The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 07, 1943, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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
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,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
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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
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Belk's Department Store
"Camden's Predominating Store"
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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
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Merchants 15 ^ j
Or ease Moukoys % j
Hutterlea: lloykm and
llortou ami Moacley.
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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
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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
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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
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