The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 16, 1925, Image 7
the homh papbr
H,e First Prise Kmy on Thin Sub?
<kj#ct by a. Kansas Oirl
An essay content on "The Homo
jpaper and th? Community" was re
cently conducted by Sam Rlden
iour, editor of Th? Coats (Kens.)
?our?nt, end th? judge# awarded
tho prise to the following essay,
submitted by Cfecil Hem. it# fifteen.
The history of newspapers begin
ii> Germany. The name of the first
paper was the Frankfurter Journal*
weekly publication sterted by Bm
me in MW5, end ever since thet first
paper we? published they have in
creased in importance and have been
an important fagtQr in the advance
?teat of clvtfiaetfon. In feet, th?
growth in sentiment favpreble to
?oi* general reading i* noticeable in
all countries *here civilisetion and
society mak? any pretense of pro
gressive development- However, it {*
anly in th0 Pe?t few years that prac
tically all the p?opl? read newspa
pers. We ftpd that Wherever news
papers er? not read that the advene*
ed state of development from ?very
standpoint is about the sain? that it
was 4,000 years ago. For instance,
the farmers of JBible lands re rising
the same kind of implements in pur
suit of agriculture, as they did in
the beginning.
We also learn that very few news
paper^ if any, ere read by thesg
farmers. We even learn through Dr.
William fc. Herms, professor of
parasitology of the University of
California, that the natives on the
Fanning group 0* isUnds of the
South Sees were recently shown their
ilrst mirror, and ettiep photographs
tf them were taken they ofton fail
ed to recognize themselves. Their
?wn faces apparently are strange to
them when they would look into th?
aiirror. We also learn that there io
?'9 fprm literature whatever.
We ahoulf* be thankful that we are.
in a cieffced end Christian land and
an intelligent community, within the
center of whfch is established a home
paper known as the Coats Courant.
Th? development qf a community de
pends much upon the character uf
the newspaper. A newspaper must
stand for something. If it stands
for business alone, the .community
and even the world will know it. If
it stands for character and principle,
?or purity hi public and private life/
for honest and fairness in our rela
tions with our fellow men, the news
paper is an educating power for good
in all that makes. |nen and women
better. ?
The greatest purpose or? art of
journalism* is, first in obtaining all
fegitimate news, all news to be stated
with fairness^ and correctness. There
should be in addition to this, a sound
moral forcS underlying all the edi
torial comment?a principle that
sever forget the goOd old flag, the
symbol of government that stands
for equality, fraternity and liberty.
Much depends on the editor, for all
the editor is, so is the paper. If an
?ditor is., indifferent as to. whether
the world grows better, his peper
must reflect'that spirit^ If he has
faith in humanity, in the p?wer of
human love to make this life look
bright and cheerful, his editorials will
reflect that faith.
Primarily, the publication of a
newspaper is a business enterprise;
The greatest advantage and benefit
that a newspaper is to a community
is the bringing of the people closer
together from a business standpoint,
in the way of advertisements, espe
cially in a farming and stockraising
community. If a farmer has grain
or seed of any kind for sale, he can,
through the advertising columns of a
newspaper with a good chculation,
reach more people at ?- less cost tha.i
?n any other way, and so -^vith the
stock raiser.
A community newspaper is the
medium through whichK intelligence
becomes widespread. Th? moral char*
ucter of American newspapers con
tinues to improve. ^
When we read in our oWn com
munity newspaper the work that is
being done in our schools from an
educational standpoint, and about-our
hurches from a spiritual standpoint,
it causes us to pause and think
upon the grever affairs of life, and
it thereby makes better boys and
tfirls, as well as better men and wo
men. Now, with all^ things consider
ed, that which constitutes a good
community, we, as- a community, may
be thankful that we have such a pa
per to guide us in the higher ideals
of life.
Not To Be Prosecuted
New Orleans, Jan. 8.?Nellie Daw-,
son Wright, 17 year old bandit's wi
dow, arrested in Jacksonville, Fla,
a week ago, with approximately'
$10,000 of the loot stolen from a
local 'bank by her husband, William
Wright, killed in Mobile, will fioLbe
prosecuted and will be permitted to
for her home in Dos Moines,
District Attorney Marr
nifht.
RHixHng
Headaches
'For about twenty yoara."
ra Mr. P. A. Walko*. * w?H
r* eitixen of Nowburg,
"on* of our family rente
ir cold*, bilioittnea*, ?o?r
and indication. I
ru aubjoct to needachM
when my liver would got out
of pi#r. I would h?M
fceedo?boo auvi
couldn't ?t<K^ about my work,
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mid pat I might try
to follow direction*,
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2m%fg&?3
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arrtatly Improved Mid
week she wa# ufc'"
- Try BlacV^Draurfht. Itewto
only one ctat a do?e. Sold
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Your Income Tax
Yqur incomte 'tax for the yei^r 1924
is leBH, in proportion to Jr&ur in
come, than Was the tax for 1923.
A rate reduction, however, is not tho
only benefit afforded by the revenue
act of 1924. Increase in the exempt
tion for married persons, a 26 per
cent reduction on "earned income,"
and other changes in revenue legis
lation are of immediate interest to
every taxpayer.
The revenue act of 1924 requires
that returns be filed by every single
person net inofomu for 1924 was j
$1,000 or more, or whose gross in
come "was $5,000 or more, and by
every married couple whose aggre
gate net income was $2,600 or more,
or whose aggregate gross income was
$6,000 or more. ? Last year, returns
were required of married couples
whose aggregate net income was
$2,0Q0 or more. Husband and wife,
living together, may include^ the in
come of each in a, single joint re
turn, or each may file a separate
return showing the income of each.
Net income' is gross incoma less
.certain specified reductibns for busi
ness expenses, losses, bad debts, con
tributions, etc.
The period for filing returns is
from January 1 to March 1\ 1926.
The return, accompanied by at least
one-fourth of th* amount of taxjue^
must be filed with the collector of in
ternal revenue for the district in
which the taxpayer haa<his letfal
residence or has his principal place
of business.
Large Bear Killed
Lenoir, tf. C., Jan. 7.?Reports have
reached here of the killing , of a two
hundred and fifty pound bear sev
eral days ago- in the nati?n*l forest
near Edgemont. This ft the first
bear bagged 8Q i&X this. Reason by
the hunting parties who (have scoured
this area.
It has be#n during the past three
years ohty that bears have returnel
to this section Big lumber__miUs.
and fires kept them run out for a
dozen years. Since the government
has bought a large , area hero and
has kept the fire opt, allowing refor
esting to ,take its course a nupiber of
bears have been seen. Many of the
citizens llvipg i** the vicinity do not
want the bears killedr?^Tfiey want
them and all other' game, protected
for a few years and given a chance
to increase in numbers. Some local
persons, however, and hunters from
(elsewhere come in and make it pret
ty hard for any game to exist.
Abbeville Bank Closes
Abbeville, Jan. 8,?By order of
the directors, the National Bank of
Abbeville cl&sed its doors today. De
cision was 'reached after several
]|f|>e depositors had withdrawn their
deposits folhjwhtg unfavorable ru
mors, J. Allen Smith, president of
the bank, stated.
Business was suspended, in order
that all depositors would be placed
on an equal footing, the president
said. The condition of ' the bank
he added, will guarantee full payment
of every deposit and the cl(yring ir
expected to be only temporary.
The comptroller of the crifrency
has been notified and the bank ex
aminer is expected to arrive soon.
The national bank was the oldest in
thfe county and hid capital stock *of
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KANSAS GOVERNOR IN BAD
To Be Arretted With Son on Charge
of Bribing.
L- Topeka, Kan., Jan. iL* Warrants
will bo sworn out here tomorrow
charging Governor Jonathan M.
Davis and his son, Russell G. Davis,
28, with soliciting and accepting a
bribe of $1,260 in payment for a par
don issued Fred W. Pollman, it was
nnounced late today h^ Tinkham
Veale, county attorney of Shawnee
county.
Agreement was reached at a con
ference of county and State officers
this afternoon that charges will be
preferred and a warrant served on
the governor and his son before toe
inauguration exercises tomorrow
when Governor Davis yields his chair
as axecutive.
The accusation will be based,
Veale said, on an alleged payment
of $1,260 to. the younger Davis by
Tollman, convicted forger, wlg^l
formerly was president of the
County Bank at LaCygne, Kansas.
The money was said to have boon
exchanged last Friday in a Topei? 1
hotel, when Kussell delivered a pa&|
don, xigned by his father, to Pollman,
la^er returning the money when '
was confronted1 by witnesses who had
"listened in" on the transaction by
a telephonic arrangement.
Mr. Veale said that the county
Sheriff would serve the warrants im
mediately, the governor and his sod
would be given a preliminary hear-'
ing and placed under bond. The pros-,
ecution then would fall to Paul Heinz,
county attorney-elect.'
No officers were consulted or testi
mony taken today. Thd^harges |werd 'j
based on accounts of the episode pub-.
lished In the news?*?*?, but, Mr.
Veale said that Pollman would re-'
turn to testify for the state.
Pollman now is in Missouri, he said.
The Aling of formal charges will
be the first step locking toward prtis?I
ecution of the governor or his soil
since Friday's expose of the alleged
pardon sale.
Friday, afternoon young Davis, ac- j
codring to his own story yesterday,.
tn?V "tfrft mn?oy In hi* rnnm in the
executive mansion and returned to
the hotel with the pardon which his
father declared he already had de
cided to sign. Confronted there by
tollman and a group of newspaper
men and officials of the state and
federal governments, he banded back
the money, went back to his home and
related the affair to his father.
Honor Roll Lugoff School* * I
Grade 8.?Alie Branham.
Grade 7.?Nellie Watts, Mary Lee
Ward, Claude Amnions, H. A. Rabon,
Grade 0.?Helen Roseboro.
Grade 4,?James Ward, Catherine
Jones.
Grade 2.?Myriine Ellis, Lois
Mason.
Grade 1?Emerson Branham, Annie
Bell Ellid, Vivian 'Lee, Ttuhy Rabon. 1
Two million golf clubs are made in
the IJaited States annually.
TALK OF I UK SBA
Half Starved Crew Adrift For Days
Requeued by Freighter. <V
New York, Jan. 12.?Seventeen
half starved men made port today
with a story of hardships such as
few sailormei\ live to toll. They wero
the captain and crew of the Portu
guese windjammer Manuel Caragol,
which went down with A hold full of
bones last Saturday morning after
eighty days of battle against gales
that beset her from the time she left
Rio dp Janeiro until the battered hulk
was sighted by the Shipping Board
freighter Kenowis.
Her master, Joseph Mogano, was
taken off the Kenowis en a stretcher.
In agony from three broken ribs suf
fered when he rescued a seaman from
being washed overboard, Mogano
three times tried to kill himself in
his cabin, but members of the crelv
saved him each time. His last attempt
was when his crew was removed frohi
the Caragol to the Kenowis. In
structed to burn his ship because she
was a menace to navigation, the mas
ter sought to make the defeated four
master his funeral pyre, but was
forcibly removed.
The Caragol left Rio October IB
for Philadelphia with a cargo of bones
to be used for fertilizer. Within
twenty-four hours she ran into a suc
cession of squalls which increased in
fury as she bravely continued on her
way. Her g)ight grew worse arid
worse, the storms opening up seams
in her, through which %the water
poured. The crew threw loose cement
into her hold, but succeeded only in
clogg-ing the pumps.
A few days before Christmas a gale
stripped every shred of sail from her
foreniuists and the Caragol drifted.
On December 26 the coal gave out and
the men burned parts of the deck. On
New Year's Day each was rationed to
one sea biscuit a day. On January 7
the lookout saw the smoke of a ship
on the horilon. The meiL^went on
the knees on the decks and prayed.
I'he stetifner sailed-on.
..For three more day* and nights the
Caragol drifted heipletfsly. Once the
ffulf stream carried her to within fifty
miles of New York. But another gale
whipped out of the North Atlantic
and tossed her back to a point 190
miles southeast of the Nantucket
Light, where the lookout of the
Kenowis, herself blown 700 miles off
her course by a gale, made out her
distress lights through a driving rain.
Sixteen Dead on Highways.
Columbia, Jan. 10.?The mortality
record for state highways reached a
new high level la*^ month when six
teen persons, three more than the
highest number previously reported,
were killed, according to the monthly
apoident report of the highway de
partment whifch has just been made
public here.
..The comptroller of_ the .currency
on Saturday sent out a call for the
condition <>f national banks on De
r camber JUL. *
DAVI8 DBFIBS'KMRMIKS
Quits Office Asserting* Innocence of
Crime.
Topeka, Kun., Jan. 1 ij.?-Jonathan
M. Davis, "dirt farmer" governor Of
Kansas, stepped out of office today
at the end of a turbulent, two year
term and a few hours after his arrest
on charge of accepting a $1,260 bribo
for a pardon.
Jointly charged with the retired
executive is his son, Hussell G. Davis,
38, who was caught in the act of re
ceiving the money and delivering the
pardon to Fred W. Ppllman, former
banker and convicted forger, Both
were released on bond of $1,000. Their
preliminary hearing was'set for Jan
uary 28.
Governor Davis militantly met the
issue. He went to court to face the
accusation, made bond, wrote a let
ter to the presiding officers of the
legislature demanding "a full and
complete investigation" of his clem
ency record and then carried througii
his part in the inauguration cere
monies, turning over his office to the
incoming governor, Ben S. Paulen, re
publican.
"I stand before you today, the only
governor of Kansas ever placed under
arrest while in office," Governor
Davis told the inaugural crowd that
packed the city auditorium.
"I have committed no crime. I
have not violated the oath, of office
1 took two years ago, have neither
solicited n9r accepted a bribe.
Throughout my official conduct I have
lent an ear to the poor and the down
trodden. The greater portion of the
paroles granted have b$en cases in
which the imprisonment of a man
was causing others to suffer even
more than himself.
"A great newspaper in search of
prestige and influence has sought to
besmirch me. They have invaded the
sanctity of my home and sought to'
solicit the effort* of criminals and
j those of low character. The people
of Kansas will resent mu h attempts.''
The audience applauded Ion# and
loud an the governor finished hi.s ad
dress with a word of hearty welcome
to his successor.
The charges against Governor
Davis Mini bin son were filed by Tink
ham Veale, retiring county attorney
for Shawnee county when the court
of Topeka opened thin morning. Paul
Heinz, the new county attorney, wilt
prosecute the case. ,
Learning of the issuance of war
rants shortly after 10 o'clock, Gov
ernor Davis and his son went to the
court house And were met by a crowd
of prominent business men and poli
ticians eager to vign their bonds. In
cluded in the six men who went on
the bonds was J. U. Burrow, head of
the largest banking institution in the
cit yaiul a republican leader. Davis
is a democrat.
Governor Davis said he?uxpected to
go to his Bourbon county farm to re
main until January U3, the date of
the preliminary hearing. It indicated
tho defense at the preliminary hear
ing will move to quash tho case.
County Attorney Veale said the pros
ecution expects to present Pollman as
the principal state witness.
The United States government pro
poses tha tthe $110,000 to be paid by
the Persian government, for the ex
pense of sending the American bat- 1
tleship to Persia to bring home the
body of Consul Imbrie, who wadlmir
dered by the Persian mob, bo utilised
for the education of the Persian stu
dents at institutions of higher learn
ing in the United States. ;
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When a sewer pipe in Canton, Mis
souri, became clogged, * snapping
turtle was sent through the pipe with
a light rope attached to his body. A '
heavier rope wias then put through
and the pipe cleaned out.
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This bank seeks to justify its right to be here just as
every individual shoulH to justify his existence, by doing
its share toward promoting the prosperity and happiness
of the people. - __
CONDENSED FROM^R^WT TO i^B^COMPTROLIiR^F THE CURRENCY
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RESOURCES
Loan* and Diocounts 506,250.05
United States Bonds 79,851.13
Other Bonds and Stocks 25,038.50
Banking House and Furniture
and Fifctur** 33,820.28
Real ?state, other than Bank 5,860.15
Cash in vault and due by Banks
1 and U. S. Treasurer 73,460.88
Other Assets 3,741.94
Total _...... $728,040.93
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock P*tf In $ 7$,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 35,493.15
Circulating Notes 49,200.00
I>epo?H? 868,534.06
Reserve Fund 2,813.72
Bills Payable NONE
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Total $728,040.93
STRENGTH, STABILITY AND SAFETY
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