The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 21, 1933, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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THE CHRONICLE THE
Contribution** to this "(JoJumn" <uv most welcome. Nhiuc* of contributors
1 will never Ik* printed?unices desired. Ju*t aitfn "pen name," toifother
with your own name ami address, the latter for our information only.
Recently the death, at his desk, of
the veteran publisher of a small Southern
paper, called out comment from
important newspapers throughout the
country .... his name had become a
household word over a wide neighborhood
.... he had been the chronicler
of the births and' weddings and
deaths of more than a generation . .
his kindly philosophy had held the J
lamp of help and hope and guidance
for faltering footsteps?had pointed
blasted trails where the paths of civic
righteousness were sometimes tangled
and obscure .... his pride in the
power and province of the press had
subordinated commercial gain to professional
principle and held his cour- I
ago inviolate from menace of threat
or jeer. J
As a maker of phrases or a coiner
?.f sensational epigram he was probably
a conspicuous failure; as a wholesome
and helpful force in the community
he was a one hundred per cent.
success In these days of "boiler-1
plate." his paper kept the integrity, i
of its own opinion and provided an! ]
example of a rapidly disappearing',
species of publications .... it was j ,
one of the last- surviving links be-1
ft tween the early days, of "broadsides" ,
and these' later davs of a voluminous t
and luxurious modern newspaper. j
What .he thought of f>0 or ?>() -yago |
dailies or 100 page Sunday editions 1
v> is unknown .... his own modest is- 1
sue was limited to less than a half i
dozen pages of print .... The genius 1
of Mergunthaler and IIoo were not
unknown to him but for his own pur- 1
/ poses a patient and skilful hand suf- <
ficed to write his "copy," hand-set i
his type and hand-press his issue.... <
he lived in a small community by <
choice as much as by accident of '
birth or circumstance ....he saw the '
miniature yet certain stature of
small places and diminutive events i
.... he visualized and realized the
potentiality and the utility and the
artistry of making a thing that was
indubitably a part of himself.
All unwitting, he was a fellow in
the royal guild of individualistic
craftsmen .... within his own appointed
limits and in his own name
and style he carried the magic of
Wilkes and Greeley andv Watterson
and McKelway and Glynn .... he
must have had a spirit touch with
White of Emporia and Sherwood Anderson
of Virginia and with all the
other great journalists of yesterday
and today.
* *
A few days ago a strolling newspaperman
related to me an anecdote
of the poet Frost?thut he had first
to publish in England to- get well
known in his own country .... of the
same cloth was my yarn to S. Anderson
the first time we met?that I
had first t<? go to France, via one of
the English journalist Sisley Huddleaton'rt
books, to learn that .rnderson
pub-i-died a country- newspaper in
Virginia .... and now many of us
have t?> visit the columns of far-flung
dailies t-o read the epic of a humble
newspaperman of the South.
A eountrv editor, what a world of
tradivnn and honest value the term
<. * u r.' u s'!
For Utnr rrg ipuaiit ;e?: for a -.rujT"U
:<-pi for : :ic iar.dn.aiKs ,,f
! ..a:.o '.try il?*fir.i'.e iin.ita'.
|..., ; f<.|- a fir,?- tid?
ty the . u-l a - pi rat ku: - < t
r> ig.nbov* ami hi? r.elghhoi t,...for
a:. .!<! fa.-hi :r? d yet r.evv-:'a>ha?ned
of he re::tt:ve valile- of money
arai nan. 1 s ural.rv.es wonder vvheth
r r his unheralded pubii-her is not as
great a tome for human happ.ra s< as
- contemporaries on a Guardian, a
l'r.bune or a Thunderer.
Thomas Wood?
Things arc beginning- to liven up
out at the Saratoga race course.
The other morning we went out there
in the freshness of the early hours
of the day when the horses get their
work-out* .... met Fred Johnson
and rode with him to see his "How
High" and "Top High" come down
the big tracks to tho finish line, doing
the five furlongs in l.lKt .... His
horses winter in Columbia, S. C., with
the iBuxton Hrothers and have a flying
start on their less fortunate comjK'titors,
who have to spend their
winter mid snow and ice way up
North on Ixing Island.
Noticed the Widener string going
by.. '.an imposing array. .. .The CJlen
Riddle stable is here and the Hrookrneade
racers. . . .
From now on, they'll be coming in,
fast.
The Chronicler
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IMitys I'olo With President ? Son
The*, following is from the LittleIon,
New Hampshire, Courier, of Jury
13. Mr. an'l Mrs. Mendel L. Smith,
Jr., are. spending a part of the sumner
in the White Mountains:
"A spectacular shot by Huek Smith
f Camden, S. and Bethlehem, in
he sixth chukkcr, or last period, was
ill that prevented a tie score' at the
)olo game at the White Mountain i
I'olo '"Ranch Sunday afternoon. The
sail rolled through the goal posts just
as the whistle blew to give th<*
Whites a 4 to 4 lead over the Blues.
The other three goals made by the
winners were chalked up by Bill Mc[Juckin
of v Whitefield, Harvard '34,
star member of the intercollegiate
/arsity champion polo team this season.
On the Blue team, Jap Blandin
was responsible for two goals, and
Teddy Poor, 12 years\ old and eighty
pounds of horseman, got the third
one. John Roosevelt started at number
one on the Blue team and was later
relieved by Adam Gostomski, Polish
cavalry captain. There was an
excellent attendance, a fast game
was played and the polo field was in
fine condition." '
* * * *
In a letter to the editor of this paper
Mr. Smith writes as follows:
"Have been playing polo over at
White Mountain Ranch and hyve met
quite a few nice young men. John
Roosevelt is a fine young fellow and
no one would ever suspect him of being
the President's son. If anything,
he is the most regular boy on the
ranch. He plays number one on the
Blue team and I am number four on
the Whites and it is his duty to cover
mo during the game-and in that way
I have seen a lot of him.
"Was over at the ranch tho morning
Mrs. Roosevelt paid John a visit
pud she'certainly did make Herself at
home?sat right down and ate with
all the boys.
"The weather Is certainly cool
here?stays around fiO degrees all the.
time. An overcoat is very comfort able
in the evening."
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Along the line above mentioned
about Mi-. Roosevelt the I.eRoy. New
\ ork, Gazette. hjjs the following paragraph:
"Mrs. Krnnklin 1>. Roosevelt is not
.i'.!ov\.vg her exhalted po-ition as first
"a * ?>f the land to prevent her going
: a - and seeing thing* in the same
rn.a; and friendly manner that
an\ o'.her American woman travels
.? > a'. I >: iv.ng 'ner own roadster.
M : It .ewdt -hows up unt-xpccted!;.
and unannounced in places contain.ng
something she is interested
ii. -<lag. or friends upon whom she
do- iv* t > call. Apparently she is a
"new dea." Mrs. President and the
public is taking kindly to her free
and friendly comings ami goir.gs."
Th? r;r.y's S^vfMK'.ooO na\nl 1?u i.?J :
a ; r'^'nni f<?r H'T'.-'U has }?t < r.
Kr.a a * I'm r.: II < ?
a1' ! 'A'.il :?< a-U-v! a: < r.. . The
i a'. - f<T the hax <f 2\
sr.. ! .ai.r-.^r a i '"U <?r. h*a\>
; :,i-cr
N'i'tt V-ok police on Saturday, w.th
:: a. i of :! ?> t hreater.e.i victim, a
vr. - ; ? -??? ?i m i apt"irir.tf two of
i \'i'!i:nn,>;s who had sent the
. ;?!. 'ot<? demanding1 ?10.l">(>0
,u<\> - of kidnaping ami v:u &
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11.1 IIIII? II ?| 11ise,unamiiii Hiinannmrrarj
\nnouneing I
I he opening of an .Automobile General Repair R
Shop at the location formerly occupied by
I lenrv Morris on West DeKalb Street, next door
to Creed s lulling Station. Day Plione 486 I
N'iglit Phone I 7 3-W
E. D. DRAKEFORD
B. A. YOUNG
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Camden Rotarians
Attend Convention
' Threo
Rotarians from Camden attended
the Rotary International held
in Boston during the last week in
Juno and wo are indebted to John K.
do Loach, the Camden club secretary,
for the following1 interesting account
of the convention:
"The annual convention of Rotary
International was held in Boston,
M^ss., during the last week in June
at Mechanics Hall, an extremely large
auditorium which could house approximately
. twenty thousand people.
Eight thousand Ave hundred Rotarians
and Rotary Anns registered for
the convention from all parts of the
world. One man, Frank Milner, number
of the Rotary Club of Oamaru,
New Zealand, traveled ton thousand
miles to the convention. There were
also men and women from Australia,
Japan, China, Europe, South America,
Mexico and Canada. A little
fellow from China, Fong Foo t Sec,
obtained the greatest ovation of the
assembly when he responded to the
welcome of the governor of Massachusetts,
acting mayor of Boston,
president of the host club and governor
of the host district. When he
arose to speak he was applauded at
length and again when he had finished?there
appeared to be some
evidence of sympathy for the Chinese
people in that ovation, it was so very
spontaneous.
Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a
Rotarian of Winchester, Ya.. was one
of the speakers and told of having
carried the Rotary Hag over the
North and South poles and that' on
his next trip to the South pole in
September he expected to carry the
Rotary Hag again in hi^ effort to find
a new continent. Achuiral Byrd invited
the assembly to visits "The
Bear", the ship he is to use in this
next trip to tho south, which was
then at tho navy yard at Charlestown.
Adjoining Mechanics Hall was another
large room which was fixed to
resemble a garden, with evergreens
planted about in soil brought there
for the purpose. This place was called
the "House of Friendship." There
were seats neatly arranged in groups
'as in a garden, and at one end of this
room was a reproduction, in part, of
a genuine "Cape Cod Cottage." Parts
of the cottage, except for the necessary
woodwork supports, were
more than 200 years old. There was
a picket fence around the front yard
of the house, which was the only
part of the yard reproduced, and this
wns planted with evergreens and
flowers. In \he House of Friendship
there were also a lounge for the Over-Seas
delegates, booths of every description
for aid in travel and 'obtaining
reservations, telegraph, telephone,
stock market quotations, motion
pictures and other conveniences.
Besides the business sessions there
were many diversions arranged for
the Rotarians and the Anns?golf
tournament, motors tours, a trip around
the harbor With planes and
gyros flying overhead and zooming
about the four or five ships chartered
to take the crowd, and the fire
boats sending up streams of water
amid much blowing of whistles, teminding
the Camden delegation of
their trip up to Boston on the boat
wher. they went through fog and the
boat blew its whistle every, few minute
during the r.ight. It blew so
<on t .ntly that each time Den Merri
in. who was also on hoard w:tn his
wife and young son. began tcl.u.g a
story he would stop at the proper
time, let the whistle blow, and continue
with his story. Al?o, there
were dances, including the President's
Bull, a very colorful affair
with the Scotchmen in their k.lties
and the Japanese in their native costumes.
There weren't many of these
eost umes. however, as most overseas
folks dressed just as Americans.
There was also a pageant and a cone.-rt
by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
consisting of ninety - three
pieces.
The business sessions were carried
of well, the speeches were excellent
and made by leading nun of this and
other countries among whom were:
Wilfred Andrews. Sitt ingbourne. England;
lhiu! 1'. Harris, founder of Rotarv
International, and a lawyer of
I'h.mg". Hi.: Admiral Byrd. John
Nel-.-n. Mi rtreal. Quebec. Canada,
ia president of Rotary Intevr.ationj
al. associated with the Sun life Ini
--.ivaiue c< rr.parv of Canada ; Clinton
I' Anderson, pa-t president of Rota;
v Interna:'.oral, who presided at all
faj-.r.? -os-ion* of the convention
ard d.d so excellently; Herbert
Schofield, immediate past president
f R oary in the British Isles; Wil:
liam deCork Runing. The Hague. Netherlands:
Maurice Dupe-rrey, Paris,
. France, ar.d others.
| The delegates from Camden con[
si-ted of T. V. Walsh. Jr., immediate
past president of the Club; A. Stanley
Llewellyn, past president; John
K. del/oach. secretary, and Karl P.
Abbott. They, with John Wilson of
Jjthe Sumter Club and Dudley French
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Two States Vote To
Repeal Amendment
(By The Associated Press)
Prohibition repeal piled up sizeable
leads last right as returns poured in
from elections in Arkansas and Alabama
in the first test of the 18th
amendment in Dixie.
Only a small percentage' of the total
vote had been heard from at that
time, however.
Repeal jumped into the lead from
the start, and several hours later had
i 1
a large margin. !
The voting in the two traditionally
dry states was considered by both
wets and drys as a crucial test of
prohibition sentiment.
, Anti-prohibitionists, including
James A. Farley, postmaster general,
and chairman of the Democratic national
committee, had predicted that
Alabama and Arkansas would bring
the total number of states voting for
repeal to 18. ^
Sixteen already have .approved repeal
with n-.ne in opposition. Favor-'
able action by 36 is necessary to take
prohibition out of the constitution. {
Two v more states?Tennessee and
Oregon-?vote this week. Arrangements
already have been made for,
sufficient additional states to record
their sentiments to bring the total to
35 by November 8.
Any one of five other states?Colo-j
rado, Montana, (^klahoma, Utah and
Virginia?may be the 36th.
A direct appeal for repeal has been
made by President Roosevelt in a tel-1
egram to Leon McCord, Democratic
national committeeman for Alabama.)
The postmaster general, Farley, al-'
so delivered an address in Memphis (
la.-t Saturday urging the Southern '
states to \ote against prohibition.
The !') state* that already have1
voted, on the basis of incomplete returns.
gave a popular v^te of 8,312,'
'?! for repeal and 2.310.271 against.'
! Those figures do not include the p"pjular
votes of Nevada and Wyoming.!
i which chose their repeal delegates
j through mass meetings or county
convent ions.
Official communications from La j
1 Paz. Bolivia, say that 500 Paraguay-!
? : soldier* were killed and 1.000 or j
i more wour.ded in an attack on Bo,
livian positions in the Gran Chacoi
territory on Saturday.
of the Newberry Club, were enter- j
tained while in Boston by Karl P.
Abbott, at one of his chain of hotels,
ThcT Vendome* situated in an exclusive
portion of Boston, and at which
President Grover Cleveland once
stayed while visiting there.
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Mrs. H. J. Ray Dies
At Camden Hospital
\
Mrs. H. J. Ray, aged 35 years, died
in a Camden hospital on Monday
after an illness of several days. Mrs.
Ray was iburied at the Bethany Baptist
church in Kershaw county on
Wednesday morning at .11 o'clock
with Rev. H. P. Bennett, of this city,
officiating, assisted by Rev. Mr.
Tucker, of the Methodist church of
Camden and the Rev. J. T. Dabney, of j
the Second Baptist church of Ker-1
shaw. Mrs. Ray was a member of f
the Shiloh Methodist church in Ker- J
shaw county but had been a resident
of Lancaster for some time. She is
survived by her husband, II. J. Ray,
and the following children: Leroy,
Willie, Paul William and Rebecca, besides
four brothers and four sisters.
Three of the sisters, Misses Mollie j
Mamie and Grace Hunter, live in Lan
caster. She is also survived by her!
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. j
John Hunter, of Bethune. Mrs. Ray j
was a good mother, a good wife, a '
good Christian character and was,
well thought of by all who knew her. j
?Lancaster News. I
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Death of Mrs. Gardner [
The many friends of Mrs. ,T. C.Mj
Nelson in Kershaw and vicinity willM
sympathize deeply with iher in th^m
death of her mother, Mrs. ViotomM]
King Gardner, 84, who died at berfl'
home near Tiller's Ferry Sunday af-'fl
ternoon and was buried in the ceme-B'
tery there Monday afternoon, follow- H
ing funeral services , conducted by H1
Rev. W. V. German, of Bethune; Eer, H,
Mr. Henderson, of McBee; and
R. R. Tucker, of Kershaw.-; '
Mrs. Gardner, who was the widow
of James W. Gardner, a valiant Con-fl
federate soldier, was a life-long and^B
devoted member of the Bethsny^B
Methodist church, near Tiller's Ferry,^B
where she resided all her life and^B
was held in highest esteem by aB^B
who knew her and mourn her losl^H
to the community. As an expressioa^B
of the esteem in which she wai.MdB
her grave was literally hidden be-^B
neath floral tributes which they
fered to her memory. Many fnendl^W
from a distance attended the funenl^W
?Kershaw Era.
Miss Eileene D. Graham, of
Thompson hospital, Lumberton, N.C?
is spending her vacation with Mr.
Mrs. H. E. Graham.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
MERCHANTS AND FARMERS BANK?
LOCATED AT BETHUNE, S. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS!
JUNE 30, 1933
Resources
Loafis and Discounts ,
Overdrafts (secured by cotton)
Bonds and stocks owned by Bank jTj^Bl)
Furniture and Fixtures
Banking House l'o20J^Hn
Other Real Estate Owne<i
(.'ash on hand and due from Banks
Exchanges for the Clearing House
Collection account . '
Liabilities
Capital Stock Paid in
Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid
Due to Banks and Bankers '^^Bg
lndi\idua! Deposits Subject to check. .. .< $20,073.41 ^B^
Savings Deposits 302.54
Time Certificates of Deposit i 9,607.80
Cashier's Checks 606.28
Notes and Bills Ro-discounted
Bills Payable, including Certificates /for Money Borrowed . .. ^^^Bd
Statp of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. ^ ?w,?*k.
Before me came G. B. McKinnon, Cashier of ^he above named ^
bpinit duly aworn, nays that the above and foregoing ataUweht w
condition of said hank, aa shown by the books ot said bank.
G. B. McKinnon #
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of July, 1933.
Correct Attest IX) ring JDavis r^B.
Loring Davis Notary *>nNie W Sooth
T. M. Clyburn
Jno. T. Stevens
Directors cK5T .. .< ' . ~T' /. 3