The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 24, 1921, Image 1

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?()C ^ottittj) g| VOL. 36. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1921. NO. 3 r ===== JUDGE PEURIFOY'S ! CHARGE TO JURORS1 THEIR DUTIES AS LEADERS OF p COMMUNITY LIFE AND , THOUGHT. tc (Concluded From Last Week) Now, .Mr. Foreman and gentlemen,' th I am glad that I find here that condi-: te lions are in such good shape. This ; pi e rforcement of the law is the very: ta foundation of our life. That is why e< v. e went to war with Germany. We cl * T.nrnrtcp In tl ^ Cni lu Will 1U1 IIV VbUVl fSMA V ... ' jr* the world except to enforce the law. j G Germany said to us, "We are going'cto sink any ships that come into this 1 w zone of over a thousand miles." We ! <?< said, "It is a public highway and if j cc sink our ships and kill our people, j ?* you will have us to whip." fhey wen' tc head and sank our ships ??nd killed vi o ir people and we went to war. There ai are men in my county and in even-! H county I have been in, that make it (to dangerous for a man to ride on a pub- m lie highway. When they get m their ; he car on the public highway, they think i to everybody else must get out of the J di way, and people are being killed every day in South Carolina by the reck-1 gi less driving of automobiles on the pub- j th lie highway. The spirit of lawless- i \ i r.ess and disregard for your life and CI the lives of others. That is what? I _ am talking about. We ha'.e got all '.he law here that we want, I think. ri. All that we need is men?men that j Pi will enforce the law. It is not any I ,( theory that I am talking about. What c are you going to do about it? Are you going to stay off the road because j " you let these people run rough-shod te oer everybody? What ar?- you go- tc Lig to do about it? You built these good roads and have a public highJfL way, and the better roads you get. the Ja faster they run. Isn't it so? Go a down here on the Concord road and *" z you had better stay mighty safe 01. (one side of the road or get out in the >x field. Now, Mr. Foreman, will you he * *- ? * st have the roaas so rouge uuti \ vu ia..-. not run fast, or will you get out in | it the field ? You are going to do neith-1 s0 or. If they break the law and you sec lo it, don't hestitatc to come up and say 1 se so, and if they won't stop, then make the punishment more severe. I do not nk know that there is ?-ery much differ- J tf< ence between a man killing you with si1 a shot gun and an autotmobile. I th <lon*t supDose it makes very much dif-1 he ference to you. Some people thfnk fit that because they run over you with an autombile it is an accident. No hi accident at all. That is a violation I pi of the law, and if he does it through 01 carelessness, that is manslaughter, and c1. the chain gang is the place for him. i di So, now, Mr. Foreman, if you are go- aing to have good roads in this county. >'< let's make those people be decent, so {>'< that you can go there in safety to hs yourself and your family. As I say, h; that is not any theory. There is no use for us to permit any .such condition as that to continue. Etemal vig-! yf ilance is the price of liberty and it is I the price of good government, so is w the price of everything else that is f hi worm wniie. , ? Now, Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, th I spoke of good roads. That is a par* ! I of your work too. You are not going 1 th jLe to interfere with the work of the sup-.ai ervisor, but if there are any condi-. I* tions that are so bad, you report it g< to the court, and if there are such con-1 v? ditions, then the solicitor will hand d< out an indictment against him. Now,' in on the suoject of good roads I will not not take up your time to discuss ex- tl cept to say this: Everybody knowns ju that the value of your property de- w pends upon its accessibility to mar- sj lcet. The richest land in the world in is no good unless you c$n get your n< products to market I think that is a; one reason why tliere is such a trend w of the population from the country ec to the city; because there is such an hi unsuitable condition of the roads , and g< it you will examine, Mr. Foreman, the tl last report of the United States Cen- n< sus, you will find that the city popu-1 tc lation has grown very much faster: in than the rural population, and thetl reason is that the people in the coun-1 al try are leaving the coir. ry and going, a to town. That is a vary serious prob- s< lem?the trend of the past thirty ti years of ihe people from the country j g to the town, and if that condition con- ft tinues thirty years more, what will y< r^. become of our nation. Now, we need le eo agument to know that when you m 1 turn your property over to a tenant H l A your property is going down. Sup- it rh pose your whole land becomes im- k ?R* p^verished that way. So This ques- c; . iion, Mr. Foreman, of good roads car- f< ttjr ? ? * - > ": BIBLE CLASS BANQUETS. oung Men, Laymen and Invited '^a Guests Enjoy the Occassion. The Young Men's Bible class of the resbyterian church here gave a bar- mu ?cue and fish supper Friday night mj.j ; the laymen and members of the aj lurch and a number of invited g uests. The supper was served in j,le Sunday school room. It was at- , . nded by about 200 persons. The rogram consisted chiefly of short ?aI tlks by the delegates who represent- ^ 1 the Bible class and Laymen of the lurch at the laymen's convention of . ^ le Southern Presbyterian church at ,nig reenville recently. They told their n?r cperiences, what they heard, and hat they did on the trip. A good ^ 'al of humor was injected into the ^al rcassion by the speakers. The Rev. 3ft' W. Davis, pastor of the church, was tor astmaster. The speakers were Da- con d Epps, L. R. Mcintosh, W. H. Carr, ann id Thomas McCutchen. The Hon. P. ,J? . Stoll, was called upon by the A astmaster and responded with a wor ost appropriate little speech, which ti^u * * ?- ?l.*.L i 1 L:?. ! preiacea Dy a jone wmcn icau nn.i ecu say. that he nor the devil himself mo1 dn't know what he was going to say. ? Mr. LeRoy Lee who was on the pro- For am for a talk, having been one of hav e laymen who attended the Green- me; lie convention, was detained in it fc harleston on legal business. to me; the es more than simply your ease and . easure in passing over it with nr >rse and buggy. You want to hand ^ou >wn to your children a better governent than you had yourselves, and erefore you will look into this mat- . r and make such suggest'ons that ^U( 1 vea cur to } ou. j ~ Then, again, Mr. Foreman, there are ^c. ^ e county chain gangs, the county c^a ll and the poor house. Have you got ^a poor house? Well, I am glad you (rQn ive got no poor people in this county c^a aughter). You will look after your p f lblic buildings, your county court >use. You have a beautiful con- y uction here, and it looks to me like rop has hud some attention lately. In . , * in < me counties that I go to people chew nacco and spit on the floor. I don't v.-,j e the peeple spitting on the floors cj. , home in the parlors, especially if the ' m has a wife. If anybody here has ^p] >t to chew tobacco, let him go outde and spit all he wants to. I don't - mei ink there is anybody in the court v >use that would spit on a nice, clean a( >or like this, but if you should have . ich a person, let's don't put up with m at all. He is out of date. Peoe are not allowed up north to spit ^ Q i the streets. It not only spreads r,#( sease, but it is too filthy for us t3 scuss. So, therefore, Mr. Foreman ^ id gentlemen, you will lo- k after ?0Q >ur court house and I will try to help t^e] >u keep it clean this week. Someone is called mv attention to this. ITiey ^pa ive just fixed up this court house, r a] id they want me to help them out. Vnw Mr Foreman and eentlemen Heli )U have officers in charge or this, and for am nor saying they don't do thei?- tior ork. but when you find a man doing Spe s duty, commend him for it. Don't to ait until he is dead and gone an I jn len send some flowers to his grave, the th'nk as encouraging word given to tern now will be appreciated by them, p, r id it will inspire them to give you this itter sen-ice, but, Mr. Foreman, and tha jntlemen, a good officer do^s not ger f;ev ?ry much encouragement, if he has per >ne his duty, give him a word of com- a y, endation. hig Now, Mr. Foreman, and gentlemen, js 1 lere is one subject that it is for the p<,s idges to comment on that is always hur ith us, and that is your educational tale -stem. Of course, you have a super- pay tendent of education, and you are woi )t going to try to run his office, but jn 5 grand jurors of this county, you teai ant to know the condition of the talc lucational system. Now, this is a act g subject, and I shall not attempt to the a into it at any length. I don't know the iat I can add anything that you do sav >t know already, but I would like ave i impress upon you its paramount ers nportance. You know that is one of cen le things that is worih thinking tea tout. It does not matter how edu- sab ited you may become, your child, as trie >on as it is bom, has got to start and ght from the beginning, and it has for ot to work it out in slow painful ef- Ev< >rts through the coming years. Now, mo ou may accumulate all the know- Yoi dge of all the books, but you can- the ot transmit it to him by heredity. Foi i'e has got to get it just like you got can , by books, experience, and hard of i nocks, so that the question of edu- dre iting your children is right at the say >undation of your progr^s; and, Mr. to CLARA HAMON BAPTIZED. kes Declaration of Faith at Sui day Mornings Service. zlara Hamon, acquitted at Ar< re, Oklahoma. Thursday of havin rdered Jake L. Hamon, repute lionaire and late Republican natioi committeeman from Oklahom ldav night was baptised in tb st Christian church of Ardmoi Dr. Grayton S. Brooks, its pasto s. G. J. James, of Los Angele if., sister of Mrs. Hamon, was baj ;d at the same time. "he Baptism followed the Sunda ht service and was witnessed b family, a number of friends an rch members. iccompanied by her family, Mr mon atienaea me .~nornin>r aci>it ?r which she approched the pa: and asked for baptism. After h( fession and declarations I>r. Broofc lounced that Mrs. Hamon wou! baptised at night. l later news report also says thi nan has signed a two-year coi :t with a moving picture film coi i and will soon appear in th ties. eman, whatever education the e, it must come through th ins that we provide. Therefor >ehooves you and me and all of J examine carefully what are th that we are using to educ^i children of this generation. Th? igs to my mind this question, fc to consider. Who will occup r seats in that grand jury bo ?* years from now? Who will t men listening to the charge of th ge on February 28th. 1971.?fift rs from now? Who will be th vers sitting at the bar? Who wi :he judge occupying this seat. Th nces are you will be gone, Th nces are that most of us, if nc e. will be so decrepid; will be rge on our family. You can't te ; the live virile men who will o< y our seats?who will they be i cannot expect the men from Et e or San Francisco to be the me control here. It will be just th i and women we make. The not be any better, or any highe: any abler than the conditions an ortunities that we provide fc m, measured by their efforts. Nov cannot say what kind c i they will be. except this: The be just what their fathers hav le it possible for them to be?nott more. That brings the respons ty to you and to mc to provid very best facilities that we ca vide to make them the very bei and women. If you cut out th :C3 of vice, the immoral r.tmos re. and then if you will give *hei d roads to travel to school, an n nmvirlo the means for that edl ion, then we have done a gres 1. Now, I don't think, Mr. For< n, that our educational system i ig what it ought to do. I don eve that we are getting enough fc the money we spend for educj ?, and I don't think we ar nding as much money as we ough spend for education. This bring the question of v.ho shall teac se children. We need the ver t talent that is to be had for thi pose. There is no better work i i world, or any other world as fc t matter, than the moulding an eloping a human soui. Nofr, th son who would train and develo luman soul requires talent of th hest order. It requires talent thi jnimpeachable. It requires a di; ition that is fitted to handle nan life, and you cannot get th: >nt for the measley sum that w ' our teachers. There are men an nen of talent that can make mor other departments of life than i ching. We can not expect a man c jnt, or a woman either, of chai ?r and fitness to raise and teac child, when tney Know mai wne y get old they will not oe able t e a dollar. You will find that th rage salaries paid to white teacl last year was $463.00 and soir ts. Now, if you will take the cit chers, many of them are paid goc iries, but those in the rural di: its are not To teach and trai I develop a human being, not on! this life, but for the life to com* ?ry black man on the railroad gel re money than the teachers d< ar plowman last year got more tba y did. Now, to begin with. 31 eman, let's be frank about it. Ho i you expect to get the right kin men and women to teach your chl n if you don't pay them. I ri ing your children because I wai get close to you. Now, YOt* WILLIAMSBURG TOST NO. 10 * Legionaires Reorganize and Will Start Drive. Williamsburg Post No. 10, Ameri? can Legion, organized here soon af>d ter the return of the boys from overseas, and which subsequently died an a, ignominious death from lack of interne est, was reorganized last Thursday "? night with an enrollment of thirty r. members. There is no doubt in the s, minds of those interested in the or> ??anization but that it will push forward now and become a permanent ,y factor in the county under the new y organization. The new officers are d all men who saw active service overseas. Dr. Clarence D. Jacobs, who s 'served overseas with the rank of i major in the medical department, was c i .. elected post commander of the new ,j organization. LeRoy Smith, decorat j. ed by the American and French govj crnments for Bravery is vice commander; Donald Montgomery is the . new adjutant, and T. A. Blakeley, treasurer. The membership committee is composed of John D. Britton, J. M. Martin and L. F. Swails. ie The post plans to hold a banquet April 5, to which invitations will be ~ issued to every ex-soldier and sailor 'V jTi the county. It is also planned to open permanent club rooms here as e' soon as suitable quarters are obtainis ,, able. ie c Parties eligible to membership in u the Williamsburg post w1 - di 1 not ir receive an invitation, are also invited y te be present for this meeting and x barbecue and "are requested to mail |g i postal card to Donald Mont ie gomery stating tnat tney may oe e.\y pecteri. so that preparation may be ie made for them. 1! i? children I am talking about. Vou don't want any silly, foppish, vain >t nothing to teaeh your children. .Vow, a how are your gouig to get the right 11 kind without paying for it. Therefore. - Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, let's got ? our ideals up -I the men and women t- who are to teach our ilmui . n i". the J'- years to come, and let's leave out the class who are not worthy, ,'ome who y are now teaching are not fit to teach. r? Some of them don't know anything d about the bo ?ks they teach; just ,r enough to get by the county board So, Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, >f right at the bottom of our education y a! system, let's get our ideals up. e Many of our people are so sordid when >* it comes to paying out money that the ' first thing they want to economize on is the teacher. I am an economr ist, but I don't believe that that is 1 economy when it comes to the edue cation and edvelopment of our children. I told the Grand Jury over at 0 Sumter the other day an incident that I read in the paper. There were three farmers in Kentucky. They bought lt a good stallion. Then got a veterinary surgeon to take care of that 's horse. Well, that is good judgement. 1 They paid this veterinary surgeon ,r $-2700.00 a year to take care of that 1 horse. The next week it became * necessary for them to hire a school teacher. They hired a little girl for >s $25.00 a month, $3000.00 a year to h i-rnofi There is a conception now of y what a horse was worth to l. business us man and what his child is worth. Now, " you say this is an etxreme case, but " i people in your county, if not in your '' county in some of tHe adjoining 10 counties have done the same thing. 1 and when it comes to letting someie body teach the children, they get the lt cheapest little girl they can. Now, ! .Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, let's a. get cur .'deas in line. It is all right 1S for us to have good horses, but the e greatest possession we have in our d county, in.our state and in our nation s is our children, and while we can aot " say what they are going to be?some of them will go to the bad?but we r* can put them in the proper environh rr.ent?give them good teachers and n tee that they go. No use to get good 0 teachers and buildings if #hey do not e go. Children don't get any benefit l" from the school if they do not go reg ie ularly. A mind does not- grow if it v is here one day and over yonder the next day, and if you are going to let 3_ your child go fishing today and to n school the next day and expect him y * learn anything, you are going te ' be disappointed. I have taught r> school myself and I know what 1 am i talking about, and if a child does not n go to school regularlj-, you can not do r* much for him. Now, we have a comw pulsory law. We have been a long 'd j time in getting it. lit is a shame on 1- us that ve have waited so long, but rri'iye can not help tne past, out ?e van it help the future. If we see that the It children of this generation attend the TO SOLVE RACE PROBLEM. Worked Out on a Basis of Cooperation and Sympathy. Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tusjkegee institute, addressing an audience of white people and negroes recently at Charlotte, N. C., predicted that the race problem is going to be worked out here in the south, and that on a basis of understanding, cooperation, sympathy and good will. "Already a new spirit of good wili and sympathy between the races has made its appearance, said the negro leader. "There may be some who believe that the problem can be settled by each of the two races working separately and at cross purposes, but I do not believe that it can be done that way," said Dr. Moton, and added: "The south is studying itself in the mirror of public opinion. Especially is this true in the matter of race relations. And a just and satisfying settlement of this question is not I far distant when the boutn Degins to find fault with itself and correct these faults according to its findings. This self-criticism is manifested in the efforts for cooperation between the races, and it has given birth to a new spirit of good will and sympathy between them. "There may be a better way to work out this problem than the one which is founded upon mutual trust, confidence and good will between the races, but I have not discovered it." "We should thank our God every oay for placing our race alongside that of the whites," declared Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute in an address before an i audience o*" 2,500 at Greenville Monday night. He asserted that the negro is indebted to the white people for his language, hi? religion and countless ether things; that the negro race got 1 more out of slavery than the whites. He appealed to the negroes to rci lain in the south and work out their destiny in full cooperation with the white people. school, we won't have this disgracetwenty years from today. Now, Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, I have tilked longer than I expected to, and I don't know that there is an> use for me to say anything more, but , we have a great country here and it is our country?it belongs to us. Wo ! expect to live here the balance of our | lives and epect most of oim children to live here. Then, why not have a 11 ood government. Why not let's have a decent place to live and raise our I children. When our nation went to ! war?you remember it?every man, I woman and child turned out and gladly did whatever was required of them J to win the war. When they said the} I didn't have enough wheat to feed our soldiers over yonder, we ate corn j I read. Shall we now, Mr. Foreman, forget our patriotism and allow the lawless to run the country, wh?f:. we went and made every sacrifice for j the enforcement of law three thous;a:id miles from here. So, then. I urge I ui on you, let's turn to our duty with j'.he same love of country that we exi hibited when we were called upon to | defend our nation and enforce the laws | of the world. Now the duty that you are to peri e fn,omnn atiH Oentlemen. XUrill; 1U1 M. VIVUMK ? you are not to be paid for. The little that you get here is not to compensate you for the work that you are to do, but it is merely in a measure It pay yi ur expenses. The work that you are to do this year is a work of love for your county. Now, I mean to congratulate you upon good government now. I have made some little investigations, and I am delighted at the conditions here. They say that this is a heavy docket That is not a heavy docket. There is not a case on the docket for taking a human L'fe. I held court last fall in a county in which there were twenty persons indicted for murder, and I spent two weeks in the trial of one little rase. The absolute disregard of hu man life seems to permeate the atmo>phere. I hope that you and your people may continue on this good record and that you will not stai-i the records of your county in the sheading of human blood. It is a good record. I commend you for it and I hope you will keep it up. o Albert Wilson, the negro who was to h3\e been electrocuted at the penitentiary Tuesday, for killing Bryan Butler, a Columbia white man, on a street car a year ago, has been granted a three vfeeks reprieve by the governor, that the pordon board might investigate his case. IBIGHAM MAY FACE ML TO-DAY. GRAND JURY RETURNS TRUE BILLS.?CHANGE OF VENUE WAS DENIED. Florence, March 21.?Edmund D. Bigham will in all likelihood be called to trial Thursday morning on the charge of murdering his mother, MrsI Jl. M. Bigham; his sister, Mrs. Margie A Black; his brother, L. Smiley Bigj ham, and John and Leo McCracken, i two adopted children of Mrs. Black. This afternoon the grand jury in ; the Florence county court of general sessions returned true bills against him in five seperate counts charging I j? rnuraer. Dignam woo iiuiuuuowi^ I arraigned and entered pleas of not guilty. A. L. King, attorney for Bigham, then presented his motion for a change of venue which was refused by Judge Memminger. The attorney for the defense gave notice of a motion for a continuance and this will be heard tomorrow morning. It is the general expectation that the case will come to trial Thursday, the defense insisting upon the usual days between arraignment and trial. The court room was packed when Bigham appeared this afternoon and e\ ery eye turned toward him when he s'epped lightly into the dock. He Ut-iic ciairi cVtaven and looked vouneer UWO V4VW* W* * ^ ?W J, a/.d In better health than he appeared to be on the day following the murders at the plantation home near i'amplico. He displayed no emotion when the solicitor read the indictj ments to him and he pronounced the i words "Not guilty" in a strong and ! steady voice. During the arguments 1 f<r and against a transfer of the case Bigham kept his eyes, first on the solicitor and then on his attorney, i A. L. King. Occassional!/ he turned his gaze toward the judge. He appeared to be wholly unconscious of the presence of anybody else in the 100m except the attorneys and judge, i In dismissing the request for a i transfer of the case to some other i county in this circuit, Judge Memminger declared that he believed the defendant could secure just as fair and impartial trial in Florence couni ty as he could in any other county in the state. "The court will see to it", he said, "that he is fully pro'tected in his rights." I o ' Honor Roll for Hemingway School. Following is the honor roll for the Hemingway school for the sixth month of the present school term: First Grade.?George Rogers 97; Mary Julia Hemingway 97; Floride Graham 95; Reginal Davis 95; Edward Eaddy 90; Ruth Tyler 90; Oleta Carmichael 90; Lula Hughes 90; v Adv. first grade.__Dorothy Flowers 96; Nina Douglas 93; Fred Harmon 93; Ted Hemingway 92; Mary Shine 92; Hazel DuRant 92; Cornwell Cox j 92; Zaleda McDaniel 91; Mytle Rowe 91; George Watts 91; Harold ChandI ler 90; George Huggms 90; Eddie I Powers 90; Hula Dougla 90; Vernes Cribb 90. Second grade.?James Bushardt 94; [ Gilbert Cribb 91; Rath Cribb 90; Sara ' Martha Haselden 90; Louise Lewis 90; bertha Parsons 90; Neata Parsons 90; Cecile Waldron 90;Marion Eaddy 90; Hillie McAlister 90. Third grade.?Wannah Mary Huggins 95; Mack McAlister 94; Stella Mae Gordon 91; Elmer Taylor 91; Jim Gordon 90; David Gaskins 90. ^ Forth grade.?Will am Lewis 94; Helen Davis 92; John Gee 92; Zeddia Hughes 91; Evekyn Cantey 90; Thetis Spivey 90; Gordon Standi 90; Fifth grade.?Margurite Huggins 98; Bessie Bolyn 94; Nadine Baxley 98; Selma Cribb 94; Myrtle Haselden 93; Belle DuRant 91. Selma Cribb 94; Myrtle Haselden 93; Belle DuRant 91. Sixth grade.?Jean Oliver 97; Eunice Gordon 92; Sam Joe Haselden 91. Seventh grade.?Zulena Haselden 93: Jack Cockfield 91; Johnnie Springs 91; Avis Gordon 90; Cressie Stancill 90; Willis Ard 90. Eighth grade.?Zuline Chandler 93; Willis Haselden 92; Edith Hughes 90. Ninth grade.?Mary Pope 92; Edith Powers 90. Tenth grade.?Iva Cox 91.8; Vance Tyler 90.6. Eleventh grade.?Minnie Huggins 91.5; Alberta Stuckey 90. If you want groceries or dry goods, and want to pay cash, see me first. I won't be undersold. E. C. Burgess, successor to Peoples Mercantile Co. Car load of fancy rice just received. The price is right. . ,1