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* 11 Cruising ,-c ' '" I1 Around !; with "Skipper" ^ ^ ^ " Sunlight vlgnettet?Attractive tittle miss collecting three polo balls knocked over the sideboards during the action Sunday afternoon. ? Referee Pete Jotton looking at little miss scampering away with a nice ball Just put In play?and deciding she was Juat too blamed cuto to yell at. Moultrie 13. llurna almost giving John Richardson and' Dr. Joe Brunson apoplexy by showing up for a dove ahootlng expedition right on the minute. "The smelling salts quick" moaned John. "It never happened thusly before." .. * * # * * Swell game of polo dished up by the Jackets and the Ramblers. Only eeven goals, lowest this season. Beautiful riding and smart defensive play. * * r Crowd again disappointed by failure of loud speaker system to perk. Probably try Joe Machado's equipment next Sunday for the Pinehurst game. Dick Shoftoe and Jeff Bates as well as many other Columbia polo fans declaring their intention of being at the ringside Sunday. And then hi ho for a steak dinner. Little episode In the wee-sma' hours, featured by agonizing screams, gun shots and then wow! what a story. We are still waiting for the green light to spring it. Jack Nettles getting all swelled up ?and for wfiat'reason?Just an infected molar. Jack went down for the count. ? Watching Herman Monarch, ace camera man, take a pot shot with his camera at Mayor McCorkle passing Gus Beleos a $100 check, a donation from the city for the Greek war relief fund. * * And Gus wishing it was for a thousand berries. The basketball season gets under way next Tuesday at the Hi gym with team meeting Chester in a double bill. Oh Come All Ye Faithful and be on the sidelines for what should be two swell games. Bishopvllle Couple Married Here Mrs. Clifford K. Carnes annources the marriage of her daughter, Dorothy Evelyn. to Mr. John Henry Ellen, Jr., December 10, by the Reverend R. Bryce Herbert, In Camden.?Bishopville Messenger. It's better to have your wife find a letter In your pocket that you forgot to mail than one you forgot to burn. Chamber Expresses Views On Defense (Continued from first page) irading of more warships for additional naval and air bases; lqttlng England have wai* materials and supplies as an outright gift; making $100,000,000 available to China fro strategic war materials; aid to Greece in the form of airplanes and other materials; the holding of the big stick of embargo as ?h- best course of action to takj In respect to Japan; continuance of the present course now being followed in regard to American relations, with South American countries; against sending food to the Ave small democracies of .Europe, additional appropriations by Congress for expanding tho work of the Federal Bureau of In\estigation; and a decided emphasis against recent labor strikes. Tho Chamber and City also expressed sentiment in favor of relaxation of labor laws In defense Industries, approval of the selective service system; and in reply to tho question: "Do you know of any civilian activity in your community which is an example of outstanding patriotism or aid to National Defense", the Chamber replied: "We are probably not unique in being unanimously in favor of the defense progTam." The Chamber admits criticism In tho progress that Is being made In the National Defense Program and frankly says: "Most of the people agree we should work seven days a week } add get rid of the C. I. O." TRUC# CROP8 YIELD CA8H * . ? Frank Black, whoso business It Is to keep track for Undo Sam of agri. cultural statistics In South Carolina., finds that 14 truck crops grown for shipping this year brought $5,429,* 000; which was 8 per cent, above the sales for 1.939, and 7 per cent, above the average for the 10 years 1929-38." Yielding more revenue to the grower this year than last were lima beans, fall snap beans, beets, fall cabbage, cantaloupes, lettuce, green peas, green peppers and early Irish potatoes. "Unusually good prices for Jettuce, coupled with a high yield per acre, rendered the income of $180,000 from this crop more than double the usual." Below-average revenue accrued ; from aspuragus, spring siiap beans, cucumbers, tomatoes^nd watermelons. The return from Irish potatoes, though hut 5 per cent, above average, was up! 26 per cent, from that for 1939, Green peas brought in $180,000 which was 17 per cent, above average and 59 par cent, above the receipts In 1939. The spring cabbago crop was "almost a failure," the Income from It being "only about a third of the usual amount." A cool late spring was unfavorable for asparagus, and the prices were low, so that the return from that crop was a third below last year's and 43 per cent, below average. Watermelons brought $408,000 compared with $459,000 In 1939. "The crop was somewhat larger but the price per melon less." The total area from which these major truck crops were harvested was 87,550 acres, compared with 85,300 in 1939 and a 10 year average of 71,700 acres. These figures roughly Indicate the variety and extent of commercial truck gardening In South Carolina; a larger Interest than many citizens of the state realize.?Columbia State. TO PROBE COLUMBIA VICE SITUATION Columbia, Jan. 4?A committee of five was named last night to Investigate the vice situation in Columbia after officials told a civic meeting that commercial prostitution^ here was increasing with the growth of Fort Jaokson. The committee consist^ of J. Macfle Anderson, Dr. William "Weston, Jr., the Rev. F. Ray Riddle, Irvine E. Belser and Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer. Col. T. E. Scott of the Fort Jackson medical corps urged strenuous measures to "get rid of prostitution", adding that there was "an awful lot of venereal disease here." One military officer said that he believed houses of prostitution controlled by military authorities could be kept relatively free of disease, but another expressed the opinion ihat public houses of prostitution, even if supervised, were still not safe. Adults Also Like Fairy Tale Plays (continued from first page) and sense entirely different meanings in the dialogue and action." Commenting upon her interpretation of "Alice" as a character, Mrs. Major said: "I always assume thai the whimsical Alice is dreaming, and reacts to 1 physical impossibilities with the true' degree of apathy of all children who] dream. Alice's mental processes, as 11 have directed her in my play, reflect, j .1 believe, the true processes of a: child's subconscious mind. As the! fantasy proceeds, Alice may be speak-j lng her lines while a scene is being shifted, but Alice remains blissfully i unaware of this, although it may bet 'the very means of transporting her to' the Magic Garden. "Basically, my methods of stage direction are the result of many years of close observation and study of! children. I believe that most children live In a dream world all their own, aj world peopled with men, women, children and animals capable of accomplishing Herculean tasks without mussing so piuch as a hair. This is easily explained by the face that being totally unaware of life's complexities,1 the child's mind neither fears or re-J spects mundane obstacles. The whimsy of Alice Is the universal whimsy of all children In caricature. 'Most adults are partly immature and are seeking escape from reality. Is it any wonder, therefore, that Alice appeals to youngsters and grown-ups of both sexes?" The Children's Theatre founder announced that the local sponsors of the play have solved the attendance problem by the simple expedient of reserving enough seats to accommodate the prospective juvenile audience. It required 47 days for the news of one Chinese earthquake, in which 70,000 persons were killed, to reach telegraphic communication lines and be cabled to the western world. Nobody's Business Written for Th? Chronicle by McQoe, Copyright, 1028, FLAT ROCK L03ES A VALUABLE CITIZEN ?inr. early byixl has returned back to the farm, ho moved hlsaelf and wife Into flat rock about 3 years hence ant! went^nto the retail grocery biznesa. allao gaasolooii and auto supplies. he fetched 500$ In cash with him when ho ventured Into the merehantlle world, when ho moved baek to his mother-in-law's farm laat week, he had o75 In caah,, 2 dozen bad chocks, a *book' full of bad uccounta, and plenty of experience. ?inr, byrd waa a verry useful cllUon when he first landed in our littlo town, ho sung In the quire at rohobor and prayed in publick at prayor-mootiilgs on short not is. he allao hope to got tho mud-hole in front of th? post offla filled up and tried to get a w. p. a- project to pavo our streets, his publick sperrlt did not last verry long, he soon began to keep his tilling station open on Sundays and from then on, he gradually back-slid. ?inr. byrd . liked everybody at first and everyboddy like him at first, after ho got 400$ on his books, manny of his frionds who owod him began to talk about his charracter. folks who paid cash for what they bought continued to think well of him regardless of the wild gossips, it did not help him%nyy when bo built 2 little houses in (tie rear of his store and called his place^h? "byrd cage toorist camp" with running water. ?nice folks and tuffs soon rulnt his patronage, they would come to his place to do all of their loud talking and heavy drinking, he did not sell annything verry strong hlsself, but he got creddiok for doing so. the people who don& him the most harm were his local customers, ho charged c50 per night for his "cages" with mattress and everything throwed in, but if more than one person slept in same, he charged c50 per head extry. goodbye, early, we hope you will return back to vlsslt us often. yores trulie, miko lark, rfd, corry apondont GENERAL NEW8 ITEMS FROM FLAT ROCK ? a large number of flssical changes will be made in our little town around the beginning of the new year, holsum moore and his familey will move with his wife's ma's folks for a few weeks, they have sold out to the f. h. a. ho says he didn't understand their terms ansoforth when he dealt with them two years ago. they plan to build a pallatial home on main street next summer If monney gets easier. ?hudson rivers will migrate back to the farm for the fifth time, he moved into flat rock a year ago and went into the grocery biznessi he called his stoar the ''peeples emporium." the people got it in 12 months, so he named it correctly, he could not make the grade onner count of his customers had .too manny weekly and monthly installments to meet, they used his monney to meet them wi'h. from now on, he says, his name will be inr. farmer, as bad as farming is, it "aint huff as bad as selling groceries on creddiok to dick, torn and harry, 'according to statistieks. % 1 - rev. will waite has on a new Fuit. it was givven him as a xinus pressent. it Is a nice suit, one of his elders give it to him. lie had wore it only 3 years (off and on) and it was almost as good as new, so his wife said, and it newer did fit him verry well, so ho donated it to his pasture, rev. waite has not complained about the coat being a 42?he wears a 38, and the britches being 40 in tho waist while his waist lino is only 34 in circumference. he had them cut off, and used the 6 inches from them t6 patch the seat, he looks verry nice at about 200 yards. ?dr. hubbert green had tho usual number of patients enduring the hollidays. they ranged all the'" way from blowed-off fingers to busted skulls, the garrage man has benn verry bizzy, allso towing in wrecks, the undertaker allso enjoyed a brisk trade: he laid away two fast drivers and one slow pedestrian, no nattural deaths took place, the drunken drivers did not get killed, but are still in tho ward no. 3 and the hos-splttle yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent Industrial research in the United States durng 1938 involved the expenditure of $200,000,000 by 2,000 individual companies and employed 32,000 scientist* and engineers. ? AMERICAN RUHR Wo have Jttst returned from a work's vacation our first in a year-? and trip through the Tennessee Valley into Nashville. llecauau wo wcim profoundly impressed by what wo found In our neighbor state, and because wo fool that South Carolina could well profit by Tennessee's example, wo would like to touch briefly on some of the developments we noticed. First of all. it seems to this department that Tennessee's status as a doubtful state, with a hard-working and respected Republican party in almost'every hamlet over the state, has given her immense returns from government projects and subsidies. The TV A is the largest of these, and there is no minimizing the purely regional advantages of that project. What it will mean to the nation as a whole, which will have to foot the bill, Is another matter. We are speaking only of the Immediate region affected by this tremendous project. The week we were in Tennessee wo viHitod several booming new Industries which we would have Hiked to bring back to Greenville and to this state with us. Vulteo Aircraft Co. Is constructing a tremendous airplane plant at Nashville to make military aircraft?when comploted the plant will employ about S.000 skilled, highlypaid workers. At Tullahoina, about 60 miles away, a camp that Is eventually to house upwards of 40,000 men Is being constructed at a cost of about $14,000,000. Whllo there, we heard that Milan was to get a $15,000,000 shell-loading plant that will employ 7,000 men. Alcoa Aluminum Is constructing a mammoth new plant for aluminum production near Columbia. A big rayon plant la being rushed to completion at Nashville. Du Pont la expanding. These are but a few of tho many] new Industries and government pro-! jects that are going to Tennessee, There will be others?for the Tennessee Valley now calls itself tho Ruhr of America, and alms to live upj to it. I Meanwhile, South Carolina gets no new Industries, one small replacementj camp and the expansion of another, while Greenville gets absolutely nothing. What Tennessee has done this state could (lo. The primary objective of government in Tennessee is to operate on a business-like basis?to stabilize! state finances and maintain the sort of government that will attract new enterprise. She has a legislature that J meets every other year, and dis-i patches Its business In about 40 days' and a governor who understands business. Add to that the already men-! tioned polltcial toxin of uncertainty,; J and you understand why Tennessee I payrolls are going up. Contrast It | with political conditions in South Car| olina, with high taxes, uncertain legislative policies and an in-the-hag Dem| ocratlc electorate, and you understand 'why South Carolina's payrolls are stationary.?-Greenville Observer. ' I OUTLOOK FOR HOQ8 GOOD FOR PRODUCERS CJemson. Jan. 4?'The hog outlook (or 1941 has this slgnffletioeo* for South Carolina farmers, says O. M (.'lurk. ox tension oconomst: It la favosa bio for tho puraon who haa hoga to soil but considerably moro unfavorable for the$person who hua moat to buy. Prices of hogs and hog pro* ducts will quite likely bo blgbor in 1941 than In 1940. Explaining bis forecast, Mr. (Mark continue; largely bocauso of tho rolativoly, low prlco of hogs as compared with tho price of corn in 1989, the spring' pig crop of 1940 was considerably smaller than that of the year before, t Judging from breeding Intentions as reppytod by farmers about June 1. tho number of sows and gilts to farrow during tho fall will ho considerably smaller than the number farrowing1 last fall. Tho total 1940 pig crop for the country as a whole is expected to bo about 10 percent smaller than tho, 1939 pig crop. Consequently, the slaughter supplies' of hogs during tho 1940-41 season will be considerably smaller than the' large supplies of the year be-! fore. With smaller supplies of hoga and stronger domestic consumer < demands for meats, the present Pali-, cations are that the average level of bog prices during tho 1940-41 season I (October 1, 1940-September 30, 1941)i will be materially higher than during' the previous season. The reduction In tho pig crop in South Carolina now appears greater than for the country as a whole. The spring crop was 21 porcen.t less than the spring crop of 1939, and the indicative number of sows to farrow during the fall Is 24 per cent loss than tho number farrowed during the fall of 1939. Give Him The Limit He hod Just been appointed Judge, and was his first day on the bench. | His first case was a bootlegger. A I little uncertain as to what penalty to inflict, ho excused himself a minute, went outside and called uu old Judge aside. "Judge," he said, "I've got a bootlegger in there and I don't know what to give him." The old Judge scowled and replied: f'Don't give him over four dollars for the stuff! never do!" EVZONE8 ARE GREEK 'LADIE9 FROM HE?_L' Washington. 1). C.?Dispatches havo reported almost dully vtctortos for Greece's colorful mountain troops, called ovzonos. who wear tho the* pleat o<l, ballot-skirted fuatAnolla, which Is one of tho characteristic national costumes of the ./modern Hollonee. "A familiar .sight to visitors in Athens Is the sprucely' uniformed evzones (f.ron\ tho Greek for 'wellgin.iled' who stund guard before tho king's residence, at the Tomb of the I'nknown Soldier, and at the Ministry of war," says a bulletin from the National Geographic Society. "(Mad in their stiff, white linen or cotton skirls, ahprl embroidered sleeveless Jackets, long white woolen hose held up by suspenders, tasselod fezes and heelless red leather pumps with pompous on their tapering toes, those special troops bed+w the apparent femininity of tho(r trliu^^eos t u m o. Selected for his stature, looks, and military bearing, an evzonakl of tho royal guard enjoys much greater prestige than the ordinary soldier, "Tho Hellenic kilt has been tho iradltonal garb of the peasants of northwestern Greece for centuries. In recent years, there havo been live regular regiments of evzones In tho Greek army, mostly recruited from tho up and down section whore tho costume la commonest for everyday woar. Organized as light infantry rifle, units, the ovzonos excel at tho type of guerilla warfare which has been tag* lag la tho rugged terrain of tho Albanian frontier since the Italian invasion attempt began. "Trained snipers, these independent mountaineers know every strategic nook and cranny in their rough native land. Their Instinctive uso of whatever scrap of cover tho country may afford Is partly a 'hangover' from days when bandit groups roamed the region. Years of shepherding their flocks in tho highlands havo made them familiar with the ways at woodcraft and outdoor life under all conditions. "For dross wear and Jn summer, the white fustanella, made of 47 triangular double pieces of fabric gathered to a broad girdle,' is worn alone. But In wlntor, for1 campaigning In wet and i snowy weather, a heavy blue or khaki overcoat, or tunlc-kllt, tightly belted and with a short, flaring skirt Is worn over the fustanella, and, In fact, looks like more buslnesHllko version of the voluminous white 'petticoat.' 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