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???? 111 THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE]: H. D. Nil Editor and Proprietor Published every Friday at Number 1109 North Broad Street, and entered M the cimden, South Carolina I'oetofNce | mm second claee mall matter. Price per year 18.00. No eubecrlptlone taken for , fee* than Six Month*. In all Instance# the aubscription price I# due *"d P*y?bl* In advance. All fuuBcrlptlons are cancelled when Hubecrlbor fulle to renew. Represented In New York by the American Press Association and eleewnere by all reliable Advert lain* Agencies We accept no advertising of a doubtful nature and try to protect our patrons from in tare presentation by Advertisers. No Liquor Advertisements accepted at *ny price. Church notices published free. Cards of thanks and notices of talnments where an admission fee M harged will he charged for. Tribute# of respect and obituaries will be charged for. All communications must be signed, othorwlie they will be destroyed. Friday, December 5, 1941 NSSMI AAefMss kaps?ssssdke NMTM rnmm > OMMH *# *? ni* THE EDITORIAL "WE" (Front The Dothan, Ala. Eagle.) The derivation of the word "editor", and origin of the editorial "we", by which the newspaperman seeks to avoid the obnoxloua "I," have never been more Interest lugly explalred than by Paul Jones, In Tho Lyons Dally NrtwH. It comes to us via Horace Wilkinson's (Jeneva County Keeper and to tho (Jeneva editor via Ralph Jones In the Atlanta Const iutlon, hut loses nothing In Its travels. "A new member of the high school journalism class", writes Jones of Lyons, "asks us the derivation of the word 'editor.' Seeking always to he of assistance, especially to the young, we elucidate. 'Editor' is a combination of two Latin words, '<hII' meaning to give or put out, and 'taurus'? Spanish 'toro'?meaning the hull. "While on the subject, we may as well explain the origin of tho editorial 'we'. In the pre-hlstorlc days, when editors carved their papers on stone, an editor bawled out a citizen for rot paying his personal tuxes and Ills pledge to tho Coronado committee. Tho fellow came with a big knotty war t^ub. hammered on tho lintel of tho cave, peered Into tire darkness end howled, 'Come out of there, you lilylivered ao-and-so!" Tho editor, doing aoiiie peering in return und seeing who It was, yelled hack, "All right, you ditto, we'll he there In a minute!" The Irate subscriber, not being prepared to make war on a gang, hurriedly fled, soon forgot the incident and was hack In three weeks begging the editor not to publish his name for rowing a boat while intoxicated." 100.000 FRENCHMEN Fifty million Frenchmen, averred the old song, can't he wrong. But a considerable number of that 50 million can be, and fit least 100,000 of them are. That Is tho number of Frenchmen who have left France to work In Germany to build greater German strength to hold Franco In deeper subjection so that more Frenchmen may he sent to Germany to build further German strength?and so on It Is easier to blame those Frenchmen than to say what else they could do. A Frame whose entire industrial system is in bondage to Hitler probably offers no great opportunity for young Frenchmen. Probably they were olfered the stark alternative of "work in Germany or starve in France What hep.' i .in there possibly be lor Europe .>r i'm the world id a "new order based mi ^ut li alterna l vies ? S111111 p. Ill ______ ? SelenMfie lests have proved that the two mo<( restful positions of tho hand- m driving an autoniolulo ;ire "L'u minute- to u and "-" minutes alter |u," a->oimiiig that the driving wheel is the face of a clock. Sumter Farmer ! Suffers Heavy Loss A fire, which the owner said may have been started by a prowler, destroyed a largo bam and a new lumber warehouse on the Herman Myers place early this morn lug burn1 iiK 8 mules and doing damage which has been estimated at between $7,000 and $10,000. The flames were discovered shortly after 1 o'clock by a Columbia man who was passing the home on U. S. Highway 70, He drove Into the yard, Mew his horn \ Ioluntly thou went luslde and aroused one of the members of the household. The Sumter fire department rushed to the scene of the blaze, In time to prevent Its spreading to a row of farm buildings which lead from the barn to the house about 75 yards distant. Flames which hpd caught a tool warehouse nearest the barn were subdued. Besides the eight mules, 1.000 bushids of corn stored In the building were destroyed as were farm Implements and lumber. A ntilch cow was so badly burned in the fire that she bad to be shot. The barn, said to bo the biggest In the country, bad been remodeled only u year or so ago. Many Shaw Field soldiers and employes of the Hunt construction company working at the alrbase were attracted by tltO flumes, which could be seen for miles around, and came to the home to offer their services. Only animals In the barn saved were some pigs who added their violent squeals to the general confusion, Mr. Myers said. The mules did not make a sound. Mr. Myers told Chief K. H. Lynam of the Sumter fire department this morning that It was Ills belief that the conflagration bad been started by a prowler. There had been a good bit of stealing about his place lately, he said, and the thief was thought to have a master key to the barn. None of the regular hands liad been in the barn since yesterday afternoon the owner of the building stated, and the ptd'son in charge of feeding the animals did not smoke. He added that If It had not been for the quick and efficient work of the Sumter tire department, ho probably would not have a house to sleep in tonight. Flames were still rising from the ruins of the barn at noon today and the bodies of the mules In the wreckage wore charred almost beyond recogntion. The Myers home is located about 3 1-2 miles west of Sumter on tho Columbia highway.?Tuesday's Sumtor Item. Most Dunked Life-Saver To Retire New York. Nov. 1G?Peter ("Duck") McNeil, who has saved .183 persons from drowning In 4<> years, Is calling It a day. McNeil, the most dunked hero In history, will retire from the department of docks December 1 four days after his seventieth birthday carrying with him IS medals honoring his reninaiisliip. skill and valor. Officially. McNeil is dnckmister at the battery for the boats plying to and from the Statue of I .iber t y. I noffl? ailly. lie is a Manhattan legend one of those i are workers in, humble stations whose repented demonstrations of individual bravery raise them to the stature of a public hero ' McNeils exploits, although winning ettv-wlde acclaim, as often as not won It tin nothing hut sour looks from the \ it finis he industriously fished from the i hitching waters ot Mutfermilk tli inn. I. the Hast river and other harbor tributaries. Many were would-be suicides who later tarried out their pacts with oblivion elsewhere. Others. taugUt by the shock of their w.i'ery plunge to value a world they had thought to leave, retained lifelong admiration for the seamed, weatherbeaten boatman who risked his own life to pull them to safety. McNeil's biggest job was the rescue of 7" persons from the steamer Keyport. which sank off the battery seawall in l'J 1G. There wa re innumerable cases of "singles", as McNeil i ailed them -SO many, in fact, that he k- pt a spare suit hanging in his little office so that he would not have to go home after a rescue. The veteran ld'esaver's last, feat was on March 2t>. HMO. when he saved it To-venr-Old woman from tho bay by throwing a rope around her while he dangled head first from the seawall, held by fellow workers. Last spring it young gril was saved by a uniformed patrolman who got tin-re fir>' and McNeil began to think of retirement His citations include the Congressional Medai. the Volunteer Life Saving Medal with three bars, the (loltLAIedal of the Humane society, and a medal awarded hint last April as the outstanding employe of the departnunt nf docks Saluda Triumphs In Title Classic Sparked by tho brilliant running and PuhhRik of Belt Is Herlong?one i#'tho most brilliant backs to go down the pike In many a season?the Saluda high Tigers rolled to a 19 to 6 victory over a doggedly fighting Marlon eleven Friday afternoon to capture tho (Mass B South Carolina high school football championship. A crowd of 3.000 watched the two teams battle on almost even terms for more than half of tho game boforo Herlong cut loose on a fid-yard dash to apply tho clincher. Marion's Swamp Foxes kept Herlong pretty well bottled up until the third quarter, but It was one of his southpaw tosses. In the first quarter which accounted for the first score. Rate In the period the saluda lads had been backed up to their 20 before Herlong tossed a Hhort pasH to Itankln, who raced 00 yards to score. Another pass by the same combination accounted for the extra point to give Saluda a lead it never relinquished, but Marion was a constant threat and scored a touchdown late in tho second quarter to get within striking distance when Clreshum bulleted a pass to Harper In the end zone, but the try for the extra point failed. Midway of (he third quarter Herlong got loose and carried tho bull game wilh him. A penalty against Marion gave Saluda a first down on Its own 10 to set tho stage. Herlong writhed and twisted through the lino and past the secondary, a good 15 yards, then cut on the gas for thoso last 45 its he outdistanced all pursuit. This time the extra point was missed, but It made little difference. Marlon, however, didn't quit, but u desperate passing attack boomeranged the fourth quarter which carried to other Saluda touchdown when Able plucked a Marlon heave out of tho air and raced 35 yards to score. Marlon started another drive late In tho forth quarter which carried to the Saluda 30 before the upper state boys took the ball as the game ended. Between halves the Marion coaches were presented a gift from Marlon fans after Mayor F. N. McCorkle had welcomed tho visitors. Boa.?Saluda Marion RE?Rankin B. Altmnn t.T Sample VV. Altaian \ i(??Shealy Spencer C?Boone Wallace R(1?Riddle Snipes RT? Davis Stanley RK?Forrest Foxworth QB? Ren Herlong Ellis 1,11 ? Rett is Herlong Gresham RH- Able Scott FB ?Rothell Dozler Score by periods: Saluda 7 0 6 6?19 Marlon 0 5 0 0? 6 Saluda scoring: Touchdown, Rankin. Rett Is Herlong. Able. Extra point: Rankin. (Pass from Bettls Herlong). Marlon scoring: Touchdown, Harder.?Frank H. Heath in the Columbia State. ROPER BIOGRAPHY DESCRIBES TILLMAN'S FIERY CRUSADE Durham, X. t\. Nov. 26?"Pitchfork" Ren Tillman's fiery crusade for agricultural reform during the reconstruction era is but one of the historic South Carolina epochs colorfully described by Daniel C. Roper in Mis fortItcotning biography, according to Duke Cniversity Press who will publish tile book ill December. The former Secretary of Comm. n e and Minister to Canada was born in Marlboro County, S. ('.. April 1, lv>7, at the very height of the " Tragic Era" of reconstruction. His first recollection is that of l'nion Soldiers marching past his homo as they went on their way to the county polling places tor the purpose of insuring the right of every negro to vote. Tlie son of a Confederate veteran who had been rendered penniless bv the ravages of the War. Rop? r describes the brave attitude of those who had to begin life anew in ihat historic preiod of strife and bitterness. Outlaw- bands roamed the countryside and his account of his father's persona! experience with the murderous Dowry gang, among the worst outlaws in the annals of the era's crime wave, reads like a chapter from a mystery thriller. There may ho some still living who will recall the once beloved Shovlin, an Irish peddler, whose periodic visits to the country homes of South Carolina marked the occasion for a company dinner, and whose quaint personality comes to life again in tho pages of tho Roper book. It was an era In which neighbors borrowed fire, for kerosene was 25 cents per gallon and a small box of matches cost the same amount. Roper relates many amusing incidents of negro life upon his father's farm, reviving that almost eXMnct species, the Conjure Doc to? whose black magic was supposed to be capable of banishing all human Ills and enomies. While it Is the opinion of the Duke Dress that all patriotic Americana will derive entertainment and instruction from the hook becnuse of its forecful defense of Christian civilization and the American way, they expect its warmest reception to be from South Carolinians and Southerners generally who will most appreciate its first hand account of the events which shaped the South of today. Roper's one and only elective office was a term in the South Carolina legislature. 11 is connection with the Roper bill that resulted in the State Dispension System brought him to the personal attention of United Senator Matthew C. Rutler who summoned him to Washington to act as clerl: of a Senate Committee. The biography traces the entire course of his life and Its relationship to tho history of our times and those who shaped them. No other American could have written such a book, since the author has lived under sixteen Presidents and served under nine of them. Throughout fifty years of public life in Washington, Daniel C. Roper has maintained his farm in Marlboro County, finding time each year to return there at intervals. Wants?For Sale AdvtrdHnanti under thl* h*?d'ni "la >? ohartfod for at the rate of 1 cent i>er word Minimum chH|**1,I' ??? Ada aet tn 10 |K>lnt type JouM* "anh must accompany ?ider except where customer has Led?e^ Accoun . LOST?A costume bracelet. Mack enamel, sbt with pearls. Return wanted for sentimental reasons. Small reward offered. Address 1212 Lyttleton Street. Camden, 8. O. 37 pd FOR RENT?81x-room furnished brick bungalow. Call 312-W.. Camden. S. c 37 sb. FOR RENT?One bed room. Nicely furnished- Apply Mrs. H. U. J*088Camden, 8. C. ... 'Tpd FOR 8ALE-?Stock plants In pots. Plant now for spring blooming. 75 cents per dozen; $5.00 per 100.? The Camden Floral Company, telephone 193. Camden, 8. C. 37-38?h FOR SALE?One logging mule. Can be seen at work.?Call on William T Miller, Camden, 8. C. 37-39sb FOR SALE?Pansy plants, finest of quality. $2.00 per 100. The Camden Floral Company, Phone 193, Camden. 8. C. 37-38sb FOR SALE?One Corona Portable typewriter. Price $25.00. Apply Corner Rook Store, Camden. 8. C. 28pd. FOR SALE?Snapdragon plants In pots. Plant now for spring blooming. 75 cents per dozen; $5.00 per 100.?The Camden Floral Company, Phone 193. Camden, 8. C. 37-38sb FOR SALE?WOOD, WOOD. WOOD whs cut In Juno and July. Just right now for Ashley heaters or fireplaces. Truck load $3.95. Wood nice and dry. truck load. $5.96, Order from Camden Furniture Company, 1036 Broad Street, Phyne 156, Camden. S. C. 36-38 PdFOR SALE?Camellia Japoniea. 2.000 plants, 50 varieties. All the fine standard varieties and many new and rare kinds. Small plants at 60 cents tip to 8 foot specimens. Fifty field grown specimens from 2 feet to 8 feet. Visit the nursery,? Mrs. Robert Rembert, Rembert, S. c 37-39 pd. WANTED?Permanent Job by experienced cook. With best references. Telephone 178, Camden, S. C. 37pd WANTED- Job as companion to invalid. elderly person or child. Ca? furnish best of references. "?,(3lephone 388 W., Camden, S. C. 1 37-39 pd. WANTED- To buy somo cheap farming land wtth lowland.?Box No. "83, Lincolnton, N. C. 37pd. WANTED?To rent at ouco a furnished apartment. Two or three rooms, with bath. J. W. Hilton. Phone 376-W. Camden, S. C. 37pa. MAN WANTED?for Rawlelgh route. Real opportunity for right man. We help you get started. Write Ra\vleigh's, Dept. SCL-181-0, Richmond. Virginia. dec I WANTED?To pay part of expensos with some reliable party, for auto trip as far as Birmingham. Alabama. Want to leave around December 15 to 20. Address W. C. Moore, route 2. Box 169, Camden, 8. C. 37rd WANTED?A share-cropper, white or colored, with family large enough to work and gather two-horse crop for 1942. Twenty-one acre cotton allotment. This land produces over one bale of cotton per acre under normal conditions. Will furnish reliable party everything neccessary to make crop. Write P. D. Stokes, Cassatt, S. C., Route 2. 40pd. BARBER1NG?Haircuts 25 cents; shaves 15 cents. Four experienced barbers?Des Kennedy's Barber Shop. Camden, S. C. 32tf. GOOD NEWS FOR YOU?If you want a better position or If you wait to go to work, write or wire us prepaid about yourself. Send self-addressed stamped envelope for information. Especially need all types construction workers, bricklayers, hotel, restaurant, hospital, garage and office help.?Southern States Placement Bureau. 1316 Washington Street, Telophono 2-8111. Columbia. S. C. ?29tt SHOES ? For shoe rebuilding and repairing call- at the Red Boot Shop, next door Express Qffice. 619 Rutledge street. Ahram M. Jones. Proprietor, Camden. 8. C. 9sb. FARM ERS?A Ills-Chalmers Tractors give most power per dollar invested. We trade for surplus farm produce. Low overhead. close J prices. No coverage or carrying ( charges on time deals. Only 6 peri cent. Full line' power-farming equipment. Power units. All-crop Harvester Combines, hammer mills. Free literature. Green Harvester & Implement Company. 812 Lady Street. Phone 9273. Columbia. S. C. June 28pdtf PORK CURED ON FARMS NEED SUFFER NO LOSS Dosses of%pork cured on Kershaw county farms generally results from the failure to get the carcasses thoroughly chilled soon after the animal Is butchered and to hold the meat at a sufficiently low temperature while in cure to prevent the growth and development of spoilage bacteria, says County Agent W. C. McCarley, offering the following rules, which If carefully followed, will prevent most losses of farm-slaughtered pork. First, chill the carcass as soon as possible after slaughter to a temperature of 40 degrees or lower. Fresh meat, like fresh milk, will spoil quickly If not chilled promptly. A free circulation of air aids in carrying off Die heat. Dropping the head and splitting down the bcakbone permits opening up the chest cavity so that the heat can escape. Pulling the leaf fat also helps. Second, keep meat cold while in cure, preferably at a temperature between 36 and 40 degrees. Spoilage germs grow at temperatures above 40 degrees and may cause souring before the salt has reached the center of the meat. Salt penetrates slowly Into hams and shoulders, and large heavy : cuts should be kept cold and In cure i until danger is past. Third, limit the salt used to the amount necessary to cure the meat. The temperature at which meat is held, rather than the quantity of salt used, determines whether meat will keep when cured. Too much salt used in the curing process results In an unpalatable low-grade product. Eight pounds of salt is sufficient to cure 100 pounds of meat under farm conditions. iiememb&v that meat curihfc Is an exact science. If the carcass is chilled promptly after slaughter and the meat held between 36 and 40 degrees while in cure, and the quantity of ba.lt i used is limited to $ pounds per 100 pounds of meat, and the length of time meat is kept in cure is controlled, the quality of the resulting cured meat product can be determined beforehand ! with certainty. The county agent reminds that j tension Bulletin 77, Pork for Carolina Farmers, gives full details on slaughtering1 and curing the farm meat supply, and copies of this bulletin may be hhd from his office or from the Publications Department, Clemson. mmmm?mmmmmmmmrn COMING ATTRACTIONS At The Camden Theatre FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 ! Ann Slu r id in .Ink (>a k i>' Martha K.i\f :tn< 1 ih?> Nn\y |!lu> s Si' \ I f'l t ?v HI "NAVY BLUES" SATURADY, DECEMBER 6 K?lw nd < " l{obi!i-a?ii. Kdw.ird Amold f.ii-.iiiii' Day. Marsha Hunt "UNHOLY PARTNERS" MONDAY AND TUESDAY DECEMBER 8?9 j (Iri-ta < larbo ? Mtdvyn Douglas "TWO FACED WOMAN" WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10 Ron.ild IJi'Kan James Gleaaon "NINE LIVES ARE NOT ENOUGH" THURSDAY AND FRIDAY DECEMBER 11 ? 12 Tyroni* Dow ?-r?Betty Grable "A YANK IN THE R. A. F." ? || COMPLETE EXAMINATION || I jjl ... AT,LEAST ONCE A YEAR . j There fere few diseases not curable to a Urge extent, if taken | phyelctan, but not to the layman. | i j Tuberculoid can be detected in the early stagee, by a thorough j j physical examination. Anemia, with Its attendant cauee, la | properly definable only from a thorough study. Cancer can be prevented and cured in many caeee by the physician having avoided, if the doctor is given an opportunity to treat condi* I I tlons leading up to it. j It is unnecessary for a physician to make a complete examl I nation of every patient who consults him, but for your own' j cal examination at least once a year. I j Remember, the doctor can not know all about you and your 1 [ condition. Just because you tell him your name and address. II Announcement , . '. ? 2 | Due to the fact the war maneuvers extended I through the fall season and the highways are still being ! used by U. S. army convoys the directors of this organi- j zation wish to announce to the public that plans for a Christmas festival have had to be abandoned. j The directors of the merchants association felt that there would be an element of danger incurred in bring. ing the children of the county into the city for a festival event while these highway hazards prevailed. In view i of the curtailment of the decorative lighting on the city ! | streets, the added fact that business men have been too busy to give attention to affairs other than the rush of ! activity in their respective places of business, it was de1 0 \ cided that rather than attempt a festival below the high j standard of previous events, the better course to pursue would be to cancel the affair entirely. The association hopes to offer a surprise feature i in the spring. This will be new and novel and should provide enjoyment to adults as well as children. j j (Signed) * Camden Merchants Ass'n. o i