The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 24, 1942, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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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
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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.
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C. O. STOGNER
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE
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TWO BENEFACTORS
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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.
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