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Page 4 STANDARD AND WEIWESDAY AY 28 1941 AIKEN A MILE TRAINING TRACK A MILE TROTTING TRACK 7 POLO FIELDS EDITaRiAL PAGE AIKEN COUNTY LEAH IN RURAL EECTRIFICATION SOIL CONSERVATION FORESTRY Wednesday and Friday iMi AvwM, Afcam, A JUDBW ffsBMOKW Chantries ithe second elm at. office in Afken, 8. C. CAJUXS OF THANKS, Resohttmia, QbttSMsy Notices of benefits)) is to be-; charged, or a great.n«*s wfll be of-five cents per line where or a minimum chaise of fifty Persons writiag for nnblieation repaired their' names, otherwise the be punched. If ft is desired.

that the not 'published, it wfll be withheld ro it tains no -personal attack gpiiit. but t.n« name mnst be WEDNESDAYr MAY" 28, 1911 Cod able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, having all lufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. 2 Corinthiani 9:8 THE FARM PUMP I have a heap o' trouble With that blamed ol' pump; -the fining a-workin' Just keeps nie oh the jump. If the weather's rough and stormy And-it's twenty-three below. You can figger that, as like as not, lamed-old I used to think it mighty tough, A-plowin" in the stumps, But that was just like play beside A-fixin' balky pumps.

If is suck a place Where trouble comes in lumps, I bet it's just a sort o' place Where there are lots o' pumps. Now, I'm no bloomin" No traitor in me lurks, But I hope that up in Heaven they Will have some waterworks. SOMETHING RADICALLY WRONG IN SOUTH CAROLINA The following information will give readers of the Standard and Review some idea of the economic status of more than 20,000 families in South Carolina, according to the Fed. eral Works Agency, Work Progress Administration of South Carolina. These people comprising more than 20.000 families, residing most in rural districts, are living in a sub-standard manner' which is not conducive of good ihealth or decency.

Just why such a condition should exist in this state, when we have made work, "made prosperity" and various and sundry forms of welfare and government checks floating is not perfectly clear to this writer. But there is one thing evident, we must be in crying need 6f "something" to put things among the needy on a more humane basis, so that there will be no actual want and poor health Jfrom deprivation in the midst of plenty. are told in the daily newspapers that work is plentiful, for those who are able and willing 16 work. There is a reported shortage of farm labor, and anybody'who can drive a nail fir handle a saw can gel a carpenter's job from A.noje There are any number of defense projects under way in lllis slate and common laborers do not have have any "pull" or polit- jcjij influence to gel work of this kind- Under tin' we wonder conic" the good old slate of South Carolina, with iu multitude of government agencies passing out money and jobs, so freely, 1 still has such 11 large Viumijisr of people in such dire waul. There must be something radically wrong.

Maybe we arc too busy compiling figures, dispensing jjnbJicity and keeping case histories to do the practical thing and see that proper help is forthcoming'when and where it is most needed. We suggest that you and analyze the and see if you think we are right or nol- We quote from the report sent this newspaper. The words are not ours. More than $1,000,000 in additional defense contracts in South "Carolina 'was officially an- nonnced for April, bringing the fiscal year to- labfor She slate above $151,000,000 for the 10- month period. During the same period the 'WPA expended more than SI 1,500,000 on defense work.

By April 30 there were WPA employees the state'working on fense projects; More than .500 WPA employees have recently-been trained skill or trade necessary to the defense-. program, 200 of already have secured private em- ployment. The State Land Use has. begun a state unified agricultural program to analyze urgent problems resulting from the war and Jhe defense program. Farm prices in-' creased 5 per cenfin 30 days, being the highest since 1937 and equal to the 5-year average of 1909-1914.

Retail food prices are increasing. Contract awards, new residential construction, and new on-residential construction are much larger than a year ago. Bank debits and urban home financing are considerably above last year. Cotton consumption and spindle "hours are currently increasing as well as being higher 1 than a year-ago. South Carolina textile activity continues for the 78th consecutive month to leatl all other states.

7 Wholesale and retail as a and truck regist prpv in currentl better than last year-. Employment and-payrolls, both farm and. non-farm, 'are Experiment shows South Carolina per capita farm slightly "'above $100 per year and less for at-least half the state's farm families. sample -surveys show 'upward of 20,000 faini- lies, mainly rural, still existing in a standard of living not compatible and health and eligible -for WPA employment in April, in addition to the cases certified as of April 30. EGGS AND BETTER HEALTH The importance of the use of eggs in the a i 1 ou Id never" be" 1 osVsi gh tfof i an easy matter for farmers to sell eggs and raise a little ready cash, and for this reason some farm families do not consume as many eggs as they should.

Myra Reagan, Nutrition Expert, South Carolina State Board of Health says: The old adage a w.a"y!L-m be changed to "An egg a da.y helps keep the doctor away." It Ks a good idea for everybody day but if notTpbssible four, or five-a week should'be eaten. This is especially important for children. Eggs are" rich in some of the essential food elements lacking in a large number of the diets of the pep pie in this section of the cou ntryT High quality protein is one of die greatest lacks in the diets'and in no food is there better protein than in eggs. They are also rich in iron which is another one of the great deficiencies In our diets. Eggs are one of the few foods that contain Vitamin which is so essential for cHildren.

Eggs are also excellent sources of some of the other minerals vitamins- All in all, they are a well-rounded, important food. Tlhere are so many different ways of preparing eggs that'no'one should get tired of The eggs used in cooking should not he ignored in checking the'number you have each day. Before selling any eggs, the family with chickens should" coniider very carefully' these questions. Is their own family getting the number of eggs is should? Can they buy anything else of as much value with the money they receive for the eggs? The Oldfimer MCVIN6 CHOCKS, CTAV LIKETUW USEO TO-, i A60 EAST IN SMALLTOWN RUTH EARLE 'I that. I would not bother with thinf a I could not 'Last heard Kate Smith sing "The Last Time saw.

Paris" and suddenly I was saddened by thoughts of all that bad happened to gay, beautiful Paris, with her sidewalk cafes, her wonderful, shops, the irrepressible gayety of her' people. Paris in the spring and the summer, in the fall and in the winter, changing her robes with the seasons but underneath being always the warm throbbing 'heart of a great country. My embroidery fell forgotten into the sewing basket at my side as Kate's rich -voice Bang A SOLDIER'S OPINION The Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Record recently published a letter written home by a young man who iiad been taken into the army under the selective service act. He said: "We give up a year of our lives, the comforts of homes, and countless other things for barracks, hard work and duly from sun-up to sun-down- We do our part and do it harder than anyone at home, and yet it's the people at home who are doing the and squawking. "They kick about wages and squeal about hours, strike, threaten to strike, tie up machinery, and there you are.

The people wanted of them. Yet every dav it's becoming apparent that many of these same people think more of a few cents an hour than they do of their own children and relatives." The Record says, "It ris interesting to know what young men who are serving their country in the army for less than a dollar a day think of the highest paid workmen in the world who threaten lo block defense production unless they are paid still more. How much longer will die American people stand for this form of sabotage?" ENGLAND'S BOMBED CHURCHES liox score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21 seven hundred and fourteen destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17 Presbyterian) others damaged Anglican, '148 Methodist, 135 Roman Catholic, 106 Baptist, 98 Congregational, 18 Presbyterian). Six cathedrals (Liverpool, Manchester, Rochester, Canterbury, Westminster) and Westminster Abbey have been struck and one cathedral (Coventry) destroyed. 11 QUERY What's ihe difference between a lion and a panther? Give up? A lion is an animal in a cage, and panther what youj.wear.—St- Island Weekly Star.

DOES A COW PAY? If bought, needed dairy'products for a family of 5-would coat $214.50, recent circular from the Kentucky College of Agriculture. The items specified were: 1,460 quarts of "milk" 130 pounds "of butter. of cottage cheese. Progressive Farmer THE LAST TOME I SAW PARIS and a tear fell softly upon my idle hands. It is hard to accept the changing conditions of our world to visualize brave nations beneath the oppressors heel to think of beautiful France, helpless and wounded Kate Smith too, knew Paris and in her voice there were tears tears that she had turned into music, and unashamed I bowed my tiead and wept.

The smell of Paris in the spring the mighty si- ence of the Seine, the memories the peace of Northe last time I saw of Panders mandic Paris And then I thought of Charles, Boyer, the great French actor, to my mind, the greatest of them all, for to think of France one must also think of Boyer, who is France at her best. In his beautiful home Hollywood, his future secure, lis fame firmly established, a devoted wife and adoring mother 'ninety and nine might say 'Oh Boyer is MADE he will never have to worry about anything again." But, in every ninety ind nine, will be one who will be one who will understand the sorrow that this man feels his beloved France the sorrow the'helpless rage that one would feet at seeing a masterpiece mutiliated by a vandal hand. Charles Boy.er and iis. lovely wife Pat Paterson, have a home in Paris and it has been their" custom to spend a part of each year there, but now the old Paris is gone to return now would be to return to a changed the emotions L'really felt. I shuddered to think now "my typical American family would jeer if.

they saw me weeping for Paris. Life disciplines us all but to those who have hearts never grow old nor does the fire of imagination ever grow dim. Charles Boyer, born in Figeac, JFYance, and destined f-i'om birth to be because the great actor that he is because he of so called, friends no hobbies and ambitions that, lead now- where. But rather; direct driv- iug forward towards one goal the taking into his heart of only "tried and true" loves the holding fast to one ambition, that of being a great actor and he IS day we tell our children. "You must study THIS or THAT because it is good mental training, even if you don't like it." Young Charles, had a will, of his own.

He observed the studies he detested and then them saying "I would not bother with the things I could not In all of his life he has been like that, never cluttering his mind or his activities with useless things. I think he must be a man who conducts all of his duties and friendships and ambitious on that principle. No waste no long line knew early in life where he was going, and always before him he held the torch of ambition. I think the one thinK that impresses me most about his ohiMhoocl is his attitude towards his studies. To- order to meet sorrov -the kind of sorrow that one would feel at seeing a beloved child tortured.

So, in the magnificence of library, sitting quietly, hia dark eyes brooding, the frctt actor himaeU, dignified, able, hia'lwui great anguish a-kjUer sweet memory Paris I the last time he saw great so great that in seeing 'the silence, of my living; room to take from the, book snofves, liny book on the of Boyer. house -very 'still because some of his pictures find myself wishing that some of his scenes might be suspended in time made immortal and unchanged for "all people to see. Like. "Back a beautifully done thing with feeling and which he was truly Not Charles Boyer hut "(Walter he once, "I am NEVER Charles Boyer but always the character 1 portray." not to idle talk but he says is usually remembered like the', tnoagjsl early youth: "I felt the of my life work in my. hands and I was "eager to be about tile business of shaping it." And said, "Opposi i S.iW* delay intensify a 'study of People and their reactions.

In the School of. Humanity he 'has learned to be Any that the script ealU for and he does a finished job HE IS THAT TO THE LAST GESTURE!" And so tonight, I gently closed a book, turned off the radio, and sat for a long moment in the lamplight, closing all the little secret doors 'in my heart. There is a lesson for ils in everything in an anguished nation a beauti- lul song in a man with a burning ambition who looked the future in.the face saying: "I would not bother with things I could not May the tears in'his heart bring him a cool tranquility and a deep faith that the NEXT time we see Paris, she will be alive again risen from the dust of defeat with the i-oses blooming in Figeac, and BElACE resting like a halo above the L'Arc De Triomphe. MISS MILDRED HiUTSON has returned to her home after spend- t-he winter in Columbia. H.

RA'BOHiN. of Company 67th Q. M. B. Fort Bragg, and Mrs.

Raborn, Mrs. 'Pauline Frye, mother of Mrs. Raborn, of Vass, N. visited Mrs. Marion R-a'born of this city and also friends in Augusta over the weekend.

MISS' ELIZABETH MONROE, Home Agent arid Miss Florence Padgett, assistant home agent are at Clemson College this week. MBS. BRNfEST GARVIN has returned from Columbia and Duke Univeristy, N. C. She accompanied, her son, Pat Garvin to Duke for surgical treatment.

HABJiWICK of Bowling. Green, spent the weekend with MTS. Josephine Magee and family. Mrs. Hardwick is registrar for the business college at Bowling.

Green. APPLAUSE GREETS NEWS OF SINKING IN ENGLISH COURT Londan, May of the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck, which sank battlecruiser Hood, traveled fast today. At Bromley, Kent, the court nformcd by a interrupted case to make the announcement. A storm of applause shook the court and it was some time before it coutd resume the case. alone Md no one coold off my maak way to purpose has this it.

and A he. remark ad: that miut.draw from every. walk of IifV" this, he has made BLOW YOUR OWN HORN fc TTii liliiilin'M -V Or THD NEWSPAPER WHEN MARTHA'S' NOT IN PRINT (To my dear friend, Martha Lane) The paper is the same same nice size, The type is complete, "The COLONY" is fall of names, The ADS are all quite neat. The COUNTY NEWS still covers Aiken SOCIALS is the cream, But as I read there is a touch, Of "sadness, for it-seems Something very dear-is gone From an accustomed place, And SMALL TOWN feels forlorn "Because" "empty- space. paper's the I wouldn't for a Mint; think about MARTHA'S NOT PRINT.

So, hurry back old friend. With your philosophy and wit, Let us share your dreams again Thaf from Inspiration's Flame are Tell us what you think about, What mystery deep -there lies Within your, loyal, trusting: heart- Deep in your star-lit eyes, for though I love our paper, It wears a dark blire tint W'hen I open it with eagerness And'lffARTHA'S NOT IN PRINT. Ruth -EarTe Jones. VISITING MK. AND MRS.

T. T. CUSHMAN, during last week were Mrs. H. Morgan, Evelyn and sorr, Terry, daughter; Carolyrr, and Mr.

and Mrs. Joe M. Morgan, of Columbus, 'Mr. and Mrs. Mar-' shall Braswell and and Judith of Macon, and Mrs.

Helen M. Harbuck, of Americus, Ga. Annual Alumnae At Furman Aiken- County alumnae of the Women's College of Furman TJni- versity will be particularly interested this year in plans for the annual alumnae luncheon to be held at the college on Saturday, May 31, at 1 o'clock. Miss Elizabeth Lake Jones, alumnae president, issues through the press, a most cordial invitation to every alumnae with" the hope that -the lunchaon: this year will assemble the largest group ever to attend a comencement meeting. The luncheon program.will center around Miss Mary.

C. Jordan pei-traps the outstanding figure in the history of the college, whose portrait is being presented bo the college by the Alumnae Association. Mrs. Eliza'beth Robertson Alford, '13, will talk on Miss Judson as a pioneer in women's education and -Mrs. Kitty JJCcNeti Carpenter, '96, will give personal reminiscences of Miss Jurfson.

At leaat bw.w, of the re-union classes will bring to the luncheon alumnae knew Judaon personally and' who will pay tribute to her. Responding for the fifty-year class wHl be Mrs. Leonora in 'Roper, of Baysidc, New York, who not only studied with Miss Judson herself, but whose mother was a student of hers. Other members of the fifty-year -class coming for the program are Mrs. J.

W. Gaines (Cora. Ma'thewson), of Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Mrs. George Mattison (Lou McGee) of Greenwood; Mrs. J.

H. Martin (Mary Clyde), of Mont- jyornery Miss Eva Stringer, of Anderson; and Mrs. W. (Sarah Bailey), of Washington, D. C.

Responding for the twenty-five year class will be Mrs. Adelyn McComb Pruitt, of Hickory, N. C. Sixteen other members of the ctess, representing three states, have already indicated that they wrll be present. Mrs.

Emma Little Carson, of Marion, will apeak for the class of of 1931. Miss Louue Vaughn, of Greenville and Misa Louise Bailey, of Greenville, will respond for the ftveyear and the two-yeur classes, respectively. While an unusually large group of these reunion will "be the lunchteon, attendance ia by no mean limited- to them. Every alumna is invited-and every almna who can or connot be here will find, keen interest in the program..