The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, March 11, 1920, Image 2
The Chesterfield Advertiser
Paul II. and Fred G. Hearn
Editors
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Entered as sccond-class matter at the
postofFlce at Chesterfield, South
Carolina.
A BOOM FOR PALMER
In a recent issue of the Atlanta
Constitution there is a fine tribute to
the character and qualifications of
Hon. Michell Palmer, who is one of
the Candidates for the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency. Although
not leading the light for any
candidate before the holding of the
National Democratic Convention, the
Constitution says:
A man of irreproachable character,
of towering strength, of marked ability
for leadership and "born and
bred" a democrat?and not afraid
to say so?it has been generally accepted
that he would figure prominently
in the campaign for the democratic
presidential nomination.
The Constitution recalls this incident
of the Baltimore Convention, in
which at a critical period in the Convention
Palmer might have secured
the nomination.
"\\ hen 11 appeared that Wilson
would not be able to reach the twothirds
vote necessary to nominate,
representatives of other candidates
who had at that time polled more
than a majority vote of the convention,
tendered Mitchell Palmer their
suimort and his nomination would
have been inevitable hail he said the
word. He had led the light for Wilson
in his state, whose delegation he
headed, and he stood firm by his conviction.
He carried the fight again to
the floor and won"
There is just one other instance
of this unselfish action in a presidential
convention. It was when William
McKinley, at the head of the John
Sherman delegation from Ohio, and
when the tide was turning from Sherman
to McKinley. It soon became evident
that Sherman could not be nominated
and Ben Harrison was put in,although
McKinley could have had the
nomination for the ashing. Palmer
went to the Democratic National Convention
to vote his state for Wilson
as McKinley went to vote nis state
for Sherman. In this connection it
may not be out of place to say tnat
William J. Bryan went to the Democratic
Convention at Baltimore with
a pledge to Champ Clark but voted for
Woodrow Wilson.
MOONSHINE AND CONFISCATION
An article of special importance
just at this time appeared :n a late
issue of the Augusta Chronicle. It
deals with the moonshine and land
confiscation.
The article was furnished the Augusta
Chronicle by Mr. N. A. Willet,
whose able and timely articles havt
been frequently referred to by the
Chesterfield Advertiser.
We condense Mr. Willet's article
to make room for it in this issue.
Mr, Willet alludes to the statement
by U. S. Court officials that hereafter
under the new prohibition law, moonshine
farms will be proceeded against,
confiscated and sold at public auction,
puts a new color upon the moonshine
business and perhaps, too, puts
thousands of Georgia farms in jeopardy.
Mr. Willet wrote to Judge Callaway
a leading lawyer of Augusta and a
farmer too, by the way, asking him as
to the features of the law.
The gist of Judge Callaway's letter
is in effect that the courts have
so far upheld the Confiscation features
of the law. The Judge explains.
however, that the statute does
n<>' undertake to confi -eate the property
of an innocent owner. It is only
the guilty owner who inn t uffer.
If the owner has guilty knowledge
of the moonshine on his farm or if
he draws profit from it be will be
held guilty and his land confiscated
But where the property of the owner,
whether land, automobiles or other
.conveyances, or personal property, i.-without
the knowledge or consent of
the owner for the illegal manufac
ture, traffic or sale of intoxicant
iU.. 4..1 ..t . ... II.. ... ..
iieiuirr iim? mhiuu.s 'it"rimy, inn
the decisions of t!ie court would uphold
the confiscation of the owner'.property.
As to automobiles Judge Callaway
says:
If the owner of an automobile i
is either using his automobile himsell
or is permitting another to use his
automobile with his knowledge and
consent, in the illegal traffic of whiskey,
and the automobile is seized, it
can be sold under the law and the
proceeds turned over to the government,
either state or national.
An advertisement of a new book
called "Snake Bite" is said to deal ,
with the African desert. The prohibitionists
have made a great desert I <
in this country and no snake bite I
jwnody to bo had.
Ilitl -
An exchange diplores the absence
i>f the old time Southern spirit. Pre- .
sume there's no reference in this to
the dry law.
i
In the trial of the I. \V. W. in
Washington on the charge of murder
on'v one of the ten on trial made the
plea of insanity. Why not the nine?
Here is a patriot with a capital
"P." In Chicago William J. Graham
was elected Comptroller at a salary
of $15600. But it was proposed, as
the office was a very responisble one
to add $900, making the salary $7500.
Mr. Graham said that was too much
and would not accept the increase.
If Diogones were living he would find
an honest man in Chicago and would
not need hi? lantern to locate him.
A FIELD DAY IN CONGRESS
Although there is a great deal of
Serious, even Solemn talk in Congress,
they do have fun occassionally.
Production of corn was under
discussion the other day whon the
Congressman from Missouri, Mr. Rubey,
(not Rube) began to extol the
wonderful productive capucity of hi?
State. He said one Missourian had
got a prize from a farm paper of
$5000 for the best five acres of corn.
The yield was 127 Vfe bushels per acre.
Then up jumped Mr. Wood, of Indiana,
who claimed that was not so
much and that Indiana could beat
that.
Then Congressman Bankhcad, of
Alabama, popped up and said that
I'M 'A bushels was the record in that
State.
Then Congressman Claud Kitchen,
of North Carolina, the leader of the
Democrats on the floor of Congress
said:
I am glad the gentleman from Missouri
(Mr. Rubey) has called attention
to the great yield in Missouri,
and tVat the gentleman from Alabama
(Mr. Bankhcad) has referred to
the yield of 237 va bushels in his
State. I want to say if they continue
to encourage these farmers in Misouri
and in Alabama they may posibly
get up to the record, eventually,
of North Carolina, which holds a
record of 250 buhels per acre, the
largest in the history of the country.
(Laughter.)
Then this interchange of corn talk
took place:
Mr. Rubey. Mr. Chairman, 1 hope
no more of the gentlemen wiil interrupt
mi', because if they do there is
ao tolling how large this yield is going
to get to be. (Laughter.)
Mr. Blnnton. Mr. Chairman, the
:entleman from Missouri will admit
that the State of Texas is in a class
!>y itself, and it not involved in this
ontroversy.
Mr. Mann of Illinois: Mr. Speaker,
:n connection with what has been said
it was reported the other day that a
former Member of this House, Jos ph
C. Sibley, had raised on 12 acres
of ground 3111 bushels of corn to the
lcre. (Laughter and applause.)
Mr. Rubey. They are still going
up, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Mann of illionis. It shows the
effect of being a Member of Congress.
Then Mr. Thomas, a Democratic
Congressman from Kentucky boasted
that he had plowed 12 hours a day
for 50 cents a day, but he did not
want to talk about corn, hut about the
barberry bush. Mr. Thomas said;
Some Republican Congressman
from Missouri?I do not know who?
laid we needed $190,000 for barberry
bushes, because they caused ruj.t on
wheat. There never was a barberry
bush in the world, in my opinion, that
made rust on wheat, and yet in the
name of economy this Republican
Congress gave $190,000 to eradicate
barberry bushes, when the way to
eradicate a Darnerry nusn is 10 taxe a
hoe and cut it down. They never discovered
but one barberry bush, I am
informed, in the district that this
Congressman comes from.
IBANEZ IS WRONG
The Spanish author, Biasc-o lbanoz,
who wrote the popular book, The
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in
a recent interview expressed some
strange ideas about the domestic relations
of American husbands and
wives, lie said:
"Every American man is afraid of
his wife. He has a mental picture of
(lis wife si Hiding behind the door
with a rolling pin, either literally or
figuratively, according to social standards.
What this country needs is a
econd emancipation.
I ban "V. has evidently been reading
'Brinj ng up Father" and takes Mr.
liggs too seriously. Few American
women use the roiling pin even to
lit their husband.
Wi'T AND DRY IN POITICS
In Ji.i interview recently the Anti.Saloon
l.eigue of America, through
Wnyin H. Wheeler, general counsel,
leelnred that th?* prohibition forces
.vill e.< e<-,>t the challenge of wets at
the conventions of the political paries.
If they try to force a wet plank in
he platforms they will meet the uni d
opposition of the dry forces. Mr.
Wheeler said:
The united dry forces representing
all the National Prohibition organizations,
agreed not to ask the political
parties to take sides on the merits
of Prohibition, If the wets raise the
issue they will start something that
may change the plans of the drys not
to ask for a prohibition plank. It was
decided to request the platform comdittees
to declare in no mistak'en
terms for law and order. The candidate
or party that sidesteps this issue
or declares for the repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment i? doomed to fall.
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TRUTH IN ADVERTISING
That it pays to tell the truth in advertising
is illustrated by this inci
dent:
In a big department store the advertising
manager was sick and the
proprietor called a new clerk to prepare
an advertisement. He said to the
young man:
"I want you to stir up some interest
in the waterproof garment department.
The fact is, we have a l??i ?>:'
rotten raincoats we've got to gut rid
of. They are shopworn, and some
of them are cracked, and we'll el'
thorn for little or nothing. Now j
we've got to get the people here to (
buy'efh. There are some good ones1
in the lot, but if we can't sell V;i,|
we might as well dump 'em in the river."
The young man assu.'ed "the 1
he knew exactly how to do it.
The next morning when the merchant
opened his paper to read his advertisement
for that day, he came
pretty near having a lit, for on the
page opposite the editorials was tin*
raincoat advertisement away across
the page bold-face type, and it read
this way.
"To tell the truth, we have a lot
of rotten raincoats we've got to get
rid of. They are shopworn, ami some
of them are cracked, and we will sell
them for little or nothing."
Down went his fist on the table,
rattling the dishes and spilling the
coflfee.
He read on:
"There are some good ones in the
lot, but if we can't sell them, we
might as well dump them into the river."
Without waiting to eat breakfast
he jammed his hat on close to his
HEADQUA1
furn:
We have on display this >
Rugs we have ever shown in C
9X12 Rugs
27X36 Rugs
36X54 Rugs
3 and 5 piece parlor
Our stock of iron beds, w
tables and chairs, buffet kitchei
| tit the lowest possible price.
Farmers' Hard
As Dead a
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Every druggist in town?your
gist has noticed a great falling o
all give the same reason. Doi
place.
"Calomel is dangerous and f
Liver Tone is perfectly safe ai
prominent locai druggist.
Take "Dodson's Li
Dodson's Liver Tone is personally
guaranteed by every druggist who
sells it. A large bottle costs but a
few cents, and if it fails to give easy
in every case of liver sluggishness
and constipation, you have only
to ask for your money back.
Dodaon'e Liver Tone is a pleasanttesting,
purely vegetable remedy,
kernlaai both AiMm ead
flW ^FW||v IV W WWS ef wwwffF*
i...
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ounce that datin
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h Will Be Able
)f Shoe, Size or
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ears and started olF down town, an
I hour ahead of his usual time, to disI
charge the youth who had written the
advertisement. Red in the face, he !
headed straight for the advertising
manager's office. His partner met him
on the way and asked:
' Do you l.no'V about the ruini
coats?"
I '"l)o 1 know? Yes! I'm on my way ^
to kick that fool out of tiie store."
| "Then you don't know!" said his
n .-; nor. "There was the biggest
o vd in the rail oat ilios itmcnt we;
ever hr.d. FJvery garnvnt was sold!
1 out thirty minui -s afier we opened |
morning. 'j'ait r.l was a would
r. Seemed to please the people by'
i-iis absolute frsoi ness." ,
The merlinnl paused, and then J
i' iie I Ivs ton low: id his otlice. He j
j ) f ?r the d\c.tisin -man.
' Y 'U.i;; nian," l.e s. id "how did it
: .el 11.:.L y u u d ; y ? ::* ? t v. ord.i
.hi: ?I ' ' e. :< :t .a", morning?"
! 'V'j ;.? hi iiie tret!, .?? imply and
?.ii eeily that I eouddn't improve on
yeur way <>f saying was the answer
"Well." mid tho merchant. "Hut
you were right and I was wrong.
You may run the advertising department
in your own way from now on."
That big department house became
noted not only because of the truth
and frankness of Its advertisements
but because of its honesty and fair
dealing with the public.
PROHIBITION AND MORTALITY
The lurge number of deaths recently
caused by the drinking of wood-alcohol
should not, says The Journal
of the American Medical Association
(Chicago), lead the public to overlook
the important drop in the death- ^
I
*TERS FOR
ITURE
veek the most complete line of i
hesterfield.
$7.50 to $60.00
...... $3.50 to $8.50
$5.00 to $12.50
suits $50.00 to $75.00
ooden beds, washstands, dining!
.
n cabinets and sofas is complete
ware Companyj
lithe Dodo
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druggist and everybody's drug- |
fT in the sale of calomel. They
ison's Liver Tone is taking its
>cople know it, while Dodson's
id gives better results," said a
ver Tone" Instead I
Take a spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or constipated
bowels. It doesn't gripe or cause inconvenience
all the next day like violent
calomel. Take a dose of calomel
today and tomorrow you will feel
weak, sick and nauseated. Don't lose
a day's wprkl Take Dodson's Liver
Tone instead and (eel lae, (all ft
vigor and klttrn
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HERE and REA
1 to Supply Any
Price; for Men
RE & C
that has followed the legal pro- j
hibition of alcoholic beverages. It j
goes on:
Recent statistics show that for July,
Augu t and September 1911), the
inr ii.e< of deaths in Boston from alcol?
d'Siu mounted to only 7 as coinpa:
,i with .11, -10, .'IK and :U for the
c pam:ia;r ne'iod of the f >ur pieceding
ye,.rs. Similarly, accidents diminished
from 1 52 in 11)15, 17(5 in
191(1, 197 in 11)17 and lal m 15'Is <?
lit: for the corre<f!'?ndii?f. three
months of 191S). - Suii id-.M also diminished
to a very marked degree.
On tie o'ncr hand, h mnieides showed
in' mute nl d re a o, a fact thai h
1m : retired i.i other eili s. It .ce.us
;t I p., however, that certain Ui>
vmu.il fa lars are m work In ir.crease
the u .da r of iiMtniers. As is u !
after a great war, fumilarit\ >:ih
means of violence and r a lin*'s.-> i >
li'.ori to such mee.i . are ciiiinnstanees
that nri t he reckoned wi'h
during the slow return to law and or- 1
dir. The diminution in the d-ath ;
from alcohol! -an, accident, and suicide
that has occurred in Boston has been |
observed in many other large American
cities and the sa.ing of life fioni
these causes probably fur exceeds !
the increased number of deaths from '
wood-alcohol.
JUST GOT OVER A COLD?
Look out for kidney troubles and
backache. Colds overtax the kidneys
and often leave them weak, For weak
kidneys?well read what a faithful
user says:
A. J. Scarborough, 2.77 Syracuse
St., Durlngton, S. C., says: "Some
years ago I caught cold from exposure
and it settled in my kidneys and made
my back lame and sore. I could
hardly hend over and when I did so,
my back pained terribly. I felt tired
and languid and my nerves were in
awful shape. At times I would be
dizzy and my sight would blur. Nights
the kidney secretions would pass too
often, although they were scanty and
caused a burniing sensation. When 1
)iear;j qf Loan's Kidney Pills, I used
thesa. After I had taken the first box,
I had fine relief and four boxes cured
me of all the kidney complaint."
Price GOc., at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy?get
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mr. Scarborough had. Foster Milburn
Co., Mffs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
TO MY
Custom*
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Store in fron
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seed? WML
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your pay.
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store; all the
Have
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tory. $20,000 worth of feature
body, including nine free i o?va
The World's
Arthur Pry.
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AUTO EXHIBITS, Tl
ASSEMBLY OF AME
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For further information w
bia Auto Association or
Chamber of Commerce.
DISCHARGE NOTICE
On the 8th of March, 1920, I will n
apply to the Probate Court of this t<
County for u discharge ns Adminis- $
tratrix for the Estate of II. E. Gul- cl
ledge, deceased. T
February 2, 1920. ir
p Allie L. Gulledge, p
Administratrix, h
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who have always sola
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seed house, come aver
your cotton over in froi
buyers arc over here no
i some special Ba
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about 150 bushels Loi
for sale at $2.50 a bush<
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e\v Secretary of Agriculture, ex-edi>r
Meridith, recommends cutting qut
240,000 that was to be used foe put;
basing and distributing free seeds,
he Senate acted upon this recomlendation
but at time of going to
ress the lower house had not been
eard from.
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