The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 03, 1934, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
m mmrn*.* mm m
HONK8TY PAYS BHi DIVIDENDS
There died out in the Mete peni-1
tentiary in Arizona, a convict who|
had been #hut out from all life could
hold dear for hirn for more than -10
years. In hi# youth he had blazed a
trail of criminality that had included
everything from common Mealing to
train robbing, ending, finally, a# al- j
most alway# in #uch cases, with murder.
Just before he died thU man wrote
a warning to youth. /?
"There i# nothing to be gamed by
being a criminal" he sa;d. "if I had
rny life to live over 1 would never depart
from honest endeavor. No criminal
w<r escape# justice, either at
th,e hand of organized government or
from hus own soul. My last word to
the young man of today is to avoid
crime a# he wuld something threatening
to lake hi# life."
This man * words are true. They
have been repeated, in one form or
another, by many men who have led
live# of crime.
There, is no escape from o/ie's
crimes, for a time the pathway in#)1 (
appear rosy, and eacape after esckpe
from apprehension will lull the criminal
into believing that he, at least,
will not be caught. But the Nemesis
of crime is always. .lit his elbow, and
sooner oi* later, it laysdppon him the
frightening hand of the law.
And when this time comes, be he
honored business executive and
churchman, or be he whatever he
may be, it is his parents, his family
and those who hold him dear that
must suffer roost at this shock of his
uncovering.?The Williston Way.
Additional Enrollment Figure*
The Chronicle presents below al- '
most a complete enrollment list as
compared with that of two years ago.
Two missing books are Liberty Hill (
and dates Ford. The executive committee
has been called to meet next
Wednesday at the court house at 11
o'clock to purge the rolls and next
week we will be able to show a complete
and total number of votes expected
in the August primary. The
figures so far ure as follows:
1932 1934
Abney 97 73
Ar.tioch 323 190
Bethune 917 484
Blancy 407 872
Buffalo 3 53 319
Camden 1810 178G
Cassatt 139 140
(.harlotto T 119 119
I leKalb .190 148
Doby'h Mill 101 114
Enterprise 61 59
Harmony 67 62
Hermitage 381 381
Kites haw 479 510
Lug off 139 142
Lock hart 10.5 74
Ned's Creek 190 125
Oakland 98 66
Pine Tree 123 129
Rnbon's 194 161
Haley's Mill 183 119
Roland 55 92
Salt Pond 197 134
Sandy Gro\e 78 99
Shamrock . . . . t 109 86
Shay lor's 71 70
Swift Creek . . . . . . 72 96
Twenty Creek Ill 122
Three "f's 305 249
Waterec 389 343
Weatville 227 201
Federal income taxes for the fiscal
year ending June 30, totaled *$817;935,399,
or an increase over the previous
year of $70,233,935. The processing
lax on cotton for the fiscal
year totaled $144,676,232. The processing
tax on wheat totaled $117,621,174.
The assa-ssination of Chancellor
Kngelbert Dollfuss, of Austria, cx curred
just 20 years to the day after
the assassination of Archduke frarkFerdinand,
heir to the Au-tr.art-Hungary
throne in Serbia, which event
a :is the torch that started the World
war. ,
A Cool Million
i-'l r
I
FOR GREATEST TRAVEL COMFORT
AND PROVEN DEPENDABILITY
A million pattengers a week right now
that a popularityl No other bu? company
terves so many travelers, ao many c.tiet ao
many mile* o I route throughout America.
Pick the be.*t yourself it's worth it.
Sample Fares
Syracuse. $15.30 Cleveland $14.00 t
Ikxston ... 13.80 , Chicago .. 14.35
Pittsburgh 12.20 Ik-troit ... 13.10
Washington 6.20 J Scranton 12.35
ATLANTIC GREY HO IN I) DEPOT
I>eKalb Cafe
Telephone 249
SOVIET MACHINES
WELL CONSTRUCTED
I ?
Mail Service l? ? Surprising
Cxpote of Inefficiency.
Motcow.?The Soriet union la these
days gjjea tbe foreign observer much
the sume luipreasloo 8* # long bitttie
line where a general's (root* are push*
Inx the enemy forward In one salient
while retreating if) another.
Out of thousands of mailable anapshots
of life ami industry in this vast
land, two tnay be taken to illustrate
the |>olnt:
Recently there was held an exhibition
of th^ products of Soviet Industry
under the "Ore year plan." When it
Ik remembered that Russia, until the
revolution, Iqiported virtually all of
Its machines save those made here
under foreign supervision. tbe array
of complicated machinery exhibited
was impressive. .
In one. r??om, for Instance, were ,
moving picture camera* and projectors
made by a factory in Leningrad. To
a layman, at least, they appeared to
be well made and modernly equipped.
Nearby were models of Soviet tractor#
and other farm machinery appearing
quite similar to American ones. There
were examples of Soviet made textiles.
not so perfect as those made
abroad, hut at least wearable.
In still another part of the building
one saw a model, faithfully reproduced,
of a modern Soviet oil field.
New and radical designs in aircraft
were shown, as were a modern gold
dredge and the newest, most powerful
types of locomotives.
Now, it Is difficult to realire that
a nation which can build giant locomotives
and complicated moving picture
projectors must groan and sweat
tinder the simple Job of delivering mail.
Yet that is exactly what the Soviet
union does. The newspapers are filled
with protests about and criticisms of
the mall service.
Recently an official was sent to inspect
the post offices in Tashkent. His
report on mall service there (which
may or may not be worse than in the
average town) was a surprising expose
of inefficiency.
Registered letters, he fouud. sometimes
were not delivered for six or
eight weeks after their receipt. Collections
from the city mall boxes we1*e
Irregular. Sometimes only 10 of tbe
city's 50 mall boxes were cleared dur- j
lng the dny.
The sorting of the letters in the
post office was extremely slow. None
of tlx; post office officials seerm-d to
know the correct rate for mall or purcol
post.
Indian Mounds Opened
on Shiloh Battlefield
Washington.?On tlie Civil war battlefluld
of Shiloh. an expedition of
CWA workers, directed by I ?r. ! rank
11. H. Roberts. Jr., of the I'.ureau of
American Kthiiologv, Smithsonian institution.
has unearthed a group of
Indian mounds of marked historic inter?-at.
Located on a high bluff above the
Tennessee river, the group is believed
to have constituted nn ancient refuge
and ceremonial center. Within a radius
of two miles, it was pointed out,
are site* of six once populous aboriginal
villages.
Well protected on three aides by
high bluffs and on the fourth by a
palisade fence, the group is believed
to have been a center for worship,
refuge from floods, and civic government.
Remains of what probably was
an ancient temple were uncovered on
one building site.
larger mounds. Doctor Roberts said,
disclosed no artifacts or skeletal material?a
distinct peculiarity. Howaver.
under smaller mounds, trace#
wart found of approximately JVO houses
and, Roberta added, one small mound
contained the flexed remains of 30
skeletons.
Date or Identity of the tribal Inhabitant*
has not been determined, although
It is believed they were proto*
Ruskhogeans. from whom evolved tha
highly cultured Indians encountered
by the first white explorers In the
liulf states.
Toy Banks Will Help
Church Pay Its Bill*
Oklahoma City.?Faced with tha
vary earthly fact that money had to
be raised to pay interest on a church
mortgage, members of the Ep worth
Methodist church here thought of a
novel idea to get the Job done. They
collected about 275 toy saDngn banks
and are distributing them to families
of the congregations. Each family
will agree to place Ave cent* in each
bank dally.
Coloradoan Painted
Himself &ut of Jail
F<.rt Collins, Colo.?Carl Duskey
made his way out of the Larimer
county Jail w.th a weapon no more
lethal t"fnn John Dillinger's nowfamous
wooden pistol.
Sentenced to serve fifteen days .n
'ail for a traffic violation. Dtvskey
got out In ten days by effective use
of a paint brush. He painted land
scapes and portrait* for county officials
ftrui for the decoration^ of the
Jail.
His success In reducing his term
Inspired another prisoner. Don
Chevex, to "do" a portrait of Sheriff
George Saunders In the hope he
would got clemency. When he
started the portrait he had seven
months to serve.
. A
=5^ ? I
World'* Clearing Houm
for Dealings in Ivory
A sight that can be matched no!
where w? earth Is frequently neeo In
i one of the big warehouses of the Ixw|
don dock*. On what is known as the
ivory tloor of this warehouse sometime#
no fewer than 4O.0U0 tusks of
| elephant* and oilier animals, among
them 140 tusks of prehistoric tu*tnmoths,
some estimated to be nearly
^0,n00 years old,,,
Kverjr three months, when auctions
are held, more Ivory than Is collected
at any other jdace In the world Is
brought to this warehouse and buyers
from the United Slides and Europe
come to bid for It.
The largest of the mammoth's tusks
I measures 14 feet from tip to tip. Is
| curved like the horns of some enor*
raous paleozoic ram and Is worth $250
I a hundredweight. These Ice-preserved
tusks are found In ttie semi-arctic regions
of Siberia and more .than ten
tons a year arrive in this world's defying
house for Ivory. In Siberia men
' dig for these ju'sks as they dig for
gold in other parts of the world.
Some of these great pieces of Ivory
are beautifuf unq wonderfully preserved.
while others look like pieces
of fossilized wiK?d. The Ivory, except
for the exterior 'discoloration, Is as
sound us If It had been taken off an
anlrnul a few weeks ago.
Wolves in Russia Take
Heavy Toll of Animstl*
Though tales of timber wolves chasing
and attacking human beings are
branded as fabrications, the European
and Arctic cousins of the American
species frequently are guilty.
Donald B. McMillan, the explorer,
says that the white wolves of the Arctic
have been known to track down
and kill Eskimos. He cited an Instance
recently when a man was borne
down and devoured by wolves on bis
way home from a sealing expedition.
In Russia, where wolves travel In
large and ferocious packs In tbq winter,
there are many Instances where
pensunts have been devoured. Some
times a whole family, Journeying
across tlie plains in a sleigh, Is killed
and eaten by tbe beasts after the
horses have been pulled down, Tales
of desperate fights are common.
In Russia 52.000 horses, 56,000 cattle
and 25.000 other animals were devoured
by wolves In ll>24. The Russian
wolf Is very-much like tbe American
timber wolf, except for color and
markings, and sometimes weighs 100
pounds.
Tim greatest human toll by a wolf
was taken near (Jevjiudan, France, ^n
1705. If the story is correct, SO poopb>
wore devoured that year by an
animal of great size and daring which
1 Invaded streets at night in the hunt for
victims.
Blind Poet Remembered
Two hundred years ago the following
interesting Pent appeared in Ic>n
don Notes and lotteries: "Several (lentleinen
of I >ift in< ti,.n who were inti
in.ateh aequo nted with the late celebrated
"Mr. Milton the Poet, are about
raifing a Contribution for erecting a
ftatoly Monument in Weftininfter-Ab
bey, in Token of Memory to fo great
a Man: it's faid it is to "be perforin'd '
by Mr. Ki-brack. who has made the i
I choiceft Monuments in that Cathedral.
' and truly deferves the Rank of Chief
! of the Modern Artifts in the like Per- j
formances."
i
Trapped Muikrtli
The story utxvut the muskrat gnaw|
lng off its leg to escape from a trap
! Is only partially true, trappers say.
' Tbe fur bearer does not chew through
i the leg bone with Its chisel-like teetlt
' as !r universally believed, but merely
! severs the flesh after the bone is broken
by Its floundering and struggles,
t Scores of three-legged and even two,
legged nnisknits are trapped every
t your. The stumps have healed peri
fectly, due to the cleansing action of
' 'he water. The front legs are- the
j members mo?t often hiisslng.
Twain'* Re?pect for Jews
In "My Father. Mark Twain." Clara
i Clemens says: "Arguments as to the
I virtues or non-virtures of the Jews
were often the topic of discussion in J
jour drawing room, and father always
grew eloquent in defense of Christ's
race. Indeed, so often were his re
; marks on this subject quoted that it
was rumored at one tlmo father himself
was a Jew. About this time he
I wrote his article 'Concerning the
Jews.' In w hieb tie states he cons:-!
? ers them tjll.'e most marvelous rare
I the world ever produced.'"
Chinete a? Liundrymen
In the days of tha California go'.-!
j rush everybody was s?> busy digging
i for gold that the homei,.-r housch- t ! |
1 chore* were neglected. With go'!
i beckoning, no one was willing t<> work
at plain Jobs There was no Intel
i communication with the East, hut |
| ships were constantly plying to China
I The forty tdners acquired the habit of
sending their uash.trg to China, getting
it hack Tn tw<> ?,r throe mcn'l.*
, This showed the Chinese that there
i was a business opportunity in this
I c-ountrv.
Relic* of Roman Day*
When the deujuiltloii uf old Ixmdon
bridge was finally completed and the j
i piles were pulled np. many thousands \
of Roman coins and medallions, with *
examples of Roman pottery and tiles,
were discovered. An arch of the bridge
was unearthed during the erection of
Adelaide houae, in 1021.
Sumter to Celebrate
Birth of Namesake
Sumter county is fortunate iu the
circumstance of having the home an<l
burial place of the illustrious roan
for whom it is named within its own
county limits and that home and
tomb are located at Stateburg, in the
"High Hills of the Santee." Geaeral
TVpias Sumter ta a name connected
not only with the military history
of the Revolution where no one showed
more brilliantly, but also in the
civil life of the American people.
The General Sumter Memorial Association
is making great preparations
for a tremendous celebration on;
Tuesday, August 14, the bi-centennial
birthday of General Thomas Sumter,
at Stateburg.
Mrs. John L, Frierson, general
chairman, with the capable, officers,
j and Untiring zeal of the chairmen of
' the various committees has arranged
j a splendid program. o
General Sumter ia a national figure
apd well known, patriotic and interested
citizens are doing much for the
sttccess of this occasion. Wonderful
cooperation has been given from all
parts of South Carolina and its success
is assured.
A platoon of United States soldiers
and the band from Fort Moultrie will
participate in the exercises. Senator
E. D. Smith will deliver the address,
Gov. Ibra C. Blackwood introducing
him. Distinguished' people will be platform
guests and will introduced
to the audience. A lovely, historic
pageant, directed by Mrs. S. O. Plowden
will be given, in which parts will
be taken by people from Lee, Clarendon,
and Sumter counties, these three
once having composed Sumter county.
The band will intersperse the
program with beautiful patriotic music
and at the conclusion of the pageant
representatives of state and
national organizations will join in the:
procession to the tomb of General
Sumter where they will place
wreaths on his monument.
The exercises will begin at eleven
o'clock in the morning and the public
is cordially invited.
The committees have made all ar? j
: angements for the comfort and coftj
venience of those attending. The eel-1
ebration will be held at "Acton," the
old site of the General Sumter Memorial
Academy, where in 1907 the
exercises of the unveiling of Genera,]
Sumter's monument were held.
The men from Camp Miller, the C.
C. C. camp at Cane Savannah, directed
by L. J. LefTloman, have cleaned
up the grounds beautifully. They
were assisted in this work by the
county chain gang, directed by B. M.
Oliver, county engineer.
Places will be provided under the
spreading shade trees, for friends to
have basket picnic lunches together.
Cold drinks, sandwiches, ice cream
and the like will be sold on the
grounds.
Base Ball Todav !
At Old Ball Park
I
The Camden base ball team and the
Bishopville team of the Pee Dee
League will meet at the old ball park
this afternoon for a game. The game
will be called at the usual hour?4:15
and there is an admission charge of
25 cents for adults. *
Camden has won fifteen out of the
last sixteen games played and the
fans should sec a good game this afternoon.
Camden Chapter
I Calls For Meeting'
Notices are being mailed out of the
[regular monthly meeting of the Camden
chapter of the ?outh Carolina
Game and Fish Association to be held
at the American Legion Hall at 8
o'clock on Tuesday evening, August 7.
Kirkland Trotter, president of the
chapter states that several very in^
portant matters are to come before
this meeting and a full attendance is
especially requested.
Among other matters to come before
the meeting are the election of
a new secretary, the selection of delegates
to the regular annual state
meeting to be held in Greenville on
September 5, and the matter of extending
an invitation for a state
meeting of the South Carolina Game
and Fish Association in connection j
with the field trials for sihooting dogs
to be hel<| in March, J935.
Also at the meeting will be discussed
the question of the game seasons
and the question of making of recom-1
mendations along that line.
All the candidates for county game
wardens are invited to be present at
this meeting. J
Bruners Acquire |
County Seat Paper
Will W. Bruner and family become
the owners and operators of the Lexington
Dispatch-News, a paper that
has been published in the county serft
[ for the past 64 years.
It is the purpose of the new owners
of the Lexington-Dispatch to con,
tinue both the Dispatch-News and
the Twin-City News, thus giving the
f county two weekly papers. The TwinCity
News will be published one day
earlier and the Lexington paper one
day later in the week, according to
j tentative plans of the new publishers,
I thus permitting an interchange of
j news matter and advertising.
The policy of the management of
the two papers will be to serve the
people of Lexington county, and this
service'will be no small matter with
two good newspapers as vehicles for
1 such service.
I As has been the policy of The Twin
I City News for nineyears the policy
of the two papers will be a sympathetic
handling of all news, an editorial
policy intended to be constructive,
with a business policy that will
give value received in all instances.
The new management will take
charge of the Dispatch-News the first
of next week, and its first issue under
the new management will be
mailed next Thursday.?Lexington
Dispatch-News.
""
Former Senator
Dies at Bennettsville
I,, i
Bennettsville, July 21). John L. McLaurin,
74, former United States senator,
died at his home, four miles*
north of Bennettsville, early today,
from a heart attack.
Senator McLaurin became active in
politics in early life, serving in the
legislature as a young man. He allied
himself with the Tillman Reform
movejnent, became attorney general.
The following year, at the age of
(31, he was elected to congress and
served until 1897, when he was &p.
pointed to fill the unexpired term of
Senator Earle. A rift between Mc- 'I
Laurin and Tillman on the senate
floor culminated in a fight February H
22, 1901, and McLaurin did not offer
for re-election.
p Survivors includes his widow and
two sons, Tom and John McLaurin,
of Bennettesville, and four daughters, <
Mrs. A. D. Matheson, Mrs. James N.
Drake and Mrs. C. W. Mills, all of
Bennettesville and Mrs. Charles E.
Sligh of Darlington.
Important Meetings To Be Held
In order to familiarize the farmers "
of Kershaw County with the requirements,
limitations and details of the
Bankhead law, a series of meetings
are to be held over the county within
the next several days. It will be to
the interest of every farmer in Kershaw
county to attend one of these
.meetings whether he has signed a
cotton contract or not as every farmer
will be required to make application
for tax exemption certificates before
any of his 1934 cotton may be
sold tax free. The farmer who Mi
to comply with these requirements
and who fails to make such application
will sustain a heavy loss, ajnLthis
is his notice that the burden
making these applications lies with
the farmers of the county. Details j
concerning the Bankhead law and
concerning making these applications
will be given at these meetings over
the county and it will not be neces- .
sary for farmers to make a trip to
the county agent's office in Camden
for such information. j
Those who see this notice are re- j
quested by County Agent Henry D. -j
Green to cooperate by notifying their j
neighbors of same. ,
The Harriman Hosiery Mills *t j
Harriman, Tenn., resumed operation
this week after a long dispute over
the blue eagle, with 823 workers j
thrown out of jobs when the eagle
was taken away from the milbThese
with some 300 strikers, out
since last October, will be emplowed
in the mill.
^ ' .... # - :
/frmours
FERTILIZER
? SODA ??
We solicit your business ? Telephone! 53
McLEOD & McLAUGHUN
109 DeKALB STREET
. il J l j ml j
Summer Clearance
All Summer Ready-to-Wear
AT HALF PRICE
MEN'S STRAW HATS -- Half Trice
ALL $2.95
WHITE SHOES
GOING AT
$1.99
Special on OCTAGON Soap and Powder
Friday and Saturday only ? 3 for 5c
Limited
CRETONE PILLOWS, 14x14 m., regular
15c Tiliti, Friday and Saturday
2 for lSe J
Belk's Department Store
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA %i