The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 18, 1924, Image 8
NEEt> SPECIAL LAWS
TO PROTECT AIRMEN
Present Statutes Decidedly
Unfair to Pilots.
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Is an aeronaut legally responsible
lor tbe follies of excited spectators
who from the ground feast their eyes
on his adventure aloft V
The answer is yes, an American
court decided more than one hundred
years ago^
This precedent, and others of more
recent date, were discovered by per
sons now engaged in the foreminded
task of preparing a sorely needed code
of laws for the airways. Their re
searches Indicate that under the com
mon law of several nations, every mis
adventure ^ that befalls a mun watch
ing cn aeronautical exploit is the
fault of the aviator.
Only enactment of special statutes
can relieve the airman from this re
sponsibility, the savants say. The his
toric cases dealt with balloonists, but
are believed to apply equally to pilots
of modern airships and airplanes.
One Guille, a balloonist, descended
Into the garden of a man named Swan.
He called . to a workman 1$ Swan’s
field to help him. There was a crowd
pursuing the balloon to see the jand-
Ingl The basket of the balloon dragged
along Swan's garden, damaging pota
toes and radlshea. More than 200 of
the pursuing spectators broke Into the
garden, beating down vegetables and
flowers.
The damage done by the balloon
was about $15, and the damage dona
by,|be crowd amounted to about $75.
Swan sued Guille for the entlm $*>.,
anf GulUe answered that h* waa ,
responsible for the damage done b;
the crowd.
The New York court that heard the
case decided GulUe .was liable for all
tbq Injuries sustained by Swan. It
was the natural thing, the coart held,
fog a balloon to draw a crowd, and
Guftle was wholly to blame,
happened In 1812.
A similar case happened In Ger
many, where a balloon landed In a
meadow near Frankfort when the bal-
Irst gave out The Inhabitants of
the neighboring village swarmed out
to the scene of the accident and on
the way, tramped a garden to ruin.
The owner brought suit against the
aeronaut for damage to his vegetables,
and a court awarded a Judgment in
his favor.
Now, this aeronaut did not actually
trespass on this vegetable dealer’s gar
den. As a matter of fact, be lauded
in a meadow a long way off. Never
theless the German court decided that
the balloonist did all the damage by
drawing a crowd.
A Belgian court has agreed with
the American and German courts.
While over a small town in Belgium,
a balloon began to collapse from loss
of gas. The pilot, finding himself
forced to,land, selected an open space
beyond the town.
He was flying just above the roofs
of the house, with his drag rope dan
gling Into the street. The villagers,
believing the balloonist wished to ba
drawn down, seized the rope.
The aeronaut cried out to them to
let go the rope, but the villagers In
terpreted his yells as cries for help,
and they vigorously and heroically
pulled the balloon to the grown].
The pilot was forced to open his
valve to release the gas swiftly. In
the second story window of a house
on a narrow street sat a man who
was smoking a cigarette. The cigar
ette ignited the escaping gas as the
balloon settled beside the house, and
there was an explosion.
Considerable property was de
stroyed, several people were killed and
many were Injured. Although the
aeronaut swore he was virtually kid
naped from the air, and explained
that the catastrophe was caused en
tirely by the folly of ignorant villag
ers, a Belgian court condemned him to
pay all the damages.
Point t to tssi done
by Wdtkeri* Cottticfti
Aboif} a thousand American fac
tories have adopted oue form or an
other of employee representation. The
minutes of the boards and commit
tees of these factories on which em
ployees have representatives give us
our first chance to pull industrial
democracy down out of the cloudlund
of theory into the field of deportublo
fact.
James Sleyers, who has observed at
first hand the development of Indus
trial democracy, examines the minutes
of a number of factories In his ar
ticle, “Democracy In American Fac
tories,” In the Century Magazine. He
says this article “Is designated to fur
nish a brief close-up of some of ths
actual activities of workers’ councils,
throwing Into high relief a few of the
practical principles and methods which
make for success or failure In (his
pioneer development toward the new
day of democracy in Industry.
“A good Illustration,’’ he writes, “of
the sound sense and business judgment
exercised by a straight workers’ com
mittee In charge of the management of
company houses is supplied by the
minutes of a housing committee^ one
of the subcommittees of a workman’s
board.
“These workers exhibit no disposi
tion to throw away company money.
Profit-sharing is • part of the plan
in thik mill and forms ? strong In
centive to economy. Careful, but Just,
they have, in fact B^snaged the prop
erty Intrusted to them conservatively,
restricting decorations, making tenants
meet the company halfway,* standard
ising rents, removing favoritism. The
president of company, aftyy thro# blit
yapps' experienced the mattec, mads "
the following public stslsinsnt. In re-
gnrd to workman’s manajfement of
company housing:
JlTfeA. TurtBM, flHirtlons. jywagefed
With the management, th# company
housing are performed more efficiently
by the board of operatives than they
All this previously performed by the man
agement, according to our experience,
owing to the fact that much more time
and thought Is given to each individual
question, than the management could
possibly give to It There is more satr
(•faction In the village and the prop
erty la managed economically.’”.
Shortcomings
Moses Dlgga, an old Negro, had been
‘v arrested for having more than one
wife.
“How many wives have you had!”
demanded the Judge.
“Six,” waa the reply.
“Why couldn't you get on with
them ?”
“Well, suh, de fust two sp’lled de
white folks’ clo's when dey washed
«m; de thu’d worn’t no cook; de fo’th
was jest naeherally lazy; and de fifth
—I’ll tell you, Judge, de fifth, *he—”
“Incomputability?”
“No,” SHid the Negro, slowlv, “It
worn t noth in’ like dat. Yo’ Jest
couldn't git on with her onless yo’
was somewhars else.”—Loudon Tit-
Bits.
Early Day Q& WatU
Everybody thought .Colonel Drake
had gone “clean craay** when one day.
In 1859, he set forth to what later be
came known as the Oil Creek region
In Pennsylvania on hia absurd quest
of oil, of which he knew nothing ex
cept that it waa the basis of a lini
ment made by a New York firm of
druggists.
With “Tlneenm Bill,’’ a salt well,
borer, as assistant, he put down his
first drill on the first of July; and
the morning of August 30, having left
ths work the night before with the
drill down nearly seventy feet and
still no oil in sight, he found, to hia
dMIght, that the well was full of oil.
Not long after Drake's sensational
discovery, the “Funk” well waa gush
ing forth at ths rate of one thousand
barrels a day, and Farmer Funk
found himself a millionaire within a
month. Soon the “Phillips” well on
the Tarr farm was spouting at ths
rate of two thousand barrels dally,
and gold was pouring Into Jim Tarr’a
coffers at an amazing rate. And still
more romantic was the experience of
the famous “Coal Oil Johnny” and of
Jim Sherman, who bought p lease of
the Foster farm for $500, struck oil
almost immediately, and within a few
years saw his $500 converted Into
millions.
I&ANY Nfifr tAttSS
IS LEGISLATURE
. • • sir
Only Sixty-Three of 1 One Hundred and
Seventy Members qf Last Session
Will Return This Year.
Columbia, Sept. 13.—When the
South Carolina General Assembly con
venes for its next regular session in
January, 1925, seats held by thirteen
senators and ninety-four representa
tives of the 1923-1924 legislature will
be filled by new members as a result
of the Democratic primaries held re
cently, according to a compilation
made by The State.
Of the 170 members of^the general
assembly of 1925-1926, one hundred
and twenty-four representatives and
forty-six senators—only sixty-three
will be members of the 1923-1924
legislature returned to their old
places, The State’s figures show.
The slaughter fell heaviest upon
members of the lower house, all of
whose terms expire this year, and of
the 124 members of the next house,
only thirty will be members returned
from 1923-1924, it was shown.
Ninety-one “new merobqrs”—that
is, men who were not members of the
1923-1924 general assembly—have
been named in the first and second
primaries and third races are schedul
ed in Anderson, Florence and Green
ville, no old members of the house
being among the candidates remain
ing for the three unfilled places.
Only one-hslf of the 46 senators,
were forced this year to-make {aces
and of the 23 places to h? filled ten
will be occupied by the men who filled
them in the 1923-1924 general assem-
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Nations Coal Resources
It Is claimed that at the present
rate of consumption, 586,UU0,U0U metric
tons a year, the coal resources of ths
United States will last over 6,000
years. As estimated by the Coal Trade
Journal the total metric tonnage of ajl
coals la now 3.535.303,000.000. ( These
figures. It Is said, do not Include ths
recently discovered Alaskan coal fields
which can supply the Pacific states
for 1.000 years dr the deep flying
coal deposits In Colorado, New Mexico^
Arizona and the Rocky mountains
which cannot be profitably mined.
Also, the United States is now supplr-
log half of the world’s coal. The
necessity for this large output may
soon be reduced because of newly dis
covered mines In Siberia. Japan, China,
India, Australia and New Zealand.
Why Urchins Leave Home
The principal reason why children
run away are hurt feelings, desire ts
be alone, rebellion ngalnst authority,
boredom, love of adventure and desire
to see the world, says Mrs. Mary E.
Hamilton, New York’s first police
woman.
Dads and Sons All Scouts
For almost eight years Scoutmaster
Max Brown has worked and played is
scoutlng's ranks through Troop 500,
Stock Yards district, Chicago, and with
him have been his three sons, now
his assistant scoutmasters. The quar
tette all have their veteran pips, as
have eight other assistant scoutmas
ters who started their scout career
in Troop 500 and are fbw carrying ofli
the work In the Interests of boys else
where.
you
Low Shocsl High.
t Papa—I thought v you said
Imiight low shoes?
Mamma—^dld**^ ,
,-fepu—You’ve been deceived again.
Us blu can >fi *51 Jodayrknfl they tSS
eC(tainly high ones.
Logical '
ft* Uttfe. fiJttraOfiife-ta
to see you. lew’s yo<W wife?
ouv« :
Eye to Business
Sam (meeting friend on common)—
De parson done tol* us dls mawning
about Lot’s wife bein’ turned to a
01 8 $r
us—pat sot v<sai* ir qe age er
Get Help at Onos
“John r* caned ths wife in ths atm*
imloi Msifmtoif
stumblsd on the stall*. “Is that your
“No dear” cam* ths reply, a trtfis
“^v.r 0m
Twos hundred and ninety contest
ants, among them several women, en
tered .the .46 races lor .the house of
representatives, according. to statis
tics 9ompild by J. Wilson Gibbs, of
Columbia, clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives and editor and publisher
of the legislative manual- Amopg the
number were 59 members of the 1923-
1924 house, of whom 29 yere defeat
ed and 30 re-elected. Sixty-five mem
bers of the old house did not offer
for relection, among them being for
mer Governor John Gary Evans of
Spartanburg, W. R Bradford of York,
G. L. Toole and B. K. Keenan of Ai
ken, J. Carl Kearse of Bamberg, and
Jonas P. Gray of Spartanburg, and
Claud N. Sapp of Richland, chairman
of the ways ancf yne&ns committee,
and James R. Bellamy of Beaufort. A
number of members offered for other
positions and Thomas S. McMillan,
speaker of the last house, was nomi
nated for congress to succeed W. Tur
ner Logan of Charleston. Mr. Toole,
offering for congress, was defeated,
as was also Mr. Bradford. J. E.
Beamguard of York, was nominated
for the state senate, while W. L. Gray
of Laurens and Joseph R. Bryson of
Greenville, seeking similar elevation,
were defeated.
Of the “new” house members 20 will
not be new to the general assembly,
though they were not members of the
1923-1924 general assembly. Nine
teen, Mr. Gibbs finds, were former
members of the hodse and one a for
mer members of the senate. Seventy-
one have never before served in either
house. Iri three second races are one
former member of the house, five men
new to the legislature halls and no
members of the 1923-1924 house.
Fourteen of the 23 senators, whose
term expire this year, made the race
for re-onmination and of these only
four were defeated: George W. Wight-
man of Saluda, M. P. Wells of Edge-
field, W. P. Mason of Oconee, and S.
H. McGhee of Greenwood. Ten were
for re-nomination and of these only
not members of the 1923-1924 senate.
Of these three are former members of
the senate, three former members of
the house and five new to the general
assmbly. Of the several senators not
offering for re-nomination, two, Sena*
tor D. M. Crosaon of Lexington, and
Senator L. A. Hutson of Orangeburg,
were defeated in their race for con
gress against Representative H. P.
Fulmer.
Approximately 15 occupations, with
farming in the lead in both houses,
a^e represented in the 170 iqembers,
according to information supplied Mr.
Gibbs by the various members and
candidates. In the lowdr house, Mr.
Gibbs finds, will be 55 members di
rectly interested in farming, though
of these only 42 make farming their
chief business. In the senate will be
16 farmers and five others who com
bine farming with other interests.
The house membership by occupa
tions will include, according to Mr.
Gibbes’ compilation:
Forty-two farmers, of ^rhom one is
also a salesman, one practices medi
cine and two are merchants; 37 law
yers, of whom one is also a merchant,
one a banker, two farmers; 11 mer
chants^ of whom one is also a banker
and four also farmers; seven physi
cians, two of whom farm; six real
estate and fire insurance agents; two
school teachers, who also farm; two
textile operatives; one textile manu
facturer; one newspaper publisher and
editor, who also farms; one law stu
dent; one locomotive engineer; one
dentist, whq also farma^one druggist,
Opd ( one civil engineer, who also
farnp.
Of the jimate: Nineteen
whom one Is g)so a
yers.^f
a fuffi
five t
farmers; two physicians, of whom oho
is slso a merchant; two merchants, of
whom one is also a banker; one life
insurance agent; one. editor and
What better proof do we need that a Savings Account
is a really vital paft of oftr exMeWc4 than to watch the
squirrel lay away,- in the way nature has taught him,
the surplus of hiS effo'rts, 16 M When he 6ahn6t
longer gather
There comes a time into every life When the need of a
reserve is felt. Start saving today, then when you need
money you will have it
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“CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK”
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^ rErUcEJcEicELl c=±l criTEEli crEu'crETEEj cEEj
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100,000
Now Entering the Comfort,
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**«•». Mam.
VSlrfcMlnci»4»n« awajrwMi —» #41
at high «p—P. Ball,
Fairfield, Ahy..
“Nona of that terrible jarring «nd
lotting to the ekr or to occuponta."—
H. V. Nalley, Rockford, III.
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“Feel aura depreciation will bo cut
»% to 50%."—A. N. A J. A. William*.
Naahville, i cno.
^"Ahpaiaoa ef akidi'or aUgr ovrn on
■sow cod ice ia-rcally wonderful."—
rmers, of
; 17 law-
bankers
a farmer;
ars also.
Alvan T. Simonda, Fitchburg, Mesa.
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“Hava ured laaatt** for earn* mile
age w.th more power.”—F. Oarison,
Greeley, Colo.
”1 ha re; more j.oprer, the 2«r steer*
easier and ridrs easier.”—J. L. John
son, North field, Minn.
*'The gas mileage la holding tap to
M milea per gallon aa before.”—B. H.
A eery. Bowling Green, Ohio.
"SSI, aoijea through enow, (hud,
bum pa and water without chains-Jn
l> hours.’'—Sam Thompson, Hett
inger, North Dakota.
‘‘Saving in wear end tear a* car a big
factor In putting on FIrcsteaa Bal
loons.”—<5. A. Allan, Jr., Chicago, III.
-I*4S miles an hour over rough roe£
* 4 . t J , P ul f*HL‘*«*F* •heoh whatever,’’
—Harry A. Dorman, Sacramento, Cel.
Good fog *n average of tap miles
more *>**. hour,.ev«i,<bod roads.”—
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SOffiltilt aSfBLotip lAOOffis
Gum-Dipped Cords about the
f6rt, ^iet^ aMd operating ecohctaqf th^
are giymg him. Lotto fixperiencestgiy^
you the facts about these wonderful
tires. His ^oinmehts will match thesd
almost word for word. ‘
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There arc hundreds of thousands of Pirestibat
Gum-Dipped Belloons on the road today. Whep»
ever you drive you she them—and you
help but notice the new enjoymcntjhese owoers
are getting from their cars.
This immensely increased production hai
brought about many manufacturing economies
which you can take advantage of today by equip-
pirg your car with Balloon Gum-Dipped Cords.
Firestone Dealers are quoting special act
prices on the complete job. Trade in your old
wheels on a hew set biuilt for full-size vuiirwwy,
In addition get our liberal rebate on fodk
oft QrdL
Equip how for comfort and economy—os weH
as for the safety and better car control you *rij|
need tills fall drift winter.
Can on the nearest Firestone Dealer—for Or
fortoation—for your
‘ changeover to
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