The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 29, 1942, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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.
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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*
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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.
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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
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[ of Hishopvllle, turn to left tit Shannon
Hill. A special invitation to alii
sinters atul a warm welromo to all.
? L. A. Moore, President.
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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.
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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
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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.
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British Government Will {
Mark Cadet's Grave I
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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
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