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t VOLUME xxrv CLINTON, S. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,1924 GREAT WAR LEADER, WOODROW WILSON, NOT YET FORGOTTEN Congress Pays Tribute To Memory of Late Presi dent President of University of Virginia De livers Oration, Declaring Humanity Failed. Washington, Dec. 16—Congress and *those who had an intinaate connection with the private and public life of Woodrow Wilson, paid tribute to his memory today in the chamber of the house of representatives. Former cabinet members who shar- ed hi* burden ^ war and its after- ^ t if T n,, -f ullllmf -jmpreme court,!* 77.. —— WOODROW WILSON AND HIS DEEDS Washington, Dec. 16.—Woodrow Wilson sought to give the twentieth century a faith to inspire it and to \\ and envoys of foreign governments, with Mrs. Wilson and members of his family, and special guests, sat with senators and representatives as Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, and a life long friend of the war president, delivered the formal address. President Coolidge and his entire cabinet participated in the exercises, occupying half of the first row of seats, the remainder being held by Chief Justice Taft and other mem bers of the supreme court. Mrs. Cool idge, accompanied by the White House military aide, was in the exe cutive gallery. Speaking from the same rostrum where President Wilson delivered his message to congress, Dr. Alderman denied therecould be anything of “failure” in his great attempt as pre sident. “If there was failure, it was hu manity’s failure,” he said. “I envi sage him rather as a victor and a con queror. To make him, the one un daunted advocate of the world’s hopes the scapegoat of a world collapse, is to visit upon him an injustice so cruel that it must perish of its own reason.” With an apparent deliberate ef fort to refrain from forensic delivery, the speaker traced the career of Wil son from boyhood, through student days lo his entrance into domestic and finally, international politics. The sustained interest of the audi- ice was manifest throughout the 80 inut*t,«if his discourse. in black, except for the relief of a white collar, occupied a front seat in the reserved gallery directly in front of the speaker’s stand. She sat quietly with hands folded and her eyes continual ly upon Dr. Alderman. With Mrs. Wilson were Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the senior sena tor from Virginia, and Mrs. Aider- man. As an accurate estimate of Wilson ‘ wrapped was failure it was humanity’s fail ure, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, presi dent of the University of Virginia, declared at joint Congressional me morial services for the war president held today in the chamber of the House of Representatives. 1" “To make him the one undaunted advocate of these hopes, the scape goat of a world collapse,” Dr. Aider- man said, “is to visit upon him injus tice so cruel that it must perish of its own reason.” Speaking in the place? where Wil son delivered the address that carried his country into the world conflict, the University of Virginia president declared he could not envisage Wilson as a failure as he came back from the Paris peace conference bearing the covenant of the League of Na tions and the “imperfect” treaty of Versailles. * “I envisage him rather as a vic tor and conquerer as he returned to America,” he said, “untouched bf the sordiness or dishonor, unsurpassed in moral devotion, and offering to his country leadership in the bravest and worthiest cause in all the story of human struggle for a better life.” Dr. Alderman said it was not for him to undertake the task of ap portioning” with nice justice the re sponsibility for the cauldron of heat and ‘sweltered venom’ of deadlock and indecision, of partisanship and passion, in which for weary months this largest question of modern times boiled and bubbled.” Other ages will maVe that solemn YEARLY TOLL IS APPALLING President Coolidge Tells Delegate* To Conference Accidents Are Increasing. , his enemies, and something more of compromise in his own heart, and something more of political genius and firm purpose in the hearts of those who kept the faith, and there might have been another world. “It is commonly said that the his toric rank of Woodrow Wilson is up in the destiny, of the covenant; that if it fails his rank will be merely that of one more ra- FULTON NAMED AS HOME MISSIONARY Graduate of Presbyterian College Ap pointed Field Secretary of Church’s Mission Work. CHARLESTON P. C. ALUMNI ORGANIZE Former Students of Local Institution Hold Enjoyable Get-to-Gether Meeting, The following news item from Char leston, written for The Blue Stock- Dr. C. Darby Fulton, missionary to Jqpan, has been appointed field secre tary of mission work for the Southern i np< will be read here with interest: Presbyterian church, according to in- j » A meeting of Presbyterian Col- formation received in the city during ] e g e alumni, composed of students of the past few days. The appointment the Medical college of the state of was made at a recent .meeting of the South Carolina, and business and pro- appramemwtVMtaf -tidd^l. “I maV mi*«ion board of th§ Southern Pres- f eM ian*l mau of-this. dty, WMJheW at be permitted the reflection that some- byterian church, heM ih Nashville: j the high school auditorium for the thing less of malice in the hearts of ~ ^ Dr. Fulton is well known over purpose of organizing and electing of South Carolina and especially in Clin- fi cers . After electing as president, ton where he attended the Presbyter- p ro f. Hal Fewell of the faculty of the ian College and graduated with high Charleston high school, and secreUry honors, during which time he made a an d treasurer, Mr. J. M. Austin, regie- wide circle of friends. At the com- trar of the Medical college, the asso- mencement exercises in June he ciation adjourned to meet again on preached the baccalaureate sermon December first, for a stag supper at and his alma mater conferred upon the Francis Marion. him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. He recently returned to his work at Kobe, Japan, after a year's must'be left for other ages, Dr. Al derman declared, adding that “some thing less of malice in the hearts of! his enemies and something more of his grasp and if it succeeds his apo-1 If Dr. Fulton accepts the appoint- diant spirit, whose reach exceeded i furlough in this country. compromise in his own heart” might have changed the aspect of the pres ent day world. f “His ambition to serve his country was as intense as Cromwell’s” he con tinued. “It was easy for him to for get and forgive. The pride of right thesis in history is secure. ment, he will r2.urn from Japan im- “Although only a small number were present at this function, several being called out of town or for other reasons unable to attend, the banquet was pronounced a big success by those present. A delightful course supper had been prepared by the cusine of this excellent hostelry, and the festal board groaned with the feed reminis cent of one of Mrs. Hunter’s Hallo we’en suppers. ‘‘Several matters were discussed and it was decided to hold the next meet ing at the Kirk Street Chop Suey par lor, and to have ladies present as guests of the association. ’ “The meeting em’ed in a gob feast come another and an even better in- ^ Dr. Fulton is the son of Dr. and . which reminiscenses were indulged I find the formula too glib and automatic mediately, and make his future head- for the forces and ideas it presumes quarters in Nashville. His work as to envelop. | field sqcr«tary will carry him all “Apothesis and immortality are over the South on speaking engage- weighty words that ill fit our poor ments, it being the purpose of the flesh, so foredoomed to the iniquity. mission board to have him bend his strument. It depends upon an un-! Mrs. S. P. Fulton of Kobe, Japan, conquerable idea, so greatly conceiv- He came to this country at the age ed and set forth, that it must con tinue to grow into newer and finer form, and his fame must grow with of 14 and later graduated from the Presbyterian College. He then enter ed • Columbia Theological Seminary it unto whatever bright renown it! and studied for the ministry ,and then may attain. | took post graduate work at Princeton.iTeweH,' 3wssrs. Austin, Nickles, Dick “The world used to be full of peo- [ In 1917 he went to Japan to begin his son. Chapman, O’Daniel, and Milling, pie busy»in discerning, imagining and active missionary work. cataloguing the_ faults of Woodrow! Wilson. Dogmatist and hermit, rhe- 1 /^Tf|~>TOrpi|a a o Cl? A T torican and pacifist, egocentric and v^-ilrvlol IvliaO O-Cj/VLi ingrate, dreamer and drifter, were* some of the milder coinages of his restrained enemies. CAMPAIGN IS ON Well, he had his faults. Some of Count y ' V ’ id f Ca " v ff 8 Jo Be Made For eousness sometimes froze the more; of earthly oblivion; but surely the energies toward stimulating greater genial currents of his soul, but he' of Woodrow Wilson does not interest in foreign missions. He will was willing to die, and did die, to j rest upon an instrument the orderly be associated in the work with Dr. guarantee to humble men a' fairer' growth of which into final usefulness | Egbert Smith, the general secretary chance in a juster world, arid there- ma Y 80 change its structure and of foreign missions for the Southern fore the savage assaults of his ene- modify its form as to cause it to be- j Presbyterian church, mies will shrivel into the insignifi cance of Horace Greeley’s editorials v against Lincoln’s policies, or the futil ity of the earlv century pamphleet- eers against Tmimas Jefferson, and his mere detractors will thepnselves _ either attain a repeliant fame as de tractors of greatness or else they will pass out of memory.” The senate and house convened just before noon, members of the senate marching in double column through the long central corridor to the other chamber. There, President Pro Tem pore Cummins assumed the chair and ! . .. . arose with Speaker Gillett to receive, ’ more cml and first, the supreme court, then the diplomatic corps, and finally the pre sidential party. At 12:10 p. m. Senator Cqmmins called the session to order, saying: “The two houses and their invited guests are assembled to render tribute to the memory of a great man, a great president, a great patriot, a towering figure in the history of • mankind. The chaplain of the house will lead us in prayer.” Dr. Alderman arose at the conclu sion of the prayer, and his address took up the remainder of the program except for a benediction by the sen ate’s chaplain* As the audience filed out, the Marine band played several selections which had been favorites of Mr. Wilson. The services were broadcasted through a specially arranged system of radio stations, which, those in charge estimated, made the address and music audible to more than half the population of the United States. Washington, Dec. 16.—The nation’s yearly toll of traffic accidents has reached “an appalling total,” Presi dent Coolidge told delegates to the national conference on street and highway safety this afternoon. Addressing inference members from the south portico of the White House, the President impressed upon them the importance of their dehber- wjiy at . the De partment oi Commerce and mended that each of the states, set about finding means “to keep our complex traffic moving with order and safety.” “We cannot regulate local traffic by act of Congress,” Mr. Coolidge as serted. - Commenting upon the annual ag gregate of traffic casualties on the nation’s highways, Mr. Coolidge de clared : “If the death and disaster that now fall upon innocent people were con centrated into one calamity, we would shudder at the tremendous catastro phe.” r The delegation was led by Secre tary of Commerce Hoover, at whose call the conference assembled. The President spoke in part as fol lows: “The National Conference on Street and Highway Safety has been called by the Secretary of Commerce for the devising of means and the mak ing of recommendations toward the lessening of the numberless accidents which now kill and maim so many of our citizens. Few conferences are more opportune or deal with graver affairs. With the deplorable and con tinuous increase in highway mortality and injury, the time is highly appro priate for a comprehensive study of the causes, that we may have prop er understanding of conditions and so may intelligently provide remedies. “If the death and disaster that now fall upon innocent people through the year and over the country as a whole were concentrated into one calamity We wtraH shudder the tremendous catastrophe. The loss is no less dis astrous because diffused in time and space. The evil you are combating is so widespread as to be of national concern and we do well to look at it with a countrywide vision. But its solution does not rest in national ac tion. Highway control is primarily for the states, and it best that this is so. We cannot regulate local traf fic by act of Congress. Means to overcome the difficulties, to keep our complex traffic« moving with order and safety, must be found by the states.” T.T.HYDEGETS YEAR AND DAY Charleston Banker Seat To Atlanta Penitentiary By Judge Cochran. Appeal Made For New Trial. CLINTON IS FILLED WITH SANTA CLAUS Charleston, Dec. 15.—Tristram T. Hyde, president of the defunct Com mercial National Bank, convicted last week in the United States Eastern district court on nine of 174 counts in an indictment alleging violation of national banking laws, was sentenced this morning by Judge Ernest F. Cochran to serve one year and a day nrHhe federal penHentiary~>at At lanta, Ga., arid George L. Dick, who hmr~-Tif ^iV bairtr and» who in of old times at the Alma Mater, “The “association feels that it has a real live organization and hopes that other such clubs will be formed throughout the state. pleaded guilty to one of eight codnts in an indictment, was sentenced to pay a fine of $200. J. Waties Waring, Mr. Hyde’s at torney, applied for and was granted a writ of error, so that the case will go on an appeal to the circuit court of appeals at Richmond, Va., and it will be up to that court to decide whether or not a new trial shall be granted. The appeal has to do with alleged errors of law relating to ad mission or exclusion of evidence, and pending action by the higher court the defendant furnished bond in the sum of $5,000. It is thought the ap peal will be considered by the circuit court some time in April. A strong appeal was made by Mr. Waring for the court to take a mer ciful view of the case and impose an alternative sentence with a fine. Judge Cochran stated in effect that it would be easier for him to follow the dictates of his emotions and heart rather than what his duty demanded, but that he could not see his way clear to impose merely a fine or a jail sentence, and could not consist ently impose a lighter sentence than a year and a day in the federal peni tentiary, the minimum penitentiary term prescribed by law. In the case fa Mr. Dick, the court took the view presented by the government and urged by the defendant’s attorney that the defendant had been an em ployee of the bank, with no authority in its management or policies and that whatever he had done in viola tion of the law had been in the course of his employment. The defendant paid his fine. The court opened at 10 o’clock and a large crowd was present. The government had no statement to make relative to the Hyde case but in the Dick case, Major J. D. E. Meyer, United States district attorney, stag ed in effect that in the outeomc of these cales the government felt that the law had been vindicated. He call ed the court’s attention to the defend ant’s position in the bank, and that whatever Mr. Dick did in violation of the law had been done merely in the course of his employment, and that the government 'desired “to recom mend that a nominal fine, say $200; be imposed on this defendant.” It was Mr. Dick’s duty to carry out the orders given him, Major Mey^r stated, and as far as the government could show, he had no active part in the management or control of the bank. He did, however, confess lo making a false report to the comp troller of the currency; but the gov ernment did not believe in persecut ing any one, under such circumstan- Store Windows Present Beautiful Holiday Appearance. Gifts To Please Everybody. Santa Claus has generously suppli ed the Clinton stores with a great collection of Yuletide goods, and the Christinas spirit now permeates the city. The people of this section are go- • ces « especially after he had confessed t ing to miss one of the best parts of the Christmas season if they fail to see the displays of hol.iday goods be fore they have been torn and tangled “Among those present were: Prof, i by the rush of Christmas shoppers. Never before in the history of Clin ton have the stores shown such PASTOR ACCEPTS RECENT CALL as Mr. Dick had done. Mr. Waring said that he was glad to hear the view taken by the gov ernment, as it coincided with what *• * had expected to suggest to the court. He stressed the point that Mr. Dick had no intention or idea of violat- wide range of holiday goods for i n 8' D* e ^ uW » an ^ that while he did Christmas remembrances, ranging from the smallest doll and toy to the most expensive gifts. commit a technical legal violation he had not meant to do anything wrong, and he accordingly urged that only a Rev. E. D. Pattern To Be Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Laurens. Laurens, Dec. 14.—Announcement was made this morning before the Dr. Lewis Bailey ha* returned from Baltimore and will spend some time with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. L. W. Bailey. them were protective devices to con-' e LjtG* Red serve physical strength and others! ^ , , lay buried deep in the impulses of’, T h® c h airma n °f the Laurens Coun- ^ o WIC his blood; but inhibitions born of Ch ” 8 ^ a ® S ^ a ] C0 ™ r ” 1 ^ t u ee '. M / ss congregation of the First Presbyterian pride and courage and high ambi-, ^ at . e w ° f f° rd , states that the distn- j church of the acceptance of the call tions are such as nations learn to for-; bat,OI \ the seals has been comp,et ‘' extended last Sunday to the Rev. E. get and to forgive and even to love! cd «>at good progress is reported D p attor; of Acworth, Ga., to become and cherish. Posterity is incurious the sale of duuts®- The d| stn-1 pagtor of the | oca] c i lurc h. £, p. about the minor faults of its heroes. ! w as made last week and school, ^p lllteri c |,airman of the special com- "His countrymen do not tattle' ^' drcn a " d other8 are now P us hmg mtttee appointed to secure a new pns- Por the matron, for the miss, for non,inal as recommended by the father, brother and friend, for fan,- government, be ■mpoaed. NEW MEMBER FOR COLLEGE FACULTY tor, was advised yesterday by the about Washington’s blazing profan- 1 tb ® campaign ‘ ity at Monmouth, but see his stately Laureos eounty has been given ip R Mr pa tM n that he had decided n of bat- 1 > l,0 ‘ a , of ?;: 00t> w “ rth £ Chnstmftf to com< , t0 tI , e n a 3lorate ot the ^ The town of rens church. pastorate He indicated that he ily gifts, for the little tots and chil dren—for all alike, there are gifts that will please. The Clinton merchants are making an appeal to the people to trade with them. When you start on your shop ping tour, come to Clinton—you will do better. Another Change At The Oil Mill Mr. E. C. Cuivern, for several weeks past, manager of the Clinton Oil Mill, has been forced to give up figure riding into the storm tie beneath the tattered flag of a y^ a u * en 3 r ha8 l 3 qyota^of $400 Clinton 1,:c UH Mill, has been forced to give up!“ v '"“ . ne -na ion ® wou am bring into ^qq Q ray c our t $150 Watts Mill f)re ^ ared tf> ta ^ e Wor * C 1 tbe wor ^ on account an( ^ I ^ Ua ^ ,0n be in the world. They do not whls P er *50 LanW $50 Ora $50 Crons Hm 1 here * the f,r3t Sunda y in January, and has re t U rned to his home in Kershaw. I School at Chattanooga, about Lincoln’s choice of companions ^ " ' this is entirely Mr. M. W. Browi* To Head History Department Next Year At Pres byterian College. Announcement has been by Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of the Presby terian College, of the addition of Mf. Marshall W. Brown to the college faculty, effective next September. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Center college, where he made an enviable record as a student. Following his in the McCallie Tenn. The or his taste in anecdotes or his cun- Mountville $.)0, Waterloo $20.; c j lurc j 1 ning in politics; but they read incised coirnuunity h as been provided agreeable to the | The Rev. Mr. Patton has been pas has returned to his home in Kershaw. Mf. Cuivern made a numbe^of | >’ ears of 1922 an , d J 923 he ? P* nt m friends while located here, all of th(i University of Vienna, making a whom regret that his Clinton resi-1 ^ reful stud >’ of the Hist °*Y of Eu 1 same time has served two other ;yeais manager of the Southern Cot churches in the vicinity. He is a ton Oil Company of that icty, sue- on white marble wall, the sacred aB S |'ow'a^thMe "d'olUrg fo^a ZTt tor of th<i Asworth Presbyterian dence has"comelo a cioseV' Mr.'X W. ru P' ; - Durin S the Woaching sum- parity. SKWta ^ "™^ d ^ « school Umt ; church for about 16 years, and at the | Young, of Chester, for the past eight nightwatches correcting his mistakes : and using even his humility as a The pride of righteousness sometimes leading minister in the Southern Pres- 1 ceeds Mr. Cuivern and has already sword with which to carve out the f r o Ze the more genial currents of his byterian church and the Laurens Pres- assumed the management of the lo- kl C •Tu °a7 j CaU w-i 80 , ^, W1 * eal » but he was willing to die, and byterians are elated over his accept-1 cal plant, be witn woodrow Wilson m the long did die to guarantee to humble men a ance. The church has been without * perspective of the years. . , f a f rer chance in a juster world, and a pastor for some months, the Rev. ] Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Copeland and “His ambition to serve his country therefore the savage assaults of his \ C. T. Squires having resigned in Oc-' children, of Laurens, spent the week- was intense as Cromwell’s. It was enemies will shrivel into insignifi-! tober to become pastor of the Fourth end with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Put- not easy for him to forget or forgive, cance.” ' j Presbyterian church’ at Greenville. nam. mer he will be at the University of Wisconsin where he will finish his work for the Master’s Degree. With still another year’s work he will be able to complete the work for his Ph.D. ■*The new professor has been higVy recommended to Dr. Douglas for the chadr to which he has been ’yl * . He will relieve Dr. J. B. Kennedy of part of his present work.