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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. I). Nile* . . BdUor And I'abUaber Published every Friday at No. 1100 liroad fitreet and entered at t1)e Gam-, 'Ifn, jSouth Carolina, poatoffice M pacondj class mail matter. Trice per annum $2.06. Camden, S. Friday, Jan. ?J2, l?2ft. Importance of Perfect Vl?ion. A physician connected with one of the greatest industrial plant^ in the land says that if a child does not see with the physical eye the mental eye ' can never believe correctly. If the vision is blurred the impression which the child got* is blurred. This is put ting. the matter plainly and in lan guage which all can comprehend. The remark was made in connection with a plea" for a whole child, one with cor rect vision, with a body as free from defects as it is possible for one to be. It is recognized that the ancidni Greek ideal may not be attained in completeness, but nothing should bo left to chance. Many slight defects can be corrected, II' they are disre garded they may become permanent handicaps. To insure the discovery of conditions which may need correction annual examinations are recommend ? ed. This practice has become some what. common for adults, but extend ing it to children would obviate the chance of them needing frequent ex aminations so badly'i when they be come adults. It may be said that this is in the business interest of dolors. When one is ill the first thing one does is to call a doctor. If it is a serious illness the bill will Iw large. The best way to make bills for medical services small is to keep well, and if by a periodical examination one can keep well one will be able to escape giving doctors much money. A sound body for the child is of greater importance than a sound body m one who has lived a goodly \part of the life one may reasonably ex pect. If the child starts with a han dicap and it is not removed it will carry it all its days. Its usefulness will be lessened h\ it. If the next generation is made up of men and women of good physique the start will needs be made when they, are children. Thus the doctor who pluads for the. whole < hiM is looking to the' kind or futuvr eitiz-.-ns this land will have. He stresses thi importance of vision becau-e that inu>t be looked J fo in infancy a-< we!! as later. Make Parent* Responsible Investigations into the .?*o-called crime wave in this eountry have dis closed the fact that a majority of the persons implicated in robberies and other acts of lawlessness are under the age of L'l years, indicating that laxity in parental discipline is largely responsible for theu' crimes against society. No youth may act in a legal rapacity before he has reached his majority without the sanction of his patents or guardian, so why should not the parents or guardian be held responsible for any damage whicn their wards may cau^e to surety ? If con: : ol of these youth > has been lost, society dim. I have the knowl edge^ at lea*', :t> a matter of self protect on. It seems i a.Mtnahie to suppose that many p ueir . would take more in terest n 'he training of their chil dren if thc\ i .?ujI held responsible for crimes which they committed. They would i' lea.?t attempt to pro ven' lawless act*; or, failing in tlii <, report their nab:iit\ to the authori ties and ask thv the law impo>e re strain rig !!!"uiiiii> It rna\ be argued that u rh a law wouid work an injustice op m j?.i:en'->, but what abon ? he mius'.ce tha* is imposed upon thf pub! r by the acts of juvenile delinquents'.' Is sm iety not entitled to ?? m ? })? ? ?t i'.;t e>n against lawless ness in tin r,> minors. or failing :.n pr ' v' 'ii. -h-Hi 1 ' not havy some re-. oii ? ,?> ? ?? iw ??))?. t . M.ible ? Mr -o" I or Major ? ' ' i !t i ... inf. air.ee 1 i 1 m' < w i :t ? ?' < r.d? n . r ' M ?: S V ? .i ?. . ? '? am M: . /?? i- . p.,M- : j be . ? /c.v and : .? :o.iK' i t \ l T. ( i * v\ , ? , . , ? . , : ? \ Dui: lie I'U a ??' M r ?ha n . . i ? < i . -v ba"; . ' . 'i 4 , t > i the ( .. r. SI t. - v.. r . i: \ b . he . ? jfreat o e '?vr 'Vv^T ? ; T" "7 CITIZENSHIP ? (^'he following paper on Citizen* whip U to bo followed each week by a discussion of thU important subject by competent men and women. Witn the probable exception of this paper, any article* will be worth tho- full nrice of The Chronicle for a year, not to mention the other good things found there, He .sure to read them.) A vitizen ha.i been legally defined j a s "One who own to the Government I allegiance, servico and money by way of taxation, to whom the Government in turn grant* or guarantees liberty of person and {?onscienfco, right of ac quiring and possessing property, se*| curity in person, estate and reputa tion." In a word, the citizen is <yio whose lot is cast in with his society for all social purposes According to his status and means. Citizenship implies civil, but not, necessarily, political rights. The for mer is for one and all, and is the pri mary obligation of a government to secure its members; political rights are endlessly varied and within the discretion of the government. The right of direct share in Government is everywhere withheld from minors, convicts and the insane or idiots, nearly always from paupers and sometimes from women; but these do not cease to be citizens. On the other hand voting. has occasionally been per mitted in this as in foreign countries to persons not citizens of a state. It should be noted that the right of citizenship is totally unconnected it) essence with the right of suffrage of the elective franchise. The former is an elemental rig-ht of all born among*, or who have cast their lot with, a civil . society ; the right to the protection of its laws and its strength, to a share in the governmental man agenient of a society, is a mere ques tion of the best machinery of man agt m'ent and dependent on the fitness or power of individuals or classes to help guide that machinery. The unfit or weak are just as much citizens as the fit or strong, by natural right; minors, defectives and criminals have the fullest right to claim the protec tion of the laws by themselves or ! their natural or r.pp ?minted guardians. Woodrow Wilson defined a good citizen as "one who constantly and consciously accomodates his conduct and his business to the rights of others and the interests of the com munity." (iood citizenship ir.\ \ the rela tion of man with his t\ iljwmeii, It requires an open mind, a generous heart, a willingness to believe good in others and an unwillingness to be lieve their motives wrong. That form of active citizenship which concerns itself only with the larger problems of life, neglecting its smaller, more common duties, is often a form of self-deception. ? A good citizen is always a good neighbor. He is companionable and an eager listener; a sharer of neigh bm hood interests; he keeps his prem ises in proper order in summer and winter, and it is not necessary to have a law to compel him to do so. A good citizen's relation to his business carries with it. the precep ti'Mi of an object to be sought beyond profits. He seeks to add something to the well being of his county, State and Nation. His business represents to him not only an opportunity for himself, hut also for his associates. He is generous in appreciation, not only in words but in tangible recogni tion of service rendered. His anxiety to advance those who have earned advancement is realized by every employee in his place of bus iness. Ho is thoughtful of the com fort < f his employees as well as of their pioduct. The gn.?<i citizen thinks <>f the wel fare ??f h:> community. He does not forgrt to register or vote in both the primary and the election. He should study the issues of the Invents Rubber H i ? r j H. " -j I n.er cl ?>: c... c : fir.rrr if C IC-iCTO clai?r- i ?? '? ~ ttrr fro-v *an? i - , j r'.? iriclu<!?i / f? .1 1 N * ? ? '< h i.' tr\ all out of jon l Old, Older, Oldest Captain Billy Mickler, 101 ye ar.s old, oldest man in St. Augustine, ik shown 'here standing before his home wfiich is tho otdest house in America's old??n city, St Augus tine Captain Mickler is a civil war veteran, and the only living member of the state legislature of 1801. present and the character of the can didates and from these form his con clusions for whom he should vote. In our consideration of public ques tions, we can not live up to our op portunities unless we preserve an open mind, a willingness to listen candidly to the other side of every question. In times like these \yhen j the relations of the industrial to the ' State are undergoing the most criti- j 1 analysis that has taken place in 1 tl>'e history of the world, it is particu larly and peculiarly our duty, if we j wish to pose as good citizens, to ex- j amine every question presented to us j on its merits, to apply to every ques- 1 tion not only the full resources of our j reasoning faculties, but also the old fashioned precept called the "Golden Rule." Therefore, no true American should be willing to endanger the interests involved in his citizenship, nor the pride which every good man has in the maintenance before the world of the high character of his government, by inaction or careless indication of his choice for those to be entrusted with county, State or National af fairs. SCRAPS ANI) FACTS Interesting Notes Gathered From Many Sources. It is a rare thintf to find a defect in the eye of a rabbit. There are no frogs in the Hawaiin Islands although a single species of toad is found there. German students in their sword dueling contests have been known to lose the ends of their noses without a whimper of pain. A Frenchman by the name of (lap tain Delingette has completed the first crossing of Africa from north to south by motor. When a Norwegian liner from the I'nited States steams into Bergen, the passengers gather on deck and sinf? the Norwegian national- anthem. The Chinese do not bury their dead underground until a "lucky day": comes, the corpses often being kept in wooden boxes for many days, as cen- ' ters of disease infection. A .single, island off the South j American coast contains birds' nests' at the rate of three to a square yard j and has an estimated population of . f.vc and one-half million birds. l>r. Philip B Madley, who has been ? >:u iy.nfr bacterial growth in the Lake llu'on K vp:, ha? found that a bacter Mphntff- n the water rapidly destroys v?:? t*v.a mi :hat it may some day bf perfi . -aft- : ? dr.nk it af'er f:!tra The I.aw'a Delay Til*1 !"n;i ?' .i\>ti.i I have i-vei tienrd of >- ??*??? ????? ? rh** N'.t.M ' 1'iuiirv and It is siil. *?> injr nn ' li 'tn, ?? up |??-rio'IK':i II < 1 1? t . ? i < \ i < I < ? r i ,ii 1 1 ? ? ? I'vr I .? - . i - ?[ -r' . r?'(V~ ? ? 1 1 ? n ii 'OMrjHl ?lr:ivvr. ii| i)\ir .<?*i u'in<. .i_.. T'.e i?i ? A ikIc i'h n ?? I r> i ?nii)fwliMi un ie< ? i i r ?? v ' I.OIV i* no !i> i n ? ? T ^ | rn? I t >f t!.r r:isr tiring v*?1t ed *1 fir ; lu\v?ij t i* tliiip l?otii ii ! hoij ?a ? 4 ynr i\hi ? -T'l Kit* (A.trrocxtf": THIS WEEK By Arthur Bybbaiw Mr. Brisbane's editorials are pub lished as expressions of opinions of the world's highest- salaried cditm and The Chronicle doe* not . necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. * The scientists that heard from the learned Chicago astronomer Moulton about the earth's probable age, one million billion years, practically all of it still ahead of us, heard also about tHe size of our corner of space, our "galaxy" in which the sun is a<j a grain of sand. It is Shaped like a watch, its dimen sions are thirty thousand light years through "from front to back, two hun dred million light years across th.? faxe of the watch. To get the dis tance across our galaxy multiply the number of .seconds in two hundred thousand years by one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles, which will give you something over a quintrillion of miles, written with one, followed by eighteen zeros, according to rapid, probably inaccurate figuring on the edge of a newspaper. Let your little boy do the sum. But remember there are in that galaxy of ours about one billion suns, many of them a million times as big as our sun, which is a million times as big as our earth. And the billion suns move about like bees in a swarm. If two of them come too close together, the planets of both suns are instantly wiped out of existence. Tl\at happens only once In a billion years, on the average. But it might happen any day, there fore it is well to be always prepared with a clean slate. The "garter bouquet" of real flow ers ?s announced in Philadelphia, forget-me-nots, presumably worn just below the kneel" Women spent cen turies hiding their legs cVen with dresses sweeping microbes from the ground. Now they exhaust ingenuity calling attention 'to their legs. Pink stock ings, strange garters, slippers that look like a set of gold pony harness, no stockings, sometimes, high tide skirts. It is puzzling but you may be sure that back of it all usefulness and wisdom are at work. Man's dull dress evolution is about over. Woman's is only starting. Wise officials of Silesia order cats as well as dogs, muzzled. A good idea, but it isn't enough. Ca\s and ?Mi dog* should be shaved, as weU'Hl muscled, to make them safe for chil dren that ^lay with them. If a mother, allowing her child to play With a cat, had microscopic eyes, and could see the disease germs that thrive in the cat's fur, she would shave that tfat and wash it in a weak solution of carbolic acid. Philadelphia'# Wistar Institute, part of the University of Pennsyl vania, specializes in breeding \\)iit? rats, cousins of tho gray rat, not or dinary sewer rats that carry plague. I The rats live and breed in a special rat establishment costing $60,000, and are shipped to scientific bodies all over the world, including Japan, that scientists may work on "standardized rats" and compare results satisfac torily. The* rats live, dio and submit t? disease infection, knowing as little hs human beings know about the why or wherefore. Little do they dream that their tissues, structure, growth and digestive processes happen to re semble those of men, aud that they breed, live, die, only to save a higher race from death. Even so, they know as much as we do about primal causes and final purposes. Why are we breeding and dying? A poor old woman, aged seventy one, is found dead in a wretched tene ment, no furniture, a few dry crust* and six thousand dollars to her credit in three banks. Uiijustly this old lady is called "miser." Interest on six thousand dollars would give her less than eighty cents a day. You can't live on that, although you can keep going if you rummage in gar bage cans and pick up fruit dropped by peddlers, as Mrs. Deutscher did. Our standard of living has changed. About 100 years ago only one work man in the United States could earn $1 a day all the year round. Celestino Fabietti, marriage clerk in Rome for twenty-three ypars, says marriage is an art. To know a man well watch him closely when he pro nounces the fatal "yes." Men are more afraid of marriage than women, says Fabiette, and a child might know that. Schopenhauer calls marriage a fe male conspiracy to make every man support some one woman all her life! That, says he, is why women arc mercilessly cruel to other women that do not insist on marriage. The fact is that marriage is a training school for men;, wopien are the professors, and progress is slow, But since this world is to last as Pro fessor Moulton of Chicago University says, 1,000,000,000,000.000 years more there will be plenty of time tif train i husbands. John W. Langley, for twenty years congressman from Kentucky, entered the Atlanta federal penitentiary Sat urday morning to begin serving a two-year sentence imposed for Viola tion of the national prohibition law, BOTH UN B NEWS NOTES Items #f lut*re?t mm Gathered By ?u, Regular Carres pondeat Bethune^ 8. C., Jan. 20. ? The oystei Hud hot supper riven in the town hall Friday evening under the auspices of the School Improvement Association netted about fifty dollars. On this occasion the South Carolina Stonv Mountain Memorial coin number I5s was sold at auction to Charles Leven* son for twenty-five dollars. The Hank of Bethune awarded a coin to Netl Trupsdell for having sold the greatest number of coins -from the ninth and tenth grades. Thi farmers and Merchants Bank pre sented Miss Malloy Hearon with a coin for having sold the most from the eighth and eleventh grades. Sup erintendent J. C. Foster is chairman of the coin sale committee. Bethune's quota of 'coins has been sold. Robert E. j^ee's birthday was ob- '? served here in a special program ren dered by the Palmetto Literary So ciety Tuesday afternoon. Charles Levonson, manager of the local branch of the Ben Levenson company, left Saturday for Raleigh, where he wiH be engaged in business! Miss Nettie <Brannon underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Co lumbia hospital Friday. Mr, D. T. Yarbrough and daughter, Mr?. Margaret Marion and Miss Car rie Yarbrough and little grand daughter, Robbie Newton Marion, spent Saturday with Mrs. Maggie Lee near Monroe. They were met here by Mrs. Yarbrough, who was returning from a visit of two weeks to her brother, Mr. A. T. Bethune in Bel mont, N. C. ? Misses Frances Severance and Katharine Ward of Coker were week end visitors at the homes of then parents here. Miss Ward was accom panied by her room-mate, Miss Mar guerite Cottingham of Clio. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Forbis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bright Wil liamson in Darlington last week, While there they attended a deer hunt and Mr. Forbis bore out his reputation as being a good shot by , Jul ling a deer. This is the second one killed by Mr. Forbis since resid ing here. Mr. D. M. Mayes and family left Tuesday morning for * an extended r viait. to relatives at different points in Florida. Dr. J. E. Wadkins and family of -Stokes Bridge have moved into the house recently occupied> by Mr. J. E. Severance. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Shaw are resid- ' I ( ing with Mr. Shaw's parents, Mr. and . Mrs. A, B. Shaw, several miles below i bore. Mr. Sam Stuart is occupying the house recently made vacant by Mr. Shaw. /Tjj Mis. MartUe Gregory of Jefferson is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C Parker. Mrs. W. H. Hearon entered the Columbia hospital Tuesday where she underwent an operation. The Clyde girls' basketball team t played an interesting game here i Tuesday with the home team re sulting in a tie. The boys of the Clyde basketball tear* played the home team Tuesday 1 afternoon with the score 12 to 25 in ' favor of Bethune. Mrs. Dalton McLeod entertained . Monday afternoon in honor of her little son Dalton's ninth birthday, also * the fourth birthday anniversary* of her little daughter, Minnie Edna. '""Charles William Stores inc. This book is FREE New York City Many oP our orders an \ shipped thi samt day \tkiu on ttuivtd ? 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