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P CAMDENjCHRONICLE 1 D. N.. Bditor and Publisher a Published every Friday ui Number Broad direct and entered at the imdeit, Houth Carolina poatoftlce ue econd elan* mall matter. price per annum 92t>0, payable In advance. Camden, 8. G\, Friday. Nov. 16, 1936 LKT*8 TRADE WITH THE HOME FOLR8 We have never quite understood why local citizens will go to other towns to do their trading or buy Jby mail, when tb#y can get juat as frood service at home. When we send or carry our money to another market it is out of circulation in this community forever. The people we help in so doing know nothing about ua and care less. They are not a part of our community and contribute nothing whatever to it. When we trade at home we are doing business with someone~ we know and who knows us, with someone who lives and who is a part of our community, one who has his investments here with us, who pays taxes here, who contributes to our charities, who aids in the development and upbuilding of the community, and, what is just as important, we are trading with ?omeone who is willing to help us and who (if we have a reputation of paying our debts) will accommodate us and extend us credit. The local merchunt pays his taxes here, he gives employment to local citizens. A large part of the money spent with him remains in this community. Competition, if nothing more, assures us u square deal at his hands. Why not let's do business with our neighbor. _ RED CROSS DRIVE PROGRESSING Under the leadership of Rev. A. L>. McAm, the annual Red Cross Roll call, which is the annual membership drive, is now being made in this community. Mr. McArn has perfected a smooth-working organization and his lieutenants here and over the county aie making fine progress in canvessing for memberships. There is no need for The Chronicle to dwell on the wor'iuness of that great institution known a.s The American Red Cross. Fivery intelligent person is fully conversant with it and1 with jl?. great good it has accomplished for sufferers and underprivileged people on innumerable occasions and in a countless number of ways. In our last week's issue we presented short interviews from some of the loading professional and business men of the city, all of whom were emphatic in their loyalty to the Red Cross. There is one thing, though, that may have been overlooked by many of us. The National Red Cross receives only fifty cents out of each membership sold. The local chapter receives the balance. For instance H . " flV doI,ar membership is sold the local chapter gets four dollars and fifty cents of the money. When a dollar membership is sold the local chapter gets fifty cents of it. The local Red Cross, under the leadership and management of Mfs. W. J. Mayfield. while working quietly, has done an incalculable amount of good in this community and in Kershaw county. There are literally thousands oi people in Kerrfhaw county who have been recipients of its charKershaw county and South CaroI"" <;nnno, "ford not to support the Red Cross. It has spent a lot more 1" ? h ! - s t " ~ I . . , . ?<- iiave paid into it. I ue to the depression we have not for several years given the Red ( ross the support we should have. >\o earnestly hope that the people th? IT Indifferent this year but Mr M i' wholeheartedly support Mr. Mr Am m his efforts to pass the quota given us. U you have not already done so, see the canvasser in your community a once and take your membership. mi could not contribute to a better cause. Mrs Anna Hauptmann, wife of the alleged Lindbergh baby kidnaper, took it on herself to employ a Rrookyn lawyer to defend her husband, instead of James M. Fawcett, New ^ork lawyer, who declares that he Is iot Hauptmann's attorney. The wife Rays otherwise. HOW MUCH ARE YOUR TAXK8? ? > If you have mii annual income of ; $2,080 or less, how inUc'h of it goes , for taxcaT j The re'a a good chance that you will , way "none," inasmuch as ypur income j is below the level reached by the income tax, and you may have little or I no property on which taxes must be paid. ** Hut, according to an article by Itoyul F, Munger in the Chicago) Daily ,News, your taxes come to aome $480 1 a year. One hundred and twenty dol; lars of this represents taxes included in your rent?the landlord pays 1 them and passes the cost on to you. Ninety-six dollara is included in the I price of your family's food?thfc [farmer, the processor, the distributor and retailer pay them, and they become part of the cost of everything in the grocery store. Twenty-four dojljira'is included in the clothing, furnfture and eimilar items you and youy dependents purchase?here again, manufacturers, middlemen and I retailers are all heavily taxed and must pass their taxes on to the public. This totals $240. Finally, says Mr. I Munger, other indirect' tax burdens that affect the cost of living are estimated to take $240 more out of your j family's $2,080 annual income. On a ! percentage basis, as a result, you pay almost twenty per cent of all you earn to government. Too many people have accepted the fanciful theory that the rich pay all , the taxes while the rest of us get the 1 benefits for nothing. No one escapes taxes?no one ever will. And the average man, with a small or medium-sized income, would gain most from retrenchment in tax levies, regardless of the guise under which they may be labeled.?'Industrial News. THE GREAT MYSTERY This greatest of all problems?the problem of life and of living?earth'^. ' most renowned have failed to solve! Why are we here? Where are we going from hore ? There are questions which will forever remain unanswered?excepting through -the Imodium of fulth. ~ ? ' Perhaps the great God meant that they should never be revealed. He probably did, or else everything would 'have been explained. Through the ' eyes of faith, however, we see a light that the greatest scientists and inventors and discoverers acknowledge, as the only eyes through which the mist is cleared away. When we banish all fear from our heart, life, and the instance of nature alone, clears a path of happy purpose through our minds. When a man can look upon a blade of grass, fondle a flower, or gain understanding from the invisibly sung poem of the wind, he has learned from the greatest source of happiness that there is in this world. "To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear," once wrote Richard Jeffries, "said the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it." v Our thoughts shape our lives and characters as surely and definitely as the sculptor's hands shape the clay with which he mould the ideal within his heart. All beauty is mysterious. It is inexplainable as it thrills us and bathes us with emotion. Yet we are gifted with the ability to appreciate ?-everyone is to some extent?and he who is able most to appreciate is the happiest. This world of nature, which is in J reality the Palaffe of God, is open to J the hublest of earth's travelers. It's j wealth of beauty is beyond words? ; only the understanding heart may j know its treasures and cherish them within. The great mystery in life seems to me to be where people fail to appreciate the abundance of loveness about them?allowing most of it to pass from their view, like disappearing shadows unobserved.?By George Matthew Adams, A self-styled astrologer predicted that the half-mile bridge span across the Saskatchewan river in Edmonton, Canada, would fall at a certain time, but the 300 persons who gathered close by to see the bridge collapse were disappointed, or relieved. ye. i lv/o i """it will remain i open day and night until the key is ! found, giving the public its customary | | good service. | I Specializing in j ! ! T-BONE STEAKS I I I NORFOLK OYSTERS 9 j | REGULAR MEALS 9 | j DINE WITH US 9 i New York Cafe i i I gus michiotis, Proprietor | j 1 1 1 nw m SPREAD BETWEEN PRODUCER AND CONSUMER Fish are gelling at Murrell's Inlet to dealer* at from one and a quarter cent* a pound to three and a half cents. Fishermen cannot exist at these starvation prices, and enjoy any of the comforts and luxuries of the present time. The tragic part of it is that the poor consumer of fish at other places are not at all benefitted by these low prices. Advertisements in newspapers indicate that prices are much higher when the consumer eats Ash. In a daily newspaper the quotations are as follows: "Large ^ream, Id cents a pound; fresh water trout, 20 cents a pound; biackfish, 15 cents a pound." Not only is this true as to the prices charged the consumer for Ash, makv ing the spread between the seller and\ the buyer a profit of several hundred per cent, but it is true as to other meats, and other products. Beef is bought of farmers for four, Ave and six cents a pound dressed, and sold to the consumer from ten to twentyAve and thirty cents. The same is true as to pork. H. T. Wilcox, of Florence, in an article in a daily newspaper of Sunday says: "In a certain section of the state a woman was offered only $8 for an entire cow weighing over 600 pounds." This case can be multiplied many times over the state and in every section. As Mr. Wilcox, states, there is too much "chiseling," the grossest form of unpatriotism. Until the producer can get something like a fair price for his products, a price in line with what the consumer has to pay, there can be no prosperity. The problem in South Carolina today is one of marketing. Were the relief engaged in paying out doles to poor people, and the agents of the government, such as the county farmagents and all others supposed to be working for the betterment of conditions, to devote their energies to getting a fair price for products of labor on the farms and elsewhere, the problem of unemployment and poverty would be solved. There is no necessity for ^he government's competition with prjvate business, and_ the giving away in a TamT of plenty or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of food products, and other things being supplied at no coat to a large part of our population. Could the products of labor be sold at a fair price, the people who are now recipients of these doles could produce their own living, and would feel a sight more of independence. Manhood would be restored and contentment would return where now there is grovelling to administrators and agents passing upon eligibility to receive this "free" (?) sustenance. Farmers would have the means with which to buy and the markets would be crowded, with ready purchasers of the products of the farms and factories.?Walterboro Press and Standard. We Are Traveling Fast Some of our older folks can remember their fathers and grandfathers tell about traveling to Charleston a century ago and making the trip in wagons in eight or ten days. Occasionally it was made more quickly in carriages, but four miles an hour for eight or ten hours a day was considered good speed. Then came the stream railways. Then it was that trips to Charleston were made in 24 hours or less. As time went on the trains achieved more speed and the trip to the City by the Sea was made in eight or ten hours?225 miles. In time came the automobiles. Then came better roads and more speed was attained with f&ster and better cars. Now it is possible to drive to Charleston from Yorkville in four or live hours?possibly loss. Then the airplanes arrived. More speed was attained, until today the distance to Charleston can easily be covered in a coupl<hof hours and less. But that is nothing. Only a few days ago an Italian flyer was credited with a speed of over 400 miles per hour? more than seven miles per minute. This week a new type of train has made the distance from Los Angeles, Cal., to New York, about 3,000 miles, in about three days, a speed of more than 80 miles per hour. Yes, we are traveling fast. But not yet have we attained the utmost in long distance speed. Again this week a speed race was run (or flown) from London to Australia?a distance of about 11,000^ miles. The winners of the race covered the distance from Ixrndon to Darwin, Australia, 9,150 miles, in approximately 52 1-2 hours. Hardly more than a quarter of a century ago the Wri ghts made their first airplane flight, a very short one, at Kitty Hawk, N. C. They were laughed at as visionaries. One of the winners of the LondonAustralia flight, C. W. A. Scott, made his first flight over that course in nine days, three hours. That was marvelous a few years ago. The one this week was just a little over two days. Yes, we are traveling fast, but we'll yet traveled much faster. We are on the way. We may not know where we are going or what we will do when we get there.?Yorkville Enquirer. Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else. Lancaster As It Was Half Century Ago Judge Eugene Secrest recalls Isin-1 caster as a sprawling village fifty years age and since 1884 has aeen | many changes take place In this city. Much water has gene under the bridge since 1884 and' the city has grown from a village to a city. Fifty years ago marked the real beginning of Lancaster as a railroad from Chester hdd just been complet- j ed a year or two before and the city had hardly got used to having railroad facilities. < The Southern Rail-1 road was built tiirough here in 1JJ8U. In 1884 most of the business hous<e? (ill Lancaster were between j and Dunlap street* on Main street, Mr. Secrest says. A hotel had been built a year or two before 1884 at the place where the First Hank and Trust company building now stands but further up were not any business houses. In 1883 Col. Leroy Springs came to Lancaster, to begin his business career here which was to eventually grow into large proportions. Col. Springs first entered the mercantile business in the building where the pool hall is now located. After a couple of years he was joined iby O. P. Heath in a mercantile firm known as the HeathSprings Company. In those days it is said no pretentions were made by merchants to display their wares and the windows were hardly show windows. Nothing was displayed in them and at night heavy shutters covered them. In 1884 there were no ready-to-wear dresses offered for sale and not a great deal of men's clothing but cloth .was purchased by the women at the stores and the dresses made at home. Canned goods for sale consisted of oysters, sardines, salmon and canned bjeef and that was about all. In the year of 1884 an artificial ice plant was erected at Spartanburg and about the only ones who received ice here were the saloons. A saloon was on the corner where the Mackey Drug Store is now located and another one was where the B. C. Moore and Sons store is now located. 'At lhat time* the merchants jf the city sold only.^jStick candy and this was kept on snelvth^as a rule. Little fruit was offered "for sale and about the only time this was sold was at Christmas time when the merchants stocked up on candy. When the L. and C. railroad was built the cotton was hauled out of here by that line but before the railroads cotton was hauled by wagon to Camden from whence it was shipped to Charleston or was hauled by wagon to Charlotte or Monroe. Judge Secrest says that he was a member of the first baseball team organized here as well as he can remember in 1876 or 1877. This club like the one of late years was known as the Lancaster Red Roses. Mr. Secrest says that the Lancaster nine wore red shirts and black trousers. He says he remembers well that the team went to Monroe where they Received a good beating and then to Liberty Hill where they suffered another overwhelming defeat. At Liberty Hill Mr. Secrest had his thumb knocked out of joint and his baseball career ended. The team only played one or two years. For amusement there was a roller skating rink in the Moore building and this was operated about the year 1884. In those days the Charleston News and Courier was the main newspaper in these parts although there welre a few suscribers to other daily papers. Houses in Lancaster at that time were, further apart than they are today. Two or three houses to a block were about all could be seen then The home where Col. R. E. Wylie now lives was erected in 1855 by Dr. R. I. Crawford and it came into the possession of the Wylie family soon after the Civil War. Of course the streets wore rather muddy at times and it was not a strange sight to see wagons mired in the mud. Fifty years ago the custom of women working in stores had not begun. None but male clerks were employed in stores and women were not employed in officesN The Sabbath day was strictly observed back in those days. It was regarded as a sin to read a newspaper on Sunday and in those days it was the custom for young men to take girls riding in a horse and buggy but not on Sunday. While we may think that the people in 1884 were rather old fashioned it is not quite possible that the people fifty years hence will look back on conditions as were in 1934 and think them exceedingly funny.?Lancaster News. NOTICE To whom it may concern: This is to give notice of my intention to appeal for Executive Clemency. Henry Ballard. I November 16, 1934. 34 pd. The Georgia delegation in congress is calling on President Roosevelt to use his best efforts to expand the foreign markets for cotton goods made in the United States. cgcsa??c?<IIJI tnl .1 i ''I HHTflW Wants?For Sale WANTED? Driving to Atlanta and return. One or two companion* wanted. Address M. L., Care Chronicle, Camden, 3. C. 34 pd. FOR SALE ? Repossessed Apartment Grand Piano. I^ate model, excellent condition. Will sacrifice for $187.50 on payment* of 110.00 per month to responsible party. IPlease give reference and we will adviae where piano may be ?een. Addreas Box 237, Camden, S. C. 84 ab. TABLE FAWUONS OP TODAY? See our new Candlelight and Aristocrat pattern* by Towle and 'Roue Point pattern by Wallace. tF. D. Goodale, DeKalb Street, Opposite Post Office, Camden, 3. C. 84-86sb. MAN WANTED for Rawlsigh Route of 800 families. Write today. Rawlelgh, Dept. 3CK-T6-SA, Richmond, VaT 84 pd. TURKEY SHOOT?There will be an old time turkey shoot at the Evergreen Nurseries^ Jtopposite Fair Grounds) Wednesday, November 21, 8:80 p. m. Eferyoody invited, says R. E. Smith; Camden, 3. C. livo..' 84-od. RADIO REPAIRING?Done on any make radio. Rapid service, satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone 2, Duncan Lang, Camden, S. C. 34-36 pd. FOR SALE?>107 acres of good land, near Antioch school. Cheap and easy terms. Address Carl A. Horton, Kershaw, S. C. 82-34pd FOR SALE?78 acres good farm land at iLugoff. Cheap and easy terms. Address Carl A, Horton, Kershaw, S. C. 32-84pd WANT YOU TO KNOW also that Uncle Sam has snown his interest in your community and faith in thi# Association by subscribing and paying for 60 shares of our Full Paid Income stock and is now waiting to dee what you will do. It's up to you good citizens. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n., Camden, S. C. 83 tf. FOR SALE?900 acres of good land, four miles Southwest of Camden. Cheap and easy terms. Address Carl A. Horton, Kershaw, S. C. 32-34pd IX)ST OR STRAYED?One grey squirrel colored milch cow with leather halter on. Has tuberculosis test tag on one ear. Reward will be paid to anyone who finds hej\ Notify W. L. DePass, Jr. Telephone 871 or 77, Camden, S. C. 34 sb. RING LOST?A gentlemen'* da A red square setting ring, lost somA where in Camden last week. FindA will be suitably rewarded if rfA is returned to Chronicle OffiS Camden, S. C. 34 FOR SALE?'Easy payments, 4-rooA house at No. 811 Lyttleton sItmA Electric lights, no bath. UnA deep lot. Address Enterprise BuilA ing & Loan Association, CarcdeA S. ., or see W. R. Zemp. 33-86sbl| WANTED?-Constructive citizens tA realize that for overy dollar t J invest in our Savings Thrift iShirA the U. S. Treasurer is ready A cover it with three dollars thA making four dollars available (A home building and improvements A our City ana vicinity for evcA share subscribed and paid for A cally. Meanwhile your investmtiA is safe and shares in earnings froA loans made with the funds, CaA on uh for details and lot's go. FirA f Federal Savings & Loan AmA (Locally organized and manageA (Under Government supervisionA I BERNARD H. STEVEHSOM j'. Scientific Taxidermist '{ I Route No. 3, Kershaw, 5. r| Fat lady Dim At Newberry"| Newberry, Nov, 18,?Mrs. Ads M Hunt, W, died this morning ?t t| Newberry County hospital after | week's illness. iShe Is survived | her husband, J. S. Hunt of SarasgK Fla. The body will remain ?t g| Swain's Funeral home until Tutwj| afternoon when it will be taken Sarasota. .. , Mrs. Hunt was a member of til Krause show, which played tbe t.?| week at the Newberry County fX She was featured as the fat yV weighing about 780 pounds. 1" NO TRESPASSING I This Is to notify all persons, th| no' trespassing wilT 3>e allowed onB through my property, located H North Broad street, in the City S Camden., ' ' MISS OOHNELIA MttmM BEST AMERICAN CHEESE, lb 17cm WESSON OIL, Pint Can 18c| li RICHMOND MAID I ! BAKING POWDER, lb. Can 25c I I Half-Pound Can FREE ! WHOLE GRAIN BLUE ROSE II1 RICE, 5 lbs 23el I DHL MONTE?GOLiDEN BAiNTAM j j I CORN, 2 Cans ... 25c 1 I DEL MONTE SLICED I PINEAPPLE, 2 No.2y2 Cans ..... 39e| I DEL MONTE YELLOW CLiING I | PEACHES, 2 No. 2Ms Cans 25c| I EVAPORATED,* i PEACHES, 2 lbs. 25c | ROGERS' PRODUCE """ ! IRISH POTATOES, 10lbs.,). 15cI j , CARROTS, bunch . .." ~5cl j SPINACH, lb 10c] I FRESH GREEN ' CABBAGE, 3 lbs lOci YELLOW ONIONS, lb 4c| I FRESH SHIPPED ?M EGGS,dozen 29c| IN ROGER'S MARKET! | NATIVE MEAT SPECIALS . 1 || STEAKS, any cut, 2 lbs.... 35el ILrOAST BEEF, lb 12gc| STEW BEEF, 3 lbs .......72?1 PURE PORK SAUSAGE, 2 IbsTTTTTSI pork roast. ib FRESH OYSTERS, quart ... BOX BACON, all brands7lbr7T7rr77^J GENUINE CALF LIVER, lb.. ,... 29c| " Fresh Fish, Chitterlings, Spare Ribftl Neck Banes, Pig Tails, Pork liver, Etc. |