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tL II,, "* ' '*1 1111 \p' 1 ' ' LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago 4 THIRTY YEARS AGO July 4. 1900 ? * Rev. Arthur E. Crune accept# call to pastorate of Camden Baptist church. Joel K. Branson, of Sumter, had left arm torn off in a shingle mill. Mi|n Ella Roseborough, of Chester, 17, killed at BJacksburg hy Southern train when trying to save the life of a negro tot. Hurwell Coston shot in the leg by Luther Hopton, dies in Charleston hospital nearly a year after wound was inflicted. Jlorton held for murder. Handsome new Baptist church at Kershaw dedicated. Mrs. John Spradley, SO years old, blind for about ten years, regains her sight. C. L. Kirkley moves his l>ottling plunt from Camden to Columbia. Rill Francis sends in fulse fire alarm while confined in guard house. Bill said it was too hot in there und he wanted everybody to know it. Chinn declares war against Russia and the fight is on in Manchuria. Will Wells, 4b, farmer of Nash county, N. C., is held in jail charged with kiling his- wife and wounding his 17-year old son. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. .* July 0, 1^15 Duboae and Boykin sell DcKalb i street property to I. B. English at a price of $3,000. James Koberaon, a citizen of the Cassatt section, dead. E. C. von Treackow elected aecretary and treasurer of Camden Chamber of Commerce. L. I. Guion of Camden Beef Cattle Karma ships another carload of beef cattle to northern market*. Judge Mendel L. Smith, of Fifth circuit, ill with fever in Columbia hospital. J. Frank Gardner, junior member of the Blackmon company of Kershaw, dead. Allen J. Boykin purchases farm property from S. R. J. Smith. Carolyn Heyman celebrates birthday with party to her friends on Fourth of July. .Mri). Thomas Ixjwls dead at her home on Mill strerrt. Mrs. E. C. Zemp and Miss Etta Zemp leave for a visit to Mr. Albert Zemp in Seattle, Washington. Rev. and Mrs.-Palmer BuBose and children leave for points in the far west,, after which they will sail for China. License "War" Settled Columbia.-?The "license war" that has been raging between the North and South Carolina highway departments has been settled, according to an announcement by Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway commissioner. Under the agreement trucks hauling products of farms in either state for commercial purposes may make one trip per month. Huts Headstones oa Craves Bennettsville.?The Marlboro chapter, U. I). is assisting in the move to put headstones on the unmarked graves of Marlboro county. Discover I,urge Whiskey Cargo Charleston. ? State constables Thursday night discovered a large cargo of choice whiskey aboard a rum-runner near the mouth of the Edisto riverts At least 800 cases of imported whiskey was seized with an estimated valuer of $30,000. The boat wax powered by two 16-horsepower engines. To Auction Fifty Farms Fairfax.?George R. Wheeler, manager of the Carolina Farms Agency of Columbia, has announced that his firm would have an auction sale of farm properties in Fairfax county, July 10. at which time 22 farms in Allendale county and 30 in Hampton county would be placed on sale. Car, Men and Corn Captured Chester.?Three men giving their names to officers as O. C. Mayers, Howard Harris and Harvey Righam, and their residence as Rock Hill, were arrested on the charge of transporting whiskey Thursday evening, after a 31-mile race. Fifty-four gallons of the fiery fluid was secured and destroyed and the car confiscated. Dr. H. M. Padgett CHIROPRACTOR Second Floor of Fashion Shop I Building Office hours: to *> p. m,, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of I each week. Vacation Time TRY THE COOL PLACES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHAN MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN TENNESSEE OR NORTH GEORGIA * "The Land of the Sky" TRAVEL BY TRAIN j i Comfortable. Economical. Safe. 1 ! ALSO j Jersey Seashore Resorts I Old Point Comfort i I (Including New Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel) i Virginia Beach : (Including New Hotel Cavalier) j Beaches at Ocean View ("Norfolk) Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, ; (Sea Island Beaches on Saint Simons Island) ' Mountain and Lake Region of New England I - Resorts on the Great Lakes i ! The Black Hills of South Dakota Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota L^te Resorts ' j Pacific Northwest Colorado i California Resort si National Parks Lake Region of Canada Canadian Northwest COMBINATION0 ! j RAIL and MOTOR TOURS to Mountain Resorts REDUCED FARES j j TO I [ ALL SUMMER TOURIST RESORTS | | TICKETS ON SALE DAILY I BEGINNING JUNE lf>TH, GOOD UNTIL OCTOBER 31ST [ | CONSULT TICKET AGENTS I SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM a Some Observations on Governor's Race (By Walter Duncan in Aiken Standard) Hoo-ray for the hoo-rah! Just a week old?from Lexington to Aiken? and the gubernatorial campaign4va? descended to the low level of a negro hotsupper, thanks in particular to the malignancy of that venom-breathing tragedian, Voucher Olin Johuston, and the buffoon from Columbia, John* nie Jump-up McMahan. The fact that just unybody can run for .governor has again been strikingly demonstrated to the people of South Carolina. If it has been the deliberate pur pose of this effluvial twuin to sing a duet with motif so steeped in vituperative and abusive vulgarity as to overthrow discussion of vital issues in an intelligent and a decent manner, these birds of prey could hardly have hit upon a more effective concert of action. Humiliating as it must assuredly he to gentlemen who have entered the gubernatorial contest and gone before the people in good faith with constructive programs for the rehabilitation of agriculture, the reform South Carolina's antiquated tax system and the economic upbuilding and development of the state, to see the people's forum largely monopolized by the ghoulish vendetta of the one and the idiotic parody of the other, particularly mortifying must it be to the irreconciliable Colonel from Greenville, who because his basic text is largely the same as theirs is inevitably?and not altogether unreasonably?associated in the public mind with them. But, however unfortunate and regrettable it is that, rather than resting^ his case against the highway bond issue upon logical argument^ Col. Keith has indulged in personalities and brought forth charges based on nothing more substantial than vague generalities, he is, nevertheless, one must admit, merely verbose rather than venal. The element of the dangerous is lacking in Col. Keith, in any event. Ope after another of th<? candidates have remonstrated against the campaign of unsubstantiated and slanderous abuse?the filth that only political carrion could stomach without making 'em sick?spat out by viper tongues at public officials and private citizens. But this campaign has peir sisted, because Jonnie Jump-up McMahon knows from experience acquired in his former campaigns?he is always running for something or other?that he can't get an audience to listen to his twanging twaddle and j his inane gibbering unless he stages a Bunch and Judy show, appealing by | degrading gibes at his betters, to those of his audiences who, like him, relish the vile mess he dishes up: and because Voucher Johnston, who "wouldn't trust Cip Jones with >.$100 of his money," would find his mentality seriously overtaxed to find something to talk about if he should abandon his damnation, wreck and ruin speech, his appeal to class hatred and his puny suspicions of other people's honesty and integrity. So far, however, as the buff on Jonnie Jump-up IMcMahon is concerned, there is no occasion for surprise whatever he may say or do. I>r. Fred Williams is never surprised at the ravings or the antics of any of the poor unfortunates in his charge in Columbia. And nobody pays any attention to Jonnie. The votes he gets is ample evidence of this fact. The vociferous applause which Voucher Johston has been getting at certain stages of his speech this past week, beginning at Lexington and" continuing through the Aiken meeting, has been more noisy than convincing since it has been largely the handiwork of Jthttt past master at ballyhooing. John W*. Duncan of Langley?side partner of Johnston in exploiting the cotton mill people and drawing payment from the state treasury for services they did not perform and expenses they did not incur John Duncan being Voucher Johnston's cheer leader, and n lusty pair of lungs he has. With John I)unca;. at '.heir head, a contingent of trans ent "hurrah boys" who have boon -il..wing from one campaign nieetirg to another, perform that time-worr. function of hollering when Voucher Johnston gives 'em the cue. Tho same crowd has been doing all the yelling all week. Less than a week has been necessary for this campaign to demonstrate how perfectly easy it is for some men to make pluperfect fools of themselves. But. however re.Trettable that the campaign has started off with such a perceptible deterioration, there is hope. The low level on which it has been pitched so far will be elevated. There's no doubt of that, because ?here are in tha race a .number of men of the highest type of citizenry, men who have brains and capacity, honest i and forceful men who are in the con test nut to degrade it or to make of the campaign a carrousel of abuse and absurdity, but who, more interested in helping to work out the problems confronting the people than in their own political fortune*, are predicating their campaign* not on hatred and prejudice*, but upon the deuire to discus* these problems with the people and uj>on patriotic service to their state. These men will continue to present their arguments and advance their policies, and the people of the state will ?oon lire of and become disgusted with the vociferous reiterations of those who have been properly characterized as "blatherskites, character assassins and sewer ruts"?for the public i* a pretty good public and it has a very fine way of insisting upon fair play. Moreover, this same public is mightily interested in the issues of this campaign, and it is going to insist upon having these issues di* cussed without extraneous bi-play in slanderous and useless personalities and abuse. If there is, for instance, one question on which there is more personal feeling?more bitter feeling, perhaps ?than any one other one right now, it is the question of prohibition; and although it won't enter into the present campaign as one of the determining factors it has nevertheless been injected as an issue. There is an out-and-out "wet" and an outand-out "dry" candidate for governor. But these two gentlemen, Ashton U. Williams of Florence and W. W. Smoak of Walterboro, as far apart as the poles on this question and in many other ways, can and have discussed this question before the people without endeavoring to inflame anybody's passions. The highway bond issue ought to be discussed in the same way. Solicitor Blackwood, pursuing the even tenor of his way, presenting a strong, intelligent and convincing argument in a dignified manner and employing the logical contention that the highway bond issue has passed the stage of political controversy, it remaining for the governor merely to administer the law as the law has been enacted and upheld1 by the courts, leaves very little for saying on this point. Unless the law should he changed-?and only the legislature has the right to do that?any governor who would refuse to' carry out the provisions of the highway act, or even hold it up until there should be a vote on it by the people, would b$ actinic in violation of the law and of oath of office. Practically all of the candidate# advocate the classification of property ( for taxation, and this important tax reform )?, therefore, hardly an issue in this campaign. Since all those in the lace who have any show of beinic elected ure for this reform, and since the icroundwork has already been laid, it is now up to the people to vote favorably upon the constitutional amendment that is necessary before anything else can be done, and unless the constitution is so amended no governor can do a blessed thing about it. Pour years ago Mr. Blackwood made this one of the principle planks in his platform, and largely as the result^ of the agitation at that time and his forceful presentation of the matter then, sentiment has been crystalizing in favor of this fundamental reform, with the result that the legislature, at the lih'iO session, made provision for submission of the question to the people of the state. R. Beverly Herbert of Columbia is, however,'performing a public service' by going before the people in further j advocacy of this reform, explaining its meaning tp them and impressing upon them its vital importance. Unless the people are reminded of the necessity of voting for the constitutional amendment it is quite within the range of possibility that it will fail of the necessary support at the polls. Especially regrettable has it been that A. Frank Lever of Lexington was unable, during the past week, to be with the campaign party. At Lexington Lever made a splendid presentation of his platform and received an ovation from his home county people. From the moment of his entry into the race the fact has been realized and recognized that he is a strong factor. Mr. Lever's farm relief program, on which he has heretofore only touched in brief outline, has been eagerly awaited by the farmers of South Carolina, many of whom are looking^fee?him as their one hope of disentanglement from the economic morass into which agriculture has fallen. He has, however, not suffered in his candidacy by reason of his enforced absence from the campaign during the past week for the particular reason that throughout the Second Congressional District, where the campaign party haa been, he nationally atrong, and perh?p? 9 leading candidate. Taking the state as a whole, h<n| aver, the flrat week of the has made no ohangee in the j>itci9 paign statu* of the governor's it ia now as then that the man *9 defeats Ira Blackwood if does will be the next governor. 1 Clemson Collegel Scholarship Examination! I -1 n ^1. Competitive examination! for ?J award of vacant scholarship! |J Clesnson College will be held 0#1 Friday, July Hth, 1930, begiJI at 9 A. M., by each County SuikmJ tendent of Education. These scholiJ Ships will be open to young sixteen years of age or over, desire to pursue courses in A^icuJ ture and Textiles, Scholarship! awarded by the State Board of cation <"? < !'<' recommendation of thel State Board of Public Welfare. Persons interested should v<*l the Registrar for information application blanks before the ti J j of the examinations. Successful^B | plicants must meet fully the roqdfl ments for admission. \x\ Fach scholarship is worth tlWjfl and free tuition, which is $40.0yfl ditional. ' For further information wrifcjB THE REGISTRAR I Clemson College, S. C, M University of Sooth Carolina < ?t) Columbia, S. C. D. M. Douglas, President /j SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANl EXAMINATIONS Examinations for award of via scholarships in the University ! for entrance will be held at th? 0 ty Court House Friday, July 11,1 at 9 A. M. Applicants must be years of age. Scholarships are vacant in the! lowing counties: Abbeville. Aita Allendale, Anderson, Barn-well, Be fort, Berkeley, Charleston, Cheroh Chester, Chesterfield, Florence, Ii rens, McCormick, Marion, Oconi Williamsburg, York. Applicants for scholarships shoo write to Committee on Norms! Schol arships for application blanks, to 1 returned by July 9th. Scholarship worth $100 plus tuition and term feat Next session will open September 11 1930. 1 I SUMMER SCHOOL I This Bank offers you the facilities to meet the require ments of modern business The First National Bank Camden, South Carolina 4 7*? - ^ ? .. ZL? -