The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 21, 1924, Image 2
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, 8. C.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 21, 1924
(Political Advertisement)
J. L. M. IRBY
Candidate For Clerk of Court of
'l^aurens County.
His Qualifications Set Forth in His
Campaign Speech Delivered at
Poplar Springs Aug. 18.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
As the first candidate to address
you, an honor not bestowed but one
of rotation, I hope to blaze the trail
and one I assure you the others will
follow, a trail not through the dark
and muddy waters but one in the
open and upon a high plain.
It is a privilege and a pleasure to
appear before any audience in Lau
rens county and 1 feel as no stranger
amongst you.
My people have been in your midst
since before the days of the Revolu
tionary War and have been -your
friends and good citizens ever since.
The good people of Laurens coun
ty have been kind to my family. You
have honored them on every occasion
they have come before you and I as
sure you they appreciated jit with a
love second to no man.
I inherited an ambition to. serve
and be honored by you and I am seek
ing the office I arfi best equipped to
fill. I have no public record, but one
as a private citizen I am proud of and
you should be—for it has reflected
honor upon you whether in South
Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia,
Florida or Germany—for at no time
did I forget that you are judged by
those that go from amongst you. I
conducted myself as every good citi
zen of Laurens county should.
As a young boy, in order to obtain
an education, I stood a competitive
examination and won a scholarship
to the Citadel, graduating there in
1906 in civil engineering, that pro
fession causing me to work away
from you. In 1908 I started to work
to also learn the timber end of the
business, starting at the botton again
on a salary of $f)0.00 per month, and
in 1911 when I resigned to come home
to read law I was drawing $2,500.00
a year and expenses. After staying
home three months my people tele
graphed me to come to Charleston at
their expense. Upon arrival they said
they couldn’t do without me and to
name what conditions I would return
for. In this work I had to look up
records and became familiar in many
clerks of court offices.
In 1317 I again resigned to help
raise two companies of volunteers for
immediate service in France. Gen
eral Wood thought so much of the
personnel of our outfit that he put us
in the Rainbow Division as their en
gineers and I want to say to you
that from this section and other parts
of South Carolina I went with as fine
a bunch of men as ever trod the soil
or crossed the briny deep.
My friends, my comrades have
honored me on every occasion possi
ble. In the organization of the Vet
erans of the Rainbow Division I was
elected by the men as the chairman
of our regimental delegation. I sat
also in the chair at the organization
of the South Carolina chapter of the
Rainbow Veterans and in Columbia,
July past—I was elected by acclama
tion their president for this year.
Returning home from Germany the
boys in my company, to show their
love and esteem, presented me with a
handsonueTset of silver, a gift I look
upon as my greatest treasure.
Now, my friends, to the real issue
in this race—“Rotation in office.’\
Are you going to say, by your bal
lot, that in 32 years there are only
two meirTit to be your clerk? Are
you going to stifle ‘ the ambition of
that boy or that girl by saying to
them that only a very few can serve
or be honored by you ? Be careful,
my friends, for it’s from communities
like this that your leaders come and
have come since this was a country.
The boys and girls of today are your
statesmen tomorrow.
Are you going to flash to the rest
of the state, “an ex-soldier again goes
down in defeat. Laurens county will
not have them to serve her.”
Are you going to scratch my name,
one who stood on the firing line in
every battle fought by the American
army and helped say to the Germans,
“You shall not pass," and vote for
one whom you have already honored
as your clerk of court for 16 years,
or another you have honored 6 years
as your auditor and 12 years as your
clerk ?
You, my friends, are the jury. Upon
this issue of rotation and this record,
I offer my services and ask you to
honor me.
It was intimated by one of the can
didates that I have brought my war
record into the campaign to which I
reply:
I don’t want my opponents of the
people of Laurens county to think I
am trying to ride my war record into
the clerk’s office.
1 entered the war because l thought
it was my duty and I wanted to serve
you. It was at a financial loss. I
was above the draft age, was turned
down physically for bad eye-sight,
but General Wood waived that on ac
count of my being a good engineer
and officer. The people of Laurens
county ewe me nothing for it.
I mention part of my business ca
reer and war record because I have
no public record to refer to, and I am
to be judged in the future by the suc
cess I have shown in the past.
COURSE OF STUDY
FOR CITY SCHOOLS
List of Text Books Given For Ap
proaching Session of
1924-1925.
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For the information of its readers
who are patrons of the city schools,
The Chronicle prints today the list
of text books, grade by grade, for
the new school session opening Sep
tember 1st.
First Grade
Child’s World Primer and First
Reader.
Second Grade
Child’s World Second Reader.
Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1.
Morey’s Little Folks Number Book.
Practical W’riting, Manual No. 2,
Practical Drawing, Book 2.
Third Grade
Child’s World Third Reader.
Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1.
Robbins and Row’s Work and Play
With Language.
Smith’s Modern Primary Arithme
tic.
Practical Writing, Manuel No. 3.
Practical Drawing, Book 3.
' Fourth Grade ’***“
Child’s World Fourth Reader.
Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1.
Studies in English, Book 1. s
' Smith’s Modern Primary Arithme
tic.
Bingham and McFarleane’s Essen
tials of Geography, First Book.
Fifth Grade
Child’s World Fifth Reader.
Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1.
Studies in English, Book 1.
Smith’s Modern Advanced Arith
metic.
Practical Writing, Manual No. 5.
Practical Drawing, Book 5.
Sixth Grade
New Elson Reader, Book 6.
Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 2.
Kinard and Withers' The English
Language, Book 2.
Smith’s Modern Advanced Arith
metic.
Brigham and McFarlane’s Essen
tials of Geography, Second Book.
Practical Writing, Manual No. 6.
Practical Drawing, Book 6.
Seventh Grade
New Elson Reader, Book 7.
Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 2.
Kinard and Withers’ The English
Language, Book 2.
Smith’s Modern Advanced Arith
metic.
Brigham and McFarlane’s .Essen
tials of Geography, Second Book.
Practical Writing, Manual No. 7.
Practical Drawing, Book 7.
Eighth Grade
(College Preparatory Curriculum)
Ward’s Sentence and Theme.
The Sketch Book.
Payne’s Common Words Common
ly Misspelled.
Sykes-Comstock’s Beginner’s Alge
bra.
Caldwell and Eikenberry’s Ele
ments of General Science.
Smith’s Elementary Latin.
Eighth Grade
(General Curriculum)
Ward’s Sentence and Theme.
The Sketch Book.
Payne’s Common Words Common
ly Misspelled.
Hughes’ Community Civics.
Stone-Millis’ Arithmetic.
Caldwell and Eikenberry’s Ele
ments of General Science.
McCOY INDICTED
ON THREE COUNTS
NEVER “SOMETHING FOR NOTH
ING"
NEARER PERFECT BIGGER RE
TURNS
A SURPRISE FOR EIJAH
NO POPULATION SCARE
Charles Fox offers to the United
States Government an engine that
“consumes no gas or other fuel and
runs forever."
The inventor says, “You just start
her up and let her flicker," and he
thinks it will bring millions. It won’t
bring a cent. A power wiser than
Charlea-Fox, wiser even than Calvin
Coolidge, won’t allow us to^get
“something for nothing." That would
be bad for us. Therefore, there if no
perpetual motion, nothing worth hav
ing, for which we don’t give effort
and value in return.
It pays to develop a perfect thing,
from cows to radio. Mrs. H. McK
Twombly, of New Jersey, owns a
Guernsey named Langwater Fairy
No. 97979. She looks like any other
cow, but gives three times as much
milk, four and a half times as much
butter fat as the average cow. Her
amazing record just announced is
13,605 pounds of butter fat in one
year. In that kind of prosperity there
is no speculation, no manipulating,
just plain, simple production of
wealth through intelligent attention
to breeding.
Daily the radio offers something
new. This time it is “broadcasting
church music for rural weddings.”
The bride, trembling, will give the
last poke at her hair, the last tug at
her veil. The sexton will “tune in,"
and up she will march, in Farming-
dale, N. J., to the tune of “Faithful
and True,” played in Chicago, 111.
Florida says, “Come.” The rich
will answer, “I’m hurrying.” Have
y®u an income? Florida offers you
attractions over and above the fine
climate. Florida intends to put into
her constitution a provision that will
exempt incomes and inheritances
from all taxation. This is intended
as “a courtesy to prosperous people
from the North." They will appre
ciate it. No death tax on inheritance^
no State tax on income! Oh, joy!
Oh, rapture! Florida says, “Come to
Florida. Here your income is all
yours to spend. We chop off nothing
and your heirs get all you leave them
when you die. We won’t tax dead
Ex-Pugilist la Formally Charged
With Murder of Mrs. Mors.
“Unbalanced," Say Police.
Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 19.—The
grand jury late today indicted Kid
McCoy, ex-pugilist, for the murder of
Mrs. Theresa W. Mors here August
12th last. He was also indicted for
assault with intent to commit mur
der, and for robbery.
The indictment for robbery follow
ed presentation of evidence of Mc-J
Coy’s shooting orgy in the fashion
able West Lake shopping district last
ednesday, when he is accused of hav
ing held up several persons in the
Mors antique shop and with having
shot and wounded Sam Schapp and
his wife, Ann, and W. G. Ross.
There were four counts on the rob
bery indictment. A thrid indictment
against the ex-pugalist charged him
on three counts of assault with in
tent to commit murder.
McCoy started the day in his cell
with a demonstration of what police
observers termed an unbalanced mind
and what alienists characterize as an
attempt to sham his guilt. . .
~ The alieniste - today-declared—Mc.-
Coy was sane. Today he started to
paste bits of paper about his cell,
pacing nervously about and mum
bling that he was making a trap “for
that rat Mors.”
District Attorney Asa Keyes rush
ed his three alienists back to the
former pugalist’s cell when he heard
of McCoy’s action. After observing
the prisoner, two of the alienists de
clared the “Kid” was feigning insan
ity.
w While alienists and police were try
ing to determine whether McCoy was
normal or insane, Mrs. Iva Martin
was telling the grand jury that one
of the two men she saw running
from Mrs. Mors’ apartment the night
the woman died was not McCoy, but
Albert A. Mors, wealthy antique
dealer and divorced husband of the
dead woihan. The second man she
could not identify or describe.
Mors had preceded Mrs. Martin on
the stand, tracing his movements the
night his wife was shot and establish
ing what investigators said was a
perfect alibi. Mors testified that Mc
Coy had threatened his life repeated
ly.
Defens ealienists also visited Mc
Coy today. Sent to the city jail by
the suspects’s attorneys shortly after
he began one of his strange doings,
Dr. R. I. Shelton found the former
boxer in. no mood to be examined, he
stated.
According to turnkeys, McCoy
threatened the doctor with violence
if lie entered his cell, and it was only
alter his attorneys arrived and rea
soned with him that he quieted down
and permitted the alienists to ques
tion him.
Three other physicians- will ex
amine McCoy tomrrow, the defense
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Paris, which has 8,500,000 books.
Shark flesh has always been con
sidered a delicacy among the people
of Japan and the Far East.
attorneys announced, but no report
will be made as to their findings un
til the prisoner has been under obser
vation for several days.
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WHAT DO
P. S. JEANS
DO?
Ninth Grade
(College Preparatory Curriculum)
Wards’ Sentence and Theme. .
Mihel’s Short Stories for English
Courses.
Payne’s Common Words Common
ly Misspelled.
Sykes-Comstock’s Beginner’s Alge
bra.
Smallwood, Reveley and Bailey’s
Biology.
Smith’s Elemenary Latin.
Ninth Grade
(General Curriculum)
Wards’ Sentence and Theme.
Mihel’s Short Stories for English
Courses.
Payne’s Common Words Common
ly Misspelled.
Sykes-Comstock’s Beginner’s Alge
bra.
Smallwood, Reveley and Bailey’s
Biology.
Chamberlain’s Physical-Economic-
Regional Geography. *
Tenth Grade
(College Preparatory Curriculum)
Lewis and Hosie’s Practical Eng
lish.
Miller’s English Literature.
Chew’s Practical High School Spell
er.
West’s Modern World.
Bennett’s Cicero’s Orations.
Chardenal’s Complete Course in
French.
Tenth Grade
(General Curriculum)
Lewis and Hosie’s Practical Eng
lish.
Miller’s English Literature.
Chew’s Practical High School
Speller.
West’s Modern World.
♦Cook’s Practical Chemistry.
♦Sykes-Comstock’s Plane Geome
try.
♦Chardenal’s Complete Course in
French.
Eleventh Grade
V/ard’s Theme Building.
Pace’s American Literature.
Chew’s Practical High School
Speller.
Sykes-Comstock’s Plane Geometry.
Stephenson’s American History.
♦Halevy’s L’Abee Constantin.-
♦Sykes-Comstock’s Solid Geome
try.*
♦Bennett’s Virgil’s Aeneid.
♦Rittenhouse’s New Modern Illua
trative Bookkeeping.
♦Optional.
A long time ago Elisha “took hold
of his own clothes and rent them in
two pieces,” when he saw Elijah-go
up in “a chariot of fire and horses of
fire.”
What are Elisha and Elijah, now in
heaven, saying to each other as they 11
see the Right Reverend Harold Rob- !
erts Carson, Bishop of the Episcopal. I
Diocese of Haiti, calmly riding from |
one parish to another in a flying
machine? The navy lends him the
flying machine and he visits places
otherwise inaccessible.
All that men can IMAGINE they
can DO.
Dr. Pearl, professor of biometry
and vital statistics at Johns Hopkins,
says our population will be 197,000,-
000 in the year 2100. That will be
our maximum and then will come a
decline.
With all due respect to the learned
professor, any child could make as
good a guess.
Dr. William Allen Pusey recently
told the American Medical Associa
tion that population would reach
175,000,000. And “with that density
of population, the pressure of exist
ence will become so strong that the
death rate, particularly infant mor
tality, will overtake the birth rate."
That is another poor guess. Under
intensive cultivation, as it is now un
derstood, the State of Texas alone
could feed the earth’s entire popula
tion, and that is at least sixteen hun
dred millions. •
There will be a thousand million
human beings in THIS country, in
finitely happier, richer, better off in
every way, than any population that
ever has lived.
In 124 years, since 1800, our popu
lation has risen from 5,000,000 to
112,000,000. What is the use of
guessing what will happen in the next
120 years? It would have been im
possible to guess how many people
this country could feed before har
vesting machinery was invented. Im
possible before the arrival of the
tractor.
Lack of food won’t limit popula
tion. Men’s brains will always pro
vide for their stomachs. But a high
er race will gradually produce fewer
children.
Disease breeding cities will be brok
en up by flying machines, taking us
to live on mountain tops, where there
is fresh air. These 'mountains are
not to be forever uninhabited.
Why Dial Should
be Re-elected
His Record in the United States
Senate shows shat he stands for:
Everything that helps the farmer, the laboring
man and the business man in genera^
The right of the States to regulate their own
affairs, and squarely against the Federal Child
Labor Amendment, which would work untold hard
ship on the farmers of the State.
Economy in the conduct of the Government.
Prohibition, legislative and otherwise.
His six years of experience as Senator will be a
valuable asset to South Carolina.
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He has always been “on the job” and will re
main so as long as he is in the Senate.
T ' Has any other aspirant a stronger claim on the
Democrats of South Carolina?
Think it over, men and women voters, and on
next Tuesday—
Cast your ballots for
N. B. DIAL
FOR RE-ELECTION to U. S. SENATE
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