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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. LIBERTY Motor Sales Co. ? INCORPORATED Liberty Six Automobiles Accessories and Repairs Oxy-Acetylene Welding of Auto Parts and Castings. Vulcanizing A Specialty. Recharging of Storage Batteries. Ford Tractor Attachments. Starts and high gear, docs the work of four mules in ground $27"). 00. Southern Tires and Tubes with a real adjustment 6,000 mile guarantee. A Southern product that gives you service. We Guarantee our. Garage Work and make the guarantee good. Try it. Gas and Lubericants ? FREE Air and Water on Tap works in plowed Liberty Motor Sales Company S. A. BURRIER, Pro. and Mgr. 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 DRINK to be cool and refreshed for your nerves and your system for tha pleasure of drinking Authorities agraa that Bludwina contain# vitamin** which ara indiapanaabU conatltu *nd ?'*"?? Bludwta^ wLnajnv'fifc and grain*, auppUM ?&??. The Hludi?ine formula it ou>n<tt, protected and V? fuarunittd by TV BMwIm Company AUmm, Q?. Always hi the patented Bludwln* bOttl* Telephone your grocer for a case today MERCHANTS BLUDWINE BOTTLING WORKS, Camden, S. C. ? ' ' , ? I 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 OF CAM1>EN, S. t