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rHE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H? P. NllUBfl. . Editor mwTPwNUhZr P?biith?d %yery FVidajr at fto, llo5 Broad Street and antarad at the Cawdon, South Carolina pootofficc a* tocond claaa mail matter. Price par annum $2.00, payable in advance. Friday, September 13, 1929 Many Ignoring the Rules The force of 18 state highway inspectors now doing duty ae a kind of improvised highway patrol, have already discovered that there arc thousands of motorists violating the state road and traffic laws. Ahout 8,000 observed violations will be reported for the month of August, it is stated. On the first night after assuming these, duties, the inspectors found 333 cases. Yho men were stationed in various parts of the state accompanied lb practically every case by uniformed county officers. Most of the portions found violating regulations were permitted to go with warnings, hut in lit cases arrests were made. The officers are working on the policy of striving^ first to bring about observance of these regulations making arrests only where the law had been flugrantly violated, The situation would indicate tile need for some systematic and constant effort to see that highway and traffic regulations are generally observed. Violations of truffic and highway regulations, for the most part, do not in any sense involve moral turpitude. Widespread violations therefore result in greut degree simply from carelessness, bred out of,: the knowledge that nobody in particular is giving any thought to the matter of enforcing these ' regulations. When citizens, even citizens of good moral stamina, see that no ical effort is being made to enforce regulations, the tendency is to b careless ahout them and <h> about a^ one pleases, even though it is generally recognized that the regulations are proper and desirable for the pro- ' motion of safety and orderly movement of traffic. A real and sustain- ' ed effort to bring about observance < should have a remarkably beneficial effect through a great decrease in the ' number of those who have fallen into the habit of paying no attention whatever to many traffic and highway rules.?Greenville News. AN AMAZING TALE The current North American Review prints an interview with the well known A1 Capone, in which Chicago's alleged vice king is quoted as saying that he and his gang leaders have lH?en spending no less than $30,000,000 a year in Chicago to bribe legal authorities and political higherups. In his Pennsylvania prison cell Caponc has denied the'authenticity of the interview--a not entirely surprising move, often indulged in by more reputable public characters. If the interview, however. was authentic. it is one of the most amazing tilings in recent history. If one gang, in one city, uses $30,000,000 each year for bribery, corruption and misrule in this country must be infinitely more prevalent than we have dared imagine.?Hendersonvile News. ACCIDENTS AND FATIGUE One reason for many automobile accidents is tire weariness of drivers, and consequent failure to take their usual precautions. After a man has driven a car on a long trip, or driven a truck around cities and towns all day, his attention is not as good as it Was in the morning. He is more apt tq trust to luck to pull him through difficult situations. People who are traveling on long tours are foolish to extend the same too many miles. Better call it a day a little earlier, and put the car safely away Wfore it does something you are sorry for. The case of truck drivers is different. since they have certain routes to cover. F.mplnycrs should r.ot ask their men to dri\e distances longer than they can cover wit a g<>o<| responsible driving. The car that get into at. accident is apt to he an cxpon.sivc one to business. ? Rock Hi!! Record. W. ,). Rivenhack. Sampson county convict, died at Fayetteville Sunday as a result of being burned in a rolling convict cage. Reportn that a quantity of dynamite was being carried in the cage at the time has started an official investigation. Mrs. William Bartlct, of Mint Hill, N. C., is dead from a pistol shot fired into her body by her estranged husband at Charlotte Sunday. Tho man then turned the revolver upon himself with probable fatal results. Ix?widay Frederick Heckle, 31, of St. Matthews, killed himself with n shot gun on Monday of last week. Ill health was assigned as the cause. He is survived by his widow, one son and two daughters. The Mill Village Grow* (Editorial in Charlaaton New? and Courier, August 2H, |929) Last spring The Newsapd Courier mentioned that in one dr the cotton mills of South Carolina more than thirty persona living outside of the mill village, at distances ranging from one mile to nine miles from the plant, were on its payroll. The weavers, spinners, and carders mortored daily from their homes, some of them working at night. They were farmers or the sons and daughters of farmers. The number of these non-resident workers tn the Alice mMi near ley in Pickens county, of which KUi| son McKissick is president, is now seventy-four -it has more than doubled since April. Probably the increase is in part due to thtf "lay by time" on the farms in August? whereby the significance of this new movement is the greater. It means that the mill is offering an opportunity to farmers and members of their families to earn cash wages when there is no cash for them in sight. The motor and the good rouds are enlarging the "mill village," and it may be that in ten or twenty years the mills will employ thousands of workers who live far from the mill itself. That will, as we have heretofore said, break down or greatly modify the present system under which the worker is dependent for a roof as well as for wages on the company. It will greatly strengthen the independence of the working people. If the time comes when 300 of 000 of a mill's workers shall live in their own homes and the 000 call a strike, threat of eviction would have little terror for the dwellers in the company's cottages?the 300 outsiders could and would temporarily give the others shelter. While The News and Courier is not objecting to the unionization of the mill workers, it observes that mill conditions have been and are being improved through the operation of economic forces, and it is not at all ertain that this would he assisted byunions. Wages of cotton mill workers in the South have increased, relatively, at least as much, we believe, as have those of other workers, in South Carolina weekly hours of work have decreased, and if living conditions are not what they should be only an ignoramus will deny that they are much better than they were in 1900 or in 1915. The place of the cotton mill as the resort of the unsuccessful and failing fanner in South Carolina must not be interfered with. Good roads and motors are just now beginning to enlarge its usefulness to all the people. and surely if that is to the advantage of the employer it is no reason for complaint. The policy of this republic is to exploit, by legislation, labor on the farms?and the Southern mills have beep and are a method of circumventing it. in some degree, in white farm labor's behalf. Were the "closed shop" principle to be introduced in the cotton mills, the danger would arise of an open shop for negroes?capitalists would probably, in time, build mills to employ negro labor. That might not come to pass, but there would be danger of it. Killed by His Tractor. Florence, Sept. 4.?Jack Purvis, ?#4, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. PuTvis, of Pamplico, died at 4.30 ofelpck this morning at the McLeod infirmary as a result of injuries he sustained whetY a tractor he was driving turned over and upon him. Marine Convicted. Columbia. September 6.?Melvin Williamson, Marine on furlough, was convicted of murder, with recommendation to mercy, in Richland Court of General Sessions tonight for the killing of James B. Driggcs last July ..n South Marion stn \ I;o,,k> of Henry B. < rowell. vice president of the ( olumbu-, Ga., Bank and Trust company, who committed suicide last Wednesday night show that he was short $92.1 M l", in his accounts. Surety companies have paid the bank $100,000 pending final settlement of the account. A second daughter was born to Pomier and Mrs. Mussolini at Rome on Tuesday last. R. E. CHEWNING'. Contractor and G?n?ral Builder SO Years Experience Let me figure on your next building job. Floors Sanded on Request b GENERAL NEWS NOTES Fraulein Ida Von Beckendorflf Ifod Hiudenburg, sister of tho president o( Germany, died Monday following an operation in a Berlin hospital. William E. l)ever, 67, former Democratic mayor of (Chicago, died Tue?. day. He had been in declining health for tome time past. A Washington rumor of this week is to the effect tlia^ Chief Justice WilliAm Howard Taft would resign his office. President Hoover has received no word officially to that effect and the rumor is doubted. An A mei lean operated sugar plantation in Sun German, Cuba, was damaged $500,000 by fire this week. Labor Day accidents throughout the southeast lust Monday claimed 9 victims. Owen Thomas, aged 93 years, the last surviving Mexican war veteran, died in Washington Tuesday last. Angered because her mother qufes tio/jed her about her attending a barbecued-dance, Virgie Patrick, 17, committed suicide at Athens, Ga., on lust Tuesday. Ten men at Camp Perry, Ohio, on Tuesday shot perfect scores of 50 In the national matches. Six men and six women are sitting on the jury at Ixts Angeles, Cal., to try the case of the state against Mrs. Do is Pantuges on a second degree murder charge. Mrs. Mattie Kelly, 75, in jail aj Hay City, Mich., was killed Tuesday when she attempted to make her escape by climbing down a rope from the third floor of the jail. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of John Coolidge and Miss Florence Trumbull, the ceremony to occur at Plainfield, Conn., on September 23. 7Two children were killed and nine other persons were injured when it seaplane crashed into a crowd on the beach at Coney Island, New Yorlc, Saturday morning. The crash was Caused by the plane running out of I gas. Col. Charles Linbergh and his wife. Hying from New York to Winslow, Arizona, were on Saturday forced to glide to a landing at Winslow because the gas gave out and his engines went dead over the landing field. Proceedings to foreclose a mortgage of $203,000 on Des Moines university, Iowa, have been started. TTie University was closed several months ago due to a riot among the students The broadcasting station of WEA'F, New York, was put out of commission for eight hours Saturday when a bat crawled in between the "antenna condenser plates and caused a short arts* cuit. ' President Hoover is said to be considering three trips in the near future. One to Ohio to in'spect the Ohio river-' locks and dams built by the war department; to Ford's museum at Dearborn, Mich., and to K1 Paso, Texas, ;n connection with the Gadsden purchase which is to be celebrated next month by the Texas city. James "Hugs" Donovan, said to he the owner of a brewery at Union City, N. J., was shot to death on the streets of New York Saturday night as he sat at the wheel of an expensive automobile. "Grandma" Almatia Dennett, 103, took her sixth birthday airplane ride on Saturday at Chicopee, Mass. She was first given a birthday dinner at Springfield. Frederic Edward Weatherly, author of the songs, "Hoses of Picardy,5/ "The Holy City," London Bridge" and other popular numbers, died at Bath, England, Saturday, aged HI years. Wilkins Priest, 55, was rescued Saturday from the bottom of a 30-foot well where he was imprisoned for 42 hours, following a cave-in caused byquicksand. A new shaft was dug alongside the old well and theh front the new to the old shaft to reach Priest. He is said to be on the road U) complete recovery. * The 10,000-ton light cruiser Houston, was launched at Newport News, Va., on Saturday. The vessel was christened by Miss Elizabeth Hpjcombe, daughter of a former mayor of Houston, and the ceremony was witnessed by many Texans. j ' Five persons are dead and two are seriously hurt due to a collision of. a trolley car and a truck on a grade [crossing at Angola, N. Y., Sunday. William E. Brock of Chattanooga, recently appointed to the unexpired term of the late Senator Tyson of Tennc-M>c, was >worn into office yesterda\. 'ox ph Augustus Kellog, prom.cnl in New ^ nrk Democratic politic-, and manage, of Alfred E. Smith'.- first cam. gp. for governor of that ' ite, lay at Glens Falls, \ Y., ag 'i ' i years. D frank P. Wcstlake, 57. wit- 011 Satu .i.t\ night found guilty of the mil!ili ,,f Mrs. Laura B. Sutton. The jury, -eluding nine women and tnree men. n.dictated for nearly twentyfour hours. A I'.. rlin dispatch says that the owner- of the Graf Zeppelin an now con-.. 1, ring a non-stop flight a und the world, refueling the big air-? pin the an enrouto. It is believed thai fLp round-the-world flight can be m^re in 1 I days. A Harbin dispatch says that a train of the Chinese Eastern railway was blown up on Saturday, the track- nav ng been mined with nigh expli>.-.,es. Potest fires scattered over Minnesota were estimated Sunday to cover an area of 600 miles square. A young German aviator named Achgolis Bremen on Saturdav made a world's record by Using upside down for 37 minutes. The Great Pyramid of Egypt. 482 feet high, covering 13 acre.-, is the largest man-builtt structure m the world, _ W- x. - TV BETH UN B NKW8 NOTES " " *?''?' lute'eating IUm? ? Related by Our Regular Correspondent Bethune, 8. C.. Sept. 11.?A number of boys and girls are Leaving this week for different colleges in this and other states. Among them are the following: Misses Sarah Lee Heuatiss, Sara Hammond, Ruth Kstridg#* and Willine Kstridge to Winthrop; Kathryn Truesdale and Dorothy Parrott to Columbia College; Gladys Baker to Limestone College; Claudine Gardner to Lander College; Willie, Kate Clyburn to Georgia State Normal; Tom Smith, John Neil Mcl^au* rin, Fred Joaey, Kirk land Watts an4 Gordon Watts to Clemson; I*anin Saverence to Davidson College; Vance. Morgan to Uruyersity of North Or, olina; Noil Truesdale to Presbyter i lan College. The young ladies leaving to. ^ke positions as teachers in various schools are Misses Ruth Watts ta Bamberg; Mabel Watts to Sardis; Mary . Ix>uise McLaurin to Calhoun Falls; Carrie Varbrough to Lancaater; Louise Tiller to Midway.' Mrs. A. K. McLaurin and Miss Lizzie Kate Davis have returned from a visit to Calhoun Falls and Atlanta. The family of Mr. H. E. Hyatt has returned to Bethune to reside after having lived for a while in Columbia. Mrs. G. E. Brant, of Bamberg, spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Ward. Mrs. G. B. McKinnon, of Lancaster, i.-, spending some time with her mothi-r, Mrs. W. A. McDowell, who has lecently undergone a tonsil operation. Mr. Sapp who has been supplying at the Presbyterian church during the summer months, returned to Atlanta last week to resume his studies ut the Presbyterian Theological Seminary.' During his short stay here he made many friends. The Rev. M. B. Gunter who has served as pastor of the Baptist church h? re for almost eight years is leaving for his new field and will be located at Jefferson. He has endeared himself not only to the Baptist people. hut all denominations, who deeply regret to see him leave. Mr. and' Mrs. I.. D. Robertson have been -pending a few days with their j.'i. \V. N. Robertson, in Laurinburg, N. M i s > e > Rosa Lee and Maggie 1 '.elds have returned from a visit to ielativc> in Lamar. Mrs. Oswald Campbell and baby of i amden are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. Brannun. Mrs. R. L.- Church and children returned Monday from Baltimore where Mr. Church underwent an operation for appendicitis a few days ago. His friends will be pleased to learn that his condition is favorable. Last Friday evening in the high school building an informal reception was given in honor of the teachers by the parent-teachers' association. The new principal of the high school; Mr. R. Broadus Parker, presided. Mr. J. 1). Lafitte spoke appropriate words of welcome to the teachers. The response to the welcome was made by Mr. J. C. Foster, the superintendent of the schools. Special music was given by Dr. E. Z. Truesdell and Miss Kathryn Truesdell. Punch and wafers were served by the officers of the association. Hairy Vetch. E\ery farmer in Kershaw County is urged to sow at least some hairy vetch this fall. Be sure to try it if no more than one acre advises Henry 1). Green, the county agent. We have already placed about three tons of seed in the county. Hairy vetch is excellent for putting humus and nitrogen in the soil, increasing crop yields and building up run-down soil, and making good sOjk still h? tter. If you intend to farm next year you should sow vetch. Sow it on stubble land, in corn or cotton middles. Be sure to inoculate theseed. Seed may be had from almost any seed house?Mixson and company, of Charleston; Wm. G. Scarlett and company, of Baltimore, and others have these seed for sale. In .Holland all given names aftefc the first are taxed. />*. ! j-j-j-j j r - r rr r j-j j- f j r j- _r . j LIST US PLACE a N*w -Majeaticl Radio in your home oVi Free Trial. No obligation. The Camden Fran^i ture Co. 20utf FOR RENT?Four room cottage or* Broad Street. Apply to L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 40-tf FOR 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. Wants?For Sale FIGEOnTnEEd'FoiTsATE?Spec i a 1 price on Purina pigeon feed, at Ithame Brothers, Telephony 92, Camden, S. C. 25-pd LOST?In front of school house, oil Thursday, an Indian leather pencil bag, containing a Shafer pen, two pencils, pen staff, etc. Finder please return to Mrs. Hughey Tindal, Fair street, Camden, S. C. 25sb STRAYED?From my farm near ' * Camden on September 8, one black and white female fox hound. Re ward if found. George T. Little, . Camden, S. C. 25pd for' in perfect condition, will sell at a bargain. Address "Car," care of The Camden .Chronicle, Camden, S. C. 25 pd. LOST?Between Camden and Bethel church on Flat Rock road, August i 24, a purse containing a lady's goldband fountain pen; a check book on 1 "The Peoples Bank of Monck's Cor- ! ner"; two $1 bills; some change; a i trunk key; package of Standback; 5 kodak pictures and several other j items. Return to Mrs. W. L. Ogburn, Kershaw, S. C. WANTED?Men to learn to grade and staple cotton. Good positions. We will give a course in Camden , during the next two weeks. Mail applications to Carolina Cotton School, Suite No. 12, at 301V4 W. ; Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. 24-27sb RADIO BARGAINS?We have a few real bargains in battery operated Atwater Kent sets. These sets have been used but are in fine working condition. W. O. Hay, local Atwater Kent dealer. 24-25s& FOR SALE?One slightly used Player Piano in fine condition. Used less th^an one year. Wrill sell at a real bargain. Terms can be arranged, if desired. The Camden Furniture Co. 20-tf PIGEON FEED FOR SALE.?Special *&price on Purina pigeon feed, at Jthame Brothers, Telephone 92, irCamden, S. C. 25-pd ^WATEITKENT RADIO OWN>{jERS, ATTENTION? Owners of l*'Model 37 and 40 sets we can give you a good trade-in proposition for .one of the new Screen-Grid Electro ^Dynamic sets for a limited time. j'?W. O. Hay, local Atwater Kent Dealer. 24-25sb j want" to rent or LEASE?A ifsmall dairy and truck farm with ygood house and barn on same, near JfCamden. Will pay rent monthly if /desired. Address A.B.C., Camden /Chronicle, Camden, S: C. 24-26pd COTTON PICKERY?I have on my plantation near .fJoykin several vacant tenant houses which I will let families have free of rent who care to move there during the cotton picking season. Apply to B. D. Boykin, Boykin, S. C. 24-27pd FOR SALE?All electric lamp socket model 37 Atwater Kent set complete. Modernistic design. A real bargain. Only $60. Apply to W. O. Hay, Atwater Kent dealer, Camden, S. C. 24-25-sb , C U RT A IN S STRETCHED?Anm*.? J wishing curtains stretched plea*? apply at 904 Campbell street, <it).? prices reasonable. ^ CARPEN1ERING?John b. Mytril i phone 2<>K, HI 2 Church SUeeb? Camden, S. C., will give satis.? factory service to all for all kind?! of carpenter work. ' Building! general repairs, screening, cabinet? making and repairing furniture,? My workmanship is ray refers?, I solicit your patronage. Thank-H1 ing you in Advance. 50 tf.? ATWATER KENT screen grid elee-H tro dynamic sets give more volume? than you need without the use of H| an aerial. See us about this. W?| can surprise you. W. 0. Hay, loci!? Atwater Kent Dealer. 24-256? WANTED?you to hear the New M? j jestic Radio. It's truly wonderfo?} The Camden Furniture Co. 20? | WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Hightfl! cash prices paid; year round d<?! mand. Sumter Planing Mills sol? Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Boot? Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-A? WANTED?you to know that ti? the world has gone MAJESTI? You can not buy a better radio I? any price. The Camden Furnitw? Company. 20-? NOTICE 1| ?c I Kershaw County Taxpayers 11 j^H r ' ' w ^ Y'| | Notice it hereby given that I have received in- I I I ^etruction* from the office of the Comptroller Gener*) j I to the effect that all unpaid bach taxes^fmsst be col- | ji, I lected at once. All property ownert owing bach j j ; I taxes are urged to call and pay same on or before Oc- j | I tober 1. By so doing they can save additional ex- II 1 senses, as all property upon which back taxes have I j;j I npt been paid will be advertised for sale after that j i I date.''- This applies to all unpaid back takes. , #|j I J. H. McLEOD, I I Sheriff Kershaw County. II Never send children I back to school without be-1 ing certain that their I j eyes are in perfect condi-1 j tion, for poor sight or eye- I \ strain impairs the general B health and always makes B school work more diffi- B I Why (handicap your B child? Let us examine B his eyes?it costs you B nothing and may warn B you in time to avoid mudh B trouble later on. 1 | THE HOFFEH ^M COMPANY Jewelers and B Optometrists B The Hunting Season Is On t I have hunting land for sale and lease that fur- j | niShes good duck and quail shooting. Large and small tracts located near the following places: - H Camden, S. C., Georgetown, S. C., Charleston, S. C., B^nufort?- V S.'Ci * Also at Moorehead City, N. C., and on Pamplico Sound, North Carolina Coast. Hunting Parties taken out by appointment ;Bs from Hotels at Camden* S. C. ~'t7, Bh Also have for sale two attractive old Southern plantation homes, Fine old-time residences on ? each. <?f. B. D. BOYKIN ^ ROYKIN, S. C. w I Telephone and Telegraphic Address: Camden, S. C.