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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. I>. Nttff and j % ? l'lilil labor*. k. N. McDowell S PuliliHlied uverfc FrUluy ut IHHi No. Hroa?l Stivet, uml entered at I lit* Cam-j ?U'll J?OMtO(tl<H? tH, HOCOIuI claHN DltlU mat ter. Price imt annum 41.AO. ? -.-?* i13!!S?XStt8K& NV? art* Kind to rwitlvi' (tiinmnnlca-' Hon* of a reasonable length. hut un1 linjh>rtiiiit condition of their puhllca eton Ih that tjiey atialt tn all case* U> accompanied by tlx* full name and) nxact a<IUr?xH of tbe *en<lt?r. Obitu aries, rcSolllttoDH of r?Ut|MH't, 1111(1 church notice* will not lit' eharg?'d for Mat tern of purely a (hthoiiuI nature will j i?e elmik?nI for at the rate of flvc cent* m line. Whiskey or patent medicine ll<IVITtlHiMU??ntM will not In* HCCUjltCil ut any prho. Raton for display adv?*r- : ' IsIiik mftde known on application. Caimlcn, H. ('., Mil) 1H, 11> 17. \VAK TALK AND TAXKS. I l)ilii?tr Wade II. Harris, of tin- Ohar lotto observer. has 1 >???? n on a visit i ??? Washington and ha* .sent hi* read- ! its sonic highly interesting ii)f<ir111ji- ? Moil which lit* wit.; able to gather at ; Washington Anions souk* ot the most interesting things In* says: "When we ft'iiM that there is :i war . tax of |?*? i* capita annually on] every household, that sounds form id - able. The unthinking may conclude at once that they are ruined. Hut It really means little. The fact that the |H*r capita Is on every household does not necessarily indicate that every household actually Is to pay that much. The per capita wealth ?>f the United States in UU.r?, was $bD.f>N. It is much greater now. No one will con tend that every person in Charlotte has the $:m.r>K III his pocket which the] Government said lie had in IWlo. ot i the more than that it says he now ' has. Tin* "|>er capita" is somewhat of a delusion when applied to the prac tical things of life. It does not ill - ! ways mean Just what the economist ! argumentators would have it mean, j As a matter of fact, the war tax. he- | ? ?ause It iv graded up, l>ears llirhtly j ufx>n th?vse least ahle to hear it. and i heaviest oil the fellows who have the] money to spare "As an instance, who would ni t he willing. oven clad. t<> pay a ; ear , for the delightful c\J?orioriee -f IMill- 1 i*ig dow n a -al."ry of The j man with $l.'?"o pa\- ?lo on the j fho;i?.,i;d The .<r?.o(Hi-a!.i; \ man pays j <do a vt-ar. and s.. on up until we j get Into lass of the millionaires. ( It Is (hore the ligure become inter ] estlng. The American with an income; of one million dollar- a year pay- (lie ( Government each \ear the sum of j S.'ISO.L'JO The IM.111 with h i < H Hi j l>arts wi'!: < 1 'J'J'i. which i- it | retty ' comfortable division f >r I nolo Sam. "The drink tax i- e\|>e>-ted to bring! in SI 71 'xui.(nMi a >ear. but of this ; .<?_'(i.<'<m? ia o renre-ent ?' t-oiia water foiin- j tain tr-ol<v The balance. and it Is a j (?rettv h?*ft v ot'i>, '?''inp" altogether ? from ? >!d .lohn J'... in -onie shajor another The people who ehow and smoke will the lir-.f year eontrlhute Strange to say. as much as .f'J.OOO.OOO of tills Would he oil snuff and only $2uO.OOO on cigarettes The eollin tack always seems to have >i lucky Tin* iiuroinohilc people j will pay a tlrst year tax of $0^.000.000. | This is on machine- On tiros (hey will pa\ SIMHXKL The gun;chow I ers are levied upon to the extent of an even million dollars. j "As to the war and what is going: on io meet it hy this country the] im'ople here kiiow just as much as | the people of Washington- -outside the] I>opartmeut>. The puldio has a fairly g*><k 1 understanding of the movements in the Army, hut its to the movements i on sea there i- not the slightest ink- ] ling Maybe a iia<al c\|>edltion is alreadv under way: nvi\be United States -hips are on tl.c other -ide and : ready to join in the /"-operative work with th ? A11 i?ml naval tleoN. . r niuyh<* the different units <.f the Navy arc asceniblr-'l at convenient points waiting the order- which will prove the start of the eauv ?ilgn ag.iln-t the suhnia rines. Pa t of the actual prejviratlons along the sjiore lite- and at sea. all is ! :t 1 Ir M!. ' Vm' of tflPSP (In v^. norhnp'- I' i: ? j. vo *i; r ?xv?f i 1115 it. the par m*s *< i!! irr\ ; ''If naval news w hi. h w id lrr ? d rrprrriti 'n< to lie foi-JOt te| f V ' !??? t! Ml ? "As to the H11- i t' ;on The observer f> un;l ?;M<,i. 1 oojnlon united tliat Is. on the ixiii. - f itu.sian do r^ ndonce No one hi orh.-:_nl Wa-hln* ?oil confoitl1?latod the ;>??-.i*?:!' y < f ll'.i sla negotiating a ?<var 'te ivao *. ' Mio ? rj.rr hand. iT y^riv< <-nre. nr.! i <(, regarded, that the P.ritl-h and A Pes nil western frort roav rxrerr . f"rrlvr aid from Ilussia. 1 ks-*nii<e .f the fact that her ea-tern line h held jx?nnnne'?tlr .'it hnv hy the fler mans. The compensating feature '??? that so long as this condition last* ? will l*? Impossible for Germany to withdraw any part of her army from the eastern front. Tt Is In this situa tion that fh*> United Rtaes Is expect ed to (^>me in for n Rignlfloant j<irt with the flag ?Piter. HANMILW" A MVTH. one of the inoHt disgusting clinray tci'N a Hcwspajier has to deal with in the fellow who .semi* till aiioityiiioii* . ..mmimical ion. or oiw w im he liili I a utili deplume. Til? Chronirlc In Uh issue uf April 117, curried a iu-v\> it?.*ui f4*!1!iik "t 1 ,U! Juui'riiiKO "f 1 ii young lady to "Prof. J huh* H. 1 laiiiilliiin of liaHiborg." Bidievlng in iltf /iiMlifiitit> of the item whlrli A as nfllt to (IS through tilt* mail n <? published it Hi gOoil fultli. It ha-* ?iu>-f tin <v lift I ii i ton us that I ho >tuJUU I: i < 1 \ WHS never IIUUTUmI iiikI t It ii t "l'it?f. ilannlhau' was n myth, aii'l lli.it I lie* souilor tif the coiitillUlil t11<>ii desired to uiit\ out xoinr sol H-li in. ?t i \ ?* in furnishing us with tJili pift f uf "iit>A\ s" ? o|?\. I ait-kit.v for us, iifti-i1 sfairchluK through several hales ? if ??Iti waste pii|M-r w i* found tIn* copy and have ft >n lit I (tut beyond a doubt tin' ii hi lit >r of tlif | >i?m -?? of "news". To lit- absolutely certain thai there was no such |m'I'hi>ii as "I'rof ]lannilian" ivc addressed ii <-?iiiiiuui)lt'ilt loll to tin* Ilamhfrg 1 lor.iM and received the fol lowing repl> "I have sour t'n\or of I ho i >t lit insf I In reply I beg to ..iy that 1 know nothing of -.in Ii ii ivi'.oii us .1 a mi's , S 11 ii ii ii i I in 11. ( have mailt* inquiry, at llii* lot nl |mi .fiiM'.-i.. ami ascertain that >ut h |mtmjii docs ?n?|. receive mail i here. I know every iiiulo tcachcr In J Hambcrg .oiinty, ami nom* of them hear this name. I am ooiiihloui that there is i o person in this county hy that name. I should tffin this a rather M1 lit'u?? matter, ami I think }oil art*; fort una it* In knowing the author. Nat- j lirally, ?.f t niirsf, y.?u would not have) pii 111 ft I thf item hail you not known j il?? t.rii;in " t Tin' (.'hroniole !s always glad to re ceive any news item provided It is j uivrn fads and accompanied hy the real iiann* of the sender, hut making a Jest of things like ahovo does not appeal to a reliable newspn|?oi\ If it were not for giving some innocent parties undue not ninety we woultl pub lish the name of the sender of the communication and how we came into possession of the facts. Hut we feel ourselves fortunate in learning thb fellow who tiled to put one over on us. Wo might add that the sender ? ?f the communication is a well known citizen of Camden, standing high In business ami political circles and In* should have known better. The llrotherhood of Man. The man who lives in this world only t<? satl<fv himself renders a great benefit on his fellow-mnn when he dies. He rids the world of a pest. Wo arc living In ail age when the brotherho?>d of man con be appreciated It is the age when tlit? skies arc dark, and when tin1 gloom of the atmosphere Is :t little alarming. Men's iieaits must not he set against one another. Men must stand together. We must also roniomlier that united we stand, and that divided we fall. 1'nion dot's everything when it is |>er feet. it satisfies desires, simplifies needs and In men a consistent stand by to the nation In trouble. Hut this is the May of tho brother hood of man. when wo must stand 'together and help each other in a day of crisis. We must take this to heart and rea lize the fact that there is hut one real virtue, and that is the virtue of eternal self-sacrifice. We are on the threshold of an un known expedition. We do not know just what we will have to do, or what will he demanded of us. In the school of Pythagoras it was n point of disci pline among probationers If there were any who grew ^liliry of studying to be useful and re turned to idle life they were to regard them as dead, and ui?on their deporting to perform their obsequies and raise them tombs, with inscriptions, to warn others of like mortality and quicken them to refine their souls above that wretch ed state ?Memphis Connecticut Ap 1 H.-al. Camden is usually a neat and well kept town, tint there are some places which need attention livery citizen should help make and keep Camden 1 nnd ^pan. and the place to start is on his own property. Wouldn't it !??? .i spb-ndid thing for the town to be kept that ? \ery automobile t air Nt who i'IHues through w.iuld be ini pres ?(1 '> 1 Impe.-.ir William recognize ? ? st.ii, of war with the 1'nited States s,. f;!|- .i^. his NTsimal comfort is conecrncd. This i> show n b\ the fai't that he h is sumtiiom-d Vis American dentist. A: 'bur Newton Davis, of Piqua, < >hio. ' > visit him at Croat Headquarters this week and at fond t > tho nocos i !?;? repairs to the Imperial teeth, says ? '??("'iihai-'en dispati h Frederick T. Keidt, who recently was honorably discharged from tho Fnitod States Army at San Antonio after serv ing as n soldier for thirty years', has been sontonce<l by a militnry court martial to servo two years In tho Fed eral i>enltontlary at Fort leaven worth for making remarks regarded as dis loyal to tho country and derogatory to President Wll*on. ! Four Camden Iwokx have IkxikIi! j a half |??ge apace 1i> the Camden Chronicle fur Hjfht yvd'ks. TIwho j haiikn are usIiik this apace to In form j the farmer* of food conditions through | out the oouutry, and to Hrjce them U> raise their own tmpplics at hpute. Thl* a novel move, and a very com mendable one. AH new*pa)>ertf are willing ami anxious, of coiirao, to la* of service to the farmers ax well an | everybody fine, but (tie hanks realize I that the iiewrtiMiiNM* men have to live I ax wo) 1 as the farmer*. If the hanks (??an use this space to help , the farm ! oik to iHH'onn* iiiojo pros|M?rou*, the i farmors in turn, w ill help the banks and | make them more prosperous. While it is 4i hushies* |>ro)M)sitioii with the imnks, ii Ik a movement that tends t?? make' the coinjjry around Camden Ind-c ter. and vso ladieve (hat the farmers will not only appreciate this effort, l?i( that many <?f them will accept the stiKp'stloos and seek to profit there by.? Itnniliortf llerald. In uii uddre*s l<> the jwople of North Carolina Governor T. \V. Blckett says: "All forms <>f Id leiiess ami waste of time should I??' discouraged. I love a game of baseball. l>ut it scents to ni<? that the Summer of 11>17 Is no t iin** for professional baseball, and 1 think nil professional leagues should bo disbanded. The man who is able !<? play professional baseball ought to he either In a trench or in a furrow. And the "fans" and "fannies" who hold down the bleachers can find rcH'oiujHMise and recreation in a corn tlehl. 1 >4*t the automobile Joy ride I*. Kiven up entirely. Surely this much of self denial can he practiced by everj man in the State. If every man who owns an automobile would cut hfs gasoline hill half in two much would he saved to meet the necessities of the people and a vast quantity of gasoline would be made available for the uses of war." Two months of campaigning for a million gardens in Uie United States arc estimated to have turned the at tention of more than thirty million people to the task of producing food. John T. Duncan, Columbia attorney, known throughout South Carolina ns a former candidate for governor, may go to France in the division that Roose velt has offeriHl to raise, if congreas allows him the authority. Mr. Dun can has written Mr. Roosevelt offer ing' his service and has been inform ed his letter has l>een placed on flic !?>r reference when the power to raise a regiment is granted the colonel. Mr. Duncan's patriotism is thorougly aroused now, as it was when the troops were ordered to Mexico. At that time he offered his services to Governor Manning. Since the decla ration of war upon Germany by the United State*. Mr. Duncan has at tempted to enlist in the navy hut was turned down due to his age. al though he is well qualified otherwise. ? Federal food investigators have found that textile workers of North and South Carolina arc aiding in the increased food campaign. They have found that each of 54N families are raising crops valued at $.'iO in gardens containing about fifteen hundredihs of an acre. Smiles are measured by joy, not by dollars. Carry a good assortment uf smiles with you as a side line and pass them out freely. Somewhere in your mental and physical make-up is a smile accelerator. Step on it hard and often. You'll use no more fuel and will get more pleasure out of your work. Tf you want to call np ? real, large, joy-giving smile just dig up some of your past troubles and look at them. You can't help but smile out loud to sec. how small they have grown. Wonder if the German "Murderbund" really believe they can defeat the United States? Our country has more ready and available "cash" money than all the other nations of the world combined?and it is a fact that money talks longer in war than the biggest gun <>n the front. Our country will In due time show the world what we can do in the art of war and at the projH-r time will deliver a smashing blow at the murderous Germanic na tion ? Hock Mill Record. it:i million men in the United States \\!!1 be subject to the selective c>:i?.cr!ption on July 1. within the ages agreed upon in the conference report oil the war army bill, Director Rogers i'f the census bureau announced last Saturday. The number of men be tween the ages of 21 and .'!<?, inclusive, reprevciiis very nearly 10 i>cr cent of the total estimated imputation of l>e tWeeli lUl.OOO.OOO and 101,000,000 on July 1. 1017. Of these conscription eligible* the bureau estimates Alaba ma will have 200,000. Arkansas 150,000, Florida JH).3o0, Georgia 255,100, Ken tucky 202.200, IvouLslana 171,000, Mary land 121,000, Mississippi 175,100 North Carolina 101,100, South Carolina 137,100, Tennessee 105, 080, Teias 420, 200. Virgnia 180,400. The Ciooii of It. Must jMople ran sov notbiug but mil In the present wIhIh. The war is 011! Death aiu! destruction lie In wall! KvcrylHKly will .starve! Clothing will gtrrwit, whoes will give out, awl mi give/out, f?HHl will tflvo outfit I W u long, doivful wall that wo li^ar from some of the## sad faced i*viHluilsls. Hut there is Just this about It: No man is \\ IiIi>ik??I until be surrender*, and no man Is worthy the name who doc* not fare impending calamity with a sciviif mind and a deteruilnation lo fight. The ability tu battle on ami on and on in the face of many barriers ?this Is the (|iuility of manhood that bul'd* nationa, that Itohls society to gether. that sustains laws and leaves t<> (H^terlty an heritage worth hav ing The latest howl we hear is the frrnxled cry that starvation Is upon us! li is ridiculous, bul neverthe less trhc thai many are scared silly. W e vrcn <>ue good In tiie situation: )Ve have been a nation of wastrels. WeJ have been throwing away enough to ns going. The present situation i..' teaching us t? > economize. The sin of wastefulness Is to Ik? laid at the door of 'the rich man and the j>oor man Hoth alike have been sinfully wasteful. We are irtl beginning to think, ealeulate, measure our resources' and to husband them. We are going to eliminate much of the lost motion in our system of living. We are going to value money more than we have heretofore done. And we are going to stop the fearful waste that has been going on In every direction. We do not hesitate to continue tu warn the people of the necessity for raising gard<w products, food and for age products. Let this good work go on. Hut do not get the habit of fear. There is nothing to fear. Let each one stand forth a man, unafraid and unconi|iicred. Ix?t us meet our situ ation in such a way that the future will not bring shame to ourselves at a later day. What if we do have to do without some of the luxuries of life? It will improve us. morally, mentally ami physically so to do. If from a year or two we must needs be held to a very common diet, it will be good for us. Wo have been living at a rapid gait. It will help to slow down a bit. And it will do us good to have to work and plan and face our problems. It does people good to have to think. It spoils a man to have every luxury of life handed out to him without effort on his part. It causes him to lose sight of the fact that money is the price of toil. It gives a man a distorted and foolish view of life. A few strong jolts to our swift-moving American' life will help all of us.?Union Times. ? A I'nited States senator advocates hanging the food speculators. Hully! Hut don't waste a ]>erfeetly good piece of ro]H>?any old dirty tiling is good enough for them. Commenting on the action of .John T. Duncan volunteering to go with the Iloosevelt expediton to France, the Anderson Daily Mail, humorously expresses the hope that in connection with that oxisedition it will never he said that "Duncan also ran." The Atlanta Constitution is author ity for the statement that a well AnnwTT Georgia lawyer has reformed and gone to fanning. 'The center of interest in tiie world wui: seems to be whether Russia will remain loyal to the allied cause or make a separate peace. The Wash ington authorities evidently seem to think that Russia will remain true for they have Just made a loan to Rus sia of one hundred million dollars. The HritUh admiralty statement for the week shows that there lias l>cen a great falling off in the Vest ruction of merchant ships by German U-lmats. A news dispatch from Ashe\ ille, N. C., states that a hull hutted a double header freight train from the track and that fireman Lloyd K. Enloe was killed and two others were slightly injured when the second engine turn ed over. Mrs. May Adams of Atlanta was acquitted in Macon, Ga., last week of the killing of Oapt. E. J. Sperling of the Fifth regiment, Georgia Na tional?Guard. whom she shot to death at Macon last August at the Georgia mobolization camp. Mrs. Adam's plea was that ('apt Sparling, a phy sician in private life, had taken ad vantage of her. Mackey rainier, the young negro charged with the murder of Sergt. II. H. Franklin, of the Orangeburg police force, wns tried and convicted Thurs day and sentenced hy Judge I. \V. Bowman to l>e electrocuted June 20. P. Clint Kennedy, tried with Palmer under an indictment as accessory l>e fore the fact, was convicted of mur der, with recommendation to mercy. Notice "tras filed in the case of Ken nedy of a motion for a new trial. Israel Wilson, a negro was caught hy a posse and lodged in York Jail on the charge of making indecent re marks to a farmer's daughter. . 100 per cent. Roughage BUCKEYE HULLS are real roughage in every pani cle. They arc free of everything that has no valut as forage. They are free of lint. They arc free of trash. They are free of dirt and dust. When you buy TMADI mah* fh J LINTLESS you arc paying for nothing but roughage, ami you arc feeding your stock nothing that is wortlilcsa or injurious. Buckeye Hulls look like a real feed and are a real feed. Their very appcarancc will convince you that you should use them. Even if Buckeye Hulls cost an much as old ntyle hulls it would still be to your advantage to use them. Selling at several dollars j>er ton less, they put old style hulls beyond consideration. Other Advantages Buckcye Hulls allow better as- They mix well with other for similation of other food. age. They are sacked?easy to handle. 'Every pound goes farther. They tp.lce half the space for 2000 pounds of real roughage to storage. the ton?not 1500. Mr. S* L. J.onca, Jackson, La., Bays: "I have been feeding my dairy cows Buckeye Hulls and fipd that they do as well on Buckeye HiM? as on old style and that they rtike the Buckeye Hulls better than thi (Id style." To secure the her.t result; aivi lo dorclop the cnyilago odor, wet the hulls thoroughly twelve hourc. Intfor-s feeding. it ta easy to do this by welting them down night end morning (or tho nest feeding. if at any time this cannot he done, wet down at feast thirty minute*. If you prefer to feed the hulls dry, u*o only half a* much by bulk as of old style hulls. Book of Mixed Feeds Free Giveo the right formula for every combination of feeds used in the South. Telia how much to feed for maintenance, fpr milk, for fat tening, for worl:. describes Buckeye Hulls and gives directions for using them property. Send for your copy to the nearest mill. Dept. Jf The Buckcye Cotton Oil Co. o<pt. k Atlanta Firminnham Greenwood Ctttls Koch Memphic Ausutta Charlotte Jackson ' Macon Selma WILL BE NO FAVORITISM All Must Give Names Lit Retaliation Soon to Begin. Washington, May If).?To dispose of any four that county and city reg istration boards will exercise favorit ism in enrolling soldiei>? under the selective" draft act, Provost Marshal l General Crowder issued a statement | tonight declaring such practices would J he virtually impossible because of the explicit terms in which the act is drawn. He warned registration otfi- ? cials that favoritism easily coiihl be detected and would be punished with heavy penalties. . "Every precaution," said the state ment. "will be taken to make it cer tain that the registration will be con-, ducted with exact Justice. ! "The law is sj>eclfle and allows no latitude to the boards, either in the matter of registration or in the later matter of exemption from service. In fart, the law Is self-executing. Every man wthin the age limits fixed by the selective service act must register and the penalty of the law for evasion of registration will fall not only on the man who fails to appear" but on any member of a registration board who may be shown to be in collusion with the person who attempts to es cape his duty. "Furtho*- than this, the registratfoir boards will never act as exemption boards except in certain specific cases, such as vyhere a young man who hast registered shall claim to be employed in a federal, State or local oflice and thereby does come within the exemp tion clause of the statute. In cases like this the facts must be entered officially and attested. "So far as the other reasons for ex emptions under the law are concern ed, exemptions for men engaged in pursuits in which their work is more valuable at home than In the service, the authority will lie with a board higher Jurisdiction. "The law provides the j>eualty imprisonment with no alternative a tine for any official or any register ed man who slinll make a false re turn or connive at such a practice. The safeguards against favoritism evasion are ample." How to Be An Aviator. Mr. Jno. P. Cooper, of Mulllns, waa in Marion Monday, and while here re lated to the Star man just how to be <?oine a government aviator. It seems that Mr. Cooper was in Wash ington recently, and while there met a young man, Mr. McDuflie, from Mai lins, who had been accepted by Uncle Sam for the Flying Squadron. "Firef said the young blrdman, "they poor a stream of hot water into your ear, and then graduate it slowly into t cold stream. Then they place you la a crazy swing, and shove you and twist you and dump you and bounce you, to see if they can make yoor h<>rtd swim. They try to scare yon, to see if your heart is stout Tbej put you through the thirty third de gree of exercises and then Jump yos into a flying machine and shoot yoa up about 5000 feet In the air. If whe? you come down, your pulse Is normal you are accepted as a good risk, and the job is yours..."?Marion Star. Is Now The DeKalb. Washington, May 14.?The Amer! enrr steamship DeKalb, formefo -til German auxiliary cruiser and ?? merce raider Prinz Eltel Frederick was placed in full commission IftJfc American Navy on May 12, the D* Kalb will be the first of the Gernu ships, either naval or merchant, & be employed against the Germi* Government. The Navy De^rtmefi* would not dsclose the duty to wblc* the vessel has been assigned. J. Lyles Glenn, wfco has been ? student at Oxford University, b?? turuned to this country to enter t* training camp at Fort 'Oglethorpe. Camden TO WASHINGTON ACCOUNT CONFEDERATE VETERANS REyNION S?Uing Date* From Virginia and the CtroBnu, * Janet 2nd-7lb, toe From Georgia, Florida and Alabama* Juna lrt-^tb, tec Ticket* limited to reach, final destination not later than midnight 'June 21?t, exten sion of final limit to July 6th, 1917, be obtained by deposit with Terminal Agent end payment of fee of 60 ct*. | LOWEST RATES EVER OFFERED TO THE NATIONAL CAFITAL Far rMrmHom or any ? ddrM* Mr MMl J Um ATLANTIC ?OA3T UWE T. C WHITE. jG-F.A WOafaistM. N. C. ?