The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 05, 1921, Image 1
$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921. Established in 1891
LaVerne Thomas
of Bamberg in '
Elected.
Mayor?LaVerne Thomas.
Aldermen?M. G. Cooner, Dr. H. J. i
Stuckey, C. W. Rentz, Jr., W. M. |
Brabham, H. L. Kearse, B. T. Felder. j
The Vote.
MAYOR.
LaVerne Thomas 124
John Cooner 77
W. D. Coleman 69
F. K. Graham 34
D. J. Delk 4
ALDERMEN.
M. G. Cooner 228
Dr. H. J. Stuckey 204
C. W. Rentz, Jr., 180
W. M. Brabham 175
H. L. Kearse 173
B. T. Felder 167
W. D. Rhoad 143
E. L. Price, Jr., 141
C. B. Free 140'
0. A. Simmons 136
w. H. Chandler 130
Hotly Contested Campaign.
I
Decidedly the most hotly contested |
election in many years in Bamberg
Tuesday resulted in the election of
the gentlemen above named as mayor
and aldermen. ^Vhile the friends of
each of the candidates for mayor j
thought their man was a sure winner, j
it was apparent to the open mind j
that it was a free-for-all contest, and,
the result could not be accurately 1
guessed in advance.
The number of voters this year was
considerable in excess of that of former
elections, due to the registration of
women,, quite a number of whom parin
fho plpfmn and for the I
reason that there was more interest
in the election this year than usual.
Quite a surprise was sprung at the
last minute when it was announced,
contrary to expectations, that the voting
would he done through the Australian
ballot system. Tickets had
been prepared for voting in the
usual way, but Monday night the
consent of all the candidates for
mayor was secured for using the Australian
system. To do this The Her
aid force was summoned to the office
early Tuesday morning to print and
number the tickets for the Australian
ballot, and the tickets wrere delivered
to the managers before eight
o'clock Tuesday morning.
The campaign lasted only about
two weeks, but these weeks were filled
with hard work on the part of
supporters for the various aspirants,
especially those for mayor. Thursday
nfght a campaign meeting was
held at the court house, a thing unheard
of in town politics before, and
speeches were made by a number of
the candidates, including Messrs.
Cooner, Graham and Thomas for
mayor. and Chandler, Free
and Rentz for aldermen. Mr.
Coleman, a mayoralty candidate,
was unable to be present on
account of sickness, and a short address
to the voters was read from
him. Hon. B. D. Carter presided over
the meeting, which was attended
by''a large number of voters, both
male and female.
A last minute change occurred in
the ticket. Wl D. Rhoad, who had
previously withdrawn from the race,
consented upon the solicitation of a
number of his friends, to get back into
the running, and he permitted his
name to appear as a candidate for
alderman.
All those who have desired to see
live politics in Bamberg have full
reason to feel satisfied. If it is true
that a town without politics is dead,
it may be safely predicted that Bamberg
has taken on a new lease of
life. . After the spirited campaign
that has been conducted, either by
the candidates themselves or their
friends in their behalf, the gentlemen
elected have every reason to
feel that they have been honored by
being chosen as the city fathers for
th? next two years.
For commissioner of public works,
Mr. Dickinson was unanimously elected,
he having no opposition. The
city is very fortunate in securing Mr.
Dickinson's consent to retain this'
office, and all citizens, regardless of
their preference for councilmen, are i
agreed that there is not a better qualified
citizen of Bamberg to hold this
responsible position. F[e is chairman
of the board of commissioners.
Mrs. Georg? F. Hair holds the interesting
distinction of being the first
woman to cast a ballot in a Bamberg
city election. Mrs. Hair was one of
. the first to cast her ballot early Tuesday
morning, and was the first wo
Elected Mayor
Tuesday's Election
man.
An interesting phase, unthought
of before this election, was the fact
that the candidate for mayor and six
candidates for aldermen receiving the
highest number of votes are elected.
It was the general idea up to a few
days ago that a second election would
be held if no candidate received a
majority of the votes cast, but this
is not true of general elections in
towns of less than 5,000 population.
A large number of citizens congregated
about the polls throughout the
day, and this number, was greatly
augmented when the counting of the
ballots was started. There being
eight names on each ballot to be call!
ed, the counting was not concluded
! until late in the afternoon Tuesday.
LaVerne Thomas, elected mayor in
Tuesday's election, is a native of
Florence. Before coming to Bamberg
j in 1914 he was connected with the
l Southern Bell Telephone and Telej
graph company. He fs the proprieI
tor of the store of LaVerne Thomas
I & Co., LaVictoire Theatre and Thomas
Service Station, and is one of the
city's young progressive business
men.
Mr. Thomas wishes to express his
thanks to the people of the city for
the confidence expressed in him in
Tuesday's election, and wishes to give
the citizens of the town the assurance
that his best efforts will be
given to Bamberg during the next
two years. He begs for the coopera,
tion of all the people, and says that
all differences, which are usually a
part of hotly contested campaigns,
so far as he is concerned are things
of the past. It will be his endeavor
to give Bamberg an economical administration.
He says that he feels
that the stringency of the times demand
economy in all departments,
and he would like to see a reduction
of taxes in the near future.
TRAGEDY ON ROAD
I COSTS TWO LIVES
CAR
RUNS INTO NEGRO CARRYING
STEEL DRILL.
Man in Car KilledNegro
Run Down and Also Dies of
Injuries?Accident Near
Newberry.
Newberry, April 28.?John A.
Payne, white, and John Gilder, a negro,
were killed at Gum Spring, three
miles northwest of Newberry, on the
Piedmont highway in an automobile
accident this afternoon. Mr. Payne
was formerly of Whitmire, but for the
past two years lived in Greenwood,
j He was 26 years old and "was recent!
y married to Miss Johnson of Lanford
| Station, Laurens county. He and his
brother-in-law, H. M. Cashion,. of
Greenwood, were in a Ford coupe on
their way toward Greenwood from a
baseball game at Newberry. At Gum
Springs the Newell Construction
company had just knocked off work
| for the day. Gilder, a negro laborer,
wTas coming toward Newberry with a
steel drill rod about ten feet long
on his shoulder. Getting out of the
way of a truck, he stepped right in
front of the coupe. The rod went endwise
through the coupe's windshield
and pierced Mr. Payne's eye and entered
his brain, killing him instantly.
The coupe ran against the negro and
knocked him down and the injuries
he received from the car and from
the rod he was carrying caused his
death an hour or so later. The negro
was 45 years old.
Mr. Cashion, whose wife is Mr.
Payne's sister, was not seriously injured,
but was badly shaken up and
the shock to his nerves rendered him
unable to testify this evening. The
inquest was postponed until morning.
The families of Messrs. Payne and
Cashion were notified of the tragedy
! and their wives and some Greenwood
| friends came to Newberry tonight.
"Mr. Payne's "body, by direction of
Sheriff Blease. a.ter being viewed by
the coroner's jury, was immediately
carried to an undertaking establishment
and cared for. The time of the
funeral has not been fixed.
Women and young girls wearing
short skirts are forbidden admission
to Notre Dame Roman Catholic
church, in North Adams, Mass.
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SAVINGS DEPOSITS
SHOW BIG ADVANCE
INCREASE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
OVER $5,000,000.
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Many New AccountsFifth
Federal Reserve District Makes
Fine Showing, Statement
Says.
Savings deposits in South Carolina
banks and trust companies increased
more than 5,300,000 last year, and
more than 32,000 additional savings
accounts were added to the 1920
total.
These figures are from a statement
just made public by the government
savings organization of the Fifth
Federal Reserve district to show the
development of the general savings
movement and to emphasize the progress
which has been made in checkin
the tendency towards unwise
spending and waste.
In South Carolina the are 491
banks of which 311 replied to the
questionaire sent out by the government
savings organization of the
Fifth district. Among this number
are most of the larger banks, the reporting
institutions representing
probably more than 90 per cent, of
the" banking resources of the state.
Their figures which are for January
1, 1920, and January 1, 1921, show
that last year their savings deposits
increased from $74,770,231.26 to
$80,086,676.31, a gain of more than
$5,300,000. The number of savings
accounts in South Carolina increased
during the same period from 135,757
to 168,195. Total deposits for 1921
were listed as $144,467,477.^0.
nnv.o mr?ro than S80.000.000 in sav
JL U.V-/ liivA ^ Y w ? 7 . > _ , _
ings deposits does not by any means
represent the total savings of the
state, the statement shows, since
many hundreds of thousands of dollars
were saved and safely invested
in government savings stamps and
certificates, Liberty bonds and other
standard securities.
The large sum of money in the savin
deposits of South Carolina banks
is regarded as strong evidence of the
progress of the general savings
movement in this state. The saving
idea is one of the principles to
which the war gave strong impetus,
and many persons learned to save for
the first time in their lives, the records
show, when they subscribed for
Liberty bonds, paying for them out
of their current savings. The bonds
bought represented, when paid for,
millions of dollars saved, a statement
from the Fifth district says.
That the savings movement is making
forward strides throughout the
whole of the Fifth Federal Reserve
district (Maryland, the District of
Columbia, the two Virginias and tAe
two Carolinas) is shown by the fact
that fast year the savings deposits
in 1,687 reporting banks and trust
companies out of 2,260 increased
more than $65,000,000, while the
number of individual savings accounts
advanced from 1,887,741 to 2,324,427,
an increase of 436,686. This
means that there are now in this district
something like 400,000 more
savers on the books of the banks than
last year. Total 1921 deposits in the
1,685 reporting banks were given as
$2,083,535,390, of which more than
$805,300,000 represented savings deposits.
Besides the money saved and deposited
in banks and that invested in
government savings securities the
records show that more than $1,000,000,000
was invested by the people
of the Fifth Federal Reserve district
in the five issues of Liberty bonds,
the per capita, that is the average
total amount subscribed by every
person in the district?men, 'women
and children?being $115.33, this
sum of course representing savings in
addition to other money invested or
deposited in banks. It is to be taken
into account, however, that many individuals
and other purchasers of
government bonds have not yet fully
I paid for them and the banks are now
! carrying these securities.^ This
| amount so carried is nevertheless
j mall in proportion to the whole.
" gfc ?
JIow It Works.
"Apples are very high at the
I stores."
"Yes?because they are scarce in
the wholesale marhets."
"But I read that the crop was enormous?that
laden trees were left untouched
in the orchards."
"Yes?with such a big crop, it
doesn't pay to pick them."
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SENATE ADOPTED
KNOX RESOLUTION
PLAX OF HARDING AMIXISTRAJIOX
STARTED OX WAV.
Townsend Effort Failure- I
Michigan Republican Tries in Vain to
Have Amendment Accepted Inserting
Peace Clause.
Washington, April 23.?The administration's
first step towards placing
the United States on a tecnnical,
legal basis of peace was taken tonight
by the senate in adopting the
Knox peace resolution.
Before tne preparation ior a vu^
by theNsenate tonight on the Knox
peace resolution an amendment was
introduced by Senator Townsend. Republican,
Michigan, proposing to substitute
for the provision repealing
the declaration of war a simple
clause declaring peace/
Senator Townsend argued that it
was unnecessary to repeal the war
declaration and pointed out that the
repeal plan had been attacked vigorously.
He- therefore proposed as a
substitute clause "Providing that the
state of war declared to exist by
congress on April 6/1917, between
the imperial German government and
the government and people of the
United States of America is hereby
declared at an end."
Senator Townsend's amendment
was defeated, 26 to 44. It was supported
only by the Democratis and
three Republicans, Senators Nelson of
Minnesota, Sterling of South Dakota,
and Townsend.
The vote for adoption of the resolution
was 49 to 23.
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Three Democrats votea ror me resolution,
and although no Republican
voted against it. Senator Nelson of
Minnesota paired against it. The
Debmocrats voting for it were Senators
Myers, Montana; Shields, Tennessee,
and Watson, Georgia. Twp
others, Reed and Walsh, were announced
as favoring the resolution.
The resolution now goes to the
house with prospects of prompt action
there. No change was made hv
th? senate in the Knox resolution as
reported by the foreign relations
committee. It would repeal the war
resolutions affecting Germany and
Austria-Hungary, impound alien enemy
property and remove the United
States all rights and privileges under
the treaty of Versailles and other
peace treaties.
An effort to amend the Knox reso'
lution made by Senator TOwnsend,
Republican, Michigan, was moved to
strike out the clause repeating the
war declaration and substitute a
simple declaration of peace, was defeated
44 to 26, shortly before the
final vote. Senator Lodge, Republican
leader, opposed tne Townsend
amendment, stating that it had been
considered carefully by the foreign
relations committee, which decided
that "the direct method was the
best."
Senator Lodge, inaugurating debate
for the day, told, the senate that
treaties with Germany and others
with other nations with which the
United States has been at war would
follow the Knox resolution. He also
gave notice that the United States
would not abandon the allies.
Washington, April 20.?The acceptance
by the house this afternoon of
the amendment ohered by Representative
Byrnes of South Carolina to the
army appropriation bill, under which
the size of the army would be limited
to 150,000 men, constituted a jolt to
the Republican machine from which
it required half an hour to recover.
Representative Kahn of California,
j chairman of the committee on military
affairs, who desires an army as
large as 250,000 men, declared tonight
the house would reverse itself
and that it would prepare for an army
of'at least 175,000 men.
The Democrats, however, are delighted
in that they developed real
| sentiment of the house irrespective
| of what subsequent action the Re'
miblicans in obedience to the narty
lash may take. Representative
Byrnes is delighted at the result because
of the fact that even Secretary
! of War Weeks stands for what is regarded
as a large army.
If congress does the surprising
thing and enacts a bill providing for
j only 150,000 men, it will be necessary
| that the troops in Germany be hastily
i recalled inasmuch as they will not
I be a sufifcient number in the United
j States to fill domestic assignments.
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Annual Memorial
at Rivers Brid
i
The annual memorial exercises of i
the Rivers Bridge Memorial associa-j
tion were very fittingly observed on!
Thursday, April 28. The day was I
ideal for the people to gather at this
sacred old spot and they came from
the four corners of the earth, it
seemed. It was estimated that there
^were two thousand persons on the
grounds. There were as many Fords
as the writer ha3 ever seen in one
place, to say nothing of the "real"
automobiles and the buggies. The
memorial ground is a very hard
place to reach, as the place is surrrmririori
hv canri boric airi SWamDS and
those who go annually must make
the trip for the love of commemorating
the brave lads who fell there for
their beloved southland. The moss
hanging trees, the pretty wild foliage
and the few graves form a picture
beautiful beyond description. On
arriving the spirited music by the
Carlisle band wafted over the hill to
i
greet the crowds as they assembled
at the gathering.
Vice President J. A. Peters, of the'
association, called the meeting to
order, and turned the chair over to
Prof. F. C. Chitty, who presided. He
spoke a few words of welcome and
told briefly why this reunion is held
annually. Rev. C. E. Peeler led the
great concourse of people in prayer,
and with much feeling the Bamberg
quartette sang "Under the Flag."
Mrs. Lawton, of Charleston, state
president of the IT. D. C., made a
short address, in which she told of
the splendid work the daughters are
carrying on, how they are helping to
educate so many of our boys and
girls, and how they are holding up
the standards for which our forefathers
fought. Among the greatest.
things they are doing is the building
of a highway from Washington city!
to Oregon, which has been named
the Jefferson Davis highway, in memFORCES
OF ARMY
MAY BE REDUCED
AMENDMENT FORCED. AT HOUSE
SESSION.
But May Be Reversed*
Action Taken in Committee of Whole
and Another Vote May
Follow.
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Washington, April 30.?Holding a
solid front against a Republican split,
Democrats forced through the house
today an amendment to the army appropriation
bill cutting down the enlisted
force to 150,000 men. The Kahn
proposal for a bigger force never got
to a vote.
The bill as approved by Secretai'y
Weeks made provision for 168,000
men, or 12,000 more than the number
fixed by the measure passed last session
and vetoed.
There was no certainty, however, |
that the 150,000 figure would stand, '
- ?: + + ? A !
as the vote today was m uumm
of the wrhole and the house may demand
a separate vote on the amendments
in passing the bill next week.
The amendment for reduction of
the enlisted strength to 150,000, the
lowest figure suggested in the long
debate, was offered by Representative
Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina.
Only two Democrats opposed it and
many Repulicans gave it their support.
The vote was 109 to 82.
The house previously had adopted
as a substitute for the Kahn proposal
an amendment by Representative
Fish, Republican, New York, for
an army of 156,000, but the Byrnes
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amendment went through ana wiyeu
it out.
Representative Mondell, the Republican
leader, in closing debate,
urged Republicans to stand by the
bill as framed by the appropriations
committee with its enlisted total of
168,000, but many members of the
party deserted him as the march was
started down the aisle for an actual
count.
Chairman Kahn of the military af-j
fairs committee pleaded for at least
175,000 men, declaring the timsrfc too
troublous for wholesale slashing of
forces. Representative Wood, Republican,
Indiana, taking issue with
the Californian, insisted that if the
world was on the verge of a fire a
few thousand extra men could not put
it out.
Exercises Held
ge Last Thursday
ory of our one and only Confederate
president.
After the address of Mrs. Lawton,
the quartette sang "Scatter the Flowers."
Prof. Chitty then introduced
Hon. J. F. Carter, of Bamberg, who
eulogized the deceased members of
the association. Mr. Carter said that
he hoped before long steps may be
taken so that the wives of our veterans
may be remembered along with
the men who wore the gray. -They
deserve some memorial. Mr. Carter
thpn cnnto pf fVio Triifai>an0
o J/ v Ul. LUt T DLC1 aiiO|
who had passed away since the last
memorial was held.
Comrade M. 0. Kinard was the first
to go into the great beyond during
the past year. He fought in twelve
battles and was wounded three times. , .
Mr. Carter related how brave Mr. Kinard
was, how he never gave up even
when wounded.
John F. Breland was the next to
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give up life's battles. He enlisted
when a boy, went through the entire
four years of war, and was wounded
five times, once desperately, the bullet
passing through his body. But
for the care of an old mountain wo?V
man he would have died of his
wound.
George H. Kearse, "Uncle Jim,"
as he was commonly known, was the
next to join his old comrades in arms.
He -was recognized in the beginning
of the war for his ability as a leader
and was made a lieutenant, then
captain. He led his men in many
battles, in woods, over hills, and
through the mud. He was twice
wounded, but stuck to his post to j
tho on/1 .5-a
W4JLV VUU*
Dr. N. F. Kirkland, known as the
grand old man of the county, was the
last to answer the summons to come ,
up higher. Mr. Carter said that few - s:
men have lived in a community who
are mor? highly respected than Dr.
Kirkland. He lived to a ripe oldage
and his life was filled with good
deeds. He was a surgeon and phy- v~
sician in the army, was at his post
the entire four years, and many times
his life was in danger, hut he continued
to minister to the wounded
and dying. Dr. Kirkland was the
president of the association at the
time of his death, a position he had I
held for many,, many years.
Mr. Carter spoke feelingly of the
bravery of these four loyal comrades,
how they had helped to reconstruct
their devastated land after they had <
laid their guns aside. ?
The address of Mr. Carter was followed
by a reading by Miss Amabel
Neeley, of Olar, in negro dialect,
"High Culture in Dixie." The reading
carried one back to the good olddays
of the "mammy" period.
The memorial address was made by
Hon. George Warren, of Hampton.
He very eloquently carried his hearers
back to the scenes of the days of
the war; how our men fought for
the principles pronounced at Philadelphia
in the days of Jefferson, and
not for slavery. He begged the
young people of today to imbibe that
fact into their beings and strive to
render to their government the things
their forefathers fought and suffered
; .rrto
preserve. He deplored the fact
that there has been a tendency to
centralization, and asserted that the
federal government controls too much
We must come' agaTh to th? realization
that there are states' rights, and
a monument should be erected to
the Confederate dead with this inV
, <fi.
scription: "These men endured, suffered,
died, in the belief that they
were fighting for a principle that will
not be forgotten."
Beautiful flowers were put on the
graves of the fallen heroes, and taps .
were blown by the Carlisle school
bugler. This ended the exercises of
the day. .The rest of the day wa3
spent by the crowd in renewing old
acquaintances. Though the ranks of
the. old soldiers grow thinner every
year making the memorial a sad
event, yet they must have felt very
happy to know how the younger generations
feel toward them. Surely
this annual memorial will never be
discarded, judging from the interest
and gathering last Thursday.
The officers of the memorial association
wish to express their appreciation
to all those who participated
in the exercises, and especially to the
o.uartette, consisting of C. W. Rentz,
Sr., C. W. Rentz, Jr., LeVerne Thorn- /
as and J. J. Heard, and to the band
of Carlisle school, for the splendid
musical programme rendered Thursday
which contributed so much to the
success of the occasion.
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