The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 31, 1925, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONiCLE
H. u. N ilr>? . . Edit OK .old l'ubli?her
Published every Friday at No. 11.09
Broad Street and entered at the Cam
den, South Carolina. pon toff ice as
class mail matter. Price per
annum $2.oo.
fanuie o, s. Friday, July 31.
The property owneri of Camden
*hpui<J appreciate the.- efforts of the
m^tnUN of the police force and in
surance men who helped in ferreting
out the ctttfse of the fire here last
Friday night. and bringing the three,
! ascaU to jay lice who tried to de
troy property f*?r the -ake of the
inHUi apee carried. That they have
never made c!a|m for the insurance,
and that th t \ did not destroy ad
jacent property in the night time,
should not h ?en the *eri9usne?s of
their cp+hh^ - There has been. a check
ing up on these "firemen" through
out thu .state in recent months and
it 1* n wholesome Mgn. A lawyer^ ar-^
rested in Beaufort charged with yank
ing- a h-s>, :u j white men in
fcdge.f :e'd,' a picluu sh6\v -operated in
Columbia and our local affair. Quite
a bit 'of .-uipVi-i ami indignation ha.<
n -u.'u-i ovei the aits of. these three
ii u^rOfcs and I: i- no tiihu tu be .-dart
ing' eni'ment .to get them t/Ut of their
devilment.
\Vu Muoti beiow some of the records
pi frre loftses in recent years as com
piled from the Ma nu fact u rer publish
?. ?! a* Salem, Oregon:
"One of the problems causing us
even more serious concern than pre
viously i> the fire loss which con
tinues to increase alarmingly. In 1923
the aggregate losses wen* $535,372,
7KJ. a* , compared with $203,763,550
. tcu years before. The estimate for
1 places the probable total for last
year at a new high point ? $548,810,
*>?'!;?. This figure represents the des
truction daily of property worth at
least a million and a half dollars, or
something like ten million and a half
a week. That this enormous destruc
tion causes no tipple on the commer
cial sea, speaks well for the stability
of fin- insurance, but such a waste,
ii unchecked nevertheless threatens
oui economic life.
"It is true that during the past few
years, the curve of destruction has
ri-en less j*a pidly than the aggregate
of burnable values,, but this is cold
comfoit, because from any standpoint
such annihilation of material wealth,
which incidentally causes the with
drawal each year of more than half a
billion dollars from productive enter
p: ise, i.? appalling. a menace, to the
prosperity ami future, of the nation.
"To the La -ting credit of the f i rr>
insurance companies, they long ago
i ecogwized this ca>ua.ty as an enemy
of society and joined togethel through
the instrumentality of The National
Board- of Fire I'ndei wi iters to com
bat the devouring element. What the
tax of fire would amount to in this
day were it fiof <*>r*ttrc~ constant effort
which has been made with increasing
determination and efficiency for- the
past two dccades, cannot be estimated
with accuracy; yet there can be no
doubt in the mind of anyone familiar
with fire insurance and with our ac
t i v i t i ? ? > . that by now the burning rate
?u!d t>e absolutely overwhelming. It
i - no! too much to a.ssume that the
devastation- o'f the flames would have
cumpciicd Lhu I- udcra. ar.d Stale Gov
em men is* t*? enact drastic laws f ? ? t
the suppression of fires and punish
ment of th'?M- having them, a>- in
Fiaiii-e, had not the private busines
? f f.:t in>u'aji:o made the reduction
. > i f:re ' *? voluntary coiitiibu
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?n-.s -*tatr?rrcn. No ora . ir. "*?'?<
hi? u? a'h, can <blit ineditai?* u;>< n the '
v/i?j difference it> would have mad" I
had Harrow pa*aed on to meet h'? j
(Jod, Rn?l had Hrynn remained. It i
well thai it whk Bryan. Thr Cirrat j
CoAimom . \.a5 preparr<i for the end." I
An amendment designed to pro
hibit thy teaching of evolution in the
common -> hoe!-' of Georgia Wednes
day w?> voted down overwhelmingly
by tht; Siat*- l|>u>e of Represent#
1 1 ? i ?
t'nkr.cwt,, niftfl ?? > found dead in
\?w York -with only ten .cents aitd
a package of cigarette* in hi* pocket*.
Another newspaper man gone to >e*t.
?^Spartanburg Journal;
"Victiw" .Scores I.yman.
'I'm the Kditor of The Chronicle: In
your i?-ue of last week I noticed an
article regarding C. Lyman who is
now in jail at Camden.
Otic who does not know the facts
would think he i> being terribly per
secuted. Hut jf ;? man or set of men
ever did deserve to go to the gang
he ar. i 1 r i-o workers do!
They came through this section last
fall purporting to represent an order
that stood for law enforcement and
M't'U red <iuit< ;r number of members.
They collected the initiation fee but
neves came back to finish organiza
tion. After they had fleeced this sec
tion they moved on to other fields to
carry out their .scheme.
He and his men went about among
< * ; angers securing members without
anyone to recommend a member and
that shows fraud on its very face.
Should their Circle have been what
it was recommended, they would
have wanted some one to advise, but
no, they took it upon themselves.
Then, they" gave bogus checks C. Ly
man vvfts caught ic. Camden for jgivlng
one. Me gave a poor farmer one the
week before he was to organize in
Camden, hoping that it would be
cleared through the regular channel
and he would be gone "from, this sec
tion hefori? Tt report on il was made,
but the wires were used. So when he
arrived at Camden to fleece the men
there he was met by Constable Hun
nicutt with a warrant and made to
come across, and then the Camden
men or some of them got wise and
made him refund their money, paid as
initiation fees.
He claims not to have violated a
law, hut if collecting money from men
under a false pretense rseMrreouncof
under a false representation .and then
leaving the section in whicn he and
his men have operated, with no in
tention of returning, is not in viola
tion of our laws, then God pity our
State.
Again, it i> a. violation of the laws
for a secret order to start organiza
tion without authority from the Sec
rctar\ of State. This they did in No
vember and ' December and did not
secure such authority till March 6,
1 '.ej.-r, 1 have letters in my possession,
to that effect frum Mr,. W. P. Black
well, Secretary of State. They had
organized four Circles through .Jan
uary I'.ej;, t*.? i have only given a char
ts i t<> one. The apparent reason for
the furnishing of this charter was to
catch a man for a bigger fee than
they had already collected from him.
\Vt- Have sixteen warrants waiting
for him when the Camden men are
through with him and we sincerely
hope that when we get through with
him he will have paid in service to the
county amount in full for his ill
gotten gain arid the money he collec
ted from u.? will be so moth eaten
that tin- G >?err. men? won' ^redeem it.
Victim.
The report of the Julius Rosenwald
foundation for extending the f ?ci 1 i
tie< for primary education of the
negro in the- South -hows that of the
* 1 2.000,000 thus far devoted to tha;
end, for the building of 2,800 negro
se)w?ol> i.i fourteen states, exactly
fifty five per cent, or something more
than one-half, was' furnished by
Southern white people. This will
prob.ib!\ t.v a matter of surprise to
people ir. the North, who pro
f< t<> belli .e at lea -t that the negro
I held ; n a form of peonage in the
South and ha.< rv> opportunity to
t -'??? k- flut-H' tonally. ind us t ? i? H
, in:;, otht-r uv.\. While it is very
: r'liM: f - th? : ? r. . spread
?j* . 1 : i i : t t bt l or.fined in toti>.
.in - ' - . t ? ? a i i in pa rt icula :
, it <? fait re ma if-, neverthe
I .< - . it th<- South. the he-t plaee
1 i ? b ;?ck mar , >! that down
I < w ? . ! be ha to ir. urn way.
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M ain . !? a., Ju!\ "J,?. ? I'arkei A.
I Ir^iderso" . may< : : M am:. and
prom men*. the city'- bu.? mess. and
bai.k . ?? ? wa- f< j f'd dead thi
mon i ' hi.- hoi; ? when hi
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i .i r.- ?u:v i".' ned t ? attend h in de
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.Ma\or If* nder.?or. r :i - i or..\ -e:\ed
,il>>ut :t 'V.-<r!th of hia pre-ent term
If.!' pit a < 'y wa- mayor >f Miami
from .N\ . i-.nber 1, 1C/1." to Nnvembfi
'. 11*17 If. wa- b ,v\ tr Hampton.
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lt.irni> Wallace Captured
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'!?? r <* d?--*ro\- . ? ght> bar
of !>?-. r and < or. f two nun
? 1 ? ?- ? l i - )f wh.rkfx . a':d tw <
-ii'.uaijb..?vi. Co. i lljJ'ur. eoach and
.i ' h-i-'. ot-1 touring car. the prop
e i i s (?: Wallace which were at the
?ti'.? .it ?.'r.r time of the raid. ? Wed
re?da>'- K'crence New --Review.
reaches are being shipped in car
. from York, this being the first
?.rr*e tho frurt has been handled an
sr-h a large scale coraiwciaJJy.
THIS WEEK
. By Arthur Brisbane
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Mr. Brisbane'* editorials are pub
at i xprt-.s.siona of opinions
of -?the world's highest-salaried
editor and The Chronicle does not
necessarily endorse all of his
views and conclusions.
Trias.sic (Cocks
The ? Reverend Dr. Straton wants
the luw against teaching evolution
introduced into New York state*.
His earnestness may puzzle other
Fundamentalists when he says he can
prove the. evolutionists are wrong,
because "Triassic rock" antedates by
millions of years the time of man's
evolution as described by Darwin.'
If the world is only six thousand^
years old, how can there be rocks
mil Mon's of years old? In their do*
sire to discredit DarWin, the good
Kundanu utallst .should not forget hi-..
own "facts and figures." 1
Deeply religious men often make
mistakes in science. Mr. Watson
Davis mentions 'two instances. Mar
tin Luther condemned savagely "an
astrologer who strove to show that
the world revolves, not the heavens
lot' the firmament, the sun and the
moon. This fool wishes to reverse the
entire science of astronomy." But
today not Galileo is the fool.
Luther, Calvin, Bryan
Calvin, quoting the psalm which
says "the world also is established
that it cannot be moved," added,
"who will venture to place the au
thority of Copernicus above that of
the Holy Spirit?"
And the good John Wesley thought
the new ideas in astronomy showed
n trend toward infidelity. Those were
three good Protestants; they all wor
ried about Galileo, as Bryan worried
about Darwin. But religion has sur
vived their worry.
Safety In The Air ?
Is flying dangerous? If the pilot
uses common sense, it is less danger
ous than crossing a crowded street.
In twenty-five months pilots from
Mitchel Field have flown 1,827^000 j
milt's, in separate flight?.-'
Only three have been killed, al
though pilots have turned endless
somersaults and committed much
other foolishness in the air.
Sixty years hence cautious old la
dies will refpse to ride in automobiles
or earth trains. They will say, "At
my agi* they are too dangerous. I
only fly, and at a safe height."
This "humorous" paragraph is pub
lished:
A country editor, having worked
hard for thirty years, retired with
$.'>0,000 capital, lie explained as fol
lows:
"I attribute my ability to retire
with $50,000 to the fact that I work
ed very hard and saved every cent
? and to the death of an uncle who
left me $ IH/.W9.50."
Ten thousand eountis editors could
testify that there i> more truth than
humor in that anecdote. The most
useful, . underpaid and earnest body
of men in the nation are .the editors
of country newspapers.
The pathetic fact is that they would
be highly prosperous men it" busi
ne>* and advertiser.* realized the
truth that the country newspaper, in
proportion to its circulation, is the
be?t advertising medium in the coun
1 1 \ .
An increase in the pi ire of rubber
d 1 1 ve - manufacturers to plan for
-mailer tires. Some man of intelli
gence will find a way to substitute
steel springs for rubber and produce
a tire better than a rubber tire.
Not To Worry
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Manee, who
have nine children, gave a party for
those children and their offspring.
One hundred and one came t? the
party. It' everybody did as well, if
the millions in China raised their
gigantic- families, for instance, and
if plagues and floods stopped killing
them, how soon would the earth be
ove i - peopled ? '
That :> tr.t thing n?<t to worry
about.
"The Lord arranges it >o that the
tree> .-hall not grow into the hea
vfn-.." And He has undoubtedly
arranged it ?o that t h ?* earth shall
not breed more people than it can
-?uppovt. As the world grows older
ar.d its peopa* know more, fewer
(hi'dren ??re borr, ; more of them live.
Iteai Adm.ra! (Jeorge W. \V;t!tam;.
>>f South (Jaroiina. who died last
,%<ck .i! was laid vj rest
n Ar.mg'or. ienieter\ Tue?da} with
mprrsMve nv.!itai\ honors.
Painting picturri <?t? sueh femin
ine knees as may be exposed by roll
ed stocking' and perverse winds is
advocated by beauty specialists, who
began a week's convention in New 1
York Monday. "Painted kneei are
the latest th.og," >a?d Mr. Ruth
Maur, presiding."
SATURDAY AND MONDAY
AUGUST 1 AUGUST 3
^ ?? ?
We are offering 7 5 Dresses which almost include our entire
stock of Spring Dresses. Values $6.75 to $29,50. All
sales final; no approval or charge. Prices will start at
$1.00 AND GO UP TO $9.00
ACT QUICKLY!
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THE FASHION SHOP
Cor. Broad and DeKalb CAMDEN, S. C.
Street car service is being restored
in Spartanburg, ami car* are now
running on Magnolia street for the
first time in three years.
Thomas'. Lytle, a Spartanburg mer
chant, was found Tuesday morning
tied t<> a tree and gagged so as to
prevent his railing for help. He had
been held up by two men Monday
night and robbed* of in cash he
told his rescuers and tied to the tree.
Police declared that Mr. Lytle would
have died in a short time. Mr. Lytic
was neariug home in his car he says,
when he was stopped by two men,
\Vh'o leaped upon the running boards
and thrust revolvers into his face.
Mr. Lytle says the men did not speak
from the time he was held up until
they completed the job, and as his
head was covered with a sack he is
unable to give the officers any clue
Las to the identity of the two.
Auditors and treasurers meeting in
Charleston last week elected William
1). Dent, auditor of Lexington county,
president;. William J. Leonard, tre*s
uier, of Charleston county, vice-pres
ident, and E. C. Rhodes, chief clerk
in the office of the comptroller gen
eral, secretary and treasurer. An
derson was selected as the meeting
place for next year.
M rs. W. C. Love, visiting her son,
Dr. Lymon Love, at Charleston, was
clubbed on the head early Sunday
morning by an unknown man who
entered the Love home ostensibly for
the purpose of robbery. The intruder
who entered Mrs. Love's bedroom
made his escape.
With a_total membership of 511,
Post No. 28 of the American Legion
at Spartanburg believes that it has
the largest in the state.
Forty-four years ago, the Res*.
Frankcis Clark of Portland, Me.,
gathered some young people around
him and established a society for good
thinking and good deeds. Since that
eventful day it has grown to have
some .4,000,000 members in 80,000
branches, and its name, "Christian
Endeavor," is known in 'nearly every
section of the globe.
, Zt'v, greatest runner <of American
turf who made for his owner $313, 630,
has been retired from the track.
Wants-For Sale
FOR SALE ? Several good stock bird
puppies six weeks old and will be
i*eady for fall training. Apply to
L. M. Truesdale, rte l, Westville,
S. C. 16-18-pd
LOST ? One pair tortoise shell glasses
in soft leather case. Reward if
returned to Chronicle office. 18-pd
POULTRY ANI) EGGS WANTED?
Any quantity any time. Don't
write. Ship us your poultry and
eggs; hens 17c, fryers 20c, roos
ters 7c, eggs 25c, delivered at Clin
ton. Clinton Produce Co., Clinton,
S. C. Cash by return mail. 18-tf
FOR RENT ? Three connecting rooms
unfurnished. Telaphone 262-J, Cam
den* S. C. 17-18-19-pd
WANTED ? No, 1 pine logs. Highest
cash prices paid; year round de
mand. Sumter Planing Mills jand
Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth,
Sumter, S. C. 29-tf
LOST ? One Setter pup four months
old; white with black ears. Reward
if returned to Rush Lumber Com-;
pany. ' 17-sb
.1
BEARING SERVICE ? We have u
stock bearings to fit most any p<*
ular make of automobile suchl!
Taper roller, ball and connecting
rodi Hay's Garage, South Broad
Street, Camden, S. C. 14-17-sk
FOR SALE ? Two desirable buildiu*
lots in Camden. Apply at Camdej
Chronicle office, Camden, S. C.
BATTERIES-? If it's a battery
need see us before you buy, our
prices are right. Batteries recharg.
I'd and repaired. Broad Street Fill,
ing Station, Phone 413, U. X.
Myers, Prop. 15^
FOR RENT OR SALE? Six room cot
tage, with all modern convenience*,
on Lyttleton street. For terras ap^
ply to Mrs. B. Ammons 402 DeKalb
street, Camden, S. C. 18 pj
WHITTON GENUINE PARTS CO
Columbia, S. C., The largest Part
Distributors in the entire SoutL
A complete stock of genuine and
replacement parts for all cars and
trucks. aug. 7-sb
LOST. ? On Wednesday a cameo
brooch somewhere ou streets of
Camden. Reward if returned to
Mrs. W. T. Hendrix, Camden, S. C.
18 pd
FORD SERVICE? We handle genu
ipp Ford parts. Let us do yonr
repair "work. Experienced Ford me
chanics. Mr. Joe Pettigrew it
charge of repair shop. Broad Street
Filling Station, Phope 443, U. N.
Myers, Prop. 15-sb
FOR RENT ? Two houses on Broad
street. Apply to L. A. Wittkowsky,
Camden, S. C. 50 sb
LOST ? On Wednesday morning a
lady's slipper, somewhere between
Laurens and Rutledge streets. Fin
(ier please return to Chron^le Of
fice, Camden, S. C. 18 pd
FOUNp ? A bunch of keys. Owne
can have same by paying for this
ad. The Chronicle office.
Ben Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin was one of the wisest men
America ever produced. He made many
proverbs. One of them is: "Money can beget
money, and its offspring can beget more/
Open a savings account in this bank and start
your money toward increase.
The First National Bank
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