The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 16, 1931, Image 7
Ijjjbody's Business
for The Chronicle by Qee
I^lcGee, Copyright, 1928.
I HY TIMES AJtB SO HARD
K. wt? loafing around in the
K?n the other night and I disj
something that 1 had no
BLsi of discovering. I picked up
KTpaper poke that came from
1! grocer. It contained 2 little
L of liquid chocolate (35c), 1 little
K 0( Swiss cheeae (40#), 1 tiny
crushed green peas (25c), and
I?II containers of salad dressing
BflR*"
I ?n ciiarged to me.
1 j looked further into the presI'cosl
of high living, and found
Lt we were "eating breakfast ball
45 cents a pound, and drinking
tw juice, 26 cents a jpint, feastI
)(1 chipped beef, 30 cents for
ILptti, topping maple syrup with
Lcskts. $1.25 per quart, plus panl't.
flour at $18.35 per barrel, and'
r,, | ob.-ci^ed that one of the
. ,i the electric range was
CBj{ in high, ($3.75 per 100
I About that time, somebody
| the hot water spigot in the
Ih-ruoi" and immediately an au|
hot-water gas heater in the
Cement ^ot busy, $2.00 per 1000
Kjc foot, and then the phone rang,
40 per month in advance, and then
Ihjssed over to the kitchen sink
|d closed the faucet that was pourK.
i nice sized stream of water
|ough the waste pipe, 85 cent's per
?) gallons.
..Suddenly I realized that the
trie light in the pantry was burn|
10 cents per k. w. h., and belt
I knew it?the Ford rolled out
I the front yard, gas and tax, 19
|t$ per gallon, and a few' minis
later the theater collected $1.20
L 3 persons who wanted to see
Three-fingered Pete bit the dust,"
n then 1 peeped into the larder?
It is. the storage room.
I.Kow our storage room is where
I keep things to eat. I found a
Ice of meat for boiling, 10 cents
lound, 24 pounds of flour, 60 cents,
a peck of corn meal, 17 cents?
I we never eat much of that kind
stuff. Evidently we don't like
In (so-called) coarse food?as we
Be raised on it., I saw that the
Ik, 17.00 a week, and the nurse,
I? a week, had been too busy to
p things spick and span about
I house.
I.I never said nothing. I came
I back and listened at the radio,
O.OO, then pulled off my things
I put ori my night shirt, 49 cents,
I went to bed and covered up with
lyon bed quilt, $5.99. In 2 hours
Its dreaming about why times are
Hard and what a task it is to
It a living these days?apd old
^^Trouble slipped over and whisIriinto
my ear?".Sonny, you ain't
A in live within your means:
I don't you watch your dimes and
I your extravagance." Then I
Be up and went to thinking, but
In't make any changes, I'm mar 1TS
THEIR TIME TO MOVE
I.The wholesale firm with which
In connected operates a 20 horse..A
fe.w. days
I .we discovered that the cost of
ler was just about twice as much
I we are able to pay, due to the
I decline in the product we are
luificturing, so we wrote the
l&d man" a letter and begged for
I There's one thing you can say
'I ~ *9STATEMENT
the ownership, rfPfcimgement, etc.,
Bquired by the Act of Congress of
Bugust 24, 1912, of The Camden
Bhronicle, published weekly at
B*mden. S. C., for October 2, 1931.
He of South Carolina,
I County of Kershaw.
Before mo, a Notary Public in and
the State and County aforesaid
Bonally appeared H. D. Niles, whe
Hng been duly sworn, according tt
B. deposes and says that he is th<
Blisher of The Camden Chronicle
Bthat the following is, to the bes'
Bh* knowledge and belief, a tru<
|" >f the ownership, manage
|t etc.. of the aforesaid publica
B.for the date shown in the abovi
B'on? required by the Act of Aug
B*4, 1912, embodied in Section 443
Bhl Laws and Regulations.
That the names and addresse
R|he publishers, editors and busi
B? managers are:
Bjblishers?H. D. Niles, Camder
Ht.',
Bmtor and managing editor?H. E
B^. Camden, iS. C.
Bjwiness Manager?'H. D. Nilet
Br* That the owners are H. I
*. Cirmden, S. C. *
|V That the known tondholderi
B^^gces and other security h'6l<i
B ?-None.
H. Ek Niles, Publisher,
i; to and subscribed before m
| ** hay of October, 1931.
John S. Lindsay,
Nofitry Public.
for the povyer trust: they don't keep
a fellow waiting for service, nor
will they let hipi wait when his oill
is due. it's the easiest thing in the
world to get cut off. They sent 3
men down Tuesday morning, 4 more
came Wednesday and 6 came Thura*
day. They had 84 different kinds
of testing, proving and verifying rnstruments.
....The following Saturday morning,
we received a report covering our
complaint, and here it is: "Polyphase
Watt Hour Meter Test; Volt,
220. Amp. 50. Ratio, 83. Type,I
D-6. Constants, 4. Test, 12. Disk,
12. 1'. Trans. Ratio, 0. No. 2159.
Loud amps, 50. Klemcnt, 5. Test
Const., G. Rev. Test, 21, Rev? Ser=
vice, 15, Top, 50. Cemb. Element*,
top and bottom, 50 nad 5. Found,
100 par cent. Left, 100 per cent."?
"Remarks, O. K."
....Now, folks, you really don't
know just how much we appreciated
that report. The first time we
read it, our head turned around on
our neck like a bed roller, but the
second time we read it, we only
fainted. No one in the office had
ever heard of "Polyphase" before.
We wanted to know "Watt Hour"
bill ought to havet been and not how
fast the jigger in the Amp. box was
being propelled by the Element, or
why the top Element was 50 and j
the Rev. Test was 5. v J
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....They explained that it was aimply
ridiculous for anybody to think
that anybody /else could reduce u^\
power rate. Why, the idea-rl Who
ever heard of such a prepoateruos
gesture? They wanted to know if
we diddent know that power rates
are made by the tailroad commission,
and validated by the 1. C. Commission,
O. K.'d. by Congress, ratified
by the Senate, countersigned by
the President, and mortified by the
Public. We told them no, that we
were only consumers, ami were not
supposed to' know about such things.
. ...'tueie hiv some things we can't!
understand, and that is why some
things stay so high and other things
go so low. We have war-time gas
rates, war time power rates, wartime-plus
telephone rates, war-time
corn-flakes, war-time hospital rates,
war-time railroad rates, aipl wartime
politicians. <luess it's government
control or somethin'. < oal is
cheap and so is wood, and oil ain't
very high, so we boys have a right
to change our methods if the powers
that be won't permit changes.
But we can't change much: there
ain't but one of these to a town.
Rupert MeFall, u young fanner of
Anderson county, fought u battle
with a maddened bull for un hour
and then oscaj>ed with hia life by
jumping into Rocky River. He was
badly cut and bruised, but not dangerously
injured.
Klisha Kent, III, professor of Ian- i
guagos at the University of Tennessee,
was indicted by the grand jury
of Klixabeth City county, Va., at
Hampton on Tuesday, on a charge of
murdering his wife by drowning.
Kent is at liberty under a bail bond
of $lf>,000. Trial of the case will
probably begin the latter part of this
month. .. /J
. a
An airplane fell from u height of
100 feet and struck an automobile
containing two men on the Mum
street of Columbia ( it>, lnd., Tuesday.
The two occupants of the au- * .
; tomobilc were killed, as was u passenger
in the airplane. 'I he pilot
of the plane was probably fatally injured.
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