The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 29, 1929, Image 4
rU? CAMDEN CHRONICLE
0. D. NILK8. .Editor Bad PaMUher
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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?"
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"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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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% 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. Moseley, at Buri
& Barrett, Camden, S. C. 34,1
FOR RENT?My farm adjoinh
Woodward aviation field, 225 Mr
cleared land, ?ood for six-mt
farm. Two dwellings, two Ur
barns and other outhouses. W
rent to reliable share-cropper,
win rent straight. Apply to F.
Zemp at Zemp A DePass dn
atora. 34-36tf ?
FOR RENT?One house on DeKa
Street, $40.00 per month; 0
house on Lyttleton street (next
Phrk View Inn). $40.00. Both a
suitable for high class boardi
houses. Apply to Henry Savin
Sr., Camden, S. C. 33s
FOR RENT?Two story reside!]
facing on Monument Square. Fi
bed roonis. Large living roon
Fleshly painted inside. Garaj
wQodhouse, garden, shade *tre
Enterprise, Building & Loan Asi
ciatian., or W. R. Zemp, Cnmd<
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