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The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-24

'N''' 'SSio, 10 DeIieNeu 10 nave broken
all lynching records by escaping d
mob after the rope had been placed
about his neck. 1t is reported that he
Is attempting to elude the sheritf's
posse and to reach the Macon "mob
proof" Jail.
lrwinton, Ga. May 23.-An auto.
mobile accident early this morning
cheated a Wilkinson county mob os
Jim DonSon, 20, negro who had been
dragged from the local Jail few min.
utes before to be put to death by mob
violence for crime he is alleged to
have committed three years ago.
At dusk this afternoon Sheriff Play
er of Wilkinson and his posse. aided
by dogs, reported the negro surround
ed near Sandy Greek, four miles south
OF this place and his recapture is ex-
pected during the night. Officers are
satisfied that the negro escaped the
mob, he having been seen and idcn-
tilted four times during the day.
The negro's escape skaters all mob
records in Georgia. Never before. it is
believed has man staged get away
from group of angry men who were
en- route to scene selected to rean
revenge. Many have been rescued by
sheriffs and other officers.
Denson is believed to be attempting
to elude the sheriff and his posse in
order that he may get to Macon. He is
said to have expressed a desire to
reach Macon and surrender there in
order that he may be lodged in a
"mob proof jail"
The negro has been twice sentenced
t. death, the last sentence having been
imposed by Judge James B. Park here
yesterday, the court setting the date
of June 16. Two carpenters arrived
here this morning to build a gallows
but their job has been postponed in
definitely.
Miledgeville, Ga, May 23.-Thc
first information that Jim benson had
gotten away from the mob was taken
to Irwinton today by a farmer of
Wilkinson county, according to infor-
nation brought here tonight. The
farmer was in the field with several
negro hands when he observed bare
headed negro approach The negro,
however, ran when he discovered the
white farmer.
What was the matter with that
regro?" the farmer asked one of his
hands.
"That's Jim Denson," came the re
ply. "He says he escaped from lynch
ers and that they are hunting him"
benson was then out of sight, but
the farmer carried the news to the
sheriff and then the hunt for Densor
alive was begun. The sheriff had be
lieved benson dead until them Tho
farmers story was later confirmed i;
is stated, from other sources.
People who left Wilkinson county
as l?'" a., 2 o'clock tonight said Den
son ID not been captured The mob
was n ~-rS,.inp however
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-24

Elijah Brock of Whitmire was a
business visitor to Union today.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-24

Union boys for further information
see Harry M. Arthur.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-24
NEGRO ELUDES
GEORGIA MOB

lrwIntown, Ga, May 24.-Jim Den
son, negro, is believed to have broken
all lynching records by escaping d
mob after the rope had been placed
about his neck. 1t is reported that he
is attempting to elude the sheriff's
posse and to reach the Macon mob
proof" Jail.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-24
WEATHER

Partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday. Gentle
to moderate winds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18

matic traditions, but the Times seems to think that no harm was done. On the contrary, the colonels plain speaking has helped to clear the atmosphere.
 Colonel Harveys greatest achievement con- sists in having held his job for 12 months without making himself subject to recall. Lon don is having salutary effect on the colonel. Accustomed to speak his mind early and often and to enter the lists against all corners, he has substituted the gentler arts of diplomacy for editorial swashbuckling. His alert and reten- tive mind has enabled him to learn great deal about the functions of an ambassador, as well as the restrictions which hedge him round In another 12 months he will probably walk as sedately and be as conservative in his public utterances as any of his predecessors.
 It was evident when Colonel Harvey wore knee brooches to Princess Marys wedding that he was making progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
BIRMINGHAM IRON IN DISTANT MARKETS

For one reason and another, Birmingham pig regularly than any other iron in the world. First one condition brings this about and then another. Despite increases in the cost of as- sembling raw materials and disproportionate increases made in freight rates to points of consumption, Alabama pig iron is today selling in the very heart of the east and in the remotest fields of competition.
 Back of all this is the proximity of raw ma terials, an advantage from which it will be forever impossible to displace Birmingham. It stands to reason that iron manufacturers in other sections, possessing richer ores, will all ways make an effort to counterbalance Bir- mingham's advantages in various ways among them securing freight rate determinations in their favor when they can.
 There is another superiority possessed by Bir- mingham's iron. This is not strike region. Three times in the past few years the northern iron and steel trades have been greatly incon- venienced by strikes. First there was the steel strike, then the outlaw railroad strike and now the coal strike. In each of these crises the Birmingham furnaces and mills put on stean, as the others were forced to decrease opera tions-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
BULLET STRUCK WATCH STEM

q probably owe my life now to the fact that the bullet that injured me struck the stem of watch first and was turned slightly away from my heart said Officer s. s. Crabtree, who was wounded several weeks ago while attempting to arrest three yeggmen. "The watch stem, of course, slacked the speed of the bullet and de- flected it from vital spot.
 "I am fast recovering now" continued Off, ficer Crabtree, who visited The Age Herald of flee Tuesday. q expect to return to the joo in few days and don't think I suffered any permanent injury One thing have now that I did not have before is the bullet that did the work, which I expect to preserve as sou venir."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY
 PRAISED IN LONDON

Col. George Harvey's services at the Court of St. James have been the theme of rbald com ment in America. From time to time there have been loud demands for his recall and on one or two occasions the doughty colonel was suspected of having caused some uneas- ness to. our state department, but he has won the approval of no less an authority than the London Times
 In special article review'ng tss first ycar's work of Colonel Harvey as American ambassa- dor, the Times praises him tar his efforts to remove misunderstanding between the Amer- iSRn and English people. The Times says, tEa bsnt his energies to dispel Illusions even at the risk of hurting feelings, and ssased fnnda- mental facts which could not be i.snotsd, and had to be reckoned with in dealing with the American people"
 :, There can be no doubt that Colone. Harvey took pains to give our British cousins what 1hs conceived to be the American, or Harvey, point of view. In his early addresses he spoke with plainness hardly in keeping with diplo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
LETTERS TO EDITOR
wooDLAwN MANS VIEW

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 There is an emergency that exists in the Bir- mingham schools at this time that can only be met by an emergency measure. Regardless of how this emergency has come about, it exists
 Our schools are oyercrowded and have been for years. It is not safe, nor is it sane to let this condition continue longer.
 Our library system, when compared to the li- braries of other cities, is calculated to bring shame on every home-loving citizen. Who ever heard of taking visitors around to show them our splendid library facilities? As matter of fact, we are and should be ashamed of the condition that exists.
 Birmingham owns several splendid park areas, and some unusually well located play grounds With sufficient funds for develop ment and equipment, system could be built up that would be worth while and the pride of our entire citizenship
 Seven million dollars is a great sum of money, but Birmingham is a greater city. We who have children to rear and educate here realize the immediate need. A great deal is being said about the interest on $5,00o,000, how it would build school year. Even were we to build one new grammar school year, it would not take care of the natural annual in- crease of children. If every citizen that con- sidered it good personal business to operate on borrowed money, buying homes, etc., on which he or she pays interest, will vote for this issue of bonds, 1t will carry overwhelmingly. Every opponent of this measure will tell you that he would not for one moment have you think that he is opposed tosbuilding more and bettere schools but that he thinks that it should be done by some method other than increased taxes. How you going to get ready money if you don't borrow it, and what source of revenue have you to pay it back other than what the citizens pay, either by one method or another?
 Vote for better schools, better library and properly equipped parks and playgrounds, so that your children may reap the benefits now, an dhave an equai chance with children that may come along in after years, when the few who do not favor such things will not be here to oppose them
 GEORGE BELLSNYDER.
 WoodIamn Nav IA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
REVOLUTIONS

By Shakespeare. Like as the waves make toward the pebbled
 shore
 So do our minutes hasten to their end Each changing place with that which goes
 before
 In sequent toll all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith, being
 crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst biz glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift con-
 found. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beautys brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to
 nov And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand Praisins thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
A SON DEDICATED TO PUBLIC LIFE

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 When a millionaire, making his will, seeks to consolidate and perpetuate the power that millions give, it is his logical course to leave as much as possible of his fortune in the hands of that son who is to succeed to his own business interests and activities Henry Pom- eroy Davison did not do this. His special pro vision was not for his probable business sue cessor, H. P. Davison, IT,, but for F. Trubee Davison, who entered politics and was elected trct On the mothers death this son will come into $4,500,000. And though no allusion to the reason for this course appears in the will, the speculation that the great banker was delib- erately dedicating F. Trubee Davison to public service in the political field is justified not merely by the above consideration ,but by the known interest of the father in the sons assem- bly, campaign. And such dedication is justified by our American conditions. Nowhere is un- selfish activity more needed.
 Not to mention Theodore Roosevelt and Err nest Crosby, who though without great weight, had much of the same sort of prestige that wealth gives, there are plenty of precedents in the politics of this state for F. Trubee Davi- sons spirations-Robert Ray Hamilton, Lis penard Stewart, William Waldorf Astor, Hamil- ton Fish, James w. Wadsworth, Jr, William Barnes, Seth Low, each with large inherited means, each highly educated and each, at least at the beginning of his career, am bilious as young Davison to do all he could to make politics better. To say that these men and others of the same type failed" is not ac- curate. Barnes, Wadsworth and Fish are now not without influence. Lispenard Stewart be- came pretty good practical politician. Hamil- toms disappearance from the field was from non-political causes. Seth Low did a lot to inn prove municipal government. William Waldorf Aston got disgusted and quit to go and live in England.
 Our wish for F. Trpbee Davison is that he may adhere to his ideals, to the ideals of his father, and remain for many years a worker for the establishment of those ideals in our pub lie life. He is only 26, and life of rich possi- bilities lies before him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
DR. sNAvELY RETURNS

"Just back from the general conference of the Methods tchurch held in Hot Springs, Ark" said Dr. Guy E. Snavely president of Birmingham-Southern college, yesterday.
 sI am glad to say that the conference com mttee placed Birmingham Southern on the Class grade college list, alongside Southern Methodist university of Dallas, Tex, and Emory university of Atlanta.
 "The alumni of Birmin ghan1- Southern gave a banquet during the conference, at which over 90 of our college graduates were present in the Arkansas city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
RAINBoW's END

Samuel Hopkins Adams, in Leslie's Weekly
 What amiahly confiding species is the human race, especially in matters of finance Gold bricks glow and fade, perpetual motion en- zines perpetually cease to mote, the long files of easy dollars glide peacefully down hill from the bank accounts of the trustful to the pock- cts of the ingenious, and still there inheres in the breast of mankind the ineradicable expecta- tion that fortune waits just around the turn Consider, for example, the ease with which a genius with a new electric light device has been selling his stock to the eager public. The light is alleged to be self-contained, self-suffi- cient, self-supporting and capable of burning for three years all alone in its little bulb with out expense, wires or other extraneous aid, and to be salable at small cost. No investor has yet behold the marvel the enterprise is still in the preparatory stage" here. But the investor asserts that he once made one in far-off South America which was shattered by lightning bolt, presumably hurled by envious love, or perhaps conjured by the alarmed electric light interests. On this basis he and his company have been selling par s10 shares of stock as high as $50. Not too high rate, perhaps for the kind of education in store for the pur- chasers. And, if nobody believed in fairy tales, what dreary world this would be!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
JOURNALISTIC HAZARDS

Tough luen; sighed the editor of the Chig- gersville Clarios Whats wrong?" "one of my biggest advertisers says he'll never spend another nickel with me because don't write editorials jumping on prohibi- tion."
 Couldn't you hedge little?" ''It wouldn't be safe. My banker, who holds a mortgage on the plant, is 100 per cent dry
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18


 voliva says Satan is too busy on earth to look after the hot griddles and birthstone lakes of hell. You can't blame Satan It's more fun to stick around the bathing beaches and the cabarets than 1t is to keep the fires hot under poor damned souls.
 When Henry Ford succeeds in gathering up all the lost motion on farms he should turn his attention to the enormous amount of energy that goes to waste in dance halls.
 k x <
 Kipling has dashed off another poem which is being printed in American newspapers, un- der copyright. Having read it, we use the word "dashed' advisedly.
 Tho Kansas City bankrupt who wanted to keep his golf sticks and his Bible is para doxical person. As rule, golf and religion don't go together.
 Princess Fatima, who is now sorrowfully vending her way homeward, lost nearly every thing in America but her embonpoint and her three princely sons
 An editorial writer defends the banjo. Does anybody possess enough courage to get up in public and speak word in behalf of the saxo- phone?
 The husband of 8 movie star objected to the way impassioned screen lovers fooled around with his wife Our sympathies go out to Friend Husband.
 The movie patron who comes out yawning and informs the manager that he has had a good nap is suffering from the superiority conl- plex.
  The toddle top is said to be passing out. Craps shooting and poker will always bs the favorite pastimes of red-blooded men.
 
 At last person has been found who says that Woodrow Wilson is an approachable man. He resides in Philadelphia.
 When the curtain is rung down on the Genoa conference, the powers represented there will still be passing the buck"
 As soon as matter is referred to the League of Nations for some reason or other it seems to lose its news value.
 China will never be tranquiized until trac- tors are more numerous in that country than machine guns
 x* r When last heard from, Billy Sunday was f'eying to poor houses and speaking his mind Q Aely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
. DON'T OVERLOOK DANCING AT PERSHING PIER

Excitement over the $7,0o0,o00 bond issue has caused many people of Birmingham to lose sight of another question winch will be de- cided in the election next Monday. Dancing is not the most important thing in the world, but it is important just now in Birmingham people to enjoy heathful recreation without undue restriction.
 Advocates of dancing at Pershing Pier, prop erly supervised by the city authorities, have strong support but there is determined oppo- sition. While this matter has not attracted as much attention lately as the bond issue, it de- serves the serious consideration of every voter who feels that militant minority has no right to interfere with the liberties of the majority, unless it can be clearly proved that public morals are at stake. Nothing has been brought Sout to prove that a public dance hall at East Lake is going to ruin young people of mod crate means who do not belong to the various clubs and cannot afford to dance in such places or in hotel ball rooms. To say that one class of people may dance whenever they see fit and another class may not, is the rankest kind of discrimination.
 The arguments advanced against public danc- ing at East Lake are the usual twaddle of re- , formers and investigators who can cite sta- tistics and give names and numbers to show that dancing is the road to perdtion. The kind of dance hall once operated in connection with saloons in the old days, and one of the reasons why the saloon is no more, might have sup ported that contention, but it is reflection on the young men and women who want to dance al East Lake and reflection on the city to class Pershing Pier with the saloon dance hall of malodorous memory.
 Our ex-soldiers, labor organizations, civic as- sociations and great many individuals favor dancing at Pershng Pier, believing that 1t will be kept free from every objectional feature and provide recreation for class of young people who need it most. If every voter who believes there~is no harm in properly super vised dancing registers that belief at the polls next Monday the chances are that there will be public dance hall at Pershing Pier, but if they wait to '1et George do it' they may dis cover when too late that their more watchful adversaries have won the battle.
 The dance question will be settled one way or the other next Monday. It should not have been made public issue, but since 1t has be- come one, the people of Birmingham should de- eide it once and for all at the polls- There ought to be, and there probably will be, dancing at Pershng Pier this summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18

To the Editor of The AgezHeFald.
 While on recent visit to Birmingham, T. J. Calvert manager of our Birmingham office, showed me a copy of your paper in which a large advertisement, relative to the placing of disabled ex-service men in gainful employment with the business men of your city, appeared.
 desire to thank you in behalf of the govern ment for your co-ops ton with MT. Calvert. We consider this adv sen very valuable and feel it will aid us in pli the disabled ex-service men in valuable post
 Thanking you again for this favor and assur- ing you it is highly apprse tate,i, remain, re- spectfully, DALLAS B. SMITH,
 @ District Manager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
"vAE vIcTISw

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Had George Bernard Shaw, who cabied from London that Carpentier had knocked Dempsey out in the first round, presided at the running of the forty eighth renewal of the Kentucky Derby, there can be little doubt as to what horse would have been awarded the victory.
 Neither Norwich, which finished first, nor Bet Mosic, which finished second, nor John Finn, which finished third would have been re- turned the winner. The honor of capturing the classic of the American turf of 1922 would have gone to the horse that finished 1ast'-to Busy American.
 In the derby, Busy American proved that he had in him the stuff that heroes are made of. He was suffering from an injury when he was started.
 The honor of that cannot be increased by claiming that if he had not broken down he would have heaten Norwich. Whether or not he could finish the derby course was doubtful, but one thing was certain: Busy American could be depended upon to fight good fight for the honor of his colors.
 Gamely he began the fight. Second, at the start, second at the quarter-mile, second as the field swept past the grandstand, Busy American was keeping in striking distance of mighty Norwich, the leader when "crack ]" and his race was over.
 Busy American didn't finish" Rather, was he finished by the race, but who shall say--cer- tainly not Mr. Shaw-that Busy American failed to live up to the faith that was his, to the thoroughbred blood that asks but to do or die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
LOVE AGAINST BOND ISSUE

"There is some mistake about iay being member of committee from Wylam which pledged its support to the bond issue" said j.. w. Love of Love Bros. furniture store.
 q notice that my name is published in Wednesdays Age-Herald as one who called on the general committee and offered assistance In order to keep the record straight I should like to say that not only was I not a member of the committee, but knew nothing about it, and furthermore am opposed to the bond issue in the form in which it has been submitted to the voters"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
SAYING IF WITH MUSIC" FATAL

From the New York Telegram.
 Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend knotted oak.
 Thus poetized William Congreve, who lived and wrote in the days of William and Mary and plump Queen Anne. But Congreve did not know that music could sterilze an egg or inn pei youth to murder his employer.
 Yet such is the news of the hour, for from Waterloo, Ia., comes a dispatch to the effect that Joseph Diefenbach, a veteran musician, whose wife wouldn't let him torture the bass viol in the living room, rasped it in the hen. house, with the result that 22 fine eggs went to waste under four disappointed if ambitious hens. The vibrations killed the chicks
 The other yarn comes from Berlin, Beetho- vens Moonlight Sonata" caused 17-year-old boy to send bullet crashing through the skull of his employer as the latter sat before a piano forte.
 Ut made me see red" exclaimed the young ster in excusing his act, and now the experts of the Berlin police are Investigating to see whether insanity or outawry was the predis- posing cause of the homicide.
 Music indeed stirs sentiments and -awakens pleasure and pain. David before Saul, Blondel under the prison windows of Occur de Leon, N'La Marseillaise' and La Carmagnole" breed ing liberty and license as they thrilled the millions of Frenchmen, Alan A. Dale and Al Jolson, it is all one and. the same thing. < But the bass viol and the piano as impulses to murder or other forms Of sudden death oc- cupy new roles We might have expected it from the saxophone.