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PRESIDENT LAUDS
U. S. NEWSPAPERS
Says They Are Representatives of
American Idealism. Doesn’t Fear
Capitalistic Press.
Washington, Jan. 17.—The path
way to success in American jour
nalism lies ia the avoidance of pro
paganda, the seperation of news
policies from business motives and
continued appeal to the idealism of
the American people, President Cool-
idge declared tonight in speaking to
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors.
Avoiding for the most part refer
ence to governmental problems, Mr.
Coolidge “talked shop” with the 'edit
ors, speaking from the viewpoint of
one not in the newspaper business, as
was his predecessor, but as one who
has watched the growth and develop
ment of the American press. This
growth, he declared, had given the
United States “the best newspapers in
the world.”
Mr. Coolidge made it plain that he
entertains no fears as to the influence
of what is some times called a “capi
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“Some people feel comrerned about
the commercialism of fne press,” he
said. “They note that great news
papers are great business enterprises
earning large profits and controlled
by men of wealth. So they fear that
in such control, the press may tend
to support the private interests of
those \vho own the papers, rather than
the general interest of the whole peo
ple. It seems to me, however, that the
real test is not whether the .news
papers are controlled by men of
wealth, but whether they are sincerely
trying to serve the public interests.
There will be little occasion to worry
about who owns a newspaper so long
as its attitudes on public questions are
such as to promote the general wel
fare. A press which is actuated by
the purpose of genuine usefulness to
the public interest can never be too
strong financially so tong as its
strength is used for the support of
popular go^rnment.”
Advising the editors as to their
greatest opportunity for aiding the
government, the president said he un
hesitatingly placed jt in the direction
of keeping alive American idealism.
“It is only those who do not under
stand our people, who believe that our
national life is entirely absorbed by
material motives,”, he added. “We
make no concealment of the fact that
we want" wealth, but there are many
other things that we want very much
more. We want peace and honor, and
that charity which is so strong an ele
ment of all civilization. The chief
ideal of the American people is ideal
ism. I can not repeat too often that
America ia a nation of idealists. No
newspaper can be a success- which
fails, to appeal to that element of our
national life. It is in this direction
that the public press can lend its
strongest support to our government.
I could not truly criticise the vast im
portance^ the counting room, but my
ultimate* faith r I would place in the
high idm^lism of the editorial room
of the American newspaper.”
A public press unhampered is a true
instrument under a republic for true
representation and sound and logical
interpretation of the truth,.he con
tinued.
“The public press under an auto
cracy is necessarily a true agency of
propaganda,” he continued. “Under a
free government it must be the very
reverse. Propaganda seeks to pres
ent a part of the facts, to distort their
relations, and to force conclusions
which could not be drawn from a com
plete and candid survey of all the
facta. This has become one of the
dangers of the present day.
“The great difficulty in combating
unfair propaganda, or even in recog
nizing it, arises from the fact that at
the present time we confront so many
new and technical problems that it is
an enormous task .to keep ourselves
accurately informed concerning them.
In this respect you gentlemen of the
press face the same perplexities that
are encountered by legislators and
government administrators. Whoever
deals with current public questions is
compelled to rely greatly upon the in
formation and judgements of experts
and specialists. Unfortunately not all
experts are to be trusted as entirely
disinterested. Not all specialists are
completely without guile, in our in
creasing dependence on specialized
authority, we tend to become easier
victims for the propaganda and need
to cultivate sedulously the habit of
the open mind. Of education and of
real ireformation we can not get too
much. But of propaganda, which is
tainted or perverted informatioh, we
can not have too little.”
Discussing the old question of
“what is news,” the president said it
seemed to him that quite obviously the
news giving function of a newspaper
can not possibly require that it give
a photographic presentation of every
thing that happens in the community.
The proper presentation of the news
on the other hand,” he contended,
“bears about the same relation to the
whole field of happening^ that a
painting does to a photograph,” ex
plaining that a photograph might gpve
the more accurate presentation of de
tails, but in so doing it might sacrifice
the opportunity to delineate charac
ter.
Touching on the adjustments of
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business and editorial policy in Amer
ican newspapers', Mr, Coolidge said it
was another evidence that American
newspapers were practically represen
tative of the Country’s practical ideal
ism.
“Quite recently the construction of
a revenue statute resulted in giving
publicity to some highly interesting
facts about incomes,” he remarked.
“It must have been observed that
nearly all the newspapers published
these interesting facts in their news
columns, while very many of them
protested in their editorial columns
that such publicity was bad policy.
Yet this was not inconsistent. As
practical news men they printed the
facts. As editorial idealists they pro
tested that there ought to be no such
facts available.”
The president, after describing
American newspapers as the best in
the world, continued his commenda
tion by saying:
“I believe that they print more real
news and more reliable and charac
teristic news than any other news
papers. I believe their editorial opin
ions are less colored in influence by
mere partisanship oarselfish interest
than are those of any other country.
Moreover, I believe that our American
press is more independent, more relia
ble and less partisan today than at
any other time in its history.
BANDIT CAUGHT
BY OFFICERS
Gerald Chapman, Notorious Prison-
Breaker, Captured After
Pistol Battle.
Muncie, Ind., Jan. 18—Gerald Chap
man, notorious bandit and prison-
breaker, for whom a nation-wide
search has been made, was captured
here this afternoon by Muncie police
after a pistol battle.
Chapman, who escaped from the
Atlanta penitentiary while serving a
25-yeac sentence for participation in
a $2,000,000 mail robbery at New
York, was seen walking near a trac
tion station by four detectives in an
automobile. Detective .Fred Plunkett
accosted the fugitive, who immediatp-
ly opened fire. The bullet went wild
and the officers overpowered him be
fore he could shoot again.
After a grilling at police headquar
ters, Chapman admitted his identity,
but other than that would make no
statement. When searched he was
found to be in possession of two bot
tles of nitro-glycerine, a pistol and
$4,963 in cash.
Chapman was taken to Indianapolis
tonight under gruard, where he was
turned over to federal authorities.
Abdut four months ago the police
were “tipped” that Chapman was in
this city hot he nude hi* getaway
When the officers got close on hi*
trail. He has been in Mancie several
times sines then, polks said, bat al
ways has until today been successful
in eluding the authorities.
Motor Policeman Collins and De
tective Goodpaster saw Chapman at
11:30 o’clock this morning one square
from, the court house. Officer Col
lins trailed the fugitive while Detect
ive Goodpaster went after Captain of
Police Puckett and Detective Brown,
whp were waiting for Chapman to ap
pear at a place nearby. Collins traiU
ed Chapman for five squares while
the other officers got in a police car
and prepared to make the capture.
Captain Puckett drove alongside
Chapman and inquired, “Does Mr.——
live along here?” Chapman saw the
other men coming near him apd he
turned his back for a second, then
whirled around with a pistol in his
hand. He shot in the direction of
Captain Puckett but Officer Collins
leaped on Chapman’s back causing the
shot to go wild. The officers wrested
the revolver from him. and handcuff
ed him.
Postofficer Inspector Kelley was
called from Winchester, Ind., and ar
riving here remarked to Chapman,
“You are a smart fellow, Chapman.”
The fugitive replied, “Yes, but look
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LAND SALE
Pursuant to a Decree of the Pro
bate Court in an action by Mrs.
Mayme Little Copeland, Individually,
in her own right, and as Executrix of
the Last Will and Testament of Jas.
R. Copeland, deceased plaintiff,
against Guy L. Copeland, John H.
Young, and G. Pringle Copeland, de-
denfants, I will sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, during the legal
hours of sale, on salesday in Febru
ary, 1925, being the ^nd day of the
month, at Laurens Court House, S.
C., in front of the Court House Door,
the following described premises:
No. 1. An undivided one-half in
terest in all that tract or parcel of
land lying and being in and near the
Town of Clinton, County of Laurens,
and State aforesaid, containing thirty-
six and 9-10 (36.9) acres, more or
less, and bounded by lands of A. M.
Copeland, W. C. Irby, and Mrs. Ame
lia N. Jones, and fronting Northwest
on Adair Street or road, with such
form and shape, marks and boundar
ies as will more fully appear on plat
of survey thereof made by T. T. Byrd,
on the 21st day of March, 1891, being
the land bought by the Spartanburg
Land A Improvement Company from
A. M. Copeland by deed dated March
13th, 1891, and recorded in office of
Registrar pf Mesne Conveyances for
Laurens County in Dssd Book 20,
Dags 200, and being the same tract
conveyed to James R. Copeland and
T. D. Copeland by the Spartanburg
Land A Investment Company by deed
recorded in Book 26, page 116.
No. 2. All that piece, parcel or lot
of land containing a fraction of an
acre, with the following boundaries
and measurements: Bounded on the
North by lands of the estate of R. L.
Prather, deceased, 100 feet thereon,
on the East by lot No. 29, 157 feet
thereon; on the South by Florida
Street, 100 feet thereon; on the West
by Holland Street, 157 feet thereon.
The above described lota are known
aa Lots Nos. 25, 26, 27 and 28, situat
ed in the Eastern Part of the Tolrn
of Clinton, being a part of the land
recently purchased by us of C. F.
Franklin, deceased, and 'platted by
B. R. T. Todd, Surveyor, on March
29th, 1913, and beipg one of the
tracts ^conveyed to James R. Cope
land by J. I. Copeland and T. Duck
ett Copeland by Deed recorded in
Book 38, page 219.
No. 3. All that lot, piece or parcel
of land lying, being and situate in the
Town of Clinton, County and State
aforesaid, being Lots Nos. 146, 141,
and 142 as shown on plat made by
Paul H. Nash on November 23, .1905,
for Mrs. Mary G. Owens, and record
ed in Deed Book Vol. 9, page 550,
Laurens County, and bounded on the
North by lands of Mrs. Maty G.
Owens, on the East by Shand Street,
running along said street for a dis
tance of 156 feet, on the South by
Nash Street, running thereon a dis
tance of 200 feet, and on the West by
lands of Mrs. Mary G. Owens. Being
the property conveyed by William B.
Owens, Jr., to James R. Copeland by
Deed recorded in Book 28, page 350.
No. 4. An undivided one-half inter
est in all that piece, parcel or lot of
land lying, being and situate in the
Town of CKnton, and in the County,
and State aforesaid, containing a frac
tion of an acre, and bounded on the
North by Centennial Street, 98 feet
more or less thereon, on the East by
Owens Street, 137 feet down to oppo
site the comer of Cemetery, and
thence balance of way along Owens
Street 76 feet, on the South by lot
No. 2, 88 feet more or less thereon,
on the West by lots of Mrs. S. A.
Philson, 207 feet more or less thereon
to starting point.
No. 15. An undivided one-third in
terest in that lot, piece and parcel of
land situate, flying and being within
the corporate limits of the City of
Clinton, County and State aforesaid,
containing thereon a brick store-room,
on the East side of Musgrove Street
or public square, and being twenty-
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three feet and four inches wide, by
one hundred feet long K measuring the
width of said lot from wall of T. C.
Sumerel and brother on the North,
through the wall of the store house
on said lot on the South adjoining
store house and lot of E. C. Briggs,
and running back 100 feet to the
thirty foot alley or street. The said
lot being bounded on the North by
storehouse and lot of T. C. Sumerel
and brother, on the East by the said
thirty foot alley or street, on the
West by said Musgrove Street or pub
lic square, and on the South by store
house and lot of E. C. Briggs, and
being the property conveyed to James
R. Copeland, by George A. Copeland
by deed recorded in Book 22, page 36,
office of the Clerk of Court for said
Cotinty and State.
No. 6. All that certain lot, piece
and parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the City of Clinton, known
as the home place of James R. Cope
land, on Carolina Avenue, and con
taining a part of one acre, more or
less, and bounded on the North by
said Carolina Avenue, on the East by
lot of L. D. McCrary, on file South
by Hampton Avenue, on the West bjr
lot of T. D. Copeland and being all
of the lot conveyed by Mrs. N. B.
Phinney to James R. Copeland except
so much thereof as was sold to Mrs.
Annie Ferguson.
No. 7. An undivded one-half inter
est in all that tract, piece or parcel of
land situate, lying and being partly
within the Town of Clinton, County
of Laurens and State of South Caro
lina, containing 25 1-10 acres, more or
less, bounded on the North by lands
formerly of A. M. Copeland; on the
East by Adair road and Calhoun High
way; on the South by lands formerly
owned by W. E. Owens and Phillips
Street; and on the West by lands for
merly belonging to G. C. Young, and
being the land heretofore conveyed to
J. R. Copeland and T. Duck Copeland
by A. M. Copeland by deed recorded
in Book 28, page 120, and by Mrs.
Mary G. Owens by deed recorded in
Book 26, page 176, and by Mrs. Mary
G. Owens by deed recorded in Book
32, page 397.
TERMS Of 1 SALE: Cash, purchaser
to pan for revenue stamps, papers and
recording. If the terms of sale are
not complied with, the land to be re
sold on the same or some subsequent
salesday, on the same terms, at the
risk of the former purchaser. The
successful bidder will be required to
deposit ten per cent of the amount of
his bid immediately upon confirmation
thereof as a guarantee Of good faith.
MRS. MAYME LITTLE COPELAND
as Execjitrix of the Last Will and
Testament of James R. v Cope
land, deceased.
January 12th, 1925.
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SECOND SERIES
CLINTON BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION
OPENS FEBRUARY 15,1925
Subscription Books Now Open
SOME SPECIAL. FEATURES
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Shares 50 cents per month.
1 Strong Representative Board of Directors.
Theoretical Maturity 10 1-2 years.
Progressive Officers.
Loan Value $100.00 per share.
Over 4200 shares sold in First Series.
Withdrawal permitted by By-Laws.
Over 150 subscribers in First Series.
Earnings range from 7 1-2 to 11 1-2 per cent
Receiving co-operation of all banks.
Draft feature of collections.
Enthusiastic support of citizens generally.
Stock Transferrable.
$60,000.00 already loaned.
Mutual Association with small overhead.
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$40,000.00 additional applications in hand.
A remarkable beginning for a new organization, in a fertile field, with a bright
outlook for a handsome earning capacity and with ample activity already assur
ed. Already a strong institution with capital stock subscribed of nearly one-half
rriillion dollars and withput a penny of its own collateral mortgaged or likely to
be. An association financing itself, by its own strength and the reputation of its
directorate.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS W I L L BE
RECEIVED BY ANY OF THE
FOLLOWING SOLICITORS i
W. P. JACOBS, Secretary-Treas.
H. L. EICHELBERGER
C. E. GALLOWAY
L. S. McMILLAN *
H. G. RHENEY
Among Colors* Peoplo:
SAM PATTERSON
Clinton B.
GEORGE W. YOUNG, President
W. P. JACOBS, Secretary-Treasurer
DIRECTORS
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w. J. BAILEY
E. B. 'SLOAN -
J. W. COPjLAND, SR.
J. F. JACOBS, Sp.
' GUY L. COPELAND
E. J. ADAIR
C. W. STONE ’ v . , .,
JACK EL YOUNG
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