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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE I H. I). NILB8. .Editor and PublUher Put>U?h?4 every Friday *t NUB9b?r lift? Hrniirt airatil u,ud CJiUiCtl ttl th* . Caunden, Houtn Carolina poatoYflee a? ?< .. ond dftn mall matter. 1 rice per t annum $2.00, payable In advance. Friday, April 27, 1924 t IN M ARION "COVNTY' Three sobauwuiat citizens of Mar- } * ion CoutUy, their ugea ranging from ^ 61 to 06, victims of an automobile \ collision, were buried near) Central ( Methodist chufch, 20 rti|le?L bely* t Marion last Sunday nfterqpon, the \ ? services being attended by*one of the largest gatherings ever held in Marion county, according to a news atorjr ] iri The State. i These men met their tragic death in (iirr automobile accident when the j . car in which they were traveling col- , lided with a large touring cur at the junction of highway No. 17 and Mail Street at I>ake Cityc One of the victims is survived by five children; the remaining two are survived by their widows and nine children each. How far reaching are the confluences of tho sudden dis* rupting of the family tiOs and' bonds occasioned by such a shocking road tragedy. There is always imminent danger and possibility of tragedy in motoring; it is doubly enhanced when cars approach highway or street intersections. The hundreds who at- i tended the final rites of the three deceased must have had brought homo 1 the fact how pregnant with possibilities of death und destruction is man's most popular means of travel nowadays?nutomobjling. And the. thousands who have road of the accident should resolve tsi do all within, their j i power : ) minimize the hazards and C perils of motoring. ? Spartanburg i ,! ou "Hal. j 1 la The Same Vein 'j "Johnny." said the hoy's father, < "l.il.r this jug and fetch me some , 1m ov "'All right, dad." said the boy... j "(ii\e me the money." i "M> .-on," said the father gravely, j "to get heer with money is a simple . thing; anybody can do that. But to , get it without money?why, that's ; clever." I ; The boy went wonderingly away, j, A little later he returned and placed j . the jug in front of his father. "Have a drink, dad," he said. ( The other gazed into the empty jug. | "How can I?there's nothing there," ; he cried. i "To drink beer out of a jug when ( there is beer to drink is simple; any- i body can do that," said the boy. "But ; to drink beer out of a jug when there j is no beer?why, that's clever."?-An swers, London. k ( What Senator H. Kemper Cooke;, is going to do next is exciting curios- j ( ity among politicians, and he saysj ( lie will discover what his enemies want him to do. and then do the op- \} posite. He is being invited to make speeches In part of tin* state, and many letters ami telegrams importune him run for go\ernor?but he may ^ prefer to run fofc? 1; euUuiant governor, to pre--de over the senate which raz* ! but did not <l.ire to punish J, him. On entering his later term, he said, -cnators ought- to have two year term- and he would re-ign after two years, .-o a Baptist minister, taking;* | him at his word, has announced for Ins place in the senate, hut Cooke maintains silence about resigning ^ now. lie is a large farmer, in Horry i * eountv. a bachelor with a large pack . h of fi-\ hounds, and lie frequently gives la-ge fi>x hunts for his friends. It is ' conceded that if Cooke goes into tho campaign for a state otTice. he will: stir things up on the stump as they hav<? not been riled since Tillman did n h:s tir- stirring of large audiences. 11 limni:.- Fu: low, aged 30 months, >' died a * da. h nic., Mi--., a . . '.;ii ot , , .< u k< in a. < d:s< a - : r w : n ' <> w- ? i - - gradually i the re<l corpuscles, *' AH ^ cf a. t j /jij Ife?*? '7v-..:-c cf h::Te cwn-i- . j > ,V~< ij'ic j gn-j/ /'\y>. ' r-^ APRIL I 7 . / y J-i ? f ;rst operation i^r ap pendtcitis performed, 1837. yl>24?Spain starts her losing ; M* war on U. S . 1898. I ; fe 25?Lafayette arrives from France to help U.S.. 1777. x 26?First lodge of Odd Fel, lows opens at Washing* i ton, 1819. ? 27?U. S Crant. the 18th a President, born 1822. 28?Survey shows only S.000 radio sets in U. S , 1920. r > 29?Coxey leads his famous r0. army on Washin,,ton, 1894. HU ' ' J, Capital Observations r I (Special Correaporaience) Washington, April 24.?The Cherry Mosaom Kestivat hero last week was i success In every respect." Some es- , imates are that there were more j than 200,000 people here during the week, more than ordinarily attend the nauguration of a president, but that, s due to the pleasant weather this non^Ji. The hotels ami boarding , lpu.^vs were taxed to the limit, and ( ,he city Board of Trade considers hat more than $3,000,000 was spent >y the visitors. * Senator Norris, of Nebraska, a very liberal Republican long in office, has m,ado a specialty of pushing ways and means of doing away with obsolete government practices "which are outgrown and not in harmony with present advancement. To him belongs principally the credit for the adoption of, tho twentieth amendment to the constitution of tho United States, abolishing tho so-called lamd duck session of Congress." He has now advanced a proposition to change the method of electing a president, doing away with'*the electoral college, in the manner in which it has been functioning. Tho proposed amendment is said to have the approval of President Roosevelt, but incidentally that is immaterial so far as concerns starting tho amendment on its way. When a proposed amendment is approved by two-thirds of each house of CongrCss.it automatically goes to the States, three-fourths of which must pastu4'avorably upon it, and it then becomes a part of the constitution. The assistance of the president might niil a great deal in action by the States. At present when a party i,'cts a majority of the. popular vote n November, no matter how small, I he entire electoral vote of the Stale ifoes iy tin* presidential candidate of J ti.at parly. Under the proposed I hange there would i>e a division of j the 1 electoral votes of tile nation, not upon a country-wide basis, but 1141011 a. State basis, if the present) (ban ceased to exist, in NcU York for! instance, one presidential candidate might get 21 electoral votes, the other ' > going to the other aspirant. In South Carolina the Democratic candilate now gets tho entire eight votes, whereas under the new proposal the- , Republican candidate might get one >ut of the eight. The opponents of the change hold that it would give the Southern .States too heavy a voice, a Republican Representative of Massachusetts saying: "Such a systom would give the Southern Democratic States perpetual control of tho Presidency." Oil tiie other hand there would be a strong incentive for minarity parties to put forth their best . (Forts if there were assurance that rotes cast would count to the extent >f the comparative total of the vote )f each party. National issues are warce this year, and the proposal nay ligure largely in campaign dis- j u.-?sions prior to the election. * * * * The most important legislation af- ! ecting cotton that has ever passed ingress is the Bankhead bill, which j uis In-come a law. Hon. 10. 1). Smith, requently referred to as "Cotton; unith." glories in his claim that he;, s the only genuine farmer in the ! ' ienate, but he seems to ha\e let the! lunkhead brothers put something' j ver on him 111 their getting credit for J ( ne bill which they originated. Mr. j * >nuth is chairman of the Committee ! n Agriculture, and supported the bill ; cartily. He is entitled to cre<lit for ! u.shing it along through the Senate. 1 ( 1 1 ' The present administration has j one more for organized labor than j ; as ever been done in the past durng d like period. but regardless of ^ nat, the greatest danger which may ' f "Ml ront the Democrats during the ; Mining campaign is that the leaders 1 ! union labor may demand too much t 'i the uay of recognition. The sup- f i.f "big business" is not sougnt ; - it en. e u as by political parties, ; -l iii.'i.'iot tie ignored and big bus e -.> tending to become aiili-a.; ' ' pa ; - :i..,rr .' ?:' - , ' " L .v.- ..p ' : '..1 : ..< lb . i ' <..il.y ] ! e.; .1 t . !". > :<>. a . ;t m >mu:i, : ne adjournment of . . ngi-e-v :s not yet :n sight, , there \ h many impot .ant measures stio ne a ted upon. Members are ar.x- " to get away in view of lonungj' r.manes, some of which :.a\e ai- j I tady in-en held. Speaker Ra.uey of . \ .ne House of Representatives has!" ?een renominated by a handsome ma- c only, .ir.d th.at is held as an endorse- { nor. 1 of his general .support of the tooseveit administration measures. ( 'nmaries in the South come later, J is the general election is a foregone , onclusion to a very great extent, | lominees , on-nj*H mg thetitieivt'M * ure after getting through the pri- j ^ r.ary elections. 1 1 Senator Byim.- .. . . rank . .gn as an impor ar.i n, . robabiiity of gr.ee r. 1 .1 i p.. The following by a writer on: i Washington newspaper is repro- i lured a> being of sufficient interest: "If and when Senator Joe itoii.n.-on >f#me day ;s transferred to till a vaancy on tnc Supreme Court bench, ne batt.e for tne Democratic .vnite majority leadership is gu.r.g to h' hot and nu-rry. Names most tun-pieuousiy mentioned as his heir ire those of Pal Harrison of Misvissippi and Jim Byrnes of S..uth 'arolina. Harrison's seniority and >oundless popularity among his Democratic coiieagues ordinarily would itand him in almost invincible st? ad, , >ut in Senator Byrnes he would f ice he man widely considered to be resilient Roosevelt's persona, a poke.st'H" and wo?? woufd presumably -atry t A t.'e Hou-e i umi's ;n the lea-ieit-nip r.'e?t. a.tht,ugr. h . D. II, y.e.ds to . m a r. i h - a d m: ra:: i n o: Pat ' !a i : ,-in's t,ua..l.es and Cairns. It 1 \... a p. ad r.ut for Senate De v o.. - ra-k, wr.#-n the <: .. p. .. % ma Ip, ci s it fray h , i r* y ' rHE drunken driver peril Something Very Drastic Will Have to Bo Done Abaut It Before Long ~ A Virginia Jurist, Judge <*>teman, of Fredericksburg, in charging tho grand jury, denounced in stern tones the menace of the drunken driver. "Potential Murderers" and deadly menace to life" ho called them, urging the grryid jury tp upe its full power to brinjf to justice every one of this class of drivers apd promising for his part to see to it that they are properly punished. Ho advocates jail sentences of this type of olfender. Many states have drastic statutes covering this peculiarly diabolical crime, but the drinking driver continues, occasionally, to get drunk and a fatal wtWk is usually the sequel. Virginia has undertaken to curb them by the enactment of laws carry- ( ing unusually heavy penaltlt's and both tho present governor and his predecessor served notice that they would not pardon any map convicted of imperiling tho lives of others on the highways by driving while intoxicated. There have been many flagrant offenses of this character in every state and the appalling death toll of tho modern highway has been vastly Increased by tho recklessness of drunken men at tho wheels of high powered Inotor cars.?Anderson Independent. ALONG THE ED1STO Dorchester Eaglo (The Eagle affectionately dedicates this verse to South Carolinia's most truthful fish liars; those along the Edisto.) * Give them a rod, a. line, a hook, Sit them down by some shady brook-? Let the sun,.?mk low away to west, If nary a bite; they'll lie the best. lb- they preacher or working man, | There's* nothing liner to touch of hand? Than a bending pole and whizzing 1 line, As they fish and lie in April-time, j It is no sip under the sun, To sit and tell of that big one? That jerked you up and off the bank. When he gave your line that awful yank. Or that one just about so long, That walked away and you holding on?Or the one that went in a hollow log, As big or bigger than that-ar dog. He tells of the time on the Edis-.to. He was fishing around just so and so? And landed n bream as wide as your hat, When what he really caught ^ras a baby cat. When you hear one up and lie like this, Put it down and you'll never miss? There's gold in his heart, love in his eye, For he actually believes his own fish lie. The Sl'TS.OOO the legislature appropriated in a separate act to pay, deficiencies in the big appropriation bills of last year has been halted by the budget commission, which has notified j the comptroller general not to disbtrrse any more of it, until there is 1 assurance that the money to pay it j will be assured. The exception is the 551,000 item for employees and other expenses of the legislature which was laid as soon as the governor signed he act. Payment is held up on $90,>00 for schools, $110,000 for the state lospital, and the rest of those in the ict. The trouble is, that the solons iponsoring the bill, as always, overestimated the income of the state, and he budget commission will have real experts make the estimates for it, reporting to it at a meeting to be held Slay, 9, for final decision about it all. Governor Blackwood, in Washingon ostensibly for the cherry blossom Vstival, called on Secretary Ickes to ry to put over on the secretary the iig waterpower project near Charleson, but apparently did not get very ! "ar with the head of the PWA. The, roverr.or had little to say on leading j he swetary. and said they di 1 not .'<> very far into the project, but he : ad a wry p'.ea-;itit visit and w , . call : SeTi ta: \ Ike.- again, that a..i lie, if' e. :.< :.a- appelated the ii.r< tors' . t*. -ta'.e :y :?.>r a :m:n:.-t:.; lull i : g.a.'-.t g: a J ..".to t state t: as- j ,r>. COUNTRY DOCTOR A GOVERNOR -V ' *" " ' *" " ' "'t " ' :'7 *;* '' Elected by HU Grateful Patient*, He UxeH Pictureaque Language ? Meet the (Governor of Arizona, Benjamin Baker Moeur, M. D., of Temple ?a country doctor-^-invites the Medical Pocket Quarterly. For thirty years and more Dr. Moeur travelled the desert roads, day and night, bringing most of the district's bahies ipto the world, and meeting the varied responsibilities of family physician to his scattered clientele. Cash was usually scarce with them, too, but Dij. Moeur cared for them just the same, trusted them, and took his fee out in trade, many and many a time. And when at the last election hi# name' came before the voters, his patients and friends, with the aid of people in other parts of the state, attracted to. this rugged and blunt but kindly country doctor, put Dr. Moeur into the governor's chair. What does he think of his newlywon prominence? According to a Western columnist, Harry Carr, of the Los Angeles Times, the following is tho Governor's present - viewpoint: "Didn't gl/e a damn whether or not I was elected. Don't give a damn whether or not I am ever elected again?but here I am." A colorful, picturesque figure is Governor Moeur. Not long after he was elected to office he was waited upon by a committee of excellent I women disturbed by the possible effect of the governor's diction on the yomh of the state. Couldn't the Governor be a biV more careful in his? ,ah?-his choice of language? "What? No swear words?" he replied. "Say, lady, how in can I express myself if I can't say ? ? " There is a favorite story in Arizona these days to this effect: A little girl whom the doctor had picked up for a lift in his automobile remarked to her mother upon arriving home, "Dr. Moeur must be a very religious man. When his car broke down he crawled underneath and kept hollerin' to God for half an hour." jP As you can readily imagine, there is much about this forthright, plain-) speaking country doctor that makes a strong appeal to the people at large. The Governor's office is filled every clay, some wanting political jobs, others advice on medical matters. Though the people are for him, the politicians are decidedly against him ?he has been too hard on the political machine as he found it. Political opportunists get precisely nowhere with the Doctor from Temple. On the very day of his inaugural banquet the Governor let them know in his characteristically direct manner just where they stood. "A lot of you fellows fy^y^.been coming to me telling me Kow much' I owe you for electing me," he said. "Well, you're going to get paid. You can charge it, same as I did with your doctor's bills!" Governor Moeur was graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Arkansas 1896 at the age of 2v and has been practicing medicine actively for nearly four decades. But while he is- governoring, believe you mc, he will do just, that in spite of hades and high water. General News Notes A bold, bad burglar broke into the express office at Gaffney, and the only thing he stole was a quart of whisky awaiting the consignee who had ordered it on a permit. On his way to the organized labor meeting in Greenville, Wesley C. Lambert, of Darlington, dropped dead in Union. He was 50 years old and had been working for the Darlington Manufacturing company for 85 years in its textile mill. The Illinois Bell Telephone com- ' pany announces that it will boost the) wages of its 14,000 employes on May' 1st. In a coal mine explosion near Sure- ; jevo, Jugoslavia on Saturday. 100 <>r more miners are reported to have lost their lives. The city council of A-'nevilio. N. C., has passed ordinance* legalizing all sorts of amusements on Sunday rx(< pt poo!, htiiiards and howling. A warehouse and 1,500 bait* of cottor. were destroyed by fire at Washington. X. C, Friday, with a loss -of $100,000. _ f; About 4.)0.000 seedlings were distributed by the forestry department for planting in N'orth Carolina during the, last season. More than 1,000 Rotar?ans and their wives are expected to attend the 58th district convention to be held at Hick- ' ory. N. C., May 6-8. i The bodies of two young business men of Little Rock, Ark., were found floating on Lake Hamilton, after they, had been missing a week on a fishing ij trip. j| More than 1,500 children were qui-| etly marched out of the La Fayette ! school of New Orleans in a fire drill j after an alarm had been given for a blaze in the roof. > " Utarl Kalinin, president of Soviet1 Ru*?ia, demands an "intensive mili-' tarizat ior."* of all rural Russia. j. Representative Patman of Texas, has introduced a bill in congress which would authorize the federal government to pay rewards of $25,000 for tho capture, dead or alive, of the nation's chief desperadoes. He would have the attorney general designate criminals coming under the classification of "chief" criminals. Tho bill is especially aimed at such criminals as John Dillinger, "Pretty Roy" Floyd and others of their class. The government of France has notified Leon Trotsky, Russian exile, who was found in hiding in a Paris suburb on Sunday of last week, to get going. Trotsky.is said to be wanting to come to the United States as an asylum. He fears assassination. Wants?For Sale BABY CHICKS?For sale, telephone 190, Allan Norris, Camden, SZxC.l?b FOR SAUK?Majestic five-tube Radio, late model, for sale at a sacrifice. Apply C. O. Stogner, 1215 Broad street, Camden, S. C. 5pd BABY CHICKS AND DUCKLINGS? Each Tuesday and Friday. Write for prices. Graves' Hatchery, Pageland, S. C<, 5-6&b ROSE BUSHES?-Two-year-old field grown plants, a good many varieties. Three plunts for $1.00. Also climbing roses, same price. ~ The Camden Floral Company, Telephone 103, 211 Laurens Street, Camden, S. C. 5sb COTTON SEED?Wild's Four coUm seed for sale, two years fro* Coker's and not mixed with otb? varieties. $40 per ton in bulk lots or 75 cehts per bushel sack. A4 dress W. T. Holley, Jefferson, S. C. 5;vi SNAPDRAGON PLANTS?In pou 75 cedts per dozen plants; colon, pink, bronze, yellow. Telephone 193. The Canylen Floral Company 211 Laurens Street, Camden, S, & PLANTS FOR SALE?Don't havll depression garden this year, plan! my high grade flower and tomato plants, a broad variety to select from and at very reasonable prices. Telephone 335-W, B. H. Bautt, South Highland Ave., Camden, S C. 3-5 pd. d FOR SALE?Dixie 14 Wilt Resistant Cotton Seed. / Geofge T. hittk Camden, S. C. ? FOR RENT?<Sitf room house at 180? Fair street, Camden, S. C. Apply Mrs. J. C:?. Williams, Box 291 Winns'boro, S. C. FOR RENT ? Five room bungalow and out buildings, pt 1013 '*Brw( Street, after May first. Apply Jeff W. Boyd, Camden, S. C. 4-6pd FOR SALE?One tricycle and out small two wheel scooter bike, at reasonable prices. Telephone 533, Camden, S. C. 4pd FOR SALE?Dixie 14 Witt Resistast Cotton Seed. George T. LittlV Camden, S. C. tsk Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friendi and relatives, for their kindnesses and help extended to us during the sick* ness and death of our husband tad father. Mrs. W. M. Huckabee and son I Garden Seed Flower Seedll ./!%'{ > ?*' * 1 .' . ^1 Grass deed I BEANS PEAS CORN ONION SETS H i Should be planted now fI For quality and price, try ua - |j| I ' aS ; 4? j ' I Zemp's Drug Store II I * IB | I Telephone 30 Broad Street 11 OBHHHBBHBBBHHBBBHBBHIHflHHHBB^Bll - : } . U ?S3I "ONE OF THE BEST FOODS" ^ M NUCOfl 2jbs- 25? PEA BEANS 6 lbs. 25c FARCY ALASKA ..... . . | pixk SALMON 2 IANS I Grandinc-car's Pullman Bread 24-?z.uaf 10? Fancy Blue Rose RICE lb. 5c WHITEHOUSE EVAPORATED MILK 3 r, 19< ARMOUR'S CORNED BEEF 2 a 27 ANN PAGE |! 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