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Our Annual Sport Bill COST OF PI/AY RUIW4 UP TO, MORK THAN HALF A BIIJIjON '¥■ by JOHNSON How much the people of tRe United Stages* spend on recreatlou ' nobody can figure with any very close approach to acuracy. but 1 the United States Department of Commerce has Just compiled some figures which indicate that 1 on amatuer sports alone we l spend upward of half a billion —five hundred million—dollars ' -a year. This is not taking into ac count any of the professional so called sports, such as baseball, boxing exhibitions, horse-racing and the like, which are more in the nature of theatrical exhibi tions than of anything, which can properly be termed sports. If tfte money spent for admissions tq such affairs were included, as well as the jnoney won and lost in betting on them, and there were added In the Intercolligate football games and other events to irhich people pay admission though they do not personally participate in them, the' total would run well over a thousand million dollars. But the Department's figuresi deal sol etliheyhwtetaoiMetaaa deal solely with the dollars and •cents spent in amatuer sports, the things people do themselves such as playing golf, fishing ahootinK. tennis, "backlot base ball, swimming and the like. And the figures throw an interesting light on the habits of the people of the United States as a whole. There are now more than 5.000 golf courses In the Ignited States And If you don't think that is »| good many, I'll tell you that it is more than all the rest of the world put together! Gol{ was In troduced into America from Scot-I mm M N - HHO^ honest reason I THERE IS ONLY one real reason for smoking and that's pleasure. A pretty good reason after ail. The cigarette you select in the long run will be the one that can contribute most to your enjoyment. Camels are made with that idea in mind—the idea that genuine smoke pleasure is what you want in a cigarette. \ When you try them you will find a refreshing difference—a mild, . / mellow richness of choice tobaccos—a blended harmony of fragrance, * silky smooth—that makes smoking a delight. , The fact that more millions have chosen Camel than any other ciga rette is a tribute to an honest product, marketed for an honest purpose. CAMELS I for pleasure I Company, Wmtton-Saltm. N. C «/ X "? I | i land less than fifty years ago. The first golf course in America 'a said to have been laid out at Sarasota, Florida by a group of yotang Scotchmen whose fathers iiad bqught half a millions acresj of Florida land for fifty cents an] acre or so, and sent their sons ovter to see what they could do with it, Thst was in the early 1880's less than 35 years ago, that golf wasel; .itaolnetaoetaoin that golf really became so popu illar, and its great / vogue has been a developemeritvof the past twenty years. .When you consider that it takes about 200 acres for a real ly good" golf course, and a few are crowded into less than ,160 acres, we have some ters of a million acres of land de voted to this one game at the lowest estimate. ,Most of It is high priced land, too, for a golf course to be of any use to any cpnslderable number of people must be wiOiln easy distance of a big center of population, and the closer to a big city the more. valuable your land Is. The invest ment in such land for golf cours es I* put by the Department of Commerce at over $700,000,00, or pretty close to SI,OOO an acre. I It costs an average of $21,000 a year to maintain 'a golf course. There Is $105,000,000 of our an nual bill for sports accounted for at once. And that doesn't count the cost to 1.500,000 golfers of the" balls they lose or the clubs they replace, to say nothing of they spend for proper clothing and other equipment. But at SIOO a year per golfer, which is probably low, and you have another hundred and fifty [millions. The total retail sales of sport ing goods comes to about $250,- 000,000 a year Dr. Julius Klein Assitant Secretary of Commerce states. More than 10,000 sales men are in selling spqrttng gods, drawing salaries aggregating above 120,000,000 while the factories making such commodities employ 33,000 work ers whose wages run to $40,000- 000 a year,. One of the largest items, next to golf, is fishing tackle. Our |national bill fo r fishing supplies ievery year is oversß,o#o,ooo. That is more than we paid Rus sia for Alaska In 1869. That is a lot of money compared »o what the average man of today had to spend for fishing tackle when he was a boy. As President Hoover put it when het was secretary of .Commerce. "We have indeed made stupen dous progress In physical equip-) ment to over come the mysferles of fish. We have moved upward from the rude but social condi tions of the willow pole with a butcher line, fixed with hooks 10 for a dime, whose compelling lure is one segmfent of an angle worm and whose Incantation is spitting on. the bait. We have ar rived at the high state of a tack le assembled from the steel' of Damascus, the bamboos of Siarn, the silk of Japan, the lacquer of China, the—tin of Bangkok, the nickel of Canada, the feathers of Brazil and the silver of Colorado —all compounded by mass pro duction at Chicago, 111.,- and Ar ron, Ohio. And for magic and In cantations we have progressed to applications of cosmetics to artificial flies and to wonders In special clothing (for the fisher man) —-to countless varied lures and liniments, and to calling a bit a "strike" Nor do I need to repeat that fishing is not the rich man's sport, though his incanta tions are more expensive.' Besides the makers and sellers of sporting goods, the textile, weavers, the manufacturers of clothing, shoemakers and others, gain from the production ofj sport clothes. Rach sport calls for Its own costume. The tennisl THE ELKfX TRIBUNE EUPCT WORTH CAROLINA play and the golfer dress differ-' ently and neither wears the fish erman's rubber boots. The other purely American game Is basket ball. That was in vented ill the early 1890's by an athletic instructor in a Middle West Y. M. C, A., who wanted a game which the boys could play in winter, between the end of the football season and the opening of the baseball season. Basket ball has become (he most popu lar of indoor games, and is fre quently played out of doors too. And in the past few years explor ers have discovered that ancient Mayas that strange race of the .earth leaving only great stone monuments and buildings now al most buried in the jungle, had a game much like basketball, play ed with an indla rubber ball which was thrown through stone circles much as are the baskets in the modern game. MKRGKRS Consolidation of several small enterprise to make -a single large OGe is not confined to manufac turing Industries. Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas knows what - he Is talking about most of the time, says that more than a mil lion acres of Kansas farm lands j ,are now bwned by corporations, and that recently the corporation , bought thirty farms in the I winter wheat region and merged them. x I I Corporate farming is more of i business enterprise and less of a mode of tiring than farming by an individual is. According to Senator Capper, these farm corporations hire men who leave their families behind, to go out in the Fall and put In the crop.j In Summer they hire other men to come in and harvest the crop.l The rest of the year nobody lives on the big farms. That seems menacing to the' Senator from Kansas. He thinks It will result tn a depletion of! the soil, through lack of crop' rotation, maintalnence of fertil ity and diversification. It is hard to believe that any grdup of capital engaging in business on a large scale would be so short-sighted as not to take those things into consideration and ap ply the most modern principles of agriculture to their enter prise. TH.\ UKMARKH It would be Interesting to; make a list of words which were invented to serve as trademarks for a particular product, but which have come into general use to describe any thing resem bling the original article. "Cel luoid" is one' of those words; it strictly means only the. product of the Cellouid Company: "Ko dak" is another; the same be longs to George Eastman's cam eras but we use It to mean any small camera. When you say "Colt" everybody familiar with firearms knows what you mean, a large caliber pistol. Probably nine men out of ten In the region where "five gallon" hats are worn refer to their head gear as "Stetsons." "Winchester" is al most a synonym for 'rifle'" And everybody refers to the abbrevi ated masculine underwear which Is now in such general use by the trade-mark of the first of its kind, "R V. D,'s." The adoption of such words In general usage is one of the ways In which language grows. A hundred years from now prob ably, nobody will say "dirigible" but every body will know what you mean by "zep." M)\(.KMTV Human life is not getting apy 'orger, acording to the men who make a business of studying vi tal statistics. The average life is onger because a larger propor tion of babies live to grow up. Fewer people die in childhotfd and early in life than formerly, out the man who reaches fift»- four, which is the average expec tation of life of every new-born baby in America has no better Qhance of living to seventy than his grandfather did: not so good according to some. Certainly the average life of a President of the United States is shorter than It used to be. Col. Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland, one of the world's famous sta tistians points out that Mr. Taft lived longer—to 72—than any other President since Millard Fillmore who died 56 years ago. Out of the first eight Presidents Washington, who died at 67 had MIIIIIIIIIMAYTAC - I Majestic Up. § || June 1, 1930 I J DOWN BUYS ^ N' B " YS 39 WITH 55 COMPANIES BUILDING ELECTRIC RADIOS §|§f S MAJESTIC SELL MORE ELECTRIC RADIOS gig gJS THAN ALL OTHER 54 COMBINED 3gS| ALL MODEL MAJESTIC RADIOS ADVANCE S II G NOW U " SIO.OO ON JUNE IST, 1930 || S Greenwood Auto Co. J| JjSjgaBMAYTAfi WASHERS^i§lfii^j|i the shortest Hte; John Adams, living to 90, the longest; the others were Bb, 83, 80, 78, 73, and 68 at their respective deaths The average life of the eight was 80 years and a half. The (our latent presidents who died aver aged only 66 3-4 years of life each; McKinley and Harding died at 58, Rosevelt at 61, Harri son and Wilson each at 67, Hay es at 70, Cleveland at 71 and Taft at 72. \ The job of President of the United states is getting harder, for one thing. For another near ly ail men work more intensely and wear out their hearts andi nervous systems earli»r than men did a hundred years ago. 1 mil NOW ; is the time for II CHILEAN NITRATE. I A ON'T take any chance* with this year's "j JL/ crops. Side-dress them with Chilean ! Nitrate of Soda—the world's only natural' j nitrate fertilizer. With prices and conditions ' as they are, it is more important than ever ! to make every acre produce to the very limit. I Chilean Nitrate increases yield and qual ity. Brings late planted crops into quick i maturity. It is the "make-sure" f food for i every crOp you grow. On cotton crops, IJOO7 supervised demon strations showed a return of $5.70 for every y dollar invested in Chilean Nitrate. On corn, 526 demonstrations showed that every dollar brought back $3.40. T . Ch Nitrate of Soda EDUCATIONAL BUREAU A 403 Professional Bldg., Raleigh, N. C. Order JS'otr WHERE We can supply your side-dressh.g ff\ hi iv requirements. But don't wait too long. ** Get your order in at once to make ~~ sure of a paying crop. H We recommend and sell Chilean Nitrate of Soda Rufus Simmons, Mount Airy, N. C. IW. H. Reed, Pilot Mountain, N. C. P. 0. Box 95 THURSDAY MAY 23, l&SO The average motorist uses 571 gallons of gasoline a year. Every state now imposes a sale tax on gasoline, ranging from two to six cents a gallon. The highest rates are in Florida, Georgi and South' Carolina and New Mexico. That is natural, since those states have the largest highly systems in proportion to popu lation and taxable property val ues. In Massachusetts where the jtax is only 2 cents and distances are shorter, the average motorisF uses only 400 gallons a year and pays $8 toward highway main talnence and improvement. Last tyear the total gasoline tax col lected in this country was $449,- '731,000.
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