Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SHE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. B. Nile? . , Editor and Bpklislier Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered at the Camdent South Carolina, pus toff ice aa aecoud elaes mail matter. Price per 'annum >2.00. 'Camden, ?. C., Friday, Dec. 10, 1026. HAIL TO THE KING tA twelve-year-old Indiana boy wan crowned Jking at Chicago the other day. He is the fourth in his family wear a crown. America needs more kings of lf)s kind. His name is Thomas J. Lux, and he was crowned junior corn king of America at the International Livestock Exposition. The title seems to - be hereditary in his family, for it has been won previously by his two brothers, Frank and Maurice, 'and by a cousin, Victor M.,Lux. His father, Peter J. Lux, twi,ee held the title of "Corn King." To an extent overlooked by many people, America's prosperity .depends upon her farmers. The migration of the country boys to the city in such great numbers is a real and constant source of worry. Here is a family that is evidently content with the farm. The junior corn king is not likely to fall a victim soon to the lure of the bright lights. He has shown that he knows how to coax the soil into yielding him returns. His success is a good indication that he likes the life of a farmer. The country needs more boys ^like him if it is to continue to be prosperous. The Oiangeburg Times and Democrat wants to know how it was possible for two monster stills, one at least, representing an outlay of $10,000 and of capacity to manufacture I,700 gallons of whiskey per day, t,o be in operation within twelve miles of a big center like Columbia and the fact not be more or less generally known; and the question is a most timely and pertinent one and demands investigation. How the presence of an establishment of the size of these, and their operations could be concealed is difficult bo see. Plants of other kinds of corresponding volume couldn't he successfully hidden very long; and the owners of such concerns would hardly invest the necessary capital unless they had a tolerably good idea that they were not-to be bothered. The operations and the coming and going of the many pet - cms connected with the plants in some capacity or an ithcr are hound to have caused talk, which must have I . come to officers' ears, even if they did , not in their rumbling* stumble across the plants. The Times and Democrat , has suggested a topic that will hear | more discussion. -Chester Reporter. Green Feed For Chickens I ( lemson College, Dec. 7.?Some I form of green feed i* practically es- < sential for the physical condition of laying hens and for the highest egg < production. In winter months it is i often difficult to have green feed for 1 poultry unless special provision has i been made by sowing rape, rye or oats in the fall. Many persons are i without green feed now. 1 he best substitute fur green feed ,j is good quality** legume buy finely i chopped. Alfalfa, soybean and cowpea hay are very satisfactory if green in color and contain a good portion of < leaves. Recent publication from the Ohio Experiment Station report considerable increase in winter egg production due to the use of finely chopped alfalfa hay. It is best to have the hay finely chopped and placed in hoppers so the birds may get it at all times.., A hopper with a front made of one 1t)0h hardware doth makes a very ?<$&*? factory feeder.?C. L. Morgan, Chi^f Poultry Husbandman. - A shortage of $02,000 has been found in the accounts of George N. Sanders of Richmond, treasurer of the foreign missions board of tfii> Southern Baptist convention. Sanders admitted the shortage but stated he was not certain as to- the amount. Representative Howard of Nebraska proposes to introduce a bill in congress providing for a federal guarantee of bank deposit*. The proposed bill will be patterned after the state law of Nebraska. Three or.more bandit*, armed with rifles, held up tin- Olmstead County hank at Rochester. Minn., Saturday, and escaped with $10,000, after shoot ing their way out and wounding two pol icemen. J# W. -Blackwell, Jcilier of *feraylte county, N. C., who shot his wife to death at Mt. Olive, several weeks ago, was found guilty at Goldsboro last Saturday and sentenced to a term of thirty years In the itate * * ' J Johu Skelton William* A 'recent U?ue of The Manufacture era Record contains thin interesting tribute to John Bkelton Williams, written by the editor of that wellknown journal: "In the death of John ftkeltvn William*, of Kichmopd, the Sbuth lo?e? on?* of the moat active,, virile, unafiaid, constructive, upbuilding forces which that section ban ever produced. And this wo say advisedly, with a full knowledge of the achievements made by Mr. Williams and of the defeats which he had to buffer by reason of the tremendous fight which great Wall Street interests made against him. f "iVrhaps no higher tribute can be paid to the character of Mr. Williams than a statement never published before by the writer or by anyone else. Wben at the zenith of his power in i bunding the Seaboard Air Line, Mr. I Wi.iiams invited the editor of the Manufacturers Record to accompany him and some seven or eight of the financially strongest directors of the system on a trip over the entire Seaboard -y.stem. The writer was invited because he was supposed to kn<#w something about the South, and to be able to present to some of the newer directors some facts in regard to this section and its future. Several in the party were millionaires, aid two or three were multi-millionaire-. In a ten-day trip, so far as the w liter can remember, no word was spoken by anybody in the party that could not have been uttered in th<- presence of women and no sign of intoxicating beverage wus in sight on the entire trip. One Sunday morning the special train on which the pai tv wa* traveling reached Savannah too lati- for any to attend morning services, and at the suggestion of Mr. Wiiliams the entire party gathered in the reception end of the car and held religious services, Mr. Williams leading with the reading of some portions of the Episcopal service, and us we remember it everyone else in the party took some part in these religious exercises. It was all done with perfect naturalness, with iu i thought of effect on outsiders, but only as an expression of reverence for the Sabbath Day and all that it j meant to these seven or eight great j business leaders who found that they! could not attend divine services at * churc h." Home Cooking is Important "If your wife can't cook," says a i restaurant sign, "don't divorce he . j I Eat here and keep her for a pet." j? Wives who can't cook have been he object of a fusillade of criticism l I if late. j i Roth the evils of diunkenness and j i Iivoice are said to have been tracked t ] jack to inefficient kitchens. A learned Engli.s'h medical man de- t lares, "if all yaung women were I aught to cook properly there would 1 je much less drunkenness in the 1 A'Olld." j On divorce, a woman's club speaker vays, "Delicatessen wives, who buy meals out instead of cooking them < themselves, are the cause of the in- . ?rease in divorces." ; One of the most rapid changes tak- i iug place today is in the way we eat. i In the past ten years the restaurants have more than doubled in the city of New York. They serve six million meals every day. 1 Royal iS. Copeland, former health commissioner of New York, predicts that in a very few decades no one will 1 be eating home-cooked food. < At any rate the trend is definitely I away from the old-fashioned homeprepaied meals, and eating food cooked outside will more and more become the custom. Before holding up hands- in horror let us consider the possibilities. In itself there is little to bewail. If the food is well cooked, seientif- ' ically prepared, carefully inspected, and fresh, as far as the stomach fares the change will ivjt he for the worse, ahd in some cases decidedly for the < better. There is no valid reason why women have t?> cook the food which the family cat any more than make the clothi .- they wenr. If the food is wholesome and nour- j ishing it is not highly important' whether it comes from a small kitch- ; en or a large one, or who does the manual ..bor connected with its prep-! aratn n. The rial.y important consideration, concern- it-eif, not with eating at all,, hut with the new leisure. Women who are freed from the. stow witi find several hours of extra leisure on their hands. W he.her they use this for -elfir.ipi Aeir.cut or waste is the most important consideration in the change in our method of eating. Employees of Wall Street, New! York, business concerns, are to he giver, salary bonuses totaling around $35,0(10.000 during the Christmas Hoiids vs." &.> ^ ... .5. .T THIS WEEK m ' T1 Hi?a?? i - t< a By Arthur ByUhiji, Mr. Brisbane's editorials are pub* lished an expressions of opinions of the world's highest-salaried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. The Iowu state chairman saya the Democratic party ought to find/ a man like W. J. Bryan?-something hard to do. Bryan had one great quality and you could say, as it is said of another, "That man believes every word he says. Such men are dangerous." There is a tremendous power in sincerity and, right or wrong, on gold silver or prohibition, Bryan had that power. Dr. Lorenz, "bloodless surgeon of Vienna," says science is injuring humanity by keeping the unfit alive. Nature tries to wipe out those not fit to perpetuate the species. Science prolongs their lives and adds unfit children to the population. Red Indians used to kill babies that did not seem vigorous, and killed all children born deformed. That didn't make a great conquering race of the Indians. Some of the most useful men, Voltaire for instance, would have died in infancy but for extraordinary scientific care. Pope, who wrote the "Essay on Man" and other things worth whiD, would have been killed had he lived among the Indians. He had to be sewed up in a canvas jacket each day that he might sit up and write. And consider the good moral effect that helping the unfit has upon the abler types. What we call charity is largely a philanthropic gymnasium for the prosperous. A Stock Exchange seat sells for $170,000, the highest price on record, but a great deal too low. In these booming times, and with the prosperity that - is ahead, every able broker ought to earn the price of a seat in a year. The value of Exchange seats shows hat it is better to buy and sell things han to make them. You know how otton growers feel just now. In some Maces cotton isn't worth picking. Yesterday in New York a seat on " he Cotton Exchange sold for $2,000 more than the last previous sale. Whether cotton stocks sell high or ow, the intelligent broker makes his ,>rof it. Kabindranath Tagore (fine, oM poet >f Bombay) joins Europe^s hymn of American hate. He won't come here *gain; did not like us last time. We ire ' too aggressively anti-Asiatic and selfish." We are not "aggressively antiAsiatic," but we notice that India in five thousand years has done nothing but turn from slavery under the rajahs to slavery under Britain and rajahs combined. We, on the other hand, have done several thing*, steamboat, flying machine, automobile, telephone, phonograph, radio, in much less than five thousand years. We don't believe that Asia and America would go in harness any better than a yak and a submarine. ' Nevertheless, we like Asia, all but the 1 rajahs, caste, suttee and child marriage?and Britain is- attending to them. Are you inclined to empathy? It's the new word of psychologists, and explain in detail what they never saw. That new word may play a part in the Hall-Mills murder case. First we think about a thing with sympathy. Then we get mixed, inject ourselves into the affair, in our imaginations, and soon are ready to swear, with perfect sincerity, that we saw what we never saw. Dreams lead ?>*do empathy. You dteam you saw a friend in a certain place, think about it, and in a week you believe that you dreamed of him and then saw him. just where you had dieamed of him. And you tell your friends how your dream came true, when it did nothing of the kind. Beware of empathy. The world, is full of it. Professois Fryer and Shaw, of New York University, invented or discovered itSenator William B. McKinley of Illinois died at a Martiusville, Ind., hospital on Tuesday. I)eAth followed an illness of several weeks. He was 70 years of age.' ^ / Let The State Go Boifry? Congressman J. J. McSwain make* the startling announcement that South Carolinians would be undernourished, if they depended upon the, far via of their own state for food. If South Carolinians depended solely upon the farmers of their own state they would eat only seven pounds of butter and six dozen eggs annually, according to Mr. McSwain. Then he goes right ahead and proves what hi says to be true from the agricultural census of the United States, showing that while every man, woman ami child is entitled to 15 dozen eggs a year, South Carolinians are producing for themselves only six dozen. They are also entitled to 10 pounds of butter, but are 'producing only seven pounds. So it seems that there are millions for South Carolina farmer* in feeding themselves and their owtiy people, which they are. not doing. Congressman McSwain is quoted iri The Greenville Piedmont as saying he secured these facts from Washington particularly because of the movement now under way in this state -to have farmers grow more edibles and less cotton. These figures, he said, emphasize the fact that there is a market in this state for such produce a-/ the farmers may grow. The figures obtained by Congressman McSwain compare Iowa and South Carolina and also give tire figures for the United States as a whole. For the United States as a whole the average value per capita of crops was $200. For South Carolina the average Value per capita was only $90 against $188 for Iowa. The average value of farm property per capita also shows that South Carolina is below that of the average for the United States and far below Iowa. The average value per capita in South Carolina re only $283 against $375 for the entire nation and $1,558 for Iowa. The figures regarding the amount of butter and eggs produced also are interesting, showing that South Carolinians would go hungry if they depended upon their own state for sustenance. The United States as a whole produces 15 dozen eggs per capita for every man, woman and child in the nation. South Carolina's average is only six dozen against ten dozen for Iowa where boiled eggs are not a rarity for breakfast but possibly an every-day occurrence. South Carolina would also go hun- . gry for butter if it did not get outside assistance. Every man, woman and child in the nation is entitled to 16 pounds of butter annually, that amount being produced here each year. South Carolina, however, produces only seven pounds of butter yearly for each of its 1,750,000 inhabitants. Iowa again takes a high rank in this yespect, producing 53 pounds per annum for its inhabitants. Folks living on the farm may take Mr. McSwain's figures as a basis and determine whether or not they are getting the butter and eggs the family is entitled to have. If there is a family af five they should have about 1,000 eggs annually for their own, use, or about $200 worth of eggs at present prices. Instead of looking to the banks and to the government or to any outside agencies for help the first duty of Southern farmers is to feed themselves, their stock and their own people. As the South develops industrially the market for the products of the farms of the South increases .far beyond the supplies on the surrounding farms. The farms of Spartanburg and Greenville counties are not feeding the people of the cities of Spartanburg and Greenville. But [Worse, they are not even feeding themselves. And that is due solely to the fact that they are not even trying.?Spartanburg Herald. John J. Brennan, Brooklyn policeman, was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison, New York, early last Friday morning for the killing of one Samuel Crainnen last January, when the latter went to a police station to protest against Brennan's grafting practices. ? t NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS Notice is hereby given to all property owners that to all city taxes not paid by anuary 1. 1927, a penalty of 7 per cent will be added. Pay your taxes now and avoid the penalty. CITY'COUNCIL OF CAMDEN, NY. H, Haile, Clerk. Wants-For Sale COAL FOR SALE?App'y ? r >mden Lumber Company, Telephone 340, Camden, S. C. 38-45-sb FOR RENT? Two furnished bed rooms, at reasonable price. Telephone 244-J, Camden, S. C. 37ab FOR RENT?Offices in Loar Savings Bank building. Steam heat, light* and janitor's service furnished. Apply to N. C. AinetL 36-39-ab mm-,- i I HELP WANTED?Ladies, who can do plain sewing at home and wapt profitable spare time work. No canvassing. Write (enclose stamp) to Amsterdam Dress Company, Amsterdam, N. Y. 37-pd FOE SALE?Few heavy breed broilers at 4c per pound, ('all at 1512 Mill Street or phone 327-J. 37-pd FOH SALE?Chioee pecans. Apply to Miss Lucile Mickle, Route 1, Camden, S. C. 37-tf FOR SALE?Special?New brick bungalow, 5 rooms, bath, glassed in sleeping porch, 'basement and hot water heat, excellent location, completely furnished. Very special price will be made if sold at once, X. C. Arnett, Camden, S. C. o 37-pd FOR SALE?Five room house with all modern conveniences. Lot 06 1-2 by ^1)0 feet. Good garden and bearing fruit trees. Apply to H. T. Lovett, 120H Mill Street, Camden, S. C. 37-39-pd WOOD FOR SALE?Oak, pine or kindling. Phone 349-J, Lamoy's Filling Station, Camden, or write A. C. Mhson, Blaney, S. C. 34-40p PIANOS FOR RENT?Telephone 242-W, Lewis L. Moore. Camden, S. C. 35-37-pd FOR SALE?One good milch cow, fresh in milk. Address H. B. Gaskins, Kershaw, S. C. Rfd. No. 1. 36-38-pd FOR SALE?One Majestic range and three heater at a bargain. Also one double barrel haminerless Baker shot gun. Apply to C. M. Coleman, Camden, S. C. 37-sb KEEP VOIR IMA NO?In Tune. It should be tuned twice yearly. Are you doing this? Lewis L. Moore, Telephone 242-W, Camden, S. C. 35-37-pd HAVE THE KIMBALL PIANO? demonstrated to you by the Kimball dealer in this city. They are sold on very convenient terms when desired. Telephone 242-W, Lewis L. Moore, Camden, S. C. 35-37-pd ?: ? ?? FOR RENT?For rent for year 1927," a two horse farm . near Antioch church. L. A. Wittkowsky, Clamden, S. C. < 34-sb PIANO BARGAINS?Four real biu^~ gains in used pianoa, $50.00; $75.00; $125.00 and player piano $890.00, easy terms. If interested telephone the "Kimball" dealer, Lewis L. Moore, Camden, S. C. &5-37-pd FURS AND FUR COATS cleaned at Camden Dry deanery. PHOTOGRAPHY?I have recently.' rebuilt-my home at 1840 HaRc street and built an up-to-date home studio where I am 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, S. C. 14-tf MONEY TO LOAN?On city real es tate. Apply to Henry Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. . > 32sb FOR SALE?Dry oak wood, $7.60 per cord, any length. Leave order with Mr. John T. Mackey, First National Bank, Camden, S. <0? 83tf WANTED?To hear from owner of good farm for sale. State cash price, full particulars. D. F. Bush, Minneapolis, Minn. . 37sb MONEY TO LOAN?On city real estate, Apply to Henry Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. ; 32sb OYSTER SHELL LIME.?The very best for agricultural purposes, is now on sale in Camden by The Rush Lumber Company. 26tf WE CLEAN?Anything from neckties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 555. WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. 1-tl-sb WE CLEAN?Anything from neckties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 555. FOR SHOE REPAIRING?cajl at the Red Boot Shop next door toaExpress office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24tf Excursion Fares to Columbia u U I ACCOUNT OF SEMI-CENTENNIAL, CELEBRATION INAUGURATION OF GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA DECEMBER 14TH Round trip tickets, on basis of one and one-half fares, will be sold from all stations on December 13, end * ' . A" r'' December 14 for trains due Columbia before 1:00 p.m., ! good returning \intil December 15th. 1 For .fares, schedules, etc., see Ticket Agents of thfe Southern Railway System B. H. TODD, D.P.A., COLUMBIA ~ ? . - ? ' 1f I.I I ???^ ? THAT MORTGAGE " ON YOUR HOME 1v ' S"' I" Can be gradually and surely cleared : by the use of the Equitable's Home Pur- ! chase Plan > s ? "V; e ' Six per cent Simple Interest, no commis- ; sion charges, no renewal costs. ' * f-,U, v .... . . ' ' - k-='.W-9*8*SE r: Forcomplete details see: * W. R. HOUGH, Agent Camden, S. C'. NOT ORIGINAL We do not claim credit for originating the slogan "Dodge Brothers Dealers ~ 4 ";. Sell Good Used Cars.'* But we do claim to be doing our part to impress ? . the world with its truthfulness. . . "" ~ - DeLOACHE MOTOR COMPANY. " Camden, S. C. A USBU CAR IS ONLY AS DE>PE>NOAStJ& AS TH6 DEALER WHO S&LLS IT