The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 29, 1927, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
r.rNU*. Editor and PublUhor
Published every Friday at fto. 1109
Broad Street and entered at tb* Cam
den, South Carolina, poatoflU* aa
second class mail matter. Price per
annum 92.00.
(amdcfi, S. ('., hriday, July 29, 1927.
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Figures given out by the postoffice
department at Camden shows
that the mail order and out-of-town
merchants find Camden and i?vf^?
diau; territory a fertile field in which
to trade. The report shows that during
the fiscal year ending June 30,
1927 a tota) of 17,412 money orders
v^ere issued, representing the huge
amount of 9180,624.66 going out of
this territory?some <^f it and the
greater part of it never to return.
Postal receipts, consisting of sale of
stamps and box rents amounted to
$22,748. 1 7. Fee* collected for money
orders \ issued, $1,418.49. Total
amount of paid orders, $&6,475.84.
Total number of orders paid, 6,113.
Total number of C. O. I), parcels
mailed at Camden 182. Total number
of C. O. I) parcels received for delivery
8,347. Total number of parcels
insured by postoffice at Camdeh
8,272. Total number of registers
forwarded by Camden office 3,904.
Camden and Kershaw County has
been called upon within the past week
to mourn the passing of two of its
most excellent young men?taken in
the prime of life?George A. Rhame
and Ben Wiley Gettys. Both were
high-toned, honest and industrious
citizens?both leading such lives that
everyone was their friend.
The sanity test ordered by Judge
M. M. Mann in the case of McKinley
Thoniasson, the negro brute under
sentence of death for the brutal slaying
of an aged white woman of York
county, has greatly enragekl the
friends and relatives of the murdered
woman in the Filbert community,
according to the Yorkville Enquirer.
And they have a right to be ini
ensed at the attempted delay of the
txecution. Another heinous crime of
this sort happening in York will not j
likely moot with the same respect
for the law as was manifested in the |
Thomasson case, should this negro
stupe the electric chair. This maud-'
1th sympathy f??t convicted prisoners'
and the free u*e of the pardoning
P<%vcr is what i* causing so much1
< rime to be rampant in this state
today. I
A comparative report of the bu-I
reau of vital statistics yf the South
t'arobnn State Hoard of Health for
the first five month* of 192b and
1927, reveals that during these two
five month period-, there wen* laT
lam. :d< s in South Carolina?99 in
< '9 7 and KH in 192(5. This report
also shows that in the same two pgi
;< <!* there were no legal electro<
u! ion*. j
.'j'lge T S. Sense, presiding judge,
in Spartanburg on Monday, review |
ing a case appealed from the decision
i f Leroy Moore, master in equity of j
Spartanburg county, confirmed the
decision of Mr. Moore, and held that
an insane person apparently sane, j
i* to be held responsible for his acta.
A negro, one John Pinckney Grav,!
admittedly a lunatic, in March 192C,'
gave notes aggregating $165 secured
by mortgages. When the notes became
due Gray <lenr?U"' ed. seeking!
to hide behind the fact that he had
been declared a lunatic as far back
as July, 1926. The master held after
u hearing, that if it could be shown
that Gray noted as a normal man
would act, so far as his mental con-!
dition was-Concerned, at the time he
signed the mortgage, then in that
event he should be held responsible
for his acts at that time.
Shipments of peaches from the
Sandhill section, of North Caroliaa
have thus far this year exceeded 1,
200 cars.
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Life Far Hwindlrr
A life sentence for cashing u bogus
check for only $300 see ins to be !
drastic punishment, but that was the
penalty asaeaM-d ag-ainst Bert N.
Gastin, former newspaper man, in
N*w York a few day* ago. J
This sentence was imposed under
a provision of New York State's
Haunie* ia W, which makes life imprisonment
mandatory in*the case of
a person convicted ot a felony for
the fourth time. The prosecution is
said to have established that this was
Gar* km'* fourth conviction on such
a charge.'
The life sentence was in^posed in
(spite of a recommendation for clemency,
on the part of the jury which
convicted him, and the appeals of a
number of friends, who testified t?
his honesty in dealings with them
during the lust five years. Garotin
had been pardorWbd from the Maryland
penitentiary in 1914, and since
that time had become business manager
of the lyouisville Herald-iPost.
It is said that the stern provisions
of the Haumes law have materially
reduced crime in that state since it
became effective a year ago, and
several other states are forming new
laws along the same line.?Lancaster
News.
When Fish Abounded
One hundred years ago, and even
less, shad were caught in Salddu
river in Greenwood county. The
building of mills along the river and
on streams in general with the dams
which prevented fish from coming up
stream caused much excitement and
indignation among fishermen. The
I legislature was induced to pass a law
prior to 1824 requiring all builders of
dams to have a "sluice-way" for the
fish to come up-stream. But no dams
were built that way and in 1824 a
body of men, about twent>?in number,
from Abbeville and Laurens districts,
got together and went down Saluda
river to make sluice-ways where there
were none in dams on the river. The
owners of the dams promptly closed
the openings up and that was the
end of it.
Allowing dams to be built and allowing
smaller streams to become
clogged with trees, stumps and what
not have all played havoc with the
fish. It is against the law now to
allow a stream through your land to
become clogged with trees, and so on,
but it is a dead letter. No one pays
any attention to the law.
And so this is why we have pracI
llcaUy nothing in the way of fish in
our streams except the cat and a feweels
with now and then a carp.
But with a very little expense and
very little trouble one may have a
pond of fresh water and have it stocked
with most excellent fish.
I he good government will give you
the fish free to start with hut it will
"ot huild the pond nor will it feed the
fish for you.
1 hat is the only real drawback to
proposition: You have to build
pond and have to feed the fish?
an 1 one other, you have to catch the I
*' when you want fish for dinner.
'' nmy turii out that the good gov-'
' it me n i will furnish them fried and
f,om a Federal cafeteria some
n.a;, hut just now there is nothing of
the sort in prospect. But if vou are
wiling to huild the pond and feed the
fi.<n and catch them, you can have a*
fme fi-h as ever graced the waters
of ths or any other country. ?Greenwood
Index-Journal.
A I'nique Town
There stands on the Mississippi
delta today a thriving little town of
^.KOO inhabitants within the bounds
| of which there can be no racial
problems, as every member of the
population is a negro. Tuesday it
celebrated the fortieth anniversary
of its founding by Isaac T. Montgomery,
a former sjave> tQ
. efferson Davis, President of the
Confederacy. Negroes from all over1
the state gathered for a picnic- a
series of speeches, and an intelligent1
| discussion of farming problems. |
Says the Montgomery Advertiser:
Mound Bayou, formed in 1887 with
16 families, has grown to a thriving
! municipality in which modern buildings
abound. The idea of such a
community is credited to Jefferson
Ihivis. and residents of Mound Bayou
say the plan tends to promote beti
ter relations between the two laces,
i ' Negroes conduct all the business
ou.ncs. l.a\e their own newspaper
and telephone exchange and carbon
extensive trade with other towns
No wh.teperson lives within its
limit*, but when a white visito?
comes hd is treated cordially and
provided a special dining room at
the hotel."
Reports from that section of the
country have it that no trouble ever
arises in the little town and that the
white population nearby is heartily
to, favor of such an arrangement.
ci haps it is a good plan, at least
one .example seftna to p int to
sue!..?Spartanburg Heruhi.
| THIS WEEK
By Artlwr BrfaU?
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Mr. Brisbane'* editorial* are published
a* expressions of opinions
of the world'* hifhe stasia Had
editor and The Cbronicla does not
necessarily andoraa all of kia
views and conclusion*.
If you have $81.16 in your pocket
you have twice as much cash ?a the
average. The Treasury tells u* that
money circulating July 1 amounted to
"only" four billion eight hundred and
thirty-four millions, one haundred
millions less than last year, $40.68
for each inhabitant.
The r^al wealth is credit. Four
men in the United States, Rockefeller,
Ford, Andrew Mellon and
George f. Baker, could with ease,
borrow more money than all the cash
that is in circulation.
Long ago Queen Elisabeth ga,ve
a ring, ii^r face engaged upon a atone
pet in it to her lover, the Earl of
Essex. No matter what he did, he
would be forgiven if he returned that
ring.
^ Accused of saying that Queen
Elizabeth's mind was as crooked as
her body, which was probably true,
she was a great queen and a hard
woman, he failed to return the ring
and his head was chopped off.
1 he Countess of Nottingham ^yjng,
confessed that she failed to deiiv^'
to the Queen the ring that Essex
gave her.
Elizabeth, in despair, spent her
time sitting on the floor weeping,,
and died at the end of twenty days.
That's the story.
Now the ring is sold at auction
for $2,700. It has dropped in value.
Elizabeth would have given $1 000 000
for it.
Bobby Jones, golf wizard from
Atlanta, Ga., defending his open
golf champion title, made the first
round of eighteen holes in 08
strokes, five under "par."
The secret in golf is control of'
head and nerves. In the air, fly.
j ing, or on the grass, playing golf,
young Americans seem able to do
that.
A well-meaning politician suggests
a law admitting children to
all ha se ha 11 parks for twenty-five
cents per child. A better law would
supply city baseball parks in which
children could play baseball. TlVat
iis what they need, not the right to
sit on a bench, paying twenty-five
cents to watch somebody else play.
If young und old men of this generation
played MORE, and watched
LESS, it would be better for them.
British scientists use moving pictures
in war against cancer. The
camera records cancer growths,
slowly, for two days Then the film
s -needed up, nine hundred and sixty,
times, and scientists see cancer ceils
u tuall\^ glowing. That's important.
Man can outrun a horse in time.
; An Irishman, afterward elected May|
or of Long Island City, ran more than
, 600 miles in six days. But, in water,
man is literally "a poor fish," a most
interior fish.
Edward Keating finished first last
week over a 24-mile fresh water
course in 18 hours 47 minutes. In
that time a shark could swim half
way across the Atlantic.
'Miss Constance Talmadge, excellent
moving picture actress, requesting
a divorce, says of her husband:
He is the nicest man, but I am out
of love."
, Out of love" is modern, typical
I of our day. Strict logic might confirm
the view that if you marry when
, 'in love." There are other considerations,
however, that still influence
manv.
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Otto Koennecke. German fljer
prepares for his trip from Berlin to'
j ban Francisco, with interesting care.
Every part of his motor was being
I A-rayed yesterday in search of de(
feet* in the metal. Old statues show
goddesses with three eyes, one in th?
forehead. Science has given to men
a real third eye. the X-Rav. that
looks through solid metal, and we
he:dly appreciate it.
A bomb was exploded nt.the statue
of George Washington in Buenos
Aires. Argentina, Friday night It
is supposed that the explosion w*s
due to sympathizers of Sacco and
- > anzetti under sentence of death In
Massachusetts, which' has become of
^international interest. It was later
that the bomb ixp'.oded was >Qt
j a protest.
Found Lmm? at Mothcf'i Knee
J A simple and beautiful incident
in the life of Henry W. Grady, one
of the South'* greatest men, is that,
after he had become nationally
known for his intellect and magnanimity.
he made the discovery that, as
he himself put it, "something bad
gone out of his life." He had gainoil
fame and honor ahd distinction,
| but he hod lost something and he
missed it. The loss created a vacuum,
an emptiness that hurt.
Abandoning business cares and responsibilities
for the tune, he returned
to the littlv cabin home, and to his
old mother. One night after supper
he rather surprised his mother by
saying, after a long silence "Mother,
1 want you to sing the good old
songs you used to sing to me when
you rocked me to sleep."
The dear old woman complied,
crooning softly those in/mortal
Southern melodies and the good old
hymns that good old mothers sing
in the good old way.
After she had sung those sweetly
and softly for a time, Henry Grady
said: "Now, mother, before we retire
I want to kneel with head on your
lap and say my prayers, like I used
to do right here in this room."
At_Jii? mother's knee, with her
thin withered hand on his head this
statesman, this man of affairs, repeated
as he used to do when a
small boy, "Now I lay me down to
sleep." When he had finished the
four simple lines he arose and said
to his mother: "Out in the busy
world of busy people, with cares
and responsibilities and big issues,
I discovered that I had lost something,
and I felt sure that here at
home, with you I could find it. And
I've found it. I was about to be
blindfolded a little by the pomp and
ceremony of temporary things and
was in danger of detaching myself
from the simpler but bigger things.
I've found what I was about to lose,
and I'm happy once more."?Lancaster
News.
We Don't Make The News
Some things have been published in
The Exchange lately that we should
have liked to leave out. But a newspaper
does not make' the news. It
only records facts and events and
happenings in the community which
it serves, and it is the duty of a real
newspaper to record these things with
an absolute impartiality whether the?
be good or bad. If humanly possible
, we might wish that never would it be
necessary to publish some things. In
I particular the details of crime and untoward
incidents and events that n j
community is immune to.
A newspaper only reflects the life
of a community. It is a sort of mirror
into which we can look and see
ourselves, our life, and the things
good and bad that go to make up life
and to occupy the time and the minds
of folks. If a newspaper draws a line
on certain kinds of news, how then
we might ask, is the public to know j
what is going on? And it is important
that we know the things that are
occuring, whether good or bad. If
they are had it should spur the moral
forces on to renewed activity against
evil. If they are good they are constructive
and heljfful.
If we as a community choose to
shut our eyes and our ears to the evil
that is about us, if the newspaper is
to put the ban on this sort of news,
then we may conceivably walk in the
mud and mire without knowing it.
Turn on the light which reveals true
conditions. In this way we can take
an inventory of good and evil.
It is a newspaper's business to publish
the news. It is the business of
good people in a community to see
that the necessity for publishing untoward
news may be reduced to a
minimum. A knowledge of the facts
may help matters, and it certainly
can do but little injury.?-Laurinburg
Exchange.
The Columbia State, whjch long has
held the lead in newspaper circulation
in South Carolina now drops to second
place, being topped by the Greenville
News. the Charlotte- Observer
claims the largest circulation of any
newspaper published in either of the
Carolinas. The circulation figures
furnished by Editor and Publisher in
Its issue of July 16th and sworn to,
are of interest: Charlotte Observer,
40.092; Raleigh News and Observer,
37,309; Oreenville News, 24,124; Columbia
State, 23,096; Winrfton-Aalem
Journal 18.688; Ashevilie Citizen,
16,261; Charleston Post, 15,804; Durham
Herald 18,057.?YorkVille Enquirer.
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After Aisla G.. Saab toad atoot a
constable on board a trolley <T*r iftar'
LoweU, Mass., Tuesday, the car
motorman, John J. Powell, knocked
Saab down with his switch atkk,
took a pair of handcuffs out of the
constable's pockets, locked the prisoner
to the car fittings and took
into .he city and turned him oitt
to the police. The consffeble dj'ed in
less than an Uur after being shot
by Saab.
How To Got Ahead
A Gaffney banker telU the
Gaffney ladgiir of a couple of
pleasant experience# he recently had
with Ghorokee county farmers who
were carrying notea at his institution.
Last fill oo? of those farmers
gave a note Tor T12?, and a few days
ago he dropped into the bank and
said he came to see about if. The
banker picked up a blank note, assuming
that the patron wanted the
paper renewed. But to his astonishment
the farmer paid the note off In
full. He was asked where he 'got
the money at this time of year to
liquidate such obligations and his reply
was: "By selling milk and butter."
His cotton crop of last year proving
a failure, like that of the other cotton
raisers of this section, be switched
to dairying on a limited but profitable
scale. The second case was that of
a farmer who was unable to meet a
170 installment on a Federal Land
bank loan the first day of last December,
but who came in the hank
and wrote a check in full for that
I amount a few days ago. When asked
where the money came from his reply
was: "I made the money selling beans,
cantaloupes and roasting ears."
These two instances led this Cherokee
county banker to comment as follows
according to the Ledger's news
story:
These two examples show conclusively
that the man who does not
depend entirely on cotton is bhe best
?!f: Per8ona,,y? I belieVe the man
living in the country has a splendid
opportunity to make money out of
chickens?selling egg?, friers, hens
and roosters. It can't be done in
town, but in the country where a
man can# produce his own feed and
let his chickens range he can make
a profit out of poultry."?Spartanburg
Journal.
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One never finds a statesman in
office in South Carolia?they are
too proud to run around the s^te
on {^l-fours, begging for voters. We
invariably elect men unfitted for
office?and that is what ails us.?
Says The Marion Star.
The biggest locomotive ever built
by the Brooks plant of the American
Locomotive Works, at Dunkirk, N. Y.,
ran wild on the main line of the New
York Central railroad Tuesday, after
the engineer could not shut off the
8team as the engine was being tested.
The big locomotive jumped the track
after running half a mile, just a fittie
ways from the passenger station
at Dunkirk. Two of the engine crew
Lewis F. Randall, former post-i
ma?tei of Hialeah, Fla., wanted for
embezzlement of post office funds
has been arrested in Los Angeles!
aj. Randall got away with $52,000
in money orders. He was first arrested
in Florida but jumped a bail.
bond of $25,000.
The trunk of a single walunt tree
six feet in diameter, grown in Kentucky,
recently sold for $625.
Anawera?3
1?4.'? :GS.
2 Michigan and Northwestern tied
| ^ 3 An earthquake Is a stinking of
part of rlie piirih's rrlist due to natural
subterranean causes
4 A dynamo converts mechunlcaf
energy Into electrical energy, whtle a
motor en,,* ens elect i leal energy into
mechanical energy.
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?Laurence Sterne.
SHirutin of Pershing's j
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Wants-For Sale j
. Zemp, Camden. S. C. T8p?
CURTA INS " 8T RBTClTFrCrrr^^
wishing curtains stretched Jlsai*
apply at 904 Campbell Stee.t
Prices reasonable. 8-tf
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no matter how large or
order for building mat< >u?U ??jB
ready to supply your uqairs^K1
promptly and carefully.
der may be f6r building
for a big building or it ?iay
order for some little m 1)ajr
that you are doing^ Each %iij J
ceive our immediate and cud
attention. > jB;
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THE BARRETT HI lbbiN(J I
MATERIAL COMPANY I
Hia Gaees
City Visitor Why do bbj?
the farm ?
Discouraged Farmer- Becaueei
can't race trains to a crossing
mowing machine, I > ret kon.-^^B
nati Enquirer.
WANTED?An experienced*
take down two Llndell cotton
one double box press and condea^l
Also want man with large
move one 35 horsepower ker^H
engine for a distance 0f
fourty miles. 'Apply to ?*;'
Truesdale, postoffice uddpefitlB
ville, S. C., shipping point DiB
L08T?One brindled colored cov^E
' small white spots and st*r jfl
face. With horns. Lost frw^H
pasture near the Watereel I
Suitable reward. CKORM I
LITTLE, Cafhdett, S. C.
IT IS the I money spent in yourB I
town that gives your prpjl^H
greater value and protects it^H
Electric Maid Bake Shop. * dB
FOR RENT?Office in Loan A
ings Bank Building, rates vsry rttl
sonable; no hea? lights or jsnitor'M
billa to pay. Apply <N. C. Arnett*'
Agent, Camden, S. C. , lS-tf
CANN ING?The canning season jE
now on. Don't throw away yotiV
surplus fruit or vegetables. L<B
us can them for you for a nominB'
sum. Telephone 325 W, WintiB^
green Cannery, B. H. Baum, M?iB
ger,Camden, S. C. 16-ljk^E
for"SHOE RETPATRI^G^ailat^B
Red Boot, Shop next door to BB
press oftfce. A- M. JONES, Pt|^|
CARP EN TERIN G- -For any' kindjjS
carpenter work see John S. MysflB
at 812 Church Street, or phs*
268. I will be glad to serve
public. All work will be
promptly and guaranteed irjB
workmanship. I specialisetohoiu^B
building. First class finishing, uj^B
inet making, mantles andtcWBU^H
I solicit your patronage and tf^B
furnish best of references B
WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. ifj^B
j cash prices paid; year rofl fl
mand. Sumter Planing IflB B
Lumber Co., Attention E. S.B B
Sumter, S. C.
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