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ME CAMDEN CHRONICLE1 H, !>. NILBS Edil0> Mud r?*M Published ?very Friday at No. '1109 HJjotui &t?kcet* and dnterod at the Cam dim, South/. Carolina poslqffioq s as ond class mail matter, Pripfi.po^ a si inum $2.00. Camden. S. C., Friday, Jan. 16, 1925 mmj . [ The one great need of the world is "not some formula or rule but a law abiding sentiment throughout the land the disposition to be reason able, to be fair, to settle things . ap* cording to available standards of justice, to enforce the conceptions of justice against the demands' of brute force," Secretary of, State Charles E. Hughes declared in an address in Atlanta Monday night, An erstwhile University of Ne braska football player, who tried box ing unsuccessfully, and who is a novice at wrestling, is now world's heavyweight wrestling champion. He is Wayne H. ("Big") Munn, who, by ponderous strength, broke "Strang er" Lewis's fearful headlocks and crushed him into submission in Kan sas City. Munn won the first and third falls and lost the second when he picked up the giant Lewis and threw him completely out of the riftg. The referee disqualified him for it, but J^ewis, when he re-entered the ring, was apparently badly hurt and lost the third fall in (ess than a minute. Munn stands six feet, seven inches in height and weighs 25S pounds. Lewis had to go to a hos pital, unable to wrestle for a year. An End of Easy Credits. The Dillon Herald has stood out for years among tfcb county papers of South Carolina on account of its clear and able and far-seeing preachment, in season aftd out of season, of sound economics. Recently it has been attacking the credit problem with gr<>at trenchancy. The ? News and Courier reproduced what it had to say on this subject a week or two ago. In its current issue is soother article which deserves the widest broadcast "Speaking of the credit habit and the abuse of credit," says the Herald, it is interesting- to note in the current issue of the Calhoun Times that one of the largest mercantile establish ments in the lower part of the state announces in a half-page advertise ment that it is planning to go on i cash basis. Heretofore this estab lishment has extended credit amount ing: to millions to thousands of farm ers in its own and adjoining counties. In view of the general tendency in all lines of commerce and manufac ture to operate on a cash basis this announcement is significant. The country is waking up to the fact that credit?the kind of credit that has been extended in the past?is respon sible for nine-tenths of the financial ills from which the people are suffer ing and the law of economics is forc ing a change. Not ten men out of \ hundred know how to use credit and its abupe is reacting on the one-tenth who are trying to hold the world to gether. The day of easy credits is fast disappearing and it ,is the wise man who sees the writing'on the wall and makes some effort to save the capital ?>n Which he proposes to oper ate his business."- News and Courier. After administering poison to her thre?- children, two of whom died, Mr*. Matt a Lambert of lLucfieid. U \ :t . < riT?:?:r t< .! u.? :d? b\ '.iki'v NIr Ht-n(h Sells Seat on Kxchanije Nt u Yf.'k. Jar !1 S j? i tm t .*< I bd ?i-m!~ "1! thl* New York t "? Tup ir\, t?>la\ hli.u^ht a mvu'iI hi^'h ;? n (! $af),(?un for the mem brr- ? M. <}I?'H ? i? <?{' C.ilumhi.i, ? 'a- h1 ' w?' n! " I??i u i ? H f <" > k. -. i'h' ' 11? r. \vu aKuvc the ^r:.i ( .i.ii about an hc.ir before by J < (tispin 'Hr th? -nit t>!- Walter Hiii . :?ri ! whieh wa> an ini rease of f I o(Mj over the pri viius -ale. .-La'..- i-r. tht New Vojk iuib ?r.irk?t \vi"i !>oU4fht t. day for $10,000 ? ..< ' a nvord hiph price and an in ? -< ;?<?? * $:Wm (ivit the prr-viftu?> sn'.e. The ;awyi rs who defended Richard I.o?-b ar.il Nathan K Leopold, .Jr.. in th< lamcu' Chicago murder vase, ha\e bi t n awarded fee- totaling $130, "on ! ?o- f?-e *a., determined by the ' r' > il' Bar a>.w"' ..it.nr. 8 COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOC RS, BLINDS AND LUMBER i mil ? urn ?? ? ii i -1 IN <* HU ER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. Atlanta Has |ud Enough. Atlanta, Ae ci^r that ha# lead the long procesAnjpf advancing South ern cities fol# generation, has not been AgoinrV?o V?U for the last year or so." Something has been fvrong with the town and citizens of jfiilanta, slow' to admit (hat anything omld be halting the city's progress, hayu at last openly acknowledged that the city is "organically and economically ill." However, they pro pose to do something about itr-and bejfln by a diagnosis. It will be well for every town With aspirations in the South to read what Atlanta finds to be her troubles. Seventy-five of the leading citizens of that city at tended a dinner at the Bjltmore Hotel last week. Thirty-eight civic organi zations were represented and they have decided to bring about' the "re clamation of Atlanta. Here is a partial list of the things which those present at the jusual meeting asserted wore wrong with Atlanta, according to The Constitu tion's front-page story: "1. Lawlessness is driving hundreds of prospective citizens and industries from Atlanta and keeping as many more from Coming here to mftke a home. "2. It is a question of who belongs to the 'secretest' order as to who stands the best chance to get "elected to public office in Atlanta and the State of Georgia. "3. A big secret organization is running politics and ruining Georgia. Our mayor, our governor and our secretary of agriculture openly admit being members of the order. "4. One of thfe largest corporations .in Atlanta is planning1 to move to another city because of exorbitant taxation and the manipulation of this taxation and the tax laws. "5. There are 5,443 vacant private lionioK in tho city of Atlanta. There ?are 443 empty apartments. There are 1,212 vacant stores in the city." I^rom the Aragon Hotel to Ponce deLeon avenue alone-?this right in the heart and sho.w place of the city of Atlanta ?there are 49 vacant stores. This is the largest number in the civic annals of Atlanta. "Public officials-^- police, city, county and stale?are subsidized. It is not so much the extremely heaVy taxation, but the manner in which the tax law* arc manipulated*: There have not been six men who have served in the city council of Atlanta who ever saw $2,000 in cash all at one time." It is no secret that many of At lanta's sister cities have wondered how long Atlanta would stand for the state of affairs.?Spantanburg Herald Somebody remarks that wi^i a program for roads and schools like that on which South Carolina is now embarked there is very little possi bility of lighter taxes any time soon, which is, perhaps, true. The* main trouble in South Carolina, though, seems to be the inequality of things. If the burden could be adjusted so as to bear down equally on every class of property and every individual, the : people of South Carolina, we believe, | are patriotic and mbitious enough to ! march up to the treasurer's office 1 ? I and pay with a smile. It is the fact j that much taxable property escapes i practically scot free,, and other pron j erty is on the books for merely a ' fraction of it* real worth, while still j others are bearing the full brunt that caiiM's s*) much dissatisfaction. . < "he-''? r Reporte). Ki -jic i ? ;'di and obedience .to the . w . - the best test of good citizen rvp, .dk! ;he m >st dangerous enemies ? \ j are ?ho>?* who c-ircumvent (he ".aw. he they lawyers ?>r laymen. Y ;kv:l!e Knquirer. I'>t- Th?- Chronicle Classified page. Marriage. M:. Janice Clyde Kddings and Miss Aiir.if Ku'h Hatfield, both of Cam den were married at th>> home of Probate Judge W. I,. McDowell on the ?vening of January 10th. The bride and groom were accompanied by a number of friends who witnessed the i ma rriage Thr appellate court of New York, h . - handed down a decision in which :t declares that C?eorgc W. Harris, negro, Republican, was elected alder man in the 21?t district in 1921, over John W Smith, white, Democrat. Smith's term expired December 31, 1'. People Wouldn*t Pay Him T he grocery conducted on Tom Hall -*.? ecfor several years by B. M. ; Hiadfoi^ was elosed a few days ago 1 a-"a 're-suit of financial reverses, whieb Mr. [Bradford says are due to ' t".- failure of people who have bj i c>rr?? indebted to him to pay fhetr ' h K??rt Mill Times. j Prohibition agenUs last week seized j a tot*; ,.f .^,000 distilling outfits in Chicago after investigations lasting ; two months or more. The stlls were j a'.i- in various shops. The Tax Levy. Will the tax. levy in Kershaw County be reduced? Who has the power to reduce taxes? The tax i>n>blem will never be sat itfaciorily settled and the Legislature will always be blamed for high taxes whether it is to blame or not. Nobody i* censured through the papers except the Legislature. ' ? The school trustees are empowered under the 6-0-1 law to reduce their local levy. Will they do it? Won't they do to trust? To illustrate how it can^be done, let me say the Legis lature put on a 4 mill levy and guar anteed a six months term. I favor putting on a 2 mill levy to run the schools in Kershaw county the sev enth month which will be a seven month term with a totaj levy of 6 mills. The trustees can then take off 1 the levy they now have on for a 7 months term which usually runs from 8 to 15 mills and thereby reduce their levy as much and in most instances more than it has been raised. In this case the legislature has referred this I power of reduction of taxes back to local authorities and I hope the trus tees through the county will keep the faith that has been reposed in them and reduce the levy. I; Who is responsible for high taxes? Excluding the 4 mill levy (which is responsible for higher taxes this year) which should be offset re duction in local levy, the Legislature ^only imposed 16 1-4 mills for state* county and hospital purposes. The taxpayers ofOamden pay 74 1-2 mills and I suppose the average throughout the county is as much as 30 mills. The people themselves who cry high taxes voted these local levies on which amount to about the total of county | and state. I am not ?o&plaining about the local levy but merely ask that you complain against the proper authority. The voters themselves have added heavy taxes on themselves in the last few years. Let's review the tax levy the Legislature .is re sponsible for: In 1920 the state levy was 12 1-2 mills, county levy if 3-4 mills; 1921, state levy 11 1-2 mills, county, 11 3-4 mills; 1922, state levy 7 mills, county and roads 11 3-4 mills; 1923, state levy 6 mills, county 9 1-2 mills; 1924, state levy 6 mills, county 9 1-2 Mills. None of the above in cluded anything for the hospital.. The reduced Levy for county purposes and the reduction of $1,00 in commutation road tax have netted a saving ^o the taxpayers of Kershaw county approx imately $36,000 in the last two years, and in this particular I feel that my promise to the people has been Tc^pt, I hope the time will come when the people will take stock and see who is responsible for high taxes and lay blame where it belongs. If the money for the last appropriation bill had been raisbd with the ad volorum tax the levy would have been 23 or 24 mills. The method of indirect tax is not at all perfect or satisfactory but as a whole I think it is better than the all ad volorum. I hope this will help to get a clearer view of who is respon sible for high tax levies and that the Legislture will only have to answer for what they are guilty. Respectfully,* L. O. Fujfferbuik. P.S.?The Senate Journ?> will show that I got an amendment through the senate to havo the increase in auto licenses only 25 per cent higher than they have been heretofore which would have meant $7.50 for a Ford instead of $12.00 as it now is, but this amendment was left out in the free conference over which I had no eont i ol. The Pike's Peak Graveyard One of the most appropriate of alt aftcrdeath disposals was the burial of Buffalo Bill on the heights of Pike's Peak. On the very summit there had existed for many years the grave of a woman who, overtaken by nightfall on the peak, was attack (k! by mountain rats and her body devoured. The grave was marked by a pile of rude stones, pretty mucft after the fashion of marking Doctor Mitchell's grave the people of the state have permitted, but it was the last spot one might have selected as a final resting place. Pike's Peak, j however, was an altogether fitting^ plane for the grave of Buffalo Bill, 1 a suggestive commemoration of his career. But Pike's Peak as a com mon burial ground has developed into a fad with many people and requests to be buried there b*can*e press ing that the authorities have conclud ed to set aside an acre of ground j on top of the mountain as a Pike'-> : Peak graveyard. People who want to be buried there are manifestly not ? content with any trouble they may have caused wh !?? aliv^, h it they j want to x.\l a tra.l of trouble even, to the grave. The Pike's P> ak fune- ' ral party i? m.t likely t<> find that/t is launched on a pleasure - ' hnrlotte ObsftTu* lTiW'(l" fc> ??i t HtM Resolve Now to Make the Most of +> Jr.#! Ij-.i'.i, I . ' . <? - v aiM m i ? ? 1 L First. To be good?live right. ? s *ifii tkiH ' , Second. To save each week some of the money rp?i you earn. Third. To Invest all you can save each month in shares of ouf ^ociation. ? ? ? M. ? ? * . ri ? ? ? ? ??{*<?<? -JHtfirff!. During 1924 our Shareholders paid in on their share* and SAVED ............ $27,210.00 Seriously think it over and maybe you will dMi4ebMn^kiit to ,join them in 1925 Our two series, Nos. 6 and 7, now operating, niajce the following Showing: ? r ' ? ?:?I<ij0n Ft t CAPITAL?Dues paid and earnings to date $119,723.00 , LOANS?Only to shareholders .....i. ' 139,330.00 Money borrowed s:v..j0^[U.h, 22,186.00 Loss bn loans during 20 years business .... NONE :V ? .V- /. ?? ; r- y ? v.. fc. ^ HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY -- . V' ' ' *' K"'- ? >r{Y~' " Z't . f^T- ? - ? tr ! h; Take as, many shares in Series No. 8 as you can cany.*'Monthly payments only $1.00 per share. First payment, Monday, January* 19th.. '7// ' Later if you want to repair your home, buy a home bif build a home, we will loan you $200 per share to the extent security your offer warrants. ? Our officers and directors are, and we believe every shareholder of our association is very proud of our 20 years successful operation/ a^nd, it , is most gratifying to all of us that our Association has made it possible for, mAny people in Camden to own their homes. WE WISH YOU A HAPPY AND :.V PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR OFFICERS ' , j -? ? ' : . Dr. W. J. Dunn, Presideit . , " ? P' Wolfe, Vice-President John T. Mackey, See'tj and Treasury ,[* L.-A. Wtttkowsky, Solicitor ? niBwr/triRR . ?>! ?,MV" \t>. Wolfe ,' Tv *? -si W. J. Dunn F. M. Woo ten ' '*** j4 Shannon, Jr. C. W. Birehniorc " L. A. Wittkowsky John T. Nettles 1 ? ? ' B. W. van Landlnghai J. p. Lewis I>et -uk know how many shares you want. Fill in, sign, and rafcurn to us before Monday, January 19th, the following application for number of shares wanted t' THE WATEREE BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION - ~; CAMDEN, 8. C. ' (ientlemen: Please enter my subscription for ........ .K . share* Sertoli No. 8. First payment $1.00 per share to he made on Monday, January 19, 1925. r . . mr V J , ? ? ? **" ? i - " ' * " "v"" (Sifrn here) ...? .4 v..... j.......... .?v. *