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II. D. NII.K8 Editor sad Publisher Published ev^ Pi^ir ?t Ko; U0? Broad Street and entered at tbe Camden, i South Carolina postofTice as second class raajl matter, price per annUnt f&00, payable in advance. Hr-f U UJ Ul 01 1 2 3 j A ,5 6 17 9- 9 j 10 ! M 12 13 14 1 i 16 17 jS 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 29 30 31 WI W Ul J . ? ? I ? ? ... ??J Camden, 8. C., Friday, Dec. 2, *1927r few^ttoueeiT'for jpat' Canideq uqw has one of the largest influx of new-comers In its history. Real estate and renting agencies have daily inquirys for rental houses but they ure exceedingly hard to fiild. While the construction of new houses has been rapid within the past year the construction program has not kept pace with the new-comers. With many workmen engaged in the paving program soon to be under way, and the tourist season soon in full blast every available house will be occupied. We learn from the secretary of the Chamber of (Commerce that he received fifty-six inquires through Wednesday's mail seeking information as to Camden, its climate, Its homes and hotels. Some citizens of Blaney in defending the action of their speed cop In hiding along the highway, thus in a measure, encouraging motorists tq disregard signs showing the limit 20 miles, then pouncing on and fining them, and are excusing the method through the press by pleading fear to injury to their children. We do not blame Blaney for wanting to enforce careful and reasonably slow driving through its street, but there are always two sides to every question, and in this case there appears to be several sides. A gentleman coming through Blaqey on highway No. 1. a few days ago, noted a little girl wulking along the right hand side of the roudway, ahead of the car. It was of course necessary for the cor to pass around her. But suppose another car coming from the opposite direction had to be met at that point, it would have caused one of the two cars at least, to slow down to the speed of say 2 or three miles instead of 20, or to have possibly struck the girl. Now seeing that the highways are intended for the use of vehicles, primarily, and that Blaney appears not to have provided sidewalks along this stretch of street for the convenience and safety of its citizens walking f:*om one point to another, ity tepdn to show that Blaney is not so; sojicntous for the safety of its citizens a* has been stated. < It would be very little expense to prbvid?*?rff Wast** pathway on each side of the roadway so that children and adults would not have to use the road for walking. In the present stage of civilization vehicles consist almost entirely of motor cars and trucks. A ' person especially a child, can he seriously injured, or killed by being run over by" one of these going at the rate of 20 miles per hous, as well as one going at 10. The fundamental principle of all rules and regulations governing socio! > is in effect, thaf the rights, privileges and convenience of the majority take precedence over those of the minority, in reasonable bounds. The present law gives the right to miles per hour. It is a fact that nea iy evcr\ lie ex oeds that, and we hen. that a hill will hr introduced in next legislature to increase the to 45 miles per hour. In view of these^ facts therefore it is ur opinion that no town should attempt to exercise unreasonable resin.'.ion with consequent annoyance to jinfl'i, passing through its streets on highways fr??n> which they undoubtedly derive l> in tit. or should, by virtue of the public passing th ough instead of go.ng around. W e have never been fined or annoy ed i14 passing through Blaney, therefore are not sore against it. On the contrary, it is our sincere desire to show the little town its mistake, and try to point out the way by which it can provide for the safety of its citizens, and at the same time keep on the good side of motorists that come that way. Blaney is enjoying a great opportunity by having the great National highway Number One pass through it. \Ve believe the oppoiy tunity should, for obvious reasons, be used and not abused. > Friendly treatment of the strangei often brings tine results later. Reasonable liberty is preferable to a steel tra p. Definition of Cotton. The following is a copy of a letter originally from the office of Tatum, Pinkham & <Irav, dry goods commission merchants of New York City: "Cotton is the overcoat of a seed that is planted and grown in the Southern States to keep the producer bruke_and the buyer crazy. The fiber varies in color and weight and the man who can guess nearest the length of a fiber is called a "cotton man" by the public, a "fool" by th?> farmer and a "poor business man" by his creditors. "The price of cotton is fixed in New York and goes up when you have .-sold, and down when you have bought. A buyer working for a group of mills was sent to New York to watch it he cotton market and after a few ' ^days deliberation, wiied hi* firm tc this effect; ,t "'Some think it will go up.. Some fthink it will go down* I do too, , Whatever you do will be wrong. Act igiiLpnce.' . . .. r..j mortgaged in Ine summer and TeTtir the field n the winter." Thrmt hundred thousand dollars is bid for a New York Stock ExPrice moved up fldO,000 thin year, only a beginning. Poor Wall Street bears! Virgil Jordan, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Hoards, tells the Railway Business Association: A great industrial boom is com ng that will make' 1925 and 1926 look like a depression. "Business expansion in 1928 and later will strain our transportation facilities and credit resources to the limit, and put the powers of the Federal Reserve system to a real test." The average citizen will say: Amen, let the expansion expand." This news, if confirmed, will lighten the hearts of many women. Dr. Magian, of Manchester, a scientist of standing, says that by an operation in gland transplanting it has been made possible for hitherto childless women to bear chiWrtn. Only those who jjnow the inpehse sorrow of a woman, married'timl -childless, can realize whut this means. The world accepts changes as they come. Not long ago crusaders in New York tried to prevent bicycle riding by women, called immodest, luring ladies too far from the house. Now they go 1,000 miles in motors, or try to fly over the ocean. Next, Aldermen decided that women must be forbidden to smoke in public restaurants. Now the big Pennsylvania Railroad , puts ladies' smoking cars on its first class trains from New York to Washington. Nevertheless, women should not smoke until they are through with child bearing. Each child should have half a chance, and gets it, no 'matter what his father may do, when his mother doesn't smoke or drink strong liquor before he is born. Hans Lagenseth, who died at eighty-two with a beard seventeen feet long had claimed the world's long beard championship. He did something better than anybody else, yet no one made "a beaten path to his door" on this earth. However, when Gabriel calls us all. his heard, longer than anybody's, will probably attract attention and amaze the beardless angels. Generally speaking, we are prosperous, those willing to work get along. Put Mrs. Hildegar Wywias did not find it so. She struggled tor five years with four children, feeding clothing, paying rent washing, cooking and working as a "garment presser" for $25 a week. She scorched one expensive dress. That took a week's pay. Each month the rent took a week's pay. Prosperous America was not prospi us enough for Mrs. Wywias. She ' 1-e 5be gas meter, opened all the .' {>. thin knelt b\ the bed where hei ;vv-year-old son was sleeping, her thiae little girls asleep nearby. AH were dead, when found, with no more rent or food bills to pay. There Hi:l room at the bottom for those that would make conditions better. Birth control and pirbKs4iing iniormation about i* are approved by Britain s "National C ouncil of Public Mot als." Theoretically women should have :ht right to decide how many childnn they will have. But it is well that understanding of birth control has been postponed. It might have prevented the . arrival of Napoleon and Carlyle, and surely would have prevented the arrival of Caruso, a nineteenth child. Mrs. Pealxxly, head of the Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, says "ten million women are not only talking and praying, but working to retain prohibition, and see that it Is enforced." Then need not work or pray to keep prohibition in the Constitution; nothing can get it out. As for enforcement, there is ros?m for much working and proving' in that direction. ( i nsus Director S t e w art o n \\ e.'.nesday predicted that the population of the United States will be 1 2-5,000,01)0 by 1930. The directors are now making plans for the 19d0 rensus. The seventieth congress will begin next Monday, and it is expected that ' he- st ssfon will be a hard one extending through the winter and well into the -pring of the year. The New \ ork court of appeals has ' refused a new trial to Mrs. Ruth i Snyder and Henry Judd Graj, con victed of the murder of Mr*. Snyder's husband, and the pair will die in the electric chair on January 9th. i Charles R. Forbes, former head of . the Veterans' bureau, was released from the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.. Friday night after comV ^ sentence of two years for i OTTfautilng the-^go^ernmeW tha building of hospitals for ex-soldiers. r s" ?-?'?1 Jrj * Mr. Brisbane's editorials are pub* lished as expressions of opinions Of the world's hiaheat, asUried editor and The Chronicle dees net necessarily endorse all of his lews and conclusions. OKNEtAI. MCWS NOTES .1 ? An aaploslon of 880 quart* pf nifcroJ* tU pl?nt of the Ipdnpeud nt Torpedo company near Jofferaon, I Kaii Friday, destroyed the plant. The ho^k of the explosion was Idt thirty mild* away. 'There were no casual-1 tie*. One man wa? killed and five oth-| er* were injured, when the steamship Jacob Luckenbach was blown to pieces | by a tar rifle eaplo?ion on board the ehip in the harbor of Bsltimoi*, Md., on i riday. The blast i* believed to have been due to the u*? of an acetylene torch too near the fuej tank iSi]^n' n' prober of an old Philadelphia family, waa killed in that city Friday, when she fell from the 18th floor of the 'Mitten building. Mrs. Adolphuk Busch, widow of the millionaire brewer of St. Louis, waa fined $67,000 by New York custom* officials last Friday, when it waa found that she and her two daughters were attempting to smuggle into the country |28,60Q worth of dresses and other articles they had purchased in JEurope. | A total of fourteen deaths had been recorded up to Saturday in] Baltimore as November's poisoned] liquor victims. The latest of the victims were two negroes, a man and] a woman, . ^ I 1 wenty school children and two ( teachers were more or less Injured Saturday near Nogales-Sonora, Mexi* ruru*w*y f^t car aaught 100 children walking across a railroad bridge../ -The Georgia supreme court has gfanted a new trial to Mrs. Lillian MeKie, who shot her husband to I death in Augusta, Ga., in July 1026. The Princess * Victoria Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, ..sister of the former German kaiser, was last week married to Alexander Bubkoff, a young I Russian refugee, and former dishwasher and dancer in mqsic halls. "Aunt Fannie" Anderson, humble slave of "befo' de wah" days, is dead in New Orleans in the 102d year of her age. ^ John McAlister, 44, of Kings Mountain, N. C., died in tht? Spartanburg hospital where he lay unconscious for a week after being "JM by a motorist who escaped without stopping, while he was walking along a road with members of his family. His skull was fractured and his leg broken. Eighty Confederate soldiers of the unknown dead of the civil war are to [ have a monument in a Greenville cemetery in the form of a bronze tablet which will be unveiled soon with ceremonies with Mayor Alvin H. Dean as the principal speaker. The unknown dead buried in that cemetery died in the army hospital during the war between the states which was located where is now a prominent business corner. Greenville will have for two weeks in the middle of January what is announced to be the greatest Sunday school meeting ever held, when the second Southwide Sunday school conference is held there with 2,500 persons expected to attend it. The program will have over a hundred speak- I ers on it, some of them of wide and large reputation, and some of them at sectional conferences which will have the most of the work. Railroads will give fare and a half rates for the round trip on the certificate plan. 1 he convention is under the auspices ot the Sunday school board of the Southern Baptist Convention with headquarters at Nashville. W. J. Bailey, Clinton banker and manufacturer, has given Presbvterian college, in that city, $10,000 for better athletic facilities, enlargement and improvement of the athletic field, and giund stand, providing the college will raise $15,000 for the same purpose. Col. LeRoy Springs has already given the college one of the best gyms in the state, ami Mr. Bailey proposes that the football and baseball fields be made the e^ual of any others. Detective S. H. White, of a private agency, says that finger prints hn<i photographs sent to identificat on bureaus disclose that R. B. Osborne, alias W. 11. Watson, in the York county jail for forgery and bogus check work, is Paul ('. Smith, who served two years in the South Carolina penitentiary a few year* ago for forgery, and nine other start s have warrants out for him. The cost of building a one-Tamily residence has increased ID per cent, since 1920, according to a report just issued by the department of labor at Washington, D. C. In 1921 the average expenditure was $.'1,972, not including the cost of the lot. while in 1926 the cost was placed at $4,725. Four men were killed in a pistol battle at Opp, Ala., Friday night fokj lowing an Armistice Day celebration. The battle started after a policeman had attempted to 'stop a car driven by O. C. Dauphin. 18. An 80-mile gale struck Chicago Friday night. Numbers of house* were destroyed in different sections of the city and in the suburbs. The temperature dropped 23 degrees in th ree hours. Father Ought to Know. Jane, age 5, accompanied her mother for the first time to a wedding. She seemed very interested and attentive untij the solemn affair was nearing the end. Jane studied ,th? bridegryom for a while and then in a low distinct voice she said. ' Mother, I don't see Mr. B's blindfold." Mother, quit* surprised at JaneN remark, asked, "Why, Janey, what on earth ever put such a silly idea into your head ?" * , Jane Studied a moment arufYherrsho replied, "Well, I heard Maddy bay, "Jim's going into this blindfolded just as I did."?Indianapolis News. The warden of the Ohio [)enitentjary at Columbus has issued a ban against the sending of t-Christmas boxes to prisoner*, on the ground that many mothers and wives starve themrelatives In prison. 'A SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS The friends of L.' Q. SouiheiA of ?H^iH-nbiUrflfre ^rin^in* kiw out for dditionsl Federal judge is South Carolina, proposed in a bill to be introduced by Senator Blease. The conference of the Upper South Carolina conference of the Methodist hpiscopal church, South, decided to 1928 ,t# MXt MfWioR at in There are now 291 Epworth Leagues within the confines of the Upper South Carolina conference of the Methodist church, it was reported at the annual meeting at Greenville. Baptist churches of that section sent a carload of provisions to the Coqnie Maxwell orphanage at Greenwood. This is the second year they have done it. Luther Lee, of Walhalla, a Clemson student, had his thigh fractured in an automobile collision with a steam roller, and two other students with hint received minor Injuries, last Thursday. '-j~ The campaign of the home econ-1 omtcs division of the state department of education of South Carolina, which is trying to interest high school girls and teachers in wearing more cotton I clothing, is being heartily endorsed by cotton organizations. High school girls in this state are being taught what textiles are made in South arolina and urged to use home state textile products. Every school dress a cotton dress, is the slogan stressed, and all over the state home economics teachers are wearing in the class room cotton dresses and say they are the best to work in. | All the stores in Kershaw closed and all merchants attended in a body the funeral of W. W. Horton, veteran churchman and merchant of that city who died after a long illness, aged 57! He was born near there and formerly was a farmer. oiE,?t^8 for tlle national Jersey Black Giant poultry show at SpartanUI-?? .December 6 to 9, are coming in 1 / McLaurin will be judge I under the auspices of the American i oultry association. An echo of the contest of Greenville, of the will of J. A. fcothran is the arrest of-A. J. Jordon, his son, Albert Joidan, G. W. Davis and W. I). Sherman on charges of perjury on the witness stand in the trial of the will contest. 0 m>v^,brid?:c must be built on the 1 elham-Groer road to replace one wrecked by a falling tree which was cut down near the bridge. The distance between abutments is sixty feet, the county is going to try to recover damages from the men who cut the <n\he i^2/? automobile license plates in South Carolina have black figures on a bright yellow background, without the palmetto tree and with the name of the state spelled out in full at the bottom. The figures are larger than this year, although the plate is shot ter than former ones though a little wider. The plates are ver easy to recognize and to read. John Shook was sentenced to a whin an,d a ,da>; f" the Atlanta prison " hf P'eaded guilty in Federal couit at Spartanburg to using the 'H'ls to defraud. He established a ake bank at Newton which certified his credit good when he ordered goods tiom mail order houses which he sold and did not pay for. Previously he served sixty days in jail and another imt two years in an industrial school tor practicing the same kind <>t fraud. A carload of turkeys was shipped from Lancaster to a Northern market last week bringing to the farmers then h t m?ney U> suPPlemenf J; ;ho t C(,tt<)n erop. The loadings vve e made at Kershaw and Lancaster whtht\ r ?Ver PouiHls. for ri j . ,fa?'mers received $2,811 90 , R,ea<1 'Admiral William H. G. Bul ard. chairman of the Federal raiuo commission, died in Washington!,' 11. ( ., yesterday. j ,1 "!? Joseph 0. Baus end J?nw? Burrua of Fairfield, Hyde county, N. been sentenced by the court at WmHingtorv N. CL, to eprve three to fotir years fn prison on manslaughter charges. The'men plead guilty to hitting and instantly killing Mrs. J. P. Bullock on a highway with an automobile and then leaving her dead on the highway without offering any assistance. Tne tolls for the first week of operation of the new Holland vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river, be- , tween New York and Jersey City, to-' talfd 182,421. Give Them The Gate We've no objections to our neigh- j bora in other parts of the State, or even in other states, selling goods. But we enjoy buying what we do buy from people we know, or from salesmen who represent people and concerns that are not strangers to us. We can't see just wherein there can be much satisfaction in buying from those we never heard of before and will never meet up with again. This is inspired by the fact that more And more, as roads get better and it is possible for more autos to travel them, the community - is being visited by canvassers and peddlers who offer most everything under the sun. We are opposed to this kind of merchandising tor many reasons, chief among which is the fact that we have here in Lancaster established houses that we can turn to when we need anything. And if they haven't it in stock they can very easily, and without loss - of time get it for us. Where does anyone profit through buying from a peddler something that, when replacements are needed, cannot be secured here at home. And whose tax money pays for the roads over which these peddlers and canvassers travel. They can only exist so long ad doors are opened to them and they are permitted to pour forth their sales arguments. "Give the peddler the gate," would be a good slogan for every community to adopt.?Lancaster News. NOTICE BIDS FOR REMOVING BUILDINGS AND TELEPHONE LINES ON ROAD NUMBER 26. Notice is hereby giyen that sealed bids are invited by the undersigned for the removal and relocation and re- i erection, within thirty (30) days, of the buildings and telephone lines on the right of way of Highway No. 26 running from Camden to the Sumter County Line as laid out for hard surface by the State Highway Depart- 1 ment. Bids will be received for all or any part of this work. Plans, specifications, and information in regard to the particulars of the work can be had from the undersigned at his office in the Court House, Camden, S. C. (County Direc- j tors Room). All bids must be filed with the undersigned by one o'clock p. m. on Saturday, December 10, 1027, at which i time the bids will be opened. The right is reserved to reject any : j and all bids. All awards are sub- i ject to the approval of the Chief Con- j j struction Engineer of the State High- ' way Department. | Bidders will be expected to enter into contract and to give satisfactory bond for the proper performance of any work that may be awarded. Payment will be made on monthly claim to the State Highway Department on the basis of work actually done. H. D. SMITH, " ; Resident Engineer, Camden, S. C. December 1, 1927. 36-37 j \Vants?For Sale j WANTED TO RENT?Babv "carriage or go-cart. Addrelti 1512 Fair Street, or phone 188, Camden, | S. C. - 36 sb. >"> ' B? FOR SALE?One rood Cag.be *??a ?t 1718 Gorton fill % ?f ."?? tfHf a ft? FQB BBNT?W?li located ,h?| cottage with sleeping porch session given from Janu?rvV Apply to 8. G. 8*~ier?, SLM S C v'?*n^? FOB BBNT?8U room hou??l Union street, near Lake vlM Apply Chronicle Office, Caini? M C. FOUN D?Wednesday a boy', bifvl Owner can get same by id*,/? in* and paying for advert J Address D. "S. Mima, Went j mJ Street, Camden, 8. 8. gg? 1 OR 8ALEp>H)re9 good work n?iMl for sale. Cpm be seen at DeK? township chain gang, located *9 Heaver Dam Church. See Mr E. Munn or J. M. Moaeley *kl FOR SAI,E ^Hunting right o? *? acres and also 178 acres, wit? cloae proximity to each othJ this property la known ,s M Rock Hill place and is located 1 Twenty Creek, within two and o J half miles of Blaney, For furtffl particulars and information wril or call on T. C. Sessions, Bland 8. C. 86-37 ? MONEY TO LOAN?At six and 03 half cent 'interest on improvl city real estate. Apply h<3 Savage, Jr., Camden, S. c. ul HOUSE FOR RENT?Six room i/3 with ell modern conveniences a| ply D. V. Dixon, at Dixon's Gil eery, Camden, S. C. 34 J FOR RENT?A two horse farm ne| Antioch Church. Apply to \Tm WANTED?No. 1 nine logs. High? cash prices paid: year round9 maud. Sumter Planing Mill, ,J Lumber Co., Attention E. S. BooJ Sumter, S. C. tiai CASH FOR LOOS?Pine, poJ?| ^sh and maple logs, 12, 14 of? foot lengths. Inspection at shil ping point. Address Lexingt? Lumber Company, P, O. Box 6? Columbia, <S. C. S1-S5 J CURTAINS STRETCHED Any 01 wishing curtains stretched pleJ apply at 004 Campbell Stfe? Prices reasonable. ?M FOR SHOE REPAIRING call ,t tfl Red Boot Shop next door tsl? press office. At M. JONES. Pro? 24tf ' CARPENTERING?For any kind 1 carpenter work see John S. Mye? at 812 Church Street, or nho? 268. I will be glad to serve t? public. All work will be do? promptly and guaranteed as ( workmanship. I specialize in hoc? building1. First class finishing, cal inet making, mantles and screenli? I solicit your patronage and e? furnish best of references. 48? DIXIE BLUE GEM, Egg and Biol Goad. Save money by letting us p? in your winter's supply now. T? ephone 340 for our low deliver? prices. Camden Lumber Compar? Camden, S. C. 27s!? FOR RENT?Office in Loan A 3a? ings Bank Building, rates very re? sonable; no heat, lights or bills to pay. Apply N. C. Amefl Agent, Camden, S. C. ) U? Special Offer! 1 One Petite Bottle I of the famous . SHARI EXTRACT I Price 50 Cents While They Last 25 CENTS ZEMP & DePASSI Telephone 10 Five Hundred Dollars I What will you do with it??You havn't got it you "I say. Well, you could have had it?if you had started I 6nly a short time ago?to depositjregularly every week I ?or every month, a part of your earnings. ; \1 A dollar here?a dollar there?tossed off for this or ' I that needless luxury or pleasure?seems so little?but \1 i in the aggregate they soon mount up to a sizeable sum. j Many big and successful business ventures have I been started on a sum less than $500. If you had $500 H today?you could be keeping eyes open for opportu- j nities to make a safe' investment?and have that money working for you. JH Or? you could ask us to assist you by offering sug-. gestions of ways to increase your savings?then soon I ?it would be $1,000. 1 | THE BANK OF CAMDENjj