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Nevin Concert C H ???? ^ KILLING IN THE STATE EVERY OTHER DAY f ' Two Hundred and Forty-Seven Horn iddes in South Carolina, According to University Professor. South Carolina averaged r. homi cide every other day last year, ac cording to figures compiled by Pro! Wilson uee, or tne department o rural social science at the Universit; of South Carolina. These figures based upon the records of the bureai cf vital statistics, show that durinj the year 247 people lost their live through violence in the state, aj average of 14.7 homicides for ever; * 100,000 people in the state. Of the 46 counties in the state Dorchester has the only spotles record, while Banberg, with 13 horn itides, has the worst record of 6: violent deaths fcr each 100,000 pop ulation. Florence, ranking 44th ii the least, had a total of 16 homicides but only showed a record of 31. homicides per 100,000 populatioz Richland county is seventh in the lis with a total of seven, or of only ! for every 100,090 people. "There is noChing more priceless o precious in the world than huma life," Professor Gee says, "The val ne of a single soul is incapable o being estimated in terms of materia confederation. AU such attempts i: ? * a i.:-J i me mstory 01 mamuiiu nave mc with disaster. "Some nameless crimes that ar worse than depriving the human in dividual of the right to live, becaus they take the motive and joy out o living, but these are few in numbei One of the first principles engrave into the make-up of the young lif should be the consideration of th lights and privileges of his fello\ mar.?a knowledge of the 'live an let live' principle The first lines o one of the most famous documents ii our national history recognizes tha all men are endowed with certaii inalienable rights to life! liberty an the pursuit of happiness. "Most of us are conscious of thes feelings. We carry them as an un deriving substratum to all of our rel ations one with another, and the old er we become the more tolerant wi are of the opinions and actions an reactions of others. "But something is materially wroni sr . ompany [ere at Chautauqua ( ? =g < with an age and a state where with ( less than 2,000,000 of souls within < a year there are 247 human lives ( - snuffed out and sent into eternity J on a moment's notice by another I human being, usually under a high 1 emotional tension. I "This was the situation in South 1 " Carolina in 1921. The records of the S bureau of vital statistics of the state "3 * board of health are authority for the Y statement that last year there were ( '? 247 people who died in South Caro- ( 1 lina with homicide as the assigned . ? cause of death. The situation in 1 s 1920 reveals 248 as the number of 1 11 homicides within our border. i Y "These figures mean that practical- 1 ly two days out of every three with- i in the borders of our fair state some I s human being takes the life of an- ( " other human being, and the voice of 1 2 Abel cries aloud from tV ground 1 " before the Almighty to condemn his < 11 brother, Cain. Almost every day the i '? press carries the details of some hor- 1 7' rible tragedy enacted within our bor- 1 L ders and we wonder that human be- 1 * ings can so degrade themselves and 1 ^ mark the perspedive in which they ( should view life. < r "In only one county in the state 1 n was there no homicide in 1921. We 1 ? - ' ' al--a "wam /vma on/1 i'j | are giuu mat wu who uuc, mm * f I may Dorchester county stand out as ] '1 an example to its sister counties in- 1 11 spiring them to likewise keep their ( t hands free of blood of their fellow 1 man. 1 e "The county with the largest num- 1 " ber of homicides last year, is Flore ence with 16 such tragedies enacted r f in its midst It is closely followed ' by Spartanburg with 15 homicides, d and Charleston and Bamberg with 13 e e "But it would be somewhat unfair v to put the rating upon this basis, for d some counties have much larger pop- J * ulations than others. Ranking the 1 n counties by the number of homicides 1 * per 100,000 population, Bamberg * a county makes decidedly the worst 1 ^ showing with 62 homicides per 100,- 1 000 population. McCormick is next * e with 36.5 and Florence 44th with * ~ 31.7 homicides per 100,000 popula f'nn T>ip rplntivp nnsition of the i " counties of the state in this hall of 1 e infamy may be seen by reference to 1 d the accompanying table. ' "What are the causes of such a 1 ? situation as this ? Is it a defective i: PE Listen Here! T II Work to the 1 n fj Iy wants to ^ ij V will do your j Tj jj manner, and i A n on the price ( J y man in age, bi T I with the old \ a n When I do y< y U day after day r j condition, coi A A who, when he ; i is also throng " sense will tea ^ ^ your job che !wnu nas iu cu T road fare ai I things. Use I am here t< Phones, I Shop i l i-' 4 ' / .. . I iijf . . . ; ' ' functioning of our courts of justice? I Can it be a partial version to barbar- i ism inspired by the scenes of the recent world war? Ale our churches failing to live up to their high mission in the state ? Is it that our modern methods of fast living have dis- i turbed our poise and sense of regard for human life? Perhaps slack proiiibition enforcement and bad liquor 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 awful situation?247 homicides in South Carolina in 1921! And every restraining agency within the state must exert to the fullest extent its influence to prevent a recurrence of this terrible orgy of crime in 1922 and subsequent years. "The relative rank of the counties, both the number of homicides and the population considered, is shown in the following table compiled from the records of the bureau of vital statistics:" Total num- Rate per ber of homi- 100,000 County cides population Dorchester ? 0 0 Pickens i 1 3.5 Lee 1 3.7 Dillon 1 4.0 Georgetown 1 4.6 I Calhoun 1 5.4 j Clarendon 2 5.7 Chester 2 6.0 Cconee 2 6.6 Faii-field 2 7.4 darion 2 8.4 .r_ O Q4 \e\VDerry o ?.-? I Berkeley 2 8.9 Richland 7 9.0 Saluda 2 9.1 fork 5 9.9 Tasper 10 10.1 jreenville 10 11.3 Charleston 13 12.0 Allendale 2 12.4 Darlington 5 12.8 Beaufort 3 13.5 Sumter 6 14.0 Lancaster 4 14.0 Spartanburg 14 14.9 darlboro 5 15.0 Drangeburg 10 15.4 iVilliamsburg 6 15.6 lorry 5 15.6 Chesterfield 5 15.6 Anderson 12 15.7 Union 5 16.5 Cdgefield 4 16.7 Lexington 6 16.8 Kershaw 5 17.0 Cherokee 5 18.1 Creenwocd 7 19.6 ^ u K 91 7 :> a i n wcu ?? v ?. yken 10 21.7 Abbeville 6 22.1 iampton 5 25.3 Laurens 11 25.9 Jolleton 8 26.8 Florence 16 31.7 VlcCormick 6 36.5 Bamberg 1 13 62.0 rhe State 247 14.7 e 1 ! Hen Lays Clock-Faced Egg. j WViPn T^stpr Vnltee of Lakewood. i tf. J., collected the eggs in his hen- j lery a few days ago he found among hem one laid by a Rhode Island Red 1 ;hat was far different from any he ' lad ever seen before. One sid .si lat and on it is printed what re- | sembles the dial of a clock with thir- j :een figures. 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