The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 03, 1933, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
I THE CAPEN CHRONICLE
H. D. NIMIS Ifidltor *?"*
Published every Friday at No. llUtf
proud Street end entered at the Cam-1
den, South Carolina poetotrue as
second elaas mail matter. Price per
annum $2.00, payable in advvv-e.
Friday, February '3, 1933
SUGGESTS CHANGE IN LAW
The local sportsmen are starting
a movement to bring about, if |k>sP
aible, a revision of the hunting license
law in such way that the unjust
dUcriminntfbn against non-residents
may be eliminated, The realden
county license costs $1.10, the
resident state license $3.10, while
nor.-resident license is $15.2f>, for the
privilege of hunting in South Caiolina.
Northern people come to tins
^siato to escape the rigors of their
cold winters and to enjoy such sports
as South Carolina has to ofTer. Hunting
is chief among them. They invest
in homes and property, spend
I their money here, contribute to our
county causes and make themselves
in all respects a part and parcel ftmong
us. We evidence our vaunted
hospitality' by sticking thorn with a
license fee for hunting five times as
great as is charged the citizens of
the state. They rightfully resent this
discrimination. There can Ihj no just
cause or excuse for it. It should
never have been imposed. It will be
an easy matter for the legislators
now sitting to amend the law, placing
non-resident property owners on
a parity with residents, and it is
understood that sportsmen all over
South Carolina'' are much interested
in seeing this done. Of course where,
one does not own property here, butj
just comes to the state for a few,
days' hunting, he should be charged}
the high license of $15.25.
LIKE THE HOUSE
I If anything could forcibly illustrate I
the law of diminishing returns result- j
ing from increasing costs beyond a
reasonable figure, the three-cent letter |
postage has turned the trick.
Postal revenue has been lost which
I will never be regained from the samcj
class of mail, for the simple reason
that the public has devised ways to
use third-class mail instead of first. }
The same thing will take place with
gasoline. As gas taxes are shoved
up beyond reasonable figures, smaller
cars will be used, or larger cars will (
be used less, and the volume sold will
diminish, thereby producing less rev- ,
enue for the state. I
The same thing will take place with
property. Beyond a certain point, the
owner cannot pay taxes. When that ,
day comes, he will let the city, county ]
or state take it and the tax rolls will
be flooded with unsalable property,
and tax deficits will mount.
The public is no different from the ^
horse,j You can lead the horse to f
water, but you can't make him drink.
I You can tax the public beyond its
ability to pay, but you can't make ,
it pay. j
The political subdivisions of this
nation, from the smallest hamlet to
the Federal government, should readjust
the tax bill and public expenIditures
to fit tho ability of the people ,
to pay.
The papers are filled with reports
of meetings of tax experts, state tax
commissions and other organizations
of "tax spenders" who are in a large
measure to blame for the present taxation
problems of the people. As advisers
on the financial affairs of the
people, they have for years taken the
easiest course, acquiescing in public
demands for extravagant public exjjl
penditures raising their voicesetaoi
penditures without raising their
voices in protest or showing where
exhorbitant spending was leading the
people.
Even today, most of the "tax experts,"
instead of recommending drastic
cuts in public expenditures, are
hunting ways and means to increase ,
existing taxes or find new methods
of taxation.
The >ame thing is going to happen
to every city, couuty, state and the
nation itself, that has happened to
miliums of families?thc-v are going
to have l-1 get along <m less money
than they ; nought was pi>r>.-lhl?' a year!
or two Veat'.-> ago. Instead <>t inj
i* I
c:taM- .ta\r> ?1 r iiiw ivu-thf.ils (i'l
taxation to balance public deficits.!
there i- going to have to be defeased!
taxation and decreased public de-1
mands on a balanced scale, which will!
t eventually, wipe out the deficits.
Families are paying up their bills |
now or. reduced income simply by reducing
their expenses below their income.
Governments will have to do
the same thing.
Senator Wheeler, (D.), of Montana,
advocated the coinage of silver on a
basis of 16 to 1 in the senate Tuesday,
promising that this would bring
trebled agricultural prices, rising
stock quotations and better timex.
A Wheeler offered free coinage as an"
amendment to the Glass banking bill}
over the protest of Senator GIaxx. ?
Senator Sheppard. of Texas, declared
he would vote for the amendment.
ECONOMIC HK3I' I'll"UTS
Present outlook is little changed
from recent week* but there is alight
improvement in car loadings and
electric power production.
Commercial failures continue high.
Stabilization, rather than expansion,
i* the goul of the moment. Decline
of commodity price seems to havo
been arrested, always an encouraging
sign. Highest class bonds aro registering
steady advances.
Business! leaders, as with one voice,
continue to reiterate that a balanced
budget, tax reduction and stropg and
constructive Washington leadership
lure essentials of recovery.
K?rnv prices recently showed a
slight advance, 'led by strong g'ain
quotations, Cotton markets strengthened,
with demand improved. Hog
and lamb market helped by better
meat prices. Cattle and veal lagging.
Butter market unsettled because of
excess supply. "
The general farm situation in the
middle west is atill extremely bad,
with many counties collecting but 35
to 10 per cent of taxes due.
World traffic in wheat rose sharply
during the week ending January 14,
with North America and Australia
clearing the major shpre of the 16,(>32
000 bushels eleardd during this
period. During the Mtfst six months
of the current crop season, weekly
shipments averaged only 10,800,000
bushels.
Retail dry goods sales registered a
decline of 22.6 per cent in 1032. |
Wholesalers believe the usual j
spring buying movement will spread
out over the season, instead of being,
lumped at one time. Current activity;
among wholesalers is largely confined
to "odd lot" sales.
' Merchants generally feel that if a
price change occurs in 1033, it will be
in the upward direction.
Overproduction of crude oil and de-;
dining sales of gasoline have result-,
ed in reduction of gas prices to low- j
est level in many years in various
parts of the country. !
Automobile executives expect a 10
to 15 per cent gain in automobile!
vales this year, with some leaders,
forecasting 30 per cent. J
The volume of steel business has j
gained moderately, and the industry
is encouraged in spite of disappointing
sales to railroads.
During 1932 the iron ore industry
mined 9,588,000 tons, a decrease of
45 per cent from 1931 and lowest output
since 1885. Total 1932 value was
?13,042,000, as against $74,123,910 in
the preceding year.
Bankers are opposing the issuance
i>f scrip to be used as money, while
the movement gains headway in
many small towns. Bankers feel that
if the movement becomes national in
?cope, financial chaos will result.
Farm tool fir his opening 1933 sates
drive. Bin hopes on certain new features
such as low-priced trucks. Farm j
equipment export business growing.,
Federal regulation of workers'
wages is being urged by representatives
of various labor organizations.
The unusual export activity that!
marked the past two months in (
French Indo-China has now ceased; j
favorable trade balance continues,
but the public finance is unsatisfactory.
Copra trading is dull in the
Philippine Island/? and but one cocoanut
oil mill is now operating. .Shrinkage
in Rumanian imports has followed
tariff and foreign exchange restructions.
Chilean business sentiment,
recently reported as improved,
has received a setback, seasonal turnover
extremely low.
To Practice Here
Andrew Burnet Whitaker, M. D.,
has rotume<i to Camden, his native
city to begin the practice of medicine.
He graduated at the College of
Charleston in medicine several years
ago and has also practiced in the
Nassau hospital, New York, up to a
short time ago when he decided to
return to Camden and open an office,
which is located on the second floor
of DePass' Drug Store.
Dr. Whitaker is the son of -Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Whitaker and their I
friends will l>c interested and pleaded j
to learn of the decision <>f th.a you' g;
doctor to take up the practice o. :
medicine here.
Bi-Centennial I'lan* To Be Made
Mover 11. M. Kennedy. dr.. iaj.
?- <: that W invite ?!! citizen* ??f
the c'.tv to a pub... meeting l l><;
. : he Ante! van la g:t. Ha! |
. day. Friday. February bd. t.? make;
plans for the bi-eente?m I?I eeleora
:.i,n i.f the .-ettlif.g of Camden. H-c
meeting wail begin at It) a. ni. and
ail are g.viti ar, invitation to be
J ev.-rt Th? ee!ebrat?>n i- to be held
Hie near future, date to be given
Stanley ''Swede Anderson, St.,
Louis gangster, was being carried
Sack to Louisiana to stand trial on i
a murder charge. He made his es,
apt from a United States marshal
by jumping through a Pullman car
v. indow. The next day a posse was
looking for him on a freight train, he
jumped from a coa. car as officers .
approached and was shot down by a
deputy.
The two young women fivers who t
crashed in South Africa last Satur-j
day, were rescued Tuesday, both of
them injured, but not seriously.
Capital Observations
(Special Correspondence)
Washington, Jan. 31 ?!n this city
there arc three transit companies, a
bus line and two street railways, their,
combined routes totaling 238 miles. }
There are available for use more than
a thousand cars and buses, and the
facilities for local transportation are
excellent, but the arrangement# for
transfers between the different companies
are inadequate and confusing,
especially to "strangers. A necessary
law has been passed by Congress,
which has contra! and supervision j
over everything of consequence in
the District of Columbia, authorizing |
the merger or . consolidation of the
three companies, and this will doubtloss
result in improved conditions.
A prominent newspaper, the CinI
cinnati Enquirer, humorously reI
marks thatb'Tt sort'a looks as if repeal
hud stept on a banana peel..
Action during the present Congress
does seem to be problematical, but
doubtless a foothold will be secured
upon the assembling of the Seventythird
Congress, where the opponents
of prohibition are understood to have
a very large majority in both the
Senate and the House of Representatives.
,
The election of John N. Garner to
the vice-presidency last November is
the first instance since the Civil War
where a Southern man has been on
the successful ticket in a national
campaign. In 1904 the Democrats
nominated a former senator, Henry
G. Davis, of West Virginia, for vicepresident,
and in 1928 Senator Joseph
T. Robinson, of Arkansas, was
designated for the same position, but
in each of the years indicated the
Democratic ticket was badly defeated.
Strange as it may seen to the average
citizen during these hard times,
there is a hesitancy and even a disinclination
to consider the acceptance
of a position in the president's cabinet
on the part of a proportion of
able and well-qualified men, unless
independently wealthy. The rub
comes on the question of salary,
which is $12,000 a year, and many
successful men make far in excess of
that. During exceedingly prosperous
times a custom grew up for lavish
expenditures on the part of high officials,
and the cabinet posts in particular,
have been filled largely by
millionaires and others of great
wealth. Perhaps there will he a
marked change pnder the next administration.
A recent vote in the Senate is
reminiscent of the presidential campaign
a generation ago, when in 1896
under the leadership of Wiliam J.
Bryan, the Democrats made a fight
with the principal issue that of tne
free coinage of silver at the ratio f
of sixteen to one. The proposition:
to authorize again the free coinage
of silver, which was supported by
Senator Smith, was lost by the very
decisive vote of 56 to 18. Senator
Byrnes voted in the negative. During
the recent campaign Franklin D.
Roosevelt announced his attitude as
strongly in favor of "sound money,
and a free coinage measure could not
meet with his approval. Some statesmen
are holding that if the dollar
keeps on appreciating a silver bill,
or something else efficacious, will be
necessary, but are entertaining the
hope that under the next administration
an improvement in conditions
will take place,'with prosperity coming
from around the corner, so that
there may be no need or justification
for an inflation of the currency.
The Postal Guide, issued annually
by the post office department effective
July first, the beginning of the
fiscal year, contains (a vast amount of
information. A few items regarding
the service in Kershaw county may
be of interest to some readers. There
are eleven post offices in the county.
Bethuno, Blaney, Boykin, Camden,
Cassatt, Kershaw, Kilgo, Liberty
Hill, I.ugoff, Stoncboro and Westville.
All of these offices except three are ,
of the fourth class, and the post-j
masters are civil service employes,)
holding their position? without a lim-j
itation as t > time, during the rendi- ;
! .,;> of satisfactory sen ice. The
post ma-'er? at the other three off.ces
an- nj pointed by the president, ar.d
are o>mmi--ioned f<>r four years.
When a vacancy occurs an exam.na- .
i- n is held to ascertain the fitness j
ar.d capacity of the various applicants.
but the appointees have no
civil service status. The Camden of-,
fice is of the second class, the an- ]
r.ual salary being $2,700 this year. |
Bethuno, salary $1,400, is an officer
of the third class, as is Kershaw, ,
salary $2,100. The salary of postmasters,
like that of other government
employes and officials, is subject
to a stated deduction under the
terms of the "economy act," jpassed
by Congress, and now in effe<*.
A carload of "bones" was brought
into New York this week from Cuba
by the .beatrnm fine*. When officer? j
examined the car they found that rbe
cargo was $150,000 worth of rum. <
U. I>. C. To Meet j
The John I>. Kennedy Chapter, U.
1). will meet at J:JO o'clock, Monday,
February Oth, at the home of
Mrs. Louise Proctor, Hampton avenue.
Mi a. P. T. Villepigue and Mrs. j
R. K. Chewning will be assistant!
hostesses. Members are asked to
come to the meeting prepared to pay
their dues.
Curd of Thanks
We sincerely wish to thank our
many friends and neighbors for their
loving kindness and sympathy during
the illness and death of our dear
husband1 and father, and for the
beautiful floral offering. We ulso
wish to thank Dr. Clyburn anij the
nurses of the Camden hospital.
Mrs. J. T. Sinclair and children.
Wants?For Salt?
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FOR RENT?rSix-room house on west
side of Highland uvenue, just painted
inside and out. Price $15.00
per month. Telephone 103, William
L. Godale, Camden, S. C.{ j
44-4&abv
WANTED?To interview voftned genf^pn?n
or lady interested in local
work. Guaranteed incomo $3.00
per day. See Mr. Schneider at
Palmetto Hotel, east DeKalb street,
Camden, S. C. 44pd
WANTED?To do nursing by the
hour or day at reduced rates. Mrs.
Belle G. MeCaskill, Graduate Nurse,
1203 Lyttleton street, Camden, S.
C. ' 43pd
SALESMEN WANTED?Men wanted
for Rawleigh routes of 300 consumers
in City of Camden, Counties
of West Kershaw, parts of Fairfield
and Richland. Reliable hustler
can start earning $25 weekly
and increase every month. Write
immediately. Rawleigh Co., Dept.
SC-7G-S, Richmond, Va. 4Gpd
GRADUATE NURSE?Desires work
Call telephone 178, Mrs. Mario*.
Wat kins Boyles, Camden, S. C. v J
44-4Gsb
FOR SALE? Home-made Knives
guaranteed to hold an edge. Also
repair work done on guns, revolvers
and rifles, all makes. My shop
on CanMlen-Bishopville highway.
Address C. W. Shiver, Rt. 1, Camden,
S. C. 43pd
WANTED?Coker's Cleveland No. 5
cotton planting seed, one year from
Coker. Reply to' ,1. T. Hay Cotton
> and Fertilizer Co., Rutledge street,
Camden, S. C. 44sb
FOR RENT?One five-room cottage
on Lakeview. All conveniences.
Apply to J. B. Mickle, Camden,
S. C. 44pd
PLUMBING?When in need of plumb- ?
ing, heating and tinning, call on
Gus Hayes. Your patronage %ill b?"
appreciated. Telephone 153, Camden,
S. C. 41-44pd.
WANTED TO BUY?OLD BOOKS ?
State Histories, Wars, Almanacs,
First Editions, old prints, early
magazines, etc. Write and I will
call. Mrs. D. J. Brimm, 21 Heyward
St., Bishopville, S. C. 44pd
MONUMENTS?I handle only the
best grades of marble and granite
Come see or write to T. J. Mo-*
Ninch. Camden, S. C. l&pf
LOST?Pair of short bowed gold
spectacles. Lost Friday, somewhere
on DeKalb or Chesnut street. Reward
if returned to Camden Chronicle
office 44-sb
FOR RENT?Four or five room
apartment, all modern conveniences,
with private entrance. Located
in good residential section. Can be
rented furnished or unfurnished, at
reasonable price. Telephone 190 or
515. Mrs.. Annie S. Davidson, Camden,
S. C. 40tf
WANTED?You to know that with
many people tho first column read
in this newspaper is the "Want Ad
Column." They read it for what
bargains they see?and others for
curiosity. The,, cost is small?only
one cent a word?minimum 25c.
NURSING?Will do hour nursing.
Address Mrs. J. W. Ingram, Registered
Nurse, 205 Haile street, Camden,
S. C. 38-tf.
ELECTRICAL REPAIRS ? Bring
your electrical appliances to ua for
repairs or adjustments. We guarantee
satisfaction, our chargea are
moderate,. Telephone 220-W, Shannon
Electric Company, Camden,
S. C. 82tf
RADIO REPAIRING?-Expert radio
repairing. Any make. Other electrical
repairing done. All work
guaranteed. Creed's Filling Station,
Telephone 4SG. -10tl' '
WE DO?Custom hatching in NewTown
giant incubator. Eggs accepted
any amount any time. Two
cents per egg or three cents per
chick. Address Campbell's Hatch
ery, four miles east of Camden, S.
C. 43-45pd
CARPENTEKiinu?Jonn S. Myers,
phone 263, 812 Church Street,
Camden, S. C., will give satisfactory
service to all for all kinds
of carpenter work. Building,
general repairs, screening, cabinet
making and repairing furniture.
My workmanship is my reference.
1 solicit yuur patronage. Thank- t?^
SPECIALS I
FOR
Friday and Saturday
Palm Olive Toilet Soap
Two Cakes for ...15c
Shivar's Pale Dry Gin- i
ger Ale 10c
Best Creamery Butter lb 25c
Tomatoes, per can 5c
Tomato Juice, per can... 5c
Pork and Beans, can .... 5c I!
Tongue, Liver and Ham
Spread for Sandwichs 10c
Sugar, 10 pounds 44c
Idaho Baking Potatoes
Home-made Jellies
Preserves
Mrs. Mott's HomeMade
Mayonaise
Fresh Grated
Horse Radish
Best Grade of Unsalted
BUTTER
Full Line of FANCY
GROCERIES
Best Line of FRESH
VEGETABLES
LANG'S GROCERY
Phone 2 We Deliver
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE
H
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1988, In the opinion of many competent
commentators, is going to be
u better year than 1982.... Just how
much better will depend on you and
me and the real of our fellow citizens.
. .. .Let's do what we can,... .by
faith, courage, effort and charity, to
make it u good year for ourselves and
for others....If only the majority
will just do that, all will be well.
* * # *
Here in Camden, favored in many
ways,....in its history, its location,
its climate, its sise, its citisens....
things have never been as bad as in
'many other places And they're
beginning to improve here.
Several 'stores and shops report
satisfactory business (considering the
times). The winter colony is here in
practically full force and is steadily
increasing, and the sun is getting a
little warmer anr^^Httl^. higher in
the. heavens everyday? Sursum
.corda.
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v
Only a little over a fortnight and
we'll be having the annual Hunter
Trials and Washington's Birthday
Steeplechase and flat races, Camden
is believed to be the first place, "'way
down South in Digie," to put on hun-*
ter trials... .which is appropriate, for
Charleston and Camden are two of
the nurseries that sheltered the
"Sport of Kings," in its infancy in
this country, and helped to write some
of the most glorious pages of American
turf history.
As long as the thoroughbred is
raised and cherished in this country,
the name of Major Cantey and of the
great little Carolina-bred mare Albine,
and of their compeers, will be
remembered end honored.
* *
There are about 12,000 weekly
newspapers published in the United --J
States, an incalculable force, exerted
almost 100 percent for good,....for
the information, enlightenment, hap. i
pinesa and well-being of each community.
* + * *
By the way, did you know that a
South Carolina daily paper, "The
State," prints regularly . editorials
that .compare favorably in power, insight
and literary charm with those
written by "Dana, of the Sun."
* * + *
Have you over visited the University
of South Carolina and its spleudid
library, ."old, yet ever new.
To leave busy Main street and
walk into the beautiful campus of
the University, to approach the flno
old library with its classic Doric columns,
to enter those portals and.... . <
perhaps under tho courteous guidance
of Professor Kennedy, native of Camden
and co-author of. "Historic Camden".
.. .to. be. privileged to see some
of its treasures, Elzevirs, Caxtons,
gloriously illuminated vellum books
produced by tho good Monks before
the invention of the printing art, is
to return to the "Groves of Academe"
and to say "Et in Arcadia vVixi," "I,
too, have lived in Arcady."
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Indeed*cannot we fortunate dwellers
or sojourners in .Camden, in "the
sunshine town amid the pines," in the
health-giving sandhill region of the
Comfortable State, midway between
ocean and mountains, can. not we all
thankfully say, "I, too, live in Arcady."
?The Chronicler.
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RADIOS FOR RENT USED RADIOS FOR SALE
We can also show you a collection of New Radios /
CREED'S FILLING STATION i
Telephone 486 D. J. CREED, Proprietor
U. S. NO. 1?MAINE
POTATOES
10 its.? 15c i
| g SHORTENING cfL 47c I I
IONA
FLOUR
84-Ib. 48-lb. 86 It*.
B?f Bac Bag
49c 95c '1"
CAMPBELL'S
soups i
ALL VARIETIES I
3 cans 25c
CAMPBELL'S
TOMATO SOUP 3 cm 19c
BLUE BONNET CHOICE
BARTLETT PEARS 15c S
RAJAH
SALAD
DRESSING
PT. QT.
15c 29c
RAJAH
SANDWICH
SPREAD
8tf-o?. PT.
10c 15c 3
| MUSTARD jar 10c j |
IP. At
SOAP 4 cakes 15c
EPIWUTS it 27c
CAMAY i
SOAP cako 5c HI
CHIPSO 'AT 15c [ |
MARKET
Veal Chops, lb 12c
Pot Roast Beef, lb. .. 15c
Shoulder Lamb, lb. .. 15c
Pork Chops, 2 lbs 25c
Pig Tails, 3 lbs 25c
Pork Sausage, 2 lbs... 25c
i PRODUCE
I .ife Tomatoes, lb 10c
Trim Cauliflower, lb. 10c .
Wine sap Apples 72's 35c I
Large head Lettuce.... 10c
Celery, stalk10c J
String Beansf lb. ..., 7ygc