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Palmetto Boys’ State
At Camp Jackson
June 16th To 22nd
Columbia, March 4.—Plans are
going forward for the Palmetto
Boys’ State, which will be held at
Camp Jackson. Columbia, S. ‘C.,
June 16-22, 1940. This activity is
Miss Matilda Bell And
Mrs. D. J. McAllister
To Speak Over Radio
Aiken, March 4.—For the past
four years Miss Winnie Belle
Holden, Richland County Home
Demonstration Agent, has been
conducting every Thursday a
quarter of an hour broadcast
period over Station WIS in Colum
bia. This hour is listed in Radio
Guide as the 4-H and Home Dem
onstration Club hour at 10 o’clock
each Thursday.
In these programs, Miss Holden
has been giving many valuable
thoughts, receipes, etc., to thou
sands of listeners.
In making up her schedule for
the next few weeks, she has in
vited some guest speakers for
these programs which will be as
follows:
March 7th—Miss Bessie Harper^
Aiken.
March 14th—Mrs.
Coker Alumnae
Luncheon
The eleventh district of the
Coker College Alumnae association
will hold a luncheon meeting in
Edgefield on March 9 at 1:00 p. m.
in the Edgefield hotel. President
C. Sylvester Green of Coker will
be the chief speaker.
Mrs. Gordon Alford, Jr., of Edge-
field is chairman of the district
which includes Edgefield, Lexing
ton, McCormick, and Saluda
counties.
Mrs. Wistar Harmon, McCor
mick County Chairman, is urging
all members in the county to at
tend this meeting.
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Lander Alumnae
Luncheon
An outstanding feature of the
Harriette state Teachers’ meeting for Lan
der College alumnae throughout
Mn. , , . _ , ,0 Jtorch Matilda Bell wl » be alumnae
f f ^ and Mrs. D. J. McAllister of Me- ^ncheon to be held at 1:30 o'clock
Carolina Department of The . . —
American Legion. It is expected. op ..
that 200 boys, outstanding boys
of high moral character, good
sportsmanship and potential lead-, TTT . „ ^ „
ership tendencies, will gather at Wtathrop CoUege
Camp Jackson for training in the * ciemson College
functional aspects of citizenship. , S> ., e f Q S ° n
Watson, Winthrop College.
April 4th—Miss Myra Reagan,
Thursday, March 14, at Buncombe
Elizabeth ® tree ^ Methodist Church in Green
ville.
The American Legion had com
pleted plans for holding the first
session of Palmetto Boys’ State
last summer, when the “Polio”
situation in the state made it ad
visable to call it off.
The Program, originated in
IHionois in 1934, has been adopted
by the National organization of
The American Legion, and last
summer was in operation in
twenty-four states. A total of 32
American Legion Departments,
eight more than last year, will
sponsor Boys’ State during 1940.
Hie eight new Departments in the
Boys’ State program this year will
be Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky,
Louisiana, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee and Washing
ton. Approximately 25,000 boys
will be enrolled in this youth
training activity this summer.
The purpose of Boys’ State is
“to educate our youth in the
duties, privileges, rights and re
sponsibilities of American Citi
zenship”. It proposes to teach the
youth of today constructive atti
tudes toward the American form
of government. It attempts to
show that our scheme of govern
ment has not outgrown its useful
ness; and that all a democracy
needs is an intelligent citizenry,
and a clean, honest and impartial
administration responsive to the
will of the people.
Citizens of Boys’ State will not
only be require^ to review knowl
edge already acquired concerning
political machinery of a state, but
they will find themselves perform
ing exactly the same functions as
real office-holders in the everyday
world. In Boys’ State, citizens
organize their own city, county
and state governments. They
choose their own officials in ac
cordance with regular election
procedures. They learn the duties
of the various city, county and
state offices. They introduce and
argue their own bills in a legisla
ture, justice is administered by
their own law enforcement agen
cies and courts. In Boys’ State,
the young citizen has the oppor
tunity to learn for himself that
his government is just what he
makes it. Here each boy “learns
to do by doing.”
April 18th—Miss Portia Sea-
brook, Winthrop College.
April 25th—Mr. M. H. Bruner,
Ciemson College.
Each of these will give an inter
esting and helpful discussion along
lines of interest to all farmers,
their wives and children, who
should be sure to listen in at that
time.
No reservations are necessary
for the event. Seventy-five cents
is the luncheon price.
The luncheon is an annual af
fair during Teachers’ Meeting
activities and is always well at
tended by Lander alumnae.
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District Meeting Of
Wofford Men
Sandy Branch H. D.
Club Meets
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To the man who honors and re
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who respects his name, to the man
who is proud of his descendants
this message is addressed. Your
family name deserves to be pre
served. remembered. respected.
What more fitting tribute is there
than a lasting monument of mar
ble or granite bearing that name?
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Makers, will gladly help you de
sign such a monument and are
experts in the execution of such a
design. Prices are reasonable and
service and work are the best.
The Sandy Branch H. D. Club
held its regular monthly meeting
February 22nd at the home of Mrs.
Sudie Jennings with Mrs. Frank
Holloway and Mrs. A. E. Willis
hostesses. Fifteen members were
present.
Mrs. J. B. Walker conducted the
devotional with Bible reading and
Lord’s p^ver by the club. After
this, buiincss of the club was dis
cussed.
Miss Bell was not present, so
Mrs. B. C. Owings, one of our
local leaders, discussed why to
plant shade trees, shubbery,
foundation plantings, fertilizer for
plants, evergreens and blooming
shrubs. She also gave best
methods of resetting and pruning
trees and plants.
A most enjoyable social hour
followed when the hostesses serv
ed congealed salad, crackers and
coffee.
The next meeting will be with
Mrs. W. R. McNeil.
Reporter.
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De la Howe Loses
To Abbeville
The district association of Wof
ford Men composed of Abbeville,
Greenwood, Saluda, McCormick,
Edgefield, Aiken, Newberry, and
Laurens counties will hold its an
nual dinner-meeting at the Oregon
Hotel in Greenwood on Friday
evening, March 8th, at 7:30
o’clock, according to an announce
ment by Wofford authorities
yesterday.
J. Perrin Anderson of Green
wood is president and T. T. Taylor
also of Greenwood is secretary-
treasurer of the association.
Approximately -350 former stu
dents of the 86 year old institution
are now living in this district, ac
cording to LeRoy Cox, alumni sec
retary.
Professor J. Hugh Anderson,
assistant superintendent of the
Parker schools in Greenville, will
show a motion picture of the
1939-Commencement together with
life on the campus as it was
lived last year.
Another feature of the gather
ing of Wofford men will be the
presence of the Wofford college
quartet, which will give selections
throughout the evening.
District officers for 1940-41 will
be elected at the meeting.
Abbeville took both ends of a
double header from De la Howe
Saturday night on the De la Howe
court. The girls’ game was rather
slow with both teams displaying
fine defensive work. The De la
Howe forwards were unable to get
near the basket, and were missing
all shots from on the floor. The
Abbeville team was superior
throughout in every department,
and while they got under the
basket a number of times they too
were unable to connect with their
shots. The score was 16-12 in
favor of Abbeville.
In the boys’ game the Abbeville
boys out classed the De la Howe
team, which is composed of very
young 8th grade boys, and while
they put up a tremendous scrap,
they vrere unable to hold the Ab
beville boys down to a reasonable
score. -Score 27-10. Abbeville
High’s team this year has almost
a perfect record, and is probably
the best team that Abbeville High
School has put out in a good
many years. Between the halves,
the midgets from the two schools
played, with Abbeville winning
5-4.
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Freaks Of The
Imagination
“ APPAR ATION S”
“Sho Nuf”.
An elderly colored man blared
and walled his eyes, cocked his
head, and moanfully grunted “sho
nuf”. An .expression halfway be
tween that of an exclamation and
a question. He continued “sho
nuf. Did youse see dat?” These
words came in response to a state
ment made to a friend, “your wife
was seen in town yesterday, com
ing toward my home, else I saw
her ‘apparation’.” One could
readily see that the old man had
become instantly absorbed in the
freakish play of his imagination.
So much so that he was fully con
vinced that the most realistic
thing in the world was the unreal
appearance of this friend’s wife.
It was the word “apparation” that
captivated him and set both mind
and tongue in operation. Im
mediately he seemed, as by magic,
transported into the realm of the
mystic. All standing by, noticing
his keen interest in the wierd and
unreal, yielded to him the floor.
He scarcely gave me an oppor
tunity to answer, “yes, uncle, I
saw some lady that looked very
much like this man’s wife, but
evidently it was someone else who
turned into another nearby home”,
before he said “yes, suh, boss,
youse is likely to see anything on
de change of de moon and de
moon done make a change las
nite”.
The trouble with the old colored
man, like many others, was that
he placed too much importance
to the moon. From the moon idea
he proceeded to tell other stirring,
superstitious tales which were just
as real to his mind as though they
were genuinely true.
One wonders where the old man
obtained these stories. By any
chance were they derived some
how by some of his white neigh
bors, I am reminded of the fol
lowing words of a colored minister
to the Baptist state convention:—
“If you white folks go to Heaven,
we negros go with you to Heaven;
if you white folks go to hell, we
negros will go with you, but for
heaven’s sake don’t you go to
heaven and leave us to go to the
other place”.
G. P. Lanier.
Highway Travel
Heavier Now 7
SOUTH CAROLINIANS, INC., SAY
Columbia, March 2.—Travel over
South Carolina highways today is
heavier than at any time this
season, according to a survey
made by South Carolinians, Inc.,
headouarters here.
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While southbound travel got an
earlier start than usual, the ex
treme weather throughout the
nation slowed down travel for
several weeks. On the other hand,
travel counselors point out that
many visitors to South Carolina
and other southern areas who
usually return early in the season
delayed their northward return.
L. H. Metz, branch manager of
the Carolina Motor club at Colum
bia, says travel registrations at
his office are about one-third
greater than for the same period
last year and that reports from
other parts of the state indicate
more travel.
C. S. Patrick, secretary of the
South Carolina State Automobile
association, advises that travel
directors and staff members of
his organization have covered all
through highways within the past
10 days and noted heavy travel,
with the number of out-of-state
cars southward and northward
bound about enually divided.
M. Bishop Alexander, secretary.
Ocean Highwav Association, said
travel was up 28 per cent the last
quarter of 1939 compared with
1938. Traffic counts showed an
increase for January and February
this year, he said, with south
bound travel still predominating.
A. F. Funderburk. Jr., managing
director of South Carolinians. Inc ,
in recent visits to resort areas
throughout the state, found
operators, as a whole, well satisfied
with the volume of travel and
preparations underway for han
dling the largest crowds of winter
and summer visitors in recent
years. Out-of-state travel in
quiries to South Carolinians, Inc.,
he said are increasing, in numer
ous instances the writers stating
that groups or parties had decided
to visit South Carolina this sum
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