The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 16, 1934, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
P CAMDENjCHRONICLE
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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.
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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
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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
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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. |