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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE g. D. NILB8 .Bditor~md Publlshei Published very Friday at Nunifcw 1109 Broad tttlw and antarad at U>a Oamdan, flouth Carolina poatoffloa m aaoand ulaaa mail mat tar. ftrloa par aanuin fl.Oi), payabla In advanaa. Friday, September 18, 1830 A PLEA FOR TOLERANCE "The shouting and the tumult dies." South Carolina's biennial primary 1 h over and all of um may now Mettle down for a while to eouelder other matters. In fact the people generally were not itpparently nearly mo inter* e?ted thin year as they have been in punt year?, if the vote in thi? county may be taken as a criterion. About 3,500 of enrolled voterw failed to vote. We are not prepared to nay how those who absented themselves lelt toward the Governor in his ilgbt against the State Highway Department, but wo do know that they did not go to the trouble of registering their feelings at the ballot box. | We know too that many of I hone who did vote, and who voted for lcglslattve candidates who had voiced approval of the Governor's cour?e, do not fuvor the Governor. There are many fine people In Kershaw county who are Htrongly agaltiHt the State Highway Department as now const!tuted and Htrongly behind the governor. With them we have no quarrel. Hut nlnce the battle Ih over, in ho far uh the voterH are concerned, we do humbly suggest that a little more tolerance might be shown to thoHo who may have differed with them. The votors of Barnwell county, who routed th? Johnnton candldatea by a vote of five to one; those In Damberg county who cauHed to be left at the post the Governor's Hell Weather, Senator Folk; the electorate In Spar/ tunburg county wtyo snowed under the Johnston candidates; those In Georgetown county who reelected Dr. Olln Sawyer, arch foe of the Governor; tho largo majority In Marlboro county who returned Neville Henuett to the House; the citizens of Aiken county who reelected Senator John Williams; the voters in Chorokee, Charleston, Orangeburg, Colleton, Horkely, and a number of other counties giving majorities to tho autlJohnstonltes, are not crooks and foolB. The rank and file of them were JuBt uh honest and sincere as any Johnston supporter. Thousands of them are poor people, but being poor, are Just as much entitled to their opinions as any one else. Wo mention tiiis merely to suggest that almost invariably there are two sides to questions, and it Is seldom that one finds all the wrong or all the right on one side. Wo are satisfied that the great majority of the followers of Governor Johnston in this county have been thoroughly honest in their convictions, but we are afraid that some mighty good people have shut their minds to any reasoning that might have been offered from the other side. Good people have been too ready to accuse those who havo differed with them of crookedness aud self-seeking, many times when the very man they would hang in effigy has labored and fought unselfishly in their interest. We have hoard it said and seen It publishod time after time that the present Highway Commission law is almost identical with a bill introduced by Governor Johnston when he was a member of the General Assembly. This law does guarantee to Kershaw county one of the Highway Commissioners half of the time, whereas under the Governor's proposal it is doubtful if we would ever havo a Highway Commissioner, as most of the votes in this Congressional District ure in York. Cherokee and Chester counties. It will be remembered to<f, that the governor in his inaugural address and throughout the 1935 session of the general assembly demanded the right to appoint the commissioners, whereas in 1936, he proclaimed the right of the people to elect them. Also when the governor was a member of the house of representatives from Spartanburg county, und when he was a member of the house from Anderson county, no one ever heard him raise a hue and cry for the election of the members of our Judiciary by direct vote of the people. But now when our supreme court and some of our circuit Judges have been compelled to hold against him, because the law and the facts were agninst him, he wants these wearers of tho ermine to be thrown out into the hustings, and the offices requiring the highest degree of legal learning and ability to fill, to be made political footballs of. We are perfectly satisfied that most of the good people of South Carolina do not want j our circuit Judges and members of our supreme court to have to go around poltticing and slinging billingsgate and being forced Into the chicanery common to politicians. South Carolina's Judges are ranked among the best bud ablest in this country. The average man (not because of a leek of intelligence, but becauee he doeen't give theee matters ooost deration) Islta't kamw and reeeet gtre - ----- the names of half of the supreme court or circuit Judges of South Carolina. The popular election of Judges has been n failure wherever tried. Ilen Tillman, South Carolina's great commoner, and friend of the people, who rested our state government from the hands of the few, never one time suggested that our Judiciary be elocted by a direct vote. We hope that the time may never come In this stato when the passions of our people may be so Inflamed that such an order may be Instituted. The state has sufferod much and is yet suffering much, because of the doings of petty politicians who have been swept In office on waves of hate and prejudice, engendered by themselves or by others upon whose coat tails they clung.. We hope that the next two years may be peaceful years for our people, that tho turmoil through which we have been passing may cease; that the highway controversy may be forgotten and that our governor and our goneral assembly may be able to addross themselves to the task of making a better state In which to live, both for ourselves and our posterity, and to this end wo beg of the people that they be sympathetic and considerate. If the Ideas of some of the newly elected members of the general asnembly should undergo a change after they have gotten a better Insight Into our governmental affairs, we hope that they will have the courage to admit any mistakes they have made and to follow the dictates of their conscience. It Is a serious mistake for a candidate for legislative honors to declare himself one hundred per cent behind any governor no matter what he might do, but we are counting on the inherent honesty of our legislators to do that which la right, siiscttng fee their lights ? ?- ^ ' SENATOR UDE RETURNS ? (Marlon BU?r) When the Democrat! of Marion ! county last week turned deaf eara to the auggeatlon of Governor Olln D. Johnston and renominated State Senator L, D. Lide on the first ballot, over two opponent!, both of whom were Johnston adherent!, it waa a Klorloua victory. Not glorious becauae Senator Lide defeated two good and honorable citlsens of the county, but becauae the reaulta ahow that our people refuae to repudiate a map of honor and great talenta on the demand of * rampaging political dema* goguu. To have loat the aplendld aervicoa of Senator Lide, under any circumstances, would have been moat regrettable, to have loat them after Johnaton'a Mulllna apeech. , In which he wilfully and deliberately attacked Mr. Lide, without Jurladlctlon, and with little regard for true facta and llgurea, would have been a tragedy. Senator Llde'a victory ia no reflection on hia opponent!; it la a reflection on the chief executive of the state, who roars like a lion, yella "gangway" and endeavors to assume the role of dictator. Marlon's senator for the next four years, will not be "hog-tied" to the "cause" of any politician! lie la not anti-Johnston. Senator Lide ever has and ever will conscientiously endeavor to be right?that and nothing more. If Governor Johnston will I come down off his high-horse and become reasonable In his demands for I reform, he will And Senator I Jde ready to cooperate, but so long as the chief executive thinks he is a Hitler, uses the militia as a part of the executive machinery of his office, scoffs at the legislature and the coufUj and otherwise becomes a law unto himself I and all others, he will find Senator I Lide indignantly in league with those who endeavor to maintain dignity and I law and order and fair play in affaire I of Btate. EXCHANGE CLUB NOTES Miss Sarah Crawford, director of I Public Welfare for Kershaw county, j was the guest speaker at thiB week's I luncheon. She delivered an enllghtI ening address on the Social Security I Act, passed at the last session of the I Generul Assembly, and urged that all I voters vote for the Congressional amendment which is required to put I this Act into effect. This CongressI ional amendment will be voted on at the general election in November. 1 She explained clearly and conciseI ly the provisions for old age pensions land unemployment insurance, and 11I lustrated in a forceful way the necesI slty for social socurity in South CaroI lina. Many states have already adoptI ed similar measures. The Federal I government assists in carrying out the program in a financial and supervisory way. The aim of the legislation is to insure people against want and privation when they become too lold to work, or become physically inI capacitated, or are without a Job through no fault of their own. It is a big step forward, she explained, for the protection of all the people. | The meeting was well attended. The Chase Brass and Copper company of Waterbury, Conn., has announced a 6 per cent increase of pay for an hourly and piece work rates, effective this week. CARGOES OF NEW WORLD GOLD Were Onee Landed at Cadiz, One of Spain'a Main Seaporta. In the harbor of Cadiz, where treas ure galleons once rode at anchor and Hir Franc la Drake "pinged the King of Spain's Heard" and in a daring raid In 1 &87, naval gun* have been reported boombing again recently in the Bpaniah civil war. Cadiz, city or dazzling-whlte house* aliuoat aurrounded by the blue water of it* magnificent harbor, haa seen ship* and prosperity come and go aiuce the day* of the ancient Phoenlcclans, says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society. <* "Today, perched on the rocky end of a narrow sandy spit projecting five miles out Into the Atlantic ocean, Just north of tjie Strait of Gibraltar, It dream* of the vanished glories of other days. Outshone by other seaport* now, Cadiz is estimated to have been richer than Ixmdon when Spain's colonic* In the New World were pouring wealth across the Atlantic to the mother country. For a time Cadiz enjoyed a monopoly of the trade with the Spanish colonic*, and gold and silver worth $25,000,000, wa* unloaded every year on It* bustling dock*. But the revolt of the coloules In the early 19th century, struck a heavy blow at Cadiz, and the lo** of Cuba and Puerto Rico In the Spanish-American war, brought It* trade to a still lower ebb. With 75,000 people, a little smaller I than Harri*burg, Pennsylvania, Cadiz must get its drinking water from a supply brought by a 30-mile-long aqueduct, augmented by rain collected on the flat roofs of its Moorish style houses. Only one fresh water spring exists within the city, and it bubbles up beneath the high altar of the old cathedral, finished In the year 1284. Defended by strong walls on the sea front, and with only a single land gate opening on the narrow isthmus, Cadiz in the days of its glory was a tempting prize but a hard nut to crack. Barbary corsairs attacked it many times, only to be beaten off. An English attack In 1596 was more successful, and the rich city was sacked, but Cadiz rose again to Its old preeminence. For a time, when Napoleon's armies were sweeping Europe, Cadiz became the capital of what little of Spain had not been annexed by the French. Cadiz today has a fortress, a naval arsenal and radio station.' Prominent on the skyline are the yellow dome of the new cathedral, finished about 1832, and the high watch tower in the center of the city from which all arriving and departing ships are signaled. Wine, olives, figs, salt, cork, and salt fish, In their barrels, boxes, bags, and bales, are the chief products that pass across Cadiz wharves to the outside world. TOURI8T8 PACK EUROPE Hardy American tourists have demonstrated this summer that strikes and fights hold few terrors for th6m. Showing a fine disdain for Europe's troubles in general, more tourists sailed across the North Atlantic from America this year than at any time since the fabulous year of 1929. There were 189,901 who crossed from January 1 to July 18 this year, while in the same period of 1935 there were I only 161,626. | Travel companies, unanimously de| daring this to be the best since the stock market crash some years back, expect the rush to continue through the month of September. The upturn in numbers, after six dull yoars, brought changes in the tourists and their habits. In Paris they turned away from the old haunts to the very places where trouble might be brewing. They deserted the cafes of the boulevards for the sidewalk terraces on smaller streets where political demonstrations and police have clashed. Many stayed at more expensive hotels, took costlier tours, and traveled one class higher than in previous years. As usual, however, the favorite Paris theater was the Follies Bergere, and the most familiar sightseeing centers were the same?Notre Dame, the I.?ouvre, Montmorte, and Montparnasse. Hotels reported they had some, but not many cancelations despite the occupation strikes for the two days In June when guests had to make their own beds, ran thotr own elevators, and generally tend to their own needs. In the French chamber of deputies Charles Splnasse, minister of national economy, answered a charge that France's tourist traffic had fallen off from 12,000,000,000 francs in 1927 to less than 2,000,000,000 francs In 1935 by stating that this year the number ^ of foreign tourists coming to France was as much as 40 per cent, higher than last year, which was a good season. i An epidemic outbreak of typhoid fever U reported from the state hospital at Columbos, Ohio. . Steps are being taken to lasoelets the MIO patients and tR empieyee at the (net* jtntlom with aaU-tyyheU swam HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN ( By P. D. Urooker, I>. D. 8.) "Tooth doc-ay" among school children can and muat bo prevented aud controlled. This Is not only the problem of your State Hoard of Health; the Dental Profession and the newspaper which brings you this message, but the responsibility rests primarily upon those who are the parents or teachers of ciilldren and all of those who have the supervision of their training and health. This problem reaches the peak of Us importance on the eye of the opening of the school term. It Is very essential for the adequate protection of community health that school children's mouths shall not be a breeding ground tor the germs of infectious and contagious diseases nor should a mouth In which there are decayed, rotting and abscessed teeth be permitted to Interfere with a child's growth, development and mental and physical efficiency in school work. In class children will be brought Into close association at work and at play. They will handle many objects in common, in,- many instances will drink from unsterillzed glasses or cups and go to lunch rooms without udequate. facilities for thoroughly washing their hands. Children are very prone to transfer germs of disease to the Hps by putting their hands into or about their mouths. It is in this way that most of the'Contaglpus diseases are spread. It is definitely certain that in every classroom under the present conditions of the neglect of this problem that there will be many children In various stages of the disease of dental carles ("tooth decay") and these will harbor millions of germs of diseases. These are readily transferred to companions and the poisonous products of bacterial activity will slowly sap the health and vitality of such a child. There will be many other children In which the dally home cleaning of the mouth will be Indifferently performed or wholly neglected. Under these conditions there cannot be a satisfactory control of either individual health or of contagious diseases. It Is all the more deplorable, that a great many children must now lose their teeth In order to protect their health and go toothless for a number of years. More than fifty per cent of children under present conditions will lose one or more of the sixthyear molar, the most important of all the teeth, before they are eleven years of age. The premature loss of children's teeth will transform many beautiful young faces Into caricatures of what they might have become In beauty and symetry in later years. Take the children to the dentist now in order to save all teeth not already hopeless and start the younger ones from two to six upon a regular routine of having the dentist eliminate all defects which are the principle cause of about 80 per cent of the carles now present in the older children. Then a regular routine of dally cleansing with toothbrush and a good dentifrice will serve greatly to reduce the Insanitary condition of the mouth and itB danger as a factor in contagious disease. WE8TVILLE NEW8 We8tville, Sept. 16.?The DeKalb Missionary Society met Thursday afternoon at the church. The program was in charge of Mrs. L. D. Broome. Mr. and Mrs. Earle Qunter and son, of Wagner, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril B. Busbee Sunday. Motoring to Charlotte Sunday were: Helen Broome, Vernon "^Williams and Edward Lorick, of Westvllle, Evelyn Horton and Lou Clyburn, of Camden. L. D. Broome, Jr, who spent the week with relatives there, returned home with them. K. C. Etters, Jr., who holds a position with the Springs company In Lancaster, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Etters. J. C. Hilton, Jr., underwent a tonsil operation Monday at the Camden hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jake 8owell and children accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sowell, of Kershaw, motored to Rock Hill Sunday to visit Miss Mary Sowell who is a student at Winthrop College. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ogburn visited Mrs. Ogburn's mother, Mrs. J. E. Williams In Kershaw Sunday. Other visitors were Mr. and Mrs. HilHard Barfield, of Chesterfield. The DeKalb Home Demonstration Club met with Mrs. Jake 8owell Monday afternoon. Mrs. Carl Owens and little daughter, La Rue, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jones, parents of Mrs. Owens in Kershaw during the week end. Mrs. Oscar Thomas has returned to her home in Canton, Ohio, after a visit of several days with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lee Thomas, of Clyburn Station. _ The banks of North Carolina had resources, according to June SO statements. totaling $410,663,061.34, am Increase of fltl ,065,663.00, over Jane SO, 1?SS. , *?T. * ^ - ? " gSS5 FORE8T8 SEEN AS BA8IC SOURCE OF NATION'8 POWER IN FUTURE" The forests of America are a basic source of power, and a continuing source that can be maintained when the world's supplies of coal, oil and gas are depleted, according to a booklet, "Here Are Forests," prepared by the Forest Service, U. 8. Department of Agriculture, for distribution today to delegates to the Thifft World Power conference, now meeting at Washington, D. C. The forests are cited as sources of water power suitable for the generation of electric power, and of wood which may be resolved by chemical treatment into a variety of power producing fuels. "The only limit to the power to be derived from our 660 million acres of forest land is their ability to grow trees," the booklet states. "To create an inexhaustible supply of fuel is the direct part forests can play in the production of power. "Their indirect, indispensable part Is a service function; they act like the throttle of an automobile; they are part of the mechanism to even up the flow of streams from which hydroelectricity is produced; they can balk the attempt of the water to run too fast downhill." "Here Are Forest" tells the story of the management of 170 million acres of national forests by the Federal government so that maintenance of tree and plant cover can prevent excess erosion and subsequent runoff of silt which clogs and fills the reservoirs xot hydroelectric plants. Maintenance of this forest cover also conserves moisture and thereby aids in stabilizing the amount and rapidity of the flow from the watersheds. The booklet sketches the result of the spoliation of much of America's forest land in the past, and details the efforts of the Forest Service to produce a maximum, permanent supply of forest resources without tapping the capital stock of growing trees. To do this, the Forest Service explains, forest fires must be controlled, devastated areas must be reforested, forests must be protected from insects and diseases. Along with this protection and development work a program is followed which allows the forests to provide grazing lands for livestock, shelter for wildlife and public recreational opportunities. Such a balanced management program automatically insures a perpetual source r of water supply as basic power and source as well as a permanent supply of wood products as a source of fuel. Distribution of "Here Are Forests" to the World Power Conference is part of the Forest Service's contribution to a discussion of national and regional planning and their relation to the conservation of natural resources. HOW PEACH CAME TO U. 8. 1 D,d know the peach originated in China? There is au ancient Chinese superstition that if you eat enough peaches you will live forever. Many years ago, but after the Amerlean navy began to have a girl in every port, a Chinese irirl. bellevitig iq this superstition, gave her sailor sweetheart a peach seed to carry for luck on av trip back to the states. While In his native land the sailor lost the peach seed.* From it grew the first peach tree in the United States. This la only one example of what chance aa well aa nature may do In 1 introducing m a count* acme sort of foreign bans or bleaattg. Tha Dutch disease low threatening I our alma, wm imported into this oou? and y Detroit police, together with state ^police and Federal men, are making a widespread search for Harry Browe, 19 months old, who disappeared from a Detroit street about ten days ago, while in charge of two of his older brothers. It is believed to be a kidnaping case, but of this the police are not positive. Judge John J. Gore in the U. S. district court at Cookeville, Tenn., in a surprise ruling, on Saturday gave the attorneys for the Tennessee Valley Authority and those for 19 private power corporations, only two weeks to present briefs on the question of the constitutionality of the vast government enterprise. || " i | ' i Win a Car a Week Coiitest Tune in on the Foot Ball Radio Broadcast Friday and and Saturday of each week on NBC Station* Winner* Announcd on Sinclair Minstrel* Program 9 P. M. Mondays WEEKLY PRIZES?CHOICE OF | [ PLYMOUTH | I AND 120 OTHER PRIZES GIVEN AWAY < Hear the "Red Grange" radio broadcast telling all | about bow to win tohe of these prizes Stop by your Sinclair Dealers and 4et one of the | Entry Blanks. No purchase is necessary to enter this I contest j |Central Service Station! BILL OWENS, Manager : I Complete 24 Hour Service Telephone 148 ft -" B t, 8 1 B , Wants-For Sale CHOICE8T BUILDING L.OT8 ? In city, on East Walnut street Fine neighborhood, quiet, near business, churches, schools, theatre. Car cost saved in five years will repay for lot. For sale, prices and terms reasonable. See- J. B. Wallace, Camden, S. C. 14 tf. FOR RENT?Two unfurnished rooms. Address Mrs. Annie Miller, Highland avenue, Camden, S. C. 25pd. DO NOT WAIT all day to have your cotton ginned. We have the largest outfit in this section and the most modern. Time is worth lot to you ? during the harvest season. Cln at The Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 24tf HOU8E8 FOR SALE?We have some very desirable homes in all sections of the city-at very moden&te prices. See us. Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. ~ 19tf ' GIN YOUR COTTON at the Southern Cotton Oil Company. They have Installed a modern outfit and you will receive a fine sample. A good sample means a better price. You will receive prompt'and courteous service. Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 24tf FOR 8ALE?A desirable five room bungalow, with bath, for $2^50, easy terms. For further Information apply Enterprise Building & Loan Association, Camden, 8. C. Sib FARM8 FOR 8ALE?We have many good farms listed, all sizes and at favorable prices and terms. Shannon Realty Company, Phone 7, In? Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. 24tf BUILDING LOT8?Are increasing in prices. Buy now and save. We have five fine lots 62x136, close In; three choice lots 76x150 in center of residential section; three more near Brevard Place. Other beautiful lots. No advance in prices on these. Address Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Camden, S. C. 24tt WANTED?You to know we have * complete line of the new 1937 l.... Phllco Radios. Battery and Elsetrie sets. Priced from |20 up. The Camden Furniture Co.,-Ino., Cam- ~'~ den, S. C. 26sb. f1 FREE ROAD SERVICE?Greed's Filling Station Fifty-Mile Free Road Service. Csfil Telephone 4M, Camden. 8. C. 8ALE8MEN WANTED?Men Wanted for nearby Rawleigh Routes of 300 families. Write Rawlelgh's, Dept. , SCI-20-SB, Richmond, Va. 26-27pd FOR RENT?Furnshed rooms. Apply to Mrs. J. B. Wallace, 1210 Broad * Street, Camden, S/'tfT . 26-27pd WANTED?You to know we have the 1937 modelf Phllco Battery Radio l for 239.95. Camden Furniture Co, Inc., Camden, S.xO. 26sh_,? HELP WANTED?A young lady who has had experience In general soda fountain work and making sand ? wiches and salads. Apply T*e Town Tavern, Camden, 8. C. 26 P^-. FOR WENT?At onoe a three Mflg? unfurnished apartment on Laurpsa street. Apply F. E/Moseley, Town Tavwrn, Camden, S. C. 26 fr WANTED?You to enjoy more foreign programs with the new 1W* Battery Phllco. See them at Camden Furniture Co., Inc., Camden, ? C. *? * FOR RENT?Cottage at 1904 Bro8*r Street. Furnished or unfunishej s