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CPADCC ' class of citizens look on the bootleg-
ge ^' He. ventured the assertion that
^ if all the church-going people aljne
rPIMP IW A I K would cease patronizing the bootleg-
V/lVAlflCi 111 OJralL I l-i ger, he would .go out ‘of business.
'“And I make that statement,” he as-
Johnson Says Attitude of Jurors, Car- serted, “not in a spirit of criticism of
rying of Concealed Weapons Are the jchurches, but in sorrow; I am a
Partly to Blame.. church member and obey its tenets as
Beaufort, June 23.—Approving the best' I know how.” He wondered if
question from an authority that the citizens of Beaufort had the cour-
“South Carolina is the bloodiest spot age to report the white sellers of con-
in all the world” and admonishing traband, /‘who are damning the souls
the people of Beaufort county and the 0 f your children, wrecking your homes
state to rest’* ain the forces of law- and bringing dissention among you.”
lessness or-:! 'inrest now so prevalent,) Pleas of Self Defense
Judge J. Hen:\\c hr^on, in opening Caustic criticism was meted out by
the court of ger.ernl sessions for Beau- the jurist against “specious pleas of
fort county here Monday morning, de- self-defense, the last resort of some
livered a forceful charge*to the grand mur4erers to escape just punishment
jury. fin the electric chair.” He would not
In analyzing the causes of murder discry, he said, the legitimate plea of
and general lawlessness he laid them self-defense; but he pointed out. sev-
to the carrying of concealed weapons, eral i:V$lfences when murderers had
disregard of the prohibition law, been freed in South Carolina when
ignorance of the masses, the confus- there was no justification for the ver-
ion of liberty with‘license, the sym- diet of the petit juries.
'pathetic attitude taken by petit juries) “There is a case on record in
with the defendants and the failure Carolina,” he continued, “when a man
to 4?arry the tenets of Sunday reli- was shot down while fleeing from
gion into the affairs of every-day another injns shirt sleeves. And he
life. was shot in the back with a load of
“I find myself wondering,” sajd buckshot and, when his riddled body
Judge Johnson, in prefacing h:s ( was searched, he had no weapon of
charge, “if you are satisfied with con-!any kind. Yet the jury believed the
ditions ns they exist in Beaufort coun- plea of the murderer that his victim
ty, as they exist in the State of South j made a threatening motion toward his
Carolina and as they exist in the na-1 hip pocket, and he shot in self-de-
tion at large. If you do, you are^fense.”
different from the people at large.” | “Unquestionably, one of the causes
The juryist then surveyed at some of the wave.of lawlessness in this
length the feeling of unrest prevalent | state,” the jurist claimed, “is the fault
throughout the nation, thjf plethora of of the petit juries to do their duty,
murders and the spreading of seeds)I,am not arraigning the petit jury;
of dissention, “to an extent that the Jit is the best system we can devise;
tenets of communism have invaded j but too often the petit juror, when hj
the armed military forces of the ra- j takes his seat, lets his sympathy with
tion, as you who diligently read the)the poor Wretch on^trial run away
daily papers have seen.” jwith him, forgetting entirely the
Demagogue Will Rule stricken widow and children of the
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C.
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COWS ARE EXAMINED
THURSDAY, JUNE 26,1925
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R. A. Steer, proprietor of the Clin
ton Dairy, had a government represen
tative here last week giving his cows
a tubercular test and looking over their
health in general. The report showed
all cows free from any signs of dis
ease and Mr. Steer was highly com
mended on th$ manner in whicTTfiis.
dairy is .operated.
AaNow One
Meyer: “Dave was late to work this
morning. I wonder what was the
cause ?”
Eddie: “His wife gave him a waffle
for breakfast and he thought irWhT'A
cross-word puzzle so missed his train
trying to work it.” ___ *
\ Ed Purdy’s Philos
“Men’s shoes are hard to fill—which
reminds me that 'they are a great
deal like these new silk stocking^ the
women are wearing.’' It’s what is in
J. B. ERONTIS
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absence.
M. J. McFADDEN.
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Judge Johnson said that, witW the
outcry against taxation, the talk of
victim.”
He quoted
statistics to show that
political revolution openly expressed the vast majority .of the inmates of
and “with human life the cheapest ! prisons are ignorant, and he pleaded
thing in this country, unless things for a higher educated citizenship as
change materially the demagogue is a deterrent to crime.
going to have a perfect field to sotv
seeds of discontent and discord.”
Judge Johnson said that, the ma
jority of men, put -on their religion
Judge Johnson admonished the par- <jn Sunday, like they do their Sabbath
ents of the land to begin making the raiment gpd, When they change for
citizens of the country in the home, their work-day clothing they likewise
He deprecated the laxity of discipline
in the home, contending that discipline
must be necessary to a stable govern
ment. Quoting the old adage of “the
way a twig is bent,” etc., he wonder
ed if much of the disregard of law is
not due to the lack of forcing juve
nile obedience in the home. i
In discussing the question of tax
ation, the jurist expressed the opinion
that legislative appropriations are not
too high, but that taxes are put on
the wrong sources. He believes that
if the state had f just and equitable
system of taxea^then much of the
“high taxes cry” would be stilled. H^
pointed out that the people of South
Carolina bought 60,000 more automo
biles in 1924 than they did in 1923,
that the people at large are better
dressed, that living conditions have
improved and that the tables of the
average family have better things to
eat on them.
“It has been my observation,” he
continued, “that generally we have
money enough for every thing we
want except for the support of our
government and our preachers. If any
of you here are stewards or vestry
men in your churches, you know how
we have to run around each year and
get money for our ministers and the
— support of our churches.
“We ar<? actually becoming callous
ed in South Carolina to the taking cf
human life,” said Judge Johnson, in
his discussion of the homicide record.
“Do you know that in South Carolina
the 4-itizaiis...oOJt)is..state, slay on an
average of one of their fallow citizens
a day; that there is an average of
360 homicides yearly in this common
wealth of slightly over a million and
a quarter population ? And how many
of these slayers pay for their crimes?
Have you ever stopped to think what
it means to take, from a man that
which only God can give him ? I
have seen strong, manly frames pros
trate with their life’s blood ebbing
from them. It is a sad sight. And
the pitable part of it is that too frer
quently, it is an unnecessary sacri-
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City of'London
Judge Johnson then compared the
Teccq-d of the city of London with
that of South Carolina. On a com
parative basis of population he stated.
London should have aT homicide record
of 1,440 yearly, to compare with
South Carolina, but its average is
only about twenty annually. He
pointed out that, in 1922, there were
only sixteen homicides London.
Two of the killers, he. skid, committed
auicide, one went violently insane and
of the thirteen remaining murders,
thirteen were convicted and hanged!
“The foUm over in England,” he
said, “havir learned .that when they
take a fellow man's life they will
. be made to Suffer.. That is one of the
sxplanations, in my opinion, why their
record for murder is as low as it is.”
“One of the causes of our homicide
record,” continued the jurist, “is the
prevalence of carrying concealed
weapons in South Carolina. What can
you expect when the people of this
, State go around heavily armed. One
who knows has said that South Caro
Ena is the bloodiest spot in all the
world. When a man goes abroad with
concealed weapons in his hip pockets
and moonshines liquor in his stomach,
tfcer? is bound to b*« trouble.”
In 'casually touching on the liquor
question, Judge Johnson said that
much of tlfir sale of liquor 4s due to
tbe equanimity with which the better
leave their religion behind. A seven-
day spirit of religion,■( he contended,
would lessen the unrest and crime in
the world. ,
The jurist concluded with a plea
for all South Carolinians to ge to
gether and lessen, if they can’t stop,
the blood-letting in their state.
S prescription for
Malafia, Chills and Fever,
Dengue or Bilious Fever.
It kills’ the germs.
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DR. FREDERICK R. GREER
Editor of -HEALTH”
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BRYAN ^doesn’t believe In evo
lution. If Mr. Bryan would study
comparative embryology, he would
learn that each individual living thing,
in its grow th, passes in a few weeks or
months through all the forms which
Us race bus passe^ through in hun
dreds of thousands of years. Each
animal body, whether a frog, a bird, a
Hon or a man. Is for a short time In its
growth like all the other ,and lower
forms fn^n which It has come. r .
Man has developed or evolved from
and through ail the lower forms of life
and eacrf has left Its marks on him.
These have generally been lost or cov
ered up hut sometimes, for some
strange reasons, these marks of our
lowly origin remain. They are what
comparative anatomists call “vestigial
remnants.”
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One of thesc.&traage.occasional sur
vivals Is a webbing of the fingers and
toes. The fish have fins, broad flat
paddles by which they can force their
way through the water. Frogs have
distinct tbee, but they are Joined to
gether by skin so as to form a broad
propeller. Ducks, like all water fowl,
have webbed feet.
But when man got away from the
sea and became a land animat he lost
his webs on his hands and feet He
needed fingers and toes more than he
did swimming apparatus, so they be
came separate and ununlted down to
the base of the third Joint. The hu
man hand IS'a wonderfut piece- of mn
ehlnery, more useful than the paw oi
any animal and It Is the human hand
that has made man superior to and
more powerful than all beasts.
Occasionally an Indivniual “throws
back ” to his sen-b^m ancestors and 1<*
born with webbed fingers or toes. Why
nobody knows.
An unusual series of such cases la
reported by Dr. Douglas P. Murphy In
a recent Issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association. In, five
generations of a family In a mountain
community, fourteen cases were found-
The first member, a mountaineer, Imd
the second and third toes on his right
foot webbed. Although this Is the find
case which Doctor Murphy saw It was
evidently considered a family mark
since the mountaineer threatened to
disown his first child If it did not have
this defect. Fortunately for his do
mestic. happiness, his first son had
all his fingers and toes webbed.' The
son had ten children, three of which
had webbed fingers or toea. In the
next two generations, nine of tips chil
dren had this family mark.
What it the cause of tjhla peculiar
ity ? No one know*. It occurred tn
boys as often as in girls. In this fam
ily, It wa» fonnd In onedhlpJ-of alt
the children. It . only occurred In the
children of web-fingered parents.
Neither the children nor grandchil
dren of normal members showed this
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