The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 14, 1922, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Sintered as second-class matter April j
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879.
$2.00 PE1I YEAR.
Volume 31. Number 36.
Thursday, Sept. 14, 1922
It is a safe guess that the Reverend
Baxter "Cyclone" McLendon has
not increased his popularity in these
parts by his activity in the interest
of Cole L. Blease. Neither has he
increased his usefulness as a minister
of the Gospel.
We hail you, Governor McLeod,. as
the champion of law enforcement in
South Carolina for the next two
years. May your administration be
prosperous and powerful for the good
of this grand old state. We here and
now pledge you our loyal support in
bringing to the surface every latent
res'ouce of this good state, and in the
promotion of the best interests of
the commonwealth.
We like the manner in which Governor
Hardwick, of Georgia, handles
the pardoning power. The other day,
before the execution of the young
bandit> Frank DuPre?who, by
the way, was a South Carolina
boy and who was buried at his
old home in Abbeville county?a petition
signed by no less than 15,000 1
persons, countless numbers of whom
were men and women of prominence
and undoubtedly good citizens, was
presented to the governor asking for
executive clemency. There was no
valid reason, aside from natural sympathy,
for asking for a commutation;
there was no doubt of the guilt of the
unfortunate young man; there was
no doubt of the heinousness of the
hoy's crime?he shot and killed a detective
in a jewelry store in order to !
escape capture after possessing himself
of a valuable diamond. The only
excuse for asking the governor's
mercy was the youthfulness of the
prisoner, who was 19 years old. Gov- '
ernor Hardwick spent hours over the
matter and finally refused to interfere
with the law. This was eminent- 1
3y the correct attitude toward this
deplorable matter. Everybody felt
sorry for the boy. It was a terrible
end to a promising youth. But the
crime he committed was terrible?
the killing of an officer in making es- :
cape after a robbery. DuPre's bul- 1
let not only ended his own life on
the gallows, but it made an end to
another's life; it made an orphan of
the detective's little girl, and it made
a widow of an innocent woman. 1
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The bonus bill which congress has .
passed involves an expenditure that ]
will cost, it is -said, every family in j
the United States an average of $200.
The bill is now awaiting the signa- ]
ture of President Harding, and it is ]
expected that the president will veto 1
It. It seems likely that the bill will, I
however, be passed over the presi- 1
dent's veto. The Herald has abso- <
lately the highest regard and affec- <.
tion for the soldiers who fought in 1
France as well as those who were :
not afforded the opportunity of go- i
ing across the ocean; their sacrifice ]
and patriotism call for the highest <
tribute America can pay them. At i
N the same time, we 'have always been <
of the opinion that it was putting \
patriotism on a low plane to attempt t
to reckon it in money value. It is J
quite impossible for America to pay
these splendid men and boys their <
worth to their country in money. The \
bonus bill carries total appropriations 1
of several billion dollars. The sum <
might just as w^ll have been a tril- ]
lion dollars; the soldiers would still j
be underpaid. You can not pay a ]
man sufficient money to warrant him i
for monetary purposes to expose his j
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me 10 me enemy s uuiieta. xuu xxia.r j
take every dollar that is now avail- 1
able and which may be available for s
the next hundred years and still you ]
would not be paying these men for S
their service. Why attempt the impossible?
Why bankrupt the country
in an attempt to do that which ]
is beyong reason? America did ev- ]
erything any country could possibly c
do for her boys in the army during 1
the war and afterward; the best the s
country had went willingly across the i
seas. No amount of sacrifice was too f
much for our soldiers. We ate corn- z
bread to give them the flour, and the i
cornbread was sweet to palates that i
never before liked it, because we z
were serving the boys. We did without
sugar and never made a com- t
plaint. It was for the boys. Nothing 1
was too good for them. Nothing is s
still too good for them. But there (
is positively no end to this thing of i
paying them men for their service, z
It would be entirely reasonable, if t
this bonus is finally enacted,, for con- z
gress to vote some more billions next (
year, and every year hence until the \
last hero is in his grave, and still z
the debt we owe them will not be f
paid. c
OLD CAROLINA
AND HER "TABBY"
(By X. L. Willet.)
Time that weaves mystic spells
and puts a halo about environment
has her habitation in Beaufort land
for in this land time is gentle and
kind; here time is not an avenger!
The grandfather's clock in my hotel
at Beaufort has been tabulating the
seconds for 169 years; and through
my window I seet street sign which
says: "Two blocks to St. Helena
church founded in seventeen hundred
and twelve (1712)." Tills old
church, founded 210 years ago and
her contemporaneous and Bister
chruches, Sheldon, Parish church
and Goose Creek church?near
Charleston?constitute a trinity of
churches, the oldest and historically
the most important in all of American
history. And in this St. Helena
churchyard, which covers a whole
city square with its high surrounding
walls and with a gateway with commanding
portals, sleep a host, as
likewise in Sheldon Parish churchyard,
of the most illustrous men and
women of the early days of this country.
These peoples, who long ago j
passed on, endured, and conquered,
too, the hardest vicissitudes that ever
best any portion of this great land.
Than this old St. Helena churchyard
there is in all the land no sweeter
place to sleep, for here within these
walls tall and everlasting live oaks
keep guard; here are beautiful
palms, ever enduring palmetto trees,
and hundreds of thousands of soft
ever-swinging grey pendants of Spanish
moss, all of which, at least to
\
me, seem as if they must serve as
pillows for these weary heads to rest
upon.
Other sections may boast of their
brick and granite but the old province
of Caroliha boasts of her "tabby"
which is equally as immortal as
the above builders and far more romantic
in that it' is made up of whole
shells imbedded in and cemented by
burnt oyster shell lime. From Charleston
to Savannah this tabby work is
in continual evidence. Tabby serves
for dwellings, for churches, for walls
and for foundations?and for forts!
The oldest house in Beaufort, inhabited
today and over 200 years old, has
a base of tabby walls in which are
half a dozen port holes for rifle use.
Old Fort Charles on Parris Island,
the first fort in America and the
landing place of America's first colonists,
hads tabby walls which were
recently razed. This was an act that
seems wholly incredible?unless done
through ignorance of what these old
walls represented.
Second Largest Tabby Fort.
Between Beaufort ana fort Jttoyai
and situated directly on the banks of
the quite broad Beaufort river. About
this fort is a forest fort in America.
A. mile away and across a neck of
[and is Port Royal river. About this
fort is a forest of ancient live oaks,
which, with its phamtom Spanish
moss, is as weirdly beautiful as the
live oak forest of Bonaventure Cemetery,
Savannah. Indeed, the Port
loyal grove is called Carolina's Bonarenture.
This old fort covers an acre
ir more. Of its four walls the one
it the water's edge is gone, probably
washed away in the great storm of
L892. The ends of two other walls
learest the water and, weighing
many tons were at the same time
tracked and disconnected from the
nain wall, perhaps being undermined
by the waves. The fort walls are
four feet thick?ample protection in
;hose times?and are, perhaps, eight
feet high.
The natives call this magnificent
)ld tabby fort the Spanish fort and
fell Spanish fables about it. The
truth is it is an English fort and
iates back to a little before the
Revolutionary days. The fort, it is
said, was never paid for by the Engish
because, as they declared, it did
lot come up to specifications. Though
it was never, perhapsi. occupied by
soldiers it is a wondrous old fort, ajl
:he same. Indeed, to all shrine wor;hinners
nf tabby forts this old Eng
ish fort is excelled only by the truly
Spanish tabby forts of St. Augustine,
The Sphinx on Broad River.
Ten miles from Beaufort on the
Riverside Farm and lying directly on
Broad river is a strange structure
>f tabby about which there seems to
)e no legend or record whatever. The
structure contains four large rooms
mconnected. The walls are three
'eet thick and seven feet high. There
ire no doors whatever without or
vithin. Entrance is by a subway
vhich still can be seen. Around,
ibout it is a wide moat once filled
vith water but now dry. The na
:ives call these tabby walls "Old
Tort," but undoubtedly the above description
proves it to have had its
>rigin about v175 years ago, and that
t was a house of refuge for women
tnd children in the times of Indian
vars. The port-holes in it are minor
iffairs. Nearby are the tabby founiations
of an old dwelling. Few
Deople of Beaufort know really of the
existence of this romantic sphinx on
he Broad river shore. Today its j
jwner, one of the thousand and one j
f
ten-acre negro land owners, Xat Benegard,
by name, uses his tabby place
as a pen for little pigs?a pen*. by
the way, quite adaptable for the
young hog but one that would require
a block and tackle for the release
of the grown up animal. Alas,
alas! Archeology and romance carry
no meanings to the man who wants
porkers! It is quite probable, indeed,
that the riddle of this old
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Dl'UiiU river syiUIIA, >vuu Its muai,
its underground entrance, and its
four-room tabby walls, will never be
solved.
The Ik>nus Passed.
The bonus measure passed by Congress
involved a cost of about $200
to every family in the United States,
including the families of the soldiers
who are to receive the benefits of it.
President Grant vetoed 'a bonus
measure after the war of secession
because "the passage of this bill at
this time is inconsistent with the
measure of economy now demanded
by the necessities of the country." It
is expected that President Harding
will veto it.
Senator Smith of South Carolina
supported the bill, while Senator Dial
voted against it. While nobody
questions that the country is in great
debt to the citizens who were called"
to risk death and disaster there are
many who question whether the debt
can be squared with a bonus bill.
In explaining his position Senator
Dial said:
?I feel that this proposition was
not conceived in patriotism but was
conceived in politics. It is appalling
when we realize that the per capita
taxes in this country increased from
$6.79 in 1914 to $59.41 in 1920. So
it is time for the representatives of
the people to look at this matter in a
serious and sober way. We hear talk
of the public debt having been decreased
$3,000,000,000 in the last
two years, but a great deal of that i
was accomplished tty the sale of government
property used during the
i war. We are not getting ahead very
fast, when we decrease our debts by j
disposing of our assets.
"If this great debt is placed against j
the American people it will have to
be paid and in the great part by the
soldier's themselves. To my mind
the soldier would prefer to live in a
prosperous country where he could ,
receive employment and where pros-1
perity would be continuous rather
than to have his government burden j
itself with more taxation and thus j
close down profitable enterprises.
"This bill is amusing in one sense.
I think the senator from New York
(Wadsworth) was right in calling it
a pawnbroker bill. I am ashamed of
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soldiers 'We owe you but you must
take our note and hock it all over
the country.' We do owe them gratitude
and there is not enough money
in the world to pay that debt. This
bill is simply a delusion and a snare.
It is unworthy of Congress to try and
pass such a bunco game on the soldier.
I have always been against it.
I believe the majority of the soldiers
in my state are against it. I am
going to vote against this bill."?
Times and Democrat.
LIEUT. MAYNARD IS KILLED.
"Flying Parson" and Two Companions
Die When Plane Crashes.
Rutland, Vermont, Sept. 7.?For a
crowd of SO,000 people assembled
at the Rutland fair grounds this afternoon
a "flying circus" staged with
aeroplanes and balloons was turned
into a tragedy, four participants
meeting death. An aeroplane crashed
down from a height of 2,000 feet,
carrying to their deaths, the pilot,
mechanic and a passenger. A few
hours later an aeronaught leaping
fro ma balloon, 1,500 feet in the air,
was killed when his parachute failed
to open.
The dead:
Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, known
throughout the country as "the flying
parson," pilot of the airplane;
Lieut. L. R. Wood, of Ticonderoga,
N. Y., passenger with Maynard; Mecanic
Charles Mion^ttte, of Pittsburgh,
N. Y., and Henry A. (Dare
Devil) Smith, of Boston, aeronaut.
Lieut. Maynard and his companions,
who had been making daily
flights at the fair grounds, crashed
about 1 o'clock in a field near the
grounds. Hardly had the crowd recovered
from the shock and thrill of
this tragedy, when the second accident
came. Smith, a professional
aeronaut, had already made two successful
parachute leaps at various
altitudes this afternoon. On the
third attempt the parachute was seen
to open slightly and then close up
tightly. Then the aeronaut dropped
like a plummett, railing just outside
of the fence of the grounds.
Miss Blanche Severyns, of Round
Valley, Neb., cowgirl and ranch owner's
daughter, is going to tour Europe
alone. She says she is looking
for the sole purpose of finding oufif
adventure is dead.
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ESTILL WELCOMES VICTOR.
Honor by Town for Miss Lucille
Godbold.
Estill, Sept. 7.?Today was "Godbold
Day" in the town of Estill, the
occasion being the welcoming home
of its triumphant daughter, Miss Lucille
Godbold;, world famous girl
athlete. Mi?s Godbold went to Paris
from Winthrop college for the Olympic
games and came away in a blaze
of glory, eyes of all the world following
her back across the sea to this
her home, Estill, and today Estill assembled
to do her honor. Just in
front of the Hotel Estill a huge stage
was arranged flaunting the garnet
and gold of Winthrop college, banked
with fern and slim pines#and bright
with long booths of garnet and gold
flashing Winthrop pennants and the
American flag. The little street under
the row of many soft ligl-.s was
transformed into a veritable fairyland,
a sight to make the heart go alilting
and the feet keep time. It
was an unforgettable occasion for an
other reason also, it being the first)
time that a governor has ever come
to Estill. Gov. Wilson G. Harvey
came to do honor to Miss Godbold in
behalf of South Carolina.
Mayor Theus Presides.
The programme began at 8 o'clock
tonight with Mayor Walter Theus as
host of the occasion. He escorted the
young guest of honor to the beautifully
decorated stage and they were
followed by Governor and Mrs. Harvey,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Godbold,
Misses Eva and Sarah Godbold, H. O.
1 Hanna, R. S. Zeigleij, and Frampton
Wyman. Mayor Theus introduced
Miss Godbold, who told briefly of her
trip to Paris to take part in the
Olympic games. She said that she
was given the honor of carrying the
American flag for her team. She
also won two medals in Paris. Miss
Godbold brought numbers of laughs
from her audience by her unique way
of telling of her experiences. She
said she slipped two bottles of
French wine in her suitcase, one for
the governor and one for the mayor,
but they were taken at the customs
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nouse. MISS UrUUUUlU W a 3 picocukou
with several bouquets of lovely flowers,
one being from Winthrop students
here. Hugh O'Hanna, recently
elected member of the house of
representatives from Hampton county,
paid high tribute to Miss Godbbld,
saying that it was not only for
Estill and South Carolina to be proud
of their young world champion but
that it was for America and the entire
world to be proud.
Governor Harvey made a splendid
address, choosing as his subject "The
Man Who Stepped Out of the Crowd."
He enumerated the things for which
a person can step out of the crowd;
for education, higher citizenship,
righteous living. Music for this delightful
occasion was furnished by
the Bob Sikes orchestra from Augusta.
About 1,500 people gathered to
celebrate the bringing of the laurel 1
wreath to Estill by Miss Godbold.
All Lit Up.
Lord Dunedin tells the story of a
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.LiOIlUULL Ci U U ill ail w uvi \\ au jiu = av,i"i0
along the streets of Dublin and jolted
into a passerby. A constable
stepped up to him and demanded:
''Do you know who that was? That
was Viscount Masserene and Ferrand."
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"Gad," said the Englishman.
"Well, they were both drunk.'
Out of a working population of .
41,000,000 in the United States more
than 8,000,0^0 are women.
Policewomen in Washington, D. C.,
receive $1,700 a year and this is increased
according to point of service. (
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A Boll Weevil Remedy that Works. '
experts of the south of us know what
it means to see one-fourth to three ?jLiTsjy
fourths of the cotton bolls of a field ^
destroyed by weevils. They tell us
that during seasons favorable to the P /Sfij.
weevil very little cotton is set after T0HE8ggf'^Jl BSSSjlA
the first part of August. After this \Su9
time the weevils have multiplied in . r
such large numbers that practically Stationery That Takes to a Pea
no scares are left Under such con- as aDirck Takes to Water j
ditions the amount of cotton we pick . '
in the fall depends upon the number 'that carries withal the assur>
of bolls set now. Examine your fields ftHCe of perfect taste ? IS ft
and you will find stalks that have ten pleasure to use. *
to twelve bolls set and others that popular line is the sort
have less than three. Seed from the ^ ^ Qndsure satisplants
that have ten or more bolls ^ ^ demand
set will produce, plants of their kind. j ^ ?
The plants that have the largest U??n. C0Ired. Stab0aer*>
number of bolls now are not only inexpensive enough
safer from boll weevil attack but will *? y?ur individual taste*
produce the greatest amount of lint Stationery made to your order
this fall. Seed from these plants will could not come nearer to filling
pass this quality on to the crop next your personal requirements,
and for years to come. Then, if those /&k to see it?it UJlll be d red
plants are our heaviest yielders and pleasure to show you OUT line* ^
reproduce heavy yielders, saving seed
from them will pay whether we have HERALD BOOK STORE,
boll weevil or not. The results S. C.
from this work last year gave an - . . _ . ir
averase increase of 91 Dounds of lint or colored strips of cloth so the cot
per acre over unselected seed. When ton may be picked from them in the
the cotton was sold the increase due fall. Just before the .general crop is
to saving seed from the best plants picked send a careful pfcker in the
amounted to $18.58 per acre. field to save the seed plants. Store
One man can mark enough good it in a dry place and when the rush
plants in a day to supply six bushels of picking and ginning is over, clean
of seed. This will plant five to six out the gin throroughly and gin the
acres. Figure your pioht Do you see free from mixtures. Remember
know any work on the that will it will pay; whether you have the
pay better than this? weevil you cannot afford to overlook
Begin right now by marking the this remedy. If you haven't the weeplants
that have the largest number vil now is the best time to begin preof
bolls set. Mark them with a tag paration for them.
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