The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 31, 1924, Image 3
When Baby's Cross
He May Not be Bad
Baby Juat a t?"der fellow
?n<i the alighteat disturbance in hla
bovrela or atomaoh may pain him and
make him uncomfortable. Just be
cause he's cross and fretful la no aign
ha'a bad. He may be aick?colicky or
conatipated.
Colic la often the result of overload
' in* baby'a atomach. Teethtna re
lieves the gas pressure and makes
briy quieter, happier and sleep better.
"My baby waa ao croas and fretful
j couldn't look after my houaework.
He wrh conatantly crying' and fret
ting. I fave him Teothina and now
he'a ao different you would hardly
know him. Laughs and plays all tho
time." writes Mra. J. H. Warblngton,
113 .Sunsot Ave., Atlanta, Oa.
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.
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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