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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. 1). NILRH. .Bditor and Publiaher Published every Friday at Number 110'd Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina postoff Ice u* second cIuhh mall matter l*rlce per anno in 12 00, payable in advance. Friday, May H>, I9U5 Sharing The Wealth An old lady of I'elion, in Ixtxington county, thrifty and economical, lost some money in bunks. This no discouraged her that .she decided to do her own banking in a hole in the ground. She buried $>2,?'J00 in an out building on the premises. It is hard to keep .such secrets'from lazy crooks, always hanging around, and watching. Very few hanks lost all the money of depositors. This rogue was not generous enough to share the "Hooey" Hong wealth. He took it all. She should have known that savings in banks are now guaranteed by the government. When the government goes, all and everything will follow. How deplorably foolish it is to stick money in holes, bod?s)ats, <?r even in a small safe. Stealing is on the ilieiease and the color of the skin i ui> very little be. ('ulhoun Times. llave Your Hand Terraced Through the cooperation of our government we have a wonderful opportunity to conserve the valuable top noil of our lands by terracing. The tractor-, machines, ami trained men me here ready to terrace your land, but so little interest is being shown , by the furiners that this equipment is to be taken out of Kershaw county unless more farmers cooperate im- , mediately. Please get in touch with P. N. Smith, County Terracing Engi- . neer or notify me at once if you are interested, stating the number of acres you desire now; the number of < acres desired terraced after grain is 1 cut; the number of acres to be ter- 1 raced after crops are gathered this < Fall; also how many acres of stub- i bio or other land would you like this f outfit to break with large one-way plows. Your immediate cooperation is urged.-?Henry 1). (Jreen, County Agent. Itobbery of (he "Smoke House" Hunk. That Li-yogr-old widow living at L Peiioii. Lexington county, whose savings of hidden in the earth under a smoke house, were stolen the 1 other night, probably did not read newspapers which give information to their readers. I \\ lien bank- Jailed some years ago, ; she 1'1 money entrusted to their | care. She became suspicious of banks ;iml ret used to trust them. Hut mean- | time laws and banking conditions have radically changed. These , change- have been emphasised scores ol time- in our newspapers, and .scores of times their readers have been assured that money deposited in banks whose deposits were insured under federal law was safe-?just as safe as the "promise to pay" printed on tho face of the currency. Hut if she heard about this security for her deposits in banks, she refused to believe. This disbelief was costly. When a woman living in a small community has an income which enables her to set aside $2,."{()() in a few years, that fact cannot be concealed from those around her. And when they know she distrusts banks, they know she is hiding the money. Sharp eyes are upon her; probably the eyes of those whom she little suspects. The hiding place, especially when outside her home, cannot for long be concealed from those secret watchers. Then the robbery is planned and executed. -Columbia State. In the '.1st Kentucky l>crby. run at Churchill I towns, Ky., Saturday, William \\ ootiward's Omaha, an outsider, tome in fust out a tiold of 17 .'5-yearold rival.-. The bolting on the hor.-o xv aIt) to 1 for lirsl plaie. Approximately one billion of our lu-ai iv two billion acre- of land i- m pa-lure. 1 i i frostoria Don't Fail To See The New Line of Fostoria Glassware Also a Complete I.ine of (lifts for .-111 Oeeasions [ ?K^S<SA/H^S/S/V?*Wn?H'VWVW??W^^. The Hoffer Company CAMDEN. S. C. Til K MERCHANT PAYS! We have been intending to write an article for some time regai ding i a "rurki'i" that "bleed*" the mer-1 chants, and puts money in the |nx-k- j els of out-siders, But the article below, taken from the Abbeville Press and Banner, so well states the matter, that there in no necessity of our doing other than reprmt it. We call every merchant'* attention to the article, and urge that you read it carefully. The Merchant rays and Pays. Wil'hin the next two or three day* twenty-two merchant* of Abbeville will receive a placard 'with their advertisements in a simaJl box at the bottom of the placard. This placaixi tgoes under the guise of a Ohurch Directory, and ha* two boxes at the top with the following "Moot your friymis at Church next- 'Sunday" and "Attend your Sunday School, Make it a Habit." ' ' The advertisement, twenty-four stroll#, one placard for each merchant whose advertisement appears on the placard ami two for local distribution, were sponsored by orve of the ladies' organization*, of one of the churches. The advertisements co-it these merchants $2.50 each. The printing of the placards cost $7.05 witli a discount of $1.50 (this was sold to the Press and Banner at a discount). The traveling solicitor, in ho presented the scheme to the ladies received fifty -per cent of the proceeds and the church organization ixaceived the other half. Everybody benefits but the merchant. During the i>ast few years traveln-g solicitors with some such scheme 1 have been .preying upon the merchants of A'bbeville at regular internals. For fear that business might be lost, for fear that the ladies of the particular church organization might become offended, for fear that these ladies might trade elsovVhere . they become easy prey to uny and nil. If the organization would give true value, if the church even could get the entire benefit, if there was a possibility of the merchant getting half lis money back in return there might !>e some excuse for making the request. The man who contributes to the church, however, feels that his first obligation . is to the church of (lis choice and his contribution should go to that church. He would also like to realize that hi.s entire contribution would go to the support of the cause and not to tin's person who biiii'gs lortii the half-baked scheme. The idea isn t new. It has been used tor years ami years and any advertising man could present a plan that would be of greater value, of less cost and of greater benefit to the chuivh. This particular church scheme is not confined to the church which s|x>nsors it?there are but thi-ee or four members of that church participating. The $on has been donated by i-opresent-atives of all the churches. The church organization is not alone in this type of scheme. The Parent-Teacher associations, the schools, ami other quasj-public-organizations are just as guilty. If a school needs a now curtain, organizations are to be -found glad to paint advertisements on the side for $10 to $-.) a box, half to the school and half to tho painter. The merchant pays. Again it. may be a church history. A high pressure salesman will sell you a page in the history costing but $15 or $25 and informs you "unless you take advantage of it the congregation of the church will he ad?i.-.ed that you would not. co-operate." The merchant }\nys, H maybe a beauty pageant for the school Hie oiganizer takes a large percentage of the ad we* Moment and j?rogram revenue and gives the organization tile remainder. The merchant jmys. 1 he Press and Banner has been invited to pnrt.ici]kate in not less liian eight of t.hese schemes this year. We have established a policy not to take advantage of any of thorn. Tho churches have a directory in the Press and Batmor each week. It is gla-dly donated ami we trust that it i- of benefit to our some 5,000 readei's. The yearly value of this contribution is approximately $520. 'Hie schools of the county are given a similar amount of space. All of this is gladly done because we believe it of interest ami of value. But let us refuse to become the victim of some fly-by-night illegitimate advertising scheme an<l we become the recipient of threats ami sneers ami haixl looks. Tim merchant probably pays more taxes than any other class of citizen. Because he owns an established oiisiness he becomes the mark for every solicitor of every tyjx* from foreign organized Salvation Army spending none of trie receipts in AbIh-niIu' (o every organization in the county. The merchant is in a highly competitive field. He must watch the overhead vest of his business to comlx-te with the merchant, in the town ami out of town. The ladies who sponsor these schemes may purchase their clothes in any town or from a mailorder house but he must remain m business. lie is always ready and willing to help the town and the schools and the churches. He pays as much and probably more but in addition he is marked as the man who must contribute to all of these causes. There is no douht the merchant j>ays. There is no doubt that he is made to pay and pay when he knows that his contribution is of no value and he will receive no benefit. The least these organizations could do wouM bo to put one of the placards in their Sunday school room.? Abbeville Press and Banner. April 18 th. General News Notes The week of May 28 will be ob served a a "baby week" in Canada, this being' the anniversary of the birth of the Diopne quintuplets. The Arkansas State Federation of Women's Olub? has adopted reaolutionn endorsing a proposed national birth control law. The civil service commission now estimates the number of employes in the executive branches of the federal government as totaling 084,#18, a gain of 4,372 since February. Payrolls for the departments and offices totaled $100,730,5*7# for the month of April. Va I?arry Sawyer, with a dozen aliases, long sougm* in connection with the kidnaping of Kdrward <*. Bremer, St. Paul, Minn., -was arreated by federal agents on the Mississippi coast Saturday, He had 'been there since November, operating negro dance halls. lassie Harnett, girl of Kings Mountain, N. C\, was killed early Saturday morning when hit by a Southern freight train near Bessemer City, while she was sitting on the track. She and a boy friend, both drinking, had been out all night. Former Premier Venizelos of Greece one of the leaders of the recent Greek rebellion, has been sentenced to death by a court martial. His son was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Venibelos and others under sentence are hiding in France. Dr. Henry W. Griest, medical missionary, after waging a two weeks' single handed battle against a flu epidemic at Point Barrow, Alaska, expressed the hope for u breathing spell to bury the dead, estimated Sunday at 15. Announcement is made in Germany that 333,000 farmers of the country are in need of wives and that many women between the ages of 16 and 33 are ordered to go back to the farms and be married. There are estimated to be 8,000,000 marriageable women in Germany. A child, 21 months old, Thelma Ann Wilke, was found in the north woods rxf Michigan on Sun-day after she had been missing three days. Despite the frosty nights the child was in fairly good condition, though hungry. She had lost a shoe and a sock and cap in her wanderings. Three relief workers are charged with working a racket for their own ends and getting away with a total of $5,000. They were doing theii stealing from the canteen of the U. S. S. Mercy, a former hospital ship. One has been arrested, tho other two will 1k> soon. General Charles A. Disaussure, a former commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, a native of McPhersonville, S. C., died a: his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was general passenger agent for the Southern Railway and was in his office daily up until a few weeks ago.1 With more employes than ever before in its history, the United States government now has on its payrolls 5)81) men who are paid salaries of $10,000 and over per year, and 7,223 who are paid from $5,000 to $10,000 per year. The president's salary of $75,000 and trimmings, is the largest salary paid by the government. .John I), and Mack Rust, brothers, former Texas farmers and cotton pickers, have announced at Memphis, Tenn., that they have perfected a machine cotton picker, weighing 2,100 pounds and that can be sold at $005 and will do the work of 50 to loO men. They are showing the machine] in Memphis, this week. Mrs. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wile of the notorious Grover Bergdoll, exiled in Germany since the World war because he was and is a draft dodger from the army, lias arrived in the United States to seek amnesty for her husband. The department of justice says that there is nothing doing. Mrs. Bergdoll is accompanied by four children. When a lawyer asked a doctor to please tell the jury in plain language what caused the death of a man, the medico replied: "In plain language, he died of an oedema of the brain that followed a cerebral thrombosis or po?ibly embolism that followed. In turn arteriosclerosis combined with the effects of gangrenous cystitis?" A .Juror: Well. I'll "bo damned! The Judge: Ordinarily 1 would fine a juror for saying anything like that but I can't in this instance because the Court was thinking the same thing. Pleading for an end of the insane and headlong armaments race in Europe, Groat Britian has warned the world that she means to keep her air force equal to any in the world. General Wilhelm Goering, German minister of air force, defiantly says. Germany's air force "will always bo as strong as any outside combination, for or against peace." And concludes: "Germany now has an aortal weajnm so powerful that whoever attacks us will have an exceedingly difficult time in the air." Postoffice Receipts Show Great Gains According to figures released by Postmaster C, I*. DuBose the (Jamden postoffice shows substantial gains in postal receipts for the < past few years, so much so that it lias almost reached the high level of 11728. As the jrostonico goes, so goes other business, and hardly a business enterprise in Car^ien but what will show greater gains than in previous years. The table below will show the gains by quarters and while the figures for April aroinot available, they too, will show a considerable gain as compared for April, 1034: December 31, 1033 $5,844.06 December 31, 1034 6,826.75 March 31, 1034 6,813.02 March 31, 1035 7,007.26 The figures for the calendar years dating from 1028 are also shown below: 1028 $23,505.02 1029 $22,807.44 1030 $22,153.70 1031 $20,428.18 1032 $10,538.60 1033 $10,747.50 1034 $22,815.52 A SA1) POME Young Grimes is dead; that speedy cuss We ne'er shall dodge him more. He used to drive a new, swift bus And all stop signs ignore. His boat was geared to highest pitch, His spark plugs working true; His mixture was by far too rich? The Dickens! How he flew! Quick jumps he ever had for all; He knew no slowing down; Right and left the jays did fall, When he dashed through the town. He lived at war with traffic rules; To safety he was blind. He speeded past the public schools And heavily was fined. At boulevards he would not pause, Nor stop to shift a gear; He did not know the motor laws, Nor death nor judges fear. Whene'er he saw a railroad train, His foot stepped on the gas; The great iron horse upon the track Must wait to let him pass. I'hus undisturbed by safety cares This reckless driver ran; And everybody said, "He shares A fool's luck while he can." His speedy bus, at last he threw Quite in the face of Fate; ' He passed a stop sign on the way, But it was just too late. His brand new car now piece by piece, To the junk pile must be thrown; He sleeps at peace with all police, W here stop sigrus are unknown. ?Author Unknown. One-eighth of the school children in the United States live in districts without sufficient funds to operate for the customary term. There are-only 161,000 legally qualfied physicians in the United States. Wants-For Sale FURNISHED ROOMS?Two furnishedrooms -with private bath. Home located in desirable residential section of city. Address P. O. Box 267, Camden, S. C. 7-9 sb. GLASSES LOST?A pair of tortoise shell rimmed glasses lost somewhere on the streets of Camden, recently. Finder please return to Chronicle office. 7 sb. MEN W ANTED?For It a w 1 e i g h Routes in Camden. Write today. Rawleigh Co., Dept. SCE-J20-SB, Richmond, Va. 6-10 pd. FOR RENT?Furnished front bedrooms to gentlemen or ladies. Meals it desired. Ill DeKalb street, t -amden. S, t , 7 pd. ^ ()l R ARE GOING?To need some more fertilizer for your crops. Phew The Southern Cortfv ( Company for your fertilizers. We can njake prompt delivery to your wagons or can deliver truck loads to your farm. The famous Southern Cotton Oil Company fertilizers have been used on this market for the past thirty-five years with ex eel lent results. * 52 tf. FOR SHOE-r?Rebuilding, call at The Red Boot Shop, A. M. Jones, proprietor, next door to Express office, 619 Rutledge street, Camden. S. C. 47-June 1-sb. WHEN YOU BUY?-Fertilizers insist on the famous SCO-CO brand, manufactured by The Southern Cotton Oil Company, and a large stock is always on hand at the Oil Mill. Any fertilizer dealer in Camden can furnish you with this fine fertilizer, or with raw material that we carry in stock. 52- tf. YOl ( AN PURCHASE?Champion Iitand, Old Style and Arcadian. Nitrate of Soda at The Southern Cotton Oil Company. We also have a stock of Sulphate of Ammonia. Phone 54. 52 tf WE RECOMMEND?7-5-5 fertilizer for your Spring garden. You can get same from The Southern Cotton Oil Company?'Phone 54. We also carry in stock all grades of mixed fertilizers, and such raw materials as Acid, Kainit, Sulphate of] Ammonia, Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda. 52 tf. FOR SALE?Dixie Triumph, wilt resistant, cotton seed at $1.00 per bushel. A<klress U. N. Myers, Camden, S. C. .. 5.7 FOR RENT?Very comfortable second floor apartment on Lafayette Avenue, near Broad street, four rooms and bath. Very reasonable rental. Telephone 7, Shannon Realty Company, Camden, S. C. 7-9 sb. I MOTHER'S DAY | The moit beautiful boxes of Mother's Day Can J i t on the market at $1.50 and $2.50; smaller size" ? I 24 cents and 49 cents. Beautiful stationery and toil ? I > i articles. ** ft I DePASS' DRUG STORE II ! Phone 10 THE KEXALL STORE ^ We Deliver Farmers Can Now Have Electricity Under provisions of the newly created South Carolina Rural Electrification authority every community in South Carolina is eligible to apply for a survey which survey is intended to indicate whether the.community is eligible for rural electrification lines or whether it is practical to establish and construct such lines in such community at this time. Everything possible is being done for the promotion of this important work in Kershaw county. A number of communities have requested surveys and most of these surveys have been made and the remainder are in the process of being made now by County Engineer, S. CI. Harris. This is to request and urge every person in the eounty who is interested in rural electrification to notify Mr. Harris at once in case no survey has yet been made or requested in the community involved. Mr. Harris' olFice is in the Court House in Camden and he can be reached either through that office or through the County Agent's office. I consider this an unusual opportunity for our people and urge that we take advantage of it without delay. I consider rural electrification one of the greatest forward steps for the progress, convenience and happiness of our people. Full details as to making surveys and establishment ol' these electric lines can be had by getting in touch with Mr. Harris. To insure action all requests for surveys should be in Mr. Harris' hands not later than May 31, 1035, advises Henry D. Creen, County Agent. Importation of Japanese textiles into America jumped from a mere 30,300 square yards in January, 1034, to over 12,000,000 square yards in January, 1935. . HELPFUL HINTS I A reader claims an equal of lard and .soda made into a jwfl will remove warts after sereraTyM .plications. 1! you use your salt, sugar flour sacks to make tea towels, dpi. B ics, etc., you can remove the leU?.| ing by rubbing thoroughly with Urifl and letting it stand overnight, tkql boiling in soapy water. Mildew stains can 'be removed ufl soaking the damaged article in g^l milk or butter milk for two hoqfl and laying in the sun to dry. Wh<*l dry rinse. Wall paper can 'be cleaned by. cotB ering the broom with a soft clotfcl Hut start with a clean cloth and ktqB changing it so as not to streak ifeB A damp cloth dipped in dry haki^l soda makes an excellent eleaniif^B combination for painted woochnoi* and wall surfaces. B All the better Awnings in I this section are ANCHOR 9 AWNINGS. This is the Awn. I ing Season. See us for quo- I tations. j JENKINS' REPAIR SHOP ] Camden, S. C. , v '9 COFFEE WEEK SPECIALS! ROGERS ; Hot Cup Coffee nL 25cl ROGERS , 9 Santos Coffee Ib- 15c I ROGERS II Gold Label Coffee |b- 19c | Dill Pickles, 25 oz. Jar, 2 for 25c M Stokely's Party Peas, No. 2 Can ? 21c Pink Salmon, Tall Can M 1 Tomatoes, No. 2 Can, 2 for 15c 1 String Beans, No. 2 Can, 2 for 1 f PHILLIP'S H Early June Peas, No. 2 Can Print Butter, lb. 32c B PRODUCE "* I New Potatoes, 5 lbs IjlM 1 Fresh Tomatoes, 2 lbs. ljJ IJLemons, doz. lfo.1 | Green Beans, 2 lbs l?jc | MARKET SPECIALS Fish, 4 lbs. 25c I I Ground Beef, lb 15c I I Sirloin Roast boneless, lb 25c JI Stewing Beef, 2 lbs 25c I Veal Roast, lb fl I Calf Liver, lb 35c fl t __ . j- _ j :