The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 16, 1925, Image 4
ME CAMDEN CHRONICLE1
H, !>. NILBS Edil0> Mud r?*M
Published ?very Friday at No. '1109
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Camden. S. C., Friday, Jan. 16, 1925
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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. -.
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^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
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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
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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
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Resolve Now to Make the Most of
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First. To be good?live right.
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Second. To save each week some of the money
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you earn.
Third. To Invest all you can save each month
in shares of ouf ^ociation.
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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:
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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
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HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY
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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
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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 ?
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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.
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