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THE NEWS & FARMER
Entered as second class mail matter at the post office in Louisville, Ga,
under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
Published Every Thursday.
VIRGINIA POLHILL PRICE Editor
J. W. WHITE - Associate Editor
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’ HANDICAPS
A certain young man from Tacoma, admitted to West
Point on probation because he fell one inch short of the pre
scribed minimum height, led his class for four years, and
emerged with a credit of 2,608 points of a possible 2,770.
And editorial writers everywhere are moralizing, as editorial
writers will, and pointing a moral. “Don’t be discouraged,”
they say, in a large paternal voice. “See what this young
ster has done in spite of handicaps!” They might better
say: “See what this youngster has done because of hand
icaps !”
What is a handicap but an incentive to labor? Which
|man keeps his trousers more carefully creased, the one who
|is looking for a job, or the one who has a soft snap? Which
boy has the better chance to become a useful citizen, the one
who is left at the age of sixteen with a mother and three
[small sisters to support, or the one who has an unlimited
checking account and a bright red roadster? Which people
most carefully cultivates the hard and homely virtues that
are essential to greatness, the one that fights against great
obstacles, or the one that sits on seven hills to rule the
world ?
The turtle, you will remember, made a jump of seven
teen feet, and ran up a tree when a tiger appeared in the off
ing—not because it had these things to do. If the broad
jump and the art of tree climbing, but because it had these
things to do. If the homely girl is smarter than her pretty
sister, it is because she has to be smarter to get by.
The rabbit and the antelope can leave a given point and
arrive at a safe distance in a very short time, and their
speed is due to the fact that they lack (he equipment for aj
stand-up fight. It is adversity that makes the fox cunning.
The lion soon would become as helpless as a jellyfish if fed
on manna from Heaven. The dandelions that infest the [
lawn couldn’t survive a six-day drought if they had been
nurtured in a hothouse.
There’s more inspiration in a handicap than there is in!
the sound of clapping hands.
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PROGRAMME
Shadowlansl Iheatre
Thursday, July 26th
GLORIA SWANSON pla. sin "'l'llß IMPOSSIBLE MRS.
BELLEW.” An All STAR cast and a spectacular production.
The story concerns tin* escapades of a dashing French adven
turess among some young society men who thought they
hated women. There are many lavish settings in Monte
Carlo and 1 ’aris.
Friday, July 27th.
“THE PRIDE OF PALO.MAR," a great Cosmopolitan produc
tion of a story hy PETER It. KYXF. A picture which is 100
per cent entertainment and the story is by the most red
blooded writer in America. This picture is sure to please
everybody.
Saturday, July 28th.
JOHN GILBERT plays in George Barr McCutcheon’s great
est novel. “TRT XTON KIN I'he drama of an American
who sa\ed a throne. Its a good picture, don’t miss it.
Harold Lloyd will also be on hand in a one reel comedy.
Monday, July 30th.
BEBE DANIELS and JAMES KIRKWOOD in “PINK
GODS.” This is a powerful drama, bristling with a particu
larly notable cast. Its made on a scale to thrill and amaze.
Pathe News will also be shown on this date.
Tuesday, July 31st.
NORMA TALMAGE plays in “ETERNAL FLAME.” Norma
Talmage is without doubt the screen’s best, her pictures
which have been shown in the Shadowiand have always
pleased young and old alike. “ETERNAL FLAME” is said
to be the best picture NORMA TALMAGE ever made. "Smil
ing Throu” was a good picture and if “ETERNAL FLAME”
is better, then nobody can afford to miss it.
Three shows daily: Matinee 4:30 P. M.; night 7:30 and 1)
o’clock.
Admission 15c, 25c and 40c.
Shadowiand Theatre
Next Door to Polhill-Denny Drug Cos.
LOUISVILLE, GA.
THE NEWS AND FARMER, LQUISVILLg, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1923.
GMRETT CASE WILL
BE BinERLY FOUGHT
IAI VIRGINIA COURTS
Robert O. Garrett and Larkin
C. Garrett on Trial Thurs
day, Charged With Murder
of Rev. E. S. Pierce.
Cumberland Courthouse, Va M July
24.—The case of “the commonwealth
versus Garrett” docketed for trial
in the circuit court here Thursday
though without an element of mys
tery or a love triangle, such as has
marked most of Virginia’s noted
murder cases, is expected to he one
of the most unprecedented and prob
i ably the most bitterly contested
j court actions in the criminal an
| nals of the Old Dominion.
This case, in which Robert O.
| Garrett, clerk of court and his
i brother, Larkin C. Garrett, commis
j sioner in chancery, business men of
i high standing in the community,
both stand indicted for first degree
| murder in connection with the slay-
I ing of the Rev. E. S. Pierce, Bap
tist jninister in a shooting affray
at the latter’s home last June sth,
alegedly the culmination of a po
j litical feud extending over a num
i her of years, has divided Cumber
land county into two hostile camps
and has engendered a partisan feel
ing that has spread in many direc
tions over the state.
Since the shooting the case has
been widely discussed —over the
countryside, in the press, and even !
from the pulpits. Charges and coun- j
terchargcs have flown thick and 1
fast and the ill-feeling between the I
factions has grown apace. One side, |
that of the friends of the slain min
ister, whose churches have raised i
funds to aid the prosecution, have j
charged that the Garrett adherents
controlled the government of the
county and for that reason the state
could not obtain a fair trial. It is
on these grounds, attorney for the
prosecution have averred, they will
seek a change of venue and en
deavor to have the case tried in
some other county.
Best Legal Talent.
Each side has obtained some of
the best legal talent in Virginia and
the promised battle of lawyers has
added interest to the trial. Judge
B. I). White, of Princess Anne coun
ty, has been assigned to sit as the
trial judge in the place of Judge
George J. Hundley, regularly as
signed to the Cumberland circuit,
now ill in his home at Earmville,
and will pass on the question of a
change of venue. This is expected
to be the first move Thursday
morning. Should the change of
venue he granted it is believed the
case will not go to trial before early
fall.
Mr. Pierce, pastor of five Baptist
churches in this county, was shot
to death at the parsonage on the
morning of June sth after he had
engaged in a fight with Larkin Gar
rett. Witnesses testified at the in
\ quest that the Garretts called the
minister from his home and after
|an argument Larkin Garrett admin
istered a severe thrashing while
Robert Garrett held hack at the
point of a pistol a crowd that had
gathered. After the fight, it was
testified, Mr. Pierce entered his
home, obtained a shotgun and a
pistol and returned to the fray.
Robert Garrett, it was said, wrest
ed the shotgun from the minister's
hands and the battle with pistols
followed. It is a matter of dispute
as to who fired the first shot.
'l'he minister was struck several
times and fell mortally wounded. He
died while still in the yard with
his head pillowed on the lap of his
wife, who was said to have w:tness
ed the battle. Robert Garre,, was
wounded in the side and spent sev
eral weeks in a Richmond hospital.
He recently returned to his home
here.
Expected to Be Established.
Just who fired the bullets that
killed Pierce and that which struck
Robert Garrett is expected to he es
tablished at the trial as some of
the missies are said to have been
recovered and will he used in evi
dence.
Though there is said to have been
a more or less hitter political feud
in the county extending over a
number of years, one faction rep
resented by the minister and his
friends and the others centering
around the Garretts, the series of
events leading to the fatal fight
actually began with the shooting ;
from ambush a number of weeks i
previously of Allen M. Chandler, a
farm implement salesman of Rich
mond. Mr. Chandler was driving
Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Garrett across i
the country in an automobile and
was shot when he alighted to re
move an obstruction placed across
lhe road. No motive was known
for shooting of Mr. Chandler and
members of the Garrett faction
claimed he was shot hy mistake—
that the load of buckshot was in
tended for Larkin Garrett. Chandler
was seriously wounded and was con
fined to a Richmond hospital many
weeks.
'Hie Sunday before he was killed,
according to testimony at a hear
ing on the request for bail Mr.
Pierce discussed the ('.handler shoot
ing from his pulpit and was said to
have declared that Chandler would
not have been shot had he not been
with the Garretts. It was in regard
to this alleged statement that the
Garretts are said to have gone to
the Pierce home and engaged in the
fatal fight.
Governor E. Lee Trinklc was call
ed upon in a statement issued to
night l>v Judge George J- Hundley,
of the Gumhcrland County circuit
court, to appoint the attorney-gen
eral or his assistant to take charge
of the prosecution of Robert O. and
Larkin C. Garrett in order to save
the state “from a great scandal and
from the disgrace of a great crim
inal trial which threatens to go
down in history as a travesty upon
justice.’*
Judge Hundley, whose place at
tiu* trial will he taken by Judge
1L I). White, of Princess Anne
County, said he “respectfully called
upon the governor to intervene in
this important crisis because I think
Mr. Ilonifant, the temporary prose
cuting attorney, has wholly miscon
ceived his duty.”
Milton i\ Ilonifant, commonwealth
THE PRAYER OF THE TREE
From the Boston Transcript.
Upon a tree in Portugal a traveler
read this appeal:
Ye who pass by would raise your
hands against me, harken ere you
harm me.
I am the heat of your heart on the
cold winter nights.
The friendly shade screening you
from the summer sun.
And my fruits are refreshing
drafts, quenching your thirst as you
journey on.
I am the beam that holds your
house, the board of your table the
bed you lie on, the timber that
builds your boat.
I am the handle of your hoe, your
door, the wood your cradle and cof
fin.
Ye who pass me by listen to my
prayer: Harm me not!
THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN
I wish that there were some won
derful place, called the Land of
Beginning Again.
Where all our mistakes, and all our
heartaches, and all our poor sel
fish grief.
Could be dropped like a shabby old
coat at the door
And never be put on again.
I wish we could come on it all un
awares, like a hunter who finds
a lost trail;
And I wish that the one whom
our blindness has done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates like an old
friend that Waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to
call.
—Booth Tarkington.
AVERA NEWS
Mrs. W. T. Gibbs has returned
after visiting relatives in Davisboro.
Miss Julia Rollins is visiting rel
| atives In Macon.
Mr. Ralph Wiggins has returned
! after a pleasant visit to Mrs. C.
i S. La Favor at Springvale, Ga.
j Misses Rubie and Hobby Tanner
I and Mr. Henry Radford of Wrens
| visited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wiggins
; the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Hadden an
nounce the birth of a little daugther
July 19th.
Mrs. Otis Hill and children Tony
and Sara Frances of Thomson are
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. .1.
G. C.halker.
Mrs. Doyle and little John and
Miss Maggie Sullivan of Augusta
have returned after a pleasant stay
with Mrs. Rrinie McCracken.
Mr. and Mrs. S. I). Daniels, F. S-
Pierce, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wig
gins, Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. C. M.
Wiggins, Cocoa, Fla., were visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wiggins the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wiggins and
son Ralph attended the barbecue
dinner July 22 at Mr. and Mrs. T.
P. Wiggins, Thomson, given in hon
or of their mother’s 71st. anniver
sary.
Among those who motored to Dav
isboro Saturday were Mr. and Mrs.
G. R. Dixon and children, Gibbs,
Ralph and Martha Frances, Miss Lu
cilc and Billy Gibbs, Mrs. Docia
attorney of Powhatan County, was
appointed special prosecutor in the
Garrett case by Judge Hundley lie
cause of the ineligibility of the
Cumberland prosecutor, William M.
Smith, who witnessed the shooting
in front of the Baptist parsonage at
Cumberland Courthouse on June 5,
in which the Rev. Edward Sylvester
Pierce was killed and Robert Gar
rett was wounded.
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Motion Is Opposed To Dismiss
Indictments Against Author
Of The (( Poison Pen Letters'
Portrait of Georgia Maxwell,
Who Made Love to Many
Women and Ridded Himself
of Them, Drawn in Brief.
New York, July 24.—A portrait of
George Maxwell, president of the
American Society of Authors, Com
posers and Publishers, as a Lothario
who made love to many women and,
when lie became bored, rid himself
of them by writing poison pen let
ters to their husbands and relatives
was drawn today by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Maloney.
The picture was sketched in a
brief filed in general sessions, op
posing a motion by Maxwell’s coun
sel to dismiss indictments charging
his client with having written such
letters received by Allan A. Ryan,
prominent Wall Street trader, and
many others. Judge Mclntyre re
served decision on the motion.
The brief —one of the most re
markable in the history of New
York jurisprudence—charged Max
well with penning poison letters for
more than twenty years, according
to the district attorney’s office. The
letters were modeled after the fa
mous German court letters which
rocked the foundations of royal so
ciety in several countries about 1900
and which it developed were writ
ten by Baron von Katz, who at
tacked the reputation of court la
dies, and to avoid suspicion, sent a
similar letter to himself.
To support his charges, Mr. Ma
loney cited a number of alleged in
timacies between Maxwell and wo
men of prominence in the social
and artistic world. According to
the assistant district attorney, the
latest and most prominent woman
to indulge in an affair with Max
well was Mrs. Ryan, wife of the fi-
Dyr and son Edward, Misses Blan
che and Until Harden, Mr. Willjfm
Phillips, Mrs. W. C- Phillips and
children W. C. Phillips, Jr., and
Miriam and Mrs. R. A. Clarke and
little daughter Jewelle.
Miss OI lie Belle Wiggins of Thom
son was spend-the-day guest Wed
nesday of Mr. Ralph Wiggins.
Mrs. Boy McCracken of Louisville
was the week-end guest of his moth
er Mrs. Brina McCracken.
Mr. Hubert Harden of Blythe was
a visitor to his parents Mr. and Mrs.
Alex. Harden Sunday.
Mrs. Ollie Perdue and children of
Stapleton were visitors of Miss Ger
trude Faglie the past week.
BRIDGE AND ROOK.
At the lovely home of Mr. and Mrs.
G. S. Chapman, in Langdon, Satur
day afternoon, Mrs. Chapman was
the hospitable hostess at a bridge
and rook party, in honor of her
guest. Miss Grace Parker of Millcn.
Nasturtiums and Shasta daisies were
used in adorning the spacious rooms
used for the occasion.
After the games a delicious salad
course was daintily served by the
hostess assisted by tier eldest daugh
ter, Mary' Jeanne. The members of
th Saturday Book Club were in
cluded in the guests. Among the
specially invited guests were Miss
Elizabeth Booz, of Cedartown: Miss
Ida Shelnut and her visitor Miss
Clarke of Louisville. Miss Annie
Lou Roundtree, guest oT Miss Leila
Hermann.—Sandersviile Progress.
nancier, wfio attracted attention dur
ing the famous Stutz corner, and a
member of the Tack family of Phil
adelphia. Others whom Mr. Maloney
listed among Maxwell’s ex-enamora
tae were a Danish opera singer, a
motion picture actress with whom
he was alleged to have toured Mex
ico, a concert singer and a ballet
dancer.
Case Is Cited.
The case of another woman which
Mr. Maloney cited resulted in the
death of her husband from shock af
ter he had received one of the let
ters with which Maxwell was al
leged to have drawn his affairs to a
close with a duplicate to himself.
According to the prosecutor, Max
well, on being shown one of the
notes by an irate husband, produced
its mate and joined with the hus
band in denouncing the author.
Mr. Maloney devoted much of his
brief to describing the intimacy
which he alleged existed between
Maxwell and Mrs. Ryan. According
to Maloney, Maxwell, who he said,
began life as a piano tuner on the
Isle of Wight, travelled to London,
Paris, Lake Como and Milan with
the financier’s wife, and later vis
ited her at York Harbor, Maine. She,
Maloney set forth, had in turn vis
ited him in his New York apart
ment.
' In support of his allegations, Ma
loney quoted radiograms which he
said had been exchanged between
Maxwell and Mrs. Ryan at the time
when he was in New York and she
was on the high seas. One of these
messages, quoted by the prosecutor,
and alleged to have been sent by
Mrs. Ryan read, in part:
“1 am counting the hours. I will
be there to meet you in Paris. Love,
only love. Love of life.”
Altogether Maloney charged Max
well with writing 135 poison pen
letters.
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