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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. P^NlLE^r Editor and PublUhei >.. Published every Friday at No. 1101 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina pout office w aeeoud clans mail matter. Price pei annum $2.00, payable in advtrte. Friday, February 21, 1930 BAt'if FARM BOARD'S PR(KiRAM In order to avoid, if poaaible, u rueurrence of the culamity ot 1020 to the South, the time haa come for mobilizing the organised intelligence of the South behind the program of the Federal Farm Board. Without the cooperation of farmer* and busiiu'hh interests, it is impossible for the Farm Board to render its moat effective -aid. The opportunity now presents itself for every business and civic organization and every banker and business man, newspaper and local leader to show his patriotic spirit in supporting the new agricultural policy of the Government, and at the same time serve the best interests of Vhe farmers and Local business jnen. These things should be done: 'Bring local business men, bankers, professional men and farmers into local meetings and explain facts of the "Present Critical Situation in Gotten" forcibly to their attention. Give widespread publicity of facts of situation, and activities of local organization in newspapers. ' Organize local committee to conduct campaign. Provide through local committee to take order* for seeds mid provide < redlt for purchase of such seed. Remember 192'!. The Federal l'apm Board warns against too largo a cotton acreage the coming -mason. What- tile Federal Farm Board can do in lt?:tu for the Cotton Growers of the South will depend upon what the cotton farmers do in cutting the acreage at least ti.UOO.OOO m res, If t tie same acreage in planted t) cotton iil 19uU a.-, in 1929. and -.wathc,conditions au- favorable 'he South may pioduce IT.nno.OMO bale-, pe>h.'ips 22,'hiu.u(MI bales if yield lie as i,. g a a - in 1911. Sii'di a large . tmp would probably bring li'nwo- !lie a pound or !> ->. Tii.nk it o> i i and u-e your .n.f'uence to drug about a reduction of i-.t least 1"> pei cent in the cotton acreage. lad's see that farmers of the South bee at home! It always -pains me, when I offer a man a cigarette, to hear him say in a self-righteous tone of voice: "Thanks; 1 never smoke." I haven't asked him whether or not he smokes. I don't give a darn whether or not ho .smokes. 1 have merely made a courteous gesture. And if he doesn't care for a cigarette, let him say so in a well-mannered way without trying to rebuke nu? or comment on his own virtue.?Robert Quillen :n Fountain Inn Tribune Two ci'Vute- aie reported in press dispatches t.> h ice been seen wandering in lur.. t inns of Newberry county. But t or t y t hat l a:<e> sp:na by ' In- ..id and dup- it t i t i ? . t ' i ! n 11 i > . " j v jo po s;; j, | ?* t kt i > t V. ! 'II ' ' e 1 . a Vs 'I !" >naa! 1 ' I u 1 ? .' I b W .t t a" i >n t "> Oe a i a i me , a', i . ' .y . .Miid i ,i. feed -tuft. J111 ... , -, mule- cow b"gs anil . in. k, : , ally m,., th.v We run U11?K I" -! a ml. Sure be might have t-> buy a laying mash o a fattening teed for his hog-., but to bay the greatet par' of his feedstuff' ibeyond u>. Yiokiille Knquiror. FROM \N OH) MAN He was an old man, now in the vght ies, and he had followed Lee through Virginia. He came to the newspaper office with an idea for the editor an uiea gained through reading day after day of the activities of this generation. What he wanted to say was this: "it seems to me that 'everybody nnd every organization is trying to get somebody else to do something for them. Why doesn't the governonent do this'.' Why doesn't the government do that? People seem to do:get that the government is composed of the people them^ulye.i. It cannot do for them except as ;l takeI rom them. W hat we need in this < < u ' i. nunc than anything else, it he g - p. ! f -elf - help. People need to b i ll ' 'like a 10 . .' elllst ' ves, 'I hey i xpe,: mm h . : the r g??\ ?:n:;a:' .' . - a.t.iy they arc dise p; c " t -i ' i>.ret. e\n< . t too muc < ' t -.Pit'-, and. t .i: n out w rih 1 a . ' 1 '.i ia ' ; - .> j?< nd ah t > a.- i' .i . \ j?e< au-e prosper i'j d - n.a-uic to expectation* Vis, > u y ung people have got t Foil. {,, :.iio i ,ue ,.f yourselves, nnc the f:t -1 ruo- :< to spend less thar you cam. Government can't over < mc tnriftlessness." V\ ror.g. or right? ? Greenville News. Florence lAku Herald?There i: consolation :r. the thought that i' ( oratress spends all its time in in vuatigations there will be no chano. to pass any more Laws. i/os Angeles Times? Psychologist say an affliction spurs men on t< win. And some cynic will romarl that most men who attain to great ness are married. e 1 crsia has no distilleries, hrewerio or saloons. ! Murdoch Johnson ; Running for Senate The last issue of the Aberdeen , (N. C.) Pilot carries the announce ment ?>f Murdoch M. Johnson, formerly of <'amden, as ?t candidate for the state senate from his home county in North Carolina. If elected Mr. Johnson will have the distinction of having served in lx>th the South Carolina and North Carolina general assemblies, and his many friends in this county will hope for his election. Mr. Johnson has made good in his adopted home and is a member of a large legal firm in his city. In the presidential campaign, two mepibers of his firm were avowed Hoover Democrats. while Murdoch stood by the regulars and made many speeches in behalf of AI Smith, lie is held in high esteem in that section and is iecogni/.ed' as an attorney of great ability. I In making his formal announcement Mr. Johnson reviews the general situation in the state and pledges ins efforts if eleetod to the solution of some of tiu* problems which confront the farmer, particularly with regard to taxes, and also promises to lend his assistance to the movement to curb reckless use of th_ highways by uutomobile drivers. MII.UON COWS NKKDKD We need a million more cows in Georgia, according to the statement of Peter Hahnsen, in his visit to Vi(latin last week, and Tlie Telegraph has no doubt he is entirely correct. Dr. Hahnsen is a veterinarian and farmer, and ought to know whereof he speaks, particularly on account of the long service he has rendered Georgia as state veterinarian. He is a German, with all the qualities of that peculiarly efficient and observing people, and we can well afford to li-ten seriously to what he says. Dr. Hahnsen is of tin- opinion thai we need this many mwecuus to lake t are of Georgia's needs alone, an I ! that they -hould not be just "cows." hut real productive animals that will : pas f??r their keep ami give a prufi' to then keeper-. The scientists and other people who keep up with ?>ur health assert that every man, woman and child should have at ica-t a quart o> good wholesome, clean, sweet milk i every day as a minimum to keep up the blood stream to its normal qualities and enable the body to function as it should and keep the doctor away. Such milk contains 15 out of the 1(5 elements required by the human body, where as most of our food has been denatured through cooking and processing until it contains very few of the 1(5 requisite elements. Hut we should make no mistake about starting in on the dairy program, as advised by Dr. Hahnsen. He doesn't mean to go out and buy or acquire a bunch of scrub cows, without any feed for them, and expect to make a profitable business on any such schedule. A cow is said to re quire the income from two gallon* ot iniik to pay for her keep and attention. Anybody with a two gallon cow is about breaking even, giving all the Wo: k that i - dom- in the el'-! ("it for nothing. Whatever ,-i cow : - ' above two gallon-. prid'i'.* i > i ' , i m < a,.y peaking. j \ cteat many people ' n whom 1 he I < egI aph ha - hea: on t lu .:.i.t y i;;it -tion are endt-ae-"g t<' up i < rale ream or dairy ha .ne-se- on i iinii.i feed. And they c;tn't g> jdiougn lor their cream to pay fo their teed, they say. And when wei think ot tile man out West who grow - : thi> feed f? i* us, then the gathering, i tin- tacking, the freight, the broker's i commissions and the number of middlemen who get their profits and living out of it before it reaches Georgia, we find that it is too expcnsive**to depend upon. No man is wise who thinks this plan will work. 1 he great feature jjbout animals is that they will gather their own feed if it it grown on the farm where they can get it. they clean up the fence ""'iips and waste places and get tons and tons of stuff that is ordinarilywasted; they do their own threshing and sacking, and convert this feed into milk without any freight charges and deliver it at the barn without any trucking or man-handling whatever, t'onsidcr the man-power they save and the consequent cheapness of such feed, as compared with the bought I I If people evtlld get a few ' w -. to town and buy feed and ' ' m- milk " cream .- a profit. I Wi ..<! ii?- too simple a:al , as\*. K" ' < y'- iy would jump :nt i-.c businc ; 'i ' -g at. Money - made by ; i - m pie nd en - y ; . . - -. i 1 ; u> hnv e t J,, n; -m coWs w .1 : . r < < .1 . > care tor Georgia s requireno and stop t lie nece-*:ty for pur' iiui-;i.g the thousands ?.f carloads of ' condensed milk and the tank cars of : t re At milk that come into this state every night from Wisconsin and other Western dairy states. Hut let us apply a little busiiH'ss sense to the undertaking before we embark upon it. The Creator made food the first N thing after the world cooled off suff ficiently to permit life of any kind - He made food in abundance, and then i creatures came along to eat it. Wo can't beat His plan.?Macon Telegraph. Because she had lost $100 given her by her husband, to make a paymon; * on a mortgage on their home. Mrs Martha Widauer. H4. killed herseli and three children with gas in theit New York apartment. She left a 8 note explaining her reasons for th* act. Would Establish Memorial Park Tho Revolutionary battlefield V)f < amden would be purchased by the state and turned into a memorial park, designated us "State Rattle J'urk," by a joint resolution introduced in the Senate last Friday by Senator G. C. Welsh of Kershaw. The measure was read the first time and referred to the committee on finance. By the resolution, the state Would appropriate $<5,500 to buy approximately 425 acres, known as the Revolutionary Battlefield of Camden, which lies about, aeven miles north of Camden. With the purchase of the land, the resolution provides tftaV it be exempt from 'taxation. THRIFT THOUGHTS The three component parts of thrift, as some expeft points out, are: earning, suving, and spending. Ono must earn to save, and without earnings or savings, one necessarily cannot spend. As thrift week is being nationally observed, it is just as good a time as any, to devote serious study to this subject The mistaken idea prevails, particularly among young people, that thrift means niggardly stinginess or miserly grasping of money. It means nothing of the kind. On the other hand, it does not signify lavish, foolish, sinful tossing of money, however small or large the amount, to the four winds of the heavens. In the world's economy, thrift is one of the cardinal virtues. It creates, establishes and increases a fund which wisely and usefully invested, or expended, insures more business, more work, more opportunity of employment, more wages, more payrolls, more material prosperity to build up a section of community. Thrift conserves, quickens, stimulates the arteries of industry, commerce and finance. Without it, humanity, broadly speaking, would be classified into two great camps?the wastrels, spendthrifts and high-rollers and the hoarder, miser and grasper. -Productive industry would stagnate and its plants dismantled. There would he no business confidence with which to carry on the affairs of everyday life. A child cannot he taught too j early the importance of thrift. And in the teaching the childish mind should not be too heavily impressed with the idea of saving everything. Once it masters the lesson that way, the very object of instruction is defeated. Earn, save and wisely spend. That defines intelligent thrift.- And those who practice it will inculcate a sound sense of values that will prevent them from living up to the hilt, with no thought of the morrow.? Spartanburg Journal. REAL WEALTH % Land is realty, real estate, reai property. It may be called imj)erishable, and from it proceed all forms of wealth. "It is a solid sort of thing that you cannot lose if you have paid for it." said A. W. McAlister yesterday, in an address to the real estate board. It is real wealth. It furnishes all the food except a fraction that comes from the sea. Go o\i the banquet list, excluding the P*'-ducts that come out of the ocean, and everything thereon, whether meat, bread, vegetables, is merely a form of the chemical substance of the soil, wrought upon by the sun. All the ten thousand comforts, the utilities of society are in their original form soil, or that which underlies the soil All of which is so commonplace as knowledge that the amazing thing is that a society could ever to any ex. tent forget it. This country has been passing through a period in which land, as measured by the universrtl measure of value, the dollar, has been depreciated. That is a state of mind; it is setting up unreality for realty. It is a sort of mental disease^ It is a setting up of false dettni| tions; fatuous; folly which must bo | paid for. What a stupid make-believe | it now begins to appear. ^ Land is t<> human beings more than h\ definition 'it appears. By an an, cicr.t system a man may have lordP ;> >\er a -mall or greater portion of tho land's surface in tho period h, : aitii i mergence from tho soil and the retmn rest in it; and this is .tth-d Land ownership and land '.wv?-. land hunger, are powerful f.t.fashioning the spirit. We shall he the l>otter for it when : we get back to a wholesome regard , for land.?Greensboro News. I Small Ad Brought Big Results One of our advertisers tells us that he received gratifying results from an advertisement inserted in The Chronicle a few weeks ago. The advertiser carries a regular display space in this paper each week, but the forms had Closed on his regular space and the best we could offer at a late hour was a small ad. Our advertiser tells us that this was the only mode of advertising used for this particular article and it resulted in the sale of fourteen cases of a well known article of great food ; value. The high so hool building at Nowi ton, N. C.. was destroyed by fire > i early Tuesday morning. The loss I $100,000. To Attend Services at Mt. Pisgah The members of DeKalb Council Nn. 88. Jr. 0. 1^,. A. M. will attend services at Mt. Pisgah church, next Sunday afternoon, February 23rd. Special sermon will be preached, and it is hoped that a goodly number of the local members, as well as any I veiling brethren that care to go, will be present. All members wishing to go are requested to meet at the Junior Order Hall, on Rutledge street at 2:30 o'clock next Sunday afternoon. Newspaper Views. Hubbard (Ore.) Enterprise?Chicago isn't as bad as it's painted. The police have found only two drug stores that sell machine guns. Kansas City Star?A year's ownership of a Kansas farm has made a confirmed New Yorker of Marion Talley. Wilmington News?-Evenually, we imagine, television will make it possible for spectators in a modern stadium to actually see the football games. STRANGE BUT TRUE ROSE BALM makes a skin beautiful, and if you're young, it keeps it young. If you are growing older, it to a remarkable extent, restores to the complexion, the freshness of youth. It improves the texture and removes imperfections from any skin. If you do not already know the satisfaction that only ROSE BALM can give, start using it at once. ROSE BALM is sold at Zemp's Rexall Drug Stores. Wants?For Sale WANTED?By reliable young married man with good references work as sharecropper, with responsible land owner. Apply to I^eonard L. Elliott, 1006 Fair street, i Camden, S. C. 48pd 1 FOR SALE?Beautiful Baby Grand i piano of standard make, less than twelve months old on which $325.00 has been paid. Will sell for un| paid balance to responsible party on convenient terms. Address your reply to P. O. Box 468, Savannah, Ga. 48sb. TAKEN UP?'One red and white male yearling at my place on the Cam1 den-Darlington public road. Ownl er can have same by paying exI penses of keep and paying for this advertisement. Apply' to Luther Hall. Camden. S. C. 48-50?b. FOR SALE?-Mahogany chest of k drawers, hand carved in pineapple design, with Ailianthus leaf feet. Refinished. Address Mrs. C. M. Emanuel, Borden, S. C. 48sb. WANTED?You to let me renovate and make your mattresses. Machinery and skilled labor used. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. W. Pope, Rutledge Street, opposite Camden Fire Department building, Camden, S. C. 48pd. FOR SALE?Barred Rock eggs for hatching. $1.00 for fifteen. Apply to Mrs. Joseph Sheheen, Mill Street. Camden, S. C. 48-51sb. HAVE YOU FOR SALE farm lands, city lots or other property? Write P. O. Box 101, Camden, S. C. 48-9sb FOR SALE ? Some thorough-bred Jersey-Duroc gilts. Apply to Henry Savage, Camden, S. C. 47-48 sb. APARTMENT FOR RENT?Two rooms, kitchenette, hall and private bath, all furnished including electric light, hot and cold water. Call at 1602 Fair street, or Phone 182-d, Camden, S. C. 48-49sb RADIO?Atwater Kent's latest cabinet and table models at big, dis| counts for cash; Easy time payments. W. O. Hay, dealer, Camden, S. C. 45-47sb | STRAYED OR STOLEN?Black and white spotted sow, weight 200 pounds, has marked left ear. Finder please telephone 261 and call for Callie Thomas, Camden, & G. RADIO?Atwater Kent screen grid electro dynamic. Nothing belter at any price. Liberal terms. 25j per cent down. No extra charge! for time payments. W. O. Hay,' local dealer. Big discount for cash 45-4Tsb FOR YOUR COMFORTS sake install a Washington Parlor Furnace today. It heats the whole house. Phone 156. The Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. C. 42sb j FIELD'S SHOW-LAY RED EGGS NOW means more eggs next Fall. Iiet u> prove this to you as we have 1 to hundreds of others. Our Reds are s<rond to none as layers. Five of our hens layed 1,284 eggs in year a: Egg-Laying Contest. Our J Hen No. -42 led all Reds in South \ last MeCormick Egg-Laying Con- j test, just nine eggs less highest in , United Staes. This fine blood runs | through our entire flock. Won many ribbons in show room last 12 years. "Star" Mating Eggs, $10.00 per setting, $25.00 per 100; "Su! per" Mating Eggs, $6.00 per setting, $15.00 per 100. Fields' ShowLay Red Farm, Society Hill, S. C. 44-51pd. MAJESTIC now offers the greatest i value in radio history. Model No. 90 only $116.50 complete. Easy ! terms. Camden Furniture Compa! ny, Camden, S. C. 42sb PIANOS and furniture for rent. Phone 166. Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. C. 42sb LANDSCAPE SERVICE?At Borden Nursery, Borden, S. C., located on highway 26, 17 miles from Camden, , S. C. 41tf FURNITURE and pianos for rent. Phone 156. Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. C. 42sb. FOR SALE?'South Carolina Antiques ?a large assortment of furniture, glass, china, portraits, etc. Address Miss Mary E. Lyles, 1401 Blanding Street, Columbia, S. C. 42-49-&b. LET US PLACE a new 1930 model Majestic Radio in your home on free trial. No obligation. The Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. C. 42sb. WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest ca^h prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-sb CARPENTERING?John S. Myers, phone 268, 812 Church Street, Camden, S. >C., will give satisfactory service to all for all kinds of carpenter work. Building, general repairs, screening, cabinet making and repairing furniture. My workmanship is my reference. I solicit your patronage. Thanking you in advance. 50 tf. '. FOR RENT?New or used Piandt^^/; Phone. 156. Camden Furniture ? Company, Camden, S. C. 42sb FOR RENT?Two story residence facing on Monument Square. Five bed rooms. Large living rooms. Freshly painted inside.- Garage, woodhouse, garden, shade trees. Enterprise Building & Loan Association., or W. R. Zemp, Cartiden. 29?b FOR YOLK COMFORTS sake install a Washington Parlor Furnace today. It heats the. whole i.ouee. Phone 156. The Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. C. 42?b FOR RENT?One six-room bunga- ' low on East Walnut street, equipped with water, lights and sewerage. Apply L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 38 sb Come in and See the New ! HOME-CURE Therapeutic Lamp With the New Red Ray Bulb Only, $4.95 Yoq can't afford to be r without one JOSEPH S. BARUCH 940 SOUTH BROAD ST. B ??;; . Vol. I, No. S Virginia-Carolina (lliemic?l Corporation Copyright! 930 Grade, Staple, Character Demand for manufactured cotton controls the price of raw cotton, and the price 1h measured by the cotton's suitability to this demand In other words, Its (juallty. Quality is defined by official standards of grade and length of ^?? staple. Crude considers color or brightness, presence of dirt or other foreign matter, and "ginning preparation." or physical condition of the lint. length considers only the uieusure of the fiber. Thirty-seven grudes and over 34 lengths are officially recognized. In addition to these, cotton duality depends on other factors like strength of the liber, crosssection area. t>ody. shape, flexibility, conformation, and relative uniformity. These other factors ure called "character," but well-defined standards have uot yet been fixed to cover them. V-O "Have rounded out my 18th year as agent for Old Reliable V-C. Sales have averuged approximately $30,000 a year, and customers are all satisfied."?-A. M. Wilson, Dealer, Rinehurst, Ca. V-O Fewer Wild Farms If the Reclamation bureau at Washington has Its way, no more engineering work will be done on now, or old reclamation projects until their soils have been studied and their fitness for farmjng has befn determined.- There used to be strong disagreement over reclaiming more wild land. The Department of Agriculture has maintained that u lot of it wasn't tit for farming and its reclamation would only add to the "marginal" land that agriculture Is now burdened with. It seems like others are coming around to this view. V-0 "No line will surpass V-O. As dealer and consumer, I recommend. sell, and use V-O."?F. A. Smith, Dealer, McRae, Ga. BIG BUSINESS "An Idea of the present status of large-scale cooperative marketing in the United Qtates can be gained from the fact that more than ISO farmers' marketing associations each transaot an annual business exceeding $1,000,000. Five or six have an annual business approximating $60,000,000 each. Two have passed the $80,000,000 mark. Yet only about one-third of our farmers are members. As a group, our large cooperative associations do a conspicuously efficient Job." ? W. M. Jardine, former Secretary of Agriculture. V-O Farming has changed In one generation more than It had in a hundred years before. The man who thlnks4ie can keep on farming the old way Is due for some mighty hard knocks. V-O rfA Constructive Start" "After many years of contention we have at last made a constructive start at agricultural rollef with the most Important measure ever passed by Congress in aid of a single industry." ? President Hoover, signing the bill creating Federal Farm Board. V-O "Any program for improvement should begin with the local markets. It need not be expected that cotton growers will appreciate the importance of quality so long as they have no adequate incentive to grow belter cotton." B. Youncblood. V-O Eight States Fight Erosion Eight southwestern states have joined hands in a regional plan to prevent further soil erosion. Their representatives met at College Station, Tex., to detail the work ahead. H. H. Bennett, soli erosion specialist of thfe U. 8. Department of Agriculture, is reported by newspapers to have told the conference about entire counties In which the agricultural lands have been practically denuded by soil erosion. Single;. Variety, Pure Seed I "In California, where highly or- I ganlzed fruit industries have been developed, ootton growers are aware that a standardized prodhct la neo- H essary and have recognized the need for community organization to H maintain pure seed. An organization of one-variety ootton growers { has maintained Itself in the Coach- I ella Valley of California since lvi#), and many other communities In the Irrigated valleys are now plant- j 1 lng only one variety of ootton."? " O. F.Cook, Yearbook of Agriculture. H Cotton seed should be planted as 'H soon as the ground is warm enough to Insure prompt germination. j Nothing Is gained by planting in I cold, wet soil. j Makes Pouud for Pound I "The North Oarollna Experiment j Station found that a pound of seed 1 cotton was produced for every . pound of fertilizer used up to 1,000 j pounds per acre. Similar results have been obtained at experiment stations in other states. An agronomist at one station says that the resuits indicate high Quantities are practicable. The danger lies in using too little rather than too much fertilizer."?Ward H. Sachs. V-O r? Although cotton cultivation is progressing in the basin of the Niger River, in Africa, says the New York Times, the present tendency is to concentrate on large plantations along the Senegal ltiver. This territory is nearer the coast and "would lessen the cost of cotton seed and fertilizers that must now be transported many miles inland." { V-O "The first two bales of cotton ginned in Jefferson County this year were made with V-O. My confidence in V-O has steadily increased during the 20 years I have used these goods. When I use V-O, I know I will have a successful crop." | ?R. L. Bethea, Louisville, Oa. ' VIRGINIA.CAROLINA CHEMICAL CORPORATION j