The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 01, 1922, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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II. l>. Nllis (editor nod Publisher
Published ?*v?'ry Friday at No. 1100
Broad Street ami entered iji I lit* Camden,
Boutb Carolina |K>Htofficc. an second
class mail matter Price per annum
92.60.
s. c., September l, IU21.
The latest return from tjto wttie
election abows that Cote \i. Hlease ha*
quite a long loaij over bin nearest op
ponent. Thomas <VMol/eod, In the race
for governor. It is generally coue<Mled
that a vote for I -a ne.v weans a vole
tSU M-VT^hhI, <><1(1*11 Will readily be fc&Qn
that Mr. Hloase has very lllTlc <1m n> <
of being elected, if the *ame number
of volivs are c.ixt in t he second primary
Added to this Jh the fact that many
anti-Hlenxo voters wore away from the
state In the mountains or oh business
trips, nnd it will be ?jeen it hat tin* ma
jority tol?e oast auaInst the former gov
ernor, In the wecond primary will lw
greater than ever before.
? ioveriiai' llardwlck of < Jeorgia, has
commuted to lift' imprisonment tho
death sentcnoc of <Menn M. Hudson,
the Daugherty county farmer who wft?
some time ago convicted of the murder
of his two young stolons. The gov
ernor says that while the evidence
warranted oonvietlon, there was 111
an element of doubt in the matter.
(k>l. James Marks Wdlllams, wife
and daughter were killed at Durham,
N. 0., last Wednesday night while try
ing to cross a railroad track In an au
tomobile. They were si ruck hy a
fiiiln.
The big bcsaplaue Sampaio, which
left New York for Hra/.ll last week,
nan wrecked Tuesday between Nassau
wild Ila.vtl. The disaster occurred as
the result of the pilot mistaking his
distance while trying to land on the
sea In Hie da i/kn?v?s. Ail I hands were
*nVed hy t he United States cruiser
Denver.
Kepresenl al i\e Hill. Itepuhlicau. of
Maryland, ?><cck* removal ??f I'Viicral
Prohibit Ion ?Commissioner lljiyncs on
l he ground that he is iisin^ tho |?>*tnl
franking privilege for the purpose of
"ending onl jM'rsonal political propa
ganda in the intenvd of himself and
his a>?sochiios of the Anti-Kaloon
1 -eak'tio
Work on I he Wilwon duni at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., is to be resumed on Octo
ber l. the .sum of $7,T?(K),tHX) having
hr>en made available for tin* pnnpose.
Kflurnh Shown.
Through the (?otii'lcjlJf of the Coluw*
Ida S|at(< ami Charleston New* and
('niuici , The ilttoi.ji !i a,is enabled
tt? *how the election returns js fast
?y.they were tabulated lust rne*duy
A it luriftojufia cro\v4 asaein
Itltd III 11ont pi the office' In tho early
i vfiiinu ' i?'i i i iiuiiiici until midnight,
where a atcreoptleoii machine wan put
Into use, giving the reettH# on a Korocn
M Hie street. The paper is uu
tier tunny obligation* to (ttisiKll?iWICll
as ilie maniiKci* of Ihe election, the
telephone and telegraph operator*, Ml*.
M M MiiaOAi Vernon lJixon. the
chairman and accretary of the county
. \. r 111 (\- e CiviTTtfllTtT^nti n ft rrftirrs- for- i hn
HjjiHltitailce. rendered \\h, The county
returns were gathered unusually fast
ami they too, were posted on a tabu
lated statement hung In the front win
dow. v We hope we will receive the
same wood assistance from the ioana
jeers and (lie piddle In the second .pri
mary held September liith, and invite
Ihe county and town ipeoplo.to he our
guests again that evening.
We Would r??s|M.*etfully request, how
ever, tiiat those who are not helping
take llie returns remain on the outride
of the building, ami not to call this
office for information during the re
ceiving of the returns, for it addH de
lay to thoao who are working faat
to give the whole piddle the news as
first as |H>HsihIe. We will again use
the stcreopt Icon machine to show the
re.su its.
The Fnltcd Stat?\s .Steel corporation,
along with the other hlg steel-making
concerns, have announced nu Increase
of 20 per cent in all day wages, the In
crease to lake effect September I.
The Majewtlc, largest whip afloat, ar
rived at New York Wednesday, twelve
hours late, having been delayed be
cause of (he necessity of making en
gine room repairs at sea.
The Pacific mills at Law re-nee, Mass.,
have offered to restore wages to the
rate that wa? in effect previous to
I lie st l ike.
Fifteen socialists were arrested as
the result of a raid on a meeting at
Itridtfciuan, Mich., last Tuesday, The
meeting was being held in the woods
and the officers nlaimctl that it was
for unlawful purposes.
Anthracite Coal was first used for
fuel by two Counrcticut blacksmiths
In 17(?.S-0b, and was first used in a
Krato as domestic fuel by Judge Jes*se
Fell of Wilkes-Bar re, Pa., in 180.S.
Q1IIIJCN KAKN8 *25,000 A YKAK
South Carolina Suuill Town Editor
lias National Kiput.it ion.
At Fountain Inn, S. a v111uk? *
of Ivan than 1,000 iiMplo, live* a man
ulio Is a .phi In. u|.licr and yet wimff
in w ril?? adventure stories of the South
Sins'; a humorist who would like at
Hmfa to he II tragedian; a wandcrrr
who slays at homo Instead of takli;','
U?? Long Trail,
1111 name 1* ltobert Quillen. fin:
:us friomis -ami every man. woimaq
Mild cldld?(all hlin lloh. Ho is tlu
same Roitfrt Qui Hon wh<w*o humorous.
wholesome. human a r tides you read
now every Sunday In various papers
muter the heading "Folks Hack IIouio."
I IA 'Vil I am the first newspaper
or iQaga&iiie <M>rre?poiHlout to whom
Quillen haw ever given an Intervh-w.
The thing I wanted to know most of
all was how ho has succeeded in I he
writing game,
"What Is tlio secret of your suecc-^7"
1 asked him.
He smiled?a wariu, lovable smile
"I guess I ought to strike a J*>se
and nay something that sounds big,"
lie answered, "Hut the truth Is I
worked, worked aud then worked spine
more. Success Is measured by a fel
low's willingness to sweat."
After all, though, the real story of
Qdhrtn's success as a writer Is the
story of the world boating a "pathway
to his door, the world being iK>rsoni
fied by fbe editor of the Saturday
Kvenfng Post.
For L'O years Robert Quillen wrote
fiction. Wrote hundreds of stories,
long ,and short. And never to this
day has he sold a single one of them.
The same Suturday Evening Post which
later gave his "Small-Town Stuff'* to
its millions''of reader* rejected several
hundred of his fiction stories. And
then in a roundal>oht way The Post dis
covered that for years Quillen had
been writing homely, philosophical lit
tie essays in the form of editorials for
the Fountain Inn Tribune, a weekly
newspaper owned and edited by him.j
The Post, discovered too that those
same editorials would delight its read
ers.
Then Robert Quillen had arrived !
It happened thl^ way:
Some five or six years ago 'George
It Koester, editor of the Greenville,
S. (\, Piedmont, picked up a copy of
the Fountain Inn Tribune aud read
one of Qullleu's editorials. He imme
diately decided that the Piedmont
needed Quillen: that the Piedmont
wanted hlin"To write paragraphs and
??dltoriaU QUllleil said he couldn't
write paragraphs. 1'lnally It Wii
HXivnl Utwccn ihcl<l that fep W?t to
continue to edit uiul publish the Trib
une and Wtl to write editorials and
paragraph* f?r Piedmont too.
Almost Immediately t!??? J.Horary
l>igest began to quote IiIm paragraph*.
In a few wveka a Ulchmond paper ,
wrote to ttic Piedmont ami wanted
those paragraphs. So Qulllcn syndl*
rated them to the Hlehmoud pai*r.
Within six months lie had mx'ome oue
: of the most Widely quoted paragraph*
ci'x In the t'ldled Stnte->.
Then one eventful day. the editor
of the Piedmont received a letter from
4?f?tliu l'uit..? - ^,
The letter said In effect that tU?
Saturday K veiling Poet wanted Quilten
ninoim it* contributory. -Qullleti ad
mits that when lie wai shown the let
ter he nearly fainted,
"The only thing I had to send them
was a hatch of editorials for next
week's Tribune, mo I named them
'Small Town Stuff and sent them in.'
confidently expecting a rejection slip, j
j the qame sort I had got from the Post
| any number of times before when I j
[ sent them a story. But In this case
the rejection slip proved to be a check. I
| Along with the check Came a letter J
t saying the Post wanted "Small Town
'stuff" every week,
"It was the same material I had
been giving the readers of the Foun*
tain Inn Tribune for the past 11 years.
I'm still like It. I haven't tried to
write down to Fountain Inn or up to
Boston/'
From that time on Qulllen's rise
was remarkable. In the short i>eripd
of IS months his Income jumped from
about $2.C?00 a year to $2o,000 a .year
?and it's still jumping.. When the
Post made "Small Town Stuff" a reg
"ulffir feature, Qulllen signed a contract
with a large Oflijl'agio syndicate to
handle hi* paragraphs. At the present
time about 800 newspapers in the
United States carry his paragraphs
as a regular daily feature, and half
as many more carry his "Home Town!
Stuff'* jk* a Sunday feature.
And he's the same Bob Cjiilllen who
set the type and ran the little old
hand press of the Tribune five years
???>. in fact, up tt> a very few months
past he continued to run the Tribune,
although he did get a 'printer to help
him because of the press of other work.
He's not a bit stuck up; not one little
bit. lie's still Hob Qullleti to Foun
tain Inn. Newspapers and magazines
have made him tempting offers to
move to New York, Philadelphia, Bos
REMOVAL NOTICE
The cotton office of W.
H. Haile has been moved
to the building formerly oc
cu pied by The, Bank of
Camden.
ton and Baltimore, but ho stays la
Fountain Inn because he loves) the
place.
Ills bouse Is not the finest, nor bin
automobile the most expensive in iht
village. t
i '
I)ob Qulllen was born in a Kaunas
"cow-town" some 40 years ago, the
son of the editor of a small weekly
paper. He grew up with the stain of
printer's ink on hi* homely little ftice
and hands. When he was about 1*
years old, he drifted around the coun
try working on first one newspaper
and then another, until at last I he
landed iu Fountain Iun and got a Job
as prHitet on the Tribune,
Here he fouud the girl of his dreams.
V
married her and drifted on again, o&ly
to t?onie back, again to EVmnbaiu Inn,
??We just knocked about from bad to
Woose," said Bob, with his whimsical
srafle, "until at last we catne back
here and planted our vine and fig tree.
So kiddies came, so we asked the or
phanage for a red-headed, freckled
faced Irish boy. They sent u? . a falr
sfeinited, golden-haired girl. And 1
gwss we're satisfied.
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ON OCTOBER
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The Camden Building & Loan Association
will retire its FIRST SERIES which has earned about eight per ?ent
per annum for six years. Stockholders may receive CASH in full for
their stock, or may leave ALL or ANY PART with interest at six per
cent. This is a good earning investment and ABSOLUTELY SAFE,
as it is secured by FIRST MORTGAGES on improved city property.
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