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I .11 l.M. ! II fin? r I w? Just What Is Correct Time? It's Not Simple How correct 1m the correct time? hbUm the writer of un article lu the Christian Bcleuce Monitor. It sounds a little like a riddle Or maybe a Joke, with u catch concealed MOinewhere io It. Hut now the Mubject halt been brouKht up, Maurice II. Morrl?M would be our man. Mr. Mortiss Im head of the wutch department of Murcutt & Co., in New York, and It la the loaHt of IiIm buntneMM to know the correct time. Marcus' was the first shop In New York to use invisible glass for show win-J dow purposes. And maybe some time, j when you've stopped to study the enMima of the glass, you've seen, too, that a watch ? u single, distinguished example of the watchmaker's art ? was the display It framed. Almost automatically you've compared your own watch with It, for the corroet time. You've ussumed of course that the watch in the window had the correct time. And you inuy have wondered idly how the store people could be sure It was correct. Well, Mr. Morriss will tell you, of j course, you got the ubsoluto of correct time by the stars. Hut most of) us, average mortals, are not smart enough to set our watches by the stars Hesldes, suppose It Is daytime; where docs that leave you, If you want to set your watch? It louves you to call up the Western Union, or to switch 011 your radio and wait for the time signal, or to dial the time-signal call of the telephone company, where upon an operator will intone: "When you he-are the signal, the tluui will be exactly?" Ah, there's that point again. ICxnctly. exactly? How exact Is it? What Is exactness, in time? I>oo8n't it parlake somewhat of the unfathomable? Well, we are used to saying glibly, that "time Is money" und that time is importuut in this measure or that. Hut Is it? Is it not the intervals of time that are Important, rather than time itself? Granted that one wishes to know what time it Is in order to be certain that there is time to catch a train, or meet an appointment, or get to I lie factory or to a concert; who has the correct time, and how does lie know? Happily for sticklers for correctness, there arc- enough people scattered around the world capable of determlnlng the time by the stars, with absolute exactness. Once the exact time has been determined by them, the problem becomes one of Just how exactly that exact knowledge can be conveyed to instruments or timepieces which will pass it along for general consumption. For it can only be passed along by human beings, and any number of tribes may enter into and affect the transmission of the knowledge. A shadow may fall across the eyes of the person transmitting it and cause a reflex that will throw the registration of the time out by a tenth, or a half, or even a whole second of time. A man with a stop-watch at a race is commonly supposed to be about tie- peak of timing efficiency. Suppose, ;i mile from the track where he 1- timing a runner in tlie 100 meters, men are blasting, in a roadwork job? The ground under the i I imeke<-p't's feet may tremble, so' slightly that ho himself is wholly unaw.it. nl 1r. but it Is eollOeivable that | the j.-.r u 1 a\ throw his reflex off a' II u: 1 it> r <1 r .1 s 1 1 < 11 hI Tin are no? points to affect thel state <>: u.?t . '!.> 'I h<-> are simply | fairly inl'Te tire to tiling of .in con- j in ml1> t. with a eons id? rat ion as to how j tutu 1: of :h time that we g.-t so to' s p. a k 1 - .1 hs ?I \ 1 * > I \ i-nrrn-t. lh.i l it! spi 1 itla:ion. for a mo-j 1 nt lh' priiiiip.il soutve of all knowledge of tin- lorti'it time in the I nited States Is tin- Naval Observatory at Arlington, N'a The observatory is in effect, the master clock of the country. Its calculations are made by the stars: and Western Union, the commenial radio systems which give periodic '.mo signals, the telephone company a!l got tln-ir information from 1: In 'O :> pl.n whi te time may he <Tt.ii;.. 1! it.on Westa-i n Union, the ? oiiipm.y a master 1 lock which go\. mis a'i the t ; m |v, p uses itself, of t ..'m t tits to o! In r people. Western 1 nion 10 ep- ,1:1 unbroU" n t heck wrt. the N.na! <>!,-. rvatory. Uvery w iti !i r- pair .-hop of any importance luis a 11 me service ticker, serviced h\ \\ i">|.'i a I '..em and suppled at a nominal < o-1 1: is the ? losest thing to the absolute of "corr? i t time' to he found, because while it is possible for the time- service tieh?-Ps to get a lew seconds oft, they are constantly corrected, and syn chronized with the master clock. For general purposes, a watchmak er considers a watch as accurate which steadily maintains the time within or thre seconds of the timeticker signal. The research people, and a small minority to whom time ' I 1 ' I. 1 l.t,11.,. .J.. . . m II . J , U 1 X -I .Ml is inure than a mere Interval between two stations on the face of a clock, that might not be close enough. For them, there are various unxlllury lpstrumem* such um tile chronometer, the chronograph uud ho on. The chronometer !h a simple timepiece of npeclul coiiHtructlon which, once adjusted, cati he relied on to ahow the exuct rate </f the paMHaKe of lime. The chronograph 1h JumI what 11h name denotes; a mechanism for noting the time In writing, used, or consumed for u definite operation or performance. Aviators, many of them, have a npeclul type of watch; In the caae of Longine* make, It 1h known uh the Lindbergh watch, because part of the system of dialing was based on a recommendation made by Colonel I Lindbergh for a watch which would help fliers to bulwurk the normal minute and second huuds with a (hocking device. This and it Is usually a wrist watch, has a center, adjustable dial with seconds divisions; and the dial can he moved to synchronize with the seconds hand of the watch Itself by the Arlington lime signal. Time, as given over the radio, Is us correct as it can possibly be based on the exact knowledge behind the Arlington time signals, and subject only to possibly slight?very slight variation, due to human oquutions involved In transmission. The same is true of time us supplied by Wosteru Union or the Telephone company, because they all get their information for public dissemination from the same source. As for laws governing the standard of accuracy that must be maintained by any service supplying the time to the public, there are none. Such a thing is not conceivable, but if some Puck should get Ioobc in the Western Union or the telephone companies and take to telling inquirers that it was 2:30 p. m., when it was really only 11:37 1-2 a. m., he could possibly be dealt with effectively; but It would not bo by the summoning of any statute, for there Is none covering such matters. People sometimes wonder if the railroad station clocks in. say, New York?at the Grand Central and at the Pennsylvania?show identical time at a given instant. Presumably they do, though It would be pretty hard to tally them; as who is going to be in both places ut once, or how is the respiration of two persons, one at either end of a telephone line, comparing notes, going to be synchronized so that, us they compare, no fragment of a sound may be lost? In this case, there probably is no great difference; nevertheless, with clocks In certain public places it does happen that there are variations. A clock on a church steeple or a public building, for instance, whose hands are actually and completely exposed to wind and weather, is bound to be affected; it may be periodically slow or fast. The clock on the Paramount building in New York is on example of what the wind can do to an instrument whose modest intention is j merely to tell the time. Whether or not the tower is unfortunately situated on some days, you can seo tlio wind drive the hands of the clock forward or hack, and, when the wind dies down. the clock hands swing into their own again. -">o it is pretty futile to get stirred up about how correct the correct time Is. In the tirst place is it the time it> It thai wo tare about, or is it what u ' iii u- t do with t ime ? ill-ill" second place, suppose we li\< T.\ a clock that is thro or four < (?nds oft' the absolute of time? What c.(Il Ut. (|(,-> Sue" And whom ? Thorn Hill Club Met 1 lie I horn Hill Home Demonstration (Iub held its regular meeting at the school house Friday, April 16, at o clock. The meeting was called J to order by the president. Mrs. J. L. Thorn. Devotional by Mrs. L. T. I Truesdalo. after which the Lord's 'l>ra\er was repeated in unison. Then lull joined in with singing "Holievo Me It \il I hose Kndcaring Young Uliarms." j I ho roll was called ami reading of minutes bv tin* secretarx Kuril member responded to the roll call with i nunc of a faxoritc flower Then the uarden sheets tor April were given to the members At this t tine the meeting was turned m er Miss Margaret 1-Vwcll. her subject being "Pictures" She ga\e a \ rx intt resting di-cr.ssion on pictur* s appropriate t.?i* e.o h room, selection "f l>il ,l:!' s- U tiling Of pi. tares, har.g, mg ei pictures, placing the pictures. It is best to s? Jo. ( pictures that mean . something to in. Wo had as visitors Mrs. Oliver and iMcs Harnett These two ladies will I j go ;uid help anx one on their home, i by just calling upon them. At the close of the meeting vases , of flowers were judged and the prize i, winner was Mrs. J. L. Thorn. AN ORDINANCE j <2 ? To Require the Payment of License on Business, Occupations and Professions in the City of Camden, 8. C., for the Year From May 1, If37 to May 1, 1938. Ho It ordulned by tho Mayor uud C'ouncllmen of the City of Camden, in Council assembled and by the authority of the same. Section 1. Every person, firm, company or corporation, engaged on May 1, 1937, in any calling, business, profession or occupation iu whole or in part within the City of Camden, as may be hereinafter specified, shall obtain during the month of Muy, 1937, a license therefor in the manner hereinafter prescribed. Every person, firm, company or corporation commencing business in said city on or before the first day of May, 1937, shall in like manner obtain a license therefor before entering upon such I calling, business, profession or occupation as hereinafter sjlecified. Section 2. Every person firm' com puny or corporation enguged in ' or intending to engage in any calling, I business, profession or occupation for which a license is required, shall apply to tho Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camden for tho san^^ by whom all such licenses shall wJ/J sued, and shall at the time of applying, make und sign a written statement under oath, and file it with the said Clerk and Treasurer, setting forth. First, his or her or its name or style, the name of the persons constituting such firm or company. Second, the calling, business, profession or occupation for which license is required. Third, the place where such calling, business, profession or occupation is to be carried on; the amount of capital invested, or the gross annual income. Parties in business on the first of May, shall make such application for tjew license and file such written statement before May 21st. . I Section 3. A penalty of fifteen per cent shall be added to all licenses which are not paid during tho month of May, 1937, except such as may become due after that time. Provided, however, that immediate payment may be required in each and every case at the discretion of the said Clerk and Treasurer, and the foregoing provision shall in no wise stay or hinder action to enforce immediate payment; which tax and penalty shall be recovered in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and if any person, firm, company or corporation required so t.o do by the terms of this ordinance shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camdon, on or before the time herein required, the statement provided for by Section 2 of this ordinance, or shall make a false statement, or shall refuse to take and subscribe an oath or affirmation as to tho truth of such statement, or any part thereof; or from any cause shall fail to take out such license as may be required by this ordinance, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall report the case to the Mayor, who shall proceed to ascertain as nearly as possible, the business of such person, firm, company or corporation, for which he, she or it may be liable to a license tax therefor, and in case of default for the purpose of such investigation, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall notify the person, firms, companies, or corporations in default to appear before the Mayor at his office?at a time stated in said notice; and also such witnesses as the Mayor may desire to examine. 1 he witnesses called as aforesaid shall bo examined by the Mayor, under oath or affirmation, touching the nature of the business of such party, and everything which may evince the amount of license tax for which such party shall be liable. From tin- information thus acquired the Mayor-shall find and assess the amount of license tax due by such party whether he, she or it attended the Investigation or not, and shall add thereto a penalty of fifteen per cent, thereof, and should such license tax and penalty he not paid within live days thereafter, the said Clerk und Treasurer shall issue an execution thereof under his hand and the seal of the City of Camden, dirqoted to the chief of police of the City of Camden, or the sheriff of Kershaw County, in said State and the said chief of police or sheriff shall proceed to collect the said license tax and penalty, by levy and sale^of rtjftl or personal property, as now provided by law for the collection of taxes together with an additional five per cent of the whole amount, which shall be the sheriff's or chief of police's ! compensation for making such collec' tion. in addition to one dollar for j making such levy, which shall be paid I by delinquent without entr> miiejage fees; provided, however, that any | person or corporation shall have the right of appeal to the City Council tof ( amden .notice of such appeal havbeen given to the Clerk and Treasurer Within live days from th- t,me " which suili assessment of license Penalty shall have been made) '" I upon hearing such appeal the r;,,d .-hall make such order . herein as i, shall deem Just and (proper; and provided further, that in ; I.-U or I he remedy above set fonh to nforce payment an actio,, ?r actions I h* broutth, l? any court com Potent jurisdiction for the recovery neb irense tax and penal,A?d provided fun her. that any p(>r,on comPany or corporation who 1 carry on. or ??empt to carry on any calling, bualneaa, profession or | occupation without a license aa here-1 In required, or who ahall neglect or refuae to give the Information required , or to answer such questions aa may ho required or who ahall fall to attend before the Mayor lo he examined by him when ao required, aa provided In Settlor* 2 and 3 of thla ordl-l nance may be deemed guilty of a violation thereof before the Municipal Court and may be fined not more J than One Hundred Dollars, or be im-! prisoned not exceeding thirty days. I Section 4. All license granted under this ordinance ahall be posted in j a conspicuous place, except In case of vehicles for hire, which vehicles shall have placed upon them metal badges with the number of badges and the license year marked thereon, such budges to be furnished by the Clerk and Treasurer upon payment of the license tux. Failure to display such I budges will subject the persons own-, j ing or using the same to u penalty of not more than Five Dollars or im-! | prisontnent not exceeding ten days, | The license granted under this or| ditiance shall at all times be subject to Inspection by any officers of the City of Camden und no calling, business, profession or occupation shall be carried on elsewhere than the place named in this license therefor, unless uuthority be granted by the Clerk and Treasurer, which authority shall be endorsed on the license. I Section f>. All licenses granted under this ordinance shall continue in force until the first day of May A. D. 1938, except such as are written for a shorter period, as may hereinafter be provided. The City Council reserveB the right I to revoke any licenses for any cause which to them may seem to be just. Section 6. The following sum or sums of money are required to be paid to the said Clerk and Treasurer for a license to carry on the business, j calling, profession or occupation In whole or In part within the limits of the City of Camden, as in each case, specifically appears. Class No. 1 Business or income basis, $1,000. On each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual income from the business, callings or professions enumerated In the following schedule, shall be One Thousand Dollars or less, the license shall be at the rate set forth in said schedule; and where the gross annual Income exceeds One Thousand DollarB, the license shall bo increased from the amount set forth in said schedule at the rate of ten cents for each Thousand Dollars or gross Income in excess of One Thousand Dollars. Agents, advertising, not print ing office $ 15.00 Agents for merchant tailors .. 10.00 Agents selling books, per year 20.00 Agents selling books, per day 5.00 Agents selling fruit trees or other trees or plants 10.00 Agents selling sewing machine* 15.00 Agents selling and delivering soft drinks other than those paying license for bottling plants 100.00 Agents advertising land sales where the land is valued at more than $5,000.00, per year 100.00 Architects 10.00 Agents, claim and collection .. 10.00 Auctioneers, for a year or less 10.00 Automobile Agencies 30.00 Automobile dealers or agents not having an established agency in Camden, soliciting or selling automobiles, trucks or trailers in Camden, per year 75.00 Automobile livery or truck, either for passenger or baggage, each 15.00 Automobile body and top repair 10.00 All drivers of automobiles or trucks for hire whether for passengers or baggage shall be persons of good moral character, and no license shall be issued to anyone who does not first furnish the City Clerk satisfactory recommendation; and If such drivers upon report to the City Council are found not to be proper persons to run. I said automobiles or trucks, license to the owners of same shall be revoked unless said drivers are immediately taken off said automobiles or trucks. Storage of automobiles, not In connection with any other business, per year $ 10.00 Barber shops, for each chair 5.00 Bakeries maintaining a plant in the city 25.00 Bakeries, or agents delivering bread, cakes, cookies, macaroons. etc., other than crackers. not maintaining plant in city 100.00 Battery service 5.00 Beauty parlors, for each chair 5.00 Bill boards, each board not to exceed 15 feet high nor 25 feet long, in business district 25.00 In residential district, each 100.0o I Business district to be located on Broad street, from Lalayette avenue on the North to the City Limit on the South, and DeKalb street, j from the City Limit on the Hast to the City Limit on the West. iBicycle repair shop 5.00 ! Bicycle dealers 5,00 , Bill posters, per year 25.00 Bill posters, per day 3.00 Bingo, Ballyhoo, Poker, Lucky Strike, Stop & Sock, music boxes and all other such games, per year 10.00 Miniature pool tables, coin operated or otherwise, up to and . including two foot by 4 four fo^t, each table, per year 1^.00 Billiards, bagatelle or poo) tablets, over two feet by four feet, first table per year .. 40.00 Additional tables, per year 1.00 Billiards and pool rooms to be ullowed 011 ground floor ouljr of any building and not to be kept open after 11 o'clock at night. And each table ahall be considered a separate business. Miniature pool tablea to be governed by aame regulatlona and no child under eighteen (18) yeara of uge ahall be allowed to play at any pool table, whether miniature or otherwiae. Building and 1) e v o 1 o p m e nt C o 111 p ante a, Incorporated partnerships or indivldualu 25.00 Blacksmith or wheelwright ... 5.00 Howling alley or box. ball ..... 2^.00 Hrokera, pawn ...., 100.00 Ilrokera, merchandlae 20.00 Brick inanona, plasterers, taking contracta . . .c 10.00 Firma or brick masons, for one member 10.00 Each additional member ... 10.00 Brick yards or dealers in brick 16.00 Boarding houses furnishing board for three or more, I where the ratea are from $1.00 to $2.00, per year 5.00 Boarding houses furnishing board for three or more, * where the ratea are $2.00 up, per year 10.00 [ Business or Income bases, $1,000; on each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000 Where the gross annual income from the business, callings or professions enumerated in the following schedule shall be One Thousand Dollars or less, the license shall be at the rate set fourth in said schedule; and where the gross annual income exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the license shall be increased at the rate of ten cents for each One Thousand of gross Income In excess of One Thousand Dollars, from the amount set forth in the said schedule. Agents taking orders or delivering pictures $25.00 each week. All contractors shall obtain permits for each and every Job, building or repairing, before the work Is commenced, permits to be charged for as follows. This is to be paid in addition to the separate license herein required of painters, plumbers and electricians, unless general contract includes same. In the event that the building is not done by contract but by day labor, the owner of the building shall first obtain permit for each and every job before the work is done: >For each contract of less than , $1,000.00 $ 5.00 And $2.00 for each additional |1,000.00 In contract price Non-roBideut contracts, |jq00 for each contract of less than 11,000.00, and |4.00 for each additional $1,000.00 lu Con tract price. Cabinet makers or fumitiir.. repairers Candy manufacturers not ia connection with any other business Candy manufacturers or deal. era on streets, per day Candy dealers not in connec tlon with mercantile bUs|. ness, per year Chiropractor Chiropodists Noiaresldents .. j ]' Circuses, menageries, animal shows, wild west shows UU(i similar exhibitions under whatever name carrying ton or less number of cars or trucks for transportation of people, animals, equipment paraphernalia or fixtures connected with or incident to the show, per day or part of a day ^ Circuses, menageries mid shows as above enumerated, and carrying more than tun cars or trucks, not over 25, per day or part of a day . ' ] Circuses, menageries and siiows as above enumerated, and carrying more than 25 cars or tructfK, per day or part of a day * Circus parades, or parades of menageries, > anlmful shows, wild west shows, as above named when the show locates outside of city limits, shall pay for each parade! the same license as such circus, menagerie or other show would be required to pay for exhibiting within corporated limits. Corn and flour mills, either operating or delivering withiu city Cotton seed oil mills including gins , Cotton ginners, for each gin stand Cotton mills Civil engineers and surveyors or either Dealers in coffins, caskets, not paying mercantile license, per year Dealers in second hand clothing whether connected with other business or not Dealers in second hand shoes not connected with other business Dealers in electric refrigerators Dealers In fruit, peanuts or cooked food on Btreet, per day Dealers in fruits, vegetables, (Continued on Page Seven) j." i 1 ~ aa FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS ? - 3 q DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. 3 n 3 9 "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" 2 P CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 I 3 1 jjJ M. G. MULLEB ELIZABETH CLARKE, M(r. g ! ALI FORMS?OF?INSURANCE gl I J. C. COX1 I Sanitary Plumbing and Heating I j J TELEPHONE 433-J | ! | Estimates Furnished on Short Notice I | j ELECTROL OIL BURNERS I I MEETMEAT I I BROAD STREET LUNCH! ON TOP OF THE HILL I 1 The Best Nickel Hamburger Anywhere. ' ! Milk-?Bottled Drinks?Beer?Ice Cream | COU RTE0U8 OPEN UNTIL H I CURB 8ERVICE 3 A. M. # I BICYCLE REPAIRS j| We have opened a bicycle repair department7! in connection with our machine shop and are p*?" pared to handle all work promptly and at reason* able prices. I DeKALB MACHINE WORKS I ; M. H. DEAL, Owner .JIM ; ELECTRIC AND GAS WELDING LATHE WORK BICYCLE AND GENERAL REPAIRS I West DeKalb Street \ Pho"*