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I HE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. 1>. NUm and i > Publisher*. K. N. McDowell \ j Published every Friday at 11<>0 No. Mroad Htreet, and entered Ht the ('am deti poatotttce at* second class mail mat ter. Price per annum $1.60. ('?mdrtt, s. Friday Nov. 1911 With ftve lan^tourlal hptftn lu Gum* iirii, M H 1 1 tin- k ifn t mi imImt of users of electric cur rep t, it i ?ppems to m* lint IIhm- people a I- 'e entitled to* tin- <Iirr.nl ut night. For a ? ity the slice of Cam den to be in utter darkness aft?-c mid night ?io?-s not look good. Mitt) liiu. l i n k meu cOine into Camden OR late trains and traveling men are gnat booster* for a town If they want to be, but .we hardly aec where Ul?J ??#? havfi a good word for Camden when they get. off at a dimly lighted railway ? t at inn and go 'to their rootyl by cundle light. ..It in unfortunate that tlnv two good bu?lnexH meu ? Messrs. II. 0. Car> rlpon, Hr., and It. I), Pitt# ? who have been appointed hy elty eounetl to aewe oil the Public Work's Oonunitaloa do Hot see their way clear to take up the duties of the office. Turtles who have traveled the automo bile highway between Otmden and Co lumbia report this road to be in the worst condition that it has been in, in yearn. We k*am from Wupcrvlsor West thut'the chain gang la in that ueotlou now at work on this road. Not only Is the Kershaw County end of It in bad rendition but it is said that Kichlaud's ??nd is in equally as bad condition. With largo increase in taxes on automobiles in the past two years It looks to us that car owner* are entitled to better roads, lint instead of getting better they a re worse than before the tax on auios w(is raised. When hostilities were suspended. Amer ican aviators had destroyed (Mil more derm a u planes and 85 more German bal loons than the Americans hud lost. The total number of enemy planes destroy ed b.v the Americans was 1*20 and t lie total number of balloons 7tt. Two hun dred aud sixty-five American planes and !18 balloons were destroyed by the en emy. ; j Acconting to HeHiu advices, e^ormouRj stores (?f foodstuffs weiV found ii^^thc castle of the former German emperor \ in Rerilif. A member of the soldiers' ?? ; . and workmen's council is authority for the statement that, there was a great variety of foodstuffs found, the value of which normally would be several hundred thousand marks. The nightmare is ended, and the world again comes into the kingdom of the morning. The triumph that has been won is beyond conception, even as was the vnstitude of wil again** which the world has struggled for more than four years. Itut the everlasting truth which bus again been demonstrated is plaiu to all men. - That truth /is that the forces of righteousness are greater than the forces of unrighteousness, and in the end *' do prevail. \Y |yi | t he war lias cost Krunce hus been put irtto considerable shape by M. Turdieu, commissioner of Krunco-Ameri ruii affairs in this country. France has lost 2.f>00,000 men, moro than .">r?0,000_ homes have been destroyed and the Gor man occupation has loft behind a great * urea of sheer desolation. Francp has worn the yoke of war. 1-et Germany wear the yoke of peace. The doctors are constantly warning In fluenza patients against getting out too s.>ou after an uilark but the advice of ten goes unheeded with very serious re sults Pneumonia in many coses is ruined by exposure just when one should ??xercise the greatest care. Better go flow, for it is as true as it is trite that "an ounce on prevention is worth ? pound v?f cure.'' There is no more' tobacco of any kind iu Berlin ?>r in nn.v part of Germany. When there will ever be any again is not known, but it is known that Hol land will import none, needing all the p.K>r cheroots they can manufacture for home consumption. Turkey can't help { out. either, for it is a very *ma11 crop <if Toba<T*? that is raised in Turkoy-in Kurope. The tobacco used iu all "Tuek ; ish cigarettes" miM it) this- country is ; raised elsewhere. Germans in military ' service are supposed to have a supply ~ . of cigarettes. 1 ! ? One thousand dollars, said to be the i largest sum ever paid for a hog in this ! Ij country, was paid by n farming com- j j pany of TIJackstone, Ark., for Cherry i ; ? Bob, famous Dnroc Herd boar, at Marion, j ?: * Ohio. 'Ill*' animal weighed 800 pounds. ' ' i ?J i ?t A proclamation, Kigned by the Gov ernor* of eight wtton states, urging farmers, merchants bankers and business men to organize and hold cotton for not less than thirty-five gent* a pound, mid dling nasi*, wti* issued at Atlanta Sat _ ?, nrday through J. J. Brown, president of the cotton States' official advisory : marketing board. The proclamation and t , endorsement cf the ? recommendations i } made by the board November 7 term ed anch a prfee "equal tn the cost of j>rodueth>n plus a fair profit." Don't Mop 0\il. Through no tie ayinyathj U>w4fd iix1 vilest criminals iu the world1# history vx .? hi.- in danger ?>f loaiog ? i??- victory won on ili?' f?nt t h'held. Kv.i.y it*. i f l.,s (ho li> pot i il n il Hum mid looter* mill ou.|r8(t!i* of Ger miiii> in pleading tor ?? wml* lid* jiini for f^odatuiy* i> merely a cow* arUV effort i<> reach tb maudlin aentl hi rii I of II II At loll i many of whose pro pie have <'l i ?'ii inclined to yield to wrong in preference to standing for th? iiK h I . Ilins permitting ? cotton hi i i it k lo represent tli?'ir backbone. The fu tiir*' of civilisation would be endangered If WO should give aji.v hood to throw ?p peals to the neurotic sentiment of flab by-minded people. < (moronity to a beaten foe I* an ,ap> pen) which touch? the symputhy of men ami women who foolishly think of this war in tewus of the wars of tttlMf day*. Hut this wan merely a plan to murder in order to rob. Tho fright fnl in",', which made the hell of Belgium and Frunce and other overrun lands, violatlug" every law of man and God, was merely the fulfillment of the long time teachings of lUe wB$lf Oermaw people. The women of Germany appealed for" easier terms and for nn armistice on tjio hypocritical plea of their sufferings, and thds caught a few American men and women of that ueurotic temperament which bedecks the cell" of the > rapist with flower* and fills it with aceuted noted. We should remind the German women of the dying babies of Belgium and Frunce, of tho women outraged thru I He long four yoara of war, of the |>oi Koned wella und of all the other hor rible utrccitiea which huve marked the accursed work of a nation of fiends against which German women never pro teated. Tim niuiKor womnn in this coun try who in not willing to stand 'firmly for eternal juatice in the punishment ?? of the murderer or the rapist la morally and mentally weak and is without a character wortny of the respect of de rent, honest people. America, aen Union tally inclined and easily misled by agitators in public as well us in private life, is always iu dungeitlof slopping over. This fact i* often seen when some atrocious crimi nal. having been sentenced to death, immediately evokes the muudlin sympathy of neurotica, who entirely forget the suf ferings of the victim. ? ' In thinking of Germany we iijust think of that nation us of a whole people defi nitely for years committed to the crimi nality of the last four years. If we should COtmf \i* of no avail the death* of millious of soldiers w|io have been murdered by Germany, if we should shut our ears to the .wails of the women and babies who died on the Lpsitanin. if We" should close our eyes and .our hearts to the sufferings of the mangled children and of the women in France, Belgium, Ituly and elsewhere dishonored by and with the approval of the (icrmau Government and the German people, we would still bo bound in duty to all the civilization of the ages to come to fetand firm and unflinchingly for the punishment of Germany. ' \ ? A Baltimore business man of German ilexrcnt, knowing Germany and the Ger nian people for many year*, has within tin* lust few days said that tlit? whole 1 German. people are laughing iu their -sleeve* as they see the effect their ap peals for mercy art* having in this c<?^ try. Mo knows the German people. says Americans do not. lie is of Ger man descent, and intimately in touch with dorm an life, and he. voices the views of intelligent men and women everywhere. Who. knowing Germany, know that the entire (Jermun race upheld the war, gloated in it so long a* success seemed curtain,' rejoiced in the hope of looting the world, cared not that the women, and children nf Belgium aud France and i other invaded countries were treated as never were women aud children treated before in humun history. Now these cringing hypocritical liars, these looters and robbers and highway men. these deep-dyed villa nous murderers are rolliug their eyes to Heaven and asking for sympathy, and yet not -bne siu- 1 gle word of penitence has come out of Germany. Not a single word has been uttered by German men or women which indicates any sense \? f sin or shame, nor have German women expressed anv re gret for the horrors inflicted upon the people of France and Belgium and Italy and Serbia and Poland by their fathers and husbunds and sons. These unrepoutant criminals appeal for sympathy ? sympathy for themselves, but not for their victims. Such is the ap peal of the German women who so long as Germany waH victorious on the bat tlefield made no effort to stop the war iu order to relieve their suffering, but now that they have forced to stop by the allied |>oliee of civilisation, and are to be brought before the bar of jus tice, they are like hypocrite* pleading for sympathy and mercy. Sympathy for such a nation would be on a par with sympathy for the devil himself. The devil could not ]>os.sibly surpass Ger many in seeking to use the livery of Heaven for the purpose of doing the work of hell. America should not slop over. Let it not \*aste any neurotic sympathy upon a nation which now fcCeka by hypocricy and by lying to win through maudlin sympathy the vi</tory which 4t ]o*t on , Immediate dropplg* of f<n>d pi-lee* a* a .refcult of the coneluaion of an armU tic**' can not be expected Food Admin il(ftU>r Hoover declared in ii ntatemcnt which added (hat while the price* of ..nif f(Mi(Uliit)\ will diM-n-asc ??t Im-i ?* Will iucrcatie. Alt activities* of the food ad? mi jbratlon will i?<- continued through i bo anoint lee period, said Mr. Hoover Millions of djdfiir* worth of pptopoi'ty t^toDiui t< women of Amei U .m Mrth, who have married (lerman and Austrian subject* Iuih been taken over by tlu> alien' property custodian. Many prominent wo men are In the lint. including (WilDtCW Oladya Vauderbilt Hjcechenyl, whose prop erty as taken over amount* to nearly .< in s.-cmitifM, in addition to the income from a $5,000,000 trnat fund. i. > Governor Manning hat* junt been gdvls* ??d (bat bin hou, <'apt. William Hinkler Manning, adjutant of the ftlOth infuD try, Keveuty-ninth division, haw been; promoted on the. Held to the rank of major. Major Manning haw been in the thick of the fighting on the western ?front aim* September 26, aud bad been* through u long ' aud te riffle Heigt> wbeu he wrote. ? ii ? ? LiUxemwirf. The little bit. of territory marked "Luxemburg," confined within oval shup ed lines betweeu lower Belgium and ?le& many proved a ttoilrM of considerable speculation by studeuts'of tiie war map. Luxemburg did uot figure in the war rc port^'and yet there it whk, right fit the mitnit of the battle area, apparently all nncoueerned uud now being trodden ov S;*. by the soldiers of the victorious A'.? lied armies. Luxemburg wux one of the smullcr nrlm^palities supposed to -be rent ing in security under the Ihwm of 'neu trality. It is a German Duchy, long un der German domination ami Qfeiiurttiy made /ill use of itK resources and position that it was possible to make. It is as naturally Belgiau territory an Alsace I<orraine is Trench, though its divorce from nativcN^ud and people date* much further back. Luxemburg was torn from Belgium by the German* in 1887, or years before similar fate overtook the French Province* aud the Luxemburg" have remained as faithful to the ipother country as have the French. They have never been reconciled to German author ity and they are now seeing in the com ing treaty of peace a possible deliver . ance from the hateful rule under which they have existed for nearly 80 yearn. Th^y had no protection from neutrality at all. Their country was ruthlessly in .vaded, over-run and subjected to the deprivations of war and they want no' more of it. The people of Luxemburg will ask to be reunited with Be]gium in the adjustment of peace and tj>c Bel gians will join in this request, for, al though this Proviuce was,lost man? "year* ago, the Belgian hope of its restoration had never , completely died. The Grand Duchy ever fought for this end, because in tin# Belgian and British arfnies were hundreds <if officers and many men fight ing uqder the Allied colors* I'nques tiouably the hope of Allied peoples will be that in the reshaping of the map of 1'] n rope the expectations and desires of ! the Belgian people iu thiij respect will have reward. It may be safely assumed that whatever the. final disposition of 1 the Graud Duchy affair, that Pfo.vjnce ' will be onre and for all brought from under any future German iufluence. ! In the general trimming of G<*rmany I . J ~ - ir ? ? the situutiofi of Luxemburg cannot es^ tcape the favorable attention of th'o.peace ' making Bowers and German control over | the people of the gatne little country will he undoubtedly put. to an end for f ever. In the fence-lowering process by which lines that, have separated people ' of the same blood and traditions for many years as a consequence of German ' greed for power and conquest, will be obliterated, there is rejoicing in store for Belgians, French, Poles, Italians and for all the smaller kingdoms, by way of putting the finishing 'touches to the pro ; gram of "liberation" so finely prosecuted , by the Allied armies and that was n>ak iug such inspiring progress when the signing of the armistice put a stop to it. ? Charlotte Observer. 1 the battlefield. I Looking to the civilisation of the fu ture and to the standard of morality j through the years to coine the world la i today in greater dauger than it was when the ourush of barbarism was stopped at | the Marne in 1014, or when from the } Ma rue the German army waa^driyen | ba?*k in 1018. ! The whole German rate joyously adopt I ed the teachings of their leaders aud joyously entered upon the war, and has j upheld iu every way possible, every I crime committed. Some German* and I people of German descent living in | America, and even some dishonoring the name of Christ as his professed follow ers, blatantly boasted of Germany's i achievements when it fed to the aharks the bodies of the dying womeu and child ren on the Lnsitania. Shall we have a maudlin sympathy for Pilate, for Judas, for Nero? Com pared with their opportunity, their crimes i were' as nothing compared with the ! crimes of the whole German people. Christ said: _ * | "Ye serpents, ye generation of Viper*, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" Shall we presume to be greater lovers of humanity than Christ, ft inn self ? Man ufacturer* Record. y-v'-ii * We do not know, and no one knows, what the price of cotton may be sixty or ninety days, or months from now. We cannot, therefore, do not advise our friends as to/ whether they should sell at ? .? ?? > * * present low price or hold for better price. ' ....... .v. . , .:r.i I % . * ? ? ? , -r t, ~ w The general impression of best informed farmers throughout the state, and we believe, throughout tl South, is that if Remainder of crop is held for 35c and ' gradually sold it will bring that jpfrice. At the farmers meeting held in Columbia Mon ' Ji ' day it Was clearly seen that those present, to a man, were in favor of Holding for 35c basis middling. At this meeting it was decided (and a fund was raised for the purpose) to put on a State wide advei . * . ? . . . ? : ' ? . - h " ? * - campaign' urging all farmers pot to offer a bale of . o ' ' cotton until price advanced to 35c. The other cottoi I <:>' states are urged to put on like campaign and con; certed action may bring desired results. To the farmers of our county desiring to join this movement, hoping to get better, price for cotton, we are pleased to offer the, full resources ol our Bank and will cheerfully make loans on cottoi properly warehoused and insured, at 6 per cent. II our bank can be of help and assistance to the farmei of our county, in this crisis*- we are at their commi and we invite them to use us to the full extent of our resources, which includes the limit of our borrow capacity, if found necessary. 1 x -J '%*??!' . n ' ? '7 - * 1 "A?#* * v t If we crin help the farmers of our county to $25.00 to $35.00 per bale more than they can ql get for the cotton they still have to sell, we feel ? ? ? J we would be rendering them, as well as the comrai ity, a real service that -would be appreciated and memhered. We cap easily loan all our avails' funds $t ft per cent, which, means better profits U us, but we prefer helping our farmers first. We Are at Your-Service. v