The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 25, 1931, Image 7
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
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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:
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"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.
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"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."
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THE MACHINE AGE
SPOILS A PROPHECY
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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 '
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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.
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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
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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