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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE M. I). Nile* . Editor Mtui Publisher i Published every Friday at No. 1109 , ^ Broad Street and entered a', the Camden. South Carolina, postofflce as second class mail matter. Price per Mtiriuni $2.00. Camden, S. <March II, H*27. 19 27 MARCH 1927 Sun Mmi l???. Wt4.l TVr Sat uTI 01 } I T1 3 4 5 6 | 7 I 8 9 10 11 12 13 | 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ; 21 22 23 24 25 26 ? j 27 28 29 30 31 | W . :*. uj w . . I ? ! i , ? 1 _ w i TilK PRKHS COMMUNIS From the mountains to il^- seaboard the picas of the state are nearly all in accord that the enforcement of the ancient Sunday blue laws will be, and are ulready, harmful to the state. The various comments quoted from many papers, not only in this . state bqt from outsiders, make in- | teresting reading. Some are humor- , ous and some take the more serious , aide of the discussion. The Barnwell People-Sentinel says: "If his interpretation is intended to . put a stop to all work on Sunday, he is inconsistent, and if he were other- 1 wise, it would mean the paralyzing ' of all manner of industry within the ( state. If it is aimed at pleasure, he is likewise inconsistent and discrlm- j natory, in that he allows surf bathing on the coast and prohibits golfing in ' the state; he prohibits the operation < of swimming pools, hut allows the | people to enjoy the pleasure of motorin?" I The Sumter Item is even more caustic. It says: "If Governor Rich- 1 ards persists in his arbitrary and 1 illegal exemption of certain violators t of the Sunday observance laws and insists that others In* arrested and punished, what will happen? Will 1 the people stand for it? Why per- ' init the operation of a toll ferry on I Sunday and close a gasoline filling j station? If a traveler must have a permit to purchase gasoline on Sunday, is is not reasonable to insist that : he should also be required to obtain a permit to purchase a ticket to cross i a toll ferry or bridge? Kershaw County has a very profitable toll ( bridge, why not close it as well as the gasoline filling station?" The Keowee Courier of Walhalla 1 * annot fathom the governor's pur- ' poses but points out that "there is a ' distinct line of demarcation between religion and secular law that cannot be crossed without results jnore or !"ss disastrous through bringing to 1 ih<- surface questions that can never lw? reconciled through legislative action." The Sumter Herald thinks that there are probably other laws on the statute books which would b.' ' ust as odious as the Sunday huvs if they were strictly enforced and says: "We believe that the majority of the l?eople of this state believe in keeping the Sabbath, hut each has his own peculiar ideas regarding it." In Greenville the News is keeping up a vigorous attack upon the discriminations which the governor is making ami wants to kyovv how many of those who are calling for "rigid enforcement of the (Sunday laws" mean what they say and would tolerate a literal carrying out' of these laws. The Horry Herald at the other end of tho state declares that "the governor has tackled the impossible." The Marion Star at first was inclined to be with the governor, but now it asks the question: "Is Governor Richards going far enough oils lie going too far on the Sunday 1.IWS?" Continuing it says: Does the ancient statute intend to bar the pur< base of gasoline and allow the employment of cooks, butlers, chauffeurs J and chamber-maids? Does the law contemplate the use of motor cars,| on the highways, on the Sabbath, I where the journey is strictly fori pleasure, and at the same time tell | men that they will not be permitted I to play golf, on private grounds, without a crowd or excitement? Is it absolutely necessary for trains to njm on Sunday, or for newspapers to be priMMed on that day? We are very nruen in fear that our chief executive, while seeking to ojo the right thing, is going to bring about a feeling that he is going too far. What about Charleston's gardens? Myrtle Beach has long been a week-end resort? the playground of the whole Pee Dee what of that development, which is country ?a Sunday playground, if you phase? What of \ikon's, Camden's, Columbia's and Charleston's tourists, who play golf, and polo on the Sabbath ? There are two sides to every question, and there are decidedly two sides to this enforcement of the ani ient Sunday law. Most newspapers disagree with the governor, and demand a m ?dern interpretation of this an-ient law, which was written at shi p the same time New England w: -- hanging or burning witches. Too nv. v restrictions cause men to break av:?\ an-i flout, authority. Too rigid < noverrent of this law will weaken the law itself and cause men to dis:v--poct authority. Soft words will go 'urthor with Americans than will the lash of law. Lot's teach Sabbath observance?aye?let's live it and Wring about a different viewpoint through tho lessons we teach. Let's reform from impulses of the heart and mind and not from the threats of the law." "With all Governor Richards' lobbying tho solons are ripping up his platform, plank by plunk. There's certainly mutiny alxuvrd the g hkI ship of state, but the captain's to blame in this case," remarks the Florence News-Review. The Wilmington Star ?'cms to think that Governor Richards is goin? into -- metbing that mar be hard* Stur: "Attempt* to move back toward I'ui Itanium may effect u coat of piety in the uurface, hut in the long n? i it Urikeu haideut at the Institution it pretends to perpetuate." u The Auguuta Chronicle think* that a "South Carolina has stepped in and a usurped the position that the wtote t of Kansas ha* heretofore been trying ?j to maintain, tiiat of keeping in tiu* limelight. Sock less Jerry Simpson, Mary Ellen Lease and a few other " celebrities can now give way '.o the i .a'cst from South ( arolina Covernor e Richa rd*. It South ( arolina i? going in make itself ridi.-ulou* why not go the whole length? Why, not enforce I he law literally and completely, or ' i!-? forget it in Ms entirety?" b I nder tin- caption, "A State does t Wild Again," the Atlanta Constitution t. says in part: "The invoking of tiie old colonial "blue laws" in South ' aiolinu js seriously damaging tiiat ^ state economically, and in the end, if " persisted in, will do injury to the v morals of tin- people, rather than . strengthen them. This is a new age and a bettor age?except for the ? few sumptuary laws that still remain n as relics of intolerance." n James I). Grist, writing to The ^ Yorkville Enquirer, from Columbia says: "The consensus of opinion ** among the politicians here is that con- * siderahle rumpus will be kicked up I: about Sunday blue laws for two or ri three Sabbaths perhaps, and then o everything will get hack to normalcy." a GENERAL NEWS NOTES Alexander Kercnsky, who headed n he Russian government after the b jverthrow of c/.ar, is in America to c ieliver a series of lectures. ? 1 he North Carolina legislature v nas passed a bill to third reading pro- v iding for u tax of four cents a gallon k >n gasoline used by .gasoline com- e sanies as well as private individuals. Net operating revenues of the At- d antic Coast Line railway for>Janu- c >ry of this year were nearl/a mil- c ion dollars less than they were in ? January of 1920. tl ( harles A. Lindbcrck, St. Louis, L mail flyer, has entered the lists as a ti ontestant for the $25,000 that is P Doing offered for t#e first non-stop v I'light across the Atlantic from New C York to Puris, Lindberck is the a second entry. c Lady Purdue, holder of the world's i'gg laying championship, aged 11 >' years, is dead at Lafayette, Ind. In >' pleven years the hen laid 1,421 eggs. A mine explosion buried 135 miners r in a Welsh coal mine in Wales on s Tuesday morning. At 1:05 o'clock Tuesday afternoon 22 dead had been v taken fiom the mine, three were ser- y iously injured and 71 were unaccount- a I'd for. j Touy G ilete, alias Paul K. Hoi lis, 'I alleged to have confessed to the slay- ( ing of Bert Donaldson, Atlanta, Ga., ^ iletective, in the Georgia Terrace hotel, Atlanta, last summer, was recently found on a ship at Rotterdam, Holland, and is now en route to Mobile, Ala. j Babe Ruth, "King of Swat," is re- 5 ported to have signed up with the ( New York Americans for three years p at $70,000 per year salary. s l4orty-six men were reported adrift f Tuesday off the Virginia and North t Carolina coasts, in two helpless 1: barges, two light ships and the steam- t er City of St. Louis, as the result 1 ol a fierce northeaster which swept t the mast Wednesday. i Bigham Trial March 16 Hi the Horry County court of general sessions today Judge M. L. Bon- i ham refused a motion made by attoi neys for the defense for a change 1 of venue in the third trial of Edmund D. Bigham on charges of the murder of his brother, L. Smiley Bigham, in January, 1921, and set Wednesday, March 16, at Conway, as the date for the trial. A. L. King and Mendel L. Smith, Bigham's attorneys, were seeking to have him brought .back to Florence for trial. Their motion for a change of venue was vigorously opposed by Solicitor L. M. Gasque. Senator P. H. Arrowsmith who has been assisting the state in the prosecution Joined with the attorneys for the defense in agreeing that it would be more expedient and would cost less to have the trial in Florence than in Horry county. In refusing the motion for a change of venue Judge -Bonharn declared that the question before him was purely a legal one; that while affidavits may have been presented in previous motions setting forth that the defendant could .not procure a fair trial, there now and he therefore held that Bigham should be tried in the Horry were no such affidavits before him county court.?Wednesday's Florence News-Review. C amden To Issue Gasoline Permits | In realization of South Carolina's I duty to the traveling public, the Camden Chamber of Commerce has no'ified tourist points both north and south that gasoline will he obtainable i ''i ( Hindcn on Sunday to all transient I cars by permits from police officers, i and the permits will hp granted without quest ion. Business League Banquet Postponed On ^ account of : ,u. American 'Legions showing of "T,.ll |t j0 Tho Marines" at the Majestic Tncntro on > Monday, M..r\h 11. ;he banquet sohedi.l? d to b,. In Id nti this date hv the , i oung Mens JJntir.esK League, has been postponed. It is probable that i. e League w.I. late the banquet i to tagu place" later during the week i arvi in thi* event every member will I ft. ci\ e pi .?pt i notice. i - . THE NEED OF A GYMNASIUM g* Editor Chronicle;? Although we I * re living in modern times and are n dopting modern ways of living there I re at ill among ua a few of Ihoae who I re either in d^erent or openly an. 11 I agonistic to the physical oduealiou I rogram now being stressed all over I he country. Youth must develop and I ruddle age must exercise in order to it itself and keep itaolf fit for the t ver-inereasing strain of modern uuincas life. The objectors maintain hat too much emphasis is being laced on football, basketball, and aseball. Their fathers and they hcmselves got along without it, why a n't we? The answer is exceeding ximph;. 'ifty years ago there were no autotobiles, folks bad to walk; servants .'ere not so easily procured, boys had o work'; business was not so highly rganized, folks were out in the open nore. Exercise was necessary and nore plentiful. Today young people ;o where they will in ears, work little, ml stuy indoors much. The nee<l for ystematic, organized games is imlerative. Fair-minded people offer 10 objection to a moderate amount f athletics. Only those who natur11 y are "agin everything" make i? Teat howl against progress. Our own town, Camden, is kadly in eed of a place where the young oys, young men, and older ones, too, ! an go and engage in systematic exrcise, and develop their bodies along nth their minds. Other towns have r. M. C. A.'s, or clubs, or high school, ymnasiums. We have none at pres- ' nt. That is our need. ,, To construct a gymnasium in Cam- J en which will house a basketball j : ourt, volley ball court, and be quipped with a moderate amount of i j pparatus for present needs is one of tie aims of the Young Men's Business league, and one which their commitDe is going to make every effort to ut across. The plans and all details nil be explained to the people of 1 'amdun in the near future and you, re going to be invited to lend your o-operation in this venture. i Are you citizens of our town willig to provide some institution where . our children can spend a part of heir spare time engaged in healthful eereation and be kept off the treets? Are you men who are still nterested in keeping your bodies fit .'illing to provide some place where ou can go after your work is over ind again experience the joy of com etition in sport/with your friends? There is a great'opportunity to help Tamden and yourself. Think it over, fou will hear more of it soon. A Member of the Committee. j Beyond Our Memory The Yorkville Enquirer furnishes a ittle history relative to the origin of Sunday observance laws in South Carolina, which may be> of more than lassing interest right now. Records ihow, says The Enquirer, that the irst act to make people, or rather ry to make them, observe the Sab)ath was passed in Charleston, then :alled Charlestowne, December 8,' L691. The act passed then included ,wo sections relating to Sunday which ire not in the code at the present ;ime, these sections reading? "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no planter, I butcher or heigler or any of their servants or slaves, or any other person or persons whatsoever, shall use, employ or travel upon the Sabbath Day with any boate, wherry, canoe or perieugaw, (except it be some case of necessity or publick worship) . upon paine that every person soe offending shall forfeit the summe of five shillings for every such offense; or if any tavern, publick house-keeper shall sell any wine, beere, punch or other lie- ! quor whatsoever (unless it be for necessary occasions for lodgers or so- j journers), upon paine that every such person at the time soe offending shall forfeit the summe of five shillings. "And'be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any master, mistress or overseer shall cause or encourage any slave or slaves to work on the Sabbath Day, shall forfeit for every slavirThe summe of five shillings." KIRKWOOD 01 FT SHOP OPEN Everyone is cordially invited to visit the Kirkwood Gift Shop and see the wonderful assortment of new arid ' attractive gifts and novelties in domestic and imported leather, silver and jewelry. \\ e have added to our stock an unusual selection of children's novelties which include items for the baby from Krueger; the famous Horsntan Heboe-Shebee Dolls; Borgfeldt's distinct imports and Margaret Steiff importations. Wo also have a very large assortment of new and practical plaee-cardR. You will i always find at The Kirkwood Gift Shop your favorite candies, papers, periodicals, new books and a complete l.nc of smoker's accessories.?Adv. ? KERSHAW LODGE No. 2$ tfyy A. F. M. j Regular communication of I lodge is held on the first Tuesday in each month ? p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. 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