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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. MLE8 Editor 'and ^Publisher Published every Friday at No 1100 Proud Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina poatoffice an second class fnail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in ad v.vice. Camden. S. Friday, Auk 10. 1028. 1928 AUGUST 1928 1 'EZEHW- Twt-jww [ THrl ft. I 12 3 4 5 ! 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 31 I I I* f f * , | ' " J William Allen White, Republican i i>*w spa per man from Emporia, Kansas. is a journalist of wonderful ver- | satility and outstanding ability; but instead of being an asset to his party in the campaign tins year he looks like be is going to be a liability, it his I'eeent writings are any sort of index W hen u man makes a series | of wild charges, and then sees his mistake and thinks it wise to make a! public retraction before the man attacked has even taken public notice of the charges, he's not helping his side; and there's no wonder that an old Republican Congressman from J'eimsyIvania has wired in to headquarters to muzzle White. The Kansan, though, is something of u free | lance, whose syndicate stuff finds j ready entree into the columns of a great many papers all up and down the land; and !)r. Work and his assistants can be dejicnded upon to he cautious in the extreme if they undertake to muzzle Mr. White.?Chester Reporter. Way down in Georgia it's getting unanimous. The browns and the Smiths are uniting to support A1? Hoke's recent clarion call to arms to support the Democratic nominee being seconded by "Little Joe ' Brown. ?Spurt ami) urg .Journal. Thomas A. Edison Hard work! These two words sum up the career of Thomas Alva Kdison, the world-famous inventor whose name has penetrated every remote quarter of the globe. Kdison is perhaps the greatest?at least one among the two or three greatest of Americans born in u small town, and his career is an inspiration to every hoy, whether he bails from a big city or a tiny hamlot. For Kdison i> the miracle man of the century. His inventions anil i x per intents are known so widely thai it is futile to enumerate them here. Wo are in contact every day of our live- with instruments, devices and . oinfoi is i bat owe their being to the genius of Thomas A. Kdison. Milan, < duo, was the town of his hwt h Kebiuary II, IM7 the date. Ho to, eive.d si,nil illntrU tloll troll Ins mother, and at It? years of age began in the battle of life by selling newspapers on the Grand Trunk Railway. Already young Kdison was tinkering with machinery and developing those interests that in later life made him such a world-figure. Ho learned telegraphy and became an operator at various places in tlw l mted States and ( anada, ami soon invented many telegraphic appLnm*,-that brought luni a reputation that was a forerunner i>t" his present universal recognition. His present workshop is at West Oiange, New Jersey, where he ami a -tatf of experts constantly surprise the* world with their scientific tituimgs. Kdison is now eighty one but bis quest for the secrets underlying natural forces has not ceased. lie has just set out on experiments in i uhher-growing which he contemplates will take twenty years to com plote - and fie looks forw ard to colliplot i ng them. Kdison is an inveterate worker, at all the time, und allows himselt most s:x hours sleep at night. He belie vo,s ' bat if we all worked more and St."!1' 'ess. %Vl would Ik- happiei ai.d hen 11 Most people find more -leep than Kdison necessary hut hiconstitution ?.s such thut i,p noodi verv little Wo ' ^ absorb.-, him frou morn till night, ,u> fht.vo i>n it T"11? r-mnil-town b-, v among othoi things has given us t> megaphone 'the phonograph, tin1 incandescent lamp and light system, and niotio' pictures; he has received patents Joi over 1.000 mventii ns, including many wai inventions Toi the Ignited Statev Government. His caree; lias Wen as dazzling as the elect: ic light he invented 1 hose who deplore the lack of op portunitv in American small town: should cast a glance toward the dis tii.guished and esteemed gi-n;us knowr as Thomas Alva l'.dison. He s a' lmniurt si. Kiank l.otlin. a young man of Kas Spencer, N t , while changing a Lgh bulb in a null anil standing on. a stee harre; w ,s kiiied by the olectvw , ur rent passing through him. CAMI>KN H t OUTUNIS We feel a peculiar intercut and pleasure in noting the every step in Camden's forward progress, which U, perhaps, accounted for somewhat at least in the fact that during the per* iod from July 1, l'JOU, to January 1, ly 13, the writer edited and published The Camden News and dia his bit through that agency in helping the old town to got a start along new lines Prior to the date ftrnt above mentioned Camden hud been at a standstill for rather a long time; since then, however, it has moved forward step by step in various ways until it has reached the magnitude of a modern young city that bide fair to attain a much larger proportion in the very early future. One of Camden's peculiar good fortunes is her facility for the acquirement of good friends with the sufficiency of interest and means to become her benefactors. The first fruituge of magnitude from such sources was the gift to her of a hospital and grounds by the generous hearted Bernard M. Baruch, of New ^ oik, and a substantial benefaction foi -upport of that institution by one of her own county citizens, the late John Bmdell of the West Watereo section. Her latest acquisition is un assured airport, the contribution in full of of Ernest L. Woodward, of Ix-roy, N. Y., who also maintains a home in Camden, who has contributed ampl" , grounds for the purpose and will bear | the financial expense of putting it in proper condition for use. This not only promises but assures the early completion of that enterprise and forefront with other towns striving for immediate inclusion for place on an air line. We congratulate most heartily the county's capital city on her good for-, tune and extend a full-heai ted wish for greater achievements in the shortest possible time.?Kershaw Era. "DADDY IS MY PARTNER" He was a bright-eyed little chap, j just old enough to join the young peoples clubs. He had just started to double back with the risk, having gone over his acre once, and was j ready to cro4ss- disk his acres of land : when we saw him. He looked small to be driving two large mule* and doing the work of a L'OO-pound man, but he was doing it better than many I his youngster had just become of the age, the tender age, at which boys may -become club members. He was at work on the biggest job he bad ever tackled. No one had discouraged him. His father had permitted the county agent to select the best acre on the farm and was furnishing the best seed he could buy, the land, fertilizer, implements, team, and had offered to help with the work. But Bobbie wanted to do all the work himself. Wasn't it his corn patch . Bobbie had plowed the land, harrowed it. and was now double< inking it. In a few days he would i >c planting his corn and then culti' uatintf, lL Lator on come the harvest. "Which had you rather do, Bobbie, work your cornfield or go to school" we asked. I <l?. both and like them both." was the prompt reply. "How did it happen that you became a corn club member?" "The county agent told us about it at school not long ago." "Did you have much trouble getting your fathers consent to your Joining the corn club? "N", sir," was the reply. "Daddy . is my partner." Could a boy more highly compliment his father than Bobbie did? '' uish that tore fathers would takt their sons into confidence and bo their partners.?The P r o g r e s s i v t r armor. Governor Richards has another pi obi em he made himself in Cheroket 7'Untyu ,U> suspended the county au 1 Harvey, last week, arid hi' press agent broadcast that it was be ! Sau*e auditor waa in poor health wanted a leave of absence to go to * ' hl'*P?D?l, and the only legal way t. i give it to him was to suspend him foi . a couple of months and then reinst.it* i him. rhe governor later said his ae . tion was at the request of the eomp troller general, who afterward gavt . the auditor a clean bill for his otfic< : work. A Greenville resident was at) i pointed auditor by the governor. Au ditor Harvey said his office was bein' run perfectly by his clerks when h' i was sick or absent, and refused t< tu;n it over to the new appointee ; pointing to a letter from the eomp . 11 oiler general saying it is being con - ducted with efficiency. Many Chero ; kl>? county citizens resent 'the ap point ment of an outsider. Governo l ' Richards is now considering what h t J will d., next, and Auditor Poole l j holding the fort. t There ;ire 1 ?ts of drivers on tlv t road who are 'not going unvwher 1 in par: ular." hut they are usuall; - in just as big a hurry as r?o other* or bigger. "All Het Up" Over Nothing Once upon a time a New England Yankee decided to vend bia young ton to South Carolina to tal.e charge of extensive business enterprises in which the father held a controlling interest. The night before the sun's departure the father took him into the library. 'Wy ton," said he, "you are going out into the -world and 1 have only one word of advice to offer Those South Carolinians are the best people in the world. They are real gentlemen and will die for a friend, if necessary. Mix with theni freely and be one of them, but for heaven's sake don't interfere with their hunting dogs or their politics. If you do they will kill you." It doesn't take much to stir South Carolina politics to fever heat in campaign >ears. The state is all "het up" over Rule 32, which requires a voter in the primary to support the nominees of the party. It is rank nonsense. Not one voter out of 100 ever heard of Rule 32 till the county conventions met. Then we begun to hear a lot of idle talk albout "bolting the party" or "violating a pledge." South Carolina is a one-party state and its voters do not pay much attention to general elections. Political issues are settled in the primaries. John K. Aull, writing in the South Carolina Gazette, tells us thut in the general election two years ago Senator Smith, the party nominee, received only 14,560 votes. How many voters in the primary violated their oaths that year? Nearly 200,000. There is nothing in the code or the primary rules that compels a man to vote in the primary. By refusing to vote in the Democratic primary he reserves to himself the right to vote for the nominee of any other party. That ull there is to it. It is purely a personal matter. The New Eng lartd father who gave his son such wholesome advice knew South Carolinians pretty well.?Dillon Herald. Senator Wm. E. Borah, of Idaho, has appealed to both parties to limit their campaign expenditures to $3,000,000 each, notwithstanding Dr. Hubert Work's announcement that the Republicans expect to spend $4,000,"The "Check Flashing" Evil 1 "Check flashing" is -the subject of an editorial in The State, such an editorial as will be timely as long as this indefensible and demoralizing' nuisance to business shall continue. 1 hat the evil is so common disgi aces the state and it is disgraceful, too, that the laws for its prevention remain lax. To put an end to it there should be united action by all business men, especially merchants. The News and Courier was informed that in another city, not ( harleston, it frequently happened' that a customer entered a store, bought a piece of goods and requested that it be charged to him. The merchant refused to charge it, but would offer to take his check. The | customer, having given the check, j would carry away the goods. If pay: ment on the check was refused by 1 the bank on account of "not sufttjdent funds," the merchant, complying with the statute, would later , place it in the hands of a magistrate I for collection and the customer, threatened with criminal prosecution, ' VVouI<i pay the money. Our information is that this was by no means-a rare transaction. By accepting the check the mer> chant avoid^i the labor and annoy^ an*.e of making a book entry aqjfl, having the criminal procedure at ills command, was reasonably sure of getting his money, although he knJV ! that the customer was not entitled to the credit. "* If this be true, merchants in that , town are largely responsible for a '; practice that undermines the busi' j ness integrity of the community. It , is impossible to conceive of the cir culation of scores or hundreds of bad ; checks daily in a city without the | j spreading of loose habits of thinking . in respect of business obligations that ine\ itably will result in dishonesty. ; i Where hundreds of check flashers in >; a community are encouraged <>r , tolerated by business men, the breed . ing of thieves will necessarily follow. [1 business man can accept checks . , unless bo is convinced of the financial r responsibility and punctuality of the oj drawer or indorser without himself I becoming a party to the impairment jof his community's integrity and I* without promoting fraudulent p ac^ , tiees. The business man may be unconscious of this, but it is none the I less true.?News and Courier. MOUTH CAROLINA NEWS The cotton crop in Greenwood county Is said to be the best for ten years, and needs only a couple of weeks more good weather to be bumper one. Grady, the eight year old son of Horace Henderson, was drowned in a swimming pool near Gaffney while in the w^ter with two other boys. A party of orphans from the Kpiscopal diocese of North Carolina and i Upper South Carolina are being given ! an outing at Kanuga Lake, including ! some from the Ohurch Home orphan' age at Yorkville. Roach S. Stewart in an interview ' .it Spartanburg, said he believes there v. ill be very few bolters of the Dem' ocratic nominee for president thia t year, although many will not vote for president ut all. South Carolina is the only stute in the Union with a National Guard ' every one of the units of which was j rated satisfactory or better at the annual inspection by the war (lepart. menl this summer. i Justiee T. P. Cothrari, of tihe suprenie court, was recently sworn in I ior Ins ten-year term in Greenville at a dinner party given by some of his I friends there, lie was first elected, | in 11*21. - | Hill Townes, an Oklahoma news-1 paper man, walked and hitch-hiked 1,300 mill's from there to Greenwood, S. C., and Ninety-tSix to see his old home and the folks he used to know. He passed through 20 states and two Canadian provinces in his route the long way around, and the trip took him five weeks. Cherokee and Spartanburg counties tied for the largest cotton yield last year at 212 pounds per acre, with Marlbyro third at 200 pounds and an average for the state of 118 pounds per acre. Cherokee produced 18,540 bales and Spartanburg 02,272 bales in 11*27, out of 738,520 bales produced in the state. Spartanburg county will ship more peaches this year than ever before, 240 carloads, with the movement at its crest. The quality as a whole is . good, except wh^'e orchardists neglected spraying. The June weather) thinned the peaches just right, and I they are of large size now. j Acting President H. C. Hammond, of Flora AlacDonald college at Red Springs, N. C., is slowly recovering I from the paralysis with which he was < found after a frantic search after he I disappeared. His physician says he' will recover from the stroke which rendered him helpless and unattended in a hotel room for three day.s Body of Millionaire Found in Sea Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, July 19. [j ?Finding today of the body of Capt. Z Alfred Lowenstein, missing Belgian E millionaire cleared up most of the E grim mystery surrounding his disap poarance from a cross-channel air- r plane July 4. L French and Belgian authorities will E still have to determine whether Capt. E Lowenstein accidentally fell from the 2 plane as it flew 4,000 feet over the S Knglish channel, or deliberately < wrenched open the exit door and j plunged to his death. But the ugly 2 rumors that the financier had per- 2 pet rated a gigantic hoax and was 5 still alive, were definitely set at rest, i I he battered body was found floating face downward ten miles off Cape Griznez by the Boulogne fishing smack S 555, ( apt. Jean Mane Bcaugrand, and : was readily identified by a wrist ; watch engraved "Capt. Lowenstein, I 25 Rue de la Science, Brussels." Oth- | erwise the body was unrecognizable ! as it was in an advanced stage of j decomposition. I he body was clothed only in un- | der-drawers. socks and shoes, the latter bearing the name of an English maker. There was a severe wound in the abdomen, and both feet I were broker., 1 ! | = 25* * ?is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste? listerine TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25' YORK CAFEl tad Re-opening ] The New York Cafe, closed for sever.' weeks I following the damage by -fire, will ()j)en I during the week of August 12, with tdded improvements to every department and 1 decorations that will make it Camden's fine8t I place for food. Electrical refrigeration throughout \ ill in. sure perfect sanitation and a cooler c.tmos. spiiere than before thought possible in this climate. New departmental heads will take I pleasure in serving you and fulfilling every I demand of particular service. I We invite you to come,-not of necessity to spend money with us, but to witness the im- IB provements we have made and the confl- I dence we have shown for the future growth 9 of Camden. New York Cafe J GUS MICHIOTES, .Manager j DeKalb Street .1- Telephone 416 9 III Mini. 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