Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE ||. I), Nil,KM. Editor and Publisher Published every Friday at No. UO'J Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina postofTice as second elan* mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Camden, H. <\, Friday, June 2#. 1928. 7 1929 JUNK 1928 i "BCa Tl?f TSu In. ~iUt, i , y 3 4 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 29 30 9 ? 9 ) Ciifair to Printer* Band & White, Spartanburg printera, in u letter to the Spartanburg Hcruld called attention to the un fairness of the Huprome court rule which requires all transcripts of record in up|>eal cases to bo printed under the supervision of the clerk of the supreme court, for which he receives u liberal fee, and which takes the printing away from the printers generally and places it in Columbia. Bund & White especially cull attention to the fact that in instances where attorneys specific that thut firm should receive the work, payment was delayed several months, whereas payment was prompt under the former rule. This rule, which has been in force for a year or two, penalizes the better class of printers because some printers fail to properly print transcripts. The rule ought to be revoked. In the meantime, attorneys cu i serve their local printers by insisting thut their transcripts is* sent to their own town for printing.?Bates burg Herald. + l-ittle lloy Electrocuted At any and all times the venturesome spirit of the growing boy of any age keeps the parents on their toes, but especially does it exert itself in the school vacation period. And tin* boy readers of The .Journal and their parents would do well to exercise a degree of caution and forebearanee to avoid a similar tragic death of a seven-year-old lyoy of Mullins, recounted in The Mullins Enterprise. Tins child, with an eleven-yearold play mate, decided to go to the p >\vei house of the town and get one bird eggs from the nests abov the high-powered wires that run into the power house. The seven-yearobi hoy proceeded to climb up to the nests when his bare foot came in contact with a live. wire. His coinpani i. i?dow. saw a Hash of fire, and the >tr -ktti lad fell to the ground, erushng ii.s skull against a concrete slab. I'fier?? is something in the nature t a gi>.wing hoy that calls f<>i the exploration and robbing of bird nests 'I'k- lords may use, consciously or unc"')> lous'ty, a degree of prudence in Im.ld.ng their nests in proximity t" a network of wires ti nsmitt.ng c.eeliic (.orient. In many parts of Spartanburg the woodpeckers utilize the telephone and arc light poles fol nestling. The safe and right plan is t>> have the bird nests unmolested, wherever they happen to be?Spartanburg Journal. I he Ben Beits Case It is a strange case that of Ben Bess of Florence county, who served Id years in the penitentiary follow mg com iction on the charge of assault, and was recently granted a full pardon by Coventor Richards on the oasis f an affidavit made by the pro>e?utr.\ that the negro was not guilty of 'hi- crime. Now ti Florence county grand jury reports that an investigation it har made convinces it that Bess was guilty of the en mo charged; ami hi ha - been sent back to the penitentiary f.o -.i ft- kid ping, until some per manont procedure is decided upon The grand jury's investigation, con ducted with the aid of one of tin governor's detectives, showed, it i .-aid. that the woman never in'ende. to sign an affidavit clearing tin rn-gr of the charge. She < ould mr res the affidavit she signed, shi n>\ swears, and understood that she wa merely "forgiving" the negro . hi deed. It would appear that this en-, wi bear s'.ill further scrutiny and vo? ligation Who prepared the o-,gmi affidavit which this woman - gnod Has he been brought into v. or', i before the grand jury, and quest lot ed as to his interest in the matte and hi- representations to tne \v man? The entire history of the a fntr should he presented in ful. the people of South Carolina TI mind of the citizenship should completely -atisfied that whatever a tion is finally t-aken in the case Ben Bess, i* one of genuine ju&tn unbiased ami unprejudiced, and cle.i ed of any possible confusion that m still remain in the mind of the chi witness.?Greenville News. 'i-.,. m i, i . nil i mi mi smaBammmmsssrr. ? ?i umu .i=rssssnmmfKssr=: Good People Responsible for HeH in South Carolina Says Bob Quillen (From Fountain inn Tribune) if there's a fish oil the kitchen table and you leave the cut in the kitchen, whose fault i? it if the fish diaapja ai s ? If a small boy lies and steal* and is neither corrected nor punished, j and if no effort is made to instruct or restrain him as he develop* into ' manhood whose fault Is it if he ends in jail? If there are nine sane men and one idiot in a boat and the nine permit the idiot to *teer itj whose fault in it if the boat is wrecked: If there are five hundred re*pec-J table people and three hundred ignorant and vicious people in a community, whose fault is it if an ignorant and vicious man is elected to rule the community ? The simple truth is, people have the kind of government they deserve?the kind of community thev deserve the moral atmoBphere they deserve. Those who should lead are responsible for what huppens if they don't lend. Conditions in South Carolina are rotten, ('rime is rampant. Murder is commonplace. And the people to blame are the educated, clean anil respectable pi?ople. They are to blame because their lassitude and indifference make such conditions possible. I hear many women complain because officers do not enforce the law. Hut not one of these women thinks ij. her duty to vote. They think somebody should do something but 'the somebody always is somebody else. They are content to cdmplain Mild scold. Men tell me of rottenness and urge me to reveal it?"but," they say "dofi't mention my name. I can't afford to get mixed up in anything like that." They want me to make charges that I cannot support, while they, whose testimony is essential to effect a reform remain hidden in the background and avoid all risk. Horse thieves and bandits once operated unrestrained in the West. The citizens decided to clean up, and the thieves were left to dangle from the limbs of some convenient cottonwood. The "crime wave" ended very s,>o& after the public tired of it j It has always iuipi>ened that way. (.'rime and vice flourish just so long 'as the people tolerate them nnd no i longer. Whenever the people make up their minds to clean up lawlessness ends almost at once. \\ Inch means that the "good" people the "respectable" people?are solely responsible for the rottenness 1 now existing in South Carolina. They j scold and complain and denounce, but ; they do nothing else. And some of them don't even vote. There isn't much incentive to vote when no candidate in the field is much more capable or respectable than any other. Hut if the goini people of the state will get the habit of voting, and thus let it be known that a g oh man who offers his services can i \ >ect support; I believe tho right km.l of men will offer for publice off;, i 1 do iu>; mean that good men never do offer. The minor offices nearly always are filled by men who ; grade ulmut as high as the average citizen. Hut no one will contend that our highest offteea are filled by the best men of our state, and no one will contend that the voter is given an opportunity to choose between perfection and imperfection. This is election year, and it is | probable that the voters can effect some improvement if they will try. ; | 1 know very little about any oi the > i andidates. Perhaps no one of them is in any way an improvement on the . j men now in office. Perhaps the men . now in office are, for the iwowt part - about as good as tho state affords. l> I Buth this much is obvious. When s , law violation is common, and crim1 inals commonly escape justice, the 0 officers whose business it is to pro1 tect society are incapable of doing v the work they urv chosen to do or 3 they haw treaoheroualy made an al 3 liance with the criminal oloraeht oi they are .ndiffefient because the peo ;i pie arc indifferent. ?.j It may he that the peace officer; tliand the courts of South Carolina, a j they now are, could work a great re >r j form tf an aroused publu opinio: n-j would require them to do it. r, j Or it may be that no general re r,. form can i?e hoped for until the of I f- I fives art ti led by new men electe to and pledged to work reform. it> Something is required urgentl he and immediately. Crime ;s in the sar .--idle, and neither life nor property i of . safe. The killer can kill today an :u. j walk. the street* tomorrow. When i ir- (last he is brought to trial, he can e; ay^cape by reason of a mistrial or a lef | acquittal, or at the most serve short term behind the bars. ! / You iM*y the officers ure not m fault that the juries arc to Llainw. Well, who selects the jurifs? !?? effect they are selected by the sheriff ixJ the clerk of court. The sheriff place* ?o many names in a box ani the clerk of court places 10 ijnany name* in the box. The names arc drawn for Jury service. But if the sheriff and clerk of court ar? dishonorable men they can and will place in the box the names of men who are as dishonorable as themselves ; if a notorious bootlegger is to be i I tried at a coming term of court either the sheriff or the clerk, if he i* so disposed, can make it reasonably certain that the jury choaen to try him will be composed of bootleggers -for bootleggers, whether caught or j uncaught are known to officials as 1 they are known to private citigens, and while they remain undfcught they are respectable citizens and eligible for jury service. In one South Carolina county, within thq last five years, a private citizen made it his business quickly to investigate the private lives of the men drawn for jury service. With one exception, every man on that jury list had a criminal record. Either the sheriff or the clerk for reasons best known to himself had selected for jury service men who could be depended on to acquit a fellow criminal. And yet "good" people howl when , they are drawn for jury service. They huven't time. They can't afford it. They will perhaps, find time to , I ait at the bedside of some relative or friend shot down by some rowdy encouraged to crime by the fact that nobody seems to care. When sheriff and clerk of court have such power, it is imperative that every county and district in the state select for their offices men of ' courage and honor?intelligent men, not easily hoodwinked?who will do ' their duty at any cost. The solicitor has more power than < either the clerk or the sheriff. The! clerk takes his advice. If he-, sug- ( gests that trial be postponed; he can make or break the man who is ae-i1 cused. Because he has such power, h- J: must be a man above reproach anl'i above suspicion?a man who will not compromise with evil for the sake I of votes?a man who cannot be bribed or influenced?a man who will not persecute for the sake of notoriety, but will prosecute to the limit of his abilities for the sake of honor and the sake of society. Because I live in Greenville coun!ty and say these things I do not want anybody to construe this as an attack on Hector, Dargan of Tenth* erwood. I never have seen Leatberwood. I know Dargan and Rector only as pleasant and accommodatirig fei' >w?. I have hud neither the time nor the opportunity to investigate i their work and the result of it to discover what they have done and what they have left undone. I neither accuse nor defend thorn, for I lam not a qualified witness. I know nothing about them. ( But I do know that rottenness exists in Greenville county as it dies in other counties. 1 do know that here, its elsewhere, homicide and lesser violations of law are so common that South Carolina now ranks as the most criminal State in the Union. There is a reason for it; many reasons. The better element of the people, made responsible by reason of its moral superiority and superior intelligence does nothing to effect a reform. That is the first reason. Elected, officials^ because of neglii go nee or incapacity, are doing less than could be done. That is another reason. The governor of the state, a . kindly, gentle and godly man, apparently is not capable of employing i his great powers effectively anil ia content to exhaust his energy to ia sure observance of the mere forms of righteousness. That is a third rea; son. The majority of the people <rf the state?ami this, of course, in eludes Negroes?an- unintelligent, an: clean, incapable of visualizing or de siring a high state of civilization and , without capacity either to practic* s honor or to demand it in public lead 3 crs. That is another reason. The reasons matter, for all reforri o must begin with causes. If Soutl Carolina is to be purged of crime am - rottenness the intelligent and respec - table people, who are a minority ,i must do it. They can do it. Th< other element is dominant now simpl; y because better people remain inactiv 1- The better people must interee is themselves in public matters. The id must see to it that the riuht kind 0 it men offer their services to the pub s- lie; they must see to it that thai .n men are supported, in the eleetio a and after they take office. Thui and thus only, can the state be mad - ? r? ?p?c table. i do not mean that mere good-1 turn* i? m sufficient qualification for I office. Merely to be virtuous is no I proof of sound character or of in- I telligence. Several times within the I last fifteen years this state has wit- I neaaod the sad and humiliating spec-1 tacle o? a corj#ic? l>etweeii the forc-| es of evil ami the forces of righteous- I ness?the one led by a shrewd and I capable man and the other led by an] incompetent prissy and wholly in- I effectual prude. A man can be I righteous without being either an ass I or u maiden lady. The most com-1 mon mistake of the better element of I society is that of choosing as its I leader one whose only qualification Is I that he doesn't swear. There arol in South Carolina clean and honor-1 able men of much ability. Judge I Cothran of Greenville is a fair ex-1 ample. He is a gentleman, but h? I would fight a buzz-saw in the cause I of righteousness?and lick it. Honorable people must chooso I able and honorable people to lead I them. When that is done, and the I people give their chosen leaders ev- j ery assistance within their power,) the state will be made clean. Hut until then it will be a byword J and a hissing and a disgrace. I GENERAL NEWS NOTES I Miss Mabel Boll, who was at Harbor Grace, New houndland, prepared | to make a hop across the Atlantic at the first opportunity, has canceled her plans. Miss Earhart got across first j and that spoiled Miss Boll's plans. By the explosion of a boiler in a Mexico City suburban bath house J Tuesday night, 31 persons were killed) and 30 or more injured. Donn Byrne, American-Irish writer,) was killed in Ireland on Tuesday by) the over turning of an automobile. tout men were killed by a single) bolt of lightning while they were) standing under a tree on the grounds) f the Indiana university waterworks J near Burlington on Tuesday. | The Kiwanis International, or- . ganized in Detroit at a luncheon in 1915, now has a membership of 100900. President Antonio R. Barcelo, of) the Porto Rican Senate, was stabbed I ' in the back by Jesus Matos, an anarchist, on Monday. Barcelo was not! seriously hurt. Matos was perhaps 1 fatally shot by a bystander after the! tabbing. -.,800 pounds of Chester count v poultry was sold at the car in one day bringing in about $000. This makes an approximate total of $4,700 from poultry shipments out of Chester this season. In all there has been about 25,000 pounds of poultry shipped. Mattie Turner. .>; Gastonla, apparently eighteen or twenty years old, has never received a call from a boy,' has never had a date with one, and never went anywhere with one, she says, and asks whether this is a world's record. W ill Carter, the negro truck driver in the collision which killed Captain R. E. Mendonhall, a Charlotte fire n? recently, was acquitted of manslaughter by the jury which tried him. \ou are opposed to capital punishment, and then you hear a self-made man holding forth in the smoker and yoo aren't so sure.?New York Telegram. We are surprised to note that the gentleman who won the tennis match at Rome was not Mussolini.?American Lumberman. ? , Wants?For Sale '< IjOST?Man's gold, seventeen jewel Hamilton watch, with chain and small knife attached. Ten dollars ($10.00) reward if returned to the Chronicle office, Camden, S. C. 14 pd. PIGS FOR SALE?Pure bred Berkshire pigs, fight weeks old. Mother took first prize with litter at Kershaw County Fair last fall. Sired by Clemson College hoar. Apply to H. B. Gaskin, route 1, Kershaw, S. C- 14-16 pd. FOR RENT?Six room house ort Union street. Apply Chronicle Office, Camden, S. C. 12 sb. FOR RENT?One five room house on Lyttleton street known as the Gibbes house. Apply to F. M. Zenap at Zemp & DePass, Telephone 95, [ Camden. S. C. 13-15 ah, FOR SALE?Oats in the sheafs * Heavy heads. Apply to Barnes Cook, at Guignard Farms, Camden, S. C. 13-15 sb I ICE FOR SALE?Day and night Camden Ice Company Service Sta* , tion, corner Market and DeKalt I streets. Will offer ice for sale daj - and night until October 1, 1928 Haynes the Ice man, Camden, S. C * 13-15 pd e FOR RENT?House on Bast Walnu IT Street, five rooms and hath. Pos e session June 15th. Apply 111! Pickens St., Columbia, S. C. 9 tf FOR RENT?One five room house oi Y Laurens street. Apply to M. H ? Heyman, Camden, S. C. 9tf w CARPENTERING?John S. Myers e phone 268, 812 Church Street . > Camden, S. C., will give satis factory aerrice to all for all kind! b of carpenter work. Building ? general repairs, screening, cabinei making and repairing furniture. My workmanship is my reference. 1 solicit your patronage. Thanking you in advance. BO tf. 1 FOR SHOE REPAIRING?call at the Red Boot Shop next door to Express office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24 tf FOR RENT?4 room house on Broad Street. L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 2 tf. CURTAINS STRETCHED?Any one wishing curtains stretched please apply at 904 Campbell Street. Prices reasonable. 8-tf WANTED?No. I pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth. Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-sA MONEY TO LOAN?At six and onehalf cent interest on improved city real estate. Apply Henry Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. 34tf FOR RENT?Room with private bath. Also three rooms with all conveniences. All to be rented at moderate figures. For address P. O. Box 425. s. c. ' FOR SALE?.First bungalow J^Bs of Court House, on Lafayettc'^B nue, six rooms, all modeni^H] veniences, price all righl,.^H terms. Address D. V. Dixon st^K on's Grocery, Camden, S. C.i^K Itching Skf Quickly ReHeiB Don't Buffer with Edema, DtaMH pies. Blemishes and other irritations. Zemo antiseptic liquid rffl I run way to relief. Itching clajfl oversight. Splendid for Sunhnjfl Ivy. All druggists 35c. 60c, IMH zemfl F Oft SKIN illRl|^| I I 1 i< J m to invite her, but?* 1 , . .. .' A 7 she has no telephone, and I haven't time to drive over there Qf course she if lonely. Can you murine existing in this age without a teleplume! . . . One might as well be marooned ! on a desert island," , t The telephone U thought of as a lion* v ] I necessity because through it you establish contact with tne work! It provides imm?., diate communication with, friends and 3 neighbors, With grocer and doctor, with police and fire } ^stations. The cost? A party / line service cp^y be had tor as A little as $2a month. I SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AA AMD TELEGRAPH COMPANY $ (/ wr?or<tM) ' 1 " -( i SATURDAY SPECIALSM BACONiT^oJ FLOUR Sc 24ibs.$l.ll BROOMS, Four-String 3&1 LARD, Bulk Compound, iuj| Evaporated MILK TETLEY'S TEA CLICQUOT CLUB GINGER pova,A^, BEANS SKINNER'S MACARONI s?.T^.M?c ,'t INE: SKINNER'S SPAGHE^B - SARDINES. IN OIL SKINNER'S N<t?DttjiJ| WATERGRQUND MEAL, 6 lb*. S I AR NAP I FlA^WaahinoJF^^ 3 TOILET PAPER, Sc. CHEWING GUM, 3 F0RJ*M celery FKESH VEGETABUM^iL.