The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 14, 1940, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
I
Cruising
Around
with
i
"Skipper"
ft ^ ^ M ^**
?u, .ud<l?o thought o( the week i?
.? wouldn't It he fuo to he ?ble to
on the time we h?ve weetei
Tout life ?'"? then do ell the thing,
we wanted to do hut could never hud
for. |>((
u, good friend, Dave who ha. Just
returned Iron, a bualue.. Jaunt to
Lw Vork tell, a .lory hbout a drunk
.ho had boarded a double deok bu.
,?d .tumbled to top deok, hut oume
Idling down a minute later mumb
?| ain't going to ride up there!
There', nobody driving.
Seen on the wludow of a real estate
'office. "Oar business is improving
lots."
la winter time when frosty time
Bespangles all I view, '
My fancy files to sunny skies
And flowers of varied hpe.
Xn(l when at last grim winter's past,
Anil summer round me lies
Again I pray the frost to slay
Mosquitoes, gnats and flies.
+-# *
Down In Fort Myers, Florida, they
are all het up because the screen
play "Edison, the Man," does not mention
Foh Myers at all during the actIon
of the drama. As a matter of fact
ajl of Florida is Indignant over this
omission.
*
We think the Florida folks have
justifiable ground for being peeved.
Tom Edison was not Just a tourist in
the Sunshine State." fae went to Fort
Myers in 1883 Just after his first Invention.
He established his laboratory
there, and carried out most of
his experiments. Today that, laboratory
Is In the Henry Ford collection
of Edisonlana at Dearborn.
We would remind the Florida folks
that the picture was (filmed In California,
which Is sufficient reason for
Florida being left out.
*
Dtd you know that -Matt Ferguson's
elephant, Miss Alice of Chancefleld,
[ hs been the source of greater pubBclty
than any other event In Camden
history. The story and pictures
sent out by this department made the
first page In thousands of newspapers.
It was the flrot Camden picture io_
make the wire pho'to.
* *
And to cap the climax today a Fox
movietone news camera man will be
in Camden to get some (motion pictures
of Miss Alice for use In the
news reel. While the camera man,
M. D. Cooke, is here, the Chamber of
Commerce has arranged for him to
take other motion picture shots of
historic places.
*
Neville Chamberlain, England's umbrella
man, once said "Hitler has
missed the bus," is walking a lonely
road to oblivion. Soldier-members of
the English parliament are now demanding
of Sir Neville, now lord
president of the council, why the British
government during his reign as
prime minister permitted the English
army fo become obsolete from the
standpoint of modern war-machinery.
Soldiers returning from Flanders are
demanding that parliament stage an
English blitzkrieg and rid the governni"n
of appeasement apostles.
The British remembered how they
won the last war. The formula looked
good enough to ^in another, so
they dusted It off last September and
hung on to It, even" In the face of a
new order of military technique used
in Poland. Germany, remembering
how she lost the last war, discarded
losing methods lu favor of something
new which at least had a chance to
win.
Where, Inquired a caller in the office
of this department, is Bessarabia?
We know that one. It is next
door to a fix and you know what kind
of a fix:
*
So enemy planes will not use them
for landing fields, England is digging
up the fairways on her golf courses.
After watching some of the local golf
talent last 'Sunday we are inclined to
believe that some of them have the
same idea as the English.
* * * ?
Sentence in golf write-up in New
York paper: "Ben Hogan took a
cursory glance at the Ball." Some of
my good friends were taking cursory
slices last Sunday afternoon.
*
- Attention, Mr. Mayor and city commissioners:
Itinerant street takers
and beggars can not be classified as
desirable transients on public stroets
of any community.
*
^ Last Minute Musings?Miami Florida,
doubted its .population in the last
ten years. But Miami Beach took top
honors in the nation by trebling its
1930 figure. Columbia, Palmetto capital,
had (but a 17 per cent gain and
the announcement caused a mild sensation
in the ranks of municipal officials.
Senator Pepper, of Florida,
Beveral weeks ago said Italy would
enter the war on June 10. Speaking
of high-class prognosticates?hats off
to Pepper. Now we know what that
secret weapon Hitler has been talking
about is. Answer: that dagger
old man Mussolini stuck in the .back
of the Allies. A British broadcaster
says that British aviators spread "destruction
and chaos behind the German
lines." It might not be a bad
idea If they tried it up in front.
* *
Last minute sport flashes: The
Sumter Legion Jui#or ball club comes
here Tuesday. Whjt^ot have a real"
turnout of fans to greet the Camden
team. Sumter defeated Camden under
the lights last week 10 to 9, but
it was the first game of the season
for the Camden boys and also the
first the players had ever worked under
lights. - On Thursday next week
the Epworth orphanage team of Columbia
plays 'here. Steve Bundrick
hit a home run.in the seventh Inning
of the Wolves?Waynes game in the
sofbball league last Monday and won
for the Haynes team 3 to 2.
Two Men Drown
In Wateree River
Two men, Marvin Washington. 24,
and Muster Tucker, 28, drowned in the
Wateree river 4 miles north of Kastover
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
The men were iu a boat negotiating |
a crossing of the river, together with
Joseph Kinsey, for mean; Hilly Tolar, 1
son of the superintendent of the Holly
Hill Lumber company of Kiugsville. {
and Charlie Joseph, Jr.
The 'boat did not overturn but the
occupauls, with the exception of the
youngest boy In the group, either lost
their balance or Jumped luto the river,
according to information given to
Corouer John A. Sargeant. The group
was connected with the lumber company
which was preparing to begin
work on a trestle across the river at
the John Cottou plantation.
Coroner 'Sargeant and Deputy Sheriff
Tom H. Scott went to the scene
and the bodies were located with
dragging equipment in 25 feet of water.
An Inquest will bo held.
It was Richland county's second
and third drowning in two days.
Charles George, 17, of Taylors Road,
drowned In a Bluff road plantation
pond Thursday.?Saturday's State,
Kight Run Rally
Wins For Sumter
(Saturday'!* Sumter Horn)
When Lefty Mol*eod, Camden pitcher,
gave up two hits in a row iu the
eighth inning, the Camden coach sent
him to the showers and trotted out
Johnson, a right-hander, to stop the
Sumter sluggers.
Hut Johusou was duck soup for the
slugging soutbslde batters of the Sumtm
wrecking crew and before the
tmoke had cleared Sumter had pushed
eight runs over the pan. Up to the
time of MoLeod's removal from the
lighting line, he had given up hut
three hits In six tunings. Camden
was leading 4 to 2 when the Sumter
blitzkrieg was stageu. Sumter won
10 to 9. .
The local Juulors showed another
brilliant performance by rapping out
eleven safe blows that accouuted for
teu tallies, while C&nulen also dinplayed
some hitting power, amassing
nine hits for nine runs.
Gene Bradley and "Bull" Berry led
Sumter's siege gun hitting, blasting
out three hits ' in five times to the
plate. Two of Bradley's hits were tremendous
triples to center that accounted
for four runs. However,
James Parmer had a perfect night at
the bat, getting two for two, 'both of
his hits coming in the aovent.h frame.
Johnson, Bowers and Hunter each collected
two hits for Camden, one df
Johnson's being a triple.
Prom the first to the sixth inning it
was an old fashioned pitcher's duel
between Lefty Graham, of Sumter,
and I^efty Mol^eod for the Camden Juniors,
each giving up three hits and
one run during these six stanzas,
Camden took a one run lead In the Initial
Inning when Graham walked two
men and Bowers singled sharply to
left field. Sumter came 'back to tie
the score In the third when Jenkins
struck out but the catcher dropped
the ball and he reached first on the
error. Bradley then singled, driving
him to third, when Berry stepped up
to the bat and sent a screaming liner
to center scoring Jenkins.
The Gamecocks took a one run lead
in the fifth as Edens reached first on
an infield out and came home when
Bradley sent a long triple to the center
field fence. However, the visitors
knotted the count in their half of the
sixth on a base on balls and error by
Edens in right aijd a single uy Hunter,
the Bulldogs' backstop.
Camden added two more runs in the
seventh on a walk, single arid two errors.
At this stage of the game
Charles Tomlineon replaced Lefty
Graham on the mound for Sumter.
Farmer opened Sunster's half of the
seventh with a single, then an error
by the Camden second -baseman ena- bled
Tomlinson to get on base, Jenkins
fanned and Bradley tripled for
second time to center, driving home
three runs. Berry sent Bradley
across with another run with his second
hit. At this stage Johnson started
pitching for Camden. Mlms greeted
him with a triple, Gulledge walked
and Parmer come through with his
.second ML In the same Inning, sending .
both across the plate. The fire works
finally stopped when Tomlinson singled
Farmer home with tho eighth run
of the inning.
With two men out In the eighth
Camden came through for three hits
and an error to give them four runs.
They again staged a rally In the final
frame but felL short of tlelng the
score by one run when Tomlinson
struck out the last two batters with
the tleing run on second base.
The Score: It H E
Sumter 10 H 6
Camden 9 9 5
Batteries: Sumter, Graham, Tomlinson
and Bradley; Camden, McLeod,
Johnson and Huter.
WE KILLED 'EM
The United States department of
agriculture estimates that boll weevil
damage In 1939 caused the following
percentage reductions from full cotton
yields:
Virginia 32
North Carolina 23
Georgia H
Florida 1*
Alabama IS
Mississippi 13..
South Carolina 8
These figures for states In the
Southeastern region are Interesting,
and significant. Why was boll weevil
damage less In South Carolina than In
any other state of the region? The
answer seems to be this: the baited
poison method of killing boll weevils
is commonly practiced in fftiuth Carolina,
but not commonly practiced In
other cotton producing states.?The
State.
, County agent HcCarley tella in another
place in The Chronicle toddy of
an inexpensive hut effective fomulae
for poisoning boll weevils which has
saved the farmers of this state many
thousands of dollars.
Many persons believed that barbed
wire was more important than railroads
in the development of the west
It .^sounded the death knell of the
longhorn cattle, and made possible
the introductoin of pnrdbred stock. It
changed the vast prairies into an empire
of homesteads.
Old Oak# Preserved
By Louisiana Society
Great oaks from membership fees
grow when the fee is 23 acorns a
year, as it is in the unique Live
Oak society which flourishes in Louisiana.
Under the constitution of the society.
organized by Dr. Edwin L.
Stephens, president of the Southwestern
Louisiana institute at Lafayette,
the membership roIJ includes
only live oaks 100 or more
years old and the owner or other
interested person must pay annual
dues of 25 acorns from each tree.
The "dues" are planted in the live
oak nursery of the institute farm to
aid in the propagation of these distinctive
giants of the southern state.
Many of the beautiful oaks, with
long beards of Spanish moss, which
trail between New Orleans and Lafayette,
are charter members of the
society, as most of them are more
than a century old. The original 1
"president" of the society was the
Locke Breaux oak at HahnviUe, with
a circumference of 35 feet and a
spread of 166 feet.
The Seven Sisters oak at Lewisburg,
however, also lays claim to
the distinction of being the largest
tree and, therefore, entitled to the
office of the presidency. This tree ]
is considered the most imposing live
oak spectacle in Louisiana, with a
circumference of 36 feet and a huge
spread, but it is evidently a cluster
of six or t^pven trees close together
rather than one tree.
Scores of other trees are members
In the society and each year
new ones are being added as they
attain the proper age. Last year the
beautiful avenue of live oaks known
as "Oak Alley," situated on the Mississippi
river in St. James parish,
was taken into the society.
This distinction again is challenged
by the Versailles oaks located
at Chalmette, where the battle
of New Orleans was fought in the
War of 1812. The 70 trees in this
grove were planted by Pierre Denis
de la Ronde, former owner of the
Versailles plantation.
(J. S. It Older as Nation
Than Germany or Italy
As united, centralized nations,
Germany and Italy are both younger
than the United States.
"It was not until 85 years after the
American Declaration of Independence
that the modern kingdom of
Italy was formed by the union of
various small Italian states," says
the National Geographic society.
"Victor Emmor.ucl II, formerly
king of Sardinia, was declared its
first sovereign. Still later by another
decade was the modern German
empire cemented together under
Prussian leadership In 1871.
First emperor was William I of
Prussia.
"On the other hand, in terms of
racial and political history, Italians
ju\d Germans both look back on a
past many centuries old when the
Pilgrims landed in New England.
Rome once ruled an empire from
England to the Persian gulf, including
the Mediterranean and the countries
that rimmed it. The Teutons,
had their 'innings' in the Holy Roman
empire of the Middle ages,
when their domain stretched from
the Baltic and North seas to tha
Mediterranean, and half-way down
the boot." , , ,L
Iceland's Heating Plant
In Iceland everybody, has s job
and now even nature itself is about
to go to work?providing for tha
homes of Reykjavik. A huge central
'heating plant will be built to utiliza
the hot Springs of Iceland in heating
the homes of the capital. Not so
frigid as the name suggests, Iceland
is a land of volcanic origin
and of hot springs and geysers. In
the neighborhood of Reykjavik the
flow of hot water totals more than
200 gallons a minute?ample supply
for the new heating plant. If Iceland
eliminates the use of coal by
means of the plant, that fact will be
another distinction for this island
state, which already has no army,
no navy, no unemployment, no relief,
no national debt. It has more books
and newspapers for its population
than any other country in the world,
and Reykjavik has more university
trained people than any other capital
of its size.
Hinged Bill
The woodcock has a hinged bill,
which serves a very good purpose
as do most of the strange adaptations
nature makes in her children.
The woodcock feeds largely on
earthworms and other foods for
which it probes into the ground with
its bill. The upper part of the bill,
or mandible, is flexed towards the
end. The end of the bill is very
sensitive, so sensitive that it can
feel a worm or grub when it comes
In contact Vrlth it. Then?snip?the
flexible, forceps-like bQl Is opened,
and the meal is firmly gripped and
dragged from the ground.
Grouse Called Pheasant
There is really no native American
pheasant, although the ruffed
grouse is often referred to in many
liarts of the,country aa a "pheasant."
This "native pheasant" if tha
same bird that is sometimes known
as a "partridge" in most of the
northern states. Our native birds
who resemble the pheasant are
1 mostly grouse. Only members of
the ringneck variety of pheasa'nts,
- of which there are about 17 species,
have been introduced into this
country with anv wide success.'
MANY PATIENTS LEAVE
STATE PARK TOO EARLY
Three of the nine patients, admit led
to State Park from Kershaw county
since January first came home after a
very brief stay, against the advice of
the sanatorium physicians. Two of
these people had no means of adequate
support.
That one-third of the patients admitted
to a tuberculosis hospital from
this vicinity returned home so soon is
a good reason for giving careful consideration
to some of the most important
services these people are now unable
to get.
Quoting Col. W. H. Moncrief's story
of sanatorium facilities in the June Issue
of the QoOoSan Piper, "Tuesday
afternoons at the sanatorium are set
aside for Btaff conference. The medical
staff composed of nine physicians
meets to view X-rays and review case
histories. Diagnoses of new patients
Are made and the type of treament in
each case la. outlined by the staff.
Likewise no patient is discharged
without approval of the staff in conference."
Most of the sixty-odd patients now
on the records of the Kershaw county
Tuberculosis Association seldom see
a physician either (before admission to
the sanatorium or during the years
following dismissal except when suffering
from a very acute symptom.
The reason Is that medical care costs
something and most tuberculosis Is
present among people whose Income
is limited.
Usually, those who leave the sanatorium
without permission, after a period
of battling for an existence?;
medical care, food, clothing, a comfortable
place to rest, say to the tuberculosis
nurse, "Do you think they
would let me go back to State Park?"
But since there are long lists of people
waiting admission, it is seldom
that these cases can be readmitted.
Hospital routine is different from
home life, but it is best for tuberculosis
cases.
At the present time, airplane manufacturers
are turning out about 400
non-military airplanes a month.
When pins were invented in the
14th oentury, they were bo expensive
that it was customary to give a person
a sum of money to be used as
"pin money," hence the term.
In a hollow tree, which has no opening
to the outside, the decaying
heart continues to sink to the bottom
and condense in bulk until it is hardly
noticeable. If there is an opening,
the decayed portion frequently Is carded
away by birds and insects.
I
Says Civilization Is
Going To Pieces
Columbia, June 6.?KMitor Julian
Miller of the Charlotte Observer told
the 65 graduates of Columbia collogo
today that "You are stepping Into a
world where the pillars of clviliEftlion
are being destroyed, where there
are no arms of welcome, no sure footing,
at the time of a universal orlsts."
Uveuts in the world today, he assorted,
"are so appalling and so filled
with fearsomeness that one must
grope feebly and haltingly for an intelligent
and inspiring word to say to
a generation stepping out into this
ghastly arena."
Dr. Miller declared that "there is no
precedent nor parallel in the long story
of humanity's life for the tragedies
of these hours and that whatever we
' mean by civilisation, it is this which
Is crashing and crumbling all about
ub. The world that we have known
throughout the Christian era is going
to pieces right before our eyes."
L. T. Beam Dies In V
Ned's Creek Section
KerstfWwT June 10?funeral services
for L. T. Beam, 52, who died at bis
home in the Ned's Creek section of
Kershaw county, near here Sunday
afternoon, were conducted from Shiloh
Methodist church Monday afternoon
by the Rev. D. A. Phillips, as*
sisted by the Rev. -M. H. Dry* In
addition to his widow, Mrs. Nannie
McCasklll Beam, he Is survived
.br fpur?.d?ughtera. aod..onn *aiv Mrs.. .. ..
Clarence Crlmmlnger, of Lancaster,
Mrs Paul Gregory, Mrs. Perry Reeves, ;
Mrs. Crawford Gardner and Thomas
Beam, all of Kershaw; two brothers
and on? sister, A. C. Beam, Bossomer?City,
N. C.; C. C. Beam, Bossier City,
I>a., and Mrs. James Trull, of Concord,
N. C., also survive.
'??"Z\ ^*yA i
4 KV IN 7DAYS
V^L 666
LIQUID OR TABLETS
NOTICE I
Notice is hereby given that current
'' I
will be Off on Sunday, June 1940, from
5:30 a.m.,to 8 a.m., on account of Carolina
Power & Light Company doing some
work on main feed line.
Municipal Utilities
. -v- ? .. - - -'w - o
- i..i. ii. - - - - - - -1
< ? .. i;-i,fcLiS&Ji. i . ./5 ^T" - ?j? ~.f^slx ' / Z~
Stop the Boll Weevil NOW
Blackstrap Molasses:
In 57 gal. Barrel*, 13 l-2c per gal. Smaller
amount*?you furni*hing container?-14 l-2c
per gal.
Calcium Arsenate:
In case lot* or more, 6 3-4c j
Smaller amount*, 7c.
Extra nice lot of Biloxi Beans.
Priced Right.
We have installed Machinery for ?
Cleaning and Treating Cottonseed
Wheat, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans,
Lespedeza and Crotalaria Seed.
Very Reasonable Prices.
BAILEY DISTRIBUTING and
MILLING COMPANY
BLANEY, S. C.
wmmmr
1 ??1 r -
H1CK0K ff,
and Suspenders" <
For Fathers Day .
W. Sheorn & Son , I '#
f*'
10% REDUCTION ^^^WHlfHW^^r
IN ROUND-TRIP COACH PARES ^^HHHHMr^
J ON THE SEABOARD SYSTEM
Plan Now !
Visit the New
York
t* World's Fair _
Consult local Seaboard
Agent.
ON* WAV FARE8 FROM
CAMDEN, 8. O. ~
MIAMI ......811.1#
BOSTON 1*16'
NEW YORK 11.55
NORFOLK 5.20
PHILADELPHIA 9.7#jy|
RALEIGH . 2.58 ^3
RICHMOND 4.95
WASHINGTON ......... 7.05
SIMILAR LOW FARES TO
AI I DAIMTB
.
?. . ? u?J ...... ?._; ... - - - - --??~^?r~?" ? ?. ** J1."?:^ . .,