Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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p the camden chronicle II. D. Nile* . . Editor mud Publisher *' n r JT - ).-L .1 _ Published every Friday at No. 1109 ?*'n\; Broad Street and entered at the Cam den, South Carolina, postoffice a? second class mail matter. Price per : ' annum $2.00. Canuten, 8. t\, Friday, Nov. 12, 1926. The daily preaa ia now full of the "investigation" of the Aiken lynch ing, brought about by confessions ntrtwined from jail birds in the Aiken jail to a staff correspondent of theNew York World, sent down to find out the lynchers. Then too there is the great state "detective" on the job, whom the late Judge Memminger held such a high regard for. Lookto us at this diatance like the New York World would have enough dirty linen of their own to attend to in a great city where crime runs rampant j both day and night. It's a safe bet I there will be a mighty fuas kicked up with nothing accomplished. The Value oi a Child. The eminent statistician of a great life insurance company estimate 1 the value of a newborn child at $9,333 try parents with an income of $2,500. He admits that there is reason to shudder even at thoughts of an economic valuation of life hut' proceeds to justify it on the ground that, "since money plays such an important part in life, it is important that the human being as an economic unit be evaluated." Such a child, priced at $9,333, this expert figures, will cost his parents some $10,000 to raise to the age of IK, even without evaluating the services of the mother in all that time. If a bt>y, the child may expect future earnings of $20,000. If he lives to be 25, this boy may ex fleet to make an average net profit of $32,000 during the remainder of his life time. Now this higher mathematics is all very well from the economic point of view, hut we defy any statistician, efficiency expert, economist or certi- ' tied public accountant to put a price 1 tug on a child. It simply does not 1 work. Wo "have seen children come in- ' to homes, already full, where food for .' the next meal never was certain, yet ' 'lie parents thought each child price- 1 less and would ichcl at the thought of ' hi- being measured in dollars and * cents. We have seen children grow up to be wi^rth far luss than $'.>,333 to the world*"to their families or to * themselves, and yet, they were still j the apple of their parents' eyes. We - 1 have seen children come into homes I 1 which were barren without them, and j ' i.o price tag could begin to suggest 4 the inert ased worth of these home-.'' However, the formulae of calculus or ! other higher mathematics may bear ; them out. the statisticians will make,' little headway in evaluating baby- i ' hood. They might as well try to es- ' timate the worth of a moonbeam or ' the value of sunshine or to price tag ' | t the song of a bird. Mathematics is ; far too cold a yardstick to measure I ' .-u;.;h things.?Ohio State Journal. -j - ? I'ride in the Home town A man or woman should take great > p: do in the town where he lives, lfj he cannot because of gross blemishes take pride there i- only one thing that j a true man can do. and that i.-. j thoughtfully and industriously work j to make the town better. i . The thing we have in mind is this, "There is. something gravely wrong ; and out of joint in the life of a person who continually finds fault witn j the place where he lives." To put it | . in simplest terms the place feed . clothes him and gives him a home. Now that is so central in one's life that a person not loyal here is falling down in one of his major obligations, fo. Yet we often hear the man who always knocks everything local. He sees no good. The people are "small fry." The institutions are "mosjs hacks?-" The spirit is "fierce." The whole pll\ce is "hick." It is a poor place. \ Now the easiest thing to say to a man like that is to suggest that in following out the simple logic of his thoughts ru> Jus' move on. "Go some place els^t where things are mo/e to your likiog." Hut that of course would not he fair or kind. And, too, a moment's thought brings out the truth of the matter to a person like! that an> place would soon become a ' place like the place he thinks his j present home to be. It not in the j place. It is in the pe; -t>i . What thin" Whv tki- Work to j make your town bette. Helieve in :t. Root for it. In s.n.ph- straight ; forwardness bring yourse-f to think it 1 i- a great place. And you w.'.l he surprised to find how quii*Via\ and truly a*i becomes n great place. The people will become to you "fine folks." Th? j institutions will appear in the true light of simple struggling to he what lhe> ought to be. The spirit of the place will change and he like your own imp oved spirit. It isn't your * / town, it's you. And ttf* place will be , |Jj no longer a "hick" town. will be- . come to you jn a very fine way "my, Every good citizen believer truly in ; his own town. He ta^ea pride in iL i He wftrk.s for it. He boost* it.? Mil- ^ Iccfgevirc, Cla., Time*. : . . HONOR TO DOMINICK Nad Hmh K*Uh-u4 liy National Hoiiaa To Prosecute Judge Knglinh (By John K. Aulljf < olumbiu, Nov. 8.? The retigntttivn ff Judge George W. English, of the I nitH Ststeg <ii?trict court for cast- i ern Illinois; thus in all probability terminating hu trial by the United ' States senate, scheduled Lo begin on. November 10, as a result of his un-J peach merit by the national house of representatives qt the last session, has , a peculiar local inleieat for S</uth i ( arolina in tliat one of the nine man- . agers elected by the national house to prosecute the ease before the senate wus Congressman Fred H. Dominick, of the Third Congressional district of j this state. When the question of impeachment was before the house. Con-j gr ess man Dominick, who is a member! of tin? juiiiciarv committee of thut ! body, made a notable address favoring impeachment of the Federal jurist. I he vole for impeachment in the house whs overwhelming, Irrespective of party lines. In the history of the government* there have been only nine impeachment trial*, tlie most notable of which, of course, was that of President Andiew Johnson, and only once has the accused resigned. That was in the first case in 1798, thus recorded in the Congressional Directory: "William Blount, a Senator of the United States from lennessee; charges dismissed foi want of jurisdiction, he having previously resigned; Monday, December 17, 1*98, to Monday, January 14, 1799." Congressman Dominick is one of the few members of the house from South ( arolina, during the history of the nation, who has been chosen by the house to prosecute impeachments before the Senate. In this first case of Wiiriam Blount, John Rutledge, Jr., of South Carolina, a member of the house who had attended the trial of the celebrated Warren Hastings, in England. rendered valuable service in fid vising as to the form of procedure, and Thomas Piuckney, of South Carolina, was one of the managers for the House. In the fourth impeachment trial, in 1K29, directed at Federal Judge James II. Peck, who was acquitted by the senate, the distinguished George McDuffie, of South Carolina, who had instigated the trial, was one of the managers. In all of the impeachment proceedings the house has selected its managers only from its outstanding members, and it is regarded as a (lis-j inguishod Honor to be selected for,1 he position, which involves the pros'cution of the case before the senate. So member is c hosen for this respon- j dbility unless he is considered by his o!leagues to occupy a high position n personal integrity and in legal atninments. The designation is regarded as a tribute to character and ability. Besides this, it imposes a burden of labor and responsibility, from which nearly any recipient would gladly turn aside if- he could conscientiously do so. * * Ihe managers for the house had fone thoroughly into the case, and were fully prepared t?? present the i side of the prosecution to the senate on Wednesday of this week. Of course, no right-minded house member would accept the responsibility of being one of the managers in an impeachment chse unless convinced of the guilt of the accused. In his able speech in the debate preceding the vote to imj>each Judge English, Representative Dominick, reviewing the evidence, declared that it showed the Judge to have violated the constitutional rights of defendants in his court and of lawyers practicing before it. Of course, Judge English's resignation comes as a relief both to the managers on the part of the house, and to the entire senate, which had been called to meet in extra session on November 10 for the especial purpose of the Irial. Representative Dominick, along with the other house managers, had spent a great, deal of study upon the various phases of the case. Representative Montagu of Virginia and Representative Dominick had been named as a special commit- ' tee of the nine managers to prepare the brief upon the legal aspects of the case. Three bandits staged a mail rob-' bery at Hibbing. Minn.. Friday. Thev tole a registered mail pouch, kidnapped a mail clerk, drove 200 miles and the job netted them $.*>. There were! no marines on guard in this particular n stance. The Natchez hotel a: Natchez. Miss., was destroyed b> fire Friday, afternoon with a loss <>f $000,000. (i. Mci.KK8 LATB8T. " Anderson Humorist Write* laiterest'"Kl) ?n Various Topic*. Received a letter from my wife'* cousin which informed us that during the recent storm in Florida the wind blew everything off of' his Ford exrept 2 mortgages and where he was from. I And, by the way?those new mo^elj Ford* are simply the mudcat's wisdom teeth. Henry has taken 65 per cent of .the^rattle out of the. front doors and put fit) per cent in the rear doors, and all of the former squeaks of the body have been transferred to the chassis, and the tail light is somewhat redder, and tht-car uses considerably less gas (when standing still) than the old models formerly used as the carbureter don't leak quite so had. And it pulls better, too, if you give it a good start. A scientist has figured that the average man is worth about 98 cents ?when bailed down to the last analysis. Some of those that traded witn me on credit during 1920 pin't worth that much?in my opinion. Man is supposed to have carbon, sulphur, iron, ammonia, and other ingredients in him, but the ones I'm talking about are composed entirely of brass. On top of all our other troubles? we understand bootleg liquor has advanced 75 cents a quart. This advance had to come sooher or later as Red Devil lye went up 3 cents a can last week?and sulphur is 5 cents a pound higher than it was in July, and wood alcohol is hapd to obtain at present, and furthermore?some of the prohibition officers are charging nearly 2 dollars a month for general immunity and constant amnesty from arrest. Just think of it: Cotton 12 cents a pound; hooch 5 dollars a quartf^ Life simply ain't worth living under no circumstances. Talking about evolution: The man or woman who can take 1 yard of 75eent silk, and pinch it up at one end and squeeze it down at the other end, and pucker it a little in the middle, and punch 2 holes in upper right hand and left corners, and tack a string on it in the middle and call it a dress? and sell it for $-19.98?has got the from monkey-to-man" business skint a thousand years. Nobody ever heard of a drug store going broke. A good druggist pays 25 cents for 1 thousand gallons of water and sells it by the gill for a dollar and 50 cents. No diought has ever been serious enough to close a filling station, nor does money ever get too tight to slow up the sale of cigarettes, lipsticks, silk hose and4'white lightning. T Opportunity is indeed a modest guy. When he knocks at your door he doesn t use a sledge hammer npr does he linger long in one's way. / Beef is selling on foot at 4 cents a pound, but it fetches 35 cents a pound on the scales, and 2 dollars on a plato when ushered in by a coon in evening dress. ( ertainVy, short dresses are more sanitaiy, and they likewise easier on a fellow's eyes, and furthermore the shorter they are the longer we admire them. Henry Ford s idea of a 5-hour workday is not a new thing in the South. This country has been observing that scale for several years. Of course, the folks have been staying on the job 6 hours a day and getting pay for it, but are now talking about working. Hillery Jones had a pretty bad !a<s cident the other day. While taking his old mother to the poorhouse he ran into a loaded wagon with his twin six Packard and killed 2 mules and bent his bumper. He attributed the accident to the fact that the wagon and mules had no tail light?as required by law. Billy Botts says it's a dern shame to pay a man like Jack Dempeey 800 thousand dollars for having a figh;, Billy says he had a fight one day last week and got the very dickens beat out of him for nothing. (Ho called a man a legislator.) Condition* arc still good in this great old country of ours. Nearly half the farm lands will bring the assessed value apd only about two thirds the folks are living off ,,f (he taxpayers. ( otton is worth 12 cents; that's a good price for it?since nobody wants to wear cotton goods any more. Why,#a bale of cottonseed wili almost pay for the ginning and a caddy charges only a quarter. Just think of our fine roads and schools? which we will por.sibly pay for iri 50 years. Kverythia^ a|] right, people ?so cheer up! The worst is already here. We mu4n't K?*t mad at France and England ^for falling out with us. That is, perfectly natural. Why, when you lind even your b<h>t friend money he thinks you are a Jesse James when 'you try to collect it. It is possibly best for the world to huve that war over again, and we'll play a big joka on 'em by staying at home and keeping our money here, too. We would then be called "Fraidy Cats" instead of "Shylocks." Cotton better. Frost in the panhandle yesterday and a shower in Georgia put cotton down 37 points this morning. Liverpool came ire when due, and that's more than you can say for some other men. Three' boll weevils and a pinch hug were found on a stalk of cotton in Texas last night and as soon as that report became current New Orleans broke 47 points and hurst > straddlers and 7 hedges and stopped 24 stop-orders. Spot demand is weak in most places, but we strongly advise buying the nearby on slumps?if you can get the bucket shops to keep your check till cotton. advances. We advise holding if you can hide it anywhere. Yours truly, Gee McGee. PIANO TUNING LEWIS L. MOORE All Work Guaranteed Telephone 242-W I Camden, South Carolina J. K. G O O D A L E PAINTING, PAPERHANGING AND KALSOMINING ALL WORK GUARANTEED Estimates Furnished Free 409 Rutledge St. Phone 433-J CAMDEN, S. C. Ambulance Service Day or Night Motor Equipment of the Best C. W. EVANS MORTICIAN Telephones 535 DeKalb St. 91 and 283 Camden, S. C. -? A^EUhwrty, h?*d of the Knights of Columbia in the United States, announces that a million dol? lar fund is. being raised to fight against the attitude of the Mexican government toward Catholics in Mexico. Boh Tipto.i and his wife, Alma Tipton, convicted at Rogersville, Tenn., of the murder of Novella Winkle, aged 12, have been sentenced to serve 23 | I years each in state prison. The girl | had bven living at the Tipton home. J Wants-For Sale 1 WANTED?Job as salesman in groceiy store. Have had one year experience. Address Wade Hampton Moore, care of Miss Meme Turner, Camden, S. C. 33pd. . FOR SALE?Dry oak wood, $7.50 per cord, any length. Leave order^>vith < Mr. John T. Maekey, First National Bank, Camden, S. C. 33tf FOR KENT?Four room house on j South Fair Street, with garage, Apply to M. G. Pursley, Camden,j S. C. 33pd ' ROOMS TO RENT?Three unfurnished rooms on Highland avenue. A<i; dress "Rooms," care of The Chron! icle, Camden", S. C. 33-pd j FOR 8ALE?Twenty porkers weighing about HO pounds a piece, price i 15 cents per pound. Address Dr. | A. W. Humphries, Camden, S. C. 33-35-pd j FOR SALE?Fresh pecans, good size at 40 cents per pound. Address Dr. | A. W. Humphries, Camden, S. C. 33-35-pd FOR SALE?A number of registered | four and fiv^e-gallon Jersey cows, tuberculin tested. Apply to B. M. Hall or J. J. Tolbert at Schenk's stables, Camden, S. C. 33-pd I LOST?Either in A. & P. Store or bet tween there and Lyttleton street, a j roll of bills containing about $18.00 1 or $19.00. Anyone finding this i money will please return to The ' Chronicle office and receive reward. 33-pd HELP' WANTED?Jden ari ' 'needed for U. S. Mail Service. Good pay; \ experience unnecessary. Write Wm. 1 Thomas, Box 412, Charleston, S. C. 33-35-pd , FOR SALE?Extra large size Stewart' and Columbia Pecans for sale at 50 cents per pound, postage extra. ' Mrs. H. L. Bradford, Hopkins, S. C. WANTED?Position as bookkeeper or i office assistant. Have had several I years' experience. Write to Box 106, ; Camden, S. C. 32-33pd WANTED?To hear from owner of good farm for sale. State cash 1 price, full particulars. "D. F. Bush, Minneapolis, Minn. 37sb j W ELDING.?Oxy-Acetelene Welding j of wrought iron, cast iron, steel, brass bronze, copper, .aluminum.! i Auto frames, cylinder blocks,! j crank cases, axle housings, oil pans,; < welded like new. We also weld j metal household furniture, office equipment, hotel appliances and i hospital ware. Smith's Garage, i Camden, S, C. 31-34-pd ! > """ ' I safITY DRUGSTORE HurtBtSST lUIttKlKti AlvCOHOL The great rub-down that tones you up! , Makes new life, leap through tired, aching muscles. Prescribed by physicians and used . in homfeB, athletic clubs, Turkish baths and hospitals every wh^e. 4 j A DeKalb Pharmacy 7%f SssbSL sur* - CAMDEN, S. C~ MONEY TO LOAN-^-On city real estate, Apply to Henry Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. , , 32sb T OImT K P AIRING?A u t onto b 11 e 'TopT, Side Curtains, Back Curtains, made to fit any car. New Top Pads, also new Bows fitted to amy top. Smith's Garage, Camden, S." C."" 31-34pd O Y ST Er'SHELL." LIM k?The^very best for agricultural purposes, is now on sale in Camden by The Rush Lumber Cdtnpany. ' 26tf 1 WE CLEAN-^-^nything from neck- i ties to art squares; Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 555. WANTED^N^rpineTogs! Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumtef Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. , 1-tf-sb WE CLEAN?Anything from neckties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 555. for'SHOeTREPArRlNG^-caU at the Red Boot Shop next door to Express office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24tf F U RS~AN I)' FURCPATs'clean^dTt i Camden Dry Cleanery. PHOTOGR A PHY-^I ha vV Recently rebuilt my home at 1340 Hailo street and built an Up-to-date home studio where I ?m prepared to do any kind or style-of Photograph and at a reasonable price* I have some of the latest equipment and * can make pictures regardless of weather conditions. Joe B. Gaskins, Camden* 8. C. ; 14-tf ' . .. 1 i Heats The Whole House This beautiful new Allen's Par-, lor Furnace heats every room in the house* Circulates warm, moist air just like a cellar filr-* nace. But. saye& cost of a cellar. Does the work of severah stoves, fireplaces or room heaters, yet burns no more fuel . thaft one of them. I r $15 puts this reriiarka&le^ furnace in your homel Have you ever seen-a furnace so handsome in design? Or one with so many' .Unusual features? Goes'well in any room, o Burns hard or soft coal, coke or wood. No trouble to install. ' No radiator^ or other expensive fittings. Easy on fuel.. Uses practically all of tiie heat ; that's generated. You'll want thi3 new Allen's nace as soon'as you see it. Don't delay. Let us shojy you today how easy and'inexpensive it is to get winter warmth for your home. ' M put th i f new II I L Allen's Parlor Fur^Tj nace in your home ?balance hi easy monthly payments. ^ v / I Telephone 46 HOME FURNISHING COMPANY incorporated v ' i - - sc?tf?