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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE 1 y7~I). N 1 l.KH . . Kditor and I'ubUwher | Published i vory Friday at Number j 1109 Broad Street and etilered at Ui? tjamden. Houth Curolbia ponlofNe# ?? \ rlana mail matter Prlo* t>? uinum )} 00. payabU* in advance Friday, May 22, 1936 AN INVINCIBLE ARGUMENT Kvnrv bill leveled at our railroad* having it tendency to increase their ^ operating expense should he con ^ detuned by the public whom the) ^ serve." says an editorial in 'J?e Grain men h Mirror "We do not advocate ^ this as a brief for those enguged In , this mode of transportation hut as an ( argument aKalnsi government owner- ( ship and operation t)or railroads ^ stand as a first line of defense aKainsi ( those who would hoi lalue Industry ^ and if tltis first line Ih taken ft may ^ lead to state socialism, carrying with ( ft the hope of every prop, rt) owner, in these I'nited States Instead of in |( creasing the handicap under wltl< It j ^ our rail'ioad* mu-t opeiati\ why not , ( regulate lompellUK agetn t< S of trans I porlaifi'ti. pltu ing 'them under the ^ same rules -and regulations us those ^ governing the railroads" The public ^ i hen will eet the henelll of competition on Its merits." v Many advocates of Idlls which would ^ add to the expense of railroad opera ( tioti?su'h as train-limit laws, the law to prohibit railroads from discharging , omployes without paying excosBive ^ compensaltoil, the full-crew law and ^ others?are likewise advocates or gov- ^ eminent ownership. it is certainly obvious that if the railroads aro leg ( islatod into bankruptcy, making it tm possible for private ownership to car ^ r> on. there will be but one thing that ] could he done -and that Is for the government (taxpayers) to take over. It would be difficult to Imagine a ( greater national calamity. To condetail and purchase tin* railroad Industry would cost billions. Hundreds of millions would be lost In taxes. IJu- ^ less precedents are wrong, a government ownmi railroad industry would undoubtedly create gigantic deficits for the taxpayers to meet and Inevitably reduc? efficiency und lower sljiudards of service. The experience of the Dominion-owned Canadian National Railway system, which itas sus tamed deficits year after year, is evidence of what we could expect. When lite Graiutnun s Mirror sayH all transport agencies should be equitably regulated, thus putting coinpu titi.'U on an absolutely fair basis, it puts up an invincible argument. That not government ownership, nor dangerou-. expensive and d?-st rut live legisliilion -is the solution to the rail road problem. LEARN TO 3AY "NO" Did you ever think what gullible -in kers we voters are? We know the stork doesn't bring babies We know the magician doesn't really pi< k money out of the air. We know water doesn't run up hill. Hut we never set-in to learn that po luteal magic is no different from siage magic, except the price ol admission is more. A good politician can make us think lie picks money out of the air just like a good magician Hut wljile the politician holds our attention by promising to gi\ c us son), thing lot nothing but our vote, his hand is in our pocket akltlg <'Ut ?'ur tnonev taxes* to pay tor his ' gift." I tiles.- we teat It to say '111) tot he tempting "gills" ottered us. the po I litn.al magic tails will premise us a j tree tin* to the mo.,it with a gulden i h.u iot to rni'' in wli.-n we g. t there out !> the time we arrived, we vs.mid. ha v. long white whisker-* and the, pawn bfok.-r would have the chariot . a to! ju ohabiv our return trip ticket) .jie tax lp-n the politieal iliagonitis ?,i. turn against its FOR MAGISTRATE the I S-n. ael'ill u voter- Ot DeKa: b i owlish1, p At tb*- sole itatiou ot inv trietel- in l aindeu and over the l ow tiship 1 hereby announce myself a> a candidate for the office of Magistrate tot Deha.b township in the ap proa, hittg primary II numiiiaUU and elected. 1 shall endeavor always to disihatge the duties of the oil iee faithfully and to the -at i.-ta> t ton ot tin- people 1 shall be .? low to i-11< warrants, except in the 1 ases where the ends of Justice .I'-inands it and will >o conduct the otti.e that haf'iovv and good will u.ay prevail t hanking nit It I* t.'i- tot their kind j .I.>rat toll. ' am H- - p.-l t tillv M 1. iltl't'Ki SMITH For House of Representatives t rati, Yet. :- of Ker?t...w > I h-Tchv announce try- 1 c ( I * .? r"-. "rt r4 * -4 ~ rv f Of th'% H******** (?f t Kept . -' torn. Kershaw -in* i \ s, c.'' 1' i Una <nb j. e ?* : !) rub - . >' 1 > -no. ra" ; : : ll.tl rv . ...- " , \V ; 1' t '1 l'i 1 i.,t.- >oiii .-.pport St It I e! iv yours. 1 K KICK FOR COTTON WEIGHER I her**by annoiiiu o myself as a . andid a to lor the postuon of gjfton weigher at Camden, subject to the rules of the Democratic prtniarv and will appreciate your support. A. D. MchKOD lakes A Fool To i Write A Prize Play J New York A ^0-yourold former i iuMtii't ? 11f i< who thinks a play wriKht must be "HOiiii'lhiliK <>f " damn fool,' ja lias writu*ii the year's Pulitzer |>t I/O . " winning play. lie is Robert I*. Sherwood, and his,'1 11.1 in a. inspired h> those "lalso pro-I phets " who Insist war Is inevitable, j H is Idiot's Delight," u satirical conRun nut ion of men who think only in 1 t-rtns of munitions and iiiarchinK foot. * The play itself, <1e<Ucttt?d to and 1 <tuitiiiK the hunts is bttxiucud hy the 1 I'liejiire kulid. Its act\ott takes place 1 n an rrri112>ii resort in Vhe Alps, eloao ' 0 the Austrian border a^d eoncerna I1 in American vaudeville "hrio/or^ who s tourltiK "the Balkan circuit'* '\vtjth a ' xfvy of Broadway blonds, a German 1 icietit 1st who Is perfecting ti cancer " tire; a iiiunltIons czar who stlinu* * ates business by urging huge arnia- 1 ileitis upon dfstrustful nations: a 1 negade Kii'in htnan who has become nilitantly communist ie; and a glum-J irons pseiulo-Kusslon princess wlth|' \hotn. years before, the American j 1 aitdeville hoofer has experienced an ' v 1 Halt u As the curtain rises the "next world i' Mir" broke out, and the characters, jH til able to cr<;8H the border, are tossed | k ogether for a night at the Inn. Before the curtain fulls on the linal ' u t, which Is ostensibly 24 hours later, he communist has boon executed be- 1 ause of injudicious remarks; the sol- 1 utist bus announced his cancer ex- f lerlments and heads for Germany so ' hat his talents may be directed to- * ward germs that will kill enemy sol- 1 Hers; the munitions magnate tunilngly arranges for his Russian inls- 1 ross to be "disposed" of because she < ias revealed her contempt for his love 1 ;if carnage and the cold commercial- < Ism of his views; Italian planes have 1 bombed Paris and the vaudeville < hoofer has coaxed a confession from ' the Russlun that It was she who knew him back in Omaha, Nebraska, years before. ; Then comes reprisal from enraged 1 France. A swarm of enemy planes '> swoops down on the huge airdrome near the tavern. All have fled except the American and Ills reclaimed amorobu. As the hotel is struck and the huge glass windows crush, the vaudeville hoofer leaps to the piano. With a leer he plunges into the strains of "Onward Christian Soldiers," played in ja 'ft. time, while the earth shudders under the thunder <d bursting bombs and antl craft Much Building j In The South; Baltimore May 2 Building construction and engineering contract awards in sixteen Southern states totaled $;tl 1.405,000 during the first four mouths of 1P36, a gain of 117 per rent over it similar period last year and the greatest 1n the past ten years, the Manufacturers Record said today. Awards aggregating $78,210,000 in April represent a live-year high, the magazine said The April awards showed a gain of more than 20 per t ent compared with the preceding mouth and of 127 per cent compared with tlte April. 1025. figure. "In the resumption of construction te nsity the South, us in 1021. Is pointing the way," the Manufacturers Record -oiid "With building work in< teasing ttt volume, every line of business will begin to feel the effects of' tlw new flow of money which the pur- j i ha>? ot i oust ruction materials and > iiuipnietu and the employment ot { const ruet inn craftsmen develops. No greater demonstration ot faith in the states troiu Maryland to Texas mid in the future of tile South can found than the investments being made by nationally known institutions mid local interests in new and expanding building and industrial enterprises." The magazine said the outstanding development in the construction Industry in the South last month was tin- i etnarkable nut ease in dwelling, apartment hous,- and hotel construction." Awards for dwellings, included a number of major housing projects financed with fecit ral aid, rati to fa,Iomi which the magazine said was an all time high monthly total for this | class of ceii -11 m t ion These awards! brought tin- January to April figure to! fx.57y.000. \ pur: incut house and hotel coll , ?: ion contracts m \pril were ft.072.ui)u. .lust short of the awards of ." o b>r s'.ti li operations in the vx % !?r? * i. ; i :I. m.for uleti :.i; , 'ii>' r. ' II>I: \ <:< d $11. "vm Rcvval At Bethune \mii are cordially limited t.? atteud i.v;u si , v it i s at ilie Methodist l-i't.- ? (>ul ( hut , Ii. 1 a-thuiic, beginiimg M i.uay* evening. June 1. at k:l7>| ii din k Rev Wood row Ward, pastor of the Fiist Methodist KplsCOpal J church, of Bennettsvillc, will do the preach lift! Rev. C. S. Floyd is the regular pastor. ?3 Southern Cooking Praised By Smiths' l Ik- out).mild gastronomic journey f Mr and Mrs. Uvvcrly Smiili, who ih? jr wuy through every section f lh?* C tilted States in search of outtandlng native dishes ami dellcasiea, us Just boon brought to a close in <oulslanu after a swing through the tales of the deep South Reporting on the final leg of their asting trip, in lite June Issue of The inter lean Magazine, the Smith wax hapsodic over the food they found in he Carollnas, Georgia, Florida, Kenucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and -ouialaua, and end with * paean of raise for the cooks of New Orleans. It took Mr. and Mrs. Smith a year o sample the hundreds of recipes hey found in covering a distance allies! equal to once und a half around he world. And most appropriately, hey chose to close their adventure in he South. Southern cooking!" they exclaim. V\ hate eulogies have been pronouncd, what crimes committed, in thy ante? Some say it is tin- best in the vorld. some say it is the worst. Moth re not far wrong. A lazy and trifiug Southern cook, turned loose with t frying pan and plenty of stale ;rca.se, is a modem Borgia. But good Southern cooking. Alt, that is someItiug else. It has in It the cunning seasontig of the French, through the Hugit-nots of Charleston and the French antilles or Ixmlsiana; the fire of *pain, drifting up from New Orleans md Mexico, und the dark magic of he African. "The colored cooks of the South are he only hereditary cooks of America, omparable to the great cooking famlles of France and Austria. In America. the white cook, if a man, yearns 10 sell autoa; if a woman, dreams of opening a beauty shop. This is swell for ambition, but hell on seasoning. "I he colored cook, for better or worse, Intends to cook all her life, und likes It and rals<3d her little girl to do the same In this way a lore und a tradition develop and are perpetuated. But something else is necessary. The colored cook cannot and will not cook well unless she has a mistress who understands and appreciates her. It is when you have this team, working harmoniously and happily together, that you learn how good Southern cooking can be. "Our task of searching out the good things of the South was lightened and made pleasant by the attitude of tlie Southerners, who. one and all, regarded our tour with enthusiasm. They went to unending trouble to help us 11 nd what we were seeking." 1 he Smiths started their Southern swing in North CamlTna, from which they emerged withfa song of thanksgiving for an oyster "brush roast" at Wilmington, Sally White cake, and beaten biscuits at Chapel Hill. Moving down to South Carolina, they stopped in Charleston for sweet potatoes cooked with orange, okra soup with corn sticks, shrimp pie, peach leather and chicken pilau. But Charlestonians, they found, reserve their greatest reverence for rice. Dust Being Blown Causes Brown Snow Winter duststorms often cause "brown" snowfall in regions far distant. By analyzing the dust, soil chemists of the t'nited States Department of Agriculture sometimes are able to determine the region in which it originated The> found that dust in the "brown" snow, which fell in February oti New Hampshire and Vermont, probabh got its start in Oklahoma. Texas or Kansas ? states about 1.K00 miles away. Dust that discolored tinNew Kngland snow showed the proportion of lime that distinguishes southwestern soils. Weather Bureau observers estimate this storm deposited e 1 pounds of dust an acre -or In tons per square mile?in the area where the snow fell Every 10 tons of dust included 1.0S0 pounds ot lime, the chemists estimate SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS A Mil has passed the legislature permitting Aiken county to sell its present county home property and for the pun base of a more suitable site Iwn were drowned on Sun ila\ near Anderson, l.ee Sheppard. ag d 21 of Greenville. In the Saluda fivi r. and Clyde Waters, aged 10 v *' !' > at }! igh Shoals v.irb-- I-a whom, a four year.old h..\ fa* ally s< aided, when h?- fell 1 .u t\ w ards ill! . a washboibr. a- his .if 1 * !/ r lie liv d fr e>; l'r: d.i> -? Sunday in an Ador??n h -p.'a! iI-.j.iKk ..r. Mi ami Mr- \V I, I .a whom A' Caffuev. on Sunda\ morning, "u homing pig'-ons wore liberated to fly back to Baltimore, and next Sun day 2 oon birds will bo released at the Southern railroad station at <;afTn?-> to fl> the r>00 miles to Baltimore, in a race, which normally requires about ten hours for the flight. General News Notes Great Britain has asked ilie United States and Japan for periniftttiou to exceed the destroyer tonnage limit in iIn- 1930 three-power naval treaty The IJritih)i house of lords has passed a I'll) abolishing the right of lords to trial by their peers. The bill is now in the house of commons The Packard Motor company is paying its stockholders a cash dividend totaling $2,250,000 on July 1. The company paid a cash dividend on February II, of $1,500,000. Senator Overton of lamlsiana, is asking congress for authority for the Louisiana highway commission to build a bridge across the Mississippi, toll or free, at Baton Rouge. President Roosevelt is reported to have told Senator Harrison on Tuesday, that it is up to congress to determine the methods of raising the rovenue he has requested. The commissariat for internal immigration of Italy, has prepared a list of 200,000 Itluian families to be sent to Ethiopia to colonize that country. Tin- list of families -includes approximately I.OOn.OOo people. Lloyd Cowell, IS, farm laborer, confessed at Caro, Mich., and pleaded guilty to slaying his grandfather, Ralph Gerou, to rob him of $15. Life imprisonment with hard labor was ills sentence. Families are migrating in great numbers from their homes in four northwestern Brazilian states, bocause of one of Brazil's fatally recurring drouths has parched grazing and farming lands. Br. Buck Ruxton died on the scaffold of the Strangeways jail, Manchester, England, Tuesday, for the murder of his wife and her maid in the "Devil's Bathtub," several months ago. Ruxton was a Parsee physician. Senator Hayden, Democrat, Arizona, on Tuesday introduced an amendment to the $2,364,229,712 relief-deficiency bill, to appropriate an extra $700,000,000 for the public works administration. Ronald Parsons, 50-year-old authority on antiques, was convicted of second degree murder at Charleston, W. Va., for the mutilation slaying of Dorothy Fee. He was given a sentence of 18 years. Following nearly two weeks of Pacific maneuvers. Admiral Reeves, declared that the United States lacks enough ships for safety and will not have enough ships before 1942, according to present building plans The house of delegates, representing 102.000 physician members of the American Medical association, meeting at Kansas City, Mo., has formally disapproved birth control "propaganda." It is announced from New York that the Pan-American airways may start a regular passenger service across the Pacific before the end of the year, with stopover privileges at the various bases. Congress has authorized the war department to lend blankets and cots to the reunion committee to be used by Confederate veterans, when the annual reunion of the veterans is held at Shreveport, La., in June. The naval treaty signed by the United States. England and France, has been sent to the senate by President Roosevelt for confirmation. Hearings will he held by the foreign relations committee, before the senate is ready to vote on its approval. Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, addressing the congress of Parents and Teachers at Milwaukee, declared that the purpose of the schools In a democracy is to provide the nation with leadership and popular understanding, j Kenneth Seaborn. 32, a negro boot! black, had a narrow escape with his j life from a Now York mob on Monday I after he had assaulted and badly beaten a crippled white taxi driver. Only quick action by the police saved the negro from being lynched. Frederick H. Field, an army deserter was convicted on a murder charge i nLondon, his victim being a woman, aged 19 years He said he killed the j woman, "just because I wanted to . murder some one " Hanging will be his portion j The appellate court of Illinois, has brushed aside an injunction, which I had set 90 cents as the minimum price i for cleaning a dress or suit in Chica; go. The opinion says that a court j of equity cannot limit free competition in that manner. Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida, , has announced himself as a candidate j :or the I nited States senate, to suc| - cod to the unexpired term of the late Senator Park I ranimell. Trammeli's Mice-US. r Will p;obahi> be named in ! - primar* P? r \ n II <rn. president of the National F. ration of 'L'vTTlcs. inc . < urging industrv to wake up" and ano'her disastrous yoar op? mtstig Ho. pi. a is ? onMined ;n a btter circulated f}-e ndustr> fr<on N? \\ York A department of agriculture osti, (mate this week indicated a winter wheat yi.-hl, as of May 1. at 463,708,bushels as compared with an Indi1 sted yield on April 1st of 493.166,000 bushels Last year's production was 433,447,000 bushels The Tipton county Negro Republican convention of Tennessee, Is on record as endorsing the administratlon of President UooHOvelt and promising uupport for him for re-election. The Chicago and NorthwesternUnion Pacific railroad on Sunday ended its first trip of a streamlined train from Chicago to California, cutting 20 hours from its former schedules. James V. Miller, pioneer airplane designed, is suing the United States for sums totaling close to $100,000,000 claiming infringement of patents by the army and navy. Wants-For Sale FOR RENT?A five room house on i West Laurens Btreet. Apply to M. j H. Heyman, Camden, S. C. 9-10pd FOR 8ALE?Fifty bushels Osceola Velvet Beans, well matured at mar-j ket price. Newton Kelly, Lugoff, ; S. C. 9 pd. SCHOOLS?Have your piano tuned for commencement exercises. Twenty years experience. Reason-; able charges. 'Write C. H. Curtis, ! Sumter, S. ('. 9pd. j SELL YOUR HOGS, Tuesday, i May 26, 1986, through Sumter County Farmers' Ex-! change, Sumter, S. C. You \ get your money soon as the j hogs have been weighed i and graded. We save you the drift and freight. Pay j one cent under Richmond market. For this service we charge only 3 per cent commission. Sale will be held; at City Abbattoir, Sumter, S. C., 7 to 11 a. jn., Tuesday, May 26, 1936. Advise us by wire phone or mail by Sat-' urday number you expect to ! bring. Let us save you mo-.! ney and time. lti FOR RENT OR SALE?Furnished seven room cottage on Kdisto Beach, suitable for boarding house. Five bed rooms, two baths, two showers, large dining room, all newly painted and worked over. Near causeway. $35 per week for season or write me if interested in buying. P. O. Box 726, Sumter, S. C. 9pd FOR RENT?A five room furnished apartment in desirable location. Telephone 278, Camden, S. C. 9-llpd FOR RENT?Six room house on west side Highland Avenue. House in good condition. Good size lot. Price $17.50 per month. Rent payable in advance. Call Wm. L. Goodale, Phone 193, Camden, 9. C. 8-lOsb FOR SALE?A desirable five room bungalow, with bath, for $2,250, easy terms. For further Information apply Enterprise Building & Loan Association, Camden, 8. C. 3sb FOR SALE?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. Shan non Realty Company, Phono 7, In Crocker Building, Camden, s. ('. 8-10?t? WE HAVE IN 8TOCK?Nitrate of I Soda, Murfete of Potash, 16% Acid, I Cotton seed meal, Manure Salts, and all grades of mixed fertilizers. I Send us your orders. The Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C i 47 sb NOW 18 THE TIME?To plant your garden. We recommend 7-6-6, which I la a well balanced fertilizer for all vegetables. Southern Cotton Oil Co., Camden, S. C. 47 sb LOST?In Camden, Soutn Carolina, a pair of platinum and diamond clips with brooch combination. Reward of $100.00 for return of same and no questions asked. Finder communicate with T. M. S., care Cam- I den Chronicle or Phone 8943 Columbia, S. C. 3-9ab. I MAND?Lance Feeds for your chicks in Starting Mash, Growing Mash, Baby Scratch feed and Lay ing Mash. Sold by your local merchants or H. N. Estrldge, Lancaster, S C 2-9sb WE HAVE FULL supply of Philip I Carey Composition ShingleB of all 1 kinds, also roll roofing and builders papor at the old price. You can obtain from your local merchants, or H. N. Estrldge, Lancaster, S. C. I ?2-9-sb. GRAIN THRE8HING ?Will thresh I oats and wheat for the public again this year. Equipped with excellent International Harvester Company outfit.?W. P. McGuirt, Manager Buckton Plantation, Camden, S. C. 8-13 pd. FOR SALE?Three females and one I male Esquimo Spitz, about five weeks old. These puppies are entitled to registration. Males $7, females $5. Write or see W. A. McDowell, Jr., Bethune, S, C. 7-9 pd. WHEN YOU BUY?Fertilizers insist on the famous Southern Cotton Oil Company fertilizers which have been popular on this market for thirty years. Any dealer in Camden can supply you with our goods. We will carry a stock of all grades of fertilizers and raw materials In our warehouse. The Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 47 sb FREE ROAD SERVICE?Creed's Filling Station Fifty-Mile Free Road Service. Call Telephone 486. Camj den. S. C. I Fair Warning! 11 J There is an ordinance on the Statute Books of the j City of Camden requiring all cars to pull to the curb- I I I ing until the fire truck passes. Firemen have been I I greatly hampered and annoyed recently by parties I, I racing to the fire calls and blocking their way. This is ; j I to notify all concerned that the ordinance from now on I II will be strictly enforced, and if you are tummoned be- I I 1 fore the Recorder at the next alarm you will have no I I 'j one to blame but yourself. I I I (i. F. COOLEY I I i CHIEF OF POLICE I I W I Fli?s... ant?... mo?^BIPJwSWfciKw quitos... roacK?r;.. \ <taSJW' , <mtk^th?r in??ct? ' I F>f* o P 5 fi NOTICE OF SERVICE INTERRUPTION Sunday, May 24, 1936 h;; ? ? DUE TO BUILDING ELECTRIC LINE AROUND KENNEDY'S POND, THE CAROLINA POWER AND j LIGHT COMPANY WILL HAVE ELECTRIC SERVICE OFF OF CAMDEN FROM 2 P. M. TO 6 P. M. SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1936. - : Municipal Water and Light Department * Hil -A B -A?? \