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ME CAMDEN CHRONICLE M. P. NILBB, .Editor mU PiiMfcM* PubU?h?d vdrr Friday at Numbjr n ou Broad Mtr??t and cnUrtd at th? Oajudau, South Carolina pootoffioo aa aacotid class mail matter. Price par annum 92 00, payabl* in advance. " <1 I II I,I'll nil I II ' -II , "? - Friday, Dacambar 6, 1936 EMPHASIZING THE HOME , (Editorial In Columbia Htate) Atient the frequent mention In our aeciilar and r?liglovu? press relative to tlie mistake of putting too much strosrf upon the Individual and too little upon ' i" home and upon family life, our attentlou haa been called to an - effort reoeutly made in a cut lain city to correct tlila situation, A group of parents determined to face the needs of their community, lu discussion classes they studied these needs for Ave months. At the end of their study they set their conclusions Into a oovenant, agreeing unanimously to follow them. They realized the startling seriousness of the hoipe situation, and yet while stating that they believed they were living In a hotter world than their grandfathers knew, they admitted that with all their modern privileges and comforts their home problems were complicated by the changing social standards and the overactivity and opulence of life. Even their moral meals, they confessed, Were threatened by the reckless speeding of an automotive age, with Its resulting nervous tension, overstrain, and restless, hectic living. "Too often," they said, "we find our lives are crowded with self-indulgence, disregard of the rights of others, and a thoughtless spending of our days and nights In mere sense-level pleasure with Its subtle sexcomplex." Therefore they declared that they would no longer drift, but must make an effort "to reconstruct religion lu our homes, whatever It might cost In curtailed selfishness and Individual preferences." Ho, they pledged themselves to u higher level of home loyalty : To see that they get back to a home-centered and homei-conteutcd life. To muke home a true democracy with mutual respect for personality. To realize fully that such a task Is hopeless without something sacred to tie to; without a faith that life Itself is sacred. To find afresh the high Inspiration to he gathered from the Bible and the world's host literature In the light of modern times. To revive a gratitude for the beauty and wonjEfev or Ttfe, and, at least to bless the family meals with the grace of thanksgiving. To co-operate with the church In striving to magnify the virtues of the home. To rebuild the temple of the home respect and dignity and religion and to carry the sacred flame of these Into "all our home life, making holy all Its work and play, Its laughter and its tears, Its mutual sacrlflcoB, Its inexpressible Joys." It is unfortunate that there are individualistic mothers and Individualistic fathers who are centering tfieir Interests on the outside-home affairs to the neglect of their children. The result is that there are individualistic sons and daughters who recklessly wander too far uwiiy from the beaten path of safety, whereby the home becomes chiefly a point of hasty departure and a reluctant return. No one has a richer gift than the memory of a sacred and joyouB home. ODD ACCIDENTS A man In the Show-Me state has been shown clearly that mules are unlucky. In the hpring a kick from a mule broke O. C. Carpenter's leg. This fall he was knocked senseless by a bolt of lightning which struck and killed the mule as he was riding to shelter in the barn. Few states can claim the hot weuther that grew so Intense lu Okhe homa It caused the glass eye of C. C. McCormiek to explode, sending him to the hospital for treatment. A perfect bridge hand dealt to C. J. Westcott, an Idaho oil man, almost left him with an Imperfect hand In realty. Excited by his good luck he leaped to his feet, caught his finger in a collapsible chair and nearly severed the digit. Candidates for office should make sure voters can spell the name correctly. lu Now York Cyrus Bleakley ponders on the fate which cost him an office by 15 votes because his name was written on the ticket In eight different ways. Any port lu a storm didn't work out so happily for a Kansas rabbit. The bunny, fleeing from a dog, leaped into a grain binder and came out neatly bound in a sheaf of wheat. The dog's owner, D. O. ltupp, had rabbit stew a little later. It was a lucky day for a Bay state man, Alfred Johnson, when his son inspected * the hoof of one of his horses. Around a calk he found his lather's wedding ring lost two years previously. It Is not unusual for autos to collide head-on but ii is a rare occasion when a nimble pedestrain gets caught between them. Such an accident caused the death of James Geary, New York. Fire, believed to have started in a carload of matches, stored among the stock of the Standard Grocery Company. caused damage estimated at more than $100,000 at Burlington, N. C. hi.' W. Rice, Jr., 73, a former president of the General Eleetrte-Company, is dead at Schenectady, N. Y. Kings and other pieces of gold jewelry are among the gifts offered by Italian women -of Toronto, to eld Italy. WITH OTHER I'APBRB 9 ^ <0* 0* ^ ^ ^ *y ^^>1 The trouble Is that we all want high price* when we well and low prices when we buy.?Greenville Observer. Good government always pay*. Of course, the other kind does, too, but not the same people.?New Orleaiis Htates. ' . "Now J eat fried pork," says an advertisement. Bounds as though the party was boasting about his wealth. ?Miami Herald*. t) * The only idea some people hare of getting ahead In this tyorld Is getting ahead of other cars ou the road.? Greenville Observer. ______ / / O Whatever happeued to "the old wastrel type of grocer who plugged every kerosene-can spout with a potato??Portland Oregonlun. Mother will never like football until the players quit making a battering rum of the curly-haired boy she used to sing to sleep In her lap.:?The | Pathfinder. ' If Kentucky can increase her National Guard so that It equals the number of her colonels, keeping the peace will bp au easier chore.?Cincinnati Times. Heal honest-to-goodness dirt farmers are a little suspicious of the fellow who looks at his wrist watch instead of ^he sun when he wants to know what time It is.?Topeka Captial. In arming to the limit all the nations of the world seem to have forgotten Benjamin Franklin's advice that: "There never was a good war or a bad peace."?The Pathfinder. It Is said that Finland's payment of her war debts has resulted In Increasing American tourist travel by 50 per cent. American travelers naturally want to see one of the wonders of the world.?Arkansas Gazette. A Boston psychologist says man Is the only creature that mukes plans for the future. On the other hand, beavers, squirrels and honey-bees may not use much Imagination, but their plans work out'a lot better than most of ours do.? Kansas City Star. MORE TFfrUTH THAN POETRY Keep Money In Circulation Here By Trading At Home. This is an age -of competition, an age where the things that survive In the business world are the things that must prove their merit. Anything that Is useless or inefficient soon loses out in the strenuous race for supremacy. So when you view your successful business establishments in your home community you are viewlug those who have proven their merit and a right to your patronage and consideration. The business field in the small towns, especially, is not exclusive to anybody. The game is open to anybody who desires to enter and cares to risk the necessary capital. Nobody faceH farcer competition on every liund than the country merchant. A dissatisfied customer does not have to trade' ivith him and he knows it. There are the competing stores across the street or next door. Or, if those do not suit there are usually towns within a very short distance that invite his patronage. So the country merchant must find a way to meet these conditions, and lie can only meet them by giving the service, the goods and prices that do satisfy the customers. Most people expect and receive accommodation from the home merchant which they would never receive in a thousand years from the mall order concern. Just this feature of accommodation should be a strong point in favor of tho home merchant, but that is not all. There are the churches, the schools and the various public activities that are only possible because the home merchant and business man is doing a successful business. All of these things are inseparable and If everybody would trade out of town, the town would I decay and public activities would soon cease. There is no way that a prosperoua. town can be maintained and at till same time have a large part of the business of the town sent elsewhere. Many people do not realize what it means to send money out of the town. Of course a few would not matter, but when it begins to mount up to thousands of dollars per month then one can see the vast damage to the town caused by the loss of this liquid capital. The banks find their business curtailed, the merchants cannot carry the stock they sliould. money becomes "tight" and everybody finds it scarce because it lias horn sent away to the everlasting benefit of some big, overgrown metropolis. ?Fountain Inn Tribune. Birth of a Daughter Horn to Mr. and Mrs. N. O. Hall on Thursday, November 21, a daughter, Charlotte Mae. at the city hospital in Akron, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hall were former residents of the Bandy Grove section of this county. the |3 automobile license fee "Let nie give you a lift/' ?ald a salesman to a man trudging along the highway. "I shall be glad to ride," was the reply. v "Where are you going?" he was asked. "To the polls to vote. I am going to vote for ?because he favors a $8 au> iomoblle license tag." "What kind of car have you?" he was aaked. "I have no car." was the reply. Thus )t was that an .Idea takes root and crowds out all considerations save that single Idea. The Idea may be elthe* just or unjust. The voaur-cast* . a ballot with uo thought of other Issues, nor of other qualifications in his candidate, save that he stands for this Idea of his, which for ibe moment may be in the ws-qp dancy. Next election it may be something else, and he may next time vote against the man supported this time. As a matter of fact almost everyone favors a cheap license tag for his car. It will save him some money at the time. But, thefe should he a reason for tliis decision. One should ask what the effect of this cheap tag will be. Can the state pay its Interest and principal on obligations If the amount of money coming Into the state treasury is reduced? Can it maintain the roads that are already built? Can it construct other needed roads eaclj year if its revenue Is reduced by the amount this cut in the price tags will necessitate? Should all cars be reduced to $3 or only certain kinds of cars? Should the owner of a large and high priced car pay the same price for his tag that the owner of an old and light weight car pays? Should a man vote for a candidate blindly who ties his hands on such a question without full information? ~ It may "be recalled that Governor Johnston recently made a demand upon the highway commission to reduce the price of these tags to $3 for all cars and for trucks of a ton and a half capacity. He took over the highway department under a declaration of martial law, and although he had advised owners of cars to refrain from buying, lie found that he could not reduce the price of these tags till th^ legislature met and passed a law authorizing the reduction. The result is that each buyer of a ta? since November 1 has hud to pay a penalty of GO cents for delaying to make this purchase. A legislator should keep an open mind on these questions and decide them after he has come into possession of all the facts. It is all right for the voter who does not have a car to say that he favors a $3 license tag, and to vote for the candidate who says he favorB this. We have no light on Bucli voters. The thing that should bo condemned is for a candldute to- announce his stand on public questions to "catch" the voter. It is perhaps a bad policy for a voter to support any candidate on a single issue. All the issues and qualifications should be considered.?Walterboro Press und Standard. ft CLEVELAND AND ROOSEVELT Afler 24 years of lean pickings for the Democrats Cleveland was elected 1 president over Blaine in 1884. Jn 1888 he was denied reelection, and Ben Harrison mounted the throne. In 1892, Cleveland was again enthroned. Of1 course times have changed, and we are living in a new( age but It is interesting to speculate on the causes of Cleveland's first defeat and the | prospects for Roosevelt's reelection. There is at least one similarity between the two. Botli opposed pension raids. In spite of a surplus in the treasury Cleveland allowed no undue stampede upon it. Roosevelt has endorsed heavy deficits and handing it out in billions. Cleveland vetoed n tiny 10 thousand dollar appropriation for seeds in a drought-stricken section of Texas. That can hardly be imagined now. Cleveland encountered another serious snag that does not apply to the present administration. America, England and Germany had an agreement not to appropriate the Samoan Islands, but all use them in common for coaling and other friendly purposes. Germany reneged and seized a part of the Islands. Kaiser Bill had become Emperor and he urged on the seizure. Matters wore finally adjusted, but many thousands of German-Americans turned the tide against Cleveland In New York, which went for Harrison and defeated Cleveland. In our Judgment the "New Deal'' j In 1936 will decide who wins. While sincerely hoping for Roosevelt's re! election, and believing that enough loose bolts will be tightened to keep tlm machinery humming to success, we realize that the fight will be desperate. The New Age and the New Deal way harmonize and. pull u* through.?Calhoun Times. Fish Supper The Malvern Hill B. Y. P. U. is sponsoring a fish supper Friday night. December 6, at the home of Mr. and1 Mrs. W. J. Denton. Herman Baruoh win cook the supper. Come out and help ht this worthy cause. The price1 will be 35 cents. THI ONLY RCMKDV If auto accidents are to bo reduced, traffic lawa must?be rigidly enforced, without fear or favor. The beat of traffic laws are of little value If poorly enforced. On any day on any road or In any atreet In almost any part of the country can be observed violations of traffic, laws. A bawling out by a traffic officer la no deterrent. Those who violate traffic lawa should be punished and punished eo aa they will fear the punishment. How many times has a son of President Hoosevelt been arrested for violating traffic lawa? The fict that hla father is president should not jnake him immune from a punlshmeht which will be sufficient to make "film respect traftic Iuwb. Many auto accidents are superficially classed as "unavoidable" which (Hiiinot be put In that class by any stretch of the imagination. A case in point: A driver attempted to rush his car past another on a curve and under the brow of a hill. At that place It was impossible for him to see whether or not a car was approaching from the direction In which he wus going. There was a car coming in that, direction. Result: Three cars piled' up together, all cars badly damaged and several people hurt and one killed. And the coroner's Jury | classed that accident as "unavoidable." Even one grain of sense would have enabled that Jury to know that there would have been no accident had the driver who violated traffic laws at that spot obeyed them. A traffic officer stationed at that spot could see any day a number of drivers taking the .risk of passing cars there. They happen not to meet a car coming in the opposite direction and so there is no accident. 1 hat s luck. But, drivers should not rely on luck. It does not always attend fool drivers. If a few of thoBe who try that stunt were arrested and fined a hundred dollars, with a Jail sentence alternative, and shoul$ have their driving licenses suspended for six months, with severer punishment for a second offense, that would create more respect for traffic laws and more obedience to them than all the newspaper articles, radio addresses and speeches, plus exhibits, which may be used in a drive to have safer driving. As long as fools do not have to really pay for their folly, they will continue to Indulge In it. But even fools can learn the lesson taught by rigid enforcement of traffic lawk.- Until that lesson is being regularly taught, the toll of deaths and injuries from unto accidents will continue to rise. What does a fool with two or three drinks in him care for an occasional fine of five or ten dollars for violating a traffic law? Such "punishment" makes the law a joke- to him.?Greenville Observer. CAUSE FOR TEARS We saw one of the saddest sights on God's green earth at the football game the other day. No. it was not the crippled lad, so helpless, with limbs bent and twisted, that friends had to lift him to the stands. No. hla happy smile and clear eyes fprbade weeping there. - Nor was it the old gentleman, deaf, and with legs bowed with weakness, who was carefully led to his waiting car. Nor yet the big guard who crumpled on the field with an Injured ankle, and whose face, as 1i1b foot was bared and the injury treated, was contprted with pain. Not this, for there was but a hurt to the flesh; no bruising of tire spirit, and he was soon In the running again. Not even the pathetic little lads with tattered sweaters, with pale dirty faces and chill bare feet, overflow from slum neighborhoods, that somehow manage to get in for almost every game; and whose cheerful poverty and pitiful neglect dp wring the heart, can take rank with the really depressing spectacle that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of persons observed. Staggering, giggling, maudlin, with reddened face and tousled hair, with half-glazed eyes, a girl straggled down the steps on tho arm of a male escort, himself as unsteady as she. There were ripples of unthinking laughter at their uncertain progress. There were Jeering calls when the pair fell down. No one seemed to know her, certainly no one would admit that he did. But she was to all appearances not a disreputable woman In the accepted sense of the term. Somebody's daughter, somebody's little girl, somebody's sister, maybe somebody's young wife. So drugged In sense and senses as to be lost to all ordinary decency. A hideous mockery of all that one looks for In young womanhood. A drunken woman, especially a young one, Is a sight to start the tears.?The State. GET A RADIO Pardon me for some advice. For I would suggest that the family pool their Interests and purchase a good radio for Christmas. There Is nothing that ever went Into a home that is more instructive and entertaining. I've observed entire families who've had their vocabularies improved one hundred per cent and their outlook on life likewise enlarged. There's no reason whatever to remain Ignorant or backwoodsy when with the turn of | a dial a liberal education may be had for child or adult. I've learned that radios may now be . had, with batteries for country homes, that are very satisfactory and economical to operate.?Monroo Enquirer. ! ?????????? INDEPENDENT MERCHANTS ARK NOT INOOMRKTENTK Proponent* of special tax laws designed to curb the "chain store aril" axunt, consciously or otherwise; have a rather poor opinion of the Intelligence, ability and aggressiveness of lndependent merchant*. w 1:1 ntti All euch tax laws aye, predicated on the principle that the chain atore offers unrneetable competition, that it is slowly but surely forcing Independent merchants out of business, and that, in the long run, gigantic chain combinations will possess a virtual monopoly of the food, drug and meat business of the country. If this is true, the American lude-, pendent merchant Is a backward specimen Indeed. Portuuately, the facts | demonstrate conclusively that it Is not true. The progressive Independents can and arc giving the chains competition ?and plenty of it. Many of them have banded together into large buying organizations, which permit them to offer prices every bit as low as the chains can offer. Some of them, by virtue of the fact that a small business can often eliminate many expenses that are' an lnescapble part of a large business, have actually managed to undersell the chains. Others, by giving their customers special services, or by stocking a wider range of luxury goods than do the chains, keep in business, and make money. Still others are developing adVertlsing and display methods that are firstclass business getters. The American Independent merchant la not an Incompetent. Nor does he need laws that unfairly penalize his competitors to keep his business going. It is a statistical fact that, during recent years, more chain stores than independents have closed ?a large number of them doubtless went to the wall because competing --? .. i . i m.a independent merchant* made the go lng too rough. ? Every efficient form of fetaU merchandising has It* place. Laws that penalise one form to favor another, must, lu the course of time, dkmage I everyone concerned.?Industrial NewsReview. Mt. Pisgah Baptist phurch There will he service* at the Mt. Pisgah Baptist church this coming lord's day as follows: Bible school at 10 a. m.; - Church worship at 11 a. m.; B. T. U. at 6:80 p. m. A series of Inspirational services will begin Monday, evening at 7 o'clock, and continue through Friday evening. A different minister will spe^k to the congregation each evening. The primary purpose of these services will be for information and inspiration. J The public is Invited to worship with us.?Luther Kinght, Pastor, ' - . 11, , ' ? Rotary Club Notes Rev. Douglas McArn, Chairman of the Christmas. Seal's sales for Kershaw county had charge of' the program at the Thursday' Rotary Club meeting. He introduced Miss Mary Kimbrell, formerly of Fort Mill, who has charge of the tuberculosis work of*the county, and she told many interesting facts about her work among the school children and the fine results of the' work., She also touched upon tubercular work among various families of the county and other interesting phases of anti-tubercular activities. Dr. John W, Corbett also made a talk on the tuberculosis situation from the viewpoint of a practising physician. The visiting Rotarians were: J. F. Stuckey, Biahopville; Tommy Scaffe, Spartanburg; R. S. Lafaye, Verd Peterson and Joe E. Timberlake, of Columbia. The guest visitors were Paul Lyman, of Darlington, and William Garrard, of Camden. Mr. Garrard recently came here to take charge of the publicity work of the Chamber of Commerce during the tourist season. - He" has charge of publicity work for the Shanendoab Valley in the summer and helps with publicity at Miami Beach in the Fall. ; Getting Up Might* If you suffer from Getting Up Nlghta, Nervousness. L?g Peine. Swollen Jo.nte. Dteslneee. Headaches, )<om of Pep. burning, Smarting, Itching Acidity doe to functional Kidney or Bladder trouble* try the Doctor's guaranteed prescription Crete* (Slas-tex). Must bring new vitality In 41 hour* and satisfy completely. In 11 days w money baric, Guaranteed r?W "t Mia only So * done at drnggleta. _ ? ?;? . 1 1 "i~^'^^^^?gwBBeaeaB8!aa? ^vTsit Our TOYLAND 4 ) Gift* to delight and instruct the ? liiU / I L Tr The Corner Book Store \ 1 "v / } Books Cliristiiuu Cards Mgpolties '? TONA ? : PEACHES 2 88 25? SUNNYFIELD OftTS 4 REG PKGS. 25c I POPULAR BRANDS 11 CIGARETTES Package 15c (tax Included) COLD STORAGE EGGS ? 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