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is on her vacation, f tjp** jiway tor a week, My typist J is on her vacation. Prom the -Skipper’s Desk ■vS.my Banjo Smith, columnist of tne Co lumbia Rec(frd4> would like to tee a same of football between the Cam den Bulldoss and the Columbia Hish team this season. Banjo recalled a ^w years ago when Camden played we Caps, tome 10,000 people jammed Melton field to capacity to see the same. It is said the Caps received about $6,000 berries ^s a result of the same. Camden, if we recall correctly, received a few hundred smackers. And a Camden school official \(ifho told II - - , ,«i I**''**’®! hundred 4oliart worth of eiiile these keys play hidw and tej. I tickets for this attraction was re ts . « Inn buck. 'warded, with a couple of bucks. • • Hers lir « isle. 0" it is what I typist ■''''t'b, bting buck rlrini mack mu typlsr to me to mr L^hovk o beinfl bsxk ;ba«i ' I.unnrtaiit news to practkal-mlnded SSual? 18- the fact that more pro- ^fi-are being fired in Washington. " • • • i Seattle restaurant hat solved Its loower problem by letting iU cut- , wait on themselves, add up own cchecks, and ring up, their the cash register, if is meant by the much “return to free enterprise,” sweep the nation. old lady in our neighborhood de- that in her girlhood the lassies' U thought of doing the things ri« do today, adding fThat’s just the Mble. we never thought of them. ’ Sei Carl, “Never dreaming I’d need Main, I threw away my recipe. Does ^ne recah how gin la mddef” - Don says Frank Sinatra hasn’t got irthing he hasn’t'got. Women always IJ,ani when they hear him sing, too. • • • • ^ Definition of swing band—An aggre- itioB^of nren with nothing else to e but beat, pound and blow into In- miments that produce a nolae cloae> , ipproximating that of a* hardware we taking “inventory. • • • • f^es don’t lie, and under €gmmi- itlon some of them won’t stand np, Ither. It’s more profitable to know every- king shout something than somethinf host -everything. Some folks wave the American flag othey can. waive what it stands for. • ■ « Saw a man’s wig blow off during a (rong Broad street gale the other My. Then there waa hell toupee.’ • • • • Back in the horse show days th^ Doked terrible in riding breeches, too. So far as this corner Is concerned, if a game, should be played be,tween the . Bulldogs and the Cap's (we don’t think one will) we hjope there will be something down in black- and white from the American -Associaiton’s sub- cellar, by clinching the pennant. . Last year Milwaukee finished in sec ond place, and drew 275,689 fans to Borchert, Firfd to ahake Veeck’s hand at the grandstand'gate,, to see Man ager Grimin play the banjo In a team q iartet, and to watch the Brewers play ball. This year the team played to over 350,000 sjfbctatora, • • • Sing Sing's baseball, team has one of the greatest start in 'Its history. He -is said to be good at stealing bases. - • • • • V. I .wonder if the rest of you football fans missed the band as much as we did? Seems too bad that Camden should be one of the very few schools in the state failing to ^ot a high regarding the sharing of the receipts, b'all!ga,^.*^ • • f.'.— We haven't seen the Caps in action this year but basing the ability of the Columbia team on a comparative rat ing involving the game with Brook. land-Cayce-and the manner in which Camden ate the B.-C. gang up, we have an idea that history would not repeat itself should a Camden-Colum- bia game be arranged. • • • • , Sumter got away to a bad start with its peasoo’s schedule, dropping their opening game to Lake View 14 to 6. It wasn’t any fluke defekt either, for I.ake View had U over the Gamecocks like a tent. • • * With Hugh Cox a star in the foot- 4>all -ranks at North Carolina varsity, Carol* going at a whirlwind clip for Dickie strutting his stuff at Georgia, Camden—there still remains anothec Cox kid coming up, and who will be on the Camden Bulldog squad soon. The Cox family bids, fare to ^take the place of the .Clary family as South Carolina’s outstanding football family > - Baseball's most colorful combina tion clicked for the pot of gold last week. The Milwaukee Brewers ended their two-year trek over the rainbow The first thing a man notices when he passes an attractive girl is whether his wife is looking. • - • • • ^ A new skin lotion leaves feminine hands with the-fashionable, rough east welder’s look. • s ^ • She knew her. husband ha(j. been out with another woman when slie found a ptrange rivet in his jpockst. m m m ^ Over in Columbia I noted a sign on a garage which read “Only Ex perienced-’Men Work on Your-Car Here,’’-while just below It is another sign which reads “Help Wanted, . Ex perience Not Necessary.” ' • • ♦ ' Jack Moore stopped me Monday to inquire wha^ Waiter Wincbell means when he speaks of a bundle from Heaven. I told him that to the beat-EXCHANGE of my krtowledge It’s my laundry com-( STILL BUYING EGGS -., ing back. i xhe Kershaw CountJ- Farmers vide for their dependent thmf’^leaknig sufflcWnt funds to * permit higher much heeded because of living costs.' Average awards for old age assist ance In' South Carolina were for sev eral years among the lowest In the United States, but Increased appropri ations have made It pq^slble for the State to provide monthly .payment8« higher than those in any other south eastern State except Florida and Tennessee, according to ,the latest figures for other States published by the Social Security board. The cur-; rent average of $12.74, however, is still only about half the average pay- me'nT In the United Stajtes, which Is approximately $24.67. Say what you will—a band adds a lot of color to a football game. Our hopes were at top rahk last year when the band In our estimation reached a peak in playing and marching. \\Tiat a lefddwn. 1 . • • • The game last Friday brought out one of the largest “first-game” crowds we have seen in the pasture for years. The Brookland^Cayce team had sever al hundred followers in * the east bleachers and they certainly cut loose with all kinds of fire works. • • • it’s always the course Ex- Oh well, before that runs of twa loves never smooth. Kershaw Old Age Help Increases 77 p.c. The average monthly payment* of old age assistance In Kershaw County In August. 1943, was $12.70, an in crease of 77 per cent from the lowiest monthly average since the jpepart- : change Is still buying eggs and i^bip- weeilv. The present price Is 45c per doxen or 47c per ^ozen if the producer furnishes the"^ .* crates. Since starting the shipping of eggs In March, 1943, we have shipped 9.590i dozen which brought the participating farmers $3,256.90. We will continue to buy eggs just as long as we have a surprus. iment of Public Welfare 'sfas-estab- Cypil Butbee, former DeKalb high ofth'e' B*.i?SoolJ <7.19 Ih April, 1941. the game^—CysH axpreatcd the-4m^ Chairman Norman S^ l^lchards of that the Bulldogs would* take on the the county board of public welfare ^lumbia Caps this season. He be-! said that the department’s ability to Rhame ganJ.*"6Tdi‘*we*''* adequate provision for the • • • • , • county’s needy citizens is dtre chiefly to the increased amounts appro^iated by the General ^Assembly fop this purpose. Funds provided by the Oen. Assembly are matched by an Well folks tonight’s the night. From all we hear Sumter has a good team and even If It was a mediocre outfit compared to the powerhouse the, Gamecocks sported last year, those boys over yonder rise to supreme equal amount fro mthe Federal Treas heights When they tackle the Bull- ury. dog*. ’ * Two People should npt get lazy, bored and indifferent too early in life or they might not live long enough to enjoy the sufferings that okl age la bound to bring them. Between You and Me other factors contributing* to the county’s ability to provide higher Individual awards, it was explained, were allotments by enlisted men to their dependents under the Service^ men's Debendents Allowance Act- of Congress, and improved economic conditions throughout the State, which have enabled many families to pro- Tons of dead fish waBhe<l ashore rwently at Progreso, Yucatan, are declared by port experts to be victims of subterranean volcanic eruptions O.Ul'NHM A DIFFERENCE A NEW WALL MAKES Are your sidewalls drafty, leaky or weather beaten? Bar rett Muieral Surfaced Asphalt Siding is the inexpensive way out .and really makes an old bouse look just like new. We ate Certified Barrett Shingle Applicators. No obligation for an inspection and estimate. Address Your Inquiries Cor-, ceming Everlox Shingles to “H. F. C.” Care The Camden Chronicle, Camden, S. C. Buy War Bonds and Stamp* TTMTir fOR ME FOR ENSRiBYi Hfist-Coli CompiRy. Loftf lilMd Citi^ N. Y. Franchised Bottler: Pep*i>CoIa BottUng Co., of Columbia, S.C. Orchids and Onions Dr. Maurice Clarke, rector of Grace ihurcb. is'a well-read individual and ih^n he noted iff this colugin the eatement of a return^ American eoI- iier, which was also ^pressed in the liitorial pages of two metropolitan jipers that the British Eighth Army |u made up of Americans, Canadians ifi British, he immediately got In sn with the British Information totice in New York to secure in- .ftfiation. This column printed the hArmatiun in good faith and is glad s print the results of Dr. Clarke’s bquiry to the British Information WTice. It is in effect that the Brit- M 8th arjiiy is made up of 76 per cent Inited Kingdom troops, 20 per cent from .\'ew Zealand and India, the In dian formation including about 20 per «ot British personnel, and 4 per cent French; There are no American units hr ttra Eighth Array. , ^'e are happy to agree with Dr. Garke for we are on the paternal as »ell ag maternal side of the family free, 100 per cent English, that *‘glT6 ffedit where credit is due^’ Is a good tlown, m m m m Ltnnie stopped to give me a bit of •ound piiilosophy the other day. Ask- N me to pass It along. Here It is. Do you remember way back when we ground our coffee in a noisy coffee mill held between our knees and turned the crank round and round, with the ground coffee falling into a little drawer Inside? . Have you noticed that Hitler is really going down in history—down and down, and down? • • * • One of the-kids in, our block wants to know how come there is a shortage in every thing except teachers? • • • ■ Speaking of the Victory gardens— have you ever stopped to realize that a Victory garden is something you can’t live off of without almost living in It? • « • • We-notice that you can still get a 5 cent cigar, but it takes a nickle'a worth of matches to keep it going. • • • Well, the old yelp is on again about poor radio reception in Camden. This corner hopes Someday to be able to explain why radio fans in Sumter, Co lumbia and hal^ a dozen other cities we could name can get sweet clear reception, while here In Camden the air Is cluttered with the darndest static you ever listened to. The fact that this cdndftion is spotted about the city indicates that something is wrong with something. m Some motorista are wont to cuaa bicycles, but, did you ever see a cyclist leave his wheel' double-parked on Broad street with the door dpen? OUR FIRS^ CONCp»^lS ORY - - until it is WON “THINGS CAN»T B^ YHE. SAME“ *for ANY OF US— “Cuttings wood, is essential war work” says Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the - If’ar Manpower Committion We remember wheu^^^e used .td be able to you “same-day'Vdiy cleaning service, ^e member whe^'^ou had only to phone for pic or delivdry-'wnrice, and our truck would ^ your a4dfess. Well—many of our driVerlB and truck tires and gasoline are of o t>e war. Until they do—we'll do our best for you. But not until they do, can we'do like to. - Thank you for your patience—and lor whatever you do to speetTyictory! ^ We Pick-up oM Deliver PalmettoJ®, “P JujLpWOOD is ah essential war material, used among other things for making raymi parachutes ship* ping oontauiers and tmbkeless powdar. Ita many wartime uses nave created a shortage which is raindiy becoming sente. With these conditions in mind, the Wsl Man* power CommissMMi has recently classified pulpwood cutting and produetkm of pulp as essential war occnpaticMU. "May I urge every man engaged in this essential work, either part or fall time, to rive it the best he has in him. Let him remember he is wielding his axe and saw in the same struggle and to the same end that othor men are wielding bayo nets and machine guns. "I know that the men who work in the'foresta and palp inilla and the farmers who cat pulpwood from their ^woodlots are fust aa patriotic and loyal as any other group of Americans, Now that they realize the ipiportance of jtheir part m the war, 1 Mm tore they win respond with the extra hours; extra ^ys and extra effort that is the only possible answer to this dangerous Mortage.** DoKalb StivH. Phon*. S I. ' , w ApprovedJjy War Manpower Commission ' e * SPOSSORED BY WEST VIRCIMA PULP AND P.\rr.H COMPANY, . CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. GEH IN TOUCH WITH OUR DEALERS Now io th« tbno to cot or thin your tiiB'. b«r firhflo prioM aro Ufli and pulpwood bwdlyBoadad. CbT wiaaiy and tha WBiufinfaRf traaa wffl gaow laa^ and big • tar.¥a« foraatar ar MMiBty agant will halp yon adaet Oaaa krenttinc. EanilATBliow many coeda you can cul Than gat in touch with our local deal- ar, or tdejdioae, or write na for prkea and qMcificatioDA. L. W. BOYKIN, 2nd BOYKIN, 8. C. i JOHNJ. HOOD RIDaEWAY,8.&