Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HOT OK THE KEY) JylHt SKIPPER. tenstor -rotton Bd" Smith Is "bit5v clis.ippointoU" i" Rubber Admin. ,r*tor joffera." Ti?e reason for this taBiwIiH"*"* Ma thut Mr- "J^fer8 ? acfept?'(i lhe ?<lvlco of tho toch* , 1 t>M? !ts who believe that rayon better than cotton In making heavy ',v lire- Senator Smith wants cot'' because "It has bethi used yt'jii s," a ml of course, above all !L ill.- South Carolina senator is J the "protection of cotton." * Well la-re we have just another ample ot the thing which has hap?ntH| <n often in Washington of lute group of members getting off on ?idetr.uk because they fancy that ,me net interest Is losing out. 10 ' * * Their i> jnst one question Involved tl?. smith-Jeffera embrogllo and iat is "Is rayon hotter for war re9v Mr. Jeffers. who has no axe , grin.I a ad who has tho weight of ie technical experts with him. says: j-es" That seems to settle It, Msni if t t Now that the state fair and a few [her fairs are over, we want to speak jiht out and say that we think it oukl have been more patriotic to ive spent the money that was used these fairs In tho purchase of dense bonds, with special emifhasis i the many thousands of dollars the irntvals took away. And another asoii i- we believe there would have ?en a i"t of gas and rubber saved. We'll wager that tho sum of money iai was expended In the state fair ad other fairs held about this comtonw'-alth would have bought an stouishing amount of war equipment. * * In support of the above contentions e l?r?in- to the action tak-en by Prcs-> ent Ibwisevelt In transferring the rmy.Navy football game from Ph 11lelphia ?) the naval academy at nnap"'and announcing that only sident- of Annapolis would get ikets He said lie was doing this ) save gasoline and rubber. m * 0 * We agree with the Columbia State la: there is somethlnf^jfery 8trange i the fact that many montha after )p Tokyo raid by Jimmy Doolittle tid his gang, the war department flaky admits that some of the flyers n this bombing expedition were iken prisoner by the Japs. The tate recalls that following the raid ip war department announced that 11 American planes returned safely ith the exception of one which landd on Russian soil. It seems to us that something needs eood cleaning up. The present fstem leaves much to be desired In le matter of consideration for the datives of those who are involved ) the dangerous missions. * * * * Echoes of the Junior League Hep: "hose three majorettes from the high rhool who distributed the cigarette t the halT were darned cute and did sweR job?if you ask me. And the reset;, o of ao many cadets and offif-rs from the aviation post added a >' of , olor to the affair. iV. !! by gosh, they warned us and p he. (Jed not. Actually we wanderd into every grocery store in CamPn l.i.-: week in an effort to buy a ound of Java. Nart a bit to be had? *e only solace to one who loves his lomitig cup being that there might e sonic to arrive later in the week. * Talking to some of the newspaper ids over In Columbia and found that ipre was a similar situation over ber> js something to ponder over, i woman was arrested In a New York ark because she was picking weeds, hp .ild she fed the weeds to her aueht?r. a girl named Rose, who was ill of a heart ailment she could ?t w ilk. Docors and others who are such rm believers of the vitamin doc'in> will shrug their shoulders and Il Bay "absurd." liut Is It? The Intereating part of the ease of the girl who was fed the weeds is that she has been completely cured. The woman who was picking the weeds said her own mother had told her of the curative power of weeds and that it had been a family remedy for years. . We sometimes wonder why God made tnosquitos. Japs, Germans, gnats, rattlesnakes and other obnoxious creatures. Why not include weeds in that category. Heaven knows that tills writer has often cussed the lowly dandelion, quack grass and whatnot that grows to despoil a lawn. Hut after all God does not waste things. The weeds may have been provided for some reason wo do not fathom. It certainly looks that way when you hear the story of tho weed picker in the New \ ork lark Along the same lines, Bays Kemp, of Charlotte, tlie undernourished Jap, who lives on a handful of rice and a few fish a day, year in and year out, has proven a match for our balanced diet soldiers. And be also inilnts cut that tho half-starved Russians are proving to lie the greatest fighters of all time/ Actually the whole thing stuns up to a belief that bore in America wo have too much to eat and too man/" pills to euro our ills. Or do they. There's a difference in the people that one meets . . going hack and fortli upon the city struts . . . some | will show an interest in your smile, as you pass by . . . and sort of ilash an answer from the corner ot their eye . . . while others so self-centered will calmly stare you down . . . and follow up that haughty glare with the slightest frown . . . pretty girls a tip-toe pass with clear-eyed gaze . . just enough of casuulness to cause you some amaze . . Hut confess tiie smile I like and often put to test . - ia that telegraphic smile with which some men are blest. * If Bishop Manning, of New "\ork. is correctly quoted in his aUtement that Senator Reynolds demand that immediate independence be granted India, is a "peculiarly despifabl* form of sabotage," he is sure tread,ng on dangerous and thin historical ice The good Bishop should know that Fox. Pitt and Burke, all statesmen In his own England, were gu lty of the same thing about this United States. In fact, they were largely re8?pnai" ble for the good Bishop becoming a American citizen and to this ought to make, unmolested, peculiarly inconsistent and loose statements. We take our hat off to the Columbia Record for a very timely editorial concerning one Senator Pepper, of Florida. This chap Pepper has been spilling a lot of bull about the ^ urging an all-oat effort to enect a c L ending. But as the Record Doints out when Senator Pepper is faced with the choice of contribut ng he elects to stand b> the Err ? sra aw the more Yankees they net In F1?r'' da the leas fuel they'll Fast and that the migration of aged and Infirm persons from the nor to Florida will tend to avert epl- j dTadlea and Gehta. that la about the finest spreadout ot bunk we have heard In years. It 1. Promoted by a, recent order ot Director John B. 1Ea"> an cult ng off some of the tourist, trains to run?at least-aome ot them, Respite the ract that thero haa been rlree'lng order already promugaled^ It would appear that Florida ? more greatly concerned with maintalnlng a profitable tourist trade^tban ,brazenn'en/or'fehyWa Florida delegaUm. St? sSordFe^pergrd "many o h! !r! wu! !et the rest of the nation know the depth of Florida patriotism. - ??I Sport Potpourri I BY THE SKIPPER ? - >> To our way of thinking pui stern is Just about tops as a sport caster,1 but right here and now we are going to light a Are under Bill and a recent ! "news reel" story that he unfolded ovor the air last week. We are taking this shot at Stern I because he dovotbd a part of his air I session to a fellow wo know personally and who we admire very much ?none oher than Pat O'Brien. Pat Is one of Milwaukee's favorite sons and the million peopls In that metropolis are probably geeting as big a laugh out of BUI Stern's yarn aa we did. We are In a position to know that there was as much truth in the Stern story as there was In Dr. Cook's discovery of the North Pole, sales talks about Florida shore line real estate or any statement of prluciplea ' by Adolph Hitler. I In the Stern story Pat was pictured as a New York police officer who was given a $200 stake by Hurry Greb, a boxer, and with this $200 Put is alleged to have gone west ahd busted Into the movies. Well. It made a fancy yam, but It wasn't true and tit only for the trash heap. Mrs. O'Hrlen, who makes her home in Milwaukee, when told of the fantastic yarn by Hill Stern, had this to say 'As Pat's mother, I should know whether he had been a policeman or not. All 1 can say Is that it's ull moonshine. I was llsonlng to lltll Stern that night and when we hoard the story, wo had a big laugh." The famous feud event In Carolina football circles, the Carolina?Clemson game, is history, as fur as 19-12 Is concerned and Just as we predicted, the Tigers won. Heading the Columbia papers coverage of the gntno, wo wonder If tho sport staff would have called in tho office purp and cat to write their views on the fracas had the Gamecocks won. They had everybody within the walls of the fourth estate emporium scribbling stories of the battle. + * + + Wo fool rather sorry for Hex Enrlglu, the Carolina coach, who has done a magnificent job In building up football at tho state university. Tho Gamecocks started the season with a whoop, by holding what was touted as being a Tennessee powerbouse, to a scoreless tie, The gang dropped, tho remainder of the games. Since then the plucky Carolinians have been beaten In every game played. It can bo said that they went down fighting. The Gamecocks avoided getting a smearing with the whitewash brush through the tine work of Ken Hoskl, an Illinois youth, who wo regard as i having Just as much All-Amerlcan possibilities as does Louis Sossoman. * * * * | It looks as If basketball and other Intercity sports will be out of the picture this season. Details of (ho. gasoline rationing system to bo plac-| ed in nationwide effect next month makes no allowance for travel to athletic contests. This, they say, : means that neither school buses or private automobiles will be able to get gasoline to transport athletic teams. Defense Transportation Director Joseph U. IUumImuit does rot consider us "uacesaary" trips to athletic or music contests. Wonders?The State finally did get around to using the Camden football story the mornluK after a name, but the writer who took the news over the telephone from this office messed up the score, giving it as 20 to 0, whereas Camden had applied the whitewash brush quite effectively. ? Personally we much prefer to have Dee Mays and his trusty telegraph key take care of our news releases, but what are you going to do when the papers request telephone reports? + That was a good game lust Friday - some excellent playing on the part of an alert and smart Cumden eleven. The only had feature of the evening was the poor attendance. Frankly, there are a lot of pom1 sports around these hills. They are the kind who talk the loudest when tho toam Is winning, hut the chills when It loses. * * j This lad llllly Waters, head harness and all. really gave tho fans something to talk about In that Orangeburg fracas. Hilly tossed exactly 13 passes and 9 of them were good. Camden checked up 20 tlrst downs to f> for the invader^. ? Too had the home lads weren't playing Sumter or Imncaster that night. They were really hot. 1 Sumter's fine team took a trimming II to t> from the Columbia Caps at Sumter before a big crowd of funs. The ambitious scribe mentioned 5.000 at the game, but some of the folks who saw the affair said that 2,000 would he a top figure. I" 1 i Roses and Thorns Caiuden football fans who attended the South Carollna-North-Carolina ftame at Chapel 11111 and later motored to the South Carolina.Clemaon game will have a lot of explaining to do to your rationing board when you make your application for a gas ra tlon book next time. ? That la, If the iocal board follows the provisions of the gas rationing regulation. Officers of the state offline of the enforcement division say that the maximum unrestricted driving allowed holders of supplemental ration cards made It "mathematically Impossible for unyone to go to both gamies In hla car without exceeding the allotted pleasure mileage." * The rationing law provides that these offenders who are to he reported to the local board will have their gasoline ration suspended temporarily. A reader calls up to discuss what he says is an unfair point In gasoline rationing. He admits something hud to he done to save rubber but says there Is no Justice In a program which requires the owner of one car to surrender a cpuple of extra used casings in order to receive rations for one car while another family with several chch will be allotted live tires per car and rations for each. Obviously, he says, one member could use the driving privilege of all cars and suffer no transportation inconveniences or restriction whatever. He said this is not a local affair hut lot believes Just the samo that something | should be done about It. We would j not know. * The Old Guard, better known as the Republican gang has not changed its attitude toward Ilrothor Wlllklo In no way since the former standardhearer returned from IiIh around-thc- I world jaunt. We take It that the Old Guard would not like the way Wlllklo parted his hair?If he did. ? Governor Johnson, of Mississippi, Ih disturbed by the movement alleged to be preached by a few Negro lead- j ers that the Negroes ought to lino up | with the Japs on the color Issuor-Tho ! governor says the state must unite ) against those "disturbing elements," which he sayH, are aiding the Axis powers. We wonder how much progress will ho made against these whispers when men are being lynched because of the color issue. If the Mississippi lynchiugs continue, you can be assured that congress Is going to glvo that much-mooted antl-lynchIng hill a quick passage. * Sharply critical of the federal censorship regulations the Columbia State declares (hat the authorities are muklitK a big Joke out of the situation. Seems (hut the authorities at the Pensacolu Naval Air Station have demanded all reports of (he football game between (ho Naval Station team and Texas Christian university must he censored. 9 * Says The State "With the exception of the weather reports- suppression of which Is sound -there Is not o?ie single thliiK about a football rhiuo thai could possibly bo of value to an enemy." ? * # Well, Just add this latest farce to the already lengthy list of silly thiiins a hysterical group of straw bosses have been guilty of, of late. So long. David Itoblnson. David has been state news editor of the Columbia State for some time past and has really done a tine job. David is now going Into the armed forces and has had to resign his newspaper job. Cood' luck foliar."_ f ? Molse Hlootn Is the news editor now. Other changes in The Slate's . personnel find Mrs. Mary Oalllard (loodwyn as state society editor and . Ned Hallentine as assistant ^sports editor. Mrs. Mary H. Hooker continues as head of the society suction and Jlmmv Thompson Is holding down the sport desk. ? Over at Radio station WIS wo found that Dick llashrouck. who has been doing a good Job as sports announcer since Slg Smith resigned to enter the army, Is about to go into the service. Dick comes from our neck of the woods, namely Milwaukee, where he was on the staff of WTMJ. Dick did a swell Job of covering that Carollna-Clemson game for the radio fans. He was hnmllcnppod however by having the yardage markers along the side lines completely obscured by the spectators. Ranjo Smith of the Columbia Record really went to town In his condemnation of the manner In which the crowd was handled at the CnrollnaClemson epic. Too much state fair, I guess. By the way, Camden folks?especially you people who entertain?will (Please turn to pago sovon) And Your Strength and Energy la Below Par It may be ceased by disorder of kld"?y funcliuu permits poisonous *aete to accumulate. For truly many people (eel tired, weak and miserable *hfn the kidneys fall to remove excess acids and other waste matter from the blood, Yoa may suffer nagging backache, rheumatic pains, headaches, dlxstneas, rotting up nights, leg pains, swelling, oomettmee frequent and scanty urination with smarting and burning la another sign that something ia wrong with the kidneys or bladder. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment la wiser than neglect, use It to better to rely on a medicine that baa won ?ountrytrtda approval than on something lass favorably known. Doas'i have been tried and teet d many years. Are at all drug stores. Pet Peas e today, f *> t? ry F-. % The right to govern ourselves BRAVE AND DETERMINED Americans 1 left bloody footprints in the snow at Val- t ley Forge, to give us the priceless right to run I * our country as the majority of us think it should be run. Today, equally resolute and courageous 1 Americans are fighting to preserve that hard- I won heritage?for themselves and for their * children. They know that in the Axis nations ? people are mere puppets bowing to the brutal '' whims of fanatical dictators. 1 That's why Americans are fighting. And, as they fight on to certain Victory, they are inspired by an unshakable determination that this government shall continue to be "of the people, by the people, and for the people." The Southern Railway System, because of its strategic location, is playing a tremendously vital role in the transportation of war materials and fighting men. But it is doing more than that. It is also helping to keep the wheels of our national life rolling in defense of the home front. It is grimly but willingly taking on buriden after burden?because it's a rich privilege to serve the nation in times like these. When private automobile travel began to be curtailed by tire and gasoline rationing?the kind of travel tu?i normally accounts for more than four-fifths of all inter-city travel?the railroads took on the thankless job of providing substitute transportation. That meant more trains, more cars per train, more locomotives, crowded stations, and a thousand headaches! 3ut the job is being done?on top of the major ask of handling hundreds of thousands of Jncle Sam's soldiers, sailors and marines. When the oil shortage developed in the eastern states, the railroads said that they could uove 200,000 barrels a day to meet the emergency. They are now moving more than 800,000 barrels a day. In the first eight months of this year, the Southern Railway System alone landlcd more than 19,000,000 barrels of oil to die North and East. These are simply examples of how one railroad is doing its bit to protect our way of life; our heritage of freedom; our right to govern ourselves. From this experience, a better Southern Railway System will emerge?more efficient and morexuseful to the people it serves than ever before -? because, even during these trying times, we are taking advantage of every opportunity to improve our services, facilities and methods; every opportunity to plan for a better tomorrow when Americans will continue to hold their heads high as free men, proud in the knowledge that their children, too, will enjoy the blessings inherent in a nation of self-governing people. ....i. .. That is worth fighting for! President, SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM "V THE SOUTHERN SERVES THB SOUTH . ... - '