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FIhk anil Bible Presentation. On next Sunday afternoon, March Dth, at o'clock, DeKalb Council No. KX, the local council of Jr. O. U. A. M., will present a flag and Bible to IMne Grove School. This school is located in West Wateree, about a mile from Rabon's Gross Roads, em the old Ridgeway Highway. During the pant year this council has presented /lags and Bibles to Lu??' goir school and Blaney school. The Order is striving to place a Bible in and a /lag over every public school, not for the purpose of teaching sectarianism, but for the purpose of instilling in the minds of the children the principles of good citizenship. The public is cordially invited to attend these exercises, which will Ik* interesting and impressive. Those attending will have the privilege of hearing several good speakers. All members are requested to meet at the I all at 1 o'clock. Visiting brethren invited to attend the exercises. Death of K. B. I.owery K I'. I.owery, aged l'.' vears, die-1 at in- home at the Kershaw -('otto; Mill village Wednesday morning, Feb uiary 2->, and his: remains were taken to I.ancaster on Thursday for burial a' Way >ide cemetery. The fum-ral mm vices were conducted by Rev. S. J*. B< hin.Noii, Rev. R. S. Broom, and Rev. II I'. Bennett. Mr. I.owery is survived by hi- wife, two daughter-, Mrs. Vermel Kvurn, and Mi-. I.ul.i Mae ("hurehwell, of Ke-rshavv; ami four sons, Otis-, of Lancaster. and Kugcne, Gillum and Bo< lielle-, of Kershaw. Al-o, two brother-", two sisters and his step-mother. Kershaw lira. Burial at Spring Hill Funeral services for Wesley DuRant W hite, IP, of Spring Hill, who died at a ('olumhin hospital at X o'clock Tuesday morning, were held f om t tie Spring Hill .Methodist church at I oVlo? k Tuesday afternoon, with tlie Rev. Mr (iraham and the Rev. Mr-. Barker in charge. Lntcrnie nt was in th chun hyarel. Mr White was a member of tlm Sp'ing 11:11 Methodi-t church and a wi ll known farrnei of his community. II?- lehves many frit-mis throughout i In- -talc. Hi is -urvive-d by his widow; three son-. W. I?. White. Jr.. Andrew White, Arthur White; and <>ne daugrite (i< ij?-v n-ve- W bile. I'-of R. M Alexander. To, negro < <1 i a* of Spartanburg, a d highly le-pei'iei by the white pen; !< of the. < "Ui.tv. tit ad. His remain- were interred Sa! ;r lav afte-rnoem. He-tWas Ho- p-iniip.i ..f the Dea: Street ehool for rn o . - in Spartanburg for : 7 year-'. M at hie- bathtubs have been une-arthefi in Olynthos. a (ireck city destroyed in J If* B. ('. I've done my darnelest to keep out of this fight going on among the oldtime merchant and the newer organizations, the chain stores. But one thing I've always observed, the- people are going to patronize thej store whe-.e they think they are getting the best values for their money. David Overs, manager of levy's store in ('ha: lotte. recently fairly well sized up t!a- situation when among other things he Miiel: "There are a few things Ufhl the modern merchant nuist do if he is going to compete- in these- scientific tunes; watch the price- on his line of stock; buy what the eustuineis tell him to buy, keep your stoi^-s orderly and clean. Business is going down hill when merchants allow their stores to become- disorderly and dirty. "You have got to advertise, too. We spend three per cent of our volume on advertising." That latter n mark refe rre d to what Mr. Oven's store -pending for advertising. Mr (Li- - -it another plate to'! M;- ami t in c that the "chain stores havi don. i'.i thing, tin \ have mad ir.ev. r.ai:! - of a lot . us." 1 V ? ' O ( ^ I ! . . ' t I ?t . I f\ t' I' > .1 . e J ^ " I ' I I' ll - f:\i-d t .ng- t h.i! bra. r , . . n ,i; , : of g?-..gi a y, . : \- a \ - s T: -- <1;, ' -'a -... v.. ,, - W.-as - r -it w. ok p. : - g * 1 i ... ;loii.it w surv.Yi ;,u-t - 1 r.g as v\o .an noe! modern nonpe; ;. n. We must stu.h, modern seie-ntif w.iv- and then , we are unfit we must go ,ojt wit1 the consolation that those who follow are giving people what they want ;r service, the goods they want and a the price they want to pay." ..Mr, Ovens might have added: "No merchant can survive who fur nishes goods on credit to irrespon sible persons. Many of our oldtirm merchants, and God bless 'em, hav< more bad accounts on their book than they have merchandise on the! shelves.?Monroe Enquirer. BANKERS FIM GROUP BANKING WIDESPREAD m ^ - > \ Over 13 Billion Dollars of Bank Assets in Affiliated Systems Numbering 1,350 Members? In Nearly Every State. Over 1.860 banks with mor? than thirteen billion dollars In p-h mrcee are hliown to be associated with chain or group banking systems in the United States In facte rcceutlv gathered by the Ecooom'c Policy CommitmIoii of the American Hankers Ahhoelation. The chairman of the coin* mission, R. S. Ilerht of New Orleans, pointed (Hit that the facta Indicate that 'almost 7'* per c -u? of our ban'.a and over IS per cent of our banking resources are In the great net of group or chain banking that now covers almost every part of the country." The commission's facts comprised chain and group banking affiliations in the broadest sense of the Derm. the report said They Included those groups In which the controlling elenu nt was a particular bunk, there being reported 7 v iti ranees of thin class involving lb? bunks and about $K.47o.buo,b"0 In combined banking resources. They included also groups In which a nonbanking holding company, not subHidiary to any part cular hank, was In coin fr> 1 and of this class 28 instances were found, involving 380 banks and nearly in resources. The report also included groupings In which control war? exorcised by Individual persons and these rases numbered l?i". involving 1,071 banks and about ' 1 ,ll>s.O00,iiuu in assets. The Total Figures The total was over $ 13,270.000,000 In aggregate resources. Sotlle of the systems v'upt isod a0 to 100 hanks each. Head offices of the groups were found in all jui!. dictions, but nine of the states and the DislricX of Columbia. "We have not included In these figures." the report savs, "banking groups in uhlcli a commercial bank, a trust company and an investment house, and sometimes a savings bank, are tied together by some form of stock holdings and operated as complementary elements in an organization renderingcomplete financial service*. We have held that such groups are similar to a departmentalized bank ii.d different in the parishes and op' rations from a chain op group banking s \ 1 ,?r purpose- ?,f the pie-sent report. \\e define chain or group banks as sys ''ins mi \v! i< t. centralized control, w 11ei:ieI- corporate or personal and either iivid or informal, directs 'he operations of two or more complete banks, not f ii in i ioiia I |y coin piemenlarv, c.i. h working on its own capital am! under its own personnel and lo at< d in otio or mure cities or states/' f omnic'it ing of) tile ijl)estj( i) \\ befiti' ho rapid development of .bain banking wa?- in the nature i f a reaction ur.iiii-* restrictions impo-ed (,n biain ii banking by tin* banking laws ill munv states the report says that oh-.-i v;i' i<>n does not wholly confirm his t ;i.'"i y -in, . < hain hankiii'g is prevalent in s< niv states win v.- virtuai'v aim restrl? tinn is imposed on btaii'h banking, a* well as in those where the ablishm.mt of branch banks is prohibited. It addsThe Question of Branch Banking lloCvever, the facts do show that ami-brunch banking laws have been a tador in some cases, and probably In some -eetIons, In the spread of chain banking. Instances have come to our attention where expansion along chain bank lines has been carried out by state banks whose expansion along brunch bank lines was stopped by the passing of state laws prohibiting further bran. h. - f of whether expansion would have been along branch bank iiios if lb,, laws had imposed no bar tiers, |r jm impn->->ih|p to sav. There is obviously a Well developed banking pinion in some -ciion* that the chain ink method brings to outlying bank? 'he strength and ollUioney of a big organization without depriving then of th.-ir local individuality and synipa thie- In view of the mixed factor? noted, vv e feel it U unsafe to general i/.e a- ' > what hearing branch hanking laws have on chain developments. " I he re,-, nt era of .apid chain ban! developments has f, ,md specific re fleet ion in some eta'., legislative ac 'Ion tending to restrict or contro hain or group banking. Also vv,. tin, sharp difference *' opinion atnoni -'at" hank <oinno-s .iters who hav. vpressod th.-ir s- "aieiits recardim ' tin banking " in a foreword : . report, i-su< . i booklet form h> : association a j ,-J Now iioailqiinr't-i-j b.tirman II. . i t that "the K-n cine I'oln v i ?i0n does n< ike a stand i. y of or i:i ; i .- isi: ion to t h: - : . m, t hod of cm cut rat ing ! .in'..:-, -o irccs throng ;e alliliat ion ,.1 , , into groups in ' 'lis. hut is -imp: offering as a fa< inline body what we believe is ti. b f ?vimnlete ii.,' : il picture of thi ipitliy growing m veinent." SCHOOL SAVINGS GROW A total of 4.222.92;, school childre 1 >.u ticipatod in school savings hankin t a the United State* during the las school year, depositing $28,672,196 nri rolling up net savings of $10,539.92 . bringing total bank balances now ere tod to this movement to above { million dollars, according to the a 0 nual report of the Savings Hank dlv p 'ion of the American Hanker? Ass s riation. Schools to the number of 11 r 597 are enrolled in the plan. ZULU TALKS IN OXFORD TONGUE Protege of Roosevelt Reveals His Rise From Life in Jungles. Charleston, H. C.?A story right out of un adventure magazine, jumping from the Jungles of Africa to Harvard university, from the cupltol at Washington to the Florida hurricane, was unfolded recently at the city police station by itomeo Christopher, sou of a Zulu chieftain and head guide for Theodore Koosevelt in his liil 1 Afrlcun expedition. The man had been ^arrested on a minor charge by request of the 8alvutlon Army. He speuks like un educated Englishman?and yet he hud not worn a pair of shoes hor euten a piece of cooked food?until he wus thirty one. Straight from the African jungle he came, and In Cape Town Theodore Koosevelt picked him for his guide. Even now the Koosevelt family remains the guiding star in ids life. .Mrs. Nicholas I.ongworth daughter of the late President, will send him tc Harvard university In the spring to study, lie says, so that lie can go back a lid teach the while man's religion to his people. Komco bears on tils temple a scar which a gorilla made in u jungle light, and on Ids wrist is a scar from a shark's teeth in the Nile. His hip shows the place where a rattlesnake's fangs bit Into him. Father Still Living. "My father Is living today?he is one hundred and twelve?and my mother, Luetic, Is one hundred and nine. She was one of ids 5.'J wives," Komco said. "I, myself, had seven wives; they were given to rue hy my father on my twenty-first birthday. "The youngest one0I brought with me to this country five years ago. She and my baby?two years old?were killed In the Florida hurricane last fall. I was truck farming there. . "The other six wives are still in Zuzuland. The Methodist church says I can have but one, so I shall pick one of them when I return and keep her. "I am now enrolled in Harvard, but go there In the spring to study religion. 1 saw Mrs. Lougworth in Washington before I went South. She was a young girl when the colonel came to Africa?I carried her across a river on my shoulders. Young Teddy and Mr. Kermet were there, too. "They sent me to Cardiff, Wales, and London to be educated, so I could come back and teach my people. Then I came to this country, later." He detailed some of tlie native foods ?green gourds, raw venison, bananas and other natural food. "Would I like to go hack to that? No, sir?I want pork chops and ham and eggs, and rice, and grit'- and gravy, and gumbo?that's what I want. 1 know the white man's way of lising and I like it." The subject of conversation naturally got around to liquors at this point. Wine Was Old Stuff. "Long years before the white man came we bad our wine," Komeo said. "Fermented fruit juices, and sugar cane, lint when the white man come, lie taught us to distill it?and how we do like it. But this stuff they call corn whlsky'V-he made a w ry face to Illustrate Ids opinion. Christopher lias a mustache, a suggestion of a goatee, and .u partially bald head. He is of good height, and robust. Ho speaks with the accent of a cultivated englishman, but his laugh Is the negro's own low, melodious fifed bursting from bis whole body. He has preached at negro churches ' In Charleston, and powerful sermons they must have been, if the samples | given at the police station were any Indication of his power of oratory. He deplored his situation, being under 1 arrest in the- police station, and suld that the Salvation Army authorities for whom he worked had been unduly hasty in their action. They had ' sniellod liquor on his breath, but police said he was not drunk when he was brought In. "I represented Africa on the pinti form during the Salvation Army's I drive f-?r $ 1 fiO.OOO some years ago," . Komeo said. "I knew General Booth ,, and Miss Lvnngeline in England." i The man is well posted on curreni affair-, and has a large amount of nn i live intelligence coupled with his edu , j cation. ' I . * Science Hunts Auto Fuel < | in Farming Product) 1 St- I.Mb- -aAutomobile fuel fron J fa i. i- predicted by 1 >r. Is.nti l.ipj.j'n oi t, professor economic ro : -oni ili at W ashington university. ' I I'etioleum supplies virtually will t* exhausted within sixteen years, he In lic\?s I .von before that time. It lv<ti>r I.ippmcott's opinion, "it wil he tiece-s n y to look to farm crops fo automobile fuel ' n If chemistry transforms crops Int K equivalents of gasoline, as well n corn liber into paper, Doctor Lipplr () cott believes the farmer's financia $ future Is assured. ri >0 They Give Up n Paris?The police are finding I I almost Impossible to enforce a sectlo o of the code Napoleon forblddin > women to wear trousers without permit. So they have decided not t try unless excessive attention Is al tract ed. J. \V. Young Dies Suddenly John \V. Young, who resided about four miles south of Kershaw on the Kershaw-Camden highway, died at his home quite suddenly Monday ev-ening about 7 o'clock, following an indisposition of several weeks duration. He had finished eating supper, which he stated he very much enjoyed, when he was suddenly stricken and expired very quickly. The funeral services were conducted at Hanging Rock Methodist church at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by his pastor, Rev. W. G. A rial, and Rev. P. E. Rlackmon, pastor of Bethany Baptist church, Westville. Following the services his bod^' was laid to rest in the Hanging Rock cemeteiy. Mr. Young was 64 years of age and was a quiet and good citizen. He was highly respected by his friends and neighbors, and all who knew him. ?Kershaw Era. Walter Sims, negro, offered to sell another negro a Ford car for $10, and called a policeman to witness the transaction. The policeman arrested the would-be salesman and learned that the car had been stolen from Union. . ' Buffalo Bandits I Get Life TermsB Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 28.?SentencaB of life imprisonment in Auburn pris-fl on were pronounced today by Justictfl Hinkley, supreme coui"t, agaim:M Peter Bombkiweiez, companion Sal lie Joyce Richards, "blonde ban-H dit," in a series of hold-ups here, ao^H against Stanley Pryzbl, the "Milliw-1 aire Kid," for participation in ft I $300,000 gem robbery at the John L. Carson of this city. - " j Quick service * Our modern printing plant insures quick service. There will be no long waits when you send your orders to this shop. Four modern presses, manned by experienced printers, at your service The Chronicle as an advertising medium is in a class with the best weeklies. It is thoroughly read at home and abroad. Let us carry your printed message for you. We employ no solicitors. Our telephone is Number 29 Call us and we will send a representative THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NILES, Sole Owner Attracting Camdenites To Camden Stores Have you ever watched some of Camden citizens go riding off away from Camden to do their shopping? Have you ever watched them# come riding back, loaded up with supplies? Have you ever, while you watched, wondered wihy they passed up your stores right here in Camden? Sure, you have. So have all of us, whose first and deepest interest is in Camden. Yes, we've watched. And we've wondered. And we've felt badly about the fact that these good citizens of Camden chose to shop outside of Camden. It isn't that you merchants of Camden don't offer shopping means just as good as those of the stores in the nearby bigger towns. No, that's not at all the reason. Your merchandise is just as good. Your service, too, is every bit as good. Maybe better. One reason is that the nearby bigger towns do a better job of attracting some of Camden's citizen's to their stores. Your job, then, you merchants of Camden is to th? some attracting of your own. Puzzled wondering won't do it. Neither will mere talk. But advertising will. Not only your own advertising v but the advertising of the manufacturers whose goods you try to sell, as well. Your immediate job, as you cant well see, is to get into your local, home newspaper the advertising aid of the manufacturers whose goods are on your Shelves. And you can. help get this aid easily enough. ' After all, merchandise can be sold only in ratio to the amount of selling effort expended. Advertising is selling effort. It performs all the functions of selling but that, of sup-plying . ihe personality which the merchant i himself does. v One of these days, maybe today, you'll be visited by the salesmen of the manufacturers whose goods you stock. Whenever they come, interest them in Camden. Interest them so that they stay interested. Interest them so they'll want to interest their sales managers. Once you've injected this interest into the salesmen, it will spread. And spreading it will prove extremely helpful in bringing into your local noine newspaper ine advertising support of the manufactu rers whose interest it is that you sell more of their goods. Onc^, you've got this advertising support, you'll have a decided advantage in attracting Camdenites to Camden's stores. This newspaper has joined ^mall town newspapers all over the country in a nation-wide campaign to convince national advertisers that they best assist small town merchants by advertising -in the local, home town newspapers of the small town merchants. * -J You need the advertising aid of the manufacturers whose goods you stock?urge their salesmen to recommend your local home newspaper. THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE