Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1,1 I.11.... '"Li V SSSSLLJ-U LJ! THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE M. D. NIL18, Editor and Proprlator i'ublUhed ovory Friday at Number tlOU North Broad Btroat. aiwl antarod at, the Camdan. Houth Carolina Voatoffloa aa aacond dam mall matter. Prlo# par Year 12.00. No aubaorlptlona taken for leaa than Bli Months. In all Inatanoaa the subscription price Is due and payable In advance. All subscriptions are cancelled whan subscriber falls to renew. Represented In New York by the American Press Association and elsewhere by ail reliable Advertising Agenclo. ? accept no advertising of a doubtful nature and try to protect our patrons Ircw misrepresentation by Advertisers. No Liquor Advertisements aoeepted at any price. Friday, November 3, 1?39 "sTeTpinci in court Some (lays ago Circuit Judge J. Henry Johnson was delivering a charge lo a petit Jury In Orangeburg, whore he was presiding over the regular term of the court of general sessions. and while doing so hud to halt the charge and have huillfTs wake pp two of the Jurors who wore manifestly sojourning in the land of Nod. The I wo who wore sweetly sleeping had a rude shock when waked up and Judge Johnson deloured from his regular charge to lead the two sleepy-headed Jurors a lecture on the Impropriety and possibly worse of going to sleep while ostensibly acting as Jurors. Judge Johnson said that was one thing be simply could not tolerate. Judges, preachers, public speakers and editors all have to contend withl this general human weakness to' "drop off" Into slumber on the pkrt ^ of hearers and readers wheu they are not particularly Interested in what Is being said or read. i Judges, preachers and public speakers have an advantage and a dlsadvantage In this business over editors. Kditors do not know when readers drop to sleep trying to "road after" the aforesaid editor when ho rambles aimlessly along, throwing In words, words, words to (111 up a column while the meaning or moat of what ho Is I r\ lug n? mu> could be and should be covered in three sentences. The gentle reader starts out to read after dinner or after supper and the constant murmur of words like the soft throbbing of ocean waves or the patter of rain on the roof lulls him into HUdi a delightful "little nap" that he really should be grateful to tile wordlayer for what has happened. But Judges, public speakers and preachers have the affair all Indulged In before their very eyes. The drooping head, slowly moving from side to side at intervals, or the tllled-back-head typo of sleeper who usually gives a gentle ?little snore or snort cannot be overlooked 11.' sticks out in the picture like a very disagreeable thing, before the speaker Preachers and public speakers can-J not like Circuit Judge Johnson take, time out and call the offending ones' to law. They have to put up with It and go on. It is a safe bet these two Jurors will not go to sleep again while sitting under the charge of the presiding Judge?Greenwood Index-Journal. i We get much worked up when a murder Is committed in our communl*( ty. Especially do we get exercised when It Is a cold-blooded, premediated slaying?even tho we do not know all the details as to tho why of such affairs? not until later. But Is the cold-blooded, deliberate murder, even tho the killer makes his escape for the time being, as bad as Is tho hit and run driver, who kills or malms a man or woman, boy or girl, on the highway by his drunken driving or by his high.-poed and reckless driving? A^ matter of fait. Isn't the hlt-and, iiit .111\-r many degrees worse than i? :b.- <-olddiloodcd murderer? -York\ Kri'iuirer. For saying. "We ought to give l>an ,jc Hi'l'-r." a chambermaid was ->, nt. iu .I to eight months In prison in Parts A nickel contains more copper than1 nickel. "BELIEVE IT OH NOT" RIPLEY RETURNS TO AIR IN FEBRUARY After short jrlp to Hud now "Bo* llove It Or NoIh" for program. Hob* ort L. Ripley and h 1m aaiofludlng "BeHove It Or Not" radio program will return to the air In mid February, according to un announcement Juat ii.ado by M M Morrow of tbo Hoyal Crown Hottllug coiupauy. Mr. Ripley baa Juat algned one of the biggeat radio contract# ever placed, Insuring bia continued appearance over tbe coast-to-coaat network of tbo Columbia llroadcaq/lng System In addition to bia world-wide fume [ a# creator of the well-known newspaper feuture "Believe It Or Not", Robert L. Ripley baa become one of the outataudiug peraonalltlea uto the air. Ilia radio popularity was amazingly proved during thla paat summer, when hla half-hour show wua u big bit at a time when ao many allows leave the air, and ao many others play to auch small "housea". Listener surveys tbla summer indicated that millions were faithfully tun- < lug in on the Ripley program every 1 Friday night. During bia abort trip, Mr. Ripley, i as usual, will be searching the world's 1 strange, far places for now "Believe ] It Or Nuts". His plana aire not def- t inite?-they are rurely ever definite? 1 but be will probably visit South i America, the Orjent, and any other l outlandish corners of the earth that i appeal to the "World's greatest trav- t L'ler". i When the show returns to the air In February, It will include ull the i present talent and follow thp success- ( fill pattern of the past?broadcasts t from "(he ends of the earth", exclt- y Ing and amazing sketches, Ripley's 1 unusually interesting guests, B. A. t Kolfe with his orchestra, and the 1 lovely vocalist, Linda Lee. 1 The Ripley show is only part of the < advertising for Royal Crown. More i than 5U0 newspapers from coast- tocoast are telling folks about this big- / ger cola drink that "wins nine out of 1 ten certified taste-tests". While the sentiment of the people j of the United States Is very largely | pro-Franco and Great Britain, and decidedly anti-Hitler, it is the overwhelming desire of our citizenship to stay out of the war. We remember what participation in tho last war cost us, a stupendous amount that we won't be out from under in severul generations. Participation In another such strugg4eT-tttt?top of?the teayear depression, tho World War debt, and tho spending spree would mp.au the complete wlplng-out of the present economic and political structure. ?-Chester Reporter. Guns Boom Off Norway We would bo the last one in the world to restrict initiative i:. covering the war, but we feel that some special sort of recognition should be given the reporter with the big ears who has been hearing those naval battles off the coast of Norway every day in past weeks. His role In the International situation fascinates us. Official communiques may come and official communiques may go, but what wots he? He still hears those far-off rumblings. Sometimes we like to picture him sitting brooding In a cafe, his ear glued to an open window, waiting for those far-off detonations which will send him galloping to a telegraph station. The naval battles off the coast of Norway have become, tt seems. a definite fixture of war reporting, and when they cease we will feel a definite loss. All we can do Is wait for the det.iiIfd story. with Illustrations, in book form. ? ICdltor & Publisher. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THING8 lly Spectator Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars loat Is a story of the strike In the Tactile Mills of .Columbia. r Now the workers have taken counsel among themselves and gone back to work without regard to the C. I. O. Hut what they lost In wages, while idle ?$250,000~1? gone forever. What was the matter? Were the workers badly treated? Wore they poorly paid? Were the workers dia l satisfied? 1 am told that the strike was ordered from above. I don t mean heaven, by the way. As 1 understand. the employees wore ordered to strike. While they suffered short rations during the strike, the men who ordered the strike were living In the best stylo on the fat of the land. Now the workers, having taken the bit in their tooth, have grown disgusted with the strike and have gone back to work. But the $260,000 la lost. 1 cannot help but wonder if in such circumstances the whole community night not take a hand. My chief sympathy Is with the workers, for they have suffered great* y. but theirs Is not the only loss. Machinery, Idle for two months, has o he tuned up. but a vast plant, Idle 'or two months, Is a terrific loss to he men and women who own stock u it; it is a great loss for everybody loing business with the mill, as well is those doing business with the operitlves. I live in a little town, In a poor county. No great smoke stacks?except one large lumber plant pour out he smoke of big industry. If this .vhole county were to suffer a payroll oss of $250,000 wo should feel like he Poles after the German invasion. Well Columbia may be opulent and a ush Held of enterprise, but a quarter >f a million dollars is a sum of money which Columbia can't sneeze at. And the cotton, fuel, power, oil, grease, etc., which the mill would lave used?all a part of the general waste! 1 congratulate the workers on taking stock of tlio situation and deciding for themselves. I congratulate Ben K. Adams for going to the workers as a friend stripped for battle and giving liberally of his time and Ability to the cause of the operatives. Suppose that group of mills had shut down permanently! What Is It worth to Richland County? It pays in wages about a million and a half dollars a year?most of It being spent in Columbia; it consumes a lot of power; it spins a lot of cotton, It payB one-fifth of all the property taxes In Richland County. What would happen to the schools of Richland . And the mill pays thousands upon thousands to the State In the dozen ways that State lias to reach it. It Is very desirable to get now enterprises; but by all means let's hold fast to those we already have. Who likes to pay taxes? I've travelled up and down the State, but haven't found a man who thrills with joy at the prospect of paying taxes. Even the legislators, in their private character, don't rejoice over paying taxes. Not even the man on the public payroll quivers with ecstacy, at the payment through his sons, I daughters and sons-in-law, also, b6i public officials and recipients of tax money. 1 have a friend who has fallen into the hands of the tax-collector. And now he howls with pain! All the years or my bitter groaning over taxes left him utterly unmoved. But now. oh. boy! His favorite thcuie is the public extravagance and the waste of the taxpayers' money. My, my! Surely the way to arouse the boys is to make theni pay! There is now one red-hot convert In my county. and he wasn't converted by me, u >r >et by The News and Courier, which he faithfully reads "of a night' and tucks under his pillow. No, sir; he was converted by the tax-collector. Somebody said that bad kings are good for liberty if they are bad enough; so high taxes will make converts tu economy, if they ure Just high enough, eh? About taxes, 1 have read the statement of a great and rich Rail Road, one of the few really prosperous, dividend-paying roads in America. Here a what they say: "Hess business, higher taxes. It doesn't make sense, but that is one of the serious handicaps under which...the American roalroads operate. During the past ten years Bias to 1938?revenue freight traffic of the Norfolk and Western Railway decreased 2* 5 per cent. Revenue passenger traffic decreased 57 per cent. On the other hand, the rail| road's taxes increased from $9,200,000 in 1928 to $ 11,485,000 in 1938, or near ly 25 per cent. Any way yop figure it. you get the same answer?con stantly Increasing taxes." Now look at what Pennsylvania U advertising and think how nice H wduld be If we could say something llko this of South Carolina. "Since January 17, 1939 . . . aggres give efforts have been made by th< State Administration to create mon S Jobs lu private industry and thereby reduce the relief burden and materially to reduce State expenses. The State payroll for all departments, boards and commissions, under control of the Governor, shows a reduction from January 1, 1939 to May 31, 1939 of $3,835,000, or 17 per cent of the State payroll. The Appropriations, as recommended by the Governor for the next two years, amount to . . . , a saving of $6,500,000, representing a 20 per cent reduction in Administrative expenses. Can't, we do something like that? Pennsylvania, in advertising herself, has this to say: State Administration Sympathetc and Co-operative with industry. Efficient State Administration. No special taxes?general sales or personal income. It is the policy to endeavor in every way to I aid Pennsylvania industries and to lighten the burden of taxation. While some other sections of the ?country are increasing taxes, the Pennsylvania State Administration is making every effort to reduce the cost of government". All the above I have quoted from an advertisement sent out by the State of Pennsylvania. One thing more I wish to commend to our people concerning town, school-district and county operations: "Pennsylvania's per capita State debt in 1938 was the lowest of any of the large Eastern manufacturing States. A lower per capita debt than other states reduces the tax burden for interest payments for future years. Manufacturers interested in studying the industrial advantages of various states will wish to consider the debt of a State, as it can have a material bearing on future taxation." We know that, but let's take it to heart. Great emergencies call for vision and faith. In ordinary times mere ordinary men go along in the weary treadmill of life. Such men are governed by what is called experience. Experience is valuable if sifted and studied and interpreted so that the foundation is reached. Experience, however, as Just a mass of casual happenings throughout the years, isn't worth much, if anything. I have always yearned for hindsight, instead of foresight. If 1 could avoid making the same mistake twice I should be a paragon among men. So if 1 could recognize errors and avoid them I would be a wise man. Our war services tend to develop fossils in office. Does it not impress a person of common sense as ridiculous that we should build great ships which can be sunk by one mine or one torpedo, or, Indeed, by two or three well-placed shells? Consider the battleship. A thousand to flftten hundred men, eight to twelvo big guns, thirty or forty smaller cannon. Thirty, forty or fifty million dollars in one ship. One torpedo ?and the Royal Oak lies at the bottom ! Why have big ships. For big guns. But could we not have a ship with Just two big guns? Perhaps it could , be built for five million dollars and . carry a crew of one hundred men. . Four ships like than could be more i J destructive than one super-battleship, ,1 and four would not be so vulnerable , j as one. But planes and submarines can't teach a mind tied down and chloroformed by habit. ' We are about to make the same t mistake by building enormous submaI rines. Let's keep them small and active. Perhaps every officer over thirty> five should be retired so that fresh * brains might have a chance. I 4 Persistence I Zune Orey, the noted author of outdoor Mhort stories and novels, was an j inspiration or should bo an Insplra! tlon to tho younger generation who ! want to write stories and novels. He I died at sixty-four. In his youthful ! days ho was u star college baseball player. He gave up a career as a dentist In New York, lie wuhii'I satisfied with that sort of life. He retired to u smull community In Peuu.i sylvanla. He had the urge to be an j author. He submitted story after story, and novel after novel, only to pile up a long list of rejections slips, I He kept on persistently. At thirty-five he wrote "Heritage of (lie Desert". It was published. Two years luter he wrote "Riders of the Purple Sage". A million copies were sold. He was on his way to^auccess and weulth. Persistence won out for him. Reminds us of a map we once knew intimately. He had the urge to write scenarios for the movies in the silent picture days. He wrote ninety of them and all were rejected. His ninety-first offering was accepted, as was all of the more than one hundred that he wrote afterwards. Persistence won for him, and persistence will win for all of us who have the guts to persist in any one particular line.?Yorkville Enquirer. \ According to tho rules of the canal, any vessel grounded In the Suez canal for more than two days must bo blasted out. Farm Co opa Tht gross business of farmerowned purchasing organizations in the United States is estimated at , $110,000,000 and the members of the 10,700 co-operative organizations market $2,300,000,000 worth of farm 'products in an average year. It Can Happen Here Business men of Toledo, Ohio, formed a cheering section when WPA workers neared the finish of a repair paving job on a main thoroughfare of that city.. They were Impressed with the speed of the job. Weed Growth Proof of the tremendous strength of growing weeds was shown at Winnipeg, Manitoba, when a piece of lumber an inch thick, through which had grown a dandelion root, was found in a lumber yard. Aged Man Found Dead Win, M. Ashley. aged 78 yea , Was found dead In a shed on the premUei at his home in the upper part of ua carter county last Friday afternoon An examination proved that he had been dead for about two hours. Mr. Aahley waa subject to heart attacks and it was evident that he had succumbed as the result of such au attack. He was found In a uetnlkneeling position. He. lived with members of his fam. lly about seventeen miles north 0f Lancaster about a mile west of Highway 521.?Lancaster News. 8lngers Invited The Kershaw County Singing Con- j vontion will meet at Thorn Hill Haj> tlst church, Sunday, November 5, at 2:00 p. m. All cholr^, quartettes and singers are cordially invited. Wants?Fer Sale FOR 8ALE?Choice Hereford cattle: 126 calves, 93 yearlings, 73 bred cows. Officially tested and priced for quick sale. Will sell any number. Write or wire W. J. Monroe, Albia, Iowa. 32pd FOR SALE?One gasoline engine and wood saw, In good running condition. Can be seen at Drakeford's Oarage. Apply to Newton Kelly, 10^2 Mill street, Camden, S. C. 32 pd WANTEDr-Man 35 to 50 years of ago, steady work on established grocery route. Experience unnecessary. Average $25 weekly to start Write Watklns, 123 W. First street, Charlotte, N. C. 32pd APARTMENT FOR RENT?Dec. 1st., to a settled couple. Apply to Mrs. B. G. Sanders, 1507 Fair St., Camden, S. C. . 31-33sb WANTED?Colored man with small family to move on my place and help gather corn and peas. Will furnish good house, wood and water free. Will pay regular price and give steady work. P. D. Stokes, Route 2, Cassatt, S. C. 32-33pd FOR 8ALE?Old time CLAY PIPES packed with stems?uniform boxes. Delivered prices Small (Indianhead) 30c doz., $1.65 hun., $13.50 thou. Large (Salomaker) 50c doi? $2.50 h4i?, $22.50 thou. J. Hay Graham, Yadklnville, N. C. 30-32pd FOR SALE?Farm Land, and timber Land, Large and small tracts. Desirable Location situated noar Kershaw, Bethune, McBee and Liberty Hill. Cheap. Easy terms. Write or see Carl A. Horton, Kershaw, S. C. Phone 140. 29-35?b FOR 8ALE?Shade Trees. Seventyfive Chinese Elms, 8 to 10 feet. The fastest growing shade tree. Redlunds, Lombardy Poplars, Magnolias, etc. See them at my nursery or address Mrs. Robert Rembert. Rembert, S. C. 31-33pd. CURTAIN8 8TRETCHED?At reason able price, all work guaranteed. Ad- y dress 904 Campbell street, Camden, S. C. 36 U. INVESTIGATE?Duo-Therm oil heaters. No ashes, no soot, no fires to build on cold mornings. Made In sizes for one or six rooms. H. E. ; Beard, Camden, S. C. 44tf 8HOE8?For snoe reDuflding and repairing call at the Red Boot Shop, next door Express Office, 619 Rutledge street. Abram M. Jones, Pro j prietor, Camden. S. C. 9sb GA8 FOR COOKING?and water heating, available everywhere with Bseotane gas service. Phone 487 H. E. Beard, Standard Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 44tt CRUST.. YOU SAY hmf.< TOO U LIRE OS FOR IT! W ^ / ClanSSenS FAMILY TBIO lit Gcuiwirj A/ 1 ir iiuqV | CI Alt III't lAflMNCI MtM Huuirta m* Wi wit w e're the Three I-oavea every family should have in its home every day. There'* Clauseen's Old Timey Bread with its tender crust: there's Clausscn's '*9*5" Bread with the cruet you'll never cut off? there's Claussen's Sandwich Bread with crust on, or with crust off. Try ua. nnninEK^raami^ I Lucky Tiger Magic Shampoo and Dandruff I B i Remover with Oil, $1.60 value now 79,. Ipana Toothpaste, 60c siae for 39c I I 100 Warner's Aspirin Tablets 29c I Package Crystal Epsom Salts, 1 lb. 10c; S lbs 39c | \ I DePASS' DRUG STOrTII Reasonable Prices | ! Phone 10 We Deliver I | Grand Opening I Of The Camden Branch of The Major Conservatory of Music I South Carolina's Only Certified Conservatory I # I 4:00 P. M., NOVEMBER 15, 1939 I AMERICAN LEGION BUILDING, ! CAMDEN, S. C. j Instruction for the following instruments will be I presented by graduate teachers of The Major Conserv- j atory of Music: v . ) E. T. Gavin Voice S f Kathleen Major-Gavin Violin \ Cello f . . A i. Walter Krueger Accordion r Guitar j Trumpet *' \ Trombone ? f _ _ . n I Clarinet ^ , Robert R?gef I Saxaphone V Piano Kathleen Major-Gavin Write The Major Conservatory of Music, 1534 1-2 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., for further information, definite*time of lessons and terms.^