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HIE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. U. NUm mo4 & N. MelKmrll ?*very Krlday at 1H#> No. Mroii Street, Hud entered lit the Oim Jen poatofflce a* second clas* mat) mat \*t. ???, prliv i?er nnnnn $1.50. tmairn h. c, aii. H ith. ttit 'Hw traveling public \espccially will delighted to know that a movemeut in JK?iiu on foot to erect n modern coin miTcim hotel iu Oamdeu. During the in?st ft-u months traveling tnen and au Um'm U oomiog tt> Camdeg, have breu great ly inconvenienced ou account t?f inade quate h'fti-1 facilities. -Not a night dur ''IU thf pa*t mouth but that every room in oaeh of the hotel* were tilled aud ranny night* pas*engera msohing here ou i*t<i traius wer? (breed to *e?k 'odging in privau* home*. The <*aiac condition* exlwt each year at thin season ivlTFll ev ery available room is occupied by tour ist m or private board era and it ha* got - ton to ho a Mure point with the cow* motvial traveler who ban to tnake thi? city. The traveling man is a great booater for a town, but under present conditions wo cannot see where be can hardly put in a good wort! for our hotel faculties. it is wince rely hoped that tho bualncatt men will so* the need of Joining in the *tfroVe?jieat and next season will *??*? a Arat-dws* bote) in Cetnden. The lYunmiftftiqu on responsibility for tho war has decided : First, solemnly to condemn the violation of neutrality and all the crimea committed by tbe Cen tral Empires; second, the appointment of an luter?ntl<innl tribunal to Judgo nil those responsible, iixfludiiug tho former (lennan Kmpcrer." l- (n sending his regrets to Governor (Vxrper at being unnbie to attend the hi# parade in Columbia Monday Major General O'llyan aaid : "The Koldlers of the two divlsioua say tliat when they broke the llindenbiirg lint1, thoy broke J forever the Maaon and Dixon Line, nud . that how their joint telephone number | - is America 1JTM0." Twenty-five years ago yesterday (Jot. | it. It. Tillman proclaimed martial law . in South Carolina for the enforcement | of the liquor dispensary law. A cable has reached Columbia an nouncing the marriage on March 22, at Wimereaux. France, of Capt. fieorge Henet, medical corpw, United States ariry and Mile. Madelaine Volpert. Capt. and Mr*. Henet left immediately for London where he is stationed at Fulham military hospital doing surgical work. Capt. Beuot hopes to be ordered to this coun try WWO. Fire nt Hum tor Saturday destroyed 4,000 bales of cotton stored on platform* n f the Sumter <Jolton Warehouse Com pany : also three Southern freight ears loaded with fertilizer. The loss is esti mated at $-150,000. The caupe of the fire is unknown. High winds spread the ffatm?< rapidly. l?ublUh?ak THE ROAD THAT WUS I. vri SA: v ? ? . . : ?* ?*f I ? V j Many people % Houth Oarollot will ' never be . ible to own an automobile. Many people do aot <?wn a rallrosd k> otunotl ve. ?? ? .5 j Were o b?rd, nmooth road built and ttoe year around botw?"eu I t he oily of Cotuuibla nnd tbe U?wn of Saluda, oue might operate a f Hue of public automobile*, common carrier*, over it, aud carry pH^engem at three cent* a mite or 1?>h*. ? Tbe p**>ple llv i iug ?W>ng the road would have in the public automobile auch a convenience . tli?M have in the wteani rall roud'*, panhcuger train. A *t<*am lj?oomotiv0 of tbe pattern of 101W i* never operated over the klud ?of railroad that wa* built in 1850. To try to ruu Twentieth century train* on early Nineteenth century railroada WOVJd be regarded aa taeftne. Yet our people expect to operate the gasoliuc propelled vehicle* of the Twen tieth century over the highways that were never fitted for machinery Ifsa deli-^ cate than the wagon and mule team of 1KI?5 and that Mu*ed them up" in a litHe while. At leant twice the tnileage may be bad from the motor car t(hat travel only on the paved road than from an* other that "negotiate*" the mudholea, roobi7"broken atom* and sand be<ta of tbe average South Carolina highway. Vim ean't trot a ataudard bred mare at a 2:.1<? gait over a "country road" without ruiuing her in a week and kill ing her in a year. All the automobiles, Ford* included, J are faucy goera. The gaaollne machine I corresponding to* the ox and the mule an tlie farm tractor. Our poople are trying to run theee j Htnndard bred machines, all of thein capable of a better -speed than that of Maud S, of honored memory, all of them deigned to travel at all times at three or four times the speed of the beat nag in the-* country, over roads that no gentleman would attempt to drive, any kiud of borne more than throe or four . wil?y}. an hour! ! The motor mr will endure more than tiho horae; does endure ten timed as much. It would last four times as 1 long if no more were demanded of it thnn of the horse. Hut you can kill vIIiIk thing, of steel or aluminum. You do kill it before half its natural life .is spout ? driving it at 15 or 25 miles an hour over obstacle and fhroughv4jiud tlwit. wo eld jolt and jerk the life out <>f a Texas atecr. "... The rich man can afford to drive a flue car to death iu three years ? apd does. If he^-is "rich enough,' he can af ford uuything. The moderately well to do can not afford a gasoline car over a bad road Although he inny and usually does thiuk -differently. Ilis car's expenses arc eat ing him op? though he shuts his eyes to it. . .. .. Were, the road* good the automobile would be a public vehicle for the work ingman, just as, the steam or electric traiu is. ? Columbia State. ffi I 1 1. CM, OF LOGOFF, REPLIES TO COV. ALLEN , } "Tradiug t'pou the Misery of ih? World." Thin beading in from Oov. Htory J. Allan's ?>*nrounicatlon to J. H. Wanna ntnk*?r, chairman of Houth Oorollga acre age reduction. ?-.nnmiitc*. Oov. Allen makes tbl* charge against the Southern people who have clothed hliu .ftttd Ms for half acentury while tbc cot ton producer* lived lu misery. The illienmt ??f Oov. Allen, of Kausaa, ?howa bow neoceaaaty It Ik, to educate the balance o I (be world a* to the value of cotton and the coat of producing cot ton. ? * Oov. Albp t, peaks of thirty-five cents* cotton being equally an remunerative an $2,2 J wheat, ltigbt hero la where a grdat part of the world gets u wrong itnpreaalon. The uninformed person ul Mraya takea the price of good cotton an a ? basin for argument, never realising that often. A very large percentage of the crop ia low grade cotton, made low grade from the effects of wind and wea ther; the largest percentage coming from thu scctJous where excess acreage of cot ton ia planted and cannot Co* lack of sufficient woman and children, be gath ered promptly. This low grade cotton ia now aelling at ten to twelve cents per pound boiow the price of go$d cotton. Thla low grade cotton ia Always a dead weight about the neck of the cotton pro ducer and la atwaya used aa a meaus to reduce the price of good cotton. It, therefore, followa juat aa plainly aa day followa night that the South ia now and ha* been for yean* raising more cotton thpn they can harveat without letting a large percentage of it heavily deter kJrate in tbe fields, While Oov. Allen no doubt tried . to use Mr. Wannamaker'a iuvitatlon >a? a "?pread eagle act" to cover his recent assinine actions beforo Congress and thereby gain some prestige over' tliel country generally at the economic and mora) expense of the South. still there are many honorable and well-meaning people who think twenty cents per pound is a high price for cotton. To hfll with Mr. Allen and the kaiser, but to the-e others who do not know our cotton story let un explain the situation. In# all fairness to the cott%>u fanner the price of cotton should have been be tween Iff and 20 cents per pound for the last twenty years. There is no crop that tequires as much hard labor as cotton. If any one seeks the truth it will not be hard to find. IIow many cotton planters, large or small, can be found in the South who can be called rich, judged by today's standards? There is not one who has made his wealth growing cotton. Those who hare amassed a comfortable compe tence growing cotton exclusively are few, most of them have made thrir money largely otherwise than by growing cot ton. i Our honorable secretary of agriculture is reported to have staled that there was no such thing as the cost of pro duction of cotton. Surely there must be an average cost of producing cotton and * the producer should be allowed a "The Call of the Road" When you take the highway this spring you want a car that permits you to enjoy your outing. It must take the roads efficiently and with comfort* operate at low cost and inspire pride in its appearance. Moticl 90 is just such a ca The ap preciation of 600,000 Overland owners has built up manufac turing methods that make possible the unusual value of Modci 90 at its economical cost. Get your Model 90 now. . ? Overland Columbia Company Corner Sumter and Hampton Columbia, S. C. Overlaed Morf?1 90 Flv# to?.i .ft* C?r *985; Tol*d* Come t a ouf ?tore PUT a pipe lif your face that's filled cheerily brimful of Prince Albert, if you're on the trail of amoke peace! For, P. A. will sing you a song of tobacco joy that will make you wish your life job was to see how much of the national joy smoke you could get away with every twenty-four hours t Youcan "cany on" with Princi Albeit through thick and thia You'll be after laying down' a smoke barrage that'll make the boys think of the old front line in France! P. A. never tires your taste because it has the quality I And, let it slip into your think-tank that P. A. is made by our exclu- v sive patented process .that cuts put bite and parch ? assurance that you can hit smoke-record*high -spots seven days out of every week without any comeback but real smoke joy! EL J. Reynold# Tobacco Company, Winston -Salens N. C reasonable profit ou bin venture, In 1010 the average cost of cotton from Georgetown to the mountains, was near 00 cents per pound, The torrential rains swept the 'whole wealth of the State and thousands merely existed the following year. Should not the cost of the 1910 crop work in to an average of years? One might argue this was only a local condition and should be disregarded, yet this condition existed over all of Ala bama, part of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina <nd this year drouth in Texas has raised the cost of raiding cotton in localities to $1 per pound. Those conditions "happen" to every lo cality where cotton is growu and cer tainly a margin of profit must be accord ed the producer if he is to live decently ami pay the losses of bad years out of the income of good years. Since cotton is raised largely by nand labor, naturally the cost of cotton de pends largely upon what , a man who raises it is willing towork for. If he is satisfied to work for tne old wage* of 1*0 rfjnts per day with other things at pre-war prices 12 cents per pound will let us live. If the cotton farmer de mands $3 per day for hit time, and half aS much . for his wife and children. 's time and with present prices for tools, fertilizers, etc., 40 cents per pound will meet his demand. The farming lands on the Atlnntic coast are the oldest and most depleted lands' in America. The cotton crop, be cause of its clean culture, is a great de stroyer of soil fertility. When Kansas was a howling waste so wild and fierce that tornadoes were afraid totravel sing ly and went in pairs over the State, South Carolina and her eastern sister States were in their highest state of fer tility. T,fday while Kansas is drawing u|M>n her natural resources (her soil fer tility) the cotton States are resorting to the use of commercial fertilizer to grow cfops.~ Only one addicted to their use has any idea of their cost. Many farm ers who still maintain taeir smoke houses and corn cribs in the West use at the present prices $50 to $00 worth of fertilizers per acre and plenty of farmers use $25 to $30 worth per acre. It is plain that high priced cotton is necessary to meet these conditions. Conditions are changing and must change more on Southern farms. Ten years ago it was not unusual for a fam ily of five or six to be housed in a single room. Today, despite the high coat of lumber, nails, etc., much larger housep are demanded by l->bor. A family who had one room rightfully want* two; "a family who formerly lived In two rooms rightfully demands four. Common de cency demands these improvements and raaijy more. ? < Perhaps the people of the West would be interested to 'know a common saying of the negro of many years standing and glways remember the meat was bought on time from a Jien merchant I" **A pound of cotton is worth a pound of meat." And lata!? a good cMlatn of Texas explained this text: "A pound of cotton is worth a pound of gentlemen, there is cotton and cotton as wall as tb*r4 Is meat and meat. A pound of poor cotton is worth a pound of poor meat ? "sow belly" ? and a pound of trood cotton is worth a'jKiuiid of good meat ? ham* ? and, friendN, my name is irum and I want you to stand by tlam for the price, of llam ? 35 cents." Anyone wh'o lives near n tourist town gets nick and sore hearing these gentry must <>f whom have gotten rich out of somi" phase of the cotton industy, com plain of our roads and the genefal fn? conveniences of traveling in the South. They do not know how hard it has been with us for fifty years to accept aH the responsibilities of ree men and discharge these responsibilities on the wages of a ^av**. ~ These men make one sore hut the man who makes me sorest is the svalfawag at home, who runs a skinning game that could not be run among a prosperous people. The South has for years 'been the West_'s best customer. We have bought their meat, their corn and their flour at the^r prices. We have ridded in their buggies, driven Iheir horses and plowed their nvules and now, qh Locrd I we must listen to the breylng of 4beir ass. Mr. Allen, late dispenser of Chris tianity in France, should remember ' that th~4 Ioweit?3eed 'a "man can 1>e guilty of is to steal bis neighbor's good name. It is evident he is "wining/* but he will not get any further than iie( did 1n Wash ington in his effort to besmirch the. Am erican army in France. When we have completed the moving of our foril . cribs ?U<1 smoke housed from the West to Smith, <*ur n^Kt step will be to raise i mules! Perhaps theu we will welo the brey of the brazen ass of Kansat Air. W. II. Tiller, of Lu*>ff, ir <"!hnrJwton this week serving a<j a jufor iu United States Court A Pill for ''ill Every 111 / " '-| ??????? ~ -H- ? ' Panaceas for every pain. We k?f 11 ? fall line of dependable dnp, u well as a line assortment of the M toilet preparations, and the innuaxr , 'A .'r, -ijjjm ?able other things that the commaalijt drug store, the neighborhood wrriet. station, requires for sneh service. Zemp & DePas ' Call or Phone No. !? T7 HAT MNS ' * V ?P, < ' ? . AN ASSORTMENT THAT CHALLENGES THE SKOWING OF THE LARGEST. JEWELRY MARTS. GOLb-PILLEI), SILVER.' AS AND HOW YOU. WANT THEM, AS A$ EASTER GIFT ; V^HAT BETTER SUCk. 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