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GIIU.8 AND SEX IN COURT Men Were Slacked By Presence of Naive Young Girls at Cheater (Yorkvilla Enquirer) While the King murder trial had lo<a! interact In all its phases perhaps unparalleled in York county, the big thing in that trial from the world viewpoint wiib one feature of it, present continually, and talked about by men engaged in the caae uu par tie i. pants, observers, or recorders of the drama, every day of the court sessions. It wuh the attitude toward sex of the young girls of today in Cheeter county, which probably means all South Carolina. That trial was a very informing clinic in the psychology of modern youth as regards sex, and when the lawyers talking to the jury lectured upon the cases exhibited, it became a subject worthy of much wider discussion than the trial of a man for murdering} his wife. Almost from the beginning sex appeared in the proceedings in court. The state claimed the man killed his wife from causes and motives based on sex. The defense claimed the young, handsome and popular teacher of French committed suicide because of sexual troubles. From the beginning of the testimony until the last twelve speeches to the jury, there were hundreds of girls of high school age in the court room sometimes gaining admittance with groat pains and crowding every inch of space inside the bar around the attorney and press tables. They entered laughing and chatter- , ed loudly until the crier opened court and the daily discussion of the most intimate relations of married life be- I gan. This lasted seven days, and to- I ?Ward the end there were m?n-?? ynnr>f>- j girls there than in the beginning of the trial, negativing any explanation of unsophistocation. Day after day, testimony on the witness stand and questions by the lawyers could not he printed, nor | mailed, although entirely proper there j in court, because vitally material to 1 one side or the other of the legal bat-, tic. The lawyers glossed over the sexual facts with as decent words as possible, but had to bring out tlje stark facta?and these were probably as deep ptobing into the sexuality of youth and of married life as any foVum ever saw. I "Talk about innocent girls!" ex- ' claimed James H. Glenn, defense law- ( yer, to the jury in his argument to ' ihe twelve men, "The girls of twelve j or fifteen now know more than their ' ciders at thirty-five. We have proof I of that right here in this court room | all this week. You know what has 1 been brought out here, anjl I have j failed to see a blush on the'cheek of | nny girl while such things were be- ' ing told. Talk about an innocent gir). ] I he age of innocence is past." | That was more descriptive than | i heterical. One man working at the ' press table facing scores and hun- I drods of young girls, made a point of watching their faces while the anatomy, physiology and reactions sup- I posed to he known only to married folks were being detailed on the stand j -and he failed to discover any evi- j deuce tnat any girl wished she were ' not there, while the erstwhile hlush ! he is old enough to have seen years ago was not even suggested in those I checks. "They ought not to let these girls ! in here," was the opinion of several stuff correspondents of Southern newspapers, as well as of other men spectators and auditors at that trial. As a matter of fact, the court officers could not keep them out, practically, for all applicants for admission could not be required to file proof of age and whether married or not. The whole thing was interesting to an outlander very familiar with feminism in the United States and its effects on modern femininity, for an-/ other reason than the general one. For years, womankind in these United States has taken the attitude to maintain that she differs not at all from mankind?that everything pertaining to human race and human body is hers to know and talk about as much as it is the concern and talk of men. But womankind in the South is still rather mid-V ictorian as compared with the feminist movement elsewhere. Here women do not vote much, do not run for office much, do not preach nor practice law much, seldom practice medicine, do not smoke much, tell risque stories and use profane language in mixed company hardly at all. The Southern woman still remains on the old pedestal and is treated by the men of the South as of finer clay than the male. It was knowledge of this which caused the outlander observer to be somewhat surprised at the interest shown in s court trial involving ?exmri witt? in n grout stent by the presen high caste girls in the South, and their carelessness about who knew about their coming to court to hear such testimony and questions. , I ho last redoubt of the oldtime, unsophistocated, refined and sensitive c harming and bashful girl in, or wan, in the South and especially in Sout'i Carolina. And observation for a week in old Cheater, South Carolina, seems to prove conclusively that the modern girl has abandoned that redoubt and gone over to her sisters in Illinois, Pennsylvania, California and the Dakotas. She has made an entire change of position, and as the lawyer told the jury, "The age of innoJcence is past," even in conservative, woman-worshiping, isolated, exclusive South Carolina. It may be that the court room at Chester last week is the mark of the existence of a new era of femininity in the whole South. Put even if she has made an about face and now looks calmly at what she carefully kept behihd her back hitherto, the South Carolina woman remains on her pedestal and shows no desire to step down?only a determination to turn around to see things her mother di^ not know existed. This naive method of eating a cake ! and keeping it too rather stumps the men. Many of them were really hor- j rified at the presence and actions of' so many high school girls in that! court room audience of the big drama j based on sex in man and sex in wo- j man and their reactions which were ! detailed and disc&ssed so much. The) girls were not horrified at all. Some of them did put on that poker face even their grandmothers used when their male escort mentioned legs, hut that face has been only a camouflage for generations. Once it was necessary for a lawyer in explaining his theory of why the charming young French teacher was"" killed to describe a part of the sexual ' psychology and reactions of the married relation, that even he, seasoned attorney and state senator, had not the nerve to speak to the whole audience. He stood at the jury box rail and told it to the dozen men in low tones. The attorney on the other side acting as irritant to the opposition arose with an objection and claim that all [ the lawyers were entitled to hear, what was being told the jury. Attor- j ney Hamilton admitted this, and say-') ing he would comply since compelled ) to do so, he faced the big array of! lawyers and in a voice audible in the I corridors repeated what he had told' th$. panel in the box. It is impossible to conceive of anything more intimately sexual than! that hypothesis of what husband and wife did shortly before the death of' the latter, he stated with details. ' And that very considerable number of pretty girls of high school age J drank it in without any more special I consideration of decency than a phy-' sician gives to a statement of symptoms told bim in his office. This narration of what occurred in that court room is merely descriptive, a page from a laboratory note book ' in the department of sociology, and in no sense is it a criticism of girls ortheir grandmothers. In fact, the present writer inclines to believe the 4 modern girls are saner than their) mothers and former feminine ancestors. I Hut the notes made in Chester do j seem to have some importance in anv i record or study of womankind and | femininity?and entrance of feminism ? in the South which used to worship women as demigods?pure angels who did not know much except how to cook and keep house. Death of R. P. So well Robert P. Sowell, aged 44 years, [died at his home in the Huffalo section \\ ednesday. June 20, and was buried in the Mt. Pisgah cemetery the following day after funeral service# conducted by Rev. S. I). Baxley, of Jefferson. Mr. Sowell was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sowell, of the Buffalo section, and was married about seventeen years ago to Miss Inez Johnson, who with six children, ranging in age from one and a half years to fourteen years, survive, him. He is survived also by three brothers. J. G. Sowell. of Jefferson; \V. P. Sowell and S. M. Sowell, of Kershaw, and one sister. Mrs. j D. M. McCaskill, of Columbia. Mr. Sowell was a member < !" the Junior | Order and the members of" that Order j held the funeral rites of that organization at his funeraI. ? Kershaw Era. John Edward Corley. 1.3-year-old" l son of Mr. and Mrs. II. E. Corley of Newberry, was drowned July Fourth while learning to swim in Bush river, near his home, with a party of Boy Scouts. Red Potts, son of Fort Mill's chief of police, is being sought by York county officers under charges of firing four shots from an automatic pistol at Rural Policeman Carl Morris near Fort Mill Wednesday. New Orleans if sometimes called the CHjr of -- Premium Placed on Old Booze Bottles (Orangeburg Times-Democrat) "If you happen to have several casea of those old dispensary bottles around your premises, that is the kind with the Palmetto Tree blown into them which the state would fill with rotten liquor and sell at a profit, you have a nice little extra source of revenue/' said a local citizen this morning. "I read an article in the Dorchester County Jtecord the other day about an antique dealer of Charleston who was interested in the collection of these bottlefc and who would gladly pay fifty cents each for them?that is, the ones with the tree blown into the glass. I can remember* that in dispensary duys hero In Orangeburg, one could find them in back lots and alleys by the hundred and as a boy 1 collected several hundred and stowed them awajh #But I don't knoiV' where they have gotten to."' Here's what the Dorchester Record says about the old dispensary bottles: "W^en the state dispensary was started in South Carolina on July 1; 180S, it sold better grades of whiskies as put up by the distillers but did its own bottling of the cheaper grades, The bottles first used for these cheaper grades had Palmetto trees blown into the glass. There was u howl against this use of the state emblem and it was discontinued hut not until millions of bottles with the Palmetto emblem had been used. "These old bottles are in demand by curio dealers all over the country. Considering the millions of those bottles that were put out by the state dispensary, it would seem that the demand would be quickly over supplied, but such has not been the case. N\_ Burgess, a Charleston curio dealer, is advertising in the Dorchester County Record for old dispensary bottles. He buys only those with the Palmetto tree blown into the glass. There is no demand for any other sort. He says that he had already sold more than a thousand and still has a demand for these relics of a state experiment in control of the liquor traffic. Mr. Burgess talked most interestingly of the trade in dispensary bottles that had the Palmetto tree blown in them. He is especially anxious to get hold of some more round bottles of the quart size. The Palmetto was better blown in those than in any, of the others. For such bottles he ( pays fifty cents each, which is more than they brought in the old days], when filled with whiskey. , He had a number on his shelves j( and showed them to the visitor. There (] is quite a difference in the art qual-j. ity of the Palmetto as blown into the vatious sizes and stands out most ( clearly on the round quart size bottle and least clearly on the flat half pint size. Children Used as Food By Starving in China Boston, July li.?Reports of appalling conditions caused by famine in the Shensi, Suiguam, Kansu, Honan. Tchsien and Tientsin districts of 1 China have been received by the American Board of Commissioners, for foreign missions. Conditions are so terrible, the missionaries report, that several cases of cannibalism have been confirmed. The Rev. Earle II. Ballou. of Sax-, ton's River, Vt., reported that only a few hundr<>d miles west of Tientsin where ho works, the famine is so. great that parents dare not let their' children go on the streets for fear they Will be stolen and sold or eaten. To assist in relief work the board has transferred the Rev. Stephen C. Peabody, of Appleton, Wis., to Yulin-~ fu, Northern Shensi, to relieve Elmer W. Gait, of Shenandoah, Iowa. Mr, Peabody had been in Peking since 1924. Both men have been released by the b<mrd to assist in relief work. Failures of the spring crop and the extreme dryness which prevents planting of crops for the fall in Souther!; Shensi means, according to Dr. Petty T. Watson, of NorthfieUl, Minn., h. ad of the American Board Hospital. :n Fenchow, that there w il bo no f.x.d grown in that area ur.til the spring of 1930. The Re\. Phillip T>. Nutton, of Ashland, Mass., reporting on conditions in Shensi, Suiguan, Kansu, TTor.an, and elsewhere, said "The people are dying by the hundreds and thousands now and the situation will grow worse until crops are harvested." Jake Vanderburg Goes Back to Work High Point, N. C., July 6.?Jake Vanderburg, recently acquitted by the Gaston county superior court on charge* of murder in connection with the death of his parents, a brother and two sisters, is now living with relatives here and is working a popcorn stand. The big fellow, who weighs 2.'17 pounds and stands six feet, four inches tall, but who is only 17 years old, says that he intends to enter high school here in the fall. Immediately after his acquittal Jake went to Richmond and was in a sanitarium there for several weeks to recuperate from the strain of his trial. He is now fully recuperated. He attends the Baptist church and Sunday school here, going with his relutives, though he was a member of the Lutheran church at Gastonia. He avers that at no time' during his trial did H5e feel any fear that ho would be convicted for, he says, he knew that he did not kill his family, and he knew he would get justice. Jake said that he hoped, if he is able to- enter school this fall, to make the football team. He also said that he-was writing poetry during any spare time he had, as he works every week-day and Sunday afternoons, but ho has no idea of making poetry his life work. He said he hoped to go to college when he finishes high school and take up the study of medicine. .Millions of Fish Caught for Fertilizer Georgetown, July 6.?With a catch of three million fish last week, the hands at the Georgetown Fish Scrap and Oil company plant have been working night and day preparing the material for fertilizers an<f extracting the oil. The fishing this season -is exceptionally good, officials of the company say, and they are well pleased with the results. I he smaller fish are plentiful in local waters. In fact it would be possible to make much larger catches, but the management is now sending scouting expeditions further south to determine if the larger fish can be h?d in sufficient numbers, to warrant putting on additional boats and hiring larger crews. The new territory is located in the vicinity of Charleston, and the result of the investigation will be learned soon, it is understood. Larger fish are much richer in oil L-ontent and mean larger profits, the fish factory men explain. In case this variety are found in satisfactory quantities near enough the base of operation, the output of fertilizer material and oil from the local factory will be increased considerably. The arrival of the fish boats at the dock always create interest. As a general rule the holds are brimming full of mahaden, with a few other fish thrown in for good measure, and on some occasions racks are erected on the decks to hold the catch. Death of Tom Copeland Funeral services for Tom Copeland 23, who died at the Camden Hospital last Tuesday, were held the following day at DeKalb Baptist church. The young man is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Copeland, and numbers of relatives and friends throughout Kerahaw county. Death of Mrs. J. V. Young ^ j Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Young, widow j of J. V. Young who passed away six years ago the 24th of last May, died at the Ward hospital jn Rock Hill Saturday, July (5, and her remains were brought home the same afternoon in the ambulance of the Kershaw Mercantile & Banking .Company. The i funeral services were held in the Hanging Rock Methodist church Sunday afternoon, being conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. B. Herbert, and interment was in the Hanging Rock cemetery immediately after the service. Mrs. Young, who was 54 years of age, was a consistent member of the Hanging Rock?. Methodist church for a number of years. She was highly respected by all who knew her and will be greatly missed from among her. many friends. She had been sick about four months and was taken to the hospital in Rock Hill about two weeks prior to 'her death in the nop* that her health might be improved, but she grew steadily worse instead. She 1s survived by two sons, Edgar' W. Young and Woodrow Wilson Young; three grand-children, E. W. Jr., Joseph Gordon, and Bather Margaret Young; also by one sister, Mrs. M. A. Domihey, of Charlotte; and following brothers?J. T. Gay, C. B. Gay, F. N Gay and Nathaniel Gay.? Kershaw Era, n?. n. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF BANK OF CA.MDIiX I LOCATED AT CAMDEN, 8. 0.. AT TUB CLOSE OF BUHlNEfc I JUNK 29, 1929 jt, Resources. Loans and Discount# * .? $ ^?M$6.479 Overdrafts 1,127.6* 1 Liberty Bonds Owned by Bank, '408^25(gm ?nB xtimks Owned by the Bank Furniture and Fixtures 15,01)2.2, Bunking House * 54.000(w W Other Real Estate Owned < aS.OOQ.O", 1 Cash on hand and due from Banks,. 56,728.3k I Checks and Cash Items 28,062,23 1 Total 11,416^1 I Liabilities. Capital Stock Paid In $ 100,000.06 I Surplus Fund 100,000.00 fl llndiviaed Profits, less Current Expenses and TS*es'Paid...... 36,80o!lO I Due to Banks and Bankers, NOME I Dividends Unpaid 6,068.00 I Individual Deposits, Subject to-Check 8352,836.95 ] Savings Deposits 369,192.23 Time Certificates of Deposit . 321,835.36 I Total Deposits 1,043,364.54 I (Notes and Bills Re-discounted >, NONK I Bills Payable, including certificates for money borrowed.... 130,000.0ol State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Before uie came H. G. Garrison, Jr., Cashier of the abova utruied buk wk, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a ' trm I condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. H. G. Garrison, Jr. fl Sworn to and subscibed before me this 5th day of July, 1929. C. H. Yates, ( orre? * ?Attest: Notary Public for S. C I Dnvid Wolfe, W.G.Wilson R. 'B. Pitts, | Directors. BANK NO. 235 i STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE ! BANK OF BETHUNE j LOCATED AT BETHUNE, S. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON I JUNE 29, 1929. Resources j Loans and Discounts $83,025.86* Overdrafts, Cotton Overdrafts (op?n) . ' 18.15? Bonds and Stocks Owned ...... 7,100.00? Furniture and Fixtures . ' . 2*562.95 I Banking House L482.00? Other Real Estate Owned T.. .16,966.28 Cash on hand and due from Banks 9,975.97 8 Checks and Cash Items 635.92 fl Other Resources, Viz: Collection Farm Account 1,186.00|B Total $127,050.231 Liabilities 1 Capital Stock Paid in , ,. $15,000,001 Surplus Fund 5,000,00 I Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and taxes paid..., 25.97 m Due to Banks and Bankers NO^C Individual Deposits Subject to Check $38,874.01 Savings Deposits . .TTT77Tr. 3,256.48 Time Certificates of Deposits * 30,277.28 I Cashier's Checks o.._ 116.49 72,624.26 Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money .Borr<USScL> 34,500,00 Total ............. ............ ? *? $127,050.231 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Kershaw j , , I Before me came G. E. Parrott, Cashier of the above named bank, wh*> be fng duly sworn, says that the above, and foregoing statement is a true condl i lion of said bank, as shown by the bo?K8 of said bank. 1 G. E. Parrott, Cashier, j Sworn to and subscribed before this 5th day of July, 1929. Correct Attest: T. D. Laffttte, A. K. McLaurin ' Notary Public for S. C. G. B. King ? . N. A. Bethune - -* Directors. J NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS . All parties indebted to the estate of G. W. Moseley, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims agalaai the said estate will present them duly at tested within the time prescribed by law. R. L MOSBDEY, ' v. Executor. Camden, S. July 8, 1929. REDFEARN MOTOR CO: EACH GA* WE sru. MAKCS STHC GR AOe / That's why we make the grade with the public. 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