Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER y, lyzi SEVEN PERSC BY RLE RECORD FOR 1921 PASSES LA THAT FIFTY-FIVE MEN HAV SINCE 1912? TEN (From The State.) Seven men, all negroes, paid the death penalty iby electrocution in South Caroina during the present year according to records at the state penitentiary. No more electrocutions are scheduled for this year so far as is known and the record therefore will probably stand at seven. Tillman Choice the Spartanburg negro who was put xo death Friday was the last scheduled electrocution of the year others that are now pend ing having ibeen postponed. J. C. Wallace of Sumter, a white man is under death sentence for December 16 'but an appeal to the supreme court for a new trial nas auwm#u call stayed the sentence. Ten men are now under death sentence but in all cases appeals have stayed the verdicts of the lower courts. Of these ten, six are white and four are negroes. The whites are S. J. Kiifcy, -C. O. Fox, Jesse Gapping Edmund Bigham, 'Cliff Hawkins and J. C. Wallace. The negroes are El Cul'breath, Abraham Williams, Wil liam Thompson and Will Hood. The first three are in the penitentiary while Hood is in Greenville. +V.Q ocfalKlioVimpnt of the WU1VC buw vuwv?vmw?*??... electric chair in 1912 and up until yesterday 55 men have been electro cuted. Of this number 52 were ne groes and three white. In 1920 three negroes paid the death penalty. The number increasd this year to seven a record equaled only by one or two previous years. The seven negroes'this year were: Ivey Littlejolin, February 18, who was sent up from Spartanburg for the murder of a chaingang guard; Adam Griffin March 4 who was sent up from Sumter for murdering a guard at the state farm; Feetie Fogle, March 25, who was sent up from Calhoun county for the mur der of a white man at Lone Star; Al ! STA I You hav< go tarthes lars wortr CA )NS DIE 'CTROCUTION ST YEAR?STATISTICS SHOW E PAID DEATH PENALTY UNDER SENTENCE. bert Wilson, May 3, who was sent up from Richland county for the murder of a white man; Pinik Grif fin September 2 who was sent up from Greenwood county for the mur- ( der of a white man; Harvey Whaley November 4 who was sent up irom i, Calhoun county for his part in the | | ! murder of Earle Watford a white man; Tillman Choice December 2 who was sent up from Spartanburg ] for criminally assaulting a white . woman. i William Reed a negro, was the first person to be electrocuted. He was put to death August 6 1912. Reed was from Anderson county and a coincidence is that the first white man, Samuel N. Hyde, to be electrocuted was also from Ander son. He was put to death October 1, 1912. Hyde was convicted of killing , several people at the Orr cotton , mills at Anderson and yas very anxi ous according to his statement, to be ! the first manelectrocuted. He was dis- ( appointed when -Reed was the first man to die by the new method. Since the electrocution of Hyde, ] only two other white men have paid I the penalty. C. P. Hushing of Ches . terfield yas electrocuted April 18, 1912 he ibeing the second white man j and M. L. Garrett of Bishopville paid the penalty July 14, 1912, ac cording to penitentiary records. No white man has been electrocuted since 1913. Miss A. K. S. Deverell and Miss M. Kyle have the distinction of be- ! ing the first women barristers to 1 practice law in the Dublin, Ireland ! courts. i The Hindoo woman's life is divid-. 1 ed between two never-ending tasks, 1 the care of her home and the prac-.] tice of her religious duties. ' i jest IV LOSI 1.RTS T MORN e been waitii (9 >t. That tim C 11 i ot all year i SH E Al LIWEETI "AGRICULTURAL CREDITS" SUB JECT OF McKELVIE?TWO BUS INESS SESSIONS TO BE HELD TODAY?GO TO WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY. Charleston, Dec. 6.?Addresses on "Agricultural Credits" by Gov. Sam uel McKelvie of Nebraska, and "Agreements by States under Unit ed States Constitution," 'by Repre sentative Merrill Moores of Indiana, and on "National Home Making t Through Reclamation" by Frederick e Haynes Newell consulting engineer p of the reclamation service, were heard by the house of governors in ^ t its first business conference here to- d night. | Governor McKelvie emphasized the d financial worries of the farmers of v the country, explaining they were due c to the process of deflation in 3uch; degree as to lay the farmer prostrate, j s The farmer should be encouraged to, y borrow money for his needs on the J s same basis as all others, he said, add- ( s ing that this situation has never ob- s cained because the farmers lack liqfrid assets. He told the governors how the to state o5 Nebraska was assisting its e farmers in the borrowing of money, j e Representative Moores cited in- p stances where lack of a uniformity in j state laws was injurious in various^ directions. He suggested that coope-r^to ative legislation was the apparent ( a remedy for overcoming some of the n defects that are prevalent in this. ;ountry whereby men escape un- (ii scathed after commission of crime (t ind whereby some property is taxed J several times. He said that until the' c states "through cooperative legisla- j ii tion or some course took up the slack s some pieces of injustice and unequal- J o ity would continue." Mr. Newell asked the interest of j ^ the governors in legislation looking j - to reclamation of lands in various, ii parts of the union, for the purpose s! jf giving men an opportunity of own- o I nnav F THE :ng < OMORI INT, D A 1 ig all year fo e has arrived merchandise f > A D/ >m\\ B BE V I J : T-l HE 14 POINTS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP (From a pamphlet written by Pro essors Hamilton and Knight, of he University of North Carolina, or educational work in the United Itates Army during the World Var.) 1. To act loyally?Loyalty is the ohesive force of society. Unless we re true to our faimily, business as ociates, and fellow^citizens, the Itate falls to pieces. 2. To co-operate?Team play is he onlv wav to cttoud efficiency. It hould be cultivated in our games as fell as our work. 3. To act honestly?.Honesty is he foundation of business, and the igger the business the more essen ial is honesty. No man can lie fast nough to keep an extensive concern rosperous on dishonesty. 4. To act justly?Which means to ie guided 1>y his reiason, and not his esires. 5.. To work honestly?Without a isposition to work and earn his rage, he becomes a burden on the ommunity. 6. To live thriftly?Thrift means imply not wasting, so that in future ou shall not want. Money is neces ary to civilzatio<n, and everyone hould have a little of his own in re erve. 7. To act tolerantly?Unless men emper their convictions with court sy and learn to control their hot gotisms, there is no co-operation ossiible. 8. To live reverently?There are ertain objects all decent men agree o respect, as women, children, the ged, the law religion, honest senti lent, and wholesome traditions. 9. To act responsibly?The feel ig of personal responsibility is the est of citizenship. 10. To act independently?Good ltizensnip is a democracy implies m- j is tiative and resourcefulness, not! lavishly following others or habits j e f thinking. 11.?To act formal life is with self-control? a balance between ig land. He declared that farms hould be looked upon as producers f men rather than of wealth. : YE M OUT ww s ECEME y fh^ hmp w 1 LI 1V> L1JL11V . Saturday ; or the sum c LLE, S. WHY WE AGE. Our bodies age in winter, but not t summer. This belief is advanced y a doctor who writes for the Lon m Times. According to his theory, a person ould never grow old if he lived in le perpetual summer of the South. However, the theory has a certain nount of truth. Nothing ages the human body quite 5 rapidly as a sedentary life?sit ng about, especially indoors, with at exercise. That is the rut which le average person has a tendency to ill into. Your body constantly is collecting arious toxins, or impurities of a poi >nous nature. Nothing can eliminate ioco nnicrvnc pycpnt pypmisp and i ^ ' esh air. I A person living in the Northern [S0Tl tates gets a fair amount of outdoor fe in summer. But in winter he C J* lakes himself a prisoner of the in-! ~~ q. oors, rarely venturing out into the' jld unless the trip is compulsory. In the South, there is a languor in le air?the outskirts of the tropical /ersion to effort. Balance the year up, and the South i much like the North. After 12 lonths, no matter where you live i civilization, you look back and now that you "ought to get out ore." The practice of taking a Saturday fternoon off, for exercise, is un :ientific because it is in the nature f a spurt. It is like neglecting a machine for week, then giving it a thorough iling and overhauling. The machine should be oiled daily. ? -1-.?. daiaamo orn U, aiS>U, bllC uvuy. i uiouua mg wi tting in the system daily and some orces of desire and the regulating f intelligence. Without self-control i chaos. 12. To act kindly, which needs no xplanatiorw 13. To act creatively, and not to ssume only a critical and obstruc ive attitude toward the State and lie community. 14. To live courageously, for al ways the prime and determining fac Dr in any race is its courage. ng tL\ SAI iATURC !FR in hen your dol you can buy >f One Dollai 4 ST( c. ig should be done daily to elimi x them. Physical exercises at home ar,e not Bcient, for they are monotonous, ich makes them - less beneficial n something that is interesting 1 involves sport. * rhe greatest health curse in lerica is that we have become a ;ion on wheels. We "get out the bus" even for a half block-trip the grocery. This already is mak inroads on the national health, less it is checked, unless Ameri is return to brisk walking and s of it, we shall become a race of iklings. health and efficiency depend large on the use of Shanks' mare?th? s. A person located geographical 90 that walks can be taken in cold and through the snow is missing ne of the real joys of life if he ys indoors and rides when he goes ;.?Greenville Piedmont. rATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, : COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. Probate Court. ation for Letter* of Administrction J. F. MILLER, Esq., Judge Probate: of y:W SVhereas, J. Allen Smith and Rob . S. Link hath made sait to me, grant them letters of administra i of the estate and effects of S. Link, late of Abbeville County, :eased, These Are Therefore, to cite nonish all and singular the kin d and creditors of the said S. J. ik, deceased, that they be and >ear before me, in the Court of (bate, to be held at Abbeville Court use, on Tuesday, the 20th day cember; 1921, after publication eof, at 11 o'clock, in enoon, to show cause, if any they re, why the said Administration uld not be granted. 3iven under my hand and seal of Court this 6th day of December the year of our Lord one ie hundred and twenty-one and in i 146th year of American Inde ldence. Published on the 7th day of Dec. 21 in the Press and Banner and on ! Court House door for the time luired by law. J. F. MILLER, U uuge ui xiuuatc. - rent .E ?AY -.5 lar would two dol