The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 09, 1927, Image 2
I>r. Frank Crane Says:
Thrrr U A Uvbrrikrr Within ^ ou
The grei*. awb'eiker gree-d
Of t ur>e mrf. break laws brcail-c*
of other passions, >u> h a.* I'Af, revtr.ge.
vanity and tr.e hk?
But g r ee-U break- the a a twenty
11 me- to wr.tr? arty it her feeling
break* ;t ofc. e
The mainspring of ewry bu'fl*r?
and pick jex-Wet * career ..? greed
The> wart "dougn" and the) war.:
quick. He rice the blackjack ar.d the
hr?-ak.rig and er:'.f,ng
Old people are waited fj.r with :nnpatience
ar.d rot wa'ted ,r. w;*h !ov-_\
because of greed.
Many ar. unhappy marriage ha- its
cause in greed.
Families are separated on account
pf it and ancient grudges were
founded.
Laws are paseed at its instigation.
The passage of a passport law and
of an income tax law had no foundations
in justice, but took place simply
because there were occasions of
graft. The money could have been
raised in a much better way by simple
processes of justice.
(dreed was equally behind the activities
of Robin Hood of yore and
the modern legislator. The principle
Upon which they acted is the same.
They took money from those who had
it as an excuse that they were protecting
those who had it not.
The gist of all opposition to the
prohibition law is greed. Bootleggers
do not exist so much because
people have an unholy appetite for
liquor as because of the immen-e
profits there are in the clandestine
bus't nes -.
A barber was recently arrested in
New York for -having a man on Sunda)
He < ould no' resist the temp
tii* !<>r. to make fifteen cents, notwithstanding
it involved the violation
of the law.
. All law- wll be broken to an extent
where t h?*i e an attempt to run
counter to ar .i qui*tor> :n<t:nct of
the individual.
We have laws against theft, arson
minder and the like, and have ha i
them for '.o, these thousand- ot
yeai s. But the) are all as steadily
broken a- the law aga.nst alcoholic
liquors.
Wherever you find a predominance
of greed, you find lawbreaking.
tireed is the chief f ui ante-m :.il
vices, nnd rink- fir*: a- our ow
breaker.
Seawalls of Kngland aie being p:o
tected and acres of land reclaimed
from the sen, through the planting of
rut gra<s. It not only catches mud.
but :- valuable a- a pasturngw
ell.
M. W Moffitt. cattle rancher r: a
Reno, \c, , has given the St. F'rancihott!
. : Sav Francisco, an order f >r
a pia'e ?t tu-i to U- delivered a'
hi- lar.t'h by airplane on Sept. IG.
1 In order *-pe ified that the plane
he t <j'J.;n.si with electric heater- t
kee p the food warm.
Maicu- I.e<?w. oiie .?f the o.utiti v S
leading theatre al men. died at hihonit
at (Ileri Cuve, N Y.. Sunday
nigh*, after a period of il! health.
He made a fortune of millions out
of popular pr ed theatres and mewing
picture show
GENERAL NEWS NOTES !
A man who -*.d (row Ut
Wc?t and refused to give hi* name,
wav arrr>m.<J as a tuapicioua charas ,
t?-r a*. Y^rk Village, Me. He refused .
V. leave the next day when given hi* j
freedom and tne jui'.t-r had to use
forte to get rid of h.rn. He liked the
feed
Charles Burknalur, White Cloud,!
Ran . banker, has jw i olonien of bee*,'
,?::d hr ?e!U all of the honey to rail '
road dining car- Tne annual output
i? about e.gnt ton*. I
Three men were killed al Birrning-J
ham. Aia., Saturday n.ght w he^n the!
automobile in which they were riding j
trashed into an empty box car. A
fourth man wa* pr /bably fatally injured.
A large crowd attended the lawn
pa rt > Saturday r..gni at the game
lodge in Rapid i it>, S. I)., to bid
farrwell to President and Mrs. Coolidge.
who are prepartng to break
amp r.ext Fr.day for their return
j VS ash.ngton
Ar eff >rt to obta.n the r.ornination
of Mr?. \V oodrow VS ilson for the rice
presiden >, will be made by the
Hemocr attc women >i Iowa.
As the result of ar: open .-witch,
part of Southern passenger train No.
- piled up against a Big Four train
j( loaded toal cars. Saturday, at
Pr. rice toil. 111- Three persons were
killed and rn >rc than a dozen injured.
K. (j. ( line, veteran mail airplane
p.lot, flying between Boston and New
York, was killed ir. the crash of his
plane near Ka-.t W.llington, Conn.,
on Saturday. Six sacks of mail and
express parcels were salvaged from
the wreck.
About I'm m ning picture shows
were closed all of last week in Chicago,
because of a strike of union
machine operators. The difference
between operators and owners were
composed Saturday r.tght and business
in now going nr. as usual.
i holera among the troops is adding
difficulties to General Sun ChauanFang'
Northeir. army in China,
whiih is being opposed by the
Nationalists. Saturday's reports from
St anghai v-ay that the general lost
20,000 nun in combat during the
heavy ' ghl.rg last week. Bodies
aM' pi--" i g'i. ep ,rt the vernacuiar
papera:ei it i- imp >--ih'.e to burv
the dead
Patrirk 11 < )'h - dean of
( .".nag lawyer-, died -it cerebral
r.nrnrrhagrs Saturday. He was considered
one ! the foremost advisers
,,r ' h : r> the C riled States.
I'"j:l. i I ighter.ri, Steven Imz<
w-b, t \> .. ,t ork, -r. 'jted ti e. Saturoa;..
I :: was no fi'e. bu' his
'I'll' i ti *: seven t y -1 iv? fr on bed.
"1 ' t I , lurrnerl a fej-th store
u ! "w was killed. Cru! Beek1
a'- '' P o-klyr. also drunk, wanted
' ' ;iM,l I1 ' ng a fourth story vvind,,u
hi : !. .ut. breaking both legs
and fracturing his skull. Hoctors
say he vv. 11 lie.
re:: uled
' . a J t t1 . >d - in
1 : , n i. mailt
> :?'v a seething
1 i m'ies in
- A K-; i
A .. flanker,"
V- Y k. up jr.
*' i >;i I. >ndon.
o ia:d.
WHAT MADE HIM TRAITOR
< VV hirh Lead to Treason of
Benedict Arnold
I
VS n > did he do it? Why did thej
braves*, and moat dashing general of
the American army in trie Revolution
suddenly turn traitor, sell out to the
enemy, attempt to betray his post flee
to tne British lines and accept a commission
under George III? asks a1
writer in the Dearborn Independent j
Wh^?t can be said in explanation of,
his action, what ought to be said,
not merely to soften the judgment of,
history upon Arnold, but to make
clear what the world is constantly
doing to make more Arnolds?
In the numerous biographies of the
traitor there has been placed considerable
emphasis upon the high
moral and religious character of his
mother and upon the fact that he was
brought up in a thoroughly Christian
arid thoroughly respectable atmosphere.
Historians and biogra
phers alike have asked the question, j
"How could such a mother have such!
a son'" Yet it is probably j\p this |
very fact that we find beginnings of.
the very evil which wrecked a great
career and all but lost the American!
Revolution.
When Arnold was 15 he ran away
and joined the colonial troops preparing
for the French and Indian war. Ac
the intercession of his mother, he wai
discharged and brought back. Posterity
has thought of the fortunate
Mrs. Arnold who thus saved her boy
from death on the field of battle.
Should we not think of the highspirited
boy who has outgrown his
mother's apron strings, yet who is
humiliated beyond words by being
caught and brought back home, like
a small child who has been surprised
with a jam pot? Might it not have
been better if Mrs. Arnold had let
the boy go, instead of outraging his
dignity and hurting his pride by
dragging him back to be laughed at?
When the Revolution broke out, Arnold
was among the first to volunteer.
Although in Connecticut, he
and his troop reached the scene o:
war within ten days of the battles of
Lexington and Concord. He immediately
volunteered for the dangerous
duty of getting guns and ammunition
from old Ford Ticonderoga. He
captured the fort and its garrison.'
For this he was rewarded by being
"investigated." superseded in command
by a man who had done n :>
fighting, and was allowed to go horr.e
without having been reimbursed by
the State of Massachusetts for the
large amount of money he had spent
'-he patriot causfr. Incidentally,
i there was no justification for the conduct
,,f the civil authorities responsible.
Arnold swallowed .the insult and
went to Cambridge, where Washington
had now taken command of the
army. The new commander-in-chifef
saw at once the sterling qualities of
Arnold and sent him on a hazardous
expedition to Quebec. With an array
half-starved and decimated by disease
Arnold struggled through the icy
woods of Maine and attacked Quebec,
which held a larger garrison than his
attacking force. Of course he faildd,
and was wounded. But his heroism s
in this expedition is unparalleled in
American military history. Outnumbered
ten times, he withdrew his
ai my from ( anada and was again
superseded .n command. Yet the new
commander entrusted him the task of
keeping the British out of the United
States at the north in 1776.
With astonishing ingenuity and
skill, he built a fleet on Lake Champlain.
hurled it in the face of the great
British armament, with troops which
outnumbered him ten to one. Although
his fleet was entirely wiped
out, he saved h.s army. The great
British force was so badly battered
that instead of continuing its way to
New \ ork, it retreated-in haste to
Canada.
At this time Benedict Arnold was
the.senior brigadier general. To reward
him for his conduct the oolitiiar.s
in the Continental Congress
promptly promoted over his head five
" brigadiers to major generals)
and d.d nothing for the fig t'.ng'
gen. a!. Arnold's rage wa? sr.ah.d by
Wa-h;:.gun hut ( ingress would do
nothing. Arnold threatened t resign.
but at W ashmgtoTi's earnest
;-er>ona! icHH.e-t he stayed witti the
colors. Or.t should not think less of!
Atno.il tor this, for it i- worth krow-j
r.g that at this same time a Frencn
genera, appeared ?n America, mag -'
niticenti; offer.ng his services to
I i ongre- . The politicians were thinkj
mg of nu.king him a major gf*eral
and c hief of artillery. When J the
news got around, three of Washington's
braves; generals. Nathaniel
Greme. John Sullivan and HeViry
Knox, all wrote Congress that ;f }he
Frenchman was appointed ail three
would resign. Moreov^rr?-emf disgruntled
brigadier who had beera
passed over did resign.
Arnold received permission ;o go
home in the winter of 1777, bu was
rudely interrupted on his holid *> by
an invasion of Connecticut itself.
A
Hastily gathering u force of militia
he threw his little array directly
across the British line of march, in a
terrific fight at Kidgefield, Conn., he
opjiu?eu ait enemy four times hi* ^
streng th. Naturally he was defeated,,
and tht? ume his horse fell under
him, struck by nine bullets. He extracted
himself and drew off, secured
reinforcements and flung him- I
self once more on the British troops
who were now retreating toward New
York. Only by the most desperate
f.ghting did the British force, still
much >uperiur in numbers, succeed
in escaping from the clutches of the
tireless Arnold.
For tnis Congress did finally make
him a major general ? but with characteristic
ill grace it refused to restore
his rank above the other five
generals. To a soldier this kind of
promotion is insulting. Arnold went
to Philadelphia to Congress, and
found a number against him, in connection
with his accounts in the Quenec
expedition. He defended himself
ably and the charges were demonstrated
groundless. Still, Con-1
gress did not restore his rank.
In exasperation Arnold presented
nis resignation, but on the same day
came the news from Washington
that the British general, Burgoyne,
nad started south from Canada again
and that Arnold must be sent to help
check him. Again at the request of
the commander-in-chief he swallowed
his resentment and left for the northern
headquarters. When he arrived
he was sent off to relieve the beleaguered
garrison at Fort Stanwix.
Although again outnumbered by the
British, yet by a combination of
audacity and skill, he soon had that
particular British army in full flight.
He turned his army and rushed back
to the Hudson to join the main northern
army now opposing the British
army under Burgoyne.
Here in September and October of
1777, although Arnold was a subordinate
commander, he displayed a resourcefulness
and energy in leading
the American troops in person, which
had much to do with the final American
victory. The American commander,
Gates, was scarcely on the
field of battle at all, while Arnold
was badly wounded in the final bat!
'ie of October which sealed the fate
I ->f the British army at Saratoga.
In the Saratoga campaign Gates
; had not taken pains to be as careful
of Arnold's feelings as had Washington,
and there had been friction
between the two. When^y to this
rr " * 1-1
Arnold felt the added insult of G?te%'
report slighting the work of his division
in the campaign, another factor
was added to make Arnold resentful
and angry.
He was carried home to convalesce
in the winter of 1778, and joined
Washington again in the spring at
Valley Forge. As the British evacuated
Philadelphia, Arnold was given
the important post of commander of
the garrison in the capital city. Here
he stayed in the summer of 1778
and the winter of 1779. His wounded
leg made, service in the field impossible.
The civil and municipal
authorities of Philadelphia did a
great deal to make trouble for him
and the necessary and inevitable conflicts
between the military and civil
jurisdictions added more fuel to the
fire of his wrath against Congress.
Finally charges were made against
him which resulted in his courtmartial
in December of 177'J for exceeding
his authority. The courtmartial
in the main exonerated him,
found him guilty of imprudence.
This friction with the Pennsylvania
authorities was the last straw which
broke the camel's back. He entered
into treasonable correspondence with
the British commander-in-chief,
which ended in his effort to betray
West Point and the death of the unfortunate
Major Andre. Besides this,
as commander at Philadelphia, he
was expected to keep up social appearances
beyond his means. This
was difficult for a general who had
already sacrificed a great deal of his
personal money in the patriot cause,
and whose generosity to the unfortunate
family of Gen. Warren had
caused, him serious losses.
One other element played in causing
him to desert the American
cause. As a veteran of the French
and Indian war he resented bitterly
the idea of the alliance between
France and the United States which
was effected in the winter of 1778.
He felt that France had no really
disinterested motives. As a New
Englander he had been taught to regard
the French with horror, for had
not these same French been responsible
for a hundred years of
savage border warfare in New England,
in which villages had been
burned and men, women a^id children
scalped and burned to death? An alliance
with France seemed to him
the final surrender of hopes for
American independence. He preferred
British to French domination and
so went over to the British side.
Feel Tired and
Languid? I
Wast* Impurities hs the Blood 1 I
One Dull and Lisde*?. I
DO you wonder why I
feel to drowty and out of 1
ort ? Too many feel
died, dull and achy. Toodfi
the caute is ku?r
that permit was^P inipuxitvTtv!
remain in the blood und r,ltT ,
one to feci dull cuid liitlc^Z
to have a nagging backtcC I
and annoying headache* ftnTy I
dizzy epdls. That the ki<w i
arc not working right U oftL i
thuwn by acanty or bumin! i
excretions. Assist the Iddncv. I
with Damn'snits. Uaerievtty I
where recommend Do?n>V !
{Ask your neighbor! I
DOAN'S "Si5 I
Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidney,
F?*?MMfca?Ca .nuf_L.u.i I
Murder Mystery Solved
Reidsville, N. Sept. 3.?A day I
and a half of back breaking excavi I
tion of packed down soil in a dark I
basement under a residence hert I
shortly before noon day definitly I
brought to a head a ten day murder I
mystery with the finding of the body I
of J. Smith Petty, once an overseer I
in a local cotton mill, and who htdfl
been missing for about a year. I
The gruesome find confirmed %
story told to officials by the Her. I
Thomas F. Pardu, an evangelist that I
Petty had been killed. It landed Ma I
Alma Petty Gattling bride of igm;
months and daughter of the dead^^l
in the county jail on a charge i H
murder. She was arrested soont&r *
a brief hearing the young VMp
was ordered held to the grasjjn I
on a charge of first degree
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Coatly?|
(New York, Sept. 1.?The attfl.
year vain struggle to save Sacco 4* v.
Vanzetti from death in the elec&^H
chair entailed expenditures
more than $360,000, Adino FelioM
treasurer and founder of the BostoM
defense committee, announced receiitH
John Matthews, PresbyteriuH
minister of (Glendale, California, whsl
'over preached' while delivering il
recent sermon, is the first chord J
[employee to apply for state industrilM
accident compensation in CaliforoiiM
Gesticulating to emphasize his
mon, Matthews strained a rauxjH
necessitating an operation. ' (
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A Rare Bird
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Rol?ert A. !-anil>ert of the Na?
tional Zoological Park. Washington,
D C.?wtth the famous blue
goose?fir st to ever he successfully
raised in the U. S. Below.'
tke medal awarded I-Junbert by
France for raiaip^ this one?and
two others st nee-*?now at Washington.
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