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Taethlna is sold by all druggists, or n?nd 30c to Moffett Laboratories, (ftlumbua, Ga., for package and FREE booklet about babies TEETH INA Builds Better Babies George Powers, town marshal of Loris, was recently taken from his home by a masked band and warned ,against continuation of his activities in enforcing the prohibition law, ac cording to a story in a Conway news paper. When the party had reached a place about one mile from Loris, the article continues, the marshal was turned loose with the injunction not to interfere with the dispensing of ginger extract in the vicinity. Private School Conducted by Mrs. Jones. North Lyttleton Street Only Grammar Grades Admitted. 31-34-pd COLUMBIA LUMBER MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER tmrn?mmmmmmm?mmmmmmmmmmmMmmmmammmm PLAIN & HUGER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office Over Bract's Store)* CAMDEN, S. C. ? ?J DR. G. C. TRANTHAM DENTIST First Floor, Crocker Building PHONE 450 PIANO TUNING Lewis L. Moore 242-W PHONE or 46 CAMDEN. S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Phone 30?Night Phoiift 1H CAMDEN, 3. C. Hayes Bus Line CAMDEN TO Columbia, ? ' Bishopville, Hartsville, Krrahaw, Lancaster, Charlotte. For information Phone 181, Carnden Hotel A. R. COLLINS Undertake^ and Embalmef AMBULANCE SERVICE Camden, S. C. Telephone?Day 41; Nigfct THAI IllC HOM) issi m Kx Kepresentative Bradford (iive* His \ iews (in Issue to Ih? Decided. Editor The Chronicle: A number of South Carolina papers, possibly yours among tho number, have c;writ>?l within the last few days an appeal to the voters of the state from the heads of statu colleges and other institutions to support at the election on November 4 the ten million dollar bond issue for educational, penal and charitable institutions. These gentlemen pre sent as strongly perhaps as any group of gentlemen could the reason for the faith that is in them; but when I, for one, had finished reading what they had to say it occurred to me that they had not told the whole story, that there was another side to it, and that somebody ought to have something to say on other side. Hence this communication, which is apt to arouse the criticism of some who will say, "Oh, he's an enemy of higher education." Not at all. In common with most of our citizens I have long since learned1 that the one thing above all others we cannot afford to neglect is the education of our boys and girls. But with respect to the appeal of the gentlemen who are asking the | people to vote upon themselves and posterity the ten million dollar bond issue, it is worth while to bear in mind that they are not disinterested. To begin with, is the demand for new buildings at the colleges and other instiuttions so acute that the people of 'South Carolina have any thing to gain by voting a tax not of ten millions but twenty millions upon themselves? I undertake to say that it is not. But if the reader wonders whence comes the twenty millions, let him take pencil and paper and calcu late what will be the amount of sim ple interest, eliminating entirely all consideration of confound interest, on the ten million dollar bond issue at five per cent (the rate the State is apt to have to pay), and if he does not find that it will be twenty mil lions then I am willing to admit that I have a faulty understanding of the multiplication table. I believe in progress. I believe in supporting the colleges as far as the people are able to do so without ex pecting the people to place upon them selves and their children and their grandchildren burdens which they can ill afford to bear and which that de gree of common business sense un derstandible by the most stupid hi us does not support. For years it has been the policy of the Legislature to appropriate money as fast as :t thought the people could afford it for new buildings at the colleges and other institutions. Generally speak ing, the taxpa\eis h#,Vf not Qbk*tfid t(? that. That policy has u-Milted in a marked increase in the facilities of most if not all the colleges and other institutions, and if kept up a few years longer might satisfy even those who apparently do not wish to be sat isfied with anything the Legislature U ever able to do. During the last five years the Cita del, the state's military college at Charleston, has been built anew and turned over to the college authorities. Not a dollar of the more than a mil lion and a half dollars involved in the cost of the new plant came from a bond issue. Vast improvements, costing more than n million dollars, have been made at the insane asylum during the last ten years. Again no bond issue. Winthrop college, the State university, the negro college, tho boys' reformatory and the school for the deaf and the blind have also beqn given new buildings a,nd other permanent improvements during the last decade, while the medical college and John de la Howe orphanage dur ing that time have been taken over outright by the state and the gij*ls re formatory and the feeble minded in sitution have been built?and all without a bond issue. At the peni tentiary a new and modern prison building, to cost hot over two hun dred thousand dollars, perhaps, is needed; but it can be built without a bond issue, just as the buildings that may be needed at thfc colleges and other institutions can be bullt, with out the people having to pay two dollars for the use of ono as the bond issue contemplates. A solution of the problem of new buildings and other permanent im provements at the colleges and other institutions can bo found in an annual tax of one mill on all the property in the state. This would raise ap proximately half a million dollars yearly and in the course of a few years would supply all the money necessary to finance the projects pro posed by the bond issue. But the friends of the bond issue are-: in too big a hurry. They seem to think that the whole education system of the state will go to the rocks and that otherwise great suffering and hardship will result unless the bond issue is approved. They want imme diate action regardless of whether it involves extravagance and a lack of business judgment. I use the word extravagance advisedly, because if it is not extravagance to pay two dol lars for something that can be bought for one dollar then the dictionary makers are at fault in defining the word. So far as the two million dollars ?really four millions the people will have to pay in return for the two mil lions? iof the high schools is con cerned, that was put in the bond issue according to the statement made to tne by some of those who were in terested in the passage of the bill through the Legislature last winter, as a "sop" to friends of the public school system whose opposition it was thought the bond issue might otherwise encounter at the polls. I wonder how many of the thou sands who are expected to vote in the November election know anything about what is in, or out of, the act it was necessary for the Legislature to pa#s in submitting the bond issue to the people. Not threy per cent, perhaps. Well, all ought* to know something about it, and if they had the opportunity to read it they would discover that there isn't a word said about how the money shall be allotted to the various institutions or by whom or the maximum rate of in terest that shall , be paid. It isy as silent as the tomb about the bftnks with which the bond money Is to be deposited putting up security to. guard the state against loss or the rate of interest, if any at all, which the favored banks shall pay tho state for the use of the money. Not a word about whether the money shall be parceled out by a commission or board selected by the Legislature or appointed by the governor and whether such commission or board shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of its duties. If the bond issue is approved by the people, no matter how tfie parcelers are selected, it is the guess of not a few that there will occur behind the scehes a scramble for membership on the commission or board the like of which South Carolina has not yet ex perienced. Why? The reader may draw hi? own conclusions. I think I am within the truth4" in saying that this whole proposition was advanced by one of the state's institutions- which hopes to get the lion's share of the proceeds of the bond sale. I? do know that at first it waB not looked upon with favor by spokesmen for some of the institutions which are now supporting' it. These spokesmen said that rank favoritism was Certain to be shown in the distribution of the money and thatjt was a proposition which would bear very close scrutiny. Another thing I am absolutely certain of is that when the bond issue bill was be fore the ways and means committee its chief supporters were men who were especially interested in appro priations for one college. As was nearly always the case the people had ?no spokesman before the committee. The copimittee was told that there was a wide demand among the people for the right to vote on the bond issue. Some committee members may have believed the statement; others felt that there was nothing to it. But the bill got by the committee as the act wjBUh it Inter became will get by the people unless their judgment coincides with mine. In a preceding paragraph I spoke of placing burdens upon the people which they can ill afford to bear. Lot me enlargo upon that statement a little, if you pleii&c. Fort Mill in an average South Carolina community. Here our people?in the main I refer to the farming interests -are about as well-to-do ns the people in the other sections of the state. Ride out into the country in any direction from this town and note how many farm homes or farm outhouses you^wiU see that have been painted in the last ten years. Not hall a dozen. Why? Be cause there has been nothing but mythical prosperity for the average farmer?he has not been able to paint his buildings. Ever-increasing taxes has played an important part in hold ing his nose to the grindstone. It is all right for the city man ?'who knows little of conditions on tho farms of our state to flout this state mejit?he can be excused on the score of ignorance; but let him get out into the great open spaces of the State whero whatever wealth it may be for tunate enough to possess is produced and he will have his eyes opened to the facts. Oh, no, the people are not poverty stricken, but they are not in position to spend money on a bond issue that is unnecessary. And, by tho way, who, after all, are the chief beneficiaries of bond issues, one of which leads to another ? Henry Ford says it is the money speculators along with a considerable element of grafters, \V. R. Bradford. ' Fort Mill, S. C. . Left Large Estate. Columbia, Oct. 22.?Dr. Joseph J. Watson of Columbia, left an estate Valued at $181,257.21, according to his last will and testament, filed yos terday in the office of G. Duncan Bellinger, Richland county judge of probate. The lamented physician provides for the complete education of his children, so long as they show proficiency in their studies. The rest and residuq is left to his widow, Mrs. Elberta C; Watson, for and during the period of her natural life or during the term of Avidowhood. The will provides that after her death, or if she should marry, then the estate shall be divided among the children, share and share alike, but not to be delivered to them until each beneficiary attains the age of 26. The will names Mrs. Elberta Watson, wife, nnd Missi Mary Gulledge, execu trices. SHARP PRICE REDUCTIONS Was $1500 Now $1395 ESSEX COACH Was $1000 Now $945 FREIGHT AND TAX EXTRA The World's Greatest Automobile Values are now Priced Below All Comparison They are the finest Hudson and Essex cars ever built. - Such price reductions are possible because they are the largest selling 6-cylinder closed cars in the world. \ . , , " ? * little motor company T. LEE LITTLE, Mump! rr* ?-rr*'*-? ; Woman Victim of Two Cars. Atlanta, Gft., Oct. 2t>.?Mrs. Jane Moore, 58, wife of an instructor at the Georgia Military Academy, was killed here today in a combination of automobile accidents said by po lice to be unequalled in the city'a records. Mi's. Moore, seated in her own automobile with her husband, was tluqwn across the front door of her car by the impact of a roadster which struck her machine* at a high rate of speed. While in this position, her body was struck and she was instant ly killed by another roadster which sped past. Her body was snatched to tho fen der of the second car, tlung to the running board and then thrown into u cobblestone gutter several feet from the scene of the first accident. Tho second roadster was occupied by a young white man and a negro who failed to stop. Witnesses say tho negro turned around and looked and tho fleeing automobile put on more speed and disappeared. NOTICE OV ELECTION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Notice is hereby given that the Genoral Election for Presidential and Vice Presidential Electors, United States Senator and Representatives in Congress will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County of Kershaw on Tuesday, November 4, 1924, said day being Tuesday fol lowing the first Monday, as pre scribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage aro as follows: Residence in State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling procinct in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and tho pay mentf six months before any election of any poll tax then due and payable: Provided, That ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, otherwise qualified. Registration.?Payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed and collectible daring the previous year. The production of a certificate or the receipt of the officer authorized to. collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Constitu tional oath. The Chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the Chairman. ' The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. Polls at each voting place must Do opened at 7 o'clock a.m. and closed at 4 o'clock p.m., except in tho City of Charleston, where they shall bo opened at 7 a.m. and closod at 0 p.m. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy; and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can ap point, from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after be ing sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot box ajid count the ballots therein, and con tinue without adjournment until the same is completed, and make a state ment of the result for each office, and signThe" same. Within thre? days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commis sioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the elec tion. Managers of Election?The follow ing Managers of Election have been appointed to hold the election at the various precincts in the said county: Camden?Benton Sheorn, C. A. Moseley, Arthur Watkins. Stokes School. House? D. M. Barnes, Tom Barnes, Reese Hall. Cantey Hill?Leo Rose, Henry Bar field, Bun-ell Barfield. Gates Ford?D. A. West, L. S. Brown, H. T. Horton. Ned's Creek?T. W. Bowers, B. F. Roberts, Smiley Johnson. Bethune?J. N. Mcl^aurin, J. L. King, John A. McCaskill. Wafceree Mills?J. L. Player, W. C. Langley, W. L. Robinson. Hermitage Mills?W. A. Anderson, W. T. Mattox, W. M. West. Kershaw?James Copeland, I. R. Hayes, H. D. McCaskill. Shaylor's Hill?R. L. Smyrl, Joe Hornshy, Mendel L. Drakeford. Blaney?G. E. Hinson, John Rose, A. T. Simpson. 3C's?J. H. Barfield, J. Robert Ma gill, J. C. Cauthen. Rabon's Cross Roads?R. A. Jack son, W. M. Gettys, Dan Rabon. Lugoff?Jack Parker, Oliver Jones, John Branham. Buffalo?R. F. Sowell, Elmer Catoe, J. B. Johnson. Raley's Mill?Amos West, W. E. Baker, Henry Baker. Beaver Dam?J. S. Hyatt, J. M. Tidwell, Alex Shaw. Mt. Zion School House?Paul Brown, J. S. Dunn, Clifton Marshall. Stockton?D. L. Sowell, Jesse Pcarce, L. M. West. Ratcliflfe Mill?H. J. RatcliflFe, N. A. Watkins, J. H. Williams. Cossatt?H. S. Thompson, T. A. Spears, .T. W. Catoe. Westville?R. Bell, W. L. Gas kina. C. B. Hilton, Stoneboro--J. W. Stover, S. Bar* . ^ I field, G. F. Hammond. [ The Managers at each- precinct named above are requested to dele gate one of their number to 1 the box and blanks for the eU at the Court House on Satui 1st, 1924; R. D. WILLIA1C8I B- W. BEST, J. K. Commissioners Election