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W-." ? i"Ml Phillip's Delicious I TOMATOES 4 No. 2cans 29c HOT CUP COFFEE, II) 15c "I' MATCHES brgeBom 6'<"25c | Armours TRIPE, Large Cans, 2 for ......... 25c PRUNES Extra large size 2 lbs. 25c 11 BUTTER SxSd lb. 41c | HI ll'ER COOKIES, 2 lh. Boxes ... 25cT UOtiKU'S 21 ! FLOUR, 24-lh. Hag, . 85c | rogers' produce i GREEN BEANS, Fresh, Tender, lb.. 15c j BANANAS. 5 Ihs 25c I POTATOES, 10 lbs 15c |j LEMONS, Dozen, 19c |l MARKET SPECIALS Fancy CALF LIVERS, lb. ... ... 39c Sliced BREAKFAST BACON, 1!>. .. 30c Hockless PICNIC HAMS, lb 19c CHITTERLINGS, lb 10c Fresh PIGS FEET, lb 10c Good STEWING BEEF, 3 lbs 25c Choice POT ROAST, lb. 15c I FISH?MULLET, CROAKERS, BLACK BASS, FLOUNDERS, T R 0 U T A N I) OYSTERS -?y? _ | ^ YOU TELL EM BROTHER! Well, well, the mistakes wo do make! Last Thursday I told you that there were 28 "workers" in Union county's welfare department. I've been told there ain't but 21. Also the expense of handin* out a few dollars to poor folks is only a mere triflle of $400 a week. Brethren and also sisterin, a small I man and a large boy could do all the I necessary work in our local welfare department. In fact, there are pri~vate businesses in Monroe, doing as much "business" as does the welfare department at an expense of a $25-aweek bookkeeper. No, I'm not complainin'. Other counties of the State maintain setups similar to that of Union county. We're all Uoin' it,'from Sister O'Berry, headnocker down at Roily, to headquarters at Washington. Everybody knows we're making paupers out of persons who should be working out their own salvation. I We've gotten ourselves into a mess by feedin' folks and we don't know how to stop it. It's like the old man who saw a railroad train for the first time. "She'll never start." he declared. And when the train left the station, picking up momentum at every turn of the flywheel the old fellow shouted, j'"And now, by gum, she'll never stop!" ?Eugene Ashcraft, in Monroe Enquirer. A weak diphtheria germ which will 1 -t* up an immunity without causing j tuubvubie form of the disease has , 'h n found in Africa. i If tiie Telephone were Not There! M ANY TIMES each day you reach for the telephone on your desk at the office or in its familiar spot at home. It is an old and trusted friend You scarcely Rive a thought to what it means to a busy day.' Yet suppose the telephone were not there! Suppose?for a < week?or a month?you could not call anybody by telephone and nobody could call you! The whole machinery of business and the home would be thrown out of gear. Orders would be lost?efficiency and profits reduced. You would be out of touch with your world America needs quick, reliable telephone service to get j things done in the brisk, crisp American manner. And it enjoys the best service in the world. Amerfcc* leads in telephone service. In relation to population there are six times as many telephones in this country as in Europe and the telephone is used nine times as much. Greater progress has been made in this country because of the Bell System's one policy, one system and universal service* x^> > - <Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. tlaser?e>el?< ) Drive Starts For ! Children's Home ' ? t At a meeting of the Associated I harities recently, it wee decided to J hold a subscription drive for the I ftindt'n ( hildren'n llonitv F^bruttry U\?^!cre*1 4 ?ffi?er? are: 0 fu' 11 "?r ^ Mayfleld, president; Robert M. Kennedy, Jr., vice-president; Warren H. Harris, treasurer, \ John K. deLoach,( assistant treasurer and T. S. Goodale', secretary. On the ! Board of Directors are: Mrs. Woods Robinson, Mrs. \V. L. Wright, Mr*. A. Dalton Kennedy, Mrs. George R. ' Cook, Mrs. Mildren Clark, Mrs. John ' Dcvine, Robert M. Kennedy, Jr., John K. deLoach, Warren H. Harris, Sum- 1 uel Russell, T. S. Goodale and Mrs. W. J. Mayfield. There are twenty-six children at ' the Home now and before any more can be admitted, some of these Ynust 1 be adopted. The following is the experience of a woman who adopted five children with happy results which is reassuring to those who have doubts about the advisability of adop"Bea," I said, "why don't you adopt a child?" I remembered the two babies who had died, and the hopes built around them. Rut my suggestion icll cold. "If the blood of the Thorpes can't flow in my child's veins," said Ilea, staring unseeingly outside, "I won't have one." , Bea's is one of the commonest of the arguments against adoption. To m# it seems odd that with millions of families on earth, only our own should appear desirable and "safe." 1 know rhany a childless home like hers where children are wanted, where such vague fear* as this stand in the way of adoption. They have heard of the adopted child that turned out badly: never, it seems, of the child that brought heartbreak to its own parents. leaser fears become deciding obstacles: "He might not like us"?or, "I'm sure John would never have uny feeling for an adopted child." 1 have reason to know that most of these fears are foolish, for I have been five times an adopted mother, an experience covering 20-odd years. I had played with dolls till I was a big girl and, jRiJl unmarried at 20, my father and mother dead, I found myself hungering for a real child. I j resolved to adopt somebody. Nowadays, quite a few bachelor women become adopted mothers, hut I had never heard of such a thing then. My father had often mentioned a j beloved physician in a neighbor.rg , New Knghrnd town; I wrote him. Ke4 plying, he told me about his mr.ej year-old twin boys who needed a j mother, and suggested that in-'.cal 1 of adopting somebody else, I take j charge of them. He followed the ' ter in person. F.ventually he pro; -[ ed marriage. I, however, hesitated. I did not believe it was fair to those nine; year-olds to present them witn a | mother they might not like. "I.et i me have them for a while," 1 .- g. gested; "I'll give you my answer ,atit. David and Duvranpp her:; mo my first children. When 1 finally aid ; "Yes" to their father, they, felt i:ke conspirators who had artfully arranged it themselves. At the time of our marriage my husband was in his middle fo-t:es. I bole him two (laughters, the first ; dying soon after hirth. the second. ; Joan, being a very lovely ^-year-old girl now. just ready for college. I ' love her dearly and "in a special way. Hut so do 1 love each of my children i 1,1 H special way. because each of th?niOj5 ? different, special person. ; I cannot truthfully say that I love Joan, flesh of my fle.-h, more than the others. It was not until after David and. i Dorrance were drowned in a row boat accident that my mind went buck to the question of adoption. They were son- to he p-oud of. Their loss helped to make an old man of the father who had adored them. I believed itn?ther buy in the house might take his mind off his grief. When 1 suggested adoption, how ever, he was on, iV nuldlj interested. He .eft .1 to me. I Getting l'eter cost me more paiius thun <iii the other adopted . hiidren combined. F fell I had to be so sure about everything. With a friend in . 1.n I -.inrice! from ho-pita! to .'uepdal. inter, iewirg -u-n rr.tc idjem and looking at hahr- of all h;, r . -. \v?, - /.< - a:. : agi . i . .en u-m ii ,i wci.-kuow n dog: a ' ,l h.d--gist :or e\; t adi '' ; 1 I i'ey ta.kcd preloun : v about irrei :tan. c factors. on\irom -r.t facto!-. and much else, til! 1 . anm a'vay w. a wnirling i.ead. ur:-u:v about at .. . ..ug except that 1 v. anted a b:.:y boy. when a n.;r-.- held 1 1'-' c h indie of u i-fa.c.i life, ami I -aw '"at it looker, a , and .Cei:\. ;i!:,| 1 T--U' 1 1 Could iot" i?imo-t j?t or.-, w.th no nicre bo: . i ga-pv.:. "i if., .et me ...e him!" ?__{hat s :;.iw IV'cr ?;inie. To this ?i> 1 d ' t. d ki'<i.v how he happened : to be there waiting for me. Nothing, I t.dt/N now. cuu.il have been luckier. I ha\e been ab:e to .sav to him honj tally: I "I did not give you physical birth; | but whoever did wouldn't have been your real mother until she worked ami lated tor you and learned to love you as 1 do. For some reason that neither of us will ever know, -he brought you into the world but ieft motherhood for me. You're my -on be.au-c 1 wanted you and to >k you am! raised you and loved you." I egg.\ w a.- our second adopted chiid. She came five year- after Deter. 1 took her because? wcih .-he smiled at me, and 1 had to have her! Bobby, the third, came a couple of years later. He was not a baby ' bu; ten years old. He had lived in a "home" and had been given for i adoption twice already, and in neither case was ho really wanted bv both parents. When he came to u-. he : had been nagged and cheated of a f child's birthright of love; he was full of perplexities, fears, and the conviction that he was different from other children and could never "belong" anywhere. One afternoon when we ( were alone and had been taikino- ( about Peter and P?g*y, he said in ? lia thoughtful way: "Course I could lever really be ypur son, like Peter * P ' 1 "Boby," 1 barked at him; "that's" he siifieat thing 1 ever heard anybody say. Ypu know, don't you, that Peter wasn't always here?" No, wonderingly, he didn't. , So 1 told him about Peter. And tbout Peggy. And 1 added: "It lan t i question of who your real parents, is you call them, were. That isn't i a hat makes anybody belong. You an be our own son, Bobby, just as Peter is, if you want to He stared into my eyes for a lon^, long minute, all barriers down, lie iidn't .->ay much. Hut from that day I knew that he meajit to "belong"; and he became a dilfereitt boy. Peter burst in on me one day when lie was live years old and cried between sobs; "Mother, Hilly Bowles says you aren't my real mother. He says?" I was thunderstruck. I had hesitated to tell hiVh about his being adopted, thinking that he was too young to understand, but that's a mistake I never repeated. An adopted child is never too young to be told. As soon as he understands the tone of love in a mother's voice, "My darling adopted baby" should be fumiliar to his ears. No concealment about it. No evasion. 1 did my best to right the mistake with Peter. I told him the truth and tried to make it beautiful. The shock passed olF lightly. The others-?and Peter too, I think , ?now feel that adoption lends a little distinction. One day I told Peter, Peggy and Bobby: "You know, your sister Joan was sent to us. We had nothing to do with selecting her. But we went out and picked you because we wanted you." A week later the three of them marched into the kitchen. Peter was spokesman: "Mother, we'd like to do something to make it up to Joan." "Make it up?" Our conversation had slipped my mind. "Yes, because she wasn't picked, like we were. . . ." Mary ami Raymond are the last and youngest of our children. My husband was past 00 when they came, 1 not far from 50. There was no real reason for taking them, except that the others were growing up. 1 should like to have one more; and | may one of these days, j Friends ask me what the important I things about adoption are. I know only two. One is the environment of the home. The other is the bloodstream of the child and physical mother?these must be clean, and every hospital has an ab-olutje test. Nothing else mailer*. Nothing. Illegitimacy is not important in adoption. A child's potentialities are sealed at conception and are unknowable, however his parents are mated. Were^ this not so. I doubt whether one of the most famous women phy: an- in the country would have adon'ci "\vo children, as she did, without knowing more about them than that the blood was* clean. I do not think it'.- important if the "U-bar.d is unfavorable or cool toward adoption, as long as the wife w ill's it. A dear friend who has giien hundreds of children for adoption tells me it is normal for the I husband to be only half willing or even opposed; yet later he is likely I to In-come the bigger bore of the Two in ranting about his wonderful progeny. hinaliy, wealth is not important. My hu-band never had an income of more than $3,000 at the peak. Since his illness, most of his investments have gone bad. \\ e do not own a car. and have very little money; instead of souring us. the situation has drawn us closer. We have experimented with many things to get money. I bake for several customers; the boys help roll the pie dough and deliver the orders. The older two have paper routes. We raise and sell a tot of green stuff, besides canning for our own use. We do try to live beautifully, howe\er. Our house is an old-fashioned, sprawling place such as you wouldn't find outside Now Kngia'nd. There's a big yard full of trees, wit'h open tii Id- beyond and a glimpse of the Bei k-hire". We do not live by the c;ink ar.d are not "good hou-okeeper.-": i; ,].-.esn't matter particularly if things are out of place, or meals are soever; :rrogula:!>. If there is a '. *'-y -uv.-c: v,; go and look at it. '' ' 11.11.?e.\e.v;:amhi' " I - love in. .'iir hi.me for <i.l unci we* uvo hupp v. \ . . " , a..m: . iwrnnip- your nur. .rwr.ara".vv. a- dear a- 'arv -he 'hsh. Rove-lines, not ' on rr.ak- - m??!h. rhn..,|. baov . - 1: ke ?in a" ' " ' V'-O'lnr. complexion.. ~'i) be the only way f '.' t ' be. after vou A.lop.,., Mo-rev ir. S. rihner's con! ' -< . :Rta :erN Digest. Midway Honor Roll Grade 1 Margaret Klliott. Betty Jam- Mc< a skill. Sara June Roz;er. Ponald Holland. G'aie Myrtle Corbitt. t.rade I?t'olene Hall. Azalee Ingram. Be>.-,e Bee Colbett. Roy Tidwdi. ? era Bran ham. tirade 5-?Troy West. Grade ?i? l?auline Catoe, Lunnel El"bi-l Holland. Bobby Laney, Lewis Lee West. Grade 7?Ferris Joyner, J. R. Teal, Ida lA-e Threatt, Margaret West, Margaret \ a r bo rough, tirade 8?-Dolly Stokqs. Grade i> Margarette Anderson, Sadie Corbitt, Kmtlv McCoy, Laurie West. Grade 10?Ethelyn Corbott, Ruth Waters. tirade 11?Oralie Brannon, Martha Moseley. Floree Rozier. Thelma Stokes, Blanche Threatt. i To Have Square Dance There will be an old time Square lane* at tho 4-tH Club House, at .hilder's Mill, Friday nig-ht, February 16th. Public invited 9 ' Johnston Revokes Parole Of Negro On Monday Governor Johnston re-1 vqked the parole of John Fruitier, a! colored man, who was convicted in j l^ancasLer county in 1930 on u charge , of manslaughter and who had been granted a parole by Governor Blackwood in addition to having his sen-( tence commuted from 12 years to six,] years. According to The State Fraz- ( ier was picked up in Columbia for disorderly conduct and for that reason had his parole revoked. He had been paroled for a couple of months. Fra/.ier was convicted in Lancaster j county in lD.'iO on a charge of man- j slaughter after the state has asked ; for a murder verdict. Frazier was ( said to have killed his own child hy , drowning the little one. The child | was deformed and mentally pnb;*lanc- ! ed so that the lather desired to get | rid of it. The child was killed by having its head held under water in a tub according to state witnesses. Although Frazier bad his parole revoked the commutation of sentence still stands as onC governor cannot revoke a commutation of a former governor. Frazier lias now served . four and one-half years of his sentence so that he will have only about , eighteen more months to serve.? Lancaster News. Recognized Beauty It was in one of the rooms in Mount Vernon at the Colonial Village at a Century of Progress. A North Shore member of the D. A. R. noted for her dress was acting as hostess when two men, obviously inebriated,; wandered through the room, in her wideskirted gown of green taffeta and net, her white wig enhancing her beautiful coloring, and one of them,, grasping the rope to steady himself, said in awe-stricken tones. "Gee, you're the most gorgeous old battle-ax I ever saw."?Chicago Tri-1 buno. Lax The Bladder I'se Juniper Oil, Buchu Leaves, etc. This 2oo test free if it fails. If irregularity wakes you up, flush out impurities and excess acids. Get buchu leaves, juniper oil, etc., in lit; lie green tablets called Bukets. the bladder lax. Works on the bladder similar to castor oil on the bowels. Poorly acting bladder can cause disturbed sleep, frequent desire, scanty Mow, burning or backache. In four days, if not pleased any druggist will tefurid your 25o. Get your regular sleep and feel "full of pep." DeK ALB PHARMACY ' i11 A CHILD'S LAXATIvl SHOULD BE UQUi (Aik any doctor) For your own comfort, ami f, children's sajetu and future you should read this: The bowels cuimol he helped >1 regularity by any laxative thatc?JB .. be regulated as to dose. That is %3 doctors use liquid laxatives. A liquid laxative can alwayt tfl taken in the right amount. v<ni (S gradually reduce the dose. dosage is the secret of real >uut relief from constipation. The right liquid l&xative <!<> * the right amount of help, \VtJ re|>eated. instead of more each ii J you take less. Until bowels are r&S tug regularly and thoroughly withS any help at all, l he liquid laxative generally u is Dr. Ciaddwell's Syrup l'epti^S contains senna and cascara, na/^9 laxatives that form no habit in children. Its action is gentle, b9 sure. It will clear pp a conditioS biliousness or sluggishness with|9 upset N Every druggist has it. 2)/fc.??z?t?c&eflti 1 SYRUP PEPSjfl ????J NOTICE TO DEBTORS /jfl CREDITORS -m Al! persons indebted to thej? Kenner Garrard Whistler will pi?3 make j>ayment to T. K. Trotter,JH torney for Executor, and those fm ing claims against the estate, if|fl will present them, likewise, duly J rnized and sworn to. Samuel -Russell, Executor of til Will of Kenner Garrard Whistler,? Dated Camden, S. C. February 15, li>35. .-,? NOTICE By resolution of the Board of rectors Interest on Savings Depot from March 1, 1935, will be at rate of 2% per annum, comjn semi-annually. < THE. FIRST. NATIONAL. BA] of Camden, S. C. I 46-47^ j NOTICE 4 By resolution of the Board of rectors Interest on Savings Depoi , from March 1, 1935, will be at rate of 2c/c per annum, confpg semi-annually. The Commercial Bank Of Caai Camden, S. C. 46-47 .1 1 ANOTHER STEP | FORWARD1! m Our facilities for rendering i ONE-STOP SERVIGEl Have recently been added to by the erpployment jof II MR. G. L. WATTS M Who has had twenty years' experience servicing JH All Makes of Cars! u |fl This addition, together with our regular force* of FORD SPECIALISTS, will enable us to render ser* II vice no matter what make car you own. j Our complete labor-saving and time-saving shop^^B equipment and the fact that all repair work is done II for CASH, thereby eliminating bad accounts, maWfsB it possible for us to offer service at ; * Greatly Reduced Prices 1 --rB Redfearn Motor Co] SALES SERVICE - Telephone 140 W. DeKalb Street* ?r rtfi