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fHE CAMDEN CHRONICLt H. D. NILB8. .Editor lid PiUlikir Published every N?Tll09 Broad Street and enteraa at tha Cam den, South Carolina poatoffloe u second clai*. mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Camden, 8. C., Friday. Sept. 20, 192$. Keep Advertising. It is passing strange that many merchants, after upending hundreds of abllare in advertising their businesses and building up the salt's of their goods, will sometimes reach the point where they think they can cut their advertising down or stop it entirely, and continue to reap the bene, fits derived from their advertising in the past. It can't be done. Most of the older readers of this paper can well remember that a generation ago "St. Jacob's Oil'v was always a household word. The advertising of St. Jacob's Oil was to Inseen everywhere and great quantities of the remedy were sold all over America. When the owner of the business Anally died, an "expert" took charge and trimmed the advertising appropriation that had sold the oil. Orders dwindled AA'-t;he advertising contracts ran out. Today one never hears of St. Jacob'e Oil. Likewise i\ quarter of. a century ago "Pyle's PearUne" was sold all over America. It was the popular washing powder of our mothers. Twenty-Ave years ago the makers of P^arline spent half a million dollars a year advertising powder. It sold in great quantities and the business was very profitable. Believing that it could go on its reputation its makers began "saving" (?) on its advertising bills. I)o you ever hear of Pearline today? No. It is not on the market any more. The plant where it was made was sold for junk in 11)14. Killing off the advertising appropriations killed both of these businesses. It has killed scores of others. It pays to advertise?it doesn't pay to quit advertising. Any busi- 1 ne?s that is not worth advertising is not worth fooling with.?Yorkville Enquirer. Never Seen by Woman. So far as records show, no woman of any nice has ever seen or set foot on the icy shores of Antarctica, says ? Dr. E. E. Free. And another opportunity to be among the Arst women to set foot on the antarctic continent has just been denied the feminine sex. Next winter, which is the summer season in Antarctica, Sir Douglas Mawson, distinguished Australian explorer, will lead another scientific expedition to that continent. More than a score of women scientists applied for places jn the expedition but were denied the privilege solely because it was feared the scheduled ?led travel, mountainrdalimbing- and die like would prove too strenuous for them. Before long, however, it is expected that a scientific woman will he admitted to some exploring party or will get up one of her own for the purpose of visiting this last of the unknown continents. But until that actually happens it will bo interesting to speculate as to just how famous the first woman to visit Antarctica may become.?The Pathfinder. Rare and Refreshing. A story in local papers to the effect that a Spartanburg man whose parked automobile fenders were scraped by some unimpiwn motorist found pinned to his machine an envelope containing a. courteous note and a five dollar bill to make restitution for the damage, made a reading matter decidedly out of the ordinary. That any one, homefolks or strangers who operates a car would display courtesy, consideration or any semblance of recognition of the rights or property of others, is rather surprising. The incident provoked the following comment from the Anderson Daily Mail: "In this day of boorish drivers, who serin to take a special delight in violating everv principle of decency and good manners once they are In-hind a steering wheel, it is <! lighttul indeed to find one motorist at least, who- still retains the traces of good manners and politeness, even though he drives an automobile.? Spartanburg Journal. Do you know that South Carolina last year spent more for automobiles gasoline, oils, tires, etc., than the total value of the cotton crop including the seed? Well, that is true. Cotton may have been king in this state once, but it is the automobile and trimmings that is sitting on the financial throne today.?Yorkville Enquirer. Detroit New??Children under 16 years of ago are forbidden admission to many theatres in Argentina. Here you have to be under 16 to understand Rome of the plots. ~T ~ " HUy of Sentence. An Alabama circuit Judge protests to the governor of that state against the granting of stay* of sentence against a notorious lawbreaker. Thin man has been convicted 19 times in six courts in Alabama and is now under a twelve months' sentence at hard labor for vagrancy, imposed by the protesting judge. That jurist has good grounds for protest. That many convictions by juries in different courts clearly establishes the fact that the offender is a criminal, and yet the fact that time and again he has escaped doing time, due to executive interference by staya of sentence, would indicate that court convictions have no dread for him. He outwits and defeats the ends of justice, It is instances of these kind that provokes editors outside of Alabama to comment on the liberality and prodigality of leniency, clemency and mercy, thut governors of states exercise toward criminals. is dif-l flcult to imagine how a. governor would consider a stay of sentence for an offender with such a record. In comment on the easo the Atlanta Constitution says: "There may yet arrive a time and a public sentiment which will strip from governors the prerogative of clemency to criminals and lodge it in some more just and reliable tribunal owing u higher respect to t*he security of the people than to the feelings of criminals.?Spartanburg Journal. An Odd Execfltion. So they took James H. Alderman into a tin airplane hangar and hanged him! It was a legal execution and a merited one because Alderman killed three men during a rum-running episode in 1927. But it was a strange sight in this day and age when exaction of the extreme penalty is usually carried out With routine swiftness in duly appointed prisons. It required 15 minutes to send the 50-year-old rum pirate to his fate on a rude scaffold. The scene was grimly reminiscent of the hanging of a first lieutenant of the regular army in one of our island possessions only a few years back. Sentenced to death by court martial, the officer was privately hanged by a sergeant in an old bam on the post where he had done his duty. The crime for which Alderman paid with his life was committed on the high seas and he was tried in the federal Courts as a pirate. The government asked that the condemned be hanged at a Florida county jail but local authorities refused. So he met his death in a Coast Guard seaplane hangar at Fort Lauderdale.? The Pathfinder. How Infantile Paralysis Begins While this is ordinarily the infantile paralysis season epidemics or threatened epidemics have not been reported in any section. Thus there is no need for alarm. But the disease is always more or less epidemic in all sections of the country and it is well for everyone to know something of the early symptoms in order to recognize it in time to begin treatment to prevent the serious .crippling that usually follows an attack. Dr. Lloyd W. Aycock of the Harvard medical school has made an extensive study of the disease and it is his belief that in early diagnosis lies the best hope of preventing the wasting paraysis. Infantile paralysis, he says, usually begins abruptly with fever, headache and upset digestion. Other chacteristics of the early stages are uncertainty in the movements of the limbs, twitching of the muscles, and stiffness of the back (spinal column) and neck. In fact the neck becomes rigid and the victim is sometimes unable to sit up. If the serum treatment is given before destruction of the nerve cells in the spinal cord has taken place the victim has a bettor chance for recovery- -and without the usual paralysis.- The Pathtinder. Who Said Hard Work? W? have been trying hard to believe that times are hard. Everybody says they are, and we have surely found them so. But the facts do not sustain the belief. The state highway department says that 12,000 more automobiles have been registered this yeas than last, and that by January 1 the increase is expected to reach 10.000. We can't reconcile these two conditions. Somebody ia wrong; if neither is wrong, can soese one please give us a proper and acceptable explanation? ? Bamberg Herald. Dick Gallogly, Oglethorpe student who was given a life sentence in connection with the "thrill slaying" of an Atlanta druggist last year, has been sent to the Muscogee county, Georgia, chain gang. He was transferred to the gang because he was causing trouble at the state prison farm at Milledgeville. 'Li V-? COTTON. Char lotto Observer. The longer we live the more we know ebout cotton?but not about the way# of the cotton market. The people of a hundred yearn hence are not likely to know 'more about that than do the people of the present day. But of cotton and the possibilities thereof, knowledge is of the progressive kind. Time was when the cotton seed at the gin was regarded a a much of a nuisance as the saw dust pile at the mill waa and yet is, and much as the people have learned of the developed value of the by-product of cotton, they are by no means at the end of the chapter. The automobile is putting the horse in the background, and it would appear that vegetable fats are invading the kingdom where lard ,prreigned supreme. The facts are produced by the Proctor & Gamble corporation that recently added three oil concerns to its -string of 17 subsidiaries, Jt he outstanding developments being tnat this year as much as $176*, 000,000 worth of "vegetable fats from cotton seeds will be consumed by the people Of this country. This represents a poundage of 5,<>91,000,000 more than half of which will be used in cooking. Jt was something like 48 years dgo that the nuisance of cotton seed was abated in practical manner, for it was then that the cotton seed oil mill was developed, a pioneer in this work having been Dan A. Tompkins, of Charlotte. Since then the procOss of pressing cotton seed oil has been greatly perfected. Three materials are obtained from the seed. From the meats, the oil is pressed, After the oil is extracted the cake or meal is left for live stock food. Besides the meats are the hulls and linters. The former become ingredients in the preparation.of potash and acetones, in fertilizer and cattle feed. Fibers from the hulks are used to stuff horse collars , for blotting paper stock and in explosives. The litifers become part of writing paper, varnishes, cellulose and lacquers. It is estimated that cotton seed and its immediate products arc put to as many as 150 major manufacturing uses. With but small exception, the entire output of cotton seed oil is used for edible purposes, a change that has come into the industry in the few years since the perfection of the hydrogenation process, an achievement of chemistry which changes the refilled oil to a eolid fat without the addition of animal stearine. Cotton seed as an asset in the economic life of the world is a recent development. And by Way of history: In India, where for 80 centuries the plant has been grown and the fiber manufactured, it was a waste product. Writings of the Greeks and Egyptians plainly indicate their knowledge of the fiber's value for 100 years before the Christian era, but without recog nition of the value of the seed. Columbus found cotton in the Western World, although not cultivated as extensively as in the East. Down to 1800. the cotton for Europe came from the Levant and the Indies, but since 1800, the inventive genius, superior farming methods and energy of American Southern planters have outdistanced the Old World growers in both quantity and quality. They now furnish the greater part of the cotton used by Great Britain and continental Europe. Virginia produced the first American cotton in 1607. Production leaped when it was planted extensively in South Carolina and Georgia about a quarter century later. In the years since then it has infused the South and is grown Westward to the Pacific Coast. Today the United States grows approximately 60 per cent of the world's cotton. While hunting in a swamp near Florence Tuesday of last week It. T. Welch found himself surrounded by rattlesnakes. He shot three of then-, having Hi. 18. and 19 rattles resjKv-tively. * a bout moving out of h>tracks. 1 he largoost of the snak? was nir.. , ,-l long and as big arour. . as a n..i: arm. Hom< Minpson, former chief police Greenville, Tenn.^-and Ma . colm M -1 w of Jacksonville, K. died in ti e electric chair at the sta1 prison a Milledgevile, Ga., Wedn? day. The pair murdered a bank ca>hier at K gsland, Ga., in February. 1928. R. E. CHEWNING Contractor and General Builder :>0 Years Experience Lot mo figure on your next building job. Floors Sanded on Request ? GENERAL NEWS NOTES John Ringling pf the Rlngling-Barnum circus, who with his three brothers started in the show business at Buracco, Wis., with $5, has recently bought out the SelU-'Floto, John Robinson, Ai (i. Barnes, and gparkea circuses and the Hagenbnck animal show. A Buenos Aires dispatch tells of the government of Argentine making a provisional . agreement with Great. Britain for the purchase of $38,000,000 worth of railroad equipment in England. Twenty-five thousand veterans of the Spanish-American war marched in u parade at Denver, Col., Tuesday, the occasion being the thirty-first annual encampment of SpanishAmerican veterans. Steve Pawlak and two companions who made their escape from the state prison at Auburn, N. Y., July 28, a gun battle with Police pf Bpffafd, Wednesday when the officers attempt, ed to arrest the trio in a stolen automobile. Pawlak was perhaps fatally I wounded. , Fourteen persons are reported to have been drowned when the Belgian steamer Estella collided with a German steamer in the river Scheldt in Holland, Tuesday. The New York police department is to institute a flying police service and will use four amphibian planes, mostly for patrolling its bathing beaches, The 63d national enenmpment of the Grand Army of the Republic irMi session at Portland, Maine, this Wf?elFr Ix?ss than 1,000 veterans marched/yty/ the parade, while 500 rode in autonpro/' biles. Jan Capps, Jr., 4 years old, kidiraJ ped five months ago from the (Capps home nt New Haven, Conn., and tafteh to Europe by the kidnapper, waa .returned to his parents Tuesday. The child was found in Danzig and was returned with funds raised by Governor Trumbull. Louis Marshall, prominent New York attorney, died Wednesday morning at Zurich, Switzerland. Mary Ann Daughman, 2 years old, wandered away from her Chicago home on Monday and when picked up by a policeman she had walked four miles, 1 PERSONAL. Mrs. H. G. Brown left Thursday for ! her home in Savannah, after a visit to Mrs. J. G. Cunningham. Miss Thelma Jackson left this past week for Jefferson City, Tenn., where She will take a business course. Gus Beleos, of the Home Furnishing Company, was in Charlotte Thursday attending a convention of North and South Carolina Victor Radio dealers. Mr. Norman H. Huckabee returned home Saturday from Paris, where he has been for the past six week?. He Iqft Sunday for his school at 'Bates bu'T-g, where he is superintendent of the consolidated school of BatesburgLeesville. One hundred thousand enumerators will be required to take the U. S. census of 1930. Since out endurance flag pole sitters and long distance aviators havet all gotten back to earth, just what is *it that they have proved, except that everything which goes up must come down ? ' Abruzzi Rye Seed; Good and sound seed-^ from heavy yielding crop. . Price $2.00 per Bushel -v L Schenk & Company Gamden, S. C. mmmmmamaaBmrnmcmuamma Memorial Doomed. Atlanta, Sept. 12.?The Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association will ni'eet tomorrow to decide the fate of this project, which has been hanging in the balance more than 12 years. It is -proposed to deed the site to the state or return it to the family which gave it to the association. Virtually all there is to see for the l^ork of Gutzon Borglum and Augustus Lukeman, and the expenditure of 'nearly $2,000,000, is a sculptured hCad of Robert E. Lee and a few stairways up the mountainside. POSTED. All persons are hereby warned against hunting, fishing, and otherwise trespassing on the lands of Mulberry and Belmont plantations. Persons disregarding this notice will be prosecuted. DAVID R. WILLIAMS, BOLIVAR D. BOYKIN. September 19, 1929. Wants?For Sale _ ^ ______ FOR RENT?Two cottages located on 1 south end of Highland avenue. Five rooms and bath with hot and cold water Front and back porch. Back yards enclosed with good wire fences. Telephone 284-W, C. C.1 Whitaker, Camden, S. C. 26-7sb FOR SALE?Hunting preserve.. .1*900 acres of land on riven Three hundred in bottoms. One dwelling, eight houses. Seven dollars an acre. Hafner & Carter, Chester, S. C. 26-28sb LOST?One pair eyeglasses, tortoise shell rims. Reward if returned' to S. J. English, ut" English's barber shop, Camden, S. C. 26sb 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. FOR RENT?Four room cottage, of "Dfoad Street. Apply to L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 40-t? 1 ?? wmm " 11} ' T| LET US PLACE a New Majstfe Radio in your home on Free TrUl I No obligation. The Camden Fund.' ture Co. 20-tf" WANTED?Men to learn to grade i and staple cotton. Good position*; We will give a course in Carodn during the next two weeks. Mail applications to Carolina CotioiT School, Suite No. 12, at 361 ft W,v Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. 24-g3?^,. FOE SALE-loue slightly Player Piano in fine condition, Uped less than one year. Will sell at a ?eal bargain. Terms can be arraog. 1 ed, if desired. The Camden Fund*, ture Co. 20-tf WANT TO RENT OR LBASE-4* small dairy and truck farm witfr good house and barn on same, dam Camdon, Will pay rent monthlyJf. desired. Address A.B.C., Camden Chronicle, Camden, S. C. 24-26pd COTTON PICKERS?I have on my plantation near Boykin several vacant tenant houses which I will let families have free of rent who care to move there during the cottoa I picking season. Apply to B. D. Boykin, Boykin, S. C. 24-27pi CURTAINS STRETCHED? Anyont wishing curtains stretched pleW apply at 904 Campbell street, city, prices reasonable. lMt-\ C ARPENTERING-^-John" S. MjiSi phone 268, 812 Church Street, i Camden, S. C., will give sitfs-1 factory service to all for aii kinds of, carpenter ...work. Building, gepetal tepairs, screening, ca^et making and repairing furniture. -i My workmanship to my Tafrmw, I solicit , your patronage. Tbauln.;, ing you in advance, ... f WANTED?you to hear the New Majestic Radio. It's truly wonderful The Camden Furnitilre Co. 20-tf WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. HigheJ cash prices paid; year round dfl mand. Sumter Planing Mills tnfl Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Boom Sumter, S. C. l-tf-i?I WANTED?you to that thij the world has gone MAJESTIC! You can not buy a better radio at I I any priceTTHe Camden FurnitufTj Company. 20-tf J ,-T.. , H I NOTICE 1 I I Kershaw County Taxpayers - |1 I II I n | Notice is hereby given that I have received ia?, I; | I ?t ruction# from the office of the Comptroller Gener*^ II to the effect that all unpaid back ta*es must be col. I 1 I lected at once. All property owners owing back 11 I taxes are urged to call and pay same on or before Oc. | ; I tober 1. By so doing they can save additional j I penses, as aUproperty upon which back taxes hav* j S | i not been paid will be advertised for sale after that I I i date. This applies to all unpaid back takes. I I I J. H. McLEOD, I j Sheriff Kershaw^ounty. | f LAWN GRASS SEED I , Prepare ground now and plant during October for Winter and Spring lawns, i Fresh seed, guaranteed to germingte j ^ITALIAN RYE GRASS .... 20c per pound, s 10 pounds at 18c per pound 50 pounds at ,.; 15c per jw>?nrf 100 pounds at 12c per pound ; EVERGREEN LAWN GRASS 4 qts $lM*t Larger quantities -cheaper W. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG STORE Phone 30 for Garden Seeds, Flower Seeds or Onion S?tlv; ? rj The Hunting Season Is Oil I I have hunting land for sale and lease that fur- , niahes good duck and quail shooting. Large and I smaHIy^racts located near the following places: * | Camden, S. C., Georgetown, S. C., Charleston, S. C., Beaufort, ../J Moorehead City, N. C., and on Pamplico Sound* North .'^ajrolina Coast. Hunting Parties taken out by appointment j frorn^kpU at Camden. S. C. " Also have for sale two attractive old Southern plantation homes. Fine old-time residences ottr'j?i each." ;:: B. D. BOYKIN x I BOYKIN, S. C. fl Telephone, and Telegraphic Address: Camden, S. C. i * 1 1, "J