The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 01, 1929, Image 4
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 ?? %
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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
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Virginia Carolina Chemical Corporation
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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
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