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I IN SMALLTOWN AMERICA LIES THE HOPE OF THIS NATION (From The Pathfinder) Speaking as an economist, at the ftnnual meeting of the American AsI soc-iation of Geographers, at WashI inylon, Dr. Oliver K. Baker made this I startling statement: "Migration from the village and I farm to the city since the Warld war I has brought, among other setbacks, I .such a decline in the birth-rate that I the United States will be fortunate if I it maintains u stationary population I jn the next 10 years. The road of I our Nation's destiny is now turned I back to tho village. The American I people may find that it will be necesI sary to lea our sky papers empty I shells before they turn their backs I again on the rural communities." From a high source, this statement I bears out the things which the editor I of The Pathfinder brought out in a I talk in New York, made to a group I of advertising men and publishers. I This address has aroused widespread I interest, because it boldly told tho I highhat New Yorkers a lot of truths I which they are not used to hearing. I Portions of it are reprinted here, for I the benefit of Pathfinder readers. I am supposed to tell you something I about that half of the country known I vaguely as Smalltown America. I I don't suppose you 'know much about I this other half, since the fashion is to be ashamed of it. I One of your own New York papers, quoting Pathfinder, says the smallHtown is where everybody isn't three I months behind on their installments ?where the wild life that stays up all I night belongs to the cat family? I where the editor gets results if he announces that he is out of potatoes I where people can tell all about one another by seeing their wash on the I line. Human beings are never pleased Buith themselves unless they can pick somebody to look down upon. Co lumbia looks down on New York uniHversity, Cornell looks down on ColumIbia, Princeton looks down on Cornell, Yale looks idown on Princeton, HarHvard looks down on Yale and Oxford looks down on Harvard. [ Sometimes I wonder why human beHngs shouldn't look up once in a while, Hnstead of always down. New York looks down on everything Huuide- of New York. It looks down n this Smalltown America?though H: could not exist for three days withHut it. Paris looks down on New york?but is glad enough to take B-our money for goods. | Frank Woohvorth, Henry Doherty ' Hind Walter Chrysler were all small| Howners?and they came right to New BVork and showed you what high buildHngs can be put up. Henry Ford and Hcioorge Eastman were smalltowners. Edison, who made more inventions Hhnn any other human being in his^ ory, was a regular, .smalltown man. Hvi were the Wright boys?those two Hnito mechanics who conquered the air Hor you when the professors in your )\vn universities said it was a physHcal impossibility and that anyone Hho attempted it was a fool. I Eli Whitney, who invented the cotBon gin (not a drink but a machine) Hnd McCormick, who invented the Helf-binder, were smalltown products. Hio were Ben FVanklin, Robert Fulton, Hforse and DeForest?-and of course Bdndbergh. Will Rogers is one. of our best exHmples of the smalltown man who Hame to town and beat you city peoB>le at your own games. Ditto O. Hlenry. Rudy Vallee is just another Bne :n a different line.r He makes Hou dance to his tunes. Just see how High Rudy has risen by taking so Biuch yeast. I Amos and Andy are smalltowners H-that's why their stuff goes over so Hiuch better than anything you can Hct up. So are nearly the whole Hrcw of radio entertainers. Their ^ mracters are all drawn from smallBr.vr. life. The city produces no Brharacters." B Cb>\ f-r.or Roosevelt is a smalltown Br<>du * President Hoover of course a malltowner. So is Vice-PresiB&-1 ( urtis. (a.. Coolidge is a typical smallthat's why you cityites can B^'er understand him. But he's Bnar. enough to come to New York H"i soli you New Yorkers his tlterHy -tuff for $3 a word, and help sell B-lions in life insurance at 16 per ^Bnt commission. That's better than Hoover commission, isn't it? Oooiuige knew that depression "tfas Bmir.g on, just as The Pathfinder Blew it. You called Coolidge a sap, B' you can now see why he didn't Bhoose to run." Pretty cute, eh? Eharlie Dawes is another smallBwner; that's why he likes his pipe H > W(>n't let anybody take it away om him. Charlie Schwab is anothH They're all smalltowners?the big B^n. Most college presidents and H?*1 ?* supreme court are emallH^er?. a? weO aa most of the cab met and 96 per cent of congress. Walter Gifford, head of the phono business, ia a smalltowner?and bolievo me, he's trot your number. Ho makes tho nation of 125,000,000 peopie pay him tribute. Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth? they're smalltowners; so was Rockne. So are Will Hays the movie Mussolini, and Judge Landis the baseball dictator. ^ Barnum was a smalltowner. He camo here and made you New Yorkers pay big money to see a fake mermaid in his museum of living wonders and curiosities. ltoxie learned thvshow game in the smalltown and was then ready to take the New York theater, musical i and radio business by the tail and swing it like a dead cat. Victor Herbert was born in a small town in Ireland. Soush is another smalltowner. Pick the leaders in any line and you 11 find they came from some small town?usually one you never heard of. A1 Capone, on the othor hand, is a city product. Yqu can have him. A1 Smith is the most striking caso of tho city bred man who /has won great eminence,?but he couldn't get into the White House. If conditions had been reversed and Smith had come from West Branch, Iowa, while Hoover had been raised in the streets of New York, Smith would have been elected. * ? Practically all our presidents with the exception of Roosevelt were smalltowners ? and the politicians never intended to let Teddy in there. No use telling your boy he can be piesident some day if he was born in the big city. Your big cities might furnish vice-presidents?seeing they know so much about vice. King Gillette, the man who made whiskers infamous, was a smalltowner?born in the wilds of Wisconsin. Nobody but a man with typical smalltown ingenuity, genius and imagination "would ever have thought of wrapping up little pieces of tin in waxed paper and selling them at a dime apiece for men to shave with. Such business was altogether too small potatoes for the city man. Having shown you that we can scarcely name a man who has gained great prominence in any line who was not bora in a small town, we are ready to ask: "What is there about this Smalltown America which breeds statesmen, inventors, showmen, entertainers, merchant princes and industrial magnates? Why does 50 per cent of America produce 95 per cent of its leaders ? There must be some fundamental principle involved. There must be something in the heredity, environment, water, air, food, etc., that enables the smalltown community to breed better human stock as well as animal stock. You cityites live in. grand canyons of steel and concrete and have to like it; you have no choicQ. You burrow underground and under water like moles, you breathe poison fumes, you fester in slums and dives, your streets are always torn up. You are afraid of the dark. You have to keep having more and more light. You turn night into day and day into night. You never see the moon and very little of the sun. How could such a race produce anything but lifeless robots ? If posterity depended on you to keep up the birthrate it would be disappointed. In the smalltown there is some leisure so that people have time to think things out. They don't have to spend half their day getting to the office and the other half getting to the golf course. They are close to nature and close to their job. They keep their feet on the ground and are not carried away by passing fads, economic brainstorms or mass psychology. They don't even know what psychology means, by that name?but are born psychologists and natural philosophers. In many ways you New Yorkers are more insular than any English-: man, more provincial -than the hill-! billies themselves. Broadway is intellectually narrower than Main street. The broadest thing about Broadway is the jokes. Mark Hellinger, one of your own columnists, says this about you: "New York is just a tiny part of the nation. We residents of this town are smug, self-satisfied fools. We think we know a great deal?and that anyone who doesn't agree is a sap." It was a New York man who said: "The public be damned!" Who said it? Of course you wouldn't know. The Pathfinder has had to answer this many times. It was William H. Vanderbilt, president of the New York Central railroad. The railroads at that period were sitting on top of the world and the owners believed that the feelings of the people need not be considered. That heartless, reckless statement ^ ? T<. 1 of four little words, miide 50 years ago, is? still doing damage. The l)eo" pie never forget such cruel things? and as a result New York Central stock has now sunk to the lowest ( point in its history. Many stocks have been taking a drop too much. You cityites haven't given Smalltown America a fair deal. You put out reports boasting about your huge profits. You have merged everything under the sun?watered the stock and made the public pay accordingly. You've made Wall iStreet the biggest | gambling joint on earth.' So many mergers have taken place in the baking industry for instance that nowadays it's a wise cracker that knows its own factory. You ve watched the stock ticker Dqo much. You've doubled and trebled the cost of doing business, and you charge it all to the consumer. Within my memory a farmer could pay for a self-binder with 200 bushels.. of wheat; now it takes COO. Is that a square deal? I The Pathfinder considers it part of its mission to give the people in tho smalltowns something to keep them sane and contented. It helps to mako good citizens out of them. We only wish tho big-bug pulishers would take their job with eqnal seriousness and help carry on the work of popular education, even though these people may be somewhat lower in tho financial scale than the big city people. It took four years of civil war to prove that this country could not exist half free and half slave. It is just as impossible for it to continue half prosperous and half needy. We should not look down upon any class in this country. We had better lend them a helping hand. We are trying to help all the other 1,800 million people on the globe?trying to raise thorn to higher economic level?why not let this charity begin at home? Let's have a better understanding all around. Smalltown America is not a geographic state but rather a state of mind. It doesn't mean just farms, villages and towns below a certain population. Even our biggest cities are permeated with people of smalltown characteristics. They are our near neighbors everywhere. The depression is due to you city people thinking you could put it over on/the rest of the country forever. Big advertising leaders told you that the manufacturers could go on speeding up their production without limit and all that was necessary to sell the product was to put on more pressure. You believed that. . Advertising had progressed so far befpre the crash that a girl would hardly accept a marriage proposal from a man unless she saw the Good Housekeeping label on his back. I You were told that human beings 'could be labeled and herded into classes as hogs are graded in a^slaughterhouse. You were told to cultivate the easiest markets, because they were the most profitable?that you owed nothing to the less prosperous sections or the less fortunate members of society. That was about three years ago, I but it seems like three centuries. All your system, nil your pressure failed utterly. Your ./figures were right mathematically but you had neglect ed to take into account the human element. You had forgotten those people back home.. And they went on a buyers' strike. Your big business corporations paid more attention to boosting their stock on Wall Street than to improving their product and reducing their prices. When their stock was three times as high as it should be they unloaded it on the public and let the public hold the bag. Among you, you have bankrupted six million people and thrown 12 million out of work. The people back home don't like such things; they don't like being steam-rollered; they don't like being declassed. They vent their feelings in their votes?and it happens that they are numerous enough to hold the balance of power. The smalltopi must be kept alive and thriving if the other half of the country is to prosper. It's a case of Siamese twins and you can't cut the two apart without killing both. The song "America" says: "I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills." It doesn't say: "I love thy great white ways, thy slums and cabarets." The ideal- America which we Americans are ready to fight for is this smalltown, and rural America. Smalltown America normally takes up the overflow of production. Now, when you start damming up that overflow, you get nation-wide wreckage. " Most of our factories would have to close up if they had to depend on what the rich people eat, drink, wear and use up. The average amalltown?r eats more than the city man; he has a healthier appetite and he wants plenty to eat. A lettuce leaf with a smear of mayonnaise on it is not his idea of a square meal. * Smalltown women do more of their own sewing, cleaning, preserving, baking, ytc., than the city women. [They are natural homemakers. They crave everything that can make a home u tlner place to live. They are not the sort of women who are gone somewhere most of the time. It is true that they are not good prospects for silver cocktail shakers, caviar, sable furs or Paris perfumes at $50 u vial. Thoy do not worship at the shrine of the great god whoopee. Mr. and Mrs. SptaUtowner are thrifty. Their income uveragos less than that of their city cousins and they have to manage their cash well. Hut in many ways they are better off than city people. More of them own their own homes and more own autos. Mr. Smalltowner is independent. He doesn't have to hire a caddy to tote a few golf sticks nor a red-capped darkey to carry his grip for him. He despises snobbery and llunkoyism. Smalltowners aro naturally cautious; they nre not plungers. They are not like' the people in the cities who will sign up for costly merchandise and agree to. pay moro for it in monthly installments than their total income amounts to. They do not change their ideas with every shift of the wind, nor are they easy marks for high-pressuro salesmanship. They are conservative, their habits are steady. You cityites meet together constantly and tell each other everything you know and a lot you don't know. You imitate each other in everything. Ybu think the same thoughts, you say the same things. You think the sun rises when you crow. You do everything the ads' tell you to do, no matter how silly. You are pitiable victims of propaganda. You are easier marks than the farmers at a county fair. The swindlers, after cleaning up in Florida, 'moved right on to New York and found here the easiest pickings they ever knew. Plenty of new things will he invented and vast new markets will be created in the years t^iat are ahead of us?but not by big city men. You have led business into the wilderness and you can lead it out. Your inspiration, your new ideas will have, to come from the country?just as you now get your milk. You've probably heard of Ford? the man who took the American people off their feet. When Ford began to make autos the big business magnates conspired together and did their best to put him on the spot. They wanted the auto to be the exclusive luxury of the very wealthy. They wanted a monopoly of this rich industry for themselves. They hated Ford because his" idea was to make autos so cheap that even the smalltown people and farmers could have them. Ford won. He cultivated this great mass market while nearly all the concerns which fought him have long since gone bankrupt. 1 You better look out for these smalltown people. They are the common people, whom God must love because he made so many of them?as Lincoln said. They may be slow, but they are sure. I'm not telling you?I'm just asking you: wouldn't it be good policy to learn a little more about this small town half of America? It looks now that a break between the Peruvian and Colombian govern- J ments that may have led to war, will be amicably settled by intervention of the United iStates and of Brazil in offering their good'offices to settle the points of differences between the two republics. Charles Searing, wanted in Georgia to complete sentence on chain gang, and under conviction in California for forging a $10 check, told the California authorities he would rather serve his sentence there than to go back to Georgia. He will get his wish and will serve one to 14 years there. Frank Nitto, lieutenant of A1 Capone, and just out of prison after serving a term, won an abatement on ! his income taxes for past years tojtaling $285,723, in an appeal before the Federal board of tax appeals. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE? ; WITHOUT CALOMEL And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin* to Go If you fed sour and sunk and the world looks punk, don't swallow a lot of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing gum and expect them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For they can't do It. They only move the bowels and a mere movement doesn't get at the cause. The reason for your down-and-out feeling is your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your Dowels dally. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bleats up your stomach. You have a thick, bad taste and your breath is foul, kin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head aches and you feel down and out. Your whole system is poisoned. It takes those good, old CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely end make you feel "up and trp." Thcv contain wonderful, harmless, gentle vegetable extracts, am as log when it comer to making the bile flow freely. Rat don't ask for liver pills. Ask for Carter** Utile Liver PRU. Look for the name Carter's little Liver PUle on the red label. Resent a substitute. 25c at all stores. 0 1921 C. Id. Ce. Culling Poultry Before Shipping Carlot shipments of poultry will begin being made by the county agent! before long and we hope to operate every few weeks. This is to call particular attention to the great importance of poultry keepers culling their flocks before selling their hens at cars or anywhere else. Many farmers have been; known to feed their entire flock through the winter and in the spring sell maybe half of the hens on the yard without proper selection and! very often the hens which are be-1 ginning to lay in the spring ure sold, and many which are non-layers are retained on the farm. Therefore, each flock should bo carefully culled before any of the hens are sold. Those who do not yet know how to cull poultry and who are interested in same will please get in touch with the county agent, Henry lb Green, before shipping. A student at (Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., had a problem in calculus that he could not solve. On a short wave radio set he broadcast his problem and asked for help. Tho solution came back promptly from a student at the university of Texas at Austin. L : The legislature ofaCalifornia has a bill before it for the protection of bullfrogs against commercial hunters and limiting a day's catch to 24 , frogs. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that in accordanco with tho terms and provisions of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, in the case of 1HL FEDERAL LAND BANK Ob COLUMBIA, PlaintifT, against L. J. WH1TAKER. et. nl., Defendants, I will sell to the highest bidder, for cash, requiring a deposit of 3 per cent of the plaintiff's mortgage indebtedness, before the court house door in Camden, S. C., during the lc#al hours of sale on the first Monday in February. 1933, tho following described property: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the state of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Wateree Township, about six (6) miles South-West of Camden on the Wire Road to Columbia, containing one thousand, three hundred and thirty-four and 55-100 (1334,55) acres, more or less, as shown by plat of R. W. Mitoham of date March 3, 1919, tho said tract of land is bounded "on the North by lands of Lipscomb, Baum, Shannon, Springs and Stevens, John Williams and others? on the East by lands of Lipscomb, Baum, now or formerly of Baum, and of Camden Beef Cattle Farm; South by lands of Livingston, Springs and Shannon, Lawyer -Stewart and John Workman and on the West by lands of Lawyer Stewart, Baum and Sheheen. The said tract of land is the same conveyed to L. J. Whitaker by deed of I^aura V. Thurman of date February 1, A. I)., 1919, which has been filed for record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County." The purchaser shall pay for the preparation ?and recording of all papers, including the requisite revenue stamps. The sale of said premises is subject to existing right-of-way of the Postal Telegraph Company. W. L. DePASS, JR., Master for Kershaw County NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate of Amanda H. Ed'wards are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, ^ if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, wtthin the time prescribe<LJ>y law. W. A. EDWARDS, Administrator of the Estate of Amanda H. Edwards. Camden, S, C., January 16, 1933. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on the 18th day of February, 1933, at 11 o'clock, A. M., I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Executrix of the estate of Peggie Wheeler, deceased, and on the same dnte I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said executrix. MATTIE DEAS, Executrix Estate Peggie Wheeler. Camden, S. C., January 18th, 1933. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on February 6th, 193.3, at 11 o'clock, a, m., I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administratrix of the estate of A. B. McLaurin, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administratrix. MRS. DAISY McLAURIN, Admnx. Estate of A. B. McLaurin. Camden, S. C., January 6th, 1933. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date on the 10th day of February, 1933, at 11 o'clock a. m., I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Executor of the estate at William Kelly, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the**aid Court for a final discharge as said Executor. AMMONS R. COLLINS, Executor Estate William Kelly Camdan, 8. C., Jan. 11, 1988.. Des Moines, la., Jan. 'M.?A cow for a dime?the price of a quart of milk! This sale price was revealed following renewed efforts by midwestern farmers to forestall the effecta of mortgage foreclosures. Meanwhile they awaited promised legislative relief, determined, they .< said, to prevent loss of their property through foreclosures, and especially . ' to avoid deficiency judgments. Tho cows which sold for a dime Tuesday to satisfy a judgment against Ueorgo , Hosander, farmer, near Perry, Iowa, subsequently were returned to Rosander by farmers who made the bids. The judgment was for $2,600 but the // sale netted the mortgage holders only $15.06. A crowd of 1,500 farmers attended the sale yesterday. Horses for 15 cents, and a tractor for $1.50 . were othey successful bids. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that in accordnnce with the terms and provisions of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, dated the 0th day of January, 11)113, in the case of T. F. HORTON, plaintiff, against ED. B RIBBON, ot al., Defendants, 1 will sell to tho highest bidder, requiring a deposit of 3 per cent of the plaintiff's mortgage indebtedness, before the court house door in Camden, S. C., during the legal hours of s>ale on the first Monday in February,' li>33, the following described property; "All that cortain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being und situate in Kershaw County, State aforesaid, containing one hundred (100) acres, and being hounded as follows: North by Spring Branch, said Branch being line between .1. E. Williams and this tract; South by lands of Mrs. lleleni C. Estridge (formerly 10. M. Estridge) and by lands of E. C. McLaurin, (formerly belonging to Ike Caldwell); East by lands of Mrs. Helen 0 C. Estridge (formerly 10. M. Estridge); und West by lands of A. John Hunter. And being same tract of land conveyed to Ed. Brisbon by T. F. Horton by deed dated January 3, 1023." Terms: One-third (1-3) cash, tho : balance in two (2) equal annual installments, with interest from date of sale secured by the bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the premises sold, with leave to the purchaser to pay all cash. W. L. DePASS, JR., Master for (yershaw County TAX RETURNS _ - L' Office of Auditor Kershaw County, Camden, S. C., December 17, 1932 - Notice is horeby given that the Auditor's ^Office will be open for receiv- ^ ing Tax Returns from January 1st, ' 1933, to March 1st, 1933. All persona owning real estate or personal property must make returns of the sama within said period, ns required by law, or bo subject to a penalty of 10 per cent. The Auditor will attend in person or by deputy at the following places in the county on the dates indicated for receiving returns: Bethune?January 10th and 11th. Kershaw?January 12th and 13th. Rnley's Mill?January 17th. Liberty Hill?January 18th. Blaney?January 19th. Westville?January 20th. . '1 All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are required to pay a poll tax, and all persons between the ages df 21 and 50 years, inclusive, are required to pay a Road . tax, unless excused by law. All ' ' Trustees, Guardians, Executors, Administrators or Agents holding prop- ? . V erty in charge must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before some officer and All out the-same in pro- per manner or they will be rejected. B. E. SPARROW, Auditor Kershaw County ROUGH to your finger ? I I w means . . MIOK7GMX MJV Y&VMl STOMACH It's easy to any they're all alike? and easy to prove they are NOT. Dissolve a genuine Bayer Asoirin tablet in water, pour it off, feel the --^sl fine powder that coats the glass. Do this with some other tablet: tee what coarse particles are leftt They feel as sharp as sand, even to your finger. How must th^y affect those 'delicate membrane w/.ich line your throat?your stomach? For immediate relief ""ffWH Itipdk aches, colds, sore throat, neuralgia or neuritis, lumbago, rheumatism, there's nothing like haytt Aspirin, Jt cannot depress the heart. im* 7> ?*y?r Go*, lot. :-:r ?_rr