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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H^D. NIL KM. . Kditor and I'JblUher Published every Friday at NoTliOD Broad Street and entered at the Camdento South Carolina poatofTice aa , second clan* mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Camden, 8. C., Friday. "tuFy 12,1020.' ' . { Righteous" ; eems to be the unl, verxal opinion of the verdict twelve men of Cheater county passed upon that wretch of a human, Rufe King,! on trial all of last week ami part of thia week for the murder ol hia wife. Probably the most damaging evidence waa given against the defendant by federal Judge J, Lylex Glenn when1 ho told the jury ho' had heard a ; brother of King toll King that "he bad talked too damned much alroudy." Then too, James H. Glenn, of the defense counsel did not help; his client any when he tried to in- ' sinuate to that jury that Sheriff! Quinn and Chief of Police Faulkner j of York planted those bloody clothes ' in the attic of the King home. King muy get a new trial and it may be long drawn out fight yet to save him, but thosd jurors who passed on his caae have the .satisfaction of knowing that their vri'dict moots with genera! approval. It may be thoughtlessness on the pdrt of some business men ami others in Camden who are patronizing an itinerant solicitor for. an out of the state printing house, but at the same time they are sending money out of t'he state, never to return. q5>They are not only tuking money out of Camden but out of the state to further the cause of a strange religious cult who have no interest in Camden or South Carolina. There are two printing plants in Camden, paying heavy tuxos. I hey both have a good payroll ! and all of Ibis payroll is .spent right! hete in ( amden, with local stores and ! Imml?conceHfe, and?some?the very | people who are patronizing .*>ut of state printing plants frequently get some of this money in their cash drawers. If you can't get your printing done In ( amden at least have it done within the state where you.money should remain. The editors of the Newberry Her- ! aid and News had a dirty hoax pulled off on them Monday when the telephone rang and a voice gave them Ahe announcement of the engagement ?f a popular young couple in that town. As soon as the paper appeared on the street, the families of the young couple were indignant. The Herald and News at great expense promptly ran off another edition of their paper and in a two-column article on the front page heavily scored the unknown perpetrators. The Paper is making every effort to find the guilty parties and no doubt their names will !>< made public. The Chronicle several years ago had a similar experience with a forged purported marriage which had never occurred. The guilty party was never found, but this paper had a good idea who it was and made it cost him dearly. A Good Beginning. The new county superintendent of education of Kershaw county is a woman, Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts, who bas just taken over the duties of her T-year-term to which the voters elected hoi She has made a good begin-ning, as an outsider sees it, for according to the news columns of the Oamden Chronicle, her first official act was to name the former superintendent, Mr. Gettys, and Superintendent J. G. Richards, Jr., of the Oamden city schools, to serve with he, as members of the county boar ! of educatnon." Both appointees, says the Chronicle, have accepted service. This action should enable the new official to get a 'good grasp on the! duties of her office ami educational ! problems and issues in Kershaw omm i ty at the very outset of her adminis- : tration. It also reveals a commends hie spirit in the new superintendent, who proffers a position of importance in advisory capacity to the individual whom she succeeds in office. How i many male superintendents of cduca- ' tion in South Carolina have ever ! adopted just such a policy on first as- I suming office??Spartanburg Journal. Don't Be UagraUful. .1 When you owe a man don't dodge him because you haven't the money in your pocket. Talk taofei** *nd tell him When you think you will be able to pay him. When you trade with n merchant on credit keep on trading with him even though you cun't pay a? promptly aa you would like to. Don't go past his store and go around the corner und pay cash to someone else. It isn't right. Don't do it. Some ( ood Thingn About Them It is an oft-repeated statement that the press of America today is pretty U>uch u me**, that it i* highly com* mercialited and that we have no outstanding papers. All of this may be true and yet the fact remains that the press of the United States is still playing a mighty, important part in . community and national life. "You cun't convict a million dol- i lars" is a saying that dutes back to , the time when our nation first began to produce millionaires, or perhaps back of that; Multi-millions have been convicted and Sinclair iH doing six months in jail, with the prospect ( that he will serve a second sentence. Everyone knows this, but few indeed ' know the part played in the Sinclair conviction by u newspaper ami its force. The story is told in the Editor & Publisher of June 8th. "At 11:30 o'clock on the night of Friday, October 28, 1927, a dull and sleepy night in the office of the Washington Herald, the copy for the morning paper was well in hand? indeed there were 11 columns of overset?when the telephone rang on the city desk. Don King, a recently employed rewrite man, Chicago trained, young and wide awake, answered. A masculine voice said: "Do you people want something on the Fall- , Sinclair case?' \Sure, we do?what | have you got?' replied Mr. King. The voice on the wire said: "They are going to hang the jury. I heard one of the jurors sfty so.' "The newspaper man met the mysterious caller on the outskirts of the city a few hours later. Hut the informant had, in the meantime, suffered a bad case of 'buck fever.' He j did not want to. sign un affidavit.' Hut he did assist the reporter to gel ' information for himself. The result I was a cleverly devised interview with , The juror suspect, soft-drink ' parlor the Herald man heard a ' juror, sitting in the Sinclair case -my: 'Well, if I don't get a car about as long as this block I'll feel kind of | disappointed. There's nothing wrong with this guy Sinclair. He's got so much money he don't have to put on the dog.' l'hen he admitted he wasn't paying,much attention to the evidence in the case. Meanwhile the managing editor of the Herald had been in consultation with the publisher of the newspaper. It was agreed that the information 1 should he laid before the District Attorney. What followed is now a matter of history. Every day and in almost every city of the country newspaper men are serving public causes. This case merely happens to be conspicuous. Most of the work is done anonymously. For instance, the American public dors not know Don King or have the slightest notion that behind the legal triumph lies his quick wit, his lively sense of the line which runs between right and wrong, his willingness to work all day after a night of toil on a mere shred of a news lead that the routine-minded would have sneered at and forgotten. In the nature of newspaper work the ' good reporter must he content with results which satisfy the soul hut mean little in terms of the materialistic world." Recently the United States Senate held a session behind closed doors, an "executive session." Such sessions have been held before. They are not going to be so common in the future, due to the fact that Paul R. Mellon of the United Press gained accurate information of what took place behind the closed doors and gave it to the papers of the country. When brought before the Senate for this act he refused to divulge the source of his information regardless of any penalty the Senate might impose. The case gained widespread attention and growing out of it and the publicity given to it the Senate* has decided that from now on the business of this our highest legislative body is to be done in the presence of the public and the press. The New York Times recently completed a poll of the Senate which showed that 65 members are for open sessions, 23 against them, 6 undecided, 11 noncommittal and 2 who could not he reached for art expression. It was a newspaper man who brought the question into the open.?LeRoy, N. Y. (iazotte-Ncwvf, Two MorsH)r?<s Ocean Santander, Spain, July 9.?Roger Q. Williams and Capt. Ivcwis Y'ancey, forced down today after a trans-Atlantic air voyage of 3,400 miles from Old Orchard, Me., slept on their lauj re Is here tonight before completing I their flight to Rome tomorrow morning in their airplane Pathfinder. Want of gasoline forced them down as night was falling over the northern Spanish coast, not far from the spot whore their French comrade?* ol the Yellow Bird had been obliged to , land. 1 They did not seem fatigued wher The Associated Press correspond? found them drinking a glass of whis key with Governor General Saliquet > .-rfaa, Governor Richards has grantet pardons to Will Goggins, Jhn Gowam i and W. R. Thurston all of whom ha< ; been convicted on charge# ef murde; iand were serving life sentences. t Mixed Baaebpll Team Starts a General Row Jersey, N. J., July 7.?-An atgqpneni. between two baseball players at Montgomery bowl here this afternoon ' precipitated a free-for-all figfcit in | which several person* were injured and two men arrested. The fracas ' was quelled only after three detachments of police had been called*-. The trouble started when u negro base runner accused the white second baseman, Charles Kegcnye, 22, , of! Bayonne, N. J., of fouling him as he elld into the base. Spectator# about evenly divided between whites and negroes, rushed onto the field and began fighting. Regenye, struck in the stomach and the mouth with a baseball but, was taken to city hospital. Ham Coleman, of Jersey City, a negro spectator, was aVrested as his assailant and held in $1,000 bail. James Mott, 21, of Jer- j sey City, a white spectator, was ar- | rested on a charge <?f attempted assault. Two negroes were sought. Charming Myrtle Beach (Orangeburg Times and Democrat) "In company with other editors we spent a recent week-end at Myrtle Beach, located near the. northern boundary of our coast line and i further Mast than most places in our t State. It was our first visit and although we were expecting bit: i things we were surprised and pleased ; to see what a group of South Carolinians were doing in this section. "A few years ago the Woodeid. brothers of Greenville, well-known marrufneturers and financiers, purchased a huge area, fronting twelve miles on the Atlantic Ocean and em- 1 bracing over 66,000 acres of land. Under the immediate supervision of Mr. John T. Woodside and his assistants a program of development was inaugurated which, while still Incomplete, has already cost the owners several millions of dollars. "The approach to the ocean here iideal. TTie beach is a part of themainland and is not an island. The automobile rider proceeds thjrtftigh the ordinary low-country scenery l without any specific indications of the proximity of the Ocean until almost at once the sight of the vast ex pause of water meets his eyes. N<? low-lying marshes with the familiar odor of tidal mud in the hot sur. shine. In the surf there is no strong current or undertow, sometimes encountered elsewhere. "Myrtle Beach will not be hap hazardly developed. Plans are carefully arranged in advance and ever; thing will be in its place . Farms , will be offered to truckers and farmers, industrial sites will be properly r spaced along the railroad, a growing town will be amply allowed room for expansion, and so on. Lots for homeowners are available without restriction us to buildings but in another section all residences must conform : to the architectural requirements. 1 Each thing in its place, as it were, so that a harmonious development will be insured. "Several hotels are now operating, I , two near town, and one, a country club, with twenty-seven holes of g->lf nearby, a few miles up tho beach. A new million dollar hotel, over 600 feet long and 160 feet high, will be open this fall fpr the winter tou-ist. This, the Ocean-Forest, fronts tho ' beach, and is approached by a fofrr mile concrete street, lighted all tfce J way, from the nearby town. Tflti 'stories high, it will offer attractions | to the winter and summer sojourner alike unsurpassed by any other r?sort hostelry. "A few miles away are to be fouaJ | some fresh-water lakes, abounding in fish, surrounded by thousands of 1 acres full of game. Here a club wfU eventually be organized to take over the preserve and erect a modern lodge for its members. It is a strange I sight to encounter"?a large freshwater lake within a few hundred yards of the Ocean, which one standing by a lake can see nearby. "Every South Carolinian should be interested in Myrtle Beach. While^a part &f it is being developed as an exclusive resort, exclusive only in the sense that only those of nm{flc mean- can afford Its luxuries, the average citizen can find at Myrtle Beach pleasant, comfortable, am! enjoyable accommodations at 1Pittas which he can afford to pay. Nobody is being overlooked in the development and everybody can partakr of its beauty and pleasure if they like. "The owners and promoters have faith in South Carolina. They are freely spending millions to create within our State what they expect to be the most popular and best resort anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. This requires a great \ision and a large faith, and the Woodsides are entitled to the support of , our people in their endeavor. Nothing like Myrtle Beach now exists" In > South Carolina, and Mjrrtle Beaches only partly developed at this time. i It is wonderful and attractive tiftw and will become more so with fhe passing of years." . V A Spartanburg troops hfcve been ordered withdrawn from Ware Sh<mle 1 where they have been on duty since i the strike there several weeks ago. i The sheriff report* that order hac c be?n restored and the situation is now quiet. j?r> Young Woman Jailed For Court Contempt Sumter, July 6.?The novel experience of being placed in a guurd house to calm her ruffled temper came to Miss Catherine Reynolds, attractive young woman, about one o'clock Friday, when the young lady wadded two five-dollar bills and threw them into the face of Recorder Harby, as she started to stalk from the court room, where she had expressed herself very freely. Miss Reynolds, guest of Miss.Evelyn Coskrey, <<l Summerton, while seeing Sumter, was summoned to court for speeding. She failed to answer the summons und was arrested and brought into court, charged with a second offense of speeding by Officers Cummings and Kirven. Recorder Harby gave her a lecture and started to letter off with a minimum fine, when she showe^ such disrespect for the court that she was locked up. Profuse apologies on the part of her male companion secured her release after a few ininutei, Free Beer Puts Community on Spree Port Hope, Mich,, July 8.?It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. A rum runner's lugger, carrying 1,000 cases of beer, was blown ashor? near here yesterday. The crew cached their cargo in an abandoned barn. Today a large portion of Port Hope's male citizenry diacovered the storehouse and when customs patrolmen arrived only a few dozen bottles barring the empty ones, remained. Many cases were carried *away in sacks, baby carriages, children's wagons. and other similar conveyances. The Right Horse Won Up m New York State lives one Mr. H. P. Gardner. He has made lots of money making whisk brooms. He has a love for horses and two years ago he spent some of his money in buying a real horse. His purchase uas a colt whose sire is,,the gr^nt Man ()' War, one of the greatest of all horses, living or dead. Mr. Gardner turned his colt over to Mr. Clyde Van Dusen to train and a- a compliment to the trainer gave the colt the trainees, name. Saturday afternoon Clyde Van Dusen, ridden by "Pony" McAtee, a great jockey, won the gt eat Kentucky Derby. The race was run in a heavy vain and horses and riders looked like mud eats when it was over. One iould hardly tell rider from horse and numbers were nearly all covered with mud. but spectators knew Clyde Van Duscn won. There was 'no doubt bout that. Mr. Gardner, the owner of the three year old, was so excited he could not stand to look at the race. He turned his back. Not so the trainer. Mr. Van Desen not only saw it all but said from the start that the colt he had trained would win. And "Pony" McAtee was heard to tell his mcunt at the start: "'Now listen, hawss, when we start to goin' you keep gittin.' This ain't no place fer a man with no umbreller." The rain had been falling for about an hour and was still coming down hard. The whole affair was over in two and a quarter minutes. The raido brought it home to millions of people who had never seen or heai'd a horse race before and many of whom would feel a little uncomfortable perhaps in attending such an affair. Not ^all are as frank and honest about It as Dr. John G. Clirrkscales, [Of Wofford College. In his charmiiig little book, "The Old Plantation," he says: "I was born with sporting blood in my veins. Not that I was ever disposed to gamble buit sports |of all sorts, especially outdoor sports, always appealed to men. .Now as "young as I am" I enjoy a horse race, a wrestling match, and am not wholly averse to a cock-fight." And -when ; he shrewdly added that some good [ brother will say, "Now that last ! statement ought not to have been ; made," he goes on to say, "O, well, I brother, it's the truth and must jstand!" | Saturday afternoon's race was the great e\ent of the year for lovers of ; fast horses. One can enjoy it with: out knowing anything about the . mutual* and what they, paid for first place or to show. j Man O' War's record and the rel cords of his colts go far in proving that heredity, blood, and training are .factors that cannot be ignored. There's a lesson in that for those I who care to take heed.?Greenwood Index-Journal. Mrs. Susie Ying Kao, wife of the vice counsul at Washington, tried to get into San Francisco with a fortune in opium estimated to be worth one million dollars. The opium had been smuggled in several trunks when discovered by customs officials The Oregon forestry department estimates 4. 216,000,000 feet of lum ber were cut in that ktate last year. 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