Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Z IF WRONG NUMBERS YON WOULD SHUN, 5 S (U TELL yea HOT It CAN BE PONS: Z 7 BEFORE EACH CALL REFER TO MB, S ? AND DON'T RELY ON MEMORY/ " 5 A.VOID the annoyance of {getting wrong numbers. Whenever you have the slight- JIL est doubt about a number, look it up in rf Attm. )u) the directory. It will save you time in the long run. * HUMOR ON THE FARM Some scientist has discovered that farmers seldom laugh. Ho has also discovered why ihoy aro not given to outbursts of mirth. His thooty is that their environment makes them sober minded. WorkiuK alone In the open holds, fuCe to face with nature, he thinks, nuturally makes men serious. Hut a farmer friend of ours does not agree with this scientific' chup. He has unoiher explanation fiir LliiL peculiarity which the professor thinks he has found in tillers of the soil. This Is what he has to say concerning it: ' Ho may be "'ght in spots. Hut communing with nature ain't wtiat keeps me from laughing. It is that darned old red steer that gets in the garden at exactly the wrong time; that old spot ted cow that kicks when you milk her; that blamed white mule that can jump tho moon; along u.'tk "forty million cockleburs; fourteen thousand,chores, besides trimming the hedge fence and cutting the sprouts out of the new ground. And. too. a four months drought in growing time and a fourteen inch rain at gathering time don't hatch grins very fast. "Take that old white mule, for in* stain*". That mule won't never t?ay put Hut him jfn the burn and when you coino .-4jaelt he's iu the pasture. Put him lit the pasture and when you coint.! back he's in somobody olso's pasture. "When wo fro I ready to stdrt to town last wo ok I Bald to tho old woman: 'I'll stall that <1 rated mule for onoe.' I put him In the smoke house and nailed up tho door. There is Just one window in the smoke houso and it is ten feet from tho lloor. "When we came back that blasted mule was in the middle of Johnson's cornfield?with that window sash around ills nock. ".Now a?town?man?would?have laughed his fool head off about it. But by the time I got four hired men to help me run that beast across four fields and corner it and had paid Johnson four dollars, there wasn't a grin on my face as big as the wrinkle on an egg shell. 'No sir, tho reason there ain't no laughter on tho farm Is because there uln't call for it." _ FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that one month from tills date, on March 4. 1941. I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of (lie estate of Mrs. Julia T. Truosdalo, deceased, nncl on tho same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as .-aid Administrator. SHK1JIV C. TKCRSDACK. Administrator. Camden, S. C., February 4, 15)41. Buck Newsom Highest Paid Hurler Detroit, Jan. 32?Your voluble old pal, l<oulo (Buck) Newaoin, who pitches baseball for the Detroit Tigers, now seems to have the authority for his biggest boast of all, and Buck baa to keep niient. Reliable sources disclosed today that Newaoni?not Bob Feller of the the Cleveland Indiana?foaa becontb the highest paid iwirler In the game's history at a salary in exeeaa of $30,000. Buck will draw pay chocks for that tidy huiu for tho 1941 season. in keeping with an' unwritten law of tho Tiges that salaries are never mentioned publicly. Newaon won't suy a word it was established, nowover. ihut Buck will draw a fancier salary than that to bo paid Felior, whom tho Indians signed yesterday for a reported $30,000. Winner of 13 stright games and a world series star, Newsom in 1940 enjoyed his finest season in a long career In the big leagues. lie won L'l and lost five during tho regular season and, in pitching 2t>4 innings, was surpassed only by Feller, John ltlgney of the White Sox and Dutch Leonard of Washington. Owner Waltor O. Briggs of tho Tigers, reiK?rted to be baseball'a highest paying club owner, has let it bo known that ho puys off "on performance." With Newsom given a boost, Hank Greonberg is likely to retain his reported $3t>,000, and rewards to others due for lite 1910 championship, the Tiger salary index apparently is on tho uptrend. FIRST NEGRO AIR SQUADRON WILL BE AT SAVANNAH, GA. Washington, Jan. 17?The 3rd avia?! tioti squadron, composed of approxlcruits, will bo stationed at the army air corps. Savannah, Ga.. flold officials said today. Because recruits under tho selective service program aro scheduled for only one year's training, the air corps said the members of this squadron probably would be trained only in ground duties such as repairs and maintenance of the post and the' alrplanos, and would receive no flying instruction. ?Organization of the first negro squadron in the air corps, a pursuit squadron to be stationed eventually at Tuakegee, Ala., was announced yesj[ toixlay by tho War department. Both pilots and ground crews of this squadron will be negroes.,.. Kansas still yields numerous fossils of sea creatures, which f-rovos that the state once was under water. U. 8. IMPROVING AIR LINE8 IN 80UTH AMERICA Miami, Fla.. Jau. 24?HuiuInmIs of men hauling dirt far In the Interior of Brazil with crude hammock# made of bull#' hide* have Juat completed a Job which, oddly enough, 1# i>art of the governmental-industrial drive of th? United States toward hemisphere solidarity. v In the toee of what the Roosevelt administration pictures as an axis threat to the military and economic autonomy of the new world, the need auddouly arose for faster communication between the North and South American continents. Fast airplane schedules already were la operation, but?official Washington believed -faster ones were imperative. Axis military successes bolstered tho position in Latin America of axis business men and particularly that of axis airlines, which form a complicated net work fanning outward to the north, south and west from Illo De Janeiro. More, perhaps, than any othoV instruments, the airplane In Latin America 1? used for propaganda Pur* JH>SOB. * I Airline schedules had brought the Barzillan capital to within four and a | hair days of Miami, aerial gateway to ! the south, and Buenos Aires to within five and a half days, Since 1934 Pan American Airways engineers had been working on a project to use landplanes across the vast "hump" of Brazil, a flying distance of more than 1,500 miles, or twice that from New York to Chicago, fourengtned flying boats had to take the long way around, via Natal, stretching 2.600 miles eastward of New York. But such long-range cross-country flying, cutting a full day from the travel time between North and South ports for fueling and emergency use. The route lay partly o>er a great, un?xplored Hinterland, partly over the world's second largest cotton producing area. It abutted the world's largest Iron ore reserve. The completion of two projects enabled the airways company to inaugurate service over Brazil's cut off between Beiam , Para, at the broad mouth of the Amazon, and Rio De Janeiro. One was tho construction of fourengine landplanes for 200-mile-an-hour schedules between Miami aud Port of Spain, 'IT in dad?just off the northeastern coast of South America?and Belem via San Juan, Puerto Rico. j The other was the completion of a major airport at Barrelras, midway between IVelem and Rio De Janeiro. The four-engine transport was a comniei"cial adaptation of an already well-proved United States heavy bomber, so the airport problem was the major of the two projects. Barrelras was isolated. It could be reached only during two months of the year by weeks of travel for 1,100 miles up tho Rio San Francisco and one of its tributaries, Brazil's Rio Grande. A labor supply had to be created. Machinery had to bo brought in. Fuel had to be stored. If the route was feasible, it would cut 1.000 miles off the travel distance li+nweon Miami and ltio. Do Janeiro. The site was selected for the refuelin-; airport was on top of a plateau. A road had to he cut to its top, and hundreds of tons of dirt had to bo hauled for the construction of a runway a mile long and a fifth of a mile wide. The natives used bull hide hammocks to carry the dirt. A tractor, brought up the rivers In the flood season, was lost overboard. Pan American's workmen fished it out. scrubbed off the mud and used it to put the finishing touches on tho field. Find. lOO.OOO gallons of it, was ferried up tho waterway and stored underground. An administration building and housing for 20 permanent employes were constructed. When everything was finished, tho resident crew had not only running water but electricity : and refrigeration as well. Arrangements were made to fly in fruits, vegetables and meats regularly. Today, the Brazilian cutoff is being flown three times a week by Douglas transports, specially equipped and safeguarded by a dozen emergency fields stretching north and south from Barrleras. The parrots, tort^sos, reptiles and birds of prey are found to he the longest-lived inmates of tho I^ondon zoo. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ. laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw. tender inflamed bronchial/ mucous membranes: Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION For Coughs, Chost CoMs, Bronchitis ? m . COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS - liy Spectator It is said that Governor Talmadge hopes to save five million dollar* in salaries. I know nothing of politic# in Georgia, and aa an outsider, would not presume to discuss in detail what is outside my scope of activities. It is an arresting proposal, however, for most of our States, and certainly our National Government, have under* taken so many new services, with so many new agencies, that it Is refreshing to follow any serious study which may bo made anywhere to introduce ufficiont economy into public administration. Governor Mayfbank again recommends use of Highway revenue for genoral State purposes. The day before the Governor delivered his address, Speaker Blatt, Chairman Jefferies and Senator Brown apoke for economy and retrenchment, hut against diversion of gasoline revenues. So the session opened with leaders of both Senate and House standing pat and tjio Governor renewing the fight ho has lost twice by decisions otf the Supreme Court. It may be confidently predicted that tho Legislature will not pass a third diversion bill. As a matter of law 1 don't see just where the Governor can break down the I Court's decision. Although courts have been known to change, still it is hardly sound financing to count on this court changing. For the Legislature to pass a third diversion bill as the method of paying a deficit would be too risky, In view of two clear decisions of the Supreme Court. Whether we agree with the Court or I not, It is the Court, and its decisions aro tho law of the State. If the Governor had proposed an additional cent, making the tax on gasoline eight cents, that would have bedfrv'T think, thoroughly sound In law, but equally -unsound economically; for any oner who suggests using gasoline taxes for ordinary State purposes ought to be willing to advocate a sales tax on everything. Even a one cent tax on gasoline Is more than a seven per cent commodity tax. Why should we make a poor mechanic, or capenter, or farmer, or clerk, or school teacher, or minister, or salesman, or country doctor pay a seven per cent commodity tax for general purposes, including welfare? Governor Maybank did not take to the suggestion that he use the power conferred by law to prevent a deficit; and his Budget Commission recommends even more money for next year than is bringing on a de.'ict now. Here are two suggestions: Organized Business proposed two months ago that expenditures be reduced, as the law authorizes. The Governor proposes that we spend more in spite of tho deficit, and again recommends diversion. Does not this problem simplify Itself into a plain case of reducing tho spending? legislators like to hear from the people back home. Most of these gentlemen wish to do what their constituents want done; they are sensitive to popular sentiment and responsive to the popular will, if the popular sentiment and will are clearly indicated. If the people from the counties don't show a lively interest they may he sure that there will be men and women in Columbia who will try every kind of plan or strategy to persuade legislators. I don't mean that citizens of Columbia aro lobbyists; rather that men and women with r.xes to grind will come to Columbia. The hotels and boarding houses, the cafes and cafeterias, and the State Capitol will be full of .men and women seeking this, that or the other; or, by tho same token, opposing something. There will be parties and frolics paid for by those who want something; or by those who aro trying to defeat some proposal. The hidden hand, the insidious influence of parties, favors ?and all that which is active in Wash! ington and all State Capitals is l.ot unknown in Columbia. Every honorable cause can be presented to tho legislature openly. It needs no special favor, no chicanery, no pull. There are?and have always been?men of the highest principles in our law-making body. They would exert themselves vigorously to br^l mutter* into tfce open forum, if ev*zl ? suggestion of wrong-doing made or hinted Besides, we havHa free, clean yross, and radio ststio^ with a fine sense of public ?o,V|l0 I If, during this session, we hear X, Y, ? and Q are "throwing it,|Uo.B parties" at any hotel, club, ewi#|l. place, or park, it shoukl he notice i0| all that thoae.who seek tht! ar in this manner are trying |!fl debauch us or to soil ?onu>tiiinK n Isn't worth the price. *9 Nothing so Impairs the <'<>nfuu>n m |of the public as the rumois of ii,,UOfl parties (luring the legislature, rumors unay be worse thau the actu9 Itles, but the effect Is so serious oaf the public mind that, those |V J respeot public opinion should try tgfl he not only above reproach, but aliS j at>oye suspicion. Measures are to bo debated otr which opinion will be sharply divided, notable among them the question of the sale of liquors, When such qu^ tlonS are pending one hears quite a lot about free liquor, liquor parties -and* all sorts of free entertainment. We should solve our public questions -Aith cq)d sobriety and independence. A manual is provided for our leg!#, lators, a very belprul compendium it Is, tolling not only tho names, home addresses and Columbia address^ 0f the Senators and Representative#, but giving tho rules of procedure. One other feature might be made a part of this informative little book: it would be a chapter reprinting section) of the National and State Constitution# and Statutes of the State which touch on members of tho General Assembly. For members who are not lawyer# this would be worth something: and oven lawyers don't remember all the law all the time. Recently a thoughtful member of the House proposed that a resolnHnn should be passed providing that the Ways and Means Committee of the House and tho Finance Committer of the Senate should hold joint session# on the general appropriation bill. More recently we are told that the new Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee proposed joint sessions In order to expedite matters. What Impresses me Is that during many year#' there has been a statute, a law of tho State, which requires joint sessions of these Committees, but which, apparently, was not known to the two Committees. It must be assumed, of course, that every one will respect the law; and among all the lawyers who' have sat on the two Committees since that law was passed it makes a layman wonder why some one did not ^ cite this Statute before. We lawyers j like to tell the laymen that ignorance of the law Is no excuse; so what exeuse have the lawyers? Here is the Statute: "The standing committees of the House of Representatives and of the Senate, being in charge of appropriation measures, shall sit jointly in open sessions while considering the budget, and shall begin such joint meetings within five days after the budget has been submitted to the General Assembly." (Code of Haws of South Carolina (1932) Section 3220). At any rate, ! Chairman Jeffries has the full support of the law in suggestiong joint ' sessions of the two Committees charged with preparing the appropriation bilL ; Not for tho purpose 1 of "starting anything", nor even of stopping anything I mention what judges and iawprofessors like to say?that the lair is a jealous mistress and must have a lawyer's undivided attention. The law sometimes is clear enough,' In spite of the most astute efforts to be-" cloud It. 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