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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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1928 JULY I92BH
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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.
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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. .
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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.
Albert Farmer, 60 years old, bewail
to dunce for the first time in
forty years at Asheville, and dropped
dead at the end of a square I
He lived in St. Louis and hidl
disease. ,
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