Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"SOUTH CAROLINA MORALS >- - Law Cited As Authorizing _ Irregular Unions it Dea-d Letter Of 18th Century, Judge Benet Show? (New York Times.) To J&e Editor of New York Tame On t&a editorial pagef of last Sur ity'a Times, in the column e "By-Products," there is $pr*gr<y>h rctf erring to divorc* in which you say that r iay state of South Carolina 4,co stitihuiga is recognized by law fcr ? - - tf tr _ _ <*rmnx is not. iou gm? as yu k. T*tbar\iy The Pictorial Reviev sy ?Sb? an old slander upon Sou SI1 jflfcrotiria which t I had hoped w. tonod nearly 20 years ago, but jeans that the said Review hag e , tamed it. As T know someth'n &oat its origin, I trust you will r I u%w me to give a (brief sketch of 5' 1 dast^ry. ] Jori Prentisa Bishop, in his "New j '? siendations on Marriage* Di/ <ww and Separation," quotes part jf u obiter dictum of a South J 'GmjCzta judge which seems to pal- i l&tv the offense of adulterous liv- ! jig. But he does not quote what the jHtge said in rendering the deci-aMB of tho court, namely, thus: i "*& is not the intention nor the ef_ J 5sdL of the law to encourage vice Mi fccsnorality or to legalize cor_ iwpliop." j { HTfcan was the case he cites ftiai? In 1818. What was the < -Estate the court was passing up. It was on? entitled "An Act 1 Agarast Bastardy," enacted in 1703 ! ly *^h? excellency, John Granville, Square, Palatine, and the rest of 'Ae trse and aibsolute lords and ;ro$rie?ors." The act Was amended -la include the mother of the bas_ jtoS in 1795. By it a man with liv. iBg wife or lawful children was not dSowod to give a paramour or ibasmore than one-fourth of his! i jgmpeity. TStis is an ancient history: An ?ct passed in 1703; amended in ! T2SS; discussed by the court in ?818; a statute so old that when I U iwireited to it on a former occasion * fastfiy a member of our ibar or of ? jot bench had hoard of it. During ary ?u~ocia years 01 expwrieifcje as kvryer and judge I have known of ! asgy one case of a conveyance i ztads 'under that statute. It had beiani? 3 dead letter. And yet Mr. BeOop revives it, with his verbs all , in t!?e present tense. He (Joel - iftwntiss Bishop) is the head and &OKt of this offending. President Woolsey, in his worl^ ? "Divorce and Divorce Legislation,? quotes Bishop as his authority and merely echoes what Bishop ans. He states that South Carolina ?'4es "winked at concubinage," and j ffie gfreg it) as his opinion that "the jftfc&ade taken ;by South Carolina a regard to divorce is due, not to tny attachment to, supposed com> munis of Christ in the New Testascea?? ibut to its state pride and the -aid oligarchial feeling of the oricolony." This strange opinion a his own. - >.S am not a South Carolinian. I vm a Scot >by ibirth. I am influ<neod by no bias of blood or birth I say in all sincerity and SaitSt that in no country or comyswnwealth with which I am ac ^wanted is the atmosphere of faraiEf? pure<r or cleaner than that w&ieik 13 breathed in the homes of looth Carolinians. If the people of maj ether state ^breathe the spirit aff # pares* air," happy is that state ? xBtd blessed are the homes and fire adea therein. No need has that <&?* for a divora court. Having for ^ years held court in all the counties rf South Caaolina. I am familiarly acquainted with all sorts and con % JStkmg the people. And it is my irtaR grounded belierf that the moral , ataasphere of South Carolina has i greeerved its remarfcaiWe cleanness art parity not in spite of but be- ] jwate of her no-divorco law. i W. C. Be net, Grimshawes, N. C. i Sovember 15. % i jLullaby for Si I Jlkdfo News. Kzs. Dick?How does Si like the ?iear radio? I&k. Hick?Great We turn her ' * - ?? sine o'clock and 'taint ten ; afantes after the lecture starts belAre Ite's sleeping like a baby. Watch the label on your paper. i I ' I RED CROSS,JLS f WOUNDSOF WAR | 25,000 Disabled Ex-Service Men Hj in Hospitals After Four j9j Years of Peace. 'jX CHAPTERS' FIELD OF SERVICE S ? i Every Veteran Needing Help Gets i z Individual Attention of Sym- E j pathetic Workers. 1 jSh ? $ When <^n November 11 the world 1 baits to observe the fourth anniver- I sary of Armistice Day, and the Ameri- [ J fan Red Cross inaugurates its Annual !j 3 Roll Call for the enrollment of th? j r ] 1923 membership, the people of. the - J United States ma y well pause to think IJ 1 ){ the unparalleled contribution to the 11 f rouse of peace made by our Army and I f Savy in tie World War. The glory of p J It is a common tradition; but the l ivounds of war remain. They are not | f Healed in a day, in a year, nor in four F 3 >ears. And on Arinl9tiee Day there 5** (rill be under treatment in Government f 2 hospitals over 25,000 ex-service men, 5 1 broken physically by wounds, expo- I jure, nervous strain and exhaustion [ ? Incident to tWeir service in the war. g The Government without stint Is un- ~ 1 Sertaking to furnish these disabled 1 men with the compensation and med- [ [cal care to which they are entitled, f J "Of fhalr> acnopint />?ro I* rfllfv ?f th? Red Gross. Why? Because the Gov-jC Z ernment cannot handle the cases of | sx-servlce men Individually; It must j? 1 handle these men In bulk under all standardized policy. The Government I Z has neither the authority, the funds J 2 >r the, equipment for working out the * 1 jroblem of the individual man. There | Is where the American Red Cross; | Z !nds its greatest field for service, aid-1| J ing through its very active Chapters : * 1 n reaching the disabled man with lm-!? | nediate practical help, assisting his [ " 'amtly while his claim Is emerging from g 3 he process of, adjustment, furnishing J irtlcles of comfort, funds to> tide over * j :he difficult periods, the friendly touch [ >f personal encouragement, heipful f ! ecreatlon and worry-dispelling amuse- j nent. It Is the warm hand of syra- I j ;>athy and understanding which the [ * American Red Cross extends to the f | r.ajority of these disabled ex-sevvlce 5 f Tien, some of them friendless in the I vhlrl of life, thousands of them with | * wrlves and children dependent upon 1 :hemf and hundreds of th^n frequent- |C Iy helpless In the face of grim ne- frj ?essity. ' j fy 2,679 Chapters Aiding Veterans I jf| In this work, upon whose accona-131 pllshment the American Red Cross Is UJ urging a record-breaking enrollment la J#r*r% 11 mfusnvt anan? ati Armic. LUC XiUii Villi rviiiv.ii wjptMo v*? N B* tlce Day and closes with Thaaksglv- 3| Ing Day, 2,679 Cliapters In all parts of uj the country are engaged. This is 350 yS more than were working.for ex-service SSj men last year when approximately jj" 510,000,000 was expended by the Natlonal Organization and Che Chapter* in working together in harmonloui unity. UZ For ths current fiscal year Nattouij Qz Headquarters appropriated $3,003,- 5H l>92.90, an increase of $365,500.84 ore* Jn the amount spent for the work ainocg UC ex-service men in the year ended June jj2 30 last. Since it Is estimated that the Sll f"!h?T?ters will ernend close to $7,000,- Ifi 000 from their own funds, the grand I I total of Red Cross expenditures for f this single work Is expected again to 1 reach the .$10,000,000 mark by June 30, ? ] j 1923. j ? j Hospital and District Office Work j? l>urlng the fiscal year a total of over P 3 1,000 persons, paid and volunteer, has 1 beeb engaged in Red Cross duty in I j hospitals or district offices of the U. S. [ Veterans' Bureau. An average of 8,000 [ 2 new cases r^uires definite and par- Z 1 ticnlar attention each month. The de- I 5 raahd for Chapter-made articles for. ? hospital patien.s is constant. j ? | During last year Service Claims and 5 | Information Service at National Head- I quarters handled 37,200 compensation ? and Insurance claims, 24,560 allotment r 3 i\ rwi nllrvnrn non OUQOC orvH Q 7<Y1 mlu<A|. 4| laneous claims. Since February, 1919. Of It has disposed of 64,174 allotment Q| checks payable to veterans which ths Su \ Post Office Department reported nnde- Jfl liverable. : J The Chapter Is the unit of the Red' 1 j Cross organization which Is accessible { j to every disabled veteran or his fain- C 1 ily. Between July 1,1921, and June 30, ? J 1922, the Chapters had reported 1,665,-1? j 079 instances of service to ex-service I ? men and their dependents, at a cost' [ 3 estimated from reports now at hand of Z 1 more than $5,340,000. j I The basis of this far-reaching work | [ j of the Red Cross Is the individual' I 1 needs of the disabled veteran to the': J end that he may obtain his rights un- I m der the law, that his especial wants [ j may be immediately supplied, that his ff I own and bis family's situatloa may oe I 1 rendered happy and cheerful, and that I their outlook for tfce future may J j visualize Incentives for Independent * j and fruitful effort 1 *1 Spread Christmas Joy Abroad [ More than 100,000 Christmas boxes r J for the children of Central Europe I 1 were packed oy the Junior Red Cross I last year. The spread of Christmas [ J Iot fhrouerh these boxes will be larreb 3 Increased this year became of the Jfi plans already uuler way. 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