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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,-^921
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Another "Fanneii'rMbT($^ent f ' n
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The letter of C. P. Hodges which
appears in The State today is in*- j
tended, one supposes, "to start some-,
thing." That "something" appears 1
to be an imitation of the movement,
or "move-ment," of 1890. Two years
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after the more or less celebrated
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"March Convention" of 1890, the an- I
ti-Tillmanites, or Conservatives, socalled,
held a convention to "suggest"
a ticket and it was then, we ?
believe, that the late Col. J. L. M. ?
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Irby, a lawyer whose remarkable t
abilities were indispensable, to the
success of "Reform," told the story t
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of the <xLulu hand." A stranger in t
' v " a game of poker held four aces but, y
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at the showdown, a man with a pair
of fours raked in the fat jackpot.
When the stranger remonstrated, the j
"banker of the game pointed to t
a placard on the well, saying thatjc
1 - in poker, as played in that house,. *
a pair of fours was a "Lulu hand" c
and beat anything. A little later
the stranger held the "Lulu hand" c
and) when about to take the pot, had t
* Ihis
attention turned to another siem 11
which read "a Lulu hand wins' but;t
once in one night." The aptness of 1
tl^ story was confirmed by the re- j
suit in 1892. !j
Next year 32 years- will have i z
passed since the first success of the j c
. , "Fanners' Movement" and it may 1
be that Mr. Hodges reckons* that it j
is time to open a brand" new game j i
in which the "Lulu hands" will be v
again recognized. 1
Of course The State does not sym- j
jjathize with the unmitigated attack: c
on the poor benighted lawyers. The;?
State does not believe in class gov-jj
erament. If the lawyers have had i v
and have too large a part in shap-J
ing legislation and administration;
in South Carolina, they ought not:
to be subjected . to,cruel' and un*'a
usual punishment for it. Their whole
company numbers 1,000 or 1,200 int^
; South Carolina and not a few of them ^
< are saints of the Lord. One doubts'
?- a
if any of them ought to be hanged i
and, if there be two or three who I
ought to be in jail, we are not pre- g
nared to nrove it or to make an ac- a
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cusation. If 1,200 lawyers can out-j
wit 200,000 men and women farmers, ju
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whose is the fault and where is the j
harm if the farmers must needs re- je
' duce taxes, must have a reformer c
to lead them and would hire a pro-: 5
fessional "Reformer" from the ranks ^
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of the attorneys? That would be a ^
tribute to. the attorneys which no;
generous person would grudge them.:
Perhaps the farmers can not find a
> Moges among themselves and perhaps j
they would not agree upon him if i;
1, , they did find him. Lawyer politi-'t
cians are among the greatest con- r
ven^ences to farmers when they b&-' c
come excited, especially about taxes,, ^
which are invariably imposed by the I
"whi^e collar crowd." :j f
If any of the farmers sympathize e
' with Mr. Hodges' proposal, The State'
will be glad to hear from them and
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print their letters, provided they
write briefly and to the point. The |
State will certainly not oppose an
upright and capable man for gov- j
ernor merely because he is a farmer.
Nor would it oppose a man of that
kind for no better reason than that
he happened to be a "movie" actor
or* lawyer.?The State.
Potato "Cure" Returns
Detroit News. ,
. Potaoes sold y^e other day in
a .Michigan town at eighteen cents a'
bushel. They will be back presently '<
to a point where a fellow can afford j
to resume carrying one in his pocket a
for His rheumatism. <
THE GRAY AND THE BLUE
(By D. H. Magill, Richmond, Va.) ]
The Southern smiles of peace now
flow
Triumphant over tears, j
Announcing war shall ever go, i
Dispelling rueful fears; <
The direful days of Seven Pines, <
Of Gaines' Mill, Frazier's Farm <
And Malvern Hill, depart with lines
Of cruel strife's alarm. ]
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mmottal brave, for whom we weep! i
Unwavered was thy test, ;
At quiet Hollywood some sleep, i
At Oakwood others rest;
rho' many lie, unrecognized, ]
1 Where courage was their shield, j
rhey are asleep, immortalized, ]
Who. fell on valor's field. i
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Ve chant sweet requiems for the
> k.ray?? y \ C? *1 '
*Who ?ell for Southern rights,
S^i^h.Carolina lilies wave,
Virginia's rose unites;
n 'peace we'll evermore abide,
The .South, so brave and true,
The North, in faith will stand beside
ThpGray in living Blue.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
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Upliit Church Regrets Lots of the
' ' Rev. Louis J. Bristow. t
The following: resolution was adoptd
by the iqembers of the Abbeville \
baptist church upon the resignation t
ecently of the Rev. Louis J. Bris- ]
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"Whereas, The Rev. Louis J. Bris- 1
ow, who has been our beloved pas- <
or, and under Shepherd for eig;ht ]
ears, has tendered his resignation to 1
iccept the superintendence of a Bap- <
ist hospital in Selma, Ala., and ?
"Whereas, Since coming to us^ in J
910, for five years, and in 1918, for
hree years, a new and modern house '
if wotship and parsonage have been 1
milt and paid for, and are now free
f debt, apd # <
"Whereas, The membership of the '
:hurch has grown from 167 to 466 '
he greater portion of this increase 1
jeing under his wise and enthusias1c
leadership, and is now one of the 1
argest church in the city, and 1
"Whereas, The attendance at the 1
jreach'ng services, Sunday School !
tnd prayer meetings have shown won- j
lerful growth a^na interest since nis
ast pastorate with us, and all de- i
jartments of the church are working :
n harmony and good fellowship and
vith enthusiasm, . 1
"Therefore be it resolved by the
nembers of tne Abbeville Baptist 1
:hurch that his resignation was regretfully
accepted believing that the 1
iall to Selma opens .up new field of
isefulness to him.
"That while fully appreciating his
jreat work and usefulness, among
is, we pray that under Divine guidance
he may be the means not only
>f healing the physical infirmities of
nany, but that he may be enabled to
tasten the coming of the kingdom in
i larger measure than ever before.
"That our beet wishes and prayers (
;o with him and his family that anil
-wise Providence may take care \
f them and guide them in all their ,
indertakings. i
"That tnese resolutions be inscrib- t
d on a page in the minutes of the v
hurch, and be published in the local c
apers and the Baptist Courier, and j
hat a copy be sent to the Rev. Louis r
. Br.'stow." (
GIRL INSTANTLY KILLED t
Winston-Salem, N. ' C.?While i
valking on the roof of the new t
welve-story hotel here this after. 1
loon Miss Lillian Mitchell, 24 years
>ld, daughter of Edgar Mitchell, of i
Walnut Cove, fell from a high para- t
jet to the roof of the ball room, ten c
loors below, and was instantly kill- ]
id. i
At the croner's inquest one of the (
vitnesses said that Miss Mitchell had i
isked her, "If you loved a man and 1
le loved you and you knew, that the i
narriage could never take place, {
vhat would you do?" The witness <
stated that she advised Miss Mit- ]
shell to continue and to trust to J i
lope. "But," repied Miss Mitchell, i
iccording to the witness, "suppose'j ]
jvery future moment made tilings
vorse?" At another time Miss
Mitchell remarked to thfi witness, "I
:ould scream until every one in the <
juilding heard me," i
Not being aible to arrive at a de- j
:ision from the evidence the jury ad- <
iourned until tomorrow, when it will j
JAW 4-Vin nrtr] corilr f A nkf Qm 4
new tlic uuiiuxii^ auu otca IU uubuiit I
>ther evidence. 1
BILLY SUNDAY SORRY
Laemntc Plight of Fatty Arbuckle
and Blames Booze
Siouk City, Iowa, Sept. 18.?I feel j
sorry for "Fatty" Arbuckle and doj
lot see how any court in the . land j
:ould convict the fallen idol for mur- j
ier or for manslaughter. He has j
suffered enough in my opinion.
How can you punish Arbuckle unless
you punish Mrs. Bambina
Vlaude Delmont and the others who
were his guests at the St Francis
ind have told their story to ;Dis.rict
Attorney Brady?
I blame booze for the whole thing.
3ad there been no liquor at that
party Virginia Rappe would not
lave lost her life. But there were
ntoxicants and I see by the papers
;hat fovty quarts of whisky and
jibber, hard liquor were consumed by
i!i|fatty" and his gqeste. t. . ..
' ."Arbuckle realizes that the way of
;he /transgressor is hard. He was the
novies' best comedian. He was the
favorite of old and young alike when
;hey went to the picture shows to
jet a laugh. He drew because he was
jood, because his plays were not
suggestive of immorality. He did a
ot of good in the world because he
hade folks laugh and forget their
:ares and sorrows. He was the sun
;hat shined on filmdom.
Now his pictures are barred. And
vhile they are banning his pictures
;hey should quit showing Miss
[lappe's.
Without a doubt she went to that
jarty of her own free will and ac:ord.
From what I gather from the
papers, Miss Rappe also went into
;he bedroom with "Fatty" not because
he forced her to go, for it
seems that.he did not, but because
she wanted to go in there with him.
TIip iHrl Hied: hut I believe her
ieath was caused by an accident and
not by Roscoe Arbuckle.
That party was as wild as any I
jver heard of. There are many
jthers going on that are just as
wild, however, and that is because
immorality is increasing.
. And immorality will increase as
long as people disregard laws, whether
they be laws of the churches or
of the government. At that, 1 con}ider
prohibition has 'been successful.
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How do I figure that prohibition is
i success if immorality is increasing?
yrou will ask.
Well, the Volstead act has taken
may the saloons, for one thing; and
has made communities more prosperous.
But as I have just said,
;here are violators of all laws; what
;he prohibition act needs is bigger
:unds for its enforcement.
That party of Arbuckle's was just
* ???A /\^ ? mA/lovn PaloVl ?X77Q T? on.
ertaining in the St. Francis Hotel.
?atty fell for whisky and wild wom?n.
Old Belshazzar had a party that
vas most disgraceful, but that' party
lad nothing on "Fatty's."
PRdF. GUNTER RETIRES
Z. C. Rots Takes Furman University
Faculty Vacancy.
Greenville, Sept. 15.?Friends
;hroughout South Carolina of Prof,
liirceo Gunter, head of the departnent
of education at Furman Unirersity,
will regret to learn that the
:ondition of his health is such that
le has been compelled to retire tem>orarily
from his active duties. Prof.
junter has been under observation
>f a specialist in an Atlanta hospi*
al for several days and news from
jim is to the effect tha the will be
'orced to take a leave of absence un:il
the first of the coming year, at
east.
To fill the vacancy caused by the
llness of Prof. Gunter, the adminisxation
at Furman University has se:ured
Prof. Clay C. Ross, of Powell,
Cennessee. Prof. Ross comes to Furnan
highly recommended and splendidly
equipped for his work. He is
i B. A. of Carson-Newman college,
lolds a B. A. degree in education
;rom the University of Tennessee!
ind an M. A. degree from the teach;rs
college of Columbia University.
3e has had considerable experience
n teaching.
LOWELL SHERMAN, GUEST
OF 'FATTY' LOSES OUT
Los Angles, Cal., Sept.. 17.?Low;11
Sherman, motion picture actor,
;uest at the Roscoe (Fatty)
\rbuckle hotel party in San Francis:o,
on Labor Day, was released from
i contract with a large motion pic;ure
production company here, it
was announced yesterday.
MANY JEWELS FOUND
IN DESPERADO'S LA Ml
Atlanta Nefro, Profexional Burglar,
Killed by Officers Who Try
To Arreat Him.
Atlanta, Sept. 17.?Large quantities
of valuable jewelry have been
found in the haunts of Frank Cooper
negro desperado, thought by the police
to have been a professional burglar,
who was shot to death early Friday
morning by Officer J. W. McWilliams,
after a pitched battle.
Four negro women have been arrested,
charged with being accomplices
of fcooper. They are Mattie
Byrd and Ruby Russell, 306-A West
Fair street; Roxie Jones, 181 Bell
street, and Mary Wilson 9 Old Wheat!
street!-'.' H r
.jDet^dtivtes went to the Scene' of
the: fcfto'otinfc'of Cooper, which occurred
at 308 West Fair street, just
after daybreak. They entered that
house and number 306-A, next door,
and as they mounted the steps a
negro woman, one of the four under
arrest, threw a box from the window.
When recovered, it proved to
contain diamonds, and watches, and
brooches of considerable value.
There is, somewhere, say the
negro women, a cigar box full of
gems and jewels of great value.
They say they do not know where
it is. Cooper showed it to them a
day or two ago and went away with
it, they said. The police department
is hunting for it.
Searching Cooper's pockets after
his dramatic death, the officers
found eight gold watches of considerable
value. They have not been
identified. ,
The jewelry recovered from the
box in Cooper's room consisted of
the following:
A diamond-studded gold watch
embellished with sixty pearls, and a
pistol, believe to belong to Mrs. H.
L. DeGive, of 665 Peachtree street.
A gold wrist watch .and a diamond
ring, identified, by Mrs. S. Franks,
of 260 Rawson street, as her property.
A pearl-studden sunburst, a gold
and pearl brooch, a gold wrist watch
and a ruby ring, identified and delivered
to Miss Rose Bloom, 210
Washington street.
. A quantity of gold chains, diamonds
and jewels yet unidentified.
I * "Cooper was an expert burglar,"
say the police, "and if we can find
all his hidden loot we will be able
to return much of the valuable jewelry
whioh has been stolen in the
past few months. We will not rest
until" that cigar box is found."
Cooper, a negro desperado well
known to thfe police and a romantic
figure in the underworld of
Darktown, said to be an escaped convict,
and a generally bad man, was
shot to death early Friday morning
by Police Officer J. W. McWilliams.
"You'll never take me alive," he
had sent word to headquarters.
A year ago, it is said, he was
given a sentence of fifteen years
for burglarizing the home of Mayor
Key. He served two months of this
sentence and escaped, and Atlanta
police have been searching for him
ever since..
Prior to 1910 the pink boll worm'
so destructive to the cotton fields, was
unknown in Egypt.
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MURDER UNSOLVED > 1
Man in Car Shot By Party in Pairing
Car.
Akron, 0., Sept. 17.?More light ^
on the circumstances of the murder j
of Harry Sinclair, 40, Akron sportsman,
early Thursday, is toeing sought
today by Cleveland and Akron po- ^
lice. Two leads were followed yester- j
day in an effort to run down the
identity of his slayer, but county ^
prosecutor A. W> Doyle reported lit- ^
tie progress.
(Sinclair was dirviner the -roadster;
of a friend, R. & (Red) Smithers,' j
who was also in the party with two ! j,
women, yrhen, according to the .
Story told iby Smrthers, a car raced 1
up behind from which two shots were r
fired which struok the body of the s
roadster. The third shot fired as the pursuer
was passing killed Sinclair
instantly. A * "'"i
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The two men in the party substan-^
tiate Smither's story.
iPriends of Sinclair state that he,
was a former Philadelphia man and (
that he had no known enemies. He
was known to police as a gambler,!
and police believe that he may have'
made some bitter enemies in his pro-!
fession. The police have discarded
the jealousy theory on which they
worked yesterday.
WEEKS AND FORD CONFElt
Will DUcum Offer of Lizzie King to
Buy Power Plant
I
, Washington, Sept. 17.?Secretary
Weeks will confer Monday at 10 a. m
with engineers representing Henry '
Ford on the offer submitted by ,the
Detroit manufacutrer for the purchase
and lease by him of nitrate and
water power projects at Muscle Shoals
Ala.
After the discussion with the engineers,
it is understood that Mr.
Ford personally will come to Washington
to talk with Secretary Weeks.
The conference Monday was believed
to center upon certain objection
raised by Secretary Weeks to provisions
in the Ford offer. These will be
explained by the secretary to the
engineers who, it was said would advise
Mr. Ford, probably before his
conference with. Mr. Weeks.
SMOTHERED TO DEATH
Newberry, Sept. 16.?The six year
old son of G. B. Ellison of Spring
Hill, Lexington county, was smothered
to death in a pile of line cotton
Monday at a gin house on the James
C. Duncan plantation In Cromer
township. The lad was visiting a
family on the plantation and with
the children of the family was playing
in the cotton when the accident:
occurred. The little body was ship-(
ped hack to his father's in Lexington
county for .burial.
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rO RESUME STUDY
OF LAW AT CAROLINA
James S. Cothran, Jr., popular
leputy clerk of the United States
District Court, nephew and private
ecretary to Associate Justice Thomis
P. Cothran, leaves Greenville tolay
to visit his sister, Mrs. Julian D.
t i *. J* n .1 i? i j a _
loistem, jr., 01 n.ageneia. Aixer a
hort visit in Edgefield Mr. Othran
vill go to Columbia, where he will
lursue. the study of law at the University"
of South Carolina.
"Jimmy" Cothran, as he is popu- arly
known in this city, has made a
lost of friends during his residence
n Greenville, and all wish him a
nost successful term at the law
ichool.?Greenville Piedmont. '
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