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A Close-Uj) Of The California Legend (Hy It. Charlton Wright In Columbia Record) I/OH Angeles, C'ul.?- Jiefore I?-avli?K Columbia IttHt July, I promised that I mlKbt write something lor Tho Record about our travels and adventures out In this neck of tho national woodH. (Outside of tho great forest preserves of sequoia and redwood trees, there are very few woods along the route we traveled from the Mississippi river to thin place, and there are none hereabouth. There 1h tall timber in the High Hlerra, where we camped four du/h In our house truller, and, according to report In tho northern regions of the West Coast, which we have not visited. The moat nit It millions things In this part of California are the tall liars). From Las Vegas, the wide-open legally sanctioned gambling Mecca of Nevada, where nightlong the click of the "hones" on the crap tables, the whirr of the wheels of fortune, tho spinning of tho roulette wheels, the rattle of poker chips, and tho droning voices of faro dealers are familiar night Hounds on the main streets - from Is Vegas, the torrid, we rolled down over the desert during tho very early hours of an August morning, past heath Valley and Into the famous San Jacquin Valley, via Hokersfield, hot-seutecf amidst 11 clutter of oil wells that huddle all around the town as stiff and thick (and smelly) its the bristles on a Carolina razorhat It's neck. When we hit Hakt isfield, about 10 n. m., It was not. We plaintively mentioned the fact to tho young chap at the service station at which we stopped, hut he scoffed at the suggestion, and Just to prove it wasn't hot he stepped over to th< government's weather bureau across the street, Inspected the thermometer, and returned triumphantly to report that the temperature was only 10G in the shade. For the past week, ho said, the temperature had ranged from 11G to 120 degrees, Fahrenheit. So we pepped up and thanked the weather gods for a cool day. After that we worried on up to the base of Mono Rock, in the Sequoia National Forest, 4,(?00 feet above sealevel, and there we met u candid young <'alifornian, who gave us what may he taken for the text for what I have to say hereafter. "Inning the first year of a man's sojourn in California," said this young chap, "he is known us a newcomer; the second year he becomes a booster; from then on he is a damned liar." During the six weeks that have lapsed since that diagnosis of tho average Caltforntan. 1 have traversed the coastal route from San Diego to San Francisco twice; 1 have traveled entirely across the State hy different roads, and have journeyed twice through the whole length of San Joaquin Valley. My observations and ? xpeiieUce have convinced me that the candid young man's diagnosis is absolutely (orrect. 1 have had a lot of hubbies burstcd. 1 have been disillusion-<1 in.itiy times, during my young life, but I have never had anything so cruelly and effectively pun< lured as the "lleautiful California" bubble blow 11 so blatantly by the < hatnbt is of commerce and professional boosters of this region, which, except in t..cs>- spots which are Irrigated. and in a few of the resort towns that speciali/c in beaut ideation, is about the d 1 eai ;s'. s. : -}., torrid wn-te I 11\- iter \iewtd. but whisper it not in Oath. if \ou don't want j to stir up the at.in;.11 s. I her* .- an it?1.1. ? o*11 1 ois way fr- j file 1 I! > ' t that i 1: o w I. 1 \ ; s;; s C f * I 11 i.t f li fee (ilia- will m \ c r ! a w 11, j II il HIM TTI r 1II 1 ?rrr-rnrt? i ' Thin morning, talking to a well-known writer on Indian life and lore, I repealed ilie adage, and wbaorved that my notion wuh that a man who visit4-d <'allfornla - and l?y this I don't mean \, A and Hollywood, where the glamor of the movie htiHlneHH dopes Home folks, hilt the whole Htuto from Frisco down-that any man who watt foolIhIi enough to visit California the third time, unions forced to do so, wan JiiHt foollah enough to Htay on. This morning a servicu station man (native of IIIIiioIh), from whom I bought an Inner tube, gave another explanation of California'* more than five million population. He bus been out here nine years?lured originally by the tales of the Paul HunyuiiH of the Pacific, and infatuated tourists who banked for a few daya in tho glamorouH atmosphere of Jfoverly If Ilia, Hollywood and Malibu Reach, where the glorified cinema gala gallop around in filmy abandon ancj little cdae. Hla vcralon la that moat of tho run-of-mine folkH who come to ('allfornla go broke und can never accumulate aufficiont coin to get back to homo and mother. ,Their plight la then audi that they have to Join the' booster chorua or be utterly cast out , or human society. And ho tho "Heau- | tiful California" myth grow* and expanda. t One of the amusing ? but calculated - Ideas that we have encountered 1h that tho South Is hot as Sahara In the summer. In the San Joaquin valley in August, with the temperature above ly.j degrees in iho shade, wo stopped to buy some tomatoes from an old woman at a roadside stand. .Learning that we were from Florida she asked If it wasn't "turrlble hot" down there. When wo repassed Ua? kersfield just last Wednesday, the mercury at 3 p. in. stood at 105 in the shade, and wo were asked the I same question about "Floridy." And yesterday, away up in Sacramento, the maximum was 102. \\ hen 1 t 11 people about the summer temperature in St. Petersburg, and thereabouts, when I casually mention. In this arid, waterless land, that there are 30,n00 lakes jn Florida, I am regarded in such a way that J am mad to realize that my auditors write me down for an amazing liar. .1 he service station man mentioned above said, in his candid approval of the hunk that is California that if it were not for irrigation, the land would revert to d<<s? rt, and that is ion. Outside of the towns and i itics, with their copiously watered flower gardens and lawns; beyond the irrigated fields, orchards, vineyards and groves, the landscape as fur as eye can view, is just a tumble of hills and mountains covered with s?-re, brown grass and sage brush. Onlj near the coast, where the nightly fogs are now making life out of doors a dank and elamtny ordeal, is there any greenery except that wlcch is artificially produced. When Dr. Samu.i Johnson made his famous tour of the Hebrides, lie twitted IJoswell about the trcclcssucss of Scothxudr 1 have often beeri reminded of that as 1 have traveled over tho hot and barren valleys and mountains of California. And along with this reminder has come a fuller appi ec iation of tho value of our own Southern forests that are still standing. Otic oi the greatest undertakings of ii,,. Roosevelt administration is its I ores try policy. General News Notes The Hu//.ai a lim.M pou. r ease is tml tXported 1),. a: glleii [tefiiie the M'l'ett!' conn until after t No\eiiiber i !i -Tii-ii '' R Ma: : hall \ i-it, <| his AmX; ! s 1 '' in k a una i ol is. X. < afer .. i: n-:r;v v, :,rA", V" yvY"1"- vv-' h ' ! ' ! aR b. tt ' : ' ' * ' Rs > 1UM h. , a';- . ' : :.,K ' : : urnuur ?r. j!t '1 '' ' >. n. w national '? a:i 1 .egii n. ! ' : ? : Ai: M Land" ' < :i i. an.-a - , npRol - on,. > : k i ine 'heir w iv.? n holi"IV., 1 annual a,; w i. ,| e in-nr I'",! ' ' ' t'.'U.e .. u | . o> must 1 . J"",:a "!l -,:i ?"h? r da \ > of ih, \ oar L;' M St. rl.: .- , : x..w York "I" y'r' -t tr.,oo x * ( Mh-h.. by (Riving bis air1 ''' ?'v'r H?o ::ii .enrol Saf"! ,i ,v "i" ' '1 < ! -i: ::i.; nubs '; l>r. ukiug formur record. ' he ,tj tata I hetua- F McMalom. pr. sidoiit of ' :'1" ! T. \'i!o Workers of Anorl.is organization will don,h o-n-wtdr :rrrrrn?n rf wnirr'~ " - ' i ' r e. tr, a 1" hour w o. k. and a te":i;j ,,t ,bo FOiasl.-d work load that >' ^,:v ' 'iaring the NUA period." Wants-For Sale FOR SALE ? A desirable Ave room bungalow, with bath, for $2,250. easy terms. For further Information apply Enterprise Building & Loan Association, Camden, 8. C. Sab FOR RENT?Two unfurnished roonta, bath and private porch. Apply Mra. W. C Williams, corner Mill and Cheanut -streets, Camden, 8. C. 30pd j * PICTURES Hav* your picture made at the (Jem Studio. Oood picture# made day or night, small one# live for ten cents. We uiuke any size Photograph The (Jem Studio, Joe H. (Juskin#. photographer, next door Oladden'm Store, Main street, Camr den, S. C. *10 I'd FOR SALE?SwIkb giant Panslea, KnkIIhIi I>ai#lcs, Vtolas, !J0 cents per hundred; Gebera, Columbine, Uelphlnluin plant# 36 cent# per dozen; Sweet William, mixed color#, 25 cent# per dozen. Write or #ee Mr#. Charle# Emanuel, Humbert, S. C. 31 pd PAN8Y PLANTS ? Cargo flowering variety 76c per hundred. Call Phone 193, The Camden Floral Company, Camden, S. C. 29-31 ub. FOR RENT Six room brick cottage In choice location. Heated. Furnished for winter #ea#on or unfurni#hed on yearly lea#e. Available hood. Setter act quickly. Shannon Realty Company, Phone 7, Crocker building, Camden, S. C. 28 eb. FOR RENT?Furnished rooms without meals. Apply to Mrs. J. B. Wallace, 1210 -Broad Street, Camden, S. C, 30-32pd DO NOT WAIT alX-xtoy to have your cotton ginned. We have the large#t outfit In this section and the most modern. Time 1# worth lot to you during the harvest season. Gin at The Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 241( jj u .i . -u1 . ..mssaassmmabm FREE ROAD SERVICE ? Creed's Filling Station Fifty-Mile Free I toad Service. Call Telephone 486. Camden. 8. C. ' 0 CHOICE8T bUIL-DING LOTS ? In city, on East Walnut btreet. Fine neighborhood, quiet, near business, churchea, achoola, theutre. Car coat saved In five years will repay for lot. For bale, prices and tertna reasonable. See J. 11. Wallace, Camden, S. C. 14 tf. FOR 8ALE?Gorgeous. symmetrical tea olive plant. Eleven hy blx feet. Thirty yearn old. Fifty dollars. Mrs. W. P. Howies, 2901 Thratton Street, Columbia, 8. C. 30-32 pd. HOU8E8 FOR SALE?We have some very desirable homes iu all sections of the city at very moderate prices. See us. Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Crocker Ilulldlng, FOR SALE?Jay Hee Hammer Mills? Save one third In feeds. A size for your requirement from tractor power up. Elmlted nutnber used mills. Ho not be misled by often used statement, "Just as good as Jay Hee but It costs less." 20,000 Jay Hee owners tell us different. For low price, terms write R. J. Weatherly, Pox 121, Macon, Qeorgla. 29-32 sb FARM8 FOR 8ALE?Wo have many good farms listed, ull sizes and at favorable prices and terms. Shannon Realty Company, Phone 7, it) Crocker Hullding, Camden, S. C. 24tf WANTED Work an house maid or nurse. Address Inez Salmon, Box 87, Route 2, Camden, S. C. 28-31 pd. FOR RENT?Cottage at 1904 .Bread Street. Furnished or unfurnished. Apply on premises or to J. K. Robinson, Camden, S. C. 26tf Camden, S. C. 19tf BUILDING LOT8?Are increasing in prices. Buy now and save. We have live tine lots 62x136, close in; three ckotca lots 76x160 in center of residential section; three more near Brevard Place. Other beautiful lots. No advance in pricdb on these. Address Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Camden, S. C. 24tf. - - JLL L . mm?mm ?(, |GIN YOUR COTTON at the Souths Cotton Oil Company. They hav installed a modern outfit and yo will receive a fine sample. A goo sample means a better price. Yo will receive prompt and courteou service. Southern Cotton Oil Con pany, Camden, S. C. 24tf CARPENTER AND BUILDER-IJ fore you decide who should do yoi work, telephone John S. Myers, f< any class of carpentry work?en side or inside. All' work guara teed. Specialize In cabinets at screening. Any kind of fumitui repaired. I solicit your patronag Telephone 268, John S. Myers, 81 Church street, Camden, 8. C. 29t ?v NODOBY | IJKfS THIS CRANK ' Vv........ ... .... . - ' ' !,: II- i .. ,.lt. x. JENKINS' ESSO STATION DeKalb and Lyttleton Sta. Phone 9114 (?tso) ^ ? *11 ".-irVII If'ilillil r&rfr* in i J r T^STRECEIVE^^j I A shipment of Formaldehyde??Ceresan?Blue Stone. Don't forget to treat your oats, wheat and barley I for smut. I I DePass' Drug Store I "The Rexall Store" I Phone 10 Opposite J. C. Penny's I fl CAMDEN,. S. C. ?J * > ' I Bedrooms... pT VERY piece looks as though it was custom made! Our low prices are sensational for bedroom suites of such strong construction, built of the most enduringly, beautiful woods. Separate Round Mirrors Handsome New Hardware Modern and Period Suites Dustproof Type Drawers Living Rooms MASSIVE designs, in living room suites of two and three pieces. Every one worthy of being in the costliest surroundings! Don't miss this opportunity to own gorgeous furniture. Expensive Upholsteries Down-filled Cushions Reversible Cushions Every Wanted Color HOME FURNISHING CO. CAMDEN, S. C. . - ; . *> .