The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 12, 1929, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H^D. NIL KM. . Kditor and I'JblUher
Published every Friday at NoTliOD
Broad Street and entered at the Camdento
South Carolina poatofTice aa
, second clan* mail matter. Price per
annum $2.00, payable in advance.
Camden, 8. C., Friday. "tuFy 12,1020.'
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Righteous" ; eems to be the unl,
verxal opinion of the verdict twelve
men of Cheater county passed upon
that wretch of a human, Rufe King,!
on trial all of last week ami part of
thia week for the murder ol hia wife.
Probably the most damaging evidence
waa given against the defendant by
federal Judge J, Lylex Glenn when1
ho told the jury ho' had heard a ;
brother of King toll King that "he
bad talked too damned much alroudy."
Then too, James H. Glenn,
of the defense counsel did not help;
his client any when he tried to in- '
sinuate to that jury that Sheriff!
Quinn and Chief of Police Faulkner j
of York planted those bloody clothes '
in the attic of the King home. King
muy get a new trial and it may be
long drawn out fight yet to save him,
but thosd jurors who passed on his
caae have the .satisfaction of knowing
that their vri'dict moots with genera!
approval.
It may be thoughtlessness on the
pdrt of some business men ami others
in Camden who are patronizing an
itinerant solicitor for. an out of the
state printing house, but at the same
time they are sending money out of
t'he state, never to return. q5>They are
not only tuking money out of Camden
but out of the state to further the
cause of a strange religious cult who
have no interest in Camden or South
Carolina. There are two printing
plants in Camden, paying heavy tuxos.
I hey both have a good payroll !
and all of Ibis payroll is .spent right!
hete in ( amden, with local stores and !
Imml?conceHfe, and?some?the very |
people who are patronizing .*>ut of
state printing plants frequently get
some of this money in their cash
drawers. If you can't get your printing
done In ( amden at least have it
done within the state where you.money
should remain.
The editors of the Newberry Her- !
aid and News had a dirty hoax pulled
off on them Monday when the telephone
rang and a voice gave them
Ahe announcement of the engagement
?f a popular young couple in that
town. As soon as the paper appeared
on the street, the families of the
young couple were indignant. The
Herald and News at great expense
promptly ran off another edition of
their paper and in a two-column article
on the front page heavily scored
the unknown perpetrators. The
Paper is making every effort to find
the guilty parties and no doubt their
names will !>< made public. The
Chronicle several years ago had a
similar experience with a forged purported
marriage which had never occurred.
The guilty party was never
found, but this paper had a good idea
who it was and made it cost him
dearly.
A Good Beginning.
The new county superintendent of
education of Kershaw county is a woman,
Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts, who
bas just taken over the duties of her
T-year-term to which the voters elected
hoi She has made a good begin-ning,
as an outsider sees it, for according
to the news columns of the
Oamden Chronicle, her first official
act was to name the former superintendent,
Mr. Gettys, and Superintendent
J. G. Richards, Jr., of the
Oamden city schools, to serve with
he, as members of the county boar !
of educatnon." Both appointees, says
the Chronicle, have accepted service.
This action should enable the new official
to get a 'good grasp on the!
duties of her office ami educational !
problems and issues in Kershaw omm i
ty at the very outset of her adminis- :
tration. It also reveals a commends
hie spirit in the new superintendent,
who proffers a position of importance
in advisory capacity to the individual
whom she succeeds in office. How i
many male superintendents of cduca- '
tion in South Carolina have ever !
adopted just such a policy on first as- I
suming office??Spartanburg Journal.
Don't Be UagraUful. .1
When you owe a man don't dodge
him because you haven't the money
in your pocket. Talk taofei** *nd tell
him When you think you will be able
to pay him. When you trade with n
merchant on credit keep on trading
with him even though you cun't pay
a? promptly aa you would like to.
Don't go past his store and go around
the corner und pay cash to someone
else. It isn't right. Don't do it.
Some ( ood Thingn About Them
It is an oft-repeated statement that
the press of America today is pretty
U>uch u me**, that it i* highly com*
mercialited and that we have no outstanding
papers. All of this may be
true and yet the fact remains that
the press of the United States is still
playing a mighty, important part in .
community and national life.
"You cun't convict a million dol- i
lars" is a saying that dutes back to ,
the time when our nation first began
to produce millionaires, or perhaps
back of that; Multi-millions have
been convicted and Sinclair iH doing
six months in jail, with the prospect (
that he will serve a second sentence.
Everyone knows this, but few indeed '
know the part played in the Sinclair
conviction by u newspaper ami its
force. The story is told in the Editor
& Publisher of June 8th.
"At 11:30 o'clock on the night of
Friday, October 28, 1927, a dull and
sleepy night in the office of the
Washington Herald, the copy for the
morning paper was well in hand? indeed
there were 11 columns of
overset?when the telephone rang on
the city desk. Don King, a recently
employed rewrite man, Chicago trained,
young and wide awake, answered.
A masculine voice said: "Do you
people want something on the Fall- ,
Sinclair case?' \Sure, we do?what |
have you got?' replied Mr. King. The
voice on the wire said: "They are
going to hang the jury. I heard one
of the jurors sfty so.'
"The newspaper man met the mysterious
caller on the outskirts of the
city a few hours later. Hut the informant
had, in the meantime, suffered
a bad case of 'buck fever.' He j
did not want to. sign un affidavit.'
Hut he did assist the reporter to gel '
information for himself. The result I
was a cleverly devised interview with ,
The juror suspect, soft-drink '
parlor the Herald man heard a '
juror, sitting in the Sinclair case
-my: 'Well, if I don't get a car about
as long as this block I'll feel kind of |
disappointed. There's nothing wrong
with this guy Sinclair. He's got so
much money he don't have to put on
the dog.' l'hen he admitted he wasn't
paying,much attention to the evidence
in the case.
Meanwhile the managing editor of
the Herald had been in consultation
with the publisher of the newspaper.
It was agreed that the information 1
should he laid before the District Attorney.
What followed is now a
matter of history.
Every day and in almost every city
of the country newspaper men are
serving public causes. This case
merely happens to be conspicuous.
Most of the work is done anonymously.
For instance, the American
public dors not know Don King or
have the slightest notion that behind
the legal triumph lies his quick
wit, his lively sense of the line which
runs between right and wrong, his
willingness to work all day after a
night of toil on a mere shred of a
news lead that the routine-minded
would have sneered at and forgotten.
In the nature of newspaper work the '
good reporter must he content with
results which satisfy the soul hut
mean little in terms of the materialistic
world."
Recently the United States Senate
held a session behind closed doors, an
"executive session." Such sessions
have been held before. They are not
going to be so common in the future,
due to the fact that Paul R. Mellon
of the United Press gained accurate
information of what took place behind
the closed doors and gave it to
the papers of the country. When
brought before the Senate for this act
he refused to divulge the source of
his information regardless of any
penalty the Senate might impose. The
case gained widespread attention and
growing out of it and the publicity
given to it the Senate* has decided
that from now on the business of
this our highest legislative body is
to be done in the presence of the public
and the press.
The New York Times recently completed
a poll of the Senate which
showed that 65 members are for open
sessions, 23 against them, 6 undecided,
11 noncommittal and 2 who could
not he reached for art expression. It
was a newspaper man who brought
the question into the open.?LeRoy,
N. Y. (iazotte-Ncwvf,
Two MorsH)r?<s Ocean
Santander, Spain, July 9.?Roger
Q. Williams and Capt. Ivcwis Y'ancey,
forced down today after a trans-Atlantic
air voyage of 3,400 miles from
Old Orchard, Me., slept on their lauj
re Is here tonight before completing
I their flight to Rome tomorrow morning
in their airplane Pathfinder.
Want of gasoline forced them down
as night was falling over the northern
Spanish coast, not far from the
spot whore their French comrade?* ol
the Yellow Bird had been obliged to
, land.
1 They did not seem fatigued wher
The Associated Press correspond?
found them drinking a glass of whis
key with Governor General Saliquet
> .-rfaa,
Governor Richards has grantet
pardons to Will Goggins, Jhn Gowam
i and W. R. Thurston all of whom ha<
; been convicted on charge# ef murde;
iand were serving life sentences.
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Mixed Baaebpll Team
Starts a General Row
Jersey, N. J., July 7.?-An atgqpneni.
between two baseball players at
Montgomery bowl here this afternoon '
precipitated a free-for-all figfcit in |
which several person* were injured
and two men arrested. The fracas '
was quelled only after three detachments
of police had been called*-.
The trouble started when u negro
base runner accused the white second
baseman, Charles Kegcnye, 22, , of!
Bayonne, N. J., of fouling him as he
elld into the base. Spectator# about
evenly divided between whites and
negroes, rushed onto the field and began
fighting.
Regenye, struck in the stomach and
the mouth with a baseball but, was
taken to city hospital. Ham Coleman,
of Jersey City, a negro spectator, was
aVrested as his assailant and held in
$1,000 bail. James Mott, 21, of Jer- j
sey City, a white spectator, was ar- |
rested on a charge <?f attempted assault.
Two negroes were sought.
Charming Myrtle Beach
(Orangeburg Times and Democrat)
"In company with other editors we
spent a recent week-end at Myrtle
Beach, located near the. northern
boundary of our coast line and i
further Mast than most places in our t
State. It was our first visit and
although we were expecting bit: i
things we were surprised and pleased ;
to see what a group of South Carolinians
were doing in this section.
"A few years ago the Woodeid.
brothers of Greenville, well-known
marrufneturers and financiers, purchased
a huge area, fronting twelve
miles on the Atlantic Ocean and em- 1
bracing over 66,000 acres of land.
Under the immediate supervision of
Mr. John T. Woodside and his assistants
a program of development
was inaugurated which, while still
Incomplete, has already cost the owners
several millions of dollars.
"The approach to the ocean here iideal.
TTie beach is a part of themainland
and is not an island. The
automobile rider proceeds thjrtftigh
the ordinary low-country scenery
l without any specific indications of
the proximity of the Ocean until almost
at once the sight of the vast ex
pause of water meets his eyes. N<?
low-lying marshes with the familiar
odor of tidal mud in the hot sur.
shine. In the surf there is no strong
current or undertow, sometimes encountered
elsewhere.
"Myrtle Beach will not be hap
hazardly developed. Plans are carefully
arranged in advance and ever;
thing will be in its place . Farms
, will be offered to truckers and farmers,
industrial sites will be properly r
spaced along the railroad, a growing
town will be amply allowed room for
expansion, and so on. Lots for homeowners
are available without restriction
us to buildings but in another
section all residences must conform :
to the architectural requirements. 1
Each thing in its place, as it were, so
that a harmonious development will
be insured.
"Several hotels are now operating, I
, two near town, and one, a country
club, with twenty-seven holes of g->lf
nearby, a few miles up tho beach. A
new million dollar hotel, over 600
feet long and 160 feet high, will be
open this fall fpr the winter tou-ist.
This, the Ocean-Forest, fronts tho '
beach, and is approached by a fofrr
mile concrete street, lighted all tfce
J way, from the nearby town. Tflti
'stories high, it will offer attractions
| to the winter and summer sojourner
alike unsurpassed by any other r?sort
hostelry.
"A few miles away are to be fouaJ
| some fresh-water lakes, abounding
in fish, surrounded by thousands of 1
acres full of game. Here a club wfU
eventually be organized to take over
the preserve and erect a modern lodge
for its members. It is a strange
I sight to encounter"?a large freshwater
lake within a few hundred
yards of the Ocean, which one standing
by a lake can see nearby.
"Every South Carolinian should be
interested in Myrtle Beach. While^a
part &f it is being developed as an
exclusive resort, exclusive only in the
sense that only those of nm{flc
mean- can afford Its luxuries, the
average citizen can find at Myrtle
Beach pleasant, comfortable, am! enjoyable
accommodations at 1Pittas
which he can afford to pay. Nobody
is being overlooked in the development
and everybody can partakr of
its beauty and pleasure if they like.
"The owners and promoters have
faith in South Carolina. They are
freely spending millions to create
within our State what they expect
to be the most popular and best resort
anywhere along the Atlantic
Coast. This requires a great \ision
and a large faith, and the Woodsides
are entitled to the support of
, our people in their endeavor. Nothing
like Myrtle Beach now exists" In
> South Carolina, and Mjrrtle Beaches
only partly developed at this time.
i It is wonderful and attractive tiftw
and will become more so with fhe
passing of years."
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Spartanburg troops hfcve been ordered
withdrawn from Ware Sh<mle
1 where they have been on duty since
i the strike there several weeks ago.
i The sheriff report* that order hac
c be?n restored and the situation is now
quiet. j?r>
Young Woman Jailed
For Court Contempt
Sumter, July 6.?The novel experience
of being placed in a guurd house
to calm her ruffled temper came to
Miss Catherine Reynolds, attractive
young woman, about one o'clock Friday,
when the young lady wadded two
five-dollar bills and threw them into
the face of Recorder Harby, as she
started to stalk from the court room,
where she had expressed herself very
freely.
Miss Reynolds, guest of Miss.Evelyn
Coskrey, <<l Summerton, while
seeing Sumter, was summoned to
court for speeding. She failed to answer
the summons und was arrested
and brought into court, charged with
a second offense of speeding by Officers
Cummings and Kirven. Recorder
Harby gave her a lecture and started
to letter off with a minimum fine,
when she showe^ such disrespect for
the court that she was locked up.
Profuse apologies on the part of
her male companion secured her release
after a few ininutei,
Free Beer Puts Community on Spree
Port Hope, Mich,, July 8.?It's an
ill wind that blows nobody good.
A rum runner's lugger, carrying
1,000 cases of beer, was blown ashor?
near here yesterday. The crew cached
their cargo in an abandoned barn.
Today a large portion of Port
Hope's male citizenry diacovered the
storehouse and when customs patrolmen
arrived only a few dozen bottles
barring the empty ones, remained.
Many cases were carried *away in
sacks, baby carriages, children's wagons.
and other similar conveyances.
The Right Horse Won
Up m New York State lives one
Mr. H. P. Gardner. He has made lots
of money making whisk brooms. He
has a love for horses and two years
ago he spent some of his money in
buying a real horse. His purchase
uas a colt whose sire is,,the gr^nt
Man ()' War, one of the greatest of
all horses, living or dead.
Mr. Gardner turned his colt over
to Mr. Clyde Van Dusen to train and
a- a compliment to the trainer gave
the colt the trainees, name.
Saturday afternoon Clyde Van
Dusen, ridden by "Pony" McAtee, a
great jockey, won the gt eat Kentucky
Derby. The race was run in a heavy
vain and horses and riders looked like
mud eats when it was over. One
iould hardly tell rider from horse and
numbers were nearly all covered with
mud. but spectators knew Clyde Van
Duscn won. There was 'no doubt
bout that.
Mr. Gardner, the owner of the
three year old, was so excited he
could not stand to look at the race.
He turned his back. Not so the
trainer. Mr. Van Desen not only saw
it all but said from the start that the
colt he had trained would win. And
"Pony" McAtee was heard to tell his
mcunt at the start: "'Now listen,
hawss, when we start to goin' you
keep gittin.' This ain't no place fer
a man with no umbreller." The rain
had been falling for about an hour
and was still coming down hard.
The whole affair was over in two
and a quarter minutes. The raido
brought it home to millions of people
who had never seen or heai'd a
horse race before and many of whom
would feel a little uncomfortable perhaps
in attending such an affair.
Not ^all are as frank and honest
about It as Dr. John G. Clirrkscales,
[Of Wofford College. In his charmiiig
little book, "The Old Plantation,"
he says: "I was born with sporting
blood in my veins. Not that I was
ever disposed to gamble buit sports
|of all sorts, especially outdoor sports,
always appealed to men. .Now as
"young as I am" I enjoy a horse race,
a wrestling match, and am not wholly
averse to a cock-fight." And -when
; he shrewdly added that some good
[ brother will say, "Now that last
! statement ought not to have been
; made," he goes on to say, "O, well,
I brother, it's the truth and must
jstand!"
| Saturday afternoon's race was the
great e\ent of the year for lovers of
; fast horses. One can enjoy it with:
out knowing anything about the
. mutual* and what they, paid for first
place or to show.
j Man O' War's record and the rel
cords of his colts go far in proving
that heredity, blood, and training are
.factors that cannot be ignored.
There's a lesson in that for those
I who care to take heed.?Greenwood
Index-Journal.
Mrs. Susie Ying Kao, wife of the
vice counsul at Washington, tried to
get into San Francisco with a fortune
in opium estimated to be worth
one million dollars. The opium had
been smuggled in several trunks
when discovered by customs officials
The Oregon forestry department
estimates 4. 216,000,000 feet of lum
ber were cut in that ktate last year.
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ADDRESS INQUIRIES
P.O. Box 164, Camden, S. C.
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