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THE CHRONICLE . Strives To Be a Clean Nears paper. Complete, Newsy, and Reliable. i % *■ . * l' > ; .... . * (Ehromrlr * V VOLUME XXVI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,1926 DOUGLAS ACCEPTS OFFER TO BECOME UNIVERSITY HEAD Goes To Carolina President of Presbyterian College To Leave Clin ton For Columbia Offer. No Action Yet Taken As To His Successor. Davison McDowell Douglas, D. D., since 1911 president of the Presbyte rian College of South Carolnia, will become president of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, succeed ing the late William Davis Melton, LL. D. Announcement of his decision in the matter, after several weeks de liberation, was made from Columbia last Wednesday night by Governor McLeod as chairman of the board of trustees. No date has been set for Dr. Doug las' going to Columbia to take up his duties at the university y this remains yet to be arranged. The transfer, ^ he is bound to the institution by is conceded, however, will not likely take, place before the end of the first semester of the collegiate year. For the interval Dr. Leonard T. Baker, i dean of the university, and for the interregnum acting president, will re- \ main as head of the institution. J “After careful consideration,” Dr. Douglas' wrote Qpvemor Thomas G. McLeod, chairman of the university board of trtfStees, in announcement of hie acceptance of the university pres idency, tendered him July 21, 1926, by a committee of the university board, “I have decided to accept the presi dency of the University of South Car olina as offered me by your board. 1 am fully conscious of the honor you have conferred upon me, but I am also aware of the great responsibility laid upon me. acquaint himself with the university. “I shall go down to the university,” he said, “to ytudy, to get in touch with my friends and the university's friends that I may come to know the uniyer-. sity. My first task will be thorough ly to acquaint myself with the insti tution’s needs and its traditions, to make myself acquainted with its fac ulty and its student body. “I cq^not, therefore, talk of plans; the knowldege I shall gain in becom ing acquainted with the university must precede the planning.” Dr. Douglas will go to the university as an alumnus of the university; al- the tie born of the fact that it was from this institution in 1899 he re ceived his degree of master of arts. Like William Davis Melton, LL. D., who was also a graduate of the itrIK versity, he is a native of S6uth Cmro- lina and a Presbyterian. Of a family that has suppled South Carolina with many staunch Presby terians, Dr. Douglas was bom at Flackstock in Fairfield county, June 20, 1869, a son of the Rev. James and Marg^fet fMcDowell) Douglas His father, a native of Fairfield county, was a graduate of Davidson college and of Columbia Theological seminary and for a number of years was presi dent of York Female college. His father’s grandfather, Alexander Doug las, was a native of Ireland, having | emigrated to America in 1790 to set CAU TO°sropcRiMEl^ST WEEK OF WG SALES- to stop crime mansiup 0,0^ NEARS END; EVERY MEMBER DETERMINED That Science “Raises Bespeaks Power ful Life. davison McDowell douglas ■ - ilCENSE PLATES ISSUED EARLIER “It will be my endeavor to take up, afterwards at a place six miles « S 9 A 1 _ - J 1 ^ the work where it was laid down last spring by your former distinguished and beloved president, Dr. W. D. Mel ton; with a purpose to conserve what he had accomplished, and to carry on the unfinished work which he was do ing with such brilliant success west of Winnsboro. His mother’s ma ternal grandfather was Thomas Mc- Crec, a Revolutionary soldier, who, marrying Catherine DuBois, had in ti oduced a strain of Hugenot blood in to the family. ifik “It will be when I shall t liversity.” Following his father's footsteps, Dr determined later just i D 0U gj ag entered Davidson college, take up the work at the fa was graduated in 1896, university Dt. Douglas’ 15 years as president of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, to which he came from the Maryland Avenue Presbyterian church of Baltimore, Md., succeeding Dr. Rob ert Adams, have been marked by many notable successes. His was, the fac ulty of the Presbyterian college de clared in resolutions requesting his re fusal of the university offer, the. “achievement in placing the Presby terian college on a high level of aca demic and educational service.’’ His business ability in the days of his in cumbency had directed the material bui. ling up of the college; his educa- with the degree of bachelor of arts.- succeeding and beginning on the first He began his studies for the^ministry at Louisville Theological seminary of Louisville, Ky., and then, continuing hia work at Columbia Theological sem- ir.ai|y, was graduated as a bachelor of divinity in 1899. While at the theolo gical seminary he had enrolled as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina and in 1899 had also received his master’s degree. The fol lowing year he was a student at Princeton and in 1904-1906 he Was en gaged in postgraduate study at Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore. His plma mater, Davidson, in 1912 confer- :ed upon him the honorary degree of tional ideas and ideals had led the col-l^^ of (jiyinity. I n l924 the honor lege to an influence not to be measur-1 ary degree 0 f l L< d was bestowed on ed by the volume of its annual expen- by Southwestern Presbyter-an Applications for 1927 Automobile Li- ( censes Must Re Paid By Novem ber 30 To Avoid Penalty. Columbia, Oct. 24.—License num bers must be displayed on all automo biles by the first of next January and must be procured during November and De.-'ember, according to a statute passed at the last session of the gen eral assembly. In the past applica tions for "license numbers have been made after January 1st and usually it was in February or March before they were placed on cars. The statute also provides that all applications shall be filed on or be fore November 30th, and that licenses shall be issued on or before Decem- l*r 21st. - The statute reads as follows: That annually on or before the 21st day of December all owners of motor vehicles shall procure from the South Carolina Highway Department motor vehicle licenses for the fiscal year next ditures, nor the number of its students And so the university trustees, cast university, of Memphis. In 1926 he was elected an honorary member of ing about in July for a suitable ® n m,q ou th Carolina’s alpha chapter, Phi worthy ^ «r( --asor to Dr. Melton, who had t»l'»d in office in May, were at tracted by Dr. Douglas’ record of Achievement. His attainments as edu cator, minister, executive, financier, wert considered and he was elected. J. Rion McKiesick of Greenville and James H. Sullivan of l,au^ens, as a committee of the boabj) carried to Dr. Douglas word of his election and recL^- i 'from Dr. Douglas the decla ration that he appreciated sincerley Ihe honoi conferred upon him but that —L he could not reach a decision upon the offer for some weeks,^luring which he desired to confer Mrst with the Presbyterian college trustees and lat er with the university board. September 9, in accord -with his an nounced plan, he met the members of the college board, called together special sessiort for the purpose at Cli ton. At the conclusion of the session, which was held behind closed doors, it was announced that the board had, on Bet Kappa, instituted April 8 at the university. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1900 and for four years following was pastor of churches at Brevard and Davidson River, N. C. Leaving North Carolina in 1904, he went to Baltimore, where until 1911, he was pastor of the Maryland Avenue Presbyterian church. This charge he gave up to accept the presidency of the Presbyterian college. Clinton Girl Named Class Secretary day of January and the highway de partment is hereby authorized to is sue such licenses during the months of November and December. No li cense plate shall be displayed on any motor vehicle prior to the first day of January of the year for which sue license was issued, but any person, firm or corporation who shall operate any motor vehicle on or after the first day of January of each and every year without license for the then current year shall be subject to the penalties row provided by law. After a license plate has been issued for a particular metor vehicle no refund of the license fee shall be made nor shall any suelp license plate be transferred by the highway department to any other mo tor vehicle All applications for license plates shall be filed with the hiehwav de partment on or before the 30th day of November and any person, firm or cor poration who shall fail to file such application before said date, extent f , ... for a car which had been in his or her * possession less than 10 days, shali pay an additional fee of 50 cents and all funds arising from such additional fees shall go to the law enforcement fund of the highway department. LAURENS COUNTY TEACHERS MEET First Sewgion of New School Year Held With Spartanburg, Oct. 26.—J. K. Henry of Chester, presiding judge at the regular term of court of Spartanburg county, in charging the grand jury yesterday turned on magazines and others who had attacked his policy of opening court with prayer. “They say I was violating the con stitution of the United States, mixing religion with government,” Judge Hen ry asserted. “Why, every time yoiv take an oath, it is a prayer. It winds up with ‘So help me, God,’ and should be repeated with reverence. Every of ficer, upon assuring, takes an oath, and utters a prayer—the congress of the United States and other legislative bodies have chapel exercises every day and rightfully so. “You know, it is license that they want—and license to damn the human lace, if possible.” The Chester judge went on to cite the invention of a method whereby di rect‘rays of the sun may be captured for the purpose of destroying life. “Science is working today,” he charg ed, “to destroy the human race.” The defense of the prayer in court policy came in the course of Judge Henry’s remarks concerning the need cf the return to God and the family al tar, the departure having led to the moral breakdown. “You jurymen have been charged by these other judges, you need no charge. If you need any help I shall be glad to give it,” and then the judge i pparently drifted into his words of 'idmcnition. “The courts are being blamed for not doing their duty; they depend on citizens,” he declared. “The judges are powerless. The people have just the government they want—that the jury wants, for they represent the people after all. The solicitor is powerless the judge is powerless; the remedy is in the jury box. Our concern is not where it started, but the remedy. “I thing I know how it started. It was a loss in reverence for authority. We first lost reverence for God. If I would ask, how many of you would I find got up before day and had pray er with your children. You smile, but it is important. How many prayed— individually—before going into these boxes—holy boxes^ of justice, righ teousness and truth.” A return to parental authority was needed, the judge continued. There was a shrinking back from punish ment—no switching in the schools. Vet in love parents were willing for their children to have teeth pulled or tonsils removed. So in moral life; “it is a rule that runs throilgh life; we have to suffer to be saved.” All the court could do was to put on a penalty. There was an attempt to avoid in dividual responsibility, and a great many people were claiming that crime was a disease, Judge Henry declared, and “crime, ciuel, inhuman, unscien tific”—with particular emphasis plac ed on the “unscientific.” “We have to do the best we can in the courts. The only way left is for every man to go to God every night and every day; that’g the way our We have broken down the altars of God. The judge then made mention of a letter he had received from a man in Spartanburg hemeaning his opening of court with prayer, and of the at tack by certain magazines. In taking up the various indictments Judge Henry said that a man violating the prohibition law and carrying a pistol should be convicted of intent to murder, and be given at least ten The Judges and Closing Rules Are Announced In This Issue CHURCHES JOIN IN WEEK’S SERVICES Rev. W. N. Johnson, Stewardship Specialist, To Open Conference Here Next Sunday. * Last of im^ n rf*i p . a Miss Isabelle Witherspoon, fresh man at Winthrop College, has been elected secretary of her class for the suing year. The Johnsonian of the past week carrying a list of the newly elected 1926-27 officers. Miss With erspoon is the youngest daughter of Prof, and Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon. During her high school course she motion of the Rev. G. G. Mays, D. D„ took an active part in all school ac- of Winnsboro, adopted a resolution asking Dr. Douglas to “decline the call to the presidency of the university that he might remain with the Pres byterian College of South Carolina.'’ Similar resolutions were adopted by the faculty, alumni and student body of the college. On September 29, in rum, he met tivitioe and has won further honors since her entrance at Winthrop on her diploma from the. Clinton schools. Colored Quartet Saturday With Practically All Teachers Present. Laurens, Oct. 24.—The Laurens County Teachers’ association held its first meeting of the year in the graded school building auditorium Saturday with practically all the teachers of the county schools in. attendance. S. C. Gambrell, superintendent of the Gray Court-Owings high school, who was elected president of the association at the close of the session last year, was in the chair. * * Of special interest at the opening session was an address by Dr. William G. Burgin, head of the department of political science at Winthrop College. Following the session of the teach ers’ association, the study center for years.” For he was a potential mur- dcrer and wouRT'bventually kill sume- body. Issuing of false checks also came in for a warm denunciation from the bench, which held that the offense was worse than “stealing” for it car ried deceit, while in stealing there was no particular attempt at fooling any body. Nine-tenths of the business was done in checks; and a check should be as good as currency, Judge Henry maintained. A Stewardship Conference, interde nominational in its scope, has been ar ranged to open in Clinton on next Sunday and continue through the fol lowing week. • * The leader for the conference is the Rev. W. N. Johnson, D. D., of Mars Hill, N. C., a Stewardship specialist of a number of years’ experience. Dr. Johnson was invited here by the pas tors of the city churches to lead the conference because of his peculiar fit ness for such work. For a number of years he was secretary of Baptist State Missions, pastor of the Wake Forest church, and secretary of State Missions for the state of North Caro lina. For the past several years he has been giving his entire time to the holding of Stewardship conferences and he has been highly successful in this field of work. The coming of Dr. Johnson is spon sored by all the churches of the city. On next Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, he will make his first address in Clin ton when he speaks before the Berean class of the First Baptist church. At the 11 o’clock preaching hour, he will occupy the pulpit of the First Pres- byterian church, and at 3 o’clock in the afternoon he will speak in the As sociate Reformed Presbyterian church. Sunday evening at 7:30, a union ser vice will be held in the North Broad Members Are Making the Last Few Hours of Campaign Count the Most for Them. Big Cir culation Campaign Comes To a Definite End Saturday Night at 9 P. M. The Salesmanship Club ends Satur day evening at 9:00 o’clock. Many things can happen between now and that time. Ambitions may be acheiv- ed and hopes may be repaid. The only safe way is to be prepared by having enough votes. Even this sched ule gives thousands of votes on sub scriptions. Second payments will like wise receive,, the benefit of having had the previous payment credited unde# a greater extra vote offer. Second payments count tremendously in votes and not a few of the interested mem bers are waging their battle on the second payment basis. The rules aitd details of the closing of the gigantic prize distribution is announced in this issue of The Chron icle. The judges who will officiate at the closing of the campaign and super vise the counting of the votes and award the prizes are' also announced. Everything is in readiness for the gong to be sounded, except for a few intervening hours. These are being made the most of by the members who expect to win the choicest prizes in the list. Not a single subscription will have been overlooked by the time the anxious members finish theH race and the closeness of the result which is apparent from incoming reports make >■ imperatives that each and every Street Methodist church and all church on ® forth a special effort to ex people in the city are cordially invit ed to be present. The services follow ing Sunday will be held daily in the First Baptist church, at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., and a cordial invitation is extended the public to attend all of the services and hear the inspiring ad dresses of Dr. Johnson. GREENWOOD WILL GET PAVED ROAD Legislative Delegation Votes To Issue Bonds Up To a Million Dollars. Greenwood, Oct. 26.—Senator D. A. G. Ouzts and Representatives Robert E. McCaslan, Sam B. King and W. J. Moore at a meeting today agreed to ceed all past performances in getting subscriptions. The apparent closeness of the race makes it all the more in teresting and highly exciting. It is a race where a spurt on the part of any one of the members would change the line-up completely.. A supreme effort tut forth between now and Saturday night will change a commission win- t ner to a big prize winner. And any laxity on the part of those who have done well up to this time is certain to spell defeat at the hands of the more energetic members. Great Vote Score Votes are attaining new heights with every passing hour. Each and every member is determined that lau rels won shall not be wrested from them. Forces are being marshalled every- uuthorize ,lhe Greenwood county high way commission to sell $1,000,000 in w here to make the last hours of the notes or bonds to be used for paving club count heavily in favor of those approximately 35 miles of roads in this w ^° see ^ the high honors. Friends county. The money is to be refunded by the state highway department as are aiding their favorites in a most commendable way and are eager to lutlined in a recent decision of the further assist them in winning one of SLite Supreme Court. I the very biggest prizes listed. Great A tentative program provides for; : rewards are m the paving of the highways from | strive and win. store for those who The choicest cars on Greenwood to Ware Shoals by Hodges, I *1*® m 3 r * ie t today are in- miles; from Greenwood to B. in these prizes; therefore there Rhode’s home on the Dixie highway, j abundant reason for such great ac- 10 miles; and from Greenwood to tivity. Ninety Six, eight miles. It is uruW-! ,, With , the closing Kdur a few hours stood that in addition to these the ‘uf. and sut ‘h wonderful prizes at stake state highway department will hard surface other roads, including the Cal houn highway from the Abbeville it is not surprising at the progress being made by those mcmbers’who are in to the last fully determined to win. county line throughfGreenwood to the ^ rus h w iH come Saturday night at 9 p. m. when the race will end and some one will be the owners of the Laurens county line next year. State Highway Engineer Chariot H. Moorfield, in a recent conference with :he county highway commission, said that the state* highway department could retire with safey at least $800,- 000 for this county within 15 years. The county, it is -understood, has - al ready due it more than .>ioU.OU0 vvmcfr can be used for paving undei the ; ay- as-you-go plan. Greenwood county v-as to get 90 miles of paved road in time, but th« agreement reached by the legislative delegation toaay means that the County will get .36 miles just as soon as the work can be done. beautiful awards. SECOND WEEK JURORS DRAWN -SesVral Clinton Men Included On List. May Not Return Minister Here Jury At Aiken To Reassemble The Tuskegee itet, featuring negro The Rev. L. E. Wiggins, pastor of _ - --- North Broad Street Methodist church, IO bing Here teachers was organized for the year’s w jji likely no t be returned to his pres- work. Of the 196 teachers employed lent pastorate at the close of the con- Hill.! Aiken, Oct. 26.—The Aiken county grand jury investigating the lynching on October 8 of Clarence, Demon and Bertha Lowman, negroes on trial for murder of a constable, will reassemble in with the University board of trustees pear In the Bell Street &hool audi- at Columbia, discussing with its mem bers the educational policies for which he had labored at Presbyterian college and which he would champion at the torium on next Monday night, Nov. 1st, at eight o’clock. This is one of here tomorrow to hear testimony the case after a recess of a week. Investigation by a special grand Institute colored quar-'* a schools of the county this year,, f e r ence new in session in Rock ‘gro melodies, Crill ap- 171 enrolled Saturday for the study j Mr. Wiggins has served the church for | jury immediately after the lynching This is a record of the> past six years, having been re- ! was continued until the regular term center courses, which Miss Kate V. Wofford, county superintendent of education, is ver^ proud. the best colored quartets in the coun- t < try and wherever it has appeared it I At the conclusion of the two meet- turned for the past two years after having filled the usual four year term stipulated by the Methodist church, and it is hardly thought probable that The first task of* Dr. Douglas, as d ially invited. The price of the re- ments in the community hall by the whom head of the state institution, will be to served seats will be a^yenty-fiYe cents. Gray Court-Owings school. i Clinton. of court when the jurors reported that they could work then to better advan tage. After several days of work W. Brooks Boylston, foreman of the jury, told. Judge Marvin Mann they were unable to get evidence on which to bring a presentment, and asked for more time. The judge allowed them j to go into recess a week ago. Roster of Cases Arranged for Two Weeks. The fall session of Civil court con vened in Laurens Monday with Judge Sease presiding. A full roster for two weeks has been arranged. The list of jurors for the first week has already been published in The Chron- kle and the following is a list for the second week, beginning November 1: Laurens—Carl A. Bramlett, R. L. Singletary, G. C. Guinn, V. P. Rut ledge, J. H. Holcombe, L. O. Hiers. Dials—J. M. Bryson, W. Earl Knight, D. S. Mahon, M. A. Hunter, J. T. Brooks, Jr., W. B. Bnx ks, R. W. Burdette u _ Youngs—N. D. Garrett, W. Y. Poole, G. M. Harlan, R. J. Greene. Scuffletown—R. L. Smith. Jacks—R. P. Nabors. Hunter—J.» F. Bryson, Rhett P. Adair, S. J. Rasor, W. G. King, L. D. McCrary, Jno. W. Little, Wm. B. Ow ens. Cross Hill—W. E. Jones. R. W. Grif. fin, T. W. Pinson, J. C. Wells. Waterloo—W. B. Mundy^ R. ^ A. Knight, S. L. Moore. Sullivan—S. F. Tumbling, E. A, Fitts, E. E. Watkins. frV.:$£. i -i! • .'' v £ ■ 1 'L * J l /, ■ *1 : iff] f