The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 28, 1925, Image 2
KXPOSKS ECONOMY HOME.
Orphanage at Kinu'H Creek Said To
lie In Bad Wiy.
(YorkviHe Kmjuirtr)
"If there- ever was a wi\>r\g for the
Ku Klux Klan to right it seems to mo
that they might correct fraud and
?ham and hypocrisy going on at the
Bcononiy Home, roar Kings Creek,
and I have told some of them hciv
just that," ukt Coke l>un
cunofBlacksburg.toa reporter las;
Sunday in dixus*:ng conditions at
the orphanage' or alleged "home".
Magistrate I>*?rvc*n went on to aay
th^t "I vo.-h t>e home was m my jur
ritdUvl;ot> and 1 had the authorities, If
;Wc< are any, in my court, "I'd cer
vJuaTy g.v< Ym che limit because
ther* no dk>ubi that the whole bus
o?fr* > . i rx*tiefu The Economy Home
43 acs :a Cfeerv>kce county but is in
York en >un;v. U >Hms to me that it
^ uo to the State Hoard of Public
Wrlfure x..r the York county grand
jury to nve-stigiatf, ^o do a thorough
>ob of it ar.d to do it at once," Judge
Duncan did not hesitate to speak hfc
mind and ho io!d ::i detail of a trip
that h? recently made to the "homo"
n compahy with W, F. Brown of
(JalTney, who is foreiuan of the Chero
kee grand jury.
Magistrate Duncan and Mr, Brown J
"began inquiry after Cecil I>ane, ah
inmate of the Economy Home at,
Kings Creek came to the home of W.
A. McFarlane, a Blacksburg citizen
and sought refuge. The boy, who ex
hibits! many bi-uises, was in company
with another boy and declare<l that
he had been whipped by J\ev. li. K.
"Walters, present superintendent of
the Kcononiy Home. McFarlane gave
the lads something to rat and notified
the magistrate who in turn notified
the grand jury foreman.
Mr. Brown examined the boy, Cecil
Lane, and instructed Mr. McFarlane
? to buy suitable clothes for him and
his companion, Carroll, and eharg.*
the same, to Cherokee county. This
he did, in the meantime taking care -if
t_he two boVs i* t his 'home. I.ater Mag
istrate Duncan accompanied Foreman
Brow 11 1 to the Kconomv Home. Th ?
The magistrate tells of the visit:
I. intended to let Mr. Brown do all
the talking, but before we left, there
1 had to kind to come to the rescue.
Mr. Walters was not at home,4 but
Mrs. Walters came out, her eyes
snapping tiro arid talking a blue
streak.
"Yes, Mr. Wallers whipped Cecil,
and he didn't give him half enough.
He ought to have been whipped and
whipped good."
"1 managed to halt her stream of
?onversation long enough to tell her
that they would have been trying
her husband for murder if he .had
whipped the boy much more and that
it was against the law to whip a horn -
like Cecil had been whipped.
"And then," continued the magis
t rate, "one of the matrons or some
woman evidently connected with the
institution came out with a little b: I
of a switch and < '.aimed it was the one
that Cecil had been whipped with.
"I convince I her that a little switch
? ike. she claimed was used couldn't
trakc marlv< like the boy's back and
arms bore. Then she said something
about t he boy having- burned a table
'loth. 1 t|ur/./,ed her a little hi ore and
'.inally she said she might have been
mistake?) about the tablecloth. That i>
about ail we ^o; out />f them then."
"Mr. Blown got the information," |
continued Magiffyute l>uncan, "that,
the field agent* work on a fifty-fifty
basis, Thai is, they go out among the
public, reeking donation* (or the or
J phanagc or homt-, as they call it. Thej
agent* got fifty per cent of what 1
he collects from hi* work aiui the or
phar.age is supposed to get the rest.
J \> - f how many .0/ (hnk?0 collectors on
Acid agent* there hdbod> ttms"
to know. The understanding is that
Rev. J. If. .Spauldtng, who used to be
fU}>ennt^ndinV tif tru- institution is
now working a field on this
fifty-fifty basis. Just where he is I '
don': know, *1 ?1 1 villiH find anyhodv
who doc. 4
"Neither have 1 been able to learn 1
why Spau'ding stepped down as sup- i
irintendent or when. But I know
enough to know that the whole thing
is irregular and that these people,
pretending to run a charitable insti
tution, are charging parents of chil
dren who are placed there pretty
heavily for so-called board and lodg
ing and schooling and are going out
and soliciting contributions and dona
tions on top of that.
"The principal owners of the prop
erty who live over here in Gaffney,
are getting regular interest or divi
dends, or whatever you want to call
it, taking theirs, it appears, out of the
pickings from the public. Oh, it is a
great institution and if some authori
tative ngon.y doesn't go into the
thing fully and put a .stop to it why
it seems to me this country is in .1
mighty bad way."
W. A. McFarlane has received this
letter from Miss Carrie Haney, of
Union, S. C., 11. F. D. No. 1, written
under date of August 11,' 11>25.
"I noticed an account in the papers
of charges of brutality against II. K.
Walters of Kconomy Home, 'and that
you were- keeping the boys until the
conduct of the orphanage could be in
vestigated. I commend the citizens of
Blacksburg for this and trust a thor
ough investigation may be made by
Mr. Brown ? I believe he was to make
the investigation.
"I know from my own personal ex
perienro there, (1 was matron ' there
the past year) that the whole thing is
a mess. Most of the children come
from better homes and were better
treated than they were .at Kconomy I
Homo.
"Hev. Spnulding was as cruel as he j
could be. He even made a 12 or 13- 1
yea)' old jjirl strip her clothing to the
waist and beat her, raising blisters on
her. I didn't see this; but one of the
teachers told about this, and of course
1 >a\v the- tfirl 'daily. I think charges
of brutality should have been brought
I against him.. To my own knowledge,
he treated a little* boy very, very
'cruel.
"1 was cabed home the 12th of
May on account of the illness of my
lather. I worked there for a very
small salary, and haven't - received
pai t of that. The institution sti'l
| owes me fur ab<Jut three and one-half
'months' work. Of course they have
1 promised to pay me as soon as possi
ble. I know there is .enough- in that
j institution to pay the salary of the
j workers there and I think there would
be more honor in paying the d< bts
{than trying to put up more bn ild i
J etc., for a -how."
Yours wry tiuly.
(.Miss) Carrie llanley.
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PHONE 95 CAMDEN. S. C.
Trouble Later On
The man who does not make the ac
quaintance of a hank account in his
early years, frequently becomes inti
mate with the sheriff in later life.
Loan & Savings Bank
CAPITAL $100,000.00
4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits
Stay Away From Florida's Lure
A young man of Spartanburg is
back from Miami. Ho came back
with the story that he could not make
enough money in Miami to pay his
living expenses. Though he was mak
ing about $200 a month, it costs all
^ie made to live.; What he had to
*b> ab^ut the situation in Miami is
bupported by no less authority than
the Miami Herald. That paper
speaks very plainly of conditions in
Miami confronting the people of mod
i-rate means:
"New comer* seldom linger more]
than a few days or a few works.
Tttfcre is nothing in prospect for
them here. Thw week a young man,
recently marriod, was anxiously ask
ing about prospects in* the north or
anywhere outside of Florida. As his
case is typical of thousands] wo -will
cite it. After marrying, the pair* be
gan to look around for a home. They
had friends in the city and were not
hurried in their search, but the only
place they could find where the wife
could do a little cooking and other
domestic details dear to tho heart of
young brides was a t wo- room -and -
bath apartment with a tiny kitchen
ette attached. This was to rent at
$50 a .month. The husband's salary
was $40 a week. Fifty dollars is a
tremendous r^nt for a man getting
only $40 a week, but worse than that
remained behind. The landlord noti
fied his tenant that on ami after No
vember 1 the rent would be $150 a
month. Thus a young couple, both
Florida Jaorn and raised, will have to
leave, as it is plainly impossible for
them to pay $150 a month rent out
of $160 salary. And there are hun
dreds ? yes, thousands ? of similar
eases," -Spartanburg Herald.
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Rough On Evangelists
Should an evangelist pay income
tax? The tax-gatherers are right in
behind Evangelist Mordecai F. Ham,
who within the past year is said to
have received a salary here in North
Carolina equalled by few business
Whether Mr. Ham did or did not
deliver goods for. value received is
another question, but R. E. Powell,
Raleigh newspaper correspondent,
says of him:
"Mr. Ham stirred CJoldsboro from
neckband to narrative and put a
blight on it that will live until eter
nity' ami that was over t\v > years
| ago."
Mr. Powell also takes a little fling
at Cyclone Mack when he says:
"The law might go back and- get
the famous Cyclone Mack but for the
tact- that Mack has long since declar
ed himself a bankrupt. High priced
South Carolina land got Mack's pro
fits. They say that endowment in
surance gets the profits of Ham."
\V. O. Saunders, editor of The Eliz
abeth City Independent* has .said even
worse things of Evangelist Ham. Ac
cording to Saunders, Ham is the
greatest disturber than the devil him
self. and always leaves a community
infinitely worse than before holding
his meetings. ? Monroe Enquirer.
Horn With Two Teeth. f
Bessemer City, NT. Auk- ? A
baby boy with two front teeth was
born about a month a^o to Mr. an>l
Mrs. Marvin Onpps. Dr. (Jeortfe Pa
trick. tin family physician, vouches
for the \eracity of the statement..
When the child was a few days old
*
one of t.' ? :? . 'Ji cut the baby's tonpue
; making it :u ? ssarv for the doctor to
'extract it, leaving the other on.1.
1 Yesterday the remaining tooth caus
fd the tongue to become ulcerated
and Dr. Patrick took it out. This
I raibul the infant much pain. The
I baby u rowing nicely and i-> :i fine
bo y .
Til;- is the lii rt ?a,?e of this k;nJ
to occur here, so far as any record
known. Dr. Patrick suggests the child
will nut cut its l?rst teeth in this
space, but he does not think K Will
interfere with the permanent -ft.
Professor Kills Self.
With a bullet hob' through the * en
ter <>f hi^ forehead, and a .">J caiibrej
rrvii.vi r on the tb>or beside him. Prof.'
K. (? Hutchinson, profe^m of chem
? 1 ! \ and biolotfN at t'oiuel'Se ('o|
levje. Spartanburg, was found dead in
his private office in his laboratory at '
the co'ifije Saturday afternoon at >ixi
o'cl-n k fl? . found sitting un- 1
i' i i> * .i thaw before the table at
which he apparently, had been read
ing working.
Tii. (x ?<! y \s.?- ?-rt d t<> Mi ?.
>1 utrhi?T-??n and a neighbor, Dr <). H
Wil-on, whom ?he had asked t > ac
mpany her to the < '?? m ( k
r hu.-'band, af'er he had to
kc? an appointment with ,t .
r.ti^n. Dr. W; forced 1 pen I ; *?
iockfd <)<?. ?. i f the private office ;r
?hu h the rorpso was found. That
the dead man committed suicide was
the opinion of Coroner John S. Turner
who conducted an investigation.
(iten Prank, newly appointed presi
dent of the University of Winconsin,
in njtid to bo the youngest university
president in tfe* United State*.
UStfejs *Mit MEET "71
Two Killed When Telegrapher Fails
' l<eadvi}le, Col,, Aug. 20. ? Two fire
men were killed and l4 passengers
arc known to have been injured in a
headon collision between the pa nor
amic specials on the Denver and Ris>
Grande Western railway in Granite
Canyon, ten miles west of Buena
Yi?ta, late today.
Failure on the part of a telegraph
operator at Tennessee Pass to trans
mit orders were reported to have been
responsible for the collision. Both
trains were heavily loaded with east
and westbound passengers, t f\e major
ity of them tourists.
The trains crashed at a curve in
Granite Canyon and the engine and
two eoavhes of (train No. 8 were de
railed and tossed against the canyon
wall near the. banks of tho Arkansas
river.
A heavy grade at Granite prevented
the trains from moving at high speed
through tho cauyon. Both trains are ;
operated on a schedule to permit a t
daylight view i of the Rocky moun
tains. Passengers wftr? absorbed in
viewing tho scenery when the trains
crashed.
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Mad Cat Bites Child at Greenwood. '
Greenwood, Aug. 20. ? Little Caro
lina Lawton, six-year old daughter of,
Mr .and Mrs. R. O. Lawton, was bit
ten by a mad cat on Monday and ;s ;
undergoing treatment at her home.
She is responding to the ' treatment 1
nicely her physician states, and no ilj
effects are anticipated. She suffered
only a slight abrasion on her wrist. |
As soon as it was discovered thai ;
the little girl had been bitten the cat
was killed and its head was sent to ,
Columbia and a positive report came
back Monday afternoon. The cat is
; supposed to have been bitten by a
mad dog, which also attacked / Mr.
Lawton's pointer some time ago. The
pointer was treated and has not
1 shown any signs of rabies.
Physician Slain Answering Call
Farmville, NT. C., Aug. 20. ? Dr. U.
P. Moseley, widely known physician
and a member of a prominent Lenoir
County family, .was shot to death by
Frank Frizzell, negro, tonight whc.i
he went to the home of the negro in
response to a professional cull. Friz
zell was a rested and was rushed oui
of town for safekeeping in the jail
at Raleigh. A load of buckshot was.)
fired into the physician's body, eaus- I
i ing almost instant death,
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THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH
,, i r ~ i . ?? i i i " Til - i r -n? r-ri?ii- i ii m i liiii
As the South grows
the Southern must
keep pace
Freight traffic on the Southern Rail- ,
way System has nearly doubled in
ten years.
With the South growing at its pres
ent rate, traffic a few years hence
will be double what it now is.
Many millions of dollars of new capital
will have to be found for increasing
the capacity of tracks, yards, terminals
and shops, and the purchase of cars
and engines.
This needed new capital will be at
tracted to the Southern if the profits
from its operation are maintained at
a level to establish a broad market for
its securities.
SOUTHERN RAI LWAY SYSTEM
Thijce hens that lay purple eggfs
recently arrived at Purdue University
in Buenos Aires.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
All parties indebted to the estate of
C. .J. Nunnery, deceased, are hereby
notified to make payment to the un
dersigned, and all parties, if aoy,
having claims against the said estate
will present them duly attested with
in the time prescribed by law.
w. l. Mcdowell,
Judge of Probate
Administrator Estate of C. J. Nun
nery.
Camden, S.. <?., Aug. 17, 1925.
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