The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 01, 1920, Image 6
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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The Prt'itd) minister of finances *nys
that France will payv every dollar of
the $'?W),000,000 due America by <>ct
<Klx'r 15, The sum referred to la
France's sli.i i !? of f !>?? Anglo French
loan of floated Iu America
<1 u i*h)(c the Wojrld War.
Deposit* iu South Carolina bank* In
erea*ed more thai) $IW.0o0,000 in tho
last fiwal year, being now eousbleraldy
in oxcei R$ of $17'J.ooo,ooo; the growth
of saving doponlt* in the name period
was more than $-0, (KM), 000. ami there
are today between L'5,000 and riS.OOO
more Ihdivldmil saving* accounts Irt tho
banks Of tho l'aluietto Ktttte than ever
before those figures being froth a re
|H?rl J list (?uiii|>ll<<l by the wilr loan
organization of Mm* Fifth Federal Ite
Morvo district froth information furnish
ed by tho hanks, by (ho State examiner
mid by tho controller of tho currency
In Washington.
fox .Manager* Appeal to Masses For
Fluids,
The I >(Miiorra tie National CVnnmitloo
wants hoi p. wants it |n an open, above
board public way. The Cox Uoowyelt
managers are In great ikmmI of funds?
not millions as are available to their
opponents Iml modest thousands with
which to offset tlto effect of the iin
mouse funds being used to confuse and
misrepresent the true Issues of the pres
out national campaign.
They propose h>~gt?tvjiciyh?d funds <11
veeijy from llie^hody of C'try-Iloosovelt
, supporters This is In hajritiony -with
(he fimiucial policies of previous I)otno*
era tic Campaigns. In lOI'J nearly 100
<i(K) persons sUit.scrilusi to tho fund used
In carrying out the Wilson message t<>
the people. I n 10.10; eve'u a larger alt
uregatf numbi't of |n.|l\ iduaN ren
?hsl?*d financial help Though tic
time for mil k J ntr 'appeal is short the
< 'ox Roosevelt managers believe even a
larger ntimher want t" contribute (his
yea r. ?
They have ? no Impe < > r desire of
matching million^ with the Republicans
"in fact, they don't helieve . that *?m'h
U tmecssaryt even if |.< wer<'- toh'rable.
Mut s<?me funds are needed with which
i " legitimate tlv work the maintaining
?<>f hi'.Klipuifcrs. the writing of letters.
The send! nit -forth inform.i Hon wTueTT
t he viilci's .should hnve, etc.
Ample funds would readily come to
the I >eh)ocra I ic managers were they t < ?
-ufiwo'e all que^ttrrnN of >oiirce and pur-'
pose represented l?y large donations
from >.elfi.sh interests
In-dead I hey (????? U'iivh?u the matter
to t h?' people, to tin ?s'" who give, mode*d
ly. primps, hut yet out of uo motive
but unselfish desire to promote t-h*?
principles represented by James M.
( m\ ;| i(. I I'llilklill P Koosevclt.
TU?y believe the uiamfx of Cox
Hooxevelt supporter* will thus eome to
t tur aid of the campaign, and have re
quested (ti newspaper to receive ami
transmit contributions from It* readers.
Contributions a re needed ami arc
needed now.
Mend yours at once to this office ami
It will be forwarded promptly to ha
tlonal hendquatfr* at Urand Central
Palace. New York City.
TfUC I AND OF ICE CKKAM
An Kiiglihh View of the l ulled States
of A merit*.
An KnglUhumn who recently visited
the I'nlted States wrote his Impress
Ions of the country upoji his return
to hi? native land. Iler*< !g Ids ?t rt i
do?
Of "course America is the- land of
exlreuuw. The |>eople are either de
manding 1 1 1 : 1 1 all countries on earth
Join In a League of Nations so that
nui verbal brotherhood shall be malm
talned, or they want to abbot, at sight
the mug-womp patriot who would tar
nish (ho 'glory or America by having
obligations with decayed and played
out European lands. In winter tho
thermometer sign Is way below zero;
and In summer it bubbles up l>eyond the
century, lust now something like a
hundred unilllon Americans are gasping
with heat.
New York is empty -except for norm
five million people who are obliged to
iiMualii In "the poor little old town."
The weal by have gone to Newport, or
Southhampton or Long Island, or to
the Berkshire hills or to charming Tux
edo, and I here they live the. simple life
as only American millionaire* can.
M;i It' I lie people one meets are inlllon
aires in dollars, not pounds. They
a IV very hospitable. The current thing
however has boon to visit Europe. Per
haps yon have met them. .
Ax t h?? temperature is torrid Ainer
i i i- adaptive. Many eountry houses
!>:ivf their sleepliig porches, and
i here. in the open. s!uinl>er is sought
in the hot. brea t hless night. Electric
I'm-- arc every where buzzing overbed
in th* shops and restaurants, and
twirling with mechanical shlowings so
that the breeze he spread. A JltUc
elect rie fan is humming on the table
a s- I write to relieve ' the 1<l'J in the
vhad" limpness. Elder and even youth
ful P.rltKh vro|f#?rs would think it bad i
i
form to a p|H>a r out he links in any
thing but a jacket. The American, a
stickler convention In most things
appearing to garb. leaves his coat in
the club houses and more likely than
not has his shirt s'leeves rolled up above
his elbows.
Everybody wears a straw hat. The
Panama of Hamburg is not very popu
lar. Mostly the round straw hat Is
worn, and in the morning when the
great . railway stations disi:orj:e thou
saiul* of worker* coming, in from (lie
aurhurbs you ea UiH?t IttK ftPP
your hotel \vliut".\ >???? people fqr
straw.
Mali's (...tunic- ire tl?iiis>. The
wahdcoat 1? uuknown, To wear braces
or ..I -p. -mil r> u l<? proclaim voiiraelf
an old tinier 01 an Knglishma n <
mohair hh I tSj are the thing. though If
yOU wan! to admit It is real summer,
you weir a Palm Heaeh suit, canary
colored coal and pant-*, Such an oil
kings ur steel uiagueta art* snpponed
to don li\, the general winter sunshine
of Klorldia.
What the Englishman would <*ail *
lUft- -though the word baa uot the nauii*
meaning In America-- is not consent
unless be 1* wearing a *Hk shirt. A
.silk shirt coats anything from $12 to
(20. City clerks spend half a week's
wages to buy a silk phirt.
The1 jiiost georgeous silk shirts arc
not "worn In Now York. The moat
wonderful allk sbirtd 1 havf soen have
been in the smaller towns of the Middle
West, lu Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Iowa, flaming stripes of chocolate
and green and puce, and collars of
? . A "
orange and magenta.
At the risk of making myself un
popular at home. 1 must say that I
think the young American girl Is tin*
greatest creature on earUu And she
baa taste. And further, whj?n Is comes
to scantiness of attire In the warm
months she "goes some," La, la ! the
costumes of the glr}* 1 saw in France
last year were demuonoss Itself eoin
paved with the tllniMuess of the dress
worn by the average American firlrl this
yea r.
Helng ii mere man. I dare not at
tempt to describe. Tin* dresses, how
ever, begin low down and end high tip,
ami hire and silken ribbon*, shown!
through the gnhze. leave a little, but
not much, to the imijjrln nt toil; The
other day down at New Orleans a
clergy inn* was so shocked when a
bride walked up the aisle that he
ordered the church lights to he ex
tinguish d and the srlrl to no and find''
more clothing/before lie" would offb into
at the marriage ceremony.
Life i> Aride | -o^sllde with lee. The ;
first thing tliat probably makes an
'Amorlean man In England is the ,ab- \
?eti''e of ice. our ti'oid drinking water,
nauseates him Everything i' Iced in
America.
The first tMfig you d'.< in the morn
}n:r is t i drink Iced water. At all j
men Is. whether at n quick lunch eoun-j
ter iiv -it tli? Hit*/, .von are supplied*
?v itb a class- of water with piece* of i
if- in it. * The hist t hiiii* you do at!
til'-'! t is ty have the servant bring you i
a pitcher jangling with lumps of ice.!
The ice chest js ;iii institution in every'
household lee is de'ivered ??ach day j
the satne as milk. j
No iloiiM tie- ice habit is a bad oar.
T'lif Tike iu.'.iT bad Tiabits it is very j
plesant. Americans have many pas_!
time*:. I hit the chief one seems to he I
, I
eating ice cream Talk ahont the rnn*t !
beef of old England What is ll corn- :
pared with the ice cream of young;
AuWica. The American has the swoet
tooth. and when ho. and particularly
she, Is not munching canity' the local
drug st or*? is being patroni/.ed. In
comes made from selling i?a tent modi
cincs; but fortunes, aro accumulated by
i lie sale of ice cream ami soft drrinks.
These parlors- I leave the "u" out
o? the wo nl in (ieforonco to my Amcri
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can friends ? a re really goorgoous es
tablishments.
They are si>aciou-, scrupulously
clean n nd decorative. ( ?n one side is
a long white marble counter and you
?<it on a high stool while whiteclad
young men spr.vly supply the thristy
mob. Everything is neat, dishes clean.
polished with medicated paper
i-u | is. sii your lips run no risk of Con
tamination. and with pleutitud o of
straws through which to suck the cool
ing beverages.
Thrre is trrnpr jui.
juice. root bear, orangeade, cola, cherry
Phosphate, limeade, mixtures of aerat
ed water, ice cream crushed wtrnnv
berries, chocolate sundaes, and ice
cream of many colors and many flavors.
There are thousands of these places
They arc always full ? fat men as well
!Ls slku women.
I felt quite a shock one day when
I was Introduced to the governor of a
state while he was sitting at a drug
! at ore table eating: vanilla lee ereani.
| It l ad never entered my mind 'that
! governors eo\ild eat vanilla flavored ice
I
I cream. - *
j At the reat of the establishment
j a'-v nice >rl covCi'ed tables where you
! sit and while the hours away consum
j Ing inordinate quantities, of lee soft
, drinks and listens lo a band, or a
uiekle in the. slot,., machine, not infre
quently a horrible, but ingenious, fJer
man contrivance of a fiddle played by
elect rielty.
Last Sunday I went for a solitary
five-hour walk among the beautiful
hills uf western Pennsylvania. Not once
did 1 meet a pedestrian out for a stroll !
Not once in the woods n^ftr the town
whone I was staying and overlooking
the Ohio river, did 1 come across any
i "ii[ii?'s Uow different from England f
Voiiug eou pies <h? not go for country
walks in America. They chiefly con
sort in the icc vrcnm pni*tor<j. And
when, hot and dusty, I got hack to the
town and sought refreshments in ice
root beer, there was a throng of young
people in the drug store consuming ice
cream plain wtth Walnuts, ice cream
i with syrups. x
t>f course everybody In America hu
a motorcar ? called automobile jl%
short." A man ma.V have a hoary
mortage on his home, but lie must haw
n motorcar. Nobody Is anybody Is
America unions he has a car Aa4
wonion ami young girls ilrive a< oft?
:is men.
"While there aro social distinctions it
|lif Eastern states. jusi as much as i#
England. they aro practically uon?
jstent in th ? Middle West. The atmc*
1 the it" is that of a big, jrood natured
family. Everybody is "Hill" or "Kupk
ciia" to everybody else. .There is bath
ing amlVatJnj? ire cream, picknfeklng.
with plenty of ice cream. fishting tl*
mosquitoes and consuming more i?
crcniu. 'Why bother about the I/eagw
of Nations \vlK4t the evening is warn
and a bucket of ice cream is on the
table? Somebody Ought rcafly to
writ"o~a book on the land of ice man.
A society youth joins hands with I
ycggiuun hk a means of winning a girt
Serious for Hie Vouth, hut funny for
tlie audience is "A Burglar By Proiy,"
.Inek Pick ford'* latest picture at th*
Majestic Theatre Today.
Idaho 'has several mountains, eick
more than 12,0o0 feet- high, that law
never been named.
We will sell 25 head, fine fresh, high bred cows
with calves by side. Sale will be held at
convenient location
BETHUNE, S. C., OCT. 6TH, 1920
These cows are a fine selection, bought from the best farmers in TennesSe one
two at a place. They come direct to you. Postively no dairy cows. They are ki?d
and gentle, heavy milkers, and great butter producers. Four to five gallon kind. Ace
run from 3 to 6 years. Ifc will pay you to come 50 miles to this sale, if in need of 8
gOod cow. Nothing in a scrub but disappointment. Please tell your neighbors and
friends, and remember the date and place. Sale starts promptly at 11 o'clock rai
.ofc shine.
Yours respectfully,
CONSOLIDATED
AUTO CO.
Announce their removal i'rom DeKalb Street to Broad
Street. one door north of the Clyburn Drug Company.
When in need of tire repairs, ( )xy- Acetylene Weld
ing. VVillianl Storage Batteries, anil Battery repairs, bring
your work to us as we are equipped for prompt service,
and all work guaranteed.
VULCANIZING
Any kind ?>t tires repaired, relining, re-treading, re
beading. rim-cutting and sectional Vulcanizing.
Oxy- Acetelene Welding
We weld Bra>s. Bronze. Aluminum. Cast Iron. Copper,
Cylinders. Crank Case-. I )ifT?*rent ial Housing. All parts of
(lins. Saw Mills. Bottling Works, C<Hton Mills.
Willard Batteries with Threaded Rubber Insulation
The Ka 1 1 *? r> U the In-art "t Ignition System you can
?acquire thi- ni">L \'aluable a^H i ? \ installing Rubber Insu
1 cited Williard.
Batteries need special care in winter owing to its long
er lighting demands and difficult starting conditions. We
are prepared to render you special Williard Service.
BATTERY COUPON
( lip thH ? << ;p.>r. and uhen presented to Consolida
ted Auto Co., u i ! ! ; One Dollar, s < ? u are entitled to one
li;:t ! cry reehary^ Thi- >pei ial priee made t<> introduce
u p-t ? >-< I a f e R. .t*>*r\ 1 >epart rnent .
S ? r 1 1 * *i 1 ...
METRO OPERATIC
MUSICAL SYNDICATE
PRESENT
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Camden Opera House
Tuesday, Oct. 5th
Celebrated Artist from the Principal Opera Organiza
tions of Europe and America.
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Management F. V. Peterson & T. I. Skeoch Metripolitan
Opera House, New York.
Curtain 8:30
Seats on Sale at W. R. Zemp's Drug Store
Prices: $2.20, $1.65, $1.10, 85c. This Includes War Tax.
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