in action while serving with the American expeditionary forces in ; the World war.. * His widow, a small daughter, mother and two sisters survive. The police of Basil, Switzerland, 'have issued strict orders forbidding the citizens of that border town to 81op looking at airplune fights be| tween the German and French flyers I along the Maglnot and Siegfried lines, [now a favorite sport. They are not to i rush to the housetops to get good I views of air fights every time they I hear a plane overhead. Instead they | are to hunt for places of safety In ! cellars and nearby buildings. I Barton MacL<ane, screen star, born in Columbia, S. C., announces that he and Charlotte Wynthere, stage and screen actress, were married Thanksgiving day at the Hollywood home of Rosalind Russell, one of the cinema's top-flight stars. A German propaganda bomber flew 60- miles Into Switzerland Friday strewing thousands of anti-British, pamphlets printed in French. Collins' Wood Yard (Opposite Jackson New School) Green oak wood for Ashley Burners cut any length. Dry stove wood a specialty. , Phone 41 or 72 C3B- Camden FumUwe Co fiiniii NO INSTALLATION! M Plug In Anywhere [ I PHILCO ?, ? I 180XP KEEP {Vif'rS.iV: informed wherever it look* beet, plnf in and I play { Exdoaire Pkilco Built-in SmI p?r Aerial System does away with J untidy aerial and ground wirea. In I addition, yon enjoy American and I Foreign reception with new ptuity I ot tone and undreamed-of power. I eren in noiay locations. Sensational I value come in, see Ut PKILCO 124C A powerfmL, fin?looed ?pudHy-built AC-DC Cowpft. 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