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Cruising : Around j; with < I "Skipper" r- ' - - m -- -? w-?, if I live to be 100 I do not believe 1 ;swlll ever get another suoh thrill as l dld when I motored out to Wood* ward airport Sunday noon and saw those hundreds of ships. ft They came from points lu the east central states and from the New England sector, from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Nortl* Carolina. ^ Two hundred and ftfty of them and ^ carrying some 500 people. Talking about advertising?well, Camden could spend thousands of dollars in newspapers and magazines and then not begin to- realize the dlvlr dends that will result from this visit I of birdmen and women. Dexter Martin, who rates tops among the aeronautical experts of the nation, says the Camden airport is one of the best known in the south or east. Those Florida flyers who made Camden their control when going to the world's fair last summer and then elected to stop again on their returntrip, are stUI talking about Camden I hospitality. ' ? And let me say in all sincerity, it' may not be this year, but the time is , coming when these aircade promotions by the city and the Chamber of ; Commerce are going to bring results. And while discussing the Sunday last affal^ let us give full credit for success to Dexter..Martin, Earl Frledell ahd that hustling bustling gentleman of the council, Commissioner Jack Nettles, who received a lot of help from Mrs. Nettles and Mrs. Stern. o . * And lots of applause for the Gulf Oil Company, sponsors of the affair and to R. H. DeTrevllle, local Gulf agent, who was right on the job in seeing the ships were gassed up in quick order. We agree with Dick Fell, Gulf executive. who was in charg<k? of the Winter to Summerland aircade that "Onmden and South Carolina did a smart job"i ?: ? l i Speaking of polo, we missed "Bubber" DuBoae from the Camden lineup and upoa Inquiry, found 'he was Indisposed. Get back on the pony, Bubber, | for your fine riding adds lots of pep to the afternoon show. ' m m M. B. Burns, the No. 1 man for Camden team, got a big hand when he gathered those two counters Sunday. New faces in the field were Matt Ferguson and Ancrum Boykln, Jr. Greetings, and may we se"fe you often in the future. Getting away from flying and polo for a brief period let us say we regard the move that Is being made, not only in this state but nationally, to remove all unsightly junk yards, bill boards and unsightly barns and buildings from the highways. The new federal law will mean their removal several hundred yards from the highway line. a. Just when we get some respectable results in the campaign to clear up the air for better radio, we fall heir to a lot of code dot-and-dash stuff, that is as bad as the old static. No '.me seems to know where 'bis code *tuff originates?some say ships at sea?but we're going to find .out through the aid of the federal communications system.., * We'll wager a new hat that our friend Abe Fennell, sports editor of t 'ho Columbia State. Is expressing a few fervent thanks that Clerason won from Boston college In the Cotton Bowl game at Dallas Monday. 4 In Abe's column Monday morning be said "My selections for the New Year's day games: Clem son, Tennessee, Tnlane and Missouri". Better luck next time Able old chap. " ' m The writer placed a few pennies on Texas Aggies. Georgia Tech, Southern Cal and Boston, although' our placements did not in any way indicate our hopes on what the resultii would be. 'it was a real Joy to pay up on the Clemson win and would have been a double Joy to hare-paid had the Vols won. Fmnkly we nsrsr gave Tennessee a chance In the Ross Bowl classic for we have not rated the Knoxvllle team M tty great shakes, basing our opinion on the class of teams the Vols y^yaabn to post av vodm *( MAN WHOSE NAME 8PEE BORE KILLED OFF FALKLANDS The Admiral Graf 8pee. flying the swastika' of Nasi Germauy, chose for her watery grave a spot In the South Atlantic not many huudroda of mlloa from the place where the man for whom she was named sank to his World war death under the hag of Imperial Germany. Graf (Count) Maxmllllan von Spee joined the company of Germany's naval immortals when he died with more than 2,000 of his men In an engagement Involving sixteen German and Britlah' warships oft the Falkland Islands. The fcreat battle of the Falklands, fought twenty-ftvo years and nine days ago, on December 8, 1914, ended vou Spec's raiding against allied merchant shipping, just as last Wednesday's crippling engagement off Montivideo between the pocket battleship and three British cruisers erased the new mohaco to merchantmen. About ttvo weeks before his death %hich was accompanied by the sinking of six of the seven warships under his command, von Spoo had won a victory in another great naval battle off Corouel, Chile. There he sank two British cruisers, sending 1.600 British seamen to their deaths. Von Spee, a native of Denmark, then 63, had partly destroyed the town of Papeete and sunk a French I warship while leading a German fleet across the Pacific from China. By I skilful maneuvering, he brought five German warships and several colliers together off Chile, wher$ they continued raiding commerce vessels. Nine British warships, under the late Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee, sighted von Spee's fleet on December The Germans turned tail but didn't have a chance. Sturdee's ships were faster. He dragged out the fchase in order to' have a comfortable noonday meal before the shooting started. The sun was shinnig brightly and Sturdee figured he had all day to do his job. But before the fighting was over a drizzling mist came up, enabling one j German ship, the cruiser, Dresden, to escape under its cover. A helpless fugitive at sea, it finally was sunk by three British warships off Chile three months later. ltl the p f tar noon. British and -German ships were paired off many times in~"widely separarted battles. The pursuers were assigned their victims according to relative sizes. The fleeing German ships had to slow do wit time after time to get their smaller guns in range. It was better than taking all the punishment. After a series of these' duels with the invincible, inflexible and light cruiser Carnarvon, the two German armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau went down at 4:17 p. m. [and 6:02 p.v m., respectively. Von Spee and 760 mai^went down on the I Scharnhost, whose musts and ..three funnels were shot away. On the Gneisenau, every man stationed on ite decks had been killed-before ?4t went down in flames. About 180 men, who had been under cover, were picked up by the British. By far, the majority of German fataltles were killed fighting and not by drowning. The British losses that day were only six killed, sixteen wounded. DON'T FOOL YOUR8ELF ?about the course of this war. Nc matter where the price of wheat goes, no matter how many tons of steel are hammered into armor plates, there is no profit. Every time a shell is fired that is so much human labor exploded beyond recall. Every time a ship Is scuttled, that is a ship gone torever and all the value It represents Is gone with It. Nobody is "winning" this war. Ev erybody is losing. War is waste. And waste means misery. And misery means trouble. Don't foci yourself We've ALL got a Job of reconstruc tion ahead, and you'd better be think ing about it.?Washington (D. C.) Times-Herald. The 21 American republics, acting In unity, are protesting to England, FVance and Germany agalnBt naval engagements within the American "neutrality zone" and advised them that consultations are. being carried on looking toward penalizing future violations. mark. .. Our own private opinion Ia.^titiat the Engineers of Georgia Tech rate tope among southern teams. It is>n unpredictable outfit, a fact Missouri dlscov ered at Miami Monday. And the Texai Aggies are also mighty tough. Clemson won from Boston college after a seal ecfiap. The Boston sporl writers refused to get excited over the defeat of their team, declaring the absence of their great colored star W resented the margin between defeat and victory. ? e j wish it cook|; bATe ">wn possible for the Southern Cal team to have battled Cornell In the bowl olaeele j jjjl.Lj-.Xu.il". i. iii ."njjiiL-.... ' gy I j Legend of J. P. Morgan Exploded in Biography A report or who lived with tho Into J. IMorponi Morgan when Mr. Morgan wuh at tho height of Ills power?but uover wrote a 'line about it --.1ms now told "tho inside story" of tho banker's life. To tho average American of his time, Mr. Morgan was a rlc^ grasping, money leader who used his money to ruin those who crossed him, multiply his fortune through stock manipulations, and cheat tho United States government. To this one reporter who knew him intimately, Herbert L. Satterleo, Mr. Morgan was a generous, honest, business man who gambled little If at all In stocks, loaned money on faith, risked everything ho had to save his Government from collapse without making a cent of profit, and owed his position less to his money than to his reputation of being a "square shooter". The story Mr. Satterlee saved for twenty-six years after the passing of Mr. Morgan?the saga of a lonely man who liked to play with children, shoot firecracker* on tho Fourth of July, dress up as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, and sing hymns on Sunday nights?is tho story pf an unquestionably human being. If Mr. Morgan was the business ogre he was supposed to be, and Mr. Satterlee offered a great deal of evidence to the contrary, he had another side at home which was much similar In character to that of tho average solid middle-class American. Ho dozed In his box at the opera. He locked himself out one night, and fell asleep, Hitting up, on the doormat In the vestibule. He had pride In minor accomplishments, such as his ability to drestj for supper In less than six minutes. He used to dash home late and do it Just to hear the guests exclaim. He asked the blessing each night at table, unless a clergyman was present, in which case the honor was delegated. Mr. Satterleo could have made a small fortune by selling his story to newspapers or magazines while Mr. Morgan lived, had he been free to do so. He was not free, because Mr. Morgan was his father-in-law. He Is free not because sufficient time has1 passed since Mr. Morgan's era to permit a claim appraisal of the stormy events ttrough which Mr. Morgan lived. The title of the book is "J. Pierpont Morgan, an Intimate Portrait". It is a significant document in tho world of finance, for it contradicts the commonly accepted versions of several of Mr. Morgan's most important coups. ~ The Hall carbine Incident In the! Civil war Is an example. Mr. Morgan has been accused of pioflteering at the expense of the Union Government because he supplied the money that bought 6,000 carbines' from the Army before those same carbines were sold back to the Army at more than COO per cent profit- , Mr. Satterlee's story is that a speculator named Arthur M. Eastman bought the carbines from the Chief of Ordnance of the Army at $3.60 each. Mr. Eastman resol dthe guns to . Simon Stevens for $11.50 each, withi out disclosing to Mr. Stevens that the guns were in the possession of the Government. Mr. Stevens telegraphed Gen. John C. Fremont, offering to sell 1 the guns for $22 each, agreeing to > modernize them by rifling the barrels. 1 General Fremont accepted. ' Mr. Stevens needed ^20,000 to make ' the down payment on the guns so ' Mr. Eastman could get them from the 1 Government. Mr. Stevens went to ' Mr. Morgan and borrowed the money. l|Mr. Morgan deducted his commission, ' interest, and the price of rifling the 'J carbines ($1 each, Incidentally) and 1 had nothing further ttt do with the ' deal. A congressibnal Investigating committee cleared him of any blame. In the gold crisis of 1895, Mr. Sat' terlee also returns a verdict of not guilty to widely accepted charges against his father-in-law. . The effects of the 1893 panic were still being felt ' at that time, and gold was flowing out of the country because silverltes 'i were powerful in Congress and for1 eign Investors believed the United 1 States would go bankrupt. Qold 1 hoarders within the country hoarded 1 as a result. At thd request of President Cleveland, a Democrat, the Republican banker stepped Into the breach end formed a gold pool; In company with his father's banking firm in London and the Rothschilds, which brought ' the gold back to normal by marketing Government bonds. Leading newspapers of the day, advocating sale of the bonds directly by the government , to the public, assailed Mr. Morgan for talcing a huge profit between the price ( paid for the bonis by the bankers , tlQ4 1-2) and the price the bonds , reached before they were sold to the . public (120). According to Mr. Satterlee, this profit went to middlemen, and "from mj? i talks with Mr. Morgan I can confl > dently state that there was no profit . for him at all." : . ' Zl'irfi7'::-" ;v?SE - . ... . ,?rNot Many Eunuchs Left In Turkey | Outside an old stone building in a narrow, cobblestonod alley In Scutari ( .luat across the Bosphorus from Istanbul Is a small sign reading: "Association of Former Servants of the llarem." Inside In two small rooms a few old men provide the answer to a queslton asked by many newcomers to Turkey: What has happened to the ICuuuchs? , Komantlc tales of old Constantinopole (which today's Turks call Istanbul) Invariably revolve arouncF the mysteries of the Sultan's harem with Is veiled and pantalooned beauties reclining on downy divans or gracefully danofng to sensuous music?and always served and guarded by faithful enunchs. The harems were abolished by Komal Ataturk. dynamic leader of jlio revolution established on the ruins of the Ottoman empire sixteen years ago as a plank In his platform of equal rights for women. The one-time harem beauties -who were always slavos of non-Turkish race?have grown old as gracefully us they danced and are now respectable grandmothers. Few know, andjewer seen* to care, about what happened to the always tall, always picturesquely garbed eu-_ nucha who always stood about (In every picture or paragraph) with folded arms, the humane-watchdogs of the hare nit The secretary of the Association of Former Servants of the Harem, a purely fraternal organization ? a se-i date little old man dressed In Western clothes?answers your questions In high-pitched, querulous tones. "There are not many servants of the harem left," ho explains as he momentarily recollects the good old days. "Most of them have died or grown too old to work. It's been a long time since the' sultan went away and closed his harem and the youngest eunuch left now Is at least fiftyfive years old." The former servants of the palace (as they prefer to be called) are scattered about the country and rarely get together. Some eunuchs are Btill employed by conservative old Turkish families and are rarely seen by anyone. A few were given Jobs as doormen or cloakroom attendants in Istanbul's museums. One is a professor of literature in a girl's school in Istanbul. "Yes, they're nearly all gone," he concluded. "They drop In at the association from time to time to exchange gossip over a cup of coffee, but fewer seem to come each year. In a little while they will all be gone." Back in Istanbul few of the modern Turks know what happened to the once famed eunuchs and most are Inclined to s.mHe over the fact that ahyone should be inquisitive ?X)f_. their, fate. Opera goers In France are Journeying to Nantes, where, during the war, grand opera Is being presented, instead of in Paris. Slight cold: something mother nas. Bad case of flu: same thing when dad has it. A Fascist Is a person who hates to see people doing as they please instead of doing as he pleases. You always know when a strong man is bearing his suffering In silence. He tells you himself. Patience, hard work, long hours, perseverence; the price of mastership. gest railroad control fights, for Instance, by knocking Jim Fisk, Jay Gould's right-hand man, downstairs. He lost a million dollars' worth of business because he had the wrong kind of carpet on the floor when the big carpetmaker, A. T. Stewart, paid n business call. He bought a small railroad for $12,000,000 and sold It to the Erie. When Erie stockholders reneged on the bargain on the grounds that Mr. Morgan's data about the road were wrong, he bought the railroad back and put it Into receivership. ~ He tried out new Inventions In his home at 219 Madison Avenue before investing in them. Consequently, he had one of the first talking machines, one of the first electric elevators, one of the first telephones. He even rigged up a private telegraph line between his home and his office to keep in constant touch with business. During the panic of 1907, when all the bankers of the country beat a path to his door to be saved from "going under", he sat In the West Boom while his visitors Conferred "in the East Room. He sat alone and played eolltare. Every now and then i the door would open a now proposal . would be offered him, and he would i look up for a moment from hia cards, i "No, that will not work", he would say, and return to his solitary game. Wherever he was, whatever he wai 1 doing, Sunday was religiously observ ed. When he was at drag*ton. hk 1 country place along the Hudaon, hi would go to church at leait once Mel Sabbath and sit >mftng the choir. -jf, ; ??<.,*.' -- Z w British church furnishing storog .reflecting war needs are selling luminous crosses for blackout wear, blackout candles shados for early morning services, and identity badgeB marked "In case of accident please call a priest." Fearing that whistles to signal the starting and stopping of work may be confused with air raid warnings, Belgium has ordered they be discontinued throughout the country. The Netherlands has ruled that cheese must be at least two weeks old before it 1b shipped to the United States. Camels have been domesticated as long as history records. A new road-grader with four . fpf* r^V: ward speeds and capable of going ap- ' y' ') proximately 10 m. p. h. is now being $$ Introduced nationally.' '"^.^7^ A snail shell grows only at one end as it Increases Its slae ,yet the oris-?i Inal shape Is retained. M$!fs You can eat a chicken before It la born; you can eat the eggs It produces during Its life; and you alao.v-^3 can eat It after It Is dead. Eggs of the common squid are oall- vV$|j ed "sea-mops," because of their moplike appearance. Whether the death penalty for clvi- ^ Hans should be abandoned during war time is being discussed in England. 11 - .'--'jgLSj.. m?- | i UUJIUUI MUBWwawg. .mim.MM ' _ , ' - iii - S" - Ready for "March of Dimes'' <f||| || ? I,, , - _ _ I I U ' " " ' " - ' 1 - ' " P WASHINGTON, D. C.?Keith Morgan (left). National Chairman of the Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birthday, hands Commissioner George E. Allen, of the District of Columbia, his Certificate of Authority as Chairman of the March of Dimes Committee for the "Fight Infantile Paralysis" campaign. Commissioner Allen will direct | distribution of "March of Dimes" birthday cards in all the states which will be filled with dimes and sent to President Roosevelt at the White House. These donations of dimes are the ammunition in Americas' war against the invisible enemy which cripples little'children. Under the tr" campaign plan one-half of all "March of Dimes" donations wiU be returned to the counties where raised. These donations will be turned over to the > Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis embracing that county. The other fifty per cent 1:^1 will be sent to the Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birthday and be turned over by the Committee to the National Vf3|| i Foundation. H Stoves ! I Why not buy a down-draft I Thermostat . Simmons Heater? I 10% OFF ^|j| on all stoves and- heaters during |? the month of January Come in and take advantage of I these prices iff^f Barringer I