The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 28, 1927, Image 4
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'I'hi-re are twelve young white ni?*n
i. the county jail awaiting trial on
M-rioUs churgua. Their ages rang*
from 17 to 24 years and seem to be
boys of more than the average intelligence.
Twelve white men and not
a negro in the county jail! A sail
commentary on the present day speed
of living. Hut be it said to the credit
of this county that all except one are
natives of other states.
With this issue comes to a clost
the "Tour Abroad" series carried in
The Chronicle's columns for a number
of weeks. We feel certain that
our readers have been highly entertained
by Mr. Jordan in his travels in
the old world, hut we would like to
have an expression from any of out
readers who would like to do so as to
whether this feature is worth while.
Mr. Jordan expects to make other
trips and will very likely write for
The Chronicle again. If this feature
appeals to you let us know.
It's unfortunate, exceedingly unfortunate,
that at almost every session
of the state legislature there are
elections to come up, which completely
demoralize the entire body for a
considerable part of the term, :md
take their minds off the major part
of their task. Take for instance the
present contest for associate justice.
So far as wg uro informed every man
in the raco is equipped by character
ami training for the office he seeks,
and no single individual is head and
shoulders above the others. The consequence
is that the general assembly
is split up ir?t<? six or seven little
groups, all holding tight and fast in
the hope that some development will
put its man in position to assume a
winning lead. How long this deadlock
will persist nobody can tell, noi
can anyone figure just what it is
costing the state. Let this contest
proceed for weeks and weeks yet before
the issue is finally decided, with
the outcome of the contest the big
number on the program, and the tendency
will be in the closing days of
the session to rush hurriedly through
the tasks on hand, pass a few halfbaked,
ill -advised laws, and go home.
It's certainly a pity.?-Ohester Repo
rtev.
"FJeven-Cent Cotton, 10-Cent Meat"
(By Virginia Brown. freshman,
Hope Street High school, Shrevcport,
I.a., in Shrevcport Times:)
Eleven-cent < ott >n and forty-cent
meat ?
How in the world can a poor man
eat ?
Flour up high, cotton down low,
How in the world can we raise the
dough ?
Our clothes worn out, shoes ,-un
down,
Old slouch list with a hole in 'he
crown;
Hack nearly broken, fingers all sore,
(\>tton going down to rise no more.
Eleven-cent cotton and ten-dollar
pants,
Who in the devil has got a chance?
We enn't buy clothes, we can't buy
ment,
Got too much cotton and not
enough to eat;
Losing our credit and mining our
health.
Can't help each other, what shall
we do?
I can't solve the problem, so it's up
to you,
Eleven-cent cotton and a car load
of tax,
The load's too heavy for our poor
backs;
We've a good set of farmers, we all
know well,
But there's something wrong as sure
as .
We all worked hard, we all groaned
and awent,
Now we are all ruined and a blowed
0 _ . up setj
No uSx-c*???v.ng ?ny mans beat.
With eleven-cent cotton
And Yorty-oent meat.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, an
investigating committee of the Texas
legislature reported Friday, was
merely a figurehead i:t her two-year
term as chief executive, while her
husband. Former Governor James F,.
Ferguson, virtually usurped the office
for political favoritism and fi
nancial gain, and dispensed pard >ns.
squHiMlere?F^n^illions of dollars of
highway funds, collected tribute from
persons seeking state contracts, and
rewarded his friends at the expense
**- of the state.
i a s than half as many buggies
were manufactured in 1D2C> as in
itcn.
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Iii Unity Thrrr i? Always Strength
With the election of Mr. II. 0. C*rrisoh,
Jr., to the presidency of our
chamber of commerce*-backed as he
will he by the directors recently
elected prospects for the new y?ar
look bright for Camden and Kershaw
< ounty.
Kvery man arid woman on the
hoard have pledged themselves to
w irk whole-heartedly and in unison
f'i the upbuilding of this community.
We should long since have learned
thoroughly that in unity, as we'l as
numbers, there is strength, and
should have be< n practicing it all of
this time. We also should understand
that as the people of a community
and of a county, our interests
are common, and that each of us
needs the help of the other. A fourhorse
team can accomplish much
when all are pulling together.
Come to think of it seriously and
sensibly, there is hardly anything
that should be done that cannot h"
done when we are of one mind and
one purpose, each doing his full part
in unison with others.
I his opens a broad field, including
economic benefit and material prosperity
along with community betterment,
educationally, socially and morally.
What are we going to do during
1927? Shall we get new industries,
enlarged payrolls, and build that most
needed hotel?which can be done, if
we only will. Shall we Ik? pullers or
halkers, workers or kickers, loyal
liberal citizens or knockers and destructionists
? We are going to write
our record one way or the other.
Which shall it be? ?B.G.S.
Overburdened Youth
Dr. ( harles II. Mayo, the famous
surgeon, goes to the he-art of the
matter when he says that American
hoys and girls lack the physical development
necessary to withstand
successfully the mental and physical
reactions from participation in the
'fast living" of this jazz age. When
he declares that the mental development
of the American people today is
far in excess of their progress in
physical development, he refers particularly
to American youth.
Suicides among boys and girls
have increased enormously because
the youngsters are overburdened in
getting a start in the life race. They
are off from the mark at too early
an age. They are too young when
they are allowed to shift for themselves
mentally and emotionally, partlculurly
emotionally.
I he fault is with the parents. Modern
youth seizes upon freedom early.
Lazy and indifferent parents, observes
this writer, argue: "If the children
are going to do as they please,
why try to control them? Since they
have to learn to look after themselves
while young, why should we attempt
to discipline them?" The result
is that the parents loaf on their
jobs and the children, released from
the appearance of restraint, go their
own way.
But the youngsters do not realize
the bigness of the job they undertake.
They are soon confronted by questions
whose importance they only
vaguely suspect. The tumult of their
emotions is a terrific strain upon
them. They have to manage their
own guidance, solve moral problems,
fashion codes of a sort, learn continuously,
and go about the perplexing
business of arranging adjustments,
compromises and surrenders
SO that in the end they may live happily
and successfully. Small wonder
-that, in such labor, many are often
hard hit nnd sonic destroyed.
In such an era and under such conditions.
the parents should be busier
than they have ever been. They
should find new ways to restrain and
control. The old cast-iron discipline
:s out of date. In its place must
come sympathy, understanding and
appreciation. The parents must win
the complete confidence of sons and
daughters. Their inescapable duty is
to give their children helpful guidance.
They can do it if they will.
When they neglect the job, they deliver
their ch^jdoen overburdened nnd
handicapped to the stern realities of
the world.?Asheville, N. C., Citizen.
Kelly Elliott, 70, bachelor of Horry
county, whose home was near Nichols.
was found dead near Wretch lake
in Lumber river swamp on Friday
with two loads of shot in his head. He
had been missing since the previous
Wednesday. Robbery is supposed to
have been the motive for the killing,
as it was generally known that Elliott
frequently carried large sums of
: money on his person. His pocketh
>?>k was missing.
Some one with a mathematical turn
of mind figures that each ballot of the
general assembly of South Carolina
for associate justice or other office
costs the state $200, from which some
idea can be had of what the dond'oc
k will cost the taxpayers of the
state.
1 wo angry |H>iar bears became as
docile as lambs when the crew of a
: -choor-er started singing.
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THIS WEEK I
By Arthur Brisbane
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Mr. Brisbane's editorial* are published
a* expressions of opinions
of the world's highest-salaried
editor and The Chronicle does not
necessarily endorse all of his
views and conclusions.
('alien, Mexican President, accused
Catholic bishops of ordering Mexican
uprisings that killed seventy-five protesting
Catholics and twenty-fo15r
Mexican soldiers. He accuses the
bishops of urging the faithful to
march against the government under
u banner inscribed "Long Live Christ,
the King."
That banner bus traveled a long
way in the past and won many fights.
Young gentlemen, it pays to save.
Even a little may be worth while.
Mr. Couzens, asked to pay nine million
dollars more income tax, had
saved $1)00 when he met Ford. That
gave him his chance. By and by he
sold his interest to Ford for thirty
million dollars. If he hadn't 'saved
the nine hundred dollars, he could not
have the government suing him for
nine million dollars.
Moral: save something, if only a
little.
The Chicago Civic Opera Company
will broadcast its entire performance,
an enlightened, public-spirited course.
The Metropolitan Opera in New
York will do likewise some day and
profit by it. Artists making talking
machine records know that publicity
is valuable.
Meanwhile Mr. Kahn and his associates
in New York's Metropolitan
Opera will make a good start in their
new opera house building, providing
excellent seats at reasonable prices,
from which the opera will beYseen
and heard, as good for seeing and
hearing as those built for the exhibition
of pearls and diamonds.
Governor Smith, of New York, is
now a candidate for the Democratic
nomination in 1928. He intimated it
semi-humorously in a recent address.
His followers in New York City announced
it vociferously at an enthusiastic
banquet.
Other Democrats that would like
the 1928 Democratic Presidential
nomination will find in Governor
Smith an opponent that understands
politick and the American people.
Dispatches from Boston, describe
triple judicial killing in Charlestown
State Prison, just after midnight yesterday.
Three young men passed
from the electric chair to another destination
for clubbing an old night
watchman to death.
Edward H. Heinlein was first to
go. As he walked to the electric j
chair, repeating the words of a prayer
by the Reverend Father Michael J.
Murphy, great crowds gathered outside,
automobile horns were booming,
photographers flashlights lighted up
the crowd. And at the rear exit from
the prison another crowd was waiting
to see the three bodies carried out. '
A special police force was obliged to
fight the deeply interested crowd.
Crowds that howled around the
French guillotine, or that tilted up
then* gin bottles as they shouted oneouragement
to murderers on the
j British gallows, were not entirely different
from human beings of today.
Authorities in Braunschweig province
learn that when religion involves
extra taxes many Germans get along
without religion.
Registering as the member of any
church in Germany, you must pay
taxes to the state, and the money
then goes to the churches, Braunschweig
has been obliged ito employ additional
clerks to register those that
wish to be put down as "without religious
faith."
Dentists warn women that excessive
smoking brings on "Vincent's
Disease" also called "Trench Mouth."
This disease which attacked soldiers
that had nothing to do but smoke,
while waiting in the trenches, is painful,
attacks the tissues, destroys the
gums, causes bleeding.
However, if women want to smoke
dentists won't stop them. This writer
ti.ed it in vain, twenty-five years ago,
by warning women that smoking
makes their noses red, and. makes
their moustaches grow. Still they
wouldn't stop.
The school where Mary's little lamb
"Made the children Inugh and plav,"!
i-s to be sponsored by Henry Ford at
I Sudbury, Mass., beginning its sessions
I yesterday. For years the school
| building has been used as a barn.
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Constable Bottncr Smith and Deo 1
uty Sheriff Frank Bowman, following
their conviction on a charge of
murdering Dr. It. L. l^attimore, at
Blanche, Ky., on Christmas day, were
sentenced on Saturday to life ''imprisonment.
Following the sentence of
the court practically all of the peace
officers of Bell county resigned their
jobs as u protest against the .sentenclog
of the two convicted officers.
Each American pays an average ol
two dollars a year for the support of
the army.
NOTICE
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Hermitage Cotton
Mills will be held at the office of the
corporation, Camden, S. C., on Wednesday,
February 16, at 12 o'clock.
All stockholders pfeape take notice.
H. R. BANC, Secty.
Camden, S. C., Jan. 26, 1927.
7~ i? KERSIIAW LODGE No. 29
A. F. M.
Regular communication of
/NX/^^this lodge is held on the
first Tuesday in each month
at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
T. V. WALSH,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
TIME V,X I EN DEI).
.City Council gives notice that the
time for the payment of city taxes
without penalty has been extended to
January 31st.
CAMDEN CITY COUNCIL
January 5, 1927.
KIRK WOOD GIFT SHOP OPEN
Everyone is cordially invited to
visit the Kirkwood Gift Shop and see
the wonderful assortment of new and
attractive gifts and noveltiei in domestic
and imported leathor, Bilver
and jewelry. We have added to our
stock an unusual selection of children's
novelties which include items
for the baby from Krueger; the
famous Iiorsman Hebee-Shebee Dolls;
Borgfeldt's distinct imports and Margaret
Steiff importations. We also
have a very large assortment of new
and practical place-card*. You will
always find at The Kirkwood Gift
Shop your favorite candies! papers,
periodicals, new books and a jcomplete
line of smoker's accessories.-^?Adv.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
The Board of Directors of Kershaw
County at its first meeting on Jan- uary
4, 1927, instructed the Clerk
to give notice to the public that the
Board will not pass for payment any
claim against the County for purchases
for the?ounty unless the same
l>o approved in writing by the County
officer or representative responsible
for the purchase charged therein.
LAURENS T. MILLS,
Clerk Board County Directors.
??0| WANTS-FOR SALE |0fr
WARNING
Complaint has been made of boys
using air rifles, parlor rifles and
sling -shots in shooting birds and
squirrels in the public parks and private
grounds of the city. This is in
violation of the city ordinance, and
boys ure hereby warned to discontinue
this practice or arrests and fines will
follow. II. I). HILTON.
Chief of Police.
January 27, 1927. .
I/O ST?Wednesday afternoon, somewhere
on Main street, one bunch of
keys. Finder please return to Miss
Mattio Gerald, Camden, S. C.
41-sb
LOST?A reward will be paid to
party finding white and lemon setter,
lost Monday afternoon, January
24, 14 miles north of Camden
on Liberty Hill roud. Address
T. K. Trotter, Camden, S. C.
44-pd
WANTED?T wo young jnen to board,'
or to rent furnished rooms without '
hoard. Address 1210 Hroad Street, I
Camden, S. C. ? 43-45-pd J
FOR SALE?One electric sausage
mill, one pair Stimpson calculating
scales, one show case, at reasonable
prices. Apply to H. F. McGirt,
904 Campbell Street, Camden, S. C.
44pd
STRAYED OR STOLEN?One large,
white and brown spotted bull dog,
tail and ears not trimmed. Left
Tuesday, January 18. Notify Dr.
S. F. Drasington, Camden, S. C.
44-pd
FOR RENT?-Furnished rooms for
light housekeeping or meals if desired.
All modern conveniences,
centrally located. For terms apply
Mrs. T. W. Lang, Camden, S. C.
v 44-50-pd
FOR RENT?Six-room house and
dairy barn with several acres of
land, just outside of city on Mrs.
White's farm, on Camden-Bethune
road. Apply to J. B. Zemp, Camden,
S. C, 43-tf
FOR SALE?Cedar and mulberry
posts, seven foot length, at reasonable
price. Delivered anywhere in
Camden. Address S. C. Rose, Rte.
* No. 3, Camden, S. C. 43-44-pd
FOR SALE?Coker's pedigreed super
seven wilt resistant Cotton Seed.
A real resistant cotton. These
seed were ginned by my own gin;
all hulls are removed and 100 per
cent pure. $1.00 per bushel. Lumbers
of all kinds and grades. Apply
to C. B. MeCaskill, route 3,
Camden, S. C. 43-46sb
FOR KENT OK SALE?The "MoUoi
Place," contains 866 acres, large
house and 7 good tenant house*.
Will rent or sell as a whole or i*
tracts to suit purchaser or tenant.
Miss .Annie Mo bio y, 4}4 Hoco Street,
AshevjJte. ]N. C 43-44pd.
FOR BALK *Six room new brick bun- *
gelow, with steam heat, on Kaat
Hampton Avenue. Will make attractive
price on a quick sale, P.O.
Box 65, Telephone 376, Camdesj
S. C. 43-44-pd
PKMTINcf AND \\EM8TITCHIN(?
^ Try the Singer Store, 043 Mais
street, Camden, S. C. Sewing machines
sold, rented and repaired.
44-46pd.
^ ^ ~+FOR
SALE?Clreen enameled kitche*
range and nine piece dining room
suite. All in good condition. Cheap)
for quick sale. See Lewis Lee Cly,
burn at First National Bank, Camden,
S. C. 42-44nb
FOR RENT?Lower apartment cor
sisting of four rooms, kitchen aud M
bath. Apply to 1607 Fair Streat^jjH
Camden, S. C. 42-?k I
CEDAR POSTS FOR SALE?
feet long at 26 cents each, dcliveivi
within city limits. Apply McLeodRush
Co., Phone 44, Camden, I
. 42-44pd.
all kind for ealeVi I
driving distance of Camden. Address
Antiques, care of the Camdct I
Chronicle, Camden, S. C. 42-Sy I
FOR RENT?One of ihe handsomest^
Colonial homes in tne state, beautifully
furnished in old furniture, I
eighteen rooms, two baths, steam heated,
open fires. Photograph*
and price on application. Same cU
mate as Camden. Saddle horsea.
Address P. O. Box 316, Chester, 8.
C. 42-5pd fl
COAL FOR SALE?Apply to Camdeir
Lumber Company, Telephone 341,
Camden, S. C. n 38-46-ab
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FOR RENT?For rent for year 1MI I
a two horse farm nefcr Antiodi
church. L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden,,
S. C. ,r_ , 34-*
WANTED?No. 1 sine logs. Highs* I
cash prices paid; year round demand.
Sumter Planing Mills aid
Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth,
.Sumter, S. C. l-tf-sb ifl
WE CLEAN?Anything from nedk- fl
ties to art squares. Camden Dry
Cleanery, Phone 17 or 655.
FOR SHOE REP^fRlNG-^-cati afthi^B
Red Boot Shop next door to Ex-y^M
press office. A, M. JONES, Propyl JH
24tf A .
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Why Not Tell Your Good j
Friends This? \
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AS A FORD OWNER, YOU CAN DO A REAL SERV- I
ICE. JUST TELL YOUR YOUNG FRIENDS THAT ?
BY FOREGOING AN EXPENSIVE CAR THEY CAN, j
IN A FEW YEARS, PAY FOR THE HOME THEY - j
WANT, THE FURNITURE THEY NEED, THE FINE
CLOTHES THEY'D LIKE?AND ADEQUATE-INSURANCE
TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR OLD AGE.
I Besides?they can have the comfort of a closed ;
\v * ~ rv ?- ,
Ford?with deep, roomy seats and balloon
tires, for less than an open car of any othei\
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WE HAVE A FEW USED CARS THAT HAVE BEEN 3 ^
RECONDITIONED AND ARE WONDERFUL . ^
VALUES FOR THE PRICE. i
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