The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 04, 1927, Image 4
I THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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Camdrn, S. P., March I, 1027
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Id - p; i j >< - r i ?t r< n i) I/O". fVrl that
' i <i\< / : i i Ki</iaid- ,s Mficeie la
wanting '1 > enforce all lav..-., hut it
appears that ihtie U niwie urgent
neerl of n tijyiiig other condition*
rather than < all in old Father Time
to jo, h.u.l\ in'o the almost forgotten
pa t to gi\e tins .state undue notoriety.
Su<h towns asQ^'amden. Aiken,
Sumtiiei v11 i-. Pharlcston and North
Augusta v. ill be the chief sufferers.
Here hotel nten have laige investment*
m hotel and Rolf property.
The people who conic to these resort
towns are not rough necks, but the
very highest type of Northern citiy.ens?many
of them tired business
men who come here for recreation.
They ate law abiding and there are
only very rare instances in which a
law violator appears among them,
flat the harm has already been done
for we read tin following under tin
Associated Press date line, of February
27, which went broadcast over the
nation:
"Numerous winter tourists eut
vhort their vacations in -Camden because
of the Sunday blue laws being
enforced by order of Coventor Richards.
"At one of the principal tourist
host dries, it was said, several guests
left last night and early this morning,
most ol' them going to Pinehurst,
N. P., where they could play!
g'df. Business men on vacation, who
came South largely for two or three
weeks of rest, with golfing as their
principal diversion, composed the
majority of those leaving.
"At another resort hotel it was
>\ited, none of the guests had yet
gone, but 'they will go if this thing
kerps up.'
"The winter colony was reported to
ave spent a dull day. Some members
hiied horses and sought to pass away
their leisure a1 riding, while others
relu-d upon motoring fur diversion."
And again under date of March .2
>ent out by the Associated Press
f.-om Washington, l>. P., we read this
f! is comfort ing news:
"The South Paralina Sunday law,
ohihit irg the sale of gasoline on
that ?lay. was characterized by F.rnest
Smith. g? ncral manager of the Amcr'<
an Automobile association, in a
Patemi-nt tonight, as "one of the
mod harmful and reactionary steps
taken h\ any Ameruan state" in the
'.went a'h century.
"He predicted that if the law's enforc
ment continued, "South Carolina
'? d.l find herself i - inpletely off the
higr.way .s of motor t-axel," declaring
?)' tourists would not take the
' ' arc ol being 'funded in the state
ri r :.Kk of gas >1 in- i!. .aid the loss
from the tourist ti iffic would amount
to millions <.r dtd'ais yearly."
In regard t<< tilatest move of tin
Governor the Fluicnee News-Review
makes this apt comment:
"< iovernor Ritha' iU is going tc
have a hard time in putting over his
abolition platform. That was erratic
enough hut his friends were ready tc
stand by him in all its folly. But
when he allowed himself to go off or
the Sunday blue law tangent instead
?>f restrict ing himself to matters of
serious impor' with respect to th.
welfare of state, even the friends ol
the governor began to desert the ship
It looked to t lew like a good mar
gone wrong."
Babe Ruth's salary demand ol
$100,000 a season would give the New
o? k slugger an income at the raU
of almost $(> >() a game for 154 games
For a regular nine-inning contest h<
would receive about $72 an inning
Fr.r each of four trips to the batter'*
box in the game he would receivt
about $K0 whether he made a horn*
run. walk or strike-out.
When three bandits attempted t<
rob a bank at Toledo, Ohio, last Sat
u'day, they were fired upon by oik
<<f the bank's employes. One bandi
v;;? shot down and the other two es
raped. This was the first attemptor
bank robbery in Toledo since the asso
i ia!ed banks offered a reward o
$2,500 for every bank bandit dead o
alive.
Hrigadiei General Smedley I). But
ler of the P. S. Marines, has bee1
ordered to l>o ready to sail for Chin
and take command of the marine
le w concentrated at Shanghai.
I .nciing silk hos? too expensive
rrrrie Spanish women arc substitutin,
pk:nt. A congress of painted leg
is eoon to take place, contestants t
be judged not only on contour bu
al-o on brush skill and color treat
m- r?t.
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LETTERS FltOM THE PEOPLE
Editor The Chronicle:?Am many as
three local civic organization* have
gone on record a* disapproving dra?tic
<'0forceim'nt of Soijtli Carolina's1
ant equated Sunday laws and, if it is
the member ship of either or all of
these bodies that lias been likened
unto "poor little puny whipperniiapper
fellows who ?fe standing on
lu-n bind leg* >elping for a wideopen
Sunday," 1 would feign no hesitancy
to plead their defense.
.Most of the gentlemen who form
the membership rolls of the.se bodies
ni i affiliated w.th the churches, all
hitherto have been known a.s lawabiding
and all, so far as I am inI'm
rued, are keenly sensible that tiieli
cm thly existence is but probationary.
Hut when their sacred right to spend
the Lord's Lay according to their
conscientious belief has become jeopaidi/.ed
through enforcement of a
t iv11 law that would tell them how,
why and where to spend the SabbuthJ
these gentlemen and representative
citizens have met the issue without
ienervation and, guided under a spirit
of the Supreme command to do unto
others as they would have done unto
them, they have continued to act
without fear, favor or apology.
In attempting to more clearly present
certain facts that would lead
toward maintaining tin* position I
wish further to state that people I
cannot he converted and legislated
into the Kingdom of God by civil
law, nor is there any common
method in the operation of church
and state, and Governor Richards
long Mine should have acquainted
himself with these vitul facts. The
chutch is to win and save sinners
through the power of love and I
charity, whereas it is the duty of
the state to restrain the criminal by
the law of force.
There can be no proper union between
the state and the church. Such
an unholy commingling or interests
is an utter perversion of the plan of
God to save man by faith through
grace. It abolishes the test of loyalty
and sincerity toward God and tends
to make religion a mockery.
Furthermore Governor Richards
has virtually admitted the futility and
folly of pursuing his crusade against
religious violators. Never in this?day
or generation can he possibly enforce
a law whjch in its complete sense is
intended to affect milk man and maid
servant alike as bear-baiter and bullfighter.
In so many words he has
said that the people, whose right it
is to rule, really need no big stick
swung in a fanatical or would-be
Utopian reformation.
"South Carolina," the governor
stated in his inaugural address, "is
outstanding in her greatness in comparison
with her sister states. . ,
Apply the standard of measurement
and comparison to her industrially,
commercially, and to her educational
and spiritual accomplishments and
sie how true the declaration I have
made. . .It has been said that 'the
least governed people are the best
governed people,' and with this axiom
1 most heartily agree." the governoi
further declared in his first message
to the general a *onibly.
Tr rough the blue Sunday law:which
Governor Richards has soug"h'
to revive he hopes to force every man
* woman and child in South Carolini
lo keep Sunday in harmony with hi*
i own peculiar notion, and those whi
. refuse to conform to his ideas aie '
be lined and incarcerated.
To submit to such a decre# is t
i invite but on' of two things whicl
I is inevitable. Hither America's con
stilut tonal guaranties of civil am
. religious liberty, and the principle ol
the total separation of church an<
i state, must be maintained and sue!
enforcement of our ancient Sundaj
laws be repudiated, or religiou4
f bigotry and tyranny will destroy oui
r free republican institutions.
> To continue to maintain these relig.
ious statutes which are hostile to oui
* fundamental law, and which over-rid<
. the guaranties of religious freedom
* would he to destroy ultimately al
* respect for the constitutional pro
* visions adopted in defense of humar
l ights.
It is little cause for wonderment
> therefore, that public and presi
- throughout South Carolina havi
: united in a demand for revision of th<
t laws governing their conduct on thi
- Lord's day. Theirs is but a vighteou
1 plea for justice toward all mankin,
- and an appeal for a return to tha
f lay when no longer the governmen
r made custodian of religion nor thi
soul of man is shackled with civi
incapacities in matters of faith.
.1. F. McDowell.
a Queen of Kontann, a California he:
s holding the world's egg productioi
to. '? d. is dead after laying 1,17-4 egg
in a period of five years and tw
\ weeks. Her owners docjjn*e??he pai<
g them twelve per cent on an invest
s ment of $10,000 during her lifetime
o Following a nervous shock, a Par
it isinn turned blue al! over. Physician
have been unable to restore Hhw t
his natural color.
ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT
(From The Charleston News and
Courier, February UK):
Does South C arolina want a oneman
government?
This im the baaic question at ieaue
in the present revival of the Suuduy
blue lawn, us these laws are being;
revived.
The Sunday blue laws, dating from
the middle of the seventeenth century
were ordered enforced on the theory,
loudly proclaimed, that since they
were on the books the Governor hud
no choice but to see that they were
carried out. but has the governor
done that?
i'ar from it. Instead, what he has
done lias been to assume a prerogative
which the State Constitution says
most positively belongs only to the
courts. He has undertaken to interpret
these laws and he has done this i
to suit his own purposes.
Sheriffs have been ordered to proceed
against those persons and establishments
which the governor singled
out for discipline. They have been
ordered to let alone other persons and
establishments which the governor
wanted let alone.
Accept that as a principle of government
and you have what Mussolini
is giving Italy. It maybe very fine
but it is a far cry from constitutional
democracy as it has been handed
down from the fathers in America.
The Sunday blue laws jf hdhestly
and impartially enforced would bring
all normal worldly life almost to an
absolute standstill. They make two
exceptions and only two exertions,
namely, works of necessity and works
of charity.
To suggest that these laws were
enforced yesterday either in letter or
in spirit is preposterous. The enforcement
was only in spots. It was
honeycombed with exceptions.
And these exceptions were made by
the governor and rested upon' the
power which is vested in his office to
remove sheriffs who do not carry out
his instructions.
If a governor can do that in the
matter of Sunday blue laws, in how
many other matters can he do it also?
VV hat limit is there to his power to
reward those who, as the ancient
scriptural phase had it, find favor in
his eyes or which rejoice in some
powerful friend at court? What
limit is there to his power to punish
those who run counter to his politics
or his prejudices?
It is not the Sunday blue laws
which are on trial in this performance.
It is a free government, the
right of the citizen to live under n
government of laws instead of a government
of men.
Destroy that principle and you destroy
that which the forbears of the
white people of South Carolina gave
their lives in countless numbers to
win, and which, having won, they esteemed
as precious beyond price.
Governor Richards has talked a
good deal about constitutional gov,
eminent in his attack upon the Tax
Commision. If he can usurp to him,
self the power to say who shall be
. exempted from the laws of South
, Carolina and who shall be subject to
them he will have done more to uniermine
the Constitution than all of
his predecessors put together.
( lo Hold .Mock Elect ion
I he Woman's Missionary Society
) of the colored Piesbyterian church
, on Market Street will hold a "Mock
City Election" at their church on
) Thursday evening, March 10, at 8
j o clock. I his church has a small con?-'
. gregation and they are badly in need
j of finances and the entertainment is
f put on with the view of raising some
j money. There will be six candidates
j ?men and women?of their race to
r present their campaign speeches and
, b'd for the honor of being selected
r mayor. They propiise a most novel
and interesting entertainment and in-'
. vite their white friends as well jfe
r colored to be present. A small ad?
mission fee will be charged. ^
1 Eggs preserved by a new process
. l?r a period of fourteen weeks prf>1
duced chickens that were strong ami
heal Thy.
j KIRK WOOD GIFT SHOP OPEN
Everyone is cordially invited to
visit the Kirkwood Gift Shop and see
p the wonderful assortment of new apd
e attractive gifts and novelties in doss
mcstic and imported leather, silver
i and jewelry. We have added to omr
t stock an unusual selection of children
s novelties which include itemB
1 for the baby from Krueger; the
e famous Horsman Heboe-Shebec Dolje;
] Borgfeldt's distinct imports and Margaret
Steiff "importations. We also
have a very large assortment of nfcw
and practical place-cards. You will
always find at The Kirkwood Gift
Shop your favorite candies, papers,
^ periodicals, new books and a complete
a line of smoker's accessories.?Adv.
KKKSHAW LODGE Noyt9
A. P. M.
Regular communication of
thi* lodge is held on the
first Tuesday in each month
at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are urcloomo
d. T. V. WALSH,
0 J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
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THIS WEEK
By Arthur Brisbane
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Mr. Hrisbane's editorials are pub.
lished as expressions of opinions
of the world's highest-salaried
editor and The Chronicle does not
necessarily endorse all of his
views ami conclusions.
Theie is no question of a third
term for a man who has only been
nominated and elected once.
If m>t President Coolidge, who for
the Republicans ? That question interests
Washington. Three names interesting
the wise are Secretary Mellon,
Secretary Hoover and Frank
Lowden, of Illinois. Secretary Mellon,
older than the two others, is
young enough to manage admirably
after-the-war finances for this nation
and to work nine hours a day at his
offi<?.
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Herbert Hoover has worked like a
slave on development of national resources,
including the Boulder Dam
and waterways from the Great Lakes
to the ocean and the gulf. The country
appreciates that.
Governor Lowden, a practical farmer,
has millions of farmers with him. I
But the main question is:
Does President Coolidge want the
domination.
If he does, it is his.
Montana's Senate last week voted
in favor of the Constitutional Amendment
against Child Labor. The
amendment may be lost, child labor
being profitable, and profits hard to
give up. But it is comforting to see
decency here and there. Ip the end,
of course, the amendment would help
every state, just as the end of slavery
helped all?including states that had
the greatest sacrifices to make.
Child labor cheats grown men and
women of work and cheats the next
generation of its chance in life, to say
nothing of mocking Christ's warning,
"Their angels do always behold the
face of my father, which is in Heaven."
ChiUl labor sends plenty of little
angels to verify that text.
There aie fine women in America.
A year ago Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston,
of California, took up swimming "to
reduce." Last week she swam the
Catalina ChanneT, her eleven-year-olJ
boy crying out to her, "Come on,
Mamma, don't give up." When she
finished the swim, the thirty-year-old
mother was delirious, partly paralyzed
and had been bitten four times bv
savage barracuda.
Too bad that such a woman shoul.l
waste her marvelous vitality on a
battle that pleases the morbid but
does no good. The nation could afford
to pay her to have twenty-one
children instead of swimming twenty'
one miles in icy water.
Bernatd Shaw says mothers should
be paid for having children and adds,
"I would not have a baby for less than
$10,000." He underestimates it.
If he were a woman, with only a
man's courage, and had had one baby,
he wouldn't have another one for a
million dollars.
France builds dozens of tiny airplanes,
smallest in the world; every
French submarine will carry one.
One of these submarine airplanes
rose from the water nine seconds aft^-r
the submarine reached the surface,
went up 2,000 feet, descended
and went aboard the submarine again.
A fleet of submarines coming up
near a big city, discharging its swarm
of mosquito-like airplanes, each carrying
its gas or explosive bomb,
could make the next war interesting.
The "jagged"- lightning, making
"sparks" in the sky is not jagged at
all, Mr. Legg, Westinghouse engineer,
shows with photographs 150 times
faster that motion picture cameras,
that the lightning bolt is a spiral.
That interests those who^know that
the spiral, as opposed to the circle,
is the emblem of progress.
Our earth, accompanying the sun
in its journey through space, travels
ahead toward the star vega, we
going around it, following it take,
a spiral course. You are many billions
of miles from the spot in the
universe where you were born, and
probahly never will go back.
Don't negleet colds, but don't be
panic-stricken when told that Europe's
influenza epidemic may come
here. A wise doctor has said, "The
boRt thing to take for a bad cold is
two days," which means two days of
complete rest in hod. at an oven temperature,
drinking much water, eating
as little as possible.
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I FLORID A
I REDUCED FARES
One-Way Fart; Plus 10 per cent fur the Kouitd Trip. Ticketa
! Good on all Trains Hold to All* Florida Points.
(Stopovers Allowed in Florida) Via
i Atlantic Coast Line
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| Leave Camden on any Train: TkCa. Good till midii't aa follows
SATURDAY March 12 SUNDAY March 27
I SATURDAY .. >. .. March 19 SUNDAY . April 3
I PATURDAY March 26 SUNDAY April 10 .
! SATURDAY April 2 SUNDAY April 17
i SATURDAY April 9 SUNDAY April 24
h THURSDAY April 14 FRIDAY April 20
I ] Fart'H from Camden Quoted Below for Example:
I All Other Florida Points Proportional
Clearwater $22.88 St. Augustine $15.16
Ft. Myers 25.27 St. Petersburg 22.99
Jacksonville 13.69 Sarasota 23.70
Orlando 19.50 Sebring 22.91
1 Miami 28.18 Tampa 22.05 't
West Palm Beach 25.54 Winter Haven 21.29 ^
| ALSO?HAVANA, CUBA?$55.31
Tickets, Reservations, Information from
T. V. WALSH, General Agent, CAMDEN, 8. C.
Telephone 128
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Atlantic Coast Line 1
THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH I
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BUY BUILDING ANI) LOAN
Mont Desirable Means of Owning
Home or Saving Money
In measuring the stability and
strength of an enterprise from an investment
standpoint, whether the institution
be commercial, financial, industrial,
transportational or otherwise,we
naturally consider the personnel,
net assets, activity, volume, service
and other similarly essential
qualities. With one, a group of the
! leading citizens assures success.
With another, the personal magnetism
of the managing head is of importance.
With still another, financial
strength and unlimited monetary
resources tell the story. With yet
another, its establishment, activity
and volume are the determining factors.
All these and many other important
factors assure the stability of the
modern building and loan association.
There is, however, yet another and
still greater assurance that is more
important than all the facts anil figures
that can be compiled.
As a purely mutual organization,
the building and loan association is]
ours; developed by ourselves and for;
our own use. The fundamental |
strength of the association lies in the,
stability and moral standing of you
and me. It is as strong as you and I,
and no weaker. We have organized it I
to defend, protect and build ourselves, J
our business, our families, our homes.
It is closer to us than any other in-1
! ^titution because it is of ourselves. |
Its principal assets are as follows:
I Mortgages covering our own home?
the most essential, most cherished and
most sacred of American institution;.
Stock subscriptions'of ourselves, a de-j
tei mined thrifty people, who are earnestly
striving to improve our position
in life; to build our estates; to establish
financial independence; to safeguard
our families -and our homes.
Installment payments of our own,
made to protect our loved ones
against the ravages of the wolf. A
determination inherent that prompts
us to support, encourage and defend
any institution that has as its main
objective the building and defending
of other homes of our loved ones,
friends and neighbors.
Thus the real assets of a mutual
building and loan association are difficult
to measure. Any institution
that is so closely allied with that
which is nearest and dearest to the
heart of its stock holders and supporters,
certainly has a basic strength
that cannot be destroyed?a strength
that if shaken will in the nature of
things quickly restore its own equilibrium.
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There is one thing that will draw >]
the fire and courage of even the moat
passive citizen. It is the defense of
his home, the shelter of his own family.
In spite of all trials and tribula* ;
tions, regardless of difficulties, the 1
true American citizen will practice I
every conceivable privation rather
than lose his home or jeopardize the
interests of his family.
Thus it is that building and loan
associations are, ao strong, so safe.;
They seldom fail. Their success is
usually pre-assured. The average association
is vigorously and- loyally
supported, and produces an excellent !
income, to say nothing of its enor- i
mous service to the community. Tie .
earnings for building and loan as*?
ciations are mutuall^Hiivided prordyL ,
among the stock holders so that each .
earns strictly in proportion to the \
size of his holdings. The one share
holder earns as much in proportion j
as the 100 share holder. Failure or
delayed maturity is a very rare occurrence
comparatively, because the
basic strength of the building and
loan goes back to the very foundation
of American safety itself?back to:
the American home.
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THINGS WORTH KNOWING, j
Interesting Notes Gathered Fro*
Many Sources.
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Pigeons in s*earch of gravel Mm
damaging the masonry of somet^B
London's public buildings. A
six-foot seven-inch soldier ;^B
Fort Sheridan wears the largest shoaB
made for the United States arn$?^B
size 12 EE.
By the use of a specially design^ H
snare, during the month* of NovtfkjB
ber, Ontario trappers took 652 wolve^B
on which the government pays bpOM
ties. From November, 1925, to
1926, more than 3,000 wolves wdjM
killed in the province.
In Texas traffic was blocked
motorists forced to detour because
hordes of bullfrogs traveling froa^B
swamp to swamp.
In search of copper and other roifr^B
erals, thousands of square milesfl
Northern Rhodesia are to be explore!
The oldest institution of leafl?|^|
in the new world is the UnivertttfdjB
San Marcos at Lima, Peru, founWfl
under Pizarro in 1561.
At the GatunJLocks of the Paa*B
Canal, liners are raised eighty-fi^M
foot above sea level for a fjftf "3
inland voyage from- Atlantic J
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Nothing But the Best |fl
Is our constant aim in supplying you with Pfug?*"a
Medicines?Sick-room requisite# and household neces* I
sities. In fact quality istour first consideration in *" I I
departments. We handle Garden Seed from-reliabl* 1
seed growers only. Our prices are fair and we try tfr 1
give Satisfactory service* Come in to see us, make our
store your meeting place or phone us your wants-*
We appreciate your business -?- * *
W. Robin Zemp'8 Drug Store I
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(Necessities only sold on Sunday) .'1
Telephone 30 . Csunden, S. y*J