The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 20, 1929, Image 4
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.
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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.
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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
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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 ?
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Abruzzi Rye Seed;
Good and sound seed-^
from heavy yielding crop.
. Price $2.00 per Bushel -v
L Schenk & Company
Gamden, S. C.
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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
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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?
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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
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I NOTICE 1
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I Kershaw County Taxpayers - |1
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| 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;
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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
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