The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 29, 1918, Image 4
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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present low price or hold for better price.
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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
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gradually sold it will bring that jpfrice.
At the farmers meeting held in Columbia Mon
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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
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cotton until price advanced to 35c. The other cottoi
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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.
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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
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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