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V Tuesday, July 18, 1922. >! . I. \ THE LAW'S DELAY % t . Abbeville Press and Banner. ' Another way that the law's delay encourages crime is that sometimes judges spend a day or two trying onK rhp pases in iail, and then run off home, leaving the bail cases to accumulate on the docket?sometimes till not only the public forgets about t them, but the witnesses also or else move away and cannot be found. Wei heard of a court recently where the j criminal docket had become ciuuereu : up in this way with something over a j hundred cases numbers of them so j old that the solicitor found iz neces- j sary to nolpros them. This is another argument against [ peripatetic judges. Thus complains the Newberry Ob- j server. And it must be admitted that there is reason for the complaint. The system of rotation as provided for judges in the constitution has its advantages. Travel helps anybody and there are some judges who need to travel. Acquaintance with the lawyers over the state and j a wider knowledge of the law gained j from a consideration of cases involv-! ing a wider range of subjects help i to develop the lawyer on the bench and make him a better judge. Then there is always the objection that a judge in his own circuit j develops favoritism for certain law- j yers and has "pets" as they are ! termed. And it is impossible, we imagine for a judge to preside in a circuit for years wjhout learning that some lawyers are more to be depended on than others; without developing a deeper friendship .for some men than for others; without looking, to tried men for counsel in his diffi- i culties. But the advantages gained from the rotaitori system are more than; offset by the objections, we believe, j i ? The advantages gained from travel- j ing about the state may be had by the people by requiring that men j elected to the bench be already great f lawyers. The bench is not the place j to develop judges when they are el-, evated to the bench. The objection 1 that local judges fall into the habit of depending on certain favorites more largely than state-wide judges is not valid we believe. The judges who travel over the state soon learn from consultation with other judges and with lawyers generally who are the dependable men at any bar. We do not think that there would be more objection on this ground than i * ? J ? It : i z_ & 9 i w ? ? A. 1 i m I : I'here is already. Xone but weak \\ (judges have favor;-e.s. if any <io. Bo-jpi j sides the advantage of rotation may <v j he had by the judge;? who desire to-in | learn through the frequent exchange ol 1 of work as is done in Georgia. j w And then it is much better to get to f . i rid of a juuge who does not measure c; up if his work is confined to a cer- a! 1 tain locality. Men have been elected at to the bench in South Carolina who ih would not have been elected to thutici position had the law required thaticc [those responsible for their election j st practice before them at all times. j to The consideration that they wiil w *? ^ f /\-f 1 V* r> . CtV\ ct J. 11 UII1 ' ItUillC 1 < ' I V X. utV' time has been a consideration in the *i; selection of men for the bench in' M South Carolina. ' ;n Then, too the matter of salary has ju been a matter for consideration for nsometime past. The judges are poorly la paid. Everybody who thinks knows'rr that. Four thousand dollars paid to cc a judge who stays in his own circuit ti< is worth a great deal more than the ur same amount paid to a judge who hi - 1 ? wovf nf if in tra- tVi muse twjj'jiiu <\ ?. v. ?v ... ? veling about the state. The salaries to of ihe judges could bo raised without cc pa vino, them any more moneV by th providing that every judge shall be fo responsible for the courts of his own w circuit. Besides ihe amount of sal- or ary thus saved, the judge at home: would be enabled to look after his f-cJ nvivate business affairs more closely ci and to engage in certain lines of en-; deavor which do not interfere with the work on the bench. The principal advnatage of keep-! ing a judge in his own circuit is to \v fix responsibility for the state of litigation in that circuit. No judge is row responsible. "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," j the old saying runs. And it is true t; in Soutb Carolina with regard to the management of legal matters. There jjr is rio incentive to a judge from Anderson to trv to clean up a docket x cc L in Horry when he knows that he will \y not be there again for seven years, co and when he knows too that other W] judges are not trying cases. jaT: Peripatetic Solicitors I gp But with regard to criminal bisi- Gi ness we believe that the Observer di" places the blame at the wrong place, th at least in great part. We have nev- on er seen a judge refuse to try a ease Sr when the solicitor was ready and in; pressing for trial, and where there fo was no legal excuse for a continu- M ance. Solicitors may always procure on their witnesses by a bench warrant, wc i Q This sale will b< subscription taker year and no subsci year at that rate, that rate after Jul; There are a gre I am making this < ity to get up and ir is given every ot"f subscriber regard subscription may 1 Remember it is time is out July 3 not put it off to tin late to reach us in After that date be taken off the I subscription price S V/llv 'itiics.,cs couM attend cour t more oinptly if :h' y were |i:nt>r;ly hound ;cr ;t?i.! insti uctc:; a to their duty i that re?poet. Cas<". would !>< more ten reatty ior ir u. i< souraui as a local ollicer and was required ' attend inquests and to investigate tse-3 before court, arid to see that 1 proper witnesses are required to tend court. Vvc can only secure .i-e results by havinjr local pro.sextin^r officers. Xo individual nor irporation in this day, except the te of South Carolina, undertakes handle litigation in the court? ithuot local counsel. And we can without the expendi:re of any more money than we art >\v spending secure local prosecutg officers. The solicitors, whose risdiction now covers four counties. reive upwards of two thousand dolrs per annum, wo believe. Consid-j ing the work they do and the time nsumed in 1 oc>ki?;lc after their du,'S they are the highest paid officers ider the American flag. The five; mdred or more dollars paid for. ese services for each county added; the sums paid by each county for >unty attorneys and legal work for e county would aggregate a sum v which men of ability would be, illinpr to serve as prosecuting ofTic-1 s in their own counties. If the Observer will investigate, irther we believe that it will conir in the views here expressed. ; 3TH TRACKS BLOCKED ON SOUTHERN RAILWA Y j i recking Crews at Spaitanburg and Greenville Decline to Respond to j Call ar.d Passenger Trains Are Being Held Up ie State. Q 1-to til-til 1*0* .Tn 1 \7 1 1 ?T'np mnir. ?o ]/ai uuiyui f?* y w wij > - . ? .. ?? j ie of the Southern railway was' ockod by the wreck of a peach train 7:15 o'clock this evening between: ellford and Fair Forest in .this ' unty 15 miles west of this city, and recking; derrick crews called here j :d in Greenville have refused to re- j ond. While the wreck is on the j ~ * recnville division, the Spartan Dura;, vision forces stationed at Havne,! e iunction point, were called un* , t by Superintendent Maxwell of the.' artanburg division, to aid in clear- j Z the main line. The reply of the, reman of the crew, according to r. Maxwell, was that unless some e was under the wreck, the men >u!d not work. While no one was ? ? A A A a?* A at A } on from July 3 to July 1 at that rate for less t! ription taken for more t And no subscription t y 31. at many who are in arre )ffer to give them the op i doing so the same opp< ler subscriber and eve less of the date to wl hp naif!. ; for one year only, i 1. A long time but yoi 3 last day because it ma i time. all subscriptions in aire ist. This is no reductio of the paper but only a injured a:ui the wreck consist., of on-iti ly four cars !<>. ?'!' (! v.'ilh pca"h?\-\ ' it they are o situ:it- <1 a: lo !?!ock h ?':r^ tii" nori'i ind sou:h lines -i;:-hnsj *: >;> a!i traffic, i':t>iv?-; [.: u:s are; > held both here and m (irvcr. : v; but with !:ttir prospect that. the lineiX ' i will l?c open before weli in the day j 2 tomorrow. 1st Under norma! conditions, accord-J b< inir to officials of the road, the wreck ! should have been chared in .some-.1"' tiling like two hours and hut for the] strike of shopmen 'it-tie interruption ' of traffic would have occurred. j At Spartanburg -12 men are out of!*' liic imync ^i1u]>> i ii' i c 11 <*^ n? no break in their ranks. j v" It was reported here late tonight j j" that a volunteer wrecking crew was]"1 being made up at Greenviile and would be sent to the wreck. at .Spartanburg, July 12.?A freight :>i wreck, which under normal conditions would have been cleared in two hours .' occurring at 7:15 o'clock this even- (,! ing, blocked the main line of the Southern railway near Fair Forest, ten miles west of Spartanburg. At 2 ? ! M o'clock this morning the wrecking!" crews at both Greenville and Spartanburg have refused to work. The M efforts to clear the tracks arc being made without the assistance of dcr-|| ricks, locomotive'? being used to | J "butt" the derailed cars off the tracks. While the wreck is not on the Spartanburg division of the Southern, but or. the Charlotte division, only a few. miles from where they join at Ilayne, Supt. William 3Iax\ <11 of the Spartanburg division early in the evening called upon his derrick crew for service in clearing the main line. The vnnlv fttmr. hju-k. throucrh the fore man of the crew, that the men would not iro unless it was a matter of sav-/ ir4g human life. "If somebody is under the wreck we will go, otherwise we will not," was the answer given Superintendent Maxwell, according to his statement tonight. Mr. Maxwell was not informed, fte said, as to what experience Superintendent Hungerford was having with j his ^derrick crew at Greenville. It J was reported in Railway circles at j Hayne, the junction point, tonight that a derrick had been taken from j Greenville to the wreck, but was not I in operation, the engineer refusing * i i i o work. It was unuersioou nere to night that the action of the foreman of the derrick crews was in sympa-{ i thy with the striking shopmen since & 0 & @ ^ @ ^ @ # 9 ? $ I xpJc! LU CJIIIU for 0 31. No offer to p lan one standing, han one We ex; aken at this rate ceipts in :ars and dollar as iportun- John C irfnrn'tv T?prlnnhai ry new Prosperit fiich the 2'eceipt ft Farmers *nd the Whitmire a better at Little I y be too it conven the count ars will must hav n in the giving th< - - ^ - -1 , special tne sudsc k*v arc f-)t Up!"'''"I to !'??' involved I 1i1'' > M' i IvC* N ' ' 1' i' 11'' n i f' J?i f 1 to m h:t?i ! ' > in : in ion ..Mi i The wrrk ia ! )itl;nir pa: .;on'j;-"r nin.s No. :>U, n<v 'nnound, r. (irc.'M: le; Xo. ' )'). s')ul!ii'<>an<l Ilayno; I MO - i. c t.. . I.A t i > ami ? < > iit o{>?niuiiuiii o'clock, i; w:;s ->tatcd, {her;- was -mo prospect of having the south>u?d track -.pen !>y .'!: "<> oVlo^k. UNCLE JOHN" SHELL AGED 134, IS DEAD Louisville. K\\, July 10.?Anions it' many mourners at the funeral of [Tnc!eM John Srn-'l. I'M years old, ere his two sons, William, ajft'i inety, ami Albert, seven, it became lown here today when news was re'ived that the oldest white man in lo world had died July 'I at his home Greasy ( reck. Albert is the off wing of a marriage, "I'ncle )hn V' first wife, who is .said to have :>en two years his senior, having ed about ten years :tgo. The aged man retained full posseson of his faculties to the last and scussed his funeral arrangements ith Mr. and Mr.-. Samuel Creech, ith whom he had made his home We a Temporarily machines that w< ready for busines We have re cars rolling, and trade as usual. Newb tfBfc ?i w w - ? IV! & V WW u ermit all subscribers xjct at least 2,000 subs( and we could not writ one day. Do not dela; soon as you read this an . Au!l at the Bank of Po igh at the Peoples Na y will take your money >r it, and we hope to a Bank of Chappells an : and the Merchants an< Mountain to do the sam ient to the subscriber i y to make payment wi fKn rlnllnT* "NTr* U l/l iU l_lU 11 CC1 i 1 U e discount and the cost riber. : ;ii!-" he !o.;t !ii.s own place through! ' f'K" fom"1o>uif of a mortgage never-? if ;a! m??nt:;S ago. } 1c was rfnifl to have been born in I i'e]ii;e->?'(_ in ,S'pleniber, 1 < >!>, me '?: of S.jnucl Snell, a gambler. ' l-w, ic k i vnrr-; I f) I.' IL i 111\- iiv- ^ ci!,'' a'jo*.it four years a;?o, ''Uncle" Mohn. i' i.s -aid. has led a secluded, i ! , ::fe in 'he mountain country, but j. 'nee ;hc;i he has traveled eonsiclert 1 :ih!v. exhibiting himself at state. jfairs. I ! in HMD he took his first airplane j ; ride. On his visits to cities "Uncle"! John toirl newspaper interviewers; 1 * x : ~? , that he remembered once <u nuvm^ . .wen Daniel Boone, and that he rcj called the general mourning that fol- l lowed the death of George Washingion. lie said he was too old to enlist j ' ir: the .Mexican war. I j * tt-k7 jl http n 3 W A1N 1SLU 5 to prepare for positions now formation address: GREENWOOD BU GREENWC i I - re running we have rigged U{ sre not so badly da ?s. placed our stock ai are in position to ta erry Lumb Phone 56 fember Newberry Chamber of Commer 1 AA * to get in good bribers to pay at e that many rey but send your :nouncemont. maria and L. W. tional Bank at and give you a rrange with the d the bank at :1 Farmers Bank c, so as to make n every part of thout cost. We ounts. We are of collection to Be Pachcnt The following reply to a dun was actually received by a New Jersey firm: Dear Sir: 1 received your letter about what I owe.-: you. now be paohent. I aint forro* you and as soon as folks pays me I'll pay you. if lhi> was judgment day and you no more prepared to meet your God than I am your account, your shor going to hell. And Marriage Oftencr He?There must he a great many loveless marriages being performed now. She?What makes you (hink so? He?Haven't you heard the old saying that love comes but once to every man? Bookkeepers Stenographers awaiting them. For full inSINESS COLLEGE )GD, S. C. ii now. 3 a few of the imaged and are id have several ike care of our er Co. C6 i I < i : ? * ' ___ ' 1 * i : [*k /*Efc. A .A.