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rU? CAMDEN CHRONICLE 0. D. NILK8. .Editor Bad PaMUher ?? ?* a* ?* PuWished every Friday at No. 1X09 Broad Street and entered at the Cam* den, South Carolina poatoffice aa second class mail matter. Price per annum |2.00, payable in advance. Friday, November 29, 1929 In looking over our files of thirty years ago, compiling our feature of "Looking Backward," we quite often run across the admonition to farmers to "diversify." It is an age old warning. But cotton production has been for all these years the sole aim of our farmers. The past three years, with near crop failures and with boll weevil taking an active part in cutting down the cotton ?rop, looks like it is time to begin along another Hne. The present county agent, Mr. Henry U. Green, is exerting ,every effort to get our county on a different agricultural program. To our mind, Mr. Green is the most conscientious agent Kershaw county has ever had. He is a product of Ciemson College, ,Recognized as one of the greatest agricultural colleges of the South. Its graduates are in demand everywhere. Mr. Green went towthe middle west where we learn during his stay, he accomplished great good and put many a farmer on the road to success. He came back to his native state at a loss in salary. He is working day and night, and spending his own money to put this county on a safe and sane farming, basis. 11c deserves the encouragement and cooperation of all the farming element. And we confidently believe if the farmers will follow his advice we will see a better farming condition in this'county. BUTTER FROM IOWA " The next time you send to your grocer for a "stick of butter, the chances 'are pretty strong that you will receive the product of Iowa dairies, for Iowa lust year produced more commercial butter than all of the New England, Middle Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Mountain states combined, so we are told. Yet many people will tell you that there is no room for dairy development in South Carolina. Commenting on this situation, The. State says^ "There is hardly a grocery store in a town or at an important crossroad or railway station in the country where the butter produced in Iowa or one of Iowa's close neighbors is not for sale."?Bamberg Herald. SHOULD BE WELL PAID. The importance of county and home agents' work is stressed in an editorial which appeared in the November 15 issue of the Southern Planter. The Southern Planter feels that county and home agents should not only be placed in every county but that the agents should be paid higher saliiries than they are now being paid and the funds should be appropriated entirely by the state and Federal governments. The editorial follows: "The county and home agents must be mote than purveyors of knowledge of the farm and home. They must be diplomats as well. The study of human nature is their greatest study. It must be necessarily bo. They come ,in contact with many people?all different. Their lot is not easy. Their work is of inestimable value. "The important place occupied by the county and home agents is fully realized by most thinking people. Yet, too frequently they must approach the county officers annually And ask for a continuance of their work.* If their work is worthy of the price, and it is, it should not be necessary for them to expend their time and energy in an attempt to secure an appropriation from the county for another year. The work should To made permanent. The best agent should be placed where he is needed most rather than in the county that -can afford to pay the largest salary. Tho poor county usually needs a good agent more than a rich county, yet it cannot pay as much. "An increased salary for the agents should he paid by the State and Federal governments. The work is no longer in an experimental stage. It has prosed its worth beyond a shadow of a doubt. If it good for one county, it is good for all. A county and home agent should lie placed in every county. The county -Mould cd.tribute a part of the ex-| l>en>e "f travel and office operation but the sal:r y'should be provided by i he State and Federal governments. The work should he made permanent. "In some of the states the legislatures will soon convene. In each of these states a bill should 1h> passed placing a county and home agent in every county, with larger salaries paid by the State and Federal governments. Nothing less should l>e accepted in view of the great work the agents have done." Sleep or Jump A New Yorker in Camden a few days ago says there have been so many suicides in that city since the stock market crash that hotel clerks when guests call for a room put this question to them: "Sleep or jump?" - ~ ' 'as v ?1^?pjjwwpmwi ? wwnawwi.viFtfi i mi "CERTAIN RICH MEN" Three rich men have done in these panic days whet rich men ere not Buppoeed to do. At some risk of a mement they heve come to the aid of poorer men. Mr. Rockefeller did it by announcing at e crucial moment of selling that he wan buying utocke; Mr. Hoaenweld did it by guarantee* ing the margin accounts of all hie employes; Mr. Ford did it seeking a dip for general business by announcing a cut in the price of his automobiles. From each of therfe act* the man responsible will take certain advantages. That is fair enough. The point is that "certain rich men" showed that they also have a public conscience which their, radical foea axiojuatically deny them.?New York Evening Post. I SI | _ t THE MARE-FOOT HOY. In this speedy age we wonder if the growing boy doesn't mias a great deal that formed an essential part of the life of the boy of a former generation. How many lads in their teens today have experienced thty pangs and aches and cOrtvutStons attendant on eating green apples filched from a neighbor's trees? How many huve surfeited on wild plums? What do they know of blpck-bery picking time, when for weeks there was the usual itinerary to the brambles and briars or pastures and bottom lands with the admonition: "Return not with an empty pail." How the chiggerB would bite and even the cow ticks now and then had a trick of embedding themselves in secret parts And where can you find a boy today who knows from actual experience what a "stone bruise'' is?yAsk the man of middle age what knows about that dreadful ordeal of ban*- j foot days. Nowadays the foot iA | protected by a shoe and rarely hurt j from blisters from the roeky soil. Hut there was nothing quite so absorbing to a growing boy years ago as a "stone bruise." The foot wrap. ped in a long rag begrimed with red dust told , the^ story. A group sitting at a dinner^ few evenings ago composed of men who had once been real downright natural boys, recounted these and similar experiences and wondered whether the boy of today has the edge on them despite the fact that he has access to the motor car, the movie show, and athletic sports ad lily.?Spartanburg Journal. Lancaster county last week turned over to the state highway department a check for $450,000, the money to be used on a reimbursement agreement in the construction of 22 miles of highway between Lancaster and the North Carolina line and 5.2 miles on route No. 0 towards Catawba river from Lancaster. Several months ago Lancaster turned over the sum of $.'150,000 for highway construction under the direction of the commission.. s The man who is not altogether intent upon present or self gain, but wants to do something for posterity can do so by setting out a few | wulnut trees. We are inclined to think that these trees are very hardy and will grow in any kind of soil and under just about any conditions, j A waiter in The Progressive Farmer has this to say about the savings account that a Westminster farmer possesses in five walnut trees that stand about his hpme: "I want to mention his experience in regard to five walnut trees that stand around his home. Three or four years ago a man en me, looked them over, and told Mr. Slribling he would give $100 for them as they stood. He was to do all the work of digging them up and removing them to the railroad. Mr. Stribling said he thought this was a fair price, but he didn't care to sell. The next year a buyer came and offered $200 for them. Mr. Stribling thought this was a good price, but simply on account of sentiment, he would not consent to have them removed. A few months ago a man came and said: VI .will give y??u $H50 for the five, or I will give you $100 each for the two largest ones." This instance should do two things it/ should cause our farn\ers to begin to appreciate timber and to begin to plant those trees that have tho greatest value. Wo need to stop wasting all our natural re-ources and begin :o plan to help the future generation-." -Chester Reporter. I>r. J. A. Hayne, state health officer. with offices in Columbia, has received an unusual petition from a Marlboro county farmer. The young) man wrote that his wife had given birth to triplets and feeding them was too much for her and he wanted the State Board of Health to send him a cow to provide milk for his family. Dr. Hayne had to refuse the request, as his department has no cows to give or lend to families with overlargo personnels and under-developed pocketbooks, but a health worker was sent to the home to provide proper food for tha babies. Somebody Called. About ten day a ago somebody dalle t the bet in the gre?| poker game the people of the United tjtatee have been playing on the stock exchange, curb exchange and bucket ehep hoards, with the result that'billion* of dollars of paper profits have baen wiped out, thousands of little speculators have been shaken loose every dollar they had in the world thousands upon thousands of other* are throwing every possession into the pot to keep themselves from being sold out, and the whole nation has awakened to thd fact that a houae of curds, reared upon a false foundation, has fallen about its feet. . No other result could have been expected- The surprising thing is tha'. the dream lasted as Jpng as it did. What has just happened in the stock market is identically the same thing that happened in Florida real estate a few years ago. It wm a .sweet thing just as long as people kept buying and a heartbreaking debacle when people sensed tl\at the intrinsic value did not exist In the j lund they owned, and began to unload. _ . j Just so long ap people kept buying stocks, the ^prices continued to mov^ j upwards ur.d profits accrued to tho*: | who sold on the qjpuntlng marker Inflated values away beyond actual worth, based upon earning power, ' cannot long be sustained and it is inevitable that they must crumble and fall, just as they have done many times before in the history of the stock exchange. In no other collapse of prices have #o many individuals been caught ! On*, reason fo$ this dates back to the j World War and the campaigns foi war bonds, issued by the governmen' Millions of people for the first tim< j learned how easy it is to buy and ' sell a bond, which is only a more sub stantial form of stock. Prior to that time, stocks and bonds as market j able items, were looked upon by the vast majority as an intricate sort of j a thing, attainable only by banker-; and thosg versed in financial affairs. It was but a step from war bonds to all kinds of stocks, and then just another short step into the realm of speculation, or the betting that a stock would gain five, ten or twenty points and could be sold at that profit. For a time this worked pretty well. Money was made easily and it seemed entirely possible to make much l more money by buying on a margin? that is, instead of buying ten shares of a $100 stock and paying $1,000 for it, to buy forty shares, paying $1,000 down on it and letting the broker < r the banker carry the balance at -current rates of interest. If the sto-k advanced ten points, the owner could sell at a profit of $10 on a share, or $100 on the lot, less the interest carrying charge, whereas he would have made only $100 had he bought outright the ten shares for $1,000. John Doe made $11,000 in three months by thus buying Blue Sky and No Cloud common. It was such a hippy experience that he told his neighbor about it. The neighbor figured that he knew just as much as John Doe did, so in he hops and he, too, makes some money on this, that or the other. The wave kept spreading until ah sorts and classes of people from shop earning girls to ministers were betting the market, not with any study of what they were buying or of the earning power or dividendpaying value of stockr but rather on the tips circulating around or the advice o? investment bureaus and stock statisticians, who furnished their advice at so much per year. Comparatively little stock has been bought to tuck away and keep as an investment because the return in dividends based upon the prices at which they have been sold, would not justify the purchase. One may take, for example, Westinghouso, which has been considered one of the high-class stocks. Westinghouso has ranged during the year from a low of 1.17 t<a b. g h of 292, not considering fraction-. It pays 4 per cent. At the low >f $137 this stock would return 1 to the purchaser a little less than 3 per cent on his investment. At the i high "f $292 the return won' 1 he abou' one and one-third pt- ent, while ' he average of $2M won i give the . .vnor a little less thai; per cor.;. \o. people have not D in buying -tocks for an investment. They haw been, in the main, buying as a specn'.iftmr. wbetting that tl- market u.-uld go up. Millions o' \merit an.- today are experiencing t:u .amo ><?rt if headache that othe - fora them have experienced w they have attempted to get sonic. g for nothing. While the results in ma- many instances will approach the *ragic, in the main the outcome will vv good and helpful, and tha nation will he in better shape economically D cause of the deflation of the big stock bubble. We will have returned to a sounder sense of values. There are j ust as many dollars in the country as there was two weeks ago. Induui try and manufacturing will go on,. I though some branches of it are bound ; to feel the break in the market. Automobiles, radios and many of the luxuries which Jtave profited because of the easy money made in stocks wilt be effected, and other lines are | certain to feel the falling off in the buying of people who spent easily I because it came easily. Prosperity ..f this nature, however, was not a i -ound and lasting prosperity and in the long run little real good could | come from it. It would seem that the great muss ..I' people, who have been swept off their feet by the illusion that money could be consistently made in gamb-* :.ng in stocks, would turn to a more consistent and conservative policy of systematic saving and investment with due regard for the interest or dividend return. Savings accounts in banks should increase, real estate be given more consideration, and municipal and other bonds and mortgages prove more attractive. In itself the stock exchange serves a very useful purpose in the providing of a clearing house for money and stocks necessary in the prosecution of the industry of the nation. When, however, it is converted into a poker game for gambling! pure and simple, as it has largely been for some time past, it leaves only misfortune in its wake.?L^Roy (N. Y.) Cazette-News. A special farm edition of the Monroe (N\ C.) Enquirer, in addition to. being a credit to the publishers from the newspaper standpoint, serves to. give a somewhat adequate idea of what Union county has achieved by branching out along new lines on the farm and pursuing faithfully and persistently a policy of cattle and soil building. We understand that Union t county is today easily one of tho ; most prosperous counties in this sec[ tion of the two Curolinas, and pros1 perity has come through cattle and ' soil-building Lespedeza, kudzu, soy beans, vetch, hay and grain are raised in abundance in Uhion county, and j are making the soil and the farmers I rich. Mr Broom, the county fftrm agent, is the man that deserves most of the credit for ldspedeza. Farmers freely admit that they thought Mr. Broom was a visionary when he fltsir began to talk about lespede*a, but just as freely adinit today that' was right, and their prosperity is due? to heeding him and! following-bib, ih?struct ions.?(Cheater- Reporter. Ford Plants to Shut Down For Changes Detroit, Mich., Nov. 23.?Readjust-; ments that must be made itt prepar, ntion for next year's production will | | bring about a shut-down of from ten i days to two weeks in each Ford assembly plant throughout the country, i: was learned toehay at the executive offices of the Ford Motor Company. j Some of the plants have already I closed and others will follow suit, as their stocks of materials are worked | up, it was explained in emphasizing that the plants will not close simui- | t^aneouslv. . | i % TKAR 'ROUND FARMER Something to sell from his farm from January to January is the aim of John ?. White, Jr., an Albemarle county young man who lives just a mile from. the. town of Hertford Crop, rotation is one of the intereating things about this farmer. Cabbage, beets, early corn, cucumbers,. cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes, butter beans, snap beans turnips, collards and fan cabbage aTe' raised every year on this farm. Peanuts are planted as the big money cr?Pv 'a From the eighth of an acre of butter beans grown this year $100 worthwas sold. Boll weevils do not bother his cotton as he does not grow any. .He lost money in it for three conse<> utivo years,, so he quit. This year he lost money on his watermelons on aceount of excessive rains, however, ho doesn't blame the weather mam but he will plant the same amount next year. In the event that he makes money on one vegetable this year he does not increase the amount for the next year as it might prove a loser n^xt year. He plfcnts the same amount of truck each year. Profit or lose he doesn't decrease or increase the cropi Weather conditions will aid one veg-f?table while it will W* the growth I of another. If his melcmB are ruined'! excessive- rains their his toma> , toes will likely, grow, better. From January to January there- is something on his farim to sell. Not only does he- till' the soil; He ! is a business man ae well. Complete records are kept by him of ev- ; cent expended and for every cent of revenue so that at the end of the year he knows how much he Has, made. This year He wants to stay out of the red' ink side of his ledger with a profit of about $1,000* Judging from previous records* in other ' years, he lias a good start to makefile grade.?Ghstonia Gazette*. ; - The town of Mudlina in_. Mwvi/w county will have the honor of entertaining the Lower Sojath Carolina Conference of th? Methodist church next November., The -invitation e?xtended to- the conference meeting in Charifeston Last week tocomftta Mul11 ha; another yeair was the onfiy oue extfemtedn .. ' _ _ Msthodist church att Madison. Saturday- kis withtJie Qhttrcn. had gone intxt politics. Wants?-For Sale Flaf mf^r~?nQef nin* eoo,n hous Street, suitable for a boarding house or fer two aoart menu Apply J. B.**S5, C- 36sb ^ <lesteSnAat^~F?l!bafe plants' Char" at 25 y Je ?y Wakefield MrtKn J Pe?- hundred or $2.00 *nd i??"sand- h pecans 50c, 65c, and, 75c Per pound. Telephone T. , Lyta?ii pullets and one ^cockerel fer $?l0m I I hebe are Tompkins strain rood C,?rlor; ,,Addresa Vclby . feili, Wcstville, S. C. 36sb ! MM'rr.A b'"ck ^ker Spaniel dog. on Saturday, November . wearing red collar. Answers I ; f* rffine ?j Liberal reward returned to Mrs. Elizabeth H.' Foster, Green street, Camden, S. C. ! 36sb. PICTURE FRAMES?Made to orti Prices reasonable. All work gn. an teed. F. C. 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