The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 21, 1925, Image 3
KNOW YOUR STATE.
iiouth Carolina in Kith in Historical
Interest.
"Know Your Own State" its -tba
title? of a very attractive booklet on
South t*nrolina issued by the Stand
ard Oil Company, which is distinctly
a mv'w idea in advertising. The mo
torist who is not satisfied with mere
ly piling up mileage will find "Know
your Own State" delightful pastime.
It uaches you while you motor. It is
Cull of historical, geographical and
hcientlfltf information concerning
South Carolina. The book describes
an automobile tour of the state, be
ginning at Charleston, the birthplace
of the state, its ftrst capital.
Historically, then, it is told that the
English colony was established
on the "west bank of the Ashley river
m 1670, at a place called Albemarle
Point, where the pioneers laid out 4
town and called it Charles Town in
honor of their king. The place how
. ever, was- unsuitable for a city and
' within two years most of the colonists
had moved over the fiver to the pres
ent site of Charleston, where a set
tlement grew up under the name of
Oyster Point Town."
The oldest building in Charleston,
and therefore, in South Carolina, as
the booklet poiwts out, is the Powder
Magazine in Cumberland Street.
"This quaint building dates from
1 703. Having come safely through
more than two hundred years, it has
. a chance to survive many more cen
turies, for it's now under the protec
tion of the Colonial Dames Society
who use it us their headquarters and
as a museum for many interesting
relics of old Charleston. Did you
know that South Carolina once raised
j>ilk worm^ and produced its own
j<ilk? In the; Powder magazine you
will see, among other interesting
things, a gorgeous dress made of na
tive silk." $
St. Michael's Bells.
The story of St. Michael's bells?
the old church erected in 1752 ? is
told:
"They were oast in England, ship
ped to this country in 1764, and hung
in the old church until 1782. When
the British evacuated Charleston in
1782 they ? took the bells back with
them to London. There they were
bought by a former merchant of
Charleston and shipped back. During
the Civil War they 1 were sent for
safety to Columbia, but when Gen
eral Sherman burned that city in
1865, two were stolen and the rest
so injured as to be useless.
"In 1866 the remaining bells again
crossed the Atlantic and were recast
from the original patterns. Crossing
the ocean for the fifth time they were I
replaced in 1867 in the belfry where
they have hung ever since." ?
It is also recorded that South Caro
lina's entry into the -Revolutionary
War occurred at Charles Town in
November* 1775, when Colonel Moul
trie returned the fire of two British
war ships, and in June, 1776, the
battle of Fort Moultrie was* fought.
There, too, took place some eighty
years later, the .first hostilities of
the War Between the Sections when
f'itadel cadets fired the first shot
at Fort Sumter.
Castle Pinckncy has recently been
made a national monument. It was
near this point that the first success
ful use of the torpe<lo was employed
as a factor in naval warfare. On the
night of February 17, 1886, a Con
federate "fish" sank the Union sloop
"Housatonic" off Charleston bar.
Other points of historic interest in
?i fi'l about Charleston are described,
after which the supposed tourist is
conducted to South Carolina's "De
serted Village."
South Carolina's Deserted Village
"Students of -architecture will be
? i te rested in an old church tower that
stands off by itself some six miles
southwest of Sumiuerville. It marks
the site of what was once the pros
perous village of Dorchester ? an im
portant place if we may judge by
? he fact that the church was designed,
by the famous London architect, Sir
C hristopher Wren. It was built about
171'j. The tower still stands but the
original village has long since dis
appeared. Some early crossword
puzzle artist called Wren "the little
bird who builds large nests." He
was, for he designed St. Paul's Cath
edra! and* some fifty other churches
?n Ix>ndon, and, in this country some
<>f the early public ' buildings at An
>a ;>olis, Md., and Williamsburg, Va.
Also tfye first Custom House at
' narleston."
T hence after describing the South
' aro'.ina Experiment Station at Sum
merville operated by Clemson Col
ege, space is devoted to the historic
Santee.
Kutaw Springs
A side trip up State Highway
*o. 45 along the "bank of the Santec
brings us to the EOttxr Springs. The
water, remarkable for 'its clearnes?,
romes gushing out of the ground in
great volume, only to diaappear again
under a large hiH. An important
battle was fought at theoe springs
during the Revolutionary War, re
sulting in the defeat of the British
troops.
"Sonu* fifteen milts farther up we
reach Kloree, the hoim- of General
MariOn's father. General Marion
operating throughout this district
i during the Revolutionary War, gained
the nickname of 'Swamp Fox.' A
monument, erected- by the state,
marks the spot where he is buried
beside his old home, 'Belle Isle.' "
Historic Statesburg
There is a view of the historic
Anderson house at Statesburg, which
came near being- the state capital,
losing by only one vote ? the home of
General Thomas Sumter. Here, too,
is the beautiful ..old colonial home
where General Richard H. Anderson
of the Confederate army was born
And -where the surgeon (gen<?ral of the
Confederate army lived. During the
Revolution first Cornwallis and then
General Nathaniel Green used it as
headquarters.
A view of the Mars bluff bridgO
over the P^e Dee between Florence
and Marion is shown.
The book is replete with historic
interest for South Carolinians. * The
Iudian mounds along the upper
reaches ?* the Santee in Marlboro
county are described.
Camden
"At, Cheraw wo strike the Capital
Trail and follow it to Camden, with
which are associated battles of the
Revolution. The town) was fortified
by Lord Cornwallis and here the bat
tle ?of Camden was fought on August
10, 1780. It was in this battle that
General DeKalb, Washington's trust
ed aid, was mortally wounded and
ta ken prisoner. He died in Camden
thfSO days later. In 1825 Lafayette
visited the town and laid the corner
stone of the. monument which you can
see in memory of the gallant Ger
man. ' ?
"The following spring a second
battle took place a little north of
Camden, at Hobkirk Hill. Shortly
after this' the British left Camden,
burning most of it as they went."
Other excerpts from the book fol
low:
A Great Legal Battle
"Do you know the' story of Mason
Lee's will? The legal battle that
followed his death was one of the
hardest fought in the history, of the
state. This eccentric gentleman lived
near Bennettsville and you will find
his story ? and other interesting local
tales ? in D. D. McColl's 'Sketches of
Old Marlboro.' "
King's Mountain Battlefield
"Within a" few miles of the North
Carolina line we come to a very
famous battlefield ? Kings Mountain.
In his book, "The Winning of the
West,' Theodore Roosevelt devoted a
whole chapter to this battle. He says
of it: 'The victory was of far-reaching
importance and ranks ampng the de
cisive battles of the Revolution ? the
turning point in the Southern cam
paign.'
"The battle was fought on October
7, 1780, between about 000 American
backwoodsmen under Cotonel William
Campbell and about 1,100 loyalist
troops under Major Ferguson. Both
these commanders were killed and
over six hundred of the British were
taken prisoners.
"Three monuments have been erect
ed to commemorate this battle. The
first in 1815, the second in 1880 on
the centennial of the victory, the
third in 1000 by the Federal govern
ment. For a detailed description of
the battle see J. P. O. Landrum's
'History of Upper South Carolina.' "
A Remarkable Institution
"At Willington, between Calhoun
Falls and McCormick, is one of the
most interesting public institutions in
South Carolina. The I>e la Howe
State School is asid to be the oldest
manual training school in the United
States. In 1797, Jean De la Howe,
French emigrant, physician, judge
and philanthropist, left 2,000 acres of
land along the Savannah river for the
establishment of the school as a train
ing pi are for agricultural pursuits.
"By Dr. De la Howe's wiii, 1,000
acres is to be kept in forest and as
a result this section is now one of
the finest tracts of virgin forest in
America. De la Howe is buried in
the mklst of the forest and his tomb
is remarkably well preserved. While
somewhat out of the way this in
stitution weil repays a visit, by rea
son of both historic interest and its
picturesque setting."
The First Explorers
"We started our tour of the state
with a visit to the first permanent
settlement on the Ashley river. We
shall close it with a trip down to the
place where the first explorers land
ed in what is now South Carolina.
"In 1662 the French Captain Jean
Ribrfult, founded a colony on an island
at the mouth of the Broad river. He
named the sound and the island Port
Royal. The place where he landed
and built a fort U not the island
which it now called Port Royal Is
land, but a smaller one further south
? now known a? Parr is Island ? which
aince 1917, haa been a training ground
A NKW PENALTY.
Judge Weygandt of Cleveland has
given a reeklea? automobile driver,
his choice of serving five years in the
penitentiary or supporting for three
years the family he deprived of hus
band, father and breadwinner. The
guilty motoriM chose the hitter pen
ulty, he was paroled by the court,- mid
his weekly earnings for three years
must bo equally divided between his
own home and the home of the man
he killed. This judgment has been
described as a .marvel of equity ri
valling the best of the decisions
Cervantes t-auftcd Sancho I'anza to
reach in t'he story of Don Quixote.
It is true, that, though it will be
hard on the defendant's family to di
vide, it would be harder on them if
he hud to serve five years and mean
while provide them with nothing at
all and the dead man's family, if all
goes well, will at least be partially
reimbursed for the economic loss.
But there are future possibilities
which render the borefft family inse
cure and the satisfactory working
out of the plan <)oubtful. The guilty
motorist is likely later on to plead
mitigating circumstances and to seek
to escape his responsibilities even if
meanwhile he remains faithful to
them, and a bitter enmity between the
tvyo families may be regarded as cer
tain. A decision providing outright
payment to cover the economic loss in
pant, where such outright payment is
possible, ' would be less liable to de
velop troublesome complications. ?
Florence News-Review.
A Home Town Booster.
A Greenwood man in Augusta a
few days ago was profoundly im
pressed, as was every one who saw
it, with this slogan conspicuously
'painted on the back of an automo
bile:
I boost Augusta,
To, Hell with Florida!
The owner of the automobile may
need a little fatherly advice on the
unwise use of strong language but
he certainly does not need any ad
vice on being a home town booster.
One may differ from him as to the
propriety of langaugc used but as
to the sentiment it is "Atta boy''
right from the heart.
For when all is said and done the
old home town is right there waiting
for you. It is worthy of your best
efforts. It is worthy of your most do
voted service, if you help build it up
you will more than get your money
back. If you help to make it a better
town you will be made a better man
yourself.
One has a right to spend one's
money wherever one please and to
take, a -chance wherever one wishes.
But a bet on the old home town is
rarely ever misplaced and while the
returns may not be always large the
risk is safer most of the time.
Turn to and help the old town
grow. Turn to and make it a better
place to live. Turn to and lend a
hand in starting something. Quit
throwing rocks and quit longing for
the Get- Rich-Quick life of some other
place. That Augusta man was too
strong in one sentiment but he told
the world where his heart wa3.
Blessings on him and his tribe. ?
Greenwood Index>Journal.
Documents, including a Masonic
diploma from the Washington Lodge
No. 26, making Johnathan Cowdery
a Master- Mason, and two commis
sions engraved on sheepskin parch
ments, the first signed by President
.John Adams, and the second by Pres
ident Thomas Jefferson, making Cow
dery a surgeon's mate, and a full
surgeon in the United States Navy,
has been found in a steel case hidden
in an old brick wall of a house under
repairs at Norfolk, Va.
Among oiner dogs used by the De
part of Agriculture to fatten fleas to
test germicides was a bull pup that"
was found to be immune. As fast as
the insects were placed on the dog
they hopped off. Scientists are try
ing to find out the secret of his de
fensive armament.
The sun ruses in the Pacific and
sets in the Atlantic in the Panama
Canal, because the east end of the
canal points toward the Pacific and
the west end toward the Atlantic. v
for the United Stat.es marines. Parris j
Island", marked on some map? as
'Paris' Island, is not named after the
capital of France. It owes its name
to the Parris family who were once
large land owners.
"The history of Ribault's colony is
a pathetic one. First, high hopes,
hopes of gold. Then dissension,
mutiny, and death. The story has
been preserved for us. in the account
of one of Ribault's assistants ? Laun
donniere. The record of the first
colony in the Carolina* has been re
printed as Bulletin No. 5 of * the
Historical Commission of South Caro
lina. Every Carolinian who Is in
terested in gmflyifif the tristtfty of
his state should try to got across a
copy."
OFFICIALS Pl'IH.IC SRRVANTS,
And Should Recognize Public ns Their
Ktupln>er. Says Kditor Harris.
Editor Wade II. HairU of the
Charlotte Observer, in a leading r.h
tonal und^r .the caption, "Public Ser
vants," writ*'* as follows on this im
portant subject ,?
10 very person who holds an elective
or appointed public office or job,
?very person who draws a salary out
of the public treasury, whether Na
tional, State, county or municipal, is
u servant of the people and should
recognize the public as his employer.
The people, the tax payers, who pay
the salaries, have a right to be in
formed of the work <and the official
conduct of nil these public servants,
This Applies to the President of tho
United Slates, Senators, Congress
men, Cabinet members, it applies
equally to mayors, city commission
ers and even to police officers in small
towns. -N
When any"~T>uMic official, whether
elective or appointlver-^nceives t]yx
idea that it is none of the fnftllitiss' ot'
the public what he does or* how he
does it, he is very much mistaken,
Sueh a spirit is contrary to American
principles and to the ideals of demo
cratic government. It is tin? spirit of
an age and an order that is rapidly
passing, ,It was the spirit of Kings
and Emperors who were not answer
able to the people for their conduct. It
is not -in keeping with American
ideals and it is a spirit that will not
long be tolerated in any American
community once it is discovered by
?the people.
But the people, of course, cannot
visit the offices of their officials en
masse or as individuals weekly or
daily and keep tab on what. the public
servants are doing. That is impracti
cable; it is impossible. What the peo
ple do (instead, in order to keep posted
on what is going on in the realm of
Government, local, State and National
is to buy and re-ad newspapers. In
'the newspapers they expect and have
a right to find accurate and fairly
complete information about what
their public servants are doing ? from
the Dopartment of State at Washing
Urn to the police department in their
home village or city.
The newspapers recognize the duty
and responsibility of keeping their
readers informed as to what is troing
on in Government circles, National,
.State and local, and a rule they try
to discharge the responsibility. It is
a considerable expense that they un
dertake to secure ami publish the
news of the various iiovemmcnt
agencies jn city, county, State and '
Nation. They realize that the public,
which the newspapers aiv trying to
svrve, is looking to them for this in
formation and that the public expects
prompt as well as accurate informa
tion.
Usually there is no disposition on
the part of public officials to with
hold from* the press information con
cerning their official conduct arid acts.
In the overwhelming majority of
cases th9.se public officials are glad to
keep the press informed regularly
and promptly of what is going on in
their offices or departments. They
realize and appreciate their direct
responsibility to the people and thoy
appreciate the fact that it is only
through the newspapers that the pub
lic can be kept, informed on public
matters.
only In rare cases that public
officials or even a subordinate work
ing under a public official assumes
the attitude that it is none of the
business of the press or the . public
what goes on in the of lice or depart
ment over which !he presides or to
which he is attached. In such eases,
such an atltude is due to one or both
of two reasons; such a person has a
very distorted view of his relationship
to the people to whom lie is respon
sible or he does not believe the peo
ple would approve his conduct and he
desires that full knowledge of his re
cord be kept from them. It is reason
able ground for suspicion of any pub
lic official when he is disposed to
withhold from the press and thereby
withhold from the people information
concerning his official acts. It is in
dicative that he is not willing to trust
the people with the full knowledge of
his conduct in office or that he does
not have the proper sense of his res->
possibility to the people, in either
case, he is not the man for the job.
It is not necessary or desirable that
a pubHc official try to keep his name
eternally before the public through
constant effort to get every minor act
of his own or of his subordi nates
chronicled in the papers, and a dispo
sition to try to use the newspapers i
for the purposes of propaganda is not
desirable. It is calculated to do more
harm than gbod. But the open-door
policy, the open-record policy, that
Hckwartii a Suicide, Admits All.
Oakland, Calif., Aug. 9.? -Trapped
in an apartment here, Charles Henry
Srhwartr, object of a nation-wide
search in connection with the mysteri
ous murder in the Pacific Cellulose
company at Walnut Creek committed
suicide early today.
Schwartz, believed to haw killocl n
laborer and attempted to incineratc
the body in a plot to coliect more
than $100,000 insurance* shot him
self through the head when police
men the apartment. He
luui been hiding there sinee the ex
plosion J uly o0, when the body wan
found.
In a note to his wife, who. .is the
principal beneficiary in the insur
ance and who steadfastly maintain
ed the body found in the plant wan
that of her husband, Schwartz ad ?
mittcd the murder*
Paitial identification of the body
of the laborer in a San Francisco
morgue has been made as that of
Gilbert Warren Barbe, self-stylod
itiuorant evangelist and war vet
eran, Information from Jersey
Shore, P^y indicated that Rev. John
Rarbe there is the father of Gilbert
Warren Barbe who became estranged
from the family 15 year? ago. Array
records show Gilbert Barbe enlisted
and spent some time at Vort Mc
Dowell shortly after the United
States entered the world war.
Until the last, Mrs. Schwartz, wife
of the chemist who specialized in
amateur criminology, said "at the
proper time" sho would .produce "in
disputable evidence in the form qf
physical peculiarities" which would*
"definitely establish the identity of
the charred body as that of her hus
band.
Mrs. Alfred Rowell, of Nixville,
Hampton county, is in jail at Hamp
ton while an investigation is being
made of the sudden death of her hus
band, who was taken suddenly sick
Sunday, August 2nd, and died an
hour later.
makes available to the press at all
times aM the information to which th*?
public is entitled, should be the pol
icy of every public servant in an ex
ecutive position, high or low. It is the
policy of all public officials and pub
lie servants . who appreciate their true
relationship to the people and who are
wkllin# to trust the people with full
knowledge of their official record.
"Your float doesn't know the difference between gas and oil. For all vou
kfiow you may have a quart or two of unburnt gaa in thatcn^ik case. High
readings on the oil gauge don't mean anything either. You'll get a high
reading when the oil is cold and thick and a low reading when the oil ia
flowing freely.
"It isn't just pressure you need in an oil system ? it's floods of clean, cool
oil. There's just one way to be sure of giving every bearing surface plenty
of oil and that's to change your crank case oil regularly."
The experienced Fleet Boss ought to know. He has seen the damage done
by the filthy and diluted stuff that many engines have to depend on for lu
brication. The damage coulcf have been prevented by using enough of good,
clean oil. "Standard" Motor Oils are reliable products, based on fifty-five
years' experience in oil refining, and experience counts just as much in
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