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ll ► o t jmi ■LL/BTaag>aCTP r ROM 7 , \ \r— THE CHftONICLE Strives To Be » Clean News* paper. Complete, Newsy and Reliable. If Yon Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Too Don’t Get The ■ ' ■ News. VOLUME xxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1927 NUMBER 46 NEW PRESBYTERIAN HEAD " IS OFFICIALLY INAUGURATED Burney Lynch Parkinson Installed Yesterday With Impressive Exercises. Ceremonies Attended By Many Prominent Ministers, Educators and Friends of College. CALHOUN HIGHWAY BRIDGE 1$ - DEDICATED AS WAR MEMORIAL Burney Lynch Parkinson, Ph.D., cently elected president of Presb; rian College of South Carolina, was formally inaugurated yesterday with appropriate and interesting exercises held in the college chapel. The pro gram began promptly at 11 o’clock and was presided over by Rev. G. C. Mayes of Winnsboro, vice-president of the board of trustees. The invocation was offered by Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city. The college auditorium was packed ! It was because of this spirit and at titude among the colonists that the ritans in the face of their poverty, their small numbers, and their strug gle, for existence established an infant college in 1636 to which John Harvard donated his library of three hundred volumes and bequeathed one-half of his fortune amounting to two hundred Residing two miles east of Clinton, in the heart of historic Hunter town ship, resides an esteemed farmer-citi zen, Job M. Simpson. Mr. Smipson was born, March 22, 1849, a son of Hugh J. and Sarah Simpson. He received his early educa tion at thft old Hurricane school jwith his teachers. School facilities and op portunities during those primitive days were very limited and this young Hurricane citizen had to* complete his pounds. Thus faith in the efficiency of education was demonstrated four hun- j schooling with the sixth grade, dred j*ears ago in young America. j Mr. Simpson worked on the farm It was under circumstances like until he was 22 years old. He then, these that all of the colonial colleges with a young man’s ambition and en- for the sendees, the large audience came into existence, some to continue j thusiasm, took Horace Greely’s ad- consisting of the student body, Clin-j their programs of service through the! vice and went West. The wild country, southwest'Texas and with the limited means this “rolling stone” had amass ed, he purchased a few head of cattle and set up his own ranch in the Rio Grande valley opposite Santa Lena, Mexico, 28 miles, from the closest anch, and 110 miles from the nearest postoffice or church. There he lived the rough but enjoyable life of a typi- Beautiful Structure Over Savannah River Is Officially Opened With Impressive Exercises On Armistice Day. .Links v. Two States As Honor To Their War Heroes. E. N. Jones and Miss Adaline Stone as i cal western cowboy for a period of 12 years, This type of western living, put a (By Harllee Branch, Staff Correspond ent, The Atlanta Journal.) Elberton, Ga., Nov. 12.—Several thousand Georgians and South Caro linians joined in the Armistice day exercises which were held Friday in connection with the celebration of the completion of the magnificent new desire in Mr. Simpson’s heart to go Georgia-Carolina Memorial bridge back to his homeland. So after an over the Savannah river, on the Cal- absence of 26 years, he came back on lhoun highway, 15 miles east of Ihis a short visit to his old home in Hunter city. . township once more to meet and min- 1 A -score or more of United States gle with the comrades of his early .teens. This trip was the turning point, in his life, for after reflecting upon senators, congressmen, state senators, legislators and state and county high way officials, mayors, editors and ©th an added feature to the day’s pro-' vania, Columbia, and Dartmouth gramil trolled neither by the churches which A?W expressing a few words of —; welcome on behalf of the board, the er notables from Georgia and South and that within four years all of the Carolina, delivered short N addresses; South Carolina cross-state highways brass bands played concerts at each | touching the Georgia line would be Although Mr. Jones did not furnished by the college glee club was and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Pennsyl-^to become ri.ch over-night as condi-! would be foolish for hint to return to end of the bridge, a beautiful young paved. Dartmouth. Con-ttioTis had been pictured. the ranch life. So while in this home- woman christened the bridge by break- specify which four roads would be pav- presiding officer. Dr. Mayes, continued the morning program as follows: Greetings— From trustfei. and faculty by the Rev. W. M. McPheeters, D. D., chair man board of truitees, Atlanta, Ga. From alumni and student body, Col. J. D. Fulp, superintendent Bailey Mil itary institute. Greenwood. From South Carolina synod, Rev. W. A. Hafner, moderator, Gaffney. From the Presbyterian colleges of the general assembly, President Wil liam Joseph Martin, Davidson college.! From the public sthools of South Carolina, J. D. Coates, secretary, South Carolina Teachers association.' From the state colleges of South Carolina, the Rev. Davison McDowell Douglas, president University.of South Carolina, Columbia. From the church colleges of South Carolina, President R. C. Grier, Ers- kine college, Due West. From private colleges of South Car- nlina, President Robert P. Pell, Con verse college, Spartanburg. From the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the South ern States, Dean Leonard T. Baker, University of South Carolina. Address: Dr. Bruce R. Payne, pres ident, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, on the “Trend of Higher Learning in America.” At the conclusion of Dr. Payne’s ad dress, the exercises came to a close and the delegates in the city for the occasiofi, together with the student body, was servqd an elegant luncheon in the refectory under the supervision of the efficient matron in charge, Mrs. Myrtle Hunter. At 2:15 the audience reassembled in the chapel for the afternoon’s pro gram. The procession of trustees, del egates, alumni and faculty, formed at the library and proceeded to the au- ed within the next two years, he was understood to refer to the roads reaeh- mous sugar bowl in Louisiana. One season satisfied him here, for fighting mosquitoes and listening to the aliga- BURNEY LYNCH PARKINSON President, Presbyterian College brought them into existence nor by the states which chartered them and sometimes rendered them assistance, most of these colonial colleges now ex ist and serve and exert large influ ence as independent universities. With the national movement which followed the Revolutionary war came the desire on the part of individual states to found and promote state sup ported and controlled higher institu tions of learning that would be free from religious and denominational limitations. Although the great period of founding and expanding state uni versities and colleges was delayed un til the last quarter of the nineteenth century, by 1825 seven states—North Carolina, South Carolina,. Georgia, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan —hail laid the foundation for future universities and had thereby shown With his hack turned against his sick and penitent frame of mind, he ing a bottle of ale on the rail over I former Laurens county home and his 1 sqld everything he had left behind and the center span; pretty, young girls face headed westward,*- Mr. Simpson came back to his first-love, Laurens from both Georgia ard South Caro- ing Georgia froin Westminster, Ander- rst landed in Arkansas, where he county, of which his community was lina carrying armfuls of chrysanthe- son, Abbpville and Columbia. Worked on a farm for two and a half an important gnd well-known section.' mums acted as the sponsors for the oc- MY. Holder showed that during 1927 years. From there he went to the .fa- Mr. Simpson at once bought the casion, from one end to the other the Georgia would pave approximately 500 place where he now lives, between bridge was lavishly decorated with miles of its primary state highways Clinton and Gol<l4Nlle. He was soon flags and bunting, and a barbecue was and that not less than 500 miles a married to Miss Lola M. Nabors on served. year would be paved in the future, tors bellow at night did not prove a Dec. 18, 1898, and as he expresses it, It was by all odds the most auspic- while Mr. Jones showed that this year satisfying pastime. From the sugar' settled down for life in God’s choicest ious. bridge opening yet held on the South Carolina would pave 404 miles fields, Mr. Simpson journeyed on to! land. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have one Georgia border and many such notable <>f its highways and expected to do the sheep and cattle ranges of western ;daughter and three sons: Miss Mamie!occasions have passed into history imore in 1928 and succeeding years. Texas. Being inexperienced the young | Sue Simpson and Gilette, Lewis, and with still others ju?;t ahead. [ Mr. Holder showed that Georgia’s adventurer was compelled to receive ‘ Mason Simpsoh. The Georgia-Carolina Memorial fricoTTre for highways will run around his remuneration and livelihood by ; When a mere lad Mr. Simpson join-! bridge, dedicated to.the memory *of the-'$13,000,000 for 1927 and $13,500,000 building fences, digging wells and ed the Methodist church at Hurricane Elbert county, Ga., boys and the Ab- shearing sheep. Being informed that ami was reared by parents who be- beviile county, S. C., boys who gave the good land with unlimited opportu- longed to the Wesley faith. When he their lives in the World war, is one of nities was just ahead,'"Mr. Simpson returned, however, in 1898, from the: the most beautiful, most substantial still animated with a desire to see the West, he united with the Baptist and most graceful bridge structures world, pulled out to the mining camps church and has always ranked as one i to be found*ai>ywhere. Plans for the of New Mexico. Finding the high wa-|of its most faithful and useful mem-] bridge were-druwn by Searcy B. Slack, ges advertised here a fake, he left bers. Upright in all of his dealings the state highway bridge engineer for becoming available faster than the this place knd soon landed in the grain : with his fellow men, a law-abiding, Georgia; the contract for the bridge w'ork can bo satisfactorily done, and hay fields of Salt river valley in God-fearing citizen, Mr. Simpson holds was let'by the Georgia state highway i The Elberton-Abbeville highway is a Arizona. This, according to Mr. Simp- in a large measure the confidence and board; the .contractor was Emmet M.Uink in the Calhoun highway, said by son, was a good country >Y’ith a fine esteem of hundreds of friends who Williams of Monroe, Ga., who is also | its sponsors to be the shortest and climatsitrich lands, and an abundance unite in the hope that he may yet be a representative in the Georgia legis-jbest rout© from Atlanta to Wilming- of water for irrigation purpose*-. Land , spared many years. lature from Waltori coilnty, and', the |ton, N. C-. Raleigh, N. C., and Colum- here was excessive in price and the Mr. Simpson, modest and unassum- ; construction, of the bridge was super- bia. S. C. Thq new Georgia-Carolina Hurricane sojourner soon discovered ing as regards himself, says that the vised by J. N. Stephens, g Geprgia Memorial bridge takes the place of that it would require a fortune to get, most remarkable thing about his life highway department engineer. ;an old-fashioned ferry and with the started. | is the fact that he was ne^er under While'the bridge was constructed by splendid sand-clay road provides a di- Mr. Simpson’s next move was back the care of a physician from the age Georgia and Georgians, it was jointly rect and much nearer route from El- ville-Swainsboro highway; that by the end of 1929 Georgia would pave four and possibly five other cross-state highways to the Sojjth Carolina line— the Toccoa-Gainesville-LawrenceviUe- Atlanta highway; the Hartwell-Ath- ens-Lawrenceville-Atlanta highway; the Augusta-Washington-Athens, At lanta highway; the Savannah^Swains- boro-Dublin-Macon highway; possibly the Augusta-Madison-Atlanta high way, and in four years the highways to every interstate connection would be paved; that within the next two years- South Carolina will complete four paved roads to the Georgia line - for 1928, while Mr. Jones estimated South Carolina’s income for 1927-1928 at $28,000,000. Mr. Jones expressed a preference for the state bond method of financing state highways, but later said that under the systeip now in .vogue in South Carolina funds are to Texas and he landed in those vast of 16 until four years ago when he had financed by Georgia, South Carolina, prairie lands just in time to assist in ; influenza. For his unusual good health ' Elbert county, Abbeville county, and grading the Southern Pacific railroad : and many other blessings of life, Mr. the federal government, and the between El Paso and Sierra Blanco.' Simpson says he is profoundly grate- bridge plans and contract were ap-j ijociation, was the chairman of the From here he later went down to | ful to God. He is now 78 years old. b'erton to Abbeville. J. F. Jac-obs of Clinton, S. C., first president of the Calhoun Highway is- FORMER PASTOR TO SPEAK HERE DAREDEVIL MILLER INJURED IN STUNT Stunt Performer Thrown Under Auto mobile During Exhibition At Laurens Tuesday. proved by the state highway board olj bridge opening exercises Friday and South Carolina, the federal highway, addresses were made by Congressman engineers and the county commission- Fred H. Dominick of .South Carolina, ers of Elbert and Abbeville^rounties. . i Senator William J. Harris of Georgia, The bridge, which is of concrete, Congressman Charles H. Brand of dost approximately , $250,000. It is Georgia, Chairman John N. Holder of 1.435 1-2 feet in length, rises 50 feet the Georgia state* highway board, above the' waters of the Savannah Chairman C. E. Jones of the South river, which separates the states of Caroiina state highway, commission, Georgia and South Carolina, and Patrick Calhoun, former Georgian but weighs 23,000,000 pounds. Approxi- now of Louisville. Ky., R. E. Hanna of ditorium in the following order of pro- cession: president, speakers, board of confidence placed by civil trustees, delegates, faculty and alum- > n the potency of education. When in the first decades of the steel was used in its construction. It houn Highway association, John T. supported by eleven great arches Dennis of Elberton, Ga., one of the ni. The exercises were presided over by Rev.-W. M. McPheeters, D. D., chair man of the board of trustees, and op ened with prayer, followed by a se- the encyclopedists were widely read, lection from the glee club. The ad- dress of the occasion was by Rev. H. Tucker Graham, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Florence, whd took as the text of his thoughtful and impressive sermon, “Christ, The Great Teacher.' Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Pressly of Tam pico, Mexico, to Be With A. R. P. Church Next Sabbath. Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Pressly of Tam-’ Laurens, NV\'. 15.—Ralph A. Miller pico, Mexico, and missionaries to that!of Waco. Texas, is at the Ipcal hos- , , , , , „ , „ „ , j country from the A- R. P. denomina- pital suffering from a fractured leg "^If 1 ; 7 , 500 ’ 00 ? ; _ p0 “ ndS O _ f . re, " forC ^ pre8 _ ,d f_ n l« f '■’thor" ti° n » ' w iH at the local A. R. P. above the knee and internal injuries church next Sabbath -morning and! received late this afternoon in a ' , 4 . - night. Mr. Pressly will speak in the “death drag” performance he was giv- an mimense straig t spans morning and both he and Mre. Pressly ! inK here in connection with '‘booster ons rue mn e t a bridge was )e-|sociatlon, at night. He was born in Mexico andiami trade day" staged bv the mcr-i5“" ^“f ch ' i "' whg|i Mrs James wood, S. C., member of the South Car- has snent most of his life in that coun- ! chants of I.aurens. The accident oc .Y. Swift, a prominent lady ofMnldle- ol.ne state highway commission F. P. try and his message will be of inter- eurred when the driver of the car that ‘•‘V™' un offR ' ml of th « Calhoun Senator A. S.J. Stovall of Elberton. . . ... , , est and profit to those privileged to was dragging "Daredevil Miller., as H « hw »y poured the first O Crowley of Wtlmington.N. C State being especially popular among atu. ;hear Wm Befor( , m t0 M( , xico as ! h( , caUs him9 , lf> mrt a car an<| ha(1 to concrete, and it was completed on,Oc- Ga.. who led the movement in Georgia dents and their professors, many of Mr p rcssl was pastor I swerve slightly to miss the approach-; t ” bcr 2 '- 1 ® 27 ; 04 working days aiiead for the construction of the bridge. J. he acadenuc population abandoned #{ A R ; p. churt . h ,/ this ci ? y for , ing miU . hini , thus rausins Miller, who ! “ f «"»««•* ‘"™' »•*" J ' N - S , Abbeville. S. C„ cha.rman their Christian faith This caused the a nimber #f and his friends'was attached to the machine bv tw „,Stephens,.wife-of the supervising en- of the .Abbeville county commission orthodox Christians throughout Amer- her< , wm unite jn extendinE a most ropes and trailing twenty feet behind e'^'er poured the last concrete. George S. West of Atlanta, president founders of the Calhoun Highway a.s- eiatit Kenneth Baker of Green- nineteenth century the French influ ence became strong in America and the writings of Voltaire, Volney, and ica to turn from the support of mde-. , , j . , . , n a au tordial welcome, pendent and state colleges to the es- j The presentation of delegates from tablishment and support of many the educational institutions of the j Christian colleges. Since orthodoxy Thom Well StorV state was followed by the induction in- was the prevailing atmosphere among to office of the new president, Dr. B. | the Scotch and Scotch-Irish in the two L. Parkinson. His address in full, Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky, follows: - the Christian college was especially popular in these four states because > to be hurled against the front of a' . W,th the completion of this bridge of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.- parked car at theX'urbing. The ropes «»x interstate bridges .connect Georgia Mayor Lon Dudly of Athens Ga., R. were broken and Miller was nicked up w,th ^outh Carolina and a number of ,H. McAdams, a member of the South limp and bruised. The caV to which c<u ‘ nt - v br,<1 ^ s a,so s P an the Savan-, Carolina railroad conmnss.on, Emmett nah river. The six interstate bridges, M. Williams of Monroe, Ga., contract- TolH In Atlanta I he was attached was traveling at the nan ™ er * 1 ne s,x intt * rsiaie Dr luges, m. vv 1 UIU 111 /A liailUt rate of sixtv miles an hour and a ffreat which represent arf investment of ap- j or wl crowd tfas looking on when the smash-^000,000, are as follows: lips The story of the Thornwell orphan- up came. ,ho built the bridge; John R. Phil-: member of the Georgia state Miller is resting comforiab- ()n the T °ccoa-Setieca highway, be- highway board, James B. Nevin, editor OOr faith in the efficacy of educa- ! of public opinion in respect to reli- tion is almost unlimited. About fif- Kior.s. teen years ago Dr. G. Stanley Hall! The extent to which orthodox Chris- age, its work and needs, was present-1 ly, he says, and claims he has given tween Stephen county, Ga., and Oconee of The Atlanta Georgian, and Harllee made the following statement: “Per-i ti f n8 in the power of esid ; nt of ^ inst it u ,i on , went to the World war i at-: au- education is ilhistratpH hv the fact . .. . « . . . .. . . i ed last Sunday in sixteen Presbyterian approximately one thousand similar- county, S. O., over the Tugaloo river; churches in Atlanta, Ga«- A locaPdele- exhibitions and this is his first serious * wo on the two Hartwell-An- gation, headed by Dr. L. R. Lynn, accident. He was a lieutenant during (,(> ' rs ™ 1 highways, between Hart e$un haps nothing in the history of the | education jY illustrated ^ the fact. Atlanta Saturday for the * eek _ end i ty, Ga., and Anderson county, S. C., Branch of The Atlanta Journal. Tele grams and letters were read from Gov ernor Hardman of Georgia, Governor Richards of South Carolina, Mrs. Cor- world has ever been supported by a; that >n 1860 of the 246 colleges in ; and tQ make special a p peals for concensus of belief more universal V mt ? d States more than 2-0 were un- Thanks?iving and Christmas aid. In than that which sustains education to- aer denominational control, day. It has almost attained the sem-| (Continued or»y Page Two) all of the churches visited, a most cordial and sympathetic reception was Miss K. Newton of Greenville is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Pinson-. per, ubique, et ab omnibus which the accorded the Clinton visitors. Those early church strove for in vain. The world goes to school.” FOOTBALL FIGURES From her earliest beginnings Amer- ica has- believed in education. The at- . GENERAL STANDING titude of the early Puritans toward re- > " . -v ' W L T Pet. ligion and education is illustrated by Furman .* 7 1 0 .875 a quotation first appearing in the New Clcmson •. 5 2 1 .714 England First Fruits in 1643 and now P. C. : K 2 .600 engraved on the Harvard gate-way. Carolina . . ' 0 .500 The quotation follows: Erskine 3 4 1 .333 “After God had carried us safe Citadel 2 5 1 .286 to New England and wee had Wofford :.. 1 4 3 .200 buildejl our houses, provided ne- Newberry .... ^ 0 .000 cessaries for our livelihood, rear--, ed convenient places for God’s STATE STANDING W L- T 1 Pet. worship and settled the civil gov- j Clcmson emmeht, one of the next things 4 Furman ... 4 0 1 i.ootr ,• ... 2 0 0 1,000 making the trip and taking part in the whirlwind campaign were: Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Lynn, Mrs. A. M. Copeland, Miss Virginia Neville, Miss Charlotte Leeper, Miss Elizabeth Lynn, C. A. Fleming, F. M. Stutts and W. W. Har ris. Cotton Ginnings Still Increase wee longed for and looked after was to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity, dread ing to leave an illiterate ministry \to the churches when our present ministry shall lie in the dust.” .. ■ IV UaroITT Erskine' .. Citadel Wofford- Newberry 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 3 0 0 2 1 3 0 1,000 .500 .500 .333 .000 .000 Cotton ginnings in Laurens county^ to Nov. 1st. were 19,142 bales as com- pared^with 6,911 bales for the same period last year. These figures were i given out yesterday by G. R. Simpson, government crop reporter of this city. Local Cotton Middling Today .... 20c over the Savannah river^ on the Au- ra Harris, the noted Georgia author, gusta-Aiken highway -between Rieh-^and others. mond county, Ga., and Aiken county,! The exerc j st , s G f dedicating and S. C., over the Savannah river; on the christening the bridg<^. which were Sayannqh-C.hanleston highway, be- rjp aU |jf u i and impressive, Were in tween Chatham county', Ga., and Jas- charge of the Americatt Legion posts per county, S. C.,.ov*r the Savannah 0 f K^Lberton and AbbevilleTljMiss Id*,, river; on the ElbertonVAbbeville high- Calhourr, . representing the Calhoun way, or the Calhoun highway, between, f am ii y . broke the bottle of ginger »le Elbert county, Ga., jand Abbeville and christened the bridge. Senator * avannah river. | Harris'Qf Georgia, and Congressman terstate bridge Dominick of South Carolina, fetood 6n South Caro- the center of the bridge and clasped cted soon. It is to hands over the imaginary line divkl- river on the Au-; ing the two states and Mr. Jacobs de- county; S. C.« over the '' Another important connecting Georgia lina is to be const span the Sava nd gusta-McCormick highway, between dared the bridge open for traffic. Columbia codnty, Ga., and McCormick Sponsors for the occasion *were Miss •county; Syr ., ami it will cost well over Edna May Copeland and Miss Frances- $200,000y Smith for Georgia# Miss Hilda Syphan liytneir addresses, Chairman C. E. Mi8S Margaret Cox for South Car- .Jou<*s, of the South Carolina highway °lina. commission, ami Chairman »J«hn N. In thv crowd, which was estimated . Holder of tjie Georgia state highway! at about six thousand persons, were* boaid, brought out the. following facts: [citistens of Georgia. South Carolina,- s '.That hy the end 1928 Georgia North Carolina and Florida, and therb would ha^ tWo of its cross-state were acres of pariced autGmqbiJps. i high ways paved to the South Carolina) It is expected that, immediately 1 line—the Savannah-Brunswick (coast- great volume of traffic, will use the al) highwa^ tim^ Thb^^Augusta-Louis- new bridge. : '■/*' ? \ 7 \ l ~l I ■