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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H'_o..N<i'M> 5S? tjSSSm Published svsry Friday ut Numbei 1109 North Hroad street, and entered at the Camden, Houth Carolina Postoflflct aa eeooiid class mall matter. Price pei Tear WOO. No subscription* taken foi )? ?* than 81* Month*. J In all Inetancei the subscription price Im due and payaable in advance. All subscription* ur< cancelled when subscrlbek fall* to renew \ ?' Friday, January 8^ 1937 Whose Fault? ~ A young married couple tourluK from Florida to Maryland to upend Christmas With relatives was k J lied near ltockliiKham the day before Christmas eve. The accident that took the lives of this young couple wub peculiar, hut it could not he called unavoidable. While crossing a high oinbankment flunked by a mlllpond they met another automobile. The rear wheel of the approaching automobile came off at the split second, plunged into the Florida Maryland automobile and threw it Into the mlllpond. The occupants were drowned. It was a siuglur accident?one not , likely to happen one time.In a million?yot It had its origin In the unalterable law of cause and offect. The automobile that caused the trugedy was six years old. No doubt the automobile had long sljice seen its best days, and at leant one of its most vital purts was dofectlvo. This was unknown to the driver. There are no doubt thousands of automobiles with defective vital parts speeding over the highways of South Carolina. Not many of the drivers are awure of these defective parts. 'Even & new automobile may have a dofectlvo part somewhere In its complicated mechanism. In many states there are laws that require automobile ownera to have ^thelr cars Inspected quarterly. The inspector's certificate must be pasted on the windshield. If any automobile cannot pass inspection it Is not allowed to use'the hlghwaye. South Cui'ollna has the loosest automobile laws of any state lu the union. and so far thin year South Carolina has led ull other stales in the nuuibor of highway accidents and tragedies. No matter how smurt you are, you cannot outsmart the law of cause and effect.?Dillon Herald. Capt. J. W. Harriet The State had for many years known, to like and rolpect, John W. , Hamel. editor of the Kershaw Era, ami regrets, correspondingly, his (bath on New Year's day. A modest, mannered, conscientious citizen, Captain Hamel served his state variously, , 11 as an officer in the National Guard, member of the Constitutional con. volition of 1895, legislator and since 1927 chairman of the board of par- ( dons. His newspaper during forty years could always be relied upon for reflective, reasoned, sagacious commeat upon current affairs. He bore himself iu troubled times with mod- ' eratlon and good humor. He had a ' flue sense of the decencies and auien- * lties that make life civilized.?The ' State. ( _ I CARD OF THANKS ( We desire to express our appreciation of tlie kindness and sympathy s extended us by the Sanders' Memorial Hospital, the CCC camp and uu.r friends and neighbors, durfng the ill- i ncss of our sou, Hoyt Player, and v during our bereavement following bis i i et ? nt death?Z. L. Player and i Family. , ii iii . ii ,.,l. ill ..ii , 11.111, i .l jii i Lander College Planning Big Drive r 1 Greenwood, 8. C., Jan. 6.? Dr. John * W Hpruko, president of Lander col J logo, today announced the atari of the ' Institution* 91.000,000 Endowment , and Development Program, u state* wide uioveineut which will continue until the end of March. Succumb of the program, Dr. Speake . stated, will provide the college with an endowment of $000,000 and an additional $000,000 for expansion of physical facilities and improvement of the present plant to meet the requirement* of the growing student body, ft will also qualify i>ander for full membership In the Hoi!them Association of Colleges. The buih{ing I needs of the college include a new I administration building, an Infirmary,' In library ami alterations to present structures. | The college already has a credit of I $200,000 toward its goal, the president explained. The remainder of the amount will be sought from the membership of the two Methodist conferences of South Carolina, the alumnae body, the citizens of Greenwood and friends of the college everywhere. Dr. Speake stated, In part: "The $1,000,000 program undertaken today is intended to make lender secure for all time and to establish Greenwood as one of the strongest educational centers of the Southeast. "The movement was Inaugurated to meet the growing needs of the rapidly expanding student body and to make possible still higher standards in oOr work of building noble young womanhood on the basis of Christian education. "Lander, with 501 students, today has the largest enrollment of any privately supported girls' college In South Carolina. Enrollments, in fact, have doubled In the last live years and at present all available space, on the campus Is occupied. V "George W. Williams and associates, who organized and directed the $500,000 program for Newberry College, the $350,000 program for Erskiue College and other successful campaigns In South Carolina, have been (engaged to organize and direct iho Lander program." I binder College was founded by Dr. Samuel Lander in 1872 us Williarastou Female College, at Williamston, S. C. A few yuurs later the South Carolina Methodist Conference took ' >ver the institution and in 1004 it was moved to Greenwood and given Its present name. Five presidents tiave served Lander during iter slxtyour years of existence. t)r. Speake 'iitered upon his fifth year as presilent at the beginning of this, the six- 1 y-fifth session. Uev. T. M. Johnston, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Greer, was eaving his church services, when a nan pointod a pistol at him and forc}d him and a companion out of his ititomobile, with which the man drove >11. lie took out a warrant charging Paul Cheney with the robbery, after heney had been captured in a rnounain rave on a charge of robbing a Jtoro. Sir Henri Detordlng, Dutch oil magnate. has placed^tpproximately 100.000 at thii disposal of Netherland farmers in a two-point move to losaon their distress and facilitate the export of farm products to Germany. ! COMMENT# ON MCN AND THING# (IJy Bpectator) Muy you have a happy and a prosperous new year aud come to the end of 1937 with mauy durable satisfactions to lift your spirit tyid make you feel that the year wan well spent. Moat of us fail to appreciate the importance to the routine things, the every duy, hundred detallw that make up life. Few people can climb the heights; few can do great or spectaouiar deeds, few can enjoy the riches of the earth; but all can try to dl#uify the humble tasks with the beat that in within them, finding a Just pride iu the common place things of the day. * An 'artist is one who strives for excellence. Nothing less than his best will suit him. iiethoven may huve rewritten some of ills music llf>: ty times; Tennyson May have revised u line twenty times; an engineer may have tried out a device a hundred tlmesfand a chemist may have tried for one result mouths and mouths. That striving for Just Die right effect, the precise word, the one best result ?that is urt. We iu less disinguished fields of usefulness may be artists, if we labor for perfection. In whatever wo undertake wo can prove that wo have the spirit of the artist by striving for the best that we are capalde of. The Oeperal Appropriation Hill of the state for the present fiscal year totals $8,300,715.32. The budget commision recommends for the next fiscal year $8,733,901.06. The state services aBked for $10,774,296.80. From one point of view the budget commission has exercised considerable restraint, especially in view of the clamor for expansion of programs and increase of puy. Hut it should be n^ted that the General Appropriation Bill does not show exactly what the state spends. It does not show the cost of building and maintaining our highways? (more than nine million dollars); it does not show about $800,000 puid annually on an old debt; it does not show $900,000 paid to the schools from the income tax; it does not show $1,250,000 paid to the schools from the liquor taxes; it does not show $420,000 to the schools from corporation license foes. In other words, it is entirely misleading. We read a lot of llgures apparently indicating what the state spends and those figures are less than oue-hulf of the amount speut annually by the state. It must bt; obvious thut all state funds should be paid into the state treasury and should be spent in accordance with an annual appropriation, all appropriations being in one generul ap-1 propriation bill. I dislike to cite the j constitution so often but the plain intent of that document is a year-byyear appropriation. The ear-marking j of certain taxes for special purposes j is improper. If the Legislature means i to grant one million dollars to schools, for example, it should do so specifically?not authorize one-half of the proceeds of a certain tax to be paid to schools. This might be two millions the next. Appropriations should ! be annually made and for definite sums. One doesn't like to be merely a critic in opposition. I know that some employees are not overpaid; and 1 think some are overpaid. Some offices have too many employees; and j some offices ought not to exist at all. i By giving a "general raise we perpet-' (fate certain bad practices. We need to overhaul the entire governmental I organization. Conceivably in so do-! ing some would be more equitably I compensated and some would explore other holds of usefulness. What South Carolina needs is a leader with vision. knowledge, courage and tact in order to modernize the state and county government. Let us have a commission on reorganization to serve without pay to prepare the'way. The matter of concentrating- collections and appropriations can be arranged very easily. Just to show how little the public can gather from the Appropriation Bill consider the state aid to schools. Is it $3,068,431.07, as appears in the bill^ No; it is that and nearly three millions more. There is a difference of nearly throe millions. Is that not worth indicating? Why have a general ap-j propriation bill if we have such large , sums completely outside of it and outside the knowledgo of even many members of the Legislature? I have often remarked that the Constitution seems to bo lightly regarded. One section of the Constitution reads: "Money shall be drawn from the treasury only ip pursuance of appropriations made by law." Section 9, Artclle 10. Under this the so-called permanent statutes are teyalid. Then there is section 3 of artfcle 10 which says: "No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of a law which shall distinctly state the object of the same; to which object the tax shall be applied." That seems to be honori ed In the breach, for many acts are directly in disregard of it. ' The Legislature has a protracted session every year, largely became of the general appropriation MIL Of that bill .approximately tlx million dollar* la the Irreducible minimum, a* the preaent organization stand*. ' The tumult and the shouting are over the two to four millions beyond that. When, at last, the Free Conference Committee on the general approprh atlou bill bring* In a compromise, or sometimes a brand new bill, the weary members vote for It and go home tired out. And yet the state, by continuing, or so-called permanent statutes, authorize expenditures greatly beyond the entire total of the general appropriation bill?expenditures which do not appear HPittftPtlfc tlon bill at ail and which are unknown to a considerable number of the legislature. For example, about twelve million dollars additional Is spent without any annual appropriation. A new legislature coming ,lpto power this January will find that more than half the revenue of the state is being spent?and will continue to be spent?by authorization of statutes several years old. The very purpose of the general assembly Is to consider the needs of the state annually. The ueyv members should Insist on an annual appropriation bill which will show exac.tly what is authorized. No one will ever be able to control public wastefulness as long as permanent grants are allowed outside the annual appropriation. Every appropriation bill should be a clear-cut complete and final authorization for the ensuing year/ THE FIRST AMERICAN HOTEL It Was the Tremont House in Boston and Delighted Traveling Men No one spent a night in a hotel a century ago if he could possibly avoid it. The fact was, no real hotel in the modern sense of the word then existed-1 The guest who retired for the night in the ordinary "inn" never knew whom he might find beside him when he awoke in the morning. A hotel keeper thought nothing of telling one lodger to "move over" and share his bed with a late arrival. Three or -four people frequently slept in one bed spoon fashion, and women were sometimes "roomed", with men in the rush seasons. The first inn definitely recognized as a modern first-class hotel was the Tremont house in Boston, Mass., opened in October 1829. It contained 170 rooms, and its rate was $2 a day, including four meals. Traveling men considered it a rare privilege to be permitted to rent a single room instead of doubling up with strangers. Some of the innovations made by the Tremont house were an individual key for each room, a wash bowl and a pitcher filled with fresh water dally. Gas lights were another attraction." A mild sensation was created when they offered to give a free cake of soap to each and every guest. And the biggest sensation of all was "a tine supply of running water in the eight bathing rooms in the basement." \ General News Notes The treasury department, early in thq year, will start the removal of the government's gold reserves from Washington, to the new depository at Fort Knox, Ky. The budget for 1937 submitted to the two houses of the Mexican congress, carries appropriations totaling approximately $82,550,700, a 15 per cent increase over that of 193$. Because the wheat supply at present is the smallest in ten years, market experts are predicting wide swings upward in the price during the next year. Henry Ford has been granted a patent for mounting a motor in the rear of an automobile, to the end or making it possible to build 'an easier riding car." It is* estimated that the gold production of 1936 will total 40,000,000 ounces, an all time peak production. The production of 1935 totaled 30,000,uQQ ounces. William H. Morman, for 54 years In the government service, retired yesterday as head of the secret service, fte is 72 and has been on leave for sometime because of ill health. Thieves stole an iron tube containing $200,000 worth of radium from the clinic of a Vienna university. The police warned the thieves, "Don't get burned." Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, I will retain the chairmanship of the appropriations committee, instead of j advancing to the head of the senate j hanking and currency committee, to which he is entitled by reason of seniority. A report from Enzesfeld, Austria, says that" negotiations with the British government over the financial status of Edward, Duke of Windsor, have reached a final settlement, and that the former king is to receive about $800,000 a year. State attorneys investigating the recent escape of Joseph J. Bruno, a political power, from prison at Pottsvllle, Pa., looking Into his "little black' box," found that he was the beneficiary of a $260,000 yearly racket in gambling and vice. Mahatma Gandhi, in retirement since 1934, told the All-India congress, In session at Faixpur, India, that he was ready to again assume leadership of the Nationalist morement, offering to go to Jail or to the scaffold, j _ , -i- : ?. . ? 1 ii rnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Dr. John E. Cornwell, who began a new term as clerk of court of Chester county with the new year, will have served in that position for 32 years when he completes hie present term. Before" entering politics, he studied medicine with two * perceptora M Chester, for two years, and then became a veterinarian of large practice in Birmingham, Ala. As clerk of the court, he has been both very efficient and popular, and during the big murder trial in his court some years ago from York county, he won the plaudits of the many newspaper men covering the trial. * The average male lion weighs approximately 500 pounds. CARD OF THANK8 , We wish to thank our many friends for their expressions of sympathy, during the illness and death of our wife and mother.?Rev. T. J. Williams and Family. Wants-For Sale STRAYED OR STOLEN?From Clifford Plantation' one white female setter. Reward if returned td Chronicle Office or notify Clifford Plantation, telephone 499, Camden, S. C. v - 41 sb. NOTICE TO GIN CUSTOMER8?Wa will be operating our ginnery every day until January 16th. Please arrange to gin your cotton by then, for we will likely gin only one day a week after that?The Southern Cotton OH Company, Camden, S. C. 42-43sb LOST?Yesterday morning (Thunsday) in the First National Bank of Camden, $35.00 in new currency. Re ; 1 11111 " 5 ? ward it returned to M. G, Muller, P. 0. Box 63, Camden,. S. C. 42 sb. LOTS FOR SALE?Four chq^pe lota at DuBose Park, also Ave room houte, for gale cheap. Apply AirPort Tourist Camp, Camden, S. C. 39-44pd. WANTED?The .public to know, that oipr truck is in Camden once a week for the purpose of collecting old mattresses to renovate. Leave your name at The Chronicle office -in Camden and we will call. Dante- ler Mattress Works, 308 Wright street, Sumter, S. C., Phone 504-L. 37 tf. " FOR 8ALE?100 acres, near town, on two good roads. Plenty of wood and water. Priced to sell quickly. Many other farms for sale. See us. Shannon Realty Company, Crocker Building, Phone 7, Camden, S. C. FOP RENT?Two very desirable houses. One 7 room house and one eight room house with furnace heat, air conditioned. Shannon Realty Company, Crocker Building, Phone ! 7, vCamden, S. C. FREE ROAD SERVICE?Creed's Filling Station Fifty-Mile Free Road Service. Call Telephone 486. Camden. S. C. 7 ' ; | BARGAINS?For quick vsale. FiV& room cottage with bath, water, electricity, outbuildings, about six acres ? v ! good land, fenced, five miles out, near paved road, school, good neighbors and store. Shannon Realty Company, Crocker Building, Phone 7, Camden S. C. CARPENTER AND BUILDER?Before you decide who should do your any class of carpentry work?outwork, telephone John S. Myers, for side or : inside. A11 work guaranteed. specialize in cabinets and screening. Any kind of furniture repaired. I solicit your patronage. Telephone 268, John S. Myers, 812 Church street, Camden, S. O. 29tf. , , I REPORT OF CONDITION OF HANK OF KERSHAW LOCATED AT KERSHAW, S. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 31, 1936. ASSETS Cash, balances with other batiks, and cash itenis in process of collection $463,333.69 United States Government obligations 75,2V2.2i> State, county, and municipal obligations 79,134.61 Loans and discounts. 190,307.06 Banking house owned $26.691.IS, furniture and fixtures $7,309.96 . 34,061.13 Other real estate owned 22,932.36 TOTAL $866,032.09 LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL Deposits of individuals, partnerships and corporations: Demand deposits $440,466.90 Other time deposits 192,767.97 State, county, and municipal deposits 40,415.80 Certltled and officers' checks, letters of credit and travelers' checks sold for lash, and nuuuuts due to Federal Reserve bank 13.062.88 Dividends declared but not yet payable (January 1, 1937) i 2,000.00 Total Liabilites excluding capital account $688,706.55 Capital account: Capital stock and capital notes and debentures ..$100,000.00 Surplus 50,000.00 Undivided profits 26.326.64 Total capital account 176,326.64 <. TOTAL, LIABUJTIKS AND CAPITAL $865,032.09 I, T. B. Clyburn, Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, and that the schedules on the back of this report fully and correctly represent Ahe true state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to boat of my knowledge and belief. T. B CLYBURN. Correct.?Attest; John T. Stevens W. B. Threatt B. D. McDonald State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of January, 1937, and I hereby cortify that 1 am not an officer or director of this bank. T. H. FAII..R, Notary Public My Commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. Ik. mmmmsaammmmmBijmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmsmnmmmmmBaamtmmmmamBmBim Bicycle Repairs ) We have opened * bicycle repair department in connection with our machine shop and are pre* pared to handle all work promptly and. at reason* able prices* 1: J The bicycle-riding population of Camden is L> large and constantly growing and we feel that we . can render a genuine service in taking this step. Try us. DeKalb Machine Works ELECTRIC AND QA8 WELDING LATHE WORK BICYCLE AND GENERAL REPAIRS ' , West DeKalb Street Phone 42 * . , mm hp| mmmm si RELAXED In luxurious reclining seats comfortable as Morris Chairs?warm as In a fireside corner from clean hot water heaters . . . Greyhound passengers enjoy June in January. Traveling in de luxe new j coaches ? via convenient, dependable schedules?behind America's safest, finest drivers . . they save ?4 to over any other transportation, for either local or distant trips. Phone for full information. lfv.% AUGUSTA .$1.75 CHARLOTTE 1.18 WIN8T0N-8ALEM . 2.40 . JACKSONVILLE ... 5.30 MIAMI ..930' i CHARLESTON .....2.00 RALEIQH 2.55 RICHMOND .... 4.90 WA8HINQTON ..... 830 NEW YORK $35. Greyhound Bus Terminal West DeKalb St. Phone 249 - i:y * * ? ' .,\J , '/'dfc u.v.' . ^