Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Linguists Needed 1 In Naval Service Atlanta, Dec. 24?Tho Navy has an Immediate urgent need for linguists who are familiar with the customs | and areas under occupation of United ( States forces to become candidates, , Captain M, C. Robertson, USN, ill- | rector or Sixth Naval District officer procurement, announced today. Officers commissioned under this , program will ho placed on duty Ini- ( mediately and given four weeks Indoctrinal training beginning February 1 upon completion of which they < will be assigned to Columbia University with expenses paid, for one year, Captain Robertson said. The captain, who only recently returned from three years of duty 111 j^lPncHlc. said that particularly doHHklo were men who had had expcrlonco in the Far Fast, tho Malay 1'enlnsula and the South Pacific "There are a limited number of openings," he said, "which must be filled within the next few weeks. Candidates between tho ages of 2X and If) will be selected with view to-!1 ward their aptitude for lntenslvo j study. Involving reading assignments, I language education and seminar ills-I cusslon. 1 "We are particularly Interested in those who have had previous training in anthropology, sociology and the oriental languages, and experience in business administration, legal, satiRation, agricultural or statistical Ileitis." : Officers commissioned under this program will serve during and alter, the war. Applicants should apply to either of the following branches of Naval Officer Procurement: Sixth Naval District office, 721 Healey Hullding, Atlanta, (la.; The Center. Charleston. S. North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N. ('.; Lynch Hullding. at Jacksonville, Fla.; University of South Carolina, Columbia. Linotype Co-Worker Taken By Death Baltimore, Jan. 1 1 (Justavo R Krotzschma, whose work with Ottnuir Mergenthaler, on the linotype revolutionized printing In general and the newspapers in particular, is dead.1 Yet ho lived aiid died so quietly that his death?which occurred on Tuesday?-escaped immediate attention even from the men whose lives were most affected by his work. Monthly attendance in USO clubs litis now passed the 7,000,000 mark. Tunisia, Where War Rages Tunisia, land of hum and sand to lht% average* reader of war iiiiwh, has' 11 soggy season of ral:? and mud as characteristic us tho < lear. dry month*, nays a bulletin of tin- Rational (leographle society. In winter, i lot dusty roads become ribbons of mud. alow Imk the progress of limit and beust alike. Current Interest In l lo* weather Is heightened by reports that air and ground operations in the battle areas have been checked by the mucky condition of the terrain. Wedged between Algeria and tho hot Libyan desert, Tunisia Is slightly larger than the state of Pennsylvania, has more than 700 miles- of coastline exposed to the Mediterranean. I.Ike other lands that face this sea, It has a true Mediterranean climate. The summers are hot, dry and cloudless. Temperatures In the Interior soar to 120 degrees, but coastal readings for the year average about til. The winters, because of the penetrating dampness, are uncomfortably cold. Parceling spring winds from the Sahara, singeing vegetation and rolling great clouds of dust in their path, streak across the country toward the Mediterranean. In Tunis, capital and chief port, these winds are culled ''chill." In tho Libyan desert they are called "khamsin." Natives plug thier nostrils with onion to temper and 'Tool the air." Tunis wilts under the hot breath of this wind hut II also shivers in tho winter blasts that sweep down from the snow-chilled heights of the Atlas mountains. Little snow falls locally, but tho railway line linking Algiers with Tunis was once blocked for several days by a fall nine feet deep In places. Most of the fighting has taken place in tho northern part of Tunisia. It is In this section, along the winding roads and rolling lands linking such points as Tebonrba, Blzerte and ^Tunis, ttiat rocet^Lpaina have halted air and ground action of all forces. Most of the country's cold rainy weather develops in this region. I In tho tree-matted mountainous northwest the rainfall is heaviest with an average of about 30 Inches a year. Tunis with December and (January the wettest months, averages approximately 18 inches. Southward, t rainfall decreases, the land appears almost powdery dry, and the porous i limestone soli down the eastern coast tends to absorb every drop of moisture as rapidly as It falls. Here the average is only about six to seven Inches. In the extreme south, where 1 Tunisia blends with the sands of the I hot Sahara, rainfall is almost unknown. GROW, CONSERVE FOOD SUPPLIES ON THE FARM Clemson, Dec. 26.?"Home production and preservation of food is a necessary part of the 1943 food program," says K. H. Rawl, Clemson extension horticulturist. "By conserving food on the farm we make more supplies available to the armed forces and allies as well as to war workers in our own country," he says. Transportation facilities will allow only the hauling of necessary food. Machinery, labor to process and transport food, tin, and other normal i supplies are short. Every bit of food! producted for home use frees that i much food for the armies, allies and war-populated cities. "Year-round gardens, wherever it is possible, should be planted so the farm family will have adequate amounts of health-giving vegetables so essential in the diet of every one producing for Victory," Mr. Rawl advives. A good program for every South Carolina farm family in 1943 is to preserve and store as much nutritious food as possible for home use. Special emphasis should be put on raising at home the family's poultry, eggs, milk, butter, cheese, dry beans] and peas, as well as fresh and stored | vegetables and fruits and at least all the meat allowed the family under rationing. Town and city dwellers can help to serve their country by producing food where good plots of land are available and where such persons are skilled. However, the seed, fertilizer, and insecticide supplies are such that they must not be wasted on infertile ground by neglect. All possible home food production Is not only a patriotic duty but a necessary insurance that national health will bo kept up to par for the arduous war tasks farm and city folks alike must perform. CHALMERS HORNSBY NOW AT GREAT LAKES SCHOOL' I Great Lakes 111., Dec. 29?Chalmers1 TE. Hornsby. 20. son of Mr. and Mrs.! C. E. Hornsby, Route 3. Camden South Carolina, Ls now undergoing an intensive 16-weeks course in the school for Gunner's Mates here at the United States Naval Training Station. He was selected for train-J ing as a specialist in the Navy on the basis of a series of aptitude testa given every bluejacket during his recruit training. I Great I^akeg Service School offers I courses In 19 of the 49 trades of the I United States Navy. Maids Added to Seaboard Trains ' Norfolk, Va.. Dec. 31.?Maids are being added to the crews of Seaboard Railway trains as quickly as they can be trained for the positions. At Beaboard headquarters here, it was I #aid they are to augment the porter lervice now provided, and are re j quired, due to increased traffic, to : care for the comfort of passengers. This Innovation la being made on a system-wide basis, Instead of porter service being enlargd, as part of the Seaboard's program to employ women, for the duration of the war, | In positions normally filled by men. ? Eight Million Held Captive in Germany More than 8,000,000 men from the conquered countries in Germany and in tlftr-Naji war factory sections of France and other nations, according to estimates based on reliable reports reaching officials in London. Hitler, besides is reported to have demanded that Holland mobilize 250,i 000 Dutch soldiers for the German army and has ordered Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania to send troops to make up for Nazi losses in Russia and in North African fighting. Belgian sources in London say that since November between 100,000 and 200,000 workers have been deported to Germany and Northern France to construct fortifications. There already are 300,000 Belgian workers in Germany. "Virtually all of our young men have been deported," said a Belgian source, "and there are new round-ups among us every dawn." Mad Fox Terror In Kershaw County (Continued from first page) ipital but died 19 days later of rabies. Later reports regarding the activi- , ties of the mad foxes bring to light that 100 head of cattle on the Harney L. Dinkin farm in Lugoff, Just over the river from Camden, are under treatment after several of them were reported to have been bitten by a mad fox. In addition a dog and a calf | on thiH same farm were bitten. The fox was trapped and killed and examination disclosed that it was suffering from rabies. Warren Sanders, another farmer, lost a valuable milk cow and a mule as a result of an attack by a fox later found to have been mad. Shortly before Christmas. County Attorney J. Team Gettysi who resides in Lugoff, reported that two foxes, one definitely known to have been mad. were killed on the premises. One fox was found in a stable with a mule. A farm hand killed the fox with a stick. Later the mule died and It Is believed that it had been bitten by the fox. The other fox on I the Gettys farm was killed in a field 'and examination of the brain revealed it was mad. Sheriff J. H. McLeod has issued a I warning to all residents of the area i not to come to close quarters with I any foxes they may encounter. The I Sheriff sighted an instance of a few days ago when a farmer walking : along the highw ay was attacked by a [ Mx and probably would have been ; bitten had not a well directed kick i stunned the animal making It possible for the farmer to kill 1t. SherliT . MrLeod states that the present opidomic of mad foxes is not confined [to South Carolina alone but extends i over Georgia and Mississippi. He de[ scribed it as being a most serious ! matter. i ???????? Nobody's Business Written for The Chronlole by q*, MoOee, Copyright, 1928. ,. i, ? TEMPER RAISER* I wish somebody would print a good weekly magazine that a fellow could read from one page to another without skipping all over. 0 The average magazlno starts you off on a story, say?on page 11, and after you have read about 7 paragraphs, It says?"turn to page 22." You finally thumb through about 15 pages that aro not numbered, thou switch back to page 14?the number which you have forgot?and thou j begin all over again. --"- w After re-finding your story ou the lower left corner or the upper right half, you begin again on page 22, but by that time ?you have forgot what you were reading about on page 14, and you have to turn buck qml get your brain tuned in on where you left ofT, and as you try to turn back to page 22 to got a now start, you loso tho place and have another 3minute hunt . . . for your precious story. Having finished tiro stuff carried on page 22, you come to ."continued on page 53," and you bogin another.,-] hunt through unnumbered pages, ad- ] vertisements, pictures, sewod-in cards tolling you how and when and why you should renew your aubscrip- i lion, and finally?pafter you have forgotten all about tho story, you re-locate tho shredded ends of It, so you think! Well you read about 2 minutes and straddle a cartoon, and get an "ad" mixed up with the story, and then i accidentally drop the magazine on the floor and lose your place. You have io start all over again, that is ?you have to rehunt for the story from page 14 and 22 and 53. Just about the time you really and truly get Interested in the hair-raising, oozy-woozy finale, (that's what you think,) you come across these words: "Continued in next week's Issue: don't miss it." MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS (Please Help Me Keep 'Em) ' Resolved: That if I'have no sugar to put in my coffee, I shall not complain. Resolved: That If I have no coffee N to put my sugar In, I shall not murmer. Resolved: That If I have no sugar or coffee to eat with the meat I might not have, I will be satisfied with bread and water, so long as I can get bread. Resolved: That I will not undertake to tell the army and navy leaders how to prepare their strategy or where to open a fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh front, or crltl61ze them ."j for making a few mistakes now and ! then. Resolved:- That I will continue to fesl ashamed of our congress and i our senate when they play politics j and put personal desires and ambitions ahead of their countr'y^'jvelfare. (You can't do anything ftbout politics but grin and bear 'em). Resolved: That I will Insist, when an opportunity offers, that my friends (as well as my dnemies) desist from discussing the race question, the la bor question and the other fellow's . faults until after we have won the war. We will have plenty time then to go into such matters carefully). Resolved: That I will do without those I do not especially need, eat no better food than the average fam- ' lly eats, stay out of debt, buy -a bond every time I have enough money in hand to pay for one, attend church 1 regularly and endeavor not to get behind with my dues, and pull harder for good and better schools. . 1 Resolved: That I shall tell my ] neighbors that I love them: devote .. as much of my time as possible to the civic welfare of my community: apologize as soon as my temper cools ? off for any hurt or damage I might have done t6 my fellowman, and try with all my strength to be a better citizen, father, husband and ^church member. ? The tongue yields approximately 8 per cent of the oil extracted from each whale. A IT TAKES BOTH! - ? - ? H U. S TrtOJtiry Deportment 4 T- lcuu P*sr-tx/A*rro. Have You Paid Your Subscription ? Please examine the label on your paper ? it will tell you how your account stands on our books. Quite a few are in arrears and we are urging every one to give this matter immediate attention. All newspapers are trying to conserve paper and by Federal Regulation sooner or later, are going to be forced to cut off all subscribers who are behind. If you are not able to pay the whole amount due, come in and let's talk it over. We are hoping not to have to drop a single name from our list, but we will have no choice in the matter. The Camden Chronicle VVAenW EYES" DUE TO 7 Yow WMEBi k.COL?