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\fr(n-licc of 'Crop I Hunting' Is Wrong I Maintenance of Fertility of Soil Is Necessary. CHICAGO.?Declining soil fertility I has resulted in the practice of "crop I hunting" in 1,10 mistaken belief that I hen i"1' vrop starveH< another can I H'found that will thrive on the I lame land. according to Prof. W. A. I Albriniit. head of the soils departI ment of the University of Missouri. I "in place of giving attention to I soil fertility measures that will feed I frowing plants," said Professor AlI hrecht. "there is danger that we go I .eftrclung for crops which we apI narenilv believe have a high degree I of toleration for starvation. But we I can't breed crops against starvaI tion any more than a sterile parI ent can transmit the character of I sterility. ; "There is a common inclination to I ascribe 'soil improvement' value I and nitrogen-fixing qunlities to any I crop called a 'legume.' The term I 'legume' describes the anatomy I rather than the performance of the I plant. It docs not guarantee its I nitrogen-fixing function. I "Because a legume can fix nitroI gen in the soil is no proof that it I always will. Soybeans are legumes, I but they do not always fix nitrogen. I This function is dependent on the I soil fertility and not on the plant's I Summing up his views on soil imI provement, Professor Albrecht conI eluded: I "Whether to fertilize, or whether I to maintain soil fertility is a quesI tion that can scarcely be viewed in I the light of a single crop increase I as monetary values of a single year. I Soils are assets created by time I periods reaching into the distance , I past. Their maintenance demands I more than a short-sighted view. This I requires thought about putting back I regularly into the soil what is reI moved, and finding means of mainI taining soil fertility in the years to I come rather than exploiting it for I only immethate gains. Soil fertility I maintenanM^cannot be propaganda I ?it must d? built on sound judgI ment and the fullest knowledge." I Stretching on Stretcher Gets Him on Fire Force j NEW YORK.?Gino Franceschini, I 20, tried to become a fireman last I August but measured only 5 feet 5% I inches instead of the required 5 feet I He grew callouses on his feet, I banged his head to raise a bump I and practiced hanging by a neck I harness, then tried again. I Result: 5 feet 6Vfc inches?failure. J Today two friends carried FranI ceschini on a stretcher before muI nicipal civil service commissioners. "Measure me quick," he shouted. "Five feet 7 1-6 inches," said the man with the tape measure. "I'm in!" shouted Franceschini. He said the extra height had been added with a home-made bed I stretcher., Animal Blood Processed [ For Human Transfusion ! WASHINGTON.?A revolutionary advance in methods of processing I animal blood so that it can be transI fused into human bodies is nearing I completion, it was learned, j Work on animal blood is being I carried on under Dr. J. B. Porsche, in the biological section of the I chemical research department of I Armour & Co., packers. Some maI jor obstacles in the reduction of the I blood have already been overcome, I and while a residual negative factor still persists, it is understood that I sufficient progress in its elimination I has been made to justify confidence that successful transfusion of processed animal blood into human bodies will be possible in the near I future. Cannery Hand Charters i Plane to Take Him Home KETCHIKAN, ALASKA. ? Where else could this happen? FifteenI Fear-old Sigrid Olson, a newsboy, earned $700 in a few months work I *ta cannery last summer. He didn't want to wait for a cannery tender to I take him home, so he radioed and I chartered an airplane and rode I home as the only passenger. I Hunter Throw* Apple, I Bag* Sleeping Rabbit I YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. ? James I was hunting when he spied a I rabbit sleeping under a tree. ReI ^embering the sportsman's code: B J^0n * sh??t until the game is on I-;c ?un," cole toon an apple uui of his pocket and threw it at the bunny, didn't have to shoot. The apple - blocked the rabbit out. WB?BBMP"?wmm Calculating Apparatus Checks Songs' Popularity With unfaltering accuracy the Performing Right society keeps co\int of every song, dance tune, sonata, and symphony publicly performed in Britain and in the empire. This involves analyzing and dissecting some 400,000 musical programs annually, containing about 8,000,000 items. Then, from statistics thus extracted, it must duter- j mine exactly what fees are owing ! to individual song writers, composeis, and publishers. A colossal re j sponsibility. Points are awarded to each piece, i according to its character and duration. Each point represents only a fraction of a penny. As a dance tune "Plant) Concerto" earns one point every time it is played; a symphony by Elgar would be given 240 points. In 1035 there was a pool of 150.000,000 points available for distribution. Converting these points into pounds, shillings and pence, so that each copyright holder gets his proper dues, was a brain-aching task that formerly worried 150 clerks. Now at Copyright House, the society's London headquarters, there is a battery of Hollerith machines which, whirring day and night, punches holes in cards, denoting the points allocated each piece. It is immaterial whether a symphony is played at the Queens Hall or by lpcal bandsmen at Slocumbe-in-theMud?it earns in each instance the same number of points. Other robots sort out the punctured cards, transferring them into tabulated groups. Finally, the last mechanical battery, with unerring precision, tots up the points, and, with equal facility, translates them into cash. Accordingly, as millions of musical compositions whirl round and round, singers' "golden notes" become automatically?banknotes 1 . y Something It Can't Stop Nine years ago when nature conferred a bobtail?about an inch long ?on a Washington Maltese cat it perhaps did not think of its similarly affected offspring that would later be scattered over the county. The cat was given to Mrs. Ethel M. Cave a number of years ago by Washington relatives. Since the feline has been a resident, she has become the mother of four litters of kittens, aggregating one dozen. Of the dozen six were owners of bobtails like their mother. The other half dozen kittens had tails of regulation length. In the first litter there was one with a bobtail. In the next litter two showed the mother was beginning to stamp her nature freak on her offspring in an impressive way. In the next litter there was a dropping back to one bobtail kitten. In the last litter the mother cat staged another comeback with two bobtail kittens. Aids General Good Health Foods rich in vitamin C are citrus fruit, tomatoes, cabbage, and most foods just out of the garden. This vitamin aids general good health and helps the body resist infections. Vitamin C is of special value in wartime because it helps wounds heal quickly. Soldiers lacking in this vitamin tire more easily than men who get their full quota, say nutritionists at Ohio State university. The sunlight or cod-liver oil vitamin D is more important to children than to adults but nutrition scientists believe that many of the young men rejected by the army for poor teeth, flat feet, and malformed bones have these defects because they went short on sunshine or fish-liver oil when they were babies and children. Food for the army is about as important as ammunition but it is only recently that authorities have come to realize how the vitamins in wartime rations may affect the success of an army and even the outcome of a war. Oversised Bus Trailer As one answer to the problem of transporting hundreds of thousands of war workers frorrt central points in cities to outlying industrial plants, representatives of the Office of Defense Transportation, with the aid of officials of the War Production board and a number of private companies, have designed and built in less than 30 days a simplified type of oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials. The trailer has a seating capacity nearly three limes that of an ordinary city bus and nearly twice that of the largest type of street car. ' Hauled by an ordinary lVfc-ton truck tractor, the trailer has just airived in Washington, after a 30hour trip from the Indiana factory where it was completed recently. Cannot 'Save' Surplus Game Crops Michigan officials back the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service in warning against ''market hunting" raids on wildlife as an emergency wartime food supply. However, they also caution against trying to "save" the surplus crop for future years. This, they point out, would result only in waste?just as much to be avoided I in wartime as excessive hunting and fishing. The officials estimate that the 1941 take of game was 17 million pounds, and that the fish catch yielded another 16 million'pound*. This is said to be a normal yield of regulated hunting and fishing in the state. ^ wLUjfllfllMiM Ri9M PRP^^ln^VB ' N J SOMETHING FOR US TO SHOOT AT NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Kershaw Notice Is hereby given that the General Election for United States Senator and Representatives In Congress will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County aforesaid on Tuesday, November 3rd, 1942, said day being Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: Residence in the State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months, and the payment thirty days before any election of any poll tax then due and payable. Provided that ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, otherwise qualifleld. Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, the production of his registration certificate and proof of the payment thirty days before any election of any poll tax then due and payable. The production of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes, shall be conclusive proof of payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Constitutional oath. The chairman of the Board of Managers can admiinster the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Pubadminister the oath to the Chairman. The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. The polls shall be opened at such voting places as 6hall bo designated at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, and close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the day of election, except in the City of Charleston, where the polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and in the Cities of Charleston and Columbia where the closing hours shall be 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and shall be held open during these hours without intermission or adjournment; and the Managers shall administer to each person offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, according to the Constitutipn of this State, and that he has not voted during this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Manager, who, afetr being duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and j count the ballots therein, and contln-1 ue without adjournment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the results for each office, I and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the t election. MANAGERS OF ELECTION The following Managers of Elec tion have been appointed to hold the election at varioup precincts In the said County: Antloch?D. K. Stokes, Lee Davis, L. J. Sparrow. Beuverdam?J. M. Anderson, L. H. Catoe. M. C. Hall. Camden?James Sheorn, Vernon Dixon, J. T. Haynes. Cassatt?W. M. Deal, S. B. Walters, P. R. Halt Charlotte Thompson? A. V. Smith, H. C. Arrants, L. T. Dixon. Hermitago Mill?Early Munn, Spain Player, Ezell Kelly. Pine Creek Mill ?B. R. Connell, Julius E. Campbell, W. J. Denton. Stokes School Houbo?B. L. Hatfield, Henry H. Hopkins, Baron L. M. MoCaskiU. Willie Brannon's?J. E. L. Brannon, W. M. Brannon, W. L. Hunnlcutt. Kershaw?J. A. Whitley, W. L. Phillips, W. R. Taylor. Bethune?R. B. McCasklll, J. N, McI^aurin, P. M. Arthur. Neds Creek?S. R. Johnson, W, LT. Seegars, John Gardner. Gates Ford?L. K. McCasklll, Lewis ' Dense, Tom Gandy. Shamrock?C. P. Blackmon, L. J. Baker, Binnle Johnson. Raley's Mill?W. P. Rodgers, J. E. Mangum, J. E. Davis. Buffalo School House?Ira B. Catoe, W. P. Sowell, W. T. Holly. Ratcllffs Mill?W. S. Stokes, F. C. Humphries, B. E. McGougan. Liberty Hill?E. L. Jones, L. P. Thompson, L. A, Perry. Three C's.?J. M. Croxton, D. H. Coats, S. W. Barfleld. Westvllle?T. F. McDowell, John C. Anthony, Nye Workman. Shaylor's Hill?C. B. Hornsby, R. M. Drakeford, Thomas Catoe. Blaney?S. W. Rose, D. G. Dixon, J. D. Bailey. |? Lugoff?Luther Jones, Victor Ward, Sr., H. A. Rabon. Rabon's Cross Roads?J. E. Jackson, John Mobley, A. J. VanLandingham. The Managers at each precinct named above are requested to dele[ gate one of their number to secure the box and blanks for the election. A. SAM KARESH J. H. SOWELL JOHN T. NETTLES Commissioners of Federal Election For Kershw County, S. C. Call for boxes, etc., at Sparrow's office, on Rutledge Street. B. E. SPARROW, Clerk NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Kershaw Notice is hereby given that the General Election for State and County Officers will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County aforesaid on Tuesday, November 3, 1942, said day being Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: Residence in the State two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and the payment thirty days before any election of any poll tax due and payable. Provided that ministers in charge of fih nrco firVItCwChviS wll ' public schools, shall be entitled to vote after six months' resldenco in the State, otherwise qualifier. Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, the production of his registration certificate and proof of the payment thirty days before any election of any poll tax due and payable. The production of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer authorized to I collect such taxes, shall be conclusive ' proof of the payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening: the polls Managers and Clerks- must take and subscribe to the constitutional oath. The chairman of the board I of Managers can administer t&e oath to the other Managers and to the! Clerk; a Notary Public moat admia iser the oath to the Chairman. The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. The polls shall be opened at Bvich voting placds rb shall be designated at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, and oloae at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the day of election, except in the City of Charleston, where the. polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and in the Cities of Charleston and Columbia where the closing hours shall be 6 o'clock In the afternoon, and shall be held open during these hours without Intermission or adjournment; and the Managers shall admislster to each person offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election according to the Constitution of this State, and that he has not voted during this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and If none of the Managers attend, the citizens' can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and count the ballots therein, and continue without adjournment until the same Is completed, and make a statement of tfhe results for each office, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the election. At the said election qualified electors %ill vote upon the adoption or rejection of amendments to the State Constitution, as provided in the following JOINT RESOLTIONS: LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. 1. Orangeburg County A JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend Section 7, Article VIII of the Constitution Relating to Municipal Bonded Indebtedness, by Inserting Paragraph 9, Relating to the City of Orangeburg, the Words "Purchasing, Developing, Improving" After the Words "Establishing" and Before the Word "Repairing" on Line Four, and the Words "Parks, Playgrounds, Airports, Real Estate, and Municipal Buildings" After the Words "For Such City" and Before the Words "Or For Any" on Line Six. MANAGER8 OF ELECTION The following Managers of Election have been appointed to hold the election at the various precinct* in the said County; Antioch?Jk E. Arrants, T. B. Blyther, Arthur Joye. Beaverdam?L. T. Anderson, F. R. Horton, W. F. Langley. Camden?Cal Kelly, S. M. Johnson, R. A. Purser. Cassatt?C. L. McCaskill, O. O. Robinson, E. D. Dabney. Charlotte Thompson?Mrs. Mattle West, D. J. Robinson, C. B. Smith. Hermitage Mill?W. T. Player, L. A. Robinson, F. E. Watts. Pine Creek Mill?B. T. Davis, A. D. Hurst, Q. F. Marshall. Stokes School House?J. H. Watkins, Mrs. Florence Vaughan, L. L. McLauchlin. Willie Brannon's?W. C. Holley, L. C. Marshall, J. B. McCoy. K?5inuaw C. L. Tl T. C. Bell, Henry Baker. Bethune?E. L. Kelley, M. O. King, Frank Lee* _ Neds Creek?L. T. Beam, V. A. Humphries, Wilson M. Ogbnrn. Gates Ford?J. A. Bowers, L. S. Brown, G. R. Crow. Shamrock?J. F. Baker, J. E. Baker, L. D. Mahaffey. Raley's Mill ? D. Eubanks, Minor Holley, Wilson Joyner. Ratcllff's Mill?Mrs. Llzsle McCaskill, David Outlaw, A. E. Watkins. Liberty Hill?N. 8. Richards, O. R.J Clements, G. C. Truesdale. ? Three C's?J. E. Coats, T. C. Fletcher, H. B. Gaskln. _ , ? Westville?D. A. Baker, J. J. Brown, K. C, Etters. ! Shay tor's Hijl?O. T. Catoe, C. EL Hornaby, J. H. Hinson. 1 y"" . . 4. ROSES AND THORNS (Continued from page three) you please help us out on the society letter which we have been asked to provide weekly for The State, Charlotte Observer and News and Courier. ? Just remember, get your story to the Camden News Service before Wednesday night of each week, aa we must mail it that evening to make the society page for the following Sunday. * Please eliminate personal items from your news story unless they are of particular news Importance. Of course If some outstanding personality Is a guest at your home?that's news. Newspapers from home are read "until they are worn out," Major George Shoemaker, one of the first soldiers to go to Ireland with the American forces, reported In Des Moines recently when home on furlough. The major shed some new light on how eager the soldiers are for news from home when he told about how they have regular routes on which the papers travel after being received by the soldiers. Anyone receiving a newspaper from home reads it first, then Bends it along the route, he explained, and "it's literally worn out when it completes the circle." But here's the surprise whiph shows how they crave some contact with home, meaning, apparently, the good old U. S. A.. "Not only do soldiers read the dallies, but we find ourselves reading the little papers from towns we don't know anything about," he said. "We first read the political news they may have In them. Then we read the personal items. Oftentimes we find ourselves reading with interest every column of personal items?about people we have never heard of." There is your cue, Mr. and Mrs. America. More letters, more news, for the boys you know In the army. Maybe yon even can send the home town paper. It probably rates as the best in the world right now with the boys from that town. * .This gasoline restriction may slot be such a bad thing after all, when n?r?nl#> liftnri tn it. Inateiul of spending evenings and weekends "going places," Americans may find themselves, to their surprise, "staying places," namely at home?and liking it. Most homes are rather pleasant when the owners really mettle down In them. This observation may concern the children even more than the parents. Especially high school' kids. Unable' to drive around in their jeeps aa turaal, they may adopt the novel expedient of getting acquainted with their own families. And they may find mother and dad, and even the ^ sters, ere not a bad sort at an'when once yon get to know them. * "' ' IJIunuy- Mrs. Mary Simpson, Jesse itOHS, Jrtfk ROHH. Lugoff?O. 1'. Jouea, J. A. Hell, 1. A. loaeborough. Rabun's Cross Roads?C. R. Hlylur, IV A. Rabon, J. A. Rabon. Murrain School House -Z. A. Catoe, 1. I,, Cntoe, Ira Kills. The iiutnuKcrH at each precinct timed above are requested to deleaie one of their number to secure exes and blanks for the eloetion. \V VI,IK SKKORN DOR I NO DAVIS D. K. RAX I,ICY 'oniinissioiiers of State and County Klectlons for Kershaw County, S. C. Call for Hoxes, etc., at Sparrow's RYiee on Rut ledge Street. H. K. STAR ROW, Clerk TAX NOTICE Tho tax books for tho collection of Itate, County and School Tuxes for lie llacal year commencing January , 1942. will bo open from September r>. 1942 to December 31, 1942, Inolusvo without penalty. When mnklug nqulry about taxes, please state the chool district number In which you Ivo or own property. Tho follow lug 1m a list of the total evleB for tho various school dlsrlcts: ' DeKalb Township Mills Ichool District No. 1 48 School District No. 2 88 School District No. 4 87 School District No. 6 89 School District No. 25 24 School District No. 43 24 Buffalo Townahlp Mills School District No. 3 45 School District No. 5 14 3chool District No. 7 26 3chool District No. 16 24 School District No. 20 82 1 School District No. 22 43 School District No. 23 82 School District No. 27 85 School District No. 28 26 School District No. 31 84 School District No. 40 47 School District No. 42 24 Flat Rook Township Mills School District No. 8 85 School-District No. 9 85 School District No. 10 26 School District No. 13 29 School District No. J0 85 School District No. 80 26 School Dlstrlot No. S3 85 School District No. 87 86 School District No. 41 85 School District No. 46 28 School District No. 47 24 W ate re? Township Mills School District No. 11 29 School District No. 12 42 School District No. 16 25 School District No. 29 84 School District No. 88 24 School District No. 39 24 C. J. OUTLAW, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. ; Soldiers Like Apple Pie and Doughnuts BOSTON.?Apple pie, ice cream doughnuts are the three wvorite desserts of U. S. soldiers. The quartermaster corps of the nr*t corps area reports in a surVtT that other top-ranking desin preference order are folate cake, cherry pie, coco** cake, mince pie, fruit cob* b*T. and banana puddings. When % EYES due to y Your> A COLD /cold*) ^DISCOMFORTS/