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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. I). NILKhT. Editor ??i "Vublfifhed every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina poatoffice aa aecond claaa mall matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in ?^5^ Camden, 8. Friday. Feb- ?? A MA8IKK KAKMKK TAI KS David Coker 8uui~tki AilmcnU and Point* to the Remedied David H. Coker. nationally known farmer and of H?rUvilU, S. ., in writing to the Chariot e Observer under date of January 28, .says: A great majority of the people of South Carolina live on farms and depend on agriculture. Cotton ?s our biggest money crop. During the past <dght years the State has averaged 794,214 bales per annum. During'the pi. cedihg ?'Kht ***** the average was 1.385,891 bales per annum. The production of cotton since the arrival of tlje boll weevil has been only 57 per cent of the average preboll weevil production. , These figures largely explai" agricultural and business depression and wholesale bank fjiilures. We have exported much money for foodstuffs that we couid have easily raised. We have exported millions for automobiles that we could have gotten along without. We have exported great sums for other unnecessary things in the luxury class. We have imported less money from the sale of our products than we havo exported ? We have made less and spent more. The balance of trade has been heavily against us. It is evident that a reversal of this procedure is the only thing that wul save th<T agriculture of the State. The problem ~ before us Is to inert asc the gross and net returns from our money crops, to produce adequate food and foodstuffs for home eorsumption, to increase our exportation of fruit and truck crops by wisely awl thoroughly exploiting their'exceptional therapeutic and food values, to drive home to our people that thrift and economy are sovereign virtues and that waste and extravagance are fatal blunders. We need to sell our wonderful State to our own people and through them to sell her to the world. These things can be done and the trend of the past eight years changed the intelligence of South Carolina j < an Ik- made to understand the situa' ;<-n iwl causes and to get actively at to. u-.rk uf applying the known remedio* vJ The problem of the production of cotton has been solved. State wide Five Acre Contests for the past three years have proved beyond any doubt that more than one bale per acre can be produced at i cost under It) cents per pound. t nder the direction and supervision of the Farm Demonstration forces of the State the contestants have, in most cases, applied the latest knowledge of cultivation, fertilization, spacing, seed selection and weevil control. They have not only shown " the Stule that we can produce vastly more cotton per acre at a greatly reduced cost hut that we can grow a product of lu-tter character and h:g!icr spinning value. Recent Government statistics show that Smith Carolina produced in 1928 dl per cent of cotton of the <ic- J citable length* 1 f> 1(5" 1 1 1 uhrle Gcigia and North Carolina | proijuet .J .ir. 1 y 7 pi r iout of these | lengths. Thw improvement hn< taken' l place within three years .as a rrsu't o! these contests. Nothw iihstanding the fact that South Carolina has in 1 PL'S produced the smallest crop save'one in lfi years the average production per acre of the 21 contestants was oot> pounds ot lint per acre and the average profit as reported by the Kxtension Service was $t>9.39 per acre. With siuh a cumulative demonstration of agricultural success which has culminated in the second most disastrous year in recent history is it not criminal for the majority of intelligent people of South Carolina to sit supinely by witnessing the dying struggles of agriculture in large sections of the State? We have ample evidence with which to encourage a new spirit of optimism among our jxrople and cause a forward movement for the redemp ti >n of our agriculture. The task is to effectively use the c\ .donee to arouse the optimism ol he people and galvanize them int' activity. Silent Man of Pee Dee Found Dead in Cabin n "fc ^ Dillon, Dec. 30. ? Who Charlie Jackson wait or where he came from will probably remain an unanswered question until tW end of time and ;he grave* give up their dead, say* the Dillon Herald and continue*, lie was known a* the man of mystery, and the mysteiy surrounding hi* life was interred with his laxly in the County cemetery which overlooks the silent stream which had been his sole companion for many year*. For Charlie Jackson'* lifeless body was found on the floor of his humble I home on the old Cupt. Harllee place by some negroes, and when officer* went out to investigate the cause of his death they found that no message had been left to the world. On th* floor were two threadbare cotton sheets and two old sacks. There were J no chairs or furniture in the house. Here Charlie Jackson lived alone, and here in this barren house, he died as he had lived, apart from the world, with the curtain drawn over^the events of an earlier life which had evidently been lived under far better circumstances. It is said that Charlie Jackson came from Pennsylvania, while some held that he was a native of Eastern North < arolina. Anyway, he was not a native of this state. Many year3 ago he came to this section, a wanderer, and asked permission to live on the Norton place near Mullins, located on the banks of Little Peedee. Here for many years he lived an out door life, hunting and fishing up and down the river, apparently for the pleasure the sport afforded. He made no friends and had no neighbor*. And then one day, according to tradition, a stranger?a man of handsome appearance and worldly and prosperous mien?came to see him and they held a long consultation. Before he departed the stranger revealed his identity in confidence to a buslness^man and told Kim to furnish Charlie with what cash or supplies he needed and draw on him for the amount. He was Jackson's brother, but Jackson never accepted the gratuities. Shortly after the visit of the mysterious stranger Jackson abandoned^ him home on the Norton place and located on the river near Little Rock, tor a time he lived in the woods under a crude shelter, but later made his home in an abandoned house on the old ( apt. Andrew Harlee place. He made no friends in his now home. At times he ventured away from the river and plied the trade of saw filing, hut even to those for whom he worked he was not communicative, and when his task was over he collected his modest fee and departed, it said that he happened one day t?- be in the office u a busino- man when the business man was having trouble with a new typewriter. Jackson adjusted^ the typewriter, told the man to dictate a letter which he took down rapidly in shoi thand, transcribed it on the typewriter, and arose with a smile and departed. It is evident that Charlie Jackson. in his earlier days, was a man "t wealth or circumstances. Several >eats ago, so it is said, a lady of culture and refinement drove up to his humble home in a handsome limousine, accompanied by a liveried Chauffeur. The hermit and the mysterious lady held a long consultation. Jackson was seen to get out of the car and shake his head in a determined sort of way and the lady drove away. Jackson might or might not have been his real name. No one knows He might ha-t had a u uson for holding hiniseg aloof from he world b\ bury rg rumselt ,n he swamps of L..l.c lYeuee riv.r. or he might have vi. a co r>i: rir individual who j o!' I ( ,i ' - ,,>v u company to that ot his i '' ''"W ni.i!,. Somewhere in a pig . oi. tiiu outside he might nave ; haiJ a place in the hearts of fi ends and kindred who might have een ; able to provide him with the comforts and luxuries of life, but for sum,- reason known only to himself or t?> those who were dear to him he preferred the isolation of a hermit's life to the pomp and splendor of an artificial world. But anyway, the veil of mystery that surrounded his earlier life, to far as this section is concerned, was not lifted when his body was lowered with simple ceremonies into n grave in potter's field. Xylotrihydroxyg'utaric acidi ha< been recommended by scientists as 3 beverage. The customer will get th< i j necessary "kick" >n trying to pro nounce it.?Indianapolis Star." > A Missoub) woman has willed hoi f estate to her 17 dogs. This isn't th< > j first to go that way, however?Coan | cii Bluffs Nonpareil. A THE APPROPRIATION BILL I ' f Carrie* a Grand Total of Mora Thau Ten Million " " An official recapitulation of the South Carolina general appropriation | bill as submitted to the lower house | on Friday by the ways und means committee, is as follows: Legislation department $100,025.00 Judicial department $245,440.06. Governor's office $23,832.60. Secretary of state's office $14,710, Comptroller-general's office $24,322.60. Attorney-general's office $22,884.50 State treasurer's office $28,002.50. Adjutant general's office $67,936.68 ! University of South Carolina $467,510.00. The Citadel $217,107.31. G'lemson College ((collegiate activi-' tiee> $2! 3,350.80, Winthrop College (collegriate activi ties) $406,072.00. State medical college $141,250.00 State colored college $12L3$^43. John De Im Howe Industrial scho<i $72,822.77. School for Deaf and Blind $116, 840.00. Superintendent of education's' office $3,864,855.26. Historical commission $7,725.00. | State library $4,615.00. C..nfederate Museum $100.00. Confederate relic room $2,400.00. ( nfederate Home College $4,000.0u I Slate hospital $003,401.70. State penitentiary $158,442.40. Hoard of pardons $1,742.00. State Training school $160,426.00. Industrial School for Boys $63,505.0ft. Industrial School for Girls $24, 712.50. Reformatory for Negro Boys $29.373.42. Catawba Indians $1,500.00. Association for the Blind $16,00). Law enforcement $44,175.00. ) Board of Health $278,805.50. Tax Commission $22,101.00. Insurance Commissioner'a office $22,650,50. Bank Examiner's office $49,353.00. Railroad Commission $53,736.67. Chief Game Warden's office $16, 145.00. Board of Medical Examiners $3,000.00. Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners $2,345.(10. Board of Fisheries $19,250.00. Board-of Law Examiners $450.00. Board of Conciliation $500.00. Joint Committee on Printing $53. 546.00. 'J. Department of Agriculture Commerce and Industry $101,893.50. . Clemson College < public service activities) $292,772.85, Highway Department $297,275.00. Electrician and Engineer's office $24,703.10. Sinking Fund Commission $10,t 122.50. State Office Building $G9,393.U0. Confederate Infirmary $30,913.30. Confederate Veteran's Association $1,5(?0.00. ConfederlW? Pensions $756,100.00. Commission on State House and Grounds $34,354.00. Contingent Fund Committee $50,000.00. Collection of Taxes and Audit of County offices $151,999.92. State Elections $12,350.00. Public Debt $'>29,426.80. State Fair Society $7,500.00. State Colored Fair Society $500.00 State Forestry Commission $15,000.00. State Food Analysis $25,000.00. Advertising Natural Resources of South Carolina $25,000.00. Grand Total $10,615,503.18. Mone\ Makes The Poultry Move During 1928 farmers received bettor price- f..r poultry than they go: the previous year, with result that there was a large increase in ^iipments. Ti < State Itepartmont's Agricultural lb-view explains that at present th? number of cars shipped by the country as a whole is nluut 8 or 10 per cent short of 1927. In otner word.-, while North Carolina farmers were marketing more poultry than in 1927. the rest of the country was marketing a smaller am^nat. Car lot shipments from North Carolina in 1927 handled close to 3.000,000 pounds, while in 1928 there was close to 7.000,000 pounds of poultry sold. The valu- of that sokl in 1927 was | about three-fourths of a million doli lars and value of the 1928 shipments wa- dose to $2,000,000 Who says t-c poultry IndUBtry in North * Carol:n , ;s not a paying proposition? 1 ?Cha 1 tie Observer. i The Chicago, police made a second -round .,p of crooks on Friday night, gathering in more than 400 denizens r >f the underworld. In the first drive 5 igama: the crooks on Saturday and Sunday of last week the ni.TiVjr gathered in was about 4,000. Chicago plans a 75-story building. That probably means the machine gunners will have to buy range finders?Minneapolis Journal. Wants?For Sale j FOR RENT?One five room house, fixtures for hot and cold water. Located on Walnut street. Apply W. T. Huggins, Camden, S. C. 45 sb. LOST?On last Friday, January 25, j tw% fox hounds, wearing collars | with initials E. R. F. on them. The malt? is white with blue specks, has ; curled tail; female is white with j brown spots. Lost in Antioch; neighborhood. Reward if return- j ed to B. M. Hall or E. R. Freitag, ] Camden, S. C. 45 pd. POSITION WANTED? lTa" v T n g town; Wish to find place for excellent maid. Good cook, neat and trustworthy. Telephone 201-W, Camden, S. C. 45-46 pd. FOR RENT?Six room house and bath on West Laurens street, Apply W. L. Goodale, 211 Laurens St., Camden, S. C. 44-45 sb. PI PPIES FOR SALEL-AVhite Collie ; Pullies for Sjile. Apply to E. A. Tucker at A & P Store on DeKalb 1 Street. 45-4G p<l. ' I WANTED?Two furnished rooms and! and bath desired by gentleman and wife for February and -March. With or without board. Reply to thi.s office stating price ami location. ' 44 pd. RADIO SETS T ' REDUCED PRICES?Wo have rented three new model 40 Atwater Kent lamp socket, all electric radio sets, to our Northern visitors for the season and on or about April first we will offer these sets at prices less the rent we received. Address W. O. Hay, Local Atwater Kent dealer, Camden, S. C. 44-47 sb. FOR SALE.?Dry pine wood, 18 and 24-inch lengths, delivered; also dry oak wood, 24 and 30 inches. Send orders to W. A. Edwards, Westville, S. C., R 1. ' 36-6t-d CARPENTERING?John S.'ldyerr, phone 268, 812 Church - Street, Camden, S. C., will give satisfactory service to all for all kinds of carpenter work. Building, general repairs, screening, cabinet making and repairing furniture. My workmanship is my reference. 1, solicit your patronage. Thanking you in advance. b0 tf. fo5 RENT?Hudson coach for the ; season. Looks like new, runs like row. Condition guaranteed per? A A PP'y to W; O. lift. T. A. Campbell & Company ,jQ?rage Camden, s. C. 41 ab. B ?? % sgSrL-? .4.. .f ANTIQUES?in Sumter. A short drive over good roads. Period furniture, rare glass including finger bowls and cupwplate; china; brass; old counterpanes; hookedrugs. Address Mrs. Frank A. McLeod, 523 Hampton Avenue, Telephone 138, Sumter, S. C. 45-46 sb. FOR SALE?Cow fresh in milk for j sale at the Farm of Workman and i Mackey, Westville, S. C. 44-46 pd < FOR RENT?Rooms, up or down S stairs fiat. Apply Miss Sallie B. I Alexander, Camden, S. C. 44-46 pd. A^VATER KENT N KW MODELTTO ?All electric lamp socket radio set complete, used about three months ?same as new with full guarantee, only $95. Sold for $119.50 cash. Reason for selling, a trade in for a larger size set. Apply W. O. Hay, local dealer, Camden, S. C. 46-48 sb, ATWATER KENT SEYEN TUBE BATTERY? Operated set, 'still another trade in, used very little, will sell complete for $50. This is less than one-third the original cost. We think this set one of the best sets we ever handled. Apply W. O. Hay, local dealer, Camden, S. C. 45-48 sb. FOR RENT?A ten, two or three horse farm, new two-story house, new barn and pump. Known as the Mcbley Place, near Camden, S. C. Miss Annie Mobley, Camden, S. C. 43-45 pd. T( IFF! STS ATTENTION?We'have a few now Atwater Kent all electric. '.amp socket radio sets that we | will lent Tor~the winter season at reasonable prices. W. O. Hay, local Atwater Kent Dealer. 1 42-45 sb. 'ATWATER KENT"8 Newest product. The wonderful electro dynamic radio set. *We have had a number of our tourist friends to tell us that this set has by far the best tone quality of any and they have heard them all. Let us demoni strate and prove this claim with: out obligation. W. O. Hay, Local Dealer. Telephone 138 and 337. , 42 ah. ! ? . KARL HI ERLE, chief engineer of the great German Graf Zeppelin, chooses the Majestic Radio.?Camrrden Furn'ture/Company. 35 sb. FOR SALE?Near Camden, player piano, with bench and rolls. Used about one year. Will sell for un_L Pa,(1 balance on eaey terms. Pot particulars address Edward H. , Hft^t, 1515 Taylor Street, Columbia - * - 36-46 sb ! WANTED-N. 1 pine~logs. Highest cash prices paid: year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Umber Co.. Attentions. S. Booth, v>~xgfc?ter. S. C. - 1-tM TAKEN UP?Old mouse-colordtollt. W ? Owner may have same by pm?$ ownership and paying costs inlA damages. Apply to B. L. Route 3, Camden, S. C.? 44-4JijiA FOR SALE?Antiques of all kMjl Choice pieces. *Alsa: cottage furaj ture. Prices reasonable. Mrs.. HA E. Lyles, 1401 Blanding Street, CH lumbia, S. C. 44-47 ifl CUSTOM HATCHING?4 cents p?B egg. We will be here SaturdiA of each week for your hatchkA convenience. Leave your eggs wiA Wilsons Filling Station. If inteA ested in Barred Rocks, Rhode iA lnnd Reds or White . LegfagJ notify me 3 weeks ahead. 'We vA furnish you very best rto?A Lancaster Hatchery, -Y. L. BfijA mon, Mgr. 44-48-jA FOR RENT^UiiwnisVe"d"apJMrta? provate bath. Call telephone tyBA or apply 1218 Fair street,^CartlA MONEY TO half cent interest on impwj -city real estate. Apply BdjA Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. ^ THAT Super-Oynomic Speaker A built in every New Majestic RtfA the Radio everybody likes to htA ?Camden Furniture Company. 1 CUlFf\ I NTI^ T R?ixmie I>?TnT4 wishing curtains stretched pl?A apply at 904 Campbell dtnA Prices reasonable. ;; FOR RENTr?Fpur room cottagfcA Broad Street. Apply to L. A. W?1 kowsky, Camdep, "S. O. WANTED-^500 bushels' fieldTe?J market price. Apply Welsh MoA Company, Camden, S. C. : FOR^RENT?-Twb' farads^ In KdSj County. Apply to I*' A. WA kowsky, Camden* S. C. - ^ 4M1 "v TjB A 1 For colds, grip and flu take ; ^1^. ' '.^0 ..y ,*s P^nU complicmtionib and hutant .mmpirj 1 ' . .'' v7^:,'M ?? , * ' ? a t ...... | ' ii n^?i irmT ' ?? 11 IZ_sl VOL. Ill, WO, 3 . * Virginia Carolina Chemical Corporation 11 " """ I vpyxngPt 1929 , M Good Cotton is Wanted In the United Hi*tea the demand i* greatest for strict low middling, middling, strict middling and good middling from 15/16 to one inch in ^ength, aaya the 1027 Yearbook of Agriculture. Theae four grade* made up 85.06 per cent of the total oonaumption by American mill*. All the lower grade* together accounted for only 18.28 per cent. The demand for cotton under Vi inch in length waft -fan thai* onetenth of 1 per cent of the whole. In other words, .GOOD cotton is wanted?cotton up to a standard. And the farmer who uses V-C hat it to eeHI ? V-C r "/ look for ike farmer of the future to overcome high cottt by more ecorumical production." *? Renick W. Dunlaf. Cotton needs a quick start, fact growth, early and thick fruiting, and vigorous bolls that stay on to full maturity. All theee are in the V-C bag. "For 24 years I have found that Y-C Fertilizers excel in crmtinuoue. >:it isfaetory results."- W .L.Tillman, P,. nnettsviile, 8. C. V-C Must Keep Open Mind 'Agriculture is the foundation of ;r national wealth. It is the basic iikIiistry?but more than an indus11 *. it is a way of life, and trains its apprentices in independence, in sclfr-hance. The farmer is the most independent of men. But in order to preserve that independence he must keep an open mind toward innovations and must be on tiptoe to adopt-the very best."?U.S. Department of the Interior. v-c Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas have limited the number of fertilizer grades to be sold within their borders. The limits range between 15 grades for Mississippi to 21 for Louisiana. In all but Texas the {da&l food content must be at least 16 per cent. IT PAYS! V-C Ferf lir.eri are serving their third generation of ootton grower*. Fanner* who*e grandfather* used V-C have come into their own and plow V-C under with every new planting. From father to eon the good old tradition is handed down? that V-C is on investment that payst ?V-C Time to leave a good woman a|| alone by herself Is when the clothes line drops with the weefcfto washing.?Exchange. yjQ ? ( "Artificial Cotton" Now Between three and four million pounds of "artificial cotton" are now being grown in England, according to a report from London. The fiber is described as growing on a plant seven feet high that was discovered in British Guiana. V-C "V-C 4-8-4 is the best fertilizer I have ever used."?L. P. Denning, Benson;5 N. C. v-c THAT DAY HAS GONE "We' once believed crops should be fertilized only when they would not grow without it. 'His land is so poor he has to use fertilizer,' we used to say of certain farmers. And we didn't think much of ? the men or the practice. That day has gone forever." ?Modern Farming. V-C About 18 oj every ?8 bale* of cotton that the wo.-M produced in 1927 were grown in the United States. India grew 4, China Egypt 1 Vi, and twenty-seven other countries grew 3 bales all together in every 28. IA)W vrruucasirts vjusuii'st "The best interest* of the coq. autiter demanded the elimination of low-grade brand#. The record# showed that in almost every instano# the ooet (to the farmer)** the plant food in a oomraeroial fertiliser was highest in low-grads goods."?Bien, nial report, Tsnnsssss Dipt, of Agriculture. V-0 V-C Fertiliser# are made to feed the growing plant at every stage of its growth through maturity. V-C Farm What We Have "We have today in this eountry a great plenty of .land already in culti- j ration," say# Reoick W. Dunlap, \ assistant secretary of agriculture. "Surely stimulation to the settlement of more land is not needed at this time or for many years to come. More government irrigation or * drainage projects are not called for. Every abandoned farm ia idle because someone could not make it pay . Every additional acre brought , into cultivation means more competition. What we need is a national land policy which will prevent expansion into new lands'un?il really necessary," : V-C???. "The bulk of the American cotton crop is not normally grown from improved varieties. In Texas, for instance, two-thirds of the crop is grown from 'gin-rUn' swd of uncertain quality."?Yearbook of Agriculture. r-V-C "Where corn ts the farmer's raw product, livestock is the finished product."?Successful Farming. ?V-C For Good Spuds?V-C! V-C Potato Fertilisers are made aBBggjany for the ftMffttng needs of that heavy-feeding but light-foraging plant. Behind V-C Potato Fertilizers are extensive manufacturing facilities, long experience,4and the good name of V-C, v-c ? Remember how some counties used to stay "mud-bound" alltpintsrf What a difference good roads hews model ii ii VlKClNIA"CAEOHHA CHEMICAL CORPOIATIOH-MM^mmmmmIM