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m:THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE If. D. Nile* , . Kditor and Publisher I B Friday at No. 1109 Broad Htreet and entered at the Camfcj*en? South -Carolina, por.toffice at ^second class mail matter. Price per m* wnum $2.00. ' .r. v Hf Camden, H. C., Friday, Nov. 5, 1926. |fj ARMISTK K DAY CELEBRATION ? Thursday of next week, November p. II, is the eighth anniversary of the Armistice, the day when the 0reat ff War came to an end. f It is a day that is more than worthy of Recognition, and as such is I becoming more and more recognized throughout the whole country and th^ world. It certainly seems fitting that this community should keep the day In mind, and have some celebraSji? recall to our winds and hearts the ideals that are embodied pT- in th?t cause for which most of the Civilized world fought for over four r- r.\ Arrangements are Ijoing made jtoJ hold a short meeting on the school grounds at II o'clock on Armistice j Day. Next week will be a busy week w^h most Camden people, but it U earnestly u^ged that every ono now make his or her plans to repair to p .. the high school grounds at the hour mentioned and thereby show his appreciation of the day which is being commemorated. ? JUDGE RIDDLES SCIENCE. When He Receives Letter Regarding Opening Court With Prayer. ,L Spartanburg, Oct. 28:?Declaring J..' that only u return to God would stop the crlimr Watye, Judge J. K. Henry, of Chester', in charging the grand jury here Monday, took to task those who had criticised him for opening court with prayer. "Since I have been holding court here," he said, "I have received a letter bemeaning me for opening court with prayer. The man who wrote that letter had no moral standard by which toJive.?While holding court in Gohimbia I was besieged by scientific and critical papers which claimed that I violated the constitution of the.eountry, which provides for the separation of church and state. 'The minds of men are being poisoned by newspapers and magazines which Jeach that there is no standard of right or wrong. That thought came from Germany, which teaches that there is no moral law, no personal accountability, except to conscience, and - there is no good above conscience, "Every oath taken in court or in civil practice is a prayer. It winds up with 'so help me God and it should be ^repeated with reverence. Every officer upon assuming his office takes an oath and utters a prayer to Jehovah. "The congress of the United States has a chaplnin and every legislative body in the land opens with prayer Ahd"Invokes God's blessing upon the transaction of the day. The judicial functions of government- should not neglect to pray as well. "The newspapers tell of whtif'srittmte is doing, now trying to- develop a ray that may bo turned on a group of people and wipe tbem>"tuit of existence. Science is working {oday on instruments of death, whereby one set of men may utterly destroy another. During the war it was discovered that a gas could bo made which would destroy an entire city and was considered a great accomplishment. Science has raised hell and nothing but bell. What is needed is to get back to God." Judge Henry declared that, th* fod had ben abolished in the home and school. Teachers he said, ure no longPor permitted to whip children. iV tHdy: do, he said, they are brought to court, on a charge of asaault. "The jurors are helpless to stop the crime wave," he sifid. "The remedy f lies in every man's going to God every night and every morning and take his children as our fathers did. We ha\\? broken down the altars and kicked them into the corner." The jurist also stressed the importance of parental love and instruction as a means of eliminating the preva k lonce of crime. A farmer received a crate containing some fowls. He wrote" to the sender, informing him that the crate was so hadlv made that it had come to pieces when he was taking the hens home with him and they had all escaped, and, after much searching, he only had succeeded in finding eleven of them. In due course lie 'ete.vel the following reply: "You wet,- lucky to find eleven her..-, because 1 ,m!> s, B; you six." upertaxts of ten per cent on theater tickets, fifteen per cent on families ( occupying moie than ten rooms and lire ( 61.85) on automobile ownbeing levied in Rome to^ tuberculosis. 1^" ' - "* H l&lk. TWO LBTTBK8 HAD WEIGHT. 4* - -S, . , ".'" /' ' ., ;_ Solicitor awl J?d|e Roeomnowl?4 Commutation* For Pittman*. (Greenville News, 27th.) At least several thousand persons, through petitions and otherwise, had their say with Governor T.' G. Mcleod as to what he should do with the 1'ittmans for the alleged slaying of Constable J. H. Howard on Hogback mountain in 11*24, after the courts had allegoric-ally washed their hands of the case and written their finis on this remarkable drama of jurisprudence, Of all these it is doubtful if any had /juite so much weight as two, whose opinions were given and whose recommendations were made only after His Excellency, the chief magistrate of the state, had written to' Greenville, asking them to do so. They were Judge T. J. Mauldin, pf Pickens, who presided at the trial of the Pittmans here in June 11124, and who sentenced them to death after a a jury had found them guilty of murder, and former Solicitor -David W. Smoak who directed the prosecution for the State. Asked Their Views. When Governor Mcl^eod early this morning was faced with the problem of disposing of the Pittman case, "after the courts had finished with it, he wrote to Judge Mauldin and Mr. Smoak asking them to give him some idea of the thing since they had both been so close to it and had naturally had opportunity to learn the real status of the case. - - -? Judge Mauldin recommended clemency for Holland Pittman, but had nothing to say as to Alex, his ?ather. Mr. Smoak recommended commutation of sentenced for both men. The letter of Judge Mauldin reads as follows: "My dear Governor: "I have your letter of October 8th, also letter of former Solicitor D. W. I Smoak, of October (ith. And I also have receive^ the record in repetition in behalf of Pittmans for executive clemency. "I have carefully gone over this record. In fact I have thought very much about t,his case since the date it -was tried before me, and my conclusion is that in so far as any recommendation I may make is concerned, 1 would like to see the sentence as to younger Holland Pittman, commuted to life service. As to the elder, Alexander Pittman, I believe he is guilty, and I have no recommendation to make to the petition in his behalf. 1 notice some of these petitioners state that they do not believe these defendants had a square deal, or words to thut effect. So far as I was able to give it, they had a fuir trial, and the Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment below. Further than to suggest that I believe that the ends of justice would be met by a commutation of the sentence as to the younger defendant, Holland Pittman, to life imprisonment 1 have no further recommendations to make. "This record went to mu at Pickens and has been forwarded here to Greenville wheie I am engaged in couit, ht nee ihe delay in its acknowledgment. 1 am herewith returning to you the entire record with the letter of ex-Solicitor Smoak." Stnoak's Letter. The letter of Solicitor David W. Smoak, dated October (5 at Greenville to the governor, follows: ? "Dear Governor:"1 am returning to you under separate cover the petitions you submitted to me in the Pittman case, I assure you that since receiving your request for an opinion, I have uri^en the matter most sturious consideration. "So far as the younger Pittman is cohverned, it seems to me that Judge Marlon has made things easy Tor you. Evidently expressing the opinion of the entire court, he has taken occasion, as I interpret it, to ask of you commutation of sentence. "I agree with Judge Marion. Even if young Pittman had nothing else in his favor, he would have his youth to plead for him, ami the fact that at the time of the killing he was undoubtedly under the domination of his father. "As to the elder Pittman, I have this to say: All along he has elected to build his t defense upon a falsehood? the miserable, futile, silly falsehood that at the time of the shooting he was not present and had nothing to do with the killing of Mr. Howard. He is still keeping up the bluff, and j that sort of thing excites my indigna-j turn. The transcript of the case whicn : you have proves beyond question that \!ex Pittman shot Mr. Howard, and i 1 am informed that there is now even tror.gt-r evidence of his guilt. 1 can i i.. : uiuieistand the man's attitude at ! all. I i tliis hour of his extreme necirsvi:\ p, ought eel tainly to come i I clean with society. He ought to un-J ?'eistand that even Clod himself will r.ot pardon a man who refuses to 1 bring to the ..u.cy seat the penitence of'? sin r-r.fcsserf. "1 honestly belie, c that this sort of w I ' irfiriH \ktLi I. - i, .a* HMMHMNMHHMiiPilHMMMHHiPPPIPPH 1 trifling with justice operated against the Pittmans froth the first. To some extent, at teast, they were the victims of their own absurd defense. When the older man's plea of alibi, failed, there was nothing left for a conscientious jury to do but convict him. When the son, chased from the distillery and arrested, refused to go upon the stand and testify, he left himself without any defense whatsoever, and was of course caught in the maelstrom, of deadly circumstance. , * "Hut to consider the other side of the case, if the Pittmap* instead of pleading these absurdities, had elected to set up self-defense, I honestly think the verdict might have been slightly different. In this connection you might consider the following undisputed facts: ?< "A few minutes after the shooting, Mr. Howard was discovered kneeling at ^^Mgitrance of the distillery dead. On the ground by his side was a pistol. With self-defense as the plea, the jury might have been gravely concern-1 ed as to how the pistol got upon the ground. They might have come to the conclusion that it could not hpVej dropped of itself from Mr. Howard's I pocket. In addition to this, the pistoll had an empty chamber in \i. Accord- J mg to the testimony of Mr. Reuben Gosnell, as I ^understand it, there was not even a shell in the chamber, but I the fact that it was empty, might have added to the jury's dpubt. And here comes the rub in the case, ao far I as I am concerned. Had the jurors I come to the conclusion that Mr. How- J ard approached the distillery * with a drawn pistol, or that he had it in his J hand at the time he was shot, even! though the Pittmans were at fault ini bringing on the difficulty and were! not entitled to self-defense, yet in my I judgment, they would have saved their I lives. My experience with juries has J been that they .usually resolve such I doubts as these into a recommendation 1 to the mercy of the court; "Feeling this way about it, and pre-1 ferrlng rather to err on the side of! mercy when human life is involved I than otherwise, I recommend that r I commutation to life imprisonment be I granted to both father and son." The Farmer Every sap-head from Dan to Beer-1 shebn is cussirfg and low-rating the I farmer because he worked like the! dickens and made a crop. They ac-1 tually blame him for doing what ev-1 ery other .business in the world is I I trying to do, viz: increase produc-J ' tion. They accuse him of laziness, I unthriftiness,and indifference because he does not diversify. These durn di-J versifiers remind me of the man who I tried to get rid of a polecat's scent I by cutting off his nose. The farmers I can't make rain, nor can they peddle | sunshine, hut if they are favored with I reasonable farming weather, Ifair I i prices for what they buy and sell, no- I body need feel concerned about him, J The west and north will ship very J little feedstuffs and seeds into the! south this year?as it rained. And I cotton is selling at 189C prices, but.1 plow points and plow lines, and plow I stocks, and most cotton goods, and 1 guano, and labor, and doctor bills and I nearly everything else they tuustl have is fetching war-time prices. Se- J lah.?Gee McGee in Anderson Daily I Mail. In some parts of France the coun-1 try people upon the approach of a J thunder storm, adorn their hats with J sprays of hawthorn leaves in the be- I lief that, thus protected, they bear a 1 charm against the harmful effects of 1 the storm. I Pickled cockscombs are eaten in I certain sections, of poorer London. Lieutenant Commander Richard E. 1 Byrd, who a few months ago flewl across the North Pole In an airplane,! has announced that next year he willj attempt to fly from New York to Lon-J don or Paris. -I SUMMONS. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, t In the Court of Common Pleas. I Mary R. Connors, personally, and as | administratrix of the Estate of Ben J Connors, deceased, and James Ed-1 ward Connors, by his Guardian Ad I Litem, Mary R. Connors, Plaintiffs,! vs. I Eunice Wade and Willie Kirkland, I Defendants. I Summons for Relief?(Complaint not J Served.) To the Defendant, Willie Kirkland: You are hereby summoned and re- J iiuired to answer the Complaint in this J Action, of which a copy is herewith I served upon you, and to serve a copy J of your answer to the said Complaint! on the subscriber at his office in Cam-I den, S. C.. within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the I day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. . I.&uiens T. Mills, Plaiuliff's Attorney, Dated at Camden, B. C? September 26, 1926. . -r - _ . \ m. r, ^ # ... . .1 JU-JU IMSSm THE BUDGET COMMISSION How Appropriations Are Framed For Running of Government. (Jno. K. Aull.) Columbia, Nov, 2.?The budget commission has recently been holding sessions looking toward the preparation of the annual budget to be placed on .the desks of the members of the general assembly. These hearings of the budget commission have become an annual custom, provided for, of course, by statute, but just exactly what they have been able to accomplish, has never yet been made to appear. At the public hearings the chairman of the finance committee of the senate and the chairman of the ways and means committee of the house "sit with the governor and join with him in all reports and recommendations to the general assembly." The appropriation carried by the 1025 appropriation act for the budget commission was $6,581, divided as follows: For Administration: Secretary, $3,000; statistician and bookkeeper, $2,250; porter service, $90; temporary budget assistant, $100; per diem, $10, $400; travel, $400; telegraph and telephone, $120; repairs, $40; ?pffice-supplies, $175; rents, $6. This, of course, does not include the exponse of issuing the voluminous "budget" itself?several hundred copies?the^cost^of which has been estimated at about f fifteen dollars per copy. The Act requires that within five days after*th& beginning of each regular session this budget shall be submitted by the governor to each house, "containing a complete and itemized plan of all proposed expenditures for each State department, bureau, division, officer, board, commission, etc. Then "the standing committees of the house of representatives and of the senate, being in charge of appropriation measures, shall sit jointly in open sessions while considering the budget/' etc., and this joint committee may and always does require the attendance of heads of departments, etc., just as the budget commission has already done. ?Then- the ways and means committee of the house prepares and introduces its general appropriation bil'. It is in no wise bound by anything the budget commission may have done, or by any suggestions or figures given by the budget commission. Then the house of representatives, along towards the close of the session, takes up the general appropriation bill as introduced by the ways and means committee, and passes it in such form and shape as it may see fit, and sends it over to the senate. When it gets to the senate it is again referred to the finance committee of that body, which submits it to the senate with such changes ? and amendments as may seem wise to the finance committee and then the senate acts upon it. Then it goes to the committee on free conference, composed of three members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, and three members of the house, appointed by the speaker of the house, and this f|*ee conference committee again i whips the bill into shape?this time final shape?inserting such items " a3 may seem to it best, changing others, either increasing or decreasing them ?and each house has either to ado.pt the report of this free conference committee in its entirety, or reject it, which would mean the killing of the appropriation hill and starting over again. Then it goes to the governor; who may veto any specific item, or who may approve the bill as a whole. . The present governor retires one week after the next session of the general assembly convenes. The chairman uf the ways and means committee of the house retires during the early part of this month. Each wijl be succeeded by a new official taking his place.- Only one of the three members of the budget commission will be connected with the next appropriation bill.* Whatever the budget commission does, artyway, is all done over again. The(j question continues to be asked, Why the need gt< the budget commission??unless it be the final clause in the Act creating it?for always, it is suggested, the State Tax Commission has some part in all legislation in South Carolina those days ?and this final clause in the budget commission act provides that the governor "shall call upon the Tax Commission for any information desired, and said Tax Commission shall furnish such info:mation, and shall he present at all hearings before the, committees having charge of the ap propiiations in the senate and hous." ?this ever present tax commission. Seventy-six members of the fresh-j man class of Johnson C. Smith uni-1 versity, Charlotte. N. C., were ship I ped from the institution Friday. The clasf men ha 1 rebelled against the expulsion g? s.x students after a hazing episode. 1 f Had Nothing To Do With Election. w Editor Chronicle: I have been criticize^ for the manner in which , the general election was held in...this county', and want to state that I had absolutely nothing to do with the management or conduct of same. As I understand it the Governor named the senator from this county, who in turn appointed commissioners, and the commissioners had charge of appointing managers and the conduct of the election. Very respectfully, R. H. Hilton. Father J. J. Bessemer, 32, assistant priest of a Catholic church at Albany, Ga., died Thursday as the result of excessively hot water in a shower bath. He was overcome by the steam and was scalded to death, according to the coroner's jury verdict. Wants~For Sale MONEY TcT LOAN'?On "city Veaf es*tate, Apply to Henry Savage, Jr., Camden, S.'-C. 32sb FOUND?on Main street, lady's bow tie pin of solid gold. Owner can get same by applying at Chronicle office and describing pin. 32sb STRAYED^OR VTOLEN?One black and tan male hound. Wart on left front leg. Split and cropped in ear. Answers to the name of "Rip." If found notify D. B. Watkins, Lucknow, S. C., and receive $5 reward. 31-32-pd. - LOST?.Between North Fair Street, and DeKalb, a watch-chain with a bunch of keys. Finder .return to this office for reward. WANTED?3 young men to make L money here demonstrating during Fair. Experience not necessary. All so hgve opening for one on road ? without car and two who have their own car, starting after Camden Fair and making other fairs ip State and Georgia. Work all winter in Florida. Pay commensurate with ability. Fred L. Brown, care of The Chronicle. . / FOR SALE?Extra large size Stewart and Columbia Pecans for sale at 50 cents per pound, postage extra. Mrs. H. L. Bradford, Hopkins, S. C. W ANTEP?Position as bookkeeper nr office assistant. Have had'several years' experience. Write to Box 106, 7 1 Camden, S. C. . 32-83pd FOR RENT?New 5-room bungalow ' with garage. Apply to N. C. Ar~ 1?nett, Camden, S. C. 32pd WANTED?To hear from owner of good farm for sale. State cash ; price, full particulars. D. F, Bush, ~ Minneapolis, Minn. ' . 37sb WELDING.?Oxy-Aeetelene Welding of wrought iron, cast iron, steel, brass bronze, copper, aluminum, y Auto frames, cylinder blocks", 1 crank cases, axle housings, oil pans, ~ , welded like new. We also weld metal household furniture, office ^ i f equipment, hotel appliances and" '> hospital ware. Smith's Garage, Camden, S. C. . .ai-Sdr-pd ... TOP REPAIRING?Automobile Tops, Side Curtains, Back Cdrtains, made to fit any car. New Top Pads, also new Bows fitted to any top. Smith's Garage, Camden, S. C. 31-34pd -or y OYSTER SHELL LIM&?Tho vary best for agricultural purposes, is now on sale in Camden .by The Rush 1 Lumber Company. 26tf WE CLEAN?Anything?from?neek ties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 565. WANTED^No.Y bine logs^Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. ? t-M-fb j WE- CLEAN?Anything from neckI ties to art squares. Camden Dry t Cleanery, Phone 17 pr 555. FOlTSHOE REPAIRING^call at the Red Boot Shop next door to Express office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24tf FURS AND FUR'COATS"cleancd at Camden Dry Cleanery. PHOTOGRAPHYYl ' have recently . rebuilt my. home at .1840^ Hailo street and built Ah up-to-date home studio where I am prepared to 4? any kind or stfrlO of photograph . and it a reisonable yjioo. ' have some of the latebt; wpitpaiMit and can make s, pictures " regardless of weather conditions. Joe B. Gaskins, Camden, S. C. 14-tf I Stokes-Evans Co. I T Y A a J* _ ^ X - . 1^1.4.^1 : y Bids Welcome to the crowds A. A the Kershaw County Fair and offers'thin ? | week, as well as every week, friendly } ^ service and merchandise the most sea- y A sonahle. A { A Native grown Fulghum Oats A J t. 75 cents per bushel Y I ?? ; . 4 4 4 1 - - z A | Stokes-Evans Co. I i 4* Y Phone 110 Camden, S. C. V ' T V a Atwater Kent Radio I A few more Atwater-Kent ovmefs: g^i7T|j Mr. Frank-Coursen Mrs. J. L. Graham Hobkirk Inn Mr. W. A. Boykin | Mr. Jack Whitaker, f? Mr. J. M. Hoffer Mrs. W. N. Keer. v"; Mrs. Stephen Robinson"V Mr. W. L. Jackson - T; "S" ; ' J. M Mrs. Walter Rush . .. :~t~; It will pay you to investigate. ASK THE OWNERS W. O. HAY I Phone 138 or 337?or drop Us a card* J ' ?Z- -J X 1