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The U. S. A. is only a . v few minutes wide THE Bell System Is ever busy reducing the width of America and the distance between cities. For ex' ample, in the last five years 350 major improvements, as well as thousands of others whose aggregate importance mounts high, have been made in telephone central office equipment. Improved operating practice# have eliminated the necessity of your "hanging up" and being called back in 05 percent of out-of-town calls, adding new speed and ease to your long distance service. You hold the wire and the operator does the rest. t Since .Vw Year's Day, 1027, the average time for , completing all out-of-town calls has been cut 35 per cent and at the same time the per cent of error has been further materially reduced. There is no standing still in the Bell System. Better and better telephone service at the lowest cost is the'goal.. Present improvements constantly' going into effect are but the foundation for the future's greater service. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY tl incorporated) LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years A|fo THIRTY YEARS AGO March 31. 1 MM J. ('. Hilton, of Wostville, v." L'aught in the machinery of hi" steam null and was thought to be fatahy n jured. Protracted meeting on at Methodist r.u'rh. Dr. .J. Thomas Pate being as - ? / by Rev. .1. G. B'-ckwith, of KerO. M. r:;r'. given contract for erec. .on of < hur h at cotton mill. < amden vi-it?-d o? terrific wind sto-m. bordering on v'lone whicn blew down trees and fen * -. The H. (i. Garrison wind mill was damaged as was the I'pton Court when the top <if a chimney was blown off. A press dispatch from Princeton, N. J., announces the death of Dr. James (). Murray, the dean of the university. Dr. Murray was horn in Camden November 7. 1S27. Memorial day to be ob?er\ed on 2i'.th of April with Rev. W. 1J. Gordon as the orator. The death of Ix-o Sche.nk. aged four years, announced f- mi membraneous croup. 1/llee Hy -aitd Mi?s Mollie S-tokeru Dr. J. K. Rutiedge and Miss Annie Hilton; W...J. F.llis and M:-s Caroline Brarvnon, were, mar. bed. Preaching announced at Cooks chur. n by Rev. W. \Y. M . 11>. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO April 3,-1914 City ar ! rural schools meet he obaer'. i held dav exercises with large attendance. | <'amden'- ^Ixth annual horse show hi : i with large number of out-of-town J cnt-- and many visitors present. j j K. T. M:ck':c. of \Ve?t Wateree, reJ ported rat ;d:y improving from Injuries received in a -unaway ncciden*. ' Henry Savage receives large shipi meut of fine blooded Angus cattle forj 1 his Westerham plantation. \V. R. Dela.a. he named alderman' , from ward five in a second primary.) Kershaw Guards to leave to parti-j ) cipate in maneuvers at Isle of Palms.) Government advertises for bids on. construction of postoffice building. Washington announces that E. C.' VonTresckow qualifies for consular) service. Rev. Palmer C. DuBose on visit to Camden from China preaches at j Presbyj-crian church. Mrs. Edward MacDowell. widow of famous composer leaves for her : home in Peterborough, N. H., after a --visit- to Caoxlen. Now that Einstein has some spare I time he might evolve an easy method j for applying typewriter ribbons.? | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Leonard Custom Tailors Co. Cincinnati. Ohio SUMMER GOODS Represented by GEORGE R. COLEMAN, Camden, S. C. Free Wrecking Service 25 MILE RADIUS We are equipped to take care of wrecks, wood l work, fenders, and body work of all kinds; ducoing and trimming. Light trailers and truck bodies built S to order. ! Also general repairs. Sumter Motor Company I Sumter, South Carolina Nobody's Business Written (or The Chronicle bjr Gee McGee, Copyright, 1928. A Night of Flrfght 1 free not at all scary. 1 am noted for my bravery far and near, bat moetly near. I don't mean that I'd Aght a tiger or a lion or anybody else. I ain't talking about that kind of bravery. I era trying to lead up to the matter of ataying by myself in a house at night. Why, for the sum of 2 or 3 million dollars, I'd spend ? nights in my own home all alone. No sir ree, 1 ain't no baby. Bdt not long ago, my wife went south for a week for ber health: (her sister lives 40 miles down south a* the crow flies,- and that's where she went seeking her health), and I had to stay in a room }>y myself during her absence. Of course, there were j othere people in the house for me to | protect and look after, and I told tr.em to retain their equijibnim and ju me if anything happened. I am a tittle bit deaf, but long ab-.ut midnight, 1 heard a burglar saw ;r.g the screen out of one of the windows in iuy room. I was too weak to scream. The temperature was about 26 in the bed, but I began sweatir. g a heavy night sweat, and thai sawyer juat kept on a-sawing. There was a pistol in my chiffer-robe drawer, but I was not physically able to ge* up and walk across the floor to ge .? weapon, so I just stayed; as st..; a> possible and breathed low and deep. . . .j That sawing kept up with muck i uniform -y of strokes. 1 knew that guy w shoot me the minute ha got the opening lJ,rkfc enough to poke his guv. through. I trembled and sweated a- : prayed and prayed and sweated ar : trembled, but the robber did not .et up. I supposed that he' had four.-! out in some manner that 1 had brougnt 2 dollars home with me to pay the washer-woman,- and he was going to have thatmoney or my life, and possibly both. I wished I had never ow ned any money, but that saw kept a-cutting. I gathered enough vitality to ooze myself -nut of the betF and craw! under it. It was cold as the dickens under there, but perspiration kept soaking out of me. I didn't know what in the world to do. I'd have t> pass right under the window that was being sawed to get to the door, and I wouldn't risk that. I began to catch cold, but I knew better than to sneeze, and my stummiek almost busted several times from holding-in pressure. This thing went on thusly till daylight. I crawled close to the window to {>eep out and identify the burglar before 1 ran. and when I got where T could get a perfect vmw of him 1 found that he was a little limb of a peach tree which had grown long enough to rub against the screen while the wind blew it about. I fed ofT .j pounds that night, and was s-j nervous for a week ! wouldn't answer the telephone by myself. Mr. Hoover is going to call ar. extra session <>f congress to consider Farm Relief. 1 am sorry I haven't got much faith in a Republican eon-i gress, composed of professional politicians, doing anything for the' P"or old farm'er. I am going to wait on the boys until they have had one, more chance, but in the meantime?' I ain't going to hang up my sock in j anticipation of help that I don't pay for. 1 advise the farmers - just to work right on like they've always done, and when the "relief" comes, ; let it be a surprise. flat rock, s. C. Apull the 2, 1929. ! forrin mission bored, { atlanta, ga. deer sir: ? j i hereby apply for the job mr. j '-arnes give up tint long ago to go I into the government service at 200,j u:m>$ a vr. I believe i would suit you j all right, i am not a babtist, but if necessary, i will jine and be babtized, but i believe in close communion, and pre destination ansoforth, in fact : sung in a babti-t quire sevral sundays in suck session in georgy before i married my present wife, as she was one, as to my expt'rienee. i was treasure of the w. o. w. camp 2 months and aliso rote out reseats for the -redmen tribe and would of been grand totem if i had of got 1 more votes, i e or foam if i will be considered, and we can fix the pay per mo. after i work a yr. or so. hut cant takt the job iill i get beat fm kurrtner, ar ; that may never be. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. I'nltoTi Fetter New - April 2.?Hi sympathy with ('" -i and home-brew. New Orleans lo pQints on advice from R.m.r that the Maharaja of Siam i- i'ii:g to sleep in a cutton night - .? instead of in nothing ns here: Boll weevil, infestation loot- promising than over in South < arr.hna, Georgia, an<i other semidenu rattc states, but Wall street st.:; gets a pawn-shop rate fur the federal Reserve hank's surplus money w legitimate business lives by the sweat of its brow. American consumption shows an increase, but this is attributed to the flu, yet?if guano could be bought on credit, ar.d groceries could be had by the plan note of hand, and taxas ignored, and all the insects wero ' murdered, the cotton farmer could possibly garner in enough cash to run his lizzie and keep at least 2 of his younguns in school, therefore?we advise mors market weather. Son's Death Marred Career of Coolidge v - 1 1 " ? . The curr?ut iMM of tb? Cosmopolitan magazine, now oh sole, contain* the first of a M-ries of article* by CaU vin Coolidge, who retired from tho Presidency last week. Mr. Coohdge, it is announced will writ# articles for the American magazine and tb?- La dies' Home Journal as well as for the Cosmopolitan, and the reading public will watch his contributions with interest. At 10 o'clock one Saturday morning about six weeks ago/ Ray Long, editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine, was ushered into President Coolidge's office in Washington. The president handed him a sheaf of papers. "I've got something done," he sail. "1 don't know how good it is but any way it's here." That "something" was Mr. CooL idge's .story of his years in the"Whit# House, The outstanding " passage in the* installment that appears in the Cosmopolitan is his description of the death of his son, Calvin, Jr., and the cost in heartaehes of hie years in the White House. "My own participation in the cam palgn of 1921 was delayed," Mr. Cool idge writes, "by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the 7th of July. He was a boy of much prom ise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turnel i?. V "He had a remarkable insight into thing*. 'The day I became president he hud just started to work in a tobacce fit .When one of his fellow labor *r- -aid to him: 'If my father was pf'ceident, i would not work in a tobacco field.' Calvin replied: 'j^f my father were your father you would.' "After he was gone someone sent u a letter he had written about the! same time to a young man who halj congratulated him on being the firs*! boy in the land. To this he had re-] plied that he had done nothing and so did not merit the title, which1 should go 'to some boy who had dis-j tinguished himself through his own action.' "We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been president he would nor have raised a blister on his toe which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis 1 ir. the south grounds. In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not. "\N hen he went the power and glory of the presidency went with him. The ways of providence are often I beyond our understanding. It seem] ed to me that the world had need of I the work that it was probable he | ec u Id do. "I do ndt know why such a price was exacted for occupying the White' House." The fu st article describes Mr. Cool-* idge'x entrance into the White House! on the death of President Harding! and some of his early experiences as I president. In subsequent chapters after reviewing his years in the W hite House he tells of his boyhood and young manhood. The work, says Mr, Ix>ng, is really an Autobiography. Duel Closes Tragedy Tampa, h la., April 1.?The pistol duel in which two men lost their lives here Friday was a closed incident, so far as the police were concerned, according to James McCants, department chief. The investigation ended almost as abruptly as the shooting began, on a prominent residential corner. Aurello Castillo, former Yboa i City, cafe owner, married, and the j father of two children, is dead, a1 , bullet in his heart and M. P. Bronson, i 39 years old, railroad detective,] recently divorced, is dead from a! bullet in his brain. A woman driving an automobile in which Castillo ! was riding when he overtook Bronson at the intersection, is "missing." j "Why carry the -matter further?" police detectives asked their questioners today. "Had either of the men iived the woman would have been held, at least as a material witness, but when Bronson died last night the whole case changed," they claimed. - t More Rum-Runners Intercepted Last Thursday Sheriff Dabney and his officers, hearing that rum-run-! ners Were making free use of the Rocky River road in getting their cargoes into North Carolina, went out . and parked a truck across thhe road. Presently a big car heavily loaded came rushing along, collided with the truck, pushing it out of the. road and sped away. Another car *%vas following. and this one in attempting to pass the truck, slipped intp. the ditch and was stalled. The driver of the c ar, a new Ford touring, jumped out ahd made his escape, leaving the car and 102 gallons of whiskey in the hands of the sheriff. Some months ago, rum-rur.ners were using smoke screens to prevent successful chasing by officers of the law and in some cases used firearms in resisting the .. ?fftcersi but in the recent- past, the policy of the runt-runners seems to be-to get by if they can and'If overtaken or halted by the officers, to give up without offering any* resistance. In most cases the drivers of rum ladeti car>< are extremely' young men. The liquor wa8 poured into the sewer Friday.? I.ancaster News. W Stevenson Praises j President Hoover j Strong!) commending the "^'on ' President Hoover cortfWeein* ? house rig in the Republican party in the South to end the abuses in office sa!e> and politic*! patronage*. Congressman William F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, ? paid a tribute to j the chief executive of the nation while in Charlotte yesterday. "I am gratified to see that Mr. Hoover ha* lived up to his reputation j [ || | business man, a man of chgruc*; I ter, who is not afraid of politlcaj machines in doing the honest thing,". declared Congressman Stevenson in commenting on a lengthy article on 4 this Subject which appeared ou. the front page of The Observer yesterday. j J "I inaugurated a fight three years j ago on the system of selling federal offices in South Carolina by Joseph', I W. Tolbert, Republican State ohairman, which had become notorious.' | 1 had the splendid help of H. E. C. ! Bryant of The Observer's staff in Washington, and we have from time to ti.me exposed the fact that all 1 federal positioi.s had to be gotten by 1 the-endorseiuent of Joseph W. Tolbert ? apd that endorsement was procured for a financial consideration. "Up to the present administration this fact was ignored. Hut Mr.1 Hoover has boldly dismantled the Tolbert organization in South Carolina, and has made it apparent that he expects federal positions to be awarded to the fittest. This I feel sure he will carry out. I am not opposed to the Republican party nam-, ing the officers. It has that right, being the party in power, and I would not interfere with that if I could. But it is a refreshing development that at last we have a president who will not tolerate a brokeragGpin office. I "I congratulate Mr. Hoover and will say that it confirms my estimate of the map, whose political and official actions I have watched very closely since 1917. J "I feel sure that he will see that the law is enforced which was in-( troduced by me, and passed December 8, 1926, making it a criminal offense to buy, or offer to buy, or sell, j>r offer to sell, political influence to procure an appointment to a federal position, and which has been a dead letter in South Carolina for the reason that the district attorneys were the appointees of Mr. Tolbert and one of [ them is his nephew. "This thing has been an infernal . scandal for a long time and I'm certainly glad it's getting through with." ?Thursday's Charlotte Observer. j COLUMBIA UJItBEK jl MAhUFACTUKlHG ttl MILL WORK 9 SASH, DOORS. BUND* I AND LUMBER I] v fl-AIN A Hut-En STS | COWM|U.S.C It U*KALB COlINoTiuil Junior Order U. W Regular counail tint . ; ; third Mondays of Jll| nonth at 8 p.m. Visiting BrttH fl ire welcomed. I). J. CRrriiV L H. JONKS. Co ' 1 Recording Secty. KBR8HAW <Jr f) v Regular commonicatiM J this lodge is held oo 31 -^~'r first Tuesday in each ^ it 8 p,m. Visiting Brethren arsJ f :oraed. T. V. WALSH, ^ 1. E. ROSS, wft-shipfnl lf.nlM Secretary. l-li-tfA Home Away By Shouting Frj^~l Atlanta, March 29.?Acquitted I a charge of murder on a pita A justifiable homicide, W. L. Shipp^H a warehouse clerk, who slew |n Davis, motor dealer and civic fa3l last December, last night was boS from the court room on the shoalfaK of shouting friends. ! A jury deliberating a little A than four hours on the case reiunjlfl a verdict 6f not guilty in a coajfl room that was crowded as it had betsl through the afternoon when |9 tor neys made their arguments, m| on announcement of acquittal n| crowd broke into cheers, swarorfjl about the youthful defendant *jfl bore him from the court room. ^9 Man So Nervous Get* I Sore When Spoken f?| "It actually irritated to hajfl anyone talk to me, I was so nervoutl Vinol ended this and I feel wooderfdl now*"?Wm. Fahy. ^9 Vinol is a compound otf irdn, pM-l phates, cod liver peptone, etc. fill very FIRST bottle makee .you tie? I better, and have a BIG appetite, I Nervous, easily tired people are flfcl prised how QDKJft the iron, pb? 1. phates, etc., give new life and p? I Vinol tastes delicious. 'Vf; >M*I Zemp, Druggist. ;; _ ^ Moral and Mental \ 1 T fl iil lntluence Jg|l Having money in the bank will help you even it?jl| you do not use it for a great many years. The moral II and mental influence of haying something laid by that .11 you could use if you had to will mean a great deal to jj Loan and Savings Bank | CAPITAL $100,000.00 1 EXCURSIONS 2 MAGNOLIA GARDEN AND MIDDLETON PLACE GARDENS CHARLESTON, STC, 3 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 29-30, APRIL 5-6, 1929 Southern Railway Systejn J j A? the following low round trip fares from prin- | | Camden $4.00 Lancaster I Heath Springs 5.25 Kershaw ............?- ^ I ! Proportionate low round trip fares from all inter- 1 | Bxcursiojrr tickets good going on all regular train?. H except Crescent Limited, Fridays and Saturday, May1 B i 29th-30th, and April 5th and 6th. Also for trains No* 16 leaving Columbia 2:20 a. m., March 31st and ApnJ | 7th. Tickets good returning on all trains except ? I bye^nt| io^reach-original starting poifa?1 j Southern Railway System J