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a W'.'- * WATCH THE DATE ON YOUR LABEL *ONICLE WATCH THE DATE ON YOUR LABEL VOLUME XXXV. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923. NUMBER 23, LIFE AMONG THIi GERMANS The War Huh Wrought Many Social Changes in Land of Teuton. (A. B. Jordan h\ Dilloij Herald.) Berlin, July 29th Berlin, the winter home <W the for* mcr emperor, lacks much of its old time gaiety. I arrived here at 10 o'clock at night on my way from! Hamburg to Stettin. The station was almost dark and when I got into the streets I had to literally feel my way I to a hotel near tho depot, The French have taken complete possession of the coal niines. in the Ruhr, .^nd as cohl is parceled out to the Germans they arc yxercising the most rigid econ omy in the consumption of ftfel. The next night I took, a hotel nearer the centro of the city, but much to my. disappointment I found the streots dark and dreary. The only lighted street I found was the Unter den Lin den, Berlin's Fifth avenue. This is a very wide street with walks from ten to fifteen feet in width and is one of Berlin's most popular promenades. There were many people on this street i a ml -it-re minded me of Broadway, but it too was dimly lighted, and the at mosphere was chilling and depressing. Every now and then I would pass a party of Americans talking English, and they seemed to be full of life and fun, but the German was silent?al most, sullen ? and took little notice of the passing throngs. Everywhere I have been I have noticed that the peo ple were depressed or at least that was the impression they- made upon me. They do not show the vivacity that one notes in the American. This may be due to undernourishment or the period of depression that usually follows a war. Food seems to be plentiful, but the prices are so high that the comon necessities of life are J not within reach of the laboring classes. When I speak of the labor ing classes I mean the unskilled labor- ! er. The skilled laborer is living in clover. He belongs to the labor un ion and the labor union fixes its own prices. Carpenters, plasterers, brick layers and other skilled laborers are receiving the equivalent of American wages. The first officer of the steam ship on* which I made the journey across told me that German painters were receiving $4 per day American money for eight hours worlV They are milliohaires. He told me that on his last tHp to Hamburg he was sit ting in the park one Sunday after noon when a ship's painter passed with his family. The children were dressed in the height of fashion while the painter's wife wore a seal skin cloak, furs and diamonds! Think of it! But back ta^the story of my trip from Hamburg to Berlin and thence on to Stettin, Prussia, the farthest point I will reach in my travels through Germany. Stettin is near Poland and no^ very far from the Russian border. It is the capital of Pommern, one of the richest agricul tural provinces in Germany. The most appropriate name I can give Pommern is the "Little Rock" of Germany. It has thousands of acres of fertile lands uand its farmers are very prosperous. It was raining in torrents when I reached Stettin and I regret that I did not get an oppor tunity to see more of the country. The chief products are wheat, oats, pota toes and cabbage. The farms are laid off like gardens, pretty hedge rows marking the boundary lines between the farms. Drainage here has almost reached a state of perfection. Every 20 feet one will find a small ditch or drain. They even drain small forests adjacent to the cleared lands. Parks with a natural drainage have small artificial drains running all through them. The drains do not run in irregular order like our ditches but in squares and many of the fields resemble small checker boards. Cabbage and potatoes are planted in very close rows ? so close that an American farmer would find much dif ficulty in cultivating them in such a narrow space. But there are many idle farms and many farm laborers are out of em ployment. I got this information from the official in charge of the farm la bor bureau. He told me that only those farmers who had saved some money during the war were able to carry on their farming operations, but these fortunate ones were making money because, production* had been curtailed to a very considerable ex ?vnt. 1 toW him Hie* Wis mpwi migrating from the farms in the south because they could get better wages in the industrial centers of the north Mid that^ur next big problem ia the South would be farm labor. He was (Continued on Page Three ) I IN IN TEH EST OF CANNBRY. Tobacco Planting,. Cannery, Creamery niscussed at Meeting. - -A Forty representative farmers of Kershaw county and several Camden buplnes men met Tuesday to discuss the advisability of a caunery, a cream ery, and planting of tobacco. County Agent Sanders presided. Talks about all three of these pHases of crop diversification were made by Messrs. E. I. Reardqn, secretary of Camden and Kershaw County Cham ber of Commerce, fy.. 1. Guyon, B. D. Boykin; D. C. Blackman, J. B. Munn, Walter Sorrell, I. J. McKenzie, Paul Brown and J j W. Sanders. The cannery was endorsed and the following committee to serve with a committee to be appointed from the Chamber of Commerce was named by this meeting to investigate and report plans at another meeting for organiz ing a cannery: E. I. Keardon, chair man, B. D. Boykin, I. J. McKenzie, J. B. Munn, Victor Ward, and W. A* Ed wards. Mr. Nv. P. Gettys, of the Rock Spring Creamery of Camden, offered to purchase all cream and milk on a butter fat test basis provided same is delivered in proper condition to make good butter or to be properly sepa rated ? prices to be on market quota tions for butter fat. It was agreed that his creamery will be supported. Regarding planting of tobacco on sufficient scale to warrant the erec tion of a tobaco warehouse in Cam den, it was decided that the cannery committee of this meeting and of the Chamber of Commerce will , find out and report to E. I. Reardon* at the earliest possible date approximately how many acres of tobacco will be planted. Secretary^ Reardon guaran teed that if the tobacco is produced there will be a tobacco market in Cam den, cooperative and independent, but he urged the joining of the tobacco cooperative association by all means. Mr. H. G. Carrisop, Sr., and Mr. Rear don; both of Camden, are the Cham ber of Commerce committeemen on to bacco warehouse and market.. This was one of the best meetinjgs ever held in the county and the farmers are cooperating heartily with the chamber of commerce for crop diversification and intelligent, business-like market ing. Urging Attendance at Columbia. Secretary E. I. Reardon of the Camden and Kershaw County Cham ber of Commerce, appointed by Pres ident W. R. Timmerman of the South Carolina Commercial Secretaries As sociation' to be in chargc of the Fifth Congressional District representation and a member of the Attendance Committee' of the State at large, for the State-wide pub licity conference at 10 a. m. at the Jefferson hotel in 'Columbia, Septem ber 13th, and for the South Carolina Commercial Secretaries Association meeting beginning with the supper at 6:30 the evening of September 11th, at the Jefferson hotel at Columbia, lasting through the 12th of September has sent out hundreds of letters re questing the cooperation qmd attend ance of all commercial secretaries at the secretaries meeting and the State wide publicity conference. Ford Badly Wrecked on Broad Street. I, ate Wednesday night a Ford road ster was badly wrecked near the Con federate monument while making its way down Broad street. All indica tions point to the fact that the car was running at a high rate of speed. The driver struck the cement circle in the middle of the road^.-and in at tempting to right the car, crashed into a huge oak on the right side of the pavement. The impact was so great when the axle and radiator struck that large gashes were made in the oak. The wind shield was shattered, steering wheel completely broken off and the tires and engine badly damaged. It is said the car was the property of John * Blanding - of Sumter, and was occupied by three people. It is considered miraculous that no one was killed or injured, but inquiry at .hospital Thuradsy morn ing stated that no patient* had been carried there. It was later learned that the party continued on to Sum ter in another car. Killed a Battler, While out riding Wednesday after noon Mr. 41. C. Hardy and his sons a rattler in the public road just south of the first bridge on the Charleston r^ad. The snake crawled down the embankment but was followed by Mr. Hardy sad killed. It measured about three f?*t adfc had seven rattles. ' ? A-- r. .. ? .. < ?_ " ? .**. TO ADVERTISE THE STATE, I Conference To Be Held To Devise Methods of Kaising Fund. Over the signatures o? Thomas (,\J Mcleod, governor of South Carolina, Harry (J. Kamincr, president of thol South Carolina Cotton Growers' As sociation; K. I. Wood side, president of J the State Hankers' Association; J. Won McKissick, president 0f the State Press Association; and William J immons, president of the Commer- I cial Secretaries' Association, letters h^Ve been sent out to every mayor, j every president of a chamber of com- J meree and every county supervisor in I the State asking; them to appoint rep^- J resent utivo citizens to make investi nations concerning the sentiment of I their respective counties towards tho proj)ose<| $100,000 publicity campaign J for South Carolina, and to appoint J four Relegates from their countiesvtol attend the meeting of the represent- 1 ative body to be held in Columbia September 13. The letter points out that imme diate steps should be taken to develop 10 pei- cent co-operation between all sections of the State, and that all sec tional feeling- or jealousy should be Converted into a willingness to "pull together" for the development of the I State. v , The citizens' committee is to discuss I the advisability of raising $50,000 by. personal subscriptions from the dif ferent counties and of asking the leg islature for an appropriation of a sim ilar amount for the proposed public ity campaign. It is planned to have the delegates from the representative body choose a "publicity council" composed of seven .men, one from each congress ional district, which will be responsi ble for the proper disbursement of funds. The money, raised by the va | rious counties, will be held by the council member in each county and will not be released unless the pro posed appropriation by the legisla ture goes through. The publicity campaign grew out of a suggestion of Holmes B. Springs, j president of- the Greenville chamber j of commerce, who proposed that some j plan be formulated whereby thV Pal metto State might advertise itself. This suggestion was amended by Gov ernor McLeod who asked that a meet ing of representative citizens of South Carolina be called in Columbia the day following the scheduled meeting of the program committee of the Com mercial Secretaries' Association, for the purpose of discussing and formu lating some plan for promoting the campaign. ' , 'The governor's suggestion was in dorsed by the program committee at a meeting held at the Columbia Cham ber of Commerce August 15. In at tendance at meeting were William Tlmmons, president of the;, Commercial Secretaries' Association, and Secre tary of the" Greenville chamber of commerce and Prank A. Pierson, sec retary of the association and of the Columbia chamber of commerce. It was decided to adopt the suggestion made by the bankers' association for an equal contribution from citizens of the state and from the legislature, and the matter was given into the hands of the secretaries of the cham bers of commerce to make prepara tion for the meeting of the represent ative group of citizens. R. I. Woodside, president of the Bankers' asociation has been made chairman of attendance committee; a list of the selected men is to be mailed to him, and those to whom letters have been sent have been asked to make a careful selection of the J j best available citizens to represent their counties at the publicity confer ence. v : Two Killed and One injured. Miss Vernon Altmari, aged 16, is dead, H. Ol Hearon died Wednesday in Florence hospital and Louis Ballen berger, is desperately wounded in the same hospital as a result of a shoot ing affray at Andrews, Tuesday night. I The shooting was the result of a former quarrel between the two men j and James East, a telegraph opera- 1 tor. East opened fire on the two men with a shot gun loaded with buckshot. A stray shot pierced the heart of Miss Altman who was getting out of her car across the street. East has been transferred to the State penitentiary for safe keeping. Notice To Aoto Driver* and Owners. ? 1 All w nwrt ? carry two head lights, dimmed at all times while on paved streets, and one red light on rear of car. All ears nftist have good mufflers- on and drivers most refrain from using cut outs while in City 'limits. A. O. WHITAKEE,^' ; Chief of Polios. - ? &S*L> . #X M ?. -V-; SCHOOL OPEN S MONDAY. List of Teichcrn and Other Notes of Interest to Parents and Pupils. The Camden High School, the Grammar School the Mill School ami Malyern Hill School will open on Mon day at nine o'clock. The Jackson I Graded School will also open on that date. i i>S? ' * All pupils are expected to supply themselves with pencils, writing, pads, and all text books before the opening day as work will be begun on the first . day. - -v- ? . All pupils who were not in the schools last year are expected to see the principal of the high school if en tering that school ami Uu> superin tendent if entering other schools, bringing their books, record cards and other evidence of work accomplished in school from which they come. All piVpils will be required to com ply with the law on vaccination for the prevention of small pox. Only four grades will be run at the mill school, so that all pupils of the mill village who wish to do work above the foprth grade will be expect ed to attend the city schools. The public is invited to the opening exercises to be held at the grammar school on tne opening date. The following is the corps of teas ers; High School ? W. A. Clark, of Co lumbia, principal and mathematics; Miss Henrietta Zemp, English; Miss Alberta Team, Latin; Miss Agnes Cor bett, French and History; Miss Mary Blackwell, English and Expression; !Miss McKella Watson, Domestic Science; Miss Lucy Timme^man, mathematics and athletics; Geo. W. Nicholson, Science. Graded School. ? Miss Margaret Burnet, principal and Seventh grade; Miss Eileen Little, seventh grade; Miss Willie Bell Mackey, sixth grade; Miss Mary Evans Brasington, sixth grade; Miss Hannah, fifth grade; Mrs. Clifton McKain, fifth grade; Mrs. Susie Taylor, fourth grade; Miss Dor othy Burns, fourth grade; Miss Co rinne Lewis,: third grade; Mrs. E. B. McLeod, third grade; Miss Ada Phelps, second grade; Miss' Nancy Lindsay, second . grade; . Mrs. L, T. Mills, first grade; Miss Emily Zemp, first grade. Mill School ? Miss Ernestine Bate man, principal and teacher of fourth grade; Miss Lou Woodard, N third .grade; Miss Lillian Patterson, second grade; Mrs. Lou Pearce, first grade. Malvern ' Hill School ? Miss Bell, principal; Miss Beulah Taylor, assis tant. Miss Josephine Alexander will again" have charge of the music department. She will be located in the new school building. -* There will be a meeting tor grade teachers held on Saturday, at 10 a. m., at the grammar school building, and one forjiigh school teachers at 3 p. m. on the same date and at the same place. ? BOOKS TO BE USED. First Grade ? The pupils entering this grade will wait until first day of school and get list from teachers. Second Grade? Child's World Sec-< ond Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Words Book 1; Morey's Little Folks Number Book; Industrial Arts Text books; Shorter Course Book 1. Third Grade? Child's World Third Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Words Book 1; Bobbins and Row's Work and Play with Language; Smith's Modem Primary Arithmetic; Industrial Arts Textbooks; Shorter Course Book 2. Fourth Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Fourth Grade ? Child'* World Fourth Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Words Book 1; Studies in English, Book 1; Smith's Modern Primary Arithmetic; Brigham and McFar lane's Essentials of Geography, Book 1; Emerson and Betts Hygiene and Health Book 1; Industrial Arts Text books, Shorter Course, Book 2. Fifth Grade ? Child's World Fifth Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Words, Book 1; Studies in English, Book 1; Smith's Modern Advanced Arithma tic; Estill's Beginners History of Our Country; Brigham and McFarlane's Essentials of Geography, Book 1; In dustrial Arts Textbooks, Shorter Course Book 3. Sixth Grade ? New Elson Reader, Book Sisy Arnold's Mastery of Word's, Book 2; Kinard and Withers English Language Book 2; Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic; Simms' History of South Carolina, Revised Edition of 1922; Brigham and Mc Farlane's Essentials of Geography, Book 2; Industrial Arts Textbooks# Shorter Course, Book 3. Seventh Grade ? New Els op Reader, Book Seven; Arnold's Mastery of Words. Book .2; Kintrdand Withers , English Language Book. 2; Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic; TfamnMion's History of United States; Brigham 6 McFarlane's Essentials of OwpmIt, Book f ; McCarthy, Iviu * KMolIin's Etaftentarr Cfvies; In dustrial Arts Testitooks, Shorter t(l' AKK AND TI0A1. WAVE. T?k?? t'Ji ?l Human Uvea in History of the ^ wr,d' Tokio, s,.Pt."l.-Toki.. ...ml Voko hama, sepsratwl by only " few. of water; today l? crushed >> tht overW?w?ring tW* ?f ?? eW'thyuakc a soi'ios of upheaval*? that ca?>> with scant warning 111 1,1 brought down the homes and business places of those two groat cities. ? For many miles, cities, towns and villages have been dashed f ?<V? then foundations, and what the vibrations of the earth failed to accomplish wa compKted by Are and tidal wave. While entire sections of the capita have been obliterated alt but the ruins- a very considerable extent of the city remains. Not so with Yoko hama, refugees from which are be ginning to And their way into roklo. They tell of the terrific destruction wrought at that place, which has been for years of vast importance to the commerce of the Western world. The streets and water courses, the canals and sea front are filled with dead, and among the dead are doubtless many injured, to whom it has been impossible to ,take s?^'ov In Yokohama, far more than in Tokio foreign residents and visitors suffered loss of life or injury. It is estimated that no fewer than 200 foreigners perished in the treaty port l\ut even vet no comprehensive account can be extracted from the refugees, who reached here in an almost exhausted condition. . The overwhelming effects of t n first shock may be realized when it is 'told that thousands of Japanese, caught by the flames that swept through the city almost immediate ly, driven by the high winds, leaped into the canals and finding no safety in any direction were drowned, or, overcome by the debris which soon choked the waterways. The shopping, districts down town were overwhelmed, and there many thousands of shoppers and business workers died. / ,'w To add to the dangers, lmniense crevices opened in the streets in some place* isolating entire blocks ami making it absolutely impossible for those within the sections to And safe tv from the fire.' ' For two days the firea of "J raged, destroying possibly 200,000 houses, and property, the value o Which cannot be estimated, cremating the bodies of many of the dead and probably ending the sufferings of scores of injured. The casualty listi will be very great, estimates at pres ent vary from 50,000 upwards in Tokio alone. How many were killed in the outlying districts is not known because for a long time Tokio was cu off from communication with the out side world. , ? Immense difficulties are being en Countered, in forwarding the news of Japan's great disaster to the coun tries of the world. Couriers have been sent out with special press dispatches, the Japanese naval radio is bci g| utilized, and details have been for warded by airplane to Nagoya and thence to Iwaki, about 160 miles from Tokio, for transmission abroad. The foregoing is the first irec news dispatch received from the Jap anese capital since Saturday when the earthquake occurred. Tokio was fo a considerable time shut off from all communication with the outsid world: then couriers bearing dis patches were sent out, for the near est radio stations which had scaped destruction, and meager ^pa^hes giving brief details began to Alter through from points, such as Osaka, which lay outside the zone of destruc tion. Course, Book 4. HIGH SCHOOL. Eighth Grade. ? West's Shorter History of Early Peoples, Hughes' Community Civics, Ward's Sentence and Theme, Stone's Mills' Arithmetic, High School, Wells' Algebra, Book I, Caldwell & Eikenberry's Elements of General Science, revised, Smith's El ementary Latin, Greer's Home and School Cooking. Ninth Grade. ? Ward's Sentence and Theme, Lewis & Hosic's Practical English for High Schools, West's Modern World, Wells' Algebra for Secondary Schools, Book I.,SmalIwood, Reverley & Bailey, Biology for High Schools, Smith's Elementary Latin, Bennett's Caesar'* Gallic War, Greer's School and Home Cooking. Tenth Grade. ? Scott & Denney's Composition and Rhetoric, Weils' New Plane Geometry, Black & Conant's J?rartirn) Chemistry. Bennett's Cice ro's Orations, Chardenal's Complete Course in French, Bennett's New Latin Composition. Eleventh Or<Kk<? Sdott St' Dm* ney*s Composition and Rhetoric, Ward's Theme Building, Stephenson's American History, Wells' N?w Solid NKW HOTEL MANAGER, Karl l\ Abbott Will Direct Affairs For Hotel Kirkwood. Mr. Karl P. Abbott in the new manager named to succeed the Into Mr. T. Ktinmml krumbhol'/., manager of The Kirkwood Hotel. Mi'. Abbott is the junior member of Frank H. Abbott Son, who operates a chain of hotels, among them being Forest Hills, at Franconla, N. H., Up land Terrace, at Hethlohom, N. If,, The l'rofile at Franconla K'otch, H. H.. and Gasparilla Iniu . at . .JUoca Grand. Florida, Messrs. Abbott <& Son hjivo purchased the controlling interest in the Kirkwood, and Mr. Karl Abbott will make Camden his headquarters du ring the winter season. ? Mr. Fred C. Williams of Melford, Mass., will act as private secretary to Mr. Abbott. Mr. Abbot was in Camden several years ago and became .interested in The Kirkwood. He made another re cent trip to Camden and says the great improvements made on Camden highways since the streets haVo been paved had more to do with him loca ting here than any other factor. -He also states that the golf course of the Camden Country Club, owned and controlled by the Kirkwood Com- " pany, is the finest in the South, capa ble of accomodating a great many more players than tho number who frequent this course each winter. . Mr. Abbott is a young mart, full of energy, and coupled with his varied hotel experiences it is a safe predic tion that The Kirkwood will continue to grow in popularity and that Cam den as a whole will be benefitted by his coming here. i Wins Trip to Spring Lake. Ml\ L. C. Shaw, local agent for the New York Life ^Insurance Co., has been notified that he is one of the winners of a trip to Spring Lake, N. J., where a meeting of winners in the Two Clubs will hold a meeting Sep tember l.'?th to 18th. Mr. Shaw pro duced $201,330 paid in insurance du ring the past twelve months. Mr. Shaw will very likely attend the meeting. Geometry, Black & Davis' Practical Physics, revised, Bennett's New Latin Grammear, Virgil's Aenid, Charde nal's Complete Course in French, Greer's School and Homo Cooking. Note? Greer's Home and School Cooking wil alsa be used in grade ten. High school pupils, will carefully select curriculum before buying books. Four subjects aire required for each grade. No one will be allowed to take more except by special permis sion High School Curricula for Year 1923 1924. ? School Opening Sept. 10th, 1923. General Curriculum. (With Vocational ~ Subjects.) Eighth Grade. ? English, Arithmetic (First Semester), Algebra, (Second Semester), General Science, Voca tional Subject, Home Economics. Ninth Grade. ? English,. Algebra through quadratics, Biology, Voca tional! ft Tenth Grade.? English, Chemistry, Modern Language, or Plane Geometry, Modern History, One Eelective. Eleventh Grade. ? English, Science, or Modern Language, or Algebra Hatf Year, U. S. History -and Government, One Elective. General Curriculum (Without Voca tional Subjects) Eighth Grade. ? English, Arithme tic, (First Semester), Algebra (Sec ond Semester), Genera 1 Science, Shorter Course History (First Semes terter), Community Civics, (Second Semester.) Ninth Grade. ? English, Algebra, Bi ology, One Elective Subject. Tenth Grade. ? English, Science, or Modem Language, or Plane Geome try, Modern History, One Elective Subject. Eleventh Grade. ? English, Science, or Modern Language, or Half-year Al gebra, American History and Govern ment, One Elective subject. College Preparatory Curriculum. Eighth Grade. ? English, Algebra, General Science, Latin, History, Elec tive. ?>, Ninth Gt-ade. ? English, Algebra, Biology, Latin., History, EWVective. Tenth Grade. ? English, P ane Ge ometry, Modern History, L (tin-Elec tive, French, Chemistry, El< < tive. Eleventh Grade. ? English Ameri can History and Governmcrr, French, Latin-Elective, Physics-Elen-ive, Sol id Geometry-Elective. This curriculum preparer, for ad mission to all colleges of the state Candidates for the B. A. degree, ex cept Chicora and Converse. Each of these requires four uniU of Latin. Pupils desiring to take, more than four subjects to the grade will 4m re- . quired to consult with the p. ncipal. All nupUf flhonld wwwlt v iih tUir .. parent* Wore selecting u< urrfeUlum^ and elective subjects. A class in Expresion an<i >ramattr Arts will be formed under the direc tion of Miss Black well who ha* made a special study. This will b< an extra elective course.