Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cruising 11 Around '' with "Skipper" New York sport writers have been experiencing attacks of convulsive verbal and written conjuration over du, basketball prowess of the Long Island University^ team. As far bacjf^as last season this department made mention of the fact that the rules prevailing In the New York basketball area were vastly different than those in vogue' In any " other part of the country and we prdI dieted that If the U I. U. team ever 1 played in the midwest or west where i the regulations as" Inscribed in the bcK)k of rules prevailed, the said U I. \\ would take it on the chin. * * ? We note by the press that in the past two weeks the L. I. U. team has been on a junket through the midwest 1 and have been taking it on the chiu almost daily. DePaul University of Chicago, dropping a guipe to L. I. U. in New York by one lone point and playing under New York rules gave the eastern qulilt a 48 to 26 lacing a few nights ago. The game was played in' the Chicago stadium. "Butler, Marquette and some other teams out that way have also applied the whip to the L. 1. U. dads. * Speaking of basketball, the Bulldog maidens gave a splendid demonstration of their ability by swamping the ; Rock Hill lassies under a 25 to 8 ! count last week. Wednesday. This | department "covered" that game and wrote a lengthy story descriptive of ' t lie thrills offered. The story, for lack of column space, could not bo i used in last week's Chronlclq, but is given in full in today's issue. m m 1 Cage fans hereabouts are now ' pointing toward the Camden-Monetta!: game scheduled for the local gym on March 22. Camden tipped the dope' bucket several weeks ago at Monetta ;, by winning from a favored Monetta! ! team which had not been defeated by I a South Carolina team In some eight, | vears. * We hope every fan In Camden will he on hand for the March 22 classic, i ? I Miserable radio reception and dis- , gusting odors in the downtown disnict of our fair bailiwick are not only s our pet peeves of 4ate -but the oeca- , sion for some caustic comment by hundreds of citizens. V Radio reception was bound to be had after the high winds and the icy ( conditions that played havoc with the power lines in January. The water ' and light department crews are seeking to find the sources of the interference and the chamber of commerce * lias again appealed to the Carolina . Power and Light company to send their trouble shooting crew back to 1 make further investigation. 9 1 But the matter of the sickening 1 stench in the downtown area is something that can and will be eliminated through police regulations. The odor 1 comes from sacks of fertilizer stored back ot a.store In the.Moqk between J DoKalb and Ilutledge on Broad street. There is a city ordinance against such r a practice and according to the mayor and chief of police the source of the complaints which have come from 1 scores of people will be eliminated. < ? 1 Every time I meet Mr. and Mrs. * Henry Bolte, I feel guilty. For sev- 1 oral months ago I purchased a cocker spaniel from these fine folks. Now I tind Tinker, the pootch, is from a di- 1 rect blood strain of My Own Brucie, champion cocker and champion dog of 1 the recent national dog show in New 1 York. ] By the way, we attended the bazaar 1 at rft. Mary's Hall Thursday night and 1 it sure was a fine event. Under es- I <ort of two fine chaps, Father J. E. J Burke and Gay lor Tucker, I took in everything, met everybody and had a wonderful time. The bazaar was a.. J big success and it seemed as if all of '"amdeii and stirroundln0, community was present. Ides of March: Under this department of "Ides" wo would say offhand 1 that nature gives one the face one has 1 .it twenty, models the face one has at ( thirty, but the face one.has at fifty is the face one deserves. And Don ' says "After all a man Isn't any bigger ' than things which make him mad." 1 Hind sight my friends is as important as fore sight, so we suggest you use the rear view mirror. Whon one observes the ineffectual ^ enforcement of traffic regulations in 1 Columbia,' whereby cars and trucks 1 double park on the main drag, cars left standing with motors running, drivers going at top Bpeed on the left side of the highway, we don't wonder , that cracksmen can invade the state building, bust open a safe and make 1 away with the contents. Verily, ver- ; Py. of all the pl&cejx we have been in our many travels Columbia has the noat miserable traffic control of any. I'd give a nice polished buck to see i group of Chicago traffic cops take >ver in the state capital. The roar 'rom the motorists would be really jomething but Columbia would have TalTic control. It was curtains last Friday night 'or the Camden Bulldog cagers. The jquad, a lightweight group, played some bang-up basketball during the jeason and managed to finish wjth a >00 rating. We doff our lids to Ted Dunn and those inimitable Mullen lads, Johnny and Billy, for a swell performance. Billy will bo back on Lhe maples next season, which if I nay say, is great news. ? And may I say, "nice work, Coach Linwood Smith." ? * As for the I>ady Bulldogs?well, it ooks like another Class a titie ior blonde Doris McI>eod and company. The team has made an enviable record this roason, losing but one game, ind that through no fault of the players. Later that defeat was wiped out when the Camdenites rode rough-shod ever the dames who had nicked them by a one-point margin earlier in the season. The girls now enter the state tournament, and barring the unforeseen, it ought to be easy. And then comes Monettta in a post-season game here on March 22. We'll be looking for every red-blooded fan in Kershaw county to be on the Job to see this game. This department refrains from political comment, but there are some historical facts about this business of a third term that ought to be in the minds of th? people as they read or listen to the current Republican propaganda directed against the President. The Republican foes of Mr. Roosevelt this year undoubtedly will be significantly silent about the stJffre-.1 ments on the third term prtncJpfO' made by many of the top flight Cf. O. P. leaders, because in 1927 and 1928, when President Cooildge was being urged to seek a third term, and made the terse statement "I do not choose to run." And another matter that bothers this department is the habit of & lot yf folks to worry over and feel voffr for "the poor, unshared heathen" a couple of thousand miles away, but who consider the same kind of people in our own neighborhood as "infernal luisances." '. ____ ^ c y~-. - ? . watte a moment if you 1 your child scratching. Prompt action brings prompt Wlief. Scoff^^^ ^^klre?menl < \ h. i i t? -* y-r*WV ~ "v{~ >? *^.'ifIt"\4 * ""V" ~~ " --1 ju * . j.L -v;r^!* i* ~"j" "" ("age Tournament Hosts Here Today The sixth annual tournament of the South Carolina athletic conference will be held at Mather Academy today and Saturday. Drawings will be held at ten o'clock thla morning, and the tlrat game will get under way at tonthirty. Admission to each session will be ttftoon cents, except the tinals Saturday night which will be twentyfive cents. Night sessions will beglu at seven-thirty sharp. The top teams of the conference will be seeded. The following high schools pre entering teams In the meet: Hooker Washington, of Columbia; Avrey, of Charleston; Finley, of Chester; Burke, of Charleston; Mather Acadmey, of Camden; Dmmett Scott, of Rock 11111; Butler, of Hartsville; Harbison, of Irmo; Coulter, of Cheraw; Immaculate Conception, of Charleston; Jackson, of Camden; Brocklngton, of Timmonsville; and Mayo, of Darlington. Booker Washington was last year's winner in the boys division, and Finley in the girls. These same teams rank among the best in the conference this year. Trophies will be awarded by a committee to the individual boy and girl displaying the best sportsmanship during the tournament, oth boys and girls winning teams will rocotvo trophies, and members of those teams will be awarded gold basketballs. The teams making second places will be awarded plaques. Basketball in tho state Is improving rapidly, and fans will see some bangup ball played by well-trained teams. The tournament Is closed to teams not members of the conference. ORPHANAGE HEAD WARNS MINISTERS ABOUT CROOKS Rev. L. Ross Lynn, head of Thornwell Orphange, at Clinton,' has sent out the following letter of warning addressed to brother ministers: "On last Saturday, I had a long distance call from one of our trustees lu Abbeville, South Carolina, stating that a girl and boy had been canvassing their town for subscriptions to magazine# . "The girl gave her name as Mason and stated she had graduated from Thornwell Orphange and had taken this as a means of securing a college education. "By today's mall, I have a letter that was written from Li thou la, Georgia, On last Saturday stating that their town had a number of boys and girls In It canvassing it for subscriptions and the boy who called upon the writer of the letter gave his name as Eddie Morris and stated that he had graduated from Thornwell last June, "We have not had a Mason girl nor i Morris boy in the orphanage In my lay. "While the boy called on our friend laid he was from Thornwell, some of the other young people represented thesmselves as from other orphanages. "This situation may be suffeiently mportant to warrant your making a public statement from the puplt and yarning your people against this sort >f thing and asking that they be re>orted to the police department." If Quinnat salmon produced normaly for 50 years, with every egg hatchng and producing flsh, the waters of .he earth would not hold them. "Know Your State" Tours Planned A series of "know Your State" tours, which will eventually cover points of Interest throughout the state, la being worked out by South Carolinians, Inc., ua one phase of Its program to acquaint South Carolinians with Other auctions of their state, according to A. F. Funderburk, Jr., managing director. The tours will be Inaugurated with trlpa to the Ia>w Country In the near future. Within the past two weeks Mr. Funderburk has visited a number of plantation owners as well aa hotel and resort operators, making arrartfcementa for the tours. For the present, ho pointed out, all toura will originate in Columbia although aa the movement expands it may bo found advlsable to originate toura at other points. "It la amazing to learn the number of South Carolinians who have not visited many of the scenic and historical points of Interest in the state," Mr. Funderburk said. "While many details remain to bo worked out, wo have gone Into the subject far enough to find that for a nominal fee parties can bo carried on two or three day conducted tours of South Carolina much more economically than Individuals could make the trip In private cars. "This idea has met with an enthusiastic reception among those to whom It has been broached in the state and we are anxious to know tho reaction of other South Carolinians. Too, It Is planned to do the same thing for out-of-state parties. Recently we had an Inquiry from a school superintendent In Oregon asking for Information and ad vising that a number of his teachers plan to visit South Carolina this year. "Although the Initial tours will bo to the Low Country, as the seasons advance other trips will bo arranged to the beaches and mountains. Our Columbia headquarters will be glad to receive suggestions from persons Interested In muking such tours, as well as those who feel they have something unusual to offer the traveling public." NINETY PER CENT OF KERSHAW COUNTY COTTON RATES FAIR The ginnery of the Southern Cotton Oil Co., of Camden" cooperated with; the U. S. Department of Agriculture! in determining the color and grades! of cotton ginned in Camden. Samples from about 2,000 balos of. cotton ginned at their plant wore sent; to Atlanta fo rclasstflcatlon, and be-i low. Is more or less a cross section of cotton grown in Kershaw County: Extra white, strict middling 2. White, good middling. . 1. White, strict middling 73. White, middling, 893. White, strict low middling, 879. White, low middling, 59. White, stirct low ordinary 1. Spotted, good middling 2. Spotted, strict middling 27. Spotted, middling, 49. Spotted, strict low middling 3. No grade, 1- i 1990. It will be seen from the above that ninety percent of all cotton rates fairly good in the County. The cotton buyers, agricultural teaohers and County Agents have been stressing better staple lengths. About fifteen years ago cotton offered on the local market was very low grade, but in recent years there has been a big improvement, which has reflected in the pocketbooks of the farmers when they sell. The average farmer now either buys pedigreed seed or seed that he knows will pull a good sample. Here is a composite picture Of staple lengths representing approximately 2,000 bales: No staple 17-8 Inch I29-32 inch 10. 15-16 inch 16L 31-32 inch 440. 1 inch 752. 1 1-32 inch 385. 1 1-16 Inch 149. 1 3-32 Inch 44. 1 1-8 Inch 18. 1 5-32 Inch 15. 1 3-16 Inch 1? 1 7-32 Inch 2. 1 1-4 inch 2. 1990. There were a total of 1885 tenderable bales under the cotton future acts of the U. S. out of 1990 bales. There will be more high grade cot-; ton seed planted this year than any- j time since the farmers went on the program of better seed. There will be considerable long staple cotton planted In the sandhill sections of the County. In 1926, according to official figures of the Five Acre Cotton Contest the contestants of South Carolina produced only 40.8 percent staple of 1516 inch or longer, and In 1939 the percentage was 99.8 per cent. SHORT TERM OF COURT FOR LANCASTER WITH GRAYDON y Court adjourned Monday after several negroes who pleaded guilty to larceny were sentenced tp the chain gang. Eight negroes who admitted the theft of goods from the stores of Collins-Dunn company and E. C. Parker In thlB city and the StevensSprings company and Belk-Hagins in Kershaw were sentenced by Acting Judge Clint Oraydon. Nat Perkins. Bhper Collins and Will Cauthen who admitted that they were the ones who did the actual stealing were sentenced to serve two years each at hard labor while Will Mango, Bundy Mungo. Clinton Horton , Cam Mack and Don Blackwell whp. admitted that they were accessories in disposing of the stolen property were sentenced to serve thirty days each on the Lancaster county chain gang. That afternoon Deputy Sheriff Alvls Plyler met with an accident while carrying these negroes to the chain gang camp as another car turned in front of hia causing some damage to the officer's car.?-Lancaster News. STARTS MONDAY, MARCH 1 8th II AT 10:00 A. M. FOR ONE WEEK ONLY i ! i GONE WI T H WIND THE MATINEES WILL BE USUAL CON- | I tinuous performances with no reserved seats. # For night shows all seats are reserved. Tic- | kets are now on sale. You may come any- I J time from 10:00 a. m. up to 2:00 p. m. and I see a complete performance. ! i BUYRESERVEDSEATSNOW {| j On Sale At Box Office For ! j Night Shows (8 P. M.), $1.10 including tax | | (All Seats Reserved) j i Matinees Continuous, 75c including tax j (Seats Not Reserved) | CAMDEN THEATRE I While this engagement is limited this production will not be shown anywhere exoept at advanoed prices?at least until 1941 J n&it % ogmi& ^ SOVO"10 PMt ? very 25 seconds H of every day. Somebody buys anew Chevrolet! | '659 MASTER 85 BUSINESS COUPE Other fltodtb fftflfrfty Mfbir All models priced at Flint, Michigan Transportation based on rail rates, state and local taxes 0 * y ? * -ju..{*5 (if any), optional equipment and accessories? extra. Prices subfect to change without notice* LANGSTON MOTOR CO. Phone 123 N. Broad St. Camden, S. C.