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Scenes From Modern American Comedy, "It Pays to Advertise," to Be Given at Chautauqua Here The sWIe-Hpllttlng American eomedy, "It Pays to Advertise," will be presented at the coming Redpath Chautauqua on the fourth litght by '& company of eight. This a ptay which was extraordinarily successful In the great j metropolitan <-'^erM ttn<l h?8 u,s0 been wonderfully received On Chautauqua. Last year on one of the big Redpath Seve* Day circuits "It Pays to Advertise" proved to be one of the biggest features of the week. This clean, rollick-' T ing comedy will be one of the strong attractions on the Chautauqua program. CMMBtNU TO THK TOP Way is Open for Itralns, Energy and lVreeveranro. Ill oi>e of tin? magazines IIUMV "was a story printed recently under a head ing "When- They Wore at Thirty/' ilt den It with men whj< have conu1 to tie national figures In industrial affairs In.Atnerlca "Whore They Wort? at Twenty" would 1h> morn Interesting. *fhc present writer was over In New York mwiMy to see. 'the man wlio is ln-a?l of one <>f die greatest THilroadifc hi tlw world and representative of Joint I> Kock/feller's big' infeik'sts In lransjK>rlatlon lines. "Where were yon at twenty?" the newspaper man a^ked. ?mi n railroad in Arkansas." was the reply. . "Where cli<l you lM?gln?" tflw? greatest publisher in America. if not the world, was asked. -/r "At twelve years of ape. with n <apitnl of three cents," was the an swer. Are the opportunities today as good as in days gone by? Assuredly. There nwr was greater opportunity.' From' out of the ranks of the office boys, the clerks, the railroad employes, the roth men. the students, the shopmen, the fac tory workers. *he salesman ,-of today will come th<> great captaiivs of to morrow. The oyiportunity is bigger today be cause the active, the enterprising, the . tlcrt and tJie caiMible stand ont in vivid <v>ntrast at a time when there is so much of inclination to shirk affft loaf at> the joh. ' | The shirker gets nowhere. The worker climbs. - r Ono .?f the partners of the banking house of j. P. Morgan & Co. was a j - reporter?m??vnv?York getting $80 a 1 wpek twenty years ago. ?The head of the blggeat life insur ???<* company in the world was a; mull-town school .Heaohipr wlurai jbe wa< twenty, Itefore that he worked on a farm - | Frederick fnderwood. president of rhe Krio railroad, was a brakemau. The president of the Fidelity Mtotual I.ife Insurance ('a. of Pbiladelpthia. Parted his business career as errand ^'r ?John Wannamaker at $1 a week. Thomas Kilistoi was a "train butch <"r' selling candy, cakes and such Stiffs to milritad travelers. Thn mayor of N??w Yorfc -was a looo ?Dotivr fireman. The greatest retail merchant the w^rid f.Vor jlaR known, and who died ' ring $rtf>.000.000. was a Irired hand ln ?i O'untry stone. John arty. one of* the principal ad "WwriHv, ..fficore of tlx- American f P,WB^ Telerraph Co.. roue join a u?s>k job In the company's ( Jack ling, the biggest figure Jta hjJTr mknin* in America, was a farm m St. (lair county, Missouri and *t ni v far' hjr studying *, h\ ?*ndlo light In the attic* of for- in 8 Srvr York Htare- B* ^?^wasafanihsed. ^omiT^ W n?JncW*> P?*W?rrt of the OHnn^l Bank of tw" ,ar*w* financial in^itu m York started as an rud* *iM,.k ^ called "home." c Idvorsky Pupin,. who de off-ice ho.v for ii <<onooni In Paudra, Iowa. ?A list 11k<? this could Ik* <*<>ittlnikhI until columns were filled. klllu* foregoing lias lieen suggested by a bit of stuff that oamo floating In from Armour & Co.. whfch nIiown how near l.v all tlw mon in tliat monster orga'iil aatlon rose from smal jobs In the Ar mour plant. . For instance-: Arthur Mfceker, vhv presl dent, start ed at the bill desk so did Kvorett Wilson, .snporiutwidout of branch houses, and Frank W. Waddell, head of the provision department. >F. F<Lsoii White. vUv-pix'sldent. spout hisflrst Jf^Arg with the company j as a clerk. M. A. Yalcaitine, vice president .aiul head of the w*i)> works, made his start Rol?ert ,1. Dunham, vice president, lJegan flf? n clerk, and Frederick- \V. Croll. vice presidt^nt ami treasurer as assistant to the paymaster. <Hia rles H. Mel >o well, president of the Armour Fertilizer works, entered the employ of the eomimny as* a steno grapher. George ? 11; Itcbhins, vice irrosident, was u elerk In the transportation de partment. , John 10. O'Hern went to Chicago twenty-three years ago looking for a J(J> and found one .in the Armour oleo margarine depaftment at $1.75 a day* Today he Ls general superintendent of sixteen Armour plants. My rick D. Hard Lug. general superin tendent of the Chicago plant, who di rects the work of 16,000 men, started .with the company as a messenger at $3 a week. Fred C. Shaw, divLson superintend ent of. the Ch?<*ago pJantX, started* As a bookkeeper. A. P. Peuson, -head of the canning department, Ls today at a desk 100 feetfrom tihe-feable at -which as ji l>oy of fourteen, he worked for $3.50 a week. _ Chftrlpg Vlkel, genera superintendent of the *jt. Paul plant, started with th* opmpifny as an office boy. Would these men haw had their fine , positions today had they been shirkers ] ai)d clock watdbors ? Not in a thousand years. For every-big job there i? in America today there Will "be tSvo twenty years from now. There never wu.s better opportunity for the bright youngster or the bright young man. It does not matter what you are today, office or l>ank clerk, farm hand or salesman, shop attendant or truckman. For. In this country more than in any other, cah it be said with truth: lam the master of ray fate, T am the captain of my soul. Work and you win. Ix>af and you lose. WANT TO TRY JOE TURNER Greenville Officers Desire His Return at Onee > Greenville, April 30?Sheriff Willis this afternoon requested Governor Coop er to take up the matter with the Gov ernor of Virginia of getting Joe Tur ner, heJd In Lynchburg, Va., charged I wfth fcbe murder of an officer here and frlso charged with munderfng tvA> police - | men In Gnenvfle last October, bade to Greenville for trial, and Governor Coop er promised to do Immediately. Up on receiving an affidavit as to the facta in the case from the Greenville 'Because of a technicality, It is feared that it will itr <1 Iff fruit to Intixw a Heutemv to tho ohvtrfr <'l?aln on Tunio.r in tlio Virginia <-aso and for tliaI iva won t'lio officer* nn1 anxious to have liim hioiiKlit here for trial flint on the oldest foloU.v, 'fW fiynehburg offl cucs. for th?? same reason, favor Ids re hiru here, Jt Is salt! Kheilff Willis ' r?1 : ,v stntiw Turnt.*r to poH<huu(mi In l<ynclihm-j; last. jklght. Tlu? ?ay# that Turner s?i<l that h<? mupdortxl tho jK?UcviiH?n hon?. T?ot la theTGEwTL?T^ir T?k. ran We gwe & m aur store. You cam hear it exactly at Si the noted pxpcMofiits who xrieHod the JRdbon Shop on Fifth Avenue, New York. ? Yom'tc been hrtring about the astonishing raajjnm of the New Edison. Blow jfom ask: * 'It this reafetpi to true that I feel the same emt^ooi in litteaing to the Mew Edison at I feel in fateMf to the 1Mb* stager?" Our answer it?put the Mew Edison to the test! Mr. Edison devised his umasgoe Realism Test for thit rety pwrpaae. Them he invited distinguished pijeMfMb to try it out. Bach of the tint at en got sensations that were startimgiy rwid. "I eoerid bow sworn there was a me,'' said Dr. W. V. Bingbtm, Director of tbe Department of Applied Pifcbologjr, Carnegie Institute of Technology. "I frft the pretence of a living singer. The accompaniment seemed by a separate inataument," reported Prof. C. H. Farns worth, Disaster oflbe Department of Music, Teachers' Coikye, Cofcsmbia University. 4-The music filled my mind with thoughts of peace and beauty," saad WBmm FoUett, noted music critic. We'd Iike to have you come into our store sod try tfasa same teat. Sec what you get. The BeaHsm Tes H tkmm you Smm Mdimn thr+ugk ThmifU ? . * ? ? Camden Furniture Company Telephone 156 ?:? Camden, S. C