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LOOKING KACKWAKI) Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yearn Ago FIPTBBN YKAKS AGO May 21, 1920 Kln-rifl Grover C Welsh does not have to tftiuke nor in thin Hummer'* ! political tiltIIIpttlgll to HUCCopd llllllH* If I Hi llliH no Olltf oppouillg him. 1 Olio hundred citizen* of Ifagood hoctlon of Sumter county moot with number* or the ('amdon and Ker*haw County Chamber of Commerce to d1? cuhh tho proposed annexation of that section to thl* county. Thoir grlev- j1 anco in that before the proponed two and a half million dollar bond Ihhuo voted by Sumter, they wore promised a paved road to the Kershaw county line, but now that money 1h to be used for a bridge at Garner's Ferry. Robert A McCuskill, aged citizen of , Mt. Olivet hectIon <d county, die*. W C. Shelley, golf instructor l?>r t H the ('airideu Country Club, write*';, upon arrival at Uangeley bake, Maine, || May 1.1th, he found hiiow and lie Jauicb W. Clyburn, hoii of Mr and j Mrs .1 II Clyburn, gets bilToTnTsliipt to West Point Appointnieiit was i made by Congressman W. K, Steven-. fl Hon | ( Saddle and Paddle Club opens bath-L, ing house It |h to be under the man- }, Hgeim hi of I,a wi ener A Klrklaml, The Wateree Prick Company, re- ,j < entl) organized, has purchased a , large body of clay land noar "Mill- n berry." Former Governor Manning buyH the j George W. Waring residence in Columbia and rnovoH family there. (1 llev M. M. PeiiHon, pastor of the H Rapt 1st church, returns from trip to j Washington, I). C. ,1 MIhh Nell Kmutral Glllls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. C. Gillis, uiarrleH j, Adam Team Reams, April 14th, at McLeod's Chapel {] The American Woolen Company, of 1 tost on, has granted a IT) per cent in- i crease to all employee* of their C>0 ( mills ( Mt.vs Kl Isabelh Halle, one of Cam- | den * popular women, who hus been . overseas iiuritig the World War. Ik belt- at the home of her brother, \V. t H llaile, for a visit. t Tin- eongregat ion of Grace episcopal < bun h met at the home of Mr | and Mis. W M Shannon to celebrate > tie- (iiiinh't. freedom. Ciiplaiu Mo til- i lit- Hrailsford, senior warden. burned .lie mortgage. "I'nclo" Horace Reynolds, well* known colored man. marries. The {room is S?J ami his wife, Nancy Haulers Reynolds, is around 1". My ItusincHs Creed What I think about busir.e. s < an be I'xprr.^cd in the following creed which I hmc 11 ifil to follow for I"?f- 1 teen years: I believe: That hoiu-.-ty is not only the bosl, 1 but tlii- ino-t profitable polity. l'hat a business s.ueeeods only as it, serve-. ' That no business can long exist unles> it performs some service either better or more cheaply than any other a Kent. That retaining the business of an obi customer is more important tlian getting the business of a new eust onier. That eourtesy pays dividends regularly an?l promptly. That a business which is operating without a knowledge of its costs is riding to rum. That the best salesman a business ran have are its regular customers. That the greatest asset of a man or a business is a reputation for fair dealing. That the good-will of the employed is as important as the good-will of the trade. That till the advertising in the world will not create a permanent demand for an inferior product. That success in business is . more often won by men who are steady, conscientious pluggcrs than by brilliant ui.-again-otf-again boys. That Miniinui; sen.-e i- the raie-t i "inm, ?:\ on t he market. 1 : i a I .'if c>t iis }?nvw Mote nlran any' < I" u. . ': c! i-f e. !< ; u . not tigh.I our i (iiir.n g ?> -. !?u * ratlici" coo|>e rale wit:, ' IK. l:.a: l.a pj.at. :u lias world go to e w !i as e ? !'<!? i ly. iiidusti ions, fa if at! * t tii'pi : at? I! v Will uun . rt.i. . < ::: t .pperw eld Maga/ane. Legislature Cost About $200,000 K.i.bnch M.i\ I North Carolina's It'.. '< ct-i.i* \ 11 - ss11>11 i ost approve mai' i. ii was disclosed toda;. b> tin- statu auditor s offh o. j \ o-;. : , ; ; r $ 1 7'1.7to. .'.o a 11 i-atly had I ; i i to,lav for personal serve .a i... .,mil!\ Printing hills probai 1 wi'.i swell the session's ex pin-1 ' : >r. Main ooo. vvhil- a lew : e : > 11 - ot personal si r\ iee a n i : ' 11 - will m.i k- u Hill laiger lie - a Oi i a 11 : d IMC, new law s and >oi ul auis. as lompared wi'l: 1 pot i.tw-, , i a 11 t*> t resolutions ground I'M' '; > the la'.'. a>selllld\ 1 .'a i t uie n av <>vt i 'J.ifP'P.iHK) Hoy Sceut- n t.he world. THIRTY YKARH AGO May 26, 1905 l>r W W Mi11h. died suddenly, May J4th lit* had been the beloved pusor of Retheada Presbyterian church 'or twenty-two years Mrs. Alex Hey ward, of .Columbia, a on a visit to her parents, Mr. and >1 iH <V J. Shannon on Halle street. The State Hoard of Kqullizatlon ias made an aaaeaainent 011 the milla ?f Kerahaw county aa follows: Herra(age $ 14?">; Pine Creek Manufaeturlog .'ompany, $225. Scotch flahertrten have introduced kahiiiK boats driven by motors. Mr. Carnegie has given a caat of he skeleton of the Wyoming dlploo( us to the Hritiah Museum, at ConIon. Mrs. Manning Slmona and infant on. of Charleston, are gueata of Mrs. Unions sisters here', Mra. T. J. Kirkand and Mra. Henry Savage. W. ('. Salmond left this week for 'ort Kent. N. V., where he will spend he summer. First excursion will leave June 1, ?r Columbia, a round' trip ticket will ost 7;'? cents. Many expect to take dvantage of the rates to go to the ase ball game, that day. . Misses Jo and Jean Shannon go to efferson to atteWl the wedding of heir brother, Randolph Withers Shanon to Miss Rosa Miller, of that town. Heath Springs has disastrous lire, amage estimated to be $20,000, Johann Koch, of Chicago, murderer if a dozen wives and husband of a icore more convicted. He will be lung from the gullows at an early late. The price of the ordinary Shanglal journtil is one-ttfth of a cent. Many attend tennis matches each ifternooon on Rectory park. I Lightning struck the finishing and J tacking room of the Lion Furniture Company Saturday, knocking off a considerable portion of the weuthertonrding. The holt followed the telethone wire to the machinery room. A MIDWIFE'S LAMENT Occasionally, a midw.il'c drops in for In- writer lo make out sonic "Inuli" itiliratcs. Alter lininc out a heavy [ ensign nient the other day. with twins in the hunch, she proceeded to talk. "You must he getting rich auntie," was suggested. She then countered in this wise: "I wont ?-r borry a few dollars right now to keep my gals' foots off de ground on do way to church." She then proceeded: "I mux in genuIIy gits nuttin", and many a time from do night til de next night can't git a mouthful to eat." She then pur this significant question: "What de name er (laud is to heroine of de colored people in dis country?" When informed that the same conuuidrum was being pondered in vain by two of us. she let drive this informal ion which was not news. I >o you not ire how many of dose poor cliillen nuts he put on de books with no way to show who dev daddy is." Some of our readers may not know that the bureau of vital statistics does 111>t allow tin name of the father of an ilh gitimate child to appear on the records. The supposition is that the evidence is not convincing though the unfortunate and foolish mothers generally try their best to work it in. With reference to the twins she made this amusing statement: "He mus be tryin' to imitate lie daddy." What did tin daddy do?" was ask ed. She thus re.puft.oed: "You never know dai he daddy down on Mr. llussit /.itinTitian place is ih- daddy of 1'. Ii\ in* ehilb ii ami d?* l'lth is on de ro.el 'ciiiin".' others not far behind weiv named And vet some people, ami even a gr>at < linn h. are on ih> w^r path against any harmless method to curtail such trash, and proKoiim e it immoral to help relieve an unfortunate situation. Or lneher in i 'nlhoun l imes Electrification Bureau Established Washington. May 11. ? President Koosev i It to.lay established by exec u live order the rural electrification ad minis! i at inn under the works reliel program with an initial appropriation of $,:..ono for organization. The president reserved tinnounco nit lit of the head of this division I which already has been established by Morris L. Cooke of Philadelphia an authority on power. The great l/nited States govern mont placing its stamp of approva on "dated hot dogs"! ' SUMMER SESSION, NEWBERRY COLLEGE JUNE 11-JULY 20, 1935 Approved courses !<>r renewing and raising teac hers' certificates in Primary, Intermediate and High School grades. Standard courses tor" college degree4 credit Special training in Music, llusiness, Kxpressioii Aide faculty, varied curriculum, congenial atmosphere, comfortable domitory accomodation for men and women, excellent table fare. Total cost, including all expenses, only $42.00. For catalog write JAMES C. KINARD, President, Newberry, South Carotin*. ??????? ???? V ? i Drought In Central West Comes To End < bicugo. May 15.?Why rain should fall hy hutfuls this spring ill the central states, hakcd last year hy the worst drought In history, puzzles even the expfrrts. Cast year rivers vanished, crops wilted and water wus almost a deli eacy, Htock died of thirst on wither* od pasture land. Hut this year, according to W. IV Hay, government forecaster at Chica go, a lucky collision pf air currents over Canada changed the picture May, without much warning, suddenly repealed the drought. The Mississippi today runs so high that In some river towns boats have been ordered to proceed cautiously so as not to spill water over the levees. The Chicago fire department hue bailed out hundreds of city basements. Farm work has been rained out In many places. "The immediate cause," said Jiay, "is thut the polar air currents ami the tropical uir current met, this yeur, farther south. Lust year they were so far north that the precipitation vV-birh resulted never readied the middlewest." Hut both Day and Prof. H. H. Ward, Northwestern university meteorologkist, agreed that it is not known why the currents met at one place tills year and at another last year. Ordinarily, the year thut ends a drought is a year of normal weather, j said Professor Ward. The middlewest's winter and early spring weather indicated, he said, that 1935 would I lie a normal year. Stalnaker Asks $15,000 Damages Columbia, Muy 14.?J. w. Stalnaker, of Ninety-Six, who testified he was sober and coddling u pet rattlesnake, alleged in Supreme Court to day that a group of men who beat him upon seeing the snake were drunk. Stalnaker asserted that the snake, about thri-e and one-half feet long with 14 rattles, was tied up in a shoe box when the men, "under the Inlluenee ot liquor," hoarded a South ern railway train on which he wutakiug the reptile home. The snake, he maintained, had it> poison Hangs removed and was tuck ed salely away until another man pulled it out in the smoker. Incidentally," he testified, tin snake struck the man on the arm, 0 "It didn't bite him?" A. "Well, it scratched his arm." Stalnaker said that later, while Itwas asleep in the smoker, with hi> head on the shoe box in which tin snake was securely bound, lie was aroused hv several of the men, who held him and beat him about the face and head. He appealed from a ruling by Judge (' Dewey Oxner. of Greenville, granting the Southern railway company a non-suit on grounds that no evidence was produced to show negligence on the part of the defendant. Stalnaker asked $15,uuo damages hecause the episode occurred on one of its trains. THE PENITENT BULLIES 1 he electric chair is a fine judge of character. There is a brute courage that urges the desperate to do deeds of violence. They pretend to tear neither God nor man. The acid test is lacing the electric chair. Four desperadoes met their doom last I hurs'lay. Two were electrocuted in I Intitsville. I'exas and two in the Juliet prison of Illinois. They were meek as Moses. All were glad for ministerial consolation. llavmand Hamilton, the chief of sinners, w?- ate told, was so "nervous and ashen pah-" that he narrowly escaped the need of help to assist him to the fatal chair. GouhrnT hravr-iy sraint the gaffs with all their imperfections on their h? ads. They could shoot down their inn... i nt vi< tints like dogs with no chance to prepare for another world, I'1" their courage evaporated when th. tr turns came. It is a great h sson. These dreamy sentimentalists who oppose capital punishment are really .-m-ndes of law and order, Those electrocutions nr.- tie- greatest sat. guards imaginable against brutes and law breaking bullies One creak of th,- fleetrie chair is- worth vol unu-s of sermons and hundreds ol years ot uncertain and mollycoddle r gestures of penal servitude for th.se [ desperate criminals.?Calhoun Tim-s Only Two People Left To Work Washington?Some kind friend has j been circularizing high official.- ol the N'RA with a novel set of statis' tus. There's a catch in the figure.-, hul [the XRA leaders have read them with mterest ju>t the same. The authot ' ha> not revealed himself. Here is the table: r Population of the Unite.: states , ; l' l.iMtpgiof r.bgihle for Townser.d pension 5t),0o0,tkK Hatred from working under child labor act and Working for l*. S dO.OOO.OOt B?'?noe 14,t)00.tKK Unemployed Leaving to produce nation's goods * These two persons, says the anon ymous statistics donor, are "you anc 1 ?and I'm all tires! out." Katns have fallen within the pasi few days in the "dust bowl" of Kan / sas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. Superstitions Not Easy To Erase A modern l>f<>Kuiw<? setting out in hi'urch of a oiun entirely free from siiperHtittouH beliefs would, undoubt illy, huvc cijuul as difficult a time as the old gentleman of ancient Greece who sought the Just man. in spite of the fact that it is generally assumed that such beliefs are banished by education there Is plenty of evidence that, although weakened, I many of them still remain regardless | of learning. One would ordinarily think that a scientist working dally with the exact laws of chemistry and physics and who knows that certain things happen only as the result of certain conditions, or that a statesman well acquainted with the history of the world and who knows that nothing ever happened without a perfectly natural cause could be the 13th ut a table without feeling uneasy, or could unhesitatingly accept the third light for his cigarette from a burning match. Hut usually this is not the c ase. While such persons are, as a rule, thoroughly convinced that no evil will result from such violations of "the rules" they cannot help but feel a certain amount of superstitious fear. An amazing instance of where a prominent statesman felt this uneasiness and chose to rid himself of It by making use of a generally accepted charm is said to have taken place a few years ago in England. Winston Churchill, in addressing Parliament, made the prediction that better days were In store for lfingland. As he did so he raised the corner of the Union Jack which covered tin.- table in front of him and rapped the table's wooden surface. Another wood-knocking incident is supposed to have taken place at an important conference during the World war. As a decision was reached and it was stated which was the best course to follow Lord Balfour reache d forward and rapped the table with his knuckles. Many notables are admittedly superstitious. D'AnnunzIo, the1 famous Italian poet, wore a bracelet of monkey hair which he believed was a good-luck charm. Paden wski. Polish I pianist, considers certain days as very unlucky. Kossini, the composer, afi t r writing the ill-fated Barber of S<'villi, in l.{ days always considered PI as an U'llueky number. I It is interesting to note that in proi t' ssioiis where success and failure . are divided by a very thin and indej finable line, superstition holds a high i place. This is probably the most nolj iceahle on the Stage. Many plays which, because of their quality and j pre sentation, have every right to ex| peel success are poorly received by the audiences, and others with little or no merit are very successful. For that reason many traditional superstitions have been built up. Some <>t the actors and actresses disregard them but as a rule they are closely followed and some of the thespians add le w ones of their own. Charlie Chaplain, for instance, refuses to give I up his original costume in which he first won lane* and Caruso never went upon the stage without his good-luck penny in his pocket. Nearly everlaxly in the business believes that usinu any kind of broom or brush on a dressing room floor will bring hud luck, and for that reason nian\ a dressing room has never boon swept, puth actors and actresses i snare their make-up powders freely with each otln-r thinking that by doing so they will bring good luck to ilu niseis, s and their show. To wear peac es k leathers at any time or recite the last lint1 of a play before the opening night would be fatal, and any cat that wanders in through the- stage door is assured of good food and good treatnn nt. I lie cat proposition, however, is a little difficult for the players. While the animal must he' neither abused nor . vif t.-d, it must not, he allowed to wander out upon the stage during a performance: By doing so it would throw a curse upon the play. lakewise, it any dog or cat belonging to a player is allowed to wander on 1 tin stage during a performance in which its master is taking part, the career of that unfortunate person is forever blight..i. And it is equally eitain that had Maude Adams' over : ben so indiscreet as to whistle in ' her dressing room, she never would have attained the success she has > enj.ued, her red heads not wit hstand5 ing. K\en business is aflected to a cer,ain ? m. nt by superstitions. While ^ there is no record of any business p ?*xe? uti\? sleeping with an ax under his bed io c ure a headache or spitting in his hat at the sight of a crosse\e-il person there is a record of an ^ instance where the sale of a steam. ship line was held up for three days because the day originally chosen for final negotiations was considered un luc k> by one of the parties. Nearly ^ all manutaet in t-rs eater in some way to the superstitious beliefs of the con sinning public and sonic1 have learn ?-ci to the ir sorrow that it is fatal not to do so. A certain concern which ) manufactured toilet articles and y make-up powders for use on the stage j was so unwise as to put the picture of a peacock on the labels used , Knowing the aversion stage folk._ have for peacocks, it is not hard U j Kucss what happened to this com pany. At one time several largt newspapers were put to the trouble t of hiring numerologists to come if . and coin names for many of their ed itors. Peoplo refused to 4?ke ser iously the writing of a person whose* name, when analyzed, showed him to j be fitted only for manual labor. 1, Nut the greatgst surprise comes i with the knowlsdgv that in New York j where, uecordii^ f K the inhabitants, v ".everything is >aev^r?l generations -y ahead of the rest nl^merica," super- t stltion is very notiShftlWy- Many tow erlng office and uparlhn^bt buildings, ,r which pierce the skies dild proclaim ^ the progress of which New York is so v proud, strangely lack their 13th doors.- s Watch a New Yorker as he walks the s street. He thinks nothing, of dodg- j ing in and out among speeding autos c or walking under laden cranes but f not often will he take the chance of walking under a ladder. Take a look t at tin.' dollar-minded Wall Streeter on / the iirst trading session of a new j year, and watch him take profits of a t few cents a share 011 his first turn- { over when ordinarily he would turn 1 up his nose at anything less than two [ or three full points. Not that he is j superstitious but he does like to have , his first transaction of the year a ,( profitable one. j j The origin of the various supersti- I J Houb beliefs has little bearing upon , r their existence among modern, edu- > 1 cated people. The fact that they do J $ exist in spite of good Judgment proves . t that their beginning was Inevitable, j ( if all of them could by some miracu-1 2 lous stroke be wiped from the minds ; j of the people, the chances are that j j new ones would soon be formed to ( take their places. Someone might no- i tice that more good things happened! to him on Monday than any other j day, and another person might slip ( and break a leg immediately after < stepping on a spider. In spite of < sound reasoning such things would | eventually lead to the building up 1 of superstitious beliefs, and in "a J short time each human mind would . he filled to its particular capacity. < Nevertheless, it< is interesting to trace a fallacious belief back and see what caused it. The evil power at- 1 tribute.1 to the number 13 probably j dates back to the time or Christ. At . tin- Last Supper there were 13 at the table and the iirst one to arise and leave was .ludas, the betrayer. 1 In the beginning it is quite possible that, spilling salt caused one's life to 1! actually be endangered. This super- ; stition is thought to have originated in the East, and because of the pecul- ] iar customs in that section of the world in tlie early days spilling a necessary food such as salt could 1 easily he construed as an intentional insult to the host, and the unfortu-nate spiller might pay for his clum- ] siness with his life. Most of them 1 have simpler and more meaningless origins, and others were born because of the inability of the early people to give logical explanations for certain natural phenomena. But regardless of their origin they are all passed 011 to us in exactly the same form? superstitions. Regardless of color or sex we all have them, and while they may vary inversely as to the degree ot education, the point has never yet been reached where they are completely wiped out. Who is there to declare that he or she is not superstitious??The Pathfinder. Justified Johnnie was gazing at his one-dayeld brother, who lay squealing and wailing in his cor. "Has he came from heaven?" inquired Johnnie. "Yes. dear." "No wonder they put him out."? Chicago Daily News. Fair warning is given by a Missouri farmer, who displays this sign en his tepee: "If any man's or woman's oxen or cows gets in these here oats, his or her tail will be cut off. as the case may be." One Phase ?f * Cr?ie I The amazing thing about thatkJ utter "hysteria sweeping tll th 1 Jnited States is not its sudden ** I dosion igniting new centers ffcr $ I vide, but is why1 it exists at all JT I vhere, in any considerable pLi' I ions. w The answer must consider ^ I isychologists call the mass oJJ! I vhich is a state of mhvi in the indM idual making it responsive to 1 uggestions, and causing it t0 imitlu J urrounding minds?the most coal non demostrations 'being panics cay. 1 al by fire and smoke, and the manbl cstation of mobs, as lynching partbiH Hut perhaps the characteristics oil he mass mind are only the sup*r.l icial parts of the new craze sw^fl ng over America, and un<ler them ufl he mass mind prepared for ^ fl iuch a phenomenon by months of | >ombardment by outside influences I For the last three years, the popo- I ace of America has been bombard^ I vith ideas, ranging from those i I he Kingfish, the Detroit priest ig I Dr. Townsend, to the best of the Km I Deal .plans of President Roosevelt I The populace does not, and can not, fl inderstand much about any of the?, I <ood or bad?especially after beiof fl old in millions of words that nobody fl an understand much about then, fl ibout money, about foreign trade, fl ibout .prices control, about increatfl ng employment, or about a score of fl )ther fundamental?* of the new ea~fl n these United States. j It may be that the swift spread of I Die chain letter system?spending 35 I . ents in order to give a stranger dime?is being accepted as only u- I nther thing nobody can understand, 1 but as something worth while try-fl ing, while the brain trust and tie | United. States government is trying fl other experiments in the dark at i fl L-ost of 35 thousand million dollars. I The parallel also suggests thiifl there is no more chance of stopping fl the chain letter insanity, than thttfl is in stopping the spending of biiliou fl of money by Uncle Sam. The chain letter craze seeenu '.<B be running close to the two histori-B cal mass manias, the tulip specuh-B tion in Holland, and the Mississipjifl bubble in France?each of which pufl a nation into bankruptcy, by the wayfl but this 35-cent craze will hardiyH bankrupt this country?Yorkvilkfl Enquirer. fl Down in bloody Horry county. wlwiB a negro tenant did not get off tfctfl place soon enough to please soot-^B people, a fusillade of shots from shot^B guns loaded with buckshot woundff^B tile negro, his wife and two of children. All the wounded were tii-fl en to a hospital for treatment. I^fl shooting occurred on Sunday Three men were arrested, one tfB whom turned states evidence and rtfl released, and the other two were NOTICE TO CREDITORS fl In the District Court of the Unitjfl States for the Eastern District South Carolina. In Bankruptcy. In the matter' of W. Sheorn & Camden, S. C. Alleged bankrupt H Notice is hereby given that tH^B above named bankrupt has filed petition for discharge and tn& hearing has been ordered to be '.'fl ui on the same on the -r>th June, A. D 1935. before this at Charleston, S. C., at 10 ocloc the forenoon; at which time place, all known creditors and persons in interest may appear said time and place, and show c if any they have, why the pray the said petition should not be go* RICHARD W. kHUT8?^| FIRE?AUTOMOB1 LI^JIURGLARY BOND^^S ? DeKALB INSURANCE AND REaT ESTATE ?T I "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" if H CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 M"i <t >1 J M.G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE, M? SI ALL?FORMS ?OF?INSURANCE " gj I City Business Licenses! I | jl All 1935 City Licenses on Busi-H I nesses are due May 1, 1935. PayB I I these licenses during the month of I I May and avoid penalty. I I J. C. BOYK1N, I . I City Clerk-Treasurer of Camden S. C. I