The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 13, 1929, Image 4
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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
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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,
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BETH UN B NKW8 NOTES
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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. />*.
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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|
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I Kershaw County Taxpayers 11
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| 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
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eyes are in perfect condi-1 j
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strain impairs the general B
health and always makes B
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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.
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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.