Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, June 24, 1915, Image 1
Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTy3|^^^PP^*. jTW <";'' Number 34
MAKING WAR BT
POISON GAS
Battle front In France,?Aa English
officer sends the following desription
of the effect of poisoned gases
the German are using:
"At 2:45 on Monday morning,
most of us were roused by a terrifTic
bombardment by our guns?every
single gun for miles seemed to be
biasing off as hard as it could, so,
thinking thre must be an attack, wej
dressed and made ready to rush off
at amoment's notice.
"I went down intb the street and I
noticed at once a slight smell of
{Chlorine in the air. I soon noticed
that although I was fourf or fiv miles
from (ha flrlntr Una n... ?"?- ??
... ?"o lino u&jr cjco nnt i
watering freely. Along thet road
were coming some of the victims of
this terrible gas. They slouched along
like drunken men, hardly any
pf them had kept rifle or equipment.
AUwere gasping and caugliing,
blindly staggering on?away front
the gas. It was a terrible sight
Many of them were undoubtly brave
men, but had probably been asleep
in the second or third line trenches
and had not had time to get on their
respirators before the gas was upon
them, or else their respirators were
dry and useless.
"By this time motor-ambulances
were streaming back from the field
ambulance at the other end of the
village. They were a terrible sight,
packed with gasping, struggling men
in any attldudetheir agony could suggest;
sometimes fighting with the
very orderlies in charge of them in
their delirium.
"Later in the day I went up to the
field ambulance at the top of the village.
It was a terrible sight, and
one I can never -forget. The ambulance
was established in a fair-sized
school, at the door of whwich a perptual
stream of motor-ambulances
jjj drew up , loaded^ or unloaded, drove
wswTtt. ?.??* lAsiasr
playground were lying some of the
less serious cases, who had probablj
found their way there on foot. They
were lying in a row along the pathway,
coughing and struggling for
breath while doctors ami ordilics did
the little that was possible for them.
Inside the playground was filled with
stretchers aranged in orderly rows
in the sunlight, but there was less
movement here. Some were heaving
in tneir last agony ot suuocatlon.
many were silent?forever.
"Through the windows I caught n
glimpse of a large scholrom full oi
more cases, while in yet anothe- room
I could ae doctors and ordilies in
their sldrtsl-i3*vs drcsing the
wounded who had Just been brought,
in.
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NO LAW FOR THE CASE
No Law Holding Relatives of Insane J
Liable for Support, Says I'eeples. ,
In a reeent opinion given the State ^
board of charities and corrections at <
its request Thomas H. Peeples, Attor-',
ney General, held that relatives of patients
undergoing treatment at the
State Hosp.Ml foi the Instno cou't' *
not be hei-l l^gtlly liable for their ,
support, i.j ir the case > ' a hits '
band for his wire or a father ror nls (
dependent unmarried child, but that (
the board of regents of the HoBpital
had the authority under the law to j
exclude any patient from admission
to the Hospital as a beneficiary when, ^
in its judgement, the relatives of Bueh .
patient were able to pay for his or
he rtreatment at the Hospital.
The State board of charities and *
corrections asked the Attorney Oene- j
ral for an opinion on two or three .
points of law relating to the powers ^
of its fiscal agent, who 1b authorized '
under the Act creating the board to
make investigations of the financial
status of patientB at the Hospital and!
and their relatives. The investiga- '
tions will be undertaken to give the|
board of regents information on
which it can refuse to admit patients'
as benificiarlos when they themselves
or their relatives are able to pay in
or their relativs ar aid to pay n 1
whol or n part for their treatment at
the Hospital.
Attorney General PeepleB said, in
his opinion, that he knew of no South >
Carolina statute holding statuteholding
relatives of an insane person liable
for his or her support . Section
I
\
697 of the Criminal Code of 1912 T
makes It a misdemeanor for any able-!
bodied man who shall, with out just'
cause or excuse, abandon or fall to'
supply the actual necccssitles of life j
to his wife or to his minor unmarried ,
child dependent upon him.
The Attorney General held further:
"In addition to this the common law
imposes a duty on the husband und, th
father to support his wife and chil- Fi
dren. There is a conflict of authority ec
as to whether this common laow liabil of
lty extends to the maintenance of an ty
insane peranum who has been taken w
in charge by the State for the protec- Ji
tion of soiiety in general, as well as fe
fodr the welfure of the patient lo
himself.
"Section 3 365 of the Code of Laws A
of 1912 requires the Probate Judge in hi
addition to mental examination of the la
naManf ?%>? lr? A - ?1 1 *
vu utaau a. luuiuugu tAiiUilua- ll(
tion as to the financial standing of th
the patient and alBo of the husband, se
wife.father, mother.sons or daughters in
of such patient, and requires him to tl;
certify aud transmit the resultof this e<3
examination to the superintendent of h<
the Hospital. ThlB statute, however, te
to my mind, imposes no liability lo
whatsoever upon the relatives men- to
tloned therein. Such testimony is w
taken simply and solely fo the infor- te
ination of thesnperintendent and the
board of regents, so that they may th
determine whether or not the patient Vi
shal be received as a pay patient or y<
as a benificiary patient. It will be dt
noted by a reading of this section that a<
no liability attaches to any of the rel- si
ativos named or to any other party th
for th e support of this patient un- rl
les he or they cuter into the bond re- lu
quired by that statute. vc
"I am pt the opinion that, under in
the Btatute law of this State, there is H
no liability imposed on any relative ar
for the support of an inmate in the wj
State Hospital for the Insane, unless H
possibly upon a husband for the sup- si
portjaUW* or a husband for the
support afr his minor unmarT><Ki t?
pendent child. wj
"The bourd of regents, as I see the
law, has the power and authority to
refuse to admit a patient as a benetlclary
patient if they are of the opinion
that the relatives of such patient en
should support such inmate, but as I >1*
understand the law there is no legal tu
iiaMllaty attaching to any relative _
miles he evceutes the bond provided in
Section 3.33G of the Code of 1912.
UIIEAT SHU' LAl'M'lIKI) _
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Arizona OirKNmV. With Wine and
Water.
New Yo h .1 m je 19.?The mv.v battleship
Arizona was successfully
launched at the Brooklyn navy yard
today. The Arizona shares with her
sister ship, thePennsylvauia, recently $
launched at New port News, the honor
of being the world's largest batleship.
j ne Arizona slipped into the water at
1:12 o'clock.
She went tot he river with the wine
and water of her christening trick- ^
ling in rivulets down her bow from
two broken bottles that swung bound
togt her by a long red, white and
blue cord of silk. Miss Esther Ross ?
of I'resscott, Ariz., the sponser, made
a fair throw as the big hull quivered
and slid slowly forward; the froth
of the wine spattered her gown and
the clothes of those in her party. (h
From the navy yard, black with a
holiday throng, from the spans of the
Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges,
from the docks and piers along the
Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfronts. I*
from scores of craft hugging the far in
3hore of the East river, and from \[
every vantage point of window and sj
house top in the vicinity, many tens
Wl
af thousands saw the newest of Amer
lean battleships glide down the ways. rr
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NO WORK FOR COURT. gl
st
Darlington Reports No Violation of
Law.
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Darlington, June 19.?For tiie seer iI<
md year in succession the summer af
erm of court of general sessions for Sr
his county finds no wqrk to do. and sti
lodge f. \V. Bowman of Orangeburg th
igs been notified tiiat his presence th
vil not bo needed on Monday next, mi
rills condition speaks volumes for th
aw and ordc In this county, vykere
he criminal dockets are rarely ever Si
leavy. ye
ArQJIN EITIIEtt SPLENIMT) AC- f
TOK OH INSANE MAN.
ropiiTtllo Man Convicted of Criminal
Assault Has Not Spoken In S
Nearly Two Years v,
I y
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Columbia, June 22.?T. U. Vaughn,
e former superintendent of the Odd j j
bIIows' home at Greenville, convict- j
I In October, 1912, before the Court c<
' common pleas for Greenville coun- ,
', of criminal assault on a young e:
hite inmate of the orphanage ln'fc
ily 15, 1908, either is an adept at
igning insanity or he has completely ';
st nis mind. j M
Accompanying Gov. Manning and h'
lbert S. Johnston, secretary of the ci
>ard of charities and corrections, ^
st Friday afternoon on an inspeeon
of the state prison a reporter of
e Columbia Record made close ob- ?'
irvation of Vaughn, who is confined rl
the hospital at the state peniten- 1*
ary. The man at the time was seat- S
I on the floor in a stooping position T
5ad bowed and fingers constantly in- si
rlacing. Although addressed in the a
udest tone of voice, he did not seem fi
i notice that he was spoken to; nor '
ould he utter a word or pay any at- b,
ntion to any one near him. t<
Col. D. J. GrlfTeth, superintendent of
>e slate penitentiary, said that a
aughn has not spoken in nearly two S
are, and he constantly acts as if ei
smented. The superintendent him- n
jlf thinks Vaughn is insane and 1*
lould be in the asylum instead of o
ie state penitentiary. Dr. A. 1'. Her- e
ng, of Ealtiniore. Md., when in COr, u
mbia, the first part of the year In- el
jstlgating the state hospital for the
sane, made a close Htudy of Vaughn w
erring aumnuui uuu Vaughn was ajv
id gave as his opinion that the wanl-ti
as simulating insanity, although Dr.Is;
erring admitted that Vaughan was ftjjtf
iperb actor. ~ jti
111 be argued on July 14. B
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One gold cuff button on which is b<
graved the initials "It. X. S... Fin- Bi
r will ho suitably rewarded by re cl
ruing Ul Tin- Chronicle oilice. b
Deposit youi
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IX MONTHS FOH FALSE RESIDENCE
t:
f>orgc L. Lyons Is Convleted In the j
Session* Court Enrolment Frnutl j
Lyons pleaded guilty to charge of
0;
rjury, and was sentenced to -six
p
onths' imprisonment hy Ufrdge
K
<mre in the Court of General Ses
tl
on Saturday. Lyons was phargrd
1th committing perjury in that he
gistoivd on the clirolonieiit boo'.s
IK
r Ward 7, In the City of Charleston
vlng his residence No 22 Charlotte ^
reet. and falsely swearing thereto. e
'i'lie olVeuse to whle Lyons pleaded fi
dlty was a violation of the Sinklcr n
imary election Jaw which was pass ^
by the General Assembly this year.
3 is said to have confessed tout
tor being arrested. .Mr. J. Edward
nilh, who resides at 22 Charlotte tl
reet, said that I .yens did not stay k
i'ie. The Cbib rolls were open tor j(
o rugfatrat.on of ptisons tor the w
tnicipal primary election to be held
is fall. ^
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ibserlbe to The Chronicle only .$1 a ('
ar. A
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Columbia, Taj*>?Jn>i?ortnnt
nuth CaroHigarc Itere decided
esterday b y SjOBr.SH pre m e Court,
honias H. PttHjk. jM&rn/y general
?ceived a tejpfe as-follows from
ames D. MuBVvfaputy tilerk of the
anrt: "VauflB^ ? . South Carolina
ffirmed wltwlteata; United Statos
k relatioe'Bfjjftk Cflpke dismissed
>r want of jMMttctionl
T. U. Vauglyl& former]^ superlnandentof
th orphan
ome at* offftlrollei, -Convicted of
rimtn&l asfauPjf uopn one of hie
ardfl, and ?Aipineed to be banged,
ppealed to <H|Mter&1 supreme court
n the groud?6(t his sonstltutional
Ights had beflnpVrtnsed by a change
i the "iffYjjtf of Execution tn this
tate made mfr he waB sentenced,
he court kapirtwljr overruled the
ime point JESjfe- case of Joe Malloy
nd Will/'9pSpn$. 'Also appealed
~om (lilii jWJl^ftflV'riiiitliiii of the
erdiet beg sends Vaughan
Vaugha^jB P**n for many months
tate peOMraH&r He has not spoka
in a ]j)?Bfl^nnd this fact, lnconectlon
^j^BM^er-^teuliarltle^ of
chavlor, ^j*8fcidlcate- a Ukefthood
. an tusa^S^Ph, in case such furth
r defense-as remain to he
aed shalljflBo save him from the
Fredrl<g| jg, alke Grant, ane-gro
anted ^ M Carolina for murder
rown wMKbrought to this State
>r trial uBBs tie shall devise other
leans of dtHying execution.
Attorney OTkieral Peoples has hud
efore the sAreme court this year
Ix cases and Hi each of them the dcislon
has uplAd the contention made
y his sentenBr
monJy in ..
:>? Qheraw
7, S. |c.
INKS IN G OUNTY GQMElNELi
m
ded quarterly
s depa: rtment.
rilGED TO MAKE MOKE II\Y
lovernnicut Hulletla Advises 1'at
_
ni?rn or nouiii
Washington June 19.?The praeti
ability of in jreaslng materially th
roduction of hay in the South is ui
ed on Soutb( irn farmers in n bulle
n issued to- lay by the agricultura
opartment.
Tho bulletin points out that 1,30">
'10 tons' of ] lay, valued at tflT.OJi
HO, are broui jht each year into th
leven South* rn States despite th
let that "It h praetlenldy f<?r the fni
lors of the S mth to produce all th
ay that they need on their ow
irms." Among
the gi 'asses and legumes tliti
io depart men t eays make good niai
et hays in tl e South are Leapedez
i the lower I [ississii>i>l Vnlley, Join
>11 grass ove most of the eotto
It. Herrauda grass on the rich hoi
>m lands ant! the Arllng?on inixtnr
orchard grai s, tall oat grass an
lsikc,) on tl i heavy uplands.
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, OKLAHOMA "(J II AX D FATHER" v
CIA USE UNCONSTITUTIONAL 1
11
Conditions of Period Tthnt Ex. n
isted Before Fiftenth Amendo
m?yit Cannot b<" Held as
Qualifications for Suffrage
11
Washington,, June 21.?In probably
one of the most important race de- j
clsions In its history, the Supreme
11Court today anulcd as unconstitution- i
! al the Oklahoma constitutional a- ,
menddment and the Annapolis, Mil., t
voters' qualification law restricting
the 8ufTrage rights of those who could (
not vote or whose ancestors could not n
' vote prior to the ratification of the f
i Fiftenth Amendment to the Federal ?
Constitution
Chief Justice White, a native of the
South, and a former Confederate soul- ,
tlier announced the court's decision.
[ which was unaminous except that
i Justice McReynolds took no part in
the case.
t "It is true," continued the Chief -1
i Justice, "that it contains no express
j words of an exclusion from the standijard
which it establishes of any person
j?n acount of race, color, or previous >
i condition of servitude prohibited by ]
the Fifteenth Amendwmenj. but the |
i j standard itself inherently brings that
result in to extence since it is based ^
.purely upon a period of time before
the enactment of the Fiftentb
' Amendment and makes that period
the controling and dominant test of
the right of suffrage.
"In other words, we seek in vain
'for any ground which would sustain
any other interpretation but that the
i provision, recuf ring to the conditions
existing before the Fiftenth Amendment
vfas adopted and the Conditinuanee
of which the Fifteenth Amend
meuf prohibited, proposed by. In sub ;
1 stance and effect, lifting these eondi .
l lions o.or a period of time after the
amendment to make them the bush
y -of trnftt-uouforitHl In
i district and i>ostlve disregard f? r the
Fifteenth Auienduu lit. Ami the sonic
result we are of opinion, is demonstrated
by considering wwhether it i* .
[tossihle to discover any basis of tea
son fur tli?? standard thus tixed othei
> than the purpose above statu!.
Nil Other Fxplaiiation.
"We say tills hct-uusc we are un
able to discover liow urih'ss the pro.
uicnt were considered tlie yelightest
resas.ui was afforded for \husing tin
clttsslih at Ion upon a pMiod of tiua ,
prior t< the Kifthteenth Auieluliaeiit
' Certainly it eannot he slid that then
was any peculiar necroineny in riu
time named width engender attri
bates nffecting the tpialilieation to
vote which wouhl not exist at another
ami different period tildes tlie Fifteenth
amend meid was in view.
The Chief Justice expressed ids .
I statement by a development of tin
argument that the restriction imposed
by the fifteenth insentient on fin
power of the stae over suffrage wneoineblent
with the limits of the pow
*r itself. Iletilso sot forth the prin
eiple that, while in the true sense tin
FitTteeiith Amendment >:lves no (
"right" of siiftnu'f. "it was lougnu > |
reeognized that in operation its j?r
hii.ition niigb. nituMirnhly have Cut
e'.leor . tli.it is to say that a? the 'HM?
ninml of the amendment was self-exe
eating ami readied without legisla
- live ad I. h the ci iii<itions of diser'm
tnatieii against n.v.h it was ainu d, (
the .esiilt uiiulit aiise that as a eo.wouenee
of the s-i'il hi;' down of a lis
~ ?riniinnt ing e'ause s right of sulTrige
e would lie ?i..ioyei{ by reason of 'h
.. ^cnerk eharaeter -f the prov'sbm
will, h would ver nin after the d!?.
riiiiination was ? !; u hen out."
' This * as said hy way of answt r ??
fli" argument of attorneys for the
- de'dlon nflidals ;l at the PHIteenth
; eau-e there was no .-noli tiling under
the Ainerieaii form ?f goveminent as
o
a "light" to vote
0 I MM Kill ATK r.FFKCT.
I*/ holding that < "lalitiona that exe
i?t"i| before the I itteeuth Am > 11,
i, uieiit wlihli provti les that the ?*s_rht
to v.?li shall not he denied or abrMg
Ions imiililion of sorvlt ml.*. onul.'l
not bo hrmnrlit nvor to tin* present
a ilny in lUsreiranl of this solf oxonitinp
i. amendment. it is generally (believed
n Hint tin* noun wont :i long way townril
invalidating niui'li of tin* sotion
of h'outhorn Stales.
'O
Tin* ininioilinto offoot of tin* eiyirt's
l' ilooision was to ii|tlii?M tin* oonvirtion
of two Oklahoma olootion olYioinls
. .." - ? -M.4- - "W>"? tafcv %
vlio negroes the right to vote
a a congressional election and to
iword three Maryland negroes damiges
from election officials in Annapills
who refused to register tlieni.
Hie court held that these election oflelals
could not ignore the potency of
lihe Fifteenth Auiendinent in wiping
>ui ?>i rtiuiv v onsmmions tno worn
will to" ns n qualification for voting,
n tho Maryland ease, the court's deIslnn
established tho iKilnt that tho
hftoeiitli Amendment applies alike to
iiunieipnl as well r.s to Fodeial cleclons.
I)iscu?slng the Oklahoma oases,
Tilof Jnstlee White sahl the suffrage
inieiKliiieiit to the State Constitution
Irst fixxert a literacy standard, and
lien followed It with a pro-vision creiting
a stanard based upon the coalition
existing in January 1, 1800,
irlor to thtadoptinn of the Fifteenth
\iiiendnunt, and \llminated those
miiing under that stanard from the
noPision in the literacy test.
Tho court had difficulty, he said. In
'inlin e words to more clearly demontrntw
its conviction that this action
f tlio state revreatd and perpetuafd
the very conditions which the Fif. -litli
Amendment was intended to
lestoy than the language used In tho
I'HM'dinont.
UTTERLY ATTACK SPELLING
OF FEES AMONG SIRGEONSanfr.u.t
Is*o, June ill.-?The sec vt
livisi'. i of fi^'s between physicians
ml surgeons is "criminal dishonesty"
aid )?; . William T?. Haggard, of Nashi!!\
who addressed a meeting here
nday of tin* Fellows of the American
' die- of Surg.
"1 V.uvolitting" I>r. Tlai.gnrd deelaril,
"i.; criminal, because it loads lirst.
o unnecessary operations; second, to
neomjH'tent work resulting in unnee- r
ssary death; and third, to a constant
werlr.g of the moral and professional
'inf.drtrtT* in mcdictinv The practice
as all through It theh elements of
lieft.
"When a physician refers a patient
0 a surgeon under an agreement that
he sir'geoii later is to dixide with him
he ft-- eoliectC'l, tiie crime is not
rimnrily one agnin.-t the poekethook
>i tin' patient, it is a crime against
he health <?r lift of the patient. This
tmci'cc i.uans that the physician anc1
.i > oil his patient tot'he highest hid!
i In is naturally the most Incomicteiit
and ^niscrtipulous surgeon
ivaihittle.
"Another evil is that the surgeon
'eels under obligation to accept the
liagnosis of the physician to operate
vhethet or not mi examination he.
igrees with the diagnosis of the phy.ichin.
If lie d ?s not operate in such
a.-vs ho dis. i'o.ids ?i.,. ability of the
>l?s> ic'an and loses further husiness
\itli liim. Thus is pei*i>et rated the
ueanest of crimes an unnecessary
airgical operation.
"The sovereign remedy for cominisdon
giving by surgeons anil bribeaking
by physicians is publicity. If
ve don't cure the evil by extermination.
the public will do it b.V leglsla
lion. and the eliuiinntion of the unfit.
( lie physician who diagnosis u ease Is
-nite a?: much entitled to eoni|>ensaiioii
as is the surgeon, but separate
!)ills should he rendered liy the p!iy deian
and the surgeon to the patient.
!n other words the patient should al\L
'JOJ ihij.ind sj ?ui hhjav .\\ou>j s.Cn.u
samp this practice out of theh profesion
of medicine is one of the chief
'ashs of the American College of
burgeons.
MAKE MOVING PICTURES
Supreme Court Unanimously Declares
Orangeburg. S. <\ June 1*1!.?The
Culler Film company of this city hhas
begun operations. Cecil It. Culler is
at the head of this concern. Already
ronsld"i'at ion and -cv? nil ?v\iu.i inti.ni
nl scene haw Imhmi taken. The pictures
have heon taken so far
are ? <mii'*:i 1. Those pictures will ho
shown at local theaters first. Tho
plan for tho developing ami reproduction
of the films wil ho nioilorn. As
this is prohnhlv tho lirst undertaking
of this kiml in South Carolina, tho
industry will ho watched with much
interest
Siili-iriho To The Chronicle
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