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?be Pamberg geralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 28. No. 27. Thursdey, July 3, 1919. A BAMBERG WHITE WAV. That the commissioners or public works plan to have a "white way"' in Bamberg was a pleasant announcement. Folks here, especially the younger ones whose future is still before them, long to see Bamberg take a strong and decided step forward. The old town has been here for a long time, and it will probably be here a long time yet, even though the streets never get paved and attractive lights are never placed on Main street. Many men have made / money here with the town just as it is, and many will doubtless continue to make it, whether the town makes real progress or not. But, while we are living here, why not make the town attractive and beautiful? It makes no difference whether anybody ever makes a cent more money or not. People pay thousands of dollars to have attractive homes to live in. We have but one life to live; let's get all out of it we can. All of us will swell our chests with pride when we can stroll down Main street, with attractive walks and paved roadway, under the rays of attractive street lights. Now won't we? COUNTY ROAD SYSTEMS. We all feel that a real start has been made in permanent road construction in Bamberg county since the contractor has begun work on the highway from Edisto river to Salkehatchie rivfer. Bamberg has about as good roads as any county in the State; in fact we have better i;oads than most counties,. but that is not saying so very much, Still, we think the county handling its own road problems to be the best solution. The State highway project of building a % few hundred miles of concrete or macadam roads at an expense of many millions of dollars would serve to | benefit the various counties very little. What we need is a general system of good roads, and in our opinion the best way to get such a sys\ tem is for each county to build its own highways, connecting important points within the county. It is very easy, after all, to affect connection in building such roads so as to have highways, just as Bamberg's link of government road wilf connect up the Columbia-Savannah highway. CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN? The suicide of Dr. Wilkins in New York State the other day presents an interesting problem in psychology. The doctor had been tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. He stoutly maintained that he was innocent. Shortly after his conviction by the jury, he succeeded in procuring a rope by means not yet known with which he hanged himself in the bathroom of the jail in which he was ini carcerated. The psychological part of it comes wTion nne trips tn fienirft out wheth er the doctor suicided because he was guilty or because he was not guilty. He left a note proclaiming anew his innocence, saying that he preferred to be his own executioner and would save the judge embarrassment in the anticipated refusal of a new trial. Will a man preparing to die make a false statement? Or, would an innocent man commit suicide? JAY BIRD OR PREACHER. The story of the Georgia preacher who shot a jay bird which was disturbing church services has gone the Tounds of the press of the country. Favorable and unfavorable criticism has been meted out to the parson for this act. Now the deacons of the church come forward with a statement that there was nothing to get excited about, and this is true. The amount of publicity given the subject shows what little things the American mind can busy itself with while big things are going unnoticed every day. The jay bird was in the church and insisted on squawking, and it was simply a matter of whether the bird or the preacher was to entertain the congregation. The preacher decided that he had the privilege of the floor and downed the jay. That's "*" * a " 4-v? yv av/>?4- am a*i + an mere is 10 it. .*111 mc ca^ucuiciu seems to have been elsewhere. In spite of the opposition President Wilson has had from many so-called statesmen, he has been *0 Europe and he has accomplished what he went to Europe for. The stars and stripes mean more to the world today than ever before. The State Press association is in session in Greenville this week. Greenville is a very hospitable place, and the royal entertainment acorded on a former occasion makes it a mat.ter of rerget for those who cannot attend this year. While the city authorities are prepsfring to improve and beautify Main street, let's pot overlook the fact that there are other improvements to be made in Bamberg. There are some unsightly?to say nothing of unhealthy?ditches in Bamberg that should be removed. And let's be certain r ot to forget those waterspouts on Main street sidewalks every time it rains. Also?we tremble to agam mention it?tho awninps were necer put up on Main street to accommodate the tall man, or the medium, for that matter. ^ HI ^ WELL PLANNED ESCAPE. How French Nurse Foiled German Third Degree. Condemned to death by the Germans for her efforts in behalf of fugitive French soldiers Mademoiselle L'Hotellier, directrice of the General Hospital at Cambrai, was spared, but she was fated to undergo all that Prussian ingenuity could devise to compel her to betray her | associates. She Was hustled from one German prison to another and subjected to the grossest hardships, but her spirit never quailed, and finally she escaped, triumphantly returning to France still guarding her secrets. Her own story, one of the most gripping of the innumerable tales of French women's heroism, was given Ida M. Tarbell, who . recounts it in the July number of the New Red Cross Magazine. Of her escape from Valenciennes, Mademoiselle L'Hotellier told Miss Tarbell: "I was so frightfully ill they all thought I would die but I meant to live?I meant to live and escape. For six months I worked on my plans. As I grew better I could walk a little and they let me go into the garden. Finally I asked them to let me put on my nurse's costume, for curiously enough in all my wanderings my belongings had gone with me, even to my umbrella. I walked in the garden day after day quite naturally, until the guards were used to me. Then one day I walked out of the garden into the town. The guards did not notice. The sisters closed their eyes. I did this often always returning until one day I walked out as usual, nothing in my hands, and did not return. I walked on and on through Valencinnes into the country toward Belgium. Everybody supposed me a lady on an errand of mercy. Sometimes I asked a lift from the Germans themselves. I rode in their canions; I slept sometimes in their quarters. I In the midst of her flight the armistice was signed and Madamoiselle L'Hotellier found it possible to repair directly to Cambrai. There she found her hospital uninhabitable but she was still directrice and her staff rallied about with the greeting: "We knew you would come; we knew they never could conquer you," and short ly she was again at work for the wounded and sick in new quarters, for all the world as though nothing had happened. m >ti ? Breaking It Gently. "I paint what I see," an art-student once said to his master, complacently. "Well, tlie shock will come when you really see what you've painted," said the artist.?Boston Transcript. Moving Letters. First Pater?"My hoy's letter from college always send me to the dictionary." Second Pater?"That's nothing! My boy's always send me to the bank."?Boston Transcript. i I A MODEL JAILERESS. ! ! Charities and Corrections Board Praises Local Jail Management. Following is the report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections on the Bamberg jail, in which the jail management of Mrs. Edgar Dick- j inson is very highly praised, but in which suggestions for improvement of the plant are made: "Mrs. Edgar Dickinson, jaileress. Visited May 12, 1919, by Assistant Secretary Broyles. Prisoners, 1 white male and 3 negro males, 2 of the latter being government prisoners. "In making inspections in South Carolina we are frequently told that the jailer would do a great deal better if he had a decent building with which to work, and many claims as to the impossibility of keeping the old-fashioned, obsolete wooden buildings clean and advanced, but whenever we hear this we think of the Bamberg jail, which proves that any type of building can be kept neat, sanitary and attractive. It is a real pleasure to visit this plant, and see its management in operation, and it certainly should act as a great incentive to the men jailers of the State. In active management we have no suggestions to make to Mrs. Dickinson. "Coming to the plant itself, the story is entirely different. The building is dangerous from fire, a wooden stair being the only means of exit from the prison section. The walls have been whitewashed, but nearly all of this has fallen off. The beds, except for whites, have not been furn?i + V, moHrflttoc nr onttnn illDllCU niiu v* wwwScore Card Report I. JAIL PLANT: PERMANENT FEA' 1. Location 2. Separation of prisoners' quart< idence .* 3. Prisoners' quarters: (1). Fire hazard (2). Ventilation (3). Facilities for classificatioi (4). Sanitary facilities .. (5). Cell facilities and type (Total score under Section I.) II. SHERIFF'S MANAGEMENT: M: 1. Jailer's general duties 2. Records of prisoners 3. Prisoners' quarters: Conditio: 4. Classification of prisoners 5. Personal hygiene of prisoners. 6. Prisoners' food and feeding 7. Discipline and occupation of p: (Total score under Section II.). III. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AN! 1. Jail's equipment and repair.. 2. Medical service for prisoners... 3. Financial management (Total score under Section III.) Complete score on this jail Chaingang Report. "Mr. J. R. Morris, foreman. Visit ed May 12, 1919, by Assistant Secretary Broyles. Twenty-three men, of whom all are negroes except one, who is a jvhite man now acting as a guard, and who sleeps with the other guards. Seven men are trusties. Camped about three miles from Bamberg on the Ehrhardt road. "We are sorry to report that there has been little change in conditions at the Bamberg camp since our inspection of 1918. The county has not yet provided a stove for cooking, and open fire being used, a piece of iron culvert 'forming a rude and ineffective shelter in rainy weather. Only five or six counties now attempt to run a camp without a stove, properly sheltered, and no county should expose the prisoners to the danger of improperly prepared food, or no food at all in bad weather, because of a mistaken desire to save money which should be spent in equipping the camp with necessary equipment. This is the chief fault in the commissioners' management. In the foreman's management, the outstanding fault is the lack of care in the disposal of sewerage and other waste products of the camp. The pit into which the sewerage buckets are dumped was 18 steps, or yards, from the tent in j which the convicts slept, and the waste was not properly covered with earth each day as it should have Score Car I. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND 1. The camp and its equipment: (1). Guards' quarters (2). Convicts' quarters (3). Kitchen (4). Storeroom (5). Stock adequately sheltere 2. The Convicts: (1). Medical attention (2). Records of convicts (3). Convicts' food and feedin (4). Classification as required (5). Ten per cent, off for goo 3. Miscellaneous (Total score under Section 1.) II. FOREMAN'S MANAGEMENT: M 1. Camp and equipment: Conditi (1). Campgrounds (2). Guards' quarters (3). Convicts' quarters pads, blankets being the only bedding. The windows are not screened against flies and mosquitoes. No facilities have been provided for the safe keeping of insane inmates. There are no flush toilets and no bath tubs in the building. The medical service is far below standard in quantity, the doctor not being employed to examine the prisoners upon commitment, or to make regular inspections of the institution, but is hired to i serve only for special cases of sickness, on call from the jailer. We recommend that these suggestions made above be adopted by the supervisor and commissioners, but we do not believe the inside of the jail should be whitewashed, but should be painted instead, the board walls being smooth, and not suited to hold j whitewash securely. A good quality * of white or cream-colored paint should be used. For bedding we ; recommend the purchase of some cotI ton pads with slip covers made of | ticking to protect them again dirt and wear. These covers can be taken off and washed whenever they may be i soiled, and in addition to thus lending themselves to the jailer's efforts to make the building a model of neatness they will pay for themselves many times by the saving on the wear on the pads themselves. "From what we can learn, the county authorities having the jail under their charge do not enter into sympathy with the splendid efforts 6f Mrs. Dickinson as they should. In her work she is badly handicapped by the miserable building, but she has done a remarkable work for her prisoners and deserves the unqualified support of every man and woman of Bamberg county." on County Jail. rURES: Possible. Actual. 15 15 srs from jailer's res 10 0 45 14 70 62 a 100 65 100 34 60 55 400 245 ETHODS AND RESULTS: 50 36 30 27 as 70 '69 80 80 : 80 79 65 64 risoners 25 25 ? | 400 380 D THE JAIL: 110 67 80 13 10 0 200 80 1000 705 ] been. The slop barrel in tlje center i of camp was about a foot deep with j swill, but was entirely uncovered and ! open to flies. A hole had been dug : out about 10 or 15 feet from the ! cooking place, and into this hole dirty water and slop is poured freely. ; The result of these several kinds of | carelessness is obvious. As naturally i follows the camp was swarming with | flies, and the foreman stated that he , had tried every kind of commercial disinfectant he could hear of to rid ! the camp of them, but without efI feet. If he will clean up the camp, and keep it-clean, he will have no flies. Lancaster county has a larger camp than Bamberg's, and keeps many head of stock in camp also, but there are no flies because the place is clean. "We recommend that the foreman make the convicts clean tne camp thoroughly, and that he give close attention to keeping the place sanitary. In addition to the matters sugested ! above which need improvement, we ! recommend that he have all blankets ! in use washed at least monthly; that ! every newly committed convict be : given clean blankets for his bed; ! and finally, that the filthy, disgusting ! practice of allowing three men to bathe in the same tub of water be stopped. More than one man should never be allowed to use the same water, especially when the men bathe j as seldom as convicts do, and are as j dirty as convicts get." d Report. CHAINGANG: Possible. Actual. 25 20 105 66 50 15 15 15 d .. ... o 3 65 13 30 0 g 70 50 by law 60 60 d conduct 50 50 25 4 500 296 ETHODS AND RESULTS: ons: 10 7 10 9 80 55 (4). Kitchen and equipment 15 12 (5). Storeroom 10 8 (6). Stock ? 5 5 2. Camp sanitation: (1). 'Water supply: sources unsuspicious 30 25tf (2). Disposal of sewerage 50 29 (3). Disposal of manure 3>0 0 (4). Disposal of kitchen refuse 1,0 6 3. The convicts: , (1). Personal hygiene 75 53 ^ . (2). Discipline 150 116 (3). Records 25 13 (Total score under Section II.) 500 338 Complete score on this chaingang 1000 634 a?^? . - ? ~ if SOME MEN CAN BORROW LARGE SUMS OF MONEY ON THEIR SIGNATURE ALONE. ) WHY? 'V/^'^rSI Simply because they made their names stand for integrity and judgment. * >f i?j|| You can do the same thing. A well-kept Checking Account at this Bank will start **M you on the road. I YOU CAN NOT STAKT SUUn I '"111 ' A CREDIT TOO SOON. . I Vvl r Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 | am iHTERETrWEBEEsuBMMSSii^siiiMM^whM^iimiBB^ *yTo paid oh WH ?m6SACCOUNTS^^^|JJ^|^2jlje552ie^mi?iefl8BBll " : : ~ ? ~ ~~ ; >M x m-m ijymimKm v-m A Ml ' X ." : > V Y/| ?> U-ll 'IHO ?lMgl A J&fii A We are pleased to announce that we have obtained A A for this city the exclusive sale of the Nationally A A known and Nationally favored. 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