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Navy School at G.E. Just one evidence of the cooperation between the armed set vice* and our vast induatriul army a school for buhm.ii me electricians conducted ut one General Electric factory. N I 1. Electricity is vital to the runrung of every submarine It does tin ainuzutg variety of important jobs, from turning the propeller to cooking the coffee. 2a Kor that reason, there must he \scll trained electricians on every j underwater ciaft At this school, Nuvy elect i tonus attend classes taught by C E ei ,,.ikci* ? 3 nnil go out into the shops where they watch workmen construct the same kind of electric equipment that will some d?y be put in their charge. 4. This is but one proof of the thorough training which the U S. Navy gives its men, so that the vital equipment of war will alwa> s be ready for action. Genera) Electric believes that its first duty as a good citizen is to be a good soldier. General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. K? 10 til ?-i. i i r.' A I TREAT GRAIN COMBINES A8 WAR TIME WEAPONS A grain combine or any other piece of farm machinery that 1h broken down for want of repairs la like a Kun on ftie battle front that won't ahoot, county agent W. C. McCarley aays. With grain combines In Kershaw county starting the harvest of hundreds of acres of small grain, It Is the patriotic duty of every combine owner or operator to see that his machine not only puts in full time hut that It operates efficiently in Having the greatest possible amount j of grnln. Combines, like any other piece of farm machinery now. are Just as important to the war effort as guns, tanks, and planes. It is highly Important that all combine owners and oporators have their machines thoroughly checked over and In good operating condition to carry them through the season with the least possible delay. The combine should he well greased and should he operated according to the manufacturer's instructions. At the close of the season, it should be thoroughly cleaned and stored under shelter. To Meet With Savannah Church The Leo County Singing Conventoln will meet in its lNHth session on Sunday, May III, at 11 a. in. in an all day song fest at Savannah Advent Christian eliuivli, located about seven miles northeast of Hishopvllle, on State Highway No. Hill. Leave I*. Is. Highway No. la three miles east I | ' | [ of Hishopvllle, turn to left tit Shannon Hill. A special invitation to alii sinters atul a warm welromo to all. ? L. A. Moore, President. mmmmm ARRANT8 WAS SPEAKER AT MOUNT PISGAH CLOSING The 19-42 graduating class of the Mt. Pisgah high school held its commencement exercises in the school auditorium Monday night, May 18. The principal speaker of the evening was Representative J. C. Arrants, of .Kershaw county, a former member of the Mt. Pisgah faculty. Representative Arrants in his address, Told the" seniors to make their lives worthwhile?ono noteworthy to be remembered. Seniors receiving their diplomas were Mob Morton, valedictorian; Harry Raley, salutatorium; S. R. Johnson, class historian; Lorene Vincent. class poet; Karlene Mungo, class prophet; Ottle Roberts, clasH lawyer and Kanule Lee Johnson. A number of high school students were presented with certificates for perfect attendance during the year by Superintendent M. J. Powers. No medals were awarded as the students voted against them to help in national defense. 1942 -"PO* FOLKS" VACATION HEADQUARTERS-1942 Take a Two-Week land Cruise, Including Transportation and Hotel Room Accommodations, ria Streamlined Train to Riviera Hotel and Return for only $55.00 FLORIDA'S NEWEST, FINEST, and LARGEST ALL-YEAR HOTEL. Completed January, 1942 ' ' ???mm 1 1 l THE RIVIERA HOTEL BAR AND GRILL Near Daytona Beach, Florida. "H here I he Tropics Begin" Convention and Conference Headquarters the Year Round. Capacity 3.?0 Guest*. J Private Path. Radio and F.lectric Fan in Every Room. Coektnll Lounge. liar and Grill. ? 3 meals dally per person from $1 30. Golf Links. Artesian Swimming Pool with Sand Beach. Tennis, Badminton, Ping Pong. Croquet, Horseshoe and Shuffleboard Courts. Ballroom and Convention Hall. Banquet Facilities. 1,000 Acres of Spacious Grounds. COOLEST SPOT IN DIXIE. AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE TRADE WINDS. Where the I^?brador (Arctic) Current mceta the Gulf Stream, and Bathing and Fishing are Superb. Write Today for Free Descriptive Literature. HOTEL RIVIERA, Box 429, Daytona Beach, Hi. "Most for Tour .Money in Florida Rhone 1800 on Arrival and Car Will Moot You Weekly News Letter From Liberty Hill Liberty Hill. May 26. A very k<v | Imi him> bold theft wan comml't.d ' hero on Friday lam when Johnnie Stover, a colored hoy in the employ ! of l( ('. joiich, stepped Into the byok [keeper's office In the more and t ><>k i 11<1111 the Hale a package of i>ii1h < n> t:i mine over ninety dollar*. ?Tliu sheriffh office wan not tiled and <b | d iv J II McLood, Jr., Off Inert* J. L I loach and < I, H. Dnliruhl came up Saturday morning and after recover lac the money, carried Stover -nd I.uther W'htfe and Robert Lee l><'hy. suspcc ted accomplices, to Jail in Cam den. Hon. It. H. Cunningham, prominent citizen of Allendale, wan here Fun jdav vialtlng relatives and attending j h( i vlce? at the Freabytorhin church, where he was a regular altendau: in I Ins boyhood days before local In c in I Alletulalo county, where he has I >oc i been prominent In political ami business circles. | Steven .McCrae. University . stud. tit. was visit inn Ills parents here Sunday. Mrss Mary 1>. Jones, Mrs. Margaret I ('lurksoii. Miss Henrlelte Johnson and a lady friend were church attendants [here Sunday. . Miss Rachael llay, daughter of Hi'Sam II. Hay, of Morristown, Tenn.. spent Sunday with relatives here. Miss Jennie Jones will leave on Wednesday for a visit of several tlays witl* her sister and brother-in-law. Dr. and Mrs. T. (5. Hall, of Westminster. She will attend the closing exercises of the Westminster high school where her nephew, Bobby Hall, Is a member and valedictorian of the graduating class. We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of an Invitation to attend the closing exercises of Winthrop college where Miss Lottie Marion Clements Is a member of the graduating class, and also of the Lynchburg high school where* Miss Mamlo Louise Clements will receive her diploma from that institution, and also to attend the Camden high school closing where John Henry Clements is a member of the graduating class. These three young people are /grandchildren of your reporter, feel a just sense--of?pride- Jm their accomplishments and wish for each of them a long span of honorable and useful life, thus begun under such changing conditions In the most turbulent period of the world's history. Miss Adella Cunningham T.as a potsltion In the Commercial Bank of Camden. She took up her duties last week. Says Fight Boll j Weevil Promptly In 1941 the boll weevil destroyed somewhere between thirty and forty million dollars of cotton and rotton! seed in South Carolina, and the outlook is for another year of severe [damage unless farmers take immeNliate stvps to destroy the weevils i now present on their cotton. In 1940. according to Information received from the Fee Dee experiment Station. Florence. S. ('.. we had an average winter carry-over of only 176 weevils per acre. In 1941. 1,960 weevils per acre survived the winter or 12 times as many as the y- ar before. Recent checks made at the station show that almost as many weevils lived through this past winter as last year or an average of 1 .S39 per acre?next to the highest number recorded there. The recent rains have already brought out a large number of weevils. On a one-fifth acre trap crop at thy Fee Dee Station, 130 weevils were found through May ?3, as against only 33 for the entire month of May 1941 and 3 for 1940. This is an average of 650 weevils per acre against 165 for May 1941 and 15 for May 1940. Cotton is growing rapidly and the squares or forms will soon be large enough for the weevils to lay eggs In. Farmers are urged to immediately secure calcium arsenate and molasses and mop their cotton using the 1-1-1 mixture. If farmers do not have these materials available, they should consult their local county agent or oil mill, who will be glad to help them locate the necessary supplies. Not only is it a patriotic duty to conserve our cotton crop for the necessary war materials which it affords. such as edible oil. valuable lint, linters. high proton nie.tj and hulN, but the grea:!> improwd prices make it worthwhile to spend mere money m protecting the cotton crop I nless the weevils are destroyed betoro they lav their eges and start a new crop, it will be \ * :y difficult and expensive to control them later on. There are 25.090,000 insects in the air above each square mile of the earth's surface according to estimates. Twenty-four of the prisoners In the penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., have enrolled In a college correspondence course. Babson Tells About Fast Depressions Special (o The Chronicle illy Kogor Kabson) Habsnu Park, Miwh., May Hi) ?The economic life of iho t'nlted States <11iter* little front our own * personal I i \ ?-h. Hoth are characteristic i: |?h .mil downs. Wars, land speculatnn, agruuttumt upsets, tariffs, foreign i*latioiis, mergers, pump.printing, leg I i.-laiiun, labor unions, and other'good and had factors have all played a part In the prosperity or lit the decline of our country's affairs. When ihe war will end, and whether we shall have a postwar blump or whether boom times will continue, no man can now say. Hy another six months, however, the entire situation should he much clearer. Cooking Backward My life has been spent*-in looking forward. I have continually tried to anticipate coming events in order to preserve my economic independence. Due to a praying father and mother, I have looked upward for guidance in my personal affairs and when advising others. Such success as I have had has come through my early recognition of the practical values of the unbeatable combination of faith, industry und intelligence. History certainly repeats itself and often is a dependable guide. Hence, let me briefly review some of the events In our national economic experience In the order In which they have appeared to me. My father was born In the depression of the 50's? from which the Civil War pulled us out. I was born following the long depression of the 70's which was caused by the collapse of railroad and farm speculation and paper currency. Resumption of gold payments, The "great rise in immigration, several notable inventions, and complete freedom for enterprise Anally brought thlfc depression to an end. Some years of prosperity followed. My First Experience This prosperity was brought to an end by crazy politics which led up .to the panic of 1893. This constituted my first individual contact with hard times. For some years a severe agricultural depression existed which was aggravated by the Bryan campaign for free silver. In 1S9S, however. business got another uplift due to tlie Spanish-American war. Almost immediately a boom followed during tin* so-called merger years when our great corporations were formed. For a while both business and the stock market boomed. But anti-trust scares, high finance, and the Kuro- ' pean collapse in 1914 brought about j another period of depression. And | then, just as now, we got into World , War I and a period of great activity I followed. This lasted until the Arm-1 istice in 191s when fur a year or more' the volume of business sharply receded. The rise of automotive industries to major proportions and the! resumption of foreign trade gave us, I however, a post-war boom of eight | years of building and general expansion. This resulted in the "New Era" psychology of speculation. Stock prices rose to astronomical heights. Recent Events The rest of the story is history within the memory of all readers. We all recall the collapse of the market and business in 1929, the long years of internal depression, of unemployment, and of deficit spending. It took about five years for New Deal ' pump-priming to produce a rise in 1 business volume. As to how long : this artificially-created boom would have continued, no one knows. At any rate, the Nazi wars came along j to plug the business leaks. Now we are engaged in another period of rising business volume and ' living costs with inflated wages and; full employment all associated with ' boom times. For the time being.' however, these factors are temporarily being held back by war scarci-' ties, priorities, regulations, "forced" j savings, brakes on installment buy-' ing. and other edicts from Washing- . ton. Our boom has come through ! the creation of our 'enormous arnia-' men? industry. This has been large' enough to absorb the entire automobile industry, the manufacture of! many consumers goods, and other forms of business activity. What's Ahead? This short summary of the past 100 years shows that with all our wealth, legislation and brains, we have found no preventative for business depressions. Government spending is now approaching 133 million dollars per day. Soon It may be 200 million. The effect of this upon bus ? ? I i iness and stocks, in spite of taxes, should, before long, be bullish. Even 5 after the war ends, we must continue to arm. We will rebuild much of the property of the world that war has destroyed. New industries, led by plastics and chemicals, have a great future. Furthermore, air express, freight, mail and passenger transport companies may cause a great new foreign and home trade which, in event of a post-war slump in other lines, can again put us on our feet. Hut why continually resort merely to war or other material things to pull us out? How many more depressions will it take to teach us tnat only a spiritual awakeneing will pre-( vent these unemployment slumps from repeating * The younger generation is daily pro\lng In their sacrltices that they are far from soft. The least we oldsters can do is to pre-; serve their heritage and make sure these younver minds are governed by the right spiritual motives. The set-1 up today and for some time to come? economically, politically and spiritually lies up the alley of our children and grandchildren. I am confident that our future will be safe and profitable only if they will put God's Will first. Former Camden Man Dies In Charleston Charles Benjamin Spradley, 65, died at his residence, 146-A Queen street, Charleston, Wednesday night after an illness Of several days. A retired carpenter, he had made his home in Charleston for several years. Funeral services were held at Mt. Zion Baptist church six miles east of Camden, at 11 a, m., Saturday, with the Rev. Dennis Anderson officiating. Interment was in the churchvxfrd. He is survived by hTs-^Wclow, Mrs. Vernon Stouremire Spradlev, Charleston; four sons, Charles C. Spradley, Miami. Fla., Clyde B. Spradley, Whiteville, X, C., Geordon Spradley, Camp Chaffee, Ark.. Theodora Spradley, Fnited States navy, Key West, Fla., two daughters. Misses Evelyn Spradley, and Margaret Spradley, of Miami, Fla. ' I British Government Will { Mark Cadet's Grave I (Continued from first page) I'ritchard to be burled In the msfl ial plot was accepted in a deep 4? of thanks and appreciation. lal^H plot are two other distinguished^? dlers; one a hero of the AEFof? and the other of the Confederet^^H of 1861. The funeral rites of Cadet R? ard were probably the most la? sive ever held in Camden, ft? cadets, American cadets, Ami? soldiers, and officers together? the entire personnel of the flying? and hundreds of citizens attended? service at Grace Episcopal d? and later at Quaker cemetery.? military band from the unit at Personnel Relation headqunl^? together with Battery E froS^H same unit, led the long funeral^? tege. The firing salute over the^^J was offered by a firing Battery E. The other two soldiers reatfl? the memorial plot with Cadet P? ard are, Richard Kirkland whoe?l? ism in venturing into a Mno*? land" between the battling fore*? Confederate and Federal troop? carry water to the wounded ai? dying was one of the epic^? of heroism during the War Be? the States, and Commander Itt? Hobson Hilton who was awarded? highest honor's of the? allied for hie bravery and courage d*^? the first world war. After the was honored by being commander of the American Ja^? Department of commerce i88ued a manual showing towns can help the Victory. 11's free. Congressman Seeks Re-EIectiojB CONGRESSMAN J.'.P. RICHARDS Congressman J. P. Richards, who represents the fifth South Carolina district, announced today that he would be a candidate for re-election subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Mr. Richards, whose home is in Lancaster, was first elected to congress in 1932 and is now serving his fifth consecutive term. He is the fourth ranking member of the 25-man foreign affairs committee, considered by many in recent years to be~the foremost committee? of the house. This group was faced with some of the most vital questions in the nation's history in the troubled period preceding the. out break of the present war. As a member of the house Demo cratlc steering committee, Mr. fl ards was elected by and reprofl the 21 congressmen of the Sontlifl ern zone?South Carolina, Qifl and Florida?in conferring andifl ing with the speaker and mijgfl leader on the program of thek^H The fifth district congressman? the co-author of an act amendli|fl farm mortgage act permitting gifl ment loans to farmers to rtcifl homes lost by, foreclosure. Hifl introduced the bill and led thekH fight to give CCC camp enrolls? itary training."** _ Before his election to congre^H Richards practiced law in L&ca? and was judge- of probate fori? caster county. ^He served org? during the first World War witk|H 118th Regiment of Infantry. "9 KRIA i JkNV> >7^s ; 6661 IW/HEN kidneys function UAjfl W you suffer ? negginJ"**** with dizziness, bum/ng, frcaucnt urinetion ?nd getw^T* night; when you feel elfopset... use Doeei ifPkgM Doens ere especially M|Q working Sidneys. M^io*jMJ re used every ye*r- They eJTJM mended the country over. *?! M ,i j| tr,y.v'L^ili|