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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. O. Nllll, Kdlter einl Proprletef Published every Friday at Number 1109 North Broad Street, and entered at the \ 'emden, South Carolina Poetottlo# a* eeoond elaae mall matter- Price per year It.00. No subscriptions taken for loss thaq S'x Mouths. In all Instances the subscription price Is due and payable Iii advance. All subscriptions are oaaoHIed when subscriber falls to renev. ({"presented In New York by the American Press Association and elsewhere by all reliable Advertising Agencies. We M-oept no advertising of a doubtful nature and try to protect our patrone from n Isrepreaentatlon by Advertlsere. No I.lijuor Advertisements aocepted at any price. Church notices published free. Cards of thanks and notices of entertainments where an admission fee In iharged will be oharaed for. Tribute# of respect and obltuaaes will be oharged f<>r. All oomniunlcJIUis (nust be elgrned, o'hei wlwe they will be destroyed. __ Friday, July 24, 1942 NEW BOOK8 AT CAMDEN . PUBLIC LIBRARY Now hooka added to tho Camden Public Library Include the following novels: "Hoy From Maine," by Kutli?rlne Drush; "Tho CommandoH," by Elliott Arnold; "Old Soldiers Never Die," by James Ronald; "Advanco Agent," by John August; " Agent Extraordinary," by Spencer llayne; "Family NVay," by Myron Ilrlnlg; "Big Midget Murders," by Craig Rice; "Westward tho Hun." by Rrlgld Knight;. "Hrlght to the Wanderer," by Bruce Lancaster; "Blood on Ifor Shoe," by Mcdora Field; "Killer and tho Slain," by Hugh Walpole; "VII-1 lago In August," by Tien Chun; I "Spencer Brade, M. I).," by Frank: Slaughter; "Contor of tho Wob," by I Katherlno Roberts; "Hea Magic," by Sara W. Bussott; "No Second Spring," by Susanna Mitchell; and "Floods of Spring," by Henry HellaJQiaun. Addon In non-flctlon nro "Defense Will Not Win Tho War," by W. F. Kornan; "DuPont," by William S. Dutton; 'Tattl Rovero and tho World Ho Lived In," by Esther Forbes; "The Bond Between Uh." by Frederick Loomls; "Action On All Fronts." by Ralph Ingorsoll. Mrs. Edwin S. Stout donated a eplendld collection of children's books and Dr. Maurice Clarke and Mrs. George Grlswold added novels and nou-tlef Ion. The library will be closed Tor two weeks beginning August J and endlag August 15 for the librarian's vacation. All those who wish library books during that time are urged to visit the library before August 3. John D. Ray Dies Kershaw. July 22?John B. Ray, 85, Of the Gates Ford community died at the home of his son, Nick Ray, Wednesday morning. Ho Is survived by two sons and one daughter. Nick Ray and R. M. Ray and Mrs. J. A. Elliott, all of tho Gates Ford community, and one brother, James Ray, of DoKalh. Funeral services were conducted from Bethany Baptist church (Westvllle) at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon by IiIh pastor, tho Rev. Cletus Blacktnon, assisted by tho Rev. Matthew Rabon and the Rev. J. M. Neal. Interment was in the churchyard. ' Of the 28,oeo railroad passenger ears in the r. S.. 14.ouu are coaches : U.r.oi) sleepers. 5.100 haggage-and- ? coach <ars. Top parlor cars and 600 i lounge cars. COMMENTS ON MeN AND THINGS (Hy Spectator) I met a MAN recently. I emphasize the word "man" because he waa a man, not merely a male creature arrayed in trousers. There waa a time when a male Individuals manhood did uot real on hla trouaera, for the masculine qualities which commanded ?Hir admiration were common to the highland Scotch In their kllta. In fact, In the llrat World war the boldness of the kilted Scotch soldiera cauaed theGorinans to call tbom "the ladlea from hull." More recently the girls and ladlea have begun to wear pants, ao pants don't mean anything now. If a male creature wlaliea to proclaim hla strength and endurance, hla bravory and chivalry, he can't convince the world merely by walking about In pauta. Nothing really maacullne la left to a man nowdaya except to chew tobacco. The ladlea aro our equala and are proving It by cultivating our bud habllH. Hut I met a man, aa I said. He waa a tonic to my apirit, for he mudu me think of the men wo used to have --when men wore men, you know, end lived out In the great open apacea. Aa I looked at my friend I thought ho had never feuated on hot-doga or hamburgers; nor did he slake hla thirst with "pop." I fancied that I could see him do justice to aour , krout, fried ham, eggs, home-made blacults, not forgetting watermelons. Here's the kind of man he la, this ;sturdy son of Newberry county: At 168 years of age ho does all the work on his farm; has plowed every day. i Ho planted 12 acres of cotton, 14 acres of corn, 4 acres of wheat, 6 | acres of oats. Presumably ho will have 10 acres of lwiy following the small grain. He has hogs and chickens, u vegetable garden, fruit and all that, including a cow. And ho has no help, this hardy citizen of 68. What I'vo said Is enough to make us softies quail, but that man harvested his 10 acres of wheat and cats with a cradle! What a man! I)ld you ever seo a cradle? Well, somebody says of It that It Is "An archaic Implement consisting of a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which Is fastened a scythe for cutting grain." I don't recognize a cradle from that description, but since most of our people have never seen or heard of such a contraption any description will be equally clear. To see a man cut his grain with a cradle looks llko something heroic? makes you think of stalwart old lads of the Mldde Ages swinging batteaxes, and all that. It takes a man to swing a cradle?just "britches" won't do It. Any man who swings a cradle needn't fear that the women will tako his Job. This friend of mine bought a farm Just after the Ilrst world war for about $4,000. Land was high then und he paid $75 an acre. Soon afterwards he lost his barn and stock? $1,300. Hut ho sees daylight now, the debt being less than $100. "But," says he, "I didn't buy any car." No, he walked. He was walking four miles from a visit to a sick brother . the duy I saw him, la to in the afternoon, following long hours In tho field. I Men like that made this Nation. ] Since then we've heard that the Na- ion Is making the men, guaranteeing i i living and a pension, high wages i md time and a half, with double time l for collecting the pay; also with pay while you loaf, or get drunk on the job. Jesus could have turned all the HtoneB to bread; and transformed tho Sea of Galilee into milk and hooey. He didn't do that; we think we are wiser than He. In tho Supremo Wisdom a Man is sum total of hardships, privations, self-discipline, suffering and heartaches. If a calamity were to befall us, that friend of 68 would dig himself out and start something, some effective measure of rehabilitation. Hut most of us, weaklings that we are, spoon-fed, bottle-dopers, would let out a wail and a yell for more W. I\ A. or Welfare, or some other government pap. We'd call for the Congressman and both Senators to come down for a close inspection so that they might proclaim the fact of disaster to the White House and bring about organized relief, said relief costing perhaps $100,000 in travel and salaries, to pass out $50,000 to the afflicted. Hut that sometimes falls. Remember how we cotton farmers mot and met and met again, in Columbia, and resolved and resoluted for help? Even after tho Senators and Congressmen came to our meetings we sent big delegations to Washington. Result? Well, if anybody received a Bingle copper let me see it. Washington was roady to dish out social gains (in form of higher and higher wages) for organized labor, but tho farmer rame back footsore and weary, "toting" an empty bag. Governor Jefferies had something to say about school consolidations. He thinks wo may have gone too far kvith that. It should bo remembered hat Mr. Jefferies, as chairman of he Senate Committee on Education, las been in the front of all the bat- j los for the schools. He speaks now is a statesman, looking over all the ?tate and all tho interests of the itate, but without any change of 'ast friendship for the schools. There are two sides to the ques:ion, both argued by men and women )f unquestioned devotion to the ruble interest. Hut let us weigh the onsiderations and think together; ?ix one-teacher schools can form one consolidated school with six teachers md have six teachers for ten grades, nstead of one teacher for ten grades, luses bring in the children perhaps en or fifteen miles. One big school louse takes the place of six small >nes. Right here our usual extrava;ance comes in. Six little school louses, worth $1000 each, are scrap>ed or left to rot, while the district s bonded for $50,000 for a big handome school house. We save $6,000, nit spend $50,000. Since children are lot required to walk or work or ven play naturally we must build gymnasium for $25,000. All the hurches may bo frame buildings; and j all the people may live In frame buildings, but the school house had to rest on pile of debt to start with. The Interest on the bonds would employ two or more teachers, or pay for better teachers, or give better pay to the deserving and offlclent teachers. When we learned that we could Issue bonds and build on credit we lost all sense of proportion. However, the temples of learning now stand, served by starving teachers. Theoretically consolidation should have been a thrifty and helpful measure of school management; and, of course it should provide better instruction. I assume that in the matter on instruction the consolidated schools are better than the one-teacher schools which they replaced. The bringing of children by buses is a problem here, for no child should have to walk more than a quarter of a mile in this easy-going age. What's wrong with consolidation? Well, it has broken down communities and the close, neighborly community life which was built around the school house and the church. Once the neighborhood school house was a thriving center of community Bocial activity; today the boys and girls are carried to town and are neither a part of the town nor of their own community. I think this is what Governor Jefferles is thinking about. It is, of course, of the highest importance that we have community interests and not be tied up to the towns for everything, or become entranged from our neighborhood. Whether the technical advantages of consolidation outweigh the social advantages of the cultivated community is the, question. Another matter brought out by the Governor is a teacher's retirement plan. Any teacher paying a percentage of his salary for years should be able to draw from a fund set up by the teachers. Or if the teachers in a body should consult a sound insurance company it could arrange something attractive. By using their association they could get favorable rates under a group plan. There is no reason why the state should set up or contribute to a pension fund for teachers unless it is prepared in like manner for all othetr citizens. Shall the state pension the operatives of cotton mills? How about newspaper men and the radio staff?shall the state provide for them? The teachers have an efficient organization and can take care of themselves. Our fathers didn't like the pension and provided against it in the Constitution. Who, by the w^y, has thought of pensioning that Newberry farmer who paid for his high-price farm through blood and toil; who today, at sLxtyeight, does all his work, cultivates about forty acres and cuts ten acres of grain with a cradle? No Nation will amount to a hill of beans with a pensioned citizenship ladled out of the public treasury; but a people who provide for their old age by thrift are the pillars of our society. Home-Coming Day Home-coming day will be held at Hanging Rock Mothodlst church, on Sunday, July 26. Services will be at 11 o'clock. Dinner will be served on the groands following services. The public Is Invited to come and bring baskets. Star Taxi BERNIE HINSON, Manager White ? Sober Drivers SERVICE WITH A SMILE Telephone 128 $25,000,000 GAIN IN TWELVE MONTHS a The Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina, has released mid-year figures on its insurance operations for the first half of 1942, reporting new sales totaling $24,000,000. Insurance in force now stands at $461,000,000. During the past twelve months there has been a gain of over $25,000,000. v. , O I C. O. STOGNER LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ? TWO BENEFACTORS I ONLY A FEW YEAK3 AGO ihe moat devastating epidemic disease tn modern times via ( It0.(1 the island of | Ceylon in th? In- t dlun Ocean. Out of a population of 6.000.000 there were more than 600,000 cases of the lltneaa and &4.0W) deaths. And it wasn't an unknown and mysterious disease that caused the disas Cb?rU. W.r.n 18 ' 11 larla. Malaria, also known ?? ague, was prevalent in this world since history was recorded. Some say it was the cause of the downfall of Greece and Home. And It Is still on the rampage. Malaria Is wide spread today within a holt reaching from 30 degrees north to 30 degrees south of the equator. Ceylon ,was well within this belt. But malaria does not confine Itself to | these regions. ! During the last war an epidemic of malaria raged on the Salonika front and reached tho northern parts of Yugoslavia which is as far north of the equator as Maine. And in our own South malaria is common far above the tropical belt. The cause of malaria was unknown until tho French physician Charles Laveran, while working as an army surgeon In Algiers, discovered tho parasite causing tho illness. And an English physfclan, Sir Konald Ross, who studied malaria for many years in India, found tho saino parasite in the stomach of a mosquito and proved that the pesky Insect was the carrier of the (Unease. Both men received the Nobel t'rlie for their work. Sir Uonuld ltoss ulao discovered the IntereaUuK fact that, only the female of a certain kind of mosquitoes, the Anopheles, will carry the parasite. The malaria parasite develops in the mosquito's stomach and enters the salivary gland of the Insect. When the mosquito bites a person the parasite passes In to the blood or the B,t KonmU| k?m victim where It thrives In the red blood cells upd splits up In segments. During this process the victim has (ever. When the segments burst the blood cells the victim feels chills. The freed segments then enter other blood bells and the process of breaking and multiplying goes on until quinine stops it. The dangerous female mosquito carrying the malaria parasite is almost silent in (light. The ordinary kind Is unnoying but harmless, TJhls knowledge does not help tho average person. who is bitten while he is asleep and can't hear it. A mosquito net helps, but : tho best preventive is quinine. Throughout tho malarial season, ; which in tho South prevails from June ! to September, six grains of quinine ' should bo takon every evening before I going to bed. And should the disease attack because of failure of preven| tion, a dose of twenty grains a day j should be tqken until the fever and I chills abate. City in Grasp of Sweltering Heat . For over fwo weeks now the favorite expression that hua been heard on Camden streets la "Whew! But It'a hot." On Sunday the official reading gave a maximum temperature of 100. Thla figure, la from the official weather bureau at Columbia, and would be lower than what la known aa atreet level tomperqture. Temperaturea lu Camden ranged from 100 to 105?all theae being in ahadod ureas. t So fur aa la known, there have been no heat prostrations during the more than two weeks that the hot weather has prevailed. Not since 1913, or 29 years ago, has there beon such a high reading. On July 19, 1913, the official temperature went to 102. Camden people sought relief from the extreme heat by remaining indoors with the shades drawn down and eleotrlc fana in operation. Hundreds Went to the lake and spoilt all day In the water. Wants?For Sale Advertisements under thla heading will be charged for at the rate of 1 cent per word. Minimum charge 26 cent*. Ads set in 10 point type double' charge. Cash must accompany order except where customer has Ledger Account. FOR SALE?Toy size black and tan Manchester Terrier pupa. Six weeks old. Males and females. Telephone 285-J or apply 1205 Lyttleton street, Camden, S. C. 18 ab. FOR 8ALE?Good farm, half mile off Highway One. adjoining Woodward Airport. Good acreage, adequate buildings, clear water stream and good pond site. Price reasonable. Terms If desired. Address P. M. Therrell, P. O. Box 1318, Columbia, S. C. 16-19pd FOR RENT?Three or four room apartment. Unfurnished or partly furnished. See Mrs. Gus Ilirach, 1211 Broad Streetv Camden, S.*C. 16-18pd FOR RENT?Five-room house at Lugoff, S. C., furnished or unfurnished. with water and lights. About four miles from Camden. Otis M. Watts, Camden, S. C. 18-20 pd. WANTED?Short order colored cook at once. Apply Itoxy Cafe, Camden. s. c. is sb.; WANTED?Extra help, girls and boys between the ages of 17 and 25. Ap- I ply to D. S. Davis, at J. C. Penney Co.. Camden. S. C. 18 sb. j WANTED ? Two experienced salesladies for week end help in dry goods store. Also two young men1 to help in grocery store. Apply in person to J. Paul Ross. Camden, S. C. 18 pd. EGGS FOR SALE?Day old Rarred Rock. eggs. Address Camden Furniture Company, Telephone 156, Cam- , den. S. C. 18 sb. 1 PEACHES ?Will have Elberta peaches any time after July 20, at or-,1 chard and have arranged to have a fruit stand at back of post otfice in Camden. Anyone can get them I there 75c to $1.00 per bushel. T. C. Fletcher, Kershaw, S. C. 18 tf. CURTAINS 8TRETCHED?At reasonable prices. All work guaranteed. Address 904 Campbell Street, Camden, S. C. 3tf. BAR BE RING?Haircuts zo centsj shaves 15 cents. Four experienced barbers Dea Kennedy's Barber I Shon. Camden. S. C. 32tf. CHICK FEED?Get a bag of that good Spartan All-Mash Starter for your chicks and give them the right start. Only the one feed Is all you need to 1 carry them through the first ten 1 weeks Buy Spartan today and i chase your chick worries away.? Whitaker & Company, Camden, S. ; v, 44sbtf i SHOES?For shoe rebuilding and re-! pairing call at the Red Boot Shop, P next door Express Office, 619 Rut-' ledge street, Abram M. Jones Pro-1 prietor, Camden. S. C. ' 9sb I Highs Eliminate The Floorwalkers 6 to 3 The High school softball pastimers demonstrated that their recent serlee of wins were not fluke affairs by J eliminating the Merchants in a play, off battle Wednesday evening on a _ slippery field by a 6 to 3 score. The Highs found Frankie Berry to their liking and managed to connect for solid blows when the bases were populated either through errors or by walks. While the Highs took the Merchants for a ride the Kendalls roared into the final tilt by walloping the Mechanics 9 to 3. ] As a result of the Wednesday games the Highs were scheduled to play the Instructors Thursday afternoon | and the winner of that game was due for a brush with the Kendalls for the first half playoff title. The Kendalls won the regular schedule of games by a one and a half game mar 4 gin over the Instructors. Camden Man Promoted Lieutenant D. Frank Sowell, for- j merly of Camden, has been promoted to captain at Norfolk, Va. Captain Sowell, a graduate of ClemBon, did post graduate work pt the University of Kentucky. He entered active service last October from the University of Florida extension 8er-_^ vice. Previously he had worked at ^ Clemson. N , All droned up? J and going placesi I Tussy Lipstick i In new ease... I ELEVEN1 top-fashion shades! Try Tussy's new Kiltie Red. Or Stork Club shade, rich, sophisticated red. Blue Blood for blue, fuchsia, rosy clothes ... Red Coat, dashing clear red, for practically any color 1 scheme. Creamy-textured, indelible as you could wish, } Each, $1. Cream Rouge, ll. ?j Compact Rouge, 75$. Both in shades to match lipstick. < DeKalb Pharmacy TELEPHONE 95 ANNOUNCING j OUR FALL TERM OPENING j MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 The Florence Business College, Florence, S. 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