THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
PublUUed ??>'*'! y Friday at 1100 No
Hroad Street, and entered at the Cam
den f as aecond claae mall mat
ter. I'rlw |mt anuum $1.90.
Cumdeit, #4, AufUHt 1, 1019.
A t 't 4*1 1 1 Jon ix railed to the notice in
another in t hiM paper asking that
the rltixiuw interested in attunping out
lllit*-ra<*y in this county meet at the
- court houae today to Join in a campaign
to help out in tbe lay-by school to be
put 011 in Houth Carolina noon. It U
a pitiful xiglit to nee a grown man un
able to read or write and when placing
his signature to a piiper baH to makr
"bin mark." The record* show t li?t
Houth Carolina baa a greater number
of 11 lite ratea than any ??t !i??r state, with
possibly one ejOntptlou, ami Kershaw
county baa a great number. This in a
record that th|* ^tate ami i^imty ia
not proud <>f. Miss NVJIe-' II. Wilkea in
in eha rge of the campaign in thin
county ami she awks the co-operation
of nil public spirited people teachers,
trustee*. ministers- -and all well wiidier*
fur the work. Puring the past year
over .'Ul'HI pupils between the ages of
11 ami <I'J were enrolled in the night
school* .if Houth i 'a roll n a am) (KlO of
?these had nfver been to tfcbool. To
many of these people there came little
op]H>rtunity of attending schools. The
Illiteracy which exists t< *1 n y In our
State is but the result of inflected
childhood.
The recent tragedy near Camden in
whicli two lUen loat their lives on ae
count of the violation of the law HgniiiRt
{he inanufarturc and sale of whiskey
has been the topic of iHmvcraatloii
throughout the county for the past week.
\W find public sentiment strongly
agailixt the tnnu or men who it is said
hiiX'C been leading them* ignorant and
vicious' men Into making, thin stuff ami
offering it for sale. And from the. talk
going the rounds some people are go
ing to tind themselves in serious trouble
when the trial <*>mes up. It luus been
hinted around that Lids is not the first
time that illicit liquor has been inan
ufa'turod in this county where men
'higher up" are involved and . something
nui \ eiiine to light on other parties.
We take pleasure in presenting
Luther WiHinms, of Parmington, Mo.
Shake hands with Mr. Williams! Mr.
Williams recently was railed into court
art witness in a rase be had not the
slightest interest. lie gave testimony
to the beat of his knowledge and was,
abused mid browbeaten in a shanmful
a
manner by the opposing counsel. After
?? oiirt had adjourned Mr. Williams and
the attorney met. A little later Mr. Wil
liams went home and the attorney was
assisted to a convenient hospital. "We
repeat it. Shake hamls with Mr. Wil
liams. ? Hock Hill Kecord.
Tbe Pay of Soldiers.
It may be a source of surprise to
many i*i>plc t<> learn that the Ameri
can army was not tlie highest paid in
the. world. The Anzncs had a very de
rided shade 1 1 1 m ? n the Yanks in this re
spect. nrrordififi to figures issued by the
Keneral ?ta ff. Then* ?h?w (Imt the pri
vate soldier of Australia, NVw Zealand
and Canada received higher'* pay thau
tboae of t hi* ('nlt?t suthx, ilthouffc tte
A HI. I H ?rix outruokcd <ir?-at (irjuiu, (l0|
many, France, Austria IhiiiKary, Japan
and Italy iu tha-t order.
When tin- |?a.\ of Ameiican private*
wan ii*?s| at #,'M) a month, it wan gen
??rally rnipp ?*?"?! they would ohtclaKM all
"(lu'is. Hut it Ik found that Australia
paid a month. New Zealand |89>fl0
and Canada $tiH, The lowest paid sol
dier* were the italiana, who received only
M cent* a month.
Annum the noucouuui?Kioued o cern
of the I lilted Stale* rankod third in
the rate of pay, <?or|H>ralM receiving $30,
sergeant# $?'IN and regimental aergeant
in h j<> th Hut Australia paid the
moat to her coircomuiWioued officer*, giv
I ng ?*orj>oraln *7lM>0. sergeant*. ?7?.50,
and r<wimeutal sergeant majors $1*1. NO,
while Canada wan next with pay of
$."Ui for oor|?oral*. tor nergeants and
$ol for rogiuuwtal aergeant major. It
in Mtatwl by the general staff that the
food uud clothing allowances are largely
the Maine f<?r all arinim Washington
I 'oat.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mis* Siif Haile iH visiting in Sum
ter.
Miss A gue* Ilel'aas has returned from
< 'harleston. * ?
Miss Kohekah I tclxiaclu' |h visiting
in Charleston.
.Mr. I>it*y Heath was here oil a visit
fo his mother last Sunday.
Mr. Oeorg e Hranington and family, of
I >ul?l i 11 , < i h are visiting Air. B. F,
Haile's family.
See AW?ert Kay and Hlin<\r Fair at
the Majestic'* open in* Tuesday August
? ?th. '| hey appear in a Fox breezy
enmedy "He n Little Sport."
Mis* Annie and Mary Hvans Brasing
i<ui <.f Keixhaw and Minx Fugenia Sowell
? f < \d uinbiu are visiting at the home
nf. their aunt Mrx. S. F. Brasington.
Mrs. L. A. Brown, of Oamdeu, with
Mrs. Uohort. Kirven. and little daughter
of St. Charlea, after visiting their wa
ter. Mrs. N. F. Wells, of Mtvniplihf,-' Tenn.,
lire n..w visiting iu Little Hock and J
Hot Spring*. Ark,. j
Lieut. Mulct dm Hutoman of the F. S.
Air Service who was called home by
the death of his father has returned
t<> Texas where he is in the service.
Mrs. Fdwiu Mulier has returned from
a visit to friends '1n Kentucky.
The Majestic Theatre will positively
reopen Tuetalay August 5th at 0 I?. M.
The special feature attraction for the
opening night being "He a Little Sport"
featuring Albent Hay (brother of Charles
Hay ) and dainty little Kliuor Fair. It's
the kind of a play that everyone en
joys seeing, and the kind that the Ma
jentic delights in showing. There are
plenty of seats now, but come earlv.
I eaehers. ministers and college stu
'lei'ls are asked to help teach the un
fortunate persons in Kershaw County
who cannot read Or 'write. Those who
are ready to put heart and mind in
the work and have a share in the won
derful task of bringing South Carolina
top with the other States in
the I uiou in education are asked t?> see
<'"ir County Superintendent' of Education
nt once. Accept this chance to show
your patriotism for South Carolina and
America. I'lease canvass j your com
munity.
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HAD LOTSBF FUN
Mr. Goslington'8 Experience That
of Many Others.
Who Wouldn't Fool Pleasure at Hav
ing to Secure Larger Safe-Deposit
Box for Liberty Bond* and
Othar Valuables?
"I never would have tlwmght It,"
said Mr. (Joalington, "but I've bud to
get a bigger sufo-depoait box.
,"I*efore th* great war 1 bud u mod
est check account, and u little fuud
stowed uway In u suvlugu bunk for
emergencies, but no aufe-deposit box,
lurgD or small. 1 bad uo use for one,
1 hud no atock* or bonds to keep in
oue; but wiieu the wur came und we
ull begun buying Liberty bond* it was
different. I didn't want to keep even
tbe little bonds that represented, my
initial investment lying around in a
bureau drawer or stored away In a
trunk, L rented a safe-deposit box.
I bad oftea read the advertisements
of the safe-deposit companies telling
of bow little you could get a box for,
and from that on up, pleasant read
ing always, suggestive qt wealth and
coupon cutting, und that sort of
thing, and now tbe time hud come
wheu I needed a box myself; und It
war a very pleasant reflection. I
guess you' know the sixo box I toqfc.
"Still, I thought that box would be
plenty big enough for me. 1 hadn't
many bonds to put Id, you under
stand; but, do you know, as soon as 1
got the t^ox I found that I had aome
Other things thut really belonged in
it; insurance policies and some other
papers and documents Hint were of
vulue to me for flnunclnl or other rea
sons; und so while, the bonds didn't
begin, to tuke all the room - I soon
found thut my little box whs packed
so thut I hud to crowd the cover down
to get it to close.
"And I will admit thut tho safe
deposit experience wus a lot of fun
to me. It waa a real pleasure to me
to hnvc my box politely hauled out
for me from its deep pigeon hole in
the safe-deposit vault; und It wus a
pleasure to be shown to u cubby hole
with a door that I could close, $nd
where I found a desk and pens and
Ink and paper and shears and coupon
envelopes arid so on ; it was a pleasure
to be a safe-deposit customer, and I
certainly did smile when I used those
shears for the flrst time, cutting off
coupons.
"Then the time Came when, as I
bought more bonds, and what with the
other stuff' in it, the box was so full
that they bad bard work to crowd it
into its pigeon hole and hard work
to pull It out, and then 1 simply had
to buy a bigger box, and that wus fun,
too. Vv , r>'
"Of course, you kno\y I did not?now
buy a large safe, or a room with
shelves around to store my bonds on ;
nor did I have to hire a scissors sharp
ener to keep my coupon shears sharp
so that my clerks, would not be de
layed in cutting the coupons. 1 may
come to that, why not! Stranger
things than that have happened to
other people, and I don't know why
they might not happen to me. But
meanwhile It was a satisfaction to me
to reflect that I bad at least outgrown
tbe little, box, even though for the
time being I might be able to get
along nicely with one Just tbe next
size bigger."- ? New York Sun.
Jazz.
Those of us who have fancied that
our "Jazz" originated in Uganda or
among the Igorrotes are, according to
the latest news, quite wrong. Le
Matin of Paris maintains that the Jazz
b&nd Idea originated In Paris 120
years ago. "In those days as well as
now," it says, "people did not know
what to do to amuse themselves'; so
they made a noise. Those who hud
a great taste for noise went to the
concerts of the cat orchestra. There
were 20 cats with their heads In a
row on the keyboard of a harpsi
chord. The performers by striking
the keys worked a device which pulled
the cats' tails, causing a caterwaul
ing which ? " Le Matin feels would
leave us Americans little musically to
desire. Is this an attempt' to discred
it us at tho peace conference? ? The
Review.
Tribute to the Lilac.
The lilac has no place in mortuary
nnnals of man. It Is not a flower for
the graveyard. It Is a flower for the
freshening of thought, the lightening
of life and the creation of tbe Ideals
of living. It Is the flower of all other*
that belongs to the home and to the
heart and to the years that are gone
and the years that are to be. Happy
the wall where the lilac blooms!
Happy the window through which Is
wafted the lilacs' fragrance! Rrief
the period of the flowering of this
blootn of all others In the liking of
all who love that which Is old-fash
loned and that Is ever new.* ? Balti
more American.
Aerial Motorcycle.
A machine which may be used as a
motorcycle on the road, or as an air
plane In the ah- Is the Invention of a
Swiss engineer. Fitted with a 30
horxepower engine, a flying speed of
M miles per honr Is attained, while
Immediately the machine touches tho
ground an automatic arrangement
stops the propeller, enabling tbe ma
chine to run as a motorcycle at a speed
of 40 mile* an hour. The outstretched
wing.-; rollapM* \shen not In use In
the air. so that the marbine iiM?y be
axed upon ;tn ordinary rood.
W e do dot believe that Chief of Police
\V I. Maker p| < 'amdeu will be very greatly
alarmed at the coWHrdly black baud
"tor mailed him for the ?ateuaible pur
Of mt imidating Wiin ill connection
with what he known about thf illicit
xt iiiinx t li 11 t he a*?iwted in breaking up
, , < nit ly. Whitak er in a brave ?ml fear
It -s officer aukl tli?' coward who mailed
h i in th.- letter knows it. ? Ke*rtb*w lOra.
Marriage.
Mr. A mlrew Chapman Mot?elsy and
UIm M??lli?* Josephine Moore, both of
Camden, K. C., wer? married on Wed
iii*>?lay afternoon, July 80th, 1011), Pro*
I,., i. .IikV ge W. U M?-l k?well officiating.
False JLeadera.
The greatest need of the negro today
Is wisdom in lcttdernhip. The Washlng
t.ui troubles Should have developed con
wepyjltire and Intelligent counsel but it
appean* to be the worst euemies of the
negroes that have corae to the front.
At this very time, the homes of the
u?\groes in the Houth are being flooded
With a,k Inceudlury publication issued
from New York, in which they are ad
vised to awn themselves <for "the nett
war,'" when negroes "will he found
fighting together to free our common
fatherland " of the oOldwd Peo
ple in Charlotte who have received
copies ?>f thin publication, have band*!
them to their white friends, but there
are many who will he evilly influenced
through pondering over the wild sug
gestion* lodged In thpir mind*. In t Hue
with this same dangerous, advice was tb '
declaration made 4>y <the Chattanooga
negro presiding elder In a letter to Pres
ident Wilson that "before the negroe-?
of the country will again submit to the
many Injustices which we have suffered,
the white men will have to kill more
of us than the eamfbined number of
soldiers who were slain in the great
war." And in Washington where of nlj
places wise counsel is needed at the
present time, there was a Sunday meet
ing of the "Equal ltights League," at
which the negroes Were urged to adopt
"radicalism" as a means for obtaining
their "rights." They were advised to
use all methods, '"even force," in stop
ping the white man from "stepping on
our toes." This "league" appears Jo
have HiKinaored a movement for makiitg
"radicalism the essence of our propa
ganda." The friends of the negro in
the South will look u|?on these develop
ments \fcith apprehension, not so much
for theiiwelves, but for the fate of the
negroey in the populous centers of the
North and West, where negro aggression
is met with a fury that is unknown to
the Southern "mob." The unfortunate J
feature of the Washington affair is that
by reason of the encouragement given
the negroes* to persevere in their be
iigerent attitude, by reason of the rtd
vice given them that they are a per
secuted race an<l their only resource
is to force, it is a propagation Iwd of
dire <,onsiH|uences for the colored race
in general ? and in sections of the coun
try other than the South. The propa
gandists who would amuse the passions'
of the negro race against the white peo
ple may be charged with responsibility
for the race troubles of the future. The
greater manifestations of vengeance
against the colored ' race in recent times
have shifted from the Southern States
to the communities of the North and
West. The South lujd large relief from
responsibility in the Hast St. Louis out
break- which appears to have been taken
as a pattern for handling the beliger
ent negro population. There have been
demonstrations in New York and Penn
sylvania. From these and other troubles,
Washington was only taking copy. And
the Washington incidents appear to have
inspired similar outbreaks in Chicago,
where the large negro ]>opunltion is
perhaps more defenseless than in any
other section of the country.
Iti the Southern States the relation*
between whiter and blacks had settled
into a condition of unquestioned friend
liness and common understanding, and
outbreaks of race troubles had become
rare, such as did occur having been
set t l?*d by the co-operation of the bet
ter elements of the negro jw>pulation
with the white people. Hut the pro
paganda being carried on through North
ern agencies may exert a disturbing in
fluence on the negroes of the South, f.ir
the colored man is ill -fort i fieri against
appeals to his passion. The greater
danger, however, is to the negro who
is surrounded by the hostile element in
the Northern and Western centers. It
is ujvon these that this evil propaganda
is going to work its worst harm. In
encouraging the negroes to nurse a griev
ance and to band together for war
against the whites, these agencies n.irth
o f the Mason and Dixon line are play
ing with h domestic fire. It is the ne
groes in the Northern and Western cities
that will be incited to deeds of violence
and it is the people among whom they
live that will have their fingers burned.
The Northern and Western negroes
are in the hands of evil advisers, but
?*o long as the negro in the South stands
by the advice of his one known and
proved friend, the inteDigernt white man,
he, at least may be regarded as safe
guarded in his peaceable pursuits.- ?
Charlotte Observer.
Ivoopbole* of The I, aw.
To what extent our laws and th*ir
administration are at fault and to what
extent the delays of the law may be
blamed for lawle?*?nms in South Caro
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linn would bo difficult to determine^, but
there can bo no doubt, in the mind of
any one who is honestly seeking au ex
*
planation for the crime wave now sweep
ing over tlui State that these ai-e fac
tors which have their unmistakable ef
fect. There is not the fear of the law
in South Carolina that it should inspire.
does not- command the respect that it
should. The fear of the consequences of
crime is not strong enough to deter
men from committing crime. It is too
easy to evade the punishment prescribed
by law. There ar<f too many loopholes
iu the administration of ' justice. Our
courts are largely to blame.
However specific the law may be on
any xiven matter and however guilty
the evidence may show on the face of
it. the courts are too ready, as a general
rule, to stand between the criminal and
his conviction when the law's technicali
ties are appealed to in his defense, but
beyond doubt the greatest error of our
courts lies in the unnecessary delay too
often permitted in bringing the law vio
lator to trial. A man may commit mur
der. He may be promptly arrested and
every precaution may be taken by the
law enforcement officers. The witnesses
may appear at the coroner's inquest and
later before the. grand jury, and they
may be present in court when the trial
i? set for hearing. But almost any good
lawyer can contrive, under one excuse
or another, to secure a postponement.
Time goes on, sometimes other post
ponements are brought about by the
clever attorney for the defense, with the
result that when at last the man who
has taken the life of another stands be
fore the bar of justice soane of the wit
nesses for the prosecution are dead, or
if still living their memory of what
took place has been dulled or has be
come confused. They do not remem/ber
exactly what took plac. they do not re
call what testimony they gave, at the
coroner's inquest, and the prosecuting
attorney cannot, under Jhe law, ]Md
them on to refresh their memory. They
tie. consequently, halting and uncertain
ii> their testimony and sometimes they
break down under the clever cross-ex.
aniiuation of the counsel for the defense.
The guilty man, with the blood o(
another on his hands, is either acquitted
or "gets" lift with n sentence far too
light.
These facts are familiar to the legal
profession, The gentlemen of the law
have given serious thought to them.
.They were touched upon by Solicitor
(Jawque of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,
in his talk before the law enforcement
officers held in Col-ujmbia last week at
'tin* call of the governor to consider the
causes of lawlessness iu South Carolina
and ways and means to check the crime
wave whidh has the State in it* grip.
The law needs reforming. There should
be a tightening up of the court pr??mlure
a phiRging of the loopholes.
In England, where delays in trial
such atfJ are common in this country and
particularly in this part of the country
are not tolerated, there are fewer ac
quittals in proportion to the volume of
crime. Men who take the law into their
hands in England know that there i< no
escaping its consequences. Delays and
technicalities will not save them. Clever
attorneys are unable to divert a swift
footed justice from its course. The man
charged with crime must stand trial
promptly. He has his day in court, he
is accorded a ^fair trial, but there is not
compromising with him. He is not por
mitted to stay the hands of justice un
til tame has dimmed the memory of thoae
upon whose testimony the courts de
pend for the truth upon which justice
must have its foundation. And, as ?
consequence, with such a respect for
the law as the English law courts gen
erate, the volume of crime in England
is nothing t ocompare with lawlessness
and crime in the country. ? ColumbU
Record.
When You Pay
A Bill With Cash
YOU MUST
1. Go personally to the store.
2. Risk loss of handling of money.
3. Wait for a receipt.
4. Preserve the receipt carefully.
The easy way, the safe way, the only sensible
way, is to pay by check. Your cancelled check is
always a legal receipt.
Loan & Savings Bank
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