The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, August 24, 1921, Image 7
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CONCERNING
ffjpfe- governor Cooper has returned to
office in Columbia yesterday for a
:^^Mifet<ence on the alleged mob vior
l^lehce situation and newspaper charges
||?{bced against the chief executive
Ip.vaad the state in connection with the
|j|p90eht trouble experienced in protectJesse
Gappins and C. O. Fox,
lll^jitifes&ed murderers of William
from men who were supposed
^^ro/have been bent on lynching the
Lxm^ie governor arrived shortly before
coming down from his summer
ane on Paris Mountain, and was in
:^pfiference a considerable part of the
with Richland and Lexington of
ifi/Sera. Sheriff E. Austin ?tooi 01 l.ca^^jjSigton
and Solicitor T. C. Callison
Sphere here from Lexington and SherHeise
of Columbia was at the execKflMtVe
office during the day. Col. A.
Sanders, superintendent of the
ffifjitate penitentiary, was also present.
H Following the conference with the
^j&JBi&ers the governor issued a state^pment
denying the charges made in {
^3w?ne newspapers that the state had ;
IpE^bidicated and surrendered to the mobj
^L-.lpr that no steps had been taken to!
Sjjfc prevent possible mob violence. The!
^ chief executive^, also criticised the
^newspaper for giving too much pubEi'
licity to the movement of the two
^;Mnen in question and called on the
papers, as well as every citizen, to
||Ffurnish him with information that
||i will lead to the apprehension of any
Iplpember of the mob. If the newspa.
lj- pers are unable to prove that the
^st&te has abdicated and surrendered
M t6 the mob, the governor expects an
|p: apology to the state from all who
|j| riiade the charges.
^ Sheriff Heise told the chief magis-l
Ill trate that he knew of no threatened j
P rata violence in Richland county, the
statement says, and Sheriff Roof also j
told the governor he had been vigi^
in performing his duties.
After the conference with the offi|**%ials
the governor did not say any-!
gtefcSBS in regard to the transfer of the I
^ man held in Charleston to the peni-j
or to Lexington, intimating I
Ppthat' they were well protected in|
^^^rlesion and might stay there. The
l^chief executive did not say what he
officers in the conference, but
^^Ijirhole affair was thrashed out
fetho rouahly.
^^^^BB^^oVfernor will probably return
p^t^aris Mountain today or tomorrow.
is his statement:
IPllft/ Oatra^ed at Charge.
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which in effect, charg^efLthat
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surrendered to the mob, and that the 1
governor of the state had done nothing
in reference to the threatened !
mob violence and none of these papers
having communicated with me ]
as to any action taken or contemplated,
I felt outraged. ' | <
"These papers virtually charge that
a mob of armed citizens has defied the
law and the law officers and has been
holding up citizens on th[e public
highway and searching trains and no
steps have been taken to prevent^ it.
I assume that some one connected
with these papers is in position to
give specific instances of such acts of I
violence. I have endeavored, and am |
endeavoring .through the only available
channels to find out the truth
about these matters. I did not deem
it advisable to publish in the daily
press that an investigation would be
made and the persons who violate the
law brought to trial; but since th4'
newspapers are determined to have
a newspaper trial, I feel compelled to
ask for my/day in court.'
"As governor of the state I call upon
every citizen and especially the
newspapers to furnish me any information
which will eriable the proper
officers to ascertain who composed
the personnel of any mob or assemblage
of persons in connection with
the Brazell murder case. If the news-1
papers who have made the charge j
that the state government has abdicated
and surrendered to the mob are
unable to make good the charges
which they made, I assume, of course,
I that they will make due apology to
j the state which they have slandered.
| If they can furbish the information
j desired, they should have done so and
j given the legal authorities an opportunity
to act before charging them
j with indifference and inactivity.
Too Much Publicity.
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j nection, to say that the chief difficulty
j which the officers interested seem to
I have had in dealing with the threat
! of mob violence wag the fact that the
; newspapers published to the world
I every movement of the officers and
| thereby enabled those who would do
violence to the law to have the ad- j
vantage of advance information. J
When there seemed to be danger of
violence to prisoners in legal custody
j myy first concern, naturally, was to
i prevent any act of violence. The
sheriff of Lexington county, where
[ this horrible murder was committed,
went to Savannah, Ga., where two of
the prisoners were in custody, and the
fact of his departure was published in
the afternoon papers. When he left
Savannah, ostensibly for Columbia,
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with his prisoners in charge, this face
was also given wide publicity. When
iiis prisoners were delivered to the
sheriff of Charleston county and were
securely guarded, the officers, as well
is the governor, were charged again
with surrendering to the mob because
the prisoners were not brought forthwith
to Columbia, where the mob was
supposed to be forming.
"To have adopted this course would
probably have meant the shedding of
blood and the unnecessary sacrifice
of human life. It is a well 'known
fact that the jail at Lexington is insecure,
if there was no danger of violence
from without. These prisoners
must be incarcerated, therefore, elsewhere
than in Lexington until the
time of trial. I am unable to see
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wnere me sitnc auy^niiiivui. ...? ?w
in its duty when it decides to hold
prisoners in the jail at Charleston, in
preference to placing them in the jail
or penitentiary at Columbia. The
penitentiary is not a detention house,
but is a prison where persons are in- j
carcerated after conviction. It fre-;
quently happens of course, that prisoners
before trial are placed in the
penitentiary for safe keeping. Usually
the penitentiary is selcted in order
to remove the prisoners from the
storm center. In this case it would
have been bringing them into the;
place where the mob was supposed to j
be. There would be no objection to j
such a course in the present case,vbut|
there is no necessity for it unless
there is reason to apprehend danger
of a successful attack on the Charleston
jail. !
In Touch With the Situation,
'"there seems to be an idea, also,
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that the governor of the state can
not discharge the duties of his office
unless he is at his desk in the gover- j
nor's office in the state capitol. I'wish
to say that I have been in constant
and continuous touch with this whole
situation, by telephone and telegraph
from my temporary residence on
Paris Mountain and have given the
same instruction and advice that I
would have given had I been in Columbia.
It is neither customary nor
advisable, in my opinion, for the governor
to be personally in charge and
immediately on the scene of a disturbance
of this character. It frequently
happens that such an outbreak is
threatened in a distant part of the
state from Columbia, and I have
never known but one instance where
the governor left his office to go to
the scene of trouble.
"As soon as I was informed that
there was probable danger from an
act of violence and that a mob was
forming in Columbia, I communicated
with Sheriff Heise and directed
bim to use his eptire police force and
I would give additional men if necessary,
and that every person found in
his county who was participating, or
threatening to participate, in any act
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of violence, or who was going armed, j
making demonstrations to the terror
of the peace of the community, should
be arrested and commited to jail. I
am assured by Sheriff Heise that he
has been vigilant and has been unable
to discover any threatened act of violence.
He assures me that persons
who were supposed to have gone to j
Augusta, Ga., and entered the jail j
there left the vity of Columbia quiet- j
ly, and when he was informed of (
their departure, he notiiied the sher-!
iff of Augusta, Ga. I was unable to get |
in direct communication with Sheriff
Rof of Lexington, but I have had a
conference with him today and he assures
me that he has been vigilant
and active in the discharge of his
duty. I did get a mesfeage to him
similar to the one given Sheriff Heise.
"It is rather significant that in almost
every instance where'I had occasion
to use the telephone or telegraph,
information as to the contents
of my conversation or message in
some mysterious way found its way
to persons on the streets and to members,
or sympathizers, of the would
be lynchers. This matter 1 would
like *to call to the attention of the
authorities of the telephone and telegraph
companies."
CHKMJSTS SCORE AGAIN
S^Ik Purse Made of Sows' Ears to Be I
Put on Exhibit
Cambridge, Mass.?A silk purse
made from sows' ears, as chemistry's
answer to the old saying that
| it couldn't be done, will be shown at
i-the Chemistry Exposition in New
j York during the week of September
12.
In announcing the successful results
| of his experiments, Arthur D. Little,
Inc., chemists and engineers, of this
city, said %the silk was not very strong
and that there was no present industrial
value in the process involved,
lit was more or less the product of
chemistry at play, but a contribution
I also to philosophy in proving the fallacy
of the old proverb.
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; In reciting the factors that enterfed
into the transition of sows' ears
/from Chicago stock yards to a silk
purse, such as a Voman might carry,
'the chemists explained that the first
J step was to analyze the silk worm's
Af nioHne' cillr Thie flnnf- its
caterpillar chemistry was adopted in
the laboratory.
It was found that man had to provide
a substitute for a process by
which the silk worm exudes from two
fihe ducts in its head min.ute threads
of a viscous liquid, coated with another
creation, which are cemented
into double strand. This becomes a
firm filament of silk when it coagulates
on reaching the air.
Analysis of this viscous liquid
showed it to. be like glue and with
somewhat similar chemical properties.
The sow's ears being chiefly
gristle and skin, also has the natural
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elements oT glue. . This was obtained j
I from the ears and it was put'through j
several processes of preparation, fil- j
tered under pressure and placed in j
spinning apparatus of a special de-j
sign.
The solution of glue and chemicals
.came out as sixteen very fine color-j
less streams, joined into composite!
fiber treated to give it strength and |
color, and processed yet again to obtain
the desired soft, silky feel. The
weaving followed on a small handdoom,
the fabric was formed and the I
purse made.
Case Proved
He?"And why dp you* think I am !
a poor judge of human nature?".
She?-"Because you have such a
good opinion of yourself."?New
York Globe.
A CARD FROM
JACOB DRAFTS BOOZER
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To the voters of Lexington County:
I am seeking the unexpired ' ~m of
the office of Judge of Probate caused
by the death of my grandfather,
George S. Drafts. I do not belong to
any "click" or political ring and am
only seeking the office on my own
merits and the experience I have had
in the office during my grandfather's
administration.
I am a young man just 27 years old
who served in the army for a period
of sixteen months. After returning
from the service I acted as clerk in
the office of Judge of Probate, and
for the past year 1 have done practically
all the work without a murmur
of dissatisfaction. There are several
matters of importance in this office
that I am familiar with and would j
like to finish up. '
It will be impossible for me to see
personally each voter oetween now j
and the election but 1 submit t?> tnej
voters of Lexington < ounty the name!
j
ot* Jacob Drafts Poozcr and ask you;
to investigate the qualifb ations of the !
men who are before you .Then cast :
your vote accordingly and I shall !> J
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Tours truly,
JACOB DRAFTS BOOZER. j
WHY SOME SURGEONS
CHARGE BIG BILLS j
A surgeon writing to the New York
Herald, apparently in protest against i
the Johns Hopkins limitation on fees,
tells why he sent a bill of $82,500 to
the father of a child whose life, he j
says, he saved. He gave four rponths'
attention to the child, he explains,
and prevented her from becoming a
cripple.
In justification of his bill the doctor j
tells how in October, 1900, having!
worked in a store, an office and a j
fofit tVio sitp nf eighteen, i
determined to become a physician;
how he worked his way through college
and, incidentally, injured his leg
and became a patient in a charity
ward of a hospital of which later he
was chief surgeon; of the work he
did in various hospitals and got little
or no pay, and of how much he has
done of service to the public.
All this, he explains, he did while
he "had the hope and faith that some
day my services would be required by
sombeody who could afford to pay
what those services were worth."
Therefore when the child of a rich
father was stricken and the wealthy
man who, by the way, was one of his
friends, engaged him and told him
"not to -underestimate your services"
he felt he had a right to charge in
accordance with the man's wealth.
The rich father, the doctor writes,
spent approximately $100,000 a yeari
and had $840,000 in available assets.
On that basis he sent in a bill of $82,500.
The rich man sent it back with
the declaration that it was a joke.)
Since then the doctor has "had to accept
what he was willing to give me."
The disappointment, the doctor says,
has rendered it necessary for him to
discontinue his charity hospital work
so he can devote his mind to improving
his financial status.
It is a question whether this medical
man in the indictment he draws
i against the rich man does not indict
himself.
Possibly the child's father does
spend $100,000 a year. But where
the doctor is far astray is when, apparently,
he thinks a man with
"$840,000 in available assets" would
not have trouble in meeting an $82,500
doctor's bill. The doctor seemingly
figures his bill as 10 per cent of
the father's wealth.
GOING IT ALONE IN
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
i Only two men have swum the English
Channel, and a young American
wishes to be the third. Henry. F. Sullivan,
of Lowell, Mass., has already
made three attempts to cross under
his own power, and was within two
I and a half miles of the French coast
before it was necessary to take him in
tow and pull him in. Undaunted by
( these thrilling experiences?for the
Channel is always rough?Sullivan is
going to try again this summer, says
a writer in the Boston Herald; and
this time, he believes, he will touch
foot on French bottom without leaving
the water. His first effort was in
1913, when he started from North
Foreland. He was in the water ten
hours, and traveled about thirty-five
miles in all, including the drifts and
tides which carried him up and down
the Channel. On this occasion ho
was within five miles of the French
coast before he had to be taken into
the pilot-boat. He found the water
conditions and the temperature very
much against him". Notwithstanding,
says the writer?
In 1914 he went over again and was
in readiness to set out from Dover,
England, when the world-war broke,
and that place and the Channel was
made so unsafe for swimming that
the try had to be given up. In 1920
he went over again and made two
tries. On the first he was in the
water over nineteen hours and came
within three and one-half miles of
the French coast, and on the second
occasion he was in the water over
eighteen hours and was within two
and one-half miles of France when
the pilot ordered hb*? to quit. On both
the latter tries the condition of. the
water and the weather were most
trying, but it was only after he had
battled the elements for more than
seven hours and made not the slightest
headway that he decided to give<
it up as hopeless.
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And now he comes along again with
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the same objective in view. He is
going over this time and will benefit
by his previous experiences, which he
believes should help him to a marked
degree. It is only under certain conditions
that the swim is possible?
favorable weather and a combination
of tides that will work to his advantage
rather than his disadvantage.
These conditions occasionally prevail,
but not for long. During the
latter part of August and early in
September is the best time of the
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year, ana even men it s um\ uy
chance th&t one finds the water and
weather favorable for any length of
time. On each occasion when he
swims under the colors of the Catholic
Young Men's Lyceum of Lowell.
ODD AND INTERESTING
The sea is gradually getting more
and more salty.
Besides the parrot there are more
than twenty different kinds of birds
that talk.
Postage stamps worth about. $3,000,000,
collected by an Austrian
nobleman, are to be sold shortly in
Paris.
The sea has a great effect on temperature;
in hot climates it reduces
the heat and in cold climates it mitigates
the cold.
The Dean of . Exeter has had clocks
placed in both pulpits of his cathedral
to warn preachers to keep within
reasonable limits.
Blood tests are now suggested as a
means, of finding whether people are
engaged in work suited to their health
and temperament.
The first pair of spectacles was
made by Alexander De Spina, a monk,
who lived in Florence in the latter
half of the thirteenth century.
Boats made of special patent metal,
extremely light and cheap, with all
parts replaceable, have been designed
by a Marsailles workman. Mrs.
Anna Slaght is assistant manager
of one of the largest hotels in
Chicago.
Birmingham, Ala., has business
and professional woman's club of
1400 members.
"A Wife's Revenge."
The wife was having a small bridge
party at the house for a company of
women and one of the guests failed
to apear, leaving a vacant place at
the table, so she called up her husband
at the office and asked whether
he would not come home early and
"fill out."
"But why can't you play with a
dummy?" he asked, evidently having
no relish for the game.
"Why, the girls have invited you,"
was the wifely response.
Light Labors
"What are you doing now?" asked
the first publicity man.
"I'm working for a screen star who
is being sued for alienation of affection
by the wife of a multimillionaire,"
said the second publicity man.
"Easiest job I ever had."
"Yes?"
"All I have to do ^ to drop into
court occasionally and see that the
newspapermen are there."
All-Aronnd Man's Chance
Specialists are getting so numerous
in every profession and business that the
all-round man who really works
[ now is beginning to make a little
money again.
Rat-Snap Beats the Best Trap Ever
Made," Mrs. Emily Shaw Says.
"My husband bought $2 trap. I
bought a G5c box of RAT-SNAP. The
trap only caught 3 rats but RATSNAP
killed 12 in a week. I'm never
without RAT-SNAP. Reckon I couldn't
raise chicks without it." RATSNAP
comes in cakes. Three sizes.
35c, 65c, $1.2a. Sold and guaranteed
by Lexington Pharmacy and Harmon
Drug Co.
Mr. Vaughan, Farmer, Tells How He
Lost All His Prize Seed Corn.
"Some time ago sent away for some
pedigreed seed corn. Put it in a gunny
sack and hung it on a rope suspended
from roof. Hats got it all?
how beats me, but they did because
I got 5 dead whoppers in the morning
after trying RAT-SNAP." Three
sizes, 35c, G5c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed
by Lexington Pharmacy and
Harmon Drug Co.
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