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HEsExaniple For Economy I Ifijhlw^0"' D*0, 12.?(Speaker jper h*s 'trounced "our car" *or ^W^jofiky automobile, with the Inker's st'ttl on the rear doors and H^i/ioriued chauffeur in the front Br^u await at tb^capitol for the KuLs Democrat. K tybeo minority leader in the last (lamer joshed his friend I ntd political foe?the late Speaker I Bbonrworth- about "our car." The ^ Toad use(l 10 ri<lu to *lis ^ote^ near" l very day with the Ohioan and ofI K t*a jokingly said he would have the Bh. the automobile some day, Thecaf was sold to the Senate to I wtveot lying idle after the Ohioan last spring. I Sitting at the desk where Long wrlh held sway for six years, Garam not going to take the car. 1 BfeCsrncr and I don't heed the auPjoaobile in the first place and I beI |L#m setting an example in gov ^Kmanent economy. ^ ' "lltnow a lot of my friends are goI | iif to criticize me for not taking the Rfl f|r) but I have constantly opposed I sxh extravagance and I am going to I MWtice what I preach." Garner said i?puy of his friends . thought he R jfeold, accept the car to "maintain I M$dignity" of his office. Kit does not take an automobile to t nie an office dignified," >he Texan i RBfrs. Garner, who has been my I ^F*tarv for 30 years, and I walk lb|om our hotel to Peace Monument ooy day when the weather permits. H|if( need the exercise and we enjoy Rfte walk. We usually take one of ^^Bthose 20-cent taxicabs for the ride up ^B$apiiol Hill. It puts us off right at Rthe House door. When the weather ^Ki.ia bad we take a taxi all the way. i^"lt costs about $5,000 a year, $3,*'000 for car and $2,000 for a driver to sit in it all day. Don't want anybody I-sitting all the day waiting for me." I Since his son, Tully, now livingwat ^B Uvalde, Texas, finished school several f years ago, Garner said, neither he ^B nor Mrs. Garner had owned an atitoB : mobile in Washington. They have K three in Uvalde, however. One of them Mr. Garner has equipped for Kb fishing and hunting, j Garner said that "plenty of friends wre wiling to drop them by his hoRk-; tel after the day's work is done." B- "Aoetwhen we can't get a ride that way, he added, "we'll take a taxi or R|vj|e street car." I ^ile'state warehouse system is not only for cotton, but for anything else H farmers want to store there, the state Bpuehouae commissioner says, and atored now for the growers are large quantities of corn, peas, beans, hay, El aorghum sirup, farm seeds of various ltinds for next year's planting and H[ products. Recently a creamery R_.*ar Batesburg containing nearly a ^R^Un &id a half of butter was made a H atate warehouse, and by gettuig-state B wtrchouse receipts for the Iffitter, the manufacture!- is able to finance his K options with banks. ^R[T Congressman Stevenson, of this p fckict, was appointed on the com^HL_ on banking and currency and B^chairman of the committee on ; in the reorganization of the ?*f representatives. The South delegation drew seven comR#*?t* appointments, the lion's share to Stevenaon and Gasque. MONEY BRING HOAltDKl) Government Concerned Over Seven Billions Outstanding I | * ? ? The highest total of money outside the treasury in history, $7,294,606,760, is reported in the United States Treasury latest circulation statement. It is more than $800,000,OCX* -known to be largely idle money?above the an\ount outstanding a year ago. Total amount "in circulation" was $5,246,003,907, This per capita circulation of $42.20. An improvement has been noticed since the last official statement, however, for the federal reserve board reported $5,480,000,000 in circulation recently. Authorities say that hoarded money is the crux of the present business condition. Consequently, although abating, it still causes concern. Experts believe brighter times will come when persons can he induced to let loose some of this hoard. President Hoover's current economic program is planned, among- other things to get, idle money into circulation. In the past persons stored their wealth away to be used for "emergency." They did it because of fear, - It is now the job of the government to instill confidence in these parsons and get them to turn the money back into trading channels. What Trucks Do With owners and oporators of the big trucks that ply tho roads trying apparently every day to put on bigger loads, the finish of South Carolina's costly new roads is not hard to foresee. Tho destruction of the roads in this fashion serves to bring another fact to the surface, and that is the inequality in collecting the immense sums that are collected from towns and cities in gasoline tax, and not giving back one cent for buildjijig and maintaining the streets which are such an> integral anil indispensable part of the good roods system. I Such a condition of affairs is not right, and can't go fin long, with the streets and roads being" rapidly dei stroyed by the unusual traffic they are Called upon to take care of, and which seems to be increasing every day.?Chester Reporter. A four year old boy, Ansel Jordan, was killed at Greenville, while he and his" brother were wrestling for the possession of a revolver. The bullet went through the boy's chest. A Greenville youth named Cleveland Robertson is in jail in Los Angeles and police say he confessed the murder of Allen II. Schratzer, a painter and his benefactor.- Robertson once lived at Reidsville and served time in the reformatory of this state. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given, that under and by Virtue of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, dated the 9th day of December, in the cause of The Bank of Camden, plaintiff, against L. R. Jones, Judge of Prbbate of Kershaw County, administrator of the Estate of W. E. Arledge, deceased, as successor of W. L. McDowell, Judge of Probate of Kershaw County, SaJlie McDowell, et al., defendants, I will sell to the highest bidder or bidders before the Court house door in the Town of Camden, State of South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday in January, 1932, the same being the 4th day of said month, the following described property: WA11 that piece, parcel or jot of land, situate, lying and being m the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, and in the City of Cumden, on the north side of King street of said city, fronting south thereon one hundred and thirty-three (183) feet and running back with a uniform width of one hundred and thirtythree (133) feet to a depth of two hundred and twenty-six (226) f^et, bounded on the North by lands of Baum, south by King street,- east by lands of W. E. Arledge, formerly of Mcintosh and Susan Arledge, west by lands of Kizzie Boykin, formerly of Lizzie Boykin." Terms of sale: C?sh. W. L. DePASS, JR., Master for Kershaw County December 18, 1931. New Farm Data By Researchers Clemson College, Dec. 19,-?That South Carolina Experiment Station research workers are striving diligently ami effectively towards finding new facts for uso of Extension Service workers and others in helping to solve current farm problems, WO8 evidenced in Tuesday's program of the annual Extension Service meeting which was in session here j this week. Prof. 11. W. Barre, director of the Station, who was in charge of the program, stressed the Qexing of research activities to tackle new needs, economic, social and agricultural, as they arise and outline the present program of his research organization. Discussions bringing out much new data of value to extension workers were those by 5J. 1'. ^Master, chief of dairying, oV Dairy Feeding aipt Management; E". G. Godfrey, associate animal husbandman, Profitable Hog Feeding; W. C. Jensen, agricultural economist, Farm Management Surveys; J. II. pitched, chemist, Importance of Minerals in Feeds; R. A. MoGinty, Fruits and Truck Crops; H. P. Cooper, agronomist, Effects of Cortain Minerals on Soils; W. B. Rogers, associate agronomist, Soil-building Crops; and G. H. Aull, assistant director, Rural Taxation. " Dr. E, W. Sikes, president, welcoming tho extension workers to Glemson, stressed the need for mobilizing the intelligence of all educational agencies to the end that there be more knowledge- and intelligence in meeting the needs of the times; and Dr. W. W. Long, director of the Extension Service said that the present distressing agricultural and economic situation makes clear tho necessity for all constructive forces governmental, private, and corporate, to forget selfish ends and cooperate for unselfish service, in opening today's session of the annual conferonce of the'State's extension forces. Mary Who Led Little Lamb Dead London. Dec. 10.?Mary Hughes, who many years ago had a little lamb that followed her to school, has followed the little lamb in death. Mary was 90 android and blind ana lame before she passed on at ner home at Worthing. But she continued to tell her story of how she was the Mary whose little lamb in the nursery rhyme became known_around the world to children of three or four generations. "Billy," the lamb, died many years ago, of course. Mary, however, ner friends said, continued to old age and death with a heart as young and merry as^vhen tfi* fleecy-white lamb followed her to school that day, over 80 years ago. The story of the verses, as she told it, was this; "Miss Sarah Buel, later Mrs. Horatio ' Hale, noted American ethnologist, wrote the verses. Miss Buel was visiting with her two sisters at Ty Issa, in Vale Llangollen, North Wales, where my father, John Thomas, was a well known breeder of Welsh mountain sheep. "I was always fond of lambs and when the mother sheep died sometimes my father would often give me an orphaned lamb to keep as a pet. Sometimes I had a half dozen o these and they would follow me around the farm and down the road wlflt I went to meet the postman. "bne day, when I was 8,' my oldest pet, Billy, followed me to the village school where he romped about, jumping over the desk and refusing to behav'e. He disturbed the school so much the teacher, Miss Coward, turned him out the door. "Miss Sarah wrote the verses there and then. Later she married Mr. Hale and after she died her son wrote to an American newspaper in IhHJ saying "she wms the author of the verst* I have no quarrel with m> American friends, but the incident happened as I have described and not, as some Americans claim, in America." The Republican national executive committee, in session in Washington this week, selected Chicago a, the convention city for 1932 and began preparations for the battle to re-elect Mr Hoover in November next. At the final session Secretary Hurley sounded the keynote for the party and lambasted the Democrats from al sides. Hurley declared that the emocrats have nothing to offer in the present business crisis except dele. John Moore, negro, convicted on a charge oi stealing a pair of shoes when-he entered the home of MitchAll Keves at Winston-Salem, may pay for ?i. folly with his Me the North Carolina law Provide the death penalty in such cases. The defense claimed that the negro was insane. W. F. Stevenson Calls For Relief Q Washington, ptH\ u.?The first official gun from the house committee on banking and currency was fired today by u South Carolinian, representative William F. Stevenson, for substantial relief. Mr, Stevenson declared: ' k "We ^jutve bills now before congress proposing to create several largo boards at enormous costs to the people; to function with other boards forgetting the man who is being sold out." He said that the personnel of the federal farm board "is a set of incompetents, and 1 do not hesitate to say so." He said the board's idea of plowing up every third row of^otton would take it to St. Elizabeth's lunatic asylum in Washington if submitted to any jury in the country. "We need legislation that will amount to something," Mr. Stevenson said. "Wp must have relief that will give a little moratorium to the fellow who is tied up and who has put up everything he has and is about to be sold out. We should do all of that before we begin to give a morato-rium in Europe." Mr. Stevenson said that the Republican tariff is such that seven million people simply cannot pay American producers for their goods. "Their silver has gone down to a'bout one-third what it was, and when they gt^to buy in exchange in dollars it. takes three times as much silver now as it did two years ago. They cannot buy our stuff because they cannot afford to pay three prices in their money for what they buy and what they use. Their gold has already come here and it is concentrated. The same thing applies to Europe very largely. When an English merchant buys a bill of goods from New York and wants to pay for the goods he can only get $3.75 fyr his pound, when it used to be $' 1.80. That increases the cost of his goods to such an oxUin t that he does not buy from us and cannot do so. It is the same with all of Europe. "We are confronted with a condition that is unspeakable and has' become more so for the last eight or nine years. "I say we ^re not to be considered Bolshevicks if we ask Mr. Hoover for some reason why he has granted this moratorium. So far as I am concerned, I am satisfied with the reasons but no president can pledge away the money of the United JStates without the copsent of the congr***." Notable Corn Yields In Richland County Columbia, Dec. 12.?Corn yields running from 40 to 117.5 buhels per acre, which is many times the average yield for the county, are reported by Richland county farmers in the corn contest, according to J. Rhett Clark, county- farm agent, who states that most farmers of the county have made an abundant supply of corn and forage to take care of their livestock during the coming year. v v . "And this corn," says Mr. Clark, was grown at rather low cost. William Lykes' 117.5 bushels per acre probably cost him less than 20 cents per acre, though the cost has not yet been computed. Similarly, J. H. Roddey, who will harvest an average of 42 or 43 bushels per acre from his entire crop, made his corn at very low cokt. Still other instances are those of Clark Langford with an average yield of 40 bushels per acre on 20 acres; and R. L. Stoudmayer, who states that by following the extension methods he has the second best corn crop in his 31 years of farming." "The production of kCheap com," Mi\ Clark concludes, "means the production of cheap livestock and makes easier the development of a livestock system of farming that will be profitable to our farmers." ' The city council of Philadelphia passed an ordinance jacking up the tax rate 34cents and also a raise in water rates. Citizens protested and last Thursday a crowd of^ 0,000 or more marched to city hall to enter a protest against the rates. So successful was the protest that the -council rescinded the. proposed rates. The proposed tax raise would have jumped taxes to $3.13 or. each $100 of assessment and the water rates raise have been 50 per cent. Jose^R. Graves, assistant district attorney of Denver, Colo., was found dead in a parked automobile at the home of a friend. Police are not able to say whether Graves is the victim of gangsters or whether he is a victim of an automobile accident. His body was badly battered and mutilated. " In a Chicago address Governor Ritchie of Maryland said that the key to better economic times is "sincere and non-political cooperation between business and government." m ' ' " ' ' ''1IL L"! THE MACHINE AGE SPOILS A PROPHECY _________ By II. I,. RUSSELL Advisory Council, A gricullurol Commit si on, American Hankers Association. A NOTED British sciential forecast thirty years ago that by 10.11 all available wheat land In the world H. L, RU88KLL over, It has boon 14.1. On tho 320.000.000 acres In cnltlvatloil this In 'creaso would amount to almost a half billion bushols tnoro production than tho world standards of thirty years ago. In place of dlro distress duo to .-shortage, wo have had dlro distress due to surplus, Whoat farinors havo shown no great Inclination to curtail materially tholr output; perhaps a 10% decline com pared with 70% reduction In steel. This unwlllinguoes, or perhaps Inability, to adjust production to curront needs makes tho problom all tho harder to solvo. Not only are we now growing moro , wheat per unit of land, but acreage has boon vory greatly extended. In twenty years Canada has Increased acroage 250%, Australia almost ns much.. Another significant fact Is tho materially lessened U90 of wheat. A mucli more diversified diet has developed. Moro vegetables and fruits are used than formerly. The reduction of 1.2 bushels consumed per person per annum since the last generation necessitates nearly 150,000,000 bushels loss wheat than was formerly required. Machines Increase Supply I Tho factor that has exerted tho most I potent influence in this rising world flood of grain has been the rapid development of tho machine Tho old days of tho cradle required from thirty to forty hours of hand labor to harvest an acre of grain. Then ct.mo tho bindj er, which reduced tho process to four j or five hours per aero. Now tho combine does the work in forty-five minutes per aero. Where It usod to cost ton cents a bushel merely to thresh-the grain, the modern combine cuts ano threshes at a cost ranging from 3 to 6 cents a bushel. With this reduced coBt of production, tho possibility of acreage expansion Is tremendous. Lands heretofore regarded as worthless except for grazing havo recently come Into competition with the older wheat belts. The Russian Effort Within the past two or three years another disturbing element has come into tho picture. Soviet Russia Is attempting a -comeback fraught with possibility that cannot yet be fully evaluated. Russia Is eagorly utilizing the very latest of scientific knowledge <;to enlarge her agricultural possibilities. With foverlsh anxiety Bhe Is literally pouring millions Into the expansion of her university research instltutesr experimental stations and breeding farms. Her scientists are combing tho earth for new crops and new methods. No country In Europe is manifesting more Interest and activity in laying hold of the best science, wherever It may be found. It is of more than passing Interest that the wheat yields reported on the huge trust farm known as the "Giant" ran last year as much ~s 18 bushels to the acre. On this single farm the crop harvested Is reported to have been 3,865,000 bushels. A single farm of 427,000 acres under government control and mechanized as fast as human energy can be applied is a new factor in the world's picture. There can be but little doubt that tho Russian situation may yet assume qu.to a different attitude from what obtained oven in pre-war days. Bankers Hold Farm Conference A "feeders' conference" was hold In a state bank at Presho, South Da koU. attended by fifty farmers. The conferenco stressed tho feeding of lowprice wheat and barley, and marketing It through livestock. Later, booklets on the feeding of wheat were diatrib uted among the farmers, and a feoders column was carried in the local paper each week. "We have had more success with tho conference and with tho Igeders column in the local paper, than with any other undertaking we have tried," the bankers said. "As a result there Is about three times as much livestock being fed out in our territory than ever before. We plan to hold other similar cohferences the coming year ' _ / Tho benefit of civilization exist be cause of the capital accumulated b> those who havo gone before. Through accumulation of capital our great rail roads hay.e been constructed, our pub 11c utilities have been built and our mills, office buildings and homea have arisen. t , jll 'w . ju'1-a.iv.1 r*BBl Farm Meetings To BeJIeld Over County f i i j j Farm meetings of great import* ance are to be held over Kershaw county soon after Christmas for the purpose of helping our farm people guide their 1932 operations. Meetings are to bo held at the following places: Cnssatt, liethune, Mt. Pisgah, Camden. Kershaw, Liberty Hill, Westville, Hlaney, Charlotte Thompson and Antioch. Peoplo who wish these meetings in additional communities will please notify the County Agent at once. At t>hesu meetings we will have the best informed specialists and the latest outlook information available. These meetings will be the eyes for. our farming operations in 1932. I cannot stress their importance too much. Let everybody attend; wo cannot afford to stay away. We cannot afford to weaken now, These meetings can help you a great deal. Give them a trial. Bring your family and your neighbors. There is no charge. All we ask is that you come and ask questions, says Henry D. Green, County Agent. Jesse K. LiletC 2t>, truck driver of Albemarle, N. C? drove his . truck through a Charlotte street at a speed of fifty miles an hour Saturday night and stopped when ho had collided with an electric car, smashed lit its front, wrecked his truck, which was set on fire, and incidentally killed himself. Whether Lile was drinking or not cannot be determined, but a part of his cargo was two dozen o,r more pint bottles of alleged bottled in bond liquor?. Governor Miller of Alabama this week brought Christmas . cheer to many homes-in that state, when he issued an executive order for the release of 735 prisoners serving misdemeanor sentences of one year and less. The governor had previously announced "Christmas paroles" to 300 prisoners for "meritorious conduct." In issuing the order the governor explained Unit many of the families of the prisoners would suffer for the necessities life during the present winter because of adverse financial conditions of the past two years. Captain Yancey., S. Williams, U. S. N., a South Carolina product, has been promoted to a roar admiral. f" M.M. REASONOVER HUfion Service Officer Kershaw Countj I AssisUace rendered all Veterans in Securia^ Benefits, Hospital and Hr * Disability Claims lasted at Rhame Brothers Store K- / Camden, S. C. I ISiii|*iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii||||||||||||||||||||||||||iii I NOTICE I |j All 1930 City Taxes" un- ? || by January I, 1932, 3 ^property will be advertised [ I Ror sale. ? | J. C BOYKIN. I | J City Clerk and Treasurer. TRESPASS NOTICE We, the undersigned property owners, do hereby positively forbid any trespassing upon our lands for any purpose whatsoever. Hunting, fishing, cutting wood, hauling straw or otherwise trespassing positively forbidden. Anyone found violating this notice will be dealt with strictly according to the law. \ II. L. SCIII/OSBURG MRS. ANNIE SOUTHERN M. H. HEYMAN W. R. NELSON E. B. LORICK C. P. LORICK Wm. GLADDEN DAVtU FURMAN II. G. CARRrsON, Sr. MRS. MARY M. PEARCE HENRY SAVAGE, Sr. MLSS SARAH B. MICKLE E. E. HOLLAND Nov. 27, 1931 35-38pd SLUGGISH FEELING "I have used Thedford's BlackDraught off and on for twenty-flvg years,'* writes Mr. Dave Stewart, of 1913 E. 2nd Austin Tax**. "They used it In my father** bom* for many years and It was eu* general family medicine. "My health wu good, and that la about all I ever took. I ueed It for eonetlp&tlon and bllloue sick headache*. It la a fine medicine to take when a man eeta up in the morning feeling dull and sluggish. After a course of it I feel fine. It rids the system of poison which oomes from constipation." THEDFORD'S tmmmffl Black- pi Draught wP BoM by dnigglsts. 25< package, rsa* m DeKALB COUNCIL No 88Junior Order U. A. M. Regular council second and \ fourth Mondays of each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. A. W. HUMP3CRIES, L. H. JONES, Councillor. Recording Secty. ROBT. W.MITCH AM Architect Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. KBR8HAW LODGE Nn. 21 A. P. M. Regular communication of %vl<?\thii lodge i? held on the / Tueadajr in each moath at 8 p.m. Viaiting Brethren areweleomed. RJ. E. Worthipfnl Mftrtj