Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ME CAMDEN CHRONICLE 8. P. N1LBS , .Bdlter and Publisher Published every Friday at Number 1109 liioud Street and enteird at the Oamden, South Carolina poetofTloe aa at < ond claee mail matter. Prloe per annum ft 00, payable In advance. Friday, December 20, 1930 THR HIGHWAY MUDDLI It 1m apparent that a large uumber of good people la this couaty pro strongly behind Governor Johnston la the present highway Hituatlon. Without regard to the Justice or injustice of his flKht against the Htate Highway Commission, we hope "that the thtnktng pectifte of Kerslmw county will t*use and ponder before they go too far In making up their minds. Under the law In South Carolina the governor had the right to rule Hie Highway Commissioners to show cause berore him why they should not be removed from office and if on the hearing before him ho found them to bo unworthy, then he had the right and has the right to issue an order of removal. The Commissioners, as we understand the law, would then have the right to appeal to the courts, retaining their offices, and if the courts should. hold the governor to be correct In his ruling they would then be removed from office and the governor would then have the right to appoint others to take their places?tills, as we understand it, is the orderly process provided by the constitution and laws of ttouth Carolina for the removal of office-holders whom the governor might deem to bo utiworthy to continue to. discharge the duties of their offices. Governor Johnston was not willing to follow these orderly processes, but, without warning, resorted to the military and placed troops in the offices of the highway department, keeping the duly commissioned highway officials out of their offices. They appealed to the supreme court, the highest tribunal in South Carolina. The supreme "court plainly and unequivocally ruled the governor to be Wrong.' They said In so many wordB that the governor far exceeded his authority in attempting to operate these offices with troops and in keeping the duly commissioned officers out of their offices at the point of the bayonet. They said, too, that no Insurrection as proclaimed by the governor existed, UBing the expression that "it was as quiet and peaceful as a May morn", when the governor put the troops iii the state office building. They also hold that the commissioners whom he had attempted to oust In that maimer were entitled to possession of their offices. The governor's answer to the mandate of the supreme court was to put more troops in, and having gotten himself into this muddle, and being determined to keep tho old comiiiiIhsloners out, in spite of the Judgment of the supreme court, and not being willing to follow the qrderly processes of the law for their removal, allowing them .to retain their offices until they could bo removed in that manner, lie redoubled his troops and then called on the legislature to come in and pull him out of the hole. 'J he members of the general assembly, respecting their oaths of office, have declined to take action until the governor obeys the order of the supremo court und restores constltu. tional government, which the governor refuses to do. As above stated, many people are behind him, but we cannot believe that they understand the situation fully. For tho good of South Carolina, and in order to relieve tho tension, we have no doubt that the general assembly is willing to make some changes in the state highway department. but they cannot respect their oaths of office and legislate so long as the troops remain. The governor has spoken over the radio a number of times and has given the people of the state his side of the question. The peoplo have not had the benefit of hearing the other Hide of the question and that is why we are asking tho citizens of Kershaw county to withhold their judgment. It seems to us that it should occur to them that thirty-nine out of forty-one senators and one hundred and eight out of one hundred und eleven representatives could not be absolutely wrong and the governor absolutely right. We believe the majority of the members of the state senate and the majority of the members of the house of representatives are patriotic citizens, desiring to serve South Carolina, and we honor and respect them for doing what they conceive to he their sworn duty in the face of the opposition they have encountered from good citizens who do not understand. NOT FOR 8ALE No one who knows the newspapers of South Carolina will, of course, take seriously the governor's charge that the press has been purchased by tho state highway department's advertising of bids, required by law. Nor, it must he presumed, would the governor have made the charge had he known South Carolina editors may be a perverse and peculiar people. '1 hey may be wrong, as they sometimes are, or plagued?wjth a sense of humor; ihoy may print tho spot cehs and Statements of those who disagree with tlitem -but they are uot for sale.?Columbia Record. Ton persons are reported to have been killed in the crash of a passenger airplane flying from Brussels to Lond?l> j when the machine fell in Kent. England. The plane was operated by thq Sabena Airline, a Belgian concern. One woman was among the victims. When tho machine fell its crn6h wns heard for a distance of two miles. The president has appointed David *J. Davis of Birmingham, Ala., aa Judge for_ the northern district of Alabama, to succeed the late Judge Wil11am I. Grubb. THE ADVANCE IN ETHIOPIA (By Klmer Twitched, noted war cor* v respondent) With the Ituliuii Armies In the Field.?Wo took Makale today after torrltlc ounul and fierce baud to baud placidity. Tbe city fell without warnlug and before we knew It It wan lu our tape. Our men auffered frightfully from lack of excitement and our loeaea through eheer boredom will be heavy. The boya are a bit disappointed. They aeein to feel the city abould have been captured by mall. JLJuura Juat received newa that Uorabal or aome place like that has fallen. The foe, It becomea Increasingly evident la one of the moat stubborn enemlea we have ever met. The Italian troopa ruahed the city directly after lunch. They could have taken It during lunch Juat aa easily. This ia one of the largest unoccupied. towns yet captured. Casualties given out at headquarter uro: Italian loaaea 0 h'thioplun loaaea 0 The advantage in a war of this kind la decidedly with the neuti^l countries. " There are sounds of heavy lighting In our roar. It must be between the war correspondents. Any fighting between an Italian army and an Ethiopian army seems opt of the question. One of our scouts came running back into camp today with a report that he had seen an Ethiopian soldier. According to his story, the Ethiopians aro dark, have kinky hair and go in their bare feet. We are taking such stories with a grain of salt. Adowa?Mussolini's armies took Adowa today. The Ethiopian inhabitants will be notified as soon as they can be located. . (Correction: The above dispatch is evidently a mistake. We took Adowa four weeks ago. -I have Just found. I hat s what comes of taking so many places with so little trouble.) Galurje?The spelling Is probably wrong but this town was taken by the Italian armies in an attack that for sheer ferocity and carnage eclipses everything since the football game between Hose Company No. 8 and the Wire Mill Jjoyn the year both teams forgot to show up. The signal for the attack was gl.ven by guitur at dawn and the forces rushed the town reading newspapers and wondering where the Giants would train this winter. For a time there was no resistance. Suddenly the luck of resistance was doubled. Around 8:15 It was evid^nd that the Italians would have to take the city thiough the greutest and most sustained lack of resistance thut lias so fur been encountered. The commander In chief allowed the armies no rest and ordered them to press on before the Ethiopians 'had a chance to increase tholr indifference.. blush We tooK tntowjev this morning. All that remaihs for us to do Is find out where we are.?By H. L. Phillips in the Charlotte News. THE $3 TAG I8SUE No one doubts for a fourth part of a minute that there Is anything to the $3 automobile license issue other than a purely political scheme,with the end In view of getting votes. As u matter of fact, there is not much'Justice or fairness lu the $3 tag proposition. Why should the poor white man or the negro owner of a wornout Model T Ford, i^ay a $3 license tax, and the owufljfrpf the big licit; Packard. CadilftJBC DaSalleJ Studebaker. the Dodge, Na&itr -ChexM n>lct. Plymouth or Ford V-8 be required to pay only a like amount? The poor man Isn't driving the Model T because he wants to do so. He would rather drive a Packard or | a (adilluc or V-8 and he would <iu just that, If ho could afford the cost of buying these machines, and If he could buy the modern machine, ho wouldn't likely protest the cost of a license tag. If the' legislature wants to do some'thing that will be appreciated by the motor car driver, whether it be a Model T or a Cadillac, graduate the tag license on an equitable and fair basis?weight, horse-power or other-, wise, and then hand the car owner some.-.,real, tangible relief?something he can see and appreciate every day or every few days?see it In a real saving, a real reduction In the cost of operating his car?chip a cent per gallon off the tax on gasoline?make It > cents per gallon instead of 6 cents a gallon, plus the Federal tax. 1 lie daily cost of operating the car thru will be up to the owner. He can count his savings day by day.? N crkville Enquirer. Successful treatment for arthritis with massive doses of Vitamin D, was described in Chicago, this week by Dr. C. I. Heed of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. The physician asserted that absence of recurrence of arthritic symptoms in si* severe cases over an 18-month period "imggPBtr tho possibility of m complete cure." JOHNSTON'S COMPLEXES , Governor chiton's act* end bl? kpoken end writteen statement* ebow that he 1m uffllcted with a complication of what the psychologists term an inferiority complex and what the alienists describe as delusions of Kiadeur ** And, as the consequence, he baa made a sad and costly muddle of administering the office of gover* nor. He appears unable to envision his first and whole duty as the executive of the state, and sees nothing but the possible and desired enhancement of his personal political fortunes as the reaction to his official acta.? Sumter item." "?~~ MUSSOLINI AND THE FROO Why is Mussolini plunging into another war and threatening to drag Europe in after hlmT Well, old Aesop answered that question centuries **o. Once upon a time there was a trots who sat In his - puddle gloating over his own Importance. One day an ox drew near. The frog was overwhelmed by the creature's size. He developed an inferior complex on the spot;, furious that any animal should be so much greater than himself, the frog began to draw in air and puff himself up to make himself as big as the ox. lie swelled to twice the size ot an ordinary bull frog. Then to thrice the size. Then .... Plop! He blew up in a bloody splatter. The ox wpnt back to his grass, wondering what kind of disease had smitten the poor little frog.?Lexington Dispatch. HIGH TONED NEW8PAPER8 As the early copies of the edition of the New York Times for Sunday, December 1, were examined by members of the editortti staff it was discovered that an article contained an indecent quotation from a book, and that there was also a picture offensive to good taste. The entire edition so far printed was destroyed, the forms removed from the press, the indecent lino (fortunately at the end of a paragraph) was simply chiseled out, and the picture smudged over so that it could not be distinguished. That agile weekly, "Time," rather gleefully got hold of the incident and reproduced it, alomg with the offensive words. There, was nothing of any value in the words particularly; they Just said vulgarly what could as easiliy have been Baid decently. They had "news value;" but The New York Times has as its motto. "All the news that's tit to print." This is one instance in which we agree with The Times and not with Time.?Newberry Observer. THE RECKLESS FOOL! Have you ever heard the rattle of a dying man's last breath? Or seen the look of horror in the stare that faces death? Have you ever heard a person scream and writhe, in sudden pain And look down at the mangled arm that will not move again? Or have you heard the moaning and sinelled the stench of gin And seen the gory, bloody gap where once an eye had been? When your car is doing fifty have you ever felt the yen To let'r have another notch 'n do another ten? When a pokey guy's ahead of you have you ever had the thrill Of swlngin' out 'n passin' him upon a dangerous hill? Or have you ever felt the old car scream 'n lurch 'n swerve As you lot'r have the limit while you took a sudden curve? Have you ever seen the wreckage of an automobile crash With flesh and steel made into a morbid, gruesome hash? Have you .ever seen the entrails n fj" the ears 'n arms n hand N hat 'n shoes 'n fingers of what once.had been a man? Have you evor seen the jugged bone stick through a mangled leg And heard the blood-smeared victim pray 'n cry n beg? Have you had the keen sensation of a fast car at your bid 'N run up to a stop sign 'n slam 'en on 'n skid? Did you ever pass a school-yard n give the horn a slam N drive close to a gang o' kids a' see 'em Jump 'n scram? Did you evpr take a quart o' rye 'n swallow four or five 'N take the old bus down the road n show 'em how to drive? Have you ever seen a little child alt crumpled up 'n Btlll? Who tried to run across the street while a car came down the hill? Have you seen men's brains on fenders? Have you seen blood in the street? Havo you seen them stare at the bloody stumps of the things that were their foot? Havo you ever heard the crash n scream n seen the ghastly stare On the face of what had been the driver 'n the rest of the man not there? Morbid '11 gruesome 'n gory this. I'm .sorry, but don't you see, This was not meant to he rend by folks as tonder as you n me. It was meant, for the thoughtless n careless who kill 'n maim 'n mar The reckless fool who is to blame the man in the other car. ? (From Phil RranifT in "The Insurance Flold.") Jean Ellington. 12-year-old child of Dublin. Qa.. Is learning to speak again r after being mute for 10 years; following an attack of diphtheria. City Schools Honor Roll Grade lA ? Htoney Campbell, Tho iiiuh Dempster, I^oonard Hammond, Jimmy Mayer, Paul McDowell, Arthur Seheen, Edward Thompson, Grainger Korneguy, Katina Heleoe, Margaret Brazil, Evelyn DeUruhi, Elizabeth Ann Graham, Susan Huah. Grade IB.?Cecil Bullock, Conroy Bullock, Charlea Elchel, Gilbert Gutnu, Jamea Hall, Jack Harper, Jackie Kareah, Alva Poison, Joyce Bruford. Cleopa Cox. Q?me Elliott, Mary Alice Gettys, Elizabeth Kelly, J Doria Parker. . , Grade 1C,?Floyd Tkreatt, Hay Watta, Margaret Clyburn, Doria Thlgpen, Peggy Godwin. Grade 2A?Tommy Ancrum, Donald | Campbell, John deLoaoh, Harry Gaudy, Chapman Graham, Tommy Little, Ham Nicholson, Henry McKay Norris, Gary Ogburu, Betty BoUp? Caroline McFadden, Mary Joe McManua, LUlls Peebles, Barbura Haley, Katheriue i Hheorn, Virgina Stokes. Grade 2B?Thelma Trupp, Ida Scar! borough, Ernestine Houser, Laura Maekay, Betty Hinson, Billy Wllliama, Edward Thigpen, Harold Mathls, Walter Atkinson. Grade 3A?Wiley Hheorn, Bobby Wilson, Betty Barnott, Janet Lewis, Fay Lomansky, Molly Itedfearn, Joyce Smith, OUle Mae Stokes, Anne Campbell. Grade 3B?Gene Gulnn, Vera Williams. Grade 4A?Jack Boykln, James Creed, Francis McCorkle, Robert Thompson, Jacqueline Davis, Doris Lake, Betty Muller, Vlrgnla Rogers, Doris Hush, Frances West. Grade OA?Joe Christmas, Jimmy Qandy, Jeter Gulnn, Ned McDowell, Billy Smith, Caleb Whltaker, Mary Cameron, Azalee Dixon, Hollle Hancock, Ethel Ann Mauldin, Carolyn Pitts, Odell Harris. '* "r i Grade 6A?Charles Dolneau, Thomas Turner, Artie Dixon, Cary Guthrie, Jane Hoffer, Mary Pitts, Gwendolyn Shirley. Grade 7A?Charles McCaskill, Carolyn Cooley, Retta McDowell, Frances Khame. Mary Smlfb. Grade 7B?Nezzie DeBruhl, Norma Parker. * - . Grade 8A?Betty Bolneau, Voncile Conyers, Marjorie Creed, Phyllis Karesli, Beatrice Kirkland, Minnie Belle Cunningham, Betty Sowell, Betty Gettys. Grade 8B?Herbert Mpore, Follin Watts, Drennan Brown, William Brown, Eugene Campbell, Wesley Pitts, Billy Wilson. Grade 8C?Lee Minis, Billy Pittd, Ida Mae McManus, Ruth Ann Walker. Grade 9A?Frank Hammond, John Carl West, Elsie Redfearn, James J Case, Lottie Smyrl, Myrtle Williams. Grade B9?Aileen Belk, Lorena vanLandingham, David Wallnau, Dally ? Jackson. " j Grade 10A?Beulah Graham, Alva Lee, Paulette West, William Bates, | Jane Clarkson, Mamie Ford, Louise Mlckle. , Grade* 10B?Iva Mae Broome, Wilhelmlua Strak. _ v, Grade IOC?Jack Villeplgue, Jack Richards, Douglas Wooten. Grade UA-^-McKain Richards, Eleanor Kirschner, Caroline Nelson, Mary Elizabeth Pitts, Alma Ward, Carolyn Cantey, Virginia Bavis, Rebecca Rush. Grade 11B?Florence Savage, Harold MeCallum. Mexican diplomats are forbidden to marry into another race. -f . WE WISH FOR YOUR A MERRY CHRISTMAS, A HARPY, PROSPEROUS AND HEALTHFUL NEW YEAR. ALL THESE YOU CAN HAVE IF YOU WILL USE GLADDEN'S GOOD THINGS TO EAT. PHONE 282 WE DEUVER ! * * , . .v . I *' | Linen Handkerchiefs Plain and Initialed I 25c to 50c each I i i ' i i I W. Sheorn & Son I I Thrifty | HOLIDAY I FOODS i - 1 Fancy Home Killed 1 TURKEYS I At A Low Price' 1 II NUTS I I BRAZILS lb. 19c | ALMONDS lb. 29c ? PECANS lb. 25c I WALNUTS lb. 19c ? MIXED lb. 19c X 1 I | ^handmoiksLfUk i ROUND | ROLLS . | 2 dox. 9c S Pullman 20- 4 f|_ H Loaf o* 1 UC Pcd LircU* I COFFEE lb. 19c y Callinyroa I FIGS Pkg. 15c xf Dromedary I DATES "? 15c JW A A P Can I Pumpkin ?10c Cranberry SAUCE 2 17-oz. 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