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III. CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. I). NILES. .Editor ?nd' Publi-her Published every Frklay ?t No, 1100 Broad Street ?vnd entered at the Camden Soutl* "Carolina poetoflNce w? eeoond claws mail matter. Trice per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Friday, August 18, 193.3 TO TilK MERCHANTS John T. Mackey, president of the C a m il e n Merchants' Association, mnkys the urgent request that when approached by outsiders on any advertising scheme whatsoever to please got in touch with him or the Chron o kde office before giving it support, j It is one of the main purposes of theassociation to give all such schemes an investigation and where found to be legitimate, then a letter of authority from the association will be given to the solicitors and the merchants can then readily afford to take stock in the plan. If the merchants will heed this advice thousands of dollars can bo saved, which have bedri^going out of the city for absolutely worthless advertising. Only yesterday, through the diligence of some of the merchants of tho association a fly-by-night operator was made to leave town because his proposition was found to be worthlosa and a good many dollurs saved tho local merchants. A VISITOR IN YOUR HOME This number of The Chronicle is going into numerous hontps in Kershaw county who are not subscribers to this paper. .Several hundred extra copies have been printed for distribution in t tie homes of the schooltrustees of the county. Then again a copy of this number will go to every j American I/egion Post in South Carolina. If you like this paper and are not already a subscriber send $2.00 to us and the paper will be a regular I visitor in your home, for one year. i A FAKI.K WITH A HIC MORAL > ' A village character, not very bad, j not especially good, got a job run- | ning the engine of a sawmill. Great- \ ly impressed with the importance ??f : his position, he resolved that everybody else should appreciate it, too. So, the first morning, he got up a j full head of steam, jerked the whistle wide open, and made the welkin ring j for miles around. As the horrible <1 in leaped from the whistle, bounced over the rocks, and reverberated ; against the hills, he struck his thumbs in the armholes of his vest and exclaimed: "1 am certainly the Hig J Noise in this part of the country and people are beginning to find it out!" Just then the foreman, with a big day's work ahead and everybody cet. | discovered that there was not enough ! steam left to start the machinery. Before kicking the Temporary Big Noise out, tho foreman expressed his ! opinion of him in language known only to sawmill foremen and there- ' fore not appropriate for this highly I moral journal. A: last accounts the Big Noise was i just a Faint Whisper. Moral: You can't saw wood if you j use all your steam blowing your whistle.?W. T. Card, in "The Do-. Ce-Co Magazine." The explanation for the concerted , newspaper attacks on former Con- j gressman W. F. Stevenson, now head ! of the Home Loan Bank 'hoard, comes from Walter Brown, a Washington ' correspondent, serving Carolina papers, who says that Stevenson for some reason got off on the wrong foot in his press relations and almost every day some scribe takes a dig at the lame duck -South Carolina congressman wh.> landed one of the best and most important jobs at Washington. At his first press conference. Stevenson appeared with a statement j of questions and answers. He passed | th:> around in such a way as to stiggo-' that he knew tho questions he j would he a-ked and to save time had air, ad;, nr.-weivd them. This did no! go om ; so hot. At a future confer : o. Sto. ( -?n hacked out - ! an A--... I'm-- ..tor.v. An >:':.( ! n?w-s .*, v iv..: a : tinne.i t :.< ?!t- put e, 1 : "v a:*,; ' C a hoard Hi." . ai-i <i" i hut squirm. August Twenty-third Last Day For ( hecks The f-ii'.ow,vg telegram ft<>m C. A. < >!?h, of . o't-,n -return, l'r..ted .- at,.- i.ctiii'uiiciit of agriouiture. has h.on received, adxises Henry l>. (] reen A ,. ohe--k< ' , otton producer- in payment for taking acreage out of : r. i u < ' i - - r. will g-? to county agents f r ri:-1 rihut ion. August twenty v> r i -et as dead Lne upon which date all cotton a< reage contracted * i t he (i->v?-rr.ment must l>e tasen out yf pr- o.jrtio-n. Bethesda Church Services Seiw a* ( s at t he Presbyterian < h wvh on August 20th will he: Sunday -chord at 10 a nv No preaching sc-rv. < On Sunday. August Rev; A F> McArn, pastor, will be back an,1 the morning services will be held at 11.15 \ B5C*5S7^5aSScaaSHSHBEBHK5^e^?l^B= Capital Observations ( Special Correaporxlence) Washington, Aug. 15.?In the National Museum here a visTforx might spend days or even weeks viewing tlie collections relating particularly to arts, industry ami history of America. There are also innumerable exhibits of scientific und artistic interest, gathered from all quarter* of the globe. The World War collection, alone, of arms and equipment is said ti? include about 50,000 objects. Practically every request made by President Koosevelt of ( ongress lor the enactment of legislation during the recent special session was complied with. The principal laws, 12 in number, are as follows: Emergency banking relief; legalization of beer; emergency unemployment relief; Muscle. Shoals and Tennessee Valley development; supervision of traffic in securities; mnintvmuico "f government credit by authorizing limited inI llation and barring the obligation to pay bonds in gold-; emergency agricultural relief; reforestation and authorization of civilian camps; refinancing of mortgages on ..^mall homes; railroad reorganization and relief; industrial recovery; broadening the banking laws, and providing for greater security. In the upper branch of Congress there are two blind men?Senator Thomas P. Core, of Oklahoma, and Thomas I). Schall, of Minnesota. The latter has a highly trained dog which is of great assistance in leading his master around. Neither of the statesmen seems to suffer any special hin<1 mnee because of his affliction. Senator Core possesses- a memory which is simply marvelous, lie is an exceedingly interesting speaker, and is regarded as a great orator. To a much greater extent than any recent administration P r c s i d e n t Roosevelt is in a position to receive expert political advice. All of his cabinet, with three exceptions, are seasoned politicians, the exceptions tn-ing secretaries Wood in, Perkins and Wallace. The positions of chairman of the national Democratic committee has at times been held by three members, Cummings, Hull and Farley, the latter having been in charge of the campaign last year which so overwhelmingly swept the Democrats into power. , The greatest political wonder of the time is the rapid change in sentiment regarding prohibition, apparently complete and throughout the entire country, or nearly so. Until about a year ago members of Con gross, especially from the South, viewed with a shudder proposals for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and for the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines. The election of a Democratic president on a so-called "wet" platform has allayed the fears at least of Democratic office holders who may aspire to reelection. It is all cine- of course to a realization of the uselcssness of endeavoring to enforce prohibitory laws when public opinion is adverse. Reformers generally are theorists and lacking in practical judgment. Many have still endeavored to stem the tide against repeal, and about the only severe criticism of President Roosevelt has come from such, alleging that he had tried to turn a moral issue into a political one by calling upon Democrats to favor repeal because it is demanded in the national Democratic platform. These same reformers now ignore the fact that fisve years ago they waged a bitter fight against the Democratic nominee for president. making a political issue of prohibition then, but .objecting to such a procedure now. ' The child labor amendment to the constitution of the United States was passed by Congress in 1021. arjd thirteen states have since ratified, out of th;riy-six whhth are required to make it valid. The essential feat are is thefollowing section "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate . nd prohibit the labor of persons un,-ig->tcrn years a/re." The J h.M" 1av,, j- a mw-n-mu-r. a\o-veto, . n \ , ai - old is no . . ;i , h?:d. The M opener.t" '-f ; Measure made a m; tak< :: .. , . limit s" high, and trial , n au-e et 'he ?;-'av.?r i'h it- i nsideratior. by he states. Another very -en. u- <>b:ion t..at it gives I'mgrc ? ju is.iict.or. ov< r a matter which should w .thin the province of the states. It may b, contended that thole may be n - abuse of the power relinquished to the Federal government, but nevertheless the fact remains that legislation may be enacted which would rentier -ubjeet to prosecution n the Un-ited States courts a mar. who might require - r permit work on he part of a young mar. or a gir. nearly grown. . ,, Of the large r.umh-r f redera, , muloyes who have recent,y lost then : ion about tw o .thousand were pe,l be, au>e -f the marital "talus .-ion. The law provide* that wt , ;t ledu.tior. i- ! . be made either h s-bar.?is or wit", must go tir-t when b- th are in the -eiv.ee Optiorb T* i t fit* c? ?upo-. and generab> i-a Inm the w.fe to be released. In -,,n.e m.-tances. jiowcvor, where the w.f<- has been draw.pg the larger sal I .try. the h,i>band has boon let out, ! F,'jr.;ni*!? organizations have ini - hc-?i sttenuously against th?- 'jfw but have made no headway a^ra.nst " : n?- >tern reality that whrrt n iion ari.-es ?u?"h as mentioned, at ?? I -he a ,?e and humane thm^ to do tc etain those who need employment and income rrjost. State To Lead Fight On Price Of Ginning Columbia, August 14.?.The fight against proposed high ginning prices has been transferred from Washington back to the cotton belt as a direct result of the meeting of cotton farmers held in Columbia last week. The next step in the efforts of the farmers to save thenpselves from the $7.02 per bale proposed in the na- | tional ginners code will be taken at a southwide meeting to bo held at Memphis September 1 and 2. ,J. Koy Jones, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina protested against' thV proposaf of the ginners immediately following the ginners' conference at Memphis early in July when they adopted a code and sent it to Washington. Cotton farmers and others in the state wrote Mr. Jones endorsing his position and asking that he continue the fight. After receiving numerous letters and telegrams from all parts of the state Commissioner Jones called a statewide meeting of farmers and laid such information as he had gathered before them. >< 'At the meeting a resolution was passed saying $3.60 per bale was a fair price for ginning. Mr. Jones was requested and authorised to carry the protest to the highest authorities and to name a committee to assistv him. This committe? is composed of I). B. Anderson, iSpart-anburg, master of the state Grange: Neville Bennett, Bennettsville and Winchester 0. Smith. Jr., Williston. At the close of the Columbia meeting Mr. Jones, with the cooperation of Congressman Fulmer, arranged a conference at Washington with the leaders of the agricultural adjustment administration. This conference was held at Washington Friday and Mr. Jones and Mr. Bennett attended. After listening to. the South Carolinians the administration spokesmen agreed with Mr. Jones that there should be a hearing held in the cotton belt before action was taken on .the proposed ginners code. It was* then that Memphis was selected as the place and September 1 and 2 as the dates. "South Carolina farmers' will be represented at Memphis and it is our purpose to present some interesting facts regarding the cost of ginning and the burden the cotton farmers are already bearing," Commissioner Jones announced here this week. The committee to work with Mr. Jones will meet in the commissioner's office here this week and map out plans in behalf of the cotton farmers. At the Columbia meeting last week the president of the ginners organization in this state said a code had been prepared by South Carolina ginners but did not name $7.62 per bale or any other price. While in Washington Mr. Jones looked into the matter and says that "so far as I can learn the only proposed ginning code before the Washington authorities is the one adopted at Memphis and it carried the unreasonable price of $7.62 per bale for ginning, and in as much as South Carolina ginners had a representative at Memphis and apparently concur in the action taken there the farmers of this state can not afford to sit quietly while the matter is going on and some day wake up to find the Memphis code approved, price and alL "One of the things I learned at Washington was that the code proposes that th* ginner shall charge the farmer of South Carolina $1.25 for bagging and ties. This is outrageous as bagging and ties for a bale of . cotton cost today anly 55 cents. Ft is time the farmers were taking action to protect their interest. and the farmers of "South Carolina are leading the way and will be heard fr?>m at Memphis in September." declares Commissioner Jones. <?V Dr. B. (i. Gregg, who bad practiced medicine in Florence- for 42 years. <!i?-d there suddenly this week from heart disease, aged 72 y> ars. lit- wus one of the he.-1 known phy. inns in that part of this state, ' n-urer of the Methodist , hur. ;. for and a steward for 10 o ars, a ' u-tee of the Kpworth orpharage, 'ami a member ??f the cot.Terence : U ard of church extension. He was a I graduate of Mercer university and , the college of the cit\ <>f New York. H< was a native of Marion. He is survived by a son. a daughter ami a sister, living in Florence and Marion. Wall Street took its name from following the line of the wall built by the Dutch along Manhattan's northern boundary. Canada's first loan in '20 years, totaling $72,000,000. bearing 4 per cent was eagerly subscribed to on the J L<>r.d'>r. money market !a-t week. > I General News Notes; The body of <l>r, Samuel N. Hurrell of Tarboro, N. C., who disappeared, Sunday night, was found Tuesday night in the Tar river, supposedly a I suicide. i; ? Q After Floyd Blanton, a young white | man, had run amuck near Alma Mills | in Cherokee county, shooting at, and threatening with u gun threo families, two deputy sheriffs found him in a room in a barn. When they opened the door a crack, he iqatantly tired, missing a deputy by inches. Ono deputy then found a crack in the room wall and drew a bead on Blanton, who surrendered and was jailed on a variety of charges. Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis, aide to the army chief of staff, to whom two pigs were given by a great nophew of General Sherman, makhig the joke sumn\pr reading in many, newspapers, has written his mother in Greenville, where he was born and reared, that the inference that he is a descendant of Jefferson I>avis, carried in the newspaper stories, is of course untrue and makes hinj look foolish to his friends, so he hopes it will bo corrected, and his mother gives the letter tx> the Greenville papers. The Central National bank, of Spartanburg,' operated under a conservator since the bank holiday, and the only bank there until recently, was closed and placed1 under a receiver by the controller of the currency this week. J. L. Campbell is receiver, as he is of a number of national banks in this part of the state. It has over $3,000,000 of deposits and had borrowed $375,000 for Spartanburg county. Its conservator says it ,was killed by aiding Spartanburg business. At Columbia on Wednesday, a mass meeting of South Carolina cotton farmers made plans to carry to Washington a fight for what it decided was a fair price for ginning this, fall. It resolved that $3.50 pdF bale is a fair price for ginning, bagging and ties included, and the price in the national ginners code, $7.50, is exorbitant. J. Hoy Jones, state commissioner of agriculture, was authorized to carry the fight to General Johnson, assisted by a committee composed of Neville Bennett, of Marlboro county, Winchester Smith, of Barnwell, and D. B. Anderson, of Spartanburg, master of the South Carolina gTiapge. A. J. A. Perritt, of Darlington, was elected chairman. The resolutions committee was composed of W. L. Riley, of Denmark, former state senator, who proposed the ginning price resolution from the floor; iStata Senator S. J. Jeffords, of Darlington; Representative Bennett; C. B. Leo* nard, of Donalds, and W. L. Strom, Edgefield. More than a million pounds of tobacco were in warehouses awaiting the opening of auction sales yesterI day in the eastern part of this sta/te, and growers expected better prices | than last year. Market towns in the Soufh Carolina bright belt are Mul1 litis, Lake City, I^oris, Conway, Dillon, Darlington, Kingstree, Pamlico and Timmonsville. With complaints coming in that the textile mills are dodging the ;.MRA code in various ways, some | baseless, and some worthy of investigation, the American Federation of labor has sent its regional director ,to Greenville to investigate them, at fthe request of th? South Carolina [federation president. The owners and managers of some of the biggest j mills are also anxious to detect and have prosecuted any violations of the code, and such cases seem sure of punishment. Three soldier prisoners made their escape from Governor's Island, Ne.ve York, by swimming Buttermilk channel, three-quarters of a mile wide, to steamship piers in Brooklyn. Rossi and Codos, F rench fliers who :flew f rom New York to Damascus without stopping, will receive a prize of more than $50,00(1 from the French g o crnmont for their feat. Nelma. a village on the Wisconsin| Michigan state line, was caved from destruction last week, only after nine fire fighters refused to leave their posts in the forests, but dogg< <ily fought the blaze.More thanlOO of the fire fighters were forced out of the fight, hut the nine remained and for two hours with a hose poured water on the houses and business structures of Nelma. Business failures in the United States for the week ending July 27 totaled 333, as compared with 600 for the .same period of last year. The First National bank of Mont pelier, Ind., was held up and robbed of $10,000 by three men who made their escape Friday. Dun & Bradstreet report that the business banime lor now stands 64 , per cent higher than the low point of ; last March. Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, has boon sentenced to serve a year in jail on his refusal to cease his political activities. I ? The beggars and panhandlers of Boston have organized and adopted their own code. They propose not to allow beggars from out of town to beg on the streets for more than a week. William J. Burke, of New Iberia, La.r another political opponent of Senator Huey Long, has been appointed as a member of the Louisiana advisory board of public works. j Ten thousand Chinese are reported to have;been drowned and a like number made homeless, as the result of flood \yaters in the Chang river. j s J \ TV . . *\ \ * ? i * "i* * H H > ' " j C ' . *"* .;'. ?. ! Don't take our word?ask the man ir Xi who drives a 1933 V-8 I i ' ' v ' . ; I THE REDFEARN MOTOR CO. I ?- FORDS -? 1 Sales ; Service Parts I the chronicle of the i Contributions <to this "Column" are most welcome. Names of contributors I ! will never be printed?unless desired. Just sign "pen name," together I j with your own name and address, the latter for our information only. I j I t> \ This is written from Saratoga, whither so many Southerners used to go in the summer to see the races. A good many still come here and probably more will come as the popularity of this watering place * increases and the South cymes more and more into its own. * * * The country around, here is of great natural ldvelineks and of deep historic interest. The Battle of Saratoga was of course^ne of the burning points of the Revolution; in fact j one of the decisive battles in the history of the world. Down through Lake George and ! thence down the Hudson ran the route from Canada to New York, originally waterways and trails followed by the Indians, then military roads, next the line of express trains I and finally the air. lines, of swiftlyflying airplanes. * ? m * Have you ever read those splendid , books of Robert W. Chambers dealing with Colonial and Revolutionary days in -this part of our country. If not, by all means get them and read ^ them. As Martin Glynn (who knew American history as have few men or our day) once said to the writer, "Those books are good literature and they're gobd history, too!" ' They are "Cardigan," "The Little Red Fort," "The Maid-At-Arms" and "The Reckoning." * + * * I Mr. -Chambers has a beautiful place not far from here, at ''historic Broadalbin, in tho country, where live<l that true noble-man, Sir William Johnson, who figures so -largely nnd so vividly in those stirring tales just mentioned. ! * * * In talking with Mr. Chambers one evening, we spoke of Camden and the monument to the six sons of Camden who became general officers in the army of the Confederacy. He was all" interest in an instant and eager to know their names. ? ? It is always a pleasant experience to talk to real writets. They are possessed of that great gift, intellectual curiosity. v.* ^.. ... The Chronicler. Wants?For Sale LOST?Male English Setter puppy; about three months old; black and white, tan around his mouth. Last 3een about ten days ago. Dr. C. F. Sowell, Camden, S. C. 21 pd WANTED?A Stenographer with some knowledge of book-keeping. Must have had some office experience. Address "Position", care of Camden Chronicle, Camden, S. C. 21sb FOR RENT?Five room residence on Fair Street. No. 1212. Nice shady yard. Light and water. Apply to W. R. Zemp, Camden,. S. C. 21 tf RADIO REPAIRING?Expert radio repairing, any make. Other electrical ' repairing done, all work guaranteed. Creed'? Filling Station, tel' epbone 436, Camden, S. C. BOtf ELECTRICAL REPAIRS? Repairs, renewals and adjustments made on Electric Ranges and other household appliances. Phone 384. W. [ M. Shannon, 210 Mackey Street, i Camden, S. C. 53tf I CARPENTKKiiNti?Jonn S. Myers phone 268, 812 Church Street Camden, S. C., will give satisfactory service to all for all kind* of carpenter work. Building general repairs, screening, cabinemaking and repairing furniture My workmanship is my reference I solicit your patronage. Thank C G KOPNCGAY SAUJOA D KOONEGAY - PROP - LAOY ASSISTANT i KORNEGAY FUNERAL HOME Juneral Directors %t?mba/mers PHONE 103# CAMDEN,SC CAMDEN II THEATRE I programme! Week Beginning August 18 | ! FRIDAY I Janet Gaynor, Henry Garat "ADORABLE" ! Also Comedies?News I I SATURDAY Randolph Scott, Tom Keene "SUNSET PASS" . I Also Comedy and Serial Monday''and^tuesday i Clive Brooks, George Raft, I Helen Vinson ; | "MIDNIGHT CLUB" Also Comedies and News WEDNESDAY Helen Twelvetrees Bruce Cabot "DISGRACED" Also Selected Shorts I THG'RS'DTYAND FRIDAY I George Arliss in H "The Affair* of Voltaire JM Red Star Service Station Broad Street : * i?uJ.;;,?U.V Texaco I LUBRICATION I V ' NO PART OVERLOOKED DRIVE IN HERE ^ I John S. Davidson, Mgr. I DeKalb Service Station DeKalb Street \ j* ' ' -t