The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 30, 1929, Image 4

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THECAMDEN CHRONICLE H P. NlLB8..B4IUr aid pSBK Publlabid every Friday at Na/l'l09 Broad Street end entered at the Camden, South Carolina poatofTice m eooad class mall matter. Price per cmmatt lg-00, payable In advance. ~ Friday, August" SoTj*2t~ Pr. Copeitiud Speak*. Hew cheering end refreshing to hear these wordv from Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, ijii speaking of this state's high iodine content of fruits and vegetables: uf Ikonsider this the most valuable discovery of the I Mist 10 yeans. South Carolina should be the richest state in the nation, if its people will take full advantage of this discovery." The Country Weekly. As an advertising force, the eojiiy try weekly is. regarded by many prominent manufacturers as the lead ing medium in America. Although there are still many who have not discovered its possibilities, it does hold a unique position among periodicals. A writer has listed a number , < of the advantages of the community paper. His points follow: "At one sitting the overage reader scans all the pages of the local paper. No other publication has ell its pages read as carefully by so large a percentage of its leaders. "There is no publication that reaches so many families in ? given trade territory us does the local puper. No other is read! by as many people for each subscriber. The whole family reads it. "An advertisement in the local paper backs up the sales effort of the local retailer far more effectively than any other medium." For these reasons the country weekly is able .to serve, not only the advertisers, hut every worthy cAuho for the betterment of the entire country.?Monroe Enquirer. Columbia city officials are all worked up because a local newspii|>er cammentwi on the fact that liquor oould be purchased in the capital city and that gambling joints were operated without interference. What is the sense in this pretended astonishment and excitement? When has there been a time when one could not get a drink and a game in Columbia or any other South Carolina town possessing more than four streets? ? Sumter Item. Trouble about motoring on the highways at night is, you never know which is more dangerous: the headlights all lit up, or the man at the wheel in the same fix, says the Spartanburg Journal. An Old, Old Story. Tex Rickard was supposed to be a genius at making money out of prize lights. When he died suddenly at Miami last winter, leaving a widow and young child, his fortune was believed to bo considerable. His heirs were reported to be "fixed for life." Six months later, however. Mrs. Rickard announces that ?he is penniless. What money her husband left has been squandered by "friends" and advisers. .She has to go to work to earn a living for herself and child. It's an old,. oki story that becomes no leas poignant by nepititkm. Even where an estate is wisely administered, it often shrinks to -nothing in -a .short while because it is not human nature to protect another's money as well as one will protect one's own. But where a widow's mite is left to the discretion of "friends" it melts with the readiness of an ice cream cone under an August sun. Presto, and it is gone! &>me of Tex Rickard's assets, such as the dog-track, were ephemeral. Yet out of his rich earnings -he must Itavc had much that could have boor, preserved for his wife arid child. Had be been a wise man he would hav?? laid aside enough to provide for his family after death, regardless of the disposition of questionable assets. "I/ay up for yourselves treasures m heaven"?yes, and lay up for your wife and children treasures that you have earned on earth for them, in safe hands and where thieves cannot break in ami steal them.?Greenville News. Ruth Elder, woman -aviator, w?hc attained more or less fame a year 01 two ago when she attempted to flj across the Atlantic, and has beer more or less in the public eye sinc< that time, through her flying, divorc ing her husband and in the movies, ii soon to be married again. In an address to the state oonven (ion of Jr. O. U.. A. M., at Higl FVint, on Tuesday, Congressman Ab ertiathy, of Now Bern, declared tha the labor troubles in North Oarolm were largely due to lack <of greate b ( restriction of immigration by th r.f. v Law* ojf-the United States. 111 . . . J. I ll'IH What Cherokee in Doinf, Seven Cherokee county farmers, along with K. K. Johnson, enterprise ing citizen, of GafFney, have agreed to plant at least five acres each in vegetables and truck for the next five years to guarantee produce for a cannery to bq establish^! in GafFney, according to the Ledger. Mr. Johnson who senses the poselbllitiea of demand for South Carolina vegetables and products onoe the world knows of their heavy iodine content and health giving properties, has been endeavoring to get 100 Cherokee county farm* era to "sign up" with him to embark in vegetable growing on a moderate scale. He thinks even the eight who agree to produce vegetables will bo sufficient to justify the establishment of a cannery. Mr. Johnson is a pioneer in the field of diversification that should develop advantages and profits, not only to those vitally concerned, buj. all farmer* and truckers of his county.?Spartanburg Journal. How They Get Started "Mister, how about a job?" a young man inquired as he came into The inquirer office. "Well, what can you do?" I asked him. "Oh, almost anything," was th" ready reply. j Further questioning revealed that i the young fellow had not.finished the seventh grade. Still by his own admission he was qualified to do almost anything. It may appear strange to the public, but I believe countrf newspaper editors will bear me out in the assertion, that printers and reporters are rarely hired. A small boy drifts into the print shop. On Saturdays, holidays, and afternoons after school makes himself useful running errands, sweeping the floor, carrying "a paper route," and doing many odd jobs. If the kid likes the work?and most of 'em do ?he arrives at the stage of printer's devil. The printer's devil's hands are nearly always gummy with ink and his face streaked with the same stuff. The "devil" learns a lot in the printing office. In time he becomes a press feeder, gets a little time now and then at a linotype keyboard, and almost before it is realized he makes himself indispensable. The same thing applies to a news gatherer. Such a person is rarely hired, but makes for himself a place on the staff be it a weekly or metropolitan newspaper. The Enquirer has half a dozen or more young men making their living off the newspaper or job department. I dare say none of them can recall the time they were hired. Somehow or other all of 'em oozed in and got on the payroll.?Monroe Enquirer. Dodging The Issue. The automobile has brought much pleardre to the American people. Rut it has also brought one of our most serious problems. Every year thousands of people are killed and maimed in automobile accidents of various sorts. The majority of the casualties result from carelessness and incompetence. There are few unavoidable accidents. It would seem a simple matter to enforce adequate driving laws, and when tried, it has proven that this reduces the accident rate. It would seem equally simple to withhold operating licenses from persons too ignorant or too incompetent to drive a car with ordinary ability. Yet we go far out of the way for our cures and produce such legislative boomerangs as compulsory liability insurance. And, in the meantime, while such panaceas dismally fail, the death record mounts. We are a careless people in many ways. And oCfr lack of safety consciousness causes untold waste in | lives and property. Until we follow the obvious course and tench prevention. modernize traffic laws and bar the reckless and incompetent from the highways, the toll of automobile deaths will mount. Negro Confesses Murder. Jackson. Miss., August 24.?John Smith, 22-year-old negro confessed to the murder here Friday afternoon of R. A. Reeves, grocer, according to 1 information received from Chief of Police Simons, of Jackson, who went to Hammond, La., to return the negro ' here. 7 General Sanders Dead. 1 Berlin, August 24.?Field Marsha: 5 Li man Von Sanders, who directed Of) erations against the British in Galli * poli during the Workl war, diec Thursday at Munich. Ho was aged 74 Hell, for the garage mechanic, wi! 1 be a plnce where he can't find velour to wipe his hands on. a Richmond News-1 render?It is saf< r to say that Comdr. Byrd and Wa tnei e in the Antarctic have not adopted pa jamas for street wear. LARGK KAN8A8 FARM _ I ^ncludev Fifty Square Mi lea nd Pr<> duces Much Wheat Hays, Kan.?Imagine a train of 200 freight cars filled with grain from m single farm project covering! more than 50 square miles, 'l'hat degree of mass production fia$ been achieved in 10 northwea^prn Kansas counties by the Wheat Fajnp? ing company, a $1,500,000 corporation, which owns and farms 82,000 J acres. Without using a sfngte horse, the concern this year is harvesting a grain crop, mostly wheat, that probably will total 400,000 bushelsenough to fill more than 200 freight cars. A yield of nearly 300,000 bushels of wheat ulono is assured. This company, whose stockholders exceed 800 and include retired farmers, doctors and field workers, has pioneered in large scale production in the wheat belt. It is the largest farm] project in Kansas and probably in the entire southwest. ! J. S. Bird of Hays, where the world's largest farm experiment station is located, is the company's pres- j ident. Formerly a college chemistry ] professor, he has a background of years of experience in Kansas dry farming. I | Experts manage the gigantic fac-1 tory-like enterprise. The land is di- ] vided into units of approximately 5,-] 000 acres, with a foreman in charge of each. A production manager, a specialist in soil management and machine farming, supervises operations. Grain is sold under the direction of a scale manager. The concern's equipment Includes 22 tractors, 11 combined harvesterthreshers and swathers, several heavy trucks and a proportionate amount of other machinery. That outlay is capable of cutting and threshing upwards of 2,000 acres of wheat daily. The swather, a new machine in the wheat belt, is used because it cuts grain at an earlier stage than is possible with a combine. Cut stalks are strung out in long windrows by a swather and combines thresh it a few days later. So efficient are production methods on this farm that wheat can be raised~for less than half the amount] common to unorganized farming. The ] company's cost accounting system shows $4.64 per acre as the cost of production. Most Kansas farmers list $10 for that expense. I Last year the company paid a dfvi-1 dend of 12.5 per cent. A dozen similar concerns are being organized in j efforts to equal that record. j Dr. J. B. Lewis, negro dentist of Greenville, was instantly killed and his body burned to a crisp, when his automobile turned over and caught ] fire with the doctor pinned under-1 neath, five miles south of Union Tuesday afternoon. He passed a car | on a curve and lost control of his] machine. His neck was broken. I Fox Hunters Elect Officers For Year Columbia, August 21.?More than] TO members of the South Carolina Fox Hunters' association met today] at the chamber of commerce to elect] officers for the ensuing year. Mayor ] Jj. B. Owens welcomed the hunters to Columbia for their annual meeting in] a short talk which preceded the business session. William Legarc, of Charleston, was ] elected president; R. R. Shaw, of Bishopville, vice president, and Fred Marshall, of Columbia, was elected secretary and treasurer. Directors elected were: John E. Dreher, Irmo; T. M. Watts, Columbia; George T. Little, Camden; Dr. J, E. Cornwell, Chester; J. J. M. Graham, Gates, : and C. Y. McCants, Cameron. Kills Man on Complaint. Forest City. Ark., Aug.22.-Cl.-m Summers, an enraged father, kil.i-d T. K. IVivitt, under indictment on a statutory charge, in the corridor . f Bthe St. 1- rancia county court hou?c hero, sr. i-tly before his case was called to trail. Summer's daughter was the complaining witness against l'-i' vitt. LABOR DAY EXCURSION^ ; to WASHINGTON, D. C. Saturday, August 31st. Limited to readh ~ original I starting point by midnight of . September 5. Following round . trip fares from principal points I Camden $12.00 Columbia 13.00 Kershaw 12.00 l Tickets good on all regular r trains except Crescent Limited Nos. 37 and 38. :_r_ Spend Labor Day in the Nae tional Capital. , ? * For furtihef information and - reservations see Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY , -t - t"T '- jfe GENERAL NEWS NOTES Gus. O. Nations of 8t. Louis, Mo., farmer Federal prohibition chief, has entered suit agatnttt Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandft, former assistant attorney general for $1,000,000, Vdlcgmg libel. A news feature company is mode a co-defendant hi the suit. England'* Schneider cup air race entrant, the Super- Marine 66, in trials this week attained .a speed of 320 to 360 in ilea per hour. Attorney General Mitchell has uni nouneed that he has submitted to the budget bureau, plans for new Federal prisoners to cost $0,250,000. Senator HI case was one among the few senators who were present in Washington on Monday for the re[ opening of the suspended senate sesI sion. Kiffin Gossett, 55, night wutchman at the Edi?to Hardwood company's plant at Springfield, was killed Tuesday when he was struck by a freight train about 2 .o'clock in the afternoon. He was a Spanish-American war veteran. The New York health commissioner, after investigating ninety odd lipsticks used by women and girls, says that at least nine of these contain a poison that is liable to cause a highly irritating skin trouble. "The Hermitage," historic homestead of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tenn., had a narrow escape from destruction by fire Friday night. The stable nearby was burned by fire of unknown origin. Three of seven members of the crew of a giant British airplane were killed at Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, ( when the machine crashed shortly after its takeoff. The other four were seriously injured. Two passengers and the pilot of / German plane were killed at Fulda, Prussia, Saturday when the machine crashed in a fog. Two other passengers were injured. , The criminal courts of North Carolina disposed of 16,810 cases during the fall and spring terms of court, 1'. 28-20. There were 11,946 convictions. j I Cuban Convicted. Havana, Aug. 22.?Life imprisonment is imposed upon Benito Carrasco Garcia, 22, convicted by the supe- m rior court of altering numbers on a j ticket in the Cuban national lottery. Killed by Fall From Truck. - Greenwood, Aug. 24.?Mrs. Nellie j Ward Fooshee, 53, of Ohappells, was killed this afternoon "when the truck on which she was riding with her husband and two children turned over on the Phnppells-Cross Hill highway. She suffered a broken neck and other injuries and died instantly. The others were not hurt. t ? i Executed Promptly. Mexico City, August 26.?Twelve hours after their band of eighty held " up an electric car between Santa Anna and Santa Cruz, TIacala, and escaped with a $4,000 payroll, Rober.to Diaz, Dionosio Nava, and another Unidentified bandit, were shot by a y firing squad. NOTICE All persons are hereby notified that . 1 have posted my pond against flshng and all trespassing and hereby reI fjke all privileges previously given. B. H. BOYKIN, Ow ner. I Wants?For Sale ? ?- ' ' ] LOST?.One silver Dunehill cigarette lighter. Thought to have been lost on east DeKalb street in this city. Reward if returned to The Chronicle office. 23pd. LOST Black and tan wire-haired puppy. Reward if returned to 1904 Lyttleton street, Camden, S. C. 23-pd. LET US PLACE a New Majestic Radio in your home on Free Trial. No obligation. The Camden Furni "f m rAKEN UP?One young bay -mare J was taken up at my place Monday night. Has three marks on hip, two on foreleg. Address Isaac Patterson, Route 3, Box 86A, Camden, S. C. 23pd : U RT aTnS TR^xJlIE IV?"Anyone wishing curtains stretched please apply at 904 Campbell street, city, prices reasonable. 19-tf j rTW^TllTirKENT ^reenGrid'Sadio ?Electro-Dynamic, of coux*se. W.O. Hay, dealer, Camden, S. C. 22-23-sb ! | 'OK SALE?One good used Parlor' Organ, guaranteed to be O. K. Will sell on easy terms to reliable person. The Camden Furniture Co. 20-tf. | ^OR SALE?One Blightly used Player Piano in fine condition. Used lesB than one year. Will sell at a real bargain. Terms can be arranged, if desired. The Camden Furniture Co. 20-tf tTWATER KENT Screen Grid Radio ?'Electro-Dyroamic, of course. W.O. Hay, dealer, Camden, S. C. 22-23-sb * ^ARPlWTKRING-^iohn S." ^MyerJ, phone 268, 812 Church 1 Street, Camden, S. C., will giv.e satisfactory service to all for all kinds of cai^penter work. Building, general repairs, screening, cabinet making and repairing furniture. My workmanehip is my reference. 1 I solicit your patronage. Thank- j ing you in advance. 50 tf. iVANTED?you to hear the New Majestic Radio. It's truly wonderful. The Camden Furniture Co. 20-tf WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-so WANTED?you to know that the the world has gone MAJESTIC. You can not buy a better radio at any price. The Camden Furniture Company. 20-tf FOR RENT?Four room cottage or Broad Street. Apply to L. A. Witt.kowsky, Camden, S. C. 40-tf ture Co, i 29-tfS P ASTURAGE?Cattle will be iM cepted for pasturage at Guignarifl Farm. Excellent river pasture*. For rateB apply to W, P. McClirt, I Ranger, phone 148, Camden, S. C. I Never send children back to school without being certain that their I eyes are in perfect condi- I tion, for poor, sight or eye- I strain. Impairs the gamers/ / health and always mate I school work more dtltV* 1 cult. , . I Why (handicap your child? # Let us examine his eyes?it costs- you nothing and may warn you in time to avoid mudh trouble later on. THE HOFFER COMPANY Jewelers and Optometrists KILLH - FIIm?No?qailOM~Bfldlw|i-RMebM?ModN~A?to>-|||li !' V?lMrbii|?~Crtelw(i and mmny other IniteH /W iooUtip MfaCotwiich fTjij MM* | - I ?? ? U jTMir dMdw MUOI hnltl^ w* win tippler dlret bp PvmI r*M I r?|mUr jriam Gua?25c SOUTH CAROLINA IODINE PRODUCTS FRESH DAILY 92C BROAD ST. * ?t???? + ?1 The Hunting Season Is On. j I have hunting land for sale and lease that furnishes good duck and quail shooting. Large and small tracts located near the following places: ?T o . Camden, S. C., Georgetown, S. C., Charleston, S. C, Beaufort, S. C. Also at Moorehead City, N. C., and on Psmplico Sound*? North Carolina Coast. Hunting Parlies taken out by appointment from Hotels at Camden. S. C. u Also have for sale.two attractive old Southern I plantation homes. Fine old-time residences on 9 each. ? 9 B. D. BOYKIN . I BOY KIN,S. C. H Telephone and Telegraphic Address:v Camden, S? C. |