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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. I). nTlKS. KdTtor and Publisher Published every Friday at No. 1109 Proud S? i?-?-1 arid entered at the Camden, South Carollni postoffice as second clasn mail matter. Price per annum fj.00, payable in advwxe. Cainden, ?S. t Friday, July 21. 1W2M. 1928 JULY I92BH IX?- TH ftt hC 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 # V 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 I 23 ! 21 25 26 27 28 29 30 , 31 # I i 9 i 9 ) : FIIOM THE EDITOR The editor of this paper, along v\ 11h hi* family, hs taking a week's vacation ut Myrtle Beach. The paj>er is as usual, left in competent hands, with a most loyal force, and we have every reason to believe, judging from other tunes we have left the office, the reading public will enjoy the change and that they will read an excellent issue of the paper during oui absence. H. D. N ID PIS. 1 f SUNDAY IN CAMDEN When Camden's work a day week ends and we can awake to look about a Sunday of well-swept shaded streets and gentle-tinted shrubbery wo realize then so much after all for the many strenuous and hectic days that make this one possible. It is the day in Camden when tn,j call of business goes unheeded, cv/hen wo are lost to worry in the thrill of almost perfect peace. It is the day for friends and everybody's buddy. To church many go while ythers find other ways to do penance and to worship before the same good God above. It is the day for taking stock of one's soul; to think and to be verv thankful. And everybody everywhere seems at least a little happier. Friendships offer nobler expression and build toward more lasting tiei. Nature presents a much nicer show to more appreciative lookers on. It is Sunday, if not the Sabbath, and in t inul' f all is well. NOT SO BAD HERE Very little opposition is being waged against the assessments fixed upon candidates for various offices in ker-haw County and the principal ic.c-.on perhaps is because there is no room f.n unfavorable criticism when the record throughout the state is placed on review. In Barnwell County candidates for the office of clerk of court must pay each; m Spartanburg candidates to the same office must pay $.'500, while in Richland they must pay Jt.'.Ofl. A candidate for the senate in Barnwell is assessed $lf>0 and for i epi esentat ive the tax is $7*. In Spartanburg senatorial candidates must pay $ UHi in order to get listed on the official ballot. Aye, Aye, Neighbor! i.' Governor Smith is the ogre his -opponeh; > p.iint him, says The ! lorenvo .News Review, it is passing strange that the big and prosperous! ' ate of New York should have been getting along so well for the past xioi'.cn or so years. OUR HIDDEN GEMS In the beginning nature favored Camden with t-he very richest blessings and this fact, very probably, fotm> the basis upon which every other compliment has fallen in and near this city. Wo have in mind the beautiful, ennobling but yet neglectid tokens of a grand and hallowed past. The tomb of Agnes of Glasgow, about which no more alluring or lovelier romance ever lingered, ia hard for Camden's guests to locate and more shameful still is its dishevelled ap}>earance which greets to shock so many travelers from afar. The powder-magazine, one of Cam- ' den's qua,ntest, oldest and most enduring monuments to a nation in the building, should he made to pay richer dividends in visitor-interest than it does at present as a place for storing city junk and tractor greases. 1 ' The Battleground of Canulen and other shrines, too, are being forgotten and while all history is not good history still all of Camden's is well worth telling. A brick enclosure here, a bronze marker there, and a tidying-up everywhere would place emphasis to the fact that Camden's story, past and present, is most worthwhile. CAhlUtN S tSIVi CHANCt On the proverbial silver platter is handed anotht>t feast for Camden with the offer of Mr. Van Vechten to bund liit- itolel so long needed here. Mr. Van Vechten does mor.* than dr.iw roseate pencil sketches and chant tiie tune of professional promoter a. He is confident that the hotel game as may he played in this city is a safe and sound proposition. The hotel business is his business, lie is willing and unxious to help in our long struggle to claim first-rate commercial hotel accommodations and in token of his sincerity he says: "1 may add ton thousand dollars." After he has started the subscription agreement with twenty-five thousand dollars, or one-fourth of the proposed capital stock, and after venturing the belief thut he can place another ten thousand dollar block without local help! Such un offer of magnanimity can not Is* laid aside without tragic results to Camden's present wholesome commercial outlook or without inviting stagnation to any similar enterprise within the next generation. No amount of argument can be used if the very soul of Camden can not within itself perceive the wonderfully glorious rewards that are swinging in the balance for a positive and fa vorable decision. In words that aru foreign to the thought of such radiant promise, but words that 011 occasion are peculiarly appropriate, wo are tempted to say: The time has come for Camden to put up or shut up; to ride with the contented wave of progress, or fa:l into the slouchy trough of utter indifference! A New ^ ork woman, being sued for divorce, ended her life. Some |x.*ople can't stand good fortune. Now that an edict permits women of Bosnia to go about unveiled Bosnian women may lose their reputation for beauty! A restaurant cashier in North Platte, Neb., refused to cash u check for Colonel Lindbergh upon grounds that the aviator was unknown there. So, at that rate, Nebraska must have a Rule 32 too! Final plans were laid in St. Louis recently by the newly formed Smith Association of the World for a i gigantic party to which nearly 2.000,000 Americans named Smith will be invited. This will probably lx? the first party in history at which people won't become embarrassed trying to recall each other's names. OUT IN THE OPEN We are proud to see the fight against A1 Smith at last out in the open and we hasten to doff our best brown derby to the gentleman speaking before the district convention of the .Junior Order United American Mechanics in Lancaster last week. In every crowd some one is ready to low-rate A1 but generally the abuse is evasive. Almost without exception the standard bearer of the Democratic party is challenged because of his personal views on liquor or because he mounted from the humble slums of Now York to the highest political success in that state. When many of his opponents are using inuendo and under-eover methods to further their prejudices it is very refreshing for Governor Smitn to find a bunch of real men who are not afraid to state their likes and dislikes in unquestionable terms. At the recent convention Dr. DuBose, vice-councilor of the Junior Order, spoke with emphasis and conviction. says The Lancaster News, "of the situation that confronts the country. He outlined briefly the ageold conflict of the God-fearing people against the tyranny of the unGodly ruling classes. "He attacked the record of Al Smith in no uncertain terms as a menace to our institutions ir. the effort now being made by the foreign element to get control of the government and turn it over to the Pope of Rome. "At the conclusion of the address the applause that followed." continues The News "showed how the gathering felt about the matter." So there the real issue is ,n the light! It appears even as this writer has previously declared that liquor after all is not the main objection. I Maybe it will mean the scrapping of a heretofore perfectly good federal constitution which does not now make distinctions in religion but. re gardless of the consequences, the Junior Order deserves the confidence of all men for Its desire to shoot straight and absolutely above-board. ?J.F.MaD. THIS WEEK By Afthw Bri?Unf^ Mr. Brisbane's editorials are published us expressions of opinions of the world's highest-salaried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. Stone Age Mummies Mammoths, extinct thousands of years, have been found preserved, skin, hair, flesh, in Northern ice. Hoping that mep of the Stone Ag<* might be similarly preserved, an ex pedition was sent to look. On an Island, far North in cold Alaska, scientists discovered at the top of an ulrnost inaccessible cliff the grave of an ancient Stone Age chief. His coffin was lined with well cured skins of the sea otter. His shirt was of bird skins, his clothing made of the finest furs. A favorite child, a seamstress to sew for him. a servant and hunter to get game for him, had been killed and buried with him to accompany him on his death journey. This mummified family from the I Stone Age will enlighten scientists, j It interests us all, illustrating the un-1 .conquerable belief in a future life sn, deeply planted in the human brain. Why was the belief put there U only to be disappointed? The Greatest Magnet The French Government builds a! gigantic magnet several thousand times as powerful as arf\ built thus far. " It will be used in scientific experiments in connection with the molecular and atomic construction of matter, etc. The magnet eventualh will be of great use in industry. Herp the steel companies use mag nets picking up tons of steel rail* and loading them on cars, dropping them down.Afting them up, as a boy lifts tacks with his toy magnet. Man is ail intelligent animal, living on a gigantic combination power wheel and magnet?the earth. He constructs his own little power plant, builds his own electric and magnetic power. In the north day before yesterday man's electric work felt an electric storm, and an amazing aurora burealis, stretching all acros the northern part of the continent. If men could borrow and use the inexhaustible electric power of the earth, they need not turn coal or water falls into electric current. Rockefeller Sees Kindness John D. Rockefeller, beginning his ninetieth year, said: "I never worry, and I am amazed at the kindness of people generally." Eighty years ago, from his father's cottage doorway, in the Catskill foothills, he watched his uncle drive off, to trade horses?and saw him come back with better horses. Now his shipo go out to every harbor of the world, his scientists are fighting diseases in every part of thfc earth. And looking at his right hand, now wrinklec^ he knows it has made gifts to education and human progress totaling hundreds of millions. A good deal in one life time. War Do*h Not Pay Thomas W. Lamont, partner of J. P. Morgan, and an able citizotf, tells business men. they can be a distinct factor in preventing future wars. They can and will he, for they have discovered that war, in the past often promoted by business, DOES NOT PAY. Another big war would mean not merely sixty per cent income tax, but confiscation of principal, on a gigantic scale. Young men would not again consent to have their bodies sent to war, unless the rich man's dollars also went. Wise business men will oppose war and demand preparation for it. "Where did that bus hit your auto?" "Right between the third and fourth installments." Buyer?I don't exactly like the looks of this new Ford in front. Salesman?But look at these fine lines from the back. Don't it Iook good from that view? Buyer?Yes, but? Salesman?-Wall, that's all anybodyll ever see of this car. . v , SHE MAY NOT NEED ANY FURTHER RESCUING By A 11^,7^1 What Is a Pardon? When 1s a pardon not a pardon, is a question which the courts of South Carolina will apparently soon be called upon to decide. Governor Richards, on the sworn affidavit of the prosecutrix that Ben Bess had not assaulted her, granted Bess a full pardon, which is duly recorded in the records of the Secretary of State, signed and sealed with all legal formality. Now that said prosecutrix says, possibly in fear of prosecution for perjury, that she did not intend to say Bess was innocent, the Governor orders written upon i said record or pardon, that it is rei voked and annulled, and consequently ! Bess is at this time again a prisoner j in the penitentiary on the original ; charge upon which he was convicted thirteen years ago. Says the Cyclopedia of Law and Practice, the leading American compilation of law: "A pardon which is not void in its inception cannot be revoked for any cause after its delivery and acceptance are complete." There follows a long list of citations to cases that have been decided to this effect in the Supreme Courts of many states and in the federal courts. This would appear to be in accord with sound sense a.- well as with the spirit of the law. A pardon is virtually an acquittal, and has the same effect as an acquittal by a jury of removing every vestige of civil disadvantage that was incurred by the conviction. In the erroneous phrase so common. It "restores his citizenship." No process can destroy even the vilest criminal's citizenship, which is conferred by the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution; but a pardon restores those privileges of citizenship which were Lost by conviction. The Governor cars therefore no j more "revoke" a pardon because he discovers, or thinks he discovers, that ;tt was obtained by fraud than a jury can again try a man who, it is afterwards discovered, was acquitted by fratm. There must be a reasonable degree of certainty in the law and a man's status under the law. A famous constitution puts it, "to the end that this may be a government of laws and not of men." Of course we are no Lawyer; and doubtless the Governor acted on learned legal advice; but we are free to say that if we were a young lawyer anxious for a case in which we might establish a reputation by a sweeping .success against distinguished opposition, we would offer our services free to Bess in defending the validity of the paVdon that was granted him, on the ground that even a Governor may not play with the liberty of a human being as if he were an insect and the law were a joke.? Newberry Observer. George?-Some tunes just carry me away. Georgiana?Tell me one and I will play it with great pleasure. "I keep thinking tomorrow is Sunday." "Tomorrow is Sunday." "Yes, I know. That's why 1 keep thinking it is." Mother?You used to wear your dresses in the height of discretion, and now look at them. Daughter?<But, mother, the height j of discretion baa gone up 14 inches. 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