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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE U. D. Nile* . . KdiLor and Publisher Published every Friday r.t No. 1100 Uroad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina, postofflce as aecond class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, ' 1 - - - - r - Camden. H. Friday, March 18, 1027 1927 MARCH 1927 Wed.i n? >rt |"5l " Ui ! Hi 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 H 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 UJ W w; w ui . ? Unless the* Legislature musters up sufficient backbone to make a definite declaiation on the Sabbath observance law* the confusion created by Governor Richard* will become worse confounded. If it is no crime for a bus line to transport passengers on Sunday, but a crime for an airplane to carry passenger* for hire the legislature should say *o. If the Legislature enacts a law enumerating the forbidden occupations and amusements the people may accept the ruling of that body until the supreme court declares the law constitutional tind enforcuble, but a great many law-respecting citizens will not submissively bow to Governor Richards' dictum us to what is a crime ahd what is not. The governor is neither the supreme court nor an infallible autocrat. ?Sumter Item. Does it pay police in cities and towns to be unusually strict in enlorcing traffic laws, especially against strangers or does it pay to be more liberal? Many communities throughout the country have proved quite satisfactorily that liberal application of traffic laws with reference to strangers is the most profitable in the long run. The day of "pinching" the public for every slight Infraction is past. The consensus of opinion expressed by police officials at the recent National Motorcycle show held at New York was to the effect that it is u > longer considered good form to maintain police forces merely to see howmany arrests can be made. On the contrary, the majority of police and municipal heads judge the efficiency of police effort by the lack of arrests. In other words modern police practice is following the plan of preventative action rather than punitive action. One |M>Iice official in his orders recently stressed this point to his subordinates by pointng out that an officer showing an unusual number of arrests would l>e considered not fuiiilling the policies of the department. He pointed out that a reduction of accidents within an officer's sphere of activity means more to the community than u large number of arrests for minor infractions. Municipal authorities who have givi n a great deal of thought and study to the problem claim that the presence of a properly uniformed and properly mounted officer on the road acts as u satisfactory deterent to deliberate law infractions and enables an officer to thoroughly patrol a given territory, lending aid to snarled traffic and by keeping vehicles on the move, reduce the possibility of collisions. Increiiged traffic congestion in all localities has made it almost imperative for communities to adopt motorcycle patrol to effectually handle traffic confusion and congestion. Present street and road conditions require a type of patrol which may bo quickly maneuvered in and out of traffic thus enabling the patrol officer to reach a given point in as short a time as possible. Leon Duruy, French automobile racing driver, covered 250 miles at Culver City, Cal., Sunday in 2 hours, 16 3-5 minutes, averaging 124.71 miles per hour, broke the record for speed in a enr of 01.5 cubic-inch displacement and won $10,000 prize money. Rural Officers Appointed Sheriff J. H. McLeod has named R. M. Ford of Longtown as rural police officer for West Wateree; C. P. Hilton for Flat Rock; S. P. Watkins for Buffalo, and W. L. Hunnicutt for DeKalb township. Mr. (?. F. Cooley has been named as deputy sheriff. These rural policemen will also act as magistrates' constables. To (live I'ageant The Girls' Auxiliary of Wateree Baptist church, under the leadership of Miss Jessie I/ce Robinson, will give a pageant at Beaver Dam church at .3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, March 20. The public is cordially invited to attend. Augustus, in the document annexed to his will, mentioned that he had exhibited S.000 gladiators, and 3,510 wild bea- tj. CAMDEN GOLFERM FREED Verdict Reached in Four Minuicn After Trial Laitting Four Hours Governor John G. Richards' program to prevent .Sunday golf mot rohuff last Friday in his homo county of Kershaw. Fight Camden men, who | were arretted for alleged violation of the Sabbath statutes because they played on the Country club linkd Sunday, March ti, were found not gujlly in four and one-half minutes by a ju/y in the court of Magistrate W I.. Del'uss. The prosecution was conducted by I the altoiney general of the state, I John M Darnel, l?y request of the chief executive, who also sent to assist Mr. Daniel, I), \V. Robinson, a ( olumbia attoi ne>. Also assisting the slate was Samuel N. Nicholson of the Camden bar. 1 itfj defendants were represented by Attorneys L. A. Kirkland, E. D. illakeney, If. If. Clarke, Jr., and Henry Savage, Jr., all of this city. 1 he names of the young men acquitted, all of whom are citizens of ( amden, are as follows: James DeLoache, Jr., Ralph N. Shannon, John VV hitaker, Jr., VV. T. Redfearn, Fred I- Harlow, J. F. McDowell, Mendel L. Smith, Jr., and Hughey Tindal. I he jur y in tliis case was made up business men of Camden. T. Lee Little acted as foreman and others serving were A. Clifton McKain, Gu-s Hirsch, P. D. Stokes, J. G. MeCastkill and A. M. McLeod. 1 rial of the golfers was originally set for Monday morning, March 7, but, upon motion of the state, was continued until Friday. The acquittal here is the second failure of the state to obtain a conviction under the old laws. Sunday Observance Editor W. W. Smoak, of "the Walv terboro Press and Standard, has the following in his paper of last week. Mr. Smoak s views will be read with interest when it is known that he is a representative from Colleton county and one of the leaders in the house: "Much is being said and heard on the question of? Sunday observance. Governor Richards has unfortunately given much publicity to the state of an undesirable kind and the result wtll be to keep travelers from coming into South Carolina. We believe in a proper observance of the Sabbath, and < ei tainly do not favor engaging in the business of the week, nor in some of the kinds of commercialized sports other states permit, such us games of football, baseball, tennis, etc., or the keeping open of motion pictures on the Sabbath, although as to this latter, we do not see that there would be anything so very objectionable in educational or religious pictures on Sunday in the cities or where manypeople do not get opportunities to see them during the week days. Certainly there can be no reason for digging up at this time these antiquated laws which were objectionable even in the days they were enforced. The enforcement of them can do no good, and there should not have been any attempt to enforce them made by Governor Richards. As was said by the News and Courier he is only now attempting to enforce such as meets his fancy and the laws for Sunday, now are those picked out by the state's chief executive as sole arbiter as to what is right or wrong. The only reason which would have justified him wa-s to call attention to them so that they might have been repealed, but this was not his purpose. "The legislature will pass a more liberal law for the observance of the Sabbath, but whether or not their law will meet the approval of the governor remains to be seen. If he should veto the law as passed, then it will be up to the general assembly to over-ride his veto, and it is doubtful if the legislature as constituted wijl do this. "While the publicity has hurt the state, the rules of the governor have not affected Walterboro nor Colleton county very much save in the convenience of travelers in getting gasoline, which has become a modern necessity. Walterboro has had almost the same blueness of law for a number of years, and -so have many other sections of the state. Only in those portions where the population is made up of people from other sections of the country,'' resort centers, does the observance of the extreme blueness hurt. "We suspect that there will be legislation during the week on these laws, and there should be a more liboral treatment of the works of necessity, and less notoriety given the state at this time." The body of William Clayton Webb a navy pay clerk, was found dPad at the Washington navy yard Wednesday under circumstances that indicated that he had shot himself. Webb was a native of Seneca. S. C. Iron ore of extreme richness, testing C>8 per cent pure metal, has beer discovered in Leghorn, Italy. Thi? may free Italy from the necessity of importing iron. Fund* Needed For Upkeep The writer has been asked to pell to the attention of those interested in the Oumdeii ,cemetery to the vandalism of persons unknown who have and are destroying plants, bulbs end flowers that have been placed there to beautify that sacred spot where loved ones rest. Last year the Cemetery Association made every effort both in the papers and through the churches to bring before the people of Camden the need of enough funds to hire 4 good keeper. The association is made up of those who give their dollar i year for tho upkeep of this place which should be of interest to everybody in this city. A plea for new members was made for this is the j only way that money can be raised for the upkeep. The association itself has only a few members, comparatively and cannot without help meet the experiods which are necessarily incurred. Surely those who have loved ones in "this city of the dead" should be willing to contribute a dollar a year and from these faithful few who have for many years borne the burden of this work t/iat should be the work of every one. If there was a dependable keeper there, the place would not be desecrated by vandals. Nor would the gates be left open or locks broken, Everyone who owns a plot there is supposed to keep up their own premises but a keeper is required for just sucliL^?reason as cited above besides doing^he general cleaning up and to be responsible for the oversight of the cemetery. Whereas the high cost of living has increased so have wages. At one-time a dollar a day to the keeper was sufficient but that no longer is the case. Unless everyone bestirs themselves and helps the association there can be nothing done to keej) these mauraders out from h place that should be held sacred. - We take pride in our city, why should we not take pride in this city of our dead ? Miss Margaret McDowall is president of the cemetery association and Mr. L. T. Mills is secretary and either of them will be glad to hear from new members and our mayor, Mr. C. P. DuBose, has promised help ftom the town but the people of the town must do their part. Met With Mrs. Sheorn The American Legion Auxiliary held its business meeting at the home of Mrs. Wylie Sheorn, with Mrs. Hobson Hilton as assistant hostess, on Friday. The afternoon was given up to a discussion of ways and means to help the Ivegion with their new home. About sixteen members were present. After the business was over delightful refreshments were served. The meeting adjourned until the second Friday in April. The five largest members of the new Fat Men's Club in Berlin boast an aggregate weight of more than a ton. A minimum weight of 350 pounds is required for membership and the weightiest member passes ?his mark by 84 pounds. Mr. Frank K. Bull Dead A message was received in Camden Monday announcing the death of Mr. Frank K. Bull at Hollywood, California, Sunday. Mr. Bull had for a long number of years been a winter resident of Camden, being the owner of "Holly Hedge," one of the show places of Camden. He was a pleasant, affable gentleman and had numbers of friends in Camden. His home was in Racine, Wis., to which place the body was taken for burial. He is survived by his wife and one son and one daughter. The Mail Order House Knows Herman Rosenthall, advertising manager for Sears, Roebuck & Co., recently said: "We have a bureau whose duty it is to read each week the home newspapers from all over the country. There is not a paper of any consequence in our trade territory that our firm does not get. This bureau looks over these papers and when we find a town where the merchants are not advertising in the local papers, we immediately flood that territory with our literature. It always brings results far in excess of the same effort put forth in territory where the local merchants all the time use their local papers." Here is one case where the antidote to the mail order evil is evident. The local merchants should keep the > home fires burning by liberal and in. cessant use of his home advertising mediums. The local community is sure to read some advertisement and i they might as well be yours. What Herman Rosenthall says is as i true as Gospel. The house that does , not advertise is losing business. It is not alone losing business locally, but it permits the mail order houses to step in and take business away. The man who is getting the business is the one who has the goods, i who gives the service and who adi vertises. He is winning success bcrause ho deserves it.?Morgan ton News-Herald. THIS WEEK I Hy Arthur Brisbane I Mr. Brisbane's editorials are published as expressions of opinions of the world's highest-salaried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. The good thing about American prosperity is that it spreads further and further fronr. the great control sources of wealth. In ancient days, a i icli nobleman in his palace wus surrounded by ignorant, miserable, half-starved, barefoot peasants, Later the owner of a great factory in [Now England had the "satisfaction" of knowing as no lay in bed before daybreak that the men and women were already on the way to his mill to make money for him and earn for themselves barely enough to keep alive. 1 hat has changd, and will change more. Millions of men go to work in automobiles. And the automobile widens their sphere of labor. A carpenter or bricklayer can work comfortably anywhere within fifteen or twenty miles of his dwelling. That change is as important, almost, as the invention of the locomotive. The Dives-Lazarus dinner party is over. Dives still has more than he needs, more than he should have, but "tZfl2aru? htu? plenty/and travels in his kittle limousine while waiting to travel in Abraham's bosom. It would have interested you to see a Southern Pacific train getting ready to start from Oakland, one evening last week. Half a dozen well-kept good automobiles drove up, one after another. A man, well dressed, contented, prosperous-looking, got out of each. His wife, who changed to thg wheel to drive the car home, was prosperous-looking and proud to take her husband to his work. Those were colored porters of the Southern Pacific Pullman cars and their wives. What a change from the days of I ncle Tom's Cabin, and the change is as great for white workers as it is for colored men. Seventy-five years ago pious New Englanders, excited about "abolition" and the terrible lot of poor black slaves in the South, were told by the late Albert Brisbane, "By all means free the black slaves in the South. But what about white slaves in your own NewEngland factories? What about the white women who go to work in your cotton mills before daylight and get home after dark? It is worse than black slavery, because the black slave owner keeps him fed and healthy that he may continue to live and work, whereas you don't care what happens to your white slaves, since you can get, for nothing, more when they die." Slavery can be and has been as bad on a "wage basis" as on a basis of physical slave ownership. Modern industry, highly productive, intensely organized, immensely profitable, takes a step toward civilization when it allows those that do the work and produce the comforts to have some comfort for themselves. v- Those colored women, driving their husbands to work, in good automobiles, will cause the foolish to ask, "Dear me, what is the world coming to?" It is coming to better days, greater happiness for the crowd and greater security for the few that skim off the cream. 4 _ Certain clergymen are accused of being "red." Their accusers want r?bem investigated by a ConegTessional Judiciary Committee. A clergman is "red" when he does not believe that a whale swallowed Jonah and coughed him up on the land. He is "red" if he believes that the advice to give all to the poor was really meant seriously. He is "red" if he doubts that Joshua made the sun stand still in its trip around the earth in spite of the fact that it doesn't go around the earth. He is "red" if he says the four angels could not have stood on the four corners of the earth because it hasn't four corners. And he is bright red, if he thinks anything should be done to let everyL body bave enough, here, where so many have too much. Spoke at Wateree On last Sunday morning Mr. C. W. Birch more addressed the Young Men s Bible class of Wateree Bap' tiat church and all who heard him enjoyed his talk very much. * Senator Welsh Undergoes Operation < Friends throughout Kershaw coun' ty will regret to know that Senator Cirovor ('. Welsh has been confined to a hospital in Columbia for more < than a week. An operation was per- 1 formed on Tuesday and reports from the hospital state that he is rapidly improving and expects to be back at his place in the Senate shortly. Program Sunday Evening The Chronicle has been requested to announce that the Sunday School of Bethel A. M. E. Church on South Broad street will hold a literary pro gram Sunday evening at 8:30 o'clock ^ to which the public is invited. KIRK WOOD GIFT SHOP OPEN . Everyone is cordially invited to 1 visit the Kirkwood Gift Shop and see the Wonderful assortment of new and attractive gifts and noyelties in domestic and imported leather* silver and jewelry. We have added to our stock an unusual selection of chil- ' dren's novelties which include items < for the baby from Krueger; the famous Hor8man Hebee-Shebee Dolls; Borgfeldt's distinct imports and Margaret Steiff importations^ We also have a very large assortment of new and practical place-cards. You will I always find at The Kirkwood Gift Shop your favorite candies, papers, periodicals, new books and a complete line of smoker's accessories.?Aav. Wants?For Sale ONLY ONE HUNDRED BUSHELS 1 ?Left' of Coker's long staple Delta Type cotton seed for sale. Selected. Pulls one and five-six- . teenth inches. One year removed 1 at $1.50 per bushel. The cotton brought 25 cents per pound on the 13th day of December, 1926, when the price of cotton was about at * its lowest. Your last opportunity to get the best at a low price. Call 'y on F. M. Zemp, Camden, S. C. 51-52-sb FOR RENT?Two unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. Close in. Phone 491. 51-1-pd ' LADIES?Make $25 to $50 weekly addressing cards at home. Experience unnecessary. Two-cent * stamp brings full particulars. J A. B. Thomas, Anderson, Ind., Box 21. 51-pd SALESMAN WANTFdMn'Cam'clen 'to sell Men's Shoes direct to wearer. ' Regular position to right man. Write H. Tracy Odom Organization, Box 746, Winston-Salem, N. C. 50-52-pd WE CLEAN?Anything from neckties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 655. "HICK FEED?We have just receiy, ed Startena and Baby Chick fyJ J <Jet the best sold in chackorbo^J I bags. For sale by Rhame Hrw I; Phone 92, Camden, 8. C. 50-5l^a I OK 8 a! V?Ftf ty" VwhehTof^!J? poorwiU peas, $1.60 per fl gathered in dry weather. AddrtS? Allen B. Murchison, Rte. 4, ('i^H den, S. C. NOTICE?Persona desiring curtail stretched will please apply to fil Campbell avenue. 50.? FOR SALE?Iron Peas, $2.00~~p(^B bushel, f.o.b. Camden. K. M. Kea? nedy, Jr., Camden, S. C. &0-52<d| WANTED?To hear from owner oil good farm for sale. State- cash? price, full particulars. I). F. R"ffk| Minneapolis, Minn. 51-sb FOR RENT?Two rooms, furnished! for housekeeping. Oil stove, refrig.| erator, dishes, bed and table lints B furnished; use of bath and tele-1 phone. Reasonable rates. No chil. Bdren. Call Telephone 239. 50-tf | CARPENTERING?For any kind of I carpenter work see John S. Myers, 1 at 812 Church Street, or phone I 268. I will be glad to serve the I public. All work will be done ? promptly and guaranteed as to ? workmanship. I specialise in house I building. First class finishing, cab- I inet making, mantles and screening, I I solicit your patronage and csn B furnish best of references. 48-tf I FOR SALE?Five-room brick bunp- I low, corner lot, Union street CSg. I age in yard. A real bargain, la. J ply to J. W. Lenoir, South ern'Car? ton Oil Co., Columbia, S. C. 4941 H FOR SHOE REPAIRING call attb Red Boot Shop next door to b.? press office. A. M. JONES, Pri(M FOR SALE-^Cabbage,, Tomato il Bermuda Onion Plants, $1.00 |? 1,Q00. ^Pepper, Sweet Potato fl? Egg Plants $2.00 per 1,000. Prom? Shipment. Dorris Plant Co., V&l-H dosta, Ga. 48-51-alB WANTED?No. 1 nine logs. Highest 1 caslf prices paid; year round de- ? mand. Sumter Planing Jfito'ioi? FOR SALE?yGood see4 corn for sale. ? Williams Improved ted cob. S, Em Brasington, Camden, S. C. 49-51p? FOR RENT?Two furnished rooms | with hot and cold water, at reason-? able rate. Call telephone 244-J,? Camden, S.. C. 49-61pd I FOR SALE?A few choice pieces of B old furniture. Two HepplewhiU I sideboards, one pine, one raahoga-H ny and one walnut corner cupboard,? several tables, mirrors, chest of? drawers, clocks, chairs. One and? a half hours drive from Camden.? Address P. O. Box 316, Chestt&^| S. C. 49-3sb. .. _ , " ' r^inm.w GARDEN SEED~l| ?FRESH FROM BUIST? Complete stockB from which to make 1 selections for early planting. ^ DeKALB I'll A RM A C V I Telephone 95 4 Prompt DeliveryI FRESH II GARDEN SEED AND FLOWER SEED jl CAREFULLY SELECTED II W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store: j Phone 30 Mail Orders Promptly Filled I ll II I $50.00 REWARD For first information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the party or parties peddling from house to house a so-called medicine named "Dr. Kimble's Indian Swamp-Root." This is an imitation of Dr. Kilmer's . Swamp-Root, the famous kidney tonic, manufactured by Dr. Kilmer & > Company, Binghamton, N. Y. The original SwamprRoot is an orange colored package with tlje picture of Dr. S. Andral Kilmer on the front and is always sold through established drug merchants. The sale of an imitation SwampRoot violates the United States Trade Mark Laws and also the Federal and State Pure Drug Laws. DR. KILMER A COMPANY Binghamton, N. Y. Tkt Real Ongiail J -L1 __ Swamp-Root r