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Bjrv * THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic?Published Thursdays. Ws. R. Bradford. Editor aad PaUUhn. The Times invites contributions on live subjects but does not agree to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The right is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested. 4 Telephone, local and long distance, No. 112. Entered at the postofllce at Port Mill, S. C.. as mall matter of the second class. THURSDAYTSEPT. 29, 1921. An interesting political cartoon which Jhe daily papers have printed recently represents President Harding as a contractor appealing to Congress to finish a v construction job which he says he promised "this gentleman" (the people) would be finished on time if ,he was elected. The job is the reduction of taxes, employment for the unemployed, and a general return to "normalcy," whatever that is. The job is hardly begun, notwithstanding the fuet that the president and his congressional workmen have had hail since the fourth of last March,?seven months, to get it under way. Notoriously insincere and with a record of deception extending over more than 50 years, there is nothing in the re cent do-notlung attitude of the Republican party to wonder at. In recent months niueli mouthing lias emanated from the challs of Congress and the department heads as to the burdens placed upon the people by the extravagance of the Wilson administration and the legislation the Republicans intended to pass to bring about relief from these burdens, but thus far their fair promises have, led to nothing. The Republican party never has kept faith with the people and m thing would be more surprising than to see it live up to its campaign promises. There are indications that the country is not in a humor to take two full doeses of political deception in succession, and so it may happen that the congressional elections next year will return enough new faces to the house of representatives to again put the people in partial control of the federal government. In a news article in The State * of last Sunday telling of an appeal being made to the supreme court in behalf of .Jesse Gappins, . under death sentence for the part he took in the murder some weeks ago of William Brazell, Columbia transfer driver, we read that the action of T. C. Sturkie, attorney for Gappins, "will probably come as a surprise to the chief executive, as Mr. Sturkie was apluitntiwl / f/x *? ,,, Viu uvirmt MitppiUlSI 1?V the court." Which is an interest ing deduction, to say the least, and suggests the inference that (Jovernor Cooper did not expect Judge Sease, who presided over the court at which Gappins was convicted, to appoint counsel for the accused who would do other tlum assist the prosecution in sending the defendant to the electric chair. In South Carolina it is the rule, perhaps the law, that when one is put on trial for his life and is not able to employ a lawyer to defend him, the court see to it that the defendant's interests do not suffer for lack' of legal assistance. Gappins stated when he was arraigned that he did not have a lawyer to defend him and Judge Sease very properly appointed a member of the bar of the town (Lexington) in which the case was tried to represent him. Now surprise seems to have arisen over the fact that this lawyer is looking after the interest of t?i? ? w. " vbiciii in a n a v which causes a stay of the death sentence hanging over the man. However much one may think Uuppins deserves early execution. Lawyer Sturkie has done just what he would have done had there been a good fee in the case for him and no reason occurs to us why his loyalty to the man should occasion surprise or crit- ' icism, open or covert. For another reason the writer of the news article in The State seems - / % \ X % ^iVv * ici a RHw: to have been unfortunate in the language he uses?it suggests soma kind of understanding between the governor and Judge Sease as to the conduct of the case against Gap^ns, loading to the thought that there possibly was an agreement to "railroad'' the defendant to the electric U U firnnlrltr on rv/\ooiKI/? m" \|uiuaij oo puooiuir. a nc Times has on idea there was any such agreement. Indeed, it is extremely doubtful whether consideration of the trial of Gappins was the subject of discussion. by word of mouth or otherwise, between the governor and Judge Sease. We may safely assume that Governor Cooper would hot thus undertake to transcend the proprieties, nor is Judge Sease the man to accept suggestions as to how he should perform his duties. It is important that the supreme court of South Carolina be composed of men of good character who are learned in the law, possess clear judgment, and are industrious and impartial. It is not important that these judges coine from any particular section of the State. If they are mnn nf t lw? iiiiulifioutianu liuvn undertaken to describe the State would lose nothing should it hap- ; pen that all were-residents of the j same town or hamlet. Justice is j not geographical, and the judge i who would be influenced in his decisions or neglect to give any 1 case which came before him the i benefit of his best judgment be- I cause the case arose in this or that section of the State is in the 1 wrong place on the supreme court 1 bench. At the session of the < General Assembly last winter , numerous futile ballots were ta- j ( ken to elect a successor to the ' late Justice Hydrick. The vacancy, of course, still exists. To J what extent the State has suffer- | * ed bv the inability of the General < Assembly to fill tlu? vacancy is ! 1 problematical. But one is safe { \ in concluding that the business , ^ of the people has not moved as < expeditiously as it should?otherwise we- have one justice too ! many and nothing will be lost by ; allowing the vacancy to continue indefinitely. * TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. By order of the State Board of Education. the regular Teachers' ; Examination w ill be held at each County Seat Friday, October 7th, j and Saturday, October 8th. This examination is given un- , der the certification rules adopt-1 ed .July 1, 1921. It embraces | three groups of questions?the ' first for Primary Certificates, the I second for Oeneral Elementary i Certificates and the third for High* School Certificates. The primary' examination embraces the following twelve subjects: English Orauiiuur andJjanguage. Arithmetic, Playground and Community Activities, S. C., U S., and Oeneral History, Geography,Civics and Current Events, Literature, Pedagogy, Health, Nature Study, School Law, Man- I uul Training. The General Elementary Exam- I inatiou embraces the following 1 twelve subjects: English Gram- i < mar and Composition, Arithmetic, I 1 History, U. S. and S. C.; Geogra- J phy, Civics and Current Events. ^ Spelling, Reading, Pedagogy, [ i Physiology and Hygiene, Nature ! 1 Study and Agriculture, School ; ^ Luw, Algebra, Civics and Current i Events. <j 1 4 The High School examination j <j embraces the following twelve < subjects: Grammatical Analysis i and Composition, Literature,Prin-i ^ ciples of Teaching, American History and Civics, Science (General science. Physiology. Biology.Physics. Chemistry, Agriculture,Home Economics?seven offered, two required); Arithmetic. Algebra. Geometry. Foreign Language (Latin, French. Spanish. German?four offered, one required); Ancient ami Modern History. School Law. ^ Each applicant may choose ex- 1 animation he or she prefers in ae- 4 cordance with the certificate he or she desires. ^ Any primary certificate will * entitle the holder to teach in the first five grades' and an Elementary certificate in the first nine * grades. 3 JOHN E. CARROLL. Super it endent of Education. j Wanted?The people of Fort Mill to try Cook's Cream Peanut Candy, manufactured by E. B. Cook & Son in Rock Hill and supplied fresh every week to the stores here. - ^ a - . jgr \ - ' \ FORT MILL TIMS! mmmm ....._ ! SECl ^HH Vijl ?o\hon i*f\ti cotton you payment a YORK COUNTY'S THE SAVINGS RAN KS A GOOD BANK 1 | t I The Perpetual \ Loan As: ; Announces the Matu on October \ I The sum of $3'2,nO( among the stockholdt '> that date. Those met tamed loans will plea ? tary's office and rect ' notes and those who will please call and I their shares. 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