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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H I). Nile* . . VAiiox aM 'PfcblUHw Published every Friday at N#. 1109 J Broad Street and entered at the Cam den, Sooth < '.ut .Una, postoffice at second o)|M wail matter. Price per annum la.oe. Camden, S. Friday, Nov. 1M. Next Wednesday will 999 the open ing of the annual Kerahaw County ?Fijir at the fair grounds, Renown as the baseball park, and no doubt will iein large er<ny<U attaint tor the three days. Tents will house the ex* h'ibits arid information secured from the |?f omote.r* is t?? the effect that creditable exhibits will greet the pub lic- in all lines. The custom of^ hold ing a fair here annually has grown ?in favor and each year sees orte bet ter and bettor. Those in charge have been busy for weeks netting the fanners interested ??> all departments and they believe they will have an altogether creditable display in all lines. You should attend this annual Kct-to-ffether and meet your friends at the Fair. ^ Plans have 'been drawn and are now on display at the office of the Camden Chamber of Commerce fov an eighty-five room commercial hotel for Camden and if present plans of the Chamber of Commerce carry out a modern handsome hotel will prob ably be erected here in the near future. In Rock Hill recently a like hotel costing around #250,000 was financed and the funds raised within a day or two ? in fact very little outside cupital was necessary. Much of the tourist travel as well as commercial men now pass up Camden on account of the fact that the hotel facilities here arc not sufficient to take rare of the business. Much of this busim^s could be attracted here if the necessary ac commodations could 'be had. The proposed plans call for nn eight story building; and with a huge electric sign on the' top could be seen above all other houses. It would be the greatest advertising proposition ever put over in Camden and until this is done there is not mueh use to attempt any other advertising for the lack of a modern hotel- building has been this city's greatest drawback for many years. Here is something good from t ho Detroit Free Press, and should b<.? used in Building ami Loan advertise ments: "The longing for a home has al ways been ?it is and always will be ? the one universal desire of mankind. Around your own fireside abide ten der memorie- ? within the seclusion of your own home are new desires ;i wakened. "It is the one plate when* a wvi i Dini! awaiL.i you. where >?>u may hide 1 1 oni a busy world and rest, whe-e you may forget fur a time, the trial.' of lift? and fea-t upon the pleasure <>t' living. . "Wherever you may he,' wherever Null, may u tiu n to and that place <>?? ipol i- somewhere?, some resort of . love and ioy wild peace and plenty, - that you ma*' retu.n to that plaec i ould he no other than home. "I>e? p i.i the heart of every man i- that insatiable ilc-:.e to be the mastet of hi^ own h< me. The Amer .eari wii' nevei I>< content as long* as i ? continue.- to doie out hi> monthly peri eii'.a^e '.-.i t\t. ambitious rent collector. 'Tictiuc, I > ? i i an, tli< typical American paying hi'. Can you im agine l-iiiroln, Hayes oi McKinlcy meet . tr.e rent coPeetO! at t h ? i ? . \ ir.oath with the f?n! ? Imajii'M 'I' ?? e< ? ?!o! e IJoosevelt M-raJe:?;t;i; h:;% i.eud ;.ial wondering whore he wdl move next, a> he has jU-.t . eve.\eiJ noL.ee \;u.ate." Ottawa t h < ,a* - ( acacia, will > ? !rbr.i!i . : r.'-7 t h ?' ? . ntcnrrn! of it?; tt i in. :.t b < ' U> , British a: m> ? -ly pre uh i u? ted th* K..!e,i i ( a It w.i Known as Hy ? ?av. ahoy a ai made the I . '! I, ! I >ett'e the deputed !a.m M ? * ? . ? . and Toronto foi ' h 1 h e j . ; . rr.e ,V. e :tjM a.!. ta*. in it % u a! >tate, 1.,- .? }>? ?tj t -ever. an?! one ?'.at r ? ; : ; re a ted witr. pre-o-rva : about ? > i ?;< i ? ! < i ? ? > v v; < \\ . 1 { . ? ! k . o ! Montreal, ; rnii - . p i-' ?> of 'he T- *? ? h Avmu ' l'resh\ ? e ? :;i . ; > ' . , ? , ? te ?n ! well I. ? ? . : ;-c ? ; : n ? Sou ' h . <1 led - ulflt . . ? < ) ifd- 1 . )!-.<! t , w ne: ? r.e j.a ? < ; , ? ! n^' * :.e ^um- ! ..ier, >' unit. i j ! ? .f, \v i - xt> f :ve > ( a . ? s I ' at i\ ? of ( .? . \ ? . ? ,? na. f!< had h. ? ?. :,t : : ! I a boll. ' Wo a i , | <ii rei ? y due f < . .? ' . ? * of ; [ Tre lt oiain* wi.' If 'J.ki r ' 1- o"L ; M .!: ' ' he )?' me of h is c Kr\.t (ieo: ce \V. f ? ? ? * k . Jr. The interment! will be made in the Tirzah jfr?vey,?r-J | jiear Wa\V-- ?????, whe: e hia forefathers! ore bur:?. W i / : Tux Money 1h Our Kent Invcatment This letter is suggested because I have recently heard so much com* plaint concerning high taxcvs. The tax paying, season is again upon us. Inasmuch as there seems to be a constitutional dislike in the breast of tho average patriot toward* paying out money called "taxes," re gardless of how much, or how little, or what for, it might be a good thing for uk to stop and study a hit about this vory prosaic subject. Tax money U the. best money w> spend, and close alonfc with it is what we devote to the support of our churches and other beneficent institu ti?>n Taxation is the foundation stone of all our -governmental super structure. ? [' Taxation has always been a sore spot with most of us. This should not be. True, there have been abuses of the taxing power. But with the progress being made, these problems are being bettor handled. Our great< ost concern should be, first, to see that competent and honest men are placed in office to direct our govern mental affairs, and second, to insist that public funds ^be administered wisely and economically. Without taxation there could be no govern ment, and without goveinment, there would be no protection to the home, to society, to business, or to our reg ular religious institutions. Jtfut. forgetting these plain and evi dent facts, we are prone to become disgruntled when the hand of the government is reached out for the financial support to which it in en titled, and which it must have. There are a comparatively few people including those of small means, who by age. or disease have lost all, or the greater part of their earning capacity, upon whom the pay ment of any tax is a burden. But this has always been true, and will 1 always he the case. This should not argue against the justice or the nec essity of government taxation. The rule nuiet obtain "the greatest good to the greatest number," nnd to this must be added the accepted truth that what is good for the masses, makes good foe the individual; that ?when, one man or one class or one section enjoys prosperity, the interest of Jill others is at least in some meas ure advanced. The obligation of the government which represents the people in mass, to the weak, the poor, the ignorant, the helpless, manifests itself in con crete form in manifold ways. From tire taxation system ro:ne our hos pitals, alms houses, public schools, and other like institutions supported by public taxation, and this consti tutes the chief glory of our civiliza tion. Our public school system could only have been built up, and can only be . maintained by the aid of the state, the county and the city, and when our legislators .will make better provision for our counts h.gh schools, then they will have wrought well, and receive the grateful thanks of a grateful public. What we of South Carolina need is more and better municipal high schools, with better pay fot our teachei's. No one, in the light of all the facts, should decry the principal of public education, oz lift a hand or voice, or vote uithho'd from our schools every dollar that can bo rightly and leasnnabl) raised and spent upon thiir equipment and operation. Our government is committed to this policy. Our very life as a nation depends upon bringing up moral and intelli gent citizenship. No business, no property is worth anything where schools and churches do not flourish. In our efforts to guard taxation and to ram more dollars into our pockets, we run the risk of losing all that is really worth while in this life, or that which in jwst ahead of us. We spend millions for jails and penitentiaries and courts and officers, and electrio chairs, and the incidental expenses necessarily accruing, when we should realize that crime springs largely from ignorance. We spend millions foolishly, without wincing, and then struggle manfully to hold back a few pennies from the tax gatherer's till on the score of poverty, forgetting that most of our tax money goes to enrich our bixlies, our souls and our posterity. B. 0. Sanders. The Samoa; i r ace is the only race i)t" P<>!yni'v;ar> vvho are not dying out. The idea of a chain of stores under ont- management was originate*! by George H. Hartford in IH.'O. Ma.-onir .odges in the United States number 1 and have a member bh p ( r S.I 07,2*29. The police chief < of Hhode Island i >< nr.: and in-i>t that motorists must, li- '.r tMrty-f ;vt- miles an hour on the ^ ma n highway* or get off on the j ; bj ways. Their experience } s-h'iws that aci-idents are caused not j In- -p< 1 d !>u* h\ inept it ude or earr-j h - -r.es>-. I'au! Whiti tnar.. the o!che-?tra lead- ; ei. was once a taxicab diivcr and still j i- ains his public licenses. There ate more houses ;n sjum t : a v than t hi re w ,???? before the war, The .a.gest trei in Hutehmson. K..nsas, fcTtu from a co'.tonw :>od eane -??.jek m'f the jcrourd a* a j< ke by J.i-c. W. K. I J r v,. ;n | sT I \ i. 1" t,y n ??:. .d c.reu. t rider' L,> k h v. ? that '> e family ]*n <1 h m pound* of i.n*d wh.'.c anolhei pur . i-'-i ?. hat f ?. > ;* !.h>- -.dei's wife. 1 > -i ?( >fs of y\ a' houses :n t he : .'j - * . :i ? ? f Ni 1 wa> a :v u- : ;i< ; istu*es f g at * a> \\ ?? 1 r. > F f i \ :\\:a!;t>R .r. 1 :t'2 1 .veic oi.y 1! 0 1IX>,IKX) inhabitant'* ?< com pared with Kt.2 in 1923, ir. ?p.te of th? r.. roa-e ,n the number of auto m? 1 'lev ? , THIS WEEK By AMixr Brnba^ Mr. Brisbane's editorials are pub lished as expressions of opinions of tho world's bighest-aaharied editor and The Chronicle doe# not net-e&sarily endorse all of his views. and conclusions. The Protestant Kpincopal Church House of Bishops definitely removes "obey" from the marriage ceremony. Many married ladies had already re moved It from the routine of daily life, common sense telling them that if marriage is not an equal partner ship, it isn't much. The old idea about women is dying out not too soon. British husbands no longer are allowed toy law to beat their wives with a stick "uo thicker than the thumb." The French un written law gave fathers authority over thoir children, according to Weatenmarck, on the theory that the child was the property of th? Smother, [ and the mother was the property of the father. The Moors, according to the same Westermarck (see "Origin and De velopment of Moral Ideas"), believed that old men became saints and old women witches. Breach of promise cases prove that old men become foolish and old women have to he very patient. In New York ?City a group of fool-, j ish young ?nen seek to charter a cor | poration to encourage, atheism, and l "destroy the power of church and Clergy." Quite a program, but the t judge wouldn't let- it go through. In Russia, on the other hand, a delegation of orthodox priests and bishops begged the government "for an equal civil status with citizens of the Soviet State." The priests asked the right to pub lish religious literature and have for their children (priests of the Greek church marry) the same education as | is given to the children of peasants. [ The Ru^MJlN Government said no. Russian women also show intelli gence fighting an attempt to reduce | thi- marriage age for girls below six teen, declaring that a girl at sixteen is "only a baby." She is more than that, but it is foolish to let her marry | younger than sixteen. The right law would be no marriage under twenty. The mother gives to the child health, strength, plus moral character, and many other good qualities. She should wait until strength and health are fully developed. A man contributes to the child character and intelligence, if he has any. He should wait until both are fully developed, say until thirty among the mentally poorer sort; fifty ? as Plato suggested ? among the really intelligent. At Eyzies, in France, . has been found, made of teeth from the cave bear ,a necklace 2."), 000 years old. Passion for adornment is as strong as it ever was. Twenty-five thousand years ago cave women pulled teeth from a dead bear to hang something shiny around their necks. Now pearl divers go "all naked to the hungry sharks" to bring up more expensive necklace?. An estimable lady, ju.->t dead 'n Now York state, leaves a collection of jewelry worth literally millions of dollars. It couldn't nuike her look a day younger or any more beautiful. Put. as with the lady that owned the cave boar toetli necklace, the "urge" was there. Scientists investigating the alleged tr:?r>sniutation of mercury into gold: by a German chemist say the thing; ha - not beer. done. Gold basis of currency will not be threatened until genius finds a way to extract gold from the waters of the .vcan a> they roll through tho Kdk :sh Channel. or out of the flay of Fund., Ku-:> ton of >ea water contains fifty milligram-- of gold. Not much, from a ton. but a good deal if you oouid get t a. There are on earth about 011. <;u;nt:!lion three hundred and eighty quadrillion tons of spa water, eor.:a*.n:r.g about sixty-nine trillion t-?nv of gold. Or one hundred and or.- thou -and tw.? hundred pound j t.f 1 ? >!v! f; ? ? a? h of the one bi ! - iii n f \ hui.d:? i mil' < n men. women and children r~ narth. If each of ij< owned noth.ng bu * hit share of gold that is in the ocean-*, he would be worth S is,00<),(K>0 Hn?-v ever, if any n>nn a<k-? you to invest in a plan to get &;.>':d from the ocean, nrrc* t him. Write Not!c?s, I'muif. ?? The Chronicle publishes with plea* ure all notices of church, club and so ciety meeting*, as vyell as all items of general interest to the public and do not charge for same, but would thank those desiring such publication to please write out their notices and hand or send them in to this offic^, and not trust the telephone. It ?y very unsatisfactory taking such no tices over the phone, especially on press days, owing to the numerous , noises in the office caused by the run ning machinery. It will be more sat isfactory for all concerned if all no tices intended for publication are written out and sent or handed in at The Chronicle office. Do this please! NOTICE OF LOST CERTIFICATE Notice is hereby given that Certifi cate No. 136 for five shares of Series No. Fourteen of the Enterprise Building and Loan Association stock, in favor of Russell Reynolds has been lost, and that after due publi cation of this notice I will apply for a duplicate certificate of said five shares. RUSSELL REYNOLDS. Camden, S. C., Nov. 10, 1925. NOTICE OF SALE Under an order of sale dated No vember 12th, 1925, by W. L. Mc Dowell, Probate Judge for Kershaw County, I will sell at public auction, for cash, to the highest bidder, at the J. A. Hall farm, ten miles northeast of Camden on Jefferson-Davis high way, on 'Monday, the 23rd day of Novembor, all the personal property belonging to the late J. H. Hall, con sisting of live stock, farming tools, machinery and household goods. The administratrix reserves the right to reject any or all bids. CHRISTINE HALL, Administratrix Estate of J. A. Hall. Camden, S. C., Nov. 12, 1925. Wants-For Sale FOR SALE ? Forty fat turkeys at 35 cents per pound. Address Mrs. J. K. Smith, Lugoff, S. C. 33-pd FOR SALE ? Used Majestic range in good condition for $25. Address Mrs. W. I). Trantham, comer Mill and Chestnut streets, Camden, S. C. 33-pd STRAYED ? One sow, weight about 150 pounds. Black with white band around body just back of forelegs. Finder please call phone 306-J or notify E. R. Frietag, Camden, S. C. FOR SALE ? Pure, bright Fulghum oats one year from Cbker's Pedi greed seed $1.25 per bushel deliver ed; second year from Coker's, $1.00 per bushel delivered. Address Miss FOR SALE 1 ? ' . s Seven rnilew north of Camden, the Creed plantation, about 250 acres. Part of place in gravel anil, insuring early cotton crop? dwelling house, five tenant houiiea and tarn*. Will be Hold at a bargain t>lth ea ay terms. Call on Mr. Henry Kmyrl at Cantey anil let him show you over place. HENRY SAVAGE , Camden , S. C. Patronize Home Industries WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS The Camden Steam Laundry "We Stop Wash-Day Worries" East DeKalb St. PHon? 17 A. O. Keels, Rembert, S. C. 33-pd WANTED ? At once, one good Ford mechanic or combination man. Beard's Garage, Camden, S. C. 33- pd WANTED ? At once, one good Ford mechanic or combination man. Beard's Garage, Camden, S. C. 33-pd FOR SALE? One good young mule, reason for selling . have stopped farming. Address Coyt Truesdale, Westville, S. C. 32-34-pd FOR SALE ? One Lexington player piano in good condition, cost $550, will sell for $375 cash. Apply to Mrs. Mittie Poison, 1410 Lyttleton street, Camden, S. C. 32-34-pd FORD SERVICE ? We handle genu ine Ford parts. Let us do your repair work. Experienced Ford me chanics. Mr. Joe Pettigrew in charge of . repair shop. Broad Street Filling Station, Phone 443, U. N. Myers, Prop. 15-sb FOR RENT ? Furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Apply 1214 Fair street, Camden, S. C. 32-34-pd FOR SALE? -Two 1924 model Ford touring ears, two 1924 Ford road' stcrs, in good condition. Address Broad Street (Filling Station, U. N. Myers, CaJnden, S. C. 31-tf FOR SALE ? Twenty fine turkeys^ Address O. R. Melton, Rt. 1, Be thune, S. C. 31-33-pd BATTERIES- ? If it's a battery you need, buy WHlard. Batteries re charged and repaired. Broad Street Filling Station, Telephone 443, U. N. Myers, Proprietor, Cam den, S. C. 23- tf RADIO BATTERIES? Storage and dry batteries for your radio. Com plete line Prest-o-lite and Colum bia batteries for automobiles. Has ty's Battery Service, DeKalb St., Camden, S. C. 23-ri> THE BANK THAT MAKES YOU FEEL AT HOME \ The friendly atmosphere and the fair treatment that surrounds the workings of this institution make it a pleasant place to transact your banking busi ness. You will feel at home and comfortable here. hv- ?? You know that your affairs aire held in strictest confidence and that funds left in our keeping are safeguarded by the entire resources of this tried and true institution. The Bank of Camden Resources More than a Million