The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 17, 1928, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H. I). nTTkH. .Editor and Publisher
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Camden. S. <*., Friday, Auk. 17, 1928.
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"Tex" Kickard, promoter of the
Tunney-Meeney tight, see ma to have
been the chief loser in that fistic en?
counter After paying Tunney $525,000
for a uremia fully defending the
1 hampionship and the losing New
Zealand challenger $100,000 for his
pains, Kickard found that he was
personally out about $150,000. The
attendance was only one-third what it
was at the Dempsey-Tunney fight at
Philadelphia and the gate receipts
about one-fourth. Tunney offered to
split the loss hut Kickard was gome.
Though heat and the poor drawing
qualities of Tunney may have als>
had something to do with it, Kickard
chiefly blames the radio for keeping
people from the ringside. He sqys he.
will never allow one of his matches
to be broadcast again. So many
people heard th# returns over the
radio that newspaper special editions
were also hard hit. The highhatting"
propensities of Tunney have not mudc
him a ring idol. .Jack Dempsey, when
introduced as a visitor, gut mure applause
than Tunney. Dempsey rooted
for Heeney hut quit the ringside in
the 10th round when he saw Heeney
couldn't win. Rut despite their lack of
..... affection for Tunney, fight fans seem
well satisfied that the crown did not
pass from American hands.?Pathfinder.
Get By on Probation
Here's a good yarn which appeared
in the American Press. I,. Bent, an
editor, was a candidate for Heaven,
whereupon St. Peter gave him a
lecture:
"Now, Mr. Editor," said St. Peter,
"here's what I have checked up
against you:
"In writing Cy Tankerd's obituary,
you spoke of him as an upstanding
and kindly citizen, when you certainly
knew he drank like a fish and beat i
his wife.
"That fat and catty little Spratt
woman, youv featured as a stately and
gracious hostess.
"Those neighborhood pests became
under your pen, the attractive Giblett
children.
"You wrote that William FlcugeJis
made his fortune through industry
and thrift, when everybody knew he
made it bootlegging.
"When the homely little Sophie
Dumbell graduated, she appear**! in
your columns as the beautiful and
talented Miss Dumbell.
"You had a write-up of Spoofer &
.<\>.'s unparelled merchandise which
w as only a lot of junk picked up from
defunct stores.
"There's a raft of other counts?
several pages?'but I've an id.a you
never really had a fair chance, and
I'm going to let you in, on a gtxinonth's
probation.
"I'ass light in, Mr. Editor, and
buck up!"
Dr. Straton Will Win
Dr. Straton will win debate
with Governor Smith on the querj
.?f whether or not the governor is
not the "deadliest foe of moral progress
in America."
He may not technically win points
<n\ the debate itself. It is a matter
of doubt whether the * alvaiY church
pa-tor is interested ::i the outcome
of that particular pha-c of the coming
show. What he wants out of thi
aftai: is ni.v e notoriety and he wil
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wn, that.
And winning that. Governor Sin.t';
eat. come off conqueror is to the is
sue in debate so far as tie is con
cerned. -Charlotte News.
G-enetal Wilie Jones, said ;n .lit ,nTvrvivxr
in Sparianbuig that he has
been helping manage the nlfhirs of
the Democratic party in South ( nrolina
for 46 years ami never saw it in
better shape than toviay, for the little
opposition heard to A! Smith and
his prohibition and rehtgion stand is
rapidly dunimshng. He also said
Hoover will not carry a single c unty
in this state, and any predictions to
the contrary are tonurmvt.
M. T. Pifly. Orangeburg no-chant,
died suddenly Friday afternoon while
attending the funeral of h.- p.-i<tor,
the late lb George K 1 ?. w o <
died suddenly in Green\ \\ ? .? .
d*7 aifirht while on n \ s
daughter, Mrs. Guy A. G ci 11 i c it
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THIS WEEK
j By ArtW Btkbw
Mr. Brisbane's editorial* are published
as expressions of opinions
of the world's highest-snmriad
editor and The Chronicle doaa not
necessarily endorse ail of his
views and conclusions.
In New Yoik a nurse, fifty-two
years old, about to retire from hard
woik, kills herself. Her life's savings
hud been lost in a mining
swindle. Real estate sharks, oil
rthaiks, all kinds of sharks, swindle
women. They believe, poor things,
what they want to believe, that they
are '<> he made rich.
Women should not invest in What
they do not understand. They should
not buy land that they have not seen.
And having seen it they should think
it over, examine it several times,
consult some skeptical friends, then
wait a month, and see it again.
Don't believe fairy tales. Ask
yourself, "Just how would I, me, myself,
not somebody else, actually
make a liying out of that land?
Or, if it is to be sold at a profit, how
do 1 know that I can sell it at a
profit? And why doesn't the man
keep it and take the huge profit
himself ?"
If you are leaving money to wife
or daughters, fix things so that no
other man will he able to get it from
them.
Gene Tunney, whom certain prizefight
"funs" don't like, because he has
brains and they haven't, retires
from the ring. That, it is said, will
"hurt the gume," which is too bad.
No matter what champion they may
develop to collect money from fools,
it can never be proved that he coul I
have ibeaten Tunney.
Tunney, you read, "is going t.?
Paris to study philosophy." An excellent
place. The Sonbonne is well
equipped.
Ilut the important thing is to be
a philosopher, not merely a s'udent
of other philosophers.
If Tunney can take his $2,000,000
quickly earned out of prize fighting
and stay out he will have proved himself
a philosopher.
Mr. Eastman, king of all kinds of
photography, announces perfected
moving pictures in colors. With
that announcement, pictures reach
full development, motion color, sound.
Now you will see the heroine s, or
the vampire's rolling eyes, hear the
voices that lure men to their doom.
The moving picture stage will show
nil that the living stage can show.
Talking movies will put a premium
on intelligence. A cultivated voice
indicates a cultivated mind, and cannot
be created over night.
j Roman coins dug up after 2,000
i years are worth in silver and gold
| only what they were worth when
! buried.
i This shows the importance of keep|
ing your money earning interest. A
silver penny, like the one mentioned
i in the Bible, put out at interest comj
pounded annually for only '.'00 years,
! would amount to $1,270,00.0,000,000,
j That's more money than there is in
i the world.
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\ A great fire i aging over farm
.amis in the Northwest burns 75,001
j:u'-e< of wheat ami pasturage. Home;
ami ranches are burned with crop.,
! mors tie-ht o.e ! n vain
Would it be possible to equip ;i j ,
fleet of airplane- w ith chemical ap-i
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paratus for extinguishing tire, to),
deal with a disaster of this, kind? ;
Aircraft manufacturers and those I
that manufacture chemical tire extingui.-:
ers might answer that ques:
n>n.
Dr. l.angsnei, marvelous hypnotist
of \ .ciina, does and say- things
j he cau-ed a young criminal. Yerno
I Booher. to confess after fifteen minutes
the murder of his mother, sister
j and two hired men.
Dr. Lar.gsner says each has a sixth
! sense that can be made to receive
i the thought of another. Thought is
| something like a broadcasting operation.
He hypnotizes the criminal and
easily obtains the truth from him
because "his crime is always on his
mind."
Federal prohibition offi.ors arrested
Jo bootleggers in an i near Florence
and promised more arrests in the
near future.
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Water Running Over f
Big Dam at
Telephone communication with th?
Southern Power Plant at Wateree
uome nine miles northwest of Camden
at noon Thursday stated that the
Wat* ie? iiver had risen to such a
stage, that water to a heighth of flv*
feet wa? pouring over the huge dam
at thut place and the river whs still
rising No danger of a break in
threatened it is said.
The official reading of the water
guugt- at the Wateree river bridge
ut two o'clock Thursday afternoon
showed above 22 feet with the waters
steadily using This indicated a rise
of more than 11 feet within less thai
twenty three hours.
I aurtual Occurrence Reported
The following is a news article
given prominence on the front page
of J he News and Courier in a very
recent issue:
1 wenty leading bootleggers got
together yesterday and agreed to
raise the price of corn whiskey to $5
a gallon, a well known wholesale
dealer announced last night. He asked
that his name not be divulged.
The meeting was held at the
"place" of one of the wholesale dealera
and an amicable agreement was
reached. The bootleggers say recent
wholesale raids by federal officers in
Charleston and vicinity impelled them
to act. The raids precipitated a
shortage.
The meeting was attended by
"wholesalers" and "manufacturers."
I he majority of the men operate in
the city of Charleston* The manufacturers
are from "the country."
It 1s said that this was the largest
conference of its kind ever held in
Charleston.
This is a most remarkable report
of a happening, and perhaps it is a
true and correat report of what happened.
It is a bit unusual for a
newspaper to carry such a news item
in such a prominent position in the
news columns, being in a box in page
one, top column. How did the reporter
for the News and Courier get
his information? Why is it that n
newspaper reporter can get information
which the officers of the law
cannot get? One gathers much information
from this news story,
which indicates some intimate familiarity
with the occurrence on the
part of the reporter. For instance,
there were "twenty leading bootleggers,"
not the little fellows, but
"leading" bootleggers. Evidently they
must not fear detection or they would
not have given this story to a reporter
for a leading daily. The pride
was boosted because there was i
shortage caused by the recent wholesale
raids by enforcement officers,
out of the city and many of them out
of the state officers. Then it is said
thilt the operators of the selling
agency worked in the city and the
"manufacturers" operate in the country.
Surely with so much direct information,
even if this reporter cannot
be induced to give the names of
any ui the bootleggers, such detectives
as Mr. Healey would have no
difficulty in rouding up some, at least
of the wholesalers. Why is it not
done? Who is responsible for shield
ing these violators of the law and the
Federal Constitution? Does Mayo:
Stoney know or care if this flagrant
and brazen violation of the law goes
on? How about the Solicitor of th?
circuit?can he be made to see thes,
violators and issue warrants fo
some, at least, of them? Where an
( the State constables, and why an
they not busy on the proposition'
Evidently there was not much fear <>
discovery on the part of those wlr
( attended the "meeting." It is a mos
remarka/ble state of affairs.?-Walter
boro Press arid Standard.
uo nut 11UIIVC LlIC ^ll'UU'Sl
wheat crop in its history this yar,
i n, i has in prospect one of the laig:-st
corn crops on record. Winter
wheat production was estimated at
179,044,000 bushels against 170. MOO,000
bushels in 1914, which was the
biggest up to this year.
James M. Tennant, a veteran m: ul
carrier of Chester, died there aged
70 years, and the funeral was held
Saturday at Pleasant Grove Prosby*
terian church. He was a rural mail
carrier for over 15 years from Corud
well, and was active in the county
and state associations of carriers for
years.
Sheriff Thomas, of Hampton county,
said Friday that a man serving v
sentence ou. county chain gang for
vagrancy, and giving his name as
Raymond Williamson, is not E. L?
1 Booth, sought by Florida officers in
j the death of his wife's grandfather,
Ci. W. Simmons, of Steubenville, Ohio,
as was thought.
Even the weather man is getting
that way and occasionally talks dry
and and acts wet.
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Dollars Turned Loose
1 * For Smith Campaign
I Member* of Ker?h?w county's cowi
mittee to accept contributions to th<#
. Democratic national campaign fund
I required but thirty minutes to raise
\ fifty dollars on the streets of Cam-1
I den Wednesday for A1 Smith and
i learn incidentally that the Derno1
cratic nominee is an overwhelming
l favorite in this section.
Three million dollars will be necvo
' sary to carry the message of the
Democratic party to voters throughi
out the country and of this amount
i South Carolina has been asked to coni
tribute $25,000. No definite figure
> has been set for this county but from
the way subscriptions he ve started
it may he ventured that Kershaw will
taac a leading place among the counties
taking stock in the national content.
'lhe committee in this county is
composed of John Whituker, Jr.,
Hughey Tindal, John T. Mackey, C.
H. Yates, Mrs. W. H. Mayfield, FT
M Workman, L. I. Guion, C. FT Parrott,
J. I). Lafitte and Loring Davis
with J. F\ McDowell acting as chairmun.
Subscriptions may be left with
members of the committee, at any
of the banks in this county, or with
the newspapers in Camden and Kershaw.
All subscriptions will Ik* acknowledged
through the newspaper columns
and bo immediately forwarded to
General Wilie Jones who is directing
the campaign from headquarters in
Columbia. Contributions through this
liate include the following:
W. A. Boykin $10.00
M. H. Heyman 5.00
J. A. Hough 1.00
i. Whitaker, Jr 1.06
M. L. Smith, Jr 1.00
J. F. McDowell 1.00
Allen B. Murchison 1.00
I- A. Kirkland 1.00
It. B. DeLoache 1.00
John T. Mackey 1.00
W. 1>. Barrett 1.00
Herman Baruch 1.00
F. M. Jones 1.00
\V. L. DePass 1.00
John T. Nettles 1.00
T. Lee Little 1.00
A. A. Shanks 1.00
Miss Bernice Byrum, Tampa . . 1,00
Larry Melear, Memphis 1.00
B. H. Boykin, Sr 1.00
B. H. Boykin, Jr 1.00
H. I). Miles 1.00
S. W. Williamson 1.00
G. A. Moseley 1.00
B. Boykin 1.00
Hughey Tindal 1.00
Mrs. Hughey Tindal 1.00
T. K. Trotter 1.00
W. L. McDowell 1.00
W. R. Hough 1.00
Gus Beleos 1.00
R. X. Shannon 1.00
L. J. Whitaker 1.00
David Wolfe 1 00
Mrs. D. Wolfe 1.00
Miss Sara Wolfe 1.00
L. L. Walnau 1.00
B. G. Sandra . . 1.00
Henry Savage 1.00
Henry Savage. Jr 1.00
Blaney Will Be First
To Hear Candidates
The Kershaw County Democratic
campaign swings under way Monday
morning when candidates for the
( various offices will make their initial
nddresse3 at the school house in'Blaney
at ten o'clock.
Other meetings to be staged dur-,
ing the same week will include the
. following: Bethune, Tuesday; Ker.
shaw, Wednesday; Camden, Yhurs.
Jday; Buffalo, FrMay; Camden Mill
, | School, Sartmrday.
} All meetings are scheduled for 10
r a. m. with- the exception of Camden
a which wiU hear the candidates at 1
a p. m., Buffalo at 2 p. m., and} the mill
? school at 8 p. m.
f Candidates have been- notified
a that the time for filling pbtdges and
t paying assessments will expire Sat.
urday, August 18. at midnight, and it
order to have a place or* the offtcia
ballot it will be necessary to> aomply
with this ruling.
Candidates for the office o? Congressional
Representative from, the
fifth district will address the voters,
of this community at the court house
in Camden Thursday afternoon..
W. F. StevensQn, incumbent,, and
Zeh Vance Davidson are the candidates
for congress. Their meeting,
was scheduled for Thursday, August
16th, but has been postponed until
the following Thursday, when, all
candidates offering in this county
will appear at the court house at
4 p. m.
New Announcement.
The name of Mr. M. G. King, of
Bethune, is announced in this week'3
Chronicle as a candidate for Directo*
| from Buffalo Township, Mr.. King
is at present mayor of Bethune.
Deaths Among Colored People
Phillip, Shields, an aged negro man,
residing: near the northern city limits,
died at his home on Sunday,, and the
funeral and burial occurred at Sanders
Creek Church Mondays, where
Shields was for many years a deacon..
He was 75 years of age and
was one of the old time negyoes who
was highly respected. For a long
number of years he was employed by
Rhura- Brothers, extensive merchants
and planters in their day..
Sarah Niland, wife of Manigault
Nilancb aged 28 years, dfied at'her
horaa near the northern! city limits
Sunday and her funeral was held at
the second colored Baptist Church
nehf her home on Monday, and the
burial was in the colored cemetety
at Camden. She was a daughter oi
Iiettie Carlos, and was of a highly
respected family.
Albert Taylor, aged 13 years, son
1 of Jacob Taylor, wha resides on the
- late C. N. Humphries place east o1
i Camden, died one day last weekv het
ing a victim of pellagra.
Epworth League Meeting 1
The Epworth League will hoUJ
regular meeting at the
f Street Methodist Church on Sua
'evening at 7:45 o'clock. Al a
Oier$ are urged to lie preset j
"visitors are cordially inyited ts
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County Auditor P.cmla H*vj,
Cherokee county, who was rm
| by Governor Richards, ten dip i
and refused to leave the office, 1
I won out and, has a letter fronj
gpvernor. that he can. keep it j
reason alleged for the: reniQTili
the* kindly one of allowing him
to a hospital for medical trtataB
for a ferw months, hut the ufflj
sahi his clerks could run hjs aft
during. his temporary,- afoaenct M
thrt comptroller general said tl
were doing just that, so fie ?wj
nor b&cke^ down after appcant^i
Greenville man as auditor at^ilM
which raised quite a row ther^l
Roaches live in colonies.. IfJjjH
one you know there are JH
Roaches are loathsome versa*
litSc breeders. There aag^H
authorities who declare JH
different diseases areJMPH
by roaches. Roaches roslP?
Spray FLY-TOX into wb
ices, around water pipe^kdftj
other plumbing. Simple
oq each bottle (blue label) 1*?I
roaches and ALL household
jlNISIST on FLY-TOX. >*H|
1 entitle insecticide developeddMW
Institute of Industrial j
Sox Fellowship*. FLY-T0l?*|
stainless, fragrant, sure. QM
s use.?Adv. SB
Governor AHred E?
cratic candidate for the PK*?3
r attended the funeral
George E. Brennan, W *11
' Democratic ladder, in
day. The Cfeyernor
i near the altar, bpposte ^SB
> family. iMr. Brennnn
f loyal supporter of Gowrt* I
: in his thjrae ^otttests f&jTjJ|
ination.
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