Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? ' * Crnisinf Around : i with 1 "Skipper" M L- ~~?4 n||! m.i>!iew. sportcaster for WIS iu luiiibs.. Iiuve over to pay us a so[ 0. rar ;.,s[ Friday and for nearly ' bej:-" Hill. Juck mUl tlllS CorUel' bly a r, , pow wow on aporta In gen* ^rS'' * ujj! (.,:ue over for the purpose of rangMr4 iv? broadoaet the CamdeuKerslnov grads all-star football game next Tuesday, Hut as the only froo tlnir the station would have would be 10 1." i 1,1 11 apparently would bo ' ja,.. got even the final quarter on ' air- as th^ Kame 8larld al 3 30 an-1 the quarters will bo but 12 minute affairs. 0000. HowrV'-r. this corner auggoated to Hill lii.t! the radio station broadcaat nn.it hal| of the Camden-Sumter 'game :! October 11. Bill after hearing' o( i-ioric feud and rivalry existing bf ^-en Camden and Sumter and lht> ci,.?ils that gather for the grid quarrel- was quite enthusiastic over '.the .su^t-*sted broadcast. j!Kk Nettles gave Bill sime good dope ??n the sport situation In Camden p.t! 'it iilarly the baseball program utulr: .omtemplatlou for next year. Bill agreed that a D league, If games Tare peyed at night, would be a suer cess. 0 0 0 Shortly after Mayhew had bidden us far-well. who should bounce Into ; the office but Abe Fennell, sport ex/pert of the Columbia State.^And agali} we had a nice sporting 1 jw wow. 0 0+0 Our geniaL mayor, Francis McCorkle built a boat and in order to-secure a ua:u- f<?r said craft, offered 4b shinny new pennies for the person sufge^'.ing the best name. This cprner broadcast the offer and slqce _ then i.izzoner has been receiving scores of letters from all over the state from writers who desire to get the 4.' new coppers. One writer in j Charb--'on suggested "Ferdinand" hut < obligingly left off "the bull". i 0 0 0 0 \\vr. f lends and neighbors, fellow countrymen and fifth columnists this , ii'ii- ii-x week we will begin to do sum- packing preliminary for the long m ?tor trek to Chicago and Milwaukee where we hope to spend two week-; In checking -wer the kids and their kids. Since w,- a-re up (here a year ago the Vk uu.- left another little bundle in th.- Patrick family at Park Ridge, Chicago -suburb. \W have every intention of being iu :hpress box or thereabouts at R - field when the Green Bay J'ack-r-. professional football champs tak-- o:: the all-stars on the evening of Banks -M?Fft4denr?all* Attr-r:-":; from Clem son is to play with All-Stars. We're picking the i> 1. iy. ..]>, (T. ' baseball fans are watching : the Sumter Junior l^egion < !.'!' regional finals at Spari.-.t ; j -h.is week. Teams for Georgia, r ,r.ii Alabama are taking part . - .imination event. The series c.t Wednesday and the final g > b- ing played today. ' hall fans who watched the Cat; ' '. Starlets battle the Jaycee f: : Keck Hill last Thursday realIt a t ball game which Camden v ; o after Lois Blackwell had h". invaders to two scratch hi - Many of the fans who witnessed th- g.s in action for the first time w-: tnnkly amazed at the proficiency th- trai lens displayed Jin the handh:u <:' the ball. V. . ,pe thai__another ye&r Ulfi-S* a. s can get enough cooperation fro.:; -he business groups-to be able > ' natty uniforms. The team d$a-f. - them. Tit- .Jure Roosevelt had no JSngllsh a:' ' ors. air and sea raiders, credit* Nazi reports with destroying 257,r.s of British shipping in a single a -k of dally fprays, are pictured a" - ad ing confusion among British nr : a y leaders and "softening the n.c. for a final smashing blow. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Hy Hpecrator South Carolina needs many things. . nwd* more payroll*, more liveat-home farmer?, more cows. hogs, j and chickens. She lutnis men in ihol Legislature who w 11* act with restraint in a pending the people's money. We a re rich in scenery, in climate. In our nearness to the ocean an,I to the mountains. South Carol ma I* a health'nl place. H is neither very rich nor j excessively poor. Within a few miles j of any town one van hunt and fish ' Its people are nearly all native Ainer 1 hails. Its newspapers are independent and clean; and its radio broadcasttug stations maintain a high standard of public service. Our courts me tali to all, and our public administration lH free from taint. We criticise some acts, soiue decisions, and some policies; but tho general tone of our public life is good. Our State bus what is both a virtue und a defect; like a fond and indulgent father, who hays everything his children cry for. the State authorizes auil engages in every sort of activity which any group will persistently demand, even though, like the over-Indulgent father. U Is unable to look the world In the face on the first of the month. The world Is being swept off Its feet by theorists. A hard, practical man may have a vision and bo impelled to do work toward It; but a vislonary Is a man who has a dream which requires nothing for Its realization but another dream or a magic wand. Chemists may have visions, hut they work with almost infinite pains to realize thein. No detail is too small for their earnest and persistent % exploration. What Is proposed In the exact fields of pure science is modestly suggested and investigated to the farthest reaches of the subject. How different with many of those who- talk about social science. Without the exactions of mathematics they affirm with conviction all sorts of theories, which multiple activities of human kind render incapable of proof. For them to think a plan desirable, means that they shout it from the housetops, as a thing proved beyond dispute. Then they assume an air of superior virtue, a large humanltarianism, and, become in their own conviction, apostles of a new order. One of the new social idjeas is that a minimum wage and a maximum number of hours of work. There Is some truth In all the argument for this, but like all half-truth It is more uiiovuivf uuo at Li nit? s man tnc worK of evil men. ?AVe know tht^t a man must not work to that degree of physical and nervous exhaustion which makes his life nothing but work and sleep; we know that a man driving a. passenger locomotive should not be kept on a strain for so many continuous hours that his mind becomes beclouded or confused. Btft, wall? a principle may be established It does not argue for such absurdities as six hours a day. True it is that six hours, even In two shifts, may tax. a man In some hazardous occupation; but all those hazards are usually taken care of In the relations of management and laboi\_ Equally true_ It may be that in sustained creative Intellectual work one cannot maintain a high standard of production over long successive hours; but there is a vast difference between mere clerical work and creativo brain concentration. We know that every business thrives, or even exists, through Its profits. If a man opens a littleTunch stand with five/hundred dollars capital, he must earn a profit on that five hundrqd or he will soon close his shop. If the small man can't afford to pay like a big man. then the small nUin will be forced out. That will leavo the big men in full command of iho field. East year a bill was Introduced In our Legislature to establish a Wage and Hour law which would compel every employer to pay at l^ast twenty ceiits an hour to every person employed except servants and farm labor, Ix>ok about your town; outside cotton mills and other- large Industries?which are already covered by a-national law?are not the maj ority of people who work paid about all the concerns can well afford to pay? Of course there are skinflints in some places, but not all men In business are skinflints. We have a large niimber of people who cannot earn twenty cents an hour; their service is not worth twenty cents an hour. What would happen to them If guch a law were passed? . They would be dismissed. When the law tells you to pay at least twenty cents \ an hour to a worker, whose service may be worth five or ten cents, what will you do? You will dismiss that person. So the person who might honorably earn ten cents an hour will lose the opportunity to earn anything. And then as to the eight hour limit: are ihere many occupations which are fairly easy and do not exhaust,, the workers even in ten hours? Yet the little hotels, stores, small repair shops, garages, even shoe-shine places?all. everything, would have to pay at least twenty cents an hour for not more than eight hours a day for five cays. Can you operate your business in fivej days of eight hours each, and pay at j least $12.00 a week to every man, woman and child? Politicians advocate this sort of thing because they hope to catch a big vote by it. We should have France much in mind just now. France fell completely under the spell and sway of crafty vole-seekers. All sorLa of schemes _were..worked. out. The people were almost pershaded that they could live even without working. Of course we have seen idle men thrive in mysterious manner: but the world lives on work, on production, on the gngjt Virtues of honor and self denial. Within twenty years France degenerated until she proved herself a mere crust and. sjio crashed. In our country we are facing u 11 that today. Smooth, persuasive voices have betrayed the high trust of leadership and aro sapping the nation's strength. Is this of benefit to the people? Is the working man benefitted by Wage and Hour tills which become inflexible law? If ai small business fails, what beconjes of those who had earned their living there? ^Are they absorbed by the giant concerns which will control the field, after all the little fellows have] beop. run out? If so, why hate. wo milv Hons unemployed? Most o* the success stories of the world are of men who "worked long and late. Havo we any ambitious men left? Are there any who would like to rise to leadership? Or, aro wo all to live on a common level of mediocrity, none eyer trying to advance? Wage and Hour laws virtually hold everybody down to thp same level. If there is any quality of our manhood which has been heralded In prose and poesy, it is the strong struggling man, emerging from the ranks, by superior effort or greater ability. But under the rcgimentatioh of Wage and Hour laws we glorify ineptitude, inefficiency and sloth, ^nd hold everybody down to. that. Ask men working under such a law if they would like a chance to earn more. The ambitious and industrious will tell you "Yes", but the drones will tell you "No", Therefore we aro to be a nation which dignifies drones and is fhshioned by them. Another France? It isn't the workers themselves who ask for such laws; it ifj the element which lives on labor, always irying to' sell some idea to Ubor to catch its vote. Some days ago I stoo<| amazed at the work of a dirt-shovel on a big con ?????? struction Job. This gigantic machine is operated by about three men.. It scoops up the dirt and pours It Into waiting trucks as one continuous operation. It does as much work as twenty-fiv? then Could do with hand shovels. The result is that twenty.iwn men are out of work. There are no hours or minimum pay for the big I machine; nor does it pay old-age bene| fits, or unemployment insurance; nor I does it pay rent or feed a lot of little children. It is the natural answer to all the artificial social and economic schemes which visionaries are thrusting upon us. In sonje few things we have advanced since the toilsome days of our fathers; but the principle of work remains. Under heat of emotion, or under pressure of organized groups, legislation is enacted which gives special privileges to some. All such legislation is repugnant to the Federal Constitution. ArtKIe I," "?fec(5nd"~i)arl7 says: "No State HhaJl make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or Immunities of citizens of the United States, nor .deny any person the laws". '"Printers", as they are called, have always shown mechanical ingenuity. Over in Manning is The Manning -Times, with a corps of ingenious men who turn their talent to schemes of usefulness as well as diversion. Recently I saw the handiwork of Mr. Britton, known throughout Chesterfield as Umb Britton, not because of any lamb-like qualities, but more likely because even in infancy ho gavo promise of following Charles Lamb, the essayist. Our Lamb essays many things, but without pen or pencil. He "essayed" to organize a Colored chorus and has had it "on the air" from Charleston. He also essays to kin alb the rabbits, squirrels, and other "critturs" in the nearby swamps, but te spRe- of thtr terrible roar of his gun, the casualties are few. Mr. Britton has contrived a scheme, I think to scare away rats. He has a wire connected with an alarm clock so that at a set time the clock starts something, which releases a weight, which in turn causes a loud, reverbrating crash?and scares off any mouse or rat which might at the moment be incautiously moving into Lamb's preserve. In this manner the mouse or rat will think that Lamb is always around and is capable of striking from any distance. Mr. Ike Thomas, who functions as top sergeant of this outfit, which once knew John Barton of the Lancaster News and Ed Davis of The State, tfiinks that a cat might bo trained by Mr. Britton to start th> plunger so as to save the clock and the electric current. There are about 2,000 midgets in the world;"* *Asserting her husband chewed razor blades, ate glass and chewed buttons on his arms "Just to make me nervous." Mrs. Estelle C. Van Denmark, ' 24, won an annulment of her marriage ' in a Rochester, N. Y., court. ACHES IN LEGS AND BACK TIRED RUNDOWN FEELING - * * - -?Y , \ may be malaria You don't have to have chills and J'Vfr to have malaria for chills and 'i-ver appear in the last stages. If >ou have been anywhere around .uowtuitos and feel terribly tired, rundown, lack of normal pep, can't *<eep. are nervous, have no appetite, ' el bilious and baVe nagging pains '|n,l aches in back and lcgrs. whv uon't you try Oxidlne, a physicians original nrescriDtion. ~ "?i Oxidine is specifically made .to attack- traces of the most common malaria we have in the South, has a tonic effect, warms the stomach, aids the system in keeping health* fully open and,it also contains iron. Without being off from work one day, try pleasant Oxidine. If in just 7 days you are not delighted and satisfied, take the bottle back. Your money will be returned. Oxidine, f oxxij 60c, at druggists. Try it today. Tru,.d.? Drug 8tor* .?.??, 8. C. 0.K.I8 PMrm.cy, Cmdw, 8. C. Atlantic Coast Line "Dieselizes" Florida Passenger Trains Plucee Urgent Order in History ; Doubles Streamlined Train Equipment WILMINGTON, N. C? An order for 18 Diesel-Electric passenger locomotive units, said to be the largest single order ever placed, was announced today by Mr. C. McD. Davis, Executive Vice Pres' ident of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. At the same time Mr. Davis announced that an order had been placed for 21 lightweight, stainlesssteel, streamlined coaches, by the Atlantic Coast Line and Pennsylvania Railroad, which will double the capacity of "The Champion," the New York-Florida streamliner operated by Coast Line in conjunction with Pennsylvania Railroad, Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad, and Florida East Coast Railway. "The streamlined coach equipment, air-conditioned and of latest design, is being built by the Edward G. Budd Manufac* turing Company and will be ready for service early in the Florida season. The new Diesel units will be built by Electro-Motive Corporation, a I subsidiary of General Motors. These units of 2.000 horse power will be used to power two sections of the i all-Pullman "Florida Special." two sections of "The Champion," allcoach streamliner, and "The Vacationer." all-coach companion train of "The Champion." With this new power equipment, it is expected that the fast running time between New York and Florida again Will be shortened. Although the increasing popularity of Florida as a year-round vacation land was said to be chiefly responsible for these record-breaking orders, the growing industrial importance of the Southeastern states was said by Mr. Davis to have been also influential in expanding Coast Line's Diesel power and streamline equipment. "The rapid gains in industry in the Southeastern states traversed by the Atlantic Coast Line," Mr. Davis said, "demand a corresponding, increase in new and faster trains. The manufacturing centers of the intermediate South can be expected to increase their production since America, because of the European war, is forced to supply its own markets, and we look confidently to new and greater development in the South in the near future." UlRfHtnajm fltuij BY 1 IhUMHW j-trgiCTrcarl AMERICA'S MANPOWER Washington. Aug. lo senator Shop* pafd of Texas. Friday urged eoniKilpilon of America's manpower as the answer to a totalitarian throat to tight on "until all demooracy un! freedom have boon blasted (ruin the earth." The chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committto, opening Senate debate on the Burke* Wudsworth Conscription bill, forsook diplomatic generalities for a blunt assertion that a victorious Germany would attempt invasion of the New World. From Senator Wheeler of Montana, came an angry reply that those who believe the United Stai.es is In imminent danger of Nazi invasion, "if they were honest, would go before the country and ask for a declaration of war against Germany right now." Crowded galleries were repeatedly warned against demonstrations ('tiling the sharp debate. A clear indication that Administration forces are swinging their full strength behind the bill came as Majority Leader Bark ley rose half a dozen times to share the measure's defense with Senator Sheppard. The Burke-Wadsworth bill combines voluntary enlistment with a compulsory training system "to moot tho demands of an emergency in which the} iline element is of tragic Importance," Sheppard told the Senate. Under the bill all niep from 21 to 31, a total of 12.000,000, would be required to register for compulsory military training. Deferments would be grunted men with dependents and those engaged In occupations essoinlal to the national Interest, leaving same 4,300,000 able-bodied men available for Immediate duty. From this pool 400.000 men would be called up In October, according to War Department plans, and another 400,000 In the spring. . The National Guard and Reserve personnel mobilization was approved, by the Senate Thursday, and tho House Military Affairs Committee is expected to approve the Guard bill at Its session on Monday, clearing the way for the Houso"acTIon on the measure later in the week. Defense Job seekers were advised to stay away from Washington Friday night in a radio appeal frpm Civil Servlee Commission officials. W. A. McCoy, chief of the commission's examining division, said that workers seektug Government jobs should stay away from Washington "unless they are sent for." Seven out of eight Federal Jobs, said McCoy, are outside the District and he added that his organization is trying to place workers in new jobs as near as possible to their home CCJBmUQiiUQfl- _ It has been announced from the Temporary White House at - Hyde Park, New York, that President Roosevelt had approved a recommendation by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace for a $150,000,000 non-mandatory loan' on the 1040 cotton crop. * ? The loans will bo handled through' the Commodity Credit Corporation.] The loan rate will be announced later, probably Iti Washington. The action was taken under the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act.. At the same time It was announced the President had signed a bill Increasing the resources of the Commodity Credit Corporation from $900,000,000 to $1,400,000,000 to carry out the mandatory loan provisions of the 1939 A. A. A. Act on corn, cotton and wheat. ' Tho Bill, Senate No. 3998, was designed to meet marketing emergencies arising from war abroad and to permit temporary advances to other divisions of the Agriculture Department as required by law for short-term seasonal needs. The Army has decided to build monster land battleships like the 70-ton German tanks which are generally given much of the credit for breaking through French and Belgian fortifications. The National Defense Commission has cleared a $5,689,725 contract with the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia for construction of heavy tanks. Cost of carrying out the initial order will be high in view of the fact that much new machinery will have to bo developed to turn out tho parts. Estimates for the number of tanks, which would be obtained under the first contract, varied from 20 to 50. No date was given as to the time deliveries could be made. *-? <v Out of every 1.000 ellgibles ifl South Africa. 22 get marled each year. The defense commission has announced plans to station vessels ir major American harbors to lay sub marine nets in emergencies. Tho com mission listed in a report of army ant navy orders $16,499,000, for construe tion of net tenders.* Mrs. E. F. Munit ^ Di$s At Her Home Kershaw. Aug. 11. ? Mm. K. F. M mi it. died at hop homo in tho Mt. IMsgah soi l Ion of knrshaiv county at J; to Sunday afternoon following a long illness. She Is survived by five ' datightors, and six sons: Misses M a t ti?* and N'anuii' Miiun and Mrs. Robert Gardner or' Hotliune, Mm. Otis Hoffman of St. Matthews, Mrs. David On loo of Lancaster, K<i ward and Jatuos Munn of Kershaw, Jes.se Mtiiiu, Sumtor Lewis Henry and Charlie Munn of Methane, two sisters ami seven broth ets: Mrs. I). T. Mrudloy and Mrs. LI. F Mradley of Kershaw, II. F. McMotftan and J W. Morgan and W. S. Morgan, all of Kershaw, Mud Morgan of Jefferson, J. H. Morgan and G. W. Morgan of Minden, I .a. Funeral serviees were conducted at 1 o'clock Monduy afternoon at Mt. Misgah Majnist church, by tho paster, the Kev. H. I- Woods, assisted by the Kev. Fred Poplin of Lancaster, with Interment in the churchyard Miss Sarah Eilerbe Dies At Millvale Miss Sarah 101 len Kllerbe, 85, tiled at her home. Millvale plantation near Rembert, Snmter county. Saturday August 3 ttfter a lengthy Illness. Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Ascension, Hagood at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon by the reotoiV-the Kev. Alfred Chambliss. Miss L'llerbe was a native of Camden, the daughter of William ganders CJrawford Eilerbe and Mrs. Mary R. Sanders Eilerbe, but for tho last fifty years she had lived at tho Ellerbu plantation. Surviving are one brother, C. Augustus Eilerbe, of Laurens; and throe nieces. Mrs. Perry Drown, Mrs. Susan Kirk Hayueswurth and Mrs. J. U. Lenoir. Shb was a life-long Episcopalian and was Instrumental in carrying to completion the erection of the Church of the Ascension which was commenced but not comploted when her parents died. Sumter Herald. Miss Eilerbe was born In ihe house now owned by Charles A. Talntor on north Broad Street. Many years ago the family moved to Sumter county wiuien built the. vn|;vu "Millvale". It is one oHP?Hie show places of that section, built on tho banks of a mill pond, from where it derived Its name. The house ,1s filled with priceless antique furniture and beautiful works of art. It Is visited yearly by hundreds of people. Until her health failed. Miss ftJllerbe opened her house to visitors oiice each year at Easter, the small price of admission was given to the church of her choice?the Church of the Ascension at Hagood. . ? Man Dies In Bottom Of Well life Wednesday morning while working In a well for Mrs. Flora Gibson * about three miles from Mt. Croghau. Blakeney had been In the well a short time the day before, apparently without discomfort. On Wednesday J morning he had gone down at about 8:30. 'An assistant was planning to ! come dowp to Join him In tho work I of deepening the Well, wflilch""was ! about 60 feet deep. In only a few minutes Blakenoy ! called to be pulled up. The workmen ! say no tlmo was lost in hoisting him., but as he neared the surface, some 8 or ton feet from the top he suddenly let go and pitched headlong to the bottom. There was only about one foot of water in tho well. Ho 1s believed td have died instantly from the fall. It Is supposed that gas had accumulated in the well and Blakenoy waa,^ 'overcome before reaching the surface. _ Sheriff Douglass was called to the* scene and directed the rescue, which was accomplished by letting down a " colored boy who volunteered to go down and tie a rope around the body. ?Chesterfield Advertiser. 8nake Ate Cold Cream'Jar? March 10, 1939, Mrs. D. P. Hloit, of the Zlon church section, placed a cold ' cream Jar In a hen's nest for a "nest egg." She missed the Jar and could not figure out what became of it. July 27, 1940, Mrs. Hiott killed a chicken snake 5 feet and 7 inches lond, and found her long lost cream Jar In the snake, after having failed to digest It in almost- two years. ? Walterboro Pross and Standard. Tin cans are planted In the ground f to furnish iron for growing plants in i' Guam. "My Skin Was Full of yjfij Pimples and Blemishfct". says Vorna S.: "Since uslnf Adlerlka * i the pimples are gope. My skin ll* smooth and glows with health," ^ - lerika helps waeh BOTH bowels*' audi, i relieves temporary constipation that often aggravate bad completion. DeKALB PHARMACY '" *:~ 7*:" - ?7