The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 05, 1940, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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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.
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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. '
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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..,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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j wish it cook|; bATe ">wn possible
for the Southern Cal team to have
battled Cornell In the bowl olaeele
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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."
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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,
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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.
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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.
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