The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 09, 1941, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
Nobody's Business
written for Ths Chronicle by Gee
McOee, Copyright, 1928.
A TRIP TQPLORIDA AND CUBA
IN' 12 PART8
(Pjrt N|,nt)
After sightseeing Key West with
j,a ltoosevelt Avenue (almost brand
wo boarded the 8. 8. Cuba for
Havana. Tbe weather was fine and
windy. You ??uld 8tay on <leck ok by
wrapping yourself around the rail.
There were about 400 other persona
on this boat apparently wasting their
t u ditors' money Just as wo wore. Wo
bought a state-room... .which was
extra, much to our suprlse. We found
it a mighty nice place to stay seasick
in. The old lady and the grandson
couldn't stand the rolling of tho ship
and thereby missed one of the bedt
meals 1 have had the pleasure of
meeting since I loft home (?).
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The owners of the 8. 8. Cuba saved
at least 250 meals that the passengers
couldn't "take in." About 50 per cent
of tho 150 that were disposed to eat
and live felt so sorry for the fishes
shortly thereafter, they, too, had to
ttct oft tho boat emptor..., in -Havana
l guess I'm too Btlngy to get sea-sick, j
If i have to pay $1.60 for a dinner I'm
going to eat it and see that it stays et.
Two different couples sat down for
lunch at my table, but after sipping 3
sips each of the mock-turtle soup,
they took quiok leave of the Immediate
neighborhood. That gave mo 5
dinners to eat all - by myself. (The
waiter said "Yes, go ahead; one person's
loss Is another person's gain").
?Judging from the way some JoUm
who are sea-sick look at you, It must
be a terrible affliction. One lady said
sho'd just as soon be dead and get
through with it. They say you first
get weak at the stummick, then your
head begins to twirl around, and then
your liver feels like It has turned
over,, and your gall-bladder chokes
down and your heart commences to
back-fire. Your breath gets short
and your pulse speeds ups. You are
in real danger, but everybody - who
gets sea-sick he or she or it is going
to die. Most folks want to make a
will before they give up the ghost. 1
had never seen so many folks mad at
me before at one time: they didn't
like It because I refused to get seasick
too.
?If you've never had any experience
with customs officials, you have got
something to live for. Thej| have investigated
my stuff many different
times, but they don't seem to improve
any in their habits. They root everything
you've got out of your trunks
and bags, then stir the stuff up,
grabble around in it, tousel it here
and mash it there, and after they have
got it scattered all over the counters,
they stick a little stamp on your bags
and walk off without even saying
thank you, or good-bye. They ought
to be able to look at me and decide
that I ain't got sense enough to smuggle
anything in...much lees out. A
TRIP TO FLORIDA (AND COG A) <
IN 12 PARTS
(Part Ton)
?The necessary habit or practices of
tipping is mighty hard on the purse
of a fellow who hqs to work for a living.
When we left our hotel in Miami,
we tipped the boy (50c mebbe) for
fetching our 5 bags down stairs from
room 555. He put them down near
the Cashier's Desk and left town,
apparently. Anyway, when we look
(Hi around to toll him to put the said !
hags In our outsdte, he had
vamoosed, went, loft, and disappeared.
Another tip (50c) went to his substitute
who placed our things where
they belonged in the back of the car.
When we handed him what we call a
large piece of money he frowned like
he thought we were tight-wads, and
he possibly had something there.
?We stopped down Tthe street and
tipped a parking meter 6c bo's we
could eat breakfast; and our waiter
was dad-blamed pretty, we simply had
to tip her 30c. And her sister who
kept our hats and coats while we were
eating orange juice and drinking
scrambled eggs and coffee, soaked us
for 30c on the way out. We finally
landed at the docks In Key West
where the S. S. Cuba was waiting us:
(wasn't that nice of them?). We tipped
the garage man 25c for transferring
our baggage to a taxi en route
to the ship. (We stored our car in
Key West). We paid $1.60 for a 25cent,
taxi trip to the steamer.... in a
1931 Dodge.
?We were dumped a few yards frpm
the gang-plank or walk-way. A guy
toted our stuff along while agent after
agent and Inspector after inspector
examined our tickets, immigration
cards, eyes, ears, nose, throats,
berth scrips, and F. B. I.d pa for 25
minutes. We tipped this shrimp (the
baggage toter) 35c. He handed our
stuff to a ship he-male; chamber-maid.
He anchored our 'belongings near the
.office of the Purser. ,We got in line
and were finally "purs-ed". Another
man grabbed our key and wordly
goods and made a bee-line for Suite
"C'. He got 50c. We then sat down
and rested a little while. ,
?After most of the folks feot sea-sick,
we arrived In Havanna. The room
steward looked mighty mean when
we handed him $1. for doing nothing
for us all night except switching on
a light when ,we entered. Another
white-coat took our bags to the customs
inspector and got 60c for his
trouble. After we were proved innocent
of smuggling, a Cuban that chattered
fiercely, took our property to the
edge of the building for only 20c per
item, and handed it to another chump
who carried It to a cheap ($) <taxl for
only 35c. We were disembarked from
the 1929 Buick, and the fellow who
carried our badly scarred bags Into
GssteL ?ot 25c. Tfts
fellow who escorted us and our personal
holdings to thb room got 25c.
We rang for ice-water and gave,that
delivery kid 10c, and then we fainted.
Both our pocketbood and ourselves
were "tipsy." after this tipping experience.
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Every year malaria-bearing mosquitoes
are responsible for the deaths
of between two and three million
people. ' . '
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HIN80N COWS MAKE I
MEW OFFICIAL RECORDS
Peterborough. N. H., May 1?Two
Guernsey cows owned by J. 8. Illation
of Kershaw, South Carolina have just '
finished new official records for* pro- >
iluctlou which outltlos thorn to entry ;
in the Advanced Register of The j
American Guernsey Cattle Club. |
These animals include 2 year old Hin* |
Bon May Bell 629618 producing 10530.3
pounds of milk and 628.2 pounds of
butterfat In class GG, and 2 year old ,
II in son's Elaine 694763 producing
10431.1 pouuds of^ndlk ajwt" 526.3 j
pounds of butterfatjJjTasa G.
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" IT'S YO?
NATfiHElS
S/D DKWSSEK.
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ag Qide Iressing your row
S O and hill crops with
f Natural Chilean Nitrate
of Soda is the ideal
~m method of supplying
quick-acting nitrate at
the exact time they
M need it.
It contains 16% nitrogen
:J and small amounts of
ik other "vitamin" plant
:Ayam
food elemfents, such as
boron, iodine, calcium,
n\ahganc?e, magnesium
and many more.
For over a century
farmers have preferred
Natural Chilean Nitrate |||
of $oda. It is the time- -9
tested nitrate for every 9
II" Sturm You GH ... NATURAL
CHILEAN I
NITKATS Of SODA j
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Fertilizer Economies Save Farmers 1
More Than $200,000,000 A Year
| Survey Shorn $8,60 For Each Dollar Spent For Fertilizer.
Washington, D. C.?Lower prices
' for fertilisers due to industry economies
have saved farmers $200,000,000
a year, acording to government analysis
made by A. L. Mehring of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture who shows
that the sharp downward trend of fertiliser
prices since 1880 was interrupted
only during the period of the
last war; when, due to our country's
dependence at that time on foreign
supplies, prices rose sharply. After
that they again resumed their downward
trend. At the same time the
industry made the nation self-sufficient
and no longer largely dependent
?0bn foreign sources of supply.
"Prices dropped sharply during the
depression and have never recovered
to the extent that other commodities
have. As a result of this fact, fer
tilizer prices today give the farmer
real parity for his dollar," says
Charles J. Brand, Executive Secretary
and Treasurer of The National Fertilizer
Association. "Prices received by
farmers for their products today
would have to go up 21 per cent to
reach parity with what farmers pay
for all commodities which they buy.
But, so far as fertilizer is concerned,
the^ picture is different. The present
price of fertilizer is so low that it
gives the farmer, instead of a 21 per
cent handicap, a 6 per cent advantage
on every dollar he spends for fertilizer."
Returns from a recent survey of
82,000 farmers show that an investment
in low-priced fertilizers yields
high returns. An average of $8.60 ;
returned for each $1.00 which they !
spent for fertilizer.
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James W. Floyd
Found Dead in Auto
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.. Rock Hill, April 24?James Winfleld
Floyd, 27, was found dead In his automobile
In a parking lot at the Rock
Hill Printing and FJnlshlng company
about 6:30 o'clock today.'.
Mr. Floyd, an employe of the Printing
and Finishing company, was to
have gone to work about 7 O'clock. It
was reported by employes arriving at
about the same time, that he drove
Into the lot, got out and wiped his
windshield and then got back into the (
car apparently to wait until time to
go into the plant. Shortly afterward
it was noticed that he was sitting with (
his head back on the seat of the car (
and Investigation revealed that~ he ^
was dead. Death was believed to ,
have been caused by a heart attack.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary {
Allan Floyd; his parents, Johnson ]
Floyd and Mrs. Sims Floyd of Ker- j
shaw, and two sisters, Mrs. Lewis ]
Rheames of Indlanttown, Fla., and i
Miss Elsie Floyd of Kershaw. . j
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CLYBURN COW COMPLETES * '
NEW OFFICIAL RECORD '
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Peterborough, N. H. May 1?A new
record, exceeding the average of the
Guernsey breed for her age and class '
has just been completed by a two
year old cow Clyhurn's Don's Honey- ^
moon 615711 of Kershaw, South Carolina,
tested and owned by C. F. Clyburn.
Her official record supervised
by the Clemson Agricultural College ~
and announced by* the American 1
Guernsey Cattle., Club is 10002.4 J
pounds of milk and 470.6 pounds of
butter fat, class GO.
c
HEBE'S HOW TRAINEES
SPEND $21 A MONTH
Just what does a North or South
Carolina, Georgia or Tennessee Selective
Service man do with his $21 a
month pay?
An extensive survey was recently
conducted revealing that a majority
of the 6,000 selectees in training with
the 30th Division at Fort Jackson
carefully budget their monthly pay.
The first thing a new soldier does
when his company commander has
handed him his $21 is -to hand $2 of
It right back.y This pays for his laundry
for the month which is picked up
weekly and done on a contract basis.
The soldier now has $19 left, a
spending allowance of sixty-three
cents a day. The usual soldier's budget
of this sum goes something like
this:
Four nights in Columbia where he
will have a fifty cent dinner followed
t>y a movie at forty-five cents and an
after movie snack at twenty-five cents.
Pare to the city and return runs about
Lwenty-five cents unless the soldier
goes in a taxi with three other buddies
then his fare will go up to fifty
cents. Total cost of the evening runs
ibout $1.50. If he does this four
nights a month, he spends $6.
" With his remaining $13, a soldier
averages twenty cents a night at the
post exchange where he buys soft
drinks, cake and candy and whatever
5lse will fill stomachs that refuse to
be filled. This runs him about six
dollars for the month and leaves him
jeven.
Out of his' last $?r -ft soldier must^
purchase toilet articles, stamps, magesines
and newspapers. The job of
stretching his pay over a month is a
leemlngly Impossible one, hut most
>f the men do it and a good many of
hem go so far as to send part of their
>ay home.
This fact is evidenced by the reeipta
for money orders issued at the
''ort Jackson postofflco?which leads
ill other post offices in the state in
he issuance of postal money orders,
lany of these orders, of course, come
rom soldiers who receive more than
he basic $21 paid to soldiers their
irst three months in service.
'As a man advances in the army his
alary increases. After three months
private receives $30 monthly and ft
Irst class private $36. Uncle Sam's
oldlers are the highest paid in the
rorld and according to the survey at
\>rt Jackson, they have learned how
o get the most out of their hard earnd
wages. '
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The sword of' Are seen hanging
ver Jerusalem before its destruction
may have been Halley's comet.
-TD CHECK A | A
s in7days
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NOTICE i
| All parties Indebted to the estate of c
(Etta T. Perry are hereby notified to j make
payment to the undersigned, j
and all parties, If any, having claims a
against the said estate will present t
Ihem likewise, duly attested, within j
the time prescribed by law. f
R. M. PERRY, 1
- - . Administrator. \
Camden, S. C., April 21, 1941. fl
- A Gentle Laxative - ?
Good For Children I
Host any child w^o takes this
tasty laxative once will welcome It (
the next time he's constipated and
it has him headachy, cross, listless, 6
with bad breath, coated tongnft or
little appetite. o
Syrup of Black-Draught is a tasty t;
liquid companion to the famous ?
BLACK-DRAUGHT. The principal .
ingredient is the same, in both
products; helps impart tone to lazy"
bowel muscle*. -. ja
The Syrup's flavor appeals to
moot children, and, given by the
simple directions, its action is
. 'U L -li 'IJMWUO-'!?L^l.u?l..-TncFarm
Guide For May
Outlined By Agent
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To remind farmers of gMonthil farm |
icilvlttoa in May. oounty agent W. C. ,
IfcCarley, makes theae suggestions:
Agronomy.?'Do not ruin a good ]
hand of cotton by chopping It all out.
Ueave two or three atalka every'8 to ,
12 Inches. For a profitable Invent- ,
uent make u aide application of nltroton
to cotton soon after chopping, i
Plan to put all grain stubblo land Into i
loybeana, cowpeas, or velvet beans for ,
mil-conserving and soU-bvilldlng crops. ,
Horticulture. Sow tomatoes for
July transplanting, col lard and cabbage
for August transplanting. Mulch
tomatoes hoavtly with strati or
leaves to hold moisture and prolong
fruiting. Do not cultivate beans
while the foltago Is wet. Apply
nitrate of soda to garden crops If not
growing well. Do not cut young
asparagus too elosely; fertilise and
inanuro the bod after cutting season.
Insects and Diseases.?Arrange to
poison the 'boll woevll early. Spray
fruit trees for ourculio, codling moth,
and diseases. Spray pecans with
Dordoahx to control scab. Hand applo
trees for codling moth by May 15.
Control potato bugs with arsenical
poisons. Soo tho county agent about
latest Information on tomato fruit
worm. Get ready to fight the screw
worn}.
Agricultural Bngineering. Keep
working parts of farm machinery
greased or oiled, as this Is cheaper
than repairs. Check the mover, binder,
or othorharvesting machinery for
needed repairs. Be sure that grain is
dead ripe before harvesting with a combine,
which usually is 10 days to
two week after it is customary to
begin harvesting with the binder.
Soil Conservation?Watch the terrace
channels during the planting and
cultivating period. A big rain may
sill them up in places and cause
breaks later. Sow some close-growing
crop on newly constructed terraces.
Sorghum or sudan Is fine for this.
Visit your nearest Soil Conservation
Service demonstration area and study
the conditions and results.
Up to the lato 1860's, steel plates
for ships, bridges, and boilers, were
virtually unknown.
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KERSHAW COUNTY BULL WINS
NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Peterborough, N. H., May'l?A Kerihaw
county Guernsey breeder, W. 'P.
Itedfearn of <Oamden, South Carolina,
Just won national recognition on
k pure hrcil Guernsey bull, Hilltop
Itutterfat llrlar 212285.
This bull, having seven daughters
which have made creditable official
records, has boon entered in .the
Advanced Register of The America a
[Juomsey Cattle Club. < Hilltop Hut torfat
Briar 212285 will bo known hcroufter
as an Advance^ Register sire.
Only Guernseys whieb moot high production
requirements are eligible for
entry. The seven daughters which
have com plot od official records are
Coker Briar Beauty 4611864, Hlnson
Oolden Sunset 476950, OlybuYn Butterfat
Fancy 503446, Hinson May Holl
529618, Cly-burn Hut terfat Km ma 533722,
Buttprfnt Briar's Lassie 467446,
and Briar's Delia Wanda 605154.
, VfiroMenr?ackaqef\
r Time ana Moneys ~
Each day more thrift and quality-minded people are
buying Southern Twin Pack Bread and Southern RediGut
Cake, because the bakers of Southern Bread and
Cakes are continually giving them more for their money.
southern
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THREE KINDS FOR VARIETY
(1)?Twin Pack White (2)-Twin Pack Wheat
(3)-Twin Pack 2-ln-l . Half Whlta, Half Whapt
Two half loaves individually wrapped inside Twin Pack wrapper. Save
one half, serve the other. Protects freshness?saves money. Twin Pack
is an exclusive Southern Bread feature. Extra healthful too, it's mow
enriched with Vitamin B-l.
Southern
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8 big ilioes of delieioua 2-layer gold oalc?, richly fillod and load, In
separate compartments. Ready slioed, ready to serve. Ghoioe of mt<
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New thrift package?with wrapper that anapa off and on again, protecting
freshness to final slice. If you serve only a few alines, replace
wrapper and cake will be kept freah for another meal. Redi-Cot
package is an exclusive Southern Cake feature. No other oaks baa it.
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