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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Merest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"Xo I don't believe in allowing vio- |
Inters of the prohibition laws to get off
with fines," said Judge Peurifoy the I
other day.
"Under the old system of high
license, you remember, saloonists were
glad to pay a license of $1,000 a year
and upward for the privilege of'selling
whisky. Let these people off with a
fine of say $100 a quarter and they
get their license cheap, l tninK uiai
the best way to check this business is
to {five violators of the law prison
sentences."
Execution of Faries.
"No, Faries cannot be executed on
December 2(J?not if there is an appeal,"
said an attorney to Views and
Interviews yesterday.
"Under the rules his attorneys will
have ten days from the rising of the
court of general sessions in which to
l'ile motion of an appeal, and they
will have twenty days from that in
which to perfect the appeal by serving
on the sfate a copy of the grounds on
which they will ask for a new trial.
Then after that they have 30 days
more in which to print the case.
"Notice of intention to appeal serves
as a stay of execution, with no way to
help it.
"While of course, the state, on being
served with a notice of the grounds of
appeal, has a right to move for a dismissal
on the ground of frivolity,
even this motion cannot be made until
April. Then it will take quite a while
for the court to dec'dc it, and granted
that the court dismisses the appeal, it
will certainly be July and possibly
November before the man can bo re
sentenced."
Wonderful Surgery.
Was over to the Fennell Infirmary
the other day talking to Dr. Fennell
about things generally. Dr. Fennell is
a kind of Dr. Jeekyll and Mr. Hyde in
a way., Let me hasten to say that both
of them are good fellows. He works
with men's lives, cutting into their
\-itals and removing disorders that
would otherwise kill them, and while.
h?- is doing this his whole soul is concentrated
on the job. JJut too, afterwards
he is laughing, telling jokes and
conducting himself as though he had
never had a serious thought in his
life.
Noticing a long strip of blackish
looking substance coiled in a jar, curiosity
impelled me to ask him what it
was.
"Oh, that is part of the entrails of a
little boy," he said.
"Joking?"
"Xo, that is exactly what it is."
"How long has he been dead?"
The doctor laughed and replied; j
"Why he was over here a few days |
ago as fat as a pig."
Then the doctor explained how a I
few months ago they brought from the
Western part of the county a little boy
who had been mysteriously ill for some
time with a stomach disorder, the nature
of which seemed to be a puzzle.
After making examinations that led
him to the conclusion that there was
nothing else to do but cut into the
boy's abdomen and investigate the
trouble, he found it. A section of the
entrails were diseased until it was
rotten, almost falling apart, and ho
took it out.
"There is five feet of that stuff," said
Dr. Fennell.
"What is the entire length of the entrails
of a man?"
"Oh, in a boy like that, about twenty
feet."
"Ana you say nc will suiter no in- |
jurious effects from the loss of what's
:n that jar?"
"I tell you when he was over here
the other day he was as fat as a pig.
He's all right, anil lie has about as
good a chance to live out his expectancy
as any of the rest of us."
Most Efficient Collectorship.
The office of Collector of Internal
Revenue in Columbia stands the highest
in efficiency of any in the Unifed
States. That sounds big but it is a
fact. Major John F. Jones the collector
is responsible. When lie took charge
of the office it was away down in the
list?near about tbe last in fact; but
the major was not content to remain
there, and he lias been climbing ever
since. Mr. IJlair, the commissioner at i
Washington, is a thoroughgoing -business
man who takes pride in efficiency,
:>eil ivlin rlpimtnds etHeienev fit' ill ra' i
his subordinates. Major Jones is built ]
tlie same way, and nothing: pleases him i
better than to see things move along j
exactly right. He knew nothing: about
the business workings of th" internal
revenue department when he took
charge: but he had been accustomed
t" big business all his life, and it was
not long until he was in his natural element.
Mitch of his work is done on
general instructions from Washington.
I'or instance. In- will bo told that a
certain line of business must be tinishcd
up by a certain date. Immediately
la* lays his plans to do it thoroughly,
and to get it done before the time limit
expires. The records show that the
reports of the office formerly went in
lute?sometimes several months late;
now, more often than otherwise, they
precede the reports of any other state.
In proportion to the amount of work
done, the office and field forces of the
South Carolina collector are smaller
than those of any other state in the
Union, and the cost of collecting a dollar
in proportion. There have been
reports that Major Jones has cleaned
all the Democrats out of the office.
That is not true. His force includes
about 75 per cent of the people who
were there when he took charge. He
freely admits that he has no political
| sympathy with a Democrat, and he is
j unable to understand why all sensible
men and women are not Republicans;
but he will not stand for political pensioners
of whatever party. "I am here
to run this office as it should be done,"
ho says. "We do not want to oppress
anybody unjustly and we are not going
to do it if we can help it; but as
tolerant as we may be about honest
mistakes, we do not mind putting the
screws to those who try to dodge taxes
that tluy know to be due."
" - n -Ci. .r C~.r.l?v/?e
ror Dcneui ui
"Here," said this morning: an employer
of men, "is a sermon in verse
that would be worth much to young:
employes if they would read it and j
profit by it":
"I'm not supposed to do that," said he,
When an extra task he chanced to see;
That's not my job, and it's not my
care,
So I'll pass it by and leave it there."
And the boss who gave him his weekly
pay
Lost more than his wages on him that
day.
"I'm not supposed to do that," he said.
"That duty belongs to Jim or Fred."
So a little task that was in his way,
That he could have handled without
delay,
Was left unfinished; the way was
paved
For a heavy loss that he could have
saved.
And time went on and he kept his place
But he never altered his easy pace,
And folks remarked on how well he
knew
The line of tasks he was hired to do;
Fcr never once was he known to turn
His hands to things not of his concrrn.
But there in his foolish rut he stayed
And for all he did was fairly paid,
But he never was worth a dollar
more
Than he got for his toil when the
week was o'er;
For he knew too well when his work
was through i
And he'd done all he was hired to do.
If you want to grow in this world,
young man,
You must do every day all the work
you can;
If you find a task, though it's not
your bit,
And it should be done take care
of it!
And you'll never conquer or rise if you
Do only the things you're supposed
to do.
LAW AS TO APPEALS
After Discovered Evidence Don't Go
Without Permission.
The state supreme court Monday
afternoon handed down a decision
WHICH 11K!1K'II> still 1U1UICI IIIC 1UU|Jhclcs
in the criminal law and criminal
legal procedure in South Carolina,
when it announced the adoption of
what will be known as "Rule 31,"
which prohibits the making of appeals
on the ground of after-discovered evidence,
without the supreme court first
giving permission for such a motion.
.Rule 31 reads as follows:
"The following practice shall be observed
in the matter of motions for
now trinIs upon after-discovered evidence:
. "Kirst: In a case which the circuit
court has not been deprived of jurisdiction
by appeal or otherwise, the
motion may be made in the circuit
court.
"Second: In a case which is pending
upon appeal in the supreme court,
the motion may not be made in the
circuit court, until alter the supreme
court by order upon motion therefor,
sraii nave suspenaeo. me uppuui uuu
granted leave to the movant to make |
the motion in the circuit court.
"Third: In a case in which the ap- i
peal has been disposed of by the supreme
court and the remittur transmitted
to the circuit court, the motion
may not bo made in the circuit court
until after the supreme court by order
upon motion therefor shall have
granted leave to the movant in these
circuit court: and when the defendant
shall be under sentence of death, the
motion in the supreme court must be
m: de not later than the 10th day before
the day assigned for the execution
of the sentence (exclusive of said
day) and upon four day's notice to the
solicitor with copies of the moving
papers."
j ? Mrs. M. F. Harrison, driver of an
automobile which on Monday afternoon
ran down and killed Mrs. \\\ H. K< lly
on the Two Notch road, near Columbia,
I was exonoiated by a coroner's jury
\V? dm sdav night, the jury holding that
the accident was "unavoidable." It appears
that Mrs. Kelly ran in front of
'the nuuhinc in an effort to rescue her
: little grandchild, who was crossing the
. road at the approach of the car driven
J by Mrs. Harrison.
BRITAIN'S LABOR LEADER
J. Ramsay Macdonaid Next in Line
lor Premiership.
HISTORY OF INDUS! RIAL MOVEMENT
Organized Effort Be?:an Within the
Past Fifty Years?Now Funds are
Raised by Per Capita Assessments
on All Members.
The next Bogy man may be the next
Premier of Great Br tain. Following
upon tho election-of J. Ramsay Macdona^d
to the Sessional Chairmanship
of the British Labor Party, Bonar Law
walked by his side when the Commons
were summoned to the Lords to hear
the royal assent to the election of
Speaker Whitley. In accord with all
tradition, this constitutes recognition
of Macdonald as leader of the opposi:
tion to the British cabinet now in
power. If it should fall ho would probably
be called upon to form a new one.
In 1S74, less than ffty years ago,
British labor, through the Labor Representative
League, formed in 1869, returned
two members to parliament
frankly and openly committed to the
furtherance of labor's nterests, at that
time a vague term an 1 embracing demands
ranging from the suppression
of machinery to the distribution
equally of all wealth.
Occasionally a Libeial M. P., before
1874, had undertaken 1o achieve minor
reforms for his horny-ianded constituents,
but the league openly proclaiming
its intentipn of organizing working
class constituencies for benefit of
the working class rcpresente'd, was the
first to proclaim its recognition of
special interests to be protected specially.
Agitation Long Unorganized.
For about twenty years labor agitation
in England continued, mostly
unorganized and with a great divergence
of aims. For the most part there
was no general labor program, but only
a collection of local goals and specialized
grievances. The organization of
the Independent Labor Party on Jan.
13, 1893, however, changed all this.
The Independent Labor Party had
two aims: First, to propagate Socialism:
second, to form a labor political
alliance distinct from other parties,
based not upon class status but upon
ideas of social reconstruction and supported
by people in all ranks and
grades of life.
James Ramsay Macdonald, born in
? a ?a-- ? ? ? - ? ? K a Tn _
ldGf, was iweuiy-Bt'vtii ?mu luc
dependent Labor Party was formed
and has spent tlie rest of his life in its
service. Its announced program, in
particular, indicates exactly the things
for which he had become known?the
propagation of Socialism and the formation
of a separate labor party.
The Independent Labor Party is a
combination of trade unions, co-operative
and Socialist societies, professional
societies and local labor parties.
To this extent it?or the larger and
basically similar British Labor Party I
?is obviously the model for the American
labor party which made its first
appearance at the November elections.
The American labor party as it is
now is strictly speaking, not a party at
all but a holding company. It is made
up of the Socialist and Farmer-Labor
Parties and a number of trade unions,
each operating in the elections under
its own standard and party emblem
and through its own party machinery
and funds, if any exist. The arrangement
amounts practically to an indorsement
of each other's candidates
Dy uic panics unu
the larger organization and an arrangement
for an agreement as to the
allotment of elective offices.
Tail Wags the Dog.
The original idea of the Independent
Labor Party may havs been this, but
it rapidly changed, in a large part
through Macdonald's efforts. The tail
began to move the dog. At all events
the component parts of the party
gradually went into a decent obscurity
and the party itself dominated the
situation.
The party's funds are derived from
constitutionally fixed payments per
head of its membership nd from an
[annual fee of nffiliatio paid by local
[ labor parties.
"Whether one sees progress as the
struggle between vested and unvested
interests for power," said Macdonald,
| "or the effort of the whole life of so'ciety
for freedom is of fundamental
importance, and the second view is
that of the Independent Labor Party
and of predominant British Socialism.
The British Socialist societies which
took the other or Continental -view
never flourished in this country."
This is distinctly not the socialism
familiar to America md explains in
some part the readiness of British liberal
voters to vote for labor candidates
where their own have no chance of
i
success. The essential difference between
Macdonald and Asquith, for example,
is one of degree and not of
kind. It in no way resembles the essential
difference between Jlilquit and
a liberal Democrat or Republican like
Walsh or Borah.
The emphasis on the general struggle
of society for freedom, as against
the struggle between vested and unvested
interests for pnver, is shown
in tiie British Labor Party's fight not
i for the socialization but for the nationalization
of industry.
".Make the mines, for example", state
property," says Macdonald, "hut secure
public control in working tlicm
through committees representing labor
management, the consumer and thi
state owner."
Faith in Macdonald.
Pictures have frequently been drawi
in England of labor descending upor
the commonwealth armed to the teeti
and prepared to se.zc all property
everywhere. Maedonald's determinec
stand against the communist organiza
tion in England did much to weaker
the effeef of these pictures.
"The labor weapon against reaction'
ary revolution," he said, "is not armec
j force, but a strike with the governI
nrent at its hfead, such as happened ir
I Germany when Kapp marched intc
j Berlin." He was discus?sing possibl<
obstructionist tactics in the event tha
Ills jJiiriy It'ttU) v;uiuu;iicu |;ai iiuiiivn
and referred to the action of the German
Socialist cabinet in March, 1920
with President Ebert at its head, ir
leaving Berlin to the revolutionists bu1
issuing a call for a general strike thai
made the revolutionary position impossible
within less than a week.
Macdonald has written and spokcr
much concerning the probable tactics
and actions of his party when it takes
over the reins of British Government
a prospect no longer fantastic and bj
many considered almost certain within
a year or twfli
"A labor 'ifing'a Speech,'" he said
in 1920, "would 'regret' the condition ir
which the w?r lias left Europe, th(
failure of the work done since the
armistice, oilr Russian policy, th<
blockade and. particularly the parlous
positions of tne League of Nations. II
would welcome our lute enemies Irtc
the League a^d would try to enable the
League to reconsider its own constitution
so that it become a council oi
peoples and foot merely an executive
of governmems."
The Labor Pnrty, he believes, would
be better equipped to conduct the
foreign office than the parties that
have been in control of it in the past,
Particularly through his party's international
conferences and connections,
he says, would it have a clear picture
of negotiations with foreign countries
in the terms of humanity and the real
interests involved, rather than in those
of misty documents and coded principles.
Uses Beefeaters' Simile.
"The foreign office," lie says, "its
mind and methods, are in relation to
vtswl tv Visit tVlP P-fl 11H i 1V
liveried beefeasters of the Tower are to
the modern policeman."
The Labor Party's astounding" vote
in the recent election would have beer
much larger, it is generally conceded,
but for the party's stand on the question
of a capital levy. On this subjocl
Macdonald said in his book, "A Policy
for the Labor Party:"
"The capital that has been lost owing
to the war still 'stands in our private
ledgers at old figures; none of us
own what we try to maintain that we
own, and it is in the interest of everybody
severally and collectively that our
figures should approximate more nearly
than they do to the actual wealth
which we command. Upon these principles
of honest and. real finance the
Labor Party stands when it proposes
to reduce debt by conscripting wealth
on a scale adjusted to correspond with
ability to pay."
Maedonald was born in Lossiemouth
in I860, and after completing his education
at a board school went to London
in 1888. For a time he was a clerk
and then a private secretary. In 190C
he became the Secretary of the Labor
! Party (L. It. C.) and in 1903 he was
returned to parliament- from Leicester
The charge is thus frequently made
against him that he is not a working
mar. himself, though aspiring to be a
labor leader.
Alacdonald was an outspoken opponent
of the war from the very beginning.
On Aug. 3, 1914, he made a
speech in the house of commons
criticising the policy of Sir Edward
Grey in bringing England into the war,
Worked to Bring War.
"When Sir Edward Grey failed tc
secure peace between Germany and
Russia," he said, "he worked deliberately
to involve us in the war, using
Belgium as his chief excuse."
He denounced the atrocity reports
that were spread early in the war, as
he had denounced atrocity reports in
the Boer War.
In 1915, writing to a clergyman
who had taken him to task for his attack
upon Sir Edward Grey, he said:
"I believed and do so still that the
policies of Entente and Alliance were
wrong, that they had to issue in a
competition of armaments and ultimately
in war. I therefore did not sec
the war, when it actually came, in thai
aspiring simplicity of a struggle be
tween tne uiacKest sin ana tne purest
virtue, and if that kind of mind is tin
only one that can serve a country during
a war, I. am sorry, but it is noi
mine."
During the war a report was circulated
by the German wireless at N'auor
that John Burns, Keir Hardic and Macdonald
were advocating a new radical
party urging the speedy termination ol
the war. Macdonald denied this report
hut insisted the warring parties should
make every effort to meet and arrive
at a settlement. He particularly believed.
in July, 1915, that the workers
of the belligerent countries should use
all their efforts for peace in line witli
the manifesto issued at that time bj
the German Socialist Party.
At the caucus of the Labor Party ir
London, Nov. 21, Macdonald was elect(Continued
on Page Two.)
i MORALS OF MR. RODDEY
, Says Honesty is the Greatest o
i All Virtues.
i
, INFLUENCE OF DOLLAR IS GREA1
i Rock Hill Man Directs Attention ti
Present Day Evils?Presents Hii
Opinion Relative to Several Matteri
^ of Current Interest.
In my opinion we do not realize fh<
1 really greatest devil in tliis country
> today. 1 have heard sermons, lectures
i and talks about the demon rum, th(
1 awfulness of gambling, and various
t and sundry terrifically terrible devils
but the sure-enough devil (this is my
opinion) is THE DOLLAR. I often
1 hear: "You sec that crowd of fellows;
t wouldn't they do almost anything tc
t get whisky?" Unquestionably yes, but
couldn't we throw out an arm, point,
turn completely around, 360 degrees,
i and say: "You see that crowd ol
i fellows; wouldn't they do almost anyi
thing to get the dollar?"
,, Is there really any honor any more?
' What will men and supposedly respecti
able men, not do for the dollar?
Wouldn't Diogenes with his lamp have
1 considerable trouble in getting together
i a good-sized bunch of really all-round
! honest men? Lying, deception, trick
ery, anything to get the dollar, is con}
sidered shrewdness, sliekness, smart>
ness. I don't say that is practiced cx:
cept for the dollar, but in my opinion
i it is in practice from the supposedly
! highest to the lowest where the dollar
is concerned.
! When you see anything in the news
papers out of the ordinary where the
dollar is concerned, you can look for
I the joker, and nine times out of ten
i you will find it, if you have sense
, enough to see it, because the man or
men pulling it off try to keep it hid,
and if he or they are smarter than
, you, you will not find it until possibly
it is too late and you are "stung."
i There is nothing to this being religious
I without having religion, and the
chances are the man is "fooling nobody,
not even himself, certainly not God
Almighty. If a man is not honest, I
wouldn't give a nickel for all his prei
tended religion, for he hasn't any, and
i where the dollar is concerned the ma
jority of our people are at least on the
i ragged edge; what per cent, has slipped
over, be your own judge. Some men
, won't stick you for the last dollar they
i can,x but those men are very few. You
IiaViC UUUUllCBO unuu KJL ItlC aviviuc v???v.
old man gave to his son: "Get money,
; my son, honestly if you can, but get
money." Is not the majority of the
people trying to follow his advice?
Thinking about God five hours a week
, and the dollar 55 hours won't get us
i anything. The percentage is entirely
, too much in favor of the dollar. We
have dollar days and then we have
every way, any way to get the dollar.
The fever temperature of the almighty
dollar seems to be running around 106,
the fever temperature of the Almiglfty
God seems to be running around 94.
Hadn't we better get some medicine
to raise one and lower the other, and
try to get nearer normal?
Let's not "strain at a gnat and
swallow a camel" about some of this
gambling business until we stop all of
this publicly matching for drinks by
church officers and our supposedly
I best people, and until the bets on the
. football game last Friday, for instance,
amount to le3s than a thousand dollars
per game. Get the dollar is the pre",
vailing idea, but I think more of the
. man who bets and gives the other
fellow a fair chance, than practicing
deception, "putting one over" and
irettintr a man's money by some trick
or scheme?one is a fair chance, the
other is a steal.
Are you getting your whisky fairly?
Arc you making your bets fairly?
Don't everybody say "Yes" at once because
you might be lying.
You ofter hear: "I get it as cheaply
as I can and sell it for every dollar
I can." That is possibly all right, if
you don't take advantage of ignorance
and tricks, but some of the things
pulled off right here in Rock Hill arc
as low-down as an 18-year-old boy
beating up a 10-year old boy; th^y
would make the devil blush. Heating
up a 10-year-old boy would be frowned
upon; taking advantage of ignorance
and tricks is considered by many
as slick and shrewd. "Hit a man your
own size." If you don't, you are a
coward and a crook, I don't oare what
you think you arc.
, You often hear: "Mr. fso and So
. and Mrs. So and So will be around collecting
for such and such a thing, and
. you can't afford, no matter what you
i think, to antagonize them. You will
get public opinion against you." What
do I care for public opinion? It is as
variable as the winds, and is formed in
a community by what a few people
! think and can get in the newspapers
before the public. Courting public
I j opinion, if you think public opinion is
, wrong, is cowardice. Jesus Christ
| didn't seem to stand very high in
j public opinion. They crucified him,
, | and in 1920 they practically crucified
I Woodrow Wilson. Five years ago
, public opinion was, you could get all
the whisky you wanted and it was all
: right. Twenty years ago you didn't
, see a woman's dress above her shoes.
Now you see lots of them above the
t knees, and it is all right. Thirty years
ago a man's word in business was
worth something. Now he must sign
|and his wife must sign, and a lawyer
must look it up to see that nothing" is
"put over!" Public opinion now is
"get the dollar."
| Sometimes when I see or hear of
some of these subscriptions where they
sign up widows, orphans or anybody
else for all they can get and for as
r long as they can get them to sign,
' whether it is for the church or not,
doesn't look straight and honest to me.
3 It was to be admired when the "widow
s gave her mite," but it didn't mean that
* she was solicited or persuaded to give
it. It seems to me that committees
! are sent out to get the money from
* anybody or in any way they can, and
1 fhn nk/tm U ,wv ^ ^ I t + ,v ^
i tiic auuw caun 11 mu maiv^o i
! the more they think of themselves,
i Men are still nothing but overgrown
, boys. The boy says: "You gave Willie
a baseball, you got to give me one,
i too." The girl says: "You gave Mary
a dress, you got to give me one, too."
? The man says: "The Methodists or
Baptists or some other denomination
got a new church, or Sunday School
room, you've got to give us one, too."
No one cared much about it until the
other got it, and then vanity and rivalry
come in and we have just got to
' have it whether we have the money or
not, and right now, just any way we
can get it, and then the dollar looms
up, and then the schemes to get the
dollar.
Some fellow pulling crooked details,
some fellows taking advantage of ignorance
and conditions, some fellows
soliciting subscriptions from widows,
orphans, clerks and others who can
hurdly make ends meet will probably
say this is all "bunk." Well, perhaps,
so, but I say, as far as your conscience
is concerned it is all "bunk;" you
haven't any. The almighty dollar is
the biggest devil today. Religion
' should, in my opinion, encourage
character building and our lives should
ho built* nri fart truth?Tr?hr* T
Roddey in Rock Kill Record.
WOMEN TIGERS IN JAIL
' No Discrimination Should be Made Be- 1
tween Soxea, Says Greene.
The imposition of heavy jail sentences
upon two women in liquor cases
during the recent term of criminal
court in Anderson, which was adjourn.
ed Saturday afternoon and the attitude
of Judge William P. Greene, of Abbeville,
in which he made it obvious that
in the administration of justice in his
court no discrimination is made between
the sexes, establlsh?s somethihg
of a precedent in criminal court history
in Anderson county.
Rather than manifesting a desire to
be lenient with feminine violators of
the state laws, Judge Green impressed
upon the two women sentenced by him
the fact that their bad example would
j only make lawbreakers of their children.
Should any distinction be drawn
between them and women violating the
liquor laws of the state he intimated
that the latter would generally be supposed
to be more scrupulous In this regard
and while it is detrimental enough
to a people for its manhood to become
involved in such violations, a sad state
of affairs, indeed, -exists when its
womanhood is similarly inclined.
"You're not giving your children a i
chance, except to become lawbreakers," |
charged Judge Greene, when he passed |
i a six months Jail sentence upon Mrs.
Mamie Crumpton, Joiptly indicted for
a violation of the prohibition law with '
her son Robert Crumpton, both of near j
Williamston. The son drew a similar
term but the judge declared in passing
sentence upon the young man that had
be been set a good example by his
mother, or had her bad example not
existed to actuate him in the commission
of the crime, he would have received
the limit of the law. In sentencing
Crumpton, Judge Greeite said in
part:
"You've not had a good example set,
but you may as well make up your
mind that the man who violates the
law is going to be punished."
The sentence of young Crumpton was
passed prior to that of his mother and
when the woman was told to stand the
I judge asserted that "You've been re- I
sponsible for the trouble your son Is i
in. People," he added, "will not stand 1
for places where people drink liquor
and become disorderly for this cause.
It is a hard thing to do to sentence a
woman to a term, but you're not giving
your children a chance, except to become
lawbreakers." In the trial of this
woman, testimony adduced indicated
that Mrs. Crumpton had poured out a
quantity of liquor when the officers
had arrived at their home early during
the morning.
The other case in which a woman
was sentenced to a jail term of imprisonment
was that of Gordon Lcverette
and his wife, both of near Pelzer.
The ease was a parallel in some
' respects to that of Mrs. Crumpton, for
; it was alleged that Mrs. Leverette" was
pouring out a quantity of liquor when !
officers arrived at the home. Gordon |
Leverette drew a sentence of six:
monliis while his wife was sentenced;
to lour months in the county jail or a j
i similar term in the state penitentiary, j
The imposition of jail and gang sent- j
ences upon defendants in liquor cases j
and the refusal of the court to impose!
money fines in such cases featured the'
; term of criminal court here last week. ^
! ?Eve, the mother of the human race ,
! is buried, according to a very old
! legend, at a spot about a mile north
of Jedda in Arabia. Her reputed tomb
is of enormous length, being nearly 400
feet long by ten broad. It is now in
the possession of the Mohammedans,
who do not permit many Christians to
enter it.
DEN3Y IS RILED.
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Says Naval Academy Disgraced by
Much Drinking at Football Gama.
The conduct of the Annapolis midshipmen
at the Army-Navy football
game in Philadelphia last Saturday,
was arraigned in a public statement
last Monday by Secretary Denby of
the navy department, declaring that
members of the corps had brought dla!
grace not only upon themselves, but
Ion the Naval.academy.
"How many midshipmen drank
heavily I do not know." said the secretary's
3ta.tement, but he added that
despite the good behavior of many,
enough midshipmen had "failed to do
their duty to their uniform and to their
country to bring shame upon all." He
announced that an investigation would
be ordered.
Secretary Denby's statement follows:
. "jj
"My attention has been called to the
misconduct of a number of midshipmen
from the Naval academy on Saturday
night, after the Army-Navy
game. I have no desire t<j minimize in
any way the fact that many of the JJ
midshipmen did disgrace themselves
and bring disgrace upon the Naval
academy, for I know it to be true. I
am shocked beyond m^isure that such
things could have occurred. Tho misconduct
on that occasion was, as far
as I know, the mo it flagrant that has i
ever been charged against the a cade- *
my. How many midshipmen drank
heavily I do not know. The wholo *
regiment was in Philadelphia. Only a ..
relatively small proportion of the regiment
attended the ball. Of thla small
proportion I think the great majority
conducted themselves with propriety,
but enough failed of their duty to their
uniform and to their country to bring
ohnme upon all. Such an occurrence
will never be repeated, for such steps
as are necessary will be made to make
it impossible.
"In this connection I wish to make
it quite clear that the Naval academy
has hitfiertofore set an example to the
country of good conduct on such occa
sions and will set examples in the future.
I was so proud of them at the
game, which was one of the most
thrilling I have seen and where I saw
absolutely no evidence of drinking
among the midshipmen, that later
events of the evening came as an absolute
shock. When I think of the pic- )
ture presented by our 2.<00 young men
standing at cap salute in honor of the
visitors while the cadets celebrated
upon the field the well-won success I
can hardly reconcile their sportsmanlike
conduct then with what occurred
afterwards. An investigation will at
once be ordered."
OFF TO PENITENTIARY
Roy Henderson of Cherokee County
Begins Life Sentence.
Officers from the South Carolina
state penitentiary are expected to ar-.
rive in Gaffney tonight or tomorrow to
take in custody Roy Henderson, 18 ]
years of age, young Cherokee county
man who has been sentenced to life I
imprisonment, and they will carry the
youthful Cherokee prisoner to Columbia
where he will begin the service of
the sentence.
Orders that Henderson be taken to
the South Carolina penitentiary were
issued in Court of General Sessions
T nrrt T VU DAnrmon nrouiHinv
last Saturday afternoon and followed a
motion to that effect presented by
Butler & Hall, attorneys for the defendant,
says the Cherokee Times of
Tuesday. An nppeal has- been taken
from the sentence imposed in Court of
General Sessions, and transporting
Henderson to Columbia to begin the
service of his sentence does not mean
that the appeal has been abandoned,
but merely gives the attorneys sufficient
time in which to perfect the appeal,
the case having already been filed
in the solicitor's office. When motion
was made last Saturday by Butler &
Hall that the defendant be taken to
Columbia to begm serving his sentence,
no objection was offered by Solicitor
Blackwood, and accordingly the order
was entered.
When Henderson was 16 years of
age, he and two little Kirby boys, one
eight and the other six, were hunting
in the Goucher section of the count?,
this community being their home,
when the two little boys were killed.
After several days had elapsed. Henwns
nrroHtrd nnrl rhn rpprt with
the crime, but he maintained that the
little boys had been killed by a negro.
He was sent to the state hospital for
the insane at Columbia for mental examination
but was later returned to
Cherokee, the alienists stating that he
had the mentality of a nine-year-old
boy. He was then arraigned and tried
in Court of General Sessions, the jury
returning a verdict of guilty of murier,
with a recommendation to the
mercy of the court, this verdict carrying
with it an automatic senteuce to
life imprisonment. His attorneys then
appealed the case, since which time
Henderson had been in jail here. %
Although he has been a prisoner in
the Cherokee county Jail since November
20, 1020, Sheriff Watklna says
that Roy has always made a splendid
prisoner. He says that the youth has
never caused him the slightest trouble
in any respect and that never but
twice has he asked that any favor bo
performed for him, these occasions being
when he desired a few cigarettes
from town.
? Girls have supplanted boys as messengers
at the Women's Party headquarters
in Washington, D. C.
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