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' V- . ? {Tljc County Kecori). VOLUME 37?NO. ' THE RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1922 PRICE $1^0 A YEAR IN ADVANCE - FARIES CONVICTED; GETSELECTRIC CHAIR ^ YORK COUNTY MONSTER SENTENCED TO DIE ON DECEMBER 29. William C. P'aries, convicted by a B Bry at York Saturday of the murI ler of Newton Taylor, 13-year-old ^^Bboy, at Clover, S. C., was sentenced to die in the electric chair on L)ccember 29, sentence being pronounced P ' %by Judge James E. Peurifoy at 5:35 o'clock, after he had overruled a motion of counsel for the defense for a new trial. The case, counsel for Faries announced, will be appealed to the state supreme court. The trial of this case was begun Friday morning and went to the jury at 1:38 Saturday the verdict was brought in. - - -??1 1 kol Int Tfie jury requireu uui) unc UOfiwv in the reaching of the verdict, and the ballot, it) was announced^ was not taken until the jurors had prayed to God for guidance in reaching their decision. - . At 3:21 o'clock the verdict was read. Faries, sitting handcuffed by his attorneys, showed practically no emotion. Solid and unperturbed, he had lounged in his chair through the morning session, apparently . forgetful of all happening about him. The afternoon session was reconvened at 3 o'clock, a recess having been taken for dinner, ana ior iy numucs raucs waited' the return of th* jury. As the time wore on he grew visibly more nervous. The handcuffs appeared to worry him and he continuously readjusted the steel bracelets, fingering them in seeming curiosity. He heard the verdict read, however, without a tremor, merely turning his eyes to the sheriff, who had approached to remove the handcuffs. L Counsel for the defense immediate ly gave notice of intention to move for a new trial, and at the request of Thomas F. M Dow, Judge Peurifoy | set 5 o'clock as the hour to hear the I motion. 'Another recess was taken, I and Faires, surrounded by a number " of friends and some of his children, ' was taken to a jury room to await the reopening of the court. The motion for a new trial was denied, and > - at 5:21 o'clock Judge Peurifoy order ed Fanes to stand up to hear his ^ sentence. "I have wondered," Judge Peurifoy told the aged defendant, "if you could retrace your steps if you would live your life any differently. Now, I think, you have come to know what it means to strike down and kill in anger, and possibly you could tell the young folks of this city something about the control of the V passions. But your race is run. ). do not know what your intentions were in youth, but if good indentions are not translated into good actions they fall short of value./ You have taken the wrong angle. You might have made friends of these people, but instead you fed the flames of anger. And as a result stand today,' just as the sun is sinking, almort in the .very presence of your maker. Your attorneys may get you a new trial, but my advice to you is not to rely upon this hope, Knt now. without delay, > to make your preparations to meet your God." Mr. McDow, in arguing for a new trial, based his prayer upon the two grounds that a change of venue should have been allowed and that H. W. Witherspoon should not have been allowed to sit on the jury. Mr. Witherspoon, on his voir dire, had admitted that prior to the trial he had stated tliat Faries "should be ' taken out and hung." The fact that 43 out of the 45 jurors called admitted that 'hey had formed opinions adverse to his client, Mr. Mc^ , dow contended, was evidence of the L fact that sentiment in the county ^ was such that a fair trial could not I* be had. Mr. Hart appeared for the state in arguing against the motion, holding that the court had been just both in refusing the plea for a change of venue and in allowing Mr. Witherspoon to be sworn. Had a Fair Trial. "I have seen nothing in the trial," Judge Peurifoy said in declining to allow the motion, "that would indicate that Faries has not had a fair v and impartial trial. Never in my court experience have I seen better order maintained. There were few, if any, objections. If I made an error in refusing to grant the change *>f venue, there is, of course, the state supreme court to correct me; and News From Trio. # Trio, Nov. 26.?Rev. G. T. Rhoa has gone to Marion to attend the an nual meeting of the M. E. Conference South. Among other important mat ters to be attended to at this meet ing will be the assigning of pastorate for the coming year. Mr. Rhoad ha been the pastor of five churches ii and around Trio for the past thre years, and the entire community ha grown very fond of him and his fam ily. All unite in the hope that h will be returned to this charge, wher Via ic rtnirnr sn mnrh o-nrwl work. am ! where he is so generally loved an' 'appreciated. We are glad to report that Mi J W. H. Harper is out again, alter be iing confined to bed with grippe fo 'several days. There has been quit an epidemic of grippe and sev?r colds here lately. Messrs W. T., G. H., and Pruet Rowell, accompanied by Mrs. J. H Rowell and Mrs. T. S. Carter, ^pen Thursday last in Kingstree on busi nefes. Rev. and Mrs. G. T. Rhoad motore< over to Andrews on Saturday. Dr. Zed Rowell of Andrews, visit ed his parents in Trio on Sunday. Little-Philip Morris, youngest chili of Magistrate Morris, was taken il on Monday with a severe attack o acute indigestion. I am still of the opinion that Mi Witherspoon was able to give th? defendant a fair and impartial trial and that he was a competent juror He said he h^d formed this opinku from reading newspaper accounts o the case, and anyone who read th< facts in the case would be justifie< in saying the samV thing. If I an in error, the supreme court can cor rect me. , " "I do not see how the jury couh have brought in another verdict, un less, of course, they had exercise* their right to recommend mercy They chose not to do so and, I be lieve were amply justified in choos ing that course by the most terri ble circumstances surrounding thi tragedy. "INever nave x nearu a muic yvn erful plea for mercy than that mad by counsel for the defense. I do no see how more could have been sail* or said mote effectively. The verdic only shows that counsel must have t present something mqre than elo quence, something more than words So, homever eloquence counsel's pies had nothing to base it upon. "Faries' own testimony suffi cient to convict him of murder. Th details of the four slayings shocke the sensibilities of the entire stats If there wete ever a case in th ?.1 ~ /imminol lour fV>O auiuiis vi tuc AMVC ctiiiiiuui #**?? was murder, this is it." Ask for Faries' Life. "I am coming to you to ask yoi for his'life, and his life alone," Mi McDow told the jury in his argumenl Effort was made, Mr. McDow sail in court, to secure a compromise o the case. The defense agreed to al low Faries to plead guilty of murde with recommendation of merdy, 'This offer," Mr. McDow saic "was refused by the solicitor, an attorneys for the defense propose t use every device known to the la\ to save the man's life." Attorneys for Faries in their argu ments again raised the question o insanity, which prior to the tria had been advanced by them as thei chief defense. This was based upo Al- - ?1 ? ^ LIHImm nr* orlmiffo/ SWry OJL lUC MUHI^ ao auuuvv^ by Fanes and recounted by witnesse for the state, and not upon any ex pert testimony as to Fanes' ments condition. Alienists had been intro duced by neither side, and the onl; reference to an insanity plea in th record was the claim of Faries mad on the stand, that he was not in ful possession of his faculties after fir ing the first shot. The nature of the crime was sue! in itself, counsel also argued, as t furnish proof of the fact that th murders were the doings of a ma mentally unbalanced. Effort was also made b> Mr. Mc Dow and Mr. Blease to convince th jury that the alleged injury to on I of Fanes' children by Newton Taj lor was a "sufficient legal provoca tion" to reduce his offense to mar slaughter. Both attornevgjhowevei ' admitted that they nothing more than a ^^^^^Pguilt with recoMHWndation^^mercy. "I am laboring under ift delusion, Mr. McDow said in opening his elc quent plea for the admitted si aye "I am defending a despised man. H (Continued on last page) * UNCLE SAM FILES |! $6,500,000 SUIT " AGAINST CONTRACTING COM| PANY FOR IRREGULAR WORK AT CAMP JACKSON. n I "Whereupon the plaintiff prays judgment against the defendant for ; the sum of six million, five hundred }thousand dollars, together with inter-} est thereon from the 1st dav of No- j 0 ' } 1 I vember, 1917, until paid, together j j with costs of this action." is the j ' solemn demand of the United .States j of America in a civil action filed for! ' the Eastern District Court for the Eastern district of South Carolina | here yesterday against the Hardaway Contracting Company, of Columbus, iGa., which, in part, constructed the t| cantonment in 1S17 near Columbia, r | now known las Camp Jackson. ^ The suit alleges in general and specific terms that the contracting concern breached its contract, caused ^ many features of the work to come at excessive cost to the government and made no effort to protect the interests of the United States. The _j suit is signed by District Attorney . J. D. Ernest Meyer, with Messrs. f Roscoe M. McCuiloch and William T. Chantland, special assistants to Unitj ed States Attorney Ceneral Harry ~ M. Daughtery, who is given as gen- j ; era! course! in the action, e It is stated in the suit that the ,, contract for the contraction of Camp . Jackson was awarded by the goveini ment to the contracting concern on f June 11, 1917, and that construction e work actually commenced on June 15. j Photographic exhibits accompanying i the bill of complaint, the contract . bearine the corporate style of the de-1 fendant concern, as well as the name j i of B. H. Hardaway, as president; W. - G. Cotton, secretary, and the United j States of America, by W. A. Demp. sey, contracting officer. After giving the scale of fees to - be paid the contractors, it is speci fled in the exhibit copy of the cone tract that in no case could this ex-! ceed the sum of $250,000. * -J "That'from the 15th of June, 1917, e when the defendant entered upon j t the execution of the contract, until' 1, j on or about the 1st day of Novemt ber, 1017, when it ceased its operao tions under said contract, without - having completed the same," the suit i i. alleges, in part, 'defendant permitted l, caused to be committed, and did it self commit, through and by its - agents and employes, great and une conscionable waste of the materials d purchased or furnished for the con!. struction of the buildings and utilities e mentioned in the contract and paid: t for by the plair.tiff; that the defend;ant sold to and also repurchased and resold to at a profit to defendant u large quantities of material and equip\ ment, some needed and some unnecessary; that defendant caused illegal d j and unwarranted claims and vouchers f in payment for said materials and - equipment to be pre^nted to the r plaintiff for payment, and the plaintiff, relying on the honesty and good I, faith of the defendant, and its claims d so made, paid such vouchers as and o when presented under the conviction v that the materials and equipment, alleged to have been purchased or fur hished, in truth and in fact had been f purchased or. furnished and that cost J as claimed for, and the labor claimr ed for had been in good faith pern formed, and that all were necessary d for the proper performance and ex s peditions completion 01 tne wont undertaken by the defendant; that duril ing the whole or greater portion of i- the time the defendant was employy ed by and was performing services e for the plaintiff under said contract, e the defendant without regard to reII quiremenfr and in violation of its said - agreement, ordered and permitted large amounts of useless and unneci, essary work to be. done, employed o and allocated workmen in such places e and manner that the work was ren tarded by reason of the congestion, confusion and idleness resulting; that the majority of the workmen eme ployed were engaged without Tefere ence to skill, experience or other cap^ity inAhe various building crafts i- for whmh employed and were paid * !.?? aoMti ooalo t\f u-ncrps as skilled r, woj^ffen and artisans, and were mix^loand mingled with those that were y skilled, all in such a way that the morale and effectiveness of the whole " force was destroyed, iwth the natural >- and inevitable result that the pror. gress of the work was thereby greate ly impeded."?Charleston News and Courier. "" EDUCATION WEEK IN WILLIAMSBURG SPEAKERS TO COVER COUNTYRALLY DAY IN KTNGSTREE, DECEMBER 9. Elaborate plans are being made for Williamsburg county's part in the nation-wide observance of Education Week, December 3 to 9, inclusive. The week will to opened on Sunday, December 3, with sermons preached in the vaiious churches of Kingstree appropriate to the occasion. Beginning Monday evening.at seven o'clock, there will be meetings every night during the week at vaiious places in this county as announced below A committee of local speakers has been secured and three speakers will be appointed to ^ake part in each meeting. It is the aim of the committee in charge to reach the patrons of every school throughout the county. On Saturday, December 9, there will be a big county rally in Kingstree. At that time distinguished speakers will be present and it is hoped that every mother and father and every person interested in the ?V>ilslVmri/4 nf tVip rnnntv will bp Dres VlUiUllVVW V*. v?>v . w _ ent at the rally. It has been suggested that all the four thousand school children of the county be a^ked to come to Kjngstree that day and form a parade in which each school would bear a banner telling what its greatest needs are. But on account of the prevalence of flu andthe cold weather it is doubtful whether or not this prbject is feasible. But whatever plan is decided upon, there will be a program well worth while- and it is hoped that there will be a crowd out at that time as large as any that has ever attended the county fair. The following committees are at work on Educational Week in Williamsburg -county: General committee: Senator S. A. Graham, chairman; Mrs. E. T. Kelley, Williamsburg representative to th<? State Educational Rally; County Superintendent M. F. Montgomery, Supt. J. W. Swittenberg, Donald Montgomery, Mrs. P. G. Gourdin, president of the Williamsburg Chapter Winthrop Daughters; Mrs. E. T. Arrowsmith, president of the Mother's Club; Mrs. W. G. Gamble, and Miss Laura Lynch, of the high school faculty. Rutfy Day committee: W. H. Welch, chairman; Thos. McCutfehen, W. E. Nesmith. Publicity committee: Mrs. L. W. Gilland, chairman; Mrs. E. T. Kelley, Misses Florrie Jacobs, Martha Jenkinson, Marie Nelson, Lula Brockington and R^by Parsons. The Dublicity committee is sending the following letter to all the school trustees in 'the county: Honored Member of the Board of School Trustees: The week from December 3 to December 9, inclusive, has been set apart by Piesident Harding as Education Week; Governor Harvey has proclaimed that South Carolina will join in the obsenation of the week; and Williamsburg county will share in the educational campaign. With Senator Graham as chairman, a committee is planning to make the week a great success in this county. There will be a series of meetings in the neighborhood of each' school and you are ask ed particularly to attend the meeting which will be held in your community one evening next week at sev^n p. m., and to endeavor to bring out as large a crowd as possible. There will be a county rally in Kingstree, December 9, when distinguished speakers will be present and an attractive program carried out. Every voter in Williamsburg ought to attend. South Carolina needs particularly to be roused in educational matters, because she stands at the bottom of the list in the illiteracy test. We need more money for educational purposes. The buildings in this county are far from adequate for the needs of the 4,000 school children enrolled. , The teacher's salaries are not paid promptly because of the lack of funds. Supt. Montgomery's article in this week's County Record shows the alarming condition of Willarasburg schools. Surely we will not neglect the education of the future citizens of our J county. There could be no better investment than this. Education does not meaji simply going to school, or learning to read and write. There is a larger sense in which education means developing our children so as to mould them into the kind of men and women who will carry on the work we have tried to (Continued on page 5) 1 * / , 1 ^ ...>i. t Cotton Growers' Association. I ! Columbia," Nov. 27.?Cooperative marketing of cotton is the greatest constructive force now working for the development of Southern prosperity. in the opinion ot Carl Williams, president of the American Cotj ton Growers' Exchange. Mr. Wililiams has been in Columbia for two i days in conference with the board of ! directors and management of the | , South Carolina Cotton Growers', as- j i sociation. "The orderly marketing program followed hir flip rnttnn rnnrievativo of ! |the South, is generally acknowledged to be a great stabilizing force on j cotton prices," said Mr. Wililams. | | "This ftas assured the Southern farmers of the good price for cotton dur- j ling the period when farmers them-1 selves had cotton to sell. This same ] result has been experienced by other j : commodity cooperative associations i in the United States. Those agricul tural sections, which have profited for jthe longest period by this system of marketing, are today first in the United States in per capita bank deposits and among farmers, first in per capita trade in stores, first in good roads, first in quality of country teachers, first in number and size of country churches, first in salaries of j rural preachers and first in rural recreation. "These things have a direct relation to city and town business. The effect of the cooperatives has been itn inrrMco fhp nereentace of the con Burner's time, which the farmer receives, and thereby to increase his buying power and raise his standard of living. The natural result is that all business is benefited proportionally. "I am very much pleased with the progress of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association and equally well pleased with the support, which has been given the association by farmers, business mef\ and bankers of this state. The association has already passed the experimental stage and has become a permanent part of the life of South Carolina. There is every indication that it will handle more than 20 per cent, of the total cotton crop in South Carolina this year, and that it has become a dominant figure in the cotton business of this state. "Eight other state organizations of similar size, character and policies are working with the South Carolina association. Their total membership is more than 175,000 cotton farmers." Rock Branch News. Quite a large crowd attended "Mrs. Briggs of the Poultry Yard" on last Tuesday evening. It was a very lively comedy, and was presented in the most comical fashion. Much laughter came from the audience durtng^the entire evening and everybody present named it a most successful performance. A good sum was realized, also; and will be used for the benefit of the school. Honor Roll. | First grade?Mary Heins, 91; Annie Mae Kirby, 93. rr?-a rlo?Flmflv Allen. 95: j UWV1IU 54MVIV ? , , jEida Heins, 92. j Third grade?Irene Easier, 92; Lucius Player, 94. Fourth grade?Bethea" Christmas, 92; Marvin Kirby, 91. Fifth grade?Betty Bradham, 90; Thelma Player, 93. Gladys Wham, Erline Harrington. Takes a Shot at Hubby. Grenville, Nov. 24.?A Main street throng was startled about 5 o'clock I this afternoon when Mrs. M. C. Hun: nicut drew a small calibre pistol and J fired one shot in the direction of an i automobile near the intersection of Main and Coffee streets, in which sat , her husband and Miss Fannie Hovis. 1 The bullet did not strike either of the j | couple, but went through the back of the automobile, struck the side of a! J building, ricocheted and struck Mr. .Crosby, a barber, who was standing ' at the entrance to his shop. AI- j ! though the ball hit Mr. Crosby in I the head, it had spent its force and j he was not injured. Police arrested Mr. and Mrs. Hun-1 nicutt and Miss Hovis, later releas-, i ing Mrs. Hunnicutt on bond of $125! and the other two on. bond of $25 each. Officers after talking to Mrs. Hun-1 nicutt, declared that her act had j been prompted by jealousy because of alleged attention paid to Miss Hovis by Hunnicutt. Hunnicutb is a taxi driver. j GERMANY PREPARING WAR, SAYS TIGER ^ < DECLARES FRANCE HAS BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD HERE AND begs Peeling of kinship. ; Text of former premier ClemenI ceau's speech at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Once upon a time a thousand years ago, in an Indian village, there came . an old Buddhist, and he told the villagers he was going to preach the | good word, and they were glad to have him do so. He told them he would teach them how to be good and love each other, which in that time | i was a very difficult undertaking. * > So they all assembled, and there, under one of those giant trees which are the beauty of this country, he was going to teach them of the good word. And as the old man was going to open up his mouth, there came a v bird?a beautiful bird?who sat on the highest branches, and the bird ' began to sing and sing and sing. ' He sang for a long time,, and the more he sang the more ravished they all were. It seemed that they understood what he meant, and then N . he and monk got up and said, 'Goodby, gentlemen, the sermon has been preached.' "I feel very much like the old m'onk. It seems to m? as if some of us are sitting under a very beautiful tree, with beautiful foliage, and certainly there are a great many birds. I know it not by the singing but by the flapping of the wings. "That was a very wise man. But , I am not wise. Therefore, when our eminent president asks me to speak I will speak. In fact, you may have heard of it. I came here on purpose for that. "And first I will tell you that I / am more accustomed to grinning faces than the smiling faces of ladies and that I am rather?although it has ' not happened' very often?rather timid, slightly. 1 "First, of course, I must thank you for the really wonderful welcome which I have met in this country, which is most marvellous, since only no more than fifty-seven years ago I came fresh from the imperial jails of Napoleon III. to find there was another way of living, and a much better way. "I was in that happy time a young man of 'some imagination who thinks ?ta nAOOtklA Kim TkpfO CVClJf LIU II g MO [IVOOIUIV VV MMU* is no hard task. What men for hundreds of years and thousands of years have been trying to accomplish and failed?he can do. He has the heart, the mind, the knowledge, and he can do it. So I brought this fresh out- ? look here. I don't know whether it lias been appreciated. I have never been assured of that. But I looked around and I learned what Europe hadn't taught me?to help myself. "And now, like the pupil, who comes back to his teacher and who has gained experience, I come back, and it is very different. I come back with changed ideas and to express my . thanks for the good practical education that I received. I say prac+>'>* >1 luwoiioa r\f miirsA T do not come hei-e to learn new things. "And so I came with the American spirit and ready to find fault in different ways. But I must confess that I did not find as many faults as I expected. And to-day, naving been taught independence, I have been trying to find advice. I have no mission. I did not come with a mission from anybody. "Therefore, I made up my mind that after all democracy was liberty, and I think it is the best government to be responsible to yourself for your own faults instead of others. And there I was in my little pleasant house on the sea and the beach a little too far away so that you could not see it, and I heard that there have I been bad words for France. I did I not like that at all, and as for my sen, i say, wnac woras: "At the same time there came people and hard critics, one a very distinguished Englishman, and I said, 'Well, own, if England misjudges France, and ^America misjudges France, what are we going to do? jl had better go and see what is the 'matter.' And I left without know ing whether I was going to plead against you or to 'defend you. I "I have not been here a very long ! time but I have been here long enough to think that I am not going to have much trouble in establishing a basis of common thought on a very iifiI (Continued on last page)