Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, August 31, 1921, Page FOUR, Image 4
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Wednesday, August 31.
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"Let1 us make hay while the sun
shines."
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Coal bills send cold chills through
one in August. 1
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Electric chairs all over the coun
I try are being cheated of their rights.
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Unlike a certain ex-kaiser, Kingl
Cotton is about to be enthroned a
?ain.
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If Greenville provides a "summer
capital," Charleston or Beaufort
should provide a "winter capital."
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One of the issues in the next cam
paign may be, where'll you estab
lish your summer capital?-Newberry
- Observer.
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If foreigners knew how.cheap hu
man life is in America, it would
hardly* be necessary to restrict im
. migration by legislation.
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We cotton growers may be indebt
ed to the boll weevil yep. A little
crop at a big price is more profitable
than a big crop at a little price.
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Some women are strange- crea
tures. For instance, can you under
stand just why a woman likes to
have her picture taken with a poodle
dog in her arms?
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It appears that the law of supply
and demand, one as old, if not as in
exorable, as the law of the M ede s
and Persians, is again prevailing in
the cotton market.
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Agriculturally, Edgefield is now
numbered among the unprogressive
?counties. McCormick county, one of
the youngest counties, has taken
Edgefield's farm demonstration fi
gent.
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Yes, there are women in South
Carolina who would fill the office
of governor acceptably.-The State.
They are already governors, for that
matter. The women govern the homes
and the homes, in the last analysis,
govern the state.
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"Passing the buck" is horrible
slang, but it is very expressive of the
growing fashion among public offi
cers to want private and unsalaried
-citizens to perform government du
-?ies that officers are paid to do.
Newberry Observer.
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The supreme court has "jumped
. on" special terms of court with
both feet, dubbing them, in some
instances, "judicial lynching." The
. question, then arises, which is better
for the State and society, lynching
by mobs or "judicial lynching?"
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At a time when the agricultural
interests of the county are most de
moralized and just at the time when
: farmers'need assistance most, Edge
field county is without a f?.rm demon
stration agent. Practically every
other county in the stat? has this ex
pert assistance.
Deeds of Daring.
The seeming steady increase of
?rime suggests a paraphrase of a
line from Byron, "Link'd with one
virtue are a thousand crimes.*' Not
only is wrong doing rampant; but it
appears that devils in human form
are bolder and more brazen than
ever before, a dare-devils sort of
spirit being on the increase too.
An exhibition of this occured in
Sing Sing prison several days ago
when two fellows who were serving
a sentence for forgery actually for
ged checks to the amount of thous
ands of dollars while doing clerical
work in the office of the prison.
Another example was that of the
illicit distillers, or some of his kith
or kin, who recently broke into the
office of the sheriff *of Greenwood
county and stole a copper still that
had been seized the previous day.
What should be done with a for
ger who plies his art-while yet serv
ing a prison sentence? What should
be done with a "moonshiner" who
breaks into the sheriff's office and
repossesses a still that had been seiz
ed from him? While we cannot ex
ingactly concede that ''Link'd with
every virtue are a thousand crimes,"
and yet the pages of current history,
as unfolded day by day through the
press, are not reassuring.
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Opening of School.
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The summer vacation is .nearing
its end and soon the school bells will
ring again. School openings should
be taken more seriously by many
parents. Instead of being looked up
on by children as "an ogre's den,"
the school room should always be
pictured pleasantly and attractively
to a child. Properly prepare the
minds of the children for the open
ing day by causing them to look
upon the school and teachers as
their best friends.
Then, too, the attitude of parents
toward teachers should; always be
one of kindly co-operation and help
fulness. Some short-sighted, narrow
minded parents, get the impression
sometimes that teachers are a
thoughtless and heartless set who
care little or nothing for the children
they teach. This is a mistake. We
believe that, almost without excep
tion, teachers are considerate of the
welfare and the progress children
under them make. Help tiie^teacher !
j to "help your children. They ' o?serv?
and need -your sympathy, . 'rather
than your censure. Be loyal to the
teachers of your school, whether it
be in the town or in the country. A
teacher's lot is hard enough at best.
Good Yield of Cotton in Sight?
Mr. Frank West has a better pros
pect for cotton yield than any other
Edgefield county farmer of which
we have heard. He has about 150
acres in cotton and it has been es
or. half-bale to the acre. - Of course,
timated that he will harvest 75 bales
the boll weevils have done consider
able damage but he planted early
and was fortunate enough to have a
large number of bolls mature early.
Some say Mr. West's good fortune
is due to his breaking the land deep
with a tractor, which hastened ger-'
ruination and rapid growth.
Old Jail Again Proves Insecure
Fortunately for Edgefield county,
and especially fo?* the sheriff and
jailor, very few persons charged with
crime are placed in the Edgefield
jail, and practically none of a dan
gerous or vicious type. If there were
any of this type, they would have, to
be taken to the penitentiary not for
safety but for safe keeping. Edge
field's old prison shack has not a
modem steel cell in it, and it has
been proven over and over, again J
here and elsewhere that prisoners
can make their escape when
only brick and mortar stand between
them and liberty.
Wednesday night sometime be
tween dusk and dawn the only two
prisoners in the jail, a negro and a
white man, escaped. Both were on
the third floor locked in separate
cells. The negro used some disin
fecting material in his cell to burn
the wood that held the iron bars
over his cell door, having made his
way from his sell, he used the bar
to prize open the door of the white
man's cell, and then both of them to
gether removed a sufficient num
ber of brick beneath one of the win
dows on the third floor to make their
escape, swinging from the third floor
to the ground by means of blankets
tied together. Neither have been
heard from since they made their
escape. The negro, Charles Bell, was
under indictment for. breaking in a
store in the Phillipi section and the
white man, Tom Hayes, was charged
with breaking in stores at Trenton
early in the year.
DRY ERA MAKES TOWN LOCK
UP USELESS.
When asked by a correspondent
if he had any news, say a Philadel.
phia North American, Mayor George
N. Bright of Delaware City, Dela
ware, exclaimed: "News! If you
mean police news we have none. We
have not had a man locked up since
the Eighteenth Amendment went
into effect. We are thinking of sell
ing the town frick-up. If you know a
buyer, send him to me. If the mayor
and constabulatory had to depend
on the cost for criminal prosecution
in this town, we would starve."
His honor said that there had not
been an arrest for disorderly con
duct or drunkenness since the ad
vent of prohibition.-Palmetto White
Rbbon.
Mr. Griffin Doing Well.
In order to prevent more disas
trous consequences from the clog
ging of the large artery of the low
er portion of his left leg, Mr. C. A.
Griffin's . left leg was amputated
just above the knee Thursday in the
Columbia hospital. He rallied at once
from the operation and has been
doing nicely ever since. The attend
ing physicians have stated that he
will probably be able to come home
in about ten days from .this time.
While Mr. Griffin's friends greatly
deplore his misfortune in having to
undergo such an operation, yet they
rejoice that his life has been saved.
At one time his Edgefield friends
were deeply solicitous lest the
trouble which seized him so sudden
ly prove fatal.
Governor Cooper Replies to
Demand of Judge Hammond.
Atlanta, Aug. 29.-Governor R.
A. Cooper of South Carolina, in a
letter to Governor Thoma? W. Hard
wick of Georgia, takes issue with
Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the
Augusta judicial circuity that there
has ever been any armed invasion
of this state by a body of armed
men. Judge Hammond, some days
ago, wrote the governor of Georgia
reciting the attack made on the Au
gusta jail by a mob presumably from
South Carolina, and suggested that
this state should call on the sister
state for a diplomatic apology for
the invasion by its citizens as armed
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, 'Governor H?rdwick, replying ,to
Judge Hammond, suggested that the
examination treaty between the two
states should be invoked and told the
judge if names of any member or
members of the mob are furnished
he will promptly draw any such requi
sition emanating from this state, but
he can not agree that there has been
any invasion. Instead he citi s the
fact that recently there', was ? lynch
ing near McCormick, S. C. in which
he has reason to believe citizens of
Georgia participated, but he docs not
construe that to be an armed invasion
of his state by citizens of Georgia,
in the meaning of the term.
The governnor of Sou?h Carolina
asks the governor of Georgia to ex*
press the appreciation of that state
to the sheriff of Richmond county
and to the sheriff of Chatham coun
ty for their assistance in the appre
hension of the murderers of young!
Brazell, the Columbia taxi driver,'j
which was the occasion of an attack
upon the Augusta jail.
Governor Cooper's letter, written
from Greenville, Aug. 22, is as fol
lows : i
I am in receipt of your communi
cation of the 17th instant, enclosing
correspondence between Judge Ham
mond, of Augusta Ga.,'and yourself.
This would have had my earlier at
tention, except for the fact that I
was called to Columbia immediately
after receipt of your letter, on mat
ters connected with the Brazell mur
der case.
"In your letter to me you state:
I would appreciate any expression
that you are to' make concerning the
matter,' In your letter to Judge Ham
imond you say: 'I have noted its con
tents with great care and have sent
your letter to Governor Coopr of
South Carolina who will, I feel sure,
express his regrets at the occurrence.
The two vocations above leave me
somewhat in doubt as to :/Our own
view of this matter.
"In the third paragraph of your
letter to Judge Hammond you cor
rectly express my attitude, and I
wish to assure you that if ?ny per
son in the state of Georgia or in the
state of South Carolina ?an identify
anyone who was a member of the
party which made an attack upon the
jail of Augusta, and requisition is
made for his extradition to the
state of Georgia, it would be prompt
ly honored, and if proof can' be had
of the participation of any such in
dividual in any unlawful act in the
state of South Carolina, I will direct
his prosecution.
/ Very Regretful
"I believe I had already, in our'1
telephone conversation, expressed to
you my regret that the officers of
the state of Georgia should have been j1
annoyed by citizens of this state.
Judge Hammond's letter, however,
raises a very different question. If
I thought for a moment that the
state of Georgia entertains the views
expressed by Judge Hammond I j 1
would feel that the state of South
Carolina would have cause for of-Jj
fense. His position, it seems to me,
is so utterly absurd on its face as to
make a reply or comment unneces
sary.
"It frequently happens that a cit
izen of one state enters the juris
diction of a sister state and violates
its laws. Whether such an act be that
SCHOOL DAYS
Begin September 7th* For
the school days we can show
..'?ii-' . >
you a snappy, line children's
Sloes, Hosiery, Middy Suits
ana Middy Blouses. Denim
Hats for the small boys.
The Corner Stope
Here's to a good school year for all the pupils
of one person or more could not al
"Fortunately we have had very
few cases of mob violence in the
state of South Carolina within the
past several years. We did however
two or three months ago, have a
lynching of a negro in the county of
McCormick, which borders on the
Savannah river. I was reliably in
formed that a great many people
who composed the mob in that in
stance were citizens of the state of
Georgia. It never occurred to me
that the sovereign state of Georgia
had invaded the jurisdiction of
South Carolinna and violated its laws,
although if my information was cor
rect, certain citizens og Georgia did
participate with the cit^ens vof
South Carolina in the . violation . of
the laws of this state.
"I only mention this incident to
show the utter absurdity of Judge
Hammond's position. It is, to my
mind, somewhat remarkable that a
person who holds the high office of
Judge of the Supreme Court of the
state of Georgia does not apparent
ly understand the meaning of the
[aw which refers to an armed inva
?ion of one sovereign jurisdiction
by another. z
! "Judge Hammond states in his
letter: 'It is known that sheriff Heise
knew of the formation of the mob
before sheriff Plunkett telephoned.'
Sheriff Heise assures me that this is
positively untrue ; that he commun
icated with sheriff Plunkett as soon
is he received the information that
chere would probably be an attack
ind an effort made to secure the
prisoners, left the city of Colum
oia. He knew nothing whatsoever of
me formation of the mob and does
lot know that any mob was organ
zed in the city of Columbia. He
icted promptly, he states, in convey
ng his information to sheriff Plun
tett.
"The people of the states of Geor
gia and South Carolina have for too
;ong mixed and mingled with each
sther in the most friendly relation
ship, and the two state governments
lave always had a common interest
md a common bond of sympathy,
ind past history, heretofore, makes it
ill the more absurd for Judge Ham
nond to suggest even.that the state
Heise in Dark.
upon the state of South Carolina,
and Governor Cooper's assurance
makes it- clear, says Governor Hard
wick, that requisition will be prompt
ly honored in accordance with the
law. -It is assured therefore, that this
ends the diplomatic correspondence,
and there will be no disruption in
the diplomatic relations of the two
commonwealths. / \
Oats for Seed.
We want farmers of Edgefield county
to know that we can supplv them with
good seed oats at a very reasonable
figure. Pure home-grown Fulgbum
Oats at 65 cents and other good seed
oats at 60 cents per bushel. They will
not last long at this price. Better call
early. . ?
J. D. KEMP & COMPANY.
VERY CHEAP
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EDGEFIELD, S. C.
Arden, N. C."$7.50
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Black Mountain, N. C..8.75
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Flat Rock, N. C.:.. 7.25
Hendersonville, N. C..7.25
Hot Springs, N. C.9.50
Hickory, N. C...9.25
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Lenoir, N. C._10.25
Rutherfordton, N. C. 9.75
Saluda, N. C... 7.00
Shelby, N. C... 9.25
Tryon, N. C. 6.75
Waynesville, N. C. 9.50
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