The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 01, 1928, Image 9
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lierchnnt who says that everynows
his place of business, and
ht doesn't have to advertise, can
land in Gaffney and in every
community in this country.
it merchant also says that CU8rs
come to him when in need of
f, so why should he waste his
>y in advertising? Answer to
question has been madd by a
paper whose advertising man no
t stumbled into places of busiwhere
the oweer possessed that
ic of mind.
is newspaper answered the ques"Why
Should I Advertise?" as
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follows:
"Of course, the newspaper man
might say in rebuttal, 'Everyone in
this community knows all that happens
here, so what's the use of reporting
the news; what's the use of
printing a newspaper?'
"If the community can get along
without a newspaper, it can get along
without a number of other things.
The adults are educated and can teach
the children, thus doing away with
the need of schools. The parents,
being religious, can train the younger
ones in the creeds, thus doing away
with mimsteV* and churches. People
can loan their money;, to one another
and thereby eliminate banks. They
can swap their old clothes or learn
how to make home-spuns, thereby
greatly reducing expenses and actually
putting the clothing merchants out
of business.
"All trade is based upon a desire
for goods. Necessity is, mostly but
an augmented desire. Advertising
has the function of reminding people
of their requirements, but its greatest
function?a prime factor in all
progress and prosperity?is the creating
of new desires; thereby stimulating
trade and production and making
for the greatest possible degree of
employment.?Gaffney Ledger.
Law Blanks at Chronicle Office.
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Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Gee
MeGee, Copyright, 192b.
V-a-e-a-t-i-o-n
Summer time is here at lest. The
poor folks ?rc a!! poking up end
preparing to move to their slimmer
homes in the mountains and on the
seashore, while the well-to-do families
are putting up awnings and buy-J
iiig ice books, and planning to stay,
ut home and pay their debts and keep
a-Working.
1 think vacation time is the most
won.lerfullest time at all. A feller
can go away from home for two or
three weeks, and nary an installment
agent, and nary a bill collector, and
nar\ a nothing will bother him. He
can just forget all about his grocery
account and the notes his friends
have endorsed for him, and he can
sljeep all day if he wants to or sit up
all night if he wants to. Gosh, doing
that is tine business.
Uncle Joe's boy, Sammie, went to
the mountains last summer for a
whole month. Sammie clerked in the
Cashdown and Shutup grocery stoi^,
but when he got back home another
boy had taken his place. It seems
Sammie promised to come back in a
week, but he was off 4 weeks. Sammie
swears that there ain't no justice
in the way merchants treat their
clerks. (He had to give up his car
on account of losing his job after he
had already made 2 payments).
A man can rent a nie4 little 2room
bungalow on Cat's Hack mountain
for only 400 dollars for the season,
and the bungalow is furnished,
too. It has a 1-burner oil stove and
a wash pan and a tin bucket and 2
cots and a slop jar and a milk bottle
and a spring about 200 yards from
the house and everything. It's fiiV
tfo be able to rent a mountain house
furnished like that.
1 know a man who rents a house
up there for his wife and her gramma
and grampa and ii n 'J kids of thcir'n,
and he stays down home and 'tends to
everything and plays cards at night
and drinks licker and goes out at
night nnsoforth, and it looks like He's
having a better time down here sweating
it out than his wife is having up
the re a-keeping cool, but mebbe he
ain't. (She may be flapping for all
he knows).
Everybody ought to take a vacation
though if he can possibly borrow the
money to do so on. Some folks Agger
different ways to vacate. If a
guy will not pay his milkman and his
butter-man and his preacher-man and
his groceryman for only 2 or 3
months, he can ?pve tip enough money
that way to have the biggest time
up in the mountains ever was. and
he could "catch up" those behind
bill3 in a short while after he gets
back.
But the only vacations a lot of henpecked
husbands get is when their
wives go off "summers," and they
most in generally enjoy the freedom
thus extended. I know, (Mr. Jones
told, me so). .
Life Insurance
Uncle Joe took out some life insurance
about 2 months ago, and he's
already complaining about "everything
going and nothing coming
in." He took a 10-cents-a-week
policy, and he says that it looks like
the collectors always call on him for
their money when he hasn't got a
cent. $o far, he has pai(T 20 cents
on this investment. He is trying now
to get the collectors t* come only
once a month and he promises them
that he will save up 40 cents for
them, but Aunt Minervy told me that
Uncles Joe told her that if he lived a
month -without dyin?> he could pos^sibly
drop the- 'insurance then and
save 4 payments, and if hti Wanted to
carry it again, he could take it out
in another company.
, \ v' -y - Uncle
Joe believes in life insurance
to some extent, but he ain't no fool
about it. He says that if he waster
die, Aunt Minervy might just as like
as not collect his insurance and get
married again on it. He has ftggered
out that if he pays regularly for
3 months the insurance company will
bury him if it don't cost no more
than 36 dollars and that would leave
a balance of 14 dollars that would
fall into Aunt Minervy's hands,
Of course everybody knows that a
36-dollar funeral is a 1-horse wagon
funeral, and a 2-horse wagon funeral
would cost about 42 dollars, however
?wagon funerals are almost entirely
a thing of the past, and nearly all
corpses now ride to their last resting
place in a hears* regardless of wheth-j
er or not the said hearse trip is paid
for. Statistics say that the undertak
ers lose about 40 per cent of their
storage till the coffin is paid for, but J
most grave-yards would look mighty .
funny with half of the "remains" aetting
out on top of the ground waitng
for checks to clear.
Uncle Joe thinks a man ought to
pick out his cemetery lot and his J
tombstones before he is checked out. |
He said that if he had the money
right now that he could buy u tombstone
that would suit him all right
for 35 dollars, and the agents would
hook Aunt Minervy for around 75
dollars and 50 cents for same after
he had departed this life and left his
vacant chair and gone on before to
live forever on thtf other shore.
Well, that's enough about such sad
matters. Uncle Joe will be hero
when a hundred good men of his age
have passed out. Uncle Joe can eat
hum and chitterlings right now for
supper and not belch more than once
before bed time and not at all after
he has pulled the cover up on him.
He has a wonderful appetite and a
miraculous stummick. Nothing1 ever
makes him sick. He swallowed a quid
of Brown's Mule a few weeks ago,
and he would not have known the
difference if he hadn't missed it in
his chawing. If he keeps up his
weekly payments on his insurance
longer than week after next, I will
let you know.
Political Dope
At a recent meeting of the Ohello
democratic club, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED: That this club go on
record as expressing the belief that
a lizard did not descend from a crocodile,
nor a politician from a business
man.
RESOLVED: That we think turnip
greens are more healthful than
cheese straws, and that the Mississippi
river empties into the Gulf of
Mexico.
RESOLVED: That we think that
it is to the best interests of the gov
ernment to appoint an investigating
committee to investigate all investigating
committees, and that a jaybird
is in no way related to a chipmunk.
RESOLVED: That one man is as
good as another' and if there's any
I difference, he's a derned sight better,
and that Sen. Heflin iit a cross
between a gas bag and a bull slinger.
RESOLVED: That we deplore the
present political situation, but if it
takes defeat to lose Al. Smith, let's
work for defeat, and that 9 persons
out of 10 have halitosis and pyrorrhea.
RESOLVED: That a mule is
stronger than a billy goat except in
the little matter of smell, and that 2
nickels make a dime and 3 times 4
are 11}.
RESOLVED: That we express ourselves
as law-abiding citizens that if
any change at all is made in dresses
that the same be made shorter rather
than longer, and that an apple
J a day will not keep the doctor away
;if you drink any hootch whatsoever.
| RESOLVED: That we think 4'
wheel brakes and installment buying
have had a demoralizing effect on
young married women and old married
men, and that a fellow can't play ,
a Jew's harp on a mouth organ.
RESOLVED: That necking parties
be held in the parlor and sitting
room rather than at parking places
on side of public highways and in alleys,
and that a mouse is.not an offspring
of a rat.
Urge Farm Day
Washington, May 14.?Farm interests
have asked Congress to designate
a national "Agricultural Day" to
encourage consideration of the basic
relationship of farming and agriculture
to the well-lbeing of the Nation.
It is sought to establish "Agricultural
Day" as a legal holiday and the
Senate has already passed a resolution
requesting the President to designate
the first Thursday in October
of each year.
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[Dairy and Poultry Feed II
I WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE TO THE PUBLIC I
I THAT IN ADDITION TO OUR LINE OF LARRO II
I FEEDS WE HAVE TAKEN ON THE HAPPY FEED ||
I LINE OF POULTRY AND DAIRY FEEDS. THE I
I HAPPY FEED LINE NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION I
I TO CAMDEN. THE ONLY TROUBLE HAS BEEN I
I IN THE PAST THAT NO STORE BOUGHT THIS I
I LINE OF FEEDS IN CAR LOTS AND THEREFORE I
COULD NOT GIVE THE .EIGHT PRICES OR HAVE I
IT CONTINOUSLY IN STOCK. WE WILL ALWAYS I
I KEEP THEIR ENTIRE LINE ON HAND. WE BUY I
I IT IN SUCH LARGE QUANTITIES THAT WE CAN I
I GIVE YOU THE LOWEST PRICES. I
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I Camden. South Carolina 11
THE VALUE OF MONEY
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Not the least advantage of a savings account is the reflex influence it
has upon the person who maintains it. Saving makes one think more
of the value of money and of the opportunities.that lie ready for tho
man who has capital at hand.
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. Of Camden, South Carolina
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