Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HOT Oil THE KEY) JuTNL SKIPPER. Spectators at the softball game last fiiursday when the Mount Holly girls played the Kendall team, were generous in their compliments upon the appearance of the softball area. These compliments are passed on to James Ualev. public works superintendent, whose crew did a fine Job in massaging the diamond and giving the outfield a mW haircut. The management of the Mt. Holly team expressed genuine admiration for the Camden softhall l it out. Thanks, Jim Italey. \n,t while we are passing around the hoinjuets, let us give Jim another for the manner in which the streets of the downtown area are cleaned and awept. After visiting several nearby town? * ml-noting the messy anil nil, kempt condition of the streets, we l>cliew ihat Camden's neatness in this direction merits another star for Mister Haley. * * * * While speaking from the steps of tlu. i itv hall, may wo purs a few compliments to Alderman Sheorn for his "Sh;ire Your Car" benches which have been installed about tho city at convenient points. The stunt earned Camdn it lot of excellent publicity. * * Mayor F. N. McCorkle, who has been at Athens, Ga., for the past several weeks, called there by the serious illness of his mother, returned home last Friday and is back on the job at the railway express agency. * * Camden sport fans enjoyed the visit of the Mt. Holly girls softball team here last Thursday afternoon. In fact, one of the i*eal sportsmen of the city called this corner to urge that the team be brought back again and that he would be willing to chip in with a couple of bucks to pay the expenses. We might state that, following the game last Friday, we contacted the manager of the Mt. Holly team and suggested another game here later In the month. Ho agreed to consider the suggestion. We know this?rif another gamo Is played here, the crowd will be much larger than what turned out last Thursday. * * * Camden fans are still talking about the fine pitching qJ. that Quillen girl, who shoots them yover frohi the port side in a most? tantalizing manner. And that little Pee Wee Dickson, who did tho catching, was realtyr clever. She had the range of the second sack down pat as several of the Kendalls lads found out when they tried to steal. We do not know what the authorities propose to do with the 16-yearold colored boy from Pittsburgh, who has confessed to having started the Ringling Brothers circus Are which destroyed 42 animals at Cleveland last week, but we wish we had the job of fixing the punishment. * ? ? After reading of the horrible agony the poor dumb brutes in the menagarie suffered as they died in the flames, we think that the direst kind of punishment should be meted out to this juvenile and an alleged com; Panion. The pair tossed lighted I ^tegryltps Into the menagarie tent. f ROSES aed THORNS 1 l>- -- - - ? ^ The biggest question propounded to me since last Friday concerns the matter of color blindness, particularly as to red and green. * Ail because the nowspuper story on the "Share Your Car" benches stuted the benches were to be red. Take note of thut "were". That is tho story as it came to us. When tho benches did appear they were green. Oh Hum! Well anyhow, Alderman Wylle Sho[orn got an ocean of publicity for the } "Share?Your Car" bench Idea. GunI oral Mecklenburg who writes some mighty constructive letters for tho Charlotte Observer had the following letter in last Sunday's issue. "To Alderman Wylie Sheorn, Camden, South Carolina: Dear Mr. Sheorn: May 1 add my congratulations to those you have been receiving for the success of the "Share Your Car" idea. It is ono that might well be adopted. I think, in many town in the Carolinas and elsewhere. If it works well in Camden, it ought to prove effective in larger and smaller towns, where there is no city bus service, as in Charlotte. "As I understand it from published reports, you obtained the cooperation of a group of friends who beiieved in your plan and together you provided a dozen green benches, each bearing the legend in large white letters, "Share Your Car". These were placed in shady spots near important street intersections throughout the residential district. Persons wishing a ride into the business district go to one of these benches and sit there a few minutes befdre an automobile stops and picks them up. Of course, I assume the main purpose is the conservation of gas and tires and that those who leave their own cars at home and ride with others part of the time will drive their cars and pick up otheiB part of the time. It would largely spoil the meritorious plan If some people adopted the habit of leaving their own cars at home all the time, and thus imposing upon gracious neighbors." General Mecklenburg is wrong in getting the idea that Mr. Sheorn secured the cooperation of "a group of friends." The Idea was original with Alderman Sheorn and all he did was to order the benches built by the city. The cooperation came from the city, and believe you me, Camden has a fine cooperative list of city officials. Well, the war news gets worse and worse. Representatives of allied nations gathered in Moscow for a "save Russia" conference. I wonder if it strikes many of you readers that there have been a lot of conferences regarding this war?but darned little action has been in evidence. To talk of saving Russia right now is, like ColuminBt Kemp of the Charlotte Observer says "like locking the stable after the horse has escaped." m No matter how you view the Russlan situation, you must admit the Soviet republic bee Already lout the industrial cltlea of her western states, the fariu lauds of the Ukraine and the oil fields of a great portion of her Caucasus. .sees N. A wag called us up to suggest that now that President Roosevelt has become a godfather to the latest a n ival in the Duke of Kent's family, that a second front may be expected most any time. The wag declares that the connection between the United States and tireat Hrituiu is uow a family affair. American people are pleased that six of the Nasi saboteurs have been electrocuted. There is also an expression of satisfaction over the action of Federal Judge Tut tie of Michigan lu giving Qerman-born Mux Sterman the death sentence. ? * ... ? Here is a bit of a germ from the typewriter of Columnist Kemp as it ap|>ea?'ed in last Sunday's Observer: _ "Havo you ever noticed that often the older a man gets the more Intuition ho has? This writer's father, now 75 years old, said a few yoars ago: 'If you elect Mr. Koosevolt for a second term, he will bo President of the United States as long as ho lives.' "That statement was laughed off at the time, with 'the American people will not even support a third term for any president.' "Hut the third term camo and now comes word that Mr. Roosevelt 'will not refuse' the Democratic nomination in 1!)44. And that means that Mr. Roosevelt can have the presidency for as long as he wants it or as long as he lives. "The name Roosevelt could conceivably fltid Its way Into our diettonarles as moaning 'president' just as the name of Caesar was used by all Roman emperors who followed JuiiV** Caesar and later begot the ruling titles of Czar and Kaiser. "Greater fundamental changes are taking place in litis nation today than at any time since its birth. We can only hope that in a century or two from now, when wo will bo on some distant star or planet, we can read what the future historians have to say about it." Comedy and Near Comedy ;; I don't know much about it, but they say if a man still has his appendix and tonsils, you can bet he la a doctor, And they also say that success de penda upon the functioning of the glands- especially the sweet glands. What I cannot understand is how a fellow who has had the companionship of one of those old fashioned Morris chairs for forty years, could so fur forget the euglueeriug rudiiipmts of the operation of said chair us to operate the wrong throttle and have tlie darned thing up aiul swat him over the eye?thereby iufltcthig a nasty laceration and requiring the application of gauze and white tape. * Have you heard about the gal from the country who got a Job In a boarding house. Seems the little country miss was told to go and knock on the traveling man's door and awaken him. She reported to the landlady that when she failed to arouse the sleeper hy knocking, she went Into the room and shook him. whoroupon tho landlady exclaimed, "Good heavens, don't you know better than to ever go Into a traveling salesman's room?" Tho Ullle maiden IYom tho sticks replied, "Yea'm, I do now." * * * Here Is one that will make the Camden clergymen chuckle. Seoius that a minister was asked hy one of his least respectable members to say [a prayer for Anna llell at the Sunday services. The clergyman did so and several days later, meeting the least respectable member on the street, inI quired if ho did not wish tho prayers ' for Anna Hell to bo repeated. 'No, | thank you kindly", replied tho mcmI her. "She won last Wednesday 7 to 1." * * * A son In college who felt tho neod i of some coin of tho realm wrote his j father as fallows: "Dear Dad: Gue$$ what I need mo$t Tiiat'$ right. $ond?it along. ! ; He$t wl$hes, Your $on, Tom." , Whereupon Dad replied: "Dear Tom: Nothing ever happens /hero, i We kNow ydu like your school.AVrlte us nNOthcr letter aNOn. Jimmy was asking about you at NOon. Ni)w we have to say good by." \ / And speaking of noses, it's a wlso girl \yho noes the fellars. i Sport Potpourri BY THE SKIPPER ( W. L. Robinson is dead and the 1 sympathy of a wide circle of friends < goea, forth to the members of the 1 fan|^. This corner had a lot to say t aboi^Mr. Robinson last week and we 1 felt that he was on the road to re- < covory when we typed our thoughts at tint time. * Loss than eight luhirs after the rumble of the pr?<e.^ indicated that the "pape?." was off, Mr. Robinson had passed %Avay. \ * V^V eulogize tho man for the tino sports mea^ Quit lie was. Ills Intertlcularly keen because ho had four lads playing in the sports named. As wo said last week, we number these lads among our best friends. To them and to their family we extend our sincere sympathy. * ? * Well, tho Florence Junior Legion talent quite upset tho dope, ours Included, by defeating tho Greenville Juniors three out of four games to take the state title. Now the Florence talent will take on tho pick of the Florida and Georgia talent for district honors. Our best wishes go to the Palmetto state team. One of Wisconsin's prize bulls has contributed to the scrap rubber drive. Correct 1 King Controller, on the farm :>f K. J. Genglor, near Milwaukee, lias given up tho old rubber tire he used to bunt around his pen for relation. Now he works out on a block 5f wood. Navy Recruiters Hsrs Local Navy recruiter# who are located iu the Camden postoffleq each Friday, announce that three men were accepted for enlistment in the Navy last Friday. They are; l^abrou Charles Hough and Joseph Harvey Kutcliffe who accompanied the recruiters back to Columbia, and George Amanuel Liters, Jr., who will go to Columbia at u later date for enlistment and transfer. Men who now enlist in the Navy receive four weeks of preliminary training after which they are allowed enough leave to enable them to spend about live days at homo. Young men who desire to learn a (rude may bo sent to u Navy 'trade school for training In electrical, mechanical or clerical lines. Those men who are anxious to get to sea may go direct to duty aboard ship upon completion of their preliminary training. Skilled tradesmen are invited lo learn What the Sea Dees (Navy Construction Corps) otters. These skilled men may bo unlisted with petty officer ratings with pay ranging from $7N to $ 12d monthly plus additional Allowances for dependents. The Navy has a place for all qualified men between the ages of 17 and GO and those interested should contact the recruiters at the Camden post office on Fridays. Kills Largo Rattler J. K. L. Hrannon, of the Mt, Ztou section, on Route 2, was In Camden Saturday and was exhlbltmte a rattler from a rattlesnake ho had killed nea/ a potato patch. ho. says ho hhw the suake moVti and sent to his house for his gun. Prctiy soon he was located crawling' toward his cow pasture. A shot in the head brought an end to him. The snake measured four and , n half feet and was as large arduixd as an average man's arm. Mr. Bran non says ho always makes it a point to kill those dangerous snakes whenever possible, lie says he has killed eight within tho past two years. Grows Freak Pea Mrs. John HlUzafd, of West Watoreoo, brought to Tho Chroniclo office on Saturday a curious-shaped pea ' pod. It was of the Crowder pea variety and was picked from her garden Friday, August 7. The poa had grown downward as Lt normally should lmvo. then turpod and grown, upward, making perfect "V", although no obstacle was forcing it to chauge Its downward trend. Oakland, Calif., Aug. 10?Leslie B. Glreth weulthy Glandule Joweler, was sentenced to d?ath today for the confessed murder of his 21-year-old sweetheart, Dorena Hammer. Olrotli, 37, was calm as judgment Was pronounced. Ho had earlier rejected any plea on his behalf and refused to be represented by counsel.Ho shot Miss Hammer to death lust month in a motor court cabin they occupied together at San Leandre. - \i Tho electric generators on n big U. S. battleship or carrier could fill the eleotrlo power requirements of a city the size of Newark, N. J. Such warships have power plants generating an output two-thirds as great as that of TVA's Norris Dam. Let's Re-elect James M. Thornton to the House of Representatives Upon His Record Political Advertisement Paid For 1 I (REMEMBER When you oust your voto August 2ft E lect LOTT LAWSON Comptroller General "A bueinese man for a business office." ! . MJ. , I 5ivitli / m iiiiiiii^ Let's blast Japan?and Germany?and Italy?with the chain lightning of destruction that can be built from the scrap in our cellars* attics and garages* on our farms and in our places of business. Scrap iron and steel, other metals, rubber and waste materials. It will all be used to make tanks, ships, planes and the fighting weapons our boys must have. It is needed at once. Sell it to a Junk dealer?give it to a charity or collection agency?take it yourself to the nearest collection point?or , consult the Local Salvage Committee... If you live on a farm* and have found no means of disposing of your Junk* get in touch with the County War Board or your farm implement dealer. , - 4 ~ Throw YOUR temp Into tb? fight 1 ? ^g-jj |m* imno q,opprowd by comwrflm OMUm WAR PRODUCTION PQARD JUNK NEEDED FOR WAR ' Needed for making bombs, Itoe*, binoculars; planes; dm for jeep*; gas macks; barrage balloons; wiping tap for guns; pfcfaate fcat hauUtloo fer elearto WUtI COOKNM MT*_Wbeo ytSmt a pound or more; sft*inia*o*1af?a tin can and ae& to your meat dialer. NEEDED ONLY IN CERTAIN LOCAUTMES?Waste paper and tin can#?wanted only in certain areas, as ?>m in i sillocally. Local 8alvaok Committm a.c. mckain, chm. pmonk ass on i?a