The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 23, 1926, Image 8
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.
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THIS WEEK
By Arthur Brisbane
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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
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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. '
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Between Friends
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"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!"
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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
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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
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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.
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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 \
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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
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Everything marked in plain figures. One price to all.
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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. ?
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