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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE M. I). Niles . . Kditor and Publisher Published every Friday ftt No. 1100 Hroad Street and entered at the Cam den, South Carolina, postofflce as second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. Camden, S. Friday, April 1, 1027. v 1927 APRH' 192y Sua Mow". Tim. Wed TImi. 9iL , Set. ' UJ UJ UJ' UJ ~W 1T~~T 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 V5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 UJ UJ UJ f __ L_ Inaccurate Newspaper Statements The Philadelphia Record says That when you wt* a misstate men', in your local newspaper it i> no*, necessarily evidence of stupidity. o*~vlehsneas, malice or mendacity No two witnesses of the >.kv; t << dt ever see it from rvi.t.y '..}>< .rut ariKlc, or even tell jnw.wcy *.1m sum story about it, rwr ?i*- c>: y,'jg under oath tr a ?f a? Newspapers, no ??'.!<* *. v . a. fully edited, are a> ..tbie to <ctv? t' any other products of human aity ami lal>or. Reporters are seldom actual partic.pants in the events whph they chronicle. The newsgatherers are obliged to obtain their information at second ur third hand. They hear, und are sometimes obliged tp attempt to reconcile, conflicting statements. When the reporter has gathered his facts, they pass successively through the hands of the copyreader, linotyper, proof-reader and corrector, each of whom is a possible source of error. To any man or woman who has become familiarized by long years of experience with the mechanical processes of a newspaper and the personal factors that enables it to function, the wonder is, not that it makes so many mistakes, hut that it makes so few. Newspapers seldom lie deliberately. They seldow distort facts deliberately. Few of them are careless. Their editors know that a reputation for inveracity or negligence is money out of the till. The next time you detect an inaccuracy in a newspaper account of tin event of which you have some knowledge, give the staff the benefit of the doubt. If it's a police item, visualize the policeman, who gave the information. If it's a business item or a social item, ask yourself whether the reporter's informant had a molive f* r conveying a false impression. It is not fair to the newspaper to convict it without a hearing. Why make the newspaper the goat '.' Robert Wei nor, leader of an effort to effect escape of several prisoners ft on- the Toombs prison in New York, last November, in which a warden and a guard were killed, has been sentenced to the electric chair at Sing Sing, the execution to occur on May 2. Three other men are to he tried for the same offense. The New Jersey legislature has passed a hill putting a tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline. Farm motors, busses and municipal cars ave exempted from the tax. Gold holding of the Federal reserve banks on March 25 totaled $:t,0it3,000,000, the highest total of the year. Sunday Law* and KoUllve Value* Whatever may be the right way to handle the matter of Sunday obaervanee, the Kichaida way is certainly not the Hght one. Beginning with law crankiam, descending to the ludicrous, it now threatens to sink into the seriously pitiful. To add to the governor's willful personal despotism in selecting what laws he will | enforce, while deliberately neglecting I others of at least equal importance on tiie same subject, a circuit judge lias now entertM^the lists with a badly strained contraction of the power of injunction that introduces an undignified squabble between the executive and the judiciary. If the governor really wants to ascertain the opinion of the highest court upon the question of golf, why does he not have a friendly case, as customary when such i? the purpose, rushed thrvvugh the various stages? But instead he declares his intention to charge upon Aiken with the whole I of his special constabulary to arrest |a! the lynchers? pardon? all the i f who can he apprehended. TY-e fowrv.or seems to have a most 7 veivce- The South Caro. v?f If'J'i. in sections arid 4.V/1. specially forbids the Vt?.7 : .g cr. Sarday of any steam railway ::x. * except "regular mail trains." "trains laden exclusively with vegetables and fruits," and a few others such as wrecking trains. By what possible twist of conscience or official oath van this be overlooked and hundreds, if not thousands, of men be left at hard labor on the railroads while the whole force of executive power is directed at a few quiet golfers? It is well to have a consi iencc, but as Henry James puts it, dont have the kind of conscience that inukes a fool of you. When all the illegal railroad trains have been stripped, when all the Sunday joy-riders have been rutflrained and no one is allowed on wheels without a written certificate from the sheriff or magistrate?if one can be found when needed?when all the ' bootleggers have been chased down, when a few of the lynchers have been apprehended, when a fair proportion of the resorts of vice that all but hang out electric signs have been forced to suspend their* business at least on Sundays we may find time to ponder on the proper penalty for a man who plays golf in the back yard of a country club, or without a . written permit bribes a garage owner to repair a punctured tire so as to get him to his suffering patient, his waiting congregation, or his anxious old mother. We protest that the Ford and the ox cart ought to be allowed the same equal right to be pulled out of the ditch on the Sabbath, even though the Ford isn't mentioned in the Book. If we are to have four years of sueh misapprehension of relative values, may God pity us?the God Who said that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.? Newberry Observer. You Get Better Service The Monroe Journal speaks from experience, as most uewspapers can testify when it says: A large advertisement cannot be set up in a few minutes ami when they are all held back to the last moment the paper is certain to be late and even some maybe left out. Advertisers should plan their ads a little ahead to get best results and consult with the papers about getting them in. It has gradually become a habit to wait till the last moment. Every one thinks he is getting an advantage and the result is that no one gets served as well as might be. If the newspapers are to give their best service they are certainly due this much co-operation and thoughtfulness on the part of the people they servo. The Bellringer Of all the persons who visit our town from day to day the most disgusting is the type of house to house peddler known as the "Bell Ringer." He comes into t-he town with an inferior article, many times with an introductory offer, goes front house to house with his wares,, and with some kind of plea requests the women of the-houses to purchase his wares. It may be china, it may be hosiery, it may be furniture polish, whatever it s he carries ntonev away and leaves you no guarantee that it is what he claims it to be. He pays no taxes, he supports no church, he pvs nothing for improvements of the city, he doesn't . art? about anything you have or expect to have but the dollar. When you give him the dollar he is -gone well satisfied whether or not the goods you have purchased give satisfaction. The men of Camden are now working for" the development of the city. The women can lend great assistance by refusing to consider the wares of the peddler. On the next visit of one1 of these individuals to your house' just politely but firmly refuse to consider his offers and thereby help in the great work of building the city. Real Estate SPECIAL r Ten-Room Residence facing South on Rectory Square, re I | cently worked over with attractive old features retained. Don't overlook this. Special price $7,650.00 It will be a pleasure to show you this as well as other larger or smaller homes. N.C.Arnetti i In connection with y C. P. DuBOSE & CO. "Don't forget us when you need fire insurance" % Dr. Frank Crane Says: <*ive Them Credit?Theae Flapper* Mr. Bruce Findlay, assistant superintendent of I<os Angeles schools, in uii address the other day asked: "Why should we assume that the flapper of 1927 will make a poorer mother than the 'flapper' of yesterday, who has been her mother?" There is just as much to the modern girl as there ever was to her ancestor. The fact that she wears short skirts and bobs her hair is not against her. She wears less clothing than her ancestors and is consequently healthier. She is more addicted to outdoor sports with beneficial results. Altogether the modern flapper of today is just as well prepared for motherhood as was her mother, and better than she. There is no more danger to a girl from taking an automobile ride thftn there was from taking a buggy'ride. Of course dissipation and late hours are bad for anyone and in proportion as a woman indulges in this she is endangering her health and endangering posterity. But take it all in all the girl of today is quite as sensible as her mother was yesterday and we may look forwurd with confidence to the future of the race. It never was in be^yr hands. Those of today are just as serious-minded as their mothers were the day before. Virtue is not to be founded upon ignorance but upqn knowledge, and if Join the Cotton Content 1 he cotton manufacturers association of South Carolina has appropriated $2,000.00 for prizes for the cotton contest to be conducted in 1927 through the extension service of Clemson college, much along the same line as it was conducted in 1926, according to an announcement recently issued by County Agent J. W. Sanders. "While ull the contestants cannot win prizes they must keep in mind," says Dr. Long, director of extension, "that if the five acres are given intelligent supervision they will be the most profitable acres on the farhj, and it will therefore pay farmers to enter the contest aside from winning prizes." "It is our belief," adds Dr. Long, "that special attention should be paid to varieties, in the hope of producing nothing less than one-inch staple, hence the penalties in the published rules regarding length of staple. Since the contest is educational in character we :pe anxious to have as many farmers as possible to enter, and .we trust they will realize that there is much more to be accomplished than winning prizes?an opportunity to render big service to the state. Farmers should see the county agents at once for application blanks or write to the extension service at r'lemson College. Regarding th?> significance of the contest Director Long says further: "No industry has been so ignorantly and inefficiently managed as the industry of cotton production. So long as the Texas acreage varied between nine and one-half and ten and onehalf million acres, our standard of living and the price of labor were not. so costly, and taxes were less burdensome, and we were able to produce cotton in competition with the' states across the Mississippi; bun Texas has doubled its acreage in six years, and with our greater cost of production and increased taxes it impossible for us td compete with Texas under old slip-shod production methods." -r- . ?J m I- . ' ' - * ? the girl of today knows more than her mother did it helps her and does not hinder her. She is prepared to be a mart's partner and equal and notT his ala^e and plaything and in this respect she has the advantage over former years. As far as 1 am concerned, the girls of tod/iy are healthier, better-looking and more desirable as companions than wdre the girls of 'yesterday. This old world is bumping merrily along and some things about it some people don't like, but on the whole it is improving. In Paris, French criminologists say, women far outnumber men in the colorful underworld maintained for the umusement of tourists. Visitors are Inclined to invest the woman lawbreaker with a halo of romance, police declare in placing the responsibility for this fact. American tree seeds in large quantities are being sent to the battlefields in Europe by the American Tree association as "messengers of peace and good will." RETIRING FROM BUSINESS Discontinuing business April'1st i take this method of thanking my friends and the public generally for their liberal patronage during the many years it has been my privilege to serve them. I appreciate beyond expression the many considerations and kindnesses which have been shown me. Very respectfully, G. C. BRUCE. p- ? ?? CHARLESTON VISIT MAGNOLIA GARDENS; "I specialize in gardens and freely assert that none in the world is iso beautiful as this."?John Galaworthy. MIDDLETON PLACE Masterpiece of a famous gardener using 1,000 man years' of labor. Old Tudor Mansion, still occupied. ROUND TRIP FARE FROM * CAMDEN $4.00 Tickets on sale 4for all regular trains April 1 and 2, good returning until April 6, and April 8 ami 9, good returning until April 13. Schedules and information from T. V. WALSH, JR., Gen. Agt. Phone 128 CAMDEN, S. C. ATLANTIC COAST LINE The Standard Railroad of the South > **. Wants?For Sale LOST?On Monday between Seaboard station and Main street a brown pocketbook containing a pair dark rimmed glasses, Winthrop class pin, small pocket knife, several other small articles and small amount cash, several letters addressed to Mrs. L. J.Watts. Finder please return to 820 Chesnut Street, Camden, S. C. 1-sb FOK SALE?One Tom Houston skidder, for Fordson tractor, in good condition. Apply F. M. Zemp, Camden, S. C. 1-sb FOR SALE?Wilt Resistant tomatoe plants for sale. Apply Mrs. Joe Sheheen, 1514 Mill street, Camden, S. C. . 1-pd C (' R TaTn s'sT R ETC HE D?A ny one wishing curtains stretched please apply at 904 Campbell Street. Prices reasonable. ' 1-sd FOR SALE?One' 7(^25 Ford truck with starter. Has just been overhauled. Good cab and body. Good tires all around. Will sell at reasonable price to quick buyer. Cash or terms to responsible party. Apply to N. Snyder, Laurens Street, Camden, S. C. 1-4-pd WANTED^A Wade Hampton, suitable for use in school. See Mrs. F. Leslie Zemp, Camden, S. C. 1-sb FOR RENT?One seven room unfurnished house on corner of Hampton Park and Fair street. Also one five, room furnished cottage for rent. Apply to G. C. Bruce, Camden, S. C. FOR SALE?-Seventy-five bushels Delta Type long staple cotton seed, No. 4, strain first and second year from Coker's. $1.00 per bushel, F. O. B. Lugoff, cash with order. Address Mill Bank Farm, Lugoff, S. C. 1-2-sb FOR SALE?One good mule for sale '"cheap. Apply J. J. Cunningham, *>.'Camden, S. C. ' 1-sb REAL ESTATE?-Sumter, choice Main Street business property, centrally located, 181 feet frontage, including five brick stores, all occupied. Also model home. Will be sold at a sacrifice price on easy terms. Write Box 594, Sumter. S. C. 52-2 WANTED?A live awake agent to canvass this county and state for one of the most salable articles on the market, needed in every home. Sec F. M. Zemp, Camden, S. C. | 52-sb ^NTs'fOr'sALE-Grow the wilt resistant tomatoe; our plants are all improved varieties, big .yielders. Also a big assortment of flower plants. Apply to B. H. Baum, telephone 325-W, Camden, S. C. 52-2-sb ANTIQ UETURN ITU RE FOR SALE ?One swell front Hepplewhite sideboard beautifully inlaid, also pine Hepplewhite sideboard, one inlaid corner cupboard and one pine Hepplewhite inlaid book-case and writing desk, closet, chest of drawers, hope chest, chairs, tables, gilt mirrors and cornice. Address Box 816, Chester, S. C. FOR RENT?Two rooms, furnished for housekeeping. Oil stove, refrigerator, dishes, bod and table linen furnished; use of bath and telephone. Reasonable rates. No children. Call Telephone 239. 50-tf CARPENTERING?For any kind of carpenter work see John S. Myers, at' 812 Church Street, or phone 268. I will be glad to serve the public. All work will be done promptly and guaranteed as to workmanship. I specialize in house building. First class finishing, cabinet making, mantles and screening. I solicit your patronage and can furnish best of references. 48-tf FOR SALE?Five-room brick bungalow, corner lot, Union street. Garage in yard. A real bargain. Apply to J. W. Lenoir, Southern Cotton Oil Co., Colujnbia, S. C. 48-tf ? FOR SHOE REPAIRING?call at the Red Boot Shop next door to Ex^ press office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24tf WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-sb FOR RENT?Two unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. Close in. Phone 491. 51-1-pd WE CLEAN?Anything from necL ties to art squares. Camden' Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 555. FOR SALE?A few choice pieces of old furniture. Two Hepplewhite sideboards, one pine, one mahoga< ny and one walnut corner cupboard, J several tables, mirrors, chest ef { drawers, clocks, chhirs. One andh a half hours- drive from Camden. ^ Address P. O. Box 316, Chester, S. C. 49-3sb. You can have Servel in your vj own refrigerator ?quickly, easily, I at moderate cost '$ f \ / IF you have a good refrigerator in satisfactory state of 1 repair, or decide to purchase one of the standard makes, it can be equipped with the Servel "Duplex" ByBtem for electric refrigeration quickly and at surprisingly moderate cost. i ' The Servel Chilling Tank is installed in the ice compartment, the "Duplex" machine in the basement or . elsewhere out of the way, a few simple connections are made and you have Servel ?electric refrigeration. Once you have enjoyed the carefree convenience of . this modern equipment?beyond all comparison with j r old-fashioned methods- once you have learned its true j ; economy and dependability?how its crisp, dry cold i keeps even the most perishable foods safe and in prime ! condition far longer than you ever thought possible? j you will wonder how you managed so long without i . electric refrigeration. 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