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CLINTON, S. C., JUNE 12, 1924
courts as it is a common thing- now
for the law to trifle with justice.
When the first murderer in Eng
land was asked of the courts to be
spared on the ground of an unsound
mind, the courts listened and then
brushed it aside swiftly. They ssid
“we don’t know whether the defend
ant in this case was crazy or not. If
he was not crazy he was guilty of
a brutal murder and ought to be
THE CITY ELECTION
The city election Tuesday passed
off quietly and was apparently free
from wild rancor and ill-feeling.
There were a number of candidates
the field but of course all could
in
not be elected. The defeated candi
dates took their defeat gracefully,
and those who came out the victors
did not appear inclined to gloat over
their accomplishments.
The election now over, it is well
that folks get their minds and at
tention back on their business. Re
gardless of what the people of the
city may think of the wiseness of the
choice of voters, the majority has
spoken, their preferences have been
expressed, and it now behooves the
public to forget the election and to
unite in the common cause of up
building our city and community.
hanged. If he is crazy the world will
he better off the sooner he is out of
it.” How different "in America to
day.
It is just such nonsense as “de
mentia jazzmania” that is contribut
ing to the crime wave in this coun
try. -Justice is too frequently being
delayed, and for many of the crimes
and outrages that are committed,
nothing is ever done. Take our own
State of South Carolina for an ex
ample, and it is not much worse we
don’t suppose than the average. “Last
year there occurred 258 homicides
in the State. And what Was done in
the courts about these 258 killings?
One hundred and seventeen were ac
quitted. Nearly half were set free.
One hundrechand ten were convicted
aff were "*conviclSl
Moat of them got off with man
slaughter sentences. Thirty-one cases
were mistrials or were thrown "out
by the grand jury. Some of these
man-slayers escaped arrest and are
still fugitives from justice. Some
are even unknown. The total list
of killings is larger than the num
ber of cases tried.”
Human life is altogether too cheap
and the leniency and loop-holes of the
courts are in a large measure reaon-
sihle. l^is Condition must be reme
died before “dementia jazzmania” and
other such pretenses will be stopped
ENROLL NOW TO VOTE
All Democrats, men and women
alike, must enroll now for .the Dem
ocratic primary this summer or they
will not be allowed to vote.
It does not make any difference
how many times a man may have
enrolled in the past, he must re-en
roll for this election. Clubs are re
organized every two years.
County registration certificates have
nothing whatever to. do with the pri
mary election. The only way to qual
ify for voting in the Democratic pri
mary is by entering one’s name on
the club books. The rules of the
Democratic party prescribe that the
qualifications for membership in. any
club of the party in South Carolina
and for voting at a primary shall be
as follows, namely: “The applicant
for membership, or voter, must be 21
years of age, or ahall become so before
the succeeding general election and he
a White Democrat He shall he a citi
zen of the United States and of this
State. No person shall belong to any
dub or vote in any primary unless he
has resided in the State two years or
in the county six months prior to the
succeeding general election and in the
dub district sixty days prior to the
first primary following his offer to
enroll; Provided, that public school
teachers and ministers of the Gospel
in charge of a regular organised
church shall be exempt from the pro
visions of this section as to residence
if otherwise qualified.”
Anyone who can meet the qualifica
tions above can and should join the
Democratic dub, and thus qualify to
vote.. All ^hat is necessary is to put
one’s name on the books. *
In the city of Clinton, the Demo-
eratic club roll will be found at Work
man Company’s store, with J. F.
Workman, secretary, in charge. At
the Clinton Mill the-books are open at
the Clinton Mercantile Cpmpany, and
c. the Company Store at Lydia
A WELL-DESERVED! HONOR
The friends of Dr. Davison Mc
Dowell Douglas, Whose name is le
gion, will learn with interest of the
conferring of the L. L. D. degree upon
him last week, by the Southwestern
Presbyterian University ( of . Clarks
ville, Tenn. The honor comes in re
cognition of his ability and accom
plishments as an educator and is one
that he richly merits.
Dr. Davison McDowell Douglas was
born in Fairfield county, June.20
869. His father was Rev. Jhmes
Douglas, and his mother was Mrs.
Margaret McDowell Douglas. His
ancestors were from Ireland, coming
to America in 1790 and settling near
Winnsboro.
Since early manhood Dr. Douglas
been a prominent figure in the
Presbyterian church of the South. He
graduated from Davidson Col-
age in 1896, studying for the minis
try in Louisville Theological Semi
nary during 1895-96 and in 1899 re
ceiving his bachelor of divinity de
gree from Columbia Theological
Seminary. The University of South
Carolina gave him his master of arts
degree in 1899 and during the follow
ing four years he was pastor at Bre
vard “and Davidson River,, North
Carolina. From 1904 to 1911 he was
“DEMENTIA JAZZMANIA”
, We don’t know what it is but it
sounds both “crazy and jazsy.” What
ever it may be, it is the wall behind
which Nathan Leopold and Richan
Loeb, sons of Chicago millionaire^,
«re now endeavoring' to hid and
•*pe the gallows for the kidnaping
«nd murder of 18-year-old Robert
Fmnka as an “experience.” It is _
defense they will endeavor to set up
for the murder for which they have
been indicted, one of the moat atro
cious crimes the country has rend
*beut in a long time.
In common language, it means “in
a defense that people in
country are continually putting ud aa
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country is getting tired, at least
he, ef seek flimsy excuses,
i appalling to what
USED CARS FOR EUROPE.
A TEXT FOR FORD.
WHAT IS A CAREER?
THE JUDGE’S COCKTAIL.
When the antomobile arrived, old-
fashioned carriages, Victorias, broug
hams, etc., became worthless here, and
a market was found for them in South
America where they did not give up
horses and carriages so easily.
Lately the American problem has
been “how to get rid of second-hand
automobiles.'’ Europe, it seems, will
help solve that problem.
Back in 1884, when Qlpucester,
Mass., had a composite population as
it has today of fishermen, glue and
twine manufacturers and followers^ of
the sea there was born In their midst
one Harry Allen. His father and
grandfather had been fishermen, his
mother snd grandmother makers of
sails. His father was drowned the
day he was born, his mother died giv
ing him life. An illiterate sunt and
her dissolute husband attempted to
raise him. He was sent to a kinder-
garden when seven and ran *away
when he was ten. When eleven he
was a cabin boy on a coastwise sail
ing vessel. The hardships of those
days beggar description-hunger, cold,
whippings, hard work, but he emerg
ed from it at aeygpfoen JUBMUL.
A company, formed to ship second-
feor WlrTirawuyl'W
gains by the shipload. Money is not
plentiful thefe as it is here. The
“used car,” at a whittled down price,
is attractive.
Unloading of used ears abroad will
be a good thing for Europe, which
needs economy, and a good thing for
the United States, ' where millions,
need “a bigger or better car.”
The Senate Agricultural Committee..
11 to 5, voted against Ford’s Muscle
Shoals offer and. took up Senator
Norris* bill.
Senators that refused Ford’s offer
are hurting fanners and hurting
themselves. But that doesn’t console
Ford, who must now find his conso
lation in the 146th Psalm. .Verse 3 is
especially recommended:
•Put not your trust in princes, nor
in the son of man, in whom there is
no help.”
The unreliable son of man in this
case seems to be Mr; Coolidge.
Chlorine gas that wiped out bat
talions in the great war, will be used
on a bigger scale of destruction
against germs of inflnenxa, pneu
monia, and other diseases. That’s a
better war.
Exclusive clubs in New York decide
to suspend their visitors’ list during
the Democratic convention. This is
presumably to oblige members UK
occasionally dream political dreams,
on their own account, but would not
ike to push the thing so for as to
invite those political chaps to one’s
own club, don’t you know.” We really
have an American aristocracy, a poor
thing, but our own.
pastor of the Maryland Avenue Pres
byterian church af Baltimore. He as
sumed the presidency of the Presby
terian College of South Carolina in
June, 1911.
Since that time he has untiringly
worked for the institution and due to
hit ability, foresight „and persever
ance, the college now ranks with the
leading institutions in the South, snd
is enjoying an unprecedented growth.
Each year since be came here, the
college has shown improvement in
financial strength, in an increased
student body, in an enlarged and ef
ficient faculty, ii^ requirements for
entrance, and in equipment and en
largement of the plant. He is a man
of big ideas and the Presbyterian in
stitution under his control is steadily
growing in power and usefulness.
Both as sn educator and gentleman.
Dr. Douglas is beloved and highly es
teemed throughout the Synod of
South Carolina. His friends are gra
tified to learn of the well-deserved
konor that has come to him ip recog
nition of his fine record of service to
the cause of education. The Chronicle
extends heexty congratulations to the
Doctor.
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Storm Sufferers
Dr. Dudley Jones, Chairman of the
campaign that was recently made In
the city for the relief of foe storm
sufferers in foe lower pert ef foe
State, stated yesterday that he had
forwarded to the proper authorities
foe amount of $265.05 and that foe
fund has now been closed. Of the
amount raised, $15.00 was contribute*
by colored , people.
The Methodists with “going for
ward” for their keynote, voted 5 to
in their general conference to lift
the ban on dances and theatres. The
“except
old "rule was no amusement
those which can be used in the name
Now smusemeht
of foe Lord Jesni.
snd religion can he kept separate, as
education snd religion are separated
in public schools.
Charles H. Mayo, .great surgeon,
says cancer will be conquered “within
few years.” Already seventy-to
eighty per cent of cancers can be
cured “if taken in time.” Remember
foat over-eating is one of the princi
ple causes of cancer. Keep your sys
tem light, clear, dean, full of energy,
and it will deal with foe diseases that
attack it.
Overloaded, it is helpless.
ve, dean of Barnard
girls foat marriagn
bitter. He had managed to save from
scant earnings $211, and with it he
opened a small general store in a
Gloucester side street. A year later
rival burned him out. Allen fer
reted out the incendiary, whipped him
within an inch of his life and then
rode him out of town on a broom
stick. Three years’ toil in a glue
factory, where he slept and also ate
his meals followed, and then Alien
opened a grocery store with the $570
he had saved. His campaign of per
sonally soliciting trade brought re
sults snd his became the leading gro
cery, coal and wood, and accessory
store in foe town. Ten yean later
he had become a large figure in a
small place and was the so-called
political boss of Essex County, Mass.
When he was thirty-two he moved to
Boston, 28 miles distant, snd opened
a department store on Hanover Street
known as Harry ABen A Co. When
he was forty he sold the store for
$900,000 snd retired, telling his
friends that the first forty years.of
his life had been Hell and that jhe
intended to make the next lorty yean
a heaven.
He is now enjoying the fruits of
his labors.
Form the habit of visiting our store and looking
around, you'll find many suggestions in tapty foods.
LITTLE S DENSON
50—Two Phones—54
Clinton, S. C.
Uncle John!
lawi”
old, $50 for carrying a pint bottle of
moonshine whiskey. She presents
fohi «s a sample ot-onr “respect forko him, may write a fust-rate poem.
If we take foe gineral average of
the people as they come; they’re volu
me on some things, while on others
they are dumb.... And, you’re forced
to this conclusion—if you’ll only take
the pains,—that they’re more inclin
ed to money than an overplus of
brains. . . . .
I wouldn’t do injustice to the chick
or child of man, who pins his foith
to dollars snd replevins all he can—
but we can’t dismiss the question
from the feller that reflects, how
brains compares with dollars in ac
quirin’ men’s respecks!
Sometimes the man with millions
creates sn awful stir,—while the
baggy-kneed philosopher is one we’re
sorriest for. . . . The fot-head with
the fortune that’s been handed down
REGULAR MEETING OF
CAMPBELL LODGE FRIDAY
' V
The regular meeting of Campbell
Lodge No. 44, A. F. M., will be held
Friday night, June 18th, at the usual
hour. • All foe members are asked to
be present.
Final Settlemlht
—but his chance is mighty slim!
Take notice that on the 14th day of
July, 1924, wa will render a final ac
count of our acts snd doings as Ad
ministrators of the estate oLAfartha °
H. Me. E. Copeland, deceased^ in the
office of the Judge of Probate of
Laurens County, at 11 o’clock a.- m.,
and on the same day wfli apply for
a final discharge from our trust as
Administrators.
Any person indebted to said estate
is notified and required to make pay
ment on or before that date; and all
persons having claims against said
estate will present them on or before
said date, duly proven or be forever
barred.
J. L COPELAND,
J. M. COPELAND,
7-3-4tc Administrators.
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Miss Gildersleeve,
College, tells the
is not ENOUGH for women now.
Each girl must have a career, as well
ss a husband.
What IS s career? Beethoven’s job
was music. Michel Angelo’s was art
Did not their mothers have a career,
when they created them? Or must
they also paint pictures and write
music? Is not the creator ss grant
as the thing created?
Mothers are the eras tors, men are
only the product, depending for their
fame on what their mothers give
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