The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 12, 1929, Image 8
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
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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.
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We sell nothing but dependable.
standard cars
at bargain prices.
| 1928 Model A Coupe $480.00
1928 Model A Tudor $476.00
1928 Model A Roadster $876.00
1928 Model A Touring $360.00
192? Model T Sedan $176.00
1926 Mo<lel T Roadster $126.00
1927 Model T Touring $176.00
1924 Model T Touring $ 75.00
i REDFEARN MOTOR CO.
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| Ancient, Historic, Exotic and Gay Capita! City, of the I
Republic of Cuba. ... I
A MOST INTERESTING PLACE TO VISIT j
Contrary to the general impression, the climate in ~ fl
Cuba is pleasant during the summer. The hotel rates [
< ' are unusually low, and a trip can be made there at I
small cost. j
Average summer temperatures, as furnished by Belen^ College
Observatory are as follows: r
Minimum Maximum j
.June 76.14 y 88.53
.luly 73.8 88.55 [
August 75.7 80.45 fl
September 75.07 89.02
The nights are always cool and pleasant, due to the ?ver Pre&* : fl
ent Trade winds-which sweep in from the ocean. I
All Year Tourist Fares to Havana are in effect via all rail* fl
roads/- going either to Port Tampn or Key West thence P. A 0- j
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offered by the rail lines at intervals during the summer season.
Stop overs permitted at all points in Florida. Consult your loc?' ticket
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