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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H D. isrtcw . T-' m4VJwuL'r Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina, postofflce an second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. Camden, H. I''rida>, Oct. 21. 1927. 1927 OCTOBER 1927 M? J 1W | Wf4 Tim. ?>i. ' MW W w w w (91 2 3 4 5.6 7 H 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2^ 29 30 31 W ...... I 1 ? ' Iuse of the term "welfare workers" in last week's chain-gang story The Chronicle referred to any man or act of men whose efforts have been directed toward alleviating the pain and embarrassment of convicted criminals serving time in the Kershaw county prison camps or in prisons outside the limits of this county. It is only at the greatest outlay' of Lime, energy and money that authorities ure successful in bringing to trial such characters as Gibson, Gap and Cody and, upon conviction, these men should be shown about as much consideration as they themselves displayed while on their froe and reckless march through this section. Any white man who will stoop to steal another's automobile or bK>ak down his store to cart away half a stock of goods is just as guilty as the negro who steals a pig or runs a still and for which offenses the black man always serves time in the same old-fashioned way. One is as much a criminal as Jhe other and if any favors are to be extended it should be upon the class who look j toward the white man as their guardian and example. Prisons and gang encampments were never intended for intelligent men. white or1 black, but because they voluntarily select one or the other as their abiding place is no just reason for changing traditional standads of discipline and markings to harmonize with their own extravagant notions. There is very little difference in a full day's labor, he it rendered in shop or office or on the gang, but when a man is assured of hard sorvi* ude, without a hand of maudlin sympathizers to brighter, his time, he will ponder long and much more seriously before terrorizing a peaceloving community in an effort to gain his daily bread in stripes and shackles. The Chronicle has no personality > deal with regarding social and we'fare work among criminals but it cii; with all propriety venture the <<p Nion that it but seldom, if ever, pa\ -> to shout the hallelujah with ;li,i ks of reprobates who have so lb roughly and successfully demons'rated that they can't carry straight th. tunc. A few* days ago we read of certain t :n < ! vitizem* having been arrested ..'.I hp led into a magistrates court hoeauM- 'hey were fcjund seated in ' I eti' lit: on a highway an I listeni: a lii the music of hounds tunning a f x in i.no neighborhood, and did not 1 i-.-es- hunting licehses. Later, we re ..! ,i strict ban by Governor Ki-hnsds against boxing in the prize ring within the State, with instruc:on.> accordingly to Sheriffs. Now. wo are wondering whether those who hert after listen in on a blow-by-blow pi ize fight somewhere over the radio will not do so at the peril of their liberty and peace of mind? Surely, the latter case will be as reasonable as the first stated, and we have not heard of Governor Richards' having removed from office, or even reprimanding the Sumter officers for having interfered with citizens because of an unreasonable assumption of breach of law. "Crime and its Prevention" is to be the main topic for discussion at the statewide conference to be held at Rock Hill this month of the social workers. Good. Use every effort in the world to prevent crime but after it has been committed it should be punished. It is painful of course to do this but justice demands. it. It is painful to a parent to correct his erring boy but justice and the good of the boy demand it. If some worker pads the pants of the bad boy so thnt the switch will make no red marks upon his anatomy, wont the boy be in a position to make faces at the old man, wave a saucy salute and be ready for another piece of devilment? ,r .. Governor John G. Richards has . > declared.war on prize fighting in this state, arid on yesterday sent instructions to the sheriff throughout the state to the effect that they must not allow h exhibitions within the limits or.... iSktf. " * - J1LJ35" Thr One-Kyv Automobile In spite of the trite observation that a half loaf is much better than no bread, thefe are many thirty very seriously damaged by such division. We know of none where? more damage it> wrought than is seen in the one-eye automobile. To have such a deformity come flying down the highway at night, at a puce somewhere neur a mile ,a minute, and to he totally unable to locate the right of left side of the approaching monster, is very much more than disturbing. The glare of two lights is more than enough, but, paradoxical as it may seem, the one-eye car is us dangerous at the average. war-time bomb. There is but Jittlc excuse for the widespread disregard of laws pertaining to safety of life and limb on our highways. They are violated as fast, as accurately and as numerously us are the prohibition laws. And strange to say, the s&me evasion of enforcing the penalty is also seen with reference to violation of the laws regulating the use of motordriven vehicles. "JBy accident," in connection with a verdict of a jury, or of a coroner, after an automobile accident is as commonplace as the "line busy" sentence is when imposed. This should not be, and were rural and city police as rigid in this as they are in almost every duty, there would be an improved situation where improvement is badly needed. In large cities the law has provided a penalty which works; it has been tried and found not Wanting. This is to immediately, permanently! within the limits of the prescribed law, recall the license and ^top the career of the driver for awhile. This seems to have more terror than any other device known to the promoters of safety. Disregard for the pedes-i trian, motor rivalry, winning a race, whirling corners, flying from a side street into a populou^s thoroughfare, everything but the road hog pales into comparison with the one-eye automobile. 1 his should be summarily and permanently stopped.? Darlington New and Press. GENERAL NEWS NOTES Mrs. Christine Pearl, 35, of St. I.ouis, Mo., drinks four cups of coffee, two glasses of wine and a glas3 ot beer daily. She eats very titrtle meat, but plenty of vegetablesy^fruits, and eggs. .James \\. Gerard, former United States ambassador to Germany predicts that A1 Smith will be nominated by the Democrats and elected to the presidency. Gertrude Ederle, first womat* to swim the English channel, will make another try at it in an endeavor ?to lower her time record. Miss Doris Foster dropped dead in a < hie a go dance hall Wednesday, in the middle of her tenth dance without rest. J is borne Brown celebrated his 85th birthday in Ilkston, England. by singing in the choir of which he had been a member 74 years. Ten peasants of southwestern Ruswho were caught hoarding grain, \i':e recently executed. Samuel Dalton died Wednesday in .?.?-hington, after K7 hours of mysous slumber. He had no symp? ms i,f sleeping sickness or paralysis. He went to sleep Saturday lug hi without complaining. Doctors thir.k that a brain abscess caused his tcp u,ui i ventual death. v\ doctor "n board the coast guard u.fir \ ?rt hi and. heard a radio appeal lor two sick people, a woman with pneumonia and a man with i*ternal trouble, at Unalaska, Alaska. The doctor prescribed for the patients l>y radio and In>th are recovering. dames Carver, freight train conductor, was killed in a wreck near Providence, R. I. A New London; bound train was halted by the wreckage and when Michael Carver step-; ped off he almost collapsed when he recognized the body of his son. Miss Mercedes Gleitze finished swimming the English channel at 0:10 p. m. Friday, after being.in the water 15 hours 15 minutes. She is the first English woman to swim the channel. ? A pita of insanity will be the defense of George Yarrow, confessed murderer of Miss Rose Sarbo, Sunday school teacher of Woodbury, N. J. His attorney says he was inured in the head in the World war. 1 he United States supreme court >m \ estetday rendered a decision * uncoiling the lease of Harry F. Sinclair of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve in Wyoming. The court w s unamitems m its decision. Job For a Solomon. u-onion, N. J., Oct. 17.? King Solo:iu n won a lasting name for himself by deciding who owned a certain babyj, Now Judge Edwin Marshall has h:s big chance. lie must decide ihc legal status! if a baby ?eight months before its ' its birth. The suit revolves about the \viU of Miss Elizabeth Swan, who left to each of the "living! children" of her nephew. Charles F..! Swain. Eight months after the will' was probated a daughter was born' to him, and other heirs are contesting 1 111* child's right to the bequest. THK TIIIKF HIGHKK I I' Plain Comments on tile Matter of . .i .1...... HI if HttTM I ill If ii t ? , In commenting on a recent pardon of u well-known bank official by the governor of South Carolina, the Page land Journal haa the following to say. We leave our readera to judge aa to the t^uth of the Journal's deductions, in view of the ' many bank official* in this state who have robbed and wrecked banks arid still hold their prestige in the community as "good citizens." Justice in this state as regards the conduct of public affairs is almost unknown, says, the Dorchester Eagle. But read on: Then there are cases where money has been stolen from widows, or-? phans and hardworking depositors by bank presidents, cashiers, or of other institutions who have never even been tried. They afe basking in their ill gotten gain while those they robbed are suffering. A premium hua been put on dishonesty. The thieves in high life are given protection and their victims have none. Rarely is it ever the case that a bank robber of the kind named above is given a sentence commensurate with the crime he has committed. Of course to be in prison a year, two years or possibly five years is hard, but from a money consideration it pays. Not half the labor is done by such prison birds during their confinement as would be done by them through the years that it would take for them ttr make onehalf the money made by the dishonest transaction. "If anyone can rise up in his seat and name a case where a bank official has received a sentence in proportion to his crime and served it out, we would like to Jiave the information. We would lay hands on many cases of where the "nigger" and poor white has been soaked for the crime of stealing a little candy, a chicken, a razorback pig, and such like. In their case it is plain stealing, but in the case of bank and building and loan and other highbrow officials it is embezzling, absconding and other high-sounding terms, but God says plainly, THIEF. N'o difference, except the black son of Ham or the white son of Ham's brother who steal is the most respectable of the two and more deserving of sympathy and a pardon." . IMant Winter Crops Without Delay Clemson College, Oct. 11.? Bountiful showers having fallen practically throughout the State. the planting of winter crops-} can go forward without delay, and there should be no delay, advises T. S. Buie chief agronomist, who reminds us that the essential factor in the growing of any winter crop is for it to be planted early enough to have a root system established before cold weather. The South Carolina farmer who considers the fall as a time for harvesting only, and does not plant crops at that season, as well as in the spring, is Mr. Buie says, neglecting a wonderful opportunity to utilize. his soil climate. Some of the crops which may be planted at this season are oats, rye, wheat, barley, vetch, Austrian winter peas, various clovers and alfalfa, to say nothing of the many horticultural '"ctf&pS. ? For winter grazing, rye with or without a legume is excellent. Oats and barley produce splendid crops of grain or forage, especially oats planted with vetch. Wheat makes grain for the family. The various winter legumes adapted to local conditions are especially valuable as cover crops. Planted after the reg- " ular summer crop, they serve as "nitrogen factories" throughout the winter, for the bacteria which live in the nodules on their roots gathering nitroger^from the air, and* when the crop is plowed under, this increased supply of nitrogen i.<* |tft in the soil for the benefit of following crop. William Thomas Hartness. eldest citizen of Sharon, and one ofr the most revered and loved Confederate Veterans of the county, lost his life about 7:25 Wednesday morning, when struck by the Southern west- " bound passenger train, No. 35. at the grade crossing between, No. 35, at krade crossing between Mr. fcHartness's late residence and the store of 1 Hill & Co. on the Yorkville~8haron road, and within the corporate limits of that town. Engineer Hammersley was at the throttle. John Thomas Burgess, 2 years old, i was smothered to death in a pile of 1 cotton on his father's farm nc*r Pel- < zer on Tuesday. - j ' * David DuHose GaiHard camp, t 4, L nitod Spanish War Veterans of Columbia, has sent out a gtnoral in- J v.tation to Spanish war veterans over 1 the state to be its guests and attend a 1 banquet in Columbia next Trfnrsday * night, Oct, 20, during* the state fair, * , . x .?.. - -! i" -!J!yU"JJ .11 ' LH. I THIS WEEK j By Arthur Mr. Brisbane'* 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 American Legion in Paris last week adopted the report of its National1 Defense Committee, demanding establishment of a national air force as a separate department, with an "Air Force Secretary" in the Cabinet. Common sense. The man that had employed a coachman got a chauffeur when the automobile came in. Intelligent nations will add to their Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy a Secretary of the Air, now that flying machines havjj come. The National Machine Tool Builders' Exposition in Cleveland, recently was a concentrated demonstration of industrial genius and of Ihe tools that have built prosperity and civilization. Man differs from all other animals in that he is a tool-using creature. Animals work with their bodies,] the beaver with teeth and broad tail, the woodpecker with his beak, the mud wasp with her sting, putting stunned caterpillars in cold storage for her unborn children. Man with his brain, creates tools outside of his body, then he harnesses the ox, horse, elephant, Niagara Falls, and the lightning to work those tools. Cleveland's exhibition contained 300 carloads of machinery sent from eighty cities by 180 compan-j ies. There were machines that will turn thirteen-irreh guns, others measure a light wave, a million waves or so to the inch. Lightning struck u barn in Virginia, killed four persons, and two mules, paralyzed a dog and stunned two men. Modern lightning rods properly installed would have prevented that disaster Modern protectjbn against lightning is included in the recent White House alteration. All around the] balustrade above the White House] roof, sharp, short, copper points stand at close intervals, connected bv, a copper cable, the whole system being connected with the earth, also by copper conductors, buried deep enough in the ground to reach perpetual moisture. Such lightning rods give real protection. Insurance companies recognize that in lower rates for factories thus protected. Old fashioned, ba Uy installed, cheap lightning rod constiuction is worthless or even dangerous. Mrs. Smith h<nl n baby in a Cleveland hospital. She and her husband said - it was a boy, when they gave her a girl baby to nurse. The father says: "They can keep that girl, so far as I am concerned, unless they prove it is mine." Something of a prejudice against girl babies in that, perhaps. '/ One proof offered is that the girl baby's ears are exactly like those of the mother. That is most important. Human ears and the "Darwinian tubercle" that sometimes goes with them are often inherited from generation to generation, and prove heredity at a glance. Anyhow, any girl baby will repay richly any one that takes care of her. Young William B. Leads, son of the "Tin Plate King," started, his Fokker three-motor engine flying for Chicago last week with six passengers and a relief pilot, he Leeds, running the machine. They were to stop at Cleveland, then on to Chicago. '' Young n|en with money can promote flying in this day as W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and other young men with money promoted motoring twenty-five yeaTs ago. In Little Hollo's day a good boy would stoop to pick up a pin. The rich, observant banker would notice ttim, employ him, marry hifti to his laughter, leave him -his fortune. Economy was the watchword.Modern James McStowe, of Canton, Ohio, says it's an exploded watchword.. In .Chicago he picked Kn dlnte from the floor and as he >oped some one stole his pocket-' book with $800. His motto reads: 'Look after your $800, and the dimes will look after themeeivem" ?-> ' *? vasriasemfutPtmm -JJ..JU 1 I I ill I II III boy scout news. The meeting we* started at 7:30 on Friday , with the allegiance to the Hag and the Scout oath. The troop "War drawn np m formation for this ceremony. After the roll waa called and dueg'paid the Beaver patrol had charge of the program. Thla program consisted of the initiation of T. B. Bruce, Jack I)unn, M. McCoy and Donald Hill. All of these boya are new members anjp are starting in with the real (Scout spirit. Bible reading, jokes and a rather short song by Julian Burns. ' After the aforementioned progratn there waa drill and games. Many fellows who wished to organize a Scout track team were started in training by a mile of road work.1 The pace was slow, beuig about eight and a half minutes. This time'will bo gradually decreased 80 the boya are 'getting into condition. "This crack troop is helping to prove that small boys may cover long distances in short time. The troop has something else to be I proi^d of now that the young son of ' Scoutmaster dcLoach has arrived. Scoutmaster, Jr., is about eighteen inches long?looks just like daddy. 1 Friday night, October 21, there will be a glorious Romance o^Old Spain, to be produced by the Panther Patrol. Don't miss this, especially as the admission is free. Everybody come. James ^.aughlin, S. P. L. Denmark so appreciates her pobts that she places them on her xivil list and pays them a regular salary from the government. i . . ...I* < I" ! : ' Wants--For Sale LOST?On Saturday last a bunch of > small keys. Finder, who will leave " them at Chronicle Office or Bank of Camden, will be rewarded. 30-pd GENERAL Electric refrigerators are quiet. Can hardly be heard three feet ^away. ; LOST?One gold bar pin with one small diamond and two amethysts. Reward if returned to Mrs. John T. Nettles, Camden, S. C. 30sb LOST?One boys coat, fits seven year old boy. Lost on last Friday. Finder please return to Miss Anna Baxley, Camden, S. C. 30 sb. FOR SALE?Six room house with large sleeping porch and all modern conveniences, on Lafayette Avenue. Also all household furniture,, will sell in suite or singly. Telephone Mrs. A. A. Reasonover, Telephone 365-W., or Dixon's Grocery, Camden, S. C. 30 sb. GENERAL Electric refrigerators? keep themselves clean on account of circulation of air through coils. FOR SALE?Abruzzi seed rye. First year from breeder. Good for land. Pleases the eye and protects your crop frim high winds. Get your seed in now. Send or bring your order. W. A. Edwards, Rt. 1, Westville, S. C. 30-35 sb. GENERAL Electric refrigerators? Family size machine has only oneeighth horse power motor. For Sale Buists Flowering Bulbs? all varieties. Choice winter lawn grass seed. ZEMP & DePASS c> ' I Telephone 10 ___________ Answers?15 1?Manush of Detroit* 2?^-Gen. Henry Lai>*on. 3?John C. Calhoun; 1832~g 4?Fourteen parts gojd, fen parts alloy _ 5?U'hen Adam ate the forbidden fruit a piece Is said to have lodged In his throat, where the budge appears. 6?"Ralph Roister Dolster,N written by Nicholas Udalt. probably between and ir?4t. 7?The Scandinavian. 8?At the University of Oxford; In 1002. 9?Gen. U. Grant. < , , 10?United States Steel corporation Standard Oil of New Jersey and Amer lean Telephone and Telegraph coin PHny . . 1 FOR SALE- |V(.^ . -'^B JH to 24 inchoi M feet, 16 per loo; 4' J ? each. Black wmIi,ui t * ^Bk' peeelon flower (whWZX^SlB^ >612 Fair St,J*igTM I'OH SAI^K ? No. r> < seed. First year 22?* ?f &ryfB will b? pleased with rwow"!]? Kdwurd., i{t. , w,,??j|*- TJ . WANTED--Your NEWS * COURIER?ff!S jfe . > Sunday, in your p. 0 a a. m. for 19 on % J??lB 17.00. Phone 307-W 0r 1 Wallace, Agent. ' J^B GENERAL, Electric rcTiTJ^T^M Never need oiling or ISH'B any kind. * FOR SALE?Red ruBt'^TojrM Bring your bags and save o*B You should by all n^M to 8 acres per plow. Mail order or come to farm ani IB co?. W. A. Edw??d, R?,ilMJ ville, fl. C. ' SflJB DIXIE BLUE GEifl^r^J Coai. Save money bv in your winter's supply nnl ? ephone 340 for our low L? prices. Camden Lumber Camden, S. C. ^"B TAKEN UP?Two' my place Tuesday, OctoHr Owner can have mules bvW ing ownership and payin?B penses to keep and alsojB: \ this advertisement. AddIvkB liam Cook, eight miles ?3* Camden on Mid Turner dUm dress Route 3, Camden, &M ; WANTED-?No. 1 pine logl/SB cash prices paid: year iB; mand. Sumter Planini Lumber Co., Attention Sumter, S. C. j"b FOR lUSNiClMfTc^ . ings Bank Building, rateS . ; ' sonable; no heat, lights ofl bills to pay. Apply N. cS Agent, Camden, S. C. ' j ''B' CURTAINS* STRETCHED?J? wishing curtains stretched | apply at 904 Campbell H Prices reasonable. L FOFTSHOE REP AIRI N G ?ctlB Red Boot Shop next door B press office. A. M. JONES,jfl FOR SALE?One hundred a<rB land, 6 room dwelling, t<B r house, store building, otiHtfl buildings and barns and grirfB Sixty acres cleared. BaSm price. John K. deLoach,HB Camden, S. C.. jfl FOR RENT OR SALE--Sev*B house at 1212 Fair Stmt iB lot, two room house in yd[B car garage, wood house, ek fl session after October l&S Robin Zemp, Camden, S. C jfl FORSAL E?-S h i'ngl e"3 "No.'iiIb 2, in any amount. Addas dfl McCaskill, Rt. 3, Cam&ffl FO R~SALi^G crea.ni from tuberculd9^| Jersey cows. Address MB Truesdale, Camden, 8. 0? jB phone 2102. 2Sfl CARPENTERING?For any l^B carpenter work see John S. B at 812 Church Street, or jfl 268. I will be glad to servg? public. All work will be AH promptly and guaranteed ?M workmanship. I specialise in no^ buildfng. First class finishing, cfl inet making, mantles and screenu? I solicit your patronage and ? furnish best of references. Notice To Debtors and CredHaB All parties indebted to the of Jacob^Karesh, deceased, area* by notified to make payment to undersigned, and all having claims against the aawj tate will present them duly BP*? within the time prescribed byl**-M MRS. AUGUSTATA?M Camden, S. C., October 20th, NOTICE ' 'B Wateree Bridge Ticket Booka J The Board of County Director"* found it necessary to ?*!l 'Bfl bridge tickets except thoseJj1 m numbered aeries now being sow. j holders of previous issnes^**? * quested to bring these boo** ? M office of the undersigned unused tickets Will be l.M cash. These* books will notJ^H cepted for passage after HO*** 15' 1927- ? uiriAl LAURENS T. ?|^B Clerk Boprd of County October 12, 1927. | '"" """UTTr 1 1 HOTPOINT AIR HEATERS J In Several Sizes at to $11.00 M Just the thing for this chilly weather^B Many other useful and satisfactory Electric A? "pliances. all guaranteed. Irons, Perpolators, Irons, Toasters, Stoves, Curlere, VvVvoi;?, Table ???j; Floor Lamps, Fuses, .Plugs, Sockets, Dimalites. Lamp Bulbs, all sizes, from 10 watt to' 500 watt* w. ROBIN ZEMFS DRUG STORE I drugs, MEDICINES AND PRESCRIPTJ?^V^J