The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 27, 1922, Image 1
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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 27,1922. Established in 1891.
Bamberg Lead
, Says Profesi
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South Carolina averaged a homi
x cide every other day last year, according
to figures compiled by Prof.
Wilson Gee of the department of rural
social science at the University of
South Carolina. These figures, based
upon the records of the bureau of
vital statistics, show that during the
? j t Inof thoir 1 ivph
ycsr / jut i vuvu
through violence in the state, an average
of 14.7 homicides for every
, 100,000 people in the state.
Of the 46 counties m the state,
Dorchester has the only spotless record,
while Bamberg, with 13 'homicides,
has the worst record of 62 violent
deaths for each 100,000 population.
Florence, ranking 44 th in the
list, had a total of 16 homicides, but
only showed a record of 31.7 homi,
cldes per 100,000 population. Richland
county is seventh in the list with
a total of seven, or of only 9 for
every 100,000 people.
- v ' "There is nothing more priceless or
- precious in the world than human
life," Professor Gee says. The "value
of a single soul is incapable of being
estimated in terms of material consideration.
All such attempts in the
history of mankind have met with
disaster.
"Some nameless' crimes that are
xTmr-oa than rtpnrivinar the huiftan in
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dividual of the right to live, because
they take the motive and joy out of
living, are more diabolical than homi'
elde, but these are few in number.
One of the first principles engraved
into the make-up of the young life
should be the consideration of the
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rights and-privileges of his fellow
man?a knowledge of the* 'live and
let live' principle. The first lines of
one of the most famous documents in
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our national history recognizes that
4 all men are 'endowed with certain inalienable
rights to life! liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.'
Become More Tolerant.
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"Most of us are conscious or tnese
feelings. We carry them as an underlying
substratum to all of our ro=
lations with one another, and the
older we become ftie more tolerant
we are of the opinions and actions
and reactions of others.
"But something is materially
wrong with an age and^. state where
with les% than 2,00>0,000 of souls
within a year there are 247 'human
lives snuped out and sent into eterni
ty on a moment's notide by another
human being, usually under a high
v emotional tension.
"This was the situation in South
. Carolina in 1921. The records of the
bureau of vital statistics of the state
board of health are Authority for the
' statement that last year there were
247 people who died in South Carolina
with homicide as the assigned
cause of death. The situation
in 1920 reveals 248 as the number of
v homicides within our border.
"These figures mean that practically
two days out of every three
within the borders of our fair state
" some human being takes the life of
another human being, and the voice
of Abel cries aloud from the ground
before the Almighty to condemn his
brother, Cain. Almost every day the
press carries the details of some hor
rible tragedy enacted within our borders,
and we wander that human beings
can so degrade themselves and
mar the perspective in which they
should view life.
One County Clear.
"In only one county in the state
was there no homicide in 1921. We
are glad that-there was this one, and
may Dorchester county stand out as
an example to its sister counties inspiring
them to likewise keep their
hands free of the blood of their fellow
man.
"The county with the largest number
of homicides last year, is Florence
with 16 such tragedies enacted
in its midst. It is closely followed
by Spartanburg with 14 homicides
and Charleston and Bamberg with 13
each.
"But it would be somewhat unfair
. to pht the rating upon this basis, for
some counties have much larger populations
than others. Ranking the
, . counties by the number of homicides
per 100,000 population, Bamberg
county makes decidedly the worst
showing with 62 homicides per 100,000
population. McCormick is next
with 36.5 and Florence 44th with
31.7 homicides per 100,000 population.
The relative position of the
counties of the state in this hall of
infamy may be seen by reference to
the accompanying table.
"What are the causes of such a
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s in Homicides
jor Wilson Gee
WINS FIGHT WITH FISH.
Diver is Caught Under Water by
Devil Fish.
| Tacoma. Wash., April 22.?Bat
I tling for 'his life fifty feet beneath
the surface of Puget Sound, Walter
McCray, a diver, known in marine
circles from Alaska to California,
came out victorious here yesterday
over a giant devil fish.
The monster wound its tentacles
so tightly about McCray that the
diver was unable to reach the knife
he carries for protection. When one
tentacle threatened tf cut off the
air supply, McCray, through the
submarine telephone, called for a
short steel wrecking bar. With this
weapon 'he was able to pierce the
body of of the devil fish, and at last,
with man and monster still struggling
desperately, McCray was drawn
to the surface by his assistant and
other men called to help.
While Richard Burnett, a dock
watchman, stood by with drawn pistols,
unable to shoot because the diver
and devil fish were so completely
tangled, others attacked with what
weapons there were at hand, and
finally the devil fish released its hold
and disappeared beneath the water.
The devil fish was one of the larg
est ever seen in these waters.
DRAGGED TO DEATH.
Runaway Mule Kills Negro Farm
Hand Near Gourdins.
Lanes, April 21.?Tuesday a mule
ran away and killed a negro who 'lived
at Gourdins. The negro was riding
the mule to the field. In a few
minutes after he left the house the
mule came dragging him home. He
was already dead, having had his life
beaten out as the mule ran through
the woods.
situation as this? Is it a defective
functioning of our courts of justice?
. Can it be a partial reversion to bar
barism inspired by the scenes of the
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: recent w-oriu war: Are uur uuutcue^
failing to live up to their high mission
in the state? Is it that our modern
methods of fast living have disturbed
our poise and sense of regard
for human life? Perhaps slack
prohibition enforcement and bad liqor
are partially responsible?
"Whatever may be the cause or
causes one thing is plain in this regard.
Our people must be awakened
to a real consciousness of the awjful
situation?247 homicides in*South
| Carolina in 1921! And every restraining
agency within the state must exert
to the fullest extent its influeiice
to prevent a recurrence of this ter.
rible orgy of crime in 19?2 and subsequent
years.
Rank of Counties.
The relative rank of the counties,
j both the number of homicides and
the population considered, is shown
i in the following table compiled from
the records of the bureau of vital
statistics:
Total num- Rates per
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oer or norm- ?vu,uuv
County. cides. population.
Dorchester 0 .0
Pickens 1 3.5
Lee 1 3.7
i Dillon..., 1 4.0
Georgetown 1 4.6
Calhoun 1 5.4
Clarendon 2 5.7
Chester 2 6.0
Oconee 2 6.6
I Fairfield 2 7.4
I Marion. 2 8.4
! Newberry 3 8.4
! Berkeley 2 8.9
j Richland 7 9.0
| Saluda 2 9.1
I York 5 9.9
Jasper.'. 1 10.1
Greenville 10 11.3
Charleston 13 12.0
I Allendale 2 12.4
Darlington 5 12.8
I "r> ?f o 15
DCaUIUl L O a-v.v
Sumter 6 14.0
Lancaster 4 14.0
Spartanburg 14 14.9
Marlboro 5 15.0
Orangeburg 10 15.4
Williamsburg 6 15.6
Harry 5 15.6
Chesterfield 5 15.6
Anderson 12 15.7
Union 5 16.5
Edgefield 4 16.7
Lexington 6 16.8
Kershaw 5 17.0
Cherokee 5 18.1
'Greenwood 7 19-6
Barnwell 5 21.7
Aiken 10 21.7
Abbeville 6 22.1
I Hampton 5 25.3
j LLaurens 11 25.9
Colleton 8 26.8
Florence -.-16 31.7
McCormick 6 36.5
Bamberg 13 02..0
The State 247 14.7
MRS. MOSS HEADS FEDERATION*
Orangebui-g Woman Elected President
of Clubs.
Columbia. April 22.?Mrs. Adam
, Moss, of Orangeburg, was yesterday
elected president of the South Carolina
Federation of Women's Clubs
succeeding Mrs. S. O. Plowden, of
Statesburg, who, with a year more of
her term still to run, tendered her
resignation. The result of the election
was announced immediately before
adjournment for luncheon, but
Mrs. Moss declined the office, declaring
it would be impossible for
her to serve. However, while the
luncheon given the clubwomen by
the chamber of commerce was in progress,
it was announced that Mrs.
Moss had been persuaded to reconsider
and that she would accept the
election. Mrs. Moss's change of
mind was brought about bv the gain
ing of her husband's consent to become
the federation head, one of the
women' having communicated with
him by long distance in Orangeburg
and brought the word to Mrs. Moss
that he had given his approval?aii
incident, which, related in connection
with the good news of Mrs. Moss's
acceptance, was regarded by the fewmen
present at the luncheon as being
a heartening symptom in this
; time of women's freedom and independence.
Mrs. John Drake, of Bennettsville,
! wbo has been the recording secretary
for four years, was elected
vice president at large to succeed
Mrs. Moss, who was elevated from
the office. Mrs. James A. Cathcart,
of Columbia, who was formerly
treasurer, Vas elected recording secretary;
Mrs. A. C. Ligon was elected
corresponding secretary; Mrs. R. B.
Furman, of Greenville, treasurer;
Mrs. N. R. Goodale, of Columbia,
vice president of the north central
district. The other vice presidents
*hold over.
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Vice President and Cashier Wrecked
Trust Company.
Marietta, Ga., April 20.?A. H.
Gilbert, vice president, and George
H. Sessions, cashier, of the Marietta
Trust and Banking company, whose i
combined shortage was said to be
$230,000, entered pleas of .guilty in
superior court hrere late today and
were, sentenced to penitentiary
terms.
I Each was given a general sentence
| of six to ten years and in addition
I concurrent sentences of one year
were given the men on each of the
twenty-three indictments against
them. Barring a pardon, the sent-j
ences mean at least seven years each.
Counsel for the defenc&nts said they
lost the money in speculation.
The bank was taken over by the
state banking department soon after
the shortages were discovered.
STAND FALLS, SEVERAL INJURED
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Part of Bleachers at Columbia Collapses
at Opening Game.
Columbia, April 20.?Collapse of|
a section of the crowded west side
bleachers at the ball park this afternoon
during the game between
Columbia and Charlotte caused the
injury of fifteen men and boys, most
of them being slightly hurt. Of this
number it was found necessary to
give hospital services to seven, although
thirteen were taken to the
Columbia hospital, five being immediately
discharged. All the injured
are residents of Columbia.
Two newsboys, Henry Cook, 1020
Taylor street, and John Quinn, 1327
Taylor street, with injured backs,
and F. W. George, 1119 Green street,
blinded from a blow on the back of
his head, are the more ;ipainfully
hurt, bu\ 'hospital authorities do not
think they are seriously injured.
Lady Luck Was With Him.
An illiterate justice of the peace
used to consult what looked like a
law book, but was really a mail order
catalogue. One day a negro was
haled before the squire on a charge
of drunkenness. The squire heard
the evidence and then, after opening
his book and glancing at it, fined the
negro $4.49, to be worked out on the
road at 25 cents per day. As the i
negro was led away he said to the
marshal: "I sho' is an unlucky nig-|
ger!" "Unlucky nothing," said the j
marshal. "If the squire had happened
to open that book at automobiles
instead of pants you'd be working on
frtQfi tho rAot nf vour life."?
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N. Y. Evening Mail.
BYRNES SUCCEEDS ON FLOOR.
representative Has Thirty Millions
Sent Back to Treasury.
Washington, April 24.?Representative
J. F. Byrnes earned his salarytoday.
As result of his single handed
fight conferees on the part of the
chouse and senate struck from the appropriations
bill in favor of the shipping
board an item which would
have permitted the shipping boaru
to make use of an unexpended balance
of $30,000,000. The original
request of the board was that it be
granted an appropriation of $100,000,000.
The director of the budget,
Gen. G. C. Dawes, approved the
request, and then the shipping boarc,
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Ill ctUUlllUIi, (15ACU. Llia L iL ug united
to expend a balance to its credit
amounting to $3,000,000.
Mr. Byrnes took up the fight at
that point. He argued that the re!
quest of the board would circumvent
a law which required that all unexj
pended balances be placed in the
I treasury, and that the request was
I out of order. His point was sustain|
ed. But the senate agreed to the request
of the shipping board. When
this agreement was brought before
the house Mr. Byrnes renewed his
fight and the house formally voted a
disagreement with the senate.
The matter at issue was the subs
ject of a struggle in conference. Announcement
tonight that the conPnnnnn
Vi O /-? nrtnontflH til O VPfflipt rtf
I' id oca uau ai/v^^wvu vuv ? v*.ww vthe
'house gave Mr. Byrnes a complete
victory.
He has saved the government
j $30,000,000, it is pointed out, and
| has more than earned his salary.
CONTRACTS CANCELLED.
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I No More of Fatty Arbuckle's Pictures
Will be Shown.
Cancellation of all contracts for th*
Showing of films in which Roscoe C.
j (Fatty) Arbuckle appears, was announced
last week, by Will H. Hays,
head of the Motion Picture Producers
j association. This action, he said, af
fected nearly 10,000 contracts.
"After consultation with Mr. Nicholas
Scheneck, representing Mr. Joseph
Schenck, the producers, and Mr.
Ad?lph Zuker, and Mr. Lasky, of the
Famous Players Lasky corporation,
the distributors," Mr. Hays statement
said, "I will state that at my request
they have cancelled all showings and
all bookings of the Arbuckle films.
They do this that the whole matter
may 'have the consideration that its
importance warrants and the action is
taken notwithstanding the fact that
they had nearly 10,000 contracts in
force for the Arbuckle pictures." ^
When Mr. Zuker was esked if the
action of the producers' association
had removed Arbuckle definitely froin
the list of scheen stars, he replied:
"We simply left the matter in the
Uotro Tf 4a n tn him
ildiXUiS UI illl. lia/ Q. A b AW WW .
to decide in the future whether it will
be proper to reintroduce the Arbuckle
pictures."
Mr. Zuker said recently that three
Arbuckle feature comedies had been
completed before the arrest of the
comedian on charges growing out of
the death of Miss Virginia Rappe.
The producer announced shortly after
Arbuckle's acquittal that one of
the films would be released as a
"test" of public opinion.
DYNAMITE CAP WOUNDS YOUTH.
Joe Garrick Loses Several Fingers
On Both Hands Wednesday.
Norway, April 19.?A regrettable
accident which 'happened near here
Wednesday afternoon of last week,
when Joe Garrick, son of Jake Garrick,
touched off a dynamite cap and
in the explosion that followed lost
three fingers from his left hand and
two from the rig'ht, besides receiving
painful burns. Joe is fifteen
years old and lives with his parents
about two miles out of town on what
is known as the "Dowling" place. Mr.
Garrick had put the dynamite caps
on the sill over a door, thinking that
the smaller children could not reach
them and the larger ones would
know better. Joe, it is said, took the
cap in his left hand and was picking
at it with a knife in his right hand,
when the explosion occurred. Dr. C.
H. Able, family physician, was rushed
to the boys home, and he reports
a very painful and serious condition
of the wounds.
Miss Anna L. Williams is being
boomed for mayor of Ventor City,
N. J.
Massachusetts^ 22,000 saleswomen
have been granted a minimum pay
of $14 a week.
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Tobacco Expen
Marketing
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FRIENDLY SUIT SETTLED.
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Bonds Can Be Sold Without Beinfc j ,
Voted On by Citizens.
Orangeburg. April 20.?The su- ,
preme court has just handed down a .
decision in the case of William V. ,
Zeigler, taxpayer, against -W. B. ,
Thompson and the other members ,
of the board or trustees of the city
schools. In this case the plaintit? ^
sought to enjoin the trustees from
issuing and selling $30,000 of school
bonds to Ifrect school buildings. The
case was a friendly suit and intended
to test and settle the question as to
whether a school district could issue
and sell school bonds upon the authority
of an act of the Legislature
without first submitting the question
to the voters in an election. Some
doubted this and the bond house
would not buy the bonds until the
question was settled. Judge Bowman
held the bonds valid without submit- .
mn tlio nortnla Tha oitnremo
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court has sustained Judge Bowman.
The trustees will now sell the bonds
and proceed to erect the school building
for the colored people. Messrs.
Wolfe & Berry represented the plaintiff,
while Julian S. Wolfe, Esq., appeared
for the school trustees in the
matter.
Very.
The Magistrate?"But why did you
throw the axe at the man's head?
Didn't you know it would kill him?
Haven't you any brains?"
The Culprit?"No, judge, I guess
I ain't strong on brains. I'm just
handy with tools."
cooperative marketing idea; the late
President Roosevelt was one of the
first advocates of the plan; ex-Presi/lont
Wilcnn nr?pH it linon Aft far
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mers, and President Harding is in
entire sympathy with the movement.
Both the Democratic and Republican
party platforms contain planks urging
the plan, and the government
is pledged to help the farmer at ev
ery move in furthering the cooperative
sell^pg plan; the railroads and
90 per cent of the business men of
the entire country are backing the
movement, and about the only opposition
found among any people is among
the planters themselves.
"You may depend on it that we
have men of brains to look after this
matter. Don't imagine for a moment
that we are going to sit down and
see the independent sellers take in
the profits while we lose thepi. The
tobacco interests will not dare discriminate
against the association. We
have been assured by the tobacco
manufacturers that we will not be
discriminated against and I believe
them when they say so, for they are
.operating under the anti-trust law
and are on probation. Any infraction
of this law will mean they go into
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LUC VUUA vigr m w vmw
Exhibiting a tin of smoking tobache
said that the idea of the manufacturer
is to make profits. "Buy as
cheap as you can produce it, and sell
it just as high as the consumer will
stand" is the plan of manufacture,
co, he said the idea of the manufacing
special blame on the manufacturers,
as "you or I would do the
same thing, or else we would get out
of the business." It is all in the system,
ihe said.
South Caroluna, above all other
states, said Mr. Lea, has everything
to gain and not a single thing to lose
by joining this movement. The selling
season opens here long before
any other state, therefore the crop is
sold without the slightest knowledge
of conditions in the other selling
states.
The association, backed by the government.
is ready to mSke advances
to all members. The idea is to store
the tobacco with the association warehouses
where it will be properly
graded and packed, 'it prices are not
favorable, the tobacco will be rtdried
and stored. There will be no indiscriminate
selling. An expert grader
will be in Bamberg to assist the planters,
and he urged the growers to
learn to properly grade according to
the standard scale.
The address was one of the most
vigorous ever heard in Bamberg ana
aal lino ro^oivoH ? PTPHt.
UUU]yt;i auv^ 4WV4'vv. ^ 0
1 impetus at the meeting. Mr Young
closed the meeting vita a talk in
which he went inr.o nore details concerning
the cooperative marketing
plan, but space forbid3 going into his
address as it deserves.
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ts Advise
f Cooperatively
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"The tobacco interests have robbed
the tobacco growers absolutely and
systematically," said W. E. Lea, field
representative of the Tri-State Tobacco
association at a meeting of the tobacco
growers from several neighbor-,
ing counties held at the court house
under the auspices of the Bamberg
Tobacco association. Mr. Lea aaaea
that in making this statement he did
not mean the word "robbed" in the
erms of a highwayman, but he attributed
the robbery to the system, the
only relief from which can be had in
the cooperative selling of tobacco.
The meeting was held in the interest
of the cooperative selling plan. At
the conclusion of the speeches a number
of farmers signed up to sell their
crops of tobacco through the association.
The meeting was presided over by
A. M. Brabham, and addresses were
made by Mr. Lea; E. L. Ring, tobacco
expert of the Southern Railway company,
and T. B. Young, director of the
Tri-State Tobacco association. The
meeting was attended by. a representative
audience of tobacco growers,
though the attendance was not so
large as was hoped for. . . , - Jj
,Mr. Ring was first introduced,. His
remarks were quite brief but to the
point. He gave some valuable suggestions
for the growing and curing
of tobacco, stressing the point that
to make profit on tobacco low grades
must be avoided. In order to pro
(luce good cooacco, gooa piauts must,
be'secured and transplanted by April
15; fertilize well, be sure to have
a good stand, allow the plant to ripen
well before cutting, take out of barn
at the proper time, and use intelli- \
gence. It is very important to keep '
the suckers plucked off the plants and
cultivation should be thorough. Mr.
Ring is a practical tobacco grower,
having been a planter for 36 years.
He has &2 acres under cultivation thi8
year, and his tenants are not only satisfied
to grow tobacco, but could not
be persuaded to plant cotton even if
he wanted them to. The tenants
must be shown that there is profit in
tobacco before the land owner can
hope to get them interested in tlie
crop. Mr. Ring offered to assist any
nlantfer in the erowine of tobacco.
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Lea told of his visit to this
county 24 years ago. At that time
a Mr. Young was manufacturing the
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famous "Ear Heart" smoking tobacco
here, a very fine smoke, too, and a
Mr. White was manufacturing plug f
tobacco, both from Bamberg grown
product. "I want to say that that
plug tobacco was as fine as I ever
tasted, and I am a pretty good judge
of tobacco," said Mr. Lea, who
thought so much of it that he carried
a box home with him for his friends.
The cooperative idea of tobacco
selling was born in Florence at an
indignation meeting last year when
the prices oRred for the weed were
below cost of production, although at
the time every man present believed
that he was beaten out and was at
the mercy of the tobacco trust. Now,
the plan has been worked out and
has grown to such proportions that
success is certain. Such incidents as
this one forced the planters to take
drastic and immediate action: In
Johnsoriville, S. C., a pile of 60,000
pounds of tobacco for $600. The
/ * vefl
same pile was resold to a speculator
for $1,200, and again to a third for
$3,300, neither party even touching
it. The pile was then sold to the
manufacturers at what price the
speaker did not know. ?:
"My father and grandfather sold
tobacco at auction, taking what was
offered him, but there has been advancement
in every other industry,
and there must be advancement in
the system of tobacco selling. All
other business interests are organized,
and the salvation of the south
depends absolutely on the organization
of the planters," he said. The
tobacco trust has multiplied its proffits
enormously, and an 1921 the dividends
of the tobacco companies increased
millions of dollars over the
previous year. ' *
"The low grade tobacco that sold
in Bamberg last year at from one to
five cents a pound is used in making
cigarettes that sell at $6 and $7 a
thousand. It takes two and a half
pounds of tobacco to make a thousnd
cigarettes, or somewhere around
12 cents worth of your tobacco," as- /
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serted Air. Lea in illustrating the
alleged robbery of the farmer.
Mr. Lea said that the brainiest
men of the country are behind the
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