The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 10, 1927, Image 6
' ANOTHER CHAPTER
Editor Tarkington Tell* About KfiwiutioiiM
Adopted by Council
The NVwh and Courier of Monday
last published what that paper declared
to be a "true and correct copy"
of resolution* purporting to have been
parsed by the town council of St.
George. These resolutions were
passed by four men representing the
town council of St. George. They
were presented, so it in stated, by \V.
V. Patrn k. They were drawn by no
one knows just who, this paper is informed.
The mayor states that they
were dictated by certain members of
the town council and written on the
typewriter of somebody else. Kffort
was made to f.nd out who the author
was, but no one seemed to know.
And yet this was a true and correct
copy.
There being just four members of
the round present when the meeting
was held, called by no one knows just
who, and called in the day time, the
resolutions were carried around to the
other three members of the council on
instructions of the mayor. The
mayor states that every member of
the rotfhcil signed the resolutions except
one. On investigation it was
found that tins one was Mr. K. VV.
Kiscr.
The resolutions as drawn and sent
around hy instructions from the mayor
were carried to Mr. Kizer as he
was busy in his farm work. He informs
this paper, voluntarily, that he
indignantly refused to sign the resolutions
because he did not and could
not agree with them in any particular.
He stated that he did not think
The town council of St. George had
any business meddling in the politics
of the county, and that he was unalterably
opposed to the methods to
endorse the officers of the county who
had been bringing reproach upon the
xounty of Dorchester.
The members of the council who
signed the resolutions were:
Mayor C. H. Parler, W. F. Patrick,
J. II. Whettsell, D. F. Dukes, M. L.
Jordan and Willis S. Utsey.
Not signing, K. W. Kizer.
The resolutions were sent to thUJ
paper with t ho request to publish,
and an offer was made to pay for the
publication. This paper is not fool
enough to publish such slanderous
charges against the writer of this article,
and there is not money enough
in the I'nited States mint to induce
such publication, for several reasons:*
Tlie resolutions state that the publication
of fact* relat ieg to the political
conditions in Dorchester county
are prompted solely by personal differences
between the sheriff and tie
editor of tins pap^f. This charge is
absolutely and unequivocally false.
It is true that the editor of this paper
has l>erm personally aggrieved, but he
has no annm-itv ;n hi- In-art against
any man n the eoun* >. * he sheriff included.
The re?olut ion- declare 'hat what
has been published in tins paper relative
to the p litaal life of the sheriff
are fal-e and defamatory. l'nt:l they
are pn?\< t ).< falsi- then we' shall
continue ' p.ib.. :. ;?n : in nf'oma'
ion of tii j ul !: wbo have a right to
know, a'! tba* i.e. h> f.und out about
the .sheriff - n . f r . - high office.
The resolutions further ?t?te that
the publication of this political record
of the sheriff doe* not do credit to a
vast majority of the citizens of Dorrh?
?ter county,
If the assertion be true, the conclusion
inevitably follow* that this
vast majority must necessarily be in
Limehouse'* 800 or more voter* at
notoi iou? Dorchester poll, on the outskirts
of .Summerville, For the opposition
to hlrn and hi* gang?and by
opposition is meant those who stand
for decency in the county?goes up to
the poll yrfth a substantial majority.
This is an awful indictment to bring
against St. George, Kidgevillc,
ileevesville, Harleyville, and particularly
against what is known as "the
gentleman's club" of Summervllle, the
Carolina.
The mayor and a majori^ of the
town council of St. George seem to
think that those six men who signed
the resolutions can speak and do
speak for the entire county. They
could not even get a unanimous decision
on the resolutions which were
drawn up by one who was not even
a member of the council. And it is
understood that at least one other
member of the said council regrets
that he was induced to sign the resolutions.
A vust majority of the people of the
county cannot be led around by the
nose by five or six men who are to
all appearances under the influence
of the sheriff. Again he shows the
sinister influence he is exerting, when
he dominates the town council of St.
George.
If the vast majority of the best
citizens of the county are in sympathy
with Limehouse and his rotten
methods in the county, why did not
the entire council of St. George sign
the resolutions originating with Limehouse
and his crowd ? The same resolutions
were carried to the mayor
of Summerville to Ik* presented to his
board of aldermen, and it is said that
he came near "booting" the bearer
for daring to insult the intelligence
of the citizens of Summerville.
So that is the vast majority who
stand with Limehouse and against
tiie editor of this paper because he
PPhs dared to make an effort to wrest
the power of czarisni from the one
man who has brought the county into
such disrepute.
The resoultions further state that
the official conduct of the officers of
Dorchester county is as good as that
of any county in the state of South
f arolina. This paper does not charge
that the officers of the county as a
whole arc io tricky and rotten in political
life as Sheriff Limehouse. Arid
if he has the "unpualif;ed confidence
of the great majority of the best citizen
of Dorchester county" why the
pbcriomiual r^h on the part of scores
uf mm and women in this and other
| nearby counties, and even from
Charleston to subscribe to the Dorchestei
Magic? And in their letters
with an em Insure of the subscription
price, t hey all .-ay. "Keep up the good
fight 1 !! tr.n <"Untv -hall bo made a
place fit to e m."
I his paper is only trying to right
the wrongs of the /.ens of Dorchester
county who ha\<- been oppressed
for -o burg. And we shall continue
to do -u regardless of any resolutions
i
passed by h vast majority of six men.
In this path we shall walk, with an
unshaken faith that the right will
gloriously triumph.?The J)orcheater
Kagle.
HMALIKK GREENBACK*
Dimensions of Paper Money lo He
Reduced One-third in Size
An order was issued yesterday by
the secretary of the United .States
treasury that will reduce the annual
income of every citizen of the country
by one third according to Information
received this morning from Thomas
H. Daniel of the Dollar Savings bank.
However, the reduction will not be in
value, but in bulk, relates the Spartanburg
Journal.
This is the first sweeping order directing
the reduction of the size of
currency notes issued from the treasury
department since the Civil war.
The dimensions of the currency
now in use is 7 1-8 inches by 3 inches,1
and the new issue according to ejaculations
made by local experts will reduce
the size to 1 4-8 inches by 2 inches.
The calculations were made in
| the offices of Lockwood, Green and
company.
The secretary's order directs that
the paper money of the United States
be reduced in size one-third, beg:fining
with one-dollar bills. The new
currency will l>e put out within two or
three months, as soon as mechanical
changes necessary for its production
can be provided. The one-dollar bill
will be followed as rapidly as possible
by reduced currency of all other denominations,
up to the largest, $10,000.
;
The change in the size of the currency
has been discussed for some
time, and has been decided upon as a
fruit of careful surveys and investigations.
It is estimated that a saving
to the government of two million
dollars a year will result, to say
nothing of economies in vault space,
transportation expense an)d similar
details, which will be experienced
chiefly by banks and transportation
agencies.
The new bills are not expected to be
put into circulation until early in 1028
as new money is put through an agi-gg
process after being printed. It lasts
from one-third to one-half .longer, it
is stated, if allowed to age before being
put into circulation.
Secretary Mellon made the follow- |
mg formal statement in aim u:. ing'
his order:
"The treasury's desire to reduce the i
size of the currency is the resu.t <>f an I
.exhaustive study and investigation
covering a period of several years. J
"Currency in the reduced size, as j
proposed, has been used in the Philip- '
pine Islands for a number of years, j
and money handlers, sueh as bank ,
tellers, paymasters and others, find !
that it is m?>re convenient in every re-j
spect than the larger size. The size |
will not be reduced to such an extent. I
however to make obsolete either,
money counting machinery or cash'
registers now in use throughout the I
country.
"In their smaller size the otes wi^
generally fit into pocket books without
being folded, which is not possible j
with currency in its present -ize. The '
frequently folding and creasing i von- !
tually breaks the fiber of the paper j
and hastens its deterioration and re- i
tirement from . ovulation. Further !
mon . the protection afforded by the I
smal l r not. s against imitation and j
alteration u. !, :t is believed, be great-I
er than in tne case of th? present
large design of the currency.
"In connection with the change in
size, it will be necessary > make I
some changes in the design of the!
notes. These changes will not, however,
be material, the new notes re- j
taming practically all the present i
currency. Portraits now appearing;
on, the notes will be real] >cated in j
some instances in order to avoid the i
use of a particular portrait to a given
denomination of currency.
"The portrait of Washington for instance."
it was explained by "the secretary.
"will be used only on $1 bills.
It is likely that the portrait of Jefferson
will be used on $2 bills.
Others have not been designated."
( harles A. Levine, companion of
Clarence Chamberlin, when the start
across the Atlantic was made from
New ^ ork last Saturday morning,
made his will before starting on the
jaunt across the ocean to Berlin..
The losses incident to the Miss- I
issippi river valley floods is estimated |
at $200,000,000 to $400,000,000 by |
Secretary of Commerce Hoover.
Senora Natalia Oalles, wife of the i
president of Mexico, died in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Cal., last Thursday
afternoon, following a major
operation five days previously. The
immediate cause of death was a heart
attack.
Rewards totaling $700 have been
offered by the city of Charlotte,
county of Mecklenburg, th. state of
North Carolina and individuals, for
the arrest and conviction of the slayer
I of Cyrus M. Fink, Charlotte mechanic
[and choir singer, on Saturday night,
May 28, in that city.
Lightning Kills Two
Branchville, Juno 2.?This afternoon
around 5:30, when lightning
struck a chimney on the south cad
of the Smoak school building. Rural
Policeman C. H. Strickland, 35, and
Murnell Carroll, 19, were instantly
killed and Miss Grace Smoak, Tom
Ryan, Randall Black and a son of j
M. F. Strickland were badly stunned, i
Miss Smoak" was the most seriously;
hurt as she was unconscious for two j
hours.
A baseball game was being played j
between Smoaks and Rowesville and i
a large number of people had gone
into the school house out of the rain.
Mr. Strickland was standing against
the staircase and young Carroll was
leaning against the door facing.
Smoaks is about 12 miles south of
here in Colleton county. The school
building was seriously damaged.
David Devlin, Alabama negro, was
hrrested at Fast Spencer, N\ C\, on
Saturday "charged with fatally shoot- '
i.ng a deputy sheriff on last Wednes- i
day.
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LAND OF EEL AND CUCUMBER
National Geographic Society Telia of
Chaiuberlin'ti Landing J*l*ce
Washington, June 6.?The National
Geographic Society hat) this to say
about the country on which Chambcrlin
was forced to land:
"Klinge and Kottbus lie on the edge
of the low, flat, wooded legions known
as the Spreewald swamp, land of the
Wends, a fragment of a lost tribe,
who live largely by their eel-traps,
cucumber patches, and their more
prosaic hayfields and cherry patches.
"These Wends are the descendants
of a band of half wild fugitives who,
when the Goths laid waste to Western
Europe, hid for safety in the great
swamp near the Oder.
"Kottbus, according to a quick computation
at the National Geographic
Society headquarters is approximately
4,076 miles from Roosevelt Field, near
New York City, taking off place of
the Bellanca plane.
"The landing place must have been
a difficult one, for Kottbus is on the
Spree, which rises in the mountains
of the Czecho-Slovakian border and
in the vicinity of Kottbus begin to
spread out into the wooded swamp
called the Spreewald.
"When thousands from nearby
cities flock to this quaint nook of
Europe in summer the Wend natives
cash in on theitr cucumbers, their eels
and cherry pies, and reap a rich harvest
from the oddly carved wooden
geese and dolls they make. They also
take toll from the couples and sightseers
who pole up and down the
labyrinth of water lanes dividing the
Spreewald into a thousand charming
green isles.
"The Spreewald eel, slim and slippery,
is enshrined in the songs and
traditions of this singular commun.ty.
A Spreewald swamp home with
u: its eel-traps would be like a
hn ken farm without chicken coops.
And the eels, gastronomically, are
mated for life with the cucumbers.
These giant cucumbers, deadly grebn
. n shade and wickedly curved like
I scimitars, threaten you at every turn.
"Cucumbers lie in heaps at every
turn; punts piled high with the cucumbers
are being poled to market
at Burg or Kottbus; men, women and
children are plucking, peeling, or eating
cucumbers, and even sleep on piles
of them.
"The Wends are clannish, isolated,
and happiest when left alone and are
concerned not at all with the rise
and fall of nation* 4r#fc/W
"A Spj-eewald
?"' Venice. InZ*
streets and sidewalk* fc
.tirely by crooked watery?
Valuable SiliTca^iTj^
Glemaon College, jUne
fuliners have within
months bought 100 mjTJH
one county in South CuM
from two other counties
150 yearling heifers to p J
all at ridiculously low
ing to Professor J. p. U|!^l
of the dairy division here 1^1
by these sales, Professor
asks two pertinent queitiaJ
should give pause to SonttB
dairy farmers.
Are these other states
dairy cattle for no other 3 1
that they can be bought chj I
than elsewhere? I
Why should we ship M/
cattle to other states for tB
duee dairy products for '
and cities at a profit, M I
dollars out of South Caroll I
will never return? I I
This mi*ht not be such
ant situation, explains Mr. Ljfl
were it not for the fact thi^B
cattle are selling' for Jess thafl
true value and that the dair,K
shortage over the entire (K
States will make it impossiblM2
us to replace the cattle we areBj
mg. We must raise the dairy I ,
nee<led in South Carolina anfln.
must keep those needed andl
true value on those we sell toB"'
states. ?
According to estimates prepMr
the Louisiana state superintei?'- *
education, school property of t& '
has been damaged more thanMf
000 by the recent flood water*n
Mississippi river. X*1,
??Xt
Renew Y our HeB
by Purification
Any physician will tell
"Perfect Purification of thifl
is Nature's 1 oundation oifl
Health." Why het rid
chronic ailments that are fl
ing your Purify^H
system ,i::g a
course of Calotabn,?~r.?c or^H
week for several wcok^?and^H
Nature rewards you with
Calotabs are the greatest
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Required
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Southern Hell Telephone SyBtem thi?
year will cost more than J'-9.7K9,?oO
This Is one of the largest telephone
construction programs ever undertaken
by this company and follows an expenditure
of $33,22?i.30y for similar purposes
during 191! 6
The new plant Is designed not only to
meet the needs of today, but to provide
facilities to care for the anticipated
growth of the near future
The constant additions to the telephone
plant have greatly Increased the Investment
per telephone, making K neoessary
to earn greater revenue per iflephone In
order to meet the growing cost of producing
service and have a balance for
profit
Our effort to keep pace with the growth
and progress of this Stato Is evidenced
by the construction work now under way.
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our serious public responsibility depends
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-BELL SYSTT M"
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so much that I have taken it
since whenever I needed a tonic."
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