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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE vr.i. Broad Stmt and Mt?red it m$ Cam* dan, South Carolina poototflco An nooond class mall matter. Prion par annum $240, payable in adennff. Friday, July 24, I9S1 Unless the railroads of th? country are permitted to increase freight rates by at least 15 per cent, the investments of life insurance companies and the savings banks of the country will be jeopardized, Kdward C. I)ufield, president of the Prudential Lifeinsurance company, told the Interstate Commerce commission at a hearing in Washington on Wednesday. The insurance companies and banks will be forced to stop buying railroad bonds unless the earnings of the railroads are increased, he said. A Chicago woman, suing her husband for divorce, was given permission by the court tp use apartments .over his store until the divorce matter was settled. The husband was also assigned one room for sleeping in the apartment, and also the rlg^t to use the bathroom. The wife complained to the court that hubby was using the bathroom every day and Asked the court to restrain him to one bath a week. The court refused, saying that every man had a right to bathe as often as hp desired. She claimed that previously hubby toak one bath a week, while now he bathes every day just to annoy her. Stop In Time To Win Mark Twain's "Sermon To Salesmen" is not so well known as it ought to be, and is certainly deserving of a place in every series of lecture or preaching. I could and I would, name quite a few men whose preaching would bo more effective if they had heard it, and heeded its moral, in early days. Once, he alleged, he went to church, and there heard a missionary give an address. "He was, he proceeded, "the most eloquent orator I ever listened to. He painted the benighted conditions of the heathen so well that I resolved to break a life-long habit and contribute a dollar to teach the gospel to my benighted brethren. As the speaker proceeded I decided to make it five dollars, and then ten. Finally I knew it to be my duty to give to the cause all the cash I had with me ?twenty dolla rs. The pleading of I the orator wrought upon me still further, and I decided not only to give all the cash I had with tpy, but to borrow twenty dollars from my friend who sat at my side. That was the time to take up the collection. However, the speaker proceeded, and I lost interest, and finally dropped off into a sweet slumber; and when the usher woke me by prodding me in the ribs with the collection plate, I not only refused to contribute, but I am ashamed to state that I stole fifteen cents from the plate."?Methodist Recorder ('Lon don). Hack To The Country Hack-to-the-farm movements have long been held up as economical assets. With business, industrial, commercial and economic structures tumbling in all nations as they are today, back-to-the-farm may turn from a Chamber of Commerce slogan for a better day, to a battle cty for existence. The time may come within a decade, some tell us, when eyery man must keep himself alive without the commodities cried out as essentials to life in high-powered advertising. The economic structures may become too complicated to exist. The individual will tower over the system. The machine will fail; men will carry on. He that a* ;t may. these columns have said time and again, there is a gradual hejira 'back to the country ? back to nature, where we came from, figures from federal lit ml banks the nation over are indicative . of this movement. Man is looking for a place where he ear. live through depression. unemployment, and moratorium debates, Piv-ldeiit Motherland of the St. Louis Federal land bank is optimistic: "Our farm sales for the first four months of 1931 are 50 per cent of the entire sales of 1950. Last year was the first in ten in which the farm population has shown an increase. I am firmly convinced that both our agricultural and industrial situation^ will be near solution when the proper balance between the farm And city populations has been restored." , President Brown of Louisville's Federal land hank speaks in like terms, stressing that most buyers of farm lands are people living in the community; not outsiders. Kentucky is going back to the country?4b?ck in the deep blue grass of Old South where she can live in luxury ehe never knew on city streets. And to come nearer home. The Augusta Herald quotes President F. h ?rowa oi the Co1jij*U federal land bank. 4'Fnr? land U again being recogn^Md M on# of th? safest inveetaienU that ?an be madt. I^rary evtdenC# poiptg"toward an awakening on the part of the people to the fact that farms are on the' bargain count* r and :when they are operated by people who know how to farm, they wjll not only pay the taxes and inter* eat and make a living for the buyer, but pay a worthy dividend on the investment, At prevailing prices no community can afford to permit land to be non-productive, for we have a need ill''the ^Southeast for the products of*every tillable acre. We are still importers of a num^r of staple agricultural commodities which can be purchased. Until this condition is ( banged there is ample room for local initiative in putting idle acres to wbrk. We find that klmost all our sales are made locally to people who know the intrinsic value of farm property and what it can produce. The present purchasers are proving their judgment to be correct by the fact that very few fail to make the grade." Does it'look like we're going back to the country, after a brief and unprofitable stay in town??Spartanburg Herald. THE BAD EFFECT OF ENVY It is One of Most Potent Enemies to Success in Life, Unless Curbed Worry, hard work, dissipation, poor judgment, ill health, deapnodency? all theee ard enemies of success, but none of them has a more evil effect thun envy, the Gaffngy ledger says. This little demon is always on the alert for a chance to (pop into the most unsuspecting head. If the soil is ripe for him, he insinuates that you are not receiving enough of this world's goods for what you are giving. He blackens your friend's character by causing you to draw unfair conclusions about him. Envy tells you that you are not appreciated; that honest work has no reward?only grafters and hypocrites get on in the world. He gives you a false estimate of your own ability. I Then you begin to loathe your job and hate your friends. Your work is not up to its former high standard. You become a confirmed pessimist and see bad in everyone. Happily, however, there is a cure for this condition of mind that envy produces. If your friends are prosperous, be glad, because it indicates what can be done with the proper amount of determination. Let their prosperity be a lesson. If your friends are well liked you may be -sure there is a good reason for it and that you can learn the secret by close observation. Take advantage of every opportunity to help and serve that is within the scope of your ability. Then you have a different view of the world in which you live. Your change in attitude will 'bring rewards unexpected, The police of Columbia have been ordered to keep a watch on chicken coops and see thHt none are^>ver crowded and that all have sufficient water. A new residence costing $85,000 is being built at Aiken for Richard F. Ilowe, of New York, and is to be finisnea oy lArvtnrurr I. 11 trill" somewhat like the winter home at Aiken of Col. Robert R. McCormick, of Chicago. A debt moratorium for wheat farmers of the southwest is proposed at a time when the wheat harvest usually means plenty, but now finds the farmers in distress because of the very low prices offered for wheat. The Atlanta weather bureau announced Wednesday that rains of Tuesday and Tuesday night had definitely broken the drought in the South, the rains covering the whole cotton belt east of northern Texas. Two bandits with their pistols wrapped in newspapers, entered a bank at Stanton, Tenn., Friday and made their getaway with between $5.i)t)l) and $0,000. It was the second robbery of the bank within a few months. \ ice-President Curtis is quoted from Washington as still undecided whether or not he will stand for reelection to the vice-presidency on a ticket with Mr. Hoover or run for the senate to represent his state, Kansas. Despondent because of financial troubles, a German farmer named Seedorf, living near Ohlenstedy, set fire to his home after locking himself and four children In the basement. All were dead when the firemen arrive^. Miss Lucille Parcer, of Startown, N. C., jumped tnto Lake Hickory, near Hickory, last Thursday njght, Where she had 'trope iwit^ her sweetheart, while the eoujfte were' standing ott Gun Powder Qreek bridge. Bud Cline, her companion, notified the Hickory police. General News Notes A whit# haired mother paid out |77 in nickels, dimes and qua He re in a Los Angeles court to save her "boy" William from a jail sentence for having passed a worthless check. "My boy" is 40 years old. F. C. Hall, Oklahoma oil men and backer of GaUy and Pd'st in their l^ound-the-world flight, says he ?s ready to back an attempt to lower the time of the two fliers, but will let the attempt be made by other fliers. Two negroes were frowned ami another was seriously injured Saturday when a truck turned over and spilled twenty men into a well near Gadsden, Ala. The negroes were on the truck enroute to a baseball game. I^ee Mcliiirgue, cotton mill worker, convicted a few days ago at Newton, N. C., with manslaughter verdict for having killed a young woman, and sentenced to 30 to 40 years in prison, has had his sentence reduced to 20 years. Three bandits killed a deputy sheriff Friday following an unsuccessful attempt to escape after robbing a bank at Buckley, 111. One robber was wounded by the deputy, the other two were captured by a posse in a corn field without a battle. James Goodwin Hall, former army flyer, on Saturday made a non-stop flight from New York to Havana, Cuba, in eight hours and forty minutes elapsed time, beating the former record 'held by Captain Frank Hawks by 46 minutes. Roe Smith, World war veteran, ra l amuck at Annapoli^ Md., Sunday and before he could be taken in charge had killed one neighbor and wounded two others. He was finally arrested by a posse of 500 whb besieged his home for 11 hours. George O. Wallace, on his 25tn birthday yesterday, hired an airplane for a ride and when 1,200 feet up over Jamestown, N. Y., climbed out on a wing, attracted the attention of the pilot by shouting at him and jumped. He fell in a cemetery. Hehad been sick all last winter, but his family thought he had recovered, James A. Farley, chairman of the New York state Democratic committee, has issued a statement in which he declares after a tour of the country a "universal feeling bhat the Democratic party is on the eve of 'a great national victory." George Endrcs and Alexander Magyar in the transatlantic monoplane, "Justice for Hungary," were fdrced to land last Friday 15 miles from Budapest, their goal, because of shortage of fuel, after flying from Harbor Grace, N. F. They were given a tumultous welcome on reaching Budapest. Chester W. Taylor, former congressman, was shot to death by his father-in-law, Judge C. M. Philpot, at Pine Bluff, Ark., when Taylor was trying to become reconciled to his wife. Philpot attempted suicide following the shooting of Taylor,?but failed and was committed to a state hospital for nervous disease. The county physician says the judge Is insane. * B. Mabry Hart, nationally known cotton manufacturer of Tarboro, N. C., was found dead in a Raleigh hotel room early Friday morning. Hj^ had vvvir .7 T" hhf> night before with two other men and three women, during which there had been much drinking. It is undecided whether Hart died from suffocation from a fire in his room or from heart ^rouble. One negro was killed and five wounded at Camp Hill, Ala., Friday as posses sought leaders of a ipnss meeting near there at which Governor Miller was threatened with violence unless he released eight negroes under sentence of death og an alleged attack jon two white girls near Scottsboro last March. Sheriff Young was seriously wounded and a deputy sheriff hurt. Thirty negroes were arrested. * The lowest bidder for nqarly 20,000 turkish towels for the veterans bureau tjie other day was the Blair mills of Bolton, near Anderson, whose bid was $3,300, which is a little less than 16 cents apiece. Sixty tons of yeast have been used in South Carolina in the last two years to' combat pellagra, the state health officers say. Deaths from the disease are decreasing as the people learn how to prevent and treat it. A baby girl two years old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar B. Powell, of Columbia,-was killed by falling out of bed. . .She lived a week after the accident. Ruby Spencer of Gaffney, wai arrested there and taken to Spar&bburg to answer charges of passing a considerable number of valueless checks on merchants. They v^|re signed with the names of sev^al people and were on a Gaffney H- L. Groves, American comn$arci? Attache at Berlin, reports &,9o2,000 unemployed persons in Germany. ' J. Cloufh Wallace, * prominent atj toroey of Union for years, t?? knocked down by the Carolina Special of the Southern railroad, as he walked beside the track. Hi* w*? broken and a rash cut in. his head, but he will recover, although aged. The American Legion Increased it* membership in this state 8 per cent during the last year and has 9,5#6 members with 53 poets receiving citations for exceeding their quotas of members. Colombia has the most members of any city, 729, with Spartanburg second with 599, Anderson third with 54X, and Greenville fourth with 378. Clarence Barbee, 58, a farmer, is in jail at Springfield, Tenn., where he is held for the killing of a son, 27, and attempting to kill another son. He then attempted suicidfl. hy~ <}r|Q]dnrr poison, but the poit^p was knocked out of his hands. The father tried tp make one son, who was ill, do rfehje farm work. The other son Then the father went into his' horfte and came out with a pistol, demanding that the sons apologize to him. They refused and the shooting followed. In his remorse the father is now begging for death. Five men were in a camp near Tamaqua, Pa. They drank the alcohol extracted from "canned heat.'' They are all dead. C. C. Julian, big oil operator of California, is in a Cell at Oklahoma ,City, Okla., facing trial in Federal court for using the mails to defraud. Rev. E. A. Sandifer, 40, pastor of Cotton Valley, La., Baptist church, stopped preaching Tuesday at 9:30 p. m. after' preaching continuously for 58 1-2 hours. , i The last remnant of Kentucky na-1 tional Guardsmen sent to Harlan last May on account of the coal strikes, have been withdrawn by Covernor Sampson. J. L. Ituckman of Corbley, Mont., picked up a 3-pound meteorite in his yard while still white hot, after the meteorite had crashed and set fire to grass pi the yard. Levee work totaling $5,000,000 and dredging and navigation Work totaling $11,000,000, \va^4 begun on the Mississippi river Wednesday. This will mean work for many men. . Miss Florence Leiberman, 19, of Pottstown, Pa., is recovering from burns' received Tuesday night when a corset with steel ribs was torn from her body by a bolt of lightning. The German seaplane DO-X, now at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, plans a leisurely flight to New York, beginning next week, after a complete overhauling following its recent transatlantic flight. Four persons were killed by lightning and widespread damage was done to crops by a storm in northern Ohio on Friday night. The first bale of the 1931 cotton crop was ginned at Lasera, Texas, and was wrapped in 100 per cent cotton bagging. Fo?l a PUuut Compaaioa Matthew Green, an English poet who was born In 1006 and died in 1787, proved himself a witty and"pl6*fflQif companion for his friends and his employers. While working In the cua? toms house and wishing to supply with milk the cats which were kept there, Green wrote a successful petition In their nnme. At another time when a water man Insulted him as he was bathing by calling out, "Quaker" and a trlQJld asked how his sect could be detected when he was wearing no clothes. Green replied, '"By my swimming upstream." In many of his writings his humor is apparent, especially in "Splaen," * poem published posthumously. Loyal Fax Tarriar A delightful fntie story or uw iu\ufulness of a fox terrier is told In a Budapest (Hungary) newspaper. Tha little dog was a great friend of a street flower seller. Ona day be missed her from her piece and moped. The next day she was still absent He rushed into the restaurant where be belonged and made such a disturbance that the waiters set to work to discover what It was all about They made Inquiries about the flower seller, and learned that she had been run over. A collection for her was made in the restaurant as a tribute to the dog. Perfectly true, says the newspaper. Color of PlantU Venua, Jupiter and Mars are of different colore. Venus is a silvery white, Jupiter Is yellowish and Mars Is red. The hue of planets represents their true colors, while the color of stars Is caused by the temperatures of their surfaces. Observed through a telescope, VenAs Is seen to be covered with brilliant white clouds, while the clouds of Jupiter are saffron.. Mars Is not obscured by clouds, however, and through a telescope Its surface can be observed. Th$i shows wide expanses of what has been described as red desert, possibly a red sand or reck. Msfwl The Homely One?I dried the thought of advanctifg age. The Catty One?Oh. well, yw have oae consolation, you have so good looks to lose.?Cincinnati Enquirer. > Two men, one the pilot and the ?m!5 f farm .Were SPJj* to * crfParsons, Kan., Sunday when the airplane went into a tail spin from an altitude of 300 feet. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will apply to the Secretary of State for South Carolina ,on the 27th day of .July, 1901, for a charter for "DePass' l>rug Store" to operate a retail drug and merchandise business with its principal place of business in Camden, S. C. W. L. DePASS E. W. DePASS Corpo inters. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Joanna M. Jones, Administratrix of the estate of R. L. Jones, deceased, will, on the 24th day of August, 1931. file with the Probate Judge for Kershaw County her final return, and will on said date apply to the Court for a discharge as said Adminietratrix. JOANiNA M. JONES, Camden, S. C., July 23, 1931. 5ti j Wants?For Sale COACHING ? In French, Spanish, English or History. Miss Ida de Loach, 1305 Lyttleton Street. Eormerly with Warrenton Country School and Stuart Hall in Virginia. Phone 247-W, Camden, S. C. 17-19?b FOUND?On the streets of Camden Thursday morning a package of j Yule hypodermic needles. Owner can have same by calling at The Chronicle office and paying for this advertisement. FOR SALE?Fresh whole milk, 10 cents per quart. Telephone 259-W., I 909 Lyttleton Street. 16-18sb FOR SALE?Several good milk cows. Apply J. H. Burns, Camden, S. C. 17tf FOUND?On Wednesday, July 22nd, one automobile trunk. Owner can get samfc. by identifying it and paying for this ad. Address T. M. Thigpen, Rt. 3, Camden, S. C. 17pd lOR RENT?An apartpnent of four rooms and bath. Apply to J. H. Burns, Camden, ,S. C., lGtf ROOMS AND BOARD-~TVTj cool rooms with private bath of hot water. Good board J reasonable. Address P. 0 1Q7, Camden, S. C. FOR R^NT-?Five-room houitj l.afuyctu* avenue. Hai KirJ chicken house, store room in 3 Kent $20 oer month. Addrtul Or Box 107, Camden, S. c. 16.J FOR SALE-rOne, milch cow, jJj producing five gallons milk J day. write to N. B. WorkJ Westville, .8. or call at hit S near DeKalb. ym FOR 8ALE?Cotton patch petal drees W. A. Edwards, Rt. uj Ville, ? C, , wm FOR RENT?ilx room houul Highland Avenue, newly p*jJ inside and outside, good sized House faces East. Call XJ I Goodale or N. R. Goodale, jTj The Camden Floral Company, || ephone 198, Camden, B. C. l&J FOR RENT?Rooms for rent, J nished or unfurnished. Appljl J. K. Lang, at Lang's GrpJ Camden, S. C. I iJ MONEY TO LOAN?<On imj City Real Estate at 6 per il Apply to W. K. Hough, 5|I S. C. V" 14-mJI FOR RENT?'Seven room hou3 good condition at $20 per mm Call telephone 210, Carolina ] Company, Camden, S. C. ? FOR SALE?-Several milk cowm sale at very reasonable prices,! P. McGuirt, manager Gum Plantation, Camden, <4S. C., phone 148. J 13-1(1 WAN1J5D?No. 1 pine logs. Hkl cash prices paid; year rouMi mand. Sumter Planing Mills I Lumber Co., Attention E. S.jJ Sumter. S. C. 1-1 CARPENTEKiiNIi?Jonn S. Mji phone 268, 812 Church Stl Camden, S. C., will give factory service to all for alljfl of carpenter work. Bull ^general repairs, screeningr.cil making and repairing furdl My workmanship is my refcfl I solicit your patronage. Tm ing you in advance. il| I Juttt Re^YwTtoOarEfctartk] I Series Opened Lisl Monday, July 20tk I < 1 I Com* in *t ?bc? wl l*t J? fca** y*ur I I .uUeripUon for !> * ? I I WATEREE BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION I I First National Bank Building Camden, S. C. 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