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If Ttc Don't Bond THE CHRONICLE Ton Dost Get The Neim. THE CHRONICLE f StriTeo To Ben Cleon Newn* -paper. Complete, Newey mmd RettnUe. • V* VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S, C. ( THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925 . NUMBER 28 . VISITORS TALK OF HIGHWAY Guests of Commercial Club Tell of Progress of Calhoun Highway In Their Respective Communities. ‘ . It, $ *1 The July meeting of the Commercial Club was held in the club ro<Ans Tues day evening with President W. A. Moorhead presiding. The dinner, one of the best ever put before the club, was served by the ladies of the Me thodist church. f * The business session evolved itself into a good roads meeting. The club had as its guests a number of visitors who were in the city attending the annual meeting of the Calhoun High way Association in the afterhoon. These gentlemen introduced to the club and extended a cprdiar welcome, . were soon called upon for a few re marks and they responded with en thusiastic good roads speeches and told of their interest in the Calhoun Highway in their respective communi ties since the project was inaugurated four years ago. R. E. Hanna of Cheraw, president of the association, was the first speaker called upon by the president. He ex pressed his pleasure in being present and said the road which is now near ing completion was due to the vision of Mr. J. F. Jacobs of this citjr. He also spoke in the highest terms of the late T. W. Cothran of Greenwood, one of the pioneer members and workers for the Calhoun association. Dr. A. S. Stovall, of Elbertoh, Ga., a member of the Georgia legislature, was introduced to the club and made an interesting talk on the progress of -the Calhoun highway on the Georgia side. He told of his visit to Colum bia earlier in the day to appear be fore the State Highway Commission relative to the joint erection by the two states of a concrete bridge at Calhoun Falls as the connecting link. He said he was happy to state that the South Carolina commission had approved the idea and expressed its willingness to join with Georgia and go ahead with the work at an early date, the matter of the engineering, etc., only remaining to be solved. Mr. Kenneth Baker, of Greenwood, always a favorite in Clinton, made a happy talk from the viewpoint of the State Highway Commission, of which he is a member. He paid a tribute to Mr. J. F. Jacobs of this city as the instigator of the Calhoun highway project and said was largely due to his dream and efforts, coupled with that of the late T. W. Cothran of Greenwood, that the highway is within the near future to be a reality. He said that it was fitting and entirely appropriate that a memorial slab, in scribed to the memory of Mr. Cothran, should be placed on the Saluda river bridge now under construction. D., H. Sullivan, engineer of Abbe ville county, told of the progress of highway development in his county and the interest manifested in the Cal houn highway project. James R. Reed of Chester county, and C. G. Cusham, secretary of the Chester Chamber of Commerce, made a few hpppy remarks expressing their pleasure Tn being present and telling of the interest and progress in their county for the highway. , LATHAM ELECTED PRESSPRESIDENT News and Courier. Editor Succeeds McKissick—Five Ask For Next ' Year’s Convention >- Brevard, N. C., July 9.—Robert Ldt- ham, editor of Tbe News an<j Courier of Charleston," was elected president and B. H. Peace, editor and publisher of The News, of Greenville, first vice- president of the South Carolina Press association at the business meeting of the body held in the county court house here this morning. W. W. Harris, editor of The Chronicle, of Clinton, was chosen second vice-presi dent while Harold Booker, of Colum bia, was re-elected secretary and August Kohn, of Columbia, treasurer. The meeting was the initial affair of the day’s program, which has been another round of pleasure and work. This afternoon ^frfiOfelightful ride through a section of the Pisgah Na tional reserve was afforded by the Chamber of Commerce in co-opera- fcion with the people of the" City. Philip Warren, former' Greenville newspaper man and now secretary of the Chamber of Commerce here, has with his committees been active ■every minute making the conven tion a success. Greenville, far famed for her hospitality, „can perhaps learn some lessons from this town in The way of entertaining visitors. The executive committee for the association for the ensuing year will be composed of the following: W. W. Smoak, of Walterboro; J. L. Mims, of Edegefield; Col. E. H. Aull, * of Newberry; A. R; Jordan, of Dillon, 5 and Sam L. Latimer, of Columbia. The next_ place of meeting has not been selected and will be left to the executive committee. Invitations were received from Darlington, Gaffney, Spartanburg, \ and Clinton. H. R. Sims, of Orangeburg, and J. E. Brunson, of Greenville, were named on a tax committee repre senting the newspaper interests 4ft the meeting to be held by the state committee July 14 in an effort to solve the revenue problem for the Palmetto state. In this connection Col. J. Rion McKissick, of Green ville, president for 1925, announced that an unusual honer had been be stowed on Mr. Latham by the Pu litzer School of Journalism in award ing him the Pulitzer medal for writing the best editorial in the United States last year. BRYAN HEARD BY GREAT CROWD Commoner Preaches Old Fashioned Sermon Before Large Dayton Audience. ‘ X. Dayton, Tenrv., July 12.—William Jennings Bryan preached an old- fashioned sermon to a sweltering crowd of believers on an old-fashioned God on the court lawn here this after noon, and tonight at the same place the Rev. Charles Francis Potter, pas tor of the West Side Unitarian church of New York, told a more comfortable audience of the creed of the modern ists. “He Calleth Thee/’ was the topic of Mr. Bryan’s sermon and through it he depicted a Christ who alone can s*ve the world from future wars. The crowd, a mass of humanity, which be gan assembling more than two hours before time for the sermon, applauded now and then, while numerous shafts drew fervent “amens” from their midst. „ Overhead an airplane droned. In the distance a train whistled, drew into the city limits and whistled again, so loudly that the man who was intro duced tpjhe. audience as~the represen BAPTIST ASSEMBLY AT GREENVILLE Eleventh Annual Session Meets on Furman Campus From July 20 to August 2. Great interest is being manifested in the eleventh annual session of the Baptist Summer Assembly, to be held in Greenville from July 20 to August 2. This assembly has for many years attracted hundreds of people from all parts of the state annually and prom ises this year to enjoy a record- breaking attendance. Among the fea tures announced by the general secre tary are the Minister's conference, July 22 and 27; the Laymen’s confer ence, Jtily 22-27; the Conference on Denominational Affairs, July 22-27; the W. M. lA conference, July 22-27; Mr. J. F. Jacobs, upon request from ^ Nor T m 1 aK J n 0 U Sunda y the chair, spoke of the through rout-. ^ ea ^ e ’” 8 ’ st ..V _ _ r a /"vtr G 1 A vw rvo csct a f ' i m! 'a A «« « 1 ■ ?v f A ings recently approved by the state’s chief engineer and offered a resolu tion calling the importance of the Calhoun highway as a direct route to the attention of the State Highway Commission and urging that it be recognized as the practical short route for inter-state traffic. The resolution offered by Mr. Jacobs was adopted by the club and ordered forward the State Highway Department. Senator W. G. Ouzts of Greenwood, made a few happy remarks and ex pressed his pleasure in being present, after which he spoke of the need of the Calhoun highway through this section and urged that steps be taken to provide ferry crossings until the bridges can be completed in order to open ttirough travel and prevent its being directed over other routes. The entire meeting was given over to the club’s guests. 5 The subject of good roads was given full considera tion and all who took part on the pro gram spoke in the highest terms of What has been accomplished in the building of the Calhoun highway and the inestimable value it will prove to the territory it is to serve. f Still is Captured On Duncan’s Creek Deputy Sheriff Riddle, Rural Police-, man Chandler and J. TV Watts of Greenville, located- another still Fri day between Duncan’s Creek ^^pd Enoree river, and with it about 160 gallons of mash and -'8f> pounds of sugar. Nearly a gallon oiL whiskey was found nearby. No arrests were made at the time, but it is thought that the officers have a clue upon which they are working. the Royal Ajpbassador, Girl’s Auxili ary and SimBeam camps, July 22-27; the General and Biblical Chautauquas, July 22-August 1; the annual state Sunday School convention, including the Federation of Baptist Organized Classes, association of Sunday School Executives and Federation of Elemen tary Workers, and on July 31-August 2, the twenty-ninth annual session of the Baptist Young People’s Union I convention of South Carolina. All railroads are expected to sell' round-trip tickets to Greepville at re-1 duced fares good from July tc August 10, the selling dates being 1 July 19 to August 1. i A feature of the assembly ‘ which promises to be of unusual interest, will be the state-wide conference on Evangelism set for Monday, July 20, | through Tuesday, JUly 21. The aasembly will meet on the cam pus of Furman university. tative of “the lowly Nazar^ne,” was forced to interrupt his sermon while he remarked that they seemed to Mow more loudly'on Sunday than on other days. Mr. Bryan made his gestures with a broad palmetto leaf fan and deliver ed his sermon in coatless summer at tire. In simple, homely terms he told of the blind man who called to-the Saviour as “he pasted outside the city .of Jerico and of the shout, he calleth thee,” echoed back to him by the crowd. The serman was interspersed wjtty an intermittent clicking of camejrks as news reel photographers ground off pictures of the crowd,"the speaker and the courthouse about; which they were grouped. A woman climbed to a position on the outskirts of the crowd and made snapshots. So free from controversial state ments was Mr. Bryan's sermon that Dr. Potter, who had planned to an swer the afternoon speaker at his ser vice tonight, took exception to but one remark. “The doctrines of Christ have stood for 1900 years/ 7 Mr. Bryan said, and they have furnished so complete a moral code that no schoIarTias dared add a word to it. Religion was h£re before education, he declared. “When the schools get through with our children they still must have something else. The only advantage of an education is to increase their capacity for service. The dull man with a passion for service will render more Service than the man with a keen brain and no passion for ser vice.” In his ^talk tonight from the same platform, Dr. Potter said: “Mr. Bryan said you can give a man a dull brain and a passion for service and he will render more service than the man with simply a brain. “The fallacy of th&t is that you do not find a passion for service among people of dull brains. The great ser T vices have been rendered by men of intellect. , “While he was speaking, over his head was whirring an air plane which was invented by a man of keen intel lect and developed by others. There is no record in history of any man of dull brain ever having rendered great service to mankind.” COUNCIL HOLDS “STORMY” SESSION Members Decline Mayor Jacobs Chal lenge to Resign. Disagreement Over Number of Other Matters. AID URGED FOR RURAL FOLK The City Council held a “stormy” Jacobs presided atid Councilmen Bai ley, Blalock, Dillard, Stone, Collins and Carter were in their seats when the meeting opened. Besides, a large gathering of spectators was on hand, crowding the office to its capacity and many remaining on the outside unable to gain admittance. Through out the meeting there was considera ble argument pro and con, it betag evident ^hat the mayor and a majority of the, council were unable to agree on any of the questions that came up for consideration. In addition to the local on-lookers/ a number of contractors were present to present bids on the proposed street paving recently authorised' by the city’s bond issue. Mayor Jacobs took the position that council had met for the purpose of letting the contract, while the majority of members of the Dr. Newell Paints Dark Picture of Conditions Today In the Rural Church. Lake Junaluska, N. C., July 13. jind prolonged-session Monday night Painting a d^k picture of conditions in the clerk’s office. Mayor J. F.' in the rural church, where he said three-fourths of the membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, lies. Dr. W. A. Newell, of Win ston-Salem, N. C., urged the social service conference, in annual session here, to work in their respective areas in a movement for a consolidated Methodist church in rural districts alongside the consolidated public school. “The Methodist church can abate poverty and own the South, if it makes up its mind to throw its strength to correct some of the condi tions that exist in country sections and lead the people to initiate plans for working out their own salvation,^ he declared. “There is more poverty, heartache, cruelty, ignorance, illegiti macy and other undesirable elements in the country than any where,else, but the movement to remedy, those HARROW LOSES DAYTON MOTION Judge Refusee to* Exclude Daily Prayer in Scopes Monkey Case. Malotte Backs Darrow. council maintained that the meeting was for. the purpose df entertaising recommendations from the city engi neer on estimates on the proposed paving. A motion was adopted speci fying that all work contemplated un der the recent boml issue should be let by contract and advertised, and that no contract tbe awarded until authorized by council. It also called for the inviting of bids up to July 28th. Councilmen Stone, Bailey, Dil lard and Blalock voted for the resolu tion, ancj -Councilmen Collins, Carter And Mayo| Jacobs opposed it. The resolutioxt'earried, the whole matter of awarding ; paving contracts or enter taining bids was postponed until the above specified date, bids on the work to be advertised for in the meanwhile. At this point Mayor Jacobs read a communication addressed to the coun cil in which he proposed that the liti gation initiated against him as mayor be immediately quashed and action withdrawn, and that instead of ap pealing to the courts for a decision* that the appeal be made to the people of Clinton, giving them the right, as TEACHERS FOR ACADEMY SCHOOL Clinton Boy Honored At Camp McClellan George Lewis Cunningham, a mem ber of the Presbyterian College R. (X T. C. unit now in camp at Camp McClellan, Ala., was appointed acting Student Colonel of th6 First R. O. T. C. battalion on July the first. This office, which rotates among the stu dents, is held by those who rank the highest in their respective colleges, The friends of Mr. Cunningham will learn with interest of this honor that has been bestowed upon him. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cun ningham of the Pea Ridge section, and has made aii enviable record since entering college. Several Changes Made in Staff For the 1925-1926 Seaaion Opening Next Month. The list of teachers comprising the Academy Street school faculty has been completed and announced by the trustees. It is as follows: Mias Myra Leamkn, principal. • First grade: Miss Myra Leaman and Miss .Josephine Brodie. v Second grade: Mrs. Lee Add Blake- ly. T. Third grade: Miss Gladys Porter and Miss Mary Evans Brasington. Fourth grade: Miss Ruby Lipscomb and Miss Paul Vane Elrod. , Fifth grade: Miss Alline Newson. Sixth Grade: Miss Kathleen McGee. Union Services At First Baptist Church The union services next Sunday evening will be held at the First Bap tist church. Dr. D. J. Woods of the First Presbyterian church, has been announced as the speaker for the ser vice, Ito which the public is cordially invited. AUXILIARY TO MEET Tbe ^Trinity Auxiliary will hold its regular meeting Saturday afternoon at* 3:30 p. m. at the residence of Mrs. Dudley Jones. ^ All members asked to be preaent. ;•{ ; : A » - ' k are of the caucus of councilmen or wheth er they' approve of his policies and his administration. He further chal lenged the council and city attorney to resign, that as soon as possible a new election be held in which he in vited each of the councilmen to be come ^candidates, and stated that in the said election he would run • for mayor. Called upon to express their decision on the proposition. Council- men Blalock, Stone and Dillard said they had been elected for a two-year term and intended to fill it out, refus ing to meet the mayor’s offer. Coun cilman Bailey stated that he would be willing to resign if the mayor and all other councilmen would do likewise and that each put. up a thousand dol lar cash bond to be forfeited the city if either of the present administration offered for office in‘Clinton again. Councilmen Collins and Carter agreed to Mayor Jacobs’ proposition. A motion was then offered by Coun cilman Carter asking for the resigna tion of R. W. Wade as city attorney. It was lost by a vote of 4 to 3, Coun- cilmen Collins and Carter and Mayor Jacobs voting for the motion, Council- men Blalock, Stone', Dillard and Bailey voting against it. Mayor Jacobs asked the council to authorize the floating of a foan for $15,000 to take care of current ex penses and carry on sewer wurtnrow under construction, stating that the sewer bond funds available were in adequate to complete the work now contemplated. The council by a vote of 4 to 3 refused the request, Council- men Collins and Carter and Mayor Jacobs voting in the affirmative, Councilmen Blalock, Stone, Dillard things must come in a Christian way that will inspire them to help them selves.” Dr. Newell urged study of condi tions of country churches; the full and complete coreUtions^qf coyintry church with existing publfeagencjes working lor rural betterment; the coordination of Methodist churches with new sys tems of improved roads and consolida ted public schools; the location of new church buildings at or near consolidat ed public schools; the abatement of tenacy by direct church activity; rais ing the educational standards for ad mission to Methodist ministry and working out of some kind of a plan whereby salaries of country preachers might be increased. Dr. Newell reported that education- al standards for ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, included completion of Junior college as a minimum requirement. A better prepared ministry which would meas ure up in education and influence wtould insure better quality of service for the country church, he asserted. According to Dr. Newell, 60 per Daytonfi, Tenn., July 14.—The issue after the opening of court with prayer appeared at the beginning of today’s \ session when Judge Raulston invited the Rev. A. C. Stribling, pastor of the Dayton Cumberland FWsbyterian church, to offer prayer from the bench before the beginning of the of ficial* sdsaion. Prayer had been offered by a Me thodist minister at the opening of court Friday, the first day. The jury then had not been selected. Yester day a Baptist minister led the prayer, the jurors, unsworn, sitting in their court room seats. This morning when the spectators were directed to stand, the jurymen had not entered. As the crowd rose, C)arence Darrow held up an objecting finger and ad dressed the court. He told Judge Raulston that the de- fense wished to protest public court room prayer might preju dice the case of John T. Scopes in the minds of the jury and the court. “I object to turning this court into a meeting house,” he declared. Attorney General Stewart, speaking for thtf state, asserted that it was the custom of the Rhea county court to open with a prayer. After some argument Mr. Malone for the defense formally supported Mr. Darrow’s contention. He express ed deep consideration for the “beliefs or disbeliefs cf Mr. Darrow and ad ded: “As a representative j)f defense counsel who is not an agnostic, I wish to protest against the court’s opening with prayer. We have talked it over in conference and agre^ that such a .practice ip prejudicial tl the case” of our client. All the ministers who have prayed here have been funda mentalists and much of their prayers has been of an argumentative - na ture.” Judge Raulston declared that he wished to be “reasonable” to all par ties. He believed in prayer and prac- ha rtatad,’ te -dacMe thamwivw of Unit collected for Methodistjt himaclf f If^ew- whether they approve of the policies causes, comes frora the members of ° ^ the country church, 'despite unfavor able conditions. BLUE STOCKINGS MAKE GRID PLANS Mr. Stribling led the prayer. Mr. Darrow then asked that the rec ord show that he entered the same ob jection daily. The court replied that the record would show the objection daily and also that it had been over ruled in each instan e. ( Mr. Darrow had been expected to continue his address of yesterday in support of the motion of defense to- quash the indictment, on the grounds of vagueness in the indictment and un constitutionality of the anti-evolution law. He told Judge Raulston today h£ would not continue. The court announced that he wished to deliver his ruling on the motion to quash “after fair consideration of .the profound issuep involved and with out guessing.” He had been unable to finish the transcript of bis decision, he said, and in order to give him time to complete the document he declared a recess until 1 o’clock. Shortly after the^hour set for reas sembling, a court attendant reported that the judge would not return un til 2:30. At that time Judge Raulston appeared and said that he was not yet ready. He warned newspaper men that his ruling could not legitimately be published until he himself read n from the judicial eminence. He de clared he would institute contempt proceedings against any who announc ed his ruling before the court should declare it. * The court announced that he would not publish his decision on the quash ing motion until tomorrow. He dismissed the court session over- night. -I Presbvterians Expect to Return to the “Big Three” in State Foot ball Race. Belief that the Presbyterian College of South Carolina will return Jo the mythical “Big Three” circle of Pal metto state football is being express ed locally, even though the gridiron season is several months distant. Last season the Blue Stockings had a disastrous season, even going down in defeat before Wofford college for the first time in the history of foot ball here. The loss of a number of stars left the team in a weakened condition. This fall, however, a pro mising bunch of men will be avail able from the 1924 freshman. team and what that aggregation was. is 'still recalled wherever they played. ^On the freshman teaJBLUf.lastyear and consequently available f6r the varsity this fall were several stars who played on the Thornwell Orphan age team before coming to P, C. They include Stamps, Dugan, Wilson and one or two others. The schedule for 1925 includes games with every state -eleven and also with Davidson of North Carolina and Oglethorpe of Georgia. The sea son opens at Clemson on *September 26 with the Tigers furnishing the op position for the Blue 5ox. The re mainder of the schedule then follows: Erskine at Due 1 West, Davidson at} Throughout-the long period of wait- __ Rock Hill, Newberry at Newberry,; i n K know the will of the court on and Bailey in the negative, the major-1 f' urman at Greenville, Oglethorpe ‘he. quasli motion a groat throng itv .Oatintr i Clinton, Wofford at Clinton, Carolina pkckedtheRheacountycourtroom.lt ^ ‘— at Columbia, and Citadel at Charleston, was freely predicted on all sides that ■ the judge ^would return a tuling fa- the work now being done was without FACULTY NAMED : ’'°" ,ble t0 0,6 pro,ec ‘ ,tion ' bond funds available for seweii’ work had been exhausted and thatgpart tif^ authority from the council and that they were advised that they had no legal authority to pledge the incom ing taxes for nther than ordinary ex penses in running the town govern- ment. v v Councilman Bailey offered a resolu tion | instructing the city attorney to •investigate the protest being made by. When shortly-before 4 o^clock Judge FOR HIGH SCHOOL’ Raulston pushed his way through the * masses at the door, the excitement had List of Teachers Announced For bwome ac “ te * Som « ™ inutes eia P sed Clinton Hi For New Session’s , the uniformed deputies enforc- r. Work ’ ^ * be ru * e du 1 ®*- ® l * r - Hays, defense The faculty of the Clinton High attorney, gained the court’s attention, school for the coming session wis an - 1 “Before yourjkmor present a do- nounced yesterday by the bo«iu of ® is ' on or th^ proceedings go further,^ ZsVZZ Air IJne " i RiiSww.- trustees. It contairis' only three changes *** ** against the city for grading and work^om the past year and includes an ing of the street running parallel to j additional teacher in the department. the Seaboard track from near the of Bible. The assignment of teachers, power house to below the ice factory: I f 0 ^ e ^ b ® r with their subjects, follow: may I present a After considerable discussion, in which the mayor opposed the motion, Coun cilman Dillard moved thfit the corres pondence betw'een the mayor and rail way attorneys be received as informa- tiqh.^ The Seaboard contends that the street is on their right of way and that such work in grading as has been ^ done was without their permission. Kenneth N. Baker, Jr., principal. - Science: Kenneth N. Baker, Jr., and Miss Robbie Parks. English: Miss Sarah Hunter Miss Olive Tuck We, the following named (repre sentatives of Various well , known re ligious organizations, churches, syna gogues, do petition your honor -that, if you t?6ntinue >our custom of open ing the daily sessions of the court and *with prayer.” 1 Mr. Stewart interrupted, addressing Latin: Miss Bertha Gray Uallman. himself to the court, and protested French: Miss Sara Rudd, v- . i “that this is absolutely out. of order.” Mathematics: Miss Louise Richard- : Here the record of the procedlngs son, reads: ; , 'j _ _ # • i * History and Athletic Director: O.l Attorney Genera) Stewart: “This knowledge or consent and m violation to L^ver is not an assembly met for any pur- ' I Bible: Miss Katherine O’Neal. ET" (Continued on Page Two) F/ c (Continued un Page Seven)