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Letters To Mimi From Her Dad J Dear Mluii (iucsh your dad is a bit behind Mint'1 Nwver saw (>????|?t*? tlaiirt* in their hart* f?*t! before. Sinro I beheld this i are spectacle at last Fridays Victory Hall I have l?een |?Ut wise by some ?>f the beat Inforined "Jitter-bug'" fans i hat this modern niotlo a la bare feet is the latest fashion and is strictly in the groove." Your |>up In getting Homau hut beyond the ago for "jive" but because his ailing back and creeky knees won't allow It I til to Indulge to the full limit of exaggerated ''hw iiik" Is no reason for hint not to derive a genuine pleas lire from seeing the younger generai ion enjoy this st reunions and fantastic exercise' It's a queer sight to behold If you've never seen a young squire, bedecked in a lull dress suit, with tails and all. roll his trousers above Ills knees, pull off Ills shoes and socks and ongago l|i a bout of danciiiK that appears to be a cross between an Indian war dance and the frantic ritual Ironi a tribe of Australian Bushmen, you've never seen anything. It's without a doubt the most amazing thing I ever witnessed He and his partner enter the arena fresh as a morning breeze and in the wee hours of the morning drag through the doors of the hall, bound for home, dripping and panting, wrung out, If you pltvaso, and utterly exhausted from the mad antics of this "Jitter bug" routine. Seemingly they have expended more energy than a pair with two turn plows breaking new ground Hut. to quote: "If It gives them pleasore It serves It's purpose." After all. this new fangled erase mu?l have tin virtues. All In all, ll was the bent, behaved large crowd I've ever seen at a big public dance None of (he heavy drink,nk of an rat her day was in evidence and there were no ftghtH like those I remember that belong to tho , "bootleg" era of tin' lute twenties uhd early thirties. There was no throwing of beer bottles or loud offers to make trouble and break ut> the peaceful party. Tho dance ttseli must consume their en cryy and leave none of It to Hpare on (lie rough stuff And from what I rciiii m her of prep school and coIIoko days this Is a decided improvement. When t ho final note was struck everybody seemed perfectly happy to go home and get a good night's sleep I Probably many of them Hpent some j time picking splinters from their feet j and treating well earned blisters. Pranklv. I've heard some criticism of these moderns and of myself for allowing them their freedom from the I handicap of shoes. For then) I can say that a 11 1 saw was good, clean fun .\tter all. we're young but once. As for myself. It wasn't my business to tutor them on how to behave In public This wasn't tho fiVst bare foot dancing that Camden has seen and will likely not he the last Several well posted citizens say that th's is the only kind of dancing that can be found at the beaches around Charleston. and that such a practice has been common among the best people at Myrtle Heach for some time. Tho magazine. l.lfe, recently carried a story of how tho fad had spread to New York's famous "400." In other words, the barefoot Idea is not native to Camden? it's coast to coast fashion. I wan just behind time in not having henrd of it before. It was a revelation to me. * Love, Your Dad. I*. S One Camden lady described the dance as being like Saturday night at Myrtle Flench. Anyway, u good time was had by all. Apparently, all of the criticism has come from people s. Gets $35 A Word for Suggestion Franklin Myers, 26 year-old employoo of General Klectrlo, doesn't be- . long to the Author's League, but has received $35 a word as a writer, a I word rate that puts hlin In a class ' ! with the late Calvin Coolldgo and , Will Rogers. What Myers wrote was | | a suggestion for Improving radio I ' transmitter production and for the 14 1 essential words the company, through the Suggestion System, uwarded him a $500 check. Specifically, Mr. Myers suggested a change In screw machine operation which eliminates a grinding operation in production of a small worm gear for transmitters being made at the Schenectady, N. Y., plant, for the armed services. This will save approximately 6000 man hours a year. Before entering the employ of General Klectrlc last year, Mr. Myers was a stockroom clerk for wholesale drug and meat packing firms. igBBHBBSSH?I 1 MR POST EMPLOYEE HAS HAD INTERESTING CAREER (Continued from firm page) ,vents In which ho participated par ieulurly along lite Mlaslaalppi river. (letting back to the fistic game Taylor acted an a water hoy for "Ruby Hob Fiuaimmona at tho time the Corn simian waa training for his championihlp houtH with Jim Corhett, J tin Jet [rles and others. He boasts of an Intimate acquaintance with such outstanding ring atara aa Kid McCoy and NVolgast and Hauling Nelson. Iu recalling his water t>oy experience with Hob Fltzsiminons Taylor tells of a tame leapord What ituby Robert carried about with him. (letting away from thp" ranks of the sports cclobretles and dipping into tiu> realm of literature, Taylor speaks! uf his pleasant acquaintance with Mark Twain. Taylor waa working as. an electrician in the old l'eahody Hotel in Memphis when Twain was a frequent, visitor at the same hotel and whore he did considerable of his writing. Continuing along the historical sport trail Taylor refers to the fact that his mother played an Important role in the stage play '(lentleman Jim, starring James J. Corbett. She also played in tho offering "The Man From Boston." starring John L. Sullivan. During the Boer war Taylor made one trip by sea from Mobile, Alabama, to Capp Town. He was to receive $30 to keep 15 mules being transported in the hole of the ship on their feet. Mules traveling in ships in those days had to he kept on their feet all Hie time else if they got down they would be trampled upon. Taylor grins when tvo Tells or bow the captain of the boat demanded $30 as fare for the return trip to the I'nited States. Taylor says he refused to pay and was therefore down and out in Cape Town. Africa. Just when it seemed that his luck had completely deserted him he encountered a fellow American who took him to the American Consul who arranged for his return to the States nil a trump steamer. The trip lasted six months and Taylor recalls that lie was flat broke wdien ho again stepped on American soil. As a young man Taylor worked In Wyoming on a Union Pacific relocation rail project. The construction workers til that time were paid by -heck and it cost 25c of each dollar to get the checks cashed. Meat was scarce with the exception of mutton ind there was so much mutton served that today, Mr. Taylor says that if anyone hollered "bah" he would run like a deer. Taylor goes on to relate interesting Happenings occuring between the men >f the Morrnan camp and the men of h.- rival Kirkpatriek or Irish camp. He also tells of how horses were turned loose because of the high cost >f shipping them to Omaha or Frisco. This, he says, accounts for so many if tho so called wild horses in evidence* on the western plains. He dei lares that if in those days one bought a saddle lie was usually presented with a horse to go with it. Cheyenne and Raw-lings Wyoming were just single street towns along the railroad in those days Mr. Taylor points out. A can of beans cost one dollar and the only entertainment to he found was a saloon with its small stace show and tinny piano. Mr. Taylor retails that during the time he was in these frontier towns Kuhe Burrows, a noted train robber, w.i- keeping the authorities busy Taylor -aw Burrows several limes and a 1'"hough iln re was ;i big reward offer'-I for 111 in d' ad or alii e the train robber was so well protected by his gang that no one entertained any desire to inform on him. Burrows finally wa- killed by tin agent for the Sou -in in Kx press. Taylor recalls | with a genuine shiver how he was trapped in tin* snow on Sherman Hill, re h ghes- point in the Rocky Mntn jiit-s of Wyoming For three days he flounder# d around and then a changing wind carried the sound of a small engine to lus ears. He followed this .iuunrt and finally reac hed Fort Steele but both of his feet were frozen He also was followed for several days by a band of coyotes. Taylor, by reason of his long affiliation with hotels relates some interesting incidents relative to the hotel business. He goes into exciting detail of the invisible shrinkage which occurs in all hotels which to _ the average citizen means the theft* of equipment particularly from the guest rooms. He relates of how there has been a literal theft of whole rooms from a hotel. Taylor went on to explain that hotels today, base their room rates at a figure which embraces the invisible shrinkage. Ho went on to state that guests coming with light baggage had to pay in advance but where baggage was heavy as reported by the bell boys the pressure of payment was not so insistent. Wifh a grin Taylor tells of one "heavy" gladstone bag when left by an absconding guest was found to be filled with bricks. Taylor, in addition to the many incidents before cited, also worked as a government electrician on Alcatraz Island. He is also skilled as a painter, several oil paintings he has done being in evidence in the office of Thomas Mott, an executive of the Southern Aviation school. His subjects include a ranger from models of present day bombing planes to pictures of animals. Although ho has never take any j>ainting lessons, his work is unusually well done. He states that painting is his hobby. MERCHANTS TROUNCE GREASE MONKEYS (Continued from first page) natty caps, but as a matter of fact, w e ,] > not believe their iransrnigra:orv phenomena, whereby Hulldogx beeanie wild horses, had anything to do with the resn 11 unless t he .Mechanics were overcome with awe. For si\ innines the Merchants ran .innak: only in two innings did they fail to score. Boykin had the grease boys haft'b d completely for the first three innings, not -a hit being made ft nm Ins slants. Tile first blow to he yielded ?o the opposition catne in the Hh win n llorton gathered a hit that was recorded as a double. It was one. two and three in the fifth and sixth but in the seventh. Alvin Kelly, manager of the Grease Monkeys, saved Irs gang from the ignomy of a whitewash by poiing a long homer into center and sending Terry home ahead of him. That was the sum total of the Maintenance scoring. They did manage to register a hit in each of the remaining two innings hut that was all they amounted to. Better Grow, Save I Own Legume Seed Darlington. April.?The need fori produciug and harvesting local eup-l plies of legume, pasture, and other I cover crop seed In South Carolina | this year la very real and very urgent,! J. M \upu-r, CJemson (extension AAA I \?gent said here recently. I Informal Ion released from Wash-1ington lately indicated that in the! normal needproducing areas the 11143 1 production of some Heeds will be con-1 sidernhly below the needs, Mr. Napier I explained. Unless South Carolina! farmers this year harvest much larger I amounts of seed needed for establish-I ing and improving pastures and fori planting green manure and cover I crops, their efforts to carry out cer-1 taut soil-building practices may be I definitely restricted in the near fu-1 (lure. | It appears that a very tight situa-l It Ion exists at this time in those areas I from which South Carolina farmers I normally obtain their supplies' of I Hairy, Willamette and common I vetches. Als'ike and Sweet clover, audi Dallis grass. J "Soil-building practice No. 2 under! the l'J43 AAA program provides a pay-1 mem to South' Carolina farmers off one cent per pound for the harvesting! of cow peas, crimson clover, and vetch I seed, and a payment of one and one-1 half cents per pound for the harvest-1 ing of crotahu'ia and lespedeza seed,"! said Mr. Napier. "Details and speci-l Mentions covering tills practice may J I hi obtained from county agents and J county AAA offices. ?"lOvery?farmer in the state Bhould j grow and harvest the maximum num-1 her-of pounds of summer egume seed. I Any farmer who is in a position to I save and harvest vet(4i, crimson clov-l er. or other winter legume seed this I spring should do so by all means." I H Bran w For every hero on the fighting front, there's a mother on the home front, who In her own sweet way is the "bravest soldier of them all." She's the one who smiled through her tears as she said goodbye to the man in uniform whom her heart kept remembering as a new bom baby placed in the crook of her arm for the first, wonderful time? eighteen, or twenty, or thirty, or more years ago! For every hero in a war plant too, there's a mother busy all day marketting, cooking, cleaning, washing; but not too busy to see that his sleep isn't disturbed by day, because his is a night shift; not too 4>usy to give him a hearty meal whatever hour he gets home. Always sWeet, courageous, gracious and of good cheer; making the best of little, dcipng anything and everything which will help her country?-her boy?win, mother renders most distinguished service on the home front; and every son and ' daughter in the land salutes her! i REMEMBER MOTHER WITH A WAR BOND And If It's Good Merchandise See I I Belk's Department Store "Camden's Predominating Store" \ ! ' T ' - Western Auto Associate Store HOME OWNED BY W. R. BOWDEN F. C. Moseley, Mgr. ^ We Are Still Receiving "New Items" Daily Tennis Rackets Made Exclusively For Western Auto China Ware Four Different Designs?Reverie, Sprirtg Bouquet, Dogwood and Wheat FIRE KING OVEN WARE Guaranteed Two Years Come In Today . . . and See Our Many Selections of Useful Items! Dicky Cox o fthe MorchxouT^^B * home run lu the third. I R ><* Merchants 15 ^ j Or ease Moukoys % j Hutterlea: lloykm and llortou ami Moacley. W ants?F or sj? Received too lata for regutar FOR 8ALE?Six or eight cok>?, .,^1 Italian Beea In i>ractlcal|y Htamlard tin framed hives, J than the ooet o( tMiulptaem from dtaouao. M I t lnio nut St. Phone 5 J w ? \?v/l? STOP SCR U BR 1^01 FALSE TEETH y| Kleeulte end* messy, harmful ^SE5v-'W brushing. Just put your plaie or brldi*. fl work In (law of water. add t Uttk Kleenite. Presto! Blackest tain*, t?. I nish, food aim disappear. Your teetfc I sparkle like new. Qet Kleenite today at D?Ki|| Pharmacy or any good drUQQl?t9 STOP...THINK..! wuUTmcJJ :KSF mm O i Q 3 I 2f! *J I | jE : ! .. <& * RILL GLASSES ROYAL CROWN BOTTLING SUMTER, S. C. Sure it's fun to (Ml Btit?Sacrificing I Non-Essential Calls Helps I Clear Lines for Vital Via/ Calm You bet it's pfeasant to folk I with friends over the telephone, I just as it was pleasant to fokt m those long Sunday afternoon m rides when we had plenty of m tires and gasoline. fl But social calls must fc a handled over the same local fl telephone facilities as war calb. 9 There is a definite limit to As I j number of calif these facifiHn I can handle at the same tima, fl and when more calls ire mad* f some must wait. I With telephone equip?*! I already burdened with war cah I non-essential calls may dakfM necessary calls, so we an i* j , questing your voluntary < *! operation to reduce unnectf*J sary calling. fl Under normal conditions * I would expand our facilities &fl ' care for the increased voM#'! of calls, but we cannot do tWfl now because the needed terials are going into **fl weapons. M So won't you help by mau4m fewer local calls? And ?b*fl you must make a call, **'9 you please try to make if *9 ^ short as possible? I SOBTBERn BaiTflEPljJ iu maiir! cMt*! isinwaytt^^