The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 10, 1923, Image 4
1 HE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H. I) NILKS Kditnr. and Publisher
Pmmd every Friday at No. 1100
Broad and entered at the Cam
den, Sou'.h Cjjru1jjia ^'postoffice as
second clu?? Ijfitui inatUvr. Price per
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Camden, S. I'ridax, Aug.* 10, 1921
The nation Harrow today al t tit*
io** of u^nSuTeTrr inHi iwntwnrwttt
pay i t tribute while he is bein&
butifcd .n his native to>yn at Mario!),
Ohio, In spite of aU the political
tliunUi i <Mfulnst him by hi* oppononts,
, not Or.-- Word lias been u 1 1 atfa-m-v
liitn, pc: :.onally^?ri|J the nation sUf*
t*ers t he jo ?; q| a Mian <>f big))
* .. ; ? , * ' W -
I'Jy t). will of Mix/ Nellie Fowler
MtCornrick, widow of Cyrus H. Mc
cormick. millionaire harvester man,
of rhje-'i, . o, the TnornweH Pre*byte
'TWjl 'triiimiinnf at Clinton# S. CM h;i>:
)> -<-n ..bequeathed. the >um of $50,000,
i.'lfcbo.r- ynwrche* iwi.l school# shu?v in
t: u will to the extent of more than a
n ' i r<r? r , ? !? ?! la i s, A writer, in tin- Pre>
I), s rian standard says <?f her: "K'ven
if jih-e' h:< i l)p.t btjfcli p.o --.r^setl of wre*r
lithe-., If } i < ? had bet n a woman in tie
? 1 ? i ? rj.n ; e. Iks of lit.', she would yet
live nn;. !??; a place f >r herself in the
: hearts of " the people who had ionic
' within b<?r influence^-. f??* she was a
\ . ma" n fjicat ni'fi ! an ! ?a ? good
t.'.-t: -ti ? ha') beeu the medium of
wjdv-j- p:'? .ui blesMnv - throughout the
.a f'- a_n:i her l??ne!h'eiice^ are to W
i* Kcly extended through e.vecution of
will. ?' . .
~2:. ?vj ?d Li iuil ini-..
t no . a:ul ho\. I -at the boil
?ii '??. -v-.Oy ,-vo-callud tx
i* .! been our painful priv.i
?t iii to hear fee-en* iy, we would boy
? ?%??;'. 1 farm nnd f? < omr ri? h within
.. x.-ixi. .:i.iiead of making ncar-conK
? iy-.-ft.pl i at. h !r"rniiri- salary from
p.;h:it fund*. <>, least we would
l . . e the "o'her fellow" credit for
r having a crtain debtee of intclli^enci;
i not ( lainj it all.
Krom lutest rclurns from the Chnr
t:S~ Jhon Thomas P. Stoney has
a lead .John P. (?race, mayor of
i'hi.rlv-' i. of nearly six hundred
votes. U was iiiic of flu- most bitterly
fought <ampaignk in the history of
( T.ai lesr"n. (.ioverhor tUcLeod order
ed four companies of militia to the
<it^ h- a precautionary measure,
v-ha-h h.'id a good effect i n preserving
order at the The final result
v. !! not be announced until the meet
ing of ? \;.*cuii\e committee today
v. ! ? i> If.* vo?e.> wdl -he canvassed. In
t!.' nit miv the boxes are under
ttuad ? -f 'I"' militia. Mr. Stoney is
to i f ?? ? The Ninth Judicial Cir
( ^ \ompiv-'e?? . Charleston
'??wiily. IT?- Kiaduated fioin Porter
M; ;tarv Ara n my. attended- the Uni
versity i f I'-nnesset* at Suwaneo and
Kraduati* } r: taw from the University
of South C:tiolma. Along with Mr.
St.. ..y \\a.- elected a Stoney- aider
man ic ticket. Mrs. II. A. Moorer was
elei'ted in Ward 11 o\er M. Hornik.
In Ward ! Mrs. Cleha P. MHinwn't, j
a!-- on ?})?? Stoney ticket. w??n over
l?a'ie: I . ^ nkler for Alderman al
la v- '! -ntire State was decpi>
iii" t .-:? 1 in the result of the election
;>!? '* <\ . i i 'i Carolinians welconv j
< 1 i ? it k a> ;i "part of South
? lYI/er Manufacturing
,.!.?% at Pulier to I_ock
?V Co., of Boston. Mas-.,
??! Wednesday through'
i o , of Spartanburg. '
' ? i I J ! : -<>n Symt h of
? I tla^lV!/.er family of
i. ? i..' : he 1 V 1 ze r mill.
. ..,?ro\ mately $ 1 o,
I i : ^ -*t tevt lie deal
.it >;.?'?? in nian\
"he ~ <r the i a : are being
? M ??.I'.'.nn hat tle
.i.' i m.JlU. M .?(;* - 1 eared to
' ' ? .. >f t!i! e . .?: ? fa! ha 1 1 ! ?
: ;'a e:l 1 1 . >ilMu:- and sou -
? . . .n i ?? J iiik' t ?> !c: t ers for
V ? ? . ? .. . ' i Co'. ,o noi Me I .cod,
\ . . .i - ? if 1 1 ?? i it \ . 1 .. P. A ber
? ? . . N C . UTitinj; t e?
? - ? V !><?? na ? !>\ , under date
. . i. rhat the conditions are
? i .h i :*? I he hat t lefje'al has grown
u. .. ?' _'?? ?!* bru-h and the site
o! . n. ? . n> ? : ! ! i- tie- tamping plac*
;.- ? -o:'v , ?' in . ua hiding boot
? i ..;?u . . -ay.- M . A her
? | ... ;.s for \va rded to
v. a: pa? "*.'i ' a ? U aching ton _
ig I 1 ?a \ ? - a- .-'ant scire
' v. .. re p ?r* - that tr. federal
i i .. i. me:.! t elm p.. -he d i.intrd
e.w- the Laf'.lclieH v hen the rnono
ii.' . w - turned ./.i i tii the I\in^ j
Mv-:.:a.n Eattle^r .'j!. ! A H':a* : :r. of
v.l. ali Mi? Leslie I> V.'stha r-p > .r. was
piv-ident on July 1. It'll), when she
irfl vc the complete<l monument, huilt
at a cost of $.'j?),tx>') under act of con
gress llKW. The corresjwmlenee whh
fox-warded to Governor Mclveod, hut
he has no appropriations with which
to protect the battleground, it was
_ said todf.y. ''
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Letters From The People
Liability To Self? Appointed Benefac
tor*.
Suppose the rule .of law were to be
reversed, and we were made liable for
e.ery unauthorized a'nd unknowti act
done for us under the belief that it
was done for <'ur beat interest. What
a picnic it would be for the phftVisees
and self-styled philanthropists. Some
*mnrrth spoken j*entlemr?n might ron
ifive it to our bent interest to own
M ock in a projected t ail road in the
moon, and we would be liable, for hi*
services in procuring us such stock;
? ?:ii' . widened -piaster might nnucuv
it to be to the best interest of a blue
eyed rosy:cheeked maiden that her
roguish glances be concealed bennath
gi ec-n goggle*, and the bloom of her
cheeks covered by a crepe veil, supply
this paraphernalia, and receive cum
j edsation for such service; the butch
er might provide us with muut, the
? : :<? .:i with milk, the vegetable
man with vegetables, and every clas&,
kind and condition of trader- with his
;>.i i ; icvilar waits, all for our benefit,
and the services of every man who
had nothing better to do would be
rendered us for our benefit, if we had
?she ability to discharge the liability
incurred.
Therefore, it is eminently just and
proper that wo ai'e not liable for bene
tWijons obtained bv uh from others
without our knowledge and consen',
and yet these self-appointed benefac
tors of the human race sometimes
meet with collossal rewards*
We have seen palatial residences
i. v.ned and occupied by patent medi
cine vendors or other self-styled
fcrnrfr.ctnr^ of rhp htimnn racer- White
ih? law, iho essence of human wisdom,
does not tnakc the public liable under
such circumstances, yet a large part
<>f the public makes itself liable. Is
jI 1'vi'iiuM' ut <?fi Httr xplicaoly credulity
implanted in the human breast or was
Mr. liRrnum tcorrecl when he said in
effect that nothing succeeds like
humbug.? . Anon.
THIN ORATORY '
Somebody ought itu tell this man
Winters, of the boll weevil control
station at Florence, that It isn't nec
essary to "talk down" to a Spartan
burg audience. Mrs Winters spoke
tor one hour at the farmers' picnic
here last Friday, and people never
listened to thinner oratory. Nearly
every sentence was emphasized with
the wold, "Darn." and the whole talk
abounded in semi-profanity and near
vulgarity. Oratorical tricks of this
kind always indicate mental poverty
on the part of a speaker or his be
lief in the mental poverty of his hear
ers, and intelligent people resent
treatment of that kind.
All that Mr. Winters had to say
could have been said in five or six
minutes. It. amounted to this: The
experts at the Florence station have
been experimenting with various
.urthod.s of controlling boll weevil
and, so far, 'none of them have proven
to be of any value. The alleged ex
perts hope to find something worth
while in the course of time but arc
not certain that they will ever do so.
? Carolina Citizen.
Prohibition Address in West Wateree.
Rev. K. M. l.ightfoot, president of
the Anti-Saloon League in South*
('atoiina, made a very instructive
and interesting address before a com
pan;. of p:cnicers at Wateree Power
Station the 7th of August. The pic
n:c. which was a very informal af
fair. was part of a movement in this
-!>ai t ul the i innity to mouse senti
f-. n! in favor of enforcing the prohi
bit . r. law.; ... they apply to the li-'
ouor traffic.
Mr. Light foot's address was timely
m i i : ; i ?-r 1 1 y to the point. He has a
fund of information on the whiskey
problem and how to cope with it
that should pro\e profitable and in
spirational to all those who are inter
i - ; ? ?< i :n saving our people from the
in >se of alcoholism. During the course
of his address, Mr. l.ightfoot brought
?xjt Momv of the difficulties that the
officers of taw experience in their ef
forts t<> enfurie the law. Anionic
them he stressed tin* prevailing habit
;iMin!:g otherwise good citizens of try
ng to i fiiuilj pi t. >i tu eonditions with
, '.it ojter.'.y identifying t he m sel ve *
with the force" of law and order. It
. - \ el \ nt'i e^aiT, the speaker said.
li'.i' .men and women who are oppo-e.j
j " : ' i ' ? ft ! w ho i ea ::?.?? '
it -. 1". law enforcement ,
>,!..{ , . .J i ? ag?>Al]siy t,.r ; he
: i i. i ? nt <?'' 'hi- and I
.i v - .i p- .;.t to t r e j . ? j ? ' :
. '.i ? . . . p< .ii i a" i m i-ur;:\ of on ?
'? <'? ar t - . ;r. r.Uo\.: \ . . r\ . Mr. Lijrr.t
f a..i e- wa- (<>? ed with 'Y
? !?? p -* :r - ??*-???? hy a:; who heard
- - "f * ' are r. :t4d.-;
in:: to ri<i th:> on of W e ?
v.,.-. .. . f '? .? ' ,u .1 *!.?!' ri
Th"?i who heard t ht- aiMn - < M .
I.. L. Itirr, of A nde!*" on . n* It- "v ;? .?
In>* I* rulav "v?*mng. ?m ?hc it 'i-rc<'
coop-, rat i'. e marke* r ' </. r "
?. ou :d not help hut note the Varr.t -t
ness ot his plea for this plan of selling
<(>t (on. M r. "Rice TiifiisoTr ?*
grower of cotton and has the interests
of the entire state at heart in securing
a better price for the staple. His ad
dress was short and to the point and
he did not tire his hearers.
BURDEN BEYOND ENIH'RANCE. !
Presidency Almost Sure to Break Any
Man'* Health.
ffty K. Foster Murray,")
Washington, August 2.-*- The aim- ;
pic ant). soWmn fact which has foe
some time improved thought tfut oh- j
servers among Washington newspaper
men is that the Presidency of the
United States, aa it has come to be
ttUliliJii?U*t?d iu the?e J?Ue? days, t*
a burden too heavy fpr human endu- ,
ranee. I
That is really the lesson of the
illness of Mr. Harding. It was also
the lesson of the illness of his pve
detefsor, President Wilson. Presi
dent Taft, who? antedated both, had '>
a tremendous physique and was a !
marvel at throwing off worry. He
did not break down under the tor- i
rifle strain of the White House rou- j
tine ? but that ip very far from say- 1
ing that he could have held his own
if he had encountered that routine :
as it Was increased in the days of his j
successors. j
Possibly a man of the Roosevelt
type might get through two Presi
dential terms nowadays without im
pairment of his constitution. It does
not necessarily follow that because j
such a man has done it such a man
could now do it. There is a limit be
yond which the human system can not
function. The fundamental responsi- i
bility may have^>een as great in' the
days of Andrew JiMtkson or Abraham
Lincoln, or Grov'er Cleveland, as it is
now, when the nation is so much lar
ger, but the number of details person
ally handled by a President now, as
Presidents have involuntarily or Vol- j
.untarily. ..pertuiUcd the* system to be.,
built up around them, vastly exceed- ,
the number . that u;ied to bv regarded .
as ;:!1 that one man could undertake, i
To say that the business of the Pros- i
idmts of the United States increases '
at 100 per cent with each new gener
ation is to put it mildly.
Every intelligent person who has
been in a position to watch the rou
tine the" White House during re
cent administrations has wondered
how the President can keep himself
mentally keyed up to the require
ments of t serious duties of the
office when he has to speifti, or does
spend, so large a portion of his time
in receiving visitors not on public
business. 4
Much of the sb-called public busi
ness which is inflicted upon Presi
dents is of a petty political nature
and ought not to exist at all. Presi
dent Wilson used to say that the
squabbles over postmasterships had
so affected him he could not look at
a map of the various states as other
people could, because the names of
cities so often suggested primarily to
his consciousness these contests
which *ere so often bitter and dis
tasteful.
In normal imes at the White House
the President shakes hands with hun
dreds and often thousands of persons
every day or so, and sometimes" fw
numbers of days in succession ?
schools and lodges and orders and
guilds and excursions that come to
the Capital City and nuturally want
to see the White House and the Pres
ident.
Mr. Wilson did a great deal of
handshaking before the war came
on -more than is generally supposed.
Of course, the normal routine in this
respect been um? LmpmsiMi' w:n- for
several reasons, either of them suffic
ient. Mr. Taft was a famous hand
shaker, and so was Col. Roosevelt.
They set a terrible pace in this par
ticular. Hut it is perhaps true that
President Harding has shaken hands
with mure people since his inaugura
tion than anj two of the three did in
the sann period, and possfbly more
than ail three of them. The first
President. (?eorge Washington, felt
lie could not stand the fatigue of
shaking hands with all of hi* callers,
so h?' refrained from this ceremony
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS
WE K A MAN FALL OUT W?D
ME KIN-POLKS , EP DEY 5
Po', MIT5 GfNALLY FUH
5 U m p'n DEV5 ?>J_D , BuT
EF &E.YS RICH , HIT5*
Fuh whut'dey aim' did!
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Farmers, Attention !
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Reports are coming to us daily from every
section of the county to the effect that the boll
weevil is very much alive and beginning to do
great damage. Please allow us to urge on you.
whether a customer of this bank or not, the AB
SOLUTE NECESSITY of using Calcium Arse
nate during the month of August. ^ We have a
good crop in prospect. Our belief is that high
, prices will prevail, therefore DON'T stand by and
let the weevil get the best of you.
# Commence TONIGHT and use POISON on
your cotton!
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The Bank of Camden
when receiving. It would be well for
his' successors of the present day if
they followed his example.
President Wilson stood the White
i louse strain longer than President
llardirtg without serious illness. Both
entered the office physically big and
Strong. Mr, Wilson probably had a
better idea of taking exercise than Mr.
Harding has had. The latter has
played less golf than he should have
played, instead of more. He has been
sensitive to criticism of the Execu
tive for taking recreation pf this kind.
Wilson antf Taft properly ignored
this sort of carping and Roosevelt
fairly gloried in playing all the out
door games he could.
The wives of Presidents seem to
collapse under the strain of the
White House in these terrific days
even faster than their spouses. Mrs.
Taft's health soon broke (k>wn. The
first Mrs. Wilson died. Nlrs. Hard
ing has had a desperate and pro
longed illness.
Neither the President nor the Pres
ident wife can stand the Presidency
at the pace which is now being set.
Unless a way of slowing up this pace
is found and applied, election .to the
Presidency will be a sentence to death.
Six Have Died in Office.
W arren G. Harding was the sixth
president of the United States to die
in office. Two other chief executives
died natural deaths while president ?
William Henry Harrison, who passed
away one month after Assuming of
fice, and Zachary Taylor, wht\- had
served one year, four months, and five
days. Three presidents were assassi
nated. ? Abraham Lincoin. James
Abram Garfield and William McKin
ley.
Uf the six presidents dying in of
fice, three, were from Ohio ? Garfield,
McKinley and Harding.
Mr. Harding was the first president
to die west of the Mississippi river. -
Calvin Cool id ge is the first native
New Knglander since Arthur to be
come president and the first man
since Tierce to go to the White House
from a New Kngland state. He is the
ninth vice-president to become presi
dent, six succeeding because of death
and three being elected president. The
six were: John Tyler. Millard Fill
more, Andrew Johnson, Chester A.
Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, and Cal
vin Coolidge. The three were: John
Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin
Van Huren.
Mr Coolidge, horn at Plymouth.
Yt., in 1 872 j is the second sun of Vor
mont to become president, the other
being Arthur, who was horn at Fair
field, Franklin county, in 1K.30.
Mr. Coolidge is younger than the
average president, 1H having been
older at the time of assuming office.
Tyler and Taft were each f>l, which
is Mr. Coolidge's age. The youngest
president was Theodore Roosevelt who
took office at 42, and the <>lde>t was
William Henry Harrison, who was f.X.
He is the first president from Mas
sachusetts since John Quincy Adams,
who took office in 1825.
A large part of York county, Penn
sylvania, was laid waste by a cloud
Th?r?
no loss of life, bat property damage
runs into hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Bridges were washed away
and many cottages and bungalows
were washed from foundation*,
. . 21. *
* HAIL EXEMPTION.
Resolution Exempting Taxes from
Certain Hail Sufferers.
As there lias been some misunder
standing relative to the amount of
hail exemption allowed those who
suffered loss by the hail storm of 1922
we have been requested to publish
the resolution in full, which is as fol
lows:
A JOINT RESOLUTION
To exempt citizens of Cherokee, Lan
caster, Union ^and YoVk counties
who suffered damage by reason ot"
hailstorm from county taxes for the
year 1922, and from any penalty
from non-payment of taxes.
Be it resolved, by the General As
sembly of the State of South Caro
lina :
That any citizen of Cherokee, Ker
shaw, Lancaster, Union, and Lee coun
ties who suffered from a hailstorm in
said counties during the year 1922,
who upon affidavit of two disinterest
ed witnesses filed with County Treas
urer of his county^ that such citizen
was in a storm-stricken district, and
lost at least fifty per cent of his crop
by reason of said hailstorm shall be,
exempt from the payment of all
county taxes on the land where the
crops were destroyed for the year
1922, except constitutional and special
and commutation road taxes.
The said Treasurer shall take a re
ceipt therefor and such receipt shall
state only the purpose for which it
was given, which shall constitute his
proper voucher and the Comptroller
General is hereby authorized and re
quired to approve and allow same in
his annual statement.
This act shall go into effect imme
diately upon its approval by the Gov
ernor.
Approved the 17th day of February,
1 923.
Nevada is the "banner" state in the
matter of divorces with one divorce
for every marriage and a half.
Paul the Apostle, the greatest,
preacher the world ha* ever known >
was but a man, tempted in all points
as other men. . .
Everybody makes mistakes, even
church. >officials who are full of wis
dom and the Holy Ghost, have been
knoton to overstep their bounds.
Notice of Final Discharge
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Monday,
September 10th, 1923, I will make
to thex Probate Court of Kershaw
County my final return as Adminis
trator of the estate of Dr. L. W. Net
tles, deceased, and on the same date
I will apply to the said Court for a
final discharge as - said Administra
tor; W. F. NEETLES.
Camden, S. C., August 6, 1923.
NOTICE.
Paving Assessment for street pav
ing, abutting property on DeKalb
street, .from Southern Railroad to
Sea!k>ard Railroad, and on Broad
street from York street to LaFayette
avenue, are now due and payable at
the office of City Clerk.
All assessments paid prior to
August 15th, 1923, will be accepted
without interest.
H. C. SINGLETON,
? ' - A City Clerk.
, ? ? I r I :* "j
Notice of Dissolution of Psrtnership.
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
Notice is herby given that the part
nership heretofore existing between ? -i
us at Camden, S. VJider the firm
name and style of MdLeod & Rusn,
has been by mutual consent dissolved
as of this date. The undersigned W.
L. Rush receiving all of the assets of - ~
the firm and assuming all of it's lia
bilities.
J. H. McLEOD,
W. L. RUSH.
Jan. 5th, 1923.
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