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Man's Dream Coming True Tho South Carolina Pren AssociaMm mat at Myrtle Beach Thursday and Friday. Doubtless "Charming Myrtle Beach" will receive aome moit favorable comment at the hands of South Carolina editor* during the preaent week?and it richly deserves it. The recent development of thin famou* reHort i* really remarkable and with the Woodside interest* Ju*t beginning to function a tremendous growth i* bound to come within a short time, although the developers of the resort are not rushing, a la Florida. On the other hand, Mes?r*. Woodside, through Col. Holmes B. Springs, announce* a ten year prograin of development, carefully working out every detail, from the completion of the twelve miles of strand us a health and pleasure resort, including modern hotels, amusement features of various kinds and a wide board wulk, to the trucking section within the huge 65,000 acre property, where dairymen, truckers and poultrymen will be settled upon smalt tracts, and who will not only be given expert supervision by the company at first, but who will he worked into a co-operative producing and sales organization, with every facility to properly produce and dispose of the products of these small model farms. On the property are several large Ibices of fresh water and full advantage will be taken of the opportunity to establish a permanent game preserve near them, the lakes supplying not only a home for fish, with which they will doubtless be stocked, but, when properly handled, will give protection to duck and other, migratory game birds, while in the densely wooded sections nearby are great numbers of deer and foxes, of which there are thousands in the Waccamaw Neck, in which the property is located. The development of Myrtle Beach by these South Carolinians is neither a money-making enterprise or a past-time. The Messrs. Woodside announce their intention to spend a huge sum of money in their own state ?For the good of the state?and even if they succeed beyond their fondest" dreams and earn vast fortunes as a result of their enterprise and patriotic endeavors, South Carolinians will not be envious, hut will rejoice with them - in their good fortune. Today on the Horry strand, the hands of the sons of South Carolina are building a I coastal paradise, where weary bodies and weary minds may find rest and restoration and where a new independence may be found by men who have, for a generation or more, been the victims of the one-crop, helterskelter, credit method of agriculture., ' Master minds are being called into consultation?for the good,.- the state?and with the passing days Charming Myrtle Beach rears her head higher into the swirling ocean air. Prince and pauper alike will find in her a refuge; both work and play makes up her program; she draws to her shore line the athlete and the 'invalid, the one to romp on her strand and swim to his heart's content in her waters?the other to seek health in her cooling breezes, her pure water and invigorating atmosphere. "Here, for ages, will gather the sons and daughters of Carolina, in social intercourse, while at their feet the Atlantic Ocean dances merrily, reflecting the face of a bright sun by day and the silvery smile of the moon at I night?a vast community of happy, contented people?all made possible i because the dreams of men do com" true.? Marion Star. Heat Records Broken. Three deaths and a number of prostrations from heat were reported Wednesday in the wake of high temperatures,. which established new heat records in sections of the Carolinas, Virginia. Tennessee and Georgia. Two deaths occurred in Danville, Va. Grover Thurman, father of nine children, collapsed at the Dan River mills and died instantly. George Walker, negro, died Tuesday nightFive negroes were overcome by heat while working on a coffer dam near Danville. Thomas B. Yates, 60, of Raleigh, ?. N. O., a retired business man, was the victim of the heat in the South today. Newberry, S. (\, was the hottest place in the South with 108 degrees maximum. Spartanburg, S. with 11)6 degrees, came second. Will "Tell The World" Columbia, .lu'.y la. Plans !' .r a tour to be made by a S >uth Carolina party into the north and central west and Canada next fail were made here Tuesday at a gathering in the capital presided over by Governor McLeo 1 and attended by representatives of commercial and other organizations in all parts of the state. Tho idea is to tell the world of South Carolina"" advantages. A special train will take a party of 150 or more prominent citizens from all parts of the state. f--1 -- . ....I... ?I THIS WEEK By Arthur Brisbane wmmmmkmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmt Mr. Brisbane's editorials are published an expressions of opinions of the world's Khighest-salaried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. " Professor Snyder of the Philadelphia Observatory says the earth was ahot into space by our sun, a sort of cosmic cannon. All "rotating suns," sayit he, thus shoot out planets and build up solar systems. It seems frightfully gigantic to us, but a hen laying an egg would seem just as impressive to a microbe. It seems reasonable that suns, like hens, should lay eggs, thus creating; new organisms. Nature works ulong the same paths in big and little i things. - ' ? \ John Hays Hammond says "the citizens are apathetic," indifferent to public questions?and they are. He wants a civic campaign to dp away with public apathy. That won't work. If you want the public interested, you must make politics and public questions interesting. The other day in an American community above the average in intelligence, many citizens went to the polls to vote on a dog ordinance and returned without taking the trouble to vote, at the same primaries, for members of Congress. Ninety per cent of Americans, unless you arouse them with religious 'or racial antipathy, or with the high price of coal, feel that government is somebody else's business. John I). Rockefeller, Jr., invests in decent homes for working people at reasonable rents. * Mr. Rockefeller's intention is to avoid charity, demonstrating that dwellings can be constructed on a big scale, with every comfort, including playgroumls^or children and private parks attached to the buildings, bathrooms, resident doctor, etc., within moderate prices, about $9 per room per month. The thing will be done on a small scale at first, sufficient for a few hundred families. Success might lead to the investment of hundreds of millions in such enterprise and enable families of small means to live in comfortable, healthful apartments at a rent no greater than has been charged by landlords in the slums. The plan won't please slum landlords. The president, in a thoughtful speech on the budget, says: "Your Uncle Sam is rich, that's true. We have actually $390,000,000 more than we need for 1920. Rut that is no excuse for squandering. We must be more economical, cift down expenses every year." Another cut of $836,193,888 reduces the public debt to nineteen billion six hundred and eight millions of dollars. If necessary, Uncle Sam could pay all that debt by using one-third of the national income for one year. A magnificent new electric locomotive. the world's largest and most powerful, weighs 283,350 pounds, is sixty-five feet long, driven by six motors, with 4,500 total horsepower. One man can handle this locomotive that will pull an express train with ease at more than 100 miles an hour. Will it run between the Atlantic and the Pacific cutting the time to two days? No, unfortunately, it will run in Switzerland, where government owns railroads and seems to do well, in spite of our theory that government ownership capnot succeed. Perhaps the Swiss are abler than we arc, perhaps more honest, perhaps hot h. Dr. Butler says, "The world outgrew Communism 2,500 years ago, and Socialism in the sixteenth century." The world has never really tried Socialism or Communism, and never will. When socialistic and communistic ideas are tried out we give them other names. A great public park, or magnificent public school, paid for by taxes, ir 1 lne to rich and poor, represents both communism and socialism. Rut cc o il', sum socialism "intelligent govern ment The world's death rate aa estimated at 68 a minute. 97.920 n day, and 35,7 ,0.800 a year. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Interesting Notes Gathered From Many Sources. Jilaekburn College of Carlinville, Illinois, has an endowment furul enabling it to offer to prepare young men for the Presbyterian ministry at a churge of $100 a year for bourd, room and tuition. The 150th anniversary of the birth of the United States navy was celebrated at Marblehead, Mass., Juno 17-10, 1926. Gold is being mined in a marshy field near Cairo, Wales, on a site worked nearly 1,700 years ago by the Romans. u . On the celebration of. Argentina's Independence Day the prisons at Tuconan were opened and ovory man given his liberty for the day. When the festivities were over, the prisoners filed back into. jail. A German scientist has devised a method which he claims will cure leprosy. It consists of "freezing" the diseased tissues with carbolic acid "snow." Official figures of the United States Government show that 119,568 men and women in the armed forces of the nation lost their lives as a result of the World War. These included 86,815 killed in action; 13,586 who died of wounds; and 68,941 who died of diseases and other causes. When the tire of ah automobile blew out as IT was passing a pasture in Iowa, six mules stampeded, broke through the fence, and kicked the automobile full of holes. A course of cooking is being offered to boys in a Michigan high school, special emphasis being laid on camp cookery. When Marco Polo lay dying he was urged to retract the story of his travels in Cathay. He refused, saying, "I have not told the half of what 1 saw." v It costs the United States treasury $5,000,000 a year to replace worn-out paper currency. Twelve hundred tons of worn and damaged paper money returns to the treasury each year. After centuries, durfng which only the pen was permitted to be used in French courts of justice, the type-1 writer has at last been authorized for J the printing of court documents, i Weaving was practiced in China ! more than a thousand years before! I it was known in Europe. Many fine/ specimens of the art are still in ' existence.-..? - - ; Two assistants of the Secretary of : Labor do nothing but sign his" namo ' to routine documents. Research workers at Pennsylvania > State College have reduced the time j for mixing and baking bread to 52 minutes. | Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson,' each 94 years of age, have just j | opened up a jewelry business at Pomona, California. The couple have j 18 children living, all hut two being' twins. ' I L Between Friends . ft "My husband fought in the big war," announced Mrs. Bloer proudly. "His company was in one engagement and only a remnant of it escaped alive." "Gracious!" exclaimed Mrs, Barginhunt. "Aity you got the remnant!" I ^ \ Hilton Named Chief. .Mr. H. D. Hilton, who has served a number of years as sergeant on the Camden police force, has 'been named by City Council to succeed the late Chief A. G. Whitaker. Mr. G. F. Cooley has been promoted to Sergeant. An election will be held at the next meeting of city council for a regular policeman to fill a vacancy f ? existing. U. S. POSTOPPlfe^JaSden, S. C., Office of the ifiNgfgig|An.?Sealed : proposals will be rSaSStta at this office until 12 M., August 21, 1926, . j and then publicly openwCTpr new subdrainage system, etc., af iiiia-huilding - in accordance with the drawing R-701, I and specification, copies of Which may j be obtained from the Custodian only. : W. T. Stewart, Custodial ? *5 _ 1 I Crowds Attend Leader's Opening! I In line with our expectations, the people of Camden and Kershaw ..County have greeted the opening of Camden's first high class* strictly cash dry goods store with enthusiasm. The management of The Leader is very grateful for the support given the new store during the first week of its formal opening sale. This splendid support more firmly establishes our faith in the buying public of the territory. We now pledge ourselves to keep up the same high standard of/values set in our formal opening and to continue without change our policy ^npounced at that time and which is reproduced beloWl We will handle only the best makes of each line and by our policy of cash and one price to all will continue to give you the best bargains to be had in Camden or Kershaw County. May we ask for your continued support that we may always maintain our aims of* service? Come in and look around any time. We are always ' glad to see you in this store, *' THANK YOU, EVERYONE. COME AGAIN SOON. * .'.v -u-id Our Permanent Policy Announced During Opening Sale The service that we offer is to give the buying public of Camden and Kershaw^ J County the very latest and best class of goods on the retail market. Our buyer is well trained in the needs of this territory and is excellently equipped to give the purchasers what they want, when they want it and at a price they want to pay. All sale* made in our rtore will be strictly cash. We will have a one-price policy, j The same price to everyone, whether a large or small purchaser. We will not reIduce our price, which will be plainly marked on every article to anyone. Our clerks will be kind and courteous at all times. Our aim is to offer the best bargains possible by these retailing methods and will J \ not try to persuade anyone to buy against their will. Our customers' desires are our /Own, and we only ask your hearty cooperation to enable us to continue to offer you i these services. j ! This Policy will Never Vary \ . V '' " | fc. >. \ V / I - w, . ^ .. ... .. . v I We have received a good many things this week, which we have j added to our long list of Bargains. ! j Be sure to attend our Opening Sale, and take advantage of the ; extremely low prices on seasonable merchandise which | we have on display- |S . - ' ' * . . ;/ ^ Everything marked in plain figures. One price to all. * v *' , . , jg I. camden's only Til IT* 1 ST ft II IT 0 save money 1 | CASH i HB h a i fi b1p k by payingcash dry goods store B 0 S Bh O In 11 city delivery ! at 1022 broad st. '< camden, s. c. Preserve the Fruit Crop j I X ]t is absolutely essential to the health of your family that you pro^dothc^"'fj| A, with a pleasing variety of succulent, tender, nourishing vegetables and frul!& at X all times. Prepare now for the long winter months when they will not be aval1 able. Preserve food which otherwise would g oto waste. A Canning time is here! We have a complete line of all canning supplies No A matter what your needs may be, we can supply you with the very best equipment. fjj A Kettles- in all sizes, of aluminum and enamel. Measures, steamers cold? A packs, jars, lids, rubbers and glasses at lowest possible prices. ' "'-$1 X, Square, clear glass top fruit jars in pints and quarts offered at special prices A for demonstration work. ? ! | Mackey Mercantile Conipanyl rT' % | n - | | Telephone 21 Camden, S. C