The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 14, 1931, Image 7
When Dog Sucks One
Egg, No Nest Safe
Aug generation affords an excelexample
of the truth that pride
rtti before a ty].
I J( boasts of its worldly wisdom and
Uects a hard-boiled sophistication,
L its gullibility surpasses anything
L world has seen since the sharpers
Ej gold bricks and lightning rods.
Observe, for example, the multid^e'g
pathetic faith in the honor of
kootleggors.
Despite the grim evidence afforded
the blind, the lame and the poisoned
dead, the liquor buyer clings to his
child-like faith in labels and regards
lis own bootlegger as the one incorruptible
exception in a vast company
of rogues.
Consider, also, the daily report of
rictims fleeced by plausible strangers
vho offered them u share in some
money-making enterprise not sanctioned
by law.
In every such case the sharper is
k confessed rogue, for bis get-richluick
scheme is based on some form
if trickery, yet tho victim's lust for
issy money blinds him to the truth
kit men who live outside tfie law
live no rules or standards that lntrfere
with taking a profit.
Is further evidence needed to prove
his a generation of suckers?
If men in legitimate business, suported
in virtue by fear of the law
nd public opinion, shame our civilution
by their frequent dishonesties,'
iho but a low-grade moron can put
is trust in men who are avowed eneiics
of the law and protected in rasility
by the assurance that their vi>
nis dare not make complaint?
This generation is easily tricked
cause it no longer understands the
(nificance of honor,
fears ago I heard a man boast that
! regularly cheated a railroad by
irchasing a ticket for a point many
iles short of his destination. Fifteen
sirs later I heard without surprise
at he had robbed the institution
at trusted him with its funds.
A man's honor is like a woman's
rtue. He is wholly honorable or he
without honor.
If he is dishonorable in one particur,
nothing but fear of punishment
eps him from being dishonorable in
. If he cheats a stranger, assurce
of safety and sufficient prize
II induce him to cheat his brother.
Honor is a state of mind, not knack'
keeping out of jail,?Fountain Inn
ibune.
As an attorney defended Mrs. Lule
El lis, 26-year-old mother in the
iourt at Memphis, Tenn., on
' of driving a car while drunk,
poison and then telephoned
sand, ordered an ambulance
taken to a hospital. 'Her
arrived at her bedside shortshe
died.
try Doak of the labor deat
Washington, reports that
fil 1 to July 31, his departgggded
in placing a tntj.1 of
inemployed persons, and in
an with-state, city and other
during the same period a
638,698 persons were placed
yment.
>y Henri de .Saird of 'New
La., is in Boston to defend
rterriman, negro, descendant
ives of the de Saird family,
Iran aiouf oi tne law m x?ostfording
to de Saird it hgs al*n
the custom of his family
old family retainers who
rouble.
*nks of Germany, closed more
weeks ago by decree of
klindenberg, were opened
day for regular public busiuring
the period the banks
1?ed to regular business with^ore
allowed only for apPurpo*es
such as payrolls and
Staling $1,700 have been
or the arrest of the negro
n a young society woman
m'ngham a few days ago and
tvvo others after jumping on
^ board of their automo1
ding them for four hours
ono of them escaped and
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GETTING BUSINESS
GLOOM BEHIND US
By HOME C. STEPHENSON
Pretidemt America* Hankerm Atsaciotio*
TIERE 1h such a thing an over-atayfiiK
a depression Just as there It
of overstaying a boom. Over-confl
deoce makes the
great majority
miss the turn In
a boom, aud uu
der-conf ldence
makes them hiIhh
1t In a depression
A leadlug
York banker wa*
asked recently
whea he could
teH that a turn
fer the better had
come. "About
three month t
after it has hap
yunuu, ne candidly replied.
There is more significance in that
remark than appears on the surface.
As more and more manufacturers and
business men reulize that the turn has
already come and that they are overstaying
the time to adopt ponstructlve
policies, they begin cautiously to presB
their selling campaigns, to speed up
their production, to enlarge their work
ing forces and increase their commitments
for supplies. It is the gathering
weight of their Influences that Anally
raises the pressure of confidence
to 'tho dynamic power of recovery.
The surest way to bring the nation
out of the business depression is to
raise the pressure of public confidence
to the point of becoming such a
dynamic force. It has invariably been
the push of that force which has
started recovery in the past, and it
is the gathering power of this force
! which will start recovery from this
present depression.
It is a favorable sign of the times
that there seems to general agreement
that the bottom of the depression
has been reached and all eyes
are peeled and looking ahead for the
first indications that the turn for the
better is in sight. Who knows but
what the first thing we know we will
find ourselves looking backward Instead
of forward as we realize that
the turn has already come. It is a
rough and rocky road that runs across
the bottom of the valley of business
depression, and most of us are too
busy steering the old Ford from bump
to bump to be able to take in all the
scenery. So who knows but what
some Important changes in the landscape
are already taking place.
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R. C. STBPHBNSON
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BANKERS FAVOR
GRADUAL CHANCE
National Commission Believes
Local Sentiment Should Govern
Evolution in Methods
of Conducting Banking.
IF substantial changes are to be
* brought about in branch banking in
the United States they should originate
within the states rather than
from Washington on inter-state lines
as proposed in "trade area" branch
banking plans, a recent report of the
Economic Policy Commission of the
American?Rftnirftfp AannnUfinn declares.
Such changes, it adds, "should
develop by evolutionary rather than
revolutionary stages."
"The extension of branch banking
through state,action would mean that
states not now permitting state banks
to have branches or else closely re^
strlcting them, would individually'liberalize
their )$Wb as an expression ofchanging
local desires and conditions,
liberate, evolutionary proceBB," the report
says. "The other method, that Is,
through Federal action, would mean a
sweeping change for the ooqntry as
a whole, for legislation granting
branch banking powers to. national
banks in all states, regardless of localsentiment,
would, of course, Induce
equivalent branch banking enactments
in every state in the Union not now
permitting or really wanting state
banks to have branches, in order to
keep them on a competitive equality.
Upholds Sues Privileges
"We find some bankers who feel
that a proper stimulus to the development
of branch banking would be
given by the Federal Government taking
the initiative through granting
broader privileges within state lines
to national banks than they now enjoy.
It is argued that state governments
could then follow suit as to
state banks and that in this way a
more progressive branch banking attitude
might be promoted by the national
banks taking the lead. While
we do not deny that there may be
some merit in this view as to some
specific localities, we stand firm nevertheless
on the principle that no such
grant of powers to national banks
should cross state lines, or exceed the
privileges that state legislatures could
and would grant to their state banks.
"Moreover we believe' that if the
eholce between these two possible
courses of extending branch banking
were put up to bankers they would
fee generally opposed to eny forcible
lmrosltlon of branch banking on the
states through the medium of the national
bank system. We believe it
would be preferable for any change
to come about through the more gradual
and democratic method of the
states granting their banks branch
banking powers state by stati where,
if,, and aa local conditions and sentiment
might be ready for a change."
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Alaska's ranhantllo !
Geographic Harbor on Southorn Coaat of Alacka PeAln.ul.
(I r?ii#r?4 by the National Q?ogr*phlc
Society, Washington. D. C.)
P'-AN.s of Colons! and Mrs. Lln<J jergh
to fly to tho Orient und
their first rejKjrted Intention to
fly westward focuses attention on
the ulr route to Asia along Alaska's
southeast "panhandle," the greut Alaska
peninsula and the Aleutian. Islands,
all under American jurisdiction; Kamchatka,
a part of the Soviet Union;
and the Kurlle Islunds, northern extension
of Japan.
J he route is an ideal one as fur as
lauding places ure concerned for
planes fitted with pontoons, for while
most of the ground Is rough, there
are innumerable coves and harbors
among the Islands nnd in their indented
coastlines. The route wus first
shown to he practicable by the group
of United States army flyers who flew
around the world In 1024.
The first leg of the route, after tho
United States proper Is left, lends
over the straits along the west coast
of Rrltlgn Columbia, then over the
Island-studded Inland Passage of
southeast Alaska. Reyond the northern
end of the Inland Passage comes
the open water of the Gulf of Aluska
until Kodlak Island Is reached, south
of the Alaska peninsula. It Is froui.
the tip of this peninsula that the l,.r?00mlle
crescent of the Aleution Island
chain sweeps off toward Asia.
The Aleutians are volcanic, a fact
made plain by the first and largest of
the "stepping stones," Unlmak. Although
It has an area only a little
larger than Ithode Island, so many
craters occur on Unlmak island that
there is often a great deal of confusion
as to the location of the various
eruptions reported. Mount Shlshnldin,
often reported active, is the most
striking and beautiful of the eleven
major craters of the Island. It has
one of the most nearly perfect cones
In the world, seeming to float suspended
in the air above its cloud-girt
base.
What Unlmak Is Llk?.
Despite Unlmak's size and Its separation
from the mainland of Alaska
by only a narrow strip of water, it is
of little Importance. There are no
good harbors around ItR shores nnd
only one settlement, Cape Alsit village,
is listed.
Cod fishing on the great banks to
the south of the Island, which are similar
to those of Newfoundland, and the
mining of small quantities of sulphur
and pumice stone are the principal Industries.
The inhabitants are mostly
j the remnants of the original native
tribes found here by the Russians In
the Eighteenth century. ?
Like its sister Islands, Unlmak Is In
general desolate and scraggy along Its
rocky, grass-covered lower slopes. It
is treeless, and, except for Its heavy
rainfall and fogs, has a delightful climate.
Summers In Unlmak are cooler
than places farther north, while In
.winter the weather is milder than
that of Tennessee or Kentucky, twenty
^flegreesjpf latitude farther soutly. The
warm Japan current, wnicn creeps tip
the coftst of Asia and around the
Aleutlqfts, gives It a January average
of thirty degrees above zero.
Grasses of all kinds grow In abundance
on the lowlands all year round,
but the climate Is too damp to
mature grain. ^^Ithough the soil is
rich; being composed of a vegetable
mold ir^xed with volcanic ash, the
land Is rugged and there are no places
where farms of any size can be made.
Small though the island Is, the Interior
has never been thoroughly explored.
Unlmak and other iRlands of the
Aleutian chain, believed to be the
route by which man first migrated to
the Western hemisphere, should he
better known to the world at large,
for they are on the shortest route between
our northwestern states and
Jnpnn. The great expanse of the Pacific
and the curvature of the earth
places Yokohama almost due northwest
of Seattle. If one follows the
most direct path.
The American world flyers remenv
hew Unlmak as part of one of the
most difficult stages In their globe
circling trip. Port Moller. the com
munlty to which Major Martin made
his way on foot after his ptane
crashed) Is about ISO miles farther
east. The district presented the same |
pitfalls for'aviators as Unlmak. con
leal peaks and sharp ridges rising suddenly
out of dreary fog-hidden tundras
and marshes. Portage Ray, where a
frt'rced landing was made. Is on the
mainland opposite Kodlak Island, but Is
similar to the few Indentations of Unlmak's
shoreline. with rocky cliffs and
treacherous sand shoals.
The Aleutians, however, have an
added handicap In the "wlllle-waqs,"
cyclonic winds peculiar to the region
nnd probably attributable to the meet
Ing of the cold winds from the north
nnd the warm breezes from the Japan
current
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Unalaskn, h hundred miles farther
east, In the tecuml largest of the
Aleutians. On it is sltuuted Dutch
Harbor, port of call for vessels plying
between Seattle and Nome. This harbor
has deep water at its wharves and
a protected anchorage that could accommodate
the largest battle tleet.
'J he shortest sea route between Seattle
and Yokohama (the great circle route)
ilia* practically through Dutch Harbor,
and it may some time become an (m
portntit Coaling and provisioning point.
Because of the dangers from fogs and
rocks, however, ships now swing well
south of the Aleutians. Only a few
natives and whites live at Dutch Harbor.
Nearby is the village of Unalaskn,
a native community.
The Aleut la tis were born of volcanic
action, and the activity is not
yet spent. Hogoslof island, some 50
miles from Dutch Harbor, is continually
changing Its form, roaring one
smoking promontory after another
above the waves and withdrawing
others.
Volcanoes are to be found in the
Aleutians in every stage of development:
youpg and aged volcanoes,
active and dormant, not only cones
whose symmetry rivals that of Fujiyama,
bat also the Jagged stumps of
mountains that have been blown to
bits by recent volcanic explosions.
Vulcanologlsts consider It one of the
best known fields for the study of the
problems of vulcanlsm.
Attu Is the easternmost of the Aleutian
islands. 2,700 miles from the coast
of Washington state. Because the International
Date I.jne lies Just beyond
Attu, an airman, rising from the Island
to continue his flight, plunges directly
into another day without the lapse
of any time. Thus, If he starts from
this westernmost American station
Monday morning, he will be flying a
few moments later In the morning of
.the day that to the Eastern hemisphere
Is Tuesday.
Traveling In Kamchatka.
The Aleutian route strikes the main
land of Asia at the coast of Kamchatka,
450 miles east of Attu. This peninsula
and the country north of It to theBerlng
strait contains a large area of tundra
or Arctic plains; soft spongy morasses
during the few months of summer;
frozen, snow-covered wnstes In winter.
In the higher land impenetrable underbrush
springs up in summer. What
little travel is possible at this season
Is done on the backs of sturdy ponies
who must wnde up the shallow streams
or plod through the sticky swamps.
In winter travel Is easy. Teams of
dogFH n d~r otrrrt ee r wtriKlr iaden-sletlgesover
the frozen surface of the streams
and across the snow of the tundra at
a rate, under favorable circumstances,
of 75 miles or more a day.
In the summer the curse of the
inolst regions of the north strikes the
Kamchatknn country; swarms of mosquitoes
and files thicken the air and
make life miserable for all living
- thijurA.. The nomadic^, flee with their
herds of reindeer to the sea coast,
where the breezes give some relief.
The Kamchatkan peninsula proper
Is about 750 miles tn length, and the
distance from Its roots to Bering
strait is an equal distance. Kamchatka
lies In the same latitude as
the British Isles, while the country
north to the Arctic ocean Is In the latitude
of Norway. The Kamchatkan region
is bathed by cold Arctic currents
Instead of the warm Gulf stream, and
Its climate Is Therefore much colder
than that of Britain or Scandinavia.
From the southern tip of Kamchatka
the Kurlle Islands sweep southward
to the major Islands of Japan.
This distant string of fog-enshrouded,
storm-lashed Islands Is the most westerly
group of the north Pacific's bridge
of Islands. Like the Aleutians, the
Kurlles a$y a string of volcanic peaks,
dead and alive, whose smoking heads
protrude above the cold and stormy
waters of the North Pacific and stake
out the Sea of Okhotsk. Thus, they form
a haven for the Japanese fishermen
who swarm over this lsland-glrt sen
In summer. Stretching between Kamchatka
and the Japanese Island of
Yezo, they have long been known to
the Russians who exploited their valuable
furs. Not until recent years
have the Japanese become interested
In these next door neighbors.
The desolate islands are "a cradle
of blizzards," hazards to the mariner
and aviator alike. Storms and squalls
spring up from nowhere, low-lying
fogs bug the water's surface In spring
and summer, hidden rocks lie In wait
for the unwary navigator and swift
currents mee through narrow straits
However, the lost sailor may tell when
he Is close by the vast fields of brown
seaweed or kelp which float on the
water. Old suits who can "smel. Hi*
beach" when ner.r lnnd are n t alone
In this useful ability when ?alLng
then* foggy wutera.
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Nobody's Business
Written far The Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright, 1928.
... About the only property the average
poor man wants i? plenty chewing
tobacco to keep him busy chawing,
a couple of "hound dogs to suck his
eggs, an old Ford to keep him poorer,
and K or 10 yoiinguns to work for
him.
.... The majority of the sunrises are
just as pretty as the majority of the
sunsets that so many people throw
fits over. The difference between
the two is. .there Hint nobody up early
enough to see the sunrise except
farm hands who don't like sunshine,
and that's why sunsets have it on
sunrises. Nature ain't grand to everybody.
....The railroads will be able to cu:
their operating expenses very extensively
just us soon as they get that
15. percent advance in freight rates.
They can tuke off at least 25 percent
of their trains and train crews, as lire
ttucks will haul most of the freight.
The trucjc trains are looking forwa d
with much glee to the advance in
rates..because they can advance their
rates 15 per cent too, and still be
in line.
COTTON LETTER
New \ ork, Aug. 12.-?Due to some
thunder in Oklahoma and the Fanhandle,
spots broke 10 point's in anticipation
of moisture, which is n.?t
needed. A red spider was found in
Alabama last week, and as soon as
his whereabouts were reported to
New Orleans, the nearby months
eased off to a new low for the season.
If stocks break again, cotton
will follow, as cotton is sympathizing
most sincerely at present..with
stocks and call money. We advise
holding for a probable squeeze.
....While keeping batch lust month,
I learned how to prepare a great
many delectable dishes. My eggstews
were simply grand. Here's
the recipe for egg-stew: Take .1
freshly-laid eggs (if possible), put
them in a quart of boiling water (if
your gas has not been cut off), let
them boil till you have read the
morning paper, if your subscription
is not out, then take eggs out of
water with a spoon?don't use your
naked hands..hull them, pour into
a tea-cup, if a cl^an one can be found,
crumble up some stale bread, and
empty the mess into a bowl and eit
with a spoon or fork or knife or
your fingers, which ever is clean.'
Wipe egg-drippings from shirt front;
and go to work.
HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TOWN
. , . .Trade at home. Pay your debts.
Go to church. 'Support your town
council and chamber of commerce.
Let your own doctor treat your liver
troubles. Speak well of your neighbors.
Love your own wife. Boost
your friends. Stop growling. And
put your money in the bank.
^JUST DRIFTING ALONG
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... .Verily, verily, it seemeth to me
that we are floating back to the
(socalled) good old days of 19 and
10?when a dollar was a giant, and
a dime waesent any baby to be
sneezed at.
. ... But we now find our cities, towns,
scnooi urscrrvrvn, tvunncc, a
most individuals burdened with debts
that they knoweth not what to do
with. We are afflicted with taxes
from center to circumference, and
the end is not yet.
.... Raw materials ain't worth the
fertilizer it takes to produce them.
Eggs ain't fetching enough to pay
the hen for wasting her time laying
around. Wheat and sand are selling
at the same price. And other farm
products are worth more if permitted
to rot on the land than they are
peddled to the public.
....If you work for a dairy, you go
to work at 4 a. m. If you work for
a farmer, you begin to tickle the soil
at 5 n. m. If you work for a cotton
mill, you must begin to spin at 6
a. m. If you piddle around in a
grocery store, you are expected to
begin piddling at 7 a. m. If you are
in a bank, you may begin to "turn
down" checks at 8 a. m. But if you
are employed by the public?and paid
with money received from taxpayers,
9:00 a. m., or 9:15 a. m., or 9:30 a. m.,
or possibly 10 a. m. is O. K. for you
to drop in and take your seat. And
that's that.
....At last, some folks have begun
to think. Taxpayers leagues are
springing up here and there. They
won't be able to help themselves one
jot or tittle till they nominate and
elect men for public'office with guts
enough to stop wasting money and
cut out useless jobs and face the
facts and figures relating to appropriations
that beget graft and extravagance,
and have some regard for
| ' i m,x. mi I l II, L
[the man who is left half starved when
J10^ay8 ^'8 taxes. (Apparently, no
public official 1ms ever thought 01
cutting expense* )
.States are striving to raise money
honestly, where possible, but where
t?uch means are not to an end, they
me raising money anyhow. The
highway commissions are hell-bent on
getting everything in sight. They
huiit roads for the use of automobiles
* yet?each state i? now
forcing outsiders to licenses of
*11 kinds and prices ^for privato as
well as public trucks, operating for
profit, or without profit), and it
won t be long before a bull-frog will
have to wear a metal tag on hiH tail
for home-hopping and extra metal
t?g for visiting-hopping In other
words, don't, dare leave your own
state with a truck load of anything
to sell or exchange Take my advice,
*tay at home unless you ure walking,
or riding a mule?even then, don't
venture across tho line.
General News Notes
A shortage of $20,022 is " barge I
against Ed Hugh U-e. for the past
sixteen years n Kaloigh, N. C? tax
collector. He says the amount
resents mainly worthless checks ho * '
had accepted from friends for taxes.
BiiJ Kinsey, 11 years old, of \V?tronton,
(iu., cut off his own finger
with a pocket knife to avoid tho
danger of water moccasin's bite received
while he was swimming. His
brother refused to cut off the finger,
so Hill did it himself.
A New York tAxicab driver on
Wednesday returned to Mrs R S
Keynolds-Hitt of Washington, a bag
of jewelry valued at $200,000 that he
had found .in his taxicab which she
had left as she alighted at u New
York hotel.
When Philip Magna, 01, was buried
at Hazelton, Pa., iSaturday he wus in
a casket that cost him $16,000 and
which he had bought two years ago.
He was for many years the janitor of
an office building und had acquired
considerable wealth.
C hancellor Bruenning of Germany,
made a frank appeal to the German
people over the radio Tuesday, and
told them that the only force that
could pull the country out of its
present economic plight is the people
of Germany themselves.
Of 11G automobiles stolen by
thieves in North Carolina during July,
66 were recovered, thirty cars stolen
during the first six months of the
year were also recovered for their
owners during July, making a total
of 106 cars recovered from thieves
during the last month.
A palatial 176-foot yacht was seized
by coast guards sixty miles off
Cape May, N. J., Sunday night and
seven men and two women were arrested
after they had jumped overboard
as the vessel neared the shore.
The yacht was found loaded with a
liquor cargo with a value of $120.000.
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High White and Mike 'Connor will
"have to tun a aecond wnre fur the?
Democratic nomination for governor
of Mississippi as the result of Tuesday's
election. George T. Mitchell,
who had the support of Governor
Bilbo, apparently trailed the ticket of
four gubernatorial candidates. "
Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will, tell yon that
Perfect Purification 6f the System
HpJm? ??re wi. of Perfect
Health. Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermining
your vitality? Purify your entire
system bv taking a thorough
course of Calotaba*?once or twice a
week for several weeks?and see how
Nature rewards you with health.
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n it LIQUJD OR TABLETS
* Headache or Neuralgia in
30 minutes, checks a Cold the first
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KERSHAW LODGE No. 29
A' F* M*
jk^Hegular communication of
this lodge Is held on the
first Tuesday in each month
at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
W. R. OLYBURN,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
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R. H. HAILE
I FUNERAL DIRECTOR
FOR COLORED PEOPLE
927 Broad 8t. Quadm, S. C.
We have secured the setyhiea of
Lovett Proctor, Licenced Bmbahnfor
S. C., who iSTbs with as
.permanently to do our embalming.
Residence Phone 29S-J
Ofiee Phone 148
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