The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 18, 1919, Image 7
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L. A. McDowell, Agent Camden, S. C.
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The fj.-nion hold last Tuesday to vote
oa a spccinl levy of 4 mills for school
purpose carried by a baudsomo major
ity of 119 to 20 for the levy. There is
no doubt now bow the people stand on
the school question. The contractor says
kc hopes to have the building completed
is ample tirtir for the school to b^M its
closing exerciser dn the spacious audi
torium. v'/ >
Mr. 4\>lejnau Woodham, another one of
tbe returned heroes of tho 30th Division,
who reached Bishopville last week spent a
while at the home of the writer Sunday
r renins. Both be S5$ all the other boys
who assiKted in breaking the Hlndgnburg
line, and eut down every lluii they could,
arc looking fine, and are gladly welcomed j
kj their many relatives- and friends. Pri* j
_ vate Woodharf was shell shocked and bad
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to spend quite a While in one of the ho9- ,
pitals over there. f>
Miss Bessie Truesdaie fjot a letter from
her brother John who is still in France,
?tatinR he and Lawrence 'Davis are get-;
tin* alone line, an they have nothing in
particular to do except guard dutjp^
Daa't know when they Will get back to
?rilian life, but are anxious to get back
lo old South Carolina.
Mr. I). B. O'Kelly/ of Miami, Fla., a
former citizen ~ of "'this -section, dropped
in to see us this week. Mr. O'Kelly says I
it has been twenty years Hi nee he lived j
kre and that Bishopville has kept paoe
with the progressive times. !
Maj. W. T. I*esene found his car that |
was stolen last Tuesday night. The car j
-was ieftin A -ditch between Cartersville
??d Lynchburg. Thp. car was not hurt ;
and all the books and paper? were left
unmolested in the car.
Mr. and Mr#. Croskey Kirk laud of
Oamden spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
F, J. Boykin.
Mr. K. B. Haynes got back from a
weeks visit to his orange grove in Flor
ida. He says the frost was severe on
the gulf coast, a. M the iujury to many
of the truck crops ^was serious. The
strawberry crop was completely ruined
by too much rain. Middle and east
F?orida was not burt but little.
Mrs. Lois Boykin of the Ionia section
received a letter from her husband, J^eo
nard C. Boykin, who is in service over
seas, stating that bo was well and ex*
ported to be' home with her and his five
months old ^on, Leonard. Jr., in about
tbreo weeks. He st^m.s to be anxious
to gflt back.
Murderers Ciet New Trial.
Columbia, 8. C., April 10. ? Ou the
allegation that one of the trial juroi>
had expressed a prejudiced view toward
one of the defendants, Cooler, after the (
juror had been sworn in, and that, the
presiding judge, would not relieve him,t
th<? state supreme court, in au opinion j
by Associate Justice T. B. Fraxerf and
Concurred in by the other members of :
the court, ordered a new trial for Aleas ?
Copier and- Will Da vis, convicted of the
niurder of W. D. Thomas, a forest rider
of a hunting club in Jasper county.
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It All Depends, Of Course.
A girl asked the salesman at the silk {
counter: "Will you tell me what you'
think is the best color for a bride this '
year?" . . .
"Well," answered the young man,
"tustes vary, of course, miss. As for |
myself, I would prefer a white one." i
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Vpon n rccrat death in a wwUmj
town of u politician, who *t one tims
wrved his country in a very high legis
lative place, a number of newspaper
men were collaborate on an obituary
notice.
"What shall vte say of the former
sonntqr?" asked one.
"Oh, just put down that be was al
ways faithful to his trust."
, "And," queried a tbird, "shall we men
tion the name of tbe trust?"
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Why Cotton Seed Does Not Sell.
The i'o mm 6rcial Appeal calls atten
tion to a most extraordinary condition
in regard to cotton sefjd, <-otton seed
oil and other oils. Wtfen wo becaxne
involved in the war tbe Government
fixed' the price which gave to the crusher
u decent profit. In, the meantime,1 the
Japanese and others began to dump into
America peanut oil and fi#b oil at a
price far below the price of oil crush
ed from cotton seed at $70 a ton. Dur*
| ing the interval it had been so arranged
that (he vegetable lard piWucers could
^selL. their products at a fair margin
of profit, even when payiDg for x>'H cruah?;
ed from high priced s^ed. Now, some
of the lard eompoui^a^tnufacturers are
buying cotton seed oil and also buying
tho cheap Asiatic oil. The two aVe com
pounded. The product is sold at a cer
? tain price, but the profit on the As(?t|i&
| oil Is so great that the lard cota pound
man now makes more than he ever did.
He buys the cottonseed oil in a limited
quantity. He suppHes ' the deficiency
from the Asiatic oil. The mills cannot
i afford to buy the cotton seed and run
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l the risk of not having any market for
i the oil at the fixed price on cotton seed.
? Commercial Appeal.
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jimdandiest flavor and coolness and fragrance you ever ran
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to find out the double-quickest thing you do next And. out
it down hov^you could smoke P. A. for hours without
tongue bite or parching. Our exclusive patented nrnrp?
cuts out bite and parch. . Process
Realize what it would mean to get set with a jov'ns ifmmv
pipe or the papers.*! very once and a while. Ag? Z
beat the cards 1 Without a comeback / Why P A is so
good you feel like you'd just have to eat that fragrant smoke!
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Win?ton -Salem, N. G
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I M?I jc CKKDIT TO OKBMANV j
Had TaurM World to Believe Th*t Nbr j
>' \k Was ? KuperaaUoa.
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Ak a prelude to Wr attack on civiliaa.
[ tioo, Germauy did two thing*. For forty
year* she built up a vast military mu?
chiue at home, uud for forty years, thru
' well plauuvd and skillfully executed pro
paganda thruout the world( *he taught
i the gospel of her superior efficiency, This
latter to such aju extent and ao success
fully lhat, by 1914, to uae au expressive
though slauio' expression, ->ho hud the
worltj "buffaloed,"
Thi.s 1m not to nay Germany was uot
efficient, uc^r superlatively organised, for
ahe was. Not only waa the theory of
efficiency t?lked on every occasion, but
it was demonstrated iu her manufactured
product* aud the thoroughness of hex im
mense exjwrtSrade. If a German wauu
faeturer could not compete iu any for'
eign (j>ort with any article made
where, his government promptly came to
his relief with lower ocean freight rates,
or some other form of subsidy. The na
tural result of all this waa to create
aud foster a world-wide couvictiou that
CSermany was u supernation, head and
shoulders above all others. uild there
fore impregnable. To resiat f*?ru,iany
when she set o^ut to conque^waa to in
vito aud insure disaster. In short* the
expectation was lo destroy 1n advance
a world morale, and thus reduce success
ful conquest to it? simplest term*.
This system was not without its in
sults and effect. The Ge^an at bomef
and with few exceptions abfvad, was ab
solutely grounded in the conviction that
the fatherland wga invincible. We can
each beeall those Germans In this coun
try, Including thoae who bad been nat
uralised here for many years, and who
eveutually took aides with the United
States against Germany, who in 1914,
/191R, and 1910 were both indignant aud
| augry at any suggestion of German fall-.
I ure, or of responsibility for starting the
? It is quite true that, iu the early days
of the struggle, victory perched 9n Per-,
man banners,' and the tide of battle flow
ed one way. .This apparently was proof
of the claim o^KUperntttion. What with
millions of men with years of the most
severe military training; guns with un
dreamed-of range, throwing shell# of un
hoar^l-of sise ; ' explosives of unequal
ed power and violence; airships; subma
rines; gas shells; liquid fire, and all the
othev new-in-civlliacd-warfare weapons,
the claim apparently was established.
The world seemed voiceless ,to refutfc the
assertion.
Then- gradual^-? so slowfly at first,
there seemed 110 progress whatever ? the
allies began where Germany had com
menced forty years ago, to gird up their
loius. It was slow work ? that of fight
ing a defensive battle against vastly un
equal odds with one band and building an 1
offensive" wltK the other. The conditions
were supremefly hard, tor It is one thing.j
to plan and invent and experiment and
construct and test out, all under the coq- I
ditions of peace, and quife another to J
commence at the foundation to do the J
same when carrying on a war. I
In only a little more than four years,
thfe allies had searched out and organised
their inventive and scientific minds, their 1
chemists, their buUdsra of guns and sub- 1
marines and alr^Nrft, and had brought I
their fighting machinery? with the except |
tion of the 76*mile gun ? up to the stand- 1
ard which ^Germany had required forty I
years to accomplish, and in soncfe rtspecta-J
had gone even better* With the advent!
of the United States came a tremendous I
impulse of inventive accomplishment I
which in scareely more than a year bad
conceived, and made in vast quantities, I
weapons in comparison with which the |
German type was. as a child's toy. [
Many of these things are still a secret 1
in the archives of our War College; theis!
details or even their existence -have wt
and should not be made public ; but it is I
pormissablo to mention one, a gas shell, I
the use of ' which will absolutely and a|-|
most instantly annihilate any army into]
whose ranks it is hurled. I
Had the armistice been delayed only J
a few days, there* would i^W^lhivC been1!
left nlivft n gAl'n"' <n a11
fortifications. A few planes hovering so I
far above its guns as to be mere specks I
in the sky; a few gas bombs dropped!
among the forts, and a few moments J
later, not a living soul left to challenge I
or^ surrender. And this shell, the result I
of only a few months' effort, makes the
German preparation of forty years as the l
snail is to a bare. " I
These words are not written for the
puppose of any self-laudation of what I
the allies accomplished chiefly in thirty- 1
six months, although deserved. History |i
wBl emphasize. this faCTfSar beyond what]
the most of us realize today:- The essen- 1
tial thing we should grasp iff not to per-l
mit ourselves to accept in future as we
have in the past, without question, wtt*t|j
is declared to us by Germany, for there!
is every reason to bslie^ethat a country
which found its riec^tivelSfapaganda so l
profitable in years gone'fey ik not going!
to abandon Its formula wbftn we once!
more settle down to peacn ? conditions. J
We may with equal advantage, each one
for himself, question the integrity and
motive of many atatements which are
made with so much assurance, and Which
we meekly accept without any other proof
and authority than that of the speaker's
word. If what we are urged to believe
is so, it is capable of proof ; if the evi
dence does not support t be statement.
we ?ltuply delude uurst,Uv<?. . ;L, . ^
Doe* auyone iuiojflne that, if thv
id mi i>v>oj?l?* who were ftllve on that f'atv
f ul August daw, 1911, could have known
what is know a now. tbej would hare
Ifoue into the war? II. II. Windwr, in
the May Popular Meebanle?f\\Uf?ti?ln?*.
Sidney Draw, CfcmadUn, Dead.
New York, April 9. ? Sidney Drew,
actor on the NtAf* and for tho "motion
picture .Mcjraap, d^ied today at hi* home
heiv. Mr. Drew wits appearing with
bin wit.- in the play "Keep Her Hmil
n*P\ in lVtrolt last week when h? be
came ill. Mr. Drew, who waa a native
??jfc .? Jtfew York, wau IV4 yearn old. t
iVfttrr Put Wm.
lu M village in Iroiuml tbc uurthet
of a soldier a?et tlM; v)lfu*<- priefit, wW
ash ?*d her if wbr hud had bad new*.
"Huw, I bate." nbe field, "I'hI ha? been
kuied.' '-^y: ..
"Ob, l ?w t*r.? vorny, '^nuid tb?
priest. "Uid j?rt? reeeiv*' word from th^
Vfir om? r
"No," Hbf said. "I word ffou*
bim^lf."
Tb?* priewt loobod perplteaed, ?ud Hah*
"Hut bow to t but "
xfce ttaid, "bnm J? tfto letter :
road it for yauraeW."
Tbe letter said: "Dear mother ???! an*
i now in tb? Holy hand."
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groceries, farmer#' supplies, etc.. to shop from.
Make your bill all in one and save by It. Con
centrate on bargain shelves and counters.
Our groceries are always of standard quality.
I*et us promise you quick service and satisfaction
and then' give us a chance to keep our promise.
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The Store Thai Carries The Stock
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dream, start at once putting your money in the Bank,
and it will pile up for you ; and as it grows, your
dream will find a solid baee.
This Bank is here to make your dream come true.
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ies. Our Shelves ^re stocked with the best in the
; market of standard goods. ,
I ' , Let oa take the responsibility of' what yon- put
on the table to tempt the appetities of your family.
Groceries are the life of any individual.
Let us supply your nourishment in a way that
will be cheapest to your purse and most satisfactory
to your pallette.