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ME CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. 1). NILtSH Editor and I'ubUahw ' I"*?"*?* : |-, ;??-??;?? t><^- \r-v ' ;<??. /v-j:'',.-'' ' Published every Friday at No. U00 Broad street and Entered at the Cam den, 'South Carolina postoffico a? second t lass mail matter, Price per annum $2.00. A ?. l. ) m< mtrnmmmmm i ? mt i n i In i* ? mmmmff Camden, H. C., January 5, 1923. They Ought to Know. Traveling mon who visit this city >J all tell uh that Camden in one of the bent towns in South Carolina. They tell us they find business better and with fewer business failures re ported than any other town in thu state., They further toll uh that thoy are always ready ami anxious to sell Camden i^orchants, that they pay their accounts promptly. ,Theap trav eling men are great boosters and they are spreading this high darts information about Camden. The total taxable property in South' Carolina for 1922 increased $16,491, 961 from tho total of 1921, according to figuren compiled by the comptroller general for his annual report. In a letter t^> S. Tt. Carter, the state treas urer, the comptroller general, Walter E. Duncan fcives the total taxable property for 1922 as $436,998,t$49, ft* compared with $452,490,000 for 1921. "Patty ** Ar buckle. Mayors, ministers and women'* flubs proteat. against Roscoe Ar liuckle's return to the films. Will Hays, with what some might call the "Christmas HUtelt," ha? lifted the ban put o?} his acimg because of his con nection with Uw tragic death of Vir ginia Rapp^. "'Hays says he was giv ing the forutyr comedian "u chancu to do the oatyflhing he knows how to do." Hays nuute the same tn intake that numbers of other emotional persons make-? undertaking to forgive offen ders against the laws of society and government as if it were nn offense against thenweltfes. only. Fortunately, Hays' "pardon** counts for very JJtUq; the) judgment of may* ors, ministers, and women's clubs will stand and will save the "ailent dra ma" the disgrace of the public per formances of this unworthy and un savory person. Hays says acting in movies is all be kniiws how to do. Then let him learn something else!? Newberry Ob server. Kliniinatiitg Signs on Highways. The elitrilnatibu of advertising sign:-, along highways presents a problem winch is receiving serious consideration in nearly every part of the country. Several of the State highway departments have succeeded in getting legislation passed prohibit ing the erection of such signs along! State highways, and at the last meet j ing of the American Association of: State Highway Officials, A. K. Hirst, State Highway Knginccr of Wiscnu^ sin, read a paper in which he ex pressed the hope that all advertising billboards and signs would one day 1 disappear from the landscape of all the land. These sentiment* were rr ceiyed with approbation by the State highway officials in attendance at the convention. State Highway Mul 1 1 tin { Three at One Shot. , York, Dec. William N. Neil, j well known lo< al l?i rtl hunter, killed ' ? t h ree ? | m rtrulgc* rrt nre shot last Tuesday, arcoiililig to .1. K. Johnson,) who was hunting with ^im at the 1 t i nif Although he has uiily one ;irni, 1 Mr. Neil !> noted its oni of tin- best shots in this mm t ion. lie and Mr. ' ?Johnson were hunting down in Ihth esda Township where a c ove\ of' partridges ai dm-. . I < > h r . - ? ? i i did not shoo*. while Neil >hot ,'u ' once. Three part i idge.s fell "If 1 had shut I would ? > -i la inly ? ha\e ?laimed on* of thos? birds, "1 ronmic! Ir.| Mr. Johnson in ti lling^ the >?to!\\. ' 1 1 II t s ; n < ? e I il id 1 1 ? ? t -dioot ( at all. I had no *.<? rvak< a " j ? Iain. >N oman (iocs to Prison Audi ! !>)?<? 'J'J I ta ;< ? > ! ' thirty day- allowed b> law djr.ng which t;:n? a defendant nvgh ? : ?? i f ? t an app?aj t > the Suprenn < '< art ha\ - ing ? \pi.'? i (i ? r? i> ? n l.ru rt ..n I his W l ft . '.. h ? w . ! I .'?*? d < ? : ? lating the pi ohib-.t lor . , ? th? t session of Kedern! ' t h<-n. i . day afternoon w< :e taki n ..To < u> tod\ bv c anity o: i ? ? .Mr I.< .er ette being sent to t : . . r. I. ;:ar\ thi- morning t' ? f a sen* ? e o f f >u 1" m< ? , j > ? . hu- ba n ! ? > nf to : he ? gang ro' a per - : \ fiank in the Sa nation A:n.\ :< note. I O.n the b i.'-ets , f the v.o.ner. j "soldiers a red ? dg.ng mean ; that! th'1 v."t an : ? > an off. ei ; jf she has, rear h< d the tank *f an ensign, t h?* j name on the ribbon -nppenrs in white I instead of gold letters. Miss Annie L. Swynnerton, the de iightful British painter of children, doe* much of her work by clcetric Wit. MER ROUGHS MUKDKKH. > - a'-- f ' * -4;?i ""' lioublf ii| Luuisiaim Ih I'm tsl i aiiud I.H* l( MHIM'HH. (GUmtl I-. Tucker in Nt?w York World.) Mer Iloxige, L*-. 20.?- Opera tives of tbe department of justice, working directly under Washington headquarters, sought today to solva the mystery connected with thd ex plosion of approximately 1,200 pounds of dynamite last Thursday in Lake La FouVcbe, which, though obviously in tend <m! to conceal a crime, brought to the surface the bodies of F. Wyatt Daniel and Thomas Kichards, Ku Klux Klan victimH. Accompanied by Adj. Gen. Toombs of l/ouisiana, Sheriff Frend L. Car penter of Moorehouse Parish and of ficers of the state military detach ment on guard here and at JSastrop, the went of the parish government, federal agents visited the scene of the blast at Lake La Fourche boat landihg and made a further exami nation for clues. Several photo graphs were taken. Lata today it wan learned the va?, rious forces patching together the case against the "invisible empire" hope substantiation of one report will shed more Valuuble light on the whole sorioo of Moorchousc Parish out rages. Word wt\s received that shortly be fore the explosion revealed the loca tion of the two mutilated bodieu and effort was made to purchase fifty pounds of dynamite from a supply noUs? in Monroe, the largest totyn in the yiciujty. One of the Investiga tory departed this evening for that -place, wheyre an individual* is under suspicion, to attempt his identifica tion, as tho mAn who tried to buy the explosives. Officials and investigators believe no further evidence is necessary to provo the dual murder was the re sult of fanaticism worked up among tho Ku KIuk following of the dis trict, based on the belief that the liquor 'laws wofe being violated. The department of justice has the name of every Klanstnan in the par ish except possibly the few who may. have Joined recently. The ?nct that feeling is at high pitch here and at the parish seat, because the Klan membership is large and there is much bitterness against it because of j the outrages, has caused state offi cials to consider a change of venue if the state secures indictments but decision on this will probably await the reaction from the open hearing next week. Investigators today declined to state how T. J. Hurnett, former dep uty sheriff of Spicakcr fits into the case, other than to declare his rela tionship is conadiered important. Burnett in the only man thus far ar cested. He pleads an alibi. . In substance, the investigation, in which the department of juutice had participated for the last six weeks, has .developed the following oa the al leged facts; Prior to the murder, about a year ago, the Ku Klux made their appear ance in Moorehouae Parish under the leadership of J. K. Skipworth of Has trop, a retired steamship captain, in his seventies, and were heralded as survivors of the Ku Klux of the Civil War reconstruction. The Klan grew in Bastrop and obtained half a dozen or so members in Mer Rouge, when Dr. McKoin was mayor* Watt Daniel, thirty-six, a returned J soldier with a good record a a a First Sergeant in the American Expedition* ary Forces, lived on his father's plan tation nearby and had as a friend Thomus Richards^ thirty-two, an au tomobile mechanic in a local garge. Reports reached the Ku Klux that Daniel was making corn liquor and Klansmen, it is said, visited the plan tation and frightened the negro help. Daniel immediately made an issue of the visit, serving notice that if the Ku Klux had anything to say, he should be -informed and the laborers, should not be molested. Dr. McKoin became captain of the klan in Mer Rouge and DanieU with Richards became outspoken -against it. One evening last summer Dr. Mc Koin reported his automobile was fired on from ambush on th* outskirts of the town. Other residents aaid they heard the shots in rapid aucoes sjon. Examination of the automobile, according to investigators, showed a charge of buckshot passed through it, and that no man driving could . have escaped unscra&hed. One theory is that Dr. McKoin took the car to the country, shot through it, ami then fired two shot* into the air on his return.. If this theory is correct, tho village doctor's pur pose remains a mystery. Investigators eay ? Dr. McKoin stated he did not want the incident investigated, as he knew who ciired the shots. There has been nothing to show the department of justice men connected the doctor with the actual disappearance of Daniel; and Richards. Names are being guarded closely. .. Three weeks later, August 24, hun dred* wont from Mer Rouge to Bas trop, eight miles for a baseball game and barbecue. As they returned (he automobiles were stopped by between fifty and seventy-five men dresstd In overalls and wearing black'* mask.* reaching down to their chests* and five men wore taken out of their cars. They were Daniel, Richards, J. L. Daniel, father of the murdered man, C. C. Davenport, a salesman, and W. C. Andrews, a farmer. The masked u>en let all the others thuy qtopped go. v They m|itd&4ded and lied the hands the five und took them to the "4rood8, the place beii^g aych that the prisoners could not identify dt later, partially disrobed the elder Daniel and Andrews and kicked and whipped , Andrew's punishment was the more severe. Davenport was un touched, an he proved to be 4 the wrong man, his identiy having been mistaken by the mob. ^ . They were then driven to Collins ton, eight miles from here, and three of thi> men were released. It was then U:30 o'clock at night. Nothing further wad heard of Watt Daniel and Richards Until the lake yielded up their bodie.s. A. C. Whipple, garage man, took Richard's wif<i and children into his home temporarily after the affair. He said today he received threats for this, ho he went Mrs. Richards to see Gov. John M. Parker and the govern or's interest in the affair was en listed. Determined to sift the case to the bottom, Governor Parker visited Washington and it is now known that shortly thereafter somo of the best agents of the department of justice began an inquiry in the vicinity. Tho force was augmented, obtained the Klan roster, found somo traces of where the bodies were and now is drawing a net around those suspected. Whipple said he had received num erous "notices to leave Mer Rouge, both before and after the disappear ance of Daniel and Richards. lie paid no attention to them. Five weeks ago he was informed by tele phone he would have to leave the community. >Vhipple had been outspoken against the Klan, along with Daniel and Richards, and his friends attrib ute the hostility of tho Klan to the fact. . Hu has not violated the law, they say, and he hi\s lived here over twenty years. This and whnt may be the explosion of tho theory that they were suspected by Klan officials of firing from ambush, tends to indi cate the Klan work in the section has been a campaign of Vengeance. Further details of the raidlon ne groes in Moorehouse parish havo be ! come known. November 24, after j . ' Gov. Parker hud been to Washing ton and sturted his investigation, four negroes, Milton Robinson, Es suel Payton, Ewal Davis and Dan Hawkins, were taken out and club bed. One of the negroes was in bed asleep when a crowd of about thirty men, none masked, came to his door about midnight. The door was bro ken down and the man was carried out. Covered with flashlights and gun?, and asked for whom he was making whiskey, he said he was mak ing it for nobody but himself. The crowd of men, many of whom were recognized, then clubbed him and tiled to make him 'give the names of white men for whom he supposed ly had been distilling. Eventually he was taken to Bastrop and placed in tin- county jail, wheAp he re mained from Friday night until Mon day morning, when he obtained ball. Mer Rouge residents say the case waB never tried. Anonymous notes have been re ceived by others, intluding W. F. Campbell, the town marshal. No one will discus# the personnel of the mob, itnri Federal investigators are silent. Residents also say a' majori ty of the grand jury that failed to take any action in the Daniol-Rich ards case last September were , Klansmcn. J Dr. McKoin was elected mayor of Mer Rouge about eight years ago. He asked not to be placed in office again, but was re-ejected by. accla mation. At the end of his second term,' Mer Rougu citizens state hfc repea ted-< the request and was takeh at his word. Last June Robert L. I)ade, a bar? ber, was elected' mayor, and while there. has been m> open law violatjohH in the village, it was generally un- ; dcratood his platform was more lib eral than that of the previous admin istration. Dr. McKoin was out ,oif office when the Klan outbreaks cam4. i McKoin's opponents here say they be lieve he was disappointed when hp i was not urged to run again. | More than 4,000 half-pint botUea of millk a day is served to the pchodl children in Jacksonville* Ha., through the efforts of tho clubwomen in> th&V city. ... m| ? 'i ? i h ?? . i t i i I The Lake of Fire. On the island of Nvw Providence, in the Dafeama grouf>, there it* a most remarkable Ink# known ah Waterloo, or the Lake of Fire. . It- is an &tifi~ ? cial lake, within a short distance of Nassau, and iH 1,000 feet long ami 300 broad, it vsas constructed for the purpose of storing turtles. The bed jp cut out of coral rock and in connected with the sea by * narrow ditch. When the .gate is open the wa ler in the lake rises and falls with the tide. Waterloo is a phosphorescent lake, and it is said the pliosphorence is so powerful that the effect of it is un surpassed in any other part of the world. The changing of the water never destroys the phosphorescence. The light' caused by the dip of oars i.s .sufficient to enable one to read coarse print at night. The lake Is full of fish," and au a boat moves along frightened fish dart about on all sides, leaving fiery trails behind. No adequate explanation of the phenomenon has ever been made, ? New Yoikk Sun. > ftirkwopd Book Club Met. The ^t meeting of the Kirk wood Book Club w$d' held/with Mrs. John .Lindsay, an interesting Christnia* progrqrnmq was charmingly rendered ( by, Mrs., W^.O. ftay and Mrs*. Robert ,M. Kennedy. . Att?r ;it^o exchange and discusfefon ,o{ boo^f refreshments weire^ served by Mra. , Rufufl Thurman yand Miss Nftfipy JUj^say. . TJhq cl^b will meet next with Am. T, ?'???'vy < ? a rv.? ;,?? ; <Jey**ette. Rankin* . our first . Con gresswotmin, was on a ran^h. s0^s>aV:' tv-F-CT."'N.oi A vf AO op ?AAf*iOvP MEAJT <jM*st \ WICV WT???J, <*?* y ?<%?% fwoostswe* ^TAR-reO ?SrVAtrw/KJCj'. Y Y>< tXJOX t Ml M AO 'JV0U?M W??< - y *t#CUU VJOW / AcKM', A NO I \ JtrST PAlO ? 75 0 000, 0O*5 V OOP'. ^ Cartoon Review of 1922 Get Results ? Rubber heels now are on 60 out of each 100 pairs of shoes worn by men. Such is the estimate going the rounds in the shoe industry. It is not surprising, if you have noticed how many men wear rubber heels. Rut maybe you remember back only a few years when rubber heels were unusual. i % J What brought them into popularity? The answer is: ADVERTISING. Three-fourths of the rubber heels sold are for men's shoes. This is because most of the advertising has been directed at men. a One of these days .some wise manufacturer of rubber heels will notice this. Then he'll call in the advertising man and his staff-- of writers and artists.^ Campaigns will follow. And soon women will be wearing* just as many rubber heels as men. It's all a matter of advertising ? the most powerful force in the sale of goods. The ideal combination is advertising, which reaches consumers' brains through their eyes, and personal salesmanship, which reaches consumers' brains less vividly through the ears. Our^resent standard of living is largely the crea tion of advertising. For advertising creates the de mand, makes the people want the thing advertised. When the lure becomes powerful enough, they hustle about and get the money to obtain what they want. Advertising thus spurs sales. It also stimulates production ? both of the things advertised and the things that have to be done on a bigger scale to obain money for purchasing advertised wares. There is a new thought for you ? that advertising is a definite agency of production. Most of us have, been thinking of it merely as a medium of salesman ship. Advertising is what is making us buy. Advertising is what is enabling us to buy. It creates the demand. And the demand induces us to work harder to get the money to spend. If all advertising were abruptly discontinued, the American standards of' living would quickly drop to the levels of grandpa's day. Read the ads. They are a part of the news, tell ing the intimate story of t lie average American's inner , desires. THE REAL HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IS 'WRITTEN IN ADVERTISEMENTS. USE THE CHRONICLE