The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 28, 1929, Image 2
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LOOKING BACKWARD
Taken From the File* of The ^kronlcle Fifteen and Thirty Yearn Ago
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THIRTY YKAR8 AGO
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June 23, 1899
H. L. Schlosburg purchases the
Barclay lot, corner of I.*ureos and
Lyttlaton streets, and begins erection
of handsome residence,
Seaboard Air Line railway announces
that work of extending line
from Cheraw to Camden will be
rushed and that trains likely will be
running by last of October,
Twenty tracts of country property
are advertised to be sold for delinquent
taxes by Sheriff R. B. Williams.
Dr. J. A. Lightner, colored physician,
comes from Chester to locate
in Camden for the practice of medicine,
W. K. Thompson, president of the
Auxiliary Farmers' Experiment club,
and Joel Hough, secretary, call the
club to meet at opera house for purpose
of naming best time for holding
summer institute. <y
Lawrence McDowell, now of Tampa,
Fla., visits relatfves in Sumter
county.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
June Ik 1914
Squire James ft. Truesdell, of
Westvllle and for forty-fix yearn
magistrate in Flat Rock township,
was a business visitor to Camden
this weev.
John M. deSaussure dies in Atlanta,
Ga., and is buried in his native
city/ of Camden.
Boykin correspondent reports that
crops are in a flourishing condition
for this time of the year.
Purchasers of lots on new Walnut
street development, aa, announced
through the agency of Kennedy &
Shaw, include J. C. Bldckwell, Luther
Sowell, Alfred McLeod and W. I).
Muggins. /
C. J. Shannon, Jr., is elected president
of the South Carolina Bankers'
association in Charleston where also
attending the convention us representatives
of local banks are John
T. Mackey, C. H. Yates and John S.
Lindsay.
First airship collision in history is
reported, in this issue of The Chronicle,
with a loss of nine lives at
Vienna.
Each summer night may be calmrj
peaceful, undisturbed. Just by using
FLY-TOX. Spraying the shaping
rooms. Killing the mosquitoeB. i
Everyone knows -mosquitoes are disease
carriers. They must be killed. I
Health authorities advocate FLQ&
TOX. It is the scientific insecticide
developed at Mellon Institute of Industrial
Research by Hex Research (
.Fellowship, Simple instructions ?n |
each bottle (blue label) for killing,
ALL household insects. INSIST on
FLY-TOX. It is safe, stainless, and,
has a perfume-like fragrance.?Adv. j
[Senator Blease Talks
To Mill Operatives
Greenville, June 22.?United States
Senator ?ole L. Blease speaking in
West Greenville, a mill community
here, tonight assailed "foreign northern
influences", which he said had instigated
the labor troubles in the
southern textile region during recent
months.
The senator urged the cotton mill
people to organize their own union,
to operate under a state charter and
to have nothing to do with outside
influences. He did not mention any j
organization by name.
The The only labor organizations
specifically named by the speaker was
the Communistic party which has
been active in labor disputes raging
around Gastonia, N. C., lately. The
senator flayed these people as being
antagonistic to everything Southern
people hold dear, and called on his
audience, made up chiefly of textile
people, to put them out of the state
as fast as they come in.
The state board of conciliation, the
Hoover social program as it involves
entertaining negroes along with
whites and other present' day ills as
he sees them were flayed bitterly by
the junior South Carolina senator.
Senator Mease read his nearfamous
poem about the' supposed
I overrunning of the White House at
[ Washington by negro guests of the
i Hoover*. His crowd cheered wildly as
i he read stanza after stanza.
Judge .). Lyles Glenn will preside
over a special term <>f the Federal i
court m Columbia which is to convene
in that city on July 22. The court
will give special attention to the disposition
<>f criminal business,
CITATION.
The State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Pfobate
Judge.*
Whereas, G. B. Peach made suit to
me to grant him Letters of Administration
of the Estate of and effects of
J. E. Peach.
These are, therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said J. E. Peach,
deceased, that they be and appear
before me. in the Court of Probate, to
be held at Camden, South Carolina,
on Monday, July 8th. next after publication
thereof, at 11 o'clock in the
forenoon, to show' cause, if any they
have, why the Said Administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand, this 2-lth
'dav of June Anno Domini 1029.
i w. l. Mcdowell.
i Judge of Probate for Kershaw County
Published on the 28th day of June
and the 5th day of July 1929 in the
Camden Chronicle, and posted at the
Court House door for the time prescribed
by law.
Wartime Secret
Just Revealed
Leicington, Va,?Eleven years ago
thii| week, Lieut. Matthew Volm, Imperial
German infantry, stood watching
a group of queer little balloon*,
made apparently of colored paper,
float to the ground behind the "lines.
Td each was attached a six-fOot
thread at the end of which dangled 'a
packet of papers.
~~A German soldier ran up with two
of theiu and reported:
"Millions of these are floating behind
our lines. They stick in trees
and come even into the trenches. Lies
are printed in German on the papers.
See?"
And back of the Allied defense,
French and British intelligence offlcers
were seivding up two' and onehalf
millions of these ttyy oil-paper
carriers each week. They were released
to travel with dominant air
currents ami timed to drop at specific
distance# in Teutonic territory, bearing
messages to teach the German
masses that the war was fought for
world freedom, not for Allied conquest.
It \yas the idea of an American
teacher, whose contribution to Allied
victory came to light this week i*>
connection with the retirement of Dr,
Henry Louis Smith, president of
Washington and Lee University.
President Smith, physicist and meteorligist,
who devised the plan in
1018 for the American National Defense
Council will retire at the close
of this year to writing and lecturing,
after half a century as an educator,
the last twenty-nine years of which
have been spent as a university president.
Today, Lieutenant Volm, now Professor
Volm of the German and
French languages at the Virgina
Military Institute, the campus of
which adjoins that of Washington and
Lee university, and President Smith,
who are neighbors in the academic
calm of this little college towrij sat
many thousands of kilometers from
the French battle-front, and recalled
for a newspaper man the planning
andfyhe effect of the "balloon device"
which furnished the chief means of
distributing the publicity whiclj)
George Creel, director of public information
during the war, declared
broke the German morale in the summer
of 1018.
"No credit is to be taken away
from the courage of the Allies or
the heroic, decisive charges of the
Americans at Chateau Thierry, St.
Mihiel, or Bellau Wood," Mr. Creel
explained. "But the fact remains
that the end came unexpectedly,
dramatically because of a spiritual
collapse jn Germany.
"In 1870, France fought on without
army, food or munitvbns. It was
nothing but th,e truth that split the
foundat^pnjjjf German militarism and
brougrvt aoout the surrender when the
GMwirvrP aVrMy was well equipped with
supplies" and munitions." - f I
How complete this collapse was, I
how effective the stories about
America dropped from the air, was i
suggested when Professor Volm re- I
marked:
"1 did not dream that some day 1
I would live a neighbor of the man
who invented those balloons; that
some day our joint purpose would be
the training of young American
minds!"
hi the closing weeks of 1917.
booming howitzers echoed from
France till they reached the. quiet,
orderly desk of President Smith at
Lexington. A mailed first threatened
Democracy. American leaders needed
a plan to undermine German spirit
and to present the American point
of view to the German people. The
National Security League offered a
reward for the best plan to distribute
Allied propaganda over Germany. The
acceptable scheme came from President
Smith's study at Washington
and Lees';
For fourteen years before coming
i to Lexington, Doctor Smith had
| served as professor of physics and
j meteorology. He knew that northtemperntfc
air currents blow northeast
ward: almost continuously over
Germany.
So he prepared a map of the currents
and experimented with the escape
of gas through slightly porou.paper
and other substances. Ther.
he proposed releasing large numbers
of these colored paper and rubber balloons,
filled with coal gas and hydrogen.
Borne by the air-drift, each
balloon w .uld carry a message over
the enemy lines. These papers, at
the end a tw??-yard thread, would
flutter (. nspivuously as the carrier
descender Size and gas content wa?
to detem ne the distance travelled
before th? balloon settled to earth.
Sucees.- was apparent when
American officers found that eigh"
out of e . ry ten prisoners capture
carried A ed propaganda in the.
^j^ockets. Reports declared the 1:'.
' erature " : thumbed."
Profe - Volpi today told of t
success < plan. "I rememb
well the i - ,-t* the balloons to get
format i nd our lines," he s:i
"We kr> e balloons were float
continua : *o our territory. A
ward \\ 'Yred," I believed."
our cor: , .quarters for every 1>.
loon tu ; but, of course. '
- did not a reading of the rr
sages."
- Be for. \ 1918, twenty-.-,
millim-i .t.- had been dropped.
German ! ey contained Pre\\
ilsor - - . hes, true news of
activity- America, millions
cartoon.- -tat omenta of causes,
nificaiioi ,,nd aims of the war.
Doctoi Smith was born at Gr*.boro,
\. i'.. in 1859. He reacheoffic.a',
retirement age this July,
was a-iked by the trustees of Wa.
ington and I^e University to ......
tinue ir. office as president ujh.'
January 1, 1930..
Since coming to "Washington .v.,;
l^ee in 1912 to take administrate,
charge of the institution, Doctor
Smith has lived in General Robe;
1 tfi. IjeeV fui mer htWIB Ull the Tnmjr.
Bethune News Notes
Told by Correspondent
Bethune, June 26.?Misses Mary
Mouzou Brabham of Orangeburg and
Nita Sturgeon of Denmark have returned
to their home# after spending
some time with Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Uffttc.
Missea Ruby Pate, Margaret Truesdell
and Minnie Eddins McKinnon
were delegates to a convention of the
Intermediate Christian - Endeavor
society which was held in Clinton
recently.
Misses Katherine Truesdell, Ruth
Estridge and Mary King attended a
meeting of the Senior Christian Endeavor
societies at Chester the past
week-end.
Marion McDowell of Tampa, Fla.,
is spending some time here with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
McDowell. /
Mrs. C. L. Mays is in Birmingham,
Ala., visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Bethune and
duughter, Miss Annie Mae Bethune,
of Bessemer City, N. C., were guests
of relatives Sunday and Monday.
Misses Kathleen and Tressie Mae
Hyatt of Columbia are the guests of
their sister, Mrs. G. Fpwler.
Miss Frances Severance returned
home Monday after having spent two
weeks in Hartsville attending the
Baptist Assembly at,<Coker college.
Mr. C. H. Wall was the week-end
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
M. O. Ward. On his return to Andrews
Monday he was accompanied
by Mrs. Wall who has been spending
several weeks with her parents.
.Miss Stella Bethune is attending
summer school in Nashville, Tenn. *
Miss .Xnllian Reaves of Bishopvillc
i- the guest of Miss Malloy Hearon.
Mr. and Mrs. Coring Davis have
returned home after visiting relatives
in Dothan, Ala.
M r. .Joe Hall of Gaffney was a
week-end visitor in Bethune.
Mrs. V. W. Brabham and Mrs.
Wells Brabham of Orangeburg were
guests recently of Mrs. J. D. Lafitte.
Biggest Car in World
An automobile 125 feet long, 25
feet wide and 45 feet high and with
wheWs 10 feet in diameter has been
designed by air engineer in Germany
for desert travel. It is intended to
accommodate 150 passengers and
200 tons of cargo.
General David Fremane, youngest
Confederate veteran, commander of
the Georgia division of the United
Confederate Veterans, died at his
home in Atlanta on Wednesday, aged
77. He attended the recent Charlotte
reunion.
?where the Southern chieftain died
while president of the college in October,
1870.
"The money I won as prize for
this balloon device," President Smith
smiled, "went toward buying the first
automobile I ever owned?and I was
a college president, not a college
student, when I bought it!"
Methodist Divine Wins
Bucket Shop Shekels
New York, June 24.?'The stock
market trading of Bishop Jamea Cannon,
Jr., of the Methodist Kpiacopal
church South was thoroughly scrutinised
today at the hearing into the
bankruptcy of Kabie and company,
an alleged bucket shop, through
which the anti-Smith Democratic
'leader dealt.j#
Counsel for the trustee confined
himself almost entirely to the bishop's
account, bringing out that with
a deposit of only $2,500 the bishop
ran up a paper balance of some $11,000.
The only witness of the day was
Harry L. Goldhurst, principal partner
of the bunkrupt firm Of Kable
and company. Both Goldhurst and
the other partner, Charles W. Kable,
are under indictments for using the
mails to defraud in connection with
conduct of their business.
Goldhurst told C. Edward Benoit,
counsel for the trustee- in bankruptcy,
that he had known the bishop for
about seven years and had transacted
business for him, buying securities
for cash, before the formation of
Kable and company. He said no
record had been kept of these transactions.
After the company wflffi organized
he said the bishop authorized him. to
buy and sell for him at his discretion
and that numerous transactions were j
carried through, some at the bishop's
direction and some just because Goldhurst
thought they were advisable.
The witness said the bishop paid
"on the installment plan, a feature of
the Kable and company business, and
authorized him to b?,y as much as
might call for an initial payment of ,
$2,000 or $3,000, which would obligate
the cleric to total payments of about
$10,000. |
Goldhurst emphatically denied that
the bishop had any interest in Kable
and company or received any part
of the profits or was given anything
for sending other customers to trade
with the firm. He said no one knew
the bishop had an account there, although
he had not requested secrecy,
and that his name was never used to
help get new customers.
Damage suits aggregating around
$200,000 have been filed against Harold
Yarn, und F. H. Varn, as the result
of the fatal automobile accident
near Columbia on January 31, when
Walter S. Montgomery of Spartanburg
and James Parker, Columbia
high school boy, were killed and Dr.
Elwood Bell of Spartanburg, was
seriously injured. Dr. Bell is asking
damages in the sum of $50,000.
Consolidation of the Chase National
bank and the National Park bank
New York into a $1,700,000,000 institution,
the third largest in "file
United States, was announced Tuesday.
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Veterinarian
Day Phone 80?Night Phone 114 1
CAMDEN, s. c.
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Junior Order U. A. M. I
Regular couneil first aid
\ third Mondays of mall
month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren
are welcomed. D. J. CREED,
L. H. JONES, Councillor.
Recording Secty.
~~ja KERSHAW LODGE No. 29
^ A. F. M.
Regular communication of
/^o^^\this lodge is held on the
" first Tuesday in each month
at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
T. V. WALSH,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
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His Trucks Run Better After
100,000 Miles, Says Burdge
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Red Bank, N. J., Operator Needs
No Mechanics to Maintain his
15 Buses, Vans and Trucks
Stresses Importance of
Good Motor Oil
The problem of lubrication fails to worry
\V. A. Burdge of Burdge & Sons, Red Bank,
N. J. He picked the proper motor oil when he
started business, and depended on it to take
care of his trucks. It did.
"Right now," says Mr. Burdge, "any one of
our 29-passenger buses can step out in high
speed from a complete stop. That shows excellent
condition it anything does. Most cars
are worn out after 100,000 miles, but we don't
consider a bus really good until it has gone
that far.
Drivers Prefer Oldest Trucks
"Pretty strong statement? Well?maybe. But
recently I had to send a man on a long trip
and told him to take our newest bus. Instead
of being pleased he asked if he couldn't take
the one that has 375,000 miles credited to its
motor. He knew it was the best job we have.
"That," continued Mr. Burdge, "merely illustrates
my point?the value of good lubrication.
Throughout the eleven yea-s we have
been in business we have used 'Standard'
Motor Oil exclusively in every one <?t our
buses, vans and trucks.
"Here's another secret. When a bus comes in
from a hard run of many miles at high and
steady speed we insert a dose of 'Standard'
Penetrating Oil through the carburetor to
lubricate the valves and "keep them from
sticking. Another way we keep the buses in
good condition is to spray the springs with
Standard' Penetrating Oil. In fact, we use
* almost the entire line of 'Standard' Oils and
Greases."
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W. A, Burdge rightfully gets full value front hfc 9
trucks by using oilier motor oil jfl
Good Treatment Helps -?rM
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with Mr. Burdge, when he ^hfys 4K.it
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