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1 1. ' t. f r ?t. 12 PAGES. PART 2, PAGES 9 TO 12 VOLUME XXIX. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1914. NUMBER 31 DR. ELEANOR SANDERS CONFOUNDS ACCUSERS Makes Tolling Recital of Incidents Leading up to Asylum Investigation. Regents had no Questions to Ask Hor. Columbia, Feb. 20.-"I had no idea that Gov. DBlease had written any let ters. We talked of it quite late. I thought of it all night. We went down the next morning to the room. I had read Gov. Blease's letters before I went into the room and I thought they were most unjust. "And we went down to the meeting and, of course, the harrowing circum stances you already know. Of course I remember quite a little of it. But certain remarks and the reading of those letters of course burned into my whole being like burnished steel. I felt that they were most unjust and most untrue. And, in fact I contud ered the remarks di' Dr. Griffin and letters of Gov. Blease as slander. "I tried vainly to show them that day that what I had done was for the hospital's good, and if they had not objected previously, not given me warning, that it was rather unfair then not to give a chance to even have an honorable discharge. "I insister) to them that day that I was not insisting on the retention of the position; that I simply wanted a clearing of the charg or even any in sinuation of wrongdoing, morally or 'professionally, on my part." Thus Eleanora 13. Saunders, M. D., the young woman physician at the 'State Hospital for the Insane yester day spoke to the special legislative committee that is investigating the asylum. She was on the stand for nearly two hours and in that time demonstrated that she is one of the most important parts of the State's institution for the care of unfortu nates. When she was making her dra matice recital of the fight that has been waged against her by the men physicians and the governor of South Carolina in connection with the asy lum, tears came to her eyes for a minute, but she quickly regained her composure and proceeded ably to de fend her position at every point. She won the admiration of the large num ber of spectators and when the hear ing . was concluded, and even before, when she would make telling points in her defense the crowd cheered her. Few questions were asked by mem bers of the committee. Dr. Saun ders spoke rapidly and had docu ments .In the supreme court room to prove her various statements. Ope by one she dissected the various charges made by the assistant physi. clans. These were dissipated one by one. Dr. aunders reviewed in detail her 'work at the asylum, showing that the best systems for the benefit of the patients have been installed in her do partment She told the committee very plainly that she loved her work, that she lived for her work, that she had no other interests in life than the care of the insane whmie women of South Carolina and that her great ambition was to build up every- de partbment of the State Hospital for the Ipasano. Aho said that If she had tres passed on the rights of other mem bers/of thme medical staff, it was done unconsciously and that whatever was. done was for the benefit of the in mates. She showed no malice toward apy one and was not bitter in her statements. She said that she wvas merely making a plea for the vindi cation of her moral and pirofessional cha rac ter. gio Cross-Examninatlon. When she had conchirdedh her testi mnony, Chairman .Mauldin of the com mittee asked if any of ,the members of the medical staff desired to cross exaimine her.'- This question was -re peated and the proceedings 'were halt tAd afdr 'severai mintites. Not one re sponse was received. "Would yot like to makc a state mont, .Dr. Carothers?" was the ques tion addressiid to tl2 chaui'rman of the board of regents by the committee. "No," came the reply. This ended the testimony of Dr. Saunders. Many rifshed forward to grasp her hand and congr'atulate her upon the manner of her dlefense. Following is in 'part the oficeial stenographic report of the testimony of Dr. Sauinders in part: As I said, I did not ausk to remain. I asked for exoneration. This they did not gtrant nio. And I thousrht If the governor did not intend to slan der me, or if he did intend to slander me, it was most unfair that he should say it was for my best Interests to cover it up and let it be at an end, for I felt It was better for it to be in the open. If there was'a scandal at the hospital, that the woman phy siciafi who had charge of 600 patients was guilty of immoral conduct, she would foster it in her nurses and pa tients, and I vainly tried to tell them that my efforts had been for the good of the place, and I vainly tried to tell them that I had done no wrong. And I think it was most unfair for them to ask me to quietly retire and leave men who were not friendly to tell the reasons why. Prosecutor and Judge. I felt then and I feel now that If Gov. lilease had heard suflicient re marks to justify his writing those let ters that he wrote, that he should at least have said what the remark -was, from whence it. came, and if he should think that it was suficient to cause all of the decent women in the .State hospital to retire, that he should let mehave a further explanation. I fela that it was rather unfair to me that the governor should act both as prosecutor and judge in my case. And if the purpose of the meeting was complaints andtiot charges, as Dr. Carothers has said, then I wonder why Mr. IDivens said: (Reads the Div ens resolution finding that the charg es were true and asking that she re sign). I felt to close the 'matter then would be most unfair to me, to my nurses and to my patients. I felt then, just as I do now, that the white woman nurse is the hos pital's most valuable asset. Not a Matter to hush Up. I saw no reason why I should ac cept the accusation that I was the rea 'son for the leaving of the institution by all of the decent -women. I felt that up to this time the patients' fam ilies had had confidence in me, that they had turned them over to my care, and I was unwilling to have anything occur to make them think less of inc or to think mhe unworthy, that is, without a fair trial, which I feel that I did not get'. I felt then, as I do now, that it was the fairest thing for me, for my nurses and for itiy pa'inmts, to have the matter out in open public. I was rather wounded to hear that people would think that because I cared for certain diseases that I aim unwomanly. T feel that if vomen have to suffer, it is nothing short of humane for som to hiehm. As I say, I regarded the letters written by Gov. Illease and the re marks of Dr. Grifin as an attack upon my moral character and I was not willing to allow a shadow to re main on my character; hence I de manded of the board of regents an in vestigation that would clear my good name, I felt they refused me an honor able discharge. I felt that they had net given nme a fair trial. Amnd I felt it my duty to let them know at that time, not wvait six months later and tell them that I was not satistld with their decisioun, Heeks (hdly Exoner'ation, And I again insisted that I was not contending theni, as I am not coni tending now, for my retention, fog' my position, as woman physician, at th~e Starto hospital; but I anm contending for my reputation. I want to say now, as I tried to say then, that what I did was foir the good of the patients, in my own department first, in other depar'tnments later, and I felt in so doing that I have donle no0 more than any other wVomlaa ni y place would have done. I want to repeat that I'am not coin tendling for' retention of the position which I have held for the last seven years, lhut I am pleading for my vindi cation and my exoneration. Don't You Believe It. Some say that chronie constipation cannot be cured. Dj't you believe it. Ohjumborlaln's Tab~ have cured oth ers--whiy not, you G (ive them a trial. They cost only a qiarter. For sale by all dealers.. Noftice of' Dissolution. The firm heretofore existIng by the undersigned under the firm name omf JT E.~ Minter' & Ilre., L~arens, S. C. and Sedalia, S. C. is hi .rehy dlIssolvedI 'hy miuttal consent. Ii persons in dlebtedl to J. l'. Mii - r & hire., Laui ireng, fl. C. wvill plieWse make priompllt settlemniit with M. P. M~Inter. (Signed) J. fM. Minter, 1ii. P, Minter. January 22, 1914, 20.2t * * * * * * * * * * * * e 0 * " * THE SOUTH--THE ELDORADO * * OF AMERICAN ADVEN'T'URE. * * By lichard H. Edmonds * * Editor Manufacturers' Record. * * ** " " " " " " " " " " " "e * The sixteen Southern States have a population of 33,000,000. In 1880 the United FStates had a population of 50, 000,000. At that time, and very justly so, the United States was regarded as one of the greatest anQ( richest na tions of the world. The South of to day, with 33,000,000 people, is in many respects very far ahead of the United States of 1880, with 50,000,000. The people of the South have $200, 000,000 more in individual deposits in the banks and trust companies of this section than the people of the United States had in similar institution in 1880. The South is mining almost t wice as much coal as the United States then nfined. lit is producing four times as much petroleum, its output last year having' been 100,000,000 bar rels, against 26,000,000 barrels for the United States in 1880. The South has $700,000,000 more capital invested in manufacturing than the United States had in 1880, and the value of its agricultural output ex ceeds by some hundreds of millions of dollars the total agricultural output of the United States in 1880. The South has far more capital in v(:stel in cotton manufacturing than the United States then had, and is consuming in its own mills about twice as much cotton as was then eon suned in the mills of the country. The value of exports from So'.thcrn ports is only a few million dollars less than the total export trade of the United States in 1880. The South expended last year upon the maintenance of its public schools $90,000,000k or $12,000,000 mor3 than the United States with its 50,000,000 people expended upon I 'ublic educa tion in I880. Cernparisons of thin kind showing how far ahead the South is in many respects of the United State. in 1880 could be given almost. without limit. These are soilicient to Indiente the general situation. It is a little ditii cult for us sometimes to quite grasp the fact that in bank deposits, in in dustrial pursuits and in agriculture as well a; in public education the South of today ranks so far ahead of the United States in 1880. The total 'wealth of the South of to day is less than that of the United States in 1880, because the South has not yet had time to accumulate vast wealth out of its achievements in in dustry and agriculture of recent years. It is, however, rapidly piling up wealth, which, within the next few years, will amaze the country by its magnitude. In studying the future of the South and planning for financial and rail road operations in connection there with, it %ould be well for these facts to be borne in mind. Blut these sta tistics, amazing as they are, are not half so interesting for the story they tell of what has been done as for the light they throw upon the future. Ev cry careful student of the material resources and development of the South knows that this section, not withstanding the progress madle, has .4carcely begun its dIevelop~ment when compared with .*e growth wvhich will be seen within the next ten or fifteen ,years. All that has beeun (lone has been really merely the clearing of the land and the sowing of the seed for the great harvest -which this section is now prep~arinlg to real). The South has only begun to util ize its raw materials. It has only here and there opened up its coal mines, its marble andl granite quarries, and its iron-making resources. .it has only commenced within the last fewv years to get back to -that agricultural condition which existed prior to the war, when there 'was a well-rounded agricultural d!versity. It is only with in the last few years that the Central South, ,from Maryland to the Missis 811p1i river, has been raising as much corn and like stock ns it did in 1860, when the population of this section was only one-third of wvhat it now is. Fe)r forty years or more the South was passing through a wildroness. Its people hadl lost, by virtue of the war the ability to carry on the well-round Cd dliversnifed hagriculture which ex isted prior to 1800. The capital -was lacking for reviving the industria' ac tivities which between 1850 ndr1 ~160 caused a nore rapid precentage of growth in every line of manufacturing in the South than in the rest of the country. The amazing agricultural and industrial progress of the deccide ended with 1860 Is indicated in the fact that during that period the in crease in the wealth of the South ex ceeded by more than one billion dol lars the aggregate increase of wealth of the New Engladlj and Middle States The engineering and industrial traits, which from Colonial clays lown to the time when the invention of the cotton gin fastened slavbry around the necks of the people of the South, were beginning to reassert themselves between 1850 and 1860. This industrial and engineering trend of the people of the South has again during the last twenty-flve gears beens reasserting itself, and it is to the re birth of this inherited rait of char acter that the trenendous3 nonentum of this section is due. 'I'he statement sometimes heard that the great development of the last twenty-five years is mainly due to an infusion of outside blood and cavital seriously misrepresents the facts: No man who has that impres sion can rightly forecast the progress of the coming years, because he is viewing the situation from an erro neous standpoint. Since 1865 the Central South has sent beyond its borders by emigration into other sections more than 3,500, 000 of its white people and more than -1,500,000 into Texas andcci Oklah6ma. The comparatively few persons from other section who have come into the South, when given the fullest measure of credit for what they have achi<ved, cannot in the smallest degree offset the tremendous loss of energy and power of the 5,000,000 people that went out of the Central South by rea son of the poverty of opportunity fol lwing the war and the days of recon struction. Now the trend is back to the South. Men who have made a success in oth er sections are hearing the "come homne" call of their native land and many of them are returning. Maicy frcm other sections are beginning their southward icarch in order to share in the amazing developmient which they see is to come about in this section. They want to be at part and parcel of it and to reap some of the harvest. Thus the whole condi tion has completely cliiinge'd. And in ste ad of having to make a herolc ei fort to keep its own people at home and to draw men and money from oth er 'sections, as was the case for twen ty-flve or thirty years, the South now finds abundant employment at home for its own people. It finds telns of thousands fron the North and West annually moving southward, fand it finds that the capitalist Is searching out in every direction opportunities for investment In the South. The pro moter seeking capital for a new enter prise no longer has to argue with the capitalist that the South is a good place in which to invest money. All that he has to do is to pr'ove thcat his own iparticuilar enterprise is a good one. The outside capcitalist is fully impressed wvith the fact that this is the most richly endowed section of the won'ld and that it is "the coming Eidor'ado of Amer'ican adventure." Those whio would study Lice fuctuc'e of tice South -.nwithn a view to ascer taincing something 'of the rapidity of its dievelopment should fully under' stand what tine old South was doinig In mnaterial activities before 1860, what It lost icy the wvar' and tine pover'ty fol lowing it and wuhat the South has aichleved since then; and to these facts should he added a knowvledge of tine uniqueness of thce Souith's re sources fon' tine suipport of a dense p~opulationc. 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