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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE %. P. NILB8.. Rdltoc mmd PaMfrht Published every Friday at Number UM Bread Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina poetotflee aa eeoend claee mail matter. Prtoe pe^ annum It 00, payable In advance. Fridjf^ May 15, 1935 AMERICA'S RUINED ROADS Thia season, an unusual amount of attention Is being directed to the road damage caused by heavy trucks. Re* ports from all over the country cbron* icle the tremendous repair bills the public must meet to recondition Its highways. Here, for example, lu an excerpt from an editorial In the Hlnghampton, New York, Press: "What the overland trucks did to the second-class highways of this and other counties over, which they were routed in detouring high water ... is disclosed in a highly significant survey .by Iiroomo County highway officials. The county and towns will pay a repair bill of approximately $35,000 because trucks weighing as much as twentytwo tons were routed over macadam and combination roads still heaving with the spring thaw. Three bridges must be replaced in hue town; scores of culverts were broken by the heavy loads; the state's new fann-to-m&rket road between Hast Maine and Endwell is practically ruined .... The taxpayers of this state will foot the bill." Comparable damage in many states could be oited, resulting from abnormal use of public roads by commercial carriers. Trucks and buses have a logical place in the nation's transportation system but they should pay for extraordinary destruction they cause to the roads. Modern trucks are almost as large as railroad freight cars and normal public highways are not built to carry such weight. It is unfulr to force the general taxpayer and automobile owner to provide and maintain roads for such ooramercl&l traffic. Over-burdened taxpayers will demand a more equitable adjustment of this situation. ?Industrial News Review. SIX TEAMS JOIN UP IN PEE DEE LEAGUE Oatos, May 9.?At a meeting held hero the Pee Doe League for 1936 was orgaulzed. Members of the league are Bethuno, Lamar, Oatos, St. Charles, Florence and Tlmmonsville. Florence and TlmnionsvlUe being new-comers In the league. It. It. Oaten was again elected president and Cecil Oates, secretary; directors aro: Carrol King, Lamar; E. Y. Matthews, St. Charles; L. M. Hallos, Florence; H. II. Gregory, of Tiinmonsvillo; John Bethune, of Bethuno, and Carl Thomas, of Oates. A schedule of 20 games was adopted with ten games In each hftlf. The season will open Wednesday, Juno 3, and games will be played on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week. Indications are that all clubs will have good teams and some fast ball Is expected. At Bamberg, at the 60th annual commemoration of the stand made by ?Confederate troops against Sherman at the rlvor bridge. President-elect J. Kion McKissick, of the state university. as the principal speaker, told his large audience that the Confederate soldiers are being more and more vindicated in their conduct, character and principles. He. said one evidence of (his Is Heen in the new postage stamps hearing likenesses of Robert h\ Leo and Sonowali Jackson, and the strongest evidence of the patriotism of the modern South is in Its contribution to the Spanish war and the World war, where they fought gloriously. MOTHER'? DAY TERMED RACKET EV CLERGYMAN Now York, May 10.?Wblle telegrams, candy containers and flower boxes were being opened In millions of home* today, a mlnUter walked Into bla pulpit bore and said Mother's day whh a racket aud a disgrace to America. The Kev. (,'harloM Francis Potter, founder and leader of the First HumaniHt society of New York, outlined a plan to abolish Mother's day. His first suggestion was that Mrs. J. R. Hmlth?chosen by the Golden Rule foundation as the "typical American mother of 193$"?be put aboard the dirigible Hlndenburg and sent to Germany. At the time Potter was making his remarks, Mrs. Smith, a kindly, whltehalred woman from California, was being feted and photographed a few blocks away. "This alleged typical American mother of 1936," Potter said, "Is only 35 years old but wears her snowwhite hair iu a bun on the nape of her neck and does' not think ideals have changed since grandmother was a girl, She lives in a small town, makes her own clothes aud those of her children and believes iu spanking with a hair-brush. 8ho refuses to discuss politics, loves cooking and does not smoke, drink or sing. And they call her the typical mother of 1936. They should have said 1906 or 1886. "The sentiments expressed on Mother's day cards are so cloyingly saccharine that I should think any normal mother would feel insulted by such super-sweetneiss. Identical cards are printed and sold by tile hundreds of thousands, reading, "You are the best mother any son ever had.' Could any ^ane woman with a sense of humor and proportion feel flattered by receiving such a stereotyped and fatuous message? "Note that the 'typical American mother of 1936' has for her main in-1 terests church, children and cooking. That Is the Hitler Nazi Medieval type of Ideal women! It is no longer the American type. Let her publicity managers send her to Germany on I the returning swastika-decorated J Hlndenburg dirigible. She belongs there in spirit." I Potter suggested that children should honor their mothers every day rather than wait until the one day in the year selected for them by someone else. "Som echlldren consider their duty to mother accomplished for the year by the attentions they shower upon her Mother's day. They thuB exhibit the same peculiar psychological attitude of those Christians whose church-going Is confined to Easter or those Jews who are devout only YomJ Kippur or these citizens who think of politics only on election day. It is a modern form of laziness. Uetter a regular letter every week through the year than a modern burst of extravagant attention to mother for one day only." j ' IMPORTANT NOTICE | Unless you have signed the Work Sheet for the Soil Conservation Program for 1936, please do so by Sat-1 urday, May 23, as this Is the closing dale for filling out the Work Sheets. It Is necessary for you to sign the work sheot if you expect to get any money In the way of checks from the 1 government this year. In signing the work sheet you are not obligated in any way and after your land Is measured this summer and the committeemen find that you are entitled to some of the money you will get it, on the other hand unless you sign the work sheet now your land will not be measured and It will be impossible to get in later. You may have increased your cotton acreage some this year but unless you have planted all of your base acreage you will bo paid on the base acreage you didn't plant to cotton. Please go to your uearest commit-1 teeinan and talk this over with him j and sign the work sheet. You have I something to gain by signing and nothing to loso.?W. C. McCarley, I County Agent. TO FARMERS Where a producer expect^ tovftpply for the soil building payment where Crimson clover, Hur clover, Austrian Winter poas, vetch, rye, oats, barley, or any small grain mixtures are turn-1 ed under he should got a receipt for the seed used on such acreage; stake off the area turned under in order that it may be readily identified and measured; have a neighbor witness a statement that such acreage was turned under. The statement should also include the date of turning under. The producer should keep this statement until It Is called for at the time of chocking performance ?W. C.J McCarley, County Agent. The 100th hero of the World war to I be awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor, Is 8amuel I. Parker, formerly of Monroe, N. C., now of Atlanta, and J a brother of Federal Judge John J. J Parker, of Charlotte, the medal to be J presented by President Roosevelt this week. r -v- v^T"T" I V r - ITEMg or INTEREST FROM THE LANCASTER NEWS HI* mile* of cotton roen forced road will be built on Highway No, 9 with material furnished by-the government and the woj-k to be done by the atate highway department. Steve C. Williams, resident engineer, says that the six miles of cotton material will be used on the stretch of road from the residence of Rev. Mr. Faile Just on the other side of the Flat Creek high school to a point six miles weet toward Lancaster. * ~r A bill has been introduced in the State legislature by the Lancaster delegation providing for a voting precinct In this county. This bill would take In a large part of the present Primus voting precinct, which cast 166 votes at the first democratic primary In 1984. With the addition of Fork Hill there would be thlrty-Jlght voting precincts in the county. Two years ago the Bell Town, voting precinct was added to the couuty boxes, making it the 37th precinct. For. the purpose of organizing a Roosevelt for Reelection Club in Lancaster county, Chairman; C. Frank Clybum has named the following committtee to serve to formulate plane, arrange fpr speakers, etc., for a county-wide meeting to be held at a date to be named by this committee, at which meeting a permanent organization will be set up: Mrs. J. Reece Funderburk, Mrs. Z. L. Weir, Mrs. H. DeWitt Plyler, Mrs. Ben C. Hough, Mrs. R. L. Crawford, Mrs. James O. Cobb, Toy R. Gregory, L. M. Clybum, Col. Ben C. Hough, E. Clyburn Wilson, O. Roddy Bell. Congressman J. P. Richards has announced that he has requested the Postoffice Department to order an I examination with a view to a new appointment of a postmaster at Lan-. caster. The term of the present post| master expires in June. A bill has been passed by the Lancaster county delegation providing for the issuance of $90,000 in bonds to furnish funds to match federal aid for the school-building program. The bill provides that $10,000 in bonds shall mature in each of the years of 1939, 1940 and 1941, and that $20,000 notes shall mature in 1942, 1943 and 1944. The denomination of the notes was not specified eb that will be left to the discretion of the county board of education. At the county convention of the Democratic Club held Monday morning at the Lancaster court house, C. Frank Clyburn was reelected Chairman and E. C. Mackey was reelected as secretary, while Mrs.. H. R. McManus was elected as vice-chairman. No other nominations were placed before the convention. Soon after the convention waB called to order by Chairman Clyburn temporary officers were selected. These were Mr. Clyburn and Mr. Mackey, who were later elected permanent officers. A credentials committee was appointed by the chairman as follows: R. S. Stewart, Ned Gregory, Mrs. Howard Williamson, Sidney Mahaffey, and Marion Bridges. On motion of R. S, Stewart, it was decided that each club be permitted to vote Its full strength. Delegates elected to the state convention are as follows: Ben C. Hough Henry Bennett, Jr., of Lancaster; J.Craft Cook, of Taxahaw; Claude Thompson, of Van Wyck; C. Frank Clyburn of Kershaw; and M. H. Sills, of Heath Springs. The name of John T. Stevens was placed In nomination by Q. A. Williford, of Kershaw, but he later withdrew the nomination and substituted the name of Mr. Stevens as an alternate. In this manner it was not nocossary to ballot individually on the men nominated as only six men were left In nomination, and the county Is entitled to six delegates. Toy It. Gregory or the Lancaster club prosented a resolution praising the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt and calling on the body to Instruct the delogates to vote for his re-nomination at the state convention. This motion was carried unanimously. B. C. Hough nominated J. S. Wilson for state executive committeeman and he was unanimously elected. After the namo of John T. Stevens was withdrawn there were at no timo more than one candidate for any office 6o that the meeting ended in record time. The resolution offered by Mr. Gregory was the only one put before the convention. Mr. Clyburn called the meeting to order at 10:05 a. m., and at 11 a. m. the meeting adjourned. Furthormoro, a good portion of this time was taken up In the confirmation of delegates by the credentials committee. A white man named Tillman Schumaker was sent to the chAin gang for a year in Orangeburg sessions court for putting a dead dog in the well at the home of his sister. A New York visitor from Iceland, says that there Is practically no ice in Iceland even in the summer, and explain* the tallneaa of Icelanders by arise that thay art flak eater*. ^ v *v r ^ ' ' 1 "' " IT1 Life Sentence Given Kidnaper Robinson r' " ' *' Louisville, Ky? May 13.?Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., last of the nation's major criminals to be captured, pleaded guilty to the Stoll kidnaping and was sentenced -to life Imprisonment here tonight. The 39-year-old former inmate 6t a Tennessee insane asylum stolidly heard the federal Judge, Blwood Hamilton, pronounce sentence immediately after he had replied in an almost inaudible voice, "Guilty, your honor,." Robinson slugged Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, young Louisville society matron, with a lead pipe and snatched her from her home here October 10, 1984. For more than 19 months he eluded federal agents, while Mah&n, Karpls and other major criminals were being netted. Robinson spent most of his time traveling between New York and California. Federal agents said he had spent freely the $50,000 paid him for freeing Mrs. Stoll. He had held her a week in an Indianapolis apartment. Monday night he was caught in Glendale, Calif., and whisked here in a government-chartered airplane. His sentence came less than 48 hours after his capture. Judge Hamilton directed that Robinson be sent to Atlanta federal penitentiary with the usual specification that he was subject to transfer to any other federal prison upon order of the marshal and a guard of federal agents left with him for Atlanta tonight. All seats in the large federal courtroom were tilled as the kidnaper was brought in after a long wait for his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Robinson, Sr., Nashville, to arrive and confer with him and his counsel, B. B. Gabbard and Clem Huggins. The kidnaper's wife, who had started divorce proceedings after she and the elder Robinson were acquitted last November of complicity in the kidnaping, was not present. Nor was the kidnaper's flve-year-old son, Jimmy, who had been told his father was dead. Robinson came in -manacled to a federal agent and with his mother clinging to his arm. The mother who had cried softly after visiting her son before the arraignment, recovered her composure, as did her husband and her sister. The buzz of conversation stopped. A court attache turned off a large fan. Judge Hamilton read the first court of the Indictment, charging conspiracy to kidnap. Pointing^qut that the other two defendants htm been acquitted, he dismissed that count. Then he read the second count, charging that the defendant had abducted Mrs. Stoll and carried her across a state line, and asked: "How do you plead?" "Guilty, your honor," Robinson replied. Despite the quiet in the room, Robinson's voice was so low that Bunk Gardner, United States district attorney, turned jo an assistant and asked what the plea was. "It is the sentence of this court," said Judge Hamilton, "that you be confined for the term of your natural life In the penitentiary." The Judge's voice was calm but his slowly spoken words, in contrast to the kidnaper's plea, were clearly audible. The order that Robinson be sent to Atlanta followed and he was put on a 7:15 (C. S. T.) train for there tonight. Manacled again to a federal agent, Robinson was led back to the marshal's ofTlce. He walked stiffly and stared as In a daze over the brief proceedings that had resulted in a life sentence. Two Men Killed In Prison Break McAlester, Okla., May 13 ?A prison foreman and a convict were reported killed and four others were wounded today In a riotous break of twelve prisoners from McAlester state pent-. I tentiary. C. D. Powell, 50, foreman of the brickyard in which the desperate convicts rioted to start their break, was slain. Warden Kenney said a convict by the name of Robert Dunningham also had been killed. County Attorney W. J. Counts said Powell was shot by a group of the fleeing prisoners and thrown from a ! car in front of a school house nearly i a mile from the prison. The fleeing convicts, none of whom i was identified at once, commandeered a prison truck and a guard's sedan. _Two guards were wounded. Bob Gossott. a guard, was- in a McAlester hoaplta! with several bullet wounds. The name of the other was not learned. . First reports also said two other convicts had been shot by guards during the break. * " Warden Kenny said four guards were missing. He said he believed they were held by the prisoners as . ' i Senator Homer T. Bone, Democrat* of Washington state, says he plana soon to offer a relOTWlon for an la* vestlgatlon of just why the government has a flock of undercover men spying around In the capltol at Washington. He declared that such practice "might lend, itself to the most odious form of oppression and coercion; and might easily become the basis for what might amount to political blackmail." "What is to prevent," he asked on the floor of the senate, "such practices from being used tip coerce members of congress Into attitudes favorable to tbe ends sought by the people who control these undercover operators." Lately tbe suspicion that their offices were being rifled has been epidemic among members of congress, although most of them have been reluctant to voloe their suspicions. .. John Dougherty, Jr. jumped from the Delaware bridge, Philadelphia, to the river, 136 fCOt below, to win a wager of |12. He won, but says he won't'do It again. Tbe senate has passed the 6529,000,000 navy appropriation bill by an overwhelming vote. It is the largest peace-time naval bill' in the history of the country. , , Wants-For Sale FOR RENT?siT room house on west side Highland Avenue. House la good condition. Good size lot. Price $17.50 per month. Rent payable in advance. Call Wm. L. Goodale, Phone 193, Camden, S. C. 8-lOsb FOR 8ALE?A desirable five room bungalow, with bath, for $2,250, easy terms. For furthef information apply Enterprise Building A loan Association, Camden, 8. C. Sab FOR 8ALE?Tomato plants and flower plants, also fresh strawberries in season. Telephone 325-W, B. H. Baum, Highland Avenue, Camden, S. C. ? ~ 7-9pd FOR RENT?Cool, comfortable four room first floor apartment. Large screened porch, shady yard, convenient location. Adults only. Shannon Realty Company, Phone 7, In Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. 8-10sb WE HAVE IN 8TOCK?Nitrate of Soda, Muriate of Potash, 16% Acid, Cotton seed meal, Manure Salts, and all grades of mixed fertilisers. Send us your orders. The Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 4 47 sb NOW 18 THE TIME?To plant your garden. We recommend 7-6-5, which is a well balanced fertilizer for all vegetables. Southern Cotton Oil Co., Camden, S. 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