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IH? CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. O. NtLfcS, editor and Proprietor 1'ublUhed every Friday" at Number 110North Mroad .Street, and entered ut (he Camden, South Carolina t'OMtofflce a* second class mull mutter. Price per Year $2.00. No uubMcrlptloriM taken for Use than Six Months. In all Instance# the subscription price is doe and payable In advance All a abac rip Mom* ate aivcelled when subscriber falia to renew. Kepr< e??nted In Now York by the Ainerli an Vrent* Association und elsewhere by tli reliable Advertising Agencies. We accept no udvertlHing of u doubtful nature and tiy to protect our patrons from misrepresentation by Advertisers No Liquor Advertisements accepted at any price. Friday, September 17, 1937 TO WORK FOR ORPHANS On Saturday of thin week ull Myth odist churtht'H In thin county and throughout the entity statu will ohnervy Work l>tiy for the children of Kpworth Orphanage. This Is an annual affair. For more than thirty yearn the Methodists of the Hiniy have act usldo one Hautrday iri Hoptonibor as a day on which all tneinhyrH of the church and church schools are naked to work for Fp worth Orphanage and contribute all thili earnings for thut day on thy following Sunday when thy Work Day Offering la inudw. J liuusmuls <?! children throughout thy alati' will inaky a apycial effort to find aonictliing to do on next Saturday thut they may yarn tnonyy to give to their less fortunate little frienda who make their homo at Fpworth Orphanage. Some will go In groups to the cotton llelda, othera will aak their parents and neighbors for Jobs, and still others, who have regular Saturday Jobs, will give their I earnings for the day. When we con- i aider that there are K02 Methodist churches of the state wlUi u menibor- i ship of 103,000 we will understand < thut Work Day means very much to the children of Fpworth Orphanage, ; In fact It is the most Important duy < of all the year for them. ' i TOO MANY, TOO MUCH 1 The following was written by some i soul who apparently doesn't care for publicity, lor it has been going the"1 rounds without a credit line: 1 loo many highways, too many cars, Too many people behind the ban, ( loo much poverty, too much wealth, . Too many people In ill health, loo much politics, too much booze, ' Too many wearing Jiigh-heolcd shoes. ?i Too iinkny apending their dough on t gas. Too much taking of Furope's sass. I c>o many living beyond their means, * loo many buying canned corn and ' beans. , Too man) sowing their crop of wild ( oa t s. Too main candidates after the votes, ' Too man) hiring their washing done, Too many playing bridge for fun. i Too many looking to t'ncle Sam, j Too many who don't give a damn Too many poets, too much prose. Too many clothes w I t h o u t under 1 clothes, e Too much buying goods on time. I oo many people don't save a dime, H Too much ball, too touch plav. Too many politicians on big pay. ( Too many taxes, too much spent. *' '1 oo many folks spend every cent. Too much fun, too much ease, v Too many rips in 11. V. I)'s 'loo much reform, t/x> much law. Its the durdest mess you ever saw. ^ WHEN JOHN BARLEYCORN DRIVES I J.^hn I:.?i !.?>( ut'tt causes a high per-11 ' ' iit-ig.- .mii .'.N.Oeit aimtial tralllci' ^ 1 'I" it "in ; hi- t '.ti 11?) i ma I ?e- j i' ' 11 >; \ 11111 > r \ i -11 i t >! i <?w s . i I ' '' 11 ' ' ' exists in i n. i; i \ >;, i; > ' ' 1 1 < x pet i< in i i| .s;:s i i ,i it i, - ' > < ii . tut le se. about L' I ' II. v ol\ < .i ill I Vol-- .(Ml ped- s ! : ' - w ', > w t j-1 k 1111 w 11 lo 11 a \ t 111 i 11 ! t l< IS 1 e a s e 11 a 111 - lo as.-uttu;ha' c >ieu was a lattoi in a much I : i proportion, as it i> otteii iai to legally |mn > liuld mlo.xi i '"s"'- .. , . xo i- ti.il weapon ever invented by nan more potent iallv dcadlv than a mixture ot alcohol and gasoline. x'.'Uti.o lest.-- have proven lliat as lit two or three ounce.-- of liquor U!'- - io11sI\ imp.lit a drum's i? Jl.-\ ^ ' v ; though lie iii.e appear to he i ' >i! i ? p. i tS - and at the same L' > him an influx of 1 Mil. li cour- 1 : 11 * ? :n i n e \ i usable reck 1 !' > ' e same foki n. drink ! 1 ' i-i nit- senses of i au i i o a : u - I \ : .i '- .>- 1 te , .i ; .l. a;h' ar.<l :v.jury ' -1- : ' ; .i d: i\ >-r " ak j 1 ;< ar alter drink- ' ' 'Ilk ll-rt- is a i ,i,-i ah. |t. (|H, |aw must Is.- adamant, ami nr.i.->i be exart ed luti'.le-siy impartially and imtt.cd ' lately . It is a notorious fact that in P many communities, prosecuting and'* police officials are lax about tho drink- ' er ar the wheel, and are only too will nig to reduce a charge of drunken ' driving to the li-ss important charge ' of recklessness, if a little pull'' is i-X'-rted. The sole consequence of 1 such a policy is to make those drivers believe they can get away with , it ?and they repeat the offense at tho lirst opportunity Drunken driving can he handled by adequate laws, which impose flues, jail term8 and license revocation on f offenders coupled with aggressive po- c lice and prosecution work When a t llflh of the traffic fatalities in a rep- < resentative state are known to be the 1 result of liquor, it's time to "crack" j tlO MM) i .F . nil I I COURT BAUFF BAGS DOVE AT NIGHT IN DRIVING RAIN Driving to lila homo in thu lowur jiurt of thu county Monday uIk^', af* t* r working ull day In court A K< n ci ul sessions, Court I tit 11 IT Charllu i'oden fell something brush against his li'fi arm, whirl) wan rusting In (ho open lilb J?*ft window of hi* cur. it was "ruining ruin and dogs" ul llio lime, and lie thought vory litlln of the mutter, hazarding the casual opinion thai It nmni have heen soino [ mud or other soft object Hung up from wheels of thi- machine. "Just another good re a won why thu county delegation ought to surface my road, " he m lined. On reaching bin home he found that bin uleeVe wan not muddy, whereupon lie caiiie to the Idea that mayhap a night bird hud llown Into bin auto. Mrs. I'eden and other member* of the family, however scoffejd at the Idea of a bird being out at that time of night?It was about 'J HO o'clock?III Much foul weather. Hut when Mr I'eden went out to hi* car ycHtorduy morning to come to town he found a full grown dove trying to get out of It. The unfortunate bird had tried all of the wiudowu except the left front one, which reinalned open. "I Ju.st hope they don't arrest me toy hunting doves In a driving rain at night time in my automobile," opined the genial bulifT. --Ureeuville News, September kill. A HEROIC LIFE There died recently in one of the Southern states a man who for thirtyone years hud been a hopeless Invalid, not hopeless in spirit, but In body, and overcoming great physical handicap* he lived the heroic life. When CJrover Doe Mabry was ten years old he was helping haul a load if wood with a team of mules. The mules became frightened and ran off 1 itid Mabry was crushed beneath the ( oad and his spinal cord severed, para- ; yzing bis legs and lower part of his I )ody. A cripple for life, what was left J or the boy? Many a boy would have given up, nit Mabry was not that kind of a 1 ><>>. He realized uh he grew older J hat others were shut in like himself, itul he published a magazine of good ? lieer called the Sunny South Sun- ? dtitie Magazine. He set till the type I vith his own hands, which were well j rained skillful hands, and could not , nily handle a composing stick to set 1 ype but could knit, crochet, tint pho- 1 ographs and make flower baskets. Much of his time was spent in , Messages of cheer to other shutins. i le would lie In a bed made especially t or him with his typewriter before ilm to keep up this wide correspond- ^ nee. ( He also^carrled a magazine rub- c: eriptlon project and this with his dher activities made him lndepend- j tit of financial help. c One of the greatest Joys of his life s i'as playing Santa Clans over the telphone. When calls came to central ' ilabry would answer them, and In me season lie might answer two j, housand calls. For thirteen years he ept <up t.lils pleasant ro^n and now ^ hat In- is gou^. the i hildfrn miss a f I iend ami tlie wdTId hu#? lost a mdile xample of the triumph of a heroic out Industrial School ouitial ' WPA'ers Refuse To Pick Cotton Macon. < !a 11 I' Derry. W I 'A :n >!< wic lit officer said a ;ipn?\i ma t el > Ij "o im n from WTA joh< to work in < otton th-hls had ri fused the ugricul 1 him! as>iuam. ii s The workers, he aid. anonuiK ed tie > would not work ? a loiton fields a> trucks are [M'iv late.l to take them to farms where . ohs awaited I>err\ .-aid a regulation 1 if the WTA employment jigem y reliiired dismissal of persons on relief | \ho refuse em ploy incut on private 1 obs at prevailing wage scales. Derry ' aid the workers gave no reason for ' heir refusal to take the cotton field I obs "They just said they weren't toing to pi? k cotton," he said. I Bird Was Ghost \ i? una The populn'ion of the vll-1 as?" of Fehlshi re ! ad 1. n trichtetied i ( i month lo mi u parent ghost j i a '; \ illaee h which nightly L ? ' I mi the 1 . re hut im- > C'-dio? !\ da* aeiied thetn again wheti ' ieo;?!i i:,\es-icati <! Strongest men d" '!' tillage refused 'o .titer the J una ture until a village priest took lie matter in hand lie found a raven , shah entered through a broken win- t low and sat on the light switch ? ^ tuning on current, hut who was frightened away by approach of nnvme. and who thus released the switch ( Again. i 'I he national debt on August 26 reached a new high, being $37,022,1S7.750.39. Rotary Notes Dr. W. 8. Durham, of Columbia, wiiH guest spoukur ui tbu Thursday luncheon of the Camden Kotary Club. He gave an IntereHlliiK lecture on the causes of pyorrhea, illustrating | hie talk with slides. Or. W. K. Cahoy, also of Columbia, assisted Or. Durham. The proKraiu whh uiulur the direction of Or. D. C. Hlnaon.. Other guests wore Italph Hlomley, of Charlotte; Kaniuel Friedman, of Cleveland, und Grayson 8haw and Huiilon Hums of Camden. Kolarian R. H. Pitta attended the meeting of the Columbia club lust week Moultrie Hum* attended the Newburgh, N. Y. club. \ General News Notes Secretary of Commerce predicts "a major surge In fall business through* out the country." Foreign trade at Shanghai bus come to a standstill us u result of the war operations In that area. The Will Rogers Shrine to the Sun was dedicated at Colorado Springs, Col., Monday. The American consuls at Amoy and Ponchow, China, have hen entered to close their offices pending more set tied conditions. The French liner Normande, arrived ill l.e Tlarve, France, minus one of its four propellers, lost at sea, on its lust trip from New York. 'I he mayor of Hot Springs, Ark., has ordered the re-establishment of u downtown "chain gang" for confidence men proposing to winter thorn. Ring Farouk. of Egypt, presented 1 his bride-to-be. 1 ?, willi a check for $7>0,00u on her birthday, celebrated , Sunday They will he married February 11. The deuth toll of the recent typhoon which swept Hong1 Kong, China, totalod over 500. Property losses mounted high in the millions. Former Governor Alfred K. Smith will hack Senator Royal S. Copeland, Tammany candidate, in his race for mayoralty of New York City. Dr James M. Doran, of Washington, technical director of the Distilled Spirits institute, declares that "America will never again have prohibition." Wives and children of U. S. marines. soldiers and sailors now in L'hina, will he evacuated at the ex...se of the I"uited States govornmet. Joanna Wheat, aged six weeks, was mined to death at Wilmington, Del., >y a lire started by an electric bulb ti the bed clothes of her crib. The London stock market is reported in a slump because of the war sittat ion in Europe and in Asia at the nosent time. Kingsport, Tenn., school authorities lave put a ban on the attendance of narried girls on the schools there, folowing an epidemic of school girl marMages during the last session. Seventy-seven Chinese seamen ar Ivod at Norfolk, Va., this week and vill man three ships soon to sail from 5an Francisco with cargoes of muniions for China. Chinese authorities say that 61 fapanese war planes have been shot lown and eleven damaged in three entral China provinces in seventeen lays from August 14 to 31. ^Because of the fear of war, pries A. riK'the New York Stock Excha#f;J taie been very shaky the past few lays, declining as much us $10 per hare in some of the leading issues. A man. said to be Raymond E. Corett, 37. plunged to his death from an lirplane at Los Angeles, Cul. He fell ui a roof and his body landed in the lite-hen. It was suicide. National sales of F. W. Woolworth i Co.. showed a slight decline this Vugust over August a year ago, while is July sales were slightly larger than l year ago After a Philadelphia man had o<>n -ss. it to police t-hat lie had murdered wo children, reported missing, tiebildren were found alive but unable > explain wlu rc they had la-en I lie Grand Army of the Kepulda . l neetiug at Madison, Wis. en Tue.-da\ | ! i-orated urates of both I uion and: on fed era t e soldiers buried iu a Mail: ; n i ea11 tt-r> ! Tin- lirsi tootbal] victim of the sea on was Irvin .Wilson. 17. high school) lior of Clarion. Iowa, who died in i i hospital i he iv after ho was injured, ii a practice galile. I htee TV A dams under the Tonne.- ! ee \ alley Authority, are reported to ia\e generated 7S7.460.000 kilowatt lours of electricity during the year tiding July 1 with a gross revenue >f $l.t?,'0.nOn Mrs Elliott Roosevelt, wife of tho -on of the President, has become the (de owner of radio station KFJZ at 'on Worth. Texas, buying the prop rt.v. listed as having assets of $'.'7.- i for $7.7.7.00. I \ 17 year-old youth killed when le j ell from a freight train at Hobart. | ?k.a . was identified by bis mother a-i ail D.an Cummins, only otie of l;-rj 11 lid leu who escaped death in tie i liooi explosion at New London. '1 > -> is last March j L I'mto Gattdia acting president o- J lis Nationalist patty, and nine otli> r>. ..?\e been imliiied in a Federal court it San Juan. Porto Rico, on a charge f attempting to assassinate C S Dis rict Judge Robert A Cooper, of South 'arollna. Hagerstow n. Md . is having a two veeks celebration of the 77?th annivor-rtiy of the battle of Antietam, with be climax to come September 17th vfth a sham battle. Soldiers from 22 dates ?11 Northern and 11 Southern ? participated in that bHttle. England is said to be spending the mm .of $4,166,166 a day on her rearm iment program, in preparation for inything that may come up in the fuure. The cost to Japan of her undeclared war against China is estimated s it $*?,000.000 a day. Cecil Newby, 22. of Kvansvllle, Ind.. las his doubts about a "life of milk f ind honey." a runaway cow ho had * been chusiug Into tt neighbor# Mold kicked oVer ? blve of boe#. Tli^e bee# swarmed onto Newby, stinging hliu unconscious. Neighbors rescued Newby and rushed bliu to a hospital. Father Ooughlin, Detroit priest of political fame, visiting In London, said 111 an inter, mw: "Groat Britain did n't pay loans extended to her by the l ulled Hiatus but spent thu money to build suitable homes for her laboring classes and she should be congrutu lated for placing human iIkBIh before financial rights." In u Labor Day address at Miami, Flu, Governor Cone said in part: "If a bunch of outsiders or aliens comes down here and tries to run your city tend to them and I'll back you up, but get out and do it yourselves. I know you good people are able to govern yourselves, and you huve the full co-operation of the governor's office." More than 300 Chinese were killed and 400 or more injured, when Japanese bombers dropped bombs on a crowded train thirty miles out of Shanghai. Five packed cars were blown to pieces and the slaughter was greatest In these cars, though many wore Injured tyt the train was wrecked All of the/dead und injured, wore iiou-coiiibatants. Associate Justice Hugo Black of the supreme court, left Baltimore last week for a short vacation in Europe. The discount rule of the Richmond reserve bank has been reduced from two to one and a half per cent. Former Premier Leon Blum, of France, issued a statement on Sunday to the effect that dangers of war in southern Europe ure increasing. There are 1,14b cases of polio reported from points in the province of Ontario, with u total deafh list to dale of 39. Automobile accidents in Gaston county, North Carolina, over the week end accounted for three dead, three injured and two in Juil. Children of Moscow huve been warned against talking to strangers lbout the factories where their partits work, lest the strangers be spies. Benito Mussolini, of Italy, has set \ date for a long delayed visit to Adolf Hitler, the latter part of September. Homer Martin, a former Baptist preacher, has been reelected president jf the United Automobile Workers of America, at Milwaukee, Wis. When Crowley, La., celebrates its >0th anniversary as a feature of the irst rice festival, October 5, twentyhe couples will he married. Alabama primary election dates for he selection of a successor of Sena or Dixie Graves, have been set for lanuary 4 and February 8. The government of Portugal has remit ly purchased $3,500,000 worth of lew-model Mauser rifles from German nakers. A surprise attack by seven iusurtent bombing planes on Valencia, Spain, Sunday night, was beaten off >y heavy artillery fire. Fourteen Georgia state patrolmen ire spending two weeks In New York date troopers' barracks, learning poire methods used in that state. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, s reported in Berlin as being on the .'erge of seeking a truce with the Vatican at Rome. , , The wedding- date for the wedding >f King Farouk, of Egypt, 18, to Mille. ?asl Naaz, a commoner, has been set or November 2 in Abdin palace, Caio. ' A cloudburst so raised the waters >f the creek that flows under Natural bridge In Virginia, as to wash away nany of the rustic bridges and boardvalks about the bridge. A Japanese official claims that 72 Russian airplanes arrived last week it north-central China province of Jhensi, and that 72 other planes were >n their way from Russia to China. Despite the progress of the undeloclared war, it is said that China :ontinue8 to pay Japan, Indemnities issessed as the result of the Boxer ebulllun. It is expected that at least 60,000 vomen will visit New York with their iiisbands during the week of the Meeting of the American Legion here. September 19-26. All hotel ao:ommodiitions, it i* sunk-have already leen reserved for the week. 'Frank Fuller. San Francisco sportsnan. flew his plane from Bin-bank, 'nl . to Cleveland. Ohio. Friday, 2.042 nih-s in sev> n hours 55 minutes, at m average speed of 258 miles per tour to win the Bendix transcontinonnl air ram. and break the distance vcord, which has stood for three ears. He will receive $13,000 of the 2s,0'?0 prize money. A Chicago school boy, Dan Roderck. 16, ate 25 hamburgers, together vith pickle and onions in 5s seconds, lefeating a competitor for hamburger tonors by four and a half hamburgers. I There were 17 competitors ill the race, j Two goiters and two caddies were tilled by a bolt of lightning while ilayitig on a golf -course near Pitts>urgh. Pa. Saturday. Three other ilayers were injured by the bolt and i fourth escaped, because he preferred o run for the golf club house rather han stand in a drenching rain. On one page of a Louisville. Ky., lowspap'-r there was a testimonial elling how a man there felt -'like a lew man' alter taking three bottles >f a proprietary, and on the next page vas a pn titii- of the. man and a story elling of tits death from a heart atack The testimonial told how his leart would jump and flutter" and te suffered from a stomach trouble. )eath came from a heart attack causid by worry over an automobile aeident in which his son was badly njured. Actually locate the nekt affd stop o examine it. or work near it, either ilowlng, planting, cultivating or hoeng, when incubation Is far advanced, ind, (juito likely, the mothor stands ip, partly spreads her wings, refuses o move, makes a terrlblo face, at east so my son-Insists and cries out if in great distress. Taken all in ill there are few birds that' carry the elgnlng-injury ruse farther than the illldeer. (Jet too near a neat when Incubation in farther advanced and one or botty birds cry "killdee," prostrate themselves on the ground, spread tbolr tullfi until the redd I ah brown anfl other shades ahow to advantage, apread and flap their wlnga, and aay "doe, doe" in a long rapidly delivered serlea. Advance a few atepa and off they go, crying loudly and aoon repeating the performance. Wants-For Sale FOR SALE?One Guernsey-Jersey milk cow. Uentle, <*asily milked and halter broke. Nice heifer calf six weeka old at lieela. L. P. Mackey, Kershaw, S. C. FOR SALE -Wight Kssex plga from registered aire, dam pure bred but not registered. Price. $8.50 each. Also twenty white Pekiu ducks ready for market. Address B. J. Trueadale, Boykln, 8. C. 27 pd. FOR SALE?Three colonlea of Italian bees, In patent hives, with supers partly filled. Reasonable price. Address C. O. Stogner, Camden, S. C. 27-20 pd. % FOR 8ALE ? Home and business stand combined. Located oh Highway Number One, one mile east of Camden. Attractive price, Address Mrs. Anna May Holland, Country Club, Route 2, Camden, S. C. LOST?On August 20, one black and white hound bitch, wearjng collar. Reward if returned to C. F. Yarbrough, Route 2, Caasatt, 8. C. 27 pd FOR SALE?Registered cocker spaniel puppies, six weeks old. For sale at reasonable prices. Address Mrs. J. O. Porter, Lancaster, S. C? or telephone 18, Lancaster. 27-29p FQR RENT?Downstairs bed rooml near bath. Apply t? Mrs K j m( 1 I . <?<!, 1410 Fair street, Camden, h. 1 0? 25-27pd FOR 8ALE?dlomes, some on very I easy terms. Like rent. In all ??< . I tions of the city, type Shanuou I Realty Company, Crocker Building I Camden, 8. C. 2i>tf' I FOR 8ALE?Very desirable 11 room I house, In excelleut condition. Close I in on highway through city. ,\bi I flue 10 room residence, suitable fori high-class tourist homo on Highway I No. 1. Both at bargain prices Ap- I ply Bhannou Realty Company, m I Crocker building, Camden N c I Phone 7. 22sb I FREE ROAD 8EKVICfe?creed's Kin. I Ing Station flfty-uille Free Road Sor-1 vice. Call Telephone 480, Camden, I BC. 0 tf. I CARPENTER AND BUILDER?Be- I fore you decide who should do you?l any class of oarpentry work?out- I work, telephone John 8. Myers, for I side or Inside. All work guaraa- I teed, erpeclallse in cabinets and I screening. Any kind of furniture I repaired. I solicit your patronage. I Telephone 248, John 8. Myers, Bis I Church street. Oamdea. S. C. zmt. FOR SALE?Some fine farms at most reasonable prices. . Buy now and be prepared for next year?and the future. Bee ub now. Shannon Realty Company, Crocker Building, Phono 7, Camden, 8. C. 24tf. FOR RENT OR 8ALE " We have at 1823 North Mill Street, very desirable 6 room home. 1210 Broad street, 10 room brick house, will bo thoroughly renovated, 1506 Fair street, 7 s room house, freshly painted Inside and out 613 Hampton street, comfortable 5 room cottage in nice condition. 723 Walnut street, 6 room house in good condition. SHANNON REALTY COMPANY Crocker'Building Phone 7 27sb CAMDEN'S Cut Rate Specials for Friday - Saturday - Monday Yeast and Iron Tablets Bottle of 80 65c Bottle of 250 $1.39 Special Grade Mineral Oil 35c Carters Little Liver Pills 19c Bottle of 100 Aspirin 19c We Have Special Prices On All BABY FOODS Pablum 39c Clapp's Baby Food, 3 for 25c Dextri Maltose, 1-2-3 69c Mead's Cereal 23c Nu-Vel San j Napkins I One Dozen j 15 c | I 3 Pound 'Can I Crisco | 53c Special High Grade ! i Toilet Tissue I 3 for j j | 14c | i We Have a Complete New j Line of I I Coty's > * ?' * ' I Toiletries