The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 04, 1926, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H. P. Nile* . . Editor and I'abllaher
Published everv Friday at No. 1109
Broad Street and entevod at the Camden,
South Carolina, poutoffice at
second claes mail matter. Price per
antrum $2.00.
('HtiMien, 8. C., Friday, June 4, 1926.
The Monroe Kriquirer aaya a whole
lot when it remaaka, 'Toddle r? pay no
taxes. Neither <io they build up the
?Hd home town."
The North Carolina Hunkers' association
held its annual convention
at HocJky Mount last week, Molvin
A. Taylor, vice-president of the
American Bankers' association, addresed
the convention, and anions
other things said of the friend fanner;
leave it or accept it us you please;
"If the farmer us a whole would
he happy again-he must take stock
of his blessings and thank Cod for
them, get rid of his quack doctors of
political bunkum, revalue his plant
and equipment and .start all over
again in full knowledge of the fact
that he must face keen und effective
competition, that he must calculate
in his income the inherent and undeniable
items, which uro not measured
in dollars and cents. When he does
this I feel perfectly certain that, over
n period of years, taking the good
and the bad as it comes to all classes
of business, he will find that he has
lived Well, that he had a fair margin
for the enjoyment of all the necessities
of life, and a surplus for those
luxuries which he has a right to
claim, and above nil, that he will have
had a chance to he an independent
individual, a. real mi an and a selfrespecting
citizen."
There seems to be little light shed
by the various newspapers of the
State on the reason tvhy Chairman
Khett was ousted from the State
highway commission. If anyone knows
they are keeping silent The secret
ballot was used in voting for the
chairmanship and that in itself does
not appeal to fair-minded men. In
discussing the resignation of Mr.
lthett the Charleston Post makes this
comment:
Governor Mel.cod, indicating that
he would accept the resignation of K.
Goodwyn Khett who was summarily
and secretly .deposed last week, pays
high tribute to-the services rendered
by Mr. Khett during the seven years
he has been at the head of the commission.
This virtually completes the
round of posthumous honors pan! to
the deposed chairman. None of those
who have had a hand in the removal
of Mr. Khett so far as public utterance
shows, has other than profound
admiration for the services ho has
rendered the slate. On the'record it
would appear that Mr. Khett was
driven to the slaughter like, the
Paschal lamb, as being without
?bUmus-fu ?
There is in all of this matter of
interest and illumination to those
who seek to do the state some.service.
To be ousted with eulogies may be
reward enough, perhaps, from one
point of view, but hardly conducive
to the public benefit.
"1 kissed thee, ere 1 killed thee,"
exclaimed Othello, as he smothered
his sweet lady. A pretty sentiment,
truly, as embroidery to assassination,
hut not legally admissible as plea in
mitigation of murder.
Commenting editorially The Yorkville
Knquirer sets in this move the
making of an easy berth f.u a political
lame duck and it is not bard to
guess who they have reference to.
1'he Knquirer says:
That the kicking out of Mr, Kliei.
is of political significance is hardly to
l>e doubted ? not in South Carolina
where everything is given a political
flavor sooner or later, .lust how soon
the real politics of the situation wjll
come out is also problematical. It
lias been suggested that the events
of the past few* weeks are but the beginning
of a plan to get rid of Admiral
McCiowan as chief commissioner
and to make a soft berth for a
political ~tume~ duck who will need
such a berth a few months hence and
who now, according to the rumors, is
playing to the hand of the present
manipulators of the highway department
in order to secure his soft spot
to 'ight when be needs it.
Ilahsou s Advice
Tm- f'diowing is taken from a letter.
"To tin sons and daughters of
my clients," by linger VV. Bahson:
"Thr fur. of "life Is" 7n growing
rather than in possessing, K.very
successful man will tell you this. We
really enjoy only the things which
we ourselves make or earn. When
you get married be content to start
in a.i humble way, as y. or parents
did. Don't ti\ to start whore your
parents now are.
Honesty is not onlj the be?t poiicv,
but it is the foiindatio" of <
tion.
The time to save mom > .s when
you are making it.
Keep out of debt. Be generous in
giving; but avoid accommodation
loans, and never endorse.
Boost the other fellow and he w:l
boost you, as we are usually repair
with our own coin?and "judge not.
Don't try to lick either the Tei
Commandments or tbe Multiplicatior
Table.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Hubert Whitman, fake English
lord, is under arrest in Philadelphia
on charges of bigamy and robbery.
It is alleged that Whitmun within
the taut twenty-five yearn ban married
forty or more women,, and that
he has robbed thee women of upwards
of a million dollar*.
Four white convkta were shot to
death near Tucker, Ark., Monday
night when they tried to escape from
a state priso/i farm.
Assistant .Secretary Andrews is
urging the passage of a bill before
congress m*?$M ially tigh'tening up the
Volstead law ho that "the country
may know what* national prohibition
really means."
Albert Blu/.ea, 22, negro, charged
with criminal assault on an 11-year
old white girl, wuh lynched by a mob
of several hundred fnen near Wilson,
Ark., Wednesday night.
'J'wo men were killed and three
wounded in a bootleggers' battle in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Saturday.
The PresbyterLun church of the
United States has started a drive for
a ftind of $5,000,000 by means of
which it is hoped to establish a per1
mahent fund for the pensioning of
all ministers of the denomination over
05 years of age.
Five negroes, four of them of one
family, are held in jail at Asheville,
N, C., on charges of murdering J.
Wesley Banks, 44, Southern railway
conductor, on Friday.
Hugh Monohan, owner of fifteen
houses of an estimated value of
$200,000, was found dead in his home
in Philadelphia on* Saturduy from
starvation, and his sister, Margaret,
5H, is dying of the same cause.
The body of the late Frank A.
Munsey, New York publisher, who
died last December, and which has
been in a receiving vault in that city
since that time, is to find its final
resting place at Iviabon Falls, Me.
Traffic accidents in Southern states
for the week ending May .'10, totaled
44 deaths and 251 injuries.
Leon and Jacob Kraemcr, said to
be the brains of the Whittemore gang
which a few week's ago created excitement
by their robberies in New
York City, were on Saturday convicted
of robbery as second offenders
and are liable to prison sentences of
forty years each.
Governor McLeod announced in
Spartanburg Friday night that he
would not be a candidate for any political
olVice in the Democratic primaries
of this summer.
Mildred Lanslon, 12, was run over
and killed at a street corner of Florence
on Friday morning as she was
on her way to school, by a car driven
by J. 11. Smith. The coroner's jury
1 held Smith fur such investigation as
ithe law may direct. *
I THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
i Interesting Notes Gathered Froin
Many Sources.
The Federal Farm Loan Hoard has
met credit requirements of agriculture
to the amount of more than two
I billion dollars since its establishment,
according to its annual report.
??Nmv?York's?cut ire-population of"
early Colonial days could easily be
i contained in almost any present-day
Manhattan skyscraper,
i The historic bell in the Capitol at
i Home,- silent since the pope's loss of
tcmpoiitl power fifty-six years ago,
was sounded again during a recent
1 .'eligious celebration.
The magna charta, basis of all
l.iitish law, is being invoked in an
. appeal td the United States Supreme
Court l>> the crew of an F.nglish rum
'runner, captured off the coast of
< 'alifcnia.
Anaconda >kun from Brazil, iguana
skins and shark skills are being used
in the manufacture of fancy shoes
f>.r women.
Yellowstone Park officials find that ;
nearly all the gun-toting visitors are
from the sedate Fast. Regulations
prohibit?the carrying of guns within
the park boundaries.
In the construction of early rail;
roads, two-inch cedar pins were used
j to hold down the wooden rails. Into
the holes drilled for thtnse, salt was
I poured in the belief that this would
preserve the wood from decay.
" "As soon as a man has had the misfortune
to make a name for himself,
lie becomes public property. Every
one < lig- into his life, relates his most
trivial actions, and insults hi> feelings."?Jean
Jacques Rousseau.
The first paper was made in China
::i A. P. 7">. from the hark of a millberry
4-tvc.
The number of silver dollars in circulation
in America dropped from
?"ghty-f??ur million in 1919 to fifty'
four million in 1925. The silver
i "c;i:' wht els" are decidedly unpopular
'in the Fast, but are still used to a
great extent on the Pacific coast.
Collectors are offering $700 apiece'
for early air-mail stamps in which the
airplane is pictured flying upsid?
! down. The issue was canceled bv
i postal authoi itles as soon as the error
I was discovered,
i I The average cost of maintaining a
i man in prison in the United Stales is
, $375 a year.
1 \ Incorporated business enterprises
1 | in the United States having a net income
in 1923 of $9,269,000,000 paid
i $2,572,000,000, or more than 27.7 per
i cent, in taxes to federal, state, and
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THIS HIGHWAY ROW. ?
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Yorkville Enquirer Interviews Many b
Trying To Gat Facta About it, v
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(Jamen I). Grist, in Yorkville t
Enquirer.) li
Columbia, May 81.?If the opinion h
of the Yorkville Enquirer i? worth
anything and investigations of sentl- t
ment are of value, tneTe ia more in- I
teres t in the state right now in the I
recent bomb-shell thrown into the or- a
ganizution or r&ther reorganization of t
the state highway commission than J
there ia in the approaching rfcce for t
governor or senate or anything else v
that smacks of the political. It will ?
bo recalled that a few days ago Geo. t
VV. Croft of Aiken was elected chair- 1
man of that commission to succeed K. r
Coodwyn Khett of Charleston, who ?
has served as "big boss" for. about t
six years. Mr. Croft was elected last C
week, following a "secret ballot", a
cowardly \yay to boost anybody, i
(somd newspupeV men and private ?
citizens have told me since the hap- \
pening). The vote was i) to 6. Mr. k
Croft was nominated for the position 1
by K, K. Ligon of Anderson and Mr. t
Khett was nominated for another >
term by Kenneth Baker of Green- <
wood. Dr. E. S. Booth of Sumter, t
a Croft supporter, made the motion i
that the balloting for a chairman be '
made secret. .
Following his defeat-for re-election j
as highway head, Mr. Rhett, tendered '
his resignation as a. member of the f
commission to the governor. Of
course it was accepted, although the *
governor had been quoted as saying (
that he accepted it with regret and 1
all that sort of bunkum and hokum.
To the casual observer It might occur
that Mr. Khett quit the commission in
a fit of pique or mad new like a school
hoy following his defeat for re-election.
But not so. Mr. Rhett knows
that he has been fought bitterly by
certain members of the eommisHion
for several years. He knows also
that they have done everything to get
him. And they have. Mr. Khett
knows the why of it and if he would
tell it would make a corking good
story for the Enquirer's growing company
of readers. But Mr. Rhett won't
of course. AtUoa&t not now.
As a matter of fact this, young
writer would be willing to sacrifice at
least six months of future growth to
get the story. It would be worth it
from a stand-point of news.?...
Thff chairmanship of the state highway
commission is the most important
thing about it. And the state
highway commission is one of the
most important .departments of the
government of South Carolina. It has
almost as much money to expend
yearly as has the department of education,
which, according to some of
those who know, has so' much, that
really, one of the big questions is to
know where and how to spend it. Jim
Hope, the state superintendent of education,
a mighty fine fellow?who
faces the probability of going through
another campaign without opposition '
?would not intentionally waste any
of it. But one of Mr. Hope's big jobs
and one which keeps him lying awake
lots of nights, is in worrying how to
keep constant check on his subordinates
to see that they do not waste it.
For instance, the correspondent
knows of a certain South Carolina
school district whose trustees had
more money to run the school of
which naturally they were very proud longer
_ than the school term. They
had contracted with their teachers in
advance at certain monthly salaries.
But there was a substantial balance
on the right side of the ledger. The
idea of carrying it over to another
school year evidently never occurred.
So they simply voluntarily increased
the salaries of the teachers. Mr.
Hope does not know these facts, but
they are* facts, all the same. If he
did know them, he would very likely
-hop on somebody's neck.
But we did not intend to talk about
schools in tins article. The question
before the house is the state highway
commission's recent flurryT As We""
said a moment ago. the chairman of
the highway commission is the big
job. "Chief Highway Commissioner"
Sam McGowan is a little fish. Those
conversant with McGowan and his
work say that really about all he does
is wear a monocle and cary a cane,
look wise, sign his name to contracts
and incidentally make a lot of contractors
sore .because of his rather
superior kaiseristic, and lordly manner.
One explanation of the recent occurrence,
the information having been
obtained from men living in Richland,
Clarendon, Kershaw, Dorchester.
Orangeburg, Charleston, Florence,
Beaufort, Colleton, Chester and * a
number of other counties recently
visited, is something like this:
Mr. Rhett lives in Charleston and
from a standpoint of financial inter|
ests and otherwise has bet?n giving
J the so-called "low country," the long
end of it in building roads of permanence
in South Carolina. "They say"
he has built some royal roads in certain
low-country sections where there
i little travel, where there are ten
hundred negroes, more or less, to
every white man and where there are
more alligators and rattlesnakes than
. there are people. Takes lots of
bridges in the land of marsh * and
. morass and of more hope now, since
I crops have been better .for several
years past.
The up-country people, especially
the Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson
sectors feel like they have not
had a fair shake in the road divy.
Their loaders have taken the view
thnt so long as Mr. Rhett, a lowcountry
man is "big nigger," they
will continue to get the little end of
things. So they dreamed and
schemed ami conceived the plan of
ousting Mr. Rhett. Well, it worked
last week and now the Piedmont and
the Pee T>ce hopes to hold the whiphand.
Incidentally, Chief Highway
Engineer Moorefieid, who it is understood,
has generally been regarded as
Mr. Rhett's right-hand man, is slated
to be next to go.
The reporter has been able to get
little information as to the future
fate of Chief Commissioner McGow
n. As a matter of {net, there ie a
eeling that A<bu?ril McCowun who
as boon in the navy and on the
/ater for many years knows about
s much about the road building
us in ess as a hog knows about
leaven, whatever the hog's knowledge
i.
Then there is another version of the
rouble in the highway department,
t seems that one Mr. Simp Jones of
^eesville, who is said to be a "mighty
weet politician," has wanted to be
oss of the commission for years,
ones and Khett have never been able
o gee, it is said. It is this Mr. Jones
vho gave' a pretty party of peculiar
md wonderful and varied interests to
hose present on u night little more
han a year ago when McClowan's car
eturning to Columbia killed a man
ind maimed others. There is a story
hat Mr. Jones framed the deal to
ust Mr. Rhett.
Now, it is a hard matter to get the
nside of the Whole affair. The above
nay be correct and it may not. This
vriter has never worked harder to
jet the "low-down" on a story. It
iuh been necessary to waste mi^ch
ime killed while interviewing people
vhose knowledge was reallly nil, All
>f them?and we have talked about it
,o half a hundred-^-of course admonshed
us, "now don't you use my
mme."
This is certain: The Columbia
inpers are mighty mad about it all.
So are those in Charleston and'in
>ther part# of the low-country. They
lave had a lot of mean things to
say, editoriajly. Judging by the press
)f the Piedmont, it seems that they
ire very wdll satisfied with the coup.
' * <
Maybe the whole rucus will come
out "officially" later on. There'* no I
doubt about this: It is an Interesting j
situation and one that means dollars
and cents to the state of South Caro- |
lina.
One prominent gentleman of the
up-country in discussing it with The'
Knquirer today, made this sensible
observation:
"If this gubernatorial gang and the
senatorial candidates and the other
candidates want to do a real service
to the people this summer they will
get the facts in this happening of last
week and present 'em,"
Dick Wright of Sumter, S. C., football
star of Georgia Tech, committed
suicide in one of the school's dormitories
in Atlanta, Ga., Monday.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Monday,
June 28, 1926, I will make to the
Probate Judge of Kershaw County my
final return as Administrator of the
estate of Mrs. Mary E. Schrock, deceased,
and on the same date I will
apply to the said Court for a final
discharge as said Administrator.
T. BENTON BRUCE,
Administrator.
Camden, S. C., Muy 27, 1926.
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Wants-For Sale
On account of our inability to collect
for advertisement* appearing in
this column all Want Ads in the
future must be accompanied by cash.
The rates of the ads are 26c each
insertion of 25 words or less. Each
additional line 5c. Please do not ask
us to credit classified ads unless you
run an account with this company.
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Remunerative. One of the
largest and best concerns in the
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condition, $15.00: ?0st $35.,
very little used. Also Kiddy-Koop,
fair condition, $6. Address Mrs.
Henry Boykin, Boykin, S. C. 10-p(i
FOR RENT?Two-story house on
Broad Street, opposite the Court
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Camden, S. C. 9-tf
FOR SALE?A few hundred bushels
of corn in ear at Camden, $1.00 per
bushel. Apply to James H. Burns,
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Apply lb A. A. Shaiiks, Cam,
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PEACHES?Good fresh Georgia
Reaches, $2.50 per bushel . crate,
luch lower prices in 5 bushel lots.
Now shipping Elbertas and Carrneps.
Buy a crate for your summer
ice cream. Write for quantity
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Room 429, Kimball House,
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FOR RENT?Completely furnished
bungalow in desirable location.
Reasonable. Call at the Chronicle
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FOR SALE?Good sound corn, $1.00
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ROOMS FOR RENT?Four unfurnished
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Apply 1203 Lyttleton
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Reference, City National
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WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest
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Sumter Planing Mills and
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AipJ np*HE peril of the road crossing has become a national Vr
Jl problem with the multiplication of automobiles.
_ . ., . The Southern Railway System has eliminated 800 grade
Grade crossing accxdenls . ? ^ T . , .
can u prevented if you crossings, and is Eliminating more every year, but over - ?rv>ui
approach the toy 6,000 remain to &e separated on this system alone. The v
?of danger determined to - \\ , , , . "f ,
exercise caution For total cost to complete the work is a stupendous sum? r
Your Own Protection. probably half as much as the cost to build the railroads. ; .
c Even if the money were available, and the public willing
to pay the increased freight and passenger rates necessary
to provide a fair return on it, many years would be
required to do the work.
Protection from the peril for the present generation at -
least must be found in some other way. Trains cannot
stop at every crossing if they are to be run at the sustained
speed expected by the public and required to carry
the commerce of the country. The train crosses a highway
about evqry mile. The motorist encounters a rail- .
road only occasionally.
It is necessary, therefore, for the automobile driver , to
stop in order to avoid risk. No one who did this was
ever killed.
Sit is better to save a life than to save a minute.
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