The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 30, 1937, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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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
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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)
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FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS ?
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q DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. 3
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9 "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" 2
P CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 I
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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"*