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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H~r.'NU^ . . Editor and PublUker "published every Friday at No. U09 Broad Street and entered at the Canaden, South Carolina, po*U>fflc? aa aeeond rlae? mail matter. Price |M?r annum 92.00. Camden, S. C? Friday, Aukui?I 5, 1027 1927 AUGUST' i927 Urn. M- Tat. [Wed. [ TW I fo 1 TUT, U1 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 U1 UJ Ui w Ui ui , ^ Governor Alvan T. Fuller Wednesday denied executive clemency to Nieeola Sacco and Bartoloineo Vanzetti, aentenced to death for the murder of a shoe factory paymaater and his guard in South Braintree April 15, 1920. Their reprieve eJcpires August 10. The governor's decision, concluded with these words: "As a result of my investigation I find no aufficient justification for executive clemency/ I believe with the jury that these men, Sacco and Vanzetti.l were guilty and that they had a fair trial. I futhermore believe that thsr# was no justifiable reason for giving them a new trial." The Saluda Baptist association representing 15,000 Baptists, Wednesday in session at Anderson, declined to indorse Governor John G. Richards' efforts to enforce the Sunday observance laws. A resolution intended to capture the supjrort of this organization for the chief executive's blue law program was tabled by an overwhelming majority at the Union church The association went on record as believing that there should he absolute separation of church and state and that the church could perform its best services by preaching the goH|>el and refraining from interference in political and social movements. That's a mighty fine suggestion of our Correspondent signing "L. D." carried in our columns this week. The Chronicle has always invited and kept open columns to correspondents who have something of interest to our readers as a whole. But of course our columns are not as elastic as those 'if a daily paper ? nor i* the equipment a* great for handling' a large amount of composition. W# trust that our citizens who feel thaf they have something of interest to tell <>f tiling- in the by-gone days will take this suggestion of our correspondent and start this interesting department. Our correspondent paysj U; a compliment ami at the same time administers a mi hi rebuke in the matter of syndicated stuff anil hashed over news of the daily papers. We plead guilty, but at the same time so many people, a!a-. do not know the expense and the time and hard work it takes to get out a half way interestpaper that will be of interest to the most reader^. Every tountiy newspaper pubiishcer hates the use of syndn ated stuff and also abhors the use o! "pot metal." but when one'} force, capital, and equipment is limited and the head man has to act as editor. ;>; nter and devil and last but not lea t see that the ghost walks each week-end it car readily be seen that a count! > editor - life i- not one o! <.?-? A - riking illustration of the f I Ml til lit! -'at US of the editor* ot South < ai-dir.a is shown by the fact taat when the trip to t'ubn last sea-oil win- propo-ed. costing around $lali, only nru -m tubers of the prossignified their irvnlmn of being able to go and the trip was abandoned. The better support a new-paper gets from its community the better the paper they can produce, but not many of the papers are supported like they should he. There are so many people in the city and country who even withhold their names as subscriber*. We are glad that our correspondent snw fit to criticize us. and we would like more criticism- and suggestions for how are we to know whether the paper is taking well if the people don't speak out ? A United -State destroyer fleet, including lit! vessels and approximately 10,000 men, wiil make its base in Charleston for two months beginning September I, N. C. ARNETT R E A I. K S T A T K Loan and Savings Bank Building OUR SERVICE INCLUDES A CANDII) PRESENTATION OF OUR LISTINGS AND UNTIRING EFFORT TO SUPPLY w YOUR NEEDS - It's Worth Our Study The Alabama Senate has approved by a substantial majority a bill 'to more fully auppreaa crime in the state of Alabama by regulating the pun|ahment thereof." The bill )? described us a modification of the liaumea' laws now in force in the state of New York, a cardinal feature of which U that on fourth conviction of a felony a defendant is to receive a life sentence. While some instances of injustice have come to light during the operation of the Baumes' lavm in New York, their effect has been, according to New York newspapers, highly beneficial and wholesome, and have caused a notable reduction in crime of ail sorts. The principle of this law commends itself to the study of the various states, and in several of them, serious efforts have been made to draft and enact legislation of a like character. It is quite possible that the southern slates do not need a law of this kind so much as do the larger cities; not because we have less crime, for tlu*t is probably not correct considering proportionate populations, but because we have a much smaller element of "professional criminals" and most of our crime is of a sporadic nature. .Nevertheless the operation of the Uauines laws in other states will tend to drive the professional criminal to states that do not have it. South Carolina might -well give this subject some special thought and study. The primary idea in this law is that when a person is convicted of a felony four times in succession, he proves himself an incorrigible or professional Criminal, and therefore a person to be segregated for the rest of his life as a protection to human society. In drafting such a law, it would have to be borne in mind that various offenses are sony.1 times set down technically as "felonies" that do not actually indicate grave moral depravity or a confirmed criminal mind. In adopting any such law we should be careful to fix such standards for determining the "professional" criminal as will avoid the chance of ineluding in that class persons about | whom the circumstances indicate a great degree of doubt. When we are certain that we have a criminal whose mind is devoted beyond expectation of recovery to the preying upon human society then it is probably all right to send him up for life for a series of minor crimes, but it is well to provide means of giving the doubtful ones the benefit of the doubt. A sentence of this kind should he imposed only when the circumstances indicate certainly the permanent moral depravity of the defendant. ?-Greenville News. Editor On The Job A good newspaperman may from time to time by non-attendance at church miss a good sermon, but he i- <'\er alert and his ears open for a bit of news. It is related that ar editor of the !ar we.-t dropped into church for the f. -t time in many years. The min-tt-r was in the very heart of the sermon. The editor listened for a while and tiun rushed for his office. W ha.. a?e you fellows doing? H >w about the news frojli the seat of war?" "What news ?" \N hy all about t:?e I'.gyptian army being drowned in the Red Sea. I he minister o! the church knows .t about it, and you have not a word * '* our paper. Hustle around, you fellows, and get out an extra special edition,?Monroe Equirer. Il We Do?Suppose We Don't II we print jokes, people sav we are silly. It we don't print them, they say we are too serious. If we print original matter, they say we are dull. Il we publish things fr >m o'he?papers, they say we can't write. If we don't print all contributions, we don't know good stuff when we see it. If we do print all the contributions, the paper is full of junk. I.ike as not some fellow will sav We swiped this. And -> we did. ' Richland county officers captured a man giving his name as Charles ('. Se.leck and a woman who -aid her t'iu* is Geneva Watson Tuesday afternoon. They were ir. a high-powor 'i ear. and had Ur*0 quarts of what i.Vvo'ed to be bottled .n bond liquor. The ea* b>re a Florida license tag A E. Ertzberger. of Hartwel!. Ga.. wh> wa- arrested in Ande-sor. for do rg business without a S'ate tobacco license, pleaded guilty and ,us sentenced to pay a fine of $:> ) ,>r serve thirty days in jail and forfeit a truck.oa.i of tobacco confiscated by State agents. Erteberger :s also charged with selling tobacco without State tax will be -r ed f r tn.s of. Tbns'A w-SVn the circuit c.vj-t in September. I THIS WEEK By AftUr Bmbm Mr. Brixbane's editorials are published ss expressions of opinions of the world's highest salaried editor and The Cbronlcle does not necessarily endorse all of bia views and conclusions. Sir Oliver Lodge says the ether is the most important reality of the physical universe. Life and mind are associated with matter only indirectly through the ether, says he, and the ether is primarily man's habitation, not jiseudo "solid matter," earth houses, automobiles and money that we call the real world. Matter reduced to atoms is only electric particles revolving at frightful speed around an electric centre. The real thing is ether. Science tells us the ether is like a great stream of water, flowing on forever, and matter like a fisherman's net spread across the stream through which the ether flows, that ether is essential to the cosmic scheme, that Newton's law of gravitation should not work without it, and that ether is the only solid reality in the realm of ideas. But for the average man it is hard to conceive of ether a reality. It seems as unreal as the fourth dimension. Our minds are adjusted to the work we have to do, which isn't big or very important. , ; u Thomas A. Edison was three days library, searching for some new rubber plant. He may find it, but it will in New York's Botanical Gardens probably be chemistry, not botany that will supply the new rubber. Elasticity, plus wearing quality, are needed. Human intelligence will produce something better than rubber, just as it produced something better than wood, in the bronze and iron ages. Be careful if you meet latrodectus Mactains. It's ordinary name is the "black widow" and it's the deadliest spider on earth, possessing a bite causing death within twenty-four hours. This tiny black spider has recently caused more than a dozen deaths on the Pacific ( oast. On general principles, keep spiders and flies out of the house. Let them carry on their ancient war in the open. Real courage is always gentle. Homer's "Mildest Manners and Gentlest Heart" are part of a fearless nature. Of all photographs taken of our Atlantic flyers the finest shows Commander Byrd standing beside a wounded French soldier, helpless in a wheel chair. The expression on Byrd's face, pitying and tender, is that of a real hero. Happy the mother and father ot such a son. Commander Byrd. always in search) of interesting occupation, plans a flight to the South Pole, and before! the new year he will be flying through the coldest region on earth. He is determined to be the first man to fly over both poles. In centuries to come, what we call o u i North and S i > u t h Poles will again be warm, and some other spot on the earth will be the poles. Oil wells that Standard Oil has located inside the Artie region will supply nearby gas stations?if men still use power as primitive as gasoline in that future day. Gas by then will probably be completely out of date, as whale oil is now, 'for lighting. But do not be frightened into selling good oil s Locks. ' '< If told that the sickness of a sperrq whale in the Atlantic Ocean could set up an ancient sailor man in a comfortable chicken business, you might say "impossible." But it happened. When whales don't feel well, lump*, of a substance called "Ambergris." valuable to perfume manufacturers, form inside of them. Jerimiah Pratt, seventy-four years old, lookout on a schooner, saw gulls hovering over a livmp of Ambergris. worth $12,500. With that money. Sailor Pratt will retire to a chicken ranch and thousands of women will go around perfumed bv the Ambergris. Uldine Utley, fifteen-year-old giljl revivalist, who says Billy Sunday U gtenter than Mussolini because Sunday conquered the devil, is in New York City saving souls. Sbe saved forty last Sunday, and doubtless they will show gratitude when they meet hdr in heaven. At ss Ut.ev, who br rig* everything close to her hearers, says: "Lind berg was not the first to make a non-stop flight -the Lord did it, be* .fori? him, by flying from heaven to earth and then from earth to heaven." It's an excellent thought, but not fair to Elijah, who, in a "chariot of firaj and horaea of fire" went up "by a] whirlwind into heaven." See second K.ngs, chapter two, verse eleven. That happened iHR) years before the brth of fhriat, I slug Roads For Repair Shop One form of road hogging that is coming in for considerable condemnation is that Of utilizing the highways a- a repair ahop when something goes wrong with the car. It is a type of selfishness which presents a very definite hazard and is one that every motorist should make an especial effort to avoid, says C. W. Roberts, secretary of the South Carolina Motor ciub, in an article he has just prepared for the press. "With millions of motorists on the road this summer, it is obvious that converting the highway into a temporary repair shop in case any minor trouble develops in the car is a hazardous practice," says Mr. Roberts. '"The greater volume of traffic together with the fact that many states have raised the speed limit for automobiles, makes his danger even greater than in the past. "Many motorists, however, apparently are oblivious of this danger. When a tire goes flat, instead of pulling entirely off the road they ate content to stop on the highway and make the change. In the case of a carburetor adjustment or other minor repair to the engine this is dangerous enough, but when a tire is to be changed it is doubly hazardous because the operation requires considerable moving around and the use of several extra devices, such as a jack and lug wrench. Even if the car it-j self is over on the edge of the road, I if the punctured tire is on the left J side it means that the motorist will j be working out in the line of travel. With traffic bearing down upon him from both directions, naturally his j position is dangerous to himself and ' to other motorists. "Drive the car entirely off the road before attempting to make any repairs to it," Mr. Roberts advises in the interest of safety. Edwin Malloy, wealthy cotton . broker, of Che raw was made a defendant in a damage suit at Charlotte, N. (\, for $50,000, brought by the father of Gerald Dean," five year old child, who was killed several days ago on a road between Charlotte and Camden. He has also been placedunder bond of $1,000 under a criminal charge. a , JUST RECEIVED I _ Fresh Shipment of Landredth'i 1 TURNIP SEEDJ DeKalb Pharmacy^! John Hamilton Crenshaw, of Co* lumbia, died in a hospital ih Union Monday from injuries received in an auto accident near Union Suiukty. Crenshaw operated a grocery store near Wales Gardens. A?tau>?ra-?* 1?Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. 1?Cincinnati, 8?Kremer of Pittsburgh. 4?A plate attached to a revolving shaft In ?w;h a way th?t the centera Of tha plate and shaft do not coincide. 5?Ceorge F.netmnn 8 Be Soto ^ T?Palo Alto. San Antonio arid tie aaca de la Palma In the Mexican war 8?The Fifteenth and Sixteenth ceotorlea. Asia 10?Henry Clay. Wants*-For Sale WANTKI)?Another automobile mechanic, must know his business. Address L. A. Campbell and Company, Camden, S, C. 19-20 sb. j LOST?On Tuesday, July 28th, mans white gold Elgin watch, with initials "J. C. P." on back. Lost between Camden and Boykin's mill. Reward if returned to J. Chapman Pearce, Rt. 4, Camden, S. C. 19 ptf. FOR L. Burns' old home on Littleton street. Apply J. H. Burns, Camden, S. C. 19tf* FOR RENT?Five room bungalow on West Hampton street. Apply E. | P. Truesdale, Camden, S. C. 19pd i IT'S THE"SOLID WORTH^'f home' | spent money and good words that: will makq our city bigger and better in every way.?Electrik Maid Bake Shop, Camden, S. C. LOST? On Monday afternoon, one-1 half of green colored fountain pen. J Reward if returned to Henry, Anderson at L. Schenk & Company,^ Camden, S. C. 19 pd. ^ FOR RENT?Office in Loan & Savings Bank Building, rates very reasonable; no heat, lights or janitor'j | bills to pay. Apply N. C. Arnett, I Agent, Camden, S. C. 13-tf | CURTAINS STRETCH Kl) wishing curtains stretched J apply at 904 Campbell ?9 Prices reasonably jM CANNING?The canning now on. Don't throw ?w?y J|J surplus fruit or vegetable, TO us can them for you for a mJ3 sunn. Telephone 825 W, W\3 green Cannery, B, H. Haum iH ger, Camden, 8. C. ga FOR8HO*EtfAI*lNG^JJJ Red Boot Shop neat door feu press office. A, M. JONKS, fr9 24tf " CARPENTBRING?Kr^l? carpenter work see John 8. By, at 812 Church Street, or 268. I will be glad to serva i public. All work will be 4 promptly and guaranteed at workmanship. I specialize in hsi building. First class finishing inet making, mantles and screed I solicit your patronage and <1 furnidh best of references. ul WANTED?No. 1 eine logs. HitJ cash prices paid; year round E mand. Sumter Planing Mills J Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Bal Sumter, S. C. [3 YOU can feel proud,of the mtnl inside your clothes, If we keep your wardrobe looking spotless ana stylish. ?Mr. Before and After "Spo.l^ss Cleaning?Permanent Dying?Tailored Pressing" CAMDEN DRY CLEANERi Phone 17 I The resale value of your 1 car is more apt to be satis* flj factory if you lubricate it "m with "Standard" Motor Oil I "Standard" holds its body between draining*--* thus minimizes the danger of scored cylinders, {< " ; I wrist pin knocks and badly worn bearings. SUA ji|il to "Standard" and your car will bristg yon a , ^|l better price when you are ready to sell it 1 I "STANDARD" I MOTOR OIL I * ?>TbeMeasure af Oil Value ; >*,. 3 I I !0E' ^