The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 10, 1941, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Cruising
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Around !;
with
"Skipper"
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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."
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Swell game of polo dished up by the
Jackets and the Ramblers. Only eeven
goals, lowest this season. Beautiful
riding and smart defensive play.
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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.
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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
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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.
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- 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.'
"Of course, the Greek army as a
whole is predominantly dressed in a
conventional typo of military uniform."
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