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established^ 18?^, YORK, S. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER lit, 19'22. NQ 82T
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs ol More or
Less interest.
. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
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Stories Concerning Folk* and Thing*, j
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"There are numbers of good colored
farmers as well as white farmers in
York county who are going to have
money this fall in spite of the boll
OT.iA.r4i Tn<? \f. Tavlor of Ebe
nezer the other day. "Take Sam
Jenkins of Ebenezer for instance. Sam
is going: to make eight bales of cotton
this year on eight and one-half acres.
On the same land last year he made
fifteen bales. Still he made the crop
this year for much less than that of
last year and he'll have money in the
bank."
Cattle Hard to Sell.
"There is practically no sale for beef
cattle in our city and section now,"
commented a Rock Hill citizen who
was in Yorkville yesterday. "Had a
?"- tn tii<1 other dav wanting
llltAll VVIItV vw ?*?v ?? w ?
to know if I could tell him where he
could place flfteeif head of cattle. He
said that he had been offered 3 1-2
cents gross for them but he couldn't
afford to take that and he didn't want
to feed them all the winter. But then
I guess the lack of demand is because
there are scores* of people who have
cattle that they don't want to feed over
the winter."
For Sale.
One Ford car with a piston ring,
Two rear wheels, one front spring;
Has no fenders, seat nor plank;
Burns much gas and hard to crank;
Carburetor's busted half-way through,
Engine's missin'; hits on two.
Three years old; four in the spring;
Shock absorbers, 'n' everything;
Radiator's busted, sure does leak;
Differential's ary, can near n
Ten spokes missing, front all bent;
Tires blowed out, 'taint worth a cent.
Got lots of speed, runs like the deuce;
Burns either gas or tobacco juice.
Tires all off; been run on the rim?
But it's a d? good Ford for the shape
it's In.
Gambling at Gastonia.
"Dropped up to the Gaston county
fair Wednesday night," remarked a |
Yorkville man yesterday. "Noticed J
that the old time pan-gambling game
was going on among the concessionaires
right along and no questions
asked. Each man placed his money
and if he hit the lucky number he got
the money; if he didn't the house got
the money. The dind was cigarettes
instead of money. Those games
are all right at fairs, it seems; but if
a cop should come along and catch me
with acres and kings and the man
sitting across the table from me had ;
queens and jacks and there was a
pile of money on the table why it
would be the 'coop* for us, I reckon."
The Prize 'Possum Story,
"That story about Auditor Love '
catching the 'possum the other day
reminds me of an experience I had
several years ago," said Mr. J. E.
Lowry of Yorkville this morning. " I
caught three 'possums in my bed room.
It has been five years, I guess. My
wife awoke me one night and called
my attention to a scratching noise.
Peeping under the bed I saw a big
'possum shining his eyes. I got the!
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after cracking: his neck, threw him out
the window. I went back to bed but
the noise continued and taking: another
look I found two 'kitten' 'possums
there. These I caught and killed. The
next morning I found that they had
climbed into the room by means of a
grape vine."
Survived it All.
"Well, I am still alive and fairly
happy,' writes Leltoy Moore, Esq., of
Spartanburg, formerly principal of the
Sharon school and successful candidate
for master of Spartanburg county
in the recent second primary. "It
was my first experience in politics an<
I learned just what kind of man I was
and what I had done and things that
I hadn't done. Among other things my
political enemies told that I was constantly
drunk on the streets. They
told that I was married and that my
wife had left me because of non-support
and you know that I have never
been successful in getting married. Hut
I decided that it would be best not to
try to deny all those stories but to
trust to the good sense of the folks to i
discredit them and 1 managed to 'come J
through.'"
York County Fair.
Miss Marie Pcwell, secretary of the
York county fair. Miss Margaret
Fewcll, home demonstration agent for
York county and \V. P. Goodman, city j
manager of Rock Iiill were visitors in
Yorkville yesterday en route to Gastonia
to the Rig Gaston county fair. !
"Everything is in readiness for the
York county fair at Rock Hill next
week," said Miss Fewell in talking of
the York county attraction. "I am
very much afraid that our exhibits of,
York county fine bred cattle are going;
to bo scarce because it is necessary
that the eattle be tested against tuberculosis
before they are brought to the
fair and many of the farmers do not
want to submit them to this test. A
number of Chester county cattle
breeders are going to bring their cattle
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to the fair, however and everything is
all ready for the attraction which we
hope and believe is going to be bigger
and better than it was last year."
DEFIES THE KLAN.
Fayetteville, N. C., Man Says Ku Klux
Are a Bunch of Cowards.
| J. R. Harrison, Fayetteville alderman,
who is a tobacco salesman by vocation
and baiter of the Ku Klux klan
by choice, has once more defied the
lightning and is very well this morning.
Harrison, who beat up the or- J
ganizer of the local klan a few months
ago, published an open letter to the !
klansmen * yesterday afternoon, in
which he urged, even begged them to
come and take him out last night. He
spent the early hours of the night |
around the hotels and cigar stores on
Hay street, where he was seen and
spoken to by hundreds of persons, but
was not molested. It is said that it
took Mr. Harrison more than an hour
to get up town on account of the number
of people who stopped him to congratulate
him on writing the letter in
which his opinion of the klan was expressed
in unvarnished terms,
Harrison broke into the limelight
last April when he had the encounter
with E. C. Stevenson, the K. K. K. organizer.
During the fray Stevenson
pulled a pistol and Harrison bared his
breast and dared him to shoot, when
Stevenson dropped the gun to the
ground.
Harrison's letter was brought out by
Or* irt/)i/1nnt tirltinh noPlirrpH In ?*t FVidjlV
night when the Ku Klux held a big
parade here, during which one of the
robed and masked horsemen drew up
at the home of one of the most esteemed
ladies of this city, who was
ill in a hospital at the time, and left
a missive for a young lady boarder. It
is said that a leading member of the
local klan had been turned out of this
boarding house.
After telling how he had been approached
by Stevenson last fall and
asked to join the klan, and had seriously
considered doing so, but decided
not to because he did not believe their
principles were in keeping with the
American spirit, Harrison concluded j
his letter thus:
"Now, we will take the scene that
was staged on our streets last Friday
night, that will go down in history as
a damnable disgrace to our town. Were
they murderers, thieves, robbers or
gamblers? Their faces were covered;
so we have no way to tell, but we do
know one thing?not one drop of gentlemanly
blood flows through their
veins, for no gentleman would pull off
such stuff as they carried on Friday
night.
"Here is their claim: That they are
100 per cent American and . 400 strong
in Fayetteville.
"In regard to the 100 per cent American
that they claim to be, during the
World war 90,000 mothers' sons of
North Carolina gave up their homes
and loved ones and sailed across the i
sea. and fmurht on foreien soil to sun- I
press just such principles as the K. K.
K. stands for, and I today have friends
and loved ones that sleep in unmarked
? raves in Flanders' fields, from whose
blood the lilies of France have grown
richer and sweeter. Ask these fathers
and mothers whose*sons made the supreme
sacrifice if they were one hundred
per cent American. Now, you
may have to be a 100 per cent American
to be a K. K. K.; but thank God,
you don't have to be a K. K. K. to be
a 100 per cent American!
"Now, in conclusion, you claim to be
400 strong in Fayotteville. I am one
single man that makes this suggestion
to you. Thursday night is your meeting
night. After your meeting Thursday
night, you take me out and give
me a good whipping. Now, don't be
cowards and say, as you did to the
minister of the Gospel over at Laurinburg,
who refused your money, *\Ve
will see you later.' I am aware that
you can overpower me arid do what
you want to do, but please me, men,
one time, and take me this Thursday
night and do what you are going to
do or admit to the public of Fayetteville
that you are 400 common cowardly
curs."
BUYS BIRTHPLACE
President Harding Now Owns House
Where He Was Born.
The old Harding homestead, birthplace
of President Warren G. Harding
has just been purchased by the nation's
executive. It is just out of
Blooming Grove, Ohio.
"Sentimental reasons only," is the '
explanation given by French Crow,
i
postmaster at Marion, O.. who closed
the deal for the president.
The old Harding homestead consists
of 2CG acres, and until rcpurchas- 1
ed, has been owned by two different '
farmers. The house in which the
president was born burned down years '
ago, according to Dr. C3. T. Harding, 1
the president's rather, but the ol<i
house still standing was the family
home during the early years of Warren
l-Iardlng. '
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? Rev. C. C. Coleman has just completed
eight years of service as pastor i
of Citadel Square Baptist church of i
Charleston. In that time he has re- i
ceived into his congregation 558 mem- !
hers by baptism and 6118 otherwise, a >
total of 1.247 which is about three- <
fourths of the church's membership. 1
Contributions during his pastorate
have amounted to $230,500.
~ GO OVER THE "TOP
Presbyterian Congregation of Clover
Raises Money to Complete Church.
LADIES TO PROVIDE FURNISHINGS
Taylor, Father of Family Partially
Wiped Out by Faries is a Visitor in
Town?Big Registration for Sewer
Bond Election?Mill Construction
Worlr Rrinns Manv Peoole to Clover.
a_ , ?. - - -(By
a Staff Correspondent.)
Clover, October 13.?The congregation
of the First Presbyterian church
of Clover has raised $4,399, a sum sufficient
to complete the building of the
new Presyterian church, which building
has been used for religious services
for several months past in an uncompleted
state. At a recent congregational
rally the various members
responded quite liberally to an appeal
for the necessary funds to finish the
house of worship, and construction
work is to be resumed in the near future.
The basement of the structure
which was completed months ago has
since been used for preaching services
as well as Sunday School purposes. It
is understood that the furnishings including
the seats will be provided by
the several ladies societies of the
church, they having been busily engaged
in raising funds for the purpose
tnrougn various acuvuira iur ?i iuuk
time past. When complete the building
will have cost the congregation in
the neighborhood of $65,000 it is stated.
Construction work was begun about
two years ago and the congregation
has made a plucky fight to continue
the building project despite adverse
conditions.
Hampshire Mill Project.
It is estimated that all told there
are now about 125 men employed in
building the Hampshire Mill and the
mill village. The workmen have been
gathered from several states. Numbers
of farmers from various sections of
South Carolina whose crop this year
was a failure have come to Clovoi and
found employment on the mill work
The town is literally filled, with
strangers employed either on the mill
project or other building projects go
ing on. Boarding house keepers are
doing a rushing business and Clover
merchants note an increased trade especially
Saturdays, due largely to the
big pay roll that is turned loose by the
mill contractors each week. The
Hampshire Mill is to be of concrete
and steel construction and because of
the nature of the work an unusually
large force of workmen is being used.
Election Next Week.
Citizens of Clover vote Oct. 24, on
the question of issuing bonds in the
sum of $G5,000 for the purpose of
building a sewerage system and extending
the water system in the town.
According to John A. Jackson, supervisor
of registration there are about
250 voters who are registered to vote
in the election. If there is any oppo-1.:
nvnnncnrl SCWPr hond iSSUC
it has not come to the surface; hut
the indications arc that it will carry
by a big- majority.
Selling Many Flivvers.
Despite the alleged shortage of the
cotton crop in this section the automobile
business is said to be mighty
good and numbers of farmers who
were not able to buy a flivver when |
prices reached a war peak are buying
them "now. This flurry in flivvers, however
is said to be confined largely to
the second hand variety. Yesterday a
local man sold for $300 a flivver that
cost him $480 originally although he
had been operating it three years and
he had his eye on four other second
hand cars that he said he knew where
to place speedily at a profit. "Lots of
folks are complaining about what the
weevil did to the crop," remarked a
second hand flivver dealer yesterday;
"but they are able to buy 'em all the
same."
Taylor in Town.
James M. Taylor, former cotton mill
operative of the Clover Cotton Mill,
four members of whose family were
wiped out when William C. Faries, his
neighbor who lived across the street
from him ran amuck on the afternoon
of September 6 and killed thorn, was in
Clover Wednesday afternoon. Mr.
Taylor was accompanied by C. M.
Austin, Esq., of Gastonia, one of the
lawyers who will assist in the prosecution
of Faries whose trial is expected
to come up in the court of
general sessions for York county at
the term beginning November 20, with
Judge James E. Puerifoy of Walterboro
presiding. The two were in town
for the purpose of conferring with
certain witnesses for the prosecution
xnd to consult certain other persons in
Clover who are more or less familiar
.?lit. ni-oiimotnnpds ?>f the tragedy.
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Mi*. Taylor said that his daughters
Misses Clcrtie Taylor, 20, and Dolly
Taylor, 1G, who were wounded by
buckshot at the time Faries is alleged
to have snuffed out the lives of his
nephew, Claud Johnson, his daughter,
Miss Lola Taylor and his sons Fred i
ind Xewton Taylor had about fully
recovered from their wounds and bore
no ill effects physically from their
harrowing experience. The survivors
r>f his family are now living in South
[Jastonia from which community they
had moved to Clover when the tragedy
occurred.
Although now living outside of York
county, the Taylors are keeping as
close track as possible of the various
manoeuvres that are being made in
connection with the case and the
father and his friends arc leaving no
stones unturned to see to it that thoir
interests will be well represented when
the case does come to trial.
It is learned here that Faries' will
under no circumstances be returned to
the York county jail before the
November term of court. While it
might be and probably is a fact that
the accused prisoner would be as safe
in the jail as in the penitentiary, the
authorities are quoted as saying that
they do not propose to take any
chances in the matter and that Farles
will remain right where he is until he
is brought to trial at the county seat
or other such courthouse as he might
be tried in.
It is said here that there is fully as
much interest in Gaston county, the
home of the Taylors for several years
past, in the proceedings o/ the case as
there is in this section. Each week-end
numbers of the curious from Gastonia
and other sections come to the Clover
mill village, it is reported, and go over
the ground that less than two months
ago was the scene of one of the most ,
terrible tragedies in the annals of (
southern criminology.
POLICE PUZZLED.
Napoleon of Crime Having Full Sway
In London.
A Napoleon has been reborn in London?a
Napoleon of crime.
Great jewel robberies have been the
outstanding feature of this London 1
season, robberies so huge that Scotland
Yard itself admits that these robberies
are the work of a master-mind, a super-crook.
,
Newspapers are likening this supercrook
to Prof. Moriarty?Conan
Doyle's famous fiction character.
Scotland Yard sleuths have already
named the unknown super-crook "Moriarty."
They are fully convinced that
h<; is at the head of an international
protective organization of crooks,
which plans burglary, safe-breaking
and jewel stealing on an unprecedented
scale.
"Moriarty," they say, has a town
house and a country house, a fleet of
motor cars, and a host of friends, both
straight and crooked, in London's best
society. They do not know what Moriarty
looks like. He may be a lord
for all they know, bi't they are convinced
that he is a an high in society.
/ V
J. W. Bell, one of London's leading
assessors, claims to know the man, but
dares not give him away. All he will
say is that "Moriarty" is the financier
and brains of the thieves who work
for him.
Women Agents.
"Moriarty," Bell claims, has women
agents as well as men?some of them
he declares, are titled. They will
watch an intended victim for months,
trail him across continents, work their
way into his homes as maid servants t
or confidantes, until the time is ripe to
strike.
Detectives declare that in all the
latest big jewel hauls the victims have
been shadowed for months.
Here are a few of the big "jobs"
which have taken place this season:
Mrs. J. Byrne, an American, robbed
of $60,000 worth of jewelry.
Business man's wife robbed of $20,000
worth of jewels in a big hotel.
World-famous collection of gold
coins stolen from the Albany apartments,
London.
Theft of thirty pearl necklaces from
a fashionable jewel store.
Robbery of 130 Kold snuff boxes and
ruby set goblets from a house on J
Brighton road. >
In no case has there been any trac6 I
of the missing valuables. Usually in 1
the case of common criminals '"part I
of the booty turns up here or on the
continent." I
New Coupe Daily.
Every day the newspapers banner- *
head jewel hauls. Recently two wo- ^
men, said to be agents of "Moriarty," C
walked into a jewelry store and asked *
to be shown a gold bag. When the s
bag was produced the two girls, both ^
of whom were pretty and stylishly
dressed, asked the shop assistant to
weigh the bag. The young man retired
to the back of the shop, and the >
girls calmly put their hands through
the partition separating the window
from the shop and scooped up two t
trays full of diamond rings valued at r
$95,000. a
When the young man came back he r
noticed nothing, as the partition had Ibeen
closed after the theft. The girls s
calmly asked the weight of the bag, v
and, being told, declared it was too ex- n
pensive. a
They smiled sweetly and walked out. s
They have not been seen since, but f<
police say they answer the description j h
of "Moriarty's" most aristocratic wo- c
men assistants. f<
London is echoing1 with the theft
from a married couple living in Corn- c
wall of the following: Twelve diamond n
brooches, rope of 2S-1 pearls, gisantic o
ruby, formerly in the fez of a famous s
Shah of Persia; other jewels valued at p
$50,000.
And again the police are baffled. h
Rewards offered already run into v
tens of thousands of dollars, but the k
police say such rewards are uselcsss.
The master mind, this Xjijjoleon of c
prime, pays his agents so well that at h
a paltry bribe they turn up their aria- t
tocratic noses.?London Letter. d
NEW DIOCESE CREATED
Church Home Orphanage May Buy
Property of D. D. Thomas.
WILL MEAN INCREASED FACILITIES
New Division to be Known as Diocese
of Upper South Carolina?Bishop K.'
G. Finley is at the Head?Churches |
in Twenty-two Counties Included?j
Executive Council and Standing
Committee Appointed.
Episcopal churches at Yorkvillc and j
Da/vIf Util n i?a nmir fuH In !
ivuuiv xiiu uic nun uivut }/wtubvu mv
Upper South Carolina Diocese of that
denomination which was created ^it a
meeting of Episcopal ministers and lay
leaders held in Columbia this week.
Bishop W. A. Guerry of the diocese of
South Carolina relinquished his custody
of this part of the old diocese with
reluctance after fifteen years of service
and on Tuesday made a touching
farewell before he turned the diocese
over to. its new bishop, the Rt. Rev.
Kirkman G. Finley, D. D., in which he
offered his hearty co-operation and
assistance. Twenty-two counties constitute
the diocese of Upper South
Carolina and according to Bishop Finley
in them is a.white population of
513,841 and a negro population of 394,387.
In this territory there are 46
white Episcopal churches and 14 negro
Episcopal churches." The money raised
in this field for the period of 1921 was,
for self support, $175,545.26 and for
church extension, $66,259.23.
Orphanage May Buy Property.
At the primary convention of the
Upper South Carolina Diocese held in
rrinity church, Columbia Tuesday
afternoon. Rev. T. P. Noe, superinv
UnrviA OenUo n _
ICUUt'IU Ul LilC V^IIUIV,!! 11UII1C Vft pi?u*|ige,
the official orphanage of the
lenomination which is located in Yorkrtlle,
explained a proposition by
Mr. and Mrs. \V. B. Moore of Yorkville
egarding the erection of a $10,000 cottage
at the orphanage, provided the
iioceses buy the adjoining property
it D. D. Thomas which included 128
icres of land and a ten room house
.'alucd at $20,000. The orphanage su- (
perintendent explained that the pur- (
^hase of this property would increase .
the housing facilities of the orphanige
by 20 per cent. It was stated that ,
the orphanage trustees have approved
the proposition and that Christie Benet ,
it Columbia haB been named chairman
it the committee on the purchase of
the property from Mr. Thomas.
Home for Bishop.
It tvas decided to select an Episcopal '
-esidence in Columbia for Bishop Finay
not to cost over $20,000 and a com nittee
consisting of J. P. Thomas, R.
r. Manning, E. R. Heyward and
IThristie Benet was appointed to select
;he residence.
Executive Council. ' 1
'PIia avo/iiitiuo pniinnd i q nnmnospft *
>f the following:
Bishop Finlay, the Rev. F. H. Har- ;
ling of Camden, secretary of the dio- !
:ese; W. A. Clarkson, of Columbia,
reasurer of the diocese. The Rev. W.
i. K. Pendleton of Spartanburg, dean
>f the Greenville convocation; H. V.
*. Schroder, of Greenwood, and Mrs. F.
J". Challen of Greenville, layman and
aywoman of the Greenville convocaion;
The Rev. G. Croft Williams of
Columbia, dean of the Columbia con ocation;
R. I. Manning of Columbia,
ind Mrs. D. G. Ellison of Columbia,
ayman and laywoinan of the Columbia
:onvocation; The Rev. F. H. Juhan of
Greenville; The Rev. W. P. Peyton, of
rVinnsboro; Dr. H. A. Ligon, Jr., of
Spartanburg; W. B. Moore, of Yorkrille:
The Rev. A. R. Mitchell, The
lev. A. R. Morgan of Chester; Henry
Cillman of Greenwood; A. C. Davis of
fountain Inn.
The standing committee was ap>ointed
as follows:
Dr. R. D. Phillips of Columbia; The
iev. A. R. Mitchell, of Greenville;
?he Rev. W. E. McCord of Rock Hill; 1
Christie Benet of Columbia; N. C.
lughes, of Laurens; W. F. Robert- a
on, of Greenville; M. A. Moore, of s
Jnion and R. I. Manning1, of Colubmia.
EDITOR ATTACKED.
\nd He Didn't Fill Bully Full of Lead
As He Should Have Done.
My mother! One day last week for
he first time in my life a man called
r?e the vilest epit et one may hurl at
nother, writes E ifejne Ashcraft in his
taper, the Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer,
"oiks, it was a wonderful experience? t
hocking as it wa3. Instantly a most
ivid panorama was presented to my Q
lind. I remembered my dear mother c
s she appeared to me as a child?how
he slaved, endured all, asked nothing (
jt herself in return?that I might (
ave the very best of care?bodily g
omforts, warm clothing, plenty of (j
ood and it well prepared.
Then my mother being an educated, (ultured,
coll go-trained women, was
lost desirous that I receive the best
f instruction. Practically all my a
choolir.g was under her personal su- g
crvision. d
When I left home as a young man a o
?tter or two each week followed me ti
wherever I went?I regret I did pot
eep them.
A number of years ago I was strick- P
n with typhoid. Mother would not C
ear to any other arrangement than it
hat 1 go straight to her home. All n
uring those long weeks she would go H
to my bedside almost every hour during
the long nights. I would fain
sleep that she be not too greatly worried.
They tell me I had an unusually
light attack of the fever, because of
the splendid nursing I received.
Then when I was married?mother
said not a word?she literally took the
new daughter and her son in her dear
arms. The children came and she was
as proud of them as were their parents.
When mother was at last mortally
stricken, tears would come into the
eyes of those ministering unto her?
mc guuu auui nau tvaucu uit umi'ia 3"
long and patiently she, herself, wanted
to be "such a little trouble," It was
my privilege to hold her in my arms
as her kind and loving heart beats
grew weaker and weaker and then
ceased altogether. Mother was dead!
Then, too, hundreds of boys and
girls?now men and women?throughout
the Carollnas, who during the
many years the late Sallie MarshAshcraft
gave the better part of her
years to help them to a higher and
better life as their instructress, will
rise up and call her blessed.
Folks, I knew I was going to have
a personal encounter with a man with
whom we do not see a certain proposition
in the same light. A friend of
mine had begged me a few hours before
"not to take a thrashing." The
man who believes he has been abused,
himself has a family of exceptionally
intelligent and attractive boys and
girls. I may be a coward, but I would
rather have a dozen beatings than go
into the Great Beyond with "bloody
hands." However, when the attack
came I waa sitting in my office and
was bowled over at the first rush flat
on my back. The man who then repeatedly
tried to brain me with a
heavy office chair, boasted that he
brought no knife or gun. The chair
was torn up by my repeatedly kicking
it as it descended toward my face, 1
scarcely received a scratch.
But the personal encounter was only
an incident. I have had fights before,
but never had I been called the vilest
of all vile names. In my heart, I feel
that God in Heaven has not damned
my soul, as the man said He had.
God, too, knows that I am not the -eon (
of the beast the man said I was. This
occurred after citizens had parted us
ind the fight was over.
Not for myself, mother mine, do I resent
the hellish imputation. The man i
who said it is the dirty, contemptible, .
slanderous liar which in his own heart :
he knows himself to be.
For the sake of his family, I will not
name him. , The dozen or more men
who were present know the bully I am
talking about.
WHEN TRUTH HURTS.
Newspapers Don't Take Pleasure In
Printing the Court Records.
Court news is rarely pleasant; it is
llr.iost always unpleasant for some
jne. The staring lines thut tell of a
relative's disgrace are painful. It gives
i newspaper no pleasure to add to the
suffering of the innocent or increase
the mortification of the guilty, but
the public has a right to know what
ts courts are doing, and as a matter
jf news, the records of the courts, from
-ecorder's court to supreme court, are
jublished.
Scarcely a week passes that some 1
>ne does not request, beseech, cajole 1
ind plead with the Index-Journal to 1
eave his name or the name of some 1
'riend or relatives out of the report of
:ourt proceedings. It is never pleasint
to cause pain, and the Index-Jour- ^
lal regrets that the truth hurts, but
mch requests cannot be granted. In ^
'airness and justice to all, names canlot
be deleted to shield anyone. It
vould not be just to publish one man's
lame and leave another's out. High
>r low, the names in the records of
he courts are treated impersonally. ^
t is a matter of news that the public
vants and has a right to know. The f
ndex-Journal makes an honest effort
o be just and fair to all.
The newspaper that bears grudge ]
tnd "has an axe out" to avenge per- 11
onal grievances is a failure as a news- '
>apcr. A newspaper should present a
he facts, as accurately as it can, with- j*"
>ut bias or favoritism. When it fails 0
o do this, it fails to live up to the
thics of the profession, for newspa- ('
>ers have a code of ethics, whether 1
he public recognizes it or not. If the f
levil himself were to come to town c
vith clattering hoofs and brandished 1
itchfork, a newspaper would owe it V
o its code of ethics to be fair in its 1
eport of the event?whether it liked ^
he devil or not.
Every decent newspaper stands for
rder, law, sobriety and decency in the
ommunity. It may condemn with vig- ^
r in editorials, practices and j>olicies, ^
>ut when it comes to giving an aco
ount of the news, the facts are pre- ^
ented, whether they condemn or con- ^
one, and these facts, cold and unas- ^
ailable, speak for themselves.?The
ireenwood Index-Journal.
? In 1916 the total daily attendance ^
t motion picture shows in the United 'E
itates was 20,000,000. This year the ?
aily attendance has dropped to 10,- n
00,000 to the great alarm of the mo- i
ion picture controllers.
? h
? Motion i>icture men were denied rr
ermission to film the interior of the oi
anadian House of Commons because di
, was felt that such a procedure would e:
ot be in keeping with the dignity of e?
tie parliament. h;
CATAWBA PRESBYTERY
Oak Grove Church in Chester County
Next Meeting Place.
REV. WHITESIDES NAMED MODERATOR
Rev. Parkinson Succeeds Rev. Phillips
as Clerk and Rev. B. G. Pressley it
Named Recording Clerk?Excellent
Sermons Were Delivered by Student
freacners?nrun runts tnw
Visiting Ministers and Elders.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
Tirzah, Oct. 13.?Oak Grove church
ig Chester county was selected as the
place of the spring meeting and Rev.
A. K. Whitesides, of Pleasant Hill,
was named moderator-elect, at the
fall meeting of Catawba Presbytery of
the A. R. P. church, held in Tirzah
church Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
Rev. Dr. D. G. Phillips of Chester,
for more than ten years clerk of
Presbytery tendered his resignation as
clerk due to the fact that he has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the
First A. R. P. church of Charlotte and
will be out of the Presbyterlal bounds.
Rev. W. W. Parkinson was elected
clerk to succeed him and Rev. B. Grier
Pressly of Hickory Grove was elected
recording clerk. Presbytery will present
to Dr. Phillips a gift as a slight
token of appreciation of his faithful
services as clerk, provision for such
a gift having been incorporated in a
motion to that effect which was offered
by Rev. Oliver Johnson, D. D., of
Winnsboro. In accepting the resignation
of Dr. Phillips, the moderator.
Rev. R. A. Lummus of Rtchburg, Chester
county spoke the appreciation of
presbytery to Dr. Phillips.
Opened Tuesday Morning.
The fall meeting of Catawba Presbytery
opened Tuesday morning with
practically every church represented
by ministers and elders. The opening
sermon was preached by Rev. S. J.
Hood of Lancaster the retiring
moderator who presided over the organization
of presbytery, Rev. R. A.
Lummus, moderator-elect taking.
charge Tuesday afternoon.
Heard Trial Sermons,
Presbyterial communion was observed
at the session Tuesday afternoon,
a large number of visitors in
addition to the delegates being in attendance
and participating, the communion
service being conducted by"
Rev. Oliver Johnson, D. D. Following
the election of officers and the selection
of the place of the next meeting
the presbytery heard trial sermons
preached by Students Ebenezer Gettys
ot Tirzah and Murphy Bell of Ten
1 mnmKaro
ll'BHt, UUIII )UUIIK IIICIl UCIII6 JUVUIMV.?
if the senior class at Erskine Theological
Seminary.
Both sermons were heard with inicrest
and showed that the ministerial
:andidates had given their trial effort
nuch thoughtful study. Especially
?ood was the sermon preached by Mr.
3ettys who is the son of Mr. gnd Mrs.
IV. E. Gettys of Tirzah and who since,
lis return from the World War htfa
ieen engaged in teaching in the publfc
ichools and later in welfare work, and
laving some time ago decided to enter
he ministry.
In accordance with Presbyterial
:ustom the roll of ministers and elders
>vas called following the hearing of
he trial sermons and criticism was incited.
The majority of responses were
o the effect that those who had a right
o criticise had no criticism to make
>f the efforts of the two students
>ut were "well pleased." The only
iriticism was that offered by Rev. 9.
r. Hood of Lancaster, who suggested
hat the young men try to begin their
areers as ministers by refraining
rom the use of manuscript; but that
hey try to preach "from the heart."
lis argument was that sermons deivered
without the aid of the manucript
of the whole text were more ef*
ective than otherwise.
Visitors to Presbytery.
Among the visitors of other denomllations
introduced to presytery were
lev. John C. Bailey, pastor of Tirzah
nd Ebenezer churches and Rev. J. B.
iwann of Rock Hill, formerly pastor
f Bullock's Creek church. In a happy
Ittle speech acknowledging the introuction,
Rev. Swann took occasion to
ell the members of presbytery that he
elt that he was no stranger to Assoiate
Reformed Presbyterians, having
ved among them and been associated
,'ith them all of his life. He remarked
hat when a young man he was a freuent
visitor in one A. R. P. home and
rom this home he got his wife and he
ad not yet regretted his action.
Heard Dr. Lightfoot.
D..AoKidnH?f AM Tiine/lotr ofto>*nnAn
X I V.OUJ kvl J KJIt X Uv OUUJ niivi livvu
card an addres3 by Rev. E. M. Lightx>t.
D. I)., of Columbia, superintendnt
of the Anti-Saloon League in which
e told of the work of the league In
lis state for the enforcement of proibition.
Wednesday Morning.
The closing session of the presbytery
Wednesday morning was given over
irgoly to the receipt and discussion
f statistical reports and other comlittee
reports. During the meeting of
resbytery the visiting elders and
linisters were entertained in the
omes of people of Tirzah and comlunity.
A picnic dinner was served
11 the grounds at church during both
ays of presbytery, and the delegates
tpressed themselves as being delight1
with the hospitality extended them
y Tirzah people of all denominations.
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