The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 06, 1926, Image 7
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Fighting Now Going*' On Where
FwfM Gardens Grow^ 5s.?
Damascus, Syria, July 29.?The
' gardens of Damascus, by tradition the
oldest inhabited city in the world,
where the apostle, St. Paul and the
prophets of old pnce preached eternal
life and good will among men, now
echo to the rattle of machuu guns#
the roar of cannon and the drone of
aii'i miu's pouring death and sowing
letred.
Somber Senegalese and swarthy
Circfsion troops are stalked by savage
Arab dissidents across its expanse
and indomitable Druses march
through the palm flanked avenues
where the princes of Babylonia, the
pharoahs of Egypt, the prophets of
Israej and the emperors of the West
once walked.
Once the gardens formed a huge
emerald sea in the yellow sands pf
the' Syrian desert b&t today they are
taking on the gray color of forbidding
fortresses. Barbed wire lines their
paths, formerly hidden under fence*
of flowers. The amell of burnt powder
and the inevitable odora of a Wt-^
terly fought battle ground have replaced
the aroma of blossoms.
For sophs time the gardens of* Damascus
have been the scene o? steady
fighting between the French army
that is maintaining France's mandate
in Syria and the disaffected Druses,
who seek to atorra Damascus itself.
Fully 500 men must have lost their
lives in the sanguinary struggle that
halted when the French troopB returned
to their protected lines within
the city, abandoning the gardens last
month.
Damascus, itself more or less in a
stage of siege since October> 1925,
is steadily being destroyed in the
I opinion of neutral powers.
In the eyes of Orentals, Damascus
I is a rich jewel, "the pearl of the
East." It has maintained during
4,000 years a reputation unequalled in
antiquity. Fabulously wealthy in
trade and commerce, "the head of
" Syria," as the Prophet Isaiah once
called it, has for centuries immemorial
equipped camel caravans loaded
with precious goods, which found
their way into the markets of the
world. J? . was an "Arabian Nights"
city of splendors.
I Now, with its midian and Shangour
quarters?ono-third of the city-?'
practically deaja^yed and its other
bwo.,Urd, .W
bazaars closed, it if a city slowly
dying. Caravan/ no longer leave for
outside countries and trade is at a
standstill.
When the Prophet Mohammed firat
gazed upon Damascus and its fair
gardens he exclaimed: "Verily, this
is a paradise. Tradition says he
thereupon turned his back on the
city, refusing to enter, saying that
Allah had promised heaven beyond
life and that he did not wish to jeopardize
his chances by entering an
earthly paradise. Thesp same gardens,
now the picture of war, present
anything but the aspects of paradise.
In the midst of the deserted
bazaars in the city stands the monumental
tomb of the Emperor Saledin,
whose name stands for all that ancient
Eastern chivalry meant. Near
I by is a magnificent bronze wreath
bearing the inscription, "Verily the
Lord loveth his saints."' : It is signed
"William of Hobenzollern" and was
left there ,26 years ago b*y the then
German emperor,
Fourteen Million Polrdf.1
Another million mark in Ford production
was passed on July 21 when
motor number 14,000,000 came off the
assembly line at the Fordson plant* of
the Ford motor company.
(Some idea of the present enormous
production .of Ford cars is obtained
when It is recalled that it jwas only
a little more than Two years ago, June
4, 1924, that the famous ten millionth
Ford' was produced, an event which
was celebrated by driving the car
across the country from New York
to San Francesco on the Lincoln highway,
In the twenty-five and a half
months elapsing since that time Ford
output increased 4,000,000.
The first model T Ford was turned
. out on October 1, 1908 and it was
hot until seven years later, December
10, 1916, that the first million was
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William V. Dwyer,, New York,wealthy
race track owner, and head of
a syndicate said to have controlled
. eighteen shi ps "engaged in smuggling
j liquor into 'the' United States, was. on
Monday convicted in Federal court in
New York of conspiracy to violate the
prohibition laws, and was sentenced
to serta two years and . pay a fine of
$10,000. One other .man was convicted
with Dwyer, while six ethers were
declared not guilty. Dwyer will appeal
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A wife with a 15-montha old baby
; -in her arms, shot three persons in a
Braddock, Pa., home Monday night.
One of the victims was a young woman
whom the shooter accused of
alienating her husband's affections,
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CHURCH'S LONG CONFLICT.
Catholics' Ulferwec* With Ntxkii
Government Fifty Y?un OhL ,
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For more than fifty years there
have been acute periods of differences
between the Mexican government and
Catholic church. The government'*
determination to strip the church of
power and property caused six years
of civil wAr?the "Reform war," 186661^-and
has been a contributing fac- i
tor, historians say, in others of the
succession of wars and revolutions
that have given Mexico so much turbulence
and bloodshed.
Wahave been waged in the name
of religion in Mexico during all recorded
time, When Cortes, the Spanish
conqueror, came to Mexico, 400
*pear? ago, he found native tribes
fighting each other both for territorial
aggrandisement and for the glory
of their various pagan gods. The,
Spaniards wiped out all these religions
and Substituted Catholicism.
During subsequent centuries the
Catholic church became tremendously
rich and powerful in. Mexico. When
Mexico won independence from Spain,
in 1821, the church is said to have
owned one-fourth of Mexico's wealth.
Opposition to that wealth and power,
long smouldering, was fanned and
fostered under independence.
Beginning in 1865, the government
of the Mexican republic began to curb
the power of the church by lawa and ;
decrees and to confiscate its property.
This caused the "Reform war," a
struggle between clericals and liberals,
the latter supporting the government's
anti-Catholic policy. .Jbe liberals
won and the church in Mexico
has never regained its previous power
or been able to retain its former
wealth. The
constitution of 1867 and the
laws and decrees of the reform declared
'all church property confiscated
tor the benefit of the state, curbed ihia.
AkCtivlty of the church and its orders
gnd placed strict limitations upon the
activities of priests, nuns and clericals.
Subsequent constitutions have reaffirmed
these policies, although there
have been periods wheri enforcement
was lax or lapsed. The 1917 constitution,
which is the present organic
law, specifically proclaimed them and
the administrations of President ObregotTand
Galles have from time to
time enforced various of these religious
limitations. Beginning about six
mcfnths ago, the'Callep government
has very active in such enforcement.":
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During these years of controversy
the governments have expelled from
Mexico papal nuncios* Catholic bishops,
priests and nuns, have seized and
sold church property, closed Catholic
churches, convents and schools. As
a result, there was organized in 1926
the Schismatic church or Mexican
Catholic church, which declared itself
separate and independent of the Roman
church, and denies the popeVauthfflrlty,
Most Mexicans, however,
conttftde to b? members* of the Roman
Catholic church.
This apparent anomaly of an antiCatholic
government policy being tole.aicd
in a eountry where most peraio
Catholics is difficult to "explain,
or oven theorize about, without
entering theJJ/aJd of controversy. Few
of the presidents or government' leaders
of Mexico since independeneejgasL
^gained have continued in adult life
to he in practice devoted Catholics, although
as1 children they may have
been taken into the church.
At present the Calles government
is coming down on the Catholic church
with a heavy hand,?-Fort Mill Times.
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Mailman >iow Champion. "
Columbia, July 28.?S. S. Hollman
of Spartanburg, won the state checker
championship' here yesterday in the
annual tournament of the South Carolina
Checker association. He defeated
iy. F. McCa skill, of Camden, in the
final match. S.*HV Still of Blackville
was elected prefident for the nextyear.
B. V. Brooks, Spartanburg, was
chosen vice president and J. S. Loyles,
Wellford, was returned aS secretary-treasurer
bf the association*
Twenty-one players engaged in today's
matches, all of them finishing
their gjay. Fred Smith of Papline,
last year's champion, did not appear
to defend his title. Hallman has held
the state checker crown for many
years at intervals.
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Duckett Paroled By Gov. McLeod.
Colombia, July. 31.?O. D. Duckett,
banker of Greenwood, convicted on
two counts of violation of state banking
laws, has been paroled "during
fcOOd bebavior" by Gov. Thomas G.
McLeod, it was announced yesterday
morning at the governor's office.
Duckett, tried in the Greenwood
county court on the two charges, one
growing out of the failure qf the
Bank of Coronaca and the other^Qlifc
of failure of the Peoples Bank of
Greenwood, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment on each charge.
The parole, elective only when the
sendee of the first six months sentence
had been completed, is designed
the governor explained in w allowing
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clemency, "to cause the two sentences
Xo' run concurrently."
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Nicolas Jarovenko, a Communist,
using a mason's hammer, on Tuesday
mutilated the figures of a French
poilu and an American soldier at the
foot of the Alan Seeger statue in ;
Paris, erected in honor' of American <
volunteere who served in the French
Arihy during the World war. ..The
vandalism was Jt\ protest agalnst the ,
execution of Saco and Vanzetti, Italian
radicals, under sentence of death
in Massachusetts for murder.
The Dempsey-Tunney fight for the
world's heavy weight championship,
will take place in New York state on
-Sejftedther 16. '
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Sanderaville, Oa.y August 2.?Funeral
services of Dr. Wm, Rawlings, }% '*
one of the best known surgeons in 1
the South, Who died here Sunday,
were held this afternoon from the
home of his nephew, Dr. Fred B. Raw- M
lings. Interment was in the city cemDeath
followed a lengthy illness.
Dr. Rawlings was born near here
78 years ago. He had experienced a
noted surgical career, and had represented
his county in the legislature
and Was widely known as a dairy farmer.
It was said' that he had performed
a greater numlber of. opera-'
tions than any other surgeon in this
'H?lV? tha fight ?1)r/ to
"twitlh* fly". Not on* okv'
timo o roomful at a
trok*. Sprajrit around tha
room a ?nd lit* flhffiul
dead. Quick,, aura, aafe.
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