The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 18, 1927, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
U. D. Nile* . . KdiLor and Publisher
Published every Friday r.t No. 1100
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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
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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.
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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